The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

"Tick, tick."

Xiao Tong opened his eyes and found that he was standing in a knee-high body of water.

where is this?

Xiao Tong lowered her head, a haggard face was reflected on the turbid water.

Xiaotong stared for a long time at this face that gathered and dispersed with the rippling water, this face made her feel quite strange.

Is this me?

How did I get here?

Oh yes... I was in the swimming pool just now, and I was investigating strange stories about swimming pools with Yuxiang and my senior sister.

Senior sister and Youxiang walked towards the locker room, and he wanted to keep up, but just beside his ears, he heard the sound of "tick, tick" again, which made him stop in his tracks.

The sound came from the opposite direction, from inside the pool.

I remember, when I looked in that direction, I vaguely saw a circle of ripples blooming on the surface of the swimming pool.

Then, a new circle of ripples bloomed closer to him.

Then, another lap.

It was as if an invisible person was walking on the water, walking towards him step by step.

Until, that circle of ripples bloomed in the waters at the edge of the swimming pool.

He seemed to be bold enough to take a step forward and looked under the water.

What did I see?

By the way, it was a face, exactly the same as the one I saw under the water now.

Obviously looking at the facial features, it should be a face that gives people a gentle impression, but it may be because the eyebrows and eyes are tightly closed, the face is pale and slightly blue, and the long hair has been soaked in water for a long time without maintenance, and it floats in all directions with the water like seaweed, so It looks so gloomy.

Strange, do I look like this?

The sense of disobedience filled the whole brain, but there was no answer.

Then what did you do?

By the way, it's time to train, every day's training must be completed.

So, he jumped off the platform into the water, as if he had done it a thousand times before.

No... wait!

I can't swim! !

Xiaotong woke up suddenly, recalling the tragic fact that he had never taken swimming lessons before coming to this school, and was still the only one who had to hold the duckling swimming ring when he was taking swimming lessons.

The face in the water was not her own face at all!Who is this!

At this moment, the face under the water surface that seemed to have been quiet for a long time, with closed eyes and self-cultivation, suddenly opened his eyes.

Fear clenched his heart for a moment, and he wanted to pull his legs out of the water, but he couldn't lift his calf as if he was being pulled hard by something.

Xiaotong looked down again, and she found that the things holding her calf were two gray-green arms.

At the same time, one lap, two laps, three laps, more and more ripples rippling around, three pairs, four pairs, five pairs...

For a moment, countless arms stretched out from under the water, trying to pull her hard into the bottom of the water.

It seemed that the depth of the water just now could only submerge his calf, but at this moment, the depth of the water seemed to be endless, each arm grabbed his body, and tried his best to drag himself into a deeper, deeper place .

Water was poured into Xiaotong's mouth, nose, and ear canal until his head was also submerged in water. At this moment, there seemed to be countless whispers frantically echoing in Xiaotong's brain.

Chapter 19 Lucky Numbers

"Miss, you're home."

The driver sitting in front reminded him, and only then did Kanna Yue Xiaohua recover slightly from his doze.Since the beginning of school for a week, she has not slept well, and it has become more and more difficult to fall asleep recently. It seems that as soon as she closes her eyes, she can hear the annoying sound of water droplets.

She opened the door and got out of the car. She raised her head and glanced at the mansion in front of her. There was a trace of complexity and resistance in her brows.

Kannazuki's house is a standard Japanese-style garden mansion, and it seems to have a long history. This old pure wooden house has been repaired many times, but there are still many floors that will make a "squeak, squeak" when you step on it. Yeah" sound.

The whole house is surrounded by trees and running water. It is said that it was designed and built by a very famous garden master many, many years ago. Water bowls, stone lamps, green bamboos, stubborn stones, running water... Anyway, listening to visiting guests It is said that this courtyard contains a kind of secluded and profound oriental Zen.

Kannazuki Xiaohua heard the guest bragging so much at that time, and couldn't help but want to tell him, why don't you try to live in it in summer?Try being bitten by countless mosquitoes? ?

Xiaohua hated this house, from the lingering humidity to the frightened deer that kept making noises (a bamboo tube that catches water is common in Japanese gardens, it will automatically drop the bamboo tube when it is full of water) Pressing, making the bamboo tube hit the stone to make a sound) are very annoying, but such thoughts are always only in the mind, and must never be resorted to.

Walking through the wooden corridor and into the Japanese room, Xiaohua saw his mother kneeling at the low table, boiling tea with an iron pot, and her father, sitting cross-legged beside him, reading a newspaper.

"Father, mother, I'm back." Even facing his parents, Xiaohua greeted in a respectful tone.

When her mother saw her, she smiled and said, "How is it, the first week of school, how are you doing? Is there anything new?"

"Well, I'm doing well. During this period of time, I'm helping the nuns in Central Plains to do some strict inspections of personal belongings and student discipline. They are all chores and there are not many interesting things."

"Oh." Her father, Takashi Kannazuki put down the newspaper in his hand, let out a disdainful chuckle, shook his head and said, "You should resign your Minister of Discipline as soon as possible, that's an offense Work, it will only be harmful to your future relationship with the children of other big families. Didn’t you say you want to run for the president of the student council? How are you doing?”

"So far, I haven't seen any threatening competitors." Xiaohua said flatly.

"I remember, you said last year that you had a good chance of winning. In the end, you were snatched away by the daughter of the Mochizuki family." Takashi Kannazuki said in a slightly displeased tone, "If you do something, you will Do your best for me. If others know that the daughter of the Kannazuki family failed to be elected as the student council president of a high school twice, how embarrassing is it for our Kannazuki family? Don't be like you Like my sister..."

"Takashi!" Xiaohua's mother interrupted him suddenly, she looked at Kannazuki Takashi with anger in her eyes.

Takashi Kannazuki shrugged, "Okay, okay, I won't mention it. Xiao Hua, you just know it in your heart, just remember one thing for me, don't lose the Kannazuki family in school, listen Have you arrived yet?"

"I know." Kannazuki Xiaohua couldn't hear any fluctuations in his tone, "If there is nothing else, I'll go back to my room first."

Kannazuki Takashi waved his hand, and Xiaohua got up and walked to his bedroom.

After closing the door, Xiaohua punched his pillow with all his might.

When the fist hit the pillow, there was only a deep and soft sound, leaving a faint fist mark that could not be seen.

As if still unrelieved, Xiaohua punched hard twice again, even raised the pillow, and shook it vigorously as if to vent.

The pillow swept over the bedside table, and swept off a clock-like object on the table, which fell to the ground.

"Ah..." Seeing the thing that fell on the ground, Xiao Hua suddenly showed a look of panic.

She ran over quickly and picked up the thing on the ground, blowing carefully, and carefully inspecting it for any abnormality or damage.

What she had in her hands was nothing expensive, just a race timer that could be bought at a very cheap price in a sporting goods store.However, Xiaohua carefully wiped the surface of the timer with her finger as if she was treating some kind of treasure. After checking that it was correct, she put her thumb on the timer button, and then pressed it twice at a very fast speed. .

The words "00:00 13" emerged on the face of the chronograph.

13 ms.

Seeing this number, Xiao Hua breathed a sigh of relief.

The memory seemed to return to that distant and sultry summer evening season.

That day, my sister had a swimming competition, and my mother took me to the swimming field to watch my sister's competition together.

But he was not a good boy that day. Xiao Xiaohua, who was still a sixth grader at the time, uttered a tragic cry at a super high decibel level in the swimming pool, and was even glared at by other spectators.

"What's the matter? Xiao Hua Jiang, why are you crying like this? Is it because your mother won't let you eat any more candies?"

What appeared in front of her was a young girl wearing a one-piece swimsuit with a gentle smile—Kannazuki Asagiri.

It was clear that he was already preparing to warm up, and the competition would start in a while, but when he heard his own crying, he still came to comfort his sister.

She quietly took out a lollipop from the swimming bag she was carrying and pressed it in her palm, made a "shush" gesture to her, and whispered: "My sister can only do it again." Here's one for you."

"No...not sugar..." I remember shaking my head vigorously.

Although he denied it, he tightly held on to the candy in his hands.

"It's not because of sugar? What is it because of? Has anyone bullied Xiaohua sauce?"

At that time, I nodded heavily, and before the crying sound disappeared, I said: "Today, today, I am playing with the children of Mogi's family. I invited her to my birthday party two weeks later, and it turned out...she listened to me." The birthday date, she...she said, 13 is an unlucky number, and a child born on the 13th may be a child of Satan! I, I, I...I am not a child of the devil!"

Kannazuki Asagiri's expression suddenly became serious, "Xiaohua-chan, don't listen to people talking nonsense, how can 13 be an unlucky number, that's what foreigners in the West say, we are Japan here, we don't care That set. In this world, everyone's lucky numbers are different. Some numbers are unlucky for some people, but they will bring them good luck for others!"

"Really? But... she is not the only one who said that, and in our family... it seems that this number is taboo..."

"That's because your mother believes in Catholicism... Forget it, I'll find a way to prove to Xiao Huachan that 13 is your lucky number?"

"Ok?"

Zhao Wu thought for a moment, then rummaged through his small bag, finally made up his mind, and took out a timer from the small bag.

"Look, Xiao Hua, do you know what this is?"

"Is this a watch?"

"No, this is my sister's lucky prop~ As long as you press this button twice quickly like this, if you can successfully press your lucky number, then good things will happen. It doesn't matter if you fail, you can Keep trying, as long as you succeed once, it will be effective! In this way, if you successfully press '13', my sister will get the first place in this competition, which shows that 13 is really Xiao Huajiang's luck Number, how about it, do you want to try it?"

Want to press to 13?This was really a difficult task for me back then, I couldn't press it fast enough, and there was no way to do it just right.

But... But, what if it's true?Even if it is for my sister to get the first place, I have to work hard.

In this way, before waiting for my sister to play, I kept pressing there, seeing that it was my sister's turn soon, but I still couldn't succeed. Is it rare that I am really the guy who will bring bad luck?

With a "snap", I unconsciously pressed it, and suddenly saw "00:00:00 13" appearing on it, and my breathing seemed to stop for a moment.

At this time, my sister was standing on the diving platform, got into the water with a "wow", and swam forward like a mermaid. She immediately opened up the gap with others, and won the first place without any suspense. .

So, is 13 really your lucky number?

Since then, this timer was given to me by my elder sister. When I am free, I will press it twice until I press "13". Now, I am almost proficient enough to be able to accurately press 13. .

When you feel nervous or uneasy, just think that 13 is your lucky number, as long as you press 13 successfully, you will definitely not fail.

In fact, it seems to be true, as long as after such a "ceremony", I will hardly fail.

Therefore, 13 is my lucky number, and this belief has been firmly engraved in my mind.

This is also a secret between myself and my sister, after all, my parents don't seem to like this number very much.

until……

Until the day my sister disappeared.

On that day, I kept chanting silently in my heart, as long as I pressed 13, my sister would come back.

However, until today, I don't know how many 13s have been pressed, and my sister still hasn't come back.

Kannazuki Xiaohua stared at the number "13" displayed on the timer in his hand for a long time, then said softly in a voice that only he could hear——

"fraud."

Chapter 20 Great-grandmother

Xiaotong felt that he seemed to be falling into a bottomless pool.

The depth of this pool seemed endless, and the faint blue light coming from the water above the head became weaker and weaker until the field of vision was completely engulfed in darkness.

The water pressure coming from all directions is desperately oppressing his body, the fishy and cold water filled his mouth and nose, he couldn't breathe, he opened his mouth instinctively to absorb some oxygen from the sticky water, but More water poured into his throat and trachea.

He tried his best to reach out and struggle to float up, but suddenly a hand grabbed his arm.

Arms stretched out from the darkness, grabbed her calves, grabbed her clothes, entangled her arms, and dragged her into a deeper abyss.

Xiaotong woke up suddenly, and sat up instantly. The suffocation feeling in her mind made her instinctively and greedily suck the air. After a full minute, she felt her heartbeat and breathing gradually eased.

Only then did she have the time to observe the environment around her.She still remembered that she should have been exploring the school swimming pool with Youxiang and her senior just now, but... where is she now?

Strange and unfamiliar rooms, tatami floors, wooden beams and columns, seem to have certain historical furnishings and decorations, as well as the sound of gurgling water from the courtyard outside the house, and the crisp and regular The "boom, boom, boom" sound of the bamboo tube hitting the rock.

where is this?

Xiaotong stood up, but the height of her gaze was far higher than she imagined, which made her unable to adapt for a while.

Looking down, sure enough, under Jujia's hot pants, there was a pair of snow-white long legs.

Well, it's definitely not your own body.

So, who is this body?Whose dream am I in now?

There is no mirror in the room, so Xiaotong has no way to confirm her current appearance, but she saw a photo frame on the desktop.

It was a family photo. An old woman with deep dimples all over her face and sunken eye sockets was sitting in the middle of the photo. Two girls who looked alike but had a slight difference in age stood in the middle of the photo. The old lady is left and right, and behind the old lady stands a pair of adult men and women in kimonos.

The first time Xiaotong looked at this photo, she felt familiar with the two girls. After a while, she recognized that one of the smaller girls, who looked like a primary school student, should be that girl. Kannazuki Xiaohua, the head of the Disciplinary Department, is right, then, the one who is a little older and looks like a high school student... I am afraid it is the Kannazuki who was suspected to be Xiaohua's sister that the senior sister investigated before. It's foggy.