Before I could react, he turned into a wisp of green smoke and floated away. Before he left, he said to me, if I don't get the necklace back, in seven days, he will make me die an ugly death.

So he's not human? That night, I stayed up all night.

Because when I said that he was very heavy, he actually subconsciously supported my waist with his arm, and I inadvertently dazzled and saw an arc-shaped scar on his wrist under his long sleeves.

It can be clearly distinguished that it was bitten by the teeth, the tooth marks are very deep, the upper row of seven tooth marks and the lower row of seven tooth marks, and the white bones that are deep in the flesh can almost be seen in the middle gap. It's the same wound I had with that weird boy I bit seven years ago.

Since Daddy ripped off the necklace around my neck and left angrily, Daddy didn't come back for three days. He finally came back, but my heart was beating the drum.

Although Daddy has a big temper, he is not easily angry, but whenever he is angry, it means that the situation is very serious.

It's my nature to be curious at my age, but because of Daddy's majesty, I didn't dare to ask him blatantly, so I could only ask him sideways: "Daddy, how much did you take that necklace?" ”

"Put away your little cleverness!" Daddy walked up to me, glared at me with hatred, and walked into the house with vague steps.

Because he did walk a little differently than usual. The steps were light and fluttering, and the steps were not as flying as before, but they were walking very slowly, trying to drag something particularly heavy behind their feet.

But in fact, there was nothing behind his feet.

"Daddy, what's wrong with your feet?"

"Got bitten by something."

"What bite? Does it matter? ”

I wanted to ask him about the necklace, but he seemed tired and didn't have much strength to answer my question, so he waved his hand impatiently and went back to his room.

Daddy's house never allowed anyone but himself to enter, so I was naturally stopped at the door.

On the other hand, A-Niang is as indifferent as ever.

Daddy would often go out for days without hearing from him, as he did today, and no one knew where he had gone. A-Niang never asked, as if it was the same with him or not.

By the way, Daddy and Auntie never sleep in the same room.

"A-Niang, can I come to your room and sleep with you tonight?"

"What's wrong?"

Ah Niang was sitting on the threshold and hooked her shoes, but when she heard my words, she raised her head and looked at me suspiciously.

"No, I just don't think I've slept with you since I can remember."

"I can't be the master, it depends on what your father wants." After the words fell, she lowered her head and busied herself again.

Every time I do this, I ask her what she says, and she uses this sentence to prevaricate me.

What does it mean that she can't be the master? You have to get his approval to sleep with your aunt, are you sure it's biological!!

Thinking of this, I don't know why, there is a nameless anger in my heart that rushes straight to my head, and I can't care about Daddy's taboo, I took a few steps forward and kicked open the closed door, and rushed in with my head down.

There was very little space in the room, except for a bed and a rectangular cabinet lying horizontally inside the bed.

What about Daddy? I just saw him walk in.

I tried to shout, "Daddy? ”

No one agreed.

It's weird, what about people?

There was really nothing in the room except for the bed and cupboards, and there were airtight walls all around, but I just saw Daddy come in.

"Daddy? Are you there? ”

I walked around the room looking around, probably some kind of intuition, and suddenly I wanted to lie under the bed and look in, and the moment I lifted the bedspread, I was frightened.

The bottom of the bed is full of black and white snakeskin!

How many snakes do you have to pile up so many snake skins......!! Wait, snakes? Just then, I heard what seemed to be rubbing against the cabinet inside the bed.

Every now and then there is a hissing sound.

I was scared and nervous for no reason. But more of a curiosity. I stood up, held my breath, and approached the rectangular cabinet inside the bed little by little, and the closer I got, the louder something rubbed against me.

Just as I was about to open the lid of the cabinet, A-Niang shouted to me outside with her throat pulling: "Mengfan come out quickly, come out quickly............"

The voice was urgent, as if the sky was about to fall outside if I didn't go out again.

I hurried out and saw that the door was already empty, and there was still the shadow of A-Niang.

"Auntie?"

"What's wrong again?"

Hearing the voice, I turned my head violently, and A-Niang was behind me!

This scares me today! While I was calming down, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that something had happened.

"I still want to ask you what's wrong, is there something wrong with calling me so anxious just now?"

A-Niang was a little surprised, with a look of ignorance of this matter: "When did I call you?" ”

"You just told me to come out quickly, and I just came out."

I'm in a hurry, could it be my hallucination? That's not possible, it's obviously A-Niang's voice calling me.

"But I just hooked my shoes and the wool was not enough, so I went to look for the yarn, I am not here, how can I call you?"

Before I could speak, A-Niang suddenly asked me with a strange look, "What did you see in your father's room just now?" ”

At this time, I remembered that I could see what was rubbing in the cabinet just now, but because of A-Niang's voice, I didn't see anything and came out.

"A bed, a cupboard."

Ah Niang cautiously pulled me closer, and then whispered in my ear, "Then have you seen a pile full of snakeskins piled under the bed?" ”

"A-Niang...... You ........."

But isn't Daddy's room not allowed to enter? Just by Auntie's guts, even if she is given ten more dares, she will not dare to disobey Daddy.

"Let's go, I'll go back to the house."

Auntie glanced at Daddy's house, whispered and led me briskly to her bedroom, pulled me to sit on the bed, and then mysteriously handed me a carved wooden box from her closet.

"What is this?"

"Just open it and see."

I opened the carved wooden box according to A-Niang's instructions, and I got up from the bed in shock: "Isn't this the necklace that Daddy took from me that day?" How did it come to you? ”

It stands to reason that it shouldn't be, that day Daddy took my necklace and went out angrily, and he didn't come back until today, so the question is, why did the necklace suddenly appear in Auntie's hand?

"If you look closely, the two necklaces are very similar, but they are not the same thing. This necklace is called a centrifugal lock. ”

Centrifugal locks?

At first glance, it's a little different. Although the shape is similar, the color and luster are different. It reminded me of the concentric locks that the man had told me.

Thinking of this, I blurted out: "Is there another concentric lock?" ”

"Yes, after so many years, your father has never let me tell you about it, and even in order to prevent those things from finding you, he won't even let you go to school. A-Niang is a woman's family, I don't understand those weird things, today, it is your father's seventh molt, and if there are three more times, you will never see your father again. ”

A-Niang said while choking and wiping her tears, probably because she was a little emotional, her words were incoherent, and a pair of eyes with deep sunken eyes were red, and my heart was sour when I saw it.

"Auntie, don't worry, you speak slowly, I didn't understand too much, what are the things to find me? What else is daddy molting, what are you talking about? ”