Chapter 761 Abnormal Space
Ghosts, walking corpses, puzzles, alien spaces, these things are not uncommon, especially to those of us who have seen more exaggerated things. The only thing that's strange about them is that they occur in large numbers on Earth.
The reasons for the occurrence of supernatural phenomena cannot yet be explained, or there are many explanations, but they cannot be determined. The research center is the most cutting-edge place in the empire's technological power. Any researcher there can use hundreds of thousands of methods to completely recreate the supernatural events that are currently happening in the city. For example, a porcelain doll returning home - a raven even deduced There are more than 3,700 ways to create golems with exactly the same functions, and hundreds of them are so simple that even ordinary people can master them. In this way, the real reason is buried.
The current analysis can only make it clear that all supernatural events are accompanied by a very weak energy manifestation. For example, the mobile phone-sized Sadako is the most intuitive thing, but because it failed to materialize when it happened, After seeing it with our own eyes, we are still not sure where these energies originally came from. They are so weak that anything in nature may be their energy source.
To be fair, these supernatural incidents are not a big deal. If nothing else, even An Weina, who only sings ghost songs in the middle of the night, can bring the entire Eurasian region back to the medieval magic era. There are rows of children who can't help but the power of the little maid, but even those inconspicuous little things make people feel like they have nothing to do. The eyes of the prophet are blinded, but the ones that harass us are always sesame seeds and mung beans. When it comes to hauntings, sometimes I even wonder if some guy is just joking with us after he’s full. Bingtis is the most likely, but she swore in the name of Brick that the Gods would not do such boring things, so I can only believe it.
The moon was thin, Anweina was flying south, and midnight was a good time for sneaking around, picking up girls, getting a house, and saving the world. Under the cover of an invisible force field, a group of people swaggered to the nearest haunted holy place mentioned by a certain eldest lady, a famous place in K city. Old school, City No. 2 Middle School.
This operation, which could not be called an operation, failed to attract the interest of Her Majesty Shandora. Even her elder sister was too lazy to come over to intervene, so only Qian Qian and Lin Xue came with her, but the ordinary members of the action team passed by. Carefully selected, Hakurei Reimu stood behind me with sleepy eyes holding the royal coins. Behind her were Yuyuko and Ibuki Suika, and behind them were the two death knights and twenty skeletons I transferred from Shadow City. Mage, there are also several ghosts and ghosts summoned from other worlds, shadowy like a hundred ghosts walking at night.
My plan is this: First, tie Reimu Hakurei, a miko, to the flagpole of the school and use it as a taunting machine, so that the ghosts will definitely come out. Then let Yuyuko and Ibuki Suiko lead the troops to fight against the monsters here. If the other party doesn't If you are fooled, let the ghosts and skeletons take off their hats. We will hold a peer meeting on site and discuss together in a harmonious and friendly atmosphere what the recent commotion among ghosts in K City is about.
"Yawn - I'm so sleepy," Reimu shuddered, then rubbed his eyes and continued to yawn, rudely poking my lower back with the white paper stick in his hand, "Hey, boss, you have to go to work so late. , it counts as night shift pay.”
"Ah, Reimu, don't be so lethargic." Yuyuko was very interested, looking up at the bright sky, "I really like the night. It would be better if I could drink and admire the moon after finishing my work. . I really didn’t expect that there would be such a bright moonlight in the human world, it feels a bit dazzling.”
"Nonsense, that's a street light."
Youyouzi: "...I...of course I know!"
Cuixiang looked sympathetically at Youyouzi, who had lost all her image, and put her hands on her hips: "So, in the future, go to the city more often, or you will become an old woman in the country!"
Youyouzi was furious, and he broke off the cone from the Cuixiang corner and stuffed it into his mouth: "Hmph! Of course I know the things in the city, I just didn't know it, but you, you even broke the most important corner of the ghost clan. You're dead, and you shamelessly run around with an ice cream cone hanging all day long, what qualifications do you have to criticize me?"
Seeing that Cuixiang's face turned red, I quickly reached out to hold down the big-horned Loli who was about to jump violently, and gave her a new cone: "Don't panic, don't panic, haven't you already grown two millimeters in recent times? You will recover soon." Well, it will still be a pair of beautiful big horns when the time comes.”
Dajiao Loli touched the cone on her head, holding the iron chain on her body with one hand, and squeezed out a few words through her teeth: "Damn it! I haven't given you any trouble yet! I'm from the ghost tribe, Are you different from ghosts? Why do I have to participate in this boring game!"
I laughed and said, "Who jumped out when they heard that people who go out at night can drink when they go home?"
The little man fell silent.
"Hey, can't you just be quiet?" Lin Xue's voice suddenly came, interrupting the secret contest between me and Cuixiang. When I looked up, I saw that we were already in the middle of the campus.
In front of me is the famous central theme public toilet of the city's No. 2 Middle School. In the dark night, the four luxurious toilets that combine Chinese and Western styles made me feel a little ups and downs. I recalled that a few years ago, I was an ordinary student in the city's No. 2 Middle School. Student, the sound of my hearty flushing was once left in this toilet. Now time flies and the sun and the moon fly by. In the blink of an eye, the toilet is still the same toilet, but the people are gone... In other words, I got a brain twitch in front of a toilet and lamented that life is messy. ah! ?
The campus was silent late at night. It was still during the winter vacation, and except for one or two vacation classes, almost everyone in the school had gone to school. The student dormitories in the distance were dark, and the nearest building with lights on in sight was the high school. In the teaching building, someone seemed to have forgotten to turn off the lights. Looking at the classroom with the lights on, I remembered the time a few years ago when I sneaked back to school after school and turned on the lights in the teacher's office. That was Qianqian's idea back then. , the main purpose is to spread the rumor that the school is haunted in order to achieve the sinister purpose of giving a half-day holiday. Unfortunately, we have been waiting for the office to change three door locks and the holiday has not happened.
"Girl, this toilet is not the most haunted place, right?"
I held Suixiang's big horn tightly with one hand to prevent her from running around out of curiosity, and asked in a low voice.
"Of course not, it's just that we can see something here." Lin Xue put up a pergola and looked to the southwest. Over there is the No. 1 teaching building of the junior high school. "Mu Mu, you graduated here, you should remember it." What about the school situation, right? For example, the teaching building."
"Of course I will remember it." I said a little nostalgically. With a rare tenderness on her face, Qianqian leaned over quietly and took over the second half of my sentence: "Back then, because of my improper attitude in the exam, I and Ajun were in junior high school. It has swept through the three days of land."
It's such a shame that the most romantic thing in this girl's memory turned out to be this.
"Ahem...you guys are really..." Lin Xue choked at the sweet memories of Qianqian and I, a strange couple, and then her expression was a little weird, "Well, the past time is indeed very nostalgic. It has been three or four years." Years have passed. I still remember the first time I saw you, at the gate of this school, but you probably didn’t notice it. Who could have imagined at the time that so many things would happen after that. "
Perhaps because Qian Qian was right in front of me, Lin Xue was not too busy recalling too many past memories with me—because there was an absolutely insurmountable level gap between her and Qian Qian in terms of past memories of her lover. After a few words, she refocused her attention on the upcoming supernatural event.
"The time is almost up." The eldest lady confirmed the time, her eyes fixed on the teaching building of the junior high school. I didn't know what she wanted me to see, so I had to watch attentively, and kept mumbling. Lingmeng and Suixiang, who went back to sleep, also led a group of demons and ghosts to become serious. Time passed by minute by second, and finally, "dang, dang, dang -", several long bells broke the tranquility of midnight, and the hour arrived.
Lingmeng was frightened by the sudden sound. He turned his head and looked at it, expressing his confusion: "Is anyone building a bell tower above the toilet?"
"There is a clock tower in the toilet, and the sound is not muted at twelve o'clock at night. This is the most famous part of this school." I patted Reimu's big bow, "I'll let you know about our music when I have time. Floor, the statue of Confucius at the door is holding a Bible in his hand."
Lin Xue sprayed it at that time, and then coughed hard several times in an attempt to make the atmosphere serious again: "Ahem, it's working time now - Mu Mu, have you discovered the problem with the junior high school building?"
I looked up after hearing this, and after a few seconds curled my lips: "I thought I was wrong at first, but I really didn't expect that it could reach this point."
Building No. 1 of the Junior High School was originally a six-story old building with a flat roof. I definitely remember this correctly, and I also confirmed the number of floors before zero o'clock arrived. But when the zero o'clock bell rang, it It became the seventh floor...
The old building not far away has an extra floor at the top. The seventh floor looks exactly the same as the other floors, but its exterior wall looks particularly dark. In sharp contrast, it has There was a faint red light coming from the two windows, which looked hazy and depressing.
"This happened to an unlucky teacher at first," Lin Xue led the group toward Building 1. "Because there are holiday classes, there are several teachers in the school staying here, and they have to stay here at night. Responsible for night watch on campus, yes, night watch at twelve o'clock. The recent supernatural incidents have caused panic, and the school's old teaching building is often a place visited by ghost stories. In order to prevent vicious incidents from happening, many schools have arranged midnight Although their leaders insist on believing in science and fighting superstition, no one can sit still if something happens to them..."
When everyone came to the teaching building, I also had a general understanding of the teacher's experience, and I have to say that he was relatively lucky.
That night, he and a colleague inspected the old teaching building together. As soon as they reached the third floor, the colleague said that he had a stomachache and needed to go to the toilet, leaving him alone. He was a very courageous teacher, even though it was dark at night. The teaching building was very eerie, but he continued to patrol the fourth floor, fifth floor, sixth floor...seventh floor by himself as if nothing had happened.
When he subconsciously walked up one level, he didn't notice anything unusual. It wasn't until he entered an unusually dark corridor that he looked up at the sign on the wall. Then, he saw the seventh floor of the junior high school that didn't exist.
This brave teacher took just one second to make a decisive decision, which fundamentally prevented him from encountering a greater horror: Ya fainted.
"Wooden wood, wood wood, this is your alma mater after all. In the end, I am the one who understands the current situation of this place better." Lin Xue found that I was as interested in her story as I was listening to the story, and she immediately complained involuntarily.
"Nonsense, I haven't been back for several years." I pulled Qianqian up the stairs and followed closely behind me, followed by a bunch of monsters and monsters. "Speaking of which, is this a big deal?"
"It's big, but not too big. After the news about the haunting came out, several holiday classes were temporarily closed, and no one dared to patrol the night at night. As you can see, there is almost no one in the school at night. The rest The few people who stick to their posts are also accompanied by peripheral personnel from the superpower team. Oh, I just forgot to say hello to them. Let’s talk about it when we get back. Anyway, you know that there are many people in the superpower team who are busy with this matter. And that’s fine. To say how widespread the impact is, it is really not that serious. After all, the school is haunted, which is not something that can be confessed to the public, and it is unlikely to appear in the regular media. Now the school claims that some teaching buildings are in disrepair and need urgent renovation. Therefore, it is temporarily closed and ordinary people do not know what is happening here. Although some people are speculating whether it is related to the recent 'rumors' in the city, no one will definitely admit it."
During the conversation, a group of people had arrived at the normal end of the stairs. The wall next to us had a "sixth floor" sign, but next to it, where the wall was originally in our memory, a staircase that should not have existed extended upward. , guiding everyone towards the floor that appeared out of thin air.
"How?" Lin Xue stepped on the stairs leading to the seventh floor, "It's not an illusion."
"There is no mutation in the surrounding space," I frowned. "The seventh level is real, but it was obviously created by something and then changed from illusion to reality. There is abnormal energy flow nearby, but the source can't be seen. Not even."
"Well, it seems that it can be easily solved." Qian Qian touched the handrail of the strange staircase. Wherever she touched it, the handrail immediately began to shake violently. Lin Xue quickly stopped her: "No, you can't break this place by force. Although they are very weak energy fields. I am not sure yet, but I already have some vague guesses. If we forcibly destroy the haunted area here, I am afraid that many people will be seriously injured by our inadvertent actions. "
I glanced at Lin Xue, but the other party did not continue to explain, but took the lead and walked forward: "I'm not sure, maybe the secret is somewhere nearby. Try not to take action personally after staying up. If there is something abnormal, Let those skeleton soldiers and Reimu deal with it, Mu Mu, you only need to be responsible for sensing the direction of energy flow, Qianqian... Well, you can just be cute around Mu Mu, I'm afraid there will be a river of blood here if you take action."
Everyone felt that this made sense.
In the silent and gloomy corridor, only the footsteps of people echoed continuously. This is the seventh floor of the junior high school that appeared out of thin air. It is impossible to explain how it was born, but it actually "exists" in an abnormal space.
The layout in front of me is exactly the same as the corridor of the junior high school in my memory. When you come up from the stairs, the door on the left is the large office of all the teachers. Teachers of various subjects work together here. In front of you is a corner space facing the stairs. There are two public notice boards, and on the right is the corridor. Classrooms are symmetrically distributed on both sides of the corridor. Of course, not all of them are used for classes. There are also signs for multimedia classrooms and art activity rooms. The ground is paved with cheap but very strong beige floor tiles, reflecting the rows of lamps above the corridor that are emitting unusual light - yes, all the lights in the corridor are on, but the corridor is still dark and unusual, as if the light It has lost its ability to spread, or those light tubes in the dark are just like the white chalk on a blackboard, with a white and bright appearance but unable to emit real light.
In addition to the familiar architectural layout and wall colors, the things on this floor have never appeared in my memory. Those classrooms are different from the distribution of classrooms on any floor of the junior high school in my impression.
The eerie and silent midnight corridor is brightly lit but unable to illuminate even one meter of fluorescent tubes. There are also a few flickering tubes in the middle, like blinking eyes in the dark night, making the atmosphere of the corridor particularly terrifying and filling. In the corridor, there is also a kind of dim light, which is not only insufficient for illumination, but also makes the corners of the corridor appear more blurry and suspicious. We walked forward along the corridor, behind us there was the clicking sound of the joints of the skeleton soldiers - okay Well, I really don’t know whether it’s this place that’s scary or the soldiers I brought here that are killing me.
"There is a sense of unreality everywhere here," I frowned and said. Although I did not use my mental power to destroy the energy structure here, the sense of dissonance around me was still very obvious in my perception. "I remember when I was a child. I had a similar dream - well, it wasn't like this, but the atmosphere was very similar, a dark room, a light bulb that couldn't light up, and a dim yellow ground..."
"In fact, many people have similar nightmares when they are children," Lin Xue walked forward and pushed open the classroom doors beside her. The sound of clanging door frames echoed in the long corridor that seemed to have no end. "Human beings subconsciously organize things that scare them, and occasionally release them into various nightmares and daytime ghosts. Children are often afraid of the same things, such as darkness and strangeness, plus Children’s brains are not perfect, so they often have nightmares similar to the atmosphere - the atmosphere of this place should be exactly in line with the original fearful environment of everyone’s subconscious.”
I felt like I had captured something, but I was still not sure: "Are you saying that the creation of this place was carefully customized? Specifically to scare people just right?"
Lin Xue kicked open the door of the classroom next to her and muttered in a low voice: "It shouldn't be that simple."