Judgment Day [Unlimited]

Chapter 12 Obituaries

"I rely on..."

Lao Liang wiped his sweat with the back of his hand, smiled awkwardly, and was about to start a conversation with Xie Xingyin, when he suddenly found that the faces of the other two were pale.

He froze for a moment, turned his head stiffly driven by instinct, and heard a crisp "ding" outside the elevator door.

It was obviously a brisk notification sound, but it was overwhelming.

broken.

Old Liang's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty.

He was so preoccupied with closing the door just now that he forgot to press the floor button.

The elevator dome light flickered a few times, then suddenly went out.

The elevator door that had just been closed slowly opened a gap in front of them.

In the crack of the door, the smiling face of the Human Face Dog got bigger and bigger.

Old Liang's heart has been cold for the most part, and the ups and downs seem to have been poured with cold water.

He frantically raised his hand to press the door close button, but he knew in his heart that it was too late.

It's over, it's over, it's really fatal.

The ferocious and terrifying face of the human-faced dog was so close at hand, Lao Liang rolled his eyes, and almost recited the death curse to himself.

Unexpectedly, a white light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, and the dazzling glare shot out in the darkness, penetrating through the sunglasses unsuspectingly and flashing to his only remaining one eye.

Almost at the same instant, the monster outside also howled in pain.

"close the door!!!"

When Lao Liang heard Xie Xingyin shouting, he didn't care to see which floor he was pressing, so he pressed indiscriminately, anyway, leave this damned place first.

The elevator door closed again, and finally started running slowly.Old Liang reopened his stinging eyes.

It turned out that Xie Xingyin suddenly turned on the flashlight just now and directly adjusted it to the maximum power.

The eyes of dogs retain the characteristics of nocturnal animals, and their dark vision is very keen. In the dark, the pupils will open to the maximum, so the damage to it by the instantaneous strong light is far more than that of humans.

The damage from the flashlight just now was comparable to a flash bomb to it, and it directly blinded its eyes, and they were able to escape from the tiger's mouth.

Lao Liang rejoiced secretly, if it weren't for this kid's cleverness, they would probably be completely cold by now.

The elevator slowly descended, Xiao Lu lowered his eyes, and calmly put the sharp dagger back out of its sheath.

There were also some old Liang who were still in shock, leaning on the elevator box, moaning "ouch" and "ouch".

The elevator goes down to the eleventh floor.After getting out of the elevator car, Xie Xingyin was so tired that he sat down directly on the ground, while Lao Liang was paralyzed on the ground and couldn't stand up at all, he climbed out of the elevator using both hands and feet.

The elevator stayed on the 11th floor without moving, and the human-faced dog did not chase it down.Xie Xingyin conveniently locked the door of the safe passage.

He vaguely felt the behavior of the human-faced dog.

There should be some restrictions on the activities of the human-faced dog on this floor. It can't come down casually and start killing. It can only run over to steal the corpses to eat after the gate is closed.

Otherwise, with its ferocity, they would have died long ago.

"Have you seen the female ghost in the passage?" Xie Xingyin raised his head and asked Lao Liang and Xiao Lu.

Both shook their heads.

"No?"

"Where is the female ghost?"

So Xie Xingyin told them about meeting the female ghost just now, and Lao Liang immediately slapped his head.

"So the town house talisman at the door is not for dealing with the human-faced dog, but for dealing with the female ghost! Oh, let me just say, the human-faced dog was not there at the beginning, why did my compass turn? Now that I think about it It's because of the female ghost in the wall."

Xie Xingyin nodded: "Then who do you think that female ghost is?"

Old Liang thought for a while: "The ghost of the apartment resident who died tragically?"

"That's true, but who is this resident? Could it be Keiko? After all, 1404 is her room." Xie Xingyin said.

Old Liang scratched his head: "But the information that the old man gave us didn't say that Huizi was dead?"

"It didn't say that she was alive." Xiao Lu put his hand in and stood beside him, trying to squeeze him out.

Lao Liang's mood was a little fried at the moment: "Hey, let's talk about business! I said, what are you doing running on me, you little bastard! Do I owe you money or seduce your wife?! What's wrong?"

Xiao Lu lowered his eyes and glanced at Xie Xingyin who was resting his mind on his chin, turned his face away and said nothing.

Lao Liang noticed his provocative expression, was taken aback, rolled up his sleeves and was about to get up: "Hey..."

But he was so frightened just now, his feet slipped and he sat back down, almost breaking his butt in half.

Their movement in the corridor quickly alarmed the others, and several people came out of the room.Xie Xingyin didn't see Jia Ming and Brother Biao. A short-haired girl asked them what they were doing, and said that Jia Ming and the others had been looking for them since morning.

It turned out that after such a toss, it was almost ten o'clock.

It was the first time they met the human-faced dog head-on and confirmed the existence of the monster. The three of them were still in shock.

"It's a long story, don't go to the fourteenth floor." Xie Xingyin simply told about the encounter with the human-faced dog, and the others were also a little scared.

"The Human Face Dog didn't come down now, but for safety's sake, I closed the stair passage first. Just in case, no one should go upstairs alone in the future."

Brother Biao and the others went downstairs early in the morning, and now they come up tired.

They went to the management room and found a bunch of jingling keys, so they don't have to work hard to open the door from now on.

Xie Xingyin originally wanted to see how Li Wei was doing, but found that the door was locked, and the short-haired girl who lived with her was sitting in the room of her two high school companions.

Xie Xingyin politely knocked on the door for a while, and the door opened.

"Brother Xie." Li Wei's complexion was still ugly, her facial features were much stiffer than before, and she managed to squeeze out a little smile. "Sorry, I accidentally slept for too long."

Looking at Li Wei who was getting thinner day by day, Xie Xingyin couldn't help but sigh in his heart.If the fever continues like this, I am afraid that death is not far away.

They must hurry up.

Xie Xingyin gently closed the door, and pulled Lao Liang back to his room.Xiao Lu was standing by the window, not knowing what to look out for.

Xie Xingyin sat down on the edge of the bed, thinking of his usual calm expression and Lao Liang's way of shitting, he laughed a little:

"Little Lu, aren't you afraid at all?"

Xiao Lu silently walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, put one hand on the back of Xie Xingyin's hand, pursed his thin lips and said only one word:

"afraid."

"..."

How could this kid look scared?

Xie Xingyin shook his head and squeezed his cool hand.

"...I figured it out. The blood on the wall and floor in 1404 was probably made when the human-faced dog ate people."

And judging by the amount of bleeding, the last team that came in to break through the level was probably wiped out.

"The old detective said let us investigate the human-faced dog incident. We have already seen the human-faced dog, and the mission is not over yet." Xie Xingyin was thoughtful, "So after we find it, what should we do next?"

"Probably killed it."

Xiao Lu lowered his eyes, and then he added: "But it's not necessarily true."

Xie Xingyin was silent for a moment: "Then if the task is not for us to kill it, what will happen if we kill it wrong?"

"If we kill the wrong one, we won't be able to complete the mission, and we will all die," Lao Liang said.

Xie Xingyin pondered and said: "So that old man was playing word games with me. He said that he was investigating the human-faced dog incident. He never said that he would kill it, nor did he say how far we need to investigate."

"Then we can't kill it yet. And we can't let other people kill it."

—

When it was almost noon, Jia Ming came back.

As soon as he saw Xie Xingyin, he asked unceremoniously: "What did you sneak around in the morning?"

Xie Xingyin had some complaints about the adjective "sneaky", but he still told him about meeting the dog with a human face, as well as part of his own speculation.

After all, among them, Jia Ming is experienced.

Jia Ming's safety has little to do with him, but it would be troublesome if he killed the human-faced dog first.

"Where did you meet the human-faced dog?" Jia Ming glanced at him. .

"1404." Being vigilant, Xie Xingyin didn't tell him about the secret passage and the attic.

But even with Lao Liang's testimony, Jia Ming still didn't seem to believe it.

"I've been to room 1404 three times, and I haven't seen any problems." The tone was obviously disbelieving.

"I kindly remind you, why don't you believe it?" Lao Liang said violently.

"Master Dao, I can trust you, but I don't trust him very much." Jia Ming said mercilessly, "Who knows if he attracted the ghosts or ghosts."

Xie Xingyin didn't bother to argue, so he just gave him a foolish look, turned his head and walked away.

Anyway, he has already reminded him that he has done his best.

—

When Xie Xingyin returned to the room, Lao Liang still followed behind him and asked in a jiggle, "I still don't understand why the escape route is locked?"

Xie Xingyin said: "Of course it's not just to prevent the human face dog from going downstairs, but also to monitor other people's movements through the elevator floor."

"You..." Old Liang opened his mouth.

Xie Xingyin nodded: "Actually, I have some doubts about someone."

"Jia Ming?" Seeing that Xie Xingyin didn't answer, Lao Liang said to himself, "Then let me keep an eye on him for you."

After Lao Liang left, Xie Xingyin leaned on a pillow and was about to sleep for a while, when he suddenly saw Xiao Lu walking over with alcohol, and pulled him to the edge of the bed involuntarily.

Xiao Lu reached out to lift up his trousers, and Xie Xingyin remembered that when he was crawling, his knees were worn out.

Xiao Lu disinfected him with alcohol, very lightly, then tore a clean cloth from his clothes and wrapped it around him.

That skilled posture is like a special soldier who often bandages his own wounds.

It was just some minor superficial abrasions, Xie Xingyin didn't take it seriously.Xiao Lu quickly finished helping him, and then fell into his arms silently.

Xie Xingyin couldn't laugh or cry.

The child seemed to be frightened belatedly, and kept his head buried in his neck, refusing to come out.

Xie Xingyin let Xiao Lu sit on his lap, while rubbing his soft hair to comfort him, he took out Keiko's diary to read.

Li Wei's physical condition is not good, he desperately wants to find out what the real mission is.

He has read all the documents given by the old detective, and the most suspicious one is the photo of Keiko committing suicide, but most of that photo has been truncated inexplicably, and there are not many clues left.

Xie Xingyin opened the old diary in his hand.The diary is wrapped in a sheepskin cover, the rough paper pages are slightly yellowed and rolled up, and the name of the owner of the diary is written on the title page.

Xie Xingyin looked through it carefully.

In the diary, Keiko narrated her experience in beautiful handwriting, telling the whole story of the incident in detail.

There are a lot of words recorded, but the really useful content is limited.

Keiko is in danger of being fired from the newspaper after failing to deliver an eye-catching press release for three months in a row.

When she saw the disabled little girl living next door playing with her dog on the ground, as close as a human being, Keiko suddenly had a flash of inspiration and made up a story about a dog with a human face.

At first she was uneasy, but when the breaking news successfully attracted the public's attention, she gained more and more attention as "the first witness of the human-faced dog".This news also saved the Wangchuan newspaper, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. Not only did the newspaper not fire Keiko, but it quickly increased her salary.

But from a certain day, the situation developed in a direction that was out of control.Another claimed to have witnessed a human-faced dog.

Then came the second, and the third.

More and more people claim to have encountered a human-faced dog.Keiko started to get scared, not knowing why the story she wrote came true.

In the end, Keiko could not bear the psychological pressure and committed suicide by cutting his wrists.

The diary ends here.They also knew what happened later, Keiko committed suicide.

Xie Xingyin gently scraped the edge of the paper with his fingertips, feeling that something was missing.

Keiko's story sounds outrageous and ironic.After all, it is not uncommon for fake news creators to gain fame and fortune, even a Pulitzer Prize.

Keiko said that all these rumors about the human-faced dog were fabricated by herself, in order to gain attention.

As for the fact that the human-faced dog really appeared later, she didn't know what happened.

Xie Xingyin frowned.

It's really a sensational explanation, there are no flaws but it's very strange.Did Keiko lie?

Human-faced dogs do exist, and they have seen them.

Xie Xingyin originally thought that this would be an important clue, but this clue seemed to be interrupted again.

—

In the evening, Xiao Lu woke up after a long sleep.

Xie Xingyin boiled water and cooked instant noodles for him to eat. He sat by the bed and ate compressed biscuits, and picked up Xiao Lu's Rubik's Cube to play with.

Xiao Lu seems to be very fond of this thing, but Xie Xingyin still doesn't know how to play this Rubik's Cube with six sides of the same color.

He guessed that most of the lines on it were put together to make a pattern, but he couldn't figure it out after turning around.

It was really difficult.

After playing for a while, Xie Xingyin threw the Rubik's Cube away, and lay on his back on the bed somewhat frustrated.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Xie Xingyin climbed up and opened the door, and standing outside was the short-haired female high school student in the same room as Li Wei, named Xiaoyan.

Xiaoyan looked flustered, with his slippers on backwards.Xie Xingyin glanced outside the corridor, pulled Xiaoyan in who was still in shock, and asked her in a low voice: "What happened?"

"Brother Xie, I've made a discovery. Tell me, don't be afraid." Xiaoyan's arms were shaking, and she couldn't speak clearly. In fact, the person who was afraid was clearly herself.

With a sad face, she handed over an old newspaper.

It was the March 3 edition of Wangchuan Daily.

Xie Xingyin took it and saw the familiar face in the lower right corner at a glance.

It was a column of obituaries, and the title was a line of cold bold letters.

"Deep condolences: Wangchuan Detective Agency, old detective Noda passed away unexpectedly due to an elevator accident!"

The photo printed in the obituary column is the old man in the detective agency.

Xie Xingyin felt his heart sink suddenly, as if he had fallen into the bottom of a cold and dark lake.

The old detective is dead, so who is the old man who brought them into Wangchuan's apartment?