After I lost my job, I rented Building 404, Building 7, Xingfuli Community at a bargain price. The agent repeatedly warned me: never go out after eight o'clock in the evening.
When I was moving late at night, I saw the aunt across the door muttering to herself into the empty cat's eye. In the early morning, there were the sound of neat footsteps in the corridor, and there was a row of faceless figures outside the cat's eye.
In the early morning, a yellowed code was thrust into the crack of the door:
Don't look in the mirror at 3:33 in the morning.
The elevator stopped on the fourth floor and I immediately closed my eyes.
Absolutely, don't open the door to 602.
The previous resident had mysteriously disappeared long ago.
Someone violated the rules and died tragically at home, leaving traces of blood.
I unexpectedly discovered that rules are not ironclad - they contain cracks, and I can see those fatal loopholes.
Silent neighbors, circular corridors, rules that update themselves, and "administrators" peeking in the dark.
In this old community, every building is a prison, and every rule is a death curse.
The people who live here are no longer human beings.
I have to survive within the rules and break through the loopholes.
Otherwise, I will be the next one to disappear.
Reader comments
Stepping into Xingfuli Community, behind the low rent is a residents' code full of taboos, each of which hints: the peace here is all an illusion. After the protagonist Lin Bei lost his job and moved in, he heard footsteps late at night, faceless neighbors, and visions in the mirror one after another. The seemingly ordinary old building hides countless deadly rules and strange entities. If you violate it, you will die, and there is nowhere to escape.
The novel fills the sense of oppression with strange rules and stories, and uses everyday scenes to create suffocating fear. It is not overly gory, but is extremely scary at every detail. The setting of the protagonist being able to see loopholes in the rules is novel and eye-catching. He uses wits to break the situation and uses text traps to survive. The rhythm is tight and the reversals are constant. Neighbors each have their own secrets, the neighborhood is full of fog, and suspense runs throughout, making people more and more frightened as they read.
If you prefer thrilling survival games, immersive weird atmospheres, and brain-burning rules to solve puzzles, this neighborhood will definitely make you stay up late to catch up on updates and not dare to turn off the lights.
Stepping into Xingfuli Community, behind the low rent is a residents' code full of taboos, each of which hints: the peace here is all an illusion. After the protagonist Lin Bei lost his job and moved in, he heard footsteps late at night, faceless neighbors, and visions in the mirror one after another. The seemingly ordinary old building hides countless deadly rules and strange entities. If you violate it, you will die, and there is nowhere to escape. The novel fills the sense of oppression with strange rules and stories, and uses everyday scenes to create suffocating fear. It is not overly gory, but is extremely scary at every detail. The setting of the protagonist being able to see loopholes in the rules is novel and eye-catching. He uses wits to break the situation and uses text traps to survive. The rhythm is tight and the reversals are constant. Neighbors each have their own secrets, the neighborhood is full of fog, and suspense runs throughout, making people more and more frightened as they read. If you prefer thrilling survival games, immersive weird atmospheres, and brain-burning rules to solve puzzles, this neighborhood will definitely make you stay up late to catch up on updates and not dare to turn off the lights.