The mattress

My name is Li Ming, I am a reporter, last month received a mysterious hotel interview assignment.

　　This also starts six months ago. There is a Ruchun Inn in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, where travelers who come to stay here have been missing one after another. The number of missing people has reached 3, but the police could not find any clues, so these cases were shelved. As a result, the business of Ruchun Inn was slow and almost closed down.

　　Two months ago, I don't know who spread the news that the three missing travelers had been living in the same room, and that people living in other rooms always heard a creaking sound at 12 o'clock at night similar to the opening and closing of old doors. Over time, this thing spread, people say that Ruchun Inn inside the haunted, but did not expect the business of the Ruchun Inn is good. A lot of young people with the banner of seeing ghosts to the hotel, some people said they heard a sound, some people said they saw a headless female corpse, in short, a variety of strange statements, let people even listen to some funny.

　　I have never been an atheist, do not believe that the world has ghosts and gods, so not much interest in this matter. Unexpectedly on the 28th of last month, the editor-in-chief called me to his office. "Xiao Li, do you know about the incident at the Ruchun Inn? I want to do an interview and publish an article about it. You are the only one in the company who has the guts, so I'll leave this task to you. You must be excellent to complete ah!" See the editor-in-chief said so there is no way to resist, so I had to "gladly" accept.

　　So the next day I said goodbye to the Simmons I had just bought, packed up my belongings and ready to go. When I got into a cab and told the driver to go to the Ruchun Inn, the driver was suddenly stunned, then smiled reluctantly and started the car.

　　For professional reasons, I always thought he had some problems, so I asked the driver questions about the inn along the way, but his answers were always obscure, even closed-mouthed. When I got out of the car, he said to me, "Boy, don't go to that room!" Then he drove off. I could see fear and unease in his eyes. Perhaps he was once a resident of this hotel, or perhaps he had seen it with his own eyes ...... I couldn't help but shiver and didn't want to think further.

　　This is very remote, located at the junction of urban and rural areas, there are almost no buildings around. Standing in front of the hotel, I can see that it has been some years. The signboard is yellowed and the honest wooden door is torn and tattered. I plucked up the courage to walk inside. I don't know if it's because it's too old, or to create a scary atmosphere, the lights inside the hotel are honest incandescent lights, emitting a ghostly yellow light, and flickering from time to time.

　　When I got to the desk, an old lady was sitting there holding a black cat. I said, "Is there any room left?"

　　The old lady didn't even look at me, lowered her head and stroked the black cat, and made a low voice: "We have plenty of vacancies here." Then she threw out a key and said, "Upstairs, number 2, leave your ID card."

　　I asked, "Excuse me, what is the number of that room where the accident happened, I want to stay in that one." The old lady suddenly raised her head, looked at me with a weird look, raised her tone and said, "We don't rent that room."

　　I was taken aback by this sudden move. Squeaking, he said, "Well ...... this ...... I have no malice, just want to come to find a little excitement, I can pay more money." I then put 200 yuan on the table. Seeing the money old lady seemed moved, she slowly opened the locked drawer under her body, and then fished out a key from it. "Upstairs 4, don't sleep in the bed at night." I was puzzled, but seeing her I did not dare to ask, quickly took the key and ran upstairs.

　　Upstairs, to the door of room 4, I do not know whether it was because of fear, or running up, my heart thumping, and a big gasp of air. With trembling hands, I took the key and carefully reached for the keyhole. "Hey!" A hand slapped me on the back.

The horrible mattress

　　"Ah!" I jerked back. It startled the person behind me. It was a clean-cut woman who shyly rushed to apologize: "Sorry, sorry. I'm a resident here and saw that you were going to take this room and wanted to come and warn you that someone had died in this room."

　　I said, "Ah ...... it's okay, I'm bold, I'm not afraid, thank you." Immediately after she said in a slightly panicked whisper, "Don't sleep in the bed at night."

　　My heart panicked, thinking, "Why do not let me sleep in the bed? Is there really something ...... "Just when I was in a trance, the woman disappeared. I hurriedly opened the door to the room, ran in, and heavily closed the door.

　　Just then I felt a chill coming from behind me, not the whole body seemed to be enveloped by the cold. I faced the door of the room did not dare to turn around, afraid to see what. It was so frozen for a minute, and the silence around me seemed to hear my own breathing and heartbeat. I plucked up the courage to turn over, the room is very ordinary, and the normal hotel, a bed, a bedside table, a TV, and a chair. There was no place to see anything different. I gradually calmed down and laughed at myself for being such a coward. It was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and the sunlight came in through the window, warming me up and making me sleepy.

　　It was her! It was the woman! Her face is full of blood, her head is tilted over, like a zombie, staggering step by step towards me. No! Ah! ...... I opened my eyes violently, it turned out to be a dream. The sweaty me looked at the watch, it was already 5:18 pm. The winter night came extraordinarily early, and it was already somewhat dark outside.

　　Stunned, I stumbled out of bed and turned on the room light. Red light! The fluorescent tube overhead is actually emitting red light! Everything around me was red like blood. I closed my eyes and shook my head violently. When I opened my eyes again, everything returned to normal.

　　"Is it my illusion?" I thought to myself. I really didn't want to stay in my room for a moment at this point. I quickly grabbed my jacket and ran downstairs.

　　I found a small restaurant and sat in, ordered a bowl of noodles, and a glass of white wine to prepare for the shock. When I calmed down it was more than eight o'clock. I really really do not want to go back, but even if I do not want to, because of work, or had to go back to the hotel.

　　Strange. There was no one there, not to mention the guests, even the old lady at the front desk was gone. Maybe it was too late. With the strength of alcohol, I climbed the stairs. Suddenly a dark shadow flashed in front of my eyes, I was so scared that I retreated and unexpectedly rolled down the stairs. Fortunately, nothing serious, covered in pain, I barely got up from the ground. The black cat was squatting at the entrance of the stairs, looking at me with those glowing eyes.

　　I roared at it in anger and scared it away. I climbed up the stairs with difficulty holding the handrail and went into my room. The pain in my body combined with the alcohol made me just want to lie in bed and get a good night's sleep.

　　Just as I was about to go to bed, I suddenly thought of the phrase, "Don't sleep in bed at night." At this point I no longer had the strength to stand around, but after all I had been through made my heart palpitate again.

　　Suddenly an idea came to my mind. I dragged the mattress to the floor, thinking that it would be just as well to sleep on the floor for the night. Just like that, I fell asleep in a daze.

　　I woke up in a daze to the sound of a bang ......, and since the lights were not turned off before I went to bed, I looked at my watch sleepily, 12 o'clock! Is it true that horrible things are going to appear? I did not sleep in the bed ah! The creaking ...... creaking ...... sound continues, the sound is not from elsewhere, it is from underneath, from underneath this worn out spring mattress.

　　I was so frightened to get up, suddenly from the mattress out of a thousand hands grabbed my body, I could not move. I tried to shout, two black hands whooshed out from the pillow and tightly covered my mouth. The lights began to flicker at this point, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark, I couldn't see anything. The mattress was like a swamp gradually sinking my body into it.

　　In the darkness I could feel that there were other people around me, other people who were in the same situation as me. At this point I felt my breathing getting harder and harder, and my consciousness was getting blurred. In this blurred consciousness I saw a man brutally murdering a beautiful woman, and an old woman tied to the side witnessing the whole thing, right here in this hotel, right here in this room ......

　　Now I can no longer see anything, I am buried forever in this spring mattress, perhaps at this time, I am under ...... your body ......