Qingyue Temple

Fang Shanshui looked at everything around him through Lin Mo's eyes. In his sight, an ominous dark cloud hung over the heads of all the children around.

Fang Shanshui also saw his own body - a six-year-old boy, covered in dark clouds, with a blue complexion, this luck, even among this group of children, is the worst one.

There was one more in the crowd, but the children who were playing around, but no one noticed, laughed and shouted for a while, and then they were ready to start.

"rock-paper-scissors!"

"rock-paper-scissors!"

……

Lin Mo, who guessed a few punches in a row, was so unlucky that he lost every time, so he could only be the ghost who caught people.

6-year-old Lin Mo pouted, covered his eyes, and shouted, "I'm going to start counting!"

A group of children dispersed with a "wow", shouting to hide quickly, hide quickly, and the sound of chaotic footsteps gradually faded away.

Lin Mo faced the wall and counted seriously: "100...99...98..."

Soon, there was almost no sound around, and Lin Mo gradually counted to 1.

Lin Mo quickly tore off the cloth strips from his eyes, jumped over and shouted loudly: "Counting ~ finished ~, I'm going to start looking for you, are you all hiding!?"

Lin Mo looked around and yelled around, hoping to get a fool to respond to him, so that he could catch people easily.

Lin Mo yelled again: "Have you hid well!?"

【Hiding away...】

Yeah!

There are really idiots who have been tricked, go and catch them!

Lin Mo was so excited, he rolled up his sleeves with great interest, and almost rushed towards the direction of the sound, completely unaware... that the sound was not right.

Lin Mo hurriedly found a place not far from him. This place turned out to be a somewhat gloomy ruined temple. Lin Mo thought that this person was quite good at hiding, and while stretching his feet into the temple, he said, " I saw you!" to deceive him.

Sure enough, because of Lin Mo's bluff, after a while, there was a little movement under the tables covered with dilapidated yellow cloth on both sides of the ruined temple. Dust off the yellow cloth!

"Wow!" Lin Mo yelled in fright, and the big mice under the case seemed to be frightened as well, and ran away quickly.

"It's not here." Lin Mo regained his composure and continued to search, "I know you are here, you can't run away, you'd better come out by yourself."

Lin Mo walked in while talking, completely unaware that the dilapidated door of the temple behind him closed silently by itself.

This ruined temple is not particularly big. Lin Mo wandered around and searched all the cases on the three sides, but he couldn't find anyone. When he walked to the back of the statue, he suddenly found that the back of the statue was rotten. A hole, Lin Mo squatted down and looked in from the hole below, the inside was really hollow!There was a kid standing there with his back to him!

"I got it, I got it!" Lin Mo yelled excitedly, reached in from another hole in the lower head, and grabbed the shoulder of the child inside.

Lin Mo: "I caught you, turn your head around and let me see who you are."

【I have turned my head...】

Lin Mo looked at the back of the child's hair-covered head from the hole: "Huh?"

【I'm looking at you...】

Lin Mo suddenly felt cold, and then said: "What nonsense, do you think I will be frightened by you? Turn around! You have already been caught by me, and you still want to hang on? You are blocked by me in the statue now Li, I can’t run even if I want to!”

Then, Lin Mo saw the back of his head in front of him, turned 180 degrees straight on the neck that didn't move at all, revealing another back of the head full of hair...

Lin Mo grabbed the child's hand and trembled. Now he finally realized that something was wrong. The shoulder he was holding was as hard and cold as wood, not like a human body at all, and a human head can turn like this 180 degrees? ……very scary.

After showing Lin Mo the real back of his head, the thing turned his head 180 degrees, and then turned 360 degrees, and then said: 【I'm really looking at you...】

Ghost... ghost!

Lin Mo, who was so frightened, screamed "Ghost!" and wanted to run away, but suddenly he couldn't pull his hand back!

The ghost in the statue held Lin Mo's wrist behind his back, like iron pincers made of ice, clamping Lin Mo tightly, but said in his mouth: 【You caught me...】

Lin Mo was about to cry in fright, but he couldn't pull out his hand as hard as he could. Seeing the ghost in the cave talking, he lowered his head and approached the cave entrance. Seeing the ghost approaching a little bit, Lin Mo felt that he had already seen an eye under the grimace covered with black hair, looking at him through the hole, almost close to his face.

It was only now that Lin Mo realized that the game had changed now. It wasn't that he was catching people as a ghost, but that he fell into a ghost's trap and was caught by a ghost.

The ghost who came to the entrance of the cave repeated: 【You caught me. 】

At this time, the ghost was already very close, so close that Lin Mo could almost see the face under his hair clearly. Lin Mo felt that the face under the hair seemed to be smiling, and the mouth seemed to have grinned below the ears, smiling so much Unusually scary and weird.

The hairs on Lin Mo's whole body stood on end, his scalp was about to explode. As the ghost approached, he was oozing cold air from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

In the little heart of 6-year-old Lin Mo, it seemed that he suddenly knew that death was approaching him.

He might have been eaten by this ghost, or he might have been captured by an evil ghost and used as a substitute like in the ghost stories passed down by adults.

Lin Mo trembled to the limit, and suddenly closed his eyes and shouted with all his strength: "Yes... yes! I caught you! Now it's your turn to be a ghost, you have to cover your eyes and start counting, and then catch the rest Those people! This is the rule of hide and seek!!"

Fang Shanshui, who was looking through Lin Mo's eyes, saw this scene in Lin Mo's memory, and was taken aback for a moment, as if he suddenly realized something.

In front of him, the ghost in the statue stopped after Lin Mo's words, and the ghost face that was about to reach Lin Mo's face through the hole stopped in mid-air, as if reflecting Lin Mo's words.

After a while, it acknowledged Lin Mo's words.

[Yes, we are playing hide and seek... this is the rule of hide and seek...]

【Now, I'm a ghost... It's my turn to arrest people...】

At this time, Lin Mo, who was covered in cold sweat, found himself let go!Lin Mo fell to the ground, looking at the ghost in the statue, it actually came out of the tiny hole, the ghost didn't touch the ground with its heels, and when it came out, it just stood in front of Lin Mo so gloomy , Lin Mo felt that the surrounding air became damp and cold.

[I'm going to start counting with my eyes closed? 】

Lin Mo heard his own voice trembling and saying: "Yes, blindfolded and facing the wall, count from one hundred to one! Whoever you catch will be the next ghost! Then... the one who was originally a ghost, will be the next ghost!" You can go home."

【...Then I will start counting. 】

The faceless ghost obediently covered its eyes, turned its back to Lin Mo, and started counting down.

【100......99......98......】

Lin Mo scrambled to his feet as the numbers counted down, and crawled towards the broken door of the ruined temple, which was closed at some unknown time. Lin Mo used some strength to open it. At this time, the ghost had already counted to seven ten.

After opening the door, Lin Mo immediately rushed home like crazy.

Lin Mo didn't dare to contact those little friends who were still hiding in the dark, and he didn't dare to tell them that the rules have changed, and the ghost who catches people has become a real ghost...

Lin Mo was afraid that once he said that, the ghost would continue to entangle him.

……

"Little Mo, why are you back so soon? Are you not playing with your friends outside?"

Lin Mo rushed directly into the room without making a sound, and then hid in the quilt and cried secretly.

"What's wrong with this child?" Just as Lin Mo's mother was about to get up, before she had time to care about the child, she was called to do something by the child's mother.

Lin Mo hid tremblingly in his room for a long time. No one from the ghost or his companions came to him. He gradually told himself that it might be all right. never mind.

At this moment, Lin Mo heard his mother's cry, telling him to go eat.

At the dinner table, Lin Mo, who was usually like a monkey, was unusually quiet, and got a compliment from his parents. However, before the meal was finished, the voice of the whole village shouting for iron eggs came from outside.

It was a boy who was playing with Lin Mo today.

Lin Mo froze all over.

At the dinner table, Lin Mo's father heard the yell and warned him: "This is playing crazy again and you don't go home at this time, don't learn from these wild boys."

Lin Mo was in a daze, unable to listen to what his father said.

At this moment, the voice of Tiedan's mother calling him was getting closer and closer. Soon, there was a knock on the door. Lin Mo was so frightened that he didn't dare to move. He could only look at his mother. to open the door.

"Lin Mo his mother, is Lin Mo back yet?"

"I'm back, I'm eating at home."

Lin Mo turned his head and stared stiffly at the aunt who was looking for her son at the door.

"Lin Mo, you played with Tie Dan and the others this afternoon. Did you see Tie Dan later? They said you were looking for someone like a ghost, but they hid for a long time and were not found. But my Tie Dan never came back .”

When Lin Mo heard his aunt say that many people went home by themselves, only one iron egg was missing, he felt a sense of joy in his heart, but then he felt guilty, but he dared not tell the truth, in case the iron egg replaced him He's dead, his mother loves him so much, she can't come up and kill him.

Lin Mo said stiffly: "No, I haven't been able to find anyone, and I didn't come out even if I called them. When I got angry, I went home and stayed at home all afternoon."

Lin Mo's mother cooperated and said: "Yes, Tie Dan's mother, Xiao Mo came back angrily at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and ran to the house to sleep for a long time. You should hurry up and look elsewhere, Tie Dan, but Don't hide in some dangerous place."

Tie Danma was said to be uneasy, she nodded indiscriminately, and left.

With the experience of being approached by his parents, Lin Mo didn't dare to say anything until two days later, the news of Tie Dan's death came. Tie Dan's body was found in the statue of the god in the ruined temple.

When Lin Mo heard the news, he was almost stunned. Sure enough, sure enough, if he hadn't run away at that time, the body found must be him.

Tie Dan's mother hugged her son's corpse and cried, resenting the group of children who asked her son to play hide-and-seek with her that day. She pointed and cursed all day in the village, especially when she saw Lin Mo. .

As a result, Lin Mo felt guilty and afraid, let alone dared to speak out.

Lin Mo kept the ghost encounter in his heart all the time, and nothing weird happened after that, and those little friends who survived were all fine.

Lin Mo thought that gradually, everyone would forget about it, and no one would know about it anymore, and then in the second year, on the same day when we played hide-and-seek last year, something happened again...