For the rooms in the Ziggurat, the more '4s' there were on the door, the more 'ghosts' there would be in the room.
The 3 guards stared at the face at the end of the corridor, none of them moved.
The atmosphere in the corridor was eerily oppressive. Before this, it was all about visual and auditory horror. The appearance of this severed finger seemed to indicate that something worse was about to happen.
With a dry cough, Brother Hua shone the flashlight down the 14th floor corridor.
The face at Door 1144 had no eyebrows or hair. It was completely bald and pale. Only the eyeballs were black.
'It's that madman again.'
This was not the first time Brother Hua had interacted with the man. Suppressing his fear, he gripped the flashlight tightly as he entered the 14th floor. 'You're the one who destroyed the surveillance cameras and the door, right?'
The face at the door of Room 1144 did not speak, it just stared at Brother Hua and Xiao Fang. Brother Hua and Xiao Fang's shadows were reflected in the dark pupils. His body was shivering and his face was twisted with fear. But then he saw Han Fei who was closing in.
There were 3 people standing before him but there were only 2 people in his eyes. He could see Han Fei but he could not 'see' Han Fei.
There was a hint of surprise in his frightened eyes. His lips trembled, and it took a long time for him to say a complete sentence.
"You're human?"
Brother Hua and Xiao Fang treated him as a madman but Han Fei picked up on the other meaning behind his words.
The man was obviously talking to him. This madman in Room 1144 had noticed the difference between Han Fei and other ghosts.
There were very few 'people' who could maintain their sanity and memory without being tampered with. This madman was rather unique.
Before Han Fei who stood at the back of the group could speak, Brother Hua sighed, "Of course we're human. Calm down, did you leave the trash at the stairwell? Why don't you show me your hand? "
"No, you're not human, you're ghosts." Seeing Brother Hua approach, the madman immediately hid behind the door. "I've been able to see ghosts since I was young, you can't fool me!"
"Fine, you can say whatever you want. But first, show me your hand, let me see if you're injured." Brother Hua was worried that the madman might chop off his finger so he suppressed his fear and kept asking questions. From this detail, he was indeed a nice person.
"You two go away! Step back! Let him come here. I only want to talk to him! "The madman pointed at Han Fei.
"Me?" Han Fei pretended to be surprised. He pretended to be unwilling but in reality, he was already moving forward.
After a moment's hesitation, Brother Hua patted Han Fei's shoulder sheepishly. "A newbie will have to stand on his own one day. Why don't you go check if he's injured and ask him if he's forgotten to take his medicine again?"
Xiao Fang and Brother Hua took a few steps back. Han Fei walked to the door alone. "Brother, was it you who destroyed the surveillance in the corridor?"
The madman shook his head. He told Han Fei seriously, "I've been able to see ghosts since I was young, but I know you are a human."
His dark pupils slowly changed. The madman had two pupils in his eyes and one of them did not reflect Han Fei's figure.
"You are a human, the first person I've seen in this building! I'm a human just like you. Help me! Helping me is helping yourself! "The madman's expression was very scary, but he didn't realize it at all.
"I'm one of the building's security guards, it's only natural for me to help you. Do you have any problems?" Room 1144 was definitely not as simple as it seemed. Han Fei would not expose his secret just because of a few words from the madman.
"I don't know how I ended up in this building. All the ghosts say this is my home! But I know this is definitely not my home! I've tried to escape many times but I can't leave this building. There were a few times when I was close to escaping but I always fainted. When I woke up, I found myself in this room again. " The madman's expression twisted. He grabbed Han Fei's shirt. "Run! Only by leaving this building can we survive!"
"Calm down." Han Fei was about to calm the madman down when the madman suddenly yanked Han Fei into Room 1144!
"Bang!"
The door slammed shut. Han Fei felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar. The heater was turned on but it was useless. The chill seeped into his heart.
He reached for the doorknob but the madman held his arm down.
"I'm trying to save you! They're all ghosts! They're all ghosts! "The madman screamed at Han Fei. His nails tore through Han Fei's skin.
"Let's talk this out." Han Fei looked at the wound on his arm. The madman's fingers were still intact, the missing fingers were not his.
Perhaps Han Fei's calmness infected the man because the madman's tone softened. "I'm really not mad. I'm telling the truth. This building is like a nightmare that we can't wake up from. We're all trapped inside it."
The person who was regarded as a madman by the whole building was actually the only one who was sane. Everything he said was the truth, but the bystanders only thought that he was crazy and sick.
Han Fei understood what the madman was trying to say but he did not dare to show it.
With his masterful acting, Han Fei put on an expression of disbelief but his heart was actually wavering.
The madman saw the emotion that Han Fei was trying to show. He gripped Han Fei's arm tightly. "You might not be able to accept it so soon. You might have forgotten many things. Perhaps my experience might help you remember some things."
Outside Room 1144, Brother Hua and Xiao Fang kept banging on the door. They were worried that something might happen to Han Fei.
Inside the room, the madman leaned close to Han Fei. He waved his arms and legs as he recounted his past. "Have you ever encountered something like this? When you're at a place for the first time, it feels very familiar like you've been here before, like you've dreamt of it before. "
"Yes."
"This building is that kind of place for me." The madman pulled Han Fei into the bathroom. He closed the door and turned on all the faucets. "When I was young, my eyes could see strange things. They were blurry and blurry. I always thought there was something wrong with my eyes until one day, I saw an extra person in my house.
"He came closer and closer to me. Whenever I woke up in the middle of the night, I would see him standing beside my bed. He kept staring at me, staring at me!
"I didn't dare tell my family about this. I suspected that there was something wrong with my eyes. Perhaps there was something wrong with my mind."
"Later, I used a business trip as an excuse to visit a doctor. During my treatment, my wife and daughter both got into accidents.
"All the good things that I had were shattered. Just as I was sinking into despair, he disappeared from my sight."
"I thought I had escaped from him but who knew from that day onwards, I would have the same dream every night.
"I dreamt that I woke up in bed inside Room 1144. In my blurry vision, I saw someone inside the room holding a knife and carving something on my skin.
"I felt pain but I could not make a sound.
"Blood flowed endlessly, soaking the bed sheet.
"This dream lasted for a whole month. When my body was covered in wounds, the person finally stopped. He placed something inside my heart.
"The whole process was unimaginably painful. I lost consciousness.
"When I woke up again, the first thing I saw was this room. It was like I had entered the room that I had dreamt of so many times in my nightmares!"
After saying that, Madman tore off his shirt.
His deathly pale skin was like a perfect drawing paper, and on it was the tattoo of a multicolored butterfly!
"I tried many ways to die inside the building but I always fainted at the crucial moment. When I woke up, I was lying back in bed inside Room 1144. Everything was restored, the wounds on my body would disappear but the color of the butterfly tattoo would deepen. It was as if it was hoping that I would continue to actively seek death, as if it could gain something from my death. " The madman's words reminded Han Fei of the manager mission. When he was in the manager mission, every time he died, he would return to the starting point.
"This is the butterfly that the person in your dream carved on your flesh?" Han Fei had seen a lot of outsiders, but the butterfly patterns on those who had been planted with human cocoons were mostly incomplete, and many of them were even deformed.
Han Fei had never seen such a perfect butterfly tattoo before. He suspected the madman was the closest to the Butterfly's success.
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