Nightmare Attack

As expected, the person who answered him was still silent, but Jiang Cheng was sure that the other party must have understood what he said, but for some reason, he could not answer.

No longer hesitating, after Jiang Cheng calmed down, he used his fingers to pull open the curtain and took a good look at Heiying's true face in Lushan. However, a scene that surprised him appeared. Heiying actually stretched out his hand and made the same gesture as him. Using the same movement, he pulled the curtain, using just the opposite force to prevent him from opening the curtain.

It was obvious that the black shadow did not want to be exposed in front of him. Jiang Cheng simply thought that this might be due to some kind of restriction. The black shadow could not be seen in its true form, otherwise it would disappear.

Jiang Cheng had experienced similar scenes three times not long ago. Every time he tried to confirm the existence of the black shadow again, the other party would mysteriously disappear.

Under the cover of the sound of water, Jiang Cheng changed his mind and asked the doubts in his heart: "I know you have your concerns. In this case, let's change the way. You don't need to speak. I will ask the questions and you will answer. If I say If it’s right, you nod, if not, you shake your head.”

"You're nothing, right?"

Time was running out, and Jiang Cheng wanted to confirm this most important issue when he came up. He stared at the dark figure through the translucent shower curtain, but for some reason, the other person was like a piece of wood, motionless and without any response.

Slowly, the excitement in Jiang Cheng's heart seemed to be extinguished by a basin of ice water. It seemed that there was something wrong with his speculation. If the black shadow was not Wu, then things would be dangerous.

He was almost face to face with the other party now. The other party did not attack him. Maybe it was not out of kindness, but it was not the time to kill him yet, or... he was still useful to him.

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but take two steps back and distance himself from the black shadow.

"squeak--"

A strange friction sound came from behind the shower curtain. The sound was not loud, but it was very uncomfortable, just like the sound of sharp nails scraping against a blackboard.

And this is just the beginning.

"squeak--"

"squeak--"

There were three voices in total. At this moment, Jiang Cheng had retreated behind the door, planning to open the door and rush out at any time. The fat man outside seemed to have noticed something was wrong. He actually stopped knocking on the door and became quiet. Jiang Cheng quickly turned his head and scanned the door. He glanced at the door and guessed that the fat man was moving reinforcements.

In less than a second, when Jiang Cheng turned around and looked at the bathroom again, there was nothing behind the shower curtain, and the black shadow disappeared silently again.

Jiang Cheng didn't know where he got the courage. Instead of running out at the first moment, he stepped forward and slowly opened the shower curtain. The next second, after his eyes focused on one place, his pupils shrank sharply. tight.

On the relatively smooth ceramic outer wall of the bathtub, three sharp scratches suddenly appeared. Just imagining the sharp and sinister nails of the ghost hand behind the shower curtain makes people shudder.

If such nails were to scratch a person's body, it would be easy to open the intestines and rupture the abdomen.

But these are not important to Jiang Cheng. What he wants to find out most now is the identity of the other party. Originally he thought the other party would be Wu, but now he is shaken. If it is Wu, why is he unwilling to admit his identity? Also, in his impression, it was impossible not to have such sharp nails.

Staring at the three scratches, Jiang Cheng fell into confusion again. He didn't believe that the other party appeared several times just to scare him. The other party must have its own purpose.

"Knock-"

Jiang Cheng was on high alert, his ears moved, and he heard a very soft sound, as if a certain door was opened. Naturally, it wasn't the bathroom door, so it should be the room door.

The door to their room... was opened quietly.

Before Jiang Cheng could react, the next second, the bathroom door was kicked open violently. Jiang Cheng couldn't dodge, and was hit by the door. He staggered and almost fell on the toilet.

A figure broke through the dim light and rushed in, picked up Jiang Cheng and threw him out. Jiang Cheng's head was buzzing in the air, but fortunately a pair of thick arms caught him.

"Doctor, how are you?" The fat man's eyes widened and he looked wary. "What happened in the bathroom? Are you being controlled by a ghost?"

When his pupils regained focus, Jiang Cheng saw Fatty's big face, and No. 13, who was leaning closely in front of Fatty on guard.

No. 13 is facing the bathroom, and a figure in the bathroom is checking, it is No. 2.

Jiang Cheng could probably guess that after the fat man realized that he was in danger in the bathroom, he did not act rashly, but immediately notified No. 2 and No. 13 next door, and then the next scene happened.

About 2 minutes later, No. 2 walked out of the bathroom, frowning slightly, looking at Jiang Cheng with a strange look, "What happened to you?"

"Didn't you see it?" Jiang Cheng also felt strange.

No. 2’s eyes were alert, “What did you see?”

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng immediately walked towards the bathroom, with No. 2 following closely behind him. However, after entering, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but frown. The three terrifying scratches originally carved on the bathtub were all gone. The bathtub was clean like new.

No. 13 stood outside the bathroom door, stretching his head to look without squeezing in. After a moment, he seemed to understand something, and suddenly asked: "Zero, you didn't see anything weird again, did you?"

Jiang Cheng thought to himself that this was nonsense, but this time, he did not explain it to them in detail, but just mentioned that a dark shadow appeared behind the shower curtain.

The fat man even told No. 2 and No. 13 about the knock on the door before. The two people frowned. No. 2 affirmed that he had not slept the whole time and did not hear any sound.

"To be able to escape No. 2's perception, the other party is definitely not an ordinary person. It is very likely... very likely..."

No. 13 glanced out the window nervously. Everyone knew that it was the direction of Xixieming Mountain. No. 13 meant that those ghosts must have followed them out of the mountain, and the target was very clear, that is, Jiangcheng.

This kind of thing happened one after another. No. 2, No. 13, and especially Fatty, were deeply worried about Jiangcheng. No. 13 suggested that he and No. 2 could move in with them. Fatty did not agree immediately, but looked at Jiangcheng with an inquiring look. However, this seemingly reasonable plan was rejected by Jiangcheng. The reason he gave was that he did not want to implicate everyone.

No. 2 and No. 13 also understood Jiangcheng's subtext from his face, so they did not make things difficult for him, but took a step back and hoped to change rooms with them, although it might not be useful.

This time, Jiangcheng agreed.

When they moved to the next room, they saw a few empty bottles of wine by the bed and on the table. It can be imagined that No. 2 and his friends were under too much pressure and could not fall asleep without drinking some wine.

"Doctor, are you okay?" Fatty asked worriedly, "Maybe you should really listen to them. It's safer for the four of us to live together."

At this point, Fatty paused, then quickly reacted and looked at Jiang Cheng in surprise, "Doctor, don't you suspect that they are also..."

Seeing Jiang Cheng gestured to stop, Fatty immediately shut up, then looked at the door with a vigilant look.

"It shouldn't be, but it's always right to be careful about everything." Jiang Cheng reminded.

Seemingly worried that something strange would happen again, Fatty sat with Jiang Cheng for a long time. In the end, Jiang Cheng asked Fatty to lie down first and chat with him on the bed. As a result, Fatty lived up to expectations. He fell asleep within 5 minutes of lying down. The snoring that came and went made Jiang Cheng, who was worried, envious.

As soon as he closed his eyes, there was a mysterious black shadow in his mind. Jiang Cheng forced himself to calm down. He had to rest, because according to the arrangement of "Luo Yunshan", they had to go into the mountain after dawn tomorrow.

Although the mountain must be full of ambushes, it may also hide their way out.

As he thought about it, his eyelids became heavier and heavier. Jiang Cheng tilted his head and fell asleep.

Perhaps because he was too worried, he did not sleep well and had a strange dream. In the dream, he opened his eyes and found himself lying on a bed. But strangely, except for the bed under him, the whole room seemed to be blurred and covered with a layer of fog. He tried his best to see the surroundings clearly, but he couldn't do it.

He lowered his head and looked at the bed he slept on. The sheets were white and felt a little rough. They were the kind that had been washed many times. The facilities here were very old.

He stared at the sheets and suddenly felt an indescribable sense of familiarity, but before he could react, it seemed that something was moving, and the fog around was stirred. Slowly, a figure slowly appeared.

What was worse was that his body seemed to be frozen, and he could hardly move. He couldn't run away even if he wanted to. His scalp was numb, and he could only watch the figure approach.

The figure's face was unclear, like a ghost, revealing weirdness everywhere. In Jiang Cheng's eyes that were close to collapse, the figure stretched out his finger and moved it in the air.

Once.

Two times.

Three times!

His pupils moved, and Jiang Cheng instantly remembered that the other party drew three lines in the air, just like... just like the three scratches he saw on the bathtub!

This is the elusive black shadow!

The other party... The other party didn't know how to invade his dream, and... and it was such a weird dream.

The next scene was weird and crazy, more and more scratches appeared, appearing on his bed, pillow, and even on his clothes, all of which were neat three scratches. This seemed to be a paranoid power, wandering repeatedly between reality and dreams, distorting the boundary between the two.

Finally, with Jiang Cheng's unremitting efforts, he finally regained control of this body. He jumped up from the bed, then rushed into the fog, away from the direction of the black shadow.

In the mist, he knocked open a door and then groped forward. There were cold walls on both sides. He seemed to be in a long and narrow passage. He stumbled forward and finally found the stairs. He ran down quickly, went down two floors in a row, found a door, and finally rushed out.

He ran a long way before he dared to look back. There was still endless fog behind him, but this time, the fog changed. A gust of wind came and slightly dispelled the fog. Gradually, a building was exposed in the fog.

It was a two-story building. It was not very large, but there was still a good part hidden in the fog, but it gave people a very oppressive feeling, like a dormant giant beast that would come alive at any time and show its fangs.

And on the two-story building, there was a figure standing.

The figure seemed to know that Jiang Cheng had seen it. The next move made Jiang Cheng shudder. The figure raised his hand stiffly and drew three horizontal scratches in the air.

This happened again...

Jiang Cheng had no idea what the other party was going to do. He was almost driven crazy by this mysterious act with a strong religious atmosphere. He even hoped that the other party would jump out and fight with him openly.

As the fog gradually dissipated, Jiang Cheng finally saw clearly that the building under the figure's feet was a shabby hotel.

The four words "Hengtong Hotel" were faintly visible on the old-fashioned plaque in front of the door.

It was the hotel where he and his group stayed when they first arrived in town!

The next second, Jiang Cheng suddenly woke up. He sat up and kept gasping for breath. It was still dark outside the window. Fortunately, the lights in the room were still on.

The dream just now was so real, so real that it didn't seem like a dream. There was also the Hengtong Hotel. The mysterious man stood on the Hengtong Hotel and drew three traces with his hands.

Jiang Cheng couldn't be sure what was wrong with him now.

He took the half glass of wine on the bedside table and drank the cold wine. Jiang Cheng calmed down briefly, but before he could calm down, the scene he saw in his peripheral vision made him tremble all over. He saw three scratches on the wine glass in his hand, which were close together and very conspicuous.

It was definitely not just a dream just now. The other party must be telling him something, something very important, and this matter was related to the Hengtong Hotel.

After dawn, Jiang Cheng planned to go to the Hengtong Hotel to take a look. Although there might be a trap there, and the other party was deliberately leading him there, Jiang Cheng couldn't care so much at the moment.

He was sure that the black shadow was the breakthrough point of this incident, and following "Luo Yunshan" and others in the mountains would only make him sink deeper and deeper. It was okay for him alone, but the fat man, as well as No. 2 and No. 13, their lives could not be guaranteed at all.

Of course, all this was based on the premise that they were fine.

Staring at the fat man's sleeping cheek, Jiang Cheng felt it was very natural at first, but after watching it for a long time, he suddenly had an indescribable feeling, like a person repeatedly writing his own name, and at the end, he felt more and more unfamiliar.

He was the same now, he noticed a rare strangeness in the fat man.

This feeling came suddenly and made people afraid. Jiang Cheng forced himself to look away and calm down first. He turned on his mobile phone and found the video of the black shadow man, intending to study it again to see if there was anything he had overlooked.

At the beginning of the video, the black shadow appeared behind the curtain, and then the screen kept shaking. Jiang Cheng knew that he was adjusting the angle at the time, but suddenly, Jiang Cheng's eyes paused.

The next second, Jiang Cheng's breathing became rapid. He repeatedly pulled the progress bar, then paused, and then continued the process until the last picture paused at a moment.

Because the camera is shaking, the picture is blurry, but you can still vaguely see a fat figure lying on the bed at the edge of the picture, with only a pair of white eyes and a sullen face staring in the direction of the camera.

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