The Account Keeper: Strange Things in the Old Building

The anonymous MMS message on a rainy night became the starting point for Ling Xiao's "settlement of accounts". There is no sender, no reason, only an old photo with a stale yellow tone: the tube building at No. 73 Huaian Road, which has been abandoned for 20 years, stands in the rain. The window on the third floor is covered with broken newspapers. The corner of the mouth of the missing corner ceramic doll on the window sill has a strange crack, as if it is laughing or sobbing silently. Below the photo, the three characters "Dun Hui Jin" in small Song fonts are his only clue. As a "liquidator" who specializes in dealing with shady debts, Ling Xiao has seen too many dirty things hidden in the dark, but this job reveals an unspeakable evil nature - the employer is anonymous, the remuneration is unusually generous, and even the "account" to be settled is unclear, and he can only say "find Dun Huijin". Carrying the brass compass that could tell good luck from bad luck, he stepped into this old building in the heavy rain, which was like a ghost among the ruins. In the corridor, dark red scratches from fingernails covered the mottled walls, and the musty smell mixed with the pungent sweet smell penetrated into the nostrils; the stair planks creaked, as if something was following them in the dark; in the innermost room of the third floor, crooked circles were painted with red paint on the wall, and inside the circles were the words "Dun Hui Jin", which was exactly the same as the handwriting in the photo. "Are you looking for me?" A hoarse voice suddenly sounded behind him. Ling Xiao turned his head sharply. In the flashlight beam, a man wearing a washed white shirt stood. His long hair covered most of his face, revealing only a pair of eyes as black as a bottomless well. He held the doll with missing corners in his hand, and dark red "blood" was oozing from the cracks. Perhaps from the beginning, this was the most dangerous and inescapable "account" in this game.