Qingyue Temple

That afternoon, Lin Mo was sleeping, and the scene that hadn't appeared in his nightmare for half a year, Lin Mo dreamed again.

A group of playful children, under the familiar old pagoda tree in the dream, laughed and shouted, chased and played, and it didn't take long for them to start.

"rock-paper-scissors!"

"rock-paper-scissors!"

Lin Mo tossed and turned on the bed, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, he remembered, he knew that he would be very unlucky and lost again and again, he knew that he would go back to be the ghost who caught people later, but in the end he caught him A ghost.

Lin Mo on the bed opened and closed his mouth, wanting to stop this game, and wanting to make everyone stop playing, but he couldn't affect everything in the dream at all.

However, to Lin Mo's surprise, it wasn't him who lost.

"Ah, I actually lost."

A little boy with his back to Lin Mo suddenly spoke. Lin Mo felt that the boy's back was somewhat familiar, and his voice was also somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.

The little boy who wanted to be a ghost after losing the boxing game, took the blindfolded cloth and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, if I lose, I will be a ghost. You guys hide quickly, or I will catch you if you can't hide." When it arrives, it will be the next ghost."

"Haha, come and catch us~ You catch us first!" The friends who were playing together dispersed with a loud laugh.

Everyone left, but Lin Mo didn't move. His feet seemed to have taken root and stuck in place. After that, he watched the boy turn his face towards him.

Lin Mo suddenly gasped.

That face, even though it looked like it was smiling, was still so ferocious, because it was a dead face.

It was the iron egg who died in the statue of the ruined temple a year ago!

Tie Dan has been dead for a year. To be honest, Lin Mo can't remember what Tie Dan looked like, but Lin Mo still remembers Tie Dan's body when it was found.

Tie Dan's mother hugged Tie Dan's body and howled and cursed all over the village, even to the front of Lin's house. Lin Mo didn't want to see it, but he saw it and wrote it down. He remembered it very deeply, because Tie Dan was died in his place.

Lin Mo lying on the bed was covered in cold sweat, as if caught in a nightmare, struggling to wake up from the dream, but in vain.

Half asleep and half awake, Lin Mo seemed to hear Tie Dan's voice right next to his ears, and he had already started counting down.

【100......99......98......】

Wake up!

Lin Mo already knew that he was dreaming, because he remembered that Tie Dan was dead.

But this dream was so real and terrifying, it made Lin Mo feel like the iron egg had come back to find him.

【54......53......52......】

Wake up!

Lin Mo desperately wanted to move himself, but he just couldn't move, Lin Mo was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.

Lin Mo on the bed also began to struggle violently, as if someone had grabbed his neck, thumping non-stop. Hearing the movement, Lin Mo's mother came in from the living room. Seeing that her son seemed to be having a nightmare, she quickly pushed him .

"Xiao Mo? Xiao Mo, what's wrong with you?"

[...1. 】

Lin Mo on the bed suddenly woke up from his dream, jumped up in his mother's arms, but suddenly saw a familiar figure standing beside the bed, it was the figure of the iron egg in the dream!

Lin Mo was so frightened that he collapsed and cried, "Wow——!"

"Little Mo, what's wrong with you? What nightmare did you have?" Lin Mo's mother hugged Lin Mo and coaxed and patted him. When Lin Mo was crying out of breath, he suddenly found the iron egg standing beside his bed. gone.

Lin Mo cried and asked, "Mom... did you see someone beside my bed just now?"

Lin Mo's mother: "Silly boy, you are having a nightmare. There are only the two of us in the room, how can there be anyone else?"

Nightmare?

Lin Mo cried and nodded under his mother's comfort.

It must have been a nightmare.

Lin Mo comforted himself like this, but at dinner time, like this day last year, he heard the voices of people shouting everywhere in the village again.

"Linlin, Linlin, where have you been? It's time to eat~"

The voice came from far to near, and when he reached the door of his house, he knocked on the door of the Lin family just like Tiedan's mother did last year, and it was still Lin Mo's mother who opened the door.

"Mother Mozi, is our family, Linlin, running away to play with you?"

"I haven't been here, why can't I find it all of a sudden?"

Lin Mo was stiff all over, not daring to turn his head.

Linlin...

Lin Mo knew it. He even saw Linlin in his dream in the afternoon, as well as a dozen other children in the village. They were playing hide-and-seek with the dead iron egg...

Although in the dream, Lin Mo didn't pay special attention to this unremarkable girl, but now, Lin Mo suddenly recalled her every frown and smile clearly in the dream.

After Linlin's mother found out that her daughter was not here, she left directly and continued to look for other places, and did not talk to Lin Mo, which made Lin Mo feel relieved.

However, not long after, the mother who went out to chat came back and suddenly said that Linlin's mother and Tie Dan's mother were fighting.

It is said that Tie Dan's mother had hysteria and kept calling her son who had been dead for a year. She said that she saw Tie Dan under the old locust tree in the village, and she also saw Tie Dan playing with Linlin.

This stimulated Linlin's mother, who was about to go crazy looking for her child, and the two of them wrestled in the village without knowing what to say, until other villagers separated them, causing many people to watch the excitement.

"You said that this iron egg mother is really, Linlin's mother is already so anxious, she still came to stimulate Linlin's mother."

"Hey, she is also a poor person. Tie Dan seems to have died at this time last year."

"Tie Dan? By the way, Tie Dan disappeared on this day last year! Just now, Tie Dan's mother said that the anniversary was coming. That day, Linlin seemed to have played hide-and-seek with Tie Dan... Xiaomo, Xiaomo! You were It seems that you also went to play with them?"

Lin Mo covered his ears, trembling all over, and didn't want to talk to his mother at all.

Lin Mo's mother frowned and said to Lin Mo's father, "Don't you think this is a bit evil? Why is it so wrong? My son's father, do we have to think about something?"

Lin Mo's father: "Don't think about it, these are all to scare yourself. Maybe Linlin just ran away and didn't know how to find it quickly. Instead, she was talking about it. It's really misleading my son!"

Lin Mo hid under the blanket and cried again, what to do, what to do?Shouldn't all of this be over?Why did Linlin disappear?why?Could it be that next year...

Two days later, the little girl named Linlin was found.

Linlin's parents found Linlin's stinking corpse in the bedside cabinet at home.

At that time, Linlin's mother fainted from fright.

Originally, Linlin's disappearance had caused a lot of trouble in the village, but now when they heard the news, everyone in the village with children felt insecure, especially the family of the child who had played hide-and-seek with Tie Dan back then.

A rumor gradually circulated in the village that the children who were playing hide-and-seek under the old locust tree last year might have bumped into something, causing Tie Dan to be taken away.

But Tie Dan probably felt a little lonely after his death, so he came again this year and took Lin Lin away.

Both Linlin and Tie Dan died in a very secret place, as if they were playing hide and seek with someone.

So many people think that if this continues, other children may suffer.

Lin Mo's mother was already very worried, but when she heard the news, she looked at Lin Mo with a good eye, and even Lin Mo's father stopped saying anything weird and confusing.

Gradually, some capable people in the village moved away with their children, and some looked around for some capable witches who had been passed down in the countryside, hoping to have a look at the situation.

As time passed, in the second year, no bad news continued to spread, and in the third year, no children from any family died. Gradually, everyone forgot about it.

But Lin Mo knew that all this was not over.

On that day every year, he would have the same dream, the same scene, the same group of children said under the old locust tree, the game has begun...

In the second year after Linlin's death, although no one died in the village, Lin Mo saw it that day, and the 'ghost' in the dream turned into Linlin!Linlin is going to arrest someone!

In the same third year, even though there was no news from the village, Lin Mo still had a dream, but this time the 'ghost' in the dream became one of the few families who moved away the year Lin Lin died... Lin Mo was I understand, this should be the person who was caught by Linlin last year.

Lin Mo was in panic all day long, but no one dared to say anything. He felt guilty that these little friends might have died because of his words, but he was deeply afraid that these dead little friends would also come to arrest him .

Later, Lin Mo's family became rich and moved out of the village.

Perhaps because he was far away from the village, Lin Mo finally stopped having that horrible nightmare of the beginning of the game on that day every year.

Lin Mo wept with joy at the time, thinking that he was far away from all this. He was moved and cried all night, hoping to start over, study hard, and live every day hard. He was admitted to a very good university and later went abroad to study. Get a good job over there and settle in a foreign country far away from home, away from childhood nightmares.

But at this moment, the 21st year.

Lin Mo had that childhood nightmare again, the same scene, the same 20 friends, and the same guessing game.

The one who lost this time was a little boy who lived next door to Lin Mo when he was six years old. Lin Mo couldn't remember his name anymore, but the moment he saw it, he had a little impression.

It's just that this dream is different from the previous one.

When the lost boy took the cloth strip and said that I was going to start counting, this time Lin Mo found that none of the 19 friends around him left to find a place to hide as before, but looked He looked at Lin Mo with a cold smile, with hideous and terrifying faces that looked like dead people.

It seems to say that this game has nothing to do with anyone, it is just a game between Lin Mo and that boy.

"100..."

Under the staring eyes of those dead people, Lin Mo backed away in fright. He fell back and woke up from his dream. Just as Lin Mo wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead, he suddenly heard a sound coming from close to his ear—— 【99...】

Lin Mo froze, turning his head stiffly.

Beside his bed, a figure stood there with his back to him.

The somewhat familiar yet very strange little boy in the dream has turned into a swollen and purple adult corpse, right in front of him, less than one meter away from him.

【98...】

This is the sound of the game starting.