In Tongfang Town, the sky was so gloomy that it made people feel a little suffocated. Lu Ning looked out the car window. There were still a lot of pedestrians on the street here, but these pedestrians looked a little strange.
"Taoist Priest, does this town seem okay?" Yan Zidan asked strangely.
"Huh, I've left some skin behind. Even if some people are still fine, it's just a matter of time." Duan Ye leaned on his seat, "Do you think the problem here is just superficial? People who are not professionals can't see it at all. .”
"Then can we still communicate with people here?" Lu Ning asked.
"Okay, don't ask for details. There should be no problem in communicating with people here normally."
"Then let's go rescue Wang Zhongnan first." Lu Ning found the address and gave Chen Hang directions.
This town has been around for quite some time, and the residential areas created by the industrial plants still maintain their original appearance. At the same time, many high-rise buildings have been built in the modern development trend, thus forming a patchwork architectural pattern. I can’t talk about the beauty, I can only say that it has some features. Wang Zhongnan said that he was at Yan Meng's home, which is where six high-rise apartment buildings are clustered together in Tongfang Town, although it is called the Seven Star Building. After the car arrived downstairs, everyone got out of the car and looked up.
The six buildings all have 24 floors and have the same appearance except for the different building numbers. But now, even just standing downstairs, Lu Ning could feel the weirdness of this apartment building.
It's daytime now, but the sky is overcast, and it's just the right light condition between turning on the lights and not turning on the lights. It's just that the lights are on from the first to the eighth floor, and the lights are off when you go up to the 19th floor, and then on again when you go up to the top floor - all six buildings are like this. Lu Ning took out her mobile phone and took a photo with Movers. However, this time the APP did not provide any useful information. It only said that these buildings were built within ten years, and there were no unnatural deaths during or after the construction period. .
But now is the most unnatural situation.
"Should we go in together?" Chen Hang asked.
A classic problem in horror stories, if we act together, the group may be wiped out without anyone knowing; if some people are separated to guard against accidents, a certain group of people may die due to lack of manpower or strength. When you don’t know the specific situation, any choice you make may be wrong.
"Together." Lu Ning looked at the door of the apartment, "We are already here. What difference does it make whether we are separated or not?"
The high-rise apartments here have concierges, and there are four households on each floor. As for Yan Meng's home, it is in 1003, which happens to be in the area where the lights are turned off.
Lu Ning first took a look inside the concierge. There was no one inside, but there were many open books on the table with puzzling graffiti drawn on them. On the wall facing the window hangs an "Apartment Management Instructions" with blood-red words written on it:
1: Residents should be courteous and courteous to each other and should not disturb other residents.
2: Everyone’s living habits are different. As long as it does not violate Article 1, respect the living habits of others.
Three: Some prohibited behaviors promulgated by the apartment will be notified to you in time, please comply!
Four: No damage to public property!
"Let's just die with this one." Lu Ning pointed to the notice and said, "I'm afraid Wang Zhongnan saw this."
"I hope he's okay." Yan Zidan looked at the elevator, "Should we take the elevator or climb the stairs directly? Either way may be dangerous."
"Save your energy, everyone." Duan Ye walked towards the elevator.
Since the Taoist leader spoke, everyone followed suit.
There was a smell of dust in the elevator, and it seemed as if no one had used it for a long time. Even the buttons had a thin layer of dust. There was no light, so Lu Ning used her mobile phone to illuminate it, and was stunned for a moment.
The entire interior of the elevator is filled with black and red writing.
The main red letters include:
[You cannot go to the floor you want to go to by pressing the button directly. 】
[After pressing the bottom "0", use the lit buttons to form the floor you need to go to. 】
[The correct answer must be filled in once. 】
【You will die if you go to the wrong floor. 】
[Don’t talk to strangers on the elevator. 】
【There is nothing on the 48th floor! 】
Black letters include:
{Input information, 22-8920th layer of evil spirits. }
{Layer 12724, Death Receptor Detection}
{DO NOT Publish, A-YES}
{Conclusion of Negative Seven Exploration, Cutoff Completed}
{D778-D821 are all destroyed, I will die here. }
{Thirsty and hunger, these are not normal phenomena, please continue to be vigilant. }
Interlaced black and red letters are found on the walls, at the feet and even above the head, and there is a clear difference in the tone of the two. As everyone looked at these words, the quiet elevator fell into dead silence for a moment.
"Are we... going to do it?" Zhou Shilan asked softly.
"Taoist Priest? Do you have any suggestions?" Lu Ning asked.
"This is my first time here. All I can say is that these words were written by humans, not ghosts." Duan Ye spread his hands and said, "You can decide for yourself."
Lu Ning took a deep breath and pressed the only slightly bright "0" button.
Instantly, the elevator button panel began to flash rapidly, as if someone was pressing it randomly. After about ten seconds, the flashing suddenly became fixed, the ten floor buttons remained bright, and ten blood-red symbols appeared in the pale yellow light.
Lu Ning didn't recognize these symbols at all, but she had the impression that they seemed to be the pile of scribbles on the table in the concierge.
So this is still a puzzle game? But the elevator door was closed, and Lu Ning couldn't find the button to open or close the door in the elevator.
"What do these symbols mean?" Chen Hang raised his eyebrows, "How do we combine them? Are we confused?"
"The concierge outside should have an answer on the table, but I didn't remember it just now." Lu Ning shook her head, "My fault, I should have been more cautious. We can't get out now."
"I... give it a try." Yan Zidan raised his arm, "Maybe I can go out."
"Pay attention to safety, there is a strange feeling everywhere in this place." Lu Ning said.
Yan Zidan nodded, stretched out his hand and pressed the area on his arm, and in an instant, she disappeared.
Switching between the outside world and the inside world, this ability is more difficult to use than Lu Ning's Fate Sawtooth, because every time it is used, it will bring a lot of physical burden to Yan Zidan. Although she can be accepted by the outside world, the body of a living person cannot stay for long after all. Therefore Yanzidan has not been used except for the first two tests.
Now that she is heading to the inner world in a place like this, it is actually more worrying.
Everything there is dead, not only life, but even electrical appliances and other things will not continue to operate. Of course there is no problem for Yan Zidan to leave the elevator, but the problem is the things outside of it.
Everyone waited quietly in the elevator for about ten minutes. Yan Zidan reappeared in the elevator. Her face was a little blue and she seemed to have vomited. There were many stains on her clothes.
"Are you okay?" Zhou Shilan quickly supported her.
"It's...ok. I remember, we are going to the 10th floor now, right...Let me take a look..." Yan Zidan walked to the button and began to think about the combination.
Lu Ning was observing Yan Zidan's condition from the side. She had not been through a battle, as there were no signs of a violent struggle; her breathing was only slightly heavy, and she should not have been running or anything like that.
After Yan Zidan pressed all the buttons, Lu Ning asked: "How is your health?"
"I'm just a little tired." Yan Zidan forced a smile, "I... saw this dead building in the inner world, and I was a little frightened."
"This building looks dead?" Duan Ye smiled, "The people in this building, right?"
"I'm not sure, I just... saw corpses. The whole building was full of corpses, stacked on top of each other, and there was something like sticky flesh and blood melting under my feet... But I couldn't smell it. There was no smell inside. Things like that. They are all dead. Even the elevator, do you know? There is a big hole melted in the elevator door, and there are bones piled up under the metal skin!"
Yan Zidan was a little incoherent, but everyone understood what she meant.
"We have known for a long time that something is not normal here, but now we just know more." Lu Ning rubbed Yan Zidan's shoulders, "Thank you for your hard work."
"Can we still get out of here alive?" Yan Zidan whispered.
She couldn't describe what she saw specifically, only she was suffering from the fear of being alone.
The elevator stopped and the door slowly opened, revealing a dark corridor outside.
"The lights on the tenth floor are off. Let's be more careful. There are people watching from the front, back, and left," Lu Ning said.
Everyone turned on their cell phone flashlights and paid attention to their surroundings. After exiting the corridor, you can see 1003 and 1004 on the right. There is only the green light of the emergency exit in the corridor. Everything looks like a normal residential building, except for the red words and bloody handprints on the wall.
【No loud noises allowed! 】
【No knocking! 】
【No crying! 】
The red words were clearly written on the corridor. Everyone noticed it and nodded to each other. When they came to the door of 1003, Lu Ning raised her hand and pressed the doorbell, then took out her mobile phone and randomly selected a song to play outside. stand up.
Soon, someone asked at the door: "Who is outside?"
Lu Ning waved her phone next to her face. The people in the room probably hesitated for a while, and finally opened the door.
Wang Zhongnan's face was pale and even visibly thin. He didn't look happy after opening the door, he just got out of the way.
Everyone filed in, and after Wang Zhongnan closed the door, Lu Ning asked: "Do you really dare to open the door directly?"
"I've had enough. You are the best people. If you are ghosts, you will at least look like humans. It doesn't matter whether you die or not..." Wang Zhongnan sneered and turned on the light.
"So you can turn on the lights? I saw all the lights on this floor were off before." Lu Ning said.
"I don't know, I'm just too lazy to drive." Wang Zhongnan walked over and lay down on the sofa, "You guys came quite quickly. I thought it would take a week for you to collect my body."
"Why did you become like this after just over a day?" Lu Ning asked.
"This place will make people crazy." Wang Zhongnan raised the corner of his mouth, "You know? You have to keep an eye on the various words around you, be careful not to violate them, be careful not to look away... I can't hold on, there are ghosts all around, You have to follow some damn rules. Haha, so unlucky..."
He picked up a can from the coffee table and poured it into his mouth.
"Now I understand the bullshit rules. I have survived until now, and if I am eaten by ghosts in a few days, there will probably be no living people here."
"Let me see, little brother." Duan Ye walked behind Wang Zhongnan and suddenly stretched out his hands to grab both sides of his head. Before Wang Zhongnan could resist, he twisted and pulled out a slender piece of hair from his ears. red line.
Wang Zhongnan trembled all over, and then fell down with a thud.
Duan Ye took the red thread and swung it twice, and even made several windmill turns, as if he could knock the thing out. And this Taoist priest finally did something that made people feel reliable.
"Mr. Duan, what is that?" Zhou Shilan asked.
"Some filth that can't even be considered a ghost." After Duan Ye tossed it around like a noodle, he took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it from below the red line. A blue flame burned up along the red line, and soon It burned it to ashes.
"So there is a reason why Wang Zhongnan is like this?" Chen Hang glanced at Wang Zhongnan who was snoring.
"Most of it is because of this, but he must have said it himself. This place is really dangerous. I seem to remember... Oh, it's better to see it than to hear it." Duan Ye clapped his hands, "Everyone really ran away. It’s a bad place!”
"There's no need to be so mysterious." Lu Ning said in a deep voice.
"This is the manifestation of the Red Prison in the underworld in the human world!" Duan Ye pointed to the surroundings, "I just don't know why it turned out like this."
However, everyone was not from the Taoist sect, so naturally they couldn't understand what he was talking about. Duan Ye shrugged, turned and walked into the bathroom, and Lu Ning followed him and took a look.
There is already some rancid smell in the bathroom, but it's not strong. The blood stains in the bathtub were not cleaned, and Wang Zhongnan probably didn't want to clean them either. Duan Ye walked around the bathroom, then pulled off a few rolls of toilet paper, lit it with a lighter and threw it away. The same blue flame as before burned, instead of burning the flammable materials, it burned quietly. It went out after a while.
"How was it watching?" Duan Ye asked with a smile.
"I know you are very capable, but I hope you can take this matter seriously. And seeing your actions at least reassures me... You are ensuring our safety, right?"
"Hahaha, after all, I am the person I am paid to protect, and I still have to do some things. Your name is Li Wenyue, right? I can see that you don't trust me, but... I don't care about that either." Ye reached into his pocket again, and this time he took out a white pebble. He placed the stone on the bathroom table and gestured to the door.
"Is that all?"
"Hmph, do you know what the Red Prison is?"
