Chapter 3 003. Counting Heartbeats
Plop——
Plop——
Plop——
In the darkness, all sounds became extremely clear.
Lu Jian could hear the howling of wild cats in heat downstairs, the noise of someone's house, and the chirping of insects that were covered up by the noise of the day.
The clearest thing is his heartbeat.
The normal human heartbeat rate is 60 to 100 beats per minute, 500 heartbeats, less than ten minutes, neither short nor long.
Lu Yi counted his heartbeats carefully, concentrating on it. Gradually, he found that the surrounding sounds disappeared.
Plop——
Plop——
Plop——
Everything is silent, only the sound of my own heartbeat proves the fact that I am alive.
Suddenly, Lu Jian found that his heartbeat seemed to slow down. He had just counted to one hundred, but it felt like several minutes had passed.
The heartbeat will be relieved by the relaxation of the body, which is normal, Lu Jian tried to persuade himself with this.
Plop——
Amidst the slowing heartbeat, Lu Jian felt that his consciousness had also become blurred.
squeak——
At this moment, the cabinet next to the wall seemed to make a noise, as if something had knocked out of the cabinet door, accompanied by a slight opening and closing sound.
'What is that!?'
Lu Ju was startled suddenly, leaned towards the cabinet consciously, and almost opened his eyes to check.
But after the sound of opening and closing, the world fell into silence again, as if what was just now was just an illusion of Lu Jian's redundancy.
He clenched the crowbar in his hand, waiting for a possible attack, but felt nothing.
In the huge space, only Lu Yi's heartbeat was left, which kept slowing down.
Plop——
Is my heartbeat so slow?
How long has it been?
If the heartbeat continues to slow down, will he die?
It seems that along with the slowdown of the heartbeat, Lu Jian's brain also began to lose its function.
Prick——
At this moment, a sharp, high-pitched, heart-piercing scratching sound resounded from the head of the bed above Lu Lian's head.
thorn thorn thorn——
The scratching sound was continuous, just next to Lu Jian's ear, getting closer and closer, and finally, this sound was interwoven with the almost disappearing heartbeat, as if scratching Lu Yi's scalp!
It seems to scratch Lu Trip's head and pull out the contents!
thorn thorn thorn——
"Your mother!"
Lu Jian is no longer ready to continue this task. If this continues, he may not see the sun of tomorrow at all.
Gripping the crowbar tightly, Lu Jian was about to open his eyes, trying to find a way to hit the thing that surrounded him.
But it wasn't until this time that Lu Yi realized that he couldn't open his eyelids at all.
Not only his eyelids, but also his hands, legs, and body couldn't move. He seemed to be pinned down by something, and he couldn't make any movements at all.
"!!!"
The scratching sound is getting louder and faster.
Lu Jian tried to struggle, but his body kept in the original posture. He felt something scratching the board behind him, under the bed board, and the sharp thing repeated again and again, endlessly.
Skrech——
Skrech——
Skrech——
In such an extremely weird and tense situation, Lu Jian suddenly felt that his left hand could move a little.
He moved his fingers, trying to ease the tension in his body.
The next moment, he touched a warm, soft and delicate hand.
Lu Jian suddenly felt that his tension disappeared, and his whole body relaxed, as if he could wake up from this nightmare reality at any time.
The scratching sounds around him seemed to disappear as well.
Lu Jian breathed a sigh of relief.
The next moment, some kind of terrifying thought hovered from the bottom of his heart.
"I live alone. Whose is it?!"
A greater sense of disobedience rose from the place where the hand touched him, and Lu Jian felt trembling all over. With the fingertips of that hand gently brushing his forearm, upper arm, neck, and cheek, this trembling feeling more and more obvious.
In this state, what makes Lu Jian even admire is that even now, he is still counting the heartbeats accurately.
"Four hundred and ninety-six, four hundred and ninety-seven, five hundred!"
The moment he counted to five hundred, Lu Jian felt that all the pressure on him suddenly disappeared.
The next moment, Lu Jian woke up.
He opened his eyes and found that he was lying on the bed with the crowbar in his hand lying on it, not in his hand.
Lu Jian sat up.
Everything in the room is as usual.
The door of the cabinet is closed tightly, the head of the bed is also clean, and there is nothing weird around me.
Lu Jian felt his heartbeat, and it was very fast, as if he had just run 100 meters.
"I just fell asleep?"
I actually fell asleep in such a dangerous and weird task?
Lu Jian has always felt that he is a cautious person who makes decisions before acting.
I didn't expect to have such a big heart.
"Uh, but counting heartbeats in a dark environment may indeed be hypnotic."
Lu Jian thought about the task, he picked up the flashlight, turned it on, and got out of bed.
The shadows under the bed became more and more intense, and in the deep darkness that even the light of the flashlight could not dispel, something unusual seemed to be conceived.
It was very quiet, without any sound.
Lu Jian leaned over, the ground was cold, and the bed board was squeezed, making a creaking sound.
He poked his head under the bed.
Under the bed is empty, only accumulated dust, and
That ridiculously dressed uncle Lanlan doll!
The moment he saw the eyes with heavy makeup, the sound of scratching sounded again, this time, from the inside of Lu Jian's skull, crushing his brain, obliterating his reason, and reaching the end of the abyss.
Skrech——
Some kind of weird thing is about to burst out of Lu Jian's brain!
"!"
At the moment that thing exploded, Lu Yi opened his eyes.
He heard the chirping of insects outside the window, the high-pitched howling of cats, and the sound of drops of water dripping from the tap in the bathroom hitting the sink.
He came back to reality.
At least here is the world he is familiar with.
Lu Jian didn't know what happened just now, what was the source of those voices, and how he had another dream in the dream.
He turned on the light.
Curiosity drove Lu Jian to the bedside, he bent down, took a deep breath, and prepared to look at the bottom of the bed again.
Death is indeed addictive, and curiosity can't be quit. Now Lu Jian just wants to see what's under the bed.
He shined it with a flashlight.
Garlic, crucifixes, hundred dollar bills, and lots of salt.
Other than that, just thick dust.
However, on the dust, there seemed to be traces of some kind of creature crawling over.
This trace seems to be struggling from outside the bed towards where it should belong, and it seems to be trying to break through the shackles of darkness and wriggle outward. Looking along these traces, Lu Jian found that it disappeared in the area illuminated by the light, and no one knew it. The final destination of these traces.
Is it a cockroach? mouse? Or... that puppet with a funny smile?
With 80 points of sanity, he told Lu Jian that the area ahead should be explored later.
He sat up and looked at his phone, it was twelve thirty.
Thirty minutes have passed since the period of experience just now?
He felt incredible.
500 heartbeats, 30 minutes, if my heartbeat is okay, then this frequency is too low.
For such a long time, the body lacks oxygen, and he should have died long ago, so he didn't dare to think about Lu Lian.
All demons and ghosts are idealistic things.
My own cognitive consciousness is also idealistic.
So, as long as you don't care, ghosts can't hurt you!
As expected of me.
While thinking of this, he saw that the font on the phone screen was distorted and turned into cold system text.
[Congratulations on completing the task]
[Start settlement now]
[Mission Exploration Degree: 30%]
[Task completion status: mediocre]
[When you closed your eyes, you couldn't see the reality of this room, but anyway, after saying hello, you are now friends. ]
[Get Silence Points: 100 points]
[Obtain novice guidance task reward: Inherent skill: Desperate]
[Access career reward: a video that cannot be opened at night]
[Settlement completed]
[Have you gained inspiration, do you have a strong creative impulse? ]
[Choose to complete career development tasks and get advanced rewards]
[Welcome to the quiet place again]
The words gradually faded away, and Lu Juan subconsciously looked at the dark shadow under the edge of the bed again.
At this moment, a notification sound came from his mobile phone.
Lu Jian hurriedly opened it, and he saw that there was an extra video file in his mobile phone memory.
The file name is: [a video that cannot be opened at night].
(end of this chapter)