Chapter 1: Midnight Opening
Late at night, the white moon hung alone on the pitch-black curtain, putting a poignant makeup on the live drama of the world. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
A figure groped along the muddy path, and suddenly a black shadow scurried by, which frightened him into jumping up, but it was a black cat passing by.
The shadowy, the cat, which blended with the night, turned its head to look at the figure, and ran away from nowhere.
The figure muttered a few curses under his breath, and looked into the unit of the nearby residential building as he continued walking. His old gray shoes were stained with mud and made a "snapping" sound from time to time in the dark night.
This is an old community, a few years ago in Liaohai City was everywhere, even today, with the rapid development of the city, there are still such old communities hidden in the steel jungle in the downtown area.
There are few pavement bricks left on the ground, the potholed dirt road has become almost Zeguo under the baptism of heavy rain during the day, and the few street lamps in front of the building are also missing. Only a few units still have the faint yellow light of the corridor lights, and the wooden doors of the units are wide open, making people afraid to look at them in the middle of the night.
If you come to this kind of community in the middle of the night after the rain, if you are not the aborigines here, then nine times out of ten you are doing the gentleman's deed. Looking at the appearance of this man probing his brain, it should be the latter.
Finally, the figure chose a wooden door to cover the entrance of the building, looked around, rubbed his shoes vigorously on the stone in front of the unit, and lowered his head to touch it.
He is a habitual thief, and the crowded bus is his position, but the heavy rain during the day makes him give himself a day off, but the deflated wallet still makes him decide to come out to "work" after the rain stops. This neighborhood is the place he just discovered two days ago, almost all the residents are elderly, and occasionally young people will leave around dinner, especially rare is that they did not find their peers. Originally, he planned to continue the investigation for two days before starting, but he couldn't help but touch it when he couldn't find the target tonight.
Walking to the second floor, looking at the old security door, the habitual thief smiled happily.
Hard work can make you rich, and the ancients did not deceive me. It's really in vain that I went out in the middle of the night to toss, this broken lock is clearly sending money to Lao Tzu.
Without saying a word, he took out the lock-picking tool, opened the door to get rich by dividing it by two, and Mr. Habitual Thief sneaked in secretly without knowing it, only to find a faint red light flickering on the edge of the living room.
For this industry, it is definitely not conducive to "homework" to turn on the lights after entering the house, but it is much easier to do if there is light in the first place. While silently chanting "God help me", the habitual thief tiptoed towards the red light and looked inside.
An expressionless, pale face bumped into him.
The habitual thief's eyes almost burst out of his sockets under the imminent pressure of the imminent explosion in his chest, and a small heart jumped like a discotheque dance, and he jerked his hand back into his mouth, finally suppressing the screams in his throat with good professionalism.
In front of him was an offering table, which was clearly layered with tablets. The vermilion tablets are engraved with unfamiliar names, bright red as blood under the reflection of countless candles around them.
In front of the offering table, there were life-size transparent figures, their faces were pale, their feet did not touch the ground, both men and women, all looked straight ahead, although they were wearing modern clothes, the level of terror did not diminish in the slightest, as if they were ...... A real ghost.
The habitual thief was speechless, he had never seen such an absurd and real horror in his life. In the face of these miserable and stiff faces, his brain had stopped working, and his skills, which were originally flexible compared to ordinary people, had no meaning at this moment. He staggered back a few steps, and involuntarily let out a wheezing sound like a broken bellows, his whole body was tense, and he was afraid that he would collapse with the slightest stimulation.
At this moment, a slender and powerful hand poked lightly on his shoulder.
"Ahh!!h
The gap between heaven and hell has long formed a great fear in the hearts of habitual thieves, and this suppressed cry is finally released happily, but it is particularly terrifying in the middle of the night in the old building.
Perhaps he had done too much of his heart, but Mr. Habitual Thief fell straight down before he could see the appearance of the person behind him, but fortunately the ground was clean—except for the mud footprints he had just stepped on.
Under the red light of the candle flame, a tall young man wearing a big vest and flower shorts sighed helplessly, and the eyes of the fine mimi flashed with a bright luster.
"Ah...... Fortunately, I found it in time, otherwise the only remaining 50 yuan would have flown off...... That's an emergency fund for tomorrow's operation. He scratched his head in annoyance, but his voice became louder and louder: "The first one this year, the first in general...... 12 pcs. It's not easy to mix up what you've been doing these days, everyone is out to eat, and I want to be considerate of you, so can you stop running to my house. ”
Complaining loudly, the big boy dragged his habitual thief's leg with one hand, and threw him out of the door with ease, and he didn't let his head hit the ground very intimately.
Since graduating from college and moving to this chaotic old neighborhood, this is the first number of thieves he has "picked up" at home, most of whom are habitual offenders in the neighborhood who have just "visited" within a month of moving in. After those unlucky gentlemen break into this house with great ambition, they are often frightened by a strange scene that they have never seen before in their lives, and then crash into the snow-white wall in a panic, or fall to the ground to confess their pain, or directly faint and go into shock. I've had the misfortune of not being stunned, and after unceremoniously throwing them out, I can still hear them crying thanks, and I have to clean up the blood they knocked on the wall and floor.
Although it does add a lot of trouble, only in this way can the unmanaged community allow itself to secretly move in the family's offering table.
The young man closed the door and walked back to the living room, stopping at the door of his bedroom.
"Do you want me to say it again, why don't you leave?"
All he answered was the cold wind whistling in from the window.
The next moment, a cold light flashed on the ceiling above the young man's head, and a black figure jumped down head-on with a dagger in his hand, stabbing the young man in the shoulder. Seeing the young man motionless as if he was frightened, the black shadow's mood was even more relaxed.
The cold light danced on the tip of the knife, and in the next moment, it would pierce the young man's flesh.
However, it was stabbed in the air.