Standing at the door of the private room, I looked down at the blood stains that were dripping on the floor.

On the white floor tiles, there were clumps of black blood, which looked very similar to the thick marinade seen at Zhang Ying's stall at noon.

At this moment, the group of men and women in the room became a little impatient.

They asked Su Quan to come in quickly, don't delay the playing of cards, Su Quan sighed, and said to me: "Tang Xiaofan, are you in trouble?" I'll go in if it's okay. ”

I was thinking about how to explain the purpose of my visit, and when I saw that Su Quan didn't ask, I quickly withdrew.

Coming down from the mahjong parlor, I looked around.

On the streets at this moment, some vendors who set up night markets have closed their stalls.

Just now Zhang Ying chased the bald head downstairs, and now I am standing downstairs in the mahjong hall, but I can't see her anymore.

Looking down, I saw some bruises on the ground, and I put some directly on the tip of my nose and smelled it, it was a strong fishy smell.

Following the direction of the drop of blood, I walked all the way through.

Walking through this street, I turned a curving alley, and the further I went, the stranger everything around me became.

I think it's very strange, I think I've lived in Qingshen County for more than 20 years, the county seat is not big, not to mention that I am familiar with every corner, but at least I know where every street leads.

However, the ground I was on was surprisingly strange.

Under the reflection of a full moon in the sky, everything around was extremely cold.

The houses on both sides are only two floors, not very tall.

There were no street lights, no light coming out of the windows, and it was surprisingly dark except for the moonlight in the sky.

The blood on the ground was gone, and I sneezed, suddenly feeling a little cold.

The cold came up from the ground, and I wanted to go back, but I couldn't find the way I came.

After several laps, I was still wandering in place.

I was flustered and stood there at a loss. There was no one around, and there was a suffocating sense of solidification on the empty street.

Slowly, I heard a voice, coming from an unknown corner.

The sound was like a man screaming, so miserable that I got goosebumps on my body.

The miserable sound grew louder and louder, and the whole thing surrounded me, and I was getting more and more creepy to hear it.

The cold wind was constantly blowing towards me, and I couldn't stop shivering.

At that moment, a figure suddenly jumped in front of me from nowhere, and slammed into me. As I screamed, I heard the other person's voice.

The person who rushed towards me was Zhang Ying.

She and I both fell to the ground, and when we looked up at each other, we both breathed a sigh of relief.

A moment later, I asked her what had just happened, and her expression immediately turned terrified:

"Tang Xiaofan, I saw ...... just now"

As he was talking, the miserable man's crying came again, and Zhang Ying and I shrank together as if we had been electrocuted, staring at everything in the darkness around us with wide eyes.

After about ten minutes, the man's crying finally disappeared.

After we stood up, all of a sudden, Zhang Ying pointed to a place in front of me and asked me to look over.

Following the direction of her finger, I saw a man standing in the street in the moonlight, and he was the bald head. At this moment, his movements are a little wooden, and his walking posture is like a marionette.

Seeing me and Zhang Ying walking towards him, he turned around baldly and continued to walk forward step by step with difficulty in a clumsy posture.

We followed him about ten meters away and didn't come any closer.

The bald head knew we were behind him, and every few steps he took, he would look back at us.

Gradually, he actually took us out of here, and I saw Huaihua Street again, the familiar streets, the familiar buildings, and the light that came out of the windows of the buildings.

The bald head in front of us, after entering Huaihua Street, his movements also returned to normal.

Standing downstairs in the mahjong parlor, the bald head suddenly turned around.

He saw that his pockets were bulging, and they should be filled with money again.

He stared at me and Zhang Ying hatefully, and said something in his mouth.

Then, he strode upstairs.

We didn't go up again, I looked at Zhang Ying, her face was still pale, her body was constantly shaking, I asked her what she saw just now, Zhang Ying grabbed my hand:

"Tang Xiaofan, can I go and sit with you? I want to drink some water. ”

I took Zhang Ying back to the chicken noodle shop, there were still a lot of people in the shop, and Liang Yuan was busy.

When he saw me go out, he brought back a woman, and was about to ask something, but I said to him, "You take care of the store first, and I'll go up for a while." ”

With that, I took Zhang Ying up to the second floor.

Closing the door, I asked Zhang Ying to sit down, there was no hot water in the room, I opened a bottle of Coke and handed it to her.

She was not polite, she took a big gulp and drank half of it, and after a long burp, she looked at me: "Tang Xiaofan, you ...... just now Didn't see anything? ”

I nodded, and I said that when I went in, I just felt cold, and then I heard someone crying.

Zhang Ying looked slightly happy: "You also heard someone crying?" That's right, I didn't have auditory hallucinations, and someone finally heard it. As she spoke, she drank up the remaining half of the bottle of Coke.

Seeing that she was drinking so quickly, I tried to persuade her, but who knew that she was staring at me:

"Tang Xiaofan, do you know? I saw Xia Hong just now! ”

Hearing this, my eyes widened.

After Zhang Ying took a few more breaths, she told me what happened after she chased her bald head out:

At that time, the bald head was injured on the forehead, and after running out of the mahjong parlor, he walked all the way up Huaihua Street, and the blood continued to drip down from his forehead, and Zhang Ying followed closely behind, chasing after him.

After turning into an alley, Zhang Ying also came to that unusually cold and dark place.

The man in front suddenly turned around, glanced at Zhang Ying, then opened a door next to him, and walked straight in.

Zhang Ying followed and tried to open the door, but found that the door had been locked from the inside.

She circled around the house, trying to find another entrance, and walked past a window, when suddenly the light came on.

There was some movement from inside, it was the voice of a bald head, he sounded painful, and his mouth was slurred. Zhang Ying lightly touched the window, but saw that what was inlaid on it was not glass at all, but a thin piece of paper.

Tearing the window paper a little bit, Zhang Ying saw that it was a very large room.

A woman was standing with her back to her.

Next to the woman was a large wooden barrel with a brazier underneath, and the fire was fierce.

The water in the barrel seemed to be tumbling and steaming hot.

The bald head stood beside the woman, and after listening to what she said, he suddenly stepped forward and jumped into the boiling hot water at once......