Urban Night Returner

Shen Gu squatted on a big rock, thinking hard.

Since the old man and child he rescued disappeared into the sun, the small village destroyed by mudslides in front of them disappeared.Everything disappeared in the rapidly rising white mist, and nothing could be seen, even the sunlight was blocked.They also tried to walk on the road when they came and went, but the fog was so thick that the field of vision was only about three meters, and they could only see the small piece of ground under their feet.Based on the distance they traveled, they should have walked back to the stinking dead fish river and the garbage dump, but now, they can't smell anything, and they are still stepping on the same muddy ground.It wasn't until Shen Gu stepped on this big rock that he suddenly realized that this was the big rock on the mountainside that they climbed up to avoid the mudslide. They dared to walk for a long time and then came back!Ghost hit the wall?

The two girls sat on the other side of the stone, looking at Shen Gu eagerly.Wang Jingjing whispered, "Have we lost our way?"

Zhang Jie kicked a stone: "Why did you get lost? We came back again. How can it be so coincidental to get lost?"

Shen Gu didn't speak, thinking hard.At first they were in the coal mine, then the coal mine was gone.Then they encountered mudslides, and now even the small village is gone.It can be said that these places disappeared after they escaped, but it can also be said that these places disappeared after those wraiths disappeared.The resentment of the earth-bound spirits can make them die again and again, so have they been walking in the memory of those earth-bound spirits just now?Now those earthbound spirits disappeared, so the scene also disappeared?Thinking further, is it possible that Nian Beast lingers because these earth-bound spirits refuse to leave?However, it is obvious that the earth binding spirit is gone now, so why are they still stuck in the fog and unable to get out?Could it be that there are other earthbound spirits in this fog?However, there are only three of them!

Three people——Shen Gu raised his head all of a sudden.That's right, there are indeed ground binding spirits in this fog, there are three of them, namely Zhang Jie, Wang Jingjing, and himself.

Shen Gu looked at the two girls in front of him.The two of them didn't know that they were dead yet, and he himself could still feel hungry, which clearly didn't treat him as a dead person.Zhong Lecen said that some people are already dead, but they don't know they are dead, so they linger in the world. This is actually a kind of earth-bound spirit.Now the other earth-bound spirits have been detached, and there are only three of them left.It is precisely because they don't know how they died at all, so there is a thick fog around them, and they can't see anything at all.

Zhang Jie was a little scared by Shen Gu, and couldn't help shrinking her neck: "What's wrong?"

Shen solid silence.What is he going to say?To tell these two hopeful girls that they were dead?What about himself?Is he willing to admit that he is dead?Death, he was not afraid of it before.Which mission did you not tuck your head in your trouser waist?Some of the brothers who joined the team for trial training also left first, and even the old captain... Now that you have done this line of work, you must be conscious and prepared to sacrifice.But then he had nothing to worry about!Without father and mother, he doesn't need to worry about grandma.But it's different now, he has Zhong Lecen, if he dies like this, what will Zhong Lecen do?But if they don't accept this fact, they will always be trapped in this thick fog, and the Nian beast may stay forever, so what should we do?

"Officer Shen, what's the matter with you?" Zhang Jie couldn't hold back, seeing Shen Gu's eyes, she instinctively felt that something bad was about to happen.

"We might—not get out."

"Why?" Zhang Jie almost jumped up, and Wang Jingjing also opened her eyes wide in surprise.From the beginning until now, it was the first time for Shen Gu to say such discouraged words.

"Because—we made this fog. We are in this fog because we don't know what we are or where we are."

Shen Gu found it difficult to explain clearly, and Zhang Jie was even more confused, but she grasped a key word: "What is——I don't know what I am?"

Shen Gu was silent for a while, and finally said: "We are actually ghosts. Ghosts like those wraiths in the coal mine."

"What?" Zhang Jie exclaimed.Even Wang Jingjing jumped up: "You are talking nonsense!"

Shen Gu smiled wryly: "I'm not talking nonsense, the three of us are already dead." He roughly told the story of Nian Beast, "...so, I am the third person to die. You—" He looked Look at Zhang Jie, "It's the first one, before I died, I saw your body..."

Zhang Jie was stunned.But Wang Jingjing suddenly shouted: "I don't believe it, I don't believe it, you lied! Who knows who you are? Maybe you brought us here! I want to go home, I want to go home!" She Shouting, not knowing where the strength came from, he turned around and rushed into the thick fog.Shen Gu stood up and wanted to chase her, but before he even lifted his foot, Wang Jingjing rushed out from the fog on the other side of the stone, and the two almost bumped into each other head-on.Wang Jingjing was stunned for a moment, then looked back behind her in disbelief, gritted her teeth, turned around and ran away again.But this time it was faster, almost as soon as her back foot disappeared into the fog, her front foot stepped out of the fog on the other side.Zhang Jie stared blankly at her disappearing and reappearing suddenly, plopped down on the rock: "I, are we really dead?" At this time, seeing Wang Jingjing appearing and disappearing so strangely, she just wanted to deny Shen If it is solid, it will not work.

Wang Jingjing burst into tears, causing Zhang Jie to cry too.There was a dead silence in the mist, only the desolate cries of the two girls could be heard lightly.Shen Gu listened, and felt pain in his heart—where is Zhong Lecen now?Are you crying for yourself like this?

"The soil returns to its house, and the water returns to its gully..." Zhong Lecen chanted softly, and suddenly stood up.Little Heizi was taken aback and almost cried out.As soon as Zhong Lecen stood up, the candle on the flower stand fell behind him, and immediately cast a clear shadow on the opposite wall.Nian Beast finally found the target after tossing for a long time, visibly excited, and quickly leaned towards Zhong Lecen's shadow on the wall.Zhong Lecen didn't seem to notice the movement of the Nian Beast, but he started to walk around the gossip map on the ground.He walks with strange steps, moving forward and back, left and right again, so his shadow swayed on the wall, and was covered by Nian beast several times, and it was very dangerous. flashed away.Little Heizi broke out in a cold sweat, and he gradually discovered that the shadow of the Nian Beast became clearer and clearer. From the big group just now, it has shown its full shape, with four sharp claws, and there are still four claws on its head. There are four antler-like things growing, and the bloody mouth is half open, almost drooling.It followed Zhong Lecen's footsteps for a while, although it could not cover Zhong Lecen's shadow, but one of its paws had gradually touched Zhong Lecen's shadow's right foot, and it stuck together firmly, no matter how Zhong Lecen changed his footwork back and forth , and couldn't get rid of it, it seemed that as long as he was a little faster, he could completely cover Zhong Lecen's shadow.Little Heizi was anxious to stand up, but Zhong Lecen suddenly stepped hard on the rice bowl with his right foot, then pulled out his foot and jumped to the side, shouting: "Heizi!" , Press the key with both hands at the same time, and in an instant, the majestic and solemn sound of bells and drums and the lively sound of firecrackers exploded in the room at the same time.

Nian Beast's huge shadow suddenly twisted and struggled.When Zhong Lecen stepped on the rice bowl with his right foot, he also brought the Nian Beast's claw shadow into it, but he pulled out his foot, but the Nian Beast let it toss around like it was stuck by the rice in the bowl , but that claw couldn't get rid of it no matter what.A loud voice echoed in the room, Nian Beast seemed to have suffered some great damage, almost lost its original shape, and shrank tightly.As if struggling to die, it suddenly opened its mouth, and a jet of black air spewed out from the shadow on the wall.Before he got there, Xiao Heizi smelled a stench, which was more disgusting than the three-day-decomposed corpse he had seen at the scene.Just as he was about to block it with his hands, Zhong Lecen had already screamed: "Plague ghost!" He strode forward to block Xiao Heizi.Seeing that the black air was about to hit his face, there was a sudden squeak, like a scream, and he shrank back and fled in all directions.Zhong Lecen took out a piece of talisman paper from nowhere, Xiao Heizi blinked, and saw that there was an inhuman monster drawn on the talisman paper, with four eyes, which looked a bit like the mask Zhong Lecen was wearing. Wearing a scarlet long robe, she was still waving a weapon in her hand.Zhong Lecen raised his hand and threw the talisman towards the black air.Wherever the talisman paper went, the black air was immediately sucked into the paper, but one or two traces still escaped through the cracks in the window.However, after Nian Beast sprayed this black air, its body shrunk significantly. The non-stop sound of bells and drums was like a knife cutting tofu, cutting Nian Beast's body smaller and smaller until it shrunk to the size of a ping pong ball. The blob, which eventually faded into a blob of stain on the wall, disappeared completely.

Little Heizi stared straight at the eyes, and only then opened his mouth: "It's over, it's over? Is it over?"

The stereo was still playing faithfully. After Xiao Heizi finished speaking, he realized that he could not hear what he was saying. He quickly turned off the stereo and asked again: "It's over? The Nian beast is gone? Brother Zhong, Brother Zhong what are you doing?"

Zhong Lecen was taking off his mask, putting on Yangsui glasses and looking around the room.Little Heizi followed inexplicably: "Brother Zhong, what are you doing?"

"Where's Shen Gu? Where's Shen Gu? Why didn't he come back?" Zhong Lecen had been up for two days and one night, his face was pale, and there was a deep black halo around his eyes. A little panicky.Xiao Heizi murmured: "Brother Chen? Brother Chen, isn't that—" His eyes turned to Shen Gu's body in the bedroom.

"That's not it!" Zhong Lecen roared, his eyes were red: "Nian Beast is gone, he should come back, he should come back! Where did he go?"

Little Heizi was a little panicked: "Brother Zhong, don't be too sad, Brother Shen is already - already dead."

Zhong Lecen grabbed his collar: "He is not dead! I protected his body with a life-saving talisman. As long as his body is not broken, his soul can come back!"

Little Heizi stared, thinking that this was a fantasy, but he didn't dare to refute it.Zhong Lecen pushed him aside and grabbed his hair: "Where did he go? Shen Gu, Shen Gu! Shen Gu——"

Shen Guzheng and Zhang Jie and Wang Jingjing are walking on the ghost road.After crying for an unknown amount of time, the two girls finally accepted the fact helplessly.At that moment, the fog dissipated, and what they saw was a desolate ancient road, overgrown with weeds.Overhead is the starry sky, the starlight is so bright, but it can't illuminate the road, the surrounding scene is blurry, I only feel that there are still many people walking around, and I can vaguely hear the voice of talking , but couldn't make out what was said.Wang Jingjing held Zhang Jie's hand tightly, and whispered, "This, this is the ghost way?"

Shen Gu nodded: "The gate of hell is closed ahead." He had walked this road once, but at that time, he was still a soul, and Zhong Lecen was still by his side.

Zhang Jie asked: "What's in the ghost gate? Are they all ghosts? What kind of them? They won't be placed like a photo?" I have to say that she is really courageous. Apart from worrying about her parents, she said that she has nothing to worry about.In the past, she didn't believe in ghosts, reincarnated, but now she has become a ghost, so she has to believe in it.So her only thought is to hope that she can be the daughter of her parents in her next life.It was precisely because of her role model that Wang Jingjing finally stopped crying and reluctantly followed along.

"No. It looks like the underworld, but it's actually no different from the human world." Shen Gu recalled the previous experience, and this memory inevitably reminded him of Zhong Lecen.If he entered the ghost gate, he thought, it would be best to find the Sansheng Spring and bring some spring water.After reincarnation, he didn't want to forget Zhong Lecen, even if he might not see him again in the next life, he still wanted to remember him.

The ghost gate is just ahead, and it still looks the same, the tall stone gate archway, slightly revealing the blood-red coiled bean pattern.The scattered ghosts on the ghost path all gathered here, forming puffs of black energy, scrambling to go into the stone gate.The three of Shen Gu felt as if a strong wind was blowing from behind, carrying them to the gate of hell.Seeing that Zhang Jie and Wang Jingjing had already entered the ghost gate, and Shen Gu had also reached the edge of the stone gate, suddenly, he vaguely heard a call: "Shen Gu——"

Shen Gu suddenly grabbed the stone door of the archway.When he got here, the wind was stronger, as if there were many hands pushing him.Shen Gu firmly locked on the door, tried his best to turn around, and saw a faint candlelight at the end of the ghost path, just like what they saw when they came back from the ghost gate.And he believed that he heard correctly, the call just now was indeed made by Zhong Lecen!

Shen Gu struggled to turn around, there was no starlight coming in here, but he could see more clearly, there were indeed countless ghosts squeezing into the ghost gate, he stopped here to hinder the people behind, so there were countless ghosts Hands are pushing him.But that cry was indeed from Zhong Lecen, and Shen Gu could hear indescribable sadness and despair from it, so he had to go back, he must not make Zhong Lecen so sad.

Jin Tie Zhiying suddenly popped out from the palm.When he arrived at this place, it was not known whether it was because he had been dead for too long, it took much more effort for Jin Tiezhiying to appear.But as soon as the thing popped out, the ghosts around were still frightened and dodged to the side.Shen Gu held the side of the ghost gate with one hand, waved the golden iron with the other, and finally squeezed a way out of the layers of ghosts, and re-exited the ghost gate.As soon as the door was closed, the power of the whirlwind immediately weakened, and Shen Gu just spread his legs and ran towards the candlelight.The candlelight didn't look far away, but when I started running, I felt like people were running, and the candlelight was also moving backwards. After running for an unknown amount of time, the candlelight suddenly flickered and went out.Shen Gu felt anxious, and jumped forward suddenly. In the darkness, he felt as if he had passed through something like a wall, and his eyes suddenly brightened.Shen Gu saw Zhong Lecen's face at first glance, it was so thin and haggard that he almost couldn't recognize it.Shen Gu was stunned for a moment, only to realize that he had actually returned to Kang Jia Garden's home. He didn't care to look at what was around, and immediately shouted: "Le Cen!"