black mist

Chapter 17

Jian Tong kicked the pair of shoes far away—although he only had time to take a look at it before, he was sure that this pair of shoes was the one that almost tripped him before.

When Jian Tong turned around just now, the toe of the patent leather shoe barely touched his heel...

... It's like a "person" sticking tightly to his back.

I don't know how long I've been with him...

It turns out that fear and intimidation can really bring out the best in human beings.

Frightened by the sudden coldness of those shoes, Jian Tong jumped several meters even when her physical strength was exhausted.

Undecided in shock, he glanced back at the pair of kicked-off shoes, confirmed that they were still in place, without the slightest sign of self-movement, then turned his head and ran in the opposite direction to where the shoes were, spreading his legs and running wildly.

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Chunxia Town is built on the mountain, and the main part of the town is located in a relatively gentle area in the middle of Chunxia Mountain. With the continuous expansion of the town in the past two years, public facilities and some residential areas have begun to move toward the top of the mountain and The direction of the foot of the mountain spreads, so many residential areas are almost integrated with the woods outside the town.

It has also created a number of unique residential landscapes.

Relying on Chunxia Town and its surrounding superior natural and geographical conditions, in recent years, Chunxia Town has been striving to create a tourism brand of "mountain and forest town", trying to drive the town's GDP to achieve leapfrog growth through tourism.As a supporting facility, the urban greening of Chunxia Town is very good, almost every street has a row of beautiful street trees.

For the sake of beauty, the street trees are mostly evergreen trees such as camphor, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and the whole town is almost covered by green plants, so even if it is not autumn, there are always many fallen leaves on the streets.

Sanitation workers are responsible for sweeping up these fallen leaves every day, piling them up under the trees, letting them dry and rot naturally, and turning them into fertilizer to nourish the trees.

But in one night, a lot of leaves rustled and fell, and when the night wind blew, the fallen leaves were all over the ground again.

Jian Tong ran away on the street stepping on the fallen leaves all over the place. Chunxia Town has a typical "well" layout. Many small "well" characters put together the complete layout of the whole town. Various small towns in the town The alleys lead in all directions.

Jian Tong stopped and walked, but he didn't dare to stay in any place for a long time, because he saw long shadows appearing out of thin air in the empty alley more than once...

At first, there were only two straight and long legs like telegraph poles...

After seeing it several times in a row, Jian Tong realized that it was a pair of legs - a pair of unbelievably long legs, which really frightened Jian Tong, who was in a state of war at the moment.

Because of being frightened, Jian Tong deliberately slowed down her pace vigilantly, and took a look at the place where the shadow extended——

Then, he saw a pair of shoes.

A pair of mud-stained men's patent leather shoes.

The other end of the shadow is connected to the pair of shoes, as if two legs grew out of the pair of shoes.

The pupils shrank suddenly, and Jian Tong turned around and ran in a panic, leaving the shoes and shadow far behind.

After running for a certain distance, Jian Tong realized belatedly that he could no longer run around aimlessly like this, and he had to meet up with his brother as soon as possible.

No matter from which aspect, he urgently needs Wen Yan.

Thinking of Wen Yan, Jian Tong couldn't help but start to feel worried.Before, he was chased out of the alley by the dancer, and he didn't know what happened to his brother.

Their movement was not small, the alley was so quiet, my brother should not have missed it.I just don’t know if my brother took advantage of the dancing people chasing him out, and left that dangerous alley...

If the dancer didn't catch up with him, would he go back to that alley?

In case my brother hasn't come out yet...

Jian Tongguang thought about this possibility and felt suffocated.

So he simply turned around and ran towards the alley where he met the dancing people at first—he had to check Wen Yan's safety.

—he had to find his brother.

On the way back, Jian Tong encountered the pair of shoes again.

This time, those shoes came at a crossroads.

Because of fear, Jian Tong actually resisted the appearance of this pair of shoes, but he still couldn't help but glanced at the ground - the shadow with the shoes no longer only had a pair of long legs, but had already grown a waist...

Jian Tong's heart was pounding. He didn't know why, but he always felt that once the shadow grew out of all parts of his body, something extremely bad would definitely happen...

——Risks that are too difficult to bear must be killed in advance.

So Jiantong gritted his teeth, bravely found the biggest stone he could move on the side of the road, overcame the psychological barrier, moved the stone with great effort, and pressed the pair of shoes on...

This was the only way he could think of in desperation.

In order to verify whether it was effective, he deliberately stopped at the next intersection and looked around. His method seemed to have worked, and the pair of shoes did not appear again.

Afterwards, Jian Tong passed through several intersections one after another, but never encountered the pair of shoes again.

Jian Tong could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Once the spirit relaxes, the overwhelming fatigue will swarm him relentlessly, trying to crush him completely.

Fortunately, Jian Tong's will is strong enough, he will not let himself collapse until he finds his brother.

In order to recover her strength as soon as possible, Jian Tong bent down and panted heavily to relieve the pressure on her lungs.He supported his knees with his hands, trying to take a breath, but with just such a movement, just such a bow, he was stunned...

He looked down and saw a shadow, to be precise, two shadows extending from him.

A normal shadow that belongs to him; an abnormal shadow that only has a torso and limbs, but no head.

Jian Tong turned her head and glanced back almost in despair—as expected, the worn-out men's patent leather shoes, with the toes tightly attached to his heels, followed him again...

At this moment, Jian Tong really broke down. He wanted to scream, cry, and vent his emotions loudly.

But rationality told him that he couldn't do anything, he could only raise his lead-filled legs again, step forward and continue to escape...

Escape without end...

No matter how good the physical strength is, it can't support such a long time of wear and tear, not to mention that Jian Tong is not famous for his endurance.The exhausted physical strength could not be recovered for a long time. As time went by, Jian Tong's footsteps became heavier and heavier. He knew that he was almost unable to run.

But he didn't dare to stop. Once he stopped, he was afraid that he would never be able to move again.What's more, there are those patent leather shoes that I can't get rid of.

Jian Tong could only slow down as much as possible, adjust her breathing, and let herself last as long as possible.

In the quiet midnight of the small town, only the sound of his own heavy breathing remained in his ears.

no, wait...

There is another voice.

I don't know when, the rustling of his footsteps on the fallen leaves turned into a duet, and the rustling of the branches and leaves did not disappear between his steps.That is to say, besides him, there is another person walking near him...

Jian Tong suddenly looked at the empty street behind her, and swallowed hard.

He thought of the pair of shoes he couldn't get rid of and the long, thin shadow growing in them, and he couldn't help but start to panic.

But for Jian Tong, who has experienced ghost encounters several times, this kind of panic is not unfamiliar, so he quickly reacted - this kind of panic is not entirely because of fear, but also because he is being attacked by someone at the moment. watch.

——something was secretly staring at him, waiting for an opportunity to give him a fatal blow...

At that moment, Jian Tong even wanted to give up on herself and stop - no matter what, give him a relief, stop torturing him like this again and again!

He's had enough!

But at the moment when he was about to give up on himself, Jian Tong thought of Wen Yan again, and remembered his feelings that might die before he could tell.

Those heartbeats and emotions that were ashamed to say, supported Jiantong to take another step and run slowly.

From the corner of the eye, an unbelievably long figure flashed in Jiantong's field of vision from time to time, accompanied by the rustling of branches and leaves, sometimes it stood on the corner of the street, and sometimes it used its slender limbs to climb and move on the wall...

But every time, it seems to be closer to Jian Tong...

The iconic slender body is easy to identify its identity - it is the shadow growing out of the shoe.

——It has never given up chasing Jian Tong from the beginning to the end, and has been hovering around him, waiting for an opportunity...

At this moment, Jiantong is still several streets away from her destination.

After visually measuring the distance, Jian Tong's eyes were full of despair...

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At the same time, a few streets away, Wen Yan was also looking for Jian Tong.