Fear Collection

On the fifth floor, Xie Jinxi led Muta through the corridor to 502, opened the door and took him in.

This household only has one bedroom, one living room, one toilet and one kitchen, and the total area is less than fifty square meters, which is enough for Xie Jinxi who lives alone.

Xie Jinxi said to Muta: "Go and sit on the chair first, and I'll find out if there is any extra quilt for you, but I don't have any extra toiletries here. You can make do with it tonight and wait for your roommate tomorrow morning." Wake up and go back to take a shower."

Xie Jinxi went back to her room and searched for a long time, but only found a winter quilt and an old bed sheet.

Anyway, it’s summer now, so it shouldn’t be a problem if you don’t need a quilt. Just spread the sheets on the floor, and put the quilt on the sheets for Muta to sleep on. Although it’s definitely uncomfortable to sleep like this, he tried his best.

"I'll take a shower first and then wash up, you can do what you want." Xie Jinxi was so sleepy that she couldn't wait to take a shower and wash after a hasty confession, and then went straight to the bed in her room.

Of course, he didn't forget to close the door of his room, and even locked it from the inside.

This is not to guard against Muta, it is just his own habit, he always feels that if he sleeps without closing the door, something may come in and stand by the bed watching him sleep in the middle of the night.

But what will come in?There are no ghosts in this world. If there were ghosts, would it be possible to keep them out by closing the door?

Xie Jinxi was lying on the bed thinking wildly while laughing at her self-deception mentality.

It should be psychological comfort.

Xie Jinxi did not forget to pull the power cord by the bedside to charge the phone, and then fell asleep without hesitation.

This time, he didn't sleep well. He fell asleep and heard a series of mobile phone ringtones.

"Ring ring ring ring ~ ring ring ring ring ~"

"Ring ring ring ring ~ ring ring ring ring ~"

Half asleep and half awake, he suddenly realized, isn't this the ringtone of his mobile phone's alarm clock?

Xie Jinxi woke up suddenly, got up and turned on the phone to check, but there was no alarm clock displayed.

And think about it, the sound just now seemed to come from a long way away, separated by a distance, it didn't seem like the phone beside his bed rang.

Xie Jinxi thought she heard it wrong, and looked at the time, it was only past one o'clock in the morning, and lay back on the bed to go back to sleep.

When he closed his eyes to look for the drowsiness that had just been frightened away, he heard more and noisier voices.

Upstairs there was the sound of a chair on a pulley sliding. The seat slid back and forth, from the left side of the room to the right side of the room, and from right to left.

Then suddenly there was a baby next door crying loudly, and the crying sound was scary in the dark night.

Xie Jinxi wanted to bear it and continue to sleep, but the baby's crying was endless.

It's annoying, it's really annoying.

There should be a new co-tenant's house next door. One of the co-tenants is sleeping in his living room. Does the neighbor on the other side have a baby?Why hasn't he seen it?

The soundproofing of this broken building is not good, you can hear all the wind and grass...

and many more.

Xie Jinxi suddenly realized one thing, in this case, it is impossible for the roommate who sleeps in Muta's shared room to not hear him call the door.

Is Muta really his new neighbor?

He had never seen him before.

And Muta stopped him when he got to work, and sat there again when he got off work, looking like he was waiting for him.

Muta is tall and tall. Judging by the many muscles on his body, his movements are clean and agile, and he looks aggressive. He can't be some kind of robber who specializes in robbing people who live alone like him?

But speaking of neighbors, had he seen his neighbors before?Are they male, female, old or young?

Xie Jinxi was thinking wildly when there was a sudden knock on his bedroom door.

"Thank you Jinxi."

"Xie Jinxi, did you hear the baby crying?"

Xie Jinxi opened his eyes and sat up in a jerk.

It was Muta's voice.

Xie Jinxi didn't dare to answer after opening her eyes, but held her breath and listened for a while, the piercing baby crying was still there.

But compared to the baby crying, Xie Jinxi now felt that Muta outside the bedroom door was more terrifying.

Muta probably didn't hear him respond and was still knocking on the door.

The plywood bedroom door was so thin that someone like Muta could definitely knock it open.

In the dark night, compared to the orphan crying in the neighbor's house, a strange strong man standing outside his door is more frightening.

Xie Jinxi regretted it to death, why did he take the other party in for a night, the co-renting roommate was definitely an excuse for the other party.How could he feel pitiful for the man sitting at the door of the unit at that time, but now he feels pitiful for himself.

After not hearing his response for a long time, the man outside the bedroom door knocked more and more urgently, and even tended to slam the door.

Xie Jinxi forced herself to calm down, and replied: "I heard, what's wrong? What are you doing?"

The knock on the door stopped, and Muta didn't break in as Xie Jinxi expected, but just said: "If, I mean if, you see something or feel something abnormal, I will outside."

Muta didn't knock on the door after hearing his voice, as if just hearing his voice was enough.

But at this time, the baby's piercing cries became louder and louder, followed by a male voice yelling loudly.

"Stop crying! You fucking stop crying!"

"Cry again and I'll smash you to death!"

"To shut up!"

However, how could the baby understand the adult's words? Instead, it cried louder because of the hostile yelling.

Then there was a female voice begging for mercy, but the male voice couldn't hear it at all, and continued to shout violently: "Shut up the fuck! Shut up! Shut up, shut up! It's so noisy!"

"I go to work every day during the day and you two enjoy the blessings at home. I can't fucking sleep well at night. It's so noisy! Shut up for me!"

Then there was the sound of ping-pong-pong smashing things, and the crying of the baby continued, mixed with the sound of a woman's low sobbing, begging for mercy, and moaning in pain...

Xie Jinxi already felt wrong sitting on the bed, will it really be okay to go on like this?this……

The next moment, there was a sudden "bang", and all the sounds stopped abruptly.

The night returned to its original dead silence.

Xie Jinxi sat stiffly on the bed, hardly daring to think about what the last loud noise meant.

no, no...

Probably not... but...

Xie Jinxi got off the bed suddenly, turned on the bedroom lamp, unscrewed the lock of the bedroom and opened the door, and immediately bumped into Muta who was standing at the door without leaving.

"Muta..." Xie Jinxi's face turned pale, "Do you want to come to the bedroom to make a floor?"

Muta didn't ask why, just said: "Okay."

Xie Jinxi helped Muta move the floor mat in the living room to the bedroom. The bedroom is not big, and it is difficult for Muta to turn over lying on the ground. It is obviously better to lay the floor mat in the living room, but Muta did not refuse.

Xie Jinxi, who was lying on the bed, remembered the voice he had just heard, and his whole body was still chilling.

He couldn't even care about whether Muta was a good person or not, and now he urgently needed another living person by his side.

Although Xie Jinxi tried his best not to think about it, he still easily thought of the last loud noise, most likely it was the sound of the man smashing the baby to death.

Xie Jinxi, who was aware of this incident, was unexpectedly less terrified. If he was a normal person, he would have gone to the police immediately. Although he was also terrified, he was more thinking about what happened.

With Muta by his side, the residual fear gradually faded away.

Xie Jinxi looked at Muta lying on the ground, and silently listed several doubts:

One, who were the new arrivals in the evening?What are they doing here?

Second, there seem to be many problems in his life, such as when exactly did he work in the department store, why did he have to work with a meager salary and rent a house here?For some reason, Xie Jinxi instinctively felt that he would not choose a job that did not contribute to society, had no use for improving his abilities, and had no prospects.

Three, who are his neighbors?He didn't seem to have explored it before. Those voices just now... were they really made by the neighbors?

Xie Jinxi was full of questions, but she couldn't bear the sleepiness and fell asleep.

……

On the other side, because of the extremely poor sound insulation of the building, the other mission workers could hear the baby's crying and the successive sounds clearly. They didn't have another person to accompany them, so they could only lie on the bed alone in anxiety.

In 402, Jin Zilin was lying on the bed, looking at the roof slanting above her, she was still tightly wrapped in a quilt on a hot day, only the upper half of her face was exposed.

She was sweating all over, and her head was full of all kinds of terrible thoughts.

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, let alone sleeping, she dared not even close her eyes.

There is a small black spot on the roof obliquely above, it is not known whether it is a bug or mildew, Jin Zilin has been staring at it for a long time.

She is an Internet celebrity anchor, and she is inevitably short-sighted when facing the screen all the year round. Although she has undergone myopia surgery for the sake of beauty, the high-intensity use of her eyes makes her eyes bounce back.

She couldn't see what the black dot on the wall was, so she simply used it to divert her attention.

What the hell is that?A piece of dust hanging there?A trace of a nail once driven?Or is it a piece of dirt left by a bug you once killed?

Jin Zilin compulsively stuffed thoughts about that little black dot into her mind to squeeze out other horrible conjectures.

Just like counting sheep to hypnotize myself, Jin Zilin really fell asleep just thinking about it.

……

At 05:30 the next day, Xie Jinxi was woken up, this time it was not the alarm but Muta who woke him up.

Muta pushed him lightly and said, "Your mobile phone alarm clock has been ringing for a long time, it's time to get up."

"Ah? Oh!" Xie Jinxi dazedly opened his eyes and looked at the phone, only to be woken up by the time displayed on it.

He immediately got out of bed and went to take a shower. Muta asked next to him, "Are you going to work? Are you going to be late?"

Xie Jinxi spat out toothpaste foam and said, "Yes."

After he washed and changed his clothes in a hurry, he saw that it was already 5:42, and he couldn't eat breakfast, so he could only grab a bag of milk in a hurry and said to Muta: "I have to go to work, it is impossible to leave you alone at my house , or you go to the next door and knock on the door to see if your roommate is there?"

Muta didn't bother, and followed Xie Jinxi out the door obediently, watching him lock the door and rush downstairs to work.

Muta himself went downstairs to the unit again, but this time he was waiting for other taskers.

After the simple communication between the taskers last night, Liao Yushu made an agreement with everyone to get up early and go to work together, and if anyone didn't come, he would call again, in case someone couldn't get up in the morning and was late.

Before 6:[-] in the morning, the taskers went downstairs one after another. Everyone's faces were not very good-looking, especially Bai Ange, who was pale. He looked more like a ghost floating around.

The tall and impatient Liang Wu asked when he saw other people: "Did you hear the baby crying last night? There was also a couple arguing?"

The others looked at each other and nodded. Internet celebrity Jin Zilin said, "I live in 402. The voice should be from upstairs. Who lives on the fifth floor?"

The sickly Bai Ange said, "I live in 503, it should be from my neighbor, 501 or 502."

Muta said: "I live in 502, and it was from 501."

Muta ignored his request that he was locked out when he woke up early, and Xie Jinxi did not agree to his request to share the room, so he naturally told other taskers that he lives in 502.

"Fuck." Liang Wu cursed, "I fucking live in 601, which is downstairs!"

Liao Yushu pondered for a while, then asked, "Are there any other signs besides the sound?"

Liang Wu shook his head.

Liao Yushu said: "Let's ignore it for now. If you rush to explore it, you may provoke those things."

"By the way, do you all have mobile phones?" Liao Yushu asked.

Muta hesitated for a moment, and after seeing the middle-aged Chen Zhengde and Bai Ange shaking their heads to say no, he also shook his head confidently.

Liao Yushu had expected that he found his mobile phone from his room after entering this world. Everyone in this world has different jobs, and maybe the number of property set is also different. It is normal for some people to have mobile phones and others not .

"Those who have mobile phones, let's exchange contact information, and those who don't, come to 602 to communicate with me at any time after get off work. Well, the time is almost up, let's go to work first."

After the brief communication in the morning ended, Liao Yushu and others went out together, followed the instilled information through the market and went to the department store to work.

Muta trailed behind them, unhurried but not left behind.

In fact, Muta is not a tasker. As early as in the world of Snake Valley, after he failed to complete his task and was cursed to become a monster, he was no longer a tasker. He was just a monster raised by Xie Jinxi and lived by Xie Jinxi .

And in this world, Xie Jinxi is obviously still a tasker.

In the last world, before finally dying, Xie Jinxi gave Muta something through the completely empathetic relationship between the two of them - Ye Nai's soul core.

Xie Jinxi can use a certain ability reserved by the soul core, and the ability of Ye Nai's soul core is naturally to transfer the soul.

Muta's soul was transferred to the human skin doll in the factory through that soul core, and the human skin doll grew out of his body, which allowed Muta to survive after the "broken moment" and complete the last task .

However, what made Muta feel the most pain and despair was that he couldn't find Xie Jinxi's soul.

Xie Jinxi could rely on Ye Nai's soul core and transfer it to the doll in the factory before he really died, but Xie Jinxi left this opportunity to Muta.

When Muta opened his eyes again, he was in this new fragmented world. For a while, he even thought that he had replaced Xie Jinxi as the tasker, and the new tasker had become him.

But no, luckily not.

He found Xie Jinxi again, and saw Xie Jinxi again.

Although Xie Jinxi seems to have lost the memory of the past, Muta will never mistake each other by virtue of the soul connection between the two.

That is Xie Jinxi.

作者有话要说：感谢在2021-07-1100:18:24~2021-07-1223:52:44期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: 楩nan Qizhi 4;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!