I was thinking about it while wandering among the mahogany bookshelves.
Soon, a high wall appeared in front of me. This high wall was the rightmost wall of the store.
Behind this high wall is the stairway of the Snake Tower.
In the stairway, there are stairs leading to the Snake Tower floors, as well as the weird stairwell on the first floor.
"According to what Gu Ya said, the door leading to the stairway is on this high wall." I looked left and right, trying to find the door.
But after searching for a while, I didn't find the door at all. I only saw the murals hanging on the high walls.
"Gu Ya lied to me?" I walked along the high wall and finally found a door that appeared out of thin air at the innermost side of the high wall.
Seeing this door appearing out of thin air, I understood that Gu Ya had not lied to me.
"There can't be a door here. If there was a door at this location, I should have been able to see it." Standing in front of this door that appeared out of thin air, I turned around and looked around. I could clearly see the two red wooden doors and the skeleton above the wooden door.
clock.
"I was standing there before, exploring the two red wooden doors. If there was a door at this location, I should have been able to catch it with my peripheral vision. Did I neglect it for a moment?" I turned around again and stared at the door that appeared out of thin air.
.
This door is very strange, but I can't figure out why.
Its whole body is oval in shape, like a vertical snake scale magnified countless times. It can be said that this is a vertical snake scale door.
This vertical snake scale door is different from the two red wooden doors. It is not made of red wood, but made of cast iron. It is a cold and ruthless iron door.
But at this moment, this iron door has no cold meaning at all, because it is covered with mottled rust.
Countless rust clings to it, making the originally majestic iron door look like a dying old man.
Perhaps due to moisture, some rust slipped off like blood, dyeing the ground near the iron gate red.
Stepping on the blood-red ground, I stretched out my left hand and touched the iron door.
The thick rust immediately stuck to my hands. I retracted my left hand and smelled it, and a thick smell of rust hit my nose.
This rusty smell, a bit like the smell of blood, made my nasal cavity vibrate and almost made me dizzy.
"This iron door is too old. Please scrape off the rust when you have time." I muttered lightly, and then I wanted to push the iron door open and see if there was really a stairway behind the door.
But before I even started to push the door open, I figured out the weirdness of this iron door.
The strange thing is that it looks too much like a vertical snake scale!
Looking at this vertical snake-scale door, the expression on my face suddenly solidified: "This iron door has nothing to do with the snake people, right?"
I thought about all the things about the snake tenants again, the fishy body odor, the sharp fangs, and the wriggling snake tails, all of which made my hair stand on end.
If I could choose again, I would rather copy the paper a thousand times than meet those snake tenants.
It was those snake tenants who refreshed my world view and made me understand that this is a weird and terrifying world.
Realizing that the iron gate had something to do with the snake people, I immediately took a few steps back, my body trembling slightly.
But soon, I felt that I was making a fuss: "Even if this iron door has something to do with the snake people, there is nothing wrong with it. After all, the snake building is the hiding place of the snake people, and all the snake people of this generation were lost in the world of resentful spirits."
, you don’t have to be afraid at all.”
"I still need to practice my courage. I am really strong, brainless and timid." After mocking myself, I approached the iron gate again.
Taking a deep breath, I pushed open the iron door.
Bang-dang... Bang-dang...
The iron door was unlocked and I pushed it open easily.
It was pitch black behind the iron gate, and I had no idea where I was.
And strangely, this darkness seemed to be squeezing my body, making me feel slightly uncomfortable.
With darkness everywhere, people's five senses are particularly sensitive, and I am no exception.
I always feel like someone is standing next to me, blowing into my ears.
The breath came to my ears, and there was an itching sensation in my ears. I subconsciously picked out my ears, trying to dispel the awe-inspiring breath.
That burst of breath didn't disappear quietly, but became stronger and stronger, constantly hitting my ears.
I groped around helplessly, desperately trying to find the person who was angry at me, but there was nothing around me, and there was no such person at all.
Fortunately, there was no such person. If I really caught a person in the dark, I would be immediately terrified, right?
There was obviously no one around me, but the breath was lingering. I opened my black backpack in a panic and took out the flashlight inside.
Snap!
The flashlight lit up in response to the sound.
"You're not going to hit a ghost, are you?" I quickly held up the flashlight and shone it to my side. Everything around me was completely silent, not to mention any human figures, not even a ghost.
Maybe it was because of the light source that the burst of breath in my ears disappeared instantly, as if it had never appeared before.
"It turned out to be an illusion. I was too nervous and actually had an illusion." Without the interference of breathing, I felt much better and started to look around and observe the surroundings.
Although the surroundings were still occupied by darkness, I could vaguely see a sloping staircase using the light of the flashlight.
This sloping staircase is the staircase on the first floor of the Snake Tower. Climb up this staircase to reach the second floor of the Snake Tower.
Looking at this sloping staircase, I finally knew that this was the stairway.
"What Gu Ya said is not a lie. This iron door really leads to the stairway." I smiled and sighed: "This is much more convenient. I can enter the bookstore through the iron door, and I can also enter the bookstore through the iron door.
Returning to Shelou to rent a house, you don’t have to go through a long and laborious and time-consuming trip.”
This is true. Without this iron gate, whether I was opening a shop or returning to Shelou to rent an apartment, I would have to pass through the Shelou gate.
But with this iron door, I can go back and forth between the bookstore and the rental house without going through the Snake Tower Gate, which is undoubtedly much more convenient.
"But the iron door must be locked, and the key to the iron door can only be held by yourself and cannot be handed over to others at will." I said secretly with a thoughtful look on my face.
"If you don't lock the iron door, or if you lock the iron door and place the key randomly, it will give some people an opportunity to take advantage. Once they find the loophole in the iron door, they can easily sneak into the bookstore and the Snake Tower, threatening the normality of the bookstore.
Business even threatens my life safety." I analyzed with a serious face.
All loopholes must be guarded against. This is my character and my law of survival.
"When I buy cloth to cover the murals tomorrow, let's buy a lock. By the way, the stair light on the first floor is broken, so I need to buy a few more light bulbs." Having made up my mind, I looked at the stairway again.
The entire stairway was empty except for the sloping staircase.
Under this sloping staircase, there is a narrow stairwell.
This narrow stairwell is exactly the weird stairwell on the first floor.
Holding a flashlight and carrying a black backpack, I happened to be standing in front of the stairwell on the first floor.
In fact, it was not a coincidence. It can be said that after I walked out of the iron gate, I stood in front of the stairwell on the first floor.
Because the iron door in the store happens to be opposite to the door in the stairwell on the first floor.
In the wraith
In the world, I once entered this stairwell, found a snake-man painting inside, and then took the elevator behind the painting to go underground.
"If the underground is the scariest place in the Snake Tower, then this is the closest place to terror."
"According to what Gu Ya said, the key to the Snake Tower room is in the stairwell in front of you."
Looking at this narrow stairwell, I felt a little uneasy. Even if I knew the key was inside, I didn't dare to enter rashly.
"Damn, I'm starting to be timid again. All the snake tenants are dead, and the female patient who was the culprit has also voluntarily died and turned into the residual Li Yingyang. The residual Li Yingyang is in the code book, so there should be no danger in the snake building.
"What's there to be afraid of?" I mustered up the courage and pushed open the door to the stairwell on the first floor.
The stairwell on the first floor was very narrow, so I walked in slowly while holding a flashlight while crouching.
As soon as I entered the stairwell, I smelled a pungent and choking smell.
I quickly covered my mouth and nose and looked around.
The walls around the stairwell on the first floor are covered with red paint. This pungent and choking smell is the masterpiece of the red paint on the walls.
"In the world of resentful spirits, the stairwell on the first floor is painted with peaceful white paint, not red paint." I casually approached a wall and touched it with my hand: "The red paint is not dry yet, it was obviously just applied
of."
"Who applied all this red paint?" I rubbed my fingers together to remove the red paint from my hands.
"Hey, what is this?" I squatted down and stared at the black debris on the wall.
There were a lot of black debris on the wall, densely scattered on the ground.
Curiosity aroused, I picked up some black crumbs and sniffed them.
After smelling it, I was stunned: "The smell is so bad. These black scraps are actually pieces of minced meat!"
"These minced meats are all black. They should have been thrown here for a long time." Knowing that they were minced meats, I quickly threw away the black scraps on my hands and shouted bad luck.
"These minced meats are so dark that I can't tell if they are human flesh." The minced black meats are so disgusting that I instinctively look away and look at the surrounding walls again.
"There is no painting of a female snake on the wall, and there is no small opening leading to the elevator." In the world of resentful spirits, there is a painting of a female snake hanging in the stairwell on the first floor. That female snake painting is exactly the portrait of the female patient.
However, in the stairwell on the first floor in the real world, there is no painting of a female snake, nor is there a small opening behind the painting. The surrounding walls are completely sealed, with only a thick red iron nail embedded in the original place where the painting of a female snake was hung.
on the wall.
And several bunches of silver keys are hanging on this red iron nail.
These dazzling silver keys should be the keys to the Snake Tower room.
Looking at these bunches of Snake Tower keys, I didn't show much joy: "The Wraith World is just a copy of the real world, so the stairwell on the first floor of the real world should be similar to the Wraith World. Why are they so different?"
Woolen cloth?"
"Perhaps everything changed with the female patient's voluntary death." I was puzzled and could only think of this possibility.
"By the way, the small hole behind the painting leads to the elevator, and the elevator leads to the underground of the Snake Tower. Now that the small hole in the wall has disappeared, is the elevator still behind the wall? Has it been sealed?" At this moment, I
There was an impulse in my heart, and I wanted to break the wall to see if the elevator behind the wall was still there.
But it didn’t take long for me to reject the idea: “Breaking through the wall would be a big deal and needs to be considered in the long term. And more importantly, even if there is an elevator behind the wall, it would be of little use. After all, Li Yingyang is in the illustrated book. I don’t
Need to go underground again.”
Yes, after I returned to the real world, I wanted to go underground to look for Li Yingyang.
But then, I discovered that Li Yingyang was in the illustrated book, so I gave up the idea of going underground. The underground was too dangerous, and I didn’t want to make the same mistake again.