Back at No. 444, it was exactly one o'clock in the middle of the night.

Wen Chuchu still remembered the hanged ghost last night, and felt uneasy: "Will something happen today?"

"not sure."

Xu Qingchuan hesitated and said: "However...you should have discovered that, although the trial of 'Graveyard Enshrining' has been completed, the progress of the task has not improved, and it is still at 2/4."

After solving the pen fairy and the hanged ghost, the system has broadcast the progress and asked them to choose the subtitle of the segmented movie.

Not this time.

"This trial is enshrined in the cemetery. In terms of difficulty, it is indeed the lowest."

Bai Shuangxing nodded: "We only have the last trial of 'chasing the moon' left, but there are still two main tasks that have not been done..."

"Will the extra one be a wraith like the hanged ghost? Or—"

Wen Chuchu thought for a moment, and his eyes lit up: "By the way, the ending! Didn't we discuss it before? These three trials are too fragmented to piece together the main plot, and according to the movie model, like this kind of unit story, the last sceneThere is a high probability that it will conclude the chapter, string all the previous characters together, and solve the puzzle.”

Xu Qingchuan: "What puzzle?"

"I don't know."

Wen Chuchu scratched her head: "Maybe...we have to complete the trial first, and then we can advance the plot when we meet Master Baili?"

They lived on the third floor, and while chatting, they had already arrived at the door of the guest room.

Just as he was talking, there was a sudden sound of extremely light footsteps in the corridor.

Bai Shuangxing followed the sound and saw that it was the landlord.

"You are back."

The slightly fat middle-aged man walked out of the stairwell slowly, caught a glimpse of them, and smiled honestly: "It's so late, why don't you go to sleep?"

"We are discussing about the trial."

Bai Shuangxing looked as usual, and smiled back: "How is Master Baili? We made a special trip to worship her as our teacher. After learning that Master was not in good health, we were worried all day long and wanted to see her very much."

What a frightened one.

Xu Qingchuan looked at her silently, only to see that this person frowned, pursed his lips, and looked worried.

Just like an Oscar queen.

She has said so, and the landlord is not very good at showing a tough attitude: "Master is unwell and needs to rest. You will see her after the trial is over."

He paused, as if to change the subject, and looked at Wen Chuchu on the other side, with a simple and honest smile: "Have you been frightened these two days? This little girl's face is pale to me."

Wen Chuchu didn't like this weird man, so she simply replied: "It's okay."

"It's easiest to think wildly at night. If you're scared, why not ask your friend to sleep with you tonight."

The landlord had a flattering smile on his face: "I live next door to you, call me if you need anything."

He left after finishing speaking, and the remaining three could only say good night to each other.

Before closing the door, Bai Shuang did not forget to ask Wen Chuchu: "Will you come to sleep in my room tonight?"

Wen Chuchu blushed and shook her head: "No, no, I'm not that timid. That person is really, obviously Xu Qingchuan's face is the worst, why does he insist that I'm scared?"

After she finished speaking, she paused for a while, glanced at the empty night outside the window, and coughed lightly: "How about... Let's be together."

According to the experience summed up by the predecessors, there is an unwritten rule in Bai Ye, under normal circumstances, ghosts will not kill people in their sleep.

After confirming that there was no abnormality in the room, Bai Shuangxing brought Wen Chuchu into the room.Fortunately, it was Christmas Eve.

When they woke up the next day, the three of them were unscathed.

"It was fine last night."

Xu Qingchuan breathed a sigh of relief: "The ghosts didn't make a surprise attack, and we have two tasks left... One is the trial of "Chasing the Moon", and the other is probably the end of the main storyline."

"The main line of the whole movie must be related to Master Baili."

Bai Shuangxing nodded: "After completing the trial, we will be able to see her. But before that—"

She paused: "Aren't you hungry?"

after an hour.

"It's so supportive!"

Walking out of the ramen restaurant, Wen Chuchu patted her belly: "It feels like returning to the real world from a horror movie, it's come alive!"

"I feel so too."

Xu Qingchuan said: "Do you feel that when you stay in Building 444, the air pressure around you is much lower than outside, and it's still chilly? Is there bad Fengshui there?"

Wen Chuchu shook his head: "Master Baili is in this line of work, so he shouldn't be living in a haunted house."

That's true.

Xu Qingchuan was persuaded by her, thoughtful.

Bai Shuangxing listened to the two of them talking, his eyes inadvertently swept across the street, and when he landed on a certain place, he stopped.

Wen Chuchu and Xu Qingchuan also heard the sound, looked curiously, and took a breath of air at the same time.

The door of a house not far away was opened, and a little girl ran out from inside.

The child was wearing thin clothes, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and behind her was an angry man who kept yelling.

"You still dare to run away! I must take care of you today!"

A few vulgar words popped out of the man's mouth, he grabbed the girl's collar effortlessly, and waved his right hand.

Before the slap fell, a thin boy ran quickly to protect the girl behind him, and took the slap abruptly.

The man was even angrier: "Little brat, get out!"

Seeing that he was about to raise his hand again, Bai Shuangxing frowned and stepped forward, unexpectedly, just as he took a step, a wind-like shadow passed beside him.

Quick, clean and neat, the action is done in one go.

The man trotted closer, grasped the man's right hand familiarly, and twisted the man's arm behind him in a short moment before anyone had time to react.

The bones were dislocated, and under the severe pain, the man let out a heart-piercing wail.

"……Wow."

Xu Qingchuan stared blankly at the man's movements: "Wen Chuchu, is this so powerful?"

Hoarfrost Walk: ...

Bai Shuangxing: "I almost forgot, she is a student of the police academy."

The man who was restrained by Wen Chuchu was furious: "Fuck, what are you doing!"

Wen Chuchu gritted her teeth: "What were you doing just now?!"

"I'm teaching the kids a lesson, you bitch, why are you joining in the fun!"

The man cursed loudly, but because of his poor skills, he was so suppressed that he couldn't move. He wanted to resist and was almost punched.

The reason for "almost" is that before Wen Chuchu's fist hit, Bai Shuangxing held her arm and looked at the two children.

Wen Chuchu immediately understood what she meant.

The two children are the man's punching bag. If she gives the man a hard lesson, the other party will definitely take his anger out on the children.

... scum.

Wen Chuchu pursed her lips and let go of her grip.

"What, you still want to beat me? I told you——"

The man was even more arrogant, his face was red and his neck was thick. While he was yelling, several middle-aged aunts wearing red armbands rushed over.

It looks like a neighborhood committee.

"Why are you arguing with someone again?"

The leading woman took a few steps forward: "Okay, okay, don't you still have to go to work?"

She is used to such things, and she is very familiar with her words and actions.

The man was still cursing, checking the time on his phone, and before leaving, he didn't forget to give Wen Chuchu a look: "If it's not for work... don't let me see you again, bad luck!"

Bai Shuangxing let out a low chuckle when he heard it, and was looked at by Xu Qingchuan in confusion.

"He's saving face for himself."

Her tone was very light: "This person can't beat Wen Chuchu, so he can only increase his arrogance by speaking harshly; as for going to work, it's just an excuse for him to run away."

He was in no hurry to go to work when he hit the two kids.

After the man left, the leading middle-aged woman felt relieved and looked at the boy's red and swollen side face: "He did it again?"

Wen Chuchu frowned: "Does that person beat them often?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Shuangxing beside her suddenly raised her hand and handed over a piece of clean toilet paper.

Wen Chuchu was stunned for a moment, and after realizing it, she wiped the place on her palm that touched the man with a tissue.

The woman sighed: "Well, he has a bad temper, so try not to conflict with him."

Xu Qingchuan said: "Can't handle it?"

"How to deal with it?"

The woman smiled wryly: "Every time we mediate, he only beats the child harder."

"It's unreasonable to talk to that kind of person."

An old lady who was watching shook her head: "The anger he suffers will only get worse and vent on the child."

nerve-wracking.

Bai Shuang turned around and looked at the two children behind him.

She still remembered that the brothers and sisters were called...Jiang Yu and Jiang Mian.

The younger sister Jiang Mian seemed to be frightened, her tears couldn't stop falling, she bit her lip hard, and kept silent.

As an older brother, Jiang Yu was softly comforting him. He noticed Bai Shuangxing's gaze and cautiously cast a searching gaze.

Like a wary rabbit.

Living under domestic violence for a long time, such children are often more cautious and precocious than their peers, and they also know how to read words and emotions.

"He left already."

Bai Shuang took a few steps forward, knelt down in front of the two children, took out a tissue, and wiped Jiang Mian's eyes: "It's okay to cry aloud."

The siblings are very thin.

Both Jiang Yu and Jiang Mian had very delicate facial features, willow-leaf eyes, and a high nose bridge. In an ordinary family, they must be loved by the whole family.

But getting closer, and looking carefully, the child's cheeks are sunken, without a trace of baby fat, and there are many small scars from the past on the side face that should be white as porcelain.

Her movements were gentle, her fingers were white and slender, and she held the tissue and slowly brushed it across the girl's face.

Jiang Mian raised her eyes quietly and met her gaze.

Compared with her brother, the girl's eyes are rounder and clearer. After being soaked in tears, they glow as clear as a lake.

Timid, very cute.

Bai Shuangxing is not good at getting along with rambunctious brats. Fortunately, the two kids seem to be very well behaved.

Her tone was very light: "remember me?"

Jiang Mian pursed her lips without making a sound, quietly lowered her gaze, and glanced at her ankles.

"Better now, thanks for the Band-Aid."

Bai Shuang raised her lips and smiled, was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "Have you seen magic tricks?"

The girl shook her head in a daze, while Jiang Yue quietly looked at her.

"There's nothing in this hand."

Bai Shuangxing spread out his left hand, indicating that there was nothing in his hand, and immediately clenched his left hand into a fist, stretched out his open right hand, and grasped the air a few times.

When the palm of her right hand was pressed against the fist of her left hand, she smiled and said, "Look."

The right hand is raised and the left hand is opened.

——In the palm of his left hand, there were two Band-Aids lying quietly.

Unreasonable, unable to see where it came from, it just appeared in her hands without warning.

Like a whimsical miracle.

The girl forgot to cry for a moment, her eyes widened in surprise.

The next moment, Bai Shuangxing tore off a band-aid, and gently pasted the small scar on her side face.

Movements are as soft as water.

Jiang Mian stared at her blankly.

"Have you been to the doctor?"

Bai Shuang stood up and looked at the other child.

Jiang Yue was a very guarded boy, when he met her eyes, his whole body tensed up.

He slapped his sister in the face, and the tender flesh on his face was scratched by his nails, revealing ferocious red marks.

Bai Shuangxing tore off the remaining band-aid, bent down and lowered his head, and stuck it on the broken blood on his right cheek.

I don't know whether it was because of awkwardness or embarrassment. The child never looked into her eyes. After a while, he suddenly whispered: "That... how did it come out?"

He was asking how magic works.

It's really just a simple trick.

The Band-Aid was what she bought this morning to protect the wound on her ankle; the magic was an entry-level one, which took advantage of the deviation and dislocation of vision.

Bai Shuang blinked.

"Ok"

She smiled silently, stretched out her right hand unexpectedly, and touched his head: "Take it as the good luck the world has given you."

His subordinate's body seemed to freeze instantly, but unfortunately with his head down, Bai Shuangxing couldn't see his expression.

"Ugh……"

The old lady who had been standing by the side watching couldn't bear it: "It's better to send it to the hospital and see a doctor."

Wen Chuchu is a warm-hearted person, and immediately responded after hearing the words: "Is there any hospital nearby?"

Before the old lady could make a sound, the woman in the red armband answered, "It's less than two kilometers away from here. Do you want to send them to the hospital? Don't bother you, our neighborhood committee can do it."

"Then thank you."

Bai Shuangxing thought of something, and changed the topic: "We just moved into Building 444, and we may meet again when we have a chance in the future."

Her tone was as usual, and after she finished speaking, she carefully observed the expression on the woman's face.

If there is really a problem with that building, the other party will definitely show a strange expression.

Unfortunately, the woman only replied slightly surprised: "Really? I thought that house was not for rent."

She didn't understand 444 either.

Bai Shuangxing was a little disappointed, turned around inadvertently, and found that the old lady beside him changed her face.

"Number 444?"

She looked wary: "What do you do living there?"

Xu Qingchuan knew something was going on: "What's wrong?"

The woman with the red armband glanced at him: "It's unlucky, that house number is one in a thousand—you shouldn't be superstitious, right?"

"More than that."

The old lady said: "There lived a woman from Baili, who didn't go out all day, who knew what was going on in the dark? In my hometown, these kind of shady warlocks were all researching—"

She looked serious and said in a serious tone, "Witchcraft."

Wen Chuchu: "Evil, sorcery?"

"You must be careful, move out if you can."

The old lady said in a deep voice, "I passed by there one night, and saw black smoke coming out of her window, it was sinister and weird."

sorcery.

Bai Shuang thought, this is really possible.

Master Baili kept his door closed and saw no one. He didn't treat the three of them like a master and apprentice, but rather wanted them to die quickly.

An upright Taoist priest probably wouldn't be able to do such a thing.

People from the neighborhood committee took the two children to the hospital. The three thanked the old lady and turned back to Building 444.

From seeing Jiang Yu Jiang Mian to the end of everything, it took less than an hour.

On the way back, Xu Qingchuan was in a daze.

Seeing that he was silent, Bai Shuangxing asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"It's just a little uncomfortable."

Xu Qingchuan smiled embarrassingly: "I have read many self-reports of people who have experienced Baiye, and I have also entered Baiye. No matter who it is, no matter which scene it is in, the goal is to survive-after all, Baiye is full of demons and ghosts. It is very difficult.Be considerate of others."

For almost everyone, the characters in Bai Ye are equivalent to virtual NPCs in the game.

It's meaningless and worthless. It's just an appendage in a challenge. Its only purpose is to provide the challengers with favorable clues.

What's more, they simply use the people in the white night as human shields to ensure that they can pass the level.

People like Bai Shuangxing and Wen Chuchu who spend their time on "NPCs" are not very common.

Wen Chuchu didn't even think about it: "You can't watch children being bullied in front of you, right?"

She paused: "...Even if they are not real."

Bai Shuang smiled, turned his eyes away from her, and looked at Xu Qingchuan: "Don't you think that everything we see is similar to reality?"

"About the reason for the formation of white nights, the most accepted by the public is brain waves."

She said: "One person's consciousness certainly cannot form such a huge scene. Maybe this is the superposition of brain waves of many people."

There is indeed such a saying.

"Although it's just a wisp of consciousness—"

Bai Shuangxing was silent for a moment, and said softly: "But they can also think, have emotions, and feel pain. In a sense, they are no different from humans."

Consciousness is not a living being, has no entity, no future, and no hope of changing destiny.

In the past ten years, the consciousness of those two children can only cycle through this dark day over and over again, living in beatings and insults every day.

Today, ten years later, if they can treat them with even a little tenderness, that consciousness, electric wave, or soul...

No matter what it is, there is always short-lived relief.

Bai Shuangxing said with a smile: "Besides, this kind of effort does not take time. Look, we didn't delay the investigation."

Xu Qingchuan turned to look at her.

When we first met, he thought she was a quiet and gentle lady from a rich family who was pampered and grew up without any complicated thoughts.

After going through trials again and again, he gradually changed his view of Bai Shuangxing. What he wanted to say was like a knife wrapped in soft petals, gentle and weak, but sharp.

But now... Xu Qingchuan couldn't understand her again.

The rising sun was in full bloom, and the sunlight fell on her face like water, passing over the eyelashes, the tip of the nose and the corners of the crimson mouth in turn.

Passing under the tree, the light and shadow intersected, Bai Shuangxing silently raised his eyes.

For the first time, she showed a shy expression, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and a few golden lights sprinkled in her eyes:

"Even if it's just a small ray of soul... I should hope to be protected and comforted."