She kept staring at the vague light until it became brighter and bigger, and finally appeared completely before her eyes.
"Huh..." Qiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief, stood under the light, and looked back at the alley. It was pitch dark, and it was indeed a bit creepy.
But fortunately nothing happened.
Qiao Yan turned and entered the residential complex. When she passed the security booth, she looked inside and saw the back of a man in uniform.
Just as she walked up one flight of stairs, she heard footsteps behind her. She turned back nervously and found that it was an "acquaintance".
"Eh? It's you!" This person also remembered Qiao Yan, the unlucky person he bumped into. He scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "I'm really sorry about this afternoon. Are you okay?"
Qiao Yan glanced at him, sweating again, holding a bag of something in her hand, and then shook her head: "It's okay."
"It's good that you're okay, it's good that you're okay." The man nodded and went upstairs with her.
"You just moved in, right? I heard Aunt Liu say a few days ago that her son's house had been rented out. You must have gone to Aunt Liu's house for dinner tonight. When I moved in at the beginning of the year, she also invited me to her house for dinner."
"Yes." Qiao Yan responded. At that time, they had just walked to the stairs. She was sitting on the outside of the corner of the corridor. When she turned her head, she could see a vague black shadow at the entrance of the community.
She stopped, and the man also stopped and asked her, "What's wrong?"
"Is there someone there?" Qiao Yan turned her head to signal him. When they both looked over, the door was empty.
"No?" the man said, "You must be seeing things. It's so far away."
Yeah?
Qiao Yan looked confused for a moment, but there was indeed no one there. Perhaps it was because the distance was too far and she had seen it wrong.
"Probably." She shook her head, feeling as if she was a little dazed after walking in that dark alley.
The light footsteps of the two people soon sounded in the corridor again.
"I live in 503, remember? Xie Quan is my name, you can just call me Brother Xie. If you have any problems, you can come to me, and you can also come to me for heavy work."
"Okay, my name is Ziyi, thank you."
"You're welcome, it's just neighbors. By the way, the kid in the house next to you in 401 is allergic to dog hair. You'd better not get a dog. The couple is very nice, but when it comes to children, they tend to be... you know, avoid unnecessary trouble."
"I see."
At the stairs on the fourth floor, Qiao Yan and Xie Quan said a few final words.
She watched the man continue walking upstairs, then turned around and went home. When she passed by 401, she couldn't help but look at the door. There was a red "Fu" character pasted upside down on it.
After returning home, Qiao Yan remembered that she still had unfinished work, oh, and unpacked luggage.
With a long sigh, she resigned herself to her fate and prepared to continue working.
But as soon as I entered the room, my cell phone rang. It was a text message alert. I looked and saw that it was from the team leader. It was a group notification.
The building where their company is located caught fire and was severely damaged. Work has to be suspended now and will resume at a later date. Important matters will be communicated via email, and employees are asked to pay attention to the emails and deal with them in a timely manner.
Looking at the news, although it shouldn't be the case, Qiao Yan still smiled.
It took her about an hour to finish the document, email it to the team leader, and then she started packing her luggage.
There were quite a few things in the suitcase, including several sets of clothes, daily necessities and other necessary things. The quilt was stuffed with a thin blanket, and the pillow was also a small and flat one, wrapped in a bed sheet.
"You're quite good at holding things." Qiao Yan took out all the things. She didn't notice it when she stuffed them in, but only after she took them all out did she realize that there were quite a lot of things.
It took another hour to pack up, and when I looked at the time, it was already past eleven o'clock.
【This copy is really hard. 】
[Sister Qiao is really good at organizing things. When I was playing, I put things in a mess.]
【I suggest Sister Qiao come and live in my house.】
【Buy a housekeeping robot! 】
[Is no one discussing that black shadow just now? Did they really see it wrong?]
[I don't know. It's too far away, and I can't see it clearly.]
What about the third person perspective?
[The third person's perspective is also very far away, I can't see it clearly.]
For a moment, no one could tell whether the black shadow existed or not, or whether it was just an illusion.
By the time Qiao Yan had finished packing, the clock on the wall showed it would be twelve in two minutes.
She used the kettle left in the house to boil some water to drink. Aunt Liu said that they were all cleaned and disinfected, so she could use it with confidence. Of course, if she was not sure, she could replace it.
By the time she drank the pot of water, it was exactly twelve o'clock. The mist from the hot water floated up from the rim of the cup. She was sitting in the brightly lit living room when she suddenly heard a faint cry.
At first, Qiao Yan thought it was the cry of some small animal, very soft and whimpering.
But slowly, the sound became louder, and she could tell that it was not the cry of an animal, but the cry of a human.
A woman's cry.
Putting the cup on the table, she walked to the window where there was a pot of cactus.
When I reached the window, the crying sound became clearer, obviously coming from next door.
Qiao Yan frowned. She stood by the window and listened for a long time. In the silent night, even her neighbor could hear the woman's suppressed crying, but the people living in the same house with her seemed to be deaf.
The crying lasted for more than half an hour before it stopped. Only when the crying could no longer be heard did Qiao Yan reach out and close the window that had been open all day.
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