Invade the World

  Chapter 251 Night on the rooftop

  The turbid water surface in the sink was "gurgling" like being boiled with bubbles. Dark shadows floated underwater, like countless living plants entangled and squirmed - but this is not the beach, but the kitchen. The thing that looks like seaweed can only crawl out of the sewer pipe.

The old lady let out a short scream, trying to pull her hand out, her struggle splashed a bunch of steaming water, but the dark shadow in the sink, like a forest, was very strong and strong, as if it were growing deeply rooted. At some kind of plant inside the pipe, her old and fragile wrist couldn't get away at all, as if she had been put in cold handcuffs.

  On the contrary, it was because the pulling force was too hard, the body was out of balance, and there was water stains on the ground, the feet slipped, and the old lady’s thin body was about to fall on the tiles—

   Just then, her back was supported by a warm palm.

  Mr. Sun turned her head and found the short-haired girl looking at herself with a smile on her face.

  Zhu Qingyue steadily helped the old man up.

  "Be careful, slip on the ground." The girl took the initiative to pick up the mop next to her and dragged all the wet water stains off the ground. "I'll just say it, it's better to let us help."

  The old lady's face was pale, she looked at her in a daze, unable to speak for a while.

  The squad leader glanced at the sink quietly, and then put the mop aside.

   "Snoring."

  There is a noise from the inside of the sink,

  Greasy and foamy dirty water poured into the sewer along the mouth of the pipe, and it quickly drained away, leaving only the dishes and chopsticks that were washed in the sink.

  Teacher Sun came back to his senses and realized that the water-weed-like restraints on his arms had been quietly loosened.

  She held her wrist, still in a daze, she couldn't believe what had just happened.

   "Teacher Sun, what's wrong with you?"

  The young girl’s curious questioning sounded in her ears. The old lady didn’t know how to answer, so she shook her head and mumbled "Nothing..."

  She tremblingly walked to the side of the sink and looked inside carefully. There were no weeds spreading arbitrarily, nor hair that grew wildly as she imagined, only the smooth metal trough walls.

After pulling out the plug, a dark sewer opening was revealed. Underneath was another narrow, damp, and gloomy world. It was so deep that it was invisible, and it existed in the cement structure of this house, invisible to anyone. place.

  If you are a person with enough imagination, you can also imagine the sink and pipe opening of each household as the esophagus leading to the belly of a monster...

  The old man couldn't help shivering.

"problem occurs?"

  Xu Xiangyang stood at the door of the kitchen.

   "Nothing serious, just that Teacher Sun slipped on his feet."

  Zhu Qingyue supported Teacher Sun’s arm, and asked with concern:

   "It shouldn't have been dropped just now, right?"

   "No...no."

  The old lady waved her hand to indicate that she was okay.

  She thinks what happened just now may be just an illusion, but she also thinks that the vivid impression is too real, and the strange feeling of being entangled in the hair in the sink still remains on her arm...

   Teacher Zhao wanted her to go back to the room to rest, but was rejected by his wife, whose mental state gradually calmed down.

   "It's okay, I almost slipped and was taken aback."

   Teacher Sun replied.

  "This is not a joke. People of our age are weak and weak. A fall is likely to be a big problem. It is not the same as Xiaoyou."

   "Yes, Teacher Zhao is right." The squad leader said softly, "If you are injured, you should go to the hospital in time."

   "I'm fine, really fine. Thanks to the kid who helped me in time..."

  Faced with the old man’s gratitude, Zhu Qingyue nodded gently and responded politely.

The girl’s generous performance was seen by the two elderly people. They felt that she had a sense of maturity that was not like that of this age group. At first glance, they knew that she was not a girl that ordinary people could raise. This kind of young lady whose home threshold will be trampled by the matchmaker.

  Looking at the other two young people, they looked simple and lovely. I really don’t know how they met and became friends.

   "By the way, I want to ask two teachers for one thing."

  In the middle of the chat, Zhu Qingyue suddenly took the initiative to speak.

"Ok?"

   "I want to stay here for one night."

  The girl pointed to her head and said with a smile.

  "This is the place where Xingjie lived before. We want to check it out and stay there for one night."

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  The old couple originally meant that they could live at home directly, but they were declined.

  According to the squad leader, she came this time mainly to "experience" Lin Xingjie's life at the time.

  Furthermore, the single room in the tube building is small in size and can free up a room for guests, but it cannot hold two women, one man, and three young people.

  No way, in the end, they took out the quilt cover and pillows under the pressure box from the closet, and they brought them up.

  Fortunately, it is summer, and the rainy season is about to pass.

  The two old people naturally asked about the situation in their home. There are no students of this age who pretend to stay outside without going home all night. Wouldn't the family worry about it?

However, the young people naturally insisted that they had talked with their parents, and the old people had nothing to do with them. Coupled with the example of Lin Xingjie first, they had other guesses: I am afraid that there is more than one family problem in this group of children. people.

  I have to say that this kind of guessing itself is not wrong.

  ……

  Xu Xiangyang hugged a crumpled quilt and walked onto the rooftop.

  Passing through the cramped corridors and narrow stairs, to the outside world without any building obstruction, the field of vision suddenly became wider, and the whole person's mind was opened.

  The roof space is very empty, and the wind at night is fresh and pleasant.

Standing in the middle of the roof, Xu Xiangyang looked up unconsciously: the sky above his head is vast and endless, and the endless night is spreading towards the end of the invisible side. This is a way that people under the night sky can always feel their own insignificance. The spectacular view.

  The midsummer day that lasted for several days made the surrounding air clear. There was no cloud or fog tonight, the moon was gradually fading, and the galaxy was vast.

  After that, Xu Xiangyang's gaze moved down and landed on the only raised building on the rooftop.

  It is a small single room with an open skylight, not far from the water tank on the roof.

   "Before Xingjie, did anyone else live in this place?"

   he asked.

   "Lived." The old lady nodded, "Before there was a...a woman who came to work in another place."

   "Run away from home like Xingjie?"

"Uh...no, it's an adult, I remember it looks like she was in her thirties." The old lady hesitated when she spoke, as if she was in reminiscence, "She rented for a few months and then moved out. Up."

  "Do you really want to live in this kind of place for a few nights?"

  Another old man with a more serious face frowned, obviously a little unacceptable.

   "That can't be regarded as a room, just like the kind of place where the basement is carved out for people to live in, why bother?"

  Xu Xiangyang and his friends looked at each other.

   "It's okay, I think it's quite interesting."

  As the representative of the three, he replied solemnly.

  Summer nights, sleeping in the empty rooftop room... This is something Xu Xiangyang and others have never tried before, full of novelty and excitement.

  Because the environment is not the primary factor that determines the feeling, the mood is.

  If a person has to wander here and stay here for a while, he will look lonely and pitiful; but if three friends take the initiative to try, it will be an exciting and adventurous party, just like sleeping in a tent in the forest.

In literary terms, the city is also a forest, a forest made of reinforced concrete. The place you accidentally find is always both novel and strange, and you trespass into an area that does not belong to your own kind of people, occasionally There will also be danger, because there will be beasts dressed in human skins and clothes.

  For young people, now is the age to recognize and broaden their horizons, so they are driven by curiosity and impulse to do things that look like nonsense in the eyes of adults.

  Even though it seems that every time she is being dragged around by the squad leader under the banner of "cherish life now", Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie support her from the bottom of their hearts.

  The old people obviously can’t understand this idea. Putting the quilt, mat and bed aside, the boys and girls began to actively clean up and clean up the room. They originally wanted to go up and help, but they were soon "pushed" down with a gentle attitude. The young people wanted them. Can rest early.

  Move out all the sundries in the room, wipe all the places where the mattress and quilt need to be placed, and spray disinfectant and insecticide. Fortunately, the old couple are the managers of this building. They are quite well prepared for this kind of things, otherwise they have to go elsewhere to buy them.

  When he finished his hard work, Xu Xiangyang looked at his watch, and it was already after ten o'clock in the middle of the night.

  "We agreed with you this time."

  The boy wiped the sweat from his forehead, sat on the chair, sighed a little tiredly, turned his head and said to Zhu Qingyue.

  "Don't chop and play again next time."

  Yes, just like visiting the old couple, “stay one night where Xingjie used to live” was also a sudden proposal made by the squad leader. Without prior consultation, Xu Xiangyang was caught off guard.

   However, it was not that the two of them could not understand the motives of the squad leader, so neither did they object on the spot.

   "No way, you all feel it? There is something wrong with this house."

"Ok."

Lin Xingjie, who was sitting on the table shaking her legs, nodded gently.

   "It's very faint, but there is indeed a distant atmosphere."

   "It feels like an evil spirit passed by here unintentionally." Xu Xiangyang added, "However, the time I was in their room just now, it suddenly became stronger again."

   "Something" in the kitchen-possibly through the sewer pipe-attacked the old man who was washing the dishes, but when Zhu Qingyue appeared, the other party quickly retreated.

   came and went in a hurry, and the abnormal appearance and disappearance were fast. But the trio is now regarded as a half-professional with quite a wealth of experience against the enemy, and of course they will not miss it or treat it as an illusion.

  Especially Xu Xiangyang, a talent with particularly keen psychic abilities.

   "We can only think that the evil spirits are under our feet." The squad leader sitting by the bed stomped his feet, "Take this building as its lair."

   "Did you notice it the last time you came?"

"Yes." Zhu Qingyue happily admitted, "I did feel a little bit vaguely before, but because it was too weak, it could be somewhere else, or as you said, it was the breath left by the evil spirit after passing by. That's why I will pull you to confirm it again."

   "The problem now is, even Xiang Yang can't confirm the other party's location, right?" Lin Xingjie said, "What's the situation?"

  Xu Xiangyang was silent for a moment, and replied in an uncertain tone:

   "Either the other party is actually not here, and only one of the tentacles invaded this building, and quickly retracted after seeing us; or the other party is in a state of inactivity and sleep..."

   "Well, no matter what the facts are, what we are going to do will not change."

  Zhu Qingyue clapped her hands and asked the Rapunzel:

   "Xingjie, do you remember the last time you went for a psychological test? They told you about this, right?"

  Lin Xingjie scratched her hair a little annoyed.

  "...'Civil volunteers must take the protection of their lives as the first priority, and they must first report to them if they encounter things that they cannot handle without authorization.'"

   "There are rules or follow the rules. Don't worry about this day or two, right?"

"But, but, the evil spirit has already done it today? You can't leave two ordinary people at home... No, there are more than two, there are other people in this building, and it's still unclear about each other's What is the logic of action—"

   "Yes. That's why I proposed that we stay in this house for one night today to see the situation. If there is an accident at this distance, Xiangyang should be able to feel it in advance, right?"

  The head of the squad leader turned his attention to Xu Xiangyang, and only continued after he was approved.

  "When the notification is finished tomorrow, we don’t need to notify, we can figure out how to deal with it." Zhu Qingyue said with a smile on his face, and said indifferently, "The rules are the rules, and the result is still human."

   "Let's do that."

  Xu Xiangyang thought for a while, and felt that there was nothing wrong with the squad leader’s proposal, so he made a straightforward decision.

   "Tonight, we will stay here."

   "It looks like you can't wait."

  Zhu Qingyue blinked, her tone a little narrow:

  "Can you get a chance to sleep with both of us at the same time, will you get too excited?"

   Xu Xiangyang replied.

   "It may not be considered excited, but I'm really hot now..." He slapped the two faces with a good hand, "Hoo, can I take off my clothes?"

   Before two friends could answer, he could not wait to take off his compassionate shirt and threw it on the bed. Under the surprised gaze of the girls, he directly stood up shirtless.

  (End of this chapter)