Fear Collection

Lin Wen's drowsy mind immediately regained consciousness. She didn't dare to move under the quilt, and even breathed lightly.

Did she hear it wrong?

Or is there really something dragging on the ground?

In the dark villa, there was silence. Lin Wen held her breath for a while, but did not hear the dragging sound again.

She was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when she suddenly realized...

Quiet?

Why is it so quiet?

Even if Jiang Liu doesn't move, what about Li Xingsheng's snoring?What about Zhao Jingshuo's breathing?

cluck...

cluck... cluck...

That dragging sound came again, again!

And it wasn't her illusion, the voice was actually getting closer.

It felt like someone was dragging their body and crawling on the ground.

Dragging... body... crawling?

Lin Wen inevitably thought of Zheng Qiongfang's headless corpse again, and she didn't dare to make even the slightest sound. She remained motionless and her limbs froze.

The sound of dragging is still ringing, and the sound is not approaching straight, on the contrary, it seems to be crawling around in the living room.

What are you looking for?

Are you looking for something?

Lin Wen became more and more frightened.

She wanted to be called Zhao Jingshuo, Chang Haocun, and Xie Jinxi, but she didn't dare to move or make a sound, for she was terribly afraid that if she leaked a sound, the dragging and crawling voice would find her position.

How to do?What to do?

Suddenly, Li Xingsheng on the ground snored loudly and turned over again.

After that, the dark villa became quiet again, and the dragging sound disappeared.

Lin Wen listened stiffly under the sweltering quilt for a long time, until she became unconscious.

The voice seemed to have really disappeared, and in the silence, she fell asleep unconsciously.

The next day, seven in the morning.

Xie Jinxi was woken up by her own alarm clock, and the sound of the alarm clock also woke up others.

After waking up, he felt exhausted and his mind was in a mess. He seemed to have had a lot of dreams and thought about a lot of things, but he couldn't recall anything when he woke up.The fatigue of the body is worse than before going to bed, and the head is even more painful.

After being awakened, her heartbeat was still fast. Xie Jinxi sat up and calmed down for a while, stretching her legs that were curled up to be stiff.

Several people sleeping on the floor also sat up one after another, only Lin Wen remained silent.

Xie Jinxi called her softly a few times, but she still didn't respond under the blanket.

"This?" Li Xingsheng rubbed his temples, hesitantly said, "Could it be..."

Zhao Jingshuo came over, gently pushed Lin Wen, and said loudly, "Lin Wen!"

"Ah!" Lin Wen sat up suddenly, looked at Xie Jinxi, then at Zhao Jingshuo, and then at the already bright sky outside the window.

Xie Jinxi saw that her expression was in a trance and her face was expressionless, so she couldn't help asking in a slow voice: "What's wrong?"

"The sound of crawling on the ground." Lin Wen jumped out word by word, "There is something, crawling on the ground."

"Crack, crack, it keeps ringing." Lin Wen was about to cry.

Xie Jinxi recalled, he didn't hear anything last night.Although he slept very badly and was very restless, he did not hear anything.

"You heard it wrong." Zhao Jingshuo turned cold and emphasized firmly, "There is no sound."

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..." Lin Wen was still muttering to herself.

Zhao Jingshuo's Adam's apple twitched, and he emphasized: "Sleep well at night."

A penetrating chill climbed into everyone's heart.

Lin Wen was silent, and nodded in a daze: "I heard wrong..."

"No sound."

"sleep tight."

In the daytime of the next day, everyone went to the bathroom of the other master bedroom to wash up briefly, and then went to the kitchen to settle breakfast hastily.

Although Zhao Jingshuo said that when he got up early, he still took Xie Jinxi to look at the bathroom door of the second bedroom halfway through.

The bedside table was still against the door. Zhao Jingshuo looked at the edge and said, "It hasn't been moved. When it was held against it, the edge of the cabinet fit the pattern on the door."

"But it doesn't mean anything." Zhao Jingshuo stood up, as if thinking about something.

Indeed, although Zhao Jingshuo denied Lin Wen's words in the morning, he did it more to appease people's hearts and to make Lin Wen stop thinking about it.

But everyone knew that what Lin Wen said should be true, otherwise she couldn't be scared like that.

The question is what made the sound last night.

Xie Jinxi took a special look at the floor of the living room in the morning to confirm that there were no traces of dragging on it, and he didn't see any traces of dragging on the way to the bathroom in the second bedroom.

But this is all based on the fact that the sound may be caused by... crawling corpses.

But what if it wasn't a corpse... an invisible ghost?

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the problem that none of the three people on the floor felt any movement.

That ghost, what is the purpose of letting Lin Wen hear the voice?

Xie Jinxi buried the question in her heart.

In the morning, Chang Haocun and Li Xingsheng searched the entire second and first floors of the villa, but did not find the flashlight.

There is a desk lamp in the bedroom, but the problem is that even if there is electricity last night, the lamp cannot be turned on, and the desk lamp is probably useless.

Back in the living room, Chang Haocun said: "I didn't find it, maybe the 'He' you mentioned didn't want to see us find it."

"Let's rely on the mobile phone." Li Xingsheng sighed, "The mobile phone also has a flashlight function. We found another charger, two chargers, and the three of you use them in turn to keep the phone's battery charged."

"Okay." Xie Jinxi took the charger from him to charge the phone.

The next morning passed without incident.

After lunch, everyone gathered in the living room to play cards again. Zhao Jingshuo and Chang Haocun, who wanted to smoke, went to smoke together, and the card players were replaced by Li Xingsheng, Jiang Liu, and Xie Jinxi.

Lin Wen was still hugging her mobile phone on the sofa, not saying a word or moving.

Li Xingsheng played out the last card in his hand, and sighed: "Are you thirsty? Would you like to boil some water to drink? Well, it would be nice if you can drink some hot tea while playing cards."

There is no bottled water or water dispenser in the villa, nor is there such a convenient electric kettle. The water they drank these two days was taken from the tap, and then boiled on the stove and cooled down.

They dare not drink water that has not been boiled.

"Let me go boil the water." Xie Jinxi stood up, just as he was thinking, "I also want to make some coffee, I didn't sleep well last night, I was too sleepy."

Xie Jinxi has the habit of taking a nap. Every day from 12:30 noon to 01:30, he sleeps for an hour to ensure that he is energetic when studying in the afternoon or writing projects and papers.

He didn't sleep well yesterday, and he didn't dare to take a nap. The temperature in the villa was moderate, and playing cards made him drowsy.

Just got up to boil some water, make some coffee, and cheer up.

"This... I'll go with you?" Li Xingsheng also wanted to drink some hot tea, but he couldn't let Xie Jinxi be alone, so he just went with him.

When the two of them arrived in the kitchen, Xie Jinxi dug out the kettle from the cupboard, rinsed it, filled it with water, and put it on the stove to heat it up.

Xie Jinxi stared at the stove for a while, then subconsciously touched his body to find his phone, but he couldn't find it.

Only then did he remember that he had put his cell phone aside when he was playing cards just now, and he didn't bring it with him when he came to boil the water.

Then it would be embarrassing, waiting for the water to boil is quite boring, and if you want to go back to get it, you have to trouble Li Xingsheng to go with him.Li Xingsheng didn't have a mobile phone to watch, so he waited beside him.

Forget it, it's only seven or eight minutes anyway.

Li Xingsheng saw that the water was boiling, and said: "Here, look at the water. I checked the cupboard for tea and cups. I remember seeing them when I was eating."

Xie Jinxi nodded.

On the right side of the gas stove is an open window, and the three connected windows provide excellent lighting, making the counter look more concise and clean.

Xie Jinxi looked at the scenery outside to let his mind go. The afternoon sun shining through the window was so warm that it made people feel even more tired.

The sun is still shining outside, the grass is green and the sky is blue. The tall sycamore trees shake their branches slightly, and the shadows of the leaves are reflected on the ground.

Xie Jinxi looked at the unchanging scenery outside in a daze, seemingly looking at a certain place, but in fact he was so sleepy that his eyes didn't focus much.

Smooth paths, lawns, tall trees, tree shadows... huh?

The shadow of a tree?

Xie Jinxi managed to pull himself together and looked at the trunk of a tree outside the window.

Under the sunlight in the afternoon, the shadows of the trees were dragged very long, the leaves and branches were swaying, and the whirling and broken shadows also overlapped and criss-crossed, constantly changing.

But why does the shadow corresponding to the trunk of the tree below seem to have an extra piece?

The trunk of the sycamore tree is straight and straight, but where the root of the trunk of the tree meets the shadow on the ground, there seems to be an extra piece of shadow suddenly.

what is that?

branch?Or is it caused by overlapping with the shadow of the tree next to it?

Xie Jinxi stared at it for a long time, and the possible conjectures seemed to be wrong, and the drowsiness that had surged up unconsciously faded away.

What's going on...that...extra...shadow?

Extra shadows?

Xie Jinxi suddenly thought of what Chang Haocun had said, what did he say, he said that he seemed to have seen a... figure in the window of the villa next door?

this shadow...

"The water is boiling."

Suddenly, a cold word came from the kitchen door.

Xie Jinxi was taken aback, and suddenly turned around to see Lin Wen standing at the kitchen door looking at them.

Li Xingsheng was rummaging through the cupboard to find if there was any tea, he didn't pay attention to other things, and was startled by Lin Wen who suddenly appeared at the door.

Before Xie Jinxi could ask her why she came here, the kettle suddenly let out a "woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" sound. I don't know if it was Xie Jinxi's illusion, but it was so piercing as if someone was screaming.

Xie Jinxi hurriedly turned off the fire, turned around and looked at Lin Wen again.

Lin Wen stood at the door of the kitchen, her face pale.

Holding the tea leaves he just found, Li Xingsheng couldn't help but retreat a few steps, retreated to Xie Jinxi's side, swallowed, and said, "That... little girl, why are you here? What's the matter?"

"Is the water ready?"

At this time, Zhao Jingshuo's voice came from behind Lin Wen.

Lin Wen turned and walked to the living room.

"Okay." Xie Jinxi replied, picked up the kettle, and asked Li Xingsheng if he found anything.

Li Xingsheng quickly took a few cups from the cupboard, and whispered to him, "Let's go."

Xie Jinxi and Li Xingsheng quickly returned to the living room, and when Xie Jinxi put down the kettle and sat on the sofa, he realized something...

The shadow protruding from the tree he saw outside the window...

It seems to be a figure too.

Or rather, ghosts.