The NPC Was Once Again Frightened By Me

The pale face, the fluffy black hair, the decayed and lifeless shriveled corpse that does not belong to the living...

Stuffed in this small freezer was the lifeless corpse of the little girl. Her eyes were wide open, and she looked at the sky until she died, as if she was staring at her father's bestiality, or at the sun. The fate that had destroyed her long ago.

She wasn't wearing a floral dress, she wasn't spooky, but she was walking around in 202 brightly and lively, sitting on the sofa playing with Lin Huai's mobile phone...

Chu Tianshu came in from the door and stood beside Lin Huai.Lin Huai said: "She looks smaller than I imagined, and she is crowded together, which is really ugly."

After a while, Lin Huai paused again, and said, "Did you say that after she was strangled to death—was discovered from the freezer in Chunyu’s apartment—frozen in an unclaimed morgue—and finally Was it stolen and brought back here to freeze?"

His final note fell in the dusty storage room without provoking even the slightest response.Chu Tianshu, who always talks a lot of nonsense, is also quiet.

"Let's go, there's nothing to see here." Lin Huai left the freezer, "Tell that little girl, her body was found in this storage room. Tsk, where did so many cardboard boxes and waste paper come from here?" ..."

Before he finished speaking, Chu Tianshu had already dug in the pile of waste paper on the ground, bit out a stack of newspapers, and handed it to him.

Lin Huai: "?"

He lowered his body and took the newspaper, Chu Tianshu's paw pointed to the date of the newspaper.

December 201x, 12x.

Lin Huai raised his eyebrows slightly.He lowered his head, carefully looked at the date again, exchanged a glance with Chu Tianshu and said, "This date is..."

"The day before yesterday."

"A newspaper from the day before yesterday appeared in this storage room..." Lin Huai lifted the newspaper, "It looks quite new, without any dust... So, does this mean?"

"Someone is secretly bringing newspapers here." Chu Tianshu arched the other newspapers one by one, and the date of publication was written on the newspapers, "There has been no interruption for a long time."

There was a chill in the storage room, not just from his back, but also from the freezer that held the little girl's body.

……

Leaving Yan Xi and Zhou Ying in the property management room to watch the door, they came to the second floor.

Woman 702 seemed to be chatting with her friends on the second floor again. The two of them glanced at her and ignored her.

"Knock knock knock."

"Knock knock knock."

After a long time, Lin Huai withdrew his hand from knocking on the door of the power distribution room.

"Not here?" Chu Tianshu asked.

"Not here." Lin Huai shook his head.

Although after Lin Huai came, the little girl had obtained the right to walk around the building from time to time as a child of a property management relative's family, but perhaps because of habit, she preferred to stay quietly in the building most of the time. in his own room.

But today, she was abnormally not here.

...Actually, the little girl hasn't been to the property management room since a few days ago.It's just because Lin Chu and Lin Chu often let her come, they never force it.It wasn't the first time she occasionally disappeared for a few days when she was in a bad mood.therefore……

"...I should have given her a piece of chocolate." Chu Tianshu said next to Lin Huai, "I thought she didn't come here because she was angry and awkward. I thought that this time I wouldn't have to be plucked all day , the plan goes through..."

His tone was still casual, but there was a bit of coldness in his voice that was in stark contrast to his usual indifferent attitude towards little girls who came to rua him.

Chunyu's apartment is so big, even though the little girl is a ghost, it is impossible for her to evaporate out of thin air.There are residents in the other rooms, as well as local ghosts. There is no reason why she can hide in these rooms without warning, without being discovered by the residents.

Therefore, the places where she could hide were extremely limited.

The remaining hiding places in this apartment...

The little girl was either on the "fourth floor" where Lin and Chu could no longer go up, or in room 202.

The fourth floor used to be an extremely eerie space, not only had the never-ending staircase, 401 that made noises, but also 402 that lived with two terrifying monsters...but fortunately, they have all been beaten by Chu Tianshu now. Disabled.

Getting lost on the fourth floor is a bad thing, but it's far from the worst.The worst plan is...

"She is in 202, but she can no longer open the door of 202." Chu Tianshu said softly, "202 is a space controlled by her, and she can only open it from the inside to the outside. If..."

He didn't go on.

If anything happens to the little girl, here is her eternal, undiscovered... silent grave.

She will be completely locked in this different space, and no one can come in from the outside to save her.No one knows that she is in a place where everyone can't see, and she disappears silently.

Lin Huai quietly stared at the cement wall in front of him belonging to the power distribution room.

Perhaps in different parallel time and space, countless players have passed by this wall.They passed here cautiously, for fear of alarming the ghosts in the wall, for fear of a door opening here, for fear of the... horrific and premature death of the little girl in a floral dress who came out of the door.

"...But when I stand here, I actually hope that a door will open here." Lin Huai lowered her head and smiled, "It's really funny to say, other players are afraid of hell, but I'm the only one standing here , but because I want to see that ghost come out of the ghost gate."

His nails got deep into the door of the power distribution room, and it only took a light scratch to tear the door off.However, Lin Huai knew that what he opened after removing the door would not belong to the 202 in the different space, but the power distribution room where the wires and switches were intertwined in vain.

"202 is also one of the rooms in Chunyu Apartment. As the property manager of Chunyu Apartment, if I watch the residents under my jurisdiction disappear in front of my eyes, but don't do anything..." Lin Huai said, "How can that be? Isn't it too derelict?"

He said so, but there was no smile in his eyes.

Without him, it is really tricky to enter this different space that is only controlled by a single ghost.

If kicking the door could open the door, Lin Huai would have kicked it already.Unfortunately, the different space is not a place where you can break the channel lock through physical methods at will.

He pressed his palms to the door of the power distribution room, closed his blood-red eyes, frowned, and tried to use his mental power to sense the direction of the different space.

There is indeed an induction between ghosts and their creations.Under his diligent search, many vague space debris-like things appeared in his mind.

Yet they are too vague and too numerous.

There are many ghosts in Chunyu's apartment. Apart from them, even the remnants who died in the apartment will leave fragments similar to different dimensions.Looking for traces of 202 in these fragments is really like looking for a needle in a haystack.

What's more, the different space of a single ghost can only be opened in one direction.It is also extremely difficult to forcibly break into a different space without the "permission" of the little girl.

"There are a lot of space debris." Lin Huai closed his eyes and said, "But it doesn't matter..."

He smiled: "I can jump in and see one by one."

Chu Tianshu paused: "That's a big project, is it worth it?"

Lin Huai also stopped.

"...I care," he said finally.

I don’t know why, maybe it’s because of a similar childhood experience, although the memory has been forgotten, but when Lin Huai saw the little girl sitting in room 202, who insisted that she didn’t need any family, she always felt a little inexplicable empathy.

"...But I didn't feel the same way there. It's just that the experience is similar, and my IQ is much higher than hers. Compared with her being beaten at home when she was seven years old, I must have seen through this family when she was five years old. He ran away from home with first aid, school bags and stolen New Year's money." Lin Huai added, "So this is just a humanitarian..."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was the sound of the door opening in 201, and the footsteps of the 702 woman leaving.

"I figured it out." The 702 woman said flatly, "I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

Compared with her previous hysterical reaction, her current reaction seems to be too calm.However, compared with hysterical emotions, excessive calm is the best portrayal of "real departure".

"Before I was obsessed with my choice and did a lot of ridiculous things for it. Only now did I realize that he is not worth me to do these things at all." The 702 woman laughed at herself, "Fortunately, not yet. It’s too late. I’ll go back tonight to pack my luggage, and I’ll take a taxi back to the next city tomorrow morning, and I’ve already made an appointment.”

Her figure disappeared into the elevator.Chu Tianshu glanced at Lin Huai, before he could speak, Lin Huai said calmly: "Wipe her off."

"Erase all the names on the seventh floor." Lin Huai said coldly, "Now is not the time to play..."

"No need, didn't you bring three paintings? Let the three female ghosts go there." Chu Tianshu shrugged, "They are going to solve the incident on the 7th floor, and we are going to solve the 202."

Lin Huai was silent for a moment, then rolled his eyes: "Do you think they can really..."

"It's okay." Chu Tianshu was quite open-minded, "The rules only say that the residents are not allowed to find 'strange things in the apartment', but they don't say that they can't find 'strange things outside the apartment'..."

Lin Huai: "..."

Chu Tianshu: "If you can't do it again, give them a popular science education."

Lin Huai: "What can't be taught (coaxed)?"

Chu Tianshu: "Then just call me stupid."

Lin Huai: ...

"Actually, I have another way than entering the different space from the outside." Chu Tianshu said, "Do you know the root cause of my becoming a dog in this dungeon?"

Lin Huai: "...Because you are really a dog?"

"Because the requirement of this dungeon is that only one player's human body can exist at a time." Chu Tianshu said lightly, "My soul is therefore temporarily attached to this dog, which is a substitute for my body. on him. Yet it does not forbid . . . "

"My consciousness is attached to other ghosts. I can try to find the little girl's soul and sneak into her consciousness. If she is still 'alive', I can break free from her current predicament and open the different space from the inside. I have a prop that..."

"no!"

Lin Huai replied coldly: "The souls of ghosts are naturally evil, and human consciousness sneaks in. The longer the time, the more dangerous it is..."

"However, she died so painfully and survived so hard. Wouldn't it be too pitiful if she still couldn't get happiness?" Chu Tianshu looked at Lin Huai's wide-open eyes, and said word by word, There was still a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Is that what you think in your heart?"

Lin Huai looked away: "...I didn't."

Chu Tianshu: "When you looked at the freezer, you said that because you wanted to hold a funeral for her, right? Everyone has a funeral after death, but her body was in a state of flux, and there was no way to bury her from the beginning to the end. and……"

"...You like this kind of ceremonial occasion that can be pretended the most."

Lin Huai coughed in embarrassment: "There is no need to say the second half of the sentence... So why can you see this? Why are you so proficient?"

"And, don't you feel that too? That little girl is like you when you were a child. Even if the memory is gone, the empathetic sadness of being abandoned and isolated will remain in your heart."

Chu Tianshu stood up and rubbed Lin Huai's hair with his paws. Lin Huai's eyes widened and he suddenly felt that he was rubbed by a human hand.

"And I will also want to save you when you were a child."