Chapter 44: Lost Dreams
Early the next morning, An Ling knocked on the door of Gu Yun's house.
When Gu Yun opened the door, today's morning news was playing on the TV in the living room, and Gu Tiantian was walking around the room with a toothbrush in his mouth and a word book in his hand.
"Well, I've made some bacon bread for Avril Lavigne, and I'm just going to give you some more."
An Ling plans to prove the benefits of living near Gu Yun's house with practical actions, such as being able to deliver some snacks from time to time, and when Gu Yun and Gu Tian are too lazy to cook, she can also do this job for her.
"Thank you."
"You're dressed so formally, are you going to go out?"
"Well, I just saw a piece of news and was going to investigate."
According to the news, a fire broke out at the playground in X City at night, and the haunted house loved by tourists was burned in the fire, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and the police do not rule out the possibility of arson.
Gu Yun saw the photo taken at the scene of the fire, wasn't it the haunted house he had been to last time when he and Wang Lu were investigating the masked murderer?
They also encounter a Dream Eater in a haunted house.
His instincts told him that the Blood Cross didn't end there, and that the incident at the playground was most likely caused by those extreme witchers.
"Then you ......"
An Ling hesitated, she originally planned to ask Gu Yun to be more careful, but considering the actual situation, she quickly took out two fructose from her pocket, one with strawberry flavor and one with apple flavor, "Then you bring some dry food, you can eat this in case you are hungry, this brand of fructose is recommended by Avril, it is very delicious." β
Gu Yun took the fructose and nodded solemnly.
The main reason for the solemnity was that he felt that if he used two fructose as dry food, it would be difficult to fill his stomach.
After chatting with An Ling for a few more words, Gu Yun left the house before Gu Tian went to school, and he suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have investigated the incident alone for a long time.
Gu Yun took Metro Line 1 to the platform of the playground, due to a sudden fire in the middle of the night, the playground was closed today without accident, and even the shops selling souvenirs and snacks at the door closed early.
Facing the security guards guarding the entrance of the playground with one person as a guard, Gu Yun explained his intentions, and then was directly driven away by the security guards.
He felt that if this man had been in this posture last night, it was likely that the fire would not have happened.
Under the vigilant gaze of the security guards, Gu Yun made a big circle from a distance, and when there was no one around, he directly climbed over the wall into the interior of the playground, he avoided the security guards patrolling the park, and went straight to the haunted house.
Except for the haunted house that was burned down in the report, there was no damage to the other amusement park facilities, and it seems that the purpose of the person who set fire to the haunted house is straightforward.
The outside of the haunted house has been fenced off with a fence, and from a distance, you can see that all the facilities and props inside have been burned into charcoal by this flame.
Then, Gu Yun stopped.
The smell of burnt burnt in the air suddenly became more pronounced, and he looked at his feet, and saw that the open space in front of the bench had left obvious signs of burning, and although it looked like it had been cleaned, the black marks on the ground did not dissipate so easily.
Gu Yun sat on a bench, and this direction was facing the entrance of the haunted house.
In addition to the obvious burnt smell, he also smelled the smell of wine, as if it were nothing.
Then, at the edge of the scorch marks on the ground, he noticed an extremely small shadow that would be confused with the scorch marks on the ground if he didn't look closely.
The black shadow curled up into a clump, Gu Yun bent down and stretched out his index finger, and the slowly wriggling shadow immediately burrowed into his fingertips.
A wonderful feeling came over Gu Yun, and when he came back to his senses, he found that it was already late at night around him.
Or more precisely, last night.
The haunted house on the opposite side of the bench is still intact and has not been fenced, and the closing time has long passed, and there is a dead silence around it.
I don't know how long it took, a man with long hair came from far and near, he seemed to have no notice of Gu Yun at all, and strode into the haunted house.
Gu Yun got up and followed.
When the middle-aged man stepped into the haunted house, a black figure appeared in front of him.
"Let me smell it, well, it's the smell of the Soul Killer again."
As if to make himself look more terrifying, the black figure swelled around, but the tone didn't sound like a threat, but excitedly like finding a partner who could refer to his prank plan, "Hehe, I knew you guys would come back to check on me, although there is no staff these days, I still keep the haunted house very well!" β
"I've also tried to learn about some of the most famous urban legends, such as the figure over there that suddenly turns around when you get close to her, and I recreated her based on the legend of the Rip Girl! Another example is the ordinary-looking puppet over there, but in fact it has a hidden mystery......"
The ghost's childlike cheering tone is infectious, as if he were introducing a visitor to the new furniture he had added to his home.
Gu Yun, who had just moved into a new home, could faintly feel the joy of the Dream Eater.
"By the way, didn't you come with your colleagues?"
After introducing the new layout of the living room, the dark shadow said, "I really want to thank them, they gave me a lot of inspiration last time, and I have been thinking about sending them invitations recently, but the invitations must be terrifying, like real letters from hell, try to scare them this time!" β
"Except for Mr. Spirit, do you want to continue visiting? I've also carefully arranged the compartments in the past few days......"
Before he could finish speaking, the silver dagger in the long-haired man's hand had already pierced the black shadow's shoulder, and he suddenly exerted his strength, pressing the Dream Eater who was about to turn around and take him to the second room to the ground.
Only this time, Gu Yun was not as excited as he was when he witnessed Green Winchester's teammates last time, nor did he try to stop the long-haired man's behavior.
The reason why one person and one spirit can't see him is because he is only in a fragment of a memory at the moment, and in the Foundation's record of dream eaters, such creatures can not only enter the dream realm, but also use their own power to preserve certain fragments of memory.
The middle-aged man dragged the dark shadow out of the haunted house and came all the way to the bench directly opposite.
Trap the Dream Eater with a salt ring and light a bonfire with a pile of wooden blocks.
Then there was a long interrogation.
Gu Yun saw that the impurities of the black shadow that had been peeled off by the silver dagger had fallen beside the bonfire, which was probably a small cloud of foreign objects that he had just seen.
"Hey, heyββ!"
The stern shouting and questioning dragged Gu Yun back to reality, Gu Yun opened his eyes and found himself sitting on a bench, not far in front of him, a patrolling security guard stopped in front of him, his eyes were full of vigilance and vigilance, he held the walkie-talkie tightly in his hand, and asked Gu Yun, "Who are you?" Why come to the scene of the fire? β
"Tell me the home address of the haunted house cleaner."
Because at the end of this memory, the long-haired man seems to be asking for the address of the cleaner.
This may have been the last guidance left by the Dream Eater, and when he glanced at the charred black left by the campfire again, the last remaining impurities had long since dissolved into nothingness.
"IβWhy should I tell ......?"
Halfway through the words, the security guard looked at Gu Yun.
For no reason, the biting chill made the security guard's hairs stand on end.
"...... at No. 46 XXX Street, South End"