Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven Outside the Door

What on earth did it see that was so frightened?It backed away while barking, and finally curled up under the sofa, but the sharp beak kept barking, making people's head hurt from the noise. As you all know, I have experienced many strange times, but I have never encountered anything as strange as this one. That mysterious force seemed to be chasing after me to kill people. It deliberately surprised me and confused me to the point of madness. Ever since I learned of the curse of "shoes to bed", I have been in fear, and finally I will dig out the cause and effect of time. However, he was once again interrupted by a sudden situation.

In Room 309, all three looked at the barking Chihuahua. The puppy, named Meatball, has a thin body that does not live up to its reputation. It first barked at the door, then suddenly towards the bathroom door, and then barked at the door again after a while. We're all pretty much confused by it, what's up with this dog? Man Xiaoxuan's face turned pale, and he murmured: "Ye Silence, everyone says that dogs have the effect of warding off evil spirits, and can see things that human eyes can't see. Do you think Rouqiu saw something evil? " "I know that the dog's nose is very good. It is a million times more sensitive than the human sense of smell, but the eyes are miserable. They are all color-blind, and some are nearsighted, so they can't see things clearly."

I scratched my head and looked at the Chihuahua in confusion, "But there is obviously something wrong with this little thing." Now the Chihuahua is not only screaming like crazy, but also trembling all over, and the eyes like glass beads are full of fear. What on earth did it see that was so frightened?It backed away while barking, and finally curled up under the sofa, but the sharp beak kept barking, making people's head hurt from the noise. Looking back, Nan Lu who was sitting on the sofa had disappeared.I was startled and turned my head to look around, and finally found her figure behind the sofa.The androgynous girl rolled behind the sofa in fright, her buttocks pouted high, her head firmly hidden in the quilt on the ground, a typical ostrich posture in a frightened manner.

Man Xiaoxuan looked at the door without blinking, and tugged on my clothes: "Hey, what should I do, do you want to go over and have a look? It's not an option to let Rouqiu keep calling like this." I nodded, and slowly approached the door with her one after the other. The barking of the dog spread out from under the sofa, and the sound made people nervous. It took the two of us more than a minute to cover the distance that we could have covered in the first few steps. Man Xiaoxuan found a cup from somewhere, pasted the open end behind the door to form a simple bug, and put his ear on the bottom of the cup Listen carefully to the outside world.

And there aren't any weird sounds! She frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, then moved her eyes to the cat, wanting to see what happened, looked outside for a while, but still found nothing. "Look, there is nothing outside, what is the dog barking?" she wondered. I glanced at her, and carefully moved my eyes to the cat's eye. Through the twisted mirror of the cat's eye, I saw the dark red carpet and the doors opposite. The dog barked harder, and for some reason it tended to retreat more and more seriously, and now it had retreated from under the sofa to the edge of the wall directly opposite the gate.Outside the door, there was indeed something that made it frightened to the point of madness.

Shaking my head, I looked out through the cat's eyes again. Suddenly, the lights in the corridor went out for a moment, and then turned on again within a few seconds. Before I could sense it, the lights in the corridor went out again.The red carpet looked extremely weird as it flickered on and off, leaving an indelible shadow on my retina. Afterwards, the corridor lights kept flickering on and off, as if someone was tossing about the power switch endlessly. I subconsciously took a step back. "What's wrong?" Seeing that my expression was not right, Man Xiaoxuan put his eyes on the cat's eyes, and said, "Is the waiter in the corridor broken? Why is it flashing non-stop?"

"No, it's not that the light is broken. A broken light won't flicker like that, but only intermittently like a bad connection." I shake my head. "That's right, the lights in the entire corridor seem to be flickering. No matter how you think about it, you can't say that there is something wrong with all the lights. Moreover, it seems to be off very regularly, and the flashing time is the same. Hey, what's going on?" She turned to me and asked. "Personally, I think it's very much a phenomenon." I swallowed a mouthful of saliva laboriously, my head was racing with thoughts, amazed and uncertain, "Psychic phenomenon."

"Psychic phenomenon? What is it, can it be eaten?" Man Xiaoxuan couldn't understand this word. I moved my eyes to the cat again to observe the on and off of the lights, and explained: "The so-called ghost phenomenon is actually what we call ghosts. There may be other explanations, but so far science has not been able to prove their principles. Deny their existence. There are roughly two types of spirits. One is obsessed with places and always appears in a fixed place. It is the source of "ground-bound spirits" and "haunted house legends". The other is obsessed with someone or a specific thing , is always following certain people and certain events that meet the starting conditions, and is the source of contagious urban legends. Have you seen Stephen's "Ghost Wailing God" movie?"

"No." Man Xiaoxuan shook his head: "I'm too timid to watch horror movies." "I have a chance to rent it and watch it. The film describes the phenomenon of the spirits quite well. However, the film interprets the spirits as ghosts and gods that really exist independently outside the human heart. This is not a reference for the current situation. .” The light turned on suddenly, and then turned off again after a long time, which was disturbing to watch. "What we are encountering now may be a kind of spirit-taking. There is a mysterious force that interferes with the flow of electricity, so the lights in the corridor are flickering non-stop."

"You mean, there's really something in the corridor!" Man Xiaoxuan immediately turned pale with fright, and hurriedly hid behind me. At this moment, the corridor lights came on again after a long period of darkness, and this time they did not go out again.The chihuahua in the room also suddenly stopped making loud noises. "Meatball seems to be back to normal." Man Xiaoxuan said in surprise. The Chihuahua did look much more normal, it seemed tired, and ran to the dog food and started eating. She looked at me and asked, "Did the thing leave?" My face didn't relax at all, I just felt my hands and feet were cold, and my body was stiff. I shook my head slowly, and I smiled wryly, "That thing didn't go away, but came."

"Coming? What do you mean!" The girl couldn't figure out what I was talking about, so she just pushed me away and looked out of the house.After only one glance, she screamed and fled backwards, "What's that at the door!" At the door of the room, there was a pair of shoes, a pair of red paper shoes, exactly the pair she and I saw on the road last night! I didn't have the courage to open the door, and my confused head just felt incredible. Judging from the "shoes to bed" time I have experienced these days, it has always been my shoes or the shoes of the last person who was cursed that appeared in front of the victim , but this time it was different, it was actually the pair of paper-tied red shoes who found it. Who is it coming for?Me, or Nan Lu? This doubt didn't last long before the answer was found. The red paper shoes seemed to be blown by the wind, with a quiet and strange aura, they ignored the door as nothing, and walked through it easily... It walked slowly, under the eyes of Man Xiaoxuan and I who were almost bloodshot with fright, it gently walked around us and walked towards Nan Lu. The Chihuahua next to Nan Lu didn't cry, as if she couldn't see the pair of shoes at all, but Nan Lu seemed to feel something, poked her head out from under the quilt, her pale face was full of despair. "Get out, get out of here! I didn't kill you!" Nan Lu collapsed, crying and screaming, she ran out from behind the sofa, pushed the two of us away and escaped from the hotel room, the red paper shoes just followed her panicked figure and left . Man Xiaoxuan and I looked at each other, and hurriedly followed Nan Lu.But it was already too late when we found her, the morning air was still blowing the streets and alleys of Dongmu County, and the sun was shining on the streets. It should have been a pleasant weather, but because of a dead body, this quiet small county was broken harmony. In front of the hotel, Nan Lu's body was surrounded by spectators.She died terribly, her stomach was cut open by something, but not a single drop of blood flowed out. A pair of women's leather shoes were stuffed in her stomach, and her large and small intestines were entangled, which was chilling to see. I don't know who called the police, but the sound of the police car came from far to near.The entire county has not been peaceful recently, and the number of dead people is almost the same as in previous years. Even the whistle of the police car has a trace of anxiety and haste. I didn't stay long, but left the scene with Man Xiaoxuan. What Nan Lu said before his death made me very concerned. It was related to the death of one person, but that person's death was related to the gathering of nine people including Qiao Yu? Thinking about it this way, the fog seems to have subsided a lot.I drove down the street and finally stopped in front of an old apartment building. "This is Qingqing's house." Man Xiaoxuan checked the house number and nodded at me, "Although I haven't been here for many years, I still remember the location. I don't know how Qingqing is." Qingqing is the penultimate survivor of the "shoes to bed" time.Sometimes I don't want to use the word "curse" for this incident at all, and I may not be able to find other descriptions after thinking about it for a long time.After parking the car, I silently came to the apartment and rang the doorbell of No. 3 on the seventh floor. Man Xiaoxuan may have suffered a great blow because of Nan Lu's death. I didn't comfort her. After all, she stood outside of time, and I was the one inside the incident. Watching the respondents die one by one, to be honest, I really feel uncomfortable. Sometimes I even think, maybe one day I fall asleep, and when I wake up, I will see a pair of shoes standing in front of me. pointed at himself, and then killed himself in some unpredictable and weird ways. And the event that this fantasy becomes reality is getting closer and closer to me. The doorbell rang monotonously, but no one came to answer the door after a long time. Man Xiaoxuan felt a little uneasy, and tugged at the hem of my clothes in a low voice, "Ye Silent, do you think Qingqing is doing something else?" I didn't speak, and looked at the iron door locked by the electronic lock. It happened that a tenant pushed the door and came out. I immediately greeted her and squeezed into the apartment. This old apartment building has about eleven floors, and the elevator is dilapidated and makes an unpleasant noise when going up. "I didn't expect that after so many years, the elevator hasn't been changed. I always feel that this elevator is not safe, so I don't like to go to Qingqing's house. I didn't expect to be more and more alienated from her." Man Xiaoxuan felt a little confused. The door of room 703 was locked tightly, and the cat's eyes exuded a chill.I signaled Man Xiaoxuan to knock on the door, she knocked for a while, the unpleasant sound of her hands touching the steel spread throughout the floor, but no one inside responded. "Nobody's here." She turned to look at me. At this moment, I suddenly found that the light on the other side of the cat's eye was covered. It seemed that someone was peeping outside the door. I quickly signaled Man Xiaoxuan to continue knocking on the door, and then pointed to the cat's eye vaguely with my hand. The girl was quite clever, and she understood what I meant after a few seconds of reaction, and also noticed that there seemed to be someone behind the door. "Qingqing, are you home? Xiaoxuan in the bedroom, can you open the door? I know something strange happened to you, so I specially sent you a rescuer." Man Xiaoxuan shouted. The people in the room still didn't respond. When I put my eyes close to the cat's eyes, the other side of the cat's eyes had already cast light, which also indicated that the people in the room had left the door.Looking in from the cat's eyes, it's blurry, and I can't see anything clearly.So I pulled a reverse cat-eye lens out of my pocket. "What is this?" the girl asked strangely. "Anti-cat-eye lenses, haven't you heard of them? This thing is easy to buy on the Internet. It can change the curvature of the glass installed in the cat's eye through the refraction principle of the mirror, so as to achieve the function of seeing the other side of the cat's eye clearly." He explained it a bit, but the girl in front of him obviously failed in science, judging by her dumb expression, she must have understood.I ignored her and put the lens on the cat's eye, and the scene in the room immediately appeared under my eyelids. Qingqing's house is a typical building from twenty years ago. The living room is inside the main door. The windows are small and the curtains are drawn, so the room looks gloomy. There was no one in the house, which was beyond my expectation. Someone was knocking on the door of my house, even if I didn’t know him, I would answer it. What’s more, Man Xiaoxuan who was next to me used to come here often, but the people in the house not only did not open the door, Respond, and even the people disappeared after taking a look outside. The situation seemed a little weird. Man Xiaoxuan knocked on the door until her hands hurt. She rubbed her red right hand and asked me, "What should I do now? No one came to open the door for us." "I think something is wrong, let's go in and have a look first." After a moment of hesitation, I made a decision. "Go in, how to get in? I don't have a key." She pouted. "Coincidentally, I have." Without further ado, I quickly took out the master key that comes standard with the detective agency, and opened the old lock of the anti-theft door after a short trial. Man Xiaoxuan stared at me with wide-eyed eyes showing very complicated emotions. "Who are you?" She seemed to have some bad guesses about me. "I remember that I told you that I have a lot of experience in scary and weird times, and I have written a few books. I have time to buy and read." Shrugging my shoulders, I opened the door and walked into the room. No one rushed over to stop the two of us, and the house was quiet, as if the whole house had died, lacking the breath of people who lived there.The living room was covered in a layer of grayness, and the furnishings in the room were very messy, as if someone had gone crazy not long ago and threw away the things he could grab. "anyone there?" Man Xiaoxuan called out, but still no one came out. She was a little scared, and she came to me and explained in a low voice: "Qingqing is a single-parent family. She lives with her mother. I haven't seen her father since I met her, and she never mentioned her father. That girl She is a bit introverted, and in her circle of friends she belongs to the role of running errands, but she seems to never get tired of it, and tries hard to hope that we will accept her." While listening, I looked for clues in the living room. This old-fashioned apartment is very small, with two bedrooms and one living room. The living room and dining room are only more than ten square meters.The furniture is also very simple, with a small sofa and dining table taking up most of the space.On the messy living room floor, I found a pool of blood, and I frowned. "Ah, there is blood, is it human blood?" Man Xiaoxuan covered his mouth tightly. "The devil knows." I was in a bad mood and spoke a little rudely.Following the pool of blood, I found more traces of blood, all of which pointed to the door on the left of the living room. "Who lives there?" I pointed to the door and asked. "Sunny's room." Man Xiaoxuan seemed to have guessed what I meant, and immediately walked forward with a pale face, trying to push the door, but in the end he withdrew his hand timidly. "Let me do it." I paused, gritted my teeth and pushed the door open, and the scene in the room was displayed in front of my eyes. It was a small room less than six square meters, and torn books, newspapers, magazines, and even some textbooks were scattered on the floor.A lot of blood was sprayed on the pages of paper, and the dark red blood stained the ground, the wall, and the pink bed sheets, everywhere. And a slightly pale and stiff hand leaked out from under the bed. Originally covering his eyes with his hands, Man Xiaoxuan, who only dared to look at the world through his fingers, screamed, and ran outside the door in panic, crying in disbelief while breathing deeply.Everything in the room deeply stimulated her nerves, making it difficult for her to breathe as if she had a diving sickness. I squatted down silently and glanced under the bed. A girl less than 20 years old and a middle-aged woman were lying quietly under the bed. The corpses were already stiff, and the skin exposed from the clothes could even Saw some gradually forming plaques.This should be Qingqing and her mother. The young girl's pupils were dilated and her eyes were wide open.Her hand is still tightly pinching her mother's neck. Her back was stabbed by some kind of sharp object, perhaps an aorta was injured, and the blood on the ground was sprayed like this. I looked at the two round holes on her back and suddenly felt very familiar.The shape and appearance are very similar to the heels of high-heeled shoes. Sure enough, a pair of high heels scattered beside the corpse proved my guess.The toes of that pair of shoes were directly facing the two corpses, and there was still blood on the five-centimeter-high heel, and the dark red blood almost covered the entire five-centimeter high heel! My scalp is numb. How much size and strength do I need to use these high-heeled shoes to trample through the skin and pierce the back of a human body?This is simply not something humans can do.After all, the seemingly slender high heels are actually padded with rubber, and this pair is no exception. It is really difficult to pierce a human body, at least with human strength. I checked the whole house, but I didn't find many clues.Although this girl has the habit of keeping a diary, the habit is very bad. She fished for three days and posted on the net for two days. Especially on the day of the party, she didn’t write a single word, and I couldn’t get anything from written records. Walking to the door dully, Man Xiaoxuan was still crying.She looked up at me with teary eyes, and asked sobbingly, "How many died?" "Even your friend and her mother were not spared." "Is there no one else in the house?" she asked again. I shook my head, "No, the windows of the two rooms are tightly closed from the inside. It's a secret room, and I haven't found any signs of other people entering or leaving." After thinking about it, I said again: "By the way, you said that you called all your friends last night, did this family also call?" "Well, I've done it." Man Xiaoxuan rubbed on my clothes to wipe away the tears. "Then who answered the phone last night?" I asked in a low voice. "Qingqing's mother. My aunt's voice was very low. She told me about Qingqing's current situation, saying that she was going crazy, and asked me if I wanted her to answer the phone." I rubbed my nose, "Are you sure her mother picked it up?" "It should be. Although I haven't heard my aunt's voice for a long time, I still have some impressions." Man Xiaoxuan rubbed his eyes swollen from crying, and asked in confusion, "Why are you asking in such detail?" "Something is not right. Your friend Qingqing and her mother have already had corpse spots on their bodies. If they want to grow corpse spots in the current weather, they must have been dead for at least eight days. How could someone pick them up last night?" your phone?" After a pause, I continued: "Also, there are only two corpses in the room, and there are no other people, but who was standing by the door and looking at us through the cat's eyes just now? How did that person come from an almost Did you leave the secret room without making a sound?" Yes, these two points alone are enough to confuse me. The more Man Xiaoxuan listened, the more frightened he became, he hugged my arm tightly, and his voice trembled: "Don't scare me! Could it be, did I encounter a ghost?" I couldn't deny the picture of the nine girls, and said softly: "Eight of them are already dead, go find the last girl, she is the only hope, if she dies too, I'm going back to Germany Buy a cemetery and live nearby to die." Although it was a joke, at this moment, there was no joke at all, even a little gloomy. Last hope, hope not to turn into despair again!