Apartment From Hell

Chapter 96 The Reason You Can't Turn Back

Wen Xuehui was walking around Songtian Road, which was close to Beiyao Road. This road was relatively open, which reassured her a little.The gasp behind him was gone.

She kept crossing her chest with both hands, praying for blessings.Since entering this apartment, she often went in and out of the church, hoping to rely on God's blessing to escape the threat of ghosts.

Although I don't know if it is useful, Wen Xuehui is unwilling to give up, adhering to the idea of ​​"belief will make it work, and disbelief will not work".

As she was walking, she suddenly stopped.

Fear poured down like a basin of ice water, and every pore of the body began to burst out with chills.

hair...

Something like a hair touched her back!

hair!

Women's hair!
The hair was constantly drifting and playing, and Wen Xuehui's feet kept shaking accordingly.She couldn't imagine at all, behind... really appeared...

No... run away, run away!

But her feet didn't listen at all, and she wanted to escape, but there seemed to be an invisible force stopping her.

The hair keeps falling down.

"Ah...ah..."

As if she had lost her speech, Wen Xuehui at this moment seemed to be the puppet whose strings were disconnected.She wanted to struggle, but couldn't.

go back...

Like the ravings of a devil, this voice kept appearing in her heart.

look back...

look what that is...

Cold sweat kept breaking out between his foreheads, his hands were clenched tightly, and his heart was beating violently.

Finally she raised her legs and rushed forward!
He stumbled and ran for several steps and almost fell down.At this moment, she felt as if her strength had been taken away, and she couldn't run fast no matter how hard she ran.

After finally running for a certain distance, Wen Xuehui came to the vicinity of the buildings again, just in time to stop...

Behind him, he felt the touch of that hair again!
Looking back...

Let's take a look back...

This voice, the evil voice kept ringing in Wen Xuehui's mind.Every moment made her want to turn around.The neck also seemed to be stiff.

come back...

The hair began to droop and kept coming closer.

A breath of death began to approach behind him...

Finally, Wen Xuehui turned her neck suddenly, turned her head...

Back in the past!

What is it?
What is it?
What the hell is that?

"Ah ah ah ah ah……"

Panting heavily, Wen Xuehui felt her heart was about to jump out of her body, her eyes widened, her pupils seemed to open their sockets, and she looked behind her.

however……

There was no one behind him.Nothing to see but the occasional cold wind blowing.

No?

nothing?

How could it not be?
Wen Xuehui had already turned her head, but she didn't turn her head away easily, and kept looking behind her.

Don't miss anything...maybe hiding somewhere...

More than twelve meters away from her was an old house waiting to be demolished, which was already dilapidated.Looking at the side, there are some piled up garbage walls.

Now that Wen Xuehui has turned her head, she... dare not turn her head back again.

Maybe turn around again, and the ghost will appear behind you again.

However, no matter how long I watched, there was no sign of any ghosts appearing.

No?
not there?Is that an illusion?Hallucination?still……

Wen Xuehui finally turned her head back slowly.

But at this very moment, the hair behind her felt touched again!She immediately turned her head again, but... still saw nothing.

Wen Xuehui panted heavily, staring at...

Why not?
Why exactly...

She turned her head again and ran as fast as she could.At this moment, her spirit was on the verge of collapse.I thought it was just the second bloody word, and it wouldn't be too difficult, but...

She obviously underestimated the apartment.

At the same time, Xingchen is finally reaching its limit.

The sense of fear kept oppressing my nerves, and I never looked back. Instead, I always suspected that there was something following behind me... I kept pinching the glass prosthetic eye in my hand, but I didn't dare to take it in front of me.Who knows, if you really see that ghost, will you die instead?

Brother's deduction cannot be guaranteed to be correct!
A feeling of powerlessness kept coming to his heart, and the surrounding darkness covered his body and mind more and more intensely.The light has never been so far away from him like this moment.

Only...to find a way to go to the house where Wen Xuehui and the three were separated can...meet them again?Next is……

But when thinking about this, something terrible happened first.

At this time, the stars are standing next to a house.Where he walked just now, there is obviously a door.And just past that door about five steps away...

Behind him, there was the sound of the door being opened...

The sound of the doorknob being turned...

The sound of the door being opened...

Next is...

The sound of the door being slammed shut!
The severe cold invaded Xingchen's back, he immediately accelerated his pace, not daring to turn his head, and kept opening the distance from the "thing" behind him!

no, do not want!
Stop following me!
However, the thing behind him was clearly following him.No matter where he went, he followed him closely like a shadow.

The glass prosthetic eye kept being pinched in the palm of his hand, but he never dared to take it out to look at it.

I really am an incompetent person...

If it was my brother...if it was him, wouldn't he be so powerless?However, it is useless to say anything now.

Maybe I really can't go back to the apartment...

Some time ago, I went to stop Min who committed suicide.But maybe... that just made her experience more horrors in the future.

He raised his hand holding the glass prosthetic eye, and slowly spread his palm.

This is the last chance... If you lose, everything will be over.

Finally... Xingchen brought the glass prosthetic eye in front of her face!Carefully look at the reflection on the glass prosthetic eye...the scene behind me!
then……

stars

Saw something that made him almost scream!

Wen Xuehui couldn't run anymore.Her shoes were worn out, and she even stumbled and fell down.But she still kept on running.

Time passed by minute by minute.

But midnight is still very far away.

She turned around again.

Still nothing.The wind blows, houses, trees, blah blah blah...

Nothing...why nothing?

I can't bear it anymore... Wen Xuehui lay down again, panting heavily.

There is nothing behind...

When Xingchen opened his palm, he saw the prosthetic eye.

In fact, when it was dug out just now, I didn't pay attention to it carefully.

But if you look closely now, you will find...

These are simply... the eyes of a living person!
Why did I have a living eye when I lost my right eye a long time ago?
In Min's mind, the image of Shen Yu's painting always appeared.

Five people, Bian Xingchen, Liu Xiang, Sun Jian, Wen Xuehui and Lu Ye, were drawn in the painting.The five people in the painting all turned their heads.And behind everyone, there is an indistinct black figure.The five black shadows stretched out their hands, took off two eyeballs of the five people, and stuffed the other two eyeballs into their eye sockets!

The eyes of these five people have all been replaced!
Not only vision, the stars also clearly felt from the moment they touched that eyeball...that is a real biological eyeball!how is this possible?

Next, a terrible question came out.

Since it was replaced with a real eyeball...

Then why can't my right eye still see things?
The only explanation is...

Until I took out this eyeball, there was always something blocking the sight of the right eye...

Xingchen raised his hand slightly and touched the front.

He grabbed an extremely cold hand!
The time when the eyes of the five people were replaced was when they first entered this area.There are no commercial streets around, and there is hardly any light.

Therefore... Even if the "thing" that helped them replace their eyes stood in front of them, they couldn't see clearly at all.

It is for this reason that the light is completely cut off.

After the eyes are replaced, everything you see is a false "phenomenon".Therefore, those strange phenomena will appear.

The "separation" of five people is actually the illusion of those fake eyes.

Sun Jian couldn't see what kept appearing in front of him, and neither could the ghost wearing the black skull pendant...

It's the same feeling that this abandoned building complex is too wide...

It's the same if Lu Ye didn't find the extra feet behind him from the mirror...

The same goes for Liu Xianghui who regards "ghosts" as stars...

It's the same for Wen Xuehui to turn her head to look, but she can't see anything...

The same is true for not being able to see living things like flies, because it is not a real scene at all.

It's all because of the illusion brought about by these "eyes".After the eyes are replaced, no matter which direction the ghost comes from to kill the residents, they cannot guard against it.

In fact, although there are many invisible ghosts, the apartment will also give ghosts movement restrictions. As a way of life, there will be no blood instructions that are completely invisible and cannot find the whereabouts of ghosts.That would be completely pointless.

The reason Min gave the residents the advice "don't look back" is because she thinks that the future can be changed without looking back, and if ghosts appear in front of them, they can naturally escape at any time.In short, if you don't look back, the ghost must come to them to change the eyeballs.Of course, if the ghost is transparent, then she can't help it.Even if you write "protect your eyes", it's useless. If you protect your eyes, you will be more likely to be killed by ghosts because you can't see clearly ahead, and ghosts can't do anything to you just because you protect your eyes.However, Min's little cleverness was still completely in vain. She never thought that the area around Santian Road was so dark that she couldn't see her fingers. Even if they changed their eyes in front of Bian Xingchen and others, they would not be able to notice.

This can't help but remind people of "Change Head" in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio".

In fact, if Xing Chen had turned his head back before, he would have found... once he turned his head, he could see clearly with his right eye.The reason why his right eye could not be seen even after his eyes were replaced was because the right eye was covered by a "something" in front of him with his hand.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that their eyes are covered, and there is actually another place where they are deceived.

That's... a watch.After the eyes are replaced, the time displayed by the watch is naturally false.In fact, 5 minutes ago, it was just past midnight.

But Xingchen and Lu Ye, who were still alive at the moment, thought that it was just after ten o'clock in the evening.

Human beings' concept and cognition of "time" are actually completely dependent on clocks and watches.Unknowingly, clocks and watches have become the only understanding of time for human beings. If there were no clocks and watches, human beings would be at a loss and fall into a state where they could not understand time at all.Many people have experience that their own perception of time, such as how many minutes and hours have passed, often differs greatly from the actual clock time.Because people's perception of time is very subjective, assuming that it is under the premise of extreme tension, or when leisurely enjoyment, or when doing nothing, the feeling of time will be different.

Therefore, even if there was a time difference of two hours, no one noticed it.I was completely deceived by the "illusion" on the clock.

This is the real reason why Xingchen and others cannot contact the apartment residents with their mobile phones.Because in this way, no one can know the real time.

Naturally...the text messages from his brother that Xingchen saw...was also an "illusion".

Even if the "prosthetic eye" is found through the text message and the truth is discovered, it is useless at all.Because there is no way to judge the real time.It is impossible to know the real time now, and even if the blood indicates that the time has passed, it is impossible to leave this place at all.What's more, I can't use my eyes, and I can't find a way to leave this area.

The stars have fallen into a desperate situation.It was almost impossible for him to escape.

He didn't know the way to survive, and he didn't know the real time. The "ghost" who was always in front of him and covered his right eye was finally about to act.

Xingchen has no way to escape.

He... is dead.

It's one o'clock in the morning.

All the residents were waiting at the door of the apartment, but still no one came back to the apartment.Everyone couldn't help sighing, this time... no one can come back.

"I still don't know who wrote that note." Su Xiaomo, a resident of Room 905, a young girl with glasses and ponytails, said, "I can't tell from them that don't look back. It's really dead."

Li Yin kept praying that at least one person would come back.

Dead……

absolutely dead...

Xing Chen, who was thinking this way, no longer had any hope of living.

Although I don't know what happened to Liu Xiang and the others, but... I definitely can't live on.What should I do?How to do?How to do……

Despair instantly overwhelmed Bian Xingchen.

Immediately, he only felt a cold breath coming from behind.Immediately... the breath of death kept approaching!

But at this moment.A miracle happened.

The breath of death gradually disappeared.Not only that, Xingchen fell to the ground with one foot, and after a long time, nothing happened.

what happened?At first, Xingchen thought that he had gone to the underworld, but there was still an "illusion" in front of him?
However, he quickly touched his body and found that he was fine.

Are you still alive?

Xingchen never thought that he would find a way out by accident.

In fact, if each of them could see things, they would find that a black helmet would appear at their feet every 50 meters or so.The total number of helmets in this complex is at least several thousand.

Before, in that dilapidated house, Xingchen once kicked something "hard" in the darkness.It's that helmet.He couldn't see the helmet not because it was dark in that house, but because his eyes couldn't see the real thing at all.He was actually walking outside, not inside the house at all.

This helmet is similar to the stand-in dolls on the midnight bus before. Once the helmet is put on, the ghosts cannot see them, and the original eyes will be replaced.

Just now, when Xingchen fell to the ground, his head happened to be covered with a helmet on the ground!At this moment, Xingchen raised his wrist and saw the correct time on the watch!

Bian Xingchen...became the only one who survived this time.

At the same time, Lu Ye raised his head and looked at his watch. The time displayed was 10:30.

"Why...how does time pass so slowly, it's only 10:30?" Lu Ye was getting more and more worried as he walked.At this moment, he happened to pass by a helmet.

then……

His footsteps stopped.

Everything returned to loneliness...

Deathly loneliness...

(End of this chapter)