Invade the World

  Chapter 144 "Don't Open That Door!"

   "Qingyue!"

  He yelled, but no one responded, only the sound of the wind circling in his ears.

  Something is wrong!

  The clothes on the back were soaked in a large amount of cold sweat that gushed out in an instant.

  Xu Xiangyang frowned, and after a while, where could the girl who was walking hand in hand with herself just now go?

  Although the squad leader always likes to make jokes about herself and Xingjie, as long as it is on a serious occasion, she will only be more serious than anyone else.

  This trial came back without success, Qingyue must have something to say to herself...!

  His gaze looked around, his psychic abilities expanded aimlessly around.

where? Where is the problem?

  Finding the answer to this question did not take him too long.

  Xu Xiangyang noticed the abnormal movement from under the sole.

  His gaze moved down, and quickly fell on the soil under his feet.

  The unmaintained grass bed is full of weeds, and the soil should be moist and full of vitality; but at this moment, the soil under his feet is showing a lifeless black.

And under this turbid black soil, there are countless degrees of subtle, living-like tremors, which looks very disgusting, like countless bugs burrowing and squirming vigorously under it... …

  Xu Xiangyang held his forehead, feeling dizzy for a while.

  In the blink of an eye, the jet-black ground was like the low tide of the sea, leaving from his feet, over the meadow, and through the steps, until he retracted behind the door and disappeared.

  In the whole process, its actions are completely silent, without making any noise, so quiet that it makes the heart fascinating.

  Xu Xiangyang got goose bumps, staring at the wooden door that was closed tightly again.

   So that's it, is it?

  The supernatural force inside No.41 Anning Street should have been confined behind that door. The reason Song Yao was reluctant to go out was because of this reason...

  ——However, the haunted house actually "expands" its scope, hasn't he heard Meng Zheng talk about this kind of thing?

  Xu Xiangyang sighed, it seems that it is not the time to think about the reasons behind it.

  He stood at the fork in the road, watching the old house quietly standing there.

  It looks like a monster crouching on the side of the road. It will open its big mouth at any time and place, and will lure people to chew and swallow it in its dark bottomless belly.

  This imagination has now become a reality.

  It turned out to be a monster with life, capable of devouring human beings silently...

  Xu Xiangyang tapped his temple with some chagrin.

  The main reason is that their hands were not held together just now. If he could keep holding the small hand of the squad leader, he would definitely be able to spot the abnormality sooner. Coupled with Qingyue's ability, it would not be difficult to break free.

  Don’t look for the squad leader everywhere like ants on a hot pot.

  Xu Xiangyang sighed slightly, took three steps in two steps, walked through the calm grass bed that seemed to be back to normal, stepped on the wooden stairs, and came to the wooden door that was almost collapsed.

  All this seems familiar.

  Now the squad leader has awakened the power of psychics, Xu Xiangyang is not particularly worried about her personal safety.

  It’s just that, it’s also a fact that she may have been involved in the haunted house...

  So, what Xu Xiangyang has to do has not changed.

  He squeezed an eraser from his pocket, sent a signal to a certain girl who should still be in the classroom, and then slammed on the door in front of him.

  Sure enough, it was still immobile, and its firmness was in sharp contrast with the crumbling and decayed appearance.

  This shows that the power of the haunted house is working smoothly.

  Xu Xiangyang raised his hand and put his palm on the door.

  Now he can recall that the reason why he was able to open the door at the time was nothing but a strong emotional drive, the brain unconsciously activated the psychic ability.

  Human consciousness is closely connected with another world, and human emotions and human will will also get a response from the distant world.

  Xu Xiangyang’s extraordinary psychic abilities made it impossible for the wooden door that had been shut down by the power of the distant realm to block his way anymore.

  He closed his eyes, and the tentacles of consciousness quickly extended into the door, and he was not unexpectedly blocked by an invisible and intangible wall.

  It feels stronger than last time...

no problem.

  Because he is different from the past!

   "Open... Open it for me!"

   Xu Xiangyang shouted in a deep voice.

  He heard a "click", which was undoubtedly the echo of the door being opened.

   But when he opened his eyes, what he saw at that moment was not the scene inside the haunted house——

  For some reason, in front of Xu Xiangyang, the entire house disappeared without a trace.

  Instead, there is an endless world that is as dark and vast as the universe.

  In the center of the dim and dark “universe”, there are countless floating “doors” of different sizes and shapes.

Iron doors, bronze doors, wooden doors, anti-theft doors, rusty iron fence doors, heavy doors covered with copper nails... building--

  Xu Xiangyang was taken aback for a moment, and the steps he was planning to move forward stopped involuntarily.

what is that?

  He raised his head.

  Floating behind every door in the dark world, it seems to lead to another world.

  Every door is closed tightly.

  Xu Xiangyang's eyes moved down again.

  Only the door in front of him had no wind, revealing a pitch black that could not be seen.

  ... There is no doubt that that is the door leading to the interior of No. 41 Anning Street.

  Xu Xiangyang gritted his teeth and left all the sights before him. He no longer hesitated and pushed the door resolutely.

  *

  Li Qinglian had that dream again.

  A nightmare that has always been entangled with her and can't go away.

  Li Qinglian in her dream is younger, just a student living in an ivory tower, without wearing a police uniform.

  Although everyone in the family hopes that she can work in government agencies in the future, Li Qinglian does not think so. She hopes to live a more free life.

  In order to escape the questioning and entanglement of her parents, whenever school is off, she will leave Zhongdu to spend the holiday with a distant relative who lives in a small third-tier city.

   refers to "distant relatives", but in fact it mainly refers to the alienation of blood, but their relationship with each other is quite close.

  It was an ordinary happy family of three, and the child of this family was named Xu Xiangyang.

  Li Qinglian visits this family every holiday, and she has a very good relationship with Xiao Xiangyang. She is better than her own if she is not her own sister and brother.

  She likes this well-behaved boy very much, and she often takes him to play around. When Xiao Xiangyang's parents were too busy with work to take care of their children, Li Qinglian would brave herself and accompany the boy as her sister.

  One day, the siblings were resting at home.

  It wasn't until after the hot noon that the sun had slightly reduced its heat, but it was still overly generous. The electric fan blows "hulala", and it doesn't give off the warm atmosphere. Even if you don't do anything, just sit in a chair and rest, you will become sweaty after a while, and the energy of the activity will accompany the sweat flowing cleanly.

  It’s an unpleasant afternoon. If it weren’t for the pride of being a human being, most people would yearn for a day when they would lie on the cold concrete floor and roll and rest like a puppy.

Li Qinglian, who was extremely bored, approached Xu Xiangyang, who was reading seriously in the other bedroom.

  "Do you want to play hide and seek today?"

  Li Qinglian stroked her ponytail, leaned down and asked with a smile.

   "No, I'm not a kid anymore."

  The boy frowned and refused like a little adult.

   However, Li Qinglian saw the expectation in his pupils and couldn't help laughing.

   "Okay, okay, you will play with your sister, okay?"

   "Who will catch, who will hide?"

  "Stone paper scissors cloth."

  Li Qinglian walked out of the living room slowly, standing in the courtyard, breathing the oncoming fresh air. The bright sun made people hot, so she hurried to the shade of the tree.

  There are two tall and lush orange trees planted in this house. Every summer, the whole family often pulls on deck chairs to enjoy the shade under the trees, including the courtyard covered by luxuriant branches and leaves. In the midsummer season, there is a rare coolness.

  In the corner of the courtyard, there is a small two-story building next to the main building. There is no floor in the building, only the concrete staircase in the middle. Going up the second floor is the side room where Xu Xiangyang's father's study and guests live, and going down is the underground storage room.

   Although it was “hide and seek”, other places in the house were too hot, and she didn't want to hide at all, and finally came to this place unknowingly.

  Li Qinglian walked down the stairs. The lock on the storage door was hung there. Both sides of the stairs were piled up with half-person tall debris.

  She took a newspaper from the side and put it under her buttocks, and took out a dirty book to read.

  After Li Qinglian sat down and rested for a while, Xiao Xiangyang ran over panting.

   "Sister Lian, I caught you!"

He pointed at Li Qinglian and yelled, only to find that his sister was sitting on the stairs with her cheek in one hand and the old book on her lap in the other. When he saw that he was coming, he put down his hand and waved at him lazily. Waved.

  The excitement on Xu Xiangyang's face slowly faded, and he complained a little dissatisfied:

   "...you don't even want to play with me."

   "Haha, Xiaoyang, come here."

  Li Qinglian beckoned to him and said mysteriously.

   "Show you something good."

  Xu Xiangyang walked down the stairs and came to her, only to see her sister pointing to a corner above her head.

  Xu Xiangyang looked in the direction of her fingers, and soon found that a shaggy spider was lying in the dark and damp corner.

  It has particularly long limbs, and its body is unprecedentedly large, even the size of a CD...

   "Wow!"

  Xu Xiangyang's whole body froze, his hair was erect, and he was so scared that he let out a girlish scream.

   "Sister Lian, hurry up, hit it to death!"

  "Don’t don’t don’t, this is a beneficial insect, what is it called...Uh, the white-fronted tall spider specializes in eating pests."

  Li Qinglian looked at her frightened brother with a happy face, and explained to him with a smile.

   "I, I don't want..."

  The boy's face was pale, his gaze didn't dare to float in that direction at all, with a look of fear that he was about to escape.

   "Fine, I'll help you drive away."

Li Qinglian, who was responsible for protecting her younger brother, decided not to continue teasing the poor boy. She stood up, picked up the broom next to her, and waved it twice toward the corner like a demonstration. The spider moved quickly, just a moment. I don't know where to climb.

  Li Qinglian put down the broom and said to him again.

  "Shall we go to the basement and have a look?"

  Xu Xiangyang did not answer.

  Li Qinglian's careless behavior just now swept down a floor of gray wall, his eyes widened, and he looked at the wall in front of him.

   "Hey, that's weird."

"What's wrong?"

   "Why is there a door here?"

  He pointed to the gray wall in front of him.

   "...really."

  Li Qinglian pulled down the light rope next to her, and a dim halo enveloped the two people on the stairs, only to realize that Xu Xiangyang was right.

  When she walked nearby just now, she thought it was the outline left by the red paint...

  But that is really a door.

  The paint on the door has mostly peeled off, and the door panels exposed to the air are almost the same color as the dirty walls.

  There is no door handle, only a hole that looks like a keyhole, but the metal structure inside is missing, only one hole is left.

  She squatted down and glanced inside. The inside of the cave was dark and dark, and she couldn't see anything.

   "I haven't noticed it before?"

  Li Qinglian was a little surprised. It was not the first day that she lived in Xu Xiangyang's house. The corners and corners had been around long ago. When did this door appear? She subconsciously felt like reaching out to open it.

  ... But the boy next to him grabbed his wrist.

  She turned her head and saw that Xiao Xiangyang's expression was a bit embarrassing.

   "It's not good, isn't it?" He said worriedly, "I don't know what's in it, maybe I will be scolded by my dad..."

   "Don't worry, I will take responsibility if something goes wrong."

   "I, I'm a little uncomfortable..."

  Fortunately, Xiangyang didn't speak. As soon as he spoke, Li Qinglian's curiosity became more and more vigorous.

  What is behind this door?

  If it is really important, Uncle Xu and the others should be locked, right? so……

  ——Don’t open it!

  At that moment, Li Qinglian seemed to be blessed, realizing that once the door was opened, everything would become irreversible.

She yelled anxiously in her heart, trying to stop herself, but in her dream she was not obedient at all. While laughing and teasing that her brother was a coward, she stretched out her hand to the red wooden door with peeling paint. ——

  "Don't open...Don't open that door!"

  ……

  Li Qinglian sat up abruptly from the bed, the camisole used as pajamas was completely soaked, the woman with long hair was holding her forehead in one hand, and panting heavily.

  She calmed down slowly and began to look around.

  The thick curtains swayed slightly in the wind, the sunlight passed through the glass windows, and the faint light sprinkled a long string of golden spots on the floor and bed.

  In the afternoon, the empty bedroom was so quiet that the needle drop was audible, and only the woman's own heavy breathing echoed in her ears.

  ...The long and nostalgic summer has come again.

  　The book friend group has been blocked... I will try to unblock it first, but I can’t get a new group in two days, and I’ll notify you at that time.

  　　 There are a few comrades written by book friends in the group. I think they are quite precious. I don’t know if Da Ge has saved it...

  (End of this chapter)