"Mom, she is already..." A pair of small hands rubbed her face that was instantly washed away by tears, "Mom, she is already dead."
Moonlight took out the silk handkerchief from his coat pocket and wiped Thomas' face.
"A month ago..." the little boy sobbed, trying to lower his voice as he spoke, "the uncles and aunts from the warehouse suddenly came to the house.
"They said... they said..." He choked up, tears accelerating down his tear ducts, "My mother was pressed by something and was sent to the hospital.
"Later, they told me that my mother was in a coma... However, I found someone crying...
"I just thought my mother might have left."
Sean and Moonlight squatted in front of Thomas, like a wall that gave people a sense of security, surrounding him inside.
The little boy calmed down a little. He swallowed and continued: "The night of the accident, I was sleeping at home alone...
"As a result, I heard the door being opened...
"I saw..." Thomas opened his eyes wide, with surprise and fear mixed in his eyes, "I saw my mother came back!"
It's just a soul that doesn't want to leave. Moonlight sighed in her heart, silly boy.
Thomas frowned, with a bit of sadness and fear in his brows: "However, my mother has become a little different...
"I know it's not my mother's body that's coming back! It's..." Thomas suddenly stopped speaking.
Because he heard the familiar footsteps.
Ta, tap, tap.
Mrs. Dominic walked to the door.
Knock, knock, knock.
"Thomas?"
The dead man knocked on the door.
Moonlight exchanged a look with Sean, then stood up and opened the door.
With a creak, the pianist opened the door.
Although she had faced the mystery countless times, Yueguang still felt a panic in her heart the moment she opened the door.
——Obviously, Thomas's story has broken the "business as usual" state created by Mrs. Dominic, and this has also allowed the two explorers to directly see her true face.
Her face was pale and had obviously lost all color of life.
The eyes have no whites and are so dark that people dare not look directly into them.
Her shape was like a figure that could interrupt the signal at any time, and her voice became extremely strange. She could not distinguish between distance and distance, sometimes clear and sometimes vague.
"Thomas... Mas...?"
The resentful spirit stood at the door, tilting his head, looking from the moonlight to Sean, and from Sean to his child.
Obviously, the atmosphere in the room made her a little suspicious.
However, the calmness of the two explorers and the calm look on Thomas's face did not allow her to find any reason to explode.
Turning her neck at a weird angle, her mother said seriously.
"You shouldn't say...don't say...Thomas."
"Okay, Mom." Faced with the out-of-control appearance of the resentful spirit, the eight-year-old child actually smiled faintly.
It seems that it is this smile that makes Wraith always confident that he is still alive.
The fierceness in her mother's appearance faded a little. She nodded, turned around numbly, and returned to the kitchen.
Moonlight slowly closed the door, and suppressing his trembling feeling, he let out a sudden breath.
——No matter how powerful the explorer is, living humans will always have various negative emotions of tension and fear when facing resentful spirits, just like conditional emission, but the degree is different, and the only difference is whether they can be suppressed.
Mrs. Dominic had noticed. Sean turned to Thomas, feeling a little more anxious than before, and whispered: "Go on."
Thomas swallowed and continued: "Mom is back, but I found something wasn't right with her when she came back...
“At the beginning, I was scared too.
"However, I found that she would not hurt me, and even wanted to take care of me and protect me...
"I knew it..." The little boy lowered his head and frowned, showing the sadness that shouldn't be seen at this age. "Even if she becomes a ghost, she is still my mother..."
"So, you didn't tell anyone else about this situation?" Sean asked.
Thomas shook his head: "I know that if I tell others, they will take my mother away...
“I don’t want her to leave me again.
"Even if she is like this, I still..."
It seemed that he felt that he had done something wrong, but he couldn't explain it, so Thomas had to stop talking.
Sean didn't mean to blame, and asked: "So, what your mother said, those men with heavy footsteps and unclear faces... are actually the ones here to take care of you?"
Thomas nodded: "Those are the uncles in the warehouse. They come to see me every few days and bring me some food."
So... Sean recalled Mrs. Dominique's story, so there would be a lot more food in the refrigerator after those faceless people came over.
The wife mistook the people who helped Thomas as ghosts.
He dogmatically believed that he was still alive, so even his cognition was reversed.
"Normally, Thomas..." Moonlight on the side asked, "In your situation, you would be sent to an orphanage."
The little boy shook his head: "My aunt will come to New York to take care of me next month, so this period of time is just for me to live alone temporarily."
"What about that invisible friend? The boy who invited you to the playground?" Sean asked softly. "Is he a good friend who came to your house to play?"
Thomas seemed a little surprised that Sean knew about the existence of that person, and stayed for a while before saying: "No...
"He is different from those uncles. He is always elusive... No one can see him except me..."
Things get complicated.
Under the mask, Sean narrowed his eyes.
In this family where tragedies have occurred one after another, the male owner has passed away, and the female owner is obviously dead but unwilling to leave...
She was not even aware of her own death, and continued to live as she had before. Moreover, she mistook all the people who wanted to help Thomas as intrusive ghosts...
And Thomas was indeed haunted by something indescribable.
Entangled by two strange existences...
This little boy who was forced to be sensible very early is now in danger!
Sean and Moonlight both stared at Thomas.
Then, Moonlight patted Sean on the shoulder, indicating that they could talk alone.
They let Thomas continue with his homework and the two walked to the window.
"So..." Moonlight looked at the quiet figure who was doing her homework seriously and said, "The staff who managed the Quest Relief Program discovered that something was wrong with Mrs. Dominic, so they approved her application..."
Sean nodded: "Mrs. Dominic thought that the explorer she invited was here to exorcise evil spirits, but the actual situation is that the limited relief resources were allocated to her because she was the 'evil spirit' who wanted to be exorcised. .”
"Sean, what should we do?" Under the mask, Moonlight 1902's eyes were a little complicated, "Is this really how we break up the mother and son?
"You have to know that the reason why Mrs. Dominic is stranded is most likely because of that nightmare boy...
"As a wraith, she was worried that her child would be taken away by the nightmare boy, so she violated the rules of this world and forcibly stayed..."
Sean nodded silently and slowly: "I know...
"But, if we don't do something..."
Thomas has obvious dark circles under his eyes, and his body is not as good as that of other children his age - not due to lack of nutrition.
Rather, humans cannot live with vengeful spirits for a long time.
If the ghost mother is allowed to stay by his side, in the end, it will only cause another tragedy.
Sean seemed to have made up his mind and spoke faster: "If we don't do something, Thomas will be finished."
"So?" Yueguang lowered her voice, but her voice was still a little surprised, "We are going to expel Thomas' mother in front of her?"
The boy with a thin body and a big head put down the pencil in his hand, and turned to the direction of Sean and Moonlight:
"Uncle, I want to ask you a few questions..."
The two explorers looked at each other and walked back to Thomas.
"Child, what do you want to ask?"
The child resisted the urge to cry and asked: "Actually, mom is like this, but she didn't sleep when it was time to sleep, right?"
Moonlight nodded: "It can be said that children - people should rest in peace after death, but your mother was too worried about you, so she never fell asleep."
Thomas thought of the night he slept soundly in his mother's arms...
Every night, I fell asleep.
But mother, is she always, always awake?
"..."
"She must be very tired, right?" Thomas' face turned to the window.
"Yes... it is very painful to maintain that state."
The little boy turned his face - he did not cry: "I want my mother to stay with me forever..."
"But it kept her from sleeping.
"It's so selfish to do this."
The little face raised, looked at the moonlight, and then looked at Sean: "Two uncles...
“I don’t want to worry about my mother anymore.
"If you can, please..." He choked, his eyes were red, but he still said, "Please let her sleep."
The two explorers did not expect Thomas to say such words, and looked at each other in surprise.
