There is a phenomenon in China that in a few places, cities are growing rapidly but poorly protected, and the overall planning of urban development has no long-term goals and is not perfectly coordinated, and the result is that the overall urban landscape is fragmented or even destroyed. Among them, Ronghua Road in City A is a typical example of failure in this regard.

Before the liberation, Ronghua Road used to be a place where foreigners and local wealthy people lived, and the street was flanked by small buildings in Western architectural style, coupled with lush tall trees, it was originally a very quiet and beautiful place. However, in recent years, due to the development of real estate developers in their own ways, the harmonious style here has been completely destroyed. As far as the eye can see, on one side of the street are office buildings, large shopping malls and supermarkets, restaurants and entertainment venues and other bustling high-rise buildings, and on the other side is an unplanned lot, with several small Western-style buildings and the back entrance of City A University sitting alone.

These small western-style buildings are now divided into several ordinary families, each family due to the shortage of houses, according to their own wishes in the balcony or window to build a lot of facilities to increase the area, plus the small building is in disrepair, from the appearance of the look particularly dilapidated. However, these houses were particularly sturdy when they were built, so the inside is still good.

Only a small Spanish-style white building still retains its original flavor, the exterior walls have been clearly painted, and the building structure has not been damaged.

The owner of the small building is named Lan Shan, and the house is handed down from his ancestors. It is said that his ancestors used to be a wealthy family, but in his generation, only this house remains.

He is lazy and does not want to make progress, and his nickname is Lazy San, but fortunately this house did not make him a beggar. He himself knew that this was his only way to survive, so he opened a small hotel with this beautiful western-style building.

It is said to be a hotel, but it is actually a small hotel with a daily rental system, and occasionally one or two guests stay for a while, mainly to meet the needs of young couples on college campuses.

These couples live in school dormitories and are not in a position to go out and live together, so they often come here to rent a room for trysts. Because there is only this hotel nearby, the occupancy rate of the lazy hotel is very high.

He hired a country woman, Sister Wang, to be responsible for cleaning, and he didn't have to work hard himself, only responsible for collecting money, and then stayed in the attic to spend a leisurely and boring day. Sister Wang, on the other hand, lives in the basement.

When it opened, he gave the inn a rather elegant name, but later it was called the Lover's Hotel, and no one remembers what it used to be.

Now that the school is about to have winter vacation, and the couples are about to part, his business is even more prosperous, and in the face of another couple of guests who ask to stay, he makes full use of the opportunity for Sister Wang to visit the man she works on the construction site, charging the same price, but arranging them in the basement and knocking the young student couple a lot.

There was no heating in the basement and it was very cold on winter nights. After the passion of the couple, they hugged each other and hid in the quilt to keep warm, and chatted for a while about the upcoming activities of the school, and then fell asleep.

But in the middle of the night, the girl suddenly woke up. She didn't know why, but she woke up in a deep sleep, and she was awake as if she had never slept before.

Perhaps, not sobriety, but horror? The deepest horror in the subconscious!

The basement was very dark, and when the lights were turned off, it was only by the light of the so-called skylight, that is, the top of the inner wall, which was almost flush with the ground outside the building, and the light of the one-foot-square hemp glass could be faintly distinguished. But it was that little light that made the girl feel like someone was stealing her!

She couldn't actually see anything, but felt that something darker was hidden in the darkness, and that it was there to spy on her with bad intentions.

There are not just the two of them in this room, there is also a third party!

The feeling was so strong, so terrifying, and it struck suddenly in an instant, and it scared this usually timid girl so much that she didn't dare to move, she didn't dare to scream, she just stared at the impenetrable darkness with wide eyes. It is like a small animal that has been hunted by a ferocious beast, only waiting to be devoured in horror, and has completely lost the ability to escape and call for help.

After a long time, nothing strange happened, but she still felt creepy, and the fear of the unknown made her passively stalemate with the things in the dark, and broke out in a cold sweat in this cold winter night!

At this point, the boy moved, whispered, and then turned over and continued to sleep with her in his arms.

The girl took the opportunity to twist the boy's arm that was lying across her waist.

The boy was still in the dream, subconsciously withdrew his hand and muttered, but he didn't wake up, and the girl only increased his strength.

The boy was in pain and woke up in a daze, "What are you doing?" ”

"Turn on the lights." The girl replied in a trembling voice, her voice was dry, her eyes were still staring at the darkness, for fear that something strange would come suddenly.

There was only a dim lamp in the basement that seemed to be going to go off at any moment, and it was turned on and off on the wall on the boy's side.

"What's the matter?" The boy was sleepy and didn't want to put his hand out of the warm bed.

"Turn on the lights, please!"

The boy was suspicious when he heard that the girl was about to cry, but he turned around and turned the light on.

The faint light only shone a semicircle, and the boundaries were blurred, extending to the point where they could not be illuminated. Only then did they realize that this basement was actually very large, narrow and long, and the more they went inside, the narrower it became, and they couldn't see the direction of the door at all.

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing the girl's frightened and uneasy face, the boy kept shrinking into his arms, hugged her tenderly, and asked softly, "Have you had a nightmare?" ”

The girl shook her head and continued to stare at the unseen end, feeling the thing in the darkness retreat a little bit, already outside the door, but the feeling of being peeping was still there.

The boy became more and more puzzled, and followed the girl's frightened gaze into the darkness, but saw nothing.

"It must be a nightmare." He kissed the girl's sweaty forehead, "I shouldn't have told you about tomorrow's event before I went to bed, it was so inhumane." But don't be afraid, I'm here! ”

"No, it's not." The girl leaned closer to her boyfriend, leaned into his ear, and said nervously, "There seems to be someone in the house just now!" Now run out the door. ”

"I'll just say you're having a nightmare!" The boy smiled, "It's impossible, I'm afraid that the position of our zodiac is too exciting when we love, and it is not good to be seen, so I deliberately locked the door carefully from the inside." The boy touched his girlfriend ambiguously, "And you forgot, this door is so difficult to open, and it makes such a loud noise when it opens, how can anyone come in!" ”

"But I really feel like there's somebody!" The girl's horror subsided slightly, but the sensation she had just felt still made her heart palpitate.

"That's your nightmare, it's too real."

"No, it's not, it's true, I'm sure."

"Well, if you're really not at ease, I'll take a look." The boy compromised.

"Don't go, I'm afraid!" The girl hugged her boyfriend tightly, and there was an inexplicable panic, "Don't leave me here alone!" ”

"Don't be afraid. I'm here! The boy coaxed her, the basement was too cold, and the boy wanted to return to the warm bed, "Otherwise, let's lie down and talk for a while, and I will accompany you, and I will not be afraid." ”

The girl nodded. Talking to her boyfriend calmed her down a bit, and when that fear subsided, she even began to wonder if she had a nightmare, because there really wasn't anything in this room.

They hugged each other and lay down, turned off the lights, and whispered for a while, and sure enough, nothing happened. Gradually, drowsiness slowly set in again.

"Huh-" A strange sigh came.

It's light, but it's especially noticeable in the silence and darkness of the night.

In the haze, the girl suddenly woke up again. She stared at the dark void at a loss, and before she could react, she suddenly felt something was wrong under the quilt, and a hand was caressing her body, dry, rough, cold and stiff.

Whose hands?

She was resting on her boyfriend's left arm, who was lying on his back, and the angle of that hand—

"Ahh She exclaimed, sat up reflexively, and subconsciously pushed the hand away, not touching anything, but the feeling of being touched still remained in her mind.

The boy was awakened by his girlfriend's screams in a half-asleep dream, and hurriedly sat up and turned on the wall lamp.

Under the light, there is still nothing, and the depths of the darkness are still not visible.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" He asked busily.

"He's here again, and- still touching me!" The girl hugged her boyfriend desperately, "I'm afraid, let's get out of here quickly!" ”

"Where can I go in the middle of the night? School can't go back! It's cold tonight, and we're going to freeze to death standing on the street. The boy interrupted the girl, "You must have continued your consciousness and had a nightmare." ”

"No, no, someone really came in. It's true! ”

"Impossible."

"I didn't lie to you, he really - why don't you believe me?" The girl was anxious and afraid, tears welled up in her eyes, and from time to time she looked at the darkness. At this point, the hairy feeling faded again, but she felt that it was not her hallucination!

"I'll go see the head office." The boy was helpless.

"Don't go!"

"You are so convincing that you refuse to let me see it, do you spend a night like this!" Extreme sleepiness but unable to sleep made the boy a little impatient.

The girl choked up.

She didn't want to anger her boyfriend, but she was really scared. She didn't know what to do? How can she get her boyfriend to believe in her, how can she get out of this gloomy basement? She looked around, but there really wasn't anything, not even in the unilluminated darkness. As soon as her boyfriend wakes up and the lights come on, the terrible feeling slowly dissipates, is she crazy?

She hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "Okay, then let's go together." ”

"No, it's cold outside." When the boy saw his girlfriend's frightened appearance, his heart softened again, "You lie down obediently, I won't go far." As he spoke, he got up, put on his clothes haphazardly, and took out the lighter and the switchblade that he usually used to cut fruit from his bag.

"Be careful!" The girl whispered that she really didn't want to be separated from him.

"Don't worry! It's okay. I'm on the amateur boxing team. The boy waved his knife and lighter and walked out.

He walked to the edge of darkness where the light could not reach, and stepped into it as if swallowed by the darkness. This made the girl suddenly feel a sense of life and death at that moment, scared and sad.

She softly called out her boyfriend's name.

The boy slowly turned his head and turned on the lighter, "Look, there's nothing. He shone around with the faint light, "Now I'll go out and have a look." ”

"No, come back, I believe it, no longer suspicious." In the end, the 'ghost' girl said it aside, but it still made her shudder.

Is there a ghost here? They have come many times and have never encountered a ghost! But what did you encounter just now?

"Just take a look." The boy was persistent.

He hopes that his behavior will completely reassure his girlfriend and stop being inexplicably frightened, so that everyone can sleep peacefully. Tomorrow's event at school will keep him busy for a while! He didn't believe in any ghosts and gods at all, and if someone was making trouble, he also believed that his force was not inferior to that of this voyeur.

His flesh and blood made him fearless of everything.

The lighter went out. The boy's figure was plunged into darkness again.

The girl couldn't see that way, only heard the creaking of the door, and a cold wind came straight into the room.

Then, the wall lamp suddenly went out!