Flame red

There are things that must be done in the world.No matter what kind of life you are in, whether it is good or evil, short or long, the minimum two things must be someone's fault.

— To love and be loved.

"Turn out the lights," someone said.

Originally, the lamp was like daylight, but it suddenly sank into darkness, and in this darkness, there is always something that is more eye-catching and vivid.The boundary between shadow and light became clearer, and the accident made her feel irritable and noisy.

Mu Yu thought that the light and shadow he saw should be due to the absence of sound.But if there was no sound, why would there be a deafening noise like drums and gongs?

——And to whom did grandma say those words?

She sank in the darkness in a daze, and seemed to hear someone crying after those words.

A classmate once lamented to Mu Yu that with your appearance, even if a thumbtack was thrown into your running shoes, you can still stand on the starting line with a blank expression, which scared many people.

No, it seems that the teacher told her this.Mu Yu thought about it, but he couldn't remember who it was, but he just thought it wouldn't be important even if he remembered it.

"Why did they do this to me?" she asked at the time.

The other party thought for a while, and inexplicably threw out a sentence: "Because they admire you."

"Why do you still hurt me if you admire me?"

"A deep wound leaves an indelible mark. Enough to remember for a lifetime, right?"

--ill.

Mu Yu frowned, turned his head and said in a low voice with some disgust.

And now this weird and absurd memory also had some kind of inadvertently evoked dream. When she was wrapped in it, she thought of Yanhong.And the child told himself inanely, of course, that the damage done by humans is much deeper than that of ghosts.

She will definitely meet the person who is enough to remember her whole life.

And that person—"Why can't it be you?"

The familiar and deep voice naturally echoed in Mu Yu's mind.Her limbs seemed to be scorched by Hu Li's fox fire, scalding to the point that her skin was torn apart, but Mu Yu knew that it was not flames and heat waves, maybe it was a hallucination, maybe it was just a dream.

Perhaps it can be regarded as certain feelings that have been deliberately enlarged and distorted.

She opened her eyes.

What I saw was not the familiar furnishings and ceiling, but a yellow-orange pupil hanging in the darkness.Like the full moon just in time, bright and indifferent.

Mu Yu was not surprised, if counting today, maybe she has seen this pupil nine times.

Every time she sees, it must be accompanied by some teachings that lure her to kill so-and-so. Mu Yu feels that he is still normal, and has never listened to it half a time.

But Yanhong is different after all.

When the other party mentioned the child, it was always accompanied by a meaningful smile.After Mu Yu listened too much, he felt irritated in his heart, and when he felt irritated, he would mercilessly interrupt that person's words.

"Why did you mention Yan Hong so deliberately?" she asked with a frown.

"Then why do you care so much?" the other side asked.

Isn't that because you always talk about her in such an ambiguous tone?Mu Yu wanted to refute in this way, but the words couldn't come out of her mouth, as if they were stuck in her throat, which made her a little unexpected.

Then I heard the man laugh again: "Look, you just didn't realize that you cared very much."

When the other party smiled like this, Mu Yu's heart turned cold, he wanted to struggle but found that he was not restrained, so there was no need to struggle.She shouted anxiously: "Wait! You don't want to..."

However, she never had time to say the second half of the sentence.Because when these words were blurted out, the consciousness followed the yellow-orange pupils, and was shut in the pitch black with a snap.

Mu Yu felt as if he had a dream, which was both real and absurd.And at the end of this dream, she gradually woke up.

The air feels slightly cold, and the soft sheets are pressed under the palms.

But the dream hadn't faded away, and Mu Yu vaguely remembered that the touch of the girl's lips was softer than the sheets touched by her palms, and colder than her body temperature.

She lost consciousness for a long time, and she didn't know what happened during this time.Only the slightest suspicious feeling can be found in intermittent dreams that are about to fade.

Heartbeat, voice, breathing, and dry mouth.

Mu Yu felt as if his knee had been hit by something, and at the same time, his shoulder was like being scratched by a bad-tempered wild cat, and the pain was extremely painful.

But compared to these pains, what occupied all her thoughts was the obsession she still wanted in her heart.

She silently took three deep breaths and opened her eyes again.But this time, he really opened his eyes, and the monotonous and clean lines on the ceiling gradually became clear in his sight.Dimly lit, but not pitch black.

Mu Yu felt that her head was hurting, but she was undoubtedly lying on her bed now, the room was very quiet, and she didn't know what was going on with Hu Li and Gu He.

She turned her head suspiciously, trying to look around, but found that Yan Hong was sitting cross-legged on a chair beside her, leaning against the back of the chair as if she had fallen asleep.

The electronic alarm clock next to him showed that it was three o'clock in the morning.

Mu Yu sat up, his clothes were not changed, it seemed that he threw them directly on the bed.Seeing that her clothes were in order, she also breathed a sigh of relief.

But when he turned his head to look at Yan Hong, he suddenly found two obvious red marks above the child's collarbone.

"..." Mu Yu stared at Yan Hong dumbfounded, and subconsciously touched his lips.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but the child opened his eyes in a daze at this moment, and looked at Mu Yu's rapidly changing conflicted expression absent-mindedly.

"Awake?" she asked.

"..." Mu Yu was stunned for a long time before nodding stiffly. "Um."

Yan Hong yawned, then stood up, as if she was going to get something.But as soon as he stood up straight, he frowned, covered his waist, took a breath and sat down again.

When she sat down, Mu Yu was so frightened that he almost jumped out of bed.But with the calmness in her temperament, she managed to hold back from bouncing up, staring closely at Yan Hong who was sitting on the chair, and the latter was still frowning and rubbing her waist.

Mu Yu was a little embarrassed, but more anxious, she hesitated for a long time before asking in a low voice: "Did you...I...did something?"

Yan Hong obviously paused, then let out an ah.

Seemingly understanding what Mu Yu meant, she sighed with disgust. "What are you thinking?" As he spoke, he pulled up his clothes without restraint. "I'm fine. Except for a little bit of annoyance."

There were five distinct purple welts on her ribs that hadn't scabbed yet, and blood was still visible at the lacerations.Before Mu Yu had time to take a closer look, Yan Hong quickly tidied up her clothes, and leaned lazily on the chair.

"It was hurt by something like a monkey before, and it hasn't healed yet," she explained.

"Really?" Mu Yu hesitated for a moment, heaved a sigh of relief, but then became a little worried. "Do you want to go to the hospital for treatment?"

Yanhong burst out laughing.And her smile made Mu Yu realize that what he said just now was actually a little stupid.

"Do you think people like me will drag their wounds until tomorrow instead of going to the hospital?" Yan Hong said.

But Mu Yu nodded without hesitation. "Like." She said with certainty, "The wound on your arm made the doctor suspect that you were depressed."

"...Okay, you won." Yanhong blinked, and finally chose to surrender, but she emphasized repeatedly before giving up. "But I did go to the hospital. I was rushed back after being given two injections of rabies vaccine."

"En." Mu Yu didn't say whether he believed it or not, he simply responded and looked at Yan Hong quietly. "But I did do something to you, didn't I?"

"Are you talking about this?" Yan Hong pointed to her collarbone, and finally covered it with her hand, comforting absent-mindedly. "Didn't I say it before? At most, it's just a few kisses."

She didn't care about what she said, and Mu Yu pulled up the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly, but she didn't know how far-fetched her smile looked in Yan Hong's eyes.

The child hesitated for a moment and changed the subject. "But the timing of your kiss is not right, they all saw it."

"Then let them see it." Mu Yu said. "By the way, is Hu Li still there?"

"After your eyes glowed, you told her a lot of things. After that guy calmed down, he kept squatting in the room and guarding Gu He." Yan Hong explained.

"A bunch of stuff?"

"It's probably because even if you take out the inner alchemy to drive all those evil spirits away from Gu He, it won't help, maybe you will be taken advantage of by the peeping ghosts."

So that's what Jian Xiangli meant when he said it was bad.Sure enough, after the inner alchemy is taken out, it will make the monster weak just like in the novel and TV.

But if Hu Li didn't use the inner alchemy to save Gu He, then the current situation must not be optimistic.She couldn't help but frowned again. "What happened to Gu He?"

"Oh, what's amazing is that once Hu Li's fire burned, it seemed that the surrounding area had been completely cleaned up. Jian Xiangli said that Gu He's condition has stabilized."

"That's good."

--That's good.

Afterwards, Mu Yu muttered softly again.

Yanhong pretended that she didn't hear it, and still leaned on the chair casually, and then took the initiative to argue with that person a little bit, for example, Jian Xiangli didn't stay here, and left very early, and before leaving, she complained about this The room is a bit small.After talking for about half an hour, Mu Yu started to feel sleepy again.

Yanhong took the opportunity to persuade her to continue to sleep, and it happened that she was also planning to continue to sleep.

After that, it was a dreamless night, and when I woke up again, the sky was completely bright.Yan Hong opened her eyes and regained her composure, turned her head to look at Mu Yu who was facing her back on the bed, the man hadn't moved at all, probably still sleeping, so she put on her shoes and walked out of the room.When I came to the living room, I was still a little sleepy. After shaking my head, I found a familiar figure sitting on the sofa.

"Hi." The other party greeted like this.

Yan Hong was startled, and looked at that person in disbelief. "Gu He?"

Gu He's eyes are still so clear that they are almost transparent, but they clearly reflect Yan Hong's figure, and his eyes are focused on her without any deviation.Not at all like the impression, lax and emotionless.

—can she see?

"Good morning." The girl smiled without explaining too much. "Thanks to a few of you, there is basically nothing serious now."

"Huh?" Yan Hong frowned, but since Gu He didn't explain, she couldn't ask further.So he could only nod his head in a foggy manner, but he looked around and found no other figure, so he asked suspiciously, "What about Hu Li?"

"Hu Li?" Gu He blinked, thought for a while, then suddenly realized and said "oh". "She's gone home."

"……What?"

"Ah, it seems like you don't quite understand." Seeing Yan Hong's confused face, Gu He further explained. "Tu Xin sent Hu Li home, so it shouldn't cause you any more trouble."

Who is Tu Xin?

Yan Hong thought about it in her heart, and remembered that Mu Yu called Hu Li to be Tu Xin last night...and the person said before that Hu Li was just a person possessed by a demon fox, so she understood Gu He's meaning.

The fox named Tu Xin had already left Hu Li's body, and let Hu Li return to his home, and never participated in anything related to this side.

"So that's how it is..." Yan Hong nodded, and then asked again: "Then, where is Tu Xin?"

Gu He smiled, turned her head to indicate where, just as the morning light came in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, it cast a long shadow on her, Yan Hong turned her head and saw eight fox tails blooming like lotus flowers behind the shadow.

Mu Yu said that Hu Li has been looking for a shadow that can live in him for the rest of his life—but didn't he always say that he didn't find it?

Yan Hong sighed.

——So, this is something that must be done.In fact, it is nothing more than that.

She was still lamenting life in her heart, but Gu He had already stood up. "I really have to take the unified examination this afternoon, so I can only say goodbye this time. Thank you very much."

"Yeah. It's okay." Yan Hong nodded, remembering what happened to Hu Li...or Tu Xin and Mu Yu before, and then said: "I will tell her about Mu Yu."

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Gu He smiled and said nothing in the end.

Yan Hong sent Gu He out, confirmed again and again that she didn't need to take her to the station, then watched the girl walk into the elevator and left.

When she returned to the living room, she found that Mu Yu was already lying on the sofa, looking at the ceiling and wondering what he was thinking.Yan Hong guessed that Gu He might have woken up when he said goodbye just now, but he didn't know why he didn't go out to say goodbye in person.

After hesitating for a while, Yan Hong finally asked cautiously: "What's for breakfast?"

Mu Yu blinked, then turned to look at her after recovering.

"Chicken soup," she said.

There are some things that Yanhong wanted to ask Jian Xiangli to clarify, but the other party said that she would go abroad for a trip soon, and talk about it after coming back in two months.

After the New Year's Day holiday, Mu Yu returned to the film crew, and Yan Hong also lived in the dormitory.

Yang Bai always returned to the dormitory earlier than her, but this time Yanhong found that she hadn't packed her luggage properly, and fell asleep directly on the bed.

Looking at the time displayed on the phone, it was just after three o'clock in the afternoon.Sleeping at this time, is it possible that you are taking a nap?

But Yanhong remembered that Yang Bai said before that she did not have the habit of taking a nap.

She gently carried her luggage into the dormitory, looked around, and found a large water stain on the ceiling, and she didn't know when it seeped down.But the upstairs is not a bathroom or anything. In Yanhong's impression, the sixth floor seems to be an indoor basketball court, but it has basically never been opened.

The water stain looked like a figure, she stared at it for a long time, and suddenly realized that it looked a bit like Yang Bai.

Based on the experience during this period, Yan Hong immediately became sure that it was not a suspicious water stain at all, maybe it was related to the black shadow she had seen before.But looking around in a blink of an eye, nothing strange can be seen. Except for a little desertedness in the dormitory in the afternoon, there is nothing unusual.

Later, Yang Bai took a nap and slept until seven o'clock in the evening. After Yan Hong ran to the cafeteria to eat dinner, she saw the young lady moved her arms, turned over and opened her eyes.

"You really slept long enough." Yan Hong muttered, then took out her clothes and prepared to take a bath.

"Huh?" Yang Bai rubbed his forehead, sat up and looked at his phone, as if to confirm the time.But even seeing that it was already dinner time, he remained expressionless and lay back down again.

Tomorrow the holiday is over and classes will start. Tonight, the students who live on campus will return to their dormitories one after another.

After New Year's Day, the weather gets colder and colder. There is no heating in the south. Even if the doors and windows are closed tightly, it is inevitable to feel cold hands and feet.There are still two weeks until the final exam, but in this day when the hands and feet are cold and dull, the homework load continues unabated. Yu Le complained before that if this continues, his fingers will freeze into popsicles.

In such a cold season, even the consciousness seems to miss the warmth in the dream, feeling drowsy and listless.Yang Bai turned over and slept all day in the dormitory, but Yu Le began to doze off frequently in class, and occasionally fell asleep openly.

On the contrary, Yan Hong, who is the thinnest, is very energetic all day long, and really doesn't know if the two rich ladies are doing something that consumes energy at night.

After Yang Bai fell asleep, he didn't get up again, until he turned off the lights and went to bed at 11 o'clock, and there was no movement at all.Yan Hong didn't dare to take care of her, she went back to the bed after turning off the energy-saving lamp as usual, got into the quilt and closed her eyes.

But just as she closed her eyes, she suddenly opened them as if remembering something, reached out to touch her mobile phone, and began to browse the news on the Internet aimlessly.

After watching it for about two hours, after Yanhong's eyelids had fought several times, he heard Yang Bai's phone finally vibrate.Sure enough, the prodigal brother interrupted very punctually at this time.

Yang Bai, who had slept for a whole day, moved, as if he answered the phone, and began to ask something sleepily in bed.

Yan Hong stretched her hand under the pillow, touched two talismans, took a deep breath, turned over and jumped out of bed.

Just as she expected, the black figure was already sitting on Yang Bai's bed, facing Yanhong and with long hair hanging down his abdomen.

Without hesitation, Yan Hong slapped the spell in her hand on the black shadow, who was caught off guard by a ball of fire and bounced to the floor screaming.

She was about to use another talisman to catch up with him, but someone grabbed her arm.

Turning his head to look, he found that it was Yang Bai who also jumped up at some point.

Yan Hong glanced at the black figure, during the two seconds of stalemate, the thing had already slipped out of the window and disappeared with a whoosh.She could only sigh, and then looked at Yang Bai seriously. "Do you know what happened?"

Yang Bai stared at Yan Hong closely, and nodded after a long silence.

"...she is my mother."