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"Good evening, listeners, and welcome to The Sound of Midnight." Holding the borrowed notebook happily, Lu Zhonghui wore earphones to enjoy the sweet voice of the female radio anchor, "Unknowingly, the show has reached its tenth episode, Here, on behalf of all the staff of the program team, Xiaomi would like to say thank you. Without everyone’s support along the way, there would be no Midnight Voice.”

As the bus was driving on the highway, Lu Zhonghui suddenly felt his eyes darkened, and it turned out that he had entered a tunnel.The earphones made a "hissing" sound, and the sound suddenly disappeared.The yellow light shone on Lu Zhonghui's face through the window glass, the car jolted, and he heard the voice of the anchor Xiaomi again: "...Sometimes Xiaomi would think that a show that mainly tells supernatural stories would really Does anyone like it? Could it be that those who are listening to this program now, in fact, some of us have talked about those 'good friends'?"

Lu Zhonghui smiled, and was about to stretch out his hand to close the curtain, when suddenly, a black shadow flashed past his eyes.

A... woman?

Standing in the shadows, she could only see a vague silhouette, which seemed to be holding a child by the hand.

How could there be a woman standing in the tunnel of the expressway?Lu Zhonghui's heart "thumped", and he wanted to see more clearly, but the car had already moved forward.

The flickering lights hit the rearview mirror, and Lu Zhonghui glanced casually - behind the car, a woman was standing in the middle of the road with a child, and was slowly waving to him...

"Ah!" Lu Zhonghui jumped up all of a sudden.

The young woman sitting next to her was taken aback and quickly asked, "Are you okay?"

Lu Zhonghui rubbed his eyes and took a closer look, but there was nothing in the mirror.

Sure enough... did you think too much?Maybe it's because I was listening to Xiaomi's program, so I subconsciously thought of the scary place...

Thinking of this, Lu Zhonghui's heart gradually settled down.

After apologizing to the young lady sitting next to him, he hung up the earphones again.

"...Hehe, just kidding. But, to be honest, every time Xiaomi hosts a show, he is actually very scared."

"A listener often leaves a message on the blog of the column group, asking where Xiaomi recorded the program, and Xiaomi tells everyone that Xiaomi is now on the top of a mountain, surrounded by a large cemetery, it is so quiet, so cold, so beautiful Hei... Xiaomi is standing here alone..." The female anchor's voice gradually became gloomy, and the eerie atmosphere seemed to pass through the computer and earphones, wrapping around Lu Zhonghui's body.

But Lu Zhonghui didn't feel scared, on the contrary, he was excited at this time.He imagined Xiaomi squatting on the messy grave in the dark and cold, weeping.She looked so lovely and pitiful.Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, and Xiaomi trembled, shrinking himself into a small ball, shivering in the cold wind.

"It's raining in the sky, Xiaomi is alone, so cold, so lonely..."

The fine rain soon turned into a torrential rain, Xiaomi had no strength left, she closed her eyes and let herself fall to one side.The crystal clear teardrops turned into water and melted into the smelly soil together with the falling raindrops.

At this moment, a pair of strong hands hugged her—that was himself, Lu Zhonghui smiled with satisfaction.He held the weak Xiaomi tightly in his arms, then took off his coat, and wrapped her tightly.

"Why save me?" Xiaomi buried her head in his arms and asked a little shyly.

He smiled, and gently kissed Xiaomi's cold forehead: "I like you, Xiaomi."

"Really..." Xiaomi wraps her arms around his neck and slowly raises her head.

Something squirmed under her skin.

Lu Zhonghui instinctively wanted to back away, but was tightly circled by Xiaomi.

How could her skin be so cold... Lu Zhonghui thought in astonishment, like a dead person.

Under the white and smooth skin, the thing moved faster and faster, faster and faster...

laugh!

A maggot burst out of the skin.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Lu Zhonghui frantically reached out to push Xiaomi, but Xiaomi's arms were like iron chains, tightly bound him.

Staring uncontrollably at Xiaomi's face, he saw that her skin was festering.On the rotten flesh that was dripping with pus, strips of white maggots were frantically writhing.

"Now, do you still like me?" Xiaomi said.The moment she opened her mouth, countless worms gushed out of her mouth.

"Millet!"

……

"Student, classmate?" Lu Zhonghui's face was gently patted with both hands, "Student, are you okay?"

Lu Zhonghui's eyelids moved, feeling the temperature on his face, he sat up in a jerk.

The young woman who kindly woke him up was startled for a while, then smiled and said, "You seem to be having a terrible dream."

Lu Zhonghui's eyeballs moved, and he found that he was still on the bus, and everything was as usual.He breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to thank the kind young woman.

The young woman looked no more than Lu Zhonghui's age, but she held a sleeping baby in her hand.Lu Zhonghui didn't want to disturb them at first, but after thinking about it, what happened today is so strange, it must be because he fell asleep listening to "The Sound of Midnight".Travel is boring, and instead of listening to that dreaded webcast, it's better to chat with the people around you.

"Excuse me." He scratched his head embarrassingly, and said softly, "Can I chat with you?"

The young mother was obviously frightened by his presumptuousness. She looked at him blankly for a while, then protected the child, and asked a little defensively, "What do you want to talk about?"

Lu Zhonghui smiled and said helplessly: "Don't be nervous, I just had a nightmare and I don't want to wait until I fall asleep, so I want to talk to you... If you don't want to, just pretend I didn't say it ……I'm really sorry."

Hearing what he said, the young woman finally understood and said with a smile: "I didn't notice it at first, and I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't called my name just now."

"You mean...your name is Xiaomi?" Lu Zhonghui asked in disbelief.

"Hehe, forget about you, just call me Xiaomi."

"That's really a coincidence." Lu Zhonghui said, "I was listening to the radio just now, and the anchor on it was called Xiaomi... So, I really think your voice is very similar to hers."

"Really." Xiaomi covered her mouth and smiled, "Which channel is the broadcast? I'll listen to it when I get back."

"This, you have to use a computer to listen."

"Why?" Xiaomi asked curiously with wide-eyed eyes.The appearance is quite innocent and cute, and she doesn't want to be a mother at all.

"I just listened to the Internet radio, and I need to use a computer to listen to it."

The body swayed, burying Xiaomi's face in the shadows.She patted the child in her arms and whispered, "You know, the Internet is actually very dangerous."

Lu Zhonghui looked away from the scenery outside the window: "What?"

"No, it's nothing..." Xiaomi pulled her hair behind her ears and said without energy, "I'm sorry, I'm a little tired." She closed her eyes wearily, as if she had no interest in continuing to chat.

Lu Zhonghui was a little confused by the other party's sudden indifference, so he could only hang up the earphones embarrassingly.

Xiaomi's voice sounded again, she seemed to be reading a short story provided by the audience——

My home is in a small village in the south. It is very small. There are only four families in the whole village, and the total number of people is less than ten.Not to mention that I couldn't find it on the map of the city, even if I went to the small town at the foot of the mountain to ask, most people didn't know there was such a village.

The village is closed, people from outside don't come, and we don't go out too much.When I was three years old, the son of neighbor Lu's family came back with his wife.

Everyone in the village ran to see it, after all, he was the first person who went to the city and came back.My mother said that as long as people have the ability to go out, no matter how poor they are outside, they will never come back.I grabbed my mother's trouser legs and looked through the gaps between the adults' legs.The two couples were well dressed, and they were holding a child who was about my age.

The reason why I noticed him was that he also grabbed his mother's pant leg and looked at people with a terrified expression on his face.

The son of Mrs. Lu's family only stayed at home for one night and left the next day.However, this time, he left his wife and children in the village.The name of Lu's daughter-in-law is Xie Xueya. I don't know what those words mean, but I just think it sounds nice, at least better than Erniu.But I still don't know what the child's name is, I just call him Lu Zi after Lu Po.

There are only three children in the village including me and him, and the other is a younger brother.We have no fields, and only some vegetables are grown in the village, and a few chickens are raised in the yards of each family. Although there are not many, they are self-sufficient.Therefore, we children are very busy all day long.Both my brother and I felt that we finally had a new playmate, and it was from the city, so we should treat him better.So we often play with Lu Zi.At first he was afraid of us, he followed his mother every day and ignored no one.But later, he gradually became familiar with us.

Lu Zi's mother was left behind. Although she didn't complain about anything, her spirit was getting worse day by day.As if it happened overnight, when Po Lu found her the next day, her body was already cold.

Lu Zi didn't know whether he was sad or didn't understand what death meant. During that time, he was hanging out with me and my brother as usual... From then on, my relationship with him became very close. I even ran away a few times. Go to his house and sleep in the same bed with him.

I slept with him until I was fifteen or sixteen.One night, I was lying on Lu Zi's bed, and when I heard his breathing, I suddenly blushed.He moved around me, I felt embarrassed, and quickly closed my eyes.He called "Er Niu" in a very low voice, but I didn't answer.After a while, I felt his hand go inside my shirt.

I can't tell what kind of feeling it was, but after thinking about it, I was actually willing, even happy... His hand stopped on my chest for a while and then took it out immediately, I pretended to say something in my sleep , and then hastily turned over.

I didn't sleep that night. I kept recalling every detail after he put his hand into my clothes. I vaguely understood what he was doing. I once heard my mother say that this is how to be a husband and wife and stay together forever together.

The next day we all got up as if nothing had happened. I went back to my yard, fed the chickens, and wondered if he would invite me to sleep with him again.I was thinking about this when he came and asked me with a blushing face if I wanted to sleep with him at night.Unable to control myself, I nodded without hesitation.

At night, he was taking a bath in the yard, and I was lying on the bed, my heart beating violently.I wonder if he will touch my... there like last night.

Before he had time to think more, he had already opened the door and walked in.For some reason, I immediately pretended to be asleep.After one time, he became more courageous. This time, he didn't take out his hand immediately, but stroked back and forth there.I froze and didn't dare to move. After an unknown amount of time, I heard him call me: "Er Niu, are you asleep?"

My mind went blank.The two of us didn't talk for a long time, I really didn't know what to do, I thought for a long time before I said: "I, I fell asleep, I don't know what you are doing."

I didn't open my eyes, but I knew he was looking at me.After a while, I heard him say: "You touch me too." Then, he took my hand and put it into his pants...

After that time, the two of us became more clingy, and I went to his house more often than before, so often that my mother became suspicious.I complained to him about my name, we talked about his mother, I said, the name Xie Xueya is really nice.He said, what's the matter, I'll get one for you, Lu Yuwei.He said it meant roses swaying in the drizzle.I asked him why he was called "Lu" Yuwei, and he said that he would marry me when he was rich, so I wanted to follow his surname.Later he taught me to write these three characters, but I couldn't learn them, and he gradually lost his patience.One morning he drank the millet porridge I cooked and said, "Why don't we call it 'Xiaomi'?

When I was 17, I had sex with him.Six months later, I found out I was pregnant.There is only one feeling in my heart-fear.I was terrified, I was afraid that my father would beat me to death if he found out.I went to look for Lu Zi with a sad face, and before I reached the door, I saw him rushing out, hugging me and turning around several times.

After being made such a fuss by him, I also forgot what happened before, and only thought of asking him what happened.He said that his father called and said he would pick him up to study in the city.

I asked him, "What about me?"

He froze for a moment, and said, "When I go to college, I will come back and marry you."

I said, "Are you coming back?"

He said, "Yes."

"It's too late." I shook my head and said, "I'm already pregnant."

He suddenly stared at me with wide eyes, as if he was looking at some terrible monster.

"You... say, say what."

At that moment, the feeling of fear disappeared, and I looked at him and said calmly, "I'm pregnant."

"How, how could it be..."

"We..." I bit my lips. For a girl like me, these words are really...shameless.I whispered, "We've, been, slept together for a long time. Also, done that... many times."

"But, but," he still seemed unacceptable, "how could you be pregnant?"

I didn't want to entangle this issue with him anymore, so I asked directly: "What should I do..."

He was dumbfounded, completely stunned.

"My father will beat me to death." My voice was already crying.

After a while, he said, "It's down."

"What did you say?"

"It's over." He sighed and said, "I'm not able to take care of you now. If your family members find out, you will be hurt."

"But..." That's our child!

He took me into his arms and patted my back lightly: "Xiaomi, I'm sorry."

I suddenly cried.

Three days later, he set off for the city. Before leaving, he said, "Wait for me to come back."

I nodded, and the tears couldn't stop flowing.

……

Xiaomi's voice was full of sadness, as if she had experienced it herself, conveying this sadness to everyone who was listening.

However, Lu Zhonghui felt cold all over.It was as cold as being immersed in snow water—he remembered!Millet!That, the person he had promised so easily!

Before his eyes flashed Xiaomi's crying face before he left, Lu Zhonghui suddenly understood that she was crying because she knew he would not go back.

"Xiaomi..." He whispered, are you okay...

"Do you want to know what happened later?" The young woman sitting next to her suddenly turned her head, and before Lu Zhonghui could react, she had already said to herself, "Later, that person left. Xiaomi thinks about him every day, In just one month, I lost a lot of weight."

"you……"

"There are 24 hours in a day, but she can't wait to spend 25 hours thinking about that person. She often goes to lie on his bed, doing nothing, just lying like this. She strokes her stomach, but she is still reluctant after all. No Afraid of pain, just simply reluctant to part with his child."

"You are……"

"Later, her belly got bigger, and she finally couldn't hide this matter—she never thought of hiding it. Parents found out, and they really beat her half to death. She lay on the ground, crying, thinking, Fortunately, the child is fine."

Lu Zhonghui looked at the sad young woman in surprise, unable to say a word.

"Her father wanted her to marry a fool in the town, but she refused, and ran out overnight. She didn't know where she was going, where she could go, she just kept going up, she thought, if she climbed higher, maybe You can see where he goes."

"You, you are," Lu Zhonghui felt her throat crackling, "You are, you are Xiaomi!"

The young woman finally met his eyes: "She fell down the mountain."

"what!"

"When her father found her, she was already dying."

"Millet……"

"You know what she said? She said, bury me higher, I'll be there and see when he comes back."

"No... not..."

"You forgot." Xiaomi looked into his eyes with resentment, "Six years, you forgot."

"No, Xiaomi, listen to me..." Lu Zhonghui wanted to stand up, but his legs kept shaking and he had lost the strength to support him.

"Want to see my baby?"

"Do not……"

Xiaomi showed a loving smile, and lifted the swaddling clothes in her arms——

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Where is the child!

That is, that is, a mummy!

The child's emaciated corpse, crawling with squirming maggots!

"Help..." Lu Zhonghui huddled in his seat, jumped up suddenly, "Help me! Help me!"

Then, he saw, a car full of dead bodies.

They laughed at him, white maggots came out...