Chapter 7 Chapter 7 The Air of Binding

As soon as Meixia left, I blocked my little uncle who was about to go back to the room.In the corridor, his expression was sad and bleak. "Things have come to this point, little uncle, how long do you want to escape? Tell me all the secrets in your heart!" I couldn't stand it anymore, and yelled at him. Yang Chang couldn't help it anymore: "Little uncle, Su Yun is dead, Su Ni is dead, who will die next? Don't you care about these things?" The little uncle groaned, his tone full of self-hypnotic evasion: "Su Yun died by suicide, and Suni died of an accident, it has nothing to do with that, it has nothing to do with that..."

"Little uncle, what do you mean by 'that'?" I pressed on step by step. "It's nothing, it's nothing..." The little uncle waved his hands in a panic, turning around to run away. Yang Chang quickly blocked him, and his attitude became strict: "The 'that' you mentioned refers to the secret technique of raising ghosts, right?" Suddenly the little uncle fell to the ground and looked at us in astonishment: "You, you... how do you know?" His rhetorical question has given us the answer. Sure enough, Meng Gong didn't bluff us, it was really a secret technique of raising ghosts.The tragedies that have happened so far all originated from the secret technique of raising ghosts!

This witchcraft from Satan is leading everyone to hell one by one. My feet softened, and I knelt down in front of my little uncle, holding his hand tightly: "Little uncle, I beg you, tell me what you know. I don't want to die, I don't want Yang Chang to die, I don't want you I don't want to see anyone die again...Little uncle, I beg you." "Girl." The little uncle put his arms around me. Yang Chang stretched out his arms, hugging us like a guardian angel. The little uncle burst into tears, and warm tears kept falling from his old and dry eye sockets. I knew that at this moment, the dam in my little uncle's heart completely collapsed.

We cried together for a long time, and the little uncle slowly revealed the secret hidden deep in his heart. The grandmother is from Miaojiang and has a very weird personality. After she married into Su's family according to her parents' orders, she never devoted any effort to housework and bathing work.She was at odds with all the people around her, and she liked the good and bad of Taoists very much. She scolded Li Si with Zhang San, scolded Wang Ermazi with Li Si, and scolded Zhang San with Wang Ermazi.After a long time, everyone in Qingshui Town has figured out Grandma's temper, and they all hate her and don't want to associate with her.Grandma is not unusual either, as time passes, her character and behavior become more and more weird.She woke up one morning and said she had prophetic powers, and went around saying that a newborn baby in a certain family in town was going to die.At that time, the neighbors were very angry, because the grandmother had quarreled with the mother of the child she predicted would die a few days ago because of some trivial matters.Everyone felt that it was too much for the grandmother to curse the innocent child viciously.Grandpa couldn't bear to beat grandma because of this incident.

However, something unexpected happened.A few days later, the child suddenly had a persistent high fever and developed a rash all over his body.At that time, the family thought it was normal for a child to have a fever and rash, so they didn't take it seriously, and planned to observe it for a few days before talking.But just one day later, the child began to vomit and have diarrhea, and the rash began to fester and ooze pus.The adults panicked and rushed the child to the hospital.The disease progressed very quickly. On the way to the hospital, the child turned blue and had difficulty breathing.By the time it was delivered to the doctor, the child was already dead.Grandma's prophecy came true.

Just one incident, everyone thinks it is just a coincidence, but when similar things happen again and again, can it be considered a coincidence?From then on, whenever someone had a conflict with my grandmother and that person happened to have a newborn child, my grandmother would predict that the child would die soon.To everyone's horror, all of Grandma's predictions came true. Grandma has become a character that all residents of Qingshui Town can't avoid. Not only the neighbors are afraid of her, but also grandpa began to avoid her, and the three children are also unwilling to be with her.

Suddenly one night, the little uncle found his mother crying alone in the toilet.Mother trembled and told him that she had discovered grandma's secret, which was terrible.But just when the mother was about to tell the secret, the appearance of the grandmother interrupted the conversation between the two and took the mother away.Grandma stayed in mother's room that night, and no one knew what happened between them.It's just that from that day on, the originally cheerful and lively mother, who had just turned twelve, suddenly became taciturn, and her personality gradually became melancholy and withdrawn.

The grandmother who was always indifferent to the three children suddenly became very close to the mother.The two always went out together and didn't come home until late at night, or they would be locked in the room all day, not knowing what they were doing. This continued until Mom grew up, got a job at the town elementary school, and met Dad. The love between parents caused an uproar in the family, and grandma objected angrily.That was the first time my mother rebelled against my grandmother. In order to combine with the one I love, my mother and grandma quarreled again and again, crying every day.For this reason, grandma put down her harsh words, cursing that once mom and dad get married, tragic things will happen.

Everyone knows that grandma has the ability to prophesy. Although so far, grandma has only predicted the life and death of newborns, but no one can guarantee that grandma's other predictions will not come true.But at this time, my mother was pregnant.Mom and Dad think that when they have a child, they can get their parents' blessing if they cook the raw rice into cooked rice.But I didn't expect my grandma to drive away my father in a rage and lock up my mother.She even cursed viciously that the child in the mother's womb would definitely be stillborn. Speaking of which, I couldn't help interjecting: "If grandma's prophecy is really so effective, why did she put abortion pills in mother's food?"

The little uncle shook his head: "Who knows, maybe she can't wait for the child to answer the curse and die, and is afraid of long nights and dreams, so she wants to do both." Mom finds out about the abortion pill, runs off with Dad, and no one knows what happened next.In short, the father died later, and the mother returned to the bathing place on the night of giving birth, and the grandparents locked her in the bathing place in a fit of anger.Grandma angrily went back to her room to sleep, but grandpa was smoking one cigarette after another.In the end, he still couldn't bear it, so he opened the door of the bathhouse.At that time, the mother grabbed the grandfather and cried, saying that the child in her stomach was about to die, and begged the grandfather to save the child.Grandpa saw his mother's miserable appearance, and his heart softened. He wanted to send her to the hospital immediately, but she refused to die.She begged her grandpa not to disturb grandma, and asked her for strange things, like matches, candles, glassware, and canes that grandma kept on top of the kitchen cabinets all the year round.That night my mother locked herself in the bath, and no one was allowed in, and no one knew what she was doing in it.The next day she came out covered in blood, holding her newborn baby, which was me.Without anyone's help, my weak mother gave birth to me alone.

At this point, the little uncle sighed: "Chen Xue, you really misunderstood grandpa in many things. He is a poor man. Although he looks serious and dignified on the surface, in fact he is under the control of your grandma all his life. Your parents fell in love with each other, and he didn't insist on objecting, let alone interfering as the outside world said. Although he saw his daughter coming home with a big belly, he was angry and locked her in the bathing place, but he immediately softened and compromised. All the tragedies , In fact, it was all caused by your grandmother." I nodded, my heart was in a mess, and my little uncle continued to talk—my birth seemed to change my grandmother's attitude. She showed unprecedented enthusiasm for me, but my mother was extremely jealous and disgusted with my grandmother's enthusiasm.Every time my grandma approached me, wanted to hug me, or take me out to play, my mother would be as nervous as a frightened hedgehog, erecting her burrs in self-defense.The most exaggerated one was that my grandma was angry at my mother's vigilance and would take me to her room to play no matter what.My mother even grabbed the kitchen knife and shouted that if she dared to take a step closer to me, she would die with her. One late night, the little uncle got up to go to the bathroom, passed by grandma's room, and heard his mother and grandma arguing fiercely-"Mom, you are far away from Chen Xue, do you hear me? Don't push me, or I will give you your secret. Shake it all out!" "Hmph! Just go ahead and tell me. Is it possible that only I have a secret, don't you? Even Chen Xue seems to have a big secret, right?" "You! If you dare to harm my Chen Xue, I will kill you, I will definitely kill you!" "Haha, just kidding, how could I be willing to harm Chen Xue? She is a rare treasure to me, and she must live well." "Don't play Chen Xue's idea!" "Hmph, do you love her so much? Then tell me the secret, why is Chen Xue alive? The day you ran away with that bitch, Chen Xue obviously died in your stomach. What did you do to let her Bringing the dead back to life? Hahahaha! You used the secret technique of raising ghosts, right? Have you penetrated the essence of raising ghosts?" "I don't know what you are talking about!" Mom said tremblingly, "Chen Xue is not dead, she has always been alive, she is not what you said..." "Lie!" Grandma said fiercely, "Don't think of me as an idiot, I know everything. I have studied raising ghosts for so many years, and I have never made a mistake in killing children. I will tell my precious little ghosts to kill the ones in your stomach. My child, the little ghost clearly told me that the matter was successful. People can lie, but ghosts never can. I can say with certainty that Chen Xue is indeed dead. Why? I have known for a long time that there is a deeper mystery in raising ghosts, but I spent Decades of painstaking efforts can only be used to kill children, but you can bring people back to life!" "But..." Grandma's eyes lit up suddenly, "That's not important, daughter, you can tell mother the method. This secret will make us immortal and help us escape the pain of birth, old age, sickness, death and reincarnation. We can even change The world, become like a god!" "You're crazy, stop wishful thinking. No one can live forever and come back from the dead. Even if you do it reluctantly, you will only raise monsters, and even attract demons. Chen Xue has never died, you don't believe it I have no choice. I just advise you, don't touch Chen Xue, otherwise..." "Hmph, otherwise what do you want?" Mom sneered: "Otherwise, I will raise ghosts to deal with you. You should know that the effect of ghost raising secrets will vary greatly depending on the spiritual power carried by the ghost raiser's own physique. Your physique can only kill you at most. Damn kid, but I'm different from you." Mom said bloody word by word: "Mom, I—can—kill—you!" When the little uncle heard this, he felt horrified, as if he had had a nightmare.He was so frightened that he didn't even dare to go to the toilet, and fled back to the room in a hurry, tossing and turning until dawn. After that night, Mom and Grandma began a decade-long cold war. During this period, newborn children in Qingshui Town still died from time to time, and every time the little uncle would think of the conversation between his mother and grandma that night, he would feel anxious. My mother became very indifferent. Except for protecting me sickly, she obeyed my grandfather's orders in other things, like a bunch of walking dead. Grandma became very irritable, and she locked herself in the room more often, day and night, not knowing what she was doing.Occasionally I came out to look for something to eat, and my eyes were bloodshot.She is like a mad scientist in a movie, researching terrifying weapons that will subvert the world. Ten years passed in the blink of an eye. At the beginning of that year, my uncle's wife gave birth to a beautiful boy for him.Because the eldest uncle and mother gave birth to daughters, this child was unanimously loved by everyone.In those few weeks, the dull bathing place seemed to usher in spring, and even grandpa laughed and teased the children all day long, as if he had changed himself.It's just that I didn't expect that this situation actually made grandma restless.At that time, she was already very nervous and even showed signs of mental breakdown.She began to be unable to bear the sound of the child crying, and lost her temper from time to time.Once, the little uncle's wife was scolded anxiously by her, so she replied: "I've had enough! Old witch, don't push yourself too hard. You don't love your grandson, but don't deliberately make trouble, okay?" It's just that In a word, grandma became angry. She pointed to the little uncle's child and said, "Your child won't live to the full moon, and you won't live long either. You mother and child will die together!" The little uncle's wife didn't think so, but the little uncle was terrified. He knew that grandma would really kill his child.In desperation, the little uncle had no choice but to find his mother and beg her to find a way, and the mother promised to persuade grandma.But obviously the mother did not succeed, because only three days later, the little uncle's wife and child were involved in a car accident and both died. The occurrence of the tragedy brought everyone in the bathing place back to the quagmire of grief, only grandma couldn't hide her inner happiness, laughing wildly like crazy.The little uncle and mother understood that the reason why grandma was so happy was that her current ability could not only kill children, but even adult women like little aunt. At the funeral, mother and little uncle cast cold eyes on grandma. Mom started to act, she decided to end all nightmares, as long as grandma died, tragic things would never happen again. Mom cursed Grandma and waited quietly.The little uncle was by the mother's side, and their emotions were conflicted and complicated. After all, what they were about to kill was the person who gave birth to them.But they have no choice. Grandma is a devil. If the devil doesn't die, more innocent people will die. However, something that no one could have expected finally happened. Grandma and mother had a big fight and checked into the Haixiang Hotel in the east area of ​​Qingshui Town.The curse was fulfilled here, and a wildfire burned wantonly for days and nights, killing grandma and more than 700 innocent lives.It destroyed everything about Mom, including her will to live.The evil ghost raised by her mother turned into a demon, causing her a sinful karma that could never be repaid in eternal life. One night, my mother walked into my uncle's room and opened the window. "The demon has been born. Look at the mist outside the window. Do you know what it is called? It's called 'binding air'. It won't be long before the demon will destroy Qingshui Town and kill everyone. And all of this is my Caused." Mom turned around, smiling sadly, "I have already killed more than 700 people, and I can't let more innocent people die. I will use my blood to seal the demon and hypnotize it. It is my only way to redeem my sins. Brother, I am not afraid of death at all, but I am worried about Chen Xue. Chen Xue is not an ordinary girl, she has a very special constitution, and she is not suitable to stay in Qingshui Town. Promise me, after I die, Send her away and send her to the city where her father lived. Remember, from now on, all members of the Su family, especially Chen Xue, must not bathe in the bathhouse. You must remember my words, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous, demon It will wake up again, and then there will be no way to bind it anymore." Mom climbed up to the balcony and cut the artery in her own neck there.Early the next morning, the body was found by workers in the baths. When I heard this, I stood up and walked to the window, and opened the window: "It turned out that it was really 'the air of bondage'. The demon was reborn, and my mother's death also lost its meaning." "I'm sorry, I... I should have prevented the disaster from happening, but..." the little uncle said with tears in his arms, "I'm old, and when I get old, I'm more afraid of death. I have experienced too many relatives in my life. death, so when my eldest brother got terminally ill and your eldest aunt begged me crying, I softened my heart and gave in." "Sure enough, my aunt did it. Is it really her who raised the ghost this time?" The little uncle nodded, distraught: "Your aunt and I did it..." Yang Chang and I gasped. The little uncle choked with sobs: "Actually, your aunt and I found out that Su Yun was pregnant. But we made a wrong choice, because we were afraid of being gossiped by the neighbors in the neighborhood, so we let Su Yun give birth to the child, and then went to the hospital again. Kill the child. This is all retribution, and then your uncle fell ill. I have always had a good relationship with him. Apart from your grandfather, he is the only relative I have. Your aunt also told your uncle The husband and wife are deeply in love, so we re-research on raising ghosts together. And the child’s bones we used for raising ghosts are Su Yun’s children. We knew that Su Ni buried him behind the bathing place, so we dug him out..." "No wonder, no wonder the child's bones disappeared." I murmured, "Because you used him to raise ghosts, so he got a medium, turned into an evil spirit, and finally killed Su Yun and Suni." "I've been... unwilling to believe..." The little uncle moaned, "What happened? Your grandmother killed so many children by raising ghosts, and there were no evil spirits. Why do we just want to prolong a person's life? , and it’s not doing evil things, but causing evil ghosts to claim their lives..." "What's the situation now, uncle?" I asked. "He turned... into a... monster." "monster?" The little uncle lamented sadly: "It turns out that what your mother said back then was true, 'No one can live forever and come back from the dead. Even if you do it reluctantly, you will only breed monsters, and even attract demons.'" "What kind of monster has he become?" "I can't describe it well. He can't see the sun, and he needs to drink corpse water constantly. His muscles and bones are abnormally atrophied. He no longer walks with his feet, but with his limbs. He moves extremely fast, like, like... ..." "Like a mouse?" Yang Chang continued, he must have thought of the huge mouse-like image that Suni begged us to save her that night in the bathhouse drinking water from the bath. Sure enough, that "thing" was the uncle. The little uncle nodded: "Yes, he became like a mouse, and he became more and more like a mouse every day. Later, not only did his appearance change, but even his behavior began to turn to a mouse. He only moves in the dark, and hides in the dark when he is alone. It makes a small voice, and runs away when it sees anyone.” "God!" Yang Chang called out with a sigh. The truth came out! The ins and outs of the story finally unfolded in front of us in its entirety, so cruel, so grotesque, and appalling. The miserable and helpless life of the mother, the ferocious crimes of the grandmother, the tragic deaths of Su Ni and Su Yun, the murder caused by the raising of ghosts by the younger uncle and the eldest aunt, and the sudden change of the eldest uncle. I really can't bear to blame my little uncle anymore, his heart has been condemned enough. Now what I need to think about is how to solve the problems that have happened. Facing this horrible bathing place and Qingshui Town occupied by undead, I feel so powerless. We set off in a hurry the next morning, came to the criminal police team in the town, and met Officer Zhang. In the reception room of the criminal police team, every policeman looked preoccupied. I let Yang Chang pull Police Officer Zhang by himself and talk like crazy. Officer Zhang's brows became more and more wrinkled, and the look in his eyes at Yang Chang became more and more strange. Sure enough, as I expected, Police Officer Zhang is a typical person who does not shed tears when he sees the coffin.He doesn't believe in ghosts and gods at all, these are really a waste of time for him. By the way, I can't waste any more time, I want to use every minute and every second to save myself. Thinking of this, I borrowed the outside line of the Interpol to call Meng Gong. I roughly told Meng Gong all the conversations after Meixia went to the bathing place last night, including the story of the little uncle recalling grandma and mother. When things come to this point, whether people can live until tomorrow is a problem, and there is no such thing as a family scandal that cannot be publicized.And after what happened last night, I no longer have any doubts about the ability of Menggong "Shenhan".When it comes to supernatural events, it is not the police who can help the most, but a truly talented man. Meng Gong's voice was full of worry: "Chen Xue, it is indeed an urgent matter to find your eldest aunt now, but a more difficult problem is coming." "Tougher questions?" "When I woke up this morning, I found that the air in Qingshui Town was very strange. Many people in the town fell ill because of the ghostly spirit of the undead. If this continues, most of the townspeople will die if you don't find your aunt. Now I'm going to Ask Mrs. Lan for help, and prepare a large number of consecrated gossip pictures to paste on the doors and windows of every household. Although it is a temporary solution, it is the only way now. The workload of this matter is very heavy, and I hope you and Yang Chang can come to help. " "No problem, but about my aunt..." "You and Yang Chang are not familiar with the place where you live in Qingshui Town, so finding someone is half the effort. I have already entrusted a few friends to look for them. They have a wide range of people and are familiar with the surrounding environment. If they can't find them, you will be even less able to find them." It's here. So why don't you help me, it's wise for everyone to divide the work." I promised Mr. Meng and hung up the phone.As soon as I turned around, Yang Chang and Officer Zhang had already walked to my side.To my surprise, Yang Chang didn't come back dejected, but excited. Could it be that he moved Officer Zhang?so easy?I do not believe! Officer Zhang, dressed in a dignified police uniform, nodded to me: "Yang Chang said something to me just now, which is unbelievable." I looked at him seriously and said, "It's unbelievable, but what he said is the truth." Officer Zhang smiled: "Miss Chen..." "Just call me Chen Xue." He called Yang Chang by his first name, but called me Miss Chen. It seems that my affinity is indeed much worse than that of Yang Chang. "Chen Xue, I don't think that Yang Chang's words are untrue lies, because many strange incidents have really happened recently." "Strange incident?" "Let's take a step to talk." Officer Zhang led us into his office, asked us to sit down, and handed us a document. When it was opened, there were several photos on each page, showing the scene of some cases. "I can tell you that I called your little uncle yesterday and said that I would go to Bainiao Town to find your aunt. It was just a temptation. Because I have no way to go to Bainiao Town. Maybe. Because it has been a month, as Yang Chang said, no one can leave Qingshui Town alive." Officer Zhang frowned, and said solemnly, "I don't know what happened, the bus in the whole town overnight The drivers are all on strike. We have adjusted for a long time, but it has not worked. Suni is not the first resident who died because she wanted to leave Qingshui Town. The document in your hand records that she wanted to leave for a month. People in Qingshui Town either encountered car accidents or robberies on the road, or inexplicably fell into a nearby lake and drowned, or were hit on the head by a hard object falling from the sky, or died of a heart attack.” "My God, isn't this too exaggerated? No one leaves Qingshui Town for a month, and if you want to leave, you will die on the road. There is no news about such a big incident in the town. Your policemen's secrecy The kung fu has been done too well!" Yang Chang exclaimed, and counted the number of people on the data, "Thirty-eight accidents! Nearly fifty people! Hey, it's not a way to go on like this!" Officer Zhang nodded: "It's really not a solution. At first, we police thought it was just a coincidence, but more and more people died. We also thought that there were terrorists behind the scenes, or there was a cult, but no matter how we investigated, there was no result. In a palm-sized place like Qingshui Town, if there were terrorist groups or cults, we would have found them out long ago. Later, our police had to sit on the sidelines and wait in ambush in front of the main roads of Qingshui Town. Our colleagues witnessed a middle-aged man While walking on the road, I suddenly fell down and stopped moving. I ran over and saw that the man’s temple hit a protruding stone on the roadside, and the corners of the stone pierced deeply into his flesh, and he died on the spot.” I thought about it, and found a problem: "So many people died all at once, didn't you report it to the superiors? This situation should be communicated to the city and the province, right?" Officer Zhang was stunned, and it took him a while to say: "Sooner or later, this matter will not go away. Yang Chang, Chen Xue, I need your help very much, so I am not afraid to tell you the truth. Qingshui Town has long been completely isolated from the outside world. Lost connection, like isolated separate space." "What do you mean?" Yang Chang and I asked in surprise. Officer Zhang smiled wryly: "You are coming back from the city to visit relatives, why don't you try calling your relatives and friends in the city?" I froze, and vaguely understood what Officer Zhang meant. Yang Chang suddenly jumped up from his seat and rushed out the door. Officer Zhang and I looked at each other in silence, and neither of us spoke for a long time. About half an hour later, Yang Chang came back and slumped on the chair in a daze. "Yang Chang..." I took his hand. "I can't get through. There is no way to get out of Qingshui Town from the police station, the newsstand, and the post office." Yang Chang said tremblingly. I remembered that my little uncle said yesterday that he couldn't get through when he called his aunt in Bainiao Town. It turns out that we have really become the shackles in the urn of the evil spirits and are played by them. "Do you know now?" Police Officer Zhang sighed, "I have been a policeman for so many years, and I have encountered such an incident that cannot be explained by common sense. Just now Yang Chang mentioned to me about raising ghosts. If it was different, I would definitely sneer .but now..." "Officer Zhang, we are in a very dangerous situation. Every resident in Qingshui Town is in a very dangerous situation. If you wander around the town at night, you will find..." "Undead?" Officer Zhang interrupted me, smiling uglier than crying. "Yes, you've seen it, haven't you?" Officer Zhang nodded: "My father is also a policeman, and he also died in the fire in the East District fifteen years ago." "You mean... your father is back too?" "Haha, it's ridiculous to say it, but it's true." Officer Zhang said bitterly, "I haven't told anyone about this. After all, I'm a policeman and I must avoid causing unnecessary panic. But I believe that Qingshui Town Most of the people have already discovered the anomaly. The police are also people and residents of Qingshui Town. We don’t say anything, but it doesn’t mean we don’t feel it. Can you understand what I mean?” How could I not understand!He meant that from the standpoint of the police, it is impossible for him to handle this case as a supernatural event, but that does not mean that he does not believe our words, because he has even seen the undead with his own eyes. "Then what will the police do?" Officer Zhang thought for a while: "Tomorrow we will issue a notice in the whole town, announcing that there is a plague in Qingshui Town, and no one is allowed to leave the town without permission. At least we must first prevent the townspeople from blindly leaving the town and losing their lives. In addition, Yang Chang Tell me the situation, I will secretly make it a key point, and I will also start to help you search for Ms. Zhang Lifang (my aunt) in the whole town. If you need any help, if you do not violate the principle, Just open your mouth. If all these incidents are really caused by raising ghosts, I hope you can do more to help the residents of Qingshui Town and help yourself." In the end, we reached a verbal agreement with Police Officer Zhang to work closely with the police to deal with the "ghost raising" incident.This is also a good thing. After all, we have another party to help. I only hope that these policemen can really help. After leaving the criminal police team, we immediately rushed to the Shengong Hall. Menggong and Lansao have prepared a large number of gossip symbols, and our task is to paste them on the doors of every household.We've been busy all day without knowing how effective the spell is.Meng Gong also said that this is a method that treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Another day passed like this, and things still didn't make any progress. Where did the eldest aunt hide? We dared not stay on the streets until dark, and returned home before the sun went down. As soon as he entered the house, the little uncle greeted him: "Dinner is ready, Chen Xue and Yang Chang, you go to the living room first, I'll call Dad." I stopped him: "Let me call." "Chen Xue..." Yang Chang looked at me with emotion. I glared at him, walked quickly to the door of Grandpa's room, and knocked lightly on the door: "Grandpa, come out for dinner!" After a while, the door opened, and grandpa came out with a surprised look on his face. "Grandpa, I'll help you." I took the initiative to support him. We both feel a little embarrassed, after all, the relationship between the two has never been harmonious, and we are not used to such a sudden change. But this is what I should do. I have misunderstood my grandfather for so many years. Now that I know I was wrong, I should bow my head and admit my mistake first. Dinner was spent in a peaceful atmosphere, and my grandfather and I still didn't say much to each other, after all, it takes a certain amount of time to repair the mental barrier. After dinner, the uninvited guest came again—Micha appeared outside the entrance of the bathing place again. "Yang Chang, Chen Xue, I'm here to see you again, you will welcome me, right?" Yang Chang and I looked at each other helplessly, it seems that this crazy girl has decided to be our regular customer.Well, she is not afraid of the undead, and seems to have the ability of yin and yang eyes, which happens to be able to extract information about the undead from her. "Mei Xia, are there still many people on the street outside today?" In the room, I handed her a cup of tea and asked casually. Don't know how the spell works. "Oh, sister Chen Xue mentioned it this way, it's indeed a little less!" Mei Xia replied. "Really! That's great!" Yang Chang was so happy that he was alive and kicking. "Yang Chang, what are you so happy for? Don't you like crowds? It's great when there are crowds! That's why I like the bathing place. The bathing place has the most people and is the busiest!" Mei Xia spoke with the same expression. The tone is like a pure and lively girl of seven or eight years old. Yang Chang couldn't stand it and shouted: "Meixia, don't say that there are too many people in the bathing place, okay?" Mei Xia was unconvinced: "What's the matter? What they said is true! Otherwise, let's count them together. There are nearly ten children in the corridor alone. Isn't that too many people?" Summer's words inspired me. "Okay, Meixia, let's count together and see how many children there are in the bathing place, shall we?" I warmly extended my hand to Meixia. "Chen Xue! Are you crazy?" Yang Chang exclaimed. Mei Xia immediately grabbed my hand: "Okay! Okay! I also want to meet the children and play with them!" "Hey, don't mess around." Yang Chang tugged at the corner of my clothes with a sad face. I smiled at him: "I didn't force you to go with me. If you are afraid, just hide in the house." "Haha, Yang Chang, even children are afraid, so be ashamed!" Mei Xia taunted him while shaving her cheeks, and Yang Chang made a grimace back at her. Mei Xia and I walked out the door hand in hand, Yang Chang hurried over, put his hands on my shoulders, as if hanging on my back. "Hey, you can't be like this?" I turned my head and rolled my eyes at him, "Don't go if you're afraid." "I'm really scared. I'm afraid it means I'm normal and there's nothing wrong with it! But I must go, otherwise who will protect you? I can't leave you even a single step." I was about to faint, he was afraid of this, so it's okay for me to protect him: "All right, whatever you want." We came to the corridor, and I quickly adjusted my mental state. The reason why I asked Summer to take me to "Damn", of course, was not out of fun.Still the same sentence, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.I consider myself a rational and independent person, and since I was a child, I have understood that tears and fear are useless in the face of cruel reality.Today, to survive, we have to face reality. We have long since lost the right to cry and be afraid. "Yang Chang!" Mei Xia suddenly stopped and called Yang Chang's name dissatisfied, "Don't stand behind Chen Xue, okay?" "Why? What does it matter to you that I stand behind her?" "It has nothing to do with me, but the little girl wants to hug Chen Xue's feet from behind. She can't hug Chen Xue's feet if you stand there!" I felt Yang Chang's body stiffen for a moment, but he didn't walk away from behind me, but stuck closer to me. "Mitsuya, can you talk to that little girl and ask her why she hugged my feet?" I forced myself to ask calmly. "OK!" Mei Xia happily accepted the task, ran to the back, talked to herself for a while, and ran back again. "The little girl said that she would hold your feet and climb up, as long as she grabbed your neck, she would win." "So what if you win?" Yang Chang rushed to ask. "You still don't understand. The rule of hide-and-seek is that if the catcher catches the hider, the positions of the two can be switched. That is to say, the catcher will become the hider, and the hider will become the hider." You are the one to be caught. That is to say, when the little girl catches you, your positions will be reversed, you will become her, and she will become you." Will I become her, will she become me? I don't know why, but this statement makes me shudder. "Ask her again, why did she have to arrest me, why didn't she arrest someone else?" I smiled at Mei Xia. Meixia agreed, and ran to the back, only said a few words, and came back again. "The little girl said that it's useless for her to catch anyone, she just wants to catch you." "why?" "Because she is you." "She...is me! What does this mean? What does it mean that she is me?" “不知道啊，小女孩就是这么说的嘛，她说她就是你。呵呵，我相信她的话哦，因为你们真的长得好像，我想陈雪你十岁的时候，一定就是长得她那个模样。” “胡扯。”杨畅的头埋在我的身后，小声地说道。 可是我却不认为那是胡扯，因为在梦中我见过那个小女孩，妈妈甚至管她叫陈雪。 一直缠着我的小女孩跟十岁的我长得一模一样！How could such a thing happen?为什么听到这样的话我会如此不安！一定还有什么我所不知道的秘密，妈妈一定还隐藏了什么！what exactly is it?what is it小女孩真的就是我吗？可她又怎么可能是我？ 我猛地甩了甩头，冷静！不要再去管那个小女孩了，不能因为她一个人——或者说不能因为她一个“鬼”而乱了方寸。 我深吸了口气：“美夏，走，我们去数小孩。” “好！”美夏兴高采烈地牵着我的手往前走，刚走了两步就停下来，“一个。” 我什么都没有看见，显然杨畅也是。他哆嗦着问：“那是个什么样的小孩呀？” 美夏望着前方，在我们看来空无一物的地方看着那个“小孩”：“是个没穿衣服的小男孩，脸色很青，身上发了好多红疹，还在流脓呢，他呼吸得好快哦，像是很难受似的。” 我点点头，知道那是外婆的“预言”杀死的孩子。 我们继续往前走，美夏一边走一边点数，遇到觉得与众不同的孩子就会向我们描述一下。 “八个……”走到楼梯的拐弯处，美夏说，“呵呵，这个孩子在跳绳呢，好奇怪，她每跳一下都数97，为什么一直数97呢？我去问一下！……啊！你猜她说什么？她说她在家门口跳绳玩的时候，跳到第97下，从屋顶掉下了砖块砸到了她的头。她说她很疼，所以就一直数97、97、97……已经数了好多年啦！” “十一……”浴场外厅，美夏说，“这个孩子不说话，一直发出呜呜的声音，我去问问他。” 这次美夏跟那孩子说了好半天的话，回来后沮丧地说：“那孩子说话好小声哦，听起来很费劲，他说他小时候喜欢哭，有一次肚子饿，就一直哭，一直哭，哭得他爸爸烦了，就踹了他一脚，于是他就哭得更厉害。他爸爸火了，将被子压在他的身上，本来他只觉得很重，可是渐渐地，他无法呼吸了，棉被堵住了他的鼻子和嘴巴，越来越紧，越来越紧，所以他就一直呜呜地叫，也没有办法大声讲话。” “十五……”厕所内的角落，美夏说，“这个孩子一直在抓自己的皮肤，都抓出血来了，啊！都看到骨头了！好可怜，身上爬满蚂蚁，还有好多稀奇古怪的虫子！” “十九……”浴场内廊，美夏说：“是那个穿着白色运动服的小男孩，他的头仰得好高，眼睛和嘴巴都张得好大，他的嘴巴里一直在冒水泡，苏妮和苏云一人一边拉着他的手呢，我去问问他的嘴里为什么会冒水泡吧！” “不用，这个孩子不用问了！”我阻止了美夏，直接把她拉进了浴场内间。 杨畅一直从身后抱着我，轻轻颤抖着。 我们当然都知道那个孩子嘴里吐水泡的原因，因为他是被苏妮按进水里溺死的。 “二十三……”浴场内，美夏指着空荡荡的池子，“有个小女孩在泡澡——奇怪，池子里有一只手抓着她的脚，水灌进她的鼻子和嘴巴里了，她的肚子好大啊，好像装满了水。她整个人像气球一样，肿肿的，好像快要爆炸啦！” 浴场的湿气令我难受，我也不愿意靠近浴池，马上拉着美夏走出来，我们回到二楼走廊。 “一共二十三个，呵呵！”美夏为她的任务做了总结。 “不是哦，还有一个房间你没有看呢。” 我把美夏带到了曾出现沙发黑影的房间。我对这个房间特别介意，隐隐也猜到了黑影的身份。那黑影不是孩子，是个成年人，并且她不是养鬼，而是亡灵，我只是希望美夏能帮我确认一下。 我推开了门，只让美夏一个人进去，自己和杨畅都站在门外。 不一会儿，美夏出来了，耸耸肩说：“那个老婆婆我认识，她就是苏奶奶，你的外婆嘛。” really!我猜对了！ 回到浴场的第一天，我在沙发上看到的黑影——用怨毒的目光望着我的黑影，那是外婆！ 我紧紧地带上房间的门。然后我感觉如同虚脱一般，整个人都瘫软了。