Chapter 2 The Iron Gate and the Key

As morning came, much of the horror of the night had dissipated.

Ling nine pick along the second floor corridor is to go down, but heard the third floor came a rustling noise, like a lot of people are discussing what. He had not intended to look, but he heard the woman's wailing again, and it was as if something terrible had happened to him.

Lingjiu picked a little hesitation, or turned to go to the third floor of the stairs to see what happened upstairs.

Here the building is a wooden structure, the wooden boards on the stairs are some aging, stepping on the above crunch straight, and in some places will tremble, as if it is about to bear the weight of the human body.

Ling Jiu picked up to the third floor, saw several people standing in the corridor. But it was the strong smell of blood in the air that caught his attention.

The taste of blood is too strong, the thorn of people nasal pain, Ling Jiu picked up gave birth to a little bad feeling, he moved the pace, carefully walked to a few people behind.

"I knew it." Yesterday Lingjiu pick up their big man bear paint voice deep and people discuss what, "yesterday really had an accident..."

Xiao Ke is also talking, she said: "I think, I thought it was..." She said here, turned to look at a walk behind his Ling Jiu pickup, "Forget it."

Ling Jiu pick up the heart of what do you mean, who thought it was, did it think it was me and Ruan Baijie? He looked up and saw a door behind Xiao Ke.

The door was ajar, and there was blood on the floor, frozen from the cold. But you can still see that there was a lot of blood.

'What's the matter? Ling Jiu asked.

"Dead people." Bear Paint's tone is flat.

Ling Jiushi: "... Dead people?" Yesterday, he would have wondered how these people could say such things in such a flat tone. But after the events of last night, it became clear to him that he was no longer in a world that could be explained by common sense.

"HMM." Bear lacquer said.

Ling Jiu picked up a change of Angle, looked at the door. This glance, let him involuntarily gasp a breath. The room was covered in congealized blood, and the two bodies were scattered on the floor, so mangled that the prototype was barely recognizable. They're more like two skinless pieces of flesh than people. There was hardly a clean spot on the third floor, from the floor to the walls.

Ling Jiu pickup although prepared psychologically, but still was disgusted by this scene. He covered his mouth and turned, but Xiao Ke was very understanding and said: "There is a toilet in the next room."

Ling nine pick hurriedly rushed into the toilet to throw up.

Waiting for him to vomit out, Xiao Ke said: "I thought you would not vomit."

Ling Jiushi: "Ah?"

Xiao Ke light way: "You and Ruan Baijie is already a very good quality of the new, the general state of the first door of the new will be particularly poor, the survival rate can have a 20%."

Ling Jiushi: "..."

Xiao Ke said: "Come on, go down and have breakfast."

Ling Jiushi said, "What about the two dead bodies?"

Xiao Ke Wenyan's expression was very strange: "How do you want to manage?"

Ling Jiu pickup has nothing to say. He was following people down, suddenly remembered something, wondering: "Wait, I was on the second floor when I heard a woman crying on the third floor..." He looked around and made sure that Xiao Ke was the only girl among them. She looked calm and did not look like someone who would cry.

"Is the woman crying?" "We didn't hear that. You heard me wrong."

Ling Jiushi: "... All right."

Breakfast is ready on the first floor, and it is steaming hot on the table. The cooks are said to be villagers from the village, and they look like normal people.

After eating breakfast, Ling Jiu Shi borrowed a few thick clothes from them, and asked about the village.

"There's nothing going on in our village." Villagers seem to give no useful information, "every winter will come to a few travel."

Ling Jiushi: "Oh... What about your daily necessities?"

The villager said, "To buy outside the mountain, although the mountain road is not easy to walk, but we must always find a way." But when it snows, it's impossible to get out, the mountain roads are blocked, and you can only stay here all winter."

Ling Jiushi thought for a moment and suddenly asked: "Are all the Wells in your village in the middle of the yard?"

Do not know whether it is Ling Jiu Shi illusion, when he put forward the word well, the expression of the villagers seemed to become a lot of tension, but did not give any special information, just nodded, said the right voice, and then turned away.

Lingjiu picked up thought for a while, did not sort out any clue, then decided to give the clothes to Ruan Baijie, and then other.

When he entered the house, Ruan Baijie lying on the bed playing mobile phone, see him come in, gently hum: "You slow oh."

Ling Jiu picked up the borrowed clothes to the bed: "Get up, there is breakfast on the first floor."

Ruan Baijie HMM sound.

Ling Jiu Shi said: "I go out to wait for you."

"Wait a minute." Ruan Baijie suddenly shouted, "What's on top of your head?"

'What? Ling nine pick up inexplicable.

Ruan Baijie waved at him, Ling Jiu picked up close to her.

"It's all red..." Ruan Baijie reached out in Lingjiu pick up a touch on the head, then the palm turned over, "what is this thing?"

Ling nine pick up a look Ruan Baijie hand things feel bad, because Ruan Baijie hand things are like frozen hard blood.

"I'll go and see." Lingjiu picked hurriedly into the toilet, as Ruan Baijie said, noticed that his hair is full of some broken ice residue, these ice residue is dark red, hidden in the hair for a time can not see. I don't know when I got it on my head.

"Oh, my God." Ling Jiu picked up a low curse sentence, wipe his head with a towel, this is not good, more and more shocking, a hot towel was almost dyed red, his hair has not been wiped clean.

Ruan Baijie, who changed into a thick suit, came over and said very unkindly: "Fortunately this thing is not green."

Ling Jiushi: "... Have you ever seen green blood?"

Ruan Baijie said: "This is blood?"

Ling nine pick sigh, simply put the third floor happened to say, when he said to the dead, Ruan Baijie and soft and weak cry, said Lin brother, I am afraid, will the next death is us?

What a beautiful girl, crying so miserably, let people have unbearable.

Lingjiu picked up to comfort, Ruan Baijie ready to put his head on his shoulder when suddenly came to the sentence: "Lin brother, how high you ah."

Ling Jiushi: "... Six feet eight."

"Oh," he said. Ruan Baijie said, "They are shorter than me."

Ling Jiushi: "..." I've wronged you.

Ling Jiu picked up turned to clean up his hair, while thinking about where the blood came from. At last he had a terrifying idea... Not on the ceiling of the third floor... Dripping, right?

"I want to go to the third floor." Ling Jiushi said, "You go to the first floor to eat."

"Alone?" "Let's do it together," Ms. Ruan said.

"You're not afraid?" Lingjiu pick suspicious way, Ruan Baijie just can also cry pear with rain.

"Aren't you here?" Ruan Baijie lifted the hair beside her ear and smiled gently, "You are, what am I afraid of?"

Ling nine pick thought also right, after all, from last night to see you run faster than I.

So they went down the corridor to the third floor.

Still full of blood, still that did not pick up the body, but this time Ling Jiu picked up his attention to the ceiling, he looked up, and sure enough, he also saw traces of blood on the ceiling, but this trace makes people feel very uncomfortable, it looks like something stuck on the ceiling, slowly crawling over the look. About a long time, the blood on the ceiling was also frozen, but the blood dripping on the ground was faintly visible.

Ling Jiu picked up to see the scalp tingling, he really do not want to think about his first appearance on the third floor, what is hanging on the ceiling... And they haven't figured it out yet.

Ruan Baijie looked up at the ceiling for a long time.

Ling nine pick asked what she saw.

"You can see the ceiling." Ruan Baijie said, "Otherwise can see what, see the stars and dreams?"

Ling Jiushi: "..."

She was brave enough to look at the ceiling and then look at the two mangled bodies. He didn't show any discomfort and even looked a little excited.

Until Ling Jiu picked up a suspicious look at her: "You are not afraid?" As if she remembered something, she began to make a sound of coordination.

Ling Jiushi: "... Stop chirping. Are you going to have breakfast?"

"Eat, eat, eat." Nguyen Baijie, "I'm hungry too."

They went downstairs and saw that everyone had finished their breakfast and seemed to be waiting for them.

"Where have you two been?" Bear painted, "waiting for you."

Ruan Baijie in the face of everyone's eyes, not nervous at all, light body sat next to the table, pick up the bowl will eat breakfast.

Ling Jiu pick not Ruan Baijie so thick skin, the blood on his hair said a little, also said in the ceiling on the third floor also saw some strange traces.

After hearing all the faces are not good, more people looked up at the ceiling.

They were discussing the people who died last night and the strange marks, when a middle-aged man in his forties walked in the door. The man, dressed in an army-green padded jacket and carrying an oil lamp, sauntered into the hall.

"Hello." "I am the chief of this village, and you are the people I asked to help?"

As soon as he spoke, everyone in the room fell silent

"It's cold today, and our village wants to make coffins for next year." The man said in a hoarse voice, "I'll ask you to help the carpenter."

No one answered the chief's words, and he did not seem prepared to get any answers from them.

When he had finished speaking, he coughed a few times, then lifted the rickety kerosene lamp again and walked out of the house. Although the snow had stopped outside, the wind was still blowing. The whine of the wind against the door panel and the treetops sounded, at first, like a human whine.

"Here we go." Bear paint gently, said a sentence.

As he spoke, a strong wind blew outside the house, blowing the half-open door against the wall, and with a click, the seemingly solid wooden door was smashed directly into several pieces.

Everyone in the room was silent, and finally it was Bear Lacquer who first said, "It must be building a coffin."

"How can this happen, how can this happen!!" There was a howling sound in the room, and Ling Jiushi looked around, but it was a team of men who broke down emotionally, "It is such a difficult world - how can we live, who will build a coffin, we will die, we will die here -"

Bear lacquer seems to be used to such a scene, look between unmoved.

The emotional collapse of the man roared and smashed all the things on the table on the ground, tears and snot on his face: "There are thirteen people in the first day, two died on the first day... This kind of difficulty, I have never encountered before!!"

'All right! Bear paint said impatiently, "You cry so you don't have to die? What mood, you think you are a new person, look at the quality of others!"

This led to Ling Jiu pick up inexplicable by the man evil stare, he thought that the original psychological quality is too good is also his fault.

But the man's state of mind collapse is actually not a strange thing, different from the normal world of alien space, all kinds of scary omens, it is difficult to keep calm.

"Let's discuss how we're going to do it first." Xiong Qi said, "The village chief said to build a coffin, then the key must be this."

Ling Jiushi said: "Excuse me, what is a key?"

Xiong Lacquer took a look at him: "It is used to open the door, we need to come in according to the clues provided by the characters inside, find the key to go out, and then find an iron door to leave here."

Ling Jiu picked up: "Is there a time limit?"

Bear paint sneer: "Of course, before the death of people."

So, Ling Jiu pick up the heart under a little calm, at least there is a way to go out, he is actually the most afraid of the kind of unsolved terror. Can't get away, can't get away, whatever you do is in vain.

"The clue is the coffin." Xiong Qi looked at the weather outside, "Let's go to the village woodworker first, ask about the situation." "Good," said Hermione. Xiao Ke said, "I'll go with you."

Ling Jiu Shi raised his hand: "I also want to go."

Bear paint does not care to nod: "OK." Before you knew it, he was the leader of the team, and he said, "Check around the building, see if there's anything useful."

Then Ruan Baijie came forward, gently pulled Ling Jiu picked up the sleeve, small voice: "I am afraid, I want to be with you."

Although the girl is really tall, there is no feeling of a bird depending on people, but how to grow well, in the end is to let life out of a sense of pity, Ling Jiu Shi nodded: "OK, but I can not guarantee that I can protect your safety."

Ruan Baijie smiled: "It doesn't matter." She lifted the hair in her ear. "I feel at ease with you."

Ling nine pick up thought girl you very can lift ah.

So the four of them hurried out while it was still early.

On the road Lingjiu picked and asked bear paint some details about the world, that the ghosts here generally will not kill. But there are exceptions, if you encounter a difficult world, ghosts will have no inhibitions, whenever they want to do it, when they do it. Well, in a situation like this, it's a dead end.

"What is the purpose of this world?" Ling Jiu Shi asked him the most curious question.

Bear Lacquer heard this question and gave him a deep look: "When you go back alive, you will know."

Ling Jiushi: "... Oooh."

They learned from the villagers the address of the carpenter in the village, and the snowy road was so difficult that it took them almost an hour to get there.

Ling Jiu picked up by the way to observe the situation of the village.

The village is not big, surrounded by dense jungle, usually OK, this snow basically cut off the road to leave. There are not many people in the village, occasionally you can see two or three walking on the side of the road, it is supposed to be a special thing to meet foreigners in this place, but look at the expression of the villagers, it seems that they are not curious about their arrival.

The carpenter's house was at the east end of the village. When he went outside, he saw the faint glow of an oil lamp coming from inside.

Xiong Qi knocked on the door. After a while, a small old man appeared behind the door. He was about sixty or seventy years old. His hair was thinning, he wore a shabby gray padded jacket, his face was wrinkled, and his eyes were cloudy.

"It's too cold outside. Can we talk inside?" "Asked Bear Lacquer.

The old man did not speak, but he turned and opened the door.

The four men outside filed in.

The room is not big, everywhere is very messy, Ling Jiu Shi observed the situation around, but noticed that the window broke a hole, was rough nailed to the window frame with wooden boards, simple to block the wind.

"Old man, we were invited by the village chief to make the coffin." Xiong Qi said, "But we don't know much about this thing. I heard that you are a famous carpenter in the village. Can you give me some advice?"

The old man looked at the bear paint coldly: "To make a coffin, first cut the tree, cut the tree, send the wood to me, and then go to the temple to worship, you can start to do."

Bear Lacquer grabbed the key word: "Go to the temple to pay a visit?"

The old man nodded: "There is an ancient temple next to the village, here, to make a coffin is a bad thing, we have to go to worship, worship."

He repeated the word bye-bye so many times that it made one feel strangely uncomfortable.

"And after that?" Bear lacquer said.

The old man was silent.

Bear Lacquer said: "Old man?"

The old man still did not speak.

Under the repeated questioning of Xiong Lacquer, the old man smiled, this smile appeared very fierce against the light of the fire, he lowered his voice and said: "When you are still alive, then come and ask me."

The bear's face was livid.

Ruan Baijie is not polite, said: "Don't let me ah old man, this day is so cold, if we finish you die first what?"

The old man sneered: "Old man life hard."

Ruan Baijie: "I think you will be able to hard up."

Old man: "..."

Others: "..."

Ling Jiu pick up the heart why do you think you are so skilled ah, against npc this kind of thing is really no problem, the general people encounter this kind of people with a horrible breath will be a little scared, but see Ruan Baijie that small eye roll is completely dont feel a little problem.

"All right, all right." Ling Jiushi said, "If he doesn't want to say it, don't force it..."

Ruan Baijie said: "This can not be forced? We'll admit it when it gets cold, but what if he gets cold first?" The girl rolled up her sleeves as she spoke, and her eyes wandered about the room, stopping at last on a stick with a thick arm.

Ling Jiu pick up the heart scold God, thought really want to move rough ah, this fuck but the world of terror, the npc move rough people really no problem?

Who knows Ruan Baijie has not picked up the stick, the old man first cowed, angrily said: "After the worship to fill a well, the coffin is done!"

Ruan Baijie: "Whingling, Qiu Shi, he glared at me ~"

Ling Jiushi: "..." You had a scarier look in your eyes.

Bear paint does not seem to think that it can also operate like this, followed Xiao Ke for a while. They came to this world to which person is not polite is afraid of offending, who knows Ruan Baijie completely does not follow the routine card. And so easy to get the final answer - although this answer is not necessarily correct.

When they came out from the carpenter's house, bear paint complex mood asked Ruan Baijie name.

Ruan Baijie look very poor, said my surname Ruan, called Ruan Baijie, brother you call me Jie Jie is good.

Bear paint called Jiejie, but always feel where is not quite right, and finally call her Baijie with Ling Jiu pickup.

Come here almost a day, bear paint or just know Ruan Baijie name, he saw Ruan Baijie that cry pear flowers with rain appearance, about feel Ruan Baijie in this world can not live for long, so simply even the name did not ask.

However, after Ruan Baijie's wonderful performance just now, Bear Lacquer also felt that the girl was not as weak as she appeared.

"Weren't you afraid?" Bear Lacquer asked her.

Ruan Baijie's answer was convincing, she said: "Afraid? Why should I be afraid? Fear of ghosts, even people are afraid is not too sad a little. And this kind of person looks like a key npc, if we really die, our information will not be cut off, then how can we live to the end."

The three were speechless, but they all thought what she said was very reasonable.

At least from the carpenter got the key information, the people are a lot of peace of mind, so decided to go back and talk about this matter with everyone.

Although it is daytime, but the sky is covered with a thick layer of dark clouds, there is no snow, and the cold wind is hanging. Ruan Baijie wearing her long dress, outside the set of two thick cotton-padded jacket, with Ling Jiu pick up behind, fragile thin appearance like at any time will be blown away by the wind.

Ling Jiu picked up see really dont have the heart, then reach out to hold her, let her walk in front of themselves, for her to block the wind behind.

Ruan Baijie is quite moved, wink pair of beautiful eyes asked Ling Jiu pickup: "You are very good."

Ling Jiu picked up: "polite."

Ruan Baijie said: "Are you so nice to everyone?"

Ling Jiushi: "... Do you see what I did to the bear?" "He joked." It's because you're good-looking."

Walking in front of the bear paint: "I hear ah."

Ruan Baijie smell speech showed a thoughtful expression: "As long as it looks good on the line?"

Ling Jiu pickup only when she was talking fun, then randomly came to the sentence: "Of course, but also grow tall."

Ruan Baijie: "Oh..."

The author has something to say:

Ruan Baijie: Faint voice

Ling Jiushi: You are chirping. I always think of a word.

Ruan Baijie: What?

Ling Jiushi: The old bird is catching a chick

Ruan Baijie: So you are a chicken?

Ling Jiushi:...