Chen Gang is a college student resident living by Yangshui Lake, and has always had the habit of forgetting to bring the community access card when he goes shopping.
But that's not too much trouble. In the past, as long as he shouted at the door, the security guard in the security room would open the door. However, this time, he yelled several times at the gate of the community, but there was no movement from the security room.
Just as Chen Gang was about to find a way to get through the gap in the railing of the car, the gate of the community was finally opened.
Chen Gang suppressed his anger. He was carrying his things, and saw that the lights in the security room were not turned on, and it was dark. When passing by the security room, he yelled inside: "What were you doing just now! So obsessed?"
There was no sound from inside.
Chen Gang stomped his feet angrily, and was about to go in again. At this moment…
There was a burst of earth-shattering laughter in the security room!
The laughter was continuous, eerie and mysterious, as if a person wanted to laugh his lungs out. Chen Gang was taken aback. His legs were stiff when he heard the window inside being pulled open.
A pale and miserable face poked its head out of the window. At that moment, Chen Gang wanted to run away. The face said: "I'm sorry, I was fascinated by watching a horror video just now."
This time it was finally not a distorted laugh, but the familiar security guard's voice. Chen Gang just relaxed a little. Looking at the familiar face, he felt that this person's face was extremely pale today. After calming down for a while, Chen Gang also scolded himself in his heart for being so easily scared today. He thought it was quite amusing, so he asked curiously, "What kind of video are you watching? It's so beautiful?"
"This." The security guard gave him the phone screen, and the video inside was completely dark, "Just this TikTok video, I'll send you WeChat later."
Because Chen Gang usually receives couriers here, for the convenience of notification, he also added the security guard's WeChat. So he agreed humbly, and walked to the depths with his things.
He didn't know that after he left, the pale face that was originally behind him was always staring at him with pupilless eyes. Finally, the face stretched back into the room.
After he stretched back into the room, that face... still kept a terrifying smile!
…
Lin Huai came to the place where the complaining Ms. Yang was. He didn't go upstairs immediately, but looked left and right, and after confirming that there was no one around, he found a blind spot for a surveillance camera.
His movements were as agile as a cat, and he climbed up to the balcony of Ms. Yang's house from the outside of the wall in two steps in three steps.
Lin Huai felt something was wrong when her toes landed on the balcony. The balcony was covered with dust, as if it hadn't been cleaned for a long time. There are some carton garbage, express boxes, shoe boxes and the like piled up on the balcony. It seems that Ms. Yang likes online shopping like many people, and she also has the habit of keeping the express boxes, accumulating them in a pile to sell scraps, or using them for other purposes.
Lin Huai saw through the glass door that there was no one in the kitchen. Out of professional instinct, he rummaged through these cardboard boxes.
Most of the cartons are printed with the contents of the goods, many of which are shops selling clothes, toilet paper, washing powder and other daily necessities. In addition, there are many other things related to beauty. These include express packaging for beautifying yourself, such as face washing instruments, automatic eyebrow trimmers, and small bubble instruments. In addition, there were some odds and ends. Lin Huai looked at them and found that they were from Armani, YSL, Shu Uemura and other stores. They seemed to be all kinds of makeup and skin care products.
It can be seen that Ms. Yang is a person who cares a lot about her appearance.
However, among these small boxes, the most are various large and small square boxes, and the labels that have not been torn off say "mask" in Chinese, English, and even Japanese or Korean. Thanks to Lin Dangdang, a beauty lover who always works with them in group building, Lin Huai has a little understanding of facial masks. However, Lin Dangdang does not buy expensive facial masks. She said that most facial masks on the market only have the effect of hydrating, but hydrating the skin is also more important, it can make people look radiant, and those high-end facial masks can also eliminate acne.
At that time, Lin Dangdang's forehead happened to have two huge pimples due to the half-term homework. She looked at Shao Wei, Lu Jin and others who also looked downcast, and then at Lin Huai, and said in shock that she had known Lin Huai for so long, yet Lin Huai hadn't had a single pimple yet.
"And your skin is so white, it feels like fake." She commented.
Lin Huai's skin was indeed very white. Even in reality, when his soul gradually merged with his body until he was almost human, he was still so white. So Chu Tianshu likes to make some traces on it, and as Lin Huai becomes more and more human, more and more traces can be left...
—Of course, these are all irrelevant words.
Lin Huai could see that this pile of mask boxes included almost all kinds of brands that are common on the market. The expensive ones include ex-boyfriends, and the affordable ones also have a variety of domestic products such as a leaf, whether it is applied to the face or smeared, they are all available. If Lin Dangdang stayed here, he would probably say, "Is this sister the blogger of Xiaohongshu?".
But at this moment, Lin Huai remembered the figure of that woman when she came to deliver the courier yesterday. It was sunny, but she was wearing a black mask and a raincoat.
"Mask...hydrating...drying agent."
Lin Huai tapped his chin with his fingers. He lowered his head and continued to search in those express boxes.
He always felt that there would be something he wanted here.
Lin Huai quickly found several boxes of brands he had never heard of in the express box. Inside one of the boxes lay a thank-you note that was stuffed together. The thank you letter thanked the customer for applying for the purchase of this trial product, and hoped that she would reply to feedback in the circle of friends. There are some words besides this.
It seems that this Ms. Yang not only likes to buy facial masks, but also often buys some micro-business masks that are not qualified but seen in the circle of friends. When turning to the bottom, Lin Huai's fingers keenly felt a hint of Yin Qi.
According to this Yin Qi, he pulled out the paper box located below.
Unlike other cartons, this carton has no brand or fancy patterns on it, but only two swashbuckling characters on it.
"Facial mask"
The hook belonging to the word "moon" in the word "membrane" is very long, and it looks like a long drop of water flowing down. Lin Huai simply opened the box and found a product introduction inside.
The introduction of the product is written with a red pen, very simple.
"Efficient hydration, reborn..."
In addition to the paper sheet of the product introduction, there is also a package of the used mask. Those Yin Qi is emanating from the packaging.
Lin Huai held the package and lifted it expressionlessly. As he did this, the liquid in the package dripped down the edge of the package.
The remaining liquid in the silver package is a transparent essence in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Lin Huai, it is...
Yellowish red pus-smelling blood that exudes a rancid smell!
"Perhaps the so-called facial mask that was originally placed here is really the skin peeled off from some ghost's face." Lin Huai murmured, "It's just that in Ms. Yang's eyes, it is a transparent, thin piece of skin. It’s just a mask like a cicada’s wings.”
After completing these investigations, Lin Huai quietly climbed down from the third floor again. When he walked into the elevator and was about to close the door, a hurried young man also came outside the elevator.
The young man seemed to be on the phone with someone. Seeing that the elevator was closing, he hurried in.
"I'm going to stop chatting when I get on the elevator. The security guard laughed so happily watching the horror movie. Maybe it's a bad sand sculpture movie! I'll take a look when I go back later, yes, yes, you can order it for me in a while." Come on, when you hear Chen Gang, respond!"
After speaking, the young man hung up the phone.
Lin Huai stood beside him and glanced at him. The young man turned his eyes to see him, and said, "Handsome guy, you look a little strange, you just moved here?"
"A courier." Lin Huai said.
"Oh… "
The young man looked at Lin Huai's appearance, he really didn't look like a courier, and he was empty-handed. Recently, there are frequent thieves in the community. Although Lin Huai is handsome, he cannot be ruled out as a thief. Therefore, he took two steps back, pretending that he was looking in the mirror with his mobile phone, and secretly took a picture of Lin Huai's back, and his front reflected on the elevator door.
It's always good to be prepared.
Lin Huai seemed completely unaware that she was secretly photographed. When he reached the third floor, he went down. The elevator doors then closed.
Chen Gang also took the elevator and arrived at his residence - the seventh floor.
…
Lin Huai knocked on the door of 301, and after a while, a woman's voice came from inside.
The voice was vague, like a fish spitting bubbles: "Who is it?"
"For those who deliver the courier, come to see the water in the courier." Lin Huai said.
After a long time in the room, the sound of a woman opening the door was finally heard.
"come in."
Lin Huai looked up into the room. The room was very dark, and the lights were not turned on. The woman stood at the door, wearing a black mask and a waterproof jacket.
"Do you want to change into slippers?" Lin Huai lowered her head.
The next moment, he stopped.
"You don't need to change your slippers, come in and have a look." A woman's voice came from his head.
Looking at it with human eyes, the ground here just looks a little damp. You can use Lin Huai's eyes to see...
On the floor of the porch leading to the door, there are actually dense marks of messy high-heeled shoes!
Different high heels, different footprints... It seems that several women have walked here and played disco.
The woman wearing a black mask seems to have no idea that her room has become a happy dancing place for "women". Lin Huai responded and followed her into the room. The woman didn't turn on the light in the room until then, and pointed to the living room floor and said, "The couriers are all there."
"The house is always very damp recently. I just got the courier back, and before I opened it, I saw water seeping out of it." The woman said sharply, "How did you deliver this courier? It was still a desiccant, why didn't it It's leaking directly? Can I still use it?"
Lin Huai looked at the boxes, and found that the packaging inside had indeed leaked water. He walked over, knelt down and said, "Let me see."
There was indeed a lingering dampness in the room. The moment he crouched down, Lin Huai opened his ghost pupils. The black pupils that belonged to humans turned blood red at that moment.
There are indeed large areas of water stains on the courier box. However, under the gaze of Ghost Tong...
Those water stains are obviously countless wet handprints!
Countless wet handprints were stacked together, and finally turned into this large water stain. It was as if someone touched the contents of the package after it was brought back. Lin Huai took out a small knife, opened the courier, and said, "It's okay, you see, it's just that the desiccant inside the outer package must still be good after water has entered it."
"How can you dismantle it casually..."
With that said, he took out the desiccant inside. The desiccant inside is wrapped in plastic and is still intact. Lin Huai then said: "It's just that the outer packaging is wet, of course..."
At that moment, he felt water drops, tick, tick, dripping on the top of his head.
Lin Huai looked up and saw a woman with long black hair bending over to look at him. She was wearing a pitch-black mask, and the water dripped from her chin.
With a strange smell, water droplets.
Lin Huai continued to tell her as if she couldn't see it: "But it's a fact that water has entered the outer packaging. If you think it's not good, we can compensate you."
"No need, just take it apart and put it here." The woman's voice said flatly, "Please help me take it apart, this room is very wet."
"Now I can be sure that this woman is indeed a ghost." Lin Huai thought in his heart, "The courier was specially sent to the door, but there was no need to pay for it. I made such a trip specially, so I wanted to invite you into the urn."
"Since this is the case, I don't have to pretend to be a gentleman anymore."
Lin Huai immediately felt very relaxed. Since women are ghosts, he can let himself go freely with confidence.
While unpacking the courier, Lin Huai said, "Why did you buy so many desiccants and unpack them all? Is the house very wet?"
"Ok."
"Oh, I saw you wearing a mask when I came in. What's the matter, are you allergic to pollen? I just saw several boxes of facial masks on the coffee table in your living room. Do you like to apply facial masks? My girlfriend also likes to buy facial masks. She My skin was always dry."
After hearing this sentence, the woman finally opened up the conversation box.
"I also have dry skin." She said, "Some time ago, I saw a friend in the circle of friends who bought a mask, saying that the effect was particularly good. I was recommended by her to buy a box. I have dry desert skin, what to apply It didn't work that way."
"Is it working well?"
The woman nods.
"Those masks look light and thin, but after applying them on the face, when I wake up the next day... the whole body becomes very moist, and it's not as beautiful as me." The woman said slowly, "Later I Keep applying, keep applying... However, this mask is too expensive. Weishang said that the quantity is limited, it is really difficult to get new ones, because the process is special... "
The craftsmanship of the mask is really special, after all, drowned beauties are hard to find.
"However, she told me that as long as I help her sell together, when her downline, she will give me more masks..."
"Is the effect really that good?"
The woman nods.
Suddenly, she moved her face to Lin Huai's side, and then her cold voice said, "It's so good, the smell of desiccant... as if all the water has been sucked away..."
She closed her eyes, breathing like intoxicated. Then, she picked up a pack of desiccant and took off her mask like no one else was there.
At that moment, Lin Huai also saw the woman's face in the reflection of the TV screen!
It is indeed a very beautiful face - if every face has 8 points of beauty, then this woman obviously has 96 points, because...
On her face, there were twelve human faces overlapping each other! !
That woman thought she was putting on a mask every day, but she didn't know what she had been putting on her face...
They all have the faces of water ghosts!
Therefore, every morning when she wakes up, she will feel that her facial features have become more beautiful. Because what she saw in the mirror was not her own face at all...
Twelve human faces overlapped, all desperately pushing their skins towards the bag of desiccant. Lin Huai blinked and said, "Since you have withdrawn your complaint, I'll go first..."
"Don't be in a hurry, little brother." The woman said enthusiastically, "Doesn't your girlfriend also want to buy a mask? Do you want to ask her what she thinks of my mask, or..."
Pointing to her face, she smiled and said, "Do you want to try it for her?" Lin Huai: ...
"Try it."
"Try it."
Countless faces looked at him resentfully. At that moment, Lin Huai saw eleven women standing behind the women. Eleven women were all drowned in the water. They stood in front of Lin Huai wetly in white dresses with their heads down.
They gradually surrounded Lin Huai, reaching out their wet hands to him.
Lin Huai glanced at the courier box next to her - there happened to be twelve boxes of desiccant in the courier box, which was enough to paste one box on each person's face.
He guessed that the correct way to clear the level was this. But Lin Huai didn't want to take the usual path. He saw these twelve women approaching him enthusiastically, trying to sell products to him, and felt that he could not live up to their kindness and must explain to them in detail.
"Actually, I also have a lot of research on hydration, but I usually don't hydrate like this."
As Lin Huai said, he raised his fingers and pressed down on both temples. He looked at the women on both sides, grinned and said, "I'm usually..."
tear up.
"Just like now, tear off the skin and soak it in water overnight to replenish water."