here……
Xiaolan looked around.
He should still be in the hospital.
But unlike other places in the hospital, the white tiles on the last half floor are covered with various dark brown stains, the ground is covered with thick dust, and a large iron door blocks it. Perhaps no one remembers it. There is also a separate space here.
Xiaolan got up from the ground. She was almost soaked. The sticky and pungent mud was stained on Xiaolan's clothes and pants. Xiaolan gave up on her image and walked directly to the open rusty iron door. Look inside.
There was silence, no sound.
The light inside the door is weak, but you can vaguely see a white light flashing not far away. Through the white light inside and outside the door, Xiaolan can tell that there is a large space inside the door, and there are dark pipes in this space. There were four cloths crisscrossed on top, and there were no tiles on the floor. It was all brown soil.
Will it be in here?
Xiaolan slipped in through the crack in the door, carefully stepped on the dirt, and walked deeper into the space.
In my ears, I could suddenly hear bursts of crying that came and went.
Xiaolan was walking towards the place where the white light was flashing. When she heard the cry, she stopped and turned back suddenly.
There was only a rusty iron door behind him and his own footprints on the mud.
"woo woo woo woo……"
The crying started again.
It's the other direction.
Xiaolan hesitated for a moment and walked in the opposite direction of Bai Guang.
The cries were getting closer.
Xiaolan held on to the side wall of the pipe, turned a corner, and came to another relatively open place.
The cry here is so clear that it almost echoes in my ears.
Xiaolan took a few steps forward.
The crying stopped suddenly.
"Who are you?" Xiaolan squinted her eyes and looked around in the darkness.
The air froze for a few seconds.
"You are not a ghost," a little girl's voice came from the corner, "you are a human being."
Xiaolan followed the sound and finally saw the small figure huddled against the wall.
"Who are you……"
Xiaolan turned sideways and let the light shine on the girl from behind.
A little girl in tattered clothes was kneeling on the ground, turning to look at Xiaolan. The girl's face was covered with wrinkles and ravines, and the original appearance of her facial features could not be seen at all. The whole face looked like a ball. There was only a pair of black eyes among the scrap paper that had been crushed by someone, and the look of this ferocious face shone with fear.
"You are a ghost." Xiaolan breathed steadily.
"You... aren't you afraid of me?" the girl asked bravely.
Because judging from the performance of the two, it is obvious that the girl is more afraid of Xiaolan.
"How long have you been dead?" Xiaolan looked at the girl's body, "Why didn't you reincarnate?"
The girl lowered her eyebrows in loneliness, turned her head back, stared in front of herself, and silently replied, "If you reincarnate, you won't be able to be with your brother."
"elder brother?"
Only then did Xiaolan notice that there was a figure in front of the girl. A child was lying flat on the ground, and the girl was kneeling next to him.
Xiaolan stood on tiptoe and looked over the girl at the child.
It was a boy. The boy was wearing tattered clothes similar to those of the girl, except that the boy's clothes were soaked with some kind of dark liquid. There was a scratch on the boy's abdomen, and dark liquid continued to gush out from the scratch. The boy His eyes were slightly narrowed, his chest was rising and falling, and a stream of liquid gurgled out of his wound.
"What's going on?" Xiaolan unconsciously approached the two of them, "Is he also a ghost? What's wrong with him?"
The girl protected her brother with her thin body, crying and sobbing, "We just want... we just want to be friends with her."
Xiaolan closed her mouth immediately, and after a while she asked in a low voice, "Who?"
"That new girl," the girl choked with grievance, "we just wanted to invite her to be our friend as usual. That's how my brother and I were invited in. We are together... very happy, we I just wanted to invite her...but she, she suddenly hit us..."
It's Ling.
Xiaolan pursed her lips, and after a while she asked leisurely, "Did you tell her that she was a ghost?"
"We are all ghosts," the girl wiped her tears. "She can see us and is just like us. Of course she is also a ghost..."
No matter how many times I calculated, I didn't get to this point.
Xiaolan held her head in distress.
"You...can you save my brother?" The girl looked at Xiaolan's appearance, gradually stopped crying, and asked timidly.
"I..." Xiaolan put down her arms and looked at the two children.
The boy was still bleeding. In addition, the boy's figure was actually a little blurry. Xiaolan looked carefully and realized that the edges of the boy's body seemed to be spreading like gas.
"My brother's soul is about to disperse." The girl looked at the place where the white light was on in fear. "If you save my brother, I will... I will take you to find her."
After finishing speaking, fearing that her words would have no weight, the girl squared her shoulders and added, "Otherwise you wouldn't be able to find our secret base. Uncle has cast a talisman on our secret base so that only we can find it."
Xiaolan squatted down and looked at the boy's body.
To stop the soul from flying away...
Xiaolan reached out and grabbed the boy's arm.
When Xiaolan came into contact with the boy's cold skin, Xiaolan felt an inexplicable heat surge out of her body and poured into the boy's body. The mist that spread around the boy instantly shrank back to him. At the same time, one by one, The scorching picture came into Xiaolan's mind.
The owner of the sight was running, surrounded by burning flames. As he ran, he shouted something, and the shout was lost among the crackling burning furniture and houses.
Then, he rushed forward suddenly, grabbed a burning square table with both hands, and opened it. Under the table, there was a bloody little girl lying.
He turned the little girl's body over, and the girl's front face was completely black. He coughed a few times, picked up the girl and ran back on the road. The billowing smoke obscured his sight. His pace became slower and slower, and his vision became increasingly blurry. Finally, I knelt down by the closed window, and my vision went dark.
The screen disappeared, Xiaolan coughed a few times, and looked at the little boy in front of him in surprise.
The boy's expression was no longer so painful, and his fingers flicked slightly. Seeing this, Xiaolan held the boy's hand with her other hand.
"He's healed," the girl's voice sounded much happier, "You're so awesome."
Xiaolan smiled hastily, "Then can you take me to find the new girl?"
"I..." The girl glanced at her brother worriedly, gritted her teeth and said, "Let's go, I'll take you there."
As soon as Xiaolan stood up, something slipped out of his pants pocket. It was the ball he had just picked up in the pipe.
"It's our ball!" The girl quickly picked it up.
The round ball was about the size of a tennis ball, and its surface was so dark that it was hard to tell what it was originally.
"Is this your thing?" Xiaolan asked.
The girl hugged the ball and nodded, "The toys here are all ours. There are no living people here, only us...and you."
The girl rubbed the ball, squatted down, and stuffed the ball into her brother's hand. When she stood up, her eyes became much more determined, "Let's go."
Xiaolan followed the girl and approached the place where the white light lit up.
"You...I think you died...well, because..."
"There was a fire in our house," the girl said without fear. "My brother and I were burned to death."
"Then why are you in the hospital?"
"We died here after being sent to the hospital." The girl stood closer to Xiaolan, "All the children here are like this, we are all...how to say? By the way, the rescue failed. Yes, that’s it.”
Seeing the girl's lively appearance after she relaxed, Xiaolan felt sour in her heart.
But the closer she got to the white light, the more nervous the girl became.
"Is that new girl becoming scary?" Xiaolan asked insinuatingly.
"It's so scary, so powerful, even the soldier can't beat her." The girl glanced at Xiaolan fearfully, "You can save them too, right?"
"I...I don't know," Xiaolan hesitated, "I'll try my best."
"Then will you kill her?" the girl asked dully.
"Kill her?" Xiaolan was shocked, "No, I won't kill her."
To Xiaolan's shock, the girl breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you keep your word, you can't kill her."
Xiaolan glanced at the girl inexplicably.
"I think she must be quite pitiful," the girl grabbed Xiaolan's sleeve, "She must be more pitiful than us... Just drive her away when the time comes."
Xiao Lan didn't say anything, but what she was thinking was that if Rong Fa discovered this place, it would not be as simple as driving Ling away. It is estimated that "we" in this little girl's mouth would all be taken away by Rong Fa and sent to reincarnation. .
The girl took Xiaolan around two turns, and suddenly, a white figure flashed past the corner in front.
Xiaolan immediately cheered up and asked the girl, "Is that one of yours?"
The girl shook her head, "We are all children, not that tall."
After the two people's voices were heard, within a few seconds, the white figure turned back. As soon as this person showed his face, Xiaolan's heart was half relieved.
"Rongfa!" Xiaolan ran over, "Auntie! Are you okay?"
Rong Fa took Xu Yiling's hand and ran towards Xiao Lan crying, "Lord God! We finally found you!"
The girl huddled behind Xiaolan and looked at the two of them suspiciously.
"Lord God, let me tell you, the smell of ghost blood is very close to here, but I've turned around several times, but somehow I can't find...where did this clown girl come from?"
Rong Fa looked at the girl behind Xiao Lan with disgust.
As soon as the girl heard Rong Fa's taunt, she quickly lowered her head and covered her face behind Xiao Lan.
"Shut up," Xiao Lan winked at Rong Fa, "She is the ghost here. Only this child can lead us to Ling's current location."
Rong Fa crossed his arms and looked at the girl, "We have obviously sent away all the lonely ghosts in this area. Where did you come from? And..." Rong Fa approached the girl, raised his nose and smelled, " Why do you have a faint smell of ghost blood on you?"
Xiao Lan pushed Rong Fa away, "The blood on her body belongs to her brother. Ling seemed to have gone crazy and injured them."
"Ling?..." Xu Yiling, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly murmured, "My Ling? Going crazy?..."
Xiaolan was speechless and could only pat the little girl behind her, "Let's continue looking."
The girl was angry, so she just grabbed Xiaolan's hand and angrily led her forward.
After turning a few more forked roads, the girl led them to stop in the middle of an open space and said, "This is it."
Rongfa looked around and said, "Liar, we have been here before, but there is nothing here."
The girl glared at Rong Fa, squatted down, dug a few times in the dirt at her feet, swept her hands, and revealed a piece of paper buried under the dirt.
The girl carefully picked up the piece of paper, looked down at it, and then handed it to Xiaolan, "You have to be careful and return it to me later. If our secret base is gone, we will all have to be killed by those who specialize in it." The person who caught the ghost was captured and reincarnated."
Rongfa burst out laughing, but Xiaolan slapped his stomach and closed his mouth.
Xiaolan took the piece of paper, and it turned out to be a piece of yellow talisman paper. The pattern on the talisman paper was very unfamiliar, but the method of drawing the talisman was somewhat familiar.
The moment the talisman fell into Xiaolan's hand, the empty place slowly changed.
The dim lightbulb above their heads turned into a bright incandescent light, and what appeared in front of them again was a hospital corridor with clear windows.
Xiaolan and Rongfa were both stunned.
The girl's eyes were filled with fear again. She grabbed Xiaolan's hand again, her cold little hands trembling a little.
"Is she here?" Xiaolan asked.
The girl nodded nervously.
Seeing that the girl was scared to death, Xiaolan patted the girl on the head and said, "Thank you, go back and find your brother."
The girl shook her chin, but stubbornly shook her head.
"Aren't you afraid?"
"But I..." the girl simply held Xiaolan's hand, "I still have to save them."
"All right."
Several people walked down the corridor. On one side of the corridor was a window. Outside the window was darkness and nothing could be seen. On the other side were four white wooden doors. Everything was very similar to the furnishings in the inpatient department.
Several people passed by the first door. The door was open, but the room did not look like a ward. Several beds were scattered in the room. There were many sundries on the bed, almost all of which were children's favorite toys.
Inside the second door, there is a large table converted from a hospital bed, with some snack packaging bags and fruits placed on the table.
Everyone then moved forward.
The girl's hand suddenly tightened.
The third door was closed tightly, and some black-red liquid was leaking out from the crack in the door.
Seeing the girl almost crying in fear, Xiaolan pointed to the doorway, "Is this right here?"
The girl hugged Xiaolan's arm tightly and nodded.
Xiaolan reached out and pushed the door open, only to feel a resistance.
"What's going on?" Rong Fa also asked.
"I can't push it open," Xiaolan slightly increased her strength, "Can your door be locked from the inside?"
The girl shook her head blankly.
At this time, a series of suppressed cries emerged from the fourth door and flooded into their ears.
