Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Abnormal Gambling

Bai Xiaozhou avoided his gaze and changed the topic: "Our time is running out, now is not the time to talk about this." "Xiaozhou." Zhu Yikai stopped her and said seriously, "We need to have a good talk." Bai Xiaozhou put the mobile phone in front of him: "There are still fifteen minutes, what can we say after we find something." "Let's talk now." Zhu Yikai grabbed the phone with a gloomy expression.It was the first time Bai Xiaozhou saw his expression like this. She bit her lips lightly, and was silent for a moment: "I will do what I say. When I find something, I can tell you whatever you want to ask."

Zhu Yikai had nothing to say, just kept silent.In the end, it was Qu Siqi who broke the deathly dull atmosphere: "Hey, come and see, there seems to be something here." On the dusty bed lay a yellow and white photo and a tulip, the pictures on it were all blurred, only a little shadow could be seen vaguely. Zhu Yikai said in surprise: "I checked this bed carefully just now, but I didn't see the picture!" Qu Siqi reached out to pick up the photo, and at the moment when his fingertips touched it, he seemed to see a skeleton hand holding tulips and photos, gently placing them on the bed, looking up along the skeleton hand, it was a blood-red sleeve.

He took a deep breath and retracted his hand: "It's Li Nana, it's Li Nana's skeleton!" As if he suddenly thought of something, he turned around and rushed into the room inside, opened up a mountain of sundries, and pulled out a rattan box, which contained the pair of red shoes. Holding the tulip, Zhu Yikai was silent for a while: "Could it be that there are ghosts in the world?" "Don't worry about ghosts or not." Bai Xiaozhou took out his mobile phone and looked at it. "We still have seven minutes." Seven minutes is not enough to find the basement.

Zhu Yikai and Bai Xiaozhou's eyes fell on Qu Siqi again, Qu Siqi felt a chill down his back, and quickly said, "I know where the basement is." "Then you didn't say it earlier?" "The basement of Li's mansion is so famous, why don't you know about it?" Qu Siqi led them to the backyard, where weeds were overgrown, only the pagoda tree was in full bloom. The locust tree is a ghost tree. It grows best in places where Yin Qi gathers and demons and ghosts gather, and the flowers bloom the most beautifully.Bai Xiaozhou saw clusters of black air lingering in the flowers, which were the resentment produced by various emotions entangled endlessly.

"Save him." Bai Xiaozhou was taken aback, and looked around: "Did you hear someone talking?" "No, did you hear wrong?" Did you hear me wrong?She clearly heard a girl's voice. "This room is the room where the gardener lives." Qu Siqi walked around the low building, "The basement is just behind the gardener's room. It was originally used to store pickles, vegetables and fruits. Since the massacre, it has been used here. It's sealed." He scraped away the dirt and weeds, groped in the field for a while, "I found it."

It was a thick plank, good wood, not decayed after all these years, not locked.The two teenagers fiddled with each other for a while, and pulled the board away. A stale smell made them hold their noses.Bai Xiaozhou asked, "Why did you seal it up?" "The bodies of the entire Li family were found in the basement." Qu Siqi picked up the flashlight and shone in, indicating that they could go down. "Li Jialing invited someone to discuss business at home. Locked, the house was empty, and there was a sumptuous food and drink on the table in the dining room. He felt strange, looked around, and found this basement, where all the bodies of the thirteen members of the family had been dead for several days , the weather was hot at that time, it had rotted, and the ground was full of rotten water."

Zhu Yikai was a little disgusted, and signaled him not to speak in too much detail, but he was full of complacency and spit all over the place.As soon as Bai Xiaozhou walked down the stone steps, he saw dead bodies all over the ground. They had hideous faces, like miserable souls trapped in hell. She gasped: "They're still here." "What?" The two looked at the empty basement in front of them, and entered without knowing it. "Their souls are still here." Bai Xiaozhou said, "From the day they died, they have never been able to escape, and they have been imprisoned by some kind of resentment."

Qu Siqi shuddered: "Please, you are trying to scare people to death." "So what about ghosts?" Zhu Yikai sneered, "I'm not afraid of them alive, but would I still be afraid of them dead? It's important to find something." As soon as he finished speaking, the door behind him suddenly closed with a loud noise, causing the sand above his head to fall continuously. The two instinctively protected Bai Xiaozhou, and there was a "rustling" sound from the ground, like mice running past.Zhu Yikai suddenly shouted: "Be careful!" Bai Xiaozhou heard the clash of weapons, and occasionally there were flashes of fire in the darkness.She was so anxious that she was sweating and wanted to help, but her eyes were weak and she couldn't see anything, so she could only stay where she was, not even daring to move.

"Save him." It was that voice again, more clearly this time.She asked: "Who are you?" No one answered, her ankle suddenly tightened, as if someone had grabbed her, she lowered her head, but couldn't see anything. She felt herself sinking, as if she was touching someone's face, that person was so close to her, so close that she could feel the heat from the other person's breath. "These eyes are a sharp weapon for killing." She heard a deep and hoarse voice, "Just goug out these eyes and cut off these hands, and it will be easy to kill you."

"No..." Fear came from the hand grabbing her ankle, and it gripped her like a nightmare. She couldn't move, and could only wait for the danger to get closer and closer to her. "Help!" she yelled, something was burning inside her clothes, she hurriedly found it, it turned out to be the library card, she had been hiding it in her close-fitting clothes, and she even forgot its existence. This library card has saved her many times before, will it save her again now? A cold hand reached out and grabbed her face. She could clearly feel that it was a human hand, was it an assassin sent by the other party?

She gritted her teeth and slapped the library card hard at that hand. Then, she heard a scream. Then, all the nightmare seemed to disappear, the basement door opened and light came in.The two teenagers were at a loss, didn't they just fight with someone?And those enemies can't be killed no matter what, just like a ray of ghosts, slashing through with a knife, it's just a void. Bai Xiaozhou looked at the library card in his hand, there were burn marks on it, and a strong medicinal fragrance leaked from the burnt place. This smell was so familiar, as if he smelled it somewhere long ago. Pass. "Have they finally sent the supernatural killer?" Zhu Yikai sullenly picked up the red clothes hanging in the corner.At this time, the number on the phone screen finally stopped and turned into six zeros. The three of them finally breathed a long sigh of relief and sat down on the ground. This half hour was longer than a whole day. "In a certain room, I'm afraid this level will be won or lost by several million again?" Qu Siqi said half-jokingly, "I want to bet too, so I bet on us to win." "Good idea." Zhu Yikai rarely agreed with him.Just when the phone rang, he picked it up and said, "The next level, I want to place a bet." "It's against the rules." "Didn't you say that? In this game, you are the rule." "You have to understand that the people who can enter this game are not ordinary people." "What? Do you think that in my capacity, I'm still not qualified to participate?" The other party laughed loudly: "Okay, boy, I admire you. Your proposal is very interesting. How about it, you change from a prey to a hunter and join this gamble." Zhu Yikai's face darkened: "You want me to run away?" "This is your only chance, and the power to choose is still up to you." The other party said, "I only give you three minutes to think about it." "Go, why don't you go." Bai Xiaozhou patted him on the shoulder, "We will split the winning money fifty-fifty." Zhu Yikai turned his face sideways and met Bai Xiaozhou's eyes. Bai Xiaozhou winked at him, and he immediately understood that as long as he entered the casino, he would have a chance to uproot it. "What are you going to do?" "Don't worry, I'm here." Qu Siqi said seriously, looking at each other, they could see the courage and determination in each other's eyes. Sometimes, life and death together only need a look. Zhu Yikai was silent for a while, made up his mind, and picked up his phone: "When will you pick me up?" "After half an hour, the car will stop outside Li's mansion, don't miss the bus." In the blink of an eye for half an hour, the three of them stood at the gate of Li's mansion, watching an ordinary van slowly drive in.The door opened, and it was dark inside, and the windows were tightly sealed.Zhu Yikai solemnly said to Qu Siqi: "Protect Xiaozhou well." Bai Xiaozhou was dissatisfied and fake coughed twice.He said to her again solemnly: "Protect Siqi well." "You should still worry about yourself." Qu Siqi said, "Come back alive." Suddenly Zhu Yikai was moved, looked deeply at the two close friends, and got into the van.The door of the car was closed, and they left in the dust. The two looked at the direction of the car in perplexity, speechless for a while. "Xiaozhou, do you feel a little strange?" Qu Siqi asked. "What's strange?" "I can't say it, it always feels weird." "whee." The two were startled, turned around and saw the bald little boy sitting on the steps of Li's mansion eating barbecue chicken wings, grinning at them with his greasy mouth. "Go play somewhere else." Qu Siqi went to chase him away, but the little boy sat and refused to leave. After eating the chicken wings, he licked his fingers unsatisfied.Bai Xiaozhou handed him a few dollars and asked him to buy barbecue by himself.The little boy smiled even brighter: "Sister, you are so kind." "Good boy." Bai Xiaozhou patted his head, and he left happily.Qu Siqi said: "Be careful that he comes to ask you for money again." "Then give him a few more yuan." Bai Xiaozhou thought openly and pushed the door open.The phone rang again, this time it was just a text message. The fourth level: Qu Siqi goes to the attic, Bai Xiaozhou goes to the wisteria trellis. Zhu Yikai was sitting in the van, the windows on all sides were pitch black, and he couldn't see anything.The driver's cab is surrounded by colored glass, and a shadow can be vaguely seen. "Mr. Zhu, there is an eye mask and a belt on your right hand side, please tie yourself up." A strange low voice came from the cab, obviously using a voice changer. "What did you say?" Zhu Yikai frowned.The driver said: "This is the rule. Every hunter who wants to enter the casino must do so. If you refuse, it will be regarded as giving up automatically." Zhu Yikai sneered and did as he was told.After an unknown amount of time, the car stopped, the door opened, and someone helped him out of the car: "Mr. Zhu, you can't take off the blindfold yet, please come with us." After walking a long way, the blindfold was finally lifted. He looked around. It was a dark room with an LCD screen hanging on the wall, a sofa under the screen, and a small tablet computer in front of the sofa. "Mr. Zhu, please sit down on the sofa. You are player number five." It was that familiar voice that had been processed by a voice changer again, "You can use the computer in front of you to place bets." Zhu Yikai walked over and saw a big "5" on the computer. The LCD screen on the wall suddenly turned on, and two images popped up, one was Bai Xiaozhou hovering under the wisteria trellis, and the other was Qu Siqi who was about to enter the attic. His heart tightened suddenly. "The fourth round begins, please place your bets." "What's the content of this level?" Zhu Yikai asked. "We set traps to dig out the deepest fears in the hearts of our prey. If they can't escape from the hallucinations, their spirits will collapse and they will become vegetative." Zhu Yikai's heart felt cold, Siqi, Xiaozhou, you have to hold on! Late summer and early autumn are the flowering period of wisteria, but there are only emerald green leaves on this flower stand, which grow very lushly, but none of the flowers bloom.Bai Xiaozhou looked up at the hanging leaves, could it be because of the overcast air?The shade-loving plants in this yard are growing very well, but except for Sophora japonica, there is not a single flower. She suddenly smelled a scent of flowers, turned her head sideways, and saw an unknown purple flower blooming in the grass, it was the kind of small roadside flower that could be seen everywhere, when she was playing in her grandfather's house when she was a child, she often saw purple flowers all over the mountains and plains.The purple flower aroused her thoughts for a moment, she couldn't help but bent down and picked it off. The surrounding scenery suddenly receded like a tide and changed into another appearance.It was a small room, and the surrounding furnishings were very familiar, and there were sweet memories of her childhood in every corner. This is the home she used to live in when she was a child! Is she dreaming?Bai Xiaozhou couldn't help pinching his own face, it hurt so much, this wasn't a dream. She suddenly remembered something, looked at the purple flower, let go of her hand, fell to the ground, and disappeared without a trace. Unfortunately, she fell for it. "Xiaozhou, are you asleep?" The familiar voice was soft and gentle. Bai Xiaozhou's chest felt hot, his nose sore, and he almost cried. It's mom! It's only been nearly a year since we saw each other, but it feels like a lifetime has passed. Mom, do you know how much I miss you? However, at this time, she didn't have the courage to open the door. She knew that all of this was an illusion, and it was not real. She was very scared, and she was afraid that her mother would disappear as soon as she opened the door. Seeing that no one answered, the mother outside the door turned and left. Bai Xiaozhou stuck to the door, tears streaming down her face. Mom, where have you been these days?Why didn't you even send me a letter?Did something happen to you and dad? Are you alive, or... She wiped away her tears and gently opened the door. There were small sounds from the kitchen. The wall clock on the wall showed that it was past one in the afternoon. She should have just had lunch and was washing the dishes. Bai Xiaozhou felt that this scene was a little familiar, as if it touched some memories from a long time ago.She took a light step and walked over cautiously. The kitchen door was only half opened, covering most of her mother's body.Suddenly, she saw a furry thing hanging down from her mother's buttocks, sweeping around on the ground. Bai Xiaozhou seemed to have been punched hard in the chest and couldn't breathe.Closed memories flow like a flood of unsealed gates.She remembered that many, many years ago, when she was about eight or nine years old, she had seen this scene in a certain afternoon. Mother washing dishes, and a white tail growing from her back.