Lin Yun still remembers the day when he and Jiang Mianmian were exploring the twins' room. Before he went to break down the wall, cracks appeared on the wall in front of him, and two little feet suddenly stretched out from the wall.
Lin Yun and Jiang Mianmian immediately turned around and ran away, but it was too late. The monster's feet stepped on their spines and they knelt on the ground, unable to move.
There was a wild laughter in his ears, which hurt Lin Yun's eardrums and made his brain feel like something was churning through it. Just when Lin Yun was about to confess that he was going to die here, the laughter that was about to make him vomit suddenly turned into a baby's loud cry, full of panic and fear, and the force pressing on his back also weakened a lot.
Lin Yun seized the opportunity and pulled Jiang Mianmian to run out of the room quickly, but Jiang Mianmian shook her head at him, as if she was afraid of something.
Lin Yun heard the crying getting louder and louder, and saw Jiang Mianmian huddled in the corner, not daring to escape, Lin Yun could not help but look back.
He saw a scene beyond his understanding.
The pitch-black little feet floating in the air were actually disappearing little by little, as if an eraser was slowly wiping it out of this world!
A terrifying force engulfed the entire room, and not only this room, but even spread to a wider area. Lin Yun felt that he could be wiped out at any time. He suddenly understood why Jiang Mianmian didn't dare to escape, because any movement might disturb such an existence!
At that moment, Lin Yun didn't even dare to breathe, and countless cold sweat rolled down his forehead. But he was even afraid that the appearance of cold sweat would alarm that terrible existence.
The process, which lasted less than three seconds, was a tormenting nightmare for Lin Yun.
When the little foot completely disappeared, the baby's crying also stopped abruptly, and the whole room was so quiet that even a pin drop could be heard.
Lin Yun and Jiang Mianmian, who had an equally ugly look on her face, supported each other and walked out of the room.
Then, Lin Yun saw Su Anyun standing in the corridor. The NPC who had been smiling gently at Tang Ning and looked harmless this time removed all the false warmth from his face.
He held a picture album in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. Lin Yun saw a pair of black little feet appear on the drawing paper. As Su Anyun moved his brush, other parts of the monster also appeared.
A terrified, howling mummified baby appeared on the paper!
As if he heard the noise of them coming out, Su Anyun, who was just finishing the last stroke, turned his head, and his narrow and dark eyes looked straight at him. In an instant, Lin Yun was swallowed up by the oncoming coldness. He seemed to have returned to the room he was in just now, back to the situation where he could be wiped out at any time.
The extreme fear reminded Lin Yun of what happened to Mo Yunchu when he first saw the monster form. He heard the monster holding the picture album say, "He's in trouble. Is there any need for you bunch of trash to still be alive?"
At that moment, Lin Yun didn't even care about the news that Tang Ning might have been in trouble. He only felt that his life was under severe threat!
He needs to beg for mercy! He needs to try his best to show his worth to survive!
Before Lin Yun opened his mouth tremblingly, other strange begging voices appeared before him: "Mr. Su! This is what my sister did, it has nothing to do with me!" "Mr. Su, please don't be angry!" "Mr. Su, please don't be angry, I am willing to help you punish, you can tell me how to punish me, I will do it for you"
So many cries for mercy came out when Su Anyun finished saying that sentence. It seemed that what Su Anyun said just now was not directed at the players, but Lin Yunjue, the monster, was in a terrible state of venting his anger!
He saw the monster curl his lips and smile, then raised a finger and made a soft hushing sound.
While doing this, Su Anyun's deep eyes were still staring at him, as if telling Lin Yun not to tell Tangning about what was happening.
…
At that moment, the shadow standing next to Tang Ning, who knew nothing about it, slowly raised its eyes. It looked completely different from Su Anyun, but their eyes were subtly similar. When looking at people other than Tang Ning, they were all indifferent. This indifference was as if they were insignificant lines on a piece of paper that could be erased at any time.
“Nothing… Actually, nothing.” Lin Yun tried to keep her facial expression natural: “When Su Anyun found out that you were locked up, he was very angry and used the power of that item to punish the other monsters.”
Tangning's eyes widened slightly: "Is that all?"
Lin Yun, Zhou Kang, and Jiang Mianmian all nodded without hesitation.
Tang Ning noticed that his teammates seemed quite scared, and it seemed that they were not just scared of Su Anyun. Thinking of this, Tang Ning turned his head and took a look at the obedient shadow standing behind him. Perhaps because he had been with the shadow for too long, Tang Ning felt that his aesthetic taste had changed. He felt that the shadow was like a cute big dog.
Using the table as a cover, Tangning carefully held Shadow's hand as he waited obediently for her. After calming Shadow down, Tangning turned around and looked at everyone, "Where were we just now? Let's continue reviewing what happened."
"There's nothing to review about my family's affairs. They were all solved by Su Anyun in one go. This violent method of flattening is of little reference value to ordinary players like us." Lin Yun said, "Let's talk about your family."
"The most important information for my family is that I discovered that my mother is my real mother. She was probably pulled into this game by the system to work," Tangning said softly.
"Auntie must have had an accident before the New Year. Didn't you just enter the game? How come the system pulled Auntie into the game?" Lin Yun was confused.
"Two years ago. I don't know exactly what happened." Tangning said, "But I believe that only a real mother would help me like this in an A-level dungeon."
Zhou Kang seemed to be thinking about something.
"As soon as I came out of the game, I received the news that my stepfather died in a mental hospital." Jiang Mianmian said.
Jiang Mianmian's stepfather died in the game, and he also died in reality. If it was a coincidence, it would be too coincidental.
"Maybe some of the players' families are real." Lin Yun guessed.
They didn't dwell on this problem too much. After all, there was no point in guessing without any clues.
Tangning recounted everything that happened to him at home from beginning to end, and the player began to ponder after hearing it.
"When you took off the ring for the first time and hugged your mother, you felt the loss of life force." Jiang Mianmian analyzed: "In this copy, the key to restricting the characteristics of the aunt's evil spirit must be the ring you are wearing, and another point should be Su Anyun who has not yet been corrupted by the evil spirit."
"Before Su Anyun was corrupted by malicious intent, he had been encouraging you to get closer to your aunt, such as asking you to apologize to your aunt, asking you to say I love you to your aunt, and so on. These things were actually trying to bring you and your aunt closer." Jiang Mianmian said slowly: "Su Anyun's actions magnified the human side of your aunt, and with the ring, a delicate balance was formed."
Tangning listened quietly to Jiang Mianmian's analysis.
"During this period, Su Anyun and your aunt should have hoped that you would be safe, but after that, Su Anyun's malicious intent was revealed. Do you think Su Anyun's malicious intent was to keep you?" Jiang Mianmian asked.
Tangning nodded.
"This sounds like the love of a ghost. The instinct of a ghost is to deprive, possess, destroy, and even destroy." Jiang Mianmian said: "On the day of your banquet, Su Anyun did become a ghost."
As he spoke, Jiang Mianmian took out a notebook and hung a coordinate axis on it. The horizontal axis was the date and the vertical axis was the malicious value.
From the first to the second day, the mother's malice was higher than that of the brother. From the third day onwards, the mother's malice was equal to that of the brother, because on the night of the third day, Tang Ning took off her ring and hugged her mother. When Tang Ning was about to take off the ring again that night, her mother held Tang Ning's hand and gave her a goodnight kiss.
This is an act of self-mutilation for the evil spirit.
Jiang Mianmian continued to draw lines, and her mother's malice line remained at an extremely low value in the following days. During this period, her mother had overcome her malice with maternal love under the joint efforts of Tang Ning and Su Anyun the day before yesterday.
In contrast, on the fourth day, Su Anyun's malice level rose. On that day, Tang Ning entered the orphanage, smashed the porcelain, and released Su Anyun's malice.
Next, Jiang Mianmian did not continue to draw Su Anyun’s malicious line. She left the fifth and sixth days blank and only raised Su Anyun’s malicious line to a very high position on the seventh day.
Tangning was confused as to why Jiang Mianmian left the fifth and sixth days blank, but Zhou Kang saw this and joined the conversation, "From the time the porcelain doll was smashed to the day banquet, Su Anyun was like Tangning's mother before, with both good and evil mixed together. Maybe the evil part was more dominant, but sometimes the good part could also be dominant, like on the last day he gave Tangning the tool that restrained himself."
Jiang Mianmian nodded, "Yes, actually my seventh day standard is not too strict. Su Anyun before sending the birthday gift is still more kind than others. Only Su Anyun in the evil ghost state is completely malicious."
Tang Ning stared at the paper in a daze. The picture now looked much clearer.
He was not aware of Su Anyun's ill intentions on the fifth and sixth days, but he remembered that the three of them had a lot of fun during those two days of travel. Perhaps this was the reason why Su Anyun's ill intentions decreased.
Lin Yun tore a piece of paper from Jiang Mianmian, borrowed a pen, and drew a coordinate axis like Jiang Mianmian. The horizontal axis was still based on dates, and the vertical axis became strength. On the third day, Lin Yun fell into a point that belonged to his mother, and marked the strength level of this point on the vertical axis -
15 Anjing.
An Jing is the name of Jiang Mianmian's stepfather. On the afternoon of the third day, her mother and An Jing had a fight. Her mother broke an arm and An Jing was beaten so hard that he didn't dare to go home. It seems that her mother is still the stronger one.
It's really a moving image
Tangning was speechless for a moment.
Lin Yun thought about it, and wrote "08 Zhou Kang's parents plus Xiao Mi" on his mother's page the next day. After thinking about it, he crossed out Xiao Mi.
Zhou Kang: “?”
Lin Yun said seriously, "Let's not add Xiao Mi. I remember that day when Auntie first called, your parents didn't buy it. Later, when Auntie said she wanted to bring Su Anyun as a guest, your family got scared."
The corners of Zhou Kang's mouth twitched.
Due to the lack of materials, Lin Yun gave the mother a slightly higher strength value on the first day than on the second day. He explained, "This is because Tangning, you said that Auntie releases ghost blood every day. Releasing ghost blood will definitely reduce her strength."
Tangning nodded. He asked curiously, "How did you estimate the 15 and 08?"
Lin Yun laughed: "I just estimated it based on my feeling."
The corners of Tang Ning's mouth twitched a little.
On the fourth day, Lin Yun still drew her mother's strength line downwards, because her mother on the fourth day was still releasing ghost blood.
On the fifth and sixth days, Lin Yun drew his mother's strength line further downward. This time his curve was not a gentle decline like on the fourth day, but a cliff-like drop.
Because the mother couldn't even maintain basic physical condition these past two days and was visibly weak.
Tang Ning looked at the falling line, and his image also fell.
When Lin Yun drew to the seventh day, she suddenly raised the mother's line to a very high level, even higher than the mother's state on the first day. "This day, Auntie stopped the evil ghost Su Anyun for a long time by herself. I think Auntie's fighting power is very strong at this time."
Others had no objection.
Lin Yun began to draw Su Anyun's strength line. On the first day, Su Anyun's strength was marked as "12 Lu Yuhua's parents". Lin Yun explained: "I remember that Lu Yuhua's parents were very polite to Su Anyun, and even made a loss-making deal for Su Anyun's face."
"A loss-making business?" Zhou Kang asked.
"Yes, Bai Yingxue's sister died a long time ago in reality. That means her sister's soul is a real soul. After being dead for so long, it is highly unlikely that it can compare to the soul of a living person like Bai Yingxue." Lin Yun said, "Even if it was a fair trade, it was Lu Yuhua's parents who made concessions. When they made a deal with Bai Yingxue, who was much weaker than them, they asked for a huge sum of money, asking Bai Yingxue to exchange all the dolls in the orphanage for one doll."
"Indeed." Jiang Mianmian agreed.
Lin Yun moved the pen tip to the next day, and asked Zhou Kang: "I don't know much about the battle between Su Anyun and your parents the next day. Can you give me an evaluation?"
Zhou Kang thought for a long time and said cautiously: "I think Su Anyun's strength has declined on the second day."
Tang Ning looked at Zhou Kang with some confusion. He remembered the day when Su Anyun easily set up a trap to get rid of Zhou Kang's parents.
Zhou Kang was talking about something that Tangning didn't know from her perspective as a cat: "When Su Anyun knocked on the door and came in, my dad didn't open the door right away. Although he was very nervous about Su Anyun, he wasn't scared. He thought he could handle Su Anyun. If we rule out my dad's overconfidence, maybe Su Anyun's strength is really declining?"
Jiang Mianmian suddenly said after hearing this: "Indeed, Su Anyun chose to lend his life to Tang Ning. Lending his life should have caused damage to Su Anyun's strength. There is also a possibility that Tang Ning dropped the porcelain doll in the afternoon when she went to Zhou Kang's house. The porcelain doll released Su Anyun's evil. Is it possible that the struggle between good and evil will also reduce Su Anyun's strength?"
Tang Ning was a little confused after hearing what he heard, but after listening to his three teammates' analysis, he did have a clearer understanding of Su Anyun that day.
The strength of Su Anyun in Lin Yun's writing was slightly weaker on the second day than on the first day, so Lin Yun's pen tip fell on the third day. Su Anyun did not make a move that day, so Lin Yun skipped the third day directly. On the fourth day, he lowered Su Anyun's strength value to a level that was so high that it was despairing.
That day, Su Anyun violently demolished Lin Yun's house.
Lin Yun didn't even consider his own home as Su Anyun's power unit. "One hundred Lin Yun family buckets looks a bit too bleak," he said sincerely.
As there was no reference for the fifth and sixth days, Lin Yun left them blank. On the seventh day, Lin Yun thought for a while and decided that Su Anyun's strength was much lower than that on the fourth day, but higher than that of his mother on the seventh day.
"If Su Anyun's strength is still as strong as it was on the fourth day, I don't think the old Taoist priest and aunt can hold him back." Lin Yun said.
"Not necessarily. On that day, Su Anyun's transformation into another form of evil spirit might not have been completed. If it had been completed, his strength might have been higher than on the fourth day." Jiang Mianmian said, "But according to the previous idea, it might be related to borrowing lives."
Borrow your life
"I'm wondering if Su Anyun used some special means, such as that strange burning candle, to give his life to Tang Ning at the Sun Banquet. He became a real evil spirit after losing all his life?" Jiang Mianmian boldly hypothesized, "It was because of this loss that his strength was greatly weakened."
Tangning recalled that day when the candles were burning, his body felt warm and comfortable.
"Look at these two pieces of paper. The problem is very clear." Jiang Mianmian tapped Lin Yunzhi's mother's strength line: "Why did Auntie's strength drop so much from the fifth day? What happened that day?"
"My timeline is very vague. Maybe Auntie started to become weak when Tangning was sleeping on the fourth night." Lin Yun casually proposed a hypothesis: "Did Auntie attack Su Anyun?"
He finished his statement and rejected it.
Jiang Mianmian also shook her head. Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she asked Tangning, "Did the Taoist priest go to your house that night and call Auntie in the evening?"
"Yes, that Taoist priest came to my house as a guest and said that you invited him over."
"It's me." Jiang Mianmian admitted, "I noticed that you were not in the right state when you left. I was going to take you to meet him, but I didn't expect you to go straight with Su Anyun. No matter how I called you, you didn't turn around. I couldn't get in touch with you by phone. I was very worried about your condition, so I invited the Taoist priest to your home."
Jiang Mianmian thought for a moment and said, "Is Auntie's condition related to that Taoist priest?"
"I remember you said that when the Taoist priest first came in to eat, he had an argument with Auntie. Later that night, Auntie found out what the Taoist priest had said to you, and she had a complete argument with him. Auntie seemed to be out of control."
Tangning nodded.
"According to the Taoist priest's personality, if Auntie was out of control, would he have gone to Auntie's house that night?" Jiang Mianmian asked herself and answered, "It's very likely. Although I don't know what he and Auntie agreed on before, he violated Auntie's agreement that night and took the initiative to talk to you, which means he must be dissatisfied with the agreement between them."
"On the last day, the relationship between Auntie and the Taoist priest eased a lot, and they immediately stood on the same side to deal with Su Anyun." Jiang Mianmian spoke faster and faster: "You said Auntie has been very weak since the fifth day. Did the Taoist priest rush to your home on the evening of the fourth day and make some kind of deal with Auntie? This deal will weaken Auntie's strength. This is the price Auntie has to pay. Similarly, the Taoist priest will do something for Auntie?"
After Jiang Mianmian finished this inference, Tang Ning suddenly remembered that the copy settlement showed that he had completed the task of saving his mother's soul, but he never used the talisman from beginning to end. Why did his mother suddenly be saved
Could it be that my mother died after being injured during the fight with Su Anyun? But that would not mean that my mother was saved, unless the old Taoist priest did not continue to fight with Su Anyun at that moment, but instead saved my mother.
Tang Ning seemed to suddenly understand why the relationship between the old Taoist priest and her mother had eased.
On the night he fell asleep, my mother might have changed the terms of the agreement with the Taoist priest. The price she paid was to be saved on the day of the feast. Her weakness before that might have been the price she paid for saving her soul...
No, the decision should have been made earlier.
Because before my mother called to argue with the old Taoist priest, when she had a conversation with Tang Ning after playing poker, my mother said that she would definitely leave, but not now. She would have to wait until Tang Ning turned 18 before leaving. I'm sure my mother had already made up her mind at that time.
No, it was even earlier. Long before he and his mother hugged each other, his mother told Tangning that she was going to travel.
"Tang Ning, what's wrong?" Lin Yun's voice brought Tang Ning out of his trance. He glanced at his teammates who were looking at him with concern and slowly expressed his speculation.
After sorting out all the information, Jiang Mianmian concluded, "I roughly understand the crisis facing Tangning's family and how to get through it."
"You are set up in the dungeon to be a dead baby. You need to borrow life from Su Anyun. You can only survive when Su Anyun completely lends you his life. This is a hidden plot point. If you fail to borrow life on the seventh day, you will probably die in this dungeon when the time is up. You will even feel that your death is inexplicable."
"To complete the life-borrowing, you need the cooperation of your mother and brother. To be more precise, you need the love of your mother and brother for you. Only if they love you enough, one of them is willing to lend you his life completely, and the other is willing to sacrifice his own life and ask the old Taoist priest for help. Let the Taoist priest help you hold back the ghost Su Anyun and escape the contact of the evil spirit. Otherwise, you will be easily contaminated by the evil spirit Su Anyun and end up staying in this dungeon."
Jiang Mianmian took a sip of tea and continued, "So the difficulties of your family are different from those of all of us. For us, we cannot let our emotions get too deeply involved in our family, otherwise we will fall into that kind of fragile emotion and confuse the copy with reality. But your copy needs more real emotions. Only by exchanging truth for truth can it truly survive."
After hearing Jiang Mianmian's analysis, Lin Yun showed some fear: "It turns out that the real danger is not being completely trapped, but staying awake from beginning to end. If you don't fall into it, you will hurt Tangning's family..."
"Indeed, in this instance, Tangning's brother and mother have always been in a state of intertwined good and evil, and the emotions that Tangning has invested in them are the key to balancing their good and evil..." Zhou Kang agreed.
When all the pros and cons were laid out, Lin Yun realized that a self-righteous person like him would never be able to pass the Tangning family's dungeon. It would be difficult for him to take off the ring on the third day and hug his mother at the risk of death.
No, not to mention Tangning's mother, Lin Yun felt that he had no feelings for Su Anyun at all. He was unable to turn Su Anyun, who had a very high malicious value, around on the fifth and sixth days to the point where he could send a daily gift on the seventh day. He even suspected that if he received such a task, he would be wiped out by Su Anyun on the first day...
"Tangning, you did a great job," Jiang Mianmian praised sincerely.
"Fortunately, you didn't listen to my judgment too much. Although it's not right to fully devote yourself to that dungeon, you can't completely ignore it either." Lin Yun touched his head: "The settings of this dungeon are damn cunning."
"If my family also faced such difficulties," Zhou Kang shook his head.
Tangning looked at his teammates who were praising him and couldn't help but force a smile, "It wasn't me..."
"It's my mother and brother."
He gave them only a little bit of emotion, and they gave him everything.
"Thank you for helping me analyze so much, but I'm running out of time. I have to catch a plane." Tangning stood up. His voice was still a little trembling, and he looked a little worrying.
"Tangning, are you okay?" Lin Yunyou asked worriedly.
"Take care of him for me." Tang Ning waved and said goodbye to his three teammates. He and Shadow took the plane back home. Tang Ning was quiet like a tired bird returning to the forest. Even though Shadow followed him everywhere, he still had an lingering loneliness.
During the time on the plane, Tang Ning closed his eyes and rested for a long time. After waking up, he felt a little more refreshed. Tang Ning's home did not have a direct airport or train station, and there was not even a subway, so traveling was not very convenient. When he got off the plane, Tang Ning did not take a chartered car home directly, but took a bus.
There were not many people on the bus. Tang Ning sat with Shadow and saw familiar yet unfamiliar scenery along the way outside the car window. It had been two years since he last came back. The road had changed a lot. The signposts had been replaced, some houses had been built, and there was more green.
There were only a few people. Tang Ning didn't see any pedestrians or other cars for a long time. The small county town is indeed becoming more and more deserted.
Tang Ning stared out the window in a daze. He used to always take the bus home like this. Although the journey was tiring, he felt relaxed and excited because he knew there was a meal waiting for him at home prepared by his mother. He also knew that after he got off the bus, his mother would drive a small electric car to pick him up at the station entrance.
Even when Tang Ning was in college, her mother insisted on driving the electric car to pick her up, even though she was already an adult. So Tang Ning discussed with her mother, "Can I drive the electric car and she sits behind me?"
Mom asked you if you were stupid. It’s so windy sitting in the front, aren’t you cold
Tangning insisted on sitting in the front and driving. His mother had no choice but to give in. However, when she sat behind Tangning, she kept nagging, "You are wearing such thin clothes, aren't you cold? Look at your ears, they are red from the wind..."
The bus stopped and shook a little. Tang Ning's body trembled. He came out of his memories and looked around. Maybe the headlights were broken. The car was pitch black and there was an eerie silence.
The shadow in the darkness took Tang Ning's hand and got out of the car with Tang Ning.
The temperature was cold at night, and Shadow's hands were even colder. Tangning still held Shadow's hand. He looked around. The whole station was dark, and even outside was dark. Only the moon in the sky emitted a faint light.
Is there a power outage
Tang Ning took out his cell phone and found that there was no signal.
Tang Ning subconsciously looked towards the bus he had just taken. The bus had been parked at the station for a while, but the driver had not yet gotten out. When Tang Ning and Shadow went to take a look, they discovered that the driver's seat was empty.
But was there ever a driver for this car
Tang Ning thought about it carefully, but he didn't have any recollection. He didn't observe much when he was in the car. It was not easy to get out of the A-level copy. Tang Ning was in a very relaxed state. In addition, he returned to his hometown and Shadow was by his side. Tang Ning's sense of crisis was greatly reduced.
Tang Ning frowned and left the bus. His home was not far from the bus station and it would only take him ten to twenty minutes to get there by electric scooter. If he asked Shadow to take him back, it would be even faster.
"Hold me." Tangning opened her arms towards Shadow, as if to hug him.
Shadow immediately picked up Tang Ning.
"We are going home together, to my hometown," Tangning said softly. He felt that this was a bit like an ugly daughter-in-law meeting her parents-in-law...
Shadow lowered his head and kissed Tang Ning on the earlobe, then he carried Tang Ning and flew past various buildings. The whole county was dark, all the lights were off in every house, all the shops were closed, and there was not a single person on the street.
Although Tang Ning's hometown is a small county town, not a particularly prosperous big city, it is not yet early in the morning, and it is impossible that no one in the entire county is out and about.
Tang Ning frowned deeply. Although he didn't have a particularly deep relationship with the people here, this was after all where he had lived since he was a child. Now that such strange changes had occurred in his hometown, Tang Ning's mood suddenly became worse.
What happened? Was the whole county invaded by ghosts
The night wind blew up the strands of hair on Tang Ning's forehead. Tang Ning's eyes were calm. He did not let the shadow take him away. This was his hometown. He could not abandon it and flee. If he wanted to call for help, it would take half a day to go back and forth. During this half day, who knows how much damage the supernatural invasion would cause to the people in this county.
What’s more important is that with Shadow by your side, no matter how many helpers you have, they are better than having no Shadow at all.
Tang Ning hugged Shadow and pressed his face into Shadow's cold and broad arms.
Under Tang Ning's command, Yingzi carried him to the bottom of the residential building in a short while.
It was still pitch black here, and there was no movement. Tang Ning held Shadow's hand and walked into the steep and dark stairs.
The only sound in the entire corridor was Tang Ning's footsteps, and there was no light at all. Although most of the sensor lights in the building were broken, there were still one or two that worked occasionally.
A chilly atmosphere filled the corridor. The coldness penetrated Tang Ning's clothes and stuck to her skin, making her shudder.
Tang Ning picked up his phone and checked, but there was still no signal. He turned on the flashlight on his phone and shone it on the stairs. Most of the small advertisements posted along the corridor were the same as Tang Ning remembered.
After a while, Tang Ning walked to the door. He took out the key and slowly opened the door. The room was filled with the smell of old furniture. Tang Ning pressed the power button tentatively, but the room was still pitch black.
Tang Ning just kept turning on the flashlight mode, shining the beam on the old furniture. This place was no different from the home in the dungeon, except that there were no green plants in the house, making it look even more dilapidated and deserted.
It was not good to always use the mobile phone for lighting. Tang Ning's mobile phone was running out of power. Fortunately, Tang Ning remembered that there were spare candles at home, so he went with Shadow to look for candles.
It has been so long since Tang Ning was home that she couldn't even remember where the candles were placed. Her mother had always been the one organizing these little things at home. As Tang Ning was looking for them, there was a knock on the door.
"Bang, bang, bang." The dull knocking sound was particularly clear in the dead silence.
Who is knocking at the door
Tang Ning, who was squatting in the room, paused. He subconsciously grabbed the hand of the shadow in the dark. After confirming that the shadow was beside him, Tang Ning stayed in the room without moving.
The knock on the door continued. After a while, a middle-aged woman's voice sounded: "Is Ningning home? I'm Aunt Wang. I'm here to bring you some food."
Aunt Wang
"Don't you remember me? I live downstairs from your house. When you were little, I sent wedding candies to your family."
Speaking of wedding candy, Tang Ning finally realized who Aunt Wang was.
There was a family getting married in this building a while ago. They were generous and wanted to send wedding candies to everyone in the building. At that time, Tang Ning was in school and her mother was at work, so there was no one at home to receive the wedding candies. So Aunt Wang downstairs helped them receive the wedding candies that others had sent.
The reason why Tang Ning was so impressed by this incident was because Aunt Wang did something naughty at the time. There were always more expensive and cheaper wedding candies in a bag of wedding candies. Aunt Wang picked out all the expensive candies from the wedding candies she collected for Tang Ning's family and put them in her own house, and then put the cheap candies into Tang Ning's bag.
My mother later found out about this and said that Aunt Wang was not very kind and was always trying to take advantage of others, so she stopped contacting Aunt Wang's family downstairs.
So many years have passed, and except for that one time of wedding candy, Aunt Wang has never taken the initiative to send anything to their home.
It was really strange that Aunt Wang came this time. How did Aunt Wang know that he had just returned home? Why did she suddenly come to deliver food? What's more important is
Aunt Wang died many years ago.