Chapter 005: Red-robed Ghost (04)
The sun was clearly setting before, but in just an hour or two, the sky outside was completely dark because of the passage of time.
Nearing 10 o'clock in the evening, Yan Jing stood at the entrance of the company building, anxiously waiting for Xie Chi to come back.
He didn't know what Xie Chi went to buy, and why it took so long.
In the dim moonlight, Xie Xinglan walked expressionlessly, looking elegant and leisurely, with a cold and lazy temperament, making him look like a handsome and noble vampire in the dark night.
——If you ignore the large and small bags hanging on his left and right hands.
Passersby stared in amazement.
"Are you going shopping with your girlfriend?"
"He's handsome, strong, and never complains. I want a boyfriend like him, too!"
They couldn't help but look behind Xie Xinglan: "Hey, he doesn't have a girlfriend, only him..."
…
Xie Xinglan saw Yan Jing from afar and thought, "Xiao Chi, we're here, it's your turn."
Xie Chi said very well: "Boyfriend is the best!"
Because of the law of time, Xie Chi failed to get a taxi when he came back, and could only ask Xie Xinglan to be the tractor.
Xie Xinglan was helpless: "You."
It was cold and broken, but there was only doting in his tone.
Yan Jing was surprised to hear the familiar footsteps coming towards him. The somewhat self-willed Xie Chi immediately stopped smiling and became serious and reliable: "Come in, and check the stairwell."
The locksmith arrived before Xie Chi. When Xie Chi and Yan Jing arrived, the lock had already been opened.
The door of the stairwell had not been opened for a long time, and the hinges were a little rusty. When the draft blew through, it creaked like a ghost.
The stairwell was pitch dark.
Xie Chi took out a lighter and polished it. His warm face looked a little weird under the orange-yellow fire.
He said to Yan Jing, "I'll go down and take a look. You wait here for me."
Yan Jing held him back in fear: "Brother Xie, why don't you not go? Even though there's a high chance that you won't get anything, it's better to be safe than sorry..."
Xie Chi suddenly smiled, thinking that he had his brother to protect him.
"gone."
Yan Jing waited outside anxiously. About ten minutes later, Xie Chi came up and said in a relaxed tone, "Nothing. Let's go up to the fifth floor."
Xie Chi and Yan Jing were assigned to work on the fifth floor.
Yan Jing asked curiously as they walked: "Brother Xie, what did you buy?"
Xie Chi said nothing, took out white gloves from his bag and put them on.
Just then the APP rang——
[The plot progress has been updated, and the actors have started their first day of work. ]
Xie Chi said: "Mirror, go to work first."
"Okay." Yan Jing was very obedient.
Xie Chi took out the ultraviolet lamp he bought at the equipment store from his bag and carefully shone it on the snow-white wall inch by inch.
【What is he doing? 】
[Brother, you haven't watched enough horror movies. Blood turns brown under ultraviolet light. He wants to use this to see if anyone has died on this floor. After all, even if the blood is cleaned up, there will still be some residue, as it is a liquid that will penetrate.]
[Fuck! He seems to have watched a lot of movies!! So strong!!]
[What kind of mental quality does this new guy have? The guy on the 11th floor is almost pissed, but he is searching the wall here. ]
The fifth floor is very spacious and no different from ordinary office spaces. It is worth mentioning that there is a billiard room on the side for entertainment.
The floor-to-ceiling windows are transparent. Because it is in the suburbs, there are sparse street lights on the road and it is dark and hazy outside the window. Fortunately, the brightness of the incandescent lamps on the fifth floor makes people feel very safe.
Of course, it is not certain whether the incandescent lamp will still be on in a while.
Thinking of this, Xie Chi quickened his movements.
【What did he sprinkle on the ground? I don’t understand. 】
[The fluorescent powder, if the circuit breaker trips suddenly later, the ultraviolet light will shine on the fluorescent powder, and it will be able to illuminate the ghost's handprints and footprints on the ground. This way, you can tell if the ghost is approaching and make it easier to escape.]
[What a black technology, awesome! ]
[What is this? Can someone explain it to me? ]
[A famous prop from American horror movies - a temperature-controlled camera. When a ghost appears, it will suddenly become chilly. This thing is temperature-controlled. Once the temperature drops, it will automatically take a picture, so he can take a picture of the ghost's appearance.]
[Why do I feel like he is setting up a trap to wait for ghosts to come? ? This must be an illusion. ]
【Brothers, please pay attention. 】
…
Xie Chi tried the entire fifth floor with the ultraviolet lamp but found nothing. He glanced at the elevator and froze for a moment.
Maybe an elevator…?
He walked over, raised his hand to take a picture symbolically, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
The audience outside the horror movie exploded instantly:
[Oh my god! There are so many bloodstains and handprints! ! ]
[How many fucking people must have died from this!! ]
[Ahhh, no wonder that female boss put her office on the first floor, she has something to hide!! She knows someone has died in the elevator, so she refuses to take the elevator!!]
[Brother, come out quickly, it will be a disaster if the elevator door is locked! ]
[Do you think their working hours are the same time when ghosts come out to look for food? ]
…
The plot imagined by the audience did not happen, and Xie Chi walked back safely.
There is indeed a problem with the elevator, that is certain now.
The clock on the wall showed that two hours had passed.
Xie Chi was so busy that he felt a little hot, so he went to the water dispenser to get some water to drink, and then went to look through the pile of things he had bought during the day.
[What other black technology does he have? My heart is a bit unbearable. ]
[…Hahahahahahahahahahaha, he dug out the small multi-functional rice cooker from the dormitory.]
【Hahahahahahahahahaha, I am dying of laughter. 】
【He plugged in the electricity and started to boil water. 】
[…The following begins.]
[I want to get married because I know how to live well. 】
[I released poison late at night. I'm so hungry. 】
[My god, what was this guy's main job before he started filming? How come he knows everything? ]
【I suspect I was watching a comedy.】
It's the seventh floor now.
Zhou Wen looked confused: "What's that smell?"
…
Yan Jing ate his noodles with a slurp, and suddenly said, "Brother Xie, it's not very kind of me to hide it from you when you treat me like this."
"Don't." Xie Chi was washing his hands. "How I treat people depends on my mood. How others treat me has nothing to do with me. I'm not very interested."
Yan Jing originally thought that he was being nice to him because he was waiting for him to fully confess. He didn't expect it to be like this. He was stunned for a moment, and became more certain of his previous thoughts. He said seriously: "Brother, do you want to... see a ghost?"
Xie Chi paused while turning off the faucet.
Yan Jing: "I can be your eyes and let you see ghosts."
He felt that no one could resist such a temptation. After all, being able to see ghosts in a horror movie meant that one could be the first to escape, and the probability of survival was greatly increased.
Xie Chi took out a tissue and wiped his hands, sneering: "There's a price to pay, right? For example, burning your life?"
He spoke very fluently and casually, as if he had known it all along but was just too lazy to say it out loud.
Yan Jing was stunned, his hands kept shaking, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
"That's why you're pale, coughing up blood, and looking like you're dying. You can see ghosts, but that's at the cost of not being able to see people, right? Yin-Yang eyes? Every time you use them, you'll overdraw your life."
Yan Jing was caught off guard and had no idea how to respond. He never expected that Xie Chi would figure out the whole story in an instant after he mentioned it. His sharpness was terrifying.
"Thank you, brother..."
"There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. If there was, we wouldn't be here." Xie Chi smiled, "You already called me brother, what else can I do to you?"
"I do like to use people, but I prefer to rely on myself."
Xie Chi coughed twice and secretly added in his heart, "I also rely on my boyfriend."
Yan Jing was about to say something, but Xie Chi said, "That's weird. Where are the two boiled eggs I put on the table?"
"..." Yan Jing's feeling of being touched was instantly suppressed.
In the sudden silence, the two heard the sound of hard-boiled eggs rolling across the ground, rolling back and forth, as if something was playing with the two eggs happily.
With a loud bang, the power supply on the fifth floor tripped as expected, and it was pitch dark all around.
[The temperature-controlled camera seemed to flash.]
[Ahhhh, the fluorescent powder on the ground is working. Damn, there are footprints on the ground!! The footprints are approaching!!]
[Such small footprints, it must be a little ghost. ]
【He is really amazing. 】
…
"Brother Xie, a headless baby boy! It's in front of you! Run!" In the darkness, Yan Jing opened his Yin-Yang eyes and saw the thing, and shouted loudly.
Xie Chi saw the small footprints on the ground in front of him, but he didn't move.
The kid's pure purpose is definitely not to kill people. If that were the case, he wouldn't have played with his boiled eggs. The kid has a playful nature, and he might be able to take advantage of that.
Headless……?
Xie Chi suddenly thought of the head of the baby-headed Gu.
The Gu has an extra head, and the baby boy has a missing head. Could it be...
Xie Chi's eyes narrowed.
After his true appearance was revealed, the little ghost simply stopped hiding and appeared clearly in front of Xie Chi.
The baby boy's head was torn apart and disappeared. The nasty broken part of his neck was oozing with shiny black blood.
With a "plop" sound, a drop of black blood dripped onto the ground, and then it was visible to the naked eye that a hole was corroded in the tile floor.
Yan Jing listened to the "hissing" sound of corrosion and said in horror: "The blood is highly poisonous! Brother Xie, don't touch him!"
Xie Chi was staring at the little ghost. The little ghost was in rags, with not a single piece of healthy flesh on his body. His originally white and tender skin was covered with... marks of bites from poisonous insects. Xie Chi could even see maggot-like eggs in the deep scars.
Highly poisonous? Poisonous insect bites? Poisonous insects that feed on baby head poison? Could it be that the poisonous insects that feed on baby head poison were fed on the body of the baby boy?
The baby boy’s head…?
Xie Chi suddenly had an idea and came up with a terrible guess.
The baby boy's head was swallowed by the insect that won the fight, and completely grew on the insect's head.
"Brother, aren't you afraid of me?" The baby boy's voice was still filled with doubts of inexperience, a poignant and contradictory immaturity.
Xie Chi: "Don't be afraid."
Baby boy: "Brother, I like you very much. Please play games with me. If you win, I won't kill you and him tonight."
The baby boy turned and faced Yan Jing who was standing behind the sofa.
Yan Jing didn't even dare to breathe.
" Okay." Xie Chi said calmly: "What to play?"
The baby boy said nothing and slowly walked towards the billiard room on the fifth floor. Black blood dripped continuously from the broken neck, leaving a deep corrosion mark on the ground.
The APP rang——
[Personal story has been updated, the agreement with the baby boy - actor Xie Chi and the baby boy play snooker billiards game, if you win, you will spend the night safely; if you lose, please escape. ]
The blind Yan Jing did not forget to wink at Xie Chi frantically, the meaning was very clear, if he couldn't handle it, he should run away.
Xie Chi made an OK gesture to him, saying he knew how to play snooker.
The baby boy was walking and throwing and catching two hard-boiled eggs. However, since he had no head, he couldn't see the eggs and failed to catch them. With two "clicks", the eggs hit the ground and broke into pieces.
The baby boy turned to Xie Chi and said, "Brother, your two eggs are broken."
Xie Chi and Yan Jing: "..."
