The man dripping with water kept pacing in the room. Every time he took a step, he would leave a footprint-shaped water stain on the ground.
He seemed to be a drowned ghost who had just emerged from the water, and had been searching the room. His eyes were only white, filled with ferocious bloodshot eyes.
This man's body exuded a strong coldness and oppression, far beyond what ordinary ghosts could compare with. He searched back and forth in the room, and finally locked his eyes on the pile of hay in the room.
The dripping man came to the haystack and squatted down, looking inside seriously.
After a few breaths, he stood up again and walked slowly towards the door.
Squeak——
The firewood door was pushed open, and the water man's figure turned into a black human shape and disappeared into the wind and rain.
After he left, there was still no movement in the woodshed.
About two minutes passed before the wooden door of the woodshed was pushed open again.
The dark figure appeared at the door of the woodshed again. He came in and took another look around. This time, after confirming that there was no one in the room, he left...
After he left, there was only the sound of cold wind and rain in the empty woodshed. It was not until ten minutes later that a slight sound of unlocking suddenly came from under the haystack.
The trap door opened, and three heads poked out of the darkness below.
After confirming that the guy outside would not come back, the pale head in the middle disappeared. The next moment, it appeared in the woodshed and closed the wide open wood door.
Then, Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng also walked out of the trap door.
The two of them pulled the hay off their bodies and said to the skinny, pale black figure in the middle of the room:
"Thank you...kid."
"By the way, what's your name?"
The pale-skinned little girl in front of me said softly:
"Little Taozi..."
As it spoke, it raised its head slightly and looked at Liu Chengfeng, with longing in its eyes.
"Do you have anything to eat?"
Liu Chengfeng was startled for a moment, then realized something and took out some onions, garlic...
"only these."
He scratched his head.
Perhaps it was his misunderstanding, but when he saw Xiao Taozi's eyes lighting up slightly, he took the onions and garlic in his hand and ate them hungrily...
Seeing the little peach gobbling up, Ning Qiushui approached Liu Chengfeng and lightly bumped his shoulder:
"Hey, what are you doing with these things?"
Liu Chengfeng explained;
"I once read a book called "Thriller Paradise", in which the protagonist Sanhao once used garlic to kill zombies!"
Ning Qiushui leaned back slightly and looked at Liu Chengfeng with an expression as if he was looking at a ghost.
He wanted to say that Liu Chengfeng was so unreliable, but he couldn't speak.
It cannot be said that the other party's preparations were inadequate, and they even thought of zombies.
"Brother, what's your expression?"
Ning Qiushui shook her head.
He really didn't know what to say, so he turned to look at Xiao Taozi.
Ning Qiushui was not unfamiliar with the name Xiao Taozi at all.
The name "Little Taozi" was mentioned in Xue Zhao's diary.
Because she was too hungry at night, she went to the kitchen to find something to eat. As a result, it was raining and slippery. As a result, she missed her footing and fell down on the steps. She fainted. She finally stayed in the cold rain for too long, causing her body temperature to become imbalanced and died.
Little Taozi died hastily.
After it finished eating the things Liu Chengfeng gave it, it licked its mouth with unfulfilled interest.
"Thanks."
A slightly jerky voice of thanks rang out.
Unlike other ghosts, Xiao Taozi died due to an accident. It did not show strong aggression like other ghosts.
"You're welcome. If it weren't for you, we would all have been killed by that evil spirit outside."
Liu Chengfeng chuckled.
As the saying goes, there is no way out, and there is a bright future in the village. He was already prepared to fight to the death with the evil ghost outside, but he did not expect that a little ghost actually appeared in the woodshed to help them escape. A calamity.
"By the way, Little Taozi, do you know what's going on with that evil ghost outside?"
Mentioning the evil ghost just now, a look of fear appeared on Xiao Taozi's face, but compared to the other little ghosts she met in the building before, Xiao Taozi didn't seem that scared.
"It's someone from the water."
"Everyone is afraid of it."
Seeing that Xiao Taozi was so easy to talk to, Ning Qiushui immediately let go of the conversation:
"You said it came from the water...where is the water from?"
Little Taozi hugged her knees and sat on the haystack, the fear in her expression becoming more and more serious.
"It's...water from the well."
"There is a 'door' in the well, and it comes from behind the door."
Upon hearing the word "door", Ning Qiushui's expression immediately became serious, and he asked:
"What color is that door?"
Xiao Taozi thought about it seriously:
"black."
"That door opens every year until it closes again."
Ning Qiushui frowned slightly.
"Wait, you said... 'opened'?"
Little Taozi nodded.
"Yes, at this time of year, some strange people come to the orphanage."
"They will go down the well and reopen the door that has been closed."
Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng looked at each other and thought of the possessed person just now.
That guy came from "Rashomon", and judging from his behavior before his death, they were obviously closely related to this matter.
"After that door is closed, will the 'people in the water' also be locked in?"
Little Taozi shook her head.
"It won't be shut back, but it will become 'weaker' after that door is closed."
"How weak will it be?"
"Hmm... about the same as us."
As Xiao Taozi finished speaking, Liu Chengfeng glared:
"You didn't take advantage of his illness to kill him?"
"It usually bullies you like this. If you don't seek revenge on it when it is weak, then when will you wait?"
Xiao Taozi's tone became angry, and she clenched her little fists and waved them in the air:
"Who says we don't want to clean it up?"
"Everyone was killed by it, but this guy is a thief. As soon as it feels that its power begins to weaken, it will immediately return to the bottom of the well!"
"We have no way to approach that 'door', it excludes us."
Ning Qiushui's eyes flickered.
"If we go and close that door, is there anything you can do to stop it for us?"
Hesitation appeared on Xiao Taozi's face.
"I definitely can't do it alone...but maybe I can find other friends for help."
Ning Qiushui nodded.
"But before that, we want to see where the well is. Can you take us there?"
Little Taozi jumped down from the haystack:
"No problem, but I can't get close to it. I can only take you to a nearby location and point you in the direction. You can see for yourself."
The two of them made a brief calculation and then carefully opened the door.
"The door is about to close now. It's not in good condition and can't remain possessed for a long time. Let's wait until the rain subsides a little before taking action!"
Xiao Taozi said to the two people behind her. Just as she finished speaking, Ning Qiushui suddenly saw a few black shadows appearing deep in the rain curtain in front of her.
It was three people, dragging a "corpse".
The "corpse" being dragged seemed not to be dead yet. It would struggle from time to time, but the strength of the struggle was very weak.
Ning Qiushui squinted her eyes and suddenly said:
"broken!"
Upon seeing this, Liu Chengfeng quickly asked:
"What's wrong, brother?"
Ning Qiushui pointed to the dark figures in the distance:
"Li Yue may have been caught by people from Rashomon!"
pS: Good night!
