nonexistent garden

When I walked in, it was all up to the woman to lead the way, and I didn’t feel how far it was. Now it’s all up to me to identify the direction, and I feel strange everywhere I look, but I can’t find the way.I had an intuition that the gate was here, so I had no room for thinking and simply followed my feeling.The distance between me and him was still shrinking a little bit, I heard his footsteps behind me, looked back, and the speed slowed down.

He chased me and was about to grab me. I felt my fingers touch my clothes. He didn't grab me as I expected. I took a few steps forward and looked back to see him stop at the same place, looking confused. , as if he couldn't see me, but in fact I was not far from him, breaking out in a cold sweat.He only heard him muttering in a low voice, "How did I get here?" After speaking, he turned and left, and his figure quickly disappeared behind the house.

I hinted that I should calm down, and sorted out my current situation. I first walked into an unknown garden. I have only seen two ghosts so far. The woman in palace costume pushed me into the water. The appearance of the corpse in the water was too scary Horror, the man who was chasing me just now called her Xiaoqin, she is probably not alive, and there is also a guard who opened the gate, now it seems that she is probably not human either.The garden is huge, and now I have completely reached a place where I have never been before, and I am lost.

The backpack was lost in the water. Fortunately, I had my mobile phone with me. I tried to turn on the mobile phone, but the screen was always black. It must have been damaged by water.Fortunately, I didn't feel hungry. Although it was a bit strange, it was a good thing after all. It was unrealistic to find food in a place where no one could be seen.

It was ten o'clock in the morning when I entered the yard, and now the sky is getting dark, like the scene in the evening.A series of things happened too quickly. First, he fell into the water and hit a ghost, and then he was chased by the suspected ghost. He didn't even notice this detail!A serious question was before me. I hadn't figured out what this place was, and would I have to spend the night here?

There were two options before me, either keep walking until I found the gate, or enter the house here and get ready for the night.As a road idiot, I have no confidence in my ability to recognize the road, so I decisively chose a nearby room and opened the door, but the door didn't open.I tried many times and finally had to admit that I really couldn't push the door open.Every time I pass a house, I push the door once.It seems to be the sixth room, I pushed open the door.The light in the room was dim, and the outlines of the tables and chairs could be vaguely discerned, so it was hard to see clearly what was inside.

A voice came from inside, "Who doesn't have eyes? Labor and management still open the door when they sleep."

Just now I was still hesitating whether to go in, in case there is any danger inside, I can't tell.This is great, there is no need to go in, there might be another ghost inside.It's not that I'm a coward, I didn't have the guts to realize that there might be other ghosts here.I closed the door and walked out, accidentally closing the door too loudly, and the ghost inside yelled, "Which bastard dares to slam the door?"

I hurriedly apologized outside, "I'm sorry, you continued to sleep, I interrupted you." Big brother ghost, ancestor ghost, please don't come out.

However, things didn’t go as expected, the door opened again, and a flesh-clad man in only his underwear stood at the door, with a bad tone, “Is that you?”

Why does every ghost look like a living person, can see me, can talk to me, and has no self-consciousness of becoming a ghost?

I rejected the option of running away. I tried it before, and he will definitely catch up. Moreover, there are many houses here, and I don’t know how many houses have ghosts in them.

I tried my best to maintain my superficial composure and said, "I got lost and accidentally walked here, please point out the way out, and I will leave now."

He didn't buy it at all, "You want to leave, it's impossible."

Me: "There is something to discuss, otherwise you give me an explanation, what do you want me to do?"

He was suddenly furious, "I'm going to kill you!"

I was almost desperate. One chase game was not enough and I had to do it again. I didn't run far, and I stopped.Because that person didn't catch up at all.

I went around to the back of the house and found the man who was chasing me under a tree. He fell to the ground with several wounds all over his body. There was a deep and long wound on his back from which the blood flowed out. There was a large pool of blood on the ground. .

I knew that the man was dead, but I still couldn't help going forward to check.I'm not a brave person, but I encountered supernatural events one after another, brushed shoulders with death, and gradually became less afraid.His skin was cold and showed no signs of decay.But there is a faint guess in my heart, the ancient garden, the ancient clothes, he should have been dead for a long time.

I felt a burst of sadness for no reason, maybe because I saw him before he was alive, he was like a living person when he talked to me, he must have been a good person when he was alive, seeing his dead body seemed to die in front of me, a living life was gone .

A lantern was left beside him. I wasn't sure if it was the one I had brought into the garden, so I dared to touch the lantern.After a while, there was a faint green light from the lantern, which was very ghostly and uncertain.

At this time, a green spot of light appeared in a house in the distance. I don't know what it means, but at least it is better to have a destination than wandering in the garden.I tremblingly picked up the lantern and walked towards the bright house.

There is a dead silence all around, and a ghost may appear anywhere.In the silent and terrifying environment, I couldn't help thinking about what would be in the house, would it be the king of ghosts, or the owner of the garden.

There is no moon, no stars, the lantern in his hand illuminates, and all the visible things around are glowing green, which is particularly eerie.I can’t fall asleep watching a horror movie at night. Now it’s like I’m the protagonist of a ghost movie. The feeling is indescribable.

Getting closer and closer to the green light, walking to the front of the house, it is obvious that this room occupies a larger area than the others, and the green light shines through the windows.There is no figure on the window, and the layout of the house cannot be seen clearly.

I was just about to poke a small hole to check the situation, when a male voice sounded, "Turn right and come in through the door."

The voice was unquestionable, and I dared to ask "Who are you?" No response made me panic.

I had no choice but to turn right as he said and saw the door and a man standing at the door.He looked to be in his early twenties, and his clothes were obviously different from the ghosts I met earlier, like a rich man. "You are the first living person to enter here." He said softly. "No one has ever come in, you are the first."

I didn't answer his words, and continued to ask, "Who are you? The owner here? What kind of place is this, are all dead people, what happened, and this lantern, what does it have to do with you?"

"What did you see?"

I told him everything I saw and heard, including the bodies in the water and under the trees.

"I am not the owner of the garden. You will see him sooner or later. All the people you see are dead, and so am I. The servants in the garden retain their habits and live as before. I have my own differences with the owner here. Full consciousness. Other than that, there are two horses and a dog that you will see later when you walk around. . . and that's basically the situation in the garden."

"Every person you see here is actually a soul body, and the body before death is also in the garden. Everyone subconsciously wanders around their own body, but he hides everyone's body and cannot be seen under normal circumstances. "

"The garden you see contains formations, which divide the garden into two layers, virtual and real. One layer is for us to live in the state of soul body, and the other layer houses our bodies. At the same time, there is an exit from here."

My eyes lit up when I heard the exit, and I hurriedly asked, "Can you tell me how to get out?"

"I want you to do me a favor."

"What help?"

"Find my body and bring it to me. In return, I'll show you how to get out"

"Where is your body?"

"You find the owner here first. His name is Zheng Xuan. He is dressed as a scholar. He knows it, but you can't ask him directly, let alone let him know that I am looking for it."

Sounds like I'm going to bring him a dead body so he can show me the way back.

"It's windy in the middle of the night, come in and sit down." His voice was gentle, without the ferocity of a ghost as imagined, and he didn't seem to have any malice

I asked a sharp question, "You are all... dead people, I am the only living person, why do people and ghosts have different paths, why did I come here, and will someone hurt me to my detriment?"

He said, "It was unexpected that you broke in by mistake. I don't know how you got in. It's not hurting people. Before you came, everyone didn't think they were dead, and they all acted according to the habits of life. .”

"Although I am dead, I still live here like a living person. In my opinion, you are no different from us except for your strange clothes."

I believed his words and followed him into the house.The room is spacious but simply furnished, with a table and three chairs in the center, and a candle emitting a faint green light.

He motioned me to put the lantern on the table, somehow the green flame in the lantern was transferred to his fingertips and then to the wick of the candle.Green Flame jumped a few times, growing stronger visible to the naked eye.

I remembered that I hadn't asked his name yet, "What's your name?"

"Song Zhi"

"Real name?" I asked.

"I did not lie to you."

"My name is Zhang Lan."

We chatted, he talked about his time, I talked about modern society and how to enter the garden.

He said a year name, I vaguely remember that it belonged to the Ming Dynasty, maybe four to five hundred years ago.