Chapter 37: Dong Ning’s Wish
There was still one final hour to go.
However, neither Dong Xie nor Dong Ning felt that the last hour could be passed peacefully.
"That evil spirit definitely didn't mean to spare us." At this point, Dong Xie didn't bother to use the term "those things" as a substitute, "I've always thought that we probably triggered a way out at that time."
"Yes, I think so too. There's no other explanation beyond that." Dong Ning nodded so, "But judging from the fact that the evil spirit's hand was able to reach into the room, it wasn't that room itself. At that time, I felt that the hand, almost in the blink of an eye, retracted, as if it had been electrocuted."
Dong Ning still remembered now that there was at least two to three seconds from the time that hand reached in until it retracted. And if the room itself would repel evil spirits, it should have shrunk back the instant it reached in.
In any case, it was impossible for them to go back to the 4th floor for now. In the entire 4th floor, that was also the only room they could enter. After the evil spirit's hand retracted, they waited inside the room for a long time before they dared to go out, and when they came out, they found that the door leading to the outside had actually reopened. So they rechecked the 4th floor and still couldn't find any clues.
Now, Feng Yu, Ge Qi, and Zhao Long were all dead. There was only one last hour left in the Bloodletter Quest.
But what the path to life was, remained a mystery.
Dong Xie's mind consolidated all the clues he had obtained now. The old man holding the black cat within the photo, and the ghastly white evil spirit, the foul odor coming from that room on the 4th floor, as well as the cracks on the bookshelf, and the hand that had just stretched in and immediately retracted ……
This Building 3, but wherever they could go, they had already been there. The clues that could be found, all of them had also been found. But now, it was still unknown what was the way of life.
At that time, which of the things they had done in the room had triggered the life path?
Dong Xie remembered that he was about to say what he felt would most likely be his last words to Ah Ning. What did he …… want to say at that time? Could there be some kind of key life path in those words?
Dong Xie recalled the time when he first watched Midnight Murderer in high school. The life path of the cursed videotape of Sadako Yamamura was one of the things that the female protagonist did unintentionally, which was to rip the videotape. The heroine herself didn't even know about it, and thought that salvaging Sadako Yamamura's bones for transcendence was the way to life. In retrospect, that might have been the beginning of what got Dong Xie interested in writing horror novels. And the situation seemed to be very similar to the one he was in now.
Dong Xie thought that it was also likely that something he had done unintentionally constituted the path to life.
However, he could never feel at ease within himself. He wasn't sure what the element that constituted the path to life was, and whether or not this could be sustained until the end of the Bloodletter mission while allowing him to escape from this place by taking Ah Ning in a car? He didn't dare to be optimistic in the slightest when he wasn't sure of this. There were a thousand different life paths in the apartment Bloodletter, and there also tended to be two to three life paths at times. Therefore, Dong Xie hoped to find a way to find other life paths at the last minute.
"Brother."
"Hmm?"
"Do you know what my first thought was when I thought I was going to die?"
"It was …… what?"
Dong Qi also couldn't help but look at Ning, revealing a curious expression.
"I was thinking …… if I really spread my hands at this age, I regret it, when I was in the college entrance exams, I would rather enroll in an art school ……"
When Dong Xie heard this, he was silent for a moment.
The student age, remember that at that time A Ning elementary school fifth grade final exam essay, the topic is "what do you want to become in the future kind of people", only A Ning himself a person wrote hope to become a movie actor. A Ning reading elementary school, just when the mainland film began to rise, and when A Ning in the cinema to see Zhang Yimou director of the "Hero", "Ambush on all sides", when the immense admiration for Zhang Ziyi.
At that time, the network is not yet developed, "Hero" suffered bad reviews, people say Zhang Yimou an art film director actually changed to shoot a commercial film, after Zhang Ziyi's media evaluation is also very bad, especially after starring in the "Memoirs of a Geisha" is smeared as to play the Japanese Geisha to the national disgrace. But even so, Ah Ning still admired Zhang Ziyi, especially admired her acting skills, so at that time she always wanted to be an actress, can go to act in the movie.
"At that time …… because grandparents, aunt and brother you are all against it, in the end I gave up." Dong Ning said this, the tone of the side of the person a little bit bitter: "But in fact these years I really want to act. So I went to Douyu live broadcast, hoping that one day maybe I can sign up to become a well-known female anchor, and then I can enter the entertainment circle ……"
Dong Ning gave a bitter laugh before saying, "What am I talking about, we won't die, right? Brother?"
Dong Xie, on the other hand, recalled that back then, when he heard that Ah Ning wanted to enroll in an art school, his grandparents started to shake with rage. After knowing Ah Ning's true identity, if it wasn't for Dong Xie's repeated pleas and promises that after Dong Ning got into college, the siblings would work and study hard to earn their own tuition. Of course, he believed that Ah Ning would definitely be able to obtain a scholarship. Because of this, his grandparents and aunt reluctantly agreed to take care of Ning until she got into college. Of course, the most important thing was that they didn't want such a scandal to be publicized.
At that time, Grandpa said: "This bastard who doesn't even know who his real father is, if we are willing to raise her until now, we are already doing charity! She ate our food, drank our food, and now she's taking our money to study, and she wants to be a big star? Don't even think about it! If she becomes famous, all her ancestors will be dug out by the paparazzi, and then what if this family scandal is also known? Hmph, I think she's just as much of a foxy bitch as her own mom, and has to go to this showbiz industry where she shows her face everywhere!"
Although Dong Xie knew that Ning wanted to become an actress very much, he had never thought that she would be so passionate about it. A few years ago, she had even gone and signed up for a talent show, and although she was impeccable in terms of her face value, she had been brushed off in the first round because her singing was so badly out of tune. Dong Xie even made fun of her for this, saying, "When your brother's novel is adapted into a big IP movie or TV drama, you must recommend you to play the female lead. Thinking about it now, he felt very sorry.
Dong Ning looked at her brother and said what was in her heart, "I've decided! My wish. When I complete the Bloodletter Instruction ten times, I'm going to make a wish to make myself a first-tier movie star!"
"Movie star …… I thought you would wish for something like eternal youth?"
"Well …… this wish is not bad either, brother, how about you make this wish for me?"
Dong Xie was pleased in his heart, the Ah Ning who could always be bitter-sweet was back again.
He raised his head, firming his heart, and then he saw, a man covered in ghastly white suddenly appeared in front of him on top of the staircase steps roughly five or six steps below, staring at him in death!