red
"There is a door control on the first floor. People without a door card cannot come in unless someone upstairs opens the door for them."
When Lu Miao comes to visit, he needs to ring the doorbell and ask Si Lan upstairs to open the door.
The sunlight behind the curtains was too strong, and due to the rules, the two were unable to peek into what was happening downstairs.
She murmured, "We can't go out now. The person outside the building may not be a human. Let's pay attention to the movements inside the building."
Among the text messages I received from the telecommunications company, the content of the first Internet disconnection notification was the same as in my dream.
The difference is the second text message.
Dear customers, the Provincial Emergency Management Bureau reminds you that according to the forecast of the Meteorological Bureau, an orange high temperature warning has been issued. Please stay indoors and pay attention to the weather report through the radio at all times to prevent heat stroke. Do not go out, and pay attention to the following matters to protect your own safety:
1, the local weather bureau's radio station is channel 1.
2, Channel 1 and Channel 2 are trusted.
3. There are telecoms with malicious access to other channels. Please carefully distinguish them to protect your personal safety.
5. Be wary of criminals who may take advantage of the situation and impersonate friends, family, police, customer service personnel, etc. to commit telecommunications fraud. Do not respond to the other party without verifying their identity to protect your personal safety.
6. Infectious diseases are prevalent recently. When going out, beware of anyone behaving strangely and avoid communication or contact.
7. If you encounter a place with a lot of red, please leave immediately and do not stay.
8. If you experience symptoms such as high fever, auditory hallucinations, pain, and skin burning, please stay at home and rest, do not go out, and wait for the symptoms to subside.
9. In order to curb the spread of infectious diseases, it is prohibited to gather indoors or outdoors to sing, give speeches, chant, and other illegal activities. If you find such a situation, please leave immediately and do not stay.
【Provincial Emergency Management Bureau】
The tool for listening to radio programs has been replaced by mobile phone APP.
The air conditioner in the hall needs to be turned on. Si Lan goes to the kitchen to make breakfast, while Lu Miao sits cross-legged on the sofa and listens to Channel 1.
Coincidentally, there are only five channels to choose from on Fruit FM.
Channel 1.
After the half hour, the host's sweet voice was heard.
"Good morning, listeners! I am the host Tangtang... According to the real-time monitoring of the Nanjiang Meteorological Bureau, it will be sunny and windless during the day, with a temperature of 30-33 degrees Celsius. It is expected that the temperature will rise by 1-3 degrees Celsius per hour in the next hour. Please stay indoors to prevent heat stroke."
"As the current ultraviolet intensity has reached level 4, it is recommended that listeners draw the curtains at home to avoid direct sunlight. It is best to do a good job of physical sun protection..."
Lu Miao frowned.
Generally speaking, high temperatures can kill bacteria, but "infectious diseases" can spread under the scorching sun, proving that "infectious diseases" are related to high temperatures.
And the UV rays are ridiculously strong.
Could it be that the domain master this time is... She looked at the medium-translucent curtains and felt troubled.
But if you think about it from another angle, if this field of ghost stories is related to Qinyan Town, it can actually help Gao Ying and the others.
Her gaze became firm.
Channel 3 is still the "Healing of Stars" program, although the host has been changed to a man with a deep and magnetic voice.
Channel 4.
rustle……
“…Gurgle…”
“Welcome new friends to listen to this episode of “Sunny Day Story Time”!”
Lu Miao's heart suddenly panicked for some reason.
“We answer calls from new friends and listen to the stories that new friends have to tell.”
The call is connected.
"Hello new friend, I am the host Xiaohong."
"……Hello……"
“What story would you like to share?”
"...I...I'm so hot...ha..."
The male voice coming from the speaker of the mobile phone was hoarse and obscure, like a patient with throat disease.
"I... became homeless... very early... I... felt so hot... I always lost... a sense of belonging... Now... I... found it... We are all together... and I am so happy..."
The host Xiaohong's voice became gentle: "That's great, congratulations on finding your new home, you will definitely find your own happiness."
"We...are one...so happy...hot...ha..."
Lu Miao frowned and switched back to channel 1, listening to some pop songs to cleanse the garbage in his brain.
Then she switched to Channel 2.
It was very quiet.
It was not really quiet. When she listened carefully, she could hear a strange sound that was barely noticeable - the faint sound of a wet object sliding past.
chatter--
chatter--
chatter--
Click, click…
The sudden sound of footsteps puzzled her.
That was the sound of footsteps made by slippers.
chatter--
chatter--
“Aaaaaaah!”
Then there was silence.
"What's wrong?" Si Lan hurried out of the kitchen.
Lu Miao pointed at the phone. "It's from channel 2."
He breathed a sigh of relief and went back to the kitchen to continue making breakfast.
Lu Miao turned back to Channel 1 thoughtfully.
Si Lan, who had prepared breakfast, came out with a plate and saw Lu Miao walking around the hall with a focused look on his face. "What are you thinking about?"
"Study the sound of slippered footsteps."
Starting at 7 a.m., Channel 1's weather report said that the outdoor ultraviolet intensity reached level 5, which means that the skin will be sunburned within 20 seconds of exposure to sunlight. This situation usually occurs in areas with holes in the ozone layer, increasing the incidence of skin cancer.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, tiny beads of sweat appeared on the two people who were enjoying the air conditioning.
"…The current temperature is 36-38 degrees Celsius. It is expected that the highest temperature will reach 42 degrees Celsius from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. We recommend that listeners do not go out and drink fluids in time to reduce the heat…"
Lu Miao wiped the sweat from his philtrum and switched to channel 2.
chatter--
Lu——t
"ah--"
The same scream was heard simultaneously downstairs.
She and Si Lan were suddenly startled and immediately ran to the door of the house and listened attentively.
She carried a pistol.
The door felt like it was being roasted over a low fire, and a wave of hot air rushed towards me.
"Help! Monster!"
The people downstairs continued to shout and scream, mixed with the cries of women and children.
Lu Miao clenched his pistol. "There is only one window in your corridor, next to the elevator, not close to the apartment."
Si Lan understood. "You want to go downstairs?"
"Well, I want to know if the so-called monster is afraid of guns."
"I'll go downstairs with you."
"No, you are responsible for opening the door for me."
After she checked through the peephole to make sure there was no one in the corridor, she asked Si Lan to open the door.
The corridor was indeed empty, but the temperature was extremely high, and the hot wind was like a steamer blowing in her face. She felt like a piece of bread that was about to be baked.
No one closed the window next to the elevator, and dazzling golden sunlight fell in front of the window.
She went down the fire escape stairs and smelled a strange, fishy odor.
The doors of the four households downstairs were closed, and there was a trace of light red mucus from the door to the stairwell of one of the households.
The door of this house suddenly opened from the inside, and a woman holding a child rushed out crying, pushed Lu Miao aside and ran into the stairwell.
Gulu——
A creepy swallowing sound was heard from the room.
Lu Miao held his pistol in hand, tiptoed towards the door, and glanced at the situation in the house with his peripheral vision.
A large area of red.
Bang!
She gritted her teeth and fired at the large area of red.
The red in my peripheral vision twitched violently.
Bang!
Bang!
She fired twice.
Gulu——
That large area of red can still move and swallow!
Lu Miao acted decisively and helped them close the door and sneaked upstairs through the stairwell.
At the same time, there were footsteps running down the stairs and crying, probably from the mother and son.
She shook her head and rushed into Si Lan's apartment.
"I can't kill it..." Lu Miao leaned against the wall to take a breath. "The monster eats people... How can it invade..."
She and Si Lan looked at the crack in the door at the same time.
The gap in the door is only about millimeters wide.
"Stop it now."
They first blocked the upper and lower door gaps with towels, and then used sealing tape to firmly stick the door gaps and towels together.
Si Lan's Fruit FM plays the sound of Channel 2.
Gulu——
Gulu——
It was simply the sound of swallowing.
"It seems that the function of channel 2 is early warning." Lu Miao added bullets to the pistol.
"Where do the monsters come from?" Si Lan looked at her.
"It is definitely related to 'infectious diseases' and 'high temperatures'."
"Anyone who sees the rules will not go out, right? So monsters are part of the field of ghost stories?"
Lu Miao was about to say something but stopped, and suddenly his expression changed. "No, when we woke up, we heard someone knocking on the door downstairs. If the monster could get through the crack in the door, who was knocking on the door?"
She overlooked one very important thing.
“Red Block.”
The two said in unison.
She thought it over and over again and dialed Xiao Chi's cell phone number.
After more than ten seconds, the other party finally answered.
"Captain Lu, you called at the perfect time..."
Bang! Bang!
There was constant gunfire on the other end of the line.
Lu Miao thought to himself that this was not good. "Are you guys having a gunfight with the red monster?"
"...Heh, I thought you were so busy hiding in your boyfriend's house that you didn't care about what was going on outside."
"There are a lot of homeless people in the red blocks. Are they abnormal?"
"I don't know. I'm not a homeless person."
She could tell the situation was very urgent, so she cut to the chase: "What's the situation over there?"
Bang bang bang!
There were gunshots and screams from the other end.
"This place is all red, the drones are out of order, and it will soon fall... Get lost! Disgusting things!"
"Bullets can't kill monsters, you guys should find a way to move them away."
"It seems that this is the only way..."
"Hey, Xiao Chi, don't die."
"Oh, okay."
Lu Miao hung up the line with a worried look on his face.
Once the red blocks fell, the urban area soon suffered.
Maybe I can't wait until night.
Si Lan also had a worried look on his face. "Whatever you want to do, at least wait until after 2pm. Level 5 ultraviolet rays are no joke."
She smiled bitterly: "I know."
"If you're worried, why not call them and make sure they're safe."
The deer seedlings were given to the team members one by one.
Fortunately, they were safe and sound inside.
Yu Xiaowan was recovering from surgery, hiding in a private ward. But judging from her tone, the situation in the hospital was not optimistic.
chatter--
At this time, the swallowing sound of channel 2 becomes an imperceptible gliding sound.
The two men, as if facing a great enemy, guarded behind the door.
chatter--
chatter--
Can't tell whether it's going upstairs or downstairs.
chatter--
…
"ah--"
Screams of fear came simultaneously from the cell phone and next door.
“Help!”
Lu Miao was helpless.
Gulu——
The monster began to swallow again.
"...The monster...is so big..."
Neighbors leave last message.
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