This NPC really has a problem

The winding corridors were like a labyrinth. He grabbed the corner of the woman's skirt and followed her closely, for fear that if he missed her, he would be separated from her.

The woman's steps are very small, lest the boy she is leading will struggle to follow.He staggered, and like many children, he lost his balance when he walked too fast.

In front of her eyes was the white skirt that rose as she walked.

A woman's soft voice sounded: "Renren, don't forget to call someone when you see Grandpa Xu."

He was a little slurred, and replied childishly: "Got it, Mom."

The living room is at the end of a certain corridor.

Even though he has been in the orphanage since he was born, he still can't remember the road. After walking with the woman for a while, he can't tell the difference between south, east and north.

The door of the living room was ajar, and there were men's conversations coming from inside, one voice was full of breath, the other was old and weak, accompanied by a few coughs from time to time.

After the woman knocked on the door twice, she held the handle and pushed the door open.

The conversation stopped for a while, and the tall man walked towards them with a smile on his face.He who had timidly hid behind the woman ran out and threw himself into the arms of the man.

The man let him sit on his arms, rubbing his cheek affectionately.He giggled at the stubble on the man's face.

The old man on the sofa looked over and asked, "Is this your son?"

"His name is Lu Renren." The man turned his face to look at him and said, "Renren, this is Grandpa Xu."

He called out crisply: "Grandpa Xu."

The old man frowned, and he felt that the old man's eyes were gloomy for no reason.

Shrinking his body in his father's arms, when he looked over again, he saw the old man's kindly smiling face, as if the darkness and greed he saw just now was just his illusion.

The men, women and the old man continued to talk.

Sometimes it's small talk, sometimes it's about serious business.

He heard words like "subsidy" and "the future of the orphanage", and he couldn't understand more words, and he was not interested in listening to them.He ran to the window higher than him with short legs and looked at the blue sky outside the window.

The sky was as blue as a wash.

Children love to play and make trouble, but he feels that as long as he wants to, he can look at the sky all day without getting bored.

Looking at a slowly moving cloud, time ran away without knowing it.

A child tugged at his arm: "Lu Renren, let's go eat!"

He almost fell down and shouted: "An'an, run slower, I can't keep up!"

The cafeteria was already full of people, and his child named An An was already late, but there were others who came later than them.

The girl carrying the dinner plate had a cold face, and sat down on the few remaining seats in the cafeteria that were very close to them.

"Her name is Ah Jing, and she came here yesterday." An An whispered in his ear, "Her parents don't want her anymore."

He knew the girl, and he was the first to find Ah Jing standing outside the orphanage.

It rained for a long time yesterday, Ah Jing's parents took her to the orphanage and left her here.He found that Ah Jing didn't take a while, and it started to rain.

What started out as a small, barely noticeable drop or two soon became a downpour.

He was playing in the garden, but hurried back to the orphanage after it rained.The windows in the corridor were not that high. He leaned over the window glass and looked out, only to see that the girl was wet from the rain.

He found an umbrella, opened it, and ran into the rain.

The rain is heavy, and the wind is also strong.

He felt that he was going to be blown away by the umbrella several times.

Stepping into the wet and soft soil, he ran out of the orphanage and came to the girl.

The umbrella covered the girl's head.

"Let's go to the house and take shelter from the rain," he said.

The girl didn't make a sound, her eyes fixed on the direction her parents left.

He has seen many children like girls.

Some of them will keep crying, some will refuse everyone to approach, and some will look forward to their parents to pick them up every day.

Mom always puts more energy on them and enlightens them gently. In fact, they also know that those who leave will not come back.

Mom said these kids were poor people.

He stayed quietly beside the girl, accompanying her as his mother always did.

When evening came, they were taken into the orphanage by the dean's wife who came out to find someone.

In the cafeteria, he originally wanted to say hello to Ah Jing, but Ah Jing was expressionless and stuffed food into his mouth mechanically, like a piece of hard and cold ice.

He is actually very good at reading people's faces. When others don't want to be disturbed, he can quietly pretend that he is air.

But at the moment, he can't be the air. The lively and active An An has always cared about food and sleep, and now he is clinging to him and wants to talk to him.

Ah Jing seemed to have seen him a few times, but every time he missed it.

……

A philanthropist named Xu Jin lived in the orphanage. He was willing to subsidize the orphanage, but he wanted to stay for a period of time for inspection.

This is what his mother said. After hearing this, he nodded half-understanding, turned around and ran to play with An An.

The woman shook her head helplessly, but she didn't care. It's normal for children to love to play.

An An was his best playmate in the orphanage, and he was very clingy. If he got close to other children, he would get into trouble.

At this moment, An'an held his arm and looked at the girl in front of him warily.

Ah Jing didn't even look at An An, and said to him coldly: "There is something wrong with that person named Xu Jin."

He was puzzled: "Why do you say that?"

Ah Jing said: "I saw him following a girl, swallowing his saliva constantly. I think you need to talk to the dean about this."

An An said: "Why don't you say it yourself?"

Ah Jing gave him a cold look.

He pulled An An back: "I see, I will tell my parents."

He knew why Ah Jing refused to say it by herself. She didn't trust adults, and she didn't think he would believe her.

He told his mother about it.

The woman's delicate eyebrows were slightly frowned, she did not take children's words seriously like some adults.After thinking carefully, the woman told him: "Don't tell others about this."

He nodded vigorously.

The woman is busier than ever, and he often misses her.

One day when An An was not by his side, he walked slowly in the corridor with a ball in his arms.

A shadow suddenly cast in front of him.

He looked up, only to see Grandpa Xu looking at him with a look that he couldn't understand.

Grandpa Xu was smiling, but there was a large shadow on his face, that smile made him feel scared.

Grandpa Xu asked, "Are you playing here alone?"

He nodded ignorantly.

"What are you playing?... Oh, ball." The mouth opened and closed, revealing yellow teeth, "I also played this when I was young, but unfortunately now I am old, I can't run, I can't play anymore, I feel like this when I walk. The bones of the body are going to fall apart."

Grandpa Xu sighed: "Youth is such a good thing. If there is a way to rejuvenate, most people in the world are willing to pay any price."

He whispered, "Grandpa Xu, I'm going to find my mother."

"Madam Lu? She's very busy now."

Grandpa Xu suddenly bent down.

He looked puzzled at the old man who got very close: "Grandpa Xu?"

In front of his eyes, the cloudy eyeballs rolled excitedly, and the scarlet mouth suddenly opened!

"what!"

He let out a scream in pain, clutched his bleeding neck, stumbled and ran behind.

The ball fell to the ground, bouncing and making a thumping sound.

The scene in front of me keeps changing.

He turned corners and stepped into unfamiliar corridors.

The people behind are chasing after him.

He turned around in horror.The old man who looked so old that he was struggling to walk followed closely behind him, his greedy eyes seemed to swallow him up in the next second.

I don't know how long it took before he shook off the old man with bad legs.

He hid in a room, hugging his body and shivering.

He was so frightened by the sound of any passing footstep that he hid under the table and dared not come out.The wound on the side of the neck gradually ceased to bleed, but the previous blood loss made him extremely weak, and under shock and exhaustion, he passed out directly.

He was awakened by the heat.

It should be night, but the temperature is somehow higher than during the day.The air in the corner was not circulating, and he was so stuffy that he opened his eyes.

He crawled out from under the table, stumbled to the door, and opened the door enduring the heat of the doorknob.

Firelight came into his eyes.

……

Lu Renren opened his eyes suddenly, gasping for breath. For a moment, he felt that he was still in a dream, surrounded by the fire, and the smoke choked him so much that he couldn't breathe.

Maybe because of what Ah Jing said before going to bed, he actually dreamed about the past.

... Do ghosts even dream?

Lu Renren realized that he couldn't remember whether he had a dream before.

Lu Renren climbed out of bed carefully, without disturbing Bai Zhu.

Bai Zhu originally slept with him in his arms, but as long as the ghosts are willing, they can easily pass through the body of a living person.

Bai Zhu, whose arms suddenly became empty, snorted uncomfortably, but did not wake up after all.Lu Renren found a doll and stuffed it into his arms, and Bai Zhu soon settled down.

Lu Renren lay on the edge of the bed, held his chin and looked at Bai Zhu for a while, and when he walked away through Bai Zhu's arms, he realized clearly that he was dead for the first time.

Ghosts are different from living people.

Lu Renren was a little melancholy.

This basement was Lu Renren's secret base. There were no more than five people in the orphanage who knew about it. Those five people were all dead now, and some of them didn't even have ghosts.

The room was arranged by his mother, but the dean's wife rarely came in, making this room completely Lu Renren's private space.

Lu Renren often stayed here when he was hiding, no matter whether he was alive or dead.

Lu Renren left the bed.

He glanced around, Ah Jing had already left, Bai Zhu slept on the bed because he was holding him, Chen Jin and Zhong Changya dug out the quilts from the closet and laid them on the floor.

The basement was very quiet, but the thunder outside could be faintly heard.

When Lu Renren left the basement, he didn't make a sound.

After so many years of death, he is still not familiar with the path of the orphanage, and he is looking for the dormitory before Bai Zhu by feeling.

He remembered that Bai Zhu had another companion, and for some reason, Lu Renren was a little uneasy, feeling that something happened to the orphanage that he didn't know about.

Lu Renren didn't find that dormitory, he went in the wrong direction, and somehow ended up in the cafeteria.When Lu Renren saw the two doors that were much larger than the other doors, he knew that he had gone the wrong way, and turned his head to go back.

However, he heard the sound of chewing, like chewing some bone, rattling.

Lu Renren froze in place.

The direction of the sound... is the kitchen next to the cafeteria.

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