Returning from the abyss

Chapter 842
The three of them walked into the backyard from the front, but still found nothing more.However, the area at the back of this house is much larger than the front, which is actually a bit extravagant for a shooting yard—after all, the interior and exterior needs of many shootings are separated.

When they walked inside, they also met An Youxi who had come to the backyard to investigate first, and the two guides.An Youxi chatted happily with the two of them, and even met Lu Ning, Tang Yuexin just greeted her briefly and continued talking with An Youxi.

Lu Ning has also seen this kind of sociable person. Since An Youxi is willing to take the initiative to take on this task, she also nodded to him gratefully, and she walked into the innermost courtyard with Qu Yi and Guo Xiao .

From the design point of view, this place should be the place where the most senior people live here, and it is almost decorated, at least compared to the front room, it can be called exquisite.Lu Ning quickly found an account book from the bookshelf, and confirmed from the above records that this house was the so-called "Ling Mansion".

But Qu Yi saw more things from the account books.

"The income of this family has declined recently. It can be seen that they operate a total of 20.00 stores outside of China, but the income of [-] stores has declined in the near future, with a decline of more than [-]% in the past three months. The reason It is caused by the decline in sales, but these shops do not operate the same content, so it can be judged that they are likely to be suppressed by some officials or competed by their peers. The operations of these shops are independent...the possibility of insiders is relatively low ..."

Lu Ning covered her mouth.

"What are you doing? We can learn some possible plots in advance, can't we?" Qu Yi broke away from Lu Ning, but Lu Ning also shouted at her loudly: "Think about it first! This is a prop for filming TV dramas! How can I prepare such clear accounts for you?"

Qu Yi gasped.

Indeed, even if it is for the audience to read during filming, it is enough to prepare only a few key pages. Even if the money is rich and powerful, the props team will not really come up with an account book.

"But...but here..."

Lu Ning snatched the account book from Qu Yi's hand, preventing her from reading any further.She looked through it herself again, and she did tell Qu Yi that there is too much detailed information in this account book, so detailed that it doesn't even look like a prop.

"It seems that there are some problems." Guo Xiao also said, "Look at this."

The two turned their heads and found that Guo Xiao pointed to a wood carving on the shelf in the room. The wood carving was carved into the shape of a horse's head, but what made people feel a little uncomfortable was that there were some tumors starting from the middle of the neck of the horse's head. The protrusions are densely packed like barnacles all the way to the root, and there is a layer of green moldy color on it.

"I don't think such weird things are prepared by the props team. Which normal person would put such weird things in their house?" Guo Xiao put on a disgusted expression.

Lu Ning took a closer look, but she didn't smell any strange smell in her nose.If you observe carefully, you can also find that the moldy thing on the top is just the paint color. If you follow the normal thinking, it means that the horse head is only carved to the half of the neck, and the ground is full of wood. thing.

Leaving aside the ugliest part, the carving technique of the horse head itself is very clever, and it can even be said to be lifelike. I wouldn't put such a thing here on purpose.

After the exploration, there were more questions, but this was expected by the tourists. The three of Lu Ning searched the room carefully, and finally retreated after confirming that there were no other obviously abnormal items.

"What do you think should be done next?" She asked Qu Yi and Guo Xiao for their opinions.

"It's not suitable to go deep at this moment. After all, it's just the beginning, and launching an investigation before we have any precautions may lead to unnecessary danger." Qu Yi said, "Since it is clear that this is the Ling Mansion, we probably need to investigate next." Find something you can use against it, weapons, superpowers, capable people, whatever."

"I think so too." Guo Xiao said.

The idea is correct, and this is also the process that ordinary tourists will carry out.The three of them came out to join An Youxi and the others, and then continued to look at the rest of the ancient area.This visit lasted for a day, during which they also made some observations on a few other points that seemed to be problematic, but they found nothing.

When I came back at night, the group of movie fans also dispersed, and the hotel was brightly lit from the windows, and almost every room was already occupied.During the meal, several people received a message from Wei Zhan. They will gather at the central square of District [-] at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning, where a launching ceremony will be held. All relevant personnel from the project team will go there, and some important ones will Directly responsible for ribbon cutting.

"Yo Hou, here we come, it looks like we will have to face the test starting tomorrow." Guo Xiao swiped the message.

"It's okay, we've already made preparations." An Youxi said with a smile, "Everyone, let's find a small conference room...to discuss?"

This offer was of course not rejected.

After eating, in the lounge on the floor, the four of them sat down and started talking about today's problems.

Lu Ning first talked about the weirdness that Qu Yi and Guo Xiao encountered respectively, and there is no need to hide such things.An Youxi nodded after listening, and asked: "Then neither of you noticed the problem at the time?"

"My memory of that time is very vague. I don't even know why I suddenly yelled like that. Now I can hardly remember the specific content of the 'quarrel'. Isn't it very strange?" Guo Xiao tried hard to recall, "My clearest memory is when Lu Ning told me that there was no one around me. That's when I felt a little creepy. In addition, believe it or not, I have never had schizophrenia, and my soul pollution is also It was all dealt with on time and absolutely nothing accumulated to a high degree."

"On my side... because I am more familiar with the accounts, so when I saw that, I began to subconsciously analyze the content. I didn't think about the problems that may arise outside the accounts. This is indeed my negligence. Unlike Guo Xiao, I have a clear memory and cognition, but looking back now, it seems that I have a problem of over-concentration because I have been exposed to a field I am more familiar with."

"Really? Then maybe I can refer to the news here." An Youxi pondered for a while and said, "I walked with those two almost the whole time. Tang Yuexin has a very detailed understanding of the various buildings in the base, but this is also It’s a question. I deliberately selected some parts that were not part of the original architectural design of the base and asked her questions, such as the function of the room, the living conditions of the house, etc. She can answer all of them.”

"Those who participated in the filming should be able to understand this kind of thing, right?" Guo Xiao said.

"Can they all get the script before us? In fact, I have sent a message to Director Wei to confirm that the script will be sent to us after the opening ceremony. Of course, we mainly want to see how the storyboard and other parts should be. Deal with it. But it's impossible for the staff here to get the script." An Youxi said seriously, "In addition, both Tang Yuexin and Joseph have a very abnormal manner, do you understand? These two people are too enthusiastic, I even made some slightly offensive requests to try, but they didn't take it seriously."

"What request?" Qu Yi asked.

"I pretended not to be careful and dropped my phone into the pool, and then asked Joseph to help me pick it up. As a result, he really took off his coat and went down to help me pick up the phone." An Youxi said.

"When I said it, his body was a little wet... I thought he was sweating." Lu Ning recalled, "This is indeed a bit unconventional."

"In addition, I also found some other things." An Youxi took out his mobile phone and put it on the table, "Everyone, please take a look at these photos."

The photos show several places that everyone has visited today, but there are obviously some differences, such as the patterns formed by obvious cracks on the walls, the water mark on the ground that looks like a human face, and the gap in the middle of the books on the bookshelf. It seems that there are many eyes looking out through the gaps.

"Wait... wait, we've been shooting today, but we didn't capture anything, it was just black and white!" Qu Yi hurriedly took out his video camera, and turned back to the parts he was shooting. It's all normal, there's no part of An Youxi at all.

"These photos were processed by me with software." An Youxi explained, "You can't see these things in basic shooting. Look at the water stains like a human face, which don't exist at all under normal shooting. Infrared analysis finds out the low-temperature part, and then you can find a pattern of a human face inside, but you probably can’t tell anything directly with the video now.” An Youxi explained, “And on this one, the books on the bookshelf In the middle of the eyes, the camera must be set to the reverse color mode, and then reduce the brightness to about 50.00% to be able to detect it.”

"Why can you find these?" Lu Ning interrupted him, "If it's just a discovery condition, I can still think it's a coincidence, but the discovery conditions of these things are obviously different. The camera has many functions, and you still have one Have you tried them all?"

An Youxi laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Guo Xiao asked loudly.

"Because Tang Yuexin told me all this." An Youxi shook his head lightly, "I asked some questions and found that they really knew everything, so I asked...'What do you think is the best way to shoot here? Best effect?'”

Then he got his answer.

Guo Xiao cursed in a low voice, and Qu Yi also had a serious expression on his face.Lu Ning thought for a while and asked An Youxi: "Are you sure that your current state is completely normal?"

"Very cautious, Lu Ning." An Youxi smiled, "but unfortunately, I can't be sure of myself now. These words are indeed based on my current cognition, but I don't know whether my current cognition is correct or not. What went wrong. Now, let me ask you, as those of you who were also involved in the anomalous phenomenon, are you still sane?"

"So what if it's abnormal?" Lu Ning sneered, "At least we still have the will to resist, that's enough."

After the discussion, everyone returned to their rooms.Lu Ning sat on the bed and stared out the window.Qu Yi went to take a shower, and could hear the sound of water flowing from the toilet.

It was still dark outside the base at night.When it is not fully open, the lights are not bright at night, and the stars can still be seen clearly in the sky.

Lu Ning suddenly remembered a question.

The group of movie fans I saw in the morning numbered in the hundreds, but according to the map, although there are quite a few hotels in the base, only the hotels here were opened early to accommodate the filming personnel, and the rest were not put into operation at all. .And the location of the base is nearly two hours' drive from the nearest town. Those movie fans... really go back and forth like this every day?She didn't see a movie fan-like activity near the hotel at all.

When thinking of this question, Lu Ning's eyes were attracted by the things outside the window.

The tenth floor of the hotel is already very high, and there are no tall shelters around. From the window on Lu Ning's side, you can actually directly see the square surrounded by movie fans in the morning.

She saw pairs of red dots.

Are there dozens or hundreds?The moment Lu Ning saw those light spots, her mind felt as if it had been burned intensely, and she lost the ability to think in an instant.She can only remember the scene outside the window dully, relying on instinct, relying on a trace of consciousness that has not disappeared.

A cloudy column of smoke soaring into the sky is rising from that place, and the red light spot is moving, but not flickering.Lu Ning felt that her gaze seemed to be able to ignore the darkness around her. She saw those crawling creatures with feathers all over their bodies. With their hemispherical backs bent, they picked up some substances from the root of the smoke column with their thin hands. .

Strange, she knows what it is, she even knows what it feels like, what it smells like, what it tastes like, what...

"Lu Ning! I'm done taking a shower, do you want to take a shower too?"

The headache sound seemed to come from another world, but it also made Lu Ning finally regain the ability to control her body.She blinked, agreed to Qu Yi, and then raised her hand to wipe her mouth, a little stunned.

"Why are you drooling? It's strange..."

She shrugged, took out a new set of clothes from her suitcase, and walked into the bathroom.It was still quiet outside the dark window at this moment, and a chorus of cicadas came from a distant tree.

(End of this chapter)