It's night.

A small town in the UK.

One is located in a suburban estate.

In the palatial hall, many nobles and business celebrities have gathered one after another.

Tonight, a charity auction will be held at the estate, and many curiosities will be on display.

After the pre-event dinner, the auction officially began.

Under the auspices of the owner of the manor, one rare antique treasure after another is displayed one by one, from a sculpture to a key.

Because it was a charity auction, many of the items had new owners, and the money raised from the auction would be donated to the church to repair the church or to support orphans.

After the auction.

One by one, the carriages gathered at the gate of the manor drove away from the scene.

The banquet hall, which was still lively just now, became extremely cold in an instant, and a guy who came to retrieve the wine barrel looked at the empty hall and thought carefully.

Pacing back and forth between the guest seats, trying to find valuables dropped by some careless guy in a corner.

Looking around, a small box on a table in the corner caught his attention, and he put down the barrel in his arms and carefully moved it over.

As soon as he took the small box in his hand, and was about to open it to find out, there was a movement outside the hall door, and he was so frightened that he took the box into his arms.

At the same time, a group of maids who had come to clean walked in.

When the head maid saw that there were still people in the hall, and they were still low-grade in appearance and clothing, she immediately frowned and asked, "Who are you?" How could it be in the hall? ”

The poor boy who delivered the wine immediately pointed to the wine barrel not far away in a panic, and stammered: "Uh, I, I'm here to get the wine barrel!" ”

The maid glanced at the barrel, then at the poor boy who blushed with embarrassment, and waved her hand impatiently to drive away: "Go, go!" Don't think I don't know your bad mind, poor, bad worm! ”

The poor boy dodged his eyes, took two steps at a time, grabbed his barrel in his arms, and escaped from the manor hall from the disdainful gaze of the crowd.

When it was over, he fell back again, snatched back the oil lamp he had fallen with great speed, and ran out in disgrace despite the waves of shouting and swearing.

Out of the hall door, his expression, which was still submissive just now, immediately changed his appearance, stared at a pair of eyes, glanced at the direction of the hall, spat at it, and scolded: "Dog fighting people, I'm a dog!" ”

Turning around, he put on a smile again, and seemed to be in a good mood, it seemed that the maids' humiliation of him did not affect his emotions, anyway, he was often scolded, he had long been used to it, and he had developed a face as thick as a city wall.

It was early winter, the moon in the sky was covered by thick clouds, and the earth was plunged into darkness, and there was a black curtain that could not be torn apart as far as the eye could see.

The light from the kerosene lamp was so small that he could only see the road under his feet, and the poor boy was hunched his neck, and a white mist kept coming out of his mouth and nose.

A thin layer of ice accumulated on the ground, and in the quiet night, he trampled on it so that it "clicked", accompanied by the whistling cold wind, and on the night road walking alone, it gave the poor boy a trace of fear in his heart.

Fortunately, this is not a forest, there are no wild wolves and beasts, he will be driven out to work by the vicious boss, this cold weather has increased a lot of resentment in his heart.

He tightened his clothes, straightened his hat, blew his cold nose, and stepped up his pace.

In a few moments he hurried back to the town, returned the barrel to the shop, and after the boss had paid his wages, he went to another tavern, borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, and got drunk.

He stumbled all the way in the direction of home, and on the way, he suddenly remembered the box he had come out of the manor, and the troubles in his mind disappeared in an instant.

He stopped and leaned against the corner.

Due to the paralysis of alcohol, his outstretched hand trembled a little, and he fumbled for a while before he took out the box in his arms, and slowly opened the box with the help of the lamp hanging on the wall of another house on the street......

Gradually, the anticipation hanging on the corner of his mouth slowly disappeared, and his drunken eyes were full of disappointment.

I saw that in the box, there was a square long copper bar the size of a key lying quietly, and there seemed to be strange runes carved on all sides, and the whole thing looked like it had nothing to do with the word "valuable".

The poor boy was so lucky that he reluctantly took it out of the box, and put it directly under the lamp, looking at it carefully, trying to find some value.

As a result, he shook his head in disappointment and scolded: "What a disappointment!" As he spoke, he threw away the things in his hand and looked at the long box in his hand.

The box is made of fine iron, although the specifications are small, there is still some weight, and the carving is exquisite, it looks more valuable than the contents of the box, think about it, the poor boy put the box back in his arms, and continue to go home.

When he got home and was about to take out the key in his arms, he found that it was empty, and the cold wind blew his drowsy head to wake up instantly, and at this time, his alcohol strength was gone.

Immediately thought that it would be when he took out the box, he dropped the key together, and hurried back, but the place where he stayed only found the copper bar he had lost, and there was no trace of the key.

He squatted on the ground, pinching the copper bar with a sad eye, and said that what was missing, and what he saw was like something.

At this time, the poor boy, looking at this copper bar, directly linked it to the key, and thought on a whim, thinking about whether he could use it to open the door of his house.

Immediately without hesitation, he put it back in his arms and went in the direction of home.

He shoved the copper bar into the keyhole, and was surprised to find that it fitted perfectly, and in shock, he quickly twisted the key.

There was a "click".

The lock is opened......

He quickly removed the lock and the key and pushed the door open......

As soon as I stepped into the house, I stepped into the air, and a strong sense of weightlessness swept over.

A strong wind whistled through his ears, leaving him completely deaf, and his brain went blank and he lost consciousness with great fear.

I saw that the poor boy did not enter a home, but a different world covered with blood mist, the sky was red, and the ground was also red.

The dark red surface of the earth cracked one after another like an abyss, and the depression like a riverbed flowed with a viscous liquid as bright as magma.

Everywhere there were strange rocks, like thorns, like spikes, like skeletons......

"Bang"

With a muffled thud, the poor boy fell on a mound and rolled deeper like a deflated ball.

His arrival shattered the silence of the world and attracted the attention of a group of evil creatures in the Dark Corner......

The poor boy fell into a terrible situation, and it took him a while to recover his breath, and after rubbing his aching buttocks, he struggled to get up and looked around.

But he heard a rustling sound, and when he followed the sound blankly, it was dark in front of him.

In the other world, a miserable shout suddenly sounded, and it stopped abruptly in just a moment, followed by the sound of gnawing bones and tearing flesh.

Poor poor boy, who has been eaten by a group of strange humanoid creatures, is dying.

After a hearty meal, the monsters scattered in all directions, their eyesless faces, their flat noses without the bridge of the nose, sniffing vigorously somewhere upwards.

I saw that in the blood-red sky, a small black hole tore open the sky and hung in the middle, which was very obvious.

It's like a passage connecting the human world and the other world, and that's where the poor boy fell.

Just as the monster crawled up the scent, a pair of frightened eyes flashed through the black hole, and a homeless man who had sneaked to the door witnessed everything that happened in the other world.

Seeing that the monster had discovered his presence, he quickly retracted his head, hurriedly closed the door, locked it with a lock, took off the key from the keyhole, and then crawled away from the dilapidated house.

At the same time, the black hole in the otherworldly sky gradually closed and disappeared into the sky.

The smell stopped, and the monsters that poured into the black hole like a tidal wave seemed to lose their direction and retreated back to their own underground world.

On the human side, after the homeless man took off the key, he ran a few meters away, but unexpectedly, there was no noise behind him.

This made him puzzled, wondering if he was hallucinating, but the scene just now was too real, he just heard the screams, so he followed the sound and watched it, but he didn't expect to see a hellish scene.

As soon as the cold wind blew, the homeless man wrapped up his thin clothes tightly and fell into a dilemma, whether to temporarily go to a ready-made "haunted house" to escape the cold, or wait on the street to freeze to death.

He thought twice and chose the former.

He hypnotized himself again and again in his heart, and the scene just now was just a hallucination caused by his own cold fainting, and then slowly approached the door and lifted the lock.

At this time, he saw the shape of the key in his hand, which was very strange, only a bare body, and strange grooved graphics were engraved on all sides, which was not the same as the usual keys.

Another gust of cold wind made him shiver, and the physical discomfort made him temporarily put aside the doubts about the key in his heart.

The key was inserted into the hole again, the lock was opened, and the homeless man pushed the door open with a shudder, and poked his head cautiously......

"Huh!"

A dark shadow sprang up from the ground and broke straight into the homeless man's eyes.

“…… Yes! ”

The homeless man was stunned for a moment, and suddenly let out a loud scream.

Fortunately, the monster only jumped up very high, and did not come up completely, and in a small house, the entire underground became a black hole, except for the threshold, there was no foothold.

And here, the frightened homeless man sat directly on the ground with weak legs, and a monster that jumped up grabbed it with a big hand and hung it directly on his ankle.

The nose with only holes was snorting and flapping, frantically sniffing the human flesh of the homeless man, and the hungry and thirsty mouth had already opened and closed, and the sharp teeth touched each other, making a terrible "click" sound.

"Ahh Holy! Holy! ”

The homeless man struggled to break free, his thigh punctured by the monster's sharp nails, and blood flowed freely.