Zhou Rui, a single just after her 35 birthday, has a stable job, has her own real estate and means of transportation, keeps fit, eats at least once a week, travels at least twice a year, and lives what she considers to be a fulfilling and contented life.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhou Rui, who wears formal clothes and glasses at work, is also a rare intellectual beauty. It's just. I'm just a little old.

On that day, as usual, Zhou Rui was just ready to change her clothes and go out for a run after coming back from work, but as soon as she opened the wardrobe, she turned around and fainted for a period of time. She found herself in a completely strange place.

"Ah! Aah! It hurts, it hurts! "

As soon as Zhou Rui sat up from the floor covered with thick carpets, she saw the yellow hair of a very bad-looking young man rolling on the ground with sweat. He held down his neck, and his whole face turned red. His neck was even more painful to the point of "burst tendons". As soon as he took a breath, he continued to make a series of screams, and the sweat soaked the white T-shirt he was wearing.

Although she doesn't know what happened, Zhou Rui, an outsider, can feel the pain of the yellow hair, and the painful struggle looks like a character who has been cut several times in a TV series.

But no matter how good the actor is, he may not be able to perform that kind of real pain.

The weirdest thing was that the yellow-haired man did not have any wounds, even unharmed, and had no idea why he screamed so painfully.

"what's the noise?" A big-looking bald head dressed in black leather stood up from the side of the sofa. Zhou Rui could even see him spitting as he spoke.

And that bald hand, unexpectedly holding a very long and sharp watermelon knife!

"Ah!" Even Zhou Rui could not help shouting.

"Brother, are you all right?" The ordinary middle-aged man walked up to the yellow hair and pressed his struggling hands. "what's the matter with you?" What's wrong with it? "

"Ah!" The yellow hair opened his eyes wide in panic. "someone killed me, my neck!" My neck! "

"your neck is fine." The middle-aged man is fat and short, so he looks like an honest and honest man, so now he presses his neck and says, "there's nothing wrong, or do you feel any pain?"

"Ah! Ah! " Even though the yellow hair was pressed tightly, he still shouted for a long time until he was out of strength and was almost out of breath, and the whole person calmed down as he gasped for breath.

"how did this happen. How did this happen. " After Zhou Rui saw that the yellow hair calmed down, she babbled like an old man, checking her neck and heartbeat. "how is that possible? I was supposed to be dead, obviously.". "

Is a person who doesn't look normal. After Zhou Rui made a secret judgment, she also began to recover from her initial confusion and bewilderment and began to look at her surroundings.

This seems to be a luxury house. It's the kind she can't afford all her life, because the ceiling is two stories high, and the chandelier is a simple-looking string of gourds that reflects the interior like daylight.

The decoration also looks modern, with a staircase leading to the second floor, a corridor on the second floor and a row of dark rooms.

The place where Zhou Rui is now should be the hall on the ground floor, next to a gate that should lead to the outside of the villa.

There are five people in the hall. In addition to Zhou Rui, there seems to be an unstable yellow hair, the middle-aged uncle who helped hold down the yellow hair just now, a very ferocious bald man. There is also an old man with a goatee who looks like a fairy wind bone sitting on a single sofa.

No, there's another one!

After the bald man moved away from the front of the sofa, Zhou Rui saw an unawakened child lying on the sofa behind him.

The child, about five years old, was lying on the sofa with a white-haired puppy in his arms, sleeping peacefully like a porcelain doll, so that Zhou Rui, who was determined to be a bachelor, could not help looking at it a few more times.

The boy's dream does not seem to be calm, long eyelashes tremble from time to time, but there is no sign of waking up.

It was the white-haired puppy with round eyes that happened to look at her while Zhou Rui looked at her, and even made Zhou Rui feel that she had been carefully examined.

"where are we?" Zhou Rui subconsciously moved away from the place where the bald man was, so when she saw the other person coming towards her, Zhou Rui pretended to move her feet naturally and walked around to the other side of the sofa like a circle. That's where the little boy is.

"I don't know. I woke up here." The pudgy middle-aged man also looked confused. He looked at the uniform clothes of a supermarket and hung a sign with an avatar on him. He looked like a supermarket worker.

"the owner here looks very rich." The old man sitting on the sofa touched the long beard on his chin. Not only did he look like a fairy, but he even looked very calm. "maybe he invited us here to be a guest," he said. "

"well, it would be wrong of you to think so."

Zhou Rui looked at the bald man who had just spoken, and then found that there was a smug expression on the guy's face, as if she knew something about their current situation, but held back very badly.

It is precisely because of the existence of this bald man with a knife that Zhou Rui has an impulse to leave the hall urgently.

"Boo!" The chandelier on the ceiling flashed, and then the whole ground floor hall seemed to have tripped and fell into darkness!

Zhou Rui was standing next to the sofa, but when the lights went out, her eyes could not get used to it for a moment. She only felt that it was so dark that she could no longer tell who was standing where.

Just then, a white light suddenly split outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the hall! The sudden lightning lit up the hall in an instant, and then returned to the darkness.

After the lightning, there was a succession of thunder, which made everyone in the living room look at the French window in front of them.

Maybe it was because the lights in the hall were too bright just now, so Zhou Rui didn't notice the situation outside the villa. And when Zhou Rui's eyes adapted to the darkness in front of her, she gradually saw the blurred night outside the floor-to-ceiling window, as well as the torrential rain and branches constantly slapping on the floor-to-ceiling window!

It's raining outside, and it seems to be blowing wildly!

The sound of lightning, thunder and torrential rain slapping on the windows kept coming into Zhou Rui's ears, making her give up the idea of leaving the villa for a while.

After all, such a bad night is really not suitable for an unarmed ordinary woman to go out.

"it seems that no matter what happens, we will have to spend the night here." The voice in the dark seemed to belong to the supermarket uncle, and he also spoke the voice of Zhou Rui.

Although there was a little light in the night outside the window, the living room was still dark, and the terrible darkness made Zhou Rui subconsciously grasp what could be supported around her, such as the armrest of the sofa.

Just as Zhou Rui was groping for the armrest of the sofa, she suddenly felt something cold touching her arm!

"Ah!" Zhou Rui could not help crying out loud.

The originally extinguished lights lit up again, making the whole living room on the ground floor feel as bright as daylight again, and Zhou Rui could not help closing her eyes when she had just adapted to the darkness.

However, because the cold touch on the arm is still there, Zhou Rui immediately threw it away, hurriedly took a step back, and struggled to open her stinging eyes desperately!

However. Zhou Rui didn't see anything terrible. She just saw the little boy who was on Rest wake up. Her beautiful black eyes just looked at her, and her little hand stretched forward was hanging in mid-air.

"just now, was it your hand that touched me?" Looking at the delicate and lovely boy in front of her, Zhou Rui stepped forward apologetically and carefully touched the boy's cold hand. "Sorry, I don't know …". "

"nothing." The boy's face was expressionless at first, but when he looked at Zhou Rui, there was a warm smile at the corners of his mouth, which was particularly lovely.

Although she didn't understand why the boy's hand was so cold, Zhou Rui felt a little embarrassed when she saw the lovely smile in front of her and thought that she had just thrown the boy's hand away so hard. After seeing a plate of peaches on the coffee table next to the sofa, Zhou Rui handed a peach to the boy.

"have a peach, will you?"

"mm-hmm." The boy cleverly took the peach from Zhou Rui's hand, and then sat on the sofa with the white dog in one hand and the peach in the other, shaking his short legs from time to time.

I feel like a very lovely child.

"that. I don't know what happened, but now that we're all together and we're going to stay here till dawn, why don't we introduce ourselves? " The supermarket uncle smiled at Zhou Rui, who looked most normal in the hall. "my name is Zhong Tian. I'm an ordinary person who works in a supermarket. I don't know if they are in a hurry right now. I don't know if they have a wife and children at home."

Zhong Tian rummaged through his pocket, then sighed and said, "Hey, I don't know where the cell phone has gone. It seems that it's better to go out and find the way after dawn."

"the old husband Xuanyi." The second person who introduced himself was the old man who was sitting on the sofa shaking his head. "on weekdays, fengshui divination is all good."

"Gee, he turned out to be a fortune teller." The bald man picked his teeth and glanced contemptuously at the old man. "if you are a ghost catcher, maybe I can think highly of you."

"catch. Catching ghosts is just a few tricks. " Although Xuanyi sits upright, he doesn't sound confident.

"what's your name, beauty?" The bald man rubbed his jeans with a watermelon knife, and then looked at Zhou Rui with some bad eyes. "from now on, we are on the same boat."

"my surname is Zhou, and my single name is a stamen, the stamen of a flower." Zhou Rui did not look at the bald man, but nodded to the supermarket uncle Zhong Tian on the other side, "just an ordinary company employee."

At this point, half the people in the hall introduced themselves, thinking about the yellow hair, the fierce bald man and the little boy eating peaches.

"No, no!" Huang Mao, who had always been very unstable, got up from the carpet with his head in his arms. After looking out of the floor-to-ceiling window in a panic, he suddenly shrank into the sofa opposite the boy as if he had seen something terrible. "there is something terrible outside!" There's something terrible out there! "

"if you yell again, I'll cut you first, and then throw you out this door!" The bald man glared at the yellow hair viciously, but the other person's mental state seemed to make him unaware of what the bald man said and might not even see such a person exist.

"terrible, terrible, terrible." Huang Mao huddled in the sofa, burying almost his whole head, muttering a lot of words and words that Zhou Rui could not understand at all.

"knock! Knock! "

When she was quiet, Zhou Rui could still hear the rain outside and the sudden knock on the door!

"someone is knocking at the door." The supermarket uncle subconsciously wanted to go over and open the door, but he saw the bald man waving a watermelon knife in front of him, so he immediately went back.

Then, Zhou Rui heard the bald man ask the little boy who was seriously eating peaches to open the door. Although Zhou Rui did not like the way the bald man gave orders, the watermelon knife in the other's hand was really a little frightening, so Zhou Rui did not continue to speak under the duress of force.

Besides, although it was windy and rainy outside, it was okay to open the door. Maybe it was the people in the villa who were standing outside knocking at the door.

"Don't open the door, the danger is outside the door!" Huang Mao's spirit now looks so fragile that it even feels fragmented, "Don't open the door!"

The boy didn't seem to pay attention to Huang Mao's words, but cleverly obeyed what the bald man said, held the doorknob in front of everyone and opened the door.

The storm outside pushed the door open in an instant, and the storm swept in from the outside. The smell of Rain Water, leaves and soil all poured into the villa at this moment, but in the sound of wind and rain.

There seems to be some ominous smell.

There was no one outside the door, and it was as if the knock on the door had never existed.

"coming in. They're coming in! "

The voice of Huang Mao could not go around Zhou Rui's ear, the strong wind and showers outside the villa were still pouring into the hall, and the branches outside the window slapped again and again on the floor-to-ceiling window.

Zhou Rui, who did not know where she had the courage, rushed to close the door two or three times, took the boy's cold little hand very neatly, took him all the way back to the sofa, and took away the peach that had been stained with Rain Water in the middle of the meal. instead, she brought the boy a new peach and touched the little hand as a sign of comfort.

A series of actions were done in one fell swoop, so that Zhou Rui, who stopped, felt a little handsome. When she found that everyone else in the hall was staring at her, Zhou Rui cleared her throat and explained, "in such a heavy rain, is it the most basic reason to close the door and close the window to collect clothes?"

"Gang, what happened to the knock at the door just now?" Supermarket uncle Zhong Tian looked scared. "if there is no one outside the door, where does the knock come from?"

"maybe it's the sound of branches blown to the door by the wind?" The old man Xuan Yi touched his white beard and guessed.

"there is only a tree outside the window, and there is only a straight road outside the door." Zhou Rui is usually regarded as the successor to socialism and has no other beliefs, but now she also feels that something is wrong.

They appeared in the villa which seemed to have no host family for no reason.

Six people don't know each other, but they have to stay here for a variety of reasons.

There was a sudden knock on the door in the stormy wind outside. But when the door opened, there was no one outside.

So what was it that knocked on the door just now?

"Ho." The bald man standing next to him with a watermelon knife smiled with a face that knew something, but he didn't say anything. He just looked at Zhou Rui and they were worried, and seemed to enjoy the feeling very much.

After looking around again, Zhou Rui chose to focus her eyes on the boy. Among these people, only this child seemed to make Zhou Rui feel pleasing enough to the eye. Apart from her hands not knowing why her hands were cold, she was also a good boy with a warm smile.

In Zhou Rui's eyes, the boy who got a new peach looked at the peach in his hand very carefully, then went straight to the opposite sofa and handed the peach held in both hands to the painful yellow hair on his face.

"how about a peach?" With the peach, the boy also gave a warm smile, "the mood will get better!"

Is this child an angel?!

Is this child an angel?!

For 35 years, Zhou Rui, who never felt that she was missing anything in her life, suddenly had an impulse to raise children, especially the good-looking, well-behaved and warm variety in front of her!

But the boys have already handed over the peaches, but the yellow hair curled up in the sofa is still in a daze with indifference?

"Hey, can't you see that the kids are worried about you?" Zhou Rui couldn't help walking over and knocked on the forehead of yellow hair. "Why are you so afraid of things that even children are not afraid of?"

Maybe it was the boy's peach and Zhou Rui's words that worked. Although Huang Mao was still curled up there, she finally stopped talking nervously, but reached out and took the peach from the boy's hand and stared blankly.

"Little brother, when you opened the door just now, you said your name was Su Qing, didn't you?" Zhou Rui bent down slightly. "do you know where your family is now?"

The boy shook his head, turned back to the opposite sofa, touched the little white dog that had been there just now, stretched out his hand on the sofa and held it up a little bit, then climbed onto the sofa and sat down in the same place.

What do you mean, shake your head?

What happened to Xiao Qingxing's parents?

Zhou Rui was afraid to think about the story behind the shaking of her head, but she felt more distressed about the child in front of her.

On the other hand, the boy named Su Qingxing sat quietly on the sofa, helping the little white dog in his arms to smooth the hair again and again.

"I remember I should have died." After a while, Huang Mao, curled up on the sofa, said dryly, "the feeling is so real that I don't even want to experience the pain for a second time, if it's a dream." How can it make people feel so painful? "

"my name is Huang Lan, no. I don't have a job. " After reluctantly introducing himself, Huang Mao, named Huang Lan, shrank back and seemed to have not recovered from his dream of being killed.

"you just said that something came in through the door?" Zhou Rui asked curiously again.

But this time, the yellow and blue curled up in the sofa just trembled and did not say a word.

"well. To. "."

Just when no one knew what to do next, the big TV in the living room suddenly lit up.

Before the frightened people realized what the picture was on TV, they first heard the news broadcast on TV

". It is reported that the assailant has been in and out of the remote and secluded villa many times and has caused at least three homicides in a row. "

When Zhou Rui heard the words "the murderer", "the villa in the remote secluded place" and "the murder of the door", her heart suddenly trembled. A strange feeling told Zhou Rui that the sudden opening of the TV and the sudden appearance of the news were by no means a coincidence.

The next second, when the news about the serial killer was over, the TV screen went black again, as if the news were just the delusions of six people present.

"Hello." Supermarket uncle Zhong Tian was originally standing closest to the gate, but now he suddenly stepped back, "that knock on the door just now, it can't be that fierce …". The assailant? "

"well, now I declare that everyone in this villa must follow my command. Do you have any objection?" At a time when everyone was confused by what was going on around him, the bald man with a watermelon knife stood up and said, "if you have any objection, just ask this knife in my hand and see which one of you can win it!"

With that, the bald man looked at the other five people in the hall and said with disdain, "is it the yellow hair that can scare himself to death?" The old scoundrel? The fat guy? Or is it that little girl-like kid? "

"or are you going to do it yourself, pretty girl?" The bald man stared at Zhou Rui for a while. "after I find a comfortable bed, you can move whatever you want."

"Bah!" Zhou Rui glared at the bald man, but said nothing after all, for fear that the guy who looked like an outlaw would really hit her. Before leaving this villa, Zhou Rui has to think of a way to stay as far away from the bald man as possible!

"Uncle."

The soft voice interrupted Zhou Rui's thoughts. As soon as she turned her head, she saw the boy named Su Qingxing looking up at the bald man and asked, "is Uncle going to be the boss here?"

"Boss?" The bald man picked his eyebrows. "that's a good name, but I prefer you to call me Brother Guang. It's more cordial, isn't it?" As long as you are obedient, whether it is a serial killer or a lonely ghost, I will chop him in half with this watermelon knife, okay? "

Looking at the muscles from the grave on the bald man's arm, and the particularly sharp watermelon knife-Zhou Rui even saw some dark marks on the knife, which looked like blood. In short, everyone was silent, and it was obvious that no one planned to compete with this brother Guang for the position of leader.

"then listen to me now." Brother Guang pointed to the direction of the second floor. "Beauty, you and the children go to the second floor to observe some terrain to see how many floors of the whole villa and how many rooms there are to live in."

"the fat man and the old stick over there also went to look for the study or something to see if they could find some photo albums or other clues related to the family."

"and you." Brother Guang kicked the yellow hair huddled on the sofa directly. "he is young and strong, but he is of no use at all. He is just like a loser!"

Even though he said so, the yellow and blue still huddled there, bowing his head and daring not to look around.

"forget it, you stay in this living room." With that, Guang urged everyone to leave, and he himself took the lead in walking to the semi-open kitchen next to him.

"scum is not terrible, what is terrible is scum with brains." Zhou Rui could not help muttering when she saw Brother Guang come into the kitchen. Even Zhou Rui knows that Brother Guang's goal should be the knives that can be used in the kitchen.

Since Brother Guang regards himself as the head of this place, he will never allow others to have weapons that can resist.

However, when a person stood up and gave the order, Zhou Rui's feeling of being at a loss at first relieved a lot, at least now she knew what to do.

"you stay here." The boy also jumped down from the sofa, patted the little white dog lying there, told him very seriously, and then went to Zhou Rui's side.

That cute little look, as if he really thought the little white dog could understand what he said.

Zhou Rui subconsciously held out her hand to the boy, but the boy didn't seem to notice it at all, and walked alone to the staircase leading to the second floor. And Zhou Rui, who failed to hold hands, could only quickly follow the boy and walk to the second floor.

Although the hall on the first floor is very bright, it also makes the section of road at the railing on the second floor bright and visible. But the two rooms in that section of the corridor are the study and the reception room, so Zhou Rui, who needs to find a bedroom and a guest room, has to move deeper into the corridor.

Zhou Rui saw a lot of light switches along the way, but each switch seemed to be ineffective and could not turn on any light at all!

This means that the road ahead of them will be dark, and they can only continue to grope in the dark.

"Qingxing, please stay close to me, will you? Never run around! " Zhou Rui's mind can often imagine the wild gale that poured in when the door was opened, as well as the sound of Huang Mao shouting at that time.

So even if there is no one in this villa except them, Zhou Rui doesn't think they are completely safe!

"mm-hmm." In the dark, there was a boy's voice, which made Zhou Rui feel a little more at ease.

Two people, one big and one small, groped forward along the darker and darker corridor, and the light coming from the hall on the first floor from behind could barely allow Zhou Rui to tell where the doors were.

After Zhou Rui opened the doors, she could tell which rooms were usable by the faint light and occasional lightning outside the room window. Zhou Rui will not close the door when she leaves the room, hoping to illuminate the dark corridor through these extremely faint lights.

When she reached the end of the corridor on the second floor, Zhou Rui was not surprised to see the staircase leading to the third floor.

But if they go to the third floor, it means saying goodbye to the only light source on the second floor. If the lights on the third floor still cannot be turned on, what they have to face is absolutely dark.

Because she found that Qingxing was not by her side, Zhou Rui subconsciously looked back.

The next second. Zhou Rui's pupils narrowed and her whole body stiffly looked at the picture in front of her

The little Su Qingxing just stood at the door of an open room, gesturing to a piece of air. Zhou Rui could even hear the boy saying "…". Your room. Breakfast Rest. I'll come and play with you later. " Something like that!

Simply, it is as if there is an invisible person in the room talking to Su Qingxing!

"Qingxing, who are you talking to?" Zhou Rui swallowed hard.

"Hmm?" The little boy tilted his head and said innocently, "with this child in the family, she is inviting me to play with her."

Immediately, Zhou Rui completely gave up her plan to go to the third floor, turned around and picked up the unresponsive boy and rushed to the brightest place on the second floor!

After arriving in the corridor where she could see the first floor, Zhou Rui walked down the stairs nonstop, went straight back to the hall where the light was brightest, put the boy back on the sofa breathlessly, and fell directly into the sofa herself.

"what's the matter?" Seeing Zhou Rui return so soon, Brother Guang's face was a little dissatisfied. "doesn't this villa have the third floor?"

Even Xuanyi and Zhong Tian, who were looking for information in the study on the second floor, poked their heads out, wondering why Zhou Rui rushed through the door just now, as if someone was chasing her.

"I remember the old man once said." Zhou Rui breathed a sigh of relief. "the child's eyes are very special. They can see a lot of things that we can't see." I, I think I saw that kind of thing on the second floor just now! "

"that kind of thing?"

When he heard Zhou Rui say this, brother Guang and Xuanyi upstairs seemed to notice something, and even the yellow hair on the sofa trembled even more. The only one who couldn't figure it out was Zhong Tian, who was standing on the second floor.

"it's a ghost." Zhou Rui said the answer directly, then turned her head and asked the boy around her, "Qingxing, you tell your sister, what did you see when you opened the door just now?"

The boy blinked and said calmly, "I seem to see an uncle and an aunt with a little girl about my age."

"but when I was ready to say hello to them, they disappeared again." The boy pointed to the second floor, "but when I was upstairs, I saw the little girl again, so I said hello to her."

"what did the girl say?" Brother Guang squatted down and looked flat with the little Su Qingxing.

"she said that upstairs was her room and that no one else could go in." The child obediently answered every question, "and said that this is the home of her and her parents, and now they are back."

Now they're back.

They're back.

Come back!

Obviously the boy said this in an innocent chatting tone, but everyone present felt a cold behind him and a creepy feeling.

"it seems that we were wrong." The bald man stood up and wiped the watermelon knife on his jeans. "at first I thought the person who knocked on the door was a serial killer, and the news suddenly appeared on TV." just to remind us that this villa may be the next target of a serial killer. "

"but we got it all wrong." The bald man looked a little ugly. "this is not the next target for a serial killer."

"but. The scene that has been patronized by the murderer! This family has long been killed by murderers! And now, the soul of the villa owner's family who was killed has come back here! "

"it's you." Zhou Rui's voice trembled a little, and her fingers trembled and pointed to the bald man. "you told Qingxing to open the door. If we hadn't opened the door just now, maybe the three ghosts wouldn't have come in!"

"it's no use!" The bald man glared at Zhou Rui viciously. "do you think they can't enter their own house if they don't open the door?" That knock on the door was no big deal at all, just reminding us that safe time is over and that the real world of terror has begun! "

"safe time?"

"the world of terror?"

Zhou Rui and others present heard these two words for the first time, so they all looked at Brother Guang blankly.

And Brother Guang didn't seem to explain, just chopping into the air with a watermelon knife in his hand, and then said, "it's just three ghosts. What's the big deal? if those guys are very strong, how can they be killed so easily?"

"We, we can get out of here!" The yellow and blue, who had been huddled on the sofa, suddenly looked up. "We can leave here, the haunted villa and the storm outside, in the end.". Which is more frightening in the end? "

For a moment, people really didn't know how to choose.

Because Xiao Qingxing has just opened the door of the villa, which shows that the villa is not completely blocked, they can leave from this villa.

But when the door opened just now, Zhou Rui took a look at it. There was only a tortuous road outside the villa, and she had no idea where it would spread.

"what if there are ghosts out there?" Brother Kuang smiled sarcastically. "if this kind of place could escape so easily, I wouldn't have been bothered again and again!"

"bang!"

Just when several people could not discuss the answer, the chandelier in the hall was turned off again!

When the hall became dark, everyone subconsciously held their breath, and no one dared to make a sound.

"bang!" Only a few seconds later, the chandelier came on again!

Before everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they suddenly saw. Suddenly see. Suddenly saw two ghosts covered in blood standing there on the stairs next to the hall!

One was dressed in a white nightdress stained with blood, with dishevelled hair and a pale face.

One was wearing a bloody shirt and trousers, but his head was missing!

"are you the new servants?" The ghost on the left, with blood dripping from her eyes, stared closely at the six people in the living room. "his Lordship is hungry, go and make midnight snacks."

Everyone gasped, it was. What kind of development is this?

Only Xiao Qingxing, who was completely unnoticed, smiled slightly at the corners of his mouth.

It seems that cinnabar has designed another very interesting world.