Text: Chapter 4
The arrival of night is often the beginning of a city's nightlife, with the lights of all kinds of people and their stories, weaving through the streets that are only for the night.
It stands to reason that even in today's unsettling times, there will still be a time dedicated to the night, because people need to relax, they need to vent everything they have accumulated in their hearts, and the night is a good way for them to indulge.
But this is no longer the case, not only because of the escalating actions of the parades and "jackdaws", but also because of the successive massacres that have occurred in recent months.
Today's C city has long been panicked, even if the official curfew has not been implemented, but in such a late night, it is difficult to see people wandering on the streets, and the shops have closed early, after all, compared with making money, life is still important.
But can that door really protect them from the evil outside?
“......”
“......”
In the cold wind blowing through the street, there is still a man and a woman standing on the side of the street.
There was no communication between the two for a long time, and the air seemed to have come to a standstill, and only the cold wind blowing through the hair of the two of them made people realize that these were not two sculptures.
"I don't have a car. Finally, the girl spoke, and she turned to look at the man.
There were several cigarette butts scattered under Yan Qi's feet, thinking that he had been waiting here for a while.
Affected by this environment, of course, there are very few drivers who dare to come out to run the night train, so the two stood in this cold wind for half an hour.
"Let's go through the aisle. As if he had made up his mind, Yan Qi threw down another cigarette butt and then turned and walked towards a closed electrical store.
"'Lingbo' has been very inconsistent lately. Although the girl said this, she had no intention of objecting, and had already trotted straight to the door of the store, and scratched the door of the store with her hand a few times, and some unknown symbols were drawn on the transparent and heavy glass door, and then the whole door began to emit a faint red light. "But for short distances, it should be fine. ”
Through the glass door, you can see the inside of the store, a very ordinary home appliance store, but at this time, the air behind the door seems to be distorted in some way.
"Your body hasn't adapted to the passage yet, right?" after Bai Ran finished speaking, he looked at Yan Qi, who squinted at her and dropped a sentence lightly.
"Humans aren't as fragile as you think. ”
After that, he pushed open the glass door without hesitation.
Behind the door, it was not an electronics store, but a boundless darkness, as if someone had used a black cloth to separate the door from the inside of the electronics store.
Yan Qi walked in without looking back.
If I close the door like this, you won't be able to come back, and you still trust me this way.
Bai Ran was thinking like this, but a pair of hands suddenly stretched out from inside the door and grabbed her slender wrists.
"Get in. ”
"Hmm. The girl who was dragged into the door had a little joy in her heart.
As the two walked in, the glass door slowly closed, and after a few moments, it was already a sign of locking, and the red light gradually dissipated, and there was no trace of opening it again.
However, at this time, there was another person on the street corner, silently watching all this.
On the outskirts of the city, at a construction site, there are construction debris scattered everywhere in an empty building that has been abandoned.
The building was originally planned to be demolished in March this year, but it has been delayed due to some circumstances, and no official information has been announced.
People naturally associate with the organization, as long as the official cover up, it must be related to the organization, which seems to have become people's habitual thinking.
The abandoned building has four floors completed, and the steel and concrete are exposed, and the entire building looks like it has been stripped of flesh and blood, leaving only a skeleton.
At this time, outside the building, in the empty construction site, the air suddenly distorted, and with a click, the space cracked like an egg, and then extended to both sides, and finally slowly opened like a big mouth.
"Vomit ....."
Yan Qi, who walked out of the passage, suddenly couldn't hold back, squatted on the ground and retched.
Bai Ran, who walked out later, gently patted him on the back and said in a playful tone: "Strong human being. ”
"It's just the instinct of the body to resist. Yan Qi tried his best to suppress the chaotic thoughts in his mind, no matter how many times he passed, the restriction of such passages on external life was too great, just as a plane should not have the existence of other plane creatures.
When entering this kind of passage, the brain will be subjected to a huge mental shock, and tens of thousands of thoughts will pour into people's minds like a tide, and there will not even be a moment of respite, and ordinary people will be immediately torn to pieces by this power.
"I'm not a monster, after all. ”
Bai Ran, the spearhead of these words, understood it as soon as he heard it, but he didn't say anything.
Are monsters that bad?
I just muttered something in my heart.
Then, one after the other, the two walked towards the abandoned building, surrounded by no lights, and although there was a faint moonlight in the sky, it was very dim because of the fog that had been permeating it for a long time.
Under such a faint light, the two of them did not have the slightest melancholy or confusion, as if the darkness had no effect on them, and went straight into the abandoned building.
"Smack. ”
Yan Qi took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, and the two of them came to the first floor, which was a bare hall, except for the load-bearing stone pillars around it, the rest was rubble.
The building is not too spacious, and if it is counted as an office building, it can only accommodate five offices on one floor at most. But all the rooms were not separated, and the building was abandoned, and it is not clear what it was intended to be, with a wall in some places, a wall in others, and so on.
"What a strong smell. Spit out a puff of smoke rings, Yan Qi looked in a certain direction in the darkness, under the dim moonlight, there were only steps up in that direction, and there were bare steps without even handrails.
Ever since he walked into this building, Yan Qi could feel that the space here was very different from the outside, and there was something.
"Upstairs. Bai Ran's eyes had faintly emitted a dark red glow at some point, and his crimson pupils were staring straight in the direction of the stairs. "I followed those black mist before and ended up chasing here. ”
What the hell is entrenched in such an abandoned building...
"Let's go, go up and have a look. ”
Without waiting for Bai Ran to answer, Yan Qi had already walked up the ladder.
The second floor was no different from the first floor, except for the remnants of broken bricks and tiles, only an empty concrete floor and some walls that looked like they were originally intended to be reserved for the rooms, and even the building's exterior walls and handrails were not installed.
The two did not stop at this level.
Follow it up until you reach the top.
He walked slowly towards the edge of the building, until his toes seemed to be on the ground, and he stopped.
He didn't react to the cold wind, took a deep puff of his cigarette, and threw them outside.
Watching the cigarette butt gradually fall, he seemed to notice something, and then stretched out his right hand and swung it twice in the void air, as if he was testing something
"Heh, I'm really capable. Yan Qi suddenly laughed, and hearing his chuckle made Bai Ran a little surprised.
"From a monster's point of view, is this incident normal?" he suddenly asked the girl behind him.
"There is nothing in the human world that is abnormal to us. Bai Ran didn't answer in a hurry, but played a word game with him, but immediately answered his question head-on. "If we hadn't intervened, it would have been an ordinary incident. ”
"But we just found something unusual, is it a coincidence?" Yan Qi turned and glanced at the center of the floor of this floor, which was even more desolate, and even the remaining walls for building rooms were gone, except for the foundation stone pillars.
And on the bare concrete floor, there is one thing...
"It's no coincidence. Yan Qi walked over to the pile of "objects", squatted down, and he took out the lighter again, and snapped it.
In the faint light of the fire, there was a white skull.
Whew-
A gust of wind blew, and in just a few seconds, the flames were extinguished, and then it was as if they were in an ice cave... Chilly.