Chapter 718 Invisible Family (Part 2)

The rotten apples gave off an unpleasant smell, and the thick juice that flowed out stuck to the boy's coat. He looked a little cautious, and his dirty hands were placed in front of his belly, for fear of falling those rotten apples.

"You want to take these things back?" I looked at the little boy and had countless questions in my mind: "You live in a red building and have to live by rummaging through garbage? Where is your family?"

The boy looked at me timidly and did not dare to move while standing next to the coffee table. He only shook his head occasionally.

"It's really hard to communicate." I watched the boy's every move, and I saw the deep uneasiness on his face, and I suddenly felt a little unbearable. No matter what, he was just a child.

I touched his head: "Where do you usually live? Can you take me to see it?"

The feeling on the palm of the hand is very strange. The boy's hair is very hard, but his skin is wrinkled. I don't know whether it is due to long-term malnutrition or other reasons. Just from the feel, this child's skin is rougher than that of his peers. Too much, and it feels like an old man in his sixties or seventies.

After listening to my words, the boy nodded slightly. He held the rotten apples in his hands and carefully passed me. His legs ran faster and faster, as if he wanted to get away from me quickly.

"Wait." I reached out and held his shoulder. When my fingers touched him, I could clearly feel his body shaking slightly, as if he had been frightened.

All kinds of strange things about the boy made me suspicious.

Raising the hand holding the black bag, I pointed to the red wooden door: "Was the door unlocked when you came in?"

The boy turned around blankly, like a puppet, and nodded stiffly. I knew that I couldn't ask anything, so I didn't go into details. I sighed and walked out of the room with him.

Pushing open the wooden door, there was a dead silence in the corridor, which was even scarier than ghosts.

"Seventh floor..." The resident on the seventh floor disappeared recently. I originally wanted to find out the reason for his disappearance, which would be of great help to me in exploring the Red Building. However, after meeting the little boy, I temporarily changed my mind. , decided to find out the secret of this child first. After all, a child is much easier to deal with than the adults in the Red Mansion.

There is a safety passage at the corner of the seventh and eighth floors. Even if I use my eyesight, I can't see clearly what is at the end of the passage: "Follow the safety passage to enter other units in the Red Building. The elevator in the building should be installed there." "

Although I have not been there, I can vaguely feel the danger there. Every step in the red building is murderous, and it seems calm. In fact, if I make a wrong step, I may fall into the abyss, with no possibility of turning over.

"The little boy is a breakthrough. Even if he refuses to talk to me, I can still find some clues through his various living habits." Closing the door of the seventh-floor rental house, I grabbed the boy's shoulder and walked back with him. Sixth floor: "Which one is your home?"

The boy seemed to understand what I meant. He held the apple in one hand, reached into his collar with the other hand, and took out a bunch of dirty keys.

"It turned out to be hanging around my neck."

The key the boy took out was the same style as the key I snatched from Bai Yaer, but the teeth marks were different.

He held the apple and approached the iron door awkwardly. Because he was too short, he stood on tiptoes to insert the key into the keyhole.

This was a very ordinary action, but what I didn't expect was that he was so nervous that he tilted his body and one of the rotten apples fell from his arms.

The moldy apples rolled down the stairs, and my heart was suspended for a moment. Time seemed to slow down, and my eyes followed the apples.

Before his body had time to react, the apple had already rolled into the gap in the stair railing.

By coincidence, the rotten apple fell from the sixth floor, bumped against the iron handrail, and finally hit Dr. Zhang's door on the fourth floor with a "bang" sound.

The sound of an apple falling was not loud, but it was too quiet in the corridor, which caused the sound to spread far away.

I lay next to the handrail and looked down. When I saw the voice-activated light on the first floor also turned on, my face suddenly turned pale.

"not good!"

I have discerning eyes, and I can see clearly from a high position. Under the illumination of the voice-activated light, on the clean cement stairs, there is a pair of wet footprints running up quickly!

There was obviously no one, but the footprints were getting faster and faster!

"It's approaching me?! It was the sound of the apple falling that attracted it! Damn it, what is this!"

Even if I use my discerning eye, I still can't see it. All that's left in my field of vision is the pair of fast-moving footprints.

"Is it the 'it' that Zhu Li said?" My thoughts collided like sparks. Before I could come up with the answer, when I lowered my head and looked again, the footprints had already appeared on the second floor!

But at this moment, something worse happened. The voice-activated light on the first floor suddenly went out!

I knew clearly that something was running up the corridor at high speed, but I couldn't see it. The suffocating feeling that every second counts made my chest feel tight.

"There's only one way to escape now." I turned around and walked towards the little boy. He didn't realize that the danger was coming. He was holding an apple in one hand and looking for the keyhole of the wooden door with the other hand.

"It's too late!" I grabbed the key around his neck, and without caring about the child's feelings, I led him to open the red wooden door, then pushed him directly into the house, and followed closely.

I was so panicked that I didn't even close the iron door outside, but just relocked the red wooden door inside.

"Shut up, don't talk!" I didn't dare to turn on the light. I pulled the boy's back against the wooden door and held my breath.

One second, two seconds...

Half a minute passed, and there was still no movement outside the door. It was too quiet.

"That thing is gone? Or...is it squatting outside the door now, just separated from me by a wooden door?" My palms were covered with sweat. I took a deep breath to calm my violently beating heart. He lay down at the gap in the wooden door and looked out.

Quietness returned to the corridor, which was dark and slightly cold, and the air seemed to be mixed with the moisture of rain.

"It seems to have been here..." Looking out from the crack of the door, there is a visual blind spot, so I am not sure that the thing has left.

I looked back with fear, my tense muscles relaxed, and I had time to look at the little boy's home.

"Shoe cabinets, tables and chairs, wardrobes..." Halfway through, I realized something was wrong. The architectural layout of the boy's house was the same as other people's houses, but the furniture inside was very small and seemed to be specially tailored for the boy. of.

There is no sofa in the house. The dining table in the living room is as high as the coffee table in Bai Yaer's home, and there are three old wooden chairs with mold spots next to it.

"Three chairs? Are the two extra chairs belonging to the boy's parents?" I groped on the wall for a while, but couldn't find the light switch, and followed the boy into the living room with doubts.

The boy didn't turn on the light. He seemed to be accustomed to the darkness. He placed the spoiled apple on the dining table and divided it into three parts fairly.

Seeing the boy's strange behavior, I felt a chill go up my spine, and I whispered to myself, is there anyone else in this room?

The boy ran into the kitchen, took out two plates, and put the divided apples into them, leaving only his portion on the coffee table.

"This is for your mom and dad? Can you take me to see them?" I asked in a low voice. The boy neither refused nor agreed. He entered the bedroom with the plate in his hand.

When the door was opened, a faint stench emitted from the room. Careful inspection revealed that it was not the stench of moldy things.

The layout of the bedroom is similar to that of the living room. The bed is very low, the bedding is damp, and mold has grown on the corners.

"There's no one else in the house?" My senses are sharper than ordinary people's. If there are other people hiding in the house, they won't be able to hide it from me.

"The rental house is so big, and everything is shorter and smaller than normal. It can't hide an adult at all." I thought to myself, but I was not sure because there were two pairs placed next to the bed. Slippers for adults. What’s interesting is that these two pairs of slippers are placed in a very special position, with the toes facing the bed.

"Just now when the boy went to the kitchen to get things, I also took a look. Regardless of the kitchen or the bathroom, all the utensils are for three people. Judging from these details, there should be three people living in the house."

I couldn't figure it out at all. I held the severed hand and leaned against the bedroom door. I was about to see what the boy was going to do next. Suddenly I found that he stopped where he was, holding the plate in both hands and looking at me with an indescribable weird look. look at me.

It’s hard to imagine that I was so frightened by a child. I smiled bitterly and walked towards him: “What do you want me to do?”

The boy didn't say anything. As soon as I left the bedroom door, he walked right past me, put down the plate and closed the bedroom door.

"What are you..." I didn't finish my sentence, the rest of the sentence was stuck in my throat, and I stared at the bedroom door.

Behind this ordinary door, there is actually a mirror as tall as a person!

There were no lights on in the room, the mirror was blurry, and two black figures could be vaguely seen.

"Why is there a mirror behind the door?" I blurted out. After finishing speaking, I suddenly realized a very critical question. After entering the red building, this seemed to be the first time I saw a mirror!

"That's right, I didn't see any mirrors in the homes of Zhu Li and Bai Ya'er." Thinking about it now, this is very abnormal. It's understandable that Zhu Li and Dr. Bai Ya'er don't have mirrors in their homes, but Bai Ya'er, as a body model, It is incomprehensible that a woman who loves beauty does not have a mirror at home.

"I saw the cosmetics in her bathroom, but I didn't find the mirror. Yes, why did I ignore such a crucial point!" A thought suddenly appeared in my mind: "Mirrors should have a special meaning in the red building, and The first optional task in the show is related to mirrors..."