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The elevator doors began to close slowly, but the woman in red still did not react.

Xu Ming hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not dare to step into the elevator.

With a soft click, the elevator doors closed and began to descend to the B1 floor.

For some reason, Xu Ming suddenly felt a sense of relief.

Yuchuan Apartment is a high-end apartment building with three elevators serving four households. If you don't use this elevator, there are two others.

Xu Ming immediately pressed the buttons for the other two elevators.

Not long after.

Ding!

With a soft sound, the second elevator arrived at the first floor.

As the elevator doors opened and Xu Ming was about to step inside, his pupils suddenly contracted.

A strange woman in red appeared in the second elevator! And she looked almost exactly like the previous woman!

Exactly the same red dress, identical wet hair, barefoot!

No! This is the same woman in red from before!

Xu Ming stared intently at her calves.

No matter how coincidental it is, it's impossible for the scars on their calves to be exactly the same!

Xu Ming remembered it clearly: this elevator came down from upstairs, while the first elevator had already gone down to the B1 level parking lot!

Xu Ming told himself to stay calm, slowly took a few steps back, and watched the elevator doors close again.

Ding!

The third elevator has arrived.

Xu Ming quickly looked into the third elevator.

The strange woman in red seemed to teleport, and reappeared in the third elevator.

Xu Ming's heart began to race uncontrollably, and scenes from various horror movies involuntarily flashed through his mind.

Xu Ming abandoned the idea of ​​taking the elevator and carefully entered the side emergency exit to start climbing the stairs.

His home is on the 6th floor, which isn't very high.

Instead of trying to save money by turning off the lights in the emergency exits, the apartment management installed an LED light in the ceiling every half floor, illuminating the entire emergency exit brightly.

The bright, incandescent light reassured Xu Ming a lot.

He began to walk up the stairs.

Second floor, third floor...

despair!despair!despair!

In the silent emergency exit, only the sound of his footsteps echoed.

The eerie woman in red seems to have disappeared...

Just as Xu Ming turned the corner of the stairs, the bright overhead lights suddenly flashed all at once.

When the lights came on again, that 'familiar' red figure suddenly appeared at the doorway of the fourth-floor stairwell.

Xu Ming's body trembled slightly, and without saying a word, he turned around and ran downhill.

Before he had even descended a few steps, Xu Ming's heart skipped a beat.

The woman in red reappeared strangely at the entrance to the stairwell on the third floor.

'It's over...'

Xu Ming found himself completely trapped between two flights of stairs by this strange woman, unable to move forward or backward.

This strange woman in red has become attached to him!

Now the question is, he can't stay in the stairwell forever, so should he go up or down?

Xu Ming instinctively chose to go home.

He began to slowly approach the stairwell to the fourth floor, and at the same time, he slowly approached the strange woman in red.

The strange woman in red remained motionless with her back to him.

Closer! Even closer!

The two were within arm's reach, and Xu Ming could even smell the strange incense emanating from the woman.

It smelled somewhat familiar, yet also somewhat pungent.

Xu Ming didn't dare to think too much; at this moment, most of his attention was focused on the woman in red.

Xu Ming walked past her until the eerie red figure was completely out of sight, and the woman in red never turned around.

Xu Ming breathed a sigh of relief and quickened his pace.

However, after his figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs, the woman in red, who had been motionless, suddenly began to twitch her fingers, as if she were scratching at something...

Arriving on the fifth floor with bated breath, Xu Ming breathed a sigh of relief; the woman in red did not appear at the bottom of the stairs.

The same applies to the sixth floor.

Xu Ming hurriedly walked out of the emergency exit, and the motion-activated light immediately turned on.

The moment the corridor was fully illuminated, Xu Ming's heart tightened.

That eerie figure in red appeared again at the end of the corridor!

Xu Ming practically ran and walked to his front door.

When he took out the key with trembling hands, he failed to insert it into the lock several times before finally succeeding.

Click!

A crisp click came from inside the lock cylinder, which sounded like heavenly music to Xu Ming.

With all his might, he flung open the door, rushed into the room, and slammed it shut with a loud bang!

It was only then that Xu Ming realized his back was completely soaked with sweat.

Just after Xu Ming closed the door, the woman in red, who had been facing the wall, suddenly began to slowly turn her head...

After resting against the door for a while, Xu Ming casually turned on the switch for the living room chandelier.

Light instantly filled the entire apartment.

Ding-dong!

Just then, the doorbell rang.

Xu Ming's body trembled violently.

However, he soon discovered that the doorbell was coming from across the street.

Ding-dong!

The doorbell rang again. Xu Ming hesitated for a moment, then peered through the peephole.

The eerie figure in red stood at the door of the house across the street, with its back to the house, and slowly pressed the doorbell with a finger that had been soaking in water until it was pale.

One, two...

Xu Ming instinctively moved away from the peephole and the door, a bead of cold sweat sliding down his forehead.

Back in the living room.

In the black and white photo, Kasumigaoka Utaha still gives him a faint smile, just as she did when he left home that morning.

For some reason, seeing his sister's portrait calmed Xu Ming's panicked mind considerably.

Ding-dong!

Just then, the doorbell rang!

This time, it was his doorbell that rang!

"!!"

Before Xu Ming could react, the video doorbell installed on the living room wall lit up and began displaying the scene outside the door.

Suddenly, a bloodshot eye appeared on the screen!

Chapter Three: Nightmares and Illusions

Before Xu Ming could take any action, the video doorbell's call function turned on automatically!

Then an extremely eerie and gloomy voice came from the loudspeaker.

"Cheng-kun~ I really want to see you~ I'm right outside your door right now~"

Snapped!

Xu Ming rushed up and turned off the video doorbell.

However, this is not the end.

blah blah!

Suddenly, a violent banging sound came from outside the door. The force was so great that the door frame shook, and white dust kept falling from the ceiling.

Xu Ming stared intently at the direction of the gate, the constantly trembling iron gate looking as if it would collapse at any moment.

Suddenly, the knocking stopped.

The eerie woman in red outside seemed to have given up.

Just as Xu Ming was thinking this...

Buzz!

His phone, which he had put on silent mode, suddenly vibrated!

Xu Ming subconsciously picked up his phone and saw that the screen displayed a bunch of gibberish.

A strong sense of unease welled up inside him, making his scalp tingle.

Xu Ming's finger instinctively pressed the 'hang-up button'.