Long night dreams

Chapter 12 The Show Begins (2)
The old lady Jin was hung upside down from the ceiling of the dining room on the first floor, and blood was dripping from her seven orifices.Her face was full of admiration, her eyes were wide open, she was dying, and what was even more frightening was that her right forearm was gone, only a bloody elbow.It is conceivable that when the old lady Jin was first hoisted to the ceiling, the blood must have poured down from the elbow joints like a gurgling brook and onto the ground.But at this moment, the old lady Jin's blood seems to have run out, and there is no more blood flowing out of the broken elbow joint.But on the ground, there was a large pool of blood, the blood was shockingly thick and unimaginable.No wonder the dining room smelled of blood.

Only then did Guo Haoran remember to look at his own body, and he couldn't help being surprised.His trousers were completely soaked in blood and turned bright red, and his shoes were also bright red.It must be the blood of Mrs. Jin!

Thinking of this, Guo Haoran immediately felt that there was something churning in his stomach, as if an invisible giant hand was rubbing and playing with his stomach.

He bent down and moaned uncontrollably.He finally couldn't help opening his mouth, and countless meals that the old Mrs. Jin had cooked with her own hands spewed out and splashed onto the ground.As soon as these filthy things fell to the ground, they mixed with the pool of bright red blood on the ground and turned into something indescribable.

When the others woke up, all of them were shocked by the death of Mrs. Jin.Su Xin cried even more sadly. After all, Mrs. Jin has worked with her for many years, and they have a deep relationship.

Guo Haoran and several men took the old lady Jin's body down from the ceiling, and Lian Zi took out the white cloth covered with nine stars in the management room, and then covered the old lady Jin's body.

The atmosphere in the room became more and more dull, and Guo Haoran said to everyone: "Don't eat anything in the kitchen now, the murderer may have drugged it. This time it was drugged, and next time it might be drugged." !"
"Then what should we do?" Xia Qingqing's voice trembled a little, she held Wang Yang's arm tightly, her face turned pale with fear.

"I want to go home! I want to go home!" Su Xin cried hysterically, her voice was very sharp, like a spoon scraping an enamel bowl.She stood up, took three steps in parallel, and ran towards the gate of the hotel.

Guo Haoran stretched out his arm and grabbed Su Xin, saying: "The bridge going out has been broken, and the stream has swollen as wide as a big river, where can you go?"
"I don't care! I don't care!" With a wave of Su Xin's hand, she broke free from Guo Haoran's arm, rushed to the door, and opened the door forcefully.

There was a sudden thunder explosion outside the door, the sky and the earth suddenly changed color, and dark clouds had enveloped the entire sky at some point.Another flash of lightning, followed by another thunderclap.There were rushing raindrops crackling in the sky, and in a blink of an eye, it became densely packed, from broken beads to torrential rain.

The bluestone slab stone steps not far from the gate collapsed with a "boom", and the way out suddenly disappeared, turning into a cliff.

Looking at all this in despair, Su Xin could hardly believe her eyes.She opened her mouth but couldn't say anything. She stared fixedly at the cliff that suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, tears streaming down her eyes.She murmured: "We can't go anymore, we are destined to die here." She couldn't help sobbing, the sound of crying was up and down in the erratic raindrops, and as soon as the rain was washed away, the raging wind Rolled into the sky, and then disappeared without a trace.

"It's a mudslide. When we were about to leave this morning, the bluestone slabs were already loose and almost collapsed." Guo Haoran said sadly behind Su Xin.

"Ah! Look, what is written on the outside of the door of the hotel?" Li Shoulian, a bearded painter who had just walked behind them, suddenly yelled.

Guo Haoran raised his head and looked outside the gate of the hotel.When he saw the big bloody characters written in red paint on the door panel, he couldn't help being startled, and his heart beat violently.

On the door panel outside the gate, on the left side, there are several large blood-red characters written: "The place where the corpse is important, please do not enter unless it is necessary." The exclamation mark is drawn very thickly, and a dot at the bottom is as bright as a peach blossom, which is shocking.

On the right side of the gate, nine blood-red dots are drawn in a row, and a thick straight line connects the nine red dots together - this is the schematic diagram of Jiuxing Lianzhu.And under this diagram, there are five big blood red characters written: "The performance has begun!"
Looking at the calligraphy and painting on the door panel, Guo Haoran only felt a burst of emotion, a sense of dizziness for no reason hit his heart, and a feeling of helplessness emerged spontaneously.

The hidden murderer made it a show, like a hidden, mysterious cat playing with a fooled mouse.He is ruthlessly mocking all the people in the dark, maybe he thinks he is a god, he must think he can control the life and death of everyone.

After a lethargic sleep, it was almost dusk.The remaining eight people sat on the sofa in the dining room with their own thoughts and were silent. The air in the room was stagnant as if it had been sucked dry. The smell of blood emanating from the ground.Only the breathing of eight people could be heard in the hall, as well as the sound of heartbeats, thump, thump, thump!
In the end, the silence was broken by Guo Haoran, who coughed dryly and said: "It's dark now, and the only bluestone path leading to the outside world has collapsed, it seems that we have to stay in this hotel for another day, How to spend the night safely is the most important thing. I suggest that we all stay in the dining room at night and take care of each other."
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." Ye Mei was the first to raise objections, and she shouted, "Old lady Jin's body is still here, and Roger's body is still in the management room!"I don't want to stay with two corpses, not to mention there is still a lot of blood here, if I stay here, I think I will vomit.

"Then what should we do?" Guo Haoran asked back.

Zhang Dongsheng held Ye Mei's hand, his action more or less made Guo Haoran jealous.Zhang Dongsheng naturally defended Ye Mei, he said: "That's good, let's all go upstairs to rest, and we can take care of each other if we live in the same room."
"But...don't forget, one of the eight of us might be the murderer. If anyone lives in the same room as the murderer, wouldn't that be bad luck?" , but Xia Qingqing quickly shook his hand and said, "You live in the same room with me, and I'm not a murderer. What are you afraid of?" He still swallowed the words in his stomach.He knew that at this time, it is better to talk as little as possible. Now everyone is the prey of the murderer's peeping, and if they speak more words, they are more likely to become the murderer's coveted target.

Guo Haoran thought for a while, nodded, and agreed to Zhang Dongsheng's suggestion, but he added: "If something happens in someone's room, you must call for help, so we can come to rescue as soon as possible."
The key question now is how to arrange accommodation.Wang Yang and Xia Qingqing can live in the same room, and two single girls, Su Xin and Lian Zi, can live in the same room. What about the remaining three men and one woman?Guo Haoran glanced sadly at Ye Mei and Zhang Dongsheng whose fingers were intertwined, sighed leisurely, and said helplessly to Ye Mei: "Okay, you two share a room, and Lao Li and I share a room. If we can go home smoothly, the first thing to do is to go for a divorce." Since we can't be together, it's better to break up amicably.Guo Haoran put his hand into his trouser pocket, touched the piece of lucky bark peeled off from the sycamore tree in his home community, and suddenly felt weak all over his body.It's a feeling of seeing something you love leave you, but you can't do anything about it.

Because they didn't dare to eat things in the kitchen, several people only ate a few pieces of well-packaged ice cream in the refrigerator.Fortunately, ice cream is also a high-fat and high-calorie food, and Roger has stored enough ice cream in the refrigerator, so eight people only ate half of the ice cream in the refrigerator even though their teeth were sore.In addition, they also drank a lot of tomato juice. Although drinking too much of that thing would make the roots of the teeth sour, it tasted really good.

After Zhang Dongsheng and Ye Mei walked into a guest room on the second floor and closed the door, Zhang Dongsheng hugged Ye Mei's waist impatiently, and moved his mouth to kiss Ye Mei's face.It's been too long since they have been intimate, and now they finally got a chance to be in the same room, how could Zhang Dongsheng let it go.Maybe the more dangerous the situation is, the more it can arouse the fire of desire in my heart.

Just like dry wood meeting a raging fire, the raging flames almost incinerated the entire room.When the passion faded away, Ye Mei collapsed on the bed in a collapsed state, drowsiness enveloped her entire thoughts like a boundless darkness.Dimly, she felt Zhang Dongsheng gently kissing her face, she turned her face away shyly, and murmured: "When we go back, I will divorce Guo Haoran, and then we will get married. Then we will We can justifiably be together."
Zhang Dongsheng responded, and then fell heavily next to Ye Mei, and he snored heavily after a while.

Ye Mei woke up in the middle of the night when she came back from a dream. At that time, she was screaming and waking up from a nightmare, covered in sticky sweat.In that nightmare, she dreamed that she and Zhang Dongsheng were walking hesitantly in a narrow and dark alley. Zhang Dongsheng's hands were very dishonest, always moving back and forth between her waist and vest, which also aroused Ye Mei's heart to be like a devil. lust.Ye Mei turned her head in the narrow alley to respond to Zhang Dongsheng's kiss, but under the moonlight she suddenly saw Zhang Dongsheng's face turned into Guo Haoran's, Guo Haoran was still grinning ferociously, holding a hammer in his hand .Guo Haoran showed a satisfied smile in his eyes, and he knocked Ye Mei's head heavily with his hand, blood splashed out like a blooming rose, and splashed on Guo Haoran's face, Guo Haoran stretched out his tongue and licked it at the corner of his mouth. Circle, the smile on his face became even more ferocious.Ye Mei's soul drifted out of her body and gradually rose towards the dark sky. She lowered her head to look, but saw that the corpse lying on the ground was not herself, but Zhang Dongsheng.There was a woman standing beside Zhang Dongsheng, it was Ye Mei!Ye Mei beside Zhang Dongsheng's body fell into Guo Haoran's arms, hugged and kissed Guo Haoran tightly in the dark and narrow alley, Guo Haoran's hand reached into Ye Mei's clothes.Ye Mei's soul in the air almost felt the coldness of Guo Haoran's fingertips, and she trembled all over.Finally, she saw Guo Haoran in the alley leaving Zhang Dongsheng's body with his arms around Ye Mei.When Guo Haoran left, he put on a mask and looked up at the dark sky.He seemed to have seen Ye Mei's soul floating in the air, a satisfied smile appeared on his brow, and his eyes were full of cruel indifference, as if he could see through everything hidden in Ye Mei's soul.As for Guo Haoran, who put on a mask, the blood-dripping hammer suddenly turned into a sharp dagger—just like what he saw on the TV monitor in the stairwell darkroom of the Hongmen Hotel. The black masked weirdo is exactly the same!
When Ye Mei woke up, she was really scared.She was glad that this was just a dream, she just wanted to find Zhang Dongsheng's warm embrace as soon as possible, and then narrate the fear in her heart to her beloved lover.

It was still dark inside the room, it was already dark, and the lights in the guest room were turned off.Ye Mei stretched out her hand to touch her side, and suddenly her heart skipped a beat—she didn't touch Zhang Dongsheng's body, but instead touched a puddle of sticky liquid, wet and greasy, like blood.

Thinking of blood, Ye Mei's heart skipped a beat, almost jumping out of her throat.

She fumbled and reached out to turn on the desk lamp beside the bed. When the desk lamp was emitting a blazing light, Ye Mei's pupils still couldn't bear the stimulation of such strong light, and some tears flowed out.She rubbed her eyes, finally making her eyes feel better.When she removed the palm covering her eyes, she saw the scene around her.

Zhang Dongsheng was still lying on the bed, but the first thing Ye Mei saw was a large pool of blood on the snow-white sheet.There is only a neat stubble on Zhang Dongsheng's neck, and the gushing blood has solidified into a dead black color. It is like drawing a dark red map on the bed sheet, but his head has long since disappeared. .

Ye Mei was so shocked that she sat on the bed, and when she realized that she was sleeping with a corpse, she immediately couldn't help screaming in distress.

The scream broke through the thin wooden door, hit the corridor, and the sound waves spread into the other rooms, waking everyone up.In just a few minutes, the doors of other guest rooms were opened, and the corridors were full of restless travel companions, their eyes were filled with horror and sadness, because they knew that as long as there was a scream, someone must have become a victim again. The new prey of the black masked mysterious killer.

Who will be next?
Guo Haoran slept soundly in the room, almost not awakened by Ye Mei's scream.Later, he analyzed that maybe it was because he took the drug at noon and still had stamina at night, so he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.But this kind of analysis is not correct, because other people also took drugs at noon, but they all woke up when they heard the screams.

And when Guo Haoran woke up.What really terrified him was - the bearded painter Li Shoulian disappeared.

Li Shoulian's quilts were randomly piled up on the guest bed, but the quilts were already completely cold.I remember that Li Shoulian lit a stick of Indian incense when he first entered the room. The Indian incense was just opened by the painter from his travel bag.Li Shoulian said that long-term field painting made him suffer from severe neurasthenia, and he would not be able to sleep at all without the help of Indian incense.Sure enough, after lighting the Indian incense, the mysterious smell of exotic spices lingered in the room, and Li Shoulian's snoring sounded after a while.And amidst the snoring, Guo Haoran also felt a deep drowsiness, his eyelids were as heavy as if filled with lead.Before Guo Haoran fell asleep, he thought that if he returned home safely in the future, he would also buy a lot of Indian incense. For a writer like him who writes in the morning and evening, it is only a matter of time before he suffers from neurasthenia.

Thinking back now, the reason why he slept so deeply may be the fault of that stick of Indian incense.

(End of this chapter)