What! Not good!!!
Tang Ning opened his mouth and made a sound to warn him, but it was too late. The bloody hands pressed on Bai Wuliang's back and pushed him out viciously!
Even if Bai Wuliang let go of Tang Ning's hand at this moment, he would most likely be pushed out of the window by Bai's mother!
"No!!!"
Under Tang Ning's desperate gaze, a yellow talisman was fiercely attached to Bai Mu's forehead. Bai Mu, who was still exerting strength in the last second, was now frozen in place, motionless like a puppet.
The wind outside the window made the talisman tremble constantly. Two fingers were pressed tightly on Bai's mother's forehead through the talisman, and the knuckles turned white from the pressure.
This is…
For no reason, a familiar talisman flashed through Tang Ning's mind, but Tang Ning, whose mind was as confused as a paste, couldn't remember where he had seen it before.
Bai Wuliang's expression did not change much, as if he was not curious about what happened behind the scenes. He dragged Tang Ning up in one breath, and Tang Ning's perspective became wider. He looked up along the hand holding the yellow talisman. The moment he saw Lin Yun's face, Tang Ning suddenly wondered where the sense of familiarity came from!
In the last dungeon, Uncle Mu used this talisman to stick on the player who was possessed by a ghost!
Later, when he went to Chi Chi Well, he gave his wedding dress to Lin Yun. Lin Yun used the wedding dress to grab the talisman at the last moment and took advantage of Uncle Mu's wool.
Bai Wuliang put the light Tang Ning on the ground. Tang Ning was as soft as water and could not stand. Although his feet were on the floor, he still did not feel much reality. He tried to stand firm, looked at the door of the room, and faced the black gun.
Jiang Mianmian was seen at the door, pointing a gun at Bai's mother. If Lin Yun's talisman had no effect at that time, Jiang Mianmian would launch an attack.
Seeing this scene, Tang Ning let out a sigh of relief, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.
The wind chimes in the room were still shaking violently, each one was trembling, and the shadows of the wind chimes reflected on the snow-white floor were also shaking. The strange sound of the bells resounded throughout the room, making people uneasy, but there was no wind outside at this time.
The three people in the room didn't speak. They walked cautiously towards the blue door step by step.
Tang Ning looked at Jiang Mianmian who was standing at the door. Even at this moment, Jiang Mianmian was still pointing the gun at Bai's mother, always alert to her actions.
Lin Yun turned around and looked at the yellow talisman on Bai Mu's head reluctantly. Bai Mu, who was stuck by the talisman, was frozen in place and still unable to move.
Lin Yun withdrew his gaze, and the three of them walked out of the room.
Click.
Bai Wuliang closed the door of the blue room.
The continuous sound of wind chimes also stopped, and the whole room was silent for a moment.
Tang Ning saw that the corridor was full of players, including Zhou Kang and Bai Yingxue, who were waiting for him outside the door.
When he almost fell out of the window, some players in the room were actually paying attention to him.
Tang Ning suddenly had an indescribable feeling in his heart. He looked at Jiang Mianmian. Jiang Mianmian had put down the gun at this time, and his hands were shaking slightly.
Tangning was stunned for a moment and wanted to look, but Bai Wuliang beside her quickly said, "Hurry up and leave."
Lin Yun directly carried Tangning on his back and rushed out with the confused Tangning on his back.
At first, Tang Ning didn't understand why everyone was in such a hurry. Just when they had just left the Bai family, a slight sound of footsteps came from the silent corridor. Tang Ning was stunned for a moment. He saw Bai's father, dressed in a blood-stained suit, walking through the corridor like a zombie.
Tangning quickly looked away, not daring to meet Mr. Bai's gaze.
Father Bai acted as if he didn't see them and stiffly took out the key to open the door.
When the door closed, Tang Ning suddenly understood why Bai's father and mother looked exactly the same without noses.
This is what you look like when you jump off a tall building, face down.
The players hiding in the corridor did not make any noise until Bai Wuliang whispered to everyone, "Let's go."
The players went downstairs one by one.
Everyone was covered in dust, and everyone left the Bai family in a dusty state. However, it was worthwhile to exchange this little bit of dust for a chance to be a guest. Except for Lin Yun who was the most distressed about losing the talisman, most of the other players were quite satisfied with this opportunity to be a guest, right
Tang Ning glanced at Jiang Mianmian. Jiang Mianmian looked very calm at the moment, but the image of Jiang Mianmian's hand shaking slightly while holding the gun just now lingered in Tang Ning's mind.
The last time Jiang Mianmian lost her composure like that was when she met her stepfather.
Did he just run out of energy? But Jiang Mianmian didn't look like he had no strength.
"Get in the car," Lin Yun called to Tang Ning.
They were going to meet at a cafe to discuss the matter, so the players got into their cars.
Tangning rolled down the car window to get some fresh air. Lin Yun asked with concern, "How are you feeling now?"
"You seem really reliable." Tang Ning kept the compliment of "buying a luxurious villa on the tree" to himself.
Lin Yun couldn't help but laugh, and then he asked, "Why did the door of your room suddenly turn blue?"
Tangning shook his head and guessed, "Maybe the doors of each room will randomly turn blue. Did you find anything during your exploration of the Bai family?"
"No, I went to clean the living room." Lin Yun described the crisis she had encountered: "When I was cleaning, the two monsters did deliberately dirty the area I swept. They would get very angry when they saw clean things."
Lin Yun couldn't help but mutter in confusion when he said this: "Didn't Bai Wuliang say that his parents loved cleanliness? Why do these two monsters say something different from what he said?"
It seemed that Lin Yun and Tang Ning had the same doubts. However, they could ask Bai Wuliang directly when they got to the coffee shop.
"By the way, when I was cleaning my room, I heard someone knocking on the door three times. Was someone in trouble?" Tangning asked.
Bai Yingxue, who was sitting in the back of the car, answered, "It was me. I was in charge of cleaning the bathroom. When I was running the toilet, red water appeared. I wanted to leave, but found the door was closed, so I knocked on the door and asked Bai Wuliang for help."
After a brief conversation with the two players in the car, Tang Ning discovered that the rules written in Bai Wuliang's guest guidelines were actually very useful. Everyone followed these rules and survived smoothly.
Soon, everyone met up at the coffee shop. When they went over, they found that Lu Yuhua was still in the coffee shop. Lu Yuhua, who was drinking coffee leisurely, saw everyone and said with emotion as if to say something sarcastic: "Not bad, they are all still alive."
"Yeah, what a pity." Bai Wuliang sighed regretfully, "It's a pity that you didn't go, otherwise you could have one more chance to be my guest."
He lightly stabbed Lu Yuhua's words and turned to ask everyone: "What did you discover in my home today?"
Zhou Kang replied: "I cleaned your kitchen. All the food in the kitchen was expired. There was basically no meat in the refrigerator, mostly cheap vegetables. The rice, oil and salt you bought were also the worst quality in the supermarket. Was there something wrong with your financial situation during that time?"
Tangning was stunned when he heard Zhou Kang's words. He had not expected Zhou Kang to observe Bai Wuliang's home from this perspective. If he were to clean the kitchen, he would not be able to tell the price of the things.
But looking at the way Bai Wuliang's parents were dressed, even though their clothes were stained with blood, one could still tell the materials were pretty good. Bai Wuliang's every move did not seem like someone from a poor family, including the place where they lived. Although it was not a wealthy area, it was also a house for a middle-class family.
Wait, that medicine box flashed through Tangning's mind. The system said that it was medicine for treating esophageal cancer. Was it because of the cancer that the Bai family suddenly became financially strapped
Bai Wuliang nodded without explaining the reason, and Zhou Kang did not pursue the question any further. He raised this question only in the hope of giving Bai Wuliang a clue, not to satisfy his own curiosity for gossip.
It was Bai Yingxue's turn to speak: "I found a gray hair while I was cleaning it in the bathroom. When I touched the hair, red water gushed out of the bathroom faucet. It smelled like rust, just like blood."
Gray hair
Although Mr. and Mrs. Bai are old, their hair is not yet gray.
Tang Ning thought about the human-shaped mark on Bai Wuliang's bed, and he frowned thoughtfully.
If someone has cancer, then they can be so thin indeed. In the later stages of cancer, chemotherapy will cause hair loss. If esophageal cancer is serious, will it cause vomiting of blood? It seems so, right
"I saw that your guest rules mentioned the red water issue. You must have encountered a similar situation before. Did you clean your hair at that time, causing the water to turn red?" Bai Yingxue.
Bai Wuliang thought about it for a while and nodded: "Indeed, very useful information, thank you."
Seeing that no one else opened the phone, Tangning looked at Bai Wuliang and asked the question he was concerned about: "Bai Wuliang, has anyone in your family had esophageal cancer? I found similar medicine when I was cleaning."
Bai Wuliang and Tang Ning stared at each other for a moment, but did not answer immediately. Instead, they lowered their heads quietly with gloomy looks in their eyes.
Lin Yun also said at this time: "You said before that your parents have mysophobia, but your parents don't like the house to be clean. What's going on? Why did we get the wrong information?"
Lu Yuhua burst into laughter when she heard this. Tang Ning looked over and saw Lu Yuhua holding back her laughter.
The atmosphere was strange at this time. Bai Wuliang whispered, "When I first arrived home, the house was clean and my parents were normal."
"When I returned home in the evening, I found that the house had become dirty." At this point, Bai Wuliang's tone became depressed.
"I wanted to clean up the east, but when I was cleaning up, I found that it was my grandfather who came back."
"He died of esophageal cancer."
After saying this, Bai Wuliang did not mention anything else about his grandfather, but from Bai Wuliang's attitude it can be seen that his relationship with his grandfather is not good.
Is that why grandpa made the house so dirty
Tangning thought of another question, "Bai Wuliang, didn't I tell you earlier that there was someone on the bed? After you left, I took a closer look and although there was no one on the quilt, there was a human-shaped mark. That mark looked a lot like your grandfather."
After Bai Wuliang heard this, he looked lonely and painful. After a while, he whispered, "It should be him."
The new person in the house was Bai Wuliang's grandfather. Mentioning his grandfather would make Bai Wuliang very sad. Tangning didn't want to expose his sorrow, so he changed the topic and asked, "Bai Wuliang, what is the function of the wind chime in the blue room? I feel like the monster is quite afraid of the sound of the bell. What about the Bagua mirror and the talisman on the door? What are they used for?"
Tang Ning was very curious when she saw this question, but she had never had the chance to do it before.
When asked about this, Bai Wuliang answered much faster, "To ward off evil spirits and dispel disasters, the Bagua mirror is a common item in Feng Shui that is used to reflect and dispel evil spirits. Wind chimes are also used to dispel wind evil spirits. It's like if the wind is bad, hang a wind chime on the window, blow it, and when the chimes ring, it dispels the evil spirits."
Tangning felt like he had learned something new after hearing Bai Wuliang's words. He asked excitedly, "Can I use this method in the future?"
Before Bai Wuliang could answer him, Lin Yun said directly: "It's difficult, unless you encounter a copy similar to this copy of the supernatural system."
The supernatural system in each copy is different. Bai Wuliang knows it so clearly because the houses in this copy are based on the evolution of the houses in the real world. If you really want to use wind chimes to ward off evil spirits, you can only do it in the houses in this copy.
Tangning blinked blankly.
He suddenly remembered that there was also a wind chime hanging on the window of his house.
However, there was only one, not as many as Bai Wuliang had. Moreover, the wind chime that Tang Ning brought was made by her mother herself, using empty glass bottles that had been used at home. As a result, Tang Ning did not initially associate the wind chime at home with the exquisite wind chime hanging in Bai Wuliang's house.
Is it a coincidence? Or is the wind chime in his house also used to ward off evil spirits
But the wind chime was made by my mother. My mother should be the biggest monster in the house. Has my mother made a prop to restrain herself
This sounds strange.
"Jiang Mianmian, have you found anything?" Bai Wuliang.
Jiang Mianmian shook her head.
Tang Ning was a little surprised. Jiang Mianmian was in the room of Bai's father and mother. He thought Jiang Mianmian could find a lot of useful information, but in the end, she found nothing
"Okay, then your visit to my house today ends here. Let's take our separate actions." Bai Wuliang said, and no one had any objections.
Every player needs their own private time. For example, Tang Ning wanted to spend some time to find a way to take Zhou Kang's cat home. His mother was injured and didn't have much energy to take care of the family affairs. He also wanted to go to the orphanage to investigate his brother, but he didn't know whether to continue with Bai Yingxue. Tang Ning also wondered why Lu Yuhua said that he couldn't trust Bai Wuliang.
There were so many things to do, and before Tang Ning could prioritize, he received an unexpected message from Jiang Mianmian.
"Are you free this afternoon? I have something I want to investigate with you."
What did Jiang Mianmian want him to investigate
Tangning raised her eyes and looked at Jiang Mianmian. At this time, all the players had dispersed. Jiang Mianmian and Bai Wuliang were standing in front of the car in the coffee shop. After she said something to Bai Wuliang, the two parted ways. Jiang Mianmian turned and walked towards where Tangning was.
Lin Yun saw Jiang Mianmian passing by and initially had no intention of avoiding her until Jiang Mianmian apologized to her, "Sorry, I need to talk to Tangning alone."
Lin Yun walked out considerately so as not to disturb Tang Ning and Jiang Mianmian.
Tangning's confusion deepened. Did Jiang Mianmian want to talk to him alone in order to get rid of Bai Wuliang and Lin Yun
It’s more reliable to find Bai Wuliang when you encounter problems.
Tangning and Jiang Mianmian found a secluded place. Jiang Mianmian did not speak immediately, but took out a small black notebook from her arms and turned to a page for Tangning to read.
Tangning moved closer out of curiosity. He saw that at the beginning of the page that Jiang Mianmian was flipping through, there was a scrawled message: "He came back! He came back! He must have come back!!!"
Even if we don't know exactly what the person who wrote the diary encountered at the time, we can still feel the other person's excitement from the exclamation marks and scribbling marks following the words.
What is this? Is this the diary that Jiang Mianmian found in Bai Wuliang's house? Does he mean that Bai Wuliang's grandfather has returned
Tangning continued to read.
"Ari told me that she was folding clothes at home today. She went out to cook halfway through folding clothes. When she came back, the quilt was already folded, and the way she folded the quilt was exactly what she was used to. I asked my dad if this was a prank, and he said he had just finished surgery and couldn't move around easily, so how could he fold clothes?"
Dad? Is this the diary written by Bai Wuliang? Tangning already sensed something was wrong, he frowned and continued to read.
"I didn't believe Ah Li's words at first. I thought she was joking. But tonight, when I threw away all his things and found that the luggage manager appeared at home, I realized that he really wanted to go back."
Tangning was stunned for a moment. He couldn't help but ask, "Who is Ah Li?"
No one answered.
He looked at Jiang Mianmian.
Jiang Mianmian also looked at him.
The hand that had never trembled while holding the gun was now shaking constantly, along with her voice. She whispered, "Bai Wuliang's mother is called Huang Li."
What?!
Tang Ning's brain seemed to buzz, and he felt countless thoughts flooding into his mind. Tang Ning was confused and didn't know what to think for a moment. He could only continue to look down.
"I know I'm wrong to him and I'm a useless father, but I didn't want to be like this at the time. A-Li and I didn't want to be like this, and we couldn't do anything about it! How could there be any way to take care of both? If I could, I'd like it to be me! I'd take the responsibility! I'd have to face this kind of thing!!!"
"Ali's emotions have been breaking down today. I can only pretend to be calm in front of her, telling her that it's okay, telling her that it's not her fault, and telling her that if there is any fault, it's her and I who will bear it together. I know that Ali can no longer bear any negative emotions... But who can I talk to now? I can only write it here."
Tang Ning was completely confused by this. If A'li here was Bai Wuliang's mother, then judging by the kiss from the person who wrote the diary, the person he was kissing should be Bai Wuliang's father. So could he be referring to Bai Wuliang
"Maybe A-Li and I are both crazy. Maybe he didn't reply at all, but we were driven crazy by our guilt..."
What did Bai Wuliang's parents do to Bai Wuliang? What does it mean that he has returned
Did Bai Wuliang secretly hide in the closet at home, sneak out while his mother was cooking, fold the clothes and hide them back? Did Bai Wuliang sneak out of the closet and secretly pick up the garbage when his parents threw away his things
Even Tangning felt that this guess was ridiculous when she thought about it in her mind. But if it wasn't this kind of "reply", then the "he replied" in the diary would be...
This could only be something Tangning often saw in the card world, but Tangning felt that it would never happen to Bai Wuliang.
The dead are back.
But how is this possible?! Ridiculous!!!
Tang Ning could only continue reading, eager to know what had happened, why Bai Wuliang's parents thought Bai Wuliang was dead and came back, and whether Bai Wuliang's parents were really crazy.
He then flipped through a few pages, all of which were about various clues related to Bai Wuliang's return, told over and over again, like a horror story, such as always arranging three sets of bowls and chopsticks, but if you are not careful, a fourth set of bowls and chopsticks will appear, which is a very strange and chilling thing.
It says that Bai Wuliang's parents thought he had a mental problem, so they installed surveillance cameras at home and went to the hospital for treatment. However, no matter how much "medicine" he took, as long as they kept watching him with surveillance cameras, strange things continued to happen at home.
Tang Ning clearly saw in these dozen pages of the diary that Mr. Bai's inner monologue went from guilt to despair to madness. He saw the process of the person who wrote the diary gradually losing his sanity. At the end of the diary, the sentences were not coherent.
From the whole story of "right, no, no, I don't want to do it either" to "kill me, if you really have a grudge, just kill me", and finally changed to "It's not my fault! He deserved to die! I shouldn't have given birth to him and raised him! Why do you treat me like this?! If Ali and I hadn't given birth to him, he wouldn't exist in this world! Why are you punishing us like this?"
What on earth happened?!
Tangning was horrified when he read this. He continued to flip through the pages, but found that the tone of the next diary entry had returned to its long-lost calm tone. It read, "Today we met an old Taoist priest on the road. He said that he saw that we were kind-hearted but his brows were furrowed, thinking that he was worried about something. I have never believed in Taoist priests and always thought they were charlatans, so I kept silent."
"He asked me if I was haunted by a ghost. I thought about my child and wondered if he was just lucky, so I kept silent."
"He asked me if I needed his help. I didn't know how to answer him, so I kept silent. He gave me a string of wind chimes and told me that the wind chimes would not hurt ghosts, but he could tell me."
"I don't know whether what the Taoist said is true or not, but I was really tired during this period of time, so I took the wind chime back home."
Tangning's pupils shrank. He turned the page and continued reading. It read:
"As I was writing this, the wind chimes rang and I turned around."
"He did."