After Dawn Chapter 117: Nightmare (1)

"Everyone has a secret they can't tell."

"Only in dreams are they the most honest."

"What is your deepest fear?"

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"Mom, what's for dinner tonight?" Qing Ran asked.

"Buy ribs, radishes, go back to stew soup, yes, and your favorite cauliflower, there is still a little bacon left at noon, stir fry in cauliflower..."

"Cook another piece of sausage," Qing Ran said flatteringly, "Isn't there a few sausages that my uncle gave me in the refrigerator?"

"Okay, as much as we can eat, two dishes are enough."

"Mom..." This call is a nine-turn and eighteen-turn, "Let's cook it for a while, and continue to cook it at noon tomorrow if you can't finish it."

"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, so I'm going to cook. I've almost finished buying it, so it's nothing to worry about, so I'll go back."

"Mom, you've worked hard. Come and I'll carry it for you. Go ahead and be careful with the stairs."

"Poor mouth." The woman walking in front laughed and scolded.

The two also went downstairs and exited the checkout on the second floor of the supermarket. There was a staircase. Above the supermarket was the residential building, and Qingran's home was on the fourth floor.

When she reached the stairs, she suddenly turned her head back, but found that the cashier at the supermarket checkout didn't know where to go, and the whole supermarket was empty and no one could be seen. She frowned. Although this supermarket is not large in size, the traffic volume is not small. The food in the supermarket is relatively fresh and the price is reasonable. Nearby residents are used to buying food in this place, so the supermarket There are basically people in the store all day, but now the supermarket is silent and can't hear any footsteps.

Qing Ran felt a sense of panic inexplicably.

She turned her head and found that her mother who was walking in front did not know where she had gone. She ran a few steps forward, but found that the stairs in front of her had disappeared on the third floor, and she could see herself on the fourth floor. The door of the house, but found that it was impossible to walk up. Qing Ran decisively turned her head to look for the elevator and rushed in, only to find that there was originally a fifteen-story residential building, but there were only three floor buttons on the elevator, one for the 123rd floor. The boy in the white shirt walked in.

Qingran recognizes him. He is a resident on the third floor. He seems to be a student of a certain university, but Qingran doesn't pay much attention to him on weekdays. He only knows that he often goes to the supermarket on the second floor to buy some instant noodles. Such fast food to fill his stomach, and occasionally sent by his mother to buy shallots or **** garlic, Qing Ran lazy to walk the elevator will meet him who came out to buy food at the meal time on time.

The boy's long bangs almost covered his eyes. He looked gloomy. He didn't seem to notice the abnormality in the elevator. He nodded to Qingran and called out "Sister Qingran" , pressed the button on the third floor, and the elevator door slowly closed in front of the two of them.

Qing Ran looked at him without a trace, and her unease became stronger and stronger. Even though it was only an elevator to the first floor, she felt that it was a long time as if a whole century had passed.

With a "ding" sound, the elevator door opened, and the boy stepped out first. Qing Ran watched the elevator door close, but found that there were only three floor buttons left, but only one - 3.

The elevator door opened again, and a boy with a pocket was waiting outside the door. He lowered his head and heard the sound of the elevator door opening. He raised his head and said, "Sister Qingran, do you want to come to my house and sit down? sit?"

Qing Ran is not familiar with the third floor, but also knows that the layout of a building should be similar, that is to say, the distribution of houses on different floors should be the same, even if there are users who change the place where they enter the door without authorization , but in general there won't be much change, but Qing Ran's eyes went around behind him, but found that the place that was supposed to be the resident's security door was a blank wall, only the elevator was facing At the end of the corridor is the boy's house.

The elevator still stopped on this floor. She reached out and pressed the door closing button, but there was no response. The boy didn't seem to see her movement.

There seems to be no reason for rejection.

Qing Ran raised a reluctant smile on her face and said, "Okay."

Walking through the long corridor, the boy took out a bunch of keys from his trouser pocket, opened the door, and went in first, Qing Ran followed behind and walked in. The house was very large and empty, and there was no decoration. The ground was still a simple concrete floor, but it was very clean. After the boy entered the house, he didn't bring tea or water, but sat down on the sofa, took out the instant noodles in the plastic pocket, and poured it in skillfully. For seasoning, peel off the ham sausage and put it in pieces with the spoon that comes with the bucket of instant noodles. I don’t know where he took out a warm bottle, opened the cork and poured out the hot water. Go in, put the thermos aside, close the lid of the instant noodles, insert the spoon in the opening, and wait with your eyes down.

Qing Ran sat down on the sofa next to it. The sofa was a very old and outdated suede sofa. It was scarlet, but it looked gray and dirty. She patted it with her hand, and it was a layer of gray She was ejected, but she still sat down, feeling the support of the springs in the sofa with varying degrees of damage.

"Eating too much instant noodles is not good for your health," said Qing Ran, "I often see you buying instant noodles in the supermarket. Is there no one to cook at home?"

"I'm the only one at home," the boy replied.

The atmosphere was a little embarrassing, and Qing Ran looked around. In this house, it was very big and strange. There was no other room, just such a living room. At first glance, there was absolutely no place to cook and fire. There is not even a socket that can be plugged in. Although there is a TV opposite the sofa, there is no kettle that can be used to boil water. The sofa, coffee table and TV cabinet in this room do not seem to be able to hide anything. The appearance of things, Qing Ran was a little curious about the origin of the boiling water in his thermos.

"By the way, I've known you for so long, but I still don't know your name?" Qing Ran asked.

"Sister Qingran, my name is Mu Sheng." The boy answered politely. He raised his head, as if he had just discovered the situation in his home, and said a little embarrassedly, "Sister Qingran, I'm sorry, the house is very messy. , made you laugh."

"Ah, nothing, it's neat," Qing Ran smiled and waved her hand, then asked, "But I think there's only one room here, and there's no bed or anything. You can buy bubbles outside for dinner. You are so big and the sofa is only so big, where do you sleep?"

"Where do I sleep?" Mu Sheng was a little confused, then turned to look at Qing Ran and said, "I'm not sleepy."

His confusion emanated from his eyes, as if he didn't understand Qingran's question at all. When he said that I wasn't sleepy, he was very confident, as if he didn't need to sleep.

Qing Ran felt a little strange.

"By the way, Sister Qingran, I'll show you my secret." Mu Sheng suddenly stood up and said.

"Don't panic, you should eat the instant noodles first." Mu Sheng's sudden enthusiasm made Qing Ran a little scared, "If the instant noodles are soaked softly, it will not taste good."

"What instant noodles?" Mu Sheng asked suspiciously, "Let's go, Sister Qingran, I'll show you my secret."

Qing Ran was surprised to find that the steaming instant noodles on the coffee table disappeared at some point, and the thermos bottle next to her didn't know where it went. She suddenly remembered She used to carry several plastic bags in her hands, which contained the ingredients that her mother bought at noon. She remembered that she never put down anything from beginning to end, but now her hands are empty and nothing.

She stood up, only to find a scene suddenly changed in front of her.

Qing Ran heard her own voice and asked: "Mu Sheng, your house actually leads directly to the second floor. Is there a supermarket outside this wall?"

"Yes." Mu Sheng nodded absent-mindedly, "Sister Qingran, let me show you my secret."

He said, suddenly raised his hand, it was originally an empty room, the ground in the middle suddenly opened to both sides like a sliding door, Qing Ran was shocked, and subconsciously took two steps back, when she looked at When I cleared the things hidden under the ground, my whole body trembled uncontrollably.

The corpses are full of corpses. They are piled up on top of each other, like firewood in the countryside. The heads and feet are staggered and upside down, neat and compact. Looking down from the edge, there is definitely more than one layer inside. It's what Qingran can see, no, just the complete people she can see, there are twenty or thirty people on the uppermost floor, not to mention the exposed feet and head, and there should be more corpses that were pressed down and couldn't be seen.

Qing Ran twitched the corners of her mouth, she felt that she must be smiling awkwardly at this time: "Mu Sheng, what are these?"

"The people I killed." Mu Sheng said calmly, as if he didn't know what amazing words he said.

Qing Ran felt that all the cold hairs on her back stood up.

These people looked clean with no blood on their bodies, their clothes appeared to be brand new, their hair was neatly groomed, and long-haired women had their hair **** with black rubber bands, and their ponytails were all about the same height. It is very uniform. They are neatly placed on the top of the head, and the males are shaved to a inch of about a centimeter. If they hadn't closed their eyes tightly, the exposed skin color was blue, and some people even had corpse spots on their bodies. They looked like they were sleeping peacefully.

"Who are they?" Qing Ran heard her calm voice.

"I don't know," Mu Sheng replied blankly, "I don't know..."

Qing Ran carefully looked at his expression, the blankness on his face was not fake.

"Why did you kill them?" she asked tentatively.

"I wanted to kill, so I killed it." Mu Sheng answered this question calmly.

Qing Ran didn't know how to refute it. He seemed to be stating a very natural thing, and there was no guilt on his face, as if he was not killing people, not even animals, It's just the flowers that were picked by hand, and the grass that was cut by the side of the road with a scythe.

"How many people are there?" Qing Ran asked.

"I don't know." It was still the answer she was familiar with.

"Then how deep is it?" Qing Ran took a deep breath. Fortunately, there was no strange smell in this space because of the existence of so many corpses. She closed her eyes and it was strange. calmed down.

"Five hundred meters? One thousand meters?" Mu Sheng gave the data beyond her imagination, and then he added: "It may be deeper."

Five hundred meters? A thousand meters? How many corpses would it take to fill such a deep hole? Qing Ran couldn't imagine it.

But she has no doubts about the data given by Mu Sheng, or why there is such a deep hole under a residential building, why Mu Sheng was able to kill so many people and has not been discovered by the police at all. There is no doubt why Mu Sheng, who is thin and weak, can kill so many people, as if everything should be taken for granted.

"You bathed them, washed their hair and tied their hair?"

"Yeah." Mu Sheng said, "otherwise it's all blood, it's too dirty."