My very cool daughter-in-law

There is a cup of warm water and a hot towel on the bedside table, which are brought by Bear and Andy respectively.

They are usually needed by a person who wakes up from a nightmare, Xiaoqiu may not necessarily need them.

But this is all the intention of the spirits, the baby is expressing concern in the best way possible, and Sheng Xun, who left these two items on the bedside, is listening to Xiaoqiu recalling the dream just now.

"I may remember something" - about 10 minutes ago, Xiao Qiu cut off all the words Sheng Xun was going to say with this sentence.

With the reference of the previous dream experience, they already knew that Xiaoqiu's memory was very bad, and the ghost could remember less than one-tenth of the content after the dream.

This time, Xiaoqiu took the initiative to say that he had remembered something.

For the past 10 minutes, the others have hardly said a word.

They left all the opportunities to speak to Xiaoqiu.

Xiaoqiu first told them: "I dreamed of a corridor."

The winding corridor was the first scene that appeared in the dream, and it also ran through the whole of this strange dream. At first, Xiaoqiu only felt familiar in the dream, thinking that this place must be a place he had actually been to before, but in the surrounding The scene suddenly disappeared, and the moment he stepped into the darkness, he couldn't see anything, but his thinking was unprecedentedly clear, and many pictures flooded into his mind in an instant.

"The backyard of the Chi family." Xiao Qiu said calmly, "The corridor is located in the backyard of the Chi family. They correspond to the small courtyards and several small gardens in the backyard."

Xiao Qiu explained the layout of the backyard in detail, and he remembered them more clearly in his mind.

He even knew that the "elite" lived in the first three courtyards, the "hardcore" lived in the middle three courtyards, and the "flicker" whose families ranked at the bottom in the last three courtyards.

And among all the courtyards, there is a small courtyard that is quite special.

It is a school of its own, jumping out of the division of the front, middle and back. It is built alone on the edge of the backyard, not a short distance away from all other small courtyards. You have to go through the corridor full of runes and go to the deepest point to get to it. get there.

"If I followed the pulling force I felt in the dream, I should have come to that courtyard." Xiaoqiu said, "I heard the voice of the discussion, they said 'there is a sense' and 'establish a connection' '."

When these voices first appeared in the dream, they were just noisy, but in the moment of waking up, Xiaoqiu suddenly realized that the "pull" itself should correspond to the "induction" and "connection" in those people's mouths.

Someone is conducting a summoning ceremony, trying to sense his soul and "invite" him to the other party.

Then combined with the scene that appeared in his dream and the direction of gravity...

"Either they want to invite me back to that courtyard." Xiao Qiu continued, "Or, they are using that courtyard as a medium to enhance the effectiveness of the connection."

In Xiaoqiu's view, there is no difference between the two, and the final results are similar anyway.

It was the same group of people who wanted to bring him back to the same destination.

"But why did they invite you there?" Andy sometimes seemed so sophisticated and naive at times. If the baby could think of "invite" here and not the other, he must have bad intentions, so what kind of bloody corridor sounds like a big deal. hatred.

But Andy didn't want to understand why the ceremony was held in a specific courtyard.

"That courtyard is some kind of secret law center in their house, so is it especially suitable for holding ceremonies?" It asked innocently.

The doll's head was suddenly pressed lightly.

It was not Xiaoqiu who stretched out his hand, but Sheng Xun who was sitting a little behind it.

Andy was held innocently by Sheng Xun, it raised its neck and turned to look at humans, and was startled by Sheng Xun's overly serious expression.

Sheng Xun's eyes fell on Xiaoqiu.

"That yard," he said, "it's your yard, isn't it?"

Andy was still stunned before, and was even more stunned by this sentence.

It and the little bear's heads couldn't help turning back and forth between one person and one ghost.

Xiaoqiu's gaze was also cast on Sheng Xun, he looked at people quite intently, his gaze was very meticulous, as if he was looking for something on Sheng Xun's face.

After a long while, he said "hmm": "It's my yard. I remember this part of the memory. I should have been arranged to live there for a long time, but you have to ask how long it is. I only have a very vague time." A long-term concept, the year is still unclear."

"Where do you live?!" Andy finally couldn't help it, "But you tell us that you remembered in your dream that you were going to settle accounts, then you..."

Andy didn't go on talking, and the little bear pulled it.

Little Bear is a little more careful than Andy, and remembers things more carefully.

When Andy was still amazed at the content of Xiao Qiu's dream, Xiao Xiong suddenly thought that the ghost suddenly lost control and couldn't suppress the strong ghost at home.

"you……"

Little Bear held Andy, and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

Xiaoqiu's eyes didn't move down, he was still looking at Sheng Xun, but he raised his hand and pressed on the foreheads of the two dolls respectively.

"I used to be from the Chi family." The ghost spoke for Qi Ling.

He retrieved part of his memory, but seemed to be able to control himself better, and said in a stable state: "But it is also true that I have a grudge with the Chi family, and there is nothing to say about it."

Little Xiong and Andy looked at each other, and they both went to see Sheng Xun.

Sheng Xun held Xiao Qiu's hand that was just about to withdraw from the dolls, he clasped that pale and thin hand in the palm of his hand, and repeatedly rubbed the protruding phalanx at its joints with a sense of comfort.

"I want to contact Huaihe."

Knowing that the ghost is actually not as calm as it seems, Sheng Xun said after feeling Xiaoqiu's tense fingers slowly relax.

Xiaoqiu vaguely remembered Huaihe, he said, "Little walnut?"

"Yeah." Sheng Xun squeezed Xiao Qiu's hand again, "He must have summoned information, and I still have something to ask him."

Huaihe told Sheng Xun that Chi's family had Xiaoqiu's body in their hands, and the other party tried to "invite" Xiaoqiu's soul through the body many years ago.

But that ceremony failed that year, and the Chi family has never successfully summoned Xiaoqiu's body since they got it.

However, one thing Huaihe also mentioned was that in recent years, because the senior elders of the Chi family suddenly became urgent for some reason, they have begun to try the "useless work" they did back then.

Two hours later, exactly eleven o'clock that night.

Sheng Xun was the lucky one to get off work on time today, but Zou He, who worked overtime in the laboratory until almost ten o'clock, just got home.

Based on Huaihe's past experience, usually as long as Zou He worked overtime for more than nine o'clock, he would pick up a weak human being in the entrance.

Mr. Zou has an undoubtedly smart brain when doing data, but after working overtime, he will feel as if his whole body has been drained of battery, and he drags himself home with less than 5% of the remaining battery in the end.

The remaining electricity is only used to support Zou He when he arrives at home.

After he completed the series of actions of unlocking, entering and closing the door, he would shut down on the spot, and stand in a daze at the door of the house with his eyes blank, just waiting for Huaihe who heard the door to come and take him back.

Today, Huaihe saw that it was already eleven o'clock, and he prepared to go to the door to collect people as usual.

But he never thought that Zou He was still in good spirits tonight. When he entered the door, he was still holding his mobile phone and wearing a Bluetooth headset on his ear.

"Exactly, I'm coming in." Zou He said to the person on the other end of the headset.

Huaihe was puzzled, and then saw Zou He take off his earphones.

The person also turned on the screen of the mobile phone, and the next second, the mobile phone was held up in front of Huaihe by the other party.

Huaihe noticed the contact on the communication and realized that it was Sheng Xun who was talking to Zou He.

They did not take the traditional telephone contact, but enabled the voice function on the social application, and a small icon flashed in the upper right corner, indicating that their call was a "traceless call" that would automatically clear traces after the call.

"Do you want to ask me something?" Huai He answered the phone with doubts.

Zou He on the side could clearly see that Huai He's expression was still dazed when he took the phone, and the first sentence he said to the other side was also full of doubts, but immediately, Sheng Xun should have said two reasons in detail, Huai He's His expression immediately became serious.

When Zou He saw this, he said hello and said that he was going to the study to process a piece of data, then turned around to make room.

Huaihe received this call late at night, and it was Sheng Xun who wanted to ask him about the invitation.

He was quite surprised after hearing Xiao Qiu's dream today.

"Master felt the induction?!" Huaihe's surprise almost penetrated the screen, and he wanted to rush to Sheng Xun through the wireless signal.

Sheng Xun vaguely took the phone a little farther away, and the human voice became a little weak and blurred.

Huai He was thinking that he had blown someone's ear, so he quickly wanted to say sorry, but then, a cold voice said, "Well, I felt the traction when I fell into a dream."

Huaihe held up his mobile phone, and suddenly froze in place: "..."

This is a voice he hasn't heard for a long time, so that it has actually been faintly present in the background of the call before, and he occasionally heard it popping up in the background when Sheng Xun was speaking.

But he didn't recognize it, and regarded it as an ordinary ambient sound.

"...Young Master." Huai He took a long time to recover his vocal cords, and he called out in a low voice.

Xiaoqiu can only recall some memories today, and most of them are related to the Chi family.

Fortunately, he did remember this walnut that had been with him for a long time, and he also knew that the young master was calling him.

"It's me." Xiao Qiu said.

Huaihe suddenly fell silent.

Listening to the sudden disordered breathing on the other side, the ghost moved his pale fingers holding the phone, and added: "Long time no see."

"Long time no see." Huaihe stood in the living room of Zou He's house, facing the decorative wall with his own body, looking at his body that hadn't returned to the master's side for many years.

"... Long time no see, young master."

Zou He in the study hesitated behind the closed door for a while, he quietly collected the movement outside, always felt that it was not good for him to leave it alone, and it was not appropriate to go out to comfort him.

So he had no choice but to scramble to open the door until he heard the conversation outside returning to the topic, and Huaihe continued to talk about the business with a much more refreshed spirit, then he quietly let go of the door, slipped back to the desk lightly, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Outside, Huai He glanced at the closed study door.

This distraction didn't interrupt his fluent voice, and he continued to tell the young master and Sheng Xun who had turned their mobile phones to the outside: "The Chi family tried calling for more than one time in the past, but because before you left, In fact, I have already thought of this level, so I made the separation of body and soul very clean, and set up a shielding mechanism to personally block the possibility of induction, so their summoning has never been successful, and it is almost impossible to summon you through the body .”

But everything that happened today seemed to remind everyone that the situation had changed.

Huaihe tried hard to think about the reason why the summoning took place today, while he was thinking, he scratched his hair and almost pulled it out.

Both ends of the phone were quiet for a long time, and it was Sheng Xun Xiaoqiu, who was also in deep thought, who made the first movement.

"The separation of body and soul is not completely without loopholes to exploit." Xiao Qiu said suddenly.

Although Xiaoqiu has amnesia, what he can forget is his own relationship and many common senses when he was a human being, but he has not lost his professional knowledge base of occult arts at all.

He was thoughtful on the other end of the call.

If he did the body-soul separation and shielding himself, the probability of others breaking through from the outside is very low, but it is not without loopholes.

Its vulnerabilities lie within.

If some kind of change is taking place in his soul, and he forgets the shielding thing, then as long as the change is severe enough, the soul and the body are one, and under the shock of the soul, they may have a weak reaction again.

"The crux should be in myself." Xiao Qiu finally made a conclusion, he looked down at his hand, as if he didn't understand why he made such a mistake.

Sheng Xun paused, human fingers lightly tapped on the back of the chair behind Xiaoqiu.

But the person seemed to have another idea, saying: "Not necessarily."

Sheng Xun's words were not pure consolation.

He had some doubts, but he needed to find another person who knew the Chi Chu family better to confirm.

The call ended around midnight.

Xiaoqiu is more inclined to cause the current situation due to his own mistakes. He doesn't have much nostalgia for his body. If it weren't for the temporarily uncontrollable "induction", he didn't seem to be full of love for his own body. focus on.

Before falling asleep that night, Xiaoqiu suddenly remembered something, and asked Sheng Xun who had not yet laid down: "Do you have any photos from before?"

"About how long ago was it?" Sheng Xun sat on the edge of the bed.

Xiao Qiu thought for a while and said, "About six or seven years old, or when I was eight or nine years old."

The description of age by ghosts is very general. A child who is six years old may not be the same as a nine-year-old child. Children always grow up very fast.

Sheng Xun took an intermediate value. He got up and went to the computer in the study to look through it. He found two photos that were about when he was in the first and second grades of elementary school. He copied them on his phone and brought them back.

"What do you want my childhood photos for?" Sheng Xun didn't think of asking until he got all the photos back.

Xiaoqiu took Sheng Xun's cell phone and looked at the photos carefully.

Sheng Xun then remembered the way Xiaoqiu looked at him when he just woke up from the dream.

That's exactly the same as it is now.

"I seem to have seen you at this time." Xiaoqiu said after a while.

He lightly tapped the phone screen with his fingertips, and he enlarged the photo of Sheng Xun when he was eight years old.

It should be a film photo taken with a relatively old-fashioned camera, carefully preserved, and re-photographed with today's professional camera.

A look at the photo shows that it was taken in winter, because the little boy wearing a horn button coat looks quite white, and his face looks very clean against the navy blue coat. It is not like what he said when he grew up. Summer vacation always gets dark.

What Xiaoqiu didn't have time to tell Sheng Xun before was that during the few seconds before he woke up and fell into darkness, besides thinking of many things about the Chi family, among the many images that flooded into his mind, there was another image very deep—

The corridor that was later soaked in dark liquid was still clean at that time, but there were a lot of runes on it, revealing a dull and forbidding sense of oppression.

A boy ran across the corridor, with a freshness that didn't fit in with the surrounding environment, he trotted all the way towards the small courtyard that was said to be untouched by the corridor, and then stepped on the stone bench in three or two steps like a little monkey Turn over the wall with the big tree branches.

In the end, the boy slipped into the courtyard with the closed gate, and ran to the dark wooden prism window that was also closed.

"Knock knock."

He knocked on the window.

"I think it's you." Xiao Qiu said to Sheng Xun.

I don't know if it was influenced by Xiao Qiu's words, this night, after Sheng Xun fell asleep, he also had a dream.

He really dreamed of a winding corridor. He also became very short and small, and he needed an adult to lead him to walk.

In the dream, he should be going out with the adults as a guest. He is curious and unfamiliar with everything he sees.

"Young master can go to the backyard to find children of the same age to play with." The man who looked like a servant suggested to the adults who led him, and also recommended the garden and other places in the backyard.

However, that person specifically warned: "Young master, if you want to play by yourself, please be careful not to run too deep into the corridor, there are monsters eating people there, it's very unsafe."

Sheng Xun's thinking in the dream was completely synchronized with the boy's, and he didn't take this advice seriously.

There is a saying that seven □ □ is a dead dog.

How could one or two threatening instructions scare him?

When the adults with him were brought into the living room by the servants, the servants were also dismissed by him in a few words. While no one was paying attention, the boy with short arms and short legs, who was not short of courage, went straight to the depths of the corridor.

Very strange, the little boy has short arms and short legs, a small carrot head that is not tall enough for an adult's legs.

But he was not slow to run, and his mobility was superb. After finding that the yard at the end of the corridor was closed, he came up with the idea of ​​climbing a tree and turning in by stepping on the stone bench at the door. He had a plan.

And finally, of course, he made it to the top of the wall with triumphant glee.

But the subsequent development is not the same as what Xiaoqiu said.

Sheng Xun felt that he had successfully climbed the wall, but he was dumbfounded on the top of the wall, because he could already see that the yard in front of him was bare, and there was no place to climb down.

He's only that big, and if you don't look carefully while sitting on the wall, he looks like a small animal like a fat cat.

This height depends entirely on his own strength, and he might break his leg if he jumps forcibly.

The boy fell into a dilemma. He finally groped on the edge of the wall, preparing to climb to a place closer to the house, to see if there could be something there that could lend him strength, or provide a buffer to some extent.

Unexpectedly, when he was halfway up the climb, he suddenly felt as if someone had lifted his back collar suddenly.

The next second, he was already in the yard.

There is a hand behind his back, but there is no one behind him.

In front of him, the tightly closed doors and windows of the houses in the courtyard were opened on one side—it was a window, and there stood a ghostly and quiet person in front of that window, and the interior of the house behind him was sunken in a dark color. It looks dark, making the person in front of the window paler.

Sheng Xun was brought to the other party's eyes by that hand, and he could clearly see that the man not only had a ghost-like figure, but also had a face that had not seen the light all year round. His eyes were dark and deep, and he was staring at him without any emotion.

It's like looking at what this is.

Children have the instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and they will feel afraid in front of a dark and cold object, and if it is more serious, they will even be scared to cry on the spot.

But Sheng Xun didn't respond to any of the above.

He was only taken aback by the sudden appearance, and the hand behind his back didn't seem to scare him.

He shook his leg on the man's hand, and then said to the young face, "Brother, do you live here alone?"

The man stared at him for a long time, and the hand behind his back slowly lowered.

Put down the little guy who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth.

The author has something to say: Xiao Shengxun, who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, relies on his "brother" to pry open the window of the indifferent ghost.