Count heartbeats
thump ——
thump ——
thump ——
In the darkness, all sounds become very clear.
Litch could hear the feral cat downstairs howling in excitement, he could hear someone's house making noise, and he could hear those small insects chirping.
The most obvious is the sound of the heart beating.
The frequency of the normal human heart beating is sixty to one hundred times per minute, five hundred times the heart beats, less than 10 minutes, short is not short, long is not long either.
Litch seriously counted his heartbeat, paying close attention. As time passed, he discovered that the surrounding sounds had disappeared.
thump ——
thump ——
thump ——
Everything was silent, only the sound of his own heartbeat proved that he was still alive.
Suddenly, Litch realized that his heartbeat seemed to slow down. He had just counted to one hundred, but it felt like a few minutes had passed.
The heartbeat slowed down because the body relaxed. This was very normal. Litch planned to use this to hypnotize himself.
thump ——
While slowing his heartbeat, Litch felt his consciousness begin to blur.
squeak ——
At this moment, there seemed to be a sound on the wall of the cabinet, as if something was hitting the cabinet door, accompanied by a soft opening and closing sound.
What?
Litch was suddenly startled and consciously looked at the closet, almost going to check.
But after that opening and closing sound passed, the world fell silent again, as if just now had just been an extraneous illusion for Litch.
He clutched the crowbar tightly, waiting for something to happen, but he couldn't feel anything.
In such a large space, only the sound of Litch's heartbeat remained, which continued to slow down.
thump ——
My heart rate, is it so slow?
How much time has passed?
If this heart beat continues to slow down, will I die?
It seemed that along with his heart beating slowly, Litch's brain also began to lose its effectiveness.
Sizzling ——
At this moment, a sharp, high-pitched, heart-wrenching sound rang out from Litch's headboard.
Sizzling Sizzling Sizzling ——
The scratching sound continued, right in Litch's ear, getting closer and closer, closer and closer. In the end, this sound mixed with the almost disappearing sound of the heartbeat, seemed to be scratching Litch's scalp!
It seemed like it wanted to scratch open Litch's skull and pull out the things inside!
Sizzling Sizzling Sizzling ——
"Who cares!"
Litch had no intention of continuing this mission. If he continued like this, he was afraid he wouldn't live until tomorrow.
Gripping the crowbar tightly, Litch prepared to open his eyes wide and think of a way to counterattack.
But it wasn't until now that Litch discovered that he had no way to open his eyes at all.
Not only his eyelids, but also his arms, legs, and body could not move. He seemed to be tightly blocked by something, unable to make any movement at all.
"!!!"
The scratching sound became more and more resonant, the frequency became faster and faster.
Litch planned to struggle, but his body stayed in the same place. He felt that behind him, under the bed board, something was scratching the wooden board, that sharp object over and over again. Never ends.
Sizzling Sizzling Sizzling ——
In this extremely strange, tense situation, Litch suddenly felt that his left hand could move slightly.
He twitched his fingers, trying to calm down, his entire body tensed.
The next moment, he felt a warm, soft, smooth hand.
Litch immediately felt his nervousness disappear, his entire body calmed down, as if he could wake up from this normal nightmare to reality at any moment.
The surrounding scratching sound seemed to have disappeared as well.
Litch sighed in relief.
The next moment, a certain kind of fear swirled from the bottom of his heart.
"I'm alone... This hand… Whose is it?!!"
The more bad feeling rose from the other hand's contact with him, Litch felt his whole body tremble. Accompanied by that hand's fingertips gently brushing his arms, neck, and face, the feeling of trembling became even more obvious.
In this state, even Litch himself was impressed that, up until now, he had been counting his heartbeats accurately.
"Four hundred ninety-six, four hundred ninety-seven... Five hundred!"
The moment he counted to five hundred, Litch felt that all the oppression on his body suddenly disappeared.
A moment later, Litch woke up.
He opened his eyes wide and discovered that he was lying on the bed, with the crowbar in his hand on the bed, not even in his hand.
Litch sits up.
In the room everything is as usual.
The large door of the closet is tightly closed, the headboard is clean, and there are no strange things next to me.
Litch felt his heartbeat, it was very fast, like he had just finished running 100 meters.
"I just...fell asleep?"
I actually fell asleep during a dangerous mission?
Litch still feels like he's a careful, strict person who thinks first before doing anything.
I didn't think that I would be so brave.
"Ah, but in a dark environment, counting your heartbeats can be very hypnotic indeed.... Yes."
Litch thought of the task, he raised his hand to the flashlight, opened it, and turned around to get out of bed.
The darkness around the bed became more and more intense, and even the light of the hand-held flashlight could not dispel the deep darkness, as if something out of the ordinary was building up.
All around it was very quiet, there was no sound whatsoever.
Litch crouched down, the ground was cold, the bed board was pressed down, making a creaking sound.
He looked under the bed to explore.
Empty under the bed, only piles of ashes, along with...
The deep blue puppet!
The moment he saw the puppet's eyes, the scratching sound rang out again, this time, it was from Litch's head, tearing his brain apart, destroying Sanity, right up to the end of the abyss.
Sizzling Sizzling Sizzling ——
Some kind of strange thing is about to explode from Litch's brain!
"!"
When that thing came out, Litch opened his eyes wide.
He could hear insects ringing outside the window, a high-pitched cat howling, and the sound of water drops coming from an untightened faucet.
He comes back to reality.
Litch didn't know what had just happened, what the source of these sounds was, and why he was dreaming in a dream.
He turned on the light.
Curiosity drove Litch to the bed, he leaned down, took a deep breath, and prepared to look under the bed again.
Curiosity is truly addictive. Now, Litch, just wants to see what's under the bed.
He took a flashlight and followed.
Garlic, Cross, lots of salt.
Other than that, there was only thick ash and dust.
However, on top of the ash, it seemed like there were traces of some creature limping and crawling past.
This trace seemed to be coming from outside the bed towards where it should have been struggling, but it seemed like it was planning to break through the dark restraint and move outwards. Looking back at these traces, Litch discovered that it had disappeared in the area of the light, not knowing where these traces would end.
Is it a cockroach? Mouse? Or.... That puppet?
As high as eighty points, Sanity told Litch that the area ahead should be explored later.
He sat down, looked at his phone, it was 12:30.
That part of what happened just now only passed thirty minutes?
He felt unimaginable
Five hundred heartbeats, thirty minutes, if I counted correctly, then this frequency is also too low.
After such a long time, his body was malnourished, he should have died long ago... Litch didn't dare to think about it again.
At the same time as he thought about this, he saw that the twisted font on the mobile screen had turned into a writing system.
[Congratulations on completing the mission]
[ Now begin the summary ]
[Mission exploration: 30%]
[ Mission completion status: Normal ]
[Because your eyes are closed, you cannot peek into this room Truth. But no matter what, after 'greeting', now y'all are friends.]
[ Obtained Silence points: 100 points ]
[ Obtain newbie mission reward: "Inherent skills: All or nothing" ]
[Obtained Profession reward: A video that cannot be played at night]
[Summary completed]
[Receiving a premonition, do you experience a strong impulse to create?]
[Choose to complete the Profession development mission and receive the advanced reward]
[ Hope you visit A Quiet Place again ]
The writing gradually faded away, and Litch unconsciously looked at the gloomy darkness under the bedside.
At this time, his cell phone suddenly sent a reminder sound.
Litch quickly opened it. He saw that in his cell phone, there suddenly appeared a video document.
The document's name is: [A video that cannot be played at night].