My Family Is Very Odd

The man wearing a mask said, "It's you. Good. Tell everyone, tonight's event is canceled."

The man with the doll head asked, "Why? Do you know how big tonight's event is? More than a hundred people will participate. By then..."

"I've seen more than you, human. Cancel it. And don't do these things again recently. Keep things quiet for a while."

"Why! Give me a reason, or I won't stop." The doll grabbed the man's long sleeves.

"Tsk, troublesome. Because a powerful ghost is keeping a human. Before that human dies, he doesn't want any trouble in this world, understand?" The masked man said, "If you're bored, you can go out and cause some minor trouble, but don't bother this town."

The masked man shook off his hand. "Anyway, the event is canceled. That human and her friend are coming to the amusement park today. Be quiet and don't scare her."

The doll asked, "But the flyers have already been sent out. Even if I say it's canceled, people who know will still come. Or, can the formation be undone?"

The masked man replied, "The formation that has been set up cannot be undone, but you can post a cancellation notice, remove everything, and don't set off fireworks. Naturally, no one will come."

The doll slowly lowered his hand upon hearing this. "Okay."

The masked man added, "But just in case, we'll create a little chaos at 5 p.m. to keep them from staying at the amusement park. Drive that human away first."

The doll replied, "Okay."

The doll seemed to have only asked a small question, obediently watching the man leave.

After the man was gone, the doll crumpled up the remaining flyers in his hand. "He actually said it's because of a human? What a ridiculous reason."

A small girl doll slowly appeared at the doll's feet, grabbing his leg.

"Wait for her to die? If she's healthy and lives to be a hundred years old, wouldn't I be dead too?" The doll head squatted down and picked up the doll at his feet. "I want to see this world turn into hell while I'm still alive."

The doll head with a childishly cute smiling face said to the doll's inorganic pupils, "Little Ai, before seven o'clock, let's protect this amusement park! After all, everyone is looking forward to tonight's fireworks display!"

The amusement park changed shifts at 6:30 every evening, and the ticket seller was about to get off work.

As he sat in his seat, his eyes suddenly fell on a thick stack of papers, documents, and books beside the table. He pulled out a flyer that was pressed underneath and pondered.

"Fireworks that grant wishes?"

He looked at it and suddenly laughed helplessly. "This kind of deceitful thing is quite appealing."

He opened the drawer, took out the photo, and muttered to himself, "Wenqing, do you want to see the fireworks?"

Outside the window, the man in the fire suit frowned worriedly at him.

...

With some time to go before the fireworks display, Li Xiaogui and the others decided to find a place to have dinner first.

They chose pickled fish. Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan sat on one side, while Shen Chen sat opposite them.

Ever since they talked about the fireworks display, Chen Yuanyuan had been giggling, lost in her own thoughts.

They sat by the window, the table littered with empty plates that had not yet been cleared. The glass window reflected their faces. After a while, another man's face appeared.

It stared at Li Xiaogui and Shen Chen's faces, then the whole person came in, floating on their steaming fish soup.

Li Xiaogui: "..."

Shen Chen: "..."

It was the man in the fire suit that Shen Chen had seen at the ticket booth. He stretched out his hand and waved at them cheerfully, "Hello, hello! Little ones!"

Li Xiaogui and Shen Chen looked at him, not speaking conveniently because Chen Yuanyuan was sitting next to them, talking to them obliviously.

Wenqing said, "Well, can I borrow you for a moment? I have something to ask of you."

Shen Chen slowly got up. "Excuse me for a moment."

Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan nodded. "Okay."

...

Shen Chen and the male ghost floating on their fish soup went to the bathroom stall.

The male ghost went straight to the point. "I heard you talking about fireworks. There's something wrong with that fireworks display. I saw with my own eyes some very strange people with chains drawing something there."

With chains? Shen Chen subconsciously thought of the night of the strange talk when Li Xiaogui said that someone had summoned something with chains, the abyss that the young ghost had mentioned.

Suddenly thinking of something, Shen Chen's expression changed. He frowned and opened his phone to send a message, his eyes inadvertently glancing at the current time:

6:56 p.m.

Shen Chen: "..."

Then, the time jumped rapidly before his eyes to 57 minutes.

Shen Chen asked, "When do the fireworks start?"

Wenqing was floating, so he naturally saw the time on Shen Chen's phone. "...7 p.m."

Shen Chen: "..."

Wenqing: "......"

Wenqing said, "You know, the amusement park is huge, and there are so many people. It won't be easy for you to find them."

Meanwhile.

Bai was teasing the small black creature in the cage with two black fragments. The depressions on its face were becoming more and more like human features.

The filth sniffed at Bai's hand but did not eat the things in his hand. Or rather, ever since it ate that black fragment last time and almost lost control and attacked Li Xiaogui who was sleeping next to him, it had not dared to eat the fragments casually.

It had learned to choose, to discern, and to hesitate.

The two fragments in Bai's hand were the same as the one it had eaten before, filled with malice.

Bai put the things into the cage and said softly, "Don't be picky, okay?"

As Bai was coaxing the little creature in the cage, a tall, black shadow suddenly appeared in the huge, cold mansion. It was wearing a mask and a long coat with long sleeves.

It said respectfully, "Sir, there's a little problem at the amusement park. There's an unruly abyssal parasite..."

Bai's hand was still stretched out, coaxing the little filth to eat.

Bai did not speak, so the masked figure had to continue, "It took care of the people we sent there. The people below didn't get any news and went to see what was going on before they told me. It's 7 p.m. now. It's probably too late to stop the fireworks display."

Bai looked at the little filth and said indifferently, "Well, there are always some disobedient people. It doesn't matter. You go down first. If anything happens, send them to Ahei. Ahei should understand me."

"Yes." As it spoke, the figure slowly disappeared again.

Bai looked at the little creature in the cage and said, "Speaking of which, little thing, you must really want to go out and find her after being locked up here for so many days, right?"

Bai opened the cage and carried the little filth out. "Let's go find her."

Bai looked at the little filth and said, "But before that, you have to eat well."

Author's Note:

The unknown character here is not specifically set as male or female, and neither are the unknown characters that will appear later.

That is, they could be male or female.

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