Paintings of Terror

Chunsun Apartment has six floors. Except for the shops on the first floor, the upper five floors are residential buildings, with 16 households on each floor.

If this is a square tube building, then the public toilets and stairs should be distributed at the four corners of the floor—if it is a circular building, the toilets and stairs should be located at the four equal points of the ring, and the middle happens to be separated by two. four households.

The terrace is surrounded by a brick-red fence. Standing by the fence, you can look down at the circular courtyard below. Looking up, you can see the doors of most of the residents in this apartment, which are neatly arranged in a cylindrical shape. lock up.

The residences of the 13 outsiders are mainly concentrated on the third and fourth floors. Only Zhu Haowen and Weidong live in the last room on the sixth floor on the top floor, 616.

Ke Xun took the key and opened the door of room 411. Because it is a circular building, the doors of the rooms are very close to each other, and the rooms inside are arranged in a fan shape.

The room is a suite, at most 50 square meters. The outside room is a small living room with an old-fashioned chest of drawers, a coffee table with glass panels, and a pair of small sofas with wooden armrests.

There is only an old-fashioned big wooden bed in the room, and there are writing desks and bookshelves beside it. The bookshelves are full of books on art.

Ke Xun opened the cloth curtains, and outside was the suffocating night, thick and cramped.

The warm orange room, on the contrary, makes people feel at ease.

Sometimes, just the furnishings can give a glimpse of the family's past life.

"When you entered the painting this time, did you feel any discomfort from before?" Mu Yiran put the simple luggage on the writing table.

Ke Xun really didn't think about this question: "After what you said, it seems to be better than the previous two times, but when I first walked into this building, I was a little suffocated." Ke Xun also put his backpack on the desk , "By the way, I brought toilet paper this time, take it if you need it."

Mu Yiran: "I brought it too."

It seems that everyone has suffered before.

Mu Yiran carefully looked inside and out of the room, looked under the bed, and frowned slightly.

There is a pair of red plastic slippers under the bed, thrown there one after the other, like a woman who is about to take a slow step forward.

Ke Xun soon found the pair of red slippers. For a while, he thought it was creepy to put them under the bed, but he didn't know where to put them away.

"The NPC didn't say that you can't move things in the room." Ke Xun comforted himself, picked up the pair of red slippers, walked around the room, and finally put them on the simple shoe rack outside. ——It’s not easy to throw out these things that don’t belong to me. The shoe rack is probably the most suitable place.

The shoe rack itself was empty, but a pair of red slippers were placed on it at the moment, as if there was still a woman living in the room.

Ke Xun looked at his hands and felt a little dirty.

"Go to the bathroom and wash your hands." Mu Yiran took out a travel soap box from his backpack.

Ke Xun had never received such treatment before, so he took the frigid soap box and went to the bathroom to wash his hands in a heartbeat.

The public toilet is connected to the public water room, and the cement-milled pool is smooth and clean. Ke Xun is in a good mood, and the unhappiness of seeing the red slippers just now was wiped away, and he washed his hands twice. Mu Yiran's soap is Coconut flavor makes people want to take a bite.

The soap is clearly white, but the soap foam after washing is light pink, and I don't know where the other party bought such a girly soap...

Soon, Sha Liu also brought simple travel toiletries to the water room to wash up. When he saw Ke Xun, he asked, "Is there anything strange in your room?"

Ke Xun didn't intend to hide it either: "Is it strange that there is a pair of red slippers under the bed?"

Sha Liu's face was full of gloom: "Our two rooms are full of books, two large bookshelves are piled up, even the bed is full of tall books, and there are boxes of books under the bed. "

Ke Xun didn't bring a towel, so he shook his coconut-scented hand directly: "It seems that the previous landlord or tenant loved reading, maybe he was a scholar."

"No, those books are all romance novels."

"..."

"The ones that were especially popular in the eighties and 90s, Qiong Yao's Cen Kailun, Xi Juan's Yu Qing's..." Sha Liu frowned, and she didn't feel embarrassed to say the following words. Apart from these, the books on the bedside were all from the romance world. The forbidden book—Little Yellow Book.

Ke Xun picked up the soap box and was about to leave the water room, and said, "It seems that your landlord used to be a bookstore."

Sha Liu was alone in the water room, looking at the not-so-clear, somewhat rusty water flowing out of the faucet, and reluctantly took a shower.

In room 410 where I live, the romance novels are actually not scary, but combined with the traces of life that can be observed everywhere in the room, it makes people feel a little weird.

In the bedroom of 410, there are two spittoons, one small and the other large. I don't know what they are used for.

Sha Liu can understand that people who use public toilets like this may use spittoons when they wake up at night, which can be called urinals.

But that big spittoon is simply too big, almost as big as the flush toilet of the later generations, with a lid on it and a hole dug out, it looks like it is used to sit on and go to the toilet.

What kind of person is going to defecate in the house?Obviously there is a public toilet in the apartment.

There is also a princess-style dressing table in the bedroom. I don’t know why the mirror was removed. On the dressing table are face oil, perfume, prickly heat powder, a bottle of massage cream for cracked feet and some unknown ointments. There was a wide-toothed comb, with a few white hairs hanging from it, very long white hairs, if this hair grew on a human head, it should be waist-length.

But it's white hair, and it's so long, it makes people feel indescribably weird.

Sha Liu was thinking about this in the water room, and suddenly realized that she was the only one left in the water room. She raised her head and glanced at the pale incandescent light tube above her head, and hurried out when she felt cold.

Walking past room 412 next to the water room, I saw an old lady sitting at the door of the house fanning herself to enjoy the cool. She was wearing a floral undershirt that belonged to the old lady, and the white background was covered with small red florals.

When Sha Liu passed by, the old lady waved her fan and said, "It's really hot today."

Sha Liu unconsciously slowed down, thinking that she might be able to learn something from the old lady, so she replied with a smile: "Yes, it's still so hot at night, should I turn off the lights soon?"

Regarding the matter of turning off the lights, the concierge did not go into details. Sha Liu wanted to find out whether the turning off of the lights was active or passive.

Sure enough, I heard the old lady say: "The lights will be turned off at 11 o'clock."

Turn off the lights?Sha Liu really wanted to know when the public toilets would be disconnected, but the old lady asked first, "Miss, you just moved here, right?"

Sha Liu nodded, and boldly asked, "Auntie, who lived in 410 before?"

"Yafen," the old lady said a name, "Yafen has lived here for more than ten years, and now she is enjoying life with her parents. She lives in a new house in the center of the city. I heard there is an elevator!"

"Oh, that's really good." Sha Liu smiled, and then lifted the curtain and went back to the house - I've been talking to these NPCs for a long time, who knows if it will cause any side effects, it's better to order them as soon as possible.

Back in the house, I saw Qiu Lu reading a romantic novel on the sofa, Sha Liu frowned, she didn't want to touch anything in the house.

Qiu Lu closed the book "I Am a Cloud" in her hand, and dimmed the gauze desk lamp beside her: "I just heard you say that the power was cut off at 11 o'clock," she said, looking at the pink light hanging on the wall. Color clock: "There is still half an hour."

Sha Liu felt a gust of cool wind blowing over. It turned out that Qiu Lu turned on the electric fan: "Tell me, are the things they said true? In the painting? How could they tell such romantic lies."

Sha Liu glanced at the poetess, feeling a little sympathetic, and just smiled at the moment: "Romantic or not, you'll know after tonight."

Qiu Lu turned on the desk lamp again and continued to read the novel.

It was the first time for Sha Liu to see such a big-hearted person, but she was restless at this time, and it was impossible to fall asleep in the first half of the night. According to the "convention", only when the "danger" at night passed, could she barely fall asleep A little while.

Sha Liu first listened to the movement of the 411 next door, and could faintly hear Ke Xun's voice, occasionally mixed with Mu Yiran's low-pitched responses, but the content could not be heard clearly.

The whole Chunsun apartment is not so quiet, there is even a kind of bustle like a large courtyard. Sha Liu opened the curtains a small part, looking at the people sitting outside enjoying the shade, some children refused to go to bed early, and were chasing and playing on the terrace.

Some people's TVs are very loud, and an old TV drama theme song is playing on it: "The sky is big, the earth is big, where is my home!"The sky is big and the earth is big, what words are left behind! ...

The old lady sitting outside had returned to the house at some point.

At this time, a few girls passed by the window, discussing their topics without restraint: ""Legend of Xiangshuai"? When was that TV series? Is it earlier than "Youth Bao Qingtian"?"

"There is no "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" at this moment! Can you imagine! It's a group of prehistoric humans!" The girls who spoke were the three long-legged girls, and each of them was eating an ice cream. , "Also, the things here are so cheap!"

"Don't listen to those people's scaremongering, we probably have crossed time! How can there be any paintings! Let's buy stocks tomorrow! Buy a house while it's cheap! I have a lot of money in my card!" Three simple-minded The more the girl talked, the more excited she became, and she wished she could take the opportunity to change the world.

Sha Liu looked at them in the dark with some hostility, and recalled that today in front of the fifth exhibition hall of the Rhinoceros Art Museum, she had obviously chosen a "companion", but she was cut off by these three girls and directly let My "companion" was behind, and the three of them came in first!

The number of people suddenly became chaotic, and Sha Liu wanted to cry but had no tears. Counting that 12 people had entered, there was only one person missing, and that person could only be herself...

Suddenly it went dark, and the three long-legged girls outside the window screamed at the same time, and a neighbor shouted: "What the hell are you screaming? Isn't it just turning off the lights and power? Go back to the house and sleep!"

The three girls fell silent, taking advantage of the light from the public toilet, they went back to their residence - 402.

Qiu Lu was very calm about the sudden power outage, and said with a smile: "It was like this before we were in college. We turned off the lights when we were reading novels!"

Sha Liu has no temper towards Qiu Lu, she might as well be more timid, she can analyze the current situation with her, but she is a mentally idiot, hehe.

Sha Liu watched the three long-legged girls enter 402, and then turned her face away from the window. Qiu Lu turned on the phone's lighting at this moment, and her face was particularly abrupt and terrifying under the backlight. Sha Liu was terrified. Yu, a little angry.

The two of them lay on the small bed with their clothes on. Sha Liu didn't feel sleepy and didn't talk.

Qiu Lu took the initiative to say: "I think you are still a little girl, have you ever been in love?"

"No."

"It would be a pity if you don't fall in love in college!"

"..."

"Which one do you think is better, thin bamboo or immature sweet potato?"

Sha Liu didn't want to talk any more, and stared at the two large spittoons, one tall and one short, in the darkness. To be precise, they should be two toilets. out of sight.

When the eyes got used to the darkness, the whole apartment became quiet, as if there were no people living in this building, it was clearly an empty building in the dark.

An urgent knock on the door came an hour later.