I live on the 18th floor of Nether Community

In July and a half, the gate of hell opens.

It was past midnight, and the rain was still falling, and there were many white circles drawn with chalk at the crossroads in Yecheng.

A drunk man came from not far away, humming an off-key tune, but accidentally stepped into the circle and kicked over the rice bowl in the middle.

"Bah! What a fucking bad luck!" The drunk man spat viciously and cursed.

"Uncle, you ruined my job..." A childish voice sounded from behind the drunk.

He turned his face to look, and saw a six or seven-year-old girl squatting on the ground, mechanically grabbing the burnt paper ash in the circle with her hands and stuffing it into her mouth.

And behind her, many gray shadows suddenly appeared.They were either walking back and forth, or picking at the pile of papers as if they were looking for something. When the little girl spoke, they all stopped at the same time, and looked at the drunk in unison.

The drunk man's pupils dilated immediately, his legs shook into sieves, and he fell to the ground with a plop.

"Ghost, ghost...!"

The smile gradually enlarged on the little girl's blurred face, and her mouth reached to the ears.

"Uncle, the food is gone, now I can only eat you."

As the little girl spoke, she stretched out her dirty hand to the drunk.

"Save! Help!..."

The drunk wanted to ask for help, but found that he was so frightened that he lost his voice.

"Uncle? Your uncle can't save you."

Following a clear voice, I saw a rope-like object that couldn't tell what it was, rushing towards the little girl with white light.She didn't have time to parry, her hands and feet were tied up and she couldn't move.

Seeing this, the other gray shadows disappeared in an instant.

The little girl heard the sound and looked angrily, only to see a young man in his 20s standing under the flickering street lamp at some point.He had an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth, and he had a lazy expression with his eyes half downcast.

Seeing the little girl staring at him viciously, the young man waved his hand at her without hesitation and greeted her.

"Yo, Happy Ghost Festival."

"Smelly Taoist priest!" The little girl gritted her teeth.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Taoist priest." The young man said, took a few steps forward, then took out a black leather ID from his pocket, and waved it in front of the little girl, "Number DF6883, Jiang Miao."

"Yin soldiers?!" The little girl's face instantly showed fear, and she hurriedly explained, "Jiang, Master Jiang, I am officially authorized to let you out! You can't catch me!"

"Yes, the official authorized you to come out and let the air go." Jiang Xiao took out the cigarette in his mouth and twirled it flexibly on his fingertips, and said calmly, "Then the official authorized you to harm people?"

"This..." The little girl rolled her eyes and said flatteringly, "Master Jiang, no, Sir Jiang! Why don't you give me another chance?"

Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows: "How can I give you a chance."

"I didn't have a choice just now, now I just want to be a ghost."

"Okay, go tell Hades and see if he will let you be a ghost."

The little girl pouted: "That is to let me die."

"Sorry, I'm a ghost soldier."

"who knows?"

Jiang Miao flicked the little girl's forehead: "You have watched "Infernal Affairs" too much!"

"Hey, Sir Jiang remembers his lines very well."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Jiang Xiao said while tearing up a strip and handing it to the little ghost, "Take it, line up at the gate of the Town God's Temple, the City God will untie this rope..."

"Hey!" Seeing that Jiang Miao didn't seem to be following him, the kid nodded hurriedly.

"I advise you not to think about running away, my rope can be tracked and located." Jiang Miao said calmly, with a cigarette in his mouth, "The price of hit and run, understand?"

"Jiang sir, you have to forgive others! Besides, I'm just a child..."

"Child?" Jiang Miao was amused when he heard the words, and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of two.

"Two questions. One, you are no longer a human being. Two, your yang life is 83 years old, and your yin life is [-] years old. You are not a child no matter what." He bit his cigarette holder impatiently after finishing speaking, "Grandma, go away Okay, I'm in a hurry."

"A little red guy."

The kid cursed secretly, then gradually became transparent and disappeared in place.

The empty intersection was once again silent.

Jiang Xiao yawned, looked back at the shivering drunk man curled up in the corner behind him, and walked slowly towards him.

"Brother." Jiang Miao raised his chin at the drunk man, "Excuse me, borrow a fire."

The drunk man almost fainted from Jiang Miao's yelling, and asked with wide-eyed horror, "You, are you a human or a ghost?!"

Jiang Miao asked back, "I saved you, does it matter whether it's a human or a ghost?"

The drunk opened his mouth, smacking that there seemed to be nothing wrong with saying so, then tremblingly took out a lighter from his trouser pocket, but it failed to light even after several times of wiping.

"You're welcome, just come by yourself." Jiang Xiao took the lighter from the drunk man, lit the cigarette, and said with a long sigh of relief, "I said you too, wandering around in the street in the middle of the night with nothing to do. What? In July and a half, avoid haircuts, night outings, and talk about marriage, haven’t you heard of it?”

"I, that, I, you..."

Seeing that the drunk man couldn't utter a single word for a long time, Jiang Miao took another puff of his cigarette, then squirted hard on the drunk man's face, and said, "Get rid of your bad luck, go home quickly! Stop, don't turn back no matter who calls on the road."

"Thank you, thank you!"

The drunk man finished his answer, turned around and ran away.

"Wait a minute." Jiang Miao called out, "Inquire about the place, how can I get to Via Vertical Street?"

Hearing this place name, the drunk man couldn't help shivering again.

……

If we talk about the most evil boundary in Yecheng, Jingshu Street must have a name.

It is obviously called Jingshang Street, but it is long according to the latitude.The horizontal latitude and vertical longitude are just the opposite of the name.

As the saying goes, people walk vertically, ghosts walk horizontally, and humans and ghosts take different paths.Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be more evil things in the position where the horizontal and vertical intersect.On this point, this street can be regarded as full of everything.

During this special festival when there is no hope of getting a taxi, Jiang Miao remembers that he passed through five or six intersections, passed through three or four underpasses, and went through several alleys, and finally he was going to be exhausted in the next second. On the verge of collapse of the explosion on the spot, I saw the painted road sign with the words "Jing Vertical Street" vaguely written on it.

He couldn't help but sneered, no wonder the car always tends to drive the wrong way when it arrives here, it hangs on the road sign for so long and doesn't know how to change it, the words on it may not be recognizable even by ghosts.People, it's obvious that I'm lazy, and I blame everything on the ghosts for hitting the wall.

A gust of wind and rain rushed towards Jiang Miao from the street, three parts cold and seven parts lifeless.He pulled up the zipper of his jacket again, and walked toward the depths of Jingshui Street with his hands in his pockets...

At the same time, sitting in the quaint room with flickering candles, the eyes of the man tasting the wine sank, and the hand holding the white jade wine cup stopped involuntarily.

"Chi Lang, is the wine cold?"

A soft and charming voice came from beside the man.Following the words, a pair of slender hands with bright red nails held up the jug on the case, and said softly, "Wait for me to warm it for you."

"Ajiao." The man called out the red-clothed figure who was about to warm the wine in front of him, his voice sounded very deep and magnetic.

"What's the matter?"

The figure in red turned his head when he heard the words, and it turned out to be a man.It's just that he was born too pale and glamorous, under the light of this erratic candlelight, he looked lifeless and not like a living person.

"What time is it?" the man asked.

"Three quarters of Yin Shi."

"Yinshi...three quarters." The man murmured in a low voice, glanced sideways at the candlelight in front of the desk, then put down the wine cup and stood up, and said warmly, "Let's drink here first, a guest is here."

……

"Underworld... Mingyuan?" Looking at the dilapidated building in front of him, Jiang Xiao put the butt of his cigarette into the ash trough on the trash can, and shook his head, "These ancestors really know how to put gold on their faces , Return to Mingyuan?"

After he finished speaking, he was about to enter the building, but he was struck back by an electric current just as his hand touched the door switch.

"Hiss, shit!" Jiang Miao took two steps back, shaking his hands in pain, "Is this an enchantment or a fucking electric leak?"

With the aid of the pale street lamp, he put his face close to the door again and looked carefully, and suddenly found that there was a layer of dark red spells in the shape of a spider web on the dirty glass door.

"Small tricks." Jiang Miao snorted disdainfully, then gently closed his eyes, and made a flower-like gesture with his hands.

"Chi Lang, why don't you open the door?" The man in red called A Jiao asked with a smile as he stood behind the man standing by the window.

"No rush." ​​The man looked at Jiang Miao downstairs with great interest, and said in a deep voice, "Let's see what he can do first."

Before the man finished speaking, Jiang Xiao suddenly opened his eyes, raised his head and waved his hands upstairs and shouted: "Hey, I said you two——! It's easy to show off your talent? Since I heard you both talking, please Open the door?!"

Ajiao chuckled softly: "Oops, I was discovered, this young master really has extraordinary hearing."

The man remained silent, still standing motionless in front of the window.

"Hey, the buddy standing by the window on the ninth floor, yes, it's you! Stop sticking around, please raise your legs to help, it's raining outside."

"Chi Lang, he called you." A Jiao also moved to the window and looked downstairs, was slightly taken aback when he saw Jiang Miao's face, and sighed sincerely, "You look so handsome."

"Thank you!" Jiang Miao obviously heard it again, and raised his hand to signal Ajiao, "In the past two years, the local government has added a new appearance test to recruit civil servants, and now all of them are beautiful and handsome. You know, when you come out to pick up people like this, they will It's easier to go with you, isn't it? Hey, let's not talk about this, I'm going to freeze to death!"

The man raised his index finger and flicked to the right.

"start."

With his deep voice, the downstairs door opened.

"I like your welcome ceremony."

Jiang Miao nodded at the man, and walked into the building in a flash.