A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

It happened so suddenly that people had no time to think.Fang Shiqing hurriedly wanted to run over to help Yu Fei up, but Xiao Fengdi sternly stopped him: "Don't come here! Don't touch the water on the ground!"

It's been a long time since I've seen him look so dignified, it's almost like when he was in the dungeon.

Fang Shiqing stopped reflexively and cast a questioning look.

Xiao Fengdi didn't care about answering, but quickly dragged Yu Fei out and threw him directly into the open space under the steps.

"Boss, can I go out?" Fang Shiqing asked carefully after watching Xiao Fengdi wipe his wet hands clean.

Xiao Fengdi looked back and saw that Yu Fei had collapsed at the door just now, the ground was covered with water stains, extending all the way to the bottom of the steps.

"...You'd better stay in the house for a while longer." He said, "Wait for the water to dry before coming out."

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The sun came out and climbed high in a short while. Today is a sunny day.

At seven o'clock, the few remaining water stains at the door were finally cleaned up.Fang Shiqing walked out carefully, went down the steps, and came to Xiao Fengdi's side.

"How is this going……?"

"I don't know," Xiao Fengdi stared at Yu Fei, "but he has a lot of yin, and I checked, the water is from water ghosts. So I have to put him in the sun to bake for a while." Just bake it."

Yu Fei's body was already dry, but he hadn't woken up yet.Fang Shiqing took a wooden stick and poked him on the shoulder repeatedly. After a long time, the boy slowly opened his eyes, looking very dazed.

"Fang...Brother Fang?" After a while, his eyes finally focused, "What's wrong with me...Why am I here? What time is it?"

"It's a quarter past seven in the morning on the [-]nd of the Spring Moon," Fang Shiqing said, "Don't you remember? You came here by yourself early in the morning."

"I..." Yu Fei hugged his head, looking very painful, "I only remember yesterday, my sister..."

Fang Shiqing looked at Xiao Fengdi, then reached out to help Yu Fei up: "Come on, let's talk in the room."

"Uh-huh."

With his help, Yu Fei stood up, and when he looked up and saw Xiao Fengdi next to him, he felt a little embarrassed, "Brother Xiao is here too? Oh, I'm actually fine, why did I startle Brother Xiao?"

"I just happen to be here." Xiao Fengdi was not in the mood to exchange pleasantries, "What's wrong with your sister?"

"Well, it's actually like this..."

The three of them sat down at the table in the hut, Yu Fei seemed a little more energetic, and began to talk about the previous events.

For the entire autumn before, Yu Fei worked part-time at Fang Shiqing's farm, earned some money, and brought back a lot of delicious fruits and vegetables.His sister was afraid of him at first, but as time passed, she ate a lot of delicious food, and her symptoms gradually eased.After half a year, the two basically repaired their relationship.

Therefore, yesterday afternoon, my sister took him out to play, and he followed.

"At first, we planned to explore the abandoned factory across the lake. We used to go there often. Unexpectedly, the factory reopened. We were caught by a very vicious big sister and kicked out..."

"..." He should be talking about You Qingyu, You Qingyu was really fierce when he was on the verge of death.

"Afterwards, my sister quarreled and refused to go home, so I had no choice but to agree to help her catch fish by the lake. She is so small, of course she can't go into the water. I only allowed her to watch from a distance, but..."

"However, when I lowered my head, I saw that she seemed...in the water."

Yu Fei pressed his head, showing pain again, Xiao Fengdi pasted a pure heart talisman on his forehead, which made him feel better.

"In the water? Isn't it a reflection?"

"Absolutely, absolutely not." Yu Fei affirmed, "She was still on the shore at the time, at least five or six meters away from the water! She was floating in the water, and she looked different from usual, as if half Transparent, like a jellyfish. She grabbed my leg and pulled it down, and I screamed in terror, and..."

"Then my memory ends here, and I saw you as soon as I opened my eyes," he said.

"You, how dare you catch fish in the afternoon?" Fang Shiqing twitched the corner of his mouth, "Didn't your father tell you that you can't fish after four o'clock in the afternoon?"

"I seem to have said that, but," Yu Fei scratched his head and said, "Why is there such a rule? When I catch fish with my friends, sometimes it will be after four o'clock in the afternoon, and it's fine."

"..." If you don't die, you won't die, young man, why don't you understand?

"Speaking of which, where is my sister?" He asked again, "Since I am here, where is my sister? I don't think she is pulling me in the water. She is so small, how can she be so strong...I want to ask her What exactly is going on."

"Didn't I say that you came here alone, we haven't seen your sister yet."

"..."

"Ah?" Yu Fei suddenly became nervous and got up quickly, "Then I have to go home quickly! If she's not at home—"

"I'll go with you too. I'm resting today." Xiao Fengdi stood up and said.Fang Shiqing wanted to follow suit, but was stopped by the other party, "Don't go, just do your job."

"……Oh."

After Xiao Fengdi and Yu Fei left, Fang Shiqing began to busy himself with farm work absent-mindedly.He let all the sheep out of the flock, let them gnaw the new grass in the fence, and then added dog food to Xiao Hei, and added a small piece of meat bone - the leftover meat from making dumplings two days ago .

Thanks to the water pump, after the crops are sown, the rest of the watering work is relatively simple.

Just as he was driving the water pump to draw water, Xiao Fengdi went and came back, with a very ugly expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Fang Shiqing's heart sank, "Could it be—"

"No, I went back with him to check. His sister is well at home, as are his parents," Xiao Fengdi said, "But, according to his sister...he just tripped and fell in the water yesterday afternoon. Nothing happened, and I caught fish afterwards, and went home with her as if nothing had happened."

"Until it was just dawn this morning, he suddenly went crazy, knocked open the door lock of the house, and ran straight out. The family was woken up, and they didn't know what happened."

"This...that is to say, Yu Fei saw another sister in the water, and yesterday afternoon, another brother appeared next to her sister?"

Fang Shiqing felt that the situation was not good.

"Yes," Xiao Fengdi said briefly, "but this is not what I want to talk to you about. Compared with this, what is more important is that there is a new copy."

When the two rushed to the square, everyone else was already there, except Gu Jinhong who was the closest, but the puppet girl named Gu Pan was fidgeting among the group of people, and Zeng Xin was talking to her. get in a word.

Fang Shiqing ran to the bulletin board, and saw a line of familiar characters appearing in the middle:

[The entrance to the fifth copy has been opened!Dungeon countdown: 89:24:06, dungeon trigger player: Gu Jinhong. 】

"what happened?"

"I don't know." It was Zhao Jun who answered him, and he looked a little annoyed, "We were called here by that... Gu Pan, right? She couldn't speak, and we couldn't communicate with her at all. I don't know what happened, I just know that Gu Jinhong is missing."

"She can't speak human language." Xiao Fengdi added, "The way of communication with Gu Jinhong is more similar to the communication between the familiar and the master."

"That is to say, we can't understand what she wants to say at all..." Zhao Jun said distressedly, "What should we do? God knows what Gu Jinhong did, can he come back?"

Hearing this, the puppet suddenly stood up, rushed over and grabbed Zhao Jun by the collar.He hurriedly said: "Don't get excited, of course we will try our best to save him! But we don't know anything, and we haven't started yet!"

"..."

The puppet dropped its hands slumped.

There was very real confusion, frustration and fear on her face, and it could be seen that she was indeed worried about the missing Gu Jinhong.

Fang Shiqing thought for a while, then turned to ask her, "Can you write?"

"We've already asked, but she won't," He Xiangwu took the quarrel, scratching his head and said, "But I can still draw, so we just asked her to draw what she was going to say, you see."

As he spoke, he took out his sketchbook and opened it.An extremely crude pattern was drawn on it with childish handwriting——

At the door of a tall house stood a man.Next to the man stood a little girl, clutching his hand tightly.

"This...this is..."

A chill came up from the back, Fang Shiqing stared at the little girl, she was wearing two braids and a red skirt, she looked like...

It may be because what happened this morning made him think too much, but the child's clothes really look like Yu Fei's sister.

"But this picture can only show that they are standing at the door of the bar, and they still don't know anything. Who is the girl in the picture? Is it a customer that Gu Jinhong knows?" It's not surprising that others can't see it. Kindergarten children draw the same, and the size and proportion of the characters are not very clear.

The puppet shook its head desperately.

"So, that is to say, is it a stranger? Let me guess, a stranger who ran to the door of the bar early in the morning to talk to Gu Jinhong who opened the door, and called him away?" You Qingyu asked.

This time the puppet nodded.

"Do you know where they went?"

The puppet continued to shake its head.

Fang Shiqing and Xiao Fengdi looked at each other: "Boss, what do you think..."

Xiao Fengdi pursed his lips, then turned to ask the puppet: "How tall is the girl in the painting? Make gestures."

The doll is compared to a height that only reaches her waist.

"Could it be a child?" Everyone was surprised.

"In this case,... this person might really be the little girl we knew..."

Fang Shiqing grabbed Xiao Fengdi's sleeve, "Boss, where is Yu Fei's house? We have to go and ask her!"

Xiao Fengdi had just been to Yu Fei's house this morning, so of course he knew the location.Before nine o'clock, the group arrived in front of the single-family house.

Yu Fei's father had just come back from the outside and was a little surprised to see them, but Xiao Fengdi was his daughter's savior after all, so he called his daughter out according to their request.

Seeing the little girl's face, the puppet froze immediately. If Zeng Xin hadn't held her down in time, she might have jumped on it.

From this point of view, it should indeed be this little girl who caused Gu Jinhong to disappear?

However, the little girl on the opposite side didn't notice this, and looked at other people and dolls with unfamiliar eyes: "Why are you here again, brother from the library? Isn't my brother already fine——"

"Let me ask you," Fang Shiqing asked, "have you ever been in front of a bar, do you know a big brother who works there?"

The little girl looked blank, and her father was a little unhappy: "My daughter is still young, how could she have been to that kind of place."

Fang Shiqing quickly apologized, but for a while he didn't know where to start asking, and found it rather tricky.

He Xiangwu took out a charcoal pen, ticked it twice on the notebook, and showed it to the opposite side: "Well, little sister, do you know this person?"

Although the picture is very simple, I have to say that the Gu Jinhong he painted has both form and spirit, which is quite similar.

The little girl stared at the painting twice, and exclaimed: "Ah! I seem to have seen this brother before!"

"Did you meet? Where/when? How is he?" several people asked simultaneously.

"Hmm..." The girl showed a thoughtful look, "Where... ah! By the way, in the dream! I saw him in the dream!"

"...Uh," Fang Shiqing didn't know how to answer, "in a dream?"

"That's right," the little girl nodded sharply, "It was yesterday's dream! I was still having this dream until the brother in the library knocked on the door this morning. The big brother in the dream is so handsome, handsome and gentle. , and said he would take me home..."

"What happened to him afterwards?" Xiao Fengdi asked abruptly.

"Later he..."

A moment of dullness suddenly appeared on the little girl's face.

"he--"

"It sank."