Chapter 16: Night Terrors

Shan Shilin has a problem with sleepwalking. Since childhood.

After work today, he drove home as usual, changed his clothes, and then went out again.

I don't know if he drank a little too much wine at dinner, and he felt a little dizzy.

I staggered home, but I didn't touch the key for a long time.

I finally found the key, and it took a few more minutes to unlock the door before I finally entered the door.

He fell asleep on the couch.

In the middle of the night, a gust of wind blew, making him shiver all over his body, and he woke up suddenly.

Where does the wind come from?

He struggled to sit up and looked in the direction the wind was blowing.

The windows weren't closed.

He muttered something under his breath, then struggled to his feet and walked to the window, intending to close it.

The night wind was cool and blew most of his wine awake.

He shuddered, and the ghost looked out in a daze.

The night was dark, and everything around me seemed to be soaked in ink.

A series of strange sounds came from nowhere, making people shudder.

Shan Shirin's wine suddenly woke up.

His eyes widened, and he kept looking left and right. Instinctively, he felt as if something was going to happen. And it's a terrible thing.

Today, he gave that kid named Qin Tao a disguised salary cut, and he must be dissatisfied. Young man, with a big temper, maybe he will come to me for revenge......

Shan Shilin thought of these things for some reason, and unconsciously became panicked.

The reason why he transferred Qin Tao's class to Teacher Li was because Teacher Li was his wife's nephew.

The voices outside continued, sounding like a terrible howl.

Could it be that someone took advantage of the darkness to commit a crime?

In an instant, all kinds of bloody images flashed through his mind.

Severed hands, severed feet, human heads, splattered blood......

He gasped sharply and shrank back the half of his body that had leaned out.

"No...... No...... He didn't know where I lived. Even if he knew, he wouldn't be able to get in. This is the tenth floor, and you can't just climb up to it......"

Shan Shilin muttered to himself.

However, the terrible howl that came from nowhere outside became clearer, more and more miserable, and more and more ...... Near......

The voice was terrifying, and Shan Shilin felt his skin tingle for a while, and a chill ran down his spine.

What the hell is that sound?

A curiosity that he himself could not comprehend came over him, and he poked his head out again uncontrollably to look out the window.

Outside, nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. Although the sound was still blowing in the night wind, it sounded ethereal and intermittent, as if it was not a real sound, but from another dimension, or from a dream.

However, the voice was always extremely clear.

It's both ethereal and clear. This strange sensation caused Shan Shilin's whole body to stiffen, and his eyes frantically rolled from side to side.

Finally, he saw it. He saw a wriggling black figure around the corner downstairs.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously, trying to see more clearly, but it only made his vision even more blurry. He looked desperately, and finally saw that it was a man crouched on the ground with his back to him. He didn't know what he was doing, his right arm was raised, sometimes he fell, and some of them pulled.

And the terrible howl disappeared at some point.

What's going on? What is that person doing?

The images of the murder cases on the Internet flashed through his mind again.

Could he be ......

Just as these four words appeared in his mind, Shan Shilin saw the figure squatting on the ground and turned his head.

It was a miserable white face, reflecting the miserable white moonlight.

Despite the distance, the face was clear, as if the man was standing right in front of him.

And that face, splattered with scarlet blood.

"Ahh

Shan Shilin took a step back in horror.

However, the man's gaze was directed at him.

Did he see me? No way?

Shan Shilin's brain was about to explode.

Suddenly, he saw that the corners of the man's mouth were torn to the sides, revealing a hideous smile. Then, he walked step by step towards the residential building where Shan Shilin was.

He saw me! He saw me! He must have been killing someone just now! Even...... It may even be a dismemberment! He found out that I was watching him, so he came to silence him......

Shan Shilin was almost stupid. He took several steps back in fright, and then remembered to close the window, but he did not have the courage to go to it again.

What to do? What to do? Why am I so unlucky?

Shan Shilin looked around the room, trying to find something that he could use to defend himself.

He pushed the couch and table to the door, blocked the door, and then grabbed a kitchen knife in the kitchen.

Just then, footsteps were heard outside the door.

He shook all over, and subconsciously raised the kitchen knife in his right hand.

However, what he didn't expect was the sound of opening the door with a key outside.

Did that man have a master key?

Shan Shilin became more and more frightened, and the hand holding the kitchen knife kept shaking.

The lock was opened, and a push was heard.

Then, he heard a familiar voice.

"What are you doing blocking the door! Sherin, open the door quickly! ”

It was his wife's voice.

Shan Shilin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

His wife is a strong woman who runs a company and often works overtime late into the night.

He scrambled to move the couch and table out of the way and let his wife in.

"Really, you took the wrong medicine?"

The wife seems to be tired. She handed a large plastic bag in her hand to Shan Shilin, and continued: "I was thirsty today, I bought a watermelon, you take it and cut it." ”

Watermelon?

Shan Shilin was stunned for a moment, took the plastic bag, and glanced inside.

The watermelon inside is not too big, and based on experience, it should taste good.

The wife didn't say anything more, but walked straight in, changed her clothes and washed up.

Shan Shilin closed the door again. After thinking about it, I still didn't block the door with furniture again.

took the watermelon into the kitchen, and Shan Shilin took the knife and split the watermelon in half.

Red watermelon juice splattered all over his face. The juice is not cold, but a little warm.

He didn't think much of it, continued to chop, and divided the watermelon into two dozen small pieces.

"Wife, it's cut. Come on, eat together. ”

Shan Shilin took the cut watermelon on a plate and walked into the bedroom.

However, his wife was gone.

Not in the bedroom? Is it in the bathroom?

He stiffened his hands on the plate and walked towards the bathroom.

There was no sound inside.

"Wife?"

He shouted.

No response.

He looked down, only to see a stream of fresh blood on the floor, stretching from the bathroom door all the way to the bedroom.

Why didn't you find out just now?

He panicked again and returned to his bedroom with the blood trail down.

"Wife?"

Walking to the door, he stopped and shouted in a trembling voice.

Still no response.