Chapter 16: Escape

Xin Mingyun's face at this moment resembled a life-suppressing evil spirit from a horror movie, and just by looking at it, it gave people the creeps. The takeaway boy directly fled in fear, not daring to ask more than a single word. At the same time, Lin Quying quickly closed the door and reinstalled all the locks. Right now, he and Cao Zhong, both of them, were already scared to death. Unlike the scarf-wearing woman from before, Xin Mingyun's death had a lot to do with the two of them. Although it was said that Xin Mingyun's death greatly had some elements of his own death in it, he did have enough reason to resent the two of them. The thought of that instead made their hearts tremble. "This …… this ……" Cao Zhong, no matter how forceful and powerful he was, if the other party was non-human, then he couldn't deal with it, right? Which of those evil spirits in horror movies can be defeated by force? Before it was that woman, now it's Xin Mingyun, what should we do? "If we die, will I become that too?" As soon as Cao Zhong thought that if he died, he would also turn into one of those eerie and terrifying evil spirits, he felt shivering. To be honest, for him to really turn into that appearance was simply more unacceptable to him than dying completely. "Old me definitely doesn't want to turn into that!" Cao Zhong roared angrily, and this roar scared the Lin Quying in front of him so much that he almost fell to the ground as his legs went limp. "Don't scare me to death!" Lin Quying covered his heart, just now he was really almost scared to death by Cao Zhong. However, Cao Zhong glared at him fiercely, "What? You have an opinion?" Obviously, Cao Zhong was now in a state of shock and anger, and his emotions were highly unstable. If Lin Quying dared to say one more word, I'm afraid that Cao Zhong really dared to directly punch and kick him. And now, the question came …… Xin Mingyun was aware of their door number! If Xin Mingyun came up directly now, then they would be dead! Will they continue to stay here, or will they escape and fight it out? "Should we …… try to escape down?" …… Five minutes later, Lin Quying opened the door, and immediately afterward, he looked around to make sure that there was no one outside right now before he took a step and walked outside. Then, he quickened his pace and arrived at the next door, pressing the doorbell. "Woof, woof, woof!" A loud shout came, and Lin Quying immediately took two steps back. And after the door opened, a middle-aged woman with long hair walked out, while a German Shepherd dog then leapt out from inside the door. The dog stared at Lin Quying and barked several times. The middle-aged woman recognized the next door neighbor and said, "Oh, you live next door, right? What s wrong?" "Hello …… that, can I borrow your dog?" "Ah?" "Well, it's like this, I have to go out ……" He made up a reason and requested the middle-aged woman to lend the dog to him for a while. "Your dog also recognizes me, so it should be fine for me to lead it out for a while." Lin Quying said this and added: "Well …… that, so ……" "OK, a big man speech twisted." That middle-aged woman thought about it and said, "Have you ever raised a dog before?" "Yes, have raised." "In that case, I'll lend it to you for three hours at most. You'll have to return the dog when the time is up. Who doesn't have a hard time, right? I know you just made up that reason, there must be some other reason. Anyway, you live next door, I'm not afraid of you abducting the dog." "Thanks, thank you!" The middle-aged woman handed the dog's leash to Lin Quying, and after explaining some more things to him, she let him lead the dog away. Holding the dog, this whole way, Lin Quying had a few nervous moments, this German Shepherd was just too fierce looking, and it was a complete lie for him to say that he had raised a dog. However, if you really want to go down, bring a fierce wolf dog, more or less can strengthen the courage. Besides, isn't that what black dog blood can ward off evil spirits? This isn't a black dog, but maybe it's about the same effect? He brought the dog back to his home, and when the dog saw Cao Zhong, he barked. Cao Zhong was not afraid of the dog at all, instead, he looked worried: "Is this dog useful? Can it deal with that evil spirit?" Lin Quying, on the other hand, smiled bitterly, "It's better than nothing, I can't just conjure up a black ass hoof out of thin air." "You think we're going to reverse a fight? What's the use of bringing a black donkey hoof? Why don't you just bring a Zhang Qi Ling?" Lin Quying did think that if he really had Zhang Qiling around, then he would really dare to go down sideways! But what's the point of talking about this now? At this moment, Cao Zhong, on the other hand, dangled a picture of Guanyin Bodhisattva on his cell phone, while the cell phone began to play the chanting sound of reciting the Great Compassion Mantra. They were scared to death at the thought that Xin Mingyun was downstairs right now, but they couldn　　t just stay upstairs and wait for Xin Mingyun to come up and kill someone. Xin Mingyun's death was an accident, and the evil spirits that weren't part of the bloodletter mission itself might not even deal with the occupants, but instead just use them directly as killing objects was also a big possibility. These were the factors that ultimately contributed to the reason why they had to go downstairs and risk their lives. Cao Zhong had originally counted on Lin Quying to stand in front and open the way, but this kid was also a thief, walking side by side with him and letting the dog walk at the front. In this way, if the evil spirits really came out, the first one to kill would be the dog, and they would have time to escape. For Cao Zhong, as long as he could escape, sacrificing a dog's life was naturally not a problem. At the end of the day, Lin Quying and Cao Zhong locked the door, led the dog, and walked downstairs with the sound of Buddhist sutra chanting. Lin Quying now also held a fruit knife in his hand, although he knew that this knife is mostly not half useful, but with a knife, it can always be strong courage. Moreover, he also had an idea that in the most dangerous situation, if Cao Zhong really used him as a human shield, he himself had a knife in his hand, so he could also defend himself. With everything ready, they entered the stairwell. Taking the elevator was of course impossible, Xin Mingyun was standing guard at the elevator door, going down in the elevator was no different from sending someone to their death. For Lin Quying, the best and most ideal scenario was for Xin Mingyun to come upstairs in the elevator to claim his life, while they took the opportunity to escape. Inside the quiet stairwell, the only sound that could be heard now was the sound of Buddhist scriptures being recited. There are no windows in the stairwell, so it's pitch black day and night, but the good thing is that there is a sound-activated light, plus there is that wolf dog in front of them to open up the way, which more or less gives them some guts. Cao Zhong at this time in his mind is that he is usually always in the gym fitness, really want to escape, he is sure to escape faster than Lin Quying this dead bitch, there is no doubt about it. When being chased by a beast, you don't need to run faster than the beast, just run faster than your own companion. As long as he could escape this damn neighborhood, he would simply move out of the city straight away! If the plot of that novel was true, then this entire city was unsafe everywhere, all of them could be blood letter execution sites ah! The wolfhound barked twice every now and then, and the sound-activated lights below would soon come on quickly. The sound of the Great Compassion Mantra's Buddhist scripture recitation, played repeatedly on a loop, not only did it not make Lin Quying feel at ease in his heart, but instead, his heart was getting more and more drummed up. Ten floors, in fact, went down very quickly, but they all dared not go too fast, for fear that the evil spirits were suddenly waiting for them right below. People are this kind of psychology, even if they know that the speed regardless of fast or slow results are the same, but is to think that go a little slower as if the probability of the evil spirits waiting below will become smaller, it is as if people know that the evil spirits of the horror movie is unlikely to hurt them, but people watching horror movies will still be afraid to cover their eyes and turn off the volume is the same reason. At this time, they walked to the place where Lin Quying woke up last night. When they walked here, Lin Quying's heart was in agony. At that time, if it wasn't for the apartment dwellers coming, it was highly likely that he would have passed on to the ultimate happiness by now. "Wait …… dog, why isn't it barking?" Lin Quying pulled the dog's leash and was about to continue down, when he suddenly realized that the wolfhound had stopped at the top and wasn't going down! "You, you, why don't you go?" Despite desperately pulling on the leash, the wolfhound started to keep backing away, seemingly afraid of something, not daring to go down! It didn't bark, and the voice-activated light dimmed, instantly plunging into pitch blackness! "Light up!" Lin Quying shouted, and the voice-activated light lit up. And then, he was horrified to see …… The other end of the dog leash, became empty, that wolfhound, unexpectedly disappeared without a trace!