if god could hear

Chapter 18: Halloween

When some and Subaru ran out of the old house in a state of distress, everyone had stopped fighting and were sitting and chatting by the campfire. Seeing Yusuke and Subaru running over in such a state of distress, they were wondering what was going on. Subaru let out a strange cry and then shouted: "There is a ghost... There is really a ghost... It's in this house!"

When everyone heard that there was a ghost, they immediately regained their spirits and sat up straight to listen to what Subaru had to say.

"I saw her fly through the window! It's true!"

"Stop making trouble, Subaru, it's impossible." Zao waved his hand, "The story I told was just a legend... how could it really exist."

"It's true! I saw it with my own eyes!"

Zao looked at Subaru suspiciously. Obviously, Subaru's words did not completely convince Zao.

"Instead of arguing here, why don't we go and have a look inside the house." Yao stood up and said, "Anyway, idleness is idleness."

So, an expedition team composed of 15 people set out to the interior of the house together.

A strong musty smell inside hit the nose very much, causing everyone to move forward with difficulty covering their mouths and noses.

All the way to the room where the luggage was kept, everyone stopped.

There was still a fire in the room.

"Yusuke, Subaru, who are you two so frightened that you threw your flashlight in there?" You turned around and asked.

"No, my flashlight is here." Subaru raised the flashlight and shook it.

"Mine too." Yusuke also raised his flashlight to prove his innocence.

"Then this is..."

To lead everyone to go inside, everyone's hearts were hanging in the air, and they dared not relax for a moment, because no one knew what would happen in the next second.

Walking into the room, I took the flashlight I wanted to shine on the fire, and saw that the jack-o-lantern You Jing made in the morning had already been lit by a candle.

"who is it?"

The flashlight I needed shone slightly to the side, and I saw a little girl in a white top sitting on the ground, staring blankly at the fifteen people who blocked the door...

Everyone gasped at the same time.

Whose prank is this? !How real Nima is!

He paused, reflected for a moment, then walked straight over, stopped beside the little girl, and grabbed the little girl's face with his hand.

"It hurts!" The little girl opened her hands with a "snap", covered her face and stared at this man who strangled people indiscriminately.

"Hey? It's actually true?" To withdraw his hand, he looked at the little girl with a puzzled expression, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

The little girl rubbed her face that was still in pain, stared at it for a while, then let out a "hum" and turned her head away stubbornly.

"Hey... you kid..." Be a little annoyed.

Seeing that his patience was about to be worn out, Yachen hurried forward, knelt down and asked the little girl, "Whose...whose family are you from? Why are you here?"

Hearing Yachen's voice, the little girl turned her head slightly, waited for the two round almond eyes, looked at Yachen, and reacted for a while, "I'm looking for daddy..."

The little girl's voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible.

"Looking for Dad? What's wrong? You got separated from Dad?"

"Hmm..." The little girl nodded.

"What's your name?" Ya Chen asked with a smile as he touched the little girl's head.

"Pure beauty..."

"Oh... is it dad who left Chunmei here?"

The little girl nodded.

"Then, would you like to go find your father with your brothers?" Yachen's voice was so gentle that it broke your heart. His technique of coaxing children is absolutely top-notch, unrivaled.

The little girl looked at Yachen, hesitated for a moment, then nodded obediently.

Yachen was delighted, stood up, took the little girl's hand and said to everyone: "It seems that we have something to do tonight, to help this child find her father."

"father!"

Just when Chunmei was led by Yachen and was about to go out the door, she suddenly yelled out, then rushed straight to Youjing, and hugged Youjing.

"what?!"

Everyone was shocked, "It turns out that you, You Jing!!!! So you are such a person!!!" Everyone exclaimed.

You Jing also looked puzzled at the time, and quickly stopped the little girl who was rushing towards her, and asked with a look of astonishment: "My child, did you admit it wrong?! I am not your father!"

"You are what you are... Dad, don't you want to be pure and beautiful?" The little girl looked at You Jing with tears in her eyes, not to mention that it made people feel distressed.

You Jing couldn't stand this kind of thing anymore, seeing the little girl staring at him pitifully with her big eyes, You Jing's heart softened all of a sudden.

"Okay... since you insist on calling it that way... I will forcefully be your father for one night..." You Jing let go of Chunmei's hand, and Chunmei ran forward to hug her Ukyo.

At this moment, You Jing felt a little... In fact, the feeling of being a father... is not so bad.

"Dad...can you take Chunmei to see the fireflies?" Chunmei asked in her delicate voice while hugging Youjing's arm.

"Ah... um..." You Jing agreed, but this feeling of being called Dad suddenly...is really awkward...

You Jing was tightly held by Chunmei's hand, and quickly ran to a jungle on the side of the mountain.

The lush leaves inside cover the sky, and the moonlight is also blocked outside, but under this dense shade, there is another intoxicating scene.

Swarms of fireflies wander faintly among the flowers, plants and trees, even if they only light up the small world around them, it still makes people feel so beautiful.

"Chunmei is amazing, I know such a beautiful place."

The little girl held You Jing's hand and smiled sweetly.

You Jing turned around and found that other people did not catch up. There were only him and Chunmei in this place, but for some reason, it made people feel very happy.

"Father, Chunmei knows a more beautiful place." As Chunmei said, she took Youjing's hand and ran straight to the other direction.

It wasn't just how long they had been running, You Jing and Chunmei were both out of breath, and then stopped by a pond.

After taking a few breaths, You Jing straightened up, but was stunned by the scene in front of him.

It turns out that there are still such beautiful places in this world...

The dark water of the pond was shrouded in night and the moonlight reflected each other. Outside the pond was a lush forest, so dark that the edge could not be seen.

The stars in the sky are shining neatly, and it seems that a gorgeous movement is playing in this mysterious night.

The fireflies were flying happily on the pond, accompanied by the regular rhythm of the sound of the insects, Junmei held Youjing's thick palm, and looked at everything in front of her happily.

"Chunmei knows this place...well, she actually knows such a beautiful place."

"Father, I will never tell anyone here... Only you and I know." The pure and innocent voice echoed in Youjing's ears, making Youjing feel happy.

At some point, he was no longer so resistant to the term "father"... He even hoped that he was really the father of this child.

This night, he didn't know how long he played with the child.

In this small world that only belongs to the two of them, they can go fishing, take pictures, tell stories, and play games...

until late very late...

Even Ukyo didn't know when he fell asleep so late...

Ukyo was woken up by Mi's noise, he seemed to be talking about pumpkins.

You Jing rubbed his sore eyes and sat up, looked at Xiao Mi who was sitting on the ground crying, and asked puzzledly: "Xiao Mi? What's wrong?"

Xiao Mi cried and explained: "Pumpkin...my jack-o-lantern is missing..."

"Missing? Did you lose it somewhere?" You Jing stood up, and suddenly found that he had been lying outside and sleeping all night.

"You Jing, you are really too, why did you fall asleep outside yesterday, and you couldn't wake up no matter how much you screamed." Yachen came out of the room and said to You Jing.

"I don't know either... By the way, where is Chunmei?"

"Pure beauty? What pure beauty?" Yachen asked curiously while putting away the quilt covering You Jing.

"It's the one we saw in the house yesterday..."

"Please, you are dreaming again... There is no such thing as pure beauty." Ya Chen was helpless.

"Impossible. We were all together yesterday, but she was sitting alone in the room...and even called for her."

"What? Who hit me?" To hear You Jing calling his name, he hurried over and asked.

"It's the little girl from yesterday..."

"Except for Jinchu and Ema yesterday, how could there be any little girls?" Yao also looked puzzled.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Youjing raised his hand, the feeling of when Chunmei held him last night was still there, it couldn't be a dream.

"Okay, Youjing, we should go." Yachen looked at the people who came out with their luggage, and said to Youjing.

Youjing is still there in a daze, unable to accept the reality that Chunmei never existed.

He hurriedly took out his camera and began to search for the photo of him and Chunmei last night.

Sure enough... except for the photo of him and his family... there is nothing...

Why is this...

Ukyo stood up and looked around.

He couldn't see the dense shade that had appeared last night, nor the beautiful pond... nothing around here except the trees that had begun to lose their leaves...

Are these... really hallucinations?

Look at his hands... But the touch left by those white and tender hands is still so real.

The immature "Dad" still lingered in my ears...

Until Youjing got on the return bus, he didn't even want to understand...all of this...why...

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She watched the car drive away silently, and the quiet surrounding seemed to become even more silent because of this moment...

She was leaning on the door frame of the house, the candle of the jack-o-lantern in her hand hadn't burned out yet.

She picked up the jack-o-lantern and blew it lightly, and the candle went out, just like a past event that she would never forget...

I don't know whether the smile on the corner of the mouth is the joy from the heart, or the bitterness of a forced smile.

And the obvious tear stains on her white and tender cheeks seem to tell you everything.

Cars really go a long way...

can't see anything...

The sun slowly rose from the sky and shone on this quiet land.

Maybe, I should go.

Thank you, Ukyo, oh no... Dad...

The girl leaned feebly against the door frame, her body dissipated little by little like a feather in the sunlight.

She still had a smile on her face, showing no pain at all.A head of jet-black hair was extraordinarily beautiful under the sun, but it instantly turned into powder and permeated the air...

They say that every Halloween a jack-o'-lantern is inhabited by a witch.

Maybe you are wrong,

What really lives in it may be just a beautiful and intoxicating dream...

And when the night dissipates and the day comes... all these things will also turn into nothingness and disappear.

In this place gradually surrounded by sunlight, there seemed to be such a little girl again, holding her father's hand, standing barefoot in the clear pool water.

Watching the fireflies flying all over the sky...

close your eyes...

I made the most beautiful wish in this world...