Liming Community is close to the western suburbs, but not far from the city center. It was built in the 1970s. After decades, other places have been demolished and rebuilt, but Liming Community is still strong.
The community is very dilapidated. It takes ten minutes to walk from the bus station. Xu Yang, who was walking in the rain, subconsciously accelerated his pace.
When people feel fear, they will always subconsciously approach places they are familiar with and seek shelter from familiar people, and Xu Yang is no exception.
Xu Yang was very familiar with the road from the bus station to Liming Community. Even with his eyes closed, he could walk home.
After walking through a sidewalk and through two small alleys, Liming Community is within easy reach.
After stopping, Xu Yang raised his head subconsciously and looked at the location of his house's room 4044. There were lights in the room, and a figure appeared by the window. The outline of the figure should be Yang Xueqi.
Seeing this scene, Xu Yang heaved a sigh of relief. The familiar place and the familiar lighting made it feel like home.
Xu Yang, who was very nervous along the way, relaxed at this moment, he did not stop, and walked straight to the community.
I don't know if it was because of the rain, or it was too late. The street lights where the community was located had gone out, and in the residential building, only his room had lights on. There was a black car parked downstairs in the unit. It was Yang Xueqi's car.
The old community has no guards, no patrolling security, no elevators, and walked quickly into the corridor of the fourth unit.
The familiar corridor, the mottled walls, are covered with various small advertisements, the rusted stair handrails are covered with irregular dust, and the fifth steel bar is broken, it was broken more than half a year ago.
There is also a battery car in the corridor. It is the mount of the office worker on the second floor of 4042. It is charging at the moment.
Put away the umbrella and shake off the rainwater on it, I don't know if the umbrella really played a role, or the peeping gaze was just Xu Yang's illusion. Xu Yang felt a lot more at ease.
"Snapped!"
The corridor was dark, holding an umbrella, reaching out and patted it, the sensor lights on the fourth floor turned on instantly, but the sensor lights on other floors didn't move.
Building No. 4 has a total of six floors, but the sensor lights are only intact on the fourth floor, and the others are broken. During the summer vacation, Xu Yang repaired the sensor lights on all floors. The light was broken again, and only the induction light on the fourth floor survived. Seeing this situation, Xu Yang was too lazy to take care of it.
Different from other communities, all unit buildings in Liming Community carry four, and the steps on each floor of each unit building are thirteen steps, no more or no less, which is really an unlucky number.
1,2,4,6,8,9,13...
Building No. 4, the fourth floor, room 4044, the thirteen steps, either related to four or thirteen, always reminds people of some bad things.
Of course, Xu Yang is an atheist, he never believes in ghosts, and in today's society, not many people care about these numbers.
Walking on the familiar steps, Xu Yang deliberately paused every time he took a step, he wanted to make sure if someone followed him into the corridor.
However, Xu Yang's worry was a bit unnecessary, and there was only the sound of his footsteps in the entire corridor.
The lights on the fourth floor poured down through the gaps in the corridor, allowing Xu Yang to see the stairs under his feet.
From the first floor to the second floor, Xu Yang subconsciously stopped, turned his head, and looked at room 4023.
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The door was closed, and there was no movement inside, Xu Yang narrowed his eyes.
There are many residents in Liming Community. After all, the rent here is cheap, but there are not many old tenants. Most of the old tenants have moved out one after another in the past ten years, and the new tenants, Everyone is very busy, and they are not familiar with each other.
Fang Waner used to rent room 4023, but since she left, this room has always been empty.
Compared with the previous three buildings, Building No. 4 has the fewest tenants. Including Xu Yang, there are only seven or eight households in the entire building. During the summer vacation, two more households moved out.
Looking at the door of 4023, Xu Yang hesitated: "Would you like to take a look?"
Xu Yang always felt that horror survival games were inextricably linked with reality.
But he thought about it, and it was fine.
Without thinking any more, Xu Yang quickened his pace and soon came to the fourth floor.
But as soon as he came to the door, he took out the key to open the door, and the door opened, and Yang Xueqi in casual clothes stood at the door.
"You're back?" Yang Xueqi said.
"Um."
"Why so late?"
"It's raining heavily outside, so the car drives slowly," Xu Yang explained.
"Is there no accident on the road?" Yang Xueqi asked with concern.
"Um?"
Hearing this, Xu Yang froze in his heart. He looked at Yang Xueqi and narrowed his eyes.
However, before Xu Yang asked, Yang Xueqi said, "Come in."
As she spoke, Yang Xueqi turned her side and let Xu Yang enter the room, while she closed the door, but when she looked at the red umbrella in Xu Yang's hand, her eyes narrowed slightly, not knowing what she was thinking.
While Xu Yang was changing his shoes, Yang Xueqi turned around and went to the kitchen.
It is the same as the layout of room 4044 in the game. The room is not big, but it is very clean. There is not much furniture, but it is quite complete.
Looking at the familiar room, Xu Yang always subconsciously thinks of the room in the game.
After changing into the slippers, she came to the living room, and just sat down on the sofa, Yang Xueqi came out of the kitchen with a bowl of steaming ginger soup in her hand and handed it to Xu Yang.
"Drink soon, be careful of catching a cold."
Looking at Yang Xueqi with a concerned face, Xu Yang took Jiang Tang, pursed his lips, and said, "Thank you."
"Xiao Yang, why are you still being so polite to my sister?" Yang Xueqi sat down beside Xu Yang, looked at Xu Yang and said with a smile.
Xu Yang smiled and didn't answer.
Yang Xueqi is very young and beautiful, and she looks even better when she smiles. She is one of Xu Yang's few friends. She treats Xu Yang very well. During the three years when her second uncle disappeared, she has been in charge of taking care of Xu Yang. The older sister is average, although Xu Yang doesn't need anyone else's care.
Compared with her second uncle's stocking and inappropriate behavior, Yang Xueqi is more like a mother. Perhaps in her eyes, Xu Yang is a child who needs to be taken care of.
For this feeling, Xu Yang was also helpless.
Xu Yang was very repulsive of being approached by outsiders, and of course no one wanted to approach him who was withdrawn. When Yang Xueqi first appeared in Xu Yang's life, Xu Yang was also very repulsive, because he knew that this woman had ulterior motives for approaching him. This made Xu Yang very unhappy.
But after three years of getting along, Xu Yang has become accustomed to her existence and gradually accepts her.
After taking a sip of the ginger soup, Xu Yang asked directly, "You said on WeChat that there is something about my second uncle?"
However, Yang Xueqi did not answer this question, and
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Is asked: "Have you encountered strange things recently?"
"Um?"
(°ー°〃)
Xu Yang was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Yang Xueqi, thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No."
"Really not?"
Yang Xueqi looked at Xu Yang's eyes with a scrutiny in her eyes. At this moment, she was more like a policeman, while Xu Yang was like a suspect.
Xu Yang didn't look at Yang Xueqi, but turned his head, continued drinking the ginger soup, shook his head and said, "Nothing strange happened."
Seeing this scene, Yang Xueqi narrowed her eyes and moved her lips slightly.
No one knows better than her what kind of character Xu Yang is. Whatever Xu Yang doesn't want to say, no matter how you ask him, he won't say anything. In the end, Xu Yang still doesn't trust him.
Thinking of this, Yang Xueqi couldn't help but let out a wry smile, then she stopped struggling, took out a photo from her pocket, handed it to Xu Yang, and said, "Look at this."
Xu Yang turned his head and glanced at the photo, only after one glance, Xu Yang narrowed his eyes.
It was a photo of a corpse, which had been ossified. Judging from the pelvis, it should be a woman, and this woman had no hands.
Xu Yang raised his head, looked at Yang Xueqi and asked, "This is..."
"Do you remember Fang Wan'er, the resident of 4023 downstairs?" Yang Xueqi asked.
"Um?"
Xu Yang was stunned again, and then said, "Is this Fang Wan'er?"
Yang Xueqi nodded.
Hearing this, Xu Yang narrowed his eyes and said, "Why did she die?"
"You don't know?" Yang Xueqi asked, looking into Xu Yang's eyes.
"Me? How would I know?" Xu Yang asked back.
Yang Xueqi didn't speak, but stared at Xu Yang's eyes for a moment, and then said, "Didn't you send me this photo?"
"what?!"
As soon as these words came out, Xu Yang was immediately stunned.
Xu Yang looked at Yang Xueqi, and then at the photo. He frowned. If it wasn't for Yang Xueqi's words, he wouldn't even know that this white bone was Fang Wan'er.
"What's going on?" Xu Yang asked.
"Three days ago, I came back from a business trip and received a courier."
"Express? What's in it?" Xu Yang asked subconsciously.
"this picture."
Xu Yang narrowed his eyes, glanced at the photo, then looked at Yang Xueqi and asked, "You mean, I sent this courier?"
Yang Xueqi nodded.
Xu Yang shook his head and said, "Impossible. I have been participating in military training at the school during this time, and I have never left."
"I know."
After Xu Yang explained, Yang Xueqi said, "When I received the courier, I asked someone to investigate. The courier was indeed not sent by you, but you were the sender."
"Um?"
Hearing this, Xu Yang narrowed his eyes again and looked at Yang Xueqi with a puzzled expression.
"What's the meaning?"
"The sender of this express is you, and the recipient is me."
"Someone sent you a courier in my name?" Xu Yang narrowed his eyes.
"Yes."
"What the hell is going on?"
"It's like this..."