C456 There be a Coffin in the House
C456 There be a Coffin in the House
Just like the corridor on the 16th floor, the long corridor was empty. There was not a single person in sight. Only the two windows on the left and right gave off a feeling of being very far away.
"Director Shen, wait for me!"
Glancing left and right, Xiao Soong felt an inexplicable chill as she hurriedly ran towards the stairs on the other side.
As if there was something behind her that couldn't be seen, Xiao Soong used her fastest speed to rush out of the corridor and onto the stairs.
Turning her head to look at the two swinging doors, Xiao Soong let out a long sigh of relief before grabbing the stairs and running up.
Perhaps it was the indescribable fear that made Xiao Soong flustered. She should have walked down Route 18, but instead climbed the stairs to the 19th floor. When she arrived at the two doors on the 19th floor and saw the words' 19th ', she froze on the spot.
On the two doors leading to the 19th floor, there was a chain lock and a small sign hanging from it. "For decoration purposes, please take a detour."
"The door is locked."
Xiao Soong laughed at herself and didn't mind. She turned around and walked down the stairs. Without stopping at the 18th floor, she rushed to the next floor.
Soon, Xiao Soong arrived at the staircase on the 17th floor.
The two sliding doors were also covered with white curtains.
Looking at the two doors, Xiao Soong hesitated for a moment before slowly walking over and opening one.
Behind the door, it was exactly as Xiao Soong had expected. It was still a black concrete wall with the word 'An' painted on it in red.
Xiao Soong didn't know why, but she didn't dare to look at the two red letters. She quickly closed the door and walked down the stairs.
"Sister Wang, last night I heard that Young Master Mo was slapped, but didn't react. Is that true?"
When Xiao Soong had just reached the corner that led to the sixteenth floor, she heard a girl's voice coming from below.
She looked down and saw two middle-aged women in blue overalls wiping the armrest with a rag and a bucket.
"I don't know the specifics either. I just heard from Xiaoli."
As soon as Sister Wang said that, she saw Xiao Soong. She immediately shut her mouth and smiled in a fawning manner, "Hello, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Oh, thank you."
Xiao Soong walked down the last flight of stairs. Looking at the two doors leading to the corridor, she casually asked, "Excuse me, did the lady who just came down go to the corridor or did she go down the stairs?"
"Miss who came down from above?"
Sister Wang looked at her companion and said doubtfully, "Miss, Little Yan and I have been cleaning here all this time. I didn't see any Miss coming down from above."
Xiao Soong, who had already walked to the entrance of the corridor, turned around abruptly upon hearing this. "What!?" You, you didn't see anyone come down? "
Seeing the sudden change in Xiao Soong's expression, Sister Wang became even more confused. She nodded vigorously. "That's right. We've been here for half an hour. Aside from you, no one else has come down."
"Impossible!"
Xiao Soong shook her head and asked loudly, "Is this the 16th floor?"
Before anyone could say anything, she asked again, "Upstairs, is it the seventeenth floor?"
Hearing Xiao Soong mention the 17th floor, Sister Wang and Xiao Yan's expressions changed, but they still nodded. "Yes, this is the 16th floor."
"You, you didn't see anyone come down, did you?"
Xiao Soong felt her voice trembling as she said those words.
It took her dozens of seconds to reach the 19th floor from Route 18. Even if Shen Yinbing didn't find the entrance to the 17th floor and went back to the 18th floor, she should still have heard footsteps on the first floor.
However, Xiao Soong did not hear any footsteps. Since the door to the 19th floor was locked, this could only mean that Shen Yinbing had followed the stairs to the 17th floor and arrived at the 16th floor.
But the two cleaners who had worked here for half an hour told her that they had never seen anyone come down from above!
Then, what about Shen Yinbing?
Where did she go!?
Xiao Soong's heart was beating fast. She turned around and ran up the stairs as fast as she could.
She was going to run back to the 18th floor. Maybe Director Shen took advantage of her going to the 19th floor and went back. It was just that she was too nervous to hear Director Shen's footsteps.
As Xiao Soong ran up to the corner of the 17th floor, she thought she heard Sister Wang whisper, "This girl is too daring. She dared to mention the 17th floor!"
"The 17th floor will not disappear just like this. I remember correctly!"
Shen Yinbing ran quickly out of the eighteenth floor. She stopped in front of the stairs and looked up. Then, she walked down the stairs.
When she arrived at the two doors on the seventeenth floor, she looked down and saw two cleaning women in blue uniforms cleaning the place, whispering to each other.
However, she did not mind. After taking a deep breath, she slowly walked towards the two doors with white curtains hanging on them. She reached out her hand and pulled them open. Then, she saw the corridor on the 17th floor.
"There is indeed a total of seventeen floors. That waiter is just trying to scare me."
Staring at the corridor, Shen Yinbing disdainfully sneered before quickly walking in.
The corridor on the 17th floor was exactly the same as the one on the 16th floor. However, the lighting seemed to have turned darker and quieter, and the sound of heels and shoes on the floor was especially loud.
Shen Yinbing turned her head and looked at the window not far away, which was filled with sunlight. She asked in a loud voice, "Is there anyone here?"
Is anyone there?" A man.
"No one? I'm sorry, I just came to take a look, I don't have any other intentions. "
After saying this, Shen Yinbing had already arrived at the two doors that she had come to last night.
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Last night, she clearly remembered that the man wearing a black suit had brought her to these two doors. At that time, there were two young and beautiful maids standing at the entrance.
Now there was no one, just two closed doors.
Shen Yinbing hesitated for a moment before she knocked on the door with her hand. "Excuse me, is there anyone inside?" she asked in a low voice.
No one answered her.
She waited for a moment and knocked again, but still did not reply. She then tried the door slowly.
The door on the left actually slowly opened, letting out a slight creaking sound.
In the absolute silence, the squeaking sound was especially ear-piercing, causing Shen Yinbing's nerves to constrict all of a sudden.
The door opened and Shen Yinbing walked into the room she had been in the night before.
The room was still the same room, with white walls and white curtains. Sunlight seeped in from outside the curtains.
However, the room was too big and there was no light in the room, so it was hard to see clearly.
When Shen Yinbing had been invited to dinner in the morning, there had been more than a dozen candles, but not now.
She hesitated at the door for a moment, then pulled out her cell phone.
They all had flashlights on their phones. Although that little bit of light wouldn't do much, it would always work.
Shen Yinbing turned on the flashlight on her cell phone, held it up and looked inside.
She did not see the long table that she had seen earlier this morning. Instead, she saw it where the long table should have been …
He saw a black, sturdy coffin!
The coffin was placed on a small platform about half a meter long. The head of the coffin was facing the door, and there seemed to be a small incense burner in front of it.
There also seemed to be a thin layer of dust on top of the coffin.
What kind of reaction would a girl who might cry from the sight of a snake crawling under her feet suddenly get when she saw a huge coffin from behind the door?
Look at Shen Yinbing now.
After seeing that it was a coffin, all of Shen Yinbing's thoughts froze. She actually forgot what it meant to be afraid as she looked towards the left side of the coffin with empty eyes.
On the left side of the coffin, there were four or five sports cars of different styles. Each car seemed to have a person at the driver's seat.
In reality, those paper men were the same size as a real person. They were all lifelike, and their black crystal eyes stared at Shen Yinbing with a sinister smile.
Legend has it that craftsmen who make wreaths among the folk never light up their eyes after tying paper men.
There was a rule in the industry that once a paper man was given a spot on the eye, the paper man would have a soul and start causing trouble. It could scare the dead, or it could backfire on the artistes, always trying to find a substitute to become a real person …
When Shen Yinbing was young and playing at her maternal grandma's house, she had often heard her grandma and the others say this. That was why she knew about the taboos of gardening.
But now, she saw with her own eyes that the people sitting on the real sports car had eyes of black crystal.
A kind of tingling terror finally rose from the soles of Shen Yinbing's feet and spread to her brain, causing her to look away in a flurry.
On the right side of the coffin were piles of bones that had been secured by wooden frames.
From the looks of it, it was a tall horse.
In a large room that wasn't very dark, but wasn't too bright, there was a black coffin. On the left side of the coffin was a sports car worth millions of dollars.
On the right, there were piles of horses that had long turned into bones.
There was nothing else.
The sound of water droplets hitting the floor broke the deathly silence and woke Shen Yinbing from her deep fear.
Then, with both hands placed before her chin, she opened her mouth and, with all her strength, uttered a miserable scream that only she herself could hear. "Ah!"
Shen Yinbing unexpectedly saw the paper men in the sports car start to move amidst the soundless screams. They seemed to be about to let out a sinister sneer and then pounce on her, turning her into a paper man to protect the house.
Shen Yinbing wanted to faint, but when she woke up, everything was gone.
After that, even if he beat her to death, he would no longer come to the Imperial Society nor search for the disappeared seventeenth floor!
Unfortunately, not only did the bone-piercing fear not make her faint, but it made her even more clear-headed. She abruptly turned around and was about to pounce outside the door.
However, when she turned around, she discovered that the door that she had pushed open had actually closed at an unknown time.
Shen Yinbing, however, acted as if she didn't see anything. She threw herself against the door, not feeling the pain from her forehead hitting the door at all. She grabbed the door handle and pulled fiercely back.
The door that should have been able to be opened with a gentle pull, yet was as motionless as if it had been cast from pig iron.
"Let me go!"
Shen Yinbing finally cried out. As she tried to pull at the door, she felt something pat her on the shoulder.