The Haunted

"What's wrong with you? Is something wrong?" Alex turned his head suddenly, his dark blue eyes fixed on him.

"It's okay." Chi Yan replied in a hurry, without carefully looking at his neighbor's appearance at this time, he ran to the sink with his hands up and rinsed them with cold water, "It's just that I cut my hand, just go back and wrap it up."

As he spoke, he turned his head and smiled at Alex, and walked back to his room.He remembered that his mother stuffed a box of Yunnan Baiyao Band-Aid in the side pocket of his schoolbag before he came.

It's just a small injury, a little bit of superficial flesh.After putting on the Band-Aid, Chi Yan continued to go back to the kitchen to cut potatoes and fry potato shreds, but in just a moment, Alex and his steak were gone.

Is it already eaten?Not likely so soon, more likely to find his friends together.

Chi Yan didn't pay much attention and continued to finish his dinner.

He was lying alone in bed at night, and when he was about to fall asleep, he heard a knock on the door.

Alex's voice came from outside the door: "Jerry, Jerry, are you asleep?"

Jerry is Chi Yan's English name, which was given by his elementary school English teacher.At that time, the English teacher just randomly prepared some of the most common English names and randomly assigned them to the whole class. At that time, Chi Yan was always very thankful that no one in his class wanted to be called Tom.But things like names have their own stickiness. Many of his social accounts are also registered with this name, and it is naturally difficult to change it now.

"Well, I'm already asleep. Is there anything urgent?" Chi Yan picked up his phone and checked the time. It was already eleven o'clock. "If you're not in a hurry, can we talk about it tomorrow?" He has already finished washing and taking off his clothes. , It will be troublesome to get up and change clothes.

"Oh, it's nothing." Alex muttered something outside the door, but Chi Yan didn't hear it clearly and didn't take it to heart.

He had a big class and a discussion class today, and went for a run in the school gym after class. He consumed a lot of energy, and he fell asleep not long after he closed his eyes. He heard a voice coming from room 408 on the right The sound of doors opening and conversations.It's Emily's room, it's so late, did she just come back, or is she going out?

Thinking of this, Chi Yan gradually fell asleep.

The next day was Saturday, and Chi Yan had no class, but he had to go to the school library to discuss the topic of the group report assignment with a group of students in a class.When he went out, he happened to see Emily. She was holding a trash can in her hand, and she seemed to be going to the kitchen to take out the trash.

Chi Yan glanced down casually, and saw that there were large groups of blood-stained paper towels on top of the trash can.

He looked up and saw the scars on Emily's wrist holding the trash can. The dark blood scabs and bruises were particularly eye-catching on the snow-white arm.

"Are you hurt?" he asked.

"It's okay." Emily raised her head and smiled, and gently covered her left hand with her right hand. "It's just that I accidentally scratched it, and the bleeding is more."

"Be careful, I also cut my hand yesterday. It's really bad luck." Chi Yan also said goodbye to the other party with a smile, and took the elevator downstairs by himself, gradually feeling a little bit of disobedience - the wound didn't look like a scratch at all, more Like... being bitten by something.

He was a little concerned, remembering the flashing black shadow he saw in the grove beside the road on the way from the school gym to the dormitory last night.That thing looks like a big dog, very tall and strong.Does anyone have a large dog around here?There are even more terrifying conjectures. Jiang Tian said that he once heard wolves howling at night. The ecological environment of this place is well protected. Maybe there really are wolves?Maybe run down those hills?

Chi Yan has also seen articles and reports on the Internet about people and animals living in harmony with wild animals such as wolves and bears in some cities and towns with good ecological environment. The carnivorous beasts are still a bit frightening.

However, Emily's action of covering the wound later showed that she didn't want others to see the wound, and the scratch might be just an excuse. It's better not to ask about other people's privacy.

Chi Yan discussed with the group members until five o'clock in the afternoon.He thought that today is Saturday and there is not much to do soon after school starts, those people in the dormitory will definitely hold a party on the fifth floor, and then he will be too loud to do anything in the room, so he simply stays in the library all the time , Wait until nine o'clock to pack my schoolbag and go back.

His dormitory is built outside the school, and the distance between them is not close. There is a school bus to pick him up and drop him off during non-weekend hours. If he walks, he will have to walk for at least three to ten minutes.

The summer night was very cool, the heat dissipated, the air was filled with the fragrance of grass and trees, Chi Yan was right to go for a walk.

"Jerry, Jerry!"

When Chi Yan heard the shouts and footsteps, it took him a while to realize that the other party was calling him.He turned around just in time to see Alex walking towards him.

"Did you just come out of school too? Go back to the dormitory? Then let's go back together."

Chi Yan was a little surprised: "Why didn't you attend today's party?"

In his mind, Alex and his friends were complete "party animals", and it was strange that they were still at school so late today.

"Because I found something more worthy of expectation and irresistible." Alex replied softly.

"Yes, I also agree. Sometimes you can't stop learning as long as you immerse yourself in it. So there is a saying called 'thirsty for knowledge'. The thirst for knowledge and appetite are really two things that cannot be contained or concealed." Chi Yan echoed, "By the way, did you come to see me last night for something?"

"It's not important. I had a party with my friends last night. I still need a 'companion'. I want to ask if you would like to come with us."

"That's such a pity, I hope I can attend your party again next time." Chi Yan said on his lips, but what he thought in his heart was that it was so late that even if he didn't plan to sleep, he wouldn't be with Alex and his friends. out partying.

The two walked towards the dormitory while talking. The road was dark and hesitant, except for the dim orange light from the street lamp, which stretched the shadows of the bushes by the road very long.They took a shortcut, and they were walking in the middle of the two buildings. The road was not short, but it could only be illuminated by the lights from the street lamps on both sides of the road, so it looked even darker.

"There will definitely be another chance." Alex smiled ambiguously. "So it doesn't matter. I happened to meet Emily out yesterday, so I invited her to go with me."

"That's fine. But I saw that Emily seemed hurt today, do you know about that?"

Alex's blue eyes darkened: "Really? Then she was really careless."

Chi Yan kept walking on the side of the wall, and he found that Alex was getting closer and closer to him as he walked.They were now halfway down the road when Alex stopped suddenly and turned to face him.

"Jerry." He lowered his head and showed a warm smile, "Can you do me a favor?"

Chi Yan was not used to being so close to people, so he took a step back: "What's the matter?"

"I seem to be sick and feel a little uncomfortable. I hope you can do me a favor." A strange red halo appeared in his eyes, and he stared intently at Chi Yan's eyes.

"What's wrong? Acute gastroenteritis? I'll take you to the school hospital?" Chi Yan also felt that something was wrong with his neighbor.

Alex seemed to be a little stunned for a moment, but straightened up alertly the next second.Like a male lion preparing to eat, he finds other pretenders.

At the end of the road, a black car stopped under the street lights on the side of the street from the direction they came from.

His eyesight is far better than that of ordinary people, and he can clearly see extremely detailed things.The front window of the car was half open, and a middle-aged man with gray hair was sitting inside. A dark gold pocket watch was hung on the man's chest, and some patterns were engraved on the case of the pocket watch.

He narrowed his eyes and looked more carefully - the uneven lines on the pocket watch were countless bushes of thorns, and a rose tightly entwined among them.

A rose surrounded by thorns, that is the symbol of Prince Emer.

Alex's pupils constricted.

The rear window was tightly closed, and he couldn't see what was going on inside. He could only vaguely see a black outline reflected on the window.