Without any warning, Cheng Jiayi suddenly woke up.

She couldn't remember when she fell asleep while sitting on the couch, and the moment she woke up, her heart pounded as if it was about to jump out of her chest.

Outside the window and indoors were still in the dark, Cheng Jiayi sat quietly for a while, waiting for her heartbeat to ease before she took out her mobile phone.

Twelve.

It's only twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

Cheng Jiayi turned her head to look out the dark window.

After sleeping for a while, my heart calmed down a lot. Everything from the previous day was more like a dream.

But what day is not like a dream these days?

Her gaze fell on the bag in front of her. After looking at it for a while, she opened her bag and took out the transparent sealed bag.

I will definitely be able to absorb it. If it grows in the head, it can also bring strength to people, and if you can't absorb it, won't it grow in vain? The only thing that I didn't experiment with was absorbing it after exerting strength.

The moon is dark and the wind is high and the night kills.

Cheng Jiayi's hand twisted the sealed bag.

She took out the contents of her schoolbag one by one, picked it for a while, only put in a bottle of sugar water, a few pieces of chocolate, and then touched the fruit knife on her waist. The crystals were then separated into two sealed bags, one of which was placed in a small zipper on the outside.

Throwing her schoolbag behind her back, she silently walked to the door, picked up the iron rod that stood against the door, looked back in the direction of the room, and listened.

There was no sound.

Du Yiyi has always slept very lightly.

Cheng Jiayi turned her head, gently unscrewed the door, and went out.

Every time she went down the floor, Cheng Jiayi would twist the door of the stairwell, and the third floor was open, and there was no smell in it.

The first and second floors are all store rooms, there is no door in the stairwell, and Cheng Jiayi soon went downstairs.

The four seasons in the north are distinct, and the temperature difference is also large, and midnight is the coolest time. Pushing open the unit door, Cheng Jiayi took a deep breath of air.

There was a silence of night in the air, and an indescribable smell.

Cheng Jiayi walked in the shadow of the building and quickly left through the south gate.

Outside the south gate is a small road, opposite the old community that is not closed, and then there is the factory road, which is the road that I drove through in the morning.

She stood and listened to the sound of the night.

The night was silent, but there were many voices in this night.

The sound of the wind, the growth of plants, the sound of wild cats, dogs or rats moving in the shadows...... Or there is the sound of someone who is as unsightly as she is peeping in the dark.

Cheng Jiayi crossed the small road and walked into the building group opposite.

This place is completely unfamiliar to her.

Even without the advice of parents and teachers, she always knew not to go to an unfamiliar environment. An unfamiliar, isolated environment means danger.

But that's all in the past. Now, the stranger and more remote she is, the safer she is.

Of course, there are also dangers. But it could be someone who was unfortunate enough to meet her or something.

Cheng Jiayi hung her hands, and the iron rod was attached to the trouser line, hidden in the shadow of her body.

The space in the old buildings is not spacious, most of the open space is occupied by parked vehicles, and there is also some greenery in it, which also occupies all the ground except the asphalt road.

The breeze blew, and there was a faint sound in the grass, which also brought a familiar smell.

The taste of the night.

The smell hidden in the dark.

Cheng Jiayi slowed down, tilted his head slightly, and looked at the dark grass vigilantly, listening to the movement in the grass.

The grass fluttered, and Cheng Jiayi stood still, holding the iron rod tightly.

A black shadow suddenly burst out of the grass, a pair of brown eyes seemed to glow in the darkness, and the body that jumped up was narrow and powerful, and the moment it hit the ground, it jumped up again.

Cheng Jiayi's eyes widened suddenly, and his body faced the black shadow on one side, and the iron rod was raised to the ground, and he struck at the black shadow.

The black shadow deftly turned a corner in mid-air, and actually brushed against the iron rod, Cheng Jiayi made the old man with strength, and his body also turned an arc with the iron rod, and when he turned around, he was facing the black shadow's sight.

A black cat.

The familiar smell came with the sound of the wind, and the iron rod in Cheng Jiayi's hand was rounded again and greeted him.

"Bang!"

"Whew-"

The black cat rolled around on the ground, quickly jumped up and disappeared into the grass. There was a trace of blood in the air, sweet and silky, but not greasy.

Cheng Jiayi's heart didn't beat violently, but he suddenly swung the iron rod twice violently, making his arm a little uncomfortable.

There is no slow-motion movement, so although she is vigorously moving, she does not feel hungry or weak.

Cheng Jiayi was slightly disappointed.

However, being able to avoid the wildcat and hit the second blow back proved that without using the power of the crystal, her body reacted much faster than before.

She wanted to harness the power of crystals.

Cheng Jiayi looked at the direction in which the wild cat disappeared and gave up entering the grass to pursue.

She continued to walk slowly, sniffing lightly, tracing the faint smell of blood.

The front row of cars is parked on one side of the road, leaving only the other half of the road. In the crevices of the tiles on the side stones of the path, there are tenacious weeds that have been drilled out, not dense, but very high.

Under the dark body is the best hiding place for wild cats, wild dogs and mice. Of course, the unclosed corridors in the buildings at night are also the best places for them.

Cheng Jiayi stood down, and then walked slowly over like a ghost.

The first car, the second car, Cheng Jiayi suddenly jumped up and rushed forward two or three steps suddenly turned around, the iron rod in her hand drew an arc, this time she saw the black shadow moving slowly in mid-air as she wished, the iron rod adjusted its movements in time and hit the black shadow's head fiercely.

The sound of a blunt blow to the flesh, the black shadow didn't even make a sound, it was whipped and rolled onto the weeds on the walking brick face, and an extremely strong sweet smell filled the air.

Cheng Jiayi looked left and right vigilantly, and was just about to take a step, when a thin and powerful body suddenly rushed out from behind the car on the right, like a gust of wind, and pounced on the body of the wild cat.

Cheng Jiayi grabbed a step, but he was half a minute slower than the black shadow, and the iron rod he picked up didn't have time to fall, and the black shadow had already landed in front of the wild cat's corpse.

Dog!

Cheng Jiayi's footsteps paused, turned around and held the iron rod in both hands.

It was a wild dog that couldn't see the color of the coat, and Cheng Jiayi couldn't recognize the dog's name, and in the darkness he could only see that the wild dog's body was slender and strong, and there seemed to be no fat on his body.

If it weren't for the fact that it was viciously lowering its body and emitting a low, threatening snoring sound from its throat, it could have been described as bodybuilding.

Cheng Jiayi's heart tightened, she squinted her eyes, put on an attacking posture, and slowly pressed forward step by step.

Wild dogs have greater attack power than wild cats, and their strength will be stronger than that of wild cats. Just now, the wild dog was faster than she could react.

However, Cheng Jiayi is trying to force himself into a desperate territory. Rise from the ashes.

"Whew-" The wild dog let out a low threat, and another gust of wind blew, and the weeds behind him rattled, and the air once again filled with a special smell.