It all started on that day a year ago.

Looking back on it now, it feels like a nightmare.

After graduating from university, Li Yin resolutely became an online novelist despite the opposition of his parents. Of course, it's definitely not because of any dreams, ideals or anything like that, it's just that you can make money by doing this business.

It is rare to write online novels as a regular job, and Li Yin is one. In fact, his remuneration income is not too high, so he can barely make ends meet. Moreover, his new works may not continue to be popular in the future. In this era, there are more readers who like the new and hate the old, not to mention the fast food of online novels, which is just a concoction for people.

Li Yin was also very confused for a while. I always feel that the future of life is very directionless. I rent a house in K City alone, and I open the computer code word upload every day just after I get up, and I often shop through the Internet, and I have become an "otaku".

Most of his novels were about war, although he didn't know much about war himself. And his novels are on the Internet, and their popularity is also declining. This month, fewer and fewer people subscribe to the chapter of the novel, and the monthly income is less than 800 yuan. Not to mention that it is a normal life, even the rent will be a problem.

I always feel that life has come to a very embarrassing road.

That day......

Li Yin strolls along a commercial street in K City, usually at this time, he is at home updating novels, but now...... He was thinking about the rest of his life.

After all, I am still too naïve, although I expected this day, but I think that as long as I have a certain amount of savings after a while, I can invest in stock speculation, and maybe I can start my own business in the future.

However, the truth is not that simple at all.

Looking for a job? He doesn't have any work qualifications, so what unit doesn't pay attention to experience now? There are so many college students who have just entered the society that they will not be paid special attention to at all.

Pinching a job search weekly in his hand, Li Yin's brows furrowed more and more.

As he walked, he had unconsciously entered a neighborhood and entered an alley.

"Or ...... Let's go find a job first," Li Yin really can't go back home to beg his parents, even if he fights, he has to get through the difficulties first.

After all...... If this month's rent is in arrears, the landlord will have to kick himself out.

When I moved out of the house, I was single, but it was also because I didn't agree with my parents' philosophy, and I wanted to go home one day when I had achieved something. But...... Now it's like that.

As he walked, he suddenly felt a chill in his back.

He took away the weekly job search magazine in front of him, and in the sun, his own shadow was reflected on the ground......

But he still holds that job search weekly in front of him!

Then, only his shadow was seen, and even more terrible changes took place.

Li Yin, obviously not moving now, but the shadow under his feet began to move! The shadow, out of Li Yin's feet, moved on the ground towards the corner of the alley in front of him!

Li Yin was stunned on the spot, and it took a few seconds to react!

At this moment, there is no shadow of him!

In desperation, his mind was blank at that time, and he just ran away, following the direction of the shadow's escape! And in this winding alley, the shadow moved very fast, and Li Yin also spent a lot of effort to catch up with it.

Finally, through another alley, Li Yin saw the shadow enter a very empty clearing. The central ...... of this clearing There is a very tall apartment.

That apartment, roughly speaking, should not be lower than twenty floors. The apartment also covers a large area, about 200 square meters, with white walls and neat rows of balconies on the outer floor.

And this apartment has a very strange place.

It's midday and the sun is shining down directly, and this huge apartment ...... On the ground, there is no shadow!

How can it be?

Li Yin rubbed his eyes desperately, he strongly suspected that he was dreaming.

But what is in front of you is an indisputable fact.

At the entrance to the apartment, on the first floor, is a revolving door. And his own shadow moved to the revolving door on the ground, and automatically penetrated on the ground.

At this moment, many ghost stories he heard when he was a child were all revived in Li Yin's mind.

He was only thirty meters away from this apartment at this time, and that seemingly ordinary apartment was like a monster that wanted to eat people, and it was like it would devour him at any time.

But, somehow, he walked towards the apartment.

It's as if something is calling you.

Walking to the revolving door, Li Yin stretched out his hand, pushed the revolving door, and walked in.

What catches your eye is a spacious lobby. The floor is finished in fine marble, the ceiling is hung with crystal chandeliers, and the lobby has a staircase to the left and three elevators to the right.

I saw his shadow floating on the ground in front of an elevator, and then the elevator door opened, and after the shadow floated in, the elevator door closed.

Li Yin immediately rushed to the elevator door and nervously looked at the floor display board of the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the fourth floor.

Li Yin hurriedly ran to another elevator, pressed the button, the elevator door slowly opened, and he rushed in with an arrow and pressed the button on the fourth floor.

As the number of floors rose, Li Yin's heart was also suspended.

My Shadow ...... My Shadow ......

Li Yin strongly felt in his heart that if he lost his shadow, it would mean something terrible.

Finally, on the fourth floor, the moment the elevator door opened, he immediately walked out and stood on a long corridor.

There was plenty of light on the corridor, but the further you went, the more you felt a sense of depth. On both sides of the corridor, there are doors. The door is marked with the house number, "411", "410", "412", etc......

And when Li Yin walked to the door of room "404", suddenly, he saw his shadow floating out of the crack in the door of that room and returned to Li Yin's feet.

However, the shadow still did what Li Yin didn't do.

On the shadow's right hand, it seemed to be grasping something, but it couldn't see it clearly. Immediately, the shadow stuffed the thing into the pocket of the shadow's pants. When it was done, its hands hung down and it didn't move.

Li Yin tentatively waved his right arm, and to his surprise, the shadow also started to wave his right hand!

Shadow...... Homed?

At this time, he put his right hand into the pocket of his pants where the shadow had been placed just now, and touched it, a hard thing.

That's a key.

The key also looks ordinary, except that the number "404" is engraved on it. Li Yin therefore looked at the door of room 404 beside him, trembled, inserted the key into the lock hole, and turned it slightly, and the door opened.

He walked into room 404.

As far as the eye can see, there is a rather large living room, with a coffee table, sofa, wardrobe, TV, and even a TV with karaoke and stereo, which seems to be quite expensive on the market. Next to the TV, there is a row of floor-to-ceiling windows with a balcony outside.

After a closer look, there are also two bedrooms, a study, a bathroom and a kitchen. And the rooms are very well decorated, the furniture is new, and most of them are brand-name goods. The room is about seventy or eighty square meters, and with the current house price, even if this house is a second-hand house, it is definitely not cheap. At least...... With his current income, he is simply out of reach of such a house.

This...... What's going on?

"You...... Are you, the new resident? ”

When Li Yin heard this voice, he immediately looked back, and what caught his eye was a pretty girl in a green dress.

"You...... Who are you? Li Yin suddenly asked vigilantly.

"You, don't be afraid," the girl hurriedly waved her hand and said, "I, I'm just like you...... It's all shadows that suddenly and automatically run into this apartment, and then, they become residents of this apartment. You've got the key, right? ”

Li Yin was startled, then took the key, strode towards the girl, and asked, "What's going on?" This...... This apartment, what exactly ......"

"Since you're a new resident, as is customary, I'll take you to our building manager. He was unanimously elected by us, and when you go to see him, he will tell you about the situation and then he will register your arrival. ”

"Lou...... The building chief? ”

"There are currently thirty-nine people living in this apartment, and you are forty. All of us...... All of them, forcibly bound by this apartment, and had to live here all the time. ”

Li Yin suddenly became furious: "You...... Are you kidding? How could I possibly live in this hellish place! ”

The girl smiled bitterly and said, "I can't help it...... I, I was scared when I first entered this apartment, but ...... There's really no way. Once our shadow enters the apartment and is given the key, it means that we become the residents of the apartment, and that ...... There's no escape from this apartment. ”

Speaking of this, the girl also had a painful expression on her face.

"No...... Can't escape? Li Yin felt more and more strange at this moment, and asked, "Why can't you escape?" ”

"In the past, there have been people who have been selected as residents, but they don't live in apartments. Someone like that...... will be killed by his own shadow. ”

"What...... What the? ”

Li Yin was stunned for a moment.

"You...... Just kidding, right? ”

"Didn't you see that? The shadow has been completely dominated by this apartment. In normal times, the shadow can be controlled and controlled by you at will, but ...... If you do something that goes against the rules, the shadow will kill yourself by indulging your own body. I've been living in this apartment for two years...... I've seen a lot of people who committed suicide because they violated the rules of the apartment and were indulged by shadows. ”

People, in turn, are indulged by shadows?

Such absurd words, but Li Yin couldn't refute them. Because, he had just witnessed the abnormal change of his shadow!

Li Yin began to feel that this apartment was completely beyond his common sense.

"This ...... This apartment ...... Who built it? Why, exactly, did you choose us as a resident? ”

The girl shook her head and said, "I don't know...... I've thought about it a lot in the past two years, but I can't understand it, I really can't understand it! This apartment, in itself, is incomprehensible! Only one thing is certain, though. We can't meet the people who built the apartment, and for those who aren't residents, the apartment doesn't exist in this world. ”

"You...... What do you mean by that? ”

"Did you come here through an alley?"

"Right...... yes......"

"Actually, that's a dead end. Only those who have been selected as residents can pass through that alley and enter this apartment. The vacant land occupied by the apartment also does not exist. It's a land that doesn't exist! ”

"No...... Non-existent? ”

Li Yin looked at the balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and outside, rows of high-rise buildings were visible.

"We can see the outside world, but the outside world can't see us." The girl saw Li Yin's confusion and explained to him, "When you leave the apartment and walk out of that alley, you won't be able to see the apartment at all." People who are not residents have no idea that this apartment exists in this world. ”

However, this apartment does exist.

And once you enter, it is equivalent to embarking on an extremely dangerous and terrifying road of no return!