Human dimension reduction

The two went down from the fifth floor step by step. The doors of the two houses on the left and right of the fourth floor were tightly closed. Chen Yin pointed to the house on the left of the stairs: "This is my house... Do you want to go in and have a look?"

That being said, she had no intention of walking over to open the door under her feet.

Qiao Zhou shook his head understandingly: "No need, we'll talk about it after we find them."

Chen Yin nodded, and followed Qiao Zhou one step behind.

Except for the lights in the stairwell, this building seems to have no light source at all, and there are no windows. In the extremely airtight corridors, the light range of the light bulbs is also strangely narrow. The bright lights can be seen completely from a few meters away. Unclear, creating an overly eerie atmosphere.

Many horror games and horror stories are well versed in this kind of routine. Dim lights, outdated facilities, abandoned buildings, and slow monotonous music are used to create a horror atmosphere. Obviously there are no ghosts, and players walking in it will not be able to help themselves. The ground is getting more and more frightened, of course, the essential element of fright is——

"Boom!"

In the excessive silence, there was a blunt sound from somewhere!The echoes collided layer upon layer in the closed corridor, and the sound effect was hollow.

Here comes, one of the essential elements of a horror story, sudden sounds and figures, as well as ghosts rushing out, collectively referred to as jumpscare, is the lowest but most effective way to scare.

Chen Yin's legs were already weak, she tremblingly wanted to pull the clothes of the person in front of her, but she stretched her hand halfway, then retracted it hesitantly.

She was also brought along in the last game. There were very powerful players in that game. With a few rookies like oil bottles, she was able to solve the puzzles of the game field under the pursuit of ghosts. Walking also turned the game field upside down. When Chen Yin returned to the rest area, she realized how lucky she was. You must know that there are many veteran players who are unwilling to bring newcomers. It is considered a good person to be a pathfinder and a backup, and the probability of encountering an old player with a newcomer like her is as low as panning for gold in the sand river.

But Chen Yin didn't just follow the old players to pick up cheap ones, at least she knew that if she wanted to survive, she had to do nothing, which was why she was so scared and tremblingly walked out of the room to look for others.

There was a long silence after that "boom", the two people on the stairs seemed to be frozen, motionless and stiff in place, but the thing that made the sound did not make any more noise, and there was a silent silence in the darkness, abandoned by the light The corridor is like a huge mouth of an abyss, waiting for them to throw themselves into the net.

Chen Yin was hesitating whether to suggest going back to the fourth floor, when a voice suddenly came from the darkness on the third floor: "Neighbor?"

It is a human voice.

Chen Yin breathed a sigh of relief, only then did she realize that no matter how much she mustered up her courage, when the critical moment came, she was still so nervous that her muscles and bones ached.

The man walking in front of her heard her slacking off, and turned her head to look at her. She suddenly noticed that the player not only did not relax, but took a step back in her direction, and the iron hammer in his hand did not move. He raised it sensually.

This alert look made Chen Yin's heart suddenly aroused: "...what's wrong?"

She cautiously lowered her voice, almost as loud as a mosquito. If Zhang Dinghai hadn't stood close, she might not have heard anything.

With the back of his free hand, Zhang Dinghai waved vigorously behind her twice, his lips moved: "——open the door."

The fourth floor is Chen Yin's room, only a dozen steps away from the two of them.

Chen Yin still wants to ask again, she is now more and more suspicious of Zhang Dinghai, although she found this companion by herself, but who can guarantee that this person is not a ghost pretending to be?The players in the rest area have said that strangers in the game field cannot be trusted, because some cunning ghosts will pretend to be humans and sneak in among the players. Many game fields have been wiped out like this, and countless lives have piled up. This bloody lesson.

Maybe... Zhang Dinghai is a ghost, and the person who made the noise is a player?

Chen Yin has a bad habit, that is, she will think wildly when she shouldn't, and what she thinks cannot be said to be unreasonable.

Now, she has committed this old problem.

Fortunately, Zhang Dinghai was aware of her hesitation, and the person in the dark didn't ask any more questions, as if he was also doubting the identities of the two of them, and Zhang Dinghai took advantage of this gap to gesticulate at her vigorously.

Chen Yin squinted suspiciously, and finally understood what the other party was talking about after reading it three times. Suddenly, a chill rushed directly from the sky to the soles of her feet.

He said there were no footsteps.

The man who spoke in the dark walked without footsteps.

This is very unlikely, this kind of old building, the corridor is sealed and evil, a little sound will be infinitely amplified, even though the two of them were very careful when they went downstairs, there was still a slight sound, but that The person who made a sound in the dark... He was clearly standing in the corridor, but he didn't make a sound from the beginning to the end.

How could there be no movement unless he was standing there all the time?

But how could a normal person stand in the dark all the time?What is he waiting for?Are you waiting for—they?

When Chen Yin thought of a figure standing silently in the dark corridor when they went downstairs, all the pores on his body were opened, his scalp was numb like an electric shock, he jumped up and went upstairs without saying a word. Rush up, reaching into your pocket for the key while rushing.

When she started running back, the thing in the darkness seemed to realize that she had been exposed, and also jumped towards this direction crazily.

The reason why it is said to be jumping instead of running is because the sound of no one running is so strange.

"Dong dong dong dong-"

The weird sound they heard just now turned into a violent storm, like something kept hitting the ground, causing the whole corridor to tremble slightly, the sound became louder and louder, chasing after them .

Under such heavy pressure, Chen Yin quickly opened the door with shaking hands, slid in, and waved wildly at her only companion when she turned her head: "Quick, quick!"

The man stepped over three steps and rushed into the door. Chen Yin caught a glimpse of what was chasing after him, and her pupils dilated briefly. Qiao Zhou had already grabbed her hand, and slammed the door firmly behind her.

The door slammed into the door frame with a loud noise, but then, the thing slammed into the door, making a series of thumping sounds, as if urging them to open the door in annoyance.

The two of them pressed against the door stubbornly, and waited like a year for almost 10 minutes before the thing outside the door reluctantly left.

Chen Yin sat on the ground with her butt against the door, hot and humid sweat soaked through her clothes and stuck to her skin. Her face was as pale as paper, and her pupils dilated unnaturally, as if she was frightened.

Qiao Zhou squatted in front of her, called her twice, and gently pushed her shoulder, before Chen Yin recovered from the extreme panic, and stammered, "I, I saw... that... "

Qiao Zhou asked softly, "What?"

At this moment, any human voice would give Chen Yin a sense of security. She involuntarily shrank in the direction of Qiao Zhou. Although the things outside had already left, she was still afraid of being heard, and said in a voice as thin as a whisper. : "A... dead body."

Just thinking about it exhausted her courage, she licked her dry lips, and continued to describe: "Head... head jumping on the ground..."

These words are really scary enough, a corpse jumping on the ground with its head jumping and chasing behind the living person, Chen Yin looked at the door, there was a door between them and this thing just now.

When she turned to look at the door, Qiao Zhou frowned very quickly after hearing her words.

"A man or a woman?"

Qiao Zhou's reaction was somewhat unexpected to Chen Yin, but she still blurted out subconsciously: "Woman, the hair is very long and dragged behind."

Woman... Qiao Zhou talked nonsense to ease Chen Yin's nervousness while thinking about it, "No wonder it sounds like a thump, thump, because she isn't walking with her feet?"

Chen Yin was a little dumbfounded by his strangely focused words, and most of the tension just now disappeared: "Are we going downstairs now? Will she just wait outside?"

Qiao Zhou was surprised by her sudden appearance, and thought for a while: "If you are afraid, let's stay here for a while."

He stood up and looked at the cat's eyes for a while. Outside was the quiet yellow light cast by the corridor lights. There was no old-fashioned plot of a bloody eyeball on the cat's eyes—but according to the current form of the female corpse, Probably she couldn't bring her eyes to the cat's eyes either.

It was very quiet outside, there was no unnecessary sound, and the female corpse seemed to have indeed left.

After expressing her inference, Chen Yin visibly relaxed a little, and only then did she feel like standing up to entertain the guests.

It is said to be entertainment, but in fact there is only a simple glass of white water.

The layout of 401 is very strange. It stands to reason that the layout and area of ​​houses in a building should be about the same, especially for this kind of old building, all of which are set out of a template, but Qiao Zhou's house is warm with three bedrooms and one living room. The suite is an urban family emotional drama, and what Chen Yin is holding in her hand is definitely a historical drama of a generation of migrant workers entering the city.

This house is only 1.2 square meters in total. The kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and balcony are all crowded together. A long rope is pulled at the end of the bed to dry clothes. There is a red spittoon with a peony flower pattern next to the bed. The bed is covered with a red quilt cover. The 1.8-meter bed cannot fit. The four corners of the [-]-meter-large bed sheet were hung down and dragged on the ground, covering the bed tightly. The pots and pans were pitifully crowded on the square table under the window. It seems that this small table has both It fulfills the function of dining table and stove.

...In short, this is a room that seems out of place in this building, and it is so different from Qiao Zhou's house that it shouldn't be in the same building at all.

Moreover, the fifth floor has an area of ​​120 square meters, why is the fourth floor only [-] square meters?Has the remaining Bashiping been eaten? !

He frankly made complaints like this, and Chen Yin burst out laughing: "What's so strange about this, the game field is like this, and there are ghosts in it, this strange thing is normal."

Chen Yin gave Qiao Zhou to the only stool, and stood by the door by herself, looking at the cat's eyes from time to time.

The two chatted nonchalantly for 10 minutes, and Chen Yin asked cautiously, "Can we go out now?"

She was obviously still afraid of that thing outside, Qiao Zhou thought, but she still wanted to go out.

why?

——Chen Yin didn't want him to stay in the room for too long.

It can be understood that she doesn't want Qiao Zhou to observe her home too much. This is normal. After all, in the setting of this game, the two are actually in a competitive relationship. There is one more clue to find other people: to avoid the pursuit of ghosts outside.

The two didn't hesitate for a long time, because a person asked softly at the door: "Excuse me, are there any living people inside?"

Hearing this voice, Chen Yin's body tensed at first, and then she showed an incredulous expression. After looking at the cat's eyes for two seconds, before asking Qiao Zhou, she opened the door: "It's you?!"

The person outside the door paused for a moment, and his tone rose slightly, a little surprised: "Miss Du?"

Chen Yin didn't expect that she was so lucky that she would meet again the boss player who took her to the previous game.