Chapter 49: The Skeleton Clock and the Red Leather Lantern
After secretly making a decision, I walked through the many mahogany bookshelves and came to the end wall of the horror bookstore.
The wall at the end of the horror bookstore is inlaid with two damp red wooden doors.
Looking at these two red wooden doors, I suddenly thought of the wooden doors in the world of resentful spirits.
"In the basement of a villa in the world of resentful spirits, I once encountered many wooden doors, and blood was constantly seeping out from the gaps in those wooden doors. Later, I followed Zhou Qitian and pushed open one of the wooden doors, encountering a stone room filled with a lake of blood.
I thought about it carefully, with a gloomy expression on my face: "Is there a terrifying stone room hidden behind the two red wooden doors in front of me?"
Thinking of this situation, I twisted my face and resisted opening the two red wooden doors.
"I'm weak, so don't act rashly. Let's look elsewhere first." I gave up on opening the two red wooden doors and looked above them.
Above these two red wooden doors, or to be precise, on the middle wall above these two wooden doors, there is a completely black clock nailed to it.
This completely black clock has a skull-shaped surface, and three blood-red hands stand in its uneven clock frame.
Ever since I saw these three blood-red hands, I was attracted to them and couldn't look away for a long time.
"This clock is very familiar. I seem to have seen it somewhere before. Where exactly have I seen it?" I frowned tightly and kept reviewing the memories in my mind.
After a period of hard thinking, I finally found some clues in my mind: "I have seen this clock in my dream, but it was not a clock at the time, but a black watch that was dozens of times smaller.
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"The dream originated after my parents disappeared. In the dream, my parents kept reminding me to pay attention to the time, and then the black watch appeared." I murmured to myself and sighed with a bitter look on my face: "In the dream at that time, I really wanted to see the hands clearly.
The time was marked, but the three blood-red hands were so sharp that I only glanced at them a few times before my eyes burst into tears and I couldn’t see clearly the time marked on the frame.”
I subconsciously pondered the time marked by the hands in front of me. This time, my eyes did not explode, nor did I shed tears of blood. I could easily see where the three hands were.
I saw that one of the blood-red hands pointed to the number 11, while the other blood-red hand stopped at the number 12.
As for the last blood-red hand, it is clearly the second hand, because the hand is making a circular motion and makes a "ticking" sound.
It was getting dark, and there was silence in the bookstore. The "ticking" sound caused by the movement of the second hand suddenly sounded, which was very exciting.
Because the sound of blood dripping next to the wooden platform was also a "tick-tock-tock" sound, the two similar sounds gradually merged and finally evolved into a terrifying ensemble.
"According to the numbers marked on the hands, the time on the clock is eleven o'clock." I quickly took out my phone, turned on the screen, and found that the time on the screen was exactly eleven o'clock in the evening.
"The time on the clock is the current standard time, there is nothing abnormal." I sighed to myself, put away the phone, and looked at the skull clock on the wall again.
This clock is so weird, like a dead skull nailed to the wall.
When I stare at it, I always feel that it is also staring at me. After staring at it for a long time, I can even hear the silent cry of the skull.
This is a very weird feeling.
"Since the time marked on the clock is correct and there is nothing abnormal, then why did I dream about it?
That black watch?" I have always believed that there is an inexplicable connection between the watch in the dream and the clock on the wall.
"The time marked on the black watch should be very important. Alas, it's a pity that I couldn't see it clearly in my dream. After all, the hands in the watch were too sharp. The momentum alone made my eyes explode." I touched my chin and hugged me. Crossing his arms: "The skull clock on the wall is much gentler. No matter how I look at it, my eyes won't hurt."
Unable to figure out any useful information, I had to retract my gaze and stay away from the two red wooden doors: "Since I can't find any useful information now, let's think about it later."
Wandering among the mahogany bookshelves again, I couldn't help but feel a little lonely: "I have seen all the basic structures of the horror bookstore. It's time..."
But before I finished speaking, I suddenly raised my head and looked at the ceiling of the horror bookstore.
If you don't look at it, you will be surprised to see that there are countless red leather lanterns hanging on the vast ceiling of Nuo Da.
These red leather lanterns were placed closely together without leaving a single gap, making it difficult for me to see the true appearance of the ceiling.
And the strange thing is that there is no wind in the bookstore, but these lanterns are not moving, and they are swaying from side to side, as if there are countless ghosts in the store, blowing these red leather lanterns.
Through the blood-red light, I looked carefully at these red leather lanterns.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but I vaguely saw a dark shadow hidden in these red leather lanterns.
These black shadows appear and disappear, as if they are constantly colliding with the red lamp skin, trying to escape from the lantern.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the collision of these black shadows that the red leather lantern moves without wind!
Witnessing this scene, I suddenly thought of the white giant eggs in the stone chamber. The human faces in those white giant eggs were constantly bumping against the eggshells, trying to escape.
"Are these black shadows also human faces? Do they want to break through the lantern and escape?" Originally, fear was just a small seed, but when thinking of this situation, this small seed sprouted instantly and spread quickly. My whole body.
"It can't be a human face, right? As a bookstore open to the public, how could the Horror Bookstore create such a big safety hazard? Aren't you afraid that human faces will kill customers? I guess these weird black shadows are all illusions caused by light. For example, the shadows of trees change alternately in the sunlight." Although I thought these dark shadows were an illusion, I still felt a little uneasy after looking at them a few more times.
"Except for the micro-bar and micro-tea shop, the vast horror bookstore is full of spookiness. If I didn't have any choice, I really wouldn't want to manage this bookstore." I shook my head and sighed helplessly: "It's getting late. The store will open at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. Let's go back to the rental house and have a good sleep. I'm too tired today."
After sighing a few times, I walked towards the store door.
But before I took a few steps, I turned around and returned to the two red wooden doors.
Looking at these two red wooden doors, I fell into deep thought: "It will open at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. There may be customers who are not afraid of death and patronize this novel horror bookstore. If there are any safety hazards in these two wooden doors, then... It’s not good, it may threaten the lives of guests.”
"If the customer's life is threatened, it will cause me a lot of trouble. That's all. In order to ensure the safety of the customer, I'd better go in and take a look and try to eliminate all safety hazards before opening the store."
"And I also have a few trump cards. Once I encounter danger in the wooden door, not only can I summon the foreign object Li Yingyang, but I can also use Li Yingyang to control the pair of ghost nurses to protect me."
Although the pair of ghost nurses are just run-down ghosts,
But protecting me is probably enough.
With that in mind, I took out the rules just in case I needed them.
Holding the mysterious code tightly in my left hand, I finally mustered up the courage to push open the red wooden door on the left first.
Creak... creak... creak...
The red wooden door on the left was damp and worn. When I slowly pushed it open, it made a dull sound.
As the red wooden door was gradually pushed open, I held the code harder and harder. If danger came at an instant, I would immediately summon Li Yingyang.
Unfortunately, the danger did not come as expected. Apparently I was overly worried.
Behind this wooden door is a narrow room, which is dark because the lights are not on.
I leaned against the door and touched the inner wall of the room with my wrist.
Canopy! There was a sound!
A blood-red light instantly filled the narrow room.
With the light, I finally saw the layout of the room clearly.
This is not so much a narrow room as a miniature employee lounge.
Because there is a small padded bed across the room, and there are some small furniture beside the bed, including a small bookshelf, a small desk, etc.
Not far from the soft-cushioned bed, there is an LCD TV.
This LCD TV is hung on the wall and looks very beautiful.
"The Horror Bookstore actually has a staff lounge, which is really convenient. If you get tired from looking at the store later, you can come in and lie down. However, the staff lounge is too narrow and not suitable for long-term living."
Seeing that there was no danger in the employee lounge, I breathed a sigh of relief: "My nerves are too sensitive. Logically speaking, the Horror Bookstore is my base camp and it will not create danger for me."
I put the code back into my bag, then turned off the light and closed the door, and stood outside the two red wooden doors again.
"The wooden door on the left is the employee lounge. What about the wooden door on the right?" Realizing that there was no danger, I immediately pushed open the red wooden door on the right.
The red wooden door on the right opened in response, and a small bathroom appeared in front of him.
On the side of the bathroom near the door, there is a cabinet-type sink, while on the side without the door, there is a white toilet.
A storage-type electric water heater hangs on the wall between the white toilet and the sink.
This small restroom is surprisingly a bathroom where you can take a hot shower.
"It's not bad. There is a place to sleep and rest, and there is also a place to take a hot bath." I couldn't help but admired.
After admiring, I closed the red wooden door on the right and said to myself with a gentle expression: "There are no safety hazards in these two wooden doors. It's time to go back to the rental house and rest."
After saying that, I crossed the many mahogany bookshelves, passed the wooden platform in the center of the bookstore, and stood in front of the glass door of the horror bookstore again.
The glass door of the Horror Bookstore opens on the left side of the bookstore. If you open the glass door outside the store, you can see a micro bar and a micro milk tea shop side by side.
After a busy day, I couldn't get any rest mentally or physically. Endless tiredness came to my mind and made me yawn several times.
I yawned, gripped the door handle tightly, and was about to push the door open.
But at this moment, I suddenly saw a vague ghostly figure outside the store.