Chapter 2 Human-faced Cat
Officer Wang scanned the stunned crowd, but there was no sign of the teenager.
"The strange things of the year,"
Li Ang, who turned to leave with the leek box, rubbed his chin, squinted his eyes and muttered, "It's really more and more....."
Indeed, in recent months, various types of urban weirdos have emerged one after another.
When he was buried, the old man who died of illness in the countryside sat up in shock, and his family members wept with joy, and staged a scene of jumping on the grave on the spot;
The gold medal cowherd of a club was broken into more than 100 pieces at home, and the police preliminarily judged that he could be killed;
After an archaeological expert examined the tomb, he went insane and called out to hell, stripped naked and rushed into the toilet, stood upside down by the wall, and pretended to be a faucet;
These ridiculous and even a bit spoofed strange stories, once they are widely spread, will be blocked and deleted on a large scale.
The few surviving strange stories can only be used as after-dinner conversations by idle netizens because they cannot be confirmed or disseminated.
"Whatever, there are tall men when the sky falls."
Leon pursed his lips and walked through the doors of the three buildings.
Unfortunately, there is a sign at the elevator door that reads "Under Maintenance, Suspended".
Even more unfortunate is that Leon lives on the twentieth floor.
"Damn, it won't be so unlucky, right?"
He sighed and walked honestly to the staircase.
The process of climbing the stairs was boring, and considering that there was no microwave oven at home, and the leek box was about to get cold, Li Ang decisively broke the chopsticks and walked while eating.
Leeks that can aphrodisiac are a good thing, but unfortunately for single dogs, lonely nights still need to "inherit traditional craftsmanship that cannot be lost for thousands of years" to provide for themselves.
"Giggle.....
Suddenly, there was a muffled whimpering sound from the top of the corridor, like an old man with phlegm in his throat, unable to cough up and unable to swallow his suppressed breath.
Leon paused as he pulled the leek box, and he looked up through the gap in the stairs.
At night, the only source of light in the stairwell is the dim and old voice-activated sensor lights installed on each floor.
Judging from the light of the voice-activated lights, the coughing sound should be on the seventeenth floor.
This community is a resettlement housing community, and most of the residents are elderly people who moved in due to demolition, maybe an old man who went to the corridor to put garbage bags....
Chew, chew. Li Ang ate the leek box unhurriedly and continued to climb upward.
Count the steps, one level, two levels, three levels.... Level 12. Climb to the eighth floor.
Count the steps, one step, two poles, three levels .... Level 12. Climb to the ninth floor.
Count the steps, one step, two poles, three levels .... Level 12. Climb to the eighth floor.
Leon's footsteps stopped.
He stared at the red number sign painted on the wall at the staircase, 8, 8th floor.
"Giggle..."
The muffled cough came from the upper floors of the stairway again, and it seemed to be closer than last time.
If this is the eighth floor, then the floor where the voice-activated lights are lit above should be fifteen.
Li Ang took a deep breath, slowly closed the leek box, moved his body to the wall and pressed against the wall, and suddenly turned his head and ran downstairs.
8th floor, 7th floor, 8th floor, 7th floor, 8th floor, 7th floor....
Leon took three steps and two steps and ran downstairs, while silently counting the number of steps he had stepped on, and in a few minutes, he had run far beyond the height of the eight-story building.
"Shhhh
Leon gasped and looked at the red number sign posted on the staircase, 7th floor.
He let go of his clenched fist and walked to the balcony at the top of the stairs and looked down.
I saw that there was a fog below, and I couldn't see the tall buildings in the distance, the pedestrians on the street, and the street lamps on the side of the road.
"What the hell is hitting the wall...."
Leon lowered his eyes, for in his short seventeen years of life, he had always been a staunch materialist, an atheist, who did not believe in any immortals, Buddhas, and monsters, and ridiculed all cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods.
Until now, the supernatural reality that was as hard as iron was in front of him.
Leon forced himself to calm down, he took out his chopsticks and casually threw the leek box downstairs along with the plastic bag.
Listen closely, there is nothing at all the insects and birds, except for the extremely regular "cluck...."
The urging whimper grew louder and closer, and Leon turned around and watched as the voice-activated lights on the fourteenth floor lit up, followed by the thirteenth floor, the twelfth floor....
As the distance shortened, the whimpering sound gradually became sharper, like the struggle and roar of a beast trapped in a cage, like a finger scraping a blackboard, like a key rubbing glass,
As.... The devil asks for his life...
"Gurgle cough ho wow aaa..."
Eventually, the whimper was completely deformed, loud and sharp, echoing through the corridor.
Li Ang gritted his teeth, walked straight to the end of the stairs, the door of room 801, reached out and took out the keychain from his pocket, twisted the iron ring of the keychain into iron wire with a single finger, and then stabbed the iron wire into the lock cylinder of the dark red security door of room 801.
He has a wide range of hobbies and skills, and picking locks is one of them, and it is fair to say that Leon can open the door locks of a whole district with half an instant noodle.
The thin iron wire penetrates deep into the lock hole, and after slowly twisting, the inner lock cylinder and the outer lock core are slightly staggered, forming a bracket in the pin groove, and at the same time dialing the iron wire to make the pin go up, and then with the help of the wire torsion, the upper pin falls into the pin slot.
Leon leaned against the door, pinched the wire with both hands very steadily, and tossed to return all the upper pins to their positions, while the lower pins remained in the inner lock cylinder, and the inner and outer lock cylinders were separated from each other.
Click, the lock opened.
The doorknob was held firmly by Li Ang, and the process of breaking down did not encounter any obstacles, but when Li Ang pulled the door outward, he found that no matter how hard he tried, the whole security door did not move, as if it was glued to it.
Leon silently withdrew the wire and kicked it towards the security door.
Boom!
The steel security door made a dull sound, and the dark red color was as dark as blood, which was even more gloomy in the dim light.
There was no point in venting briefly, and as the voice-activated lights lit up on the tenth floor, Leon was only two stories away from the whimper.
"The boy of good wealth and good knowledge went to the city of Kapila in the kingdom of Yamafu Timo, and saw the name of the god of the Lord and the god of the night, and said that the name of the god of the Lord was called Bhasamba..."
Sick and rushed to the doctor, Li Ang recited the "Huayan Sutra", drew a cross on his chest with his left hand, pinched the seven-star recipe with his right hand, and stepped on the gossip in a row.
Unfortunately, these movements that resembled dancing gods could not stop the roar from approaching, and with the faint light of the voice-activated lamp, Leon saw a large shadow gradually emerge from the bottom of the building above.
"!"
Li Ang burst into a foul mouth, patted his chest, and shouted at the shadows: "Don't criticize those useful and useless, Lao Tzu's family lives in Room 1001, Building 2, Dump Garden, Dump Street, my father's name is Hu Yingjun, my mother's name is Zhang Xiaoli, and Lao Tzu's name is Hu Tutu!!! ”
Suddenly, the roar came to an abrupt end, and the world was silent.
The voice-activated light slowly went out, and Leon held his breath.
Tread, step, step.
The slightest sound of footsteps approached slowly, and by the moonlight, Leon could see clearly the "thing" walking slowly down the stairs.
It was a pitch-black cat, with an elegant body and a watery coat, and a small hand-woven yellow vest.
But that's not the point.
The most important thing is that the black cat has no face, or rather, its face is covered with a human face.
Wrinkled, pale, old lady's face.
The pink and tender tongue of the black cat stretched out from the mouth of Mrs. Zhang's cheek, and gently licked the claws, but it did not change the position of the face at all, and there was not even a trace of wrinkles.
It's as if that face originally grew on a cat's face.
"Ho-ho-ho...."
The human-faced cat let out a muffled whimper, and Leon watched as it shook its body and spat out a cloud of cloudy mucus from its throat.
Smack, the slime fell to the ground, it was a finger still attached to the flesh.
"....." Li Ang was silent, his palm tightly gripping the wooden chopsticks behind his back.