After failing the course, I was teased by the boss

Chi Yunyang took a step back with a stiff expression, and waved towards Zhu Xiaoxia in the mirror.

"hello……"

In the misty mirror, Zhu Xiaoxia's shadow seemed to be shaking.Her hole-like mouth moved slightly, pulling out a huge arc.

"Caught by you."

caught?Could it be that this hide-and-seek is over so easily?

Zhu Xiaoxia stretched out a thin arm from the mirror, and pressed Chi Yunyang's head.

Chi Yunyang subconsciously wanted to dodge, but that hand seemed to have magic power, making it impossible for him to dodge.The moment Zhu Xiaoxia's hand touched his head, a strange emotion flooded into his body.Followed by a memory.

That... is the younger Zhu Xiaoxia's memory.

In the narrow, dreary and messy little house, a young woman in revealing makeup and heavy makeup flashed by.

When the cigarette butt in the woman's hand was about to burn out, she looked up at her watch.There were two bad words in his mouth.

Zhu Xiaoxia curled up in a corner with worn clothes, and her hair, which had not been taken care of for a long time, covered half of her face.After hesitating for a while, she whispered, "Mom, are you coming back today?"

The woman glared at Zhu Xiaoxia, and said in a blunt tone, "You don't care about me." After she finished speaking, she stood up from the sofa, picked up the bag on the table, threw the cigarette butts into the ashtray, and left the house without looking back.

Zhu Xiaoxia got up from the ground long after the woman left, rubbed her deflated stomach, and opened the refrigerator.

The refrigerator is empty, only the leftover half of the pizza from yesterday.She padded her feet to take out the pizza, warmed it up in the microwave, and finally swallowed it whole with cold water.

Similar scenes are repeated almost every day. Zhu Xiaoxia's mother goes out every night, sleeps soundly when she comes back the next morning, and orders takeaway when she is hungry.The communication with Zhu Xiaoxia is limited to beating and scolding.

Until one night, the woman went out in the dark as usual.Zhu Xiaoxia noticed that it was raining suddenly outside, so she took an umbrella and tried to catch up with her mother who had just left.

But when I went downstairs and walked to the side of the road, what caught my eyes was a dazzling red.

The woman collapsed in the middle of the road, with a fruit knife stuck in her left chest, and blood flowed down the knife in strands, staining the asphalt road red.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, constantly washing the red-stained ground.

The deafening siren sounded from a distance, and Zhu Xiaoxia's young hands fell limply, and the umbrella fell to the ground.Pedestrians huddled together, pushing and taking pictures.

From that day on, Zhu Xiaoxia's world lost its other colors.Only the shocking red remains.

Her memory also came to an abrupt end.

Chi Yunyang was silent for a moment, then reached out and grabbed Zhu Xiaoxia's wrist: "What do you want to tell me?"

Zhu Xiaoxia didn't answer, her body became weaker and weaker, and she disappeared from the mirror.

As soon as she disappeared, Yi Yanlei broke in from the outside, looked at Chi Yunyang who was standing by the pool with his head down: "I heard your voice."

Chi Yunyang roughly explained to Yi Yanli what happened just now.The more specific situation was discussed when I met Chen Lijia and Nie Liangcheng.

The four sat around on the sofa on the first floor of the building. After hearing Chi Yunyang's words, Nie Liangcheng spoke first: "This situation is the end of hide-and-seek?"

Chen Lijia shook her head: "It's not so much hide-and-seek as it seems that Zhu Xiaoxia deliberately appeared in front of Chi Yunyang, guiding him to discover those past memories."

Chi Yunyang sank half of his body into the soft sofa, holding a cup of black coffee in both hands, took a sip, and immediately wrinkled his face like a steamed stuffed bun.Stretching out her tongue, she said, "The red in Zhu Xiaoxia's memory should be related to the topic of this exam. Since there is already red, what is blue?"

Nie Liangcheng: "It's only the second day, and we still have five days to investigate the rest."

In this world, time seems to flow very quickly during the day, and Chi Yunyang and the others only walked through the first to tenth floors of the hotel until eleven o'clock that night.

Among them, they focused on checking the mirrors in the hotel.Excluding the guests who did not open the door, the rooms that opened the door have no problems.

At this moment, several people were sitting in the stairwell on the [-]th floor, waiting for the arrival of twelve o'clock in the morning.

Chi Yunyang stared at the graffiti on the door of the eighteenth floor with straight chin and eyes.I didn't know who the graffiti on the door was before, but now it looks like it should be Zhu Xiaoxia.

I thought I would encounter questions from the staff today, but no one paid any attention to them at all.And the questions they asked the staff, the answers they got were of no reference value.

As soon as twelve o'clock arrived, several people pushed open the stair door, expecting to see the same bar as yesterday.But it is not.

Behind the door is a restaurant.In the middle is a long table that can accommodate dozens of people, and the table is full of steaming meals.

A group of children poured through the door behind them.

Nie Liangcheng wanted to dodge, only to realize that they are now in a transparent state, and the children pass through them one by one, unable to see anything at all.

After the children were seated one after another, Chi Yunyang saw with sharp eyes that Zhu Xiaoxia was sitting at the end of the table.

The current Zhu Xiaoxia has a round face and big watery eyes.A very cute and pleasing appearance.There was still a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

A few minutes later, a middle-aged woman walked out from behind Chi Yunyang.Short hair, tall and tall, wearing a blue striped shirt dress.The crooked eyes look very kind.

She took two steps forward, smiled gently at the children, then turned her head suspiciously, looking in Chi Yunyang's direction.

Chi Yunyang was a little nervous, this woman seemed to be able to see them.I stared at it for a long time.Until one of the kids got out of the seat to grab her clothes.

"Auntie. I'm hungry."

The woman smiled and touched the child's head.Then he walked to the front of the table and announced the official opening of the meal.

"It's an orphanage." Chi Yunyang walked to Zhu Xiaoxia's side, watching her poke the food in the bowl with a spoon without saying a word: "That woman should be the manager of the orphanage. It's also what Zhu Xiaoxia wrote in her diary." Auntie wrote it."

Yi Yanlei glanced at the woman sitting at the front, she was wiping the mouth of the child next to her.

Because they are all young children, the meal was messed up, and the table was a mess after half an hour.The younger children ran out to play after eating.

The older children wanted to help the aunt clean up, but were rejected with a smile.

In the end, only Zhu Xiaoxia who hadn't finished eating was left in the restaurant.

Zhu Xiaoxia closed her eyes, looked at the white rice in the spoon with a painful face, opened her mouth again and again, but still didn't eat it.Finally put down the spoon altogether.

The woman wiped her hands with a paper towel, glanced at Zhu Xiaoxia's untouched rice bowl, sat down beside her, and asked softly, "Xia Xia, why didn't you eat?"

Zhu Xiaoxia clutched the corner of her clothes nervously, lowered her head and whispered: "I... I ate too much in the morning. Now my stomach is so distended that I can't eat."

"Really, didn't you lie to Auntie?"

"No... no."

"That's good, Xia Xia knows, Auntie hates deceiving children the most."

Zhu Xiaoxia lowered her head even lower.

"By the way, Xia Xia, tell auntie honestly, have other children bullied you?"

Zhu Xiaoxia raised her head abruptly, staring at the woman with a gentle smile on her face, shaking her head like a rattle.

"That's fine, that's fine."

Chi Yunyang looked at the woman's face, but felt uncomfortable.This kind of person who smiles all the time always makes him feel creepy.There seemed to be something terrible behind that smile.

Zhu Xiaoxia got up from the stool in a hurry, nodded to the woman and left in a hurry.

The woman looked at Zhu Xiaoxia's leaving back, and the smile on her face suddenly changed.

After a few seconds, the restaurant disappeared.Several people came back to their senses and returned to the stairwell on the eighteenth floor.Push the door again and can't get in.

"There must be something wrong with this woman. Did you see her face after Zhu Xiaoxia left? It was so gloomy and terrifying." Nie Liangcheng walked in the front, shaking his body as he spoke.

Chi Yunyang nodded: "It's quite creepy. There are so many children, and she is the only one in charge."

Chen Lijia said, "Zhu Xiaoxia lied to Auntie. Today's scene should be what she wrote in her diary, rice turned into worms."

Chi Yunyang lived through another long night with anxiety.

During the day on the third day, they investigated the situation from the eleventh to the twentieth floors of the hotel.It's just that the No.18 floor cannot be entered at other times except at night.

In the early hours of the morning, the staircase door on the eighteenth floor opened again.The scene behind the door this time is a classroom in the orphanage.

The classroom is not big, and the desks are a bit old.The class is for slightly older children like Zhu Xiaoxia.

The woman was still wearing the blue dress, holding a piece of chalk in her hand, writing formulas on the blackboard.

Zhu Xiaoxia was located in the last row of the classroom, and the boy next to her was sure that the woman would not be able to turn her head back for a while, so he threw a mineral water bottle to Zhu Xiaoxia with a smile.

The water bottle fell into Zhu Xiaoxia's arms. She picked up the bottle suspiciously, but screamed in fright and threw the bottle on the ground.

The woman turned her head and quickly walked to Zhu Xiaoxia's side.

"what happened?"

Zhu Xiaoxia pointed at the bottle on the ground tremblingly.

There were seven or eight white mollusks lying on the transparent bottle wall. The bottle cap was not tightened on purpose, and it fell off after being shaken vigorously. One of the worms was crawling out along the mouth of the bottle.

"What's going on?" Even seeing such a scene, the woman also smiled.

The boy beside Zhu Xiaoxia sneered when he saw Zhu Xiaoxia trembling with fright, then lowered his head and said pitifully: "This is the bug we caught before class. We plan to release it after class. It was Zhu Xiaoxia who snatched it suddenly just now."

Auntie squinted at the bottle on the ground, bent down to pick it up and screwed on the cap, and twisted her fingers to grab the one that crawled out without changing her expression.

In front of all the children, he crushed the worm.Green body fluid splashed onto Zhu Xiaoxia's cheeks, and an unpleasant smell lingered in the classroom.

"Continue to class."

Zhu Xiaoxia got up from the ground in shock and returned to her seat.His body couldn't stop shaking.

She felt that the bug in her aunt's hand was like herself...