"By the way, in the previous reminder, wasn't the resident upstairs named Xiaomei..."
Qianye thought of the words displayed on the computer screen when he entered this world. Although the expressions of the text were a bit strange, he could more or less obtain some information.
I learned this from my mother.
There is a man named Xiao Li upstairs.
Last night they also saw Xiao Li commit suicide by jumping off the building. Even though the body was a little bloody, at least they could tell that it was a man.
"The name Xiaomei should be a female."
"Xiao Li? Xiao Mei?"
"What's their relationship?"
"Well, there's only one person living upstairs..."
"Isn't it because the resident is a man named Li Xiaomei?"
Think of this.
Qianye suddenly thought of something bad and felt a chill in his body.
In the previous written description of entering the world, he remembered seeing his mother asking Xiaomei to come downstairs and sleep with him.
When I think of the terrible image of two men crowded on the small bed in my bedroom.
He immediately restrained his imagination that was about to run wild.
"You guys go quickly! Why are you standing there in a daze? Hurry up and return it and eat some noodles!"
Mom urged the people around the fire while bringing out the fragrant noodles from the kitchen.
It is worth mentioning that.
Mom's cooking skills are as superb as ever, but even the simplest bowl of scallion noodles is cooked by her to make it fragrant and delicious.
Qianye and the three people who only ate compressed biscuits last night moved their index fingers. They felt like they couldn't wait to eat this bowl of noodles to satisfy the desires of their mouths and tongues.
Qianye didn't have time to taste it yet.
The final task of returning the scraper...
His mother put it on him.
Due to the identity setting, chores like this are usually left to him, just like buying salt before. They are basically things that Qianye is called to do in his daily life.
He couldn't shirk it.
The task this time is just to return a scraper upstairs, so you can’t use the excuse of buying salt to ask others to accompany you...
However, Qianye thinks this is not bad news.
He is currently very puzzled by the problem of the residents upstairs. Maybe he can go and see what problem can be solved...
Although this community is a bit old, the decoration and design are still good.
The corridor is not as eerie and monotonous as in traditional ghost stories. Instead, it has good light transmittance. Under the sunlight, the countertop of the stairs seems to be covered with a slightly golden carpet.
Qianye walked past the rusty handrail, stepped onto the stairs and quickly arrived at the door of the house.
There are some faded couplets on both sides of the door.
Maybe because a child in a certain family was naughty, part of the couplet was torn off.
At the corner is the entrance to the garbage channel.
Generally speaking, a community like this will have a place set aside for taking out garbage.
In an era when elevators were not common...
Residents on higher floors throw garbage directly into this hole for the convenience of taking out garbage, and it will fall directly to the garbage dump on the first floor.
Qianye's right hand went around his clothes and grasped the ax quietly tucked into his waist.
His left hand was holding a scraper and knocking on the door in front of him.
Although there was no fear or foreshadowing of what was about to happen in this scene, Qianye thought it was better to be careful.
Prevent a monster from popping out and twisting your head off!
After knocking on the door.
Qianye waited for a moment...
He could hear some rustling sounds coming from inside the house, and someone should be walking towards the door.
"So, was he the person who jumped to death last night?"
Qianye guessed at the same time.
The door in front of me also opened.
But the strange thing is that the door only opened a crack...
There was only a pair of lifeless eyes peeking through the crack in the door, scanning Qianye strangely.
"What are you here for?"
The other party's tone was slightly unkind.
Qianye could see the middle-aged man's pale face and messy hair through the crack in the door. It was as if he was seriously ill and he felt like he was about to collapse.
"Uncle Li, this is the scraper my mother borrowed from you last time. She just remembered it today and asked me to come upstairs to return it to you. I'm really sorry."
Qianye said this to suit the situation.
Never thought.
After hearing these words, the middle-aged man became mentally disturbed. His eyes when looking at Qianye also changed from silent to erratic, and he was suddenly on the verge of going berserk.
"Uncle Li? What Uncle Li?"
"I don't need this!"
"Take it away! Get out of here!"
Finished.
Uncle Li immediately retracted his head and slammed the door shut with a loud "bang"! Qianye was just locked out of the door.
Faced with this sudden change.
Qianye stood there. He didn't know what he said wrongly, causing the other party's mood to suddenly become abnormal.
Chino still has an impression of that face.
He looks exactly like the man who jumped to his death last night...
"After all, it's true that he hollowed out his chest and committed suicide by jumping off the building last night."
"The dead are resurrected..."
"The surrounding residents seem to have no memory of this incident. Why is that?"
Qianye felt as if he had touched upon a logical story about this world, and he vaguely felt that the memory he had lost must be inseparable from this incident.
Hesitated for a moment.
He forced himself to knock on the door again.
But this time there was no response in the room. After waiting for a long time, Qianye could only give up.
There must be something wrong with Xiao Li's suicide.
And this question is likely to go to the core of what the world is about...
"A person who eats a human being is no longer a human being..."
"Does this description of my mother mean that she can eat people?"
"Similar to what I saw in school at the beginning eating potted hair?"
The world looks peaceful on the surface.
It's also very warm and peaceful.
But Qianye has encountered many strange things so far.
The occurrence of those things made the world become complicated and confusing in peace...
He stroked it a little.
At the beginning, there was an introduction to the world on the computer screen, recording her mother's "strange love" for herself.
Then after entering the world, I discovered that I was actually a student of "Adamada High School", and the identity setting I received was that of a weak-minded boy.
I was told that my mother would eat randomly.
And the food cooked by my mother is delicious...
Then last night Xiao Li committed suicide by jumping off the building, and today he was inexplicably resurrected. Other residents seemed to be unaware of his suicide.
In addition, Chino and the others also lost their memory of what happened after twelve o'clock last night.
And those lost memories cannot be preserved by the content of the novel panel...
It was previously mentioned in the novel that the resident upstairs was Xiaomei.
As for whether it was Xiao Li or Xiao Mei, Qianye couldn't figure it out for the time being...
During this period, the rule I learned was to “listen to your mother”.
Finally, when it came to buying salt this morning, Yin Fu’s strange reaction, and Xiao Li’s strange behavior when he came here...
…
"Then what does it mean when all these are connected?"
Qianye turned around and was already planning to leave first.
Since the other party has no intention of opening the door, it is a waste of time for him to stay here.
But the moment he raised his feet to leave.
The door suddenly opened!
The man in the room seemed to be a different person.
Looking at Qianye in front of the door with a face full of joy.
"Eh? Xiaoye, why are you up here?"
Hear the words.
Qianye stopped in his tracks.
He looked back at Uncle Li, who had become amiable at this time, and couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.
Wasn’t the attitude just now quite bad?
Why now...
Qianye winced slightly and tentatively repeated the line he had said before.
"Uncle Li, my mother lent you the scraper last time. She just remembered it today and asked me to come upstairs to return it to you. I'm really sorry."
After Uncle Li heard what Qianye said.
His eyes noticed the scraper in the latter's hand, showing a completely opposite look from before. He smiled and said, "It's okay. If you don't have any use for it, you can use it. I have one at home."
"My family has already bought it, so I might as well return it to you. After all, it is a loan."
Qianye said, passing the spatula in his hand forward.
The hand holding the ax in his right hand was a little tighter. If there was anything slightly wrong, he would just throw the ax over without politeness.
but,
The man responded well.
While saying "Okay," he just took the scraper.
After returning the scraper, Uncle Li also invited Qianye to play at home for a while, watch TV, drink a glass of water, etc...
"Thank you, but my mother cooked noodles at home. She will scold me if I don't go down."
Chino politely declined the invitation.
He immediately turned around and planned to go home first. It took a long time to go upstairs, hoping that he would not be scolded by his mother.
But the moment he turned around.
Uncle Li's hand suddenly grabbed his wrist!
In his alertness, Qianye almost pulled out the ax and chopped it at the man.
But just when he was about to pull out the axe, he saw the face of the man holding him pleading, and he kept saying: "Please, don't go, please help me, I can't hold it anymore, I'm about to die"
quilt……"
"Chino."
Uncle Li hasn't finished speaking yet.
Another person's voice came from the corridor.
Qianye and Uncle Li looked towards the source of the sound and saw a beautiful woman wearing an apron standing at the top of the stairs.