Every room's door was tightly closed, and it was unknown if anyone lived inside.
One third of the way through, everything was very calm, and Jin Fei also gradually relaxed.
"Maybe we're lucky and won't run into anything."
"Let's hope so."
Before I could finish speaking, I saw a person standing ahead.
Dressed in black silk clothes with a large white character "寿" in the center.
The hair was messy and dry, hanging down at the moment.
The dry fingers had long black nails.
Jin Fei was trembling with fear.
The person was standing in the middle of the corridor, and we had to pass by there to complete the patrol task.
I looked down at his feet and saw that he was wearing shoes.
Which meant he was a neighbor who had not returned home.
We needed to return him home now.
Looking at the terrifying appearance of the neighbor, I was also scared.
He didn't look like a human being, but we still had to escort him home.
Jin Fei and I slowly approached him.
"Hello, we are your neighbors downstairs and are responsible for patrolling today."
"Let us walk you home."
The person still kept his head down, showing no reaction.
By now, we were quite close to him.
Perhaps hearing our footsteps, he finally lifted his head slowly.
"I lost my eyes, I need to find my eyes before going home."
I tightly covered Jin Fei's mouth to prevent her from screaming, feeling her mouth trembling with cold.
The man's face only had two dark eye sockets, while his mouth was the size of a fingernail.
He had no nose bridge, only a sunken nose tip with no nostrils, completely sealed.
The eye sockets kept bleeding, leaving bloodstains on his face.
He didn't answer.
He just stood there, motionless.
"We'll help you look around nearby. If we can't find them, we'll take you home."
Saying that, I pulled Jin Fei and used the phone flashlight to search around.
Seemingly surprised that I would help him find his eyes, he stared at me with his dark eye sockets.
We searched several places, but couldn't find his eyes anywhere.
Suddenly, a sound like something stuck in the throat, snoring, came from somewhere.
I followed the sound and saw a person not far from us, holding a box.
The box in his hand was very delicate and very small.
The person’s mouth stretched to his ears, with the eyeballs completely black, no whites.
Looking at us, he licked his lips, his tongue like a lizard's, long and forked.
"Run."
I grabbed Jin Fei and the neighbor who lost his eyes, and we ran together.
I saw that the person with the box was not wearing shoes. We needed to find a room with 6 to hide in.
The first task of escorting the forgetful neighbor home had not been completed, so we had to run away first and then come back to escort him home.
As I grabbed his sleeve, I felt a chilling breath, not daring to imagine how creepy his hands would be.
The person behind caught up quickly, almost reaching us in the blink of an eye.
Just then, I grabbed the box from his hand and put it in my pocket.
The ghostly figure behind
paused, as if surprised that someone dared to snatch something from him, let out a sharp scream, and rushed towards us.
I remembered the moments before as I dragged them both and ran for my life.
The ghostly figure behind had reached out to grab my collar, nearly catching me, but finally saw the number 4006…
I pulled both of them into a room and quickly closed the door.
The ghost outside howled in frustration, shaking the door violently.
I watched the door anxiously, worried that it might not hold him back.
As I saw the door slowly opening a crack, Jin Fei covered her mouth, tears falling down.
"Hmph."
Suddenly, the neighbor without eyes next to me coldly snorted.
The commotion outside immediately ceased.
The crack in the door closed instantly.
Jin Fei and I stared at him in bewilderment.
The walls of this room were all black, with only a black dining table and sofa, no other furniture.
In the center of the living room was a large red coffin.
The neighbor without eyes stood in front of the coffin, looking at his appearance in this room sent chills down our spines.
"Are these your eyes?"
I took out a pair of eyes from the box.
I found these eyes in the box of the creature outside the door. After opening the box, I saw a pair of eyes inside.
He stood still for a few minutes before reaching out to take them.
He placed the eyeballs in the eye sockets in front of us.
The once bleeding eye sockets stopped bleeding as the eyeballs were put back in, and his eyes actually had eyes inside them, making him uncomfortable as he was stared at by four eyes when looking at me.
Now, we dared not go out, afraid that the shoeless person was waiting for us.
The neighbor who found his eyes stared at me for a while, then reached into his pocket and took out a candy to give me.
There were candies in transparent wrappers on his dry hands, all of them dark black.
When I recalled the old man's words about only eating candies with crying faces, I hesitated to take it.
He kept his hand out, clearly meaning that he wouldn't take it back unless I accepted it.
I took the candy cautiously and put it in my pocket without eating, observing his reaction.
Seeing me put it in my pocket without eating it, he didn't insist that I eat it, which made me breathe a sigh of relief.
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