escape from the world

Fear was magnified too many times and became numb instead. Fang Chen kept his head and neck down, and the people on the opposite side looked at him quietly.

Fang Chen didn't know where the courage came from, and after ten minutes of stalemate, he asked the first question: "Why did you follow me..." He was still trembling, and anyone who sat across from a rotten person would be too scared to speak .

A sharp female voice and a man's terrified scream sounded in the corridor. It was different from the previous voice, and it was obvious that it was a human cry.

Fang Chen suddenly turned his head to look at the closed door, and rushed over without any warning at the next moment. He didn't know why he ran or whether he could run out. The moment he stepped out of the door, the cool air in the corridor pierced his scalp. Numb.

The third floor was lit with orange lights, Fang Chen's mind went blank, he stepped down the stairs and stopped at the corner.

Wang Huiwen was sitting slumped in front of the door wearing a vest and underwear, and Zhang Rui was using the broom in his hand to fight against the unknown creature kneeling on the ground.The thing tried to stand up, but fell over several times due to the slippery floor.

The scene is funny and weird.

Fang Chen didn't dare to turn back and didn't have the courage to go down.

He had seen that lump on the ground... in front of his own house.

Illuminated by the dim light, he could clearly see its appearance: blue-brown skin, very thin, with a little sparse red hair growing on its body, and an immature cry of "ahah", it had no white eyes, and its eyes seemed to be painted. Inked, no luster.

Why did I see it as a person before?

Fang Chen was holding on to the railing, leaning almost his entire body on it. At that time, he looked at it too hastily, and subconsciously thought it was a person... Otherwise, what else could it be, is it the monster in front of him?

Wang Huiwen also saw Fang Chen, opened her mouth and couldn't make a sound, and suddenly pointed her hand tremblingly at him.

wrong.

She was not referring to him!

Fang Chen closed his eyes in despair, the man caught up, he should be very angry that he ran away without authorization.

After waiting for a while, there was no pain as expected, a gust of wind passed by, Fang Chen opened his eyes and saw only a figure from behind.

The back was very familiar. It was Nie Shi who was standing behind him just now!

He slacked off for a moment, but soon his heart was raised again, maybe that person has followed him now!

Nie Shi was holding a dagger in his hand. Zhang Rui tremblingly watched as he came over and rolled over the deformed monster on the ground. He stabbed at its heart without blinking. With a sound, black mucus was still bubbling from the chest of the thing.

Wang Huiwen's eyes widened and she screamed silently, Zhang Rui also backed away in fright.

Fang Chen gripped the railing violently, and the friction between the iron and the flesh ached, letting him know that this was not a dream.

The monster shrank suddenly, shrinking smaller and smaller, and finally only a layer of skin remained, shriveled and blue.

Someone vomited, and there was a sour smell in the air.

Fang Chen walked down the railing.The pile of rotten meat didn't come down with him, does that mean he couldn't get out of that room?

"What is this?" Wang Huiwen covered her mouth and asked in horror, "What is this thing?!"

Nie Shi didn't answer. The dagger in his hand was dripping with black sticky substance. It looked extremely disgusting, but he didn't care, and held it loosely in his hand.

"Why did you come down?" He suddenly asked Fang Chen.

"I..." Fang Chen was stunned, slipped and almost fell, but Nie Shi only stretched out one hand to hold him firmly.

Fang Chen lowered his head and found that there was a slippery blue liquid under his feet, exuding a faint lemon fragrance. It was a cleaning agent that was knocked over on the ground. It was probably because of it that the thing couldn't stand up.

Seeing the loose skin under Nie Shi's feet dissipating and turning to ashes little by little, Fang Chen's pupils dilated, and the black liquid on Nie Shi's dagger also fell and disappeared little by little.

Zhang Rui was only wearing big underpants, panting heavily from shock, the flesh on his stomach squeezed together with his breath.

"Ah, ah" - the thin whining sounded again, and the sound was a little far away, as if it was on the bottom floor.

Wang Huiwen retreated into the door while shaking her head. Zhang Rui strode into the room and dragged Wang Huiwen to close the door.

Fang Chen was a little dazed, did this shut them out?

"Go back." Nie Shi glanced downstairs lightly, "It's coming again."

Fang Chen wanted to ask many questions, but now is really not the time, the voice is indeed getting closer, like a cat meowing, a baby crying, or a woman's mournful sigh.

The door of his own room was still open, Fang Chen didn't have the courage to step in, Nie Shi was still opening the door unhurriedly, he went downstairs and even brought the key to close the door, Fang Chen found it incredible.

"Can I... stay with you for one night?" Fang Chen stared at the open door, for fear that the rotten man would appear in front of his eyes by accident.

The sound was very close, as if it was right under their feet.

Nie Shi put one hand on the doorknob, turned his head to him, and returned after a few seconds: "Yes."

Fang Chen boldly kicked the door of his own house, but he couldn't control his strength enough to make a "bang".

The thin cry stopped abruptly.

Fang Chen got goose bumps all over his body, and quickly followed Nie Shi into the house.

The light in the living room was turned on, and the feeling of panic just now calmed down.

Nie Shi opened the drawer and took out a white cloth to wipe the dagger. Fang Chen looked at Nie Shi quietly, "You..."

"Huh?" Nie Shi stopped what he was doing and looked at him.

"That thing...cannibalizes people?" He couldn't forget the scene he saw when he opened the door that day, the porcelain-white floor tiles were covered with bright red blood, and... the "guji" sound of chewing internal organs.

He had been avoiding it all these days, preferring to think of it as a person, but now he had to admit that it was a man-eating monster.

"Are you afraid?" Nie Shi didn't know when he finished wiping his dagger and walked into the living room.

Fang Chen raised his head and the light dazzled his eyes, his eyes were moist, the corners of his eyes were still a little red, and his hair was a mess.

Nie Shi: "Don't be afraid."

Fang Chen shuddered, trembling uncontrollably, this sentence is too familiar, I heard it more than ten minutes ago... He froze suddenly, why did Nie Shi come to the third floor?He ran out of the house, but the rotten man didn't catch up, but Nie Shi did.

Nie Shi stood in the middle of the living room, with the light directly above his head. He had the same expression from the beginning to the end, with his hands casually resting on his legs, and he was a little dazed after watching for a long time.

No matter how you look at it, you are a normal person.

Fang Chen denied the absurd thoughts in his heart for the time being, but because of Nie Shi's previous "heroic" performance, his nerves were still tense.

"Ah~ah~"

There was a long mournful cry, which was pasted on the door of Nie Shi's house, and the sound was clearly conveyed to Fang Chen's ears.

Fang Chen's scalp tingled again, and he lowered his head to look at his shoes.

Nie Shi frowned slightly, walked to the entrance and kicked the door fiercely.

There was an instant silence outside the door.

Fang Chen: "..."

The faucet in the bathroom was turned on, and Nie Shi was washing his hands. Fang Chen moved to the door, hesitated for a moment and said, "You know that thing very well." There is no doubt about this, just look at Nie Shi's skills.

"It's evil thoughts."

"what?"

"Evil thoughts left behind after death." Nie Shi said, "They don't have names."

"Have you killed them before? Those evil thoughts." Fang Chen couldn't help but use the word Nie Shi told him - "evil thoughts".

"Ah."

The two were relatively speechless.

Nie Shi talked too little, and seemed to be more used to doing things in silence. He pushed the dagger to Fang Chen, and Fang Chen was a little dazed.

"Here." Nie Shi lowered his head, with half of his face hidden in the shadows.

"No..." Fang Chen wanted to push the dagger back, but when his fingers touched the raised marks on the handle, he moved his hand to look, and there was a distorted rhombus carved on the silver handle, which was ugly.

Nie Shi shook his head and insisted, "Here you are."

Fang Chen didn't think he had the courage to face those man-eating monsters, so he continued to decline: "Then what do you use?"

"gun."

Fang Chen thought he heard it wrong, and asked again: "What do you use?"

"I have a gun."

"..."

Fang Chen thought he was living in country Z with good socialism.

"Why do you..." Will there be a gun?Fang Chen didn't dare to ask any more, fearing that Nie Shi's impatience would destroy him.

Fang Chen only spoke half a sentence, and Nie Shi waited for a while to find Fang Chen submerged before speaking, and looked up at him.

The two stared at each other, and in the end Fang Chen was defeated and didn't bother with this matter: "How do you know they are... evil thoughts?"

Nie Shi was silent.

Fang Chen thought he was organizing his words.

After a while Nie Shi said, "I don't know the explanation, but I know anyway."

Fang Chen was speechless, but Nie Shi still looked at him, his eyes were very focused, and Fang Chen's scalp became numb after being stared at for a long time.

"There's something wrong here, you should have noticed."

"Ah."

Fang Chen felt a sense of powerlessness, he would respond to every word he said, but they were all useless nonsense.

"The couple on the first floor died, did you know that?"

"know."

"How did you know that you saw it too?"

Nie Shi didn't answer again, he paused for a few seconds before replying, "They lied."

Fang Chen couldn't react for a while, there seemed to be no connection between the two.

Nie Shi was silent again.

Suddenly there was a shrill cat meowing outside the window, Fang Chen turned his head reflexively, followed by the roar of a large dog, and more and more cats and dogs barked.

"What's going on?" Fang Chen got up and wanted to go to the window to have a look. He was not so courageous before.

"Meow-"

There was another sharp and prolonged meow, and Fang Chen sat back in an instant.

Nie Shi looked at him suspiciously.

Fang Chen's complexion was extremely bad, and he subconsciously said, "What is this?"

Nie Shi glanced out the window: "The cat is meowing."

Fang Chen felt that he could not communicate with his neighbors.

"It's okay." Nie Shi said again, "It will stop after a while."

Fang Chen asked, "How do you know?"

Nie Shi asked seriously, "Are you tired of screaming all the time?"

Fang Chen: "..."

Fang Chen was tired.

The author has something to say: Nie Shi is just a topic terminator.