The street was shrouded in darkness, most of the street lamps on both sides were broken, and the few remaining lamps always flickered from time to time, trying their best to announce to everyone passing by that he was about to die.

The sound of heels stepping on the stone floor is clear, fast and messy, making one worry that the owner of the footsteps will suddenly fall.

The woman did not know how many times she looked back, and there was a man following her unhurriedly, his whole body was wrapped in a black robe, only a pair of gloomy glasses were exposed, his feet stepped on the ground without making any sound, It's as if it floated over, it's so weird.The woman wanted to get rid of him, but no matter how she ran, the distance between them was never far or close, as if the man deliberately kept the distance to play with his prey.

It's like cat and mouse, as long as you get tired of playing, you will eat it at any time.

The woman felt more and more regretful, if she hadn't taken a shortcut just now...

When this thought surfaced, the woman's tears couldn't stop flowing out. Panic piled up in her heart, filling up a pool until it couldn't hold it anymore, and it overflowed like water, drowning her in an instant, taking her breath away. gone.

The woman felt that her heart was going to explode, and her ears were beating abnormally fast like a drum. Her calf was already a little sore, but she didn't dare to stop, as if she would fall limp to the ground if she stopped, and couldn't get up again. Just like that, he was taken away by the people behind him.

Just when the woman was about to despair, she suddenly saw from a distance that there seemed to be a shop lit at the end of the pitch-black road. The warm yellow light was like her last straw, her only hope, and she didn't care about that. What kind of store is it? He gritted his teeth and ran over quickly.

The glass door was slammed, and there was a muffled "dong dong" sound, but it was not loud. After knocking a few times, the woman realized that it might be useless, so she tried to push it, and the door opened immediately, and she jumped in in surprise. Going in, almost the moment I entered the door, my legs couldn't support my body and I fell to the ground.

"Help, save... help..." The woman looked into the room with a pale face, and when her eyes fell on Xu Luli who had just stood up, her flustered eyes lit up with hope, and she immediately stretched out her hand to ask him for help, "Please ..."

Xu Luli pursed his lips slightly, and approached with a strange expression, and saw the woman's outstretched hand shrank, sighed, and with a gentle smile, stretched out her hand towards the woman: "Don't be afraid, what's the matter with you?" Tell me."

After he finished speaking, he saw the woman looking out of the house in panic, and followed suit, but except for the light at the door and some decorative sundries, there was only darkness outside the house.

"There... There is someone... Eh?" The woman was also taken aback, and found that the man who was following her had disappeared at some point. She almost scrambled to the door and looked out through the glass Go, the panic in his eyes gradually turned into bewilderment, he was silent for a while, when he turned his head to look at Xu Luli, a layer of embarrassment appeared on his face, "I...I..."

She really wanted to say that she wasn't crazy, but from Xu Luli's perspective, she didn't think it was convincing.

Xu Luli didn't show any discomfort, just smiled and said softly, "Sit down and rest first, I'll pour you a glass of water."

The woman secretly heaved a sigh of relief when she heard the words, she was a little glad that Xu Luli is a kind person, she walked to the side with a somewhat vain gait and sat down, glanced at the photo album on the table as a sample, only then realized that she ran into a photo studio up.

"Drink some water." Xu Luli put the water in front of the woman with a soft expression, "My name is Xu Luli, how about you?"

The woman nodded lightly, said "thank you" in a low voice, and reached out to bring the cup over. The water was so clear that you could see the bottom of the cup, and there was something black in it. I don't know if it was dirty or something like tea leaves.She had just been chased by someone, and she was still vigilant. She sniffed lightly after getting close, but she didn't smell anything wrong. She was embarrassed to refute the kindness of others, so she pretended to take a sip, then put the cup back on the table, and replied: "My name is Hoss, and I work...near here."

"Oh." Xu Luli nodded, "Why did you come here? There's no place around here."

"There's a road over there, it's closer to the subway station." Hoss said and raised her finger in a direction, and finally worried that Xu Luli didn't understand, and added, "Our company's location is rather awkward, if you don't go there, go to the subway Standing quite far away, I... I have an appointment with someone at night, and I am going to be late..."

She froze for a moment after she finished speaking, as if she just remembered this, she took out her phone in a panic and pressed it to light up. There were a few intertwined cracks on the screen that blocked half the time, but it could still be seen that it was already past eight o'clock in the evening , Almost half an hour has passed since the agreed time.

Seeing Huo Sisi's shoulders slump, Xu Luli comforted her, "Explain, the other party will understand."

Huo Sisi nodded and pulled out a weak smile: "Thank you." She paused as she spoke, staring at the glass of water in front of her, hesitated for a while before picking it up again, took a sip, but it was tasteless The boiled water made her feel more at ease, "Someone was chasing me just now, I... I took a detour and walked faster when I heard footsteps, but he was walking so fast, and suddenly he was in front, so I ran... I ran in another direction, I don’t know where I went, but I saw this and came in.”

Although she tried her best to calm her emotions, her words were still a bit incoherent. Xu Luli thought for a while before she understood what she meant. To put it simply, this girl found out that she was being followed, so she ran around in a panic, and ended up here. ?

"What kind of person is he?" Xu Luli asked, "Could it be that you misunderstood?"

Huo Sisi hurriedly shook her head, stretched out her hand to grab Xu Luli's hand, but paused in mid-air, then retracted and clasped her fingers on her knees, her fingers pressed against her skin nervously: "I absolutely... There is absolutely no misunderstanding, he has been following me...he...he is wearing a big black robe, he is a man...it should be a man, he looks...he can't see clearly..."

The more she spoke, the lower her voice was, and her eyes were a little blank. Such a description sounded more like she was hallucinating and had gone crazy.

Xu Luli nodded when he heard the words, without saying anything, he couldn't help but look at the bell hanging on the door again.It was a string of copper wind chimes with a somewhat quaint style.An octagonal top is hung under the eight trigrams, and a copper bell is hung on each two corners to form a quadrangular shape. Each has no bell springs and the distance is very far, as if to ensure that the bells will not hit each other.A thread hangs from the middle of the top, and another gossip at the end, but the metal pellets that were supposed to hit the bells were removed—it was a string of wind chimes that would not ring at all.

Or more correctly, that string of very special wind chimes.

Xu Luli didn't understand at first, but the moment the woman walked in, he almost figured it out.

"Miss Huo." Xu Luli withdrew his eyes and looked at Huo Sisi, his eyes were still gentle, but the words he said were cold and cruel, "Do you know that you are dead?"

Huo Sisi's expression was blank for a moment when she heard the words, and soon turned into a kind of outrageous anger. Her eyes staring at Xu Luli were red with a bit of fierceness, and her tone was no longer flustered and gentle as before, but changed Gritting teeth: "What nonsense are you talking about? Are you going too far?!"

Xu Luli lowered his eyes, just looked at her fixedly, his gaze was still soft, with a slight smile on his lips, as if he was looking at a mischievous child, with a kind of tolerance waiting for her to admit her mistakes.

This expression froze the originally excited Hoss, her mouth opened again and again, all explanations and questions stuck in her throat, and there was a faint voice in her heart that seemed to want to tell her something, which made her again Once I got scared, stood up in a panic and was about to leave: "I, I... I'll go back first..."

"Please go ahead." Xu Luli didn't ask her to stay, and even got up and nodded at her as a way to see off the guests.

"Meow--!"

Hoss stumbled and ran to the door, when a black cat jumped out suddenly, landed on the doorway and blocked her way, its golden pupils stared at her firmly.Legend has it that black cats are very spiritual animals. Their eyes are different from those of ordinary animals, and they can see... As soon as this thought came up, Hoss became even more frightened, and she backed up a few steps with a scream. Dare to pass.

"Boss, don't be scary." Xu Luli was a little helpless, bent down and stretched out his hand to the black cat, "Good boy, come back."

As if the black cat understood the words, it immediately got up, quickly jumped into Xu Luli's arms, and once again confirmed the statement "black cats have spirituality" to Huo Sisi, scaring her out of the door.

Xu Luli stroked the black cat's soft fur, sighed, "I guess I'll be back soon, and I don't know if this is within the scope of my work." He paused and put his hand on the black cat's head. After a while, "Didn't Lin Jinyin say that the dangerous building is there at night? What about others?"

The fur on the top of the black cat's head was all messed up, so it could only rub its head against his hand, licked his fingers again, then jumped to the ground and ran upstairs.

Xu Luli still wanted to chase after him, but the wind chime at the door rang again, and at the same time...the sound of footsteps coming down from upstairs.

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