Chapter 53: The Phantom of the Waterways

It is said that nine times out of ten things in life are unsatisfactory, to put it in layman's terms, sometimes, the more you are afraid of something, the more it comes, and you can't escape.

No, not long after Lao Liu and I went back to the room, it was drizzling outside, listening carefully, the sound of rain seemed to be mixed with footsteps, and the wind in the old forest was also whimpering, which made people get goosebumps.

As if to cater to the rhythm of the night rain, and more like to completely break the last trace of luck like window paper in our hearts, there was a knock outside the door, not in a hurry or slowly, like an old cat squatting at the mouth of a mouse hole.

"Who?!" Lao Liu asked in a deep voice.

The knocking on the door outside suddenly stopped, and all we heard was the sound of the rain ticking outside the window. Lao Liu shook his head, there was also a little doubt in his eyes, and he couldn't be sure. But I'm ready, and I'm afraid it won't stop tonight.

Lao Liu tiptoed to the door, leaned over and put his ears on the door panel to listen to the movement outside, and it was not difficult to see from his expression that there was silence outside.

"Sleep, I'll keep watch."

"No, you have to sleep together, you have to keep together, so that there is a nagging person who doesn't doze off, doesn't you."

Lao Liu stretched out his hand and gave me a brain meltdown: "I said that you kid is really stupid or fake stupid, you keep a fart, hurry up and go to sleep, if you don't sleep now, who will take over in the middle of the night, who do you don't want and who do I still want, I am an old man, I can toss better than you young people." ”

As soon as I turned around, my feet hung in mid-air, and I just stopped falling!

The knock on the door rang again!

Lao Liu and I were both shocked and found that something was wrong, and the knock on the door was regular!

Three long tones, two short tones, it is three long and two short!

Shocked, Lao Liu is also a man, his heart suddenly became nameless, he stepped over in three steps and two steps, and opened the door!

Outside the door is a black rumbling corridor, through the light seeping out of the room, you can see the outline of the empty corridor and the staircase handrail, mottled shadows intertwined into a strange painting: the darkness is like a black wave, surround us, I feel a suffocation inexplicably, it seems that the corridor is infinitely elongated, I don't know where it leads, and in the depths of the darkness, there are pairs of eyes, staring at you faintly, they have different looks, there are sluggish, frightened, resentful, more playful, vicious, hideous!

Lao Liu was also stunned, poked his head out to look, just closed the door, knock-knock! That strange knock on the door rang again!

Lao Liu seemed to be prepared, turned around, pulled the door, and moved as fast as a predatory cheetah!

The door opened, a dark wind poured in, and the temperature seemed to drop quite a bit around me, and I couldn't help but shiver. Outside the door was still a terrifyingly black corridor, except for a shadow in the dark, there was nothing!

But just as Lao Liu turned around and was about to close the door, I suddenly saw a miserable white shadow passing by!

Who! Lao Liu let out a low snort, and chased after him! I was stunned, gritted my teeth and followed.

Walking down the narrow corridor and down the stairs, we lived on the second floor, and when we went down to the first floor, the white shadow was gone!

As the saying goes, ginger is still old and spicy, this is not false at all, Lao Liu immediately lay on the ground, stretched out his hand and knocked on the place where the white shadow disappeared, and sure enough, the bottom was empty! There is one floor - the basement!

The strange thing about this is that Chongqing's climate is humid and mountainous terrain, there is generally no basement under this natural condition, the humidity is too heavy, it is estimated that the groundwater can be leached below, not to mention living people, even storing things is not good, but such a small shop in the mountains, what is it to make such a hidden basement.

The basement was so dark that we couldn't see anything, and we just felt that it was unusually cold and damp inside, and there was a disgusting smell of rancidity. I couldn't find the light switch and candle for a long time, so I had no choice but to let Lao Liu watch here, and I turned back to the room to get the flashlight.

I hurriedly ran back to the room, flipped out two flashlights as fast as I could, turned around and was about to rush downstairs to the basement. I saw that by the window of the room, there was an extra figure at some point, and he was standing straight with his back to me, exuding a compelling chill, as if this rain was him, he was the rain in the night, and the devil knows when he came in!

"You...... You're a human or a ghost! "I could hear my voice trembling a little myself.

The figure remained motionless, and did not answer me, but turned its back to me and said something to itself, its voice as thin as a mosquito, as if it were chanting an obscure ancient incantation.

The uneasiness in my heart became stronger and stronger, and I was about to muster up the courage to question him, when he suddenly burst out laughing, but the laughter was intensely mad, indescribably hideous, and it made people's hearts furry and their backs chilled!

"Someone is going to die! He's dead! He's dead! He's dead! He's dead!! ”

He screamed hysterically, rolled over and jumped out of the window, and disappeared into the night rain, I was stunned for a long time before I came back to my senses, and my heart tightened the flashlight with palpitations, and my palms were full of cold sweat.

When I came to the entrance of the basement again, Lao Liu was gone, and the surroundings were surprisingly quiet, the entrance to the basement was so dark that it seemed to be able to drip ink, at first glance, it looked like the entrance to another world, but that world...... Not of the living!

"Lao Liu, are you down there?"

I craned my neck and shouted into the basement, holding my breath and pricking up my ears, but there was no response. Don't...... What did you encounter? I looked around, there was no trace of a fight, maybe Lao Liu went down.

I shouted twice, turned on the flashlight and looked at the basement, there was a layer of water underneath, the water was very turbid, I don't know how long it had accumulated, I looked at it, to be precise, it was not a basement, but a narrow dark passage.

Just as I was hesitating to go in and take a look at the entrance of the tunnel, a figure suddenly flashed from the depths of the tunnel, and the figure seemed to have spotted me, turned around like lightning, and disappeared into the darkness around the corner......

Lao Liu! That figure was very familiar, but it was very abnormal, what did he see me running? I didn't have time to think about it, I turned over and jumped down the dark passage, chasing the black shadow, the water below didn't cover my calves, and there was a layer of silt underneath, I don't know what was in the water, coupled with the strong fishy smell, it made people uncomfortable, plus this space was long and narrow, only allowing one person to pass, it made me feel like entering a dirty sewer.

As soon as I entered the dark road, I inexplicably had the illusion that there was someone behind me, I don't know if you will have the illusion that there is someone behind you when you walk alone on a secluded path at night, and I heard the older generation say that there is a ghost behind you, who is looking at you!

I shuddered, the vanishing black shadow was gone, it seemed like a nightmare, it had never appeared, but the feeling that there was someone behind it was getting stronger and stronger, more and more real! I turned around several times, but I didn't find anything, only a narrow dark passage, where it leads, and muddy water, and I don't know what disgusting things are hiding underneath.

"Hey, hey—"

My scalp exploded, and a sinister laugh suddenly came from behind me!

"Who!" My back was cold, I turned my head to look back, there was nothing behind me, but the rancid stench was getting stronger and stronger, I felt a haze hanging over my head, I took a deep breath, turned around and prepared to continue walking, only to suddenly bump into a soft silk fabric in front of me, wet, cool!

Is that...... The hem of a white nightgown with two black feet hanging inside! When I looked up, just above me, there was a woman hanging, with her hair scattered, her eyes were round, and a scarlet tongue hung directly above my head, and the most terrible thing was that the corners of her mouth were cut open by something, and the cracked mouth was big, and when I looked at it, the smile was full of pain, and it was extremely weird!

It was really miserable and gloomy all around, and I screamed as if I had touched a soldering iron, but I was grabbed by a cold hand under my feet! My heart was beating sluggishly, the hairs on my body stood up, cold sweat broke out, and I struggled hard, and a highly decomposed corpse was brought out of the sewage! It can be faintly seen from the clothes that this is the shopkeeper, and the hanged woman should be the hostess, they actually died in the underground passage of their house, and immediately, my back was cold, so who is the shopkeeper above!

At this moment, in the darkness ahead, there was a sudden sound of footsteps......