In the quiet old town, the dim street lamps trembled slightly in the night wind, and the orange lights seemed to be blown away by the wind, becoming very dim.

The stray dog, whose fur had been knotted, scurried out of a yard, then hurried under the streetlamp, and disappeared into the bushes in the blink of an eye, and it seemed to have something in its mouth, but the light was too dim to see.

But judging by the wary look of its looking back from time to time, it must have been something it thought was precious, maybe a bone that had been turned out of a garbage can, or a piece of fat that had been stolen from the family's house.

"Smack."

A light was lit in a room on the second floor of a small building in the courtyard.

After all, the large stray dog made a lot of noise when he ran out of the hospital gate, waking up the sleeping hostess.

With a bang, the thick curtains were opened, and bright lights poured out of the windows, illuminating the small courtyard downstairs, but the places where the lights failed to reach were getting darker and darker at the moment.

At the window, a figure looked out for a while, and after finding nothing unusual, he pulled back the curtains.

Back in front of the bed, Zhang Li sighed.

It's no wonder that she is so careful, mainly because in the past few days, several families in the vicinity have been robbed at night and have lost a lot of property, which has caused her to sleep uncomfortably in the past few nights, and she will be woken up when there is a disturbance.

Especially in the past two days, my husband went on a business trip to the capital and couldn't come back until the day after tomorrow.

She and her eight-year-old son were left at home, so she was even more cautious, locking the doors and windows before going to bed, and finally checking several times to make sure there were no mistakes before going back to bed.

"But it's really a little cold on this April night, I don't know how my son sleeps? If you kick the quilt, it won't be good to catch a cold tomorrow morning. Feeling the chill in the air, Zhang Li thought about it and shivered unconsciously.

Then she put on a coat and prepared to go to her son's room.

She was stunned as soon as she opened the bedroom door.

Through the light from the room, she found that the door of the small room where her son was located opposite was ajar, and the black hole inside was not real.

But she remembered very well that she had closed the door with her own hands after lulling her son to sleep last night, why was it open now? Could it be that the child got up to go to the toilet at night and forgot to close the door when he came back?

She frowned and reached out to press the light switch in the corridor on the side, but after pressing it a few times and there was no response, she remembered that the light was broken yesterday, and her husband happened to be on a business trip, and no one repaired it.

"You still have to have a man in the house." Zhang Li sighed softly and walked towards her son's room through the white light from her bedroom.

"Squeak—"

The half-hidden door of the old room was pushed open, making a long weird friction sound, although she was used to hearing such a sound, but hearing it in the quiet middle of the night at this moment, Zhang Li still panicked for no reason.

What the night is best at is to magnify a certain kind of mood that people are accustomed to during the day a thousand times over. Turn sorrow into heart-rending sorrow, turn love into unforgettable love, turn longing into sleepless love, and of course turn fear into cold and bone-chilling fear.

Zhang Li slammed the light switch in her son's room, and only breathed a sigh of relief when the warm bright yellow light filled the room.

It was only when she saw that the futon was turned open and the empty bed that her fast-beating heart, which had not yet had time to calm down, suddenly lifted up, and then began to beat violently with a "bang".

My son is gone!

Just when she panicked and felt that her eyes were dark, there was a sudden movement in the bathroom next door, and Ding Ling seemed to have her son's voice. Ranwen

"Whew." Zhang Li's heart suddenly relaxed, and it turned out that she had gone to the toilet. This child, who didn't turn on the light in the toilet, startled himself and thought he was gone.

"Ocean, why don't you turn on the light when you go to the toilet? What should I do when I pee outside the toilet? Zhang Li called out and walked towards the bathroom.

When she walked to the bathroom door, she saw that her son was inside, but, unlike what she expected, her son was not in front of the toilet, but standing in front of the mirror on the huge sink.

And he seemed to be still doing something, but it was dark in the bathroom, and Zhang Li couldn't see what he was doing.

"Ocean, what are you doing? Why don't you answer your mother's questions? Zhang Li frowned and shouted, and at the same time reached out to press the light button at the bathroom door, but the strange thing was that no matter how she pressed it, the light just didn't turn on.

Could it be that the bathroom light is also broken? Zhang Li thought helplessly, and then walked towards her son, who was eight years old, and it made people so uncomfortable.

Because of the long time in the dark, her eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, and she could barely see some things clearly.

It's just that the further she goes, the more she feels that something is wrong.

The son didn't react to her arrival from the beginning to the end, but kept staring at the dark mirror, his left hand hanging down, while his right hand kept gesturing in front of the mirror, and his mouth kept muttering something.

What's wrong with my son, how can he not respond to his own shouts, he would never be like this in normal times!

"Ocean, ocean, ocean......" Zhang Li kept shouting as she walked, but the voice was getting lower and lower, lower and lower, and even trembling in the end.

And her steps became slower and slower, slower and slower, and her whole person seemed to begin to tremble with the voice.

Looking at the familiar son standing in front of the mirror, Zhang Li's heart did not have the slightest feeling of blood connection, but a heart-pounding feeling began to churn in her heart.

Eventually, she stopped two meters away from her son, and she finally saw what he was doing.

He was comparing rock, scissors, and paper to a mirror!

And she was elated for a while, and dejected for a while, and the muttering she had just heard was the sound of her son.

And in the huge black mirror, the shadow of the son is faintly emerging, its outline is exactly the same as the son, but it is pitch black, and at the same time, it is also moving with the son in front of the mirror, comparing all kinds of gestures.

However, Zhang Li clearly saw that when her son came out of the stone, the shadow in the mirror was actually compared to a cloth!

The son in front of the mirror once again lamented in frustration, but the dark shadow in the mirror was elated.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, it stopped all its movements and remained motionless in the mirror.

Then, it raised its head sharply and looked at Zhang Li, who happened to walk to the side.

It couldn't see the expression on its dark face clearly, but looking at the subtle movements on that extremely familiar and extremely unfamiliar face, Zhang Li knew that it smiled, smiled happily, as if it had seen the person it wanted to see the most.

My scalp was numb instantly, my pajamas were soaked with cold sweat, and my heart almost stopped.

"Ahh

A scream of extreme horror, as if he had seen the most terrifying scene in the world, pierced the dead night sky and spread far away.