Penitent hand, trembling slightly

Night always brings people many fantasies.

The streets in northern cities after ten o'clock are sparsely populated, and there are not even a few cars on non-main roads.

The boundless night shrouded the land, and the street lights on both sides of the road were dim.The street lights are very far apart, and there is always a small dark area that is not illuminated between the street lights. Every time she walks to the middle, she can't help but quicken her pace.

The shrill wind seems to penetrate people's fragile eardrums.At first it sounded like the wind, but when you listened carefully, it sounded like a woman's screaming and screaming, which was creepy.

From the moment he went out, Shen Maomao felt that something was weird.She clenched her best friend Ren Yue's hand, feeling a little uneasy.

As they advanced rapidly, the shadows under their feet also changed, standing upright for a while, and shrinking beside them for a while...

"How about we go back?" Shen Maomao suggested.

Ren Yue was still looking down at the map: "I'll be there soon. After all, she came here for me. I can't let her have an accident!"

Ren Yue, who is usually not very courageous, was extremely courageous tonight. After receiving the distress message from a female netizen, he immediately went out to save others, and even brought Shen Maomao, who had a relatively high force value, to accompany him.

Here's the thing -

Ren Yue has been playing a very popular online game, and she met this female netizen in the game.The two are very close and have played together for nearly two years.Recently, both of them had the idea of ​​confronting the base. The female netizen was a rich woman. As soon as she heard that Ren Yue was going to university in Jiangcheng, she flew directly to Jiangcheng to look for her.

They had agreed to meet tomorrow at the intersection of University City.Who would have thought that at around nine o'clock tonight, a rich woman netizen suddenly sent a voice message to Ren Yue asking for help. She said that she was in a place called Shengshi Internet Cafe, and there was a little hooligan who wanted to take her home. Tell the little hooligan that his friend will be here soon, and then go to the toilet to send this message to Ren Yue, please come and save her quickly.

If Shen Maomao were to choose, she would definitely call Yaoyaoling directly to call the police.Regardless of whether this matter is true or not, how could these little girls be as professional as the police uncle?

It's a pity that Ren Yue didn't know what to think. He wanted to come out to save the netizens who were trapped in the fire and water. Shen Maomao had no choice but to worry about the safety of his girlfriends, so he could only secretly hate why their dormitory didn't have access control.

The Shengshi Internet cafe is not far from the university town, and it takes only ten minutes to walk to death.She proposed to take a taxi, but Ren Yue refused.

In Ren Yue's original words, "It's too late and I don't dare to take a taxi. What if the driver thinks badly about my beauty?".

From that moment on, Shen Maomao felt that something was wrong with Ren Yue.

Nmd you dare not take a taxi at night, but dare to walk at night?What shit logic?And you came to save netizens so righteously, wouldn't it be better to arrive as soon as possible?

But Ren Yue's brain circuit has always been different from that of normal people, so she didn't think much about it at the time, and let Ren Yue lower her head and use the map to search for Shengshi Internet Cafe, leading her to walk forward in the vast night.

The location of this Internet cafe is very remote. The two walked through several small alleys in a row, getting farther and farther away from the main road, and finally walked into a community with no street lights.

Shen Maomao's suspicion reached its peak: "You rich woman friend, don't be a liar, right?" A rich woman, why would she live in such a ghostly place?Why don't you bring a computer with you and surf the Internet?

Ren Yue said: "Impossible, Maomao, you think too much. My master spent a lot of money on the game, and it's not enough to cheat me twice."

Shen Maomao sized up her pretty face, thinking in his heart that she might not necessarily be trying to cheat you out of money.

Besides, a kidney seems to be quite expensive...

Her hands were always in her pockets, and the phone in her pockets had already pressed 110, waiting for a while and dialing out immediately if there was a problem.

Going further, there are no street lights at all.

This neighborhood is also very strange. It is only ten o'clock in the evening, but most of the residents have turned off the lights. Looking up from downstairs, you can only see black windows.

With the two of them as the dividing line, there is darkness in front of them, and the only street lamp left behind emits faint yellow light, like two different worlds.They are moving forward, step by step towards the darkness...

"It's here!"

Ren Yue's sudden voice startled Shen Maomao, she looked around, looking for the sign of Shengshi Internet Cafe.

They were between two eight-story buildings, with the front door of the back building in front of them and the back door of the front one behind them.

There was only one fruit shop nearby that was still lit, and it didn't look like there was an Internet cafe.

Shen Maomao asked her: "Are you sure?"

The map prompts the cold mechanical female voice to say: "You have reached your destination..."

Ren Yue also looked up and looked around: "Eh? The map shows that this is here... The location is off?"

Shen Maomao: "Go and ask."

The two walked into the fruit shop, and Ren Yue asked a woman who was cleaning the house: "Is there a Shengshi Internet cafe nearby?"

The woman opened her mouth and spoke a dialect of an unknown city, but they didn't understand a single word.

The communication was in trouble, and Shen Maomao said: "Sister, we don't understand your dialect, so please nod if you understand Mandarin."

The woman nodded.

Shen Maomao asked: "Is there an Internet cafe nearby? Nod if you have one, shake your head if you don't, and wave your hand if you don't know."

The woman waved her hand.

The two thanked each other, exited the fruit shop, and stood by the flower bed in front of the shop in a daze.

"How about..." Shen Maomao suggested, "Go to the back and have a look?"

So Ren Yue re-navigated, and the two bypassed this building, and walked back to another building.

The prompt sound suddenly said: "You have deviated from the route, and the route is being re-planned for you, please turn around... please turn around... please turn around..."

For some reason, the back of Shen Maomao's neck suddenly felt cold.She shivered coldly, feeling a little hairy.

With her rich imagination, she has already imagined all kinds of "turning" scenes.

Ren Yue also looked for this Prosperous Internet Cafe on the map. The little red dot on the map representing the location of the two of them was separated from the destination at a right angle.And the destination is the fruit shop where the two asked for directions just now.

They circled around and returned to the original point. The fruit shop, which was still open just now, had already pulled down the shutter doors at the time they left!

The surrounding area was completely plunged into darkness, with only a bright moon shining tirelessly in the sky.

There must be something wrong!

Shen Maomao grabbed Ren Yue's hand: "I don't feel very good, why don't you call her..."

"Why didn't I expect that!" Ren Yue immediately switched the interface and started dialing. After a while, she put down the phone in a daze, "She didn't answer..."

"I'm so stupid..." Shen Maomao cursed secretly, and immediately dialed 110.

"Beep...beep...beep..."

Her heart beat faster and faster, as if it was about to rush out of her throat.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is temporarily unanswered, please try again later..."

Can Nima 110 still do this? !Although she has never called 110 before, this situation is obviously wrong, okay? !

She dragged Ren Yue to go under the street lamp: "Don't worry about your netizens, you can call the police, if it doesn't work, let's go back immediately, and then think of other ways."

Ren Yue made a phone call, and after a while, she said to Shen Maomao with an expression on the verge of being frightened and crying: "No one answered..."

Shen Maomao comforted himself: "Maybe the police uncle went to the bathroom, let's make a phone call while walking back, you call your friend, I'll call 110."

It was very windy tonight, but apart from the sound of the wind, there seemed to be only the sound of footsteps and the busy tone from their two mobile phones.

They really started to panic and couldn't figure out why this happened.

After stopping the phone call and the traffic resumed, the mechanical female voice repeated: "Please turn around...please turn around...please turn around..."

"Turn this crap off!"

Ren Yue fiddled with the phone in a panic, and the scalp-numbing U-turn reminder finally stopped.

A little further forward is the street lamp. Humans are phototaxis creatures, and the feeling of being illuminated by the light made Shen Maomao feel at ease a lot.

"There must be something wrong with this today..." Shen Maomao said while calling 110, "Since we entered this community, I have always felt that there is something wrong with your backside. There must be something wrong with your rich woman friend. If she is okay, we will go to hell .”

Ren Yue almost cried in fright: "Stop talking... I'm afraid..."

"Are you afraid now?"

"I will never go out at night again..."

After walking for a while, the gate of the community finally appeared in front of the two of them.I didn't pay attention when I went in, but when I came out, I could see the name of this community at a glance——

Anle District.

"What kind of rubbish name, I'm stupid." Shen Maomao turned back and spat at the gate of the community, using this method to embolden himself, "Living in such a scary community, I might as well just die with euthanasia!"

"Don't talk about Mao Mao!" Ren Yue tugged at her sleeves, her whole body was shaking, "You...look at the front..."

Front?

Shen Maomao turned his head and saw that there was an intersection not far ahead, and there was a person standing in the middle of the intersection.

The person couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, and he was wearing a black cloak, squatting in the center of the intersection of four roads, burning something.

"Woc is he dying?"

Today is the southwest wind, and the two of them happened to be standing northeast of the intersection.The strong wind came head-on with ashes, Ren Yue squeezed Shen Maomao's arm, and swallowed hard: "Maomao... what should I do..."

Shen Maomao said in a deep voice, "Let's take a detour."

Can't be provoked, can't you hide?

She comforted Ren Yue: "It's okay, he might be calling his soul."

There is a local folk custom in Jiangcheng: if a child is frightened out of his wits, find a crossroads, light incense and ghost paper, swing the child's clothes back and forth on the flame, and call the child's name at the same time, so as to bring the soul back to the body .

But she has never seen a soul screaming in the middle of Nima Avenue!Although there are few cars nearby, this person has a big heart.

The two turned around and walked in the opposite direction, and the sound of the wind seemed to convey what the man said to their ears——

"Oriental rice, western rice, northern rice, southern rice, four big five square rice, March 23 Ren Yue came back..."

Ren Yue is back...

Ren Yue suddenly burst into screams, and Shen Maomao covered her mouth: "Don't answer!"

In this case, who knows what will happen if you reply to him.

Ren Yue sobbed and nodded, tears streaming down her face.Shen Maomao let go of her hand, grabbed her wrist and led her staggeringly forward.

They heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from behind, getting closer with the call of that person...

Shen Maomao turned around while running, but saw that person was only a few steps away from them!

"Ren Yue... come and return..." The man's hoarse sound exploded in the ears of the two of them like sandpaper on the table, Ren Yue's legs gave way and he fell to the ground.

Shen Maomao's hair stood on end, and he hurriedly went to help his friend.

But Ren Yue was so frightened that his limbs became weak and he couldn't stand up at all.She broke down and cried: "Shen Maomao, go away! Leave me alone!"

fart!

She Shen Maomao fought so many fights, and she never left her sisters to run away by herself!

In the blink of an eye, the man is already within reach.His face was completely hidden by the hood, except for his scabbed chin.He held a stack of round five-hole white paper money, called Ren Yue's name, and sprinkled it on Ren Yue, and changed his lines: "Ren Yue... the money..."

The strong wind sent paper money flying all over the sky, covering the bodies of the two girls.

Shen Maomao blocked the paper money that rushed towards him, dragged Ren Yue back, and yelled at the man: "Go away! We have already called the police!"

Unmoved, the man continued to approach the two of them step by step, with less and less paper money in his hand.

Ren Yue weighed more than 100 catties, and Shen Maomao didn't have enough strength at all, so it was difficult to escape with her.

Dark clouds enveloped the moon, all the street lights on the street were extinguished, and the earth fell into a deeper darkness.

The street lights here actually go out every hour!

Shen Maomao gritted her teeth, she is a dignified socialist college student, does she still believe in ghosts and gods?

She put down Ren Yue and rushed towards the man.

The man continued to call Ren Yue's name as if he didn't see her, as if he wouldn't stop until he got an answer from Ren Yue.The paper money in his hand was thrown out one by one, like butterflies dancing in the wind.

He is definitely not calling the soul!

Calling the soul is the name of the child who has lost the soul, and the paper money is used to light the child's clothes on fire. There is no need to call someone else's name and throw paper money at that person.

According to her experience, this behavior of a man is more like calling for his soul to replace his life!

The same is calling the soul, but the addition of the word "substitute" makes the meanings of the two soul-calling very different.

Calling the soul to replace the life is that the ghost master burns paper in an open place to call the nearby souls. If someone responds, the soul will leave the body.Then the ghost master will light the paper money in his hand and pass it to the person. As long as the person accepts it, it is called "receive the fire" and he needs to die for the person.

So that pile of paper money is the key instead.

It's time like this, a dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor.Shen Maomao reached out and snatched the paper money from the man's hand, then turned around and ran away: "Knock it in! Your money is in my hand!"

The sound of the wind stopped suddenly, and all the paper money floated in midair, as if the pause button had been pressed.Ren Yue's crying became very distant at this moment, and the sound was so small that it was inaudible.

All of this can't be explained by science at all. If the situation doesn't allow it, Shen Maomao even wants to record a video and upload it on the Internet, so that the majority of sand sculpture netizens can see what it means to run away from home by gravity.

She ran out a few steps, returned to the edge of the intersection, and turned to look at the man.

The man gave up and almost fainted from fright. Ren Yue stood up straight and walked towards her, saying at the same time, "Shen Maomao... Come and return..."

There was still some distance, but the voice clearly reached Shen Maomao's ears.She was in a trance for a while, and even wanted to answer directly.

Fortunately, she woke up in time and turned around decisively to run away.

The night was dark, and she ran forward without raising her head.The trees on both sides of the road stretched their teeth and claws, and the bushes rattled, as if to send her away.

A cold hand was on the back of her neck, and then her left shoulder sank, and a hooded head rested on her shoulder, and said faintly: "Shen Maomao... the money..."

Shen Maomao was so frightened that he almost died on the spot.

She screamed, frantically pawing at the protruding head, crying and cursing while beating: "Knock in, get out of here!!"

With skinny and cold fingers covering her face, Shen Maomao couldn't help but shudder, and goose bumps all over her body.Physiological disgust overcame her fear. She grabbed the non-human wrist with all her might, spread the five fingers of her other hand, and let the paper money scatter all over the floor.

I heard that ghosts are most afraid of people's full of abuse, and at this time, she still did not forget to yell logically and clearly: "I gave you all the money! Hurry up and pick it up and keep it for you/mom to go to the grave." ! Don't look for me!"

I don't know if that sentence played a role, Shen Maomao felt his hand loosen, and the heavy head moved away from his shoulder.

Maybe he really bowed his head to pick up paper money.

But Shen Maomao didn't dare to look back, and ran away like hell.

……

She had obviously run away a long way, but she still felt that she was still in that Anle community.The night market in the university city, which is usually full of people, is empty, the road is empty without a car, and there are businesses nearby with closed doors...

What the hell happened tonight? !

Fear accelerated the consumption of her physical strength, and soon she couldn't run anymore.

She boldly looked back twice, the man did not catch up, there was only an endless road behind her, it seemed that she was the only one left in the whole world.

Loneliness is the most frightening thing, especially in this case, the unknown is always scarier than what has come.If she hadn't been so courageous in normal times, she would have been frightened out of her mind by now.

She bent over by the side of the road to breathe, her back was pressed against a lamppost, and she raised her hand to wipe her face.Tears dried up on his face, and the skin around the corners of his eyes was tight and uncomfortable.

Suddenly, a burst of music sounded, breaking the silence in the air and successfully making her shiver.

Shen Maomao realized belatedly - it was her cell phone that rang.

She took out her mobile phone, and the caller ID showed Ren Yue's name.

"Are you okay?" She asked impatiently as soon as the phone was connected.

Ren Yue said: "I'm fine...he went after you, and I'm at the door of our bedroom, waiting for you to come back."

Shen Maomao breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, I'll get rid of him, and I'll go back right away."

Ren Yue on the phone didn't speak for a long time.

Shen Maomao frowned: "Ren Yue?"

Ren Yue called out in a low voice: "Mamao..."

Shen Maomao responded subconsciously: "Huh?"

In an instant, her eyes blurred, and the surrounding buildings began to distort and deform.She felt the coldness brought by the wind blowing through her body again, and heard the sound of car engines and horns on the road.

There was a burning sensation in the palm of her right hand, and she looked down with her last consciousness——

What floated in front of her eyes was a bright flame.