escape from the world

"Meow."

Fang Chen opened his eyes and found himself lying in a vast white sea of ​​flowers. He saw a milk cat from the side. It was so small, with gray and black patterns, and copper yellow eyes. go.

Fang Chen sat up, the milky white petals fell to the ground, and he saw his young self in front of him.

The surrounding white gradually faded, the sky began to rain, and the air was filled with the smell of soil and dampness and the faint fragrance of flowers.

The young Fang Chen squatted aside, suddenly raised his head to look at someone.

The milk cat, who was still alive and kicking just now, closed its eyes and fell limply on the ground, lifeless.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, but little Fang Chen was not drenched in the slightest, and he carefully picked up the cat and walked towards Fang Chen.

He stopped in front of Fang Chen, and Fang Chen realized later - someone was holding an umbrella for him.

The child held the cat to him, Fang Chen subconsciously stretched out his hand, but the cat suddenly opened its eyes and let out a sharp meow.

The umbrella fell to the ground, the water splashed instantly, the cry of the child, and a pair of hands caressing the top of his head...

Fang Chen woke up from the heat, wiped the sweat off his neck, and could still think of those copper-yellow cat eyes when he closed his eyes.

He lifts his arm over his eyes, nothing is right here.With a lack of memory, he couldn't escape to other places like Fan Yingying did. Something in the dark was restraining him, so that he could only go around in circles.

The couple downstairs started to sing in love again at some point, Fang Chen got up and drank half a glass of water, still feeling thirsty, licked his lips and dug out the yogurt in the refrigerator.

As the downstairs was coming to an end, the man let out an exaggerated roar, Fang Chen accidentally choked, and closed the window while coughing.

Changing shoes in the entrance and seeing the long mirror, he found that after this series of panic, he can still laugh at such a small matter. Is this considered talent, or is it heartless?

He opened the door, and the door just opened on the other side.

Fang Chen looked up and saw a strange yet familiar face.

The man is still very indifferent, looking at him from such a close distance, his pupils are so dark that they are almost pitch black.

Fang Chen saw him in the stairwell, Xie Ying was with him at the time, they were talking on the stairs, Fang Chen thought it was a couple quarreling.

Why is he here?

The man closed the door, his eyes swept over Fang Chen lightly, "Good afternoon."

The magnetic and deep male voice is unexpectedly pleasant.

Fang Chen was inexplicably frightened, and took a step back to lean on the door: "...good afternoon."

Fang Chen thought that after he said this, the two of them would be silent, but he didn't expect the man to ask bluntly, "Why hide from me?"

Fang Chen was speechless for a while, and hesitated for a long time: "...No."

The elevator door opened, but Fang Chen wanted to go up the stairs. After struggling for a few seconds, he still had to bite the bullet and follow the man in.

Fang Chen is not short, but the man is more than half a head taller than him, and his shoulders are wider than him, giving him a faint sense of oppression.

The two stood side by side, Fang Chen's mind went blank, he even forgot to think about the question of why the man came out from the opposite side of his house due to his due curiosity.

He kept his head down, and in just a few seconds, a layer of sweat broke out on his back.Because he knew the man was looking at him, with a calm and focused gaze, which was so strange.

The whole afternoon, Fang Chen's mind was full of the man's figure, which he couldn't get rid of.

Going home at night, he walked around the flower beds in the community twice, saw Xie Ying walking into the community, he trotted two steps to catch up, and said: "I saw your boyfriend at noon, he came out at the opposite door of my house and surprised me. He desperately sought an answer, waiting for Xie Ying to explain why the man appeared across from his house.

Who knew that Xie Ying had a weird face: "Boyfriend, who are you talking about?"

"The man who was talking to you on the stairs a few days ago... isn't he your boyfriend?"

"He's not." Xie Ying looked him up and down, "Besides, Nie Shi lived across from you, what's wrong with you?"

Nie Shi.

It was Nie Shi again.Everyone said that Nie Shi was his neighbor, but he couldn't remember it.

Fang Chen once talked to his neighbor, but he didn't remember that he was as tall as Nie Shi, and his voice was not so deep.The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Gradually, the figure of the man and the neighbor overlapped. Fang Chen was a little dazed. He vaguely felt that he had misremembered, and that the person living opposite seemed to be Nie Shi.

"Fang Chen, Fang Chen?" Xie Ying pushed him, "What's the matter with you recently? You went to the hospital and asked me who Nie Shi was. Are you okay?"

Fang Chen regained his composure, and rubbed his forehead with a headache: "It's okay." He was really going crazy.

Xie Ying looked at him suspiciously, "Really? Don't procrastinate if you are sick, and get well sooner."

"What about you?" Fang Chen asked, "Why did you go to the hospital?" After asking, he felt a little regretful. This is a private matter, so he shouldn't ask.

Xie Ying didn't mind, and said directly: "I have insomnia, go to the hospital and ask the doctor to prescribe some medicine."

The service attitude of that hospital is very poor and cold.Fang Chen didn't feel anything when he left, but the more he thought about it when he came back, the more wrong he became.

When the two stepped into the corridor, Fang Chen was able to catch his breath in the instant shade. He subconsciously looked towards the door on the right to avoid being suddenly attacked by Fan Yingying again.

This time Fan Yingying was not here, Xie Ying turned around and asked, "Have you heard any strange sounds these days?"

"What do you mean?"

"I can't tell." Xie Ying's face became ugly. "It's like a child crying. I can always hear it recently. It's so noisy that I can't sleep. To be honest, I'm a little scared."

Fang Chen didn't answer directly, but turned a corner and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Aunt Wu come out to chat these days."

Xie Ying replied naturally: "Yes, I could see it every day before."

Xie Ying also remembered the couple.

Fang Chen took a deep breath, thinking that he was not alone.

These oddities did not surround him alone.

He didn't tell Xie Ying about the couple's death, recalling Fan Yingying's face convulsed from crying, Fang Chen felt that he should not talk about it.

The elevator reached the fourth floor, and the door opened and a man stood outside.

Fang Chen walked out of the elevator, and the elevator went up to the fifth floor.

"...Are you going downstairs?" He took out the key and hesitated before talking to the man.

"Yeah." Nie Shi responded.

Fang Chen hinted intentionally or unintentionally: "I haven't seen you much in the past few days."

"Ah."

"..."

Fang Chen couldn't help but look back at the man, and found that the man was also looking at him.

"Do you want to see me?" Nie Shi asked suddenly.

Fang Chen couldn't keep up with his train of thought, so he blinked his eyes.

The elevator had come down, and Nie Shi walked in and said, "See you tomorrow."

Fang Chen stood there stupidly for a few seconds, opened the door and entered the room in a daze.

Nie Shi is his neighbor.

Seeing the man again, Fang Chen felt a lot of familiarity - Nie Shi did live opposite him.

But why didn't he recognize Nie the last time he saw him?Is his memory wrong, or...someone stuffed Nie Shiqiang into their memory again, making them think that Nie Shi existed?

Fang Chen forced himself not to think about it anymore, anyway, no matter how he thought about it, there was no solution.

He stuffed the last bite of bread into his mouth, one cheek puffed up, chewing slowly like a hamster hoarding grain.

Then let it be, just let it be.

There were strange noises again at night, strange "ah, ah" sounds.

Fang Chen still couldn't help being afraid, feeling a chill in his spinal cord, and then the voice stopped.There was another slender cry from the corridor, the sound was very small, and it entered Fang Chen's ear through the crack of the door.

When he regained consciousness, he was already standing in the porch, holding the doorknob in his hand. Fang Chen was frightened into a cold sweat, and his arms were covered with a layer of coolness. It was this coolness that made him stop opening the door.

Fang Shen felt thankful, his legs were so weak that he almost knelt down.

Someone tugged at his wrist!

He was so stiff that he couldn't help shaking.

"Don't be afraid." It was that chaotic voice again.

Fang Chen no longer had the energy to think about things, the coolness surrounded him, pierced his liver and lungs along his back, and spread all over his body.

The person behind him backed away, Fang Chen forgot how he sat on the chair, turned his mind a little and found that he had already sat down, and there was only a table between him and that person.

"Don't be afraid." The man repeated, "I'm with you."

Fang Chen felt that it was difficult to breathe, and tears fell on the table drop by drop.

The person on the opposite side stretched out his hand, as if to wipe his tears, but he stepped back suddenly, and the chair made a harsh "squeaky" sound.

The hands froze and retracted.

"Fang Chen..."

"Please..." Fang Chen's voice was hoarse, "Don't talk to me." He didn't know where he got the courage, and said while crying, as if he was going to die in a second.

"..."

There was no sound on the other side.

The surroundings were silent, only Fang Chen's occasional choking sound.

After a while, a pack of tissues appeared in front of Fang Chen.

He cried and trembled, and really took out two pieces of paper and wiped them indiscriminately.

"Don't be afraid." The man spoke again.

Tears welled up in his eyes again, Fang Chen desperately hoped that the pile of rotten meat would shut up.

The author has something to say: Rotten meat: super wronged.JPG

Fang Shen: qwwwwwwwq

Basically all the characters have come out, the following floors are distributed——

On the first floor, the couple surnamed Wu on the left (deceased) and Fan Yingying on the right

Mr. Xu on the second floor

Gao Cheng, a couple on the third floor

Fang Shen Nieshi on the fourth floor

Xie Ying on the fifth floor