"Da" sounded in this quiet and scary empty corridor with a strange rhythm. I had already started to feel weak, and Xiaorui was holding my clothes tightly. It was obvious that she was as scared as me, but her eyes were staring at the bottom of the corridor. After a while, she said, "The sound was coming from below."

My heart was immediately settled for half. After all, the letter said that the "da" sound came from the top of my head. Since the source of the sound is downstairs, it is very likely that some children were playing. As for whether there are any children from midnight, they will really sneak into this place to play, it is not what my head can think of now. I just want to take Xiaorui away quickly.

Regardless of whether it would splash dust, I took Xiaorui's hand and ran downstairs. The "da" sound became louder, as if urging us to move faster. Xiaorui's hand was so cold that she must be more scared than me. As I thought about this, I quickly ran to the first floor, and then stopped urgently, Xiaorui almost hit me, but she didn't say a word, because there was a person sitting at the stairs on the first floor.

The electric lights in the corridor were not on. I couldn't see the person's appearance clearly in the darkness. With the faint lights on the roadside outside the community, I could only see that person smoking a cigarette. The whole corridor was filled with the smell of cigarettes, but it also made us unable to see the person's face even more clearly. The only thing that could be seen vaguely was that he was sitting on the stairs, holding a cigarette in one hand, and the red point of the cigarette butt in the black corridor had a strange smell, while the other hand was holding a glass marble, because I saw him pick up his hand high and let go, and then we heard the "da da da da da" sound.

There was a person who had also sat in this place, the migrant worker. Now I don’t care who the person sitting here is. I took Xiaorui’s hand and was about to leave, but Xiaorui stubbornly pulled out his hand and stood there motionless.

I pulled her again and said, "Go away."

I was already scared, no matter whether this person was a ghost or not, it was a kind of fear that arises from the bottom of my heart, so I eagerly hope that Xiaorui could leave with me soon. Xiaorui glanced at me, and the long hair hanging from both sides covered most of her cheeks. I saw her face getting paler and asked, "Why haven't you left yet?"

Xiaorui looked at me with a faint sadness in her eyes and said, "I can't leave anymore, he is smiling at me again."

I looked at Xiaorui in surprise, wondering why she said such words. The man sitting at the entrance of the stairs was covered with smoke from his mouth, and he couldn't even see clearly. How could Xiaorui see that he was smiling at her?

Xiaorui looked at me and said, "I'm sorry, I really implicated you."

I held her hand tightly, even if her hand was as cold as Bing, I was unwilling to let go. I asked, "What did you see?" I said, "I was stunned for a moment, and then a greater terror enveloped my whole body. I remembered what everyone would ask Lao Chu in that letter: "What did you see?"

Just now, I said the same sentence inadvertently. I opened my mouth wide and looked at Xiaorui foolishly. She said, "That boy, he is smiling at me."

I turned my head and looked at the entrance of the stairs. There was only a smoking man sitting there. There was no boy, but Xiaorui's face told me that she really saw it.

The man sat and smoked. Even though I had a long conversation with Xiaorui, he didn't look at us. I didn't know what to say to Xiaorui next, but I just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible. At this moment, the sitting man slowly stood up and walked towards us. With the light on the roadside, the redness on the cigarette and the closer and closer distance, I saw a terrible thin face. I wouldn't admit my mistake even if the owner of this face beat me to death. That was Erliang.

I felt relaxed suddenly, and then I felt indescribable heartache. Why did Erliang become like this? I hugged him tightly and said, "Let's go back quickly."

Erliang stared at me with his eyes fixed on him and said, "What did you see?"

What did I see? I saw my good friend Erliang now looks so haggard that he looks like this. I never thought that a person would change so much in just a few days. I hugged Erliang's shoulder, patted him gently, and said, "Let's go back, you're too tired."

Erliang turned around slowly and walked forward mechanically like a sleepwalking. I turned around. Xiaorui was still standing there motionless, staring at Erliang's side. I looked at him. There was nothing there, but Xiaorui's face became increasingly ugly. I said, "Let's go," but Xiaorui still didn't move, and said softly: "He is still smiling at me."

If Erliang is not standing in front of me, maybe I will be as scared as Xiaorui, but now in front of me is my good friend Ye Erliang. I sighed and said, "Xiaorui, maybe you are too tired today, let's all go back."

Xiaorui stubbornly refused to move her steps. I stood in the middle and was in a dilemma. Erliang suddenly turned his head and said to me gently: "There must be a solution, I can definitely think of a solution."

After returning from the old house in the deep mountains, Erliang once said this to me in the hotel. I knew it was related to his ideals, but I didn't expect Erliang to become like this in order to find this solution that I didn't know. I felt sad and said, "Erliang, I've come up with a solution for you. Let's go home together and I'll show you something."

I have decided not to hide that painting from Erliang anymore. Perhaps if I had handed it to Erliang, it would not have become like this. I have caused him to be like this.

When Erliang heard my words, he seemed to suddenly wake up from his sleep. He turned around and hugged my shoulders, and said anxiously: "Let's go home together, I'll show you something."

I said, "Okay, let's go back together." Turning around and looking at Xiaorui, she nodded to me, and said, "He is gone. But I won't go with you, I will go back to my own home."

I don’t know what happened to Xiaorui today, and where did I offend her? But I don’t have time to explain to her now, and I have to send Erliang home.

The three of them walked out of the community and waited for a long time before a car passed by. They originally wanted the driver to take Xiaorui home first, but she refused my kindness and got out of the car in the park where Lao Chu had an accident. I always thought Xiaorui was very strange today, but now I don’t care about this anymore. I told her to send me a text message when she got home, and then asked the driver to drive the car to Erliang’s house.

Of course, I went to Erliang's new home. I sent him upstairs. Erliang looked absent-minded. I asked, "What do you want to show me?"

Erliang looked at me blankly and said, "Ari, I'm so tired."

I hugged him tightly and said, "I know, I don't need to say anything. You can sleep well today. Let's talk about it tomorrow. I have something to show you tomorrow."

Erliang nodded and lay on the bed obediently. I fed water to wash his face and feet, turned on the light for him, then retreated from his room and walked downstairs. I thought that as long as we talked about everything tomorrow and no one hid it, nothing would happen.

As I thought about it, I soon walked to the third floor. At this moment, a middle-aged woman walked up from below. She was wearing a long red dress and long hair with her shoulders. At first, I thought it was Xiaorui, but after looking at her face, I realized that it was not. However, most middle-aged women rarely wear this kind of clothes. After all, youth is no longer there, and when they are too bright, they sometimes look vulgar. Even if they apply more powder on their faces like this woman in front of me, it is useless. So I couldn't help but look at her a few more times. When the woman saw me looking at her, she smiled at me and said hello, and then continued to walk upwards.

As she walked past me, I suddenly felt a sense of coldness inexplicably and couldn't help but shivering. I rubbed my arms and continued walking down, taking out my cell phone from my pocket and sending a text message to Xiaorui. At this moment, I suddenly understood why I felt cold. At the moment she smiled at me, the teeth exposed between her tiny lips were blood-red.

Yes, it must be blood-red, but the two of them intersected at that time. She was in the darkness, so I couldn't see it very clearly, but at this moment I finally remembered it.

My first reaction was that Erliang was still upstairs and hurriedly ran up. I also had the key to Erliang's new home. When I opened the door, the light was still on. Erliang was still lying on the bed. I breathed a sigh of relief and walked up to him to pull a thin blanket to cover his body. When I got to the front, I suddenly screamed. Erliang looked so strange.

His eyes were wide open, his mouth was completely opened, his eyes were filled with fear and his face turned pale. My heart sank, but he still held a hint of extravagance and shouted softly: "Erliang, Erliang."

But Erliang did not answer me. I knew that what I least wanted to see finally happened. Erliang left. I did not cry loudly, and called the police immediately, and then checked every room, including going up and downstairs, but did not see the woman in a red dress.

I sat next to Erliang, and my best friend left like this. I don’t know what he saw at the last moment that made him so scared and scared. My tears finally couldn’t help but flow down. I wanted to reach out and close Erliang’s eyes, but I still didn’t reach out. I waited for the police to come. This was what Erliang taught me.

I looked at Erliang, not knowing what I was thinking, but only knew how to cry silently. I reached out to hold his hand. At this moment, I suddenly found that his palm was tightly holding a piece of paper.

I hurriedly took out the paper, as if it had been torn off from another place, and wrote two words "Erliang" vertically, but this "Er" made it much shorter. I frowned and thought about it, but I couldn't figure out what it meant, so I tried to touch Erliang's other hand, and indeed I touched a piece of paper.

I took out the paper and spread it out. This time it was just a very small piece, which seemed to be torn off from a certain piece of paper. I carefully put the two pieces of paper together, and then, I finally understood what the two words on the paper mean.

"Er Niang"!

That was the name of Erliang's second sister who died young.
Chapter completed!