In the stairwell, there was a dead silence. Light bulbs, covered in gray-white dust, hung upside down from the ceiling of the staircase passage, emitting an oppressive yellow glow and humming.

Li Yang and I didn't speak, just looked at each other.

To be honest, I wanted to push the door out of the door and go to the hallway to see if there was really an old lady there. But I really didn't have the courage.

Li Yang asked me why my face was so bad. I told him that there was a sound of someone eating on the upstairs floor. I watched his expression, and he looked indifferent, and I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

I felt that my thoughts were getting more and more confused, and I smiled wryly, "I guess we should get out of here." The building is too gloomy, and if you climb any higher, you might find something wrong. ”

Li Yang regained his composure, and he scratched his head: "I'm worried that we won't have the courage to come back once we leave like this." In this way, we have already come here, so let's go up a few more floors, and if there are signs of danger, we will withdraw as soon as possible. ”

When I looked at him, I really didn't know whether to trust him, or even whether I should believe that there was such a person! However, the only option I have now is to follow him and let me go back down the dark stairs alone, or kill me.

We started to go to the twelfth floor, and Li Yang said, "Now let's start remembering the floor!" If you can't remember, the next time you go to the elevator to see it yourself, I will definitely not go. ”

"Let's go, you're." I hummed, it doesn't matter if it's a real Li Yang or a fake Li Yang, I'll scold it first.

I walked up a floor, the corridor was getting colder and colder, the temperature dropped very significantly, and I felt the cold drilling through the gaps in my clothes while wrapped in a big cotton jacket, and I was shivering from the cold. At this moment, I didn't pay attention to my feet, and I slipped and fell to the ground.

The tail bone hurt to death, and I bared my teeth and screamed. Li Yang pulled me up. I scolded and scolded: "Who is so lacking in morality, what kind of stuff is there on the ground?" ”

The floor lights slowly turned on. We saw that on the floor of the staircase, a thick layer of white rice was spread.

I started a fire namelessly, scolding: "Who lacks great virtue to sprinkle rice here?" ”

Li Yang squatted down and grabbed a handful to take a closer look: "The rice on the ground is spread evenly and thickly, someone must have done it on purpose." ”

"Why do you want to do this?" I was stunned.

"I remember that there are zombies in Hong Kong old ghost movies who are afraid of glutinous rice. Isn't it spread rice on the ground to prevent zombies? Li Yang said.

I smiled weakly, "It's still a zombie, don't talk nonsense." ”

"What does it mean to sprinkle rice?" He threw the rice back to the ground: "It's evil. ”

At this time, the building lamp "hissed" and went out, the corridor shook brightly and darkly, and our Li Yang's shadow was long and dragged on the wall, much like an old woman with unkempt hair with teeth and claws.

Li Yang continued to walk upstairs, and I sighed and had to follow behind.

I walked many more floors to the top, I was really tired, I sat on the ground and panted: "Okay, I counted layer by layer, and I walked another ten floors." Together with the eleven floors that have already been walked, we are now on the top floor. ”

Li Yang didn't speak, his hands were in his padded jacket pockets, and his eyes stared at the dark wall without blinking.

"Look at a bird." I scolded that he had been acting weird tonight.

Li Yang's facial features twitched a little, and he swallowed his saliva: "Lao Liu, look back at the wall behind you." ”

He said it so coldly, my scalp is a little numb, damn, what's the back? Suddenly I thought of the old lady in red, she wouldn't be standing right behind me, would she?

I stiffened, barely looking back. Behind it was a black hallway wall, and there were no birds.

I was about to scold him for not being happy, when I suddenly saw something on the wall, and my blood immediately clotted!

It was a very fresh mudra, with five fingers pointing down, and judging by the size of the palm, it should be an adult. The direction and posture of the palms are very strange, and they should be left by a person clinging to the wall with the palm of his hand supporting the wall.

The reason why I was so scared was because on the eleventh floor, Li Yang went to check the building sign and came back, and the moment the building lights were turned on, my posture was close to the wall, and my palms were propped up on the wall.

Because the pose was so embarrassing and it was in a very special situation, we remember that moment vividly.

I look at Li Yang, Li Yang looks at me, the air is suppressed and almost wrung out of water. I slowly reached out and slowly leaned against the palm prints on the wall, and at the moment of retouching, we both let out a sound that almost moaned at the same time.

My hand did match the palm print on the wall!

What does this mean? Explain that we are still on the eleventh floor! But is it possible? The two of us kept crawling up the curtain, tired like dead dogs, how could such a supernatural thing happen?

Li Yang's voice was hoarse: "Could it be that a ghost hit the wall?" ”

"No, it won't." I smiled wryly.

Li Yang said: "If it is a ghost hitting the wall, there are two situations. One is that we go up and down in circles on the eleventh floor, and we are stuck in this floor all the time. There is also a situation where we go to the twenty-first floor, and it ends up being a big loop, going around in circles and back to the eleventh floor. ”

I wiped my face: "Don't judge this as the eleventh layer so early, it's possible that this palm print was left by me just now, and I forgot about it tired." Let's not scare ourselves. ”

Li Yang made a gesture of invitation to the side door leading to the corridor. The meaning is obvious, to judge whether it is the twenty-first or eleventh floor, look at the building number to know the road.

If I look at the building again this time, it will be my turn.

I looked at Li Yang and laughed. I can't tell what kind of emotion this laugh is, I just want to laugh happily. I rubbed my forehead, walked to the side door, and gently pushed it open.

An eerie chill swept over from outside, making me shiver. I looked back at Li Yang, he lit a small cigarette, smoked leisurely, and didn't look at me.

I forced my way around the corner of the stairs and saw a long hallway in front of me. I saw that in the middle of the corridor, two windows were opened, and a figure in red clothes stood against the window, I don't know what to do there.

I screamed, and crawled back to the stairwell, Li Yang was still smoking, seeing that I was so frightened that I was urinating, I hurriedly held on: "My grass, Lao Liu, what's wrong with you?" ”

Since the incident of Li Damin, I have experienced a lot of ups and downs, but there has never been a fear that has penetrated into my soul like now. I was so scared that I felt that my whole heart was destroyed, and I threw myself into Li Yang's arms, tears flowed out.

Li Yang was also frightened by my appearance: "What's wrong, speak, what did you see?" “

"I, I saw the ...... in the red sweater Old lady. I said on and off.

Li Yang was taken aback: "I'm grass, don't scare me." ”

"Or you go and see." I say.

"Forget it. The old lady looked like a maggot with a bone, which was always imprinted in my mind, and when I closed my eyes, it was her. Damn, let me see it again, it's better to hit my head and die. Li Yang said: "I don't need to see it with my own eyes to know that you didn't lie, you are so scared that you can't act." ”

He sighed: "Trouble, we really encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and we have been circling around the eleventh floor." ”

It was only then that I realized that I was in an extremely indecent posture, hugging him tightly, with my head resting on his shoulder, creating an ambiguous rhythm of picking up soap. I jumped out of the way and slammed on the ground, feeling nauseous.

Li Yang was so confused that he didn't pay attention to my behavior. He smoked desperately: "What can I do about this?" ”

I barely regained my composure, and the idea came to my head: "Well, let's go one more level up the hill." If you still see this scene, it means that we have been going around in circles on the eleventh floor; If you see something else......"

"What's wrong with seeing something else?" He asked.

"Then let's talk about it. That's the way I'm going to do it anyway. ”

Li Yang nodded: "Let's take a step and see a step." ”

The two of us started to walk up, and when we reached the staircase, the building lamp had not yet been lit, and it was pitch black all around. I vaguely saw Li Yang's figure stop, he didn't turn his head, and said faintly: "Do you remember the situation on the twelfth floor?" ”

"Yes...... Rice. I said.

Li Yang said: "What if the building lights are lit after a while, and we don't see the rice?" ”

"Don't ask, I don't know what to do."

Li Yang walked towards the head, and I followed closely behind, when the lights came on.

In the pale yellow light, I saw a thick layer of white rice on the floor of the corridor, which was a familiar scene, but it was not the twelfth floor, because there were some very strange ornaments on the white rice.

It was a small house, twenty or thirty of them. Each house is about the size of A4 paper, and is made of rudimentary wooden planks that look like they are intended for immortals. The most peculiar thing is that there are two red couplets on the left and right sides of the door of the small house. The couplet is written with a crooked earthworm-like calligraphy, which is too small to read clearly.

At first glance, when I saw these weird little houses, I thought I had entered Lilliputian Kingdom, but when I looked closely, it looked like a tomb.

At the door of each small house, there is a paint bucket filled with incense ash, which should be used as an incense burner. On the house, three words are written "Cold Forest Altar".