Chapter 717 Invisible Family (Part 1)

"Why does this back look familiar?" My Adam's apple trembled and I suddenly woke up!

"I saw it when I was looking at the ancient building opposite from Bai Yaer's house!"

At that time, Bai Yaer suspected that something had followed me into her room, so she turned off the lights in the room and checked around.

It was at that time that I noticed a short, child-like black figure in the ancient building opposite, holding something like a ball and walking in the dilapidated corridor.

"By the way, the round object in its hand fell once..." I remember it very clearly. The two figures overlapped in my mind, and soon I came to a somewhat terrifying conclusion: "The black shadow in the red building is exactly the same." It’s that short shadow in the ancient building, and it ran out of that ancient building!”

The short black shadow disappeared among the floors. I don’t know exactly which floor it was hidden on.

"You are not familiar with the basic terrain in the Red Building, so you can't run around."

I didn't feel hostility from the black shadow, but that doesn't mean it's not dangerous. According to my observation just now, the round ball-like thing in the black shadow's hand is most likely a human head.

"Did I mess up time and space, or did some unknown change happen after twelve o'clock? The black shadow in the ruins of the ancient building actually appeared in the red building. Could it be that it sneaked in while I was talking to Zhu Li and the doctor? "The Red Building is divided into four units. Each unit has independent stairs and elevators. It should be noted that the internal connections above the seventh floor can pass through each other through safe passages. The black shadow may also have entered from other units. Unintentionally I ran to my floor.

"There are many similar black shadows in the ancient building, and some of them have the same shape as adults. Could these black shadows be the 'it' that Zhu Li and Bai Yaer said?" I thought of the one painted by Zhu Li. After two sketches, I felt uncomfortable all over. I didn't stay on the sixth floor for long and walked to the seventh floor.

"The tenant on the seventh floor disappeared a few days ago. If I can figure out the reason for his disappearance, it will be of great help to me in deciphering the secret of the Red Building." Looking at the three iron doors on the seventh floor, I scratched my head. Li only spoke half of what he said, and seemed to reveal a lot of clues to me, but in fact there was nothing substantial.

"I was negligent. I should ask all the tenants about their specific living locations." The three iron doors have the same appearance. Who knows which door the missing tenant used to live behind?

"You can't knock on the door of an empty room, and you don't know the specific location of the tenant. Zhu Li didn't have good intentions from the beginning." After what happened on the fifth floor, I never dared to knock on the door again.

Standing in the corridor, I was surrounded by darkness. Looking around, I felt panicked for no reason. There seemed to be something approaching slowly in the darkness, giving me an inexplicable sense of urgency.

"I have the key to Bai Yaer's room. If it doesn't work, I can go to her room to hide. I'm afraid that she and the painter will join forces to get rid of me and set up a trap in advance." Shaking my head to dispel the thoughts in my mind, I took out Show mobile phone, use the weak light of the screen to carefully look at the door in front of you.

The disappearance of the tenants on the seventh floor is a breakthrough that must be grasped carefully.

The iron doors on the left and in the middle were covered with dust, and it was obvious that they had not been opened for a long time. After careful inspection, I walked to the door on the right.

"The dust is very thick, but the door handle is relatively clean. It seems that someone has touched it." I compared the distribution of dust on the iron door handle and tried to grab it. Without applying much force, the iron door suddenly shook.

"The door...isn't locked?" I slowly exerted force and pulled outward, and the rusty iron door was opened by me little by little.

"The other doors are all covered with dust. This door is the only exception. What happened? Did the missing tenant live here before? He was in a hurry when he escaped and forgot to lock the door?" There were countless questions in my heart. idea, but because there is too little information, it is difficult to restore the truth.

"Every household in the Red Building has a red wooden door. This shows that the things in the dark hate the color red. If the iron door outside was opened by those monsters, the lock on the wooden door inside should be intact..." I slid my fingers down and gently With a slight push, the red wooden door inside opened a small crack!

"It's not locked?! Is there anyone in the house?" I carried the bag with the severed hand, ready to throw it out to attract the attention of unknown monsters.

Moving forward, I carefully pushed the wooden door. As the wooden door opened, a moldy and rotten smell came out.

Looking carefully, there are various daily necessities in the room, and there are a few rotten apples on the glass coffee table: "It seems that the tenant on the seventh floor lived here before he disappeared."

I took a deep breath, was on high alert, moved slowly, and after completely entering the rental house, quietly closed the iron and wooden doors.

I heard the sound of the wooden door being locked, and I felt relieved. The dark and closed corridor was really scary. Compared with that, it was safer to enter the rental house.

I recalled the structure of Bai Yaer and Zhu Li's room, groped on the wall, and quickly found the light switch, but after pressing the switch, the lights in the living room did not turn on.

"The power is out?" I leaned against the wooden door, holding the severed hand given by the doctor, and walked along the wall into the living room: "Yes, someone lived here a few weeks ago."

I picked up the apple on the coffee table. It was covered with yellowish brown spots.

Using both hands, I broke the apple open, and the moldy flesh splashed out with unpleasant juice: "The climate in Jinghai City is humid, and things are very easy to mold and spoil. Only the outer surface of this apple is rotten. It should not be stored for more than two weeks."

Putting down the apples, I squatted next to the coffee table and looked at the arrangement of apples on the fruit plate, when I suddenly made an unexpected discovery.

There is a highly rotten apple that was touched before I entered this place!

Moldy peels are sunken downwards and foul-smelling juices flow over the mold.

"Based on the size of the sunken mark on the peel, we can basically confirm that the person who touched this apple was a child." I stood up and speculated in my mind: "Could it be the short black figure I just saw? No, give me that thing The feeling is insubstantial, so I shouldn’t be able to touch the apple on the table. Could it be that it was accidentally touched?”

With a quick glance, I saw a dirty handprint on the corner of the sofa.

The hands are not big, and consistent with my previous judgment, they should have been left by a six or seven-year-old child.

I gently scratched the handprint on the sofa: "The mark is not completely dry. The person who touched the apple has not gone far, and may even be in this room!"

"Did I scare him by opening the door just now?"

Coffee tables, sofas... there are not many places to hide people in the house, so it is easy to verify your guess.

I got up and opened the bathroom and balcony doors. They were empty and there was nothing.

"It looks like it's hidden here." I hid the bag containing the severed hand behind my back and slowly opened the bedroom door.

The bedding on the wooden bed exuded a musty smell that was suffocating. I took a quick glance and found that the wardrobe next to the wall was not closed tightly.

"Come out, I saw you." I whispered. In fact, I was also very nervous. I was not sure of my guess. If what jumped out was that kind of monster with teeth marks all over it, then my situation would be dangerous. .

No one responded in the bedroom, so I walked step by step to the cabinet door, flicked my fingers, and quickly opened it.

There were all kinds of clothes piled in the wooden cabinet, both for men and women. What made me even more surprised was that nine-tenths of them were women's underwear.

"Does the original owner of this house have a hobby of stealing underwear of the opposite sex?" I was afraid that the person I was looking for was hidden in the pile of clothes, so I took out all the clothes in the cabinet: "No, the sizes of men's and women's underwear are exactly the same. These clothes should not be stolen."

I smiled bitterly, and gained a new understanding of the tenants in the red building: "His behavior is probably more serious than stealing underwear."

After closing the cabinet door, I stood beside the bed. There was only one place left in the entire rental house that I didn't check.

Lifting off the moldy quilt, I bent down, put one hand on the ground, and looked under the bed.

The light from the phone screen dispersed the darkness under the bed. I slowly turned my eyes, and when I saw the end of the bed, my eyes froze.

"found it!"

A scrawny little boy huddled in the corner. He was terrified, holding a half-eaten rotten apple in his hand.

The air seemed to be solid, and I was worried that the boy would scream and attract some unknown monster.

Fortunately, he was much bolder than I thought. He just curled up backwards and didn't yell.

"You even eat rotten and moldy apples. Are you hungry?" I spoke very slowly. After listening, the boy seemed to have calmed down after a long time and nodded lightly.

"You also live in the Red Mansion? Where is your family?" After I asked this question, the boy's reaction was strange. He nodded first, and then quickly shook his head.

I kept an eye out and kept his strange actions in mind.

"Zhu Li said that there was a cute boy living on the sixth floor. Could it be that he was the one he was talking about? This kid is so skinny that he doesn't look cute at all. Did he say that on purpose to confuse the public?"

I took a few steps back: "Little guy, do you live on the sixth floor?"

The boy nodded numbly. He made me feel like a stray dog.

"You come out first, I will never hurt you..."

I talked for a long time, but the boy was still huddled inside. I had no choice but to lift the bed board and pull him out.

"What's your name?" I tried my best to get something out of the boy's mouth, but all he could do was nod or shake his head. He probably didn't even know what he was doing: "What a weird guy."

There was no normal person in the red building, from adults to children, so I gave up asking and held his hand and walked out of the bedroom.

As soon as we arrived in the living room, the boy suddenly lost control and rushed towards the coffee table. I wanted to see what he was going to do, so I didn't stop him and let go of my hand.

He was thin but ran very fast. He grabbed the moldy apples with his little hands and held them in his shabby clothes...