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"Hanlin Altar? What does this mean? It looks like it's used for offering sacrifices." I asked Li Yang.

Li Yang said: "You are right. The Cold Forest Altar is dedicated to worshiping lonely souls and wild ghosts."

I laughed dryly twice, laughing harder than crying: "Don't scare people."

"Is it interesting for me to scare you?" Li Yang said, "This building is really evil, get out of here quickly."

We both chose to walk through the side door, and as soon as we opened the door, we found that the scene was not right.

Outside the side door is a long corridor with windows on one side and residents' homes on the other.The hallway was a dilapidated scene, as if it had been burned by a fire. The doors of the residents’ rooms became black holes, and the floor was covered with black dirty ash. There were broken walls everywhere, and the walls were covered with black burning trace.

We looked at each other, feeling incredible.I have never heard of a fire in this building. Judging from the current scene, the fire is quite large. If such a large-scale fire really happened, the local news on the Internet would have been spread long ago.

At the corner at the other end of the corridor, there was a faint light shining through.The light is natural light, not like a light bulb.Flickering, it should be a burning candle.I touched Li Yang, and Li Yang said softly, "Go and have a look."

We walked through the corridor carefully, our shoes still creaked on the ground covered with sawdust and bricks.

The light at the corner casts a huge black shadow on the wall. Looking at the shape of the shadow, it looks like a static sculpture.

Turning the corner, we saw a strange pattern drawn with white chalk on the black ground.It is octagonal as a whole, and the outside of each sideline is lined with strange and weird earthworm characters.On the four corners of the design, east, west, north, south, four long red sticks of wax are burning, faintly flickering flames.There is a small wine cup on the sideline, which is full of incense ash, and three long incense sticks are inserted side by side, burning thin green smoke, rolling and drifting away.In the middle of the whole pattern is a statue of a fairy, holding a magic whip and wearing a red hat, which looks a bit like Zhao Gongming.

The huge black shadow we saw on the wall was cast by the fairy statue in the candle light.

The two of us leaned over to take a closer look, and in the middle of the pattern were written side by side with white chalk a few lines of very beautiful regular script characters: hell lights illuminate, Wuji Litian, dead souls go out, evil spirits everywhere.

Just as I was reading, a cold wind suddenly picked up behind me, and goose bumps all over my body.Li Yang and I couldn't help looking back together. There was no one in the long corridor. The windows in the corridor were tightly closed, but the black ashes after burning on the ground rose up without wind, and the air slowly swirled.

My hands and feet were cold and I dared not move.Li Yang said: "Let's leave quickly, this place is too evil."

The two of us walked to the elevator door, but the indicator panel of the elevator was still not lit, indicating that the elevator is currently unavailable.This is how to do?My teeth were chattering and I almost collapsed.The elevator won't go down, and the corridor ghost hits the wall. Are we going to be trapped here to death?

Li Yang patted his thigh: "Don't forget, there is a freight elevator in the emergency passage. See if it can be used."

The freight elevator is the only way to enter the secret space in the building.I followed him into the emergency passage and came to the freight elevator. When I saw the light was on, I almost cried with joy.This elevator works, we can go down and escape the building!

I was about to press the button when the floor indicator light suddenly came on and the elevator started to run.Seeing the floor numbers it displayed, I felt as if cold water had been thrown on my head for a while.

The number of floors on the elevator is actually "22".The elevator is coming down from the 22nd floor!You must know that the highest floor of this building is the 21st floor, and the 22nd floor is a huge space that hides the view in the building!

The elevator descended slowly from the 22nd floor, and Li Yang and I looked at each other.A huge chill enveloped me tightly, and it was difficult to breathe.My heart was beating wildly, and I couldn't imagine who was coming down from the 22nd floor?

Could it be Master Xie?

At this time, the elevator stopped at our floor, with a crisp "ding dong", and the metal door slowly opened.

I made countless assumptions, but I never expected that there would be such a scene in the elevator.

It was empty and there was nothing inside.

The lights in the elevator were dim, and Li Yang and I didn't dare to go in. We always felt that there was something clean hidden in this cramped space.

The metal door began to close, and Li Yang asked me in a trembling voice, "Will you go?"

I hesitated for a moment, and then I collapsed forward. At this moment, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew out from the elevator, scratching my skin sorely. The cotton-padded jacket on my body seemed to be nothing, and my hair stood on end, as if I had fallen into a hole in the ice.

Li Yang and I panicked and ran back, this elevator is really weird.We ran back to the corridor, and found that the four long waxes on the strange pattern were actually extinguished, and the wicks of the candles were still slowly drifting with the afterglow of the extinguished flames. Judging from the situation, it seemed that they were blown out by the wind.The strangest thing is that the three long sticks of incense in the wine cup were only a few tens of centimeters away, but now, in the blink of an eye, they burned into short sticks of incense.

How is this going?

The corridor was pitch black, and the only light was the pale moonlight that came in from the window.I touched Li Yang: "Did you hear any sound?"

"what?"

I swallowed: "The sound of chewing."

Yes, I heard the sound of someone eating again.Li Yang looked horrified, nodded and said, "Damn, I heard that too."

This time it was not chewing alone, but many people were eating at the same time, like a beggar participating in a gluttonous feast, eating with relish.

The sound seemed to be far away, but also seemed to be close by.I pointed my finger down the corridor, and the sound came from the stairwell in the side door.

Li Yang took out a small flashlight. He never left this kind of equipment all year round. When he pushed the button, it emitted a faint light.Although the light is not strong, it is better than nothing.

He walked in front, I followed, and we walked down the corridor together, trying to go and see what was going on.

The development of the matter to the present has exceeded my cognition and psychological endurance, and every second seems to be tortured.I really think all this is a nightmare. Someone slapped me on the mouth, which made me wake up from the dream and see the morning sun.

We came to the side door outside the stairwell. There was a small window in the door, and we could barely see what was going on inside.

Li Yang glanced inward, his body froze obviously, as if he had seen some incredible scene.I was scared and curious at the same time, hiding behind him, looking inside with my feet up.

In the corridor, under the dim light, there were more than [-] people squatting densely.These people were old and young, like disaster victims who came from the countryside in famine years, dressed in tattered clothes, unkempt, and dirty beyond description.With disheveled hair, they huddled together, squatting on the ground, holding food in their hands and desperately stuffing it into their mouths.

They devoured what they ate, without even chewing, they threw it into their mouths and swallowed it directly, and then stuffed it again.This is purely for nothing, if it wasn't for being so hungry, it would be impossible to eat like this.

What surprised me was that despite the large number of people, they were very particular about where they squatted. They guarded a small house with the sign "Hanlintan" alone, and the food was taken from the paint bucket with incense ash in front of the door. from.

My mind "hummed" for a while, I was a mother, and the Hanlin Altar is dedicated to lonely souls and wild ghosts. Could it be that these people are... evil ghosts?

The lights of hell are shining, the sky is boundless, the souls of the dead go out, and evil spirits are everywhere.

Don't play us like this.

Li Yang obviously thought about it too, he turned his neck stiffly and made a mouth shape to me.I didn't see it clearly, and was wondering what he was talking about, when a person who was eating inside stopped and raised his head suddenly.It was a lifeless old lady's face, pale without a trace of blood, staring at me blankly.

Only then did I realize that what Li Yang said to me was "Run!"

Where are you going?The only direction of escape I can count on right now is by freight elevator.Li Yang and I ran into the corridor and rushed towards the freight elevator of the emergency passage.

At this time, the door of the stairwell behind me seemed to be pushed open, and I heard a "squeak" very clearly. Could it be that those devotional ghosts ran out?I was so scared that my scalp was numb, and I didn't dare to look behind.

Running to the freight elevator, Li Yang frantically pressed the button, and we saw the elevator come down from the 22nd floor again!

When I was terrified, the elevator stopped on our floor with a crisp "Ding Dong" sound, and the elevator door opened. I saw the scene inside, and almost didn't put Xiangla's trousers in my pocket.

This time, the elevator was actually full of people, men and women, I don't know how many, crowded and crowded together.They were dressed in tattered clothes like beggars, their faces were as pale as paper, and they all looked together from the elevator.Li Yang and I were outside the elevator. They were standing in the elevator. Two metal doors formed a clear boundary between light and dark, like two worlds.

Don't look at so many people, but I don't feel safe at all. Instead, I feel that these people are ghostly and unpopular, and there is a strong chill radiating from the elevator.

The strong sense of fear made the two of us involuntarily back away slowly.The elevator door closed slowly, and at the moment of closing, an old hand as thin as a dead branch held the elevator door and forced it to open.The leader is a gloomy old man, whose face is bloodless reflected by the light in the elevator. The weirdest thing is that his two ears are extremely big and the earlobes are extremely long. In comparison, his face looks thin, small and wrinkled Baba, like a rabbit becoming a sperm.

The old man was the first to walk out of the elevator, and the weird men behind him followed silently, with a terrifying aura.

Cold sweat dripped from my forehead, I wiped it with my sleeve, turned to look at Li Yang, only to realize that this kid was gone, and when I looked up again, I saw him running away in the corridor.I'm stupid, what the hell, he dropped me and ran away by himself.

The crowd in the elevator walked slowly, with a gloomy wind, and began to approach me.I came out of the emergency passage and was about to walk through the corridor when I saw Li Yang running back with his long legs swinging.

"You..." I haven't said anything yet.

Li Yang panted and pointed behind him, his facial features twisted in fright.

I looked behind him and was also stunned.The people who were in the corridor just now came out and were squatting down to eat at the other end of the corridor, with their hands flying up and down, stuffing food into their mouths desperately, it seems that there is no such shop after passing this village, they are eating like death a meal.

Looking at the emergency passage again, the old man led those people in the elevator out.

It was getting colder and colder on the floor, and it was so cold that the padded jacket I was wearing couldn't suppress the air-conditioning at all, and I felt frozen all over.Although it is a tall building here, it is much colder than the open-air place in the wilderness. It was so cold that my nose came out.

We were now forced into the hallway by two groups of people.I looked at the window and smiled bitterly. Could it be that we should jump out of the window?

At this time, Li Yang touched me and pointed behind me.Behind is a house, the inside is dark and the depth cannot be seen clearly, the door has long been burned, leaving only a big hole.