Chapter 41: The Dilemma
At half past two in the middle of the night, I drove alone in the area of Zixia Road to find the specific location of No. 181, and the strange thing is that no matter how you look at it, there is only No. 179, and the house after No. 180 seems to have disappeared out of thin air, and it does not exist at all.
Isn't it on the side of the road or in a neighborhood?
I hesitated for a while, but I parked the car on the side of the road, picked up my bag and got out of the car, first navigated on my mobile phone for a while, and made sure that No. 181 was not far away before groping my way into the alleyway on the right.
It's a bit of a remote area, with not many cars coming and going, and there are no eye-catching buildings around, so it's a densely populated residential area. The distance between the houses is very close, and the roads are also very narrow, mostly one-way streets, and many intersections need to go around for half a day to go back, which is very inconvenient.
It was very quiet, and apart from the dim street lamps spilling on the road, there was no life at all.
When I walked into the dark alleyway, I was very nervous, and the palms of my hands holding my phone were full of sweat.
Thankfully, the flashlight on my phone was bright enough to brighten my surroundings and reduce my fear.
The houses on both sides are not very high, they are all six or seven floors, and the appearance is very dilapidated. I've lived in Nancheng for many years, but I rarely do anything in this neighborhood, so I feel very unfamiliar.
In order to see the house numbers on both sides, I had to lift my phone and look carefully at the small house number, and under the bright beam, the number 180 was clearly displayed in front of me, which made me happy.
Since this building is No. 180, it should be No. 181 in front, right?
Hurriedly quickening my pace and crossing the eight-family façade house, I looked at the number of the row of houses in front of me.
However, the adjacent building actually jumped directly into No. 222, which made me so confused.
Looking at the house number on the left, there are more than 300 numbers, and it is obviously impossible to have 181 numbers. I had to walk back, thinking that No. 181 might be on both sides of the road when I came, and I didn't look very carefully in the car just now, and I should be able to find it when I go back.
However, an hour later, I still couldn't find No. 181, not only No. 181, but also No. 181-221, as if there were no more than 20 house numbers.
Am I mistaken?
Standing on the side of the road, with the help of the street lamp overhead, I carefully looked at the address taken in my mobile phone, it was indeed No. 181 Zixia Road, how could it be wrong?
When I was puzzled, I suddenly felt something rush out of the corner of my eye, and when I quickly looked up, I felt a black shadow lightning across the highway and into the dark alley opposite.
My heart jumped, and instinctively chased after it.
At that time, I was very worried about Hua Yan's safety, so I didn't have time to think about anything else, I just wanted to find No. 181 and find Hua Yan as soon as possible.
But the alleyway on the opposite side was so narrow and dark that it was almost crowded with two people in parallel. And there was a terrible smell coming from the alley, like a garbage heap.
I followed the dark shadow of Fang Cai in, but I didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, and I didn't know why he disappeared as soon as he entered.
The wet road looks like it was sprinkled with water not long ago, but it hasn't snowed for the past two days, and I don't know why it's so dark and slippery.
I carefully held my phone and walked slowly under the glow of the flashlight.
The alleyway is not long, but it is very dark, and it is completely impossible to see if there is a way out ahead.
I couldn't help but look back behind me, there was still the yellow light of the street lights at the intersection more than twenty meters away, and I felt a little calmer, and continued to go deeper into the alley.
The alley was just over 200 meters, but it made me sweat profusely, and my nerves collapsed to the limit.
Meow!
A cat meow came from the darkness ahead, startling me.
When I saw a big black cat jumping from the ground to the fence on the left-hand side, I suddenly remembered that the black shadow I had just seen seemed to be it, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Turning around, I just wanted to get out of the terrible alleyway as quickly as I heard a long sigh behind me.
The voice was like an old man sighing, and it seemed like someone was breathing, appearing in such an infiltrating place for no reason, only my body collapsed, and my steps were fixed, and I couldn't move a single step.
Cold sweat was rolling down my forehead, even though I was screaming inwardly, encouraging myself to run and get out of this terrible place.
But my legs don't listen to me anymore, and they can't move at all.
I was frustrated at my uselessness when I heard the faint, slow sound of footsteps behind me.
The footsteps were low and soft, like an autumn wind blowing across a lake, or like a feather scraping through a leaf.
But the more such a voice is, the more strange and uneasy it feels, and a cool breeze blows in the back of the head.
The footsteps behind me still didn't stop, and every step was like a giant hammer hitting my heart, and it seemed to shatter into thousands of pieces at any moment.
My heavy breathing betrayed the tension in my heart, but I also told myself that maybe none of this was true, but that I was too scared to have auditory hallucinations. Besides, if there are really any demons and monsters, the more I am afraid, the more useless it will be, waiting for death is not my character, I must restrain my fear, I must save myself!
At the thought of this, I felt that my heavy legs suddenly became much easier, and I was so overjoyed that I ran away without even thinking about it, and I didn't even have the slightest thought of looking back at the truth.
But things are not as simple as I imagined, obviously looking at only more than 200 meters of the alley but it seems that it will never end, I obviously end at the street lamp at the entrance of the lane, but I ran sweaty and still in place, when I realized this, it was too late, I looked down at the number of two o'clock and ten on the phone, it took a long time to react, time has stopped for a long time, and I seem to be trapped in this alley, not only can I not save Huayan, I am afraid that even I have to build here!
Since there is no escape, it is better to save physical strength.
I took a deep breath and stopped running for my life.
At this time, the footsteps behind me sounded again, just because I ran too fast, the footsteps covered the low, gentle footsteps, and as soon as it calmed down, it sounded again, like maggots attached to the bones, like a shadow.
I gritted my teeth and turned around, thinking that I was going to die, to see what was following me.
However, when I opened my eyes to look at the dark alleyway, I saw nothing, nothing but the darkness of my fingers.
It was so weird that I couldn't figure it out.
According to the previous routine, if Guo Lin and other ghosts were entangled, they would definitely not be unable to hide, but would have already attacked me.
But in the current situation, I can't guess what I've encountered, and I don't know what is going on in the dark, and what is its purpose? And is Huayan alive or dead now? Or are you stuck somewhere like me?
I tried to make a phone call to try to get in touch with the outside world, but it was all in vain, because as soon as I looked down, I saw that there was no signal above my phone, and it seemed to be isolated from the world, and even wireless signals could not penetrate.