After dinner, Zhou Bai floated next to his mother, listening to the sound of water flowing slowly in the kitchen, watching his mother lowering her head to wash the dishes, and couldn't help but put a smile on his face.
Father Zhou passed behind them and walked towards the toilet.
He stood at the door of the toilet, knocked on the door ten times, and waited until there was no sound from inside before opening the door and walking in.
[Before opening all the doors, please knock ten times to make sure there are no strange noises before entering.]
Zhou Bai heard the knock on the door, tilted his head, and floated out of the kitchen.
Then he picked up the pocket watch, which was also in an illusory state, opened it, and looked at the time on it.
[Every night between 10 and 11 pm, it is forbidden to enter the toilet. 】
"9:05, safe."
After Zhou Bai finished speaking with a smile, he slowly walked to the living room.
In the living room, the uninvited guest Aunt Wang was still sitting on the sofa.
Not only did he have no intention of leaving, he even rolled his eyes after hearing what Zhou Bai just said.
"Ten days ago, you had all the fish-faced monsters that loved to crawl out of the toilet have their fish scales removed.
Who else do you think would dare to get out of your toilet?"
Zhou Bai has long been accustomed to Aunt Wang's behavior.
He walked to another sofa, stretched out, and then lay down on the sofa comfortably with his feet up just like he did every ordinary weekend before.
"It's best if you don't dare to come."
Although Aunt Wang saw Zhou Bai's messed up look every day, she still couldn't help but try to persuade him earnestly.
“Bactria has the ability to resist pollution.
Moreover, they have become more and more familiar with the rules.
You have to believe that they can take care of themselves.
You don’t actually have to guard them like this.”
Zhou Bai felt that Aunt Wang was a little noisy, so he turned over, raised his hands, and covered his ears.
But not long after, he suddenly sat up from the sofa.
"What's wrong?" Aunt Wang leaned on the sofa helplessly.
Then he saw Zhou Bai standing up from the sofa and starting to check the rooms one by one.
Aunt Wang was also helpless about this.
After all, Zhou Bai's current state is no longer a day or two.
“The room is safe, the kitchen is safe, the living room is safe, and the toilet is safe.
By the way, there’s also a stairwell.”
Zhou Bai hurriedly put his body through the door, and not long after, he walked back through the wall.
"Well, the stairwell is also safe."
He seems to be a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Everyone has to check their home many times.
However, even after checking it so many times, he still couldn't relieve the restlessness in his heart.
He couldn't settle down.
Even when I'm lying on the sofa, I always feel like my heart is hanging and I can't find a place to stay.
In the kitchen, after washing the dishes, my mother did not turn off the lights, but placed a bowl of water on the stove before walking out.
After my father came out of the toilet, he took off the wall clock on the wall and after tinkering with it a few times, the wall clock returned to normal.
"Look, didn't they do a good job?" Aunt Wang comforted Zhou Bai.
Zhou Bai sat back on the sofa, his eyebrows furrowed and his eyes never leaving his parents.
"Let's go and go for a walk with Auntie.
I'll take you to a place to see.
It's already very safe here. If we just leave for a while, nothing will happen to them."
After Aunt Wang finished speaking, she wanted to come over and pull Zhou Bai up from the sofa.
But Zhou Bai quickly avoided her hand, then raised his feet and fell onto the sofa again.
"Don't waste your time, I won't leave with you."
Aunt Wang had spent so many days here with Zhou Bai, and now she was very angry.
Now that she saw Zhou Bai acting like this again, her anger increased even more.
"You just spend it here every day, how long can you last?
You want to protect them, but how long can you protect them?
They are people, not decorations!
They will do anything you can't predict.
Even if you keep an eye on them all the time, you can't predict all accidents.
And I ask you, if the world collapses, do you have the ability to protect them like you do now?"
Zhou Bai covered his ears and turned his head: "I will protect you as long as I can."
Aunt Wang walked over angrily and pulled his hands down.
"You have more important things to do, you know?"
Aunt Wang's words touched Zhou Bai's pain point and made him stand up from the sofa.
"Don't mention important things to me?
What everyone considers important is different.
Please don't impose your opinions on me."
Aunt Wang was so shocked that she almost lost her breath.
"You...you kid, do you know how much you can do with your current abilities?"
Zhou Bai asked directly: "Then am I not using my ability to protect my parents now?"
Aunt Wang was so angry that her hands were shaking: "That's not what I'm telling you."
Zhou Bai was also excited and his eyes were a little scarlet.
"Then what do you mean?
Want me to give up on my parents and let them fend for themselves?
Then let me ask you, have you ever experienced the feeling of loss?"
Aunt Wang took a breath: "How could I not have experienced it?"
Zhou Bai was still in a state of excitement:
"Do you know how many people died in front of me?
Who can I protect? I can’t protect anyone!
I don't want this kind of thing to happen to my parents.
I don't want what I experienced in the world of ghost stories to happen to my parents again.
Do you understand?"
Aunt Wang angrily wanted to reach out and slap Zhou Bai awake, but her raised hand stopped in mid-air and slowly fell down again.
"I hang out with contaminated people every day, and they are like my closest friends.
But in the end, I have to send them to the slaughterhouse with my own hands.
Do you think I don’t understand the feeling of loss?
But I know that only by losing it will more people not have to lose it."
Zhou Bai fell on the sofa in despair: "But what about me? I don't want to lose."
Aunt Wang sighed softly: "You should have confidence in them, and you should also have confidence in us."
Zhou Bai lowered his head, huddled up, and leaned on the sofa.
"Can you please stop disturbing me?
I want to spend some time by myself quietly."
Aunt Wang floated away from him: "I know, I will leave."
After she finished speaking, she moved through the wall.
When Zhou Bai raised his head, he no longer saw her figure in the living room.
"Oh, I'm finally clean."
Zhou Bai changed his position and lay down on the sofa.
But even though my ears were clear, my heart couldn't calm down.
He sat up from the sofa again irritably, floated through the wall, and came to the window.
In the sky, a bright moon hung high.
Zhou Bai raised his head and looked at the moon in the sky. For a moment, he felt that everything was still the same as before.