☆, Chapter 24 I Saw Six
"Brother Yu" Xu Wang felt that the janitor's expression was not right, so he grabbed Yu Jiuyin's arm and blocked him in front of him, looking extremely alert.
"It's okay." Yu Jiuyin shook her head, reaching out to pull Xu Wang behind her. If anything really happened, Xu Wang wouldn't be able to handle it. However, Yu Jiuyin still felt a little warm at Xu Wang's small gesture.
Signaling Xu Wang to stop talking, Yu Jiuyin walked up to the janitor and stared at him for a moment before frowning.
It turned out that he was not pretending to be crazy, but was really crazy. Yu Jiuyin sensitively discovered that the school worker was missing a soul in his body.
You have to know that people have three souls and seven spirits. If the soul and spirit are incomplete, the mind will be affected. Just like Xu Wang became a little stupid after Yu Jiuyin took away one of his soul, this school worker was missing a spirit and his mental state was very confused.
But amnesia mostly occurs in children. After all, children's souls are unstable and may be separated from their bodies after being frightened. But this school worker is already an adult. What kind of horrible scene did he encounter that he could even save his life and still lose his soul?
But before he could even think about it, the janitor's trembling became even more intense, as if he had seen some terrifying monster in the dormitory. He screamed and turned to run away.
"Stop him!" There was something wrong with this school worker. He must know something, Yu Jiuyin shouted quickly.
The second brother was at the door, grabbing the man. The third brother also tried to stop him. But he never expected that the janitor, though frail, was actually incredibly strong, knocking the second brother over. The third brother was even pulled so hard that he staggered, banging his shoulder against the wall, and was unable to move for a long time.
"Stop right there!" The second brother jumped up from the ground and chased after the janitor. The commotion upstairs quickly attracted the attention of the other students in the dormitory. In addition, the janitor's expression was indeed very strange, so they thought he had messed with Jiuyin and the others, and quickly came over to help.
When there are more people, there is more control. At the second-floor staircase, the janitor was about to run downstairs when he was pinned down by the second-in-command and several classmates from the same department.
"Brother Yu, we caught him." The second brother quickly called Yu Jiuyin over. But before he could finish his words, he heard the janitor suddenly make a sound similar to a hiccup.
"Don't try that. It's useless to play tricks." The second brother was really fed up with it. But this time, he really guessed wrong.
The janitor wasn't pretending; he was genuinely having a seizure. It was akin to epilepsy; his entire body was shaking, his teeth chattering violently. His chest was rising and falling at an alarming rate, as if air couldn't flow through his chest. His face was flushed red from lack of oxygen.
"Ahhhh" he struggled in pain, foaming at the mouth.
"Fuck, hurry up and find a stick. This guy has epilepsy. Don't let him bite off his tongue. Call 120." Those who knew first aid methods quickly shouted to save the man.
Someone nearby returned to the dormitory, found a thermos stopper, and tried to put it in his mouth, but he almost bit him when he did so.
"This guy even bites people!" The person holding him down was also startled. In a moment of distraction, he let the janitor struggle away.
"What the hell!" There was a man who was dialing the emergency number next to him. As soon as he hung up the phone, he felt something was wrong behind him. He turned around and saw the man's twisted and twitching face. The eyeballs in his eye sockets were all white. When he saw it, he thought he had met a living ghost.
The man was so frightened that he jumped up and down, kicking his hind legs several times. The others also became scared, and the whole second floor was in chaos. In the end, the dormitory manager and security guard came up with ropes and tied the man up.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I scared you." The dormitory manager knew the school worker. After evacuating the other students, he found the older students and apologized to them repeatedly.
"It doesn't matter. Is he sick?" Yu Jiuyin asked indirectly.
The dormitory manager was a little hesitant and didn't want to say anything at first, but he felt that Yu Jiuyin looked familiar. Seeing him standing with Lao Er and the others, he suddenly asked, "Are you the owner of the haunted house?"
"Yes, that's me."
"Is that so?" The dormitory manager nodded and was silent for a long time before speaking, "Are there really ghosts in this world?"
"Just tell me what you want to ask." As soon as Yu Jiuyin heard this opening remark, he knew that he probably had something to ask.
As expected, the dormitory manager was silent for a while before he whispered, "Do you have time now? Otherwise, I'll treat you to a meal. That school worker is my relative's cousin, so this can be considered as my apology to you on his behalf."
"No need, just say it this way." Yu Jiuyin shook his head and refused.
The dormitory manager looked at the eldest brother Xu Wang and the other three with some hesitation for a while, but Yu Jiuyin insisted, so he finally decided to speak out his doubts.
"It's about my cousin. He actually had a pretty miserable life. He got lost as a child and was apparently adopted by an orphanage. Unfortunately, even children from an orphanage can get lost a second time, so he ended up on the streets as a beggar. He wasn't found until he was fourteen or fifteen. He was a pretty good student, though. He struggled to keep up with the junior high school curriculum at first, but by the time he reached high school, he was already among the top students. He graduated from college and got a good job. But in his first year, he suddenly went crazy. No one knows why, but he spent the better part of six months fabricating a murder scene, and when it got out of hand, he was detained by the police for three days. As soon as he got out, he went crazy."
"Then you should go to the police station. There's no point asking me."
"No, no, I think I can only find you." The dormitory manager looked around cautiously, making sure no one was eavesdropping before lowering his voice and saying to Yu Jiuyin, "When I opened the dormitory door this morning, I took a look upstairs. I saw the things you have here."
He pointed to the balcony. "There's a girl hanging from a clothes hanger over there."
"What do you want to say?" Yu Jiuyin didn't say anything, but Xu Wang was very alert.
"Don't get me wrong, I mean no harm." The dorm manager waved his hand and quickly explained, "My cousin once told me that he saw six girls hanged like this in a row."
Damn, everyone was scared to death, what the hell are those six? The three bosses who saw Yunyue’s miserable appearance immediately changed their expressions.
The dormitory manager was afraid that they would not believe him, so he reiterated, "Everything I said is true."
He walked under the electric fan, as if he recalled some terrible scene, and his face looked particularly ugly.
"One day, around two in the morning, my cousin called me out of the blue. As soon as I picked up, I heard him yelling. Six girls had their legs tied to fan blades, and then their necks were stuck in a clothesline. The fan blades spun, and they were torn apart. I saw it all. I saw it all. I woke up in shock and called him a psycho, but it was already the middle of the night, so I thought he was having a nightmare and didn't take it seriously. I said a few perfunctory words and hung up. The next day, I woke up to hear that he had been to the police station for making a false alarm."
"It was three days later when I received the next call from the police to pick him up. The local police officer told me that my cousin seemed to have gone crazy. He had been talking nonsense in the detention room for several days, saying that he couldn't see anything and that he wanted to dig his eyes out."
"That's all." The boss and the others found it boring. With this level of storytelling, it was not even as creative as the ghost doll in Yu Jiuyin's haunted house.
"If that were all, I wouldn't have come to you. You know what a mental hospital is, the better kind. Generally, people who don't have anything to do will recover after a while. My cousin stopped being crazy after he went in. But after he got out, he developed a habit of hanging everything up, six in a row, like dried vegetables, with a hole poked in the middle and strung on a clothesline. Can you believe it? He once bought six old hens, strung their heads together like candied haws, and hung them on the balcony."
"What the hell is wrong with this?" The boss took a breath and felt a chill on his back.
"Yes, but the doctor said he's better and asked him to be discharged." The dormitory manager opened his phone and found a photo to show Yu Jiuyin and the other four. "This is where my cousin lives now."
Yu Jiuyin took a look and also found it very strange.
It was indeed quite eerie. The empty room contained no furniture except a bed. But even so, the room wasn't empty. All the walls were densely covered with objects. Six objects were arranged in groups of six, arranged in order of height and size. From a distance, when the wind blew, their shadows swayed on the ground, looking like a row of corpses without lower bodies.
"My cousin whispered to me in private that he was pretending to be crazy. That's the only way those people wouldn't come looking for him, because he doesn't know anything. He's just a lunatic."
So who was it that came looking for him, and what had he seen that night? Thinking of Yunyue, and the sudden cleanliness of the dormitory, the dorm manager's story, made the four of them feel even more terrified. They had the illusion that if they weren't careful, they would be hung on the clothesline like Yunyue.
But the more this happens, the more we need to find ways to save ourselves.
The eldest brother took courage and took another look at the photo that the dormitory manager took out, then he shuddered with fear.
"Brother Yu" seemed to have seen something horrifying, and the boss's face suddenly turned ugly.
"What's wrong?" Yu Jiuyin asked him.
The boss swallowed hard, took two deep breaths, and then said with difficulty, "He seems to be in the same residential complex as Yunyue."
"You also know what Zhuhua Community is all about."
"Yes. Because this window is the only one of its kind in the entire city of B." After the boss finished speaking, he felt a cold sweat on his back.
Yu Jiuyin interjected, "Are there many people living there?"
"Not many. It's weird. The neighborhood is nice, but it always feels cold and gloomy. Aside from the first building where a few retired uncles and aunts live, in the other buildings, having one household per floor is considered a lot."
"I've told Yunyue several times before that her neighborhood is too creepy. But Yunyue said it's okay, she'll just go back to sleep, and the rent is cheap. We were planning to move out, but suddenly..."
"Brother Yu, is there something wrong with this community?" Xu Wang sensitively noticed that Yu Jiuyin was in a bad mood.
"Okay. Go get a piece of paper." Yu Jiuyin said, took the pen and wrote the two words Zhuhua on it.
"People are subject to misfortunes and blessings from day to day, and words have yin and yang, good and bad luck. Businesses usually choose the words in their store names carefully. But this community does the opposite. These two words are both a sign of great misfortune."
"The characters in this poem mean that if there is no treasure house, the people will leave and become exiled. The family will be broken and the people will be scattered. It is a house of evil." "Look at Hua again. The two crosses on his head are already ominous to the extreme, but there are two more on his waist, connected together, like a dead body carrying pole. Literally translated, it means that there are four dead people in the house. It is a sinister omen."
"What do you mean?" Yu Jiuyin spoke in an unfamiliar way, but Xu Wang could still follow, while the boss and the others were all confused.
Seeing that they didn't understand, Yu Jiuyin drew another pattern on the paper. It was a person lying on a piece of wood with arms outstretched, with a stick on his head and on each side for lifting people. If you look closely, it is exactly the same as the word "Hua".
Damn, everyone felt a chill down their spine.
Yu Jiuyin raised the corner of his lips and said, "With such a name, if you say nothing happens to them, then who will?"
"So, Brother Yu, Yunyue..."
"He should be gone." Yu Jiuyin patted the boss on the shoulder and told him the result directly.
"I understand. Thank you, Brother Yu." The boss lowered his head and said nothing, but his eyes were quietly red.
After checking the dormitory again, Yu Jiuyin was sure there were no other clues in the boss's dormitory, so he decided to leave. But he didn't have any clues about what would happen next. Even though he knew there was something wrong with Zhuhua Community, he couldn't go to Yunyue's house for the time being. After all, the boss had already called the police, and the police would be there. How could they let them in so easily?
So the clues were cut off at this point. The only way to find a breakthrough was to find the cousin of the dormitory manager.
According to the dorm manager, his cousin had lived in Zhuhua Community since graduation, even during the two years he spent recuperating at a nursing home. Yu Jiuyin therefore suspected that the school worker must know something but couldn't reveal it.
"When is it convenient for me to meet him?"
"In the afternoon. He's still in the hospital. I've already contacted his parents. They told me to come over once he wakes up."
"Yeah. I'll go with you."
"Brother Yu, what about us?"
"You guys," Yu Jiuyin pointed at the lockers of the three bosses, "are packing up and moving, of course. Starting today, you'll be a day student, and don't come back to this dormitory until this matter is resolved."
"Where do we live then?"
"Live with me"
Yu Jiuyin said it calmly, but the three bosses only felt annoyed. There is indeed no Yunyue in Yu Jiuyin's haunted house, but there are other evil spirits.
The boss said, "Well, Brother Yu, why don't I rent a house outside?"
"Why? Do you dislike me?" Yu Jiuyin was surprised, and suddenly her eyes turned red and she covered her chest. "Zhaocai, you scumbag, you clearly called me Xiao Tiantian just now. It turns out that you were lying to me."
The tone is sad and I feel pity for her.
When the dormitory manager saw this, he thought there was something going on between Yu Jiuyin and the boss, and immediately looked at the boss with a strange look.
But the boss, who had been played by Yu Jiuyin several times today, wanted to kneel down to Yu Jiuyin.
All the golden men in the world are yours, Dad Jiuyin, please take a break.
Just like that, under Yu Jiuyin's insistence, the three elders finally listened to Yu Jiuyin's suggestion and moved to Yu Jiuyin's haunted house. Xu Wang went home and drove the car over to help them carry their luggage.
As for Yu Jiuyin, he followed the dormitory manager to see the school worker who had an epileptic seizure and bit people during the day.
"Mr. Yu, please don't mind if my aunt's attitude is bad later." When they were about to arrive at the hospital, the dormitory manager hesitated and said to Yu Jiuyin.
"How to say"
"Well, the main thing is that after my cousin got into trouble, he kept insisting that he wasn't making a false alarm. But the building across the street was completely empty, no one lived there, so it definitely didn't fit his story of snooping there for half a year. But his stories were so genuine, the same story every time. Plus, he went crazy for no apparent reason, so my aunt suspected he was possessed by something. But all the masters we found were useless, and instead made his condition worse."
The dormitory manager sighed and said, "The old lady only has this one son, and he suffered so much when he was young. She raised him with great difficulty, but something like this happened to him. That's why my aunt's attitude towards him is sometimes not very good."
"I understand." Yu Jiuyin nodded to indicate that he understood.
There was no conversation along the way, and the two soon arrived at the hospital.
In the ward, the janitor was sound asleep, a gray-haired old woman watching over him. The scene was harmonious and warm. However, Yu Jiuyin was sensitive enough to sense a slight incongruity.
At the same time, a pungent odor filled the entire hospital corridor the moment the ward door opened.
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