At half past two in the morning, it was quiet in the community. Because it was a cloudy day, there were no stars or moon in the night sky, and because of the accumulation of too much dust, the light of the street lamps was very dim, and the whole street looked particularly eerie.

Xu Ye dragged his heavy steps on the way home, his face full of exhaustion.

As an online game planner, working overtime has long been commonplace for him, and it is naturally not the first time that he has walked at night.

However, people are always instinctively afraid of the unknown hiding in the dark. And for those things that are frightening, the more people are afraid, the more they can't help but think about them.

Therefore, since just now, Xu Ye's mind has been drilling out all kinds of terrifying rumors about this community:

For example, three years ago, a young girl committed suicide by jumping from an eight-story building in a white dress because of a broken love, and later it was rumored that in the dead of night, someone occasionally saw a white shadow wandering around the community.

Another example is five years ago, when the community was repairing the road construction, a little boy accidentally fell into the sewer, and the body has not been found, and later there were rumors that someone heard the cry of a child from under the manhole cover after 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Or 10 years ago······

"Enough, enough! It's really a pot that doesn't open and which pot, why do you think about it now, it's fake, it's all rumors······

Xu Ye shook his head vigorously, trying to shake out these messy thoughts.

"Stomp, Stomble"

Xu Ye's face changed suddenly, and he didn't know when it started, there was an unfamiliar footstep behind him!

The extra footsteps, both in frequency and speed, were exactly the same as Xu Ye's, but it sounded quite different from Xu Ye's own footsteps.

"Stomp, Stomble"

The voice was very close, as if it was close behind Xu Ye, and his steps were very light, and the other party was a young woman.

"It must be some boring guy! I don't sleep in the middle of the night, and I run out and pretend to be a ghost and scare people. ”

It is said that oni have no feet, and if they don't have feet, they can't make a sound when they walk. Since you can hear the voice, it means that the other party must not be a ghost or something, uh, probably······"

Xu Ye secretly quickened his pace while secretly speeding up his pace, perhaps in this way he could shake off the hairy footsteps.

"Stampede, stomped"

However, no matter how fast Xu Ye walked, the damn footsteps were always like maggots on tarsal bones, hanging dead behind him, and he couldn't get rid of it!

"Made, Made, Made, Made!" Xu Ye couldn't help but scold in his heart, but even so, the chilling feeling behind him still did not decrease.

Okay, I can't get rid of you, I'll let you go first!" Xu Ye simply stopped suddenly.

······

However, to his despair, the footsteps behind him also stopped!

For a moment, there was a suffocating silence around them.

Xu Ye stood motionless, only to feel a burst of cool air running down his back and rushing to the top of his head, and cold sweat burst out.

The physical sensation told Xu Ye that there was no one behind him at all, at least no living people. But intuition tells Xu Ye that there must be something behind him!(If there is a living person standing behind you, you can feel his breathing and body temperature, even if it is weak)

"It's not a way to go on like this!"

Xu Ye took a deep breath, and he decided to look back. Anyway, you always have to face it, so it's better to be brave and take the initiative to try.

So, he took another step with his right foot and made a feint to continue walking, but this kick did not fall, only to see his body shake, and suddenly turned around and looked back:

It's empty behind you!

Xu Ye's face turned completely white!

Although there was indeed nothing behind him, the moment he turned his head just now, he clearly caught a glimpse of a vague white shadow flashing from the corner of his eye!

"Did you go around to the front?"

Xu Ye mustered up the courage to turn around again, and his front was still empty, as if the footsteps and white shadows just now had disappeared out of thin air.

At this moment, a strange wind suddenly blew, and the street lamp above his head began to flicker brightly and dimly, and when he looked down, Xu Ye's shadow under the street lamp actually writhed unnaturally with the light!

The night wind blew through the leaves, bringing a rustling sound, which was faintly mixed with the crying of children, and gradually, a faint smell of blood came from the wind······

At the same time, his head hurt like a pinprick!

"Whew, it's finally here. ”

Feeling the pain in his head, Xu Ye calmed down instead. I saw that with a look of luck and relief on his face, he reached out and took out a small medicine bottle from his trouser pocket, gently poured out a white pill, threw it into his mouth, chewed it directly, swallowed it mixed with saliva, and then closed his eyes and stood quietly in place.

Gradually, the cry in my ears disappeared, and the smell of blood in the air disappeared, replaced by the "rustle" of leaves blown by the wind, the distant and faint barking of dogs, and the faint smell of lilacs.

When I opened my eyes again, the old street lamps shed soft light, and although I still couldn't see the moon and stars, the community in front of me changed from the eerie atmosphere just now, and became peaceful and quiet again. Xu Ye took out a tissue to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead and continued to walk forward.

"Whoa, whoa"

The sound came from his trouser pocket, the pill swaying in the vial as it moved.

"This damn delusion!"

Xu Ye is 25 years old this year, and he has been tormented by fantasy for six years.

I remember when I was in elementary school, he was a very smart child, he loved to use his brain, loved to think, and learned everything quickly. When he reached junior high school, he was often praised by teachers, saying that he had a flexible mind and rich imagination, and even participated in mathematics competitions on behalf of the school, and he got a good ranking.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and after entering high school, Xu Ye gradually contracted a headache, which was irregular, like a pinprick pain, which seriously affected his study and life. In the end, with the persuasion and accompaniment of his parents, he reluctantly went to the doctor.

After a series of tests, the doctor only said that it was a rare migraine and prescribed a whole bunch of expensive medications.

However, the medicine was taken on time, but the headache did not improve at all, but became more serious, and when I asked the doctor again, the doctor could not tell what was going on.

In desperation, his parents had to decide that after the college entrance examination was over, they would take him to a big hospital in Beijing and hang an expert number to have a look.

Finally, Xu Ye survived until the end of the college entrance examination, but his headaches became more frequent, and he even began to hallucinate frequently!

Under the careful examination of experts, Xu Ye finally knew that his headache and hallucinations were actually caused by special migraines and huge study pressure in the third year of high school, which is an uncommon mental illness, known as delusional disorder in clinical practice, and there is no effective cure.

So the doctor had to prescribe him a medicine to suppress his hallucinations and headaches, which was the kind of white pill he had just taken.

Fortunately at first, Xu Ye's symptoms were only accompanied by some slight hallucinations from headaches, which could be effectively controlled by medication.

However, as time passed, Xu Ye's illness gradually changed from first having a headache and then hallucinating to hallucinating first and then feeling a headache.

What's even more troublesome is that those hallucinations are becoming more and more real each time, and later, he can't tell whether what he sees and hears is real or illusory.

After experiencing several unbearable experiences, Xu Ye summed up a simple rule: no matter what he saw or heard, as soon as that familiar headache appeared, it meant that everything was just an illusion.

Although sometimes the headache appears late and causes him a lot of trouble, at least after the headache symptoms appear, he can still take medicine to eliminate these hallucinations.

However, this drug has a lot of side effects: after taking it, the whole person will become a little sluggish.

Therefore, when there are no hallucinations, Xu Ye can try not to take medicine as much as possible, even so, the frequent hallucinations and side effects caused by drugs still give him a nickname of "nerd" in the company.

Fortunately, the drug only effectively suppressed the hallucinations and headaches, and did not affect his smart brain, otherwise, he would not have been able to mix so well in the position of online game planner, which requires IQ.

"It seems that I can sleep peacefully tonight, and I don't have to go to work tomorrow, so let's just go to the suburbs for a walk." ”

After taking the medicine, Xu Ye's mood was obviously good, and the effective time of the medicine was more than ten hours, at least until noon tomorrow, he no longer had to worry about hallucinations.

However, after a few steps, a "buzzing" sound suddenly came from overhead, and at the same time, all the street lights in the community were collectively extinguished.

Xu Ye looked up suspiciously, and couldn't help but gasp:

"Fly, flying saucer?!! this is too!"

That's right, what Xu Ye looked up and saw was an alien spaceship that had only appeared in science fiction movies!

"Is it another hallucination? No, I remember taking medicine just now. ”

"Could it be that the memory of the medicine I just took is actually a hallucination?"

To be on the safe side, Xu Ye decided to come back for another piece.

Anyway, there is no special harm in taking too much of this medicine, at most my head will be confused for a while.

However, as soon as Xu Ye took out the medicine bottle, before he could put the second pill into his mouth, the spaceship above his head suddenly shone a dazzling blue light, and Xu Ye only felt that his consciousness was blurred for a while, and he lost consciousness······

A few minutes later, the street lights in the community turned on again, but Xu Ye completely disappeared into the vast night.