The spring and autumn seasons of Yandu are always short, and this November is not over yet, a menacing cold wave has made the comfortable temperature of Yandu warm in the morning and cool in the night plummeting by more than ten degrees.

As daily temperatures drop into the single digits, the city's twenty-two days of autumn come to an end, and the city officially declares the beginning of winter, with most of the people walking the streets succumbing to the enveloping cold wave and being forced to wrap themselves tightly in warmer down jackets and scarves in order to get a little warmth from the cold and wet cold that pierces through the armor.

Located in central China, and affected by the humid monsoon climate of the northern subtropics, the city's winters are actually as difficult as summer, the humid climate will not only make the city a hot and humid steamer in the summer, but also form a wet and cold wind in the winter, which not only blows on the face and hurts, but also does not use even if you wear a sweater, this cold wind seems to bring a cold that penetrates the bone marrow like a magical attack that can penetrate armor in the game.

The weather is wet and cold, and there is no heating, and you can't get out of bed in winter, and the rain is almost deadly, and there is not even snow to see in the cities in the south, so most people in the south don't like winter.

Otto felt the same way, and for personal reasons, winter was particularly difficult for him.

Today, he not only changed into a fluffy and warm down jacket and scarf, covered himself tightly with a mask and gloves, but even put on a plush hat to completely arm himself from head to toe. He was alone in the middle of a secluded and old alley.

Yandu, the houses in this part of the old city are basically old buildings built in the sixties and seventies of the last century, although there are many houses with good locations in the development period of the previous few years to be demolished, replaced by high-rise buildings rising from the ground, but in the rows of high-rise buildings, there are still many dilapidated communities composed of old buildings.

Hiss! Let me see, well, Otto, who is investigating the collective dormitory where dozens of people have disappeared now, wrapped himself like a bear, took off his gloves with difficulty, gasped, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and confirmed the goal of his mission on the mobile phone memo, the address is near this place, Alex is cheating on his father, and finding missing persons should be a matter for the police, right? Why throw this kind of thing on me

Otto walked alone in the secluded old house, stepping on the cracked floor tiles under his feet, his eyes scanning the large garbage piled up casually in the old community, all kinds of cigarette butts, plastic garbage bags, lunch boxes, and looking at the corridors blocked by the miscellaneous items of each family, as well as the small advertisements and psoriasis randomly pasted on the walls, he felt a sense of a different world, as if he had returned to his childhood on the way home from school.

After all, these are the old community, the year of the house was built from today at least a year, after a long time, these old buildings will always have many headaches, the appearance of the façade wall skin moldy and peeling off, built in the sixties and seventies of the last century, the iron sewer pipe on the outside of the house, but also in the wind and sun was rusted into shape, and the stairs in the building are damaged, the stairway fence is corroded and broken, which is a common thing.

Not to mention the interior environment, freshly painted white walls will turn yellow, even blackened and peel off after a few years. Why? Water leakage, I also said before that this is an old house, water leakage is almost a common problem of this kind of old house, no matter how you repair the glue injection, do the leakage prevention project, this water can always find the seam in this old house full of holes to leak out. And those first floors and even basements, the lighting itself is not very good, and if there is water and rain, it will be even more dark and damp.

The exterior is dilapidated and dirty, and the internal environment is not very suitable for living, so the residents of these old communities have long since bought new houses in other places and moved out. In addition to some old people who stubbornly stay here, most of the people who still remain in these old towns are outsiders who have left their hometowns and come to this city to work hard.

Of course, what is less known is that there are also some very special groups of people who also gather in the old town.

Otto followed the unreliable instructions of the Lack of Navigation, and after a long time of wandering around the labyrinthine old town, he finally found the area designated for this mission.

It was an old house that didn't look much different from the surrounding buildings, Otto reckoned

It is about six or seven storeys high, and like other communities, almost every household here has privately expanded the area of the house, and they have given full play to the wisdom and strength of the working people

And the illegal construction of different specifications echoes the illegal building built next to another building, and forms a shadow that covers the sky and the sun, even if it is now in the daytime corridor is dark, even if he raises his head and looks up, he can't look up to the slightest sunlight from the layers of illegal construction.

The darkness in front of me is like a beast that chooses people to devour.

For some reason, Otto, who was standing at the entrance of the building, suddenly had such a strange idea.

However, he shook his head vigorously, put these nonsense thoughts behind him, took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, stepped into the darkness, and then found the collective dormitory he was looking for by the light of his mobile phone.

It was a wooden door with faded red paint, and even the door had several cracks, and Otto raised his hand and slammed it on the crumbling-looking wooden door.

Knock knock.

The crisp and rhythmic knock on the door echoed for a long time in the dark and uninhabited alley as the fingers tapped on the door.

No one responded.

Otto, who had waited for a long time and had not heard any movement, frowned slightly, raised his hand and knocked a few more times, and the heavy knock on the door echoed in the alley again.

However, there was no movement.

Otto frowned, glanced at the old-fashioned lock of the wooden door with the light in one hand, and put his eyes on the crack of the door to try to see what was going on inside, and after standing in front of the door and knocking and peeping for a long time, after knocking on the door again and no one responded, he began to wonder if it was a slippery door to pick the lock, and an angry scolding came from behind him startled him.

Little Bunny! Your hands are so heavy, I'm not afraid of knocking on the door, you'll pay for it!

The sudden angry scolding behind him frightened Otto's soul, his heart almost stopped beating, he subconsciously followed the sound and turned back, and the light of the flashlight just shone on a fierce face with heavy makeup and curly hair full of flesh, which frightened him and shouted: Ghost!

Phew! I think you're like a ghost! The curly-haired aunt snorted, she took a deep breath of cigarette and glared and scolded: Young people nowadays are really becoming more and more disagreeable. Do you know how to respect the elderly? What are you doing here? Say! Are you trying to steal something!

Otto was a little confused by the scolding that cut his head and covered his face: Aunt E

Who's your aunt?! Yes? Little cub, what do you say!.

No, no, I mean to say Seeing that the other party was getting more and more angry, Otto immediately changed his tone and asked: I want to find an aunt, she seems to live in this place before, but I knocked for a long time and no one responded, this is in a hurry.

It's true? How do I feel like you're fooling me, kid? In the dim light, the curly-haired aunt's eyes were full of doubt and distrust, and she didn't believe him at all.

Of course it's true, how could I lie to your sister Do you think about it, what good is it for me to lie to you Otto has a reluctant smile on his face, so may I ask, sister, are you the landlord of this house?

Or else? Let's go! Get out of my way. The curly-haired aunt snorted coldly, and without further researching the matter, she squeezed Otto over, skillfully took out the key and opened the door, and then said slowly: You are late, there is no one living here now, it is all empty, even if you really came to find someone, she will definitely not live here.

As soon as the door opened, a damp, moldy, rotten smell came to his nose, and the strong smell choked Otto involuntarily frowned, but he still resisted the smell and looked inside with the light on.

It was a dark, damp, windowless room, with moldy peeling skin all over the walls in the dim light, and the ceiling was wet and dry and dry with water leaking from the upper floors, leaving a disgusting dark yellow stain. Obviously there are nearly ten high and low beds in a small room of only twenty or thirty square meters, and there are only about ten centimeters between the beds

The interval between the arrivals made this small room look like a small labyrinth.

Otto noticed that most of the bunk beds in the room had been emptied, and only a few beds remained, with the bedding that had been packed by others but had not yet been taken away.

Ah, landlord, can I ask you where these tenants have gone? Seeing this scene, Otto subconsciously began to inquire about useful news.

The curly-haired aunt took the last puff of cigarette from her mouth, neutralized the rotten smell in the air with the smell of smoke, and then threw the burned cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it a few times: who knows, why are you asking about this?

Otto took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and respectfully handed one to the curly-haired aunt.

Look, I'm not looking for someone, am I? I just wanted to find out why they all moved away and where they might go to live, so I could go to her

Hmph, count you kid still have snacks. The curly-haired aunt took his cigarette, lit it and took a deep breath of smoke and exhaled a long smoke, then gave him a blank look, but you are obviously lying because the people who will live in this place are unlikely to be able to come to them

AhaOtto realized that the reason for his lameness had been recognized, and immediately laughed dryly and started haha.

The curly-haired aunt didn't tear it down when she saw him like this, and said unhurriedly: But forget it, I'm too lazy to bother with this matter, since you want to hear it, then I'll talk about it, come, find a place to sit.

After the two of them casually found a fairly clean empty bed and sat down, before Otto could ask, the curly-haired aunt spoke first.

Do you know who lives here?

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