It's just a blink of an eye.
When Lin You opened her eyes again, there was no shadow under the tree.
The slender ghost standing there and his solid gaze seemed to be just her hallucinations, but she knew that the other party really came to the door.
It is also easy enough.
If you want to change to someone else, you may already panic at the moment. However, Lin You stared out of the window for a while, but after seeing nothing else, she resolutely closed the window and even pulled the latch securely.
Since the slender ghost came here so quickly, the situation was imminent. Lin You's thoughts were spinning quickly. She was not sure whether to inform the other two about the situation, but finally decided to take direct action.
She grabbed the tie in the dimple.
I didn't look at it carefully before, but now I can see it clearly in my hands. Lin You used her fingertips to rub what was stuck on the tie. It was soft and delicate, but after drying for a long time, it would fall down with a rustle.
Like dirt.
She turned the back and barely made out a dim and blackened fingerprint.
… Blood
After weighing it for half a minute, Lin You went straight into the bathroom with his tie in his hand.
"Don't poke around, I'll let you see." Glancing at Emily in the mirror, she looked out of the door and secretly regretted that she couldn't see anything. When she saw her approaching, she immediately retracted her neck in fright, Lin You generously took off her tie. Throwing it in front of her, "Do you know this tie?"
Emily's eyes straightened, "This is—"
"Hey, calm down."
Seeing her eyes rolling back and forth again, Lin You woke up with a smile.
"Do you really think that I still don't understand anything?" She said, "Don't try to fool me and then report it quietly, you know the consequences."
As she said that, she also pointedly glanced at the claw hammer that was at hand. Obviously, if Emily really did this, it would be more than just turning over and nailing the wall this time.
Emily: "... woo."
devil! ! This man is a living devil! !
"I know you're working for him."
Lin You said: "Looking at you just now, you know the history of this tie, if you don't explain..."
She said she said it's not okay!
"I really don't know what's going on with it," Emily explained hurriedly, knowing that this man could do it, "I just know he's been looking for it, because Henry doesn't remember where he buried his tie in the forest— "
"Wait."
Lin You paused, "You mean Henry?"
The boy who drew the picture of him with the Slender Ghost
Emily: "...um."
"I haven't asked you yet," Lin You said, "Where are the missing children, such as Henry, now?"
Although she felt that there was more than good luck.
"They all became his agents."
Emily murmured.
"I don't know about others. Henry was looking for this tie in the forest where he disappeared."
She was a little vague, but Lin You figured it out in her mind.
"Youyou," Jian Mingjia knocked on the door outside, she didn't lock the door, and opened it as soon as she turned the handle, "I brought the things up, let's—eh?!"
She stared at the empty room for a moment, then realized that she should look into the bathroom, and the heart that jumped into her throat finally fell into place.
"Scared me..." She was terrified, "I thought something was wrong with you."
"What can I do?"
Lin You asked back with a smile, and then restrained her smile, "But that's right, there is something wrong, sit down and listen to me."
She described the scene she saw at the window in a few words.
"...Damn it," Geng Qinghe said with a sad face, "this is too fast..."
"Who says it's not." Jian Mingjia nudged him once, then looked at Lin You, "But that's not the point—what did you ask that little girl with your tie just now?"
Lin You took a deep breath.
"Let's start from the beginning." She said, "For example, the reason why Miller was targeted."
"I think he might not have attracted the attention of the slender ghost when he came to this town to investigate at first... until he found this by chance in the forest where Henry disappeared."
Lin You nodded the tie on the table.
"Emily said that the slender ghost has been looking for it, so Henry, who has become an agent, is also wandering there."
"You mean..." Geng Qinghe understood what she meant, "Henry found out that someone had found the tie they were looking for, and told Slender Ghost about it, and then Slender Ghost would focus on Miller?"
"Well, and Henry probably attacked him then."
Lin You picked up the tie, revealing the bloody fingerprints on it.
"But the tie was not snatched, and the person escaped. Miller also guessed that this thing is very important. He didn't know how to deal with it, so he hid it secretly under the bed. After being trapped in the factory with nowhere to go, he regarded it as his last hope. "
"So what exactly is this?" Jian Mingjia leaned over to look, "The main body? A holy relic?"
"The main body is not enough," Lin You said seriously, "but maybe it's really a medium."
"—Come on, remember why we went to Henry's?" she asked.
Geng Qinghe: "Because he was the first one to disappear."
It was an unexpected joy to directly confirm the identity of the BOSS there.
"One more thing, according to Emily, the tie is Henry buried in the forest, so it is covered with so much soil - of course, it should be something that happened before he was alive. After death, I am afraid that Emily will forget who he was before he was alive. Same, naturally I don’t remember where to throw it.”
"So, what is this tie for and where did it come from..."
Lin You smiled.
"If Henry started it all, then of course someone knows better than us."
If Geng Qinghe said that he would go out knowing that the slender ghosts were around, it would be a lot of death.
But what can be done.
He thought bitterly.
Should go or have to go!
All the way, he was suspiciously observing whether there was a faceless man looking at them at the corner of the street. Even when Lin You patted him on the shoulder, he jumped three feet high.
"What are you afraid of? If you go into the forest in this weather, you will die. It's not necessarily true if you walk in the town for a while."
She said, "Besides, isn't it here?"
They have been here once in the morning.
— Home of Henry Davis.
Shortly after ringing the doorbell, the blond Mrs. Davis opened the door again for them.
She looked a little puzzled, "Why do you guys—"
This time before she could finish speaking, Lin You took out the tie from her backpack and waved it in front of the other party, "Have you seen this?"
The moment she saw what she was holding, Mrs. Davis' face turned pale.
This is better than any words.
Seeing this, Lin You exchanged glances with the other two, and continued, "Don't worry, we haven't told anyone yet, but the condition is that you tell us the truth you know."
Different from her composure in the morning, Mrs. Davis walked out of the way in silence this time, her fingers tightly clutching the hem of her skirt, her face full of panic.
Even the warm flames of the fireplace in the living room couldn't add a little warmth to her. She bit her pale lips, and even made deep tooth marks, and kept rubbing each other.
"It seems that you know its origin." Lin You said.
"No, no," Mrs. Davis denied quickly, avoiding their eyes, "I don't know."
"His dad got it from somewhere before - he's been dead a long time ago - and I don't know what Henry did with it when he dug it out of the basement, but that's why the guy showed up."
"Henry kept it from me at first, he said he had a lot of fun with that guy, but then he gradually got scared, so I asked him to take it away. But the guy didn't stop, he took Henry away, and took the town away. on other people…”
"That's why," Geng Qinghe said, "when we come over in the morning, you will rush to take out those paintings, and want us to treat Henry as a simple victim."
Thinking about it now, her attitude at that time was still normal, but knowing these concealed things, no matter how normal it was, it became abnormal.
"How could I possibly tell them that Henry caused everything?"
Mrs. Davis said blankly.
Her gaze was fixed on the floor-to-ceiling windows opposite, but within a few seconds, a shrill and terrifying scream suddenly broke out.
The three of them were startled and turned their heads together. Through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, standing in the courtyard was an inhuman figure they were all too familiar with.
The slender ghost stood under the rain curtain of the torrential rain, just watching them.
There was only an afterimage in front of my eyes, and the glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows shattered all over the floor.
The tentacle used to break the glass behind him suddenly stretched out longer, and Mrs. Davis let out a sharper scream. She rolled from the sofa to the carpet, her eyes rolled upwards, and she almost lost her mind. Go away.
Accompanied by the sound of stepping on shards of glass and the distorted friction on the floor, the slender ghost walked into the room step by step. His outlineless eye sockets swept across the people in the living room from Mrs. Davis, as if admiring their terrified expressions .
Before it was too late, one of the elongated tentacles swung up and quickly pierced towards the person closest to him.
It's good to die or not to die.
She rolled to the side with a jerk, but there was no obstacle between her and the other party. The next blow followed closely, and Jian Mingjia, who knew that she would not be able to dodge this time, subconsciously closed her eyes—
… Huh
Without the pain passing through the throat, without the sense of weightlessness forced to be transmitted, Jian Mingjia opened his eyes blankly.
"Don't move." She heard a familiar voice say.
The tentacles stopped just a few feet away from her throat, and they just didn't pierce an inch further. But when he looked up, the slender ghost's blank face lacked any facial features, but somehow he could almost see the black air surging up from the rounds of anger.
"Yes, yes, that's it."
Not far from the fireplace, Lin You, who rushed straight to see the stalemate, leaned on the ground with the old god, the tie in his hand was only a little away from the flames burning on the firewood.
"Don't move," she shook the things in her hand again, and said with a smile, "If you dare to do it, I will tear up the ticket."