Chapter 16: Strange Events at Midnight

"I forgot how I slept that night, probably because I was too frightened, and she quickly stopped moving in my arms." Lin Yan looked at her daughter on the bed, with mixed feelings in her heart. When I asked her again at noon the next day, she couldn't remember anything. I guess it might be a nightmare. Lin Yan set her eyes on Mu Tianyu, since the other party was a psychiatrist, maybe he knew his daughter's condition at that time.

"Hmm......" Mu Tianyu paused for a moment, he could have listened attentively. In the traditional sense of the dream, the person concerned should be able to remember it the next day, not to mention that this is a special dream, a nightmare! He habitually crossed his hands over his chest, and the showers outside the house continued, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor was huge, and the fog on the window was so heavy that he could not see anything but the white expanse. She should remember better! Unless, unless she deliberately forgets herself. At this point, Mu Tianyu took a deep breath and frowned. But it doesn't make sense, how young is she, so likely to understand this, even if she is an adult, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do. Mu Tianyu walked towards the window, and Lin Yan's inquiry interrupted his thoughts, and then he remembered that Yang Ziqing was still in the car. He stretched out his right hand and spread a trail of water on the glass, only the black Drinker was faintly visible. She must have been eating cookies in the car, Mu Tianyu guessed.

"You're right, I went to Linzhen that afternoon to consult with a few local psychologists, and their unanimous answers were not much different from yours." Lin Yan was still a little disappointed more or less, she thought that the psychology professor in front of her might give some different answers, but even so, it was even more unimaginable for what happened next. Thinking of this, a creepy chill hit behind him. "They all said it was a nightmare, so I thought so, and the next few days were peaceful, and I almost forgot about it because of my busy schedule." Lin Yan turned around and walked to the left side of the closet and proposed an electric stove the size of a bucket. "Sit down, I always feel that this winter season is getting colder and colder every year." This is a semi-automatic electric stove, I relied on this to survive the winter when I first came out to work, and Mu Tianyu has a very aftertaste for it. He took an old jigsaw puzzle mat from behind the door and sat down against the stove.

[I gradually forgot about it, sometimes I see that Qing'er is nothing unusual about her, and I guess that damn nightmare is gone. About a week, I don't remember very clearly, maybe seven or eight days apart, the cycle of the schedule is seven days, and it happened to be a Tuesday. Usually I rest at night around 10 o'clock, sometimes I read until 11 o'clock, and on rare occasions I stay up until the early hours of the morning. It happened that there was an open class for me at the school on Wednesday, and to be honest, I was quite nervous about it. Even when cooking dinner, there were a lot of condiments missing, and Qing'er kept nagging that it didn't taste right. In the evening, I went through the content of tomorrow's explanation over and over again, simulating it many times, and I was confident that even I could not find an accident that would go wrong. It may have been too engrossed to notice the time, until it was midnight when sleepiness hit. It wasn't too hot, and it should have been cool late at night, but the air in the room was dull, like I was locked in a confined space and couldn't get fresh air. After a moment of hesitation, I guess I was tired, so I simply wanted to leave the living room window open, and this night I didn't preview the explanation on the sofa, but in the study next to the kitchen, so I went to the living room and passed through the hallway. Just as I was about to walk to the living room, I vaguely heard a slight movement upstairs, which was a bad feeling, I can't tell. But I was still focused on every move upstairs, as if it was the sound of something heavy pressing on the floor, and I suspected that someone was moving, and it should be an adult.

What sleepiness, stuffiness, all the negative emotions seemed to disappear all at once, and I only felt cold sweat on my spine, cold and piercing. He seemed to be moving slowly on it, I wanted to open my mouth to call Lin Qing, thinking that she was going to the bathroom, and as soon as I opened my mouth, the voice stayed in my throat, and I suddenly realized that the sound was gone. For the next minute, I stood almost like last time, still standing at the entrance of the stairs, looking up and staring silently. The silence of the night was only the sound of my breathing, this picture seemed familiar, and I immediately remembered Qing'er! I thought she would...... I was even ready to rush upward, but it seemed like I had thought too much about it, and it didn't happen at all. I calmed down, turned on the light in the living room, then walked to the window and slowly pulled one open. A wisp of fresh breeze carrying the rosewood from the garden slipped through my hesitant cheeks, and I breathed urgently, feeling suppressed for too long, and finding an opportunity to vent. The moon under the night sky has disappeared, and I can't catch a single star when I look up at the sky, and it may rain heavily tomorrow, I guess.

Then I noticed a dark shadow moving in the jungle in the distance by the dim light of the house, which was very obvious, not unlike the dark shadow of the plants. I thought it was another hallucination, so I leaned forward and almost touched my face against the window railing. I bet someone standing outside the window right now would grab my head. I think I can see better, whether it's the shadow of a tree or something else! That's right, it's a shadow, a shadow of a person! Someone in the woods! "Is anyone there?" I raised my voice and shouted, this town is not big, I know all the neighbors, and the next house is only about fifty meters away, so I don't need to worry about thieves or robbers. Besides, the town is not rich, and I suspect that a passer-by may have lost his way, but in this midnight time period, it is unconvincing. "Hey, is anyone there? Hello. "Now that I'm sure someone is there, I just want to ask if he needs help or get him out of my house. I stared intently, but he didn't answer, still there. I shouted several times in quick succession to no avail, except for the growl of the watchdog next door echoing through the secluded town of Ponslin. It was really strange, I was very puzzled, and I believed that my neighbors had heard my voice, so I suddenly had courage. I found a flashlight in a drawer in the dining room that I hadn't used in a long time, and when I pressed the switch, it wasn't bright enough, but it was enough. Immediately afterwards, I turned on the wall lamp under the eaves, and the garden was much brighter, and I carefully opened the door and followed the flashlight. "Are you there?" I frowned and moved forward, but the flashlight didn't catch anything but a forest and its shadow. The temperature in the middle of the night was very low, and the cold air from under the ankles soon spread all over the body, and the barking of dogs stopped again, and suddenly the whole town fell into a dead silence.

I shifted my pace, careful with every step, and I held my breath only for the sound of my slippers rubbing against the grass. Everything in the woods is clear, is it my hallucination again? Once in a while, it makes sense, but ...... I don't know how to explain it, it's like I'm in an eerie fog and can't find my way back. I shook my flashlight and scanned the left and right ends of the woods, and there was nothing out of the ordinary, and after a few wanderings, I was sure that I was too tired! Helplessly, my back was soaked, as if I had just experienced a baptism of rainstorm! Then I heard a cat meow in the woods, and it was definitely no longer my hallucination! Because the barking of the neighbor's dog came again. What a dramatic scene, I scared a cat half to death! I laughed at myself helplessly, but deep down I felt a little more relaxed! Even the mood is still a little happy, after all, it's just a cat all the time, you know, I almost broke down. I didn't stay any longer, the wild cat seemed to be gone, the barking of the dog faded away, I decided to go back to the house to take a shower and go to bed, there was an open class tomorrow.

But what is unbelievable is that the next step, I really fell into a desperate situation! The moment I turned around, I noticed something unusual! And this strange thing is not anywhere else, it's in my house! Second floor! The windows on the second floor! There was a faint light in the garden, and there was a man standing in the window on the second floor! She was staring at me motionless. I was so frightened that I screamed, the flashlight almost fell to the ground, and the dog's growl echoed in my ears again! I came back to my senses, and with great effort I lifted my trembling hand up, and the light shone through the window on the second floor. I finally saw her face clearly! It's my daughter, Lin Qing! I couldn't believe that I had a strong fear of my daughter, but it was what it was. She's the closest person I'm to, I never thought it would be like this, and her pale face may be due to my flashlight, like an evil spirit in Dead Baby! (Dead Baby: A horror movie filmed in '19, the day after its release, there was an accident in the theater, and four viewers from different places were scared to death by the movie.) Since then, it has been criticized as a banned film. I thought she was sleepwalking, and nothing else was reasonable except that explanation. The atmosphere around was eerie, especially in the woods, which were shrouded in mist. I've never seen anything like it, it's like a thick fog on the road to the mountain, and you can't see anything from a few meters away, but it's in the middle of the night! This chilling sensation hit my whole body, like the cold air in the middle of the night, they were pervasive, and I couldn't hide from them.

I hurried back to the house and pulled the door! My wheezing and heavy footsteps echoed in the empty room, and I didn't have time to turn off my flashlight before I rushed towards the entrance of the stairs. I couldn't believe how fast my heart was beating at that time, like a steel ball hitting countless times in a small container, and it felt like my heart was about to burst. I was afraid to push open the door and see my daughter looking at me, and those strange eyes would annihilate my soul. I swore I couldn't help myself, but I pushed it away. 】

Lin Yan stopped when she said this, her panicked expression froze on her face, the temperature of the electric stove around her had risen, but cold sweat still broke out on her forehead. "What do you see?" She had been silent for too long, and she couldn't see any psychological reaction in her eyes, Mu Tianyu moved her body, intending to attract her attention, but it had no effect. Time seemed to freeze at this moment, only wisps of hot air trembled with his breath, and he simply opened his mouth to break the frozen picture.