PFC Chapter 57: Mutation - C15
Chapter 57: Mutation - C15
Anjiu took out a fruit knife from the space, put his thumb on the bottom of the handle and held it tightly. One of the street lights outside the window went out at some point, and the room, which was once bright, was now so dark that only the rough outline could be seen.
She tried her best to slow down her pace and groped her way out of the bedroom relying on her memory.
In such an environment, the senses were magnified to the extreme. When An Jiu heard the key being inserted into the lock and twisted, there was a thunderclap in his head, and he was at a loss for a moment.
Coming in!
Only a few tenths of a second had passed before Anjiu regained her sanity. She took a step forward and leaned against the wall on the side of the entrance. She tilted her head and peeked out a little, clenched the knife handle, and decided to take action immediately.
Just as she made up her mind, time became slow and torturous. Every second seemed to be stretched out. The sound of the key turning smoothly was like a sharp knife, slowly circling around her heart.
Click——
The door opened—
The sweat on Anjiu's forehead slid into her eyes, causing a momentary sting, but she seemed not to notice it. She took a step forward and raised her hand, ready to attack.
"Meow~~"
Why, why is there a cat meowing?
"Mom, Mom is back. Have you been waiting at the door all this time? Give me a hug."
The sound didn't seem right.
Anjiu leaped out suddenly, with the sharp blade in her hand ready to swing down at any time, but she was stunned the next second -
The front door was tightly closed.
The voice came again, "Good boy, do you miss your mother?"
As he said that, he slammed the door shut, so loudly that the door in front of Anjiu trembled a few times.
The buzzing sound in Anjiu's ears suddenly disappeared, especially the dry mouth and tongue caused by excessive tension.
The relaxation after the tension made her let out a long sigh.
It turned out that the neighbor next door came back...
She knew that the old building had poor sound insulation, but she didn't expect it to be so bad.
Anjiu wiped the sweat from the back of his neck and put the knife into the space.
After such a scare, her sleepiness disappeared completely and she lay flat on the sofa, still feeling a little scared when she recalled what had just happened.
Somehow, she thought of the owner coming back...
As someone who grew up in an atheist environment, when this idea came to her mind, she had no doubt at all... Perhaps it was because this world was too strange.
Anjiu thought about it for a while, then closed his eyes again, emptied his mind and forced himself to fall asleep.
She had other things to do tomorrow, so she needed to get some rest.
In the extremely quiet environment, her consciousness became blurred again and she was gently enveloped by sleepiness.
Just when she thought she could finally have a good sleep, an extremely miserable cat cry came through the wall and directly into her ears.
"Meow--!"
Anjiu turned over and sat up again, and all the sleepiness was gone.
She turned her head to look at the white wall that was right in front of her and frowned tightly.
What the hell is going on next door?
At this time, the cat screamed again, followed by a fierce breath, and then another meow.
But the sound became lower and lower, and there was also a loud tearing sound.
Cat abuse?
These two words popped up in Anjiu's mind, but from what he just heard, the neighbor's language to the cat was very intimate?
Before she could figure it out, a bright beam of light shone from the opposite building.
Anjiu rolled off the sofa as quickly as possible and hid in the shadow of the sofa armrest.
An elliptical circle of light followed closely and shone into the living room, illuminating the environment.
It must be that the cat's previous meow was too loud, and someone was woken up and tried to find this person angrily.
Anjiu silently retracted his toes from the edge of the aperture into the darkness.
The aperture shone back and forth in the hall and bedroom twice, and after confirming that it was not this house, it moved to the next door.
An Jiu breathed a sigh of relief.
I thought I could have a good night's sleep indoors, but it turned out to be even harder than on the rooftop...
As she thought so in her heart, she pricked up her ears to listen to the noises coming from next door - since she rolled off the sofa, the kitten next door seemed to have stopped making any sound?
Anjiu wasn't sure. She was worried about being discovered and didn't pay attention.
Now we can only judge what happened next door by the behavior of the person opposite.
But at this moment, the living room fell into darkness again.
"..."
what happened?
Anjiu leaned over to take a look. Every window of the building opposite was dark, as if someone had just shone a flashlight at her. It was just her hallucination.
No, the cat did scream.
She pressed her ear against the wall they shared with the neighbors, slowing her breathing to catch every signal.
But the strange thing was that there was no sound from the other side, not even the cat's dying gasps.
It was so quiet that it seemed as if there was an empty room next door.
Anjiu stepped back slowly and let out a breath slowly.
It was only the second day, and strange phenomena continued one after another. After that... she didn't dare to think about it any further.
The continuous stimulation made her completely sleepless. She sat in the shadow of the sofa, waiting for the sky to brighten.
……
The early morning light shone on his eyelids, and Anjiu shuddered and woke up completely.
With a push of his hands, he sat up from the ground, and the hall in his field of vision changed from vertical to horizontal.
But - when did she fall asleep?
Anjiu had a very clear memory of last night. When the second accident happened, she was determined to wait until dawn, and she also knew clearly that she had no desire to sleep at that time.
But when did he fall asleep?
He even slipped and fell to the ground without even noticing?
Anjiu realized that something was wrong with her body, especially when she raised her hand and saw transparent, sticky threads forming between her palm and the ground.
She walked into the bathroom, opened her eyelids, opened her mouth, and examined every part of her body in front of the mirror.
Long-term hunger caused his skin to become dull and lifeless, his ribs and joints to bulge, his waist to be so thin that one hand could wrap around it, and his thighs to be as thin as bamboo poles.
Despite this, there were no scars on his body. While An Jiu was relaxing, new doubts arose in his mind.
Could it be a sequelae of absorbing unknown substances?
The slime feels like expired glue that has lost its stickiness. Besides making people feel sick, will it have any other effects on the body?
My thoughts are like a tangled mess and I can't make any sense of them.
She put her hands under the faucet and rubbed her fingers one by one in the clear water.
The sticky stuff dissolved the moment it came into contact with water and came away with a rinse... How strange.
She really couldn't figure it out, and she didn't feel any pain, so she stopped making things difficult for herself, put the matter behind her for the time being, and went about doing other things.
Anjiu sat on the dining chair in the kitchen, eating the leftover lunch from last night. He folded his silk pajamas and cotton pajamas and stuffed them into the space. He was about to stuff his underwear in, but then he thought he should rinse them before wearing them. After all, they were underwear, and there was not enough water to drink after returning to the hive, let alone wash clothes.
She quickened her pace, shoveled the last two bites of rice into her mouth, cleaned the table briefly, picked up her clothes and quickly slipped back to the bathroom.