"Ruoni, have you ever heard of a club called the Abnormal Phenomenon Investigation Club in our Department of Finance and Economics?"
"Never heard of it. What is this? Like the X-Files?"
"Yes, it's a pretty weird club. In the end, it was criticized by the tutor of the Department of Finance. The president's name is Dong Xie."
"Oh, I've heard of him. He's the tallest boy in the finance and economics department. There are very few boys studying finance and economics. Most of the boys in his class are concentrated in his dormitory, right?"
"Yeah. I heard that he originally wanted to start a society called Ke...Crusu Mythology Society, but it seemed too niche and didn't work out."
"Crusul...is the Cthulhu mythology. A series of horror literature created by the American horror novelist Lovecraft. I have read his books."
"Then it looks like you might be able to get along well. I've never heard of such a niche mythology before."
"Hmm... I would like to read it if I have the chance. There are very few people who like Lovecraft's books."
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"Well, classmate, is there anyone in this position?"
"No one is around, please sit down. Are you Dong Xie? The president of the Abnormal Phenomenon Investigation Association."
"It's rare that the school belle Xie can remember my name."
"The campus beauty... doesn't count, right? I remember that when the forum voted for campus beauty last year, I only ranked third in the Department of Finance and Economics, and I can't even be counted as the school beauty."
"Actually, I voted for you."
"Thank you. But please don't say this to girls in the future. I heard that you have a girlfriend?"
"No...who did you listen to?"
"No? I heard that a girl from another school often comes to see you. She's not your girlfriend?"
"Oh, that's my sister. Not my girlfriend. But gossip spreads pretty fast in school."
"That's it... I'm sorry, we are all only children now, and it's quite rare to see someone with a younger sister."
"Actually, my sister is only a freshman in high school... We are five years apart. She is very curious about what the university I go to is like, so she comes to visit from time to time."
"Oh...by the way, have you read the novels of the Cthulhu Mythos?"
"Yes, yes! You know that too? Really, there are really too few people around who have seen Cthulhu. Have you seen them all?"
"Well... I haven't seen many... such as "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Dunwich Horror," "Night Stalker," and "Call of Cthulhu." I was quite impressed by them all."
"Actually, I want to try to write a Cthulhu-themed horror novel. I formed a club to collect materials and write a more localized Cthulhu novel. The development of online novels is quite active now, and I have loved writing since I was a child...
I have recently been contemplating a book called "Building 444", but I am not sure whether my writing skills are strong enough now, so I won't start writing it yet."
"It sounds a bit like Wesley's novel? Then give it a try. After you write it, I can take a look. What website do you plan to write the book on? Can you tell me the website address?"
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Xie Ruoni's hand was tightly holding a red apple.
She swore that if she could survive this time, she would never eat an apple again.
At this moment, as she slowly walked downstairs, many of her past life experiences automatically flashed through her mind. And her acquaintance with Dong Xie also flashed in her mind.
Thinking about it now, it seems like fate that Dong Xie's life was involved in such horror.
This apartment is as evil and crazy as the various terrifying entities in the Cthulhu mythology. In Lovecraft's writings, God is a kind of being who has no concept of good and evil, and even does not have human characteristics at all, and is full of
Chaos, rancid, disgusting weird creatures. The survival of human beings and the existence of the earth are meaningless. In the vast universe, human life is insignificant and is easily killed and cursed by the evil gods in the darkness. From this perspective,
It's exactly like that hell apartment.
She thought she would slow down her steps downstairs because of fear, but she didn't expect that when she went downstairs, she felt unprecedentedly calm.
The impermanence of life is not so easy to accept. But if you look at it, it is just that.
People will be deprived of their lives for no reason. Whether humans accept it or not, the world will still operate like this.
A lot of chicken soup articles on the Internet always say that the most painful thing in life is choice. However... the real pain is not having the right to choose. What people cannot choose is fate.
At the very least, the Scarlet Mission does not leave the residents with no choice. They still have hope. As long as they can find a way to survive, they can survive.
She felt that... the Scarlet Mission forced the residents to follow the procedures of the ghost ritual, and it was definitely not meant to kill them. If... the evil spirits were summoned by this ritual, then at least at this moment, the apartment would definitely impose enough
restrictions.
You may not really despair!
She passed every floor, carefully observing every smallest detail to see if there was anything special that needed attention.
Finally, she arrived on the third floor.
I saw the big word "death".
She stood there, looking at the words, and then temporarily turned off the mobile phone shooting on the selfie stick. During the ceremony, she was not allowed to contact other people, but there was no ban on taking photos with her mobile phone. Shooting a micro movie was not part of the ceremony, so interrupting the shooting was not a problem.
What problem.
She took several photos of that word from different angles.
"I won't die easily." Xie Ruoni's eyes became more and more determined: "I won't die easily!"
Then, she picked up her phone, compared the photos with the fonts on the wall, and looked back from time to time.
At present...no changes can be seen.
Then, she turned on her phone camera again.
As she continued to go downstairs, she became extremely nervous. The next step was to see if there were any missing apples in the box. If any apples were missing, it would be a catastrophic result.
When she arrived on the first floor, her nervousness dissipated a lot.
Because, the answer will be revealed soon.
She quickened her pace and strode to the box. Then she didn't hesitate, she just looked down!
The number of apples…
One...two...three...four...five...
Six...seven...
eight!
At this moment, Xie Ruoni was almost crying!
The number of apples has not decreased!
This means that the evil spirit has not come out yet! Otherwise, it will take away an apple from the box.
She breathed a sigh of relief, then put the apple in her hand into the box. Then, she walked to the elevator and pressed the elevator button.
The elevator door slowly opened, and she strode into the elevator. Then she turned around, looked at the box at the elevator door, and quickly pressed the close button.
Now it comes to an end... next...
The elevator door slowly closed, but just when the door closed to a gap that was only about the width of a fist...
Xie Ruoni could clearly see through the gap that a hand stretched out from the right and quickly took out an apple from the box!
Then, the elevator door closed, and the elevator... began to rise slowly!
