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Xia Ye's Yu Wen and the amount of exercise along the way made Lu You feel hot, and even after being frightened twice in a row, he didn't have time to cool down.His fingers were hot, and Qi Zhengyun's palm was also hot. Under the force of the tight grip, the sweaty and moist skin pressed against each other without any barriers. At that moment, there was an illusion that the sense of touch had failed and was about to merge into one.Lu You was taken aback by the sudden contact, and immediately wanted to withdraw his hand—twitched, but was held by Qi Zhengyun and couldn't be pulled out.

But after a second or two, Qi Zhengyun took the initiative to let go, and took a step back to widen the distance. "It's okay, I'm not hurt—it's not blood." He avoided Lu You's hand that was still in mid-air after being released, and pulled up the T-shirt a little bit from the side to show Lu You that there was no damage underneath The skin, "There is really no wound...you see? The clothes are not scratched. It's wet here, it was just splashed with water before."

As for why it was splashed with water, and how it was splashed, only this small piece of water can still drip down... Such small details should not be noticed, right?

In the two seconds just now, Qi Zhengyun had several thoughts in his mind. For example, if he really got some wounds on his waist or hands and refused to go to the hospital, would Lu You take him home to bandage him?After thinking about it, he felt that he really thought too much, he should save some things, and don't make Lu You feel guilty about it.

Qi Zhengyun felt suspicious because of his guilty conscience; Lu You didn't think much about it at all, but saw that there was no blood on his body, and the tension and worry that suddenly emerged just now relaxed.He turned his eyes slightly, and stayed for a while on the abdominal muscle line exposed at the hem of Qi Zhengyun's T-shirt, then retracted it with a delicate mood, and finally remembered to ask: "You...why are you here again? Haven't the people around here finished interviewing yet?"

"There are only two families here, and it's over a long time ago. The sampling range of the survey can't be so narrow—but I also live near here, and I occasionally go out for a run at night." Qi Zhengyun said casually, "I'm in the small square. I saw you too. You were sitting alone on the parallel bars with your hair in a daze. I didn’t go to bother you. In fact, I left a little earlier than you... This person was wandering on the road before, and suddenly hid again. I came back because I felt something was wrong. Take a look, I didn't expect you to be the unlucky one being targeted - I want to ask you, why are you outside?"

He glanced at the direction where the man stumbled and fled just now, and said, "Forget it, let's finish what I said before——do you really know that person?"

"It should be." Lu You was not sure, "The grandma who lives downstairs in my house has a grandson. I met him during Chinese New Year..." At that time, Lu You and Yuan Xiaoxiao went downstairs to set off firecrackers. In the corridor, the man in tight leather pants and his embarrassed girlfriend were arguing with his father.It was not suitable to stand by and stare at that scene, so Lu You only took a quick glance and went downstairs.It has been a few months since he can still recognize it, not because he has a good memory, but because there is a scar in the middle of the man's eyebrows, which is more obvious.

When we met on the trail last time, the motorcycle helmet this person was wearing covered his face; if it weren't for the same obvious floral shirt, Lu You would not be able to connect the two things together.So... the feeling of being stared at recently is that this person is following him?Lu You recalled his grandma's criminal record of publicizing his family's situation to the outside world, and vaguely realized the reason why he became the target of this robbery.Although there was still something wrong with this explanation, he basically believed it in his heart.

Thinking of grandma keeping Lu You silent, Qi Zhengyun keenly caught a subtle howling from a distance in the silence.The breath that belonged to the little black cat surged up, and there was a distinct malice and joy in it.

Those who are being targeted by it at this moment should feel that they are wrapped in a bone-chilling chill.And the gentle aura that was restrained when he was around Lu You before, it would feel like poking a finger on the back of the person to remind him to "look back quickly".The feeling of being peeped that has troubled Lu You for the past few days is actually not caused by the man, but the warning given to him by the kitten—although according to the results, there is no difference.

Finally, other pedestrians began to appear on the street, and the unusual silence that had enveloped the neighborhood before was slowly broken.Qi Zhengyun actually suspected that the empty and undisturbed streets just now, including the aggressive tendency of the attacker, were also influenced by that kitten.Maybe it was the idea of ​​borrowing a knife to kill someone, trying to draw him into anger?

Qi Zhengyun did more than just "press the attacker to the ground" that Lu You saw. After all, he has more than just his hands.The man's chest and abdomen were whipped by the tentacles. Although he didn't hit hard, his ribs should have been cracked. Qi Zhengyun was a little surprised that he didn't vomit or choke blood except for a few screams, and his escape was still fast... …

Although he was allowed to escape, Qi Zhengyun did not really let him go.He wasn't going to let the cat go, either.But... Qi Zhengyun took Lu You, who hadn't heard the sound in the distance, to the side of the road to avoid the vehicles, and at the same time secretly glanced in the direction of the wailing.

Perhaps for the former, he no longer needs to do anything.

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The man is like a drunk who has drunk too much, walking on the path step by step.There was no one on this road, and the scenery was unfamiliar, but he didn't notice anything unusual.The feeling in my chest and stomach was strange, numb and heavy, as if my internal organs were being pulled down, but I didn't feel any pain at all.Instead, it was his head... the depths of his head!It was as if a heavy hammer was continuously knocking down, causing his skull to crack apart in the vibration!

He pressed his head hard with both hands, his feet kept shaking, and he didn't know where he was going.When the thing fell from above, he almost failed to react, and barely stopped at the last moment.The thing grazed his face and fell on his toes, making a sound like a ripe fruit falling to the ground.The slurry, mixed with soft debris, splashed and splashed on his face.

The drop was warm and slimy.An extremely disgusting stench filled the nostrils.He lowered his head slowly and saw the pieces of fur and flesh that had fallen on the shoe.In front of his toes lay the battered corpse of a cat, as if it had fallen from the twentieth floor instead of the second.The skin was turned into mud, and the bones wrapped in the skin were broken into pieces.But there was one eyeball that was intact, rolled forward on the ground, and turned the cat's gloomy green pupils towards him.

The cry choked in his throat.He trembled and turned around suddenly—the little black cat standing behind looked at him and gave him a "meow".

Nothing touched it, but the kitten flew out all of a sudden, arched its body, as if it had been kicked hard in the stomach.Its belly was sunken, a distinct footprint-like depression, and an invisible foot stepped on it and grinded hard until the broken bone poked out the fur.He yelled and felt something wriggling against his heels. He didn't dare to look back to see what the scene was. After yelling, he ran away, stepping over the cat corpse that was still being crushed and fled forward in a hurry.

Another cat jumped from the top of the curb fence and opened its festering, blistered, abscessed mouth toward him.He yelled and kicked it, the kitten's body hit the toe of the shoe softly, was kicked out, turned half a circle and stopped moving.This weak reaction immediately gave him a little courage, and he stopped when the next cat with a broken tail and paw appeared and was squatting in the middle of the road.

"Why are you showing me this? I didn't do it to this level...it's not just a wild cat..." He yelled sternly, emphasizing the fact, "You fell to your death! You only fell to your death when you squeezed out of the railing Yes! Are you coming to seek revenge on me? Ha——!"

The cat looked at him without moving.The pain that stirred in his mind, the fierce impulse that made him more and more irritable, constantly wore away the fear that made him tremble just now.He stepped forward vigorously, and gave the cat a loud drink, trying to scare the cat away.The cat responded by turning its head, yawning, and raising its paws to lick its fur.

He picked up a rock on the ground and threw it at the cat.The cat got hit, neighing and fluffing its fur and arching its back, but it still didn't escape.Hot blood rushed to the top of his head, staining his eyes red, and he seemed to have completely lost his mind at this moment.When he came back to his senses, he found himself kneeling on the ground, and was hitting the cat on the head with the sharp point of the stone in his hand.The cat had long since stopped moving, and was almost smashed into the miserable state it fell in front of him just now. There were stinky blood stains everywhere, staining his hands and body red.

He used all his strength and smashed it a few more times before throwing away the stone in his hand. "Ha, ha..." He gasped heavily, mocking in a low voice, "Even if you become a monster, you still have to die by my hands..."

The color of the blood stains on the ground gradually faded.The cat's corpse gradually became transparent, and then disappeared.He looked around in a daze. The road in front and behind was clean, and the traces of the cat's death disappeared together.Only the blood on his hands was still there, and still kept the sticky and warm touch.

After a few seconds, he shivered, as if he finally realized what happened just now.Just as he was about to stand up, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ribs, causing him to howl and fall back to the ground.

It hurts, it hurts...why didn't I feel anything when I was walking and running just now...?

Bright red blood spit out of his mouth, and tears blurred his eyes.Cracked ribs snapped cleanly during the strenuous exercise, poking into the lungs.The wailing sound echoed on the empty path, and no one heard him and came to rescue him; but there was an ominous sound from the ground, rushing left and right in the sewer, and quickly approached the people struggling on the ground .

It's the smell of the same kind of blood...

There are countless pairs of bright red eyes shining in the darkness.There was a flutter of wings above: winged creatures were following the breath.

He knows.He knows.He knew... Countless small voices whispered.Even if too many foragers get only a little each, they are ecstatic at the prospect of flesh and blood to satisfy their appetites.Those who killed the "ghost" who came to revenge and learned of the existence of non-human beings still don't know what they are about to encounter.He grabbed the ground hard with his fingertips, still thinking about getting up and going to the hospital in severe pain——

Several mice came out of the sewer, squeaking excitedly.Insects crawled out of the cracks in the wall, and monsters resembling birds descended from the sky.

The lid of the sugar bowl was open.The "children" who finally got permission must have licked the bottom of the jar clean without leaving any sugar residue behind.

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Lu You heard a meow.

The cat's meow was shrill and shrill, and at night it sounded like someone was crying.It was followed by a series of "giggle" laughter, reminiscent of licking your lips contentedly after a full meal.The sound came from a distance, it was very slight, it was blown into the ears by the breeze, and it drifted away like an auditory hallucination.

Laughter is more frightening than crying, this is the first time Lu You has such an experience.He looked in the direction where the sound came from, but only saw the railings of the fence illuminated by street lights, and the dark shadows of trees surrounded by dough balls blocking his sight.A couple walked by arm in arm, and the child ran after the family dog. Everyone behaved as usual, as if they didn't care, or didn't hear the sound just now.

Feeling the chill on Lu You's back, he couldn't help leaning towards Qi Zhengyun - because he met a robber, even if there were only a few minutes away, Qi Zhengyun still insisted on taking him home.Speaking of which, this is the second time Qi Zhengyun served as an escort for safety reasons.After seeing a man easily knocking down an assailant with a knife, Lu You only felt that Qi Zhengyun had a stable thermal force field on his body, and the eerie atmosphere would dissipate spontaneously when he was around him—as if he had fought hard People must be able to exorcise even ghosts.

Qi Zhengyun followed Lu You's movements and turned his head. "It seemed like a cat was meowing just now." He said seriously, as if he really thought it was just a cat outside, "What's the matter, do you want to go out and have a look?"

Lu You quickly shook his head. "It should have run away." He said, seeing a warm yellow light in front of him—it was the light in the kitchen of the grandma's house who lived on the first floor.The ease of going home was entangled with more complicated emotions. Lu You seemed not aware that he could say goodbye to Qi Zhengyun and continued to walk downstairs to the anti-theft door.Qi Zhengyun didn't make a sound, and walked slowly beside him, staring at the handful of hair on the back of Lu You's head that was messed up when he took off his coat and hat.

—In the small channel below the curb, the waves suddenly surged.The clear water gushing out from nowhere rolled up a small wave, pushing away the few strands of bright red color that had just floated along with the water quietly.

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