Chapter 5 Chapter Three

There are many coincidences and many accidents in life.Compared with mechanical accidents, people are more likely to make mistakes, but obviously, my eyes are fine at this moment. Does that mean that the machine has made a mistake? I saw that the instrument showed 63 degrees Celsius and the absolute humidity exceeded 80, which was unbelievable.Although the humidity and temperature standards for dry steam rooms in different places are different, as far as I know, the absolute humidity in most areas is basically not that high, and the temperature will not exceed 50 degrees Celsius. No wonder there was a feeling of boredom in my heart. When I first came in, I didn't feel that the temperature had increased.When exactly did it start to change?

I frowned and looked around, and I was sure that the one I came in was a dry steam room.Although the maximum temperature of the dry steam room can reach 80 degrees Celsius, the dry steam room is also suitable for patients with rheumatism, and at the same time, there is no smell of steam in the room, so basically the humidity will not be too high. I am afraid that the machine is indeed broken. "Hey, don't you feel unwell?" I yelled at the girl who was huddled together and acting strangely from a distance. This guy is obviously so vigilant, but he insists on staying in the dry steam room for no reason. Know what she is thinking.Speaking of which, she couldn't be the one who was invited by Li Nuoyi, right?

After carefully recalling some details, I deeply agree. "It's none of your business whether I'm comfortable or not, get out if you're not." Just as she was about to ask for clarification, the girl uttered such a sentence. I shrugged and pointed to the instrument, "You have a look at this." The girl walked over cautiously, took a quick look with her probe, and quickly retracted her head, "I don't understand." It's true that not many girls can understand this stuff! I pressed my forehead with a headache, "Let's go out, there is something wrong with this dry steam room, the humidity and temperature are rising. If it goes up, the human body can't bear it."

"Really?" The girl looked at me suspiciously. "It's absolutely true. It won't be long before the maintenance personnel will arrive." At the same age, why does it always feel like there is a generation gap with her?Is it an illusion? "Okay, you go out first." The girl took a few steps back. Do I really look that untrustworthy? I don't want to talk about non-nutritious things anymore, I feel more tired than encountering a terrorist incident.The temperature in the dry steam room is getting higher and higher, and the water on the surface of the skin flows out like running water, the rise and fall of the chest cavity is much thicker, and even breathing becomes laborious.

I think it's not bad for me to go out and wait for Li Nuoyi. Whether that girl is the one she's dating or not, I'll judge for myself when she comes.Quickly walking to the exit, I pulled the doorknob hard. The door, which should have been easily opened, did not move at all. The air of more than 60 degrees did not give me a sense of security, and suddenly cold sweat broke out from my back.I frowned, and grabbed the doorknob with both hands and pulled it hard, but the door still didn't move. Taking a deep breath, he pushed it out again, but there was still no sign of the door moving.

"Hey, are you going out or not. Man, why are you so indecisive?" The vigilant girl sneered from behind. "I'm really useless, I can't even open the door. How about you try it instead?" I stepped back a few steps and signaled her to open the door. The girl looked back and forth between me and the door warily, and then showed an impatient expression.She came to the door and tried to pull it, but as expected, the door didn't move at all. "What's going on, what the hell are you doing?" The girl glared at me angrily, pulling and pushing desperately, and kept screaming.She was obviously terrified.

The temperature in the air has increased a bit, and I can clearly feel that my skin has dried up due to the excessive evaporation of water. "Slam the door." It was clear at a glance that the steam room was clean, and it was not easy to find something to smash the glass in this damn place.I knocked it hard with my hand a few times, and the glass was intact. Gritting his teeth, he quickly took out a piece of charcoal the size of four fists from the charcoal fire and threw it on the ground with a towel to block the heat.After cooling down, he smashed it hard at the glass on the door, and the charcoal instantly shattered into countless pieces, but the glass was not damaged at all.

"What's going on here?" The girl kept knocking on the door of the room in panic. Through a thin door, the outside world can be clearly seen through the window.It's like another world there, people coming and going are doing their own things, no one lives in it, even if someone screams in the dry steam room, someone knocks on the door desperately, no one pays attention Pass. This phenomenon is really abnormal.But how can a three-centimeter-thick thin wooden door be soundproof?How can the outside world fail to notice? I paid attention to the movements of the outside world, and when someone came within two meters of the door, I kicked the door hard.The whole door vibrated and buzzed.

The person outside the door walked away as if he didn't hear it at all, but inside the room, the girl next to her yelled in pain, covered her ears and fell to the ground. A strong tinnitus echoed in my ears, and I shook my head vigorously to get rid of the discomfort.When he looked at the unknown girl, he was also taken aback.I saw that she seemed to be enduring intense pain, and even blood flowed out of her ears. The bright red blood exudes a bewitching color, staining the wooden floor, making one's heart shudder. "Are you okay?" I hurriedly supported her. "Ear, ears are always talking, sometimes screaming!" The girl spoke intermittently in a painful tone, she was in so much pain that she couldn't speak clearly, and her entire face was distorted.

My tinnitus persisted, although it was faint, it gradually disappeared after a full minute.When my tinnitus completely subsided, the girl's complexion improved slightly, and she pushed me away weakly, "Stay away from me, don't think you can take advantage of this beauty." This person's logical thinking is really unpredictable. Obviously I wanted to save her, but when she said it, it turned into taking advantage of her, which made me dumbfounded. But now is not the time to worry about it. If they can't get out, it won't be long before the two of them will die inside due to suffocation.

I gasped as the temperature increase made everything in the air hotter.Although the surrounding humidity is extremely high, the body still has symptoms of dehydration.Looking at the instrument, the temperature has reached 93 degrees Celsius, and the humidity has stopped at 100%. He slammed on the door again, but it still had no effect. "It's time, it's time, it's really my turn." The girl mumbled something in panic, she ran to the chair and sat down as if giving up, her whole body shrunk into a ball. "What time is it?" My lips are chapped, and I take every breath I take.There is a feeling of vomiting brewing in the abdomen, which is an inevitable reaction to being in a high temperature state for a long time. "I said I was going to die, didn't you hear if you were deaf?" The girl buried her head deeply in her knees, "Both the misfortune to the world and the skinny deer died. I thought I would be an exception. Unexpectedly, I also will follow in their footsteps." "What do you mean?" I couldn't understand what she was saying at all. Afterwards, the girl's mental state fell into complete confusion, and her tone of voice began to be intermittent, occasionally mixed with memories of the past.From her rambling words, I finally figured out some clues. First of all, Ji Huo Ren Jian and Shou Xiao Lu are the names of two girls, and the three of them are friends.Second, those two were dead, and now it was her turn.Thirdly, she kept chanting some words like "It's time" in her mouth, and repeated them so many times, but I couldn't understand the reason. The dry steam room seemed to want to evaporate everything inside, with a lethal temperature flowing through it.If it weren't for the high humidity, we would have been cooked long ago. In fact, in the current environment, it is almost a miracle that she and I can survive.Strength was draining from my body bit by bit, and the hope of survival was so far away through that thin door. I didn't even have the energy left to stand upright, and I only relied on my instinct to pump the heat into my lungs, and then Exhale the hot air in the lungs. With each breath, the force is less. I sat down on the ground slumped, my shriveled skin seemed to be squeezed dry, and I hardly sweated anymore. "Hey, I don't know why, but I'm about to die, can I ask your name?" People's mentality is sometimes very strange, and they obviously don't like the girl in front of them, but they are going to die together by chance, and they still want to know the other person's name of. "My name is Ye Silent." "My name is Qiu's princess." The sense of reality on the verge of death made the girl clear-headed. She listened to my words and answered after a few seconds of silence. "Princess of Qiu? Does this country have such a name?!" I almost thought that I had hallucinations in my ears. "The nickname on the Internet, don't you also use the screen name? Why are you silent at night, there is no such name on the Internet." Although the girl was terribly afraid, she still did not forget to complain.This person's personality is too extreme. I smiled wryly and didn't explain. Indeed, my name is indeed a bit weird. "Well, that, actually, I want to apologize." Qiu's princess hesitated for a moment, with despair on her face, "I killed you, and my time is up, but I dragged you down." "What do you mean, when is the time?" She kept murmuring these four words just now, and I was very concerned. "The time is up, alas, no one will believe our experience." The girl's tone sank. No, it wasn't that her voice became quieter, but that my ears became deaf, my consciousness gradually became blurred, and my eyes couldn't open even if I tried hard.The head is as sticky as a quagmire. Some people say that before death, they can clearly recall everything from birth to the present in an instant. I am afraid it is a lie. I was about to die, but my brain didn't think, and I couldn't even recall. There is still a gap left in the gradually closing eyelids, from which the temperature in the dry steam room is so high that the air is distorted.The girl not far from her fell to the ground softly, her body was twitching. A few seconds later, I completely closed my eyes and fell into endless darkness... I don't know how long after that, I suddenly felt that the eyes were no longer dim, and I could even feel that the skin and muscles of my whole body were aching from dehydration.He opened his eyes suddenly, and the dazzling light pierced the retina immediately. Didn't he die? I desperately rolled my eyeballs, the scene in front of me changed from blurred to clear, tears were hanging on a beautiful face, and she was staring at me eagerly at this moment, while I rested my head on a pair of soft thighs. "A Ye, you're awake. That's great, I was almost scared to death!" My thinking started to move, my memory slowly recovered, and I finally remembered who the person in front of me was. "Nuoyi, what happened to the girl I was with?" The joy of turning a corner was not as strong as I imagined. I struggled to get up, but Li Nuoyi immediately held me down. "That girl is dead." She wiped away her tears and forced a sad smile on her face. "Is she the one you're dating?" I asked. "Yeah." Li Nuoyi nodded lightly, "I killed her. If I hadn't asked her to meet here, she wouldn't have had an accident." "I'm afraid it's not that simple." For some reason, there was always a premonition that even if the girl didn't die here, she would still die in another way at the same time in another environment. Gently patted Li Nuoyi's shoulder, I said lightly: "Help me to see her dead body." "The corpse has already been transported away, and the appearance is simply horrible." Thinking of the situation at that time, Li Nuoyi couldn't help vomiting. "Then call the old man. I want to know the first ㄕㄡ' information of the girl when she was discovered." She still has some concerns about the girl named Qiu's princess. What is the "time is up" she mentioned in her mouth? What's the meaning? "I'm sorry." Seeing me in a daze, Li Nuoyi suddenly hugged me tightly.She bowed her face, pressed her head tightly against my chest, tears dripped down, and slowly slid down the contact position between the two, "When I found you, Aye, your heart stopped beating. I I almost thought you were going to die. If Ah Ye really died, I wouldn't want to live anymore." "I'm sorry, I'm so troublesome. I thought that finding some strange ㄕ'things would cheer you up, but you almost died." She hugged me desperately, her body was shaking, she listened to my heartbeat Beating, tears flow non-stop. "it's not your fault." I patted her on the back lightly, and just about to say something comforting, a man's voice cut in inappropriately. "Hi, sorry to bother you. I'm Qiu Mu, a reporter from Linhai Daily, and this is my press card." This is a well-built man in his thirties, wearing a hat and a gray reporter suit.He flashed the press card in front of both of us, and quickly said: "Sir, are you one of the people in the dry steam room? Regarding the dead girl, can I interview a few questions?" "I'm sorry, sir, didn't you see that my boyfriend is not feeling well?" Li Nuoyi was a little angry when the good atmosphere was interrupted, and even raised our relationship to boyfriend and girlfriend without authorization. The reporter named Qiu Mu scratched his ears, "I'm really sorry, I'm in a hurry and have to hand over the manuscript to the newspaper office. How about just asking two questions? I will double the visiting fee!" Li Nuoyi was about to refuse, but I waved my hand, "Ask, in exchange, you have to answer a few questions for me." I just happen to want to know something too. "Great." The reporter Qiu Mu gave me a surprised look, as if guessing what I wanted to ask, but he didn't waste too much time, "Excuse me, are you in the steam room with that girl named Xia Xue?" What happened here? Why did she die?" I smiled wryly, "So that girl is called Xia Xue? After she came in, the machine in the dry steam room broke down, and the temperature and humidity kept rising, until she was almost cooked." "Well, you have burn marks on your body, and the girl's horrible corpse also has burn marks." The reporter nodded to himself, and then asked, "Why didn't you ask the outside world for help?" "Of course I wanted to ask for help, but it was too late. Do you know the theory of boiling frogs in warm water? By the time I felt it, it was already too late, and I had passed out." Many weird phenomena happened in the dry steam room, the door could not be opened no matter what, and the outside world could not hear the sound inside at all, as if trapped in a foreign land, but such a situation could not be mentioned like ordinary people, even if Having said that, it will only lead to a burst of distrustful laughter. The reporter wrote down my words in the notebook, "Well, well, so you basically don't know how the girl died?" "Not bad." I nodded. "Then, thanks." He closed his notebook and prepared to leave. "Hey, you seem to have forgotten something!" I shouted. "Oh, yes, here's the money." The reporter took out his wallet, took out a hundred yuan with two fingers and handed it to me. "I'm not asking for money, I just want you to answer my question." I took the money. "What question? I don't dare to answer something that is too in-depth." As expected of a reporter, he immediately limited the scope of his answer. "The girl named Xia Xue is friends with the two girls who spontaneously combusted in the dance hall and died suddenly on the pedestrian street?" I asked slowly. Qiu Mu was taken aback, "How do you know?" "Guess." "How could you guess it?" He obviously didn't believe it. "Then take it as my intuition." I asked nonchalantly, "Did the three of them participate in any strange activities together?" Qiu Mu looked at me deeply for almost half a minute, and finally replied with a hesitant face: "I don't know." Absolutely a lie!Li Nuoyi and I looked at each other, and both read the answer from each other's eyes. "Okay, I'm busy reporting back to the society. My little friend, you are not simple. After going through such a terrible thing, you don't need to slow down, and your thinking is very detailed. It's really surprising. If you have any clues in the future, please Call me." This guy probably knew that his answer was perfunctory, so he forced me a business card and left in a hurry. I looked at his back thoughtfully, then changed my clothes and went to the police station to make a statement. When he came out, he held a cowhide bag in his hand, and there was a thick stack of documents in it. The stack of materials was given to me by the person in charge of taking notes. The situation at that time was very funny.With a puzzled face, he handed me the information marked as confidential under the command of the officer, and he couldn't figure out why at all, his eyes were confused. "Hee hee, that handsome guy who took notes for you is so cute, I think he is still guessing your identity." Li Nuoyi laughed while driving. This is the advantage of being organized. Through the influence of the old man Yang Junfei, he can easily get a lot of information that is difficult to obtain. I turned on the reading light on the car and slowly pulled out the materials inside. There are autopsy reports and death investigations of nearly five people in it, arranged in chronological order. The latest one is Xia Xue, that is, the girl who calls herself "the princess of autumn" and has a weird personality.The photo of the murder scene was taken in a dry steam room, and her death in the photo was really horrible, even if I was frightened when I first saw it. Her body was shriveled, like a mummy that had been weathered for hundreds of years.Her limbs were like dry twigs, her fingers and toes were burnt. The photo was taken from several directions, so the condition of the entire corpse can be truly recorded. The hair on Xia Xue's body was sparse and there were only a few small tufts left. The moisture in the whole body had evaporated, the skin was dry and stuck to the flesh and blood, and the cloudy eyes protruded from the eye sockets, freezing the fear of death.It is very doubtful whether she heard or saw something that frightened her before she died. I frowned habitually, and read the autopsy report.According to the report, Xia Xue had no external injuries when she died, and suffocation caused by high temperature and humidity was the biggest cause of death, and her internal organs were all steamed. After pondering for a moment, I raised my head and asked Li Nuoyi: "Do you know who found us?" "it's me." She replied: "You should have guessed it, the person I'm dating is Xia Xue. I went to the changing room to call her on the mobile phone, but no one answered, so I went back to the steam room to find you. When the door was opened I actually found two people lying on the floor. I was very anxious and hurriedly pulled you out without paying attention to the situation of the girl opposite. When the staff found her, Xia Xue was already dead, and the merchant immediately reported her. call the police." "How long did it take you from leaving to returning to the dry steam room?" I asked again. "Five minutes at most!" Her answer was positive. "Five minutes?" I smiled wryly.Sure enough, it's not normal, it's only five minutes, but from our point of view, we stayed there for at least half an hour, so this is probably another supernatural phenomenon! After thinking about it for a while, I thought of the key part of the matter, "When Xia Xue died, was it as it was in the photo?" "Yes. I took a look and almost vomited it out. It looked really scary!" Li Nuoyi was terrified, "Fortunately, you are only slightly burned and dehydrated, and your life is not in danger, otherwise I don't want to live!" "Okay, I know you care about me. But I have a question, have you thought about it?" "What's the problem?" She froze. "Xia Xue's girl is less than ten meters away from me. Why is the water in her body completely evaporated, and even the internal organs are cooked, but I have nothing to do, just a slight burn?" I said in a low voice own doubts. "This is completely unreasonable. In a sealed environment, steam fills every square according to the horizontal density, just like water will flow from a high place to a low place. It will only go down after filling the headspace. Move it, and then distribute the temperature evenly. Since Xia Xue died tragically, I should never just be in a coma." Li Nuoyi pouted, and didn't really care, "Yes, what you said is very reasonable. Why bother him so much, as long as you live well, I will be satisfied." "What does the merchant say?" I asked. "They insisted that the steam room never sounded an alarm, and the technician checked it out to rule out the possibility of a mechanical obstacle. But if someone died in it, the business would definitely be affected. Of course, the merchant's life and death are not up to us. A hairy thing." Sure enough, there was no problem with the machinery, and the dry steam room probably returned to normal after we were carried out.No, now I have no way to figure out whether the dry steam room is abnormal, maybe it has always been normal, but we are not normal, otherwise it is difficult to explain the different results that happened to me and Xia Xue. What is the meaning of the four words "It's up" that the girl whispered before she died?Will it be directly or indirectly related to this weird event? Shaking my drowsy head, I put Xia Xue's report aside and looked at the second person's information.