Otaku's beauty doppelgänger

Chapter 227 Rock, Scissors, Paper
In the quiet old city, the dim street lamps trembled slightly in the night wind, and the orange lights that fell seemed to have been blown away by the wind and became very dim.

A stray dog ​​with knotted fur jumped out of a yard, then hurried past under the street lamp, and disappeared into the bushes in the blink of an eye. It seemed to have something in its mouth, but the light was too dim , cannot be seen clearly.

However, judging from the vigilant way it looks back from time to time, it must be something that it considers very precious. It may be a bone dug out of the trash can, or it may be a piece of fat stolen from this family's house. .

"Clap."

A light came on in a room on the second floor of the small building in the courtyard.

After all, the oversized stray dog ​​made a lot of noise when it ran out of the courtyard, waking up the sleeping hostess.

With a bang, the thick curtains were pulled open, and bright lights poured out from the window, illuminating the small yard downstairs, but the places that the lights failed to shine seemed darker and darker at the moment.

At the window, a figure looked out for a while, and after finding nothing unusual, he drew back the curtains.

Back to the bed, Zhang Li sighed.

It’s not surprising that she was so cautious, the main reason was that several nearby houses had been burglarized at night in the past few days, and a lot of property was lost. This caused her to have trouble sleeping in the past few nights, and she would be woken up whenever there was any disturbance.

Especially these two days, my husband went on a business trip to the capital, and he won't be back until the day after tomorrow.

She and her eight-year-old son were the only ones left at home, so she became even more cautious. She locked all the doors and windows at home before going to bed. Finally, she checked several times to make sure nothing was wrong before going back to the house to sleep. .

"However, it's really cold at night in April. I don't know how my son is sleeping. If I kick the quilt, I won't be able to catch a cold tomorrow morning." Feeling the chill in the air, Zhang Li thought, unconsciously sleeping I shuddered.

Then she put on a coat and was about to go to her son's room to have a look.

She was taken aback when she just opened the bedroom door.

With the light from the room, she found that the door of the small room opposite her son was half open, and the inside was so dark that she couldn't see clearly.

But she remembered very clearly that she closed the door with her own hands after putting her son to sleep last night, why is it open now?Could it be that the child got up to go to the toilet at night and forgot to close the door when he came back?
She frowned and reached out to press the light switch in the corridor nearby. After pressing it a few times and getting no response, she remembered that the light broke yesterday, and her husband happened to be on a business trip, so no one repaired it.

"There must be a man at home." Zhang Li sighed softly, walking towards her son's room with the help of the white light from her bedroom.

"squeak--"

The half-closed old door was pushed open, and there was a long, weird rubbing sound. Although she was used to this sound, Zhang Li still felt flustered for no reason when she heard it in the quiet night at this moment.

What the night is best at is to magnify a certain emotion that people are accustomed to during the day by a thousand times.Turn sadness into heart-piercing grief, love into unforgettable love, miss into sleepless yearning, and of course, fear into icy cold fear.

Zhang Li suddenly pressed the light switch in her son's room, and she was relieved when the warm bright yellow light filled the whole room.

But when she saw the quilt turned over and the bed was empty, her rapidly beating heart suddenly jumped up before she could calm down, and then began to beat violently.

My son is missing!
Just when she was panicking and feeling her vision go dark, there was a sudden movement from the bathroom next door, a clanging sound, and the sound of her son's voice.

"Huh." Zhang Li's heart was relieved at once, and it turned out that she ran to the bathroom.The child didn't turn on a light when he went to the toilet, so he was startled and thought he was gone.

"Hang Yang, why don't you turn on the light when you go to the toilet? What if you pee outside the toilet later?" Zhang Li called and walked towards the bathroom.

Walking to the door of the bathroom, she saw her son inside, but, unlike what she expected, her son was not in front of the toilet, but standing in front of the mirror on the huge sink.

And he seemed to be still doing something, but it was so dark in the bathroom that Zhang Li couldn't see clearly what he was doing.

"Hai Yang, what are you doing? Why don't you answer mom's question?" Zhang Li shouted with a frown, and at the same time reached out to press the light button at the bathroom door, but the strange thing was that no matter how she pressed it, the light wouldn't turn on. Bright.

Is the light in the bathroom broken too?Zhang Li thought helplessly, and then walked towards her son, who was already eight years old, and it made people feel so uneasy.

Because of staying in the dark for a long time, her eyes have gradually adapted to the dark color, and she can barely see some things clearly.

It's just that the further she walked, the more wrong she felt.

The son actually didn't respond to her arrival from head to toe. He just kept staring at the dark mirror, with his left hand hanging down, while his right hand kept gesticulating in front of the mirror and muttering What.

What's wrong with my son? How come he doesn't respond to his calls at all? He would never be like this!

"Ocean, ocean, ocean." Zhang Li kept shouting as she walked, but her voice became lower and lower, and by the end it was even trembling.

And her steps became slower and slower, and her whole body seemed to start to tremble with the sound.

Looking at the familiar son standing in front of the mirror, Zhang Li didn't have the slightest feeling of being connected by blood. Instead, a feeling of palpitation began to surge in her heart.

Finally, she stopped two meters away from her son, and she finally saw clearly what his son was doing.

He was actually comparing rock, scissors, and cloth with a mirror alone!

For a while, I was elated, and for a while, I was downcast.The mutterings she just heard were the sounds her son was making.

And in the huge black mirror, the son's shadow is faintly emerging, its outline is exactly the same as the son, but it is pitch black, and at the same time, it is also moving with the son in front of the mirror, comparing various Such gestures.

However, Zhang Li clearly saw that when her son got out of the stone, the shadow in the mirror was actually compared to a piece of cloth!

The son in front of the mirror once again sighed dejectedly, but the dark shadow in the mirror was elated.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, it stopped all movements and stayed motionless in the mirror.

Then, it suddenly raised its head and looked at Zhang Li who just walked aside.

It was hard to see the expression on its dark face, but looking at the subtle movements on that extremely familiar yet unfamiliar face, Zhang Li knew that it smiled, very happily, as if it saw what she wanted to see the most. The people who arrived were average.

His scalp was instantly numb, his pajamas were soaked in cold sweat, and his heart almost stopped beating.

"what--"

A scream of extreme panic, as if seeing the most terrifying scene in the world, pierced the dead night sky and spread far and wide.

(End of this chapter)