death of mountain god

The game was over, but Zhou Li did not return to the train, he closed and opened his eyes, the darkness was still the same darkness, he touched the side, the seat was empty, as cold as frost that had formed overnight, he took it back hand.

Suddenly, the carriage vibrated, and then, like a light shell, it was thrown off in one fell swoop, and layers of thick fog were rolled up in the chaos, and the floating layer was white, waving upwards lightly , the closer to the surface, the darker the color, gray-blue, dark brown, thick carbon black that cannot be melted.

Looking around, except for the inch below his feet, there is nothingness around him, he is standing at the corner of a cliff with no retreat.

Zhou Li folded his hands together and started chanting mantras. There was a shiny thing in the cold world. At first, it circled around him, like a child seeing a new gadget. When the shiny thing stopped in front of him, he took a closer look. , It turned out to be a helpless white paper lantern, the light source was not in the lantern, but the white paper itself.

Zhou Li shouted loudly, and just as he was about to shoot out the spells he had prepared, the light of the paper lantern dimmed a bit, and there was an opening in the lower part of the middle, one by one, revealing the light yellow bamboo strips in between: " Take it easy, I'm here to help you."

The paper lantern actually spoke, Zhou Li smiled from the bottom of his heart, he spoke as he spoke, and pretended to speak, who is he fooling?

"Where is this place? Can you send me back first? If you have something to say, talk about it." He made a gesture and waved the yellow talisman in his hand around the paper lantern a few times as a threat.

The paper lanterns were not afraid at all, they broke through the disorderly paper talisman array in twos and threes, and a few bamboo sticks of different lengths protruded from the place where two white paper sashes should have been hanging. The paper body stumbled over.

Zhou Li dodged backwards, almost forgetting that there was an abyss behind him, and his chest and back were covered in cold sweat. Looking back, the white paper lantern was already at his feet, jumping and jumping, very lively. The mouth started to move again: "Don't move, don't move, you will be miserable if you fall, and you won't be able to go back for the time being, this is another monster's territory, I'm just a random intruder."

"How do I get out?" He suddenly couldn't figure it out, and sat back and stared at the paper lantern.

"Just wait. He's very powerful, and he's dealing with that walnut tree now, but the others have gone back... Did you offend him?"

Zhou Li reached out his hand to touch the paper lantern politely, and then snapped his fingers. A cluster of slender flames emerged from the tip of his thumb, which made the lantern roll on the ground in fright, and was suddenly three feet away from him. After a long while, he shook his head and shook his head Standing up on the ground: "Can you put that thing away? I am a living paper, the kind that will burn when exposed to fire!"

Zhou Li's expression was very innocent: "I just want to give you a light, so you can keep warm, and I won't burn you, so I have to rely on you to get out."

"How do you know I'm cold?" The paper lantern moved over with a bamboo stick, and didn't dare to get so close again, leaving a social safety distance of arm's length, standing upright on a layer of mist.

"That's right, who knows if you have bad intentions, we seem to know each other so close." Zhou Li took out a cup of white candle with a smile, and waved the flame with his right hand, "You can be satisfied, I am so familiar with you." A cup of expensive candles that even my boyfriend has never smelled."

The paper lantern was shocked by this man's words and deeds, his fat body trembled, and almost fell from mid-air: "Thank you, but I really don't care."

Zhou Li turned a deaf ear and began to recall the scene just now: "We just played a game of werewolf killing, and we were quite abiding by the rules. We didn't think anything offended the old man. On the contrary, it was him who didn't even ask, and just forcibly pulled him away. Seven people entered the game, is it because they stayed on the train for a long time and felt lonely? It shouldn’t be, a group of people come and go on the train, there will always be a few of the same kind to relieve him, right? "

The paper lantern actually sighed, and the scratched opening flew outwards a few times: "He is the train conductor."

Zhou Li turned his head and glanced at the paper lantern: "That's right, it's more promising than I thought. I thought it was an item on the car, a toilet faucet or something."

He immediately took out a piece of talisman paper at the bottom, bowed to the east, west, north and south, and waved the formula. The fur-edged talisman paper filled with vermilion ancient seals continued to move up with the inarticulate incantations in his mouth, and rose flatly. to the top.

The range of movement was not small, the candle flames flickered with the shadows, and the paper lanterns retreated one after another in fright, and tightly closed the opening on the paper. Zhou Li looked down and saw that there was a neat row of stitches on the opening, It was really "sewed up".

"Break!" Zhou Li closed his eyes, held his breath, and uttered the last word. His neck was straightened, without the slightest slack in the usual way, the cyan meridians on his forehead appeared, and his sleeves rustled automatically without wind.

The talisman above his head jerked and rushed into the pale sky.

The white mist above the mid-air suddenly became quiet for a moment, as if the pause button was pressed, and it rolled violently like boiling water in the blink of an eye. The paper lantern turned over in a manner, with its back facing Zhou Li, making a gesture of looking up at the sky at 45 degrees. posture, the opening on the lantern’s belly got disconnected at some point, and it started to vibrate again at this moment: “What did you do?”

Zhou Li wiped the sweat from his forehead, fell back, and pulled him to the chair by gravity to sit slumped. His voice was far less arrogant than before: "You can't help me, I have to find a way by myself?"

Paper Lantern saw that he had no arrogance at all, so he was very courageous. He walked up to the candle, looked at it with his head and probed his brain for a few times, and then suggested: "Zhou Li, can you take this candle? Doesn't it work the same way with a flashlight?" ?"

"This smells good, tsk, I forgot you don't have a nose." Zhou Li straightened his back, snuffed out the candle, wiped his belongings unhurriedly, put them in a black box, and thoughtfully mentioned Bamboo pole on top of paper lantern: "How do you know my name?"

The whole body of the paper lantern trembled, almost overturning on the spot: "I guess!"

"Hmm... who told you?" Unmoved, Zhou Li shook the weight in his hand and flipped the lantern 360 degrees.

The white light around him suddenly began to flicker, and between light and dark, the lantern stretched out a few long bamboo strips to grab his arm, holding back the dizziness and begging: "Don't shake me...you're going to shake off my brain It's a man, in his twenties, maybe a little older, he asked me to tell you that the thing is the train conductor, and asked me to talk to you for a while, nothing else."

Zhou Li frowned, and after thinking about it, he couldn't think of the reason, so he simply put down the paper lantern. He knew the truth that adding sugar to his palm would double the effect, so he took the initiative to weave the bamboo strips under the lantern neatly, and his mouth was persuasive. : "I was a little impatient just now, I'm sorry, now you think about it carefully, what other characteristics does that person have?"

At this time, the talisman paper above the head has already echoed, like a bag that has been tied up and leaked. It was a bright spot at first, but in the blink of an eye, it has become the size of a disc, like a full moon in the night sky. As soon as it pours in, the mist can't avoid it, and it disperses into dust.

The paper lantern was lying alone on the table, Zhou Li rested his forehead and sighed, he should wait a little longer, this thing can't see the light.

Shen Yuntan looked blankly at the white paper lantern on the table, and pointed with his finger: "What is this?"

An older lady with a child in the back row explained enthusiastically: "This white paper lantern is usually used for ancestor worship during the Qingming Festival, but this one is relatively small, probably a handmade gadget."

Zhou Li was still a little sluggish at the moment, raised his wrist and poked the palm-sized lantern, and looked inside, the light yellow bamboo strips were neatly woven, and he didn't know what to do with this "little thing" for a while. , and simply threw it to Shen Yuntan: "If you become red another day, let's play by yourself, it's very cute."

"Wait!" Chen Yuan quickly snatched the lantern away, looked at it over and over for a while, stared at Zhou Li and asked, "Who gave this to you?"

Without waiting for him to answer the question, he seemed to be talking to himself, then returned the paper lantern to Shen Yuntan's hand, and whispered in an almost sleepy tone: "Have you smelled a smell?"

The smell of soil in the cracks of the wet, cold and rotten wood uprooted a trace of nostalgia deep in her memory. The person who raised her, the tree that sheltered her from the wind and rain, was separated by countless hours. Afterwards, it floats to the surface again.

Shen Yuntan touched her head: "No, is it the sequelae of the game just now?"

Chen Yuan lowered her eyes, and in the next second, she tossed her hair. New and old hatred broke out at the same time, and she squinted her black eyeballs and glanced at people angrily: "Are you two lovers? What happened?"

Shen Yuntan looked at her slightly with a smile: "Yes, I won two tickets, I don't know how to give them to us, such a powerful monster shouldn't lie to people, right?"

The steward supported the small trolley selling snacks and drinks, stopped and stopped all the way, without shouting, walked straight forward, stopped beside Chen Yuan, and handed two bare white notes to the two people inside. Said: "Please accept the tickets of the two gentlemen."

Chen Yuan was so envious, he stretched out his index finger and poked: "Is this ticket for sale?"

The flight attendant was tall and tall, with black hair wrapped in a black net. Hearing this, he grinned: "This was sent by the conductor of the train, and there is no way to buy it."

The touch is not as bare as the look and feel, it has a fine texture, like wrinkled paper, just such a piece of paper with no words, can it really be used as a ticket?

Zhou Li was also very skeptical. Since there are tickets, there should be ticket inspectors. No matter how bad it is, a place should be circled. There should be an opening at the end of the bamboo railing, and two large characters should be written crookedly on the wooden board with white paint—Entrance, But Ren's logic couldn't be applied to the demon, so he could only thank him and accept it.

The journey was indeed boring, and even going to the toilet was not at ease. When Zhou Li solved it with one hand holding the door, he regretted it a bit. If he had known this, he should have bought a plane ticket to the provincial capital.

When he went out, there was a girl waiting outside, she looked like she was about to push the door, and watched him walk out listlessly with a subtle expression.

Zhou Yue thought to himself, when you go in, you will find that the door lock is broken and cannot be locked, which means that the toilet light will always be green.

There was a figure reflected in the mirror. Although his hair was messed up and his clothes were wrinkled, Zhou Li still couldn't stop Zhou Li from maintaining a good image in front of his boyfriend. Rong has long been seen by others.

Xiao Bu came to visit him and stared at Zhou Li's eyes in the mirror: "I died a terrible death."

Zhou Li stroked his collar calmly, and explained sincerely: "Look, if you win, we only have one ticket in the end, but now, we have two tickets."