This Damned Thirst for Survival

At noon, Wen Renlian and Kuang Zheng arrived at the hospital.

People who study metaphysics seem to have a wonderful power in their bodies, and their physical fitness is much better than ordinary people.Lu You started to recover from the broken hole on his head today, and after one more day of rest, he can be discharged from the hospital and go home to recuperate.

The wound is a small matter, but Lu Yi's hairstyle is the big one.

For the convenience of stitches, the doctor shaved his hair around the wound.But only a small area was shaved and it looked like alopecia areata. Lu Yi was so desperate that he asked the doctor to shave his head.

In order to express his condolences to the wounded, Wen Renlian specially bought two hats for Lu Yi, one was a simple peaked cap, and the other wore a wig.

"You can wear whatever you want," Wen Renlian looked at Lu Yi's head, which was as smooth as a duck egg, and said sincerely, "It is said that the one who has passed the test with a bald head is really handsome. Lu Yi, your head is very round."

Lu Yi said sadly: "If you don't laugh, I will believe you."

Jiang Luo couldn't help laughing, and saw that Renlian took out the hair dye tool and looked at him again, "Don't you want to dye your white hair black?"

"..." Jiang Luo suddenly realized, "I almost forgot about it."

He sat in front of Wen Renlian, and Wen Renlian deftly took apart the tools for dyeing hair, "Don't worry, I will dye you very naturally."

Jiang Luo took a look at the strand of white hair next to his ear, "I didn't need to dye my hair."

Wen Renlian was noncommittal, Jiang Luo didn't tell them why the hair turned gray, so they didn't ask further, "However, I think this white hair looks pretty."

He took the hair from Jiang Luo's hand. Jiang Luo's hair was always as smooth as silk, and it was addictive to touch once.Wen Renlian couldn't put it down and said: "But Qi Ye told me that you don't like this strand of white hair."

Jiang Luo stepped on the stool leg, his long legs bent, he thought for a while, "I seem to have really said that."

Wen Renlian smiled, and after combing Jiang Luo's hair, he asked casually, "What's wrong with your mouth?"

Jiang Luo subconsciously touched his lips. Even after taking the medicine, he was still not fully recovered. He almost showed a gloomy expression. At the critical moment, he remembered Wen Renlian standing behind him, and held back in time, "Guess what?"

Wen Renlian wasn't Ye Xunlu, and Jiang Luo hadn't figured out how to tell him yet.

"I guess—" Wen Renlian drew a long voice, and said slowly, "You were chewed by someone."

bad.

Jiang Luo was grinding his teeth, and suddenly had an idea.His cheeks were flushed, he coughed uncomfortably, and said embarrassedly, "Yeah."

Wenren snapped at his fingertips.

Jiang Luo turned around and said in a low voice: "Wenren, if someone asks you, cover it up for me and don't tell my master, it would be terrible if he knew that I was still hanging out with Chi You."

It turned out to be Chi You, Wen Renlian's smile remained unchanged, and he comforted him: "I won't, don't worry."

In fact, the alarm bells in his heart rang loudly.

They hadn't heard Chi You's name from Jiang Luo for a long time.Wen Renlian originally thought that Jiang Luo had gradually recovered from the grief of losing his lover, but he didn't expect that they were still in touch, even kissing.

What the hell is Chi You thinking?

Doesn't he know what consequences Jiang Luo will have if he keeps bewitching a human into falling in love with a ghost?

After a person dies, does his temperament really change so drastically?Chi You would never do something when he was alive, why does he insist on obsessing about Jiang Luo after death, becoming paranoid?

Jiang Luo has already committed suicide once for him, and drove his car into the river once, and he still wants Jiang Luo to become addicted.

Wen Renlian not only decided to tell Feng Li, but also immediately strengthened his determination to bring Jiang Luo and Qi Ye together.

He said nonchalantly: "Speaking of which, Qi Ye hasn't been back to school once since you went out to do missions."

As expected, Jiang Luo's attention was shifted to Qi Ye, and he said thoughtfully, "Really?"

Wen Ren said repeatedly: "The teacher called the Qi family, but according to what they said, the Qi family's affairs are not finished yet, and they need to wait a little longer before sending Qi Ye back. Their attitude is polite, after all , the school curriculum is not very important to Qi Ye, the Qi family can teach Qi Ye much more than the school."

Jiang Luo smiled meaninglessly.

He didn't think so.

The Qi family detained Qi Ye at home until they finished their mission, as if to prevent Qi Ye from getting into trouble after they died.

As for whether Qi Ye knew about what the Qi family did during this mission... Jiang Luo recalled Qi Ye's awkward expression, and tended to think that he didn't know.

Up to now, Jiang Luo can already be 100% sure that the illusion of the Qimen Dunjia encountered in the mission is definitely the work of the Qi family.

Chi You was also among them, and also played a role.

He knew that the Qi family and the Chi family were going to attack Jiang Luo and the others, and when the illusion would start, so he took part in it.

But the strange thing is, who broke the illusion?

Jiang Luo pressed the question and took the hair dye to wash his hair.

This strand of white hair soon turned black. Jiang Luo's hair was originally black and thick, and the dyed black hair was not as shiny as his natural hair color, but when it was mixed in, it was impossible to tell the difference.

Jiang Luo tied up his dried hair and put on a peaked cap, "I'll go out and buy a duck neck."

After all, he was someone who had just been on the trending search. Just in case, Jiang Luo put on a mask, lowered his head, and walked out of the hospital in a low-key manner with a high ponytail exposed from behind the peaked cap.

Jiang Luo took a taxi to the recording location of "Next Stop, Idol", and found the surveillance video in the dormitory building where the chief director was coming last night.

The electricity from the first to the fifth floor was cut off by Ye Xun, but there was still electricity on the sixth floor.Jiang Luo looked at the remaining video with a serious look.

Human eyes can be tricked by illusions, but camera eyes are not.The sixth floor is not where the trainees stay, so there are only cameras installed at the left and right ends of the corridor.The screens of the two surveillance videos went black at the end. Before the black screen, Jiang Luo watched the videos several times, and finally saw something wrong on one of the surveillance videos.

He pressed pause and zoomed in on the screen to the extreme. In the corner near the stairs, a knife handle the size of a thumb flashed past in the lower right corner.

This is the knife of the devil.

Jiang Luo stood up, watching the scene expressionlessly.

Why did the dead ghost go up to the sixth floor?

At this point in time, none of them was on the sixth floor.

The director said cautiously: "Master, do you want to see other things?"

"No need," Jiang Luo said, "Director, give me a copy of this video. Afterwards, remember to delete these videos."

Jiang Luo left here with his things, took a car to the street and bought some pork and duck neck chicken nuggets, and brought a watermelon back to the ward.

Several people came to pick up the food, Jiang Luo sat on the armrest of the sofa, took off his mask and hat, "Damn, don't you want to eat?"

Ten Bi hesitated for a moment, then picked up a piece of watermelon and gnawed on it.

The flesh of the melon was sweet and refreshing. After he finished eating the watermelon in two or three bites, Jiang Luo asked, "How is it?"

delicious.

But Teng Bi just said: "Not bad."

Jiang Luo didn't ask any more questions, and lay down on the sofa to rest with his eyes closed.

At noon the next day, Lu Yi was discharged from the hospital.They went downstairs to take a taxi, and since the dead ghost had nowhere to go, they brought the dead ghost back to school.

Lu Yi sighed, "I remember that the one we brought back last time was a beheaded ghost."

"The decapitated ghost is living very happily now," Wen Renlian shrugged. "It often talks with the dean about hair care."

Jiang Luo felt that he heard it wrong: "The dean still has hair?"

Wen Renlian whispered: "The principal has a beard."

After a week of separation, Jiang Luo finally returned to school.He went back to his room to clean up and bought some kitchen utensils for cooking. At six o'clock in the afternoon, he received an invitation from his teacher.

"What is this?" Jiang Luo took it and looked around.

The teacher said: "A banquet invitation letter from the Qi family."

Jiang Luo became interested, and he said with a half-smile: "Everyone has it?"

"Only those who enter the third level in the national competition will have an invitation letter, which can be regarded as a celebration party for you. In previous years, it was the other family's turn to do it, but this year it is the Qi family's turn. At that time, young talents in the metaphysics world will gather in the Qi family , can be regarded as a blind date in disguise," the teacher joked, "Student Jiang Luo, please don't be kidnapped and sent to another school."

Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows, "Teacher, when did the invitation come?"

"An hour ago," said the teacher, "it's not a coincidence. You just came back, and you got the invitation."

Jiang Luo laughed twice and bid farewell to the teacher.

When he was alone, he read the invitation letter carefully.

The banquet time will be two days later. Fortunately, Jiang Luo's lips will be able to heal by then.

The rest is no different from normal invitations.

Jiang Luo opened the wardrobe.

There were several formal suits in the closet, and he randomly picked out one to try on, and the size was quite suitable.Dressed in a pure black suit, she looked tall and beautiful with a slender waist and long legs.

Since he could wear it, Jiang Luo didn't plan to spend money on buying new ones.

Two days passed in a flash, Jiang Luo saw all the classmates completely, but he didn't see Serior.

Two days later in the morning, when he had just returned to the dormitory after running, he saw Seriol walking into the dormitory with a dazed appearance with limp hands and feet, black eyes, and pale lips.

Such an overindulgent appearance of kidney deficiency made the steward shake his head uncontrollably, "Xiao Sai, you also..."

Seriol opened his sleepy eyes, his eyes were blank and empty, with a spoiled expression, "Huh?"

The blond hair and curly hair looked too vicissitudes, Jiang Luo almost didn't dare to recognize him, he said cautiously: "Selier?"

Seriol looked at him listlessly, and it took a long time before he realized, "Jiang, are you back?"

"I've been back for two days..." Jiang Luo said, "Why haven't I seen you these two days?"

"These two days are rest days, and I'm sleeping," Seriol yawned, recovering a little, but still wilting, "I'm so sleepy."

Jiang Luo asked: "Have you never rested these nights?"

Seriol thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "I seem to be resting, but I don't seem to be resting... And I don't know why, now when it's night, I'm a little scared. I want to stay in the daytime."

He shook his body.

Jiang Luo remembered, and Seriol didn't remember the impermanence at night.

He patted Serior's shoulder heavily, but the appearance of Seriol really made people worry whether he would die suddenly.

Every night, I would be called out to work part-time without pay. Look at Seriol, even if I don’t remember, my subconscious has already begun to be afraid of the dark sky.

Jiang Luo felt that he had to chat with Hei Wuchang.

Saying goodbye to Serior, Jiang Luo went back to his room and took a shower.

At ten o'clock, they were about to leave for Qi's house. The time was set so early, they estimated that they would stay at Qi's house for a whole day.Jiang Luo washed it carefully, put on a bathrobe to dry his hair, picked up the suits that had been prepared by the side, and put them on one by one.

But when Jiang Luo buttoned up his shirt, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a set of western accessories on top of the suit jacket.

A pair of ruby ​​red cufflinks, a ruby ​​red rose brooch, and a pair of ruby ​​red stud earrings.

Jiang Luo stared at it for a while, then bent over, his black hair scattered on his shoulders, and he took these ornaments in his hands.

These things are extremely familiar, he has seen them on Chi You before.

Jiang Luo pulled his lips coldly.

It was only an hour since he went out for a run, and the door was locked, so no one else could get in.

People can't get in, but ghosts can.

What does Chi You mean by giving him these things?

Jiang Luo glanced at these accessories without any disturbance, walked lightly to the trash can, let go of his palm, and he threw the ruby ​​suit into the trash can.

Show no mercy.

"It's a good thing, but it's a pity," he said, his thin lips raised, like a high-ranking king, and he commented casually, "I hate things that have been worn by others."

Jiang Luo picked up his suit jacket and walked out the door.

The companions were almost all ready, all dressed in formal attire, even Wen Renlian took off his long skirt and put on a suit, talking to Kuang Zheng with a smile on his face.

On such an occasion, Lu Yi couldn't wear a hat, so he wisely put on a wig, and when he saw everyone, he said, "I asked my parents how many cars they borrowed, let's go."

Lu Yi's car is of course a luxury car.Jiang Luo was the first to grab the driver's seat, he had never driven such an expensive car before.

The dean went with them, as their chief.The Qi family's banquet was held at the mountain villa. When Jiang Luo and the others arrived at the top of the mountain, a row of luxury cars had already parked at the foot of the mountain.

People who are well-known in the metaphysics world are never short of money, just look at the villa of the Qi family, and even the villa was bought together, almost the entire mountain.

After getting off the car, members of the Qi family led them to the gate of the villa.At the door, there are special people checking the invitations with inspection lights.

After checking a set of procedures, they were careful and polite. As soon as they entered, Qi Ye, who was not far away, couldn't bear to deal with the guests, was taken aback. He said hello, "Hello, Dean."

Dean Xu said with a cheerful smile, "Qi Ye, I haven't seen you for a week."

Qi Ye pursed his lips, "I will go back to school on Monday."

Dean Xu nodded, handed over Jiang Luo and his party to Qi Ye, and went to find old friends by himself.

Qi Ye looked at Jiang Luo, "Are you three okay?"

Jiang Luo's eyes flashed, and he asked, "What can we do?"

"It's best if you're fine," Qi Ye snorted, "Don't get hurt just because I didn't take part in the mission, then you're really worthless."

It seems that Qi Ye really doesn't know what the Qi family is doing.

Jiang Luo smiled, "You stayed at home all week?"

Qi Ye nodded, irritability flashed between his brows and eyes, "They won't even let me go out."

While talking, a group of people came over.They were also participants in the third level, but they got nothing in the end, and many of them were direct disciples of the six major families.

Feng Li would not come to this kind of gathering of young people who acted like a house, these people were a little unscrupulous, looking at Jiang Luo, the No.1, with hidden hostility and jealousy, "You are Jiang Luo, take away Yuan Tianzhu?"

The companions surrounded Jiang Luo, Lu Yi said bluntly, "What's the matter with you?"

The leader of this group was Pocky Face, and Pocky Face snorted, "You won the first place in the previous competition, we are not convinced. We have never heard of your reputation before the competition, who knows that you will come out in the end?" Dark horse, we watched your competition video, but there are only the first two levels in the video. We were reluctantly convinced by the first two levels, but who knows how you broke through the third level. Brothers, I still feel sorry for you when I saw you today Resentment, I want to compare with you again."

They are hostile because they are hostile, but they are aboveboard.Jiang Luo was not angry, "How do you want to compare?"

Mazi's face rolled his eyes, and a group of people whispered for a long time, and finally puffed up their chests and said: "Today's celebration banquet is no different from those with real guns and live ammunition. The Qi family has prepared many items for us to play. Today Just compare the kung fu and fortune vision of self-cultivation."

Jiang Luo's eyelids twitched: "Fortune and vision?"

He knows what self-cultivation is, which is nothing more than writing and drawing, reciting scriptures and drawing symbols, or even playing the piano and composing music.

Those who study metaphysics should pay attention to "slowness" and "stableness". In order to exercise their temperament, no matter the school or the Six Great Masters, they will cultivate some hobbies for self-cultivation and self-cultivation.

Feng Li's way of training Jiang Luo is to let him keep writing symbols.

But luck?

As an extremely unlucky person, Jiang Luo doesn't feel very good right now.

The companions around him obviously knew his physique very well, and their faces all changed subtly, revealing a horrible expression.

It's over, it's over, they are not afraid of others, it's more than luck... They should go to sleep.

Qi Ye gave a "tsk" and explained: "The celebration banquet only starts at night, and I asked you to come here so early to get to know each other and get closer. Our family has prepared a lot of things, such as racing cars on mountain roads, and horse racing, and betting on stones." , chess and card games... It is said that it is a comparison of luck, but the bottom line is gambling."

The pockmarked face said unfairly: "How can it be gambling! For example, in horse racing, if you have good eyesight, you will naturally be able to tell which horse can win, which proves your talent. If your luck is good, this is also a kind of strength .”

Qi Ye sneered, and said to Jiang Luo: "His name is Li Cheng, he is good at gambling, do you want to compare with him?"

Pockmarked face said indignantly: "It must be compared, otherwise this breath is really hard to swallow."

The people on Jiang Luo's side persuaded instead: "Forget it, forget it, don't compare it, don't compare it, let's count it as a win, okay? Count it as a win!"

As soon as this was said, it actually angered the group of people who were looking for trouble.There was also a tall and thin man in the crowd, his eyes were red, and he was about to cry, "What do you mean, do you look down on us?!"

Jiang Luo's temples hurt from the noise, he took a deep breath: "...Bi."

He then asked: "What is the first test?"

"Compared to 'stable'," Mazi looked around and saw a piano on the side of the hall, "Let's compare playing the piano, put glass beads on the keys, and finally see who left the most glass beads on the keys, No matter who wins."

Jiang Luo wanted to refuse, he couldn't play the piano.

But before he could utter his refusal, Qi Ye's father laughed and walked over from the side, "That's a good idea, uncle will follow along and watch, can I just be the referee for you?"

Qi Ye frowned, "Dad, you—"

"Hey," Father Qi patted him on the shoulder, "It's hard to relax today, don't think too much, just treat it as a friend."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Jiang Luo and said with a smile: "Jiang Luo, speaking of which, I still know your former master Chen Pi! Chen Pi has told me a lot about you these days, I remember you used to You’ve also used this method to train your mind, right?”

Jiang Luo paused, then slowly laughed, "It all happened when I was a child."

In Yuanshen's memory, he did practice the piano like this, but he just followed others and stayed in the piano room for a few years.

Such a trivial matter, Yuan Bo never took it to heart, how could Chen Pi remember it.

I'm afraid that the Qi family has already checked his information to the bottom.

But the original body is quite mediocre, even if he is jealous of Chi You, he has no one to confide in.He didn't have the habit of recording his mood on the Internet, at most he was heard by Lu Yi when he cursed Chi You at school, Jiang Luo was not worried that his lies would be exposed.

He also thought about it before, if the Chi family wanted to kill him, was it because they knew that he had killed Chi You.But Chi You and Chi's family were clearly at odds, and as soon as this idea came out, he completely left it behind.

And if you think about it carefully, the Chi family and the Qi family don't seem to know that he used forbidden techniques to frame Chi You at all.

The Qi family searched so carefully that they probably found nothing, so they came to test him.

"Jiang Luo" was so mediocre before, why has he become so outstanding now?

The personality changed drastically, and he worked hard to dig out the talent that had not been discovered before. It can also be explained by "the lover died and was hit hard" and "the prodigal son turned back".But if the piano that I used to know can't now, how can this be explained?

But Jiang Luo really felt that even if the original body was here, he wouldn't be able to play a single piece of music.

But Father Qi would definitely not believe this.

Father Qi said: "It's okay, this comparison is for self-cultivation, not for skills, as long as the heart is stable enough, it is a good standard."

Having said that, Jiang Luo smiled, and frantically recalled the music scores and piano keys that Yuan Chen had read when he was a child, "Then I'll make a fool of myself."

He walked towards the piano, one step after another, with an elegant and slow pace. On the surface, Jiang Luo calmly bought time for himself, but the original body really didn't pay attention to the time required to sit quietly. He had worked very hard, but he still didn't think about anything stand up.

Jiang Luo had already walked to the piano, and he sat down slowly, planning how to stop the performance in a reasonable way.

His fingers tapped lightly on the piano keys a few times, as if to test the sound.The melodious and deep piano sounded, with a trembling tail, as distant as the deep sea.

The waiter brought a small bottle of glass beads and poured it on the keys.

As soon as it fell, one or two glass beads almost rolled off the keys.Jiang Luo thought to himself, how can I play this?

No matter how good a person is at playing the piano, can he really keep the marbles from falling?

He coughed and was about to say give up, but the hand that was on the keys suddenly covered the other hand.

No one could see the other hand, and under everyone's gaze, it crawled onto Jiang Luo's hand like a sticky poisonous snake.His hands were as cold as death, and his slender fingers moved forward slowly against the back of Jiang Luo's hand. After a burst of itching and goosebumps, they ambiguously inserted into Jiang Luo's fingers.

There was also a layer of coldness on Jiang Luo's back that made his scalp tingle.

Someone chuckled in his ear.

The next moment, this pair of ghost hands led Jiang Luo's hands, dancing and leaping on the piano keys.