In the dimly lit bathroom, Chen Ge sat alone in the bathtub, he breathed repeatedly to expel the residual exhaust gas from his lungs.

3:44 a.m. was the intersection of night and dawn, and he had only one chance, so he had to be cautious.

The room was quiet, there was no movement in the hallway, and the monster in the mirror didn't seem to come.

Time passed by minute and second, Chen Ge put aside the electronic watch he had specially found, and when the number representing time on the screen became forty-three, his attention was highly concentrated, he opened his mouth, and began to inhale slowly.

The candle flame danced, Chen Ge's body slowly tilted downward, his gaze was on the electronic watch from beginning to end, unprecedentedly focused.

When the numbers on the screen changed again, Chen Ge did not hesitate and lay his head back in the bathtub.

3:44 a.m.!

The icy water seemed to come from all directions, drowning him.

Sinking into the water in the middle of the night is a peculiar feeling.

Absolute darkness, as if the world was left with itself, was sinking; It was absolutely silent, only the sound of my own body could be heard in my ears, and my heart was beating.

The icy water stimulated every nerve, and Chen Ge lay at the bottom of the bathtub, abandoning all distractions and silently counting his heartbeat.

"Sixty seconds, just hold on for sixty seconds."

He had never experienced anything like this, the night and the water seemed to merge into one, and the candle flame was like a lighthouse getting farther and farther away, and he seemed to be sinking into the deep sea.

"One, two......"

After the first ten seconds, time seems to slow down a lot.

The sound of water flowing sounded in his ears, and the walls were full of darkness, Chen Ge silently recited the names of his parents, maintaining the initial movements, holding the handle of the kitchen knife with both hands, letting his body be driven by the water waves.

The oxygen in his lungs was slowly being consumed, and Chen Ge felt a slight discomfort, as if something heavy was pressing on his body.

"Fifteen, Sixteen ......"

Every time the heart beats, it consumes oxygen from the lungs, and as the heart slows down, time seems to become slower, and each second is broken into countless segments.

The discomfort gradually became stronger, as if a pair of hands were slowly pressing on the neck, and it was clenching little by little.

Lying in the water, Chen Ge opened his eyes, and he couldn't see anything through the water, as if he had been imprisoned in another world.

After about another three or four seconds, his face became more and more ugly, not pale in the usual sense.

"How long did I hold out? It should be almost ready, right? ”

The water ran across his ears, and a strange sound suddenly appeared in the dead silence.

It seemed to come from the corridor outside the door, and Chen Ge didn't know why he could hear it so clearly, maybe the other party deliberately made a noise just to distract him.

"Footsteps? Someone pacing back and forth in the hallway? ”

His slowed heartbeat began to speed up again, and his body unconsciously tensed: "It may be that the monster in the mirror is coming to me, I hope the dolls can hold on, and I will be able to complete the task in thirty seconds at most!" ”

His mind was running more and more slowly, and his ears began to buzz, Chen Ge's condition was not very good, the footsteps in the corridor made him highly nervous, he was forced to carry it without distraction, and continued to silently recite his parents' names while calculating his heartbeat.

"Twenty-Eight, Twenty-Nine......"

The water poured into his ears, the voice was a little distorted, and the footsteps gradually became rapid, and the other party seemed to be trying to find a way to get in.

After a few more seconds, Chen Ge felt as if his chest was being pressed by a boulder, the blood vessels on his neck slowly protruded, his hands and feet were cold, and his body felt a sense of powerlessness.

The brain's reaction is getting slower and slower, and Chen Ge is now insisting on it all by his own will.

"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”

Without warning, something slammed into the door.

Chen Ge's heart suddenly lifted, and the thing outside the house couldn't help it!

Probably because there was a puppet behind the door, after the other party smashed it three times and found that he couldn't open the door, he stopped this meaningless act, and the room was quiet again.

It was still the same situation as before, the only difference was Chen Ge himself, normally he could hold his breath for a minute, but the sound of footsteps in the corridor and the sound of banging on the door just now made his heart beat faster, and his oxygen consumption would increase greatly in a tense state.

He felt like he was reaching his limit, the last shred of oxygen in his lungs was drained, and every second was an ordeal for him.

"Thirty-nine, forty ......"

When the silent count reached forty, Chen Ge's brain was dizzy, and his physical condition no longer allowed him to continue to count silently.

Unable to be distracted, the feeling of suffocation became more and more intense, Chen Ge's consciousness began to blur, and he couldn't remember many things, but instinctively recalled the memories of his parents.

The blood vessels are exposed, bulging on the pale skin, the big tendons on the neck are moving, and the fingers holding the kitchen knife are gradually loosening.

He felt like he was on the verge of death, and he understood the words of the mission.

When time goes between night and dawn, you can see people on the edge of life and death.

The meaning of this sentence is that at the moment of day and night, the dying person can see the scene of the other world in advance!

Chen Ge looked at the water without blinking, his pupils were dilating, the water seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him, no one saw him, there was only darkness in front of him, so deep that it was desperately dark.

It was as if the lungs were being squeezed, and it was an indescribable feeling of suffocation.

"No, if you continue like this, you may really drown in the bathtub."

More than half of the forty-fourth minute of three o'clock in the morning has passed, and the person Chen Ge wants to see still hasn't appeared, he no longer has any illusions, or he feels glad in his heart that his parents didn't appear, at least it means that they are still alive.

With his cold arms propped up on the bottom of the tub, he used what little shred of reason he had to make a decision that it was time to give up.

With both hands straining, Chen Ge was about to get out of the water, and suddenly it didn't feel right!

Something was holding his head down, preventing him from leaving.

The dilated pupils shrank suddenly, and Chen Ge looked at the top of his head, where there was obviously nothing!

The puppet blocked the door and around the bathtub, and the monster in the mirror shouldn't be able to get in, right, who is doing the blame?

The blood vessels on his neck were stretched, Chen Ge's face was ugly and scary, life and death were at stake, he tried his last strength, held the kitchen knife in his hand and waved it above his head.

Without oxygen for a long time, his body and will have reached the limit, like a spring that has been pulled to the top, which may collapse at any time.

The kitchen knife was waved, the water splashed, Chen Ge seemed to have cut something in a trance, and only a crisp sound of "pop" was heard in his ears, and the power above his head disappeared instantly.

Without any hindrance, Chen Ge sat up from the bathtub at once, gulping down the air!