what the hell is

In the stairwell, there was a dead silence.The light bulb covered with gray-white dust hangs upside down on the ceiling of the stair passage, exuding a depressing yellow light and humming softly.

Li Yang and I didn't speak, we just looked at each other.

To be honest, I want to open the door and go out to the corridor to see if there is really an old lady there.But I really don't have the courage.

Li Yang asked me why I looked so bad.I told him that it sounded like someone was eating on an unknown floor upstairs.I observed his expression, his expression was indifferent, and there was nothing unusual about him.

I felt that my thoughts were getting more and more confused, so I said with a wry smile: "I think we'd better get out of here. This building is too gloomy, and if we climb up, there may be some problems."

Li Yang regained his composure, and scratched his head: "I'm worried that if we leave like this, we won't have the courage to come back again. How about this, we've already come here, let's go up a few more floors, and if there is any sign of danger, we will withdraw as soon as possible."

When I looked at him, I really didn't know whether I should trust him, or even whether I should believe that such a person really existed!However, my only choice now is to follow him and let me go back down the dark stairs alone. It would be better to kill me.

We started to go to the twelfth floor, Li Yang said: "Start memorizing the floor now! If you can't remember it, next time you go to the elevator to see it by yourself, I will definitely not go."

"Hurry up and go, you're the one who talks too much nonsense." I hummed, no matter if it was real Li Yang or fake Li Yang, I would scold first before talking.

Walking up one floor, the corridor was getting colder and colder, and the temperature dropped significantly. Wrapped in a big padded jacket, I felt the cold air creeping in through the gaps in the clothes, and I was shivering with cold.At this moment, without paying attention to his feet, he slipped and fell to the ground.

The tailbone hurt like hell from the fall, and I gritted my teeth and screamed.Li Yang pulled me up.I cursed: "Who is so wicked, what did you do on the ground?"

The building lights came on slowly.We saw that there was a thick layer of white rice on the ground of the stair passage.

I got angry for no reason, and cursed: "Which one who lacks great virtue sprinkled rice here?"

Li Yang squatted down, grabbed a handful and looked closely: "The rice on the ground is evenly spread, someone must have done it on purpose."

"Why do you do that?" I was stunned.

"I remember that in Hong Kong old ghost movies, zombies are afraid of glutinous rice. Is there rice on the ground to prevent zombies?" Li Yang said.

I smiled weakly: "It's still a zombie, don't talk nonsense."

"Then what does it mean to sprinkle rice?" He threw the rice in his hand back to the ground: "It's so fucking evil."

At this time, the building lights flickered and flickered, and the corridor was flickering. The shadow of our Li Yang was long and dragged on the wall, like an old woman with fangs and claws and shaggy hair.

Li Yang continued to walk upstairs, I sighed and had to follow behind.

I walked up many more floors, and I was so tired that I sat on the ground panting: "Okay, I counted the floors, and I happened to walk ten more floors. Including the eleven floors we have already walked, we are now in the The top floor."

Li Yang didn't speak, but put his hands in the pockets of his cotton-padded jacket, and stared at the dark wall without blinking.

"Look at a bird." I cursed, he has been acting weird tonight.

Li Yang's facial features twisted a little, and he swallowed: "Old Liu, look back at the wall behind you."

When he said it so abruptly, my scalp felt a little numb, shit, what's behind it?Suddenly I thought of the old lady in red, wouldn't she just stand behind me?

My movements were stiff, and I barely looked back.Behind is the dark wall of the corridor, and there is nothing wrong with it.

I was about to scold him for being okay and happy, when I suddenly saw something on the wall, and my blood froze immediately!

It was a very fresh handprint, with five fingers facing down, judging by the size of the palm, it should be that of an adult.The direction and posture of the palm are very weird, it should be left by a person clinging to the wall with his palm supporting the wall.

The reason why I was so scared was because on the eleventh floor, Li Yang went to check the building sign and came back. The moment the building lights came on, my posture was close to the wall, with my palms on the wall.

Because this gesture was so embarrassing and it happened in a very special situation, we have a deep memory of that moment.

I looked at Li Yang, and Li Yang looked at me, the air was so oppressive that water was almost squeezed out.I slowly stretched out my hand and slowly leaned against the palm prints on the wall. The moment we overlapped, we both made a sound that almost groaned at the same time.

My hand did match the palm print on the wall!

What does this mean?Explain that we are still on the eleventh floor!But is this possible?The two of us kept climbing up, tired like dead dogs, how could such supernatural things happen?

Li Yang's voice was hoarse: "Could it be a ghost hitting the wall?"

"No way." I smiled wryly.

Li Yang said: "If it is a ghost hitting the wall, there are two situations. One is that we go around in circles on the eleventh floor and get stuck on this floor. Another situation is that we go to the 21st floor and end up with a big Loop, go around the circle and go back to the eleventh floor."

I wiped my face: "Don't judge so early that this is the eleventh floor. It is also possible that this palm print was left by me just now. I am too tired to forget. Let's not scare ourselves."

Li Yang made a gesture of invitation to the side door leading to the corridor.The meaning is obvious. To judge whether it is the 21st floor or the [-]th floor, just look at the building number.

If I go to see the building sign again this time, it will be my turn.

I looked at Li Yang and laughed.I can't tell what kind of emotion this smile is, I just want to laugh out loud.I rubbed my forehead, walked to the side door, and gently pushed the door open.

A gloomy coldness swept in from outside, and it made me shiver all over.I turned my head to look at Li Yang, he lit a small cigarette and smoked leisurely, without looking at me.

I bite the bullet and turn the corner of the stairs, and there is a long corridor on the floor in front of me.I saw that two windows were opened in the middle of the corridor, and a figure in red clothes was standing opposite the window, not knowing what he was doing there.

I let out a scream and ran back to the stairwell. Li Yang was still smoking. Seeing that I was frightened, he hurriedly supported me: "I'm so stupid, Lao Liu, what's wrong with you?"

Since Li Damin's incident, I have experienced many ups and downs, but there has never been a kind of fear that penetrates deep into my heart like now.I was so scared to the extreme, I felt my whole heart was destroyed, I plunged into Li Yang's arms, tears streaming down my face.

Li Yang was also frightened by my appearance: "What's wrong, talk, what did you see?"

"I, I saw that old lady in the red sweater." I said intermittently.

Li Yang was taken aback: "I'm stupid, don't f*ck scare me."

"Or go and see," I said.

"Forget it. The old lady's appearance is like a maggot attached to the bone. It has been imprinted in my mind, and she is her when I close my eyes. Damn, let me see it again. It's better to hit her head to death." Li Yang Said: "I don't need to see it with my own eyes to know that you are not lying. You are so scared that you are so unlucky that you can't act it out."

He sighed: "It's troublesome, we really encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and we have been spinning around on the eleventh floor."

Only then did I realize that my posture was extremely indecent. I was hugging him tightly, with my head resting on his shoulder, creating an ambiguous rhythm of picking up soap.I quickly jumped away and poohed on the ground, feeling sick.

Li Yang was so upset that he didn't pay any attention to my behavior.He smoked desperately: "How can this be done?"

I managed to regain my composure, and I had an idea in my mind: "Well, let's go up one more floor. If we still see this scene, it means that we have been circling around the eleventh floor; if we see something else..."

"See what else?" he asked.

"Then let's talk about it. Anyway, that's my way."

Li Yang nodded: "Let's take one step at a time."

The two of us started to walk up, and when we reached the stairs, the building lights hadn't been turned on yet, and the surroundings were pitch black.I vaguely saw Li Yang's figure stop, he didn't turn his head, and said quietly: "Do you still remember the situation on the [-]th floor?"

"There is... rice." I said.

Li Yang said: "What if we don't see the rice once the building lights are on?"

"Don't ask, I don't know what to do."

Li Yang walked up, and I followed closely. At this moment, the light came on.

Under the pale yellow light, I saw a thick layer of white rice on the floor of the corridor. This is a very familiar scene, but it is not the twelfth floor, because there are some strange decorations on the white rice.

It was a series of small houses, there could be twenty or thirty in detail.Each house is about the size of an A4 paper, and is made of simple wooden boards, which look like they are used by immortals.The most peculiar thing is that there are two red couplets pasted on the left and right sides of the entrance of the small house.The couplets are written in crooked calligraphy like earthworm characters, which are too small to read clearly.

When I saw these weird little houses at first, I thought I had entered a Lilliputian country, but when I looked closely, it looked like tombs.

At the door of each small house, there are paint buckets containing incense ashes, which should be used as incense burners.On the house, there are three words "Hanlintan".