Chapter 069 Crazy Tentacles-8
"good."
Finally Jiang Yan agreed. He looked up and glanced around the room again. It had a living room and two bedrooms. Since it was on the top floor, it was well ventilated and the air was fresh.
When you look up from the balcony, you can see several pots of succulents placed on the outer wall, growing tenaciously in the dim evening light.
"When I was looking up information, I saw the weather forecast for your area. It was said that there were several days of heavy rain not long ago." Jiang Yan's eyes were fixed on the plants on the balcony. "Other people in this area reported on the Internet that many plants on the balcony were drowned because they were not cleaned up in time and were exposed to the rain for a day."
"I didn't expect that the plants you bought would survive better and better after being soaked for several days." Jiang Yan said calmly, "Where did you buy them?"
Meng Tang tightened his grip on the vacuum cleaner. He followed Jiang Yan's gaze and his pupils suddenly contracted when they saw the plants.
Damn, what's up with these plants?
After thinking about it calmly, Meng Tang began to have a headache. It must have been placed there by Meng Xiaolan, one of his three younger brothers.
Unable to suppress his longing for his wife, Meng Tang secretly placed a bug on Jiang Yan before he left for work. He then learned that Jiang Yan was about to go to a certain district to investigate a case.
As a husband, Meng Tang was naturally worried about letting his beautiful wife go to the haunted building alone.
Therefore, Meng Tang quickly packed himself up, and then immediately rented a house in the residential building where Jiang Yan was going to visit, and "moved" in that day.
While Meng Tang and Jiang Yan were moving around the neighborhood, he secretly asked his three younger brothers to move the furniture into the empty house upstairs.
In order to make the performance more realistic, I even bought second-hand furniture.
But what no one expected was that Meng Xiaolan, who had a special love for plants, actually secretly bought a few more pots of succulents.
Tsk, if you have time to do all this fancy stuff, you might as well tidy up the house.
This forced him to make up lies to deceive his curious wife.
Seeing that Meng Tang was slow to respond, Jiang Yan became suspicious. These plants should not grow like this. He suspected that Meng Tang was hiding something from him.
"I'm just asking casually. Where is your room? You should clean it, too." Jiang Yan looked away and changed the subject.
The remaining two rooms had their doors closed, and Jiang Yan had no idea what was going on inside.
When he raised his foot and was about to walk towards one of the doors, his wrist was suddenly grabbed from the side. Jiang Yan was slightly startled, and his eyes fell on Meng Tang's face full of emotions.
Meng Tang suddenly became shy and said, "Wait a moment." After a pause, he said, "It's dusty inside, let me sweep it."
After hearing this, Jiang Yan became even more suspicious of Meng Tang.
Meng Tang took the vacuum cleaner from Jiang Yan as if he was unaware and walked into the room, opening and closing the door without giving Jiang Yan any chance to look inside.
Jiang Yan had an indescribable feeling in his heart. He walked to the balcony filled with afterglow, and looked at the pots of succulents with his head slightly lowered.
The leaves were new, without any signs of wilting, and the soil layer was perfect, as if they had just been bought from the market.
Jiang Yan was slightly startled, then suddenly bent down and began to look at the floor under his feet.
The balcony had not been cleaned yet, and the floor tiles were covered with a thin layer of dust, but he was still able to keenly observe something unusual.
Meng Tang said that this was his first time home, and he had not been to the balcony since he walked into the door, but now, footprints of a second person other than Jiang Yan appeared on the balcony floor.
Jiang Yan subconsciously touched the anesthetic gun on his waistband.
On the other side, Meng Tang was trying to calm his frantically beating heart in the room. He was nervous about being exposed, and also felt guilty for lying to Jiang Yan.
He wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, and the handle of the vacuum cleaner in his hand was slightly deformed due to his uncontrolled strength.
Meng Tang looked up at the messy furniture in the room. His three younger brothers had no common sense at all and put all the furniture in a messy pile like they were building a nest.
Fortunately, Jiang Yan didn’t see it.
Then, Meng Tang personally arranged the furniture in an orderly manner.
I dragged the wardrobe off the bed, put on a new quilt, took down the clothes hanging in the bookcase, and took out the books that were full in the wardrobe...
Meng Tang released more than a dozen tentacles at once, and then completed this series of tasks quickly, even cleaning the floor until it was as bright as a mirror.
"OK."
Meng Tang retracted his tentacles, smoothed out the wrinkles on his suit, and then adjusted his expression in front of the mirror in the room.
Lift the corners of your mouth to create a smile.
Great, very infectious.
Meng Tang praised himself and opened the door in this posture.
As soon as the door opened, I was greeted by Jiang Yan's beautiful face.
"Hey, have you been waiting for me at the door?"
Jiang Yan hummed softly, his eyes bypassing Meng Tang and looking into the house. It was very clean inside, which made him check the time on his phone.
Only ten minutes passed.
Jiang Yan was slightly surprised, "It was cleaned up so quickly?"
Meng Tang curled his lips and said, "I just swept the dust on the floor. I didn't expect this vacuum cleaner to be so useful."
"Oh, by the way, aren't you asking about the potted plants on the balcony?"
"Um."
Meng Tang pinched his chin and said, "Actually, I forgot to tell you that I have a younger brother. He should have come back this morning." Finally, he added, "My younger brother likes flowers and plants very much."
"younger brother?"
Meng Tang nodded, "Yes. But our relationship has always been bad. He ran away from home after the last quarrel, and I was on a business trip and had no time to pay attention to him. I didn't expect that he came home during this period."
Jiang Yan raised his eyes slightly, "Huh? You just let your brother be out there like this?"
"He's not important." Meng Tang said indifferently. After noticing Jiang Yan's immediate gaze, he hastily changed his words, "He has many friends and lives a better life than me. You don't need to worry about him."
Jiang Yan hummed. After Meng Tang's explanation, his doubts were almost dispelled.
If the footprints on the balcony belonged to my brother, then everything would make sense.
"What are you having for dinner?"
"Um?"
Meng Tang changed the subject too quickly and Jiang Yan was stunned until he heard the growling sound of his hungry stomach.
"I'm hungry." Meng Tang smiled embarrassedly.
Jiang Yan looked at the time. It was six o'clock in the evening.
It's time to eat.
"What do you usually eat at night?" Jiang Yan asked, and then he found that Meng Tang's face was turning red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Meng Tang swallowed. He usually "ate" ginger salt at night.
Of course he couldn't say it directly.
"I'm not picky about food. I eat everything."
"Oh." Jiang Yan thought for a moment and said, "I see you don't even have a range hood. I guess you must have ordered takeout or eaten out often in the past."
"So smart." Although Meng Tang didn't know what a range hood was, he knew whatever his wife said was right.
"Then shall we go out to eat?"
Just as Jiang Yan finished saying this, a heavy rain started to fall again.
“…”
"Forget it, let's order takeout. I'll go get your potted plants."
Jiang Yan said and left the room.
When he came to the living room, he found that the plants on the balcony had disappeared.
Hmm? Did the wind blow it down? I hope it didn't hit anyone.
With a glance, I saw that the potted plants had been moved in front of the TV and placed in orderly rows.
Jiang Yan's expression tensed. When did these plants get here?
Someone was here just now.
In other words, there are "ghosts".
Jiang Yan turned around and went back to the room. Meng Tang looked up and saw that he looked doubtful, so he asked, "What's the matter?"
“There’s definitely something wrong with this building.”
Meng Tang made a frightened expression, "What? Is there really a ghost here?"
"Then you have to protect me. I'm a scary ghost."
Jiang Yan looked at Meng Tang without saying a word.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the rain was getting heavier, accompanied by faint thunder.
"Well, shall we sleep together tonight?"
The light from the TV screen illuminated the faces of the two people on the sofa. Meng Tang slurped his popsicle while glancing at Jiang Yan who was concentrating on the TV plot beside him.
"Aren't there two rooms?"
Meng Tang whispered, “It wasn’t haunted the last time I lived here. I’m really afraid of ghosts.”
Jiang Yan turned around and met Meng Tang's gaze. His face was submerged in the dim light of the living room, and his neck was covered in shadows. "... Yeah."
"You're so nice." Meng Tang's eyes suddenly brightened up. "I don't know who is so lucky to marry someone as nice as you. I'm so envious."
Jiang Yan ignored Meng Tang's incorrect words and continued watching TV. The plot was very childish, the kind that only elementary school students would watch, but it was full of memories when he grew up, so he was particularly devoted to watching it.
“Is it that beautiful?”
Meng Tang, an octopus living in the sea, naturally cannot understand Jiang Yan's emotions. He grew up in the sea, and his dream since childhood is to become the overlord of the deep sea one day.
Until one day when he was too playful, he got stranded.
At that time, he could not turn into a human being and could only struggle on the shore under the scorching sun.
But soon, he found it difficult to breathe due to lack of water, and his tentacles were almost dried up like dry branches.
Are you going to die?
At that time, Mengtang closed his eyes in despair.
Until a little boy came over, he used up his last bit of strength to open his eyes and met the boy's bright and curious eyes.
Meng Tang thought that the little human was going to eat him, but unfortunately he no longer had the energy to be afraid and could only laugh at himself.
However, the small human simply carried him back into the sea.
That was the first time that Meng Tang, an octopus, came into contact with humans. The teacher in the sea always said that humans were evil, but at that moment, he felt a hint of beauty.
Later, Mengtang worked hard to grow up, learned how to become a human and went ashore. He originally wanted to find the little boy to repay his kindness.
I was already in college when I met Jiang Yan again.
At that time, Jiang Yan walked under the trees holding a textbook. The breeze gently blew the hair on his forehead, and the gentle sunlight blurred his face.
The octopus hiding in the pool stared for a long time, as if it had fallen in love. After Jiang Yan left, he slid to the bottom of the pool, and bubbles kept coming out of the surface of the pool.
In order to repay a favor, the octopus felt that he had nothing valuable to give to Jiang Yan, so he prepared to sacrifice himself.
Thinking back, Mengtang heard Jiang Yan say, "Don't you have a childhood?"
"..." Meng Tang was slightly stunned, then smiled to cover up, "I just happened not to have seen this."
"oh?"
"How about you tell me the plot?"
Jiang Yan had nothing to do, "That's fine."
…
An hour later.
Meng Tang and Jiang Yan lay on the bed.
There was still thunder and lightning outside the window, and the crying of a baby could be heard from downstairs from time to time. Jiang Yan stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, thinking about something.
"You can sleep well. I'll stay here." Jiang Yan suddenly said.
Meng Tang was lying sideways, tracing Jiang Yan's profile with his eyes. He was slightly surprised when he heard Jiang Yan's words, "Huh?"
"This is my job. Let me catch the ghosts. You just go to sleep." Jiang Yan added.
After catching the ghost, he will follow the usual practice to erase the ghost-related memories of the people in the building.
Then it's as if it never happened.
"Okay then." Meng Tang responded seemingly obediently, "Good night then."
"……good evening."
However, Mengtang was pretending to be asleep, but Jiangyan was actually asleep.
He was not sleepy at all, but for some reason, a strong sense of sleepiness invaded his consciousness in an instant.
This familiar feeling was the same as when he was sleeping at home yesterday. Unfortunately, before he could think about it, this strange power had already lured him into a deep sleep.
Soon, Jiang Yan fell asleep.
Meng Tang, who was sleeping beside him, slowly opened his eyes.
Immediately afterwards, thick flesh-pink tentacles appeared out of thin air from Meng Tang's pants.
The tentacles seemed to have taken a growth accelerator. From a short length at the beginning, they immediately grew huge and filled the entire room in an instant.
Of course, most of the tentacles considerately avoided the ginger salt, but a few were disobedient and touched the face of the person they had been salivating over with their tops, leaving slippery marks on that soft face.
"Is that you? The real culprit who caused the nightmare?"
At this time, Meng Tang had already turned into a half-demon, and his legs had completely transformed into countless tentacles. His eyes were dark, and he was looking at the window motionlessly.
A black shadow was swaying in front of the window outside.
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