Chapter 28 Shadow

He never thought he'd get to sleep in a bed.

Yesterday, even with a double bed in the master bedroom, he didn't receive such treatment.

"Unwilling?"

"No, no," Xie Yu said, flattered. "Thank you, handsome."

"Bro, where am I supposed to sleep?" Fatty asked Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng was displeased that Fatty didn't call him Hao Shuai or "handsome," but he still replied, "You sleep on the sofa, I'll take the floor."

Fatty stood by the bed, staring at Xie Yu, who was lying stiffly on it, his eyes filled with resentment.

Then he turned to Jiang Cheng and said, "I think I can sleep on the bed."

Jiang Cheng took a blanket and spread it on the floor, then lay down on it, wriggling his body and saying, "No, you can't."

The night watch was Fatty and Jiang Cheng's job, after all, neither of them trusted the one in bed.

Jiang Cheng thought Xie Yu's watch was useless, so he took it.

He and Fatty agreed that Fatty would watch for the first three hours, then he would take over.

"What do you need me to do?" Xie Yu asked, wrapping himself completely in the blanket, leaving only his head exposed.

"I need you to sleep."

Xie Yu, having made a fool of himself, shrank back again, this time tucking his head into the blanket, wrapping himself into a silkworm cocoon.

Although the villa had electricity, the voltage became unstable at night. The incandescent bulb overhead flickered constantly, occasionally making buzzing sounds.

Such an environment, coupled with such lighting and sound effects, was undoubtedly a horror movie.

Jiang Cheng reluctantly had to turn off the light.

Borrowing the moonlight coming in from the window, he could barely see the environment in the room.

Fatty leaned on the sofa. For the first hour, he was fine, but gradually his eyelids began to droop. Although he knew it was dangerous, he was strangely unable to control himself. Finally, his head tilted and he fell fast asleep.

He slept very deeply, but it shouldn't have been for long. At least, when he vaguely woke up, the room was still dark.

He rubbed his eyes, feeling a little scared.

There was a person lying on the floor beside the bed, it was Jiang Cheng. On the bed, Xie Yu was rolled up like a silkworm cocoon.

Everything seemed normal for now.

Although Fatty was sleepy, he didn't dare to fall asleep again. Even more unexpectedly, he had drunk too much water and needed to go to the bathroom.

There was a bathroom in this bedroom, about 5 meters away from Fatty. It was very small, with semi-transparent glass all around.

But ever since the middle-aged man died inexplicably in the bathroom, Fatty had developed some kind of psychological and even physiological resistance to the bathroom. He was unwilling to go there.

He even resisted approaching it.

He suddenly thought of Jiang Cheng's previous solution.

A mineral water bottle!

But he soon fell into a new round of despair.

Before going to bed, Jiang Cheng had thrown the water bottle into the trash can, and the trash can...

Fatty swallowed hard. The trash can was standing quietly in front of the bathroom door.

Fatty had no choice but to move his body little by little towards the bathroom, each step like a repeated test on the edge of danger.

He finally approached the trash can, and quickly and successfully retrieved the empty mineral water bottle.

But before he could be happy, he seemed to notice something different out of the corner of his eye. He mechanically turned his head and saw an arm protruding from behind the bathroom's glass door.

...

Second floor master bedroom.

Fan Li suddenly sat up from the sofa, then quickly walked to the door and pressed his ear against it.

"What's wrong?"

Nuan Jie and Chen Xiaomeng, who were lying on the bed, also sat up. In order to cope with possible dangers, they didn't even take off their clothes, and they didn't dare to sleep too deeply.

Fan Li put his index finger to his lips, making a silent gesture.

Seeing this scene, Nuan Jie and Chen Xiaomeng immediately shut up, and the air seemed to freeze.

About a minute later, they heard an extremely faint creaking sound.

Like a door, suddenly opened.

A few seconds later, slow footsteps came from the corridor outside.

*Patta, patta.*

Every step seemed to be stepping in water.

At the same time, there was a strange rubbing sound, the kind of feeling like someone was dragging a heavy object on the floor of the corridor.

The footsteps gradually moved away in one direction, and finally disappeared.

The faces of Fan Li and the other two were so cold that water could drip from them. The direction the sound disappeared was the end of the corridor, where there was nothing but a locked room.

Something happened...

Something must have happened!

Who was it this time?

The fatty who could cook, the timid clerk named Xie Yu, or... that strange Hao Shuai?

In another room, inside the small bathroom.

Fatty stared with horrified eyes, his body trembling uncontrollably.

He didn't make a sound.

A hand tightly covered his mouth.

Jiang Cheng was squatting next to Fatty, the two were very close, and the hand covering Fatty's mouth was Jiang Cheng's.

Both of their eyes were fixed on the outside of the door.

The door was open, and moonlight shone in through the window.

The bed was empty, even the blanket was gone. Thinking of the scene he had just seen, Fatty's teeth were chattering in fear.

The figure lying on the floor beside the bed swayed and stood up, its movements strange, its posture twisted, and its body abnormally bloated. It was clearly not Jiang Cheng.

Of course not.

Because Jiang Cheng was hiding behind the bathroom door, pulling Fatty in and covering his mouth at the same time.

The two squatted on the ground, not daring to breathe, staring at the outside through a semi-transparent glass.

The bloated figure stared at the bathroom for more than ten seconds, then turned around, lay on the corner of the bed, and crawled in along a corner of the exposed blanket. Xie Yu inside didn't know if he was asleep or what, the figure's movements were very large, and the whole bed was overwhelmed, making a creaking sound, but he didn't notice it at all.

Until the blanket shook violently a few times, the room suddenly became quiet.

Jiang Cheng and Fatty didn't dare to move.

Until the figure crawled out of the blanket, then walked slowly towards the door step by step, constantly making sounds of water, especially clear in the silent night.

Borrowing the faint moonlight, Jiang Cheng discovered that the figure was dragging a blanket behind him, and inside the blanket...

He turned his head to look at the bed, which was empty.

Fatty was terrified. Jiang Cheng couldn't control his huge body as it began to shake, so he could only pinch him hard with his fingertips.

Fatty's face turned red, but he no longer trembled.

After the sound of water and the dragging of heavy objects disappeared at the end of the door, Jiang Cheng and Fatty still didn't move.

They remained in this position, not knowing how long had passed, until the sound of the door opening rang out.

The first to appear was Fan Li. Nuan Jie and Chen Xiaomeng followed behind him. The three walked in carefully, sticking to the wall.

Only then did Jiang Cheng release Fatty, and the two came out of the bathroom.

Fatty's lips were trembling, so Jiang Cheng could only describe what had just happened.

He was originally sleeping, but was suddenly awakened by a cold feeling. Vaguely, he suddenly discovered that there was a dark shadow under the bed where Xie Yu was sleeping.

The shadow was lying on all fours, its joints unnaturally reversed, slowly crawling outwards.