There was a faint light in the stairwell beside him. Lin Huai scratched her chin with her hind paws, stretched on the ground, and planned to continue climbing.
… only two floors away from the sixth floor.
The door leading to the corridor on the fourth floor was ajar, and when Lin Huai walked by, there was the faint sound of someone walking inside.
Not just one pair of feet.
The lights in the corridor were shaking, and the tip of Lin Huai's tail was also shaking. He stretched out a claw and put it up a step.
Then stopped.
The footsteps in the corridor also stopped at that moment.
Lin Huai turned her head slowly, the stairwell, the gray fire door, the snow-white wall...
Impressively wrote a blood red "4"!
"4"!
"There's no fourth floor here?"
"Feudal superstition."
"'4' means 'death', unlucky, many developers do this."
When he first came to Chunyu's apartment, the conversation with the man in the baseball cap rang in Lin Huai's mind again.
He raised his head, and behind the half-closed fire door, there was still a faint light in the corridor on the fourth floor.
Different from the corridor lights on other floors, the lights in the corridor on the fourth floor are glowing old blue.
It was an extremely weird color, like the color that can be revealed by bones in an X-ray chest film.
"... Doesn't exist, the fourth floor?"
There was silence all around, and there was a faint wind blowing from the stairs.
Blow to Lin Huai's cat body.
"...interesting," he thought, "this floor didn't appear before, is it because I've been taking the elevator and not the stairs? Or is it because I've been in my own body before..."
He vaguely remembered that he heard footsteps inside the "door" when he entered the fourth floor, but when he realized that something was wrong on this floor, the footsteps inside the door actually stopped.
— which also means that the "creature" in the door, whatever that is, has been...
found him.
"As a property manager, you must manage all the residents in the building. Such a large floor is located in the building, but you can't charge property management fees for it. The property management is really disqualified..." Lin Huai said in his mouth He said, "And meeting is fate, if it comes, then..."
He bent his hind legs and propped himself up the stairs.
"Follow the will of the heart," he said.
Lin Huai, following her heart's will, climbed up one floor at the fastest speed. He's just crazy, not stupid. Although he was reckless most of the time when he had his own body, at least now, he decided to follow the will of his heart.
However, when he climbed up one floor again, he raised his head, and what he saw in his eyes was still a blood-red "4"!
He's back on the fourth floor again!
The security door on the fourth floor, which was only exposed by a crack, was even more open than what I had seen before!
At the same time, Lin Huai also found that the induction between himself and his body was getting weaker and weaker!
"... tsk."
At this point, Lin Huai did not panic. He quickly analyzed the intention of the fourth floor.
Relying on her many years of experience living as a ghost, Lin Huai quickly came to a conclusion.
"Scare me, torture me, kill me..." he thought, "in that case..."
He squinted his eyes and looked at the blue lights on the fourth floor.
"Let's follow the will of the heart." Lin Huai thought, and climbed up one floor again.
Lin Huai, who has everything in mind, relentlessly climbed up one layer after another, but when he appeared
What is in front of him is always the new blood red "4". As he climbed up layer by layer, the fire door on the fourth floor, which had only been opened a crack, opened more and more outwards.
Lin Huai didn't dare to get too close to this door. Inside the door was a corridor layout similar to that of every floor, but what was disturbing was the colors in it.
Very similar to the lights are the things in the corridor, all with a faint fluorescent light. Blue lights, yellow walls, gray floor tiles... It looks like a painting drawn by a painter who has drunk marijuana in an insane environment. Only in the environment of yellow, blue and gray, it reveals extreme weirdness.
From the outside, the scene inside the door is blurred. However, what Lin Huai could still see was the base of the wall near the floor.
It looked like there were many densely packed black shadows crouching on the base of the wall!
There was a rare coldness behind Lin Huai's back. The security door was opened 3/5, like a silent invitation to Lin Huai.
"...the door will open more and more, and before the door is fully opened, I must either enter this door or leave this never-ending staircase."
Lin Huai lowered his eyes and thought for a moment.
His connection with his body is already extremely weak. He knew in his heart that he had arrived in a different space unintentionally. If he gambled, he might be able to forcibly leave this body and return to his own.
And correspondingly... this cat will be left in this different space forever.
If he left this cat in a different dimension... Wouldn't it be...
"Could it be that I won't have anything to eat for the next half month? And the woman in 201 might go berserk..." He tilted his head and thought for a while, then looked up at the endless gray stairs, "If that's the case..."
He stretched out his paw and walked down the stairs.
"Then walk in the opposite direction." Lin Huai thought optimistically, "Maybe the door will close in reverse."
He walked down the stairs, and as he went down one level at a time, the door that was originally opened to the outside did slowly close inward.
"As expected of me." Lin Huai smiled as he looked at the original gate with only one crack left.
He moved his white beard and continued to crawl downward.
"If you keep doing this, you should be able to go back to the third floor..." He muttered, "I'll wait until I change my body..."
Lin Huai: ...
He saw the blood red "4" appearing again, showing a desperate expression.
And the door that was originally opened only a slit to the outside, and could be closed immediately...
It actually opened inward!
"... Open it in reverse, it's too ruthless, I feel ashamed." Lin Huai murmured.
After thinking about it, he cautiously jumped onto the handle of the escalator, stretched out his head while holding the handle tightly with his limbs, and looked down.
His posture is very dangerous, just one step away, he will be pushed off the handle.
Fall down the stairwell.
At the same time, "rustle" footsteps came again from the stairwell behind Lin Huai who was concentrating on it.
"Shusha..."
"Shusha..."
Like a shadow, walking in the dark.
Lin Huai looked down.
He squinted.
"Shusha..."
"Shusha..."
As the footsteps approached, Lin Huai appeared in front of...
It's endless, cascading stairs!
It seems like there is no end to the stairs!
He shuddered and climbed off the railing.
"It seems that we must go into the corridor on that floor to have a look." He thought, tilting his head, "If this is the case..."
He turned around, wanted to go down to the next floor, and reached the corridor to have a look.
He lifted his foot, walked down a few steps, and then paused.
He tentatively dropped a paw, and tentatively stepped forward with a hind leg.
"despair."
The sound of his paws landing in the corridor echoed with it.
Lin Huai lowered his head, cold sweat broke out from his neck.
He took another paw forward.
"despair."
The sound is so clear in the corridor.
However, he still heard...
The sound of footsteps that didn't belong to him at the same time as him!
Something in this dark corridor... quietly followed him!
Lin Huai heard her own breathing and the beating of her heart under the fluff. He closed his eyes and walked down pretending nothing happened.
He turned his hearing to maximum. He walked slowly at first, but gradually picked up his pace as he walked.
However, as his speed increased, the sound of footsteps chasing him also accelerated!
If you don't get rid of "it", once you enter the corridor, you will "close the door and beat the cat"... Lin Huai closed her eyes and slowed down her steps.
Following his footsteps, there was a pause that was out of tune with him at that moment, and then, it also slowed down!
Just as Lin Huai found out that "it" was following him, "it" also found out that Lin Huai had found him!
"It" knew that Lin Huai had heard the footsteps of her mistakes!
Lin Huai stopped for a moment.
The "it" behind it also stopped.
In that instant—
Lin Huai suddenly went crazy and rushed downstairs at top speed!
The footsteps behind him also accelerated like crazy!
Their speeds are so similar, but Lin Huai strikes first and goes a certain distance faster. Although he seemed to be running madly towards the depths of the stairs, Lin Huai's eyes remained calm.
He is ready to 1v1 with the "footsteps" behind him if he has to.
"Run wildly, take advantage of the time difference of running, and hide behind the door that opens at 70°, just enough to block my body, but not unable to attack..." Lin Huai acted crazily, but his brain was thinking calmly, " Since the stairs cannot leave, the only way to leave is the elevator... In short, since every room has a deadly strange story, those two rooms must not be entered."
"After 'it' arrives, there will be a time lag to find me. That's fine, I can bounce on its face, ruin its vision, and hit the elevator button in its disorganized state...if the ride If the elevator can't leave, then I have to give up this body. 1v1, I have the possibility of victory... "
His mind was that of a desperate, deranged, calm gambler. Under the absolute disadvantage of losing the power of a ghost and entering the body of a cat, he still has this kind of thinking that makes or breaks.
Perhaps before his rebirth, as a human player, he was also so crazy and calm, passing the game like risking his own life every time.
Or when he collects the keys and enters the "door" against the world, what he thinks is also like a gambler, deciding to overthrow all the cards and win!
finally! The familiar blood red "4" is just around the corner!
Taking advantage of this time lag, Lin Huai suddenly turned over and jumped up, and the gray door that opened inward was right in front of him!
He feinted his gun as fast as he could, and got in!
Not long after he came in, the black shadow also arrived at this floor!
With her heart pounding, Lin Huai listened to the chaotic footsteps, waiting for the shadow outside to find her and carry out her plan.
At that moment, he suddenly noticed something was wrong.
It seems that something has been ignored by him!
However, he didn't have time to think more, the footsteps of the other party had already approached the corner where he was!
At that moment, Lin Huai suddenly realized what he had neglected.
The voice chasing him...
It's double!
Follow him with more than one pair of feet!
Two pairs of feet have been following him in the dark!
Are "they" chasing him one by one, or running side by side in the stairwell, following him all the way down!
"Hah, huh..."
Lin Huai heard his own breathing, he shrank behind the door, and heard footsteps again.
Two pairs of feet.
They were all walking towards his hiding place.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, even if he destroyed the sight of one "person", the other...
In the extremely dark environment, he seemed to hear the breathing of the other party.
right in front of him.
and the gaze of "them".
at this point…
Lin Huai raised his head, only to see darkness.
He smiled self-deprecatingly.
... Can't you see it? He closed his eyes and lowered his head.
But at that moment, a black and white phantom flashed across his eyes.
Lin Huai: ...
He opened his eyes and saw a husky staring at him.
Lin Huai: ...? ? ?
Not just... a pair of feet.
Not just... a pair of feet.
"Damn!!!" Facing the husky that pushed him into the corner, Lin Huai let out a "meow" scream, "It's you!!"
"Do you know that you scared me to death just now!!" Lin Huai continued to scream "meow", and stretched out his claws to rub against the opponent's body as if complaining, "meow!!"
After making a series of voices mixed with anger, fear, coquettishness and complaints, Lin Huai stood on her hind paws, hugged the opponent's body and began to "meow" madly: "Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."
The dog lowered its head and stared at him.
Lin Huai:
He felt a chill on his neck.
The dog picked up the nape of his neck, not knowing where to lift him.