Today is July 15th.
It was only past nine o’clock, and the streets were deserted.
Chen Junfan walked down the street, watching the flames around him. Those fires were burned to relatives, friends and elders in the underworld. It’s just that there are no more people on the street. People have already returned home, leaving only a pile of unextinguished flames.
Chen Junfan only felt a little cold all over, and quickly looked away. Walked quickly home. In fact, he rarely goes home so early. It’s just that today his mother repeatedly told him that today is the Ghost Festival and must go home earlier. Therefore, he also angrily bid farewell to his friends.
Chen Junfan walked very quickly, and within a short while he could see the building where his house was located. There are still a few houses with lights on in the building. It seems that today, everyone is asleep very early.
Chen Junfan looked up at the window of his house, and the light came out from it. “It must be Dad who is still watching TV.” He thought secretly, and walked quickly into the stairwell. The lighting between the floors is voice-activated. With the sound of Chen Junfan’s footsteps, the lights came on one by one. It’s just that the dim lights on the stairs seem a bit strange.
Today’s building is very quiet, so quiet that people can’t breathe. The whole building can only hear my own footsteps. He was walking towards his house.
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Suddenly, Chen Junfan stopped. Staring at his feet, the light dragged his shadow on the stairs, which was very long. But it was tortuous, as if it had been chopped into several pieces.
However, he did not pay attention to these. Because, he found a very strange problem.
Chen Junfan likes to cross two stairs at a time. For many boys, it is not surprising. Because boys’ legs are relatively long, it’s not hard to walk like this.
The stairs of Chen Junfan’s house have 9 floors. So, start from the bottom two steps up, and there will be a ladder at the end. In other words, 5 steps are required (the last step is not required because there is only one ladder). However, he only took 4 steps to reach this level of stairs, which shows that there is one less staircase on this level.
“Impossible?” Chen Junfan was puzzled: “It is impossible that there will be one missing, and it is not usually like this.”
He suspected that he had counted the wrong way, because he couldn’t remember whether he had counted the stairs just now, but knew that he had just stepped up on the platform at the corner of the stairs. Maybe it was because I had counted it wrong. Chen Junfan thought to himself, so he turned his head and walked to the lower level, and then started counting carefully, step by step, slowly walking up. He began to count: “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.” Chen Junfan stoppedThere are still only 8 floors.
“No way, hit the evil?” Chen Junfan muttered. Then he folded back and walked up from below again.
“1,2,3…”
It’s already bright. Father Chen and Mother Chen stayed up all night, because their son Chen Junfan stayed out all night, which made the two elderly people very worried.
Chen Junfan always calls home when he doesn’t come back. Yesterday, I didn’t call to tell the two old people that he would not go home. Moreover, yesterday’s mother Chen called and told Chen Junfan that it was a ghost festival and asked him to go home early in the evening. At first, Chen Junfan answered the phone and said that he was on his way home. However, the call started to be unavailable afterwards.
The two old men asked all of them, but they didn’t know where Chen Junfan had gone. It seems like he has disappeared, but no one has seen him again…
There has always been a legend: Don’t count the stairs when you go upstairs and downstairs. If there is one less step on a certain level, you will become the one that disappears.