The Midnight Owl

In a small bedroom on the second floor, five partners stood in front of the bed, silent.

This is a playful children's room, the walls are painted light blue, like a clear sky, the floor is covered with soft plush carpet, and a pink wooden horse stands quietly on the carpet.

The position where the five partners stood together was a children's bed in the corner. Judging from the size, it should be for a five or six-year-old child to sleep, but there was no one on the bed, only a doll sitting on the head of the bed.

It was a very beautiful doll, with slightly wavy golden hair, lake-like blue eyes, and a well-tailored doll dress, trying to highlight her innocence.

Unfortunately, it was not very successful.

Because her expression is too light, so light that it gives people an illusion, as if those amber eyes are staring at you coldly.

Xu Wang bit the bullet to break the tranquility: "Are you sure it's this?"

For some reason, in a scary situation, dolls always make people think and shudder.

Wu Sheng took out the cross from his bosom, his eyes sparkled with the light of exploration like an academic experiment: "Try it and you will know."

Qian Ai admired his military adviser for this, dared to go to hell to take samples, and was able to go to the grave to conduct experiments.

Chi Yingxue approached Kuang Jinxin without a trace, and at the same time held the blood-stained cross tightly, to guard against possible accidents later.

Kuang Jinxin didn't notice it, because he had to take care of Wu Sheng's movements and his pencil case, thinking that if something happened, he would use the stationery as soon as possible.

The cross in Wu Sheng's hand pierced the doll's heart slowly and steadily.

Wu Sheng didn't let go of his hand until the quarter of the sharp point was completely submerged and the crossbar was attached to the doll's body, unable to penetrate any deeper.

The doll still sat there quietly, unconscious.

Wu Sheng straightened his body and remained silent.

Qian Ai was a little uncertain: "Did I make a mistake, maybe... I rely on it!!!"

While screaming, Qian Ai jumped back more than one meter like stepping on a spring, staring at the bed in horror.

The little friends didn't move, but they were no more calm than him.

The doll on the bed stood up.

With the cross deep in his heart, the doll walked to the bed, without stopping, stepped on the air and fell to the ground.She stiffly got up and continued walking until she reached Wu Sheng's side before stopping.

She was just higher than Wu Sheng's knee, standing beside Wu Sheng's legs, like a child.

When Wu Sheng moves forward, she also moves forward, when Wu Sheng moves backward, she also moves backward.Follow suit, but without any tendency to attack.

Xu Wang watched with a delicate mood: "She likes you..."

Wu Sheng stared down at the doll for a while, and figured out the reason: "Because the cross is mine."

When the priest gave them the cross, he didn't explain much.When they bought the information, Mr. Fan only said that a cross was inserted into his heart to catch ghosts, and he didn't mention the follow-up matters.Now that I have seen the state of the first baby ghost, I understand that the cross can make the ghost lose its fighting power and follow the person who subdues him with the cross.

That is to say, when all the ghosts are caught, they go to the church, and the ghosts naturally follow them to the church.

Leaving the blood-faced man's house, the five friends walked eastward along the street, and soon they came to the second haunted house that was closest on the map.

This is a three-story house with a minimalist style, and the creepers almost surround the entire house, with only a little light gray faintly visible in the gaps.That should be the original color of the exterior of the house, similar to the cold atmosphere of Northern Europe, but now, the full of creepers make the whole house sink into a deep and deep, like a swamp.

The door was dilapidated and hung diagonally from the door frame.

Standing at the door, you can see a little bit of faint colored light inside.

As soon as she entered the living room, the doll automatically walked to the wall and did not move, as if she knew that the five of them were going to start hunting ghosts Part 2, so she waited obediently.

The living room is full of thick dust, and under the dust, there are crumbling and dilapidated furniture. The only thing left intact is the fireplace, and the deer head hanging on the wall above the fireplace, as if it was smashed and robbed. Another long solitude passed.

But this is the living room, with a string of twinkling lanterns hanging.There are all kinds of colorful colors, uniform psychedelic, uniform faintness, making the whole living room weird and hazy.

The faint colored light just seen at the door originated from this.

"Hula-"

There was an unexpected sound from behind the friends, as if the fabric was suddenly shaken off and unfolded.

The five turned their heads immediately, and saw a vampire in a cloak behind Qian Ai.Short blond hair, deep and handsome facial features, gentle eyes that seem to make people fall into it forever, and the canine teeth that flicker when you smile gracefully.

Such a handsome gentleman naturally needs to be emphasized on stage, so the cloak has been blown loudly, as if it had a built-in blower.

Qian Ai couldn't appreciate his beauty, and the moment his scalp exploded, he didn't even care about ordering stationery, and kicked him in a roundabout, hitting the opponent's chest.

The elegant vampire was kicked into the air, drawing a not-so-beautiful arc in the air, and landed on the ground, accompanied by a scream of "Aww".

Qian Ai has always had an instinctive fear of ghosts, but this kick seems to have kicked out the cracks in the fear, and combined with the screams of ghosts, he has become more confident, so he went up three steps in two steps, without saying a word , and made a second kick towards the vampire sitting on the ground.

The vampire didn't give him another chance. This time, the beggar hugged the flying leg he had kicked over, and wailed, "Help—you're killing—"

Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, Chi Yingxue, and Kuang Jinxin who followed up to make up the knife: "..."

Qian Ai Teng with one leg empty, confused: "What the hell? I kill people?"

The handsome vampire holding his leg was so angry that he said firmly: "It's you! If you kick me again, my heart will be broken!"

Qian Ai had goosebumps all over his body in this subtle accusation: "Can you have a bit of professional ethics as a ghost? It's over after you do it. There is something wrong with adding so many lines to yourself!"

Handsome man: "I'm human, I'm here to find ghosts!"

The air was suddenly quiet.

With twelve eyes facing each other, Qian Ai silently lowered his legs, showing an awkward yet polite smile.

The handsome man got up with Xu Wang's support. The misunderstanding was resolved, but the pain was still there. He was sucking in air while rubbing his chest. He didn't have the elegance of a vampire just now.

"Why don't you guys pretend?" After finally being able to speak, the first sentence was not nutritious.

Xu Wang pretended not to hear the question, and went straight to the point: "What are you doing here?"

"Explore." The man took off the fake vampire teeth, and he spoke more clearly. "This is a famous haunted house in the town. It's the most suitable place to come and explore on Halloween."

"Haunted house?" Xu Wang looked panicked and surprised, as sincere as he could be.

The four partners silently glanced at the ghost doll in the corner, and were once again overwhelmed by their team leader's instant acting skills.

The blond man didn't know why, so he introduced it to Captain Xu silly and sweetly: "There used to be a family of three living here, a couple with a son in middle school. One day the boy disappeared at home suddenly. The police suspected that he was killed by his parents. But the body was never found, and no evidence was found, so let it go. Later, the couple couldn't bear the rumors and moved away, and the place has been deserted until now."

"That can only be considered deserted and cannot be called a haunted house." Wu Sheng joined the communication with his own strict definition of "haunted house".

"I haven't finished yet," the blond man continued, "Isn't this house deserted? With the addition of those ivy outside, it's getting more and more of that atmosphere, and then people with nothing to do come over to explore..."

Kuang Jinxin asked curiously, "Have you found anything?"

The blond man shook his head: "No, not even anyone."

Xu Wang frowned: "He's gone?"

The blond man said: "Well, all the people who came here to explore are missing."

"Then you're still here?" Qian Ai couldn't understand this deadly brain circuit at all.

"Curiosity." The blond man was confident, and at this moment, a fearless aura of dedication to exploration lingered around him.

However, this charming aura was fleeting. In the next second, he looked around nervously, and whispered, "I always feel that the missing boy is still in this house and never left..."

His low voice made the air in the living room cool down quietly.

The small colored lights are still flashing alternately, blinking like ghost eyes.

Xu Wang pursed his lips, and wanted to continue digging for more information. The blond man suddenly opened his mouth wide, with a frightened expression on his face, as if he had seen something terrible that made him so frightened that he couldn't make a sound.

The five partners were shocked, and immediately looked at the direction he was staring at, but there was nothing there, just a gray wall that couldn't be seen clearly.

At this weird moment, the blond man rose into the air, as if being lifted up by a big hand, and threw him fiercely towards the fireplace!

This time there was no arc at all, and the huge force caused the man to slam into the deer's head above the fireplace like a cannonball.

Antlers pierced his chest, and blood stained his gown under his cloak.

He didn't move, like a piece of tattered clothes hanging on the wall, but his eyes were still open.

People who were alive one second before, died in front of their eyes the next second. Even if the friends have rich experience in breaking through the level, they have to slow down.

But the ghost in the dark didn't give them time to breathe.

The five partners collectively vacated, completely copying the death route of the blond man, and involuntarily rushed towards the blood-stained antlers at a high speed. This time they clearly felt the huge force that was difficult to resist!

"Little Kuang, slow down—" Wu Sheng yelled the moment he flew into the air.

Kuang Jinxin's pencil case, which was always on standby, finally came into play. Wu Sheng's word "slow" had just come out, and he had already clicked it!

【Owl: Someone used <[defense] delay strategy> on you~~】

When Xu Wang, who was the first to fly, was still a few centimeters away from the tip of the antlers, the armor finally took effect.The flying speed of the five friends suddenly slowed down, as if they were floating in a spaceship.

Xu Wang raised his hand to grab the antlers, breathed a long sigh of relief, and then pushed up, his body went up, avoiding the antlers, and gently bumped into the wall.

The four partners behind followed suit.

Chi Yingxue was the last to land.

Then, the deer head heard the call of the stationery——

【Owl: Someone used <[Magic] Easter Egg> on you~~】

The deer's head's eyes immediately became enlightened, and then, the deer's head was about to move, and the wall continued to make cracking sounds.In the end, the deer head raised its horns and screamed, broke through the wall, turned into a complete stag, and walked away with the blond man hanging on its horns, leaving only the sound of deer hooves in the night wind.

Only one classmate has the stationery that can bring the dead back to life.

The four partners looked at Chi Yingxue.

Classmate Chi shrugged: "In case of future trouble."

As if to testify for him, the ghost in the dark vacated the five people for the second time. This time, there were no sharp objects on the wall, so the rickety furniture floated together and became cannonballs, shooting towards them from all directions. .

The friends are not afraid of such physical attacks, they have enough stationery to defend, but the task is to catch ghosts, and they can't even see a hair of ghosts, and they are passively beaten, how to catch them?

The living room finally calmed down.

"No, search quickly." Wu Sheng said these five words quickly, regardless of his breathlessness.

The friends acted immediately, almost running to check the rooms on the first floor, and found nothing unusual, but found a basement.

"Do you need to leave someone outside to watch the wind?" Qian Ai asked when entering the basement.

Wu Sheng shook his head resolutely: "We can't separate for a moment at this level."

Xu Wang helped his own military adviser to add: "The tragedies of the protagonists of countless horror movies all started when they acted separately."

"..." Qian, who is keen on ghost movies, looked back at the history of watching movies and found that this is indeed the golden rule.

Walking into the basement, there was a disgusting smell of decay first.

Wu Sheng fumbled for the switch on the wall, pressed it, and the light turned on.

This is no surprise, the colored lights in the living room already tell the house is electrified.However, why does a house that has been abandoned for many years still have electricity? This is what Wu Sheng cares about.

But right now he didn't have time to think about it.

The basement was full of dead bodies.

But this time, there were no broken limbs, no bloody flesh, just sitting or lying there quietly, with the clothes intact and the flesh rotting over time.

"Killed by a ghost?" Qian Ai trembled.

Kuang Jinxin bit the bullet and took a rough look around, finally shook his head: "It doesn't look like..."

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng had already stepped forward to check, they didn't dare to act rashly, they just crouched in front of the corpse and took a closer look.

"It's more like being trapped to death here..." This was Wu Sheng's final deduction.

Kuang Jinxin remembered what the blond man said, and asked tentatively, "Brother Sheng, could it be those who disappeared after exploring here?"

Wu Sheng looked at the different styles of clothing of the corpses, and nodded: "It's possible."

"Then don't ask." Qian Ai turned around and walked to the basement door, and pulled it hard. Sure enough, the door didn't move at all. "We can't get out either."

He is now very indifferent to this "hardship and dilemma".

【Owl: Someone used <[Anti] Golden Cicada Escape Shell> on you~~】

The stationery took effect, and the five partners returned to the street outside the house in a burst of top-heavy.The ghost doll has returned to Wu Sheng's lap at some point.

It is not difficult to escape, but it is difficult to catch ghosts.

Qian Ai looked at the haunted house of the wall-climbing tiger, helpless: "I have consumed so much stationery, I haven't even seen a single ghost."

Xu Wang pursed his lips: "If it's really the kind of ghost that comes and goes without a trace, it will be difficult."

"But this kind of design is completely unsolvable," Kuang Jinxin scratched his head in distress, "If you can't lock the ghost, how can you use the cross?"

Wu Sheng, who was frowning and thinking hard, had a flash in his eyes when he heard Kuang Jinxin's words: "It can't be unsolvable, otherwise the logic of breaking through the level will not make sense. There must be a way to force it to show up, but we haven't found it yet."

"How can I find out?" Chi Yingxue didn't like this kind of passive beating the most, and it was rare to ask questions.

Wu Sheng raised his head, looked at the dark green-covered building, and said calmly but firmly, "Go ahead."

Entering once is not enough, twice, entering twice is not enough, three times, the data will always be collected, and when the time comes, the answer will surface.

Stepping into the living room for the second time, before the ghost doll automatically went to the corner, the five of them were stunned.

In the center of the living room, a blond man in a cloak looked at them with raised eyebrows.

He wasn't smiling, so he couldn't see the vampire's teeth, but the cloak was still behind him, whirring and shaking with the wind coming from nowhere.

There was no injury on his chest, and he was as handsome and elegant as ever. He just looked at the five people with strange and surprised eyes: "Are you also here to explore?"