Lina's narration was very simple, and she was not too clear about the details of the incident. It's just that her tone and expression were always very hasty, like a small animal being chased by a ferocious beast. She only knew how to run with all her strength without any firm idea of survival.
"Uncle took me back to the town. In the town, those people have disappeared and everyone has turned into ghosts. Everyone... everyone is crying... Mom and Dad are also crying... No one pays attention to me... Uncle and him Together with my friends, we took everyone's bodies to the cemetery, buried them one by one, and set up tombstones. It took a long time to do this. The cemetery has expanded a lot, and there are tombstones everywhere... like... like It's a forest of tombstones..." Lina's eyes were unfocused, and her sight seemed to be in a distant place. "After being buried, we didn't ascend to heaven or find rest. Uncle and the others didn't know what to do. They had to go find them. The church, ask big shots like bishops to come over. They said they would find a way. They left... and never came back... We stayed here, many years passed... The mayor recorded the date, day after day... Someone I wanted to leave the town, but after walking out, I entered the forest, and after a while, I would return to the town. Some people said, uncle, they had no choice. They had no choice, so whatever they did outside, we were Trapped here. We'll never find rest... It was a scary time for everyone, everyone..."
After Lina said this, she lowered her head and couldn't go on.
One can imagine how desperate it would be for a group of desperate ghosts to be bound to the land of their hometown, holding on to hope, watching time pass, and watching the entire town become deserted and desolate.
Lina might have been ostracized and bullied in the process. After all, the source of everything can be said to be Lina's family, and it was their doll that caused this disaster.
"Later," Lina changed her tone and skipped those unpleasant years, "Everyone accepted it. Some people hid at home and didn't come out, and some people thought this was okay... everyone was here and still living. Together. Originally, we didn’t have that much contact with the outside world, and many people never left the town in their lives. Now, no one will get sick or die. It’s just that the house is broken down, and no one takes care of the cemetery. Able to eat... Just like that... Until one day, someone said that someone came in from outside. We all thought it was uncle and they came back. Although it is unlikely... It has been a long time... The last time recorded by the mayor was more than one hundred After the New Year... everyone gathered together. We... saw strangers, a few big brothers and big sisters... They couldn't see us... They were surprised and said it was so cold here and whether it was a ghost town. Walking around, Passing through our bodies... They, like travelers, wander around the town... "
Lina sighed, "No matter what we do, they can't feel it. They treat this place as a place to play games. We can't understand many of the things they wear and say. They also draw pictures on our house. Aunt Tailin was very angry, but there was nothing we could do... They also found our cemetery. At that time, they were frightened and ran away quickly. They did not come for several days. After a few days, they came again. They took us They made the town their own. Some of us liked them and were curious about what they would do, and some of us hated them. I followed them all the time. They mentioned the name of our town, Morris."
The name Lina said made me startled. This name is exactly the name of the town that Lina reported when she told her address last time. It should be somewhere in the future world. Originally, the two towns were the same place. What was changed was just the time of Lina's birth, or was the name of the town also tampered with like the history of the town
I wasn’t sure of the answer, so I could only listen to Lina go on.
"They say that the plague was thought to have struck Morris hundreds of years ago. At that time, the town was sealed off. Rumor has it that the town was burned down by fire at that time. Both those who had the plague and those who were healthy were burned to death. That's all they found." Lina paused, "What they said... made us suspicious. Maybe the doll thing was fake. In fact, we were all burned to death at that time. He died and became a ghost. What happened to my uncle was also false... It has been too long, and many people and ghosts have become... dull... My parents too. Before those people arrived in the town, my parents had already Not moving anymore, just sitting at home, doing nothing, as if dead... "
Lost your mind
Lina shook her head, "I remember, I remember my sister, it was my sister who did all this... Those people thought that Morris was a town that was killed by the plague, and they felt scared, fearing that there was still a plague. They had a dispute, and someone They said they should tell the police, but many people objected. They regard this place as their place... They come here often and play here. They explore here and rummage through our things. A lot of things are gone, and they didn't find anything. They wanted to dig a grave... It was an eldest brother who suggested it. Another eldest sister stopped them and quarreled with them. They should be the couple you just mentioned." Lina glanced at the thin man, "They quarreled and even started fighting. . The eldest sister ran out and said she would tell the police. They chased her out. When it got dark, only the eldest sister came back... "
Lina clenched her hands, "She came in with her sister in her arms... I saw... it was my sister, exactly the same as before... "
"Where did she find the doll?" Chen Xiaoqiu asked.
Lina shook her head, "I don't know. She was crying and walking in with her sister in her arms. I saw my sister's eyes moving... She looked at us... She smiled at us... The eldest sister didn't see... We all gathered All around, everyone who could move was around. Connor screamed and ran away. Everyone was scared. People who originally thought it was the plague that killed us were also scared. The whole town... The whole town Everyone is afraid... We are so scared..."
Lina cried, "I don't know what happened... The sky darkened and the moon disappeared. The town, the town, was dark... The big sister was also frightened, sitting on the ground, unable to move... Then... Then it lit up Light... Mom, dad, and others, those who couldn't move, found candles and oil lamps from nowhere. Light... there was light everywhere... but it was still dark. We ran away, couldn't escape... the house, the town The house was in ruins, but it got better then. It seemed like it was back to the past... Those people, holding lights, lined up and walked to the cemetery. The eldest sister was also put up. The younger sister walked at the front of the queue... I heard my sister laughing all the time... They dug up the grave and took the bodies out. The bodies... were all corpses... no skeletons, just the same as before they buried them. The ghosts got into the corpses and became like that again... "
Lina covered her face, tears oozing from her fingers.
"It's just a few hundred years and it's back to the past... everything is back to the way it was before..."