a ghost pretending to be human

Li Zigui took a step back and said to Xie Chunjiang, "I'll jump down by myself later."

"While?" Xie Chunjiang caught the key word.

"Please do me a favor." Li Zigui looked at Xie Chunjiang expectantly.

"...you, ask me, to help?"

Xie Chunjiang simply couldn't figure out what kind of mentality Li Zigui had to be able to say this.

"You should fulfill my last wish. Help me bring Sister Wen home, and let me have a word with her." Li Zigui pointed to Wen Shisi.Without the soul orb, he couldn't bring her out of the ghost cave at all.

Xie Chunjiang looked at Li Zigui, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Yes."

The next moment, Wen Shisi was thrown onto a lawn.Because she was forcibly materialized by Xie Chunjiang, she did not penetrate the ground.Probably because the fall was a bit hard, she moved her fingertips, and there were signs of waking up.

Li Zigui: "..."

The corner of Xie Chunjiang's mouth slightly lifted, revealing a malicious smile.He quickly disappeared his figure, and quietly said next to Li Zigui, "Don't worry, she has no memory of being put down by me."

Li Zigui: "..." Sister Wen didn't even notice Xie Chunjiang, so she got dizzy by him?

Ghost King Da Da is so strong.Ah, I really want to hug my thigh.

At this moment, Wen Shisi's brows were furrowed together, and tears came out of the corners of his eyes.She barely opened her eyes, subconsciously brushed her messy long hair, and sat up slowly, feeling a little dazed for a while.

This is the Botanical Garden in City B.

The light of the setting sun dyed the surrounding grass orange-red, with golden light at the edges.In the distance there were two or three families sitting on the lawn having a picnic.No one realized that suddenly there was another person on the lawn.Maybe someone saw Wen Shisi's sudden appearance, but mistakenly thought that they were delusional.

Wen Shisi looked around, lowered his eyes, stood up without saying a word, walked out of the lawn, and came to a more secluded corner.

Li Zigui floated in front of Wen Shisi: "Sister Wen."

"You came back a little faster than I expected." Wen Shisi didn't look at Li Zigui, but just patted the grass clippings on his body.

"Well, otherwise I can't stop...you."

Li Zigui swallowed back the "you" that could barely escape, and replaced it with "you".He felt that if he still used honorific words now, it would be too hypocritical.

Wen Shisi still had no expression on his face.Her appearance gradually began to distort, she became shorter and thinner, and gradually returned to the usual appearance of an elderly woman, and her voice was also full of age: "The way you stop me is not like your style."

Li Zigui felt bitter.Of course he couldn't treat sister Wen so roughly!

But he still said calmly: "I was anxious at the time, so I transferred you directly to the ghost cave. I was afraid that you would float around when you lost consciousness, so I forced you to materialize. After a short rest, I want to take you to the botanical garden to relax. , forgot that you materialized, and accidentally bumped it."

Wen Shisi was noncommittal about the saying "relax and relax".

She glanced at the position of the sun: "You have been resting for a long time. How is the injury?"

"It's almost over." Li Zigui said, "Wait a little longer, until I recover from my injury..."

"Don't lie to me." Wen Shisi interrupted Li Zigui, "You couldn't do it before you were injured."

The fact that Li Zi was injured made her realize that there is no point in waiting without doing anything.The so-called ability to take away the fragments is not a conclusive matter.Before Li Zi was injured, she insisted that the time had not come yet. After she was injured, she noticed her anxiety and began to use her injury as bait to hang her.When he recovers from his injury, I don't know what to say.

If he hadn't lied before, then even if he recovered from his injury, it would be impossible for him to suddenly be able to retrieve the fragments.How long do you want her to wait?

Li Zigui saw Wen Shisi's doubts.He smiled and said sincerely, "Because I lied to you before."

"..." Wen Shisi was speechless for a moment.

"I have been able to get the pieces back a long time ago." Li Zigui said, "It's just that I don't want you to leave me, so I keep lying to you that I can't do it."

His tone was calm, but there was a bit of loneliness on his face.

Wen Shisi's eyes moved, and then he regained his composure: "You speak so frankly, I can't believe it."

Alas, it is rare to say a few words of the truth without being believed.

Li Zi stared at Wen Shisi intently, with mixed emotions in his heart.

Even without Xie Chunjiang, his relationship with sister Wen would probably be over by now.

After all, Sister Wen is not the Sister Wen she used to be, and neither is he.

"Two days." Li Zigui, "Within two days, I will retrieve the fragments for you."

Wen Shisi and Li Zigui looked at each other for a while, then looked away: "Okay, I'll just wait for these two days."

Seeing that Wen Shisi agreed, Li Zigui's tone relaxed a lot: "Then you go home, I'll go get down to business."

Wen Shisi didn't look at Li Zigui again.Anyway, no matter how you look at it, you can't see what Li Zigui wants to do.

She nodded slightly, dematerialized, and went home to get the money.As a moral citizen, she felt that since she came to the botanical garden, she should pay for the ticket.

Seeing Wen Shisi leave, Xie Chunjiang took Li Zigui back to the ghost cave.

"Do you want me to send you down, or do you go down by yourself?" Xie Chunjiang gently stroked the flute, without looking at Li Zigui.

The edges of the rift seem even more sinister than before.Messy energies are flying around, and dust particles, large and small, are floating in the air and swirling.If there is an entity around here, it will be covered in injuries and unrecognizable in just a short while.

There is no longer a dead silence under the crack, hoarse grunts are densely mixed together, like a bubbling swamp, heavy and sticky.

Li Zigui: "..." I didn't see what happened here in a short time? !so scary? !

He approached the crack silently, feeling a long-lost toothache.

"Oh," he turned back, "you have pretty bones."

Xie Chunjiang was stunned for a moment, then raised his head, only to realize that Li Zigui had disappeared.

He took two steps to the edge of the crack and looked down, only to see a vague shadow shrinking rapidly, and it disappeared after a while.

Li Zigui went down very decisively.Without sloppy.

Xie Chunjiang couldn't tell.

He closed his eyes, raised the bone flute that had accompanied him for hundreds of years, brought it to his lips, and played the tune that had been repeated countless times here in a low voice.

The dust particles flying around gradually settled down.

Li Zigui felt himself falling.This feeling is so clear, as if he has an entity, which makes him feel a little strange.Originally thought that the evil thoughts that were staring at the tiger would rush up to tear it up immediately, but unexpectedly they were still howling at the bottom of the crack, they just raised their heads, their faces distorted, and turned into a pervasive gray mist.As if being suppressed by something.

From far above came the soft sound of a flute.The sound of the flute is getting quieter, and the surrounding voices are also getting quieter. The picture in front of me gradually fades and becomes blurred, blending with the gray mist, and turning into a bleak gray.

Then, suddenly bright.

The cicadas are singing loudly, and the broad leaves of the trees are dazzling.

Li Zigui hovered at the gate of Xie's house, watching Xie Nian leave Xie's house.

With a thought in his mind, he turned into a thank you Nian by accident, and rang the bell of the fence gate.

"...Young Master?" The housekeeper's grandfather's old voice came from the loudspeaker.

"I forgot to take something." Li Zigui looked ahead expressionlessly, not paying any attention to the camera by the door.

The door opened quickly.

When Li Zigui entered, the alarm hanging on the fence by the gate flashed, indicating that someone had entered.Without squinting, he walked directly into the living room.

In the living room sat Xue Yanxing and Xue Yunyin.Xue Yunyin nestled completely on the sofa, hugging a huge white bear doll, watching TV while eating grapefruit, enjoying herself.Xue Yanxing peeled grapefruits for his sister, neatly stacked them on another plate and handed them over to Xue Yunyin's nearly empty plate.

Xie Nian's father is from Xue's family, Xie Nian and Xue Yanxing are also related by blood, they grew up together.The Xue family has strict rules, unlike the Xie family, Xie Lang often travels on business, leaving only Xie Nian and the butler grandfather at home, so Xue Yanxing often brings his younger sister to Xie's house to play in the name of "sending warmth", once or twice. It has become a habit, and basically regards this place as my own home.Although Xue's family disagreed, there was nothing they could do.

Seeing Li Zigui, Xue Yanxing was surprised and said, "Brother Xie, didn't you just leave?"

"Take something." Li Zigui repeated his words.

Only then did Xue Yunyin notice Li Zigui. She was still staring at the TV, and she stretched out her plate with her hand: "Brother Xie, do you want to eat grapefruit?"

"No need." Li Zigui replied.

Xue Yanxing was stunned for a moment, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and said loudly: "Brother Xie, I put Dafu in the refrigerator. My mother heard that you like this, and she brought a few of them from Japan when she came back from a business trip two days ago. bag."

"Understood." Li Zigui didn't want to say anything, and went upstairs.

He hesitated for a moment, and went to Xie Nian's room first, planning to visit Xie Lang's room later.

Xie Nian's room was furnished very simply.Blue and white tones.There are photos of the family of three on the desk, as well as several photos of himself winning awards.There is a row of flute scores on the bookcase, and on top of it are the four classics, "The Analects of Confucius", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", the original English version of "On Government", several foreign translated novels, and several dictionaries.

Li Zigui walked towards the desk, and before he could take a closer look, he heard the sound of the door being opened behind him.

He turned his head and saw Xue Yanxing.

"Thank you brother." Xue Yanxing greeted briefly.

He walked into the room, closed the door by the way, and walked up to Li Zigui.

Li Zigui, who was still pretending to be Xie Nian, frowned and said in a cold voice, "Flying geese..."

"You are not Brother Xie." Xue Yanxing's eyes were sharp.

At the moment when Li Zigui was stunned, Xue Yanxing punched him under the chin, and at the moment when he subconsciously blocked, Xue Yanxing grabbed his wrist with his backhand, slashed at his knee with one leg, pulled and pulled him directly. Pressed on the ground.

Li Zigui, who was floating in the air, controlled the phantom and Xie Nian asked, "How do you know I'm not?"

"We have played together since childhood, how could I not recognize it?" Xue Yanxing was very proud, "Brother Xie has never liked sweets."

"...I have been playing since childhood." Li Zigui repeated Xue Yanxing's words, and murmured, "It's such a good friendship..."

"What did you do to brother Xie!" Xue Yanxing said sharply.

Li Zigui felt a sense of astringency in his heart.He was extremely confused by this sudden mood swing, almost at a loss.

Xue Yanxing's words kept echoing in his mind.

One after another, they folded into a fuzzy piece and condensed into a vague human shape.

"Fake." The human figure turned into Xie Nian.

He smiled and said, "Go away."

Li Zigui's mind was blank and he rushed over.

Never before had he attacked so relentlessly.Soundless, shapeless, and no joke-like rape blossoms, I saw that the human figure was torn apart bit by bit, and then blurred bit by bit, leaving almost only a fragmented shadow.

"Nian Nian!" The human figure suddenly became clear, and turned into Sister Wen who hurriedly evaded and called him anxiously.

Li Zigui froze immediately.

In an instant, sister Wen's face became calm, and her eyes were cold.

"Li Zigui," she said, "control yourself."

He stared blankly at Wen Shisi.

Li Zigui... Who is it?

The surroundings slowly darkened.

He stood on a bridge in the middle of the lake, and what he saw was desolate.But he couldn't make out the specific scenery.

He only heard the barking of dogs in the distance, and the sparkling water ripples under the moonlight in front of him.

He jumped down expressionlessly.

In front of him was the dark bottom.

The icy lake water submerged everything.

He heard a vague sigh, and some vague emotions.

This illusion is really hard to break...

Then, those sighs and fragmentary words disappeared without a trace in the icy lake.