Chapter 5 Chapter 4 A shadow squeezes out of the drawer

When the sound of the motorcycle faded away, I turned around and looked at the drawer, almost without blinking my eyes. I secretly wish in my heart that when I am alone in this room, don't let me hear any weird sounds again.However, hope and reality are often contrary to each other. Not long after Xu Xin left, that sound sounded again in that drawer, that sound seemed to be made when something was squeezed forcefully through a very narrow crack. My eyes were wide open, and I held a copper paperweight in my hand, just in case. Then, I saw the strangest thing in my life. I saw a black figure slowly squeezed out from the gap in the drawer.

The steel cabinet is very delicately made, the drawers have almost no seams, and only a shadow can be squeezed out of the seams, because the shadow has no volume at all.However, if there is no object, how can there be a shadow? However, it was indeed a shadow, slowly squeezing out.Afterwards, I could see clearly that it was the black shadow of a human head. At this time, the only hope in my heart is: that is my head shadow. However, my last hope is also shattered! After the black figure squeezed out, he twisted his head, as if he was squeezing hard, but my head didn't move. My head didn't move, if it was my head shadow, how could it move?

The black shadow like a human head was really shaking from side to side, and I also felt that this shadow was "looking" at me. It was just a black shadow, clinging to the steel cabinet, as if there was a person standing in front of the steel cabinet. If there was really a person in front of the steel cabinet at this time, then things would not be surprising at all. At that moment, I only felt that my scalp was numb and my body was stiff. I opened my mouth wide, but I couldn't make a sound. After a long time, I could barely lower my head. When I lowered my head, because my neck bone was already stiff, I even heard a "click".

I lowered my head to see if my shadow was there. I saw my own shadow, which was very faint.That is my shadow, then, what is the shadow on the steel cabinet that "drills" out of that drawer? I only felt chills all over my body, and when I raised my head again, the shadow's shoulders were also exposed, and I immediately thought of what Xu Xin said that night. He said he once saw a dark figure leaning over the wall looking at me.I had a hard time imagining what it was like for a shadow to bend over to look at a person, but I know now. Because now, I really feel that the shadow is slowly squeezing out from the crack of the drawer while "looking" at me. Naturally, I can't see the facial features on the shadow's face, but I really feel it. , he was staring at me.

In an instant, I suddenly called out with a strange sound. I understand, I understand why Xu Xin's cousin suddenly gave up this house. This is an unbearable horror. At this moment, a chill came from the bottom of my heart, causing my body to tremble violently. It was really unbearable, and I couldn't bear it even once.As for Xu Xin's uncle, he obviously endured it many times before he reached the verge of a nervous breakdown, took everyone out of that house, and never came back. In that way, Xu Xin's cousin is already considered a very strong person, at least much stronger than me.

I screamed suddenly at that time because of the extreme fear, the deadly fear, which made me unable to utter a sound at first, and now made me scream continuously and could not stop. I kept screaming, the shadow no longer squeezed out of the drawer, it just tilted its head, as if observing me with great interest. I know that Xu Xin’s uncle once locked the shadow in a drawer—my thoughts at that time had already entered a state of frenzy. I knew that the shadow was not something that could be folded, and the shadow was not a thing at all, but I still assumed that Xu Xin's cousin locked up the shadow.

But in fact, the shadow can come and go freely at all. He appeared once when we slept in the study on the first night, and then disappeared quickly.Moreover, he will make noises! I don't know how long I screamed, but the shadow stretched out more and more, and it reached my waist. Moreover, I also saw that the shadow has two hands and arms, which is completely the shadow of a person! I kept thinking in my heart that he was coming out!He's coming out!What will he do to me when he comes out? I waved my hand involuntarily, and all of a sudden, I saw the copper paperweight I was holding in my hand, and without even thinking about it for a tenth of a second, I immediately stepped forward and threw it!

I myself can't imagine why my strength is so great, because when the copper paperweight hits the steel cabinet, the sound is very loud. The copper paperweight was dropped on the shadow, but the shadow is not a substance at all, it is not even a piece of paper—even the thinnest paper, so the copper paperweight is equivalent to being dropped on the steel cabinet. Suddenly, the shadow shrank back and retracted into the drawer. But I was still screaming, at this moment, Xu Xin slammed open the door and rushed in with a "bang". I was still screaming, but Xu Xin rushed in front of me, held my shoulder, and shook me hard, ten times before I stopped screaming.

Xu Xin's complexion became extremely ugly, and he gasped for breath: "What happened, what happened? I was almost a mile away, and I already heard your scream." I hurriedly held his hand, but he was startled again: "Wesley, your hand is as cold as ice!" I said intermittently: "Xu Xin, what's wrong with me? I...but I'm still alive, am I alive?" After hearing my words, Xu Xin must also feel his hair stand on end, because his expression is even uglier. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva before saying: "I think you are still alive, but your face is uglier than a dead person."

I raised my head and suddenly saw a person standing at the door. I jumped again in fright, but I immediately recognized that the person standing at the door was none other than the old locksmith. The old locksmith looked at me with the eyes of a mental patient, hesitating at the door, not daring to come in, as if I would strangle him to death if he walked in. Xu Xin kept asking me what happened, but I didn't answer, I gradually regained my composure: "Nothing, I'm too tired." While saying that, I blinked at Xu Xin, indicating that I have something to say, but I will wait a while before I say it.

After all, Xu Xin was my old friend. He immediately understood what I meant and didn't ask any further questions. The reason why I don't want to say it out is because I'm afraid that if I say it out, the old locksmith will run away, and if I can't open the drawer, I will never be able to discover the secret in the drawer. By this time, I had gradually regained my composure from the extreme panic. After I regained my composure, the first thing I thought of was not to run away, but to figure out what was going on! Xu Xin patted me on the shoulder again: "Now, there is finally a trace of life on your face." I stroked my cheeks, my hands were still cold, but my cheeks were burning hot. The old locksmith was at the door, pointing at me: "Sir, there is nothing wrong with him." Naturally, Xu Xin also knew that something serious must have happened, so his smile seemed very forced, and he said, "Of course it's nothing, please open the lock quickly." The old locksmith came in hesitantly, and kept looking at me.He said: "Mr. Xu, if this kind of thing happens in the future, you can find another person, and don't trouble me anymore!" Xu Xin said impatiently: "You won't come if you don't come next time. It's not like I won't give you money. You open the drawer for me. I'll give you a piece of silver. Is there any better money than this?" ?” The old locksmith was still muttering, but he still walked over to the drawer, probably because of his previous experience, this time, he quickly opened the lock. Just like last time, he just opened the drawer a little, and I yelled, "Okay!" The old locksmith was still terribly frightened of me, naturally, because he had just heard me utter that startling cry, so that when I called out he immediately backed away. Xu Xin gave me a strange look.I already waved my hand and threw a piece of silver to the locksmith: "Go! Go! Go!" Yinyang fell to the ground with a "dang", and the old locksmith immediately picked up Yinyang and hurried out. When he reached the door, he turned around and looked at him, as if he wanted to say something. However, he didn't say anything, just moved his lips, and immediately ran downstairs. As soon as the old locksmith left, Xu Xin was going to pull out the drawer. I shouted, "Xu Xin, don't be busy!" Xu Xin yelled at me, and immediately withdrew his hand in fright. No, he was a little annoyed: "What's wrong with you? You really seem to have lost your nerve. What's going on?" I don't blame Xu Xin, because I also know that I am too nervous. However, I also know that if I tell what I saw, Xu Xin might not have the courage to open the drawer. I tried my best to gather myself together, and said: "Just now, when I was alone, I saw a black figure like a human squeezed out from the crack of the drawer." Xu Xin's hand was already about to pull the drawer open again, but after hearing what I said, he immediately withdrew his hand: "You...what did you say?" I said: "A shadow, you saw it before, do you remember? You also said that the shadow was looking down on me, and your cousin saw it too, and he gave up this house because of it. " Xu Xin took a deep breath, his face also turned pale, and he stepped back. I continued: "Now, I see it too, I see him squeeze out, and I see him retract, he's in that drawer!" Xu Xin's voice trembled a little, and he said, "Don't...don't scare me!" I smiled wryly: "Do you think I would have made such a strange noise if I hadn't been terrified?" This sentence is the most convincing, it shows that I am not joking with him, I am telling the truth! Xu Xin looked at the drawer, it had already been opened half an inch by the old locksmith.There is a seam. Xu Xin was stunned for a long while before he said, "If the drawer has not been opened at all, he can squeeze it out..." He paused for a while, and smiled wryly: "That's impossible, this drawer has no seams at all." I reminded him: "But, don't forget, it's a shadow, a shadow is just a plane, and a plane has no thickness." Xu Xin smiled wryly: "In that case, we don't have to be afraid of anything. If it wants to come out, it will come out even if you open the drawer. If you don't open it, it will come out the same way." I nodded. To be honest, what I felt at this time was not fear.Because Xu Xin's cousin has lived for so many years after leaving this house, and we have lived here for many days, and there is no major damage. I just threw the copper paperweight over, and the shadow disappeared immediately. It can be seen from this that the shadow cannot harm us, so we don't need to be afraid at all. And at this time, what filled my heart was an extremely strange and inexplicable feeling! This feeling made me unable to control the trembling of my own body, and it also made me feel chills. I said: "You're right, and we don't have to be afraid of anything, let's open the drawer together to see what happened." Xu Xin nodded. Although we had decided to open the drawer, we still hesitated for a while before walking forward together and holding the handle of the drawer together. Then, we worked together to pull the drawer open. We have discussed it beforehand, but at this time, our actions are consistent. As soon as we pulled the drawer open, we hurriedly backed away, and we didn't stand still until we retreated to the desk. Then, we fixed our eyes on the drawer together. It was no different from last time, the drawer was empty. We happened to meet again together, turned our heads to look at each other, I boldly walked forward slowly, Xu Xin followed me, we came to the drawer together, and then carefully looked into the drawer. There is really no need to look carefully, anyone can tell that there is nothing in the drawer just by taking a look. However, the strangest thing happened at that time. We all heard a very slight sound, and from above the drawer, a black shadow fell and landed on the bottom of the drawer. It was a round black shadow the size of a palm.It is really inconceivable, weird and inexplicable that there will be a sound when the black shadow is cast on other objects. The black shadow is a plane. In terms of geometry, a plane is nothing but a plane, a single plane, which can never be an object. A plane has only area and does not occupy space. A plane has no weight. However, that circular shadow , when it suddenly appeared, there was a slight sound, as if it was not a shadow, but a very thin round iron piece. However, it was indeed a shadow. There was a chill in my heart, that is something we cannot understand, it is another space beyond the three-dimensional space, it is a corner that human minds cannot reach on the earth! Xu Xin is really courageous, he naturally thought of the same question as I thought, so he actually stretched out his finger to touch the black shadow, I knew his intention, he really wanted to be sure, what is it? An extremely thin object, or a shadow. His fingers stroked the round black shadow and retracted immediately. And on his face, a very strange expression appeared immediately, he stared at the black figure, without saying a word. I also quickly stretched out my fingers to touch it. What I touched was the bottom of the drawer. I knew that it was not an object, but just a shadow. It is just a shadow that appears after blocking the light. However, when he fell, there was a sound. When I also retracted my hand, Xu Xin screamed: "Look, it's moving!" I naturally saw it too, it was moving. It was moving like an amoeba under a microscope, changing shape rapidly. After about half a minute, it turned into a human figure, and then moved to the side of the drawer. When he moved to the side of the drawer, he seemed to "stand up" when he was no more than six or seven inches tall. However, it was rapidly expanding, and in a blink of an eye, it was out of the drawer and onto the steel cabinet, and it continued to move sideways. When it moved to that wall, it was like standing in front of us like a shadow, and that shadow was exactly the same size as our ordinary people. Both Xu Xin and I were completely stiff, we couldn't do anything except staring at the shadow with our eyes wide open. We looked at the shadow, and the shadow seemed to be "looking" at us. We didn't know how long the stalemate had been between the shadow and us. Xu Xin spoke first, and his voice seemed to be moaning. He said: "God ,...what on earth is this?" My voice wouldn't be much nicer: "That's a shadow!" Xu Xin's eyes widened: "Of course it's a shadow, but this... this shadow, where is the object that caused this shadow?" I swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Is it true that there is an invisible person in the room?" Xu Xin immediately took my words: "My friend, please... speak up." Of course, no one answered me, because even I know that my assumption is not valid. If there is an invisible person, then the light can pass through his body, so we can't see him, and since the light can Through, how come the shadow? I shook my head, Xu Xin and I were in a state of confusion.But at this moment, the black shadow moved, and we could all see it very clearly. The black shadow was shaking its hands, and at the same time, it made a gesture to us, but we couldn't understand what the gesture meant . Shadow continued to shake his hands, as if telling us not to do something. After staring blankly for a while, I said, "Xu Xin, he seems to be telling us not to be afraid!" But I was obviously right, because the shadow immediately stopped waving its hands. Xu Xin also stopped talking immediately, and stopped screaming. His eyes were wide open, and he stared at the black shadow on the wall. The black shadow stopped moving. Xu Xin took a breath slowly, and suddenly moved forward. Means: "You, what are you?" I hurriedly said, "He is a shadow, how could he answer you?" Xu Xin's voice was almost like a moan before death: "It's a shadow, how could it move?" My thoughts were also extremely chaotic, and I actually argued with Xu Xin, saying: "Shadows will naturally move, what's so strange about shadows moving? Don't we often see shadows moving?" Xu Xin suddenly screamed loudly again, he raised a chair, and threw it towards the shadow. Before the chair was thrown to the wall, the shadow moved aside, and with a "bang", the chair hit the wall and fell down, not hitting the shadow. And the shadow quickly moved up and up, our eyes followed the shadow, and the shadow stopped when it moved to the ceiling, and we raised our heads together. At this moment, another strange phenomenon happened. After the shadow reached the ceiling, it fell down. It is unimaginable that the shadow falls away from the object it is attached to, but at this moment, it happened in front of our eyes, and the shadow floated down like a huge piece of paper Same. At that time, I didn't know where I had the courage to reach out and grab a handful. However, I didn't catch anything, all I touched was air.However, when I stretched out my hand to grab it, the shadow dispersed, but it quickly merged into one, fell to the ground, and moved on the ground again. In a blink of an eye, he became "standing" on the ground again. the wall. Seeing such a situation, both Xu Xin and I couldn't help moaning. Neither he nor I can bear it any longer. If we face that shadow again, the only result will be that we will go crazy!The two of us, almost at the same time, rushed out towards the door, rushed to the door, and our castration was so hasty that we bumped into each other. Xu Xin was hit by me and fell outwards, but I immediately supported him, and the two of us ran down the stairs like flying, passed the hall, and jumped down the stone steps. Xu Xin's motorcycle was right there. At the door, he got on the motorcycle, and I sat behind him. He immediately started the car, and the car made an astonishing noise and rushed forward. Xu Xin drove at a very high speed, but I felt that he was driving too slowly. We rushed across the garden, the car was galloping on the road like flying, until we entered a more lively road, Xu Xin slowed down the speed of the car. I had to muster up a lot of courage to look back to see if the shadow followed me. When I saw that there was no shadow behind me, I breathed a sigh of relief, but when I turned around, I saw two shadows on the ground again, and I almost screamed again. If I hadn't immediately recognized that those two shadows were me and Xu Xin, I would have called out. I gasped: "Okay, it's okay." Xu Xin stopped the car, and I got out of the car. He pushed the car against the wall and asked me out of breath, "What the hell is that shadow?" I smiled wryly and shook my head: "How do I know, now, the question is, do you still want that house?" Xu Xin hardly thought about it: "Of course not!" I have calmed down a lot, although, when I asked Xu Xin like that, I also decided that I don't want my half anymore.I said: "But we left in a hurry, there are many things left in that house." Xu Xin's voice was a little trembling: "You—you mean, let's go back and get it?" I said: "Of course, that's a lot of money, don't you want it, and the shadow doesn't seem to hurt us." Xu Xin hesitated for a long time, the house was no longer attractive to him, but the money was always useful.He said again, "Just the two of us going back to get it?" I said, "What's the matter with you, it's naturally the two of us!" Xu Xin smiled bitterly: "You are much more courageous than me, I really dare not go back. So, you should go alone!" I stayed for a while, and I went back to the room alone. This was indeed something I had never thought of, but before I could say anything, Xu Xin said: "Wesley, we are old friends. Once I have Once I get that house, I will give you half of it, you can't do a little thing for me, and you have to make excuses!" I hurriedly corrected him: "You know it's not a trivial matter, but a big one!" Xu Xin quickly changed his words: "Naturally, naturally, but no matter how big the matter is, we still have this friendship, don't we?" I know that if I refuse to go to that house alone, Xu Xin will never dare to go there again, so we will give up the money.Xu Xin said again: "You have half!" I sighed and pointed to a coffee shop on the corner of the street: "Okay, give me the car and wait for me there!" Xu Xin felt relieved, and hurriedly said, "Yes! Yes!" I stepped into the car, stayed there for a while, then started the car, made a clattering sound, and drove towards the house again. When we left that room just now, we were so full of fear, but there was only a gap of more than ten minutes, and I had to go back to that room alone. The feeling in my heart was really indescribable. As I approached the house, I tried to change my mind several times, and at one point I even turned the car around, but I turned back and kept going. Until I came to the gate, my ideological struggle reached its peak. I stopped at the gate for a full ten minutes before walking into the gate.Before the stone steps, my body was trembling, and I stopped for several minutes before lifting my feet. Just as I lifted my feet, suddenly, I heard footsteps coming from the hall. My whole body froze! That was the sound of footsteps, clear footsteps, coming out, there is no doubt that someone was walking out! I kept asking myself: what should I do?But my feet, as if nailed to the ground, could barely move. The sound of footsteps finally came to the nearest, and a person suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, and I took a steep step back. When I stepped back, because my heart was so panicked, I almost fell down. The person who came out of the hall also froze abruptly.