freeallnovels Chapter 3732 Them
Chapter 3732 Them
Chapter 3732 They...
Ziling's mother just received a phone call.
"Who's calling so late?" Li Zi asked curiously.
"Gan Hong." Zi Ling's mother glanced at the old clock on the wall of the dean's office. "The car was hit, and the onboard computer generated a damage report. The company received the news, so they called to ask about the situation... I have explained it clearly."
Lizi stuck out her tongue. This car had only been allocated to Ziling's mother a few days ago. "That Miss Gan didn't curse, did she?"
"That's not the case." Zi Ling's mother shook her head.
Not only did he not blame her, but he was also very concerned about whether she was injured or not... The company would even take care of the follow-up of the vehicle, so Zi Ling's mother didn't have to worry about it.
Gan Hong's attitude was so good that Zi Ling's mother even felt that Song Ying was listening next to her when she was talking on the phone.
"It's twelve o'clock. It's so fast." Li Zi also looked at the time.
Zi Ling's mother smiled and said, "Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat. Wait for me."
"Sister, where are you going?" Li Zi asked hurriedly.
"The canteen?" Ren Ziling said subconsciously, "There should be a lot of ingredients, leftovers, etc. I can make some egg fried rice, right? It's not like you haven't eaten it before."
"…I'd rather not." Li Zi shook her head. "It's raining heavily outside and the power is out. Don't bother. It's not a big deal if I don't have a midnight snack."
But in fact, Li Zi eats midnight snacks every day - at least in Ziling's mother's opinion, Li Zi has never stopped doing this - and what's even more annoying is that Li Zi never gains weight.
"You really don't want to eat it?" Zi Ling's mother stared at the pear suspiciously, "Have you changed your personality?"
"Hey, actually I have this!" Li Zi shyly took out a bag from her schoolbag. The bag contained two roasted sweet potatoes, but they were obviously cold.
"That's what I told you." Zi Ling's mother couldn't help but smile, but this way she wouldn't have to go to the cafeteria.
After the two of them had a simple meal of sweet potatoes, Zi Ling's mother dozed off while sitting and fell asleep unknowingly. Li Zi saw this and carefully pulled a blanket over her... She raised her palm in front of Zi Ling's mother and stretched after confirming that she was asleep.
"Shall we start working?"
Li Zi murmured softly, and then her pupils flashed an icy blue color - the moment she closed her eyes, the stairs, corridors, inside and outside of the entire building were included in her [sight].
The quietly buried ice crystals act like surveillance cameras, monitoring the surroundings of the building in all directions without any blind spots.
But at this time, the water in the building was calm and the river was roaring.
Li Zi was not in a hurry. Since the thing could appear in front of her so blatantly, it must not be a coincidence.
"Now we can be sure that those toys are not earthbound spirits. They have such heavy resentment that they are almost turning into resentful spirits..." Li Zi stood by the window of the principal's office and looked out. "But the strange thing is that when I came here during the day, I didn't feel any resentment at all... How come?"
Not only did Li Zi not sense any resentment, she could even feel that this welfare home was filled with a peaceful atmosphere... This was very strange.
"Ok?"
While she was thinking about it, a figure suddenly [broke] into Li Zi's icy sight.
"It's so late..."
She looked back at Zi Ling's mother who was sleeping soundly, hesitated for a moment, and ultimately did not choose any action...she planned to stay in the office.
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Inside the dormitory building, Cha Tiantian and another nursing lady had just finished their night patrol... Cha Tiantian couldn't help but yawn.
"You must be sleepy. Go back to sleep. There should be no problem." The nurse said softly.
"Yes, a little." Cha Tiantian nodded, "By the way, Sister Qian, where are you sleeping tonight?"
Sister Qian is from a nearby village and has a family, so she can’t go home tonight.
"I've told Cuifen that I'll sleep in her room tonight. I'll just deal with it for the night."
Cha Tiantian nodded. Cuifen was another caregiver who often stayed overnight at the welfare home.
"Sister Qian, my family didn't say anything, did they?"
Sister Qian said angrily, "My man is so happy to know that I'm not going back to sleep tonight. I don't know where he is playing mahjong right now! Don't let me catch him gambling again!"
Cha Tiantian smiled and said nothing, "Hey, Sister Qian, is that Old Man Li?"
Sister Qian followed Cha Tiantian's gaze and saw a figure walking along the eaves and the corridor beside the playground in the darkness. It was too dark to see clearly.
"That should be it. The only person who walks without lights at this late hour is Old Man Li." Sister Qian muttered, "Hey, after a closer look, it doesn't seem to be Old Man Li. It seems to be Ah Bang?"
"Ah, Brother Bang?" Cha Tiantian frowned, "What is he doing so late at night... Is he carrying something?"
"I don't know what he's going to do." Sister Qian shook her head. "Don't worry about it. A fool doesn't know what he's thinking. Anyway, nothing will go wrong... I'm sleepy, let's go back to sleep. It's thundering and raining in the middle of the night, it's scary."
Cha Tiantian nodded. It was well known that she was afraid of thunder. Fortunately, there was no thunder during the night patrol... But Sister Qian looked at Cha Tiantian, and her face did not look very good at this time. She was probably just barely holding on.
The two of them soon arrived at the small staff building next door.
Cha Tiantian glanced at the rooms on the first floor that had been cleaned up in the morning to entertain Ren Ziling and others...there were no lights on in the three rooms at this time.
——Maybe everyone is asleep?
Cha Tiantian thought.
The room she lives in is on the left side of the second floor, and Sister Cuifang's room, where Sister Qian is staying tonight, is on the right side of the third floor...Sister Qian has to go up one more floor.
"That's it, go to bed early."
The two said goodbye at the stairs.
"Sister Qian, you should go to bed early too." Cha Tiantian smiled and watched Sister Qian go upstairs before walking towards his room.
The light from the portable gas lamp made her shadow sway in the corridor... Cha Tiantian swallowed subconsciously at this moment, always feeling that the thunder would come again at any time, and her hands and feet felt a little cold.
This old problem of fear of thunder has been bothering her for a long time.
Perhaps the more you fear something, the more likely it is to appear... Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning in the sky, and Cha Tiantian trembled all over.
In the lightning, in addition to her shadow, there was another elongated shadow in the corridor.
Cha Tiantian felt the hairs on his body suddenly stand up. He turned around instinctively and quickly raised the gas lamp in his hand - the light was shining on an empty corridor on the second floor.
Cha Tiantian rubbed his eyes vigorously, then hurriedly picked up the gas lamp and walked backwards... He walked all the way to the door of the room and hurriedly took out the key.
Just go into the room, just go into the room, just go into the room...
She was so nervous that her hands were shaking so much that she failed to insert the key into the keyhole several times - the key even fell to the ground.
Cha Tiantian bent down subconsciously and saw the key on the ground.
Just at this time.
A hand suddenly reached out and grabbed her hand.
"what……"
Amid the screams, thunder roared.
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Rumble, rumble, rumble—!
There was a flash of lightning, and in the overhead floor next to the comprehensive building, there were used tires, wooden stakes, rope nets - even a spliced plastic slide.
The space is well utilized, like a small playground.
But in the empty mezzanine, the seesaw was swinging up and down, there seemed to be the sound of running on the slide, and the rope net was constantly shaking.
Under the sudden flash of lightning, more than a dozen figures suddenly appeared in this empty mezzanine... They wandered around in this small world.
Suddenly, a light shone.
This instantly attracted their attention...As the light approached, a young man with black hair appeared.
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Luo Qiu looked at everything in the overhead layer.
Looking at the little figures that stopped because of his arrival... Suddenly, he squatted down and picked up the plastic football from the ground.
After weighing it for a moment, Luo Qiu smiled slightly and threw the plastic football in his hand towards the nearest figure.
A little boy about ten years old, with his head covered, pale face, and black nails.
The little boy subconsciously took the plastic football that was thrown to him, seeming a little at a loss.
Luo Qiu placed the gas lamp in his hand on the cabinet beside him, opened his hands slightly, and made a "receiving" gesture towards the child.
As if encouraged, the little boy hesitated and threw the ball in his hand.
"Very good." Luo Qiu took it easily, "You can be more powerful next time. Boys need some strength."
He threw the ball again.
This time, after the little boy received the ball in his hands, he exerted force, and the plastic football no longer flew in a parabola, but in a straight line towards Luo Qiu... There was even a faint glow on the plastic football.
But Luo Qiu just took it this time.
With the repeated interactions between him and the little boy, the animals that had stopped around him gradually started to move again... Time passed little by little.
When the little boy gasped for breath and threw the ball for the last time, the ball was already light and weak...less than half of it fell to the ground, bouncing and rolling.
Suddenly, all the children in the overhead amusement park stopped, and then they all showed panicked looks... and disappeared in an instant.
Luo Qiu looked at the small ball that finally rolled to his feet, bent down and picked it up... The footsteps came from behind him, very obvious, the sound of rain boots stepping on the concrete floor - Old Man Li.
"You...can see them?"
Luo Qiu looked at Old Man Li calmly, "From what you said, it seems that you can see it too."
Old Man Li couldn't help but frowned, and looked at Luo Qiu again with suspicion and vigilance. After thinking for a while, he said, "You shouldn't play with them. It's easy to be discovered."
"Why?" Luo Qiu asked curiously.
Old man Li said calmly, "Humans and ghosts are different. They shouldn't be here. If this place is haunted, what do you think other people will think? Will anyone dare to come here? There are many gossipers in the hospital. It will be easy for everyone to know about it. It's different now. If we provoke people from the local administration bureau to come, these children will not be able to be saved."
"You've been protecting these kids?"
Old man Li shook his head. "Protect? I don't have that ability... At first, I couldn't see them either. I could only see them occasionally under some special circumstances. But I could feel their presence... They often come out to play at night."
"Now?"
Old Man Li said, "I have only been able to see them clearly recently. It may be related to the changes in the outside world... I can see them more easily. But for now, I haven't found anyone else in the welfare home who can see them. Or, even if they have seen them, they haven't said anything."
Luo Qiu nodded, thought for a moment and said, "Who are these children?"
"In fact, they are all poor children who died young... They were abandoned in the beginning because of various problems. Some were disabled, and some had congenital diseases. They didn't live long anyway." Old Man Li sighed, "This welfare home has been open for many years. Over the years, more than a dozen children have died because of this... I still remember what they looked like."
"Hmm...I see." Luo Qiu nodded.
"They didn't do anything bad." Old man Li touched the slide beside him. "People say that ghosts are attached to the world of the living because they can't bear to leave. They have stayed here all this time, probably because they can't bear to leave... For them, this is their last home. But after all, humans and ghosts are on different paths, and there is nothing I can do. I can only come here at night to accompany them and see them... Even if they never talk to each other, I can only see them occasionally, so that they know that someone still remembers them."
After a moment of silence, Luo Qiu said softly: "I won't tell anyone about this matter casually."
Old Man Li nodded, thought for a moment and said, "You...are you born with this, or did you only see it recently?"
“It’s natural, I guess.”
"Well...does Ling know about this?" Old man Li suddenly asked again.
Luo Qiu shook his head.
Old Man Li said, "Then don't tell her. Although she looks like a tiger woman, she is actually very afraid of ghosts. She was scared to tears when she was a child... Forget it, let's not talk about her."
Luo Qiu chuckled, and felt that it was worthwhile to hear this from Old Man Li.
In fact, Old Man Li is not really taciturn. Once the topic is opened, the old man is quite talkative... He is even very interested in supernatural things.
Perhaps it was because he had finally met Luo Qiu, a person who was born with the [Yin-Yang Eyes], and was too excited, Old Man Li even wanted to invite Luo Qiu to his room to continue learning about this matter.
"Oh, by the way, I steamed some buns in the canteen kitchen." Old Man Li thought for a moment and said, "Girl Ling should be taking care of the dean. You can bring some food over later. When this girl was little, she would often sneak into the kitchen to eat when she was hungry and couldn't sleep at night... She needs to eat something at night."
On the way to the cafeteria, the talkative old man Li suddenly frowned.
I saw three figures of different sizes standing in front of me - they were not standing on the corridor, but standing in the rain outside the corridor.
He lowered his head, as if he was standing in the corner as punishment for having done something wrong.
"Who are these three?"
Old Man Li hesitated and said, "These three...are a little different from them. I don't know why. They are also with the other children. And..."
"And what."
Old Man Li said with a serious expression: "These three are the children who were lost this year. Others don't know and think they are just lost... But I know very well that they are gone long ago."
As he was speaking, lightning flashed, and the three figures standing in the rainstorm disappeared in a flash.
Old man Li seemed to be used to it. "Let's go. They appear from time to time. It's a pity that I can't talk to them... By the way, do you know how to communicate with them?"
Luo Qiu said: "Usually only when they are willing to communicate actively."
"Is that so..." Old man Li thought thoughtfully.
He continued to ask questions about this matter, and as he was talking, he had already arrived in the kitchen - the kitchen was now lit.
"It's so late, why are there still people here?" Old Man Li said in astonishment, "Isn't it that Zi girl is here again looking for food?"
This was more like a joke.
Luo Qiu didn't say anything and directly opened the kitchen door.
Then I saw a figure sitting on a small stool, his shoulders shaking, not knowing what he was doing... A strong smell of blood filled the air.
"Ah Bang? What...what are you doing?!" Old man Li couldn't help but shout in a deep voice.
Hearing this, Brother Ah Bang slowly turned his head. On his face, little drops of blood formed thin lines, and there were several such bloodstains... He suddenly grinned at Old Man Li and Luo Qiu behind him.
Rumble——! !