It was already past midnight, and most people were already asleep.
The inexplicable crying of a baby woke everyone up.
Some residents with bad tempers simply open their doors and shout in the hallway.
"It's so noisy! Whose child is that?"
"Can't you do something about this? Don't you let people sleep in the middle of the night?"
"Aren't you scared? How can a child cry so loudly?"
"That's scary, is it haunted?"
Gradually, more and more residents opened their doors.
Aunt Liu, who lives in apartment 102 on the first floor, leaned over the stair railing, looking up at the building, and shouted, "Whose child is this? How annoying!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a figure suddenly appeared out of thin air behind him.
Aunt Liu didn't see it, but her husband standing at the door and the neighbor across the hall saw it clearly.
"A ghost...a ghost!"
The neighbor across the hall screamed and slammed the door shut.
Aunt Liu was so frightened that she trembled and quickly turned her head, only to see a pale face pressed against hers.
They were almost nose to nose.
At the same time, she saw her husband, his face filled with fear, slam the door shut.
Lock her out.
Aunt Liu cursed her husband's ancestors for eighteen generations in her heart, thinking she would deal with him later.
"Girl, are you a human... or a ghost?"
Aunt Liu's legs went weak, and she took two shaky steps back.
A young woman dressed in a white ancient-style dress stood in front of her.
He looked no different from a normal person, but his eyes never blinked, and he exuded a chilling aura.
"My child is lost. Can you help me find my child?"
The woman in white suddenly spoke, her voice soft and gentle, like that of a timid little girl, with a hint of sorrow in it.
"Young lady, you should call the police if your child is missing. I haven't seen your child either."
Aunt Liu suddenly realized that the baby's crying stopped after the woman appeared.
"If you can't find your child, you'll die."
"You unreasonable girl! What does your child's loss have to do with me?"
As Aunt Liu spoke, she kept knocking on her own door with her hands behind her back.
But the door just wouldn't open.
The woman in white, whose face was as pale as paper, suddenly smiled, and with a flash, she disappeared from the spot.
The next instant, it appeared on Aunt Liu.
It looks like two people overlapping, which is very strange.
However, Aunt Liu is a physical entity, while the woman in white looks somewhat illusory and unreal.
"Help! Help me!"
Aunt Liu shouted desperately, but her body seemed to be nailed to the spot, unable to move at all.
Her hair turned white at a visible rate, her skin became wrinkled and sallow, and she aged rapidly.
In just two or three seconds, a living person can turn into a shriveled and emaciated corpse.
"ah!"
The scream came from the neighbor's house across the hall.
It's clear that the other party saw all of this through the peephole.
The woman in white pursed her pale lips, seemingly enjoying it. She kicked the desiccated corpse aside, then raised her hand and knocked on the door.
I knocked three times, but there was no response.
The corners of her mouth turned up again, and the next moment, she disappeared.
Then, a man's terrified screams echoed through the room.
"What's wrong with the first floor!"
Didn't you hear someone shout "There's a ghost!" just now?
"That's nonsense. Where did this ghost come from? I've lived for decades and I've never seen a ghost."
Residents on each floor, those who were less timid, had already closed their doors and gone home, but many others, not believing in ghosts, lingered in the stairwells.
Xia Tianqiong was originally in her room, trying to recall information about the strange mother and son and looking for a solution.
Suddenly hearing a scream, I quickly opened the door and went into the hallway.
The female neighbor across the hall also had her door open, peeking out half her head with a look of surprise and uncertainty on her face.
"Xia, don't go out, it seems like the downstairs is haunted."
Xia Tianqiong looked solemn and did not reply.
He walked to the top of the stairs and peered downstairs.
He hesitated for a moment, then shouted, "Give in to her, or you'll die immediately!"
He shouted it three times, and the sound echoed in the hallway, even drowning out the screams.
Someone downstairs asked, "What does that mean? Are there really ghosts?"
Xia Tianqiong did not answer, but stood at the door, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Ghost Mother.
He wasn't trying to meddle, but after the strange occurrences, meddling would only get him involved in other people's karma and cause more trouble.
But the situation is different now.
Once this mother and child monster appeared, the entire apartment building became their hunting ground, and no one could escape.
Although the Ghost Infant is a Fierce Ghost, which is one level higher than the Wild Ghost of the Takeout Ghost, it will not kill people on its own initiative.
But its mother, the Ghost Mother, is extremely dangerous.
The Demon Mother has two rules for death. The first is that anyone who helps her find her child must do so; otherwise, she will devour them immediately.
The second rule is that after you agree, it will appear every ten minutes, randomly approach someone, and ask if they have found the ghost baby.
If found, the person can live and receive a magical artifact as a reward; all others will be devoured.
If the person isn't found, they are devoured, and the Demon Mother disappears. She reappears after ten minutes to ask the next person, and the cycle repeats.
Until someone finds the ghost baby, or until they are all dead.
The first rule is easy to avoid, but the second one is very difficult.
Because the ghost baby can teleport.
It can move freely through any shadowy or dark place.
Even if you see it, you can't catch it.
The second rule is almost an impossible task.
Xia Tianqiong reminded others because the more people who survive, the longer the delay will last.
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