Chapter 634

"Woo..."

Finally, Xiaohua couldn't hold it anymore.

The doll in front of him didn't move. Although the sudden appearance of this thing was indeed scary, he had been standing here for so long without any problems, and the red light was not activated. In general, his current situation should be safe.

So, what should he do next?

Although he was worried that this thing would turn around and twist its neck like a certain 173, considering the current situation, Xiaohua still walked a few steps away to keep a distance, and then carefully walked to the corridor outside the room, letting the other party temporarily out of his sight, and then went back to see if it would move in this situation.

Pah-Pu-Chi-

Many insects were crushed and exploded on the way, and the sticky yellow-green juice pulled out long silk threads with every step of the girl, which was as disgusting as it could be. However, Xiaohua was numb to this situation now, so even if she was still disgusted, she would not feel nauseous or vomit.

Still not moving?

After Xiaohua carefully tried several times, the child puppet still did not move, and looked no different from before.

However, during the continuous observation, she noticed that the puppet's hand that was used to cover its eyes seemed to be holding something, like a small note.

What was that?

The girl looked at the puppet, then at the mobile phone in her hand that was still emitting a faint red light, and the old newspaper whose contents she had not yet had time to read carefully. After hesitating for a moment, she took a deep breath, stepped towards the puppet, and walked in front of it.

She reached out and grabbed the edge of the note.

The puppet still did not move, but continued to stand still.

The note was pulled out little by little, and finally fell into Xiaohua's hands, and then unfolded it.

"This is..."

This is a map, a map similar to graffiti.

It can be seen that the map itself was hand-drawn with black and red signature pens, and the person who drew the map was very young, probably a child under ten years old, and it is very likely that he could not even recognize all the words, because Xiaohua found traces of erasure and pinyin in the annotations on the map.

From the marks on the map, Xiaohua can identify "where I woke up", "there are food", "a lot of toys", "a lot of people", "Mom's bedroom" and a place that was erased for some reason and could only barely recognize the three words "very scary". She guessed that these places refer to several special rooms, and the narrow spaces formed by the lines connecting the rooms, Xiaohua estimated that they were corridors.

Go forward from "where I woke up" and then you will reach a fork. Going to the left of the fork will reach the "very scary" place, and going to the right will enter another corridor. The left side of the first fork in this corridor will lead to "Mom's bedroom". From the map, it seems that you need to pass through a "very narrow" place to enter this room. If you continue to walk straight without entering this corridor, you will reach the second intersection. The right side of the intersection will lead to the place "There is food", and the left side will lead to the place "Many people". However, it is a bit strange that there is a "broken door" on the left side, which makes Xiaohua somewhat concerned.

There is a second entrance and exit in the room "There is food", and this entrance and exit is specially marked with the information "very narrow, you can hide". Xiaohua does not think about what the thing to hide is for the time being. From the corridor where this entrance and exit is located, you can finally walk to the room "Many toys". And this so-called toy room is connected to the room "Many people" on the map. There are also two marks "Can't enter" and "There is a hole to enter" on the paper. The latter mark is a little unclear, but Xiaohua guessed that it might mean that there is a passage like a tunnel to get into another room.

"This thing... could it be a map of this place?"

Xiaohua's eyes swept across this pale yellow page that seemed to be torn from a drawing book. She noticed that there were obvious dried bloodstains on one edge of the paper, and that there were a lot of disturbing black and red dirt that looked like bloodstains on the paper, and that the paper itself was obviously wet, so some of the information had become blurred.

The content on this paper felt like a record left by a survivor who strayed into this place, a record left by a child who accidentally came here.

Graffiti map

Could it be this doll, this child?

Xiaohua couldn't help but look up at the doll that covered its eyes.

And it was when she turned her head that she found that the doll had disappeared at some point, and Xiaohua was the only one left in this room full of insects.

Could it be that it was here to give her a map?

No matter what, she had been delayed here for a long time, and she had to take action anyway.

Thinking of this, Xiaohua hesitated for a moment, and did not step out of the room immediately, but opened the newspaper that she had not yet carefully examined. As a result, she found that most of the text in the newspaper had become blurred, and only a small part of the information could be recognized.

[…(unintelligible content) wrapped her daughter’s body in a thick cloth…mummified…rotting…(unintelligible content)…]

[…murdered her husband…wax figure…(unintelligible content)…began to order hollow puppets…]

[...will go back to visit...(unintelligible content)...son and grandpa...(unintelligible content)...cadaver doll...]

[...this...claimed protection...she believed...(unintelligible content)...threatened her family...]

[...Before Fang captured...burned...she believed in heaven...psychiatric evaluation...(unintelligible content)...]

To be honest, it is really difficult for Xiaohua to understand what is written when the content is so vague.

But based on the various things she had seen before and the conditions of this strange place, she guessed that maybe the place she was currently in was constructed by the power of the strange thing hiding in the mansion. In a sense, this can be regarded as the mental world of that thing. These room corridors made of heavy cloth, with traces of stitching and signs of decay, may be the spiritual embodiment of that thing.

However, this vague news content is not Xiaohua’s biggest gain.

What really surprised her was that there was a neat-looking note in the newspaper that was obviously left by someone who had been here before. Similar to the map, this note was also written with black and red pens. However, unlike the slightly abstract map, the person who wrote this note was obviously much more mature and the content he wrote appeared to be more accurate. .

[The following is the recorded regular information and personal reflections]

[1. Close the door of the place where you woke up and the bugs will disappear, including the dead ones]

[Although bugs will come in after opening the door, they will not crawl on people. This is the only absolute safe zone, and she will definitely not follow here.]

[2. Don’t go near the blood-stained corridor]

[Don’t go there (there are many crossed out black lines in this one, it seems that a lot of things were originally recorded, but they were all deleted in the end)]

[3. When you meet her in the corridor, face the wall and squat down with your eyes closed to avoid being taken away by her]

[Keep it as quiet as possible, even if she is not in the room, she may still hear you]

[She can hear it (messy red writing)]

[5. Rooms with food are usually safe. Don’t take the food out of the room. Eat as much food as you take away. Don’t make negative comments about the food, don’t leave it, and don’t throw it away. She knows it’s you. Made]

[She will never forget anything (neat red handwriting)]

[6. From the moment she enters the toy room, she will know that she will not break in immediately, so she can hide in it, but if she stays for too long, she will come in, and she cannot resist at this time]

[Does she think we are all children? 】

[In the eyes of a mother, a child will always be a child (the strange black handwriting is obviously not the same person as the person who wrote this document)]

[7. A room with a large number of dolls is very dangerous. The dolls will not hurt you, but any action you take in front of the doll may be considered impolite by her. She will remember you and continue to follow you. You, until you appear in a place without dolls]

[Those dolls are her family members? Or relatives and friends? 】

【8.Don’t mess up her bedroom】

[It is also possible that entering will anger her, this cannot be verified for the time being]

[9. Avoid physical contact. The results of contact include (1) waxing, (2) puppetization, and (3) decay. Depending on her anger level, the area of ​​each contact is different. Usually she chooses to take people away only after irritating her for the third time (the content after this item has been crossed out)]

[10. It is not possible to summarize her clear activity rules for the time being. She seems to be able to move without restrictions here. Only narrow or low environments can temporarily avoid her]

[According to current statistics, she is basically harmless when she appears in the food room. Unless you waste food or make negative comments about the food, she will not hurt you. She rarely appears in the toy room, but as soon as you enter there, she will appear outside the door and look at you. She will definitely appear in the doll room, but she may not be visible. It seems that she can hide in this room. She either doesn't appear in the bedroom, or she must be sleeping, but don't come close. She sleeps with her eyes open, so she will know when you come in]

[The danger of her appearing in the corridor depends on the situation. If you are wearing an oil-stained apron, ordinary home clothes and pajamas, she is basically harmless at this time. If you squat down facing the wall with your eyes closed, she will ignore you. If you are wearing a heavy raincoat or there are obvious blood stains on your clothes, you need to run away immediately to avoid being touched by her in this state. If she is not wearing any clothes and her body does not look like human skin, please leave a record. Whether she exists like this has not yet been verified]

[11. She will not forget the person she remembers until she punishes her. Escape into the room where she wakes up will not solve the problem. She will wait for you to come out]

[But if you have a companion, you can rely on others to help distract her. Her attention can easily be diverted, especially when you do something "bad" in her eyes]

[There is no way to escape yet. Someone saw a deep hole in her bedroom, which may lead to other places. But it’s too difficult to get there. She will come in if the bedroom is messy]

[We will make a final attempt after leaving the record. If the information is not updated, we have failed]

The information is indeed not updated yet.

Xiaohua had a complicated expression after reading this record.

She picked up the map that looked like a child's doodle and observed it. Then she took a few deep breaths and showed a disgusted expression because she inhaled too much foul air. But the girl quickly adjusted her mentality and carefully stepped towards the corridor outside the room.

Snap-Snap-

The sound of cockroaches being crushed was clearly heard.

Xiaohua himself had already gone deep into this dark corridor, moving step by step towards the deeper darkness.

Chapter 12 Exploring the corridor of the weird space and the first sight of the food room

Snap-Snap-

The foul-smelling yellow-green mucus dripped from the ceiling.

Countless cockroaches and poisonous insects crawled back and forth on the wall and the ground like crazy. Dense maggots flowed out from the broken thick cloth along with the pus from time to time, fell on the ground, and struggled and squirmed to crawl back to the starting place.

The dim red light shone in this long corridor, but it could only barely illuminate the environment within two or three meters, and it was impossible to see farther away.

Snap--Snap--

Every time a footstep landed, it was accompanied by the final explosion of the insects that were crushed to death.

At this point, there was no way to count how many insects I had crushed to death. I only knew that my footsteps became more and more slippery, and my shoes were covered with insect juice.

The more I advanced, the more cracks appeared on the walls on both sides.

These cracked areas fester like wounds, showing a black-red or black-green sense of corruption, and there were large and small maggots wriggling inside.

Xiaohua subconsciously looked at the cracks on one of the walls, and as a result, from the wound where the sutures broke, she saw something that had completely rotted and deformed, but still retained the basic human structure. There were even faint signs of wriggling in this thing, and I didn't know whether it was dead or alive. It made people feel extremely nauseous and horrified.

However, Xiaohua basically couldn't feel the nausea now.

It's not that her mental strength is strong enough to easily ignore the heavyweight scene at the moment, but she is already numb, and her senses have begun to dull under continuous stimulation, so the nausea will not come back after it goes down.

What I want is a high school life of eating donuts and cakes happily, not a life of struggling to survive in such a terrible place...

Although she really wants to complain, the current situation does not allow the girl to be distracted, so her attention quickly returns to the front of the corridor, back to the unknown area still hidden in the dark.

Slowly, she approaches the end of the corridor and sees the fork extending to the left and right.

Unlike the completely dark corridor area just now, there is a light at this T-shaped three-way intersection. It is an old-fashioned chandelier hanging from the ceiling. It looks very old, and the bulb emits a faint dark yellow light.

The number of insects here has decreased a lot, at least not to the extent that a bunch of cockroaches will be crushed to death with every step.

Xiaohua first looked to the left of the fork in the road. In the dim light, she could barely see some suspicious dark red marks spreading on the ground and walls, like paint that was splashed wantonly, exuding a rusty smell.

On the child's graffiti map, this direction leads to a place called "very scary". And in the record left by the survivor who seemed to have strayed into this place, the blood-stained corridor is also an area that cannot be approached. Of course, considering that the person who left the record should be an ordinary person without any protective power, and she can at least rely on the red light for limited defense, Xiaohua feels that she should still be able to go in and find out, but she knows nothing about this place at the moment. If she really consumes her only reliance at the beginning, it would be a bit too stupid, and she can't make such a choice.

Then, go right first. If you go to the right, you should soon reach another three-way intersection.

Thinking of this, Xiaohua took a careful step, away from the rotten corridor full of insects just now, and stepped into a new area.

Tap--tap--

Clear footsteps echoed in the narrow corridor.

Compared to the corridor just now, the corridor Xiaohua was walking in was not only brightly lit, but also very clean in terms of floor, wall and ceiling. It looked like it was often cleaned and maintained, and there was a faint breath of a wealthy family, which made Xiaohua subconsciously feel like she was walking in the corridor of a villa.

So quiet.

A few seconds ago, when she was in that dark and rotten corridor, the surroundings were still filled with the sound of insects crawling. Now, after entering a new corridor, the previous sounds disappeared all at once, as if they had never existed, leaving only a sense of silence like death.

"Hu..."

Xiaohua could clearly hear her own breathing and heartbeat.

She walked forward step by step, carefully, alert to abnormal phenomena that might appear from anywhere.

But until her sight could see the fork in the road ahead, until she actually walked to the location of the fork in the road, nothing strange happened.

It was as if she was the only one left in the world, and there was no movement except for her.

However, the area further ahead began to change.

According to the map and the survivors' records, Xiaohua was sure that the second fork in the corridor she had arrived at was the second fork. The road that went straight ahead became more like the corridor of an ordinary family. Although the floor was made of expensive wooden flooring, it was obviously not made of expensive materials. The walls were made of decorative wallpaper with colorful flowers, which looked very lively.

The corridor that should lead to "Mom's bedroom" according to the map looked very strange. It seemed ordinary, just an ordinary corridor with gray tiles and white wall paint. But after just a little closer observation, Xiaohua inexplicably felt uncomfortable as if she was being stared at by something. She looked around but couldn't find where the gaze came from.

After a brief thought, the girl chose to move forward.

She planned to go to the food room, toy room and doll room first to check the situation and confirm what was inside. As for the bedroom and the unknown special area, she instinctively felt that it would be better to put them at the back.

As she walked into this corridor with colorful wallpapers on both sides, Xiaohua felt that her mood seemed to become more lively. The depressed mood caused by entering this strange and twisted space was relieved, as if this corridor itself had some kind of soothing power.

This feeling... is very wonderful.

There is a feeling of full expectation for the future, and every day in life is full of happiness. What is this place all about?

Xiaohua felt that she could vaguely feel something, but she couldn't really understand it. In the end, there was only a vague feeling.

Her perception ability seemed to be a little bit worse, and she couldn't really feel the supernatural power emitted by the weird. I heard from Mr. Gao Hai that players with strong perception seemed to be able to directly obtain the other party's memory or rule ability information just by contacting the relevant breath of the weird. I always felt that it sounded as terrible as mind reading.

However, Mr. Gao Hai also told her that it seemed that she also had some unknown talent, but this ability was not active and could not be controlled by her. It might require some stimulation to be truly developed. It seems that Mr. Gao Hai is not clear about how to develop it. He just said that he could try to stimulate it with painful memories, such as letting Xiaohua experience being soaked in boiling water to death or being dragged into a cave crack and torn into minced meat, which might stimulate this talent. Of course, Xiaohua refused without hesitation. Are you kidding? It sounds so scary, she doesn't want to try it. Even if she knows that it's just an experience, she can't accept it. This kind of thing is too scary!

While thinking, Xiaohua walked slowly along this gradually inclined corridor and soon saw a new fork in the front.

The third fork... is here.

This time the fork extends to both sides. The fork on the left, according to the map, leads to the doll room. However, the door of this room seems to be broken and cannot be opened, so Xiaohua does not plan to go this way.

Of course, although she did not choose this side of the passage, she still carefully observed the layout of this corridor. To be honest, it is not much different from the corridor where she is standing at this time, both have the same wooden floor. But there is one difference. There are no colorful wallpapers. The corridor leading to the doll room is lined with empty white walls on both sides. It is not covered with colorful wallpapers like the corridor Xiaohua walked through, so it lacks a bit of life.

As for the corridor leading to the food room, the characteristics of this corridor are much more obvious. First of all, the floor is not wooden but tiles, and it can be clearly seen that it is the style of tiles used in places such as kitchens and toilets. You can also see the sunken drains a few meters away. And although the walls of this corridor are hung with colorful wallpapers, the wallpapers are very obviously damaged and stained, as if someone had torn them and scribbled on them. Not only that, as Xiaohua stepped into this corridor, she also smelled a strong smell of oil smoke, which was mixed with the aroma of cooked oil and the smell of something burning.