Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
Divination from a ghost
Walking out of the room where the portrait was displayed, Er-gufu and the others spoke to Ye Zun with comforting words, saying that in general, the family likes children very much and that he will live a good life from here on out.
At this time, a boy walked down the stairs.
As soon as he appeared, everyone noticed him. They immediately stopped talking and looked at him.
In particular, Gu-laolao, with a smile that took over her whole face, stretched out her hand to protect him as if afraid he would not be able to walk steadily and would fall down the steps.
“Yo*, has Gege* woken up?”
[T/N: 哟, sound of surprise/an exclamation]
[T/N: since they are also minding Ye Zun, they call the boy Gege/older brother to help Ye Zun acclimatise]
The boy appeared to be one year older than Ye Zun, but not yet five years old. He looked very domineering, and when he got downstairs, he ignored everyone and sat in the middle of the couch, then took out a tablet and started playing.
The others surrounded him with greetings, asking him how he was, whether he wanted to eat or drink water, whether he was tired. He didn’t even lift his eyes, as if he wasn’t listening at all, only occasionally giving an “en”. The others laughed, agreeing “yes, yes, yes”, and went to complete his demands right away.
Gu-laolao looked at him with a particularly doting look, a smile that proved how much she liked him no matter how one looked at it, and she simply granted every request.
The boy’s skin was white as porcelain and slightly cold, fairer than all the women in the household. His eyelashes were very long, and his appearance was even more exquisite. His eye sockets sunk a little deep and he had a high nose bridge. The colour of his eyes and hair were both very dark, his lips were rosy like petals, and his black hair was slightly long and a little wavy.
Although it can be seen that he carried some mixed blood, the countries mixed together couldn’t be seen.
In comparison, the two twin girls who came downstairs after him contrasted his appearance, both dark and fat.
But the little girls were a cute pair, very adorable.
Seeming to be a little wary of the stranger, the two peeked timidly at Ye Zun with their black grape-like eyes, holding each other’s hand and muttering to each other.
Everyone’s attention was drawn to the big brother, and ignored the two younger children and Ye Zun.
“Child, your Gufu asked if you want to go to Disney World to play in the afternoon. He happens to be free, as well as your Er-gugu…”
“Not going.” The boy’s voice was flat, and he did not even raise his head.
“You ya, don’t just stay at home to play games all the time.” Gu-laolao scolded, her eyes full of fondness. She saw Ye Zun and seemed to think of something. “Look, this is your new Didi* who just arrived, his name is Chengting. Come say hello, you two must get along well in the future ah.”
[T/N: little brother]
She said that he was a new little brother who just arrived, but it just sounded like he was a brand new toy.
The boy raised his eyes to look at Ye Zun. His gaze paused for a while. The raising of his eyes showed that he didn’t have some kind of introverted personality, but he simply didn’t care about anyone. He was so young, but his casual demeanour made him seem like he was used to this.
“Hello,” he said to Ye Zun.
As someone who was mute, Ye Zun could only nod his head.
The other party didn’t want to converse. After saying hello, he lowered his head again to stare at the tablet in his hand. In fact, when he glanced at Ye Zun just then, his eyes only stopped on his face, without even the most basic eye contact and curiosity.
Ye Zun was somewhat puzzled. The boy was the same as Ye Zun, addressing the older man as ‘Gufu’ and the two women as ‘Gugu’.
Whose child was he then?
“This is Gege. From now on, you must get along well,” Gu-laolao said to Ye Zun.
The rest of the family members stood there chatting, glanced at the boy sitting in the middle of the couch from time to time, and discussed Ye Zun’s admission to kindergarten.
Gu-laolao expressed that they were in no hurry and that they should take him to see a doctor first, concerned about whether his vocal cords could be healed.
The neglected twin girls seemed to be slowly getting used to Ye Zun’s existence, and the originally timid and secret sneaky looks became direct.
The one who looked younger let go of her big sister’s hand and ran to Ye Zun, pulling at his arm and swaying them. “Gege, play with me, will you play with me ma.”
The adults were still talking and everyone was standing; the atmosphere was not one where they could play around casually. As the new child in the family, Ye Zun must understand the rules.
He shook his head and made a shushing gesture, hoping that the little girl would wait for a little while.
The little girl let go of him while pouting and ran back to her older sister unhappily to complain about Gege for ignoring her. Her sister still stood there quietly with her lips slightly pursed.
Gu-laolao stood up and said, “The dessert I asked the kitchen to prepare is probably ready by now ba. Gege must be hungry, I will go and have a look.”
While talking about taking Ye Zun for a body check-up in the afternoon, Gu-laolao suddenly remembered what was happening in the kitchen. Er-gugu immediately accompanied her with understanding.
Er-gufu smiled and looked at Ye Zun. “I’m going upstairs to get some things and I’ll contact the hospital and the doctor while I’m there. If you want to watch some cartoons, the remote control is on the coffee table.”
San-gugu who stayed behind frowned slightly. With what was either disgust or boredom in her complicated eyes, she glanced at the boy who was sitting on the couch like a young master, and then glanced at Ye Zun.
“I’m going back to my room first.” She seemed to have been enduring the hypocritical and boring time-wasting greetings from her family and had reached the limit of her patience. Without a sliver of patience left to put on a show, she simply went upstairs.
The twins at the stairway raised their eyes and looked at the two people who went up the stairs one after the other. They gave way as if they were a little scared, and looked at Ye Zun together.
Ye Zun also looked at them. He felt that this family seemed to value males far more than they did females*; almost not a single person minded the two little girls.
[T/N: 男轻女]
He was about to walk over to play with the little girl who just acted coquettishly.
“That’s great, Gege is going to play with us.”
At this moment, the twins who were standing on the stairs holding hands and watching him suddenly smiled, grinning widely.
The quiet big sister’s open mouth was a blood red hole. She had no tongue, and blood gushed out with no end.
The black grape-like eyes of the giggling little girl next to her suddenly fell out, leaving only black and bloody sockets on her face.
In the daytime living room, just after the crowd had left, Ye Zun was startled by the fact that the two children were ghosts. His heart stopped beating.
He walked back, one step after another, subconsciously retreating to the couch. He touched the back of the couch.
As he approached the boy on the couch, the terrifying apparition of the twins disappeared from view for an instant.
Ye Zun looked around nervously but didn’t see them again.
The voices of the adults talking in another room could still be heard faintly. Sunbeams entered from the balcony and windows. The atmosphere in the afternoon should be warm and comfortable, if he didn’t meet ghosts in plain daylight.
“Little mute*.” A light, slow and lazy voice, carrying no emotion.
[TN: 小哑巴/xiao-yaba]
Ye Zun immediately looked at the boy on the couch.
The other boy looked up at Ye Zun, with slightly long wavy hair hanging over his eyebrows, and condescendingly said to him like a young master, “Want to come over and sit?”
Ye Zun scanned the environment with a heavy heart. Although the ghosts did not come out again, he could also feel that the room was very cold, as if something was spying on him with malicious intent.
Although he didn’t know why, it seemed that after he approached the boy, the two ghosts disappeared.
Thinking of this, he sat down on the couch next to the boy, but not too close.
The attitude of the other boy was not like that of a relative or someone friendly, he had no desire to get close to anyone. Ye Zun himself was also not someone who liked to be close to others.
But he still saw the tablet in the boy’s hand with one glance. The boy didn’t seem to be playing a game, but was drawing something. There were strange and complicated patterns, and he couldn’t tell what it was.
Very quickly, the two women who had gone to the kitchen came out with the hired-worker aunt.
They chatted and laughed, and placed the rich desserts for the afternoon tea on the table, creating a pleasant and harmonious atmosphere.
The boy didn’t pay attention to them, and didn’t care if they were loud and annoying when they were chatting next to him. He also didn’t take the initiative to eat. Occasionally, Gu-laolao would take the initiative to bring some food to his mouth to coax and persuade him, and he would only take a bite depending on his mood.
Ye Zun sat on the side, watching the《 Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf 》show they put on for him, but his mind always paid attention to the surroundings of the room.
He had a persistent feeling that the twin girls were still there.
“Are you not going to try? It doesn’t taste bad.” The boy looked at Ye Zun, his delicate face and eyes looked a little cold and lazy. Such an expression appeared on the face of a four-or-so year old child, and there was a somewhat hard-to-explain and unknown meaning to it.
Under his gaze, Ye Zun tasted a piece of every dessert he was handed.
“Our Gege is really sensible, he knows how to take care of his Didi.” Gu-laolao immediately praised.
In the afternoon, Ye Zun was taken to the hospital for a comprehensive examination as planned.
“…the possibility of vocal cord recovery is very unlikely…”
Ye Zun couldn’t understand a series of medical terms, but he heard the final conclusion.
Er-gufu had a faint smile of politeness and courtesy on his face, as well as a little sympathy.
Gu-laolao who heard the conclusion also sighed and nodded, but she felt that there were no real regrets.
“Then, Mum, I will go and prepare the things for his school admission.”
“En, go ba.”
The day passed quickly and the sky turned dark.
During the day, through the conversations between several women in the living room, Ye Zun came to know some of this family’s circumstances.
He learned that the second aunt and her husband did not have any children, and it seemed that it was because Er-gugu’s body had difficulty conceiving.
The third aunt was young and unmarried, so the twins obviously couldn’t be her children.
The only guess left could be that Da-gugu* who never appeared, but no one talked about her.
[T/N: oldest aunt]
No matter what one said, it was definitely not normal for there to be two scary ghosts in this house.
“Come, see if you like it, this is your bedroom.”
They prepared a room for Ye Zun on the fifth floor.
The room was decorated with a lot of thought and had various installations suitable for children: a bed that also served as a slide, illustrations that looked like picture books on the wall, flooring that prevented falling, and many toys.
If there was a real child, they would probably feel like this was heaven.
Ye Zun nodded to the second aunt and her husband who led him upstairs, smiling to show his thanks.
The relationship between the second aunt and her husband seemed to be very good, and they stuck together wherever they went. “Go wash up and sleep early ba.”
It was not yet eight o’clock in the evening, but the children at home were already being sent to bed.
“Your Nainai’s* rules are very strict. When we were young, we had to go to bed at eight o’clock. If we weren’t lying in bed after half past eight, we would be hit,” Er-gugu said with a smile.
[T/N: 奶奶/nainai, grandma on your father’s side]
The grandma she was talking about was his great aunt. After being adopted, Ye Zun was meant to call her Nainai.
The bathroom was located at the corner of the fifth floor.
An auntie* got the water ready before going out.
[T/N: 阿姨/A-yi, I’m just assuming this is a hired worker/housekeeper]
It appeared to be specially prepared for children, and there is no problem with the height and safety. Ye Zun finished washing inside all by himself.
When he came out, he saw Gu-laolao looking at the bathroom with satisfaction.
“Very good, I like children who are clean, self-disciplined and independent.”
There was a strange feeling, like being inspected and passed by a school dean.
Ye Zun returned to his room. The clock showed that it was ten past eight.
Gu-laolao stood at the doorway and didn’t come in. She held the door and poked her head in, watching him lying on the bed.
She turned off the light in the room, and said to Ye Zun with some sternness, “You must sleep at half past eight, no bed-wetting is allowed. You need to wake up early tomorrow, and you can not sleep in. Have you committed these to memory?”
Remembering that Ye Zun was mute, she didn’t wait for his reply. She retracted her head and closed the door.
The moonlight outside the window spilled in through the curtains, so it wasn’t very dark inside.
Ye Zun had never tried to go to bed so early, and with the incident involving the twins during the day, he couldn’t fall asleep.
Tip tap, tip tapping sound of footsteps, like a child on their toes playing hopscotch.
Ye Zun’s heart skipped a beat. He opened his eyes and held his breath.
The sound went silent for a while, and just when it made people think it was a hallucination, it suddenly sounded again. This time, the sound was more clear and unmistakable, accompanied by a girl’s shrill laughter.
A card was pushed in under the door and Ye Zun saw it clear as day.
“Come and play a game ba, come and play a game with me ah.”
A transparent greyish-white dialogue box popped up, with the bloody words:【 Due to the Pupil of Sin title worn by the player, some ghosts regard you as the same kind. You have received an invitation to the divination game from the ghost, and the result of divination will help the player foresee danger in advance. 】
Being regarded as the same kind by ghosts, a divination game from a ghost, foreseeing danger in advance.
With these in mind, Ye Zun walked barefoot on the floor.
Five cards came in through the gap under the door.
“Gege, pick one,” a child’s voice said, with a cold eeriness, a sound only separated by a door.
Ye Zun turned over the second to last one.
There was a picture of a door that opened in the dark, and a terrifying eye emerged from the open gap.
“A scary person is peeping at Gege from behind, ah, so scary!” It was unknown whether the child outside the door was screaming or laughing as they jumped and ran away.
Only the card in Ye Zun’s hand still remained. The reality glowing on the card was spine-chilling.
Who was this peeping person? What were they doing?
Ye Zun placed the card in the drawer and returned to the bed to lay down.
At half past eight, there was only silence.
The door of the bedroom suddenly opened.
It was so sudden that it almost made someone sit up in shock.
But after Ye Zun reacted, he subconsciously slowed down his breathing, closed his eyes and did not move.
The creaking sound was slow and the door was slowly pushed open, there were no sounds of footsteps coming in.
In the dead silence, there was only the sound of a stopwatch ticking and Ye Zun’s slow breathing.
After around three minutes had passed, the door was slowly closed again, and the sound of leaving footsteps gradually faded away.
The other person left.
Ye Zun didn’t dare to open his eyes.
After around five minutes had passed, the door suddenly pulled open again, as if the person outside knew that the person inside was cheating and was catching the opponent off guard.
But because of Ye Zun’s cautiousness, the other party failed to find the evidence.
This time, the other party closed the door resentfully and walked away.
Ye Zun still didn’t move. After about ten minutes, his eyelashes trembled. He pretended to roll over, then slowly opened his eyes slightly, tentatively.
There was nothing in the room, and there was no movement outside the door.
He glanced at the clock; it was eight fifty-five.
Who was the person investigating in the night just then?
…… “When we were young, we had to go to bed at eight o’clock. If we weren’t lying in bed after half past eight, we would be hit.”
Thinking of Er-gugu’s words, and the warning from Gu-laolao before going to bed, the strange person who stood at the door waiting to catch him, was it Gu-laolao?
Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
Divination from a ghost
Walking out of the room where the portrait was displayed, Er-gufu and the others spoke to Ye Zun with comforting words, saying that in general, the family likes children very much and that he will live a good life from here on out.
At this time, a boy walked down the stairs.
As soon as he appeared, everyone noticed him. They immediately stopped talking and looked at him.
In particular, Gu-laolao, with a smile that took over her whole face, stretched out her hand to protect him as if afraid he would not be able to walk steadily and would fall down the steps.
“Yo*, has Gege* woken up?”
[T/N: 哟, sound of surprise/an exclamation]
[T/N: since they are also minding Ye Zun, they call the boy Gege/older brother to help Ye Zun acclimatise]
The boy appeared to be one year older than Ye Zun, but not yet five years old. He looked very domineering, and when he got downstairs, he ignored everyone and sat in the middle of the couch, then took out a tablet and started playing.
The others surrounded him with greetings, asking him how he was, whether he wanted to eat or drink water, whether he was tired. He didn’t even lift his eyes, as if he wasn’t listening at all, only occasionally giving an “en”. The others laughed, agreeing “yes, yes, yes”, and went to complete his demands right away.
Gu-laolao looked at him with a particularly doting look, a smile that proved how much she liked him no matter how one looked at it, and she simply granted every request.
The boy’s skin was white as porcelain and slightly cold, fairer than all the women in the household. His eyelashes were very long, and his appearance was even more exquisite. His eye sockets sunk a little deep and he had a high nose bridge. The colour of his eyes and hair were both very dark, his lips were rosy like petals, and his black hair was slightly long and a little wavy.
Although it can be seen that he carried some mixed blood, the countries mixed together couldn’t be seen.
In comparison, the two twin girls who came downstairs after him contrasted his appearance, both dark and fat.
But the little girls were a cute pair, very adorable.
Seeming to be a little wary of the stranger, the two peeked timidly at Ye Zun with their black grape-like eyes, holding each other’s hand and muttering to each other.
Everyone’s attention was drawn to the big brother, and ignored the two younger children and Ye Zun.
“Child, your Gufu asked if you want to go to Disney World to play in the afternoon. He happens to be free, as well as your Er-gugu…”
“Not going.” The boy’s voice was flat, and he did not even raise his head.
“You ya, don’t just stay at home to play games all the time.” Gu-laolao scolded, her eyes full of fondness. She saw Ye Zun and seemed to think of something. “Look, this is your new Didi* who just arrived, his name is Chengting. Come say hello, you two must get along well in the future ah.”
[T/N: little brother]
She said that he was a new little brother who just arrived, but it just sounded like he was a brand new toy.
The boy raised his eyes to look at Ye Zun. His gaze paused for a while. The raising of his eyes showed that he didn’t have some kind of introverted personality, but he simply didn’t care about anyone. He was so young, but his casual demeanour made him seem like he was used to this.
“Hello,” he said to Ye Zun.
As someone who was mute, Ye Zun could only nod his head.
The other party didn’t want to converse. After saying hello, he lowered his head again to stare at the tablet in his hand. In fact, when he glanced at Ye Zun just then, his eyes only stopped on his face, without even the most basic eye contact and curiosity.
Ye Zun was somewhat puzzled. The boy was the same as Ye Zun, addressing the older man as ‘Gufu’ and the two women as ‘Gugu’.
Whose child was he then?
“This is Gege. From now on, you must get along well,” Gu-laolao said to Ye Zun.
The rest of the family members stood there chatting, glanced at the boy sitting in the middle of the couch from time to time, and discussed Ye Zun’s admission to kindergarten.
Gu-laolao expressed that they were in no hurry and that they should take him to see a doctor first, concerned about whether his vocal cords could be healed.
The neglected twin girls seemed to be slowly getting used to Ye Zun’s existence, and the originally timid and secret sneaky looks became direct.
The one who looked younger let go of her big sister’s hand and ran to Ye Zun, pulling at his arm and swaying them. “Gege, play with me, will you play with me ma.”
The adults were still talking and everyone was standing; the atmosphere was not one where they could play around casually. As the new child in the family, Ye Zun must understand the rules.
He shook his head and made a shushing gesture, hoping that the little girl would wait for a little while.
The little girl let go of him while pouting and ran back to her older sister unhappily to complain about Gege for ignoring her. Her sister still stood there quietly with her lips slightly pursed.
Gu-laolao stood up and said, “The dessert I asked the kitchen to prepare is probably ready by now ba. Gege must be hungry, I will go and have a look.”
While talking about taking Ye Zun for a body check-up in the afternoon, Gu-laolao suddenly remembered what was happening in the kitchen. Er-gugu immediately accompanied her with understanding.
Er-gufu smiled and looked at Ye Zun. “I’m going upstairs to get some things and I’ll contact the hospital and the doctor while I’m there. If you want to watch some cartoons, the remote control is on the coffee table.”
San-gugu who stayed behind frowned slightly. With what was either disgust or boredom in her complicated eyes, she glanced at the boy who was sitting on the couch like a young master, and then glanced at Ye Zun.
“I’m going back to my room first.” She seemed to have been enduring the hypocritical and boring time-wasting greetings from her family and had reached the limit of her patience. Without a sliver of patience left to put on a show, she simply went upstairs.
The twins at the stairway raised their eyes and looked at the two people who went up the stairs one after the other. They gave way as if they were a little scared, and looked at Ye Zun together.
Ye Zun also looked at them. He felt that this family seemed to value males far more than they did females*; almost not a single person minded the two little girls.
[T/N: 男轻女]
He was about to walk over to play with the little girl who just acted coquettishly.
“That’s great, Gege is going to play with us.”
At this moment, the twins who were standing on the stairs holding hands and watching him suddenly smiled, grinning widely.
The quiet big sister’s open mouth was a blood red hole. She had no tongue, and blood gushed out with no end.
The black grape-like eyes of the giggling little girl next to her suddenly fell out, leaving only black and bloody sockets on her face.
In the daytime living room, just after the crowd had left, Ye Zun was startled by the fact that the two children were ghosts. His heart stopped beating.
He walked back, one step after another, subconsciously retreating to the couch. He touched the back of the couch.
As he approached the boy on the couch, the terrifying apparition of the twins disappeared from view for an instant.
Ye Zun looked around nervously but didn’t see them again.
The voices of the adults talking in another room could still be heard faintly. Sunbeams entered from the balcony and windows. The atmosphere in the afternoon should be warm and comfortable, if he didn’t meet ghosts in plain daylight.
“Little mute*.” A light, slow and lazy voice, carrying no emotion.
[TN: 小哑巴/xiao-yaba]
Ye Zun immediately looked at the boy on the couch.
The other boy looked up at Ye Zun, with slightly long wavy hair hanging over his eyebrows, and condescendingly said to him like a young master, “Want to come over and sit?”
Ye Zun scanned the environment with a heavy heart. Although the ghosts did not come out again, he could also feel that the room was very cold, as if something was spying on him with malicious intent.
Although he didn’t know why, it seemed that after he approached the boy, the two ghosts disappeared.
Thinking of this, he sat down on the couch next to the boy, but not too close.
The attitude of the other boy was not like that of a relative or someone friendly, he had no desire to get close to anyone. Ye Zun himself was also not someone who liked to be close to others.
But he still saw the tablet in the boy’s hand with one glance. The boy didn’t seem to be playing a game, but was drawing something. There were strange and complicated patterns, and he couldn’t tell what it was.
Very quickly, the two women who had gone to the kitchen came out with the hired-worker aunt.
They chatted and laughed, and placed the rich desserts for the afternoon tea on the table, creating a pleasant and harmonious atmosphere.
The boy didn’t pay attention to them, and didn’t care if they were loud and annoying when they were chatting next to him. He also didn’t take the initiative to eat. Occasionally, Gu-laolao would take the initiative to bring some food to his mouth to coax and persuade him, and he would only take a bite depending on his mood.
Ye Zun sat on the side, watching the《 Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf 》show they put on for him, but his mind always paid attention to the surroundings of the room.
He had a persistent feeling that the twin girls were still there.
“Are you not going to try? It doesn’t taste bad.” The boy looked at Ye Zun, his delicate face and eyes looked a little cold and lazy. Such an expression appeared on the face of a four-or-so year old child, and there was a somewhat hard-to-explain and unknown meaning to it.
Under his gaze, Ye Zun tasted a piece of every dessert he was handed.
“Our Gege is really sensible, he knows how to take care of his Didi.” Gu-laolao immediately praised.
In the afternoon, Ye Zun was taken to the hospital for a comprehensive examination as planned.
“…the possibility of vocal cord recovery is very unlikely…”
Ye Zun couldn’t understand a series of medical terms, but he heard the final conclusion.
Er-gufu had a faint smile of politeness and courtesy on his face, as well as a little sympathy.
Gu-laolao who heard the conclusion also sighed and nodded, but she felt that there were no real regrets.
“Then, Mum, I will go and prepare the things for his school admission.”
“En, go ba.”
The day passed quickly and the sky turned dark.
During the day, through the conversations between several women in the living room, Ye Zun came to know some of this family’s circumstances.
He learned that the second aunt and her husband did not have any children, and it seemed that it was because Er-gugu’s body had difficulty conceiving.
The third aunt was young and unmarried, so the twins obviously couldn’t be her children.
The only guess left could be that Da-gugu* who never appeared, but no one talked about her.
[T/N: oldest aunt]
No matter what one said, it was definitely not normal for there to be two scary ghosts in this house.
“Come, see if you like it, this is your bedroom.”
They prepared a room for Ye Zun on the fifth floor.
The room was decorated with a lot of thought and had various installations suitable for children: a bed that also served as a slide, illustrations that looked like picture books on the wall, flooring that prevented falling, and many toys.
If there was a real child, they would probably feel like this was heaven.
Ye Zun nodded to the second aunt and her husband who led him upstairs, smiling to show his thanks.
The relationship between the second aunt and her husband seemed to be very good, and they stuck together wherever they went. “Go wash up and sleep early ba.”
It was not yet eight o’clock in the evening, but the children at home were already being sent to bed.
“Your Nainai’s* rules are very strict. When we were young, we had to go to bed at eight o’clock. If we weren’t lying in bed after half past eight, we would be hit,” Er-gugu said with a smile.
[T/N: 奶奶/nainai, grandma on your father’s side]
The grandma she was talking about was his great aunt. After being adopted, Ye Zun was meant to call her Nainai.
The bathroom was located at the corner of the fifth floor.
An auntie* got the water ready before going out.
[T/N: 阿姨/A-yi, I’m just assuming this is a hired worker/housekeeper]
It appeared to be specially prepared for children, and there is no problem with the height and safety. Ye Zun finished washing inside all by himself.
When he came out, he saw Gu-laolao looking at the bathroom with satisfaction.
“Very good, I like children who are clean, self-disciplined and independent.”
There was a strange feeling, like being inspected and passed by a school dean.
Ye Zun returned to his room. The clock showed that it was ten past eight.
Gu-laolao stood at the doorway and didn’t come in. She held the door and poked her head in, watching him lying on the bed.
She turned off the light in the room, and said to Ye Zun with some sternness, “You must sleep at half past eight, no bed-wetting is allowed. You need to wake up early tomorrow, and you can not sleep in. Have you committed these to memory?”
Remembering that Ye Zun was mute, she didn’t wait for his reply. She retracted her head and closed the door.
The moonlight outside the window spilled in through the curtains, so it wasn’t very dark inside.
Ye Zun had never tried to go to bed so early, and with the incident involving the twins during the day, he couldn’t fall asleep.
Tip tap, tip tapping sound of footsteps, like a child on their toes playing hopscotch.
Ye Zun’s heart skipped a beat. He opened his eyes and held his breath.
The sound went silent for a while, and just when it made people think it was a hallucination, it suddenly sounded again. This time, the sound was more clear and unmistakable, accompanied by a girl’s shrill laughter.
A card was pushed in under the door and Ye Zun saw it clear as day.
“Come and play a game ba, come and play a game with me ah.”
A transparent greyish-white dialogue box popped up, with the bloody words:【 Due to the Pupil of Sin title worn by the player, some ghosts regard you as the same kind. You have received an invitation to the divination game from the ghost, and the result of divination will help the player foresee danger in advance. 】
Being regarded as the same kind by ghosts, a divination game from a ghost, foreseeing danger in advance.
With these in mind, Ye Zun walked barefoot on the floor.
Five cards came in through the gap under the door.
“Gege, pick one,” a child’s voice said, with a cold eeriness, a sound only separated by a door.
Ye Zun turned over the second to last one.
There was a picture of a door that opened in the dark, and a terrifying eye emerged from the open gap.
“A scary person is peeping at Gege from behind, ah, so scary!” It was unknown whether the child outside the door was screaming or laughing as they jumped and ran away.
Only the card in Ye Zun’s hand still remained. The reality glowing on the card was spine-chilling.
Who was this peeping person? What were they doing?
Ye Zun placed the card in the drawer and returned to the bed to lay down.
At half past eight, there was only silence.
The door of the bedroom suddenly opened.
It was so sudden that it almost made someone sit up in shock.
But after Ye Zun reacted, he subconsciously slowed down his breathing, closed his eyes and did not move.
The creaking sound was slow and the door was slowly pushed open, there were no sounds of footsteps coming in.
In the dead silence, there was only the sound of a stopwatch ticking and Ye Zun’s slow breathing.
After around three minutes had passed, the door was slowly closed again, and the sound of leaving footsteps gradually faded away.
The other person left.
Ye Zun didn’t dare to open his eyes.
After around five minutes had passed, the door suddenly pulled open again, as if the person outside knew that the person inside was cheating and was catching the opponent off guard.
But because of Ye Zun’s cautiousness, the other party failed to find the evidence.
This time, the other party closed the door resentfully and walked away.
Ye Zun still didn’t move. After about ten minutes, his eyelashes trembled. He pretended to roll over, then slowly opened his eyes slightly, tentatively.
There was nothing in the room, and there was no movement outside the door.
He glanced at the clock; it was eight fifty-five.
Who was the person investigating in the night just then?
…… “When we were young, we had to go to bed at eight o’clock. If we weren’t lying in bed after half past eight, we would be hit.”
Thinking of Er-gugu’s words, and the warning from Gu-laolao before going to bed, the strange person who stood at the door waiting to catch him, was it Gu-laolao?
