The United States, a peaceful town in Virginia, ushered in two uninvited guests.

Anna and Fox appeared in the entrance garden of a two-storey bungalow. The small fire brought by Fox ignited the dead leaves, and Anna hurriedly put out the fire.

This is the home of Terry and his daughter Alice, and the mailbox at the door says \'Alice's Tree Hole\' in crayons, \'Ready for Wonderland? \'A bunny board is placed next to it, with childlike decorations glued on it.

There are swings and small slides in the garden, and there is a relatively clean little girl's coat on the slide, which should have been there not long ago.

Fox pecked at Anna's clothes, and quickly disappeared in a flame.

"Hey!"

After a while, Anna heard a girl's voice coming from a certain tree. She looked up and saw a simple tree house there. A golden head protruded from the wood of the tree house. It was a little freckled face. girl.

Dark blue sweater, white overalls, blond hair hanging down in two braids, and she was still chewing bubble gum.

"Who are you? What are you doing in my yard?" The girl looked at Anna, "I've never seen you before."

"Alice?" Anna tried to call out the name.

"How do you know my name is Alice?" Alice frowned, but quickly let go, "Oh—you must have seen what I wrote on the mailbox, how cunning, I don't know your name yet !"

"Anna, Anna Lawrence," Anna gave her a smile, "I just moved here, and I just passed by here for a walk, what are you doing in the tree house?"

"What else can you do in the tree house, stay like a silly squirrel, eat pizza and read comics, and wait for my dad to come back from work by the way," Alice curled her lips, "He promised to take me to the circus to see a performance today, But I was called away by work, so long—didn’t come back—"

Alice waved her hand, "I hate work."

Terry should have been taken away by the mysterious control bureau, because he changed the time, revived Alice, and also caused huge time damage.

Alice should have died five years ago. Anna stared at the healthy and lively **** the tree without speaking.

"What's wrong? Why are you so stupid?" Alice waved her hand, "Want to come up and take a look, Anna?"

"How old are you now, Alice?" Anna shook her head, "I won't come up here, because I'm afraid of heights."

"Me? I just turned eleven yesterday. If I had known you earlier, I would have invited you to my party. The classmates and I who came to celebrate yesterday almost brought down the house!"

"Student? Speaking of which, is this very close to the school? I'm going to transfer to a community primary school, but I haven't been there yet."

"It's a little far, but it's not too far," Alice shook her head, her braid shaking with it.

"Walk down to the end of our block, and take the bakery road, 'Grandma Allens' Bakery,' it's famous in the entire state of Virginia...well, where Yeah, oh yeah, go down the bakery road, keep going, and there you are."

"Of course, if you think it's too far away, you can take the school bus, or let your parents drive to pick you up." Alice slid down the hemp rope tied to the wooden house, "Do you want to visit the school? I can take you there, I'm bored anyway."

"Okay, thank you," Anna took a step back, because Alice, who had just landed, slammed in front of her, and then moved her nose.

"Uh, what's the matter?" Anna smiled.

"It's nothing, it's just that you smell like licorice. It smells good. I like it." Alice took Anna's hand, and her movements were very natural, like a confident girl with social cow beer syndrome, " Are you from England?"

"My accent?"

"Yeah, it's easy to hear, but it's okay, it doesn't sound very strange," Alice changed from pulling Anna to holding her arm, and the two walked out of the yard side by side, "Why are you here? Is it? Parent's job?"

"Yes, my mother is a writer. Recently, she wants to collect materials and write a book here, so she brought me and my brother here," Anna said nonsense.

"Where's your dad?" Alice asked casually.

"He wasn't with us, and my mother said he returned to God's arms," ​​Anna said in a depressed mood. "This is one of the reasons we came to the United States, to change to a new environment."

"Wow...Sorry," Alice rubbed her head, she began to feel a little helpless, "My family is only me and my dad, my mom... divorced my dad when I was very young, and went to Egypt to do research When I went, she would send me a lot of weird things, such as a handful of sand, and on my sixth birthday, she gave me a box of special biscuits, saying that eating would make me smaller..."

"Hey! We're at the bakery!" Alice pointed to a shop, and before they knew it they were on the street.

All kinds of masonry buildings, everything in this town looks old.

"Do you know any unoccupied bungalows around here? You seem to be familiar with this area?" Anna must hurry up and find the house where Terry used the time-turner. A closer house."

"Of course I'm familiar with it. I've lived here since I was a child. Well...let me think about it—" Alice stroked her chin and began to think seriously, "If I really want to say, there is indeed an unoccupied house nearby...you You can go to an intermediary to inquire about it."

"But..." Alice showed a strange expression, and she pulled Anna to run, "Come on, I'll take you to see it."

The two soon came to an intersection, "It's right there," Alice pointed to an old bungalow with yellow exterior paint, white fences, and a wooden terrace that was in disrepair for a long time, as if it would sink if stepped on.

"Look, the traces of history, beautiful bright yellow, and a small vibrant garden! But, in general, I don't recommend you to rent this house—" Alice lowered her voice mysteriously.

"Why?"

"Because everyone says the house is—haunted—" Alice drew out her voice.

"Haunted? This house is still haunted in such a busy street?" Anna shook her head in disbelief.

"Hey, that's because something happened here, that **** happened five years ago," Alice waved her hand exaggeratedly, "it can be regarded as a personal experience, I was sitting on the school bus, and my classmates in the same car They all heard gunshots!"

"The driver stopped immediately and told us all to lie on the ground with our heads covered to avoid the bullets, but I was terrified! Then there was the house, there was a green light flashing from the window, and then the gunshots disappeared!"

"The school bus driver called the police, and then the police arrived. They found two uninjured corpses wearing masks and a weird human statue in the bungalow."

Alice made a threatening expression, "The police saw bloodstains extending all the way to the locker in the basement, but there was nothing in the locker!"

"After that the bungalow was blocked and then unsealed. Someone sneaked in to explore, and then ran out to tell everyone that there were many scary things in there, such as human skeletons and so on - since then everyone said it was a haunted house. , " Alice showed a trace of disdain.

"Are you afraid of haunted houses?" Anna glanced at Alice's expression.

"Of course I'm not afraid - I went to see it, and there are no human bones there!" Alice picked up her hands, "It's just some broken furniture, very ordinary."

"You are very brave."

"Of course." Alice patted herself on the shoulder. "I'm not afraid of ghosts or anything. The bedtime stories my dad told me are a hundred times more terrifying than ghost stories. I've practiced this way since I was a child."

"Do you dare to play hide-and-seek with me in the haunted house?" Anna stared at Alice, "If you are afraid, then forget it."

Alice hesitated for a second, "Why dare not? Newcomer, are you questioning my bravery—the great Alice accepts your challenge."

"Then let's go," Anna and Alice came to the front of the haunted house, Anna pointed to the tree at the door, "You just count here, count to a hundred and then come to me."

"You can only hide in the house, you are not allowed to hide in other places, and you can't leave me and run away while I am counting, and let me look for it in there alone!"

"Of course," Anna nodded.

"Okay, then let's pull the hook," Alice stretched out her finger and pulled the hook with Anna, "If I find you~lightnovelpub.net~, then I win, then you have to treat me to Granny Aarons How about the new meat floss bread from the bakery?"

"Okay, what if you don't find me?"

"Impossible, I've never lost a game of hide-and-seek... Well, if I lose, I'll give... to lend you my favorite comic book? It's an out-of-print comic book..."

"Okay, then you can start counting," Anna nodded, watching Alice turn around, she stepped on the terrace of the "Haunted House", and there was a creaking sound, as if the next second The terrace would collapse, and Anna went to the window and climbed into the bungalow through the open window.

The bungalow was very quiet, only the voice of Alice counting came from the window, and the sunlight passed through the room, allowing people to clearly see the fine dust raised in the air.

Anna looked back at Alice standing under the tree, "Fifteen, sixteen..." She was counting seriously.

Go back in time, stop Terry, and Alice will get shot, and the soul and the school bus will become one...But everything will be back to normal, and Professor Jacob Kowalski will return to Hogwarts.

Anna came directly to the basement of the bungalow, and then suddenly thought of a question.

Why did the card say to go back to five years ago? Why not go straight back to when Terry was about to use the Time-Turner? Wouldn't it be more convenient to stop him at that time?

Anna took out the beige card and found that it was indeed written five times, back to five years ago.

\'Well,\' Ana thought, \'maybe it's time travel restrictions. \'

She found a hidden corner in the basement, put on the invisibility cloak given by Headmaster Dumbledore, and hung the Mintab Time Converter around her neck.

Five turns, Ana twisted the **** of the time-turner.