It is strictly forbidden to pay for the ticket after getting on the bus

A few people returned to the inn, and as expected, the lunch was neatly placed on the table, and it was still steaming.

It was as if they had a premonition that they would step into the inn this second.

"It's so mysterious." Lin Jiu muttered in a low voice.

Si Qi couldn't wait to sit down, and happily picked up the chopsticks: "The treatment is really good, food and housing are included!"

"Be careful that he asks you to return your food at night." Bai Luochuan also sat down slowly.

Si Qi choked up, quickly drank some water, and said with a smile: "It's okay, Erjiu is in my room anyway, if you die together, you'll be in pairs if you're a ghost, right Erjiu!"

Lin Jiu glared at her with a red face, but said nothing.

At noon, I still didn't see the old man in the inn last night.

After filling their stomachs hastily, they continued to go out to search for clues.

The ancient town does not look big, but the planning is very delicate. They started to search every store in the afternoon, and found that there were hidden alleys or small courtyards behind many houses, and they also came across some from the previous train. people.

Girls are always more sensitive to clothing accessories. At the corner of the street, Si Qi found a fabric shop that specializes in tailoring clothes.

Looking at the size, all the clothes on display are children's clothes.

In this way, I found a children's clothing store!Bai Jue looked strange.

"It's so cute..." Bai Luochuan touched a small double-breasted white coat, the fabric softly touching his skin.

"Why does it look like it belongs to a little boy? Cyan, aqua blue, black and white..." Lin Jiu wondered, "Why is it red instead of pink?"

"Tsk—" Si Qi joked, "Shouldn't girls be allowed to dress cooler? Why, Erjiu, you still have a pink girlish heart?"

Lin Jiu: "...you have something wrong with me, I'm too lazy to talk to you."

"It seems that there are only boys." Bai Jue found a book in the corner of the wooden table, which should be used by the owner to register the names and sizes of the guests. He waved to Bai Luochuan, "Look at these names, they should be all of them. male name."

Bai Luochuan took over the yellowed notebook, and it was indeed as he said, "...names like Zhang Tieguan, Liu Tiezhu, Gao Fei, and Sun Baojiang are not suitable for girls."

Si Qi also leaned over her head: "Aren't there any emerald flowers, emerald flowers, emerald green fragrance, emerald green fragrance?"

"......No."

"Shall we go? I don't want to be here anymore..."

Flipping through the notebook, Lin Jiu who was standing by the door suddenly asked, his voice still trembling.

Bai Jue looked up and saw Lin Jiu's wrinkled expression on the verge of tears, and the door of the opposite shop - a 'woman' staring at them blankly.

Or a female ghost is more appropriate.

The female ghost's motionless eyes are like dead fish's eyes, her pale face, her gray hair fluttering in the wind like withered grass, and there is a hole in her neck through which she can see the porcelain bowl in the house. The surrounding meat is rotting.

"This, this, this, this... This mother is related to that guy in the inn!" Bai Luochuan's expression turned ugly, "There are ghosts in broad daylight?"

"According to what you say, everyone in the town should be relatives." Bai Jue said calmly.

There should be no 'people' with intact bodies in this town.

"Erjiu, come slowly to our side, don't move too much." Si Qi calmly stared at the opposite woman, holding her right hand in front of her body.

Bai Jue glanced at it, and frowned - he noticed that there were a few faint golden halos flowing on the tip of Si Qina's right finger, which was fleeting.

But Bai Jue can be sure that he is not delusional.

"...or not," Lin Jiu stared at the three of them in horror at this moment, "There is one behind you too!"

Bai Jue paused, then turned his head calmly.

Despite my preparations, seeing this non-human creature so close was quite thrilling.

Another female ghost of the same species as the female ghost at the entrance of the opposite shop was staring at them eeriely.

Bai Luochuan frowned slightly, and put his hands into his pockets. From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Bai Jue's unfazed expression, paused, and took out his hands again.

After signaling a few people with his eyes not to move rashly, Bai Jue calmly took the notebook from Bai Luochuan's other hand, tidied it up, and put it in the place where he picked it up just now, and then revealed his uprightness, brilliance, politeness and politeness like the leader of a young pioneer team. With a polite smile, he said, "Excuse me."

Pulling Bai Luochuan around, he walked out the door.

And this kind of miraculous and natural operation?

Si Qi and Lin Jiu hurriedly followed him.

After going out, the female ghost did not follow, but just stood in the room and stared quietly.

But when they arrived on the street, they could not help but shudder when they saw the current situation on the street.

The heart trembled.

The 'janitors' all stood at the door.

And the figure of the female ghost in the clothes shop just now appeared by the door.

There are two straight rows of houses, and you can't see the end at a glance. Every household has one or two "people" who can't bear to look directly at them, with mutilated limbs and ragged clothes, just standing quietly at the door, motionless. .

Like two rows of Yin soldiers guarding the tomb behind them.

The red lanterns on the eaves were blown left and right by the wind, and the dark red light made the ghouls below even more dejected.

Those houses and pavilions that were originally deserted and deserted now looked a little strange.

The cold wind penetrated into the bones, and the whole body seemed to lose temperature, and was enveloped by a cold and damp atmosphere.

Bai Luochuan moved his frozen fingers, and took a breath of cold air into his lungs, which was extremely uncomfortable.

"Go forward, don't stop." Bai Jue said in a low voice, clenching his molars, "It's probably only four o'clock now, why are you all starting to gather people to make trouble?"

Bai Luochuan said ramblingly: "It gets dark early in winter, and there's not much sun, why are you here at the wrong time, it's summer, it's really cold."

Bai Jue: "...Why don't you come to the old place again in summer?"

Still want to come in summer?You are so smart, why don't you go to heaven!

Realizing that these things would not come out to attack people at will, Si Qi relaxed now, and began to joke around leisurely: "Does this look like someone who came out to attract customers in the red light district?"

Bai Jue: "...You have really strong taste."

"Amitabha..." Lin Jiu muttered in a low voice, "Don't make random comparisons with the dead."

Si Qi: "...Two nine, I beg you to open your eyes, these are ghosts, ghosts that may eat people!"

Lin Jiu's face turned pale again, his bamboo pole-like body trembled, as if a roar could break him apart.

"...Ghosts, ghosts are also the dead, the dead are big, the dead are big."

Bai Luochuan said: "There will be another one in the inn room next time."

Lin Jiu's young heart trembled, tears blurred his eyes: Bai Luochuan, you have changed, you are no longer the hero who saved me!

As Bai Jue expected, those ghosts, like the old man in the inn, would not actively attack them, so he chose not to start a conflict.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise if he really wanted to let the people on his side chop up the female ghost, there would probably be a famous scene of being chased by a large group of ghosts.

The picture effect must be comparable to that of a zombie besieged city, Bai Jue thought.

After all, even if they become ghosts, they still belong to the neighbors. If something happens to the old neighbors, they have to roll up their sleeves to support them...

Back to the hidden world inn last night, as expected, the old man was also standing guard at the door, looking at them with cold and dead eyes, which made Lin Jiu shiver in fright.

Well, it's the look a ghost should have.

Zhang Feng and Yang Zhen had already arrived at the hall first, and they probably didn't go as far as they did. They all looked shocked.

"This queuing ceremony is really trendy." Yang Zhen was frightened and looked a little sleepy, not very energetic, "When can I go home..."

A group of people were silent, and they also wanted to know the answer to this question.

But have no way of knowing.

After four o'clock, the sky really began to darken. This time of winter is the loneliest time. In the cold wind, the world seems to be in a gray state.

The candlelight in the room flickered violently, and the body printed large and large shadows on the wall, bending and twisting with the candlelight, like a life-seeking person in the dark night, causing people to feel a wave of despair for no reason.

After a while, Bai Jue heard a noise, it was the old man who came in from the door and closed the door behind his back.

Everyone was nervous.

The old man didn't seem to notice the nervous expressions on their faces at all. He walked into the kitchen and came out with two plates of steaming dishes on the table.

When you get close, you can still see the white bones protruding from the rotting flesh on your hand.

After coming and going a few times, Lin Jiu couldn't bear it anymore, and said to Si Qi in a low voice, "Why don't we help him, how many times do we have to serve the food for so many people?"

Si Qi was so angry that she took advantage of the time when the old man entered the kitchen, and slapped Lin Jiu hard on the head.

"Do you have any disease in your brain? What's the matter? Caring for the lonely old man and caring for the elderly has come here? Then you might as well stay here and give him a pension until the end of his life. See if you die first or he turns into ashes first, and find What a fart ticket!"

Lin Jiu felt wronged: "...Forget it then."

After a few trips, Bai Jue saw that the food on several tables had been put in the same place, and guessed that it was almost gone, but the old man walked into the kitchen again.

besides?Is it too rich?

Immediately afterwards, his eyes froze.

——The old man took out a stick as thick as a forearm from the kitchen and held it in his hand.

The strings in the minds of everyone in the lobby were tense, staring at him.

It seemed to be a wooden stick used as a firewood stick in the kitchen, but it was cut straight, and upon closer inspection, it could be seen that there were dark red marks on it that had dried up. In this case, there was almost no doubt that it was blood.

Bai Jue calmed down for a while, without changing his face, he took the lead and sat down in front of the wooden table, focusing on the old man all the time, his hands under the table gathered strength, and his veins bulged.

The old man, as he expected, sat on the side of another empty table, with the wooden stick clinging to his arm on the table.

There is no other action.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and found a place to sit down.

Bai Luochuan quietly gave Bai Jue a thumbs-up, with a charming brilliance at the corners of his eyes and brows: "Calm enough!"

Bai Jue's always indifferent black eyes were stained with a little smile.

Before he could speak, something suddenly touched his feet.

He lowered his head, and a small bamboo ball stopped quietly at his feet.

There was a chill on the back.

Fuck, it's usually not a good phenomenon to encounter this kind of situation.

At this time, a gap was opening in the room that had been closed in the morning.

A malicious blood-red eye appeared from the gap.

Like the eyes of a beast in the dark.

"Boom boom boom!"

The old man suddenly tapped the table three times with the stick in his hand.

The eyes quickly disappeared into the darkness of the door at the first sound.

Bai Jue came back to his senses, turned his head to look at Bai Luochuan, only to realize that he had been clenching his hands tightly, with two obvious red marks.

"What's wrong?" Bai Luochuan stared at his hand with a thoughtful expression.

Bai Jue motioned him to look towards the door of the room.

And the door of that room was slowly opened inward at this time, and there was the sound of messy and hobbled footsteps.

Three children came out.

Seems to be descendants of the family.

Two boys and one girl, the girl looks a little older.

And it seems that as the aborigines of this ghost town, the difference between the children and others is that they look more like living people.

Just 'looks' though.

Except for the pale complexion, every part of the body looks complete, and there are no wounds.

It's just that they can't feel their breath, and they don't have vitality, they are lifeless.

The eyes of the three children were all black, the eyes of the two boys were filled with the bewilderment of a young child, while the little girl always had a weird smile on her face, rolling her eyes and staring at them.

When Bai Jue met that gaze, he always felt that something dirty was lingering around him, making him very uncomfortable.

The three children did not speak, and walked this way when they came out of the room.

When passing by Zhang Feng's table, the girl seemed to have paused for half a second, and then walked quickly past without any apparent abnormality.

The three went to the old man's table and sat down.

The two boys were sitting on either side of the old man, eating dully, the girl was sitting opposite, and Bai Jue could just see her face from this direction.

He noticed that when the girl's eyes turned to the old man and her two younger brothers, she would become vicious and vicious, which was a look that should not appear on a child.

As for the wooden stick that Bai Jue has always cared about, the girl's attitude is a little strange.

——Looking at it from time to time and then looking away immediately, the expression is very complicated, with unwillingness, hatred, resentment, and even a trace of fear.

As if feeling Bai Jue's vague gaze, the girl raised her eyes to look at him, showing that weird smile again, with that pale face, and in such a dark environment with flickering candles, it was like Immerse yourself in an old Hong Kong horror movie.

It can make people break out in a cold sweat.

Bai Jue calmly withdrew his gaze, twirled his chopsticks, firmly grasped all the coriander on the plate, and ate it in one bite.

Bai Luochuan: "..."

Bai Jue looked innocent: "You don't like coriander, don't you? It's just right."

Bai Luochuan froze for a moment, but didn't speak.

He really doesn't like coriander. When he was in love with Bai Jue before, every time he ate, Bai Jue would pick out coriander for him in advance.

He just didn't expect that a few years had passed, and he still remembered.

Lin Jiu muttered aggrievedly: "But I like to eat..."

Bai Jue said indifferently, "Go to the opposite table, the three of them seem to be picky, there are still a lot left."

Lin Jiu swallowed his saliva, sat up stiffly, and forced a smile: "...No, I remembered, I don't like coriander that much."

Bai Jue nodded: "Very good."

After a seemingly 'harmonious' dinner, everyone decided to go back to their rooms to relieve their tense nerves.

In the corridor on the second floor, there are still fragments of porcelain plates from last night, scattered scattered in front of the door, in a mess, if you don't pay attention, you will step on it.

Bai Jue and the others didn't care about the debris. After fetching water and going back to the room for a simple wash, the sky outside the window was completely dark, and the town returned to its appearance last night.

Bai Jue's mind was still thinking about the three children downstairs who never showed up after dinner, the room was narrow, and when he turned around, he accidentally collided with Bai Luochuan who was walking over.

Bai Luochuan was slightly taller than him, and his forehead just hit his nose.

"what......"

"Whoops..."

An involuntary sour taste rushed straight from the tip of his nose to his forehead, making Bai Luochuan teary from the pain.

"It's okay, it's okay," Bai Jue supported him reflexively, and rubbed his nose directly with the other hand, "I see you're standing there without moving..."

After rubbing it, it hurt even more, tears flowed out uncontrollably, which shocked Bai Jue a lot.

"Why are you still crying! Is it so painful? I was just squeamish before, why have my tears become lower? Let me show you... It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt anymore..."

"...these are fucking physical tears!"

The air in the house is also cold in winter, and the fingers that touch the nose are as warm as warm jade, and the fingertips are a bit cool, but Bai Luochuan feels very comfortable.

Getting closer, Bai Jue saw the amber-like eyes of the person in front of him, clean and transparent, filled with lingering water vapor.

Like the first ray of sunshine in spring has just melted the snowdrifts.

All the pure light is gathered in it.

His eyes moved up slightly, his forehead was a little red, and there was a white mark on the side of the brow bone. Although it was not obvious, it was easy to see when he looked closely.

Bai Jue thought of something, and said, "Has the white mark on the brow bone faded yet?"

Bai Luochuan touched his right eyebrow, and said indifferently: "This? I guess it won't disappear, so who cares..."

This was when Bai Luochuan fell asleep when he was in high school, and fell off the upper bunk and broke it. It's not obvious now, but he bled a lot, almost half his face.

As the story of his youth injury, Bai Luochuan had told Bai Jue about this accident many times before.

But Bai Jue never told him about the first time he met him.

Thanks to this injury.

Strictly speaking, it's not the first time we've seen each other. He had already seen Bai Luochuan speaking in the auditorium as a freshman representative from a distance when the first year of high school started.

But that was the first time he had noticed the man in the hospital.

Bai Jue knows that he has a withdrawn and indifferent personality. To put it bluntly, his personality is not very good and he can't make friends.

Although he is good-looking, this sharp and indifferent appearance with sharp edges and corners has invisibly deepened others' identification of his character.

This kind of personality is not due to family reasons or other external influences. It has been such a personality since he can remember, and he is indifferent to people and things, which seems to be born.

But when he had a high fever, was alone with a list and medicine, and was leaning on the hospital bed to receive a drip, the 17-year-old's immature mind still felt a little sad.

There were other patients in his ward, and family members came and went, so the door was not closed.

At that time, Bai Jue saw a group of boys approaching in a mighty manner from the corridor. Although he deliberately lowered his voice, he was still chirping and excited.

A large piece of white gauze was pasted on the right eyebrow of the person in the middle, and the dried blood was stained on the right face, neck and clothes, congealed, and looked extremely miserable.

But the young man didn't care, he gesticulated and said something with his teeth and claws, his eyes were bent into a crescent, but it still made people feel that there was light inside, shining brightly, his smile was wanton but not sharp, warm like a child.

The necklace jumping around the neck with the movement crossed a small silver arc, and then fell gently on the collarbone. Facing the sunset shining in from the window in the corridor, even the dark red blood clots on the skin were as colorful as oil paintings Get active.

As a result, Bai Jue's ice-like inner world cracked a crack, revealing the undercurrent surging underneath.

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On the second night of sharing the same bed, Bai Jue could tell that this person was heartless and had no awkward time at all, after chatting with him for a few words, he could only hear the sound of even breathing.

As if the four-year gap never happened, as if his "boyfriend" didn't have the word "before" in front of it.

as usual.

Fortunately, he has been in a state of mental work during the day, and because he didn't fall asleep much last night, Bai Jue's sleepiness came earlier tonight.

After falling asleep in a daze, he heard the familiar beating sound again while he was half asleep and half awake.

"Boom! Boom!" It was the second watch.

"Boom!—Boom! Boom!" It was three o'clock.

"Boom—boom! Boom! Boom!" It was the fourth watch.

"Boom—boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" At the fifth watch, he subconsciously told himself that he should wake up.

The sound of the clapper gradually faded away, Bai Jue's eyes were a little dazed just after waking up, but when he heard the same voice outside the door as last night, he suddenly woke up.

He turned his head, and suddenly met Bai Luochuan's bright eyes hidden in the night. He was so frightened that he shivered, and stared at him: Why didn't you say a word when you woke up!

Bai Luochuan blinked innocently: I didn't know you were awake too.

Bai Jue is helpless: Well, I can barely believe you.

After understanding what the people outside were doing, the process tonight didn't seem as long as yesterday, and even the sound of desperation and abuse could be heard from the room.

The crackling continued for a while, and it seemed that the last plate fell to the ground. The sound of the plate breaking stopped, and the white paper on the door still did not reflect a shadow.

Bai Jue turned over lightly and got out of bed, stepped on the cold floor with bare feet, and ran to the door, the whole process was silent.

During the day, he thought about it, and the act of throwing the plate was definitely not a prank, it must be meaningful.

They can no longer be passive, he always feels that he has not found the most critical central point of the clue, maybe the 'person' who threw the plate is the breakthrough.

Bai Jue lightly pokes a small hole in the white paper of the door with a table knife, the slight footsteps outside the house have not stopped, it seems that he is about to go downstairs.

He focused his eyes on the hole, and the dim light of the candles on the first floor outside the house made his vision not so dark.

He looked around, and when he saw a direction, he suddenly froze.

It is the back of the two little boys in this room.

No wonder there is no shadow, the person is not as tall as the window paper!

The two children stepped on a piece of debris in the corridor, staggered and disappeared at the wooden stairs.

Bai Jue felt something was wrong, where did that girl go?

After watching them leave, Bai Jue was about to turn his gaze away, when suddenly, a blood-red eye with a tyrannical aura appeared at the opening of the paper hole.