There seems to be only one kind of weather outside.
The next day was just as gloomy. Just as the daylight barely shone into the room, the four of them all left at the same time. Xuanyuan Ao Yu was practically exhausted, his right hand still gripping the rusty kitchen knife, sweat dripping down his knuckles.
"I survived." He leaned against the wall to calm his rapid breathing. Suddenly, a thought occurred to him, and his nerves began to tense: "Did that little monster enter the house?"
Su Er shook his head: "It's still a little distance away."
After two days of eating only dry bread, everyone's fighting power has more or less decreased. Although it is still far from the critical life and death point of '1', it is inevitable to feel uneasy in such an environment.
Li Li went into the kitchen and searched around without giving up. She actually found some vermicelli and dried seaweed in the innermost cupboard. She mixed them together and cooked them into soup. Although the taste was not very good, it was satisfying enough in this environment.
"It would be nice if I could have a pack of instant noodles." Zhang He fantasizes about a higher quality of food and daily life.
Su Er was puzzled: "Such a large villa has been completely wiped out, yet the water and electricity are still there."
Zhang He: "Maybe he died not long ago."
Li Li was concerned about more practical issues: "If I get out alive, I have to bring some food with me."
In this cruel world, you can be killed by ghosts if you are not careful. If you starve to death, wouldn't that be miserable?
As soon as she finished speaking, she found that everyone was looking at her.
Soul: "It's written in the brochure that weapons, food, and communication equipment cannot be brought in."
This is also the biggest reason why he is unwilling to expose the electric shock device. There must be something special about that thing.
After barely having a full meal, everyone's heavy mood relaxed a little.
Zhang He stood up and said, "I'll go to the attic and take a look."
Suer glanced at the clock hanging in the hall: "Usually at this time, we would take turns telling stories."
He ignored everyone's changing expressions and opened the door a crack. The child was crawling forward with great difficulty, each movement requiring great effort, his bones being crushed and repaired over and over again.
Soul: "You have two minutes left until you can cry."
The child raised his head with a sinister look in his eyes.
Soul focused and responded in time: "Only one minute left."
Li Li pulled his sleeve and said, "Stop, stop arguing."
Su Er: "The day before yesterday, I was kind enough to tell my child a story to get him to sleep, but he set a snake on me to kill me. What's wrong with making a few sarcastic remarks?"
"…"That makes sense.
"Ten, nine, eight... three, two..." Soul began a beautiful countdown: "Zero."
At this moment, the child was still one meter away from the main entrance. Su Er turned around and looked at Mr. Yue: "He is late for work."
This is a monster of an incompetent.
"…"
Soul: "Ghosts are stricter than humans. We will be killed if we make a small mistake. According to the procedures, shouldn't he be fired directly?"
Gentleman Yue's gentle voice revealed murderous intent: "This piece is not my business."
Unable to exploit the loophole, Su Er shook his head: "You can't do it."
"..." If it weren't for the restrictions of the rules, Gentleman Rose really wanted to take his joints apart bit by bit and make them into fertilizer for the flowers.
Li Li originally wanted to persuade him not to continue to argue, but then he thought that Su Er's behavior revealed a hidden point: if the child does not go into the house, it will be relatively safe at night, which means that those materialized horror stories are manipulated by this child.
Sur closed the door and prepared to start organizing the information he had obtained.
Li Li: "That's it?"
Soul didn't immediately realize what she was saying. After a moment, he said with a smile, "What else? Throw a few rotten eggs out the door."
Does he look like such a crazy person?
Several eyes fell on Sur at the same time, staying for two seconds before moving away.
Su Er read some information from their eyes and frowned: "If there are eggs, they are not enough for us to eat. How can we bear to throw them away?"
Everyone was speechless.
"But..." Su Er thought for a moment, found a mop from the bathroom, reopened the door, and pushed it forward carefully. The child who had just crawled in was forced to take a few steps back.
"It works." Su Er's eyes lit up. "It seems that the space compression outside only targets living things." He turned around excitedly: "Thanks to everyone for giving me this inspiration!"
The child's eyes were like knives. He pierced through Sur and stared at the other three people in the room angrily, as if he wanted to gouge them alive.
The teammate who was hit hard: "..."
Mr. Rose's eyes went dark, and he felt that his career was about to come to an end.
Soul pushed forward again, but this time the mop was torn apart by sharp nails before it even got close. He scoffed softly, realizing some shortcuts weren't always advisable. He closed the door with regret, "Let's get down to business."
Zhang He took a deep breath, walked over and patted Su Er on the shoulder, and expressed everyone's thoughts: "Tell yourself this more often."
Without wasting any more time, he walked into a room and began a thorough search. Judging from the current distance, the monster would definitely be able to enter again before lunch. Yesterday, it was Xuanyuan Ao Yu, and today it was his turn to tell the story.
Sur did not join the search, but just lowered his head to study some photos.
Li Li was about to go upstairs when she saw the photos and came over to ask, "What's so special about these photos?"
Su Er: "I always feel like I've overlooked something."
Li Li hesitated for a moment: "Let me take a look."
Soul handed it over.
Li Li sat beside them, looking at each picture carefully, with her hanging hair covering half of her face.
Su Er suddenly thought of Zhu Yun, who was also a thoughtful person.
"They were wearing the same religious attire, but these photos were probably taken at different times." Li Li picked out two of them. "You can tell by the degree of blooming of the flowers on the windowsill, and the gatherings mostly took place at night."
Su Er: "It's better to hide it at night."
Although they swear to their duty, members of the cult organization actually know subconsciously that they are conducting shady activities.
The sound of fingernails scraping against the floor could be heard from outside the door, making her feel uncomfortable. Li Li said, "It's scary inside the house, but I think it's even scarier outside."
She had no doubt that if she took a step forward she would be crushed to pieces.
"Maybe the world outside is real."
"ah?"
Su Er stood by the window and said, "If that monster were to appear, countless people would suffer. That's why the rules restrict its release."
Li Li's heart was shaken, and he wanted to discuss it reflexively, but he heard Su Er laugh: "Just a few random guesses, don't take it too seriously."
After saying that, he turned around and walked around the child's bed, staring at the bloodstains on it.
Li Li stared at his back, lowering his eyes for a long time. The information this man had revealed seemed reasonable: he was born on the 15th day of the seventh month, had been exposed to evil spirits, and suffered from mild emotional disorders, but this was far from enough to explain his behavior here.
At least he had never seen fear of ghosts and gods in Sur's eyes.
Suddenly there were sounds of running and shouting from upstairs.
Li Li subconsciously wanted to run up, but Su Er held her back: "Bring your stuff."
All the kitchen utensils had been brought to the room last night, and Li Li only found a pair of scissors. Su Er made do with what was available, kicking off the crib rails and using them as a weapon. This thing didn't deal much damage, but it was effective at evading close-range attacks.
Zhang He appeared at the stairs, his face covered in blood. He had sprained his ankle, but he forced himself to move forward, enduring the pain. Behind him, Xuanyuan Aoyu approached, holding a rusty kitchen knife.
To make matters worse, there was a sudden loud bang at the door of the villa, and a hole was directly dug in the door lock. With a creaking sound, the child crawled in. His feet had almost degenerated into the sharp claws of a beast, and were not suitable for standing and walking. He finally crawled to a familiar position and looked up to find that the bed rails had been removed.
Su Er, who was caught red-handed, said: "..."
Zhang He was struggling to walk down the stairs. When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but curse. For a moment, he couldn't tell which was more dangerous, upstairs or downstairs.
"One step back and the sky will be wider." Suer hinted him to come down.
Xuanyuan Ao Yu's eyes were dull, but fortunately he did not move very fast. He waved the kitchen knife towards the air, basically attacking indiscriminately.
Before they could speak, Zhang He took the initiative to explain the situation: "We found an incense burner in the attic. This guy lowered his head to look at it for a while, and then he became abnormal."
Soul: "Where's the incense burner?"
Zhang He was a little uncertain: "It's still in the attic."
Li Li's voice trembled a little: "First, think about how to deal with this ancestor behind you."
Soul looked back and saw the child sitting beside the destroyed bed, staring at him coldly.
Su Er checked the time: "It's not time for him to listen to the story yet."
To put it bluntly, if the other party could attack at any time and anywhere, they would not be alive today.
Li Li stared at them for a while without blinking, and made sure that although the child looked at them unfriendly, he had no intention of attacking them. He forced himself to turn around and focus his attention on Xuanyuan Ao Yu.
"We have to find a way to bring him back to consciousness."
In terms of numbers, they have an absolute advantage, but between the possessed madman and the player who wants to survive, the former has stronger combat power.
Su Er held the guardrail in front of him and ascended the stairs. Xuanyuan Ao Yu, attracted by the sound, swung his knife at him. The guardrail proved more effective than he had imagined. The insane Xuanyuan Ao Yu slashed wildly. Su Er seized the opportunity to abandon the guardrail and close in. He quickly reached into his pocket and swiftly shocked the man several times. To avoid arousing suspicion, he feigned a photo and pointed it at him, shouting, "Make him sober."
Before the woman in the photo could react, the money was stuffed back into the pocket.
The pain caused by the electric shock slowed down Xuanyuan Ao Yu's movements. His eyes showed confusion, and he seemed to have recovered a little.
Soul called out in a fake voice: "Don't you remember? We are teammates, and we rely on each other in times of crisis!"
While everyone was focusing on his performance, he gave them another shockwave.
"Xuanyuan Ao Yu, wake up! Look at me! Think about everything we've been through together!"
Ghosts can only affect people's consciousness, but the limits of the body are there. Xuanyuan Ao Yu successfully fainted after being hit by excessive electric current.
Zhang He quickly ran over to help carry the man to the sofa, tying his hands tightly as a precaution. Li Li went to find some cold water and poured it on his face, and Xuanyuan Ao Yu finally woke up.
His body was numb, especially his waist. Seeing everyone surrounding him, he frowned: "What happened?"
Sur: "You are under the influence of a ghost."
Zhang He, who was standing by, realized something and clapped his hands. "That's right! The photo you found can also affect people's consciousness. Fight poison with poison."
The photo actually had no effect at all. Su Er was worried that the woman inside would retaliate and use Xuanyuan Aoyu to attack him, so he only took it out for show and quickly put it away. But he still had to do the superficial work. He sighed and said, "But it was the friendship of your teammates that awakened you in the final moment."
Xuanyuan Ao Yu: "Teammate relationship?"
Soul nodded.
Xuanyuan Ao Yu frowned, feeling that there was some misunderstanding. How could he not know that he had such deep feelings for everyone?
"It's real." Li Li described the illusion from a bystander's perspective: "You and Su'er locked eyes, the kitchen knife held high in your hands, struggling between the decision to chop and the decision not to chop. Finally, you passed out from the agony."