"I'm going to protect you." Lu Chen spoke again.

"Why..."Qian Duoduo's shoulders trembled, tears welled up in his eyes, he shook his head slightly, still unable to believe what he heard with his own ears.

"I don't know." Lu Chen scratched his hair, and his own mood was also extremely chaotic now, "I just want to protect you, I can't see you being wronged, I can't see you shed tears." ”

Is this true? He said he wanted to protect me... Does he like me? The heart seems to have been cut by a knife, and I don't dare to respond, I don't dare to believe it.... I'm still a one-man comparison, okay...

"Toto...."

The other party's call made Qian Duoduo have nowhere to escape, and he had to face his heart and make a choice.

"Actually, I don't know what's wrong with me, maybe it's just now... I may not be able to guarantee what my feelings will be for you in the future, maybe..."Looking at the other party's hesitant and withdrawn appearance, Lu Chen felt that some things seemed to be better said in advance.

However, he wasn't sure if the other party would be even more sad because of these words, but he had already said it, so he could only keep talking and tell the other party his truest thoughts, "At least for now, I want to watch you." ”

"Lu Chen......"

Qian Duoduo cried even more, tentatively and cautiously got into the other party's arms, and said vaguely, "Don't you hate me?" I ......"

"What do you hate....."

Lu Chen rubbed the other party's hair dotingly, hugged Qian Duoduo out of his arms, closed his eyes and kissed the corner of the other party's mouth gently, gentle like a feather brushing by, Qian Duoduo was a little surprised, his eyes widened for a while before he reacted, his face instantly turned red, and he shyly threw himself into the other party's arms like a girl.

It feels so good to be taken to heart, even if it's only for a day, an hour or even a second, thank you, Lu Chen.

"I said, Toto." Lu Chen pushed Qian Duoduo in his arms and changed to a more comfortable sitting position, "If you rely on my arms any longer, I'm going to suffer from heat stroke." ”

"Oh." Whispering yes, Qian Duoduo got up from Lu Chen's arms, but before he could sit down, he was re-taken into his arms by the other party.

"Let's continue to lie in my arms~"

"Lu Chen, I like you too." Qian Duoduo rubbed the other party's neck with peace of mind like a kitten.

"Well, so am I."

It wasn't until they heard the hungry chirp from someone's stomach that the two reluctantly let go of their arms and ran into the kitchen to wash vegetables and cook. After everything was said, Lu Chen obviously felt that Qian Duoduo was much more cheerful, and he finally saw the smile of the other party that he had never seen since he met.

"Here's for you, eat more!"

Watching Lu Chen sandwich a few pieces of meat into his bowl, he hesitated to prick them with chopsticks, and then picked up two more pieces and put them in the other party's bowl, "I can't finish eating." ”

"That's right, Lu Chen. Where are you going today? Halfway through the meal, Qian Duoduo, who was chatting casually, asked, "What are you doing with those two people?" ”

"....." The other party's unintentional conversation reminded Lu Chen of the events of the day, that terrible scene, and the hand holding the chopsticks unconsciously tightened me.

Looking at Lu Chen's pale knuckles and ugly face, Qian Duoduo asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you, Lu Chen?" ”

"Duoduo, I encountered something very strange today." Lu Chen said.

"What's the matter?" Qian Duoduo asked.

"Today Liu Qiang came to me and said that his mother is missing again....."

Lu Chen's experience became more and more bizarre, and Qian Duoduo's face became more and more solemn.

"Lu Chen, maybe what you saw is not real." Qian Duoduo said.

"It's impossible, it's not true, it's not true, it's not fake?" Lu Chen recalled the situation at that time, and firmly believed that what he saw was indeed something that really existed.

"Have you ever picked up that monster?" Qian Duoduo asked.

"Not really." Lu Chen replied: "Then this can't be, what I see is not reality, right..."

"But what you three see sounds like something different."

"Well, this... Lu Chen was stuck this time, and in retrospect, what Secretary Liu saw at that time really didn't look like what he saw. "Could it be our collective vision?"

Qian Duoduo didn't reply, he remembered one thing, the man who escaped from the woods a long time ago.

"Lu Chen, I remembered something. You've heard that someone in our town ran into the fog forest a long time ago, right? ”

"Hmm." Lu Chen nodded and said that he had heard it.

"Someone escaped from the woods later." Qian Duoduo continued.

"I know, but didn't he and later die?" Lu Chen didn't understand what this matter had to do with the strange incident he encountered today.

"Well, it's dead. I would say that when he woke up, he was scared like a ghost, begging for mercy and screaming incessantly. Qian Duoduo looked at Lu Chen's face solemnly, "All he shouted were the dead people in our town. ”

"You mean ......?"

"Maybe all he sees are dead people."

"You're saying he's just like me. What we see are all hallucinations? ”

"Hmm." Qian Duoduo nodded, "I haven't seen a monster in the town since I've grown up." ”

"So even if, as you said, what I'm seeing is actually my hallucination, then why am I hallucinating next year?"

"Don't know?" Qian Duoduo shook his head, "There are so many puzzles in this town. ”

In the evening, there was a knock on the door of Lu Chen's house, and when he went out and opened the door, he found that the person who came was actually Liu Qiang.

He had a bandage on his head, his face looked very tired, and when he saw Qian Duoduo standing behind Lu Chen, he was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Lu Chen in disregard.

"Why are you here?" Lu Chen didn't expect that the person who came would actually be him, and the strange encounter during the day still made him unconsciously take half a step back and distance himself from the other party.

"If I were looking for you." Liu Qiang said and looked at the yard, it was like his own words, and it was not convenient to say it, so it was better to go to the house to talk about it.

Lu Chen hesitated whether to let the other party in the door, and looked at Liu Qiang, there was no one behind him. "How's your mom?"

"My mother..."Liu Qiang's face changed, becoming very sad, "She didn't know what she was bitten by, the flesh on her shoulder was bitten off several pieces, Mayor Wu said that he had a way to save my mother, but he couldn't let me take care of it." ”

"Did he take your mother away?" Lu Chen asked.

"Well, I couldn't help it, so I agreed."

"And do you remember what happened during the day?" Lu Chen asked again.

"During the day..."Liu Qiang looked like he was thinking about it for a long time and shook his head in frustration, "I just remember seeing my father when I rushed into the yard, and then I didn't know anything." ”

"His dad? It seems that what we are seeing is really something different, and what is the reason for this...."

"And then?" Lu Chen asked again.

"When I woke up, I was already in my own house, and my mother was there, but I was covered in blood, and then I sent someone to drive my mother away, saying that I had to go to him for treatment."

"You should know what I was doing during that time when I don't have a memory, right?" Liu Qiang looked at Lu Chen seriously again, holding the other party's shoulders with both hands, "Can you tell me!" ”

........ Do you want to tell him the fact that it was actually his mother's injury that he gnawed? Lu Chen thought in his heart.

"I can't remember exactly, I knew that I followed you into the yard at that time, and when I reacted, I was already standing in front of my yard."

After thinking about it again and again, Lu Chen felt that he still didn't want to tell the other party the truth about the incident, otherwise with Liu Qiang's family affection for his mother, I was afraid that he would not be able to stand it and collapse with self-blame.

"Why didn't you tell him the truth?" After Liu Qiang left, Qian Duoduo asked Lu Chen puzzled.

"I'm afraid he won't be able to stand the blow. He was very filial to his mother. Lu Chen replied.

"Collapse is collapse, one less person like him counts as one, and clears the world." Qian Duoduo's face was bored, for people like Liu Qiang, he couldn't wait to shoot them all on the spot.

Lu Chen understood, smiled, took Qian Duoduo into his arms, rubbed his hair vigorously, and then let go.

"This thing is so weird, I want to investigate..."

"How do you investigate? Where to investigate? Qian Duoduo asked.

"I don't know, I have to think about it, I don't have a clue at all now..."Lu Chen decided in his heart, this matter must be thoroughly investigated by the town, not just to satisfy his curiosity.

"Then I'll help you." Qian Duoduo said.

"Don't." Lu Chen shook his head and disagreed, "I don't want you to be in danger, and besides, you can't help much." ”

"You ......"

There are a lot of things written densely on the horizontal grid book, and Lu Chen leans on the head of the bed and sits on the bed thinking about his memories, thinking about what happened after he arrived here, those doubtful places.

The sound of water in the small room that came out of the courtyard was constant, and Qian Duoduo was bathing himself.

The door was pushed open, and Lu Chen just closed the notebook in his hand. He raised his head to look at Qian Duoduo, who was lowering his head and wiping his hair with a handkerchief, naked and bruised all over his body.

Lu Chen's brows furrowed, and his disgust for Qian Duoduo's father increased a little more.

"Are you still washing?" Putting down the handkerchief, Qian Duoduo looked at Lu Chen, who was still sitting on the bed and did not get up.

"I don't want to wash, I'm so tired today. Turn off the lights and go to bed. After saying that, he stuffed the notebook in his hand under the pillow, stripped naked and lay down in the bed.

Qian Duoduo obediently turned off the light and got into the quilt. The room became quiet, quiet only the sound of the two of them breathing.

After a long time, just when Lu Chen was about to fall asleep, Qian Duoduo spoke.

"Lu Chen."

"Hmm." Lu Chen replied to the other party vaguely, he was too tired and sleepy, his brain was now completely mushy, and all his intuition had become dull.

"Liu Qiang's mother is dying." Qian Duoduo said softly, turned over and looked out the window.

Lu Chen was in a daze and didn't hear what the other party said, just closed his eyes and stretched out his hand to drag the person next to him into his arms and continue to sleep.

He didn't feel it, the person in his arms was trembling, he didn't see it, the person in his arms was staring nervously at the window.

What he didn't know was that just outside the window, a face was staring into the room against the glass window.