Chapter 080 1552 Haunted House (12)
Huang Hong realized something, turned his head stiffly, his blood ran cold, and he shouted in a lost voice: "Lu Ming!"
The bathroom door was not locked, and Huang Hong pushed it open with a "whoosh". Xie Chi guessed that Lu Ming was most likely in danger. When he actually saw Lu Ming's body, his throat rolled several times before he barely suppressed the urge to vomit.
Behind him were the sounds of several people retching.
The bathroom was a shocking red. The sticky and fishy blood soaked the floor and splattered everywhere. Lu Ming leaned back on the toilet, his head tilted weakly to one side. In addition to the bloody holes on his body, there were also many bite marks.
Everyone's legs went limp and their faces turned pale. You Jing was also stunned by this scene and froze in place. By the time he came to his senses, Xie Chi had already taken off his clothes, covered his mouth and nose, and stepped forward to check.
He squatted down, his eyes suddenly focused, Lu Ming's skin was completely torn open, and his heart was gone.
You Jing was unwilling to be left behind, so he pushed Xie Chi aside and checked on his own.
Xie Chi shrugged and stood up, looking down at You Jing busying himself. With so many eyes, You Jing couldn't hide anything, so he was happy and at ease.
A few minutes later, You Jing stood up, his face extremely grim: "His heart, liver, kidneys, and tongue are all gone."
Everyone was shocked: "There's a beast in the movie! Bite marks! He was torn to death and disemboweled!"
“Gone?! Could it be…” The man shuddered all over, “Could it be eaten?”
Everyone shuddered when they heard this conjecture.
"This shouldn't be a dish, right? The woman who died in the bed before had charcoal-grilled lamb, right? I heard about it when I was a kid and it left a deep impression on me, but I never thought that beggar's chicken was charcoal-grilled lamb..."
After the cause of the woman's death was revealed, the man who had eaten the beggar's chicken felt both scared and relieved.
"That Lu Ming..."
Xie Chi searched around the house, but couldn't find Lu Ming's missing organs, so he returned to the body.
After checking, You Jing immediately moved away. He walked up to Zhao Jinhua, his expression serious, and lowered his voice, "Mom, this should be done by the male ghost with pica, right?"
Zhao Jinhua nodded silently. The other actors were guessing the beast. As soon as they saw the corpse, they thought about it for a moment and knew what was going on.
The male ghost with pica couldn't stand it anymore and started to attack the actors.
As expected, the animals were just minor troubles, and the male ghost with pica was the focus.
But they could never have imagined that the male ghost would even eat human organs, and eat them raw. However, when You Jing thought of the baby soup on the menu, he suddenly didn't think it was strange.
"Mom, we have to help the female ghost find the teeth. Since we have chosen to help the female ghost, we are standing on the opposite side of the male ghost. If we delay any further, the male ghost will definitely attack us."
Zhao Jinhua also nodded. She was not too afraid. She had seen many films and had means to save her life. What she was afraid of was that she would not be able to find all the teeth within the specified time and the filming would fail.
While You Jing and Zhao Jinhua reached a consensus, Xie Chi took the trouble to check the body again, then walked over to Lu Wen, who looked worried, and whispered, "Let's go back."
Ren Ze followed, "How is it?"
Xie Chi pushed up his glasses and said, "Cannibal."
"What?!" Lu Wen's eyes widened. After confirming that he had heard correctly, his face turned grim. "Are you saying that Lu Ming was eaten by a ghost? Not an animal?"
After all, according to their previous deduction, there were animal spirits in the house that wanted to hurt them. He originally thought that animals hurt people...
"No." Xie Chi said calmly: "Those are human teeth marks on Lu Ming's body."
"The marks left by human teeth are different from those left by animals. Animal teeth are pointed and sharp, while humans have many flush teeth. This is one of them. I'll tell you the rest when I get back."
This is a corridor with many people around, so it's definitely not a suitable place for conversation.
The three of them returned to the room. Xie Chi closed the door tightly and did not speak. Instead, he bit his arm first. The bite was not very deep, but the bite mark was clearly visible.
"Look."
The bite marks on Xie Chi's arm were neat and smooth, very beautiful.
Ren Ze was stunned for a moment, thinking back to the wounds on Lu Ming's body, and suddenly realized something, "He's a cannibal with broken teeth!"
The bite marks on Lu Ming's body were flat but also bumpy.
Xie Chi nodded.
"Then our teeth..." Lu Wen's face turned pale and he glanced meaningfully at the wall where the teeth were hidden.
Xie Chi pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down: "The clues are now very clear. Those animal spirits were eaten by the cannibal ghosts. Those dishes were also eaten by the cannibal ghosts when they were alive, and they are still eating them after they die. The animals are unwilling to be cruelly eaten. The resentment accumulated during their lifetime makes them harass and attack the humans who live here after they die. At present, there are two ways for animals to hurt people. One is very clear, that is, if you eat a special dish, the spirit represented by the special dish will take revenge on you that night."
"Two kinds?" Ren Ze frowned.
Xie Chi wrote: "The second type is not obvious, but it can be guessed. I have been harassed by rat cubs. In other words, the second type is actually an indiscriminate attack. It depends on luck and is very random. There is no necessary death condition, such as eating the corresponding dishes. Similarly, the mortality rate and danger level of this indiscriminate attack should be lower than the first type. After all, we did nothing wrong."
"That is to say, we can only encounter the spirits that represent specific dishes on the night when they are produced. However, we may also be harassed and attacked by other spirits at any time in the house, so we must be cautious."
"The question now is, what dishes did the pica cannibal like when he was alive, or how many dishes did he eat? I don't believe the number is countless, because this is not a comedy, nor is it a satirical hodgepodge like The Cabin in the Woods, where countless animals will fill the room in the end. This is most likely an animal protection film, advocating that we should not eat what we shouldn't eat and destroy our humanity."
"I have every reason to suspect that You Jing and Zhao Jinhua know this number and even the specific dish names, so we have to find a way to get them. This will be of great help to us."
Lu Wen was filled with awe. While he was confused and bewildered, Xie Chi had already mastered a vast amount of information and connected the information in the first place.
There was a hint of surprise in Ren Ze's eyes.
"Then let's talk about the teeth. It's a film with more merits than flaws. I don't believe there are any major loopholes in the logic of the movie's background story, so the most reasonable explanation for the teeth is that they are multiple small valves for the ghost's abilities."
"Valve?" Lu Wen understood the meaning of the word.
"The power of a ghost can be compared to water in a reservoir. Every time the ghost with missing teeth finds a tooth, it will open a small valve. It will become stronger and stronger in the process until it finds all the teeth and catches everyone in the house. By then, all of us will become the most delicious food on its table."
Lu Wen felt a chill on his back.
Ren Ze went through it himself and felt that the logical chain was complete.
Xie Chi said: "This is the most logically reasonable one. Of course, other explanations cannot be ruled out. After all, the quality of a movie is not good enough. Flaws are unknown factors. The logical chain of a movie may not be perfect."
Ren Ze glared. Xie Chi even took the quality of the movie into consideration?
Xie Chi continued to write, "The cannibal 's teeth must have been hidden on purpose, because they didn't want it to kill people."
"I have two guesses about this. One is that this was done by a group of animals that were against the cannibals. The second tooth I have here was found by monkeys when I encountered them. The monkeys hid the cannibal's tooth on their bodies, and because they were frightened, they accidentally dropped it, and I happened to pick it up."
"Teeth?" Ren Ze exclaimed softly. He didn't know that Xie Chi had found the ghost teeth, but the logic of Xie Chi's writing was clear, so he easily knew what Xie Chi had experienced before.
Ren Ze glanced at Xie Chi and was secretly grateful. Xie Chi told him such an important matter and did not treat him as an outsider.
"What about guess number two?" Lu Wen felt that Xie Chi's guess number one was already very thorough, and there seemed to be no other possibilities.
"Second guess: there are other ghosts besides the cannibal ghost in this house, and the teeth were hidden by that ghost along with the animals."
Lu Wen suddenly remembered what Xie Chi had overheard before, and suddenly said: "A man beats a woman, and the woman is crying! The violent man must be a cannibal ghost, and the dead woman might be a good ghost who helps animals hide their teeth."
"No." Xie Chi's eyes were sharp, with a bit of insight and cunningness, "Wrong."
"What's wrong?" Lu Wen was at a loss.
Xie Chi put down his pen, smiled slightly, and said very softly, "Women are cannibals."
"Ah?" Lu Wen covered his mouth, his eyes full of disbelief. Ren Ze also looked at Xie Chi.
Xie Chi shrugged. "It's a simple thing. Have you forgotten what the teeth we found looked like?"
Lu Wen was stunned for a moment, and when he figured it out, he felt a chill down his spine: "That's probably... a woman's tooth."
"Yes." Xie Chi continued to write: "When I found the first tooth, I thought that the man abused the woman and pulled out her teeth. Our mission is to help the female ghost find the teeth. But just now, the bite marks on Lu Ming's body overturned my guess. The teeth of the cannibal are incomplete. Women with incomplete teeth are cannibals."
Lu Wen's fingers froze. "Then how do you explain Zhao Jinhua's spiritualism...?"
Xie Chi put down his pen completely, leaned back in his swivel chair leisurely, and said with a smile: "Have you heard of a word?"
"What?"
Ren Ze understood: "It's a lot of nonsense."
"Yeah." Xie Chi glanced at him approvingly.
"You mean..." Lu Wen took a breath. The victim was actually the abuser, and the weak woman was actually a cannibal. The scene Zhao Jinhua saw through spiritualism was fake, and the cannibal deliberately created an illusion to deceive her.
Xie Chi shook his head and laughed, "I'm at a loss. I might as well not have eavesdropped. Eavesdropping would only mislead myself..."
Only then did Ren Ze realize how much Xie Chi had done quietly.
tapping……
The corners of Ren Ze's mouth twitched slightly, and he figured out why Lu Wen came to him like a lunatic that day.
Did Xie Chi, the hanged man, climb over the wall to eavesdrop...?
"How could such a powerful ability go wrong? I thought it was 100% accurate. Spiritual communication should have a guaranteed accuracy rate, right? Can't spiritual communication force ghosts to tell the truth?"
Lu Wen still found it a little hard to accept for a while.
Xie Chi said: "Even if the error rate of spiritual communication is one in ten million, we must take it into consideration, because once it happens, one in ten million is one."
"Animal spirits are different from ghosts. The intelligence of the animal itself determines the intelligence of the animal spirit. The intelligence of the animal spirit can only be slightly higher than that of the animal. That's why we encountered cunning monkeys and incompetent mouse cubs, but ghosts are another matter. After all." Xie Chi smiled, "When ghosts were alive, they were humans. They were the most cunning and scheming people."
Lu Wen clenched his fists.
Xie Chi said: "It's tiring to think this way. We don't actually need to consider the probability of error in spiritual communication. Let's change our way of thinking. Starting from the interests themselves is the most reliable. There will be a network of relationships only if there is demand. Demand is supreme, and demand is everything. After all, this is not an unsolvable film. Ghosts can't just kill whoever they want. There is a little cause and effect in it."
"The man-eating ghost has sufficient needs. It needs Zhao Jinhua to help it find teeth, increase its strength, and start killing people."
"Of course, this is all speculation." Xie Chi looked at the two serious-looking people and made a joke, trying to ease the atmosphere.
Ren Ze felt mixed emotions.
"And the fact that I suddenly received an invitation from the animal camp actually proves that there is more than one camp here."
"Because the animal camp can only accommodate me, this is extremely unreasonable."
"So I reasonably guess that there is also a female ghost camp."
Xie Chi paused, "Of course, there is a high probability that there is also... the camp of the people with hidden teeth."
