Chapter 19: Clues
From the time he entered the 703 dormitory to now, almost 3 minutes have passed. This time is not much in normal times, but it is actually a long time in the current environment.
After all, the red-clothed ghost could get out of trouble at any time, and the longer it dragged on, the more dangerous it became.
Xia Qi patted the girl who was still asleep again, but the girl was still sleeping deeply, and the possibility of waking her up was very small.
"Forget it, good people do it to the end, and this dormitory will be left to you."
said with emotion, Xia Qi hid the girl under the bed like she did with Leng Yue before, and made some simple cover with sheets.
After that, he left the 703 dormitory.
Coming out of the dormitory, his uneasiness suddenly intensified a lot, and he subconsciously looked towards the empty corridor, and his body shivered inexplicably.
Thinking that it might be the red-clothed ghost who got out of trouble, he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly got into the 704 dormitory next door.
Then he closed the door of the dormitory and hid under the bed.
Hiding under the cramped and dusty bed, Xia Qi kept thinking about all kinds of things about this trip to Qihe Women's College, and always felt that there should be such a key here, which could connect everything together.
Let's look back at the clues he got from the time he came to the present.
The reason is that one of the students here is possessed by a ghost, and then lures several other students to play a psychic game called "Soul Calling", and calls the female ghost in red.
Then, the body of the schoolgirl who may have been possessed was found on the 8th floor the next day.
And on the day they came here, he also saw the red-clothed ghost disappear in a flash on the 8th floor, and they were confused by the possessed ghost before, and they also mistook the 8th floor for the 4th floor bathroom. And Han Hee-won, who had turned into a dead body, was found there.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but wonder even more, that is, why did the possessed ghosts make them mistakenly think that they were in the bathroom on the 4th floor, not the corridor on the 8th floor?
You must know that the ghost in red is capable of killing people downstairs, which can be seen from its previous pursuit.
"Is that possessed ghost a tease? Think it's fun? ”
Xia Qi shook his head without a clue, but he always felt that there must be some necessary connection between the red-clothed ghost and the 8th floor of the dormitory building.
"If that red-clothed ghost can only kill people on the 8th floor, then all this is not difficult to explain, hey."
Sighing helplessly, Xia Qi felt that what he was thinking about now was really a bit brainless, and he still felt that the red-clothed ghost could only kill people on the 8th floor.
Thinking about it, Li Xiaoxiao and the others who died last night should have been killed on various floors.
Because everyone has no reason, in the middle of the night, the third watch ran alone to the 8th floor to die.
"Hey, this company is so cheating, I won't stop if I don't kill him."
In order to continue to maintain his determination to stay here and fight, Xia Qi can only find an object of hatred now, and curse in his heart to vent his anger.
But instead of cursing uselessly, he wished he was dreaming, so that when he woke up, everything would cease to exist. He is still the comic college student who keeps submitting resumes in order to get paid internship opportunities, without this perverted company, and there is no trap of high salary and high benefits.
"Well, what if all this was an illusory dream...... Wait a minute!
Unreal? ”
Thinking of the illusory dream, Xia Qi only felt that a certain previously broken line in his mind was suddenly connected, and a possibility of being infinitely close to the truth also emerged.
The red-clothed ghost may really be - he can only kill people on the 8th floor!
At this moment, Xia Qi realized this possibility again, but unlike before, this time he was more sure.
First of all, those who were killed before, except for the first deceased Wang Yiran and Han Xiyuan, he was not sure where the rest of the deceased died.
In other words, they may have died on the 8th floor, or they could have died on other floors.
And, from a normal logical point of view, no one would choose to go up alone in the middle of the night after learning that someone had died on the 8th floor.
However! There is a condition that can make this abnormal logic normal.
made the pursuit and killing of them by the red-clothed ghost completely become an illusion, and let him be sure that the red-clothed ghost could only kill people on the 8th floor!
And the condition is that they don't know they're on the 8th floor.
It's like they think they're in the bathroom on the 4th floor.
After all, there is one thing that must not be ignored, but what they have completely ignored before is the possessed ghost except for the ghost in red.
Because they have been hunted down by the red-clothed ghosts, they subconsciously regard the red-clothed ghosts as the initiators of the tragedy here, but they don't know that the possessed ghosts are the driving force behind the scenes.
Possessed ghosts not only possess themselves, but also possess the ability to confuse, or more precisely, to create illusions. Because it doesn't have the ability to kill people, it can only use possession and illusion to recruit the red-clothed ghost as the executioner who kills.
And when the red-clothed ghost first appeared, it may not be as powerful as it is now, but after killing Wang Yiran, Li Xiaoxiao and others one after another, the fierce aura on his body became heavier and stronger.
However, although the red-clothed ghost is powerful, it has a fatal weakness, that is, it can only move on the 8th floor of the dormitory building. Therefore, if it wants to kill people, it also needs to rely on the possessed ghost's ability to create an illusion, so as to lure the victim to the 8th floor without knowing it.
The more I thought about it, the more Xia Qi felt that the truth was like this. Now that I think about it, when he first entered the 703 dormitory, the reason why he saw the girl (possessed ghost) resting was that it was manipulating the illusion.
However, there is still a problem that has not been solved, that is, since they have all escaped from the 8th floor at that time, they have broken through the illusion created by the possessed ghost, so what are the possessed ghosts still controlling?
Unless!
They hadn't really escaped from the illusion created by the possessed ghosts.
In other words, there's more than one layer of illusion that envelops them!
They thought they had escaped from the 8th floor, but in fact they had only escaped from the first layer of illusion temporarily, and then they strayed into another illusion.
They never escaped from the 8th floor!
If what he envisioned was true, then this was not the 7th floor at all, and the red-clothed ghost was not imprisoned below by the cold moon at all, but here!
In fact, he had been with the red-clad ghost all along, but he couldn't see it due to the illusion created by the possessed ghost.