This Damned Thirst for Survival

"Just be happy," Jiang Luo responded flatly, "But why did you give me medicine when you entered the door?"

The young Chi Youding stared at him for a few seconds, leaned over, and laughed inexplicably, "Ah, so you don't know yet."

Jiang Luo felt that he looked like a poisonous snake who was telling a snake letter, but Chi You raised his lips, and it could be said that he enthusiastically popularized the legend of the Chi family for Jiang Luo, "Every wife in the direct line of the Chi family will die early. Never A person can live to be 30 years old. My father didn’t want to marry a wife to harm others, but the family forced him to marry my mother. He wanted to break the curse and proposed to marry someone who had lived past 30 years old. My daughter-in-law, but the horoscopes calculated by the clan are all young women. Sure enough, my mother died early, and when it was my turn, I didn't want to drag others down, but the clan always urged me, and I couldn't help it. I have no choice but to ask the clan to choose a husband and wife for me."

He gently pinned the broken hair beside Jiang Luo's ear to the back of the ear, and lightly touched the pinna with his cold fingers, "So you married into the Chi family and made me happy. Don't worry, you are not a woman, your horoscope is Longevity, you will be 30 years old in eight years. After this deadline, accompany me to break this curse, the Chi family will let you go, and will give you and the Jiang family countless rewards."

Chi You smiled apologetically, and frowned in melancholy, "We are husband and wife in name, but we are brothers in fact. You can be as casual as you like on weekdays, but don't be cautious. Letting you stay with me for eight years is really hard work for you."

With a sincere expression, a sincere tone, and a sincere heart, such a handsome young man has encountered such a pitiful thing. With such an attitude, even the hard-hearted Immortal Da Luo will have to soften his heart for him.

Is this the hypocritical mask that Chi You wore when he was alive?

No wonder he can confuse so many people no matter in or out of the book, when the beautiful boy frowned, who would think he is cunning and vicious?

Jiang Luo followed him to put on a show, smirked twice and said, "It's not hard work, it's not hard work at all."

After this conversation, Jiang Luo can be sure that this Chi You is definitely not the Chi You who has become a demon, but the real Chi You in his youth.

This is more fun, Jiang Luo looked at him, his heart was about to move.

Chi You stood up and unbuttoned his clothes, "Then rest."

Although he is talented, his stature is already very slender.Every move is elegant and dignified, and no one can see the symptoms of his illness for several years except for his pale complexion.

"By the way," he suddenly looked back at Jiang Luo, "Do you want to take a bath?"

Just as Jiang Luo wanted to find a separate opportunity to clear his mind, he looked for other people who had entered the mirror world, so he nodded. Chi You said, "Go out and turn right, the innermost room is there, go."

Jiang Luo casually found a change of clothes in the closet, opened the door and was about to go out, Chi You, who turned his back to him and lowered his head to unbutton, said slowly: "The bathroom floor is slippery, be more careful."

The tail sound raised.

Jiang Luo glanced at his back from the corner of his eye, "Thank you for reminding me, I understand."

The door was closed, and Chi You was the only one left in the room.He still unhurriedly took off his clothes, and the thin muscles and the strength beneath them could only be seen after the clothes were thinned from his slightly thin body.

He lifted off the abruptly red quilt, lay on the bed, picked up a book on the bed cabinet, and read it leisurely.

Under the cover of the pages of the book, the still young eyebrows and eyes faintly showed a wicked and treacherous indifference. He turned a page of the book, "How many days can he last before he dies?"

It was quiet in the room, but he seemed to have heard something, smiled, and said without interest: "If he survives tonight, he will surprise me."

The sky outside was overcast.

Jiang Luo stood in the corridor, watched the sky for a while, and then went to the bathroom.

Weddings all pay attention to auspicious days and good times, and the weddings are held when the sun is shining in broad daylight.Now that the sun is covered, Jiang Luo can't see what time it is, but the weather is obviously not suitable for marriage.

The ghostly atmosphere is more like the moment of encountering a demon.

All the way to the bathroom, Jiang Luo didn't see Lian Xue and the others.The bathroom is divided into two rooms. The room on the left has the words "Master Jiang" written on it. It should be a single bathroom for one person.

Jiang fell into the left room, and saw that the inner and outer parts were separated by a layer of white cloth.The outside is a place to change clothes, and there is a white paper on the wall for bath time.On the top is written when to start boiling water every day, and when is the best time for young masters to wash.Jiang Luo put the change of clothes on the bench, opened the white cloth curtain, and saw a white porcelain bathtub inside.

There are no showers these days, only bathtubs.The bathtub had already been filled with hot water. Jiang Luo tested the temperature of the water, and it was just the right temperature for comfort. He took off his clothes in satisfaction and soaked comfortably in the bathtub.

There was a patter of water, and the water in the bathtub gushed out and fell to the ground.Jiang Luo closed his eyes and washed his hair. As he washed and washed, some strands of hair scratched his shoulders and itched. He reached out to touch his shoulders, but found a handful of hair loss.

Jiang Luo was startled, touched his hand again, and felt a large group of hair loss again.

Isn't he going bald?

Jiang Luo opened his eyes and looked into his hands.A mess of black hair in his hands, as thick as water weeds.Jiang Luo looked over his shoulder with a strange expression.There was a strand of hair as thick as a thumb on the side of the shoulder. He stretched out his hand to touch these strands of hair, and with a light force, he pulled out all the hair as thick as a thumb painlessly.

"..."

When his heart was about to turn cold, Jiang Luo realized that there was something wrong with these hairs, which were much longer than his own hair.Jiang Luo looked up at the ceiling. A human head fell on the ceiling. The brain was rotten, and the scalp and hair fell on Jiang Luo's body in pieces.

Jiang Luo's heart stopped for a moment, and then his face was livid. He stood up from the bathtub, stepped on the side of the bathtub to accumulate strength, and grabbed the head with three thousand black hairs.

With force from his wrist, he slammed the head heavily onto the ground, and it disappeared the moment it hit the ground.

With a sullen face, Jiang Luo drained the water in the bathtub, replaced it with a new pool of water, and washed his shoulders vigorously.Within a few minutes, Jiang Luo felt as if someone was approaching. He raised his head and looked outside the white curtain, and a figure was vaguely imprinted on it.

"Who?"

Jiang Luo asked.

The figure didn't reply, but got closer.The blurry figure turned into a woman with a bumpy figure. Jiang Luo emphasized his tone, put his left middle finger on his lips, and asked again, "Who are you?"

In the next moment, the figure jumped in front of Jiang Luo through the white curtain.The flesh-colored skin is looming under the cover of the white cloth curtain, the neck is protruding, and the eyes and lips are sunken into shadows, as frightening as the white cloth curtain turning into a human.

Jiang Luo calmly bit his middle finger and threw the blood onto the white curtain.

As if corroded by sulfuric acid, thick white smoke rose from the white cloth curtain. After a while, the white cloth curtain that was automatic without wind slowly calmed down.

Jiang Luo took the opportunity to speed up to take a shower and put on his clothes.

Chi You closed the book and looked at the Western clock in the corner.

An hour passed, but his new "wife" hadn't come back yet.

I'm afraid it's more ominous than good.

Chi You casually changed a book, feeling so boring.

The Chi family is a swamp and quagmire, a hell on earth.Knowing that the Chi family's wife was short-lived, she married into the Chi family for money, and it's not a pity to die.

It's just a waste of his time today.

He reached out and untied the bed curtain.The red bed curtains were closed together, separating the wedding bed into a separate space.Just as Chi You opened the first page of the book, a white hand suddenly stretched out from the closed bed curtain.

The five fingers of this hand are slender and the joints are distinct. Against the background of the red gauze, it is covered with a layer of ambiguity that young people have never been in contact with.With the heat and fragrance from the bath slowly wafting from his hand, he suddenly grasped the window screen on one side and lifted it towards the head of the bed.

Jiang Luo dripping from the tip of his hair came into Chi You's eyes.

Jiang Luo was unscathed, his face was covered with a layer of healthy rosiness.The mist was steaming around the hair, his expression was unhappy, and his lips were tightly pressed.

Chi You's pupils shrank invisibly, and then he sat up without a trace, worrying: "Why did you come back so late?"

Jiang Luo pulled his lips, "There was an accident." He looked around, "Is there a dry towel for wiping your hair?"

Chi You got out of bed and found him a dry towel, and while Jiang Luo was drying his hair, he glanced up and down Jiang Luo's body without a trace.From his whole body to the toiletries in his hand.

The changed wedding dress was placed in the tub, and it didn't look damaged at all. The light was too dim, and Chi You couldn't see whether it was stained with blood.

But in any case, this "new wife" really surprised him.

"New wife" asked coldly, "What are you looking at?"

The boy in pajamas said softly, "I'm wondering what kind of accident happened to you."

"It's a trivial matter," Jiang Luo put a towel on his head, and smiled brightly at Chi You, "Brother, come and sit."

Chi You frowned slightly and walked over.

Jiang Luo patted the bed beside him, and Chi You sat down.Jiang Luo looked at him tenderly, "Thank you for reminding me to be careful, otherwise I will fall."

Chi You said: "It should."

Jiang Luo said softly and affectionately: "Although we are good brothers, today is our good day, shouldn't we also do some rituals?"

Chi You: "Huh?"

"For example, in ancient times, couples with hair knots," Jiang Luo took out a bunch of thumb-thick hair from his pocket, and said with a smile, "I prepared such a lock of hair to tie with yours when I took a shower, Chi You, you can also pull out a strand of hair."

Chi You watched silently in his hand, which was almost half the thickness of a person's hair, and suddenly lowered his head and laughed.

He laughed too much, rubbed his brows and said, "Sorry, I just didn't expect that you would have... so much hair."

Jiang Luo smiled amicably, looked at Chi You who was not moving at all and was not going to cut his hair, rolled his eyes, and threw the hair belonging to the long-haired ghost into his arms neatly, "If you don't plan to cut your hair tonight Cut it, then save it for me."

Chi You responded warmly, watching Jiang Luo lie down on the bed.

There was a twinkle in his eyes, he threw his hair in a corner, blew out the candle, and returned to the bed.

Jiang Luo has slept in the same bed with many people.We are all men, and it is very normal for friends and brothers to share the same bed, but Chi You... Fortunately, Chi You, who looks like a teenager, prevents him from being tense and defensive.

But this doesn't mean that Chi You in his youth can make people relax. Jiang Luo didn't sleep well all night, and halfway through he had a dream that he was entangled by a black python and was about to suffocate.

He opened his eyes suddenly from his dream, the sky outside the window was already slightly cold.Jiang Luo was breathing heavily, and sweat was dripping from his forehead.

The bed curtain was pulled up, and Chi You stood beside the bed, facing away from the light coming in from the window.Jiang Luo couldn't see his expression clearly, but his tone seemed to be in a good mood, "You're awake."

Jiang Luo slowly sat up from the bed, Chi You took a step back, the light illuminated half of his side face, the shadow was unclear, and Chi You's immature face suddenly became strangely distorted.

The corners of his lips were raised, and the curvature of his smile seemed to be carefully measured and perfect, "It's time for breakfast."

Looking at him, Jiang Luo suddenly woke up sleepy, and felt that in terms of horror, the two ghosts he met in the bathroom last night were nothing compared to Chi You.

While eating breakfast, Jiang Luo saw Lian Xue again.After dinner, he made an excuse to visit Chi's house and ordered Lian Xue to lead him the way, so he had the chance to talk alone.

Lian Xue whispered: "I made an agreement with Lian Qiang and Lian Bing last night to let them wait in the rockery in the backyard. Let's go to the backyard first."

There was a hidden cave in the rockery in the backyard. When Lian Xue led Jiang Luo into it, the cave was already full of people.

Not only Lian Qiang and Lian Bing, but also four young students from the photography club, all eight of them were present.

Lian Qiang waved at them, looked at Jiang Luo first, and asked curiously: "Senior brother, I heard that you were the one who married in yesterday, is this true?"

Jiang Luo glanced at him, Lian Qiang sneered, and quickly changed the subject, "Let's talk about your identities."

Among the eight people, Jiang Luo has the highest status, she is the only young master's newlywed wife in the Chi family's direct line.Qin Yun's identity comes next, she is the eldest maid in the house of Chi's parents.Lian Qiang and Du Ge are servants in Chi You's front yard, Lian Bing and Duan Zi are doing odd jobs in the kitchen, and Li Xiao is a maid next to a young lady.

Jiang Luo thought about it and said, "It seems that our identities are all small characters that don't attract attention."

"You are very attractive," Qin Yun said, "You are the wife of the young master of the direct line."

"This family is cursed. The wives of the direct line are all destined to die early. As a 'dead person' who will die sooner or later, not many people will pay attention to me." Jiang Luo explained.

Everyone was thoughtful, Lian Bing was smarter than his senior brother Lian Qiang, he raised his hand and said, "Did you hear a voice when you woke up?"

"Is it the voice telling us to kill the evil spirit?" Du Ge frowned.

Lian Bing nodded, "I remember clearly that this voice said this sentence to me - 'As long as you kill the evil spirits, you can go out'. I am a handyman in the kitchen. Although the work is a bit hard, I can’t contact the owner in the mansion, but I can contact people outside. When I went out to get today’s cooking materials this morning, I heard a few peddlers who brought the vegetables talk about several murders in the town.”

"Murder?"

Lian Bing simply squatted on the ground and found a branch to write and draw on the ground for easy memory, "They said that almost ten people died in the town, and the ways of death were all kinds of strange. One died every few days, and one died every few days. It made people in the town panic, and they dared not go out after dark. I listened to their whispered discussions, and heard a word—"

He wrote the word "evil ghost" on the ground.

"These peddlers think that the murderer who killed these people is a resentful evil spirit."

Lian Xue thought about it carefully, but Du Ge said: "Whether there are evil spirits outside or not, I always feel that the evil spirits we are looking for are inseparable from the Chi family. Eight of us gathered at the Chi family. It's what we have in common."

"But the Chi family is so big, how can we find the evil spirit? Even if we find it, how can we kill it?"

Everyone fell silent.Duanzi suddenly squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, and apologized with a sob, "I'm sorry, I didn't know that playing this game could become like this. It's all my fault. It would be fine if, if I didn't mention this order."

Li Xiao also squatted down, carefully wiping Duan Zi's tears.

Qin Yun's face was also a little ugly, she bit her nails, "Don't cry, what's the use of crying now. I didn't believe that there are ghosts in the world... It's really unlucky, we shouldn't go up the mountain."

Lian Xue sighed, and comforted her softly: "Don't worry, we must have a way to get out. As for killing the evil spirits," she pursed her lips and smiled, not too worried, "There is still a way."

Qin Yun immediately asked: "What way?"

Lian Xue looked at Jiang Luo, "Brother, I'm good at treating people. But it's up to you when it comes to this kind of thing."

Jiang Luo's expression remained the same, he didn't mention the evil ghost, and instead asked, "Have you encountered ghosts since you entered this world?"

All seven shook their heads.

Jiang Luo's eyelids twitched. He really didn't know whether it was his bad luck or what Feng Li said was to please the yin. He continued calmly: "The mirror is yin, and it is mysterious. We looked in the mirror at midnight and were dragged to the mirror. In the middle world, the ghost energy at this time point is the most prosperous time of the day. And the world in the mirror is mostly weird and gloomy, and there is definitely more than one ghost in this world. As for the evil ghost, how evil is it? Which evil ghost is it? ? We don’t know anything about it.”

In fact, when Jiang Luo heard the word "evil ghost", he was the first to think of Chi You.

But Chi You in this world hasn't turned into a ghost yet, so let's not think about it for now.In addition, the requirement of the people behind the scenes is to kill the evil spirits to get out. This feeling of being coerced and forced to do something is really uncomfortable.

Hearing Jiang Luo's words, the expressions of Lian Xue and the other three remained unchanged.The four college students from ordinary schools were all stunned. Qin Yun looked at him with a strange expression, "You won't be the same as Duanzi, you usually have some hobbies about supernatural events, right?"

Jiang Luo smiled casually, then stretched out his hand suddenly, and put his hands together in front of his body, "Xun character position, wind."

A fierce wind swept up from the ground, roaring and turning and rolled up everyone's clothes.

The dust and dead leaves were swept up by the wind, and the wind became stronger and stronger, almost reaching the top of the cave.

Everyone stared dumbfounded at the wind, their hair was blown into a chicken coop and they couldn't move their eyes, their three views were about to be shaken down.

Jiang Luo said: "Scatter."

The whirlwind suddenly dissipated in the air, and the dust and branches and leaves fell from the sky, choking everyone to cough again and again.They waved away the miasma in front of them with their palms, and stared at Jiang Luo with scorching eyes.

Jiang Luo, who was idle at Lian's house and practiced this move for ten days but had never used it before, showed a relaxed smile. He let go of his hands, "From now on, everything will be under my command. Is there a problem?"

"No, no, not at all!"