frightfiction Chapter 440 Goodbye, Mom and Dad
Chapter 440 Goodbye, Mom and Dad
Just as she was about to throw the exploding banana in her hand, a voice she had been longing for came from behind her.
"Youyou, it's your birthday today. Mom and Dad took the day off to come home and be with you. Shall we go to the amusement park?"
Lu Youyou turned her head and saw that all the ghosts had been burned to death by the black fire. Among the countless charred corpses, the figures of a man and a woman were incredibly tall.
In that instant, Lu Youyou's eyes involuntarily welled up with tears.
The crimson moon in the sky emitted a strong light, and the eerie, ghostly environment became the most familiar place for Lu Youyou.
Her home.
"Oh dear, why is Youyou crying? Let Mommy give you a hug."
Lu Ming took off her high heels and ran over, half-squatting down in front of Lu Youyou to wipe away her tears, then picked her up and gently comforted her in her arms.
The young father, Chen Sheng, picked up the scattered high heels and neatly arranged them on the shoe rack. After washing his hands, he pinched Lu Youyou's cheeks and played with them.
"What's wrong, Xiaoyou? Didn't your mom and dad come back? Where's your Aunt Wang?"
Lu Youyou stretched out her chubby little hand and pointed to the nursery.
Lu Ming frowned, handed the child in her arms to Chen Sheng, and tiptoed towards the nursery.
Aunt Wang was fast asleep, curled up in the large baby crib she had bought at a high price.
The little pillow she had prepared especially for her daughter was soaked with drool.
Various imported snack packaging was scattered on the ground. Each bag was opened, but most of the snacks were left uneaten.
Crumbs and drink stains lay on her soft, handmade rug, making it look worthless.
"Wang Xiu! You're fired!"
Wang Xiu woke up from her sleep, wiped the drool off her face, and even tried to wipe the drool off her small pillow.
“Lu Ming, your baby is so hard to take care of. I finally managed to get her to sleep before I could rest for a bit. Besides, she wanted to eat these snacks herself, and a two-year-old can't finish them all, so I had to help her eat them. Is that right?”
"Nonsense! My baby is the best behaved, but he's lazy and greedy. Get out of here!"
Wang Xiu refused to leave, so Lu Ming grabbed her arm and dragged her out.
Bang!
The front door was closed, and only a family of three was inside.
Lu Ming held Lu Youyou in her arms, tears streaming down her face with heartache.
"My poor little Youyou, if Mom hadn't gotten off work early today, I wouldn't have known that my daughter had been left in the living room and someone else was sleeping in her crib!"
Chen Sheng stepped forward to persuade her: "Alright, alright, don't be angry. Since you don't trust outsiders to take care of Youyou, then I'll quit my job to take care of her full-time. Anyway, your salary is higher than mine, and I believe you can support my son and me."
Lu Ming burst into laughter through her tears: "You said it yourself, from now on you'll be a stay-at-home husband, and I'll give you 20,000 yuan a month for spending money."
"Alright!" After saying that, Chen Sheng touched Lu You's round little face again: "Youyou, were you scared? Why are you just crying without saying a word?"
“Since Youyou is in a bad mood, let’s not go to the amusement park. There are all sorts of people there, and if we run into some unruly kids and their parents, it might scare Youyou again,” Lu Ming said.
“Then let’s celebrate at home. I’ll go to the kitchen and make Daddy’s mini cakes for Youyou.”
"Okay, I'll watch the kids in the living room and wait for you."
In the kitchen, his tall figure skillfully picked up various ingredients.
In the living room, the gentle mother kept coaxing and playing with her as she built blocks.
Lu Youyou shed tears throughout the entire process; it turned out that she had experienced these things when she was two years old.
But as she grew older, she forgot all of it.
The illusion created by the ghost did not erase her memories; instead, it deepened her obsession with her parents' deaths.
She was made to understand that this was an illusion, yet she couldn't bear to destroy everything.
After an unknown amount of time, the kitchen door was pushed open.
"The mini cakes are here!"
Lu Youyou looked at the "little cake" and burst into laughter through her tears.
Dad is taking advantage of her because she doesn't know any better. That's not a small cake at all.
These are clearly large steamed buns made from a mixture of spinach juice and flour!
"Little Youyou, ah—open your mouth, Daddy will feed you."
Lu Youyou didn't move.
Lu Ming noticed something was wrong and came closer.
"Youyou, this is a little cake that Daddy made for you. Even if you don't like it, please open your mouth and try it, okay?"
The urgency and anxiety in their eyes were so obvious, completely different from the gentle parents she remembered.
"Dad, Mom."
Lu Youyou smiled, her chubby face looking very cheerful.
"what happened?"
Lu Ming stepped forward with the large steamed bun, practically shoving it down Lu Youyou's throat.
Lu Youyou looked intently at Lu Ming, as if she were looking through her at someone else.
"Mom and Dad, I'm so happy to see you again, but I have my own path to walk."
The two were terrified and tried to run away, but were blown to pieces by the bright golden exploding banana.
The cozy home was destroyed, and the dark night with its red moon reappeared.
In Lu Youyou's hands, a round, unidentified object covered in thick, green pus emitted a foul stench.
Upon closer inspection, it appears that there are living creatures moving inside.
Judging by the distance, it's only three centimeters away from her mouth.
The three little ones were all tied up, screaming at the top of their lungs.
"Master! You can't eat it! If you eat it, you'll become a ghost and be controlled by others!"
"Woof woof woof! Woof woof woof! I'm the loudest dog, why can't I wake my owner?"
"Waaah, Master, I can see through this low-level illusion, how could you become so addicted to it?"
Snapped!
Lu Youyou threw away the unidentified object in her hand and was about to step forward to rescue the three little ones when she discovered that the ropes binding them had disappeared on their own.
It turns out that what bound them was their own desire to enjoy their parents' company.
"Waaaaah... Master, you scared us to death!"
"Bad master, bad master!"
"Let me make this clear from the start: if you die, I'll find another master!"
Lu Youyou wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, hiding all her longing for her parents in her heart.
"Just this once, I won't let you worry next time. Get in the car, let's go somewhere else."
"Okay!"
Da Rui clumsily stretched out his forelimbs and tried to climb the steps.
Little Black, with a mischievous thought in mind, stepped on its shell and scurried up.
The crow flew in the opposite direction and brought back a pure black fragment.
"Master, this is something that fell when you shattered the illusion. I don't know what it is. Can you see its description?"
Lu Youyou picked up the black piece. It looked like a piece of plastic, but it felt heavy in her hand, like a pebble cut into a regular shape.
Stare at it for three seconds, and a virtual instruction manual appears.
[Illusion Fragment *1: The energy source for the Ghostly Beings to release illusions; it can be considered a unique currency in the Mass Grave dungeon.]
Lu Youyou initially wanted to throw the thing into the decomposer, but after thinking about it, she decided to store it in her backpack instead.
Since this item is considered currency in the Ten Thousand Graves instance, the principle that money can make the devil turn the millstone also applies.
After Xiaoya got into the car, Lu Youyou was the last to get in and close the door.
The car drove slowly, and Lu Youyou sat on the sofa, dazedly reliving the illusion she had just experienced.
hum~
My phone rang in my pocket.
Without a second thought, she immediately unlocked her phone with her black-rimmed glasses; she needed to know the chat history between Wei Tianning and his subordinates as soon as possible.
[Grave Guardian Ghost 1: Boss, Lu Youyou didn't take the bait. She got the memories for free and wouldn't eat the puppet worms! In the end, she killed all the ghosts who participated in weaving the illusion and even stole our illusion fragments.]