Hearing this terrifying scream, I couldn't sleep at all, so I had to put on my clothes and open the door, and go downstairs to ask Sister Yang about the situation. But when I just walked a few steps downstairs, Sister Yang came up to meet me, and smiled a little embarrassed in a hurry, "This, Miss Lu, what are you doing downstairs, why don't you sleep in the middle of the night." ”

"I just heard a woman screaming, it's scary, so I'll come down and ask you what's the matter."

"Oh-" Sister Yang's face was obviously a little unnatural, and just as she was about to answer, I heard a reprimanding male voice from the first floor, "Who! ”

Glancing downstairs, I saw a tall and fat man with a long beard, and his eyebrows and cold eyes looked particularly fierce......

"This is my husband," Sister Yang whispered to me, turned around and said to the man cautiously, "It's Miss Lu who came to stay with us during the day, and she got up in the middle of the night and asked me where the bathroom was." Sister Yang lied to him.

Hearing this, the man didn't say anything more and went back to his room.

"Miss Lu, you better go back to sleep in the middle of the night, just now, there was a mentally ill Swedish woman who came to howl at our door, and was driven away by my husband, don't think about it, go to sleep."

After listening to Sister Yang's explanation, I had to go upstairs and go back to the room, and I could still vaguely hear that terrible sound in my ears, but it was much smaller, and it seemed that I had gone somewhere else to scream. It's quite desolate to think about, it's dark and cold outside in the middle of the night, and whose family of patients are living in this village? It is said that Swedish society is a country with a notoriously high happiness index, equality between men and women, good welfare, and people living and working in peace and contentment, but I didn't expect that there would be a displaced mental illness in the middle of the night.

I had some insomnia in the second half of the night, except for the strange screams that didn't completely disappear, and what lingered in my mind was Sister Yang's fierce-looking husband...... After all, I am a single woman outside, in a foreign country, in a quiet mountain village, and I can't do without basic safety knowledge. So after thinking about it for a long time, I planned to leave the next day.

But at dawn the next day, looking at the blue sky and white clouds and green waters and green mountains outside, the intoxicating Nordic scenery full of mystery, my sense of fear last night was swept away again, and I still want to stay here for a few days, considering that Sister Yang treats people well and is a Chinese who is convenient for communication, on the whole, it is still more reliable than boarding with foreigners.

So, I went out for another day and went deeper into the heart of Sweden, full of beautiful mountains and waters. Along the way, we passed a large lake, the lake is full of smoke and waves, water and sky, white sails, and a castle with white walls and red roofs, which can be called the ultimate beauty. There is a small village church from the medieval period by the lake, with gray buildings, quaint wooden seats, dark red Bibles, slightly dilapidated sculptures and decorations; Walking in, it felt different from many of the cathedrals I've been to before – open, intimate and casual, and the villagers could wander in, pray, and chant as they pleased.

There is a large vegetable garden by the lake, and next to it is a small country restaurant, which seems to be very healthy in Sweden, and the vegetables from the vegetable garden are picked and delivered directly to the restaurant, green and fresh. Next to the restaurant is a grass area and benches, and many Swedes either take a boat ride on the lake or bask in the sun on the grass while eating the restaurant's vegetable salad...... All in all, it's a paradise place that haunts you.

However, I walked alone in this vast and sparsely populated place, and after the novelty, I still felt a little lonely in my heart.

When I got home in the afternoon, I found that Sister Yang was not there, so I left a note, saying that she was in the city to help her husband do business, and she came back a little late, so I didn't have dinner and did it myself, and I didn't care about them.

Seeing such a thoughtful message, I couldn't help but feel a little lucky...... After all, the probability of meeting such a kind landlord in this strange place is still relatively small. I started to make some dinner by myself, because I didn't eat much alone, so I just used the rice cooker to cook some porridge. Although Sister Yang and her husband have lived here for more than ten years, they usually eat the same as in China, saying that they have never been used to the food here.

After cooking the porridge, when the porridge was warm, I finished eating, and when night fell, Sister Yang still didn't go home. I wanted to call her, but after all, I couldn't help it, and I never turned it on, and I didn't want to be patient for half a month and fall short.

But just as I was washing the pots and pans and was about to go upstairs to rest, suddenly there was a terrible scream from a corner of the house! And it was one after another, screaming in a mess...... I was so frightened that my scalp became numb, I didn't dare to breathe, and I nervously searched everywhere for the source of the sound......

"Let me out!!" This time it's a clearer sentence.

"......" heard this, especially at night, in a sparsely populated village, and the host's house was not there...... My nervous heart beat wildly, and I asked in a trembling voice, "Who...... Who's where? Who is it?! ”

"Let me out—" Another woman's scream, accompanied by a terrible cry, "I'm going out, I'm going out!!" ”

I ran out of my head the plot of a horror movie, my face turned pale with fright, I didn't know what to do, if I ran out, there was no light, if I shouted for help, there was another family two or three miles away...... I was about to rush upstairs, but as soon as I passed the entrance to that basement, I heard a woman's scream, apparently coming from the basement...... Instinctively, I paused again.

What's so scary? I haven't experienced any bulls, ghosts, snakes, gods and winds and waves in my life, I was buried alive by my mother when I was a child, and I have lived for so many decades, I am alive and well, what am I afraid of?

So, I took a deep breath and boldly walked towards the steps leading to the basement, and when I came around the corner, there was a door, which was locked, but it was not locked, and I opened it with a slight tremble...... As the door opened halfway, it was dark and dark inside, but the light from outside penetrated through the half-open door, just shining a woman with a cloak, my heart tightened, and I screamed in fright! Nervous to the point of suffocation, the person also fell on the steps......

And after the woman inside screamed, she suddenly squatted in the corner with her head covered and trembling, crying and screaming, "Don't hit me, don't hit me, don't hit me-"

After recovering a little, and knowing that she was not a ghost, but a living being, I began to try to calm myself. While reassuring her not to be afraid, I turned on the light, and after the light lit up this basement, I gasped when I saw the scene inside, and I couldn't believe my eyes at all!

The basement was cramped and dark, even the windows were blocked, and the floor was damp, dirty and smelly, with cockroaches and rats crawling around...... The woman with her hair was bound by a chain, her range of motion was very narrow, the woman's clothes were tattered, her breasts were exposed, her whole body was wounded, her hair was messily mixed together, and her face was also covered, revealing only two frightened and desperate eyes, and many wrinkles were faintly visible from the corners of her eyes, and her age was at least 45 years old.

Such a purgatory-like environment is enough to suffocate just by looking at it, and I can't believe how this woman survived here...... I wanted to go in and ask her, but I couldn't get off the ground, so I could only stand on the steps and ask her from a distance, "Hello, can you tell me, what's going on, what is your relationship with the head of the household here?" ”

"......" But she was still cowering in the corner, shivering, muttering vigorously not to hit her, not to hit her, and couldn't ask for any other big information.

At this time, I remembered that Sister Yang told me last night that it was a neurotic person who screamed in the middle of the night...... I took a closer look at her and basically concluded that she should have some mental problems, and then was locked up here by Sister Yang and his wife. However, who this woman is and why Sister Yang and her husband put her here to torture are still a mystery.

When I was hesitating to call the police, I suddenly heard the sound of Sister Yang and her husband talking above, I had to leave here first, turn around and go back, and a woman's scream came from behind to give way to her voice, which made me feel heartache.

As soon as I came out of the basement, I saw Sister Yang's bearded husband glaring at me viciously-

"What are you going to do down there?" The man questioned me coldly, with a posture of wanting to eat me alive.

"I-" I have to admit that I can't do it in a panic at the moment, for fear of being killed by this man in this wilderness.

"Oh, forget it," Sister Yang deliberately smiled to ease the atmosphere, pulled his husband and said, "Miss Lu is just here to travel, but she can't sleep when she hears movement in the middle of the night, so she is curious to go down and take a look, people will leave tomorrow, don't care." With that, Sister Yang gave me a look and told me to hurry up and go to sleep.

I can only leave with a sense of humor.

The man didn't pursue it again, but I was in constant fear, and I couldn't sleep all night, thinking of the misery of the woman in the basement for a while, and being afraid that Sister Yang's husband would suddenly break into the door...... All in all, I had a thrilling night, and I managed to make it to dawn. I packed my luggage as soon as I could, but then Sister Yang came upstairs and walked to my room, "Miss Lu, don't be too nervous, my husband is not bad-eyed, it's just that since his daughter died, his temper has become very bad." If you want to stay, you can continue to live. ”

"Oh," I asked, as I sat down on the edge of the bed, "is the woman in the basement the murderer of your daughter?" "Yes, I really can't figure out why the couple would treat a mentally ill person so inhumanely for that reason.

Sister Yang shook her head, sighed, and said, "It's not either." She doesn't really have any grudges against us, and she can only be blamed for her own misery. ”

"And who the hell is she?" I can't wait to ask.