Home (II)
Xu Wei didn't want to fall into this obvious trap. This home was not safe anywhere.
She walked cautiously towards the two doors and slowly retreated towards the entrance, prepared for any unexpected changes.
“Pah.”
The sofa suddenly made a noise, and Xu Wei quickly glanced towards the source of the sound.
The blue elephant doll rolled down naturally and hit the corner of the coffee table.
She looked at the doll suspiciously, but her attention was soon diverted by the shrill crying sound from the baby's room.
“Crack.”
She turned around immediately.
The screw on one corner of the bow-shaped bunny painting on the wall was loose, and it tilted to the other side.
“Buzz buzz buzz…”
The washing machine in the bathroom suddenly started up and began to fill with water.
A tiny spider-web-like touch swept through the air, and a creepy itch appeared on my cheek.
Xu Wei raised her hands and rubbed her cheeks vigorously, using the pain to drive away the itch. She no longer hesitated and quickly turned the door handle.
“Click.”
The sound of the old lock turning was both violent and harsh, and it was extremely abrupt in the empty living room. Xu Wei could feel that the thing in the baby's room was crying and falling off the bed, and the female ghost in the bedroom was also desperately banging on the door to get out.
Before the handle was turned all the way, there was a sudden movement in the same direction from outside the door. The bolt was unscrewed in an instant and the clicking sound stopped abruptly.
The door opened.
A tall figure stood at the entrance of the dark corridor. His arms were unusually long, as if he was holding something.
The moment the door opened, Xu Wei leaned against the kitchen stove, holding a kitchen knife to defend against uninvited guests outside the door, while keeping an eye on the movements in the baby room with his peripheral vision.
Attacked from both sides.
What’s even more unfortunate is that I don’t have the bracelet, so I can’t use my skills.
"Pa pa." There were two clear clap sounds, and the sensor light lit up.
Dim light filled the entrance of the staircase. The sound of continuous rain could be heard. A man in a suit and tie, holding an umbrella in one hand and a large bag of vegetables in the other, looked over with a smile.
"Wife, did you come here specially to greet me?"
He took two steps forward, completely blocking the door, and took off his leather shoes in a few steps, making the carpet in the entrance wet.
As he couldn't figure out the other party's background for the time being, Xu Wei didn't want to alert the enemy.
She looked at the dirty ground and frowned: "I'm going to go out for a walk."
"No, honey." He threw the vegetables and umbrella aside and came over. "It's hard to work. Please stay with me."
The smell of the stranger startled Xu Wei. He twisted his body to break free from the embrace and held the kitchen knife across his body.
"Don't move."
Her first thought was not to be on guard against this man, but to notice the mess on the floor and the vegetable bags scattered everywhere, and she even couldn't wait to clean them up.
"Hey! Honey, why are you still holding the knife?" He looked panicked and grabbed her wrist, "Put it down!"
Xu Wei dodged and turned sideways, trying to get rid of him completely. Unexpectedly, during the argument, the other party's body suddenly softened and twisted into a dough like noodles. He passed over her arm at a strange angle and clung to her body tightly.
After forcing his way into her arms, he returned to normal, resting his chin on the top of her head and holding her wrist tightly with one hand.
Xu Wei tried hard, but the opponent seemed to have not used much strength. However, he was like being entangled by an octopus and could not break free.
He snatched the knife and threw it into the sink. He buried his head in her hair, took a deep breath, and muttered, "Wife, you'd better not go out. You just gave birth to a child and your body hasn't recovered yet. Your mood is not...not very good."
Just by listening to the literal meaning, Xu Wei would think that he was a good husband who was concerned about his wife. Unfortunately, the other party's tone was very good throughout, without any worry, and even a little excited.
Being forcibly restrained and unable to move, she resisted silently and secretly thought about how to convince him.
"How's the baby? Let's go see the baby. You're tired from taking care of the child all day. I'll take care of him later." Without waiting for Xu Wei to answer, he pulled her shoulders to ask her to turn around, and pushed her towards the baby room without saying a word.
The crying of the baby and the scratching of the female ghost disappeared the moment the man entered the room, and the whole house was as quiet as the dead space.
Xu Wei didn't want to go. She instinctively hated the baby ghost.
The man, however, insisted on taking her there without giving her any explanation. When the two of them passed the bedroom door, he paused as he stared at the tightly closed door, then turned to the baby's room as if nothing had happened.
Turning on the lights in the room, the light spread out, illuminating the room painted in crimson. The walls were covered with cute bunny stickers, the floor and all the pointed parts were covered with soft cloth, and the floor was also covered with a soft mat. In the middle was a small wooden bed, surrounded by a fence.
The chubby baby lay obediently in his little quilt, grinning with no teeth in his mouth.
"Zhou Dabao!" The man let go of Xu Wei, happily went forward to hug the child, rubbed him in his arms and kissed him.
He poked the child's cheek and swung his arms: "Wife, our Dabao is so cute. Let's have a sister when you recover."
"Uh-huh."
"What's your sister's name? Her nickname is Erbao, but she should have a more delicate name, how about... Zhou Hui?"
"Good."
"Really? Then it's settled. Wait until you're better before having another one!"
"As you say."
The man turned back happily: "Wife, you today..."
He was stunned.
"Wife?"
Xu Wei was no longer at the door. A loud "clang" was heard from the door, and hurried footsteps were heard at the stairs.
Only a fool would stay and give birth to a sister? Don't even think about it.
Xu Wei ran wildly in the stairwell.
This is an old residential building with no elevator, so she needs to run down from the fifth floor.
The clattering sound of footsteps attracted attention in the quiet corridor. Xu Wei could feel the doors behind the floors he passed by opening, and curious people sticking their heads out to see what was going on outside.
The windows on every floor were open, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, pouring down the steps. It was already dark outside, with lightning and thunder, and the sound of the rain covered up the strange clues.
Xu Wei couldn't wait to run to the first floor, pushed open the iron door, and suddenly stopped at the edge of the stairs.
In the dark night, thunder rumbled and a very close bolt of lightning struck down. A dazzling light flashed by, illuminating the man holding an umbrella in the rain.
He was soaked, his umbrella was tilted in the heavy rain, and water was dripping from the frames of his glasses.
Xu Wei finally knew who he looked like.
From the moment they met, she felt that he was inexplicably familiar but she couldn't remember him. She guessed it was because the memory was too old - he was a senior she had briefly had a crush on in college.
When a young girl is in love, she will always have a crush on one or two outstanding people of the opposite sex. She has also thought about what life would be like after marriage with such outstanding people.
But good feelings come and go quickly, because of some small thing, I feel that the other person is not as good as I imagined, and I immediately dislike him/her.
She knew very well that most of the time, she was just in love with the person in her imagination.
But the reality is always full of trivialities.
"Senior Zhou Ze?" she called him tentatively.
The other party did not respond, her brows drooped, and the hand holding the umbrella handle trembled slightly, as if what she said was something extremely hurtful.
"Wife, don't you want me anymore?"
Xu Wei still couldn't get used to the fact that she had become a married woman with children the moment she opened her eyes: "Senior, I want to go out for a walk."
Zhou Ze was shaking violently, and his face was becoming paler and paler.
He covered his chest, despairing: "He is so good, so good that you still want to go to him even after we are married?"
Xu Wei: “?”
Xu Wei anticipated that the moment he rejected the other party, he might turn into a ghost, and the two sides would start a chase, and eventually he would be caught or barely escape.
But I didn't expect that I would get a script about family tragedy and ethics.
"Wife, come back with me..." He begged desperately, tilting his umbrella to the side to let himself get wet in the rain, and stretched out his hand to her, "Don't think about him, okay?"
Xu Wei asked sincerely: "Who is he?"
Wuyun actually portrayed her as a scumbag who seduces and then abandons her.
"Do you really want me to mention that name? Although I love you, my heart also hurts!" Zhou Ze yelled.
His emotions became unstable, his hands clenched into fists and creaked, and his dark eyeballs oozed blood-red pus.
Xu Weisong breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes, that's it, come on, let's have a fight."
She doesn't have the energy to waste time on this bullshit.
The changes came to an abrupt end.
Zhou Ze looked over with an aggrieved look on his face: "Wife, what's the fight? Are you teasing me again?"
Xu Wei pointed a knife at him: "I'm not kidding you, hurry up and continue."
"Stop it..."
Xu Wei didn't even think about it: "I didn't--"
His face suddenly enlarged before my eyes.
The pus in the corners of her eyes had not yet dried up, and Zhou Ze laughed hoarsely. Countless tentacles emerged from the soles of his feet, dragging transparent mucus around her body, binding her tightly.
"Wife, you can't escape."
The tentacles were soaked with rainwater, and the cold and sticky touch covered her skin. Zhou Ze's body, except for her head, turned into a blurry dark mass, with a large part branching out to wrap around her.
Xu Wei was so excited that goose bumps appeared all over his body. He almost wanted to close his eyes and died peacefully on the spot.
I can't move, I might as well die.
"Let's go home." He smiled happily.
The tentacle lifted Xu Wei and held her high into the air, while the other part climbed up the edge of the floor and clung to the wall.
If someone looked up nearby, they would be able to see a dark mass wrapped around a human body in the darkness, wriggling against the wall of a residential building, like a giant snail carrying its shell, returning step by step to the depths of its nest amid thunder and lightning.
As the mass crawled into the wide-open window on the fifth floor, its trail of wetness was quickly washed away by the rain, and everything returned to nature and tranquility, even the rain gradually stopped.
Xu Wei was soaking wet and was carefully placed on the sofa by the tentacles. Zhou Ze stretched his limbs to reach the vegetable bag at the door and carried it to the coffee table.
"Wife, I'm hungry." He pushed the plastic bag.
Xu Wei took a deep breath: "Let me go."
Zhou Ze pouted: "What if you run away again when I'm not paying attention? I'm afraid I'll get angry and accidentally eat you, which will make me sad."
He said, but he slowly loosened his tentacles: "It's not easy. You saw my body today. My body is not afraid. Honey, you don't know how happy I am. Can every day be like this in the future?"
Xu Wei struggled to free himself from the mucus on his body, and tried to wipe it with tissue paper, but it didn't come off, so he sighed loudly.
"I'm going to take a shower. Go to the bedroom and get me some clothes." She glanced at the other person's expression and said, "I'll come out and cook for you."
"Okay, wife."
Zhou Ze was not at all unhappy with the order. Instead, he enjoyed it very much and quickly ran into the bedroom to get a set of clean clothes.
He went in and out quickly. Xu Wei observed carefully for a while and found that the room was normal and the female ghost did not appear.
"Lock the door."
"Lock it up, wife."
She walked into the bathroom holding her clothes, breathed a sigh of relief, and turned on the water heater to test the water temperature.
Due to the house type, the bathroom is not big. Apart from the necessary squat toilet, it can only accommodate a washing machine and cannot even fit a sink.
There was a half-length mirror on the wall next to the shower. In the past, she often hummed songs while looking in the mirror.
The water heater was quite efficient. The hot water sprayed out quickly and the air was filled with mist. Xu Wei tested the water temperature with his hand and it was just right.
She was about to take off her clothes when she paused and raised her hand to wipe the mist off the mirror.
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