Chapter 42: The Shadow in the Window

Tai Sui handed the water to Li Wende and asked him to take a sip to slow down.

Li Wende suppressed his emotions a little, and then slowly told him about last night's events.

On the dormitory side, the lights must be turned off after 10:30 p.m., and last night it happened that Li Wende and a worker in the No. 1 boiler room were in charge of turning off the lights.

Electric lights were a luxury in this era, and it was certainly impossible to electrify on a large scale in places like the dormitory area, and each dormitory was illuminated by two valve lights, one inside the room and the other outside the door.

The lights in the house are turned off by the roommates, and Li Wende and they are responsible for turning off all the door lights.

Dormitory No. 13 is 17 or 8 stories high, and Li Wende and another worker start from the top floor and climb down one by one.

The co-worker who was in charge of this with him happened to live on the first floor, and when the lights of the post house door were turned off, the other party went back to his dormitory to rest, leaving Li Wende alone to climb upstairs with a lantern.

Dormitory Building 13 is a former renovation of an old bell tower, with few windows on the exterior wall, and the whole dormitory building has very poor lighting.

The moonlight outside did not shine in, and the stairs were as black as ink, only the firelight from the lantern dangled in front of Li Wende, illuminating a small piece of staircase.

The dormitory in the No. 3 boiler room was on the thirteenth floor, and when Li Wende climbed to the staircase of the ninth floor, he suddenly felt a chill run through his neck.

It felt like a frozen human hand suddenly pinched his neck, and the cold suddenly spread down the back of his neck to most of his spine, making Li Wende couldn't help but shiver.

At first, Li Wende thought that someone was playing a prank, so he turned around and held up the lantern to see who was following him.

In the firelight, only a small section of the staircase stained orange by light could be seen, and a small handrail pressed against the edge of the staircase.

There was no wind in the corridor, but the rust on the metal handrails was falling little by little as if it had been stirred by the wind.

"Who?" Li Wende shouted into the darkness.

No one responded, and on the empty staircase, there was only an echo of himself.

Looking at the rust that kept falling, the more Li Wende thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

The thing that touched him just now couldn't be a human hand, even if a human hand was specially placed in the ice to freeze, it couldn't be so cold!

Besides, where to find ice in this Futian August!

But if that touch is not a human hand, it will be ...... What the?

Thinking about it, Li Wende began to be afraid.

At this time, the chill pressing on his neck still did not subside, and this chill gradually enveloped Li Wende's heart, and he felt that even breathing seemed to have become difficult.

At this moment, there was a strange sound in the darkness.

The sound is difficult to describe with a specific onomatopoeia, it is very complex, like the sound of the wind, like the buzzing of insects, very weak, but extremely sharp.

As soon as this voice appeared, it shocked Li Wende's ears and felt numb.

He suddenly became frightened, grabbed the lantern and ran upstairs, and ran back to the dormitory in one go.

Strange to say, as soon as he accelerated like this, the sound seemed to disappear.

Li Wende and Liu Wu's beds were very close to each other, and when he returned to the bed, Liu Wu saw that his face was wrong by the light of the fire in the lantern, so he asked him: "What's wrong with you, hell?" ”

It's okay not to say this, but as soon as these words came out, Li Wende's face suddenly turned pale.

This scared Liu Wu a lot: "Lao Li, are you okay?" ”

Li Wende put down the lantern and said to Liu Wu tremblingly: "I seem to be ...... True...... I really ran into that thing. ”

At this moment, I don't know who whispered: "It's half past ten soon, be careful of being reported tomorrow." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Wende and Liu Wu didn't dare to talk deeply, and hurriedly turned off the lights and went to sleep.

According to the rules of the dormitory, not only should the lights be turned off after half past ten, but the residents must also sleep obediently.

What does it mean to "sleep well"?

Don't chat, don't drink water, don't grind your teeth, don't go to the toilet.

Want to go to the toilet at night? Sorry, you'll have to hold back.

Do you have the habit of grinding your teeth? Sorry, just expelled.

And if you break the rules, someone will report you 100 percent tomorrow morning.

Once it is found that the report is true, the whistleblower will be rewarded and the offender will be expelled.

The rules set by the Leng family are so unreasonable!

Li Wende wanted to talk more with Liu Wu, but he was worried about being reported, so he could only hold back his fear.

But not long after Li Wende lay down, the sound appeared again!

This time, he was not the only one who heard the chime, for he heard someone muttering in the dark, "What's the movement?" ”

The muttering like this only appeared for a short time, and soon there was silence in the darkness, and only the shrill chirping continued.

According to Li Wende and Liu Wu's description, not long after the voice appeared, they felt a strong pressure on their chests.

It was as if someone had covered them with a quilt filled with lead, which made them breathless, and at the same time, this pressure was mixed with an extremely strong cold air, which froze so that the bones of the whole body were in pain, and the base of the tongue was also stiff, and they could not speak at all.

The most uncomfortable thing is the back spine, which feels like an ice snake lying motionless on it, cold and biting, and the cold hair is upside down.

In that situation at that time, Li Wende and Liu Wu didn't actually think about it so much, these feelings were all restored little by little through their memories.

At that time, in that situation, the two of them only had one feeling, that is, they were afraid, so afraid that even their hearts and livers were trembling.

They heard something sliding back and forth in the hallway outside.

Whew-snort-sss

The sound was like the sound of the wind, like the movement of a four-legged snake crawling in the sand.

It was near and far away, and Li Wende and Liu Wu couldn't tell what that kind of movement was coming from.

Later, I heard someone banging on the dormitory window.

Da, da, da......

The sound was regular, striking from east to west.

Li Wende was very sure that it was the sound of people tapping their fingers on the window panes, and he could even feel the tremors coming from the window.

The person knocking on the window was apparently on the move, but there was no sound of footsteps at all as he walked.

At that time, it was very quiet in the dormitory, even if you walked barefoot and tiptoed outside, there would be no footsteps at all.

No footsteps, not at all.

Only the eerie sound of the wind and the knocking on the window echoed all the time.

And that piercing voice, too, has always been there.

For a moment, the sound of the wind and the knocking on the window stopped abruptly, and only the shrill voice remained.

At that time, Li Wende suddenly had a feeling that his heart was falling, and he subconsciously squinted his eyes and looked towards the window.

It was pitch black outside the window, almost nothing could be seen, and vaguely, he felt as if there was a dark figure lying on the window.

When he looked out the window, the figure seemed to be staring at him as well.