Chapter 20: The First Item: Deserted City Notes
Chen Li immediately supported Hongmao and let him down from the rope loop.
The red-haired man's eyes were bloodshot, his face was swollen and red, and he explained in a hoarse voice:
"I don't know what happened. When I came to my senses, I found myself hanging there for no apparent reason."
There must be too much resentment in the house.
Chen Li asked Hongmao to sit down and rest for a while, while he found the pages of paper again and studied them again.
The above sentence was written by Rengui.
It seems that Rengui has indeed been here.
The end of the shed was visible at a glance, and it was obvious that Lan Cheng was not imprisoned here.
Chen Li stood in a corner of the shed, looking up at the hanging rope and muttering, "Wrong."
The red-haired man covered his neck and coughed twice, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
"The Spring City in Notes from a Deserted City was written by the author based on the appearance of the town where he was born."
"The ancestral home, my aunt's house, the rental house, these places really exist in this city, but Ren Gui in the book has never lived here, let alone hanged himself here."
Shen Li calmly explained his findings.
He looked up at the rope and asked the red-haired man innocently, "Whose rope is this?"
He asked a chilling question, but his tone was even, and he asked the question out of pure curiosity.
In reality, who is the person who put his neck into this rope loop?
The light bulb in the room suddenly exploded.
The red-haired man jumped up in fright, rushed over based on his instincts, grabbed Shen Li and ran away.
But when they walked to the wall, they found that the door they had just entered was gone!
The shed was surrounded by walls on all sides, and the entrance disappeared.
“It’s really weird!”
The red-haired man was a little overwhelmed. If Chen Li hadn't been there, he would have peed himself by now.
When Chen Li heard the word "weird", the first thing he thought of was not that they had accidentally entered a haunted house and the danger was unpredictable.
He was thinking of the silver-haired boy who had also said this word to him in another world.
"Has anyone ever told you that you're weird?"
Those words echoed in his ears several times.
The stench wafting through the room almost made Red Hair feel nauseous, and now, the source of the stench was slowly approaching them from behind.
Chen Li couldn't smell anything and was completely unaware of this.
It was too dark around, and Red Hair was so panicked that he didn't turn on the flashlight twice.
After the third attempt, the circular light from the flashlight suddenly illuminated the shed in front of him.
The red-haired man pressed his back against the wall and saw an unrecognizable object hanging and dangling in a rope loop.
Until the thin neck could no longer support the swollen body and broke, the thing fell to the ground with its head and body separated.
The head was tilted to one side, but the body was crawling towards them.
Red Hair knelt on the ground, grabbed the hem of Shen Li's clothes and shook him hard.
Shen Li came back to his senses, as if he hadn't seen the horrible scene before him, and asked for no reason:
"It's weird. Can it be used to praise people?"
"Brother? You are asking these questions at this time! Are you serious?" The red-haired man couldn't hold back anymore.
He was almost scared to death!
He hugged Chen Li's thighs and saw that the other party had no reaction and was still quietly waiting for his answer.
Red Hair said quickly, "Brother, why don't you look forward? This thing in front of you is called the Evil Gate. What do you think is worthy of praise about it?"
Chen Li really looked at the things in front of him carefully.
It was a vengeful spirit who hanged himself here when he was alive. No wonder Red-Haired hanged himself in the same place without knowing it after he entered the door.
It's looking for a replacement.
Although I can't smell anything, I can tell that the room smells bad.
So in that person's eyes, he and this thing can both be described as evil?
"Ah, I see." Shen Li, who had figured this out, sighed, "It seems that this is not a good word."
It feels like a sudden enlightenment.
They saw the thing crawling on the ground and was about to touch them.
Red Hair shouted: "Shouldn't you do something to it? Just like what you did at the post station! Just raise your hand and kill it?"
Shen Li answered him slowly: "I can't do it."
Red Hair almost doubted his own ears. "Can't do it? Then can you summon a black shadow like you in a flash, like in the notebook, as tall as a dozen stories, and destroy it in a flash..."
Shen Li: “I can’t do that.”
Red Hair: “…”
"No, you could have done it before!"
Shen Li answered very officially: "I was not anemic before, and my shadow is still there."
"And now?"
"I'm anemic." Shen Li shone the flashlight at his feet and added, "My shadow is gone too."
The red-haired man stared at Shen Li's feet with wide eyes.
Really! Why is there no shadow of him?
"Brother, I don't know whether you are a human or a ghost now, but if you don't do something, we will both become ghosts."
Chen Li sensed the desire to survive in Hongmao's words, and finally redirected his weird train of thought to the serious matter of "staying alive".
Talismans could be used to deal with such evil spirits, but he didn't want to lose anything anymore.
Thinking of "surviving", that person's delivery mission was completed, and he and his teammates survived.
The red-haired man was still pressing: "Brother, how long do you want to think about it?"
That thing on the ground is right in front of us!
Chen Li moved aside expressionlessly.
The direction suddenly changed, and the vengeful spirit had no choice but to turn around and continue crawling towards them.
It moves very slowly, like a turtle.
Every time they were about to be caught, the two of them would tacitly walk to the other end of the room.
In this case, it will have to turn around and crawl again at a snail's pace.
After going back and forth several times, the vengeful spirit seemed to be tired of crawling and lay down in the middle of the room without moving.
The red-haired man widened his eyes in delight.
"I understand. This is the dog-walking tactic, right? Let it get tired and stop chasing us. You're a genius!"
Shen Li realized it belatedly and said, "Sorry, I was thinking about something else just now."
Red Hair: “???”
"My heart is broken. Not only did you run away with the ghost, you also ran away with me."
After wandering for a while, Shen Li finally returned to the topic, "Use my blood to destroy this vengeful spirit..."
With his previous experience, Redhead added in a very restrained way: "But?"
"But I'm anemic. From now on, every drop of blood is precious."
"So?" Red Hair carefully guided him to come up with the solution.
"So let's go out first and forget about it. As long as no one enters this room, nothing will happen."
The problem comes back like this.
"But the door is gone!" Red-haired man made a gesture to the wall, "Please look!"
Chen Li turned around, looked at the wall, and spread out his palms with his palms facing the wall.
From top to bottom, the movement was as easy as swiping a card in the red-haired eyes.
Then the door that disappeared out of thin air appeared!
Red-haired man wanted to cry but had no tears.
"So it's such a simple thing, wouldn't it be enough to just open the door earlier..."
Every failure makes him wiser. Next time he will know that whoever confronts others head-on is a dog, and when encountering danger, just turn around and run away.
"Then shall we go and meet up with the others?" Red Hair tentatively sought the boss's opinion.
Although Chen Li did not eliminate the vengeful spirit, he still wanted to continue investigating and find out the identity of the vengeful spirit.
"Wait for me here. I'll take a look around and be back soon."
Hearing that the boss was going to act alone, Red Hair hurried to follow.
"Don't! I'll go with you!"
If you let him wander around alone, he will get lost in no time.
I’m afraid he might wait there for a year but still won’t come back.
Red Hair swore that he would never believe anyone who had no sense of direction saying “I’ll be right back” again in his life.
There's no way he'll come back!
"Tell me what you think, and I'll help you."
Hongmao thought that Shen Li might have been used to acting alone in the past. He followed him and looked at his back, always feeling that he was lonely and desolate.
You have to handle everything by yourself.
Do all the big guys in this world look lonely and desolate from their backs?
A cold breeze blew by, and Red Hair sniffed, then followed him into another room in the shantytown.
Compared with the previous room, this room is much more normal.
At least it looks like a place where people live, and it is full of life everywhere.
Red Hair walked to the table and saw a thick layer of dust on it.
Beneath the dust were a few yellowed newspapers.
Red Hair spread out the newspaper and saw the headline at a glance.
【Spring City Massacre】
"Sun experienced a series of setbacks including divorce, being kicked out of the house, being deserted by his friends and family, and losing his job."
"This became the last straw that broke the camel's back for Sun. Sun hanged himself in his rental apartment in the early morning of the 12th. Five days later, his body was discovered by neighbors who smelled a foul odor..."
Hongmao felt that this news was later used by Lancheng as material in his own book.
It is also the person who committed suicide because of despair of life, but in the novel it is Ren Gui.
Chen Li found another stack of newspapers on the cabinet nearby.
[Another suicide tragedy in this city]
He took a closer look at the content and found that the person who committed suicide by hanging was the landlord who had previously discovered the middle-aged man named Sun.
He was the second to die.
After the landlord's death, the third person to die was the landlord's son, who also committed suicide by hanging himself in the same room.
In the following newspapers, there was a suicide tragedy almost every once in a while.
Even the police who went in to investigate would be hanged there for unknown reasons the next day.
Later on, the Chuncheng Municipal Government planned to demolish this shantytown.
However, before the plan could be implemented, the world was destroyed.
After figuring out the whole story, Red-haired exclaimed, "It turns out to be a haunted house."
Hongmao had read the entire book "Notes from a Deserted City" and knew that the rental house where Rengui lived in the book was not described as a haunted house.
In the novel, it was just a shabby rental house with very cheap rent.
"Fortunately Lan Cheng didn't write a horror novel, otherwise...
"But it's strange. Why did Ren Gui's handwriting appear in the rental house? How did Ren Gui in the book come to the real world?"
"The two worlds must have something in common. Rengui found this point and then invaded the real world." Red Hair muttered.
At this point, both of them were silent for a moment, then looked at each other and said the answer together:
"Hang yourself!"
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