"You said... the tomb ghost keeps following me because I took its belongings?"
"As long as I give the thing back to it, it will leave?"
The middle-aged man confirmed.
"Yes."
Xiao Xiao nodded.
"Can you remember what you took that day?"
...
The smile on the middle-aged man's face became increasingly bitter.
He shook his head, "I thought about it carefully just now."
"I don't remember taking anything that wasn't my own."
"but......"
"After all, it's been a week, and my memory is a little blurry."
"I don't know if I overlooked anything."
The middle-aged man hesitated.
He looked at the young man in front of him, "Classmate Xiao, can't you just ask...that...grave ghost, what did I take from it?"
"It says, no matter what, as long as I take it, I will give it back."
…
He originally thought it was that simple...
Xiao Xiao's face showed a bit of helplessness, "It doesn't know."
"……ha?"
The middle-aged man thought he heard wrongly, "What did you say?"
"It... doesn't know?"
Seeing the young man in front of him nodding towards him, the middle-aged man felt an unknown fire rush into his heart, and his voice suddenly became louder again.
"It doesn't know that it follows me every day?!"
The man took a breath.
"Ah."
He couldn't help laughing, his tone full of sarcasm.
"It doesn't know what it lost, but it knows that I took it?"
So magical?
"How badly have I been hurt by it these days?"
"I work so hard during the day, but I don't get a good rest at night."
"I have to try my best to hide it from my family and prevent them from discovering my abnormality..."
"it-"
The man took a deep breath and lowered his voice, "Is it looking for fun in me?"
What did he take from it?
Just an excuse, right?
…
Xiao Xiao understood the man's mood.
The Tomb Ghost's answer does sound a bit childish.
only……
"Uncle Chen, it won't joke about this."
Xiao Xiao looked at the middle-aged man seriously.
"how do you know?"
The middle-aged man blurted out, "Don't these weird things like to play pranks?"
He now really suspected that the torment he had experienced during this period was just the product of a prank played by that tomb ghost on a whim.
There was a trace of anger on the man's face.
Xiao Xiao did not answer the middle-aged man's next words. He just smiled and answered his previous question, "I know."
The middle-aged man looked angry for a moment.
I know?
What's the meaning?
…
"Grave ghosts cannot leave the cemetery for too long."
"otherwise……"
"It might die."
After Xiao Xiao finished speaking, the air was stagnant for a moment.
"ah?"
Two children cried out.
When Xiao Xiao and the middle-aged man looked at each other, they couldn't help but reach out and cover their mouths.
But soon, they gave up.
"Brother, aunt...will die?"
The boy asked cautiously.
The girl glanced at the tomb ghost, and then looked at Xiao Xiao eagerly.
The middle-aged man was also somewhat caught off guard by this information.
The fire in my heart was immediately extinguished by a basin of cold water.
His mouth was slightly open and his expression was a little embarrassed.
"Really, really?"
"Will it die?"
"If it continues to linger."
Xiao Xiao's eyes met the tomb ghost's one eye.
This sentence is also a reminder to this stubborn monster.
The tomb ghost's eyes wandered.
Then he turned his head slightly.
Xiao Xiao:......
This guy.
He sighed inwardly.
…
"That……"
The middle-aged man opened and closed his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.
It was the girl who spoke first.
The big black eyes looked at the middle-aged man with watery eyes. With a stern face, he prayed in a sweet voice, "Uncle, please return the things to auntie."
"Otherwise Auntie will die."
The boy also had a face full of pleading.
The middle-aged man rubbed his temples.
Things are really getting more and more complicated.
"It's not that uncle won't return the things to aunt."
"Uncle also wants to return things to auntie."
"In this way, my aunt can leave, my uncle can have a good sleep, and my aunt's life is no longer in danger. Everyone is happy."
"But-"
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly, "Uncle doesn't know what he took from aunt."
"Auntie doesn't know what uncle took from it."
The middle-aged man was a little worried about whether the two children understood what he meant.
The two children blinked.
"Uncle doesn't know what he took from aunt?"
The girl's slender brows were tangled together.
"Auntie doesn't know what uncle took from her?"
The boy couldn't help but look at the figure behind the middle-aged man.
I would like to verify the authenticity of this statement.
The grave ghost nodded towards the child.
The boy's eyes suddenly widened.
…
"yes."
The middle-aged man nodded with satisfaction at the two children's understanding.
Today's children are really getting smarter and smarter.
"So, things are in trouble."
The middle-aged man sighed, and then murmured in a low voice, "I took something..."
After knowing that the Tomb Ghost risked death and stayed with him, all his previous speculations about the Tomb Ghost's bad deeds disappeared.
No one would play with their own lives.
This is true for all living things.
He knew that the tomb ghost was serious.
Even though the other party clearly didn't know what he had taken, he still couldn't understand the fact that he thought he had taken it.
…
"It has no idea at all?"
The middle-aged man, whose head hurt from thinking about it, asked the young man in front of him.
"A rough range is fine too."
"Maybe I took something from it?"
"What could that thing be?"
"It's okay even if it's a guess."
"Give me a few options."
"Maybe I'll remember something."
"If I ask you to recall it now, I really can't think of anything."
The man knocked on his head.
…
Xiao Xiao looked at the tomb ghost, "Why do you think the thing is on Uncle Chen's body?"
"You must have some basis for thinking so, right?"
"What is it?"
The tomb ghost tilted his head.
The green flames above rise and fall, just like the fluctuations in the mind of the tomb ghost.
Its basis?
what is it then?
intuition?
The grave ghost murmured.
Xiao Xiao's eyes twitched slightly.
intuition?
Do monsters also have the so-called female sixth sense?
…
Well, intuition.
The grave ghost nodded and confirmed his statement.
At that time, when the human left, its heart suddenly jumped and it became a little anxious.
It feels...that something important to it is going away from it.
Very important things...
And the source of this feeling...is this human being.