"it?"

I noticed the change in Bai Yaer's face, and was about to ask in detail. She climbed up from the bed and stumbled towards the door. When she passed by me, she glared at me: "It's all your fault, it's all my fault." you!"

I obviously saved her, but even if I didn't thank her, I still complained. If I had known better, I would have thrown her to the side of the road and drove away alone.

But having said that, Bai Yaer's unusual behavior also showed one thing. The voice-activated light turned on inexplicably at that time, and something did follow me upstairs.

The woman walked to the wooden door painted with bright red paint, pressed her body against the door, facing the balcony, and then turned off the light in the living room.

I don't understand her behavior. Does this woman also have the ability to see in the dark? Or does that dirty thing act in the dark?

Bai Yaer waved to me and asked me to stand with her.

"What are you looking at?"

She made a silencing gesture to me and pointed to the balcony.

From this position, you can just see the dilapidated buildings on the opposite side. Dark clouds are pressing overhead, and the pattering rain is constantly washing away the ancient buildings.

I don’t know how long I have been watching, but the rain is getting heavier and heavier. I don’t know when, across the rain curtain that connects the sky and the earth, dark shadows begin to faintly appear in the abandoned ancient building.

I have discerning eyes, and although I cannot see completely clearly, I am 60 to 70% sure that those things are not living people.

The shadows in the ancient building walked through various rooms, seemingly looking for someone. Among them was a short black figure, holding something like a rubber ball and following behind.

It ran a few steps and the "ball" in its hand fell. It wanted to pick up the ball and lay down next to the railing. The moment it picked up the ball, it looked up at the room where Bai Ya'er was.

The same height, both on the fourth floor.

When I was stared at by the black shadow, I had a very strange feeling. It seemed that time and space were confused. For a moment, I forgot that I was in the red building, as if I was also in the ancient buildings, and the short black shadow His face is getting clearer and clearer.

It's like standing on top of an ancient well and watching the crescent moon in the well. As the ripples dissipate, everything becomes so real.

The coat was washed white and patched. I moved my eyes upward and was about to see the face of the short black figure. It suddenly picked up the ball, turned around and left. As it left, the strange feeling suddenly disappeared, as if nothing had happened just now.

"What's going on? Why do I have illusions when I look at the black shadow? Is this the power of the formation? Or is it the terrain?" I couldn't figure it out, so I had to think of Bai Ya'er.

I touched her shoulder, and then she seemed to wake up from a nightmare, her face turned pale and she was sweating.

"Now can you tell me the reason for doing this? And what exactly is it you said?" I have many questions to ask, and my doubts are piling up.

The weak light re-illuminated the unwarm cabin. Bai Ya'er slumped on the ground and murmured to herself: "It followed you in, but then left again. No, maybe it just stayed at the door for a while. ."

"What are you talking about? Can you tell me?"

After I asked again and again, Bai Ya'er finally relented: "What I'm telling you below, just treat it as a story. Don't take it seriously, and don't go into it too deeply. Seeing as you sent me home, you didn't For the sake of touching me, I will show you a clear path. Before midnight, leave the Red Mansion and run south, as far as possible."

"It's raining so heavily, and you want me to run alone in the wasteland?" I frowned and looked at Bai Ya'er.

"It would be nice to be able to run away." She got up from the ground, having already woken up from the wine: "Do you know where the other side is? Longchang Community!"

"I heard someone mention it when I first arrived in Jinghai. This place is also called the Pig Cage Apartment. It seems to be a local taboo. Adults don't let children get close to it." I motioned for her to continue.

"You only know that it's called Pig Cage Apartment, but you don't know the origin of this nickname." Bai Ya'er shuddered, and there was a hint of coldness in her tone: "Decades ago, Jinghai It was a concession. At that time, the land of China was raging with war. In order to escape the war, refugees from more than a dozen surrounding towns came outside the concession area, hoping that the other party would let them in for refuge. However, there were too many victims seeking refuge, and the concession had been blocked from the beginning. They were not prepared to let these people in, so in order to prevent riots, they came up with a compromise and built a 'pig cage' village, which was the predecessor of Longchang Community."

"This is in the buffer zone between the concession and China. It is not actually a concession. They are doing this just to appease people's hearts. The war has reached that point and they cannot protect themselves. How can they take care of others?" Bai Ya'er pointed to the person in front of her. A large building: "What you see now is only a part that has been preserved. The real pig cage apartment covers an extremely wide area. Refugees were placed here at that time, and often five or six people were crammed into a single room of a few square meters." "

"Five or six people need to live in such a small house?" I had some doubts. Five or six people were crowded together and couldn't stretch out even while sleeping.

"When there were five or six people in the beginning, the war was raging and there were more and more refugees outside the concession. In the face of life and death, most people were selfish. Everyone wanted to take refuge in the concession, but the area of ​​the house was so small. Da, in order to live in the pig cage apartment, various dirty and dark transactions took place in private." Bai Ya'er did not describe those transactions in detail, as it seemed too difficult to talk about.

War is the source of suffering. As long as the war is not over, suffering will continue to ferment, eventually turning living people into monsters.

"There are more and more people living in pig pen apartments. Some rooms even have more than a dozen people crammed into them. Have you seen pig pens in the countryside? People are crowded together, eating and drinking, just to survive, but they are They lived with no dignity at all, just like domestic animals. And this was just the beginning. More tragic and terrible things happened a few months later. The invaders besieged the concession and cut off the food supply. Think about it, so many people What will they do if there is no food?"

Bai Ya'er's voice was a little hesitant, and she thought about each word for a long time before speaking slowly: "Some people want to leave, but the entire concession, including the peripheral areas, is blocked. Leaving means death. In order to survive, pigs The people in the Pig Cage Apartment tried their best to dig wild vegetables and catch fish and frogs in the puddles. However, there were too many people in the Pig Cage Apartment and these things were simply not enough. Before long, in order to get enough food to survive, , they did not hesitate to steal, rob, and exchange bodies, and they did everything they could. Soon the apartment in the buffer zone lost its only order, and everything collapsed. "

What happened next, I already guessed, was similar to what the restaurant owner revealed at that time.

When the first smell of meat wafts from Longchang Apartment, a brand new name is also quietly circulating. The people here tacitly agree with each other and use the rules of the human group to formulate the most absurd way of survival.

Food is picked from a single room, and the chosen one is the food.

After listening to Bai Yaer's words, my chest felt a little tight. Time passed and the blood that shrouded the pig cage apartment was washed away, leaving only the dilapidated, beehive-like ancient buildings, dragging the broken The body, crawling on the wasteland, seems to be telling the story of a morbid and crazy past.

"It's quite scary, but it's all over." I glanced at Bai Yaer: "You are not a native of Jinghai, and you have only been here three months. Who told you these things?"

Bai Yaer was speechless for a moment and did not answer me: "I digressed just now. Let me tell you the real thing. Jinghai City was set up as a special zone more than ten years ago. The economy has developed rapidly and more and more people have come here to pursue their dreams. , house prices in the customs skyrocketed, businessmen saw opportunities, and it was expected that the same would happen outside the customs, and one of them bought the old pig cage apartment site at a very small price for cheap."

"That man didn't believe this and wanted to knock down the ancient building. After confirming the construction news, many people tried to dissuade him, including the survivors of the pig cage apartment at that time. Unfortunately, the businessman was blinded by money and insisted on going his own way. As a result, Before construction could start, this big businessman died unexpectedly." Bai Ya'er vividly described: "His successor seemed to know the secret, and sold the wasteland at an incredibly low price, and then went abroad directly. He said he never returned to Jinghai. The owners of this land changed several times, and none of them were safe. In the end, the superiors came forward and took over the land. An expert also gave instructions to build a new building opposite the pig cage apartment. Because this red building is very close to Longchang Apartment, it was originally the boundary of Longchang Community, so this building is also regarded by the locals as part of the Pig Cage Apartment. Over time, it got the same name as Longchang Community."

"The color red can deter evil spirits. It's understandable that the building's exterior should be painted red, but it's a bit strange to have the same name." I thought in my mind: "Why do we continue to use such an unlucky name?" There must be something fishy in it.”

"This is the origin of the Pig Cage Apartment. As for what I just mentioned..." Bai Ya'er secretly glanced towards the bedroom, her voice a little unnatural: "Actually, I haven't seen it either, I just heard from the old tenants here. I mentioned that every rainy night, it would wander in the corridor."

"You didn't say the same thing. What does it mean?"

"I can't tell, but it definitely exists. I heard its footsteps once, and once..." Bai Ya'er lowered her voice: "It knocked on my door and lingered outside my door for a long time. That was still When I first moved here.”

After she finished speaking, she pushed me, with a very strange look on her face: "Anyway, you should leave quickly. If you wait until after the early morning, you won't be able to leave even if you want to."

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