Walking in the empty and somewhat desolate teaching corridor at night, Tang Yuanyuan sneezed several times in a row, not knowing whether it was because of the cool breeze flowing through the corridor or because someone was thinking about him behind his back.
This made the group of people who originally didn't want to make too much noise in the empty teaching building almost lose all their efforts. Fortunately, she covered her mouth in time and did not fall into the extremely embarrassing situation where the sound of sneezing echoed in the corridor.
Even so, Tang Yuanyuan still wiped his nose with his index finger in embarrassment after a few sneezes. Then he stopped and turned around to glance secretly at Yi Huai who was following him, but he happened to meet the smile hanging on the latter's face. That subtle expression that seemed like a smile but not a smile.
"Were you snickering just now?"
"I don't, I just feel that human beings are really weak, and you can catch a cold even if you blow a little wind."
Yi Huai said with a smile and stopped. He leaned down and got close to Tang Yuanyuan. He took off his coat and handed it to her: "Put it on for you. Anyway, I won't do it because of this." Something catches a cold."
"Why do you feel like you're blaming me?" Tang Yuanyuan frowned at the clothes Yi Huai handed over. He didn't reach out to take it immediately. Instead, he pouted and hummed in a low voice, "There is another possibility that there is someone behind you. Talk about me..."
"I didn't expect you to still believe this rhetoric... Come on, who will talk about you behind your back?" He said, "Your interpersonal network is so clean and simple that I can figure it out in a day or two, and I've been living with you. For more than half a month, it has been basically the same few regular people hanging around...well, most of them are the housekeepers and various hourly workers hired by your family."
Yi Huai looked at her and raised his eyebrows, and then said:
"You basically don't have any friends of the same age around you. Well... you don't think there will be some adolescent boy secretly talking about you behind your back, do you?"
As soon as he said these words, Tang Yuanyuan's face immediately showed an expression of "Are you okay?" He raised his hand and hit him on the shoulder with a knife, and then stuck out his tongue:
"I'm really ignorant. After living for so many years, don't you know that there are many kinds of chanting? Why does it have to be someone who has a crush on me? Maybe my father or grandfather is missing his dear daughter or granddaughter and is secretly saying my name behind my back. ?”
The two of them got together like this and kept their voices low. However, Zhen, who was lying on Tang Yuanyuan's shoulder, could no longer stand the nonsense. He jumped up from her shoulder and landed on Yi Huai's arm, then turned around and swept it with his tail. He slapped Yi Huai's hand, bit down and snatched the coat from his hand, and dropped it back on Tang Yuanyuan's shoulders.
Yi Huai looked at him in astonishment as he put the coat on Tang Yuanyuan with a hum, as if he didn't realize what happened for a while, until Tang Yuanyuan burst into laughter.
"Old fox, you..."
"What are you doing? I'm not interested in watching the brat and Yuan Yuan quarreling." Seeing that the coat was well draped around Tang Yuanyuan's body, Zhen squinted his eyes and turned around and lay down on her shoulder again, without even looking at Yi Huai. .
"Knowing that Yuanyuan is weak, you still hesitate to put it on her earlier. Why, do you want me to wait for the clothes in your hand to fall to the ground?"
Yi Huai was speechless by his words. It wasn't that he didn't want to put clothes on Tang Yuanyuan, but she didn't pick it up immediately when he handed her the coat, so he felt a little uneasy and hesitated, and didn't take the initiative to give it to her. Put on.
He was worried that by covering Tang Yuanyuan's clothes on his own, he would go too far and offend the other party. He couldn't put his own clothes on the other party as nonchalantly as Zhen did.
At this moment, his hands were empty, so he had to sigh and put down his hands. He lowered his eyes and glanced at Tang Yuanyuan who had put on his own clothes. He thought that this was good, at least he had reached his goal at a corner. .
Yi Huai thought about this and straightened up again, his eyes falling on the long teaching corridor behind Tang Yuanyuan.
The window at the end of the corridor seems to have been open for some reason. Walking in such a long corridor seems to be inevitably blown by the wind flowing along the corridor. The night breeze in late autumn is not as pleasant as in summer.
Yi Huai felt that maybe it would be better if he walked in front of Tang Yuanyuan. Not only would he not have to see Zhen who had a strong opinion of him, but he could also block Tang Yuanyuan from the cold night wind.
So he walked sideways around Tang Yuanyuan, intending to walk in front of her, but the moment they passed each other, he suddenly felt something force pulling the corner of his clothes.
Unexpectedly, he turned back to look at Tang Yuanyuan, who was holding the corner of his clothes. The latter retracted his hand the moment he met his eyes, and then looked at him with a slightly embarrassed expression.
"Um... um... my hands moved without realizing it..." She said and scratched her hair, "Well... thank you for the coat? Thank you also for helping me put on my clothes... .However, you are wearing single clothes, won’t you be cold?”
Yi Huai was startled when he heard this, looked into Tang Yuanyuan's eyes and was silent for a moment and then laughed:
"I thought you were very smart. I'm not human. How could you think of asking me such a question?"
"Don't change your mind. Not getting sick because of this kind of thing and not feeling cold are completely different things, right?" She said that, her eyes slowly moved down and fell on his hand, "Because you and the other ghosts It’s not the same... You have your own body temperature, and I have also felt the changes in your body temperature..."
"You also have your own senses. Compared to ghosts, you are actually more human in this regard, right? Then there is no reason why you can't feel cold, right?"
Her words came out so softly, but she couldn't hear Yi Huai's answer immediately. For a moment, the long corridor suddenly fell into a dead silence.
After a while, Yi Huai suddenly raised his hand. He slightly bent his index finger and placed it gently on Tang Yuanyuan's forehead. Then he quickly retracted his hand, turned around and walked past her. He laughed softly and said:
"Don't worry, I'm not cold."
When he said this, he happened to pass by Tang Yuanyuan with his back facing him. Tang Yuanyuan could not see the expression on his face clearly, but instinctively raised his hand and touched his forehead with some confusion.
Warmth did come from his lightly touching fingertips, but it was strange to answer him in this way, no matter how he thought about it, right?
She always felt that the atmosphere was very subtle just now... Tang Yuanyuan said so heartily as she peeked at Yi Huai's back. She didn't know if it was her imagination. She always felt that the other person didn't want her to see the look on his face. expression, but she felt that it was a pity that she could not see Yi Huai's expression clearly.
Zhen Ze silently lay on her shoulder and witnessed everything that happened between the two of them. He let out an inaudible hum and slipped into the back hood of the coat. He changed his direction and stared at the two of them. The corridor behind you.
But Yi Huai, who had already turned around, was walking a little slowly, his eyes falling on the little finger of his left hand, his red eyes flashing, looking at the looming red silk thread, the expression on his face was a bit... A helpless smile.
"I really don't know whether to say she is too straightforward or unsuspecting... She can obviously not care so much about those things... Maybe it would be better if she only uses me as a tool to protect her...?"
"It's okay not to care about me so much, Tang Yuanyuan...the more you act like this, the more abnormal I will become..."
He whispered to himself so softly, sighing in his heart that was already a little upset by the inexplicable disturbance. The fingertip touching the girl's forehead seemed to still have some warmth at the moment, and he clenched it tightly in his fist. The palm of your hand.
After he had walked a short distance, Tang Yuanyuan's footsteps finally sounded behind him. She seemed to have finally started to catch up with her, but for some reason it sounded a little hurried.
Yi Huai couldn't help but frowned and turned back, but the moment he turned back, he happened to bump into Tang Yuanyuan and grabbed his arm. He whispered to him nervously:
"Yi Huai, did you hear anything?"
"sound?"
Hearing this, he instinctively raised his head and looked at both ends of the still empty corridor with vigilance, but did not see any flashing shadows or any changes. There seemed to be no sound in his ears except for the ever-present wind in the corridor. .
He even deliberately expanded his sense of inspiration and failed to detect any dangerous ghost movements around him.
Just when he was about to lower his head and ask Tang Yuanyuan in a low voice what he heard, the latter put her index finger to her lips to signal him to stop talking. Then she listened quietly for a while, and then suddenly raised her head to look at the ceiling above them. .
"It's the baby's cry... the sound coming from upstairs!" She said in a low voice, pointing to the stairs at the end of the corridor, "It seems to be the cry coming from the direction of the bathroom upstairs."
“Why are there babies crying in school?”
Yi Huai frowned. He couldn't hear any sound and couldn't help but doubt himself. His eyes fell on Tang Yuanyuan's shoulders and raised his ears, but the latter just shook his head.
"I can't hear that sound either, and I haven't noticed any ghostly presence around here."
"Then the cry that only I can hear may be a bait or a trap to lure me."
After Tang Yuanyuan saw Yi Huai and Zhen's reactions, he didn't panic at all. Instead, he blinked his eyes and continued quickly: "But such guidance may also be a breakthrough for us to find ghosts."
"Remember, the female ghost who confronted us in the storage room had something in her belly. The sound of a baby crying might mean that something in her belly was born."
She said so, swallowed lightly, and then said:
"I decided to go to the place where the crying came from. What do you think?"
"Of course I will go wherever you go." Tsumugi shook his body and said, "I'm here to protect you."
"Listen to your decision." Yi Huai also said the same thing, looking up in the same direction as Tang Yuanyuan, "I really want to see what kind of thing is playing tricks on this campus, but you have to Be careful not to get too far away from us.”
"good."
Tang Yuanyuan nodded and agreed to Yi Huai's words, but he had another idea in his heart.
She knew that if she stayed too far away from Yi Huai and Zhen, she might cause unnecessary danger and trouble, but if necessary, she would decide to use herself as bait to lure them out.
Because since the opponent is so deliberately hiding their aura, and they are trying to cover up and only make sounds to seduce themselves, there is no doubt that they are absolutely unwilling to fight against Yi Huai and Zhen. Under such circumstances, if they want to completely eliminate them , she may have to make some dangerous choices.
Of course, she couldn't tell Yi Huai and Zhen at this time, because she knew that if they knew that she had such a plan, they would never let her get involved in any dangerous areas.
So she can only control the timing of everything, just like she has faced those troubles alone countless times in the past...
But there is something different now. At least she can choose a better time to put her safety in the hands of someone she can trust.
With such thoughts in mind, Tang Yuanyuan took a deep breath and looked at Yi Huai to signal, and then they took steps together towards the direction of the crying sound in the teaching building.
