My very cool daughter-in-law

It was a working day, and Sheng Xun specially took Xiaoqiu to the cinema to avoid peak hours, until the lights in the entire cinema hall dimmed, and the big screen lit up, sweeping the hall under the dim light of the screen, It can be seen that there are not more than twenty people in the theater including them watching this show.

It is neither a long holiday nor a golden week, and there are still days before the "Shuangdan" at the end of the year and the more distant Spring Festival schedule, and there are very few blockbuster movies released in theaters.

When Sheng Xun was choosing films before, he was silent for a while in front of the film schedule, and found that the selection was lacklustre. He really couldn’t pick which one was better, so he simply handed over the decision to Xiao Qiu, and pushed the movie posters that were being screened in front of Xiao Qiu. Let Xiaoqiu choose the one that can arouse the other party's curiosity the most.

then--

At this moment, they were sitting in the dimly lit movie theater, watching the title of the film with the effect of dripping blood being hit on the screen, and then the blood-soaked title of the title shattered like glass, and the film switched to the main feature. The sound of water piano playing sounded, mixed with vague and treacherous whispers...

Based on the principle of giving priority to curiosity, Xiaoqiu chose a thriller.

He was caught by the dark tone on the poster at a glance, and he was really curious about what kind of horror story the movie produced.

After picking this film, Xiaoqiu noticed the film critics, saying that it was a rare and truly scary thriller in the past two years, and then hesitated to consult Sheng Xun, fearing that people would not accept it well.

"When you used your head like an owl and dangled your hand around, you never thought that I would accept bad things." Sheng Xun, who was overly worried, slapped Xiaoqiu on the head.

Xiaoqiu tilted her head back.

Sheng Xun rubbed his forehead again: "Don't worry, I'm really not afraid, let alone the movie is fake."

Xiaoqiu thought it made sense, he took off Sheng Xun's hand rubbing his forehead, hooked one of his arms and put it on his side, and then, he watched the first movie of his life and spiritual life without distraction.

And concentrate on eating popcorn.

Sheng Xun has a lot of horror films, and he has basically watched all classic horror and supernatural films at home and abroad.

It's not that he himself is so keen on this kind of movie, but that when he was in school, classmates and friends gathered together to watch thrillers, just like "adventure", it was also a regular entertainment activity.

Sheng Xun is generally the vanguard and protector role in this kind of collective movie watching activity. He not only leads the way, but also acts as a shield for the people behind. The people in the circle, when he arrived at the high-energy scene, his shoulders and back were tight against someone's head and face.

Other people who are ostriches from time to time only watched the film in general, but Sheng Xun remained motionless throughout the whole process and saw the plot and details clearly. From this, he has already concluded a set of traditional horror plots. Experience - when there may be an "open door kill", when there may be a "turn back kill", when the background sound changes suddenly, something may go wrong...etc.

In his eyes, the plots on the screen that made Xiaoqiu excited were like one after another small tricks where the outcome could be predicted.

Sheng Xun is familiar with the routine.

Compared with movies, for him, the real ghosts who are happily studying fake ghosts beside him are better to watch.

Xiaoqiu was watching a movie, Sheng Xun was distracted watching Xiaoqiu.

The [-]D report is still at a difficult start, but the "Contemporary Ghost Documentary Observation Report" has accumulated new materials. Dr. Sheng, a new ghost observer, feels that he can write an article "On How Real Ghosts See Fake Ghosts" when he returns home today ".

He and Xiaoqiu were located in the middle of the theater, and other audiences were scattered in the front two rows and the back three or four rows.

There were faint human voices and footsteps from behind. Sheng Xun, who hadn't watched the movie carefully, heard someone whispering sorry and thank you two rows away.

The voice didn't bother him at all at first.

In the middle of the film, someone leaves the seat to go to the bathroom, or someone rushes in after a while, looking for a seat in the dark while saying thanks, these are very common things in the theater.

But only after a while, Sheng Xun suddenly paused.

He paid more attention to the movement behind him.

Because, I don’t know if it’s his illusion, in the stereo surround movie sound effect, he seems to hear that “excuse me” and “thank you” are a little closer to the row of seats where he and Xiaoqiu are.

"Excuse me."

The sound of slightly procrastinating footsteps "rustling" sounded, and then stopped.

The pedestrians stopped about two rows behind.

"Thank you."

After a while, the man repeated his thanks to whoever he didn't know.

Then rustle, rustle.

The footsteps continued.

The man walked between the rows of seats, and when he reached the end of the row of seats, the sound of dragging footsteps became farther away.

But not long after, he went down a step at the end of the horizontal row of seats, and then slumped back.

"Excuse me."

"Thank you."

Sheng Xun heard the man repeating these two sentences, and the other party continued to pause in front of a certain seat from time to time.

Sheng Xun estimated the interval between the other party's "sorry" several times, and realized that this person's pause was not random, but regular.

This "person" who was walking through the cinema hall stopped in front of every audience, and then repeated words of apology and thanks.

The other party seemed to be doing something in front of every seat with spectators, but each pause was not too long, as if checking in on a person, clocking in all the way from the back row to the front row.

"Excuse me."

"Thank you."

The "person" finally passed behind Sheng Xun's chair,

Brings a slight chill.

Sheng Xun sat diagonally behind a student who was watching a movie alone, and he confirmed the situation with his peripheral vision——

The boy is concentrating on the screen, and seems to be very serious about watching the movie.

I can't see a figure in front of me at all.

And the figure was facing him, and seemed to bow its head towards him, with its back bent.

The reason Sheng Xun didn't intervene rashly was the silent golden light.

"Human" was only separated from Sheng Xun by the back of a chair just now, but Jin Guang did not issue an early warning.

This meant that the other party should have no malicious intentions, but just wandered around in the theater for some reason.

"No rush." ​​Xiao Qiu who should have been concentrating on watching a movie said suddenly.

Sheng Xun was pulled by the hand in the dark.

Xiao Qiu also put a caramel milky hand on the back of his hand.

"Look at what he wants to do." Xiao Qiu's voice was so soft that it was almost a whisper.

He had exactly the same idea as Sheng Xun.

The rustling footsteps came to the end of the row of seats behind, and the other party went down another step on the side steps.

When his footsteps sounded again, this time, he finally clocked in to the row of seats between Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu.

"Excuse me."

The figure said in advance before getting close to the seats of Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu, it sounded really polite.

Sheng Xun can already roughly see that this is a person in summer casual clothes, his face is hidden in the dim light of the theater, and he can only be seen walking sideways against the back of the front seat, because he is walking slowly sideways so that his steps are dragging.

What does he want to do?

Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu waited patiently with similar questions.

Then, they saw that this figure approached them, but directly passed Sheng Xun.

He walked through the gap left by Sheng Xun's retracting his legs in advance, and stopped in front of Xiao Qiu as if he was looking for something.

A pale face slowly lowered towards Xiaoqiu——

"Thank you," said the owner of the face.

Then he raised an equally pale hand and stretched it straight towards Xiaoqiu... the popcorn in his arms!

Sheng Xun: "..."

Xiaoqiu: "..."

Since this development was really unexpected, judging from Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu's experience in dealing with metaphysics incidents, the development is also particularly strange.

So for a while, neither of the two people who could easily suppress ghosts and evil spirits did anything.

They watched silently as the stranger made a move towards the popcorn bucket, and took Xiaoqiu's handful of popcorn with a very familiar gesture.

"How dare this person break ground on Tai Sui's head" and "Just this" with big question marks appeared in Sheng Xun's mind at the same time, and he understood why Jin Guang had no warning.

Just such a ghost who only wants to popcorn for the audience, is there any need to be warned?

There is really no malice, and the ghost who shuttles back and forth in the movie theater just to eat popcorn is not aware of the problem.

He was oblivious to the two people in front of him who could see him, just stuffing the popcorn into his mouth.

Lowering his head again, the two remaining popcorns in the hands of the "Popcorn Ghost" were almost frightened away.

He was looking coldly at Xiaoqiu who had come to his senses last time.

And at the same time, there was an extra hand on the back of his neck, grabbing his collar.

"Popcorn Ghost": "..."

The eyes on his pale face slowly widened, and he looked at the two "ordinary audience" in front of him in disbelief.

Xiaoqiu said: "Do you know what happened to the ghosts who robbed me in the past?"

"Popcorn Ghost" shook his head slowly.

Originally, the popcorn bucket was about to bottom out, and Xiao Qiu, who was snatched away by a guy who suddenly appeared, was sinking like water.

He raised his completely bottomed bucket, and said coldly: "I ate it."

"Popcorn Ghost" froze for a few seconds before shaking his head frantically.

At this point in the movie on the screen, at least Sheng Xun Xiaoqiu couldn't watch it anymore.

They took the "popcorn ghost" who was arrested on the spot and left the theater, found a quiet corner away from surveillance, and were going to ask the other party why they stayed in the theater.

But the "popcorn ghost" might have misunderstood it, thinking that Xiaoqiu, who threatened to eat ghosts, picked a secluded restaurant and planned to end his ghost life in this corner.

Before Sheng Xun could open his mouth, he whimpered and began to cry, explaining who he was and why he liked to steal popcorn.

It turned out that this man was named Zhou Wensong, who was originally an employee of a nearby office building, and lived a busy life from nine to ten.

He didn't have any grandiose stories, nor was he involved in any extraordinary incidents, and the cause of his death was not even due to a villainous incident.

After staying up all night and working overtime, he thought about going to the gym, thinking that it would be good for his health, and he wanted to stretch his muscles and bones that were stiff after sitting in the office for a long time.

As a result, the accident came quietly like that.

His overtired body and mind can't afford strenuous exercise. He was a little dizzy after running five kilometers in the gym. He was thinking of going home and getting some sleep. Tomorrow is a rest day after working overtime. He can go to a nearby theater Watch a movie, then buy a large handful of their signature caramel milk popcorn, slump in the theater and watch two or three movies in a row, and be a person who temporarily escapes from the real world in the theater...

"It's a good thing I didn't collapse in the gym." Zhou Wensong said, "Otherwise, wouldn't that scare the people in other gyms? Everyone is a worker, so why should the social animal make things difficult for the social animal?"

He fell on the edge of the flower bed under the building, where there was a small bush, and he rolled just behind the cover of the bush.

So when others followed the briefcase on the ground to find someone and found an unconscious person behind the bushes, Zhou Wensong had already missed the best time for rescue.

He is an ordinary person, and his walk is not thrilling.

Just regrettable.

The day off I didn’t get through, the movie I didn’t watch, the popcorn I didn’t get.

This was the last thing that Zhou Wensong missed during his lifetime, and Zhou Wensong subconsciously came to this theater when his soul left his body and wandered in the form of a soul.

"I never thought of causing trouble to others." Zhou Wensong didn't realize that he had caused trouble until he heard about the "food poisoning". He shook his head guiltily.

"But I just...can't help but crave other people's popcorn."

There is indeed no problem with the popcorn in the cinema, and food hygiene and safety have always been very good.

There will be some people who vomit and diarrhea after eating food, because a ghost thinking about popcorn sneaks past them and can't help but take a handful from their bucket.

Zhou Wensong is not an evil spirit. Compared with other evil spirits, his desires of "popcorn" and "watching a movie" are harmless to humans and animals.

But he is a ghost after all, and the aura of ghosts belongs to yin. If the owner continues to eat the popcorn bucket he touched without knowing anything, it is almost like swallowing raw, cold and not very clean food.

What Lao Luo complained about Sheng Xun's other two roommates that day was right and wrong, and what he said was true——

People with strong intestines and stomachs, full of energy and energy, who can stand up to nature, will be quickly resisted by them on their own if they are occasionally contaminated with such a little dirt.

However, those who have poor physical conditions, or who have not been mentally strong recently, and have sensitive and fragile stomachs, once they eat something that is stained with ghosts, they will have symptoms similar to gastrointestinal colds, with severe vomiting and diarrhea.

"After becoming a ghost, sometimes your behavior and thoughts are uncontrollable." Sheng Xun said, "Maybe all you think is 'want to watch movies in the theater all the time' and 'have popcorn', so you subconsciously stay in the movie. Hall, unwilling to go out, all the audience with popcorn will attract your attention, make you approach each other unconsciously, getting a handful of popcorn from others is the most convenient way for you to get it way."

"That's right." Zhou Wensong let out a big sigh again, thinking that it would be useless for him to be a ghost.

He was in the midst of self-deprecation, when the back collar was suddenly pulled again.

Xiao Qiu dragged the ghost who wanted to grow mushrooms in the corner up.

"Go." He said briefly.

Zhou Wensong was terrified.

"Where are we going?" Zhou Wensong asked tremblingly, "Are I, I, I, I going?"

He was still thinking about what Xiaoqiu said about eating ghosts, and he really thought that he still hadn't escaped this disaster.

Xiao Qiu looked down at him speechlessly——to Xiao Qiu, a newborn ghost of Zhou Wensong's level was as harmless as a newborn baby.

"It's time for you to go on the road." Xiaoqiu, who didn't scare the "baby" at all, said self-consciously.

Sheng Xun understood what his family Xiao Qiu meant, and also knew that Xiao Qiu continued to scare ghosts because the "guardian ghost" who hadn't eaten enough popcorn was still brooding over the last handful of popcorn.

A few minutes later, they returned to the cinema counter. This time, Sheng Xun picked out a light comedy and bought three tickets. Then they went to the popcorn counter and bought two new buckets of popcorn.

The female manager was still at the snack counter. She saw two familiar faces, Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu, coming from a distance and bought two buckets of popcorn, she was a little dazed.

"Are you...are you sure you want two more buckets?" The female manager hesitated and asked.

There was no one in front of the counter at this time, and there was only the female manager at the counter for the time being. Sheng Xun decided to order, and he looked at her haggard.

Next to it, out of sight of the female manager, Zhou Wensong let out a soft hiss and whispered, "Is this also because of me?"

There is no way to convey the ghost's repeated apologies. After all, letting people suddenly know that there is a ghost in front of them seems to be too challenging to bear, and it is easy to be regarded as crazy.

Sheng Xun thought about it for a while, and he just said when he took the popcorn: "Don't worry, the food hygiene in your theater is a mystery, maybe it's a mystery?"

The female manager thought it was a joke, a relief to the loyal popcorn customers.

She pulled herself together and smiled at Sheng Xun, inviting them into the hall.

When the ticket was checked in, the staff at the ticket gate cut three pieces in surprise, and then looked behind Sheng Xun and Xiaoqiu, but they didn't see where the third customer was.

Facing the strange gaze of the other party, Sheng Xun took Xiaoqiu away calmly.

They went all the way into the theater and sat down in their seats.

The moment the entire auditorium went dark, Sheng Xun stuffed two barrels of popcorn into the arms of two inhuman audiences.

"Please take care of yourself and watch a movie dignifiedly." Sheng Xun said softly.

"Eat another bucket of popcorn." Xiaoqiu added, and warned him with his eyes that this bucket resolutely refused to share this time—except for Sheng Xun.

Zhou Wensong was holding his own popcorn bucket, with his movie ticket stub stuffed in his jacket pocket, and sat in the theater seat after a long absence, staring blankly at the lights on the screen.

When the movie was shown to the end, Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu accompanied him through the end credits and waited for the easter egg.

When the lights were about to be turned off in the screening room where there was no evening film rehearsal tonight, Zhou Wensong stood in front of the exit door and seemed to feel something. He waved hands with Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu hurriedly, and repeatedly said many words of thanks.

In the next second, he stepped out of the exit door.

"Thank you very much!"

He spoke aloud at last, and stepped into a field of light.