Chapter 5: The Disappearing Third Floor
"You don't have to send me, you don't have to send me, I'll just take a taxi and go, I'm not drunk, don't worry." A young man in his early 20s, said to a few friends of the same age next to him, saying that he was not drunk, but he couldn't walk in a straight line, took a taxi, and explained the place to the master in the car a little drowsy, closed his eyes and rested for a while, the car stopped, paid and got off, this community used to be the most upscale community in this small city, but now it has fallen to the bottom ten, and now there are dozens of floors of residential areas nearby, here is still an old-fashioned six-story staircase, once full of dignitaries, Now only the elderly and the foreign population remain, as well as families whose living conditions are not particularly advantageous.
The phone rang, the young man picked up the phone, and a woman said in a concerned voice, "Sun Zhi, have you arrived home?" The young man said inarticulately: "It's here, it's here, leave me alone, you rest early, hang up." Then hung up the phone and walked crookedly into the community, Sun Zhi lived in Unit 602, Unit 5, Building 7, Sun Zhi went to the wrong building due to drunkenness, and walked to Unit 5 of Building 4, Sun Zhi walked up crookedly, the voice-activated light on the first floor turned on, Sun Zhi held the rusty green paint handrail and walked up with his head down, his palms were stained with rusty yellow and crushed green paint iron, the lights were still on the second floor, but there was no light on the third floor, Sun Zhi stomped his feet fiercely, it was not lit, and he coughed loudly, The lights are still not on, upstairs and downstairs.
Sun Zhi scolded vaguely in his mouth: "When did this broken lamp break." "Continue to go up, the upstairs should be the fourth floor, but after going up, it says the 5th floor, this time Sun Zhi stopped and looked at it twice, no, he went wrong, went back the same way, went down, the fourth floor, the third floor, the second floor, huh?? How did you get to the door? Is this building mislabeled? No matter what, I went home and slept for a while, and when I woke up the next day, I was woken up by my mother.
Sun Zhi said in a daze, "Let me sleep again." Zhang Kou almost drunk his mother, Sun Zhi's mother shook a few more times, woke Sun Zhi up and said, "Did you go out to fight with others?" Let you drink less and drink less, and drink too much and cause trouble. Sun Zhi said impatiently: "Who am I going to fight with!" I'll just drink some wine, and you let me sleep again. Sun Zhi's mother said angrily: "You still don't admit it, where did these bruises and injuries come from?" If you don't fight, how can you get so many greens, you see these greens on your arms, all with handprints, how strong is this, who did you provoke you? ”
Sun Zhi felt very strange, he sat up strongly, feeling sore, as if he had dislocated, but his arms and calves were particularly painful, different from the previous soreness of drunkenness, but a sense of oppression similar to tightness, this pain made Sun Zhi very inapplicable, he looked at his mother and said, "Strange? I took a taxi back last night after drinking, and when I came back, I went to the wrong building, and then I came down and went home, and I didn't fight with anyone, did I hit the wall when I came back last night? ”
Sun Zhi's mother said with a look of disbelief: "If you bump into one more and I'll take a look, can you bump into your hand print?" There is more than one, you tell me the truth, I can't beat you, and I can't scold you. Sun Zhi shook his head and said, "I really don't know, I'll call and ask them later." Then Sun Zhi took out his mobile phone and called several other people, and they all said that there was no fight, and they all went home after drinking, where to fight.
Sun Zhi stood up and planned to go to the bathroom, but when he stood up, his head was still dizzy, and he almost fell, and he said in his heart: "I drank so much last night? Still dizzy? "I went to the bathroom with my spirits, washed my face, looked at myself in my glasses, there were a lot of handprints on my arms, each of which was not big, and I looked down at my bare feet and calves, there were also a lot of handprints, as if I was being grabbed by many people, what was going on? It's weird.
Sun Zhi washed up, went out for breakfast and went to the company, thinking about this matter in the company for a long time, trying to remember what he did last night, did he fight with the taxi driver? No, what the hell is going on? After getting off work, on the way home, I walked through Building 1 and arrived at Building 4, Sun Zhi thought it was related to going to the wrong building last night? Thinking about it, I walked to unit 5, looked at it and started to go up, the first floor, the second floor, the third floor, the fourth floor, the fifth floor, the sixth floor, how did it get right today? One layer less last night? Am I so drunk? Can't even remember how many floors?
Further down, 6th floor, 5th floor, 4th floor, 3rd floor, huh? Why is it a little strange on the third floor, why is the wall next to Door 302 so dark? Why is the entire 302 black from the outside, except for the door? And it's not the black of dust and stains, it seems to be smoked, it's too dark, I went downstairs, I went home full of questions, and when I got home, I was very worried, and my mother said, "What's wrong?" Worried about you? ”
Sun Zhi said, "Mom, why is the wall on the third floor of the building in front of us so dark?" As long as the door is not dark, the landlord doesn't care? How dirty? Sun Zhi's mother opened her mouth, stared at him, and said in a daze: "Are you talking about Unit 302, Unit 5, Building 4?" Sun Zhi paused when he heard this, and then nodded blankly to indicate that it was right.
Sun Zhi's mother stood up and looked at him and said, "What are you doing?" What are you doing in Building 4? Sun Zhi told him about last night, and Sun Zhi's mother walked to the kitchen and said as she walked: "Don't wander around in the future." Sun Zhi wanted to ask, but saw that his mother couldn't speak, after dinner, Sun Zhi said that he wanted to go out for a walk, Sun Zhi's mother told him not to go to Building No. 4, Sun Zhi promised to go.
came out and turned around, Sun Zhi walked into the fifth unit of Building 4 with curiosity, the first floor, the second floor, the third floor, the fourth floor, the fifth floor, the sixth floor, well, this time it was right, sure enough, I was too drunk yesterday, and went downstairs, the sixth floor, the fifth floor, the fourth floor, the third floor, the second floor, the first floor, yes, it is correct, I really drank too much last night, go buy a pack of cigarettes, go to the convenience store at the entrance of the community to ask for a pack of cigarettes, and the boss is also an acquaintance, the two chatted a few words, chatted and chatted about the fifth unit of the fourth building 302.
Sun Zhi said: "Brother, why is the wall of Unit 302 of Unit 5 of Building 4 so dark, and no one cares if it is black like that?" The boss said, "You don't know? You don't know it's such a big deal, oh, yes, you went to college two years after the accident. Sun Zhi's curiosity was aroused at once, and he said, "What's the matter?" Tell me about it. ”
The boss snorted and said: "That should be what happened in your second year of college, 302 is a primary school student trusteeship, after school to pick up the first grade, the second grade children, and then bring back to write homework, many parents are not available to pick up at work, this is going to be handed over to these nurseries, that afternoon the nursery school as usual to pick up the child, after the pick-up to take the child to 302 to write homework, this kind of nursery school work time is special, so many people come to work are a little part-time nature, but although it is part-time and long-term, Originally, it was nothing, but there was a nursery teacher who was pregnant and gave birth to a child and asked for leave, and the nursery found another person, and the new one was a little girl, who was quite good-looking, and the children also liked to play with her. ”
When he said this, the boss paused, lit a cigarette, and then continued: "This little girl has always been very good, usually go to work on this little girl and a teacher who used to be, the two looked at more than ten children, and then there were a few days when the little girl didn't like to laugh, it didn't seem to be in a good mood, but it didn't affect the work, the old teacher didn't say anything, one day, a man came, he smelled of alcohol, and he had to pull this little girl away, and the little girl didn't go with him, and the older one went up to pull the two apart, It doesn't matter if this pull, the man directly started to beat people, the children were scared, they all hid and cried, the little girl took out her mobile phone to call the police, this time the man was even more popular, and the little girl was knocked out directly, the older one went up to pull the rack, but was not pulled, but was directly pushed down on the table by the man, and then picked up a child's kettle and hit the head several times, at this time there were parents who came to pick up the child, came to knock on the door, the man panicked, locked the door, and began to set fire, curtains, school bags, There are also some children who learn to dance their clothes are all burned, they want to climb out of the window with the strength of wine, but they fall to their deaths, outside the parents knocked on the door for a long time did not open, so they called, and then they panicked when they saw the smoke, and called the police, when the police came, many people surrounded and watched, some people looked at the fall to death, some people looked at the building that caught fire, the fire department came earlier than the police, the fire went in to save people, and the children were rescued, no one was alive, all choked to death by the smoke, and the whole body was blackened, 9 children, None of them were alive, the little girl was also dead, and the older one was said to have been killed on the spot. ”
The boss flicked off the cigarette ash and continued: "Later, the police investigated and said what was going on, this man likes other people's little girls, and chased them for more than a month, and he originally agreed, but found that this man has a very serious problem, drug abuse!" I met some fox friends in the bar, drank and took drugs, after taking drugs, it was like a different person, the little girl knew that she was definitely unwilling, so she said that she wanted to break up, and then deleted the man's number and contact information, and all blacked out, this man also drank alcohol and took drugs on the day of the crime, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, so he came to the door, which led to these things. ”
Sun Zhi said: "This kind of person deserves to die the most!" If you die yourself, you will have to affect others!! ”
The boss nodded and said: "Then it was said that as long as there are adult men drunk in this building at night, they can't find the third floor, and the third floor is like disappearing, and then the next day there are a lot of scratches on the body, handprints, handprints are not big, they are all children's handprints, but I say so, I don't know if it's true or not, it's true to say so, it's better to be careful." ”
Sun Zhi was covered in blood, unable to speak, and walked out of the convenience store, all kinds of fragments flashed in his mind, words to the boss, the fire, the children, the handprints, the blackened wall, the night he was drunk, and the handprints on his body...
Before I knew it, I walked to Building 4 again, "If I pretend to be drunk, will the third floor disappear?" Sun Zhi muttered in his heart, and then walked in again, in a drunken state, unstable, unstable, and went upstairs crookedly, the first floor, the second floor, the fourth floor... Sun Zhi was so scared that he didn't dare to go down, he didn't know what to do, Sun Zhi walked to the sixth floor, was stunned on the sixth floor, plucked up the courage to go down, this time he didn't pretend to be drunk, the sixth floor, the fifth floor, the fourth floor, the third floor, the second floor, the first floor, walked out of the door, accelerated and walked back to his home, walking faster and faster, and then simply trotted up, returned home and took a deep breath, washed and slept.
When he woke up the next day, when Sun Zhi got up to brush his teeth, he found that there were new handprints on his arms.