Midnight Restaurant

Chapter 87 The Wishing Tree

When I saw these brats playing around the old locust tree last night, my heart sank. Isn't this just a death sentence?I quickly grabbed Yin Guo'er, and was about to drive these brats away.

"Hey! Let's play, it's dangerous here!" I stood in front of the tree.

Hmm... But I guess I'm too amiable, and I didn't attract the attention of these brats. It's been more than a minute since I finished talking, and they should play and make trouble...

My face was full of black lines: "Hey! You brat, I'm talking to you! Hurry up, I'll hit someone if you don't leave!"

I said it pretending to be vicious.

In the end, I don't know which child is so annoying. Behind me, he raised his foot and kicked my calf, and then ran away smiling.I turned around and was about to chase, but was stopped by Yin Guoer: "Hey, hey, middle-aged man, don't chase that kid first, look, there seems to be no problem around this tree?"

no problem?
I turned my head to look at the old locust tree that almost killed me last night. There were streams of black energy surging above it. How could it be all right?I was a little closer, and I could even hear bursts of eerie laughter.

So I'm kind of surprised, am I the only one who can see this?

"Can't you see?" I looked at Yin Guoer curiously.

Yin Guoer also looked at me wonderingly: "What do you see?"

"The black air on this tree."

Yin Guoer shook her head.

I go?What is the situation, I can clearly see that Yin Guoer, as a demon, has eyes that are not ordinary people.Then why only I can see it?

I looked at the locust tree in front of me suspiciously, and tried to reach out to touch it, but at this moment, Yin Guoer suddenly called out to me: "Hey! Middle-aged man, come and see! What is this? thing?"

"Ah?" I looked suspiciously at Yin Guoer who had already run to the other side of the tree: "What did you see?"

With that said, I also walked behind the tree.

I saw Yin Guoer pointing her cute little finger at the trunk of the pagoda tree, maybe when I ran over just now, I was too anxious to look at the children in front of me, and I didn’t pay attention to one thing, the back of the tree, There is no bark on an area as tall as a person and as wide as a person!Yin Guoer pointed me to this place.

"Why is the skin peeled off?"

"No, middle-aged man, it's not surprising that the bark is peeled off, but the strange thing is...Look, why did someone here carve your name with a knife?"

As she spoke, Yin Guoer tapped a spot on the back of the tree with her fingers.

my name?I raised my eyebrows and quickly approached, only to find that the word Ye Yan was really engraved on the part where the bark was peeled off!And not only that, the entire peeled back of this tree is actually engraved with names!

"Fuck, what is this?" I looked up and down suspiciously, and suddenly, I scanned another name, Xin Qianyu!The name looks familiar... yes!Isn't this Han Le's dead roommate?She was killed, why is there her name on it?

"What are you looking at, middle-aged man? Hey, who engraved this, when you came last night?" Yin Guoer looked at me innocently.

I frowned, thinking that it might not be that simple.Moreover, Yin Guoer can't see the black air on the tree, but I can. Could it have something to do with the engraving?

Just when I was wondering, suddenly another brat kicked me.

I was covered in black lines...

"Hiss... Whose child? Do you hate it? Huh?" I looked down and saw a fat guy with candy in his mouth, looking at me with a smile. I knelt down and hit the kid on the head: " You're looking for a beating, aren't you?"

"Hey, Uncle, I want to ask you... what are you doing?" The kid was not frightened by me. Instead, he looked at me with a smile and asked me what I was doing.

"It's adults' business, don't worry about children, just go and play." I stood up bored, but the little fat man pulled my trouser leg, shook his head and said to me: "Uncle, it's wrong for you to do this, they said to use this tree Tree wishes can only be made at 21:[-] at night, on the hour."

I was taken aback at the time, thinking that the child was hysterical, why make a wish?
"Hey, little fat man, what are you talking about?" I looked at the child wonderingly.

"Hey? Uncle, don't you know? This wishing tree is very famous. I thought you knew, so I engraved words on it..."

"I didn't engrave...wait a minute, you said you thought I made a wish, so you engraved it? Hey, fat, tell me, who told you that this tree can make a wish? How do you make a wish?" I knelt down again and looked at the tree. Looking at the little fat man in front of him.

"I also forgot who told me that, but my classmates all said that, and my sister also told me that it is said to be very spiritual... Hey, look, uncle." This little fat man is not afraid of life, he is familiar with it , walked to me while talking, raised his finger to the part where the bark was peeled off, and continued: "It's these names, at 21:[-] at night, engrave the names on them, you can write your own, or you can write your friends. Yes, and then silently make a wish in my heart, it is said that the wish will come true the next day. But..."

"But what?"

"But my sister told me that there is a price to pay for making a wish on this tree. It is said that the greater the wish, the greater the price. I can't sleep in the middle of the night, and I haven't tried it..." The little fat man scratched his head and smiled at me.

I stand up, wishing tree?

Isn't this a spirit tree for playing supernatural games?This is different from what Han Le said last night.I looked down at the chubby boy, and before the kid ran away, I asked again: "Oh, by the way, kid, have you heard of any other legends about this tree? For example, it can summon spirits, ghosts, or something like that?"

"Is it possible? I don't know. Anyway, I haven't heard of it. My old sister usually likes these weird things..."

I raised my head, what the kid meant was that he had never heard that this tree could summon souls.

Did Han Le lie to me?

I frowned, and immediately took out my phone, ready to call Qiao Man. I have to contact Han Le about this matter, and ask him carefully!There is no such thing as calling back spirits from this tree, why did she let me and her exorcise evil spirits?Did you lure me here on purpose?When she saw the blind man, her reaction was always wrong. Could it be that she knew who the blind man was?
At this moment, the phone was connected. After Qiao Man greeted me, she asked me what I was doing.

I told her directly that there was a problem with the tree, how could Han Le contact her.Qiao Man didn't seem to understand what I said at the time, but she still found Han Le's phone number for me.But when I was about to hang up and call Han Le, Qiao Man said to me: "I also called Han Le just now, but she is so strange recently, she can't find anyone during the day, I guess you won't answer the call Bar?"

"Not answering the phone?" I wondered, turned my head, and decided to give it a try.

But just when I was about to make a call, Yin Guoer suddenly called me: "Hey! Middle-aged man, middle-aged man, look, here, here is a name!"

Is it weird to have a name?Half of the trees here are full of names.

I didn't pay much attention, and turned my head impatiently while listening to the beeping busy tone of the phone, but the next moment, I was stunned, put down the phone, and followed Yin Guoer's little hand to see the word Han Le!
"This...how does this have her name? Then, she must be playing tricks on me. She has written her name here to show that she has made a wish. How could she not know that this tree is a wishing tree?"

But at this moment, my shoulder suddenly hurt!
I can't describe the painful feeling, it feels like the whole shoulder is about to melt, and at the same time there is a sore feeling, in short, it is very complicated, although it is not excruciatingly painful, but it is very annoying.

I gritted my teeth, pulled off my collar and glanced over my shoulder.

At that time, my heart sank, I went, no, the black part was already on the arm, why is it so fast?Take a closer look, this is the left side, the speed is so fast, if it rots to the heart, I don't have to wait until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, I have to finish playing!

At that time, I was not calm anymore, my hands were shaking a little, and I was ready to call again while holding the phone.

But I don't know who is so annoying, I haven't dialed yet, and I'm calling!

The number is kind of weird, it's blocked and I can't see it.

At that time, I thought I was either a liar or someone who bought insurance, so I picked it up and shouted angrily: "That's right, I am your father, but father has no money now! And if you don't have money, you can't buy insurance. Hurry up and call me!"

As a result, there was a cold but pleasant female voice on the other side of the phone: "Young man, did you...lose my knife?"

What the fuck?

At that time, my eyes were wide open, and the eyeballs almost flew out, the proprietress?The boss's phone number? !
"Lan, Lan, Sister Lan?!"

"Why are you still stuttering? Don't worry, young man, I'm not angry at all... Oh yes, someone lost my knife once before, and now the grass on the grave is longer than my knife."

I have black lines all over my face, are you still threatening me at this time, is there any humanity?

"Sister Lan, don't make trouble... brother, I'm in trouble, you have to help, if you don't help, you don't need to kill me, I guess I won't be able to go to work tonight."

"Huh? What's the trouble?" the proprietress asked listlessly.

"I was bitten by a ghost..."

"Oh, you can't die, you have a half-ghost physique."

"No, no, it's different this time, Sister Lan, it's rotten, the flesh on my shoulder is rotten."

Hearing this, the proprietress seemed a little interested, so she asked me what was going on and what the ghost who bit me looked like.In a few words, I described what happened last night to the proprietress. After listening, the proprietress rang for about ten seconds, and said to me in her signature indifferent voice: "That person seems to have died of a curse. After death, The power of the curse devoured the soul body, and became the king of ghosts, you should help him quickly, otherwise, you will really rot."

I'm going, my heart sank, what should I do?

"No, it's easy to say, where can I find him a wife?"

"That depends on you. However, this kind of ghost king looks crazy and stupid, but he is actually intelligent. It should be able to find what it is looking for by itself. There must be some reason to let it find it. I got the position, but I couldn't get it. As for why I found you, I don't understand. Please recall carefully, what details did you forget yesterday?"

(End of this chapter)