Yin Yang

The cloud of lead crushed the city, rolling and gradually covering City A, the city that never sleeps.Under the cloud of lead, the bright light is like a spider web, radiating from the bustling city in the center along the roads to the surroundings, and slowly disappearing into the outer city.

The faint electric light illuminated a layer of clouds, followed by a loud bang.

It was pouring rain.

At four or five o'clock in the morning, it is the time when everything around the old community is quiet and everyone is sleeping.The sudden rain blocked the dim lights of the street lamps and made the crowded dilapidated buildings, erected telephone poles and faded billboards even more dizzy.

The heavy rain brought noisy rushing sounds, crackling and slapping on the windows indiscriminately, disturbing people's dreams.The sleeping people in this community turned over impatiently, muttered a few words, and then closed their eyes to sleep again, completely ignoring the calls for help and cries drowned by the rain.

This community used to be an allotment housing, but now it is a forgotten and dilapidated corner of this bustling city.So, of course, this area is not covered by cameras.

In a dark and narrow alley, a thin woman who was violently dragged was pressed into a pile of sour and smelly garbage, under the body of a strong man, struggling and crying feebly.Her bag, open umbrella, and torn clothes were strewn all over the place, completely soaked by the rain.

"Help, help me—"

"At this time, who will save you!" As he spoke, the strong man cursed an extremely vulgar word, and slapped the woman hard.

The side face of the woman slapped quickly swelled up, her eyes widened in despair, no one, no one came to save her...

no……

Suddenly, a vague and distorted shadow appeared behind the strong man. The rain passed through the shadow and fell to the ground. Neither the strong man nor the woman noticed its existence at all.It lowered its head, staring salivatingly at the back of the strong man.The heart beats fast and powerfully under the strong muscles, it can almost imagine the delicious taste of the heart——

With a grin, it quickly stretched out its claws, piercing through the strong man's back, and tore out the beating heart!

The splattered blood instantly splashed on the gray wall of the alley, and was washed away by the rainwater dilution.The ferocious expression of the strong man suddenly froze, and he fell heavily towards the woman.

The woman found that the strong man fell suddenly, and frantically broke free from the strong man's heavy body with her hands and feet, struggling in fear and trying to stay away from the strong man.Her eyes were wide open, looking at the corpse of a strong man lying silently on the garbage dump, her throat trembled and she let out a ho-ho panting sound.

Her eyes were sluggish for a moment, and the woman who was described as extremely embarrassed realized something, and suddenly crawled desperately towards the bag lying in the puddle, and turned the phone out tremblingly. Unexpectedly, the phone had been soaked in water and could not be turned on at all.

Her eyes widened, and she frantically pressed the power button repeatedly, but the screen was still off. Suddenly, her vision froze.

The dim light of the street lamp shone in, and the woman saw blood, all blood, on her hands, on her body, as well as the surrounding walls and ground...

"what--!!!"

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It was this dream again.

Su Yi stood quietly in the boundless darkness. In front of him were two doors that were hidden behind the mist and could not be seen clearly.

Recently this dream appeared more and more frequently, reminding him of the old man involuntarily.

"Xiao Yi, you have to remember that some doors must never be opened, but there are some doors that you must push open."

What the old man said once sounded in Su Yi's mind again. This is the first time the old man heard that he started to have this dream repeatedly, and said it while looking into his eyes.

But which door should be opened and which door should not be opened, the old man did not say.He just looked at Su Yi with complicated eyes, and said to him: "Which one to choose, follow your heart..."

Follow your heart?

Su Yi stood motionless, staring at the two doors indifferently.

He doesn't want to choose either.

In the early morning, Su Yi was awakened by a loud noise.

This is the bad thing about the old residential area, the sound insulation effect is almost non-existent, not to mention that the floor where Su Yi lives is low, the alarm clock every morning is the sound of bargaining by the aunts and vendors downstairs and the voices of people who get up early to go to work, which is disturbing. Dream.

Su Yi opened his eyes, dim light came in from the window, and a monotonous black and white was reflected in front of his eyes.There is no distinction of color, only the change of light and shadow in black and white.This is a small bedroom with an old-fashioned feel. A wooden bed, a large wooden wardrobe, a wooden cabinet, a set of wooden tables and chairs, and an old desktop computer are all, in the faint morning light There was a hint of dullness.

He slowly sat up from the bed, first looked around the familiar small bedroom, and then slowly glanced out the window.

The sky is dark and gloomy, it seems that today is cloudy.Su Yi couldn't help feeling a little happier.

The clock is walking slowly, and the hour hand is pointing to six o'clock.

The noise downstairs seems to be much louder than usual, but Su Yi has no interest in looking at it at all.With his head down, he carefully made the bed, the quilt was neatly folded on the head of the bed, and then carefully adjusted the position of the pillow on top of the quilt before going to wash.

The sound of running water can be heard in the toilet. The toilet is small. The gray bricks and the squat toilet have been brushed clean. The shower head and the water heater are hung obliquely above the mirror.Su Yi brushed his teeth, calmly looked at himself in the mirror whose face was covered by bangs, and the toothpaste towels neatly placed on the sink shelf, and glanced at this familiar toilet without any emotion.

After brushing carefully and rigorously for 5 minutes, he spit out the foam, rinsed his mouth, washed his face, and returned to the bedroom to open the somewhat worn-out wooden wardrobe door.

There was a row of white shirts and black trousers hanging in the closet. He took out the set on the far left side of the closet and changed into the plaid pajamas he was wearing, and then walked into the master bedroom.

The master bedroom is equally simple, but there are no traces of people living in it, and there is no bedding or anything like that on the wooden bed.And placed on the old wooden cabinet is a portrait of an old man and a small incense burner.

Su Yi pulled out the three burned out sticks from the incense burner and put them into a wooden box, then took out three sticks of incense from the cabinet, lit them and inserted them into the incense burner with both hands.

He quietly looked at the portrait through the three incense sticks.The old man always had a serious face, and he didn't have a smiling face in the portrait, but in Su Yi's eyes, the old man in the black and white portrait was no different from the one in his memory, as if he had never left.

After reading for a while, he blinked slowly, turned around and walked back to the bedroom, picked up a few books on the bedside and walked into the hall.

The furnishings in the hall are equally simple, a large wooden table, a few long wooden chairs, and a few wooden cabinets of different sizes are all that matters.Su Yi took the huge drawing board from the wooden cabinet and carried it on his back, then opened the wooden cabinet, took out a few sketch papers that were cut and stacked neatly, and rolled them up, and finally took out a lot of pencils from another cabinet Clear plastic case for rubber.If you look closely, you will find a standard black five-pointed star painted on these things.

Before going out, he carefully checked his belongings and backpack again, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he picked up the umbrella by the door, walked out of the door, turned around and locked the door.

Downstairs, I don't know which aunt with a loud voice went upstairs while talking loudly with her neighbors.

"Oh, people are dead in that garbage alley two streets away! The police comrades have blocked that alley..."

"What's going on? Has the murderer been caught? We won't be in danger, right?"

"Oh, I hope comrades in the police catch him quickly..."

Su Yi pulled the door, and finally checked one side to make sure it was locked. As soon as he turned around, he met two burly aunts with their hands full of vegetables.

The corridor was a bit narrow, Su Yi stood silently against the wall, and gave way to the aunt.

The two aunts were also taken aback when they saw Su Yi. The aunt standing behind with curly hair permed her hair and said, "Xiao Yi, are you going out to draw again so early? Do you know that you should be careful when you go out recently? There's a murderer around here!"

Su Yi froze, nodded slowly, and said a little stiffly: "Aunt Xu, are you going to make fish for my brother today?" He pointed to the fresh fish that was still bouncing in Aunt Xu's plastic bag, which seemed to be in the bag unintentionally. The upper void flicked.

As soon as she mentioned her precious son, Aunt Xu smiled immediately: "That's right! He is going to prepare for the college entrance examination, and eat fish to replenish his brain! Will Xiao Yi come to my house at noon today..."

Su Yi quickly shook his head and stopped talking.

Aunt Xu was already very familiar with his appearance, knowing Su Yi's temperament, she didn't force her, she said goodbye with a smile and walked up, but the aunt who walked up first looked at Su Yi with some doubts.

Su Yi lowered his head and looked at the little rabbit who fell all over the gray stairs and the strange things around the stairs that others couldn't see.This little rabbit looks very small, with a pair of gray pointed ears constantly shaking, and a pair of small bean-like eyes looking around blankly, obviously not understanding how it fell off the bag just now, it looks a little cute .

But this is not a cute little rabbit at all, but a ghost who likes to suck human negative emotions, and in order to obtain more delicious food, they will also induce human emotions to become more extremely negative.

Fortunately, this kind of ghost is not lethal.Su Yi raised his foot and lightly kicked the little rabbit lying on the stairs, and said softly, "Let's go."

The ghost raised its head and grinned its sharp fangs at the human who could see it!Su Yi looked down at it, still expressionless.

It sniffed at Su Yi, retracted its fangs without interest, turned around and jumped out of the corridor window.As if aware of the movement here, the other little ghosts moving around suddenly turned their heads to look at this side, then slowly retracted their gaze, and moved towards their own targets.

Su Yi didn't continue downstairs until he watched the ghost like a rabbit leave.

Because the sound insulation in the old residential area was very bad, he slowly went downstairs and heard another aunt's low voice: "Sister Xu, does the child in 301 live alone? I heard that he is an orphan, and he looks a little gloomy." , 21 years old did not go to college and did not work..."

"What are you talking about!" Aunt Xu immediately interrupted her, and looked through the stairwell, but she didn't see Su Yi who had already reached the second floor, so she whispered to the newly moved aunt: "You Don't talk nonsense in front of Xiaoyi, it's none of your business, and I won't eat your rice."

The aunt said shyly, "I'm just asking..."

Aunt Xu glanced at her and said, "Let me tell you, everyone in the neighborhood knows about him, but don't ask around to let Xiaoyi hear him. He is an orphan, and was taken up by the old man who lived in 301." No, the old man didn’t see a descendant come to see him, so the house was given to Xiao Yi. As for the job, he is a freelancer and translates for others on the Internet.”

The aunt nodded thoughtfully and said nothing.

Su Yi, who heard most of it, didn't care. He just looked at the gloomy sky and stepped into the noisy street with some joy.

He likes cloudy days without too much sunlight.Although Su Yi is not as sensitive to light as the general panchromatism, he still prefers a darker environment.

He walked down the corridor and into an unusually noisy narrow alley.The roads in the old community are already narrow. After being occupied by small vendors, the cars always have to honk their horns to pass by.Today's road was extremely crowded and noisy, the long and annoying horns kept ringing, and the stall owners were also absent-minded, constantly looking in one direction.

Su Yi bought three meat buns from a breakfast stall. He glanced at the little ghosts of various shapes scurrying around in the street. His eyes were lying on the shoulder of the frowning breakfast stall owner. A big mouth was opened in the middle, and the little ghost dragging two long belts swept over it, and then moved away without stopping.While eating the buns, he lowered his head to avoid the puddles accumulated on the ground, and walked in the direction he had walked countless times.

The number of these ghosts seems to be too much.

After crossing two streets, he suddenly stopped and saw abnormally gathered crowds on the street.

He looked at the crowd silently, his eyes seemed to be watching some scourge.

Don't want to lean over...don't want to be crowded in the crowd...

Thinking of this, Su Yi's eyelids twitched suddenly, and he continued to walk towards the crowd abruptly.

He slowly stood on the periphery of the loose crowd, and looked into the crowd.

...police cars, police officers, raised barriers...

calm down!

Su Yi stared curiously at the blocked alley, but his slightly dilated pupils kept trembling slightly, and his heart beat too fast.

Where he was standing at a standstill, drops of water slightly deeper than rainwater dripped from upstairs and melted into the puddle.

The unbearable sound of chewing and chewing sounded from the back of Su Yi's side. He didn't dare to turn his head, so he could only peek through the small mirror where a young girl in front looked at his makeup——

The figure in the small mirror flashed by, and Su Yi's pupils shrank.It was an adult-sized monster with the appearance of a white ape.Its body was splattered with unknown black stains, and it was holding something in its hands and constantly gnawing on it, with drops of unknown liquid continuously dripping from that thing.

Not wanting to think about what that thing was, Su Yi's heart was pounding, he turned around stiffly, and strode away.

He didn't see that the white ape ghost suddenly turned to look at him, staring at his back with a salivating gaze.