I Remember Everything Now

After a brief exchange, Yu Xing turned her gaze to Ye Ming's room. The door had been opened at some point, revealing a crack about the thickness of a finger.

He was clearly stopped by Yu Wan from opening the door, but the door still opened without anyone touching it. This means that what's inside wants him to get in, and doesn't require him to do the whole process; it just requires him to be close enough to the door.

"Is Ye Ming inside?" Yu Wan looked at the talisman he had just thrown on the ground, now ineffective, and couldn't quite describe the complex emotions in his heart. He felt heartbroken, sad, and terrified.

"Probably, but he didn't climb out directly like he did last night, probably because it wasn't completely dark yet." Yu Xing looked out the window. Large raindrops were hitting the windowpane, which was already blurred. The patterns of rainwater filled the entire glass, but the gray sky outside could still be vaguely seen.

The only difference between now and last night is the difference between being drowsy and being in darkness.

"That's perfect. Since they're more troublesome at night, we should take care of them during the day." Yu Wan glanced warily at Ye Ming's room, then took out the small bamboo basket from her bag and placed it at the door of Ye Ming's room.

The moment it landed, a wisp of black mist seemed to emanate from the small bamboo basket. The black threads were faint, yet they seemed to consciously seal the crack in the door.

Yu Xing, "What is this?"

"This is called Ghost Cage. It stores some resentment, which can be used to restrain ghosts when necessary." Yu Wanjian breathed a sigh of relief Yu Wan the black energy completely blocked the door cracks, preventing the things inside from escaping for the time being.

Yu Xing, however, had a strange expression.

Forget about talismans; if you really want to argue, you can say they were obtained from a temple with Master, or that you learned the skill. But this so-called "Ghost Cage" is just too outrageous!

It's like a wandering swordsman with a shotgun appearing in a town during the age of cold weapons—this is not just absurd, it's downright dimensional destruction.

In other words, given Yu Wan's previous nervousness and fear, there's no way she could possess so many items that could completely ward off ghosts. She wouldn't even need to be an ordinary high school student; she could directly become one of the city's strongest Master.

"How do you come to own so many strange things? Did you collect all of these on your own as an enthusiast?" He asked with a hint of confusion, deliberately showing a little wariness, as if afraid that Yu Wan might also have some problems.

Yu Wan his question, and suddenly felt very confused. "Yeah, how could I have so many... I don't quite remember. If you hadn't asked me, you wouldn't have thought anything was wrong. Holy crap, really, how did I get all this stuff!"

Her face instantly paled with horror as she looked at her hands, then glanced at her backpack. "All these years I've genuinely enjoyed watching horror movies and playing horror Yugi, and I've even tried my hand at Spirit Communication Game like 'fairy tales.' But these things have been in my house for so long, and I didn't notice anything amiss at all!"

Yu Xing: "..."

It seems that Yu Wan also has a faulty memory, so his current impressive abilities... are very likely caused by the deduction subject.

Good heavens, the main character being deduced is very likely Yu Wan. Only in this way would Yu Wan be so different from the others, reminding and helping him from the very beginning. Because Yu Wan, like the three siblings, died at the hands of Female Ghost. There's no reason why Ye Ming and Ye Ting are developing in the direction of becoming ghosts, while Yu Wan not only shows no signs of Ghostification, but has also "evolved" into this ghost-exorcising setting.

If the subject is Yu Wan, then this deduction will proceed as follows...

Yu Xing had a sudden inspiration.

Even if she was trying to save herself, once she truly created this simulated world, what she wanted to see would definitely be related to Ye Qin's survival, after all, she was someone who truly loved Ye Qin to the point of risking her life.

This basically confirms that Yu Wan will not betray him later on and is a true ally who joined his camp from the later stages. If he survives in this world, Yu Wan will be very happy.

Of course, these were just Yu Xing's guesses, but he felt that his guesses were pretty close to the truth.

"Come this way with me." He pulled Yu Wan's hand and led her into his room, which was still a bit messy. Neither he nor Ye Ting had had the time to clean up since they got up this morning.

The Yugi was on his desk. He felt the surroundings were too messy and had a bad feeling about it, so he went over to turn on the room light.

But after pressing the button a few times, he found that the light didn't respond at all.

Yu Wan's pupils contracted Yu Wan saw his movements. "The lights won't turn on? Isn't this something that often happens in horror movies... when ghosts try to attack the living, all the lights in the area go out, and the phones can't be made?"

Have we lost contact with the outside world?

In fact, less than twenty minutes had passed since she arrived in this room earlier that day. However, when she came, the sun was shining brightly, but now it was pouring rain and the sky was as dark as night. This huge difference made it impossible to perceive the true passage of time, and she subconsciously felt that a long time had passed.

Yu Xing thought for a moment, then tried to open his room window. He drew back the curtains, looked at the dark sky outside, and opened the window glass.

There was no obstruction, and no special supernatural force prevented him from opening the window, meaning that he could now escape the house directly through the window if he wanted to.

"We're probably not trapped, that's good news. If we really can't figure it out, we should run out." He turned to Yu Wan and smiled. "Besides, you've only been here a short time. This rain came at just the right time; we were unlucky. If it hadn't rained, we wouldn't have encountered ghosts so early in broad daylight, and we would have had more time to prepare."

"It's always good to have a way out. Let me check the Yugi." Yu Wan picked up the red PSP Yugi on the desk and, with Yu Xing's help, found and opened the horror Yugi called Reincarnation.

Like Yu Xing, she first opened the data file and read through the information. However, this time there were six pages instead of five, including the one Yu Xing had found in the Yugi last night.

Logically speaking, whether it was the three siblings or Yu Wan, they should have noticed and been puzzled when they saw their names written on the information sheet in this Yugi. However, Ye Ming and Ye Ting seemed to have never encountered this before, and Ye Ting even treated this Yugi as an ordinary little Yugi. But Yu Xing didn't believe that she hadn't picked up any information sheet even once after playing so many times.

Therefore, he paid special attention to Yu Wan's reaction at this moment, and he also went through the information with Yu Wan again, and successfully remembered the thing he had forgotten before, which was the attic.

Sure enough, he had vowed last night not to forget that there was something wrong with the attic of this house, but he had completely forgotten about it after waking up.

"Ye Qin, look, isn't it written with our names on it? I think the tone of these confessions on these two pieces of paper sounds a lot like ours." Yu Wan picked out the file that Yu Xing had found, and the file that someone else had obtained, written in Ye Qin's voice, and pointed it out to Yu Xing.

"It really does look alike, and don't you think it looks familiar? When I saw these things last night, I felt like some memories flashed through my mind, like memories I had forgotten." Yu Xing took the opportunity to guide Yu Wan, hoping to see if she could come up with any more clues she hadn't seen before.

Yu Wan paused for a moment, her hands unconsciously crossing over her chest, as if she were thinking, or perhaps it was some kind of subconscious self-protective action. The longer she thought, the more tightly her brows furrowed, as if she had also noticed the inaccuracies in her memory.

"No, that's strange. Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel like I might be possessed too? Like these things I brought, although I know how to use them, and it feels like they should have always been with me, I can't remember how I got them at all." Her gaze fell on her backpack, a little uneasy.

"Think again. In my fragmented memories, I saw a church and an attic. The church was very old, and there seemed to be a few familiar people, like corpses, placed in the middle. My father seemed to be muttering something..." Yu Xing's tone was very soft. He naturally hadn't seen this scene, but that didn't stop him from imagining from the fragments in the information that a funeral had been held in the church. Perhaps if he said a little more, he could awaken Yu Wan's "awakening".

"And when you were in school, I always wondered why sometimes I saw you looking normal, while other times your school uniform seemed like it was from over ten years ago? It's a hard feeling to describe; even though it's the same style, there's just a difference between new and old."

"And another thing, you can't see my brother at school, but you can when you're with me. Is it a problem with your memory, or my memory? Or... is it that all of our memories started to become distorted at some point in time!"

Yu Xing recounted all the strange circumstances related to Yu Wan from beginning to end, as if reciting a familiar story, and used language to exert pressure without any restraint. If it were any other character, perhaps no matter how much he said, it would be useless, but he had just guessed that Yu Wan was the main person who was retiring this time, so these words would definitely be useful to the main person. At least the main person had already realized that something was wrong and started to save himself.

Yu Wan suddenly groaned, squatted down, and covered her head with her hands. "How strange, how strange..."

"Something's not right. It feels like everything's wrong, before... after..."

With no way to turn on the lights and the sky growing increasingly dark, the only light source in the room was the glow from the Yugi console screen.

Yu Wan's figure was blurred and indistinct, leaving only a deep outline. Rain swept in from the open window, bringing a chill.

"The timeline is wrong!" Yu Wan suddenly looked up, as if she had suddenly realized something. She looked at Yu Xing in shock, stood up abruptly, and grabbed Yu Xing's hand. "Ye Qin, I remember now!"

"What did you remember?" Yu Xing raised an eyebrow.

He felt Yu Wan's arm, Yu Wan was gripping his, trembling violently. The girl's face visibly turned deathly pale. She barely had time to say anything, only pulling Yu Xing: "Let's talk later, let's leave this house first!"

Yu Xing let her drag him, staggering slightly as he walked to the doorway, asking, "Why?"

Yu Wan her head, Yu Wan explained, "Actually, your brother and your sister..."

"Second brother, Sister Yu Wan, I'm back!"

Suddenly, from the other side of the corridor, a familiar little girl's voice reached their ears, interrupting Yu Wan's words.

What should have been a very cute and well-behaved tune, at this moment, sends chills down one's spine.

Ye Ting is back?

Didn't she go out to buy groceries?

Even if she didn't want to buy groceries anymore because of the heavy rain, she should have found a place to take shelter from the rain first, instead of braving the rain and returning so quietly. If she hadn't spoken first, who would know how long she had been standing there and how much of their conversation she had overheard?

Most importantly, the two of them didn't hear Ye Ting's footsteps going upstairs at all. You should know that their staircase is quite old, and every time someone goes up or down the stairs, they make a sound that can be heard.

Ye Ting appeared suddenly in the corridor like a ghost.

Yu Wan's expression changed; her reaction was even stronger than that of Ye Qin, played by Yu Xing. She immediately retreated, took Yu Xing back to the room, and closed the door behind her.

Yu Xing watched helplessly Yu Wan pulled the lock and locked the door.

"Your sister died a long time ago too!" Her voice was much softer than before, almost a whisper as she spoke to Yu Xing. "I remember now, Ye Ming and Xiao Ting died several weeks ago!"

"Knock knock knock."

There was a knock at the door. Ye Ting asked innocently, "Why do you close the door every time you see me? Please open it. Don't leave me alone in the hallway, I'm scared."

Before Yu Xing could even open her mouth, Yu Wan quickly covered it with Yu Wan.

"Don't answer, don't answer the ghost's call!" She widened her eyes and tried desperately to signal, until Yu Xing nodded to indicate that she understood and wouldn't answer randomly, only then did she let go.

"Knock, knock, knock." The knocking continued, Yu Wan pulled Yu Xing back several steps.

"I know everything. It must be that after they became ghosts, they disrupted all your and my memories, making us mistakenly believe that they were still alive and that we spent so many days in an illusion. The Ye Ming I didn't see at school was real. The Ye Ming you saw when you went with me was fake; it was a memory created by our own brains." Yu Wan spoke with Yu Wan certainty. Yu Xing blinked. If he hadn't been observing the whole thing from a very calm, detached perspective since the beginning of his deduction, he might have believed it.

He really hadn't expected that Yu Wan had indeed awakened some real memories, but not completely. She only remembered the events involving Ye Ting and Ye Ming, but still deceived herself into believing that she and Ye Qin hadn't died.

"Ye Qin, don't you believe me?" Yu Xing's somewhat calm demeanor provoked Yu Wan. Yu Wan Yu Wan this top student would be stubborn and only believe in Ye Ming's death, not Ye Ting's death. She bent down and began searching under Yu Xing's bed.

"I remember now. After the funeral that day, you told me that you felt something was wrong, and you called me to your house. We discussed our options in this room, and you even showed me the photos you took." Yu Wan quickly pulled out a box from under Yu Xing's bed, opened it, and showed Yu Xing several of the photos.

In the very, very dim light, Yu Xing squinted for a long time before he could make out that the photo was indeed a funeral scene with a church background, and several corpses were being mourned. Among the mourners were his father and his mother.

Both of them were dressed in black. The mother looked gaunt, weary, and somewhat indifferent, appearing very fragile.

The father was in a daze.

"Am I right? We all went to the funeral on this very day!" Yu Wan.

As if to confirm her words, Ye Ting's voice rang out from outside the door again, exactly the same as before, with the same tone and the same words, sending chills down one's spine. "Why do you close the door every time you see me? Please open the door. Don't leave me alone in the hallway, I'm scared."

Yu Xing: "..."