The Taste of Ghosts in the World

"Haunted house?"

"Actually, it doesn't count. It's my uncle's house. They work out of town. After buying it, no one lives in it. I heard that some strange things often happen there." Fang Ji explained.

Qi Mu shook his head, "Forget it, I'm going home to feed the dog."

"Oh, it's so embarrassing! You didn't come on my birthday last time, so you have to go this time anyway!" Fang Ji urged: "The house may be changed hands soon, this is the last chance."

Qi Mu still wanted to refuse, Fang Ji pushed him and said, "Don't be so isolated, and occasionally participate in some group activities. Anyway, you only go for a while and go back before nine o'clock. Your dog won't starve to death."

Qi Mu could only nod his head in agreement.

After school in the afternoon, Qi Mu realized how collective the group activities he was talking about were. In addition to Fang Ji, there was another man and a woman who went to the haunted house to explore together. The man's name was Li Peng, and the woman's name was Wen Qinlan. Individuals are all classmates, although they don't know each other very well, they can be considered to know each other.

Seeing those two people, especially the girl, Qi Mu broke into a cold sweat. If such a combination goes to a haunted house, if there are really ghosts, it must not be a good thing.

When the group got on the bus, the girl Wen Qinlan seemed very excited, chattering in Qi Mu's ear all the way, asking him what he thought from time to time, so he had to answer perfunctorily.

Soon we arrived at the haunted house that Fang Ji mentioned. It was a very high-end residential area, all villas, and the environment was very quiet.

Fang Ji opened the gate with the key, and other people filed in. It may be because no one lives there, and it is dusk now, and the indoor light is not very good.

As soon as he entered, Fang Ji excitedly took out his mobile phone and started taking pictures. Li Peng poured cold water beside him: "Not all haunted houses are fake, and nothing can be photographed."

"You don't care about me." Fang Ji retorted: "Since we are here, we must have that atmosphere. If we can really take pictures, we will make money."

Wen Qinlan was more prepared, showing a card machine, ready to take pictures at any time.

Qi Mu followed them silently. He didn't find anything wrong so far. He hoped that this haunted house was just spreading rumors, so that he could go back to eat earlier.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the door closed with a bang. Several people were startled and turned to look.

"Is there someone there?" Wen Qinlan whispered.

Li Peng shook his head and said: "Impossible, it's windy here, don't be suspicious."

"Ah!" Fang Ji yelled, staggered forward a few steps, and said in shock, "Why do I feel that there is something behind me? It's cold!"

Everyone looked behind him, but there was nothing.

Li Peng frowned, "Don't scare yourself."

Fang Ji was a little angry, and said emphatically, "It's true! I really felt something behind me just now. Qi Mu, you have to trust me!" He asked Qi Mu who was standing silently at the side for help.

Qi Mu felt that it was better for him not to speak at such a time. Fang Ji did not lie, there was indeed someone behind him, and he was still following him.

Even if you say it, no one will believe it.

Seeing Qi Mu's gaze, the ghost behind Fang Ji blinked at him, wiped the blood from his abdomen, and made a gesture to wipe Fang Ji's back.

Qi Mu turned his head, just as Wen Qinlan leaned over and asked him, "Maybe there is really something, isn't it?"

"This... I don't know either." Qi Mu looked at her expectant expression with complicated emotions.

"Hey, did you hear anything?" Li Peng suddenly made a gesture to quiet everyone, and listened intently.

The room suddenly fell silent, everyone pricked up their ears and held their breath.

drip-drip-drip-drip-

A high-pitched voice sounded suddenly, and Wen Qinlan trembled slightly.

"It's an electronic sound, what is it?"

Everyone looked at each other with serious expressions.

Fang Ji touched his head and said, "It's my electronic watch telling the time, hehe, I'm so sorry."

Li Peng stared and ignored him.

"Let's go back, there's nothing interesting here." Qi Mu persuaded.

"That won't work!" Wen Qinlan said, "We've only been here for a while, and we haven't even gone up to the second floor, so we can't just go back like this."

Qi Mu was still trying to persuade her, but a heart-piercing scream suddenly sounded in the room, and then stopped abruptly, as if it was cut off by something.

"Over there!" Fang Ji quickly pointed the camera at the corner where the sound came out, Qi Mu thought something was wrong, but there was nothing when he looked over.

Fang Ji's cell phone didn't capture anything, so he turned to Qi Mu and asked, "Did you hear that just now?"

Qi Mu nodded.

"what--"

Wen Qinlan yelled, threw away the camera in her hand, jumped over and grabbed Qi Mu's arm, her face was frighteningly pale.

"what happened?"

"There are ghosts... There are ghosts..." Wen Qinlan pointed to the camera on the ground.

Li Peng picked up the camera, and the screen was blacked out when he dropped it just now. He pressed the power button again, and the screen lit up. Fortunately, it was not damaged.

He called up the latest photo, glanced at it, and bit his lip suddenly, his face was not very good.

"What is it?" Fang Ji took it over curiously, and looked at it with Qi Mu. Wen Qinlan next to him had already closed her eyes and turned her head away.

The photo was taken in the corner where the sound came out, but there were two more people in the picture, one was leaning against the wall, the other was holding his neck, the knife in his hand was stuck in his abdomen, only the hilt of the knife was exposed, his clothes and The hands are bright blood.

The man who was stabbed...

Qi Mu looked at Fang Ji, and the ghost behind him popped up and waved to Qi Mu, grinning.

"There are indeed ghosts in this house." Fang Ji concluded.

"Let's go back...I don't want to stay here anymore..." Wen Qinlan leaned against Qi Mu with a pale face and hunched her shoulders.

Originally, Fang Ji hadn't enjoyed himself to the fullest, but considering the girl's situation, they decided to leave temporarily.

But when everyone turned around to go out through the gate, they all froze in place.

"I remember where the door is?" Fang Ji asked uncertainly.

"It must be there!" Li Peng said.

"Then why did it become a wall..." Wen Qinlan muttered softly.

They turned around again, but there was an extra staircase in front of them.

"Were there any stairs?"

"No... at least not in sight."

Wen Qinlan's lips trembled in fright, "What the hell is going on... Can we not go back?"

Everyone looked for the gate everywhere, but there was no one. Except for the staircase, the other three sides were walls.

"We're trapped..." Fang Ji turned to Wen Qinlan, and said, "Use your camera to take a few more shots, and see if you can capture other things."

"No!" Wen Qinlan vetoed sharply, "It's all about you wanting to come to some haunted house! Now it's all right, I can't get out! I don't want to die here!"

Then there was another scream, accompanied by the crash of things falling to the ground.

"Upstairs!" Li Peng and Fang Ji rushed up without hesitation.

Wen Qinlan was about to cry, "Don't go up... something will happen..." She grabbed Qi Mu's arm tightly, afraid of being left behind by him.

Qi Mu looked at the ghost who was following Fang Ji before, it pointed to the stairs, meaning let him go up.

Since he couldn't get out, Qi Mu had no choice but to drag Wen Qinlan upstairs.

"Don't! Don't go up!" Wen Qinlan pleaded softly.

Qi Mu comforted her and said: "There is no door on the first floor, so if you stay here, you will definitely not be able to get out. You might as well go up and have a look, maybe you can find a way."

She nodded reluctantly, and followed Qi Mu step by step. After walking down the stairs, she came to the second floor, and there was a long corridor in front of her eyes.

The ghost smiled at Qi Mu again and waved.

Qi Mu looked at Wen Qinlan and frowned.

Said to her: "This corridor is quite long, how about you go this way and I go that way, and if anyone finds the stairs or the door, call?"

"No way!" Wen Qinlan shook her head desperately, but did not let go.

Qi Mu said helplessly, "Okay, let's go together, but don't keep holding me."

Wen Qinlan's face flushed slightly, she lowered her head, and let go of her hands in embarrassment.

"Let's start from the right side first." She heard Qi Mu say.

When he raised his head, he couldn't see Qi Mu's figure in front of him.

"Qi Mu...Qi Mu?" Wen Qinlan's voice trembled, and she took a few steps cautiously, "Where are you? Don't scare me..."

The entire corridor was very quiet, except for herself, there was no one else.

Suddenly, hurried footsteps came from the right end, Wen Qinlan's heart suddenly rose, her eye circles immediately turned red, she leaned on the wall and retreated to the left, only to hear the same footsteps from the left end.

Looking around, she trembled uncontrollably, and called a few times tentatively, "Qi Mu...Fang Ji...Li Peng? Where are you..."

No one answered. At this time, footsteps began to sound above her head, similar to the sound of running. The chaotic footsteps were mixed together, as if many people were attacking her from all directions.

Wen Qinlan couldn't bear it anymore, sat down on the ground, covered her ears and burst into tears.

"Let's start from the right side first." Qi Mu said, and took a few steps forward, but found that Wen Qinlan hadn't heard anything.

Looking back, the corridor behind him was empty, and there was no Wen Qinlan.

"What's going on?" He asked the ghost beside him.

The ghost shrugged and said, "That girl is too clingy, help her away."

Qi Mu frowned, "You won't harm her, will you?"

"No, no, at most scare her." The ghost guided Qi Mu to the door of a room, "Come in and have a look?"

Qi Mu took a deep breath and stepped in.

There were three ghosts sitting in the room, and they clapped their hands when they saw Qi Mu.

"Great! Finally, there are living people who can see us again!"

The ghost who brought Qi Mu in pointed to a deck of cards on the table, "Burn it soon."

"Why?" Qi Mu was baffled by their enthusiasm.

"Burn it, burn it!"

Seeing that Qi Mu didn't make a move for a long time, a ghost became anxious, and floated in front of Qi Mu and stared at him, his face was covered with blood, and the whites of his eyes were very obvious.

"We are all trapped in this house, and we can only get out if we find a substitute..." He suddenly laughed sinisterly, revealing a mouthful of teeth stained with blood. "There are four of you, do you want to try?"

"Don't get so close." Qi Mu stretched out his hand to push him away, and picked up the deck of cards. There was a layer of dust on it, leaving fingerprints when he touched it.

"Is there a lighter?"

"Yes!" Another ghost quickly pointed to a lighter lying on the ground.

Qi Mu picked it up and looked at it, then shook his head and said, "I'm out of breath."

"Then what should I do..." The ghosts suddenly became dejected.

"I remember there is still a box of matches!" cried a ghost.

Qi Mu finally found a box of matches in the drawer and scratched half of the box before lighting the deck of cards.

Seeing that the flames engulfed the cards bit by bit, the ghosts started applauding again.

After a while, cards appeared in their hands.

"Come and play, I'm suffocated!" A ghost skillfully began to shuffle the cards.

"What to fight? Fight for the top?"

"Can you play? Play spring!"

One of them said slowly, "How about playing turtle?"

The other three ghosts fought together, "Are you up to standard?"

The ghost said aggrievedly: "But... I'm very good at drawing turtles..."

The three ghosts fought again, "Then how about you play kitten fishing?"

"it is good…"

Qi Mu watched them playing cards with a dark face. The four ghosts had a great time and seemed to have forgotten about him.

"Hey, when are you going to let us out?"

"It's 07:30 now, you can go out in one and a half hours." A ghost stared at the cards in his hand, and pursed absently towards the wall clock on the wall.

"You are all playing, why don't you let us go?"

"It's not that we don't let it go, it's that this house is doing something wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"Two years ago, we were killed in this house." The ghost who brought Qi Mu in explained: "Then strange things happened in the house. Every night at seven o'clock, the indoor facilities began to appear chaotic, and repeated The scene when we were killed..."

Having said that, he stopped, pointed to the upstairs, and signaled Qi Mu to listen to the footsteps and screams that never stopped.

"It sounds like I'm calling!" said a ghost proudly.

"Nonsense! It was me, I remember being the loudest!" another retorted.

Another one interjected slowly: "Is it me? I was stabbed a lot at that time..."

"Whoever he is, I've been listening to it for two years, and I'm still arguing!" After the previous ghost had taught him a lesson, he then said to Qi Mu, "It will end automatically in two hours, everything will stop, and then you can go out .”

This kind of thing is so strange that Qi Mu couldn't help asking: "Why is this happening?"

The ghost shrugged and said: "I don't know. After the house changed hands, they invited a celestial master to look at it. He said that there was a problem with the construction of this house, and the magnetic field of this land was very chaotic. He also advised those people not to live here."

"You can't go to reincarnation too?"

The ghost shook his head, "We can't get out. What kind of birth, we are having a good time. If there are living people coming, scare them to have some fun. Now we still have cards!"

He raised the cards in his hand and shook them at Qi Mu, "Would you like to play?"

"I don't know how to play."

"It's okay, it's okay, what will you play? We'll just play that." Another ghost also greeted him.

The others all stopped, and the four pairs of eyes looked at Qi Mu together.

"Hmm..." Qi Mu was under pressure from them, and said awkwardly, "I only know how to smoke turtles."

One of them suddenly lit up and looked at him eagerly.

The others showed varying degrees of blank expressions, and after a while they said with difficulty: "It's not bad to smoke a turtle..."

"Yes, although it is simple, it is also very brain-testing."

"It's not bad..."

The one who likes to smoke turtles carefully added: "Actually, kittens are also good at fishing..."

Some ghosts even nodded in agreement.

Qi Mu felt that this scene was really funny, but he couldn't laugh, so he just went along with the situation and said, "Then smoke the turtle?"

"..."

Except for one of them, the other three ghosts nodded expressionlessly.