Cheng Ye stood there in confusion.
He tilted his head and seemed to be listening carefully.
He felt that he had not heard any hallucinations just now, but that he really heard a female voice complaining.
Although the sound is very soft, it must be there.
But why is there nothing?
The alley was empty, not to mention people, not even a living creature that could make a sound...
Cheng Ye raised his head and saw that the night was deeper at the height of the alley.
It is unfathomable and there is no end in sight.
Only three or four intertwined wires can be vaguely seen.
Everything is business as usual, nothing special.
Cheng Ye narrowed his eyes slightly, turned around carefully and continued walking forward.
There are still a few steps to go before we walk out of the alley. I hope it won't cause any trouble.
He quickened his pace.
Fortunately, nothing happened until I walked downstairs.
Just like any other ordinary night.
Cheng Ye breathed a sigh of relief. He opened the security door downstairs with his face, walked in, and pressed the elevator button.
Looking at the red numbers on the display, the elevator descends level by level...
43……33……
31…
……17……
…
It's a layer skipped.
Cheng Ye stared at the elevator display with sharp eyes.
This time, he was very careful not to miss any number, but the elevator was indeed missing one floor.
Why?
"Ding--"
The elevator reached the first floor and made a pleasant beep.
The light at the top of the door indicates which elevator number reaches the first floor.
The elevator door opened slowly, and incandescent light emitted from inside.
Cheng Ye stared at the elevator for a long time until the elevator door slowly closed again.
Everything is silent and silent.
The elevator fell into darkness again.
Cheng Ye turned around.
He wanted to make sure whether they had invaded the human world...
Fusion, does it not emanate from the outside of that community, but randomly...
Cheng Ye left the elevator waiting room and walked into the stairwell.
If he read correctly, the missing layer was the nineteenth layer.
Although it is marked as nineteen, because the number 4 is unlucky, the fifth floor is actually the fourth floor.
So, the nineteenth floor is actually the eighteenth floor.
Eighteenth floor...
Cheng Ye smiled slightly, his deep eyes emotionless.
He started walking upstairs.
First floor... Second floor... Sixth floor...
Cheng Ye was not impatient and walked slowly.
He was still counting the steps of the stairs carefully.
Stair steps in China are always odd numbered.
But he just discovered that the number of stairs on the fourth floor (the fifth floor marked in the elevator) was an even number.
Even numbers are unlucky.
In the past, when people built their own houses in rural areas, they would ask relatives and friends to help.
The clear height of the building is about 2.8 meters. The height of a step is generally 12-15 centimeters, which is exactly 11 steps. The height of the higher ones is about 13 or 15 steps.
Only if you have a grudge will you build other people's houses into even numbers.
In many areas, it has the meaning of curse.
The living is yang, the dead is yin, the odd number is yang, which is the number of heaven, and the even number is yin, which is the number of earth.
Leading people to decline and death.
Even number of steps...
Most of them were only used in temples and tombs in ancient times...
...
Cheng Ye did not stop.
What he really wants to go to is the unknown space.
18th floor.
He didn't know what he would see or what would happen when he went there.
But he had to see it.
If you sit still and wait for death, you will definitely die.
The floors go up one by one.
Cheng Ye gradually became tired, and his breathing gradually became thicker and louder.
The stairwell was empty.
The sound of his breathing became particularly clear, and there seemed to be a response in the stairwell.
The empty sound seemed to come from an ancient place.
Cheng Ye stood on the middle platform of the sixteenth floor and took a short rest.
Just cross one floor and you're there.
There are no signs on this stairwell, so you can only tell which floor it is by remembering it by yourself.
Fortunately, his memory is good.
Cheng Ye raised his head and looked up. If he walked up half the stairs, he would reach the 17th floor.
Many of the lights in the stairwell were broken a long time ago, and the property management didn't send anyone to repair them.
Cheng Ye walked up the road from the 8th to 10th floors in the dark.
When you walk through it, it seems like you have truly stepped into another world.
It had that eerie, damp feeling, with the anti-sewage smell.
Cheng Ye only rested for a minute before he cheered up and continued walking upward.
Soon, he passed through the brightly lit 17th floor. When he was two steps away from the 18th floor, he stopped.
Stand on the steps and look up.
There is obviously light, but it cannot reach the 18th floor.
It's like something is blocking it.
The 18th floor looked extremely dark at first glance, as if there was a monster squatting there, swallowing up all the light.
Cheng Ye frowned, his heart beating uncontrollably.
He calmly took another step upward.
Then, the second step.
At this time, he raised his left leg and planned to enter the 18th floor.
He saw his legs disappear into the darkness.
The next second, he retracted his legs again.
The stairwell is so quiet.
It was eerily quiet.
Just by raising his legs a little, the sound of the clothes rubbing against each other seemed to be amplified several times.
Moreover, he could not see his legs.
He didn't know where he would appear when he took this step.
That clammy feeling was like coming to hell.
Cheng Ye suddenly stretched out his hand.
Sure enough, as long as the hand crosses the dividing line on the 18th floor, it will disappear.
It was like reaching into a peaceful mud.
Just disappear.
At this time, the lights behind him suddenly flickered.
It was as if the light bulb had a bad contact, making a tearing sound and flashing crazily.
The stairwell became scary and weird, with black and white constantly changing.
The shadows flickered back and forth.
Soon.
There was obviously no wind in the space, but the light bulb was shaking desperately.
Cheng Ye's big black shadow twisted on the ground.
Like a dark monster.
Getting bigger and darker.
It seemed that when Cheng Ye was looking at it, it was also looking at Cheng Ye.
It was obviously just an ordinary shadow, but the more I stared at it, the more frightened I felt.
However, Cheng Ye still stood where he was and didn't move.
He also has life-saving tools, and he must find a way to truly survive in the early stages.
Otherwise, in the days to come, we will only be driven to despair by endless bad luck.
Didn’t those team members all die like this?
Li Yuyun could easily fall into the place where there was a manhole cover, isn't it because...
...
Think of this.
Cheng Ye smiled.
A strange smile appeared on his cold face, like a bloodthirsty demon who discovered an interesting game.
He closed his eyes, but there was still an illusive shadow swaying back and forth in his eyelids.
And because he lost his vision, his hearing was further amplified and his imagination became richer.
The sound of the lamp swinging was accompanied by a small rustling sound.
It was as if he was sitting in his study in the afternoon when something approached his voice.
He felt something approaching him.
more than one.
There are many, many.
They, they're coming.
Cheng Ye stood upright, with the lights still flashing desperately behind him.
Don't hide, don't move, don't be timid.
I could just feel that there were densely packed people around him.
They all seemed to be staring at him intently.
The gaze seemed to have energy, making his skin itch.
The next second.
He suddenly raised his legs and stepped into the unknown 18th floor.
A place where the body disappears.
Can--
A second later, Cheng Ye arrived at a brightly lit place.
Cheng Ye looked around.
It actually looks so normal.
Is this the 18th floor?
Or somewhere else?
Instantly, he turned his head sharply and looked behind him.
Behind him, there was darkness.
The light seemed to be stopped here and stopped moving forward.
It's exactly the same as when I stood on the 17th floor and looked at the 18th floor.
Cheng Ye took a long breath, as if he wanted to spit out all the turbidity in his chest.
I don't know when, his back was soaked.
I don't know if it's because of the heat or because my nerves are highly tense.
Cheng Ye walked gently towards the elevator.
The journey was peaceful, too quiet to be like the human world.
Soon, he came to the elevator. The sign above was conspicuously marked: 19.
Big numbers.
This is the 19th floor.
He passed directly through the 18th floor and came directly to the 19th floor.
Cheng Ye's eyes dimmed and he looked towards the stairwell.
The lights are bright there.
Nothing unusual.
Ah, he just came directly from the 17th floor to the 19th floor.
What are those dark things?
yes......
.... Are they concrete?
Cheng Ye narrowed his eyes and returned to the stairwell step by step.
He reached out and passed through the thick darkness.
There is no difference.
Nothing stands in the way.
It was just a psychological effect that made him feel unusually cold.
If there is a God's perspective.
Can be seen.
Cheng Ye was standing on the 19th floor and stretched out his hand.
The upper half of his arm is on the 19th floor.
The lower arm is on the 17th floor.
17th floor.
Suddenly, a half-arm appeared.
Fortunately, no one took the stairs at midnight today...
.......
Cheng Ye is a master of art and bold.
I tried going back and forth between the 17th and 19th floors many times.
He will never reach the 18th floor.
The 18th floor seemed to disappear out of thin air.
Directly removed from the real world.
If the security guard was still staring at the camera at this moment, he would see a person sneaking up on the 19th floor and then on the 17th floor.
Every time I run quickly from the stairwell to the elevator and back again.
The weirdest thing is that every time he goes up and down the stairs, his speed only lasts a few seconds...
Fortunately, laziness is a common human problem.
The security guards in the control room were so sleepy that no one noticed this strange sight.
After many experiments, Cheng Ye reluctantly accepted this conclusion.
He can't go to the 18th floor.
Perhaps, only when the other world is completely integrated with this world can he know what the 18th floor is...
Cheng Ye sighed and stood in the stairwell waiting for the elevator.
After entering the elevator, he pressed the button for the 18th floor without giving up.
Sure enough it couldn't be lit.
18th floor......
What kind of secret is hidden...
Or? This building doesn’t have an 18th floor?
This idea was rejected by Cheng Ye as soon as it came up.
If there was no 18th floor, he would not have thought about why there was a missing floor.
There are no buttons for the 18th floor in the elevator room.
So why didn’t anyone complain that the buttons on the 18th floor couldn’t be pressed?
Could it be that all the owners or tenants on the 18th floor disappeared collectively?
Or maybe they went to that world because of the invasion?
Cheng Ye squinted his eyes. Perhaps he would not know the answers until later.
He reached out and pressed the 32nd floor.
As the elevator ascended, the unspeakable feeling of oppression finally disappeared.
It was like an invisible net that had finally been cut open to allow him to breathe.
Cheng Ye felt a little tired and planned to go to sleep immediately when he got home.
result......
The moment he opened the door, he felt a little desperate.
The overwhelming smell of disinfectant filled his nostrils.
Three processes, one is a lot.
Washing, drying and disinfecting in one, perfect experience...
Finally able to enter the living room, Cheng Ye dragged his tired body directly towards the bedroom.
He didn't know why, but he felt so tired that he couldn't open his eyes.
He didn't notice.
The window in the living room seemed to be opened.
Because it is a floor-to-ceiling window, only two small upper and lower windows are installed on the left side as movable windows for ventilation.
At this moment, the small window in the upper left corner was actually open.
But when he went out, the windows in his home were clearly sealed...
Cheng Ye was too tired.
The brain is always running at high speed, and it is easy to relax after returning home.
He quickly walked into the bedroom, turned on the air conditioner, lay on the bed, wrapped the quilt casually, and closed his eyes.
After a while.
The sound of his heavy and slow breathing came from the bedroom.
It can be seen that he is indeed tired.
The body is in the shape of a large character and placed on the bed.
Occasionally, a few distant lights would come in through the window.
Everything looked so peaceful.
Just like everyone's quiet night.
And this time.
The bedroom door was slowly opened.
A color between gray and white shot into the bedroom.
Shadow came in first.
The door was pushed open a small gap.
Everything in the bedroom can be seen through this gap.
Outside the bedroom door, something unknown was standing there.
It tilted its head and stared at Cheng Ye through the crack in the door.
Unblinking, motionless.
It's like an indescribable fog.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Finally, it came in.
It seemed to be able to change into any shape and slowly slide in against the crack in the door.
It seemed to have no legs and made no sound.
It moved forward bit by bit, like something sticky, leaving wet traces of water wherever it passed.
It crawled towards the bed in the bedroom.
Like a snake and a shadow, flexible and weird.
Cheng Ye slept soundly, seemingly unaware of anything and still wandering in his dream.
He spread his hands to reveal his embrace.
It climbed up against the sheets.
A few wrinkles appeared on the bed sheets.
It lifted the quilt a little and got in through a small hole.
Slowly, slowly, its entire body entered the bed.
Cheng Ye suddenly felt a warm and moist feeling.
He turned over impatiently.
And it stuck up slowly.
Bit by bit, inch by inch, he used his body to completely wrap Cheng Ye's back.
Cheng Ye was clueless in his sleep.
I just feel a little stuffy.
It pressed against Cheng Ye's back and slid upward.
A foggy shadow fell on Cheng Ye.
It opened its mouth and seemed to be talking.
"Dad, I'm here to find you."
