Chapter 16: Haunting

Tang Feng finally realized a hint of strangeness, she glanced at the neighborhood in amazement, under the dim light of the old-fashioned light bulb, everything around her seemed so gray.

It was as if she had come to a level she had never seen before, with an unfamiliar environment and an air of old decay.

The paint on the wooden handrails at the top of the staircase had faded, and the railings were covered in brown rust.

The air was filled with a choking smell of dust, and a layer of cobwebs was covered from the orange light bulb that dangled slightly over the head.

Although this apartment was old, it was not so dilapidated, and Tang Feng had a feeling that she had inadvertently come to an apartment that had passed decades.

Impossible! I've never been to this place before.

To the right of the staircase are several rental houses in the apartment.

Tang Feng glanced at it and found that the iron doors of these rental houses all exuded an atmosphere of precipitation over the years.

A rusty bike sits in a corner, locked and covered with tattered cobwebs.

In the corner, you can vaguely see a few psoriasis-like leaflets, but the handwriting is blurred, and you can't tell what is written.

When Tang Feng arrived at this moment, he felt a chill dip from his head to his bones.

She swallowed her saliva and headed downstairs. But she soon noticed that the staircase behind her was almost pitch black, and the original light was no longer visible.

Tang Feng turned on the flashlight on her mobile phone and found that the light could only shine to the ninth step of the stairs.

At the same time, she heard a voice similar to that of a little girl crying. A creepy feeling came to his heart, and Tang Feng didn't dare to go downstairs no matter how bold he was.

She started running upstairs, she was wearing high heels, but she ran up with all her might.

Tang Feng was very scared, she kept climbing up, but the intermittent sobbing sound was loud and small in her ears, as if the source of the sound was catching up from below.

This made her even more frightened, and what was even more troublesome was that the more scared she was, the greater the physical exertion.

Her legs were as heavy as lead, and her whole spirit was tense like a tightrope stretched to the limit.

And the crying followed like a shadow, catching up little by little, and the intermittent cry became more and more harsh.

Tang Feng ran up the stairs almost like she was climbing, and she cried quietly as she moved towards the upper floor.

She finally reached the end of the stairs, but when she relied on the scorched light, she suddenly spotted a very familiar old bicycle covered with cobwebs in the corner of the staircase.

Tang Feng knelt down in despair, no, she went around in a big circle, and this was still the floor she was on before.

She screamed uncontrollably, huddled in the corner of the floor, her face covered with snot and shallow eyes.

In an instant, Tang Feng's screams also made the others in An's apartment notice the situation.

The voice that burst out of fear was sharp and high-pitched, which naturally attracted the attention of the people in the building.

Sun Wuhai on the fourth floor was the first to hear the screams on the fifth floor, after all, he was still coding words at the time, so Sun Wuhai quickly rushed to the fifth floor and found Tang Feng who was in a state of collapse.

Tang Feng shrank in the corner, refusing to communicate with others, just crying vigorously.

The residents of the apartment had no choice but to call the police and let the police deal with the matter.

So, the police took Tang Feng to the hospital, found her a psychiatrist for identification, and found that she was inexplicably frightened.

And the news later spread to the apartment as well. As a result, the theory that the apartment was haunted spread far and wide.

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However, not everyone believes in the "haunted" category. At least half of the apartment residents don't believe the rumors.

However, the situation that followed was a bit out of control. For several days in a row, there were residents who returned late to hear babies or little girls crying at the entrance of the apartment hallway.

However, no one knew where the cry came from.

Next, a single apartment resident heard a rush of footsteps outside the door at 12 a.m. every night.

The resident was woken up in the middle of the night and suddenly opened the door, only to find it empty, nothing.

Confused, he went back to sleep, but not long after, he was woken up by footsteps.

And the footsteps sounded back and forth in front of the door of his house before, but it was clear, it was just the footsteps of one person, but this time there was a row of footsteps outside the door, and it was the sound of neat strokes.

He had the audacity to open the door again, but there was still nothing outside the door.

This is the end of the matter, but all kinds of rumors continue to come out of the residents, and most of them are all kinds of strange things.

Gradually...... These rumors grew, and the residents of the apartment became more and more nervous, and after dozens of days, some residents could not bear it anymore and planned to move out.

And this also triggered a series of chain reactions, and another group of residents checked out.

This also made the apartment landlord quite helpless, but Lu Qi sat back and watched all this, after all, it was undoubtedly his hands and feet that would happen.

And this is also his purpose, and only he can use the power of the "Illusion Creation Realm" to pretend to be a ghost, so that the residents of the apartment, such as Tang Feng, and others fall into hallucinations.

He deliberately created a terrifying illusion to cause panic among the occupants of the apartment, and eventually, caused the occupants of the apartment to leave.

However, a few people still insisted on staying. Some of them don't believe in ghosts and gods at all.

There are also a few residents who have not yet found a new house and can only stay in the "peace of mind apartment" temporarily.

And now, he is not idle, but is preparing for further "transformation". This is Lu Qi's third transformation, and he also attaches great importance to it, Lu Qi basically knows a little bit that every time he undergoes a transformation, he will inherit more of the potential inheritance and power of the "Abyss Race", that is to say, he can dig out more "inheritance" and "memory" from his memory fragments.

On the other hand, Lu Qi also knew that it would be more difficult for him to carry out another transformation, and the various resources he needed would also increase, and he had to constantly collect a large number of resources to supplement his consumption. This supplement is mainly based on eating a large amount of food, in fact...... "eating" is just a means, and the purpose is only to absorb more energy.

At present, Lu Qi, who has only obtained a part of the abyss fragments, does not have the kind of devouring method against the sky, and the most basic eating and absorbing carbohydrates is the best means for him to grow.

When he grows to a certain level, his ability will become stronger and stronger, and it is not impossible to thirst for rivers, hungry for mountains, and then swallow the sun and the moon.