Yao Jie lay on one side of the wall and listened for a while. He could intermittently hear voices coming from the next door, as if they were talking and something was moving.
However, they would hear this kind of sound from time to time when they lived next door. When they went to check, they found nothing, more than once or twice.
After listening for a while, there was no more movement coming from the next door.
Yao Jie said: "Maybe the medicine is working."
Huang Guiping also leaned against the wall and listened for a moment, then nodded and said, "Well, it should be fine."
Yao Jie took a long breath, sat back on the sofa, lit another cigarette for himself, and took a deep breath. It took a long time before he exhaled white smoke, but not much.
It can be seen that he almost inhaled the smoke into his lungs. Yao Jie's face was slightly sallow, and he looked like he was not in good health. He was worried about his daughter's condition all day long, could not sleep at night, and sought medical treatment everywhere. For a long time, he could only Smoking relieves.
He himself sometimes wonders when he might develop schizophrenia as a result.
The whole family is supported by his wife. Huang Guiping takes care of all the household chores and runs in and out without any complaints.
In fact, Yao Jie knew very well that his wife's pressure was no less than his own, but Huang Guiping did not think deeply about everything. If there was a problem, she would face it. If there was a difficulty, she would find ways to solve it. She had no time or energy to think about herself. Why are you so tired and have no time to complain about your life?
Asking his wife to sit on the other side of the sofa, Yao Jie took out the cigarette from his mouth and placed it on the ashtray. He turned to Huang Guiping and gently rubbed her shoulders.
"Thank you! I'll wash the dishes in the kitchen later. You go boil some water and soak your feet. Go to bed early tonight."
"It's okay." Huang Guiping shook her head.
Suddenly her eyes turned red, she stretched out her hand to wipe away the tears that were about to fall down, and said softly: "Tongtong didn't wear shoes or socks just now. Her feet were almost frozen and turned into bruises."
Yao Jie looked downcast and gently rubbed his shoulders for her without saying anything.
"We'd better take her over and live together." Huang Guiping couldn't help but said.
Yao Jie shook his head decisively, stopped massaging her shoulders, and said, "No! Have you forgotten? Every night after we fall asleep, there are always people standing by the bed watching us. You forgot to see the child's head when you opened the refrigerator door Have you? Have you forgotten that there is always someone pulling our ankles under the sofa? Have you forgotten the terrifying look in Tongtong’s eyes after his schizophrenia attack? "
After finishing his words, Yao Jie shook his head again, "No, for your safety and for you not to be afraid every day, Tongtong can only live next door."
"What's got her caught up in?!" Huang Guiping's voice was sad, she lowered her head and soon began to sob.
Yao Jie said nothing, and with a bitter look on his face, he picked up the cigarette on the ashtray again and took a long puff.
He knew very well that after Yao Tong's illness broke out, the area where those things actually appeared was not limited to the room next door.
If Yao Tong is willing, these weird and inexplicable things can easily appear in any corner of the room next door.
wrong!
Yao Jie shook his head slowly while thinking. It was Tongtong who subconsciously controlled her thoughts and prevented those things from disturbing us. She might be trying her best to stop all of this.
But Yao Jie also knew that his daughter's energy was always limited, and he and his wife had developed a habit of avoiding or ignoring any place that would cause a terrifying situation in the house where they lived.
By now, this has become a conditioned reflex for Yao Jie and Huang Guiping, and they will subconsciously avoid it.
After comforting Huang Guiping some more, Yao Jie went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, while Huang Guiping soaked her feet and called her daughter next door.
But no one answered there.
This is the norm. Girls and children will not answer the phone almost half of the time. She is very sensitive to the sound of the phone and dislikes it, so her phone basically vibrates.
However, after the vibration, the call would often be missed. The couple listened for a moment with their ears perked up, until they heard the sound of walking next door, and then they felt relieved.
At present, on this floor of the building, apart from the Yao family, there is only one family living near the stairs. The other families have moved out long ago, and these rooms have always been empty.
So the building is very quiet at night.
The couple were lying on the bed one after another. Yao Jie couldn't sleep and leaned on the bedside. Unknowingly, he took a cigarette from the bedside table and put it into his mouth. When he was about to light it, he suddenly realized and put the lighter aside. I didn't light the cigarette, just held it in my mouth.
His wife had been tired for a day, and he was afraid that smoking would affect her sleep, so he just held the cigarette in his mouth to satisfy his cravings.
If he really wanted to smoke, he would go outside to the balcony.
Although Huang Guiping was worried, she didn't think much about it. She turned over in bed and fell asleep quickly.
Yao Jie sighed softly, his mind filled with images of girls and children, from being well-behaved and cute when they were young, to being sensible, considerate and serious later, and now to the heart-wrenching pitiful appearance now.
Yao Jie felt like his heart was bleeding and his head was in a mess. He couldn't calm down and think, and he was breathing heavily.
He has been very sensitive since he was a child, and Tongtong may have inherited Yao Jie's personality. He has been sensitive and suspicious since he was a child, and he has to figure everything out, otherwise he can't sleep at night.
Little did he know that such an approach would lay hidden dangers for the current experience.
"well--"
Yao Jie sighed softly, took the cigarette out of his mouth, and placed it sideways on the bedside table.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed a figure standing outside the balcony of the bedroom.
Because the street lights shine through, the silhouettes of people outside can also be seen clearly.
However, only the outline can be seen, and the person's facial features cannot be seen.
The slender figure stood outside the window near the balcony, motionless, like a sculpture.
Yao Jie thought he had seen it wrong, rubbed his eyes, sat up from the bed, and then he was sure that it was a human figure, and it looked very much like his daughter.
It's just that my daughter should be next door now. It's impossible for her to suddenly pass through the wall and stand on the balcony.
Yao Tong's symptoms after schizophrenia have always been to imagine some weird, strange, and terrifying things, but none of them were related to herself.
That is to say, no matter how terrifying and bizarre it is, it is impossible for her to have weird abilities and be able to pass through walls.
Yao Jie did not wake up his wife. He got out of bed quietly and walked to the door of the bedroom balcony. He did not push the balcony door open out of curiosity to find out what was going on outside. Instead, he pulled the door handle and closed the balcony door. , and locked the lock.
Because of their previous encounters, the couple suffered extremely terrifying frights more than once, so their current actions were their subconscious reaction to avoid the terrifying situation.
Precisely because of this, Yao Jie and Huang Guiping were frightened by strange events much less often.
After closing the balcony door, Yao Jie tried the door lock again and was sure it could not be opened. Then he returned to the bed and was about to sit down when a rustling sound came from the living room.
Listening to this sound, it seemed that someone was crawling on the ground outside the living room using both hands and feet, and the crawling speed was not urgent or slow.
Yao Jie was shocked. He had not encountered this kind of situation for a long time since his daughter moved to live next door. He hurried to the door of the bedroom almost as a reflex, without even taking a closer look at what was happening outside the living room or what was crawling. , reached out again to close the bedroom door and locked it.
I looked back and looked under the bed. Although it was dark under the bed, the couple had stuffed many large boxes filled with old books and newspapers earlier. There was so much space under the bed that not even a mouse could get in, let alone people. .
After returning to the bed and sitting down, Yao Jie's heartbeat was fast. His wife's even breathing could be heard next to him, but she did not wake up.
There were still crawling sounds outside the living room from time to time, but they were not close to the bedroom door.
Yao Jie was half lying on the bed, turning his head to look in the direction of the balcony from time to time, and found that the thin figure who seemed to be his daughter was still standing outside. From time to time, he looked at the doorway from the bedroom to the living room.
Time passed by minute by minute.
At some point, when there were no more strange noises, a wave of fatigue came over, and Yao Jie closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Drowsily, he seemed to hear something, but he couldn't open his eyes.
He heard the sound of the door opening, and then the sound of footsteps coming from the direction of the balcony.
Not long after, a voice came close to his ear and whispered like a whisper: "Dad."
Yao Jie was startled and opened his eyes suddenly. He looked sideways and saw that there was nothing next to the bed. When he looked again, the balcony door was still closed and it seemed that it had not been opened.
And the thin black figure seen outside the balcony just now has disappeared.
He knew that he might have had a nightmare, so he turned over with lingering fear and prepared to go back to sleep.
But when he turned over, Yao Jie's eyes suddenly widened. He stared at the place where his wife was lying next to him, and found that there was no one there at this moment, and Huang Guiping was missing.
When I looked at the door leading from the bedroom to the living room, I didn't know when it had been opened.
Yao Jie quickly sat up, put on his slippers, and walked out of the bedroom quietly.
Before the matter was figured out, he didn't want to call out to his wife in case something else caught his eye.
After arriving at the door of the bedroom, because the street lights on the street are very bright, you can still see the room even without turning on the lights, but it is relatively dim.
Everything in the living room seemed normal, but what surprised Yao Jie even more was that the door to the living room was also open.
This scene frightened him so much that he quickly walked over and prepared to close the door, but he was worried that his wife might have gone out alone. Worried, he stuck his head out to take a look.
There is a cool wall lamp in the corridor that is always on. This kind of lamp is not good for lighting and the brightness is not high.
At this glance, there was nothing in the corridor. Yao Jie had to step out again and saw that the door of his daughter's room next door was also open.
Seeing this scene, Yao Jie felt very embarrassed. Because of the terrifying situations he had encountered in the past, he had instinctively resisted this scene. If he wanted to follow him, his family would definitely be missed, and would he be beaten? It's hard to tell what slipped in.
But if he didn't go and take a look, he was afraid that something might happen to his wife, and if the door to his daughter's room was open, there might have been a problem, which made him uneasy.
But if you go directly, you will face a great risk of encountering terror.
After thinking about it, he decided to open the door to his room and make sure it couldn't be closed before tiptoeing towards the door of his daughter's room.
Unexpectedly, in my daughter's room, there was a dimly lit book lamp on the square table on the square table. This book lamp seemed to be a rechargeable one. The light was dim at the moment and it must have run out of power.
In front of the square table by the window, my wife was standing on one side of the square table with her back to the door. She seemed to be focusing on something. She was wearing slippers and her standing posture was very stable. She didn't look out of the ordinary.
Sitting on the left side of the square table is the girl Tongtong. At this moment, Yao Tong looks attentive and seems to be listening to something.
As for a young strange man sitting on the right side of the square table, he was talking. The mother and daughter did not make a sound, obviously listening to each other carefully.
The man spoke in a very low voice. Standing at the door, you could only see his lips moving, but you couldn't hear what he said.
Yao Jie was surprised and looked at the watch on his wrist. It was already past one o'clock in the morning. Then he walked over calmly, stood on Huang Guiping's right side, and looked at the strange man.
The strange young man raised his head and glanced at him. Huang Guiping had already held Yao Jie's hand and said, "This is Mr. Yin Yang. He happened to stay in the hotel opposite our house and found that the house was full of black air, so he took advantage of it. Come and have a look at night.”
"How did you know?" Yao Jie asked doubtfully.
"Tongtong told me." Huang Guiping said, and then added, "It was in my dream just now."
"In a dream?" Yao Jie looked at his daughter in surprise.
At this time, the young man said to Yao Jie: "I found that your daughter's spirit is extremely strong and obviously out of control. This will bring you unpredictable dangers."
"Wait a minute." Yao Jie said still in surprise: "Are you Mr. Yin Yang? What should I call you?"
"My surname is Shen." This young man is Shen Xing.
He had been observing the movements here that night, and simply entered the building after midnight, and then used his strange eyes to find a large amount of red aura wandering around the building.
However, these red auras are mainly concentrated in the room where Yao Tong is located. Several nearby rooms also have sporadic red auras, but the most obvious red one is Yao Tong herself.
After Shen Xing's observation, this Yao Tong's appearance was no different from that of humans. At most, he was physically thin and weak, and mentally unstable.
Because Yao Tong seldom dozed off, the girl was not asleep when he knocked on the door. After explaining that he could help her, Yao Tong was pleasantly surprised and opened the door without any precautions.
The reason why he chose to contact Yao Tong directly was because Shen Xing was also looking for a way to solve this anomaly. He had to first find out the characteristics of the other party, and this time period was when its characteristics occurred frequently. It was also the time to find out its characteristics. perfect timing.
However, after entering the room, Shen Xing found that the red aura he had just seen had all disappeared.
After talking to this girl for a while, I found that she was actually very talkative, but would appear neurotic from time to time.
Not only that, during this process, Shen Xing always felt like there was someone in the room, either staring at him or moving back and forth somewhere, but invisible to the naked eye, even without using his special eyes.
If this is the case, it is indeed an unimaginable torture for the family members living with Yao Tong.
