The layout on both sides is almost mirrored, and there is no difference other than the number of house numbers in the dirt on different walls of the ward. Xie Zhifei has no time to worry about such a problem now. He just wanted to know where the kid who ran in just now went.

But the more anxious he became, his movements slowed down, his steps were light, and his breathing was deep and heavy. After all, he couldn't compare to the body that had been strengthened later. The series of movements just opened the door and ran through the small garden had already made him look a little out of breath, and the forearm muscles could feel a kind of stretched soreness.

I don't know if it was his own delusion, but he always felt that the whispering voice seemed to be louder. It seemed like someone was chatting in a low voice in the distance, but now he just walked into the restaurant where the meal was served or in the classroom after class. The voices of many people were superimposed on everything. It was obviously loud, but not a single word. Indistinguishable.

At this point, he definitely couldn't look back, grabbed the hand of the candlestick, and subconsciously tightened it. He walked all the way down the corridor on the first floor without seeing his target. Standing at the entrance of the stairs, he took another deep breath, and then walked up. He walked in a hurry, after all, if he was attacked in such a place, he would not be able to fight back.

Walking upstairs, he quickly turned his head to the side, but unfortunately there were still only a few fluorescent lights flickering on and off. He didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, "Who are you?" The young boy's voice suddenly sounded behind him. The distance was only about one meter away, and the sound seemed to explode directly behind his head!

He quickly ran two steps forward before turning back. The little boy didn't have the consciousness to follow. At the entrance of the stairs, he tilted his head, showing a puzzled look, and after seeing Xie Zhifei's face, he obviously became more puzzled, "You who is it?"

Xie Zhifei had no intention of revealing his identity, and asked the child in front of him. "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The little boy wore a denim overalls and an orange-red T-shirt, with soft blond hair, and two big eyes like green opals, blinking twice. "Elio is looking for someone."

"Looking for someone?" Xie Zhifei pointed at himself, "Me?"

"It's not you." Elio shook his head with a regretful expression.

"What kind of person are you looking for? I can help you find it together." Xie Zhifei continued the topic carefully and sighed at the information.

"It's bigger than you, much bigger." He suddenly realized that the child didn't speak Chinese, otherwise he wouldn't be able to understand it, but if it was Italian, he shouldn't be able to understand it. But every time the little boy spoke, he immediately understood what he was talking about, as if the language was his mother tongue. Even more frightening, he found that he didn't know what he was talking about...

"Gudu..." He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, turned his head to look at the glass on the wall, and used the reflection to see if he opened his mouth when he was talking, and the shape of his mouth could tell what he was talking about.

But just as he turned his face, a huge red lightning fell from the sky, like an upside-down burning tree, crooked and covered with glass. All the lights in the hospital went out at the same time.

The darkness came up like a tide, and nothing else could be seen in the thick darkness.

"Hee hee hee—" The little boy suddenly let out a happy laugh. The cold hairs on Xie Zhifei's back exploded.

"What's wrong?!" he yelled, and he wasn't in the mood to worry about what he was talking about.

"It's here!" The little boy replied happily.

"Who is here? Where is he? What is he doing here?" Xie Zhifei asked several questions in a row, hoping to get a better understanding of the current situation.

But this time the little boy didn't reply to him, he kept standing there and smiling. And his laughter was suppressed by a louder voice, that whispered sickness, as if countless people were talking frantically in your ear. He turned his head towards the source of the sound.

Another flash of lightning! He also saw clearly what was standing in front of him, and was very polite to describe what kind of thing it was. The black nameless substance constituted its main body - a humanoid creature with a height of two meters.

The shredded and broken human limbs were wrapped and stirred by this glue-like substance, and a man's blood-stained face was protruding from his chest. The black substance was surging, and a small bubble burst out on the surface of the body, as thick as oil, and the sound after the explosion was actually the whispering sound. There was clearly only one standing in front of him, but it seemed like countless people were talking at the same time.

weird? Xie Zhifei couldn't even tell what the thing in front of him was. Then the monster suddenly let out a huge roar, blood and tears flowed from the man's face, and the anger and hatred contained in the roar erupted like a volcano. Huge claws made of black matter grabbed him.

The sounds and sensations of separation were dull, as if the world was beginning to blur again. Consciousness became blurred, vision darkened, and he knew he was about to wake up. He also wanted to know more, and struggled for a moment as if he was struggling with the feeling of lethargy.

"Ten little black men went out to dinner, one choked to death and nine were left.

Nine little blacks stayed up late, one overslept and eight remained.

Eight little black men went to play in Devon, and one said that there were seven left to stay.

Seven little black men chopped sticks, one chopped himself in half and six remained. "The nursery rhyme sound came from a distance, distorted, shallowly like laughing, but also like crying.

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Chapter seventy-four: The time to wake up

Phew - Xie Zhifei let out a long breath, it felt like a drowning person, breathing long-lost air, deep, as if he wanted to inhale the whole world together, and then spit it out heavily.

He turned over, the lights in the room had not been turned off, and looking at the unfamiliar ceiling, he finally confirmed that he was dreaming just now, or that he had gone to a certain place or world in the form of a dream.

It wasn't just a more realistic dream, the rainstorm, the lightning, the smell of disinfectant in the hospital, and that nursery rhyme... He reached out and touched his chest, and the feeling of the monster's claws tearing it apart was still there. very clear.

But this strange dream trip made him understand that this city is definitely not as peaceful as it appears on the surface. There must be something hidden in the depths. But why does it show up in the form of a dream, and why does it pull itself in. These are the first questions to think about. The previous plan had to be completely overturned.

He suddenly reacted to one thing, if he was pulled into a dream, what about Ji Qinger? Did she also enter a dream? Thinking so, he stood up suddenly, opened the door, and went out. Ji Qinger slept next to him, he didn't think much, just opened the door and walked in.

As soon as he opened the door, before he could make a sound, a blue sword energy kissed his neck. "A man and a widow go abroad to go on a mission, and you can't help but be beastly?" The girl propped herself up from the bed and said lazily. "Unfortunately, I have no plans to let you succeed." The beautiful eyes turned, and the eyes were indeed sharper than the sword energy.

Only then did Xie Zhifei react. Just now, all his energy was focused on thinking about the things in that dream, and he didn't think about anything else. What does it mean to run to a girl's room by yourself in the middle of the night...

Now that she had reacted, her eyes unknowingly swept over Ji Qinger's side. This time, she didn't wear the full set of pajamas in the haunted house, but a simple all-silk dress. One arm propped up, revealing a beautiful collarbone and arm, and the silk with a full sense of falling down outlines certain curves that make people reverie.

"Gudu——" He swallowed subconsciously. ,

"I thought you had something to do, and I was going to listen to you to explain it. Now, it seems that you really want to die?" Hearing the voice of swallowing saliva, Ji Qing'er reached out and pulled the quilt with a cold expression. It's frozen. Xie Zhifei could feel that the sword qi that was against his neck pushed forward two more times, and he could already feel the cold feeling on his skin.

"No, no, I really have business!!" He shook his head like a rattle.

"Oh, tell me, if you're lying, hehe." At the same time as the last two chuckles, Xie Zhifei felt a chill in his lower body, and another sword qi pressed against an indescribable part of him. Bean-sized beads of sweat instantly poured out from his forehead.

But just as he was not afraid of the shadow, he took a deep breath, sorted out his thoughts, and said what happened just now as logically as possible.

"You mean that you had a nightmare just now, went to a weird mental hospital, and then worried that I would go in too, so come over to confirm?" Ji Qinger concluded in a simple way.

"Well, that's fine." Xie Zhifei opened his mouth and found nothing to refute.

"Why do I feel like this is a fake story?" Xie Zhifei was about to explain, but she shook her head again, "Forget it, I'll trust you." Two sword qi dissipated.

"you……"

"What? Do you want me to doubt it again?"

Xie Zhifei quickly shook his head back to the rattle.

"That's it," Ji Qinger rolled her eyes, "What information did you find?" Just now, I just described the story roughly, but Ji Qinger knew that Xie Zhifei would definitely find something else, she told him confidence even more than his own. And he didn't let him down.

"The location of the mental hospital and the nursery rhyme. Both of these should be useful. There are certainly not many mental hospitals built on the top of the mountain, especially after the scope is limited to this area of ​​​​Sicily. We should be able to find the prototype of this place. As for Second, I haven't started investigating yet."

"Then go check it out." Ji Qing'er nodded after listening, and commanded it as a matter of course.

"what?"

"Ah, how long do you want to stay here?!" The girl was angry.

Xie Zhifei only then remembered that he was in a state of rushing into the boudoir late at night, and the girl was still lying on the bed wearing only a thin underwear... and then ran away immediately. When running, he brought Ji Qinger the door.

"Virtue." The girl whispered, "You have to have the courage to be a beast." After saying this, her face flushed, she turned over and lay back, burying her head in two pillows between.

Xie Zhifei found out the source of the nursery rhyme. In fact, it is not difficult to find out, even in the famous "Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme", ten little blacks are extremely famous. "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes" is the earliest collection of nursery rhymes in the world. These folk nursery rhymes have been circulated in the UK for a long time, some for hundreds of years, with a total of more than 800 songs, including humorous stories, game songs, nursery rhymes, riddles, Lullaby, alphabet song, counting song, tongue twister, animal song, etc.

There is such a law in history, the older something is, the more dark side it tends to hide. Just like the "Book of Songs", there are also poems about the father who robbed his son's daughter-in-law when he saw his beauty, and the mother who killed his son's brother in order to make his own son the next emperor. Not so much literary embellishment, pure record.

As the earliest nursery rhyme, these things are also indispensable in the mother goose nursery rhyme, such as the most famous "Who Killed the Mockingbird" and "The Song of the Juniper Tree". One of them is a little black man. It is such a song. The lyrics describe the original ten little black people. After many twists and turns, they ended up being together with only one person. The remaining little black man felt very lonely. He hanged himself. This can also be compared to a group of people who were originally working class, but after the brutal oppression of the middle class and capitalism, they gradually withered away and did not stay until the last one.

The famous queen of reasoning, Agatha Christina, wrote a book called "AhereWereNone" ("No One Survives") based on this. But Xie Zhifei really didn't understand the meaning of this song about the oppressed death of people at the bottom of the dream.

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