captive joint

Chapter 20 The Third Person 3

Shao Jun sat on the spot, staring at the monster lying in the middle of the room.

The room was silent, and the brightness brought by a small piece of candle on the long table was just a drop in the bucket for this rather large room. Not only did it not bring much comfort, but it reflected heavy shadows, adding unnecessary horror.

But at this moment Shao Jun, even though he knew that Yao Yingyi could not show up immediately to open the door, he didn't feel much fear, and his despair seemed to be thrown away, leaving only numbness and emptiness pushing reason to rule his body.

He stared at the monster, quietly thinking about the word "three" left by the monster.

But an overly simple reminder also means infinite possibilities.For a moment, Shao Jun couldn't guess the hidden meaning behind it.

"What do you want to tell me?" Shao Jun endured the pain in his throat and asked.

The monster lying on the ground was motionless, without any reaction.

Is it dead?

Even though he thought so, Shao Jun didn't have the slightest plan to get close to it to confirm.He just leaned against the door to recover his strength, waiting for Yao Yingyi to come back and open the door behind him.

He sat for a long time.His eyes became sore and swollen because he kept staring at one place, and the pain from the previous fall also showed a sense of presence. The thirst in his throat was even more burning, and only his physical strength recovered slightly.

Yao Yingyi never showed up.

Shao Jun felt that although Yao Yingyi had concealed a lot from him, he did not seem like a person who broke his promise.Maybe he has encountered some danger now, I just hope that he is safe and sound, otherwise he may be trapped to death in this room.

He rubbed his sore and swollen eyes, and moved his gaze slightly from the monster's body to the only light source in the room.

The flame of the candle on the wooden table was burning quietly as always, but the length of the candle was visibly shortened compared to before.The current length may be completely burned in less than an hour, leaving the room in darkness.

Shao Jun turned his gaze back to the monster again, carefully measured the distance between the monster and the wooden table, it was about two or three meters away.According to the speed of the monster on the bed just now, if it wakes up, it should be able to escape.

Then he recalled the drawer where he saw Yao Yingyi take out the candle, and after confirming that it was the innermost drawer from a distance, he touched the wall while staring at the monster, and walked as far away from the monster as possible along the wall. Approach the long table.

Until Shao Jun walked to the long table, the monster did not respond, as if it had died.

But Shao Jun did not dare to relax at all. He was especially afraid that the monster would attack him suddenly when he turned around.He turned sideways, stopped to look at the monster again, and finally turned his head and opened the drawer with a bang.

There was a whole drawer of big red candles in there, even if they were lit day and night, it would still be enough for Shao Jun to consume for seven or eight days.He casually grabbed one to light and put it next to the original candle, and took another one and held it in his hand.

Although lighting one more candle still couldn't illuminate the whole room, the brightness and gentleness brought by the flame in his hand made Shao Jun feel a little comforted, and he sighed a long way.

However, the moment Shao Jun's eyes returned to the monster again, this comfort disappeared without a trace.

Beside Shao Jun, the monster still kept its original movements and remained motionless.But on the originally clean bluestone ground, between Shao Jun and the monster, there were messy footprints and handprints, the closer to him, the denser the marks.

Shao Jun froze, not daring to move.

He lowered his head to observe the traces on the ground carefully, but felt something was wrong.Originally, he thought it was the monster that approached him silently while he was lighting the candle, which caused the crawling marks on the ground, but at this moment, he looked closely and found something wrong.

Those handprints and footprints are really too small, it is too exaggerated to say that the size of the baby's hands and feet, let alone a monster that is almost the same size as Shao Jun.

But Shao Jun didn't feel any luck. If these things on the ground were not made by this monster, then what else is there in this room?

But at this moment, he really had no idea about this problem, so he could only plan to go back to the door first, and then make other plans.

He cautiously walked along the long table and took two tentative steps.

The monster still didn't respond at all.

He lightly supported the wall and held the candle and moved quickly. The candlelight reflected the mark on the wall that he hadn't noticed before because of the darkness.

The wall is also covered with handprints and footprints, they are densely crowded together, only the height where Shao Jun's arm has just passed is still blank.

Shao Jun felt scared for a while.He didn't dare to imagine what exactly he walked on the same road when he touched the wall just now.

Suddenly a thought flashed through his mind, and he raised the candle to shine on the door he had been leaning on.I saw that the room door was surrounded by those traces, densely packed with handprints and footprints, overlapping and covering each other, just looking at it made Shao Jun extremely nauseous, and he couldn't help taking a few steps back into the room.

At this moment, the mutation occurred again.

When Shao Jun glanced at the monster in the center of the room, it disappeared.

Even Shao Jun, who was so frightened to the point of numbness, felt his heart agitated, his hairs stood on end, and his palms were full of sweat.

Where can it hide?

Under the quilt?under the bed?in the closet? ...

Shao Jun stood there dumbfounded, his mind constantly guessing the possibility.

pat-

Suddenly, something rubbed the tip of Shao Jun's nose, fell from the sky and hit the ground.The thing fell to pieces in an instant, but from its wreckage, Shao Jun could still tell that it was a small stone puppet with the length of an index finger.

The size of his palms and soles of his feet coincided with the traces on the ground and walls.

But to have so many traces, it is absolutely impossible for one or two puppets to do it. To leave such traces, a huge number of puppets are needed.But where can so many puppets hide in this room?

under the bed?in the closet? ……still……

Shao Jun held the candle tightly and lifted it up, looking up at the ceiling.

Dense dolls hang upside down from the ceiling, wriggling like bees in a hive.And that monster was submerged in it, its body could no longer be seen clearly, at the head made of bandages, there were puppets coming in and out between the bandages, the head that looked extraordinarily heavy gradually shrunk visibly to the naked eye.

The scene in front of him instantly turned pale with shock, and because of his momentary loss of consciousness, the candle fell out of his hand and extinguished on the bluestone ground.

Shao Jun no longer cared about picking up candles, nor did he dare to think about what these puppets were doing.He only knew that if he could not escape from this room, he would definitely die here.

As soon as this thought came up, Shao Jun hadn't thought of any countermeasures yet.The puppets on the ceiling were already pouring down like torrential rain, and Shao Jun only had time to squat down and raise his hands to protect his head.When he felt severe pain in his legs, he realized that his legs had become like that monster, no longer a body of flesh and blood, but ceramic limbs of a doll.The puppet crawled in and out of the hollow ceramic body, nibbling bit by bit.

Shao Jun was disgusted and desperate, and his rationality was exhausted in an instant.Relying only on instinct, he anxiously stretched out his hands to pull out those dolls, but he found that at some point, his palms had disappeared, his arms slowly melted like candles, and the little dolls had already crawled up to him His upper body submerged him little by little.

The severe pain from all over his body took away Shao Jun's consciousness, his mind went blank, he lost his judgment of life and death, and finally gradually lost consciousness.

When he woke up again, he found that he was still alive, and was paralyzed on the bed with his whole body exhausted and wet and sticky. His limbs and arms were not damaged at all, and they grew on his body well.Looking into the room, the short candle on the long table is still burning quietly. There are no monsters in the empty room, let alone densely packed puppets.

Everything in front of him reminded Shao Jun that the horror he experienced just now was his own nightmare, not real.However, in the dream, my body turned into the limbs of the puppet, and even the limbs were melted, and the scene of those horrible and disgusting puppet crawling out of it was so real that even when I woke up from the dream, I still had lingering fears.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Shao Jun got out of bed and crawled to the center of the room, the floor tile where the character "three" was written by the monster in the dream.

Tap the floor tile lightly, and there is a crisp echo behind the floor tile.

Below is empty.

Shao Jun glanced at the closed door, worried that Yao Yingyi would suddenly appear and hesitated for a moment.But in the end, he fiddled with the floor tile a few times, and when he tried to press the floor tile hard, and then turned it clockwise, the bluestone floor tile was really opened, revealing a square pit underneath.

Shao Jun only took one look at the things hidden in the pit, and couldn't help but gasped, his body leaned back involuntarily, instinctively avoiding the sight in front of him.

The thing hidden there is nothing but the puppet in Shao Jun's nightmare.