Fear Collection

"Did you hear the knock on the door?" Xie Jinxi asked Muta.

"I heard."

Muta heard it too, which proved that the knocking sound was not his hallucination, but an objective existence.

Xie Jinxi waited quietly in the dark for a while. He glanced at his phone and found that 10 minutes had passed, and there were still continuous knocks on the door deep in the library.

According to the schedule, they put up the national flag at noon on Monday, and get out of class ends at 12 o'clock. There is only half an hour for lunch, and they have to go back to the dormitory at 30:[-] noon.

It's been 10 minutes now, and if there was surveillance, the library staff should have spotted him.The result was not, so Xie Jinxi couldn't wait any longer.

"It seems that there is no monitoring, and no one will come to rescue me. I have to go and see what's going on in the library."

Having said that, Xie Jinxi paused, and asked, "Muta, are you coming out?"

As soon as the words fell, Xie Jinxi pressed Muta's chest behind his back.

With a cold hand on his shoulder, Muta said, "Let's go and see what's going on over there."

"it is good."

The depression and fear in Xie Jinxi's heart were dispelled, one person and two people are different after all, after Muta appeared, Xie Jinxi felt much more at ease.

Xie Jinxi and Mu Ta walked to the depths of the library.

When he walked to the innermost wall, that is, the wall farthest from the gate, Xie Jinxi unexpectedly saw an extra thick fire door, and the knocking sound came from behind this fire door.

"How is it possible? When I came in before, there was no such door here."

Muta leaned over to stick to the door, knocked on the fire door a few times with the tip of the snake's tail, and the knocking sound from behind the door disappeared immediately.

Muta straightened up and said, "There is a lot of space inside. Generally, behind this type of door is a safety staircase for evacuation. The safety exit connected by the safety staircase is generally not locked. You can consider it."

"Go in, I have no other choice." Xie Jinxi said helplessly.

Xie Jinxi trusts Muta very much. He has just read a popular science book, and snakes have so-called bone conduction hearing, which is extremely sensitive to vibrations.

Just like when Muta was on him, sometimes he would say that his heart beat too fast and his blood accelerated, just because he could "hear" any slight vibration coming from Xie Jinxi's body.

Without hesitation, Muta reached out and pressed the door handle, and then pushed open the fire door. Behind the door was a dark stairwell.

Sure enough, the door was unlocked, but since the fire door on the sixth floor was unlocked, why couldn't the "person" who had been knocking on the door just now come out?

and……

Xie Jinxi used his mobile phone to take a photo in the dark stairwell

The sixth floor is obviously the top floor of the building, but there are actually stairs extending upwards in the stairwell.

"This is really... not very good." Xie Jinxi murmured, "Illusion or space anomaly?"

Xie Jinxi considered whether to let Muta stay in the library, and he went in by himself.

Because in his own world, he and Muta had experimented, and without the barrier of ghosts, the tattoo that Muta returned to his back ignored the space barrier.This has the advantage that they can move separately without fear of being separated.

But after thinking about it, even if Muta stayed in the library, if he was trapped after walking into the stairwell, Muta probably wouldn't be able to break through the closed space to rescue him, at most he would go back to his back and be with him face.

Moreover, let Muta stay in the library and be separated from himself, and also bear the risk that if ghosts intervene, Muta will not be able to return to his back.

Most importantly, Ji Chuanmo told him that all the foreshadowings made by the ghosts before they appeared to kill people were all to arouse people's fear, and the more people fear them, the stronger they will be.Having Muta accompany him inside would dampen his fears.

Although Muta is half-human, half-snake, but for some reason Xie Jinxi feels more secure with him by his side.

"Let's go in together."

Muta nodded and entered the stairwell first, followed by Xie Jinxi.

After he stepped into the stairwell, the door behind him suddenly closed automatically.

Xie Jinxi turned around and used his mobile phone to illuminate, stretched out his hand to pull the door, and said, "As expected, I can't get out."

Xie Jinxi looked around with his mobile phone, and saw that there was a light on the top of the stairwell, but it was also off. Xie Jinxi looked around and saw no switch.

And I don't know if it's his illusion, the light from the flashlight behind the phone seems to be "absorbed" by the darkness, and the light can only shine on the steps no matter whether it goes up or down.

"Go down and try?"

Muta didn't object, Xie Jinxi followed Muta down a flight of stairs.

pedal.

?

what is that?Was it his own footsteps?

But the source of that voice was in his own head.

Xie Jinxi looked up, but due to the angle and direction of the stairs, he couldn't see anything.

"It's not your footsteps." Muta seemed to know what he was thinking, "There is a short time difference between the two sounds, and judging from the weight of the footsteps, the person above weighs less than you."

"And the footsteps from above correspond to your movements, so there should also be the 'rustling' sound of my snake's tail moving, not just your footsteps."

That's right, but what's on it?

Xie Jinxi tentatively took another step down, and there was another footstep on the corresponding upper staircase.

Xie Jinxi couldn't help but raised his phone again and tried to look up, but he still didn't see anything, and when he looked down, he still could only see the edge of the steps.

"Did you sense anything like a ghost?" Xie Jinxi asked.

"No."

Xie Jinxi felt guilty at the bottom of her heart, and said, "Leave it alone, and try going down."

Xie Jinxi took eleven steps in one breath and stood on the platform between the stairs.The platform is semicircular in shape, there are no windows on the walls, and the lights on it are still off, and there are no switches.

Moreover, every time the stairs and the stairs pass through a platform, they rotate 180 degrees, and the whole staircase roughly extends up and down in a zigzag shape.

When he took these eleven steps, footsteps came from the stairs above at the frequency of his steps.

"There are a total of thirteen steps on each floor, which is not a good symbol." Xie Jinxi said, "What are those footsteps above?"

"No matter, don't think too much, go down first, go down to the first floor in one breath, and then talk about other things."

With a firm goal, Muta dragged Xie Jinxi down.

This stairwell is really weird, Xie Jinxi has seen the walls of the stairwell, it is very ordinary white putty, the handrail on the other side is made of stainless steel, and the steps are also covered with the same tiles as the library floor.

But the darkness here seems to be able to absorb light. When standing in the middle of the stairs, no matter whether you go up or down, you can only illuminate five steps.That is to say, standing on the seventh step, you can only see the second step when you look up, but you can't see the first step; you can only see the No.12 step when you look down, but you can't see the No.13 step.

The field of vision is severely limited, and no matter whether you look down or up, you can only see endless darkness.

And the most frightening thing is that when they go down, the footsteps above will go down; when they stop, the footsteps above will stop; Also slow.

The thing above is always on the layer above their heads, but they can't see it at all.

Xie Jinxi became more and more flustered, he couldn't help listening to the footsteps above his head, no matter how much he told himself to calm down, the fear in his heart continued to ferment.

Maybe Muta heard the sound of his heart beating faster. When they went down to the fourth floor, Muta said: "Catch me if you are afraid, put all your attention on me, force yourself to empty your mind, I will count floor."

With the light of the mobile phone, Xie Jinxi could see that Muta was very calm, his vertical pupils diverged into round pupils in the dark environment, which on the contrary made the snake feeling on him dissipate a bit.

Xie Jinxi grabbed his arm and was led down by him.

After walking a few steps, Muta's arm broke away from his hand, and then his cold fingers inserted into his, interlocking his fingers.

Xie Jinxi's palms were covered with sticky cold sweat, sticking to his palms, as if sucked.

Fingers intertwined and walking down, Xie Jinxi seemed to have grasped the straw of her own, broke away from the gradually rising fear, and started counting the floors again.

After they passed the tenth flight of stairs, Muta stopped and said, "This is the first floor."

If it is a normal stairwell, this should be the first floor, and you can see another fire door, but here is still a semi-circular platform, not to mention that there is no exit, and there are stairs extending down.

"When I went up to the sixth floor, I checked the buttons in the elevator, and there was no lower floor." Xie Jinxi said with a pale face.

Now the question is, should they continue to go down, or go up instead?

Could it be that the thing that followed them down the first floor of the stairs they went up was just waiting for them to turn around?

"Do you want to go up or down?" Muta asked Xie Jinxi.

Xie Jinxi thought for a while in silence, the hand interlocking Muta's fingers unconsciously exerted force, and he said decisively: "Down!"

"Do you remember the knock on the door we heard before we came in?"

"What do you think if the person who came in before was trapped here like us, and found that he still didn't see the exit when he walked to the first floor, what decision would he make?"

Muta said, "Turn back and go up, and go back to the door on the sixth floor to see if you can get out."

"Yes." Xie Jinxi said, "That's why we heard that person's knock on the door. He turned his head and walked up, and he was still trapped there and couldn't get out when he reached the sixth floor. We can't repeat his behavior, let's go down Let’s try, if it doesn’t work, let’s go up.”

"From now on, you can return to my back to preserve your strength. I will try my best to walk down. If I lose my strength and can't walk anymore, you may need you to carry me back here."

Xie Jinxi was very firm and said, "If I was alone, I wouldn't dare to go down, but you are my escape route."

"We only have like 15 minutes."

Mu Ta fixedly looked at Xie Jinxi, and suddenly approached and hugged Xie Jinxi. He clasped Xie Jinxi's fingers with one hand, so only the other hand went from Xie Jinxi's side waist to press on his back.

"Don't be afraid, Xie Jinxi, I will always be with you."

The author has something to say: The inspiration for the stairwell in this chapter comes from SCP-087. If there is any similarity, it is not a coincidence.The specific environment and plot refer to the stairwell of a library in reality and personal experience.

The stairwell of the library I frequented was often locked, and sometimes I was forced to walk up the stairs when the library was about to close and I couldn’t squeeze into the elevator.It often happens that I open the door of the stairwell on the fifth floor and go to the first floor, only to find that the door on the first floor is locked, and I am forced to climb up to the second floor, and then take the elevator to the first floor after getting out of the second floor.

There was a time when I walked from the sixth floor to the first floor, but the door on the first floor didn't open, and I turned back to the second floor, but the door on the second floor didn't open, so I was forced to climb back to the fifth floor, only to find that there were only stairs on the fifth and sixth floors The door is not locked, so I can only take the elevator down from the fifth floor to the first floor, alas, angry.