Chapter 12 Chapter 9 Death is approaching

Subconsciously took a few steps back, a drop of cold sweat slowly slipped from his forehead.The one who should come can't escape, curse, finally found me! People in the world are different, even if they are identical twins, they have similar appearances, but in the process of growing up, whether it is opportunities, encounters, experiences, personalities, education, or even what they saw before death, they are different. not exactly. I once saw a movie called "Martyrs", which had a religious exposition on death and hallucinations before death. A cult has given one victim after another a near-death experience, asking them to explain what they saw before they died.One of the girls described to the boss of the organization when she was dying, what she saw was still endless doubts.

The world we live in is a world that is limited to what we know.We can explain and describe everything that exists in this world, but the miracles pursued by the cult organization correspond to existences beyond their understanding that are different from the existing world. These two worlds are completely different, No intersection. It is meaningless for cult organizations to consider imaginary worlds that cannot be found temporarily in the existing world. Ghosts and gods, heaven and hell, these are all imaginary concepts of human imagination. They have only connotation and no extension. They are created by people through imagination, and they try to use the knowledge gained from the real world to understand the imaginary world. Reasoning is itself a kind of mistake, so when describing the dying world that everyone sees with their own understanding, it will only be indescribable, full of doubts, and others will not be able to understand it.

I really want to know what Qiao Yu and the others saw before they died. Is the last thing left on their retinas the weird shoes that killed them, or something else, something more terrifying that I can't see? ?I don't know. When driving to the urban area, I sorted out the causes and consequences of Xiang Dantong's death, and came up with a guess that even if there is a deviation, the degree of deviation will not be greatly discounted. Holding the steering wheel tightly with his hands, Man Xiaoxuan glanced at Man Xiaoxuan, who was a little downcast with fear in his expression from the rearview mirror, and said, "Did Wang Yunbo date Xiang Dantong before he died?"

"have no idea." Man Xiaoxuan shook his head in doubt, "What do you want to say?" "I think the cause of that boy's death is a bit strange. Maybe it was your friend who killed Dan Tong." "How is it possible, don't spout blood! Dantong is already dead, and you still insult her like this, it's simply disrespectful to the dead!" The girl was very angry. I looked at the road in front of me, and said without any hesitation in my tone, "Xiang Dantong put her boyfriend's ashes in her chest to exorcise evil spirits and save her own life. You have no objection to that, right?"

Man Xiaoxuan hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly. "Well, I've done quite a bit of research on folklore. Several folk remedies do mention similar exorcisms, provided the ashes of someone you love, whether it's your parents or your partner comma." I slowly said, "But how can it be so coincidental that you can really get ashes if you need them? Xiang Dantong still has a conscience and didn't go after her parents, so she set up a trick to kill her boyfriend, and then Pretending to be infatuated and insane, according to the folk prescription Yin Yang told her, implanted her boyfriend's ashes into her breasts, and even hid in a mental hospital."

After a pause, I said again: "Unfortunately, she tried all means but failed to guess her own ending. Maybe her boyfriend didn't love her at all, maybe that folk remedy didn't work at all, and she was still cursed to find her." Come to the door and end in tragic death." Today has passed, and Andrew only has five days left, and now I am more and more doubting whether I am also cursed to the bone marrow.Since the curse is multi-threaded, maybe I can't use Andrew's death as a reference at all. After a moment of silence, Man Xiaoxuan looked out of the dark window and also did not speak.She may have admitted my conjecture just now from the bottom of her heart, mourning for the friend she has known since she was a child, but at this moment she feels extremely strange.

Dongmu County is only more than ten kilometers away from the mental hospital in the suburbs, but the road conditions are not very good, and I have a tendency to fall apart from the bumps along the way. The girl couldn't see the scenery outside the car window clearly, so she asked, "Hey, what are you thinking?" The dark clouds blowing from nowhere completely covered the stars in the sky, and the wind bent the trees on both sides of the road, making it look like there was a sign of rain. "I didn't think about anything." I replied in a nonchalant tone. "Speaking of which, I don't know your name yet."

I scratched my head, "Didn't I introduce myself when we first met?" "Have you ever, anyway, I forgot!" She shook her head. "Oh, my name is Ye Silent," I said perfunctorily. "Strange name." Man Xiaoxuan supported his head with his hands on the back seat, and looked at me who was driving, "By the way, you are quite weird. You came back from Germany all the way, and you don't panic when encountering strange things, although I didn't see you. The world in Dantong's eyes, but you can clearly see it, aren't you afraid?"

"Of course I'm afraid." I curled my lips, "But it's useless to be afraid, it's better to spend the time of fear and fear doing something substantial." "You are really weird." The girl made an irresponsible conclusion. I ignored her. Man Xiaoxuan became more talkative, "What should we do next, continue to find someone who knows?" "Nonsense, is there any other choice?" I muffled: "If you don't find out what the other eight people did during the party you didn't attend that day, I'm afraid the death toll will increase urgently."

"Are you so sure that it was caused by Xiaoyu and others at the party?" She blinked. I asked back: "Then tell me, is there any other possibility?" She closed her eyes and thought hard, but gave up after a few seconds. "Uh, I really can't think of it." Just when the girl wanted to keep talking, the car slammed on the brakes, her head was thrown forward due to inertia, and her forehead hit the back of the driver's seat hard. "Woo, what are you doing?" Man Xiaoxuan covered his forehead and nose with his hands alternately, and complained angrily, but it didn't take long before he realized that something was wrong with my expression.

With a blue face, I stopped the car suddenly, and looked at the road illuminated by the straight headlights without blinking.On the road, a silk red quilt was spread comfortably in the center, and the red medium radiated lubricating brilliance under the light, as bright as blood. That quilt is very familiar, isn't it the same bed that I saw when I first entered Dongmu County the night before? "What are you looking at?" Man Xiaoxuan supported his body with his hands and leaned forward. I pointed not far away, and asked in a dry voice: "Can you see that quilt, it's neatly spread on the road ahead?" "Who would be so stupid as to spread a quilt on the road? Is there something wrong with your head?" Man Xiaoxuan complained and followed my hand to look at it, and was suddenly surprised, "Wow, there is really a quilt, it's so disgusting!" "nausea?" I frowned, "What does the quilt in your eyes look like?" "It's the quilt that was burned for the dead. It was very thin and was spread out. It may be more than one meter wide, and the surface was painted bright red." Man Xiaoxuan described. My heart jumped a few times. What she saw and what I saw were obviously two different things. Until now, the silk red quilt is still printed on my retina. How can it be made of paper? But I knew clearly in my mind that the quilt was indeed made of paper, and I had seen the real body of the quilt last time, which was almost exactly the same as what Man Xiaoxuan described. It was another night, why did that quilt appear in front of me again?Does this mean that the curse of "shoes to bed" is gradually approaching me? I suppressed the fear and uneasiness in my heart, gently opened the car door and walked out. "What are you doing? It's just a quilt. Do you need to go down and look so carefully?" Man Xiaoxuan asked suspiciously. "If it's really an ordinary paper quilt that was burned for the dead, don't you think it's strange?" I glanced at the trees all around that were shaken by the wind and whose leaves were flying wildly.Man Xiaoxuan immediately realized the weirdness. If it was really an ordinary paper quilt, how could it still be laid on the ground well in the strong wind, without any sign of being blown away by the wind? She hesitated for a moment, then got out of the car and hid behind me. The wind was very strong, and the dark and silent county road was deserted and empty. After leaving the car and being exposed to the wind, I always felt chilly. The wind tore my coat and made my hair messy.Man Xiaoxuan's long hair was intertwined with mine, and I subconsciously turned my head away from her. This girl who always expressed her timidity did not fulfill the awareness of the word "cowardly" in her behavior. She actually walked to the red quilt one step ahead of me, knelt down and observed for a while Thin red paper quilt. When she reached out and was about to lift it up to see if it was stuck on the road, I quickly opened her hand. "what?" She turned to look at me dissatisfied. "Don't use too much, be careful and die." I warned her, "A friend of mine in Germany was cursed because he touched Qiao Yu's friend's shoes. This thing is a bit weird, so don't move it if you can." Man Xiaoxuan then withdrew his hand, blinked, and took out a long-handled umbrella from the off-road vehicle. This guy had only been in my car for a few hours, and now he was as familiar as his dormitory Like, it really makes me speechless. The girl squinted her eyes and smiled innocently. I think she is a combination of contradictions. On the one hand, she is terribly scared, and on the other hand, she is also terribly curious. Alas, most creatures like women seem to be like this.She carefully grabbed one end of the umbrella, stretched her hand as far as possible, and picked it towards the paper quilt. I slapped it again and grabbed the umbrella. "What are you doing?" Man Xiaoxuan was dissatisfied again. I shrugged my shoulders, "It's better for me to come at this time, after all, I'm already suspected of being cursed." After speaking, she could not help but use her action just now to grab the handle of the umbrella and use the tip of the umbrella to poke into the silk quilt in her eyes. This antique-looking quilt seemed heavy, but I picked it up easily, and the whole quilt floated lightly away from the road, and then fell on the road again ignoring the existence of the wind. The feeling is hard to describe, as if the surrounding air has become fluid, filled with a lot of resistance, and like something slightly denser than water sinks into the water, floats a little under the interference of external forces, and then sinks like going down. But relying on the moment it was abandoned, the two of us clearly saw that there was nothing under the quilt, only the dark asphalt road full of small potholes. "Is that quilt really made of paper?" Man Xiaoxuan said in surprise. "I don't know." I really don't get it. "How about we sprinkle some water on it and try?" She said whimsically, "Paper will get wet with water." "Where is the water nearby? You drank all the water in the car?" I asked back.To be honest, I also think this suggestion seems very practical. The girl thought for a while in the cold wind, looked me up and down, and said something explosive: "Isn't it said that boys all bring their own water pipes? Do you want to be curvy? At most, I will turn my back." I was speechless, is this what a 20-year-old girl should say to a strange boy who has only met for less than a day?Silently ignoring her, I found a thin water pipe from the tools of the off-road vehicle, siphoned out a glass of water from the water tank, and brought it to the red silk quilt. Man Xiaoxuan hid behind me nervously, I locked my mind, and poured the water in my hand onto the quilt vigorously.The bright car waited, and the water seemed to be absorbed, and it disappeared in a moment.The silk quilt in my eyes remained unchanged, while the girl behind took a few steps back abruptly. "What do you see?" I turned around and asked nervously. "The quilt is not wet, but it seems that there is something extra beside the quilt." She turned pale. Following her line of sight, I also saw two more things - it was shoes, a pair of red shoes made of paper!The toes of the red shoes went over the quilt and faced me directly. Only at this time did I realize that the quilt that was made of silk just now had turned into a paper material at some point.A bed of paper cups, a pair of small red shoes, men’s or women’s can’t be identified, in this strong wind, on this dark and remote road, in my eyes, it seems to be as terrifying as a death talisman. Suddenly, the paper shoe moved and seemed to move closer to us.Man Xiaoxuan and I were so scared that we backed away nervously. We walked slowly in the paper shoes and walked a little further. "run!" My heart was beating wildly, and I pulled her and ran away into the car, so terrified that I didn't care about anything, I stepped on the accelerator and drove the car whizzing past the paper quilt and paper shoes. From the rearview mirror, you can clearly see the crushed quilt and shoes clinging to the road, still not being blown by the wind, with a creepy breath, quietly staying in place. It wasn't until we had fled far away that we both took a deep breath. "very scary!" Man Xiaoxuan was terrified, and his face was paler than paper piercing, "What the hell is that? Is it what Dantong saw before he died in the mental hospital?" "No. What Xiang Dantong saw was something else. Only I have seen this thing. Now you are added. I have encountered it twice in a row in a few days!" I suppressed my mental tension, thought and thought, but couldn't figure it out. I can start to see hallucinations one after another, but I haven't fulfilled the steps of the "shoes against the bed" curse. The only way I can come into contact with the curse is Qiao Yu's words "I won't let you go when I become a ghost" and when I'm dying. The picture of me holding on to my front.Is this also one of the ways to be cursed? I doubt it very much. Judging from the "shoes to bed" curse killing incidents sorted out in the past few days, there is no example like mine, and there is no evidence that the cursed person can be infected with the curse by their own curse and will.Perhaps, there is a high possibility that I have come into contact with the channeling tool unintentionally! But I don't have any memory to prove this, and this is the most tangled and most headache for me now. After sending Man Xiaoxuan home, I told her my contact information, and then carefully returned to the hotel.I looked in front of the hotel, wandered around for a while, and after making sure that my whereabouts were not exposed, I went upstairs and entered the room, and took out my laptop to receive mail online. The old man's reply still hasn't been sent.It was already 10:30 in the evening, and today's harvest can almost be judged as nothing. Still throwing all the shoes into the cabinet and locking it, I put on my socks and went to the window overlooking the dilapidated county town and the completely unbusy streets of Dongmu County. This dusty city is extremely backward, but it is also mysterious. With the in-depth investigation of the "shoes to bed" incident, I feel more and more powerless.I never thought that I would be able to save a few of the girls in the photo in the end, and I might not even be able to save Andrew. But now, no matter what, you have to save yourself first. Sighing, I casually flipped through the folklore about shoes on the computer, but I still didn't get much reference information. Shoes are magical things in ancient times, because of their closeness, many religions have mentioned that shoes worn for a long time will carry many habits of the owner, and for the partial evil sect, it, It is a prop used to curse a person. Looking through the Internet encyclopedia, the definitions of bed and shoes are quite concise and clear. Encyclopedia defines "shoes" The production of shoes is inseparable from the natural environment and human society.In ancient times, due to the unevenness of the land and the severe cold and heat, human beings instinctively wanted to protect their feet, so shoes appeared: animal skins and leaves that simply bound the feet became the earliest shoes in human history. Encyclopedia defines "bed" A bed is a piece of furniture for people to lie on and sleep on. After thousands of years of evolution, it is not only a tool for sleeping, but also one of the home decorations.In ancient times, the bed was a utensil for people to sit and lie, but today it is only used for sleeping and lying. In the old days, May 5th was regarded as an evil day. During the Dragon Boat Festival, puai should be planted, realgar wine should be drunk, and the wine should be "scattered between the beds and tents to avoid insect poisoning." There is a record in "Qing Jialu": ​​"Cut cattails to make swords, cut canopy to make whips, supplemented by peach stalks and garlic, and hang them on the bed to ward off ghosts." As for the horror novels about beds, there are quite a few, but all of them belong to the author's imagination, and there is still no reference at all.After looking at it for a while, I suddenly felt sleepy, so I lay on the sofa, wrapped in a towel, and fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up, the sun had risen. Looking at the old-fashioned clock opposite, it was half past nine in the morning.This sleep lasted more than ten hours, but I didn't feel comfortable at all, my head was still groggy and unconscious, maybe I slept too much, I comforted myself. The noisy ringing of the mobile phone kept ringing incessantly. I picked it up and took a look. It was an unfamiliar number. After connecting, Man Xiaoxuan's familiar voice rushed into my ears immediately. "Silence at night, something serious has happened! All the members of Youhan's family and Xiaoyu's family died last night, and there is not one left. Read this morning's newspaper quickly." My drowsiness was swept away by her words, I turned over and ran to the door to pick up the newspaper, but saw that the newspaper was not stuffed in through the crack of the door as usual.In a hurry, I opened the door and wanted to go to the counter to ask for a copy, but when I opened the door and saw the scene outside, my face instantly turned pale. Outside the door of the hotel room, a pair of shoes were presented neatly on the carpet outside the door!Dirty red carpet, muddy black hiking shoes... so familiar, so eye-catching, it made me tremble all over. Aren't those shoes the same pair I wore on my feet yesterday?I obviously stuffed it into the closet next to the bathroom, how could it run out the door? I subconsciously took a few steps back, and a drop of cold sweat slowly slipped from my forehead. The one who should come can't escape, curse, finally found me!