There are old abandoned buildings on both sides, and there are no pedestrians on the street.
The street lights were damaged, and it was only dusk, and a large shadow shrouded the place. It was like a corner abandoned by the times.
As the taxi drove forward, you could occasionally see one or two houses with lights on as they passed.
But when we drove into another street, closer to the Jingjiang resettlement community, there was no light at all in the abandoned buildings around us.
"Brother, what are you doing here at night? I won't go there. I heard that a lot of strange things happened there!" The taxi driver stopped at the intersection and said no further.
Jiang Chen didn't force it, got out of the car and walked forward.
The strange thing is that there is not a single family nearby, but there are many lights on in the community, which seems to be very lively and is incompatible with the surrounding abandoned area.
"There is one article in the information that says that the danger level of living people in the community is not necessarily lower than that of ghosts. Sure enough, there are still people living here." Jiang Chen murmured.
"But they have probably become a bunch of lunatics long ago."
When I came to the door, I stepped in without hesitation.
Obviously he just walked into an iron gate, but the surrounding area suddenly felt much cooler. There was a strange smell in the air. It was very light, but it made Jiang Chen instinctively reject it.
While observing, he chose the nearest building and walked towards it.
There were many black garbage bags thrown on the road. They were bulging and they didn’t know what they contained.
"what is that?"
Jiang Chen saw something hanging on a tree in the distance. When he got closer, he saw that there were several colorful pieces of women's clothes.
One of them was still shaking up and down, as if it had just fallen from a building.
He looked up and found that a window on the left side of the fifth floor was open. A woman's hand stretched out and waved vigorously, then quickly retracted it.
"Throw your clothes to attract attention, wave your hands, are you... asking for help?"
He probably understood what the other party meant.
However, Jiang Chen did not run up like Leng Tou Qing. There were more dead people than living people in this community. Even if people were still alive, they would have become nondescript monsters long ago.
He didn't think anyone would rashly ask for help from an outsider like him.
Moreover, there was more than one piece of clothing on the tree, indicating that the other party had asked for help from several people in succession.
Did no one go up to save the person, or did some people find out after they went upstairs that the person asking for help was actually a dead person?
If you don't help, you won't help.
After all, Jiang Chen is a kind and sunny young man. He thought for a while and shouted upstairs: "Don't be afraid, I will come up to rescue you right away, wait for me!!"
Beside the window on the fifth floor, a woman with a face as pale as paper heard this, smiled sinisterly, ran to the living room, hung herself upside down behind the security door, and waited expectantly.
On Jiang Chen's side, he directly crossed this building and walked towards the other building in front.
He just gave the other party a little spiritual encouragement.
He had no intention of actually saving people.
After walking some distance he noticed.
Although there are seven buildings in the community, the residents seem to be concentrated in three of them. It must be that after the demolition of this area began, there were fewer and fewer people living there, and everyone moved together for safety reasons.
Past two completely empty buildings.
Jiang Chen arrived at Building 7.
Theoretically, this is the newest building in the community, but the exterior wall has long been dilapidated. Large pieces of wall skin have fallen off, and even the cement layer has cracked, exposing the red brick layer with heavy corrosion marks.
Walking into the corridor, it was covered with graffiti, various advertisements, and phone numbers spray-painted...
There is a strong sense of age.
"Bang bang bang"
Someone is chopping something.
Jiang Chen found out that it was a family on the first floor. It happened that he had just arrived and was not familiar with this place, so "Bang Bang" knocked on the door of 102.
Just after the first knock, the sound of chopping things inside suddenly stopped.
But after knocking seven or eight times, no one opened the door.
Jiang Chen stood for a while longer before a man's voice sounded from inside the door.
"Who?"
"I'm here to find someone."
"Aren't you from the community?" The man opened the door a crack. There was no light in the room. Half of his body was hidden in the shadows, and there was a layer of sweat on his forehead.
"Do you know where a woman named Zhang Chunyu lives? I am her friend."
"Zhang Chunyu?" The man looked at Jiang Chen and shook his head: "I don't know, but if you don't want to die, you'd better leave this community right away!"
"Why?"
The man was very strong. When he heard this question, he grinned and gave Jiang Chen a strange look: "You want to know? Then just wait here until night."
at this time.
Suddenly there was a door opening on the second floor.
"Are you looking for Zhang Chunyu? I know where she lives!" A person shouted in a low voice.
Jiang Chen turned around and was about to walk towards the second floor. The moment he turned his back, the man from 102 suddenly opened the security door. The hand behind his back seemed to be holding a sharp object.
It turned out that he didn't let Jiang Chen leave out of good intentions, but planned to launch an attack while his back was turned.
"Husband! Where have you been..."
At this time, a woman's voice came from inside the house.
The man trembled, with fear in his eyes. Without saying a word, he closed the door and turned around and entered the bedroom.
Jiang Chen turned around and stared at 102, thoughtfully.
"Before I came, this man was chopping something."
"Why is he so afraid of his wife?"
"There is no ghost, this is a living person...but why does he want to kill me..."
After muttering a few words, he walked up to the second floor. The door of 201 was open, and a somewhat wretched middle-aged man stood by the door. He looked around warily. When he saw Jiang Chen, he waved to him enthusiastically.
"You're looking for Zhang Chunyu, right? Come here quickly, I know her, and I can tell you everything related to her."
Jiang Chen was about to walk over.
Suddenly, a thin figure jumped out from the shadow of the corridor, grabbed him and ran downstairs. The opponent's strength was not small, but it was not enough to drag Jiang Chen.
However, he did not resist and ran away.
It wasn't until they rushed out of the seventh building that the other party stopped, took Jiang Chen to hide beside a green belt, and looked at him with a stern face: "You don't want to die!?"
"The people in this building are crazy, and some of them are not even human at all. Once you get in, you won't even have a bone left by tomorrow morning!"
Jiang Chen looked at the thin figure.
This is actually a little girl who looks to be eleven or twelve years old. Her facial features are very delicate, a bit like a child star on TV, but her body is very thin and her face is dirty.
The look in his eyes was not the innocence that should be expected at this age, but a look of deep vigilance and strong hostility.
She was looking around all the time.
Like a frightened rabbit, if there is any disturbance, it will run as fast as it can.
"I think the people in the building are quite normal. My kid, don't be too gloomy. Be a little brighter. Maybe you can open your heart and become friends with others."
Jiang Chen said with deep meaning in his eyes.
Hearing this, the girl gritted her teeth in anger.
"I don't care about you! If you still want to survive, leave this community before it gets completely dark."
She stood up and was about to leave.
A bright light suddenly flashed in the distance, like someone walking around the community with a flashlight.
The girl's pupils were dilated and there was a trace of fear on her face.
"It's over, it's too late, the security is here!"
"Quick! Follow me!"
She hesitated for a moment, then pulled Jiang Chen up, turned back, and ran back to the seventh building.
"Security, isn't there no security in this community?" Jiang Chen thought thoughtfully.
When they reached the second floor, the door of 201 was already closed. The girl glanced at the stairs leading to the third floor and was about to continue going up when a middle-aged woman's voice suddenly came from above.
"Mom is back, open the door quickly."
The girl was startled, and Jiang Chen could feel that her palms were sweating a lot.
The petite face showed adult-like confusion.
At this time, footsteps came from below, and the security guard seemed to be coming.
The girl didn't care about anything else and could only lead Jiang Chen into room 202, where the door was ajar. She closed the door and warned: "You can't stay in this room for a long time, especially remember not to touch any cabinets!"
