The elevator door quickly closed and continued upward.
Shen Xing stood outside the elevator and came back to his senses in surprise. The man and woman in the elevator just now behaved obviously strangely. They seemed to be unwilling to stay on the seventh floor.
Shen Xing pondered and turned to look at his surroundings.
It was getting dark now, and the street lights outside had been turned on in advance, but the voice-activated lights in the corridor didn't seem to be triggered yet, and I didn't know if it was broken or something.
It's quiet on this floor.
To the right of where he was standing was the stairwell of the corridor, but the door to the stairwell was closed now, and after walking a few steps forward on the left, there was a straight corridor that extended to both ends, with the door of the resident on one side and the door on the other. It's a corridor guardrail. If you lean on the guardrail, you can still see the street below.
The sky was getting darker and darker. Standing in the corridor, Shen Xing could no longer see the specific objects at the ends of both sides.
And it was so quiet on this floor, as if there was no one around, and not a single sound came from the surroundings.
The reason why Shen Xing chose to go to the 7th floor first was that he was not sure whether the previous camera position was on the 7th or 8th floor, so he followed the elimination method to determine from the 7th floor first.
If there was nothing suspicious on the seventh floor, he would go directly from the stairwell to the eighth floor to continue checking.
But standing here now, it gives people a feeling of trepidation. This feeling makes Shen Xing certain that maybe he doesn't need to go to the 8th floor. There is something wrong with this floor.
Lying on the guardrail of the corridor, he looked at the direction of his home. Looking from here, he quickly found the direction of the Ivy Community, and then Shen Xing began to move towards the end of the corridor.
Because standing at this distance is obviously not enough. Only after reaching the end can the feeling of that position be consistent with the visual distance in the video.
While moving, Shen Xing was also observing the movements in the building.
When he passed the first closed door, he could intuitively conclude that no one lived behind it.
However, when passing the second door, although the door was also closed, there were small voices and the sound of dishes clinking gently in the room. It was obvious that this house was inhabited, and it seemed that someone was living in it. Still eating.
When passing the third door, the door was still closed, but there were footsteps moving inside and someone coughing, proving that there were people inside as well.
It seems that no one lives on this floor as previously guessed, but these people have their doors closed and no one is open, which makes the corridor seem too quiet.
Soon Shen Xing came to the end of the corridor.
There is also a household at the end. The door is also closed, and there is no movement.
It was completely dark at this time. Although the street lights lit up the street with more light, so that the place was not completely plunged into darkness, Shen Xing's line of sight was still blocked.
He thought for a while, then tapped his foot gently, and a voice-controlled light above his head turned on. The light was a little dim, but it was enough to illuminate the surroundings.
Shen Xing glanced back. In the huge corridor, only the light above his head was on, and he looked extremely eye-catching. He suddenly felt like he wanted the light to be extinguished quickly, so as not to attract the attention of an unknown gaze in the darkness.
Suddenly, his eyes froze and he looked towards the corner above his head, near the outer wall.
It seemed that some equipment had been installed here before, but it was later dismantled, leaving only a small metal frame hanging upside down. If you look closely, you can see that a camera probe can be inserted into it.
At this time, the voice-controlled lights suddenly went out, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.
Shen Xing stamped his feet again, and the lights came on again. He continued to look up at the metal frame hanging upside down, and found a faint trace of wires on the ceiling, but there were no wires anymore.
But the mark was obviously cleaner than other places around it, and it extended all the way to the door of the house at the end of the corridor. There was a hole in the wall that had been repaired, which should be the entrance where the lines once extended.
It seems that the previous surveillance video was taken from this house. Maybe there were no residents here before, but a company.
Thinking of this, Shen Xing took two steps forward, approached the closed door at the end of the corridor, and listened carefully. There was no movement inside, and he didn't know if anyone was living there.
At this moment, the voice-activated light went out again. Almost at the same moment, there was a creak and the sound of a certain door being opened.
However, the sound did not last long and stopped quickly, indicating that the door might only be opened a crack and not fully opened.
Shen Xing was stunned for a moment. If it had been anyone else, he would have had goosebumps all over his body at this moment, but he didn't. Instead, he immediately recognized that the door that had just been opened was not the one in front of him, but somewhere behind him.
He immediately turned around, clapped his hands gently at the same time, and the voice-activated light came on again.
Looking around, he saw that the security door closest to him was open at this time, but it only opened a crack. It remained like this without any movement.
Shen Xing did not speak, let alone ask "who" at this time. Instead, he raised his foot, put it down gently, and took a step forward.
Unexpectedly, before the second step was taken, the security door, which was only opened a crack, suddenly banged and was pulled shut from the inside.
This sudden sound made Shen Xing tremble suddenly, and he looked around in surprise, but there was no movement from behind the door.
After waiting for a while, there was still no sound.
His eyes became a little cold. He stared at the door coldly for a moment, then clenched his fists. The majestic power of his hands made him want to punch open the security door to see what was behind the door. impulse.
He stood there and calmed down a little. After calming down, he turned around and walked to the door at the end of the corridor. He calculated the time and reached out to knock on the door just as the voice-activated light went out.
The moment there was a knock on the door, the voice-activated light was also activated again.
After waiting for a while, there seemed to be no movement in the room.
Shen Xing knocked on the door again and harder.
After waiting for about ten seconds this time, there were footsteps in the room. It was very soft. If you didn't listen carefully, you might not hear it at all.
Shen Xing took half a step back. There was a sound of twisting the door lock, and then the door was opened. However, there was an anti-theft chain inside the door, and the door was only opened half the size of a fist.
A little boy, about eight or nine years old, put his head near the door and looked at Shen Xing outside with some fear.
"Who are you looking for?" A timid voice came from his mouth.
Shen Xing smiled and said, "Hello, kid, I live across the street. Are your parents here? I have something to disturb them."
The little boy shook his head: "No."
"Then when will they come back?" Shen Xing asked.
The little boy shook his head again and replied: "I don't know."
Shen Xing paused for a moment, nodded and said: "Okay, if you are at home alone, you must close the door. If someone knocks on the door, you can choose not to answer, or you can answer directly in the room, but there is no need to open the door and say it like now."
"Yeah, thank you, uncle!" The little boy closed the door.
He did not move, but lay at the door, listening to Shen Xing's footsteps go away step by step until he could no longer hear them.
The little boy then turned around and walked into the house along the dim shoe-changing aisle. There were two beds in the room that was originally the living room. One was slightly smaller for him to sleep on, and the other was for him. larger.
There is a large solid wood wardrobe diagonally opposite the bed.
There was only one bedside lamp turned on in the room, which was also very dim.
As the little boy walked towards his bed, a man's voice came from the kitchen: "Who was it just now?"
The boy paused and said softly: "A stranger, he knocked on the wrong door."
At this time, there was the collision of dishes and the sound of water washing in the kitchen.
The little boy looked down at his electronic watch. He suddenly became nervous and quickly got into bed, covering himself completely, leaving only a gap to stare outside.
Under the quilt, he still glanced at the electronic watch with luminous function from time to time. When it was almost eight o'clock, a man's figure came out of the kitchen door. His hands did not move, he just moved and walked to the closet to stand.
He slowly opened one of the closet doors and stared inside without making any movement.
In the silent room, the man was motionless, with his back to the little boy. His appearance could not be clearly seen, and he gave off an inexplicable feeling of weirdness.
The boy under the quilt shrank his neck unconsciously, and a thin layer of cold sweat broke out all over his body.
