When I went to the pantry to make black tea, I heard an unusual noise, and quietly approached Ruby Lin's office, and found that this guy was lying on the sofa in his office after eating and drinking, and after building Lego, he was snoring beautifully.

I walked back to my desk and watched Halu sit precariously in her drawing, remembering what she had said to me at noon, and my heart was moving like an "automatic eating machine" with the wrong joystick in Modern Times, creating ridiculous sparks and steam.

"Halu," I said, taking a sip of my tea and looking at her.

"Huh?" She looked up.

"Don't you hate going to a haunted house?"

"What, what's the bad idea you're going to fight?" She replied to me with a red face.

I pointed in the direction of Ruby Lin's office and whispered to her about Ruby Lin's fear of the dark.

"How? After work, call everyone to go to the haunted house together. ”

"It's impossible for Mr. Lin to go, right?"

"I'll propose, you second, Sun Yao will definitely follow. I'll wait to persuade Lao Yan, so that the four of them will unanimously pass it, and then we will threaten "if you don't go, the plan won't be sent to you". ”

"Well, I know a haunted house fits the theme of the day very well." Halu rolled his big eyes, which were still a little red and swollen, and his innocent smile showed excitement for "prank".

"Oh~ Can I make an appointment by phone?"

"I'm coming!" She grabbed the phone excitedly.

"Halu, Sun Yao, Yan Yunhai and I are a total of 4 people in favor, Lin Xinru, you don't go, right?"

For dinner, I ordered a pizza takeout for 6 people, and everyone sat around. Halu proposed the idea of going to a haunted house to play, Sun Yao took the lead in responding, and Yan Yunhai and I also said that it was not impossible to experience it. nodded their heads, and everyone looked at Ruby Lin together.

"I'm sleep deprived, and I want to go home early tonight to catch up on sleep." Ruby Lin glared at me.

"Mr. Lin, you go with me, I'm scared of just one girl." Halu said coquettishly.

"I, I'm not a girl."

"So you want to go home early?" I have laid a trap and asked you to enter the urn.

"Mmmm, I'm so tired, I'm sorry, you guys have fun."

"Then let's leave work early, after all, everyone is tired."

"Have you all made a special plan and will leave work?" Ruby Lin's eyes widened and she questioned me.

I looked at Yan Yunhai, and he nodded: "Seven, seven, eight, eight." ”

"Well, we're also seven or seven eight here."

"Seven, seven, eight, eight fart! Halu's storyboard hasn't been finished yet, and you haven't shot a stop-motion demo yet, have you? ”

"Anyway, it's not the proposal date, and the day after tomorrow is just an exchange meeting, what kind of demo, wouldn't it be better for everyone to get off work early to recuperate?" As I spoke, Halu nodded.

"Then what's the matter with you asking me to spend a day building Lego for you, not only that, but you also ate an extra sausage from my breakfast, you really have the face to say that you leave work early." The more Ruby Lin spoke, the more excited she became.

"Who went back to the house to sleep after eating at noon? Still sleeping until before dinner? And who just ate a pizza and a half, or a whole seafood cheese curl? I glared at Ruby Lin.

"Ah, actually, I like to eat mustard sauce from seafood pizzas......" Halu echoed weakly, and Sun Yao nodded.

"I rely on ......"

In this way, Ruby Lin finally understood that she had already boarded the thief ship.

Arriving downstairs at the haunted house, we were about to go up together when Halu's phone rang like crazy.

"You go up first, and you are booked in my name." Halu whispered and ran far away.

"Zi Che?" Ruby Lin turned around on the steps and called out to me who was in a daze.

"I'll buy a drink and go up!"

Halu wears a pure black wide-brimmed top hat, a black leather jacket, an oversize dark green striped shirt inside, and a pair of black high-heeled leather boots with bare legs.

I stood in the distance and watched as she circled around with a certain insistence on it, her phone moving from one hand to the other and back to its original position, before ending the conversation unhappily: Halu put down her phone and looked at the information on the screen, the blue light shining her expressionless face out of the pale walls of her heart.

After putting away her phone, she slowly crossed the street towards me.

"Is hot ginger tea okay?" I handed her the hot drink.

"Huh? Deng Deng, you didn't go up? She took the drink and covered her frozen hands first.

"I'm smoking."

Halu leaned in close to me and sniffed his body: "Liar! ”

"Nope." I took a sip of the can of coffee in my hand.

"You're obviously worried about me, so you're waiting here, why can't you be more frank? I finally understand why Kimura-san is saying that about you. ”

“…… Was it my boyfriend who just called? ”

Halu, who was standing next to me, kept his head down and was silent, playing with the pebbles on the ground with the tips of his shoes.

"I'm sorry I asked what I shouldn't have asked." I felt that I might be offended, so I quickly apologized.

Halu shook his head: "No...... It was only the first time that he and I had encountered such a situation, and neither of us knew how to deal with it. ”

"I can't give you good advice on this part, after all, there are only outright negative textbooks here." I smiled wryly.

"I can see people's hearts very well, and I have wonderful expression skills, but I can't confide in the people closest to me. Is this the case with all the people who advertise? ”

Someone asked me almost the same thing many years ago, and I thought I could find an answer to this question.

Because of this bad character, I have always been indebted to the people who love me in my life, and even some people are likely to have no chance to see each other again in this life, but I also failed to let them feel my love at the time of parting, and the rest is only the sleepless remorse that hits the unproductive self, and the irrepressible and late communication of love in my heart has deteriorated into a trouble for the other party. Whenever I tried to dilute this outpouring of frustration with my career achievements, I calmly realized that I had become the most useless person of my age in an unexpected manner, obviously sacrificing so much, obviously putting in several times more effort than others, and finally having nothing to the point of being completely empty. I'm sorry, I'm such an adult, at this time I can't even say a word of comfort, but I've been thinking about my own things in pieces, so Halu, don't be an adult like me, even if it will cause trouble to others, let the other party understand your love, and protect what should really be protected. ”

Halu rested his head on my shoulder.

"Deng Deng, can you hug me again?"

I reached out and patted her on the shoulder, then turned around and pretended to be looking for her phone, a little more away from Halu.

Halu took a sip of ginger tea.

Thin raindrops floated in the sky, and it looked so helpless under the focus of neon.

"Halu, Zi Che, what are you two doing! We've all been waiting upstairs for a long time! Sun Yao's appearance put an end to the awkward and miserable hustle and bustle of the street.

"Have any customers come to play before?" Harley Quinn (Harley · Quinn's female staff asked.

Halu held up his hand defenselessly.

"Okay, staff, please note that the only girl in this team is a regular customer, so take care of it." After reminding her colleagues with the intercom, the female staff member exited from the entrance of the haunted house that was renovated into a classroom corridor.

"Huh? Wait, wait! What do you mean? Halu's eyes widened, and he looked incredulous.

Just as we were about to make fun of Halu, the lights in the haunted house suddenly flickered on and off, and a terrible scream of a female voice could be heard in the distance.

"Ah——————!h Yan Yunhai shouted, and he who was originally standing at the end of the line suddenly rushed to the front, hugged Lin Xinru tightly and didn't let go.

"Boss Yan, Yan, you let go! I'm scared too! Damn, you're pressing on my lower back, and I'm easy to hold back...... Boss! Boss! Ruby Lin's voice was both angry and obviously crying.

"Halu, don't be afraid, you follow me, I'll protect you!" Sun Yao walked forward bent over, calling Halu in the confusion.

Halu walked at the front, shaking off our old men who had already lost their legs.

Walk through a bloodied bathroom and into a brightly bright room as safe as a dressing room.

"Wait a minute, where's Halu?" Sun Yao turned around and asked me.

Behind Sun Yao were Lin Xinru and Yan Yunhai, who were tightly holding the back of his coat, their eyes were already too frightened to open, and Halu was indeed not in this room.

"Ahh I heard Halu's cry for help in the next room.

“Halu？” Sun Yao shouted in the direction from which the voice came.

At this time, the lights in the room suddenly went out, and a humanoid thing jumped out of the wardrobe and rushed towards Sun Yao.

"Ah—————— help!!!"

I don't know how long I ran, but I remember that the last voice I heard was Yan Yunhai crying and begging for mercy: "Why are you still chasing!" Stop chasing me!! ”

I entered a small mourning hall with a blue light alone, and in the middle of the mourning hall lay a brand new wooden coffin, on which a small white candlestick could be lit.

Just when I felt that the candlestick was a little strange and wanted to pick it up and take a closer look, the lamp in the mourning hall began to flicker strangely, and the lid of the coffin "Bang!" The ground flipped over, and a long-haired woman in a white robe jumped out, and dragged me in with great force, and I let out what was probably the highest scale in my life and tore my own throat.

It turned out that the inside of the coffin was empty, and it was connected to a staircase that was not too steep, and I was dragged into the secret room under the coffin by the staff, and then there was no sound, and it was pitch black in front of me.

"Is it Deng Deng?" Halu's voice rang out behind me, and then a soft, moist hand took my hand.

“Halu？” I turned around and tried to find Halu's bearings.

A limp body with the scent of freshly cut watermelon burrowed into my arms and hugged me tightly.

Halu pressed hard against my chest, causing me to feel weightlessness worse than the first time I saw her, everything I could perceive was not real, and the objective world was completely lost in this invisible space.

I hugged her body, an ecstatic and anxious possessiveness leaping out of my chest, and my arms responded to Halu with the roughest and gentlest force I could, binding Halu.

Time descended into the boundless darkness of this chaotic space, erasing all meaning.