Chapter 15 Chapter 12 The Truth?Illusion?

There was a girl lying on the paper bed, her eyes were quietly closed, her eyelashes were long, her face was peaceful, as if she was asleep... Everyone's fate will not be the same, and it is because of such unpredictability that the current complex social form has been created.If someone is rich, someone will be poor; if someone lives a long life, someone will live a short life. Everything that seems unreasonable has long been balanced in the dark. Human beings always think that they have the ability to break the so-called balance and transform the world, but the balance is far from being able to be destroyed by manpower.It is true that human beings seem to be killing chickens and taking eggs to absorb the nourishment of nature, but nature is not harvesting human life?

It's just that ignorant people never look directly at the death of their own group. I always have a strange premonition about the "shoes to bed" incident, which may be related to "balance". For more than half a month, at least 20 people died, and there were several death cases that I was involved in.I still don't know if it's the bed or the shoes?This sentence is a bit general. It seems that every person who dies has a pair of shoes beside him, but when the shoes absorb human life, they always move slowly towards the bed first, and there are no exceptions so far.

Even though I sleep on the sofa every night, the hiking shoes that appeared outside the door this morning were facing the bed, not me.Maybe the shoes will only notice the person who was cursed until the moment before he really cursed himself, but this is just my guess and cannot be used as a reference. I am still at a loss about this incident, but the only person who knows is the last girl named Xiaoxia. The afternoon sun shone on the roof of the car, warm and dazzling, and the dazzling light radiated in all directions, causing ripples like water waves to appear on the straight road in front of you, which made people's eyes sting.

Man Xiaoxuan sat behind me and sorted out the information of her friends. One of her eight friends was alive, and the one who was alive didn't have a good friendship with her.She cried so much that her eyes are still swollen. I'm very curious. She is obviously terrified, but why does she insist on following me in this matter, completely disregarding her own danger? Taking Man Xiaoxuan's accidental answer as a reference, she once mentioned that she wanted to dig out the truth so that her friend's death would not be unknown, but after a few days of contact, I didn't quite believe her excuse.

Is it just curiosity?It's not like, after all, when Qiao Yu and the girls died, she also knew the news, but she just hid at home in fear and didn't go out, she didn't want to investigate at all. Thinking about it like this makes me feel a little weird. Could it be that she still has some hidden secrets that she hasn't told me?And that secret is the reason why she stubbornly followed her to find the truth of "shoes to bed"? As I was driving, I quietly looked through the rearview mirror to see a lot of girls' faces. Man Xiaoxuan is very pretty, with big eyes and long eyelashes, a small cherry mouth and an oval face. Her appearance is sweet and classic, which is a good-looking type.Such a girl actually said that she has never had a boyfriend. I can't believe it. With her appearance, there should be many suitors in school.

Seemingly realizing that I was peeking at her, Man Xiaoxuan raised his head and smiled at me reluctantly, "Why are you looking at me?" "I always feel like you're hiding something from me." I made my guesses clear. "Where is it?" She looked calm, and suddenly said: "Hey, I don't say anything at night, I have a guess." "What guess?" "It's a conjecture about the truth of the incident." Man Xiaoxuan stroked his long hair lightly with his hand, "I didn't go to that party, but they were my friends after all, and I generally know their personalities.

"The sisters are divided into two factions, the Qiao faction and the Xiang faction, which respectively represent the close relationship between Qiao Yu and Xiang Dantong. I have always belonged to the Xiang faction, because I have played with Dantong since I was a child, and I have nothing to say about my friendship. Do you think there was a conflict between the two parties at the party, and then there was an accident and one of them died, and the dead girl covered a certain bed and a certain pair of shoes with blood, and then turned into a ghost for revenge All the people who killed her?"

I was shocked by her imagination and was dumbfounded for a long time. After a long silence, I couldn't help pouring cold water on her, "This guess can no longer be called a guess, but a conjecture. If you write your thoughts into a book, it might become a very good idea." Thai horror movie script." Man Xiaoxuan gave me a hard look, "Your mouth is really stinky, I think it's very possible!" "Your so-called possibilities are full of holes in your speculations." I said lightly, "I won't complain about other places, explain to me, since you thought one person died at the party that day, but your eight friends plus Xiang Dantong's little cousin, Wu Chutong, all died that night. If you go home properly, can the dead go home?"

The girl was at a loss for words, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Didn't Nan Lu say 'your death was not my fault' in fear before she died? It proves that someone must have died, and maybe the other eight girls covered up the truth to confuse people. I thought my daughter was coming home... I often asked my female friends to sign in for me during the roll call in college classes. It was hard for the teacher to notice. What's wrong with pretending to be someone else's daughter? Just find someone with the same body shape and cover your face , speak in a vague tone, and then quickly go back to the bedroom, it's easy to fool your parents!"

The more Man Xiaoxuan thought about it, the more likely he felt, "As long as the alibi time is bypassed, it doesn't matter if the girl disappears later, because it has nothing to do with them. These cases often appear in reasoning comics and novels. Qiao Yu They are not stupid, and they can definitely think of it." I was stunned, "Then who do you think died?" "Wu Chutong." After thinking for a while, Man Xiaoxuan highlighted this name that surprised me. "What's the reason?" My mind began to constantly think about the possibility. "Because if you want to talk about similar stature, only Xiang Dantong and Wu Chutong can do it. They are cousins, and they are familiar with each other's behavior and speech. It is easy to impersonate. Dantong, you met me in a mental hospital, so I died It must not be her, so the only possibility left is that Wu Chutong died due to some accidental reason."

My hands trembled slightly, and I was shocked by the reasoning of the girl in the back seat.Man Xiaoxuan's words were orderly and convincing. After repeated arguments in my mind, I almost believed half of them. "Ask Xiaoxia, she is the only one who knows, maybe you can find the answer from her mouth." I licked my dry lips, neither expressing approval nor disapproval, I just added, "Afterwards, Wu Chutong's home may be worth our visit." Man Xiaoxuan nodded seriously, "It is necessary to go to my little cousin's house." I hummed a little "hmm", and asked again abruptly: "You really have nothing to hide from me?" "Really do not have." The girl answered reflexively, and then said angrily: "Why are you talking like you're interrogating a prisoner!" "It always feels like you know something." I drove towards Xiaoxia's house and said casually, "Did you really infer what you said just now?" "Nonsense, Miss Ben grew up eating fish, so she's smart." The girl proudly straightened out her small breasts. If she had to say something flawed about her, it would probably be the breasts that were too small for her age. While I was complaining in my heart, I was looking at Dongmu County while driving. The old county town always gives people a gloomy feeling, and there are constant sounds of funeral music along the way, probably because the death of the Qiao family and the Zhang family brought business opportunities to the funeral in Dongmu County.After the funeral, when the relatives of the two families were fighting for property, they didn't know what kind of turmoil would arise. Xiaoxia lives in the south of the county seat, and there are not many cars on the backward city streets, so the off-road vehicle drives smoothly on the road, and the speed is not slow.Half an hour later, the last survivor's home arrived, and we got out of the car and rang the doorbell. Xiaoxia's mother opened the door and was surprised to see Man Xiaoxuan and me, "Xiaoxuan? Wow, I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you? How is your family?" "Everything is fine, Auntie, I'm here to find Xiaoxia." Man Xiaoxuan smiled sweetly, "Where is Xiaoxia?" The aunt looked a little tired, "Her, just after you called last night, Xia Xia ran out and asked her, but she didn't answer me, she was wearing thin clothes, and I haven't seen her come back until now, I thought about it I was about to call the police. Tell me what happened. I heard that several of your partners died, and the Qiao family and the Xiang family were also wiped out. It’s too peaceful, and Xia Xia has been very abnormal recently! Always tell me There are ghosts in the room, really! I don’t know what book she reads, she’s lost her mind.” We talked a lot in a long-winded manner, and the two of us had no chance to interrupt at all. Man Xiaoxuan waited patiently for her to finish speaking, and then said under my signal: "Auntie, can you let me go to Xiaxia's dormitory? She borrowed me a reference book and hasn't returned it yet. I am in a hurry to use it. Woolen cloth." "Okay, you go in." My aunt suddenly shifted her gaze to me, "What a handsome young man, aren't you Xiaoxuan's boyfriend?" When I was about to enter the door, I was completely unprepared, almost fell down, smiled awkwardly, and really didn't know how to answer. "No, it's just friends." Man Xiaoxuan blushed enough to anger Tomato. The aunt waved her hand with a smile, her eyes full of ambiguity.I secretly slandered, the old woman in front of me, her daughter has been missing for a whole night, and she is still not in a hurry to find her, and she is still here leisurely looking for gossip, is Xiaoxia really her own? Xiaoxia's home is an old house with three bedrooms and two living rooms, and the furniture is outdated.I searched in her bedroom, but in the end I found nothing.When we went out to get in the car, Man Xiaoxuan and I looked at each other eye to eye, feeling a little unsure of what to do next. "What are we going to do now?" she asked. "I'll make a phone call first, and then we'll go to Wu Chutong's house to investigate." I called the old man and asked him about the tachyon coordinates. The answer I got was that it was still being confirmed, so I asked him to check the location of the last call from Xiaoxia's cell phone for me. No matter how long-winded he was, he hung up the phone directly. I feel very bored psychologically, and I have the urge to throw things. Every investigation of this incident can basically be regarded as ending without a problem. It makes me feel like I punched out but hit the thick feather pillow. The pillow is the problem, but I have the feeling of internal injury, not to mention the sword of Damocles on the head. Hanging, I can't predict when that unpredictable sword will swing down and cut off my own head. In short, if I don't end the curse, I don't think there is much time left. Wu Chutong's home is in the city center, not far from her cousin Xiang Dantong, on the second floor of an apartment.Her parents weren't there when we went.I skillfully opened the lock with the master key, and sneaked in. Man Xiaoxuan, who was nervously letting the wind go, followed me in, and closed the door smoothly. The decoration of the home is fairly exquisite, with an antique style combined with a modern style. You can tell that the owner of the house is in a well-to-do life just by looking at the taste of the furniture. Wu Chutong's bedroom was not difficult to find, it was at the end of the corridor on the right side of the living room, and the door was unlocked.As soon as you enter the room, you can see the photo placed prominently on the desk. There is a slightly younger girl hugging Xiang Dantong, smiling happily. I always feel that this room is very cold, it seems to be much colder than the cold air in late autumn outside. Man Xiaoxuan sneezed, put his arms around his body, and kept shivering, "It's so cold, how could it be so cold!" "It may be because the room is on the shady side and cannot be exposed to sunlight all year round." I pointed out the window. Although the window faced south, there was a tall building a few meters away from the bed, which not only blocked the sight, but also blocked all sunlight. "Even so, it shouldn't be so cold!" The girl is still puzzled. I ignored her and searched hard for useful clues, but to my disappointment, I couldn't find anything.The furnishings in the house are very ordinary, but no one has lived in it for a long time, giving people a cold and gloomy sense of death. Man Xiaoxuan was a little scared, and gently pulled the clothes on my back, "Hey, Ye Silent, do you think Wu Chutong died with nothing to rest in, her grievances stayed in this room for the rest of the time except for going out to kill people, so Is the room so cold? Isn’t it often mentioned in movies that there are haunted places, and the temperature is usually very low?” "Speak nonsense and scare yourself." I gave her a reproachful look, then looked around the room. Man Xiaoxuan's assumption was that Wu Chutong was killed, and her cousin pretended to be her and went home to make an alibi. If this is the case, how did Xiang Dantong leave the room? It is easy to be found out through the gate, and Man Xiaoxuan's investigation also mentioned that after Wu Chutong disappeared, the gate leading to the outside was still locked, so the only thing left to leave was the window. I opened the curtains and looked carefully.Maybe it was because too many people had died recently, and it was too late for Wu Chutong's parents to call the police. The police just took a rough record and were not sad about the disappearance at all. They even casually investigated the room. I just took a few glances and found a footprint on the windowsill. It was very shallow, but I could tell it was a woman.She should have just jumped out of the window, and someone below responded to her. After all, it was only on the second floor. If there are wings, a height of three meters is nothing. "Your guess has been proven half right so far. I guess something really happened to Wu Chutong!" I said in a hoarse voice. Man Xiaoxuan's face was full of excitement, "I knew it, Miss Ben is smart." As soon as she finished speaking, she pulled me and asked: "Since you found the clue, go out quickly, it's too cold inside, it's a bit scary. I'm afraid!" I searched the room carefully again, and felt that there was really nothing to dig, so I left. Just as I got back to the car, the old man Yang Junfei had already called. "Xiao Ye, I've got the coordinates of the tachyon, you can enter this string of codes into the GPS to locate it." The old man said a series of codes, and then said: "As for the girl named Xiaoxia, her mobile phone uses a real-name authentication number, and she has bought a premium group, so it is not easy to find her contact records. She finally The first call was made by Di Nahua at noon today, to a girl named Wu Chutong, and I also found the location for you, at No. 57, Xiqu Road, Dongmu County." Wu Chutong, the name Wu Chutong again!It seems that there is always her existence behind the incident. I hurriedly asked, "Is anyone answering the phone?" "It was connected, but it was connected. The call lasted for one minute and thirty-five seconds." Connected?How did you connect?Our guess is based on Wu Chutong's death, but someone answered her phone. Could it be that the girl is not dead?Strange, the whole thing has an atmosphere and direction that I can't understand, which makes me confused. Seeing that I was silent, the old man asked, "By the way, how is your investigation going?" "He's still alive for the time being, but he probably won't live for long." I said in a deep voice. The voice on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, "I can only help you so much. If you want to use the things in the warehouse to call Qi Yang, he will send it to you as soon as possible. Do you want to ask the eldest sister to come and find you?" "Don't, I don't want her to be cursed and end up dying with me." I hastily refused. "She won't live alone even if you die, that little girl Li Nuoyi will probably commit suicide and go to the underworld to find you." Yang Junfei joked. But his black humor wasn't funny at all, so I hung up on this guy without hesitation. "What's wrong?" Man Xiaoxuan saw that my expression was not right, and asked. "Wu Chutong may not be dead yet, at least Xiaoxia talked to her on the phone at noon today." I rested my chin on my hand, tapping the steering wheel with my right fingers. "real?" Man Xiaoxuan was extremely surprised, "I guessed wrong, she's not dead?" "Dead or not dead, just make a phone call." There is a piece of paper pasted at the entrance of Wu’s house. On it is the phone number of each member of the family of three. I don’t know who wrote it because of a bad memory, but it is convenient for me. I took a look when I went out and remembered it. Wu Chutong's mobile phone number. I took out my mobile phone and dialed the number, but I couldn't get through. The boring and dry computer voice reminded that the phone was turned off, which made me almost want to throw the phone in my hand. "Damn, I can't get through." I sighed, called up the GPS and entered the string of coordinate codes given by Yang Junfei, and the map location was very fast.A few seconds later, a small dot of light appeared on the screen, blinking, and I took a closer look, almost jumping up in fright. No. 57, Xiqu Road, Dongmu County! It seems that all the clues are now pointing to this place! On November 1st, the European Powerless Laboratory joined several large laboratories to conduct a more radical and larger experiment, and that day was also the day when Qiao Yu and others gathered, and it was also the day that the tachyons emitted by the experiment I took a shortcut, bypassed China, and jumped out of the multidimensional universe at a certain point in China, and traveled through it again after being exposed for a microsecond! The jumping place is at No. 57, West District Road, Dongmu County, and it may be the place where Qiao Yu's and others gathered. Now it has become the last survivor, Xiaoxia's hiding place. If you go to that place, you may be able to find the truth and answer to the "shoes to bed" curse, and even unravel the curse on yourself! Under my explanation, Man Xiaoxuan was extremely surprised even though he didn't understand the physical things.She didn't believe that the experiment far away in Europe would cause disasters and curses in a small Chinese county thousands of miles away, causing her good friends to die one by one! In fact, I am also extremely skeptical about this, because such a conjecture is too nonsense.It's just one coincidence after another, so I have to think about it. Without further ado, I ignored the red lights all the way and drove towards Xiaoxia's hiding place. Xiqu Road has almost reached the outside of Dongmu County, and the location of the coordinates is a dilapidated warehouse that has long been abandoned. The trace that the warehouse door has been opened recently, I pushed it, the door was blocked from behind, my eyes searched around, and finally found a movable window not far from the right, we just opened the door. go in. The huge warehouse is pitch black, and you can't see your fingers.Calling up the flashlight function on the phone, the surrounding area immediately became much brighter. "Who?" A girl's voice sounded nervous and nervous. "Xiaoxia, I'm Man Xiaoxuan!" Man Xiaoxuan beside him hastily answered. "It's you, huh, you scared me to death!" The girl obviously relaxed, "What are you doing here?" "I'm looking for you!" "Find me?" Xiaoxia froze for a moment, "Why are you looking for me? Strange, how do you know I'm here?" After the girl said this, she immediately became nervous again. "It was a friend of mine who found your phone call location, and he wanted to ask you something." Man Xiaoxuan pushed me forward, "Maybe he can help you." "Miss Xiaoxia, hello. My name is Yebuyu." I walked over, the light of the flashlight moved with my movement, and after a while, the figure of a girl appeared.She was very emaciated, her face was so thin that only skin and bones remained, and it was obvious that she had had a hard time recently. "What do you want to ask me?" Xiaoxia's tone was very alert. "I want to ask you, where did Wu Chutong go? There are also stories about the shoes and the bed. Don't be afraid, I am also a victim. Now you are the only one who knows. If you don't want to die, we should cooperate as much as possible." I made it clear what I came for. Xiaoxia has been tortured enough by the recent experience, and it seems that she doesn't have much energy to play tricks.She saw that I seemed to know everything, and when she heard Wu Chutong's name, her body trembled unknowingly. "I can tell you, but can you really save me?" "I try my best." As I approached her, I paid attention to the movement around me. A few times before when the insider wanted to tell me the truth, an accident happened, which made me fall short. This is the last chance. Even if we gamble our lives, we cannot let the curse harass us. It's just that this time the curse really didn't come. "Do your best?" Xiaoxia smiled in a daze, desperately, "That's okay, if you tell this matter before you die, it's a matter of peace." She looked around and smiled wryly. "The root of everything that happened is this warehouse. I still remember clearly what happened on November 1st. Qiao Yu asked us to have a party. After lunch, she mysteriously brought us here , Said that I did not know which ancient book I found a weird spell, a shoe-to-bed spell. "The most yang energy of the day is around one o'clock in the noon every day. Qiao Yu said that as long as a small ceremony is held at that time, all wishes will come true. All of us felt bored, so we agreed with her proposal. "Qiao Yu got a red paper quilt and a pair of red paper shoes from someone who didn't know where. The paper quilt was spread on the floor, and the toes of the paper shoes were facing the bed. He asked us to take off the shoes we put on, Put the toes of the shoes toward the bed, nine girls, plus a pair of paper shoes, exactly ten pairs. "We lay down on the paper quilt one by one and made a wish, but when it was Xiang Dantong's cousin Wu Chutong's turn, the girl couldn't wake up. We beat her and shook her, but she didn't respond. We were all frightened. He simply came up with an idea, let Xiang Dantong pretend to be his cousin and go home to perfuse her parents, and then try to wake Wu Chutong up. "We did that, but things didn't go as we imagined. Not only did Wu Chutong not wake up, but his condition deteriorated, and he died in the warehouse three days later. "The remaining eight of us swore never to speak out, and just pretended that this incident never happened. Unfortunately, within a few days, people began to die strangely, and those who did not die often encountered strange things like ghosts. I don’t believe it, until the shoes I had thrown away a long time ago found me and appeared strangely at the door of my bedroom, and my nightmare began. I guess you have investigated other things, so I won’t waste my saliva. Now, What do you say I should do?" Xiaoxia looked at me with bloodshot eyes, she didn't know how long it had been since she dared not sleep. I fell silent.Red paper shoes and red paper quilts, I have encountered these two things twice, but I never thought they were really the source of the curse. What must be figured out now is, why did that weird spell turn into a deadly curse? To be honest, this kind of folk magic is basically a deceptive thing, and there is no possibility of inspiring supernatural phenomena, but why do the girls involved die one after another, and the curse is more like a virus from one victim to the other? Other outside victims spread. "Have you been to Qingqing's house today?" I suddenly thought of the person who looked at us through the cat's eyes in the door, and then disappeared suddenly. "No." Xiaoxia shook her head. "Then why did you call Wu Chutong just now?" I asked again. "I heard that you can call the deceased through the phone, so I tried to call Wu Chutong, and I got connected, but it didn't work at all." As soon as Xiaoxia finished speaking, she suddenly looked at the top of my head, and her face turned pale. She seemed to be frightened by something, and kept waving her hands while backing away, as if something was constantly approaching her. I followed her line of sight strangely, and saw a pair of black women's casual sneakers floating in the air. "don't want!" Xiaoxia screamed, pushed me away and fled towards the depths of the warehouse. Man Xiaoxuan and I looked at each other, and hurriedly followed her, but when we came to the end of the warehouse, we were already dead like the previous few times... Xiaoxia died beside a piece of paper quilt. It was a red paper quilt, and a pair of red paper shoes were facing the paper quilt.There was a girl lying on the paper quilt, her eyes were quietly closed, her eyelashes were long, her face was peaceful, as if she was asleep, but her body was surprisingly cool, she had no heartbeat or pulse, she didn't know she was dead After a long time, there is still no sign of decay. That girl was none other than Wu Chutong.