My golden finger is not right

nine,

Yiqiu slept very restlessly all night, turned over almost every once in a while, and had nightmares in the second half of the night. After I woke him up, he held my hand firmly and sat there covered in sweat. Panting on the edge of the bed.

"I dreamed of He Hesen just now..." At this moment, only a small night light was lit in the dim room, Yibuki was looking at it blankly, his lips were a little dry and peeling due to fear.

"I dreamed that she was dragged on the grass by a woman covered in blood, and He Sen's body was covered with bloodstains from it. She was crying and she was very scared, but the woman kept laughing slyly. ...

I dreamed that she stuck her nails into the soil several times, trying not to be dragged away by her, but it was useless at all, and it would also increase the woman's violent desire and speed up her pace..."

"I saw her being treated like that, so distressed and angry that I couldn't control myself... I walked towards her quickly, trying to save her, but...but..." Yiqiu seemed to have reached the critical point of fear, he trembled He stuffed his empty right hand into his mouth, trying to hold back the whimper that was about to pour out of his throat.

"The woman suddenly grabbed me, and then wrapped the rope around my neck round and round, she pressed my head firmly on He Hesen's face, and she forced me and He Sen's eyes to be beautiful Beautiful... But, but I can't understand Kazumori's eyes at all... because her eye sockets... eye sockets... are empty!!"

"I was twitching in fright, and the woman tightened the rope and told me... told me..."

"'Now, do you still think she's pretty?'"

Ibuki's expression and words made me feel a chill run down my back, this dream is really a bit weird.

Seeing that Ibuki finally cried out uncontrollably, I quickly sat beside him and hugged him into my arms.

"It's okay, it's okay, He Hesen is such a good girl, no one would do such an excessive thing to her." I patted him on the back, and tried to say something that I couldn't believe myself, " It's just a dream, it's just a dream, maybe when I wake up tomorrow morning, He Hesen will come to class."

Hearing this, Yi Chuan's body twitched and moved violently, and then I heard the wailing from the depths of his soul: "Impossible! She will never come back again! I saw her being killed with my own eyes! I saw it with my own eyes! !"

The hand patting his back stopped, and my face slowly stiffened.

-

Regarding what Ibuki said today, I actually don't really believe it, or rather, half believe it.

When a person is extremely afraid, a certain defense mechanism of the brain will automatically turn on.It will forcibly modify the part of the memory that caused the fear, or simply destroy it directly, so as to prevent the human body from malfunctioning under extreme fear. 1

Perhaps he did encounter strange things at the time, and indeed met He Hesen, but because of the fear, the subsequent memory was forcibly intervened by the brain.And what he remembers now is the information screened by his brain.Maybe He Hesen was just taken away by gangsters, but for him who was extremely frightened and powerless, it was tantamount to being killed.

Killed by his cowardly self.

But I'm not sure that my guess must be correct, and all the horrors are just Ibuki's hallucinations.

I just think... I just think... there shouldn't be such a monster in this world... To take people's lives in such a cruel way without hatred...

Since I came to this world, I have met so many monsters, even Mr. Hachisha, who once made me extremely terrified, has his own principles and kindness in his heart.

Although it also kills people, as long as you avoid the calamity year carefully, no one will die.

Wait... Could it be that... the woman Ibuki saw was also some kind of youkai who made a contract with humans? !

"Impossible." In the tea room, after listening to my narration, Ms. Keiko's face turned ugly, "Only mountain monsters can have enough power and qualifications to make a contract with humans. But according to Ibuki-kun's description, the one he saw The things that have been following him are not in line with the character of mountain monsters. Under normal circumstances, they should be killed and brought back when they meet them. There is no need to follow them for so long. What's more, the area where your school is located is too far away from Nobiro It is no longer within its control range, so it is impossible to have a mountain forest monster that has made a contract with that area."

"If nothing else, it should be a ghost from the human world."

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Youkai are different from ghosts. Youkai mainly refer to those life forms that existed before human beings were conceived, and were born from the mountains and forests, or some monsters that were left on the mountains and evolved over many years, such as fusangshen.

But the word ghost refers more to a derivative of human beings themselves.For example, she committed suicide because she was abandoned by a man, and after her death she became a ghost who only cheated on men - a bone girl, or an ugly daughter of time who was born out of resentment.

After the forest monsters completely withdraw from the human world, the human beings as the main body have the ability to create ghosts.This ability is called obsession, or resentment.

When you have extremely strong emotions such as resentment, killing intent, love, desire, etc. towards a person or a thing, you may give birth to a living being. 2

In short, when your obsession is so strong that it is terrifying, you may give birth to a monster, or——become a monster yourself.

Of course, there is another form of ghosts, but they are not born from human obsession, but from human fear.Most of them appear under the fabrication of human beings. When a certain number of people know it, believe in its existence and fear it, they can truly walk in this world with these emotions.Likewise, once people forget about it, or simply don't believe in its existence, it cannot survive.

This kind of ghost does not have any personal consciousness. Whatever story humans give it, it will survive or kill according to the story.For example, urban ghost stories such as The Gap Girl, Kisaragi Station, and Aunt Hong 3.

If what Ibuki saw was neither human nor came from the mountains, then it could only be a ghost.

"Is there anything Ms. Keiko can do to help He Hesen?" I asked anxiously, "If she is killed by a ghost, she will not be free!"

Different from monsters in the mountains, if a human being is killed by a ghost who is a derivative of human beings, not only will his soul not be able to enter reincarnation after death, but he will always be controlled by the ghost who killed him.

Miss Huizi took a sip of her tea and frowned slightly when she heard this, but it disappeared quickly.

"Master Yan Ye...I always don't want to see others get into trouble..." She seemed to be thinking about something, hesitating to say something, "But sometimes...well...Master Yan Ye is impossible for everyone All helped..."

"And you can't be sure whether that person is worthy of help." Sitting on the side knitting a love sweater, Hua Piao couldn't bear Miss Keiko's hesitation, so she stopped what she was doing, and stepped in directly.

"Yan Yejun, it's different now, it's better to be careful. Master Wu Tiangou has already worked hard to take care of our safety. If you are always so 'helpful', it will make Miss Keiko very troubled."

I blushed immediately, and finally understood Miss Keiko's hesitation.

Now is the troubled time, and there is another enemy who must avoid the edge and is watching in the dark... Everyone has no energy to help He Hesen...

Miss Huizi's expression became a little embarrassed by his words, she twisted Hua Piao's thigh secretly, until he couldn't stand it anymore, and left holding the ball of yarn and Ah Hei Dun sticking to it.

The room fell silent for a moment.

I was lowering my head in shame, not daring to look at Miss Keiko's face.

Protecting my safety is troublesome enough, but now I want Miss Keiko, who is already in poor health, to bear these extra burdens, I have done too much.

How could I just speak to Miss Keiko so naturally...

"I'm sorry for what Hua Piao said just now." Seeing my silence, Miss Keiko spoke first.

After she finished speaking, she looked at her white hand with visible blood vessels, with an indescribable sadness on her expression: "My current strength is no longer enough to fulfill Young Master Yan Ye's wish..."

"Once again...let Master Yan Ye down..."

"Miss Huizi..." My eyes turned red when I heard the words.

It's not Miss Keiko's fault at all!I'm too selfish to take it for granted.

I was about to say something, but Miss Keiko shook her head to signal me not to speak.

She looked at me with vain eyes, as if she was tracing my face with her eyes.

"I remember when Young Master Yan Ye was only the size of Xiaotuanzi, he had all kinds of wonderful ideas every day."

When I realized what she was talking about, my heart suddenly turned cold.

"At that time, your grandfather had to deal with the company's affairs and transfer assets, so he didn't care about you at all. So he handed you over to me." When Miss Huizi said this, she showed a small smile. dimple.

"Although you are just a little one, you really like quietness and being alone, so even though you have been taking care of you for more than a month, you have hardly paid me much attention."

"Until one day, you read a book and saw the excitement, and insisted on catching dragonflies on a rainy day. But where can I catch dragonflies on a rainy day, and I was afraid that you would get hurt by running around, so I had to hug you tightly and not let you go out, and finally you broke free No, I was so angry that I smashed the book, then hid in the closet and cried secretly."

"By the time I came back with a jar of dragonflies, you had already fallen asleep in the closet. Your eyelids were swollen, your nose was red, and your little mouth was pursed, as if you were eating."

"You're just curled up in the pile of clothes, looking like you're about to be buried."

"I've never seen a life as delicate as you, even a slippery scoop, it always only shows me its strong side, even when it's hurt. So I thought, how can you be so small So round and so cute, even cuter than Hua Piao or your father, Master Bai. After all, when I was summoned, he was already a big child, so he wouldn't be made to cry so easily by me."

"I really want to pinch your little face, but I'm afraid of waking you up, so I have to hold on and carefully carry you back to the bed."

"When I washed you the next day, you were so shy that you didn't dare to look at me. When I finished packing and was about to leave, you timidly grabbed the corner of my clothes and said thank you."

"You were nervous and embarrassed at that time, if only you could keep it..."

"Then you finally started to get a little close to me, would hold my hand, pester me with questions, beg me to bring you all kinds of insects, plants, or let me just turn you into some kind of Animals, and play hide and seek all over the world to see if I can find you."

"Although Young Master Yan Ye will win every time, to be honest, if I hadn't deliberately pretended not to be able to find it, you little idiot would not have won so easily."

"Since a certain day, you seem to have some little secret. You are always hiding in the house or in the library mysteriously. Even if I bring you food, you will not let me go in and take a look."

"When you were finally willing to pull me into your room, I realized that there were stacks and stacks of books, and you were wearing a bed sheet and holding a branch."

"You told me that I can always grant you any wish, but it's not fair that you do nothing, so this time you want to grant my wish once."

"You said that you have memorized all the 'magic spells' in the book, no matter what wish I make today, you can use 'magic' to achieve it."

"I can't even tell the difference between spells and magic. Master Yan Ye is really a little fool..."

"I looked at the countless cheat sheets stuck in your cloak, but in the end I still didn't open my mouth to break it."

"However, I don't need spells to fulfill my wishes. What's more, Young Master Yan Ye is forbidden to use these spells. It is not easy for me to have the courage to disobey my grandfather and take these books out of the library."

"So I made a wish that I have always wanted to fulfill the most - to pinch Young Master Ye's face for a whole day.".

"Although I was a little embarrassed, you finally agreed to realize this wish."

"At that time, I pinched your face and saw that you were so uncomfortable that your brows and eyes were wrinkled into balls, but you didn't even cry out in pain, and you were holding on to the corner of my clothes. I felt that there was nothing in the world like Yan Ye. The young master is even cuter..."

Just saying such words, Miss Keiko's expression suddenly dimmed.

"But when you are suffering from illness, I can't do anything...I can't do anything..."

"You begged me to fulfill your wish, you begged me to take away these pains, but I can't do it... I can't do it..."

"I can only watch you lie on the bed, suffering day by day..."

"I want you to be free..."

I shivered suddenly, I naturally knew that the "Master Yan Ye" she was talking about was not me, and those beautiful memories she was nostalgic for were not created together with me.And the serious illness she mentioned should be the reason why the real Yan Ye Chong passed away.

But I always feel... There is something in her words that scares me...

Immediately afterwards, a question suddenly appeared in my head——

It is true that Ye Chong had a serious illness before his death, but did he really die of illness?