Chapter 3 Lingering
Worse.
Li Xi was worthy of being beaten for watching the excitement, and even ran into the toilet and hid in the toilet where the dead person was.
Qin Manjiang got into the cordon and stepped onto the ruins of the critical cinema.
The cinema is not big, but it is also a two-story building. The first floor is responsible for ticket sales and some snack services, and the second floor is for viewing movies. After the fire burned, only the general frame and remaining debris were left.
There is still a burning smell in the air, and there are a lot of water stains left after the fire was extinguished.
Under the darkness of night, the ruins of the walls that were scorched black by the fire looked like people with weird and twisted postures from a distance.
Entering the first floor, there was an obvious sense of depression. The blackened ceiling might collapse at any time, and some places had even collapsed.
"Whatever you do, get out of the toilet quickly."
Qin Manjiang said.
"Someone is coming! Brother Qin..."
Li Xi hung up the phone abruptly.
Qin Manjiang's heartbeat suddenly accelerated a bit.
Something went to the toilet to find him.
Toilet... where is the toilet?
There are rubble and charred walls everywhere, and there are no roads in the conventional sense.
Qin Manjiang couldn't find the sign, so he could only guess based on the overall structure of the cinema that Li Xi was watching the movie on the second floor. Even if he escaped from the viewing room and hid in the toilet, he would probably be hiding in the toilet on the second floor.
As for the second floor...
The elevator was completely damaged, but the stairs were still usable.
Using a strong flashlight, Qin Manjiang staggered up with a backpack on his back.
The gravel and wire that came out scratched the calf from time to time, and the skin was soon broken, but luckily no blood was seen.
In the empty cinema, Qin Manjiang was the only one at the moment.
In a place where there had just been an accident, where many people died, and where strange phenomena were known to exist, Qin Manjiang also felt a little nervous.
He always felt that he could faintly feel a certain kind of gaze from the moment he stepped into the ruins of the cinema. No...it was earlier, that feeling existed from the moment he got into the taxi.
From time to time, he suddenly stopped and shined a bright flashlight behind him, but found nothing.
After thinking about it, I took out a cross and a Guanyin pendant from my backpack and hung them around my neck. It is better to pray for the Buddha temporarily than to pray for the Buddha before death.
Anyone can do it. If something happens, you can show your wisdom.
I turned on my phone and looked at the time. It was almost ten o'clock in the evening.
The intermittent contact with Li Xi lasted for about ten minutes in total.
In other words, the time on his side was 10:40 last night, which was still more than an hour before the midnight when the fire appeared.
"Boom——"
The weather was not right in the morning, and at night, it thundered.
The night is getting darker and darker, the wind blowing through the city blows in, and the fine raindrops begin to fall with the night wind.
The moist chill blew into the ruins of the cinema, hit Qin Manjiang's back, and rubbed his body deeper, as if the wind was also looking for something.
The charred stones all over the floor made the second floor particularly eerie. The entire corridor was dark and quiet, with screening rooms on both sides. The direction of the toilets was clear at a glance, just walk to the end.
However, just when Qin Manjiang was about to go to the toilet, he suddenly stopped halfway!
etc……
wrong.
Pictures appeared on the morning news. Firefighters had lifted out several charred bodies from the ruins of the cinema. This meant that they had searched the entire cinema more than once, otherwise it would not have been possible to evacuate tonight.
In other words, even if there was a fire in the movie theater, it would never be in such a mess now. The firefighters must have cleared some roads, so...
Why does it still look like the fire has just been put out?
A creepy feeling slowly crawled up Qin Manjiang's back, and the next moment——
"Buzz——"
The phone screen suddenly lit up.
It's Li Xijiu.
Qin Manjiang took several deep breaths before suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, and pressed answer: "Are you okay?"
"I was scared to death! That pervert opened the toilet door one by one, and when he saw me next to him, he suddenly stopped and walked away. Brother Qin, do you think I am a lucky person?"
If you were really lucky, you wouldn't be trapped there now...
Qin Manjiang no longer thinks about why the movie theater tonight is still an uncleaned ruin. Lao Qin once said that when you plan to do something, don't just think about it, otherwise, after thinking about it over and over again, your worries will get worse.
I came more and more, and eventually my confidence and motivation were gone.
"Which bathroom are you in?"
Qin Manjiang asked.
"It's the last room. Don't you usually hide here in movies?" Li Xi said matter-of-factly.
"What movie did you watch?"
"A horror movie."
"..."
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier. Qin Manjiang used his flashlight to shine around. The toilet was right in front of him. He stepped on the blackened gravel and walked over. There was an indescribable stale smell in the air.
When the flashlight shined in, he found that almost all the compartments were burned down, but the last compartment that Li Xi had mentioned was still standing crookedly.
Suddenly, he felt a strange push on his back.
It's the wind.
A gust of wind.
His eyes were fixed on the last compartment.
He was already convinced that the fire scene he was currently in was definitely not the fire scene that the firefighters had cleaned up during the day.
So...if Li Xi had been trapped in the cubicle, Qin Manjiang would probably find Li Xijiu's body in that cubicle at this moment.
His heart was beating very fast. For a person living in an ordinary world, the impact he received on this day was enough.
Among the fire ruins at night, there was only the sound of wind and thin rain. The white noise did not calm people down, but added a lot of eerie silence.
It would be a lie to say that you are not afraid. Are you afraid of unknown ghosts? Or are you afraid that you will see the body of your only friend after opening the door of the compartment?
Qin Manjiang is unknown.
To outsiders, Qin Manjiang is taciturn and indifferent, but those who know him well know that he is very real. Although he is not a moral role model, he is not vicious either.
"call……"
let's start.
Li Xijiu didn't hang up the phone. His whispered thoughts were particularly clear in the darkness. He talked about his luck and said that they would go for supper together after leaving the cinema. Qin Manjiang just listened and nodded occasionally, "
"Hmm" said the last sentence.
He held his mobile phone in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and walked slowly along the toilet aisle. When he came to the last cubicle, his heartbeat suddenly began to accelerate, and goosebumps suddenly appeared on his arms.
This is out of his control.
Qin Manjiang's muscles slowly tightened and he swallowed subconsciously.
This position gave him an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
Qin Manjiang used all his strength and pushed hard towards the door of the cubicle.
"boom!"
The door panel burst open, and the flying dust was particularly clear under the strong flashlight. There was an indescribable strange smell in the compartment. It was old and decayed. It was a smell that had been sealed for a long time because of the lack of air circulation.
"Where's your body!"
The compartment was opened and it was empty.
Qin Manjiang asked subconsciously after heaving a sigh of relief.
"Ah?" Li Xi on the phone didn't know why, and his voice was a little aggrieved: "Brother, I can't die now."
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, you can live for about an hour." Qin Manjiang felt a sense of peace of mind when he heard Li Xijiu's voice.
"ah?"
"Stop, why are you here? Don't you know this cinema is haunted?"
Qin Manjiang entered the cubicle and took a flashlight to look around. It was a very strange feeling. The person he was talking to was also in this cubicle, but Qin Manjiang was in the present and Li Xi was in the past.
.
"I know, it's a game!"
"Game?" Qin Manjiang didn't know why.
"ah?"
"What are you doing? Every time you do this, you lose one second. Come on down to business."
"No, brother, didn't I send you a link a few days ago? You didn't open it?"
"Link?" Qin Manjiang suddenly thought of something, "Wait a minute."
"Ah? Brother, my life is passing by!"
Qin Manjiang opened the previous chat history with Li Xijiu.
"Brother Qin, come and play a game!"
"I'll wait for you here!"
Then below is a link.
I looked at the time and saw it was posted two days ago.
Qin Manjiang was working part-time at that time, and he had indeed seen the information and links, but if he thought about it, would a person who skipped school and had to work part-time to make money have the time to click on links and play games?
So he naturally ignored Li Xijiu's boredom.
Could it be that the root of all strange events is this so-called game?
Qin Manjiang always found it a bit strange.
That link seemed to have some kind of magic power, attracting him to click on it.
This feeling is a bit familiar.
Qin Manjiang suddenly realized something...
His heartbeat suddenly accelerated. He had never been so panicked in twenty years.
No...impossible.
I clicked on the link with slightly trembling fingers, and the screen instantly went black.
Under Qin Manjiang's gaze, a blood-red gash gradually appeared from the blackened screen, like a split mouth, and the cracks spread to both sides of the screen.
Then, a pair of hollow spiral eyes appeared above the scarlet crack, and the two were superimposed on the dark background to form an extremely weird smiling face.
This face is very disturbing. It clearly exists on the mobile phone screen, but it has a three-dimensional effect that is about to burst out of the screen.
Although it looks weird and terrifying, all this is not the most unacceptable to Qin Manjiang.
What really made him panic, blame himself, fear, and regret was...
He had clicked on this game before!
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Two years ago, the college entrance examination ended and it was summer vacation.
Qin Manjiang, who was sure to have been admitted to Fucheng University, bought a new mobile phone and was playing with it when a strange link appeared.
After clicking on it, it was the same interface - a scarlet slit, spiral pupils, and a strange smile formed by a dark background.
"boring."
Qin Manjiang's expression remained unchanged. He was not interested in it, but he couldn't turn it off. He thought he had encountered rogue software and was about to shut it down and restart it. At this time, his sister came over.
"Brother, are you playing a new game?"
"show me!"
Qin Yiyi snatched the phone away and studied it with interest.
Seeing her look like that, Qin Manjiang went to do other things.
When the phone was returned to him, the link was gone.
He didn't take that matter to heart.
However, at this moment, at this moment, the same link and the same picture appear again.
Qin Manjiang felt an inexplicable fear and anger.
It came for me, right from the beginning.
Father, sister, and even Li Xi...
Qin Manjiang stared at the phone screen. This time, his finger pressed on the scary and disgusting smiling face.
Chapter completed!