Yuan Tianhong picked up the ringing cell phone on the ground.
There must be something wrong when things are out of the ordinary. It was too much of a coincidence that their cell phones rang just when they happened to pass by here.
The incoming call only shows the words "Unknown number".
"Hello?"
He led the team while running, pressing the answer button, turning on the speaker, and breathing lightly.
The cat's meowing behind me is particularly disturbing.
"Hello, Honghong, are you coming back for dinner tonight?" A female voice with a hint of oldness sounded from the other end of the phone.
Yuan Tianhong was startled and looked at the team members behind him with wide eyes.
"Captain..."
"You heard that, too?"
"Yes, it seems to be Auntie's voice on the phone..." the familiar team member said hesitantly.
"I steamed a lot of buns, all with your favorite fillings, some with pork, vermicelli and cabbage, some with mushroom and meat, some with sour cowpea... They're still steaming in the pot. You can come back now to eat them while they're still hot. Will you come back to eat them tonight?"
"Hey, don't rush him. If he's free after get off work, he will definitely come back to eat. Why are you rushing him..." said someone next to the person who made the call.
It was the voice of Yuan Tianhong's father.
Yuan Tianhong stopped and frowned at his phone.
"Hello? Honghong, are you listening?"
"Uh... um..."
He mumbled, not knowing how to respond.
This strange and unfamiliar cell phone was ringing, and the two voices on the other end were definitely not his parents'. He couldn't just call them mom and dad.
“Ding Dong…Ding Dong…”
There was a faint sound of doorbell on the other end of the phone.
"Who is it? Someone is ringing the doorbell. I won't say anything now. I'll call you back later."
The phone was hung up, leaving only a beeping sound.
There were constant sounds of cats meowing all around.
Because Yuan Tianhong stopped, the team members also stopped and surrounded him. All kinds of domestic and wild cats surrounded him in a circle. Some of them pounced on him directly, but were waved away by everyone.
One team member volunteered to drive the cat away directly.
Upon hearing this, the other team members put on special masks and covered their mouths and noses with expressionless faces.
To be honest, if it wasn't a bit troublesome to deal with these unintelligent cats, they really didn't want to use this trick.
The volunteer team member was facing everyone, with his back to the cats and his butt sticking up.
Phew~~~
A long, loud and colorful fart was let out.
It was a beam of purple gas.
The cats dispersed like the receding tide, rolling their eyes and retching as they ran, no longer able to make loud and threatening meows.
The tied-up cat demon had no one to contribute equipment to and could not escape. He vomited three times in a short period of time.
“Ding ding ding ding~”
The phone rang again, still from that strange phone.
"You answer it."
Yuan Tianhong stuffed the phone into the hand of the team member next to him, then ran away from this suffocating place.
The team member was at a loss. He moved to a place with fresh air with everyone else and then answered the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey, honey, have you eaten?" This time it was the young woman's voice.
The team member's eyes suddenly widened, he looked at his phone, then looked at his teammates, his expression dull.
"Eat, eat..." he answered stutteringly.
"I want to tell you something."
"What's up……"
"There's something wrong with the bedroom door lock. It keeps making a clicking sound, as if someone outside is twisting the door handle. But it only makes a single click. And when I opened the door and looked, there was no one at the bedroom door. The security door was closed securely..."
"…I'm still a little scared. Can you come back and stay with me tonight?"
The team member swallowed his saliva and stared at his teammates, feeling inexplicably nervous. He kept reminding himself in his heart that he had just picked up the phone and the person on the other end of the line was not his wife.
"Hello? Honey, are you listening?"
"Yes, I did."
"That's good. Then will you...ka...come back tonight...kaka...kakaka..."
"What's that noise over there?"
"Well, the door lock rang again, and it was a bit louder this time."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that before the door locked, someone rang the doorbell. It was so late and I was home alone, so I didn't dare to go out to check..."
The team members felt a sense of panic.
“Ka-ka-ka…Ka-ka…”
The sound on the other end of the phone, like a doorknob being twisted, grew louder and more frequent, like a drum beating in my heart.
"Hubby...kaka...come back soon...zhiya...ah!!!"
“Beep…beep…beep…”
As the door was slammed open, the young woman screamed and the phone was hung up.
The team member held the phone tightly, breathing slightly, and looked up at Yuan Tianhong.
"Captain, this is fake. It's a trick of the ghosts, right?"
"Yes, it is impossible for our family to call this strange phone and accurately determine that the person holding the phone is a certain person. This is a common method used by ghosts to disturb people's hearts. Don't be fooled by it."
After listening to Yuan Tianhong's explanation, the team members relaxed a lot.
“Ding ding ding ding~”
The phone rang again, scaring him so much that he almost jumped up.
The caller ID still shows "Unknown Caller".
He was about to answer the call when Yuan Tianhong held him back.
"You come and pick it up."
Yuan Tianhong threw the phone to a middle-aged man in his forties with dark skin in the team.
The latter picked up the phone.
"dad!"
On the phone, a child's voice shouted impatiently, and he seemed to deliberately lower his voice.
The middle-aged man frowned and didn't answer.
"Dad, come and save me! Someone is trying to pry open the door and I'm hiding in the closet."
The person on the other end lowered his voice and spoke in a muffled voice.
"…What's going on? Where's your mother?"
"Mom is taking a shower, and someone is trying to pry open the door. He's coming in soon!"
“…”
The middle-aged man frowned and remained silent.
"...He, he opened the door...He was walking around the house..."
The child's voice became even lower and almost inaudible.
Other voices also came from the other end of the line.
There was the sound of flowing water in the distance, leather shoes stepping lightly on the wooden floor, slow steps, and nervous and heavy breathing near the microphone.
“Pah.”
The wardrobe was suddenly opened.
"Ah! Go away, bad guy! Dad, save me!!"
The cries for help were accompanied by chaotic noises.
"Heh..." The last thing that came from the other end of the line was a weird laugh, and then the call was hung up.
"Hello! Hello?" the middle-aged man couldn't help but shout, with anxiety written on his face.
"calm."
Yuan Tianhong patted his shoulder.
“That’s not true.”
The middle-aged man rubbed his face and calmed down a little, but his frown was still there and his eyes showed anxiety.
The strange phone rang again.
It seemed to want everyone here to answer the phone.
This time, Yuan Tianhong picked up the phone again.
If a person answers the phone repeatedly, will he still hear the voices of his family members?
Press Handsfree.
"Hello."
"Hello, I'm looking for someone." The unfamiliar male voice was mature and steady, with anxiety hidden in it.
In the team, Luo Zheyu raised his eyebrows slightly and took a few steps forward.
"Who are you looking for?" Yuan Tianhong glanced at him and asked on the phone.
"He should be with you."
"Maybe. You have to tell me the name of the person you are looking for first."
"Luo Zheyu." Three words were clearly uttered from the other end of the phone.
"Yours." Yuan Tianhong handed the phone to Luo Zheyu, and his lips moved, silently saying a few words to the latter.
Don't believe him.
Luo Zheyu nodded and took the phone.
Yuan Tianhong took out his mobile phone and opened the text message he had just received.
Their phones were all on silent mode, so they only felt the vibration when they answered the call.
…
"Zheyu, where are you? Come home!"
"What's up?"
"I was on my way home, and the surveillance video at home showed that the bedroom door was pried open. My parents came home tonight, and they slept in the bedroom!"
"But, but in the surveillance footage, only the door and the doorknob were moving. There was no one outside the bedroom door, nothing..."
“…”
Luo Zheyu listened carefully to his words and tone.
So similar.
His voice was exactly the same as Luo Zeye's, and he was very familiar with the layout of the house, just like the real thing.
“…Oh no! The door! The door is opened!”
Luo Zheyu's heart couldn't help but tighten.
"It seems like something went in. I, I can't see it. I didn't see anything... Go back quickly. Why don't you go back?!"
Luo Zeye's voice became louder and louder, and in the end it was almost a roar.
The call was terminated here.
After pulling his mind away from this strange phone call, Luo Zheyu discovered that something was wrong with the atmosphere among the team members.
Each of them received a text message.
After opening it, it was a text message from my family asking for help.
It says help inside.
Luo Zheyu also took out his mobile phone, and there was an unread text message.
He took a breath and clicked on the text message.
【Mom】: Yuyu, save me!!!
I called the number back, but no one answered.
But this is indeed Luo Zheyu's mother's number.
Everything happened in reality, they were not trapped in an illusion.
“Ding ding ding ding~”
A strange cell phone suddenly rang.
Everyone stared at it and no one spoke for a while.
"Let me answer it." The handsome young man picked up the phone.
"My relatives are gone, and I didn't receive any text messages just now, so I'm not afraid of these things."
He explained, pressing the answer button.
"If you have something to say, just say it. If you have something to fart, just fart it. Don't play tricks on me."
There was silence on the other end of the line.
"Uh... hello, I'm looking for Sausage Brother. Is Sausage Brother there?"
"Ha--Sausage Brother? Hehehehe, I'm Sausage Brother, I am! Who's looking for me?" The crow couldn't help but blurt out when he heard the word sausage.
"Dad is the sausage brother! Why are you looking for Dad?"
"I won't be a sausage. I will be eaten sooner or later. You guys can keep quarreling."
"…Sorry, I dialed the wrong number."
“Beep…beep…beep…”
The phone was hung up.
"Tsk..." The three crows hissed in unison and retracted their heads into the black cloth bag in boredom.
The phone remained in the young man's hand for a long time and did not ring again.
His face was inexplicably gloomy and he looked very dissatisfied.
The players were distracted and the whole team was filled with anxiety.
Although I kept comforting myself that the phone calls were fake and just a trick of ghosts, I was still worried about the safety of my family.
The message I heard before hanging up, the inexplicable text message, the phone call that no one answered...
The more I thought about it, the more panicked I became.
When I called another number and wanted to ask the other party to go visit my family, the signal suddenly disappeared.
It is another very coincidental thing, but few people would conclude that their family is safe just because of this coincidence.
"No, I want to go back and see them."
"Most of the people in the town have left. The town is blocked. It will be the same if we come back tomorrow, but my family..."
"Captain, I must go back!"
"As long as I make sure my family is safe, I'll be back immediately!"
Yuan Tianhong obviously wanted to go home very much. Even if he couldn't make it in time according to the time on the phone, he had to go back to see his mother.
He began to organize a retreat.
But Luo Zheyu and the young man had different ideas.
Luo Zheyu did not stop his teammates from leaving, but chose to stay himself. He believed that these strange calls focused on the small town and this strange mobile phone. It would be faster to solve the source than rushing back.
The young man didn't care. He had no family or friends to worry about, as all his friends were in the team.
Yuan Tianhong disagreed at first, thinking it was not safe for only two people to stay in this strange town, not to mention that Luo Zheyu was still an intern, but the latter repeatedly assured him and showed the A+ strength marked on the certificate. The young man was also at the top of the team, and this matter concerned his family, so if someone stayed in the town to solve the source of the strange phone calls, he would indeed feel more at ease. So he agreed.
They left with Lu Xiyue and Spider.
The brown bear jumped off Luo Zheyu.
"Please go back and check for me, please."
The slender index finger tapped its head.
The little brown bear nodded seriously at Luo Zheyu, turned around, and ran very fast with his short legs, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"I really envy you. You're still an intern, but someone is willing to be your partner..."
The young man sighed as he looked in the direction the brown bear had left.
"Hello, my name is Han Bing."
…
The two checked the phone inside and out but found nothing.
There's nothing wrong with the phone. It's not a spirit or haunted cell phone.
“Maybe its real body isn’t here.”
"This phone has been receiving calls, but it has never actively made calls. The other party may not be able to control the phone to make calls."
"But it can access information on our phones and use it to create family roles."
“It can also change the number display.”
"It will adjust depending on who answers the phone, as if it's watching us at all times. Either its real body is nearby, or it can see us with the help of something."
"Besides the phone itself, the only problem is the network."
The two analyzed it one by one, trying to find the source.
At this moment, the screen of the stranger's phone lights up and a message is received.
【Unknown Contact: Oops, you guys figured it out. 】
Before the two could react, the second message came.
[Unknown Contact: How about we play a game? If you win, I'll tell you where my real body is.]
[Unknown contact: If you lose, hehe, I won't do anything. I'll just play some games with the contacts in your phone~
Want to play a round? 】
The other party's true identity is indeed somewhere else, and the network signal is its best hiding place.
If you want to find it in a short time, the best way is to win it, provided that it keeps its word.
What game?
【It's up to you~
True or False Call
Ghost Detector
Feed It
Looks like fun, right? Don't worry, you can play every mini-game in the best-of-three game, and you can choose the order in which you play the games~]
"… Bullshit, it's up to us to decide. Besides, how did it turn into best of three instead of one game?!" Han Bing looked at the message he received, feeling too tired to complain.
"There's not even a game introduction..."
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