spooky invasion

Chapter 2 Missing Footprints

ta... ta... ta... ta... ta...

The whole world fell into silence, as if only the drops of water were ticking, every three seconds, with an even rhythm.

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...

The sound of the water droplets was obviously accelerated, as if the person in the dream suddenly encountered a nightmare, and his breathing accelerated instantly.

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...

The sound of water droplets became more and more rapid, such as shooting, which changed from burst shooting to strafing.

blah blah blah blah...

After a short while, the sound of countless water droplets became extremely dense, like sprinkling beans in the sky.

No high altitude, no sprinkling of beans.

The space was dark and claustrophobic, and the suffocating sound of water droplets came from nowhere.

The cold wind whistling across, blowing the water curtain chaotically, the living people broke their livers and intestines.

Suddenly, in the mud, a pale hand came out.

A hand full of desire for survival.

Pulling the muddy clods with difficulty, like a drowning man, trying to pull out a ray of life.

call!
A muddy woman straightened up where the hand was pulling.

With long hair covering her face, she couldn't see her face clearly.

The hair, which looked like it had not been trimmed in years, was knotted, hanging messily below the chest, and dripping with mud.

The situation is indescribably weird.

Whoosh whoosh!
Like pulling a bellows, the woman gasped loudly.

The right hand that was pulled before, actually kept the posture of pulling, kept getting closer, kept getting closer...

This hand touched Jiang Yue's face directly.

"Yue'er, it's so cold..."

Jiang Yue was startled, and his whole body bounced like a spring.Due to the excessive movement, the rattan chair under his butt was brought to the ground by him, and then hit the coffee table next to him, pinging and pinging, making a mess.

There are several bright windows in the house, and blue bricks and green tiles outside.

Where is the rain screen muddy?Where can there be a woman covered in mud?

Jiang Yue rubbed his temples with both hands, shaking his head at a fast pace, trying to get rid of the nightmarish scene just now.

this dream again...

Only four days into April, this dream has appeared for the seventh time.

Or take a nap, or a deep sleep, this dream always comes.

Come without a trace, go without a trace.

Is it just a dream?

Jiang Yue rubbed his cheeks fiercely.That pale hand touched the cold touch on his face, wet and sticky, as if it had really happened.

especially……

The moment the touch occurred, the woman's unkempt, desolate and helpless appearance, like taking a picture, was deeply frozen in Jiang Yue's mind and clearly preserved.

Snapped!
When Jiang Yue was in a trance, something suddenly fell behind him.

Looking back, an old photo frame that had been placed on the big red rosewood incense case in the center of the main room unexpectedly fell to the ground without any external force intervening.

Old-fashioned ancestral home, old-fashioned incense case, old-fashioned photo frame.

The glass in front of the frame was shattered, but fortunately the photos inside were intact.

This is a 20-inch family portrait, slightly yellowed and looks a little old.

The family of four in the photo is full of happiness.Jiang Yue is also in the photo. Pink Dudu's little hand is holding an apple, and it's just a seven or eight-year-old little lady.

Jiang Yue carefully observed the scene, full of doubts.

The incense case was about forty centimeters wide, and was placed in the center against the front wall of the main room. The photo frame was always placed against the wall on the right side of the incense case.

The first thing Jiang Yue did when he returned to the old house in Panshiling from the city on the first day was to clean up inside and out.Wipe, wipe, and clean up the inside and outside of the old house.

Naturally, the photo frame was also carefully wiped, and he placed it back with his own hands.How to put it and where it was placed, Jiang Yue remembered it clearly, and he could completely restore any detail at that time.

Even if the photo frame slipped, it should have slipped on the incense case, instead of jumping over the [-] cm wide incense case and landing directly.

To achieve the effect of falling on the spot, unless the photo frame will somersault.

"Sure enough, as soon as Qingming Festival arrives, do weird things happen one after another?"

Carefully picking up the family photo from the glass slag, Jiang Yue was about to turn around to find a broom and dustpan to deal with it, when Jiang Yue's eyes suddenly fixed on the photo.

Without the slightest sign, goosebumps appeared all over Jiang Yue's body, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead, and even his breathing became rapid.

The image of the woman in the nightmare picture earlier, the image left in Jiang Yue's mind, slowly overlapped with the woman in the photo.

"Mom?" Jiang Yue lost his voice.

His teeth clenched his lower lip tightly, and his body trembled uncomfortably.

Jiang Yue never imagined that the desperate and helpless woman in the dream had been bothering him for the past few days, and turned out to be his biological mother who had been missing for ten years!

Do not!
If you compare carefully, there are obvious differences.

In the photo, the mother is intellectually capable, serious and loving, and she looks like she is in her early thirties, which is the best time in a woman's life.

The woman in the dream, unkempt, looks like forty or fifty years old, her eyes are frightened and helpless, and there is heartbreaking despair.

but--

Jiang Yue, who has always paid attention to details and at the same time has never forgotten, has repeatedly compared: the similar facial features, the height of the cheekbones, the proportion of the three courts and five eyes...

But it is absolutely certain that it is indeed the same person!

This is just weird.

His mother, who disappeared ten years ago and was in her early 30s, repeatedly entered his dreams at the age of 50 or [-], crying to him and begging him for help!
Jiang Yue usually likes to ponder some strange and mysterious things, and naturally has some understanding of dream interpretation.

For those who appear in dreams, most of their age will stay in the past.

Especially the deceased people appear in the dream, most of them are the same as when they were still alive.

Ten years ago, Jiang Yue was only eight years old when his mother and the archaeological team disappeared mysteriously.The mother's appearance in this family portrait is basically Jiang Yue's final memory of his mother.

Jiang Yue had never seen his 50-year-old mother, and naturally it was impossible to form an impression, let alone appear in his dreams.

Holding the photo, Jiang Yue was dazed, forgetting the broken glass on the floor.

"Second brother, second brother..."

There was a cheerful shout from outside the yard, and a timid boy trotted across the yard, poking his head halfway at the door of the main room.

Seeing Jiang Yue in the room, he suddenly looked surprised. A bear rushed to Jiang Yue, his face full of joy at seeing his long-lost relatives.

The boy was about [-] or [-] years old, with healthy bronze-colored skin, and his eyes were black as if he could talk. With the high bridge of his nose unique to the old Jiang family, he showed the wildness unique to rural children.

The child is the only son of Jiang Yue's third uncle, whose real name is Jiang Tong and his nickname is Sangou.

The three uncles and their husbands have been working in developed cities for years, and their grandparents are no longer alive. The child, Sangou, has been left in his hometown with no one to take care of him, so he has been fostered by his aunt in the town.

It was rare to have a small holiday during the Qingming Festival. The little guy found out early that his cousin Jiang Yue was going back to his hometown in Panshiling for sacrifice. In the first few days, his aunt took him back to Panshiling.

Helpless, my sister-in-law opened a small shop in the town. During the holidays, I was busy with business, so I really didn't have time to take him back to Panshiling, which is dozens of miles away.

This naturally can't be difficult for the three dogs.

On the day of Qingming, he got up early and went back to Panshiling on his own by traveling dozens of miles of mountain roads.When he returned to the village, he didn't even go back to take a look, but plunged into the old house of Jiang Yue's family.

"Sangou, didn't my aunt say that the shop is busy and doesn't have time to bring you back?"

Maybe it's because they are blood relatives. Although the two brothers are five or six years apart in age, they hardly ever see each other, but their relationship is good.

Every time I go back to my hometown, the three dogs stick to Jiang Yue like a gummy candy, and they can't wait to be tied to the second brother's waist.

Jiang Yue also doted on this little cousin very much, saying that he is a cousin, emotionally no different from his own brother.

Facing his cousin's question, Sangou scratched his head, not wanting to confess that he had sneaked back from his aunt, but changed the subject.

"Second brother, who is the woman who went out just now?"

"Nonsense when we first met! I've always been alone, how can anyone go out?" Jiang Yue slapped Sangou on the back of the head, just pretending he was playing tricks and avoiding the topic.

Sangou suddenly became unhappy: "Why is there no one? Wearing a plaid skirt and long hair. His face is dirty, as if he just came back from the field. I'm still wondering! Who is this stupid? Mother-in-law, how can anyone go to the fields in a floral dress?"

Before Jiang Yue slapped the second slap, he raised his arm in the air and stopped.

Flower skirt, long hair, and dirty face.

The image inexplicably coincides with the dream again.

These characteristics were described by Sangou, which made Jiang Yue get goosebumps again.

He grabbed the three dogs and rushed out of the yard.

"Sangou, where did you see that woman go?"

The three dogs pointed to the left: "This is the road. When I came, she just came out of the yard and met her in this place. She went along this road. I even looked back."

The three dogs said something serious, but until the end of the road, there was not a single figure.

Jiang Yue checked the past along this road. Since the Qingming rain has been pouring down for the past two days, the footprints on the road are easy to identify.The fresh footprints were only left when the three dogs came, and there were no fresh footprints in the opposite direction.

"Three dogs!" Jiang Yue's face sank.

"Second brother, I didn't lie to you! I swear, if I lie to you, I will call a car and kill me." Sangou is obviously a straight boy, and he swears when he stalks his neck.

Although the three dogs are skinny, they are measured.Once it rises to the height of a curse, it is definitely not a joke, it is [-]% true.

Jiang Yue sighed and looked at the direction Sangou said, in a daze.

This bizarre thing really happens one after another.

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(End of this chapter)