The author's diary of ghost stories

"Bang, bang, bang—" Heavy footsteps kept hitting the stairs, and the whole building seemed to shake.

It's coming!

Yu Liang's heart suddenly started beating wildly. He quickly rushed into the dormitory manager's office and shouted to Xu Cixi, who was still rummaging through boxes and cabinets: "He's down, hurry up!"

"Did he notice us?" Xu Cixi tore off a page from the booklet in her hand and stuffed it into her pocket. As soon as she reached the door, she was about to rush into the corridor, but Yu Liang grabbed her and pushed her back to her original position like a little bird. land.

"There's something in the corridor, wait!" Yu Liang noticed that the eyes in the corridor opened again and immediately stopped Xu Cixi.

Xu Cixi also noticed the eyes looking around for them, and immediately retracted her head and looked at Yu Liang nervously.

There are stairs at both ends of the corridor, but these eyes are very troublesome. They not only provide intelligence to the monsters, but also limit the people in the field of vision. It is difficult to escape the monsters when escaping. The best option is to hide in the room you just entered. , it is best to avoid the monster's search, if not, you can also climb out through the loopholes in the security window. This kind of monster should be similar to the earthbound spirit and cannot leave this dormitory building.

The eyes will open for about two seconds, and then close for a period of time. Only during this time can they move. There are stairs at both ends of the corridor, but the time for closing the eyes is too short, and they cannot run from one end to the other. stairs.

If they can't avoid their eyes, they will be chased by monsters and will catch up sooner or later.

Yu Liang waited for two seconds, and then said to Xu Cixi who was posted on the wall: "Go back to the original room first. The security window there is broken. You can leave here."

Without waiting for Xu Cixi to answer, Yu Liang gently pushed Xu Cixi's back, and then sprinted into the room, just in time for these eyes to be closed.

The two of them were running wildly along the corridor. Yu Liang was always paying attention to these eyes, but just like what he had observed before, the opening and closing of the eyes were synchronous. Their speed was not slow, and they rushed in before the eyes opened. Room.

"He hasn't reached the corridor yet." Xu Cixi glanced outside, then closed the door. She broke out in a cold sweat as soon as she looked back.

She looked at the made bed and quilt on the bed, as well as the dark figure under the quilt, and her scalp was numb: "When did there be so many people in this room?"

Yu Liang's face didn't look good either. This room had undergone tremendous changes during the time they left. The rotten atmosphere was swept away. The walls, iron beds, and bedding were all brand new, and what impressed him most was that What is unacceptable is the fact that the anti-theft windows on the balcony have been repaired to intact condition.

Can't get out.

"Bang!" Heavy footsteps came from the corridor outside the house, and the monster had reached the first floor.

Xu Cixi walked to the bed and took a look, suppressing the fear in her heart and said, "They are all paper figures."

Under the bulging quilt is a folded three-dimensional paper man. The whole body of the paper man is under the quilt, only a head is exposed. The pale face is smeared with bright blush, and his eyes are tightly closed, motionless.

Yu Liang poked the paper figures on the bed with his blind stick. They still didn't move, as if they were sleeping soundly.

The paper man is sleeping and the monster is watching the night.

An idea flashed in his mind. He looked at the wardrobe not far away and then at the bed in front of him. He instinctively felt that the wardrobe might not be as safe as the bed, so he pulled back the quilt and fell asleep on it.

"Hide under the quilt." Yu Liang mouthed to Xu Cixi, and after saying that, he buried himself in the quilt. He pushed the paper man aside, let himself sleep on the inside, and arranged the quilt into its original appearance. .

Although he tried his best to avoid contact with the paper man, he still inevitably touched the paper man's body.

The only feeling was that of coldness, with penetrating properties. It only made Yu Liang feel pain in his bones.

He put the quilt over his head, leaving only one chess piece exposed to observe the situation in the room, just like the periscope of a submarine.

The footsteps outside the door came closer and closer, and the sound of opening the door came one after another. Yu Liang carefully distinguished these sounds under the quilt.

It sounds like the monster didn't search these rooms carefully. Did he just open the door and take a look?

It would be great if he felt a little relieved.

By the way, Xu Cixi, where is Xu Cixi?

Yu Liang turned his chess pieces and scanned the room, looking for Xu Cixi's figure from the limited perspective.

She didn't hide under the quilt or in the closet?

When he saw Xu Cixi, his heart suddenly lifted again. Her thin figure was pressed against the wall next to the door.

Is this because you want to block your vision?

Yu Liang rehearsed the scene in his mind of the monster pushing in the door. Xu Cixi should be blocked by the opened door. The space behind the door seemed to be able to hide people...

That's weird.

Isn't this too easy to discover? Whenever the monster turns around, he will find Xu Cixi half-hiding in the shadow.

However, Yu Liang had no time to remind Xu Cixi. The next moment, the door of the room was pushed open, and a figure wearing a paper bag hood appeared at the door. The light behind the monster stretched its shadow extremely long on the ground, silently After waiting for three seconds, it slowly walked into the room, mopping the floor with a hoe making a harsh scratching sound.

Through the chess piece exposed outside the quilt, Yu Liang was able to observe the appearance of the monster at close range.

He is about 1.8 meters tall and has a skinny body that cannot hold up the large dark blue overalls. On his head is a torn paper bag. The eyes are hollowed out on the radiant paper bag, revealing two spots of scarlet, and the nose The hollows everywhere are constantly spewing out hot air.

There was an ID card hanging on the chest of the overalls. Yu Liang looked at it intently. He was still very familiar with the employees' ID cards. His eyes quickly focused on the job title column. It seemed to be written there as the dormitory manager, and he guessed that almost.

Looking at Xu Cixi in the shadow behind the door, she was motionless in the corner with her head lowered, like a hypnotized chicken.

Yu Liang held his breath in bed, fearing that the abnormality on his side would attract the monster's attention.

The footsteps of the dormitory went to a place where Yu Liang could not see, followed by the sound of the wardrobe being opened twice in succession, and Yu Liang breathed a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, I would search the closet first.

Suddenly, the footsteps of the dormitory became more urgent. In a blink of an eye, it came to Yu Liang's bedside and stared at the quilt covering Yu Liang for a long time.

What's the situation now?

There was no specific location of the dormitory manager in Yu Liang's field of vision, and the view of the chess pieces was blocked by the pillow, which made Yu Liang unable to judge the current situation.

Why……

Did the footsteps suddenly stop?

Doubts arose in his mind, followed by fear of the unknown.

Have you been discovered?

But before Yu Liang could make up his mind to use the characters, he heard a softer set of footsteps, disappearing quickly from near to far, followed by the heavy footsteps of the dormitory in pursuit.

Xu Cixi!

Yu Liang suddenly thought of something. He lifted the quilt and looked at the shadow behind the door.

Sure enough, Xu Cixi's figure had disappeared, and the voice just now was that she deliberately lured the dormitory away in order to save him.

He rushed out of the room and looked in the direction where the footsteps disappeared. He could no longer see the supervisor and Xu Cixi there, and he couldn't even hear the heavy footsteps of the supervisor.

How could you do this for a stranger?

It doesn't have to be like this, he still has enough characters to escape.

There was something indescribable in Yu Liang's heart. If it were him, he would definitely take the opportunity to run away when the dormitory manager lifted the quilt and throw the worthless blind man to the dormitory supervisor, because his kindness was limited to That’s it.

They have already run far away. There is no need to catch up now. It is better to leave time to explore and find a way to repay Xu Cixi if she has the chance to meet her again in the future.

Yu Liang made a note of this in his mind. He always had a clear distinction between grudges and grudges, and revenge was better than kindness, so he looked at the motionless paper man on the bed.

If the dormitory manager suddenly discovered him after opening the closet, then it meant that "someone" was tipping off the dormitory manager during this time.

He thought for a moment and without any extra words, he directly took out a few batteries and connected them together, then connected them with a wire to short-circuit them, and finally covered the paper man's body on them.

Although I don’t know if it is useful, but according to common sense, the paper man must be afraid of fire, so Yu Liang threw it on the short-circuited battery to let it feel the gradually rising temperature and the approaching murderous intention, just like a soft Knife-like torture.

Of course, if he could find something that could make a fire in his inventory, he probably wouldn't have to waste time like this.

The paper man obviously couldn't resist such torture. After only about ten seconds, it got up from the bed, knelt in front of Yu Liang and kept kowtowing to beg for mercy. Its paper mouth opened and closed as if... He said something, but Yu Liang couldn't hear it at all.

Can no one hear what it says?

No wonder the dormitory manager found him, maybe he was the one snitching on him at that time.

As if sensing the renewed murderous intent in Yu Liang's eyes, the paper man was suddenly startled. White paper wadding continued to ooze from its forehead, which was probably the cold sweat it broke out.

So it knelt down and prostrated on the ground again, bowed three times and nine times, then kept leaning its head to kiss the toes of Yu Liang's shoes, and then repeated the above process.

[You are respected by the paper man, who asks you to become its master (can be bound to the "universe")]

【Accept/Reject】

"Huh?" Yu Liang looked at the prompt box that popped up on his page and said in surprise, but before making a choice, he used the end of his blind stick to pick up the battery on the bed. If he left it there and ignored it, he would probably cause trouble soon. fire.

Of course, he was sure that simple fire would not be able to eliminate the evil in this building, it would only attract monsters from the depths of darkness.

After a slight hesitation, Yu Liang clicked to accept. He was very curious about the meaning of the line in brackets in the prompt box.

Convergence to the universe?

He remembered that his professional ability mentioned being bound to the universe, but it seemed that he could only play the role of creation, so even if the paper man entered the universe, he could not play the role of the paper man.

So what is the identity of the paper man in the "universe"?

He looked at his panel, and there was a new page under the writer's professional ability panel - the universe.

——

universe

Character Card: Paperman.

Gradient: T5

Attributes: Kaitan derivatives

Personality: Greedy, timid

Ability: Chaos

At this time, there was only a paper card on the page, and the color of the ability column was different from the others. Yu Liang chose to click, and the page that popped up showed a detailed ability analysis.

[Chaos]: Make the target fall into hallucination.

Hallucinogenic abilities?

It seems quite useful.

However, this character is both greedy and timid. Isn’t this what the saying goes: he has a thief’s heart but not his courage?

Yu Liang glanced at the paper man. It was looking at Yu Liang. It touched its chin as if it was thinking about something. After a while, it seemed to have thought of something and began to take off its clothes quickly. After a while, it took off itself into a A paper man the size of a head, leaving paper shells all over the ground.

It changed from a 3D origami model to a 2D flat figure. Then it jumped onto Yu Liang's feet, quickly climbed to the back of Yu Liang's neck, hugged Yu Liang's head, and a pair of paper hands joined together from the left and right. The curve of Yu Liang's head finally covered his eyes.

"This is..." The thing in front of him appeared in his mind. It was still this room, exactly the same as what he saw in the "eye" chess piece.

Could a blind man "see" the world by sharing its vision through hallucination?

If he had not obtained the "object" chess piece, the paper man's operation would definitely give him a surprise, but what he was thinking about now was the flaw of the paper man's "chaos" ability.

Do I have to cover the target's eyes from behind for it to work?

This does not include other people's resistance to the illusion. If they react and resist, it may be difficult for the paper man to successfully convey the illusion.

I have to say that this is a bit useless, no wonder it is just a derivative of T5 gradient.

Yu Liang grabbed his blind stick and walked out of the room. He looked at the stains on the corridor. He didn't know what happened here during this period. These eyes disappeared strangely. He walked along the corridor towards the dormitory room. Along the way, The doors of the rooms are all wide open, and every bed is full of ghosts and ghosts.

But he was standing in the corridor, touching his chin, lost in thought.

It seems that there is no upper limit on the number of spaces the universe can accommodate, right?

Then this corridor...

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