"Huh...... Don't think about it! ”

Wan Tianyou patted Yanyue's shoulder and comforted.

"Isn't it me, I'm your guardian, and it's my duty to keep you safe! Besides. Now is a society under the rule of law, science and technology are prosperous, are you still afraid of her as an old monster? ”

She smiled and nodded, her tense nerves soothed, and for the first time she felt an indescribable sense of security.

"That'...... This house, are you still in it? ”

"Go! I drove a hundred kilometers, this is already the border of the imperial capital, and it is another province to cross this mountain. It's all here, go in and see if it's nothing. ”

Wan Tianyou said, turning on the flashlight and using the key to open the locked door.

With a "squeak", the iron door, which had not been opened for decades, separated from the left and right.

This iron gate is actually useless, because the courtyard wall is low to the waist, which is enough for adults to jump over.

The two walked through the overgrown courtyard to the door of the main house.

Wan Tianyou opened the door with the second key, and with a push of his hand, the two wooden doors opened inward with countless dust falling.

"Ahem......"

She covered her mouth and nose with her hands and coughed.

"Wait a minute, back off."

Wan Tianyou shone a flashlight into the inner hall, and after confirming that the dust had landed, he pulled Yanyue and walked in.

In addition to the old stove, there is a square wooden table in the center, and two wooden stools that seem to fall apart at any time.

"The old goblins aren't very good."

Wan Tianyou shook his head disdainfully, and took the moon to check the main room.

There was no door in the main room on the right, and the heavy cotton curtain blocked it all.

Wan Tianyou was unceremoniously, let the moon retreat, and ripped off the cotton door curtain.

On the right, in what looks like a bedroom, there is a clay kang and a wooden wardrobe opposite. No matter how much it is, I'm afraid it's only a foot thick of dust.

"There's nothing here, it's really like Director Qiu said, no one has been here for more than 40 years."

Yan Yue also nodded, there was no doubt. After all, here, she didn't feel anything, strange to the extreme.

"Take another look at the room opposite, there's nothing, let's leave. Too much dust. ”

Wan Tianyou fanned the dust with his hands, taking as little breath as possible.

"Huh? Locked! ”

Wan Tianyou also tore open the cotton curtain at the door of the house, but saw a huge ancient copper lock. It looks like it's been a few years old, and it's not produced in modern times.

"Don't have a key?"

Yan Yue asked, looking at Wan Tianyou shining a flashlight on the key in his hand. There are only two, one is the courtyard door and the other is the house door. There is absolutely no key to this ancient copper lock.

"Or forget it? Shall we go? What if there's some beast locked inside? ”

Yanyue broke her own stubbornness, hugged Wan Tianyou's arm tightly with both hands, and tried her best to hide behind Wan Tianyou with fear on her face.

"Have you heard a story?"

"Huh?"

The sudden question of Wan Tianyou was inexplicable.

"There's a story of a yokai hidden in the closet. Some children are very afraid of the wardrobe since they were young, it is very dark inside, and the door is always closed. He used everything he thought was terrible to decorate the things in his imaginary closet, and the more he thought about it, the more terrible it became. ”

Wan Tianyou turned sideways, grabbed the slightly trembling shoulders of the moon, and continued.

"It's like in each of us, there is a closed space in which all the fears and shadows of memory are contained, and if you don't open that door for a long time, it will invisibly form an obstacle. Become a psychological shadow that is difficult to eliminate. But once you have the courage to open it, make it public. You'll find that it's not really a big deal. It's all about scaring yourself, and it's just a matter of getting into the horns for a while. ”

"Oh."

She thought about it, understood the key, and nodded.

"But this door is real, as you have seen, and the outside window is also sealed with brick and mortar. Will it be ...... inside?"