Chapter 33 The Dairy
Simply narrating everything he saw in the environment, Lin Qiushi was silent.
Ruan Nanzhu fell into contemplation after listening to his words. After a while, he said, “Let’s go to the top of the tower.”
He got up and went to the top of the tower. Lin Qiushi was behind him faintly. He felt that the illusion was not so simple. It seemed to imply something.
The top of the tower was empty.
At the top is a hollow skylight. As soon as you look up, you can see the sky outside and some special circular sculptures above the spire.
Ruan Nanzhu was absorbed in looking at the sculpture. Cheng Qianli and Lin Qiushi did not bother him.
Lin Qiushi walked around on the top of the tower, and found nothing, but just as he planned to talk to Cheng Qianli, the wall around him gently rang a slight noise.
The sound was like someone was rubbing the wall with his fingers, making people feel very uncomfortable. Lin Qiushi has now vaguely noticed that his hearing seemed to be overly sharp. He can easily capture the sound that everyone can’t hear. He looked at Cheng Qianli, who is in a daze. Obviously, he did not hear the sound at all.
Lin Qiushi did not ask Cheng Qianli if he had heard anything. He went straight to the wall and tapped it with his hand lightly. The sound of scratching the wall immediately stopped. As a result, Lin Qiushi had a new discovery. He found that only this place of the wall of the entire tower was empty.
“There seems to be something inside.” Lin Qiushi suddenly said.
“What?” Cheng Qianli said, “Here?” He also knocked, and he heard a hollow voice coming from inside.
Ruan Nanzhu retracted the gaze that had been staring at the top of the head, “What?”
“This wall is empty.” Lin Qiushi said, “I want to see if I can pry it.”
Ruan Nanzhu came over, reached out and touched the edge of the wall, then pulled out a sharp hard object from his pocket and began to slowly groan. His movements were very dexterous, and he seemed to be very familiar with this kind of work. Soon, the edge of the wall actually got a gap.
Lin Qiushi was stunned, “Can it still be like this?”
Cheng Qianli, “This is still a general operation, and Brother Ruan is very smart.”
After the wall in front of them was opened, a dark compartment was revealed. It was a small unlocked red box.
Ruan Nanzhu reached out and took the box out.
The attention of the three people was placed on the box. The slight movement of Ruan Nanzhu opened the lid of the box, revealing something inside it that was a bit like a hard-skinned book.
“This will not be the diary.” Cheng Qianli had interest instantly and picked up the book to read. “There will be clues to the key inside.”
After opening the book, they saw the contents inside.
The front of the book all wrote the same sentence: she was gone.
She was gone, she was gone, she was gone, she was gone, different handwriting, the same words, filled every page of paper, which made people who saw it feel very uncomfortable.
Ruan Nanzhu quickly turned to the last page, and when it was about to be finished, he finally saw different words. On the last page of the book, “she was gone” was replaced by another sentence: she could not be found.
“What is this?” Cheng Qianli immediately remembered the clues they got. “Is this written by my sister?”
Ruan Nanzhu still lowered his head and examined the book carefully. After a moment, he pointed to one of the pages: “There is still a page in the middle, which has been torn away.”
Lin Qiushi saw it and found that there was indeed one page missing which was torn very neatly, if they didn’t look carefully, they can’t really see it. Thanks to Ruan Nanzhu’s carefulness, or they can’t see that.
“How do you find that there is a problem with this wall?” Ruan Nanzhu asked.
Lin Qiushi said, “…I heard someone scratching the wall.”
Cheng Qianli actually reached out and scratched the wall a few times, “Like this?”
This voice made Lin Qiushi feel very uncomfortable instantly.
Ruan Nanzhu swore, “You dare to scratch it once more and see me let your brother punish you.”
Cheng Qianli quickly took back his hands, and said that he only showed a demonstration.
Ruan Nanzhu said, “The grasses on the grave of the last one showing a demonstration were already five meters high.”
Ruan Nanzhu put the book in the bag he carried and said, “I feel we have to go back to the temple.”
“What do you mean?” Lin Qiushi did not understand.
Ruan Nanzhu said, “Now I’m just guessing. I will tell you till I am sure.”
There came a scream from the first floor as they were discussing. Then people ran around on the stairs.
“Ghosts, ghosts!!” The master of the voice was still crying for help.
Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu looked at each other and saw the same expression in the other’s eyes. Lin Qiushi said, “Go.”
Ruan Nanzhu nodded. They all planned to go down and see what happened.
When they reached the fourth floor where the accident happened, the turmoil had subsided.
The woman who screamed was shaking and hiding in the arms of her fellow men. Her face was full of horror and pointed at the wall, “There, there is a ghost shadow there -”
Because of her screaming, almost everyone gathered on the fourth floor, Lin Qiushi looked at the place where the woman pointed, but only saw the black wall.
“What ghost shadow?” The man holding the woman asked, “What did you see?”
“It’s a ghost shadow.” The woman shivered, “I don’t know how to say…”
“It’s a big fuss.” Someone muttered in the team, “It’s like she coming inside the door for the first time. It’s so shameful to scream like this by just seeing a ghost shadow.”
The woman became very angry at once as she she seemed to hear the words of this person, and she said, “I screamed because I saw something horrible. It’s better to die quietly.”
“Fortunately, it’s Okay.” Meng Yu helped effect the compromise, “Don’t get together in the same floor. If something goes wrong, no one can run away…”
When everyone saw no major events happen, they planned to disperse.
The screaming woman was also ready to go, but she seemed to be hooked up by something. She thought that was the person behind her. She was very unhappy and pulled her sleeves twice, “What are you doing, don’t pull my clothes.”
“I said, don’t pull my clothes!” She was pulled twice again, finally angry, and glanced at her back, but this glance made her blood freeze instantly.
It was empty behind her, no one was there.
“Ah…” The woman’s body was a little cold, and she quickly took a step to get out of here, but as she stepped forward, a pair of bloody hands suddenly reached out and grabbed her feet.
“Ah…Wu!” The woman wanted to scream, but her mouth was caught by another hand. She turned her head hard and saw numerous scarlet arms from the smooth wall and wrapped her around to drag her hard to the wall.
She had wanted to scream, but her mouth was smothered and couldn’t make a sound.
The male partner who accompanied her also noticed something wrong, but when he turned back, the woman had been pulled into the wall… But between a few breaths, a living person who was still good disappeared.
There was a trace of sorrow on the man’s face. He said, “Do you see Xiaoyou?”
Xiaoyou is the name of the woman.
“Xiaoyou? She was here just now…” The person who walked in front was also confused. She looked behind, but she didn’t see the shadow of the woman. “Didn’t she go upstairs?”
“I’ll go see.” The man quickly climbed to the top of the tower, but he didn’t see the person he was looking for. When he returned to the crowd, his pale face was covered with cold sweat, “She… She is gone.”
Gone? When the words came out, everyone was quiet. If it is in the outside world, a person suddenly disappears, it will be definitely found, but in the world inside the door, gone almost equals to death.
“Is there someone else missing in the temple hall yesterday?” Someone thought of something, “Will they all…”
“I don’t think we have to look for her.” Meng Yu suddenly said, “She must be dead.
“Why do you say that!” The man looked a little angry.
“You don’t remember what the tour guide who just brought us here said?” Faced with the hostility of the man, Meng Yu looked calm. “She said, in the tower group, we can’t scream loudly, but Xiaoyou just screamed, right?”
The man was silent.
“Some words still have to be heard.” Meng said. “You, what did you see on the stairs?”
He asked Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu.
“I saw a drum.” Minnan said softly, “I didn’t dare touch it and came down.”
Meng Yu said, “A drum? I will go and see.” He said, and then turned around and went to the top of the building.
Ruan Nanzhu looked at his back, but gently rubbed his lips.
They all have a tacit understanding of keeping the secret of the diary, although they didn’t know why, but they still feel it’s better not to say it.
The disappeared Xiaoyou never appeared again.
The people hiding in the tower are trembled, no one dare walk around again, fearing that the sound came out after they saw something would lead to death.
Lin Qiushi did not wander around, and Ruan Nanzhu leaned on the shoulders of Lin Qiushi and closed his eyes to rest his mind.
Cheng Qianli looked outside the window and no one know what he was looking at.
The sky gradually darkened, and the whistling wind became louder and louder, even with a stern taste.
Lin Qiushi was originally leaning against the wall, but after a while he felt uncomfortable and he sat straight up. Although keeping this posture was relatively tired, but when he thought of what he saw in the illusion just now, he felt tired and it doesn’t matter, it is better than relying on human skin.
“How long?” Cheng Qianli whispered.
Lin Qiushi looked at the mobile phone, and there were still twenty minutes from the time they and the tour guide agreed.
Cheng Qianli said, “Twenty minutes, there is still so long…” He squatted on the window, “I want to drink the oil tea made by my brother, the spicy one.”
Lin Qiushi reached out and touched his head.
The twenty minutes can be described as almost one year, and even the simplest conversation in the team was gone.
The sky gradually darkened, and the guide in red clothes finally appeared in front of everyone.
“How are you, are you happy today?” The guide smiled and shook his flag, “I believe everyone must have enjoyed the local customs and culture.”
No one spoke, everyone’s face was gloomy, like survive from the disaster.
“So, let’s go back.” The guide smiled and took everyone into the jungle.
It’s not easy to go down the mountain when the sky darken, and everyone is helping each other. After an hour’s journey, they finally returned to the residence.
After simply eating dinner, they were all tired and returned to their rooms to rest.
Cheng Qianli followed Ruan Nanzhu and they went back to the room together. He was sleeping in the same room with the other two, but after so many things happened today, he wanted to spend the night with Lin Qiushi.
“Do you really want to sleep with me?” Lin Qiushi said.
“Yes.” Cheng Qianli looked at Lin Qiushi with pity, and he wanted him to agree, “I am more familiar with you.”
Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nanzhu, and when Ruan Nanzhu nodded slightly, he said OK.
Lin Qiushi agreed, but some people were dissatisfied. Xu Jin did not dare to follow them to the top of the tower today. She sat alone under the tower for a day. She heard that Cheng Qianli still wanted to sleep here, she whispered, “You don’t think he is fat?”
Cheng Qianli listened to this word and got confused, “Fat? I am not fat.”
Lin Qiushi said, “Yes, he is not fat.”
Xu Jin, “…” Then why did you say I am fat yesterday?
Lin Qiushi apparently completely forgot the excuse of rejecting Xu Jin yesterday, and began to discuss with Cheng Qianli how to sleep today.
Xu Jin sat on the bed muteering and sulking. Ruan Nanzhu was comforting her. He said that you are fat. It is Yu Linlin’s aesthetic problem. Men are big pig hooves (it means a man lacks a sense of romance).
Xu Jin agreed reluctantly.
Lin Qiushi and Cheng Qianli were confused in the whole process. They did not understand what the conversation between the two was. He just worried that Xu and his man were too close, and doubted how would he become a big pig hoof. And Xu Jin, the biggest pig hoof here is sitting next to you…
Today, after a day of walking on the mountain road, everyone was a little tired, almost fell asleep when their heads touched the pillows, and even Lin Qiushi slept very soon this time.
But in the middle of the night, Lin Qiushi felt someone walk around him. He thought it was Cheng Qianli, so he did not pay too much attention. Till the next day, Cheng Qianli asked why Lin Qiushi got up again and again last night.
“Get up at night? I didn’t.” Lin Qiushi said, “I slept so deeply yesterday, I didn’t go to toilet.”
“You lied.” Cheng Qianli said, “You obviously got up…”
Lin Qiushi said, “I really didn’t get up, but I also feel that someone was moving.”
The two men’s eyes moved to the rest two in the room. Xu Jin shook his head in panic and said that she did not get up. Ruan Nanzhu usually had the best sleep quality and his kidney function was very strong. He never got up at night.
“Then who was moving?” Cheng Qianli’s face was pale.
The two were talking while Ruan Nanzhu suddenly stood up. He walked over to the two people and squatted down and looked down at their bed.
Lin Qiushi was shocked by his movements, “What happened?”
Ruan Nanzhu didn’t say anything, just pointed his finger and said, “Look at it by yourself.”
Lin Qiushi and Cheng Qianli bent down and saw the thing Ruan Nanzhu said. They saw the wooden floor underneath their bed, which was covered with dense red blood handprints. These handprints spread from the floor to the wall and seemed to be extremely permeable.
“What the Fuck!!!” Cheng Qianli finally did not hold back, and began to scream like a screaming chicken, made Lin Qiushi’s brain feel painful, and even thought that this picture is not so terrible.
“Can you not shout like this?” Lin Qiushi said painfully.
“It’s terrible!!” Cheng Qianli squatted on Lin Qiushi, who was half-squatting, clutching his hair and screamed miserabley.
“You loosen my hair and let go!!” Lin Qiushi also angered, “Hurry up!!”
Cheng Qianli said, “I am so scared!”
Lin Qiushi said, “Muyu–” Do you know what a designer cherishes most? It is hair! It is the hairline! Cheng Qianli, this little bustard caught his hair and scribbled, and the ghost knows whether it will affect the hair roots!
Cheng Qianli finally loosened his hand, “I’m sorry, I am so excited.”
Xu Jin looked numbly in front of the two people, turned her head to Raun Nanzhu, “Zhu Meng, let’s go eat.”
Raun Nanzhu said, “Okay.”
Then the two joined hands and happily went out to have breakfast. The two big pig hooves looked at the bloody handprints of that place.
“Let’s go.” Lin Qiushi said, “Since we are still alive, it means that it does not want our lives.”
Cheng Qianli sighed, “This door is too dangerous.” Fortunately, he did not climb up yesterday to see what happened at the end. If he had looked at it, God knows that he would see swaht was crawling on the ground.
After the boring breakfast, the tour guide appeared on time.
She was like a puppet, her face always carried the formatted smile, and even the range of waving the flag on her hand seemed to be the same.
She said, “Today we are going to take everyone to see a temple. The temple is the most beautiful building here. I believe that after watching it, you will be dumped by its style. The sooner the better, let’s go. !”
Lin Qiushi wrinkled his frown, “How can this be so familiar?”
“Of course familiar.” Meng Yu happened to be next to him, said randomly, “She said the same thing on the first day.”
Lin Qiushi, “…”
Sure enough, after the crowd started moving, the tour guide began to introduce the local customs and habits, but these words were heard on the first day, no matter the order or tone of speech, there is almost no difference.
This Jinrd situation made everyone feel uncomfortable.
“Isn’t it going to be repeated all the time?” Xu Jin whispered, “Are we going to the tower once again?”
“It’s hard to say.” Lin Qiushi shook his head, “It is estimated that we have to watch the situation for another two days.”
Xu Jin did not say anything. Going to a place, a few people died, they are only a dozen, only one person can escape till others all die in this world?
Obviously, there are more people who have such an idea, not only Xu Jin, but all faces around are unpredictable.
The second time they came to the temple, the four of them did not rush into it.
This is the proposal of Ruan Nanzhu. He said that since the previous observation was inside, then look outside this time, and then lead the three to start exploring around the temple.
The temple was surrounded by dense trees, and the sun shined on the ground, leaving only faint spots on it.
Some small vines and ferns are attached to the stone road, and when you step on it, you will make a squeaking sound. The temple is very tall, and almost no top can be seen from their angle. The music was still continuous, and people who played music will never stop.
“The architectural style of this temple is so strange.” After observing around, Lin Qiushi as a designer, felt that something was wrong. “The whole temple is round?”
“Circle?” Cheng Qianli also noticed, “Oh, the whole temple is round.”
There are not many round temples, and it can even be said to be rare.
“What do you think of the circle?” asked Ruan Nanzhu.
After a moment of silence, Lin Qiushi and Cheng Qianli gave the same answer, “Drums.”
Ruan Nanzhu said, “I think…”
Lin Qiushi, “Well?”
Ruan Nanzhu, “We have to look at the top of the temple.”
Cheng Qianli rounded his eyes as soon as he heard it, “Really go? On the top of the temple…but the man who disappeared the day before, isn’t it because of looking at the ceiling?”
“Yes.” Ruan Nanzhu said, “But the clue should be on top.” He reached out and pressed his bag. “Remember what we saw on the tower yesterday?”
Of course, it is impossible to forget that Lin Qiushi still remembered the touch of his hand on the leather drum. But the things that Ruan Nanzhu said should not be drums, but the diary they found in the walls.
“We don’t have too much time.” Ruan Nanzhu said, “I have to think about it.”
At first glance, there was no basis for Ruan Nanzhu’s words, but Lin Qiushi remembered the bloody handprints under his bed. He was not sure if this was an accident or a warning. In short, those things were obviously not a good omen.
The temple was very tall and there was no stairs to get to the top floor.
But the method is always more than difficulties. If you want to go up, you will always find a way.
After a circle on the edge of the temple, Ruan Nanzhu had an idea. The rest of the three people were a little stunned after hearing his idea. Lin Qiushi also said with a sigh of relief, “You mean to use the wooden platform that day… …?”
Ruan Nanzhu said, “Well.”
Lin Qiushi said, “But isn’t that a celestial burial platform?”
Ruan Nanzhu nodded.
Lin Qiuishi was worried, “And there are those things on it, we rushed up…”
Ruan Nanzhu gave him a look, “If you want to survive, you have to take some risks.”
Lin Qiushi sighed in his heart,“Your body is too weak, let me go up.”
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