Zongman, can you be immortal with me for the rest of your life?

Xiangzi was startled at first, thinking that there was a normal earthquake in Tokyo. After feeling carefully and finding that there was no earthquake, he walked over with a dark face to his father, who had not even noticed that he had returned for two hours, and covered him with a quilt.

Then he frowned and went to his room to look for what had fallen.

Talk about the room.

But this place is actually the corridor of their house.

The layout of Xiangzi's current room is that there is a row of shelves on the left side of the door, which are filled with various storage boxes. There is only an old doll that looks a bit like Rozen Maiden Shinku, or the mechanical puppet Bloody Mary, sitting blankly on a pile of miscellaneous items.

Opposite the row of miscellaneous items was Xiangzi's miniature bed, which was so small that she had to curl up to sleep on it, with a cheap gauze curtain on top to enclose the little privacy she had left.

And she also found the things that fell to the ground.

"strangeness……"

She took a look and saw that it was the half-price lunch boxes she had rushed to buy after get off work. The two small boxes contained food that was well-planned to be enough to fill her stomach for the whole day.

There were two lunch boxes placed steadily in the plastic bag, but the top one was lying on the table in a strange way.

In fact, she had no choice but to fall to this point, but she really could not accept the result that her father was kicked out of the house, and she could not let go of her father who was now like a disabled person and felt that he would die if she left.

Just as Xiangzi carefully put the lunch box back in to prevent it from falling again, he heard a sound from behind him.

"Bang!"

Her whole body tensed up at first, then she gritted her teeth as if she had reacted.

It must have been my dad who knocked over the beer can...

Suddenly, Shoko Toyokawa's eyes widened and she turned around.

No! I had already picked up those wine cans and put them in plastic bags!

In front of Shoko Toyokawa, a round white can rolled in front of her from the corner of the room. The Sapporo Beer logo and the snow-white can body on the can were particularly eye-catching in the slightly dark room.

Xiangzi looked forward and saw an opened garbage bag.

"Dangdang!"

Another beer can rolled out of the garbage bag and slowly rolled towards Xiangzi.

It's like a naughty boy's prank.

But at this moment, Xiangzi felt a great panic.

Just a can rolling towards her made her feel a kind of fear that made her want to retreat.

This fear does not come from seeing any scary scenes or pictures, but something deeper. It is clearly in one's own territory, where one sleeps, but something happens that is completely inconsistent with the brain's cognition.

It was as if the picture on the paper suddenly moved, or as if a breeze blew in a closed room. This was a kind of fear and unknown that came from human thinking logic.

What a normal high school girl should do when faced with this reaction is probably scream.

After all, this is human instinct, to make sounds to call companions and then wait for others to solve the problem.

But Xiangzi was completely different. She took several steps back and leaned against the door.

Turning the door handle, he wanted to open the door to the public area.

This was the only time she felt that living in such a mixed-up shared place was a good thing.

After all, that feeling, the feeling of being able to clearly recognize that there are other humans living on the other side of the 160cm wall, can give people a great sense of security in such a situation.

With the door wide open, Shoko Toyokawa ran on the tatami in her white socks that were a little dirty after a day of school.

"Hey! Asshole Dad! Get up, something's wrong!"

She didn't have the habit of horror movie protagonists who would suspect that something unusual was a natural phenomenon. When she felt something was wrong, her first reaction was to take her father out to take a look.

She stepped over the bottles and jars and came to her father's room, shaking his shoulders continuously.

But while she was shaking him, Xiang's father just opened his eyes in a daze, then turned over, letting Xiangzi shake him and muttering a few words.

After all, all the beer on the floor meant that this wasn't just an ordinary hangover. It was the kind of hangover that Mmk suffered, where he couldn't wake up even after being carried by two people. It was like he'd drunk flammable oolong tea, and it was more like he was fainting than having a hangover.

When Xiangzi saw his father like this, he suddenly became anxious. He raised his hand and slapped his father in the face while making a sound.

"Wake up! Now is not the time to..."

"Click!"

But while she was still patting her father, a noise came from the door.

The door is closed.

This sound also caught Xiangzi's attention.

But when Xiangzi turned his head, what he saw was.

Bottles and cans all over the floor.

They were like an orderly army, lying across the room, rolling slowly in one direction.

Even the bottles and cans in the front slowed down, as if they were waiting for the rolling bottles and cans behind.

"Snapped!"

With a noise, the bottles that were originally rolling along the terrain turned upside down at one time.

All rolled towards the room.

"Dong dong!"

Toyokawa Shoko didn't have time to think, she stepped heavily on the tatami and stood up. Her sense of crisis was telling her not to let those jars in.

She closed the door and took out her cell phone. With trembling hands, she wanted to call for help from the police and the neighbors at the same time. Although she didn't like to be helped by others, she was not so stubborn as to refuse to compromise in such a situation.

But at this moment, with the sound of bottles and cans pressing against the sliding door, Shoko Toyokawa saw a human-like shadow appear on the wall illuminated by her desk lamp, but where the head should be was a long anteater-like face.

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Chapter 106: The musician appears!

Shoko Toyokawa looked at the thing and was so overwhelmed that she almost lost her voice.

“Help…Help!!”

Although he was still very embarrassed to speak out, Xiangzi still shouted out at this critical moment.

It’s just that I still like to quarrel, scold children, play online games and talk loudly with others at this time of the day. My neighbors who are always talking loudly are like dead today, with no response at all.

Xiangzi asked for help from the entire cheap apartment, but she was the only one who responded to her.

what is that?

There's clearly no physical entity, yet there's a shadow cast by the light. Is that shadow the real thing? No, perhaps it's simply that the thing itself is invisible, and light just can't penetrate it. A dark environment would probably be the thing's advantage.

He screamed, but no one answered. The whole house seemed like an abandoned ant nest, empty and silent.

Without caring about anything else, Shoko Toyokawa dragged his father's body and wanted to go out.

But even though her strength is actually quite amazing, and is definitely at a higher level than other girls of the same age, it seems unrealistic to want her to drag an adult in this situation.

Fortunately, in the situation just now, the continuous slaps and the daughter's screams finally awakened some of the remaining consciousness of Toyokawa Laodeng, whose Toyokawa surname had been taken away.

"Xiangzi, Xiangzi, what's wrong? It's okay, Dad will protect you."

Although he didn't know what was going on, the collapsed man still broke free from his daughter's pull and climbed up in a daze.

But at this time, from Xiangzi's perspective, the shadow of that thing, the slender thing, turned.

Combining the shadow with the direction of the light, Toyokawa Shoko was very sure.

It is looking at itself.

But there was nothing in front of her eyes, nothing existed at all.

But precisely because there was nothing there at all, the feeling of being watched was particularly difficult to accept.

It's moving, that thing is moving!

The shadow on the wall clearly reflected its movements, which were not quick but rather slow.

But that slowness does not seem to be mercy for the weak.

Instead, it always gives its prey a glimmer of hope that it can escape, like a cat repeatedly catching and releasing a mouse.

"Hurry! Hurry!"

In such a tense situation, it was naturally impossible for Shoko Toyokawa to understand the completely incomprehensible situation before her.

She couldn't even know the other party's intentions. She only knew that the claw hadn't fallen yet and she still had a chance.

Seeing her father finally get up tremblingly, she grabbed her father's wrist, pulled him open the sliding door, and ran to the door of the room. This was probably the time in her life when she was most grateful that the door was so close to the bedroom.

"thump!"

Xiangzi's father lost his balance and stepped on the pile of beer cans and fell again.

This time, Xiangzi was no longer able to lead him, and he slipped and fell onto the bottles and jars on the ground.

"hiss!"

The pain came from the waist.

That was because her stomach, which had become thin due to worry and malnutrition for several days, was blocked by the bottles and jars.

The beer can was crushed and Xiangzi turned around.

In the bedroom, the shadow appeared on the other wall due to the movement of the main body, and because the angle of the desk lamp was too low, the shadow of the object seemed a little faint.

The shadow of that thing began to gradually extend and lengthen from the wall, until finally, the shadow appeared from the wall to the floor, covering the father and daughter.

But as if unwilling to give up, the shadow grew longer and longer until the head exceeded the door frame.

Shoko Toyokawa could clearly realize that the shadow's lengthening was not due to a change in the size of its owner, but for a very simple reason: it was approaching her.

"Shh!"

Although she could hear her own beating pulse in her ears, she still did not give up.

Her strong will made her resist. He picked up a sake bottle mixed with beer bottles and threw it at the unknown thing standing there.

"Snapped!"

There was a sound of impact, and the glass bottle fell to the ground as if it had been hit in the air, but it was obvious that such a weak throw did not cause any damage to the object.

This completely supernatural scene also made Xiang's father, who had just recovered from a fall, turn pale with horror.

"Xiangzi! Go! Go! Don't stay here! It's...it's me who's sorry for you!"

Maybe this is just a dream for this drunken, useless middle-aged man, but it is precisely because of this that he can speak his mind and make the choice that he truly believes in.

Unfortunately.

"Ahhh!"

As if he had been electrocuted, Xiang's father suddenly started screaming.

But Xiangzi knew that was not the case, because the shadow of that thing overlapped with that of his father.

There was no time to hesitate now. Xiangzi really wanted to help her father who looked in pain, but reason told her that if she wanted both of them to be rescued, then this would not work. If she went to help, it would only cause one more person to get into trouble.

She rushed to the door, and this time she didn't trip over the bottles and cans.

She struggled to turn the door lock.

"Click!"

Turn the door lock as far as it will go and then push it.

Not moving.

She felt like there was a wall outside. She had turned the door, but no matter how hard she tried, she could only push it open a little bit, as if there was a huge force fighting against her.

At this moment, her heart was basically cold.

So she kept pushing against the door, not daring to look back at the shadow.

Until she felt the door lighten.

"How the hell is there a refrigerator here?"

A voice came over.

That voice sounded familiar, as if it was... the neighbor next door?