Chapter 228: A Ghost Building with Various Patterns
Looking at the strange situation transformed by the blue smoke, Jiang Yue and Luo Chu's expressions looked extremely solemn, not to mention Mr. Ke, who was too frightened to speak.
Hunting his head and hiding behind Jiang Yue and the others, he was determined to follow these two people no matter what.
Acting alone? Does not exist.
He is very self-aware. If he acts alone at this time, he can lose his life in minutes.
Maybe what Jiang Yue said is not unreasonable? The reason why the ghost did not kill him is because he is a pig teammate? Can it form an invisible restraint on the two of them? Or even provide divine assists?
Although Mr. Ke was angry and felt that this statement was too humiliating, but thinking carefully about everything that happened today, it seemed that he had been holding back!
Jiang Yue and Luo Chu discussed in low voices for a while.
The floor they are currently on is the 15th floor, and the next floor is the 14th floor. Therefore, based on the principle of proximity, Luo Chu suggested going to 1418 first to take a look.
“Luo Chu, the apartment on the 16th floor has only 16 rooms on the entire floor, and there is no room number 18. The layout of the 15th floor is similar to that of the 16th floor. Will the 14th floor be different?”
Jiang Yue didn't notice this problem for a while before, but now he calmed down a little and immediately thought of this problem.
Luo Chu also thought about this problem, but still insisted: "Go and have a look. It's just one flight of stairs anyway, so it won't be troublesome."
It's still the same person as before, Jiang Yue is in the front, Mr. Ke is in the middle, and Luo Chu is in the back.
This time, the three of them reached the next floor very smoothly. There was also a sign hanging above the stairs, reminding them that this was indeed the 14th floor.
Jiang Yue was secretly surprised. He didn't expect it to go so smoothly. There was no trouble at all?
The layout of the 14th floor, as Jiang Yue said before, is exactly the same as that of the 15th and 16th floors. Perhaps the design of the entire apartment is the same.
There are sixteen apartments on each floor.
This is also normal logic.
For a frame structure building, there is no reason for the design of each floor to be different.
The three of them walked around the corridor on the 14th floor, and the house numbers of each room were opposite to each other. There was still a dead silence on the floor. It was as eerie as walking in a deserted cemetery.
The smell of fireworks.
Jiang Yue and Luo Chu looked at each other, becoming increasingly pessimistic in their hearts.
You can see a leopard in a tube.
Three consecutive floors without a single living person or trace of human activity.
So it can basically be concluded that there may really be no living people in this building.
Thinking that there were only three of them alive in the whole building, even a person like Jiang Yue who had seen big scenes felt sad.
“Let’s go to the 18th floor.”
After walking around and finding nothing, Jiang Yue decisively decided to go back upstairs.
Mr. Ke knew that he was a soft-spoken person and if he kept beeping, he might be kicked out of the team. No matter how reluctant he was, he could only cooperate.
Back on the 15th floor, the three of them suddenly heard the sound of running barefoot from before.
Jiang Yue's steps froze and stopped.
The torch flickered into the darkness, and the deep and dark corridor was empty and occupied by darkness.
But the footsteps are definitely going away from this direction.
This apartment is designed in a zigzag shape, with the entire corridor extending in all directions. If you walk around, you can return to the starting point.
The corner at the end of this direction is actually Principal Mei’s apartment.
As the three of them approached Principal Mei’s apartment, they all looked at each other in confusion.
There was a chair clearly placed here before, and it was this chair that Mr. Mei stood up from.
Where is this chair?
At this moment, the end of the corridor has been seen, but the chair seems to have grown legs and walked away on its own.
The corner is also empty, not to mention chairs, there is no debris at all.
“Want to have a look?”
Luo Chu asked Jiang Yue for his opinion.
Jiang Yue shook his head: "No need, let's go to the 18th floor."
So many weird things have happened, and it doesn’t matter what happened to a chair. Maybe the chair or the old Dong’s cell phone were just distractions and have little direct connection with the truth of the matter.
In the final analysis, this may be a trick played by ghosts to deliberately confuse people.
When turning around, Jiang Yue glanced at Principal Mei's apartment.
Vaguely, Jiang Yue seemed to see a shadow flashing in the room.
This shadow was just behind the curtains in the living room. It was so fast that Jiang Yue almost thought his eyes were dazzled.
But he can be sure that he is by no means a dazzler.
Moreover, this shadow is definitely not the previous Principal Mei. Because this shadow is taller.
But when Jiang Yue took a second look, the apartment became calm again, as if nothing had happened and everything was calm.
Is it another interference item?
Jiang Yue knew that if he went in to check, he would definitely find nothing. So, he decided to eliminate all interference and go directly to the 18th floor.
If there is a deep meaning in those two numbers of Principal Mei, then there is only one possibility, and that is Room 1814.
The combination of these two numbers, 1814 is the only combination.
If 14 represents a floor, then they have just walked around the 14th floor and did not notice anything unusual.
So, maybe the 18th floor is the only answer?
Thinking of the 18th floor, Jiang Yue inexplicably remembered that the Year Eaters were also on the 18th floor.
Is the number 18 really that evil?
The three of them walked around and returned to the 16th floor. This was the floor where they first arrived and the floor where they stayed for a long time.
It is the floor where Wen Yuqian's body was hidden, and it is also the floor where Lao Dong haunted and disappeared.
Logically speaking, this floor should be the source of the problem.
It seemed to be little changed from when they left.
Jiang Yue and the others went to Lao Dong's rooms and took a look. Everything was the same as before, and the scene was still the same. It was as if Lao Dong had evaporated from here.
This time, Jiang Yue and the others did not intend to stay on the 16th floor. They followed the stairs to the 17th floor.
When Jiang Yue arrived at the 17th floor, he felt an inexplicable strange feeling. The 17th floor felt like he had seen it before.
how so?
Jiang Yue raised his torch a little higher and immediately saw the sign at the entrance of the corridor.
It clearly says: 15th floor!
They walked up from the 16th floor, and logically and logically they should have gone to the 17th floor.
But the signboard for this corridor shows that it is the 15th floor.
The most bizarre thing is that all the details of the corridor are very similar to the 15th floor that we passed before. It can be said that they are almost identical.
The three of them took a few steps forward and found that the previously missing chair was suddenly placed in the corridor, exactly the same as before, and had not been moved at all.
The three of them felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity in their hearts at the same time.
Could it be that the 15th floor just now was a fake 15th floor? The one we arrived at this time is the real 15th floor?
This is impossible!
Even kindergarten children can’t make mistakes in the arithmetic of going up and down floors. They are three grown men with super intelligence. There is no way they can go up a floor without remembering the number of floors!
Mr. Ke quipped: "Is this... is this a ghost beating a wall?"
Luo Chu snorted coldly: "The sign can do tricks. This kind of chair is very similar. I don't believe that old Principal Mei's apartment can be copied exactly?"
Jiang Yue also deeply agreed.
In fact, he didn’t believe in signs indicating floor numbers.
He has seen this trick before. In the incident of hunting for a female ghost in an apartment, the female ghost used to change the house number to lure the bad guys into the room where the female ghost was entrenched.
Jiang Yue would naturally not accept such a little trick.
The three of them arrived at the apartment corresponding to Old Principal Mei, and the door was closed.
If this is the 15th floor, what you see when you open the door should be Principal Mei's apartment.
If not, it proves that this is just some force deliberately pretending to be a ghost!
Jiang Yue put his hand on the doorknob and felt it lightly. The door was locked.
Of course, it is obviously unrealistic to block Jiang Yue with this kind of lock.
But for some reason, Jiang Yue put his hand on the doorknob but didn't push it down.
The three people’s eyes were all focused on the doorknob, and they all felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity, tension, and even a slight sense of uneasiness.
There was a strange worry in each other's hearts.
What should you do if you push the door in and see Principal Mei’s apartment?
How should we explain this? How should we accept this?
Ghost hits the wall?
Jiang Yue took a deep breath.
I felt that the two people around me were holding their breaths, and their heartbeats seemed to be speeding up.
Jiang Yue poured his strength into his wrist, and with a strong pull, the door lock was immediately broken, and the door creaked open.
Looking closer at the torch, the three of them changed colors at the same time.
Everything is just as they worried, whatever they are afraid of will happen!
The scene that caught my eye was clearly the apartment of old Principal Mei.
Shabby sofa, old coffee table, Walkman, thermos cup...
And newspapers burned to ashes.
Various details show that this is actually Principal Mei’s apartment!
In other words, is this really the fifteenth floor?
How is this possible?
They were walking up from the 16th floor just now. No matter what logic they used, this should be the 17th floor. How could it become the 15th floor?
Has the entire apartment building been turned upside down? The 16th floor has become the 15th floor?
No matter how absurd the world is, it cannot be so absurd that it has no logic.
Luo Chu stepped forward, picked up the thermos cup, looked at it, fiddled with the Walkman, and listened to the recording again.
Yes, it’s the same Walkman from before. Luo Chu wouldn’t be wrong about such details.
The sofa is still the same sofa, and the coffee table is still the same coffee table.
The curtains are still the same curtains.
But Jiang Yue didn't believe in evil, so he secretly took out a small bottle and sprayed it in a circle in the air. This was the spiritual fluid of reincarnation. If there were ghosts creating demons to break the wall, once this spray came out, there would definitely be flaws in the illusion.
It's a pity that after the samsara spiritual liquid was sprayed out, except for a faint smell in the surrounding air, the scene in front of me was nothing unusual.
There is no sense of disillusionment as if the illusion is shattered.
In other words, everything in front of you is actually real?
Jiang Yue stood for a while, then suddenly showed a strange smile and called Luo Chu, "Let's go."
Jiang Yue was the first to walk out of Principal Mei’s apartment.
Luo Chu caught up with him with a solemn expression and asked, "Xiao Jiang, what's going on? Do you see any tricks?"
“It’s just a little trick, it’s still the same thing as substituting a weak point.”
“What do you mean? You mean, this is not the 15th floor?”
“Definitely not, it’s just that some force deliberately created this to confuse us, making us think that this is the 15th floor. This is to mess up our minds and our positions.”
"However, those things are indeed the things I saw before, and they are definitely true." Luo Chu reminded.
"This also shows that there may be a lot of ghosts on this floor. The method of photographing objects from a distance is indeed not bad, but it can be improvised, but there are always flaws."
“Judged together?”
"Yes, the layout can be imitated and things can be copied. But some things are always not taken care of in a hurry."
"You mean?" Luo Chu frowned, he really didn't see any flaws.
“I just sprayed some spray, can you smell it?”
“I smell it.” Mr. Ke and Luo Chu both nodded.
“So, if you burn a few newspapers in an apartment with little ventilation, the smell of burning will not be easy to dissipate for a while, right?”
Luo Chu's expression suddenly changed: "That's right! I only saw the burning ashes, but I didn't smell the obvious smell of burning. Even if they dispersed, they wouldn't disperse so quickly."
Back and forth, they couldn't have left there for more than ten minutes.
In such a short period of time, the smell of burning newspapers will never dissipate at all.
So, as Jiang Yue said, all of this was deliberately arranged by ghosts?
“Then what should we do now?” Mr. Ke was more concerned about this.
"Keep going upstairs!" Jiang Yue sneered, "I just want to see what other tricks they can play. The more they create these fancy illusions, the closer we are to the truth. They create these things just because they want to
It’s nothing more than creating difficulties and interference.”
Continue going upstairs.
Just after turning the corner of the corridor, Jiang Yue's footsteps stopped.
There are still about ten steps to reach the 18th floor. The three of them are standing on the small platform at the corner, which is a bit crowded.
The torch shined on the corridor on the 18th floor, and a chair suddenly appeared!
There is a person sitting on the chair!
It turned out to be that old principal Mei again.
But this time, Principal Mei was facing them directly, his face was pale, and he had no expression that a human should have.
Some are just indifferent, gloomy, cold, and even lifeless!
"Why should a good living person take a dead end?"
Old Principal Mei said dullly.
This is the sentence again.
They had heard this sentence before. It was uttered from the end of the corridor on the 15th floor when they had just arrived on the 15th floor and were about to continue going downstairs.
The person who said this at that time was still Principal Mei.
At that time, Principal Mei was also sitting on a chair, but with his back to them.
Why is the same sentence said twice? He also said it when going downstairs, and he also said it when going upstairs. Are going downstairs and going upstairs both dead ends?
Isn’t this a bit contradictory?
Mr. Ke shivered and whispered: "I think we should go back to the 16th floor. Going downstairs is a dead end, and going upstairs is also a dead end. Maybe staying where we are is the way to survive."
"Shut up!"
Jiang Yue scolded without mercy.
He was chewing on what Old Principal Mei said and pondering its connotation.
It was indeed the same sentence, but Jiang Yue heard two completely different meanings.
When I heard this sentence for the first time, Principal Mei's tone was faint, giving people a feeling of pity and pointing out a way out.
This time, there is no emotion at all, it is cold and mechanical, just like reading a stiff line.
So, the same sentence, different scenes, must mean two situations!