this is not a joke

Chapter 173
"We were on the third floor at the time..." Luo Xiaoya said, pointing in one direction upstairs, "There is a jewelry store there, we are choosing decorations in it, and other customers in the store include us and two shop assistants I was sucked into the ghost story."

Wei An looked in the direction of her finger, and saw that the store was closed, with a seal on it, and it was not open for the time being.

Investigator Hu Fei has already entered the store to collect evidence, and did some searches with detectors, but found no useful information.

I believe that this occasional strange talk may not appear here again next time.

The bodies of two people who died in the strange story appeared in the jewelry store after the strange story ended, but the bodies of the other two remained in the strange story, including Zhou Xin again.

For those who knew Zhou Xin, they thought that this guy had bad luck, and he happened to encounter things that should not have happened to him.

Wei An nodded, and said: "This case is in charge of another investigator in our bureau. They named this strange story 'Calling the Soul'. I have already read the general plot of it, and the bureau also learned from your dictation. What I want to know is that the seven of you were separated for a short time after entering the ghost talk, were you and Zhou Xin also separated at that time?"

Luo Xiaoya shook her head, "No, the others separated from us, but Zhou Xin and I were always together, we were very scared, we were together no matter what we did at the time, and we never let each other out of our sight."

Wei An said: "I told Zhou Xin what he should do if he encounters a strange talk. He knows some basic common sense. Although he has not experienced it personally, I think he will adapt to the strange talk more easily than other participants. environment of."

Luo Xiaoya seemed to be recalling, "He did tell me some common sense, and we were very careful at the beginning. Although we were scared when we saw ghosts, we didn't encounter any danger at that time."

"The soul-calling in this strange talk is to ask each of you to summon a soul once, and then complete one by one according to the request made by the ghost after it appeared. If the request is not fulfilled, the person must die." Wei Wei Andao: "Is this the case?"

"Yes." Luo Xiaoya nodded, "The investigator not only questioned me, but also two other survivors like me. We all summoned ghosts and fulfilled the requirements of these ghosts."

"That is to say, Zhou Xin summoned a ghost, but failed to complete the request made by the other party?" Wei An asked, "Is the difficulty of this request the same? Or is it random? Are others more difficult?"

"Randomly, some with low difficulty and some with high difficulty." Luo Xiaoya said: "But there are also low difficulty and unfinished ones. Zhou Xin's ghost asked him to eat himself."

"Eating ghosts?" Wei An was shocked.

This detail was not reflected in investigator Hu Fei's notes, probably because Luo Xiaoya hadn't recalled it at the time.

"Will you all know each other's tasks?" Wei An asked.

Luo Xiaoya shook her head: "I was told by Zhou Xin. Some of the other people were together, and some were completed separately. I don't know."

"Are you two in a group, or with someone else?"

"It was just the two of us at the beginning, and later other people asked to join in, saying that the chances of survival would be higher if we were in a group like this." Luo Xiaoya replied.

"It is true that the probability of survival will increase after being in a group, but that is in the case of completing a collective task. If the task is only related to a single person and cannot be completed with the help of other people, the actual significance of grouping is not great. "Wei An said.

Speaking of this, he looked at Luo Xiaoya, "During the process of completing a single-person task, if you are helped by other people from the side, for example, if you have to climb to a certain place, other people will hold the ladder for you, or stabilize it. The stool you step on, does this count as helping you complete the task?"

Luo Xiaoya shook her head, then nodded again, "It seems possible, but Zhou Xin was going to help me later, but was banned by the strange talk."

"That is to say, it is possible to help, but there is a limit to the extent." Wei An said.

After a pause, he said again: "It seems that he was killed because he couldn't eat that ghost. Then what is your mission?"

Luo Xiaoya replied: "I went to the pool on the roof to scoop a bucket of water back to my room. There is a pool on the top of the building, and what I summoned back was a water ghost. She was waiting for me in the pool. At that time, I mentioned Running desperately with the bucket of water, Zhou Xin closed the door for me to prevent the water ghost from chasing me. Then that part of the journey was invalidated by strange negotiations. Zhou Xin didn’t dare to help anymore, and then half of the water in the bucket spilled out, and All I have to do is carry the bucket with water back to the room and I've completed the task, so it's considered a success."

Wei An listened carefully while nodding his head.

At this time Luo Xiaoya asked: "Weian, you have been asking about the details of this strange talk, do you think there is something weird about it? Zhou Xin is dead, and I don't know why his body hasn't come out, but he is indeed in our The one killed by that ghost in front of him is the one he didn't eat."

"How did you kill him?" Wei An asked.

Luo Xiaoya said: "It seems to be possessed. When the ghost lay on him, he began to scream, and white gas came out of his body, as if his body temperature suddenly rose, and his flesh was rotten and melted. At that time The scene... I dare not look at it, I wanted to drive the ghost away, but a force pushed me away, and then another participant pulled me away."

"Participant? One of the three of you survivors?" Wei An frowned.

"Yeah, a young man." Luo Xiaoya nodded.

"Did you all know each other before?" Wei An continued to ask.

Luo Xiaoya shook her head, and suddenly asked: "Are you doubting what I said?"

"No." Wei An said: "I am also an investigator, and I have dealt with more ghost stories than investigator Hu Fei. In terms of handling the details of ghost story cases, some issues must be investigated clearly."

"Okay, you can ask me if you have any questions, and you can call me if you think about it later." Luo Xiaoya said.

"Let's go up and have a look now." Wei An stood up.

This is also the reason why he chose to meet Luo Xiaoya in this shopping mall. After listening to the other party's introduction, he went to the place where the strange talk happened to check carefully. This is not only responsible for Zhou Xin, but also what Wei'an thinks he must do to his friends. .

"Ah, go up?" Luo Xiaoya looked obviously a little scared.

Wei An said: "It's okay, the probability of strange stories appearing there is the same as the probability of us standing here. If there are strange stories, they can also appear here."

Luo Xiaoya nodded slightly, and followed Wei An to take the sightseeing elevator on the first floor to the third floor.

This jewelry store is not far from the sightseeing elevator, two stores away, Wei An took out the key he had prepared earlier, and pressed the button on the remote control to the electric gate.

The electric gate was activated quickly and began to rise slowly.

"By the way, I heard from Zhou Xin that some time before he was going to propose to you, you went abroad?"

"Well, I went out to play with my relatives." Luo Xiaoya said: "If I had known, I wouldn't have gone out. Let's prepare a new house in advance, buy things in advance, maybe we can avoid this strange talk."

Not long after the words were finished, the electric gate in front of him was completely opened, the store was dark, and a cold breath came over his face. Luo Xiaoya shuddered suddenly and couldn't help taking a step back.

(End of this chapter)