ghost stories

The sky is a bit cloudy, and the feeling on my body is also clammy, like the dusk of the rainy season.

There is a faint floral fragrance in the air.

This is a road that seems to have no end.

The large bluestone slabs are already a little uneven, and the moss growing on the side of the road extends to the walls on both sides.The surroundings are very quiet, there are no tired birds returning to their nests, and no cooking smoke curling up.

People walking on the road can hear their own light footsteps.

You can't go to the end, and you can't stop.

Lu Yuan has been walking this road for more than ten years, but today he discovered for the first time that this oppressive path is so oppressive that he is suffocated. There are high courtyard walls on both sides, but there is no door.

He added some speed to his feet, and he knew that the corner of the road was his end point.

The vermilion gate, with the mottled and peeling golden decorations, is familiar yet unfamiliar.

He stood here countless times, but he never knew who was waiting for him after he opened the door.

With almost no effort, just as his fingertips touched the door knocker, the door creaked and opened slightly.

A pair of white jade-like hands stretched out from behind the door.Lu Yuan also raised his hand. He felt that these hands were warm, and he wanted to hold them. He wanted to know who had been waiting for him here for so many years.

"You're back," a woman whispered, sighing in his ear, "you're back."

Lu Yuan opened his eyes suddenly, and a golden flower flickered in front of him.The head is very dizzy, like the feeling of falling to the ground after turning around dozens of times.

Here it is again, this dream.

Cold sweat drenched his clothes, and he was so tired that he could barely move.

Lu Yuan is very familiar with this dream, every detail.Today has changed.

She spoke.

The voice was so real that it didn't feel like it was a dream at all.

"Did you have a nightmare?" Someone asked from the side.

If it wasn't for being so tired that he couldn't move, Lu Yuan might have jumped off the bed. Where is he?Taking a deep breath, he collected himself, and then he saw clearly that he was lying on the bed, and the person beside him was Su Mo.

"You..." Lu Yuan looked at the surrounding environment again, and after confirming that this was his own room, he sat up with his body propped up and asked, "Why are you in my room?"

Su Mo glanced at him and shrugged, "I'm waiting for you to say thank you."

Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he seemed to have passed out as soon as he entered the courtyard, and when he woke up, he was already on the bed.So, Su Mo brought him up?

"...Thank you." Lu Yuan said, although he really wanted to ask the thin-looking Su Mo how he got him from the first floor to the room, but in the end he only said these two words.

"You haven't had breakfast, have you?" Su Mo stood up and stretched his arms, "You haven't eaten lunch, have you?"

Lu Yuan thought about it, but he didn't even eat dinner.Passed out because you haven't eaten all day?When did he become so weak that he fainted without eating for a day...

"If you don't eat breakfast, you will lose your brain, that is, if you don't eat breakfast, you will lose energy. If you don't eat dinner, you will lose weight." Su Mo stood up and walked to the door.This was the first time Lu Yuan heard him say so many words in one breath, and for a while he didn't know how to continue.

"Don't treat yourself as a dead person just because you deal with corpses every day."

"How do you know?" Lu Yuan raised his head, a little surprised, he didn't tell anyone about his occupation here, how did Su Mo know.

"I can smell it," Su Mo opened the door and turned around, "the smell of a dead person."

After Su Mo closed the door and went out, Lu Yuan sat by the bed in a daze for a long time.

The smell of the dead.

He lowered his head and smelled it on himself, did you?Except for Xu Jiayin's mother, this was the first time anyone had said this directly in front of him.

I remember when I was in school, they were rampant. They rushed straight into the dining hall without changing their clothes after the anatomy class.A buddy said, we may not be able to eat it, but we must make everyone unable to eat it.

In a blink of an eye, I have been doing this for several years.He has gradually gotten used to the complicated look in the eyes of others when they heard about his profession.Most of the friends who slept together in the morgue back then have changed careers. Even the mentor said that you have to be mentally prepared for this. Maybe in the future, you will only find a wife who works in a funeral home.

Lu Yuan smiled, Xu Jiayin is a stewardess, he was really proud at the beginning, but in the end they broke up.On the surface, the two have different personalities and always quarrel together, but the reason for the quarrel is simple. Xu Jiayin asked him to change jobs.

"Can't you give up something for me? What's wrong with you, you are willing to look at those corpses that died abnormally all day long! Between me and corpses, you are willing to choose corpses!"

Xu Jiayin's words lingered in his mind for a long time.

Why, he didn't know why.There was nothing wrong with him, and he didn't find any pleasure in looking at all kinds of horrible corpses.But when he saw them, there was an inexplicable sense of solidity.

This is the final state of a person.Be it fear, calmness, pain, or peace.

Lu Yuan stood up, changed his clothes, and was about to go out to eat something. His body was still a little weak, like the weakness after a serious illness, but the feeling of empty stomach was also very strong.

When he went out, he saw Su Mo sitting quietly in the patio drinking tea like the night before.Before that, Lu Yuan had been guessing who owned this set of tea sets. In short, he never thought that it would be Su Mo. A young man of his age should be in karaoke, clubbing, or having sex at this time...

But for some reason, Su Mo, who was always wearing jeans and a T-shirt, leaned on the recliner and drank tea, but it didn't make people feel uncomfortable, as if he should be dressed like this to drink tea by nature.

When he went downstairs and passed Su Mo, he felt that he should say hello, at least they just brought him back to the room when he was unconscious.

"Drinking tea." Lu Yuan said.

Su Mo closed his eyes and did not answer.Lu Yuan was a little bored and fell asleep?

Just when he turned to leave, Su Mo's voice came lazily from behind: "This is not tea."

"Oh..." Lu Yuan had to turn around again, and looked into the cup. The dark green water really didn't look like tea, nor did it have any tea fragrance. It looked like some kind of non-mainstream drink, "Then this is What?"

"Soul." Su Mo smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip, then closed his eyes again.

Lu Yuan didn't make another sound, turned around and walked out without looking back.

What's wrong with this Su Mo?

Lu Yuan walked slowly towards the street along the street lights of Qiyuanzi.

The street lamp has not been too bright, and there are obvious spots on the surface of the bulb. This lamp has not been maintained for many years, and it is a miracle that it is still on.

Under this kind of light, no matter what it is, the shadow cast on the ground is extraordinarily black.The same is true for Lu Yuan's own shadow, twisting and crawling forward on the bumpy road.

Lu Yuan walked forward following his own shadow, and his mind began to turn like a gear that was wound up.

That female corpse, what on earth was overlooked.

The fatal penetrating wound on the chest, the incision from top to bottom, the empty digestive tract, the abnormal internal body corruption, and the spherical object with unknown composition...

There are connections between them, but Lu Yuan still can't find a suitable way to string them together.

A black shadow flitted past Lu Yuan and disappeared into the darkness.

Lu Yuan stopped and glanced at the place where the shadow disappeared. It was the shadow of a tree elongated by the light, and behind the shadow was a wall.

Are you hungry, or is there something passing through the wall?

Or is there something lurking in the shadows?

Lu Yuan was a little curious, and walked towards the direction where the shadow disappeared.The shadow of the tree was like an opaque ink, and when Lu Yuan walked up to him, he couldn't see what was in the shadow.

He rubbed his eyes, which didn't make sense.Professional habits made him take out his mobile phone, trying to illuminate the thick ink-like black, to see clearly whether it was a cat, a dog or a mouse.

Lu Yuan turned on the light on his mobile phone and took a photo towards the corner of the wall.

The light didn't cut through the darkness as he imagined, it just seemed to be shining on a dense fog, and he could even see the slightest smog floating in the air.

Lu Yuan frowned and took another step closer.Under the flickering light, he saw a pair of eyes.

Suffused with soft yellow light, flashing past.

cat?

He took another step forward, wanting to see what happened.

That's when the wind started to blow.

The weather in April is still a little cold, and there are very few strong winds.But just when Lu Yuan wanted to take another step forward, a gust of wind that rolled sand and dead leaves suddenly blew over from nowhere, and it hurt a little bit when it hit his face.

Lu Yuan had to squint his eyes and turn his head.

The dense fog in front of him also slowly faded and dissipated with the wind.

Lu Yuan tilted his head, glanced at the place where he saw his eyes just now, but there was nothing.

A piece was blown away?Lu Yuan patted the dirt on his body, put the phone back in his pocket, looked at the corner where there was nothing, and felt that he really couldn't go on eating nothing for a whole day.

Lu Yuan didn't notice some things.

There are many things around you that people turn a blind eye to, and most people don't pay special attention to them.Although Lu Yuan pays more attention to many details than ordinary people, there are some things that he doesn't care about.

Like your own shadow.

Perhaps no one would have thought that in such a situation, apart from the lengthening and shortening, deepening and shallowing of one's own shadow due to the position of the light source, it would also be blown away by a gust of wind.

If Lu Yuan turned around and continued walking, he would find out.But he didn't leave immediately, he stood where he was, and those eyes seemed to remind him of something.

He took out the mobile phone that had just been put back in his pocket and dialed Jiang Zhiming's number.There was one thing they had overlooked, something so obvious that it seemed a little inconceivable to him.

The eyes of the female corpse.