Chapter 44: Dreams
Early the next morning, Anling knocked on the door of Gu Yun's house.
When Gu Yun opened the door, today's morning news was playing on the TV in the living room. Gu Tiantian walked around the house with a toothbrush in his mouth and a word manual in his hand.
"Here, I made some bacon bread for Avril, and I've made some more for you."
An Ling plans to prove the benefits of living near Gu Yun's house with practical actions, such as sending some snacks from time to time, and when Gu Yun and Gu Tiantian are too lazy to cook, she can do the job for her.
"Thank you."
"You dress so formally early in the morning, are you planning to go out?"
"Well, I just saw a news and planned to investigate it."
According to the news, a fire broke out in the amusement park in X City at night, and the haunted house, which is loved by tourists, was burned in the fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and the police do not rule out the possibility of artificial arson.
Gu Yun saw the photos taken at the fire scene. Isn’t it the haunted house he and Wang Lu went to when they investigated the masked murderer last time?
They also met a Mengshu in the haunted house.
Intuition told him that the Blood Cross did not end there, and the incident in the playground was probably caused by the extreme witch hunters.
"and you……"
An Ling hesitated for a moment. She originally planned to ask Gu Yun to be more careful, but considering the actual situation, she quickly took out two fructose from her pocket, one with strawberry and one with apple. "Then bring some dry food. If you are hungry, you can eat this. The fructose in this brand is recommended by Avril, which is quite delicious."
Gu Yun took the fructose and nodded solemnly.
The main reason for his solemnity is that he feels that if he treats two fructose as dry food, it will be difficult to fill his stomach.
After chatting with An Ling for a few more words, Gu Yun left the house before Gu Tiantian went to school. He suddenly realized that he had not investigated the incident alone for a long time.
Gu Yun took Metro Line 1 to the amusement park. Due to a sudden fire in the middle of the night, the amusement park was closed today without any accident. Even the shop selling souvenirs and snacks at the door closed early when they saw this.
Facing the security guard guarding at the entrance of the amusement park with the help of one person as a guard, Gu Yun explained his purpose and was driven away by the security guard.
He felt that if this person had been in this position last night, the fire would probably not have happened.
Under the alert gaze of the security guard, Gu Yun circled around from a distance and took advantage of the lack of people around and climbed over the wall into the amusement park. He avoided the security guards who were patrolling the park and headed straight to the haunted house.
Except for the haunted house that was burned in the report, other garden facilities have not been damaged at all. It seems that the purpose of setting fire to the haunted house is clear.
The outside of the haunted house was surrounded by isolation belts. From a distance, you can see the facilities inside, and all the props were burned into coke by the flames.
Then, Gu Yun stopped.
The burnt smell remaining in the air suddenly became particularly obvious. He looked down at his feet and found that there were obvious signs of burning on the open space in front of the bench. Although it seemed that it had been cleaned, the black marks on the ground did not dissipate so easily.
Gu Yun sat on the bench, facing the entrance of the haunted house in this direction.
In addition to the obvious burnt smell, he also smelled the wine, which was silenceless.
Then, at the edge of the scorch mark on the ground, he noticed an extremely tiny shadow. If he didn't look closely, he would confuse it with the scorch mark on the ground.
The black shadow curled up into a ball. Gu Yun bent down and stretched his index finger over. The slowly squirming shadow immediately penetrated into his fingertips.
A wonderful feeling came towards Gu Yun. When he came to his senses, he found that it was already late at night around him.
Or to be more precise, it was last night.
The haunted house opposite the bench is still intact and there is no isolation belt. The closing time has passed long ago and the surroundings are shrouded in silence.
I don't know how long it took, a man with long hair went from far to near. He seemed to have not noticed Gu Yun at all and walked into the haunted house with great strides.
Gu Yun stood up and followed in.
When the middle-aged man stepped into the haunted house, a black figure appeared in front of him.
"Let me smell, well, it's the smell of the spirit master again."
It seemed to be to make myself look more terrifying. The black figure swelled up, but the tone did not sound like intimidation. Instead, it was excited to find a partner who could participate in his prank plan. "Hehe, I knew you would come back to check me in random checks. Although there were no staff these days, I still took care of the haunted house very well!"
"I have also tried to understand some super famous urban legends, such as the person over there will suddenly turn around when you approach her. I recreated her image based on the legend of the Rift Girl! For example, the puppets that look ordinary over there actually have secrets..."
The ghost's cheering tone was extremely contagious, as if introducing a visitor to a new furniture he had purchased for his home.
Gu Yun, who had just moved into his new home, could vaguely feel the joy of Shi Mengling.
"By the way, have you not come with your colleague?"
After introducing the new layout of the living room, the black shadow said, "I really thank them. They brought me a lot of inspiration last time. I was still planning to send them invitations recently, but the invitations must be horrible, just like letters from hell, trying to scare them this time!"
"In addition to Mr. Spirit Master, do you still need to continue visiting? I have also carefully arranged the compartment inside these days..."
Before he finished speaking, the silver dagger in the hand of the long-haired man had penetrated through the black shadow's shoulder. He suddenly exerted force and pressed the Shi Mengling, who was about to turn around and take him to visit the second room, on the ground.
But this time, Gu Yun was not as excited as he witnessed Green Winchester's teammate last time, nor did he try to stop the behavior of a long-haired man.
The reason why one person and one spirit cannot see him is because he is in a certain memory at this moment. In the Foundation’s records of Dream-eating Spirit, such creatures can not only enter dreams, but also use their own power to survive certain memory fragments.
The middle-aged man dragged the shadow out of the haunted house and came all the way to the bench directly opposite.
He trapped Shi Mengling with a salt ring and lit the bonfire with piles of wooden blocks.
Then, there was a long interrogation.
Gu Yun saw that the impurities of the black shadow stripped off by the silver dagger fell next to the bonfire, which was probably a small ball of foreign objects he had just seen.
“Hey, hey——!”
Stern shouting pulled Gu Yun back to reality. Gu Yun opened his eyes and found that he was sitting on a bench. Not far away in front of him, a patrol security guard stopped in front of him, his eyes full of alertness and vigilance. He held the walkie-talkie tightly in his hand and asked Gu Yun, "Who are you? Why are you coming to the fire scene?"
“Tell me the home address of the haunted house cleaner.”
Because at the end of this memory, the long-haired man seemed to be asking about the cleaner's address.
This may be the last guidance left by Shi Mengling. When he glanced at the charred blackness left by the bonfire again, the remaining impurities had already turned into nothingness.
"I, why should I tell..."
Halfway through the words, the security guard met Gu Yun's eyes.
For no reason, the biting chill made the security guard's hair stand up.
Chapter completed!