Chapter 21 The Truth
Fifth floor, Room 506.
Bai Feiyu searched in the room, but couldn't find any useful clues.
In fact, because Su Wanyu died on the ceiling of this room, the room had been turned upside down by the police, and was not spared in any corner. The police did not find any suspicious points, let alone her with her naked eyes?
At this time, a subtle sound of footsteps rang in the corridor outside the door.
Bai Feiyu's breathing stagnated and no movement was made.
Slowly, that step came.
"It's me, open the door."
Duan Xu's voice rang outside the door.
Bai Feiyu was more concise and did not open the door as soon as possible. After all, Duan Xu was deceived into opening the door by a ghost before.
"It's really me, you have eight holes in your upper."
Duan Xu's voice rang again.
"Squeak--"
The door is open.
Standing at the door was Duan Xu holding a camera.
When Bai Feiyu saw the most camera, he guessed it.
"Is Wang Yuli dead?"
She looked at Duan Xu quietly.
Duan Xu entered the door, closed it casually, and said, "Die."
He leaned on the desk, his eyes fell to the camera in his hand, and asked, "If it were you...will you sacrifice your life for an unfamiliar person?"
"Won't."
Bai Feiyu's answer was not hesitant at all, but after hearing Duan Xu's question, she seemed to understand something.
"You went to save him and was in danger?"
"No..." Duan Xu shook his head, "It's him who is saving me."
Duan Xu subconsciously pressed the button on the camera and whispered: "I have always believed that the world is fair and cruel. This is even more so for adults. If you want to eat and wear, you have to work hard; if you want to win attention, you have to have your own extraordinary points; and if you want to live in this ghost place, you need physical strength, brain power, and a firm mind. You say... Why are people like Wang Yuli picked up by the train? What is it that thing that he likes? Those kind of people should live their life mediocrely, and then slowly regret their mistakes when they were young before they die."
"Yes, so he died." Bai Feiyu's answer was ruthless.
"That's right." Duan Xu was thinking for no reason, and he looked out the window, "But he died at least as a human being. If someone like you and me keeps living, we may not be considered human beings until the day when death comes."
"What do you mean?" Although Bai Feiyu heard his obscure meaning, he was still dissatisfied with Duan Xu's slander.
"It's not interesting. You pack up your greetings and we're going to run away."
Duan Xu suddenly said.
"Leave here?" Bai Feiyu glanced left and right.
"Yes, leave this apartment."
Duan Xu said, while handing the camera to Bai Feiyu.
Bai Feiyu took the camera for no reason and looked at the screen, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
Here is a photo of the basement.
However, the human figures in the photo are extremely terrifying, they are simply five burnt corpses!
"This... is Luo Feng and the others?"
Even Bai Feiyu was scared to the point of being scared at this moment.
Duan Xu nodded and said, "On July 9, 2036, they all died. A fire broke out in the Lantian Apartment, burning all nine residents, including Tan Meifeng, to coke."
He raised his head and moved his nose: "Did you smell the air? This is the burning smell. And... the walls with abnormal temperatures, excessive carbon dioxide, including this room, and the apartments getting bigger and the space of the stairs are twisting. This is how you feel when you are in a heat wave and look at other objects. What we see, feel, and encounter now is the reflection before their death."
"Wait, what do you mean is that they are all ghosts? We have been staying with ghosts on the first floor before? Then why don't they kill us?" Bai Feiyu asked in confusion. Her thoughts were messed up by Duan Xu's words.
If everyone in this apartment is a ghost, is it meaningful to find their knot?
Isn't this a must-have death?
"Because they didn't realize they were ghosts." Duan Xu took the camera back and hung it around his neck.
"I saw a document on the second floor, which was a log written by Zhao Yu. He mentioned that the few of them once played a boring game called Xuyouhua together. After that game, his wish was slowly realizing."
"Wish?" Bai Feiyu looked at Duan Xu and asked.
Duan Xu looked down at her eyes and said, "Zhao Yu's wish is to gain superpowers."
"Invisibility, perspective, mind reading, wall penetration, change, huge force... The abilities he gained have increased over time. When I first saw this diary, I thought he was crazy. Now, based on this photo, he was not crazy, he was just gradually becoming a ghost. Don't you think that those abilities are ghosts?"
Duan Xu's voice made Bai Feiyu feel a little creepy.
But... if we just look at what happened and what this photo shows, Bai Feiyu has to believe that what Duan Xu said is probably true.
She was silent for a long time, but Duan Xu did not urge her, and he seemed not in a hurry at all.
Finally, Bai Feiyu chose to believe Duan Xu's judgment.
“There is an invisible wall around this apartment and we can’t get out at all.”
"Then how did we come in?" Duan Xu walked to the window and looked down.
Bai Feiyu couldn't understand what he meant, but she had other questions: "If I didn't stay here for five days, even if I escaped, the train wouldn't come to pick us up. The information I have told me that if I escaped from the mission location before the end, the consequences would be even more terrible."
Duan Xu looked at the sky without looking back and asked, "Who said the mission time is five days?"
Bai Feiyu was stunned. Didn’t this say?
"Miss Bai, I have been talking about a time. July 9, 2036. Didn't you notice that the time we arrived yesterday was also July 9, 2036? We were trapped on the day when Blue Sky Apartment was burned and everyone was burned to death. Although at present, the apartment is intact and people seem to be alive, this is just an illusion created by some strange force. If we stay here for one more day, the greater the chance of these dead people realizing that they are ghosts, such as Yi Hao, Zhou Mingcheng, and... Tan Meifeng."
"I only now understand what Zhou Mingcheng said wrongly before his death, and why did he say to us to escape quickly." Duan Xu stretched his head out of the window, looking at the sky as if looking for something, "In the last moment before his 'death', he realized that he was a ghost, and that was the last sentence that his consciousness as a human was said."
"Wait!" Bai Feiyu suddenly thought of a question, "Who is that person? If they were all dead people, who was the ghost Nan saw at that time? Why did he kill Zhou Mingcheng and the others?"
Chapter completed!