He said a lot to me that day, things he didn't normally say. ”

"The guy you're talking about, is he still in this building?" Chen Ge could hear the voices around him trembling.

"He moved out and hasn't been back for a long time."

"Do you want to see him again?" Chen Ge gently tugged at the corner of his clothes: "I think you should have a lot of things to say to him, after all, he is the one who makes you cold and can't feel warm." ”

"I ......"

"It's okay, I'll help you, I'll definitely help you." Chen Ge leaned against the wall and slowly stood up: "If he doesn't leave Hanjiang, within a week, I will bring him here." When you've seen him, I can take you to a warmer place. ”

The woman didn't answer, and Chen Ge wasn't in a hurry: "Now I have one more reason to live, you keep your coat, I'll come back." ”

Taking a step, Chen Ge was about to go up, when the woman's voice sounded behind him again: "Don't go any further, you can't come back." ”

"Can't come back? Why? ”

"Because thirteen floors are fourteen above them."

A coat was stuffed into Singer Chen, and the cold and damp feeling slowly dissipated.

"What does she want to tell me?" Chen Ge grabbed the coat in his hand: "There are no fourteen floors in the residential buildings in Jiangyuan Community, and the thirteenth floor should be fifteen floors, but she said that the thirteenth floor is the fourteenth floor?" In other words, the fourteenth floor actually exists? ”

Having come here, Chen Ge will not retreat, he knows that he is very close to the truth.

Counting the steps silently in his heart, Chen Ge came to the thirteenth floor, this floor is very quiet, just like an ordinary residential corridor, there is no abnormality.

Walking to the fourteenth floor, when Chen Ge was halfway there, the tip of his nose moved slightly, and he smelled the aroma of rice.

I don't know what it's made of, or what kind of dish it is, but my brain seems to know in an instant that it's a smell of rice, as if it's imprinted in the depths of my memory.

"It's from the fourteenth floor, and someone is cooking?"

Step by step, I don't know if it was because of too much physical exertion or too much mental exhaustion, Chen Ge felt that there were a lot of steps between the thirteenth and fourteenth floors.

The number of leg lifts is the same as on other floors, but it takes more time.

The fingertips fell, and the originally smooth wall surface appeared dry cracked wall skin, and there seemed to be a lot of debris in the corridor.

Everything around him gave Chen Ge a feeling of familiarity and strangeness.

He mechanically repeated the action of lifting his legs and falling, smelling the smell of rice, and finally came to the fourteenth floor.

When he had just stood firm, the doorway in the corridor rotated, making a rattling sound, an iron door was opened, and then a man's voice came from the depths of the corridor: "Chen Ge, go home?" ”

The moment he heard this voice, Chen Ge's mind went blank, and he turned abruptly to face the corridor.

He has listened to this man's voice for more than 20 years, and this sentence has come home, and he doesn't know how many times he has heard it since he was a child.

He had taken the voice to heart, carved it into his bones.

"The meal is ready, and as soon as you go upstairs, your mother hears your footsteps."

Fingernails dug into the flesh, Chen Ge slowly raised his arm and grabbed the black cloth that was blindfolded.

He wanted to see, he had never wanted to open his eyes so much.

The hand that grabbed the black cloth became harder and harder, and blue and black veins appeared on the back of his hand.

"How does it feel to go to school alone for the first time?"

"Other children are picked up and dropped?!"

"No one bullied you, right?"

"Have you made friends? You have such a personality like me, shouldn't you be unpopular? ”

"Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands, don't run around......"

A sentence came from the depths of the hallway, until the doorshaft turned again and the iron door shut.

The man's voice was gone, and the voices of others rang out in the hallway, men and women, old and young.

"What's wrong with the new family? Every day in the middle of the night, he waits for the child to fall asleep and then goes out, no wonder his child has nightmares every day. ”

"Have you heard that his house is full of laughter during the day and crying at night, and the child is not afraid to be alone in the house?"

"It's strange, I saw their family of three go out during the day today, why are there still children crying in the house at night?"

"Brothers! One thing I found out was that the new one was not the adult's problem, but the child's! I saw with my own eyes that a doctor from a hospital in Xinhai came to treat the child! Don't let your children play with him! ”

"How do you feel that after being treated by the doctor, the child is even sicker? Did you know? The child told his parents about his nightmares during the day, and at night when his parents were not at home, he told his own shadows about those nightmares, which scared him to death! ”

"That's not right, he doesn't sleep day and night, when did he have nightmares? Was the kid really talking about a dream? ”

"Don't scare me, forget it, they're about to move out anyway, bear with it for a few more days."

"Move out?"

"Well, I heard that I am going to the western suburbs, and the child's parents are going to work in a paradise."

The sound in his ears slowly dissipated, and Chen Ge was still standing in place, his hand still clutching the blindfolded black cloth.

After a long while, Chen Ge took a deep breath: "I only remember those beautiful things, I have forgotten most of what the neighbors said, but there are a few key points that need to be paid attention to." ”

"When I was very young, I came into contact with a doctor from Xinhai Hospital, and after being treated by him, I began to tell my shadow about nightmares."

"My shadow should have been strange from that time, and the key to everything was the doctor."

"Is it a coincidence that the doctor came from Xinhai, and the cursed hospital is between Xinhai and Hanjiang?"

Standing on the fourteenth floor, Chen Ge silently turned around and turned his back to the corridor that made various sounds.

He slowly pressed his hand to the black cloth, and finally removed the black cloth that was a little wet, and his eyes were still closed.

"I'd love to open my eyes and see you, but I know it's impossible." Chen Ge didn't look back, leaned against the wall, and continued to walk up: "You have given me everything you have, and now I will use everything I have to find you." ”

In the dark corridor, Chen Ge's back was a little different from the past.

15th, 16th, 17th floors......

Counting the steps in his heart, Chen Ge knew that he was now on the seventeenth floor, which was theoretically the top floor of this building, but he didn't hurry to open his eyes.

"Fourteen floors don't exist, but the girl with a cold body said that thirteen floors are fourteen floors. The building originally had seventeen floors, and if you add the extra fourteen floors, there should be a total of eighteen floors, just like eighteen floors of hell. ”

After Chen Ge finished speaking, he touched the wall and moved his steps, and soon the tips of his shoes touched the steps going up.

"Sure enough, there's an eighteenth floor."