Obviously, this is not a normal building, I heard the story of a mirage on the sea a few years ago, it is an illusion formed by the condensation of fog, and it looks very real from a distance, as if there is a fairy mountain building floating on the water.

Compared to the legends I heard, I think what I see now is more real and immersive.

"What the hell is this?" I pressed my temples and asked myself.

There was no answer, just staring blankly at the real building in front of him until the cigarette butt burned to his hand.

"Shhh He took a breath and opened the window to throw the cigarette butt out.

My mind was already a mess at this point, and now I was clearly exposed to something beyond science.

But rather than a mirage, I think it's the obsession in my heart, the sense that my inner thoughts are made up of some hallucinogenic substance.

"Hallucinations, hallucinations." I told myself, "It's all fake, don't be afraid!" ”

But after saying that, I raised my hand tremblingly and stuffed a cigarette into my mouth.

……

At 4 p.m., I had finished smoking a pack of cigarettes in my car, and the rain had not stopped at all, and the building was still standing in front of me.

I looked at the building and knew that Du Chen's courier was delivered here on time every month, and most of my father's disappearance was because of it.

"What the hell is this place?" I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and snuffed out the last cigarette with my hand, the hot heat burning my fingers, and the white smoke mixed with the sound of burning.

"Poke!" He scolded angrily again, gritted his teeth, and decided to take a look, otherwise what would I have bothered to find out what I was here for?

Pinching my fingers, the pain frantically irritated my nerves.

"Find that room, find out what Du Chen has sent here all these years."

In his last breath, he walked into the rain with a baseball bat in his pocket and a flashlight.

The icy rain hit me, and in front of me was an eerie building hidden under the moonlight.

The building that didn't exist, but it reappeared.

Approaching step by step, Ke Rao made up his mind in his heart, and he couldn't stop trembling at this time.

The iron gate surrounding the house was close at hand, and I knew the real and the unreal only for the moment I reached out to touch it.

When I walked to the iron gate, I soon found that the lock here was rusty, and the black pile was crawling all over the lock body, and the rain was splashing on it.

Everything was real, and I took a deep breath knowing that this was not a dream, not nothingness.

Then he held his breath and reached out, and soon the cold touch came back.

My scalp tingled, and I was stunned for a moment, and my consciousness suddenly drifted away.

"It's not an illusion, there is no such real illusion in the world."

Then he used his hand to exert force, and the lock was warped off with almost no effort.

The dilapidated door, with a piercing creak in the torrential rain, shook and was opened.

I just stood there dumbfounded, the dark night, the majestic rain, and the light of the flashlight projected in the courtyard, as if it was a beam of light in the chaos of nothingness.

And along the light I saw overgrown weeds and miserable eyes.

The house that wasn't supposed to exist was not far from me.

There are eight floors in total, from top to bottom, my eyes follow the flashlight to the place covered with the corpses of creepers, those vegetation is like a layer of cloth covering the outside of the building, although I don't know why it has dried up, but it is also densely packed, wrapping the building tightly, those places that occasionally show the outside of the rhizome, all I can see are the yellowed walls, and the windows that are open with broken vegetation.

The railing outside the window has rusted and is not in shape, it is half-hung there by the wind, and you can even hear the sound of swaying from afar, of course, the glass is also broken, and the unbroken is also smashed out of a hexagonal opening.

As far as the eye could see, it was all ruined.

"Where is this? What is this place? Is it Jiangpo? Or is it another world? ”

All sorts of ideas kept jumping into my head.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, I pinched myself, still not daring to walk in here so easily.

But now the rain was heavier, and in a short time my clothes were already wet from the inside out, and the sticky feeling was very uncomfortable against the flesh.

Get back? No way, there's no turning back when I open the bow, I'm a pure man.

Get in? I'm so scared!

Damn, I'm struggling, but I'm thinking I'll find a place to shelter from the rain no matter how bad it is.

I swept back and forth with a flashlight, and after making sure that there was no one, I still walked in.

In the heavy rain, I lowered my head and slammed forward, but after walking for a while, I found that in addition to some weeds, there were a lot of mud here, and it was basically a little difficult for people to walk when I stepped on it.

It seems that it was all left over from the construction of the infrastructure, and there is no cement paving or brick road here, so this community should still belong to an unfinished defective product. But why? Why is this building still unbuilt in this place? Is it the same reason as in my real world? I do not know.

However, this strange thought flashed through my mind and quickly disappeared, because the rain was so strong that I had to make an instinctive reaction to avoid the rain.

It took me a long time to reach the foot of the building.

At this time, the dark clouds dispersed, and the moonlight fell with the torrential rain, and I saw that in the middle of the front of the building was a large gate, the gate was an old-fashioned wooden sliding door, and there were two handles in the middle of the door, and there was an iron railing on the door, and a huge lock locked the door tightly, but because it had been deserted for so long, one of the handles of the door was actually loosened, and a gap for people to enter and exit appeared in front of me.

The rain continued unabated, pouring down and crackling down on me.

Like a life-saving straw, I ran in the heavy rain and jumped on three feet in one step.

But at this time, the wind and rain were heavy, and the eaves of the hut in front of the door could not stop the pouring rain on me, and there was no way, so I didn't have time to think about it, so I covered my face with one hand and pushed on the switch of the flashlight, squeezed through the crack in the door and got into the building.

As soon as he entered, the sound of the wind was extinguished in an instant, and the sound suddenly stopped, and there was a dead silence all around.

The contrast is huge, as if you have entered another world.

I drained my hair, took off my clothes, and swept around with my flashlight.

I have to say that the layout and architectural style here are really old-fashioned houses.

Inside the gate is a hall, directly in front of the hall is a staircase, and on the left and right sides are the passages that extend to both sides, mostly because of the creeper, the light in the corridor is very dim, and the poor moonlight shines in, miserable.

I stared at that place, and my mind was confused for a while, I have to say that in dim places, there are always strange thoughts, dark shadows that cannot be illuminated by flashlights, as if there are small footsteps moving, and behind the broken door wall, there are children laughing.

"Don't think about it, don't think about it!" I kept talking to myself.

"1023" I thought to myself, began to shift my thoughts, and then tapped my footsteps towards the side of the hallway.

The hallway was filled with the smell of decay, and the wooden doors on the first floor were rotten, and the shafts had fallen off the joints, causing them all to fall to the ground.

I walked crunching on the old wood.

The slight sound of footsteps in the huge building spread to every corner little by little, and echoed to my ears, as if there were countless people walking.

I subconsciously looked around, and saw nothing in the mottled hallway, except for the shadow cast by my flashlight. and the white paint that has long since peeled off on the wall, it is peeling off piece by piece, leaving behind the concave and convex surfaces like dead people's faces hanging on the wall.

Seeing this, I suddenly felt a coax in my heart, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and silently recited the "socialist core values" in my heart.

As I read and walked, I recited the 24 words back and forth four or five times, and soon followed the rest of the dusty house numbers to roughly determine the direction.

“1024、1025！” With my flashlight, I tilted my head and looked forward, for fear of misreading the shabby door signs, "Looks like this is it." ”

Sure enough, this is not the door of the residents, but like a storefront.

It has a large lintel, and there is a telescopic door on the outside of the gate, which is the type that opens and closes on both sides and locks in the middle. On both sides of the door, there are bright red couplets, and the couplets are covered with a thick layer of gray, and they are so dilapidated that they have long been unable to recognize the words on them, but the horizontal couplets on the door frame can vaguely see the four big characters of "auspicious stars shine high".

I remember in 01 years, the couplet was like this, because its content was not very rich at that time, there were no such bells and whistles, and the only thing that could be written was what Sanyang Kaitai, Wufu Linmen, Jixing Gaozhao and the like.

There is also a dilapidated gossip mirror hanging on the horizontal couplet, the mirror has long been unable to refract the light, and the surrounding copper edges are also rusty spots.

Directly across the door from the mirror hangs a mailbox with an electric light bulb on it, of course, it has long since been lit up for a long time, but the spider has made its home here, and it uses the light bulb as a base point, and the huge cobwebs stretch out in all directions.

It's a very ordinary old-fashioned community style, ordinary can't be more ordinary, but everything is put in this place, and everything has changed.

The telescopic door was unlocked, and I easily pulled it open.

Inside was an iron door, and there was an obvious bump on the iron door, and I reached out to wipe it while shining a flashlight.

The door number is revealed.

1023。

"Finally...... Finally found it. "My heart began to beat wildly, and this is where Du Chen has been mailing things for the past few years.

"What could be inside? What did Du Chen send? Or the recipient? ”

Standing in front of the door at this time, I didn't know what to think, I was stunned, and I actually reached out and pushed the door.

The hinge of the "crunching" iron door made a screeching sound.

The door is not locked......

It's on!