Chapter 19.
Looking at those deformed figures covered with quilts, Li Jia's heart was beating like a drum and his eyelids were twitching.
Moreover, compared with the faint fishy smell in other rooms, the odor concentration in this room increased exponentially, almost making several people fall over.
Ning Xuanqing said in a voice as quiet as possible: "One bed per person, let's hurry up and leave after the search."
Ning Xuanqing always had a feeling that this house contained something very important. After they entered the room, the feeling became even stronger.
The layout of the dormitory is very simple. There are two beds on each side of the wall and a table in the middle. There is no separate bathroom in the room, only one window through which you can see the open space outside.
Only the upper bunk of the bed that Tang En was assigned was occupied. He tried to open his eyes wide and use the dim light to make out the things on the bed.
The employees' beds were old-fashioned steel-frame beds. I don't know if it was due to the weirdness or if it was just the way it was, but the steel frames were already covered in rust.
In the dim light, he saw a black thing on the pillow of the lower bunk, but the light was too dim to see it clearly. Tang En bravely went up and touched it.
It's rough to the touch and feels like a piece of rope.
He picked it up puzzledly and prepared to take a closer look, but when his hand holding the rope was halfway up, the rope could not be pulled anymore.
Tang En was surprised to find that the other end of the rope seemed to be connected to the upper bunk, and at this moment, a slow pulling force came from the other end of the rope.
That's not a rope, that's the hair hanging down from the upper bunk!
At that time, the hair was slowly being retracted, and the thing on the upper bunk was awakened!
Tang En covered his mouth tightly to suppress his scream. He stepped back tremblingly, not daring to look at the figure who was slowly sitting up.
Tang Yu was quietly searching for another bed behind him when she suddenly felt someone pulling her sleeve. She immediately turned around to look and naturally saw that figure.
At the same time, the heart-pounding sound of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor.
The two looked at each other in the dark, and tacitly moved towards the window at the same time, pulling Ning Xuanqing and Li Jia with them.
Fortunately, there are no protective measures on the windows of the staff dormitory here, so people can just jump out by opening the window.
The footsteps outside were getting closer and closer. The thing in the room had already stood up, and the iron bed frame was making strange creaking noises due to its movement.
What was even worse was that the window seemed to be very old and was stuck in the window slot. Everyone had to use all their strength to slowly slide the window out a few inches, accompanied by a loud and rough noise.
At this moment, everything lying down in the dormitory began to slowly sit up, and the four of them were almost going crazy.
Li Jia was so scared that tears fell from her eyes. She tried hard while muttering, "Ancestors, please bless me, if I can escape this time, I will definitely quit gambling and sex and be a perfect girl... My mom, my dad, him whom I have never met, help me! I am going to die! I am going to die!"
Fortunately, with the combined efforts of the four, the window was finally opened, and several people leaned against the windowsill and jumped out one after another.
Although Li Jia was so scared that her face was covered with tears and snot, she was the last one to leave.
"Go, go, go quickly! I'm the president and I'll cover the rear!"
Tang Yu and Ning Xuanqing, who came out first, grabbed one side each and pulled Li Jia out like a carrot.
Li Jia was watching him come out when something unexpected happened!
A stream of black hair rushed out, bringing with it a gust of fishy wind, and suddenly wrapped around her ankles. The huge pulling force instantly pulled her half way back.
It’s the weird one who got up first!
"I just don't understand why a man has such long hair!" Li Jia was completely defeated.
"Hold on, don't let go, Li Jia!" Ning Xuanqing gritted his teeth, his face turning red from the effort.
Li Jia gritted her teeth and held on, but she didn't forget to say, "I should say this, please don't let go!"
At this critical moment, a golden arc of light flashed from the side and instantly cut off the strange black hair that was like a steel cable.
Without the pulling force, Li Jia was pulled out in an instant, and the three of them rolled into a ball due to inertia.
Tang En hurriedly pulled up one person each with one hand. Li Jia, still in shock, saw a golden card flying back to him.
"Are you all okay?" Tang En picked up the card while checking on the three people.
"Good guy, good guy! I knew it was right to recruit you into the guild! From now on you are my half-brother!" Li Jia muttered with a look of fear on his face.
Tang Yu just fell and was not seriously injured. After she sat up from the ground, she immediately saw the open dormitory window.
“Look!”
Everyone heard her exclamation and turned to look over.
I saw that the space behind the window was filled with blurry and strange figures. They were deformed and pale, and even the night could not conceal the resentment emanating from their eyes.
Seeing this scene, several people stepped back in fear, but those guys just stood there motionless, and finally closed the window with a snap.
Li Jia: "...Are they going back to sleep again?"
What is going on?
Ning Xuanqing observed carefully and breathed a sigh of relief: "They should not be able to leave the room. It seems to be the limitation of the copy."
Everyone thought about it and it made sense. From the beginning till now, how many strange things had everyone encountered?
If these things were allowed to run around everywhere, they would have no need to live.
Tang En said with some guilt: "I'm sorry, it's all because I startled them. In the end, no clues were found."
As it stands now, there's no way back to that room, and it's impossible to look for clues there.
Li Jia waved her hands and said nonchalantly: "Who cares? If we can't find him, then we can't find him. As long as we're alive, that's all that matters!"
Li Jia, who survived the disaster, has completely entered the so-called sage mode without the ball.
None of them felt too sorry about losing the clue. They followed the wall and planned to sneak back to the dormitory from the other end.
After all, they haven't found Butcher Cui's room yet, so they need to hurry.
As she was walking, Li Jia tripped and almost fell down. Fortunately, Tang Yu pulled her up at the critical moment.
"What's this?"
Several people looked at the thing on the ground. It was a dark mass, probably a suitcase. Because of Li Jia's trip, the contents of the bag fell out.
A soft-cover notebook fell out from his clothes and hit the ground with a clatter. Tang Yu was attracted by the sound.
She looked at the notebook in the moonlight and felt that it looked familiar. She seemed to have seen such a notebook somewhere before, but she couldn't remember where it was for a while.
At that time, Ning Xuanqing also made a discovery. She took out an old work badge from her bag. Seeing that she was looking at it seriously, Li Jia also leaned over to recognize the words on it.
"Cui, Cheng, Fu? Hey, is this the one..." Li Jia didn't say the rest of the words, but the three of them understood what she meant.
Could this be Butcher Cui’s thing?
"Let's take our things and find a safe place to talk." Ning Xuanqing said as he stuffed all the things into the suitcase and led everyone out of the dormitory area.
Everyone came to the sewage treatment room next to the living area. No one worked here at night, and it was quiet in the closed environment, so it was relatively hidden.
The four cats were in the corner, using the light from the mechanical equipment to identify the words on the notebook.
This is the diary written by Butcher Cui. Although it is a diary, he does not record every day, so the time span of the diary is very long. The earliest entry was five years ago.
The first part tells about the peaceful life of Butcher Cui, his wife and son, a family of three, living a happy life.
It was not until half a year ago that Butcher Cui's life changed.
"On July 15, Xiaoye (Cui Jianye, the son of Cui the Butcher) was playing with the children from the Liu and Zhang families in the same group. For some reason, the kids ran into the freezer to play hide-and-seek. In the end, the two kids came out, but my Xiaoye was frozen into an ice block..."
"On July 16, the police came and asked me what happened. I knew Xiaoye was locked in by those two kids, but Boss Wang said that for the sake of the factory and everyone's jobs, I couldn't say that..."
"On July 17, the police left and Boss Wang gave me some money..."
"On August 1, my wife was sick, and I wanted to use the money to take her to the hospital, but my money was gone. There are thieves in this place!"
"On August 2, the police came again, but they couldn't help me find the money..."
"On September 15, I don't know what happened, but my colleagues looked at me strangely, as if I owed them something, but it was clearly they who owed me..."
"On November 1, I was going to take the remaining offal back home to make soup for my wife as usual, but Boss Wang showed up and said someone had reported me for stealing factory property. Boss Wang confiscated my bag and fined me half a month's salary..."
"December 22nd, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. This year's New Year is so sad..."
"On January 10, I don't know who threw away my things. I went to ask Boss Wang for justice, but Boss Wang said that this matter was not his business. He also asked me to reflect on whether it was my own fault..."
"January 15th, what's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me..."
"January 28th, damn, these sheep..."
"February 1st, damn, these sheep..."
"March 6th, damn these sheep!"
Starting from this page, the following content kept repeating this sentence, and the handwriting became more and more messy as it went on. Some papers were even torn due to excessive force.
After flipping through the entire notebook, Li Jia exhaled and said, "It seems that we don't need to look for Butcher Cui's room anymore."
After all, all the things belonging to Butcher Cui were here. Ning Xuanqing looked at Tang En, unable to tell whether he was relieved or emotional.
"If it weren't for you, we might never have found this thing."
If Tang En had not been alerted to the strangeness in the house, the four people would not have escaped through the window. If they had not walked through the open space outside the window, they would naturally not have been able to find any clues about Butcher Cui.
Tang En grinned, scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Good luck, good luck."
Li Jia patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Unexpected good luck!"
While the three were talking, Tang Yu had already started rummaging through the remaining things in the luggage bag. She pulled out a photo sealed in a waterproof plastic bag at the bottom.
"Huh? This is..." Tang Yu held up the photo to identify the person in it, and was stunned for a moment.
Li Jia leaned over to take a look: "Is this a photo of Butcher Cui and his family of three?"
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