That night, Lin Huai went to sleep after a brief soak in the hot spring.
At any rate, this night was under the fence. Lin Huai was very steady and didn't have anything to do with Chu Tianshu, but in the middle of the night, he somehow woke up from his dream, and when he opened his eyes, he turned his head and saw Chu Tianshu's closed eyes, as if he was sleeping soundly.
He looked at Chu Tianshu for a long time in the night, and suddenly stretched out his finger.
Pale fingers brushed across Chu Tianshu's forehead, then eyelashes and cheeks, and finally...
Pinched Chu Tianshu's nose.
Chu Tianshu: ...
"Yo." He opened his eyes and said in a low voice, "You are so ruthless."
"You didn't fall asleep and saw me awake, are you pretending to be asleep?"
"... Mmm." Chu Tianshu said, "Let go first."
Lin Huai: "Why?"
Chu Tianshu: "The snot is almost squeezed out by you."
... Lin Huai finally let go of his hand, and flicked his fingers in disgust. Chu Tianshu lay beside him, sneezed, looked at the ceiling and said, "I can't sleep."
"Why can't you sleep?"
"I..." Chu Tianshu hesitated, and said, "Because... the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law?"
Lin Huai: ...
"...Actually, my mother was not the fiancée chosen by the Gu family for my father. The Gu family and the Chu family were going to marry, and it was her younger sister who was supposed to marry into the Chu family. The Gu family is good at divination, and my mother Although they are the daughters of the Gu family, they are also the only ones who are not good at divination, and even deliberately avoided practicing this technique. Do you know why?"
"Because she is also a materialist?" Lin Huai said.
"No, originally my mother was also a rare genius in the Gu family. It wasn't until she was lost in an accident when she was a child and was found in the wilderness. Her personality changed drastically, and her genius seemed to disappear along with that disappearance. It's exhausted. And the Gu family also gave up on her, and turned to cultivate her younger sister. But my father likes free love, and when he went to the Gu family, my mother became his fiancée." Chu Tianshu looked at Ceiling said, "This is a love story belonging to the romance channel that takes 300,000 words to describe in detail..."
He keeps looking up. But Lin Huai looked at him.
"... In short, this is the story. And when she lost her 'talent' in magic and became silent, it was also when she came back from Wen County. And the place where she took the five-year-old me, she wanted to kill Wen County was the place where I was finally killed by evil spirits and died. And the "Descent" she founded the Advent Foundation, which she pursued, also started in Wen County. She even told me that I have long been Damn it. Over the years, I have guessed that Wen County is a dungeon in the game, even one of the most important dungeons." Chu Tianshu looked at his palm and smiled wryly, "Sometimes I even doubt that I Could it be that an evil ghost in that dungeon used her to escape from the dungeon and was reborn from her son's body, that's why she was so cold and crazy, looking forward to my death... "
"But that's not in line with common sense. Isn't the purpose of the Advent Foundation to introduce ghosts into the human world, so that the entire real world and the copy world can be integrated, so that the real world can also become a copy that can be edited? In this case, Her camp, should be on the side of ghosts. In this case, she can't pursue my death. If I am a ghost, a person who has lost his memory, pure and sees himself as a human being, can be used - and powerful enough to use her The evil spirit who escaped from the game. She is even more unlikely to kill me, but will find a way to use me to infect the world, so, my camp... "
"Everything shows that I have a close relationship with games. But I just want to be an ordinary person."
"Do you believe in fate?" Lin Huai asked him suddenly.
Chu Tianshu was stunned for a moment, and said, "I'm a materialist."
"That's it, there is no destiny in this world. There are only... well, subjective initiative..."
"I remembered, you Ma Zhe got 93 in the test." Chu Tianshu immediately smiled.
"So sleep, it's up to man." Lin Huai covered his head with the quilt, "Sleep well, and then remember to dream about the life and death of your mother and I falling into the water together..."
"Grass." Chu Tianshu said.
They lay on the bed and fell asleep quietly. After a long time, Chu Tianshu opened his mouth and said, "In this world, there is indeed no predestined destiny."
Lin Huai closed her eyes: "Yes."
"But I always feel that my encounter with you is fate."
…
Lin Huai dreamed of the crimson wellhead again.
That seemed like an extremely distant past.
"That thing has appeared again, stay in this sandbox, we will die here sooner or later." He heard the voices of other ghosts, "Aren't you going to do something?"
"..."
"I have to find a way to get out of here..."
"..."
All the ghosts were roaring, yearning to devour, only Lin Huai was sitting by the well bored and lonely.
— that thing? What is that thing
In the dream, he seemed to see the little girl again, standing by the well, looking extremely frightened.
"Humanity… "
"Fresh bait..."
At the end of the dream is the figure of the little girl who disappeared in the mist. Lin Huai woke up from the dream, suddenly covered in cold sweat.
The little girl he picked up in Wen County back then was indeed Gu Youruo.
But then the girl who disappeared under his nose and was finally picked up from the wilderness...
Or Gu Youruo
Chu Tianshu is not an evil spirit, but Gu Youruo wants to kill him. Gu Youruo stands in the camp of evil spirits, if Gu Youruo wants to introduce evil spirits into the real world, could it be...
After being rescued from Wen County, Gu Youruo, whose personality changed drastically, was the real evil spirit who was taken out from Wen County? And the soul of the real human little girl inside her, already dead because of it? That being the case, Chu Tianshu, who was born with the help of the body of an evil spirit and "should have died long ago", is...
Lin Huai suddenly felt even more terrifying.
He woke up Chu Tianshu and said to him, "I have a bold idea."
Chu Tianshu was shaken awake from his dream, and looked at him in confusion: "You say."
Lin Huai said his thoughts in this way, Chu Tianshu nodded and said: "I have also had such a conjecture. If we look at it according to this conjecture, my identity has a new problem. Or, I It was divined by the original Gu Youruo, and she was supposed to be born because of her, the child who will defeat all the evil spirits and save the world. Or, I am something that evil spirit brought out from Wen County."
Lin Huai: "Actually, I have a bolder idea."
Chu Tianshu glanced at him: "Say it."
Lin Huai: "Could you be the original Gu You—"
Chu Tianshu: ... ...
"Be sober, if we are placed in Jinjiang, we will be on the pure love channel, not the romance channel." Chu Tianshu said with a cold face, "Or do you need more evidence?"
"You don't have to grab my hand and touch your lower body..."
After being tossed about for a while, Lin Huai finally deeply felt the temptation to go back to the county.
Perhaps all the secrets are buried in Wen County, as long as you return there, all the mysteries will be solved.
…
The next afternoon, Lin Huai came to Gu Youruo's room.
All the furnishings in the room are still the same as when the owner left. Even the computer was placed in its original location. The Patriarch of the Chu family was obviously taken aback when he learned that Chu Tianshu was going back to the locked old building that originally belonged to their family.
Then, with alacrity, he ordered the locks to be opened, and allowed them to enter alone.
Over the years, he has always missed this place, but never dared to enter.
Chu Tianshu skillfully moved his fingers on the keyboard, and soon he cracked the password of the computer and began to search for the information inside.
Lin Huai can't help you with computers. He had no choice but to sit on the bed—because the head of the Chu family was busy with affairs when he was young, he often slept in the main building, so the rooms of the master and the hostess were separated.
Chu Tianshu was still struggling with the computer, he was staring at the computer intently, with the printed handwriting in hand. Lin Huai couldn't help much, he knew that this was Chu Tianshu's battlefield.
So he just looked around the room.
Gu Youruo's room was beyond his expectations. As far as women's aesthetics are concerned, this room seemed too clean and cold, like a snow cave, not like a woman's room. There are still her old clothes hanging in the closet, most of them are black, white and gray, simple and elegant, more neutral than the feminine beauty.
"I'm walking around in the building." Lin Huai said, "There shouldn't be any ghosts in your house, right?"
"It should be only you." Chu Tianshu said.
... Lin Huai thanked him for his straightforward answer.
He walked around the small building a few times, but found nothing special except the ball that Chu Tianshu played with when he was a child. It wasn't until he was patted awake and opened his eyes in a daze that he saw Chu Tianshu saying to him: "My sister has come to look for me, I'll go out first."
Lin Huai looked out the door and couldn't hold back a "huh".
Chu Tianyu stood outside. She was rarely dressed in a very grand attire, like a witch who came out of a myth. Perhaps it was because of this that she didn't bother to enter the small building because it was too troublesome to move around.
"How far have you progressed?" Lin Huai asked Chu Tianshu.
Chu Tianshu shrugged his shoulders and said: "Things are cleaned up very cleanly. I restored a little content and am reading it. I still can't understand the notebook. Let's search the room again at night."
"Ok."
Chu Tianshu went out. Lin Huai stayed in the living room on the second floor for a while, watching Chu Tianshu and Chu Tianyu talking downstairs, squinting and yawning.
Suddenly, he felt as if there was a wind blowing behind him.
Lin Huai turned her head, and what she saw was the window that was opened by Chu Tianshu for ventilation. The wind should be blowing in from there, and the window is next to Gu Youruo's room, and there is a chair under the window.
Lin Huai casually threw the ball in his hand to the ground and walked to the window.
Looking out of the window, you can just see a small garden. Lin Huai suddenly remembered that Chu Tianshu once said that when he was a child, he liked to play downstairs with some children from the clan, and at that time Gu Youruo always looked at him through the window.
It seems that this window is the one that Gu Youruo used to look down through here.
Lin Huai grabbed the window frame, stretched her body and looked out. What he saw was only the small empty garden, without Chu Tianshu and other children playing football underneath.
I don't know if the expression of the woman in the window frame that Chu Tianshu saw when he looked up from the garden is the same as his expression today
"Squeak!!"
The window frame in his hand made a somewhat decaying sound. Lin Huai took most of his body back from the outside. When he turned around, he felt that his little finger had touched some strange marks.
It looks like there is something, a sunken mark.
Lin Huai turned her head and saw only the empty room on the second floor. The ball that Chu Tianshu played when he was a child was rolling slowly on the ground.
He then turned his head and looked at the position under his fingers.
pits.
Four... dimples.
It was lower than where his hand was, and the place was deeply sunken... It was clearly a handprint left by a woman grabbing on the window frame!
— At this height one head lower than him.
That is clearly Gu Youruo's handprint! !
What kind of woman would scratch such claw marks on the window frame when she saw her "child" playing football downstairs? !
Or…
She was not human
The door leading to Gu Youruo's room was half open, and when Chu Tianshu left that room, he did not close the door. At this time, the sky outside was half-dark, and when it gets dark early in winter, there is a faint blue light coming out from inside.
That's the blue light that belongs to the display.
— After so long, the display screen has not gone out yet
The second floor was empty, and Chu Tianshu hadn't come back yet. And that blue light faintly leaked out from the room, as if some kind of... treacherous hint.
Was it before Chu Tianshu came back
Lin Huai narrowed his eyes slightly. With cold fingers, he walked towards the room step by step.
Then pushed open the door.
In the back of the room, the computer's display screen was still on, showing a photo on it—it seemed to be a newly recovered photo by Chu Tianshu from the computer. It looks like it's from the same series as the notebook, and there are still ghost-like symbols on it, which are strange but neatly covered the whole picture.
The last time when Lin Huai saw a photo of that handwriting in Chu Tianshu's mobile phone, Lin Huai just glanced at it casually. But this time, he walked towards the computer.
Then sat down quietly.
The computer was still on, and the screen displayed a faint blue light. There is no light in the whole room, so there is only the light of this computer.
When he was sitting here, he suddenly thought of Gu Youruo's posture when he was sitting here—behind him was the row of wardrobes whose doors hadn't been closed, and black, white, and gray coats were hanging there quietly, like a pair of clothes. A figure was looking at him.
He held the mouse with his hand, let it go again, and then looked at the keyboard.
Finally, he looked at the text on the screen again.
The text on the screen was still weird, missing arms and legs, Lin Huai looked at the screen.
He had never read these words so carefully.
Suddenly, there seemed to be a strange impulse in his heart, asking him to read these symbols one by one. At that moment, all the symbols seemed to have changed in his field of vision. He has seen all the characters, all the characters, flooding his eyes, like some kind of overloaded information...
Then, he seemed to see a sentence.
"I have been waiting for you."
computer screen, tell him so.