"Is there a ghost in the Sheriff?" Shen Xing said to himself.
He was a little confused and went back to the store to check the time. It was almost closing. Then he picked up the broom and swept the floor clean and mopped it again.
After letting the shop ventilate for a while, he put the almost-completed "staircase and pool" wood carving into a cardboard box, picked it up with both hands and gently placed it outside the shop door, then turned off the lights and closed the door before leaving.
Feifei happened to come home when she got home. When she saw Shen Xing, she stuck out her tongue and asked with a playful face: "Did Teacher Zhu call you?"
"Beat." Shen Xing said pretending to be unhappy.
"Did she tell you?" Feifei asked tentatively.
"I told you, I won't let you stay up late to cultivate immortality." Shen Xing laughed.
Feifei laughed loudly, went to put down her small schoolbag in the room, and started doing her homework.
After finishing her homework, the girl changed into a light yellow home clothes, went into the kitchen, and said: "Let's cook early and go to bed early tonight. I want to take beauty sleep to make up for yesterday's sleep!"
Shen Xing listened to her talking to herself in front of the workbench and rushed into the kitchen, unable to help but smile.
Taking out his mobile phone and opening the document automatically hidden by the black domain, Shen Xing thought for a while and named the new document "Dark Stairs".
The pool under the stairs is also part of the stairs, and the abnormality is basically concentrated in the stairs, so he also gave the abnormality a similar name according to the text message that popped up in his mind.
[Name: Dark Staircase
Type: Strange Object
Number: 05
Characteristic description: The shape of this abnormality is a dark staircase. There is a pool below the stairs. The pool creates anomalies in the stairs by releasing the abnormality, thereby absorbing fear. If humans enter, they will be hallucinated and produce something that makes them feel frightened. The fear formed after encountering the horror will be absorbed by the pool under the stairs, which will produce more concrete fear, which will continue to cycle and strengthen the abnormality. And it seems that this thing feeds on fear.
Solution: By understanding its characteristics and then locking it, the first method is to crack the illusion generated by it and directly release its accumulated fear pool. The second method is to speculate that the characteristics reach 80% and then lock it. The third method is Locked after making the wood carving.
Characteristic strength: C level]
Because now he has the hidden function of the black domain, Shen Xing has described all the solutions to the anomalies and no longer worries about being discovered by the special team.
The characteristic strength of this staircase is obviously stronger than the anomalies encountered so far.
The main characteristic function it contains is hallucination, making other people see things they are familiar with but become scary, and they can't tell whether they are real or illusory.
None of the previous anomalies can do this, and if it can do this, at least the characteristics of the stairs are stronger than other anomalies.
So Shen Xing gave it a C grade.
Just as he was about to finish the wood carving of the dark staircase and absorb the abnormal characteristics at night, a voice came from Feifei in the kitchen.
"Uncle Shen, Doubanjiang, the Doubanjiang is gone, go downstairs and buy a bottle."
The sound of cooking came from the kitchen, and Shen Xing's mind suddenly flashed a scene of Feifei standing on a small wooden stool, holding a spatula in both hands, and she was frying the vegetables and meat in the pot.
A smile appeared on his face. Feifei made up for her weakness and was responsible for cooking, while she was responsible for all other housework at home. This kind of life now makes the house more and more filled with a feeling called "home".
With a promise in his mouth, Shen Xing got up and went out and walked downstairs.
Doubanjiang is available in the small supermarket downstairs. You don’t have to go to the vegetable market behind. When you arrive at the small supermarket, it’s almost time to eat. The owner of the supermarket is in his fifties and is a bald man. Shen Xing knows him, and everyone else calls him Jiang Baldy. .
"Uncle Bald, where is the doubanjiang?"
"The third shelf from here is next to the dark soy sauce." Bald Jiang raised his head and pointed to the third shelf.
He was reading the newspaper and did not get up to get it. Instead, he asked Shen Xing to find it by himself.
Shen Xing walked to the third shelf and looked around. He quickly saw the place where soy sauce was placed, and immediately found four or five different brands of Doubanjiang.
"Which bean paste tastes better?" he asked Jiang Baldy in a loud voice while watching.
"It's delicious. Our family all likes to eat this brand." Jiang Baldy replied.
Shen Xing found Wei Xianmei Doubanjiang, which is a kind of small canned bean paste with a bright red outer packaging. The price is quite cheap, but the quantity in this small can is not very large, so Shen Xing took a few more cans.
When he came to the payment counter, he put Doubanjiang on the counter. Shen Xing took out his mobile phone and was about to scan the QR code to pay. He saw Jiang Baldy slowly put down the newspaper in his hand and began to scan Doubanjiang's barcode.
Shen Xing glanced at the newspaper, it was the Yungu Evening News.
He suddenly remembered something and asked, "Uncle Bald, can I read your evening newspaper?"
"What do you want to see?" Jiang Baldy asked casually.
Shen Xing didn't answer, and simply asked directly: "You seem to be buying newspapers every day. I want to ask you, do newspapers often lack one page during this period?"
Jiang Baldzi scanned the code on the bottle of Doubanjiang in his hand. He was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and nodded: "It's not very often, it's been a long time since there was an edition. Well, it seems to have started in March this year. .”
"I see." Shen Xing nodded, "Do you know the reason?"
Jiang Baldy did not continue to scan the remaining Doubanjiang, but multiplied the input by five on the scanning machine and directly got the total amount.
"A lot of people were talking about it at the time. Later we learned that there seemed to be a problem with the printing press of Yungu Evening News. We couldn't figure it out. If the machine breaks down, we have to find someone to repair it. If it can't be repaired, we just replace it. Could it be that they still Short of this money? Well, a total of 30 yuan."
Shen Xing scanned the QR code to pay and said, "But the newspaper office hasn't done anything even now?"
Jiang Baldy smiled helplessly: "I'm quite speechless too, but now I'm used to it. Anyone who reads newspapers regularly knows that the sixth page of any newspaper published by Yungu News Agency is empty."
After a pause, he chuckled: "Now this has become their anti-counterfeiting mark."
Shen Xing also smiled, feeling a little strange. He left the supermarket and returned to the community with the doubanjiang that Jiang Baldy put in a plastic bag for him.
After entering the house, he took out a bottle of Doubanjiang, unscrewed the cap and put it in Feifei's hand before returning to the workbench.
Now that the dark staircase was almost complete, he put on his gloves, picked up a flat knife and trimmed it just a little, then started applying wax.
After working for half an hour, Feifei had already prepared the meal.
After going out to eat, washing the dishes and tidying up the kitchen, Feifei had already climbed onto his bed with a puzzle and started playing with it.
She was in her bedroom, and Shen Xing couldn't absorb the characteristics of the dark staircase, so he immediately made a third wooden sculpture of a mask that was already half-finished.
"Second uncle, do you have to come when you are not here?" Feifei asked while lying on the bed while doing puzzles.
"It should be, I'm not sure."
"I'll put this puzzle together first. When he comes next time, I have to show it off in front of him." Feifei said cheerfully.
Shen Xing smiled and turned to look at her: "What? Did you have fun playing with your second uncle last time? You're actually looking forward to it!"
Feifei said: "Actually, I was a little scared at the time. Later, when I thought about it carefully, my second uncle's performance was quite cute. Some of his actions become more and more funny the more I think about them now."
