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"Third brother, let me tell you something that happened to me a while ago." Fourth Bro from the top bunk said.

"Sure, tell me about it." I couldn't sleep either, and after the lights went out, the sleeper session began.

I was alone at home, so I had some fun. At night, I could either play games until the latter half of the night, or I could go out with my friends and have fun. In any case, I spent my days in a daze and dreamed about death, and I was about to become a cripple. Fourth Bro slowly explained.

"Fourth Bro, I'm really envious of your capitalist life. Tell me, did you guys get a few girls? Did you film them and send them to me …" I teased.

"Third brother, I really hope that I can discipline myself during that time, and not live like a cripple." Fourth Bro's voice suddenly grew heavy.

This kid had a cheerful personality. He loved to play and gambled with everything. Was he a prodigal son that was going to turn back when he said those words?

"Have you ever heard of a person who has been undisciplined for a long time and eats and plays around? Will their Yang Fire become weaker?" Fourth Bro continued.

"Uh, I heard a little about it. It seems like it's the weak and sickly Ren Yang Fire, and the people who stay up late to overdraft their Yang Fire will also become weaker. What happened to you?" I asked.

"That night when I finished playing the game and was about to go to bed as usual, it was already 3 in the morning. Just as I was about to go to sleep, I heard a strange noise coming from the living room." Fourth Bro's tone became more serious, while my heart tightened.

But at that time, I was the only one in the house. I was very nervous, thinking that I had been robbed, so I took a swing stick and tried to get a look, but I couldn't muster up the courage, so I just fell asleep.

"When I woke up the next morning, I went to get some water. I saw that the bucket of mineral water that I had called for yesterday afternoon was a little less, and the water level had dropped by about four to five centimeters. "I was sure that what happened last night was not an illusion. Someone must have come in and poured some water, and that person could be a thief. I picked up my stick and searched around the house, but could not find the thief, nor did I find anything missing. I just could not understand what was going on."

"I was a little scared and didn't dare to stay at home. I made an appointment with a friend to eat and drink, and I didn't come home until very late at night after singing karaoke. I didn't get scared after drinking too much, so I went straight to sleep. Just as I was about to get up to drink some water, there was a sound coming from the water dispenser in the living room. Just like before, it was as if someone was pouring water from the water dispenser and pouring water from it. Damn it, I was so scared that I didn't dare to get up.

Listening to my fourth brother, I feel a little bit creepy, the water dispenser makes a sound in the middle of the night, the water level drops, the sun fire weakens, my fourth brother … Could it be that Fourth Bro had provoked something evil? I stuck my head out and looked at Four in the upper bunk. He was smoking a cigarette and shaking his legs, looking like he was trying to bolster himself.

"What happened next? How did you deal with it? Did you call the police?" I asked.

"Call the police? Third Brother, do you think the police can catch that kind of thing? "Hehe, forget it, you can't believe it even if I told you. In this extremely quiet environment, you can clearly hear the sound of a needle dropping. The sound of water being poured from the water dispenser, 'gulping', 'ticking', that kind of feeling, it's really scary." At this point, Ol 'Four suddenly went silent.

Before he could say anything, I heard a ticking sound.

"Third brother, this is the sound, did you hear it?" Fourth Bro said in a low voice.

Drip, drip, drip, drip...

Of course I did.

"Fourth Bro, are you saying that thing has followed us?" I asked carefully, squinting as I tried to gauge the source of the ticking.

With a "Putong" sound, a large commotion suddenly came from beside me. A dark figure stood in front of my bed, the cigarette in my mouth shining brightly.

"Third Brother, do you feel my fear? "Why are you even more cowardly than me? We … we can't deal with those things …"

It was number four.

Four has just jumped down from the top bunk and is standing upright beside my bed, startling me as I squint to judge the source of the ticking.

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the door. I stuck my head out and saw through his flickering cigarette butts that he was closing the faucet. After closing the faucet, he climbed up to the top bunk and said, "Third brother, don't be afraid. It was just that the faucet was not shut properly.

Sure enough, the "Tick-Tock" sound had disappeared, but I was scared by the story of Fourth Bro and the sound of dripping water from the tap.

"Third brother, two consecutive nights of experience made me realize that something might have happened to me. It was because of my life's self-control that my anger weakened, that I was taken advantage of by those things. Ai, I don't know if they followed me or not, but I turned off the tap before going to bed, how come there's still water dripping? Third brother, are you listening? There's only the two of us in the room tonight, I'm a little scared …" In fact, I was even more afraid than he was because I remember that the tap was indeed turned off.

"Do you want me to call Eldest Brother and Second Brother back? "F * ck, I'm feeling a bit uncomfortable from what you said. Do you have any cigarettes left? Let me have one to calm myself down." Just as I finished speaking, Ol 'Four threw a cigarette over and lit it. Only then did he feel slightly calm.

"Third Brother, it wasn't easy for the two of them to stay out the whole night. Forget it, let me continue. The water level of the water dispenser had been falling, and I was scared. There was nothing missing in the house, so it definitely wasn't water stolen. Looking at the water dispenser across the street from my house, I went to find someone to look after the water dispenser. I specially found a strong yet extremely ugly looking man to help me overhaul the water dispenser. Did you know, I've heard that ghosts are afraid of those ugly looking people. Fourth Bro said.

I've really heard of this before. It's said that the gold medal fighter of Hell, Zhong Kui, is an incomparably ugly fellow. As for whether it makes sense, I don't know.

"And then?" I asked.

"After that, that ugly man came to my house, circled around the water dispenser, and muttered a few words. He nodded and said in a serious manner, 'As expected, it's not clean.'" Fourth Bro said.

"And then?" I asked again, thinking, could it be that Fourth Bro has found a master that can be found in the city?

"That guy reached into the toolkit and told me to back off. He walked up to the water dispenser and took out a wrench from his bag. He hit the water barrel with the wrench and knocked it over." Fourth Bro said.

"And then? You didn't react at all when he smashed your family's mineral water barrel? " I asked.

"To tell you the truth, third brother seems to have a mysterious aura around him. When he took out a wrench and threw it at the water bucket, I didn't even dare to move …"

"And then?" I'd like to know what happened next.

The bucket was broken, he pointed to the place where the bucket was connected to the water dispenser, that place is not clean, there are too many water impurities, causing the connection to be loose, at night the temperature is lower, the temperature is hot and cold, or something like that, and then the water started to leak, the amount of water that leaked out is not much, it evaporated in a few hours, so when I woke up, I could not see the water that leaked out.

At this point in the story, I really wanted to curse a few times at him.

"And then?" I asked irritably.

"Third Brother, don't be anxious. The story is not over yet. To be precise, the nightmare has just begun. The huge ugly repairman took the broken water dispenser away, and quickly replaced it with a new one. He even apologized to me on behalf of his shop, and I didn't mind and sent him away. " Fourth Bro's voice was still low and deep.

So it wasn't over yet. From his words, what he was saying wasn't a simple prank.

"And then?" I asked patiently, smoking my cigarette.

"After changing the water dispenser, I thought I was just scaring myself, and then I went back to getting drunk and dreaming. A few nights later, when I woke up from my drunken stupor, I was so thirsty that I could barely control myself. When I woke up to drink some water, that damn sound started up again, and I was sure it was the same sound as before. It was at the drinking fountain in the living room. "

"I felt like I was about to collapse. I really couldn't take it anymore, so I decided to go out and see what was going on." But when I pushed open the bedroom door and came out, the sound in the living room became clearer, and I gathered up my courage and went over with my stick in one hand and my flashlight in the other to see if the water dispenser was broken again. "

"And then?" I asked when I saw Fourth Bro stop.

"Hmph, I wish I hadn't come out of my room," continued Fourth Brother with a tone of regret and fear. "When I approached the water dispenser, I was surprised to find that there were two water dispensers in my living room. One was very new before it was replaced, and the other was a new one. The mineral water vats on top of it have all been broken, and you can see a hole at the place where the bucket and the fuselage are connected. That's where the water leaked out. " Fourth Bro's voice became even deeper.

The other water dispenser was obviously the one that the ugly giant mechanic had taken away.

Four continued, "Two water dispensers, one for new ones and one for old ones. Looking at these two things, my head buzzed and I felt like my hair was going to explode. I really couldn't understand why that broken water dispenser would appear in front of me. Just as I was hesitating, a flashlight swept through the living room window, reflecting an extremely ugly face!"

Four's voice rises several tones, startling me, who is listening intently to his story.

"And then?"

"Then... "Ah, that's not right. Third brother, why do you sound a little hoarse? Have you smoked too much?" Ol 'Four wanted to continue, but immediately changed the subject.

He said my voice was a little hoarse...

My scalp tingled and I immediately found out what was wrong.

When Ol 'Four mentioned that there was an ugly face reflected in the window, his voice rose a lot, and I was frightened to the point that I couldn't recover my wits.

Before I could regain my composure, someone spoke up.

The man said, "And then?"

His voice was hoarse, and I said nothing.

That voice was obviously not Number Four, nor was it me.

Eldest Brother and Second Brother went out all night and there was only Fourth Brother and me in the dorm.

Who asked the question?

Are there any other audiences in the dorm?

I felt the fear of meeting the two water dispensers and the reflection of the human faces in the windows that night. My whole body was shivering, and I didn't even feel any pain from burning my cigarette.

Ol 'Four also noticed the abnormality and asked in a trembling voice, "Third brother, what happened after that? Didn't you say?"

I wish I had said those three words.

"Third Brother, how about you get up and take a look? Has Big Brother and Second Brother returned?" Fourth Bro's voice trembled violently.

He took a few deep breaths and tried to calm himself down. He thought to himself, "Currently, there are two people in the room: Fourth Bro and I, two guys with Yang Flames on our bodies, should be alright. Fourth Bro's Yang Flames of Drunk Dreams has weakened. I don't have those conditions. Yang Flames aren't that weak."

Could it be that something dirty had really come?

In any case, Fourth Bro still called me Third Bro. I was a month older than him, so I had to look like a big bro.

"Fourth Bro, turn on the flashlight." I removed the steel pipe that made up the shoe rack from under the bed and held it in my hand. I turned on the flashlight on my phone and got Fourth Bro to help me light it up. The lights in the dorm had long since turned off …

Four and I sleep on the top and bottom bunks, north of the dorm, south of the number two. They go to the Internet Cafe to let their hearts out, we're the only two tonight.

He took a look at his second brother's bed and saw that there was no one there. Four looks down at the balcony to the south and lets me go over and see if there's anything on the balcony.

It was hotter, the windows were open, the curtains were blown by the wind, and the wind was blowing full. From my point of view, there seemed to be someone hiding behind the curtains …

A prank?

Our dorm room is on the second floor. It's very short. Is it some idiot from the next dorm who came in through the window and hid behind the curtains to scare people? I was a little nervous, so I couldn't quite hear where the "and then" was coming from. It sounded like a balcony, but it didn't.

He tiptoed to the balcony and thought that if it was a prank, no matter who it was, even if it was the head of our counselor department, I would make him suffer tonight.

"F * ck your grandpa!"

I shouted loudly as a form of courage for myself. I swung the steel pipe in my hand and fiercely whipped the curtain where it opened …

Surprisingly, the steel pipe in my hand did not find a foothold, and there was nothing behind the curtain.

He pulled the curtain aside. Behind the curtain, there was only the wall. There was no mischievous person hiding behind it. The curtain would only bulge if it was blown by the wind.

Naturally, Fourth Bro could also see it clearly. The two of us were even more afraid. If it wasn't someone else playing a prank, then who was the one who said 'what happened next' with that hoarse voice?

After leaving the balcony, I walked towards the toilet. Other than the balcony and the toilet, there was really no place to hide. I prayed that there would be a prank student hiding in the toilet.

Unfortunately, there wasn't even a ball in the bathroom.

Standing blankly in front of the bathroom door, the fourth brother couldn't see what was going on inside, so he asked, "Third brother, who's inside? Taozi or Fats? "Still glasses …"

Other than the toilet on the balcony, where else could one hide? A cupboard? Under the bed? The ceiling?

When I looked around at the next possible hiding place...

"Duk Duk Duk …" There was a sudden knock on the door.

I was concentrating on finding the source of the "then what?" sound when I suddenly heard a knock on the door. It was already midnight. Was it our counselor, or the eldest son, who had just returned?

But since he had knocked on the door, it shouldn't be anything dirty, right?

"Who is it?" I asked automatically.

"Me? Hurry up and open the door, third brother …"

"..."