Unlike the city area with tall buildings and shining glass, the old street seems to have been left behind in the last century.
There are low buildings and narrow alleys, the streets are covered with moss and green, the windows are rusty and black as if they were smoked and burned, and the walls are covered with dead vines, giving the whole place a look of decay and desolation.
"No. 34 Harmony Street. Is that it?"
Shi Ling turned the camera towards the dilapidated and winding old street.
Time Prisoner: [It's here, please save me, I can't get out of this street]
Netizens speculated.
This street does look a bit eerie. It doesn't look like it's inhabited. Time Prisoner, are you a ghost?
Ghosts shouldn't be able to access the internet. I suspect he just escaped from a mental hospital and hid in someone else's house, secretly using a computer to access the internet.
"Why don't you all believe what he said? If it's true, and no one has believed it for so long, how desperate he must be, suffering through the tragedy of his entire family's death. I think Shi Ling's willingness to help him proves that he's not lying."
After Shi Ling confirmed with the "Prisoner of Time", he walked towards the old street with his mobile phone.
"Don't go in."
An old voice came from behind.
Shi Ling turned around and saw an old man with a cane standing under the willow tree at the corner of the street, looking at her with a gloomy look.
[This old man looks so fierce, it’s over. In Shi Ling’s live broadcast room, everyone looks like a ghost to me except Shi Ling.]
[Actually, I'm a ghost too. I live in the same dorm with Shi Ling and am nicknamed "Piao Senior Sister"]
[Hahaha, a ghost living in Shi Ling's dorm, are you serious? I might believe other things, but I really don't believe this.]
The old man walked slowly to Shi Ling with his cane, "Don't go in."
Shi Ling asked: "Why?"
The old man's voice was old and deep: "Once you go in, you can't get out. One night ten years ago, a fire broke out on this old street. The fire burned down the entire street and killed many people. It happened to be demolished, and everyone here moved away. After that, this street became empty.
But starting on the seventh day after the fire, those who went in never came out. The first to disappear were the demolition crew. Seven young men went in that day, including my son. They drove an excavator in, but after turning that corner, they disappeared. I watched them disappear with my own eyes.
The old man looked towards the old street, his eyes showing deep fear: "It's that protruding four-story building."
After pointing it out to Shi Ling, he quickly averted his gaze, as if he would be cursed if he looked any longer. His voice trembled a little: "At that time, I thought they were just blocked by the building on the corner, but that day, the demolition team did not come out, and the old street was not demolished.
For several days, my wife and I couldn't contact our son. Then I went to his workplace to look for him. However, they said my son didn't exist. Even the six young men who had followed him into the building didn't exist. They hadn't even sent anyone to demolish the old street.
I said it was impossible. My son, Chen Xu, was 25 years old and had worked at their company for three years. We had a group photo of the seven of them at home. Seeing they didn't believe me, I went home to look through the photo album. But my son's photo had vanished, and even the family portrait showed only me. Not only had my son and the other six disappeared, but my wife had vanished too.
There was no trace of them in the house. I remembered that before I went to look for him at his workplace, my wife said she was going to that old street to check on him at his construction site and bring him back for dinner. (End of this chapter)
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