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◎Small punishment◎
The little fat brother was not too scared. He still stared straight in the direction where the sound came from.
"Sister? Are you really a ghost? Can you still help me with my homework?"
"Shut up! What nonsense are you talking about!" Father Lin suddenly yelled at his son.
He waved his arms at the air, as if trying to dispel something: "Go away, if you're dead, you're dead. Don't scare people here. It was your own carelessness, what does it have to do with us!"
He roared so loudly that the veins on his neck bulged, but if you looked closely you could see that his eyes were darting around while he spoke and his calves were shaking a little. It was obvious that he was very scared, but he was just pretending to be calm.
Lin Xiaoyu's shadow floated forward a little. She looked at her father's hideous face, her mother's terrified and numb eyes, and her brother's heartless look, and her body trembled even more violently.
The huge grievance and sadness completely overwhelmed her, and she finally understood in a trance that there was no point in deceiving herself.
Jiang Chuxu's voice rang out again: "Mr. Lin, you're yelling so loudly now. Why didn't you pay so much attention to Xiaoyu when she was alive?"
"What were you doing when she fell? Were you scolding her for being a money-loser? Or were you coaxing your precious son to eat?"
Father Lin's face turned purple. He wanted to retort, but his throat seemed to be blocked.
He knew very well that he usually ignored Lin Xiaoyu's existence, but he didn't think it was a big deal. His daughter couldn't carry on the family line and would have to get married in the future. It was considered good enough if he gave her a bite to eat.
Mother Lin covered her face with her hands, and a suppressed sob came from her throat, not knowing whether it was out of fear or regret.
"And you," Jiang Chuxu turned to Lin's mother, "is it a sin to give birth to a daughter? You watched her being scolded and beaten and didn't even dare to say a word?"
Mother Lin sobbed even louder, her shoulders shrugging.
Jiang Chuxu looked at her chubby brother, Lin Xiaogang, and her voice was as cold as ice: "Are you so proud of bullying your sister because of your parents' favoritism? Do you think that what belongs to your sister should be yours?"
Lin Xiaogang was frightened by the cold tone and shrank his neck, and the potato chips in his hand fell to the ground.
He subconsciously hid behind his mother, mumbling unconvincedly, "That's right, my parents said that older sisters should give in to younger brothers, and all my older sister's things are mine."
"Very good." Jiang Chuxu's voice contained a hint of sarcasm.
"Since you like pretending not to see her so much, let's show you something else."
As soon as she finished speaking, an accident happened at the Lin family.
The temperature in the living room suddenly dropped several degrees, the lights flickered suddenly, and the crackling sound of electricity made people's scalps tingle.
"ah!"
Lin Xiaogang was the first to scream. He pointed at the coffee table and shouted, "There's blood! There's blood on the ground!"
Lin's father and mother looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a dark red sticky liquid oozing out of thin air on the originally clean ground.
The liquid gradually spread out, finally forming a glaring pool of blood, the shape of which vaguely resembled a human figure.
Father Lin was so frightened that his legs went weak and he almost fell to his knees, and Mother Lin's whimpers turned into terrified sobs.
"Don't you like favoring boys over girls?" Jiang Chuxu's voice was like a whisper in his ear, "Then you should experience what it feels like to be 'looked down upon'."
Of course, this doesn't mean they should become girls and experience the feeling of being looked down upon. Jiang Chuxu feels that if that were the case, they would look down on girls even more, and feel fortunate that they are men and will not have the same experience.
So the lightness she was talking about was physical.
Father Lin suddenly felt a strong force hitting him from the side, as if he was pushed hard by an invisible person. He staggered and hit the wall with a cry of "Ouch", his shoulder aching.
He looked at Lin's mother in panic, and Lin's mother also fell to the ground with a scream as if she was tripped by something.
Lin Xiaogang was even more frightened.
He felt something cold grab his ankle, and it felt wet and sticky, just like the blood he had just seen.
He looked down and saw nothing, but the cold touch was so real that it seemed to be crawling up his calves.
"Dad, Mom! Something's grabbing me! It's cold, so cold, help me!"
Lin Xiaogang screamed like a pig being slaughtered. He jumped and swung his legs wildly on the spot, his face covered with tears and snot.
He felt that the thing was so powerful that it almost dragged him down.
Lin's mother wanted to rush over to save her son, but as soon as she got up, an invisible hand pressed down her shoulder, and she could only watch her son pissing and shitting himself in fear.
Father Lin wanted to curse and rush over, but every time he tried to move, he would be tripped or pushed away by an invisible force, and fall in a miserable state.
He felt that he had suddenly become an inconvenience and an unnecessary existence in this family. No one could see him, and there was only invisible malice directed at him.
Lin Xiaoyu floated by and looked at her terrified family. The sadness on her face was gradually replaced by confusion and shock.
It was the first time she saw her father in such a state of disarray and terror, her mother helpless but crying, and her younger brother who always bullied her so much that he wet his pants.
It turns out they can also be afraid and so vulnerable?
I don’t know how long it took, but Jiang Chuxu finally spoke again.
"Can you see now? Can you hear? Your good son will be very 'lucky' in the future. Everything he fears will become very real. As for you two..."
Jiang Chuxu paused for a moment and said, "Enjoy this feeling of being treated like air, being ignored, or even being visited unexpectedly. You will slowly bear the consequences of this."
The chilling wind in the living room stopped, the flickering lights stabilized, and the bloodstains on the ground disappeared without a trace.
But that biting cold feeling, the invisible pushing and gripping, and the son's shrill cries, all of these were deeply engraved in the hearts of Lin's father and mother.
Lin Xiaogang collapsed on the ground, hiccuping and sobbing constantly, with fear in his eyes wherever he looked.
Lin Xiaoyu looked at them, her tears slowly stopped, and the stone pressing on her heart seemed to loosen a little.
She said softly to the phone screen, "Thank you, anchor sister. I think I can leave now."
Jiang Chuxu nodded, and she said to Lin Xiaoyu in a gentle voice: "Go."
The only sounds left in the living room were Lin's father's heavy breathing, Lin's mother's suppressed crying, and Lin Xiaogang's intermittent sobbing.
[Great! This punishment will last them a lifetime.]
[The kid is almost scared to death hahahaha]
[I hope Xiaoyu will be born into a good family in her next life]
Although the live broadcast was cut off, the Lin family’s “good days” had just begun.
Father Lin took a deep breath and was about to stand up when his feet slipped inexplicably and he fell hard with a thud. The pain in his tailbone made him grimace.
He struggled to get up, holding onto the wall and trying to get a glass of water to calm himself, but just as his hand touched the handle of the thermos, the plastic handle suddenly broke and the boiling water splashed all over his feet.
He screamed in pain from the burns and could only hold his feet and jump around on the spot, and the kettle rolled away on the ground.
Lin's mother was still lying on the ground crying, her sobs intermittent.
She wanted to stand up to help her husband, but her legs were as soft as noodles and she couldn't move them at all. She tried several times and fell back down. She could only watch Lin's father jumping up and down in vain.
She felt someone gently scratch her neck with cold fingers. She was so scared that her hair stood on end, but when she turned around, she saw only a blank wall.
The worst off was Lin Xiaogang. He wanted to hide back in his room, but as soon as he took a step, he felt that thing wrapped around his ankle again.
He screamed and crawled towards the bedroom, but he bumped his head against the door frame and saw stars. He covered his forehead and rushed into the room, trying to lock the door with his backhand, but the lock seemed to be rusty and could not be turned.
As soon as he entered, he immediately shrank into bed in fear and wrapped himself in the quilt into a ball, leaving only two frightened eyes that looked around. The Ultraman model on his bedside usually raised its arms majestically, but its plastic eyes seemed to be staring at him sinisterly.
He screamed in fear, grabbed Ultraman and threw him into the corner.
In the following days, the Lin family was in complete chaos.
When Mr. Lin was at work, his colleagues talked to him, but he always felt that their eyes were wandering, as if they didn't see him. He reported his work loudly, but his leader seemed not to hear him and directly called on the next person.
He went to the cafeteria to get food. It was clearly his turn, but the auntie addressed the person behind him directly. He felt like a transparent person, blocked by invisible walls wherever he went, and felt so frustrated that he was about to explode.
Lin's mother was not in a much better condition. She wanted to cook, but the kitchen knife suddenly fell to the ground. She wanted to wash clothes, but the faucet didn't work for a long time. When she got closer to take a look, cold water poured directly on her face.
Lin Xiaogang became a real frightened bird. He didn't dare to stay alone and always felt that there was something in the darkness. He was afraid of everything red and screamed when he saw Lin's mother's red scarf.
In his eyes, his precious toys seemed like they would suddenly come alive and bite him. He became nervous and didn't dare to turn off the lights to sleep at night. He would howl in pain at the slightest movement.
He never dared to say "my sister's things are mine" again, and was even scared to stay away when he saw an old water cup that Lin Xiaoyu had used before.
Of course Jiang Chuxu didn't know all this at the moment. She just punished a few people slightly. As for what would happen next, it depended on the attitude of the Lin family.
Just as she was about to call someone who was waiting in line for a connection, she suddenly received a group message on her phone, which was from the "Special Department Work Coordination" group.
[Dispatch - Lao Wu]: Room 1702, Building B, Fenglin Apartment, Chengnan District. Subject's self-reported phenomenon: He wrote a horror novel, and the ghost in it seemed to really appear, scaring him at a certain time every day. No casualties have been reported so far.
Jiang Chuxu glanced at the map and saw that Fenglin Apartment was not far from her, so she replied decisively.
【Jiang Chuxu】：1
[Dispatcher-Lao Wu]: Received, task number TD-074 has been assigned. Please pay attention to safety. Specific task information will be sent by a dedicated person.
Jiang Chuxu closed the group chat and then said to the live broadcast room: "Something urgent has happened. Today's live broadcast ends here."
She ended the live broadcast decisively, ignoring the wails and pleas from the comments.
Jiang Chuxu looked at the words on the screen and touched his chin. The ghosts in horror novels came true?
That sounds interesting.
【Author’s words】
[Panda Head]
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