Chapter 106

"They were just playing a game, so they added some hair... Actually, you know most of them."

Ten minutes later, in the brightly lit living room,

Xu Ming handed a cup of freshly brewed hot drink to Qiu Yufei, pinched her shoulders soothingly, thought for a moment, and then added a blanket to her and sat down next to her.

Just now, she was outside and couldn't see clearly in the dim light. After entering the house, she found that Qiu Yufei's face was extremely pale.

... I don't know how much of it was because she was scared just now, and how much of it was brought down from the elevated platform.

Thinking of Qiu Yufei's sight in the yard just now, Xu Ming pursed his lips slightly, and a bad premonition surged in his heart, and his voice softened unconsciously: "By the way, what did you see on the elevated road before?"

Qiu Yufei looked at her with resentment and pity, and after a while, she spoke with some hesitation: "I, I saw a person..."

Xu Ming: "?"

"A man, walking slowly along the edge of the elevated road. At that time, our car was still some distance away from him. I only saw his back and a steel bar, so I thought he was transporting something at first..." Qiu Yufei said, subconsciously shrinking her shoulders.

It is common sense that people cannot walk on the elevated road. Qiu Yufei was surprised, so she patted the driver's seat in front of her, wanting to ask if she should call the police in this situation.

Unexpectedly, the driver looked confused and stared at the direction Qiu Yufei pointed for a long time. He just said that she was seeing things, and there was no one on the viaduct.

Not only the taxi driver. All the cars seemed to have seen nothing, and drove past the man without stopping, and even passed through him directly. It was not until this moment that Qiu Yufei realized that she might have seen something she shouldn't have seen.

At this moment, the car finally drove next to the man. Qiu Yufei subconsciously turned her head and looked outside, and then she found that the other party was not "carrying steel bars" - the steel bars he was dragging were actually passing through his head.

"If it were just that, it would be fine. The key is that the driver is particularly talkative, you know?" Qiu Yufei couldn't help but speak faster when she said this, and took a sip of the hot drink. "I told him that I saw someone, and he started to tell me about the car accident on this road a while ago, and he said it vividly..."

This made Qiu Yufei's imagination run wild. She was worried that the figure dragging the steel bars would catch up with her, and she was worried that she would see a dead person and would be involved in a ghost story again. She wanted to call Xu Ming, but her phone got stuck again, and she kept staying on the shared location interface and couldn't get out... The only thing she could do was to keep urging the driver to speed up. Fortunately, she was safe and sound, and finally arrived at Xu Ming's place safely.

At this point, Qiu Yufei suddenly shuddered again, and looked around with a nervous look, and her whole body tensed up: "They said this is your home, right?"

"If you don't believe me, you can give me a secret signal." Xu Ming knew what she was afraid of, and sighed softly, "Don't worry, I assure you, this is definitely not a ghost story."

"..." Qiu Yufei pursed her lips and looked at her for a while, then closed her eyes in disappointment, and lay back on the chair, "Forget it, whatever." Tired, let's destroy it.

Xu Ming comforted her by rubbing her shoulders, and after a moment of silence, he frowned again: "What I care about is, why can you suddenly see that thing on the viaduct? And those in my yard..."

"Two possibilities." The whale man who curiously followed in to see the excitement on the tea table next to him spoke at the right time, "Either her own aura is unstable, causing her to suddenly be able to see something; or her own physique has changed, and she has directly entered the ranks of psychics..."

"..." Qiu Yufei looked at it with mixed feelings - considering that Qiu Yufei had just been frightened not long ago, Xu Ming specifically asked the whale man to change back to the potato state that Yufei was more familiar with, and in order to show friendliness, the facial features were all cartoon-like.

It's not scary, but it's not good-looking either. But perhaps because the previous steel man had such a big impact on her, Qiu Yufei now thinks this brown potato is handsome: "Teacher Haitang, what is the difference between the two?"

"You can think of the former as a primary experience card for psychic communication, and the latter as a senior lifelong VIP." The whale fat man was very satisfied with her address to him, and explained it more vividly.

In view of the fact that Qiu Yufei had just come out of the strange story a while ago and got sick because of it, both of these situations are possible. To be honest, the first situation actually happened as early as when they just left the Butterfly Building - at that time Qiu Yufei was alone in a normal hotel, but she saw Lu Yueling who came to find Xu Ming with her own eyes.

Of course, Lu Yueling deliberately appeared in front of her at that time, which was also part of the reason. Moreover, with the evolution of ghost stories, some abnormal existences that are relatively "heavy" in themselves are indeed easier to be perceived by people.

For example, when Xu Ming was still living in the old apartment, Gu Yunshu and Lando were accidentally seen by people, and Lando was even rumored to be the ghost of a serial killer... This is why even after moving, she always reminds her friends at home to be careful about their words and deeds, and never scare the neighbors.

"This kind of experience is usually temporary, so don't worry too much." The whale fat man said faintly, "But if you can feel it all the time, and the number of perceptions is large, then the problem is more serious."

"..." So, what is considered "always" and what is considered "many"?

Xu Ming and Qiu Yufei looked at each other, and the same question came to their minds. After a moment's thought, Xu Ming decisively chose a faster way to confirm.

She directly asked Qiu Yufei if she had seen or heard anything suspicious in the past week.

Qiu Yufei's first reaction was to shake her head. After Xu Ming helped her to expand her thoughts, she gradually came to her senses and murmured belatedly:

"Come to think of it, I did see a white shadow passing by the window on Monday, and I often heard noises from behind the wall. When I came back from overtime, I also saw a strange person in the elevator. He sat from the first floor to the top floor and never got off the elevator..." But when

she saw the white shadow, she had just recovered from the fever, so she thought she had seen it wrong; she thought the noise from the wall was an illusion caused by the transmission from the floor, and as for the figure in the elevator...

"Help me, I didn't think much at the time!" Qiu Yufei was getting more and more scared the more she thought about it, "I even took the elevator with her for three days!"

Xu Ming: "..." Although it's inappropriate to say so, in a sense, you are really careless.

"Anything else?" she said softly.

"And that steely guy..." Qiu Yufei almost buried her face in her palms, "And when the car drove to your door, I seemed to see two mops fighting..."

"Uh. This shouldn't count." Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, trying to correct, "The scientific name of that mop is Old English Sheepdog, it's Landor's new one... no, newly adopted." The

young Old English Sheepdog, she happened to see it when she was watching videos yesterday, and couldn't help but praise it for being cute, and today there are two of them in the yard.

They were supposed to sleep in the yard, but everyone was playing in the yard before, so they ran to the door by themselves, and were seen by Qiu Yufei.

Qiu Yufei whimpered and asked seriously: "...So is that what I should see?"

Xu Ming: "..." That may not be the case.

So Qiu Yufei's face wrinkled again, and she looked like she would cry at any time.

But at least it can be confirmed - unfortunately, Qiu Yufei is now holding the psychic lifetime VIP.

"It's probably because I've been in a few ghost stories and have been wandering between 'normal' and 'abnormal' for too long." The whale man concluded, "The protection provided by order is like a complete tempered glass, which either does not break or once it breaks, it can never be put back together."

"Does that mean I can only do this in the future?" Qiu Yufei widened her eyes in surprise, and Xu Ming quickly hugged her shoulders again.

"Don't be too nervous, being able to see does not mean you can see clearly, and there are degrees of it. If the symptoms are not serious, there is no big problem... and now the environment is safer than before..."

The ghost stories are closed, and even psychics cannot easily enter. It is always safer to awaken the psychic physique at this time than at other times.

As for the abnormal existences that are usually seen, unless they are those mutant roots with ulterior motives, they are just more scary. Apart from ghost stories, there are very few spirits that harm people. Not to mention that most of the dead are already in a state of being hollowed out by time, and can only repeat some fixed actions blankly, or stand on the roadside like plants. Sometimes when Xu Ming sees them, he feels more disappointed than afraid.

"But if you see it suddenly, you will still be scared..." Qiu Yufei muttered, and after a while of silence, she looked over pitifully, "Teacher Mingming, if it's convenient, can I come and live with you for a while?"

At least give her some time to adapt first. Besides, she doesn't dare to go back to her rented house now-it was okay before that she didn't think much about it, but now she knows that there are at least three strangers there, who dares to go back to sleep.

In comparison, Xu Ming's side is more reassuring. Although there are more people around, at least they are all familiar people.

"...I don't mind." Xu Ming frowned when he heard this, "The problem is that it's quite far from here to your company."

It takes two hours to commute one way. There are not many buses, only one every half an hour. If you miss one, you have to rush to catch it.

"..." Qiu Yufei's expression froze when she heard this.

Then she closed her eyes in pain. After a struggle between her mind and her heart, she asked the question she had asked herself countless times since she started working -

"No, do I have to go to this crappy class?"

*

It's a pity that she still has to go to class. Especially since her job is not bad, it would be a pity to quit.

Xu Ming wanted to ask Lu Yueling or Gu Yunshu to go back with her, but Qiu Yufei thought about it and was still afraid, so she went home the next day to move her things and moved to Xu Ming's place, sleeping in the same room with Xu Ming for the time being. She

didn't bring much with her, but she brought her own game console, so she successfully established her position in the small house; plus she knew most of the people in the house, so after getting over the initial panic, she quickly relaxed, but she was still a little scared when facing Panpan's mother, and she didn't dare to talk to the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Monster. The ones

who played the best were Gu Yunshu and Lu Yueling. When he was free, he would take them to play games or listen to novels together. Perhaps it was because of the awe of knowledge that a beginner has, she would often go to the Whale Man to take notes when she was free, holding a newly bought notebook and writing and drawing very seriously.

Xu Ming sometimes saw the two of them chatting together, and he didn't know whether to worry about who would lead the other astray.

Not only did she learn from the Whale Man and Xu Ming, she also often took the opportunity to slack off at work and browse the Internet on her own. She would write down any knowledge points that seemed useful and then bring them back to ask the people in the small villa.

Xu Ming didn't take it seriously at first, and just warned him to be careful of scams. But one day, he received several links from Qiu Yufei, such as "Thirteen Ways to See Ghosts" and "The Pen Fairy Summoning Technique That Works All the Time". The more he looked at them, the more familiar they looked...

When he looked at the interface, he realized that it was the "Bai Candle" forum managed by her future sister-in-law.

After further questioning, he found out that when Qiu Yufei was groping around, she somehow found the social account of one of the moderators. It happened that the moderator was distributing a new batch of user registration codes these two days, so Qiu Yufei clicked on the link to grab one, and she actually got one.

Then, she successfully opened the door to a new world...

[No, no, don't believe in this forum, it's all made up and fake. 】Xu Ming quickly closed the door for her, [If you want to know something, come back and ask us, or ask Fang Xueqing. 】

[Ah. 】Qiu Yufei followed suit, and never read those so-called dry goods posts again. But in this way, she found a new way of entertainment -

watching fun in the forum.

Not only did she watch it herself, but she also dragged Xu Ming and others to watch it together. Especially those supernatural videos uploaded by netizens on the forum, they liked to gather together to watch them, laugh for a while, and then reply seriously:

[It’s fake. I asked Ah Piao in my company, and they said it was an act. ]

...Xu Ming sometimes wondered if she had adapted too well. She was so scared that she couldn’t speak two days ago, but today she was "Ah Piao in our company."

"Okay, okay, let's all go." Seeing that it was getting late, Qiu Yufei was still checking her phone. Xu Ming sighed and went over to pick her up. "Are you sure you don't want to sleep yet? It's almost ten o'clock... You have to catch a five o'clock bus tomorrow."

"Right away!" Qiu Yufei had already finished washing up and went back to her room and got into bed. After thinking about it, she couldn't help but take out her phone and check it again. "Teacher Mingming, did your sister-in-law tell you? This forum is going to have its anniversary."

"No, what's wrong?" Xu Ming put her quilt on the bed, puzzled. She was not very interested in this forum, and Du Rong would not come to share such things with her.

"Look! Here is their anniversary plan! It opens at midnight today! You can win a prize!" Qiu Yufei showed her her mobile phone with great interest, "The haunted building has 100 floors of lights on, it seems very interesting!"

"I think what's more interesting is that some people are so scared that they dare not go back to their own homes to sleep, but dare to browse the supernatural forums late at night." Xu Ming took her mobile phone and put it directly on the bedside table on his side, "Go to bed quickly, otherwise you won't be able to get up tomorrow."

Qiu Yufei responded helplessly. The room immediately fell into darkness. After a moment, Qiu Yufei's voice sounded cautiously again: "Speaking of which, Mingming, I wanted to ask before.

"What's going on between you and that Landor?"

Xu Ming: "..."

"It's still the same. He has been hiding, can I go out of my way to catch him? "In the darkness, Xu Ming sighed softly, "That dog brain, sometimes I really don't know what he is thinking."

"Maybe he is just like you and just needs some time to prepare?" Qiu Yufei comforted, "Don't worry, there is a long time to come. If he really doesn't want to see you, just leave."

"Anyway, you two live together now, there will always be a chance to talk it out."

... Maybe.

Xu Ming didn't respond, but sighed again in his heart.

Then he closed his eyes.

*

... However, facts have proved that there is no chance.

At least not in the next week. The fact

that Landor is still hiding and refusing to see people is not the only reason. More importantly, Xu Ming can't care about this matter anymore-

because someone else has fallen into a strange story.

More than one person. More than one strange story. In just a few days, one after another.

Just like insects that hibernate are waking up one after another.