A middle-aged woman's slightly surprised voice came from the phone, and Xiao You felt a chill rush to his forehead after hearing it.
"Did you just see someone else in the living room?!"
"That's right! He took the dirty clothes you changed into the bathroom! I thought that was your boyfriend!"
"Bathroom?" It was only then that Xiao You realized that the bathroom door had been closed by someone. She didn't have the habit of closing the bathroom door at all.
The fear at that moment engulfed her, and she didn't bother to explain to her mother. Xiaoyou hurriedly opened the door. She twisted the door handle crazily, but something truly desperate happened to her.
It seems like something is stuck in the door lock. The handle cannot be pressed and the door cannot be opened at all!
"Dong, dong, dong..."
There was a strange noise from the bathroom on the other side of the living room. Xiaoyou opened the door with both hands and kept turning his head to look at the bathroom.
There were water drops sliding down the opaque frosted glass. Someone seemed to be washing clothes in the bathroom, but the clothes seemed to get dirtier the more they were washed, and the frequency of the strange sounds gradually increased.
"Help! Is there anyone?"
Xiaoyou, who had a psychological breakdown, panicked, banged the door hard, and screamed, but there was dead silence outside the door, and no one responded.
"Hurry up and call the police! I'll call the police for you too!"
After Xiaoyou screamed, the strange sounds in the bathroom suddenly stopped. After about a few seconds, something seemed to be approaching behind the frosted glass. It was dark, as if a face was pressed against the glass.
The door handle of the bathroom slowly turned downwards. Xiaoyou could not open the door to the living room. If she continued like this, she would face the things in the bathroom.
In panic, she grabbed her cell phone and ran back to the bedroom.
When she was about to close the bedroom door, the bathroom door opened by itself.
Xiao You, who was in a hurry to close the door, didn't dare to take a closer look. She only vaguely caught a glimpse of a pair of legs.
After locking the bedroom door, Xiao You ran over and opened the bedroom window, but this was the seventh floor. If you jumped from here, you would definitely die.
"Don't jump! Call the police! Ask the neighbors to help you!" Her mother's voice came from the mobile phone, and Xiaoyou calmed down a little.
She didn't dare to hang up her mother's call, so she switched the video to the background and prepared to call the police.
But something even more surprising happened to Xiao You: the police call couldn’t be answered!
The emergency phone number is a special number that is not restricted by the service of any communication company. As long as there is a mobile phone base station nearby, they can receive and send signals to each other.
Xiao You was surprised that the emergency call couldn't be reached, but what really aroused her inner fear was that even the emergency call couldn't be reached, but she could have a video connection with her mother!
Cold sweat instantly flowed down, and just at this moment the video call in the background popped up again. Xiaoyou looked at her mother's face on the phone screen, her hands were shaking.
It wasn't until this moment that she realized that her mother's skin seemed to be extra white today.
"Baby, what's wrong with you? Don't be afraid! Mom will be there right away!"
"No need!" Xiaoyou screamed, and she almost threw her phone away.
"Mom has arrived in your community! Don't be afraid!"
"Don't! Don't come over!" Xiaoyou's voice became sharp, and her whole body was trembling.
"Baby! Mom has already entered the corridor!"
"You! Who are you!" The video picture is getting blurry and the signal has completely disappeared, but Xiaoyou can still see his mother's face on the mobile phone screen. That face seems to be able to see her through the mobile phone screen.
Stare at her.
"I'm on the third floor! The fourth floor! The fifth floor..."
Xiaoyou's psychological defense had collapsed. She was so frightened that she couldn't hold the phone steady. Just when the phone fell to the ground, her mother's last words came out in the video: "I'm at your door!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
There was a sudden knock on the door in the living room. Xiaoyou held his breath, not knowing what to do.
At this most suffocating moment, the strange footsteps sounded in the living room again, as if someone was walking outside.
The sky was gradually getting darker, and the room felt like an ice cellar, with the temperature extremely low.
About a few seconds later, Xiaoyou clearly heard the sound of the living room door being opened, but this was the last sound she heard.
After the living room door opened, it was completely silent outside.
Covering her mouth and nose, Xiaoyou stopped where she was. After a long time, she overcame her fear and approached the bedroom door.
"What's going on outside?"
His fingers were shaking uncontrollably. Xiaoyou was about to touch the bedroom door when his phone that fell to the ground suddenly started to vibrate.
She received several messages in succession, including one from the landlord, one from the renter, Mr. Jia, and several messages from her father.
"Is the signal restored?"
Xiaoyou overcame the fear in his heart, grabbed his cell phone and dialed the police number while checking the messages sent by his father.
"Yu Yi, I haven't been able to get through your phone. I know you still hate me, but I hope you can come to the city hospital."
"Can you reply to my message? After all, you are my only daughter. I will promise you that you will never gamble again in the future!"
"At about four o'clock in the afternoon, your mother wanted to see you, but there was a car accident on the road, and the chance of rescue was slim."
"Go home, Yui, daddy only has you."
Xiaoyou only saw that information now, and she was confused.
"mom?"
As if thinking of something, Xiaoyou clenched his phone, opened the bedroom door and rushed out.
There were water-stained footprints everywhere in the living room, the faucet in the bathroom was not turned off, the mirror was broken, and sharp fragments were scattered on the floor, as if someone had fought in the house.
Walking towards the door of the living room, the originally closed door was opened a crack. Xiao You tried to pull the door handle. This time she opened the door easily.
Before she could react, a force pushed her from behind and pushed her out of the room.
Looking back, Xiaoyou saw her mother hanging from the lamp in the living room by something. She had a mobile phone stained with blood hanging around her neck, and she was holding on to the clothes of a strange man with both hands.
"Yui! Run!"
Her mother's voice came to her ears. Xiaoyou crawled backwards. She rolled down the stairs and took out her mobile phone to call the police again.
Enduring the pain, Xiaoyou, stimulated by fear, ran to the first floor in one breath, but there was a yellow paper stuck on the iron door of the corridor and it was locked.
Desperation kept welling up in her heart. Xiaoyou tried many times but was unable to open the corridor door. She called for help but could not get the neighbors to help. No one seemed to hear her cry. Instead, the footsteps came from upstairs.
"He's down!"
Fear filled her heart. Xiao You looked around and found that the doors of several houses on the first floor were unlocked. She found a house at random and ran in secretly.
There was no one in the house, so Xiaoyou slowed down and quietly hid in a closet.
Biting her lips tightly, Xiaoyou turned her cell phone to silent mode. She didn't dare to make any sound.
Dark night had fallen, and Xiaoyou was so nervous that she didn't even dare to breathe too hard. She could only occasionally observe the situation outside through the gaps in the cabinet door.
After a while, the mobile phone held in Xiaoyou's palm suddenly lit up. She looked down and found that it was her mother who had made a video call to her.
She was so surprised that she answered the call, but after the video call was put through, she did not see her mother's figure on the phone screen. She only saw the rapidly shaking steps of the stairs and the house number on the second floor.
"No! This is not a call from my mother! This is the perspective of the ghost! It is coming!"
Hanging up quickly, Xiaoyou bit her lip so nervously that it bled.
But as soon as she hung up, her mother kept sending video invitations. The pop-up window kept shaking, and the phone screen gave off a faint and frightening cold light.
Not daring to answer the call, Xiaoyou turned off her phone and put it in the corner of the cabinet. But at this moment, she heard the door of the opposite room being pushed open.
"It's coming in?!"
His heartbeat seemed to be about to stop, and Xiaoyou hugged his body tightly.
Time seemed to slow down a lot in the darkness, and Xiaoyou didn't even dare to listen to the noise outside.
The sound of footsteps was not far away, and the thing was moving back and forth.
About ten minutes later, footsteps appeared in the bedroom where Xiaoyou was hiding, and then stopped in front of the closet.
Xiao You, whose facial features were distorted by fear, looked towards the gap in the cabinet door tremblingly.
At the same time, two men's voices also sounded outside the corridor.
"Han Fei, run slower!"
"The situation is critical and we must not delay it now!"
"Then what should we do now? The corridor door is locked, and the female tenant's phone cannot be reached. How about we wait downstairs?"
"It doesn't matter, I have professional lock-picking skills."