Volume 1: Breaking Ground Chapter 8: Vision in the Room
Ke Xun was a little worried about Wei Dong, so he finally took bus 616. In the end, he was supported by Wei Dong all the way back to bus 411.
Ke Xun looked at Mu Yiran in confusion, and actually vaguely saw a hint of concern in the other's eyes?
"Ke'er, I didn't expect you to react so strongly. Luckily, I live on the sixth floor, otherwise you would have been sent to the sixth floor last night." Wei Dong supported Ke Xun and helped him to the sofa.
Ke Xun opened the green bottle given by old man Li Taiyong, poured out a few Danshen pills and put them in his mouth: "If you stay there for two more minutes, I will explode on the spot." Soon, under Mu Yiran's gaze, he corrected his words, "I mean the head."
"Perhaps this is also your discomfort with the world inside the painting." Mu Yiran put down the mechanical theory book in his hand. He just tried to find some clues from the book. "Is your discomfort directed at the entire sixth floor or room 616?"
"The whole sixth floor." Ke Xun's mouth was full of the bitter and cold taste of the pills, but his head and heart felt better than before: "The doorman's words were very accurate. It was really overwhelming. I felt like my head was as heavy as if it was carrying an aircraft carrier. I couldn't even lift my neck."
Wei Dong also nodded and reported to the boss: "Me too, my situation is a little less serious than his, it's like having a gas tank on my head."
Mu Yiran simply ignored these ridiculous metaphors and poured a glass of water from the thermos for Ke Xun to cool down. "Has room 616 changed?"
Ke Xun smiled brightly when he saw the glass of water, but he still answered the question first: "Yes, Zhu Haowen even showed me how to measure it with a ruler. The outer wall of the room is tilted inwards. The inner wall, which is the door and the small window, is fine."
Ke Xun picked up the glass on the table. Although the water inside was still a little hot, Ke Xun blew away the hot air happily: "Did you add orange powder to it?"
Mu Yiran lowered his eyelids: "The water here seems to be light pink in color."
Wei Dong felt like he was being fed another wave of dog food, and his eyes simply moved from the room to the door.
"Are you all here?" Sha Liu suddenly appeared at the door.
Weidong also didn't understand whether he was included in this "all".
Shaliu walked into the house and closed the door.
The three men in the room were staring at her, wondering what important speech she was going to make.
Shaliu leaned against the door: "Something terrible happened in our room last night."
Ke Xun sipped the hot water and said, "Why didn't you tell me what happened downstairs just now?"
"I'm afraid of scaring Qiu Lu. She is timid to begin with, and getting startled would only do harm." Sha Liu always has his own reasons for doing everything.
Mu Yiran asked directly: "What happened last night?"
Sha Liu briefly glanced around the room, her eyes fell on the red slippers on the shoe rack by the door, and she subconsciously moved away from there: "Last night at midnight, the two girls from 402 knocked on our door. I was still awake, but I didn't dare to move or answer the door. I just sat in the dark, looking at the corridor through the small window - our room doesn't have curtains."
Several people listened to her quietly.
"The two girls were also very anxious at the time. They used their cell phones to shine into our room, and as a result, they illuminated everything in the room..."
Wei Dong was the most timid, so he simply sat on the sofa and squeezed in with Ke Xun: "Fuck, what did you see?"
"There's a person sitting on the toilet next to the window." Sha Liu's voice was a little low, "And from the angle outside the window, you can't see that person at all."
Not only Wei Dong, Ke Xun was also shocked when he heard it: "Who is it?"
Weidong: "Fuck, why is there a toilet in your room?"
Mu Yiran: "..."
Sha Liu adjusted his glasses, as if trying to adjust his mood: "I also find it very strange. We have a big toilet in our house, like a toilet. When the light of the phone came on last night, there was a woman sitting on the toilet. She was... a woman with white hair and a snow-white body."
Even though he had experienced the horror of the first two paintings, Wei Dong was still frightened by this woman with white hair and body sitting on the toilet: "This... did you see it clearly?"
"I didn't dare to look any further. I was so scared that I quickly closed my eyes," Sha Liu still looked frightened. "After the two girls left, there was no movement in the room. It took me a long time to open my eyes and see that the woman in white was gone."
Ke Xun took two more Danshen dripping pills, cleared his throat and asked: "Do you think that woman is a physical entity, or some kind of aura or field?"
"I don't know for sure. I just took a look," Sha Liu bit her lip . "But I should be able to conclude that the woman used to live in 410."
Wei Dong was afraid, but at this moment he boldly thought about it: I guess that toilet should be the private property of the white woman...
Sha Liu continued, "When I first entered the room yesterday, I saw a few particularly long white hairs on the comb in front of the dressing table. Those hairs should be hers."
"Dressing table?" Although Mu Yiran didn't understand these mysterious things, he still asked a traditional question: "Is there a shadow of that woman in the mirror?"
"No, there is no mirror on the dressing table at all," Sha Liu also found this very strange, "It is obvious that the mirror that was originally integrated with the dressing table has been removed, and traces are still left in some places."
Wei Dong initially thought that living on the sixth floor was the most unlucky, but now he felt that other rooms were even more dangerous: "About that Bai, Bai girl...you said she was white all over, was it because she was wearing a white dress?"
"I don't know. I don't dare to look closely. Anyway, the whole person is white, and the face should be white too, as white as a snowman." Sha Liu suddenly felt a little nauseous.
"Apart from these, are there any other unusual signs?" Mu Yiran asked.
Sha Liu couldn't help but dry heaved twice: "I didn't sleep the whole night. In the second half of the night, I heard our door open and close twice. Although it was very light, I could still hear it at night."
"The door opened and closed twice? Do you mean someone went out and came back in?" Mu Yiran frowned slightly.
"It is also possible that someone came in and went out." Ke Xun took a sip of hot water of poor quality.
Sha Liu: "That's unlikely. The doors are locked from the inside, so it's unlikely that someone from outside can get in."
Wei Dong: "The problem is... those who can come and go freely in the middle of the night... are probably not ordinary humans."
Sha Liu thought for a moment and said, "I asked the old lady next door. The last person who lived in our house was called Yafen. She had lived in 410 for more than ten years. She was taken to live in the city center by her parents a while ago."
"You mean, this Yafen is still alive?" Ke Xun also felt that his question was a bit strange, but he believed that everyone could understand it.
"From what the old lady said, they should have moved away." Shaliu thought of the thousands of romance novels in the room, and wondered why Yafen didn't take all her books away.
If the white woman is not Yafen, who is it?
Sha Liu cleared his throat unnaturally: "Qiu Lu and I have discussed that we will spend the night on the sofa in the outer room. If any danger occurs, we will run to the corridor immediately. When the time comes, please take care of us."
"Okay." Ke Xun agreed.
Sha Liu heaved a sigh of relief: "It's getting late, let's meet downstairs."
A few people walked out of the house and saw Qiu Lu on the third floor, saying hello: "Come down to eat!"
Qiu Lu was with her two companions just now, and Xin Miao was walking beside them.
Everyone went downstairs together. Qin Ci and old man Li Taiyong were already waiting at the entrance of the hotel, with Zhu Haowen standing next to them with an expressionless face.
Mu Yiran looked at Qin Ci, who nodded: "I have told the old man the truth, and he didn't have a strong reaction."
Old man Li Taiyong was not deaf. After hearing what Qin Ci said, he said slowly, "Everything has a cause and effect. Although what happened here is a supernatural thing, it is not without reason."
After hearing this, people had different expressions. Qiu Lu wanted to refute, but considering that the other party was an old man over 70 years old, she had to give up.
Lunch was still a family meal, and everyone decided to discuss it after lunch to avoid being affected by hearing certain things.
After everyone put down their chopsticks, Qin Ci said, "There is nothing wrong with the furnishings in our room 307, and there is no tilt change like in room 616. It's just that I heard some strange noises in the middle of the night yesterday. I don't know if this counts."
"What's the strange noise?" Sha Liu asked first.
Qin Ci recalled carefully: "It's a bit like the sound of someone sucking their lips. Sometimes when we feed some small animals, we make similar sounds."
Xinmiao was the most timid. He hugged his arms and forced himself not to tremble.
"I heard the sound you made," said Li Taiyong, an old man who lived in the same room with Qin Ci. "It sounded like the sound you make when you call a cat or a dog over. If you made a sound, it would probably be something like 'do do do'."
Everyone understood it, but no one dared to demonstrate or imitate it, for fear that if they learned the sound, they would be followed by it.
This is a kind of horror from a tricky angle, different from the horror of a monster suddenly jumping out. It's like a ghost hand scratching you unexpectedly. It doesn't hurt, but it's creepy.
"Where are the others?" Sha Liu looked at everyone.
Zhitiao, who lives in Room 317, shook his head and said, "We talked until very late last night and didn't find anything unusual."
Qiu Lu, who lives in 410, said: "We were fine last night..."
Ke Xun, Sha Liu and the other three looked at each other, and no one said anything.
Then Qiu Lu said, "But I dreamed of the Snow Girl last night."
Ke Xun and Wei Dong asked at the same time: "What Snow Girl?"
"It is a monster in Japanese mythology. It appears in the snowy mountains. When it sees a man it likes, it will freeze him and then put him in a cave for treasured appreciation." Qiu Lu narrated, "The snow girl I dreamed of last night was snow-white and dressed in white. She was very beautiful."
Weidong and Shaliu's faces were very ugly. Others did not feel comfortable after hearing this dream. Only Shouzhu smiled and said, "Many Japanese monster legends are very romantic."
Qin Ci looked towards Mu Yiran and Ke Xun and asked, "Is there any movement in Room 411 where the two young men are staying?"
Although Ke Xun did not sleep well last night, he did not hear or see anything strange. At this time, he looked at Mu Yiran, feeling that there were some things that the other party had not told him yet.
Sure enough, Mu Yiran said calmly: "I also heard some noises last night, it seemed to come from under the bed."
"Under the bed?" Everyone showed the appropriate horror.
"There was a sound under the bed, like someone was looking for something."
