At half past eight o'clock in the evening of July 8, Chen Xiao, who had just finished receiving customers, was wandering on the bright street.

Some people say that an ordinary person's life should have three stages: the first stage, realizing that his parents are ordinary people; the second stage, admitting that he is an ordinary person; The third stage is to understand that your child is an ordinary person.

Now, Chen Xiao is in the second stage.

Three years after graduating from university, I changed two companies. Even if you are conscientious, the salary level is still as calm as a turtle walking.

An alley leading to the old neighborhood, littered with garbage and left unattended.

Chen Xiao stepped on the dusty concrete steps, and the warm yellow corridor lamp stretched his shadow very long little by little.

The staircase wall is printed with a bunch of unlocking advertisements, and the green paint has fallen off to reveal the white primer.

Chen Xiao wiped it with one hand, stained with white ash.

Climbing to the top floor, Chen Xiao took out the key, walked in skillfully, and closed the door with his hand.

The location of this house is relatively okay, it is a shared house he found on the Internet, two bedrooms and one living room, and he rented a second bedroom. Small is a little smaller, but it has all the organs. The cost of living in big cities is high, and it is not easy to find a cheap house close to the company.

Bite!

"Zhaocai Bank reminds you that tomorrow is your repayment day, and you still have 5047.08 yuan to repay, click to view details."

Looking at the phone, Chen Xiao's eyelids jumped.

At that time, he really shouldn't have given so many gifts with his own affection, and now people are patting their butts and leaving him with only a bunch of debts, damn bitch.

Staring at the mobile phone screen for a long time, Chen Xiao sighed decadently, opened the APP and returned the money.

After repaying the money, Chen Xiao looked at the text message from the bank again, and the balance of the salary just sent was only three digits: "There are still more than 20 days to pay wages, and I have to tighten my belt to live." ”

With towels and washbasins on the rusty iron shelves, Chen Xiao picked up the washbasin and walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet and took half a basin of cold water.

Chen Xiao put a wet towel on his face, and the chill made him sober up a little.

After washing up and going to bed, it was close to ten o'clock at night, Chen Xiao put his mobile phone on the bedside to charge, set the alarm clock, and fell asleep.

Receiving customers tonight, Chen Xiao drank a lot of wine. The wine suddenly rose from this down, and it was not long before he fell into a deep sleep.

The night breeze kept coming in through the cracks in the poorly closed windows, making a rustling of wind.

In the middle of the night, Chen Xiao had a splitting headache and woke up.

"I won't drink so much in the future." Chen Xiao got up and took the empty cup at the head of the bed to the living room.

As soon as he opened the door, he stumbled and almost fell to the ground, and before he could react, something wrapped around his bare feet and dragged him up with ease.

Chen Xiao felt that his body was empty, and he was directly dragged out and hung outside the window on the 6th floor.

A violent feeling of weightlessness hit him, and his heart seemed to rise to his throat.

"What the hell?"

The moonlight outside the building was bright, and Chen Xiao could see clearly what it was.

It was a strange creature he had never seen before, a tree-like thing overgrown with vines that kept throbbing like an octopus's feet.

Its "feet" are like creepers on the wall, firmly grasping the wall, and rushing towards the roof.

On the roof, a young man in a blue baseball jacket stands in the night breeze, smiling with one hand in his pocket.

Behind him was a mess, with strange corpses all over the ground, some still squirming and struggling, and it was obvious that a fierce battle had just been fought here.

There was also a young man in a white shirt who was holding a cyan pentagonal stone and buttoning it upside down on the ground.

A burst of blue light lit up from the stone, fluctuating like ripples.

The light suddenly burst out, and an unknown force emerged from the stone, and suddenly all the strange corpses on the ground were swallowed by the stone whale like a cow, and there was not even a residue left.

The young man in the white shirt said to the man in the baseball jacket, "Captain, there's one more." ”

The young man in the blue baseball jacket let out an "um".

Scorching black flames suddenly erupted from the feet of the young man in the blue baseball jacket.

Bang!

Black flames exploded.

The grotesque screamed, rolling on the ground, and the withered vines fluttered.

A young man in a blue baseball jacket flips and kicks, blasting the bizarre spikes into the wall.

Strange debris splattered in all directions.

Chen Xiao, who was on the side, subconsciously blocked with his arm, only to feel that his arm was suddenly hit by something.

A piece of ruby caught in the crumbs, bounced up at great speed and shot into Chen Xiao's palm.

In Chen Xiao's surprised gaze, the ruby gradually melted into his flesh and blood.

A burning sensation came from the palm of your hand.

Chen Xiao was dizzy for a while, and then an emotionless mechanical voice came from his mind.

"Blood Red Binding Successful!"

Chen Xiao: "......"

He stared blankly at everything in front of him, and at the bottom of his line of sight was a red progress bar, on which was a column of transparent boxes, empty: "What is this?" ”

"It's weird that it's not even F-grade, it's really pitiful." A young man in a blue baseball jacket pulls out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth.

He held out his index finger, and a handful of black flames burned out of thin air on his index finger.

A young man in a blue baseball jacket uses his index finger as a lighter and lights a cigarette.

He stood there and took a deep breath, the cigarette pouring back and forth in his lungs.

After a long pause, he pursed his lips and spit out the smoke in his lungs.

The cyan smoke formed a circle of light in the hazy moonlight, swirling and dissipating.

The young man in a blue baseball jacket flicked the cigarette ash in his fingers and looked at Chen Xiao: "Boy, is there anything you want to ask?" ”

After a short silence, Chen Xiao swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "No..."

The person in front of him is friend or foe, will he think that he knows and kill too many people? Chen Xiao has a lot of questions, but staying silent at this time should be the best choice.

A hint of surprise flashed across the face of the young man in the blue baseball jacket, and he took a puff of his cigarette and did not speak again.

"Captain, the source power has been collected." The man in the white shirt said as he put the mirror into his arms.

"It's still a little bit. Forget it, let's try our luck again, the level of the Taixu that came this time is a bit low. A young man in a blue baseball jacket snuffs out a cigarette duct.

"Captain, what should he do?" The man in the white shirt lifted his chin and gestured.

The young man in the blue baseball jacket looked around and said, "Count him unlucky, let's kill him." ”

His tone was understated, Chen Xiao's life was not worth mentioning in his eyes.

Hearing this, Chen Xiao's face turned pale: "Don't kill me, I don't know anything." ”

"It's useless, the weak don't have the right to negotiate!" The man in the white shirt shot out a clear light from his hand, piercing Chen Xiao's chest, leaving a bloody hole, and fell backwards to the ground, out of breath.

The young man in a blue baseball jacket walked to the edge of the rooftop step by step, looking at the lights of thousands of homes in the county, his face was full of indifference: "Let's go!" ”

Just after they left, Chen Xiao's palm, which had turned into a corpse, glowed with blood-red light.

The strange corpse remains scattered on the ground were ingested by the light.

The hole in Chen Xiao's chest was restored at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Moonlight is like water.

On the silent rooftop, there was a sudden sound of heartbeat.

"Ahem!"

With a cough, Chen Xiao opened his eyes.

He touched his chest, and his fresh heart beat violently: "I'm not dead!" ”

Chen Xiao, who had been closed by the ghost gate for a while, was in a mess in his mind, and he was weak and didn't even have the right to control his own life and death. What the man had said to him before pierced his soul.

Chen Xiao, who stayed on the roof, cautiously looked into the distance from the roof, the brightly lit city had been completely swallowed up by darkness, and there was no light.

The moonlight and stars, which were difficult to see in the city before, are now revealed.

The hazy moonlight shrouded the city, giving Chen Xiao an unbelievable illusion.

Chen Xiao didn't stay on the roof for too long and returned downstairs.

The door to the sixth floor had twisted a crack open, and it was presumably from here that the strange creature had crept in.

This also saves Chen Xiao the trouble of finding the key.

When he returned to his room, Chen Xiao found that the lights in the room were not on, and he thought that the whole city was dark, and he guessed that it was a rare power outage.

However, when he opened his phone, he found that there was no signal on his phone.

The continuous abnormal phenomenon made Chen Xiao's heart chuckle.

As he continued to flip through his phone, his pupils plummeted — all the apps on the screen were distorted and then vanished.