a ghost pretending to be human

When the accident happened, Qi Man was about to go home after playing.The people next to him were still drinking water and chatting, talking and laughing, walking very slowly.She didn't have the habit of wasting time trying to fit in with the group, so she didn't wait and walked away with her bag.

The weather was fine that day, and the sunset light was still slightly warm.It's just that the cool wind blows through the sweaty back, and it's still a little cold.

Qi Man walked with her head depressed.

Her mental state is not very good recently, and she always sleeps restlessly. She wanted to play a game to vent, but she felt even more dizzy.

Even so, when suddenly her feet were empty, she still reacted quickly and leaned back, maintaining balance on one foot, but when she was about to withdraw her front foot, she suddenly lost weight.

The surrounding air suddenly became cold, with a cold wind blowing.

Before Qi Man could hide her panic at that moment, her feet fell to the ground.The force of the impact caused her to squat down subconsciously, and barely managed to stabilize herself from falling.

The ground was uneven, hard and damp.There are only dim dots of light around, and it seems that a halo of unknown origin in the distance is extraordinarily bright.

In the bitter wind, there was a weeping sound.Before Qi Man could figure out what it was, a howling sound suddenly sounded in her ears.At the same time, the temperature dropped sharply, and she felt as if she was freezing from the bones, and all organs seemed to stop working, welcoming eternal dormancy.

A strange, cold liquid-like malice rushed towards her quickly.

Qi Man subconsciously took a step towards the light source.

"Don't move." A voice rang in her ear.

The malice that was pressing on her suddenly dissipated.

Qi Man heard the faint sound of the flute, which isolated her from the coldness around her.The warmth flowed back into the body.

Her mind cleared for a moment, then returned to chaos.

"...Li Zigui?" Qi Man murmured, groping around.

The voice sighed softly.

A dry and warm hand held Qi Man's wrist.

"It's me." Li Zigui calmed Qi Man's emotions.

"Where is this?" Qi Man immediately grabbed Li Zigui with the other hand.

"Go to a safe place first." Li Zigui patted Qi Man's hand, "Now, raise your arms, jump up with all your strength, grab the hole above, and support yourself up."

Qi Man was confused for a moment, and silently clenched Li Zigui's wrist.

"Be obedient, it's too dangerous here." Li Zigui tried his best to keep his tone from being anxious, "What's the problem, I'll tell you slowly after I go out, okay?"

"Li Zigui." Qi Man read the name again with no clear meaning.

Following this murmur, the world in front of her collapsed like melting, and everything became blurred blocks of color.Only one patch of color shone brightly, bright and blinding, as if she wanted to keep it in her mind.

She knew that the color block symbolized plums.There is no reason.

Then there is the sound of glass shattering, the roar of explosions, countless fine lines, light streaks, and the sky full of flames...

Suddenly, all noise returned to silence, and all colors returned to darkness.

Qi Man felt that he forgot everything the moment he remembered something.

Before Li Zigui realized that something was wrong, Qi Man let go of his hand, leaped vigorously, and grasped the cement-like ground with both hands.She didn't stop, and carried herself out of the cave by following the inertia.

The moment she went out, the sky was bright, and Qi Man rolled to the side, rubbing dust all over her body and scratching her skin, but she saw that the place where she jumped out was smooth, without any trace of a "hole".

"Are you okay?"

Qi Man turned her head suddenly, and saw Li Zigui who was looking at her worriedly.

"Where is that?" she asked.

"Ghost cave."

It was not Li Zigui who answered her, but Yan Ming.

It was only when Yan Ming's voice sounded that Qi Man noticed that there were others around.

Yan Ming seemed to have just finished a phone call.He put down his phone, leaned closer, looked at Qi Man's complexion that had turned pale and even slightly transparent at some point, and said urgently and quickly: "Are you Wen Shisi?"

Qi Man froze for a moment: "What?"

"No?" Yan Ming looked serious, "Can't be a man disguised as a woman?"

A displeased and bewildered look appeared on Qi Man's face.

"Then why..." Yan Ming suddenly cut off his soliloquy.

Li Zigui ensured Qi Man's safety, and in a blink of an eye Yan Ming seemed to have leaked something, and asked with great interest, "Why...?"

"Nothing." Yan Ming replied briefly.

Before Li Zigui could ask again, a lively voice descended from the sky.

"I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming!" A girl holding a guzheng jumped down from the eaves not far away, and drew a round trajectory in the air, like a cork popping out of a wine bottle. Smooth and aggressive.

"Hello, hello," she held Qi Man's hand involuntarily with her right hand, shaking it up and down a few times, "My name is Xue Yunyin, do you know Xue Yanxing? He is my cousin. Now I want to play a requiem for you , please listen carefully and don’t cover your ears, please, please!”

Before Qi Man could answer, Xue Yunyin stuffed the guzheng into Yan Ming's arms for him to hold, and then began to play it vigorously.

The sound of the piano suddenly overwhelmed.

Xue Yunyin played extremely fast, the notes were all squeezed together, so close that there was no room for breathing, making Qi Man upset.

After barely surviving a piece, Yan Ming immediately pushed the guzheng back into Xue Yunyin's arms, with a horrible expression on his face: "In terms of piano skills, you still have to learn more from your brother."

Xue Yunyin pouted, knowing she was wrong, and ran away holding the guzheng.

Her comings and goings are like a gust of wind, blowing people into panic.

"Now," Qi Man frowned, folded his arms and said, "can you tell me what happened?"

Li Zigui let out a "huh", thought for a while, and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Qi Man.

"Li Zigui," Qi Man looked at him, "You have 1000 million reasons not to tell me the truth, or to cover up or tamper with some of the facts. But I don't want us to waste our energy here."

She fell into danger inexplicably, and was rescued inexplicably. All this happened suddenly, but she knew nothing about the situation.She has the need and the right to know everything, to protect herself, and even to do something else.

Li Zigui, who had seen through his intentions, smiled helplessly and leaned against the wall.

Qi Man's meaning is very simple, she will deliberate everything, investigate to the end, and will not stop until she understands all the truth.And she didn't want Li Zigui to set up obstacles for her.

"I will try my best to be unambiguous. However, I am not very clear about many things." Li Zigui pointed to Yan Ming, "He is much clearer than me, but I am afraid he is unwilling to talk about it."

"I also have a lot of doubts." Yan Ming shrugged helplessly at Qi Man, and nodded at Li Zigui, "But he doesn't want to answer."

Qi Man: "..."

Qi Man looked at Li Zigui, then at Yan Ming.

"So," she said, "are you fooling me, or are you asking me to be a mediator, or a microphone?"