Over time, Li Yun's influence on the elderly also increased.

The old man had a calm face, but he didn't hide anything from Li Yun, but he spoke very slowly, and told the story of "Xiaobao" with difficulty.

"Xiaobao" is certainly not the real name Xiaobao. This is the old man who gave him a title.

The old man can't remember the first time he saw Xiaobao, it was about a year or two ago.

The child suddenly appeared, walking alone in the community, out of place with the people around him, like the kind of child who was separated from his family. It's just that this scattered location is a little strange - the North District of Steel Community.

The old man went to play mahjong at the house of an old colleague in the North District of Iron and Steel, and on the way to see Xiaobao wandering in the community, he saw Xiaobao still wandering when he went home, which stopped him.

He thought that Xiaobao ran out angry with his family, and refused to go home, or was embarrassed to go home. But no matter how he asked, Xiaobao didn't speak, just stared at him with wide eyes.

"You brought it home?" Li Yun asked.

The old man shook his head, "Of course not." I wanted to take him to the neighborhood committee and ask him where his house was, but who knew that he would run away as soon as he slipped away. ”

The old man didn't take it seriously at that time. There are often children playing alone in the community, and no one worries about their safety. It used to be a family home for the steel mill, and everyone who lived here knew it. Even if it was later changed to a commercial housing community, and the number of fresh faces coming and going increased, no one still felt that it was dangerous.

Unexpectedly, when he played mahjong the next day, he saw Xiaobao again.

For a few days, he talked to his old colleagues, and a colleague who helped his children take care of the children asked suspiciously, "Doesn't he go to school?" before the old man realized Xiaobao's eccentricity.

That day, the mahjong ended, the old man saw Xiaobao, followed him quietly, and after a while, he was seen wandering near a private car, and suddenly disappeared.

“…… What else is there to say about this! Xiaobao is definitely not human! When the old man said this, he became excited, slapped his thigh, and in an instant, sighed again, "I saw such a big wound on his stomach later...... Xiaobao must have been very pitiful when he was alive. He died peacefully, and after his death, he became a lonely ghost, and I don't know how I ended up in our family home......"

The old man was very sure that Xiaobao was not a child of the original family home. He inquired about Xiaobao like Zhou Wenli, but the social circle of their group of old men who played mahjong and Zhou Wenli's aunts and mothers couldn't get together. For example, Zhou Wenli, Aunt Liu, and Xiaofang were all residents who later bought houses and settled in the North Iron and Steel District. Although the two groups of people have not reached the point of being distinct, after years of getting along, sometimes they will play together, but there is always some estrangement. In particular, these retired employees of the steel factory always have a knot to look at outsiders for later residents.

obviously lives in the same plot, and they are familiar with each other in and out, but they can't call each other's names for decades.

After the old man realized that Xiaobao was not a living person, he deliberately concealed it, and when he inquired about the news, he only asked the most familiar old colleagues, and concealed this matter to the death.

"You brought it home?" Li Yun asked again.

The old man nodded this time, "I brought him back later." I also gave him the toys that my little grandson had left with me. He played for a while, then threw it aside. He said and sighed, "Xiaobao, he is probably abandoned by his family, so his temperament is crooked." ”

Li Yun was stunned.

"He's very weird, he doesn't speak, although he always smiles, but he's very naughty, and he doesn't know what he can and can't do. Obviously he looks so big......" The old man pointed to the fluorescent storage cabinet, "He broke several of my grandson's toys." My eldest grandson is now in college, and some of the toys are more than ten years old, and they are well preserved and have never been broken. Leave it to my little grandson, and it's fine. Two boys were passed on. He only played twice before he broke the door of the car. When I lectured him, he looked at me straight and didn't know anything wrong. ”

Li Yun pinched the sweat for the old man, "He didn't do anything to you, did he?" ”

"Humph! He dares! The old man puffed up his chest, but soon stiffened his body again and waved his hand, "Children, no one taught them before, and they were naughty and mischievous." I reprimanded him, but he was not convinced. What else is there to say about this! However, the temper is very big. I spanked him twice and he ran away. I haven't seen him since......"

The old man sighed, some missed Xiaobao, but it was very limited.

Listening to the old man's description just now, you can know that he has at least two grandchildren, and the eldest one is in college. Coupled with his son, he has experienced the growth of several little boys. Although he has sympathy for that little ghost, although his education method is not necessarily correct or in line with the current concept, it is completely different from Zhou Wenli's inability to start.

Li Yun knew from the breath left here by the little ghost that the little ghost had not been here for a short time, but it should not have come back recently.

"Has anyone else seen it and brought it home?" Li Yun asked.

The old man thought for a moment, "Then I don't know." At first glance, Xiaobao is still quite likable and pitiful...... Maybe someone will take him home like me. However, I haven't seen it again, and I haven't heard anyone mention it. There are a lot of old people living in this neighborhood, and if anyone sees Xiaobao on the road, don't ......," he muttered, "even if I bring it back, I don't think it will stay long." It's not his own grandson. Moreover, Xiaobao is not human after all. ”

He sympathized with Xiaobao, but also reserved vigilance. Don't say it's a ghost, even if there is really a poor child, after the old man takes him home, it is impossible to directly dig out his heart and lungs and protect him. It's just that if it's a living person, whether it's taking it home or running away later, he always has to call the police, unlike now, when the little ghost ran away, he let it go.

Li Yun asked some more about the little ghost.

The old man patiently talked about the various behaviors of the little ghost in his house, and also pointed to the monitoring at home, "...... After he ran away, the more I thought about it, the more wrong it became. The last look in his eyes...... I asked my son to put a monitor on me, and that doorbell. The heart of defense is indispensable. Besides, he's not human...... He never came again, and I didn't see him on the road. As he spoke, he pulled out a red rope from under the collar of his clothes, "Look, I also went to the temple to ask for a jade pendant." It's expensive. Buy things for a few dollars on the side of the road, and sell them in the temple for more than 100 yuan. It's not sold by monks, it's sold by a small shop in the temple. I don't know if it's really opened. ”

Li Yun was a little speechless, but also a little lucky.

Maybe it was the old man's self-preservation methods that worked, and the little ghost didn't harm him.

Or...... It was Zhou Wenli's connivance that made the ghost's behavior more and more excessive, and finally caused a tragedy of death.

Li Yun thought about it, calculated the time, and felt that the little ghost should have met other people in the middle of meeting the old man and Zhou Wenli. Judging by the aura he felt, the imp had been moving around here. Zhou Wenli's family needless to say. In addition to there, the old man's house has the strongest atmosphere, and there are a few families left......

Li Yun said goodbye to the old man.

The old man enthusiastically sent him to the door, "...... It's okay to rent out the house of 305. The house is old and empty, and we don't feel at ease when we live nearby, who knows if there will be something going in. Hey, there are several empty houses in our building, some of which are hung in the intermediary, if you want to change the orientation, or dislike the current rent is expensive, I will introduce it to you. There are two landlords I know, and they will give you a cheap price directly, so as not to be made by the agent. How much does it cost to rent a month? ”

Li Yun could only answer in confusion and hurriedly left.

He took the elevator and went to a house on the tenth floor. Not surprisingly, he saw an old aunt who was also old.

But to Li Yun's surprise, the old aunt didn't know about the little ghost. She'd never seen the imp before, and she hadn't heard anyone talk about it.

The breath can't be faked.

Li Yun followed the temptation, and the old aunt recalled what happened more than half a year ago:

“…… I was cooking at noon that day when I suddenly heard the window 'bang' and was startled. I thought the glass had exploded. The window panes are fine, but there is a pit in the floor. It's old, and you see the potholes here, all of which were left over from the past. That piece is new. ”

The old aunt pointed to the floor next to the sofa, and then to the floor under the glass window of the balcony.

The old and new potholes came into Liyun's eyes.

"I don't know what fell off, I've been looking for it for a long time, but there's nothing." The old aunt was confused.

The balcony of her house is an old-fashioned indoor balcony, the floor and living room are integrated, the corners of the windows are placed with utility cabinets, and the ceiling of the balcony is nailed with drying racks and fluorescent lamps. There was a metal drying rack sticking out of the balcony, but it looked like it hadn't been used for a long time. Even the space under the window was piled with flower pots and sundries by the old aunt, and there was nowhere to stay.

The plants she raised were disorganized, several pots of cactus balls were stacked high, like a small mountain of meat, and the top of the flower buds bloomed, which seemed to grow very well, but the small clusters of plants next to it were sparse and yellowed, and it was impossible to tell what kind of flowers and plants they were. Empty unused flower pots, dead plants and only waste pots, small shovels, small scissors, and a mess of cardboard boxes, all piled on handmade wooden shelves, fill the entire space.

If there's anything falling, it's a sight to be.

But if that thing falls and rolls to another corner, it's hard to find it.

The old aunt said that she had been looking for a while at the time, but she didn't find it, so she left the matter behind.

She pointed to the balcony again, only this time her finger was raised and pointed to the flower pots, "In a few days, there will be another 'bang'." It turns out that there are four pots of cactus, all of which are so big. Who knew that when a pot was smashed, it was all broken. That flower pot is dead and heavy, and it has been there for more than ten years, and my old man got it for me. My old man was gone a few years ago. After the pot fell, I couldn't clean it up, and I couldn't bend down, so I had to call my daughter and son-in-law to come over. The pot of broken cactus balls was redivided among my daughters, and they got several small pots, and they took back a few pots and gave some to the neighbors. ”

The old aunt said strange things, but there was not much fear in her tone, only pity for her own things, and doubts about all these strange things that happened inexplicably.

She was just confused, not deeply thought.

Even if Li Yun guided her, she only recalled these and did not make bad guesses such as haunting.

There are only two things that the old aunt can recall.

Li Yun felt the traces left by the little ghost, and didn't feel that it had only done those two things. Other things, maybe the old aunt didn't care, or maybe what she did didn't affect the things in the house.

With nothing else to gain, Li Yun said goodbye and left.

He ended up on the rooftop of the Rainbow Apartment.

The roof was locked, and the dusty chains were wrapped around the doorknob, and it looked like that, but the lock didn't hold the chains in place. Li Yun easily undid the chains, but when he opened the door, he encountered some resistance.

The iron door that had not been opened for a long time was rusty, the door shaft was stuck, and there were still some iron fragments under it that were covered under the dust, and I don't know when the door was opened. Since then, the property has not maintained and repaired the door.

Li Yun wasted some effort to pull the door open.

Squeak –

The doorshaft made a rough and unpleasant cry, loud, but not alarmed

There are weeds on the rooftop outside, but there is not much garbage, but the ground is of different depths, and there are traces of rainwater.

Water tanks, antennas, and elevator rooms are all located on the rooftop.

The little ghost probably ran here to play, but Li Yun checked it, and found nothing except the residual breath of the little ghost.

He stood in the strongest place on the entire rooftop and looked into the distance.

That's the North of Steel.

The little ghost really ran to the steel north area.

It may have lived in the North Iron and Steel District before his death, but even the old residents of the former steel mill family courtyard did not know that there was such a child......

Li Yun thought about it and went downstairs.

The buildings in the North Iron and Steel District are older than the Rainbow Apartments, but because of the government's old house renovation policy, the residential buildings in the North Steel District look cleaner and tidier than the Rainbow Apartments, at least the mailboxes, lights, and bulletin boards are all in the same style.

Li Yun ran around the place where the little ghost's aura remained, but he found nothing, but it took a lot of time.

It's dark.

One of Liyun's last destinations was a community center.

It's not the strongest, but it's the latest.

Perhaps because of Zhou Wenli and Teacher Lin, the activity center is not open today. The rooms on each floor are locked and cannot be entered.

Li Yun thought for a while, glanced at the surveillance on the ceiling, retracted his gaze, and turned downstairs.

When he got to the big tree in the community, he looked around to make sure that no residents were passing by, and that there were no people standing at the windows of the residential buildings on both sides, so he inserted his ID card into the soft soil in the cement flower bed.

This is a rare monitoring blind spot in the community. Probably because the tree could not be treated, there was no parking space around, and it was not connected to the main entrance of the residential building, and the renovation and reconstruction of the community neglected this place.

Li Yun looked up at the tall tree.

It is perhaps older than the Steelworks Family Yard, and is the only thing that has remained unchanged on the site so far.

If it could talk, would it be able to tell him about that little ghost?

No, if it can speak, it will become a spirit and a monster, and it won't be stupid to stay here, right?

As soon as the thought fell, Li Yun was about to turn around and go to the activity center, but suddenly his heart palpitated.

The canopy of the trees above the head shook with a clang.

It was not that the tree suddenly became a spirit, and the leaves were windless, but that a violent wind blew by, and rose higher and higher like a tide, and became more and more violent.

The sound of the wind brought the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling, and there were no dark clouds covering the moon, but Li Yun felt that the whole world was darkened, and the light source was extinguished with a "click" as if someone had turned off the lights.

The cry of the ghost also suddenly rose up, as if it was about to come with the wind!

Before that, the yellow sand slapped on Li Yun's face.

Li Yun was stunned.

He suddenly realized that the sudden darkness was due to the yellow sand. The yellow sand, invisible to ordinary people, swept the entire sky, obscuring the moonlight and obscuring the man-made lights.

This yellow sand is so familiar, as if he is standing outside the city of Xudu now.

However, there were no tall walls, gates, or ...... in the distance

Li Yun's pupils shrank.

He saw mountains of flesh stacked high like the old aunt's cactus. It's just that the mountain of meat is not made up of cactus, but a blurred-faced, skinny starvation!

They follow the wind, follow the yellow sand, in a slow wriggling way, and hit quickly!