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Everything started on that day a year ago.

Looking back now, it feels like a nightmare.

After graduating from college, Li Yin resolutely became an online novelist despite his parents' opposition. Of course, it was definitely not because of some dreams or ideals. It was just that he could make money by doing this industry.

As a regular job, there are very few online novels, and Li Yin is just one. In fact, his royalty income cannot be considered too high, so he can only barely maintain his life. Moreover, his new works may not continue to be popular in the future. In this era, there are more readers who are fond of the new and old, let alone fast food literature such as online novels, which is just a remedy for people.

Li Yin was also confused for a time. He always felt that the future of life was very undirected. He rented a house alone in City K. He turned on the computer and uploaded it every day as soon as he got up. His daily shopping was basically done through the Internet, and he became a "otaku".

Most of the novels he wrote were war-themed novels, although he didn't know much about war at all. His novels were also declining on the Internet. This month, fewer and fewer people subscribe to novel chapters, and their monthly income was less than 800 yuan. Not to mention daily life, even rent was a problem.

I always feel that life has embarked on a very embarrassing road.

That day...

Li Yin was walking on a commercial street in City K. Usually, he updated his novels at home at this time, but now... he is considering his future life.

After all, I am too naive. Although I had expected this day to happen, I thought that as long as I had a period of time and had a certain amount of savings, I could invest in stock speculation and maybe I could start my own business.

However, the facts are not that simple at all.

Are you looking for a job? He doesn’t have any work qualifications, and now what unit does not pay attention to experience? There are so many college students who have just entered society and will not be taken seriously at all.

Holding a job search weekly in his hand, Li Yin's brows became tighter and tighter.

As he walked, he had already entered a community and an alley without knowing it.

"It's better... go find a job first," Li Yin really couldn't go home and beg for his parents. Even if he worked hard, he had to get through the difficulties first.

After all... if the rent is owed this month, the landlord will have to drive himself out.

When I moved out of my house, I was because I didn’t match my parents’ philosophy and wanted to go home one day after I achieved success. But now... I have become like this.

As he walked, he suddenly felt a chill coming from his back.

He took away the job search weekly that was standing in front of him, and under the sun, his own shadow shining on the ground...

But I still took that job search weekly in front of me!

Then, his shadow changed even more terrifyingly.

Li Yin, obviously, didn't move at all now, but the shadow under his feet began to move! The shadow broke away from Li Yin's feet and moved towards the corner of the alley in front of him on the ground!

Li Yin was stunned on the spot and it took a few seconds to react!

He has no shadow at this moment!

At all costs, his mind was blank at that time, and he just ran away and followed the direction of the shadow's escape! And in this alley with twists and turns, the shadow moved very fast, and Li Yin also spent a lot of effort to catch up with it.

Finally, after passing through an alley again, Li Yin saw the shadow entering a very open open space. There is a very high apartment in the center of this open space.

The apartment should not be less than twenty floors, roughly looking like it is not less than twenty floors. The apartment covers a large area, about two hundred square meters, with white walls, and rows of neat balconies on the outside floor.

And this apartment has an extremely strange place.

It's noon now, and the sun shines directly down, and this huge apartment... on the ground, there is no shadow!

How is that possible?

Li Yin rubbed his eyes desperately, and he strongly suspected that he was dreaming.

But the scene in front of you is an unquestionable fact.

At the entrance to the first floor of the apartment is a revolving door. And my own shadow moves to the revolving door on the ground and automatically penetrates into the ground.

At this moment, many ghost stories I heard when I was a child were revived in Li Yin's mind.

He was only thirty meters away from the apartment at this time, and the seemingly ordinary apartment seemed to be a monster that wanted to eat people, and would swallow him up at any time.

But, for some reason, he walked towards the apartment.

It seemed as if something was summoning itself.

Walking to the revolving door, Li Yin stretched out his hand, pushed the revolving door, and walked in.

What caught my eye was a spacious lobby. The ground was smooth marble, and crystal chandeliers were hung on the ceiling. You could see the stairs on the left side of the lobby, and there were three elevators on the right.

I saw his shadow floating on the ground to an elevator. Then the elevator door opened. After the shadow floated in, the elevator door closed.

Li Yin immediately ran to the elevator door and looked nervously at the elevator floor display sign.

The elevator stopped on the fourth floor.

Li Yin hurriedly ran to another elevator and pressed the button. The elevator door slowly opened. He rushed in and pressed the button on the fourth floor.

As the number of floors rose, Li Yin's heart was also hung up.

My shadow...my shadow...

Li Yin felt strongly in his heart that if he lost his shadow, it would mean something terrible.

Finally, when he arrived on the fourth floor, the moment the elevator door opened, he immediately walked out and stood on a long corridor.

There is plenty of light on the corridor, but the more you move forward, the more you feel deeper. There are doors on both sides of the corridor. The doors are marked with door numbers, "411", "410", "412", etc....

When Li Yin walked to the door of Room 404, suddenly, his shadow floated out of the crack in the room and returned to Li Yin's feet.

However, the shadow still did the actions that Li Yin did not do.

Shadow seemed to be holding something on its right hand, but it could not see clearly. Then, Shadow stuffed the thing into Shadow's pants pocket. After doing this, its hands drooped down and stopped moving.

Li Yin tentatively waved his right arm. To his surprise, Shadow also waved his right hand!

Shadow...returned?

At this time, he stretched his right hand into the pocket of the pants that the shadow had just put in, and touched it, a hard thing.

That's a key.

The key also looks ordinary, but the number "404" is engraved on it. Li Yin looked at the door of Room 404 beside him, trembling, inserted the key into the keyhole, and turned it gently, and the door opened.

He walked into the 404 room.

The entrance is a very large living room with coffee tables, sofas, wardrobes, TVs, and even TVs with karaokes and stereos, which seems to be a very expensive one on the market. Next to the TV is a row of floor-to-ceiling windows, with a balcony connected to the outside.

After a closer look, there are two bedrooms, a study, a bathroom and a kitchen. The rooms are decorated very well, the furniture is very new, and most of them are brand-name goods. The rooms are about 70 to 80 square meters. In terms of the current housing prices, even if this house is a second-hand house, it is definitely not much cheaper. At least... with my current income, I am beyond my reach for such a house.

What's going on?

"You... are you, a new resident?"

When Li Yin heard this voice, he immediately turned around and saw a pretty girl in a green dress.

"You...who are you?" Li Yin asked immediately with vigilance.

"Don't be afraid," the girl waved her hand quickly and said, "I, like you... I was also a shadow that suddenly ran into the apartment automatically, and then became a resident of the apartment. You also got the key?"

Li Yin was startled, then took the key, strode towards the girl, and asked, "What the hell is going on? This... this apartment, exactly..."

"Since you are a new resident, according to the custom, I will take you to meet our building manager. He was unanimously recommended by us. After you go to see him, he will tell you the situation and then register your arrival."

"The building...the building manager?"

"There are thirty-nine people living in this apartment, and you are forty people. All of us... are forcibly bound by this apartment and have to live here all the time."

Li Yin was furious: "What are you kidding? How could I live in this ghost place!"

The girl smiled bitterly and said, "There is nothing I can do... I was scared when I first entered this apartment, but... there is really nothing I can do. Once our shadow enters this apartment and is given that key, it means that we have become residents of the apartment, and then... we cannot escape the apartment."

Speaking of this, the girl also had a painful expression on her face.

"No...can't escape?" Li Yin felt the situation became more and more strange at this moment, and asked, "Why can't you escape?"

"In the past, there were people who were elected as residents, but they did not live in apartments. Such people... would be killed by their own shadow."

“What…what?”

Li Yin was stunned.

"Are you kidding?"

"Didn't you see it? The shadow has been completely manipulated and dominated by this apartment. On weekdays, the shadow can be controlled and controlled by you at will, but... if you do something that violates the rules, the shadow will manipulate your own body to commit suicide. I have lived in this apartment for two years... I have seen many people who committed suicide and died because they violated the rules of the apartment and were manipulated by the shadow."

People are actually manipulated by shadows?

Such absurd words, but Li Yin could not refute it. Because he had witnessed the abnormal changes in his shadow with his own eyes just now!

Li Yin began to feel that this apartment completely surpassed his common sense.

"Who built this apartment? Why did we choose to be residents?"

The girl shook her head and said, "I don't know... I have thought about it many times in the past two years, but I can't understand it. I really can't understand it! This apartment itself is incomprehensible! However, there is only one thing that is certain. We cannot see the people who built this apartment, and for those who are not residents, the apartment does not exist in this world."

"You...what do you mean?"

"Did you come here through an alley?"

“Yes…yes…”

"In fact, it's a dead end. Only those who are elected as residents can enter this apartment through the alley. The open space occupied by the apartment does not exist at all. It is a land that does not exist at all!"

“No… does not exist?”

Li Yin looked at the balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and outside, the rows of tall buildings were visible.

"We can see the outside world, but the outside world cannot see us." The girl saw Li Yin's doubts and explained to him: "When you leave the apartment and walk out of that alley, you will not see the apartment at all. People who are not residents do not know that there is this apartment in this world."

However, this apartment does exist.
Chapter completed!