Xia Beifeng jumped down the stairs with one foot and saw Ning Lu's back in school uniform in front of the TV.

"You've been watching it all night!" He smiled wryly and said, "Fortunately, you died, don't worry about staying up late and not growing tall." ”

"Even if I hadn't died, I probably wouldn't have grown tall." Ning Lu turned around and waited for him angrily, and said depressedly: "Anyway, my parents are not tall, what if I can grow taller?" Do you think anyone can grow into a telephone pole like you? ”

"If you're getting taller, it's your dad who should be worried about, isn't it?" Xia Beifeng smiled and teased: "But little girl, don't stay up late, even if you don't grow tall, there are other places to grow!" ”

"He doesn't care about this kind of thing...... Ning Lu lowered his head and whispered, and when he raised his head again, he still had a rude and willful expression, covering his chest and shouting at him: "What else are you talking about, you old rascal!" ”

"Hey!" Xia Beifeng retorted to her seriously: "It doesn't matter if you say I'm a hooligan, how can you say I'm old!" ”

"But you're really old, admit it, uncle!" Ning Lu turned off the TV, shook her head regretfully at Xia Beifeng, and scanned him sympathetically from beginning to end.

"Tsk...... What a pitiful, middle-aged old man who no one loves, your brother left you breakfast in the kitchen. ”

"What do you say, some people love me, and the beautiful little girl who chases me can line up from the door of here all the way to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, believe it or not." Xia Beifeng walked along the wall towards the kitchen while raising the bar with Ning Lu, and when he reached the kitchen door, he suddenly reacted, turned back to Ning Lu and asked, "He left me food, what about others, went out again?" ”

"That handsome guy went out with a cute mouthless little Lori, let me tell you to have a good rest. Don't run around. Ning Lu sat back on the sofa and looked at the two Koreans who were hugging each other and crying and laughing on TV, showing an envious expression.

"He didn't say where he went?"

Xia Beifeng opened the rice pot, saw the gruel that was still steaming inside, and turned his head to find a porcelain bowl in the cabinet.

"Didn't say it!" Ning Lu shouted loudly at the kitchen, "Uncle, you fell under the sofa with that book last night. You'll figure it out for yourself in a moment. ”

"Can't you help me figure it out?" Xia Beifeng filled a bowl of porridge, found two plates of cold dishes in the refrigerator, and after putting them on the table, he turned around and took out a can of beer in the open refrigerator, then closed the refrigerator door, looked at Ning Lu's back in the living room and asked, "Didn't you find out by Xiaotian?" ”

"Nope!" Ning Lu shouted back louder: "I was almost found in the morning, and as soon as I was nervous, I stuffed it underneath, and then I didn't take it out for a long time." ”

"That's why you let me figure it out myself, didn't you?" Xia Beifeng looked at Ning Lu's back with disdain and opened the beer.

"I can't help it. I'm here to help you! Ning Lu turned around, stuck out her tongue in the direction of the kitchen, and asked curiously: "What is written in your little yellow book, are you so afraid that your brother will see it?" ”

"It's not a little yellow book, what do you little girl think!" Xia Beifeng took a sip of beer, turned back to Ning Lu in the living room and said, "The things written in that book are nothing, but there is something wrong with the book itself, I don't really want him to read it...... Don't talk nonsense to me! ”

Ning Lu let out a long "oh" sound. He shook his head and said no more.

"He didn't tell me anyway. We're evening it out. ”

Xia Beifeng said to himself, lowered his head and took a sip of porridge, and smiled again.

"It's delicious, and the child has really grown up."

Shen Luotian stood at the gate of Mingmei's house, closed his eyes and reached out to touch the doorknob in front of him.

The cold touch of metal ran down his fingertips, and the figures of several men flashed before his eyes.

Song Minghui, who wrapped himself tightly, the gangster leader who limped and scolded while covering his thighs, and a group of young men who were giggling behind them. The man who carried the bright little yellow hair out of the house, was a big step behind everyone, and closed the door slowly with his hands in his pockets.

The last man seemed to be a little older, wearing a new black leather coat with two faint scratches on the collar.

Before going out, he looked around the house very cautiously, and even carefully wiped his fingerprints off the door. After doing all this. He looked up and down like a thief for a while, and then trotted down the stairs quickly, keeping up with the footsteps of the people in front of him.

Xiaoxi tugged at the corner of his clothes with one hand, looked curiously at him standing in front of the door frowning, and then turned his head to stare at the security door in front of him and began to be in a daze.

Shen Luotian kept the faces of those people firmly in his mind before he opened his eyes.

The door in front of me didn't look anything special, and it was quiet and there was no sound at all.

"You go in and have a look." Shen Luotian lowered his head and said to Xiaoxi: "Be careful, come back after a look." ”

Xiao Xi nodded, let go of the hand holding the corner of his clothes, and took a step forward, passing through the crimson security door.

The living room was empty, and the dark tiles on the floor reflected the cold light. The shattered glass that night was still scattered on the floor, and it seemed that it had not been cleaned up. There were no more burning incense sticks in the shrine in the corner, only the faint smell of sandalwood lingering in the room.

Xiao Xi stood on the mat in the doorway, tilting her head and looking into the bright bedroom.

The bedroom door was tightly closed, and the frosted glass on the door cast a faint shadow.

There seemed to be some living creature moving in the door. The shadow of the thing was reflected on the door, like a giant snail, squirming slowly and constantly calling out to the people standing outside the door.

Come on, come on......

Don't you want to come in and see what's inside?

The voice was so low that it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman. But it is full of temptation, constantly arousing that little curiosity in people's hearts. It makes the person who hears it want to lean over and see what the sound is.

The ethereal sound constantly echoed in the room, and not only people, but also ghosts were gradually attracted to it.

Xiao Xi hesitated for a moment, took two steps in the direction of the bedroom, and raised his hand to touch the wriggling shadow on the door.

"Come back." Shen Luotian's serious voice suddenly sounded in her ears: "Don't touch that door!" ”

Xiao Xi suddenly came back to his senses and couldn't help but take a few steps back. Away from that bedroom door.

The soft voice still echoed in her ears.

Don't really want to come in and have a look?

"Not at all." Xiao Xi shouted at the door angrily, turned around and rushed out of the door, and threw himself directly into the arms of the person standing outside.

Shen Luotian stretched out his hand to catch Xiao Xi who pounced out, and looked at the security door in front of him with a gloomy face.

"You didn't touch it."

When Xiaoxi heard this, he raised his head and replied proudly, "No." ”

"That's good." Shen Luotian seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and raised his hand to touch the top of her head. Smiled a little, "You go in again and help me open the door from the inside, okay." ”

Xiaoxi nodded obediently, turned his head and walked through the door again.

After a few seconds, there was a few small noises in the door, and then the door slowly opened with a small crack.

Xiao Xi showed half of her little face from the crack in the door and winked at him a few times.

"Yes, good." Shen Luotian said softly and glanced back at the empty stairs behind him. He raised his hand and pushed open the door in front of him.

"You close the door and follow me." He stood at the door, took one of Xiaoxi's hands, bowed his head and said to her, "Don't let go for a while." ”

Xiaoxi nodded obediently, held the hand holding him tightly, and turned around to close the red security door behind him.

The gentle closing of the door echoed through the empty living room, bringing a breeze that made the tassels of the decorations hanging on the walls tremble.

Shen Luotian looked at the doorknob of the bedroom. After thinking for a moment, he raised his leg and kicked it against the glass.

There was a loud thud from the glass. The door frame shook a few times, but it didn't break.

Shen Luotian smiled when he saw this scene. After laughing, he immediately regained his serious expression again, and his face was even more gloomy than before.

He grabbed Xiaoxi beside him and held her by his side like a large plush toy. Stand still and turn around and give a standard roundhouse kick to the door.

The door made another loud noise, this time even the floor shook a few times. There was a brief cracking sound from the metal hinge, and the wooden door panel broke away from the frame and slammed against the wooden floor of the bedroom.

It bounced and bounced for a few moments before it fell silent. Lie on the floor.

The frosted glass was still completely embedded in the door, neither broken nor falling off.

Shen Luotian took two steps forward, stepped on the door panel, and carefully looked at the bedroom at the door.

The bedroom was small, there was nothing but a bed, and the light-colored curtains shook gently, no different from what he had seen through Xiaoxi's eyes that night.

Xiao Xi, who was clipped by his waist, raised his head, struggled a few times, jumped out of his arm, and stood beside him.

"See?" Shen Luotian lowered his head and asked.

Xiaoxi looked at the bedroom in front of him in confusion and slowly shook his head a few times.

"If you look closely, you really can't see anything?"

Her eyes widened as she stinted, scrutinizing every corner of the room.

Silk sheets, scattered quilts, dried blood in the quilts, dirty footprints on the floor, and ......

"White ......" Xiaoxi said hesitantly: "A lot of ......"

"Cobwebs." Shen Luotian completed her words, frowning and staring at the empty floor, "We have to find that female spider." ”

He closed his eyes and raised his hand to cover his right eye.

When the light fell into his left eye again, there was a sudden sharp stinging pain in his eyeball. The pain was followed by a strong burning sensation. It felt as if a fire was burning in his eyes, and the flames could jump out of his sockets at any moment and fall to the ground and burn into a sea of fire, and the eyeballs, which should have been soft and fragile, were now like a piece of red-hot iron, hard and hot.

Damn it!

He cursed to himself, and raised his eyes to look at the small bedroom in front of him again.

The bedroom, which had been empty just a moment ago, was now completely another world in his eyes.

Dense cobwebs covered the room, stacked on top of each other, like a large mass of white cotton wool.

Countless tiny spiders shuttled back and forth between the gaps in the cobwebs, pulling out filaments one after another, filling the already airtight cobwebs more finely.

Behind the white spider webs, some of the larger black shadows were still moving slowly, making a thin grinding sound.

A faint blue-green smoke flowed between the gray cobwebs, making the room look like a complete hole.

It's just a beautiful spider spirit.

"I'm really annoyed by bugs." Shen Luotian lowered his head and said to Xiaoxi.

Xiao Xi nodded sympathetically, hugged his arm and dodged behind him.

Shen Luotian's vision gradually blurred, and a tear slipped from the corner of his left eye and trickled down his cheek.

He finally tried to look at the cobwebs in front of him for a few seconds, then closed his eyes again and raised his hand to wipe away the tears hanging from his face.

Only when the burning pain in his eyes had subsided a little did he reopen his eyes and look at the room that had returned to its original state.

"Under the bed, there's a knife." Shen Luotian lowered his head and said to Xiaoxi, "Can you go?" ”

Xiao Xi nodded, and after taking two steps forward, he turned his head back to look at the clasped hands of the two, and tilted his head suspiciously.

"Forget it, let's go together." Shen Luotian sighed, shook his head vigorously, and walked to the side of the bed behind Xiaoxi.

It was obviously an empty room, after stepping off the door panel and stepping on the floor. With each step, they could feel as if countless fine spider silk were rushing on their faces and bodies.

By the time Shen Luotian squatted on the side of the bed and looked into the gap under the bed, he already felt that all the bare skin on his body was stained with a thick layer of unknown things. The touch of that thing was more like a lump of paste, sticky against the skin, very uncomfortable.

I don't know if there are any bugs on my body.

It would be disgusting if there were.

He turned on his phone to illuminate the dark void, and thought depressedly as he squinted back and forth between the window and the floor.

As the light on his phone's screen illuminated the dark world beneath the bed, a silver light flashed somewhere under the bed, reflecting a cold light back into his eyes.

"Ah, there it is." Shen Luotian whispered and glanced back at Xiaoxi.

Xiao Xi put his hand under the bed, groped back and forth for a while, hooked out a three-edged military thorn with dark red bloodstains, and handed it to Shen Luotian.

Shen Luotian nodded approvingly at Xiao Xi and took the military thorn in Xiao Xi's hand.

"Let's get out first, this place is disgusting."

When they stepped on the door again, something green flashed from under the bed, where the thorn had just been found.

Xiao Xi looked back at the crack of the bed behind him vigilantly, but only saw a dark strip half a palm's width.

Shen Luotian suddenly clenched her hand hard, stared at the door of the living room, and stared at her in surprise.

He heard several hoarse shouts coming from outside the door.

"Brother?"

(To be continued.) )