"Why does this back look familiar?" My Adam's apple trembled and I woke up suddenly!

"I saw it when I was looking at the ancient building opposite from Bai Ya'er's house!"

At that time, Bai Yaer suspected that something had followed me into her room, so she turned off the lights in the room and checked around.

It was at that time that I noticed a child-like dwarf black shadow in the ancient building opposite, holding a ball-like thing, walking in the dilapidated corridor.

"By the way, the round object in its hand also fell once......" I remember very clearly, the two figures coincided in my mind, and soon I came to a somewhat terrible conclusion: "The black shadow in the red building is the short shadow in the ancient building, and it ran out of the ancient building!" ”

The dwarf black shadow disappeared into the floor, and I don't know exactly how many floors it hid on.

"The basic terrain in the Red Mansion is not yet familiar, so you can't run around."

I didn't feel any hostility from the shadow, but that doesn't mean it wasn't dangerous, and from what I had just observed, the round ball-like thing in the shadow's hand was most likely a human head. "Did I mess up time and space, or did something unknown happen after twelve? The black shadow in the ruins of the ancient building actually appeared in the Red Mansion, could it be that it sneaked in when I was talking to Zhu Li and the doctor? "The Red House is divided into four units, each of which is independent

The stairs and elevators, it should be noted that the internal connection above the seventh floor can pass through each other through a safe passage, and it is also possible that the black shadow entered from other units and inadvertently ran to my floor.

"There are many similar dark shadows in the ancient building, and some of them are of the same size and size. People are no different, could these black shadows be the 'it' in the mouths of Zhu Li and Bai Ya'er? "When I thought of the two sketches drawn by Zhu Li, I felt uncomfortable, and I didn't stay on the sixth floor for a long time, but walked to the seventh floor." The tenant on the seventh floor disappeared a few days ago, and if I could figure out the reason for his disappearance, it would be of great help to me to unravel the secrets of the Red Mansion. "Looking at the three iron doors on the seventh floor, I scratched my head, Zhu Li only spoke half of his words, and it seemed to reveal a lot of clues to me, but in fact he didn't have any

What a substantial thing.

"I was negligent and should have asked all tenants where they lived." The three iron doors look the same, and who knows which one the missing tenant used to live behind before?

"I can't knock on the door of the room, and I don't know the specific location of the tenant, this Zhu Li didn't have a good heart from the beginning." After the incident on the fifth floor, I no longer dared to knock on the door.

Standing in the hallway, I was surrounded by darkness, and when I looked around, I felt a panic for no reason. Something seemed to be slowly approaching in the darkness, giving me an inexplicable sense of urgency.

"I have the key to Bai Ya'er's room, so I can go to her house to hide, for fear that she and the painter will join forces to get rid of me, so I will set a trap in advance." Shaking my head and dispelling the thoughts in my head, I took out my phone and carefully looked at the door in front of me with the help of the faint light of the screen.

The disappearance of the seventh-floor tenant is a breakthrough that must be grasped well.

The iron doors on the left and in the middle were covered with dust, and I looked at them and looked at them before I walked to the door on the right.

"The dust is thick, but the doorknob is relatively clean, as if someone has touched it." I tried to grab the dust on the iron doorknob, but before I could push it too hard, the iron door shook suddenly.

"Door...... No locks? "I slowly pulled outward, and the rusty iron door was pulled open by me little by little." The other doors were all covered in dust, except this one, what was going on? Could it be that the missing tenant lived here before? He was in too much of a hurry to escape and forgot to lock the door? "There were countless thoughts in my mind, but it was difficult to restore the truth because I had too little information

。 "Every house in the Red Mansion has red wooden doors, which shows that those things in the dark hate red, if the iron door outside is opened by those monsters, the wooden door inside should be locked intact...... "I slid my finger down, and with a gentle push, the red wooden door inside actually opened

A slit!

"It's not locked either?! Is there anyone in the house? "I carry a bag with a severed hand, ready to throw it out to attract the attention of unknown monsters.

Moving forward, I carefully pushed the wooden door, and as the wooden door opened, a smell of mold and rot poured out.

If you look closely, there are all kinds of daily necessities in the room, and there are a few rotten apples on the glass coffee table: "It seems that the tenants of the seventh floor lived here before they disappeared." ”

I took a deep breath, was on high alert, moved slowly, and after fully entering the rental house, I quietly closed the iron and wooden doors.

When I heard the sound of the wooden door locking, I was relieved, the dark and closed corridor was really a little scary, compared to it, it was safer to enter the rental house.

I recalled the structure of Bai Ya'er and Zhu Li's room, groped on the wall, and quickly found the light switch, but after pressing the switch, the light in the living room did not turn on.

"The power is off?" With my back to the wooden door, I carried the severed hand given by the doctor and walked along the wall into the living room: "Yes, it was inhabited a few weeks ago. ”

I picked up the apple on the coffee table, which was covered in tawbrown sores.

With both hands, I broke the apple, and the moldy flesh splashed with unpleasant juice: "The climate in Jinghai City is humid, things are very easy to mold and deteriorate, this apple only has the outer surface rotten, and the storage time should not exceed two weeks." ”

Putting down the apples, I squatted next to the coffee table, looking at the placement of apples in the fruit bowl, and suddenly made an unexpected discovery.

There's a highly rotten apple that has been touched before I even enter here!

The moldy peel is depressed downwards, and the unpleasant sap flows over the mold. "Based on the size of the sagging marks on the peel, it is almost certain that it was a child who touched the apple." I stood up and wondered, "Could it be that little black shadow I just saw?" No, that thing gives me the feeling that it has no substance, and I shouldn't touch the apple on the table.

Did it accidentally bump into it? ”

With a glance, I saw a dirty handprint in the corner of the sofa.

The small hand is not big, which is consistent with my previous judgment, and it should have been left by a six or seven-year-old child.

I gently scratched the handprint on the sofa: "The mark is not completely dry, the person who touched the apple has not gone far, and it may even be in this house!" ”

"Did I just open the door and scare him?"

Coffee table, sofa ...... There aren't many places to hide people in the house, so it's easy to verify your guesses.

I got up and pushed open the bathroom and balcony doors, and it was empty, nothing.

"It looks like it's hiding here." I hid the bag with the severed hand behind me and slowly opened the bedroom door.

The futon on the wooden bed smelled of musty and suffocating, and I glanced at it and saw that the wardrobe by the wall was not tightly closed.

"Come out, I see you." I whispered in my mouth, in fact, I was also very nervous, I couldn't be sure of my guess, if it was the kind of monster that jumped out of the body, then my situation would be dangerous.

With no one answering in the bedroom, I walked over to the cabinet door, flicking my fingers and quickly opening it.

There were all kinds of clothes piled up in the wooden cabinets, both men and women, and what made me even more strange was that 9 out of 10 of them were women's underwear.

"The original owner of this house shouldn't have a penchant for stealing underwear of the opposite sex, right?" I was afraid that the person I was looking for would hide in the pile of clothes, so I took out all the clothes in the cabinet: "No, the size of men's and women's underwear is exactly the same, and these clothes should not be stolen." ”

I smiled bitterly, and I had a new understanding of the tenant of the Red Mansion: "I'm afraid his behavior is a little more serious than stealing underwear." ”

Closing the cabinet door, I stood by the bed, and there was only one place left in the entire rental house that I hadn't looked at.

Lifting the moldy quilt, I bent down, propped myself on the ground with one hand, and looked under the bed.

The bright light of my phone's screen dispelled the darkness under the bed, and I slowly rolled my eyes, and when I saw the end of the bed, my gaze froze.

"Found it!"

A scrawny little boy cowered in a corner, terrified, clutching a half-gnawed rotten apple in his hand.

The air seemed to freeze, and I was worried that the boy would scream and attract some unknown monster.

Luckily, he was much bolder than I thought, just curled up back desperately and didn't shout.

"Are you hungry even if you eat rotten and moldy apples?" I spoke very slowly, and after listening to the boy, it seemed to take a long time before he seemed to come to his senses, and nodded slightly.

"You also live in the Red Mansion? What about your family? When I asked this question, the boy reacted strangely, first nodding his head and then quickly shaking his head.

I kept an eye on his strange movements.

"Zhu Li said that there is a cute boy living on the sixth floor, shouldn't he be the one who said it? This kid is skinny, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't matter how cute it is, is he deliberately saying this to confuse the public? ”

I took a few steps back: "Little guy, does your family live on the sixth floor?" ”

The boy nodded blankly, he gave me the feeling of a wild dog in the free-range.

"You come out first, I will definitely not hurt you......"

I talked for a long time, but the boy was still shrunk in the innermost part, and I had no choice but to lift the bed board, and then pulled him out.

"What's your name?" I tried to get something out of the boy's mouth, but he didn't know what he was doing except nodding his head: "What a weird guy." ”

From adults to children in the Red Mansion, there was no one normal, and I gave up asking and walked out of the bedroom by the hand.

As soon as he arrived in the living room, the boy suddenly rushed to the coffee table out of control, and I wanted to see what he was going to do, so I didn't stop and let go of his hand. He was thin and weak, but he was a fast runner, and he grabbed the moldy apples in his little hands and wrapped them in his shabby clothes......