Aoba Office

The teddy bear next to Zhang Xiaojun's legs was dressed differently from the one on the windowsill before. This little bear wearing a bow tie grabbed Zhang Xiaojun's trouser leg. Just now, it used its fingerless hands to pull Zhang Xiaojun's trousers.

Zhang Xiaojun didn't think about the strangeness of this action or the weirdness of the bear. He accepted this series of events directly and bent down to hug the bear.

I couldn't stop him from doing this without thinking. The position of the bear was also clever. There was Zhang Xiaojun between me and it, so there was no way to catch it immediately.

However, Zhang Xiaojun had already picked it up, and the distance between it and me was just within reach.

To my surprise, Zhang Xiaojun acted without thinking again.

He shouted "Daddy", "Daddy", hugged the bear, and ran to the master bedroom.

I quickly caught up with him, but I couldn't pull Zhang Xiaojun directly. I could only watch him hug the bear and throw himself into his father's arms.

The boy of this age was quite heavy, and with the force of the impact, the man who had just been woken up immediately received a heavy blow.

He groaned, frowning in pain.

"Dad! Look! The bear is back!" Zhang Xiaojun, without realizing it, raised the bear to the man's eyes and pressed it against his face.

The man pushed the bear away angrily, stood up and turned on the bedside lamp, "Zhang Xiaojun, why are you making such noise at night? Why don't you sleep?"

When the light was turned on, the man saw the bear in Zhang Xiaojun's hand.

"What did you do with those bears?" The man became even more angry.

Zhang Xiaojun shook his head hastily, "No, it came back on its own!"

"What's back? Are you dreaming? Go back to sleep quickly." The man took the bear away and put it on the bedside table.

Without any hindrance, I could easily grab this thing.

Zhang Xiaojun threw himself in front of the bedside table again, blocking my outstretched hand.

"No! This is my own bear! It's my mother's bear!" Zhang Xiaojun said loudly.

The man became impatient, pulled out the bear again, got out of bed and walked to the closet. He opened the closet and then opened the storage box in the closet.

The box was actually filled with similar teddy bears.

The man didn't even look at it, he stuffed the bear back in his hand and closed the closet door.

"Dad!" Zhang Xiaojun became anxious.

The man picked up Zhang Xiaojun who was holding him, "Stop making trouble! We have to go to school tomorrow!"

Zhang Xiaojun was extremely aggrieved, but could not compete with an angry adult man, so he could only be driven back to bed.

He closed his eyes, which felt a little hot, but did not cry.

When the man's footsteps faded away, he opened his eyes and looked at the window and curtains that had been closed again by the man just now.

There was no sign of the bear there anymore.

Zhang Xiaojun felt even more aggrieved.

No different memories emerged in his consciousness.

This is what happened.

I stared at the closed closet in confusion. I tried to get the bear out, but I was able to get into the closet, but I couldn't find the bear in the dark closet.

The bear did not harm Zhang Xiaojun or his father.

Mistaken?

Did I make a mistake?

These bears are not prepared to harm Lu Qiaolan and her family. Are they still protecting their owners?

Is the brutality I saw before just revenge for the enemy who prevented them from returning to their masters?

That little girl's puppet is different from these bears?

Does Toy Spirit perform differently on different toys?

Question after question came to my mind.

"Hey." I said tentatively, wanting to call out the teddy bear.

Neither the man nor Zhang Xiaojun could hear my voice. The man had fallen asleep, and Zhang Xiaojun in the next room also fell asleep aggrievedly.

"Hey, are you still here?" I asked again, hesitantly shouting, "Bear, bear?"

This is what Lu Qiaolan calls her teddy bear.

Click.

There was movement in the closet.

I waited quietly.

Squeak...

In the quiet night, the sound of the wardrobe being pushed open was a bit eerie.

The wardrobe was just pushed open a crack, and the sound quickly stopped.

The man on the bed turned over and was not woken up.

I saw part of the bear's body through the gap. Its glass eyes peered out from the cracks and looked at me accurately.

I could feel the eyes on me.

"You..." I didn't know what to say.

The bear didn't move, and just looked at me through the gap, like a frightened child or a child making trouble.

"Are you coming back to find Lu Qiaolan? Where are the other bears?" I asked.

The bear turned its head and pointed its ears at me. This again seems like an angry move. But it didn't disappear, it didn't close the door.

"You should know, right? I will appear here, which means... he will die." I sighed.

The bear's head turned.

"I saw you kill someone before, and I saw that puppet kill its master..." What made me even more afraid was that the puppet put on a bear skin and changed at will between a teddy bear and a puppet.

Suddenly, I remembered that I saw this scene in the girl's conscious space.

Is it because of that? Could it be that it was not the teddy bear or the spirit of the toy that killed the girl?

Otherwise, the toy's spirit seemed different from any spirits I'd seen before. It either has a split personality, or as I guessed before, it will show different personalities in different toys.

I mused.

Squeak...

The cabinet door was opened a little more.

The teddy bear squeezed out of the gap and jumped to the ground. Its movements were a little clumsy, and after landing, it sat directly on the ground. However, it made no sound when it landed. I saw its soft body bounce a little.

The teddy bear got up from the ground, opened its cylindrical legs, and walked towards me. It stood on my toes, raised its head, and looked at me with its glass eyes.

I squatted down in front of it, "What is going on? Can you tell me?"

I remember that the teddy bear couldn't speak. Even in the girl's conscious space, all the people talking to me were puppets, and communication had to be done through the girl's ability. In reality, though, both Karan and I heard the puppet's voice.

The teddy bear turned its head as if looking for something. It opened its legs again and ran to the boy's room.

I watched it climb onto the writing desk, took out a pen and paper, and started writing and drawing on it.

My mood has calmed down a lot.

I may have really made something wrong...

I thought as I looked at what the teddy bear had drawn on the paper.

It was a little difficult to draw, but you could tell that it was drawing itself. I drew a bear, a stick figure, another stick figure, and then a smaller stick figure.

My guess changed from the girl, Karan and the girl, to Lu Qiaolan's family.

After the bear finished drawing these four patterns, he put down the pen and turned to look at me.

"Is this your and Lu Qiaolan's family?" I asked.

The bear nodded and picked up the pen again.

It drew itself and a stickman, but this time, the stickman's head fell off and tears appeared on the bear's face. Then, it drew two more crying stick figures, one big and one small.

My heart skipped a beat, "Lu Qiaolan...is dead?"

The bear put down his pen and lowered his head, as if he was very sad.

"Who did it?" I asked immediately.

The bear shook his head.

"have no idea?"

The bear nodded.

There were no tears on the bear's face. It doesn't shed tears, but I feel like it is crying. The fixed smiling mouth on its face now looked even sadder.