Ghost Breath - C24

“Yes, of course! “Listen to me finish …” “I remember that when Xiao Fei died that day, all the people in our alleyway gathered together and made guesses. In the end, all of them had the same opinion, saying that it was the child’s mother, but seeing that he was pitiful and had no one to take care of, they simply attached themselves to him and took him down with them!”

“Oh? Is that true? ” Zhou Huan was a little scared when he heard it, but he felt that it was really true.

“Yeah, that’s the way it is! Otherwise, what other possibility is there? Why don’t you tell me? ” Lao Zhou asked provocatively.

“That makes sense. Then about this child … “How about other areas, such as normal times, are there any special actions?”

Zhou Huan’s focus was still on the child called Xiao Fei. He had a nagging feeling that the figure he saw last night was related to Xiao Fei.

“Normally…” He didn’t do anything, just play with the rope. After it rains, he likes to shake the tree and shake off all the raindrops on it. Oh right, he kept repeating the words, call … Call… “Gulp!”

“Slurp?” “What do you mean?”

“It’s his catchphrase, right? He often says’ huff ‘in his mouth! “Huu!”, she is actually quite a cute child, not bad at heart. ” Ah Feng added.

“Oh …” Zhou Huan nodded his head. Suddenly, he remembered the strange snoring sound that he heard last night, and his back started to feel cold.

Gulp! Gulp!

He silently uttered these two words in his heart.

“Lao Zhou, I remember that time, there was something rather strange.” After pausing for a moment, Ah Feng began to speak again.

“What?” Zhou Huan asked.

“If it’s raining, then do you remember after Xiao Fei committed suicide? After it rained for many days, the alley was filled with water, and we walked in the water. From that time on, the alley was always filled with water for no reason, and it was even worse than before. He slept well in the middle of the night and found that the floor was completely filled with water. There’s more … Xiao Fei’s body did not seem to have been fished out from the river in the end. ”

“Yes yes yes, what you just said, I remember now, it’s indeed strange, if we can’t find Xiao Fei’s corpse, let’s talk about it being washed away by the river, but although this alleyway used to have problems with the drainage, it’s not that bad, but now, every few days or so we hear someone’s home getting flooded, and furthermore, the tide is about to rise, who knows what will happen?”

The more Zhou Huan listened, the weirder he felt it to be. He even had a premonition that when the tide really came, something big would happen.

“Sigh …” His father left when he was born and he found out he was a fool. His mother brought him up all by herself, and we all took it to heart, but then again, there’s not a single family that’s particularly well off, so it’s not really helpful. Then, his mom was pushed off her bike and her leg was broken. It was quite tragic. ”

“Pushed?” Zhou Huan suddenly heard a crucial point.

“Right, didn’t I just say that?”

“No. Who pushed him? ”

“In a household on the other side of the alley, there are two children there too. They are a pair of siblings, brother is called Army, sister is called Xiaomei, she is slightly older than Xiao Fei. If we are to say that our only family in this area is a little better off, it might be their family. ”

“Xiao Fei’s mother was pushed off the bicycle by the two children?”

“Mn, you don’t know, the two children were different from Xiao Fei, they were especially mischievous, and liked to bully Xiao Fei since young. When they were older, they even bully Xiao Fei’s mother, and the parents of the two children also opened and closed their eyes, to put it bluntly, they did not put the mother and son in their eyes.”

“In other words, because those two kids were so mischievous, they pushed Xiao Fei’s mother off the bicycle and broke his leg?”

“More or less. Those two children are crazy, darting around like a gust of wind. I’m quite annoyed by them.”

Zhou Huan understood what the Lao Zhou felt, and he did not like that kind of devilish brat.

Following that, Zhou Heng became silent. After organizing his thoughts, he realized that this matter should have started from the moment the two children pushed Xiao Fei’s mother off the bike and broke his leg, and following Xiao Fei’s mother’s obedient and obedient personality, she chose not to make a scene, and did not argue with the family. In the end, it was only a few days later that Xiao Fei fell into the river and committed suicide.

Zhou Huan realized that if it wasn’t for the strange experience they had last night, this incident wouldn’t have been so special to begin with.

For the time being, he did not plan to reveal it, lest the people in the alley become more suspicious.

As a journalist, he decided to investigate this matter personally.

Just as Zhou Huan was about to leave, he heard the continuous sound of a bicycle bell behind him, followed by the laughter of the two children. A boy of about ten years old rode a bicycle that was ridden by an adult, and on the back seat, a girl who was slightly younger than the boy flew past him like the wind.

“Just those two, the army and Xiaomei.” The Lao Zhou said.

Zhou Huan answered. Even though he had only taken a glance, he had already realised that not only were these two siblings mischievous, they also looked quite ugly. They belonged to the category that would make people hate them if they saw them.

Zhou Huan felt that even if it was the parents of those two children, they shouldn’t have liked them that much.

In the evening, when Zhou Huan returned from work, the first thing he did was take a bath after entering his house.

However, while he was showering, he heard the strange “huff huff” sound again.

He instantly thought of Xiao Fei’s usual voice: HU HU! Gulp!

He didn’t know why, although his understanding of the retarded child was entirely based on Lao Zhou and Ah Feng’s descriptions, but at this moment, his impression of the child was extremely deep, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. He almost saw Xiao Fei standing right in front of him. His fat body, thick and sturdy arms, round head, and a face full of pockmarks, especially that red undergarment, which was tensed up on Xiao Fei’s body. It was bright red, as if it was blood flowing out from Xiao Fei’s body.

As he thought about it, a chill rose up Zhou Huan’s back again.

In the face of this situation, if it was anyone else, they would most likely choose to move, but Zhou Huan was still unwilling to retreat. One reason was because of his professional instincts as a reporter. The other reason was that he had a tough temper since he was young and did not like to give in. It was not his style to retreat in the face of trouble.

So he decided to follow it up.

The next day was Saturday. Zhou Huan decided to rest for the day and replenish his sleep.

As a result, he was woken up early in the morning by the sound of the aunts downstairs, saying that the tide would start to rise today.

Zhou Huan thought, wasn’t it not even April yet?

Then he went downstairs to inquire. He was told that the tide had indeed come earlier this year than usual, and that it felt very unusual.

Moreover, not only was the tide rising today, it was also raining heavily, causing the entire alley to become even more sticky. Zhou Huan could imagine that a lot of water must have come out of every house’s house again.

Although the weather was bad, Zhou Huan wanted to take a walk around the river to see what the high tide looked like.

Thus, he held up an umbrella, and under the heavy wind and rain, he slowly walked towards the river bank.

The journey from the alley to the river was short, and there were only a few houses. Not long after, Zhou Huan stood in front of the dam, and saw the river water violently churning, the level of the water evidently rising, in addition, he realized that the color of the river water was very similar to the color of the sky, it was both grey and misty.

Zhou Huan carefully climbed up the dam to get a better look.

Standing on the dam, Zhou Huan suddenly thought of the retarded child called Xiao Fei. A few months ago, the child jumped off from this dam and committed suicide.

Looking at the churning waves on the surface of the river, Zhou Huan felt that it was difficult for him to understand Xiao Fei’s feelings at that time.

While he was lost in thought, a huge wave suddenly came from in front of him. He was caught off guard and almost fell off the dam. He even accidentally drank a large mouthful of water and choked for a long time.

Zhou Huan realized that this wave came in an unfathomable manner, without any warning. At this moment, he felt extremely uncomfortable, to the point that he had the urge to vomit.

At this moment, he saw an extremely shocking scene. A head actually appeared on the dark gray surface of the river, as if a person was emerging from the river. On a closer look, this person’s face was round and full of pockmarks, and he was still smiling at him.

A voice came out in Zhou Huan’s mind: Xiao Fei!

He blinked with all his might. Finally, the river surface returned to normal again, and Xiao Fei disappeared.

Zhou Huan slowly climbed down from the dam, as if he was extremely worried about something. After pausing for a moment, he returned back to the wet alley. Along the way, he did not hold any more umbrellas, allowing the rain to violently beat down on him.

The tide had been rising for about three days. During this time, a lot of water seeped out of every household in the alley. The water in the alley was almost as high as his knees.

Overall, this year’s tide had come early and gone fast, which was very strange.

Everyone in the alley started guessing. This strange sign seemed to indicate that something was about to happen.

Everyone knew that a few months ago, Xiao Fei committed suicide and died in this very river. Xiao Fei loved to play with water when he was still alive, and it was also because after he died, there was more and more water in the alley.

Sure enough, the day after the tide went out, something really happened.

That morning, everyone was standing around on a patch of mud below the dam, including Zhou Huan. If the tide did not ebb, this piece of flat land would have been flooded by the river and wouldn’t be able to stand.

At this moment, everyone’s face was extremely gloomy, several women even covered their mouths.

This was because they had all seen a scene that caused their hearts to tremble.

In the middle of the crowd, the upper half of a corpse was stuck upside down in the dirt. Its legs were bent, and its posture was very strange.

Due to the approach of the police station, the police quickly arrived. When the two police officers pulled the corpses out of the soil, everyone could clearly see the faces of the dead, and they couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.

What shocked them was not the identity of the deceased but the fact that even through the lower half of their body they could tell that the deceased was the child’s army. What really scared them was that the army’s face had suddenly become covered in pockmarks, as dense as if they had been stung by countless bees!

When the military’s parents arrived at the scene and saw their son’s corpse, they were naturally crying their hearts out. However, a thought quickly emerged in the other spectators’ minds:

Xiao Fei is back for revenge!

That face full of pockmarks was Xiao Fei’s specialty. Xiao Fei wanted to tell you all that he’s back! He came back during the high tide!

After the army’s parents had cried for a while, the police asked them when the child had disappeared and whether any suspicious figures had appeared recently.

The soldiers’ parents were also trying their best to adjust their emotions and replied without hesitation, telling the police that the army had disappeared early yesterday, so it must have happened yesterday, and there hadn’t been any suspicious people around recently. The reason their parents were cooperating with the police like this was because other than the army, their daughter, Xiaomei, was also missing.

“How evil, the two children are gone, do you think that Xiao Fei’s ghost has come back to take revenge?” Amongst the crowd, Ah Feng asked Lao Zhou who was beside him.

“Of course!” Who told their child to do wrong before? To put it bluntly, Xiao Fei and his son were harmed by those two children, so these words are not excessive at all. ” Lao Zhou replied softly.

Hearing their conversation, Zhou Huan also asked, “Based on what you guys said, that girl should be in trouble now, right?”

“I guess so. However, it was impossible for him to die like that. The river only had this piece of flat land, otherwise … was thrown into the water directly? ” Lao Zhou guessed.

“Shh …” Don’t spout nonsense, my parents are still here. ” Ah Feng quietly reminded her.

“Did the two children go missing together?” Zhou Huan asked again.

“I heard that the army did not see them in the morning, and Xiaomei was seen at night.” The Lao Zhou said.

“Where can I go?”

“Who knows!”

Zhou Huan nodded and did not speak further.

Just at this time, the army’s corpse had already been loaded onto a corpse carriage. The army’s mother followed along with them as their father continued to search for Xiaomei with the other police officers.

Because the situation was urgent, the search and rescue team gradually grew bigger and stronger. In the end, almost everyone was involved in the search, and Zhou Huan was no exception.

Late in the afternoon, the police gave the order to expand the area and try to find the child tonight.

Zhou Huan was originally in the same group as Ah Feng and the three people from Lao Zhou. After that, Lao Zhou said that he had matters at home and went home first, leaving behind Zhou Huan and Ah Feng. Ah Feng was still ridiculing Lao Zhou behind his back, “Look, people here only think about themselves.

Zhou Huan nodded affirmatively.

Due to the expansion of the scope, Zhou Huan and Ah Feng searched the entire town thoroughly, and gradually, Zhou Huan discovered that the number of people participating in the search was decreasing. It was just as Ah Feng had said, the people here only cared about themselves, and they were all very indifferent. Relatively speaking, Ah Feng was more enthusiastic.

“How about we take a walk around the edge of town?” Seeing that his search in the town was fruitless, Ah Feng suggested.

“Sure, what if we can’t find it again?” Zhou Huan asked.

“Then let’s go back. After searching for so long, my legs are aching from the journey. Isn’t this a bit too much for their family?” Look at those people, didn’t they all go home to sleep? ” Ah Feng mocked again.

Zhou Huan only smiled and did not say anymore.

Thus, the two of them left the small town, planning to walk around it in search of a way out.

The surrounding area of the town was relatively barren, filled with weeds. There were barely any short houses or farmlands.

The two found themselves in the middle of the fields. The road was very hard to walk on, the ground was muddy from the heavy rain. At this time, Ah Feng saw a straw hut in front of them. There seemed to be movement inside.

At this moment, the sun had not completely set and the light was not too dim. Otherwise, if the thatched cottage was under a few big trees, it would have been easily overlooked.

“Go take a look?” Ah Feng looked at Zhou Huan.

“Yes.” Zhou Huan also saw it, a shadow flashed inside the thatched cottage.

The two of them did not hesitate and walked towards the thatched cottage. They pushed open the half-opened door and a dusty smell drifted over. It seemed as if the house had been lived here for a long time.

The furnishings inside the house were rather simple and crude. Other than some weeds on the floor, there was also a stove that looked like it hadn’t been used in hundreds of years. It was covered with dust.

The two of them simultaneously looked at the only room in the room, and saw that the door had been opened. The figure from earlier should be in the room.

Ah Feng took the lead, Zhou Huan followed behind, the two of them slowly walked into the room. Indeed, just as they had guessed, there was a person inside.

Since the room was very small and there was nowhere to hide, the person just hugged his knees and curled up in a corner, appearing extremely terrified.

“Xiaomei?” Ah Feng recognized it immediately.

This man was the missing Xiaomei.

“So scared …” “So scared …” Xiaomei looked at the two of them and said with a trembling voice.

“Why did you come here alone?” Your parents are looking for you! ” Ah Feng sized Xiaomei up from top to bottom. Realizing that there were no major problems, he was elated in his heart, thinking that at the critical moment, he was the one who found Xiaomei, which could be considered a great merit, and felt very proud.

Xiaomei shook her head, still very nervous.

“Didn’t you stay with your brother yesterday? Did you see your brother taken away? ” Ah Feng suddenly asked.

“My brother …” was taken away by Xiao Fei! ”

“Xiao Fei?” Ah Feng frowned, “Are you sure? Did you see that? ”

“En!” Xiaomei lowered his head, “I saw it! My brother was taken away by Xiao Fei! Xiao Fei is really scary! ”

“And then? You came here alone, just to avoid Xiao Fei? ”

“That’s right!” I was afraid that Xiao Fei would come to find me too, and take me away! ”

Hearing Xiaomei’s words, Ah Feng took a deep breath, he turned and looked at Zhou Huan, and asked: “What do we do?”

“Don’t worry about that. Let’s take her away first. We can talk about other things later.”

“That’s true, then Xiaomei, come with uncle …”

Who knew that before Ah Feng could finish his sentence, Xiaomei anxiously shouted out, “Don’t! No! I’m not leaving! ”

“What are you doing? With uncle here, why would you be afraid? ”

“I won’t leave! Not leaving! Xiao Fei is outside! ”

As Xiaomei was yelling, Ah Feng suddenly felt a bit of red on her knees. She immediately asked: “Xiaomei, did you wrestle with your knees?”

Xiaomei immediately quietened down, and stopped making noise. She moved away from Xiaomei’s hands and found that there was indeed a small wound on Xiaomei’s right knee. No wonder she sat on the ground, and didn’t stand up even after seeing someone.

“Uncle, my legs are hurting. I can’t walk. I just tried to walk a few steps, and it hurt so much!” Xiaomei shouted again.

“When did it fall?” Ah Feng asked.

“When we came here.”

Ah Feng thought that was right, just now, Xiaomei was trying to walk, so she coincidentally saw it with Zhou Huan’s eyes. However, since it was inconvenient for Xiaomei to walk, it would be more troublesome.

“Go get her parents. You’d better bring another stretcher. I’ll be waiting here.” Zhou Huan suggested.

Ah Feng thought for a bit, and felt that Zhou Huan’s idea was feasible, and said: “Alright, then you must work hard, I will return quickly, this girl is very stubborn, probably only her parents can take her away, you better not let her run again!”

“How could that be? Look at her legs, even if she wanted to run, she wouldn’t be able to.” Zhou Huan said.

“That’s right, I’m really stupid.” Ah Feng laughed awkwardly.

Ah Feng did not dawdle and immediately left. Zhou Huan stood quietly in front of the door and watched him leave.

After a while, Zhou Huan returned to the house. He looked at Xiaomei silently for a long time. Xiaomei also looked at him, blinking.

Behind Xiaomei’s body, there was a broken makeup cabinet, and a round mirror on top of it. Zhou Huan stood straight, and raised his head just in time to see himself in the mirror.

Suddenly, Zhou Huan revealed a strange smile.

Then, he slowly took off his shirt. His face changed at the same time, and a lot of black spots appeared on it.

Inside the circular lens, Zhou Huan seemed to have become another person. His skin had gone dark, his face was pockmarked, and he wore a tight red apron.

Under Xiaomei’s extreme fear, Zhou Huan began to mutter softly:

“Slurp …” “Gulp …”

Oh no!