Chapter 237 Messenger
The evolvers reacted quickly. After hearing this key information, they immediately went to look for other empty rooms. In just a few seconds, they had confirmed the situation of the rooms here.
Among the seven rooms, four were occupied and three were empty.
"Four people, three rooms? This seems a little insufficient." Qin Bing said immediately.
"So, one of us won't be able to get a room? Maybe we have to share a room?" Tao Yuan looked at the others, then at Zhang Jing and said, "Zhang Jing and I will share a room, Qin Bing, you and Li Yi will each have a room."
"Why bother? The man just said that only one person is allowed to stay in the room here, but he didn't say who is living in the room." Li Yi's eyes suddenly turned cold at this moment, and then he looked around: "Force open a room, throw the person inside out, and let them vacate the room."
As soon as these words were spoken, they were immediately awakened.
"Isn't it a bit inappropriate to do this?" Zhang Jing said.
Li Yi said: "Do you still care about these things for survival? If you can't do this kind of thing, I will do it. I am born with a strong devilish nature. Doing this kind of thing is as easy as eating and drinking water."
After saying that, he walked straight towards a closed door.
This is it.
Room 11.
However, when he just stretched out his hand to the door, a cold voice came from inside: "A new messenger wants to rob my room? If you step into this room, I will make sure that none of you four will survive tonight. I have already killed three ignorant newcomers like you."
Done.
The door suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man stood in the room. The man was a little disheveled, but there was a vicious look in his eyes. He also had a pistol in his hand, with the safety on, pointing it at Li Yi outside the door.
"Since you are so arrogant, I have decided to ask you to vacate the room." Li Yi's face was calm. Facing the threat of the pistol, he did not retreat at all, but took a big step forward.
"Then die." Seeing that Li Yi was so fearless, the middle-aged man pulled the trigger without hesitation.
boom!
There was a gunshot.
At such a close distance, there is almost no possibility of missing the target.
However, Li Yi seemed to have foreseen the danger. He dodged the bullet by turning his body to the side. Then he raised his hand and threw a punch.
The punch exploded.
The middle-aged man's pistol and his entire palm were instantly shattered by a terrifying force of energy, and metal fragments and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
At this moment, the middle-aged man was stunned.
Then a sharp pain began to come from the severed hand, stimulating his brain and making him wail uncontrollably.
"I can dodge the bullets from the sniper rifle, so why do you think you can scare me with that pistol?" Li Yi was cold and ruthless at this moment. He just patted him lightly on the back of his neck. Then the middle-aged man who kept screaming became limp and fell unconscious to the ground.
He then picked it up and threw it out the door.
"I hope you can still survive tomorrow." Li Yi did not kill him, but let him fend for himself outside.
The other teammates didn't say much when they saw this.
Li Yi did this for the survival of the team. If he didn't take action, he would have to take action. After all, to survive in such a hellish place, one cannot be too soft-hearted. One has to take action when necessary.
"Let's all go back to our rooms. We'll study the situation of this ghost post office after daybreak."
Then, Li Yi immediately entered the room.
Others also walked into the room and closed the door.
After entering the room, Li Yi discovered that there was a lamp in the bedroom, emitting a grayish yellow light. Although the light was not very bright, he didn't know why he felt a sense of security staying in this lighted room. The emergence of this feeling made him sure that it was indeed safe to stay in the room.
"So the way to judge whether this ghost post office is dangerous or safe is to see if there are lights on?"
Li Yi stared at the lamp and couldn't help but think of what the man had said before.
The ghost post office turns off the lights at 6 o'clock. Is it dangerous at night?
The lights in the room were not turned off at night, and the room was safe, so light equals safety?
Not sure, but I have to remember this point and see if I have the opportunity to prove it later.
Then, he put down his backpack and took out his mobile phone to chat with others, but he found that his mobile phone had no signal here, as if it was interfered by some force. Then he checked his locator and found that the locator had a signal, which made him feel relieved.
It seems that the technology in his world is still very powerful and can ignore the influence here. In this way, he will not miss the cross-border signal.
Li Yi then checked other places in the room.
There is nothing here except an old bed and a bathroom. The air is filled with a musty smell. If an ordinary person lives here, it would be so depressing that he would want to go crazy.
He remembered something and immediately took out the yellow letter.
As soon as he took it out, Li Yi saw that the yellow letter quickly dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a pile of fragments, and then no trace of it could be found.
It seems that the letter fulfilled some purpose and now has no effect.
"I roughly understand. The moment I received this letter, I became the messenger of this ghost post office. What I should do next is to fulfill the responsibility of a messenger and continue to deliver letters. As for what kind of letter, to what kind of person, and what kind of dangers I will encounter during the process, I don't know. Everything can only be left to fate."
Li Yi connected everything that happened today and began to figure out all the threads. It turned out that Wang Qiao, the person in charge of Dazhuang City, wanted him to deliver a letter at the Ghost Post Office.
Moreover, there seem to be many taboos and rules in this ghost post office.
Some information you have to find out on your own, and some information you can ask old messengers, they may know a little more.
After realizing this, Li Yi was no longer impatient. He planned to stay in this room for one night and wait for dawn.
As time passes little by little.
Until a certain point.
Li Yi suddenly heard some movement coming from outside the door. It was the sound of footsteps, but the footsteps were very special, heavy and suppressed. It didn't sound like a living person walking. It sounded more like a corpse stomping on the ground. Occasionally, there was a creaking sound when passing by, which meant that the footsteps were walking to the hall.
"Is that the ghost that roams around in the ghost post office at night?" he thought to himself, but he was not afraid.
As an evolver in the Lianqiao realm, Li Yi has also experienced many fights and has developed his psychological qualities long ago. He is much stronger than those ordinary people who just entered the Ghost Post Office, so these terrifying things cannot scare him.
If the rules in the ghost post office are certain, then ghosts will never be able to enter the room.
Facts have proved that this is indeed the case.
Li Yi heard the sound of wandering footsteps echoing many times within two or three hours. Once, the nearest one even passed by the door. His glowing eyes could even see a skinny, old arm passing by through the gap in the old wooden door.
But the ghost was so close to him, but it never opened any of the rooms.
"Insight into the patterns of ghosts." Li Yi saw this scene and for some reason this sentence suddenly popped up in his mind.
Maybe in this world, ghosts have to meet certain conditions before they can kill people. If the conditions are not met, ghosts will not attack you even if they just pass by you.
Otherwise, how to explain what happened just now?
Time passed by minute by minute.
At six o'clock in the morning, the dim lights in the room suddenly went out, but correspondingly, the lights in the ghost post office lit up.
"Is it dawn?" Li Yi sat in meditation all night. He did not sleep or practice, and was alert to the dangers around him.
boom!
next moment.
There was a sound of a door opening outside.
Qin Bing, Zhang Jing and Tao Yuan also did not sleep all night. When it was time to turn on the lights, they immediately walked out of the room.
Li Yi then came out.
Seeing that their teammates were all fine, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"The man from last night is missing." Qin Bing looked around and said immediately.
"Not only is the person missing, the bloodstains on the ground are gone as well." Li Yi lowered his head slightly and looked.
The disappearance of the bloodstains was definitely not caused by someone wiping them clean intentionally. Rather, it was as if a certain force had forcibly erased the traces. Moreover, not only the person and the bloodstains disappeared, but also the black letter paper that could be seen on the ground before was gone.
"It seems that the man was right. The ghost post office is indeed dangerous at night." Zhang Jing's face has regained some color and she looks much better. As an evolver in the Spiritual Perception Realm, as long as she is not dead, her body will recover quickly.
"Although it's dangerous, it's also very safe. As long as we stay in the room, even if there are ghosts outside, they won't hurt us. Strictly speaking, it's safer here than outside." Li Yi said, "But now we have become the messenger of this ghost post office. I don't think this ghost place will let us stay here peacefully."
"That's right. All messengers must participate in the letter delivery mission. You are the messengers on the first floor. Only after you have delivered three letters can you go to the second floor and become messengers on the second floor." At this time, the man from last night also opened the door and walked out cautiously.
Li Yi stared at him and said, "There are such rules? How many floors does this damn post office have?"
"I heard from the previous messenger that there is a fifth floor here. Only after delivering all the letters can we escape from the Ghost Post Office and gain freedom. By the way, my name is Guo You." The man introduced himself. He was in awe of Li Yi and others.
After all, he heard clearly what happened yesterday.
These people are not ordinary people, they all have special abilities.
"Three letters per layer, five layers in total. Once you deliver them, you'll be free?" Li Yi's expression became serious. "It looks like the chances of survival aren't high."
Fifteen letters.
Doesn't sound like much.
But as can be seen from the fact that this place is called the Ghost Post Office, the task of delivering the letter is by no means simple or easy.
"Is that the thing you mean by delivering the letter?" Suddenly, Zhang Jing pointed with her finger.
But I saw a yellow letter prominently placed on the wooden counter in the hall.
When he saw the letter, the man named Guo You was obviously shaken, revealing a bit of fear: "Ah, there really is a letter delivery mission, and why did the letter appear in the hall this time? Didn't it always appear in the room before?"
He had searched the room before and didn't see the letter, so he thought he didn't need to deliver the letter. But unexpectedly, the letter still appeared.
(End of this chapter)