Chapter 2 / Meet the Monster

The weekend time is beautiful, after eating breakfast, Yin Shixue went out with Taotao to play, Yin Zhen told her not to go too far, especially not to climb the quinoa mountain behind the house.

She picked wild flowers on the side of the road, saw a lot of interesting little insects, when passing by the river, she picked up a round green pebble, very beautiful, Yin Shixue put it in her pocket, she was also curious to pierce the hole of the little ant next to the big tree, and saw the little ant holding a milky white thing to run around, she found that the cave of the little ant was too peculiar, there were many holes connected together deep underground, it was particularly interesting, Taotao saw a group of ants on the ground with black linen, and also curiously stretched out his nose and sniffed, they continued to walk forward, probably because the jungle was too deep, the light was a little dark, and it was estimated that no one had ever been here。

Lots of beautiful, colorful dragonflies flickered their wings in the bushes, giving off a dull sheen, surrounded by the chirping of small insects, and Yin Shixue creaked when stepping on the deep bushes.

Suddenly, a meter away from her made a "swish" sound, which startled both her and Taotao, Taotao screamed twice, staring intently at the source of the sound, and put on an offensive posture vigilantly, she also held her breath and saw a slender gray snake looming in the bushes.

Probably sensing that they had violated his territory, maybe this snake was poisonous, she decided to leave here, except for the better scenery here, but there were too many mosquitoes, and she was also afraid of snakes!

When she returned the way she came, she felt that she was lost, but she was very calm, curiosity and fear were always contradictory at this age, and it was also possible that Taotao was by her side to make her a little bolder.

But Taotao always screamed behind him, and he was so far away from the snake, and then the more he screamed, the more fierce he became, she was a little anxious, she wanted to urge Taotao to take her home quickly, but he just kept screaming, staring at the jungle in the distance, and frantically picking up the dirt with his front paws, acting very scared for a while, and looking hideous for a while. She didn't know what terrible thing he had seen......

"Taotao"

She shouted, it seemed to return to normal, looked at Yin Shixue gently, rubbed her skirt with her head, and wagged her tail at her, Yin Shixue breathed a sigh of relief, stroked its head, and blamed it for being too naughty, but the moment she turned around, she clearly felt that there was a black figure behind her, she didn't have time to think too much, she turned her head suddenly, but she didn't see anything, only some unknown insects dancing in the jungle, her chest rose and fell violently, she must have been dazzled, thinking, she quickly turned around and looked at the direction Taotao was going, but when she turned around, she saw the figure again, yes, it was a figureShe quickly covered her mouth, her legs trembled in disobedience, she had to leave this place immediately, so she ran forward desperately, letting the thorny bushes cut her calves, the blood stained the green grass, and the fear made her lose the sense of pain......

I don't know how long I ran, but I remember that the uneven bushes made her fall many times, and her clothes and palms were full of mud, and the mud was still stained with her blood......

Finally, she saw the sun......

She didn't dare to look back, but she was very curious, she walked forward more than 100 meters, came to a clearing full of sunlight, only then did she breathe a little steady, looked back, fortunately, nothing, but the jungle in the distance seemed even darker, black and couldn't see anything inside, couldn't imagine that she had just run out of it, looking from afar, she realized a very terrible thing, behind this jungle is Quinoa Mountain, she was just at the foot of Quinoa Mountain.

The high quinoa mountain still stands majestically.

She took a deep breath, she couldn't imagine what would happen if she kept going, maybe she would see that black guy so well, maybe she would never see the sun tomorrow again......

The damp black mud on her hands had been dried by the hot sun, and the blood on the mud had also coaulded, and she realized that one of her shoes had been lost at some point, and her calf began to hurt hotly. There were hideous wounds all over the legs......

When he got home, his father saw her embarrassed at a glance, so he stopped what he was doing, went into the house and took the medicine box, his father never said anything about her, since her mother died, no matter how big the mistake she made, he would not blame her! There was very little communication between them, but it did not affect the tacit understanding between them, he liked to call her name, and she only had to look up at him, even if it was answered.

"Shixue"

Her father began to call her name again, but he stopped talking.

She guessed her father wanted to ask how the injuries came about.

"Black figures," she said.

Father suddenly stopped helping her rub the medicine, looked at her, deep pupils shuttled traces of the past, she couldn't guess the information in her father's eyes, and then her father began to play with the potion again......

After rubbing the medicine and eating, she and Taotao began to be alive again.

Evening came soon,

The fiery red sunset on the horizon, like a charming flower, is unusually beautiful, the sea water in the distance also changes colors at will against the background of the sky, the summer wind is light and shallow, fireflies are flying all over the sky, and the sound of insects merges into a wordless ballad.

She danced with the fireflies in the evening breeze, surrounded by wildflowers, and she heard the sound of the tide crashing against the shore not far away, the rustling of her father, and the faint cries of bats as if from a distant dream, and she suspected that she had auditory hallucinations!

She lay in the grass and breathed the air with a faint scent of grass and flowers, the damp sweetness mixed with the lightness of the earth, and the stars in the sky also showed a faint shadow, her light and shallow breath was particularly clear in this quiet evening, and her thoughts floated for a long time in the dark blue night sky, she saw her mother's beautiful face, and her gentle smile bloomed in her dreams like a lily......

"Woo Woo T

The familiar cry sounded in her ears, mixed with the sound of the waves, cold and rapid, almost about to fight.

She opened her eyes in shock, got up and looked at the sea, a black mass seemed to have been washed up by the sea, and she really couldn't see what it was. Taotao's screams were full of hostility and fear. The frightened cry was the first time she had heard it.

She began to hear the sound of bats again deep and clear, as if it had come to her ears from the outside world, distant and strange, as if there were bats trembling in clusters in the depths of her soul!

When she ran to the beach, the afterglow of the evening sun on the horizon made her clearly see a cloud of black smoke emitting from the shallows, she saw her hair, she saw her slender fingers looming in the shallow water, and her pale forehead slowly revealed.

"Dead man?",

Yin Shixue's eyes widened in horror, her mind was blank, she had never seen a dead person, and she didn't know what a dead person looked like, but she heard that people would become ghosts after death, their faces were full of blood, terrifying pupils, and resentful spirits, the more Yin Shixue thought about it, the more frightened she became, but she found that she was already paralyzed on the beach! At this moment, the fear in her heart had made her lose her ability to speak.

Yin Shixue was afraid that the "dead man" would suddenly stand up in the next second, and then strangle her with her hands that were soaked in the sea!

Taotao surrounded Yin Shixue, barking at the monster all the time, and Yin Shixue desperately shrank back. She wanted to get out of here, but she found that she didn't have the strength at all.

Suddenly, the monster's lying head slowly looked sideways at Yin Shixue, the black smoke in the sky shrouded his body, and the surrounding sea water also turned black, she clearly saw that his eyes refracted a faint blue light, and the evil aura emitted from his body made Taotao, who was full of hideous eyes, retreat again and again......

Tao Tao ran away with a bang, and only Yin Shixue and the monster were left on the beach.

A terrifying aura slowly enveloped her, a chill hit her spine, and at that moment her whole body trembled, and she felt that her heart was about to stop beating.

Everything in front of her began to overlap with distant dreams, and an eight-year-old boy looked at her coldly with a faint blue light in his pupils......

Yin Shixue began to lose the distinction between dream and reality, the soft mud and sand on the shore were embedded in her fingernails and her shoes in her panic and struggle, her long hair became messy in the evening breeze, sometimes covering her frightened eyes, but she could still feel the slowly squirming body trying to stand up, the cold gaze staring at her like ice in a cold place, close to her, the cold face frozen in front of her...... Her heartbeat and breathing were out of balance, and finally she lost all her strength, all her consciousness, and she forgot how to breathe, she only remembered the moment she fell, and saw the evening sun on the horizon put away the last ray of light in the world, and she couldn't remember how she closed her eyes.

She fainted with fright.

In her dream, she saw her mother's faint smile like a white mist, and she saw a little boy with a grim face staring at her with strange eyes on a moonlit night...... Fragments were pieced together, and a group of bats flying all over the sky surrounded her in black, holding her up and still into the bottomless abyss......

Yin Shixue felt that her body had been falling, but the helplessness and fear of not being able to grasp anything made her wake up suddenly......

"Daddy"

When she was most scared, she called out to the people she loved the most, the people she cared about the most, the only ones she relied on, her father.

When she woke up, she found that she was already in a cold sweat, the room was eerily quiet, and Taotao was lying lazily on the edge of her bed with her eyes closed, which made her suspect that everything before was a dream and not true.

She got out of bed and approached the window barefoot, through which she saw the endless sea rippling in the bright moonlight, but there was nothing on the beach, she rubbed her eyes, and there was still nothing.

Her father came over and handed her a bowl of pale yellow decoction, he said it was calm, she asked him how she got home, he looked at her with loving eyes, he said that he followed Taotao to the beach only to find that she had fainted.

She wanted to tell her father everything she saw, but she didn't, she was in a bit of a trance, maybe she had some kind of delusion,

How can there be ghosts in this world?

"Shi Xue", her father looked at her.

She looked up, wishing her father had asked her about fainting, and then she would tell him everything.

"Rest early, tomorrow I'm going to Germany, if you're scared at home alone, go to your aunt's house in the city for a few days, and I'll pick you up when I come back." ”

She was surprised, her father rarely went abroad, before because of her father's status as a famous architect, some of his abstract and artistic architectural design concepts were always invited by different people from all over the world to design, build mansions, family churches, villas, city parks, etc., but since her father spent a huge amount of money to buy this piece of land near mountains and rivers and build this strangely shaped European-style castle, my father has been on this with all his heart, and few people can invite him. He was once world-famous for his work that left a golden masterpiece around the world, but his father never cared about other people's opinions, in her eyes, his father was a very ordinary ordinary person, more often than not, his father liked to observe nature quietly, sharp eyes, focused gaze, he had a pair of magical hands, he could draw the best buildings in the world......

"Are you going to do architectural design?"

She visibly felt her father hesitate for a moment, "Well, I'll be back as soon as possible," he said.

However, she did not go to her aunt's house after her father left, she was used to being quiet, used to being alone, used to being alone, and the next day she came to the beach alone, and the surroundings were so quiet that there was no trace of last night, the sea water wet the corners of her shoes, she heard the sound of the shallow wind, the sky in the distance was as blue as an ink painting, the seabirds were flying, and the castle behind her loomed in a green bush, was last night really a dream?

Maybe it was really a dream, she reached out to catch the very light wind in the air, but it slipped away from her fingertips, and when she closed her eyes, she seemed to hear a secret sound coming from the quinoa mountain again.