"It's too late. If you are sleepy, you can go and take a rest."
In the fantasy space, Xiao Guohui looked at the time and said to the three monkeys.
It was already late at night, and Xiao's mother had already fallen asleep on the table nearby because she was extremely sad.
At this time, there were only three monkeys and Xiao Guohui in the room.
"It's okay, uncle. You can go to sleep too. We are taking care of you here. You can sleep for a while, and we will do the same when you come back later."
The monkey said softly.
Mazi and Li Kui kept throwing paper money into the brazier in front of the altar table.
The blazing flames made several people's faces turn red. Under the light of the fire, a look of exhaustion appeared on their faces. But no one thought of taking a rest.
"Yes, uncle, you go and get some sleep. Your relatives and friends are coming tomorrow and you will be very busy. Take a rest while you have time now."
Li Kui turned his face and consoled him.
Mazi put down the wad of paper money in his hand, picked up the water glass on the side and took a sip of water. He wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth and said, "Uncle, don't worry, we young people can endure it."
Seeing the three people constantly consoling him, Xiao Guohui was greatly moved and said to himself that his son could make such friends, and his life was worth it.
After much hesitation, he finally decided to take a rest first. After all, he was older and couldn't stay up late.
In addition, the monkey is right. When relatives and friends come tomorrow, I will have to be busy. If I don't take a rest, it will be too much.
However, there were no beds here, only a few benches. He lay down on the benches and made do with them.
Before that, he first put a blanket on Xiao Fei's mother to prevent her from catching a cold.
Of course, Monkey and Li Kui went out to buy the blanket after dark.
Seeing that Xiao Fei's parents were asleep, the three monkeys began to murmur quietly.
"Monkey, how about you rest for a while and get up later to change shifts?"
"When you get up, you'll sleep with Mazi, and then it'll be me."
"We take turns sleeping, and two of us keep vigil. What do you think?"
Li Kui looked at the two people and asked in a low voice.
After a little thought, the monkey agreed. He also felt that Li Kui's proposal was feasible. "Okay, I'll sleep first and you two will watch over me."
Then he patted Mazi's shoulder lightly and said, "Remember to call me, otherwise I will probably have to sleep until tomorrow morning."
"Yeah," Mazi nodded in agreement.
After receiving the response, the monkey smiled slightly. He picked up a blanket and walked to another bench to lie down.
Just like that, Li Kui and Mazi started playing with their mobile phones. After all, staying up late is the most boring thing, and neither of them smoked. After staying quietly for a while, they felt sleepy and their eyelids kept sinking.
"I can't, I'm too sleepy. You stay here while I go out for a walk..."
Li Kui rubbed his eyes, stood up directly, and whispered.
"Come back quickly, I'm a little scared."
Li Kui glared at Mazi angrily, but he didn't say anything.
He tiptoed to the door of the room, opened it gently and rushed out.
It is August now, which happens to be the season of late summer and early autumn, and the temperature is not too low.
Li Kui just strolled outside with his hands behind his back.
A bright moon in the night sky casts weak fluorescence, making the silent night not dark.
From time to time there could be heard the sound of insects chirping in the surrounding grass...
"This funeral parlor is not as scary as imagined." Li Kui thought to himself.
But his eyes were unconsciously looking at the street lamp not far away. Under the dim street lamp, there seemed to be a figure standing in it.
"Holy shit!"
Li Kui screamed in surprise and rushed back into the house. His movement was a bit big.
Suddenly, all the people sleeping in the room were awakened by him.
"What's wrong?!"
Xiao Guohui sat up in a daze, rubbed his eyes, and looked at Li Kui.
"What's the matter with you?!" Mazi also had a look of displeasure on his face. Li Kui's action just now also startled him. He was timid to begin with, and given the environment at this time, it was still late at night.
I almost had a heart attack from Li Kui.
At this time, Li Kui looked frightened. He pointed outside and said tremblingly, "Ghost! There is... there is... there is a ghost!"
Mazi heard this
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, the hairs on his hair suddenly exploded, and a layer of goosebumps appeared all over his body. His figure shrank back suddenly, and he didn't feel better until he was leaning against the ice coffin.
Then he suddenly thought of something, screamed, and jumped up from the ground. He ran towards Xiao Guohui.
"Well…"
Li Kui was slightly stunned when he saw Mazi's reaction. Then he understood why Mazi was so afraid.
He also subconsciously took a few steps back, away from Xiao Fei's ice coffin. He picked up a broom and stared in the direction of the ice coffin with a wary expression, fearing that Xiao Fei would pretend to be dead and jump out of the coffin the next moment.
"I don't want anyone to sleep anymore. Can you please keep your voice down?"
At this time, the monkey didn't know what was happening. Hearing a noise, he said something impatiently.
Then he continued to sleep soundly while holding the blanket. It was obvious from the look on his face that he didn't remember him.
"What's wrong?"
Xiao's mother woke up leisurely, took a few steps to the altar table, looked at Li Kui, Mazi, and Xiao Guohui and asked.
"I don't know," Xiao Guohui said, then turned to look at Li Kui, "young man, what happened?"
"Uncle, outside, outside..."
Li Kui's face was full of panic and he spoke inarticulately. But because he was so nervous, he didn't say anything for a long time.
When Xiao Guohui saw him like this, he became even more confused and frowned.
He took a few steps to Li Kui's side, patted his shoulder gently, took the kettle and handed it to him, "Don't be anxious, drink some water to calm down your shock, and speak slowly."
Li Kui snatched the kettle from Xiao Guohui's hand and drank a few sips. Panting heavily, he told what he had just seen.
…
After everyone heard this, they all looked at each other.
Finally, it was Xiao Guohui who said, "You stay here, I'll go take a look."
"Uncle, don't...!"
Li Kui grabbed Xiao Guohui and shook his head at him, telling him not to go.
"hehe…"
"It's okay young man, we rural people are very brave."
Xiao Guohui smiled slightly, turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and went out.
Only a few people were left in the house, waiting anxiously in fear. The fear in their hearts made Mazi and Li Kui subconsciously take a few steps closer to Xiao's mother.
Li Kui, in particular, kept clutching the broom in his hand, with cold sweat slowly flowing down his forehead.
Mazi was no better than him. It could be seen from his clenched hands and slightly trembling body that he was also extremely nervous and fearful at this time...
Several people waited in fear for a long time. Fortunately, there were lights in the room and it was not dark. Otherwise, the two of them would have been scared out of their wits.
After a long wait, Xiao Guohui, who went out to check the situation, finally came back.
As soon as he entered the room, Xiao Guohui chuckled and couldn't help but make a few jokes.
"hehe…"
"What the hell? That's where the night shift staff smokes."
After saying that, he threw a cigarette butt he had just finished smoking on the ground.
Li Kui was dumbfounded when he saw the crushed cigarette butt. Unwilling to give up, he picked up the cigarette butt on the ground and observed it carefully.
When I saw green smoke floating out of the end of the cigarette, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and cursed secretly, "Damn! What a false alarm."
Mazi slapped Li Kui hard on the head and cursed fiercely, "Damn it, you scared me!"
After scolding, he looked at Xiao Guohui and his wife again, with embarrassed expressions on their faces.
"hehe…"
"Okay, okay. You are all tired, go to sleep."
Xiao Guohui waved his hands at the two of them and said.
"Uncle, we're fine. You and auntie can sleep a little longer."
Li Kui resisted his sleepiness and postponed his words.
In his heart, he is a real man at this time.
How could Xiao Fei's parents do such a thing as staying up late and hurting his body?
Not to mention how Mazi and the two would despise him, he couldn't even get over the hurdle in his heart.
"It's okay, you guys go and get some sleep. It will be dawn in a while. Normally, your aunt and I would get up, have breakfast and get ready to go to the field."
After hearing what Xiao Guohui said, they no longer persisted.
It is indeed already four o'clock in the morning, in another hour
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It's time for dawn.
"Okay, let's go take a nap first, and I'll buy you breakfast when it gets dark."
Li Kui rubbed his eyes, dragged Mazi away.
"Uncle, let's go to bed then." Mazi also turned around and said hello.
…
"Host, the assessment will end in two hours."
The voice of the system sounded in my mind.
Xiao Fei was suddenly confused and blurted out subconsciously, "What the hell? Didn't I just stay here for a day? Why is the assessment over?"
"Host, this is an illusion space. The flow of time outside is several times faster than here. Just when you are indulging in the illusion, three days have passed outside, and now there are only two hours left before the end of the assessment."
"Damn! Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
Xiao Fei cursed the system, looked up at the sky, and found that a trace of fish belly white had appeared on the horizon.
He knew that it would be dawn soon, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would be able to see his sister this morning.
I just didn't expect that the assessment time would be coming at this time.
"Oh shit!"
Xiao Fei cursed angrily.
"System, think of a way. I don't want to be forced to leave without seeing my sister."
"There is no way. This assessment is a task. This system cannot provide you with the slightest help in the task, otherwise the task will be considered a failure."
"What?!" Xiao Fei was startled, and then became angry, "Damn! Are you trying to play with me?! You always fall behind at critical moments!"
"Well……"
The system was speechless, and it took a long time before Yuyou said, "Although I can't help you directly, I can indirectly help you adjust the time flow rate in the illusion to be the same as outside. As for whether you can see your sister, it depends on your life!
"
"Hurry up! What else are you writing on?!" Xiao Fei said angrily.
Time is precious to him now. If he delays for one more minute here, a long time may have passed outside.
"Okay, I'll charge you 100,000 gold coins this time."
After a while, the system voice sounded again, "You still have one hour and forty-five minutes. But I have to remind you that you can stay here for up to one hour. Otherwise, even if you rush to break the illusion before the end of the assessment, you won't have time."
Climb the ladder to heaven."
"Once you fail the first round of assessment, it means the mission has failed. It's up to you."
"I know, remember to remind me of the time." Xiao Fei said impatiently. He was not even in the mood to pursue the fact that the system cheated him of 100,000 gold coins.
The figure flashed and rushed towards the door of the funeral home.
There was only one hour left. In order to ensure that he could see his sister one last time, he decided not to stay here and wait, but to find a way to find her by himself.
As soon as he rushed out of the room, he paused for a moment and turned to look at his parents in the room, with deep reluctance in his eyes.
Then he knelt down directly towards Xiao Guohui, kowtowed three times respectfully, and murmured, "Mom, Dad, my child is unfilial, farewell!"
After doing all this, Xiao Fei stood up and left without looking back.
There were tears in his eyes...
Xiao Guohui and his wife seemed to sense something, and they both looked in the direction Xiao Fei left. However, it was dark and empty there.
Time passed and the sky gradually became brighter.
At this time, Xiao Fei was running wildly on the road, and his destination was his sister Xiao Yun'er's school.
Although Xiao Yun'er's school is in the next city, fortunately, the two cities are adjacent and the distance is not far.
With his current strength, as long as he doesn't hesitate to expend his spiritual energy, he can still arrive within an hour.
Of course, all this depends on Xiao Yun'er still being in school. If he works hard for a long time to get there and she happens to be away, wouldn't his work be in vain.
The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became. The pace under my feet couldn't help but speed up a bit, and his slight steps were driven to the extreme.
The whole person was like a gust of wind, rushing all the way towards the school in his memory.