Shimmer Forest

The two returned to Su Jin's home, bickering and chatting in the warm room, eating/watching TV/playing games together.The night time becomes no longer lonely and long.

"Nerdy." Staring at the ghost monster that appeared on the screen, Wu Hao held the handle and asked while nervously dodging: "I remember you asked why didn't that woman get in the car? Why didn't she get in the car?" What do you mean by qualification?"

"Because she is a lonely ghost and has never been judged in another world, so she doesn't have a ticket for the train." Su Jin easily killed the phantoms one by one, and answered casually.

"Lonely ghost?" Almost being hugged by the opposite ghost, Wu Hao pulled the handle hard while avoiding it, and almost tore the handle off.

"After death, people have to enter another world, waiting for judgment and reincarnation, but if that person's obsession is too deep, he will be wrapped in the mist generated by the demons, and he can't find the entrance to the other world, and he has been wandering in place."

"Have you been... wandering...?" When asking, Wu Hao lost his mind, and the person under his control was killed by the ghost.

"Yeah, if you hang around for too long, you will forget yourself and the people around you, and you will be driven crazy by endless loneliness." Su Jin put down the handle, stared at him, and spoke very seriously: "Then, they It will turn into an evil spirit and start haunting the world."

"It feels like this..." Wu Hao simply threw the handle on the ground, lay down flat, and stared blankly at the ceiling: "It's a bit pitiful..."

"Speaking of which, why are you suddenly interested in that woman's affairs?" Su Jin restarted the game and started playing on his own.

"Well... I don't know why..." Wu Hao scratched his hair: "I just care a little bit."

Just about to laugh at him, Su Jin heard a strange noise outside the window.Instinctively looking towards the window, the woman I met at the station was staring at them at the window at this time, and when she noticed Su Jin's gaze, she panicked and ran away.

Su Jin chased out the door, but the woman had disappeared without a trace.Looking towards the window suspiciously, he saw a neatly folded red paper bag on the windowsill.

The paper pack exudes a strong fragrance.He hesitated for a moment, and opened the paper bag.The torn white petals fell out one by one.

"Stupid? What's the matter?" Wu Hao hurriedly chased him out, saw him holding a red paper bag in a daze, leaned over and asked, "What is this..."

Before he could finish speaking, a strong fragrance rushed over his face, he covered his nose and jumped a few meters away: "Wow, lily!"

"Huh?" Su Jin came back to his senses, and looked at his fuss with amused expression: "Do you know this kind of flower?"

"Of course, you'll know when you smell the scent." Seeing that the other party was about to walk over with a paper bag, Wu Hao hurriedly moved a little distance away from him: "Take it away, I'm allergic to lilies!"

"You are actually allergic to this?" Hearing what he said, Su Jin gave up the idea of ​​teasing him, and instead taunted him: "Not only are you afraid of ghosts, but you are also allergic to flowers, you are really... poof... mother gun……"

"What, what! It's not that I like flowers! It's just that I'm allergic!" Su Jin's words made him extremely depressed, and he blushed and hurriedly explained: "Besides, who doesn't have a few fears and allergies? !"

"Pfft... don't explain..." Su Jin put the paper bag back on the balcony, with an obvious smile on his face.

"Then do you want to try my manly power?" Wu Hao suddenly jumped up, grabbed his wrist, and pushed him against the wall, his eyes full of seriousness.

It was a completely different expression of seriousness from usual, maybe the two of them had been together for too long and were used to his cynical look, so the person in front of him looked a little strange at this time.Su Jin had never noticed carefully that the person who always followed behind him with a dumbfounded smirk gradually had such a resolute and handsome face.

The opponent's breath rushed towards his face, hot and aggressive.He heard his heartbeat vibrating so powerfully that it almost pierced through the eardrums.Lips were almost touching together, Su Jin instinctively turned her head away, and wanted to stop there, when a flower pot suddenly fell from the starry sky.

"Be careful!" Su Jin pushed Wu Hao away before he had time to think.The flower pot disintegrated with the flowers in mid-air, the soil fell on both of them, and the fallen flower stems scratched his fingers.

The flowerpot fell heavily to the ground and was instantly shattered.When Wu Hao came to his senses, he hurriedly stepped forward to check Su Jin's wound: "Bookworm, are you okay?"

"No..." Before the comforting words could be spoken, Su Jin's face turned pale, and he bit his lower lip tightly as if in extreme pain.It was obviously a small wound, but the blood kept falling like beads with a broken thread, seeping into the soil.Big drops of sweat dripped down, mixed into the blood, and dizzy circles of water stains: "It hurts..."

"Bookworm? Bookworm?" Wu Hao's panicked voice kept lingering in his ears.Before falling into darkness, what Su Jin saw was

The woman in red was covered by long hair, with a gloomy face.

Su Jin had a dream that a woman was holding him when he was a baby.The dream was so blurry that he couldn't see that person's face at all.The sun is bright and warm, and people are lazy in the sun. The red windbreaker exudes a warm atmosphere, and the air is filled with the faint fragrance of lilies.

"Mom...?" He tried to call out to the vague figure, and stretched out his hands to hug her.But it can't be touched anyway.

The screen suddenly began to change.He turned into a child who just learned to walk, staggering through a blurry space.

The sound of quarreling faintly sounded, and the world suddenly became dark.Not far away, the orange candlelight reflected the figures of two people. The woman in the red windbreaker slapped the tall and slender man hard, covered her face and began to cry.

Although he couldn't see the face clearly, Su Jin could still make out the tall, father's silhouette.He groped and walked over, staggering, staggering, for an unknown amount of time, but he still couldn't get close to them.Like a mirage, no matter how hard you walk, you can't reach it.

He pursued tirelessly/tenaciously, but the scene gradually faded out with the light.He was left in a silent darkness, lonely and dazed.

The darkness slowly faded, and he became what he is now, in a large forest.He looked around blankly, only to find that not far away, there was a red shadow in a thick black place.

"Mommy!" he yelled, chasing after him as darkness engulfed the forest.But the woman didn't seem to hear his voice at all, and walked forward on her own.He chased it for a long, long way, but the figure still never got close to him.

Before the last ray of light disappeared, the woman who had been ignoring him suddenly stopped and turned around abruptly.

The dense/slightly curly long black hair covers the eyes, only abnormal white skin and bloodless lips can be seen.Those lips opened and closed, making a hoarse and icy voice: "I'm not your mother."

Su Jin shivered and woke up suddenly.

"Stupid!" Wu Hao's delighted face was infinitely enlarged in front of his eyes. Su Jin hadn't recovered from the fear in the dream, so he screamed reflexively and punched him.

"Wooah!" Wu Hao covered his nose and rolled over and over on the ground, unable to communicate normally due to the pain.Uncle Wu happened to come in with a basin in his hand. He was taken aback when he saw this scene, and then he smiled and said, "I have the strength to hit someone. It looks like I'm fine."

"Uncle Wu..." Su Jin looked at him in a trance, and it took a lot of effort to recover: "Huh? What's wrong with me?"

"Don't you remember?" Wu Hao hurriedly got up from the ground, and said with a worried face: "You suddenly pushed me away, and then screamed for pain, and passed out."

"Is it...?" As if recalling something, Su Jin subconsciously looked at the scratched finger.There was no blood on his body, and there were no scars on his fingers.

"Study, did you see something falling?" Wu Hao seemed to have realized something, and tried to ask cautiously.

"Hmm...it's a flower pot." Su Jin tried hard to recall what happened before he fainted, and said hesitantly, "There are flowers full of thorns in the flower pot."

"A flower with thorns? What does it look like?" Wu Hao was very curious about it, and asked with great interest, even his eyes sparkled.

"Stinky boy, don't disturb people's rest!" Uncle Wu kicked him away, put the basin on the chair beside the bed, and sat next to Su Jin.

"It hurts..." Wu Hao slowly got up from the ground, muttering dissatisfiedly, "Who is your real son...?"

"Wrapping your head with a wet towel will make it more comfortable." Ignoring his complaints completely, Uncle Wu picked up the towel from the water, wrung it dry, and put it gently on Su Jin's head, and said in a soft voice: " When you mentioned thorny flowers, I remembered."

"Huh? What?" Wu Hao immediately became interested, and stepped in front of him, as if preparing to listen to gossip.

"When you were young, once you were sleeping on the bed, and you started crying for no reason." Uncle Wu gave him a look, but continued: "We don't know what you are crying for, and then you said 'flower', 'Prickly', 'pain' or whatever. You've been allergic to lilies since then."

"Huh? Lilies...?" Su Jin's vision became confused again, and he fell into deep thought.The flower that stabbed him before was indeed very similar to a lily. The difference was that the flower was black and covered with lush spikes, as if it had been polluted by a monster.

"Well, you may not remember." Uncle Wu caressed his hair, his eyes gradually dimmed: "Your mother's favorite is lilies, and she planted a large area in the backyard, and often brought some for us. Home."

"Does my mother like it..." Su Jin closed her eyes, feeling a huge sense of exhaustion gradually hit her: "I don't know at all... There is no... that kind of flower at home..."

"After your mother left, Su Jingran leveled the flower field, maybe because he was afraid of thinking of your mother again." Sighing, he looked at Su Jin full of pity: "And because Wu Hao is allergic to that flower , so we also gave away all the things in our family.”

Fingers tingled again.Su Jin shuddered, seeing black blood oozing from his fingers, falling drop by drop on the floor.There was a strange rustling sound outside the window, he looked over instinctively, and found that the woman was outside the window, staring at him tremblingly.

Her hands gripped the window frame tightly, almost crushing the window frame.And the wood of the window frame is gradually blackening, getting old, and becoming rotten.She let go of her hand quickly, made a "woo woo" sound as if she was crying, turned around and fled in a hurry.

"Wait!" Su Jin resisted the pain and jumped out of bed, chasing out the door.The scenery receded rapidly beside her, and a black shadow appeared under the woman's feet. The shadow seemed to be branded on the ground, leaving sticky marks.

The traces spread slowly, and the flowers, plants and trees they touched turned into strange plants with fangs and claws, covered with poisonous thorns.Her cries became more and more shrill, and the black sticky object approached little by little in front of her, as if it wanted to swallow her up.

"Please stop! Don't go there." Su Jin quickened her pace and shouted as loud as she could: "If you run past, you really won't come back!"

The woman seemed to have finally heard his call, and her steps gradually slowed down.The black traces gradually faded, and the plants returned to their original appearance.