Chapter 76: Wish (2/2)
“Wish…”
“… My wish is… I wish that my daughter would never be killed by ghosts!”
The voice was fleeting, merely echoing through Liu Xiyu’s ears, as though it had never emerged in the first place, fading into nothingness without a trace.
It’s been a while since she’s last heard her mom’s voice, and so, Liu Xiyu’s tears fell like rainwater.
Her tears continuously fell one by one, landing on top of the photo and flowing down her mom’s photo.
She didn’t understand what these words meant, but after hearing her voice, the only emotion she could feel was being wronged. If her mother was in her dream, why didn’t she meet with her? Didn’t she know how much Liu Xiyu missed her…
Liu Xiyu hugged the picture and drooped her head, emitting quiet sobs. Bai Yan and the others didn’t hear the voice and could only hear Liu Xiyu’s cries, unconsciously becoming somewhat puzzled.
Before anyone could analyze what was between Liu Xiyu’s crying and the posthumous picture, the scene in front of their eyes abruptly transformed into something else.
After their dizziness had passed, they bizarrely appeared in front of the ticket booth. Tom disappeared out of sight, while Liu Xiyu was still hugging the picture and crying in front of them.
Right at the next second, the sky began to fall, shattering into small pieces.
Bai Yan hurriedly lowered his head and saw that the app had already illuminated the return button, signifying that Liu Xiyu was about to wake up.
Liu Xiyu was about to regain consciousness, which meant that the dream world was going to be destroyed. Although the last game was unexpectedly easy, it was a pleasant surprise for the surviving three as they pressed the return button one after another.
After the three left, this world was abruptly torn apart. Liu Xiyu groggily kneaded her eyes and turned to the side, getting up from her bed into a sitting position.
“Mom…”
Liu Xiyu wiped away her tears because when she was sleeping, she had actually cried.
She lifted her hand to open the lights, and the warm lighting made her feel a bit better.
She took out the picture under her pillow, this was a family picture of the three of them.
Dad, mom, as well as her.
In the picture, she was standing in between her mom and dad, smiling in complete bliss.
During the day, dad was busy with work, and outside of that time, he was asking for help to look for her mom. During the evening, he was also busy sorting out matters about mom.
Every night, she only felt a sense of safety when resting her head against the family picture.
Liu Xiyu gazed at the picture, thinking back to the time when her mom was still there and how happy the three of them were. At that time, her dad wasn’t as haggard as he was now.
Ever since mom went missing, not only her, but dad also aged a lot during a short amount of time, even starting to grow white hair on his head.
While looking at the picture, Liu Xiyu gradually became despondent.
She stared at the picture of her mom in a daze. Her mom was so beautiful. She was wearing a pretty dress while holding her hand. Her mom’s eyes were filled with love as she looked at her. But as if she felt her mood, her mom in the picture suddenly turned her eyes and looked straight at her…
Looked straight at her…
Liu Xiyu felt extraordinarily touched, but she was only excited for a moment. Then, she suddenly came to realize, how could the eyes of a person in a picture move?
She nervously bit her lip and looked at her mom in the photo. Her mom fixed her gaze right onto her while a strange laugh echoed in her head.
What was even stranger was that inside the photo, her mom’s face was deathly pale, and her eyes became extremely threatening. Liu Xiyu moved her eyes. The person in the picture seemed to come to life, and when she shot a glance at it, her mom’s eyes would meet her gaze.
Her mom was always paying attention to her…
The woman’s eyes in the picture kept on moving. When Liu Xiyu quickly shifted her gaze onto the picture and didn’t move, the woman in the photo’s eyes also didn’t move.
Yet, when she fixed her gaze on Liu Xiyu, her strange smile became bigger and bigger as her head gradually stretched forward from the picture. Perhaps it wouldn’t take much time before she would come out of the photo…
Liu Xiyu saw this scene, causing her hands to fiercely shudder, but she still didn’t throw the photo away.
She remembered her dream, remembered the posthumous photo in her dream.
She felt a cold shiver running down her spine and suddenly turned her head around, only to discover that the bottle of tiny human heads, the teacher with an upside-down face… and all the other monsters came out of her dream, one after another. They all surrounded her bed, and her bed was completely blocked.
Liu Xiyu became aware of something, and terror flashed through her eyes. Her hand pinched the photo as she withdrew to her bed. However, when they saw her recoiling, the ghosts from the dream all gathered together, getting closer and closer to her.
Eternal fear engulfed Liu Xiyu’s heart. She wanted to scream, wanted to call for help, wanted to eat people… Slowly, she looked at her smirking mother, and suddenly, she wasn’t that afraid anymore.
Gradually, her mouth pulled up to the same smirk as the woman in the picture.
She lowered her forehead and extended her neck into the picture. In a blink of an eye, she disappeared from the room without a trace, and the ghosts had also disappeared with her. The room turned eerily silent, and not a single person’s shadow was in sight.
With no one holding it, the picture drifted in the wind and landed on the mattress, quietly laying at the center of the bed, motionlessly.
In the photo, the young girl’s and her mother’s complexions were pale white, and their faces contained the same smirk.
They miserably turned their heads to look at the man standing at the leftmost side, staring at him, staring at him until the middle of the night, a sound of a key unlocking a door could be heard.
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T/N: Aw man, I thought that when her mom made the wish, this story would have a happy ending :((