"What?"

Xia Ren kept his step and stopped in place.

The text was like a ripples on the water surface, and then slowly disappeared.

“My hallucinations are getting worse.”

He subconsciously thought that it was a tumor in his brain that was causing it. After all, as far as he knew, no scientific phenomenon can explain the problem just now.

That sudden text cannot be another creature communicating with him, right?

The phone in his pocket is still there. In addition to the keys given to him by Zhao Mingyue, there is another set of keys in his pocket. The extra keys should be from the home where he can't remember the location.

He took out his cell phone, but found that the password for the chain screen could not be unlocked, so he had to give up for the time being.

"The memory has not been fully restored yet, so I can only go to a nearby hospital or police station tomorrow to find a solution."

Xia Ren groped to turn on the lights in the living room, and the room suddenly became bright.

This is a very standard apartment, even a bit old. You can tell what the room inside is for a glance.

As I saw, there was a wooden shoe cabinet in the entrance hall, which contained several pairs of delicate women's shoes and plush slippers. According to Zhao Mingyue, she had lived here once, so these shoes should be hers.

etc……

Xia Ren looked in the direction of the bedroom. The shoes were still there, which meant that the clothes were still there.

For some people, this house is simply a treasure house...

He shook his head, drove out the messy thoughts, and looked at the house again.

After passing the entrance, there is a kitchen. On the wall ahead, there is an emerald green oil painting. In the painting is a dense forest. Between the trunks, a wooden cottage is looming. The frame has been around for a while, and I don’t know what pigments the painter uses. The green leaves are as real. If other colors have not faded, Xia Ren would have thought that this was taken with a camera.

Another strange thing is that there is a layer of sealed glass outside the frame, which may be to protect the painting.

The temperature inside the house was extremely low, but fortunately there was no fleeting dark shadow and there was no sound of rolling marbles on the ceiling.

Close the door, Xia Ren wanted to walk to the balcony and open the curtains to change his breath, but when he walked to the living room, he was tripped by something.

Looking down, this is a dog pot with a bone pattern printed in the middle.

"She still has a dog?"

Xia Ren bent down and picked up the rice bowl, but found that it was still brand new and the product labels on the side were not torn off.

After walking to the balcony and opening the curtains, he found another bird cage hanging by the window, which had not been used before.

"I always feel like this room is full of strange atmosphere."

He returned to the house, stretched out his finger and wiped it on the coffee table, it was clean, but why did there be so much dust on the door handle outside, and no one seemed to have touched it? Zhao Mingyue also said that no one had lived here for a long time, who was cleaning it?

Frowning, Xia Ren raised his head and patrolled around the ceiling. In an instant, he opened his eyes wide.

His guess was right, there was a hanger in there.

air conditioner!

“The air conditioner is still there.”

Xia Ren breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, it would be great if the air conditioner was on now, otherwise there would be no way to explain why the room was so cool!

"Do you want to leave while the weather is not completely dark?"

After more than 20 years of modern cultural knowledge, Xia Ren remembered the core values ​​of the twenty-four characters of socialism in his heart. He really didn't believe in supernatural events. This idea just went around in his mind and disappeared.

There are no ghosts in the world, and all phenomena can be explained reasonably. However, sometimes our level of knowledge has not reached a certain level, so we have unnecessary guesses about many things.

The temperature in the house did not cause any discomfort to Xia Ren. Instead, after entering the room, the headache that had been bothering him disappeared, and his body seemed to be liberated all at once. This relaxed experience has not been there for two years.

Rubbing his hands, Xia Ren pushed open the door of the master bedroom. The first thing that caught his eyes was a large one, with a thick light blue quilt on it. It looked like it was covered in winter. There was only one pillow, and Zhao Mingyue should be living alone.

There is a wardrobe on one side of the room, and a desk and dressing table on the other side, but there is not much cosmetics on the dressing table. I remember when I saw Zhao Mingyue, she seemed to have no makeup.

When she opened the wardrobe, there were neatly hanging rows of clothes, from thin long skirts to down jackets. Xia Ren's heart moved and opened a small drawer on the lower left, which was indeed stacked with underwear in most drawers.

"It's not like my sister."

As this thought emerged, Xia Ren scratched his head in confusion.

"I have a sister?"

There is no answer to this question either.

Zhao Mingyue lives very delicately and likes to clean. The quilt on her is soft and as if it had just been sunburned. When she reached in, there was still a faint temperature inside, as if the owner had just gone out for the time being.

He picked up the pillow and sniffed it gently on the tip of his nose, just like the fragrance he smelled on Zhao Mingyue.

She slept here not long ago.

But, how is that possible?

——Although no one has lived in it for a long time—

This sentence was said by Zhao Mingyue himself, but all the signs in the house showed that she had been living here, even to this day.

"Is she lied or..."

Xia Ren would rather Zhao Mingyue lied.

Because another possibility is... she doesn't exist!

Xia Ren was frightened by his sudden thought. Perhaps he was panicked, or perhaps to verify the truth of his thoughts, he came to the next room and opened the door.

Surprisingly, this room was not the second bedroom, but the study room. There were bookshelfs placed against the wall, with various books stuffed everywhere. Next to the bookshelf was a desk with a desktop computer on it. He sat on a chair and tried it and it was able to turn on the computer, and there was no password.

The study room is also very clean.

Click on the system to update, and the last inspection time displayed was December 2018, which is half a year ago.

winter.

"Zhao Mingyue went out in Dongli. After she left, for some reason, time here stopped?"

Although it is a bit fantasy, if you think about it this way, everything can be explained naturally. The cold wind when the door was opened and the remaining cool air in the house are the temperature of that winter. The room is so neat because time has not passed, and these clothes have not been taken away. Maybe Zhao Mingyue did not expect that she would not be able to come back.

Her skin was so white that she didn't shake hands with her. She left in a hurry after handing over the key.

So,

Her part.

"No matter whether my guess is correct or not, you must leave quickly!"

I have read many ghost stories since I was a child, and the part about water ghosts is now very clear. In my impression, they are bringing new people over and then getting freed by themselves.

It's almost seven o'clock now, and by accident, the sky outside is completely dark.

Darkness can always aggravate people's fear. Xia Ren opened the door and walked out quickly like running away.

As soon as I came out, I could feel the stuffiness of the air outside.

Because the community is relatively old, there are no stairs, so he can only climb stairs.

The corridor was pitch black, and almost no fingers were visible. The voice control light seemed to be broken, and Xia Ren clapped his palms without reaction.

He could only take out his cell phone, leaning against the faint light on the screen, and holding the railing downstairs.

I don’t know if I were afraid of something, but along the way, the other residents closed the door tightly, and there was no sound inside, and the entire corridor was silent like death.

Finally, I reached the corner of the second floor and immediately went down to another floor and Xia Ren was able to get rid of this place. But at this moment, a wind suddenly blew, and the originally broken light suddenly lit downstairs.

At the same time, there was also the sound of knocking on the door.

A tightening in his heart, a bad premonition arose. Xia Ren stopped, stretched his head, and observed the scene below through the gaps in the stairs.

The dim light illuminated the aisle on the first floor, and a white-haired figure was standing in front of the door, raising his hand, knocking on the door one after another.

Xia Ren felt that the back was a little familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that the old lady was actually a neighbor living opposite the door that she had seen not long ago.

"But didn't she live on the fifth floor? Visiting each other at this time?"

He felt something was wrong, so he did not rush, but chose to continue observing.

No matter how the old lady knocked on the door, she could not get a response. Her hunched child then bent deeper, her turbid eyes pressed against the door, and she observed whether there was anyone inside through the cat's eyes.

After failing, she continued to turn slowly and walked towards another door.

No, it's floating away!

Xia Ren's heart was pounding. He clearly saw that the old lady's legs were not moving, but her whole body was moving!

She went to another door and repeated what she had just done.

No wonder all residents didn’t open the door at night, so they didn’t dare!

"What should I do? Will I rush down at this time?"

Xia Ren immediately rejected the plan.

There is an unknown danger upstairs, and Zhao Mingyue's part has always been his own guess, so it may not necessarily harm him, but the old lady at this moment is real!

Without giving him much time to hesitate, the old lady had already given up the residents on the first floor and turned toward the top!

"You have to run away, you must not be caught by her!"

Xia Ren stopped worrying and rushed back upstairs.

Just as he ran to the third floor, he saw that the lights on the second floor were also on, but there was no knock on the door.

"Are you chasing me? She has noticed my existence!"

He didn't dare to stop for a moment. Xia Ren groped into the railings, ran to the fifth floor as fast as possible, then took out the key and opened the door and hid in.

He collapsed in the entrance hall and gasped.
Chapter completed!