Chapter 20: Tube Building (Twenty) Song Yu
Wen Yin did not deny that she did have some tentative intentions.
After all, Ah Wu knew nothing about anything, and Shen Sinian was like a gentle smiling tiger.
"What's wrong? Did I scare you?"
Seeing that Wen Yin was looking at him silently, the landlord wiped the water stains from his lips and then gentlemanly wiped the wet marks on Wen Yin's earlobe.
He pressed gently through the handkerchief with his fingers, just like Wen Yin's unconscious action of fiddling with the branches just now.
Wen Yin lowered her eyes and turned her head to avoid the hand that had been wiped clean but had not left.
"Mr. Song, it's OK..."
"It doesn't look like it scared you."
The landlord put some distance between himself and her, and the thigh that had been inserted in her impolitely also withdrew.
Under Wen Yin's gaze, he calmly folded the blood-stained handkerchief in his hand and finally put it back in his pocket.
"That's right. If you were scared, you should have run away yesterday."
The cocoon woven from green branches gradually loosened and disappeared behind the landlord like a receding tide.
He stared at the bright red on Wen Yin's earlobe and nodded with satisfaction.
"You sneaked in, and I took some compensation. That's fair enough."
"As for your question..."
He paused and put the newspaper on the table into Wen Yin's hand.
"I suppose you already have the answer in your mind, right?"
Wen Yin lowered her eyes to look at the newspaper, and her sight happened to fall on those two words.
"Song Yu."
She recited it softly, her soft voice like a feather passing through the air.
A breeze blew in from the window, blowing her black hair wildly.
Wen Yin looked up again, and saw nothing in front of her.
Mr. Landlord is gone.
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Wen Yin returned to the room and was basking in the sun by the window when 028, who was stalking on the first floor, issued a reminder.
[Host, that gambler is back, drunk, and has fallen asleep in his room.]
After a while, 028 spoke again: [Host, the gambler's mother, that old lady is here too.]
[He looks a little strange and is now heading towards the gambler's room.]
[Okay, keep watching and see what they talk about.]
Wen Yin was getting up and walking towards the door when 028 in her mind suddenly made a strange "hmm" sound.
[Host, why do I feel... that the power that was suppressed after I entered this small world has increased a little?]
[What's the meaning? ]
028 continued to speak, his tone more surprised and cheerful.
[In the "weird" world, under the influence of "weird" forces, the power of the system will be suppressed.]
[So after I entered this world, my only remaining function was to lead the host out of this world.]
[But I just discovered that I can also use some of the system's other functions!]
[For example, with this screen sharing, I can share what I see with the host!]
[Eh,] 028's childish voice became even more excited, [Host, does this mean that the power of "weirdness" has weakened?]
[Host, what did you do just now? ? ?]
Wen Yin stopped in front of the door. She touched her ear and still felt a slight pain in her earlobe.
She touched the corner of her mouth again, and it didn't hurt anymore, but there was a small blood scab.
[I don’t know, maybe they are happy…]
028: [??? What are you happy about?]
Wen Yin shook her head and stopped discussing these complicated things with 028, a system that knew nothing.
[Then share the screen so I can see what they are trying to say.]
[Okay, okay, host, get ready. You might feel a little dizzy, so sit tight!]
[Well, come on.]
As soon as she finished speaking, Wen Yin felt dizzy, as if someone was carrying her around in the air for several circles, and she was so dizzy that she almost vomited.
[028... Stop spinning around...]
Wen Yin held onto the edge of the bed, suppressing the urge to vomit.
[Quickly find an angle to stop...]
[Okay, okay, host, can I have an angle?]
The furniture swayed in my sight, then finally came to a stop.
Wen Yin opened her eyes and found that she was now facing the gambler's bed, and the old lady was patting her son's drunken face beside the bed.
[Can. ]
Wen Yin took a moment to adjust to the current perspective, then asked, "Can you turn up the volume?"
[Okay, sure!]
There was a crackling sound of electricity in his ears, and the old lady's low and anxious voice rushed into Wen Yin's eardrum.
“Wake up! Wake up!”
The old lady slapped the man's face, but when he didn't move, she grabbed his cheek and twisted it.
"ah!"
The force of her grip was so strong that the sleeping man let out a scream, and the old lady hurriedly covered his mouth.
"Shh!"
The old lady raised her dry index finger and made a gesture of silence at her lips.
"Don't shout!"
The man was awakened by inexplicable pain and looked extremely irritated. After he vaguely saw the figure beside the bed, he waved away the other person's hand covering his face.
"What are you doing..."
"I don't need to...clean up here..." The man burped and wanted to turn over and go back to sleep.
"Don't sleep! Don't sleep!"
The old lady raised her voice a little, but it was so hoarse that the man became more and more impatient.
"What are you doing...if you keep making noise I'll throw you out!"
"You unfilial son! Still sleeping!!"
"Song Yu is missing!!"
"Song Yu... Who is Song Yu..."
"What does it have to do with me if it disappears..."
"Song Yu is Song Wan's child!"
"Um……?"
The man lay there frowning and thinking for a long time, and finally realized something. He muttered something incoherently.
"Song Yu, is missing... Why are you so excited...?"
When the old lady heard this question, she slapped her thigh and sat down beside the man's bed.
His face was pale.
"Yesterday I came over to clean for you, and he somehow saw his mother's wallet in my pocket..."
The old lady said with a cruel look on her face: "This brat recognized me at a glance and even secretly followed me back home."
After hearing these words, the man's drunken expression suddenly sobered up as if someone poured a basin of ice water over his head.
He supported himself on the edge of the bed and struggled to sit up, the flesh on his face trembling.
"B-And then...?"
"Then," the old woman's wrinkled face was pale, as if she had been pulled from a pile of corpses. Her dry lips kept opening and closing. "I caught him, fed him a large bottle of sleeping pills, and tied him up in an abandoned warehouse... I planned to deal with him later in the night..."
"But I didn't expect that... when I went to see it again,"
The old lady's voice was trembling, and she stared at her fat and big-eared son with her cloudy eyes.
"That brat is gone!"
"Son! We're done!"
As the old lady said, "We're done," the man sobered up completely.
The fear in his eyes burst out like a substance, and for a moment, only an eerie silence remained in the room.
A few seconds later, the man suddenly roared, and the flesh on his face trembled as he roared.
"Go...quickly go find..."
"Mom, what are you standing there for? Go find it!"
“I searched all night and couldn’t find it!!!”
The old lady's voice suddenly became higher, and her shriveled body seemed to be stretched into a bow that was about to break.
"What a sin, what a sin!"
"It's all because of you, this rebellious son! You've made me, even before my death, clean up your mess and shoulder this sin that sends me to hell!"
"I might as well just hit my head and die..."
The old lady stared at her son with resentment, and after the tall and strong man stood up, she took a step back with fear on her face.
"Go find it. Ask the people in the building to help find it."
The man lowered his voice and gave a hideous smile to his old mother who gave birth to him.
"If this matter is exposed, we will all go to hell together!!"
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The perspective shook, and it was 028 moving, ready to follow the old lady out.
[Host, do you still want to follow?]
[Yes, follow.]
Wen Yin's voice was a little low. 028 couldn't see Wen Yin's expression, but just from these two words he could guess that the host was in a bad mood.
[Okay, host, I'll follow you.]
028 After saying this, Wen Yin's perspective began to shake again, and the old lady's thin background and gray hair were in her sight.
Unlike the lively scenes in the past where old men and women would pick vegetables and chat in the yard, although the sun was exceptionally bright today, there were obviously fewer people strolling around.
Wen Yin followed 028's perspective and saw that most of the rooms were closed and silent.
[Why aren't you showing up for activities today?]
028 also noticed something unusual.
[Take a look first.]
Wen Yin started speaking, paused for a few seconds and added another sentence.
[028, Steady, I feel like vomiting.]
[Ah! Okay, okay!]
The perspective stabilized a little. After the old lady went out, she stopped directly in front of the door next to her son's room.
The door was closed. The old lady knocked on it, but there was no response.
The old lady knocked again, and there was finally some movement from the door. A few seconds later, someone opened the door.
It was the woman Wen Yin had met and communicated with last night.
Although her expression was not much better than last night, the strange feeling of lag had disappeared.
But the obvious dark circles under her eyes showed that she did not sleep well.
Seeing the old lady standing outside the door, she was startled at first, and then subconsciously wanted to close the door.
“I know you’ve been drugging Song Wanshui for a long time.”
The woman's hand, which was about to close the door, froze in mid-air.
"I know you also picked up the watch Song Wan left in the weeds."
Fear appeared in the woman's eyes.
"Help me find...Song Wan's child..."
There was an inexplicable hint of ferocity in the old lady's cloudy eyes.
"If you can't find it, we'll all go to jail together."
After the old lady finished speaking, she stared at the woman inside the door for several seconds, then moved closer to the woman and whispered a few words in her ear.
She narrated what happened in the simplest sentences and added one more sentence before leaving.
"Even if it's a corpse, we have to find it first, do you understand?"
The woman was still frozen behind the door. After a long pause, she finally nodded.
The old lady repeated the same trick and knocked on more than ten closed doors, and the people behind the doors all showed expressions of fear.
The sun was still shining brightly, but Wen Yin sat in the room upstairs, feeling cold all over.
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