Zhao Xi's mobile phone slipped out of his wound and fell to the ground through the torrential rain.
The height of a five-storey building left that mobile phone in pieces, completely destroyed.
The fragments of Zhao Xi's life that he had captured with his mobile phone, the words he told himself when he was lonely, the life he longed for and envied, the dark brutality buried inside him, all dissipated together in the heavy rain.
His clothes were already soaked through, and Gao Life started to climb upwards only after he heard the sound of his mobile phone hitting the ground.
"Hold on tight!You reckless man!How dare you jump!"
"Be careful!You still have to pass the fifth floor window!"
The investigator and Teacher Yao's upper body was also wet from the rain, and they both tried their best to drag Gao Life upwards.
Five fingers gripping the rope tightly, Gao Life had already done everything he could, which should also be considered as Zhao Xi personally destroying his mobile phone.
Once again came to the fifth floor balcony, stood on the fifth floor of Zhao Xi, slightly bewildered gazed at Gao life, his gaze and before slightly different, cold numbness was replaced by incomprehension and pain.
"Friends", "family", "neighbours" put him in a difficult situation, he could not think of anything else, and finally stepped on the edge of the building.
No one cared about him, and even after his death everyone complained why he couldn't die farther away, what bad luck, the property prices in the neighbourhood are going down again.
In the last stage of his life, he met a lot of people, those people always inadvertently pushed him closer to the window, only high life did not do that.
The video on his mobile phone is what Zhao Xi wanted to do, is the honest man's hidden malice, but now that malice by his "hands" destroyed.
A rich black shadow escaped from his body, which seemed to be the connection between the unknown world and Zhao Xi, or a special energy.
With his head raised, Zhao Xi stood alone in the room. 2507 was his room, and on that rainy night, he stood like this for a long time.
Gao Life's body was dragged by the rope, he stared at Zhao Xi inside the room and made a decision after a moment.
Shoes stepping on the 2507 window frame, Gao Life adjusted his body, he let go of the rope and jumped back into the middle of room 2507.
Seeing this scene, Teacher Yao and the investigator were really dumbfounded, and Teacher Yao, who hadn't uttered any profanity for more than thirty years, burst into foul language.
"How did this go back again!!!"
"It's the first time I've seen someone who dares to repeatedly jump horizontally on both sides of the fifth floor windowsill."The disfigured investigator was really tired, but he didn't dare to let go, he was afraid that Gao Life would jump out again in a while!
Gao Life also heard Teacher Yao and the investigator's voices, but he pretended not to hear them and took one step towards Zhao Xi.
"You've been holding back since you were a kid, you're afraid of bringing trouble to your family, so even when Life pounded you with punch after punch, you just patted the dust and continued to tough it out."Gao Life stopped in front of Zhao Xi, "I will let everyone know what you have endured, I came to be your true family."
Without going for a handshake, Gao Life opened his arms and gently hugged Zhao Xi, "You've already had a hard time."
When people are most vulnerable, what they need is not comfort, but a hug from a family member.
Bones crisscrossed and twisted necks pulled back, Zhao Xi seemed to be very unaccustomed to this.
As Zhao Xi stepped back, those black shadows escaping from his body seemed to have found a target and began to surge towards Gao Life's body.
Unable to burrow into Gao Ming's body, they coalesced on the surface of Gao Ming's skin, like moving black veins, or like a tiny chain with life.
Gao Life reached out and touched it, feeling oppression, pain and despair, those shadows fused with Zhao Xi's memories.
Sharp pain came from his arm and his breathing became difficult, Gao Life tried to grab the chain.He had a special premonition within him, as if he could grab the chain, he would have the same ability as Zhao Xi, but Zhao Xi might just disappear.
Zhao Xi silently watched Gao Ming, as those black shadows left, the wounds on his body and his eyes gradually returned to normal, but what was somewhat worse was that his body was also becoming illusory.It seemed that when Zhao Xi completely disappeared, the black chain on Gao Life would be fully formed.
"Brother Zhao, what I just said is true, and I can take you to meet other family members later."The pain that cut through his spiritual will caused Gao Life's expression to distort, and he desperately pressed down on his shaking arms.
Cho Hee in room 2507 was also making his final choice, he stood frozen for a long time, then slowly twisted his neck.Zhao Xi looked towards the isolette mirror in the living room, he looked at the upside down world in the mirror, that mirror did not reflect his body.
The hand covered with calluses and wounds, gently waved, there was still no Zhao Xi in the mirror.
The broken body seems to understand something, Zhao Xi turned around in silence, he did not continue to jump with high life, but walked towards the building.
The neighbours in the WeChat group chat on his mobile phone were all fake, and he was originally the only one in the entire apartment building.
Zhao Xi walked down the steps, and the shadows that had enveloped the apartment building began to dissipate behind him, and all the places he walked by, the temperature was slowly rising back up.
"Zhao!I didn't cheat you!"
Seeing Zhao Xi about to leave, Gao Life directly chased after him, and hearing his voice, the investigator and Teacher Yao also rushed out.
"Zhao Xi left?"Teacher Yao was only slightly surprised, while that disfigured investigator's eyes were filled with incredulity.
"How did you do that!Quickly!I'm going to record it!We solved the anomaly before dawn!This is nothing short of a miracle!"The investigator was overly excited and held High Life's hands.
"Adults need understanding and comfort too, I just wanted to become family with him and he left."Seeing that the investigator started to record frantically, Gao Ming hurriedly stopped the other party, "Don't record blindly!I was able to grasp Zhao Xi's psychology through all the analyses, plus being neighbours with him for many years, and this method cannot be replicated."
"You didn't even talk to me when you met me the first time."
"That doesn't matter!"The investigator said with great sincerity, "If you're interested, you can join our Bureau!I'll be your recommender!"
"If I can't find a job, I might consider it."Gao Fate pointed towards Zhao Xi's room, "There should still be some clues in his house, you can go and look for them."
After supporting the investigator, Gao Fate didn't stop and followed Zhao Xi downstairs, there was a reward for passing the game.
Coming to the ground floor, Zhao Xi had left at some point, the shadows receded, and a black and white posthumous photo lay on the floor at the entrance of the building.
Gao Life was just about to pick it up when Teacher Yao next to him suddenly let out a cry of alarm.
"What's wrong?"
Under Gao Life's gaze, Teacher Yao raised his own hands, and his body was fading along with the shadows, "I ... can't seem to get away from here."
"Teacher Yao!"
The temperature rose back up, the lights in the hallway flickered, and Teacher Yao's body blended into the shadows.
When the lights came on completely, Teacher Yao was gone, and only a black and white posthumous photo remained where he stood.
Gao Ming picked up the two posthumous photos, Teacher Yao's black and white photo was very ordinary, with his somewhat helpless smile on the front, and a small child's crooked words on the back.
"Family photo (of a dying man): I heard my inner voice, rather than lying in a hospital bed waiting to die and losing my freedom and dignity, I would like to re-experience what it feels like to be alive."
The reality is that Teacher Yao is terminally ill and unable to get out of bed, and he seems to have found his way back to being alive in a world shrouded in shadows.
"Is this really Teacher Yao's own choice?"
Gao Life took out a second posthumous photo of a twisted and horrified Zhao Xi falling from a balcony, and Gao Life stood at the window and grabbed him tightly.
In addition to Gao Life possessing colours in this photo, the arm that he grabbed Zhao Xi had a black vein that looked like a chain wrapped around it, and those veins bound the arms of the one man and the one creepy man together.
"A picture of family: bondage between family members is a promise, a responsibility, as well as power and manipulation, I willingly became a part of you in the hope that you would let more people know about my suffering."