A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"..."

After staying for a few seconds, Fang Shiqing slammed the door shut.

He just felt his head was as big as a bucket.After finally breaking through another dungeon, just a few days after Ansheng, why is there another strange thing staring at it?What's the matter?

. . . this day is simply impossible.

Not long after, the knock on the door sounded again.Fang Shiqing tried to calm down, locked the door silently, looked around the room, and then dragged a chair over to block the door.

The sound lasted for about 1 minute and finally stopped.

Fang Shiqing spread the wood he brought in on the ground, planning to practice his skills to change his mood, but found that he forgot to bring the carpentry tools from the warehouse, and couldn't help but secretly scolded himself for being stupid.

Now it's all right, he dared not open the door to get tools no matter what, it seems that he can only give up practicing tonight and go straight to sleep.

When he was packing up his things, the knock on the door rang for the third time.This time it was much more urgent than the previous two times, it was almost like smashing a door.

He could only pretend that he didn't hear, turned off the light in the room, and planned to pull the quilt away and lie down.

When the lights were turned off, the knocking on the door also stopped.

However, after a while, there was a knock on the window from the other side.

After knocking on the door, is it knocking on the window now?No matter what kind of monster it is, it's a bit too persistent, right? !

Fang Shiqing jumped up from the bed in a fit of anger.

The window is different from the door. Through the window, you can directly see the real body of the person who came. He made enough mental preparations and pulled the curtains aside.

"..."

Under the last faint light of the sky, Xiao Fengdi was standing outside the window, tapping on the window sill with his fingers restlessly.

"Open the door for me." The other party had a bad expression on his face, and mouthed through the window.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, boss, I didn't know it was you," Fang Shiqing kept apologizing when he opened the door to welcome people in, "I didn't expect you to come here at this time..."

Xiao Fengdi had already adjusted his mood when he opened the door, but it was probably because the door was shut too hard, and there was still a bit of unhappiness on his face.

"Of course I will come," he said. "You obviously needed to find me for something in the afternoon. It was inconvenient to talk to NPCs at the time, so you just left. Shall I see you again next time? As I said, I won't joke about business, so how could I postpone my visit until tomorrow. "

It was rare to see him look so angry, Fang Shiqing had no choice but to continue to apologize desperately: "I'm really sorry, I will definitely pay attention next time."

Xiao Fengdi stared at him for a while, and finally sighed heavily.

"I don't want to hear your apology. You...forget it, anyway, as long as you are safe."

He entered the room, looked back at the jar in front of the door, and asked with a frown, "Why did you put that kind of thing at the door?"

"I didn't let it go!"

Fang Shiqing finally seized the opportunity and quickly told what happened just now.

"So, that, boss, I didn't mean not to open the door for you. I thought it was the same supernatural event as before... something." He hurriedly clarified.

This time it was Xiao Fengdi who was speechless.

He was silent for a while, and then said: "...Sorry, I was too anxious."

"It's okay, you're doing it for my own good too...uh."

When the words came to this point, Fang Shiqing suddenly realized: So, the reason why the other party is so anxious is because he is worried about his safety?

On the premise that he knew what might happen to him, he came to knock on the door but got no response, so he was worried, so he acted so eagerly—is that so?

He felt his heart was hit suddenly.Even though he knew that this concern was only from the standpoint of his teammates, he still experienced an indescribable sense of happiness.

Xiao Fengdi temporarily moved the jar in and placed it in the middle of the room.

He looked up and down for a moment, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

"Where did this thing come from?"

"It was given by the little girl's father, from the tank to the fish."

Fang Shiqing talked about his previous experience, and showed him the fishing rod by the way.

"By the way," he remembered again while talking, "Speaking of which, has her family ever looked for you?"

Compared to him who was only in charge of helping, Xiao Fengdi, who saved people with his own hands, must have more reason to be thanked.

"Well, that father has also been to the library and insisted on sending me a pennant."

Sure enough, Xiao Fengdi nodded, looking helpless.

"On top of that, he insisted on stuffing his son in as a volunteer."

These few days, the little girl's family undoubtedly had a very painful time.On the one hand, the daughter accused her son of being her murderer; on the other hand, the son insisted on his innocence.

There is a lack of evidence for the claims of both sides, and it is difficult to judge who is right and who is wrong.

The little girl has been taken home by her family, but once the boy appeared in front of her, she would cry and cry.The father had to let the boy leave the house, so he decided to find something for him to do outside.

"I can't refuse, that's why the boy stayed in the library temporarily," he looked at Fang Shiqing, and added, "Don't think too much about it."

Fang Shiqing couldn't understand: "Why do you have to stay with you? There are quite a lot of places in the town where high school students can do odd jobs." You can earn some income elsewhere, and you can only be a volunteer in the library.

"The boy made his own decision. He seems to like libraries."

"..."

How can this make people not think too much? !Why does that young man who looks like he is an active-duty middle-aged patient like the library? !Doesn't he really like the people in the library! !

Xiao Fengdi turned the fishing rod over and over to look at it several times, but he didn't speak for a long time.Fang Shiqing was a little nervous: "Is there something wrong with this thing?"

"No, there is no problem, and the quality is very good." He was a little fond of putting it down, "Can you fish?"

"If you like it, big brother, I'll give this to you." Seeing this, Fang Shiqing immediately said.

"No, if you don't, I can teach you—"

"No, no, I don't really dare to go to the water's edge." Fang Shiqing only thought he was being polite, so he refused even more resolutely.

"..."

Xiao Fengdi silently put away the fishing rod.Although he got something, he didn't seem happy at all.

Seeing him turn around to check the fish tank, Fang Shiqing remembered what happened in the afternoon, and quickly stopped him: "Wait a minute! Well, boss, it seems that you can't just look into the tank. In the afternoon..."

"water surface?"

Xiao Fengdi looked down and suddenly stopped.

Fang Shiqing talked about the situation in the afternoon: "I don't know what's going on, I just looked at the water surface in the tank and suddenly felt dazed... Boss?"

Xiao Fengdi stood quietly in front of the fish tank, looking down at the rippling water.

His eyes were not focused, as if they were looking into the infinite distance.Fang Shiqing felt a little terrified, and called out twice more tentatively: "Boss?... Brother Xiao?"

The other party seemed not to hear his voice at all.After a while, he actually stretched out his hand facing the water—the fingertips were immersed in the water, followed by the entire palm, wrist, and forearm...

The koi in the water swam away in shock, but he didn't seem to notice.

Seeing that the water surface had reached his elbows, he didn't intend to stop, but bent down instead, as if he wanted to grab something deeper.Fang Shiqing felt [-]% frightened: "Boss!"

If this continues, the opponent will fall into the water!Before he had time to think about it, he rushed over and hugged the other person's waist: "You wake up!"

At the moment Xiao Fengdi was hugged, the other party's movements stopped suddenly.Fang Shiqing could clearly feel that the muscles under his hands tensed first, and then slowly relaxed; after a while, he slowly straightened up and pulled his arm out of the fish tank.

"Sorry," he said with his head down, "I accidentally seemed to be... but it's all right now."

How can Fang Shiqing rest assured: "You, are you really okay? Anyway, let's stay away from this tank first!"

He didn't dare to let go at all, so he maintained this posture, pulling the other party back to the other side of the room until he hid in the farthest corner.After letting go of his hand, he stared at Xiao Fengdi's face for a long time, making sure that he was still the same before he felt relieved.

"I'm really fine," Xiao Fengdi let out a sigh of relief, "It was just an accident, it's not that serious, you don't have to be afraid."

——How could you not be afraid?This is not a dungeon, not even outside, right in front of him, the other party almost... How could he not be afraid?

Fang Shiqing only now realized that his heart was beating violently. Even when he almost fell into the tank in the afternoon, he didn't have such a strong sense of fear.

He forced himself to calm down a bit, went to get a towel from the cabinet, and helped Xiao Fengdi wipe his hands.Until this moment, his hands were still shaking.

"I probably know where the problem is," Xiao Fengdi said again, "Give me this thing for two days first, and I'll take care of it, and then the koi can be brought back for you to continue raising."

"Forget it." For the first time, Fang Shiqing didn't want to trust the other party unconditionally. "It feels quite dangerous. I'll just lock it in the warehouse."

"..."

"..."

The two looked at each other.Xiao Fengdi sighed, and put the towel on the table: "It's really not that dangerous. I'm still fine."

"but--"

"I've figured it out," he continued, "the problem is not with the fish or the tank, but with the water in the tank. I'm afraid it's not ordinary water, but the symbiotic water of water ghosts."

"Water ghost?"

Fang Shiqing was attracted by this word.

"Water ghost" in folklore refers to the ghosts turned into by people who drown in natural waters.It is said that water ghosts will be trapped in the waters of their own death. If they want to be reincarnated, they must drag another person as a substitute.

"Yes, that's what it is."

According to Xiao Fengdi, people in ancient times lived by the water and were often in awe of the waters, so the ghosts living in the lake can also gain a lot of power.The best of them can assimilate an entire body of water, and even if the water in the area is taken elsewhere, it can exert its power through the water and cause people to drown.

However, the farther away from the original waters, the weaker this force will be.

"The waters near the town are, of course, the Fengyue Lake in the south," Xiao Fengdi said. "I thought it was very cloudy after nightfall, and there must be more than one ghost in it. If I'm not wrong, this tank The water in it is probably taken from there."