The Haunted

When Chi Yan was an undergraduate, he played a role-playing game that was very popular at the time, called "Hua Xian Yuan".

When he was choosing the name of the character, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly thought of the name "Ye Sanqiao", and he immediately liked it, feeling familiar and very easy to pronounce.He has personality, doesn't pretend to be aggressive, and has the taste of an unruly knight. He decided on this name at that time.

Not long after that, he met a female account called "Baby Yan" in the game.

His own name is not considered popular, but this person chose a name with the word "Yan", Chi Yan felt that it was destined for him at that time.Afterwards, by various chances and coincidences, I became acquainted with "Baby Yan", and the two got along better and better, and even became relatives in the game. two years.

During daily conversations, Chi Yan learned that Baby Yan was a student in the same class as him, and also went to school in City A, so he tactfully asked for a meeting with an expectation and longing that he couldn't explain clearly, but was ignored by the other party. Significantly refused.After that, Chi Yan didn't dare to mention it again.After that, he was busy with various things such as postgraduate research and writing graduation thesis, so he stopped logging in to the game.

It wasn't until one weekend a month after the graduate school started that his undergraduate classmate, Lao Yuan, who had dragged him to play "Painting Fairy" with him, took him to accompany him to attend the game's player meeting held near University A.

It was at this meeting that he met Gu Xixi.

Gu Xixi said that she is Yan's baby, she deliberately got into Chi Yan's school to study as a graduate student, when the player reported the game server and ID to get the souvenir, she found out that Chi Yan was "Ye San owed" and hurried over to recognize him.

Chi Yan admitted that he was very pleasantly surprised when he first saw the "Baby Yan" in real life, but it may be because people's performance in reality is different from that on the Internet, and within an hour of being with Gu Xixi, he felt that the other party was compatible with him. The "Yan Bao Bao" in the game gave him a very different feeling, which made him very disappointed.

After all, he once imagined that if "Baby Yan" really met him in reality, he would ask her to be his girlfriend...or even marry her back home...

However, Gu Xixi clearly remembered every detail of their relationship in the game and even what they said.Moreover, the game "Huaxianyuan" can customize the appearance of the character, commonly known as "pinching the face".The characters created by each player look different, but Gu Xixi looks almost exactly the same as the "Baby Yan" in the game. It is obvious that this girl is a virtual character created according to her real appearance.

These made it impossible for Chi Yan to deny that Gu Xixi was "Yan Bao".

Out of affection for Baby Yan in the game, Chi Yan and Gu Xixi have always maintained a polite friendship, and even couldn't bear to reject the other party's obvious overtures too bluntly and severely.

It is now late October, and it has been three months since I left school.

But he and his roommate Ye Yingzhi are still not very familiar.

The postgraduate dormitory is for two people, and Ye Ying's home is in City A, so she doesn't go back to the dormitory every day, and basically only lives there for three days a week.He didn't go to lectures very often, and his classmates in the philosophy department didn't often see him.Moreover, the other party is very low-key, will not participate in any activities, and does not act ostentatiously.Chi Yan can only simply judge that the other party's family background should be very good, and his own family is relatively well-off. It can be seen that Ye Yingzhi's clothes are simple but elegant.

He is from the Department of Economics, and Ye Yingzhi is from the Department of Philosophy. He heard from his classmates in the Department of Philosophy that Ye Yingzhi's grades are quite good, and he can choose a major at will whether he is an undergraduate or graduate student.Philosophy is one of the most unpopular majors nowadays. Compared with it, it is not easy to get a job. Everyone still prefers to squeeze into finance, which is easy to get a job and has a high income. Most of the students who have good grades but choose to study philosophy do not have much family. Burdened true love.

At that time, Chi Yan was talking about Ye Yingzhi with a classmate from the Philosophy Department, and he propped his chin and said in confusion, "I can't imagine that Ye Yingzhi would like a painting style as cold as Kant's."

The classmate was very surprised: "Why do you think so? Isn't he a frigid style of painting himself?"

Chi Yan leaned on his chin, feeling that something was wrong.

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After breakfast, Chi Yan took the initiative to clean the pot and wash the dishes, and honestly put the pot back to its original place for Ye Yingzhi.

Ye Yingzhi was putting on his coat and seemed to be going out.

Today is Saturday and there is no class. He originally thought that Ye Yingzhi would not come back at night. He went to bed at eleven o'clock last night. He didn't know what time the other party came back. Why did he go out so early in the morning.

He stood up and looked at Ye Yingzhi: "Are you going out again?"

Ye Yingzhi nodded: "There is something."

The relationship between the two was not close enough to ask about each other's personal affairs, so Chi Yan didn't ask any more, thinking that maybe Ye Yingzhi was going to see his girlfriend?Will Ye Yingzhi have a girlfriend?What would he be like to his lover, whether to stay away from strangers or make breakfast gently... I was a little distracted when I thought about it, and I didn't come back to my senses until I was interrupted by the vibration of the mobile phone message.

It was Lao Yuan who asked him to come out to play in the afternoon.

Lao Yuan is his undergraduate roommate, and he has a good relationship with him. He was also the one who brought Chi Yan to play games.After graduating, he went to the University B next door to study for graduate school, but every weekend when he was free, he would still invite his classmates who used to play with him to play together.

Chi Yan gladly accepted the invitation, waited until noon to change clothes and simply ate in the cafeteria, then played ball with a few friends in the playground all afternoon, and they broke up after five o'clock.

The rest of the old Yuan didn't leave, he kept saying that the food in the canteen of B was too bad, and the spicy hot pot seemed to be boiled instead of fried.It's still good for his alma mater, begging Chi Yan to take him to eat his favorite and cheap Teppanyaki on the second floor.

The two chatted while having dinner, and Lao Yuan suddenly said, "Hey, where is your wife, Ruler?"

Chi Yan: "...I don't have a wife!"

"I said Gu Xixi, isn't she your wife in the game?"

"How can this be confused..." Chi Yan was a little speechless, "Games are games, we are just ordinary friends, and we don't usually have much contact with each other." Don't mention the matter of delivering breakfast in the morning, otherwise Lao Yuan can only add more fuel to his imagination .

Lao Yuan also seemed puzzled: "Why? On the day of the meeting, I could feel that she had a good impression of you. Didn't you always like her in the game, setting off fireworks for her and staying up late to refresh her equipment? Then We used to say that your wife must be a shemale and you didn’t give up, but now that she’s a little beauty in reality, she doesn’t call…”

He muttered to himself: "...and I really think you two are destined for each other. She is called Baby Yan, and she looks like you too..."

"What did you say?" Chi Yan was so shocked that he forgot to eat, put down his chopsticks and pointed at his nose, "You said I and Gu Xixi look alike?" He looks like a game character, how can he look like himself?

Lao Yuan waved his hand: "Oh, don't get excited about the ruler, Gu Xixi doesn't really look like you. I mean the game character 'Baby Yan' she created, although everyone can see that she made it according to her own face. Yes, but with game modeling, those eyes, that mouth, just...that kind of feeling is very similar to you."

Chi Yan's face was mysterious, he couldn't listen anymore, he hurriedly excused to buy drinks for the two of them and ran away. After buying the drinks, he guided Lao Yuan to change the subject and let him continue complaining about B cafeteria.

After sending Lao Yuan away, Chi Yan went back to the dormitory alone, went online to listen to music, and before he knew it, it was 12:30 in the evening.

He remembered that tomorrow was Sunday, and was guessing that Ye Yingzhi would not come back tonight, when he heard the sound of the key being inserted into the door lock and turning.

The door was pushed open with a "squeak", Chi Yan took off his earphones and turned around, seeing Ye Yingzhi pushing the door and entering.

Ye Yingzhi closed the door, took off his coat and hung it in the closet, turned his head to look at Chi Yan who was staring blankly at him, and suddenly smiled.

He walked over, stood in front of Chi Yan and lowered his head slightly: "Why do you keep looking at me? Why aren't you sleeping?" Miss me?The last three words were almost blurted out, but he swallowed them back.

Chi Yan looked up at him: "Why didn't you stay at home?"

Ye Yingzhi said "Yes": "It's not safe outside recently, I will live in the school. You should come back as early as possible at night."

Not very safe?

Chi Yan was about to ask, when Ye Yingzhi took a glass of water from the water dispenser and sat back, unbuttoned the two shirt buttons on his chest, then lowered his head and casually unbuttoned his cuffs, and said in a flat tone: "You Didn’t you hear? A man died at Liangjiekou just now, with his eyes open, his heart and tongue were gouged out.”

Chi Yan was startled, and looked at him with wide eyes.He was crashing into Ye Yingzhi's calm bottomless black pupils.