Chapter 10: The Seventh Second
The elevator doors were completely sealed, and the airtight environment inside made it impossible for me to continue to understand the situation outside. I was going to press the switch on the next floor to confirm my guess.
But if I delay for one more second, I am afraid that the danger will be a few more points, so I have no choice but to put away my curiosity and look up at the numbers on the display screen on the floor above in a daze.
As the thirteenth floor approached, the tighter the grip became. I don't know if the mirror corpse has also removed the relevant memories that once belonged to my "faith", but at this moment, I am indeed like a devout believer, and I have prayed helplessly in my heart many times: "I hope that the red moonlight has nothing to do with waking up the sleeping mirror corpse." ”
But in this way, didn't he go back to the dead cycle of "schizophrenia", after all, just on the first floor, when he looked out through the last gap in the elevator, the aunt who fell to the ground was indeed a corpse change that occurred when the moonlight turned red.
What's going on? You can only figure it out when the elevator door opens.
So, I thought that if it was really as I guessed, without the protection of the moon, the "mirror corpses" lurking in this community would wake up with the red moonlight, then after I got out of the elevator, I would be able to run to the door as quickly as possible, and then find Lin Shufan, who had been hidden in my home for nearly three years.
The structure of this building has a total of 20 floors, and there are four families on each floor, two pairs of doors are illuminated, and they are settled on the left and right sides of the promenade. And out of the elevator door straight aisle, is the corridor of the road, along the corridor to the end, and then turn left, the innermost door is my house.
When I stepped out of the elevator, although I had already done my homework, I was still scared when I looked at the red moonlight shining in from the window lattice of the corridor. Immediately, I faintly heard the screams of corpses coming from the alleys on both sides of the corridor, squirming, as if it came and went, so I didn't dare to hesitate, pulled out my steps, and leaned down the corridor and ran home.
Walking all the way from the corridor, the closer to the doors of each house, at this time, the original only vague sound of the corpse has become very clear, it seems that the emotion is unbearable pain, very familiar, I just remembered the aunt I met on the first floor, before she fell to the ground, didn't she keep yelling for a headache? Could it be that all the seemingly ordinary residents will show symptoms of headaches before the corpse transformation?
If this is the case, then it is not difficult to understand what this ghost-like howl is going on at this moment. I subconsciously quickened my pace, and measured in my heart that these cries still have a three-point human flavor, which at least shows that I still have time to fight, but if I really can't catch up with the speed of the corpse transformation, I'm afraid that I will meet the corpse transformation "neighbor" head-on before I turn into the road in front of my house!
Turning left into the road in front of his house, he saw that the hope of life was close at hand, but unexpectedly, the cry of pain suddenly turned, and suddenly, the corridor was filled with "hee-hee-hee" laughter, and he woke up only for a moment.
"It's over!" I cursed in my heart, this army of ghouls is so fast and ridiculously fast.
So, I untied the keychain hanging from my waist and walked to my door in a panic. Although this is just a recessed space, it seems that there are not many steps, but because I have left the window lattice at the corridor, I have long been unable to see the surroundings, but in order not to attract the attention of the mirror corpse, I can't touch the "delay light on" on the wall, so I can only touch the darkness to open the door.
But after feeling the keyhole in the door for a long time, I couldn't find the crack. At this moment, in the neighbor's room opposite my door, the sound of wet footsteps approached, and in the darkness, mixed with the strange roar of the mirror corpse, I felt a tightness in my heart, and the key in my hand fell to the ground with a "clang".
The door behind him opened, and a cool breeze rushed out of it. This cool breeze was not emitted by the corpse, it could be clearly distinguished, it should be the air conditioning wind turned on by the residents on the hot and humid summer night.
I was awakened by the sudden cold wind, and after I calmed down, I hid quietly behind the door, hoping that I could avoid the eyes of the mirror corpse by pushing the door outward.
"Hee-hee-hee." A call came from the half-open door, sounding like a child's laughter. I didn't dare poke my head out to look at it, so I had to stick to the half-open door and watch what changed. Suddenly, the sound of "clicking" from behind the door became a little heavy, dragging mud and water, sounding like the rubbing sound of a water-soaked rag being pressed against the table and pulled.
"Is it coming out?" I swallowed tightly.
But the light around him was so dim that even if his eyes widened, he could only dimly argue the outline of the door on his side.
After a while, I noticed that the situation was getting more and more wrong, and I clearly felt something coming out of the door just now, but it seemed that when I got to this road, the sound was gone, but when I smelled it carefully, I could faintly feel the smell of corpses.
In this way, I don't know how long the stalemate lasted, I saw that there was no movement in this area for a long time, and my heart was very panicked: "You can't sit still." ”
So, I faintly broke my steps and slowly leaned towards the door of my house on the other side. Right now, the priority is to find the set of keys that have fallen in front of the door.
The keychain is made of iron, and there are car locks, small objects given to me by Chen Yue, and so on, so I don't think it's too difficult to find, so I tentatively moved my right leg and swept it in front of the door on tiptoe.
Sure enough, as I expected, it didn't take much effort for me to feel a foreign body sensation coming from my toes.
"It's the key!" I was a little excited, straightened my legs, and hooked the key on the ground with my toes, but I didn't dare to lean forward too much to pick it up, because the place where the key had fallen was not somewhere else, but right towards the open door.
With that, I tightened my toes a little, and after making sure there was nothing unusual around, I tried to hook the key over with some force.
But the strange thing is that the key on the ground is unmoved, as if someone is glued to the ground. I had no choice but to take small steps forward, and just as I was about to exert some strength again, I heard a "clanging" sound from my left.
Mixed with the crisp metallic thump that I could tell almost without much thought, it was the sound of a key!
"But if that's the key that fell... So now... What is it that my toes are hooked on? ”
Thinking of this, I was stunned for a while, and when I just wanted to retract my right leg, I felt that something was entangled in my ankle, and coupled with the standing posture that I didn't balance well, the whole person instantly fell down like a split lower waist.
The moment I knelt on one knee on my left side, the laughter of a child sounded on both the left and right sides, sounding like a man and a woman, grim and mournful, with triumphant teasing.
Then I realized that it was not that I couldn't see the mirror corpses, or that the mirror corpses were still in the house, but that they were probably much shorter than I thought, and even only the height of my knees and legs.
When I figured out that the crawling mirror corpse was the pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses that had just turned three years old from the "neighbor's" family, the back of my neck was already wrapped around a pair of wet arms.
In my daily interactions with my neighbors, I know that the little boy in the neighborhood likes to ride on the neck of an adult, just like he liked to ride on his father's shoulder when he was a child.
But this is no longer the usual neighbor!
I just shook my strength, the corpse child around my neck was already kicking my waist hard, trying to ride up, the sound of the keychain clanging in my right ear, hanging on my shoulder, as if the reason for the lack of focus, only to feel the corpse child's nails stuck in my neck.
I immediately stretched out my hands, first snatched the key, and then grabbed the corpse's wrist, bowed my back hard, and threw this unknown thing over the shoulder, and then threw it to the right front side with the strength - directly let the "sister and brother" have a great reunion on the spot.
After this throw, even the force on my ankle was released, and I did not dare to hesitate, retracted my right leg, and hurried to my door.
In the dark, I can only go with the feeling, but fortunately, the texture of this door is different from the ordinary wall, and the judgment of the waist-level position of the door keyhole, after a while, I found the lock on the door, and when I finally got the door key from the car lock, accessories and other things on the buckle, the two corpse children on the ground have a new action.
But he seemed to be horrified by the shoulder fall just now, and he didn't see any movement from them for a while, but he felt that his eardrums were about to be punctured by their sharp cries. But I didn't care about it at the moment, so I held the key in my right hand, touched the hole in the door with my left index finger, estimated it, and put the key into the lock. With just a slight turn, the door opened.
Without saying a word, I pulled a crack back, and immediately got in, and was about to close the door, but it seemed to be pinned down by something, and in the confrontation, the red moonlight fell into the room. I was suddenly very happy, "Thanks to the fact that after smoking a cigarette on the balcony in the morning, I was in a hurry to pick up Chen Yue, so I hurriedly forgot to tighten the curtain in front of the floor-to-ceiling window." ”
By the terrible red light, I looked down, and saw that there were two pairs of rotting hands pulling at the door, small hands, but one of them was bloodstained, apparently the pair of corpse children.
Their cries are getting weirder and weirder... In a few moments, there was an incoherent sound of doors opening the door, followed by the familiar "click" sound mixed with the screams of the two corpse children.
"Good guy, you know how to move the rescuers!"
When I saw that the situation was not good, I first relieved myself and opened the door a little more so that it could create a space to recharge, and finally, I held my breath and pulled back sharply, and the door closed heavily.
I wondered why the sound of the door slamming was so strange, when I saw two rotting heads roll to my feet, and the rotten flesh was vaguely lined with red moonlight, and my stomach was churning.
"We must hurry up and find Lin Shufan!"
And I knew very well that the bedroom was the most likely way to find this woman who had been hidden in my house for three years. Because, the mirror that Chen Yue bought as a dowry was placed in my bedroom, and those nightmares that seemed terrifying but deliberately awakened my memories also began because of this mirror.
But when I stepped into the bedroom, I realized that it was not so simple.
Dead silence, a closet, a bed, and a vanity mirror, where do I start?
I quickly thought about Chen Yue's words, and I didn't find that there was any hidden information about "how to find Lin Shufan".
The sound of corpse claws slicing through the iron door outside the hall became more and more harsh, and I panicked, but I still decided to "be a dead horse as a live horse doctor", so I walked quickly to the mirror and shouted: "Lin Shufan!" ”
"Lin Shufan! Where are you? ”
Because of the excessive physical exertion of this night, it didn't take long for me to shout, and I was exhausted. But apart from the increasingly terrible screams of corpses, everything around them remained unchanged.
I sat weakly in front of the mirror, and I couldn't help but wonder if I was on the wrong path, or I had misunderstood what Chen Yue meant.
Listening to the distorted sound of the iron door as it deformed, I despaired. I thought about surrendering like this, maybe I was just being caught back and re-memories, but unexpectedly, a shock suddenly came from my chest, and then familiar music sounded.
It's a ringtone! It's my phone ringtone!
I was stunned at first, and then I slapped my head, and then I remembered that I had my phone with me, but because everything happened so suddenly, I forgot that there was this stubble.
Now, as if grasping at the last straw, I tremble and put my hand in the inner pocket of my suit.
Under the dim red, I could see the number of the caller, and my hands tightened...
It's not possible, "Isn't this my own mobile phone number?" ”
I threw my phone under the footel in horror.
But when the sentence "love you, read as before", the bell stopped abruptly, and the number "seven" disappeared, the agreed ringtone-
"Could it be Yue'er?!"