Chapter 68 Children’s Choir (6)
When the door was pushed open, a cloud of dust flew up from the house. Dust mites were everywhere. Dai Xiao couldn't help but cover his nose and started coughing.
"Are you allergic to dust mites?" Duan Jiangli asked, "Why don't you just stay outside and wait for us?"
Dai Xiao shook his head: "It's okay, I just don't quite get used to it at first, it will be fine after a while."
Gu Qiufeng bought a flashlight from the mall and illuminated the dark confessional.
It's daytime now, and the light in the room can't possibly be so dim that you can't see your fingers.
"There are no windows." Duan Jiangli said, "Is this a confessional? It feels like a small dark room to me."
They walked in cautiously. In this situation where nothing could be seen clearly, human eyes were at a disadvantage, so they had to be more alert to the various dangers that might be lurking in the darkness.
The confessional was empty. Gu Qiufeng shone the flashlight around. There was no furniture. There was only a single bed placed against the wall facing the door, covered with white sheets and quilts.
He raised the flashlight upwards, and suddenly saw a field of red text and a human face.
Dai Xiao was so scared that she wanted to scream, but her reason prevailed and she quickly bit the back of her hand to prevent herself from screaming.
Even Duan Jiangli was startled and frightened when he saw that face.
"It's a painting." Gu Qiufeng said, taking out disposable gloves that he hadn't worn for a long time and handing them to Duan Jiangli and Dai Xiao to prevent their hands from directly contacting the paint.
Duan Jiangli moved closer. The words on the wall were still in Spanish, densely packed together. The red pigment occasionally did not dry up when it was written, so a long streak was left at each stroke, which looked like a hideous bloodstain.
"We fall into heaven and greet the angels from hell?" Duan Jiangli said speechlessly, "What nonsense."
Dai Xiao said: "Maybe it's a reference to some historical allusion, we don't know."
Gu Qiufeng, however, focused his attention on the painting.
The reason why this painting successfully scared Duan Jiangli was because it was painted so well, so vividly and extremely lifelike, as if there really was a human head hanging on the wall with a smile.
It has the appearance of a small child.
With huge eyes and a curved mouth, if it were in real life, it would probably be as adorable as a doll.
It can be painted on the wall and presented in two-dimensional form. In such a dim room with no light reflection, even the child's upturned mouth corners look weird.
Duan Jiangli stroked his chin and thought, "So the so-called confessional is probably to lock up the believers who have committed crimes in a small dark room with only a bed, and let them reflect on themselves every day?"
His expression was wrinkled, as if to say: What the hell?
"Wait." Dai Xiao suddenly said, "There are the footsteps of a child outside."
As a kindergarten teacher, she is often with children and is very sensitive to the sound of their footsteps. The way adults walk and the sounds they make are slightly different from those of young children.
Dai Xiao was sure that there was a child walking outside.
Gu Qiufeng said: "I heard it too."
His five senses were now more acute, so after listening for a while, Gu Qiufeng said, "Let's hide. It's heading towards the confessional."
Duan Jiangli cursed: "Where is there a place to hide?"
Under the bed.
Although the bottom of the single bed was not wide, it was still wide enough for two people lying sideways. Gu Qiufeng asked Duan Jiangli and Dai Xiao to get in. He bought the invisibility potion that Duan Chouyu had used before from the mall, made himself invisible, and then lay on the bed, covering his entire body with a quilt.
After his vision was completely plunged into darkness, Gu Qiufeng could only hear his own breathing and the rustling of clothes from the occasional movement of the two people hiding below.
The sound of the children's footsteps continued in the corridor, and the sound was getting closer and closer, indicating that they were almost at the end and at the confessional where they were hiding.
Gu Qiufeng had an extra card in his hand.
But suddenly, the footsteps stopped outside the confessional.
Dai Xiao's heart was pounding: "What..."
Before she could finish her words, Duan Jiangli covered her mouth.
Duan Jiangli made a gesture to her to keep quiet.
It is not known whether the child at the door is a human or a ghost. In any case, the probability that it is a ghost is very high. It does not come in at this time, maybe it is testing something.
You must not reveal any flaws at this time!
Just as the three of them were holding their breath, a shrill howl suddenly came from outside the house: "What the hell is this!!!"
Gu Qiufeng frowned slightly.
This voice sounds a little familiar.
It seems to be the man in a suit among the newcomers.
Duan Jiangli curled the corners of his lips helplessly.
This guy was very unlucky. He ran into the priest when he went upstairs. After finally getting upstairs, he happened to meet the ghost child.
The noise outside suddenly became very chaotic, which made Duan Jiangli and Dai Xiao relax a little.
But when Duan Jiangli suddenly felt something was wrong, his hand, which was approaching the bed, was suddenly touched by the coldness.
Duan Jiangli's half body was stiff, and he moved his gaze to the gap between the bed and the ground.
Then he looked into a pair of large eyes with blood holes.
Although Duan Jiangli had been the captain of the A City Protection Center for many years and had seen many non-human beings, he was still shocked by the sudden shock and his mind went blank for a moment.
His hand was tightly held by the hand of the owner of the pair of blood-hole eyes, and it seemed that he wanted to pull Duan Jiangli out of the bed.
Dai Xiao, who was leaning against the wall, felt something was wrong. She wisely used her petite body to hide behind Duan Jiangli. She did not stand up rashly to check. Instead, she put her hands around Duan Jiangli's armpits and held Duan Jiangli's body tightly to fight against the ghost child outside.
She didn't lie. Although Dai Xiao was small in stature, she was very strong. She didn't show any weakness in the fight against the ghost, and made Duan Jiangli stay motionless beside the bed.
Duan Jiangli felt that his arm was about to be dislocated by that broken thing outside.
Fortunately, the two people and the ghost were in a stalemate for a long time. When the ghost child saw that he couldn't pull it any further, he simply gave up. He actually stood up and ran out of the confessional.
After all the noise in the house had died down for a while, Duan Jiangli and Dai Xiao finally crawled out from under the bed in cold sweat.
Dai Xiao was so frightened that her legs went limp. She couldn't help but get off the bed. Then she suddenly realized something was wrong: "Mr. Gu is gone!"
Duan Jiangli's expression remained unchanged. When he was fighting with the ghost kid just now, he guessed that Gu Qiufeng was tripped by something.
"There is a notebook on the ground. Did the child drop it?" Dai Xiao hurriedly picked up the notebook that was left beside the bed.
Seeing this, Duan Jiangli gritted his teeth and used his few points to buy a flashlight from the mall to illuminate Dai Xiao. The two of them looked at the words on the notebook together.
"I don't understand." Dai Xiao had only learned English since elementary school and had never been exposed to Spanish. She looked at the densely packed words on the notebook and felt overwhelmed. So she said, "Mr. Duan, you watch first. I'll go to the corridor to check the situation."
In case the naughty kid made a surprise attack, Dai Xiao tiptoed to the door, looked out carefully, and then took a breath.
Not far from the confessional, there was a pile of broken limbs, as if they had been violently torn apart by something. Judging from the scattered pieces of cloth, it should be the man in the suit.
Dai Xiao, who was directly hit by such a bloody scene for the first time in so many years, felt a sour feeling in her stomach. Fortunately, she had only eaten some dry bread distributed by the priest to the players from yesterday until now, so she couldn't vomit anything.
"He's dead." Duan Jiangli had finished flipping through the notebook and walked over.
His expression was very calm, so calm that Dai Xiao was a little creepy. Because Duan Jiangli looked like he had seen many such scenes. Could a rich second-generation dandy really be so calm about life and death?
Dai Xiao didn't dare to think too much.
Although she is just an ordinary person, she is not a fool. It is obvious that Gu Qiufeng and Duan Jiangli are more than what they claim to be.
But Dai Xiao didn't want to delve into things that had nothing to do with her. She just patted her chest to calm down. After she finally calmed down, she asked, "How are we going to find Mr. Gu next?"
"Go upstairs." Duan Jiangli said concisely.
Dai Xiao was a little scared: "What if there is a ghost upstairs that is more powerful than this ghost kid?"
"Anyway, singing at night will only relieve the death penalty, so we might as well take the initiative to look for clues." Duan Jiangli shook the diary in his hand, "This diary is incomplete. It contains the diary written by the children's choir in the church. It is obviously guiding us to piece together this diary to find clues."
Dai Xiao: "...What does the diary say?"
"A little boy felt that something was wrong with this church. For example, he once looked into the eyes under the bed in the confessional, and then he found blood flowing out of the closet where there should have been only clothes..." Duan Jiangli said, "We need to find such a closet upstairs."
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Gu Qiufeng knocked silently on the wardrobe and found that he couldn't push it open from the inside.
He was just distracted for a moment, and for some reason he was locked in a dark closet.
Gu Qiufeng could barely find a place to stay, so he could only summon a ghost baby to keep it by his side to prevent any unexpected events.
On the wall of the cabinet behind him there were the same words and smiley faces as in the confessional on the second floor.
But the owner of the smiling face has changed, and it is a child with a different appearance.
Gu Qiufeng had no way to push open the cabinet door. He guessed that Duan Jiangli and others might need to open it from the outside. He didn't know whether Duan Jiangli could find him in time.
There was a faint sound of children's chorus outside. Gu Qiufeng lowered his eyes and knocked on the cabinet door again and again in rhythm, silently memorizing the singing style of the song.
Just then, a clear child's voice said, "John, did you hear any sound? It seems to come from the cabinet."
Gu Qiufeng stopped.
He held his breath slightly, and through the narrow gap left in the closet, he saw three little kids with big bloody eyes outside.
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