Nightmare Apostle

"Brother, this is your first time in a place like this." Outside the door, Yang Xiao looked at Fang Zhou next to him, and laughed in a low voice. Hearing this, Fang Zhou frowned, and also turned his head, returning Yang Xiao's calm smile, " Of course not, why would you ask?”

"When people are nervous, they will subconsciously perform some meaningless actions, such as adjusting their glasses, grabbing their hair, or blinking frequently.

And your habit is to rub your sleeves. "Yang Xiao glanced at Fang Zhou's left hand hidden behind his back.

Sure enough, after hearing Yang Xiao's words, Fang Zhou immediately tightened his fingers on his sleeves, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes. However, he still refused to let go and said calmly: "Mr. Yang, I think you may have misunderstood. These cannot explain anything." What a problem."

Yang Xiao didn't care, and said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, I don't mean any harm. Everyone has come from this stage. If you are an old player, then just pretend that I didn't say it. If you are a newcomer, remember what I said, sir. The more you talk, the more you will survive.”

‘Why are you telling me this? "Fangzhou was very vigilant. He took a step back and entered the room, getting closer to the women who were taking a bath before asking.

Yang Xiao turned his head slightly, and in the next second, his eyes skipped the Ark and stared at the row of women bathing. To be precise, he looked at the wooden barrel in the second cubicle from the left. There was mist around the barrel, but I could still vaguely see that there was no one in the barrel.

Pushing aside the Ark and walking up quickly, the other three women were startled by the movement. Yang Xiao rushed to the barrel and opened the lower curtain.

I saw a layer of flower petals floating on the surface of the barrel, but the person was missing.

"Where are the people?!"

There was not much space in the cubicle. Yang Xiao went around behind the barrel but could not find the woman. At this moment, the other three women also realized that something was wrong and immediately put on their clothes and rushed out barefoot.

It is very certain that the owner of this cubicle is Yuan Ruoqi, the beautiful and enthusiastic girl who winked at Yang Xiao.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Xiao stepped forward and slowly opened the petals on the water with his hands. The next second, a face with wide eyes and a dead look was revealed under the water.

It's Yuan Ruoqi!

"Come up quickly, something happened!" Chang Chuchu rushed out the door with some clothes on and shouted downstairs.

Nalan Shuo and others moved very quickly. In less than a minute, they rushed up with their clothes on. All five of them came. After all, it was unwise to be alone at this moment.

Nalan Shuo, whose hair was still wet and shirtless, was the first to rush up the stairs. He slowed down when he saw that Yang Xiao was fine.

Soon, all 10 people arrived. Everyone gathered around Yuan Ruoqi's bathtub, her face dark and solemn. Yuan Ruoqi sank under the water, her face raised.

The loose hair is floating gently in the water, and against the background of the petals, it has a sense of artistic poignancy.

A living person died like this, almost in front of everyone. Yuan Ruoqi's cubicle was in the middle.

There were people on both sides, and Yang Xiaofangzhou was guarding the door, but they still couldn't save her life.

Dead people are not scary. What is important is to understand how people died. This kind of silent and unknown death is the most terrifying.

"Get the person out first." Zhang Songde couldn't help it after all. He rolled up his sleeves and asked at the same time: "Which brother is willing to help?"

"I'll do it." Chang Chuchu pulled up her hair and tied it up at the back of her head with a wooden hairpin. Then she walked to the wooden bucket, and together with Zhang Songde, reached into the bucket, and one of them grabbed one of Yuan Ruoqi's shoulders. Lift the body up.

But the next second, Zhang Songde and Chang Chuchu's expressions changed at the same time, and they immediately retreated. Zhang Songde's expression was even uglier than eating a fly.

She was surprised and said: "Down there...: There is something pulling her down there!"

Hearing this, everyone dispersed immediately. Nalan Shuo shouted: "Don't mess around. Leave a few people to guard the door and keep an eye on the back. Xiang Fengchen, you and I go over there. Don't fish it out with your hands. Use a bucket to drain the water inside." !”

"Tear down these curtains, everyone should spread out, don't leave any blind spots!" Nalan Shuo made some arrangements, and the scene quickly calmed down. At this moment, the quality of the veteran players was reflected, and everyone performed their duties. .

The curtains of the other three compartments were torn down, and four people were guarding the door. Xiang Fengchen's method was even more radical than Nalan Shuo's. He walked directly forward and put his foot on the edge of the barrel. His feet were strong and heavy, and he was obviously a practicing master. After a few feet, the gap at the joint of the barrel instantly opened, and water flowed out.

Soon, the water flowed all over the floor. After almost touching it, Xiang Fengchen and Nalan Shuo slowly stepped forward. At this moment, most of Yuan Ruoqi's body in the barrel was exposed. In addition to the corpse, there was a handful of water used to aid bathing. There was nothing but a stool, a wooden hairpin, and some flower petals.

This time the body was pulled out smoothly, but when inspecting the body, everyone discovered abnormalities. Some dark purple patches appeared on the lower limbs of the body.

"Corpse spots?" Chang Chuchu, who entered the school, frowned.

Generally speaking, body spots will appear about 2 to 4 hours after death, but Yuan Ruoqi died less than half an hour at most.

Moreover, according to Chang Chuchu's further inspection, it was confirmed that Yuan Ruoqi died of drowning, but it was impossible for a living person to drown in the bathtub without saying a word, not to mention that the body had been damaged by some kind of damage before the body sank into the water. Something pulls.

But the strange thing is that Hutai didn't have any external injuries at all.

Looking down at the corpse, Xiang Fengchen seemed to have thought of something. He squatted down and touched Yuan Ruoqi's left foot with two fingers. To be precise, the ankle, then the right foot, and then switched to his right hand until he touched the left wrist. After a moment, , Xiang Fengchen raised his brows, he raised the left arm of the corpse, and flicked it gently. Everyone was shocked to find that the swinging movement of his left hand was very unnatural.

"It's broken." Xiang Fengchen put down the body's left hand and said, "Go find a mirror."

Just after he said it, Xiang Fengchen shook his head again. After thinking about it, he knew that it was impossible to find a mirror at this moment, so he did the next best thing, gently touched the corpse's face with his palm, closed Yuan Ruoqi's eyes, "Lift the corpse, Rush down and lift it to the barrel."

After seeing Xiang Fengchen's ability, Zhang Desong and Yang Zerun stepped forward. One raised his head and the other held his feet. They carried the body to the barrel in another compartment. After taking out most of the petals from the water, Xiang Fengchen pulled up the body. left hand, general hand His arms were placed across the water. After a while, as the water surface stabilized, everyone saw a horrifying scene. They saw a cyan handprint across the snow-white wrist. It seemed that it was this ghost hand that grabbed Yuan Ruoqi underwater. , drowning her alive.

"It's the water ghost who caught the substitute..." Lou Huiyang, who had never said much, had a dark expression on his face, obviously knowing the secret.

But in the next second, Xiang Fengchen let go of his arm and turned to glance at him, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. There is no hand for the water ghost to catch the substitute. He only grabs the feet."

"Senior Xiang, then... what is this?" Zhang Songde asked.

"We don't know yet, but it must be a very vicious person, otherwise we wouldn't need a mirror to see it."

Xiang Fengchen raised the arm of the corpse again. This time everyone got closer and made a new discovery. The handprint that broke Yuan Ruoqi's left wrist was different from ordinary people. It actually had six fingers, and the fingers were thin and long. Yang Xiao got closer and stretched out his hand to compare. Suddenly, it was a full knuckle longer than him.

Suddenly, Yang Xiao shuddered violently. He immediately raised his head and looked around. Just now, something seemed to be staring at him, a look that was extremely malicious. This feeling was very bad.

What made Yang Xiao even more vigilant was that the gaze did not fade away due to his awareness. On the contrary, it even got closer to him.

"What's wrong with you?" Nalan Shuo was the first to notice Yang Xiao's strangeness and asked.

"I don't know, I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable." In this situation, he couldn't clearly say that he seemed to be being targeted by a ghost, otherwise he would definitely get alienation and precautions from his teammates, which would be very detrimental to his next actions.

Time passed by, and he looked around, but found nothing unusual, until his peripheral vision inadvertently swept across the barrel in front of him, and finally... he finally found the source of that sinister sight, on the surface of the barrel, There is a pair of haunting eyes floating around!

"The corpse opened its eyes!"

This sentence frightened Zhang Desong and Yang Zerun who were carrying the body. Almost subconsciously, they dropped the body. The body hit the edge of the barrel and rolled to the ground. After stopping, it happened to be facing up, with its head tilted weakly. On the right, a pair of blind eyes stared unbiased at the location of Yang Xiao and others. This scene frightened Fangzhou to the point where his legs became weak. He knelt down and backed away, hitting the edge of the barrel and almost falling in.

"What the hell is this?" Zhang Songde cursed, and it was obvious that he was panicking. This sound was somewhat emboldening himself.

"Don't worry about this body for now, the mission is important." Nalan Shuo stood up, "Go down and take a bath now, we don't have much time."

Birthday wishes were the main task. Once the time came, people from the mansion came to find them and saw that they had not finished bathing and changing clothes, and they didn't know what trouble they were going to cause.

One person is dead now, so it should be safe for a while.

"What should we do with this body?" Gong Pinglan asked in a low voice. The dean was also frightened by the scene just now.

"Leave it to the master to take care of it. I would like to see how they deal with this body." Xiang Fengchen said seriously.

The word "deal with" gave everyone a bad association. They immediately abandoned the body. The three women brought their clothes and shoes and all came downstairs. Now only Yang Xiaofangzhou and four others were left without bathing and changing clothes.

This is more like a ritual. As long as you immerse your body in the water, it is considered washed. The whole process only took less than 3 minutes. Yang Xiao and the four of them finished washing and put on the clothes provided by the host. These clothes were all off-white. , very new, I just let them replace it temporarily, and soon,

The auspicious clothes worn during the actual birthday celebration will be sent by someone.

But after Yuan Ruoqi's incident, the atmosphere at the scene was very depressing. Everyone originally thought that the ghost would cause trouble at the birthday banquet or after the birthday celebration, but now it seems that the matter is much more complicated than they thought.

How did Yuan Ruoqi die? Of course, the cause of her death was that a ghost grabbed her wrist and drowned in the water. But the key is why she was targeted by a ghost. The mission had just begun. What did she do wrong?

Also, it is strange that body spots appeared on Yuan Ruoqi’s body shortly after her death.

Where did I get the trick? After arriving at the village, or on the way with the birthday party, or... .In that weird ruined temple?

Puzzled, time passed by, and not long after, everyone heard footsteps approaching from outside. There were many people coming, and they were holding red lanterns.

The leader was an old man with fair skin and steady steps. He was dressed in a silk dress, with his eyes tilted down, giving him a typical "embarrassed" face. He first bowed politely to everyone after meeting them, "Everyone, I am the manager of the manor, my surname is Wu, this is the auspicious dress prepared by my master for you, I rely on you to celebrate the birthday of the old ancestor tonight."

Manager Wu waved his hand, and the servants behind him brought up boxes one by one. At this moment, the mature and steady Nalan Shuo spoke, and also bowed politely at first, and then his face became ugly, as if he had something to hide, "Manager Wu, it is a big day for your manor, but there is something that must be told to your manor, we...one of our companions just bathed Unfortunately, he drowned. You see, the birthday celebration... "

Unexpectedly, Manager Wu was stunned at first, and his eyes swept over the people present one by one. Later, he put away the remaining smile and said with a tense face: "Don't talk nonsense. Can you afford to offend my ancestor's birthday on such a happy day?"

"We didn't lie. The body is upstairs. If you don't believe it, you will know when you go upstairs." Everyone talked about Nalan Shuo's testimony. Manager Wu snorted coldly, brushed his sleeves and rushed in, and went straight upstairs. Yang Xiao and others immediately followed him, and together with the people brought by Manager Wu,

A large group of people squeezed upstairs along the wooden stairs, but when they got upstairs, Yang Xiao and his group were dumbfounded. They saw water all over the floor, but the body lying on the ground was gone.

"Where is the person?" Zhang Songde's scalp numbed for a moment, and several people immediately checked the room, including the remaining barrels, but found nothing.

Seeing that Manager Wu looked unhappy, Yang Xiao immediately stood up to vouch for Nalan Shuo, "Manager Wu, we guarantee that one of our companions really drowned just now. It was a woman. You should remember that when we entered Guizhuang, there were 11 people, including 7 men and 4 women. Now look, there are only 3 women left."

"Yes, you can ask someone to ask." Everyone had to stand up and speak at this moment. If they did something like this on someone's birthday,

if they were misunderstood, it would be a big trouble. Once the ancestor had an accident, the account would be on their heads.

"It's getting more and more outrageous!" Manager Wu kicked hard, his face became more and more gloomy, and even his eyelids were twitching.

He roared in a low voice: "You clearly came with 10 people, 7 men and 3 women, where did the 11th person come from?!"