Encounter

"Four corners game?"

Xia Yuming didn't deny his relationship with Shen Mo. Firstly, he felt that he couldn't explain it clearly, and secondly, compared to this, Xia Yuming was more surprised when his roommate invited him to play games together.

The relationship between him and the other two people in the dormitory can only be described as subtle. On the surface, they are good brothers, but in fact they are only close to disagreement. He never imagined that the other two would come to him to play some games with him.

The cause of this situation is that when the freshmen entered school, Xia Yuming went downstairs to move things, leaving his mother alone in the dormitory.

When he returned to the dormitory, he happened to bump into Wang Xian who arrived at some time and was standing in front of his mother with a pale face carrying a few bags of not-so-good-looking fruits.

His mother was cheerful, "Why are young people nowadays so unreasonable, Xiao Wang, Auntie didn't say anything, did she? What will you do when you enter the society?"

Then he took the bag from Wang Xian's hand and said, "But thank you, Auntie, you also have a heart."

It was only later that Xia Yuming found out that his mother used her conversational skills of stepping on someone's foot and then saying a few nice words to round things up in an attempt to elevate her position in the conversation and gain the upper hand on Wang Xian.

Unfortunately, Wang Xian's EQ is not high, and because of his family's extremely low self-esteem, he doesn't go around doing Tai Chi with her, and directly pulls his face and blames Xia Yuming.

For a long time since then, Wang Xian didn't give him any good looks, and called him "a high-ranking young master of the city".

In addition, he and Li Chao came together, Xia Yuming used to be squeezed out by them from time to time in the dormitory.

But fortunately Xia Yuming has a thick skin and doesn't care about these things. Their attitude towards him finally got better last semester.But it's just to save face, the estrangement is still there after all.

When he brought Shen Mo back this time, the atmosphere in the dormitory was obviously not right.

It turned out that the two roommates who were stuck together every day only cared about wearing earphones in their respective positions. He went back and said hello and wanted to introduce Shen Mo to them, but the two of them didn't respond.

He thought it was another round of targeting at the time, but now it doesn't look like that.

With Wang Xian's surprised expression, he probably didn't hear him greet them, and didn't see Shen Mo go into the dormitory to go to bed, so Shen Mo lay on his bed for a week without making a sound. have no idea.

"Yes, the four-corner game, that is, at midnight, four people stand in the four corners of the room, turn off the lights, and pat the shoulders of the person in front one by one, and stop at the same place after taking the pictures. After a circle, you will There is an empty corner, which means that there is a person who cannot pat the shoulder of the person. At that time, the person will cough."

"Why do you turn off the lights at twelve o'clock?"

"Ghost, it's said that no one will cough after playing this game, because there will be an extra 'person' coming out of a certain position."

Wang Xian climbed onto the iron bed rail while talking, his eyes were shining, and his mouth was grinning to his ears, "There is another girl coming tonight."

Wang Xian had just invited him and Shen Mo. If there was another girl together, then the four people Wang Xian got together would be him, Shen Mo, the strange girl and Wang Xian himself, without Li Chao.

Reminiscent of the atmosphere in the dormitory for a week, Xia Yuming realized belatedly that there might be something awkward between these two people who have been loving and loving each other all day long.

"We're not coming. I'm really afraid of things like recruiting ghosts. You see, I didn't talk about them before." Xia Yuming said half-truthfully, "You have to turn off the lights in this game. If you really want to attract something , then I have to pat that thing on the shoulder? No, not to mention the exam is coming soon, and I really don’t have the energy.”

Wang Xian was obviously dissatisfied with his answer, so he sneered and said, "You just don't want to give me face."

Adding a cold face to face is almost a [-]-shot routine when inviting people. Xia Yuming might really consider giving "face" before, but since he has seen ghosts and been entangled by a beautiful and dangerous creature , Asking him to play this kind of thing again is simply a joke.

Although, strangely, he never felt any vigilant fear of the creature holding him behind his back.

Shen Mo's appearance always reminds Xia Yuming of a big lazy cat, sleeping all the time, even when he wakes up, looking at you with cold and beautiful eyes, occasionally showing sharp teeth, his appearance is extremely cute.

He squeezed his face and pulled a wry smile to respond, "Brother, I really can't do it, I'm really afraid I can't do it. You can ask me to help you with other things, but for this matter, let alone recruiting ghosts, even if you didn't recruit I have to scare half my life. Seeing that we have been in the same dormitory for so many years, give me a way to survive."

Wang Xian didn't expect Xia Yuming to say that. He was not good at talking, so he couldn't pick up the words for a while, and his aura was mostly lost, but he still didn't give up, and asked, "What about your boyfriend?"

Xia Yuming turned his head, Shen Mo remained motionless, his eyes were tightly closed, his hands and feet were wrapped around him, and he was soundly asleep.

"He can't do it either, look at him..."

Wang Xian became impatient, he seemed to be in a hurry to find someone, so he reached out and patted Shen Mo.

Seeing Wang Xian's face, Xia Yuming immediately pulled down, and quickly explained, "My boyfriend likes to sleep, and he sleeps for a long time. Uh, look, he actually came to the dormitory a week ago, come here I've been sleeping since then."

"So you said, it seems that the day you came back... I didn't notice it, so he has been sleeping here for so long?"

"Yeah, so we really..."

"It's okay, it's okay..." Wang Xian looked at the two of them with a strange expression and waved his hands, "Is your boyfriend suffering from Sleeping Beauty Syndrome?"

Xia Yuming looked bewildered.

"You, when did you have a boyfriend?"

"Some time ago, we met online." Xia Yuminghu said.

Wang Xian looked at him with more sympathy, sighed and said, "Xiao Ming, you... hey, that's fine, I'll go find someone else."

When the door closed with a bang, Shen Mo leaned close to Xia Yuming's ear and exhaled, "In the future, if someone sees you, tell others that I am your boyfriend who has Sleeping Beauty Syndrome."

Xia Yuming asked why, but he didn't get a response, so he didn't care, and went online to check what Sleeping Beauty Syndrome was.

After checking the symptoms, not to mention that they are really similar to Shen Mo's current state, it is indeed a good explanation.

He laughed dryly, played with the phone for a while, and when his eyelids started to fight, he put the phone aside and closed his heavy eyes.

His eyes were closed, but Xia Yuming didn't fall asleep right away, instead he was between waking and sleeping, and he could still hear some external sounds in his ears, but his brain couldn't process the information anymore.

He didn't know how long it had been before he vaguely heard the sound of the bedroom door opening.The person who came in walked very lightly and slowly, and stopped when he got under his bed, and stopped for a long time before walking across from him.

In the haze, he smelled a damp smell that he would smell when the rainy day came.

This damp smell is very strong, as if when you inhale, all the water vapor enters your nose, and there is also a very faint smell of grass and mud in it.

There was a stabbing sound, and there was a blunt sound when the metal stool legs rubbed against the ground. Xia Yuming came to his senses.

The bunk opposite him was always empty, the stool and table were covered with dust, and the three people in the dormitory never sat there.

The not-so-bright fluorescent lights in the dormitory were still on, and Shen Mo, who was beside him, wrapped him up again at some point, encircling him with hands and feet, and exhaled warm breath on his neck while breathing,

Xia Yuming didn't dare to breathe, and listened to the movement on the other side with his ears up.While thinking about his mother's sarcastic guarantee, he wondered if he was making too much of a fuss, and at the same time, he thought about Uncle Wang's matter, and he was very worried.

After a long period of silence, there was no sound in the dormitory. Just as Xia Yuming was about to relax his vigilance, there suddenly came a very light and brief squeak.

It was as if someone was sitting on the opposite stool and moved, and there was a slight friction between the iron pipe skeleton of the stool due to the force.

Xia Yuming's hair stood on his head in an instant, but the "person" below was still there.

At this moment, the door suddenly sounded outside, and then the voices of Li Chao and Wang Xian appeared.

"Did you bring her into the dormitory? Oh, how did you bring her in? When did you bring her in? How can you be so capable!"

It was Li Chao's voice.

"Don't blame Brother Xian, don't say that, me, he didn't bring me in, I knocked on the door..." A strange small voice flashed in the middle and was interrupted by Wang Xian's voice.

"Chaozi, stop making trouble, isn't it just a girl, she came from her hometown alone, and my mother asked me to take care of her."

The two had a noisy quarrel, Xia Yuming listened attentively and then realized that he was too sensitive just now, the person who came in was not some random thing, it was a girl from Wang Xian's hometown.

This girl is probably a girl that Wang Xian's mother wanted to match up with Wang Xian. Li Chao was upset that Wang Xian entertained her so hospitablely.

The two of them have been arguing over such a small matter this week, Xia Yuming let out a long breath.

"What kind of game are you playing? I don't play, ha, I really treat the dormitory as my own home. Wang Xian, I haven't realized that you are so capable, tell me how you bypassed the dormitory supervisor and brought the girl to the dormitory ?

This is a male bedroom, isn't it suitable? "

At this moment, the girl who hadn't spoken for a long time spoke up. Her voice was a bit like Shen Mo's, with crispness, but it was different from Shen Mo's voice which was clean and cold. Timid, it makes people feel pity after hearing it, "It's my fault, I insisted on coming here, and I still want to play that game. Brother now, I'm really sorry to cause you trouble.

Me, I'm going to live outside now, I'm really sorry, I'm wayward. "

"Li Chao! Do you still treat me as a brother!"

Li Chao was silent for a moment, then laughed shortly, "Brother?"

After saying this word, he smiled and said three good words, "Stay here, if you don't find it inconvenient, but I don't know how to play any games."

"Brother Xian..." The girl's voice sounded again. Although he didn't see her, Xia Yuming could hear the grievance in it just by hearing this voice.

"It's okay, man, there are a few days in every month." Wang Xian coaxed.

When Wang Xian said this, the girl laughed immediately, and a series of giggles like silver bells rippling from the bedroom.

"Then shall we still play games?"

"Play! Why don't you play? Without him, we can still play!"

"Are you playing with the person sleeping on that bed?"

Xia Yuming felt the sound of footsteps falling in front of his bed, he closed his eyes subconsciously, and with a bang, his bed curtain was lifted.

"what--!"

An ear-piercing scream sounded, the bed curtain was lowered, and the covered small world immediately became much quieter. Xia Yuming did not open his eyes out of intuition.

"It's really a big girl with yellow flowers. She stretched out her hand to pull the boy's bed curtain."

"We don't pay much attention in the countryside. Xiaozhen, don't be afraid. We won't play with them later, let's go to the next bedroom. I discussed it with my buddies."

"You buddy." There was sarcasm in Li Chao's voice.

"Li Chao, don't go too far."

After a few minutes, Xia Yuming heard the sound of the door being slammed shut, while Li Chao quietly washed up and went to bed by himself.

All the lights in the dormitory were turned off, Xia Yuming lay silent on the bed, after a long time he fell asleep and turned around, facing Shen Mo for the first time this week.

Shen Mo's hand followed, sliding from his back to Xia Yuming's waist.

Xia Yuming's breathing was stagnant, he was really a tormenting fairy.

"Xiao Ming, are you asleep?"

Li Chao's voice sounded from one end of the dormitory, but Xia Yuming did not respond.He didn't want to get involved in their affairs, not to mention that this time the matter seemed to be more serious than the previous ones. The girl seemed pitiful in her voice, but in fact she might not be particularly innocent.

The girl came in with the key that Wang Xian "lost" at some point, but she herself said to knock on the door and come in.

That girl never knocked on the door from beginning to end.

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