"Pumpkin, is this the new friend you made over there? Do you want to introduce it to me?"
Pumpkin picked up Fan Zhiyi's clothes and dragged him towards the puppy. Seeing this, the puppy stepped back. Fan Zhiyi smiled at it, comforted it softly and said "Don't be afraid" several times. It hesitated for a while and then ran over with its short legs and rubbed Fan Zhiyi's trouser leg.
So familiar, so familiar, have I really never seen this puppy before?
Fan Zhiyi woke up, blinking, feeling a pang of pain in his heart. He hadn't dreamed of a pumpkin in ages, and he hadn't expected it to come back again, saving him. And the puppy... Fan Zhiyi subconsciously dismissed it as a dream.
Now, are you still in a dream?
Fan Zhiyi had a good way to verify it. He called out, "Bai Bai."
"What's wrong?"
"It was a nightmare."
Bai Bai: "...So, you want me to comfort you?"
Fan Zhiyi: "Tsk tsk, what a ruthless system."
"Hmph, if the host requires this service, the system can collect a large basket for you."
Fan Zhiyi was too lazy to chat with it. This system was really aloof at the beginning, but the more he got along with it, the more he found that it was talkative.
"What is this?" Fan Zhiyi looked at the small note that appeared in his hand at some point. He looked up and found that Xiaoman had also fallen asleep at some point, with a note also in his hand.
I promised to watch over him, but I ended up sleeping even more soundly than him...
Fan Zhiyi subconsciously felt that something was not going well, so he was careful not to wake Xiaoman, who was sleeping against the bed frame. He moved closer to the light and could clearly read the handwriting on the note: "The night brings things that shouldn't exist. Sleeping is the best way to avoid seeing them."
What a perfect idealist viewpoint, one that says, "If you can't see it, it doesn't exist." Fan Zhiyi was just sighing in his heart when the note suddenly transformed into a beam of light and sank into his body. At the same moment, a clear female voice repeated the words in Fan Zhiyi's head, and then everything returned to silence.
Fan Zhiyi asked Bai Bai: "What the hell is this? It's so smart that it knows I can't see and can recite it?"
"This note suddenly appeared while the host was asleep. Judging from the situation, it should be destroyed after being seen by the host alone."
Fan Zhiyi's reaction was rare and quick: "Did the male lead do it?" Then he got off the bed, held up the candlestick, and squatted down carefully to look at the note in Xiaoman's hand.
However, the note was held by Xiaoman, making it difficult to see what was written on it. If the movement was too big, it might wake Xiaoman up.
When Fan Zhiyi was thinking about what to do, he suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing on his neck. He shrank his neck because of the cold.
Wait, that's not right...
At this moment, the wind chimes by the window in the room began to spin and ring, and the small carved white porcelain and glass collided with each other, making a crisp tinkling sound, but this made people feel particularly eerie in the endless darkness and in the place where the candlelight could not reach.
"Ding-ling", "Ding-ling", "Ding-ling, ding-ling, ding-ling", "Ding-ding-ding"...
The wind chimes suddenly colliding with each other and making a chaotic and rapid sound, as if they were being plucked by someone as a prank.
Fan Zhiyi still remembered the miserable appearance of the ghost hanged on the beam in his dream, and the wind chime happened to be on the window on the side where the person was hanged. Fan Zhiyi remembered that he had observed before going to bed that every window in the room was closed tightly, so the question was, how did the wind chime ring?
Fan Zhiyi shuddered and felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave.
At this moment, Xiaoman was also awakened by the ringing. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and was about to see what happened when Fan Zhiyi reached out and covered his eyes.
Xiaoman was surprised and asked, "Young Master?"
"Xiao Man, did you open the window after I fell asleep just now?"
"No, Xiaoman has been guarding the young master."
Fan Zhiyi: “…”
"Sir, that ringing sound..."
"...Don't think too much, don't look too much." Fan Zhiyi said. He really didn't want to think about the meaning of the words the male protagonist left for him, nor why the wind chime rang for no reason. "Now I'm letting go, don't turn around and look at it, curiosity kills the cat."
"Well, by the way, sir, can you see with your eyes?"
"..." Damn, he forgot about that. "No, I just covered your eyes with my sixth sense."
Fortunately, Xiaoman didn't dwell on this issue, and Fan Zhiyi withdrew his hand.
At this time, the wooden chair tilted flatly, with only one leg being dragged across the floor. The "sizzling" sound made Fan Zhiyi unbearable. He covered his ears with his hands, gritting his teeth, and got goose bumps all over his body.
"Host, I advise you not to look. The chair was dragged in front of the dressing mirror. In the mirror, there was a woman in red combing her hair. Her eyes were dark and tearful..."
"Thank you!" Fan Zhiyi shouted in his head, interrupting Bai Bai's words. "There's no need to go into so much detail. I really don't want to know at all."
Although he likes horror series, encountering them in real life is completely different from seeing the protagonists encounter them in movies, TV shows, novels and comics, okay? Also, what kind of classic ghost image is this, and the female ghost in red? Can the author come up with something new and innovative?
As if to confirm Fan Zhiyi's words, there was a knock on the door. Suddenly, all the noises gathered together, as if vying to perform for Fan Zhiyi and Xiaoman.
“Dong Dong Dong”, “Dong Dong Dong”, “Dong Dong Dong”…
The interval between each knock was exactly the same, with terrifying precision.
There was a woman's sad humming accompaniment in the room, mixed with the constant knocking on the door and the crazy sound of wind chimes, which was particularly terrifying.
Xiaoman frowned and whispered, "Master, something is wrong. The two guards wouldn't knock on the door without saying anything, and there shouldn't be such noise in the room."
This is not nonsense, my friend.
Fan Zhiyi asked: "Can you solve these?"
"It's hard to say." Xiaoman said solemnly, "How come there are so many unusual movements in this house that was so peaceful before?"
Okay, okay, stop guessing. What Fan Zhiyi is looking for now is a solution. With those few mediocre and half-finished spells he just learned, Fan Zhiyi has no way to guarantee that he won't hold others back.
However, Fan Zhiyi already knew the answer to Xiaoman's question, but unfortunately he couldn't tell Xiaoman. After all, with so many things suddenly coming out and combined with previous experiences, it's obvious without a second thought that it must be the male protagonist's doing. After holding back for so long, the male protagonist is finally ready to use his ultimate move, right?
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