It's New Year's Eve again. Xu Wangcai's family of four gathered around the table, eating steaming dumplings and watching the Spring Festival Gala.
Xu Wangcai is a professor in the Archeology Department of XX University. He was just promoted to deputy director of the department this year. For him who is not yet forty years old, his future is bright.
He just came back from X city a few days ago, where an ancient tomb was just discovered. This is also the first archaeological project that Xu Wangcai accepted after being elected as deputy director. In his heart, this is an opportunity. If it is done well,
, maybe next year he will be able to find a serious department chair.
The direct benefit of the change in status is the improvement of living standards. The day after Xu Wangcai became the deputy director, he went to the housekeeping service center and hired a nanny. At this time, the nanny was busy making dumplings in the kitchen.
"Lotus, stop being busy and come and eat together!" Xu Wangcai stuffed the dumplings into his mouth and said loudly. In his opinion, he was a very benevolent and righteous master.
Lianhua responded, took out the last pot of dumplings, put it on the table, then moved a chair, squeezed in at the dining table, and sat down.
The family watched the TV program talking and laughing, and discussed Xu Wangcai's excavation of the ancient tomb.
Suddenly, Xu Wangcai's son Xu Youliang, who had just entered junior high school, spit out the half-bitten dumpling. He looked at Lianhua angrily and complained: "Lianhua, how did you work today? Why are there still bones and residue in the dumpling?"
As he spoke, Xu Youliang spat out the bone. In an instant, Xu Youliang's sister suddenly stood up with a bright cry, and the huge force overturned the chair behind her.
Xu Wangcai glanced at his daughter with dissatisfaction. What she was doing now was not at all in line with what a lady would do in a family of intellectuals.
"Sit down and have a good meal. Why are you so surprised?" Xu Wangcai said with a heavy face.
"That...that..." Mingyan pointed at the bone that her brother spat on the table and said in a trembling voice: "That...isn't...a finger..."
Following the direction of Mingyan's finger, everyone finally saw clearly the true appearance of the bone. A small section of a human finger was lying quietly on the table.
ah……
Crazy screams echoed in the living room of thirty to forty square meters to the left and right, and the sound of chairs falling to the ground was mixed in. Lianhua had already run to Mingyan's side, and the two of them hugged each other shivering.
Xu Youliang no longer had the same air as before, and his face turned green with fright.
After all, Xu Wangcai is a person with a background in archaeology. After experiencing the panic, he quickly calmed down.
He glanced at Lotus standing in the corner and asked coldly: "Who made the dumpling filling today?"
Lianhua was a little scared at this time. After a few minutes, she finally recovered: "Today, Aunt Zhang and I worked together to make stuffing, pickled cabbage and pork..."
Before Lian Hua finished speaking, the four people in the room looked at each other in confusion. At this moment, they finally realized a serious problem.
Aunt Zhang, Xu Wangcai's wife, has been in the bathroom for half an hour, but there has been no movement at all.
Xu Wangcai was also a little uneasy at this time. After all, this thing happened out of the blue, and he was doing that kind of work. As the saying goes, if he often walks by the river, there is no way his shoes won't get wet.
So, Xu Wangcai shouted twice in the direction of the bathroom: "Suqin, Suqin, come out quickly, how did you make the dumpling stuffing today! How could there be bones in it?"
But Xu Wangcai shouted several times in succession, but Zhang Suqin didn't make a sound. Now he was even more anxious. Could something really happen?
He hurriedly ran to the bathroom door and pressed the handle. The door was locked inside. Before he could think about it, he slapped the bathroom door hard, and his tone was a little more panicked: "Suqin, Su
Qin, please say something, don't scare us!"
The weirdness of the matter seemed to be beyond the endurance of the four people in the room. The other three people who stayed in the living room now simply did not dare to wait in the living room. It seemed that they had waited for one more second. The small stick on the dining table
Small fingers can jump up from the table.
They did not hesitate at all and followed Xu Wangcai's footsteps to the bathroom. However, Xu Wangcai knocked on the door several times, but there was still silence inside.
Xu Wangcai also lost the last of his sanity at this moment. He didn't know what to do. Now he didn't even have the courage to open the door.
"Dad, what should we do? How about we call the police?" Mingyan behind her carefully pulled Xu Wangcai and said with some horror.
Xu Wangcai came back to his senses, glared at Mingyan, and cursed: "Why call the police? The police are coming to our house during the Chinese New Year. Do you still think our family is unlucky enough?"
Mingyan, who had been scolded by her father, did not dare to speak again. The four of them fell into silence again, and no one dared to speak first.
Suddenly, Xu Youliang started to kick the door with his foot, but before he kicked it twice, a woman's howling like a pig was heard coming from the bathroom.
The four people were so frightened that they backed away. Everyone felt that they could not breathe, and their hearts were beating wildly, as if they would jump out and roll on the ground in the next second.
The woman's howling continued. After listening carefully, the four people finally recognized that it was Zhang Suqin's voice.
Xu Wangcai hit the door with his body like crazy, but the door seemed to be extremely strong. No matter how hard he tried or what position he hit, the door would not move at all.
However, with the impact of Xu Wangcai, the woman's screams in the bathroom became more and more tragic.
One second, two seconds, time passed slowly, and gradually there was no more noise in the bathroom, and the room fell into a deathly silence. But now the four people's moods were completely enveloped in fear.
The bathroom door seems to be able to be opened freely, but now no one dares to go up and open it.
Suddenly a deep, cold voice came from behind them: "Are you here to die?!"
The sound was so sudden that Xu Wangcai's heart hit rock bottom. It seemed that he had really brought something dirty back to the tomb this time.
Looking back? Not looking back?
It is a difficult choice for the four people now, but no matter whether they are willing or not, turning around seems to be the only and most helpless result.
When the four slowly turned around like zombies and faced the "person" who suddenly appeared behind them, they no longer knew what fear was, and their instinctive shouts were stuck in their throats, but no matter what
No matter how hard you try, you can't break through the last pipe jam.
What they saw was a faceless female ghost with thick long hair standing quietly in front of them.
It didn't smile or speak, as if it was waiting for the four people to speak first.
At this moment of life-and-death confrontation, there was a loud bang, and two bright red bloody arms suddenly burst out of the bathroom door, waving and struggling wildly in severe pain, and there was still a hand on one hand.
A piece of blood-red human flesh was tightly drilled into it.
At the same time, everything in the room was extinguished, and everything became silent as the darkness surrounded...