Chapter 17: Help for Help

The wolfhound was quite big, usually when he met this dog in the hallway, Lin Quying would be more or less afraid. However, the sound-activated light went out and turned on in such a short period of time, but during this process, not even a single bark was issued, and this wolfhound disappeared! Lin Quying was so scared that he instantly dropped the dog's rope, and then quickly began to back away, looking around. At this time, Cao Zhong's cell phone emitted the sound of the Great Compassion Mantra recitation, which could not give him the slightest semblance of security. He brandished the fruit knife in his hand and looked around in shock, but he saw nothing. At this moment, he boldly looked toward the gap between the stair rails on either side and looked at the bottom floor. But there was silence down there, nothing. In retrospect, just now that wolfhound was dead set on not daring to advance, could it be that animals were able to perceive spirits more clearly than humans? Now, what on earth should we do? There was no one to direct them, but what Lin Quying and Cao Zhong did next was to both start automatically backing up, filled with intense fear! In the end, both of them began to run wildly with their legs spread out, escaping back to the 10th floor in one breath! Lin Quying took out the key with his hands and feet and quickly opened the door, the two of them rushed in, and Cao Zhong closed the door quickly, which made them feel like they had retrieved a life. At this time, both of them felt like they were going crazy. Previously, the picture of the opposite building was no longer weird and scary, but after all, it was still something that had nothing to do with them, but now, their own lives were highly threatened. At this moment, Cao Zhong gasped for air and turned off the chanting sound playing on his cell phone. He was also now realizing that what Goddess of Mercy Bodhisattva, Great Compassion Mantra, were all useless. "Is there …… any way …… to contact the writer called Black Ghost Fire?" At this time, Cao Zhong is turning his head to look at Lin Quying, gasping for breath and said, "If he wrote that book according to his real experience, then he must also be an apartment dweller, can we contact him?" "He has a book group, if you add the group you might be able to contact him." "Then add the group! Ask him if there's any way to solve the trouble at hand!" "But why would he help us? According to the plot of the novel, that apartment doesn't lack money at all, otherwise ……" "Contact him if you're told to, what's with all the nonsense!" Cao Zhong's yell scared Lin Quying's legs and said, "Okay, I, I know!" He then quickly found the book club QQ group number announced by Black Ghost Fire, entered the group number 538144826, and then three verification questions quickly appeared. Only after answering correctly could he enter the group. The first question was What are the names of the male and female main characters of Trembling Space? "This I know." Lin Quying had read Trembling Space back when he was in college, it was Black Ghost Fire's debut novel about a pair of siblings who could sense spirits. "Yin Yuan, Yin Rui." He quickly typed in the two names. The second question was what was the collective curse event that killed the most people in Mansion 444? "This question …… is going to die, it's been too long since I read it, I can't think of much." Cao Zhong viciously kicked Lin Quying in the abdomen and angrily said, "The fuck is this one group number?" "There used to be quite a few groups, but when Black Ghost Fire fell out with several readers' groups, as a result, many of the groups were disbanded, and this is the only book group now." "You look it up online!" "This …… deaths of the largest number of people, which also no one specializes in statistics ah, not to go to Baidu know to send a question ……" Lin Quying was really terrified to the extreme at this time, and he also hoped that he could contact the black ghost fire. He desperately began to recall that back then, the book "Mansion 444" was extremely famous, and the plot set out that Mansion 444 was a building cursed by demons, and once you moved in, you were bound to encounter horrible collective curses. Those collective curses were extremely bizarre, for example, people would inexplicably turn into paper people, or suddenly become particularly afraid of a specific item. "That's right, I've thought of it! Fear of a specific item, it's the thirteenth volume! That time the collective curse broke out when the protagonist traveled to his old home, and then an entire village in the protagonist's old home died." Lin Quying looked up the plot of the thirteenth volume of Mansion 444, which was called the "Black Pupil Curse Incident", and the cursed people would be extremely afraid of black pupils, and would then go out of their way to gouge out other people's eyes. If they saw their own black pupils in a mirror, they would do the same. That volume of the year Lin Duiying remembered that he looked very nervous, because as long as the protagonist saw any reflective objects to see their own eyes, that would be the end. "The plot sounds pretty cerebral." If it wasn't for the situation at hand, Cao Zhong would kind of want to read the book, "What's the third question?" "It's still a question from Mansion 444……. Which is the evil spirit that appears in Mansion 444 that kills the most people?" "What? Isn't that the same question as earlier?" "No, not every cursed event will have an evil spirit appear." Lin Quying then began to explain, "In fact more than thirty percent of curse events do not have evil spirits appearing, and the ones that do have evil spirits appearing ……" "Don't explain it to me! Which one specifically?" "This …… let me think …… let me think …… let me think …… let me look it up online, Baidu Encyclopedia has a specific Mansion 444 every cursed event Analyze." Walking into his bedroom, Lin Quying quickly opened the Baidu search engine, typed in 444 Mansions, and clicked into its Baidu encyclopedia. He began to scrutinize the specific analysis of each volume. "Volume 1 Phone Booth Curse Incident, Volume 2 Paper Man Curse Incident, Volume 3 Devil Hand Curse Incident, Volume 4 Fierce Shadow Map Curse Incident, Volume 5 Black Bat Curse Incident, Volume 6 Odd Floor Curse Incident, Volume 7 ……" "How come the more I look at this parse the more it looks like an SCP Foundation plot ……" Cao Zhong himself is a die-hard SCP Foundation fan, and the more I look at it, the more I feel that this author's brain is so big that it's scary. Before listening to Xin Mingyun disparage Black Ghost Fire, still thought it was a not so good writer, now it seems that the kid is completely sitting on a well and watching the sky, on that a little bit of flopping results also have the nerve to say Black Ghost Fire? "It's this! Great, Baidu encyclopedia recorded the name of the character who died, write it down! Well, one …… two …… three …… "Soon, Lin Quying counted out the volume with the highest number of deaths, it was the forty-first volume of the Pop-up Curse Incident. "Pop-up Curse Incident?" Cao Zhong forgot his own situation for a moment, and also glanced at that volume's synopsis in Baidu Encyclopedia: "Every pop-up screen in a particular video, once typed the words high energy ahead, will definitely encounter the evil spirits appearing in the video, after dying, the video progress bar will be automatically lengthened, and immediately after that, there will be a picture of the person who sends the pop-up screen being killed, and then the person who sends the pop-up screen will be More, and so on in an infinite loop …… No way, that horrible cursed event didn't kill as many people as the previous one?" "It's because the protagonist resolved this cursed event through the curse rules in time at that time, allowing this video to automatically disappear before it was spread online, otherwise there would have been countless more people who would have died." Immediately after that, he wrote the evil spirit of the pop-up curse event into his answer and managed to enter the group. Immediately afterward, he realized that there were surprisingly less than fifty people inside the group. "There are so few readers who can answer these three questions?" Lin Quying was aware that Black Ghostfire's popularity had dropped recently, but this situation seemed much worse than he had imagined. The group owner, however, was none other than Black Ghostfire, and his avatar was lit up! Inside the group, someone quickly began to send out QQ: "Newcomer to the group, immediately explode the photo!" "It's been a long time since a newcomer joined the group recently!" "I bet a pack of chili fries and a big pig's hoof, the newcomer must have searched the internet before coming in." "Yue Bao, is that a girl?" "Everyone," Lin Quying immediately sent a letter asking, "May I ask if the group owner is Fire Big?" "Who is Fire Big?" Cao Zhong asked. "Black Ghost Fire Big, or Fire Big for short. Strange, how come there's no Kiba Golden Flash in this group? Black Ghostfire number one fan." "I am Black Ghost Fire." Unexpectedly, the group leader Black Ghost Fire automatically appeared, "Being able to answer three questions correctly means you're also a die-hard reader." "Fiery, let's chat privately! I have important matters!" "That's fine." After the private chat, Lin Quying cleared his throat and started typing, "That, Fire Great, can we open a video chat?" He could find a picture of Black Ghost Fire online, so he wanted to make sure that the other party was not Black Ghost Fire as fake. "Well …… open a video, no need for that." At this time, Lin Quying suddenly thought that according to the Devil's Apartment setting, that apartment was unable to broadcast videos to the public or take photos. "Fiery, please, please do video with me, I want to admire your honorable face!"