Forces of Temptation

Chapter 26: Xiao Ming's daily life (13)

Views:

Long hair in the sewer.

Graffiti behind the wall.

Missing sister.

Heretic teachings under the banner of "resurrection"...

Pieces of clues were pieced together, all pointing to the saddest ending—

As early as when she saw the family portrait graffiti behind the wallpaper, Shen Jie felt that something was wrong.

She has children, so she knows that when most children paint, they are not looking for complete realism.

The child's portrayal is often his ideal picture.

But in his paintings, there are only his father and his young sister.

no mother.

The "Cube Ark" team in the children's room has also stopped discussing and turned off the lights.

They also want Jiang Fang to complete tonight's task.

Li Yinhang consciously fell asleep on the table.

Nan Zhou was lying on the floor, and by the mottled light of the night light, he looked at the warm and slightly deformed graffiti on the wall.

He has been painting since he was a child, and he has been an art teacher, and he also knows children's painting preferences.

Xiao Ming's paintings probably have no impression of his mother at all, nor do he have any aspirations.

His mother may have died before he could remember.

In his small world, there are only his father and sister.

Because he has no concept of mother, he does not meet the requirement of "the most dutiful son" stipulated by the teachings.

Nan Zhou thought that this was probably the reason why the man did not choose to sacrifice his young son.

He thought again, Xiao Ming's sister, that young girl with long hair wearing Miss Coco, really died unconsciously

Xiao Ming said in his diary that there was always no one in his house.

Xiao Ming blacked out all words related to "Faily", which is a manifestation of avoidance and disgust.

Xiao Ming cooks by himself, plays games by himself, takes a bath by himself, and sleeps by himself.

Even after watching a good movie, he has no one to share with.

... At this time, where did Xiao Ming's sister go

Xiao Ming's older sister had a mother.

Was she forcibly sacrificed by her father, or would she be willing to sacrifice herself because of the inseparable happy memories of her childhood and her mother

Nan Zhou put his hand on his forehead, closed his eyes and pondered.

He couldn't tell which one might be more tragic.

There is no divine power that can bring the dead back to life.

There is no doubt about that.

Therefore, even if men donate enough money and become cadres, they will not really kill a girl.

He wondered if the man had an agreement with her when he killed his daughter.

But at that time, he must have been full of warm expectations.

The death came silently.

At least on the day they came, on the night of July 2, in the early morning of July 3, neither they nor Xiao Ming heard the screams of massacre.

No struggle, no noise.

Everything is out of blind love.

The man watched his daughter die, either hanged himself or swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills.

He leaned against the bed, watching her face, waiting for a miracle.

But as time passed, he became increasingly restless.

The daughter on the bed did not bring back her mother's soul with a guiding light, but gradually burned out her youth when she first arrived.

He touched his daughter's lips, it was cold.

He touched his daughter's palm, it was hard.

No airflow under the nose, no heave in the chest, no pulse.

It doesn't take a night for a man to realize he's been cheated.

The younger son is still sleeping peacefully in the children's room.

Therefore, the collapse of men can only be silent.

The wife will not come back to life.

The daughter is also gone.

But... if my son finds out...

At that time, the father who had brought up two children, in his position, how would he choose

As a father who condoned and acquiesced in his daughter's death, he would be taken away by the police.

Xiao Ming will lose all his family members overnight.

More importantly, men are afraid of taking responsibility.

He couldn't afford such a tragic outcome.

He wants to escape. He can only escape.

So the tool cabinet with the hand saw is opened.

The drain opened.

The steam valve of the pressure cooker is installed.

My daughter's clothes and shoes are packed.

Overnight, the father, trembling and desperate, wiped away all traces of his daughter's home.

at the same time.

Shen Jie, who was in the same space, felt chills all over her body, and closed her eyes tightly, only then did she escape from this chilling human tragedy.

Thin monkey and fitness trainer are waiting for her to make up her mind.

Shen Jie blinked hard, got up and patted the thin monkey's messy hair.

The clue he found was worth 400 points.

A dungeon has advanced to this level, and the main line may have come to an end.

Shen Jie said: "Go to sleep. In the morning tomorrow, maybe the door will appear by itself."

The thin monkey moved his waist with difficulty, and his eyes were still full of fear when he looked at the computer: "How about we go to the living room to sleep?"

"You're hurt, don't move." Shen Jie looked at his embarrassed face, and pulled the computer chair to his side, her shrewd eyes softened when she looked at the thin monkey, as if she was seeing her sick children.

"Xiao Shen and I are here to accompany you."

It turned out that Shen Jie was too optimistic.

The surprise of discovering the clues last night evaporated after dawn.

When I woke up, the door did not appear.

The house shrunk in a big circle again.

And a strange transformation took place.

—Jagged brick cracks, wavy ceilings, doorknobs undulating like human molars.

The whole house, like a failed product that was melted by the high temperature in the kiln, and a cardboard box that was messed up by the bear child, floated in midair crookedly.

To make matters worse, it was only the house that was originally deformed.

Now, the intensification of shrinking has caused all the decorations to shrink!

Even the graffiti on the walls has been transformed.

The characters' lips are flat, askew, and pulled outward, from ordinary doodles to terrifyingly comical drawings that are hard to look at.

Computers, summer homework, diaries, all shrunk.

The summer homework was simply left as a slap-sized booklet.

They are like adults who have strayed into Toy Town or Lilliput.

It is entirely predictable that if this continues, tomorrow, the day after, they will be a pile of rotten meat in a can in constant compression.

The flow of time also visibly accelerated again.

Although the time accelerated yesterday, it was still subtle. It took about 20 hours to complete the original 24 hours.

And now the second hand has made no secret of its terrible rhythm.

Da da da.

--gt;gt;

It seems to be the footsteps of a fierce ghost.

Yu Tuisi took some sleeping pills last night and slept very deeply, so he was not woken up by the noise.

Chen Sufeng heard it, but in order to protect Yu Tuisi, he did not go out.

After hearing Shen Jie's overview of last night's situation, Yu Tuisi frowned slightly, thinking deeply.

The fitness coach was so anxious that he turned around like a fly: "What's going on?! Where have we missed? How can the door be opened?!"

Shen Jie hissed him.

She knew that the current situation was completely beyond her ability.

She asked Yu Tuisi, "what do you think?"

"... It's the same question that Nan Zhou raised."

Yu Tuisi said, "Last night, it wasn't Mr. Hou who did the task. Why did the ghost attack Mr. Hou?"

Nan Zhou, who was beside him, nodded earnestly to the diary in his hand.

He said: "...there is no logic."

Hearing Nan Zhou's headless words, Shen Jie's head was almost bald.

Where is the logic? !

The countdown to life is in front of them, visible to the naked eye, and they don't have long to play the riddles.

The proof is that Chen Sufeng didn't sit at the narrow desk for a long time, and Nan Zhou had to go into the kitchen to prepare.

When he was setting the pots and chopsticks one by one and thinking about today's dishes, there was a slight knock on the door behind him.

It is Li Yinhang.

After being accompanied by Jiang Fang for two days, Nan Zhou asked naturally, "Where's Brother Fang?"

Li Yinhang opened his mouth: "Still in the children's room..."

Nan Zhou went straight to the point: "Do you have something to say?"

"I have an idea since yesterday, and I want to verify it."

Li Yinhang was not a coy character either. Nan Zhou asked her to tell her, and she said so.

Nan Zhou: "What do you need me to do?"

Li Yinhang: "I'll just come. Because it's just an idea, I'm not sure if it's useless... I'll tell you when I'm sure. You and Jiang Fang think of you, I'll do mine, and neither side will delay."

Nan Zhou didn't ask in detail, "Okay, I'll make a dish to treat you."

Li Yinhang: "..." There is no need.

She quickly declined: "No, no, just borrow Nanji Star and be brave."

Li Yinhang went into the second bedroom with the South Pole star, which was looking around, and woke up the computer that was dormant.

The original computer screen is only the size of an iPad, which is like a scaled-down model.

She let out a sigh of relief, took out a pen and paper, placed it in front of the computer, and operated it unskillfully.

The thin monkey went to the toilet, and when he came out limping, he caught a glimpse of Li Yinhang sitting alone in front of the computer in the second bedroom, staring at the screen for a moment, and was shocked.

"Hey!"

Seeing Li Yinhang turn his head, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He also thought that Li Yinhang was also being tortured.

The skinny monkey asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Yinhang pointed to the webpage in front of him: "I'll look at this website again."

The skinny monkey snorted and left.

… the guts are fat enough.

Li Yinhang's courage is not fat at all.

She stared at the screen, biting her thumb, her ears were high, and any turbulence could make her quiver one after another.

For some reason, when he left Nanzhou, Nanji Xing was in a slack mood, curled up beside Li Yinhang's hand and dozed off with his slender tail.

Occasionally woke up, holding Li Yinhang's thumb, like a child holding a bottle, nibbled a few times.

However, with it accompanied, Li Yinhang was not too scared anymore.

She put all her energy into it, and even the manual tasks were done by Nan Zhou for her.

After all, with her poor manual skills, she could no longer handle the matches with the thickness of each hair.

She even helped the fitness trainer with the task of playing games.

Seeing that Li Yinhang was obsessed with computers, Thin Monkey felt that his major was being challenged, and he came to see her several times in dissatisfaction, emphasizing that he had searched for everything, and advised Li Yinhang not to waste time on it.

Li Yinhang has a very good temper, and doesn't eat hard or soft: "Okay, you're right. I'll take a look."

… a standard customer service tone.

Li Yinhang breathed a sigh of relief until it was completely dark and it was almost time for Shen Jie to take a bath.

She took the notebook, read all the recorded content silently, and hurriedly stepped out of the second bedroom with the South Pole Star in her hand.

It was Yu Tuisi who almost got poisoned today.

At noon, Yu Tuisi dreamed of the sound of singing from a long distance.

It's beautiful and far away.

As soon as he entered the dream, a pair of pale and fluid arms turned into mist, guiding him forward and forward.

In the dream, Yu Tuishi's legs are still conscious.

He entered a huge, church-like hall.

On the choir in front of the hall, he saw the faces of children.

Like a white board, without facial features.

The place where the mouth should have been was empty, only the slight wriggling under the skin.

…don't know how they sounded.

At this moment, the commander in the loose black robe of the priest turned his back to him.

According to Yu Tuisi's description, it was his deceased lover.

At that time, he felt as if his mind had been sucked into the vortex, and a voice repeatedly warned him, sink, sink.

Thanks to his mental toughness, he twisted his thighs to force himself to wake up, while watching the false and warm smile, he stepped backwards and walked out of the hall.

The moment he stepped out of the hall, he suddenly woke up with sweat dripping from his head.

At this time, he was in the living room with Shen Jie, discussing what to do next.

Seeing Li Yinhang passing by the living room, Shen Jie asked casually, "Did you find anything?"

Li Yinhang shook his head: "No. If I find something, there should be a system sound."

Shen Jie felt that this was also true, so she turned around and continued to meditate.

Li Yinhang's tense spirit relaxed a little.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned her eyes, she found that Yu Tuisi was staring at her calmly.

His eyes were light, but he seemed to see Li Yinhang's internal organs straight.

Her face turned white in a flash.

But Yu Tuisi didn't embarrass her, she quickly looked away, waved her hand, and motioned her to find her teammates quickly.

Li Yinhang, who had almost escaped into the children's room, quickly closed the door and leaned back against the door panel before he dared to let out the breath that was stuck in his chest.

Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou looked at her at the same time.

Jiang Fang raised one eyebrow and mouthed, "Have you found anything?"

Li Yinhang nodded silently.

… This is cooperation, but also competition.

Right now, "Cube Ark", "Shunfeng" and "Nanshan" are indeed short-lived partners who need to support each other and exchange information.

However, this is a competitive game after all.

In the end, the three teams always have to compete.

Therefore, Li Yinhang, who was accustomed to careful planning, chose to focus on his own people first.

Holding the notebook, she sat down in front of the two of them, keeping her voice as low as possible.

"I seem to understand... why the ghosts here are completely illogical." :,