escape death game

The dagger came out of its sheath and made a clanging sound.Lin Qiao turned around suddenly, the blade cut through the air, splitting a sharp cold light.

"Xiao Keai" had bloodstains on his face, but no blood spattered.He let out a strange laugh, and his body disappeared like a wisp of smoke.

A gust of wind blew fiercely, Lin Qiao took a few steps back, and when he looked up again, he found that the corridor was empty except for him.

"..."

The stairs leading to the attic were still dark and dusty, and seemed to be the same as before.Lin Qiao clenched the dagger tightly and stared at it vigilantly.

It was not long before he heard hurried footsteps—not from the attic, but downstairs.

Lin Qiao turned his head and saw Xiao Keai climbing up the stairs in twos and threes, panting to him, "So you're here, brother, I thought you were missing!"

Lin Qiao looked at him calmly for a few seconds, and said, "I heard a sound in the attic, so I came here to have a look."

Xiao Keai was startled: "What?!"

He quickly ran to Lin Qiao's side, looked at the attic, and his face suddenly changed.

Lin Qiao said, "I'll go up and have a look."

He started to go upstairs, but Xiao Keyai grabbed him and said eagerly: "Wait!"

Lin Qiao: "What's wrong?"

Xiao Keai lowered his voice and said, "There's a female ghost over there."

Lin Qiao: "..."

"It's true, I didn't lie to you!"

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xiao Keai thought he didn't believe it, and pulled him aside anxiously.

"It's a female ghost with disheveled hair and no feet. Don't go there now, wait until she's gone."

Lin Qiao felt Xiao Keai's body temperature, which was no different from that of a living person, and said lightly, "How did you see that?"

Xiao Keai pointed to his eyes, and said: "Different worlds have different settings. In some worlds, ghosts will appear, and in some worlds they will not. But whether they appear or not, I can still see them."

Lin Qiao said, "Yin and Yang eyes?"

"more or less,"

Xiao Keai said, "But because it's basically useless, I haven't told you about it."

"not necessarily,"

Lin Qiao said, "This time, I have helped a lot."

Xiao Keai smiled embarrassedly, poked his head out again, and glanced cautiously at the attic.

"The female ghost is gone, let's go up and take a look."

Lin Qiao nodded and walked upstairs.The stairs here were in disrepair and creaked, and when they got upstairs, they found that the attic couldn't get in at all.

The heavy wooden door was locked with an iron lock, and there was a mirror on the door—the mirror had long been covered with thick dust, and only the corners could barely show the human face.

The light in the attic was too dark, Xiao Keai looked around nervously, and said, "There's nothing here, let's go down—"

Before he finished speaking, a figure flashed under the stairs, which scared him almost to scream on the spot.

Lin Qiao pressed Xiao Keai's shoulder and saw the butler standing at the bottom of the stairs.

The butler looked at them blankly and said, "Why are the guests here?"

He appeared too silently, and his tone was cold.Before Xiao Keai regained his composure, Lin Qiao calmly said: "The attic seems to be infested with mice, let's come and take a look."

"I see,"

The steward said, "The attic has not been lived in for many years. This is my negligence. I will send someone to clean it as soon as possible. I also ask the guests not to come here casually."

Lin Qiao said: "Thank you, but who lived here before?"

The butler walked up the stairs slowly, and said, "I can't remember, it happened many years ago." He came to Lin Qiao and Xiao Keyai, and made a "please" gesture to them: "Please Leave now."

Lin Qiao: "OK."

He and Xiao Keai walked downstairs, but after walking a few steps, they looked back as if unintentionally, their expressions slightly concentrated.

Behind the butler was the mirror, and a white shadow hanging in mid-air was reflected in the corner of the mirror... It flashed by and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Lin Qiao had some thoughts in his mind, but he didn't show it. Instead, he turned his head and left under the watchful eyes of the housekeeper.

"It's dangerous, dangerous."

As soon as he returned to the room, Xiao Keai breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I'm going to be scared to death, why is that housekeeper walking silently like a ghost?"

Lin Qiao: "Be careful that he suddenly appears behind you."

Xiao Keai: "..."

He hurriedly looked back, not daring to say anything.

Lin Qiao said, "What did the woman you saw just now look like?"

"It's just disheveled, you can't see your face..."

Xiao Keai recalled, "By the way, her hair is blond, very long, and a little curly."

Lin Qiao listened to his words, thoughtful: "The countess and her son are also blonde."

"But there are more foreign blondes, which doesn't mean anything."

Xiao Keai said, "It's better to go to Earl T—I don't know if we can see him."

Lin Qiao put the dagger back into the scabbard, and said, "There are two reasons why he didn't show up, he couldn't show up, or he didn't want to show up."

Xiao Keai: "Then..."

Lin Qiao suddenly gestured for silence.

Xiao Keai immediately covered his mouth.

crunch...

In the silence, Xiao Keai heard the sound of the door being slowly pushed open.He slowly moved to the door of the room, glanced outside——

Sure enough, the door of a room in the corridor was open, but that room... belonged to Ma Jun.

Xiao Keai: "..."

Ma Jun didn't go out at all today, and no one knew whether it was him who opened the door or something else.

Lin Qiao and Xiao Keai looked at each other, walked directly there, and stopped at the door.

"Ma Jun,"

He said, "Are you in there?"

After a while, a voice came from the room: "Yes."

That voice was indeed Ma Jun's, but upon listening carefully, it was very stiff and flat, kind of indescribably weird.

Lin Qiao didn't speak. A few seconds later, the voice sounded again: "Come in."

Xiao Keai held Lin Qiao nervously, Lin Qiao silently waved his hand and walked in.

The room was still dark with the curtains drawn.There was a person lying on the big bed, who seemed to be Ma Jun who was motionless.

Ma Jun was tightly covered with a quilt, almost covering his face.Lin Qiao came a few steps away from the bed and said, "It's time for you to get up."

"..."

Ma Jun didn't say anything.

Xiao Keai slowly moved to Lin Qiao's side, stepped forward and poked Ma Jun: "It's already noon, why don't you get up?"

He didn't have much strength, but Ma Jun's body was turned over by him.The quilt slid down, revealing the man inside——

It was not a person at all, but a pile of shrunken coke, and only a human shape could be barely discerned.

Xiao Keai was startled, and took several steps back.Lin Qiao frowned, and tore off all the quilts, exposing the scorched body completely in front of his eyes.

"...I'm sure it's Ma Jun,"

After a few seconds of recognition, he said, "Go and tell the others."

Xiao Keai responded, and ran out like flying.

There was a burning smell in the room. Lin Qiao stayed here for a while, and when he heard the distant footsteps approaching again, he turned around——

Qin Fu appeared at the door of the room and strode towards Lin Qiao.

His face was calm, unable to tell whether he was happy or angry.Lin Qiao was a little strange, and said, "You—"

Qin Fu wrapped his arms around him and pulled him into his arms smoothly.

Lin Qiao: "...let go, thank you."

Qin Fu said, "Let me give you a hug."

When he said this, his tone was a little heavy, completely different from usual. Lin Qiao originally wanted to push him away, but he stopped moving after hearing this.

Lin Qiao stayed silently in Qin Fu's arms for a while, and said, "What happened?"

"Just met a ghost,"

Qin Fu's five fingers buried in Lin Qiao's hair, and slowly rubbed, "You lied to me by becoming you."

Lin Qiao: "Then are you injured?"

Qin Fu: "No, but that ghost escaped."

Lin Qiao: "Oh."

After a while, the footsteps of several people came from outside the house.Lin Qiao pushed Qin Fu and said, "Let go, someone is coming."

"Don't let go,"

Qin Fu rubbed his chin against Lin Qiao's hair, and gave a low laugh, "It's just good to hold."

Without hesitation, Lin Qiao drew out the dagger from his waist.

Qin Fu: "..."

When Xiao Keai brought the others into the room, what he saw was Lin Qiao pointing at Qin Fu with a knife.

Xiao Keai: Damn, murder your husband.

Qin Fu: I hugged this time, will I kiss next time?

Lin Qiao, who didn't know what he was thinking, put away his short knife expressionlessly, and said to everyone: "Ma Jun is dead."

Sun Xinya looked at the bed in disbelief, her voice trembling: "That can't be...Ma Jun."

Lin Qiao: "Yes."

Li Jiejie screamed, Xie Xia was frightened, and hid in Zhou Xuxu's arms.

The people in the mansion were also alarmed.The butler hurried over with a few servants, and his face changed when he saw Ma Jun on the bed.

Lin Qiao watched coldly, and found that the housekeeper didn't seem to be really frightened, but instead had a false feeling of pretending to be seen.

Ma Jun's charred body was removed, and his room was locked.All the servants in the mansion knew about it, and a lot of rumors spread in the mansion for a while.

At the end of dinner, Lin Qiao went upstairs alone, and heard a maid whispering in the corner.

"Burn to death..."

"Lord Count..."

Because they were too far away, Lin Qiao couldn't hear their conversation clearly.But before he got close, the two maids gave him a startled look and ran away separately.

Looking at their backs, Lin Qiao slightly raised his eyebrows, and instead of chasing after them, he returned to his room.

A lot of things happened during the day, and I don't know what will happen tomorrow.Lin Qiao didn't delay much, simply washed up and went to bed to rest.

woo-

A strong wind blew up during the night, making the windows whine.Something else was hiding in that gust of wind, making a rhythmic "tuk-tuk" sound on the window.

Lin Qiao was awakened by the sound, and opened his eyes from the dream,

At this time, the room was dark, only the curtains could be seen hanging down to the ground, still maintaining his appearance before going to sleep.And the voice didn't stop, as if someone outside the window was standing there, knocking on his window one after another.

——However, this is the third floor, and it is impossible for anyone to be outside the window.

Lin Qiao turned over and sat up, grabbed the short knife placed by the bed, and walked to the window.

As he approached, the sound of knocking on the window gradually became weaker, until it was almost inaudible in the end.Lin Qiao opened the curtain, stared outside for a few seconds, and pushed the locked window open.

woo-

The cold wind poured into the room all of a sudden, blowing the curtains.Dark night enveloped the surroundings, and outside the window was the entire deep mountain forest, except for that, there was nothing else.

Lin Qiao waited for a while, and after making sure he couldn't hear anything, he closed the window.

He returned to the bed again, seemed to be very sleepy, and fell back to sleep.

The room was silent, all the light was cut off by the curtains, leaving only darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, something suddenly sounded in the extremely quiet room——

Beep, beep, beep...

The voice didn't come from anywhere else, it was outside the window—the window that had been locked by Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao opened his eyes, silently clenched his dagger tightly.

The curtains of the room were opened at some point, and the pale moonlight poured into the room.Outside the window, there is a vague shadow hanging in the air... like a woman who lost her legs and her neck was broken.

——Ghost shadows hang outside the window, only a pair of bloodshot eyes remain.