"Do you want to protect her?" After returning to his room, the Lord of the Ruins asked.
"I will before she reads that grandfather's memory." Zero said, "Of course, I don't intend to kill her. Anyway, she and I are not from the same world at all, so it doesn't matter if she reads my memory."
On the other side, Liu Zhu was sitting on the ground helplessly behind Ling.
His own world is a testing ground for items called contract books, which Liu Zhu really cannot understand.
But now Liu Zhu can only accept it and do what Ling says, because Liu Zhu knows what kind of person Ling is, and if she doesn't do what he says, she will really be killed.
Thinking about it, Liu Zhu saw the dishes still placed in his room.
"Let's touch him when delivering this." Liu Zhu thought, picked up the tray and walked out of the room.
It's a little late now, and grandpa is sitting at the front desk smoking a pipe.
"Um, old gentleman, I'm here to deliver something." Liu Zhu swallowed his saliva and said.
"Well, leave it there." Grandpa nodded, showing no intention of getting up.
"There's no chance." Liu Zhu thought, putting down the tray while looking for opportunities to touch grandpa.
"What are you doing here?" Just when Liu Zhu was about to pretend to fall and bump into Grandpa, Grandpa suddenly asked.
"Eh? I, I'm here to sketch."
"Sketch? Is there anything to draw here?"
"Ah, the environment here is very beautiful." Liu Zhu said nervously.
"That's it." Grandpa nodded, looking at Liu Zhu with his deep eyes, "But it's not very peaceful here. You'd better find a suitable time and leave quickly."
"Well, thank you for your concern." Liu Zhu was a little frightened by his eyes, and turned around to leave.
However, Liu Zhu was suddenly strangled by the neck, and a white handkerchief directly covered Liu Zhu's mouth and nose. Liu Zhu was knocked unconscious before he could struggle.
"It's strange, why is there no sound?" In the room upstairs, Ling knew what Liu Zhu was going to do after he came down with the plate. When he came to the corner of the corridor, Ling listened to the conversation between the two, but the sound soon disappeared.
.
"Something's wrong." Zero glanced at the clock and saw that it was almost twelve o'clock. After putting on the fox mask, Zero walked out.
When we came to the hall, there was no one here, and the bowls were still on the ground.
At this time, a large number of ghosts had gathered outside. The ghosts entered the hotel one after another, bypassing Zero and entering one room after another.
"Did Liu Zhu be taken away by grandpa? She should not have been exposed." Ling thought to himself, entering one room after another, but there were only ghosts in those rooms.
At the same time, Zero also noticed that the ghosts were lying on the floor of the room, and he didn't know why.
"Why are you lying on the ground?" After thinking about it, Zero asked directly. Since the ghost under the tree could communicate with him at that time, these ghosts should also be able to communicate.
"The breath... is down here..." he said in a hoarse voice.
"Aura?" The ghost also said that there was an attractive atmosphere here.
Zero came to the wall, lifted up a corner of the tatami, and then completely lifted up the entire tatami.
What's underneath is actually a lot of petals.
The ghost lay on the ground, sniffing the fragrance of the petals.
"Is this the thing that attracts them?" Ling thought after seeing this. When he looked through the window, he saw that his grandfather was outside the house. He was decorating various items to exorcise ghosts. In the past few days, he would decorate them later. Today, he will decorate them later.
earlier than ever.
"It seems we have to find another way." Thinking, Zero walked out of the house and came to the hall.
Grandpa is coming back from arranging items to exorcise ghosts.
"Where is that female student?" Zero asked directly.
"gone."
"Left?" Zero frowned and picked up a petal that had just been taken out of that room, "What's going on with this thing?"
Grandpa's pupils trembled slightly but did not answer.
"You relied on the fragrance of this flower to attract ghosts, right?" Zero continued.
"What on earth are you..."
"I'm waiting for your explanation." Zero said, turning around to go back.
Grandpa suddenly took out the handkerchief again, covered Zero's mouth and nose, and knocked Zero unconscious. Grandpa squatted on the ground and scratched his head irritably.
The Lord of the Ruins watched this scene without saying a word. He knew that this was Zero's plan.
When Zero opened his eyes, he was tied to a chair. This was probably a basement. Liu Zhu was also tied next to him, but he hadn't woken up yet.
There was a large stove in the middle of the room. There seemed to be something inside, but it was so dark that I couldn't see what was inside.
Grandpa came down the stairs at this time, but his health was already very bad. When he went down the stairs, he almost missed his step and fell.
"Wake up." Seeing Zero's eyes open, he put the candle on the ground.
"Those ghosts disappeared before dawn. You must have caught them." Zero said.
"You make me feel more and more strange. Are you really possessed by a ghost?" Grandpa didn't intend to answer Ling and said to himself. Then, Grandpa took out a bronze mirror from his pocket.
He placed the bronze mirror in a gap in the stove, and suddenly countless sounds of howling ghosts and wolves came from the stove.
"Did that mirror take away all the ghosts?" Zero thought, and broke free from the rope. Grandpa was shocked, and Zero pushed him to the ground without hesitation and pulled out the bronze mirror.
"Put it back, it will be successful soon, it will be successful soon!" Grandpa shouted hysterically.
"Tell me, what on earth is going on." Ling asked.
"You don't understand, you won't understand!" Grandpa stood up like crazy and rushed forward to snatch the bronze mirror back. Zero punched him to the ground and Grandpa fainted.
Zero looked at Liu Zhu again.
"He has been stopped now, but the trial is still not over. Sure enough, she is needed to read grandpa's memory." Ling thought, stepped forward, and woke up Liu Zhu.
Liu Zhu woke up with a start.
"W-where is this?" Liu Zhu looked around and asked in a panic.
"Don't ask so many questions, it's your turn to take action." Zero said, untying her rope.
Liu Zhu was a little scared when she saw her grandfather lying on the ground.
"Not dead, just passed out." Zero said.
Liu Zhu squatted down and touched Grandpa's body. Liu Zhu was stunned on the spot.
"...What's wrong?" Ling looked over and found that Liu Zhu had shed tears unknowingly.
"You grab my shoulders." Liu Zhu said.
"Why?"
"When I touch the other person, you can also read the other person's memory by touching me."
"It can still be like this." Zero said, grabbing Liu Zhu's shoulders.
In an instant, the environment in front of him began to distort. In the blink of an eye, the world in front of him completely changed.
In front of him was a big tree, with a translucent girl sitting on the branch.
"This is......."
"This is his memory." Liu Zhu appeared next to him and said.
At this time, a young man came over.
"That's him." Liu Zhu explained.
"Aren't you scared sitting at such a high place?" the man raised his head and shouted.
The girl lowered her head slightly, saw the man's face, and smiled.
To be honest, she is the youngest ghost Zero has ever seen.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" the girl said, her voice not as hoarse and unpleasant as other ghosts.
"You? Do you have anything to be afraid of?" the boy asked, scratching his head.
The girl laughed again, and then she jumped down from the tree, her body slowly floating in the air like paper, and finally landed on the ground.
"Do you know now?"
"I know, your underwear." The boy said with a smile, "I saw it when I jumped off just now."
"Wha, what!" The girl immediately covered her skirt. If her body wasn't transparent, her face would be very red now.
"Hahaha, I know you are a ghost, I always see that kind of thing." The boy said, "But you are so young, this is the first time I see you. You are, how..."
"Suicide by drinking pesticide."
"Hey, do you remember?"
"Shouldn't I remember?"
"I asked other ghosts and they all forgot what happened in their lives." The boy shook his head and said, "Why did you commit suicide?"
"...."
"Don't you want to say it? It doesn't matter." The boy said, "Just stay in the shadows. I think other ghosts will be in pain every time they are exposed to the sun."
After that, the boy turned around and prepared to leave.
"Well, please wait a moment." The girl suddenly stopped the boy, "I, I have something to ask you for help."
"It's really rare for ghosts to ask for help. That's right. After all, you still have memories of your life." The boy nodded and came back. "What do you want me to help you with?"
"I want you to go back to my home and bring something to the police," the girl said.
"The police... why are the police involved?" the boy said puzzled.
"On the surface, I committed suicide, but actually I wasn't." The girl shook her head and said, "Anyway, you will know when you get that thing."
"..."
"You, don't you want to? It doesn't matter if you don't want to. It's better to say that I shouldn't have asked you to do this in the first place... please forget about it." The girl said, bowing towards the boy.
bow.
"I didn't say I wasn't willing," the boy said, "I said, I helped you, how are you going to thank me?"
"Thank you? I, I'm just a ghost, what can I do for you?" the girl said quickly.
"Well, I haven't thought about it yet. Let's go to your home first and take a look."