Chapter 13: There is something dirty in the building
As evening approached, it started to drizzle outside the window again.
Xiaotuan had been awake for quite a while, and had been sitting stupidly on the bed, holding his doll in a daze.
"Xiao Tuan," Wen Yin sat on the edge of the bed and hugged the pale little boy into her arms, "Continue to sleep with your sister today, okay?"
Xiaotuan lowered her head and let Wen Yin hug her without saying a word.
After a long while, intermittent sobbing sounds were heard in Wen Yin's arms, and his soft little body trembled with crying.
"elder sister……"
Tears soaked Wen Yin's clothes, and the little boy's voice was muffled and hoarse.
"I won't have a mother anymore..."
"I'm really going to become... a wild child."
"Xiaotuan will never become a wild child."
Wen Yin slowly said, "Xiao Tuan's mother will always be in heaven, silently accompanying you."
"Really?"
The boy in her arms finally raised his head and looked at her pitifully with his red eyes.
"Really, she became a star."
Wen Yin gently wiped away another crystal teardrop that fell from the corner of Xiaotuan's eye.
"Every night from now on, she will be watching you from heaven."
"That……"
Xiaotuan grabbed Wen Yin's sleeve and looked out the window.
“What if it rains and we can’t see the stars?”
Wen Yin thought for a moment and lowered her eyes: "Don't be afraid of that little girl, she will try her best to blow away the dark clouds..."
"After the rain, I will protect you even more."
Xiaotuan didn't say anything else.
The only sound in the room was raindrops hitting the pane.
Gu...
A clear bowel sound came from Xiaotuan, and Wen Yin touched Xiaotuan's black hair which was messy from sleeping.
"Wait a minute, I'll buy you something to eat."
At the same time, he spoke to 028 in his mind: [028, you stay and watch him.]
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"Why is it raining again? What the hell..."
A tenant ran out in a hurry to pick up the clothes that were hung out to dry. After he blurted out a word, his face suddenly changed.
"Pooh, pooh, pooh, don't blame me for my mistake!"
After saying that, he immediately went into the house with the clothes in his arms. When he closed the door, he happened to meet the eyes of Wen Yin who was about to go out.
It was the tenant who had talked about Xiaotuan and Wen Yin behind their backs and quarreled with her husband during the day.
The other person's eyes first fell on the black umbrella in Wen Yin's hand. He instinctively wanted to say something, but he hesitated for only half a second, then closed the door without changing his expression.
Walking down the corridor, almost every resident on each floor tacitly packed up their things and closed their doors within just over ten minutes.
Wen Yin looked up and glanced at the sky framed by the tube-shaped building. It was covered with dark clouds, and there was fear that there would be another heavy rain.
She carried a black umbrella and stepped quickly into the rain.
It wasn't actually that late, and many of the old shops along the street were still open.
Wen Yin bought some snacks and noodles and was checking out when she heard 028's anxious voice suddenly in her mind.
[Host, Xiaotuan just went downstairs to get a toy from his room and ran into an old lady on the first floor.]
[The old lady was rummaging through her pockets. Xiaotuan had no idea what he saw, but he stood there for a long time, then finally secretly followed her out.]
[After I followed them, the sight difference was only a corner away, and the two of them disappeared!]
[I've been searching up and down the stairs for quite a while now, but I can't find Xiaotuan!]
Boom——
028 As soon as the words fell, a terrifying thunder sounded above Wen Yin's head, and the next second, heavy rain suddenly fell.
"Looks like we have to close the stall early again today..."
The boss handed Wen Yin some change.
"This weather... is so unpredictable..."
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When Wen Yin returned to the tube-shaped building in the heavy rain, the whole building was so quiet that it seemed to have fallen into another strange time and space.
Heavy rain hit, mist filled the air, and the air soon filled with the smell of damp earth.
[What does the old lady look like?]
Wen Yin stood at the entrance of the first floor, looked around, and didn't find anything strange.
[Ah, that old lady... seems to be the one who argued with her son in the room yesterday and brushed past the host!]
028 suddenly remembered.
[I still remember the first time that man saw the host, his expression was clearly...]
[Fear.]
Wen Yin took over what 028 hadn't finished saying and turned to walk deeper into the corridor on the first floor.
[028, Is that man in the room?]
028 quickly replied: [Host, there is no one in the room.]
Wen Yin nodded and stopped at the door of the room next to that person.
Knock knock knock.
"Auntie, are you home?" Wen Yin said softly, "I'm the new resident upstairs. You met me yesterday."
There were footsteps behind the door, and after several seconds, the door was hesitantly opened a crack.
The woman I met yesterday showed half of her face through the gap.
She first glanced behind Wen Yin before speaking cautiously.
"Girl, what's wrong with you?"
Wen Yin smiled apologetically and pointed to the next door: "I want to ask, do you know the mother of the tenant next door, the white-haired old lady, where does she live?"
The woman behind the door frowned and lowered her voice: "Are you talking about the gambler's mother?"
Wen Yin nodded: "Yes."
"She doesn't live here. She only comes occasionally to clean for her son. I don't know where she lives exactly."
After saying that, the other party was about to close the door.
But before it was closed, the black umbrella in Wen Yin's hand blocked the crack in the door.
"Excuse me, Auntie, I have one more question."
Wen Yin's soft voice sounded again, seeming a little distorted against the background sound of heavy rain.
"Why do people in the building stop walking around when it gets dark and rains?"
As the words fell, the half face that was exposed in the gap froze in the dim light, and the voice of the woman inside the door also became inexplicably stuck.
"There's something dirty."
"Is that so?" the girl at the door nodded thoughtfully, her tone tinged with curiosity. "Since you knew there was something dirty, why... didn't you move it away?"
"W-why?"
The woman's expression began to freeze, just like her speech speed, and her brows kept frowning and relaxing.
The corners of his dry mouth rose and fell rapidly, like a scene from a movie that kept freezing and replaying.
Boom.
Another thunder roared from the clouds above the square courtyard, mixed with lightning that seemed to tear the sky apart. The woman's expression finally froze in a strange picture of frowning but with the corners of her mouth raised.
"Because, I can't leave."
As soon as she finished speaking, the black umbrella that was blocking the door was kicked out by the woman.
With a bang, the door in front of Wen Yin was slammed shut.
The black spider that was still weaving a web under the eaves was shocked so much that it suddenly hid in the darkness.
[Are Shen Sinian and the landlord in the room?]
Wen Yin turned around and looked upstairs. Except for the light that came on when she left her room, the surroundings were all dim and sticky black.
[He's not here, and there's no sign of Ah Wu.]
028 quickly gave an answer.
[Um. ]
Wen Yin nodded, her eyes falling on the rain splashing at her feet.
[Then let’s go back to the room and wait.]
[Host, what are you waiting for?]
[wait……]
[It's twelve o'clock at night.]
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