Strange Story of Strange House

After reaching a consensus, Lin Chi took "Tang Xuan" and left the woods. In order to distinguish her from Tang Xuan, Lin Chi called her senior sister.The two walked on the road one after the other, the sun at dusk stretched the shadow very long.Lin Chi suddenly remembered the saying about the time of encountering demons - dusk is the handover of day and night, and it is also the time during the day when people and ghosts and ghosts can appear at the same time.He looked at the back of the senior sister, and felt that the scene at this time seemed to be subtly relevant.

The shadow of the senior sister swayed at his feet. Thanks to Shi Ji, the deceased senior sister had a shadow. This is probably one of the reasons why Tang Xuan's classmates never doubted her.But when you look closely, her shadow is darker than ordinary people's, and it seems like waves are surging inside, which is the effect of the dancing black wings of countless corpse girls.

A body made of corpses...

Lin Chi looked back and looked at the list given by Tang Xuan. There were many people on the list, but Lin Chi only planned to choose one or two people to verify his point of view.Thinking of this, Lin Chi subconsciously raised his head and glanced at the senior. He had a faint feeling that the senior actually knew what he said was right, and that he was not Tang Xuan, but for some reason, she couldn't accept this. fact.

Soon, Lin Chi chose his first target—Yuan Li, a senior with whom he had a fairly good relationship.After making up his mind, he quickly contacted Yuan Li.Yuan Li was idling in a coffee shop in the leisure area at this time, and she agreed very simply to Lin Chi's request to meet.

A few minutes later, Lin Chi rushed to the coffee shop with his senior sister.

"Tang Xuan, you're here too. How did you get together?" Yuan Li was a little surprised by Tang Xuan's arrival, and quickly asked the two to sit down, "What did you ask me to do for you on the phone just now?"

"Sister Yuan, it's like this. This semester, I have a research topic of 'Self and Me in the Eyes of Others'. I chose my senior sister as a reference, and I want to get to know her with her friends, what she is in your eyes."

"Hey, what a big deal, Tang Xuan, you just need to let me know, and let the junior come here to ask me, isn't it?" Yuan Li sat down next to Tang Xuan carelessly, "What do you need me to do?"

"Sister, why don't you tell me about the scene when you two met for the first time."

"Meeting for the first time? Let me think about it. It should be when I first started school in freshman year. I left my parents for the first time. I was very nervous. When I checked in, Tang Xuan stood next to me and talked to me when I was nervous. Then Sometimes I thought, this girl is really kind... Later, we became acquainted after chatting, and we were assigned to a class with common topics, and we became good friends..." Yuan Li stopped suddenly and looked at her worriedly. Senior sister, "Tang Xuan, what's wrong with you? You don't look very well."

"I'm fine, let's continue." The senior sister forced a smile and signaled Yuan Li to continue.

"Okay, tell me if you're not feeling well... There's nothing else to say about the first meeting. Is there anything else you want to ask?" Yuan Li moved to Tang Xuan's side and held her hand.

Lin Chi naturally also noticed that the senior sister turned pale the moment Yuan Li finished speaking, but he was cruel and continued to ask: "Senior sister, does she have any talents?"

"Talent?" Yuan Li thought for a while, "She plays the violin very well."

"Can senior sister play the piano?" Lin Chi asked.

"Piano? No." Yuan Li denied without thinking.

"No? Are you sure?"

"Of course, I remember very clearly," Yuan Li smiled and looked at the senior sister, "because I asked the same question before. If you play the violin so well, haven't you learned the piano? The piano feels more suitable for her. As a result, she Tell me her mother doesn't like the piano, so she didn't learn it."

The senior kept her head down and didn't respond to Yuan Li's words.Lin Chi glanced at her, asked Yuan Li some irrelevant questions, and then got up to leave.

The two of them insisted on leaving, and Yuan Li couldn't force her to stay, so she had to ask her senior to pay more attention to her health before letting them go.After leaving the coffee shop, Lin Chi accompanied the silent senior sister for a long walk, feeling that she seemed to have calmed down a lot, so he asked, "Do you remember what Yuan Li said just now?"

"..."

"A person's memory may lie, but a group of people will never remember them all wrongly. Senior sister, you... are really not Tang Xuan."

"Whoever says that the memories of a group of people can't lie..." The senior sister glared at him, but her eyes were a little shaken.

"If you still don't believe me, shall we continue?"

"……it is good!"

Since the senior insisted, Lin Chi naturally did as she wished.

Having said that, seeing the panic in the girl's eyes, Lin Chi still couldn't help but soften his heart.After all, he was raised by ghosts, and his affection for ghosts is higher than that of ordinary people.Looking at the senior in front of him, he couldn't help but think of what Lou Qi said before leaving the noodle shop.

"If the butterfly beside her is really Corpse Ji, she can't be a living person. This matter is much easier to handle. As long as she realizes that she is not Tang Xuan, everything will be resolved."

"Does that do her any harm?"

"After all, there is some damage, but it won't hurt her life. After all, she has already died once, and it is impossible to die again. Moreover, the one downstairs can't wait for too long."

It is not a simple matter for the group of people around Tang Xuan to be able to successfully distinguish between two almost identical girls. Lin Chi was really worried that Tang Xuan would not last until then, so when he heard that it would not hurt the senior sister, he immediately So I chose the method of "let the senior sister realize that she is not Tang Xuan".It's just that the plan was actually implemented, but Lin Chi couldn't bear it. No matter how small the injury is, it is still hurt and it will hurt.

But he also understood that the damage had already been done, and if he gave up at this time, not only the senior sister, but even Tang Xuan would not be able to keep him.From the very beginning, he had already made a choice between these two people.

There are many bars and drink shops in the leisure area. Soon, Lin Chi saw a senior on the list in a water bar.Meeting by chance is worse than meeting each other, Lin Chi took his senior sister and went straight to him.

This Senior Xu Kang'an and Tang Xuan are in a club, and they have been together since the club was formed, and they have a very good relationship.It just so happened that this senior was the roommate of Lin Chi's class assistant back then, so Lin Chi also knew him.

"Long time no see, senior."

"It's been a long time." Xu Kang'an was taken aback by Lin Chi who popped out suddenly, and then looked at the two with a teasing face, "Why did you two get together?"

Lin Chi repeated the rhetoric he had just fooled Yuan Li, probably because of the presence of his senior sister, Xu Kang'an did not doubt that he was there, so he cooperatively left his companion temporarily to make time for Lin Chi.

"Senior, look at senior, is there any change compared to before?" Lin Chi asked straight to the point as soon as the three sat down.

Xu Kang'an rubbed his chin and looked at the senior for a while, then smiled and said, "It's become more beautiful!"

"Young poor! This is a serious matter, be serious!" Lin Chi beat Xu Kang'an helplessly, and the latter restrained the exaggerated smile on his face, and sat upright.

"Okay, okay, let me take a look..." Xu Kangan stared at the senior who had been smiling at him for a long time, "The temperament has improved, and you are no longer like the original you."

"The original me...what is it like?" The senior sister who had been silent since entering the door suddenly asked, which attracted Lin Chi's surprised glance.

Xu Kang'an thought for a while: "So you are just a bastard. You walk and jump, talk and laugh, and you are cheerful and capable of doing things. Generally speaking, you are easy to get along with. Of course, I am not saying that you are not good now. Now It's pretty good too, more dignified, with this appearance, a well-deserved goddess... That's right, it doesn't feel easy to approach, not so kind."

Xu Kang'an was talking, but when he looked up, he found that the two people around him had no smiling faces at all, and the atmosphere was a little dull for a while.

"What, what's wrong?"

"No, it's okay..." Lin Chi pulled out a smile instantly, exchanged polite greetings with Xu Kang'an, and left the water bar with the senior sister who was already in a bad mood.

"Sister..."

"Ok?"

"Are you ok?"

"……Um."

Lin Chi looked at the senior sister who forced a smile in front of him, and his heart suddenly twitched violently.He was soberly aware that he was denying her existence bit by bit.But he had no way out, he turned his head sideways, a little afraid to face the senior sister: "I'll go ask someone else."

As soon as the words fell, a slender hand suddenly grabbed him.

Lin Chi's words were like the last straw, completely crushing the senior, she fell to the ground, holding him tightly with one hand——

"That's enough, little brother... that's enough."

******

On the way back to the woods in the back mountain, the senior was still walking in front of Lin Chi. She was wearing a white dress and looked a little thin in the howling autumn wind. Lin Chi hesitated, took off his hoodie, and handed it to her.The senior sister looked at him with some puzzlement: "Ghosts are not afraid of the cold."

Perhaps because of the cruel things he did to her before, Lin Chi always wanted to make up for it within his ability, so he put his coat on the senior sister's shoulders: "Let the goddess walk around the school with her arms cold, my Do you still want your reputation?"

"Pfft." The senior sister took the coat and made a face at Lin Chi, then she strode forward and stopped suddenly after walking a few steps.

She suddenly remembered what Xu Kang'an said in the tea restaurant: "So you are just a bastard, you walk and jump, talk and laugh, you are cheerful and have a good ability to do things, generally speaking, you are very easy to get along with..."

The original Tang Xuan?

In the next few minutes, she suddenly started bouncing forward, the long road came to the end, then she stopped, pulled out a smile that didn't fit her temperament at all, and asked Lin Chi: " Primary school boy, so, am I more like her? More like... the Tang Xuan you all like?"

Lin Chi was choked up for a while, and he paused for a long time before speaking: "Sister, you are not her, and you don't need to learn from her, you are already a very good existence."

"Really..." Senior sister tilted her head and looked at him for a while, her shoulders drooped, "But you like Tang Xuan better."

"Senior is so good, she must have had a wonderful life and a lot of people who love you."

"I now believe that I'm not Tang Xuan. I don't remember all the people I met today, and the things they said. I don't remember going shopping with Yuan Li, and I don't remember joining clubs with Xu Kang'an. I will Playing the piano, you can play music with your fingers on the keys... The most important thing is that the Tang Xuan they are talking about is still alive, and I have been dead for a long time..."

"Sister, don't you remember any memories of your life? Who are you? Where is your home?"

"I don't remember, I wandered in the woods for a long time, until one day, they suddenly saw me, everyone who met me would call me Tang Xuan, I thought that was my name, I wandered for a long time After that, I finally got my own name. I used Tang Xuan’s name to meet Tang Xuan’s friends and do Tang Xuan’s work. If she is the real Tang Xuan, then who am I?”

"..."

"Occasionally, I think of a man. I don't know who he is, but I always feel that he must be a very important person to me. I haven't seen him among Tang Xuan's friends... Oh, I should have realized it earlier I'm actually not Tang Xuan's, many things have already been revealed, but I don't want to think about it, I don't want to continue to be a person without a name at all."

"terribly sorry……"

"It's not your fault. However, I really want to know, who am I? My lost memory, I want to get it back!"

"But senior sister, what you forget may be bad and make you fearful, otherwise you won't forget it."

"But I can't just go on like this. I have no future, and I don't want to lose the past. You also said, senior sister, I'm so good, even if I really have a lot of enemies, there will be a few people after all, yes love me?"

******

With the mentality of not bothering the two masters, Lin Chi took his senior sister to the noodle shop. The senior sister who was a ghost could not enter the noodle shop with the array, so Lin Chi temporarily placed her in the shop next door and went alone. I found Lou Qi.

Recently, he has come to the noodle shop so many times that he can't count it. He only needs to inform Danqing before he can go upstairs to find Lou Qi.Of course, what he didn't know was that from the moment he poured blood on the prayer talisman, he had become the veritable proprietress of this noodle shop.

Every time Danqing sees him, what he thinks in his heart is: The proprietress is here to inspect the work again!If it were someone else, no matter how many times she visited the noodle restaurant, she would not let people see Lou Qi easily.

The door at the end of the corridor was ajar, Lin Chi walked in softly, and found that Lou Qi had fallen asleep on the recliner again.This is the first time Lin Chi has seen Lou Qi's sleeping face. I have to say that Lou Da beauty is also very good-looking when she is asleep. Once those sharp eyes are closed, he hides his usual sternness, and his expression is soft. It was a mess, the curve of the side face extended gracefully, and the line of the neck parted in the middle, smoothly drawn into the collar, and Lin Chi could see the beautiful collarbone from the place where a button was unbuttoned...

Lin Chi swallowed quietly, hesitating whether to wake up Lou Qi, although his sleepy face is so beautiful and rare to see, but the senior is still waiting outside after all.He was hesitating when Lou Qi suddenly opened his eyes: "What's the matter?"

Lin Chi was taken aback, realizing that Lou Qi might have seen the way he stared at the nymphomaniac just now, and he felt a little uncomfortable.So while peeking at Lou Qi's expression, he organized words to explain his intentions, and as soon as he finished speaking, Lou Qi's face turned dark.

"What should I say about you? It's understandable that you want to save your senior sister, but now you even want to help that evil ghost?"

"She didn't intend to harm Tang Xuan, and, besides, I deny her existence, so can't I help her find it?" Lin Chi replied dully.He has a natural intimacy with ghosts, and this intimacy is even deeper than Tang Xuan, who is also a human being.So depriving senior sister of this recognition of existence made him feel extremely guilty.

"She is already a ghost, what's the point of finding the past?"

"Why should ghosts be treated differently from humans? Ghosts also have emotions and desires, and they will be sad if they lose precious things..." Lin Chi pouted, Lou Meiren was still more likable when she was asleep.

Thinking of rushing to ask for help, but being rejected without hesitation, Lin Chi felt a little embarrassed. He subconsciously thought that Lou Qi was different from other people.But looking at Lou Qi's performance, he probably doesn't like ghosts, so he probably won't like him who was raised by ghosts, right?Thinking of this, Lin Chi suddenly couldn't help feeling sour in his heart.

"Midget your own business." Lou Qi scolded softly, Lin Chi's nose was already sour, but now even his eyes started to turn red, looking extremely aggrieved.But Lin Chi was the one who made a contract with Lou Qi after all, and Lou Qi was in control of him after all. Seeing this, he had no choice but to explain: "She is a person who is about to reincarnate, even if she regains her memory, a bowl Meng Po soup, no matter how unforgettable it is, it will be forgotten, why waste time and effort to find the memory now?"

"Lou Qi, if I'm going to die right now, and I want to eat the noodles you gave me before I die, I will die if I eat it, and I will die if I don't eat it, will you satisfy my request?"

"Then have you ever thought about it, what if your senior sister forgets something, she chooses to forget it because she can't bear it?"

"I thought about it... I also raised this issue with my senior sister, but she said that even so, she would not continue to be a person without a name. Lou Qi, you should help me." Lin Chi didn't feel wronged anymore, he stepped forward to Lou Qi's side, begging softly.

"..."

"Please~"

"Tsk, I really can't help you! You go and bring her up." Lou Qi temporarily closed the formation so that the senior could come in, and Lin Chi happily went downstairs to pick her up.As soon as he turned around, Danqing swayed into the room.

"The proprietress has been too unselfish recently. In just one day, he has brought two women to the noodle shop! They look exactly the same!"

"Exactly the same?" Lou Qi glanced at Danqing thoughtfully, who shrank back, "Ahem, cough, cough, this is not the point, the point is boss, shouldn't you severely suppress the arrogance of the lady boss! "

"Is it busy downstairs? Then open another branch." Lou Qi said calmly as he spread the book on his lap.

"Ahem, ahem, I'm leaving now." Danqing slowly moved towards the door, and finally opened the door and said to Lou Qi pitifully, "Master, once you show your face, your performance downstairs will double. What! Let’s not talk about opening a branch, I promise I won’t make fun of the proprietress again, do you think it’s okay?”

"..."