Invade the World

   Chapter 380 A ghost friend of mine

At noon that day, Lin Xingjie, who had just returned from the outside, ignored her mother who was calling her to take a shower and change her clothes. She was still dirty because she fell on the way home and was covered in grass and dirt— Just jumping back to his bedroom.

   She even planned to throw herself on the bed. If her mother saw this scene, she would definitely have a brain hemorrhage, and no matter how gentle her character was, she couldn't help but grab this bear child to her knees and pump her ass. Sometimes naughty kids can really drive people crazy.

   However, the moment the little girl with horns stepped into the bedroom, she suddenly stopped and her body became as stiff as a stone.

  Lin Xingjie restrained her excited expression and looked around the room cautiously. Finally, she walked to the window and asked tentatively:

   "You... are you here?"

   No response.

   "You're back again?"

  Lin Xingjie raised his hand and stretched towards the empty place. Sure enough, faint ripples appeared in the place where the index finger touched, and the transparent air seemed to have a solid body.

   [Well, I am. ]

   Suddenly, such an inexplicable and unreasonable thought flashed through the girl's head. In short, someone was greeting her.

   Obviously not his own thoughts, but suddenly appeared in his mind. This feeling was so weird and complicated that she couldn't even realize what was going on for a while.

   "You, did you just speak?"

  Lin Xingjie was so surprised that she almost stuttered.

   "No, no...I didn't hear a voice at all...No one spoke..."

   She almost bit her tongue.

   "Here, what's going on?!"

  [Relax, it will be alright. ]

  “…”

   The same "idea" was born again.

  Lin Xingjie seemed to finally understand, and suddenly became quiet.

  The girl sat back in her chair and sat upright in front of her desk—she had never been so serious and well-behaved in class—faced by an invisible ghost.

   When she calmed down, her emotions were no longer flustered, and curiosity, which belonged to the child's nature, once again prevailed.

   When the other party came uninvited last time, everyone just met each other, and then the ghost disappeared without a trace. It's different now, the ghost seems more patient, and even responds to itself.

   It can speak!

   Although the way of communication between the two sides is a bit strange, she felt that it might be a good opportunity to get to know each other.

   "Do you have something to say? Why did you come to see me again?"

   "Why did you appear last time? Then you disappeared again. I called for a long time and no one answered. Could it be that you haven't left?"

"Where did you go when you weren't there? Can ghosts wander around? Or after a certain period of time, you have to go back to the underworld... Uh, grandma used to say that on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the dead will die. Going back to the ground to visit relatives sounds scary."

  [Relax, I will stay here with you all the time. ]

   Lin Xingjie "heared" someone else's voice in her mind for the third time, and it was still unspeakably weird.

  Because there is no real voice, there is no difference in tone and voice, and there is no cadence in tone, it is natural that you cannot hear emotions, just like "looking" a piece of text that stays in writing.

But the surprise is that the emotional experience and communication brought about by this way of communication are actually more direct than verbal communication and text - it's as if the brain circuits of the two people are directly attached to each other, and "heart is connected to the heart" is not. Again, a metaphor, but a state of actual existence.

   She can clearly feel the emotions of the other party, a calm and gentle gaze that is full of goodwill towards herself.

   "Wow again! Who the **** are you?"

  The little girl's mouth is very sharp, she can't stop babbling, and the questions are thrown out one after another like a cannonball.

   When she stopped feeling afraid and intimidated and started to get close to people, the annoying energy came up. Of course, in the eyes of someone who sees it all with nostalgia and closeness, this is an innocent cuteness.

   "By the way, the most important question is, why did you come to me? Did something happen?"

  Lin Xingjie couldn't communicate directly with her heart like the other party, so she said it directly with her mouth, and she knew that the other party could hear it.

   Moreover, although there was no way to give feedback for the time being, she was able to receive the emotions that the other party took the initiative to convey, so Lin Xingjie quickly felt the mood of the ghost at the moment.

  —it is hesitating, hesitating.

  What are you hesitating about?

   Is there anything you can't say to me?

   Do you find it difficult to speak?

   There are still secrets to keep.

   "Could it be, you, you are really..."

   The little girl started stammering again.

   "My relatives? Grandpa, is that you? Or grandma? Grandma, I miss you so much!"

  […]

   The other party didn't speak this time, but Lin Xingjie could feel that he was speechless.

   The girl was a little embarrassed, her round face flushed slightly, and she lowered her head.

   She knew she must have guessed wrong. It is too exaggerated to actually treat others as his dead grandmother, and no one will believe it if you say it.

   However, Lin Xingjie quickly adjusted her mentality and began to ask questions in depth.

   During this process, the girl always showed great interest. After all, being able to communicate with ghosts is not something you can experience at any time.

   As for the ghosts, most of the time they are silent, and they only explain misunderstandings on certain important issues.

When    made the little girl feel at ease, it did not feel annoyed, but waited quietly for her to speak. As for sometimes being unable to answer, it doesn't seem to mean that it is unwilling or impatient, it is simply...

   can't hear.

That's right, the contact method used by the ghost is not the communication between people, it's more like she is listening to the broadcast on the radio. Sometimes she can hear it, but it can't be heard when you change the channel; it is easy to have noise and interference, changing Only a vague "rustle" remains.

   This matter was only discovered after Lin Xingjie and the ghosts communicated more frequently. Because she noticed that sometimes the communication between the two people will be dislocated, and the topics will not be next to each other, just like the occasional dislocation between the subtitles and the picture in the video.

   After Lin Xingjie repeatedly questioned, the ghost told her the truth.

   When the little girl heard that if the invisible ghost wanted to talk to her and let her hear it, it would take considerable effort, her curiosity gradually calmed down.

Although it was only the second time they met, Lin Xingjie had already vaguely regarded him as a friend, otherwise she would not have been so considerate—she might not have noticed it herself, that kind of thing that was originally just staying at the moment of first encounter, The intimacy of vague existence is now bearing fruit.

  Because she and her parents lived in a single-family house on the outskirts of the city, she had no neighbors since she was a child. She had just started elementary school, and her relationship with her classmates was not so good that she could invite friends over to play at home.

In fact, she doesn't even have many peers who can talk to her, after all, in the lower grades of elementary school, "boys play with boys, girls play with girls" is a self-evident rule, and any attempt to break this People who follow the rules will be regarded as "traitors" by both groups, but she really has nothing to chat with other little girls, and their hobbies are not the same at all.

  Although her family is by her side, she has no peers to play with in her spare time. Her mother stays at home all day, and her father stays in the basement all day. She can only run around nearby... After all, she still feels lonely.

   Therefore, the appearance of the ghost is just right.

   And think about it carefully, how exciting and amazing it sounds to be able to meet a ghost as a friend!

   After putting aside the weakness of being afraid of ghosts, this matter can be said to be completely in line with Xiao Xingjie's idea of ​​pursuing exciting adventures, wanting cooler things to appear in life, and being curious about new things.

   She also discovered one thing; the magical way of communication between herself and the ghost, you can understand each other's emotions without speaking, isn't it telepathy? This is super power!

   After getting to know each other, Lin Xingjie took good care of her ghost friend. She did not speak again with understanding, but occasionally communicated by drawing and taking notes, and sorted out the information about it after a period of time.

   The ghosts are very cooperative. In fact, it is guiding the little girl to slowly understand herself, and she doesn't care about secret exposure at all.

   First of all, about the most important issue of identity - now it seems that the ghost is really just a ghost, Lin Xingjie has never seen it before, and has no blood relationship with it.

   At first, she wondered if there was something wrong with the house. According to the common plot in ghost stories, there were people who died in this house, ghosts lingered, and so on.

   But her ghost friend was quick to deny the claim.

   The initial familiarity didn't know where it came from, but she at least knew one thing, this ghost had no malice towards herself, on the contrary, it was very friendly, not a life-threatening evil spirit.

   However, it probably came to her for some reason that I couldn't tell me...

   said "to take care" and "to be considerate", but the little girl couldn't bear her curiosity after all.

   "So, what's your purpose?"

   After hesitating for a period of time (it seems to have experienced difficult thinking and choices), the ghost friend finally gave a careful answer:

  [Would you trust me? I'm actually...a person from the future. ]

  *

  Xu Xiangyang, who came to travel the world, returned to Xingjie's side in childhood and rested in this small house. He patiently observed the people in this family. After a few days, Xu Xiangyang noticed one thing: Xingjie's past family environment seemed to be different from what he imagined.

   It's not that he has never met Lin Suya, but when they met, she was a middle-aged woman with a distressed face, completely different from the impression she had ten years ago.

   It's not a matter of appearance. From Xu Xiangyang's point of view, although Ms. Lin is now a wife, she still shows an innocent smile from time to time, indicating that she has never suffered any hardships in her life.

According to some details of life, for example, women are not very good at cooking, they are used to going to the market to buy cooked food, and they are also a bit clumsy in handling housework. Maybe Lin Suya was really a good person before marriage girly.

   She is quite concerned about her husband and daughter, but sometimes she will just stay at home and watch videos; some like to be lazy and not very diligent, but she has never given up her responsibilities as a wife and mother...

   At this time, Xu Xiangyang somewhat understood Xingjie's mood. If the family did not encounter major setbacks in the future, and just continued to live smoothly as a family of three, then Lin Suya would always be an ordinary housewife, living an ordinary and happy life forever, not Become an ineffective mother until she disappoints her daughter.

   When did all these changes start?

  Xu Xiangyang still remembers that Xingjie mentioned his father's "evaporation". The girl believes that he chose to abandon his family, leaving only the mother and daughter to depend on each other.

   But even so, is it necessary for the two of them to leave their homes and go to another city?

   There must be something he doesn't know about, happening in the near future; and, the crux of the matter lies in the last family member—

   After that, most of Xu Xiangyang's attention was focused on the "father-in-law" whom he had never met, a man named Lin Mingyuan.

  Xiao Xingjie's current life will usher in great changes in the near future, including the source of divine media power, which is likely to be related to him.

At present, the conclusion he has come to after observation is that it is not certain that Lin Mingyuan must be related to the psychic world, but his background as a scientist who has participated in experimental projects but has withdrawn, and the practice of locking himself in the basement all day, is simply a The word "suspicious" sticks to his face.

If it was just his suspicion of Lin Mingyuan, Xu Xiangyang would not be in a hurry to be frank and open, trying to find a way to reach a consensus with the young Xingjie-after all, he would still worry about whether his rash action would stimulate Xingjie's consciousness. , causing unnecessary trouble.

   But soon, another unexpected person appeared, making him realize that he could not delay any longer.

   In the face of visitors destined to bring about change (and most likely in a bad direction), Xu Xiangyang felt that no matter whether he was in the real past or not, he could not stand idly by.

   (end of this chapter)