The Haunted

Chi Yan was stunned.After hesitating for a moment, he looked at the black and gold mask. Under the flickering candlelight, the smile lines on the mask added a bit of evil.

He opened his mouth, but didn't speak.

The voice spoke again, hoarse and deep, as if crawling out of hell to ask for this kiss: "Why? Don't you want to?"

Chi Yan lowered his eyes, looking at the incense candles on the confession case: "I already have someone I like."

He didn't know why the gods in the Nuo Temple made such a strange request, and whether there was any deep meaning and mystery hidden in it.

He also didn't know how much anger and resentment his words aroused in the heart of the owner of the voice, and he even wanted to topple the small dilapidated temple from the top in an instant.

The baby that I have been devoted to guarding for more than ten years, the baby that I have loved for so many years, actually confessed to him in this situation that he already has someone he likes?A trace of his soul was always attached to him, and he didn't even notice the slightest clue.He always thought that it was Ah Yan who was stupid and not enlightened, and even secretly thought that it would be good if he was not enlightened. He could always teach him to be enlightened and to understand love, so that all his tenderness and sweetness would be my own.

He didn't even know who that person would be.Is it the sweet-looking girl in their school who is liked by many people?Ah Yan didn't look at her much not because he didn't have any feelings, but because he was shy?Or the stupid big man next to him who has married a wife and started a family, but was protected by Ah Yan all the way?Isn't Ah Yan treating him as a brother?

It is impossible to be me, I was only 14 years old when I met Ah Yan, barely a teenager, but Ah Yan was only nine years old at that time, but a baby; he was only 16 and a half years old when he left me.Although it is said that most children are precocious and precocious, and already know how to hide from teachers and parents and engage in puppy love when they are in middle school at the age of fourteen or five, his family, Yan, is a little more stupid than other children, and his stupidity makes him feel distressed, and he can't wait to be with you all the time. Hu in his arms, I'm afraid he will still treat him as an elder brother until he leaves.

And in his most youthful two years as a teenager, he didn't participate; he stayed with him all the time, hugging him all night, coaxing him to sleep, kissing him secretly, his silly Yan would not Know.

So even if Ah Yan thought about it for a while and fell in love with someone else, she shouldn't blame him, just bring him back to her side slowly.

Thinking of this, he gradually calmed down, but he was still a little uneasy: "Is the person you like so important? Can you not want to kiss me because of him, even disregarding the lives of you and your friends?"

Chi Yan looked at Song Jin who was leaning against the right wall unconscious, with a hint of hesitation on his face.If it is really just a kiss that can exchange for the chance of two people's lives, he will be willing. He is not such a conservative and stubborn person, and he is very clear about which is more important.What's more, he had already kissed that person in various unobtrusive opportunities, and he was unwilling to risk his life here and never see that person again.

It's just that a kiss is so simple and weird that people can't believe it. He is afraid that there are other traps behind it, so he hesitates to agree.

"If you don't agree, get out of here now." The more Chi Yan valued that person, the more he couldn't restrain the jealousy and anger in his heart, "By the way, I should show you what it's like outside now."

Chi Yan only felt his eyes go cold, he closed his eyes subconsciously, and when he opened them again, he could already see the scene outside through the two black doors of the temple.

Those "people" all surrounded the outside of the gate. A few Nuo dancers wearing Nuo masks and holding paper lanterns stood in front first, and the rest of the villagers surrounded them behind.It's just that the scene Chi Yan saw this time was quite different from before - what was burning in the paper lantern was not a warm orange candle, but a blue will-o'-the-wisp. Stiff and dull, without the kindness and easy-going seen in the daytime.

At a glance, there was no one alive.

A few of them had ferocious and terrifying faces, showing the appearance of fierce ghosts, indicating that they had already killed people.Yingying, the little girl in the guest house, and the leading Nuo dancers are all listed here.

No wonder he and Song Jin couldn't see their shadows under the candlelight.They are human beings, so they naturally have no shadow under the will-o'-the-wisp.

He once heard that some people were born with yin and yang eyes, who could see things that ordinary people couldn't see, or see through the yin and yang nature of things, but he didn't have this ability.There are also some psychic spells that can make ordinary people see ghosts and ghosts that are usually invisible, and that thing should have cast such spells on him.

Chi Yan looked up at the sky.

The sky was dark and gloomy, but it wasn't a clear night, but black and gray mist swirled around and swirled endlessly—it was an extremely thick ghost aura, and the whole village was shrouded in it.Neither humans nor ghosts can escape.

Chi Yan felt his whole heart was twisted.When Song Jin called his colleague, his colleague didn't mention anything unusual. The outsiders didn't know what happened in this village, and the villagers also didn't know what happened around them.

I don't know when the evil spirits sneaked into it. At first, maybe only one or two people were killed and turned into evil spirits, and then they continued to harm the people around them.Because of the influence of the ghost energy, the living people can't tell whether the people around them are people or ghosts, and even after being killed, they will forget the memory of being killed and continue to live as usual.Even ghosts can't tell whether they are humans or ghosts.

Among the ghosts that Chi Yan encountered in the village, only the little girl Yingying and the mother-in-law knew clearly that they were dead.

The mother-in-law said that only she was old and dead.Then other people may have been killed for no reason.

Chi Yan stood there in a daze, looking at the hell on earth outside the door.Suddenly I heard a dark voice asking coolly: "Did you see clearly? What is your answer now?"

"Why do you want a kiss at all?" he asked rhetorically.

The voice seemed to ponder for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "It's too cold here, I want you to warm me up. Can't you?"

Chi Yan turned his head, looked at the flickering god statue on the altar table under the candlelight, and said in a low voice, "I want you to promise that I will do nothing but that kiss. One kiss, in exchange for Chi Yan and Song Jin The two left this village safely and well. I would like to ask you to use your name to guarantee that the contract has been reached and cannot be reversed."

Learn to negotiate terms.The voice laughed lowly: "I don't have a name, but I can guarantee that you will leave safely and well."

"Forgive me." Chi Yan closed his eyes, "I can't trust you like this." Everything in the world, even ghosts and gods, have their names, and if they have spirits, they have names.The agreement reached by using the name has the effect of the contract oath, which cannot be reversed. Breach of the contract, dishonesty, or use of a pseudonym will all be backlashed by the oath. The heavier the oath, the stronger the backlash will be.This thing refused to reveal its name, which made Chi Yan even more suspicious.

"You don't believe me?" The voice paused, "Well, I can fulfill part of my promise first. I'll drive those things away first, and then you come to kiss me, and I'll send you away."

"I don't care about that friend of yours. But if you don't fulfill your promise, you will pay me for yourself and stay by my side and never leave."

"Yes." After thinking for a long time, Chi Yan nodded.

He has no other choice now, if this thing really drives them out of the temple, they will still die.And now he still doesn't know who is sacred and how capable he is talking to him.

As he nodded yes, the two heavy black wooden doors of the temple suddenly opened to the outside, and the demons and monsters guarding the door, as well as Chi Yan inside the door, were all stunned for a moment.

But at this moment, the situation in the sky changed, and the black air entangled in the entire sky began to twist and twist strangely, as if being pulled, torn, and stirred by a giant hand that could not be rejected.

A dark wind poured in, and the incense candles on the altar table of the temple were blown out in an instant, and the brocade curtains used to decorate the beams were blown up and down and scattered all over the ground.The "people" standing outside the door seemed to feel great pain, and they fell to the ground and rolled with their heads in their arms.

The ghost energy in the sky became thinner and thinner, and the night sky gradually revealed its original appearance.Chi Yan looked intently, the ghost energy seemed to be sucked into the temple... as if something in the temple was pulling them and absorbing them all.

In the midst of this chaotic howling of ghosts and wolves, Chi Yan saw a small black figure standing under the eaves opposite the temple. When he looked at him, he nodded and smiled slightly, beckoning, and then the figure gradually faded away. , gradually disappeared.It was the mother-in-law who had helped them before, and the situation of sealing the village with ghost energy was lifted, and she passed away along with it.

He heard the voice say faintly: "Those 'people' on the ground remembered their fear and pain when they died, and they will go to rebirth after they accept the fact that they are dead."

Unjust ghosts enter reincarnation, and evil ghosts turn into dust.This village will eventually become an empty, dead village with no one, returning to its proper appearance.

When Chi Yan walked up to the five masks, their expressions returned to calm, with happy brows and smiling eyes, the corners of their mouths turned up, but it was just an ordinary mask.

That voice also sounded at this time, hoarse, low, with a different kind of entanglement and softness: "It's time for you to fulfill the agreement."

Chi Yan turned his head to look at the statue above the confession case.With such an ability to change the world and eliminate such a strong and resentful ghost energy in an instant, he somewhat believes that this thing is really a god.

but……

His throat moved, and he walked towards the confession step by step, raised his face, and looked at the black and gold mask, as if waiting to be sacrificed to the gods: "Since you have such abilities, why... Why sit idly by?"

He still couldn't help asking.Obviously it is a god enshrined in the temple, shouldn't it protect the living beings here?Why have I been sitting and watching them turn into grieving ghosts and struggle here, living in numbness, unable to survive.

The voice just chuckled, but didn't respond.

Because I am not protecting the people here, I am protecting you.Silly Yan.I followed you here.

Behind the mask, the false god's eyebrows and eyes are gentle, but the human beings under the altar can't see it.

The two black gates of the temple closed silently again, and the red incense candles on the confession case were faintly lit again, emitting a dim and blurred warm light.

The statue was rising, and Chi Yan couldn't reach him, so he hesitated for a moment, slowly climbed up to the altar, and approached slowly.

That voice didn't make another sound.

The closer you get, the more clearly you can see the black and gold mask and the beautiful red robe covering the statue.In an instant, Chi Yan had an illusion that the person under the mask and robe might be a real person, a living body, not a statue made of wood and clay.

His face was getting closer and closer to the mask, and then he heard the voice whisper: "Close your eyes."

Chi Yan subconsciously closed his eyes obediently, and kissed the inanimate mask.

Cold to the touch.

A cold and wet thing pried open his lips, penetrated in, and gently teased.

Chi Yan didn't react at the beginning, he knelt down obediently on the confession case, raised his head and let the other party do whatever he wanted with his lips slightly parted.When he realized what that thing was doing, he was startled, and was about to open his eyes, but before he could open his eyes, he felt a gust of wind blowing towards his chest, and was pushed directly onto the confession by the thing .

The burning candlestick fell to the ground, the flame jumped a few times, and went out.The temple was once again plunged into darkness.

Chi Yan opened his eyes, stretched out his hand and whimpered, resisted and struggled, like a small beast that was held by a hunter but had nowhere to escape.

His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness. He could see the outline of the beams on the roof, and the smiling faces on the wall on the right, but he couldn't see what was in front of him.

But he knew that everything was not an illusion, he could still feel the thing's cold tongue moving and sucking in his mouth, he could feel the cold hand that stretched in from the hem of his shirt and kept caressing, he could feel The cold and heavy weight on him was no different from that of an ordinary grown man.

Due to the effect of gravity, the small porcelain bottle on his chest slid from his chest to the side of his neck.I don't know why, but the porcelain vase that always saves him in distress doesn't work this time, maybe it's because the thing in front of him is too tyrannical, even his own small porcelain vase can't do anything to him.

Chi Yan felt the smooth and round touch of the porcelain vase, and his already limp limbs suddenly felt a burst of strength. He pushed hard, pushing the thing away from his body.

Chi Yan hurriedly supported the confession table and sat up, looked towards Kong Kong and said, "...You said you would send us away safe and sound after the kiss. Now it's up to you to fulfill your promise."

His two eyes are round and big, with bright black pupils, like a lion cub who has been irritated but helpless.

The voice said coolly: "You stay here until tomorrow morning, your friend will naturally wake up, then you can leave on your own."

He clearly agreed to send them away, but lost his temper because he pushed him away forcibly?Chi Yan murmured in his heart for a while, but he didn't raise any further objections.The village has returned to calm, normality and dead silence, and they will have no problem leaving on their own after dawn.

Anyway, in another three hours, it will be dawn.

Chi Yan did not hear the restraint and depression behind that voice.

He could hardly bear it anymore.Looking at him day after day, hugging him, and secretly kissing him while he was asleep could not satisfy him anymore.He couldn't help wanting more.

But it's okay.They should meet soon.