Pollution throughout the territory

After a while, there was still no movement outside the door. It seemed that the old lady had not followed.

"Escaped."

Xia Ren breathed a sigh of relief, but his back was still chilly. He had run up in a hurry just now. Under the intense exercise, his body was covered with sweat, and his short sleeves stuck to his body, making it sticky and uncomfortable.

He came to the bathroom and wanted to wash his face.

Xia Ren has a habit. Even if he knows that there is no possibility of hot water in the faucet, he still reaches down to test the temperature of the water before turning it on.

He didn't expect that such a habitual move would unexpectedly save his life.

The liquid flowing out of the faucet was as scarlet as blood. He thought it was rust caused by long periods of disuse, but it was not.

The water is not hot, but very cold.

Very cold!

The moment the liquid touched his fingers, it was almost a conditioned reflex. Xia Ren quickly retracted his hand. After just a moment of contact, he felt that his fingers had been frozen to the point of losing consciousness.

"Why is it so cold?"

Even the ice water in winter is not as powerful as this.

He looked at the faucet again. Strangely, the liquid flowing out of it turned pure and transparent again. Looking at his fingers, they were clearly dry. Not to mention water droplets, there were no traces of moisture on them.

The frozen feeling on my fingertips just now has not subsided. This is definitely not an illusion.

He raised his head and saw himself in the mirror doing the same thing, but his face looked like he was smiling.

"What is he laughing at?"

Xia Ren opened his eyes wide. In the mirror, a blurry black figure crawled behind him without knowing when, but he didn't notice it at all.

Heiying's face was gradually changing and becoming clearer, but in just two or three seconds, the outline of his face was somewhat similar to Xia Ren's.

"He wants to be like me!"

No longer allowed to stay in the bathroom, or even in this room, Xia Ren turned on the faucet, pushed open the door and walked out.

He has been ignoring a crucial issue.

Now that we know that the old lady across the door is an incomprehensible existence, how terrifying must the house be that can scare her away?

"I should have realized earlier!"

There is probably more than one thing like an old lady in this house!

As soon as he walked to the entrance, there was a knock on the door suddenly.

The action of putting on shoes suddenly stopped, and the drop of a needle could be heard in the room. Xia Ren held his breath and silently took off his half-worn shoes and changed to bare feet without making any sound in the process.

He had just moved here and didn't know any of his neighbors. The only person who knocked on the door in the dark was the old lady opposite.

"What should I do? There is one in the bathroom behind me, and there is another one blocking the door outside. Should I try my best to rush out, or should I hide in the house temporarily."

Without much time to think, the door handle suddenly trembled.

"Young man, open the door."

Xia Ren suddenly thought that the old lady could see through peepholes. He was standing in front of the door at the moment, with the lights on in the room, and the other party had already discovered that he was in the room!

She must not be allowed in!

Not caring about anything else, Xia Ren jumped over, held the door handle tightly, and then locked the door.

"Open the door!"

The old lady couldn't turn the handle and started banging on the door frantically.

Xia Ren felt that it was not safe yet, so he took out the key and turned it twice. This time it was completely locked.

"Open the door!"

The old lady's voice was hoarse, as if her throat had been stuffed with dry tree bark. The side door banged loudly when she slapped it, and the entire door frame was shaking!

Xia Ren took two steps back, still a little scared, and his legs and feet could not stop shaking due to nervousness.

If he had reacted slower just now, she would most likely have opened the door and come in!

After filming for a while, the old lady realized that she couldn't open the door, so she seemed to give up, and silence returned to the house again.

"She has discovered me and will never give up easily. Maybe she is still looking at me through the peephole."

Xia Ren didn't believe that the old lady would leave. The more nervous he was, the faster his head turned.

"I can't go out tonight, I have to wait until dawn, but the house is..."

He turned and looked at the bathroom, where there was a dark figure trying to look like him.

Compared to the old lady, at least the shadow didn't chase her out, which meant that she knew she would be safe if she didn't enter the bathroom.

"I can only endure it. No matter what I say tomorrow, I can't continue to stay in this hellish place."

After making a decision, Xia Ren planned to go to the bedroom, but he had to stop just halfway.

A brown straw rope from nowhere hangs from the ceiling and is hanging by the bedroom door.

There was a loop tied at the end of the rope, which looked like some kind of execution or suicide tool.

If you want to enter the bedroom, you need to pass by the rope. Xia Ren doesn't think that this quietly appearing thing will give way to him in a friendly way.

Fortunately, nothing else happened in the study. Xia Ren sat down at the desk and calmed his beating heart.

The computer was usable and there was an Internet connection, but he had just experienced the mirror ghost, the old lady, and the hanging rope. Now he didn't even know if this room was safe, and he was not in the mood to play games or watch movies for fun.

He has a tumor in his head and often experiences hallucinations, but that doesn't mean he doesn't even have the ability to think logically.

All the signs before him showed that he had been tricked by Zhao Mingyue.

"damn it!"

He hammered the table angrily.

I never expected that such an act of venting anger would turn into some kind of signal, activating all the abnormal phenomena in the house at once!

The shock caused by the contact between the tabletop and the palm has not subsided, and the room suddenly became lively.

In his ears, like a ignited fuse, various tiny sounds began to sound one after another.

He heard a group of people whispering in the dark living room. There was a crisp sound of a mirror breaking in the bathroom next door. Bright red blood was dripping from the hanging rope. A strange stream of water, carrying an irresistible chill, was flowing along the door. The seam slowly spreads inward...

"Illusions, all hallucinations!"

"My condition is serious!"

The incomprehensible phenomenon brought great fear. Xia Ren hugged his head tightly, but felt a smooth touch in his hands.

He withdrew his hand stiffly, and there was a sticky, transparent liquid in his palm.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Ren was horrified to discover that at some point, the study room was covered with slender tissues. Looking carefully, these tissues were all tentacles covered with suckers!

"Where did these tentacles come from..."

He looked along the source of the densely packed tentacles, looking lower and lower. Finally, he saw that the roots of all the tentacles were extending from the chair.

A thought that made him tremble came to him.

Back of the head!

Frantically, he reached his hands behind his head to tear off the tentacles.

However,

No.

The smooth feeling just now disappeared, and when he stretched out his hand, he could only touch his hair.

Looking around again, those tentacles were gone. He was the only one in the room, standing alone in front of the computer.

Hallucination?

He couldn't be sure.

Because the noise outside the house continued.

Just when Xia Ren's worldview collapsed and his sanity was about to collapse, a paragraph of text suddenly appeared in his mind:

[Fusion progress: 70/100! 】

Then, as if some kind of creature was using the most domineering way to forcibly imprint its will into Xia Ren's thinking, words began to appear continuously.

["Fusion progress 75/100, successfully fused with the host!"

[Achievement system is available! 】

【Exchange store available! 】

[Containment system is available! 】

【Task system is available! 】

[The degree of integration is not perfect. To protect the host, some functions are temporarily closed. 】

[Check host status. 】

[Name: Xia Ren.

Sex: Male.

Race: human.

Sanity: 9.

Pollution value: 5/100.

Distortion value: 5/100.

Pollution Resistance: 3.

Amount of contamination stored: 0.

Abilities: Unknown.

Contained items: None. 】

【warn! The host's sanity is too low! If you lose all your sanity, you will be completely distorted and irrecoverable! 】

【warn! The host has been contaminated! 】

[Distortion of mind: a type of infected body! 】

【warn! The host has been deformed! 】

[Distortion location: brain, unknown impact! 】

[Warning, this type of aberration is uncontrollable. The host is asked to strengthen his sanity as soon as possible to prevent the aberration from continuing to expand, or take a third-level anti-infection solution for forced correction! 】

"I must be crazy."

"I must be crazy!"

Xia Ren covered his head in pain, but he couldn't stop the words in his head from continuing to appear.

[The main mission has started: looking for the abyssal alien Zhao Mingyue!

Main mission two: Investigate the source of pollution! 】

[Side mission has been started: Ask the host to spread pollution records to humans to enhance human sanity and help resist pollution. Every time a record is completed, the host will be rewarded with achievement points according to the difficulty of the event. The achievement points can be exchanged for important items in the store. 】

[First mission: A type of infected body has been discovered, distance: 5 meters. The host is asked to seal and record it as soon as possible. After completion, the host will be rewarded with a first-level anti-pollution liquid. Use of it can correct first-level pollution and is ineffective against deformed polluters! 】