Chapter 10:

What parents in Ghost Domain never want is a daughter, but they think a daughter will be well-behaved.

My brother stands between me and them, like a high wall that is impermeable to light, covering up all my colors.

There is only one classic saying that I can remember without searching on the Internet - when there is beauty, there is no bright future.

It would be great if my brother disappeared and I would be the only child being loved.

[Cui Xiaoyu·Ghostland Level 1]

The soft voice of a young girl floated out from the end of the corridor. She was wearing a yellow dress and holding a ball-jointed doll with a broken arm in her arms. The doll's clothes were the same style as hers. The artificial eyelashes are thick and dense, blinking rhythmically as they tremble.

Zhang Jigang smelled the sweet smell in the air, and the Cui family villa that he had never seen before was completely replicated one-to-one: there were countless rooms on the three floors, like an intricate maze.

The girl suddenly let out a sharp scream, and the gauze on her face was bloody. She pinched her throat and laughed playfully: "Brother! Let's play hide-and-seek! If I catch you, jump off the building." Come on! -"

As she said that, she ran towards Zhang Jigang's position with her hair disheveled, her skirt flying, her eyes red with blood and tears, and she moved very fast.

The ridiculous and weird face flashed closer and closer, and Zhang Jigang, who entered the ghost realm for the first time, panicked, as if the horror game played in front of him was a movie. He was frozen in the auditorium and had to go face.

"Don't let her catch you."

Thirteen's voice in Guiyu became calmer and more mature, like the most stable compass when he lost his way, which made the young man wake up!

Zhang Jigang's back was facing a dark corridor. He immediately turned around and started running in that direction.

He had good self-sufficiency, but the girl's speed was not controlled by gravity and she floated over.

"Wait...Wait a minute, Sister Xiaoyu! - Hide and seek! I didn't hide anything, what are you chasing? Ah..."

The moment he turned back to visit, a small hand suddenly stretched out in the dark light, frightening him out of his wits!

So fast?

Four-wheel drive vehicles equipped with Nanfu batteries are astonishingly fast!

"Brother, I'm going to catch you, hee hee..."

Zhang Jigang ran to his death in the bottomless corridor. His throat was so dry that he was about to cough up blood, but he did not dare to stop for a moment.

It's not that he's afraid that the little girl will catch him and force him to accept the punishment of the game, but that if he doesn't cooperate according to the evil ghost's way of thinking in the ghost realm, he won't be able to help Cui Yu get the answer.

"Your sister... she has great physical strength... Oh my god! -"

The roots of his thighs were sore and his feet were on fire. Zhang Jigang's mentality was gradually facing collapse. If you keep chasing me, when will it end?

With the help of weak light, he saw many rooms lined up on both sides of the corridor, with house numbers written on them. The one he started with just now said 301, and the door he was passing now had the words 303 painted in blood on it. .

No, why did the numbering of this room start again when I ran in one direction?

"Thirteen... Huh... Does your sister usually live on the same floor as you?"

"No, she lives on the top floor of the third floor, 302."

What? Did he just miss her room?

If you want to play a hide-and-seek game, the place where the participants hide should be related to the place that triggered the memory of the evil ghost. It is most likely Cui Xiaoyu's bedroom.

But he had just run, and if he wanted to enter 302, he had to follow the numbers and run another lap!

"It's not your first time to enter the Ghost Realm! Why didn't you tell me about the prompts?"

This made me have to run circles again. People who usually rack their brains to escape during morning jogging are here. Is it reasonable to run around in circles in the Cui family villa step by step?

Cui Yu answered sincerely: "But this is the first time I have entered my sister's ghost land, and I am a complete novice."

There is no point in talking, the road is ahead.

Zhang Jigang held his breath and tried his best to take a step forward. Finally, after enduring the severe pain in the soles of his feet and the dizziness caused by physical exhaustion, he saw the long-lost 301.

Coming, coming! The next room is...

303? !

"Holy crap!! Where is room 302? Can't you recognize your sister's room? I really can't run away anymore..."

Unexpectedly, her brother who came to play with her really devoted himself to the game and accompanied her after two laps. Cui Xiaoyu's eyelids were drooped, and her floating steps gradually slowed down.

"My sister would doze off when she was playing and sweating when she was little."

Taking advantage of some distance, Zhang Jigang's eyes quickly scanned the numbers on the doors of each room, confirming that except Cui Xiaoyu's bedroom, all others were in order. arrangement.

That only means that in her memory, her bedroom does not exist.

It's definitely not a triggering condition.

When the number reached 393, Zhang Jigang suddenly realized that something was wrong. He asked: "How many rooms can there be on the first floor of your house? More than a hundred. They run a hospital!"

Wait, the hospital... The girl's face is indeed There was a bandaged wound, and he was holding a doll in his arms like a child waiting for treatment in a children's ward.

"Was your sister injured when she was a child?"

Cui Yu paused, and quickly said under Zhang Jigang's urging: "Yes, on April 2, 1998, my sister was playing games with her classmates in the kindergarten and bruised her face. Go I needed seven stitches in the hospital."

Zhang Jigang never expected to get such an accurate answer and asked doubtfully, "How do you remember it so clearly?"

"It was my birthday, and my parents booked a hotel to celebrate my birthday, but Xiaoyu was injured and hospitalized. , they brought the birthday cake to the ward."

At that moment, Zhang Jigang imagined his little daughter, who desperately longed for her parents' love, sitting in the ward with tears in her eyes. She had just received stitches and wanted to win attention. Lai stayed in the hospital and refused to leave.

But in order to take care of their son's emotions, her parents encouraged her to forget the pain and sing happy birthday to her brother with a smile.

"Are your parents careless? Really..."

Cui Yu did not defend himself, but said pertinently: "I am the favored one, and I have no choice in reincarnation."

Zhang Jigang said dumbly, this kind of He can understand the sentiment.

"What's your sister's ward number?" He asked Cui Yu without hesitation the question given to the participants. After all, whose sister is responsible for who is responsible.

"...37..." Cui Yu tried hard to recall the scene at that time. He was pushed by his parents to put on a crown specially prepared for the birthday girl, holding a giant cake with eight candles in his hand, and blew out his wishes one by one after acquiescing to his wishes.

It wasn't that he hadn't noticed that his sister was secretly clenching her little hands on the quilt, but his consciousness had always been reversed and he couldn't empathize with a six-year-old girl.

He never longed for a candle to place an expectation on, and that kind of pressure was something he couldn't feel as a sister.

A casual compliment, a luxurious birthday gift package, and the image of someone else’s child that has been accumulated for a long time must be filled with more efforts and performance.

"373, I'm sure."

Cui Yu traced back for a moment and found the house number from his memory, and Zhang Jigang, who had gone through the third circle, finally stopped outside that door.

The short footsteps behind him stopped, and the girl's words with a low sob floated out from the door: "Brother, I hid it, have you found me?"

He pushed it down gently, and the door was unlocked.

Then what came into view was a pure white hospital bed. Xiaoyu squatted in the dark corner under the hospital bed, revealing two almond-shaped eyes. The eyes were amber. The wounds on his face were stretched and bleeding, sliding down his cheeks and dripping into his eyes. Chin area.

She stared straight ahead with numb eyes, but she was not looking at Zhang Jigang. She murmured a sorrow that was extremely contradictory to her expression: "Brother, I am in so much pain, it hurts so much... I have to stay in the hospital all the time... Brother, do my parents know that I'm injured?"

The doll's light golden hair was stained with blood. She wiped her little hands across the white sheets, crawled out from under the bed, patted her skirt and stood up.

Then, he dug his fingers into the wounds on his face.

"Brother, it hurts so much...I didn't lie to you..."

Only then did Zhang Jigang realize why in Xiaoyu's memory, his bedroom disappeared, but his home was connected to the hospital ward.

She has been rebellious for decades, getting into trouble one after another, and has a tendency to self-mutilate, all in order to gain a sense of existence in front of her parents.

He bent down, picked up the arm that was broken off from the doll from the dust under the hospital bed, and then hooked his hand towards the girl.

"Brother has found you. I am willing to admit defeat and give me the toy."

He has no brothers or sisters, is not good at comforting children, and is a bit stiff when interacting.

But Xiaoyu lowered his head and handed the doll into his hand.

The concaves and convexes are interlocking and the pieces are completely assembled.

The girl's cheeks turned red, she stopped scratching the wound, and her eyes suddenly focused on the boy.

He turned his arm, approached the girl, and joked: "Salute, shake hands, we are all good friends."

Xiaoyu suddenly sang loudly: "Salute ~ shake hands ~ we are all good friends ! Hey~ Salute and shake hands..."

His eyes went dark and the childish voice suddenly disappeared.

...

[Cui Xiaoyu·Second Floor of Ghost Domain]

The scene moves to a classroom. The voltage of the white woven lamp above the head is unstable and staggered.

As soon as Zhang Jigang came in, he was shaken so hard that he couldn't open his eyes. There were tears in his eyes and he couldn't help but frown.

"Uh... where is this?"

The classroom is sparsely furnished, with orchestral instruments, sheet music pages and black-and-white leaflets placed everywhere.

He casually picked up one and looked closely at it. The flickering light dazzled his eyes, and he could focus on a few words at a time.

"...Xing...Star Road...Vocal...Training...Class..."

Cui Yu immediately reacted: "When Xiaoyu was in middle school, she suddenly became interested in the entertainment industry. She wanted to sign up for a vocal training class, but her parents did not agree. "

Don't agree? Your sister sings very well."

Although she has only heard of children's voices, her pitch and musicality are really innate talents. Some people can't even cry when they are born. And some people realize it in a little while.

"...If you don't study well and have a good family, pursuing a career in music is not a way out..."

Zhang Jigang was hit by the white light and had a double image. Although he hated the strange and dark environment, he still walked decisively to the position near the door. Turn off the lights.

Suddenly, no one was playing the orchestral instruments in the room, and the noise sounded chaotically, as if it was going to penetrate the eardrums, and Zhang Jigang's heart beat rapidly.