Chapter 638 Can you help me mop the floor?
Qin Shang stared in astonishment at the old woman mopping the floor, his eyes gradually changing from dullness to a hint of intense fear.
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"It is rumored that between the time when the woman died and before the fire, that is, the week before the fire, someone saw a person in the corridor with a shadow whose neck was stretched out and even more exaggerated than the body. They said that it was a hanged ghost who had been torn into pieces by five horses. There must be an injustice in this place."
"There was also someone who went to the bathroom with her best friend in the middle of the night, and found an auntie mopping the floor in the bathroom. When she came back, her best friend disappeared. From that day on, she never saw her best friend again. After two or three days, she was scared to the point of going insane..."
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The words that the girl Fang Changpei said before he entered the dungeon were like thunder in his ears and appeared directly in his mind.
Qin Shang suddenly tensed up and stared at the old woman.
At that time, I had speculated that the auntie who was mopping the floor with a mop in the middle of the night was most likely not a human being.
Let me ask you, who in normal condition would have nothing better to do than mop the floor in front of the women's restroom in the corridor in the dark in the middle of the night?
Aren't you afraid of stepping on excrement like feces or urine?
As a frequent player who had accompanied Jiang Qiqi in playing many horror games and script-killing games, Qin Shang was accustomed to this kind of plot. It was very likely that the best friend who had been missing since then had most likely been targeted by the monster after she came out of the toilet early that night and was killed by the ghost.
The girl who was scared to the point of mental illness afterwards might have been slept very groggy that night and just got up to go to the bathroom. She didn't think much about the weird scene of someone mopping the floor. She was scared to the point of mental illness afterwards, which is probably related to the fact that she suddenly thought of the key information afterwards.
Qin Shang guessed that the protagonist of the story, who was also a girl who survived and became mentally ill, was most likely holding the mop in the aunt's hand, which was her best friend who had walked out of the bathroom early.
It was a pitch-black corridor, and with the help of the flashlight, Qin Shang could barely make out an old lady with a blurred face at the end of the corridor not far in front of him.
Not to mention the protagonist of the story back then.
If this is the so-called girls' dormitory, then it is very likely that the environment in which the protagonist in the story lives is basically the same as my own.
Even with a flashlight, Qin Shang felt that everything in front of him was pitch black, not to mention the two girls who got up at night to go to the bathroom...
Maybe the girl was in a daze at the time and didn't think much about it.
I didn't even look closely to see whether what the aunt was holding was a mop or an upside-down corpse.
In such a dimly lit place, wouldn't a girl's long hair look no different from a mop head?
If the girl died by some violent means, and her hair was tangled after bleeding, it would make that part of her hair look much thicker. And if she was a slender girl, then she would look just like a mop stick...
"Gulu."
The next moment, Qin Shang's Adam's apple rolled unconsciously.
So, was there a mistake in my judgment just now?
This wasn’t a sign that the interview session was over, but rather that Shenlu had found a new way to torture himself?
But then, after reading the old lady's bewildered actions, Qin Shang's tense shoulders relaxed a little.
Of course, I still held the character card and flashlight tightly in my hands.
If there is an emergency, he will still choose to take action immediately.
The old lady's movements were very strange, and her body language revealed fear and grievance, but she did not stop mopping the floor, as if something was controlling her limbs invisibly, forcing her to keep mopping the floor.
The cycle repeats itself, over and over again.
Thinking of this, Qin Shang took out the 'Embroidered Shoes of the Bride' and put them on his feet immediately, then put on the 'Cursed Red Dress', and prepared to take out the 'Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba' from the inventory at the speed of light. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and feel his sense of security doubled.
Slowly approached the old lady.
It didn't matter that he got close. After getting close, Qin Shang raised the flashlight, and the moment the light hit the other person's body, Qin Shang was stunned as if struck by lightning.
This, how can this be considered a human being?
Skinny and bony.
The three words "too thin to be recognized" can no longer be used to describe it.
Qin Shang didn't know whether it was because of the divine road or because he was still in an illusion, but he still couldn't see the other person's face clearly, as if it was automatically blurred. However, Qin Shang could vaguely recognize the other person's figure.
The wide black robe was worn on the old woman like a quilt. There was little clothing underneath the robe, and half of her face was hidden under the hood. The moment Qin Shang saw this dress on the old woman, he suddenly remembered what the "shadow" Qin Shang was wearing just now.
That guy stole a monk's robe from somewhere in the monastery!
That’s right, isn’t this black robe with a hood a monk’s robe?
It’s just that at that time, “Shadow” Qin Shang didn’t wear the hat of the monk’s uniform, so it looked like he was wearing an ordinary black robe.
But in fact, this kind of satin also has a one-piece design, and an open floor-length robe that needs to be buttoned. Even modern sweatshirts do not have such a style!
It's like a size M person wearing a size XXXL dress.
If the situation wasn't wrong, Qin Shang almost wanted to tease the old lady in front of him, "Why do you have a pointy head?"
"Are you a nun here?"
The next moment, Qin Shang asked subconsciously.
Hearing this, the woman who was repeatedly mopping the floor with the mop paused for a moment, but quickly continued mopping the floor, speaking with sobs and choking.
"Yes! I, I am the nun here..."
"Please, can you help me? You're the first person I've met in such a long time, please help me, help me, I don't want to stay here anymore."
Hearing this, Qin Shang fell silent. According to the information he had investigated in the outside world and what Fang Changpei said, those supernatural stories all happened after someone died in the monastery and was torn apart by five horses.
But obviously, that person is most likely not Wu Shiqi, the key figure in this copy.
This is because, whether it is the current experience or the time point in the monastery, the strangeness that has already occurred can serve as strong evidence.
In other words... Wu Shiqi was not the instigator of the subsequent haunted incident in the monastery.
The person who died unjustly a week before the fire was not Wu Shiqi.
At first, Qin Shang thought that Wu Shiqi was the instigator of all the supernatural events in the monastery based on the background content in the copy.
[Wu Shiqi discovered the secret of the monastery and was about to make it public when someone in the monastery reported Wu Shiqi's secret first. From then on, strange things happened in the monastery one after another, such as strange people with long necks, classmates disappearing in the corridor, and ghosts swallowing children's tongues. Countless people witnessed those strange scenes until a fire ended the story. However, the injustice remained, and Wu Shiqi's resentful spirit could not rest in peace all day long...]
That’s right, it was this damn background board that misled me.
This really sounds like a causal relationship.
It sounds like Wu Shiqi discovered the secret of the monastery, which led to her own secret being revealed first. Then Wu Shiqi died, and her vengeful spirit could not rest in peace.
Doesn’t it sound like a logical chain? Wu Shiqi discovered the monastery’s secret, the monastery took the lead in exposing her secret, and then killed Wu Shiqi, causing Wu Shiqi’s ghost to be unable to rest in peace, and she became the culprit of all this?
But now, Qin Shang doesn't think so...
Because first of all, the NPC in the copy, Wu Shiqi, was not dead at all.
Secondly, many strange things have happened at this point in time.
For example, the long neck that I saw with my own eyes was strange...
In the "Find a Friend" game session, the long-necked monster is the murderer who harvests the players' lives.
And I actually met the nun in the urban legend, who disappeared completely when I went to the bathroom with my best friend.
Wu Shiqi definitely died before this point in time, but there were some strange things during this period.
It is highly likely that it has little to do with Wu Shiqi.
"And the haunted monastery seems to be just a background world view, and it appeared recently, right?"
"In other words, strange things started happening in the monastery before Wu Shiqi passed away, but Zhang Wei must be talking nonsense. That vengeful spirit is definitely not the combined vengeance of Dean Zhu Lina and those deceased people."
"Whether my guess is correct or not, after the civil war in the 70s, those spies and reactionaries occupied the monastery in order to avoid the Long government's encirclement and suppression campaign, but at least we can be sure that the long-necked monster is definitely not one of those people and Dean Julia..."
If it were those people, the monastery would have been haunted eight lifetimes ago.
It would never have been dragged down to the 90s, which is now the background board.
As for whether the news was blocked and therefore could not leak out, Qin Shang absolutely did not believe it.
It is very difficult for ordinary people to keep their mouths shut. If a strange thing happens in a place and the slightest rumor leaks out, it will spread throughout the streets and alleys in no time, especially if it is something related to ghosts, gods, supernatural powers, or urban legends.
The speed of transmission was so fast that it took only a month or so. In that era when people had few channels to receive information, gossip was a form of entertainment.
Whenever something like this happened in a town, there was a high probability that the news would spread throughout the streets and alleys within two weeks at the latest.
By then, who would dare to come to a place like a monastery to pray and worship?
There were no rumors of haunted monasteries in the nearly twenty years from the 70s to the 90s, which means that the long-necked monster is more likely to have appeared recently!
"Is that why the monastery needs to add a security guard?"
As his thoughts flowed, Qin Shang's gaze fell on the old woman not far away.
Judging from the figure, it was difficult to confirm the other person's age. Qin Shang initially thought that this was an old woman at the end of the corridor because her figure was too hunched. She was about 40 or 50 years old. Anyone with a healthy body would not be hunched like this...
But now...
He was also a little unsure of the woman's age.
The most important point is that the damn Shenlu directly mosaiced her face. The other party's voice was hoarse and stiff, and it was hard for Qin Shang not to suspect that he was an elderly person.
"How can I help you?"
The next moment, Qin Shang looked at the woman at the end.
When the other party heard this, he seemed to come alive.
Seeing that Qin Shang seemed to have ideas that could help him, his tone became a little more hurried;
"Help me, help me find my missing best friend. As long as I can find my best friend, I will definitely be able to leave here. At that time, the aunt asked me to help her mop the floor for a while and wait for my roommate to come out. As a result, my roommate never came back, and then I have been trapped here. As long as I can find my roommate, I will definitely be able to leave here!"
"How about this, you help me mop the floor, help me mop for a while... I'll go find my roommate now, and when I find my roommate, I can break this strange curse. I won't frame you, I will definitely come back, you just have to wait until I find my roommate, and we will both be free."
Hearing this, Qin Shang couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
"You mean, you want me to help you mop the floor?"