Chapter 1 The world is a strange place.
This is the third day after the laboratory explosion and Yan Junze's rebirth to this planet, the location of rebirth is a country named Hua Ying Duodu.
Heavenly Alliance District, Shun Tian City, the city is equivalent to the second and third tier cities of the Earth China before Yan Junze was reborn.
Unlike other reborn people, Yan Junze after rebirth, his parents are alive and well, he didn't receive the lunch box, and his body is so good that even the health care promoters of "as long as ninety-eight, all of them will take him home" can't even lay their hands on him.
The only difference is that this reborn world is permeated with a lot of inexplicable weirdness.
For example, at two o'clock in the morning, the door outside the living room will be knocked on time, in the silence of the darkness of the night, through the kind of very pure, very mechanical, let a person straight goosebumps knocking sound.
Another example is that it is strictly forbidden in the house to enter the bathroom after 12:00 midnight, and usually around 11:50, the bathroom door is locked with a key right on the door.
Of course, living people can't let shit and urine suffocate them, so the bedrooms are prepared with simple toilets.
The original owner's memory was not restored after rebirth, for this family, for this world, for the inexplicable strangeness that permeates everywhere, Yan Junze is building up his cognition little by little.
It was only on the second day after he was reborn, that is, on Saturday, that he roughly learned about some of the circumstances of this world by checking the information on the Internet.
The so-called weirdness was called strange events here.
Since about half a year ago, strange events have been popping up in this world, initially thought to be very isolated incidents, but soon the strange events spread all over the world.
Some weird websites sprang up, containing a large number of weird pictures and videos of personal encounters uploaded by netizens, and the number of pictures and videos was unimaginable. There are also specialized chat groups, B-site live streams and more.
The good thing is that if there is a weird event, it is basically just limited to a certain area, and if it is not close to that area, usually nothing abnormal will appear. This is like the parents not allowing Yan Junze to enter the bathroom after 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.
The father Yan Duguo stipulated that the bathroom door must be locked at 11:50 pm every night, and could not be opened until 6:30 am the next morning. As for the reason, Yan Duguo kept his mouth shut.
But there are always exceptions, not to mention that Yan Junze has just been reborn, did not fully form this aspect of knowledge, coupled with not quite adapted to the condition of this body, Saturday night this day, until after washing back to the bedroom, he realized that the glasses are still left in the bathroom on the sink.
This body belongs to a senior dog, all day and night reviewing and doing exercises, has formed more than 300 degrees of myopia, but other body functions are not bad.
As long as he survived this year, he would be a good man again after the college entrance exam. The original body owner's thoughts are somewhat naive and breathless.
Yan Jun Ze deliberately looked at the time, at this time the clock has already pointed to 11:54, now go to take away the glasses to spend less than a minute, and did not violate the father Yan Da Guo's rules.
What's more, he hadn't established a very deep cognition about the seriousness of the matter of entering the bathroom.
Weird incident? Does a mouthwash cup jumping up on its own to catch the water, blood coming out of the faucet, scary faces appearing in the mirror, and a washcloth coming on a hook to a rendition of The Martian's "Uptown Funk" count?
Before having a personal encounter, all people think that the real big horror is far away from them, and Yan Junze's subconscious mind also thinks so.
Walking out of the bedroom, squatting on the aisle and taking out the key placed under the absorbent carpet in front of the bathroom door, Yan Junze quickly inserted the key into the lock hole and twisted the door open.
The space of the bathroom is narrower, a sink, a toilet occupies half of the area, the remaining area is left for the shower. However, when taking a shower, the water splashes would definitely splash onto the sink, or even the mirror in front of the sink.
The entire bathroom was plastered with red and white square tiles, and only the sink and toilet were pure white.
Open the bathroom light, this narrow interior emits warm yellow light, but makes the light in the bathroom still overall dark.
Yan Junze heart inexplicably some hairy up, fuzzy eyes from the bathroom on a variety of items swept through, seems to be nothing unusual. A few steps into the door, grabbed the glasses on the sink, put them on while returning to the bathroom door, and then reached out to turn off the light.
After putting on the glasses, Yan Junze's eyes to be a lot clearer, turn off the light moment gaze unintentionally swept, followed by a violent shudder, he stared dead center at the corner of the room between the washstand and the toilet.
There, at some point, stood a little girl with a cloaked hair.
The girl, who was about five or six years old, was facing the corner, with her back to the bathroom door. She was wearing a red dress with lace, her arms and calves were bare, though crawling with bruises, and her neck was crooked one hundred and eighty degrees to the right, but her skin was not broken.
Her two small feet were unshod, with the right paw of one of them turned upwards, presumably from a violent impact.
It was a bit like Captain Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean, but people could still hold wine in that broken leg, it was simply handsome. However, in the case of the girl in red, it was horrible.
The weird thing is, the whole spine of the girl in red is bent like an old tree trunk, forming an S-shape, just standing there, not moving at all, sticky and dirty hair resting behind her.
Yan Junze didn't have time to think about Captain Barbosa and his broken leg that could hide the wine right now, a strong sense of fear quickly took over, making him involuntarily shiver physically, a chilling aura spreading out through the bathroom towards the walkway.
Yan Junze felt like his breathing had stopped.
Strange events, what was in front of him was the strange events that were breaking out everywhere in this world!
Seeing the news from TV, and encountering this kind of thing in person, it feels like a completely different level of existence. Until now, he didn't realize that the gap between the two was simply as big as a chasm.
Yan Junze's palms and spine oozed cold sweat, wanting to close his eyes and no longer look at the back of the girl in red, but his eyes simply could not move away, still staring at that bizarre body without blinking.
At this moment, the girl in red who had been motionless, that crooked neck moved, slowly turned to the direction of the bathroom door, accompanied by the sound of broken bones friction issued by the click, like a hundred years old tree branch was broken, in this silent night, seems particularly harsh.
At this moment, Yan Junze's limbs were cold. Don't know where to get the courage, he quickly reached out his hand, a grabbed the bathroom door handle, bang the door to close, and the key on the door quickly turn two circles, take out the key, trembling pinch in the hand.
The parents' bedroom opened immediately afterward, and the sleepy-eyed father Yan Duguo and mother Li Man walked out.
"Xiao Ze, how long have you been reviewing, why are you still up?" Li Man inquired in surprise, then looked at the already closed bathroom door.
"You were just in the bathroom?" Yan Duguo's sleepiness had completely disappeared, and immediately returned to the bedroom to grab his cell phone and look at the time.
It was still 4 minutes short of 12 o'clock.
Yan Duguo once again walked out of the bedroom and came to the bathroom door, twisted the door handle and realized that the door was already locked, then looked at Yan Junze's hands that were shaking slightly as he held the key.
Taking the key from Yan Junze's hand, Yan Daiguo turned his head to Li Man and said in a stern tone, "I told you to put away the key, put away the key, don't just put it around for convenience."
Li Man had already read something from Yan Junze's still unrecovered complexion and just nodded her head, at this moment Yan Daiguo was in the middle of his anger, she didn't chime in.
Yan Daoku turned back to look at Yan Junze's eyes, his gaze was stern but could not hide his concern as he asked, "You saw her?"
Yan Junze did not answer.
"It's fine, as long as you don't enter the bathroom during the time she appears, you'll be fine." Yan Duguo spoke out to comfort.
"Dad, that thing didn't just happen to appear at 12 o'clock." Yan Junze spoke up.
"That's why I requested that the bathroom must be locked ten minutes in advance." Yan Daoku replied, and turned his head to Li Man, "Next time, the key can't be left in front of the door, it'll be kept by me personally, and I'll lock the door on time every night, and open it on time the next day."
"Not next time." With an apologetic face, Li Man came to Yan Junze's front and reached out to hold his shoulders.
"Dad, did we not report the weirdness in the house?" Yan Junze couldn't help but ask.
As for the birth of the security officer is similar to an organization that maintains social security, just like the constable in the ancient times, but the real security officer can't deal with the weird events.
It's just that nowadays, the number of weird events is growing extremely fast, so even if they are reported, they might not be able to be dealt with immediately.
At the beginning of the outbreak of weird incidents, Buddhism and Taoism were still popular for a period of time, but people gradually realized that the so-called talismans, magic weapons and other items for suppressing demons, devils and ghosts could not play much of a role in today's weirdness at all.
For this reason, a part of the people who believe too much in tradition died one after another, and all of them realized that they could only rely on the spirit removers to deal with this stuff effectively.
The de-spiritualists also paid a high price for researching how to kill the weirdness. The means to kill the weirdness was so secretive that the common people had no chance and could not grasp it.
Yan Duguo sighed, "It was reported a month ago, saying that there was a queue, but now it's not even lined up."
Yan Junze was somewhat speechless.
Although this world is very strange, the social favor that should be there should be equally not less, saying that it is queuing up, there may be people constantly plugging in the queue through special relationships is not certain.
I don't know how long it would take to wait until the year of the monkey to go. In the meantime, only the area will be temporarily blocked off.
The good thing is that the girl in red in the bathroom doesn't seem to be the type that has nothing to do with anything, although she looks a little bit sorry for the audience, but she looks quiet like a quail, as long as she doesn't enter the bathroom during the time period she appears, nothing should happen.
The father, Yan Duguo, works in the office of a paper mill, an ordinary employee with a monthly salary of less than ten thousand.
Yeah, a little over three thousand.
The mother was a cleaning aunt in a cleaning company, and the two of them worked as a team, with a monthly salary comparable to that of Yan Duguo.
Such a working family, the place where they live is in an old-fashioned neighborhood, and their home is only two rooms, one hall, one bathroom, and one kitchen.
It is, after all, impractical for the Yan family to move out and leave this strange place.
And now after the strange incident reported want to line up to insert relations, with Yan Duguo and Li Man's social relations, even more unrealistic.
So things were just so stagnant.
Unless the strange incident is extremely big, the influence is very wide, otherwise like the home bathroom suddenly appeared a quail as quiet as a ghost in red this kind of thing, do not line up for three or five months, are sorry for people's little girl's well-behaved horrible.
Yan Junze returned to his bedroom, his mother Li Man followed over and comforted him for some time, Yan Duguo checked the lock of the bathroom door again, and then made sure that the lock of the living room door was also locked, and only then did the two of them turn off the lights and return to their own bedrooms.
However, Yan Junze was unable to sleep, the scene just now, is his first time ever, witnessed the existence of strange, that kind of real sense of personal experience at this moment still let him constantly goosebumps.
And there is another reason why he can't sleep, because after seeing that little girl in red, Yan Junze's mind, suddenly and inexplicably appeared a chart.