strange neighbor

Jiang Duo put the doll casually in the living room, took off his coat and was about to take a bath, when something fell on the ground with a crisp snap, he lowered his head, and a piece of candy wrapped in purple laser paper was lying on the ground, probably When Santa Claus dropped the candy into his clothes for some reason, he smiled, picked up the candy, and stopped the hand that was about to unwrap the candy wrapper, and his expression instantly became serious: there is a little bit of candy in this candy. Wisps of ghostly air floated out.

He opened the wrapping paper, picked up the sugar ball, and sure enough, there was a flowing ghostly air wrapped in the round sugar ball.

He twisted a tactic, and the candy and ghost qi shattered into the air together. Jiang Duo's heart began to feel heavier. If there was ghost qi in every piece of candy, so many people picked up the candy, and they must have eaten it too. , the consequences are simply unimaginable.

Ghosts ate people's things, and the ashes disappeared, and people ate ghosts' things, which was also not a good thing. He had a headache in an instant, but it was very strange, why didn't he feel ghosts when he was so close to that Santa Claus?Is it because my cultivation base is too low or the energy of that thing is too high?

He rubbed his temples, put the doll he picked up in the alley together with the one Yu Xin gave to Ding Shijin, and then went into the bathroom. The warm water washed down from the top of his head and hit his skin, making him sigh comfortably. tone.

He was taking a shower when there was a light knock on the door. He turned off the shower, put on his bathrobe and went out. Who could it be so late?

When he reached the door, he opened the door without even thinking about it, and it was indeed Ding Shijin standing at the door. Jiang Duo looked down and saw the apple in his hand.

Ding Shijin lifted the apple and stuffed it into his arms: "Here you are."

Jiang Duo froze for a moment: "What?"

"Merry Christmas." After Ding Shijin finished speaking, he didn't care about Jiang Duo's reaction, and turned back to his house. Jiang Duo stood at the door holding the glowing red apple and smirked for a long time.

He put the apple on the coffee table, his hair was still dripping, and turned around and went into the bathroom to dry his hair. Just as he put down the hair dryer, he heard a knock on the door again. He walked out suspiciously, Ah Jin came again?

But this time I opened the door and found nothing.

He froze for a moment, frowned, glanced sharply at the door and closed it again, suddenly the light went out, the room was pitch black, only the moonlight from the window came in faintly, for a moment he His eyes couldn't adapt, so he blinked desperately twice.

"Who do you think I am?" said a high-pitched voice from the room.

Jiang Duo moved his fingers slightly by his side, slowly raised his footsteps, and answered softly, "Who are you?"

"Hey—you guessed it." The voice was weird, like an old record that was damaged.

Jiang Duo laughed out loud: "I guess...you are a coward."

"You..." It screamed angrily in an instant.

It was its sound that suddenly revealed its position. Jiang Duo quickly drew a tactic with his fingers and struck out. An object was hit instantly, and it screamed and ran to the side.

With a wave of his hand, Jiang Duo set up a barrier in the house, so as not to be heard by the neighbors upstairs and downstairs and complain.

The thing moved very quickly, Jiang Duo's eyes had already adapted to the dark light, and he could barely distinguish that it seemed to be a small thing running on the ground. Behind the sofa, avoiding Jiang Duo's attack.

But it was not Jiang Duo's opponent at all, and it was still beaten and injured all over while hiding.

"What the hell are you?" Jiang Duo asked.

That thing squatted behind the sofa, still fighting back with its neck stuck: "I, I'm your grandpa, I'm unlucky, I didn't expect you to be a stinky Taoist priest, grandpa won't play with you anymore!"

As he said that, he was about to break out of the window, but unexpectedly, he was hit back by a black shadow oncoming.

For a while, he fell to the ground and couldn't stand up.

Jiang Duo cast a fixing spell to keep it in place, then turned on the light, and saw Ding Shijin standing on the balcony.

"Ajin? Why are you here?" He asked in surprise.

Ding Shijin put his hands in his trouser pockets: "I heard a voice, come and have a look."

The thing was still on the ground screaming, Jiang Duo and Ding Shijin approached him, squatted on the ground and saw the appearance of the thing clearly. It had long limbs, but was short in stature, and it was wearing Santa's red hat on top of its head. Seeing this, he looked back at the doll on the coffee table, and sure enough, Santa Claus was gone.

He smiled: "Tell me this time, what the hell are you?"

"I... I am your grandfather."

Jiang Duo smiled: "You want to be my grandfather, don't you?"

He took out a very small dagger, which was engraved with mantras: "My grandpa may have gone to reincarnation, you don't even want to be reincarnated, right?"

After finishing speaking, he stabbed it with a knife, and the thing's eyes widened in fright: "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

The tip of the knife in Jiang Duo's hand was only a few millimeters away from it. If it could sweat, it might be sweating like a river by now. Jiang Duo gave it a cold look: "Then speak well."

"I, I am a lonely soul. There is, there is a puppeteer who can help us fulfill our wish to become human..." It rolled its eyes and stammered.

"Then?" Jiang Duo twisted the dagger into a flower in his hand.

The thing swallowed: "Then we can replace the real person."

"How?"

"It's just an exchange. He becomes a puppet and we become humans." The thing finished speaking quickly, and then hurriedly begged for mercy: "Please don't kill me, I can still be reincarnated."

Jiang Duo sneered: "Reincarnation? You have done so many bad things and still want to be reincarnated? Wait for the atonement!"

After speaking, he put it into the soul arresting bag and locked it up.

Ding Shijin sat on the sofa and frowned: "Is there any problem with that Santa today?"

Jiang Duo was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Ah Jin is really smart, then there is a big problem with the candies that Santa Claus gives."

"what is the problem?"

"There is a ghost inside." Jiang Duo said.

"What will happen if you eat it?" Ding Shijin's face was serious.

Jiang Duo shook his head, he didn't know what would happen if he ate it, he couldn't even figure out what that thing wanted to do now, but...

Ding Shijin looked at his expression: "What do you want?"

"What he wants to do, just go and find out." Jiang Duo patted his trousers.

"Okay, I'll be with you." Ding Shijin said.

"No, Ajin, you stay at home." Jiang Duo didn't want Ding Shijin to be in danger by following him.

Ding Shijin stood up and walked towards the balcony: "That's it."

"Ajin—" Jiang Duo called out.

Ding Shijin was sleepy, his eyes were full of sleepiness, he looked back at him impatiently: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Duo pointed to the door: "You can go out here."

Ding Shijin's face froze: "I'm willing, you can leave me alone."

After speaking, he disappeared on the balcony.

Jiang Duo was sitting on the sofa, and the apple that Ding Shijin gave was still there. A good Christmas has turned into an inexplicable horror plot to help ghosts become human?without return?What was the purpose of that puppeteer?

He pressed his temples, looked away from the apple, accidentally saw the woman doll next to the apple, thought about it, remembered what that thing said, he picked up the doll and held it in his hand to observe carefully.

The doll was cold in the hand, the workmanship was exquisite, and the panic on its face was lifelike, Jiang Duo froze for a moment, he remembered why this doll was familiar, it turned out to be that woman, that Xiaocao's mother.

No wonder... No wonder she looked at Xiaocao in danger but remained indifferent, because she was not Xiaocao's real mother at all, so she couldn't understand, or even really care about Xiaocao's safety.

He looked at the doll, as if he could see a pleading in its eyes, as if begging him to help him, Jiang Duo frowned and looked at it for a while, closed his eyes and pressed his finger on the top of the doll's head. The soul is at the position of Xuan'er in the center of the top of the head. Once that Xuan'er cools down, it proves that this person is hopeless. He didn't expect much from this doll, because he remembered what Grandma Xiaocao said, and Mother Xiaocao suddenly It has been a week since the change, which means that the real mother Xiaocao has been turned into a doll for at least a week. His fingers are on the top of the doll's head, and he feels it carefully. Unexpectedly, there is a very faint warmth From the top of the doll's head, Jiang Duo opened his eyes and chanted a series of spells, trying to turn her back, but after a long time of hard work, there was still no change.

He sighed, and held the doll in front of his eyes, the expression of the doll seemed to become sad, Jiang Duo looked at it: "Don't worry, I will do my best to rescue you back."

The next morning, he planned to go to Xiaocao's house again to meet her fake mother. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Ding Shijin leaning on his own door, kicking his foot backwards on the door, He was playing with his mobile phone in a very relaxed way, when he heard the voice he raised his head: "Let's go?"

Jiang Duo smiled bitterly: "Let's go." Ancestor.

Ding Shijin wore a black jacket-style down jacket. He put his hands in his trouser pockets and stood a little forward in front of Jiang Duo. From the corner of his eye, he felt that Jiang Duo was looking at him, but he didn't turn his head or turn around. After speaking, with a ding, the elevator reached the first floor, and the two went out one after the other, and then took a taxi to the alley.

"So... you mean, the mother of this family was transformed by that puppet?" Ding Shijin asked.

Jiang Duo nodded, and the two had already got out of the car. Relying on his superhuman memory, Jiang Duo led Ding Shijin to the gate of Xiaocao's house.

Xiaocao's house is very quiet today, the door is closed tightly, as if no one is there.

"No one?" Ding Shijin leaned against the door and took a look inside.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a very faint cry.

Jiang Duo's eyes froze, the cry was very familiar, it seemed to be...

"Grass."

Ding Shijin was also taken aback for a moment, holding on to the fence with both hands and about to jump over it.

Jiang Duo grabbed him quickly, looked at the spikes on the fence, and said quickly: "Follow me."

The two left the front door of Xiaocao's house, and after a while Jiang Duo led him to turn up another path, and walked right behind Xiaocao's house.

"Go from here, be careful, you won't be seen," he said.

"What are you afraid of?"

Jiang Duo smiled: "It will be troublesome if it is discovered, there is no need."

The two quietly turned into the yard in a remote corner. A surveillance camera was installed on the wall of Xiaocao's house, and the surveillance range was very wide. The two walked in step by step carefully, sticking to the wall.

When I walked to the door of the room, I found that the crying seemed to be louder.