In the evening, on a pedestrian street in Fenshan City.

Although it is still the first day of the Lunar New Year, in addition to visiting relatives and friends, some people who can't bear the loneliness will still come out to meet in this rare long holiday, and go around to eat, the atmosphere and atmosphere of the holiday are particularly strong at this moment.

A woman walked out of a small shop on the street with her mobile phone in hand, and with a fresh chestnut she had just bought in her other hand, she walked to her friend's place, ready to share the relaxation of this holiday moment with her.

Suddenly, a man who rushed out of the crowd in the opposite direction accidentally bumped into her side, and her body lost balance in an instant, leaving her only grasping what she subconsciously thought was more important.

Bone and bone.

The chestnuts, which were still warm, tumbled to the ground and quickly cooled down in the cold winter winds.

"Eh, ......?"

The woman looked at the chestnuts on the ground, she was distressed and angry, and couldn't help but want to question the man in front of her.

Seeing this, the man in front of him immediately retreated to a distance of five meters, as if he would be unfavorable to him in the next second.

"Sorry, I'm ...... In a hurry, I'll compensate you. ”

Seeing that the woman looked at him suspiciously without further action, the man breathed a sigh of relief and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket.

But then the screen that didn't light up made him realize a rather serious problem - after a night and a day, the phone had already completely run out of battery.

"I ......"

The man looked at the woman awkwardly, and the latter seemed to be aware of the former's current predicament.

"Forget it, I'll buy another one, but you can pick up everything that fell on the ground and throw it away, sprinkle it here, in case someone steps on the wrestling, it's not good, be careful next time."

Seeing that the other party didn't know how to speak, the woman thought for a while and said, then pulled her friend and turned around and walked back to the shop that sold chestnuts.

"Good...... I'm really sorry. ”

The man said, and immediately leaned down to quickly pick up the chestnuts, the sharp grasping speed and the behavior of constantly looking around during the period, so that the woman who quietly looked back couldn't help but feel curious.

Seems...... There was something around him that made him feel wary or afraid.

This man is Jiang Mian, who has been unlucky before.

Time goes back to late at night the day before.

In the old apartment rented by Jiang Mian, a resident is in the house.

"I said Lao Wang, did you buy the wrong cooking wine brand today? At dinner, I felt that something was not quite right. ”

In front of the kitchen stove, a woman who looks to be over 60 years old is wearing an apron and constantly turning the pot, and the churning green onions and eggs in the pot are particularly crystal attractive under the water vapor.

At the dining table outside the kitchen door were several older men of similar age.

"Well, it doesn't make sense? Isn't that a seaweed brand? ”

One of them gently touched the back of his head, it was the uncle next door who had woken up Jiang Mian at the elevator door the day before.

"It's a conch brand! It's really Alzheimer's, see clearly, it's this! ”

When Uncle Wang's wife heard this, she walked out of the kitchen with a small wok, poured the dishes into the ceramic dish that had been prepared, and then took a package of used cooking wine and gestured.

"You're dizzy, next time you buy the wrong one, you will deduct a month's cigarette money!"

"Okay, okay, it's okay, I'll buy it tomorrow. Come, Lao Li, just saw that your stomach was screaming when you touched the mahjong tiles, hurry up and taste my daughter-in-law's scrambled eggs with green onions, this is a unique skill, and you can't eat it in other places. ”

Uncle Wang hurriedly clipped a few chopsticks to his old friend next to him, and then beckoned a few other people to taste this new appetizer dish together.

In the living room not far away, several older women were sitting around the sofa, staggering to watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV.

"Hey, Lao Wang, why does it seem that there is water seeping on the ceiling of your house?"

While eating and drinking, one of the friends suddenly pointed to the top of the room and said suspiciously.

"Huh? I'll see. ”

Uncle Wang stood up when he heard this, and although his eyesight had deteriorated due to his age, the shadow clump that was slightly darker than the surrounding area still made him see it very clearly.

"Really, it looks like I'll have to talk to upstairs."

"Hurry up and take a trip, I'm afraid it's not going to drip down." Uncle Li said while eating.

"I guess I slept in the middle of the night, not good. Wrong...... This doesn't seem to be a water leak, Lao Wang. ”

Another friend seemed to feel something was not right because of his good eyesight.

The others also noticed the moment he finished speaking, the water stain seemed to be changing shape rapidly, and they thought it was the cause of gradual seepage, but ordinary people knew very well that there would be no shrinkage and deformation in the process of water leakage......

At the same time, Jiang Mian's home.

At this moment, Jiang Mian was staring at the humanoid shadow on the ceiling in front of him.

As the humanoid shadow continued to change its shape, twisting and deforming, fear gradually overflowed from Jiang Mian's heart.

At first glance, though, the humanoid shadow appears to be the same as it was when first seen, just writhing very slowly on the wall.

However, if you look closely, you will find that its twisting speed has increased considerably.

But what scares him the most is ......

The last time he saw it, it was so slow that Jiang Mian didn't quite understand what it was doing the whole time.

But this time, Jiang Mian's behavior that had already accelerated the speed of transformation made Jiang Mian suddenly realize that it was posing one by one, like human beings who were constantly deforming by moving under different light angles.

It...... It's really doing all kinds of actions.

Except for the strange behavior that keeps circulating or changing suddenly, it's as if it's really a human shadow.

This strange inference that has been verified made Jiang Mian subconsciously gasp several times in the cold of this winter.

He immediately stood up, opened the closet, prepared to bring a few necessary clothes and mobile phones, and immediately left the place.

He remembered that he hadn't seen the humanoid shadow last night, and it was supposed to only be in this room.

Jiang Mian looked in the direction of the ceiling, and at the same time sped up the action of stuffing the clothes into the suitcase, he didn't want to stay in this room for a quarter of an hour, no, not a minute.

The humanoid shadow is still fiddling with itself, sometimes sitting in place to eat, and then standing up and waving, several movements alternate back and forth.

Suddenly, it made a completely different movement, like it was holding something in its hand, and walked up some non-existent staircase, but before it could complete a few steps, it fell forward like a dog eating.

Since the humanoid shadow only has human-like movements, and no complementary objects, each movement is as comical as a non-physical mime.

But Jiang Mian not only couldn't laugh, but even the level of fear in his heart instantly rose several levels in a row, almost reaching the upper limit.

For Jiang Mian, all the previous movements of the human form were daily actions such as walking, sitting, and even lying down, and they were not too recognizable, so Jiang Mian did not realize the reason for these actions.

But with this action circulating in front of him, Jiang Mian is definitely the most familiar and profound person in the world.

Because, it was the company's annual meeting not long ago, which made him make a big move in front of the whole company.

At that time, he was assigned a large bouquet of flowers to a female colleague in the department who was in charge of performing a singing program. However, due to the slight slippage of the stairs from the rear, he accidentally stumbled when he was about to walk on the stage, and then in the stunned eyes of nearly 1,000 people in the audience, he gave a New Year's greeting to all the colleagues and leaders present.

Ignoring any clothes, and didn't even have time to get the key, Jiang Mian put on a down jacket, put his mobile phone in his pocket, turned around and immediately ran to the entrance, opened the door and prepared to flee for his life.

But the scene outside the door made his panic instantly climb to the limit.

Outside the gate, the lights are dim and flickering in the corridor.

Neighbors, who were familiar or unfamiliar in the past, have been standing around his door since I don't know when.

At this moment, he was staring at him who had just opened the door with a wooden expression that was not like a living person......