Chapter 56
Yun Mian drank the water, gargled, rinsed out the remaining bloody taste in his mouth, spit out the water, and then lowered his head and took out two candies he had gotten during the day from his pocket.
It was given to her by sister Jiang Xia. There were five or six of them, and they were the children’s favorite milk candies.
Yun Mian looked at Yu Anan’s eyes, which were as red as a little rabbit, and handed her a candy.
The remaining candy was originally intended for the little ghost, but it had no substance and couldn't catch the candy, so Yun Mian could only rub its paws and help it put the candy into her other empty pocket.
"I'll save it for you." She whispered to the little ghost, "I'll buy paper money and burn it for you later."
When she was burning paper money for her mother today, she heard Uncle System talk a lot about this, so she inexplicably felt that by wrapping the candy with paper money, the little ghosts could also eat the sweet candy.
I don’t know if the little ghost understood or not. His bloodshot eyes were always fixed on Yunmian’s bag of candy. When Yunmian was about to sleep, he struggled off her and ran out quickly with his short legs.
The conditions in the welfare home are not good. The director has to hire caregivers to look after the children, as well as provide for the living of so many children, so many of the facilities in the home are actually donated by outside philanthropists.
There were eight girls sleeping in the same room with Yunmian. They slept on bunk beds like those in a dormitory. Yunmian had been sick since she came to the welfare home, so she was arranged to sleep at the bottom.
After class and dinner, it is now around eight o'clock in the evening.
The lights in the welfare home were turned off early, and the only sound was the faint chirping of insects in midsummer.
Yunmian lay on the bed, with her eyes open, watching the moon outside the window fall on her cold and thin quilt.
It’s not actually cold in the summer, but when sleeping in this dormitory, Yunmian always has the illusion that the cold wind is drilling into the bones.
The child couldn't describe the eerie feeling. She was just still ill and had been holding a little ghost for a whole day, and had even bitten it. This time, she was lying on the bed, and under the moonlight, she looked even less like a living person than a ghost.
The system was a little worried about its host. After secretly looking through the plot of this world, it could only hope that Mianmian's mother would come over soon.
Although she was already a ghost at that time, her mother was like a rope tied to Yunmian's wrist. As long as the rope was there, Yunmian would be able to act with restraint and have concerns, instead of being at a loss as to how to survive in this world.
There are still two days until Yun Jinli's seventh day.
She died in the middle of that night, and seven days later, her resentment and obsession would condense into a ghost, and she would find Yunmian by following her only concern in the world.
However, two days later was an even more critical day: July 15th, when the gates of hell opened.
It was also on that day that Yu Anan, the protagonist, would be targeted by ghosts because of her extremely yin physique. From then on, Yu Anan's life would never be peaceful again, and the welfare home, which is still struggling to survive, would soon decline, with people dying and going crazy, and it would soon become a haunted house.
The system really wanted to remind the host to take precautions as early as possible, and it would have been best to trick Yu Anan into hiding in a temple or Taoist temple on that day. However, it was restricted by the new rules and could not reveal any of the plot. It could only watch the host groping for survival in this world without knowing anything.
Yun Mian didn’t know what the system uncle was thinking. Her own thoughts moved very slowly, but her eyes reacted very quickly to what they saw. This put her in a strange sensory range. Her thoughts could not keep up with her eyes, and her movements and speech became a little sluggish.
To put it simply, it looks like his brain isn't working very well, like a little idiot.
Maybe her body was normal a few days ago, but after experiencing such a big change in her life and losing her only relative, or perhaps because she was extremely frightened that night, Yun Mian subconsciously closed herself off.
In this situation, even if Yunmian's soul re-entered, it would be difficult to change it for a while.
It's like putting a lock on a box. Even if the things in the box are replaced without anyone noticing, as long as the lock is not opened, no one will know what is inside.
It was difficult for Yunmian herself to break free from the shackles of this lock.
She could only lie in bed and slowly think about everything and everyone she saw, heard and met today.
Yu Anan originally planned to ask Yunmian to accompany her to the toilet, but when she looked down from the upper bunk, she was met with Yunmian's straight, dark eyes. She was so scared that her heart trembled and she hurriedly shrank back.
But Yunmian had already caught her movements. When she got out of bed tremblingly, he silently sat up from the bed and looked at her silently with the eyes that frightened Yu Anan.
Yu Anan: "...Mian, Mianmian, do you want to... go to the bathroom with me?"
The toilet is outside, not far away, but the child wants someone to accompany him no matter what he does.
Although Yu Anan thought Yunmian's eyes were scary, Yunmian was very capable and was the only good friend she had ever made, so Yu Anan timidly mustered up the courage to ask again.
The pale-faced child sitting in the moonlight nodded slowly at her: "Okay."
After getting the answer, Yu Anan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then became happy again in an instant. After Yunmian put on her shoes, she held her hand intimately and shook it: "It's so good to have you accompany me! When I was alone before, I didn't dare to go to the toilet at night. Every time I wet the bed, Aunt Li would spank my palm..."
Yun Mian looked down at the little hand that she had deliberately stretched out in front of her eyes. It was hard to see clearly in the dark, but there were no whip marks.
They gently pushed the door open and walked out. The lights in the corridor outside cast a dim yellow glow above their heads. Some of the lights had long been broken due to circuit problems, which inexplicably exuded a sense of foreboding in the night.
The toilet was at the end of the corridor, passing several dormitories and classrooms along the way. It was very quiet all around, with the cool evening breeze blowing quietly. The two little girls' originally light footsteps seemed a little harsh in the empty corridor.
In just a few dozen meters, the originally bright moonlight in the sky was quickly blocked by dark clouds, and the old welfare home looked even more dilapidated in the gloomy night.
Yun Mian was originally being led forward by Yu Anan, but halfway through, her steps slowly stopped.
Yu Anan was unaware of the changes around her. When she saw her stop, she shook her sleeve curiously: "Mianmian, what's wrong?"
Yun Mian withdrew her gaze from the nurses' dormitory and shook her head gently at Yu Anan.
When she reached the bathroom door, she pushed Yu Anan and motioned her to go in.
"Then you wait for me outside. I'm a little scared. You must answer me when I call you, okay?" Yu Anan didn't know why she was particularly afraid to go to the toilet. She repeated this sentence again and again with a pale face, staring into Yun Mian's eyes, as if as long as Yun Mian shook her head, she would never go to the toilet.
Under Yu Anan's anxious and pleading gaze, Yun Mian nodded to her seriously: "Okay, I will agree."
The little girl was obviously relieved, and then she mustered up her courage and walked into the bathroom, looking back every few steps.
As soon as her small figure disappeared from the entrance, a voice full of fear trembled and said, "Mianmian, are you leaving?"
Yunmian tilted her head and answered seriously, "I didn't leave."
She stared deeply into the restroom, which was lit with the same dim light. Every time Yu Anan inside asked if they had left, she would patiently answer that they had not.
But after going back and forth like this for more than a dozen times, Yunmian's answer came to an abrupt end with a faint cry of "Mianmian".
Yu Anan didn't hear her answer, so she called out softly, "Mianmian, are you still there?"
Yun Mian lowered her head and gently pinched her tender white fingertips, and then, despite the system uncle's words of trying to stop her, she walked straight into the bathroom.
The dim light fell on her, stretching the shadow under her feet long and distorted.
Yunmian walked into the bathroom step by step, but did not find Yu Anan.
Yu Anan's faint voice sounded behind her: "Mianmian, I'm behind you~"
You Senhan's cold breath sprayed lightly on her ears, and her body subconsciously got goosebumps all over.
Yunmian turned around without any preparation.
Facing a pair of bleeding eyes and cracked red lips up close, his pupils shrank suddenly, and it was too late to retreat.
Seeing Yunmian being fooled, it opened its torn mouth even wider, and grinned as it moved closer to the stupid-looking child. Its blood-thick black-purple nails directly pinched her thin and fragile neck, and it said in that whimpering, half-crying, half-laughing voice: "Little friend, I caught you~"
The system didn't care about the difference between men's and women's toilets. After hearing the noise, it rushed in from outside. Knowing that ghosts couldn't see it, it still tried to stand in front of Yun Mian and urged her to run out quickly.
Yunmian did not run away, nor did she cry in fear as the female ghost had expected.
She was forced to raise her slender neck high, and her fingers hanging by her side tentatively touched the blood on the ghost girl's body.
Her fingers were stained a little red by the blood. She pursed her lips and stared at the female ghost with her eyes wide open.
The female ghost probably had never eaten such a silent and fearless child before, so the force of her hand pinching her neck loosened a lot.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" it asked, while deliberately putting its ferocious, pale features in front of Yun Mian's eyes, trying to scare her to tears and get some fun from hunting.
She didn't know that Yunmian was holding an evil little devil and rubbing him like a rag doll during the day.
I don’t know why Yunmian’s mind is a little confused now.
Even facing the threat of death, she was not afraid. She just looked at every part of the female ghost's body curiously, and then, just like during the day, she raised her hand to help the ghost carefully wipe away the blood-red tears.
Female ghost: “……?”
The system silently put away its nervousness and worry, and slowly moved out of the toilet, pretending that it had never been in.
It felt that perhaps, just maybe... the one in danger wouldn't be its own host.
"Sister, will all people become like this after they die?" Little Yunmian grabbed the ghost girl's clothes and asked without shame.
The ghost girl didn't know why things turned out like this, but after hearing this question, she couldn't control her ferocious appearance. A long trail of blood slid down her face, and she laughed resentfully: "Yes, I'm dead~ Can you come and accompany me?"
After she finished speaking, she couldn't utter the threatening words she had prepared.
Because she found that the strange child in front of her was actually seriously considering whether to accompany her!
The ghost girl's scary thoughts tonight suddenly disappeared a lot. She felt that she was not very happy with this stupid little ghost. She felt inexplicably irritated and turned around to give up.
However, a small hand accurately grabbed the corner of her clothes, forcing her to stop disappearing.
The female ghost tried to pull it out, but failed. It turned out that the little guy was quite strong.
She could only turn around and face this weird little fool. She didn't bother to scare the child and asked her angrily, "What are you doing? I'm just in a good mood today. Don't push your luck, you little fool!"
She was afraid that if she ate the soul of a fool she would become stupid herself, so she was not being merciful!
Evil ghosts have no hearts, and it is impossible for them to be soft-hearted towards children!
After reaffirming her determination again, she began to try to save the corner of her clothes.
Instead of pulling it, the little girl pulled him forward a small step.
Yun Mian probably didn't realize that the female ghost was so angry that she wanted to kill people. She looked around the toilet, raised her head and asked politely, "Sister, have you seen Yu Anan?"
Female ghost: “…”
Do you want to hear what you are asking?
Do you want to see if I am someone you can ask questions to?
I am a ghost! Do you know what a ghost is?
Under the influence of inexplicable irritability, the female ghost finally made up her mind that she would rather starve to death than eat a fool.
There's another chapter coming up.
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine:
An ordinary conversion, ohnmd 1;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Wang 179 bottles;
en 20 bottles;
10 bottles of sponge;
5 bottles of fluorescent light;
2 bottles of Sophora japonica;
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