Just around the corner

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Behind the door is the corridor, and a window is opened on the north side, illuminating the middle section.

There seemed to be a wall at the end, and there seemed to be another door. Xu Anyi walked in, looked back, and asked Gu Pan: "The door opens in both directions, right?"

"Sure, it's more convenient for her to go through the workstation." As if realizing something, Gu Pan added, "Don't worry, Lin Lin won't sneak past in the middle of the night. She doesn't even come out."

Xu Anyi didn't know what to say, so he walked along the corridor to the other side of the elevator hall.

The corridor that was opened to avoid the load-bearing wall twisted and turned, one door after another, some were metal doors, others were transparent glass doors, but because the lights were not turned on inside, she still hadn't seen the other half of the apartment. The true face of Mount Lushan.

"Panpan." At the last door, Xu Anyi stood still, "I have a feeling."

Gu Pan hurriedly said: "She is not a spy, she has not done any illegal activities, don't worry."

"...I didn't mean that." Xu Anyi rubbed her forehead, and Gu Pan interrupted her so much, she forgot the speculation that surfaced at that moment, raised her hand and knocked on the heavy metal door, "There is still a door."

Gu Pan didn't even think about it, "Password 374321."

Xu Anyi turned on the flashlight and found the cipher embedded in the wall on his right.

Before entering the last number, Xu Anyi put the phone in his pocket and took a deep breath.

The door clicked, followed by an unlocked click from above.

Xu Anyi gently pushed the door open.

Everything that comes into view is so simple and monotonous, the furniture and walls are all industrial gray, even the four-piece suit on the bed is light gray, the whole room is only a bit colorful with the sugar bowl on the table, and two monitors are placed horizontally The table is placed by the side of the bed, facing the inner wall, which is very in line with the sci-fi temperament of the hidden door in the bathroom.

It seems to lack a sense of security, and it seems to be ready to leave at any time.

His eyes fell on the large wardrobe in the upper left corner of the room, Xu Anyi coughed lightly, reminding Gu Pan and Lin Jiqiao, "I'm coming in."

Gu Pan held his breath.For a moment, only the slight sound of electricity remained in the ears.

Xu Anyi went straight to the closet.

She thought about knocking on the door and waiting for the other party to take the initiative to come out, and also thought that the person might not be inside. After all, hiding a wardrobe is still a bit unimaginable for an adult.

It was an indescribable uneasiness that finally impelled her to act.

Maybe it's because the structure of the whole floor is too unusual, maybe it's because the tone of the room is too depressing, showing the master's gloom that he is trying to get out of touch with reality.

The composure he maintained ten seconds ago collapsed in an instant. If there was no Gu Pan, what would the owner of the apartment look like now?

Xu Anyi opened the cabinet door with almost rough actions, and a black figure curled up in the corner of the wardrobe came out and screamed uncontrollably: "no ambulance! no!" (No ambulance!)

Then came the clothes that were thrown over without thinking.

Xu Anyi firmly grasped the throwing hand of the person inside. The wrist was very thin, and under the thin layer of flesh was a handful of bones.A layer of sweaty slime on the skin.

"There is no ambulance." Xu Anyi squatted down, holding down Lin Jiqiao's other hand, which was beating the cabinet and the air, "Can you hear me?"

Lin Jiqiao shrank into the corner, it was difficult, she had already hidden deep enough.She kept twisting her shoulders, as if being squeezed by something.

"Shh, shh."

Xu Anyi gently comforted the person on the other side who couldn't see his expression with his voice.

Her body surface temperature was a little high, and the air from her nose was also a little hot. Xu Anyi slowly approached her while speaking in a low voice.

"It's okay, it's okay. You're safe, this is your home and nothing else."

Lin Jiqiao flinched, apparently resisting her approach, Xu Anyi paused, and continued: "No one was injured, and no one needed an ambulance, so there is no ambulance."

"You're safe."

Under the comfort of the voice, Lin Jiqiao's movements gradually decreased, and finally he calmed down.

Xu Anyi raised his hand and brushed aside a few strands of bangs on her forehead, first touching her palm, then her forehead.

Lin Jiqiao bit his lips tightly and paused for a while.

"It's all right. Look, there's no one else here."

Xu Anyi let her go.

Watching her messing around with her hair and covering her exposed forehead tightly again, her eyes flickered a little bit under the bangs, and then dimmed again. She muttered in English: "There is no ambulance, there is no one else."

"No." Xu Anyi replied in Chinese, "If you are fine, I will leave too. This is your territory, no one will come in without your permission."

At that moment, Gu Pan broke in through the coded security door, looking like a concubine, and shouted: "Lin Lin, Lin Lin!"

"..." Xu Anyi took the socks that fell on his shoulders, stood up and moved away, his expression silently conveyed the condemnation of "you came at a good time".

Gu Pan paused, leaned on the table in embarrassment, and took a few breaths: "Good afternoon, both of you."

Lin Jiqiao's eyes stopped on her feet, "You didn't change your shoes."

Gu Pan looked down, then looked at Xu Anyi again, with a look of disbelief, "You still remember to change your shoes!"

"Get out!" Lin Jiqiao threw a sock at her.

*

"It's quite common in American dramas, p..."

Xu Anyi's fluent interface: "Post-traumatic stress disorder."

Gu Pan stared at her strangely, put down the half-drinked water, which said "Gu Panyong".

"you know?"

"It's very common in American dramas." Xu Anyi pushed the cold water glass over, "It looks like it."

Far away from the original environment, not in contact with the outside world, dull, indifferent, the apartment is her fortress.

Gu Pan should have observed more symptoms, but what she saw today is enough to explain the problem.

"I don't know." Gu Pan gulped down the water, his expression that had just been relieved became tense again.

"I don't know what?" Xu Anyi questioned, "Is it the cause?"

"I just heard the term from a doctor, and I never asked why. I'm not a psychiatrist, so I try not to mess around. I've been to the doctor, but she can't see anyone but me, oh, now how much For you. The last time I asked someone to come, I just wanted her to chat with someone, but she locked the door and didn't answer my call for a month."

From the appearance alone, Gu Pan is even more embarrassed than Lin Jiqiao.

She lay on the sofa, her long hair falling to the floor, "I've been waiting for this day."

Xu Anyi cautiously did not speak.

"When I came here, I realized it wasn't as scary as I imagined, and I couldn't help thinking about the day that was even scarier." Gu Pan said, "I was hesitating whether to call the police along the way, but I knew it was useless. People left , the police came to collect the body. The person did not leave, and the police left, she may never see me again, or, I will never see her again."

"Panpan..." Xu Anyi waved his hands above her, "Did you also..."

Have you encountered something similar?

"Shut up!" Gu Pan couldn't help being angry, "I'm going crazy, you still remember to change your shoes?!"

Xu Anyi tilted his head innocently, "I'm used to it."

Gu Pan went back paralyzed, and sighed melancholy, "I can only say that it's good that people are fine."

"That..." Xu Anyi hesitated for two seconds, "Maybe... it has something to do with the people around her. Did any of her relatives get into an accident? Where are her parents?"

"It can't be them. Her biological parents are a pair of inhuman beasts." Gu Pan showed a disgusted expression, "Her roots are in those beasts. Her biological parents. Not her adoptive parents in the United States."