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After the old man stepped aside, I came face to face with the bear. Its glass eyes looked at me, and I seemed to be able to see my own reflection in those glass eyes.

I really have a lot of questions to ask. But I know very well that the answer I get is not necessarily the answer of Lu Qiaolan's teddy bear, but probably the answer of the toy spirit.

Maybe... Lu Qiaolan's teddy bear has disappeared...

Spirit is born and exists based on human consciousness. They become evil because negative thoughts are stronger than positive, positive thoughts.

Most people in this world may be selfish and not good people in the complete sense. Maybe I have never committed a crime, but I always have all kinds of bad thoughts in my heart.

Human society does not punish such thoughts. If I hadn't said it myself, this thought might never have been discovered in my lifetime.

But the spirit is different. It can directly receive those thoughts and can be directly affected by those thoughts.

I looked at the teddy bear and recalled every bit of it in my mind.

It starts from when Lu Qiaolan finds Qingye's people and entrusts them to them, and ends with Lu Qiaolan's death.

I suddenly discovered blind spots that I had never seen before.

From the beginning, these bears were not well-intentioned.

They have become hosts for trafficked children, and they have killed human traffickers. In order to protect Lu Qiaolan, they killed criminals who broke into houses and robbed them. They also killed people in Huixiang.

In the past, I never took this seriously. These actions seem to be just acts, self-defense, punishment of evil and promotion of good.

Although the laws of society do not encourage this practice, or even explicitly oppose this practice, under those circumstances, given the non-human status of the teddy bear, I accepted its behavior. In my mind, they have always been kind. Lu Qiaolan thought so too.

What did Lu Qiaolan think about when she saw the teddy bear killing her husband and son?

Or, before that, Lu Qiaolan saw another future, and what did she think of when she saw the teddy bear in another situation?

In the girl's conscious space, I saw the teddy bear killing people and the girl's puppet killing people. What did I think of?

Those are uncontrollable thoughts, thoughts that arise in your subconscious mind without thinking.

I exhaled and walked towards the teddy bear step by step.

I stood in front of the window sill. The teddy bear was motionless, but the glass eyes seemed to still be looking at me.

A shadow appeared behind the teddy bear.

A pair of small hands wrapped around the teddy bear and held the teddy bear close to his chest.

She was not very tall, so it was a little difficult for her to hold the teddy bear on the windowsill.

It was that girl, younger, like the little girl when her father died.

She poked her head out from behind the teddy bear and looked at me carefully, with a kind of pleading in her eyes.

Child and teddy bear.

This should be a beautiful picture that can make people feel soft.

I put one hand on the girl's head and the other on the teddy bear's head.

The girl's eyes were filled with tears, and crystal clear tears fell from her eyes.

Her mouth was open and she could only cry, but it looked like she wanted to beg me for something.

The teddy bear's glass eyes held an unchanging scene. I only saw my silent face.

Ability activated.

The two figures are collapsing, and the surrounding town scene is also beginning to collapse.

The girl opened her mouth and a scream enveloped the town.

I felt the town shaking, as if there was a big earthquake.

Amidst the loud rumbling noise, something was collapsing, gravel and rubble were flying everywhere, and dust was flying.

I feel my body changing beneath my palms.

The soft stuffed bear turned into a hard puppet, and the girl grew up and returned to her party appearance.

She shook her hands in fear, trying to throw away the puppet in her arms, but the puppet's hand was inserted into her chest.

The force that resisted my ability was gone.

Because of the shaking of the earth and the mountains, my body jolted in mid-air and I let go of my hand.

The entire space of consciousness is collapsing, but it is different from ordinary collapse. Something new is being established in this space.

My eyes saw a double image, two similar towns overlapping, one was the abandoned town where I had been staying before, and the other seemed to be a brand new town. The planning and layout of the two towns are exactly the same, the only difference is the old and new.

I saw that in the old town, the girl and her puppet were being buried by the rubble. Her screams became distant.

I thought of the old man, turned around quickly, and saw that the old man's body had also sunk into the ruins of the town.

I flew over in a hurry, trying to pull the old man out, but my hand was empty.

I seemed to be caught between different dimensions and could not touch the old man in one of them at all.

The old man smiled at me, "It seems you still have an invitation. So, see you in the real world."

I was stunned.

The old man's body disappeared out of thin air, the fallen town turned into ashes, and disappeared when the wind blew.

I found myself standing on a busy street where people with Western features were walking and talking. They seemed to not see me, ignored me, and continued to do their own thing.

I observed more carefully and found that these people behaved very awkwardly, like robots. Their actions were stagnant and their speech was stagnant. Their faces have fixed expressions, and the facial muscles that move when speaking are stiff. What’s even more ridiculous is that I saw a man’s mouth not moving when he spoke, as if he was speaking ventriloquism, and another woman. When she spoke, her entire lower lip and chin moved up and down together, and there were two obvious lines at the corners of her mouth. crack.

baby?

Toy?

This is... the real ghost town in Slender Man's story?

I was in a daze for a while, and then I thought of the thin man.

The thin man should have entered here.

I wasted time in the girl's conscious space, and the thin man didn't know what he would encounter here.

I was thinking about what the story was about, and I remembered that there were two houses mentioned in the story. One house is the protagonist's old home, and the other is his new home after marriage. She left the doll in the old house, but later moved it to the new house...

I organized my thoughts and thought that the town was already full of toys and that the doll should be in its new home.

Suddenly I saw a girl walking in the crowd. The girl's dress is not the style of hundreds of years ago, but the look of modern people. The girl was also holding a simple puppet... No, it was the puppet holding the girl!

My heart skipped a beat and I hurriedly followed.

The girl, like everyone else, completely ignored my presence, was led by the puppet, and entered a house.

I was still in my soul state and walked into the house easily.

The decoration in the house is very witch-like, similar to the spooky look of the invitation party.

After the puppet led the girl through the abnormally long corridor, he opened the wooden door and entered the back room.

There was a round table in the back room, and people were already sitting at the round table.

I saw men in suits, school girls, housewives, young people, and... that old man... who were made into toys.

Good night everyone~