Chapter 9 The Order of Death
"Miss Runli, are you awake?"
It was like a ray of light shot into the dark mud, awakening Runli's sleeping consciousness.
"I...what's wrong with me?"
She lifted the quilt covered by her body and saw Yi Lian sitting on the bed with a smile looking at her, while she was holding a bowl of porridge in her hand and said, "Do you want to eat something? You scared me and have been unconscious for such a long time."
Runli's memory was very blurry. When she took the porridge, she suddenly remembered the hand! The porridge suddenly fell to the ground, and she kept screaming: "I... I want to leave! I want to leave here!"
"Do you know Mr. Tiemujing?"
Runli calmed down when she heard this sentence, recalling the man with the eyes of the spirit-breaking eyes, and immediately asked: "Do you... know him?"
"He called me just now and said he was my sister's friend. He also told me that he knew I was now closed in this inexplicable space and would help me leave, but he wanted me to find you. Well, since you woke up, should I call him? He gave me his cell phone number."
When Mu Jing's phone rang, he was about to connect, but Runan snatched it. After pressing the answer button, he couldn't wait to say to the other end: "Is Runli? Is it Runli?"
"Brother? Brother, come and save me quickly. This place is so terrible!"
Runli cried and said to him: "Please...brother...I don't want to die..."
Runan was about to continue to comfort her, but Mu Jing had already snatched her phone back and said to Runli: "Don't worry, you won't die. However, don't go to that stairs again. You can also communicate this to prove that the two spaces are connected. We are trying our best to find a way to enter this space, so don't worry."
"Mu...Mu Jing?"
Before she could continue to say anything, the phone hung up.
"Hey... I want to say a few words to my brother, Mu..."
He had no choice but to put down the receiver. Runli looked at the door that had just reached out. Although Mu Jing promised that she would not die, and she also knew that the other party was probably a person with premonition,... this kind of conditioned reflex fear was still uncontrollable. In the past, he looked at the cursed with a redemption heart, thinking that she was very kind, but... she now realized that she actually didn't understand the pain and despair of the cursed person at all. Life was limited, and even the date of death was destined to be able to escape, and she would undoubtedly die. Such despair was not something that ordinary people could understand.
"Miss Runli..." Yi Lian looked at her now and understood her feelings very well.
"Will I die? I am really scared..." Runli's mind was once again filled with death. It was hard for her to imagine what kind of mood they were when they left their diary. Facing the coming of death calmly was something Runli could not imagine.
Parents must be very sad because they can't even see their children for the last time.
She lay on the ground and started crying, her heart almost torn to pieces. At this time, a warm hand stroked her face and wiped away her tears.
Yi Lian understood her current pain.
When he was six years old, Yi Lian lost his mother forever.
On the day of the funeral, the sky was always gray. Holding an umbrella, she watched as the coffin was buried underground. The words on the tombstone were engraved with just a few short numbers.
Life is very fragile, very fragile.
When Weijing's mother married her father, she did not object at all. Because she understood her father's mood, and Weijing's mother had a good relationship with her. Most importantly, her relationship with Weijing has always been very similar to that of her sisters.
At this moment, a sudden hurried knock on the door came. She hurriedly ran to open the door and found that there were actually a bunch of people standing outside the door.
"you……"
"Miss Jane," Wen Bangming said with a nervous expression, "Come in my room, something happened... We found a body on the stairs."
At this time, he suddenly noticed Runli in the room and asked, "Who is she? Was she the one who accidentally entered this place?"
"Yeah, yeah..."
"Then let her come together. The body... we identified it. It was a resident on the 13th floor, named Tang Hui."
Hearing the name Tang Hui, Runli was shocked and hurried to the door and said, "Take me to see...I want to see her body!"
Tang Hui's death was indeed terrifying. At the same time, everyone also found that Wu Longfei, Leng Jia, Ming Yishui and Pang Tie did not follow him. Although he knocked on their door, no one responded.
"Anyway... do you have any opinions?"
After gathering at Wenbangming's house again, the seven people remained silent in this way, but they generally understood what they were thinking.
"Everyone..." Runli looked at the stiff atmosphere in the room and suddenly plucked up the courage and said, "Do you... believe there are ghosts in this world?"
If someone asks this for no reason, most of them will be joking and will not think and answer seriously. Even if they really think deeply, they will mostly answer based on their own experiences as reference. However, most people should not believe it.
However, in such a strange place, who can insist that ghosts do not exist? No one answered for a while.
"I can give you a positive answer. There are absolutely ghosts in this world. I guarantee to all of you... I have seen ghosts with my own eyes."
"Don't, stop talking!" Zhang Tong, a middle-aged man, hugged his head and shouted: "What the hell is this place? Who brought us here!"
"Everyone..." Wen Bangming comforted everyone's emotions and said, "Don't be too nervous... Listen to my analysis. I checked the dead Miss Tang. The cause of her death seemed to be suffocating. I think everyone shouldn't doubt the idea of ghosts and gods so quickly. Although this space is mysterious, it can also be explained as a parallel world. In physics, this hypothesis exists. Don't consider whether there are ghosts in this world. At least for now, we cannot insist that there are ghosts in this space."
Everyone turned their eyes to him.
"Since there are dead... there must be murderers. It is also possible that they are the culprits who introduced us into this space. I wonder if you have read a Wesley series science fiction novel "The Building"? This novel tells the story of an elevator in an apartment, and the people who take him can lead to another space. The time flow of that space is different from the outside world. Even in the same room, they cannot see each other's existence. Isn't this just like our situation and similar? It's just that they enter through the elevator, and we enter through the stairs."
"Then..." Yi Lian hurriedly asked: "Are you saying that this is a space where time flows differently from the outside world?"
"Well... there is this possibility. I guess, the stairs of this apartment may be the same as that novel and are used in the development of this space-time technology, and we... may be the white rats of this experiment."
"Please... have you read too many science fiction novels?" Yi Lian didn't believe this statement at all. Although this space is incredible, it is also a group of civilians to do experimental works... It is a common plot in science fiction movies.
"Otherwise, how do you explain this phenomenon?" Wen Bangming pointed out the window and said, "How do you explain this weird space?"
“Unexplainable.”
Runli said this, and everyone's eyes were staring at her again.
"There are phenomena in this world... that are unexplained. Neither science, philosophy nor psychology can understand it. The evil spirits and evil spirits can exist simply by relying on idealism. In this place, if you do not put aside your common sense, you will not be able to deal with them. In this place... you will die at any time."
Runli, who could no longer have a premonition of the death date, fell into a state of extreme confusion.
Mu Jing's words lingered in her mind repeatedly. She really wanted to know what to do to regain this ability?
"Well... Miss Yi," Wen Bangming seemed to be a person who did not respect the ghosts and gods. He still tried to refute: "You said you have seen the existence of ghosts, but... do you have any evidence? Do you have any evidence to prove that this space is a masterpiece of the evil spirits and evil spirits?"
"No...I don't have any evidence to prove it now. But...I want to hear, can you tell me the whole story of everyone entering this space and what happened? I think maybe I can find some clues to make a judgment."
At first, no one believed her, but in the subconscious, people were obviously more afraid of completely unknown ghosts. Out of this mentality, everyone decided to cooperate with Runli.
So, everyone talked in detail about how they accidentally entered this space while walking the stairs after they got home.
"You... are you sure there are only a few of you in this apartment?"
Runli raised this question again.
"It should be just a few of us," Wen Bangming replied after thinking about it, "Even if there are still, there will not be many."
"Sure enough...will you enter this space when you walk the stairs completely randomly... Well, you just said that you heard the sound of glass breaking? And it was coming from downstairs?"
Everyone nodded.
"The people who have lost their whereabouts are Mr. Wu Longfei, Miss Leng Jia, Mr. Ming Yishui and Mr. Pang Tie. So..." Runli drew each floor of the apartment on a piece of paper, marked the location map of the room, and then wrote the names of the residents on each room.
"Glass...what layer of glass is broken?"
"It's a glass on the fifth floor." Wen Bangming replied: "I was a little worried after hearing the sound. Later, I went down to check it and found that a door on the fifth floor was open. After entering, I found that the glass inside was broken. Moreover, there were some blood on the ground, and there were traces of someone coming in the room."
"Bloods... were blood spots found on glass?"
"Well, most of them."
Runli immediately fell into deep thought, and then asked, "When did you hear the glass break?"
"Well, it probably was just past seven o'clock last night... I was a little scared at first, so I didn't go down immediately, but I was a little worried after all, so I went down and took a look."
"So...what, what about Miss Leng Jia? When was her disappearance confirmed?"
"That's just now... we went to knock on her door, but no one came out to answer the door."
"What about... what about Mr. Ming Yishui and Mr. Pang Tie?"
"I heard screams from downstairs before. The two of them lived on the 11th and 12th floors respectively. Because the doors were locked, they could not go in and confirm."
"Go and smash the door..." Runli made a quick decision: "Down the door where the missing person lives, you can use any method. Life is at stake! Why didn't you take action before? Because you were trapped in this strange space, you just care about yourself, regardless of the life or death of others?"
Everyone was a little angry when they heard her say this, but Runli immediately walked to the door and said, "Come here quickly, do you want me to smash the door alone? Maybe they can save it!"
So, everyone scattered to the doors of four residents and began to smash the door. After all, Runli's words also made everyone start to fear. If something really happened to those people, then they might be in danger.
First of all, after the door of Pang Tie family was smashed open, everyone saw Wu Longfei's body in fear. His head was lying quietly on the floor, with blood on the floor...
Suddenly everyone's fear rose to its peak...
After Ming Yishui's room was forcibly invaded, everyone found that Ming Yishui's body was hanging from the ceiling...
As for Leng Jia's home, nothing was found.
Runli has a little bit of forensic knowledge. She examined the corpses of Wu Longfei and Ming Yishui and basically confirmed that the former died last night, while Ming Yishui has not died for a long time and the corpse has not been stiff yet.
In other words... Wu Longfei died before Ming Yishui.
She gradually began to come to some conclusions.
"Footprints..." Runli pointed to the blood-red footprints in Pang Tie's room and said, "Look... If Pang Tie's shoes are compared, it will be much larger. This is not Pang Tie's footprint. Moreover, the footprint was obviously stepped down with barefoot, and you can clearly see five toes. Moreover, it disappeared when it extended to the bedroom door, and the bedroom door was locked from the inside."
"This...what do you want to say?" Wen Bangming gradually understood.
"The owner of this footprint...is not a human."
"You...you said this without any basis!"
"Don't you understand?" Runli said to the others: "There is a ghost in this apartment... Miss Tang Hui was also killed by that ghost... Mr. Ming is too! We will be in danger! I suggest that everyone find a way to live in the same house, take care of each other, and prevent that guy from taking action... My brother, he is a person with ghost eyes, and will definitely come to save us! Before that, we have to find a way to survive!"
Moreover, what Runli cares about is the order of death.
If you don’t consider Tang Hui’s death for the time being, Wu Longfei lives in Room 607, Leng Jia lives in Room 803, Ming Yishui lives in Room 1104, and Pang Tie lives in Room 1203. She just checked Tang Hui’s body, but in fact her body was not stiff, and there were no corpse spots on her body.
She lost the ability to premonition the death date, so... in fact, the day when Tang Hui entered that alien space might not be her death date! She may have just died soon!
It was completely...it was to kill people in the order of the floors from the bottom to the top...
Chapter completed!