Chapter 32: Late at Night
The faint night breeze swept across the yellowed lawn, bringing up wisps of dead grass and smashing them against the glass windows.
A white shadow the size of a wildcat swept over the wall, sending a tiny spark of electricity and a crackling sound.
The white shadow stiffened, and then quickly jumped from the wall into the courtyard, scurryed into the grass, and disappeared.
A faint colored light flickered in the dark room.
Ning Lu was still sitting alone on the sofa, watching the changing images on the TV screen and letting out a few smirks from time to time.
The two of them had already fallen asleep, and because Xiaoxi was always reluctant to leave Shen Luotian too far, she finally rejected her suggestion of "let's watch anime all night together", and followed Shen Luotian upstairs to sleep.
The music of the ending song played on the TV, and Ning Lu leaned back on the sofa, stretching and yawning.
"Really, ghosts don't need to sleep, why do I feel so sleepy?"
She raised her hand to cover her mouth, lazily changed her position, and watched the opening song of the next episode.
"Because you're tired." A boy slammed out from behind her.
"Who!" Ning Lu turned her head abruptly and threw the remote control in her hand in the direction where the sound came from.
The remote control made an arc in mid-air and landed on the floor with a clear crashing sound.
There was no one behind her.
"I'm here." The man chuckled and said again.
This time, the sound sounded right in Ning Lu's right ear, and she could even clearly feel the airflow exhaled by the other party when he spoke hitting the small piece of skin behind her ear.
She stiffened and turned her head again, still seeing nothing.
"Are you ......" Ning Lu asked tremblingly, "What is it?" ”
"What am I?" The man asked repeatedly, then leaned over to Ning Lu's left and blew, "Little sister, guess what...... What am I ......?"
Ning Lu sat on the sofa, motionless, and the whole ghost stiffened into a piece of wood.
The thing was not far behind her, though she couldn't see it. But the sense of presence is very strong.
He was staring at my neck.
As this thought flashed through Ning Lu's mind, she imagined the carnivore that had been licking its paws and ready to pounce on it at any time.
"Your ears are red." The man continued to tease, "Are you in love with me?" ”
Ning Lu somehow suddenly stopped being scared when she heard this, she turned her head viciously, stared at the empty air behind her, and said word by word: "You, self, self, first, shine, mirror, son!" ”
"Hehe......" The man chuckled lightly and walked away from Ning Lu abruptly. Listening to the voice, it seemed to be standing at the top of the stairs, "Okay, I won't tease you, is Xia Beifeng at home?" ”
The huge feeling of oppression behind him disappeared in an instant. Ning Lu took a deep breath, turned his head and shouted viciously in the direction of the staircase: "No, you get out." ”
"Little sister, you're really interesting." The unseen man continued, "Is this your house, what qualifications do you have to let me get out." ”
"Because I know he doesn't want to see you." Ning Lu gritted her teeth and said, "It's not a good thing to look sneaky. ”
"What the hell...... You have wronged me by saying this. The man continued in a brisk tone, "I walked in to find an old friend in the open, but this little sister is you...... I've never seen it before, where did it come from? ”
"Can you handle it?" Ning Lu snorted coldly and continued to stare at the flickering anime images on the TV screen. put on a posture of not being too lazy to pay attention to you.
The man never spoke again, and he didn't know where he had gone.
Ning Lu watched the whole episode of the anime vigilantly, and then gradually relaxed, picked up a pillow again, hugged it in his arms, and lay comfortably on the sofa.
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Half past two in the morning.
Shen Luotian was awakened from his deep sleep.
There was no sound, and it wasn't a sudden light or anything like that. It was just a strange instinct that made him suddenly feel a creepy danger in his deep sleep.
He snapped his eyes open.
There was no difference in the dimly lit room from before he fell asleep.
He lay motionless on the bed, staring at the ceiling for a moment. Only then did he tentatively ask, "Xiaoxi, are you there?" ”
The girl's fingertips swiped the back of his hand exposed outside the quilt a few times. expressed their presence.
"There's a guest coming?" Shen Luotian asked suspiciously, and quickly turned over and got out of bed, "Who is it?" ”
Xiaoxi didn't answer, she just stood in front of the window, looked at the curtains hanging on the ground, and stretched out her finger.
Shen Luotian stood in front of the curtain for a while, and suddenly raised his hand to open the curtain.
At the moment when the curtains were opened. He saw a faint green light flash before his eyes.
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Xia Beifeng was naturally not at home at this time. He tried his best to fool Ning Lu to help her cover up, avoiding the double surveillance of Shen Luotian and Xiaoxi, and finally succeeded in climbing out of the second floor after the family was asleep.
Dragging a leg that is basically equal to a disability.
"Suddenly, I felt that it was really not easy for me!" He sat in the car. Looking at the street lights that kept passing outside the car window, he sighed and sighed.
Ye Tianlang in the driver's seat didn't even bother to give him a disgusted look, just held the steering wheel expressionlessly, and didn't say a word and just cared.
Xia Beifeng saw that no one paid attention to him, so he began to hum and complain again.
"My brother, maybe he won't be able to go to his daughter-in-law in his life, I'm really worried about him!"
"You said that he is obviously not bad-looking, his height is just right, his family is not short of money, and he can earn it himself, and his education is even more ...... Why can't I find a girlfriend? ”
"I'm really worried sometimes, if I'm not there in the future, who will take care of him!"
Ye Tianlang's brows twitched a few times. Finally, I couldn't help but say: "Are you raising a younger brother or a son?" ”
"Alas! You don't understand! Xia Beifeng covered his chest, put on an indescribable expression, and lowered his head in grief.
"I don't really want to understand." Ye Tianlang said calmly, "I think instead of thinking about your brother's lifelong events, you should ...... first."
He paused abruptly as he said this, and he didn't know what he remembered, and shook his head and smiled.
"I forgot. You can't do anything without this. ”
"Actually, it's still missing." Xia Beifeng squinted his eyes and smiled meaningfully, stared at Ye Tianlang's side face, and said slowly: "I have good physical strength, I can't come too much." ”
Ye Tianlang stopped talking again.
The car sped down the road, and after a few big turns, it stopped in the bushes outside the gate of a villa complex.
"That's it, look." Ye Tianlang withdrew his hand from the steering wheel, leaned on the back of the seat with his arms crossed, and raised his eyebrows at Xia Beifeng, "What are you going to come here to see." Preparing for future retaliation? ”
Xia Beifeng nodded briskly and gave Ye Tianlang a thumbs up.
"You still know me, not like those bunnies...... One by one, like a living monkey, they don't know how to help me solve problems. ”
"I'm sorry, but I don't think it's something to be proud of." Ye Tianlang said and took out a pack of cigarettes from the windmill in Xiabei, took out one and handed it to him, "The black light is blind, what are you here to see!" ”
"I said that I was preparing for retaliation, so let's step on it in advance!" The summer north wind lit a cigarette. Pull open the window and spit out a puff of smoke.
"Then I have to warn you. This behavior is against the law. Ye Tianlang also lit a cigarette, put the lighter back in the pocket of Xia Bei's windbreaker, and opened the window on the other side, "And your legs are not good yet, so it's not convenient to retaliate." ”
"yes!" Xia Beifeng shouted sadly, turned his head and smiled at Ye Tianlang, "It's really inconvenient for me to go in, so you can go." ”
"What did you say?" Ye Tianlang turned his head in surprise. looked at Xia Beifeng, who was looking at him with a smile, and for some reason suddenly wanted to slap him.
"You let me go...... Do what? ”
"Help me get in and step on it." Xia Beifeng replied seriously, raised his hand and took out a small flashlight-like thing from his coat pocket, "Take this." Go look at the car that night...... Are you sure he drove the car home? ”
"Well, I did drive home, I don't know which home it is......" Ye Baiyu replied subconsciously. Suddenly, he turned his head to look at Xia Beifeng and said in surprise: "Hey? I don't think I promised you to go in. ”
Xia Beifeng solemnly patted him on the shoulder, and said with a serious face: "This task is very important, I will leave it to you, I believe you will not let me down." ”
Ye Tianlang looked at Xia Beifeng with an expression of "are you sick".
"Why don't you go yourself?"
"Just help me check it out." Xia Beifeng continued: "I want to go by myself, but now that I'm like this, it's still very difficult to climb over the wall." ”
As he spoke, he lowered his head and gestured to his bandaged calf with his eyes, and nodded at Ye Tianlang with his hands folded, "Please." ”
"No, no, no, instructor, you just drag your disabled leg up the wall, I believe this height will not be difficult for you." Ye Tianlang took out his mobile phone as he spoke, and waved it a few times at Xia Beifeng, "As for me, just record a portrait of you here." ”
Xia Beifeng looked at him pleadingly.
"Oh, by the way, when you climb the wall, I can also call the police, what do you think?"
"How did I teach you such an Aries wolf!" Xia Beifeng covered his heart sadly and shouted exaggeratedly: "If you don't help, forget it, you still want to fall into the well and let me never be able to live forever, right?" ”
Ye Tianlang put the phone back in his pocket, shrugged at Xia Beifeng, and said indifferently: "Otherwise, what do you think we should do with you?" ”
Xia Beifeng once again showed a grief-stricken expression.
The two of them sat in the car and smoked a cigarette, still unable to decide who would end up looking over the wall to see the car.
In the end, it was Ye Tianlang, he pinched the cigarette butt, turned his head to look at Xia Beifeng, who was still lying on the edge of the car window and half-dead, and asked, "Just look at the car, is there anything else?" ”
"Feel free to do anything else." Xia Beifeng said indifferently: "Remember to focus on the trunk of that car, maybe you can find something." ”
"How the hell did he offend you?" Ye Tianlang said: "You are so persistent with him, you shouldn't be!" ”
"I can't say it, you can take a look at the trunk of the car and come back to talk about it." Xia Beifeng raised his hand to open the car door for Ye Tianlang, and made a "please" gesture, "It's time to go to work, young man." ”
Ye Tianlang glared at him helplessly, turned his head and got out of the car.
"There's one more problem." Standing outside the high fence, he looked up at the colorful stained glass on the wall, and asked, "What if there is surveillance?" ”
"You're still afraid of surveillance!" Xia Beifeng looked at Ye Tianlang in surprise, and said loudly: "I haven't settled the account for you about entering my house silently in the afternoon, and now I actually say that I am afraid of the monitor." ”
Ye Tianlang was silent again.
He circled around the wall, and only when Xia Beifeng was about to finish his second cigarette did he choose a corner to stand.
He turned around and waved his hand at Xia Beifeng in a friendly manner, turned his head to face the wall in front of him, took a deep breath, raised his leg and took a few steps to the wall, looking down.
The lawn in the yard is neat and tidy, and obvious traces of manual repair can be seen.
There was a red sports car parked in the corner with its entire face smashed, probably the one that hit Xia Beifeng that day.
Ye Tianlang found the right direction, jumped over, and landed in the courtyard.
He landed very lightly, without even making a sound, and his steps were steady, and he seemed to be very skilled in this kind of thing.
There was a window in the house in the middle of the courtyard that was still lit, in a bedroom on the second floor.
Ye Tianlang glanced up, the two people in the room were hugging each other and seemed to be chatting inseparably, and they had to get closer and kiss from time to time.
He smiled and shook his head, and walked down the corner to the red sports car.
Looking closer, the car couldn't have been more miserable, and the entire front half was sunk into the cab by the violent impact. The crumbling headlights and the open front lid make it look so ...... Hideous.
It's like a blind and toothless old lady who laughs nervously at everyone who passes by until she is sent to a mental hospital.
Ye Tianlang walked around the car, and couldn't think of any adjective to describe the car except for the word "miserable".
He shook his head and glanced at the trunk.
Compared to the front, the back obviously didn't suffer that much.
The trunk is locked tightly, and you can still see the full outline, and even the license plate number.
Ye Tianlang struggled for more than ten seconds, and finally couldn't hold back, raised his hand and forcibly opened the lid of the trunk.
It's clean inside, there's nothing.
Ye Tianlang frowned, stared at the empty trunk carefully for a while, and his nose twitched a few times.
Like, is there really a bit of a problem?
With that in mind, he turned on the flashlight in his hand and tried to brighten the light.
When he lowered his head again and looked at the trunk, he couldn't help but spit out two words: "it!" ”
(To be continued.) )