Volume 1: Breaking Ground Chapter 17: Wangfu's Revenge
The red whistle blew alone in the night, the sound was sometimes sharp, sometimes low, sometimes like a whisper, sometimes like a mournful cry...
No matter what the tone of voice is, it always reveals something weird.
After about half an hour, the whistle suddenly stopped.
This sudden silence seemed to be brewing something, which made people even more creepy.
Suddenly, Shaliu's heart-wrenching scream was heard from room 410 next door, accompanied by a sound similar to the roar of a wild beast. No one could guess what had happened in the room.
"Help! Help me!" The sharp cries of Shaliu seemed insignificant amid the roar of the wild beasts. Gradually, the sound of something being gnawing was heard from the room.
Ke Xun listened to the chilling gnawing sound and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Unlike wild beasts and ghosts, the pain and fear brought by them were real and naked.
"It sounds like a sound made by a canine." Mu Yiran remained calm as always.
There was a sound of metallic collision from the next room, as if Shaliu was fighting back, and then the next door opened. From the small window of 411, one could clearly see Shaliu staggering out covered in blood, and behind her a huge and ferocious wolf jumped out - Ke Xun rubbed his eyes, and felt that the wolf looked a bit like a dog.
" Help! Help!" Although Sha Liu kept shouting for help, his eyes were full of despair. Ke Xun suddenly discovered that Sha Liu's left forearm seemed to be missing, and blood was pouring out from the elbow below.
The giant wolf did not seem to want to kill its prey directly. The biting now seemed more like a kind of play. It opened its huge mouth and grabbed the willow and dragged it, seeming to enjoy the other's screams.
Sha Liu finally knocked on the door of 411, but this time he didn't shout for help, but "You all have to die! You all have to die! No one can get out alive!"
Ke Xun and Mu Yiran simply ignored the curse outside. At this moment, each of them stood in two separate rooms, waiting for the strange vision in room 411 to appear.
Sure enough, after the door rang, Ke Xun, who was standing in the living room, saw a woman walking out of the bedroom wearing a pair of eye-catching red slippers.
Although the scene was very strange, Ke Xun didn't want to miss any clues and stared at the woman.
The other party seemed not to see Ke Xun. He walked towards the chest of drawers naturally, opened the last layer, and took out a cloth bundle from it - Ke Xun had seen this bundle before, and had opened it before when he was looking for a seal, but there were some old clothes inside, so he didn't take a closer look.
The woman seemed to have found something in the bag, looked at it and put it back, then got up and went back to the bedroom.
When Ke Xun rushed back to the bedroom, the woman had disappeared.
The room returned to darkness again.
The screams of Shaliu outside the window continued, but the sound was gradually fading away. I didn't know whether it was because of the distance or because Shaliu's voice was getting weaker.
There seemed to be something left in the corridor outside the door. Ke Xun couldn't see it clearly, but he could roughly guess that it was a piece of tamarisk stump in a pool of blood.
"The whistle is gone." Mu Yiran looked towards the place where the whistle was hung before.
"Who took the whistle?" It couldn't be that beast that looked like a wolf or a dog.
The whistle probably completed its mission, the mission of a certain summoned beast...
Almost two hours had passed, and one could still hear Shaliu's groans from time to time. Considering the people who died in the previous nights, Shaliu was probably the one who died the most painfully.
A whistle pierced the night sky, and the familiar hoarse voice of the old man was heard again: "Wangfu - you finally know how to go home -"
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When Ke Xun woke up, it was already bright outside. Mu Yiran had already gotten up and gone out.
Ke Xun went out and found that the bloodstains and body parts from last night had also been cleaned up.
In the courtyard, everyone stood beside the body covered with white cloth, including the crazy Xinmiao, who was happily dancing around Shaliu's body.
Old man Li Taiyong pulled Xinmiao aside and gave her a lollipop.
Wei Dong was retching beside him and saw Ke Xun: "Fortunately you got up late, you didn't see the body parts thrown all over the building..."
Ke Xun frowned. Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, he could imagine it.
Qin Ci said: "I just don't understand why the body turned white, and even the hair turned snow-white."
"Because her knocking on the door caused the backlash in this room," Zhu Haowen answered this question, "Room 410 where she lived was originally the room of the albino, and that woman also died of albinism, so her body mutated after knocking on the door."
Wei Dong vomited again: "I was wondering why those body parts were so white..."
Finally, Shaliu's body was carried out. The stretcher was shaking, and people were worried that a piece of his body would be left behind...
The doorman came over, waving his keys. "Everyone is here, let's talk about 307."
Finally, it’s time to talk about 307.
"The person who lived in 307 before was Cripple Liu. Old Liu was a good man. Although he couldn't find a wife due to his bad legs, he was hardworking and capable, and had a high level of ideological awareness. He used the money he saved to support those poor primary schools. When talking about Old Liu, we can't help but mention Wangfu, that was the stray puppy that Old Liu took in. He raised it for 17 or 18 years, and the man and the dog depended on each other for survival.
"When the bastards in the factory came to chase people away, they thought Lao Liu was easy to talk to, so they picked on him and made him the first to move! Wangfu saw Lao Liu being pushed around by those people, so he got anxious and bit the deputy director's leg. This caused trouble. Although he was wearing thick clothes at the time and his leg was not bitten, the deputy director was not happy...
"The deputy director didn't say anything at the time, but Wangfu was missing the next day, which made Lao Liu very anxious. Wangfu was like his own child to him. During those days, Lao Liu went out to look for Wangfu day and night, and his voice became hoarse. In the past, Wangfu would always rush out as soon as he heard Lao Liu's whistle or the sound of Lao Liu knocking on the dog bowl...
"It was several days later that someone found Wangfu between the tube building and the cement wall outside. The old dog had been killed by those people and chopped into several pieces and thrown away.
"We didn't dare tell Lao Liu, for fear that he couldn't bear it. Lao Liu died without finding Wangfu, and this was probably a knot in his heart."
It turns out that the person who wanted revenge was not Lao Liu, but Wangfu.
As to why the red whistle appeared in front of the 410 gate, it remains a mystery.
Could it be that Lao Liu sensed the murderous aura of 410 at that time? ——Sha Liu's guidance to Qiu Lu was actually a kind of death guidance. In other words, Sha Liu was the murderer who killed Qiu Lu.
"But how did the dog appear in 410?" Wei Dong asked.
"Because the window outside Room 410 was open, and the dog's body was thrown into the narrow gap in the concrete wall, so - Wangfu's ghost still climbed up from there..." Ke Xun said.
The doorman suddenly looked up. Because of the gathering of light on the roof, the light in the entire tube building was not so bright. In fact, the diameter of the opening of the skylight was only five or six meters. Everyone was like being sealed in a small jar.
The doorman showed a gratified expression: "I think the momentum is promising. Maybe we can break the ground tomorrow! You should all go and have your meal! Breaking the ground is a good thing! Let's all go out now!"
The doorman waved to Xinmiao and said, "The screen window of your 215th room has been repaired. We will replace it with a new one in two days!"
Xinmiao didn't quite understand and just smiled at the doorman.
Everyone was in no mood to eat at this time. Qin Ci looked up and asked, "Did the groundbreaking ceremony come ahead of schedule?"
"NPC shouldn't lie. Maybe we triggered some conditions, causing the groundbreaking to start early." Mu Yiran couldn't figure out the reason for a moment.
Wei Dong said, "If a full closure before groundbreaking really happens, we will probably be suffocated to death, but aren't these people afraid?"
Mu Yiran glanced at Xinmiao who was not far away and said: "Xinmiao is already one of them, so he should not be afraid."
Weidong suddenly discovered that Xinmiao had changed into a red skirt without him noticing: "Could it be that... the other people living in this tube building are..."
"We are all from the countryside." Zhu Haowen answered directly.
"If it's true as the NPC said, the groundbreaking will be completed tomorrow, then the groundbreaking will be completely sealed today," Ke Xun analyzed the current situation. "If we still can't find the seal today, I guess everyone will die here."
Now there are six people left: Mu Yiran, Ke Xun, Wei Dong, Qin Ci, Zhu Haowen, and old man Li Taiyong.
Elder Li Taiyong came over and said, "I'll help you look for it."
But no one moved, and we had searched all the places we should look for. Now we didn’t know where to start.
Zhu Haowen was the first to say: "I always think it has something to do with the entrance to the skylight, after all, the tips of bamboo shoots will form there."
"But that's not a rooftop after all. I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to climb to the entrance to the skylight." Qin Ci expressed his doubt.
"When the deformation reaches a certain extent, the exterior wall windows on our sixth floor will be equivalent to the tops of bamboo shoots. We should be able to do it by simply breaking the window glass!" Zhu Haowen expressed his thoughts.
"There's no time to lose," Mu Yiran suddenly said, "You guys go to the sixth floor. Ke Xun and I will go back to room 411. Something strange happened in the room last night. Maybe it's related to the big event."
Ke Xun looked at old man Li Taiyong and said, "Grandpa, please come with us. After all, the sixth floor is too high."
So, the six people were divided into two groups, three people went to 616 and three people went to 411.
Mu Yiran asked Ke Xun along the way: "What strange thing did you see last night?"
After all, we were in room 411 last night, and it might not be safe to discuss those strange visions openly, so we will leave it until daytime.
Ke Xun talked about the woman he saw yesterday, and suddenly looked at Mu Yiran: "Could it be that what you saw is different from what I saw?"
"It's different. I saw the woman walk from the living room into the bedroom, take out paper and pen, and start drawing her own portrait in front of the mirror." Mu Yiran said what he saw last night.
"In other words, that woman can paint?" Ke Xun thought that the word "painting" was very sensitive in the painting.
"Yes, it looks like a very professional sketch."
Elder Li Taiyong said directly: "I am slow on my feet, you two go up and look for it first!"
So, the two of them went straight to 411, opened the compartment under the chest of drawers first, and found the big cloth bundle inside. Sure enough, they found a hand-sewn cloth schoolbag among several hand-knitted sweaters and trousers, which contained some letters.
Life was at stake, so they didn't care about what was hidden or not at this moment. The two men divided the letters and began to open them one by one.
Most of the letters came from abroad, and the two gradually learned from the letters that the woman’s husband had studied abroad a few years ago and studied oil painting.
Due to economic reasons, the man has not returned to his country for many years. The woman lives alone in China with her son, living in 411 of the Chunsun Dormitory in front of them.
It can be seen that the couple loves each other very much, and Ke Xun also vaguely understands the meaning of the word "归" on the desk.
The two of them read through the letters one by one. There was no letter in the envelope at the bottom, but instead a bunch of notes. Ke Xun poured them all out and read them one by one. Most of them were written by the couple when they were students. The two seemed to be high school classmates and sat at the same table, so they often passed notes to each other during class.
