Chapter 78 Wedding and mourning (9)
After Yan Shixun left, the guests who had wanted to continue the storytelling conference looked at each other. For some reason, they felt the room was a little cold.
An Nanyuan shivered, quickly got up and closed the window next to him, and said with a sullen smile: "Qiu, it's autumn now, it's a bit cold at night."
The male star didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It seems that Brother Yan has to come to tell ghost stories. Why are you all so scared?"
The variety show star angrily retorted: "Weren't you scared just now? You're obviously more scared than anyone else!"
The male star coughed awkwardly, trying to save his image in front of the camera: "Can you blame me? What Brother Yan said was too scary."
And the most important thing is that he didn't say it. In fact, what Yan Shixun said was correct. Later, the old lady told him that there was indeed someone hanged on a tree in the village.
If it was fake or an illusion, it would be fine, but this was all real, and he experienced it personally. And Yan Shixun guessed it completely correctly without him saying it, and it was so accurate that it was creepy.
After a while, the other guests gradually calmed down. They had given up wanting to listen to the male star's story and just wanted to get back to a safe place. Especially since it was still some time before midnight, if they returned to the room later, they might be scared to death.
So, the guests found their own excuses and left the male star's room together. As for An Nanyuan, who slept alone in the farthest room, he tightly grasped Zhao Zhen's arm and insisted on leaving hand in hand.
Zhao Zhen: "? Do you think they are children holding hands and going to the toilet together?"
An Nanyuan had a sad face and refused to say that he was afraid: "Ha, ha, I just want to get closer to Brother Zhao, just in case you can introduce me to a supporting role one day."
Zhao Zhen was speechless: "Although many people think so, you are the first one to say it directly in front of the live broadcast screen."
The barrage was immediately filled with “Hahahahaha”.
[Who remembers that this guy didn’t believe in ghosts at first?]
[My brother feels bad. He was such an idol, but Brother Yan made him look like a poor boy who was afraid of ghosts. This is too funny! Two grown men insisted on holding hands, hahahaha.]
[Although I am laughing happily while looking at the screen now, I think if I were in Annanyuan's situation, I might not be able to laugh. For example, I want to go to the bathroom now, my bladder is about to explode, but I dare not get out of bed. My brain has lost control and is thinking about some scary pictures without permission. There is someone standing in the living room, or there is someone on the street outside the window looking up at my window... Hiss, forget it, I will hold it in for a while.]
[I am different from the world! Although I was scared when the story was being told, I was fine. I sat on the sofa with the window open and ate snacks. But when Brother Yan came out, the situation changed instantly! Oh my god, I was almost scared to tears. I rolled over and crawled without even putting on my slippers. I quickly ran to close the window and draw the curtains. Now I am huddled in my bedroom, shivering.]
[Mainly, I know that what others tell me is just a story, and I don’t feel much fear, after all, it won’t really happen to me. But when Brother Yan said that, it really didn’t sound like a joke! I think Brother Yan is not telling a story at all, he is just popularizing science! Woohoo, I really miss the time when I was in college and there were many people accompanying me in the dormitory. Now I am alone at home, what should I do? ]
[The one before, maybe your family doesn't know you're alone, there are many people with you, you just can't see it. Didn't Brother Yan say that even if there's a ghost right next to you, you can't see it.]
[……Fuck! Big brother in front, thank you and your family, you will definitely get N cards when you draw a card! I feel like my house is suddenly lively now, it’s so crowded. Tired smile.jpg]
After the male star smiled and saw everyone off at the door, he turned around and quickly closed the door and locked it.
This set of actions made the variety show host a little puzzled: "Why did you lock the door?"
The male star was stunned for a moment after being reminded, and then he reacted and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm used to it."
"But I do think I've heard someone say before that you seem to like locking the door. Last time I was on another variety show, the makeup artist said that you lock the door as soon as you finish talking about something, and you have to knock again when you say goodbye."
The variety show star half-jokingly said, "Others want to open their doors every day to let people know that they haven't done anything bad. Why, what bad things do you want to do?"
The male star was stunned for a moment, realizing that the variety show host was giving him a hint so that he could explain it clearly in front of the camera.
Because of his strange habits, many people complained that he was being a big shot. Recently, because he was competing with his rival for an opportunity, he was often slandered by his rival in paid articles. One of his biggest crimes was that he was being a big shot. And there were pictures and videos, and he couldn't refute it at all.
But if I were to explain...
The male star looked at the variety show host gratefully, hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Then just think of it as a continuation of the storytelling conference just now. Just listen to it as a story."
"My grandmother brought me up in the village when I was little. One year when I was little, for some reason, people kept dying in our village and the neighboring villages. Every month, we could hear the sound of suona and crying coming from outside. Old, young, and young... My grandmother said that it was because that year was the Year of the Ghost. The King of Hell was angry and wanted to arrest those who had done wrong and bring them to the underworld for interrogation. Those who had done right would be released, while those who had done wrong would be kept in the underworld. Because many people in the village had drowned baby girls and had killed people, they could not stand the interrogation of the King of Hell and were kept."
"I didn't know much at the time. I just saw people throwing paper money into the sky and thought it was fun and interesting, so I always followed the funeral procession and played with the paper money. Then one day, after I got home with the paper money and stood behind my fence, I suddenly noticed something was wrong with the scene outside."
"Men, women, old, young... faces I've seen before and those I've never seen before, were all wandering around the village streets, the whole person was a blurry, translucent mass. And the most important thing is, not long ago, they had just held a funeral. They stopped in front of their own yards in confusion, wanting to go in but unable to, as if they were afraid of the door god portraits posted on the gate."
"When they saw me looking at them, a grandmother I knew from the neighboring village waved at me and said she wanted to see how big I had grown. I was afraid to go out, but those people came towards me from all directions, on the village roads and fields outside the fence. Because I didn't lock the door when I went home, they pushed the door open and walked into my yard. The grandmother also said that she had no grandchildren, so she wanted to take me away and make me her golden grandson..."
The variety show star was stunned. He didn't expect to hear such a reason.
And the most important thing is, if this happened before, he would definitely sneer at it, thinking that this person couldn't explain it to him clearly and didn't know how to do public relations at all. Who would believe such a fake story?
However, after coming to this show and experiencing the previous incident, the variety show star suddenly felt that this person was not lying.
Everything he said actually happened.
The male star smiled bitterly and said, "Luckily, my grandma was weeding in the field next door. When she heard me crying, she rushed back and carried me into the room and locked the door. My grandma and I were in the room. My grandma covered my mouth and I didn't dare to cry loudly. I stayed there until those things left. Then my grandma rushed out and locked the gate to the yard."
"My grandmother told me that when there is a funeral procession, other families along the way will lock their doors early to prevent the confused souls of the newly deceased from taking the wrong path and entering their homes. Some families will also place some steamed buns and fruits at the door as a roadside offering, and tell the newly deceased to eat and get on their way quickly."
"Because I was too playful and careless, I didn't lock the door of my house, so those ghosts entered my house and wanted to take me away. And because I kept playing with paper money, the child's already unstable soul was affected, so I suddenly saw those ghosts."
The male star looked at the split screen with a sincere look, and it didn't look like he was lying.
"This can be regarded as a trauma in my childhood. Although I know that grandma might be trying to scare me and not want me to go out to play, I was indeed scared. So until today, I still keep the habit of locking the door at all times."
The audience did not expect that the male star had such an experience. Some passers-by who had developed a bad impression of the male star because of the marketing articles that have been everywhere recently, suddenly looked at the male star with sympathy.
[I didn’t expect there would be such a story. If I were in their shoes, I would do the same. No, if it were me, I would not go out unless it was necessary!]
[Fuck! Fuck! I was just here to admire his looks. After all, Brother Yan doesn't use split screen, and An Nanyuan is about to turn into a comedian. This guy's face just happens to be my taste, so I stayed to admire his looks. I didn't expect that he would give me a critical hit right away! I was scared to death by the previous story just now, and now I am scared and feel that there are ghosts outside the door and danger everywhere.]
[Aa ...
[Isn’t this guy a celebrity? He’s printed on the drinks I bought at home. Now I see, he looks like a storyteller. He tells a great story. Are you interested in working at DeO Club? After listening to the story, I was expressionless. I was so scared that I couldn’t speak.]
[!!! My home is in the coastal area, and it’s been hot and humid recently. I’ve been keeping the windows and doors open for ventilation, and I sleep on the roof with a blanket at night. Thank you, the child is already scared to death, I just rushed to close the doors and windows, for fear that someone would get lost and walk into my house. My mother even came out to ask me what I was crazy about, woo woo woo! How should I explain to her that I just heard a story? I’m almost scared to death, and I don’t think I will forget this story for ten days or half a month. As for sleeping on the roof... No! I’d rather die of heat! ]
[What? You all think this is just a story? It sounds to me like he is talking about his own personal experience, something that really happened.]
Not only was there a chorus of wailing in the comments, but even the variety show star who was in the same room with the male star quietly moved his butt back and pressed himself against the wall, as if that would make him feel safe.
"Well, well." The variety show star swallowed his saliva and pointed to the window tremblingly: "I have taken off my shoes and lay on the bed. Please close the curtains."
The male star glanced suspiciously at the variety show host and said suspiciously, "Brother, you are not so scared that you dare not get out of bed, right?"
The variety show star said stubbornly: "No!"
On the other side, Zhao Zhen, who returned to his room, felt a little strange.
Before, everyone had thrown their luggage in the room and left, and no one paid much attention to it. But he vaguely remembered that his backpack and charger were on the table before, but now they were thrown at the door. Not only that, many things were moved to other places, and some small items such as headphones fell on the edge under the bed.
But, he didn't take many things out of his backpack, how could they fall on the ground? Even if someone had rummaged through his backpack, it was a special mountaineering backpack with many hidden layers, so it shouldn't have been possible to turn out these small things? And everything was still there, nothing was missing, what did the person who rummaged through the bag want?
When Zhao Zhen was puzzled, Song Ci, who was in the same room with him, asked him puzzledly: "Zhao Zhen, have you seen my towel? I just took it out and put it on the bed, preparing to take a shower later. How come it disappeared in a few seconds when I turned around?"
Zhao Zhen looked over and saw a light wrinkle on the bed, indicating that something light had been placed there before. However, it was now empty, without the towel that Song Ci had mentioned.
Song Ci came back with him, which means that Song Ci's towel disappeared when they were both in the room, right under his nose.
However, in the blink of an eye, the towel disappeared.
Seeing that Zhao Zhen didn't answer him, Song Ci didn't care and just thought that Zhao Zhen didn't see it.
He scratched his hair and wondered, "Did I remember it wrongly? I'm only in my twenties. How could my memory have declined so early?"
Zhao Zhen, however, felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave.
He wanted to ask Song Ci if he believed that there was someone standing in the room, curiously taking their things and playing with them when they were not paying attention, but none of them could see that person.
It was just like the ghost story I just heard.
However, when Zhao Zhen opened his mouth, he felt as if his throat was locked and he couldn't say anything.
It seemed as if there was something standing beside them, staring at them with a cold gaze.
In the crack of the closet door.
In the shadows under the bed.
Behind the curtain in the corner.
That gaze always follows them like a shadow, staring at their backs with cold, warmthless eyes when no one is paying attention.
…
After taking turns using the bathroom to wash up, the guests turned off the split-screen live broadcast one after another and prepared to rest early.
After all, Yan Shixun had just come to tell them that the roadblocks on the road could not be removed for a while.
If they want to go to the farmhouse in Jiazifen Village, they can only go over the mountain. So tomorrow they will be led by the young man named Yang Tu to climb the mountain to Jiazifen Village.
Therefore, in order to prepare for the expected fatigue tomorrow, the guests did not play too hard, but chose to sleep and recharge their energy.
The small building began to fall into silence.
As for Yan Shixun on the fourth floor, there was a young man whose room was also on this floor. The young man had been sitting in the corridor to get some fresh air, so he waited patiently for the whole night but did not find a chance to find Yang Han to ask him clearly.
Knowing that Yang Han's affairs were taboo in the village party secretary's family, Yan Shixun did not plan to act rashly, so as not to disturb the people in the village party secretary's family and make them suspicious of him.
Helpless, Yan Shixun had to return to the room and plan to go out after nightfall.
But the young man seemed to be chatting with his netizens. He was sitting in the corridor enjoying the breeze and grinning at the screen of his mobile phone. He had no intention of sleeping at all.
Yan Shixun also lay on the bed with his eyes closed. Relying on his good hearing, he was listening to the sounds coming from outside, waiting for the young man to return to his room to sleep.
Just after midnight, there was the sound of a stool being dragged in the corridor, followed by the sound of a young man humming a little tune, and the sound of a door closing...
Finally, everything returned to silence.
Yan Shixun, who was lying flat on the bed, slowly opened his eyes, turned over and got out of bed swiftly, stood behind the door and listened quietly to make sure everything was safe.
The corridor was quiet, as if both the people from the village party secretary's family and the program crew who were sleeping on the fourth floor had closed their doors and gone to sleep.
Yan Shixun placed his slender hand on the doorknob and was about to turn it when he suddenly heard a burst of rapid and fierce dog barking from outside the window, breaking the quiet night in the village.
His palm paused.
He remembered the barking sound. It was the dog barking that the program crew heard along the way when they were entering the village as the village party secretary.
It is a good dog and will bark at strangers it has never seen before to alert its owner.
The barking of the dog that Yan Shixun heard now was deeper and more sinister than that time, and was mixed with the "gurgling" sound that came from the dog's throat after it lowered its voice.
What happened that made the dog bark like this?
Yan Shixun frowned and turned around, walked quickly to the window with no curtains drawn, and looked in the direction of the family that kept the dog in his memory.
The dim light barely illuminated a piece of land. The dog tied in the yard lowered its body and took a alert posture, and kept barking outside the yard, as if there was something outside the yard.
Yan Shixun also looked outside the yard and narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to see clearly what the dog was barking at.
However, the darkness was so thick and so far away that Yan Shixun could not see clearly what was outside the yard.
Just when he tilted his head and got closer to the window, a slender white shadow vaguely appeared in his field of vision due to the reflected light, and then quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Yan Shixun's slender body paused, remembering the time when he was on the winding mountain road. He looked at the valley covered with thick fog and vaguely saw some slender white shapes.
Instead of carelessly turning his head and forgetting about it, he decided to go down and investigate.
Ever since he got on the winding mountain road, he had always felt a sense of disharmony. He could call it intuition or a hint from the gods. He always felt that this area gave him a terrible feeling, like standing in a forensic room and looking at a dead body pulled out of a freezer, looking at a body that had been buried deep in the dark, knowing that it had resentment but unable to appeal for it.
Moreover, the experiences of the breakfast shop owner and his wife, and Yang Han's abnormality, all reminded Yan Shixun not to be careless.
Yan Shixun pushed open the door, but did not go to find Yang Han. Instead, he turned around and went downstairs, ready to go alone to see what was going on with the dog.
In Yang Han's room, Yang Han sat on the sofa, staring blankly at the window facing the backyard. His expression was painful and hideous, and his muscles were twitching like a monster.
"Yang Duo, Yang Duo..."
Yang Han murmured in a low voice, painfully saying: "Yang Guang and I are sorry for you, sorry, it's my fault, I shouldn't have told Yang Guang, I didn't expect him to do that, he did it for Yang Hua... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please kill me!"
However, his growl only echoed in the empty room, and no sound responded to him.
In the backyard, the cold moonlight was blocked by dark clouds, and the entire sky was pitch black.
In the darkness, there is only a touch of red, a breathtaking red.
It was as if the red was extracted from dried blood.
The red skirt swept over the edge of the Soul-Calming Well and floated in the darkness. Only a pair of bright red embroidered shoes were faintly visible under the blood-red wedding dress, making the occasional exposed part of the calf look even paler than before.
The woman was wearing a solemn old-fashioned wedding dress. Her face was pale and bloodless, like a cold ice cube. But her lips were bright red and ominous. Her eye sockets were empty, as if someone had dug them out. But her eye sockets were full of blood, and at first glance they looked like a pair of completely red eyes.
The woman stood on the Soul-Calming Well, raised her head, and looked upward coldly with resentment in her eyes.
…
Because the signal is not very good and the TV channels that can be received are limited, people go to bed early in the village where there are few entertainment activities.
It was already midnight and the village road was empty.
Yan Shixun walked out of the village party secretary's house lightly without making any noise.
The barking of dogs still came from not far away, and each time became more urgent, mixed with the whimpering of dogs when they were afraid.
It was as if the dog saw something that scared it and wanted to run away, but it was still loyal to its duty and desperately reminded its owner to drive away the things outside the yard.
After the other noises disappeared, Yan Shixun, who was walking quickly along the village road without the sound insulation of the glass, clearly heard the subtle sounds coming from the darkness where no lights could reach.
“Click, click.”
“Click, click…”
It was like the sound of bones colliding with each other, mixed with the noise of darkness and leaves, as if something was walking slowly in the darkness.
And the sound became clearer as it got closer.
Yan Shixun paused for a moment and looked towards the darkness beside him with a serious look.
There, the low, scraggly plants swayed slightly, as if something was moving inside, blowing the branches as they moved.
Yan Shixun held his breath, letting his senses and heart sink continuously, trying to feel that thing as much as possible.
But, there was a cold and gloomy aura, and it didn't seem like a living thing.
It seemed like something that had been dead for a long time, carrying the chillness tainted from the underground, emitting a rotten and foul smell that was disgusting.
At the moment when the voice sounded beside him, Yan Shixun's figure was as fast as lightning, and his arm, which had been gathering strength for a long time, pointed directly at the messy bushes, cutting through the darkness.
“Meow!”
The wild cat let out a shrill and ugly cry, then hunched its body and ran away as if it was frightened.
The plants shook.
Only then did Yan Shixun see clearly that the thing causing the leaves to shake in the bushes was actually a pure black wild cat.
No, that's not right. This was not what he just sensed.
Yan Shixun frowned.
However, there was nothing in front of him, and the barking of dogs behind him was still shrill and terrifying. He had to take a quick look at the plants, then returned to the village road and walked quickly towards the place where the dogs were barking.
The trees were swaying, casting shadows that were vague and connected, like fluttering ghosts.
The escaped black cat jumped back swiftly from a distance, staring at Yan Shixun's departing figure with its pure black pupils narrowed into a line. After a while, it lowered its head, dug away the ground covered by thick leaves, and lowered its head to eat something.
The air was filled with a fishy and rancid smell, a mixture of red and black.
“Crack!”
The white bones broke under the black cat's teeth.
…
Before Yan Shixun got close to the house where the dog was barking, he saw the window of the room in the yard open, and a shoe was thrown out from above and hit the dog in the yard.
"This damn dog, why is he barking in the middle of the night! Can I still sleep?"
The male owner's voice came from above, cursing. The dog, who was hit on the head by the shoe, woofed in grievance, but still tucked its tail between its legs and dared not bark again.
However, the dog still looked towards a certain place outside the yard with a fierce warning look and lowered its voice to make a protesting sound.
Yan Shixun followed the dog's gaze and finally saw clearly that in the darkness outside the yard, there was a blurry figure standing outside the iron railing of the yard, and it seemed that he was reaching out to grab the railing, trying to climb in.
I don't know if it was because of the darkness that blurred my vision, but Yan Shixun felt that the man's movements were not like those of a normal person. His hands and feet were twisted into an abnormal arc, as if they were broken. And the man's head was always drooping in front of his chest. It didn't seem like he was looking down at the dog, but more like...
The man's neck was already broken, and was only connected to his head by a layer of skin.
Yan Shixun's eyes became fierce, and his slender fingers immediately and flexibly intertwined into a magic knot. He was secretly on guard, and then gently approached the man on the fence.
Facing Yan Shixun's dog, he soon discovered his presence.
The dog's nose twitched as it sniffed, and then its eyes lit up. It recognized that this person was the one who had praised it before, and that he was a good person.
The dog stopped barking immediately and looked at Yan Shixun with sparkling eyes. Its tail, which had been clamped between its legs, stood up again and began to wag rapidly.
Yan Shixun quickly glanced at the dog in the yard, silently chanting the Golden Light Mantra in his heart, and after standing still for a short while, he quickly rushed towards the man on the fence, and slapped the man's back with his palm while making a magic knot gesture.
If the other party is just a thief, then the Golden Light Spell will be harmless to him. At most, the thief will be frightened by the blow and fall off the fence.
And if the other party is really what he thinks...
Yan Shixun's eyes darkened, and his palm had already slapped the man's back. However, the touch under his palm made him stunned, and his original movement also paused slightly because of the sudden strange feeling.
It was not the warm touch of a human being as he had expected, nor was it the cold touch of a corpse.
Under the clothes were layers of uneven things that felt sticky and slippery to the touch, like a piece of rotten meat.
Before Yan Shixun could figure out what it was, the man was startled and suddenly stood up, but without even turning around to look, he jumped directly off the fence and ran away from Yan Shixun with stiff hands and feet.
Yan Shixun started to chase after him with his long legs, but the man seemed to be very familiar with the terrain here. He made a long circle on the small road in the village, and finally jumped over the wall and disappeared without a trace.
The village was quiet under the night, but there was no trace of that man.
Yan Shixun stood there and looked around, without any emotion due to losing track of that strange man.
He calmly noted the direction where the man had just disappeared, roughly estimated the location of the house, then turned around and returned along the same route.
The dog was still wagging its tail in the yard, looking at Yan Shixun excitedly.
Yan Shixun was rarely amused and whispered, "Good dog."
"I thought you went out to relax because you couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. I didn't expect you to come to see the dog."
A familiar male voice came from the front.
Yan Shixun was not frightened by the sudden voice. He just paused slightly and looked in the direction of the voice.
Sure enough, it was this person.
Yan Shixun was already very familiar with Ye Li's voice. Although he was still suspicious and wary of Ye Li, it was undeniable that because Ye Li always found any opportunity to appear by his side, he had actually become somewhat accustomed to having Ye Li around him and would not react with over-vigilance to this.
Ye Li's cold eyes swept over the dog in the yard. The dog, which had been excited just now, suddenly whimpered and ran away with its tail between its legs in fear.
"Like dogs?" Ye Li's already low voice seemed to be tempered by ice. Although he asked in a normal tone, there was an inexplicable chill in it.
"It should have nothing to do with you?"
Yan Shixun raised his eyebrows, breaking away from the calm mood of chasing that strange man, and the expression on his handsome face became lively again: "You didn't sleep in the middle of the night and followed me out just to ask me if I like dogs? Do you need me to recommend a mental hospital to you? One of my previous clients is a psychiatrist. Believe me, you can get good treatment there."
Ye Li laughed softly, and the coldness just now disappeared like a layer of broken ice.
"Aren't you the same? Going out in the middle of the night, so in high spirits."
Ye Li's dark eyes were fixed on Yan Shixun's handsome face with a mocking smile. His Adam's apple rolled up and down, but he did not say what he wanted to say.
He might be, indeed, crazy.
After noticing Yan Shixun's presence, he felt something was wrong. A quarter of an hour ago, he wanted to sense Yan Shixun's dream, but suddenly found that Yan Shixun was not in the room. At that moment, he couldn't tell what he felt.
Rage, urgency, worry...
He clearly knew how powerful Yan Shixun was as a ghost exorcist in the human world, and that ordinary ghosts could not hurt Yan Shixun. But at that moment, he still couldn't suppress the violence and anger that surged from the bottom of his heart, and wanted to search the entire land to find Yan Shixun.
It was the panic of losing something precious.
It was not until he found Yan Shixun again and saw Yan Shixun's figure that his horrible emotions calmed down. And when he saw this man talking to a mixed-haired dog, he actually wanted to ask...
--what do you like?
I can give you everything.
Just don't disappear from my sight.
Yan Shixun looked at Ye Li strangely, who suddenly stopped talking and just kept looking at him. Then he took a step forward and passed by Ye Li without paying any attention.
"If you like being out in the middle of the night, go ahead. I'm going back to bed."
"Wait a minute." Ye Li seemed to have suddenly discovered something and called out to Yan Shixun.
He strode over, and under Yan Shixun's puzzled gaze, he held Yan Shixun's wrist and lifted it up. He took out a handkerchief, slightly lowered his crow-like thick black eyelashes, and focused on covering Yan Shixun's palm with the handkerchief and wiping it.
"Hands are dirty."
What kind of filthy thing dares to leave its breath on his exorcist.
The drooped eyelashes concealed the anger in Ye Li's eyes, and a flash of coldness passed by.
Yan Shixun blinked in confusion, then he remembered that he had just patted that strange man on the back.
It felt really sticky and disgusting.
"Thanks. I can do it myself." Yan Shixun didn't care. He took the handkerchief from Ye Li and wiped his palms while continuing to walk forward.
Ye Li paused for a moment and then followed.
However, Yan Shixun, who did not stay in the village party secretary's house, did not see that after he and Ye Li left the small building one after another, pale skeletons climbed over the yard fence and staggered towards the village party secretary's small building.
The finger bones grabbed hold of the cracks between the bricks and the white bones climbed up, one stepping on the shoulders of another, climbing up the wall.
Grasping the corner of the windowsill with its palm, the skeleton's head rose from under the windowsill, and with its dark eye sockets, it silently gazed into the room. On the drawn curtains, it cast a shadow of a skull with light shining through the gaps between the bones.
The people in the room were sleeping soundly and were unaware of this.
Lu Xingxing was halfway asleep when he dreamed that his master was disappointed with him and was holding a ruler and tapping his shoulder, asking him to wake up immediately and practice morning lessons.
He was awakened by a start, and realized that his sleeping position was wrong and his shoulders were numb from being pressed down.
Lu Xingxing, who was half asleep, turned over and adjusted his sleeping position. His eyes accidentally swept across the window without curtains, and he saw outside the window that seemed to have eyes staring at him.
Lu Xingxing: “?”
He rubbed his eyes, frowned and squinted, trying to look in a half-asleep state, and saw the pale skull hidden in the darkness.
"What is that? A dream within a dream? Is it so real?" Lu Xingxing muttered, then turned over and fell asleep again.
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