Seeing the strange situation transformed by the green smoke, both Jiang Yue and Luo Chu's expressions looked extremely solemn, not to mention Mr. Ke, who was too scared to speak.
Shrinking his head and hiding behind Jiang Yue and the others, he was determined to follow these two people no matter what.
Going it alone? nonexistent.
He was very self-aware. If he acted alone at this time, he could lose his life in minutes.
Maybe what Jiang Yue said makes sense? The reason why the ghost didn't kill him was because he was a pig teammate? Can it form an invisible restraint on the two of them? Even provide divine assists?
Although Mr. Ke was angry and felt that this statement was too humiliating, but thinking carefully about everything that happened today, it seemed that he had been holding back!
Jiang Yue and Luo Chu discussed in low voices for a while.
The floor they are currently on is the 15th floor, and the next floor is the 14th floor. Therefore, based on the principle of proximity, Luo Chu advocated visiting 1418 first.
"Luo Chu, the apartment on the 16th floor has only 16 rooms on the entire floor, and there is no room number 18. The layout of the 15th floor is similar to that of the 16th floor. Could it be different on the 14th floor?"
Jiang Yue didn't notice this problem for a while before, but now he calmed down a little and immediately thought of this problem.
Luo Chu also thought about this problem, but still insisted: "Go and have a look. It's just one flight of stairs anyway, so it won't be a hassle."
It's still the same person as before, Jiang Yue is in front, Mr. Ke is in the middle, and Luo Chu is in the back.
This time, the three of them reached the next floor very smoothly. There is also a sign hanging above the stairs, indicating that this is indeed the 14th floor.
Jiang Yue was secretly surprised. He didn't expect it to go so smoothly. Didn't make any trouble at all?
The layout of the 14th floor, as Jiang Yue said before, is exactly the same as the 15th and 16th floors. Maybe the design of the entire apartment is the same.
There are sixteen apartments on each floor.
This is also normal logic.
In a frame structure building, there is no reason why the design of each floor should be different.
The three of them wandered around the corridor on the 14th floor, passing each room with the same house number. There was still deathly silence on the floor, as gloomy as walking in a deserted cemetery. The air of death was so shrouded that you couldn't really feel the slightest trace of human fireworks.
Jiang Yue and Luo Chu looked at each other, becoming increasingly pessimistic in their hearts.
A leopard can be seen in a tube.
For three consecutive floors, there was not a single living person, not a single trace of human activity.
So it can basically be concluded that there may really be no living people in this building.
Thinking that there were only three of them alive in the whole building? Even someone like Jiang Yue, who had seen big scenes, felt sad.
"Let's go to the 18th floor."
After walking around and finding nothing, Jiang Yue decisively decided to go back upstairs.
Mr. Ke knew that he was a soft-spoken person. If he kept beeping, he might be kicked out of the team. No matter how reluctant he was, he could only cooperate.
Returning to the 15th floor again? The three people suddenly heard the sound of running barefoot from before.
Jiang Yue's steps faltered and he stopped.
The torch flickered into the darkness, and the deep and dark corridor was empty and occupied by darkness.
But the footsteps are definitely going away from this direction.
The design of this apartment is zigzag, with the entire corridor extending in all directions. If you walk around, you can return to the starting point.
The corner at the end of this direction is actually Principal Mei’s apartment.
When the three of them approached Principal Mei's apartment, they all looked at each other.
There was a chair clearly placed here before, and it was this chair that Old Principal Mei got up from.
What about this chair?
At this moment, the end of the corridor has been seen, but the chair seems to have grown legs and walked away on its own.
The corner is also empty, not to mention chairs? There is no debris at all.
"Want to take a look?"
Luo Chu asked Jiang Yue for his opinion.
Jiang Yue shook his head: "No need, let's go to the 18th floor."
So many weird things happened? He didn’t care about the whereabouts of a chair. Maybe the chair or the old Dong’s mobile phone? They are just distractions and have little direct connection with the truth of the matter.
After all, this may be a trick played by ghosts to deliberately confuse people.
When turning around, Jiang Yue glanced at Principal Mei's apartment.
Vaguely, Jiang Yue seemed to see a shadow flashing in the room.
The shadow was just behind the curtains in the living room. It was so fast that Jiang Yue almost thought he was dazzled.
But he can be sure that he is by no means dazzled.
Moreover, this shadow is definitely not the previous Principal Mei. Because this shadow is taller.
But when Jiang Yue took a second look, the apartment became calm again, as if nothing had happened and everything was calm.
Another distraction?
Jiang Yue knew that if he went in to check, he would definitely find nothing. Therefore, he decided to eliminate all interference and go directly to the 18th floor.
If Principal Mei's two numbers had a hidden meaning, then there was only one possibility, and that was Room 1814.
The only combination of these two numbers is 1814.
If 14 represents a floor, then they had just walked around the 14th floor and didn't notice anything unusual.
So, maybe the 18th floor is the only answer?
Thinking of the 18th floor, Jiang Yue inexplicably remembered that the Year Eaters were also on the 18th floor.
Is the number 18 really that evil?
The three of them walked around and returned to the 16th floor. This is the floor where they first arrived and where they stayed for a long time.
It was also the floor where Wen Yuqian's body was hidden, and it was also the floor where Lao Dong appeared and disappeared.
Logically speaking, this floor should be the source of the problem.
Nothing seemed to have changed since they left.
Jiang Yue and the others went to Lao Dong's rooms to take a look. Everything was the same as before, and the scene was still the same. It was as if Lao Dong had evaporated from here.
This time, Jiang Yue and the others did not intend to stay on the 16th floor, but continued up the stairs to the 17th floor.
When Jiang Yue arrived at the 17th floor, he felt an inexplicable strange feeling. The feeling of this seventeenth floor actually feels like déjà vu.
how so?
Jiang Yue raised his torch a little higher and immediately saw the sign at the entrance of the corridor.
It clearly says: 15th floor!
They walked up from the 16th floor, and logically and logically they should have gone to the 17th floor.
But the sign on this corridor shows it is the 15th floor.
The most bizarre thing is that all the details of the corridor are very similar to the 15th floor that we passed before. It can be said that they are almost the same.
The three of them took a few steps forward and found that the previously missing chair was suddenly placed in the corridor. It was exactly the same as before and had not been moved at all.
The three of them felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity in their hearts at the same time.
Could it be that the 15th floor just now was a fake 15th floor? Is this the real 15th floor we arrived at?
This is impossible!
Even a kindergarten child can do the arithmetic of going up and down floors. The three of them are grown men with extraordinary intelligence. There is no way they can go upstairs without remembering the number of floors!
Mr. Ke quipped: "Is this... is this a ghost beating a wall?"
Luo Chu snorted coldly: "The warning signs can do tricks. These chairs are so similar. I don't believe that old Principal Mei's apartment can be copied exactly?"
Jiang Yue also agreed deeply.
In fact, he didn't believe signs indicating floor numbers.
He had seen this trick before. In the incident of searching for a dog and a female ghost in the apartment, the female ghost relied on changing the house number to lure the bad guys into the room where the female ghost was entrenched.
Jiang Yue naturally didn't like this little trick.
The three of them arrived at the apartment corresponding to Principal Mei, and the door was closed.
If this is the 15th floor, what you see when you open the door should be Principal Mei's apartment.
If not, it proves that this is just some force deliberately pretending to be a ghost!
Jiang Yue put his hand on the doorknob and sensed that the door was locked.
Of course, it is obviously unrealistic to block Jiang Yue with this kind of lock.
But for some reason, Jiang Yue put his hand on the doorknob, but didn't push it down.
The three people's eyes were all focused on the doorknob, and they all felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity, tension, and even a slight sense of uneasiness.
There was a strange worry in each other's hearts.
What if you push the door open and see Principal Mei's apartment?
How to explain this? How to accept this?
Ghost hitting the wall?
Jiang Yue took a deep breath.
I felt that the two people around me were holding their breaths, and their heartbeats seemed to be speeding up.
Jiang Yue's strength poured into his wrist, and with a strong pull, the door lock was immediately broken, and the door creaked open.
When I looked closer at the torch, the three of them changed colors at the same time.
Everything is just as they worried, whatever they are afraid of will come!
The scene that caught his eye was clearly the apartment of old Principal Mei.
Shabby sofa, old coffee table, Walkman, thermos cup...
And newspapers burned to ashes.
Various details showed that this was actually Principal Mei’s apartment!
In other words, is this the real fifteenth floor?
How is this possible?
They were walking up from the 16th floor just now. No matter what logic they used, this should be the 17th floor. How could it become the 15th floor?
Has the entire apartment building been turned upside down? Going upstairs from the 16th floor to the 15th floor?
No matter how absurd the world is, it cannot be so absurd and illogical.
Luo Chu stepped forward, picked up the thermos cup, looked at it, fiddled with the Walkman, and listened to the recording again.
Yes, it was the same Walkman from before. Luo Chu would not be wrong about such details.
The sofa is still the same sofa, and the coffee table is still the same coffee table.
The curtains are still the same curtains.
But Jiang Yue didn't believe in evil, so he secretly took out a small bottle and sprayed it into the air. This is the spiritual liquid of reincarnation. If there is a ghost creating a ghost wall right now, once this spray comes out, there will definitely be a flaw in the illusion.
Unfortunately, after the reincarnation spirit liquid was sprayed out, except for a faint smell in the surrounding air, there was nothing unusual about the scene in front of him.
There is no sense of disillusionment like a shattered illusion.
In other words, everything in front of you is actually real?
Jiang Yue stood for a while, then suddenly showed a strange smile and called Luo Chu, "Let's go."
Jiang Yue was the first to walk out of Principal Mei's apartment.
Luo Chu caught up with him with a solemn expression and asked, "Xiao Jiang, what's going on? Do you see any tricks?"
"It's just a little trick, it's still the same thing."
"What do you mean? You mean, this is not the 15th floor?"
"Definitely not. It's just that some force deliberately created this to confuse us and make us think that this is the 15th floor. This is to mess up our minds and our positions."
"However, those things are indeed the things I saw before, and they are definitely true." Luo Chu reminded.
"This also shows that there may be a lot of ghosts on this floor. The method of photographing objects from the air is indeed not bad, but it can be improvised and there are always flaws."
"Judged together?"
"Yes, the layout can be imitated and things can be copied. But some things are always not taken care of in a hurry."
"You mean?" Luo Chu frowned. He really didn't see any flaws.
"I just sprayed some spray, did you smell it?"
"I smell it." Both Mr. Ke and Luo Chu nodded.
"So, if you burn a few newspapers in an apartment with little ventilation, the burning smell won't be easy to dissipate for a while, right?"
Luo Chu's expression suddenly changed: "That's right! I only saw the burning ashes, but I didn't smell the obvious burning smell. Even if they dispersed, they wouldn't disperse so quickly."
Back and forth, they couldn't have left there for more than ten minutes.
In such a short period of time, the smell of burning newspapers will never dissipate at all.
So, as Jiang Yue said, all this was deliberately arranged by ghosts?
"Then what should we do now?" Mr. Ke was more concerned about this.
"Keep going upstairs!" Jiang Yue sneered, "I just want to see what other tricks they can play. The more they create these fancy illusions, the closer we are to the truth. They create these things just because they want to It’s nothing more than creating difficulties and disturbances.”
Continue upstairs.
Just after turning the corner of the corridor, Jiang Yue stopped.
There are still about ten steps to reach the 18th floor. The three of them are standing on the small platform at the corner, which is a bit crowded.
The torch shined on the corridor of the 18th floor, and a chair suddenly appeared!
There is a person sitting on the chair!
It was that old principal Mei again.
But this time, Principal Mei was facing them directly, his face was pale, and he had no expression that a human should have.
Some are just indifferent, gloomy, cold, and even lifeless!
"A good living person, why do you want to take a dead end?"
Principal Mei said dullly.
It was this sentence again.
They had heard this sentence before. It was uttered from the end of the corridor on the 15th floor when they had just arrived on the 15th floor and were about to continue going downstairs.
It was still Principal Mei who said this at that time.
At that time, Principal Mei was also sitting on a chair, but with his back to them.
Why say the same sentence twice? He said it when he went downstairs, and he said it when he went upstairs. Is going downstairs or going upstairs a dead end?
Isn’t this a bit of a contradiction?
Mr. Ke shivered and whispered: "I think we should go back to the 16th floor. Going downstairs is a dead end, and going upstairs is also a dead end. Maybe staying put is the way to survive."
"Shut up!"
Jiang Yue scolded without mercy.
He was chewing on Principal Mei's words and pondering the connotation of them.
It was indeed the same sentence, but Jiang Yue heard two completely different meanings.
The first time I heard this sentence, Principal Mei's tone was faint, giving people a feeling of pity and pointing out a way out.
This time, there's no emotion at all, it's cold and mechanical, like reciting a stiff line.
Therefore, the same sentence in different scenes must mean two situations!
