God's Gift

The cold wind blew Yu Youyou's hair, the sedan bearers walked past her, and the suona sounded in the silent world.

Behind the sedan bearers followed a group of children. Those children were wearing red bellybands and jumped around Yu Youyou's legs a few times. They were laughing and playing, but as they laughed they started to cry loudly.

Following them was a group of ghosts with long red tongues in their mouths. They had pale faces, disheveled hair, and their exposed eyes stared at Yu Youyou who was standing on the side of the road.

“This is a hanged ghost.”

While Yu Youyou was staring at the ghost, a slender hand as jade stretched out from behind her and blocked her view.

"Don't stare at the hanged ghosts, they will tempt you to hang yourself." The voice behind her was somewhat charming, as if coaxing a child, and she kept whispering in Yu Youyou's ear.

"Oh." Yu Youyou nodded and stared at the hand in front of her. After seeing her inch-long red nails, she exclaimed in surprise: "Your nails are so long."

The woman behind her chuckled when she heard Yu Youyou's unconventional words, took her hand back, put it on Yu Youyou's shoulder, and said to her, "That's a big-headed ghost."

"He has a gentle temperament and won't hurt anyone."

Behind this group of long-tongued ghosts, there are a few short little ghosts, but their heads are so huge that they have to hold their heads with their hands when walking, which makes their steps slow and looks somewhat cute.

Yu Youyou looked at it curiously and blinked, then looked behind the big-headed ghost.

Following behind those big-headed ghosts was a man in purple clothes. He looked like an ordinary person, but he was holding a rope in his hand.

He and Yu Youyou looked at each other and continued walking forward.

"This is a soul-catching ghost, which is specialized in catching the souls of dying people." The woman behind him began to explain again.

Behind the wedding procession followed hundreds of ghosts, all of whom looked strange and in various shapes.

When hundreds of ghosts walked past Yu Youyou, she turned her head and found that the market that originally belonged to humans had changed its appearance. The people running the stalls had turned into big-headed ghosts, and the tourists walking on the street had turned into various kinds of ghosts.

Just then, a boy of seven or eight years old in blue clothes walked past Yu Youyou. He stared at Yu Youyou closely, and after noticing that Yu Youyou saw it, he grinned and laughed quietly.

Seeing his snickering expression, Yu Youyou also laughed at him, waved at him, and shouted, "Hello, hello, what's your name?"

"This is a malaria ghost." The woman behind her patted Yu Youyou on the shoulder and said to her, "Whoever he smiles at will get malaria."

"But he's afraid of loud shouting, so if you shout at him, he'll run away in fear."

“Is that so…” Yu Youyou frowned upon hearing this, waved at the malarial ghost, and opened her mouth to shout, “Go away! Go away!”

The malaria ghost just as the woman behind him said, after hearing Yu Youyou's shouting, it ran away in panic.

Yu Youyou watched the little ghost run away in fear, a smile appeared on her face again, and she turned around excitedly and asked the woman behind her:

"Then what the hell are you..."

She hadn't finished her question when she saw the woman's face again. She stopped talking and called out, "A-Li?"

The woman behind him looked exactly like Ali, but she was more charming than the serious Ali. She wore a transparent red dress and had a big red pearl flower in her hair. She looked at Yu Youyou with a smile.

"Little girl, this never-sleeping ghost area is a place where you can't return once you enter. How did you get in?"

When she asked this, her voice stopped, her eyes narrowed, her smiling face turned alert, and she asked sternly, "How do you know my name?"

Yu Youyou looked at Ali's alert and unhappy expression, with a little more thought in her clever eyes. She looked at Ali's open palm and the sharp nails, thought for a few seconds, put on an innocent look, and asked:

"Your name is really Ali?"

When Ah Li heard Yu Youyou's words, his expression changed slightly. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Yu Youyou, and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"There is a sister in my hometown who is as pretty as you. Her name is also Ali." Yu Youyou blinked twice and answered seriously, "Just like you, very, very pretty."

"As pretty as me?" When Ah Li heard Yu Youyou's words, the corners of his mouth curved up and he chuckled. He reached out and patted Yu Youyou's face, and said jokingly, "The little girl has good taste."

"Yeah." Yu Youyou's bright eyes reflected Ali's gorgeous face and she nodded twice quickly.

Ali raised his hand and stroked his hair twice, then asked, "Tell me, how did a human like you enter the Never-Night Ghost Domain?"

"I don't know either." Yu Youyou shook her head, looked back at the road she had come from, pointed at that road and said to Ali, "I came in while walking."

"It turns out there was a group of dogs following me, but they are gone too."

"Of course not." A Li looked at Yu Youyou's innocent eyes and snorted, "This is the ghost realm. Not ordinary things can enter."

After saying that, she looked Yu Youyou up and down. After thinking about it, she still felt something was wrong, so she walked forward and searched Yu Youyou's whole body.

She lifted up Yu Youyou's sleeve, reached her hand inside, and grabbed a handful of odds and ends.

Ali's expression became more serious. He took out the thing, but saw a handful of broken petals.

Ah Li looked at the wild flower petals in his hand, frowned, looked at Yu Youyou, and asked, "Why are you installing this thing?"

"It's delicious. It's really delicious." Yu Youyou chuckled and pointed at the petals. "You can eat them directly. They are delicious when mixed with rice or steamed buns."

After that, she also warmly invited: "You can also eat."

"How can you eat wild flowers casually?" Ali put the flowers back into Yu Youyou's hand and continued searching.

Yu Youyou stuffed the petals in her hand into her mouth, looked at the woman with her head down, and asked, "Since this is the Never-Sleeping Ghost Land, then what kind of ghost are you?"

"I'm not a ghost." Ali looked up at Yu Youyou and asked, "I'm so beautiful, how can I be a ghost?"

Yu Youyou frowned and looked at the strange-looking ghosts in the market. After thinking for a few seconds, she shook her head seriously at Ali and said, "No."

Ah Li chuckled softly, and the voice was a bit seductive, which made Yu Youyou's ears tingle. Yu Youyou's face gradually turned red, and her expression was a little dazed, but she continued to ask: "Then what are you?"

"I am a demon." Ali reached his hand into Yu Youyou's collar and found a hard object in it. He took it out and discovered that it was a white bone.

Ali looked at the bone, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he continued to search other places.

Yu Youyou continued to ask: "Shouldn't the Never-Night Ghost Domain be filled with ghosts? How could there be monsters? Are there other monsters besides you?"

"Originally there were no monsters in the Never-Night Ghost Territory, but there are monsters now that I'm here." Ah Li searched Yu Youyou's body thoroughly, but indeed she didn't find any magic tools or talismans. She looked at the silly girl in front of her, let down her guard, and said casually:

"But then another demon came, so there are now two demons here including him."