The department store is cold and dark after midnight, which is particularly scary at first glance.
"Aren't you two going to follow me all the time?" Han Fei saw that the two gangsters were hesitant and prodded them again: "I'm going to the third floor now."
After he finished speaking, he stepped forward, and the two gangsters with bandages on their arms struggled for a long time before following him.
Seeing the two gangsters chatting, Han Fei also felt strange. These two gangsters were not employees of the mall, so they probably didn't know about the various horrors in the mall.
Turning around, he saw two people in suits and leather shoes. Scarface only had two movable fingers holding a plastic bag containing the melon seed rinds they had just eaten.
Looking at the door of the store, I saw that the front of the door was clean, the newspapers on the floor had been put away, and there was not a single melon seed peel.
"You loan sharks are very principled." I wonder if it was because Han Fei convinced them that they didn't dare to act recklessly.
"Don't blame me." The fat man shook his plastered arm: "We are engaged in the low-end financial industry, helping small businesses and individuals..."
Before the fat man could finish his words, he was interrupted again by Scarface. The tall and thin man's eyes were full of cold light, like a lone wolf in the snowy field, but the plastic bag swinging back and forth on his fingertips was a bit unpleasant.
"I can't pay you back in a short period of time. If you insist on following me, then we may have to get along for a while." Han Fei walked side by side with the two gangsters, so that he could push them out at any time if they were in danger:
"What are your names? We don't even know each other, so we can get to know each other."
When he heard the words "If you don't fight, you won't know each other," blue veins appeared on Scarface's forehead, but he really couldn't beat him.
"My name is Li Hu, and he is my brother, called Li Long. We were both orphans and grew up on the streets." The fat man said casually. He didn't think there was anything wrong with saying this. It was just a name. The young man in front of him said
It's impossible to curse someone by name.
"Ahem!" Scarface coughed dryly and stared at Han Fei with a serious expression: "Boy, I know you are good at fighting, but if you don't pay back the money, our two brothers will follow you all the time, just like black and white.
It's the same as impermanence! After you go home, we will also guard you, block your door, and even go back with you. No matter what you do, we will cling to you."
"The place where I live is very evil. I'm afraid the two of you are not enough. Do you have other brothers? I saw in the movie that you usually have a lot of people acting together." Han Fei asked.
It was sincere, but Scarface felt that Han Fei was just teasing him.
After snorting coldly, Scarface stopped talking.
With two passers-by accompanying him, Han Fei was no longer so nervous. In the past, he had to run faster than the ghosts to escape, but now he only needed to run faster than the two gangsters.
Thinking of this, his mood level even began to slowly rise.
The elevator had stopped running, and they walked to the third floor step by step.
This was Han Fei's first time entering a department store. The shopping area looked very empty at night.
Taking out his mobile phone for lighting, the boundless darkness brought Han Fei and the three of them together.
"Why did Oriole come to the third floor? Where were the two security guards?" Han Fei had not forgotten that when he got off work in the morning, the two security guards stood at the fence with pale faces and stared at him. They might not be human anymore.
"When the strange noise came last night, the two security guards hurried over to check. When they came back, they began to show some changes."
Han Fei didn't know where Oriole had gone. He didn't have any clues now, so he could only walk towards the place where the strange noise came from.
In the women's clothing area on the third floor of the department store, there were models in the windows of every store. As Han Fei and the others passed by the store entrance, they always felt as if the models were staring at them.
"Don't let your guard down, maybe some of the humanoid things standing in the windows are not models."
The light from the mobile phone shone on the window glass, reflecting the plastic mannequin in the window, and also reflected Han Fei's own appearance.
"Aren't you a store clerk? Why do you work as a security guard? Can you stop running around?" Scarface whispered. His wrist was broken and he couldn't use his full strength, so he felt very insecure.
"I don't want to either. The question is, do you know where the security guards in the mall are?" Han Fei continued to walk forward, but Scarface hooked the fat man's shoulders with his remaining fingers, and the two of them slowed down.
Seeing that Scarface was reluctant to go forward, Han Fei noticed something strange: "I just thought it was strange that you are not employees here, but you seem to be afraid of this mall, and you look like you are unwilling to go in.
Do you know something?"
Han Fei was so keen that he could see the problem just from the other party's small movements. He grabbed the plaster on Scarface's arm and asked with a smile.
"We have been wandering in the old streets since childhood, and we do know some things." Scarface glanced at the open space in the middle of the mall: "When this mall was first built, a woman jumped from the women's clothing area on the third floor.
, he was directly penetrated by the exposed steel bars, and his death was very miserable.”
"Did a construction worker slip and fall?"
"I heard from the aunties on the street that the dead woman was the ex-wife of the shopping mall owner. Neither she nor the shopping mall owner were originally from this city. When they were young, they did business in the coastal area. The man ran a thrift store.
The woman sells women's clothing. The business of the men's thrift store is very poor, but the women's clothing store is very prosperous, and it is said that they have opened several chain stores." Scarface has a cold temperament, but he is well aware of some gossips from many years ago.
This surprised Han Fei.
"and after?"
"The man has been pursuing the female boss, and later they got married. But after the marriage, the situation was completely reversed. The woman's women's clothing stores closed down due to various reasons, but the man's second-hand shopping mall became more and more prosperous, and the man
Their luck got better and better, and their business grew bigger and bigger. They divorced later, and the man returned to his hometown with the money and built a department store here."
Han Fei didn't expect that there was such a story behind the mall. He slowed down and listened carefully.
"Not long after the construction of the mall started, various accidents occurred, but they were suppressed by the mall owner, including the woman who specially ran to the mall to commit suicide. It is said that the woman slipped into the construction site in the middle of the night, wearing a bright red dress
, put on heavy makeup, and then jumped from the third floor."
"No one knows what happened between them. Later, after the mall owner learned that the woman had committed suicide, he came over overnight and sent the woman to the hospital for rescue, but it was already too late."
"According to the doctor at the time, the boss was extremely sad. A grown man was holding a cold body and crying bitterly. It made people feel very sad to see him."
"The shopping mall owner was kind and generous, so no one thought bad about it at that time. There were many people comforting him and hoping he wouldn't be so sad."
"The strange thing is that after the death of my ex-wife, the construction process of the shopping mall became very smooth, and there were no more accidents."
"At that time, the incident was slowly being suppressed, and few people would mention it anymore. However, we have a saying here that the reason why the third floor of the department store is the women's clothing section is because the boss wanted to atone for his ex-wife's sins."
"After the death of his ex-wife, the shopping mall owner devoted himself to charity. He was very high-profile and became a well-known philanthropist. He established his own charity organization, helped many orphans, and donated various items. Now everyone remembers his kindness."
After Scarface finished speaking, his younger brother added another sentence: "If you have been on the road for a long time, you will know that we can touch anyone here, but we can only touch the owner of the department store. The old man on the road also warned us
Don’t bother with this mall.”
"The old people won't let you cause trouble in the mall?" Han Fei felt very strange: "Do they know some of the more terrifying things in the mall?"
As he continued walking forward, the light from Han Fei's cell phone suddenly flashed several times.
The moment the phone light dimmed, Han Fei seemed to see a figure standing not far ahead.
"Oriole?"
Facing the open space in the distance, Han Fei asked softly.
There was no response from the mall, but the two gangsters were startled.
"Did you see anyone?"
"It seems to be a person."
Slowly moving forward, Han Fei was about to approach where the figure was standing, when his body suddenly froze!
Twisting his head little by little, Han Fei just looked at it from the corner of his eye at first, but slowly an expression of extreme surprise appeared on his face.
Turning around suddenly, he pointed his phone at the glass display window of a women's clothing store next to him.
Between the two mannequins, Oriole is wearing bright red clothes, standing against the glass in the display window!
She was pale, wearing bright lipstick, and her eyes were round!
The three men moved backwards at the same time, their hearts beating rapidly.
"Sister Huang? Sister Huang!" Han Fei shouted loudly. Upon hearing his voice, Oriole seemed to wake up from a sleepwalking state and fainted to the ground.
Han Fei approached with his cell phone, but at this moment, there was a sudden noise from another store nearby, as if the curtain of the fitting room had been pulled down.
"You two watch her here!" Han Fei grabbed his phone and rushed directly to another store.
Only three of the four fitting rooms had curtains. Han Fei raised his phone and used the light to walk deeper into the store.
The curtain in the fitting room swayed slightly, as if an arm might stretch out at any time.
The darkness is getting thicker and thicker, and the light of the mobile phone can no longer shine farther.
Subconsciously putting his hand into his pocket, Han Fei quietly held the bladeless knife. He moved little by little to the door of the fourth fitting room. There was no one in the empty fitting room, just a pile of new red clothes on the floor.
.
"Where are the people?"
Backing up, Han Fei found that his mood value, which he had just begun to recover, had somehow dropped a little. Before he could react, his mood value dropped a little again.
He had never encountered such a falling speed before, and without any hesitation, Han Fei turned around and ran outside the store.
While running, Han Fei saw the fitting mirror on the wall of the store.
The mirror hanging in the dark depths not only reflected Han Fei's figure, but also fitting room No. 4.
Among the pile of red clothes, stood a woman whose back was pierced. Her back was turned to Han Fei, and her fingers kept writing the word "death" in the fitting room.
After rushing out of the store, Han Fei quickly ran back: "Let's go! Go downstairs!"
Han Fei shouted at the two gangsters, but the two gangsters looked at the window and remained motionless.
"What's wrong?"
"She, she seems to be dead..." The fat man stuttered a little. Although he was a loan shark, often got into fights, and even had a tattoo of the most ferocious Xiashan Tiger, he had never seen a dead person!
"It is difficult for a dead person to stand alone without something to support him." Han Fei felt very professional as soon as he spoke. He did not choose to abandon Oriole at this time, but took the time to carry the unconscious Oriole out of the shop.
The three of them ran downstairs together. He could feel Oriole's body temperature slowly dropping and her heartbeat becoming weaker.
"Do you have a car! Quick! Take her to the nearest hospital!"
Han Fei's mood level at this time was only over 20 points. It would be difficult for him to survive after leaving the mall. If he didn't want to go crazy halfway, he would have to rely on those two gangsters.
"We don't have any hands, how can we drive here?"
Carrying Oriole to the door of the store, Han Fei dialed the emergency number. After about ten minutes, an ambulance drove in from the darkness.
"You two take her to the hospital! I will pay you back as soon as possible when I get back!"
After getting Han Fei's promise, Scarface asked Fatty to get in the car and accompany Oriole to the hospital, while he chose to stay and continue to watch Han Fei.
After the ambulance sent Oriole away from the mall, a system prompt appeared in Han Fei's mind.
"Attention, player number 0000! You have successfully triggered the random shrine mission - money."
"Money (random shrine mission): If one day, money can buy a person's life, what choice will you make?"
"Mission requirement: Arrive at the Third People's Hospital before dawn and make the right choice."
After hearing the system prompt, Han Fei did not act immediately. He moved a chair and sat at the door of the store: "Li Long, how long will it take if we go to the Third People's Hospital by bicycle?"
"Half an hour, why do you ask?"
"fine."
Han Fei is not ready to leave the mall for the time being. He will wait until his mood value returns to above 50 before setting off: "The mother of the owner of the shrine lives in the Third People's Hospital. It seems that I have to prepare in advance. After all, in the eyes of the patients' families,
Here, the hospital always feels bad."
His mood slowly calmed down, and Han Fei stared at the attribute panel. While he was waiting for his mood values to recover, the lights suddenly turned on on the fifth floor of the mall.
Then the voice of security guard Li Daxing rang out around the ray of light. He was shouting the name of his companion.
"Is this guy not dead yet? What was he doing when I went to the third floor just now?"
Not long after, security guard Li Daxing ran down from the fifth floor. His face was panicked and uneasy. When he saw Han Fei, he quickly asked: "Have you seen Ma Yang? He's the security guard who was on duty with me yesterday!"
"No, what happened to him?" Han Fei shook his head.
"He's gone! After we patrolled to the fifth floor together, he suddenly disappeared!" Security guard Li Daxing's face was frighteningly white, with blood still remaining on the corners of his mouth. His eyes were full of fear, and the flashlight in his palm was covered with cold sweat.
"Don't panic yet." Han Fei took Scarface and took a step back: "It's impossible to eat people in this mall. Your companion probably just went to the toilet."