After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle - Chapter 68

“Sorry, I can’t drink it.” Chi Nan refused very simply.

The hostess’s face changed suddenly, but the corners of her lips still pulled out a stiff smile: “Don’t you like fish soup? Chen Ma’s fish soup tastes very delicious, it won’t be fishy at all, and it won’t have fish bones…”

“I’m allergic to fish.” Chi Nan found a reason for himself that no one could refuse.

The expectation in the eyes of the hostess went cold, and finally turned to Tang Yu who had returned to her seat disheartenedly: “Then Miss Tang…”

“Auntie, I’m sorry, I’m allergic to fish too.” Tang Yu rebuffed, following Chi Nan’s appearance.

The hostess sighed listlessly: “Mom Chen, remove the other two bowls of fish soup, and delete this dish from our menu in the future.”

“Okay, ma’am.” Chen’s mother quickly removed the creepy fish soup.

“Eat while it’s hot, pick the dishes you like.” The hostess quickly regained her enthusiasm and said to the two.

It’s a pity that after the episode of Paradise Fish just now, the two of them lost all interest in the deliciousness of a table. They both put down the bowl after eating a few chopsticks, and only the hostess enjoyed it.

Chi Nan also concluded from the test just now that making the hostess unhappy does not reduce his favorability.

Even, they suspected that the object of the favor was never the hostess, but a character who would not appear easily, such as the one hiding in the mirror.

After the meal, Chi Nan proposed the idea of ​​going for a walk. The hostess gave him a vigilant look: “You can walk, but you can only stay in the building. Remember, don’t walk out of this apartment.”

The two knew that this was the rule when they heard it. Chi Nan nodded, “I know.”

After coming down the corridor, Tang Yu immediately asked: “Do you have any clues? Where are we going now?”

Chi Nan: “There is a restaurant on the first floor.”

“What’s wrong? What’s wrong there?” Tang Yu remembered the restaurant, but he carefully observed it when he came in and found nothing suspicious.

Chi Nan: “I didn’t eat much for dinner. Go there for supper.”

Tang Yu: “…” Okay, he’s also quite hungry right now.

To Chi Nan’s satisfaction, the late-night snacks served in this restaurant are all sweet sweets. Now he just won’t be triggered to cry, so he ordered all the signature sweets in the store.

What makes him even more satisfied is that the flower shop next to the restaurant sells small white flowers.

“Master, you can tell us what you need, and we can also give you good advice if you send your girlfriend.” The flower proprietress looked at Chi Nan enthusiastically, and then blinked at Tang Yu beside him.

Chi Nan looked at Xiao Baihua for an instant, “I want that, thank you.”

The proprietress solidified in embarrassment for a few seconds: “Master, that white bell flower was when I went to the grave during the Qingming Festival…”

Chi Nan was very polite: “It’s okay, I know, I will trouble you.”

After all, this little white flower symbolizes praise of death and funeral fun, 229 explained to him.

The lady boss gave Chi Nan a weird look: “Then…well, I’ll wrap it up for you.”

Chi Nan received the carefully wrapped little white bouquet, thanked the proprietress again, and turned back to the five-story apartment.

Tang Yu saw his intentions, but couldn’t figure out the mystery, but he knew that Chi Nan was a very powerful dreamer, and he quietly didn’t talk too much.

The maid who came to open the door saw the bouquet in Chi Nan’s hand, her face suddenly darkened: “Master, I have to remind you that Madam hates white bell flowers most. It will be unhappy to see you take them home.”

Chi Nan thanked her sincerely for her suggestion: “But it’s okay. Mother’s anger does not affect our role.”

The maid couldn’t understand him, but didn’t stop him anymore, Chi Nan took Xiao Baihua straight into the bathroom.

There was a bunch of half-withered red roses next to the sink. Chi Nanshun threw them into the trash can and carefully inserted the white flowers into the vase.

He looked at himself in the glasses and said lightly: “Do you like it?”

No one in the bathroom could answer him, but the system jingled–

[Congratulations to classmate Chi Nan with the theme of ‘sorrow’ for successfully triggering the condition for increasing the goodwill, the goodwill degree is +5, and now he has accumulated 20 goodwill points. ]

Sure enough, the target of favorability is not the hostess, but the 229 who does not know what role he plays in the story.

“229, who are you this time?”

The mirror was silent, it was just a cold mirror.

After Chi Nan came out of the bathroom, Tang Yu ran over with the photo album: “I just found a photo album in the room. Would you like to take a look? Maybe you can find some important clues.”

In fact, he searched the room very carefully, and apart from this album, he found no useful clues at all.

Soon, Chi Nan and Tang Yu went through the album in the living room, but it was very strange. There were hundreds of photos in this thick album, but there was no family portrait, or photos of the couple. From the wedding photos to the photos of recent years, or the photos sent by the young master from studying abroad, they all look like when he grows up, and there is no photo of him when he was a child.

“Here! There seems to be another photo here.” Tang Yu was careful, and keenly found a photo in a thick album that was hidden by other photos in the interlayer.

After he took out the photo, the confusion on his face became more intense.

Because the only photo that can be called a family portrait, the part of the young master in the middle was deliberately cut off, leaving only the couple in the damaged photo.

The host smiled reluctantly, while the hostess made no secret of her cold face, as if she wanted to get out of this annoying photo activity as soon as possible.

But from the other photos, the hostess obviously likes taking pictures.

“It’s weird…” Tang Yu looked at the photo of the young master who had been cut off, his scalp numb, “Cut off his son from the photo, isn’t it something ordinary people can do…”

“What’s wrong? Are you looking at something interesting?”

Tang Yu was taken aback. The hostess didn’t know when she was standing behind them, and said with a smile from a condescending position.

Chi Nan frankly showed the photo album in front of the hostess: “Look at the photos and remember when I was young.”

“Why are there no pictures of me when I was young?” Chi Nan asked again.

The smile on the hostess’s face froze: “A lot of old photos were lost when you moved, and you hated taking pictures when you were a kid. My father and I tried our best to take a few more pictures of you. You would cry as soon as you took a picture. .”

After speaking, she shrugged and laughed again.

Chi Nan knew that there was no more useful information from her, so she said quietly: “It’s a pity.”

The hostess looked at him, then looked at Tang Yu: “You have been on the road for several days. Rest early. It is not too late to get up tomorrow morning to remember the past.”

Chi Nan closed the album very obediently: “Okay, good night.”

“Good night, Auntie.” Tang Yu was also very cooperative.

The hostess naturally retracted the album in his hand and curled her lips: “Good night.”

After the lights were turned off, the living room fell into deep darkness, the rumbling of the refrigerator engine still kept ringing, and the old electric fan above the head was still spinning.

After five minutes, his eyes adjusted to the darkness. Chi Nan walked to the door and turned off the ceiling fan before lying down on the sofa at the scene of the accident.

This sofa was cleaned very cleanly. The leather texture gap did not smell of blood or death. But to be on the safe side, Chi Nan moved the sofa to the side.

So even if the ceiling fan is smashed down, he won’t be killed.

Ten minutes later, Chi Nan was lying on the sofa, confused by the rumbling of the engine. Seeing that he was only a step away from falling into deep sleep, he suddenly opened his eyes.

Tick, tick. The sound of water dripping in the bathroom made him tense his nerves.

It looks like someone hasn’t tightened the faucet, and it looks like an old building with a bad waterproof system. Water seeps from the ceiling and drips onto the bathroom floor.

And the electric fan that he turned off before going to bed started to whirl again, and the wind blew out the newspaper on the coffee table.

Chi Nan shook his mind and found that the sofa that had been removed by him had returned to its original position unknowingly, and stopped right under the rapidly rotating fan.

With an inexplicable premonition of danger in his heart, Chi Nan immediately sat up and left the sofa.

In less than half a minute, suddenly there was a loud noise, and the high-speed rotating fan blades fell straight down, deeply piercing the pillows and piercing the sofa, and countless small cotton wool flew out from the torn leather cover, spilled over. Sofa and wooden floor.

Half a minute ago, that was the place where Chi Nan was lying on his pillow. If he didn’t leave in time, now the whole head and body have probably been separated.

Just like the so-called “dad”, lying in the freezer together, the whole family is neat and tidy.

The strange thing is that the loud sound of the ceiling fan falling did not alarm anyone in the room. This living room was like a vacuum, and the sound was completely drained and could not be conveyed to other people in the room.

Just after escaping from the dead, Chi Nan was only calmly rejoicing, and followed the sound of water to the bathroom.

“Thank you.” His voice whispered to himself, he knew it was the sound of water that saved him, or the person who made the sound of water deliberately.

The bathroom door was vacant, and the moment Chi Nan pushed it open, he smelled the damp shower gel scent, as if someone had just used the bathtub to take a bath.

But the people in the house have fallen asleep long ago, and no one will sneak into the bathroom to take a bath after nightfall.

Chi Nan subconsciously looked at the little white flowers by the mirror. In the evening, they still had some flower bones, but now they were fully blooming in the dark, with water drops on the petals, as if someone had specially showered them with a shower not long ago.

He stepped forward and sniffed, the little white flower exuded a light fragrance.

He just wanted to walk into the bathroom, but the sound of footsteps moved to the freezer in the living room.

Chi Nan turned his head, and there were no figures or ghosts near the freezer.

The footsteps were very strange, as if someone accidentally stepped on a puddle, giving them a patter of dampness.

Chi Nan turned his direction and started to walk towards the freezer, and the sound of footsteps as if to play hide-and-seek with him, instantly turned to the bottom of the sofa.

Chi Nan was neither afraid nor anxious, and patiently followed his footsteps in the dark.

From the bathroom to the living room, and then from the living room to the kitchen, the other party hid in hiding but deliberately made footsteps to attract his attention.

In the end, the sound of footsteps led him out of the guest hall to the entrance hall, showing that the elevator under maintenance suddenly made a’ding’, the elevator door opened slowly in the dark, and the cold white light from the elevator room diffused the entire entrance hall.

The elevator was empty, and the sound of footsteps walked into the elevator.

“Are you inviting me to take the elevator to where?” Chi Nan asked calmly.

Naturally, the other party wouldn’t answer, but made more urgent footsteps in the elevator, as if urging him to pass quickly.

Chi Nan stood outside the door and didn’t go in obediently, and the elevator was also patiently waiting open, as if he wouldn’t stop if he didn’t go in.

Chi Nan knew that the owner of the footsteps would not put him to death, or else he would not have made such an extra effort just now to wake him up and avoid the ceiling fan.

He just wanted to make the other party anxious.

When the pace became more irritable, Chi Nan stepped into the elevator unhurriedly.

As soon as he entered the elevator with his hind feet, the door behind him closed eagerly. The floor button on the left flashed for a while, and finally went out. The elevator moved slowly down without pressing any floor.

At the same time, the voice of the female teacher came from the curriculum system–

[The role played by Chi Nan completes the ‘hide-and-seek’ mission and finds a close friend with a positive affection degree of +10, and now he has accumulated 30 good impression points. ]

Chi Nan smiled blankly in his heart, and sure enough, the object of his favor was this guy who hadn’t shown up.

About five minutes later, the elevator stopped steadily. Chi Nan glanced at the floor button, but the elevator power cord was completely cut off.

The elevator may stop on any of the five floors, or it may stop in another void space.

Chi Nan waited for two minutes, but the closed elevator door didn’t mean to open.

Footsteps sounded outside the door.

“Brother, I am locked in the room, can you promise to help me?”

The other party seemed to be a child. He was lying outside the elevator door and talking to Chi Nan. It was still the voice of Xiao Youyu in “You Yu’s Dream.”

“But I was also locked in the elevator, unless you let me out first,” Chi Nan said.

The kid outside the elevator smiled, “As long as my brother promises me, it’s okay.”

Chi Nan knew that this must be an important clue to the story. After a moment of silence, he agreed, and then asked again: “Who are you on earth? Are you also a family member of this family?”

The other party smiled: “My identity needs my brother to find the answer by himself. It’s no fun to tell you so quickly.”

“Okay.” Chi Nan followed the rules of the game very much.

The other party: “Brother, pull the hook, so you can’t go back.”

Chi Nan: “You have to get me out of the elevator before you can pull the hook.”

“No, I can see you, you raise your hand to the direction of the elevator door, and we just pull the hook in the air.” The other party said.

Chi Nan: “Do you not want to be seen by me?”

The other party seemed to smile happierly: “No, I just haven’t prepared to meet with my brother yet, my brother can rest assured, I have made the most perfect design for our reunion, you will love it.”

Chi Nan: “…” Sure enough, it was the role played by 229, and it didn’t sound normal.

But he still made a pull hook towards the void according to his words.

“Hook, hang yourself, it won’t change for a hundred years.”

The other party looked serious, Chi Nan also clicked the elevator door with his thumb in cooperation.

“Brother, I like the way you cry, remember, this is very important.”

Leaving this clue reminder, the elevator door suddenly opened slowly ‘boom’, and the outside of the elevator was pitch black and deserted, and the child who had just spoken disappeared.

Just as Chi Nan stepped out of the elevator, the light behind him disappeared instantly, and the space he was in was infinitely compressed and reduced, and the air was filled with the smell of camphor and wood.

From strong light to darkness, Chi Nan’s eyes suddenly couldn’t adapt. With his keen awareness of darkness when he was a blind man, he quickly determined that after coming out of the elevator, he came to a small space similar to the inside of a closet.

As long as he moves a little, the old wardrobe will make a squeaky sound, and it will fall apart at any time.

So was the child trapped in the closet just now? Where is this apartment again? Why is the damaged elevator exit in the closet?

Is the story designer implying something?

Chi Nan tried to push the position of the closet door with his hand, but found that he couldn’t push it. The chain outside the door dinged with his movements. It seemed that the child was not deceiving. He was locked from the outside. Living.

Just as Chi Nan was trying to open the closet door, he suddenly heard a ‘click’ noise not far away, as if someone had opened the lock.

But not the lock of the closet door, but the lock of the whole room…

Then, as the door was pushed open and closed, the cautious footsteps were gradually approaching him…

Finally, the sound of footsteps stopped outside the cabinet.