Happy Lantern Festival!

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There is a sweet aroma in the air, a bit like melted toffee. The ripper in the black trench coat first came to the window of the living room, reached out and grabbed the blue curtain painted with a flower pattern and pulled it hard.

"What the hell?" Zhang Luo frowned slightly.

-- The curtains, which he thought could be easily opened, did not move like a sculpture, and although they were made of a material similar to silk to the touch, they could not be opened no matter how hard he tried.

"It's just a nightmare...... This design is just too unsentimental. He sighed.

As a hobby, he has often had nightmares since he was a child, and he is also very familiar with several common feelings in nightmares.

――The feeling of powerlessness is one of the common feelings in nightmares.

Sometimes, although the reaction speed is very fast, the body movement speed is extremely slow, even if you are in a hurry, you can't speed up, you can only watch yourself being run over by an oncoming car.

Sometimes they try to get out of the danger zone, only to find that the unlocked door around them is too heavy to be pushed open, and they are cut into pieces by the murderous demons who rush over.

The current situation is very similar to the second situation. In this way, it is not only possible to escape by jumping out of the window, but also to see what is outside the window. But......

"What age are you still playing this set?"

Zhang Luo said and slashed the curtain with a dagger, and with a bang, he drew a small slender slit on the curtain, and then drew three more lines, and a square piece of fabric fell like an iron plate.

"Sure enough." He nodded knowingly.

――Although it seems to be fixed, the material of the curtain has not changed, and it can be cut with a dagger.

The two of them looked at the square gap in the curtain, and it was still dark. But the dark shadow is not quite the same as the ordinary shadow.

"They're moving." Frankenstein whispered.

"yes." Zhang Luo said.

The dark shadows on the windows are constantly twisting into different shapes, and it looks like a ......

Recalling some memories of his childhood, Zhang Luo's brows furrowed even tighter.

- Most people have some kind of childhood shadow, and he was not born to seek curiosity:

It may seem inconsequential to adults, but many children who sleep alone have been scared to sleep by the strange shadows on the curtains, and he has had a similar experience.

He still remembers that when he was still a young little Shota, he began to occupy a bedroom and sleep alone.

One night, I was lying on the bed and covering myself with the quilt as usual, and when I was about to close my eyes, I saw a distorted black shadow on the dark gray curtains.

The shadow seemed to be some kind of strange human face, silently twisted into various expressions, sometimes laughing and sometimes crying. But I wasn't scared at the time, I just stared at that face curiously until I didn't know when I fell asleep.

"What's wrong with you?" The girl's flat voice interrupted Zhang Luo's thoughts.

"Nothing." He looked to the single bed on the other side and walked briskly over.

Before inspecting the two bedrooms next to it, the first thing to do is naturally to conduct a thorough search of the living room.

Standing in front of the small bed covered with embroidered sheets, Zhang Luo immediately found that this bed also evoked some memories of his childhood.

It was a rudimentary wooden bed, and the sheets on it had not been dragged to the floor, revealing a small gap between the edge of the sheets and the floor, and a deep darkness below.

He still remembers that when he was about the fourth grade of elementary school, he once became interested in the question of "whether there is someone hiding under the bed", and every night before going to bed, he would lie on the floor and carefully check whether there was anyone hiding under the bed.

Of course, nothing was achieved every time. But despite this, I was still "innocent and cute" at the time, and every time I lay in bed, I would keep thinking:

"Is there a man in black with a knife hidden under the bed, smiling and waiting for him to sleep? Surely there must be a corpse tied to the bed? When I'm asleep, will something happen under the bed that kills me? ”

“…… Damn it. ”

Zhang Luo shook his head irritably.

Although he is almost "invulnerable" now, he will not panic no matter what horror he sees. But there is such a thing as a childhood shadow, and as long as I think about it, I have an irrepressible feeling of irritability.

Psychology guru Sigmund. Freud believed that the unconscious, which is imperceptible to human beings, is an important part of mental activity. And human traumatic experiences, especially childhood traumatic experiences, also known as "childhood shadows", have an important impact on a person's life.

In Freud's view, the shadow of childhood can even affect the worldview in adulthood. Although sometimes people think that they have stepped out of the shadow of the past, they are actually still dominated by the "shadow" left by the subconscious.

And now, Zhang Luo knows very well that he is under the influence of the shadow of his childhood, which has led to a decrease in his "combat effectiveness".

However, when it comes to the creators of the shadow of his childhood, he has to talk about his parents......

"Huh."

Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on the face under the sneering skeleton mask.

"What's wrong with you?" Frankenstein asked.

"I don't think I ever told you about my parents, did I?" Zhang Luo asked.

Seeing the girl in white shaking her head, he smiled and said, "My parents...... How so? Anyway, they're the kind of people who are very eccentric, who seem to be careless about everything, and who also like to joke very much. Compared to the two of them, I felt like a normal person. ”

"When I was very young, they started to indoctrinate me with some nonsense theories, such as 'children will be taken away by aliens if they don't come home from school', 'the barbecue restaurant downstairs makes lamb kebabs with human flesh', or 'every child has a ghost behind them', which scared me out of my innocence at ......the time."

"I can't imagine your innocence." Frankenstein said coldly.

"Don't worry about that." Zhang Luo sighed: "All in all, most of my childhood shadows were caused by my parents, and I really miss it......"

"Can't see them now?" Frankenstein asked.

Before Zhang Luo could answer, he suddenly noticed that there was a white note the size of a little thumb on the sheet, which was similar to the color of the sheet, and he didn't see this note just now.

Picked up the note and flipped it over, only to see a line of cute small round characters written on it, and at a glance, I knew that it was a child's font:

"I can't sleep without turning off the lights, but I'm scared when the lights are off."

Obviously, the content implied by this note is already clear at a glance.

After reading the contents of the note, Zhang Luo walked quickly to the door of the living room and stood in front of the light switch.

"Are you ready?" He asked.

After receiving Frankenstein's affirmative reply, he turned off the lights without hesitation.