me and my monster neighbor

Sunset on the west mountain, the clouds in the west are ironed into golden-rimmed fire clouds by the afterglow.

It's not early.

Li Gongbao reminded everyone: "Today is the night of the full moon, everyone should go back earlier."

All the neighbors said yes again and again.

Director Luo hunched over and walked slowly, and he was even more anxious to go home, leaning on a cane and urging anxiously: "Yes, yes, everyone, go back quickly. On the night of the full moon, the road to death is always bright, it is a carnival of souls Night, let's hurry up and go back."

Li Gongbao supported Director Luo, and said: "Director, walk slowly, Mr. Buwen hasn't played the drums yet, you still have time to go back before the drums are played."

Mr. Bu Ting, the neighbor in Room [-] who is in charge of the morning bell and evening drum, is withdrawn and out of gregarious, but he has been diligently sticking to his post for ten years, ringing the bell and beating the drum on time, and his competence is also recognized by the neighbors.

Just as I was talking, today's three drumbeats also arrived as scheduled.

The sound of drums shook the sky and resounded through the sky.

The neighbors also scattered like birds and beasts and hurried home.

Tang Siniang's small body also slid fast, and she could only see the pink and thin shirt with large sleeves flying from behind, and she couldn't wait to run back home.

Xu Lala thought to herself that although Tang Siniang didn't take the ghost neighbor seriously, she still avoided it.

The horrific scene that Xu Lala saw at the window last night had cast a shadow on his heart, and he shivered at the thought of nightfall.As soon as he entered the house tonight, he locked all the doors and windows, including the small skylight in the attic.

After checking the doors and windows of the house for the second time and confirming that they were correct, Xu Lai was in the mood to sit down and rest.

It was really inconvenient to have a thick bandage wrapped around the palm of his right hand, so Xu Lai took off the bandage, which was two meters long, and piled up a fluffy pile of cloth on the ground.

And Xu Lala was sitting next to the high pile of cloth. He checked the back of his hand, and the scratch two to three centimeters long showed no signs of healing.

The scar was slightly red and swollen, and the small incision was a little red. Xu Lai pressed gently with his fingertips, and he could feel a little astringent pain.

Xu Lala just frowned: he had to wonder once again how bad the medical skills of Lu Ji's little genius doctor were, so that he was helpless even for such a small wound that cut the skin.

Fortunately, the scratch was so small that Xu Lala didn't take it to heart.

The moonlight is like water tonight.

In the past, Zhongnan Cave, which was submerged by night as soon as night fell, is no longer a dark cave where you can't see your fingers under the moonlight.

The vine roses climbing the wall outside the house swayed in the breeze, shadowy, and the shadows of the trees could be vaguely seen through the thin curtains.

Xu Lala was used to Zhongnan Cave being engulfed in darkness at night, but now that there was a bright moon as a lamp, he felt even more uneasy.

Xu Lala hurriedly took a bath, took off the stockings tied around his belly, and threw them into the fireplace. He added firewood and turned the fire on high to boil water and cook soup.

He was refreshed after taking a bath, but he didn't dare to sit by the fire under the window anymore. He hugged the stone egg, moved a small stool and lay down beside the bed to write "[-]".

Xu Lala picked up the pen and opened Wusan, and from the interlayer of the front page, a small pure black hard paper card was shaken off—it was the business card that Mr. Fu handed him at the orientation meeting.

The words "Fu" has arrived" are branded on the front of the business card, and the black and gold match looks particularly good.

Xu Lale absently put the small card back into the book slot, but unexpectedly discovered that Mr. Fu's business card looked like a 3D flash card.

Xu Lai picked up the card again, flipped the card up, and as the angle of view changed, the texture of the map on the card changed, and numbers appeared in the blank squares on the map——

[6]——[5]———[4]——[3]——[2]

[12]——[13]——[8]—————[1]

[11]——[10]——[9]—————[7]

Each number corresponds to the house number of the neighbors one by one.

The layout of the room numbers is very messy, so it is no wonder that a map needs to be sent.

Xu Lala stuffed the card into the pocket of his school uniform, and he was moved by Mr. Fu's thoughtfulness in designing the card, but this little surprise he discovered by accident could not calm him down.

He reopened Five Three again.

At this moment, only the ocean of knowledge can make him temporarily forget the fear and anxiety in his heart.

The tongue of fire in the fireplace crackled and licked the firewood, and the sound of hens cooing faintly came from outside the house.

White noise such as the sound of a campfire has a calming effect and can create an illusion of laziness and comfort.

Xu Lala rested her chin on the edge of the bed, and the pen was twirling at the tip of her slender fingers, but the tip of the pen did not move for a long time.He turned to the last page of the supplementary book, in a daze, trying to record his reflections on living in the world of monsters:

① Potential safety hazards of living in Zhongnan Cave - there are monsters and neighbors knocking on the door during the day, and ghosts knocking on the wall at night.

Just as Xu Lai finished the end, as if he wanted to refute his remarks with his own words, as if the living soul and resentful spirit wanted to prove that he could knock on the door, there were two crisp knocks on the door!

There was a chill behind Xu Lae's back.

bang bang.

The iron door is very good at transmitting sound, and there seems to be an echo in the room.But after the echo, the outside became quiet again.

Xu Lala's back was stiff, his whole body was trembling instinctively, and he almost couldn't even hold the pen holder.

He clearly heard his own rapid breathing, and seemed to feel the pressure of blood flowing backwards in his blood vessels.

Just as Xu Lai took a deep breath, the knock on the door rang again.

Bang bang bang.

It rang three times in a row, and this time the knock on the door was more urgent than before.

The knock on the door was also more real than the banging on the wall last night.

The knocking sound of iron products was sharp and piercing, and the reverberation reverberated round and round in Xu Lala's ears.

Xu Lala dropped the pen, blocked his ears with two index fingers, and used his fingers to move in the external auditory canal to create a buzzing noise to isolate the rest of the sound.

Even if Tang Siniang had just comforted him in the morning, Xu Lala was still terrified that the dead would not enter the gate of life and soul.Xu Lae held the titanium gold plate around his neck, rubbing the English words "Iwannahome" on the back of the nameplate with his fingertips.

If this continues for a long time, he will definitely suffer from mental failure...

Xu Lai tore off two balls of gauze, soaked them in water, stuffed them into his ears, tried hard to persuade himself to calm down, and sang "Singing the Motherland" to Wu San unexpectedly, the buzzing sound in his ears made Xu Lai's solo also have the chorus momentum.Xu Lai made up his mind to turn a deaf ear to the movement outside the house.

Xu Lala didn't even drink soup that night, and slept early in the quilt with a stone egg in his arms.

Fortunately, in the dream, there was only "the five-star red flag fluttering in the wind, how resounding the victory song is".

The next day, the morning was hazy, and the genius was just gray and bright.

Xu Lala woke up from hunger early in the morning, and got up early to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find something to satisfy his hunger.

Thanks to Lu Ji's little miracle doctor for the bandages, Xu Lala had a good sleep with earplugs last night.The remaining bandage, nearly two meters long, was also used by Xu Lae to wrap the stone egg on his stomach.

Xu Lala wrapped all the bandages around the lower half of Shidan, forming a pocket shape.It is more convenient to ensure that the stone eggs will not fall, and the stone eggs can be taken out and put back at any time, and you don't have to hang the stone eggs on your body all the time when you are alone.

Outside the window, the morning bell rang for a long time.

This was the most reassuring moment for Xu Lai in the past few days.

Xu Lala is used to hearing the morning bell, and he really wants to believe that the Zen meaning conveyed by the bell seems to have the power to break the long night and drive away the fear in people's hearts.

Every day in Zhongnan Cave begins with the sound of peaceful bells.

Xu Lae did not forget to spray perfume on himself.

After being smoked by black opium sleepless nights for several days, Xu Lai was almost immune to the scent.He sprayed a little more into the bandage, then pulled off the pullover sweater to cover the stone egg, and finally put on the school uniform jacket.

Xu Lala put on her luggage neatly, squatted in front of the fireplace, breathed heavily while holding the freshly boiled drinking water, and waited for the boiling water to cool down.

Hens clucked outside the window, and the iron door was knocked.

"Little comrade, are you up yet? Did you sleep well last night?"

——Director Luo got up early, and tirelessly began to inspect Zhongnan Cave again, caring and greeting each resident's living experience for a new day.

Xu Lala took a water glass and went to open the door.

The iron door was pulled open, but Xu Lala felt a small resistance when pulling the door, and there was a rubbing sound on the ground.

Xu Lala lowered his head and found a piece of paper folded in half stuck under the crack of the green iron door.

He bent down to pick it up, holding the water glass in one hand, and opening the origami paper with the other hand was inconvenient, and Director Luo graciously came over to give his hand.

The paper quality is very good, like the coated paper commonly used on textbook covers, the back is slightly rough, but it is not a problem with the paper quality, it is more like a trace of glue residue.

It is only half the size of an A10 paper and has been folded in half irregularly three times.

The long edge of the paper is smooth, with no obvious tearing marks, it seems that the blade has been cut evenly.

When Xu Lala's thumb opened the third fold, his fingers trembled, his pupils constricted, and his body became stiff.

There are stick figures printed on the paper, and there are a few printed words——

"I know you are human"