Outside, there was a loud rain, mixed with the sound of thunder. I turned up the TV to the loudest, but I still couldn't hear it. The window of my room was facing a huge acacia tree, and its leaves were sparsely watered by the rain. It was already dark, and by the time it was almost eight o'clock, no one had returned, and it was already dark outside. At that moment, the chandelier above his head flashed twice, and the room went dark.

My heart immediately rose to my throat, and even my hairs stood on end. I quickly got out of bed and pressed the switch several times, making sure it was a power outage. I was already scared of thunder and lightning nights, especially when there was a power outage, which was a disaster for me when I was alone at home.

Lightning bolts followed, and the distant roar sounded like the roar of a monster, as if it were about to tear the dark sky apart. I sat in the corner of my bed, barely getting some light by turning my phone's screen to its brightest brightness. I sat still for more than an hour, staring straight out the window at the ghostly shadows of the acacia trees. Until the phone's battery was finally depleted and a beautiful shutdown music sounded, my world fell into darkness again.

The occasional thunderclap makes it even more eerie in such a quiet place. A layer of fine sweat was oozing from my palms, my phone was out of battery, and the landline extension was not in my room, so I had to brave myself and grope downstairs.

The living room on the first floor has large floor-to-ceiling windows and is not blocked by any trees, so it is slightly brighter than my room. I searched in the kitchen drawers, shoe cabinet drawers for a long time and couldn't find any candles or anything like that. Aunt Liu is really dutiful, and she doesn't know where those things are stuffed.

I eventually gave up and sat on the couch in the living room and waited, hoping that someone would come back quickly. I dialed Xie Chen's phone several times on my landline, but it was still turned off.

The wind outside was whistling, and the sound of plastic bottles rolling around with the wind on the road was very clear at the moment, and I didn't know if it was an illusion, I always felt that something on the ceiling above my head fell to the ground and made a bang...... This scene reminds me of a movie I once watched: a woman heard a strange noise next door in the dark night...... In the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door, and there was a woman in white with long hair standing at the door, saying, 'I just killed my husband, do you have a scalpel?'......

Thinking of this, a cold sweat broke out on her body, as if the woman in white was standing at the gate...... The door had been locked by me, but I always felt a small knock on it.

People love big and gorgeous houses, but they don't know how terrifying they can be at night, as if something strange can come out of every corner.

"Knock knock......" There was a knock on the door.

My hairs stood on end and goosebumps were raised.

"Knock knock knock ......" one after another, very rhythmic. I was sure I wasn't dreaming, and with a hint of crying, I asked tremblingly, "Who?" ”

No one outside answered, and the knock on the door was abandoned. Then there was the sound of the key gently shoehorning into the keyhole, and then the sound of the security lock going round and round, and I felt like I was almost screaming. The sound of the lock turning twice, and then the door was pushed open, and with a cold wind, I saw a figure there. The figure paused in the doorway, as if to adjust to the sudden darkness. I saw him fumble in his pocket for a long time, and when he took out something and pressed it, a small flame suddenly lit up in the darkness.

I saw the familiar eyebrows and eyes in the faint flames, and I don't know whether it was fear or excitement tears burst out of my eyes, and I didn't even bother to put on my shoes, so I ran away.

I was like a moth on the verge of despair, fluttering my wounded wings and flying towards the firelight.

Moths fight fires, even if they burn their skin.

But I never regretted it.