The first time Ling Changye laid eyes on Xia Bai, all he could see was the captivating absence of his cerebrum. He couldn’t fathom how this man had managed to survive through the horrifying games...
Chapter 86 Imperial Apartment 13
Xia Bai: "You found that after you transferred the black magic, he was still hindering you, so you killed him?"
"Or did you make this decision when you decided to transfer the black magic to him?"
Wang Chuan immediately shouted: "I didn't!"
Lin Xiang spoke up for Xia Bai, "You did! You killed your own father, you beast!"
Before Wang Chuan could say anything, Lao Qian said, "Found it. Wei Jingyun is in Room 505! There are two old men there!"
Ignoring Wang Chuan, they immediately ran to the fifth floor. Wang Chuan wanted to stop them, but was kicked down by Lin Xiang.
Whether it is the underworld or the world of the living, no one lives on the fifth floor. The top floor is leaking, it is dark and damp here, there is a smell of decay everywhere, and green moss grows in the corners of the walls.
In addition to the smell of corruption, there was also the smell of blood coming out of 505. When the door was pushed open, the mixed smell was disgusting.
There are two old men here, two bodies.
One of the bodies was very fresh, with blood still flowing from the corner of its mouth. It was the Wei Jingyun they were looking for.
The other corpse had been rotten beyond recognition and was nailed to a cross with densely packed iron nails, crawling with maggots.
Two old people were lying on the ground. They were the deaf-mute couple living in Room 208. The old lady was deaf and the old man was mute, but it seemed that both of them were no longer deaf. The moment they opened the door, they both turned their heads and looked over at the same time.
“Hehehe.” The old lady with a gap-tooth laughed and touched her ears with her bloody hands. “I can hear it! I can hear it!”
Lin Xiang said: "How could you do this! It would be fine if you just wanted to divert the curse, but why kill people?"
Wang Chuan, who followed, said: "We are trying to put an end to this disaster. Only by killing him can it end. Otherwise, black magic will continue to exist and spread endlessly."
As soon as he said it, they understood.
If the black magic can be transferred, and the method of transferring it is so simple, then the black magic will be transferred one after another, and countless people will be involved. They believe that killing the person who has the black magic on him at the time will end the black magic.
Wang Chuan whispered, "I didn't kill my father. He committed suicide."
"He knew how to end this black magic, and after I chased him away once, he came back and committed suicide."
Wang Chuan still doesn't know how much of the black magic he transferred to his father was out of hatred, how much was out of selfish reluctance, and how much was out of anger. He only knows that when he learned that he was under a black magic by his biological father and that it could be transferred, he immediately came up with the idea and transferred the black magic back without thinking.
When the transfer was successful, thinking about it afterwards, he realized that doing so might be troublesome.
He no longer has to stay here and see the old man because of this damn black magic. He no longer has to let his life be controlled by the black magic and lose everything.
But if the old man goes to see him every day like he does because of this black magic, it might also affect him.
Just as he expected, the old man broke into his company to see him, ran to his girlfriend's house to see him, and caused trouble for him everywhere all the time.
The girlfriend finally couldn't stand it anymore. She couldn't imagine living with him like this and broke up.
He finally exploded, pushed and kicked the old man out of the house, and shouted at him: "You must destroy me! Are you going to force me to death? Can you please let me go?"
He angrily shouted out all the grievances he had suffered over the years.
"I hate that dark and run-down apartment full of bad people. I have been laughed at and bullied since I was a child. I finally got away from there. Why are you dragging me back? I don't want to go back. I want to escape and live my new life here! Can you let me go? Please!"
The old man left.
He actually didn't know how he got back.
He only knew that looking at his leaving back, he felt relieved, as if he saw freedom.
On the third day, he received a call from his neighbors. He then realized that he had not blocked them. He did not want to contact them anymore, so he blocked all his neighbors and changed his phone number.
So, when he found out the old man was dead, his body had already rotted.
He sat in his nightmarish room with his feet and one hand tied tightly to the bed. It was unknown whether he starved to death or drank poison beforehand and died on the bed. He could not leave the bed until his death, let alone leave the house to find him.
The old lady in 208, who was no longer deaf, heard him and said hurriedly, "Yes! We want to put an end to black magic and prevent more people from being involved."
Xia Bai: "...Then why don't you commit suicide?"
“…”
"Don't talk nonsense with them, burn their hair!"
Another man ran in from 505. He was the middle-aged man in his fifties from 405. The man covered his lower body and grinned. As soon as he came in, he ran to the corpse, picked up a cloth bag next to it, lit the hair inside and threw it on the rotten corpse.
The old man then lit one and did the same thing.
"Where's Chen Su? Why hasn't Chen Su come yet?" The middle-aged man held the hair in the last cloth bag, "She has to burn it herself!"
Chen Su should be the young woman living in 301.
Xiaoqi's boyfriend killed Ma Xinjia last night. Wang Chuan's magic has been transferred to his father, and the old lady's magic has been transferred to Wei Jingyun. They still have three pieces of hair picked up from the bed, just right for the old man, the middle-aged man and the young woman. At this point, all the magic has been transferred, and it will all be over soon.
Moreover, the old man and the middle-aged man have already lit their hair, so they are now fearless and not afraid at all.
Xia Bai: "If I'm not mistaken, two of your three pieces of hair were stolen from our 202, and one was stolen from 205."
The middle-aged man said, "Yes, the two pieces of hair we just set on fire were picked up by 202. One was on the bed and the other was on the sofa. I'm sorry, my two little brothers, the black magic has been transferred to you, but it's okay, we will send you away later."
Lin Xiang asked him: "Uncle, tell us first, what punishment was imposed on you?"
The middle-aged man covered his lower body again, his face twisted in pain, and blood seeped out from between his fingers.
Lin Xiang: “…”
Yang Yi said, "Since this has come to this, please tell us the truth. Is that corpse the sorcerer's? Did you kill him?"
"He deserves to die! He is a vicious sorcerer! He deliberately casts spells on random people!" the middle-aged man yelled.
He admitted that it was the sorcerer who was murdered, but he did not say that he was the one who killed him.
Xia Bai asked: "When he died, he cast a spell on everyone in the apartment that cannot be removed but can only be transferred?"
The middle-aged man was only concerned with anger. “It wouldn’t be a pity if he died a hundred times. He harmed so many people, so many people… I am innocent. I am a clean person who was transferred to a rotten root of black magic. I finally, finally got out of it, hahahaha… hiss! Why is it still hurting?”
He looked up and saw that Xia Bai and Lin Xiang were still fine. He finally realized that something was wrong. "What happened to you?"
Xia Bai: "Can it only be transferred to living people? I left you two strands of dead people's hair."
“…”
The middle-aged man quickly set fire to the hair in another bag and threw it on the body.
Lao Qian said, "I'm sorry, my hair is a wig."
“…”
The middle-aged man and the old man suddenly jumped up and tried to grab their hair, but Xia Bai threw them back with his earthworm arm.
One of them was in terrible pain down there, and the other two were quite old, and even Wang Chuan, who was in his prime, was no match for them. Lin Xiang quickly tied them up.
The middle-aged man rubbed the ground in pain, "Let me go, let me go!"
Yang Yi: "Tell me what happened, and we will let you go."
The middle-aged man cried and wailed, "I don't know. I've told you everything I know. I came here to visit my relatives, but I didn't find them. I was also cursed. Wang Chuan told me. He told me that I could find someone to help me get rid of the curse, so I did what he said."
The old man also said: "When I was transferred to the black magic master, he had already been killed. It has nothing to do with me."
They looked at Wang Chuan again. Wang Chuan smiled and said, "When I came back to move the magic, the magician was already dead. When I came back again, there were not many living people in the apartment."
"But I can tell you that the sorcerer was killed by many people in this apartment. He caused great harm to everyone in the apartment. When he died, he did cast a spell on the entire apartment. The spell cast on all the people can only be transferred and will never disappear. He wanted those who killed him to kill each other and not have a good end. He succeeded."
Wang Chuan has already told his father about transferring the black magic. At this point, there is no need for him to lie anymore.
However, Xia Bai asked him blankly: "Aren't you free? Why are you still staying here?"
Wang Chuan smiled bitterly and lowered his head. No one could see his expression. Only the slightly crazy laughter after his bitter smile could be heard.
Yes, he is free.
The old man died, and he was truly free.
But when he saw the old man's body, this thought did not occur to his mind at all. He just felt the ground beneath his feet disappear and he collapsed to the ground.
He couldn't get out because there was no ground under his feet.
Later, he heard Chen Xiyuan say that Kiki came to see him, and that maybe the sorcerer was still there even after his death. He felt that he had seen hope. He had always hoped that the old man would come to see him, and he was afraid that the old man could not see him, or was trapped somewhere and wandering around the apartment building.
But the old man never came.
Wang Chuan laughed for a while and said, "It was me who asked him to let me go and not disturb me. It was me...but are you really not going to come to see me?"
Xia Bai didn't tell him that Lao Wang saw it.
Lao Wang has been watching.
But he didn't bother.
After coming out of room 505, Xia Bai used the Harmony Tool to search for things in room 305 and shared them with them.
The things Xia Bai searched out can be divided into two main categories. One is the love letters written by 406 Xue Lihong and 305 woman Gao Xuan, and the other is the diary and sketchbook of the child Jingjing.
Xue Lihong claimed to be a writer with a literary sentiment. He often wrote love letters to Gao Xuan, some of which were love poems.
It can be seen from these love letters that Gao Xuan and her daughter Jingjing did not originally live in this apartment, but moved into this apartment later, and Xue Lihong fell in love with her at first sight.
"As soon as I saw you, I knew you were a vixen who came out of the book I wrote to seduce me."
"Every word I write today is filled with your presence."
"You are the one sent by God to save me. I am here waiting for you. I deserve a lover like you, and you deserve someone like me to pour out your love and water it into flowers."
Xia Bai: “…”
He brushed the goose bumps off his arms and continued watching.
The two of them should be together in the later part, which looks more explicit and a bit inappropriate for children.
Therefore, Gao Xuan and Xue Lihong were really having an affair, and no one misunderstood her.
Soon, problems arose in their relationship.
"I hate you! You broke my heart. What do you mean I'm your salvation? You actually slept with that loser in 303!"
"Don't explain anymore. Black magic is all feudal superstition! You can't even explain how you were cursed, and you're still trying to deceive me with this!"
"I won't get a divorce. My heart has been broken by you. You don't know how many pieces it has been broken into!"
"I won't let you go!"
Xia Bai gave them the two love letters to read.
Lin Xiang said: "So, Gao Xuan and Xue Lihong were truly in love, but she didn't expect someone to cast a spell on her. She had sex with the man in Room 303, and was discovered by Xue Lihong?"
Xia Bai nodded. "What's going on between the two of them? We can go to 406 to look for clues. The woman in 406, Luo Sifei, likes to take pictures. There might be something in her camera."
Several people immediately moved to 406.
When Xia Bai was in the underworld, he saw where Luo Sifei took out the camera. The camera was no longer there, but under the sofa, stained with blood. It turned out that there were many photos there.
When he was in the underworld, the beggar said that when he saw Gao Xuan having an affair with the man in Room 303 on the rooftop, he also saw Luo Sifei taking pictures with a camera.
Sure enough, there were these photos, as well as some photos of love letters. The love letters here were written by Gao Xuan to Xue Lihong.
It seems that Luo Sifei knew it a long time ago, but she didn't seem to care much.
The camera was out of battery, but the computer was still connected to the power supply. Yang Yi easily cracked the computer password and found the place where Luo Sifei stored the videos and photos, as well as the manuscripts she wrote.
"Watch this part." Yang Yi scrolled to the end of a video.
This video contains a huge amount of information. The first part is of Gao Xuan from 305 having an affair with the boss of 303. At the end, Gao Xuan kneels down to the boss of 303. Because it was filmed from a long distance, they listened to it three times before they could hear clearly that it was probably Gao Xuan begging for mercy from the boss of 303.
However, the boss of 303 also looked quite painful and whispered something.
This time I really couldn't hear clearly, but Yang Yi could read lips, and he said: "It wasn't me, I didn't cast the curse on you, but on my wife."
The reason why this video contains a huge amount of information is that another person appears in this video, the little girl Jingjing from Hell 305.
It was dark at night, with only the hazy moon shining on the dirty rooftop. If you didn’t look carefully, you wouldn’t see the little head sticking out in the corner of the picture.
Lin Xiang: "I was wondering if the boss of Room 303 would cheat on his wife since he loves her so much! It turns out that he cast a spell on her! This makes sense!"
Yang Yi sneered, "He doesn't love his wife that much. It seems that the boss cast a spell on his wife, who scolded him every day, so that she would fall in love with him. The wife couldn't accept it, so she transferred the spell to Gao Xuan. It's said that Gao Xuan couldn't help but fall in love with the boss because of the spell, and the boss wasn't cursed, but he didn't refuse."
Lin Xiang: "Oh, doesn't he love the boss lady very much? Why didn't he refuse?"
Lao Qian: “Oh, man.”
“…”
Yang Yi's guess was correct, as there were photos, videos, and even written evidence afterwards.
Luo Sifei, who was determined to become famous on the Internet, took her camera and secretly photographed the secrets in the corner of this dilapidated apartment. She compiled them with pictures and texts and full of emotion, probably intending to post them on the Internet.
Li Chaofeng is good-looking, fair-skinned and very fashionable.
She didn't have the opportunity to study well, but she didn't want to stay in the village to farm, marry a farmer, or, as arranged by her parents, marry an old man who could give her a few hundred yuan more in dowry and spend the rest of her life there.
She stole the money left by her family for her brother to marry, escaped, and studied cosmetology and hairdressing.
This process sounds simple, but it is not that easy in reality. She suffered a lot and was deceived, but it was all worth it because she finally met the person she thought she could marry.
She wanted to marry a rich man, and she was very frank about it. So, even though Xu Li was not good-looking or tall, but he was rich, she was still willing to marry him.
But who would have known that after they got married she found out that his wealth was fake and that he used his father's compensation money.
Not only does he have no money, he also has a father who is paralyzed in bed.
Of course she would go crazy, beat and scold him every day, and if she didn't mock him one day, she would be mad to death.
She hadn't filed for divorce yet. After his father finally died, she used his father's house to open a beauty salon and live a carefree life.
The days passed one by one, and it seemed that everything was okay. She had never been bullied and was taken care of very well. It seemed that it was okay to live like this.
However, when she suddenly became extremely attached to Xu Li and couldn't leave him, when she found out that Xu Li had cast a spell on her, she couldn't take it anymore. She was deceived into marriage, how could she allow herself to be tied down and spend her whole life with such a loser?
She found the sorcerer who cast a spell on her, and he said that he could not undo the spell he cast, as that would be a betrayal to his customers. However, he told her that the spell he cast could be transferred.
To whom should it be transferred?
That day, Gao Xuan came to her to get a haircut and looked very happy.
She looked at Gao Xuan and smiled. This person was the most suitable one.
Everyone in the apartment building knows that she is not disciplined and has an affair with the man in Room 406. However, the man in Room 406 has a wife. By transferring the black magic to her, the whole family of Room 406 can be saved.
So when they cut her hair, she took her hair and went to a sorcerer to have the curse removed.
Gao Xuan really started to pester Xu Li, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
When the 406 woman came to get her hair cut, she bowed her head and said to her, "Don't worry, your man will never cheat again. That woman has changed her target."
A few days later, the woman from 406 came to her, pulled her to a corner, and asked her, "Is it your man who has changed?"
She asked nonchalantly, "Yes, you know?"
The woman in 406 showed her the video she had taken of the two of them.
She stared with wide eyes, not realizing how tightly her hands were clenched or how irregular her breathing was.
Sometimes she would wonder why Xu Li loved her so much?
He was able to use his father's compensation to pursue her, a man who was not good at speaking, who came to her with a red face every day and stammered a lot of words to her.
After marriage, I let her beat me, let her scold me, and with red eyes I boiled water for her to soak her feet.
She always thought that even if Gao Xuan came to seduce him, he would remain indifferent.
He slept with her.
He slept with her!
He actually slept with her!
He was so gentle to her and even bent down to put on her shoes!
At that moment, the uneducated girl didn't know how to describe the feeling of her heart being torn apart, but she knew it was not entirely due to anger.
She rushed home, picked up a stool and started beating him wildly.
My mind is full of past images of him.
When he was pursuing her, he appeared in front of her with flowers in his hand and a red face, squatted in front of her and wanted to carry her on his back because he was afraid that the road would be slippery on a snowy day, and stammered a lot of words before he told her that he liked her.
After marriage, he never fought back every time she beat him and scolded him, squatted down to wash her feet, admitted that he had cast a spell on her, and cried saying that he just wanted a little love from her.
She beat him harder than ever before, like a madman, until she found that his head was covered in blood, tears and blood, and he was staggering after she drank the bottle of wine.
And he finally rebelled against her for the first time in his life.
Hysterically, crying and screaming, they died together.
They really died together.
Lin Xiang was stunned. "So the boss of 303 was beaten to death by the boss's wife? No, they killed each other?"
Xia Bai didn't expect this ending.
That timid boss rebelled against his wife for the first time in his life and died together with her. I wonder what kind of mood he was in at that time.
Lin Xiang sighed: "In fact, the boss's wife loves the boss, right? It's just that her complaints and anger cover it up. Does the boss still love the boss's wife as always?"
"Love." When Lao Qian said this, it was very similar to when the beggar said this in the underworld.
"Didn't you see the video? The boss was in pain too. How painful was he? He loved his wife so much, but she either beat him or mocked him. She didn't give him any love. He longed to be loved by his wife so he went to a sorcerer to cast a spell on his wife. But his wife simply transferred the spell to another woman. In his opinion, his wife didn't care about him at all, let alone love him."
Lao Qian said: "I guess he didn't reject Gao Xuan because he wanted to use this incident to stimulate his wife one last time, holding on to the last hope to see if his wife still cares about him a little bit."
"Unexpectedly, he was beaten up by his wife. He didn't understand. He just thought his wife didn't care about him anymore. She beat him even harder than usual, not caring whether he lived or died. He was already in pain, and he died together with his wife."
The first floor of the Hades Apartment.
When the players were having lunch on the first floor, they suddenly saw the proprietress of Room 303 and the boss coming down together.
For the first time, they saw the boss no longer walking with his back bent and his head down. His face was facing forward calmly. He held the boss's wife's wrist and walked slowly forward until he walked out of the door of the apartment.
The boss let go of his hand and pushed the boss's wife forward, "Let's go."
Let's go.
Go to the bigger world you have always wanted to go.
He had been restraining her, using money, lies, marriage, house, and black magic...
The proprietress did not allow herself to be pushed away. She slapped the boss's hand away fiercely, and pulled him away with her, to a place where they could no longer be seen in the apartment.
Yang Mei: "What are they doing?"
Ling Changye: "They solved another death."