Ghost World Office

Li Li pointed to the full-length mirror beside him, signaling Tao Ye to also look at the effect of the suit on his body.Turning his head and looking at himself in the mirror, Tao Ye unconsciously wanted to take off his suit immediately.

The young man in the mirror was tall and thin. Even so, Tao Ye's figure was not too thin. His broad shoulders were stretched to support the shoulders of the black suit, giving him a dignified and cool look.

On the chest of the suit, a silver rhododendron blooms.The stamens embroidered with silver silk threads are curled up, and a few drops of dew are hanging on the stamens. They almost break free from the shackles of the silk threads, and fall onto the black suit fabric.

Tao Ye took a deep breath and quickly looked away. He was very uncomfortable with his appearance in the mirror.

"It seems a bit too big, wait a minute, I'll make some changes." Li Li said to himself, pinching the fabric at the waist of the suit with his fingers.

Tao Ye took off his suit, handed it to Li Li, and complimented awkwardly:

"It's pretty nice."

Putting the suit on his arms, Li Li turned around and walked towards the workbench. He glanced back at Tao Ye with a bright smile and said, "It's fine if you like it. You can wait for me on the sofa for 10 minutes."

Tao Ye pursed his lips and nodded, walked to the edge of the sofa and sat down, watching Li Li busy at the workbench through the warm afternoon sun.

For some reason, from the first moment he saw Li Li, Tao Ye felt that Li Li had a strong sense of familiarity.This feeling is not deja vu, but comes from the familiarity of instinct deep in consciousness.

The soft sunlight in spring was divided by the blades of the shutters and fell neatly on Tao Ye's lap.He looked down at the interlaced light and dark lines on his knees, and felt that his eyelids were inexplicably heavy.

Almost instantly, Tao Ye leaned on the back of the sofa and fell asleep.

Like ink droplets falling in clear water, the dream quickly faded away, dyeing Tao Ye's spiritual realm black.Tao Ye, who was in a dream, found himself hanging in a darkness without light.

He still felt familiar with this feeling, but he couldn't tell where it was familiar.

It was too dark to see anything, and the sound of flowing water was endless.Tao Ye turned his head, and when his body was moving, there was a gentle stream of water passing over his skin.

Is this... in the deep sea?he thought subconsciously.

However, the feeling of suffocation that Tao Ye thought would appear soon did not come. In this body of water, he even felt that his entire chest cavity was filled with oxygen, whether it was breathing or thinking, it was as smooth as water.

"We meet again." A voice sounded from behind Tao Ye.He looked back vigilantly, and there was a blurry figure standing there through the dark liquid.

"Who are you?" Tao Ye asked, his voice was buzzing in his head under the liquid wrap.

The figure slowly approached Tao Ye, and at the same time, a beam of clear light shot down from the top of Tao Ye's head, illuminating the originally dark space.

The moment he saw the man's face, Tao Ye's body tensed up.This face has no features, only a vague outline.Even so, Tao Ye didn't feel the slightest fear.

Tao Ye immediately thought of the painting he saw in Lu Yi's residence in the ghost world, and also immediately thought of the man in red he had seen in his dream last time.

"I am you." The fuzzy face was close to Tao Ye's. Under the light, the owner of the face was wearing a red dress, accompanied by transparent and fine air bubbles, the man's belt floating in the water.

Tao Ye's throat was numb for a while, he couldn't divert his attention from that face to other places, it seemed that some force forced him to keep staring at that face.

"You're not me, I'm Tao Ye." After a lot of effort, Tao Ye managed to squeeze out a few words from between his teeth.

The man chuckled, raised his arms, slowly wrapped his arms around Tao Ye's body, and whispered in Tao Ye's ear:

"Aren't you curious why I am you?"

There was a strange smell on the man in red, even through water, Tao Ye could smell it clearly, the smell was mixed with the smell of flower petals and soil.He pushed the man in red away with difficulty, stepped back a few inches, stared at the man's face with a frown, and said:

"I'm not curious, there is only one me in the world."

There was another chuckle, and the man in red whispered:

"You can call me Pneuma."

Tao Ye stopped talking. He quickly searched for this name in his mind, but found that he had never heard of this name before.

The air bubbles in the water twisted and passed through the gap between the two, bursting and forming again silently.Tao Ye tightly shut his mouth and kept telling himself:

This is not true, there is only one Tao Ye in the world.

As if reading Tao Ye's inner thoughts, Punyuma raised her hand and gently stroked Tao Ye's side face, muttering:

"Don't you want to know the why of everything? But I hear it, your heart longs to know your past, your present, and your future. The answers to these secrets are right in front of you, like these bubbles, you just It takes a hand up, a little touch, and they're gone."

"So, is the answer you're looking for, bubbles or the truth?"

These extremely low-pitched words were like spells, passed through the dense water flow, and were transported into Tao Ye's brain like an electric current.

Naturally resisting Punyuma's voice, Tao Ye frowned, forced himself not to look at his face, and interrupted bluntly:

"As I said, I am who I am. My past and future have nothing to do with you."

"Really?" Pneuma raised her head, looked at the distant light source above her head, and waved there.

A group of figures slowly descended from directly above their heads. In the bright beam of light, Tao Ye saw that it was a little girl.

The little girl's long hair was twisted in the water, winding and fluttering like seaweed. It was long white hair.

"Xiao Yi..." Almost subconsciously, Tao Ye called out Tao Yi's name.

Tao Yi fell slowly like this, and finally landed in Tao Ye's arms.Looking down at his younger sister in his arms, Tao Ye's heart seemed to be tightly clenched by a big hand, and every beat was extremely difficult.

"Even her truth doesn't matter to you?" Pneuma asked, tilting her head.

Although Pneuma has no facial features, Tao Ye can still feel that Pneuma is examining himself.The hands holding Tao Yi's body tightened, Tao Ye pressed Tao Yi's small face to his chest, and asked in a cold voice:

"What the hell do you want to do?"

"I said, I am you, and you are me. You must want what I want, but what you want may not be what you really want."

"Many things are false to you. Your only reality is me, my past, my present, and my future. This is your reality."

"Look, Tao Yi is getting farther and farther away from you because of the falsehoods you chased."

"Stop talking!" Locking Tao Yi tightly in his arms, Tao Ye raised his head and scolded angrily, "I don't care if you are Vulcan or anything else, I, Tao Ye, am Tao Ye, walk upright and sit upright, You don't have to mess with me."

Before he finished speaking, Tao Ye felt the small body in his arms move, he quickly loosened the strength of his arms, and lowered his head to check Tao Yi's condition.

Tao Yi raised her head slowly, her chin pressed against Tao Ye's chest, her pure white eyelashes trembled slightly, and fine air bubbles were attached to each of her eyelashes like parasites.

"Brother, I miss you so much."

The soft and waxy sound, like the whispering of a newborn baby animal, is now like an extremely sharp sword, piercing directly into Tao Ye's chest.

After a sharp pain in his heart, Tao Ye suddenly opened his eyes, sucking in the air like a fish pushed ashore by the tide.

The warm spring light instantly passed through Tao Ye's pupils, transforming into countless messy nerve signals, rushing towards his brain.The fibrous dust floating in the air kept dancing in front of Tao Ye's eyes, and gradually turned into misty fine light spots.

Li Li was still lying on the workbench, concentrating on modifying his suit.Hearing the movement from Tao Ye's side, Li Li looked sideways at Tao Ye and asked:

"Have you had a nightmare?"

Realizing his gaffe, Tao Ye raised his hand and rubbed his forehead with the knuckles of his index finger, rubbed the flesh inside his lips with his front teeth, and replied:

"Well, sorry, I don't know why I fell asleep."

Picking up the newly modified suit, Li Li walked up to Tao Ye and handed the suit to Tao Ye:

"I'm sleepy in spring and tired in autumn. I also tend to get sleepy in the afternoon."

After receiving the altered suit, Tao Ye raised his head and smiled at Li Li, got up and put the suit on his body.

"That's great! Let's go and take a look in the mirror." Li Li looked at Tao Ye approvingly.

Walking to the full-length mirror, Tao Ye and himself in the mirror looked at each other for a second, and the modified clothes fit much better.

"It's beautiful." Tao Ye praised sincerely.

"Haha, as long as you like it." Standing behind Tao Ye, Li Li said to Tao Ye in the mirror.

Tao Ye looked up at the clock on the wall and found that it was getting late, so he took off his suit and said to Li Li:

"It's getting late, I have something to do when I go back to Liaoyuan."

Li Li nodded in understanding, took the suit from Tao Ye, wrapped it in a dust bag, put it in a delicate handbag, and handed the suit bag to Tao Ye:

"I'm really sorry, because I have delayed you for so long."

After taking the handbag, Tao Ye nodded slightly to Li Li: "No, no. Then I will leave first, and I will trouble you for future cooperation."

Walking to the door, Tao Ye was about to open the door when he heard Li Li behind him asking him:

"Which do you think is more real, dream or reality?"

Tao Ye's movements paused, he tightened his fingers holding the handbag, and looked back at Li Li who was standing in the bright sunlight:

"Reality is more real."

Li Li smiled and said to Tao Ye, "Sorry, I always ask some strange questions. Be careful on the way back."

Coming out of Li Li's studio, Tao Ye felt as if he had passed away.The dream he had just now was too real, until now, his chest is still throbbing with pain.

He didn't fully understand what the man named Pneuma said to him, but he understood the core point to some extent.Punyuma should be the former Vulcan, and he is hinting that Tao Ye will pursue the past, and many truths may be hidden in the past of Vulcan.

But Tao Ye didn't want to pursue the past that didn't belong to him. In the empty corridor, he looked down at his palm.

The power of fire was flowing through Tao Ye's body, a tiny flame rose slowly in his palm, and the flames danced in the air like the petals of winter jasmine.

Punyuma, the power of fire, Vulcan, the past, the real.

These terms kept spinning in Tao Ye's mind.