Ring of Seven [Online Version]

The warehouse is still full of waste newspapers and bundles of old books.There are still several copper medals still in the corner, these things will only be taken out and wiped and placed in the window at the door when the leader comes to inspect.Zhou Jue also found a lot of rat droppings in the corner, it is estimated that this place is almost becoming the lair of those guys.Zhou Jue held his nose and searched here and there.

Zhou Jue found a camphorwood box under a lot of old newspapers. All the things here are cardboard boxes. He came here to put old newspapers several times in the past, but he had never seen such a box.Now that the big wooden box that has been painted red all of a sudden appears suddenly, it is really very abrupt.Zhou Jue removed the bundles of newspapers from the box. There was no pattern on the box. It felt like the dowry that every family would buy when they got married in the 50s.

He found that there is still a lock on it, but this kind of lock is useless, it is the simplest kind of plunger lock, as long as there is a thinner and harder strip, this thing can be pried open, it is not difficult, Zhou Jue When he was in middle school, he was already a master of solidification. According to him, as long as he is given a suitable tool, he can crack the safe in the principal's office.

He found a pair of the smallest flat-head screwdriver from the warehouse. This thing was just right. Zhou Jue gently closed the door of the warehouse. Almost no one came here. As long as he didn’t make too much noise, he knocked on a small box. Absolutely no one will find out.After 5 minutes, Zhou Jue heard a light click and he took off the lock with two hey sounds.

He couldn't wait to open the box, but what was inside was beyond Zhou Jue's expectation. Zhou Jue immediately retracted his body and sat down on the ground. He adjusted his breathing, and looked into the box tremblingly...

There was actually a skeleton inside, and the corpse should belong to a woman.Her hair was very long, black hair without any luster, lying on the gray-white skull in a lifeless and gloomy manner, the color was really eerie and terrifying, that kind of fear of death directly choked Zhou Jue, and it was difficult for him to even breathe.The corpse was wearing a moon-white shroud, which was not the outermost piece of the shroud, but the shirt inside.So very thin, Zhou Jue vaguely felt that this woman might be the ghostly missing Chen Rulan.

But Zhou Jue immediately began to wonder, he has not been working here for a day or two, why has he never seen such a box?And how did Chen Rulan die, and who killed her?

He comforted: "It's all rotten, only the bones are left, I won't cheat the corpse, I won't cheat the corpse..."

Zhou Jue didn't expect that he would have such an exaggerated discovery. He stepped back several steps in a row. He had to inform Chen Hao as soon as possible that his dear old sister's body had been lying in a big box for an unknown amount of time.But when he backed away in a hurry, he felt that he bumped into a person. This person was as stiff as plaster. Zhou Jue took a breath, panted several times, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Who!"

But when he turned around, he didn't see anything. Zhou Jue scanned the warehouse in embarrassment. He couldn't hear any movement except his own breathing. People don't even have a human breath.He felt like he had hit another corpse.

Just when he was stunned and terrified, he suddenly heard the door of the warehouse locked suddenly, and he ran back quickly, but he didn't know who locked him in the warehouse.He thought to himself that Gu Lao and Lao Zhang were going to kill each other to silence them.But why did they want to kill him?

He slammed it hard, but the strange thing is that according to the strength of a man, such a small door would not be so secure. If he used all his strength to attack, the door would be broken open only three or four times, but Zhou Jue kept hitting it. After about ten strokes, I couldn't feel the pain from hitting my shoulder and arm.But the door didn't budge.

He could only turn his head and stare straight at the big box.He immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed Chen Hao's number.

It took a while before Chen Hao's voice came from the other end of the phone. Zhou Jue felt that his voice was trembling: "Brother Chen, come to the library quickly, I may have found your sister." The big box took another look.

Chen Hao asked, "What do you mean? You said my sister is in the library?"

Zhou Jue regained his composure from the previous panic, and he said along his saliva, "Brother Chen, let me tell you, you must calm down, I found a big wooden box containing a female corpse in the warehouse, I suspect It might belong to your sister Chen Rulan, but I'm not sure, now I'm locked in the warehouse and can't get out!"

Chen Hao was silent for at least three seconds, and Zhou Jue could only feel his breathing getting heavier and heavier: "Are you sure that corpse belongs to Ru Lan?"

Zhou Jue covered his forehead and glanced at the corpse again, then immediately looked away and said, "I can't be sure, but it must be a female corpse. Find a way to get me out first."

Chen Hao said: "Don't worry, I'll come right over, now you see what else is in that box?"

Zhou Jue twisted his face and said: "Brother Chen, the difficulty is too high, the skeleton is still lying there, you don't necessarily want me to dig it out."

Chen Hao's voice seemed a little angry, and he scolded: "Is this what you are good for? If I let you see it, then go and see it. What are you afraid of the corpse? Will it crawl out and bite you to death?"

Zhou Jue muttered aggrievedly, but he didn't turn off the phone. He heard Chen Hao hurriedly going downstairs, and knew that he had already left.He dared to reach into the box, and he felt that the hair was very rough and dry, like flax that had been soaked.Zhou Jue found a bag under the corpse. The bag was very ordinary, just a normal handbag.It just looks very old on the surface, if it is thrown outside, maybe no one will pick it up.

Zhou Jue quickly pulled out the bag, like taking out some safe key from a box full of poisonous snakes.He opened the tote bag, and there was a pack of half-used tissues, a lip balm, and everything else was a paper bag, a board wrapped in old newspaper, which felt the same as the one we received in the express delivery.Zhou Jue put down the handbag, and then opened the paper bag, which contained a CD and something like a clay tablet.The pattern on it looks very weird, like some kind of symbol of Taoism, but it also looks like a map.Zhou Jue repacked these things and stuffed them into his backpack.

He said to the phone: "There is a lady's handbag. There is a disc and a clay tablet in it..."

Chen Hao's breathing was very rapid, he asked: "Look again, see what else is there, and... can you confirm the identity of the deceased?"

Zhou Jue smiled wryly and said, "It's unlikely, not to mention that I haven't seen Chen Rulan, even if I have, but the skeleton is wearing a shroud, it's already a pile of white bones, I really can't recognize it."

Chen Hao's voice was a little low, and he said, "Can't you confirm?"

Zhou Jue repeated it, and Chen Hao asked him to look for any valuable clues.

Zhou Jue turned his head and wanted to turn over the corpse's head again. When he stretched his hand between the pile of hair again, he actually felt that he touched human skin!He quickly withdrew his hand, the cold sweat on his forehead slid down his neck, and he felt like his spine was frozen.A skeleton touching human soft skin between clumps of hair?And this kind of skin doesn't feel like a dead person, but a living one.He can feel the delicateness and elasticity of the skin.

Zhou Jue hurriedly shouted tremblingly into the phone: "Chen Hao! Come here! There is something wrong with this corpse!"

But he found that there was no sound on the other end of the phone. He looked down and found that the phone was turned off.He still remembered to charge it last night, why did it run out of power so quickly?Zhou Jue didn't dare to think too much, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he felt.There was only him and that weird corpse in the whole warehouse, and at this time the emergency safety light suddenly came on, and the whole dark warehouse was shrouded in a strange fluorescent green, which was extremely strange.Zhou Jue could no longer control his soaring terror, he slammed on the door of the warehouse, he didn't expect Chen Hao to rush over in a few seconds, maybe by the time he appeared, he would have become another corpse.Thinking of this, he was even more frightened, but no matter how much he knocked on the warehouse door, no one heard it. Logically speaking, such a sound is an absolute noise in a quiet library.But at this moment... no one heard his knock on the door?

Panting heavily, Zhou Jue stopped this meaningless action. He turned his head slowly and found that half of the skeletons that were originally in the box crawled out of the box, and their hair hung on the box like a black curtain. outside.Zhou Jue was so frightened that he felt his heart split somewhere.

I don't know how much time passed, Zhou Jue just looked at a strange skeleton face to face.Suddenly Zhou Jue heard a voice coming from the pile of hair, the voice was like an old woman over 80 years old muttering something.

"It's not over yet... He hasn't appeared yet, there's no end yet..."

Zhou Jue leaned against the door panel, and now he wished that his body was as thin as a piece of paper, so that he could slip out through the crack of the door.He didn't know if he had a cerebellar convulsion from the fright, or if the long and terrifying torture made him emboldened.He actually asked back: "Who is he?"

The voice of the 80-year-old woman continued: "There will be a ghost among the seven people...he is hidden among the seven people. When you are close to the truth, it is when he appears."

Zhou Jue was sweating profusely. He didn't expect this monster to be able to talk to him. He licked his lips and continued to ask, "Failure? What kind of existence is the ring of seven?"

The bones made a crackling sound, and she said: "This is a secret that has been hidden for a long time, and the key to the secret lies in that book. But seeing the end means that "it" has found you."

Zhou Jue leaned against the door, and he asked, "Then is there any way to escape?"

The corpse said darkly: "There is an answer in the book, but the answer is not completely correct. The book itself is a mistake. But it is indeed the only way."

Zhou Jue couldn't understand what she meant, but he could vaguely know that it was very unreliable to follow the contents of the book completely.Zhou Jue wanted to continue asking, but the corpse said first: "The key to this book is not the development of the story, but the hidden truth behind the story. If you simply speculate based on the development of the story, the final result will only be failure. "

Zhou Jue asked, "Then what happens if you fail?"

The bones cracked again, she didn't speak, but Zhou Jue also knew that if she failed, it would definitely not be better than her fate.

He tremblingly asked: "Then, then you can tell me you...are you Chen Rulan?"

Just when Zhou Jue finished asking the last sentence, he suddenly felt someone slamming on the door behind him.He immediately put himself on, and then Chen Hao rushed in, he was sweating profusely while running, and he still held a wrench in his hand.I really don't know where he got it from.It looked like he had smashed the door to get in.

Zhou Jue was speechless for a while because of the sudden panic, but actually he thought he was already very manly without peeing his pants.After all, this really belongs to challenging the limits of human nerves.

Chen Hao patted Zhou Jue's face several times, Zhou Jue finally closed his mouth, Chen Hao asked, "Where are the bones?"

Zhou Jue pointed to the wooden box like a witness of a soft-footed shrimp in a gangster movie.Chen Hao rushed over with a stride.He looked at the bones inside and took a few steps back.Looking back at Zhou Jue at last, Zhou Jue obviously hasn't changed back yet, he just shrinks back instinctively.Chen Hao said to him: "Come and have a look."

Zhou Jue drooled, he really didn't want to look at that thing again, but he had to bite the bullet to save face.He looked into the box and found that there was some corpse there. There was only a set of moon-white shrouds and a large pile of black linen, and inside the linen was a nest of little mice.Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue with weird eyes, and Zhou Jue's expression at this time could no longer be described in words.Then the curator and Lao Zhao followed behind them, and they stepped forward and said, "Mr. Chen, I'm so sorry, the door may have been locked suddenly. Fortunately, Xiao Zhou called you, otherwise we wouldn't know there was someone inside." Why don't you call Xiao Zhou?"

Zhou Jue felt that he had lost his reputation and face. On the one hand, Chen Hao was obviously doubting what he said before, but now the curator basically treats him as an imbecile.He hesitated and couldn't explain clearly. At this time, Chen Hao closed the box and said, "Curator, why is there such a box here?"

The curator looked back at the box and asked, "Old Zhao, do you know where this box came from?"

Lao Zhao shook his head and said, "I didn't bring this box here, it might be Gu Lao, then I have to ask him."

The curator looked at the door and said, "Where's Mr. Gu? Why didn't you see anyone else?"

Old Zhao shook his head and said he didn't know.The curator hummed unhappily and said, "Get rid of this big box, and there is still a nest of mice inside. You guys are really... hey! Wouldn't it be a joke if you came to check it?"

Old Zhao nodded repeatedly and followed the curator out.Only Chen Hao and Zhou Jue were left in the warehouse.

Seeing that there were no outsiders, Zhou Jue quickly grabbed Chen Hao's arm and said, "Brother Chen, you have to believe me, I really saw the bones, and she even talked!"

Chen Hao said: "What did she say?"

Zhou Jue looked into Chen Hao's eyes and said: "She said that if we get to the end, a betrayer will appear, and we will fail. If we fail, we will be finished!"

Chen Hao's heart sank. He glanced at the moon-white shroud, and then asked, "Do you have the CD and the clay tablet?"

Zhou Jue nodded. He touched the backpack guiltily, and after confirming that the two things hadn't disappeared, he said, "The things are there! The front of me is definitely not an illusion!"

Chen Hao quietly approached Zhou Jue, and when he walked in front of him, he lowered his head and said into Zhou Jue's ear, "I believe in you, look..." After speaking, he quietly stretched out his hand, and there was a long stick in his hand. hair.

Zhou Jue raised his head in horror, and Chen Hao had quickly hidden his hair in his trouser pocket.He patted Zhou Jue on the shoulder and said, "Go, go home."

When Zhou Jue returned to Chen Hao's house, he sat down on the sofa and held his chest. He said, "Brother Chen, you really haven't seen it before. It's too scary. It's more real than a three-dimensional horror movie."

Chen Hao took out a can of cold beer from the refrigerator and said, "Drink it, don't be surprised, what is your discovery today?"

Zhou Jue drank half a can of beer in one gulp, straightened up and said to Chen Hao after exhaling, "I can be sure that Mr. Gu and Mr. Zhao are one of the seven, as well as this CD and these clay tablets."

Chen Hao took the clay tablet, and quickly picked up a piece of copy paper at hand. There were some clay tablet patterns on it, and he said, "Do you think these two are very similar?"

Zhou Jue picked up the copy paper, the patterns on it were indeed very similar, but they couldn't help but be the same.Chen Hao put the clay tablet into the scanner, and then printed out another one.He put the two pieces of copy paper together on the table and looked at them for a while, and then he dug out a lot of materials.After that, he turned his back to Zhou Jue and said, "Have you ever heard of Chacha?"

Zhou Jue replied with a hum: "The mud pagoda in Tibetan Buddhism."

Chen Haodao: "Yes, it is actually an imported word transliterated from Sanskrit. It means copying in Sanskrit. It penetrated into the mainland of China in the [-]th century. There are some patterns and clay tablets in the copy of the clay tablet left by Rulan. The pattern on it is very similar. But I can't decipher the content of the pattern yet."

Zhou Jue held the beer can and said: "The corpse said that if we follow the pattern in the book, we will fail, and one of the seven people will be a ghost. He will kill all of us, and we will also die." It's over. Now we have five people, and we don't know when the sixth and seventh will appear. Does that ghost refer to Lao Jiu?"

Chen Haoxian pondered further. At this time, someone knocked on the door again. Fat San, Thin Monkey and Lao Jiu stood at the door. The three of them had been running around all morning, sweating profusely.

Fat San yelled at his voice for a long time and then sat down beside Zhou Jue. He said, "Brother Chen, the institute you introduced is too far away. It broke my legs. But don't worry." , give me a sample, we all do it by ourselves without anyone helping us at all, your buddy is really interesting, not only helping us to fix the machine, analyze the material, but also lie about what we are... Beijing Experts here, will this cowhide be blown up a bit? Isn't it Skinny Monkey?"

The thin monkey's eyes flashed a trace of anxiety, and he nodded.

Chen Hao asked calmly: "It's nothing, I asked him to deal with it like that. Did you find out any materials?"

Fat San took a sip of tea, rubbed his mouth and said, "It was found out. There is no problem with the paper and the ink. The problem is its binding."

Chen Hao didn't interrupt. Fat San was still thirsty, so he took another sip. He took out a sample and a dozen report sheets and continued: "Let's put it this way, book bindings in the 50s basically used thread glue. The above are all perfect binding methods, and this book looks like something from the 50s, so it adopts the high-cost binding that uses thread glue at the same time, so, in the sample you gave me, we found it on the binding line special material."

Fat San rolled his eyes, and asked mysteriously, "What material are you...?"

Zhou Jue was extremely impatient, so there was still time to chat with him, but Chen Hao who was at the side said, "Hair?"

Fat San snapped his fingers, patted his thigh and said, "Brother Chen! How did you guess that?"

Chen Hao said: "I also guessed."

Zhou Jue glanced suspiciously at Chen Hao, Chen Hao's face turned to him immediately, Zhou Jue could only touch his hair in embarrassment.Chen Hao rolled his eyes at him and said: "There is evidence for this, because when Zhou Jue saw the book for the first time, he said that there was a woman with very long hair. Then he saw the book, and then it was his Nightmare, and the hair was also mentioned in the story. So I thought that the hair must have played a key role in it, and then I found the hair from the box, and since the fat man said that the thread in the thread glue appeared If there is a problem, then it is very likely that the material with hair inside is entangled in the thread."

Seeing that Chen Hao's explanation was so smooth, Zhou Jue was too embarrassed to say anything more, so he could only laugh a few times in embarrassment and apologized: "Brother Chen... I didn't doubt you, but I didn't expect you to be so good at guessing. "

Chen Hao also smirked and said, "So you still doubt me? I don't even know."

Zhou Jue laughed even more embarrassedly now, and he eagerly changed the subject: "So there are human hairs in the lines of this book? Is it women's hair then?"

Fat San nodded and said: "That's for sure. In the 50s, do you think it's now? All the men are gorgeous, and their hair is more elegant than women's. I'm sure it's women's hair!"

Chen Hao said: "I see, you can put down the report. Now it's time to move on to our next content."

Everyone stopped talking, but stared at the ring of seven placed in the center of the desk.It's time to start a new chapter...