Merchant of the Underworld

Dujuan Tower has been completely abandoned. I don’t know if it’s because of the Yin Mansion? The Hong Kong government did not demolish the building or rebuild it, but allowed the building to continue to be abandoned in a deserted corner.

Looking up, I saw that the entire building's exterior was covered with cracks and was in disrepair. There was even a deep crack in the middle of the building, which made me worry that it would be blown down by the wind at any time.

When we walked into it, there was garbage, feces and urine everywhere. The first floor should be used as a public toilet. It stinks to the sky and blow flies are flying everywhere.

We had to go to the second floor.

The situation on the second floor was even worse. The corridors were actually filled with the carcasses of wild cats and dogs, which had long since rotted and oozed pus. There were even many animal carcasses that had been hung up.

Even though it's broad daylight, seeing these animal carcasses still gives people a strong sense of spookiness!

After arriving on the third floor, things started to feel a bit normal. There were no feces or animal carcasses. We even found two quilts. Yin Xinyue told me that beggars or homeless people should live here.

The higher you go, the more deserted it becomes. When you get above the fifth floor, there are basically no traces of human activity.

I know that most of the people who committed suicide by jumping from buildings were concentrated on the fifth floor and above, so no one dared to come up.

At this moment, the sun is setting in the west, and it is already very dark in the corridor. It seems that the poor lighting in Dujuan Tower is also one of the reasons for the strong gloomy atmosphere here, right?

The current situation was a bit beyond my expectation, so I had to omit many unnecessary steps and directly let them look for a house without a bathroom.

Yin Xinyue asked me strangely: Why are you looking for a house without a bathroom?

I said that in a place like this that hides filth and evil, the yin energy is usually concentrated in the toilet. Let's find a place without a toilet, where there will be less dirt.

Li Mazi was startled: "So, do you admit that there are really dirty things in the world? Do you think we can meet the dirty things tonight?"

When we dealt with embroidered shoes, green heads, and snake-browed knives before, although we encountered a lot of strange things, we never saw a real ghost.

So when I said this, Li Mazi immediately became interested.

Maybe he felt that as an antique dealer, if he had never seen what a ghost looked like, it would be too embarrassing to tell him about it, right?

I shook my head and said, "The dirty things in my mouth are different from the dirty things you think of. They may not be ghosts, they may also be some other ghosts and monsters."

Demons and monsters? Li Mazi's curiosity suddenly aroused: "What is this?"

I was too lazy to talk nonsense to Li Mazi and said to go find him quickly, otherwise we would be in a passive state when it gets dark.

As expected, Li Mazi shut his mouth, and we hurriedly walked along the building, starting from the fourth floor and searching for rooms one by one.

However, the layout of the rooms here are all the same, so it is really difficult to find rooms with different layouts. Originally, I wanted to find a utility room, or a security room, where there wouldn't be a toilet.

However, the facilities in this building are not perfect, and almost all rooms are occupied.

Fortunately, we finally found a public bathroom on the eighth floor. This public bathroom must have been remodeled later, but in any case, we have a place to stay tonight.

I took a deep breath and hurriedly took Li Mazi and Yin Xinyue downstairs for dinner. I have a hunch that human bone necklaces will definitely appear here in the next few days!

We went downstairs to eat some shrimp dumplings, bought some necessities, and hurried back.

The bathroom door was still in good condition, but the window was broken. The three of us huddled under the corner and waited quietly.

To avoid exposing ourselves, we didn't turn on our flashlights.

Yin Xinyue was a little uncomfortable at first, but after I comforted her for a long time, her nervous expression improved slightly.

But she was still scared and clung to me. I felt the temperature of her body, and the soft body once made me addicted, and the most primitive desires sprouted in my heart involuntarily.

But I finally suppressed this desire. Now is not the time to think about this. After all, we are in one of the best haunted houses in Hong Kong!

At this moment, the whole building was surprisingly quiet, and the bustling streets gradually disappeared from sight, and the street lights were turned off one by one. Originally, the lights from the building opposite could still shine through, but now there was no light at all.

The coolness hit me, and I felt a chill on my back. Yin Xinyue leaned closer to me...

I comforted Yin Xinyue and asked her to sleep for a while, so that she would not be afraid when she fell asleep.

Yin Xinyue nodded and soon fell into my arms in a daze.

Li Mazi took out his mobile phone and simply started playing the game.

Nothing happened in the first half of the night. I felt a lot more relieved. It seemed that my choice was correct.

However, this situation did not last long. While I was watching Li Mazi playing Tetris carefully, I suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the stairs!

I was stunned for a moment, and then I patted Li Mazi's hand to tell him to stop playing.

Li Mazi also noticed the movement at the stairs and didn't dare to blink.

I patted Yin Xinyue and woke her up. Then he pointed to the stairs and made a silent gesture towards her.

Yin Xinyue listened carefully and hugged my arm: "What... what is this sound?"

I said: "It seems like something is crawling on the ground..."

Li Mazi said tremblingly: "You remind me of the scene in "The Grudge", where the female ghost climbed up the stairs with her face covered in blood."

I scolded all the eighteen generations of Li Mazi's ancestors in my heart, because Li Mazi's words also successfully scared me.

The rustling sound came and went, and it sounded like something was really climbing up.

This sound cut through the long silent night and made my heart beat faster!

Fortunately, after the thing climbed to the top of the stairs, it did not crawl towards the bathroom, but went in the opposite direction. This gave me some relief and told them to be quiet and no one would notice we were here.

Rustle, rustle...

The sound gradually moved away, but soon, the rustling stopped, and then there was an exciting knock on the door.

After the knock on the door, there was another period of dead silence. After about two or three seconds of silence, a hoarse, indistinguishable voice suddenly sounded: "Daughter, are you in there?"

Yin Xinyue's hand held my arm tighter, and she was trembling all over.

I simply held her in my arms and patted her gently, as if to comfort the baby and let her not be afraid.

After the hoarse voice, there was another burst of silence.

Then, there was the sound of crawling again, this time it was crawling towards the bathroom!

The knock on the door rang again, and it was still the same voice: "Daughter, are you in there?"

The other party kept repeating this action.

I know, it knocks on the door from room to room and asks tirelessly.

My heart was extremely nervous, and I didn’t know whether this thing was a human or a ghost.

Although I don't believe that there are really ghosts in the world, at best some strange things happen. But when I actually encountered this situation, I still couldn't help but think about it.

I knew this thing was going to knock on the bathroom door sooner or later, and I didn't know if it would find us. What will happen after we are discovered?

The three of us were like prisoners, waiting fearfully for the judgment to come.

Finally, the crawling sound stopped in front of the bathroom, and a knock on the door sounded: "Bang, bang, bang!"

My heart suddenly rose to my throat, and I stared at the door motionlessly.

Then, a hoarse voice sounded: "Daughter, are you in there?"

We immediately covered our mouths and dared not say a word, for fear of being discovered by it.

Just like the previous times, after the other party finished shouting, he listened to the noise in the room and left.

I breathed a long sigh of relief. It seemed that the other party didn't notice us.

But after I continued to sit for a while, I suddenly felt something was wrong, but I couldn't remember what was wrong for a while.

It was time to wait until Li Mazi asked me in a low voice: "It...why doesn't it knock on the door?"

Only then did I realize with horror that the other person disappeared after knocking on our door, and my heart suddenly started beating wildly.

What does it mean? Why doesn't it keep knocking on the door? Maybe they discovered us.

I knew something was wrong, so I stood up immediately and stared at the door with sharp eyes.

The door was slowly pushed open, and the creaking sound was exactly the same as the old doorbell.

The moment the door was opened, a cold wind blew in, which made me shiver involuntarily. I wrapped my clothes tightly around my body and held a large handful of Oai salt in my hand.

Gosei salt is fine-grained table salt that was offered as tribute to the emperor in ancient times.

If the opponent is really a monster, a handful of royal salt is enough to kill its majesty and give us enough time to escape!