betting convention

"Xiao Ding, are you off work?" The old man greeted Ding Bai by holding the Erha who stood taller than a person.

"Well, uncle, your dog looks quite vigorous, please slow down." Ding Bai said casually, and Erha, who was running around in front of him, barked twice at him.

Going up the stairs, in the old residential building, the sensor lights are not very sensitive, and the lights don't turn on until Dingbai people pass by.Slapping on the light in the entrance with one palm, Ding Bai changed his shoes and sighed.

I'm a little tired, I can't tell what kind of tiredness it is, and I haven't done any labor-intensive work, but I always feel tired all over.

Lying on the sofa as a dead body for a while, Ding Bai got up and went to the kitchen. There was almost nothing in the refrigerator, and there were two eggs that he didn't know when he bought them.

Ding Bai wasn't sure if eating these two eggs would cause poisoning, so after sighing, he decided to go downstairs to buy something.

Trotting all the way down, he ran into a strange-looking person, passed by Ding Bai and the other person looked at each other and slowly brushed, he couldn't help but glanced back, only to find that the other person was also looking at him at this time he.

Eyes met, Ding Bai ran downstairs as if escaping.

-welcome.

The canteen did not know when it hung an inductive alarm at the gate. When someone walked in, it shouted welcome, and when someone walked out, it shouted thank you for your patronage.

Ding Bai squatted at the entrance of the canteen to watch the two old men play chess, holding a cigarette between his fingertips and not smoking.A child next to him seemed to think that this sensor was quite amusing. He walked in and out of the canteen, and the two idioms of welcome and thank you for patronage intertwined and made his head ache.

The tip of his finger hurt, and the cigarette caught in the middle was almost gone. He shook his hand, stomped out the cigarette butt and threw it into the trash can.

That person just now...why is he familiar?

"Tsk, why am I running away?" Ding Bai reacted a little belatedly, and thought he was a coward.

Shaking his not sober head, Ding Bai stood up and felt that he might be too tired.After touching my belly, I still feel that I should buy something to cushion first.

After picking a few random items from the freezer, he waited to check out.The cashier brother quickly calculated the money, and Ding Bai took out his mobile phone to scan the code.

"Just eat these?" The cashier brother said with some familiarity.

"I'm too lazy to bother, just eat something." Ding Bai said.The old community is only so big, and many people know each other when they come and go.

I see this cashier brother almost every day, but today, Ding Bai always feels that this person looks a little strange.

His eyes turned, and his eyes fell on the name tag on the cashier's chest - Lin Nan, whether it was a familiar or unfamiliar name.Another checkout person came behind him, and Ding Bai hurriedly put the things in bags and walked out of the canteen.

-Thank you for your patronage.

The sensor at the door said something mechanically, and Ding Bai frowned. For some reason, he felt a little annoyed when he heard the sound of this thing.

Without thinking much, Ding Bai went upstairs again. When he walked downstairs to his house, a door opened from the inside, and a person came out. When he saw Ding Bai, he greeted him friendly.

"My name is Fang Shuhan. I just moved here, and I live in this room." The other party was quite accommodating, looking in Ding Bai's direction and asked, "Do you live upstairs?"

"Ah, yes." Ding Bai smiled embarrassingly, picked up the things in his hand and continued to walk upstairs, and he turned his head again when he turned the stairs.

Isn't the old man who raised Erha living downstairs?Just now he met the uncle.

Shaking his head, Ding Bai felt that something was wrong with his state today. Not only did he feel very tired, but he always felt that the people walking around were very strange.

That feeling is very strange, like meeting a familiar stranger?

He smiled helplessly, thinking that he might be mentally ill.Strangers who are still familiar...

By the way, how did you sing that song?

"It's just that we love so violently and deeply, so we woke up from the dream and ran aground..." Humming a song, he trot to the kitchen to finish tonight's dinner.

It was night and the wind was blowing, and the windows in the bedroom seemed to be open.

Ding Bai, who was sitting on the bed, opened his eyes suddenly, goosebumps crawled over his body, and he found his quilt from the ground after groping for a long time.

After I sneezed, I realized that the curtains were moving with the wind.He got off the bed with bare feet, closed the window, and was about to return to the bed again when he felt movement in the living room.

The first reaction is a thief.

Then Ding Bai gently grasped the doorknob of the house, opened it slowly, and was shocked by the scene in front of him.

There was an extra door in the living room, standing in the middle of the coffee table, like a sharp knife cut off half of the coffee table, and the other half was blocked behind the door.

"Fuck..." Ding Bai couldn't think of more words to describe the scene in front of him at this time, he just felt that he had seen a ghost.

The door opened quietly like a ghost, there seemed to be light inside, curiosity drove Ding Bai to walk forward slowly, he stretched out his hand and saw a person.

It was the person I met when I went downstairs. With their eyes met, the person slowly said to Ding Bai: "Dealer Ding Bai, the game has begun. Where are your chips?"

"Stakes? What?" Ding Bai thought in his heart, but felt a chill creeping up from his toes. He looked down and found that he didn't know when he was standing in a puddle of muddy water.

There was a sound of thunder, and Ding Bai suddenly raised his head, a pair of purple-blue feet dangling in front of his eyes!

"what!"

Ding Bai suddenly sat up, the quilt was still on the floor, and the window was still open.

"Fuck..." He let out a belated breath, touched his chest, his beating heart seemed to jump out of his throat, his mouth was dry as if a lump appeared in his body fire.

He stood up slowly and wanted to drink water, but he was a little scared when he walked towards the door. A door really appeared in the living room...

He narrowed his eyes slightly, opened the bedroom door quickly, stretched out his head for a quick glance, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's a dream, it's a dream..." Patting his chest, he walked out slowly, drinking a glass of cold water seemed to slow down his tense nerves.At this time, he didn't dare to close his eyes again, the strange picture in the dream was clearly and deeply imprinted in his mind, he had never seen such a picture before, but he always felt that the fear that arose at that moment in the dream seemed to be real. .

Turning on the TV, the late-night variety show on the Fruit Channel was still on, the loud noise seemed to dilute some fear, Ding Bai didn't dare to close his eyes looking at the scene in front of him.

When he went out again, he saw the tenant downstairs named Fang Shuhan, he was holding the old man's erhu, and the erha stared at him and barked at him twice.

Ding Bai heard the tenant reprimanded in a low voice, Erha shrank obediently in the corner, and Ding Bai took advantage of the situation to go downstairs.

The sunlight outside the house was dazzling, as unreal as a dream, he stretched out his hands and rubbed his face, feeling more and more tired from not sleeping all night.

One day in a daze, he finally got off work, and when he passed by the canteen, he couldn't help but walked in again.The cashier boy is still the same as yesterday, and greeted him friendly, and there is nothing wrong with him.

The two old men playing chess at the door turned into a young man and another old man today, fighting fiercely. Ding Bai took a glance and walked into the unit building.

The cashier boy in my memory was the previous one. It was strange but Ding Bai thought about it carefully for a long time. It seems that this cashier boy has always looked like this from the very beginning.

Someone came down from the corridor, Ding Bai looked up and stopped.It was the man in the dream.

The other party walked by Ding Bai's side without a pause, it felt like an unfamiliar neighbor.Ding Bai froze in place, thought for a while and went upstairs.

He couldn't sleep, and as soon as he closed his eyes, the dream from last night was intertwined in front of his eyes. After swallowing two melatonin tablets, he finally had some pajamas. When he closed his eyes, he seemed to hear an unclear voice.

It seems to be saying - making money.

Very fragrant, a very fragrant and very fragrant taste rushed to the tip of the nose.

There seemed to be a person lying next to him, his warm skin was very close to him.Something seemed to be shaking in front of his eyes, and Ding Bai felt that he couldn't open his eyes.

Limbs seem to be tied together, it is difficult to move.But the eyelids were trying to open, he tried to open his eyes, and finally succeeded after several attempts.

It was a face, a pale face, just staring at him expressionlessly, the hair was less than one centimeter away from the tip of his nose.

Fear engulfed Ding Bai's nerves, he began to tremble involuntarily, knowing that there was an extra hand covering his eyes, and then a warm body temperature wrapped himself tightly.

"!" Wake up!

Waking up without warning, the sequelae of the dream caused him to subconsciously look around, but he didn't see the terrifying face.Ding Bai stretched out his hand to touch the place beside him, and then quickly withdrew his hand.

The bed is warm!

Sitting on the sofa, Ding Bai wrapped himself tightly with the quilt.He felt that he was probably sick, and the nightmare was haunting him like a ghost behind him, and he might go crazy if he kept going like this.

After asking for leave, Ding Bai felt that it was necessary for him to see a doctor.

"You know it's a dream, right?" The person on the opposite side recorded something in a notebook with a ballpoint pen.

"I know." Ding Bai intertwined his hands in front of his chest and rubbed them irregularly, "But the things in the dream are too real, and only those who have experienced that kind of fear can understand it."

"Have you watched any horror movies or horror novels recently?" The doctor paused with the pen in his hand and said, "Sometimes things from the outside world will leave certain traces in our subconscious after we think about them. It is very likely that the picture you have seen has evolved from what you have seen before."

"No, I don't remember seeing any scary things." Ding Bai rubbed his head, even if he had seen some scary things before, it would not be so specific.

Even those water temperatures, even those smells.

"I feel very tired, as tired as after walking [-] miles, like after running a marathon." Ding Bai said, "But I can't sleep well, and I will feel even more tired the next day."

"Then I'll prescribe you some medicine to help you sleep first, maybe the situation will be much better if you sleep well." The other party said.

Ding Bai nodded, and took a sip of water while holding the water glass.

Before leaving, he hesitated and said, "Thank you doctor, I haven't asked your name yet."

"You're welcome, my name is Gu Yuan." The other party said.

After walking out of the hospital, Ding Bai couldn't open his eyes under the scorching sun.