Chapter 149

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"Recently, that guy named Bai Liu has become more and more strange..." The children bumped their heads together, discussing in low voices in fear.

After the dean said that Xieta escaped and left the orphanage, they transferred the fear that was vacated from Xieta to Bai Liu.

The other children in the orphanage watched in horror and curiosity at Bai Liu, who was sitting at the end of the long table, far away from the others, eating in silence—this was where Scheta ate before.

"New here, your name is Lu Yizhan, right?" A child winked at another Zhou Zheng-looking, older child, and he pointed to Bai Liu, "The child sitting at the end is called Bai Liu, you Remember to stay away from him."

The young Lu Yizhan looked back suspiciously: "Why? Did he do anything?"

"Because he's a monster!" The talking child gesticulated with his teeth and claws, and made a strange whine, "He ate his only friend, and of course his friend is also a monster, a needle that bleeds. Kong weirdo, if you befriend him, he will eat you too!"

The child seriously threatened Daolu station.

Lu Yizhan frowned and looked at Bai Liu at the end of the long table——Bai Liu was a child who looked normal, even a little too thin. He didn't think this kind of child had anything to fear or be wary of.

Bai Liu looked as if he had never eaten enough, the flesh on his cheeks was sunken, he looked really hungry, and he ate very quickly.

But - Lu Yizhan's eyes fell on Bai Liu's dinner plate, and there was still a staple bread on his dinner plate that had not been touched, and it seemed that he was not going to move it either.

After Bai Liu finished eating quietly and quickly, he took his untouched bread and made a detour from behind the church to near the lake.

When Lu Yizhan followed Bai Liu to the church, he stopped. His eyes became more and more confused, or he looked at the mysterious child Bai Liu curiously.

What the hell is this person doing?

Why do these children in the orphanage reject him so much?

night.

The new kid from the orphanage, Lu Yizhan, was allocated the bed that Xieta had slept in before. When he was about to sleep, as soon as he lay down, Lu Yizhan turned his head and saw Bai Liu holding the bedding and standing on his bed expressionlessly. bedside.

Lu Yizhan was startled, sat up in a panic, covered his chest with the quilt: "Bai Liu, what are you doing?!"

The other children in the bedroom also appeared out of nowhere, and Bai Liu was startled, screaming and running around: "Bai Liu is coming to eat people! He is coming to eat us!"

Lu Yizhan could barely maintain his composure. He looked at Bai Liu, who was standing motionless beside his bed with a pile of quilts in his arms, and figured out what Bai Liu meant. Lu Yizhan pointed to his own bed, and then Pointing to the quilt in Bai Liu's hand, he tentatively asked: "Are you... want to change bed with me?"

Bai Liu looked at Lu Yizhan quietly, he seemed to be a little out of spirits, his eyes were scattered, and his eyes were dark and dark. Hearing Lu Yizhan's question, Bai Liu nodded slowly.

Lu Yizhan breathed a sigh of relief - he really came to change the bed.

Lu Yizhan didn't care about the ownership of a bed, he kindly gave up his bed to Bai Liu, and reminded him to change it back tomorrow morning - because the teachers here recognize people by bed, children can change beds secretly by themselves, But being discovered is always not a good thing to follow the rules.

After discussing with Bai Liu about the time to change back tomorrow morning, Lu Yizhan picked up his quilt and went to sleep on Bai Liu's bed.

Before leaving his bed, Lu Yizhan looked back at Bai Liu, he watched Bai Liu make the bed without saying a word, hugging a strange, thin, faceless doll on the bed and quietly closed his eyes.

Bai Liu didn't look like a child who would sleep with a doll at such an age, but he obviously cherished this doll, not only gave most of his bed to this doll to sleep, but also covered the doll with the quilt half of his body was exposed outside.

It was obviously a bit cold at night, but Bai Liu didn't seem to feel hungry, and he didn't seem to feel cold either. He fell asleep soon after holding the doll.

But it was a doll that, judging by the eyes of ordinary people, didn't need to be cherished and protected at all--lots of patches, rough workmanship, edges were leaking, and there was no face, just like a semi-finished product.

Bai Liu curled up into a small ball and slept by the doll's hand. The body of the doll was curled up and hugged by Bai Liu. The two people were tightly attached to each other, as if—like Hugged and slept in a very narrow, oval bathtub.

It's a...very strange sleeping position.

This strange sleeping position stuck to the doll made Lu Yizhan want to laugh a little. After taking another look, he withdrew his gaze and walked towards Bai Liu's bed.

Lu Yi judged in his heart - Bai Liu is really a strange child.

But it seems that it is not as difficult to get along with as other children say, which is quite reasonable.

Lu Yizhan pays more and more attention to Bai Liu, the eerie and eerie child in other people's mouth.

On the seventh day after Lu Yizhan came, Bai Liu almost passed out on the dinner table. It was Lu Yizhan who found out that something was wrong with him the first time, gave him a piece of candy, and forced him to eat half of his meal——Bai Liu was very Obviously low blood sugar.

This person didn't eat well at all, and left secretly every day with a lot of food left, not knowing what to do, and every time he came back at night, his mental state was getting worse and worse.

Lu Yizhan was a little worried about Bai Liu, and he began to distribute his food to Bai Liu consciously or unconsciously.

But most of the time, Bai Liu would coldly refuse and say, I don't need it.

At the same time, a strange and gloomy atmosphere began to permeate the orphanage. More and more children fled, some of them really fled, and some were "forced" to flee. Lu Yizhan keenly sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere—this The orphanage does not seem to be as glamorous and safe as it looks.

As more and more children disappeared, Lu Yizhan became more and more worried. After he found that Bai Liu's body also started to smell bloody, Lu Yizhan finally made up his mind. Follow Bai Liu and other children to escape.

One time before going to bed, when Bai Liu came to find Lu Yizhan to change a bed, before leaving, Lu Yizhan grabbed Bai Liu's arm calmly, whispered what he had found in his ear, and reminded Bai Liu of welfare The hospital is not safe and asks him if he wants to run with him?

"I know a public orphanage, which is safer than here. We can go there." Lu Yizhan said softly, "It's very close to the police station, and someone will protect us."

Bai Liu replied indifferently: "No."

"Why?" Lu Yizhan was a little anxious, "There is really something wrong here!"

Bai Liu looked at him with downcast eyes, her pupils were out of focus, and her tone was dull: "I'm waiting for a person to wake up, and when he wakes up, I will take him along."

Maybe it was curiosity, maybe it was Lu Yizhan's eagerness to take Bai Liu away. After another baptism, Lu Yizhan finally broke his principle of not easily prying into other people's secrets. He followed Bai Liu into the back of the church where Bai Liu would never go .

The back of the church has always been a restricted area in the orphanage. The director strictly forbids any of their children to go there, saying that it is not safe there, because there are undeveloped jungles and shrubs and small lakes, which have not been rebuilt and renovated. In the past, children were easily drowned or trapped. In the mud pit, so the church is also locked on weekdays to prevent these children from passing.

But Bai Liu seemed to have found a remote path leading directly to the back of the church.

Lu Yizhan followed Bai Liu. He watched Bai Liu skillfully and lightly slipped in through a broken window behind the side door of the church, then crossed the church, went out through the back door, and walked into the lush behind the church without hesitation, which could swallow Bai Liu instantly. In the grass.

Bai Liu skillfully walked around the shrubs and stone obstacles that cut his feet, and finally he came to a small lake full of duckweed, or he stopped beside a pond.

Lu Yizhan hid behind the grass and trees full of doubts—what did Bai Liu do in this pond? swimming?

Normally, Bai Liu would definitely be able to spot Lu Yizhan following him, but the long-term hunger severely degraded his state and consumed his attention, so he didn't notice that someone was following him not far away.

With his back to Lu Yizhan, Bai Liu took off his clothes unpreparedly, exposing his sharp ribs and glaringly white back. He bent down and put the bread in his arms on the clean clothes, then turned and dived into the pond.

Lu Yizhan hid in the grass, he observed quietly, he had a feeling, and soon he would figure out what Bai Liu was doing these days.

But Lu Yizhan waited and waited, waited for several minutes, the white willow did not float up, Lu Yizhan realized that something was wrong, he didn't even have time to take off his clothes, he plunged into the lake, searched for the white willow in the dark bottom of the lake, and finally He saw a white willow whose feet were engulfed by the sand, and whose hands were suspended in the water, showing obvious signs of drowning.

Holding his breath, Lu Yizhan swam over quickly, grabbed Bai Liu's shoulder and lifted him up.

Bai Liu seemed to be dragging something, but his strength was too weak. With the help of Lu Yizhan, Bai Liu barely pulled it out. Finally, Lu Yizhan held one in each hand and pulled out Bai Liu and the thing he was trying to drag out. bottom.

Lu Yizhan lay down by the lake and gasped for breath.

Bai Liu's whole body was convulsed physiologically, he retched a few mouthfuls of lake water, and after a while, he turned sideways and got up from the ground.

Bai Liu almost drowned at the bottom of the lake just now, because of hypoglycemia and weakness, this kind of intensity of physical activity is currently very difficult for Bai Liu to do.

"What are you thinking?!" Lu Yizhan panted angrily while scolding Bai Liu, "You can't drag it out at once, don't you know how to come up to catch your breath before dragging down? Do you have to drown yourself in the bottom of the water? !"

After finishing speaking, Lu Yizhan turned his head to look at the thing dragged out by himself and Bai Liu - this made Lu Yizhan stand up subconsciously, and his face became ugly.

Lying next to Bai Liu was a corpse with a smooth face and ropes tied around its ankles to prevent it from sinking.

"You hid the corpse in this lake?!" Lu Yizhan was going crazy, "You are brave enough, no one will find out here, what kind of corpse is this?! Why do you drag him out every day?!"

Bai Liu knelt beside Xieta silently, as if he didn't hear Lu Yizhan's words, he broke up the untouched bread that he put on his clothes, like feeding fish, kneaded it with his fingertips Into Scheta's cold lips.

He used his actions to tell Lu Yizhan what he was doing here - he was here to feed this underwater corpse.

Lu Yizhan fell into a creepy silence, his eyes were fixed as he watched Bai Liu calmly finish feeding the bread.

Bai Liu patted the bread crumbs on his hands, and then he looked up at Lu Yizhan, and explained lightly: "He is a monster, but not a corpse, he is not dead, he will come back to life, so I can't let him starve."

"Do you know Bai Liu?" Lu Yizhan's face and tone were extremely complicated, "You look more like a monster now."

As he said that, Lu Yizhan's eyes fell on Xieta's corpse. The right hand of this corpse had already begun to rot. One could imagine how long Bai Liu had been "feeding" it.

"Whether he is a corpse or a monster, you have to let him go." Lu Yizhan felt that his brain was about to explode. He squatted down, supported Bai Liu's shoulder and looked at him, trying to explain the current situation in a way that Bai Liu could understand. "When you grow up, you can avenge him and find out who killed him, but now, you can't bury yourself under the water with him."

"He's not breathing, has no heartbeat, and doesn't know when he will wake up." Lu Yizhan sighed, "Bai Liu, you can't sleep with him."

Scheta was still lying quietly on the ground, the pinholes on the back of his hand hadn't healed yet, but in a trance, Bai Liu seemed to see Scheta opened his eyes and said to him, get out of here, Bai Liu, we will one day will meet again.

We'll reunite in endless horror games and stories we've seen, played, and shared.

So now, let me leave, and let you leave too. Only when we say goodbye can we meet again, Bai Liu.

Bai Liu muttered to herself: "You swear we will meet again?"

Scheta smiled shallowly, and held Bai Liu's hand with his right hand that had rotted to the bone: "I swear."

Lu Yizhan turned his head in doubt, and he looked at the motionless corpse of Xieta with a little hair: "Bai Liu, who are you talking to?"

Bai Liu slowly let go of the hand that was holding Sieta, he lowered his eyes, the water on his body kept dripping onto the soles of his feet, then Bai Liu took out a small knife from his pocket, cut off the rope tied around Sieta's ankle, With great effort and difficulty, Bai Liu picked up Xieta's body, walked towards the pond step by step, and then calmly put Xieta into the water.

Scheta's hair dangled and sank to the bottom of the water.

Bai Liu took a good look at it. Lu Yizhan just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Bai Liu blinked twice, as if two drops of water had fallen from his eyelashes.

Then Bai Liu took a deep breath and jumped into the pond again.

"Bai Liu!" Lu Yizhan shouted in shock, and he jumped down immediately.

Bai Liu paddled his limbs vigorously, and he reached for Xieta who was submerged in the water.

He watched the mud and sand quickly flood Scheta's face like an irresistible night.

The black sand climbed up Scheta's nose bridge, Scheta's lips like vines, then Scheta's chest, arms, and finally only a shockingly white hand was loosely exposed out of the soil.

Bai Liu struggled to grab that hand.

The touch of that hand was cold and warm, and he felt that Scheta's hand squeezed him tightly, then let go, and finally disappeared completely at the bottom of the lake.

Bai Liu stretched his hand into the sand, he stubbornly wanted to dig through the sand and look at those eyes again, but Lu Yizhan firmly grabbed his shoulder, gritted his teeth and began to pull him up.

Bai Liu's lungs were almost out of oxygen, and the air quickly disappeared to the bottom of the water as if it had been sucked away. Bubbles kept rising from Bai Liu's mouth and nose, but he didn't seem to feel suffocation, just opened his eyes with dilated pupils, Mechanically planing the sand at the bottom of the water, looking for the person whose life was completely swallowed up by darkness.

The picture book that was broken and put together again, the doll suit full of patches, the promise that was not fulfilled, the face that was always covered by the hair.

What Scheta left for him will always be incomplete, incomplete things.

These imperfections are like reminding Bai Liu that Xieta is not real.

Will this person really come back?

Does this person really exist?

Has this person... really appeared?

Or is it just him, Bai Liu, a child who was judged by everyone as having a mental problem, in order to fill his loneliness, and deceive himself, is it just an illusion that he is willing to hold his hand?

There is no god in this world, so why is there a monster who will always be waiting in the church for him to read books with, play horror games that no one likes, make dolls for him, and hug him?

【Bai Liu, why are you willing to believe in the existence of monsters, but not in the existence of gods? 】

【Because God has never been kind to me. 】

Bai Liu opened his eyes and looked at the dark water bottom, he unconsciously opened his mouth, and air bubbles gushed out of his mouth.

He said, "Scheta, I'm leaving, bye."

Bai Liu felt that before Xieta left, he didn't seem to have formally said goodbye to him. Without saying goodbye, there would be no reunion. This is what Xieta just said, so Bai Liu jumped down, and he wanted to say goodbye to him seriously.

The water pouring into Bai Liu's mouth and nasal cavity made him suffocate, and snowflake-like foam rose from both sides of his mouth.

Bai Liu slowly drooped his lower eyelids, his limbs lost strength, and they stretched backwards, suspended in the water like dead duckweed.

He fell into a daze of white light.

In the white dizziness, Bai Liu saw countless memory fragments flashing back. At the end of the bright and dazzling white light, there was a person sitting quietly and tall in the first row of the church, wearing a shabby doll costume of a thin ghost, holding a 708 in his hand. The picture book of "Slender Ghost Shadow Murder Record" that was pieced together was slowly read page by page.

That person seemed to have seen Bai Liu who was sitting obliquely behind him. He held up the book, as if he wanted to ask Bai Liu who was sitting next to him if he wanted to read together.

But in fact, Bai Liu was ready to agree to this person's request to read together before that person turned his head.

Because Bai Liu liked that book very much, although the book looked a bit tattered, but Bai Liu didn't care, he was already sitting behind that person, with him, peeking at it page by page for a long, long time.

But the moment the man turned his head, the white light disappeared.

Lu Yizhan's worried face appeared in front of him, and he patted Bai Liu's face while calling his name: "Hey! Hey! Bai Liu!"

Bai Liu coughed and spat out a lot of water. He woke up drowsily. He was lying on his back on the ground, his eyes were lost, his chest heaved silently, while Lu Yizhan, who was covered in water, stood aside, his hands resting on his knees, exhausted. Panting with all my might.

"Bai Liu, if we want to leave here, we have to change your name." Lu Yizhan said, "To prevent the teacher of this orphanage from finding you again, the incident you made before was too big, if other orphanages recognize you, Under the obstruction of the teacher of this orphanage, it will be more difficult to accept you."

Bai Liu was silent for two seconds, and said, "I don't accept too many name changes."

Lu Yizhan was startled: "Why?"

Bai Liu turned sideways, his eyes looked at the pool in a daze, and his voice was hoarse: "...I don't know, I always feel that maybe someone... will come to me by my original name."