Chapter 36:
After burning paper money, it will have a strange smell.
And the group of players wearing monk clothes who just passed by has this smell on them.
Xinqiu and Chaosu looked at each other, then took Xiaoxin and walked quickly towards Grandma Wang's house.
Gently opened the door, blinked at Su, and walked towards the room. I don't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that the red lantern at Grandma Wang's door was much dimmer than the other ones, as if it would go out soon.
Zhao Su frowned slightly, she glanced at her, walked into the yard, couldn't help but took out her mobile phone and turned on the flashlight to take a picture in front, and then she could clearly see the road on her feet. Nice room in front.
Xin Qiu said in a low voice, "Sister Chao Su, I'll take Xiaoxin back first."
He lowered his head and asked Xiaoxin to say goodbye to Chaosu. Xiaoxin raised his head obediently. He nodded solemnly towards Chao Su and said, "Xiao Chaosu, goodbye."
"Goodbye."
After saying this to Su, he reached out and pushed open the door in front of him.
Grandma Wang's house has three rooms, one room is for herself, and the other two rooms are allocated to Chaosu and the others. After the discussion between the four and one ghost, it was decided that each team should live in a room, not divided according to men and women.
That is to say, tonight, Chao Su Yao, Zhuang Yan and Duan Ang are in the same room.
The door opened, and the dim light shone on her head like a waterfall. She blinked, and when she got used to the light in the room, she turned off the flashlight of her mobile phone.
After entering, the first thing that catches your eye is a long willow branch.
She frowned slightly and looked into the room.
Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan were not there, and the quilt was placed on the bed in a mess. Chao Su bent down and touched it lightly, the quilt still had a faint residual warmth. Apparently, just left soon.
Zhao Su glanced around, and immediately saw a hole beside the head of the bed. A layer of old-fashioned colored pillowcases was rubbed and stuffed inside. It's just... Zhao Su squinted her eyes, she squatted down slowly, and carefully looked at the pillowcase. The colors on the pillowcase are too mixed, and the colorful things are sewn together. However, in the pink background, Chaosu saw traces of blood.
Little by little, it spreads outward, soaking the entire pillowcase. The pillowcase began to sag down because of the increase in blood content. It won't take long for it to slide down the hole. s
The strong smell of blood gradually spread, Chao Su frowned, removed the quilt cover from the bed, and directly found a large bag from his suitcase of transparencies, and stuck the entire bed cover to this wall.
The quilt cover is very large, and because it was three people sleeping, Grandma Wang prepared three sets of quilt for them. Chao Su removed all these quilt covers and stuck them on the wall in front of him.
The walls that were originally yellowed due to the age are now covered with quilts like wallpaper. The colorful, green and red colors instantly filled the whole room with a country atmosphere.
After Chao Su had done these things, he threw the film into the suitcase, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and started dialing. Not long after, there was a vibration in the room.
I looked towards Su and found a phone with a cracked screen in the corner. Click the button in the center, and when the screen lights up, it's Duan Ang's photo.
Is this Duan Ang's phone?
He raised his eyebrows towards Su, turned his head and found Guan Ruiyuan's phone next to him. The two phones were not far apart, near the bed, as if they suddenly threw away the phone after seeing something.
And...the degree of fright is not low.
Because the screen was smashed hard, the screen and the frame of the phone were shattered.
She stood up and put the two mobile phones on the bedside table. When she got up and was about to open the door, she suddenly heard a very low cough.
Cough cough cough cough.
Zhao Su immediately looked up at the door.
There is someone at the door!
"Who? Grandma Wang?" Chao Su held the doorknob, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked cautiously.
Zhao Su waited for a while, and then slowly heard an old voice:
"Alas."
The word "ah" was a little low, as if it was said tightly against the door.
Chao Su calmed down and asked, "Grandma Wang, what's the matter so late?"
"I'm going to sleep."
"Are you really going to sleep? Didn't you just call your two companions? Why are you going to sleep, didn't you find someone?" He coughed twice.
"Cough, cough, cough." This sound was like a fingernail across a blackboard, with a bit of sharpness and weirdness.
The goose bumps all over Chao Su were about to stand up, she pursed her lips and looked around the room. All of the houses were painted white with age, and some of the skin had fallen off, revealing grey walls. Even the only window was wrapped by Chao Su with the rest of the sheets. Logically, no one but herself knew what he had just done.
This made the old woman in the shroud say the words before Chaosu again:
"There are people watching us all the time, waiting to join us."
Chaosu couldn't help but tremble, Grandma Wang continued to whisper, as if unaware of the silence on Chaosu's side:
"Little girl, open the door, won't you come out?"
"Don't you want to find your companion?"
As she spoke, she coughed again.
The coughing sound made Chao Su take a step back, she licked her lips, went to the suitcase and took out a large medicine box from it.
This is not something from Chao Su, it was brought by Guan Ruiyuan. Because she brought too many things, some of them were stored in Chao Su's suitcase. Chao Su originally thought this thing was unnecessary, but at this moment, after hearing Grandma Wang coughing violently, she felt that Guan Ruiyuan's preparations were quite sufficient and necessary.
She took a bottle of black things out of the medicine cabinet, and put the bottle of medicine on the ground through a door. As if seeing the four big characters written on the medicine bottle, Grandma Wang let out another terrifying cough.
The corner of Chao Su's mouth twitched slightly, and he raised his voice: "Grandma Wang, are you all right? Grandma Wang?"
Speaking, she pushed the door in a fake manner again, without moving the lock on the door at all, while moving, she said to Su: "Grandma Wang, what should I do, this door? I can't open it, or this medicine, I'll give it to you tomorrow, right?"
Having said that, Chao Su turned the bottle of black potion slightly, and turned the front of the potion to face him. On the emerald green bottle, the four characters of cough syrup occupy more than half of the picture.
"This thing is good, my grandfather always let me drink it when I was a child. The cough disappeared immediately. But I think about it, 60 years ago, Grandma Wang's family should not be good. So this You must have never seen something, and I will let you taste it later."
Zhao Su's voice was teasing, and his tone was also slow, as if he was making a coquettish joke to someone. With a light hook of her finger, she picked up the bottle of cough syrup from the ground.
However, at the moment when he straightened up, instead of turning around and throwing the bottle of cough syrup, he placed his left hand on the door lock and pulled it slightly, opening the door like this .
When Grandma Wang was caught off guard, she launched the second physical talent.
[Physical Talent 2: Feeling affectionate and unable to think. When the crisis comes, the succubus has a certain chance to convince the ghost for a short time. 】
At the moment when the physique talent was activated, Chao Su's pupils instantly turned red. The ends of her eyes were slightly longer than before, slightly upturned, showing a little charm. The red pupils were aimed at Grandma Wang, who was a little stunned at the door, and licked her teeth gently towards Su. I don't know if it was her illusion. She always felt that at the moment when her physique talent was activated, she felt that her teeth were slightly itchy, as if she wanted to become sharper.
She raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at Grandma Wang. It wasn't until Grandma Wang's dark eyes gradually turned into a rich blood red that she breathed a sigh of relief.
This means that Grandma Wang has been controlled.
Chao Su closed her eyes and felt that Grandma Wang's level was lower than she thought. This allows her to use each other for about three hours. You can do a lot in these three hours.
For example…
Chao Su sat on the bed, playing with the lighter in his hand. The lighter flipped around at her fingertips, and the flames lit up from time to time, illuminating Zhao Su's smiling brows. Flames throbbed in her scarlet pupils, making her skin extra pale.
She looked up at Grandma Wang who was pouring cough syrup on the opposite side, the smile on her lips never came down.
"Delicious? And there."
Zhao Su looked at the oversized medicine box. For the sake of safety, Guan Ruiyuan brought five or six bottles. The thick cough syrup was swallowed by Grandma Wang one by one.
The expression on Grandma Wang's face was terrified and complicated, but there was no hatred. She was completely bewildered, and didn't want to refuse any of Chao Su's instructions, so she filled herself with bottle after bottle. After finishing the five bottles, she couldn't help but burp.
"That's right." Chao Su stood up from the bed, she looked at Grandma Wang and said, "Look, don't you stop coughing now? Cough hurts your body."
After saying this, Chao Su reached out and squeezed Grandma Wang's chin. The cold touch made her frown. She looked up at Grandma Wang and asked softly:
"Where's my companion?"
Grandma Wang's eyes fell on Chaosu's face, with obvious obsession:
"Outside."
Chao Su: "Will there be danger?"
Grandma Wang: "No."
As if feeling that Chaosu was not satisfied with this answer, Grandma Wang quickly replied, "They ate the village food today, so it's fine."
The meal in the village... Thinking of the scene of eating with candles, Chaosu couldn't help asking Grandma Wang why. This time, Grandma Wang just answered succinctly:
"Because of custom."
Customs?
Is it a custom to light a candle to eat? Is it custom to put the word "囍" on the door? Is it custom to hang lanterns under the eaves? Over the years, this Shuangxi Village has a lot of rules.
Chao Su leaned back against the back of the bed again, her slender thighs folded down like this, she looked lazily at Grandma Wang, and looked around again and said, "How are you doing? Do you know what I was just calling?"
Grandma Wang hesitated for a while, and finally answered: "It was the village chief who told me."
The village chief?
Hearing this unexpected answer, she thought about Su for a moment, and finally she used the second physical talent to let him go back to sleep. After five or six bottles of cough syrup, the next room was unusually quiet, and there was no sound of coughing.
Cough syrup seems to work better than it does on TV.
Thinking like this, Chao Su got up from the bed, opened the curtains made of simple sheets, and took advantage of the dim light outside to tidy up the suitcase that she had rummaged through yesterday, and took a photo. Mirror, put on a light make-up.
Because the time for physical talent has come, her originally blood red pupils turned black again. She blinked, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and she brought herself a pair of red contact lenses.
The whole eyebrows and eyes look more and more coquettish.
Zhao Su chuckled lightly, closed the contact lens box, and walked towards the outside. When the door was opened, she happened to meet Grandma Wang who was passing by. Grandma Wang was out of control at this moment, and was about to raise her eyes fiercely to look at Chao Su.
However, when her eyes fell on Chao Su's blood-red eyes, she subconsciously took a step back, obviously frightened.
Seeing Grandma Wang like this, Chao Su couldn't help but raised her chin towards the other party and said, "Grandma Wang, good morning."
She narrowed her eyes slightly, with a bright smile on her face, like a little girl who doesn't care about the world. But Grandma Wang, who was startled just now, could only stare at her fiercely, then turned her head and walked towards the kitchen. If nothing else, she would sit by the stove all day like last night.
Behind her, Zhao Su chuckled lightly. She took a pack of ladies' cigarettes out of her pocket, pulled one out of it, and lightly lit it with a lighter. The white smoke was mixed with the morning cooking not far away.
The air in Shuangxi Village is much fresher than the air in the city.
Chaosu didn't come out of the corner until a cigarette was exhausted. With the morning breeze, the cigarette smell left on his body was blown away. After taking a few steps forward, Chao Su saw Xin Qiu standing at the gate holding Xiao Xin.
Xin Qiu's eyes showed a little surprise when she saw Chao Su walking out of it alone. Chao Su patted the dust on his clothes and said, "They haven't come back all night."
I didn't come back all night. Logically speaking, there is only one ending of "death". However, Xin Qiu frowned, recalling that when he met Guan Ruiyuan and Duan Ang before, he had never seen the countdown to death on each other's heads.
Of course, it is very possible that the other party did not step into the line of death at that time. It was possible to cross the line of death until an hour and a half after they left.
Thinking like this, Xin Qiu whispered comfortably: "It's okay, Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan will be fine. Shall we go to dinner first?"
"Okay." Chao Su nodded. From Grandma Wang's mouth yesterday, she knew that the meal prepared by the village hall was particularly important. Even when going out at night, it can provide a certain guarantee.
As for Guan Ruiyuan and Duan Ang...Although Chaosu is a little worried, but with their pseudo-identities as "male protagonist's younger brother" and "one of the male protagonist's harem", there shouldn't be any big problems.
Thinking like this, Chaosu and Xinqiu came to the Great Hall together.
The number of people in the assembly hall has been reduced by half, and only a few people are sitting sporadically. The village chief didn't care, sitting at the gate chatting with other villagers. After seeing Chaosu and Xinqiu coming from a distance, his non-blind eye looked at them like this.
Xin Qiu nodded slightly towards the village chief. Instead, he slightly hooked at the corner of Su's mouth, greeted the village chief and asked:
"How come there are so few people here today."
The other eye of the village chief did not move, just looking straight ahead, while the other eye glanced slightly to the side, looking in the direction of Zhao Su. As a result, his entire eyes looked extremely weird.
The village chief looked at Chao Su for a while before saying in a hoarse voice:
"They don't like to eat greasy food, so they ate some at the houses of the villagers they helped."
When I heard this, Zhao Su understood. These players are better than each other. Since they feel that the Great Hall is very strange, they will naturally not take a step forward. They imitated the practice of the players who wore monk clothes, and ate it directly at the residents' houses on the grounds that they did not eat meat.
Zhao Su lowered her head and took a sip of porridge, the rich aroma of rice wandering between her lips and teeth. She curled the corners of her lips contentedly, feeling some comfort in her wriggling stomach.
Chao Su Shun picked up the chopsticks at hand and began to turn it. The white fingertips looked for a certain point of force on the chopsticks and began to turn. Xiaoxin was playing on the side, but after seeing the movements on Chao Su's hand, he couldn't help but be attracted, and began to approach him curiously. Seeing Xiaoxin's interest, he put down his spoon towards Su, looked at him, and asked:
"What, interested?"
Mmmmmm. Xiaoxin held his face and looked at Chao Su, with a little light in his eyes. At this point, it is a child who has not yet gone to school and has played with a pen. Thinking like this to Su, he told Xiaoxin how to turn his pen bit by bit.
Because of the clown's identity card and training in the real world for a period of time, the flexibility of Chaosu's fingers is much higher than that of ordinary people. Therefore, those chopstick-turning movements that originally seemed like clouds and water in Chaosu's hands were extremely difficult in Xiaoxin's hands.
Xiaoxin played with the chopstick for a while, and finally chose to return the chopstick to Chao Su. He held his face like this, watching Chao Su turn his chopsticks.
Zhao Su thought while teasing the child.
By this time, Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan had not yet appeared. It means that there must be some reason that delayed their progress. This made Chao Su feel a little irritable. After eating, she walked around Shuangxi Village with Xinqiu and Xiaoxin. She didn't see Guan Ruiyuan and Duan Ang, but she faintly felt that the lanterns hanging under the eaves of each household in Shuangxi Village were even redder than before, like big red apples.
After walking around, Chaosu came to Grandma Wang's house. And Xin Qiu seemed to have something on her mind, and walked around the village again.
Chao Su lay on the bed, picked up her phone and opened WeChat.
Lord's opinion. However, after she tried to send it many times, a big red exclamation mark was still displayed in the chat box next to WeChat on her mobile phone.
She clicked an exclamation point irritably.
After confirming that it cannot be sent, I returned the page again.
Zhao Su stared at the phone screen for a while, and not long after, she heard footsteps coming from the door. Xinqiu took Xiaoxin to the door, his expression was serious, as if he had discovered something incredible, he opened his mouth and said to Chao Su:
"Do you remember those monk players we saw yesterday?"
Chao Su: "What's wrong?"
Xin Qiu: "They are gone. In order to confirm this, I went for a walk around again. The whole village could not find their existence."
They obviously watched each other return to the village, and even made preparations for the next day, whether they were wearing a shroud or not. But now, these monks have disappeared mysteriously.
Not only that…
Xin Qiu said: "I found that after the meal just now, a countdown appeared on everyone's head."
Zhao Su looked at Xin Qiu, Xin Qiu answered affirmatively: "Including you and me."
Chaosu's whole body is full of energy: "How much time is left."
"About sixteen hours."
Sixteen hours. It's eight o'clock in the morning. If you convert the time, sixteen hours later, it will be twelve o'clock in the evening. That is to say, something will happen at twelve o'clock tonight.
Zhao Su thought like this, when she was about to open the mobile phone memo to record it, the next second, she seemed to see something interesting and stopped the movement in her hand.
Her fingers shifted, from the memo to the camera. Turn on the camera and look at yourself in the phone.
The self in the camera is still dazzling.
However, contrary to my real self, my pupils in the camera are not red - that kind of red, very festive red. but white.
white pupils, staring at the camera motionlessly. The pupils were so white that they were almost the same color as the whites of the surrounding eyes. If you don't look carefully, you don't even know it's a pupil.
As if to prove that he was still alive, the self in the camera winked at Chao Su in front of the camera.
After seeing those strange pupils, layers of goose bumps suddenly appeared behind Chao Su.
She suddenly realized what the old lady in the shroud said.
"There are people watching us all the time, waiting to join us."
Someone is watching us all the time.
Because, I'm always watching myself.