Chapter 4: The meat is tasteless
This sudden tragic scream broke the dead silence of the villa.
The crowd immediately looked towards the first floor.
"What happened?"
"No ... don't know!"
"Go take a look!"
The crowd quickly headed towards the first floor and arrived at the place where the sound source occurred.
It was precisely the room where the paralysed old man was.
Wang Yu Ning, who was carrying the rice earlier, fell to the ground at this time, leaning against the corner, hugging her knees and shivering!
The hot meal ... spilled all over the place.
"What happened?"
Ning Qiushui asked.
Wang Yu Ning slowly stretched out a finger in front of everyone, pointing at the paralysed old man lying on the bed with a stiff expression, and said in a trembling voice:
"She ... she ... just ... suddenly spoke!"
Following the direction of her finger, the crowd looked towards the old man lying motionless on the bed, looking out of the window out of his mind.
Liu Chengfeng snorted:
"Still thought something was wrong ... Didn't you listen to the hostess? Her mother is just paralysed."
"Paralysed isn't a vegetable, why can't she talk?"
"Thought you were more bullish?"
"A paralysed old man in bed scares you like this?"
Liu Chengfeng easily seized the opportunity, his mouth directly like a machine gun burst.
But Wang Yu Ning in the corner seemed to be frightened, shivering and shaking, and froze without returning the favour.
Ning Qiushui glanced at the old man on the bed, and signalled Liu Chengfeng to help collect the ground, while he himself pulled up Wang Yu Ning on the ground.
"She spilled it herself, but she wants me to help collect it, what's the matter ..."
Liu Chengfeng's mouth rambled, but he was surprisingly obedient, quickly going to the toilet to get a towel and started wiping the floor.
This scene was somewhat anticlimactic.
Liu Chengfeng who looked like he was not to be messed with was so obedient to Ning Qiushui.
However, the crowd didn't ask about it either.
After tidying up the room, Ning Qiushui came to the old man's bedside, took a serious look at her kind cheeks, and helped her cover up again before turning around and leaving the room with the crowd.
Back on the ground floor, the sky outside was already completely dark.
Pale lights illuminated the hall.
But for some reason, the crowd always felt that they were still in darkness.
The silence was unsettling.
"Alright, Wang Yu Ning, you can speak now.... What did the old man tell you up there just now?"
Ning Qiushui sat on the sofa opposite Wang Yuning and poured himself a cup of hot tea.
As soon as she mentioned what had happened up there, Wang Yu Ning's face, which had only looked better, turned deathly white again!
Her fingertips tightly clutched the corner of her coat.
"Just now ... just now wasn't I feeding her?"
"She ate a mouthful of beef tenderloin and just, just spat it out straight away!"
Liu Chengfeng glared:
"Mard, she threw up?"
"Laozi's cooking is awful?"
Ning Qiushui frowned.
"Liu Chengfeng, listen to her first."
Liu Chengfeng smashed his mouth, muttered a few sentences in a low voice, and stopped BBing.
Wang Yu Ning's eyes revealed a look of fear, her expression resisted, and she seemed to be very reluctant to recall what had just happened:
"... I thought it was too hot, so I tasted it myself, however, the rice wasn't hot, so I fed her a second mouthful, but she still threw up ..."
"And this time, after she vomited, she actually, actually turned her head and stared at me and said ... said ..."
She couldn't spit out a complete sentence for a long time, Xue Gouze's eyebrows wrinkled to the point where he could pinch a mosquito, and he urgently said:
"What did she say, why don't you say it!"
Under Xue Guize's urging, Wang Yu Ning finally braved her teeth and said:
"Her voice is very small, I didn t hear it too clearly, it seems to say that ... meat has no ... meat no flavour!"
"Right ... she should be saying that the meat has no flavour!"
As soon as these words came out, a terrifying lightning bolt actually streaked through the window, followed by deafening thunder!
The crowd was startled by this thunder!
"Holy shit, this thunder hit ..."
Ning Qiushui looked at the dark sky outside and suddenly came to the window and pulled it open.
Cold wind accompanied by rain and mist came to his face.
"It's raining ... torrential rain, gusty wind ..."
He closed the window again, his face much more grave.
"All this has begun to be fulfilled ..."
"Is that letter ... really not a prank?"
Unlike the others, Ning Qiushui had received a ... mysterious letter before entering the bus.
This was something that he hadn't told anyone else.
Just as the crowd was whispering and discussing the matter of the meat being tasteless, Ning Qiushui suddenly closed the window.
It was shut tightly, not letting a single bit of wind blow in.
"Alright, if she doesn't eat it, forget it, it's getting late, let's just rest early ..."
"Get up early tomorrow morning and go cook some more meat porridge for the old man."
"Have you guys chosen a room yet?"
The crowd that was discussing suddenly fell silent for a while.
"Are we ... really going to sleep in one room each?"
At this time, Ya Mu, who rarely spoke, opened her mouth, her expression abashed, seemingly stunned by what had just happened.
Xue Guize said:
"We briefly looked at the room before, it's big, double bed, the room is very clean, it's just right for two people to sleep in one room."
Yan Youping's eyes are still a little swollen, once he heard that he wanted two people in a room, he anxiously said:
"But ... but we have three girls ah!"
Xue Guize sighed:
"That room isn't small, you girls are all relatively petite in size, you can sleep if you squeeze."
The three girls looked at each other, none of them said anything.
No one likes to sleep in a bed with a stranger.
But they actually already know that this villa ... is not safe.
The crowd always felt that there seemed to be something in the shadows that was gazing at them ...
After switching off the lights, they came to the first floor together.
After a brief deliberation amongst the crowd, Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng took the lead and entered the same room.
The three girls were at the innermost part of the right corridor on the first floor, farthest away from the old man they had to take care of.
The remaining two boys, on the other hand, chose to be next to Ning Qiushui's room.
For some reason, Ning Qiushui's body seemed to have a kind of magical power, and after being near him, the crowd would feel safer.
The last girl to head to her room was Wang Yu Ning.
While she was still out of her mind because of what happened during the day, the crowd had already walked into the room.
For a while, she was the only one left in the corridor.
The light switch in the corridor was at the place where you went up the stairs andIt was a single switch, but the room they had chosen was at the far end, with at least twenty metres between them.
If she were to turn off the lights, it would mean that she would have to walk those twenty metres in the dark.
Her eyes fell on the open blinds at the end of the corridor.
The trees outside grew like devils, twisted and hideous, accompanied by a cold wind, as if they were about to enter at any moment and eat Wang Yu Ning up!
She couldn't help but shiver, and didn't dare to switch off the lights, quickly entering the innermost room and then locking the door with force.
Bang!
...
Inside the room, Ning Qiushui took off his top, revealing a body of angular muscles with a sense of explosive power.
Liu Chengfeng, who was brushing his teeth, glanced in surprise.
When Ning Qiushui put on his clothes, he could not be seen as such a fierce and fierce man!
"Ning little brother ... didn't expect ah, you hide quite deep!"
"Just this mermaid line, this small abs, that if you go to a nightclub ... shall not be scrambled for by rich women?"
Liu Chengfeng hemmed and hawed, scowling at Ning Qiushui.
Ning Qiushui rolled her eyes:
"So why do you keep following me?"
Liu Chengfeng spat out the toothpaste foam in his mouth as he sniffed, collected the small expression on his face, and said in a serious manner:
"... Little brother you're quite meticulous, but I can't say right now, wait until we leave alive from the Blood Gate this timeAfter that, I will tell you ..."
Hearing this answer from Liu Chengfeng, Ning Qiushui was first stunned, then laughed:
"It's quite mysterious."
Liu Chengfeng shook his head and moved the topic away:
"Right, little brother, do you think ... that old man has a problem?"
Ning Qiushui was silent for a moment.
"It's not just that old man, this family, even the villa complex has problems!"
Liu Chengfeng was stunned:
"What's wrong with the villa complex?"
Ning Qiushui said:
"The mistress of the villa said that this area only has themA family lives, but in fact, I passed by a number of villas, which have traces of human habitation, and it is the last month or two left behind, just the eight houses that I saw, all of them, not to mention there are a lot of I did not see ..."
"This proves that ... this area was inhabited not long ago."
Listening to Ning Qiushui's words, Liu Chengfeng's back gradually oozed cold sweat.
If Ning Qiushui's observation was correct, then ... where did these people go?
Ning Qiushui paced in front of the window, his expression grave, his hands in his pockets as he continued:
"Moreover, if a person lives alone, they usually don't buy such a large garden villa, so the people who live in here basically have family or friends, and even if they go out to work, there won't be a single person at home ..."
"But in reality, this villa area appears to be the only ... us left."
He reached out and pointed.
Following the direction he pointed, Liu Chengfeng suddenly saw that the dozen or so houses ... in front of their window were all pitch black!
There was actually ... not a single light!
"This ..."
"How can this be?!"
His face became extremely ugly.
Ning Qiushui slowly said:
"Here, something must have happened."
"Something ... very terrible."
He carefully inspected the windows, confirming that they were locked veryDead, a trace of wind can not penetrate in, which pulled the curtains and returned to the bed.
There is no wind, lying on the bed of the two, both smelled a ... strange smell.
"What flavour?"
Liu Chengfeng asked.
The smell was not strong, but it had been lingering, long lasting, like ... something rotting and mouldy.
The duo remembered what Xue Guize had said earlier, and searched for a while before finally pinpointing the source of the odour.
--The top of their heads.
The wooden ceiling there was a sticky mess, and there seemed to be some kind of liquid seeping through.
These liquids were yellowish-brown in colour, and the smell was very unpleasant.
"Holy crap ..."
Liu Chengfeng felt a wave of nausea and hurriedly dragged the bed away a bit.
"What is that thing?"
Ning Qiushui stood below, squinting and staring at the wet mass on the ceiling for a long time before saying:
"Big Beard, do you believe me?"
Liu Chengfeng didn't understand what Ning Qiushui meant by this, but still nodded.
"Believe."
Ning Qiushui slowly said:
"Tonight, don't fall asleep, don't turn on the lights, and whatever you hear ... don't pay attention to it."
Liu Chengfeng's body stiffened.
"Little brother, you mean ... something is going to happen tonight?"
Ning Qiushui was silent for a long time before he finally nodded his head in a faintly unnoticeable manner.
He switched off the lights, and the room immediately fell into silent and horrible darkness ...
Liu Chengfeng lay on the bed, his heart in turmoil.
Although he tried as much as possible to keep himself from falling asleep, as time passed, sleepiness finally spread all over his body irresistibly ...
After an unknown amount of time, he was woken up by a strange sound.
The source of the sound was outside the door.
It was a ... sound similar to two metal sharp objects rubbing against each other.
Prick-la--
Prick-la--
Listening to the sound that made people sweat, the first thing that came ... to Liu Chengfeng s mind was knives and forks!
He often cooks and is more than familiar with the sounds made by kitchenware and cutlery!
Liu Chengfeng sat up violently, wanting to turn on the light, but his ears suddenly echoed with Ning Qiu Shui's instructions, and his raised hand was put down again.
"Little Brother Ning, are you there?"
Liu Chengfeng lowered his voice to enquire, and a 'shhh' sound immediately came from beside him.
"Don't make a sound."
Ning Qiushui's voice was similarly low, and carried a trace of a faintly unsearchable tremor.
Clearly, he was also nervous.
The door to their room wasn't completely closed, leaving aThe crack, the light from the corridor outside filtered in through the crack under the door.
As the terrifying sound cut across their door, a bizarre black shadow followed in a flash ...
The terrible friction sound almost made Liu Chengfeng s heart jump out of his throat!
That thing outside the door ... actually stopped at their door!
Liu Chengfeng clenched his own fists, his breathing stopped!
The thing outside the door, what exactly is it?
What would happen if it came ... in?
In that instant, his mind went blank, as if he had lost the ability to think.
It seemed like a few minutes, and it seemed like just an instant had passed, and the terrifying black shadow outside the door finally moved againUp and towards the deeper part of the corridor ...
The ear-splitting scuffling sound once again -
Prickly...
Prickly-
The feeling was as if it was an executioner, looking for a prisoner who was being lynched by himself ...
It went all the way deeper, pausing for a moment at the second door, and then went to the innermost door of the corridor, again stopping for a moment outside the door before completely losing its movement...
Ning Qiushui suddenly sat up from his bed at this time, tiptoed over to the door, and pressed his ear against the crack in the door.
He listened for a long time.
There was no more sound coming from outside the door.
It was as if the dark shadow had just disappeared so abruptly.
After listening quietly for ten minutes or so, he confirmed that there was no sound outside at all, and only then did he return to the bed.
"Little brother, what was that thing outside?"
Liu Chengfeng asked in a low voice.
Ning Qiushui shook his head:
"I don't know, but it's definitely not a human."
"It walks without a sound at all."
As soon as he heard this, cold sweat immediately oozed out from Liu Chengfeng's forehead.
It can't be ...
In this villa ...
Could there really be something unclean?