Between life and death [unlimited]

Chapter 160 Dreamland

The eldest young master of the Blades family——Fernan Blades, that is, the young master who has married a wife as an adult but has been on the battlefield before, and players have never seen the young master so far.Last night, he had already returned to the manor that would belong to his name in the future.

After Jiang Lai returned from the noble school in the group again without success, the originally clear sky outside suddenly became cloudy, and soon after, lightning and thunder began, and thunder was rolling in the distance.

There was no sign of this torrential rain before it came, and it poured down directly from the sky, as if carrying a fierce and majestic momentum that God wanted to cleanse the world.

At that time, the servants of the Blades family were gathered in the kitchen on the basement floor, and they sat together in a group, eating dinner around the long table in the middle.

Because of the sudden thunderstorm and severe weather, the power of the Blades family located at the edge of the group was suddenly cut off, so the butler Ethan didn't even have time for dinner, so he took a few servants to the Repair the circuit outside.

In Jiang Shang’s impression, what he ate that night seemed to be a creamy pumpkin soup that had been boiled in a pot for a long time. In the evening, because the soup tasted a little milky and sweet, like some kind of sweets he loved, he finally ate a lot without making a sound.

Jiang Lai naturally still remembered that the small talk that might contain a lot of information was always carried out during the servant dinner, but it was also affected by this thunderstorm.

Only Mrs. Melinda, the head chef in the kitchen, that is, the honest and honest woman, worried that some timid maids would be scared in such bad weather, so she told everyone about her son who went to the battlefield , some interesting things that happened to Charles when he was a child.

Mrs. Melinda seemed to have talked a lot that night, and Jiang Xun couldn't remember exactly what kind of things they were. In short, they should be just some trivial things that happened when Charles was growing up.

But there is only one thing that Jiang Lai remembers in his mind, and that thing is also the last childhood anecdote told by Mrs. Melinda before everyone knew that Fernand Blades was back——

It seems to be about Charles always sneaking into the Blades Manor when he was a child, but Melinda worried that because Charles went out, he always had to go through the first floor, and was afraid that he, who was young and ignorant, would bump into Blades Manor. family members.

However, Mrs. Melinda couldn't control her naturally active child.Finally she found a small unblocked window above the kitchen wall, so she came up with a middle way——

She told Charles to sneak out of this child-sized window every time he went out, instead of going through the stairs, and then let him carefully avoid all the owners and slip outside to play.

Through this relatively hidden window, Charles had never bumped into any members of the Blades family, nor had he been spotted by the owners.

"But... I had a very bad dream last night."

Mrs. Melinda changed the subject in a low tone at this time, and stopped telling those interesting things about Charles when he was a child.Her eyebrows also seemed to have become a little distressed and melancholy.

The torrential rain outside had stopped at some point, but because of the power outage, there were a few burning white candles on the dining table among the crowd.

She suddenly looked at one of the half-burned candles, and sighed softly. The faint flames kept jumping in the vibrating air currents. The face that looked kind and friendly in the past was now mostly hidden in the candlelight. in the shadows.

Melinda recalled the horrible dream last night as if she still had lingering fears, and spoke quietly to everyone.

"...In the dream last night, I felt as if I was back when Charles was a child, that is, when he was only a child under ten years old... At that time, he was very naughty, and he accompanied me to work here during the summer vacation , I always want to go outside to see those beautiful flowers and plants..."

"Looking at his height in the dream, it should be the year we found that window."

"Oh, by the way, you may not have noticed, the window I mentioned just now is there." Mrs. Melinda suddenly stretched out her finger, pointing directly to a corner behind her.

So, everyone also looked in the direction she was pointing at, and sure enough, they found an inconspicuous rectangular window above the wall of the stove at the back, which was now covered with oil and dust. The size really seems to be able to accommodate only a malnourished or thin child - its diameter is only about the width of the child's shoulders.

"And then, Mrs. Melinda... what about your dreams after that? What did you dream about?"

Sitting next to Melinda, a girl who looked a little nervous and scared but couldn't hold back her curiosity continued to ask.

Melinda breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and slowly recalled the dream and said: "...After that, I heard a few more 'dang dang dang' sounds in my dream—I forgot to tell you again, this It is the 'signature' agreed upon by Charles and I. Because this window cannot always be open, otherwise it is easy to be found by the owners, so every time he wants to come back, he has to knock on the window four times first, and then I open the window lock, and let him jump in."

"At that time, I seemed to be cooking in my dream. Anyway, there was a big iron pot with two ears on the stove, and a pot of hot water was still burning in it. I heard the four familiar knuckles again. After the glass rang, I quickly put down my work, and then I opened the window."

"My Charles, my lovely son, he really looked like a little boy less than ten years old in his dream. His beautiful short red hair, gray-blue glass-like eyes, and those few on his face The freckles from the sun, everything about him looks so beautiful to me...My dearest Charles, he is the best gift God has given me."

Most of the female servants present had seen Mrs. Melinda's son before.

Therefore, after listening to Melinda's story, someone thought that Charles was still on the battlefield and hadn't returned from the army, so he took the initiative to comfort her and said, "Mrs. Came back from the battlefield!"

But at this time, Melinda seemed to be completely immersed in her own world.She didn't respond to such comforting words, but continued to recall her dream by herself.

"...I watched Charles try to get in through that window flexibly as before. I haven't seen that child for almost half a year..."

For some reason, the thunderstorm weather that had been gradually decreasing outside suddenly started to strike again.The flashes of lightning were like the moment when fireworks exploded, illuminating everyone's eyes from time to time, and the thunder from a distance sounded like a god's anger.

Those timid maids were already huddled together in fear, and the players couldn't help but have a thought in their hearts: Why does it feel like it has suddenly become a "ghost story conference"...

And after the rest of the people saw that Melinda had substituted what happened in real life into their dreams, no one dared to interrupt the poor mother's speech—maybe Melinda dreamed about these scenes because of her inner concern for her son. miss it.

"When I saw that Charles was about to climb halfway, I noticed that there was still a pot of hot water boiling on the stove. I still remember reminding him to be careful when jumping from the window..."

When Melinda recalled this, the expression on her face looked very hideous under the illumination of the lightning from behind. Several timid maids were immediately frightened by Mrs. Melinda's sudden change of face, and their breaths could not help but change. a tight.

"As a result... As a result, when Charles climbed halfway, for some reason, his body suddenly became as big as it is now, and his face no longer looks like a child-but the window is still as small as before! "

Jiang Shui made up the scene in Mrs. Melinda's vivid description - when he climbed halfway, his body suddenly became bigger, and the window should not be as wide as the waistline of an adult male. It is estimated that Mrs. Melinda's dream Charles must have been stuck in that window.

Mrs. Melinda's dream was not finished, she continued: "...Charles' waist seems to be caught in the window, but I can only watch the child moaning in pain in front of me, At that time, it was as if I was frozen by someone, and I couldn't move at all..."

"No matter how much I cried in my dream, begging God for mercy, but my poor child was stuck there. His face soon turned blue from lack of oxygen, and I saw blood coming from his body. Flowing from the waist, and then...then Charles was cut in two in front of me!"

When the timid maid heard this, she couldn't help but let out an extremely short scream in fear.

And when Melinda talked about this, she also made a voice that was almost choked up, "My poor child's upper body fell into the boiling hot water, and he kept crying to me, saying that he was in pain... ...But I couldn't move all the time, I could only watch him writhing in the hot water... Soon, his upper body became red, his skin seemed to fall off from the heat, and his body was red again And mottled white."

"My Charles . screaming in front of me for a moment..."

"He kept saying 'I hurt so much! Mom, I hurt so much...'"

The timid maids immediately hugged their heads and covered their ears, and after Melinda finished speaking, she cried as if she was going to tear her heart out, and then fainted immediately.

"Melinda, Melinda..." The rest of the servants quickly surrounded her, trying to wake her up.

Seeing this situation, a thought appeared in the minds of the players who had experienced the supernatural dungeon before - Melinda just now seemed to be possessed by something...

She kept recalling that terrible dream that she didn't want to recall, as if someone was forcing her to tell it, and she wouldn't stop if she didn't tell it.

Just when the players fell into a strange situation of looking at each other because of the sudden accident of the thunderstorm night, the servants who helped the fainted Mrs. Melinda back to the room had already walked to the corridor outside.

At this time, someone just saw the back door from the corner of her eye, and a piercing scream came out of her mouth.

"what!"

The man immediately collapsed to the ground in fright, screaming in horror: "There is a ghost... the back door is really, there is a ghost!"

Hearing this man's cry, the rest of the servants were scared out of their wits on the spot.

But when they also looked at the back door subconsciously, they found that the door that was usually not opened by the postman and the servants was opened at some point.

The violent wind and rain outside were blowing towards the corridor, and after another bright flash of lightning, everyone present could clearly see——

Standing in front of that door was an unusually tall man with a complexion as pale as ashes.

The man was still wearing a hat, but his whole body was completely drenched by the rain, but he didn't seem to feel the cold and wetness on his body, so he just walked slowly towards the servants in the corridor in a dull manner.

Amidst his heavy footsteps, the timid servant kept shouting, "No...don't come over!"

However, this man was not affected by the screams of the servants. His tall body was illuminated by the sharp lightning behind him, and he looked like a ghost who had just crawled out of hell and wanted to eat people.

After Jiang Xun and his group of players also rushed out of the restaurant, some of the servants recognized who this strange man was.

I saw that the servant did not tremble like the others and kept shrinking back in fear. Instead, he boldly stepped forward, a little unsure about what to say to the man.

But before the servant could say anything, there was a sudden call in the house, and the light bulbs above everyone's heads suddenly lit up, and the distance between the man and all the servants was less than five meters.

When Ethan, the head butler of the Blades family, led two servants back into the house through the back door, he immediately saw the road standing in the middle of the corridor that he was very familiar with and was also visited by Mrs. Jacqueline. The long-awaited tall figure.

Ethan walked forward excitedly, couldn't help holding the man's cold right hand, and said to him very affectionately:

"Young Master! You are finally back! Madame and Master have been waiting so hard for you!"

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