These days, I don't sleep very well.

I always dreamed from the time I closed my eyes until dawn, and I felt very tired. My house is on the first floor, and my bedroom is next to the path in the community, so it is not quiet at night. The sound of the motor of the train, the shouting of the drunk, and the sound of footsteps always irritated me. I also like to sleep with the screen window open, so it's even less soundproof.

It's twelve o'clock. I lay on my bed as usual, in darkness except for a little orange glow from the screen. I counted my somewhat dull heartbeat, and my mind was muddy.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the window. It was the sound of high heels on the stone pavement, and it was very crisp in the dark night. From far to near, from light to heavy, unhurried. I felt a little irritable, but I got used to it.

This woman always passed this road in the middle of the night, and although I didn't know who she was, I had imagined her many times in my head. With fluffy curly hair, a black slim skirt, silver high heels, and faint fine lines at the corners of her eyes, it does not prevent her red lips from swaying and looking forward to her life. Many times, I lost consciousness in my imagination and fell asleep. Until the next day, I was woken up by the sound of sanitation workers sweeping the streets.

When I came back from my contemplation again, there was silence all around. Presumably, the woman was long gone. I rolled over, took a deep breath, and prepared to try to sleep.

"Wow-wh

The sound of high-heeled shoes stepping on the stone road sounded suddenly. It's not from far to near, it's not from far. Whereas.. More like in.. Wander.

Yes, wandering. She seemed to stand quietly outside the window for a few moments, and then began to wander. So, she didn't leave just now, but stopped?

After I figured this verse, my heart began to get irritable. Doesn't she know how loud her footsteps are? How else does this make me sleep?

She wasn't in a hurry at all, and just walked around where she was. I pressed the fire, persuaded myself to calm down again and again, and was too lazy to move, so I endured it for about a few minutes. Just as I was about to bounce, she finally moved, and the sound of high heels faded into the distance.

I breathed a sigh of relief and closed my eyes.

…

It's evening again, and when I put down my phone, it was almost twelve o'clock. I turned off the lamp and lay down. It's time for that woman to come again, right? I'm amused at myself for waiting, so she's become part of my habit?

Wow-wow-wow

The woman lived up to her expectations and appeared in the dark night very punctually. I couldn't help but count her footsteps, oh-oh-oh, so rhythmic, rhythmic. Wow-wow-wow.

It was at the loudest footsteps that I counted to the twenty-second that the sound stopped abruptly.

Did she stop again? Outside my window?

In my heart, I hoped that she would go away quickly, and not to pace nervously again, my nerves were weak enough.

However, what I didn't expect was that in the following time, I didn't hear a single sound. During this time, I looked through my phone several times, and after twenty minutes, I still didn't hear the sound of high heels.

It's weird.

What is she doing? Standing motionless outside someone's window in the middle of the night, is it sick?

I sighed and rolled over and got up, I couldn't help it, I don't think I would be able to sleep if I didn't confirm it. I walked slowly to the window and lifted the corner of the curtain to look out, because the lights weren't on, so I wasn't worried that she would find me.

Under the dim street lamps, the stone path looks particularly pale. The vegetation along the roadside was lush, and shadows of teeth and claws squeezed into the room through the screens. The sky is not pure black, it emits a faint red glow. The building opposite was silent, and the gray walls reflected a faint light.

It's really a normal corner of the community, except that it's too empty on the road.

There are no women in high heels at all.

I lowered the curtains, my heart pounding. Am I wandering again? The woman had long since left, but I didn't hear it. However, although I have a nervous breakdown, I have not yet reached the level of hysteria, right?

I lifted the curtain again and looked again, and when I was sure that no one was hiding in the corner of the shadows, I collapsed on the bed in some confusion. I sighed deeply, perhaps, I was just too tired.

I don't know when I woke up, but I didn't sit up until the sound was almost gone. I lifted the covers, jumped out of bed, and went to the window, only hesitated for a moment, then opened the curtains and looked out.

Unfortunately, the footsteps were already too far away. The night was too thick for me to see far away, and I couldn't be sure if there was a woman's swaying back. I glanced back at the alarm clock and chuckled.

Three o'clock in the morning.

Anyway, I don't believe that a woman can stand outside someone's window for three hours in the middle of the night without leaving, let alone that I can't see her.

At noon the next day, I decisively called my cousin.

"Okay, it's been a long time. I'll leave after work and bring you the lo-mei next to my house, and you remember to buy beer. "My cousin happily agreed to come to my house to watch the game. I hung up the phone, settled down, and continued to the code.

…

"I can't look at this ball," the cousin shook his head as he stuffed a slice of lemon into the beer bottle and took a big sip.

It's eleven o'clock in the evening, and I'm watching TV at my house with my cousin, and the coffee table is full of beer bottles, gnawed bones, and soaked soot. Two big men just spent time like this.

I wasn't paying attention to the game at all, though, I was thinking only about the high heels, about the mysterious woman who would show up at midnight, and I wanted to be sure it wasn't my hallucination.

At eleven fifty o'clock, I was shivering with nervousness. I lit a cigarette and stood up and walked towards my bedroom. My cousin was playing with his phone and didn't care about it.

At the moment the curtains are drawn and I can see outside through the street lamp. There were no people, no cars passing by, and it was very quiet. The windows of the opposite building were sparsely lit, which gave me a little more courage. I puffed out a puff of cigarette and turned to lean my back against the window to look at the living room. I'm a little afraid to look out the window, if... What if no one really passes by when the sound of high heels comes in? If, if someone were to pass by, wouldn't I be like a voyeur standing like this?

Finally, at eleven fifty-nine, I turned around and closed the curtains.

Wow-wow-wow

A fatalistic voice appeared. I shuddered, waited for five seconds, and then shouted to the living room, "Luo Zhen, come in!" ”

My cousin didn't respond to me right away, probably because he was playing with his phone. It wasn't until I shouted twice more that I heard him get up and walk over in his slippers.

"What's wrong?"

I put my index finger to my lips and motioned for him to be quiet. He was silent for a few seconds, then walked up to me, and I mouthed him to listen. The sound of high heels is already clear.

The cousin finally got impatient and said, "What kind of nerves? I hurriedly asked, "Do you hear the sound of high heels outside?" ”

"Hear me, what's wrong?" My cousin frowned and looked at me like a nervous disorder.

I breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time was more nervous, and said to him, "You open the curtains a little bit and see if there's anyone?" ”

My cousin gave me a blank look and did so. He pulled the curtains, squinted his eyes for a while and said, "I saw a beautiful woman," he lowered the curtains, glared at me, but suddenly smiled ambiguously: "Don't tell me, you kid, you are peeping at this woman every day, don't say, she looks really good!" ”

I was shocked: "Did you really see it?" But I didn't dare to look at it, my cousin gave me another look, and at the same time looked out the window again: "She stopped, and she stood in that corner, as if she was laughing..."

Indeed, the sound of high heels has disappeared at this time. I swallowed, plucked up the courage to open the corner of the curtain, and looked out.

Outside the window, next to the street lamp, in the corner to the left, there was really a woman standing. She was wearing a red dress, her long hair was waist-length, and her facial features were very attractive from a distance, and she raised her head as if she was looking at the sky. Under the dim street lamps, everything seems to be both real and illusory.

I slammed down the curtain and said to my cousin, "Brother, this woman may be a ghost!" ”

My cousin was about to laugh, but I covered his mouth in time. I kept an eye out the window and whispered to him what had happened in the past few days.

My cousin listened to me while staring out the window. After I finished speaking, his expression finally changed, and he looked at me in disbelief: "Rub, it's really fake, such an evil door?" But I didn't dare to stare straight out the window anymore. I nodded, crying and grimacing: "I'm going crazy with the sound of these high heels!" Why don't you go out with me to check it out? ”

The cousin was silent for a few seconds, then gritted his teeth and nodded, "Let's go!" Are we two big men still afraid of a female ghost? ”

So we went back to the living room, I found the keys and my phone, my cousin took the flashlight, and then changed my shoes together, I took a deep breath and opened the door.

After the two of us went out, we went down a few flights of stairs and arrived at the entrance of the unit of the building. At this time, you can see the stone road outside, there are no people, and there is no sound of footsteps. The woman must still be standing there. But I was a little afraid to look at it, and I didn't move. The cousin was probably scared too, he clenched the flashlight, cursed, and finally slowly walked out of the door, and then, he turned his head to the left to look at the street lamp.

He was visibly stunned. I didn't ask him, and I took a few quick steps to see.

There was no one at all by the street lamp.

My cousin didn't move, and I seemed to see cold sweat on his forehead. My voice trembled a little and said, "Brother, what should I do?" ”

The cousin suddenly walked forward, he shook his flashlight and walked to the place where the woman was standing by the street lamp, looked carefully back and forth, ran to the other side of the stone road to look for a while, and then returned to the street lamp. I also walked over, but I was not in the mood to confirm it, so I whispered to him, "Let's go back, it's too infiltrating out here." ”

My cousin pointed his flashlight directly at the opposite wall, which was the outer wall of my bedroom, and did not move.

I looked at the pillar of light and saw that it was a shoe print under the light.

Shoe prints of high heels. The small square, thin lines, stretched from the floor to the height of the window, and then disappeared. It's like...

It was as if she had walked up the room at an incredible vertical angle along the wall and then disappeared into my window.

"Rub..."

My cousin scolded in a low voice and looked at me with fear in his eyes...

I felt like my cold sweat was running down my face. That woman, no, it's a female ghost, could it be that she came to my house?

We stood like logs in the middle of the path, overwhelmed. My cousin suddenly looked at me and said, "Otherwise, go to my house for the night, don't go back, it's so scary..."

I nodded in agreement, and just as I was leaving, my cousin sighed: "I didn't take my bag, there is my house key in it..." He looked at me: "Did you bring your ID?" ”

I was about to answer, but I heard movement at the corner of the path, and we immediately turned to that side as if we were facing a great enemy, and my cousin pointed the flashlight straight at the corner. And then we see...

A student in a school uniform with a schoolbag showed his head, he stared at us expressionlessly, and then walked behind us along the road, and after walking for a while, he took out his mobile phone and seemed to be making a voice - "Just met two, Shabi is standing in the middle of the road..."

I rolled my eyes and said to my cousin, "I didn't bring it, it looks like I'm going to have to go back..." Then we walked towards my house very nervously.

I took a deep breath, pointed the key at the keyhole, glanced at my cousin, he nodded, and I opened the door, then slowly pushed it open, slowly looking in.

The lights in the living room were on and the TV was playing, and everything seemed to be working properly.

My cousin shone a flashlight in the corner, but found nothing. Then he took the lead and walked in. We turned on all the lights in the house. Nothing happened. My cousin sat down on the couch, took a sip of beer, and said to me, "I don't believe it yet, I don't do anything bad in my life, and I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night." Today, Lao Tzu has to deal with that female ghost. Just sleep in your house, I'm afraid she won't be able to turn the sky upside down! ”

But I had palpitations: "It's scary, I can't sleep." Why don't you go to a bar, now is the time. ”

"It's okay, it's boring anyway, just go and find a girl at night." My cousin nodded in agreement, and we both ran away from my house.

My cousin and I had been playing at a nearby bar until four o'clock, and he wanted to go home, but I was still a little scared and dragged him back to my house. It was too late, I had to go to work the next day, and it was too far away from the place of work to go to his house, so I decided to come back anyway.

It was still dark, there was silence all around, all the windows were dark, and even the street lights were out. It's even more eerie than at twelve o'clock. When we walked to the corner where there was a street lamp, we both had a heart hanging in our hearts, and both of us took out our phones and turned on the flashlights. However...

Wow-wow-wow

As the subtle talisman-like voice crept into our ears, my cousin and I both glanced at each other, and we both saw the look of horror on each other's faces. I plucked up the courage to look at the other side of the road.

A swaying red back, fluttering unhurriedly on the other side of the road, gradually drifting away.

I looked at my cousin, who nodded and said to me, "Let's move..."

After dawn, I went to work in the company, and by the way, I took the next day's leave and stayed in the hotel that night. Then the next day, I quickly packed up my things, and put the room I live in on the Internet, and went out to see a few rooms, and made up my mind that if there is really no suitable one, I will move to the hotel for two days, although the lease has not yet arrived, but being a second landlord is better than being played to death, right?

In the evening, when I came back from a tour outside, I gave the key to the doorman's room, and the security guard told me to fill out a registration book, but I found that the pen was out of water. He asked me to read it for him for a while, and then he went to look for a pen. I was bored and smoking a cigarette in the doorway of the guard's room, while two old women were standing and chatting.

"Have you heard about Building 21?" An old woman said mysteriously.

Building 21? Isn't this the building I live in? I immediately pricked up my ears and listened carefully.

"Oh, I heard that a young woman died!" Another old woman sighed.

My heart sank, and I held back my curiosity and continued to listen.

"I heard that the woman did that kind of work... It's very coquettish. ”

"I heard that she fell from the roof of the building, and her brain flowed all over the ground, miserable!"

"It's not!" An old woman waved her hand: "It's not the top of the building, it's the second floor." It's just bad luck that the back of the head hits the ground, so I fell to my death! ”

"Oh? Is it? I heard she was pushed down? ”

"It's not. I heard that she climbed to the second floor and had an affair with someone, and when she returned in the middle of the night, she didn't hold it and fell down. ”

"Huh? So unlucky? ”

"It's not because she's wearing high heels, alas! …”

Hearing this, I couldn't hold back any longer, and hurriedly walked over, and the two aunts were startled by me. I sneered and said, "Auntie, I live in Building 21, I just heard you say that, is it true?" ”

An old woman patted her chest: "Really, why not really?" I saw it in the early hours of this morning! Hey, that's the miserable death! ”

"What did you say?" I was stunned: "Early this morning? ”

"Yes, I got up at 5:30 to exercise, and I saw the police car parked at that intersection and blocked the scene! It is said to have been discovered by a sanitation worker who was sweeping the floor. ”

I took a puff of my cigarette and had mixed feelings. After a long time, that woman is not a ghost at all... It scared me for a few days, and it turned out to be an oolong incident...

When I moved home from the hotel, I called my cousin and told him what had happened, and he was surprised and embarrassed at the other end, comforted me a few words and hung up the phone. It's naturally good not to have to move, it's really scaring yourself.

At twelve o'clock, I turned off the lights and got ready for bed. I can sleep well tonight, these days, there are really some strange people and things...

Just as I was about to fall asleep in a daze, I suddenly heard a familiar voice.

Wow-wow-wow

Oh-oh-oh, from far to near, gradually clear.

Then, there was a sudden silence.