Chapter 86. Imprint Of Vinegar Pot
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
There was nothing unusual about the stairwell. It was similar to all the stairwells in high-rise residential areas, and the lighting was a little dim.
In order to save resources, stairwells are usually equipped with voice-activated lights. When Du Yan walked to the next floor, the lights on the upper floor went out.
He looked back, the dark corridor above was like an unknown giant beast, with its bloody mouth wide open, wanting to devour everything. Looking down, it was also dim, and the stairs seemed to have no end.
Du Yan sighed: “It seems that this stairwell is not peaceful either.”
But compared to the elevator, the stairs at least give him power to control. If he were in the elevator, in the small space, whether he lives or dies, everything is at the disposal of others.
Choose the lesser of two evils. Even though the stairwell was definitely not peaceful, Du Yan could only choose to find a way out from the stairwell.
He continued to walk down, neither fast nor slow. The number at the corner of the stairs slowly changed from “18” to the single digit, and finally to “1”.
Du Yan opened the fire exit door directly but found that there was a whole cement wall outside the door, which sealed the exit tightly without any gaps. After getting the expected result, Du Yan just calmly let go and let the fire exit door close automatically.
The exit was blocked by a cement wall, but he didn’t find it strange. If he could get out so easily, it would be even more bizarre.
Du Yan thought about it, turned back, and walked up again, but he only walked up one flight of stairs. The number that appeared in front of him was not “2”, but “18”. He opened the fire exit door and saw that it was indeed the corridor outside Tian Luo’s house.
Du Yan closed the door and continued walking down, arriving at the first level again.
He opened the fire exit door as usual, and the outside was still tightly sealed by the cement wall.
Du Yan let go of his hand and walked down the stairs. It was not strange for a residential building to have “-1”, “-2”, or “-3”. After all, most of them have parking lots several levels underground.
However, when he walked past the third level, the situation became a little different. The stairs that were supposed to be paved with tiles gradually turned into cement stairs, and the walls became mottled, like an old-fashioned community that has been destroyed by time.
Du Yan put his hands in his trouser pockets, seemingly strolling leisurely, not paying much attention to the changing environment around him.
The further down he went, the voice-activated light source turned into the old-fashioned one. The yellow light bulb hung on the top, still swaying in the windless air, and Du Yan’s shadow was also swaying on the stairs.
Du Yan walked a few steps and stopped at a corner. He lowered his head and stared at his own shadow. He didn’t know if it was because the light on this floor was too strong or for some other reason, but his shadow was distorted.
Du Yan stopped and watched the shadow beneath his feet twist as if it had been electrocuted, and even began to slowly leave the ground. He raised his eyebrows and said: “I advise you not to come out.”
Du Yan finally pulled his hand out of his pocket, holding a yellow talisman paper between his slender fingertips. He just shook the talisman paper lightly in the air, and the talisman paper stood up like a hard object.
The shadow that slightly left the ground seemed to understand Du Yan’s hint. It trembled violently and then returned to the ground to calm down. Du Yan put his hands back into his trouser pockets, continued to go downstairs, and walked into the floor. He saw a little girl in a dress squatting at the corner of the corridor.
Du Yan walked past without looking away, as if he hadn’t seen the little girl. However, when he reached the next level, there was still a little girl in the corner.
Same clothes, same hairstyle, everything indicates that it is the same person.
Du Yan continued to walk down, but he could see the little girl in every corner of every level. He finally stopped.
The little girl, with her hair done in a princess style and wearing a lace princess dress, curled up and squatted facing the corner. She sobbed in grievance, and her thin shoulders trembled from crying.
Du Yan just stared at her back in silence. Apart from the crying of the little girl, the surroundings were completely silent.
After an unknown amount of time, perhaps because she saw that Du Yan had no intention of speaking, the little girl sobbed and asked: “Shushu, why are you ignoring me?”
Du Yan replied: “You call me Shushu, of course I don’t want to pay attention to you.”
The little girl seemed to be choked and was silent for a moment before she said: “Da Gege, why are you ignoring me?”
Du Yan replied coldly: “You are not my child, why should I care about you?”
This is when the little girl was silent for a longer time. When she spoke again, she stopped sobbing: “Da Gege, can you take me to find my baba? He ran away with another woman and didn’t want me and my mama anymore.”
Du Yan said: “Your baba didn’t run away with me. Where can I find him? You can find him yourself.”
Then he continued to walk down, and at the corner of the stairs, he saw the little girl again.
But the little girl was no longer squatting there but standing with her back to the corner. After hearing Du Yan’s footsteps coming downstairs, she turned her head silently.
The little girl’s face turned around, and it was both normal and abnormal. It was normal because her facial features were complete and nothing was missing, it was abnormal because she was a little too thin, and her cheeks were sunken, as if she had been hungry for a long time.
She spoke, still in her childish voice: “I looked for him. I was looking for my baba. Later, I found him in his company. They had moved out. There was no one in the building. I was locked in there for a long, long time. I was so scared. I was really scared. Why didn’t my baba come to save me…”
Du Yan looked at her for a long while, listened to the little girl’s tragic story, and then said: “Oh.”
It’s not that Du Yan had such a hard heart, it’s just that this little girl was naughty, and Du Yan had seen through her tricks.
Probably, the purpose was to use the miserable life to arouse people’s sympathy. Once sympathy is born, the little girl will ask him to borrow his body to find her father. At that time, his answer doesn’t matter, if it is yes, he will be possessed by the little girl, and if he refuses, he will be swallowed by the little girl who starves to death.
Du Yan didn’t fall for it, and the stairs still had no end. Now, the sign indicating the floor number at the corner had disappeared, and there was still the little girl who kept appearing. However, it wasn’t that the little girl kept appearing on the next level, but that he had never left this level.
Du Yan probably already understood the structure of this staircase. Others might think that the staircase really has no end and will extend to nowhere.
In fact, it was the ghosts that affected his brain waves and the overlapping of space that made the stairs seem endless. He never left this level.
In fact, as long as he finds the most critical point and solves it, he can leave this level. The facts in front of him were very obvious, the key point lies in the little girl.
The little girl in front of him looked weak and harmless, but she exuded a strong aura of murderous intent and blood, proving that countless innocent people had died at her hands.
Even if Du Yan had a soft heart, he would not use it on such a fierce ghost. He directly pulled out the peach wood dagger from his backpack.
When the little girl saw the peach wood dagger, her expression suddenly turned fierce, and she screamed: “Bad guy! You are a bad guy! Bad guys deserve to die!”
After she finished speaking, her mouth opened wider. It was only a cherry-like mouth, but it opened wider and wider. When it reached its limit, Du Yan heard a ‘click’ sound. The little girl’s jaw was dislocated because it opened too much.
However, the little girl in front of him did not feel any pain. She opened her mouth with her hands, and sharp teeth emerged. She kicked her feet and rushed towards Du Yan.
Du Yan reacted very quickly and dodged to the side. The little girl ran towards the wall, but she stepped directly on the wall, twisted her body in the air, and flew towards Du Yan again.
The little girl who looked so weak just now now looked like a wild beast, as fast as a flash of lightning.
Du Yan was just a mortal, so his speed was naturally not as fast as that of this fierce ghost. In addition, the space was narrow, and he was not careful, so his left arm was cut by the little girl’s nails.
Du Yan looked distressed: “I didn’t want to use such a brutal trick, but…”
Before he finished speaking, he used the peach wood dagger in his hand to wipe the wound on his arm. The blood-stained peach wood dagger shone brightly, and the entire stairwell was filled with this dazzling light.
The fierce ghost screamed, covered her face, and rolled to the ground.
Du Yan walked over and looked at the fierce ghost rolling on the ground.
The little girl’s voice returned to her childish voice. She cried and begged: “Da Gege, I didn’t mean it. I just wanted to see my baba again. Please let me go…
Du Yan’s expression slightly changed, as if he was touched. The little girl had already rolled to Du Yan’s feet and seemed to sense the other party’s softening. She moved her body, hooked her five fingers, and clawed toward Du Yan’s chest.
She saw Du Yan was about to die under her claws, but the fierce ghost stopped in mid-air. She looked down in disbelief, looking at the peach wood dagger that pierced through her chest.
“I calculated that your baba is probably waiting for you down there. He will give you a ride. No need to be grateful.” Du Yan said coldly: “But before that, he will probably settle the lives you have taken. Goodbye.”
The fierce ghost on the peach wood dagger turned into smoke and disappeared in the air, leaving no trace at all. Du Yan took out a tissue from his backpack and wiped the peach wood dagger carefully.
Hiss——
He raised his hand and touched his left shoulder, where the imprint left by a vinegar pot was getting hot.
“Tsk, things are getting troublesome.”
Du Yan was a little distressed. When he left, he promised Xiao Lang to leave an imprint on his shoulder before he was allowed to leave. This imprint will monitor everything about him, including whether anyone touches him for a long time or gets injured.
Now that his arm was injured, Xiao Lang probably knew that, and if he didn’t leave this place soon, that person would probably break out of the formation and run here.
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