Are you afraid?

It was pitch black in front of him, and Nie Xi thought carefully for a while before realizing that he should already be in a dream.The sound of even breathing seems to be right next to my ears, as if there is another person.

It's too dark, what is he going to do?

Just as these words flashed through his mind, a beam of bright light suddenly shone on his body from top to bottom.

Dazzled by the dazzling light, Nie Xi rubbed the corners of his eyes before he could see the surrounding environment again.

? ?

Nie Xi looked back in disbelief, the maroon copper-clad corner wooden door was tightly closed.There was a beautiful brown-red shoe cabinet next to the empty entrance.

This...here is...

The house of his grandpa and grandma.

"Hee hee, big brother, do you want to play hide and seek?"

Nie Xi turned around.

A five or six-year-old child stood in front of him at some point, with his head raised, and on his childish face, a pair of golden eyes looked at him innocently.

Is it me?

Nie Xi looked at the child in surprise.

"Hee hee, big brother, come and find me!" The child laughed loudly, turned around and ran into the living room.

Nie Xi didn't follow immediately, but turned around and tried to twist the door behind him, but unexpectedly it opened.

Nie Xi pushed open the door and walked out.

Clean wooden floors, beautiful brown-red cabinets...

Nie Xi looked back.The chestnut wooden door with copper corners has closed automatically.

Can't you get out...

Nie Xi stepped onto the hallway floor and walked slowly to the living room.

The living room of the house had grown empty for as long as he could remember.Apart from an impromptu dining table, there was little other furniture.

But now, this living room is filled with old Eight Immortals chairs, reclining chairs, coffee tables and other complete sets of furniture. There are even old-fashioned handsets on the coffee table. The closed frosted glass windows on the wall are intact and decorated with old-fashioned The white foreign flower curtains, and the large clock still moving in the corner.It seems that everything has returned to the original time of this old house.

But the child was gone.

Nie Xi didn't go upstairs in a hurry, but walked to the kitchen on the first floor.

The last time he came here, he saw that the stove that had collapsed was now intact, with two iron pots on it, and it was not rusted at all.

Subconsciously looked at the desk.The seasoning is well presented.But the knives that should have been there were not there.

This is his own dream...

But whether there is any danger, he cannot be sure.No catalyst, no weapons.Could it be over just by finding that younger self?

Nie Xi walked out of the kitchen in doubt, and opened the bathroom next door.

A half-person-high wooden empty bathtub is placed on the concrete floor in the middle of the house, and tools such as wooden basins and wooden spoons stand in the corners, nothing special.

Nie Xi left the bathroom and went to the small room under the stairs that was originally used as a servant's room.

This room is very simple, with whitewashed walls, a narrow single bed with blue checked sheets and a small wardrobe placed against the corner.

Open the closet, it is empty, and the child is not in it.

Nie Xi turned around and was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a pair of shoe toes exposed under the sagging bed sheet.

Nie Xi suddenly lifted the sheet and looked under the bed.

It was a pair of old red leather shoes, a child's shoe, but it belonged to a girl.

Just as Nie Xi felt a little familiar, he felt that the hand on the ground seemed to press something.

Nie Xi raised his hand, there was a long steel wire embedded in the red mark on the palm, and there seemed to be a little blood on it, rubbing against the palm.

Wire rope...

He remembered... the little girl in the Gold Coast Amusement Park wore such a pair of red leather shoes, and then she broke out after growing up rapidly.

Nie Xi stood up calmly, rolled up the two-meter-long steel wire rope little by little, and put it in his pocket.

"Big brother, come quickly, I can't wait!" The boy's crisp voice came from above the stairs, and at the same time, there seemed to be a girl's clear laughter sounding at the same time.

Nie Xi stepped up the stairs.

The old-fashioned houses are not very scientifically designed, and there are a large number of windows on the first floor to provide lighting.On the second floor, the four closed doors also blocked the light, and the corridor looked particularly dim.

In addition to the four rooms that can be viewed, the stairs beside him can also lead to the attic, where he got the Incubus ruby ​​and all the nightmares began.

This is his dream, and he will always get an answer.Nie Xi didn't go upstairs in a hurry, but walked into the corridor on the second floor.

The boy didn't know which room he entered, so Nie Xi pushed the first room on the left first.

All the furniture in this room had been sold out when Nie Xi came last time, only a large scorched black stain on the wooden floor was particularly conspicuous.

He asked her mother if there was a fire here, but Zhang Ningshu said that since she could remember, the stain had been here, and she didn't know what caused it.

Now the floor is clean, save for long antique wooden tables and bookcases full of thread-bound books.There are pen holders and inkstones on the desk.There is also a table lamp with a green shade, which is full of the style of the Republic of China.There is a large painting jar under the corner of the table, and there is currently no painting scroll in it.

Nie Xi walked to the desk and found a piece of paper under the paperweight, with a line of well-written pen writing on it.

[March [-], sunny, the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, today I received an invitation from Mr. Ma to be a guest at his home.Seeing his family and friends gathered together, I couldn't help being touched, so I talked with Marlene about the plan to visit relatives in Italy.I didn't expect her to be very resistant to this matter. I think she should have been hurt by her family, and I shouldn't mention it anymore.It's a nice little village, and I think we'll spend the rest of our lives here. 】

This is a piece of paper in a diary.

Nie Xi put down the paper, looked through the desk again, and found that there was nothing special, so he looked at the bookshelf.

The books placed on the bookshelves are all very old thread-bound books, and many of the titles are not on the side, so Nie Xi can only pick out a few books at random to browse.

They are all very orthodox books.

Nie Xi could only put the books back one by one.But I didn't expect that when the last book was put back, a black, wet and strange thing was exposed behind the vacancy that was drawn out of the book.

Without even thinking about it, Nie Xi poked the book in his hand, but felt that the back was solid?

Taking down the book again, Nie Xi found that there was nothing inside.

Is it his eyesight?

Nie Xi put away the books and closed the door of the bookcase.

As the cabinet door slammed shut, there was a crackling sound from the top of the bookcase.

Nie Xi reacted quickly and stepped aside, just in time to see a painting scroll fall down from the top of the bookcase.

With a bang, the scroll on the top of the bookcase fell to the ground, the binding rope fell loose, and the scroll unfolded along the falling track.

It is the portrait of the sub-god crow of Yuhuang Village...

The lifelike human eye on the portrait just stuck to the ground and looked at Nie Xi quietly.

Nie Xi picked it up and wanted to tear it off, but found that the painting was extremely strong.He couldn't tear it apart with his bare hands.

... His dream seemed to be a fusion of the nightmares he had experienced before, but what are these things doing here, is it just to scare himself?

Nie Xi glanced at the eye in the scroll again, snorted lightly, rolled up the scroll, and casually threw it into the painting vat at the foot of the table.There was a clang.

"Hee hee. I'm here, big brother!"

There were shouts outside the door.

Nie Xi turned around and walked out again, and in the next moment, the study door he just walked out slammed shut.

……

After thinking twice, Nie Xi still didn't choose to go in again, but opened the first room on the right.

This room was originally used as a guest room. At this time, there is a large wardrobe with double doors on the right hand side of the entrance. In the center of the room is an old-style double iron bed covered with a thick lace bed cover.Beside the frosted glass window, the same style of foreign flower white curtains are used as in the living room, and a walnut-colored round dressing table is placed next to it.

Nie Xi walked into the room, and first opened the big cabinet on the right.

one person!

Nie Xi frowned, looking at Xu Huan who was huddled in the corner of the cabinet with a terrified expression.

"What are you doing here?"

"Hush!" Xu Huan said tremblingly, putting his hand to his mouth. "Hunting time is coming, you have left me, I can only hide here, you have left me... woo woo woo..."

As soon as Xu Huan's crying sound came out, there was a creaking sound from the corridor at the end.It was like the sound of some poorly lubricated wheel rolling.

Nie Xi was also very familiar with that sound when he pushed the butcher Lardy's wheelchair in the mortuary to avoid the attack in the hospital of the Evil Man.

"Here we come!" Xu Huan stood up abruptly, reached out and closed the cabinet door.

Nie Xi subconsciously closed the door of the room.He glanced left and right, then rolled on the spot and crawled under the bed.

Soon the corridor outside became quiet, and no one knew whether Butcher Ruddy was parked outside or had already left.

Nie Xi pressed his ears to the floor, trying to catch any movement.

... BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM...

The sound of regular bounces reached Nie Xi's ears that were pressed against the ground.Nie Xi pressed his ears tighter, trying to hear what the sound was.

I can hear it clearly... It sounds like the sound of chopping meat on the chopping board in the kitchen.

Downstairs here is the kitchen, but there are no knives there, who is there?

Just as Nie Xi was thinking, the door slammed open with a bang.

Nie Xi, who was hiding under the bed, trembled in fright, but didn't make a sound.He leaned against the ground and looked out the door.

There was no one in the dark corridor, only the drafts blew into the room with the wide open door, blowing on the face of Nie Xi who was hiding under the bed.The wind brought dust into the eyes, and Nie Xi couldn't help rubbing his eyes.

And at this time, out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a pair of women's feet in stockings and brown stiletto heels walking past the door.Nie Xi quickly put down his hands, endured the soreness in his eyes, and looked out.

gone...

Zhang Ningshu has such a pair of high heels. Nie Xi still remembers that his mother complained to her when she was tidying up things. Those shoes were very expensive to buy, but they were inexplicably broken after going back to her hometown to visit relatives more than ten years ago. She thinks It's a pity that I haven't been willing to throw it away.

Why did it appear in his dream?

Nie Xi couldn't figure it out.

After a while, Nie Xi crawled out from under the bed, and the first thing he did was to open the cabinet.

Seo Hwan is gone...

Annoyed, Nie Xi closed the cabinet door, and went to the dressing table in this room to search again.There is another diary in the drawer.

[May [-]th, rain, March [-]st in the lunar calendar, Ma Lin is a devout believer, and her habit of offering sacrifices has been retained in China.It's ok, I respect any religious customs.However, I happened to go to the attic during the sacrifice time today and saw her cut herself, and I was a little concerned. 】

Nie Xi put down the diary, walked to the window unwillingly and tried to open it, but as he expected, it couldn't be opened at all.This dream made him uncomfortable... Why did he torture himself like this.

After walking out of the guest room, Nie Xi walked deep into the corridor again and opened the second bedroom on this floor.