Fengqi Nancheng

Gu Qiyuan met Ah Che for the first time when he was seven years old.

At that time, the Lin and Gu families were working together on a project, and Lin's father and Gu's father had to travel for about a month. In case the two children at home were left unattended, they signed up Gu Qiyuan and Lin Heng for a one-month summer camp. , thinking in his heart that when the two children's summer camp is over, the two fathers will have almost returned home.

Father Lin signed up for them for the summer camp. There were only [-] children in the entire summer camp team, but there were [-] adults in total for the teachers and support staff. The supervision was very strict, so Father Lin was very relieved. .

The place they are going to is a third-tier city by the sea, which is not developed, but it has a special flavor.A week before the departure, the precocious Gu Qiyuan began to prepare the items needed for the trip.

The Gu family belongs to a single-family villa with an area of ​​about [-] square meters and a total of three floors. Gu Qiyuan's room is on the third floor. There is a staircase in his room that leads directly to the roof on the top floor. He raised a baby on the roof. A tortoise visits several times a day.There is a garden on the ground floor of the house. Outside the garden is a small swimming pool with two swings and a small fountain beside it.There was also a basement under the house, but he never went into it.

On that day, Gu Qiyuan put away the packed schoolbag, and was going to go to the Lin family next door to find Lin Heng to go out and play together.

When I was about to go out, I suddenly felt a shaking, the whole room began to vibrate violently, and things around me kept falling, and the chandelier above my head shook so much that it even hit the ceiling.

Gu Qiyuan was taken aback, and quickly found the nearest corner to hide.

He knew it was an earthquake, and he was the only one in the house at this time, but he didn't panic. He wondered what was going on with Lin Heng. He remembered that there seemed to be only Lin Heng and a nanny in the Lin family today...

Thinking about it like this, he became a little anxious and wanted to rush to the Lin's house to have a look.But under such violent shaking, he couldn't even stand firmly, let alone run down the third floor, so he could only hold on to the things around him tightly, trying not to let himself fall out.

The shaking lasted about 3 minutes and finally stopped.

He immediately ran downstairs.

The Lin family's yard is next to theirs, and you can see it when you step out of the small yard.He had just rushed out two steps when he saw Lin's nanny running out of the house in a hurry holding Lin Heng in his arms.

Gu Qiyuan was startled, and hurried up and said in a hurry: "Hengheng is injured?!" Then he poked his head to look at the person in the nanny's arms.

Seeing this, Gu Qiyuan felt dumbfounded.

Not only was Lin Heng not injured, but he was still sleeping soundly while clutching the nanny's clothes, his small mouth was slightly open, and a transparent bubble was blown out from the side of the mouth, and he seemed to be sleeping very comfortably.

Gu Qiyuan couldn't help poking his face, raised his head and said to the nanny: "He didn't wake up after the earthquake?"

"No! I slept very well! I didn't even turn over from the beginning to the end!" The nanny was a countryman, and she spoke very honestly. After the panic just now, seeing that she was safe now, she breathed a sigh of relief and started to talk. He made a joke: "Young Master Lin is so courageous, it looks like he's going to be the material for great things in the future!" As he spoke, he coaxed Gu Qiyuan by the way: "Master Gu is not bad either!"

Gu Qiyuan pursed his lips, did not answer, just looked intently at Lin Heng's face flushed from sleep, wondering what was going on in his heart.

After being silent for a while, he raised his head and said: "Auntie, please give me Hengheng, please go and call my dad and Uncle Lin, and report to them that they are safe, so as not to worry."

The nanny hesitated for a moment, looked at Gu Qiyuan's small body, and said, "Can you hug him? How about I wake up Young Master Lin and you two wait here together?"

"No need." Gu Qiyuan said stubbornly, "I can pick him up." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and carefully took Lin Heng from her arms.

Although Lin Heng is already six years old, but due to his relatively slow development, he looks very young. Although he and Gu Qiyuan are only one year apart, judging from their body size, there is a big age gap between them. It was a little hard to get up, but I could barely hold on.

He hugged Lin Heng and walked to the nearby stone bench and sat down, nodded to the nanny who was watching anxiously, indicating that he was fine, and the nanny left.

He looked down at Lin Heng in his arms, sleeping carefree, and couldn't help but feel soft, the corners of his mouth raised slightly unconsciously, and he called softly to the sleeping person: "Heng Heng."

Lin Heng was soundly asleep, so naturally he didn't hear it.However, the embrace of another person still made him feel a little uncomfortable. He twisted his body, turned his face to Gu Qiyuan's small chest, and gently rubbed his cheek against Gu Qiyuan's body.

Gu Qiyuan was made nervous by his movements, he held his breath and looked at the person in his arms as if facing a formidable enemy.After watching for a while, seeing that Lin Heng didn't make any other movements, he let out a breath slowly.

After hugging for a while, it was probably because Lin Heng had slept enough and gradually showed signs of waking up.

He first stretched with his eyes closed, feeling that his whole body was soft, as if he was leaning on something, then he opened his eyes and looked.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Gu Qiyuan's immature face with a slight smile above his head.

"Well, Qiyuan." He rubbed his eyes and sat up, looked around, only to find that Gu Qiyuan was actually sitting in the garden outside with himself in his arms.

"Where's Aunt Xiao?" Lin Heng remembered that he was at home with Aunt Xiao before, how could he be here after sleeping?

"There was an earthquake just now. Aunt Xiao went to call Dad and Uncle Lin. Let's wait here for a while." Gu Qiyuan explained.

"Oh." Lin Heng didn't really understand the meaning of the earthquake, but he nodded honestly.

He sat on Gu Qiyuan and looked around restlessly. After looking for a while, he suddenly pointed to a place downstairs in Gu's house and said loudly, "Look there—"

Gu Qiyuan looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a tattered doll hanging upside down outside the window sill of the kitchen on the first floor of his house.

The doll was facing the direction of the two of them, showing a small pale face, with big, dark eyes, looking at them silently, looking quite pervasive.

Where did this doll come from?Gu Qiyuan was a little puzzled.

I have never had a younger sister in my family, and it is impossible for my family to buy such a toy for me. Why did a doll suddenly appear here?

Gu Qiyuan glanced directly above the doll. The balcony where the doll is hung is outside the kitchen on the first floor. The upper floor corresponding to the kitchen is the study room. The window is closed at this time, so the doll cannot fall out of the study room. Yes, and looking up is Gu Qiyuan's own room. He just got down from it not long ago, and he clearly knows that this doll has never appeared in his room.

So, where did it come from? !

Gu Qiyuan thought about it, and suddenly found a huge wooden door attached to the ground on the ground directly below the kitchen window sill.At this time, the wooden door was slightly opened, revealing a dark hole underneath.

--basement?

Could it be that this doll didn't fall from above, but came out of the basement?

But no matter how powerful the earthquake was just now, it is impossible to throw something from the ground to the ground, and the earthquake is not a trampoline... Gu Qiyuan quickly vetoed his own idea.

Just as he was thinking about the origin of the doll, Lin Heng had already climbed off Gu Qiyuan's lap nimbly, and ran towards the doll in a stumbling manner.

When Gu Qiyuan came back to his senses, Lin Heng had already stood on the wooden door, tiptoeing to reach the doll hanging in the air.

Gu Qiyuan was startled, and quickly chased after him: "Hengheng, don't touch it!"

Although Gu Qiyuan is not very old, he is smart and precocious. He has read a lot of books in his family since he was a child. Because of the past history of the Gu family, the books in his collection naturally contain a lot of strange things. Gu Qiyuan has read a lot. With a general understanding of these, seeing that the doll's origin was unknown and it looked quite ominous, he immediately stopped Lin Heng.

However, Lin Heng, who was always obedient, was surprisingly stubborn this time for some reason.

He didn't listen to Gu Qiyuan's words, instead he jumped up vigorously and pulled the doll down violently!

"Qiyuan, I got it!" Lin Heng laughed happily, and waved the doll at Gu Qiyuan twice.

Lin Heng held the doll in front of him, so he couldn't see the expression on the doll's face.However, at that moment, Gu Qiyuan clearly saw - the doll that Lin Heng held up and waved in his hand blinked slowly at him!

At that moment, Gu Qiyuan only felt cold all over his body!He immediately yelled, "Throw that thing away!"

Lin Heng turned a deaf ear, hugged the doll into his arms, and ran towards Gu Qiyuan with a smile on his face.

As soon as he ran in front of Gu Qiyuan, Gu Qiyuan pulled out the doll from his arms and threw it far away!

Lin Heng was startled, looked at Gu Qiyuan, and was about to start crying with his mouth puckered, but Gu Qiyuan immediately said: "Don't cry!"

Since Lin Heng knew Gu Qiyuan, he had never been so fierce by him. Seeing Gu Qiyuan looking at him with a blank face at this time, he immediately panicked, and couldn't care less about the baby he just got, and hurriedly said: "Saki Yuan, what's the matter? Are you angry?"

Gu Qiyuan didn't make a sound, glanced at the doll not far away, felt a little apprehensive, then turned his head and said to Lin Heng: "That's not a good thing, I told you not to touch it, why didn't you listen?"

Lin Heng followed his line of sight to look at the doll on the ground, feeling quite reluctant and wronged: "Why isn't it a good thing? I think it's very cute."

"Where is it cute?" Gu Qiyuan said with a cold face: "I walked back, look at you, your hands are dirty after touching him." As he said, he raised Lin Heng's hand and shook it under his eyelids After a while, Lin Heng looked down, and sure enough, the palms that were originally white and clean were already pitch black.

He was pulled away by Gu Qiyuan, and while walking, he looked back at the doll in confusion.However, I don't know if it was Lin Heng's illusion. After walking a few steps, he found that the doll on the ground seemed to be moving slightly, as if it wanted to turn over!

At this moment, Gu Qiyuan pulled him around a corner, and when he turned around, the doll behind him was completely invisible.

Lin Heng thought: I must have read it wrong, right?However, if that doll can really move, it should be quite fun...

That night, when Gu Qiyuan came home, he found that the doll was no longer in the yard.

Because of the previous earthquake, many things in the house were damaged, so when Father Gu returned home in the afternoon, he contacted the people from the housekeeping company to clean it inside and out.Gu Qiyuan thought that maybe the cleaners disposed of the doll as garbage by the way, so he didn't care too much. After a day of exhaustion, he took a shower and lay down on the bed early.

He fell asleep quickly.Between half-dream and half-awake, he felt a little short of breath.It seems that something is pressed on the chest.After gasping for breath several times, he struggled to wake up.

The consciousness was in a daze, and before he opened his eyes, he heard a series of small muttering voices: "Call me dirty! Call me bad! Tell you to despise me!" Accompanied by the mutterings, Gu Qiyuan I felt the weight on my chest lighten and heavy for a while, as if something was jumping up and down in my chest.

He opened his eyes, and saw the doll standing on his heart at a glance.

He was startled for a moment, then sat up abruptly, and threw the doll out!

The doll was jumping happily, when Gu Qiyuan suddenly woke up, was caught off guard and was thrown one meter away, hit the wall with a "snap", and uttered "Ouch" at the same time!

Gu Qiyuan looked at the doll in the corner in shock.

He woke up in the middle of the night and saw this scene, which is really not weird. However, Gu Qiyuan has always been bold, and he will not be as panicked as Lin Heng when encountering these things. Quickly came back to his senses, and carefully observed the doll's actions.

After the doll was thrown against the wall, it first let out an "Ouch", then muttered something, and slowly stood up from the corner of the wall, rubbing its own head with a free hand .

Its movements are very coherent, if one ignores its strange appearance, just looking at its series of movements, it looks like the normal reaction of an ordinary person.

Gu Qiyuan was a little nervous at first, but after observing for a while, he was sure that the doll should not be aggressive.

Even a little thing that I despise a few words during the day, but can only sneak in at night to take revenge like a child, the combat effectiveness in terms of attack should be basically negligible.

After Gu Qiyuan was relieved, he began to look at the doll with a trace of curiosity.

It is very small, less than half a meter straight from head to toe, wearing a kimono, long straight hair with bangs, big eyes, pale skin, it looks a bit scary when it is silent, but when it As soon as he moves, it makes people dumbfounded, like an ignorant child.

Gu Qi looked at it from a distance, and suddenly thought of Lin Heng who was sleeping soundly in his arms during the day, and his heart softened inexplicably.

He looked at it and asked, "What are you?"

The doll was knocked into a coma by Gu Qiyuan, just stood up when he heard him ask, couldn't help but rolled his eyes, unwilling to say anything, walked slowly to the corner of the room and squatted down , with a look of infinite grievances.

Gu Qiyuan looked funny, and asked again: "Say it or not, if you don't, I'll take it out and burn you tomorrow."

The doll jumped up immediately, and shouted angrily: "You, you are inhuman!"

Gu Qiyuan said expressionlessly: "You are not human, why should I be humane to you."

The doll was blocked by him and couldn't speak. She stamped her feet angrily, gritted her teeth for the last time, and said viciously, "You, tell me! What's your name! Tell me first!"

"Gu Qiyuan."

"What? I tell you, no matter what your name is, you are dead!"

"Gu Qiyuan."

"Gu... Gu what?" The doll didn't seem to have reacted, and repeated it again, and suddenly his eyes widened: "Gu Gu Gu Qiyuan?! Gu Hao's son?!"

"Otherwise." Gu Qiyuan said lightly.

"How could you be Gu Hao's son!" Hearing his name, the baby became even more angry, and stomped her feet: "How can you be my master! How can I have a master who dislikes me!"

"What master?" Hearing this, Gu Qiyuan finally became interested.Looking at the doll, it seems that he knows his father, Gu Qiyuan frowned, how could his father know such a thing?

Hearing his question, the doll suddenly twitched a little.It huffed angrily, turned its back to face the wall, and said something in a low voice.

Gu Qiyuan didn't hear clearly, so he said: "Speak up, I can't hear you."

The doll suddenly turned around and roared, "I said: You—are—my—master—person!!!"

"It's too loud, it's too noisy." Gu Qiyuan frowned, and asked again: "Why am I your master? What's your relationship with my dad? What the hell are you?"

The doll twisted her body, as if she was unwilling to answer, but she couldn't resist Gu Qiyuan's order, so she could only open her mouth and told the history of the Gu family from beginning to end, and also told her identity as a ghost After finishing speaking, he looked at Gu Qiyuan angrily and aggrievedly, his big black eyes were wet, silently condemning his master's previous atrocities.

Gu Qiyuan was immersed in the things it just said, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time, so he also missed the expression that the doll worked hard for a long time to create.

When Gu Qiyuan finally woke up from his contemplation, he turned his head and saw the doll lying on the ground, looking at him with a sad expression.

"You just said that devils have great power. Haven't you considered changing your appearance?" Gu Qiyuan really couldn't accept the shape of this tattered Japanese doll, and, according to what he just said, devils should He is a man, how could he wear such a lolita body.

"It's not your grandpa's fault!" Speaking of this, the doll was furious again: "I was originally a handsome young man! But when it was in your grandpa's hands, he insisted that my body is not good-looking, and you want to recreate it for me. Creating a spirit body suppresses my main body inside this doll! And it’s a girl! Baby! Baby!” It said the last three words with gnash teeth, it seems that it has been holding grudges for a long time.

Seeing its distraught look, Gu Qiyuan rarely showed a smile on his usually expressionless face.He looked at it for a while, then suddenly asked, "Do you have a name?"

The doll was startled, shook her head and said, "No." The previous masters never called him by his name, and to them, he was just a tool.

"Then I'll pick one for you." Gu Qiyuan looked up at the night outside the window.This is a summer night, the bright moon is clear, the starry sky is thousands of miles away, the whole night sky is extremely pure and clear, it looks refreshing.

He blurted out, "Why don't you call me Ache."

The baby followed his gaze and looked at the starry sky outside the window, and nodded half-understanding.

After a long time, when Ah Che finally got rid of the form of the doll and could return to his original youthful appearance, he immediately ran to Gu Qiyuan happily, smiled at Gu Qiyuan with a calm face, and said, "Oh! , Gu Gu. If you saw me like this for the first time, you wouldn’t think I’m dirty, would you?”

Gu Qiyuan's gaze slowly shifted to Ah Che's body, and landed on the opponent's hands pressing on his neckline.

The ten fingers of those hands were slender and white, very delicate, but there were a few pieces of suspicious cream on the fingertips.Gu Qiyuan glanced expressionlessly at the cake with a corner missing on the table beside him, and said slowly: "No. Those who should be disgusted, will be disgusted no matter what."

Volume Four: The Corridor of Eternal Night