Tacheng.
The Patrol Brigade's underground safe house.
"Clang—clang—"
"Clang—"
It had been two days.
Strange noises rang out from the ceiling every so often.
Sometimes it was the sound of high heels walking, sometimes mahjong tiles dropping onto the floor, sometimes a chair being dragged, sometimes marbles hitting the ground, and sometimes an iron door opening and closing... The sounds came in all shapes and sizes, bizarre and inexplicable.
Many people were actually familiar with noises like these.
Plenty of old residential buildings made such sounds, and countless people across the country had heard them. As a result, many urban legends had been born.
For example, there was a rumor circulating online.
It claimed that floors where someone had died in an accident during construction were more likely to produce the sound of marbles hitting the ground.
The dead person had been trapped inside the wall and was bored, so they were playing with their own eyeballs.
There were also claims that the sounds of high heels walking and chairs being moved came from the land's former residents. Although their graves had been leveled, they had not actually left.
The Alternate Dimension where they lived had overlapped with the dimension inhabited by humans.
That was why a series of strange phenomena had occurred. In essence, mankind's "good brothers" were sharing the atmosphere of their lives and letting the living experience the everyday bustle of the dead.
However.
Although these stories sounded horrifying, they were actually neither supernatural events nor urban legends.
According to science,
the noises were actually caused by the friction between steel reinforcement bars and concrete after thermal expansion and contraction.
There was nothing strange about it.
But... scientific explanations belonged to the Peaceful Era.
Now, this was the era of the supernatural!
Whenever you heard any strange