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The water stains faded away layer by layer, creating dark ripples on the wall.

This thick ink-like water stain exudes a stench, spreading along the wall, ignoring gravity, climbing and wandering on the wallpaper like vines.

"Tick tock..."

"Tick tock..."

"Tick tock..."

It was the sound of water drops falling on the ground, but in the silent second half of the night, there was no rain outside the window, not even a breeze.

The sound of footsteps resounding for no reason accompanied the sound of water droplets lingered in the dark corridor, and outside the closed door, the sensor light suddenly turned on.

"Who!" Xiao Congshuo shuddered and woke up suddenly.The temperature set by the air conditioner seemed to be too low, and it actually woke up a big man wrapped in a quilt.

The sensor light outside the door was still on, and the dim light was reflected on the floor along the gap under the door.He vaguely saw a black shadow passing by the halo of yellow light—it seemed that there were a pair of feet standing outside the door, motionless, neither knocking nor speaking.

It's so late, who else will come out to hang out?

Just as Xiao Congshuo looked down at the shadow under the door, he got out of bed lightly, slowly approached the door, held the doorknob with one hand, but didn't dare to unscrew it easily, and didn't even dare to breathe.

This is a feeling that is difficult to express in words, like being strangled by an invisible hand, and being pressed on the heart by a cold stone.If I had to describe it, it would be a strong sense of suffocation.

Suddenly, the sensor light outside the door suddenly went out, and the light reflected inside the door disappeared, and the black shadow also merged into the night.

The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded from the other end of the corridor outside the door, moving forward at a slow and rhythmic speed, like a puppet taking stiff steps, leaving behind a series of strange sounds.

"Tick tock..." The sound of water droplets sounded again, accompanied by the footsteps of the "puppet", echoing in the dead corridor.

It was clear that someone was standing outside his door just now!This holiday villa is very spacious, unless that person can teleport, how could he quietly appear at the other end of the corridor in just two or three seconds?

Or maybe it wasn't human at all.

Xiao Congshuo felt chills in his heart, his hand holding the doorknob was tight and tight, but he didn't dare to twist it forcefully.I don't know when it started, the palms became sticky and covered with cold sweat.

At this moment, the sensor light outside the door turned on again without warning, and the dim light was reflected on the floor from the gap under the door, and the shadow of a pair of feet fell clearly on the halo.

That thing came back quietly again!

Xiao Congshuo got goosebumps all over his body, and stood stiffly in front of the door.The doorknob was trembling in the palm of his hand, Xiao Congshuo was startled, his heart almost missed a beat, and he hurriedly pressed his body against the door panel - Oops, something wants to come in!

After several strength contests, there was a stalemate inside and outside the door. Xiao Congshuo had exhausted all his strength to push against the door panel, but he could only watch helplessly as the gap in the door opened wider and wider.

"It's me, open the door!" It was Ming Yan's voice.

A low and hasty voice sounded from the other side of the door, and Xiao Congsuo finally realized that it was all a false alarm: "You don't sleep in the middle of the night to pretend to be a ghost?"

The moment he saw Ming Yan walk in, Xiao Congshuo's heart that was about to stop suddenly calmed down slowly, only now did he realize that the pure cotton pajamas on his body had soaked up the cold sweat, and his palms were even wet.He looked at Ming Yan reproachfully, slumped on the ground as if exhausted, and kept scolding Ming Yan.

"It's not me." Ming Yan's face was extremely serious, he wasn't joking at all, "You also feel something is wrong?"

Xiao Congshuo's heartstrings that had just been relaxed suddenly tightened again: "It's really not you?"

When encountering unusual things, people's instinct is to escape, hoping to explain unreasonable phenomena with far-fetched reasons.Ming Yan saw through Xiao Congshuo at a glance, and asked him frankly: "Have you been haunted by ghosts for so many years, haven't you gotten used to it yet? Don't tell me you still can't tell the difference between people and ghosts outside."

"What do you mean by getting used to it? Can you get used to this kind of thing?" Xiao Congshuo was a little annoyed when he punctured his small thoughts, and immediately choked back, "I am..."

"Don't make a sound." Ming Yan signaled him to keep silent, while slowly opening the door a gap, frowned and looked outside, without saying a word for a long time.

what happened?

Xiao Congshuo got more courage and went up to take a look, only to see that in the corridor outside the door, there was nothing unusual except that the voice-activated sensor light was still on.But on the solid wood corridor, there seemed to be a line of footprints as black as mud, starting from the door of the room they were in, and walking towards the end of the corridor step by step.

All of a sudden, the sensor lights turned on and off one by one, and from the end of the corridor, the darkness gradually spread to them.The stench became more and more intense, a smell of mildew and corruption.

"Close the door!" Ming Yan exclaimed, Xiao Congshuo closed the door tightly with a "bang", then locked it back and put on the anti-theft chain in one go.

Ming Yan leaned against the door with one hand, a faint dark red light radiated from under his palm, wandered on the door panel, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"Don't open the door tonight, this room is temporarily safe."

If he couldn't open the door, Ming Yan couldn't go out either.He didn't see outside, took the first step to occupy the big bed, stretched himself like a big lazy cat.

"Who are you?" Xiao Congshuo saw the scene just now clearly, and he was sure that he was not dazzled, let alone hallucinating because of excessive fright.

"Is it very important?" Ming Yan propped himself up and looked at him with a smile in his eyes.

It's really not very important, Xiao Congshuo sees a lot of strange things, and his mentality is naturally "Buddhist" - as long as it doesn't harm others, love is what it is.

Xiao Congshuo leaned over and pushed the man occupying his bed, and sighed: "Give me a place, handsome guy Ming."

Wrapped in the quilt, Ming Yan reluctantly moved his body, and said, "Half for each person."

Xiao Congshuo looked down at the man with his hips akimbo: "Do you have any misunderstanding about the definition of half?"

Ming Yan followed kindness like a stream, and moved his body again, very reluctantly: "I came in to save you, 'Repaying Gratitude' to understand?"

"You..." Xiao Congshuo was at a loss for words for a while, lying on the bed depressed, fell asleep.

Dawn dispels the night, and the rising sun shines on the snow-white sheets through the floor-to-ceiling windows.There were two men sleeping soundly on the bed, one was wrapped in a quilt and occupied most of the bed, and the other was lying curled up on the edge.

"Ah!"

A sneeze was earth-shattering, like a thunderstorm falling on his ears, Ming Yan was startled, and suddenly opened his eyes.

"What are you doing?" He looked at Xiao Congshuo who was holding his nose, his pretty face was full of disgust.

Xiao Congshuo covered his nose and got up to freshen up, then sneezed three times in a row: "It's not you, just grab the bed, and don't even save me some quilt."

Ming Yan also got up, yawned and opened the door to go out, and saw the black footprints still printed on the corridor at a glance.

Xiao Congshuo's colleagues also got up one after another, and they all noticed the strangeness in the corridor. I don't know which girl had sharp eyes, and suddenly pointed in the direction where Ming Yan was locked and exclaimed: "It stinks!"

Ming Yan did indeed smell the stench. He looked back in the direction the woman was pointing at, and finally understood—the black water stains were printed on the wall behind him, like half-wet and half-dry mud, spreading all the way to the ceiling.

"Is the water pipe broken?" The male colleague held his nose and stepped forward to check, "I'll find the landlord to fix it later."

Ming Yan naturally wouldn't tell them the truth, he didn't want to be ridiculed as a lunatic.But it is true to find the landlord, this house is not flat, the landlord must be involved.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Congshuo came out of the room after washing up, followed Ming Yan's thoughtful eyes, saw the black marks on the wall, and was disgusted to take half a step back.

Ming Yan shook his head with him, signaling not to talk too much.Xiao Congshuo understood, and lied casually: "There must be a leak in the pipe."

"But the footprints..." Yu Lili pointed at a row of dark footprints, her voice trembling.

For a while, the crowd was quiet, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, without saying a word.Xiao Congshuo immediately called the landlord and said that there was a water leak in the pipe and asked him to come and see it immediately.

The landlord is a well-known young man, who seems to be only a few years older than Xiao Congshuo. When he saw the stains on the wall and the footprints on the ground, he was stunned, and then instinctively retreated a few meters away, covering his nose to block the stench.

All of this was seen by Ming Yan.

The plumber with the toolbox asked palely, "Boss, isn't this a water monkey?"

The landlord scolded in a low voice with a gloomy face: "Don't talk nonsense."

"But..." Before the plumber finished speaking, the landlord stared at him so that he dared not say anything more.

Water monkeys, in layman's terms, are also water ghosts.The Fengdao Lake Scenic Area is surrounded by water on three sides. It is not surprising that there are water ghosts. The locals often warn children not to play in deep water areas and be careful of water monkeys pulling their legs.

"Go and check the pipeline, there must be a rupture somewhere." The landlord impatiently dispatched a plumber to check it, and pointed to the footprints on the ground and said, "This kind of thing happened before, and it scared the guests into suspicion. When it came out, someone had mud on their feet while swimming in the reservoir, and it was printed all over the ground."

In the end, the young man spoke more and more aggressively, his face was covered with clouds, and he couldn't hide his anger: "They are all here for vacation, please stop pranking in moderation."

Not long after, the repairman actually found the broken water pipe. For a while, except for Xiao Congshuo and Ming Yan, the rest of the people breathed a sigh of relief.Especially the landlord who came in a hurry also showed an expression of relief.

Ming Yan looked at him calmly, thoughtfully.

"No wonder I heard a 'bang' on the door last night. It turned out that someone was playing a prank. It's so boring." After Yu Lili complained about the "prank" person, she turned to talk to Ming Yan, "Have you been woken up?" ?”

Ming Yan is really not good at lying, so he turned his head to look at Xiao Congshuo, and asked in Lili's own words, "Did you wake up?"

"No." Xiao Congshuo grinned awkwardly, who made him the one who closed the door yesterday.

Yu Lili didn't understand Ming Yan's logic at first, so why did he ask Xiao Congshuo when she asked him if he was woken up.But after a flash of inspiration, she suddenly realized that when everyone was watching the stains this morning, Ming Yan seemed to have come out of Xiao Congsuo's room.

Is it—

Yu Lili felt that she was about to lose love.

When Ming Yan went back to her room to wash, Yu Lili sneaked into Xiao Congshuo's room mysteriously, smiling strangely: "Brother Xiao, last night you and Ming Yan—"

Could it be that Yu Lili also felt something strange?Xiao Congshuo's heartbeat almost stopped suddenly, and he looked at her in shock and disbelief.

Yu Lili was not sad because of "broken love", on the contrary, she was very excited, her eyes were shining brightly: "You and Ming Yan are sleeping in the same room?"

Xiao Congshuo was worried that she was talking nonsense, so he deliberately asked, "Why do you ask this?"

"I'm very open-minded." Yu Lili sat down next to Xiao Congshuo, and asked with great interest, "Is your relationship unusual?"

"What?" Xiao Congshuo was full of doubts.

"What's the relationship between us, don't pretend." Yu Lili patted Xiao Congshuo's shoulder with a grin, and smiled meaningfully, "I don't want to see what my hobbies are."

Why do you get more and more confused?

Just as Xiao Congshuo was about to continue questioning, the door opened again suddenly. Ming Yan leaned halfway in and pointed his finger at him.

Yu Lili got up very "sensibly" and walked out, smiling all over her face: "I won't bother you anymore!"

Ming Yan blinked for no reason, and looked at Xiao Congshuo blankly.Xiao Congshuo spread his hands, expressing that he didn't understand what the little girl Pianzi was thinking.

Ming Yan closed the door conveniently, obviously coming to talk about business: "The landlord is weird."

Xiao Congshuo also noticed something unusual: "He seems to be covering up something."

Rather than covering up, it would be more appropriate to use anxiety.From the time the landlord came to the corridor, every move, every word, and even every look on his face were silently watched by Ming Yan.

The landlord must know something. The abnormal situation in the house must not be just because of a broken pipe.

"When all your colleagues go rafting in the afternoon, let's sneak back first." Ming Yan hasn't figured out the origin of the ghost yet, and he has no idea, so he can only hurry up and investigate.

Ming Yan lamented in his heart, who knows what kind of troubles will happen tonight, it is clear that he came out to drink and drink, but he encountered a ghost again.

Without hesitation, Xiao Congshuo agreed, "Okay."