what the hell is

The tall man turned pale and couldn't say anything.

Li Yang pulled me to the elevator entrance: "Come on, don't worry about them, let's go up and have a look."

He pressed the elevator button several times, but there was no response.An old lady next to him said, "Young man, the elevator is broken today and I can't go up."

Damn, my heart twitched a few times.He waved his hand and said, "Go back, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Li Yang gritted his teeth and said harshly: "Let's take the stairs."

I was shocked: "Brother, no way. The top floor is the 21st floor, and we have to walk until midnight to take the stairs."

"Go up in the middle of the night." Li Yang glared at me, and entered through the side door, which was the staircase passage of the building.

I sighed helplessly, there was nothing I could do about him, so I had to follow him.

When I lived in this building, I never took the stairs.Because I lived on the 21st floor, the highest floor at that time, and the elevators came and went every day, and there was no concept of taking the stairs at all.Entering this stair passage today, I still feel quite fresh.

This building has been in use for more than ten years. The walls in the stairwell are peeling off, the floor is dirty and dusty, and there are small advertisements for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases on the wall. The corners of the stairs are full of debris. .

The most uncomfortable thing is the floor lamp with sensor failure.

In the dark stairway, you have to kick the floor hard before the floor lamp can be lit. The dim yellow light hums softly, which sounds like a woman moaning in the corner.

When we went up one floor, we had to be plunged into darkness. Li Yang jumped on the spot a few times, and the building lights slowly turned on.The whole process is a great test of a person's mental quality.If I was the only one, I wouldn't go here even if I was killed.

There was silence in the corridor, only the two of us breathing heavily and the sound of our footsteps.Since I started working, I have been sitting in an office all year round, lacking physical exercise, and my legs seem to be filled with lead.I don't know how many floors I walked, I was so tired that I was out of breath, my throat was sweet, and I sat down on the ground, not wanting to move anymore.

Li Yang was also out of breath, leaning against the wall, holding his legs with his hands.

"How many floors have you walked?" I asked him.

"You didn't count?" he said.

"Damn, I still count on you. My brain is so tired that I see double images now."

Li Yang closed his eyes and thought for a while, "There must be more than a dozen floors."

I pointed to the side door at the corner of the stairs: "Go to the corridor and have a look, there is a floor sign on the wall." Li Yang glared at me, took a little breath, and walked in along the side door.

As soon as he left, the lights in the corridor went out, and the surroundings were pitch black.This sudden darkness made my heart beat violently.To be honest, although I am usually bluffing, sometimes I am very timid, especially when I am alone.

The darkness in the corridor seemed to be flowing slowly, wrapping me tightly like a substance.My whole body was numb and I didn't dare to move.

I don't know how long it has passed, but Li Yang hasn't come back yet.My brow was soaked in cold sweat, and my head was full of horrible confusion—he wouldn't just disappear.Being swallowed up by this weird building...

I called out tremblingly, "Li Yang."

No one agreed.The sound echoed in the stairwell.I didn't have the courage to shout any more. I was so scared that my heart beat faster, as if I was about to break free from my chest.I took a deep breath and slowly stood up while leaning against the wall. My legs were numb and I couldn't take a step.After leaning against the wall for a long time, I was able to move slowly.

At this moment, I don't know if it was an auditory hallucination, but from an unknown direction upstairs, there was a strange chewing sound.It's like, gnawing on something by yourself, sucking and chewing, and licking your lips, not to mention the delicious taste.

This voice is usually heard as nothing.But at this time it came inexplicably and sounded strange, and it seemed particularly abrupt in such a terrifying and dark environment.

My heart was in my throat, my joints were stiff, and I couldn't walk even if I wanted to.Thinking wildly in his mind, he imagined such an image, an old lady in red clothes was sitting at the stairs, her gray hair was loose, and she was eating a chicken leg with relish.

I can't get rid of this picture no matter what, the more I think about it, the more terrified I become, and a huge fear surges in like waves, I'm so depressed that I almost cry.

At this moment, the building lights suddenly turned on, and Li Yang walked in from the side door.

In the bleak yellow light, I saw my posture was very indecent, and my whole body was stuck against the wall, like a gecko.

I slowly took my hand off the wall, and saw two fingerprints left on the dirty wall.

Li Yang's virtue was not as good as mine, his face was as white as paper, and his body kept shaking, as if he had been particularly frightened.The two of us looked at each other in blank dismay and didn't speak for a long time, the atmosphere was very depressing.

I asked hoarsely, "Which floor are we on?"

"11th floor."

"You..." We both spoke at the same time and stopped again.

Li Yang sighed and said, "I was really scared just now, I almost collapsed on the ground."

I asked what was wrong.

Li Yang said quietly, just now when he went to see the floor signs, he encountered a strange thing.The design of this building is quite unreasonable. The stairwell where we are located is at the easternmost part of the building, but the floor sign is at the westernmost elevator entrance. If we want to go to see it, we have to go through a whole corridor.

Li Yang walked in the corridor, the surroundings were quiet, the doors of every house were closed, and there was no trace of life on the whole floor, it was deserted.Li Yang said that at that time I really had the illusion of walking in the wilderness.

It is not easy to walk through such a corridor alone, and it takes a lot of courage.When he came to the elevator entrance, he saw the sign "11" on it, heaved a sigh of relief, and prepared to walk back.Just then, he saw an old lady standing in front of a window in the corridor.

The old lady was wearing a bright red sweater, a bright red hat, and black leggings.If you don't look at that face, she is definitely a beautiful woman with a curvaceous figure.

That face was terrible, covered with overlapping wrinkles, deeply engraved on the facial skin like knives and axes.The eyes are so lifeless that they look fake, and the scariest thing is her hair.The old woman had gray-to-white hair, a lifeless color, like that of a mummy.

The old lady hunched over and was doing an unthinkable thing: she was smoking a cigarette facing the window!

The two windows were wide open, and the cold night wind blew in, whirling white snowflakes.The white hair was tightly attached to her forehead, and the blue smoke from the cigarette butt drifted over the old face, making her look a little gloomy.

On such a spooky and terrifying night, in an empty corridor, with such an old lady smoking a cigarette, it's hard to scare anyone to death.

The most important thing is, Li Yang said, I never heard the door open at all, why did this old lady suddenly appear out of thin air?

That's why Li Yang didn't come back for a long time.At that time, his mind was blank, and he stood at the end of the corridor in a daze, not daring to take a step forward.

After observing for a while, the old lady didn't seem to move, she just kept smoking and her posture didn't change.

After thinking about it, Li Yang realized that waiting like this was not an option, so he bit the bullet and walked forward.Getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, and finally came behind the old lady.

The old lady didn't seem to notice it at all, she didn't even look at him, she was still smoking there, her expression was cold and gloomy, like a post-modern statue.

Li Yang turned sideways, carefully passed behind her, trotted all the way back, his back was soaked.

My scalp was numb and my heart was beating wildly.Hearing the inexplicable chewing sound just now, he imagined the picture of the old lady eating chicken legs. How could Li Yang really see such an old woman?And this old woman is really wearing a bright red dress!

I felt like I was involved in a bottomless undercurrent, everything happened inexplicably, and when I thought about it, there were all kinds of disconnected connections.What exactly is going on?

I suddenly remembered that I once saw a Taoist pamphlet at Li Damin's home, saying that there is a Taoist method called trapping the empty array.This formation is quite mysterious, and it has the meaning of delusional realm. The so-called delusional realm is also the realm of delusional thinking.Create a false and confused world, let the practitioners enter this realm and encounter all kinds of things, so as to cultivate the great state of mind not to move rashly with the situation.To put it bluntly, everything you see is fake, similar to "The Matrix".

I looked at Li Yang, thinking about the empty formation, and suddenly had a weird idea.Is this Li Yang the real Li Yang?Or is he simply something I imagined in a formation designed by others?This matter cannot withstand scrutiny, I heard the chewing sound and thought of the old woman in red, and this Li Yang immediately jumped out and told me that he really saw such an old lady in the corridor!

It's all an eerie coincidence.