Why is the NPC Frightened By Me Again [Infinite Stream]

Lin Huai took the elevator to the third floor. Chu Tianshu seemed very bored, lying in the property management room.

He was humming a very boring song, his eyelids drooping, not knowing what he was thinking.

A pair of burgundy leather shoes stopped in front of his eyes.

White bubble socks, pink and white floral dress, ponytails and a pale face... It's a little girl from 202.

She stared at Chu Tianshu.

"Come to play with me?" Chu Tianshu glanced at her different expressions on weekdays, and patted the sofa beside him with his tail, "Sit down."

The little girl did not speak.

She didn't speak, and Chu Tianshu ignored her. He turned himself over and said lazily, "Don't touch my forehead, just touch my back."

"in the end……"

"Ok?"

"What the **** are you guys...?"

The little girl asked with a trembling voice.

"who?"

Chu Tianshu turned himself over again. He looked at the little girl and smiled.

Chu Tianshu: "Chordates, Mammalia, Primates, Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens."

little girl:……

Chu Tianshu: "You can also call me homosapiens."

The little girl's brain crashed: "ho...ho what?"

Chu Tianshu: "homosapiens, read to me, ho-mo-sa-pi-ens."

little girl:……

"you!"

The little girl was annoyed for a while, she stomped the floor with her red shoes, only to realize that Chu Tianshu was teasing her again. She pouted in anger, and Chu Tianshu lazily turned her face over.

After a long time, the little girl said again: "You must have a problem, you are not simple people, simple players..."

"Ok?"

"Earthquake," she said in her original vicious tone, with a bit of fear of the unknown when she said these two words, "There was an earthquake in the apartment just now... I have never seen an earthquake in the apartment!"

"Don't use you as players to coax me... I've seen many players who are not like you at all! And that earthquake is not at all..." The little girl showed a look of fear, "It's not... any player at all. Can cause! I've never seen an earthquake like this..."

Chu Tianshu: "Then you have seen it now. Isn't it good to expand the experience of life?"

little girl:……

Her fingers gripped the coffee table tightly, as if to give herself some support. After a long time, she heard Chu Tianshu sigh.

"Your character, who has to find out the root, is very similar to him when he was a child... No, even now, it is very similar."

He leaned back and looked at the snow-white ceiling, his eyes narrowed slightly.

The little girl trotted over, sat beside him, and looked at him relentlessly.

"The truth or a stable life, which one would you choose?" Chu Tianshu suddenly asked her.

The little girl was stunned. She was about to answer, but she quickly realized that this person was just asking and answering herself.

"If I use this sentence to ask the past me, I will choose the truth." Chu Tianshu looked at the sky, "It's like every young man in a fantasy story is eager to slay dragons and climb mountains and mountains. , to look for treasure... Maybe it's because of the exploration of the unknown, maybe it's like proving myself, or maybe it's just because I'm not reconciled when I was young. Until..."

His eyelashes curled slightly: "Until you meet someone, you start to find that the outside world loses its appeal to you. You still want to go to the outside world, but you just want to give it to him in a different place. Send a postcard. You find that you want to be with him more than the world. The dinner table, the plate, the washed and dried clothes, the mediocre pedestrians in the mall that you once scorned as vulgar . . . It's all attractive because of him. It's almost frightening that you've changed."

This was supposed to be an answer that had nothing to do with what she was asking, but the little girl listened quietly.

"From that day on, however, it became clear to you that... the world is changing. It is not a stage that will provide you with a secure life. The things you pursue, the things you study... determine your destiny, You start to learn to fear, learn to be angry, and become aware of loss. Truth and a secure life are never a multiple-choice proposition, but a juxtaposition. You may not know the truth, but you must grasp the truth, as long as…”

A faint golden light appeared in Chu Tianshu's pupils, as if there were thousands of data streams running through it: "As long as you want to keep everything you cherish."

The little girl was very quiet, so was Chu Tianshu, and the two of them didn't speak for a long time.

"I will collect the keys to enter the door again soon." Chu Tianshu pointed to the ceiling, "I knew from the beginning that something was watching the world."

He smiled: "Sometimes I think life should be a little more cruel than it is now. I don't know what 'it' is, but the closer I get to 'it', the more terrified I feel. It's a shame to say it... …it may be because……"

"Some people love the truth itself, but I just want to maintain the current world and continue to live." Chu Tianshu pulled a notebook to cover his face, "It's really not cool to say this, if It is the protagonist of the young manga who said such a lack of ambition, and he will definitely be chased by many readers and give a negative score..."

little girl:……

"Although I don't understand what you're saying..."

Chu Tianshu grabbed the magazine: "Ah? Are you still there?"

little girl:……

"But I can understand your feelings about 'life'." The little girl said a little unhappily, "It's like when I occasionally dream, the happy scene in my dream is not that I catch the 'pet', but... …”

It was the scene where she was playing and running in the hallway with her beloved dog.

...

The girl walked back down the stairs to the second floor, perhaps because she had a rare conversation with someone, and she was in a very relaxed and happy mood.

But halfway through...

"Wait! That's why I didn't know what the cause of the earthquake was at all!" The little girl stomped her feet in tears, "Why was the topic taken away all of a sudden!"

She gritted her teeth, and finally gave up this matter with a sigh: in any case, the "earthquake" in the apartment had nothing to do with her, she always felt that things at this level were not her little half body Red can pay attention.

Thinking like this, the corridor on the second floor has appeared in front of her. The little girl froze slightly when she saw the hidden door on the second floor.

She clearly remembers...

'When I left 202, the door was closed? ’

Vigilance welled up in her mind. There was no one in the corridor, she rolled her eyes and entered 202, which was hiding the door.

202 is still dark and cold. The furniture was covered with white cloth, like the shroud that once covered her body. There is still a freezer in the living room where the body of her mother is sleeping...

only……

The little girl lowered her head and stared at a stain on the entrance.

She changed her face, leaned against the corner, and ran quickly along the corridor.

- until reaching her destination.

"Shh!"

The little girl opened the door.

After a while, she fell to the ground and gritted her teeth.

"... gone." She said in a low voice.

Lin Huai entered Room 302 at the invitation of the painter.

Different from other rooms, room 302 is filled with a strong smell of oil paint. Lin Huai's sense of smell is better than that of ordinary people, and he almost fainted when he first entered.

"It's a little messy in the room." The painter smiled and let him sit on the sofa, "I hope you don't mind."

Lin Huai: "It's okay, I'm a very generous person."

The painter's room is in line with all the imagination of ordinary people for the profession of painter. Easels, picture frames, scraps, rolled up scrolls were thrown all over the floor. Such a disorganized interior environment is quite inconsistent with his suave appearance.

'Now it seems that this painter does have the potential to become an arsonist. ' Lin Huai thought, 'Seeing such a chaotic and disorderly environment, Bao Bu Qi's painter would like to burn them down with a fire one day. ’

However, what attracted Lin Huai's attention the most were the portraits placed in the direction of the balcony. They were covered with black cloth, so that people could not see the paintings under the black cloth.

Li Gui's intuition made Lin Huai realize that there must be something strange in these paintings.

In addition, there is a painting that caught Lin Huai's attention.

The painting was placed on the only easel in the audience, next to a box filled with paint, crumbs and charcoal. It looks like this painting is the artist's recent work.

However, it was also covered with black cloth.

Lin Huai walked towards it. The paint in the paint box had not yet dried. It seemed that the artist was still painting this painting a short time ago.

strangeness.

"Covered with a black cloth, and placed in a conspicuous position." Lin Huai murmured, "If I don't open it to take a look, wouldn't I be very disappointed in his hospitality?"

He frowned, thinking one more thing before jumping on the bandwagon.

"What should I do if I open this painting and it will be sucked into the painting?" Lin Huai touched his chin, "Well, hold the painter by the neck for a while and place him in front of the easel, then lift the black cloth to try it out. Try. That way I'll be discreetly kept safe."

He thought so, looking at the paintings in the room one by one. The artist's technique is extremely superb, and many of the oil paintings are lifelike. Among them, there are a large number of pictures of scenic spots and natural scenery, which makes people feel refreshed and immersive.

One of the paintings is the scenery of Venice, the blue sea floats with light and gold, and the fishing boats are docked at the pier. There are pigeons flying in the square, and there are stalls selling souvenirs on both sides.

However, for some reason, Lin Huai faintly sensed something was wrong.

After Lin Huai observed these paintings, he came to the balcony again.

What he was facing were eight paintings covered with black cloth. Just as Lin Huai was about to touch the black cloth, he saw a letter casually thrown beside him.

Lin Huai opened the letter.

He glanced at it ten lines at a time, and in the envelope he first blew three lines of flattery to the painter, praising his superb portrait painting skills. Then, he used five elements to express his invitation to a certain art exhibition.

The inviter's last name is Lu and his first name is Zhengfang.

Lin Huai was slightly taken aback.

He remembered the man's name. This man is a famous painter, famous for painting ink bamboo. Lin Huai once saw news about him in the newspaper, but...

This person...is a person in the real world!

How does the name of a person in the real world appear in a letter in the game?

Coincidence?

No, Lin Huai remembered that in reality, he had read the news of that person. This seems to be a year ago. The well-known painter Lu Zhengfang opened an opening ceremony for his gallery, but at the opening ceremony, a peach scandal related to him was revealed on the spot, and his image as a hypocrite was thoroughly exposed... This incident has been raging for a whole month. , so Lin Huai was also very impressed.

He squeezed the letter's fingers with a little force.

Lin Huai watched the signature of the letter, and secretly wrote down the handwriting of the signature and the time corresponding to the exhibition.

He was still thinking, and the painter's voice came from behind him: "Curious about this painting?"

Lin Huai turned his head and saw the painter holding two cups of black tea and looking at him with a smile.