Yu Li was awakened by freezing.

The old air conditioner stopped working at some point, causing the temperature inside to plummet, and it was as cold as outside.

After Yu Li woke up, her brain was a little frozen, and she subconsciously looked for a heat source.

She was the only one on the sofa, and there was no quilt, blanket or anything else that could keep her warm. On the coffee table, the water in the teacup was already cold. The whole room seemed to be covered with a shadow of cold.

Yu Li trembled and propped herself up, stretched out her arms with all her might, and grabbed the air conditioning remote control on the coffee table.

She pressed it several times, but she couldn't turn on the air conditioner. I don't know if the air conditioner is broken, or if there is a power outage.

Yu Li stood up slowly, because of the dimness of the room, her calf hit the corner of the coffee table, but she didn't feel the pain anymore, both legs were frozen, and it was difficult to move.

She came to the kitchen door and flipped the light switch.

The lights came on, proving that there was no power outage.

Yu Li stumbled, grabbed the pneumatic hot water bottle on the stove, and pressed the water button hard.

This hot water bottle was newly bought for her by the assistant, and it doesn't look like this simple kitchen. The hot water bottle in the old apartment, which had been sealed for many years, was taken out by the assistant and thrown away, along with some equally old household items.

If there is time, Yu Li will redecorate the house again, at least install underfloor heating, so that she will not freeze like this now.

The water flows out at the right temperature.

Yu Li put her hand up, only to feel that her hand that had been frozen into a popsicle was gradually melting.

She shivered comfortably, swept her gaze, grabbed the cup next to her, took the water, and eagerly took a sip.

The warmth ran down the esophagus into the stomach pouch and spread to the limbs.

Yu Li exhaled a breath of hot air with temperature, only to feel that she had finally come back to life.

She drank several glasses of water in quick succession, but still felt that it was not enough, so she went to the bathroom.

The narrow bathroom is not separated from wet and dry, and the shower and toilet are separated only by a shower curtain. The shower curtain is new, and it is a new assistant who has been replaced. The shower was also replaced with a new one, but in a hurry, the assistant finished doing this, and added a non-slip mat, so it could not be perfected.

Yu Li's assistant is a thirty-year-old woman. She and Yu Li are accustomed to comfortable and even wealthy living conditions, even Yu Li forgot the embarrassment of spending the winter in this small apartment, and the assistant forgot about heating after seeing the air conditioner. Yu Li took off her clothes and prepared to take a bath, her skin felt the cold air, and she suddenly remembered that there was not even a heating device in this small bathroom.

Yu Li had no choice but to turn on the shower first, not caring about the uncomfortable feeling of her clothes being wet, she just wanted to heat up quickly.

The cold water sprayed from the shower made Yu Li jump to her feet.

After a while, just as Yu Li was about to give up and go out to call the assistant to pick her up and take her to the hotel, the water temperature suddenly rose.

The back of Yu Li's hand was burned, which also reminded her of the trouble of taking a bath back then.

Back then, Yu Li would carefully bypass the water column and hold on to the faucet to adjust the water temperature. She has now chosen to leave directly and look for her phone.

In the bathroom, the sound of water rattled and the heat steamed out.

Yu Li saw her phone on the coffee table in the living room.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the two-seater sofa as well.

Yu Li's steps forward stopped.

There are no obvious butt marks on the sofa, just because the springs are loose and the two cushions are uneven, and at first glance this is a shabby sofa, if it could, it should have been thrown away a long time ago.

Yu Li's body became sore, as if she had just remembered that she had been in a coma on the sofa for a long time.

She also remembered the breath she felt before she fell unconscious.

Yu Li took a step back, staring at the sofa vigilantly and fearfully.

She subconsciously grasped the talisman that hung on her chest.

"It's okay...... It's okay...... "Since the ghost didn't attack her when she was unconscious, it must not have hurt her."

Yu Li thought to herself, and her mood relaxed.

She felt the amulet rubbing between her fingers and the pits, like the two sofa cushions, and she couldn't help but be stunned.

The talisman given to her by the master looks very traditional, not unconventional, just a talisman paper packed in a bag. She watched with her own eyes as the master drew the rune paper. Although I can't understand what is written on the talisman, I always have a very deep and powerful feeling. At least from the point of view of the artwork, the content of the talisman is aesthetically pleasing. After that, the master folded the rune paper, his fingers flying, and before Yu Li could see how he folded it, he stuffed the triangular rune paper into the brocade bag.

The bag is handmade, with gold characters on a red background, and the characters look like ancient texts. Yu Li can't understand it, she only knows that it's good-looking.

The master tied up the bag, tied a long rope, and asked Yu Li to hang it around his neck.

Yu Li carefully touched the bag at that time. Through the satin, you can feel the triangular rune paper inside, and the surface of the brocade bag, the satin is smooth, and the gold thread is prominent, which is by no means the irregular and uneven touch like now.

Yu Li's heart chuckled, and the feeling of fear rose again.

She lowered her eyes nervously, her neck frozen, and she could only move her eyes to her chest as much as she could.

Her hand was still holding the bag, and the memory of the master making the talisman, handing her the bag, and she groping for the bag kept flashing in her mind. She wanted to tell herself that she was too careful, and that's how it feels. But the fingers trembled slightly, and it was not the smooth satin and the staggered gold threads that were touched, but ......

Yu Li's hand gradually moved away, and the eyeballs that fell on the lower edge of the eye socket finally saw the appearance of the thing clearly.

At some point, the bag on the chest turned into a doll's head, as if someone had screwed off the doll's head and replaced it.

The doll's hair was painted, and the face was pitted, like a child with a pockmarked face, and his eyes, ears, mouth and nose were all crooked.

This is not an assembly-line toy.

This is a handmade doll.

But who would make something so ugly and so deformed?

Yu Li suddenly remembered her grandson Wu Tiansheng, who was about to enter junior high school.

When Sheng Sheng was in kindergarten, the children were asked to make this kind of thing in the school's handicraft class. Children are not only aesthetically eccentric, but also have enough action, and the finished works are always a little strange.

Yu Li thought that when Sheng Sheng went to kindergarten, their conditions were already very good, Sheng Sheng went to a private kindergarten, from primary school foreign languages, learning computers, and organizing to go abroad many times a year. In such a kindergarten, the materials used to teach children to do handicrafts are naturally not cheap.

The little robot brought back by Sheng Sheng, although it looks strange, can be observed hard, and it can still boast a few words of "artistic".

Yu Li pinched the doll's head in her hand, and her fingers were so hard that she almost poked a hole in the doll's head.

Her face turned pale, her body turned thirty degrees, and she looked at the bedroom door.

There, as if some terrible monster was hiding, it would swallow her into her stomach, but it was as if a magnet was hidden, and she became a needle, and walked involuntarily into the room.

There were no lights on in the room, and the dim light outside and the lights in the living room, kitchen, and toilet were swallowed up by darkness before they entered the room.

Yu Li touched the switch on the wall and pressed it.

With a click, the light came on and flickered a few more times before it stabilized.

There was still the sound of rushing water coming from the toilet, but Yu Li could only hear her own violent heartbeat at this moment.

There was nothing unusual in the room. The assistant's newly bought bed sheets and bedding were placed on the bed and posed as a hotel room. An old chest of drawers stood against the wall, and a table leaning against the window, whether it was a desk or a make-up table. The windows are iron-framed windows, the kind of last century that are pushed outward. It had been painted with green paint, but now it was all peeling off, revealing mottled rust. The curtains on the side of the glass window are a layer of cloth, and they don't look much different from the previous sheets. Yu Li still remembers that when the assistant cleaned the bedroom, she swept away the moldy bed sheet that looked almost the same and threw it away. It's just that the curtains didn't have time to be replaced, so I thought I would call the master tomorrow to install the new curtains......

Yu Li's gaze fell on the curtain for a long time. She couldn't hide behind the short curtain that covered the window, but she still stared at it.

Her memories gradually came back to her memories of the years she had lived here.

She remembered that it was the Chinese New Year, when she and Wu Jingwei went to pay New Year's greetings to a manager of the project in Fengcheng. There was a little girl in the manager's house, whether it was a granddaughter or a granddaughter, Yu Li couldn't remember, she only remembered that she had bought a set of expensive Barbie dolls at that time, ready to do what she liked. The little girl was very shy, unlike her elder who was a manager, who could not please him at all with a stack of bills hidden under the fruit. Before leaving, the little girl shyly gave her a doll that she had made herself, which was also her homework in the kindergarten handicraft class. I heard the manager say that she is very precious to that little doll, and I don't know if it's true or not.

Yu Li walked to the curtain step by step.

She reached out and grabbed a corner of the curtain, lifting it a little bit.

Behind the layers of curtains are the corners of the windows. In the corner of the windowsill, the body of a doll without a head is tilted.

Yu Li's hand holding the doll's head was forced, and her fingers finally pierced the head.

She was in a trance, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.

When she was awakened by the cold in the room again, she hurriedly let go of her hand.

The curtain fell, and half of the doll in her hand was torn off by her. Half of her head fell to the ground, and half of it was still hanging on her chest, revealing the dirty cotton wool inside.

Yu Li was in a hurry and ripped off half of her head like crazy.

The long rope around her neck rubbed against the back of her neck. Fortunately, she was wearing a high-necked dress, and her skin was not scratched, but the pain of being pulled remained on the back of her neck.

Yu Li didn't look at the doll again, turned around and ran out.

She also tried her best to avoid looking at the sofa, bent down and picked up the phone on the coffee table, and went straight to the door.

The locks of old-fashioned security doors are difficult to open, or they may be rusted because they have not been used for a long time.

Yu Li twisted the doorknob lock desperately, her fingers slipped off several times, and her nails grazed the metal door lock, which made her gasp in pain.

As the door opened in Karakala, Yu Li sensed that something was missing in the room.

She slowed down, her red fingers pressed against the lock.

Whoa...... Crash...... Tick...... Whoa......

Yu Li's scalp is about to explode.

She could hear the intermittent sound of water coming from the toilet. It sounded like someone was taking a shower in the toilet.

Obviously, she was the only one in the house, and she could be the only one.

Yu Li didn't dare to look back, and began to fight with the door lock again.

She used both hands, and the phone was clipped under her armpit, and suddenly fell to the ground.

Yu Li didn't care about picking it up, but just used her strength to eat milk and locked the door.

With a click, the door lock was finally opened.

Yu Li exhaled, opened the door, and went to pick up the phone on the ground again.

She pressed the one-button dial and found the assistant's number.

If it weren't for the master's explanation, she would have asked her assistant to live here with her; If it weren't for the fact that several landlords of the apartment for rent couldn't be contacted temporarily, she would have asked her assistant to live in this apartment instead of a nearby hotel......

Yu Li regretted it a little. Knowing this, asking the assistant to set up a tent at the door wouldn't let her run far.

The phone was dialed, and Yu Li's feet stepped out of the door.

As soon as the phone was connected, she shouted, "Come and pick me up!" Right now! ”

No one answered on the other end of the line.

Yu Li had already run to the staircase, but her body froze again.

She remembered the explanation of the master.

“…… The evil spirits you encounter are not simple, and they are likely to come to human beings. It may be on your body, or it may be on the body of someone close to you. To be on the safe side, you'd better be alone during this time, wear the amulet I gave you, and don't trust anyone......"

Yu Li's breathing was about to stop.

"Huh."

Laughter came from the phone, but also from behind him.

Yu Li's body trembled.

She felt the power of the magnet again. She twisted and looked at the door behind her.

The door opened, and the light from inside shone through, illuminating the dark hallway.

In the light, a figure appeared. The figure stretched forward, and stretched and stretched again, from the floor to the wall. Next to the long figure is a shorter figure, like an adult holding a child. The figure of the child raised its hand, and the small body in the hand was missing its head.

"Puff! biubiu！ Headless aliens set off! ”

There was a sudden shout from the room. The child's shadow also opened its teeth and claws, waving the little man in his hand.

With a click, the little man flew out of the door.

Yu Li twisted her body and stepped back in an awkward position.

She took a step back and saw the headless doll on the ground move.

The doll crawled on the ground as if it were alive, and crawled towards her. The crawling posture is also very strange, as if someone is pinching the arm, and each time he raises his hands high, swaying his body from side to side to move forward.

Yu Li finally couldn't hold back and let out a scream, "Don't come here!" Stay back! Don't come here! ”

She could only shout this sentence, and she didn't stop screaming when her body twisted and fell heavily on the ground.

The doll continued to move on, getting closer to her little by little.

Yu Li propped her hands behind her back and moved and crawled.

Her hands suddenly felt empty, and her weight fell backwards.

Yu Li only felt that her vision was spinning, and she didn't see anything clearly, so she planted the stairs.

Her head hurt, and warm blood slid down her neck, brushing against the skin she had been strangled by the rope.

Yu Li rolled over in pain, dizzily grabbed the handrail of the stairs, and stood up. She reached out and touched the blood on the back of her head, only to feel her eyes more flowery.

She remembered the doll and hurriedly looked up the stairs.

She didn't see the doll, and she couldn't see the door from this angle, so she couldn't help but sigh.

As soon as she lowered her head, Yu Li became even more dizzy.

The phone didn't know where it had fallen, and she didn't bother to look for it, just clutching the handrail, wanting to get out of here quickly.

Go outside, go outside, you should be able to find someone to ask for.

Yu Li forgot the master's entrustment and the laughter she heard after the mobile phone was connected just now.

She just wants to get out of here as soon as possible.

The body shook with vertigo.

Yu Li barely stabilized her body and stepped on something behind her.

Yu Li subconsciously looked down and saw two legs like bamboo poles.

Be...... That doll's legs.

"You've stepped on my headless alien."

The child's voice rang out abruptly again.

Yu Li's eyes widened, and in the darkness, she saw a pair of children's hands pulling the two legs of the doll on the ground. She followed the hands and saw the child crouching at her feet.

The child looked up at her, his face full of displeasure. With the force of his hands, he pulled away the doll from Yu Li's feet.

Yu Li's feet were empty, her body was crooked, she lost her balance, hit the handrail of the stairs, and rolled down the stairs.

This time, she wasn't so lucky.

The head hurt even more, and blood flowed all over the face.

Yu Li lay on the platform on the next floor, staring blankly at the child who was probing above.

The child laughed, as if he was laughing at Yu Li, and he was still holding the headless doll in his hand.

A hand suddenly stretched out from the side. There was a ring mark on the ring finger of that left hand, and the index finger and thumb pinched the doll's broken head and stuffed them into the doll's headless body.

"Mom." The little boy screamed, as if he was not happy that the doll would be re-headed.

"It's time for us to go back. There is no one to stop us anymore. Go home. The woman's smiling voice reached Yu Li's ears, and it was covered by the sound of blood squeezing out of the wound.

Yu Li could only hear the sound of blood.

All that was left in view was the woman's scarred ring finger.

Yu Li remembered that she had seen such a finger.

Wu Jingwei's crazy little lover, her left ring finger is like this. She was still nervously rubbing the mark, and even bit her finger with her teeth, as if she wanted to bite off the whole finger.

The master said that it was the mark of a ghost, and that a ghost had once haunted her.

Sure enough, it was her. Sure enough, it's because of her!

That brainless little girl......

Yu Li thought of her previous decades of life, she had never been entangled by ghosts, and the first time she encountered a ghost was because she went to the hospital to deal with Ma Jiayi's affairs, and she suddenly became enlightened.

She was going to die for that little girl...... Die in such a place...... There was a lot of unwillingness in my heart.

She knew she was dying, and a flashlight of memory appeared in her mind.

Those pictures are frozen in the Spring Festival that she and Wu Jingwei spent in this small apartment.

She also thought that this year's Spring Festival would have to be spent here, but she didn't expect that before even Chinese New Year's Eve, she was going to die here.

Bright red blood covered Yu Li's vision.

This is the most suitable color for the Spring Festival atmosphere, and the last bit of consciousness of her is also submerged.