Strange Story of Strange House

Opening his eyes, Lin Chi was standing downstairs again.

"Did you read the file again?"

Lin Chi slowly raised his hand to touch his face, and the touch of Lou Qi's warm blood flowing past just now still vaguely remained on his skin... When he was in a daze, he was patted on the shoulder suddenly, Lin Chi knew that Liu Jiajia would come , but she was still taken aback.

Liu Jiajia smiled and said, "Are you hiding here and being lazy?"

——Almost exactly the same bridge section as before.

"It's just right, move something for me." Liu Jiajia gave half of the tools she was carrying to Lin Chi.

"..." This time, Lin Chi took it silently, he didn't have much time to waste here.

"You're so good today." Liu Jiajia gave him a surprised look, and then joked.

The two walked upstairs side by side. During this time, Lin Chi was struggling with whether he should tell Liu Jiajia the news of the earthquake.Leaving aside whether Liu Jiajia will believe him, if they stay here for a while, will he still be able to escape with Lou Qi smoothly?

Last time, he comforted himself that this was just a puzzle. The people in front of him had already been scattered all over the world, continuing their lives.So it doesn't matter, don't worry about others, just focus on solving the puzzle... But when Lou Qi's warm blood covered his face, he hesitated.

Probably because he was so entangled in his heart, he subconsciously looked at Liu Jiajia several times, and the girl chuckled: "Is there a flower on my face? Are you so focused?"

The girl's smile was as clean and beautiful as ever, just like in Lin Chi's memory.In high school, Lin Chi was low-key and introverted, not good at speaking, but the class monitor always took good care of him.

Even in this puzzle, the dead will be in pain and despair, right?Thinking of this, Lin Chi finally made up his mind: "Squad leader, if I tell you that there will be an earthquake soon, will you believe me?"

"Why do you say that all of a sudden?"

"I had a dream, although it was absurd, but I dreamed that I met you downstairs with tools, we went upstairs together, and then an earthquake happened. I did meet you downstairs, and the scene in the dream Exactly the same. So I have reason to believe that a major earthquake is likely to occur in the near future."

"It was just a dream." Liu Jiajia stood a few steps above Lin Chi and looked at him.The light hit her behind, and Lin Chi couldn't see her expression clearly for a while.

"What if it really happened? How many lives can be saved by an early warning?"

"Then if nothing happens, who will bear the responsibility." Liu Jiajia said lightly, "Earthquakes cannot be predicted, can they?"

Hearing the hesitation in Liu Jiajia's tone, Lin Chi immediately took advantage of the victory and pursued: "Squad leader, you actually believe me, right?"

"...I was just wondering, have you ever heard of a dream within a dream? When you dream that you are dreaming, it is still a dream when you wake up." Liu Jiajia asked suddenly, "Are you sure, this is not a dream within your dream?"

After Liu Jiajia finished speaking, Lin Chi was left standing there dumbfounded, and went upstairs with his things alone.

A dream within a dream?

Lin Chi was taken aback when he heard the words, and then a sense of absurdity arose in his heart. How could this be a dream?All the deaths and injuries are too real... Besides, he doesn't have time to think about these, his Lou Qi is still upstairs!

Lin Chi suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, even if it was really just a dream, he couldn't tolerate his lover dying in front of him for the third time!The existence of Lou Qi was like a bright light, dispelling Lin Chi's confusion in an instant. He took a few steps and rushed into the classroom loudly: "There is an earthquake! Everyone run away!"

The crowd who were laughing and fighting with each other fell silent in an instant. They turned their heads to look at Lin Chi who was panting at the door, with different expressions.Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Lin Chi was even more anxious: "It's true! Run away!"

As if in response to Lin Chi's words, the building shook suddenly, and the crowd exploded in an instant, screaming and flocking outside the door.Lin Chi, who was standing at the door, couldn't give way, was pushed and shoved by the crowd, and seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the classroom.

Lin Chi looked up with difficulty, and finally saw Lou Qi at the end of the crowd.He had a peaceful expression, a little at a loss, the turbulent flow of people blatantly separated them, but Lin Chi's goal was very clear, he tried his best to go backwards, calling Lou Qi's name, but the noisy voices drowned his shout, Lou Qi Didn't hear his voice at all.

At this moment, Liu Jiajia's voice suddenly came out from the crowd. The female voice was calm and recognizable: "Everyone, don't squeeze! Get down one by one! Otherwise, no one can get down!"

With Liu Jiajia maintaining order and organizing the evacuation, the possibility of everyone surviving was greatly increased. Lin Chi should have been grateful for this, but for some reason, Liu Jiajia's ease of use made Lin Chi feel suspicious.

Under Liu Jiajia's guidance, the crowd quickly became orderly, and Lin Chi finally squeezed to Lou Qi's side. Under Lou Qi's surprised eyes, he grabbed his hand. Lou Qi was slightly taken aback, and then shook his hand Lin Chi's hand was held.

At this time, Lin Chi had to face another matter. This building was not the only one for their class. Even though Liu Jiajia calmed down and maintained their order, the classes downstairs still blocked the way to leave the teaching building.The shock became stronger and stronger, and Lin Chi became more and more flustered. Lou Qi noticed his uneasiness, and gently pinched his palm to calm his emotions.

However, just when the two supported each other and were about to leave the teaching building with shock waves, Lin Chi suddenly saw Liu Jiajia standing not far away, smiling at him, that smile was a little sad, a little hopeful, and a little bit lost, It was so complicated that Lin Chi couldn't understand it.

Lin Chi thought it was bad!In the blink of an eye, the earth-shattering earthquake arrived as scheduled. Lin Chi dragged Lou Qi to leave the teaching building, but the chaotic crowd in front of him blocked the last way of life...

***

Opening his eyes again, Lin Chi stood downstairs in the teaching building, looking at the bright sun above his head, with tears in his eyes.

"Are you hiding here and being lazy?" Someone patted the shoulder suddenly, without further ado, Lin Chi turned around and took the tools in Liu Jiajia's hand. Liu Jiajia gave him a surprised look: "Today is enough initiative."

Lin Chi smiled, but didn't speak.

The first time, he didn't understand the situation, so Lou Qi died to save him.

The second time, he hesitated, so Lou Qi died because of him.

For the third time, he tried to save everyone in vain, and once again killed Lou Qi.

In the same scene, three times, he failed to save his lover, and he spurned his incompetence, so this time, please allow him to be a selfish person.

Without entanglement with Liu Jiajia, Lin Chi quickly arrived at the door of the classroom. He quickly glanced at Lou Qi's location, rushed over and grabbed him, and dragged him downstairs. Qi was quite cooperative, and after reacting, he followed him out. When Lin Chi confirmed that the escape route was unobstructed, he turned his head and shouted towards the corridor: "There is an earthquake, everyone run away!"

Perhaps it was because of spoiling the plot, this time the earthquake came especially fast, but no matter what, Lin Chi finally escaped from the teaching building with Lou Qi.

Although there was Lin Chi's "spoiler", this time the earthquake was even more unexpected, and the casualties were more tragic than the previous few times. The building collapsed, deafening, and the moments of life and death, sex and cries, Lin Chi turned a deaf ear to them.

Lin Chi's eyes were full of blood. He finally made a choice between Lou Qi and the people who died before him. He didn't regret this decision, but he was still so sad that he was about to suffocate.

Lin Chi burst into tears, and was pressed into a familiar embrace in the next second: "Don't cry, you have tried your best, haven't you?"

Lou Qi lowered his head and kissed his hair: "You have worked hard so many times, we all see it, no one will blame you."

Lin Chi raised his head abruptly, with a look of surprise on his face: "Lou Qi? You recovered?!"

"Well, you have solved this puzzle, we can go home." Lou Qi patted Lin Chi on the head, and pulled him to stand up.

"ended?"

"Ah."

"Eh?! What about here?" Lin Chi turned his head and looked at the ruins behind him.

"After we leave, this place will naturally return to normal." Lou Qi embraced Lin Chi, and slowly walked out of the school gate. Lin Chi followed him out of the school gate obediently, and when he looked back, the teaching building stood upright again on the campus. .Seeing this, Lin Chi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On the way back, Lin Chi grabbed Lou Qi's wrist and apologized to him: "I'm sorry, I promised Dideng to solve the riddle, but I didn't expect to involve you in it."

"You and I don't need to apologize." Lou Qi smiled slightly, "I'm willing to accompany you no matter what you want."

After solving the puzzle, Lin Chi's life returned to normal.After calming down for a few days, Lin Chi picked up the book and reviewed it for a few days, and then ushered in the final exam of this semester. After that, it was a long and beautiful summer vacation.

Accompanying Yun Bao at home, going to the noodle shop to help look around the shop, Lin Chi's little life is relaxed and comfortable.It's just that after that puzzle-solving experience, he found that he liked to cling to Lou Qi more, like a little tail that couldn't be shaken off. Fortunately, Lou Qi pampered him and never thought he was in the way.

Regarding the problem that the puzzles were set too complicated and difficult to pass, Lin Chi finally found the floor lamp that escaped from the ground again. Thinking of them dying again and again, Lin Chi couldn't care about the relationship between men and women for a while. No, lapping a white kitten is a fix.

So Di Deng let go, and gave Lin Chi a bunch of good things, which can be regarded as a perfect ending.

But a few months later, a sudden incident broke this peaceful and peaceful life.That day, Lou Qi was having dinner with Lin Chi, when he suddenly received news that the earth dragon had gone berserk, Lou Qi had to rush over to deal with it immediately.After sending Lou Qi away, Lin Chi felt uneasy all the time. Before, Lou Qi had to deal with these matters from time to time, but he had never been so uneasy like today.

This anxiety intensified as the time Lou Qi left increased. Lin Chi finally couldn't help but took out his mobile phone and called Lou Qi. Although he knew it might affect Lou Qi's work, he would do whatever he wanted if he didn't call I can't feel at ease either...

"Lou Qi, where are you?"

There was a lot of voices on the other end of the phone. After a while, Lou Qi moved to a place with few people, and Lin Chi heard his voice: "Xiao Chi? What's wrong?"

"Where are you? I can't calm down, as if something bad is going to happen. I'm worried and want to find you!" Lin Chi said as he walked towards the stairs.

"It's dangerous here, don't come here, I'll go back soon..." Lou Qi didn't agree with Lin Chi's decision, but before he finished speaking, a roar came from behind him, Lou Qi realized that something was wrong, but Lin Chi The late phone call distracted him...

"Quickly move away! The candle dragon array is gone!" Lin Chi heard a hoarse cry from the other end of the phone, and only heard Lou Qi's muffled groan, followed by the sound of the phone falling to the ground. Hold your breath, but there is no more Lou Qi's voice from the other end of the phone, instead there are hasty footsteps and shouts: "Lou Qi!!!"

Lin Chi's eyes turned black in an instant, and he held on to the wall and barely stood up. He couldn't explain what he felt at that moment. He was clearly standing on the flat ground, but it seemed that the world was collapsing and the whole world collapsed. No matter how many times he had experienced it, he still could not Accepting Lou Qi's death... The lover who was with him for dinner just now disappeared in a blink of an eye. Thinking of this, Lin Chi couldn't help but his legs went limp, and the support under his feet disappeared, and he fell down the stairs...

***

Opening his eyes again, Lin Chi found that he was still standing downstairs in the teaching building, behind him was Liu Jiajia holding a pile of cleaning tools.

Because of his death, the puzzle was reloaded again.It turned out that he had never escaped from this puzzle.

The teaching building that is about to collapse in the earthquake, the trigger for resetting the puzzle is your own death, and you can only escape the building successfully... Wait!Lin Chi's heart skipped a beat. No one had ever told him that a successful escape would count as solving a puzzle. It was just his wishful thinking.

Lin Chi's head was spinning rapidly. He knew that even if he took Lou Qi to escape the earthquake now, what awaited him was the next time he reloaded the file. He had to solve this puzzle thoroughly before he could truly return normal life.

After going back, you must grab Dideng Xiaomiao and beat him up to vent your anger.

So, what can be done to solve this mystery?All problems have their crux. At the beginning, Ye Bai's "death" touched Lin Chi a lot, and at the same time made him firmly remember that it is the most normal or the most abnormal part of a thing. .

There are many strange things in this puzzle. First of all, there is Lou Qi, who is obviously his lover, but has become a "strange classmate". Secondly, there is Shen Jinghan, who appeared a year earlier for no reason. Finally, there is the monitor Liu Jiajia. He was the first person Lin Chi met while reading the files, with an inexplicable calmness.They all have their own peculiarities. What Lin Chi has to do now is to find the unique one among this series of abnormalities.

Lin Chi pondered the whole thing over and over in his mind, carefully recalling every detail from the point of loading the file to his death. He pretended to be heavy in his heart, and naturally turned a deaf ear to Liu Jiajia's call.Liu Jiajia called him several times, but seeing that he ignored him, she didn't continue. She just stood there, looking thoughtfully at his back as he rushed straight to the teaching building.

Lin Chi rushed up to the fifth floor in three or two steps, then looked around, thinking non-stop in his mind, what is the strangest thing?

"Xiao Chi, here." I don't know what went wrong this time, Lou Qi obviously remembered Lin Chi, but this is a good thing for Lin Chi, he doesn't have to spend time explaining everything to Lou Qi.

"Lou Qi..." When he lost Lou Qi just now, Lin Chi didn't realize that he was still in the middle of the puzzle. The feeling of despair still deeply affects him, "I have so many things to say to you. explain."

"Tell me slowly after you leave here." Lou Qi smiled and took Lin Chi's hand, "Let's go."

"No," Lin Chi shook his head, "Until we solve the puzzle, we cannot and cannot leave here."

"Xiao Chi..." Lou Qi looked at him quietly for a long time, "Do you want to leave here?"

Lin Chi raised his head abruptly, a strange feeling flashed in his heart: "Of course! You die again and again, how can I bear it!"

"……it is good."

"Why do you ask that, don't you want to solve the puzzle and leave here?" Lin Chi hurriedly asked.

"No..." Lou Qi gave him a deep look, "You will understand soon."

Lin Chi wanted to ask again, but Lou Qi stretched out his index finger and pressed his lips: "Shh, that's not important, do you have any idea about solving the puzzle?"

"...No." Lin Chi cooperated and did not continue to ask. He had a feeling in his heart that he would not want to know what the answer was.

Seeing him cooperating to remove the topic, Lou Qi smiled slightly: "You might as well tell me about your discovery, or I can give you some enlightenment."

"Huaiyin told me that the eye of the formation is the most normal or abnormal place in a thing, but this puzzle is full of weirdness, and I can't find which place is the eye of the formation."

"Xiao Chi..." Lou Qi suddenly looked at him steadily, "In addition to what your father taught you about the eyes, I also hope you can remember one thing. The eyes can protect themselves."

"What do you mean?"

"When you touch the formation eye, it will often promote the development of the incident. It will point you to another way and make you ignore its existence. This is the self-protection of the formation eye. If you think about it, who or where, Meet this condition?"

Following the direction given by Lou Qi, Lin Chi quickly reviewed the whole process in his mind. First of all, Shen Jinghan appeared a year earlier, but the place where he appeared was not Lin Chi's reading point, so Lin Chi Don't think he had much to do with it.

Secondly, every time he reads files, Lin Chi will meet Liu Jiajia downstairs in the teaching building. Although her behavior is weird, she has never hindered his actions. This is not in line with Lou Qi's reminder, so Lin Chi feels that Liu Jiajia will not It is the eyes.

Again, it is Lou Qi, Lou Qi has a lot of weird things, but he is also the person who died with Lin Chi every time since deciphering so many times. In this puzzle, death is so real. , There is absolutely no need to toss yourself like this.

After ruling out these three doubts, Lin Chi guessed that the eye of the array might not be a person, but a certain place... He looked around, chasing the noisy classmates, the familiar classroom, and the things he wanted to wipe after a while. glass windows.Since he is the solver of this puzzle, he can boldly guess that the eye of the array must be somewhere within his reach...

Suddenly, he thought of the piece of glass at the end of the corridor that could not be wiped clean. The first time, when he wiped the glass, there was an earthquake. The second time, he obviously changed the direction, but he was still wiping it. There was an earthquake when I got to that glass...

It is much easier to confirm a guess about an object than a person. It is impossible for Lin Chi to hurt a person without definite evidence, but he can break a piece of glass with his guess.

Thinking of this, Lin Chi walked towards the glass. The glass at the end of the corridor had conspicuous stains on it, which made it easy to distinguish it from other glass. Lin Chi reached out and touched the glass.As if ticklish, the building shook.

Lin Chi instantly confirmed his guess—this piece of glass is indeed the eye of the array.

The vibration of the building quickly caused an uproar. Countless people rushed out of the classroom and flocked to the corridor, and they were about to collide

Lin Chi by the glass window, of course, Lin Chi couldn't miss this opportunity again. With a heavy blow, he broke the glass window with his bare hands... At that moment, the noise reached the ground, and time stopped, and everyone was frozen in place. The moment Lin Chi broke the window, he maintained his running posture and frightened expression...

Lin Chi hurriedly turned around to look at Lou Qi, only to see the man push aside the stagnant crowd, and slowly walking towards him, Lin Chi felt relieved, he stretched out his hand, trying to hold Lou Qi, but Lou Qi was in front of him. He stopped before he could reach it.

"Xiao Chi, goodbye." As soon as Lou Qi finished speaking, the whole world instantly collapsed, the puzzle was solved, and Lin Chi was also teleported back to the real world.

When Lin Chi came back to his senses, he was standing in front of the second door. Only 5 minutes had passed since he started to solve the puzzle. Lin Chi took a deep breath, turned around and went to find the floor lamp.

The kitten was flicking its tail, basking in the sun in the small yard of Yunlou. The sun was shining warmly on her body. She squinted her eyes and was about to fall asleep. Unexpectedly, she was suddenly murdered, and someone grabbed her by the back of her neck and fell asleep. raised it.

"Meow meow meow?!"

"Lord Dideng, are you trying to give me a gift, are you trying to punish me?" Lin Chi looked angry. If the first puzzle was tossed like this, Lin Chi couldn't even imagine that the following puzzles would be difficult. what kind.

"No!" The white cat in his hand defended weakly, "Didn't I just want to let you review your high school life? I just randomly picked something that happened in high school and put it on you. It's just that I didn't expect that there was an obsession mixed in, which doubled the difficulty of the whole puzzle several times."

"what happened?"

"This experience belongs to a boy named Ji Bei. There was an earthquake on the day he filled out his application form. The boy he liked fell asleep in the ruins forever in order to save him, and Ji Bei also became a vegetable. His The living soul wanders in the ruins, experiencing the nightmare of that day again and again, trying to rescue the person he likes from the earthquake, but no one can change the past that has become a foregone conclusion. He can only experience the loss of Xi Nan again and again. moment."

Lin Chi was fascinated by this, and with a slight struggle, the floor lamp broke free from his hand and fell to the ground lightly: "Xi Nan is the one he likes. After Xi Nan died, the souls of the dead also lingered on the ruins. He He couldn't bear Ji Bei's self-torture, so he used his own soul to fabricate an illusion of Ji Bei's successful escape. He lived with Ji Bei for ten years, until not long ago, Ji Bei's vegetative body couldn't hold on, and Xi Nan also At the point where the oil was exhausted, Ji Bei returned to the day of the earthquake again. Xi Nan guided him to break the glass and sent him back to reality."

Lin Chi didn't even dare to imagine Ji Bei's mood after knowing the truth. The person he loved had died ten years ago. Unlike himself, after Ji Bei smashed the glass, he faced a strange world without a lover. .

"How is Ji Bei doing now?"

"It's not very good, you can also imagine his situation. His obsession has been mixed into my puzzle, probably... I also want to see if there is any other way to save the two people." Di Deng Shaking the hair on his body, "He is attached to Liu Jiajia, you should also see something is wrong."

Lin Chi nodded, and then told Di Deng sternly that he would no longer solve the puzzle.

"Hey, don't! I've been laying it out for a long time! Besides, I can't give up lightly!" Hearing this, Di Deng immediately jumped onto Lin Chi's shoulder, "I promise you that I will grasp the difficulty of the next puzzle! "

Seeing that Lin Chi still didn't let go, Di Deng thought for a while and said, "Aren't you concerned about Ji Bei? He just woke up, so I can tell you his address."