Staring at Inside Abyss Chapter 3

After walking through the long road in the wind and snow, the four of them did not encounter any strange events along the way and returned to their residence smoothly.

But as soon as they returned, they felt that something was not right about the atmosphere in the room. Several people sat motionless in the living room with pale faces, and there was a dead silence in the air. The atmosphere was simply worse than when everyone first arrived here.

Tristan Lin's eyes moved to a few people, and he quickly counted the number of people. After confirming that there were no fewer people, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"What happened?" Knox Xiong asked.

A man sitting inside trembled and said: "Upstairs, the body upstairs is gone."

"It's just that the body is missing?" Knox Xiong said, "Are you new? There is nothing to be afraid of when the body is missing."

"Being eaten." The girl next to me whimpered, tears streaming down her face, "There was blood everywhere..."

Knox Xiong and Marley Xiao looked at each other and knew that they would not be able to get any useful information from these people, so the four of them decided to go to the third floor to see the situation.

They climbed up the stairs, and when they reached the second floor, Tristan Lin noticed something wrong - there were blood stains on the walls of the second floor.

Because it was a house with a wooden structure, the walls were also brown in color. Tristan Lin saw some black spots attached to the walls, as if something had spattered on them.

"Be careful, there might be something up there." Knox Xiong walked at the front.

Finally reaching the third floor, Tristan Lin finally understood what they meant by being eaten.

The place where the corpse was originally placed was empty, and that would be fine if it was just that, but the corpse was gone, but there was something else. I saw pieces of meat and bones scattered all over the ground, as if the body had been brutally torn apart by something and chewed to pieces, leaving only broken fragments.

Tristan Lin couldn't help but turn pale when he saw this situation, and felt his stomach churning with discomfort.

"It's quite clean to eat." Marley Xiao was used to it, "I don't know what it is."

"Oh." Knox Xiong sighed, "Let's go, lock the third floor. We will stay on the second floor today."

"Yeah." Marley Xiao, "I'll ask them about their specific situation."

They returned to the first floor and asked in detail what happened.

The people downstairs then told them what happened in the house.

It turned out that after Knox Xiong and the others left, a group of people searched the building. When they reached the second floor, they heard a very strange sound coming from the third floor. It was like someone was chewing something, with a voracious swallowing sound.

Then everyone counted the number of people and after confirming that there was no one of them on the third floor, they started to break out in a cold sweat.

No one dared to go up to take a look. They stayed on the second floor to observe the situation. When the sound of chewing disappeared, they had the courage to go to the third floor to take a look at the situation - but they only saw pieces of meat and bones on the ground.

"It's so scary." Another older girl in the team looked a little sluggish. She said, "This is the third time I've entered the door. How could we encounter such a world? Can we get out alive? What the hell is that thing like? What is..."

No one could answer her question and the room was silent.

Knox Xiong sighed slightly, said that he was hungry and wanted to find something to eat, and asked if anyone would go to the kitchen with him.

Tristan Lin said: "I will go with you."

Elara Ruan sat next to Tristan Lin and said softly: "Qiu Shi, I'm hungry too. I want to eat noodles."

Tristan Lin: "I'll go see if there's any. If there is, I'll cook you a bowl."

"Okay." Elara Ruan bent her eyes and looked at Tristan Lin tenderly, "Be careful."

Tristan Lin nodded.

The kitchen is on the left side of the living room. There is no natural gas here, only the most primitive firewood.

Knox Xiong and Tristan Lin didn't speak much during the whole journey. It wasn't until they got to the kitchen that Knox Xiong lowered his head and lit a fire and then said, "I don't plan to tell them everything."

"What do you mean?" Tristan Lin was stunned for a moment.

Knox Xiong looked at the door silently, and after making sure there was no one outside, he whispered: "I'm not sure there are people in our team."

Goosebumps appeared on Tristan Lin's back because of these words.

"Such things have happened before." Knox Xiong said, "The teammates we thought were actually not teammates, but those things."

Tristan Lin said: "Then why do you believe me? What if I am also those things?"

Knox Xiong glanced at him: "You don't look like that."

Tristan Lin: ...

Knox Xiong continued: "And they don't look like people who have experienced this kind of thing several times. They are all too panicked, even more panicked than you."

Tristan Lin was a little embarrassed to be praised like this: "Actually, I'm quite scared too."

Knox Xiong laughed to himself when he heard this: "What are you afraid of? I peed my pants three times the night I first entered the door."

Tristan Lin thought of the terrifying woman last night, and silently glanced at his crotch, thinking that he was still able to control it...

Knox Xiong: "I suggest you keep some clues and don't tell them all."

Tristan Lin nodded: "I understand. Thank you for reminding me. Can I ask you how many times you have come in?"

Knox Xiong: "Six times."

"Oh..." Tristan Lin tried his best to digest the information Knox Xiong gave him, about the door, the team, and some hidden clues.

"It's useless for you to think so much, just try to get out alive." Knox Xiong smiled to himself, "Although I think the world is in danger."

The fire in the stove was lit, making the water in the iron pot boiling hot.

Tristan Lin found a basket with ingredients nearby. There were noodles, eggs, and even some green vegetables in it. He put down the noodles and fried an egg. The aroma of the food filled the kitchen, getting rid of the coolness. of fear. Upon seeing this, Knox Xiong praised: "The craftsmanship is good."

"It's okay." Tristan Lin smiled.

Four bowls of noodles were cooked for Knox Xiong Marley Xiao, Tristan Lin and Elara Ruan. Tristan Lin couldn't care less about the others.

Elara Ruan was also hungry, so she started eating noodles with a bowl in her hands. Normally people would make a little noise when eating noodles, but she quietly ate the entire bowl of noodles without even a mouthful of soup left. After eating, he remained silent and turned to look at Tristan Lin eagerly.

Tristan Lin was stunned by her fiery gaze and said helplessly: "Aren't you full?"

Elara Ruan: "I'm full." As soon as she finished speaking, her stomach made a sound.

Tristan Lin: "...You eat it, I'll get something else."

Elara Ruan: "No, no."

Lin Qiu Shi: "Really?" He pretended to continue eating, but he saw Elara Ruan's eyes almost popping out. This look was so cute that Lin Qiu Shi couldn't help but laugh, "Okay, you can eat, I'm almost done" "

"Okay, okay." Elara Ruan was not polite this time.

After two bowls of noodles, the cold feeling from a trip out was finally gone. While eating, Knox Xiong told everyone the information they got from the old carpenter. Of course, he didn't tell everything and kept the last one. Well clues.

"Is it possible that the key is in the coffin?" There are still relatively calm people in the team. One of the men named Zhang Zishuang said, "Since the key clue is the coffin, then I think it is highly likely... "

"Oh, I hope so." Knox Xiong said, "I plan to go to the mountain to cut trees together tomorrow morning. All men will go, and women can also follow. If you are really afraid of the cold, just hide in the house, but in the house If something goes wrong, we can't help."

After discussion, everyone agreed to Knox Xiong's proposal. Although some people felt that it was too dangerous to go up the mountain in such windy and snowy weather, the most dangerous thing in this world was actually not the weather, but the elusive dirty things. It would obviously be the best idea to build the coffin earlier and leave here.

After such a delay, the sky became dark again.

After nightfall, everyone simply washed up and went back to the room early without any intention of doing anything else. Tristan Lin asked why everyone couldn't get together. Knox Xiong said: "Because if we get together, everyone will fall asleep at a fixed time."

"What do you mean?" Tristan Lin was a little confused, "Does it mean that when the time comes, everyone will fall asleep?"

"Hmm." Knox Xiong said, "Maybe it's the mechanism of this world. As long as the number of people in the same room exceeds a certain value, everyone will fall asleep at a fixed time. No matter what happens, there is nothing you can do."

"Then we can only surrender without mercy?" Tristan Lin frowned.

"Actually, those things can't kill people casually." Knox Xiong said, "They need some specific conditions to kill people. The higher the difficulty of the world in the door, the broader the conditions, and some conditions are very... difficult to understand. "

Tristan Lin: "For example?"

Knox Xiong said: "For example, you can kill people with shoes on their feet."

Tristan Lin: ... He silently glanced at the shoes on his feet.

Seeing his appearance, Knox Xiong laughed: "I'm just giving you an example. What if the conditions in this world are such that you can kill people without shoes on their feet? If you take off your shoes, you will die. Besides, these conditions are not Single, some require many conditions to be superimposed, so after summarizing the rules, it is safer to sleep at night until dawn." He paused at this point, "Of course, the premise is that you can fall asleep. "

Tristan Lin remembered what happened last night because of Knox Xiong's words. He glanced at Elara Ruan, who was holding a handful of melon seeds and knocking them carelessly. He always felt that he had just passed death last night.

It seemed that if he was not careful, he would become one of the two cold corpses on the third floor.

"Go to sleep." Knox Xiong said, "Good night."

Tristan Lin nodded: "Good night." He called Elara Ruan again and asked her to go to bed together.

Elara Ruan yawned and put the remaining melon seeds on the table. She rubbed her eyes and muttered: "I'm so sleepy. Let's go to bed early today."

Tristan Lin said: "Okay, go to bed early."

The third floor was completely unusable because of what happened last night, so everyone moved to the second floor.

Tristan Lin still slept in the same bed as Elara Ruan. This time he was prepared and decided to lock the window first and planned to close the curtains, but it seemed that the curtains had not been used for a long time and could not be drawn no matter what.

Elara Ruan was lying on the bed in her pajamas and moaned: "Qiu Shi, it's so cold."

Tristan Lin was still studying the curtains and didn't look back when he heard the words: "If it's cold, wear more clothes."

Elara Ruan: "...You don't have a girlfriend, right?"

Tristan Lin was confused: "Girlfriend, why do you need a girlfriend?"

Elara Ruan fell into silence. When Tristan Lin closed the curtains and turned back, she was already lying on the bed as hard as a dead fish.

Tristan Lin still didn't understand: "What's wrong with you?"

Elara Ruan's voice was soft, and she said, "You...don't you have anything to say to me?"

Tristan Lin fell into deep thought. He looked at Elara Ruan's beautiful face and finally had an idea. He said, "Yes."

Elara Ruan showed a satisfied smile: "What do you want to say?"

Tristan Lin: "That, that's it...if we encounter a ghost today, can you run slower?"

Elara Ruan said with a cold face: "No."

Tristan Lin was angry: "Then you ask me what the hell I want to say, sleep!"

So everyone went back to their respective homes, found their own quilts, and started getting ready for bed back to back.

Originally, according to Knox Xiong, being able to sleep peacefully was the best way to spend the night, but Tristan Lin's mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts, and he couldn't fall asleep at all for a while. Elara Ruan behind him acted like a pig. He fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes, making Lin Qiu's teeth itch with anger.

As the night goes on, the temperature gets cooler and cooler. Fortunately, the quilt was quite thick and there was a warm, living person sleeping next to me, so it wasn't too uncomfortable.

Tristan Lin closed his eyes and sorted out the clues during the day. His consciousness gradually began to blur, and he was about to fall into a deep sleep. However, just when he was about to fall asleep, he vaguely heard a strange sound. Different from the knocking sound yesterday, this sound came from the ceiling above them. It was the sound of a sticky and heavy thing slowly dragging across the roof of the third floor. Tristan Lin's hearing was sharp, and his original sleepiness was instantly eliminated. His breathing paused, but he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling above them.

There was nothing there, just old wood.

However, Tristan Lin's body began to feel cold, because he clearly heard that the voice stopped when it moved to the top of his head.

"Bah, bah." The sticky knocking sound stimulated his eardrums. The knocking sound became louder and louder, making goosebumps all over Tristan Lin's body. He gritted his teeth and was about to sit up from the bed. , but a hand stretched out from beside him and hugged his waist.

"What are you doing?" It was Elara Ruan's confused voice.

"Have you heard any strange noises?" Tristan Lin lowered his voice, "On the roof."

"Sound? What sound." Elara Ruan said, "I didn't hear anything. Stop moving. I'm cold." Her breath gently hit Tristan Lin's ears, carrying the smell of ice and snow.

"You..." Tristan Lin wanted to say something else, but felt Elara Ruan's arms tighten around him.

"Go to sleep." Elara Ruan said.

Tristan Lin had no choice but to close his eyes.

Elara Ruan slowly hooked Tristan Lin's waist with her fingers. This movement, which should have been ambiguous, was full of comfort at this time.

The banging on the roof continued, but Tristan Lin didn't seem as scared as before. Sleepiness began to reappear in his mind, and he finally fell asleep.

The next morning.

Tristan Lin woke up in Elara Ruan's arms.

Elara Ruan stretched out her arms, hugged him whole body, and rested her chin on the top of his head. After being woken up by him, she still said in a daze: "Don't make trouble, sleep a little longer."

Tristan Lin: ... Damn it.

He lay down for a while and saw that Elara Ruan still had no intention of getting up, so he had to say: "I want to get up."

Elara Ruan: "Well..."

Tristan Lin: "Elara Ruan?"

Elara Ruan: "Last night I called her Xiao Tiantian, today I'll call her Elara Ruan."

Tristan Lin: ...

But despite saying this, Elara Ruan still let go, and then leaned on the bedside to watch Tristan Lin getting dressed. After walking for a while, Tristan Lin felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange. After thinking for a while, he turned to look at Elara Ruan: "Can you stop looking like that?"

Elara Ruan: "What's that look? The money is on the table. You can take it and go. Pass me the cigarette. I want one."

Tristan Lin: ... Is this smoke afterwards or something?

Elara Ruan: "Why, you still don't want to leave. We agreed on five hundred yesterday. You don't want even one more cent."

Tristan Lin had nothing to say. After putting on his clothes, he went downstairs.

Others were already sitting in the living room, eating the breakfast brought by the villagers. Tristan Lin counted the number of people as usual and found that there were three missing people in the room except Elara Ruan.

Knox Xiong saw him and motioned for him to sit over.

"Nothing happened yesterday, right?" Tristan Lin asked.

"No." Knox Xiong said, "No one died."

As long as no one died, Tristan Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, it was so peaceful last night that no one even heard any unnecessary noise. Tristan Lin tentatively asked them if they heard any noise upstairs, but everyone said the same thing - it was a very quiet night, with no other sounds except the wind outside.

"After dinner, we will cut down the trees and deliver the wood to the carpenter. We have to hurry up." Knox Xiong said, "It seems that the weather will only get colder, and there was nothing wrong with it last night..." There seemed to be some confusion behind his words.

"Well, yes." Tristan Lin responded casually.

The remaining three people also went downstairs one after another. Elara Ruan was the last one to go downstairs. She was still wearing the beautiful long skirt, but she added two relatively thick coats and a pair of large cotton pants. . Because the skirt is very long, she walks very slowly and her posture is very elegant.

When Tristan Lin saw her coming, he looked away a little uncomfortably.

"Qiu Shi." Elara Ruan called his name.

Tristan Lin hummed helplessly.

"Why are you ignoring me?" Elara Ruan, "I want to eat the noodles you cooked."

Tristan Lin: "I'll make it for you at noon. It's too late now."

Elara Ruan: "That's not what you said when you were in bed last night."

Marley Xiao was drinking porridge and almost choked to death when he heard this sentence. Knox Xiong's expression also became subtle, and his eyes wandered between Tristan Lin and Elara Ruan intentionally or unintentionally.

Tristan Lin couldn't laugh or cry: "Okay, stop making trouble. I really thanked you last night. I made noodles for you at noon and fried you two more eggs."

"Okay." Elara Ruan compromised, "Oh, it would be nice to have green onions."

On such a cold day, you are lucky to have green vegetables to eat. As for chopped green onions, don’t make any assumptions.

After everyone had a rough breakfast and put on warm clothes, the group of people picked up their axes and prepared to go out.

The place where the trees were cut was in the forest near the village, and there was only one path leading there. Because of the snow, the path became narrower, allowing only one person to walk.

It's okay to go up the mountain, but dragging the wood down the mountain will probably be even more troublesome, Tristan Lin thought to himself as he walked on the path.

Fortunately, among the eleven of them, someone is good at carpentry. That man is a middle-aged man in his thirties. He claims to be a carpenter. He can chop down trees and make simple furniture, but things like coffins are... I don’t quite understand. He walked in the front, selected a few trees and began to teach everyone how to chop them down.

Most of the people here have never done this before. Although they have been taught, they are quite unfamiliar when they first start.

Tristan Lin made two gestures with the axe. After the first cut, only a faint mark was left on the trunk.

"Your technique is still wrong." Elara Ruan stood beside him, putting his hands in his pockets, sighing, "You have to use your strength downwards, otherwise you can't lift the axe, which is so heavy."

Tristan Lin: "Have you ever cut down a tree?"

Elara Ruan: "I've seen other people cut down trees."

Tristan Lin said oh.

Elara Ruan said: "Be careful, don't hurt yourself."

Tristan Lin nodded and continued to swing the axe. This matter was more troublesome than they thought. In the whole morning, several grown men took turns to chop down a tree.

"What should we do, Brother Xiong?" someone said, "What should we do?"

Knox Xiong looked at the weather and gritted his teeth: "Let's go, carry this tree back and continue tomorrow."

Although it was only around three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky had already darkened, and large flakes of snow began to float in the sky. It looked like there might be a heavy snowfall in the evening.

Tristan Lin asked: "How many pieces of wood are needed for a coffin?"

"The village chief said it's three." Knox Xiong said, "After two days of hard work, it's almost done. Come on, someone can help me."

Lin Qiu Shi was about to step forward to carry the tree when he heard Elara Ruan say: "Oh, I seem to have twisted my foot. Qiu Shi, please carry me down the mountain."

Tristan Lin: "Huh?"

Elara Ruan: "Ah, what, hurry up, there are so many people here, why are you joining in the fun?"

Just as Tristan Lin was about to speak, Knox Xiong patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go ahead."

Tristan Lin: ... He took a look at Elara Ruan's expression and didn't see any other meaning from her pitiful appearance, but he was sensitive enough to smell a clue, like Elara Ruan's sudden request. It's not as simple as imagined.

Elara Ruan activates the skill: Strike into the sky.

Tristan Lin was hit by the yin, fell to the ground and was dragged home by Elara Ruan and eaten.