The Midnight Owl

"Why did you help me?" Wu Sheng asked the starving ghost.

"Must there be a reason?" The starving ghost asked back.

Wu Sheng nodded: "Yes, yes."

There was both puzzlement and vigilance in his eyes.

Xu Wang understood.

Finding out that Wu Sheng is not a ghost, it is already abnormal for Xiao Hungry not to point out and not to be on guard, and he even offered to help, which really makes people unable to understand the motive.

The starving ghost fell silent.It was obvious that he didn't want to talk.But this kind of "don't want to" is not resistance and disgust, but more like not knowing how to say it.

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng waited patiently for a long time, the starving ghost who kept his head down, finally raised his eyes and looked at them quietly.

"Actually, I have been led by many ghosts, but you are the first ones who are willing to take me out of the underworld, and even all the way to the heaven..."

He spoke in a low voice, his voice was very soft, but his feelings were heavy.

"It doesn't matter whether you are ghosts or not, I only know that you are my friends."

His gaze was very hot, completely opposite to his cowardly character, so hot that Xu Wang and Wu Sheng dared not look directly at him.

"Xiao Hungry..." Xu Wang felt uncomfortable, but he didn't know what to say to the other party.

The starving ghost recovered from this call, and immediately became embarrassed, as if it wasn't him who spoke out his heart calmly just now, threw a sentence "I'll go outside and help you find the direction of Ghost Spring!", and ran away in a hurry.

In an instant, Xiao Hungry ran away and disappeared, Xu Wang looked at Wu Sheng, hesitant to speak.

Wu Sheng sighed: "Just say what you want."

"Don't you blame me?" Xu Wang asked.

Wu Sheng was confused: "What do I blame you for?"

Xu Wang said: "It's my fault that I'm taking such an unnecessary step. I'm not trying to persuade Xiao Hungry to leave the East Courtyard."

Wu Sheng shrugged: "Yeah, if you don't persuade me, all the mess just now will not be involved."

Xu Wang was silent.

It exposed that Xiao Hungry helped Wu Sheng cheat, and revealed that they were not ghosts, which led to Xiao Hungry's sad past, and he regarded them as friends.

This persuasion was indeed a mess.

Seeing his downcast look, Wu Sheng stretched out his hand to touch his head, sighed, and changed the subject: "But if you don't persuade me, I will."

Xu Wang raised his head in a daze: "Really?"

Wu Sheng said, "Of course it's true."

"Are you also struggling?" Xu Wang was surprised, "I thought you would teach me a lesson, and the task comes first."

"Being rational doesn't mean being inhuman." Wu Sheng made a black line, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he pinched Xu Wang's face fiercely, "It's not entangled in this situation, am I a devil..."

Xu Wang was not wronged at all by being pinched, so he didn't feel ashamed to cry out.

Besides, knowing that Wu Sheng was in the same mood as him, he finally gained some comfort in the endless entanglement.

"Huh?" Wu Sheng was startled suddenly as if remembering something, and then immediately asked Xu Wang, "Did he just say that he led many ghosts?"

"Ah? Ah. Is it..." Xu Wang couldn't think back for a moment.

Wu Sheng, however, was already running fast on the avenue of thinking: "Who is this 'many ghost'? Is it a breaker like us? If so, does he remember it?"

Xu Wang's eyes widened suddenly, and he finally caught Wu Sheng's point.

Since they failed and retired on 8/23, in order to get badges, they have repeatedly passed several levels, and naturally met some NPCs repeatedly, but among these NPCs, none of them have remembered them.

1/23 of the NPCs are bears, which is negligible; on 2/23 of the red-eye flight, the passengers fine-tuned and some new and old faces were added or removed, but 90% of the passengers are still old acquaintances, and they can talk again, and they are still strangers exchanging names and greetings mode; 3/23 they didn't meet Xiao Ding again, but met Yuan Zai, and even a familiar security guard in the mall, but these two had no memory of them; 4/23 they avoided Hei Momo, but repeated I met Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai, and the latter two were the same, as if they had been restored to factory settings. They were treated the same as the first time, and even Xiao Huang's lines did not change.

Along the way, "NPC will reset" has become the iron rule of Owl's operation by default, and this matter is easy to understand after thinking about it. If NPC has memory, wouldn't Owl be messed up?This is much more lethal than those small cards sent by Wu Sheng.

I was in a state of confusion, and the starving ghost came back.

After tiptoely closing the door, he said like a thief, "The ghost spring is in the northeast corner of the heaven."

Wu Sheng and Xu Wang didn't speak.

The starving ghost thought they didn't believe it, so he quickly said, "I've smelled ghosts before, and the northeast direction is the best, so I can't go wrong."

"The matter of Ghost Spring is not urgent." Xu Wang pulled the starved ghost into a chair and sat down, "I'll ask you another matter first."

In the face of "exploring the essence of the owl", breaking through levels, badges and so on are not important.

"Well, you ask." The starving ghost obediently cooperated.

"You just said that you led many ghosts. Who are these 'many ghosts'?" Xu Wang couldn't wait to make a detour, so he went straight to the point.

Xiao Hungry frowned, looking distressed: "Who are they? Are you asking about their names, or their looks? Actually, I'm not sure that they are all ghosts, it seems that there are some who don't have a ghostly aura..."

"Your name and appearance are fine!" Xu Wang's tone was unconsciously eager because of his excitement.

"Oh." The starved ghost nodded, his eyes drifted into the air, and he began to recall.

Xu Wang's heart was about to reach his throat as time passed.

Wu Sheng also pursed his lips slightly.

The starving ghost suddenly knocked on his head with a "boom", his face full of confusion: "It's strange, why can't I remember?"

"Don't worry, think slowly." Xu Wang tried to slow down his voice.

The starving ghost looked at the two of them, as if asking for help, with a confused and painful expression: "I really can't remember, I obviously led those ghosts, but why, I can't even remember a name or a face ..." The more he spoke, the more anxious he became, and the circles of his eyes were a little red.

"You again..." Xu Wang still wanted to encourage, but Wu Sheng grabbed his wrist gently.

Xu Wang swallowed the rest of the words.

Wu Sheng asked the starving ghost: "You don't remember their names, their faces, and what they did to you, do you?"

The starved ghost was completely confused, and instinctively followed the voice to look over, but his eyes were all blank.

"What you just said," Wu Sheng reminded, "None of them are willing to take you out of the underworld."

The four eyes met for a long while, and the starved ghost finally said weakly: "If I say, I don't remember anything, but the fact that none of them are willing to take me away, will you be angry?"

Wu Sheng shook his head, without any hesitation: "It's already amazing to be able to remember this."

"Excellent?" The starving ghost didn't understand.

Wu Sheng glanced at Xu Wang.

Xu Wang understood by heart——Wu Junshi's classroom is here.

However, what I faced before were all NPCs that had been restored to factory settings, but this time I faced an NPC who "maybe able to remember certain things". The teaching plan of his own military adviser is expected to have subversive reforms.

Wu Sheng: "We don't belong to this world."

Xu Wang: "..." You don't have to be so ultimate all of a sudden! ! !

"Don't belong?" The starving ghost didn't know whether it was dull or highly receptive, but he still asked.

Wu Sheng nodded affirmatively: "Yes, we don't belong. We belong to another world."

The starved ghost's eyes were glazed over, and his face was bewildered.

Xu Wang helped his forehead.

"You don't need to understand, just try to remember," Wu Sheng emphasized again, "We don't belong here, and those guys like us don't belong here either. We only live between midnight and five in the morning every night. Appearing here may not match your time, but it must be a fixed time period..."

The hungry ghost looked like he was about to cry: "Why should I remember this..."

"Do you want to be free?"

"Ok?"

"Your life may not be a life that you control yourself. What you do now is controlled by a force. Don't you want to get rid of it?"

"I have no life."

"It's the same with ghosts."

"If what you said is true, can I get rid of these strange words by remembering them?"

"Remember first, then you can think, and if you think, you will have doubts, and if you have doubts, you will have a chance to break through the shackles."

Xiao Hungry asked for help, no, looked at Xu Wang as if asking for help.

Xu Wang supported his forehead, feeling a little distressed for him inexplicably: "Good boy, remember first, whether you break through or not, let nature take its course."

Xiao Hungry was obedient, no matter what Wu Sheng said later, he would move his lips slightly and read it silently, remembering that was seriousness.

Finally, after Wu Sheng finished speaking, he asked: "Since you don't belong here, why did you come here?"

"Just like you, we are also controlled by this force," Wu Sheng said, "It's just that it controls us to enter, and controls you to cooperate."

The starving ghost blinked, tried his best to digest what he could understand, and then suddenly got stuck: "Aren't you looking for a ghost spring? What did what you just said have anything to do with ghost springs?"

Wu Sheng was caught off guard by the question.

Xu Wang was also stunned there.

Yeah, what does this have to do with ghost springs?

They talked about the universe and life, and they forgot their original mission, but it was Xiao Hungry who helped them remember it.

But how should I answer this question?

The former starving ghost was just a kind ghost who led the way. They felt guilty for lying, but now the starving ghost is their friend, and that guilt has long since turned into a sense of guilt!

"It's okay, if you don't want to talk about it, I won't ask." The starving ghost said calmly, "Since I promised to help you find it, I will definitely not let you down."

After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes, opened his arms slightly, raised his head, and his brows slowly became serious, as if secretly exerting force.

After a while, Xu Wang and Wu Sheng suddenly felt that the ground under their feet began to soften, as if the bricks had turned into mud!

The next moment, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed, and the three of them somehow came to a courtyard. There was no tree in the courtyard, and there was only a spring in the middle. The spring water was bubbling out, but it was not clear, and it was so turbid that it was almost black.

ghost spring!

Wu Sheng was shocked, while Xu Wang looked directly at the starving ghost next to him with an expression of disbelief: "You took us to teleport?!"

The starving ghost patted the back of his head, smirked a little embarrassedly, and said in the same cowardly way: "Little ghost skills, it's not worth mentioning."

The wind stopped.

The courtyard was suddenly very quiet, only the sound of the spring gushing was left.

"And then? The ghost spring has been found, so what do we need to do?" The starving ghost looked at Xu Wang, then at Wu Sheng, resisting his curiosity, and said with difficulty, "If it's inconvenient, I can avoid it."