Chapter 17 sixteenth day

In the morning, my mother came down from upstairs and saw her son sleeping on the sofa in the living room, wondering what was going on. After a while, Ji Ning woke up and sat up from the sofa.Mom came over from the kitchen and asked, "Jining, why did you sleep in the living room?" Ji Ning didn't want her mother to know those terrible things. "Doudou is a little restless when she sleeps. She keeps kicking me, so I come to sleep in the living room." Mom sighed helplessly. "I've wronged you, son. I've thought about this too. I can't let you and Doudou sleep together all the time. However, if we go to buy a new bed at this time, it implies that Doudou will live here for a long time. .Your grandma will definitely be suspicious, so..."

"I know, Mom." Ji Ning said, "It's okay, I'll just sleep on the sofa for a while, it's actually quite comfortable." Mom glanced at the room where Doudou slept, and lowered her voice. "Did Doudou have any abnormal behavior in the past two nights?" Ji Ning's heart skipped a beat.In order not to make his mother suspicious, he pretended to say flatly, "It's nothing." "Will Doudou still receive calls from his mother at night?" This Ji Ning can't lie, because Doudou will tell. "Um...yes," he said reluctantly.

Mom looked terrified. "My God, this strange thing... how long will it last?" Ji Ning's heart seemed to be hit hard.Yes, how many more nights of this terror do I have to live through?I'm going to go crazy if this goes on. Seeing her son in a trance, the mother asked worriedly, "Jining, are you okay?" "Well...it's okay." Ji Ning nags, and a sentence comes out of his mouth involuntarily—— "It will be over tomorrow." "What?" Mom asked in surprise, "How do you know?" "I don't know either." Ji Ning said in amazement—he really didn't know—the words seemed to come out of his subconscious. "I just... feel that way."

Mom looked at Ji Ning for a long time. "I hope so." He went back to the kitchen. Ji Ning sat on the sofa blankly, trying to understand why he said such a sentence at that moment just now.Was it really a subconscious thought, or an indescribable hunch?It seems that since last night, he has been feeling this way - what will happen on the seventh day, that is, tomorrow.Possibly, badly... But whatever the case, any subtle hint of an end to the status quo would bring a glimmer of hope to a man who was tormented by fear every night. This morning, grandma sat in a wheelchair and had breakfast with everyone.Doudou is still so... normal - just for the day.He was obviously ignorant of the fact that he was briefly possessed every night.

"Cousin, why do you want to sleep in the living room?" Doudou peeled the shell of the boiled egg. Both grandma and father looked at Ji Ning.Ji Ning lightly tapped Doudou's forehead with his finger, pretending to be relaxed. "It's not because of you." "What's wrong with me?" Doudou asked puzzled. "Your little feet are kicking on my face. I have to avoid it." Doudou's face turned red. "My foot didn't hit your face!" "Really? You were asleep, how would you know?" Originally, Ji Ning just wanted to tease him.Unexpectedly, Doudou stopped to peel the eggs and thought about it seriously.Then say:

"I seem to... know what happened after I fell asleep." Ji Ning's heart hangs suddenly. Grandma smiled and said, "Doudou, what can you do after you fall asleep? Are you talking about dreaming?" "Hmm... I can't remember. It seems... I really did something, someone told me to do it..." Doudou thought hard, and finally scratched her head. "Oh, I can't remember." "Then don't think about it. It's just a dream." Ji Ning said to him, and then quickly changed the subject. "Doudou, is the PSP game console I gave you fun?"

Doudou immediately excitedly talked about the handheld game console. Ji Ning knew that something would really happen - he was sure of that.This feeling only intensifies as the day progresses towards tomorrow.In fact, the whole day he passed in a state of restlessness and restlessness, hardly able to settle down to do anything.This situation continued until night, and became more pronounced. Ji Ning stared at the TV, but didn't see anything.Like suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, he kept guessing what would happen tonight, or in the early hours of tomorrow.Especially - when he thought that he would not sleep with Doudou tonight, and he would not know what Doudou would do, he felt that this thought was not without reason.However, Ji Ning really didn't have the courage to face those horrible things anymore. His already fragile nerves couldn't bear the torture again, so he had to choose to escape.

Doudou was playing a game console in the room, grandma was cleaning her dentures in the kitchen, and Ji Ning hardly said a word—there was no other sound in the living room except the boring dialogues of TV series characters.Mom seemed to be unable to bear this dull atmosphere, and deliberately wanted to find something to do.She took out half a watermelon from the refrigerator and squeezed the watermelon juice with a juicer. A few minutes later, my mother shouted in the kitchen: "Doudo, Jining, come and drink watermelon juice." Ji Ning responded, but didn't stand up immediately.He's not in the mood for a drink right now.Doudou ran out of the room quickly - he likes to drink iced juice the most.

After a while, Doudou finished his own glass, brought over a glass of watermelon juice, and handed it to Ji Ning: "Cousin, the juice just squeezed by my aunt is delicious." Ji Ning forced a smile and took the juice. "thanks." After drinking this glass of iced juice, Ji Ning felt a little more relaxed.He went to the bathroom to take a shower, and when he returned to the living room, the TV was turned off, and the family members also went back to their rooms, probably because Ji Ning was going to sleep on the sofa. The tense mood of the day made Ji Ning feel very tired.He wrapped himself in a cool quilt and soon fell asleep.

Regardless of whether something is really going to happen, tonight, he doesn't want to care about it. About an hour passed.In the dead of night, with a "snap", the lights in the living room were turned off. A figure stood by the wall, watching the sleeping Ji Ning.