The dim oil lamp illuminated this small hut.
The four walls of a family are nothing more than this.
An open broken wardrobe appeared inexplicably in the corner where there was nothing. The broken wooden boards were also covered with a bed that was slightly old and yellow.
It looked strangely warm.
I didn't feel the wind just now when I walked outside, but now there was a strong wind blowing, blowing the oil-papered windows and making them squeak.
It seemed like the next second, something would break through the window from outside.
"Xiaoyu, can I lie on this bed?"
Chen Guxue pointed to the bed nervously. Xi Yu was silent for a moment. When she nodded, she relaxed and slumped down on the bed.
The last strange story left a very bad impression on her.
Xi Yu was staring at the oil lamp on the bedside table in a daze.
The only decent rule is about this oil lamp.
The oil lamp cannot be extinguished, but as far as Xi Yu knows, this kind of thing usually burns for a long time, not to mention that there is still a lot of lamp oil in the lamp.
In other words, the oil lamp went out...
What will happen?
"It seems like... there's something...!"
Chen Guxue exclaimed in a low voice, interrupting Xi Yu's deeper thinking.
Turning around to look, the other person was holding a ball of paper with words on it.
"It's under the pillow. Could this be a clue?"
Xi Yu nodded, took the paper ball and opened it.
The paper was obviously old, and the writing on it was not very legible.
"The family has no money, and my father is gone. I know that my mother wants to sell us, but I don't want to leave, and I don't want to be sold to that cripple as my wife..."
The handwriting in the middle is not very clear, and only a few words can be seen sporadically from the marks on the paper.
"I... lamp oil... maybe, relief..."
The handwriting further down becomes clear again.
"It's been three days since my sister disappeared. My mother said she was lost in the mountains, but I don't believe it. My sister has always known the way well."
"So lonely..."
"Sister is back..."
"She's not a sister."
"Me neither."
"who I am?"
Further down, there are films and films of Who Am I?
It can be seen that the person who wrote this note was in a very poor mental state, and his handwriting became increasingly messy. In the end, he poked holes in the paper with his pen.
"Could these sisters be the two who greeted the guests at the door just now?"
Chen Guxue's face turned a little pale after watching the whole process.
Xi Yu didn't dare to conclude, but judging from the current situation, this was the only possibility.
"Don't worry, there will be a solution. Go to sleep first."
Chen Guxue, who had been tense for a long time, fell asleep soundly after a tiring day.
The season in this ghost story should be autumn. The house was simple and there was constant wind leaking in through the windows. Xi Yu raised her hand to tuck the quilt tightly for Chen Guxue and then looked up at the clock on the wall.
Seven fifty-six.
Among the few rules, one is that you are not allowed to go out after eight o'clock at night.
What happens outside after eight o'clock?
Xi Yu lay on the bed and carefully sorted out everything that had happened since he came to this world. He also raised his eyes to pay attention to the situation outside.
After a "tick" sound.
Eight o'clock is here.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xi Yu felt that the wind leaking from the window became more and more intense. The window shook violently and the noise was ridiculous.
Xi Yu was just thinking about asking Tour Guide 04 to reinforce the window when he saw a figure cast into the window covered with oil paper.
Someone is outside looking in!
Realizing this, Xi Yu slid her body down calmly and half-closed her eyes.
Keeping a view of the outside world will prevent people outside from finding out that you are pretending to sleep.
It stayed like this for an unknown amount of time. Just when Xi Yu thought that the people outside had given up and were about to leave, the window was suddenly opened from the outside.
"...?!"
In Xi Yu's heart, ten thousand grass and mud horses galloped past.
I have never encountered such a situation in my previous ghost stories!
Did she inadvertently break some rules?
The only sounds in the silence were the jumping monkeys and the slow, heavy footsteps.
Xi Yu closed her eyes and felt the man slowly walk to the bed, then stood there and stared at him.
This person seemed to be getting closer, and Xi Yu could even feel his breath on his face.
Chen Guxue was right next to her. When she realized that the other party would do the same to Chen Guxue, Xi Yu's heart rang with alarms and her muscles tensed up, preparing to take action as soon as something unexpected happened.
The expected chaos did not occur.
Xi Yu only felt the oil lamp on the table being lifted up and put down again.
What is intolerable is unbearable.
After realizing that the person who came was not something but an oil thief, Xi Yu jumped up from the bed and slashed with the back of the long knife he summoned instantly!
The man was very nimble and would take action in advance when he heard the sound of breaking through the air behind him.
After dodging the blow, the fitness man was covered in cold sweat.
Xi Yu looked at his hand and saw that there was indeed a small bottle in his hand. It was full of something other than lamp oil.
"Put down the lamp oil."
Xi Yu's tone was calm, and there was no hint of emotion or anger.
The fitness man looked at the long knife in Xi Yu's hand and the move he just made. After thinking about it again and again, he raised his hand as if giving up and handed the lamp oil to Xi Yu and said:
"What bad luck! I thought you were asleep."
Xi Yu didn't say anything. The oil lamp that was not allowed to be extinguished in the rules obviously made many people think wrongly.
The fitness man smiled sinisterly, and just as the two were about to hand over each other, the other's hand suddenly turned.
"Crack-"
The sound of glass falling to the ground was clear.
Chen Guxue was awakened and looked a little confused at the scene in front of her, but still chose not to cause trouble, shivering, wrapped herself in a quilt and watched from a distance.
"If you break it, your lamp will go out before us!"
Xi Yu's face was full of displeasure. She had always found it difficult to understand such things that harmed others and did not benefit oneself.
He gestured to the fitness man to look at the clock with an expression that looked like he was looking at a fool:
"It's past eight o'clock now, are you sure you still don't want to go back to your room?"
The fitness man looked at the clock, his expression unnatural for a moment.
Apparently, he didn't notice this.
"If I were you, I would go back immediately while it's still early and before anything happens, instead of wasting time here on such illusory things."
Xi Yu made sincere suggestions, and the fitness man was persuaded. He scoffed and quickly opened the door and ran out.
"Are you okay?"
Seeing that the person was gone, Chen Guxue poked her head out of the blanket.
Xi Yu walked to the window and stared at the moving little red dots in the pitch black outside for a long time before closing the window.
"It's okay, go to sleep."
At the dining table in the early morning, Xi Yu watched as everyone took their seats one after another. Only the seats for the thin boy and the fitness guy were still empty.
There were three minutes left before breakfast time, when the thin boy ran in in a panic and sat on his seat to catch his breath.
Breakfast begins.
The old woman placed an oil lamp in the fitness man's place.
Regarding this man's fate, no one said much but they already knew it in their hearts.
The oil lamp burns brighter...
