Summer is the season with frequent thunderstorms, but for the people of city A, it is very rare for three consecutive days of heavy rain like this.

The high temperature did not fall due to the continuous rain, but it became more sultry and humid due to the large amount of water vapor.To make matters worse, there was a sudden power outage tonight, and the air conditioner went on strike with a beep.

The cool indoor environment soon became uncomfortable. In the dark night, Xia Weishuang lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling with her eyes open.

The sound of the torrential rain can be heard clearly, and the thunder and lightning tonight is obviously not a good time to sleep peacefully.

Her sleep quality has never been very good. She was tossing and turning before the power was cut off, and it was even more difficult to fall asleep after the power was cut off.

Xia Weishuang sat up in the dark, turned on the lock screen of the phone, and the light was so dazzling that she couldn't help squinting her eyes.

23:57 in the evening.

2021年,8月7日,23点57分。

Xia Weishuang got out of bed in her pajamas, and walked towards the living room with a cup in her hand. Maybe she needs sleeping pills tonight. Even if she overslept tomorrow morning, it doesn't matter, as long as she can end her wild thoughts in the middle of the night.

Xia Weishuang went to the water dispenser to collect water.

On this rainstorm-hit night, all extra sounds seemed faint and undetectable, but suddenly, Xia Weishuang looked at the door.

She was still holding the cup in her hand, with a puzzled look on her face.

Just now, she seemed to hear a strange sound.

Tick, tick, tick...

Amidst the sound of rain and the sound of running water from the water dispenser, this dripping sound still passed through everything clearly and tenaciously, reaching Xia Weishuang's ears.

When she listened carefully, she seemed to have heard nothing, as if everything just now was an illusion.

Xia Weishuang withdrew her gaze, her expression was normal, the water overflowed the cup unknowingly, she withdrew her hand and pulled a paper towel to wipe it.

She knew that she had an old problem of hallucinations, and she would always get tinnitus and dizziness if she couldn't sleep well.The symptoms were more serious before, but after three years of treatment, I no longer suffer from illnesses.

However, if the mental state is not good, there will still be auditory and visual hallucinations occasionally.

Since entering August, Xia Weishuang has been in a depressed mood. The bad mood combined with the bad environment made it difficult for her to sleep. It is normal to have auditory hallucinations.

Xia Weishuang thought so.

Tick, tick...

But the voice came again.

Accompanied by the sound of water dripping, there is also a strange and indistinguishable sound.Guji Guji... It seems that there is a kind of soft and slimy mollusc creature, which is slowly wriggling, entangled and squeezed, which makes people think of disgusting bugs such as slugs and snails.

The voice was slowly expanding with the dark shadow, Xia Weishuang looked back at the door again.

A strange intuition made her stare at the direction of the door, and a shivering chill crept up her spine.

Xia Weishuang should be aware that this may be her own auditory hallucination, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that this might be a real existence, not an illusion.

Suddenly, a third voice sounded.

Boom, boom, boom.

The sound of the door panel being knocked jumped across the space and rang in Xia Weishuang's ears.

As if she was bewitched, she walked towards the door, but the closer she got to the door, the more nervous and heavy she felt, almost out of breath.

When she walked to the door, she heard the complex overlapping voice very clearly.

Just behind the door.

Is it true or false?

Like a ghost, Xia Weishuang moved her eyes to the cat's eyes.

She saw a deeper human-shaped shadow hidden in the thick darkness, standing silently like a corpse.

what is that?

The fear of facing the unknown is gone in a flash, replaced by a strong and weird curiosity.

And at this moment, a white light that tore through the night illuminated the entire corridor and the room, and Xia Weishuang saw the person outside the door in a flash—how could it be her?

With just one glance, the appearance of the person outside the door has already firmly fallen into the depths of Xia Weishuang's pupils. Even if the lightning disappeared and the corridor returned to darkness, Xia Weishuang was still sure that she was right.

It was a woman in a tattered red dress, drenched all over, her long hair was thick and messy, and under the light of lightning, her skin was as white as paper without a trace of blood.

She was smiling, her red mouth curled up stiffly, a pair of dark pupils looked at Xia Weishuang through cat eyes.

Xia Weishuang began to tremble, her hand suddenly raised and grabbed the doorknob.

Jinglei followed closely behind, shaking the world, and seemed to stun Xia Weishuang for a moment.

At that moment she couldn't think, couldn't feel, and could only think with all her heart: She was back.

She's back she's back...she's back!

Big drops of tears rolled down from Xia Weishuang's eyes, but she showed an expression of ecstasy, grabbed the doorknob and pushed and pulled it twice, her eyes greedily stuck to the cat's eyes, as if as long as she kept looking, the person in the shadows would People will never leave again.

Xia Weishuang, whose mind was in a mess, almost forgot that she had locked the door. She couldn't help trembling to twist the latch, but failed repeatedly because she couldn't control her arms perfectly.

squeak-

Behind, the sound of the door opening was pulled into a thorny thread, passing through Xia Weishuang's brain.

The sound of stepping on slippers came from far to near, and a girl behind her asked lazily and sleepily, "Sister, what are you doing? It's late at night."

Xia Weishuang paused, turned her head hastily and said: "Xiaoxue, she is back, please open the door for me quickly, I can't open it, what should I do..."

"Who?" Xia Qingxue, who came to play with her cousin during the summer vacation, was confused. She knew about Xia Weishuang's illness, so she said cautiously, "Sister, did you read it wrong? How could there be someone outside this spot?" .”

And who is this she?

"I'm not mistaken!" Xia Weishuang said firmly, "Sang Lu is back!"

Xia Qingxue shivered suddenly, stepped forward and grabbed Xia Weishuang's arm, and pulled her away from the door: "Don't scare me, sister, she is already dead!"

died?

Xia Weishuang held her cousin's hand tightly, her mind was muddled, and a coolness slowly woke her up.

That's right, Sang Lu is already dead. She died in the summer night three years ago and was buried in the deep and boundless sea. How could she come back to find her?

Xia Weishuang twitched the corner of her mouth sadly: "But I really saw it, if you don't believe me, you can see it..."

Xia Qingxue was in distress. Looking out from the cat's eyes on a rainy night when the power was out, it was too scary and gloomy, and it wasn't like she was acting in a horror movie.

"Okay, let me take a look for you." But Xia Qingxue still agreed to her, and slowly moved towards the door, very tangled up to the cat's eye.

The fear brought about by the darkness made her dawdle, mouthing non-stop, trying to dispel the eerie feeling with her voice.

"Sister, it's August, you may be in a bad mood and have an illness. It's okay, it's easy to think wildly at night, let's go back to sleep and have a rest during the day... Huh, I said it's impossible, there's nothing outside. "

The corridor was dark, but it was also empty, not to mention Sang Lu, there was not even a single person.Xia Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief, stood up straight and smiled, comforting her cousin: "Stop thinking about it, it's not your fault, let's go back to sleep."

When Xia Weishuang was seriously ill, she often couldn't tell the difference between hallucinations and reality. Xia Qingxue had a good relationship with her, so she took the initiative to help her distinguish between reality and reality.

Xia Weishuang trusts her and believes that Xiaoxue will not lie to herself.

However, people always like to lie to themselves.

Xia Weishuang sniffled her nose, raised her hand and wiped the water on her face indiscriminately, in order not to make Xiaoxue worry about herself, she deliberately showed a relaxed smile, and said, "Really, let me take another look, just one look. "

She walked to the door, raised her hands, and pressed her palms to the cold door.

Xia Qingxue glanced at her worriedly, stepped aside, and let her unwilling cousin continue to look out.

When Xia Weishuang put her eyes on the cat's eyes, she stopped moving.After a while, she shrugged her shoulders twice, straightened up and wiped her face with her hands, the smile on her mouth was a little lonely.

"Maybe I was wrong, let's go back to sleep."

"That's right, go to bed early." Xia Qingxue hugged her sister's arm and said with a smile, "Your fever only subsides during the day, and you stay up late, what if it happens again?"

"I'm already well, I didn't stay up late." Xia Weishuang assured seriously, "It's just that the thunder was too loud and I couldn't sleep."

In this sweltering night, there was no air conditioner, and the thunderstorm was heavy. I don't know how many people were forced to wake up from their dreams.But suddenly, there was a gust of evil wind, and the wind penetrated into the crack of the door with cool water vapor, sweeping away the sweltering heat in the room.

"Hiss!" Xia Qingxue wrinkled her nose in doubt, "What's so fishy?"

Xia Weishuang shook her head, expressing that she didn't know, but when she shook her head halfway, she suddenly stopped.

"It's the sea..."

The next moment, she withdrew her arm from Xia Qingxue's arms, turned around like a stumbling swallow, and slammed onto the door. For the third time, Xia Weishuang looked out through the cat's eyes.

Xia Qingxue didn't have time to hold her, she didn't know why Xia Weishuang was like this, she hurriedly grabbed Xia Weishuang's hand, trying to keep her away from the door.

"Sister, what did you hear again? Don't believe it, it's all fake."

"It's not fake." Xia Weishuang's voice revealed a strange calmness, "It's true, you smelled it too."

Xia Qingxue was taken aback: "Huh?"

Xia Weishuang was lying on the door, looking back at her, with half of her pale cheeks hidden in her long black hair: "You smelled it too, Xiaoxue, it was you who said it first, do you know...she really came back , she came back from the sea to find me."

After finishing speaking, Xia Weishuang curled the corner of her mouth and smiled.

Xia Qingxue shook her head, in disbelief at all: "Sister, are you under too much mental pressure... Don't scare me like this, there are no ghosts in this world, Amitabha Buddha Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law..."

Xia Weishuang suddenly held her cousin's hand instead, and pulled her to her side at once.

She bit her lower lip tightly, restraining her impulse: "If you don't believe me, look at the ground."

Xia Qingxue was in a stalemate with her, and she was about to cry: "Can I not watch it? It's scary."

Xia Weishuang patted her cousin's head, and said softly: "Okay, Xiaoxue, let's go rest first."

"how about you?"

Xia Weishuang looked at her, then suddenly stretched out her hand and unscrewed the door latch, she was about to open the door while grabbing the handle!

Xia Qingxue yelled in surprise, her reaction was quick, and she pressed her whole body against the door panel to stop Xia Weishuang from opening the door.

"Let's see, let's see, don't open the door!" Damn, even if there is nothing outside the door, scary people will scare people to death!

Xia Qingxue wanted to cry, but she looked out through the cat's eyes trembling.

Xia Weishuang looked at her expectantly: "Did you see it, there is a puddle of water on the ground! It must be the evidence of her return!"

Xia Qingxue lay down on Maoyanzai and looked at it carefully for a while, then turned her head, pushed Xia Weishuang's shoulder and walked back: "Okay, there is really nothing, you read it wrong."

By the way, he screwed the door bolt with his backhand, but his hand trembled slightly, and his palm was clammy and cold.

Although Xia Qingxue is younger than Xia Weishuang, she has practiced Jiu-Jitsu since junior high school, and now she joined a Jiu-Jitsu club in college, her strength is much stronger than that of Xia Weishuang, who is sick.

Xia Weishuang was pushed towards the living room by her and couldn't resist at all. She was both aggrieved and at a loss: "I read it wrong again? But you also smelled the wind just now."

"This possibility is too great." Xia Qingxue vowed, "Maybe it's the smell of the seafood bought by the neighbor's house. Don't think too much about it. Come on, take some medicine and go to bed early."

Xia Weishuang knew what was wrong with her and trusted Xia Qingxue, so she stood in front of the water dispenser and sighed softly, took the warm water and swallowed the medicine.

This time she ate one more than usual.

Is it fake, is it really fake, is it really fake... The pain of repeatedly being difficult to distinguish, not wanting to believe but having to admit, made Xia Weishuang's heart throbbing.

Fortunately, with the help of the medicine, she quickly fell asleep in a chaotic state, and she didn't have to continue to bear the pain of longing.

Xia Qingxue squeezed onto Xia Weishuang's bed with the quilt under the pretext of being afraid of thunder.

Feeling that Xia Weishuang had fallen into a deep sleep, Xia Qingxue finally showed a terrified expression. She clutched her mobile phone and opened Baidu, cursing in her heart while searching for how to exorcise ghosts.

*his*!Absolutely, absolutely, the materialist worldview collapsed tonight! ! !

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