Invasion
chatter--
chatter--
Channel 2 made the slight sliding sound again.
There was no sound of anyone breaking in through the gaps in the upper or lower doors. It seemed to be randomly selecting food and going to other floors.
The deer seedlings dare not relax.
When it reaches the top floor, it will inevitably go downstairs and pass through each floor, and perhaps it will continue to eat people.
At noon, the two of them had a simple sandwich with vegetables and beef, and continued to guard behind the door while listening to the radio APP.
"…The current temperature is 40 to 44 degrees Celsius, and is expected to last until 2 to 3 pm. The UV intensity has exceeded level 5…"
The weather report on Channel 1 made Lu Miao solemn.
The high temperature of 44 degrees Celsius lasted until after 1 p.m., and Si Lan had already brought out the floor fan and used the air conditioner together.
The exceptionally bright room was as if several fluorescent lights were on, so when the room suddenly became dark, the two men stared at the window vigilantly - outside the tightly closed floor-to-ceiling glass window was a balcony.
Behind the curtains, a large object could be clearly seen stuck to the floor-to-ceiling glass window, slowly sliding down.
Lu Miao said nothing, walked barefoot towards the curtain, holding his breath.
The thing slid down the floor-to-ceiling glass window to the balcony floor.
chatter--
chatter--
Channel 2 emits a faint sound.
Si Lan, who was also barefoot, took a long broom and pointed it under the tightly drawn curtains.
chatter--
chatter--
…
After a while, they saw a large shadow climbing up the window, probably climbing up the balcony railing.
Then, the shadow slowly slid down until it disappeared.
"It didn't come in..." Lu Miao didn't think it was because the gap in the window was smaller than the gap in the door. "It relied on sound to determine the location of its prey?"
"It's a large piece, not necessarily with ears."
She suddenly remembered the sound of slippers during the first warning on Channel 2. "Is it vibration? Vibration of objects can be used to determine whether there are living things."
Si Lan thought her idea was novel and interesting. "Be more careful when you go out."
When silence returned to Channel 2, they knew the building was safe for the time being.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Channel 1 finally reported some good news.
"…The current temperature is 39 to 42 degrees Celsius, the UV intensity reaches level 5, and the estimated sunset time is 6:30 pm…"
Lu Miao breathed a sigh of relief.
It would be nice if the sun sets.
From time to time, screams could be heard from the street below, which was terrifying.
Starting from 5 pm, the sunlight returns to its usual afternoon brightness, the temperature drops to around 37 degrees Celsius, and the intensity of ultraviolet rays drops to level 4.
Lu Miao was sweating and felt uncomfortable, so he and Si Lan took turns taking a shower.
At 5:30 pm, the sky began to darken and the temperature dropped to 32 degrees Celsius.
The two of them had fried rice for dinner early.
"...According to the real-time monitoring of the Nanjiang Meteorological Bureau, it will be sunny tonight with occasional clouds, southeast wind level 1, temperature between 26 and 29 degrees Celsius, and weak ultraviolet intensity. It is recommended that listeners wear long clothes and long pants when going out for a walk, pay attention to safety, avoid communicating and contacting with strangers, and do not gather..."
It is now 7 o'clock in the evening and night has completely fallen.
Lu Miao changed back into her own clothes and saw Si Lan also changed back into long sleeves. "Are you going out too?"
He blinked. "Aren't we going out together?"
"...Alright..."
There were two neighbors outside the peephole who opened the door stealthily. One went to the stairwell, and the other went back into the house and closed and locked the door.
Si Lan gently opened the door and stuck his head out to check the corridor. After making sure there was nothing red in the corridor, he and Lu Miao tiptoed out.
One of them held a broom and the other carried a mop, using them as weapons.
Both of their cars were parked in the parking lot and they had to go down to the basement level.
The corridor was filled with a fishy smell like salted fish, and there were dried dark red marks on the stairs.
By chance, she met a neighbor who was coming downstairs. When she saw the two men with weapons, she hurried back home and hid for a while.
Lu Miao and Si Lan looked at each other and continued to go downstairs.
There was no fishy smell on the underground floor, and there were no dark red marks on the ground.
"Drive my car." Si Lan took out the car keys.
The destination is a private hospital. They plan to find Yu Xiaowan first and then wait for other team members to meet up.
Soon, the black car drove out of the underground parking lot.
There are more and more pedestrians on the street.
Through the car window, the two saw long, dark red stains on part of the building's exterior wall, exactly the same as those on the stairwell.
A car with its front end flattened was parked near Si Lan's building. The driver's door was open, the owner was nowhere to be seen, and the ground was covered with broken glass.
Someone passing through the dark alley suddenly screamed, and then was dragged into the alley by an unknown shadow.
The screams were intermittent.
Someone walked out of the residential building, knelt on the road, looked up at the night sky and muttered to himself...
At this time, the private ophthalmology hospital regained some popularity and the sound of footsteps could be heard.
Yu Xiaowan locked the door of the private ward. The bandage on her left eye had not yet been removed. She opened her luggage bag, changed back into her own clothes, and put on the team's fluorescent green choker.
Her phone received many strange text messages.
[Xiao Wan, please reply when you see this message. Mom will pick you up from the hospital.]
Impossible, she called her mother and confirmed that she was safe and not mentally polluted.
Therefore, it wasn’t sent by my mom.
[Xiao Wan, the situation is very serious, hurry back to the dormitory and gather.]
[Can you come downstairs to pick me up? I ran away from home, it was too scary...]
…
She found that all the text messages from her acquaintances were urging her to go out. She kept the rules in mind and ignored all the weird text messages.
Da da da…
Occasionally there were footsteps passing by outside the door.
She lived in the VIP ward area that Lu Xingyang had arranged for her. This area was full of independent wards with en suite bathrooms, and the patients were either rich or noble.
She had no plans to cooperate with other patients and wanted to move to a consultation room closer to the hospital gate to wait for the captain.
She is wearing wireless headphones and listening to channel 2.
Coincidentally, the exact same footsteps were heard on Channel 2.
The VIP wards are equipped with soft cotton slippers, which make a "tapping" sound when walking, just like the sound from channel 2 and outside the door.
However, footsteps are plural.
Why are they wandering the corridor?
Yu Xiaowan was puzzled and put her ear to the door to eavesdrop, wondering whether he had gone out.
Da da da…
“…You can go out now…”
Someone is speaking.
She listened carefully.
"Finally found it..."
"Together……"
The multiple footsteps outside the door suddenly stopped.
A moment of silence.
"A great light illuminates our way forward."
Someone outside the door recited in unison, and Yu Xiaowan's heart skipped a beat.
"Let's get started, and move upwards!"
Frightened, she covered her ears and backed away from the door.
"The warm home is just ahead..."
Although the neat and insane voice became blurred, it echoed in Yu Xiaowan's mind, as if there were several voices chanting in unison in her mind.
Light……
As soon as this thought came to her mind, she couldn't wait to unlock her phone screen and switch to channel 1 to listen to pop songs.
During the day, she heard someone singing on Channel 5, so she quickly switched back to Channel 1 to listen to pop songs and discovered the second function of Channel 1 - anti-brainwashing.
The pop songs played on Channel 1 are very particular. They are all square dance songs with strong melodies. Some of the magical melodies and lyrics forcibly cover the residual influence of Channel 5.
The door was blocked by psychopaths, and she looked back at the tightly drawn curtains. She lived on the fourth floor, and she had to crawl to the ground floor no matter how hard she tried.
When she had made up her mind, she mustered up the courage to draw open the curtains.
A large patch of red was posted outside the window.
Yu Xiaowan's face was pale and her whole body was stiff. She didn't dare to breathe and mechanically pulled the curtains.
What should I do? What should I do?
She has no way to escape!
Is she going to die in the field of ghost stories?
No, you can wait for that thing outside the window to leave.
However, the curtains moved inexplicably.
A hint of red slowly seeped in and spread to the wall beside the curtains.
It's coming in.
Yu Xiaowan, who was almost suffocated, retreated repeatedly until she reached the door with her back against it.
Her intuition told her that if she didn't escape, she would definitely die here.
At this time, a patch of red gradually grew larger and invaded the ward.
Yu Xiaowan shivered silently, and his cold right hand reached clumsily for the door handle.
There was almost no sound of unlocking the door. She turned the doorknob quietly and silently, then held her breath and turned around, feeling a numbness on the back of her head.
Five or six psychopaths were kneeling outside the door, looking up at the ceiling and chanting. Some patients who had just left the house were stunned when they saw them and heard them chanting.
These lunatics seemed to be chanting wholeheartedly, and no one paid any attention to Yu Xiaowan and the other patients who came out. She moved out of the ward with her back against the wall, silently.
The wireless headphones played square dance songs from Channel 1, barely covering up their chanting.
With clear eyes, Yu Xiaowan slowly walked away from the crowd, her legs going weak.
After she was at a distance, she turned and ran towards the stairs.
Unexpectedly, a male patient dressed tightly walked out of the ward.
Under his windbreaker jacket was a full set of hospital attire, and his face was wrapped in bandages to the top of his head, leaving only two staring eyes exposed.
Yu Xiaowan felt that something was wrong with him.
The male patient walked mechanically and stared straight at Yu Xiaowan, who looked panic-stricken.
She quickly dodged and retreated to the nurse's cart.
The male patient walked towards her.
"great……"
Before he could finish, a wheelbarrow hit him. He fell straight on the wheelbarrow with his hands hanging down.
Tick.
His lowered fingers dripped with sticky liquid.
Feeling a chill, Yu Xiaowan turned around and ran into the stairwell.
"The light of... shines..."
His fingers were like lit candles, constantly oozing yellowish mucus.
Yu Xiaowan, terrified, ran downstairs, grabbing a bottle of disinfectant in her hand as a throwing weapon.
At this time, a figure ran into the stairs from the second floor and met Yu Xiaowan head-on. The two were so scared that they stopped and looked at each other.
Heart-wrenching cries were heard from the second floor.
Yu Xiaowan stood there, not daring to move, thinking of letting the female patient run downstairs first.
But the female patient was so frightened that she didn't react.
"You run first." Yu Xiaowan tried to see if the other party was mentally normal.
The female patient woke up as if from a dream. "...Eat people...Red eats people..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she ran downstairs.
Yu Xiaowan was still standing there, staring at the stairs to the second floor.
What does red represent?
She made up her mind, leaned over the fire door and stuck her head out to peek into the second floor.
In the corridor, an old man was scratching the floor and crying and screaming, his lower body was covered in a large area of red.
"Help—help—"
Gulu——
Yu Xiaowan retracted her head, not daring to recall the horrible swallowing sound.
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