Chapter 2 Cat's Eye
"Runli, you will help me check that person named Gu Jin. I will go to the suburbs of Mr. Ning with Ajing."
That morning, Run got up very dark and dressed up and washed her clothes. She even put on a tie rarely. Runli thought he was going to attend a formal banquet, but when she heard him say he was going out with Ren Jing, she immediately smiled and said, "Brother, didn't you still call Miss Ren before? How did you become 'Ajing' now?"
"Talking too much...it's your brother's freedom to call you! Okay, please, if you have a premonition, tell me immediately. Well... By the way, to prevent the last time, we agreed on a code to prevent the situation from happening? When you say the premonition, you must first say 'Heifeng' and then talk about the time limit."
When Runli heard this, she immediately remembered the last incident and suddenly shivered. When she thought of the thing that disguised as herself, she couldn't help but feel chilled. So she nodded in a hurry.
Before leaving home, Runan took special care of Runli: "Remember, Runli, you are only responsible for providing me with time data. Absolutely, never join any specific actions. I am really worried about you. For the past seven years, I have been trying my best to protect you."
Protect you... Let you live...
Runli looked at her brother's extremely firm expression, as if she had understood something, and nodded.
When I arrived downstairs, Ren Jing's car had been waiting there for a long time.
"Sorry, A Jing, are you late?" He apologized while opening the car door, but Ren Jing's reaction was not great, but instead looked happy: "It's okay... I can see the third person on my father's list today. I originally expected that it would take another year or so to find him. Think about it, it took me three years to find you brother and sister."
Three years...
Runan suddenly felt that this was a terrible coincidence.
Ajing's mother died three years ago when she was attacked by a ghost. He and Runli moved to this city three years ago. The time was so consistent. Is it really just a pure accident? After Ajing's father disappeared, her grandfather bought a house for her in this city...
Could it be that everything was manipulated by some kind of force in the dark? Is it not a coincidence that his encounter with A Jing? He couldn't help but recall his experience at her house a few days ago.
"I'm too naive after all. Ou Xueyan's death proves that we cannot use such a meager supernatural ability to fight against those evil spirits and evil spirits. With the body and wisdom of a mortal, they will only be played with by them, and in the end they will still make their premonition unfold as expected. Therefore, improving supernatural ability is the most urgent task at present. I will take you to the basement."
Then, Ren Jing took Runan to the basement of her house, which was so spacious that it was unimaginable, about two-thirds of the football field. There were various rooms in the basement, some places with strange instruments, while others had many medicines and reagents. The most exaggerated one was a room with mirrors on all sides. There, no matter where you look, you could see infinite self. According to Ren Jing himself, if one day the supernatural ability reaches a considerable peak, you can see something in that infinite self. It sounds really scary.
"Some part of the basement is made by reference to the content of my father's notes, and part of it is based on the information I collected as a principle. However, most of the research has not yet been achieved. Over the past three years, my supernatural ability has not been improved significantly. But you are different. Your physique is born, so you can perform better than me."
First, I entered the room full of chemical drugs, which were filled with test tubes, beakers and alcohol lamps. They all looked like a chemical laboratory, and many chemical drugs were locked in the cabinet on the side.
"This is the potion I tried," she picked up an test tube and said, "I have already drunk it. It is a medicine that can improve the supernatural ability in a short period of time, but the effect is not obvious, and I don't know it in you. The principle is that the potential genes of the body can be stimulated through medicines and gradually the undeveloped abilities in the physique... In fact, it is also based on science. Whether the mysterious existence of supernatural ability is really effective remains to be verified, but there are no side effects at the moment. Do you want to consider drinking it? This is a relatively quick method, and maybe side effects will be reflected in you."
Runan frowned and looked at the tube of green liquid, and the disgusting feeling kept rising. Hearing her tone, she was not sure what the medicine would do, so she shook her head: "Forget it, the quick method often costs a higher price, so it's better to start with the basics."
"Okay...but you have to be mentally prepared."
Then, she took Runanan into a room. In that room, there was almost nothing, only four corners, and a doll that seemed to be made of plastic was placed. It looked rough and completely expressionless, and looked almost the same.
"I originally wanted to consider wax figures, but the cost is relatively high, so I used a doll instead." She brought a chair in the center, and then said to Runan: "This method is provided in my father's notes. First, you sit on the chair, and then I will lock the door. The light switch in this room is outside. Once I turn off the light, you will be in the dark. Then... you have to sit here in this posture, without eating or drinking... until you can hear the sound inside, once there is a sound and confirm it comes from the corner, you shout because I have installed a wiretap in this room. If you find that the doll's position moves, it proves that your supernatural ability is beginning to be activated."
Runan's face almost pale when she heard this. Isn't this a disguised wait for a ghost?
"I said... it's better to play Dixian if you want this. Isn't this very dangerous?"
"Then you just drink the medicine, choose one of two..."
Run looked at the room secretly, and didn't know which method was safer. But at this moment, thinking of Ou Xueyan's distorted corpse, and thinking of himself and his sister who were in extreme danger in the future, he gritted his teeth. How can we care about which method is safer at this time? If you are afraid now, what should we do in the future? He clenched his fists and said, "Okay, I'll stay in this room... But will the doll really move?"
"I tried it, but after about twenty hours, I heard the sound, and then I took the key to open the door automatically. As a result, the position of the doll did move... I didn't lie to you, this is true."
It means that even Ren Jing, who does not have a natural supernatural constitution, can do it, so it is even more impossible for Running and Dan to have problems? So he decided to accept it.
"Of course, you still have to make it clear to you, there are definitely dangers. I don't guarantee that you will survive by then. If you die here, it means that your supernatural talent is nothing more than that."
Why do these words look so much like the lines from the trials in Japanese anime?
No matter what, Runanan decided to accept it. If he did have supernatural abilities, he would definitely be able to do this.
Locked in this room with dolls on all sides, Runan's heart did jump over, but about half an hour later, he gradually calmed down.
There is nothing scary... He comforted himself like this. In the past, he only knew how to escape blindly, so he was always played with by fate. Now, only by going straight to the front can he gain a glimmer of hope.
Yes...it's the only way...
Because the phone was taken away, it was impossible to know the time around. This room was also very powerful and could not see through a trace of light, so even though it had been so long, the surroundings were still dark.
His dark ears always paid attention to the surroundings. At this moment, he would notice the sound of a needle falling to the ground. However, the surroundings were just a simple silence.
With a complete isolation from the outside world, he spent several hours unconsciously, and even began to get sleepy. He had never eaten or drunk water. He was a little physically exhausted. Moreover, he was surrounded by dark environments, and his eyelids began to fight in disarray.
"Why, why did you get sleepy... It's really, you can't sleep..."
He didn't know that it was almost midnight outside, and it was strange that it was not sleepy. Although he had tried his best to open his eyes and even swung his arms to move, the fatigue was not something that humans could resist. Soon, he finally couldn't resist the attacks of the sleepy insects and fell asleep completely.
I don’t know how long it took him to wake up after rubbing his eyes, but...
He felt something pressing on him!
"I really didn't expect you to fall asleep at that time."
On the way to Ningluo's house, Ren Jing did not forget to make fun of Running a few words.
"But if you wake up a few minutes later, maybe you can't sit next to me now."
Run said with a bitter face: "It's so weird... I said that you couldn't put that doll on me while I was asleep, right?"
"What are you kidding? If that's the case, aren't I afraid of waking you up? Besides, why did I do that?"
Although he knew Runan didn't say this seriously, Ren Jing still felt angry and funny. Runan relaxed a little. Looking at the gradually lush scenery outside the window, he said with emotion: "In the city, there are tall buildings and high buildings, and there is no horizon at all. The suburbs are fine, and it has not been developed in large quantities, and the air is also very fresh. Because this city is located in a coastal area and the fishery is also very developed. If it is a farmer here, there may be very fresh seafood. Maybe you can consider buying some to go back for Runli to try it."
"I said to you... I really don't feel nervous..."
For Ajing, it was a blessing to find a partner like him... She still remembered that day after the doll room experiment was over, she said to Runanan: "There is something I want to ask you."
"What? Tell me."
"In the future, we are not only cooperative relationships, but also partners who share life and death. From now on, don't call me 'Ms. Ren'. It sounds very strange, and I don't feel like a partner. How about you... calling me 'Ajing'? Since my mother passed away and my father disappeared, I have never heard anyone call me that again..."
"Well... OK, then, goodbye, Ajing!"
Runan agreed readily. He now knows Ajing's character and has a good impression of her, so he is happy to call her in the tone of a partner. At the same time, he made an appointment with her to see Ning Luo. Originally, Runan planned to call him to talk to him first, but the piece of paper that copied the phone number could not be found. It turned out that the editor who told him Ning Luo's address was also sent to a branch in another place. So, he had to go directly to disturb him.
Ning Luo seems to be very interested in people with supernatural abilities, so he should also welcome A Jing at that time, right?
Not far away, there was the house. After getting off the car, he suddenly felt something was wrong. The house looked a little broken, and the trees in the courtyard were withered. He remembered that Ning Luo paid great attention to maintaining these plants. An unknown premonition began to rise in his heart.
When he walked to the iron gate, he immediately found that the lock was opened. Could it be a thief? But something even more shocking was still behind. When he looked to the ground, he actually found...
"What, how could it be..." A Jing squatted down and looked at the traces.
"It should...it was left yesterday, how could it be..."
The two quickly pushed open the door and rushed into the room. There was no one inside, but the trace kept guiding them. Along the trace, they found its end... No, it should be said that the starting point is more appropriate.
"Look, there is a clear handprint on it, because there is dust next to it, only here is not gathered. I just discovered that there were several broken spider webs from the door to the end of the corridor, and there were footprints on the ground. It can be seen that someone has been here, and it should be the closest. But... this trace... what's going on with this blood mark?"
The two were standing in front of the painting at the corner of the stairs. In the painting was a study room. Runan recognized it at a glance that this was the room in the house. On the floor in the center of the study, there was a pool of blood, and the blood extended to the edge of the painting.
Readers should notice something wrong, right? That's right, the female ghost who should have existed in the painting... is gone!
However, what is even more terrifying is still behind!
The blood that extended to the edge of the painting actually spread to reality! The blood that started from the picture frame and extended to the outside of the painting, and then followed the stairs and headed towards the gate! Moreover, the blood vaguely formed the outline of a crawling person!
"ah!"
Suddenly Ajing hugged her head and squatted down, then she felt her head buzzing, and then the keywords she had premonition flashed in her mind.
"Ghost painting... Is ghost painting the keyword this time?"
At the same time, Gu Jin was eating instant noodles at home. Yesterday, he went to that weird house and felt extremely uncomfortable. Today he didn't have to go to the internship unit, so he stayed at home alone. He was a student from another place, and his parents were not in the city. He rented this apartment alone, and his parents would send money every month.
"It's really... I didn't listen to Yue, so I'd been trying to persuade him. Why did this be a time to experience a man's style? Who would have enough food to go to a house with a slutty spirit, and a man's style... I'm not here, I want to pretend to be cool in front of Xiao Feng, it's all the time, and it's still so old-fashioned!"
After eating this instant noodles for a long time, the taste became like chewing wax. However, for him who lives alone in the apartment, it is the most labor-saving and cheapest food, and he has also chosen many brands of instant noodles.
After swallowing the last noodle, he threw the instant noodle box on the ground and then lay on the bed. The room was so messy that it was like a doghouse, with the ground full of used newspapers and napkins, and the bookshelf was also messy, stuffed with comics and video discs.
"Oh... I have a rare day off, and I don't know what to do. If I go out, the weather is too cold, and I have not seen good movies recently," he sighed from time to time, pinching the pile of smelly socks on the bed that had not been washed for three days.
"It's really inconvenient to live alone... I knew I would have found a roommate when I rented an apartment." Gu Jin thought for a while, was there anyone in the unit who could share the rent with him? He remembered that there were a few people who came from another place and could not find a house for the time being. They still live in the school dormitory, but it was inconvenient to fetch water and take a bath in that place, and they had to queue up.
At this time, the phone rang suddenly. He jumped up immediately, looked around, and found the phone from a pile of yellowed pocket books about a minute later.
"Hey, who?"
"Is Gu Jin? I'm Luo Guangming."
"Oh, you, what's the matter? Do you want to ask me to play basketball? Yes..."
"What other basketball do you play like? You can't even catch it if you pass it to you. Maybe the whole bunch of people won't find you..."
Gu Jin immediately cursed at the microphone: "Damn Luo Guangming, haven't scolded me enough last night? If you say this nonsense, I'm sorry I don't have time to accompany you!"
"Okay... I'm just kidding you, why are you so excited? That's it. I may have to work overtime the day after tomorrow, but I have made an appointment with Yuezhen to sing karaoke. Why don't you help me take the time? Don't worry, I won't let you do it in vain. I'll treat you to a meal afterwards."
When Gu Jin heard the word "substitute" and was already one of the first two, he didn't think about it, so he refused: "I'm fine, I still like to stay at home."
"Oh, I'm still angry about the joke just now? I'm sorry, I'll call you to play basketball next time, right? Then you invite you to dinner, order whatever food you want, I'll save a little salary. After all, I made an appointment with Yuezhen a week ago, and even booked a private room. If you don't go now, it's a shame. How about it?"
"Tsk...I'll consider it and reply to you later."
After saying that, he hung up the phone regardless of what Luo Guangming said.
OK... I don't call me when I go karaoke? I won't go, let's see what you do!
At night, he was awakened by the strong desire to pee. He rubbed his eyes, stretched his waist, got up and put on a piece of clothing, walked towards the toilet. After coming out, because he closed his eyes in a daze, he had to go back to the room, but he actually walked to the entrance and hit the gate, and then woke up.
I don't know if it was a coincidence, but in this collision, his left eye was aimed at the cat's eye on the door.
And just as he opened his eyes, he saw a scene that made his soul scattered.
In front of his door was a long corridor, with a corner at the end to go down the stairs, because now everyone uses elevators and few people walk around there. It’s probably around the early morning.
And just around the corner, he actually saw a woman covered in blood and disheveled hair standing there, facing the gate of his house! And...and...
Chapter completed!