this damn love

As the sky gradually darkened, pumpkin lanterns were gradually lit up, stretching along both sides of the street all the way to the mountains, illuminating the entire town into a dreamy paradise.

The two came to a house with a row of jack-o-lanterns on the garden floor.According to the custom here, where the lights are on, children can knock on the door and ask for candies.

Hao Meng waved his sleeves, and a gust of wind blew out all the jack-o-lanterns in an instant, so that no ignorant children would come in and disturb them when they were going to do business later.

"Wait for me." Handing Thanatos the lamp in his hand, Hao Meng told him to wait outside and went in by himself.

Of course, according to the ability of the god of death, he can kill the opponent simply.However, Hao Meng felt that with her limited conscience, at least people should know why the other party died before she died, so she left the way of life to her.

She rang the doorbell, and there was a rough and hoarse voice from inside, "Come here!" Then the door was opened, and an old man with gray hair in his sixties appeared in the door. He saw a flash of light in Hao Meng's eyes. Surprised, after all, she looked much bigger than the average child who came to beg for candy.

Hao Meng stretched out her hand with a smile, "trick or treat?"

The old man looked at her attire, regarded her as a tourist, and said with a cheerful smile, "Wait a minute, the candies are finished, I'll go in and get them for you."

"Okay. Thank you." Hao Meng stepped forward into the room and locked the door behind her back.Following the old man into the living room, he surveyed the environment, "Do you live here alone?"

"Yes." With his back to her, the old man was taking out the pre-prepared candies from the locker, and grabbed a handful of them for her.

"Where's your pocket?"

Hao Meng took one and shook it, "This is enough."

The old man is hospitable, "Get more. The carnival is only once a year, since it's here, let's have fun."

Hao Meng smiled, "It's okay, I can come next year if I have the chance. But you, you probably won't be able to celebrate next year's Halloween."

The old man looked at her smiling face inexplicably, and felt a chill inexplicably, "What do you mean?"

Hao Meng said, "Do you still remember the bus you drove to the reservoir 30 years ago?"

As soon as the words fell, the old man's face changed drastically, the slack muscles on his cheeks trembled, he staggered back two steps and clenched his crutches tightly, "You, who are you! Are you a survivor? No," the wrinkles on his face were full of fear , "Impossible! I watched the car sink, there can be no survivors!"

"It seems that you still remember, old driver." Hao Meng folded his arms and admired his horrified appearance, "You are right, indeed, there can be no survivors. But the dead live forever. So I came to avenge them. "

The old man waved his crutches and yelled fiercely, "Go away! People are dead, what revenge are you talking about! I want to call the police!"

He rushed over and grabbed the phone, pressing the number with trembling fingers, "911, I want to call the police! Someone broke into my house and tried to kill me—"

"That's right." A familiar, creepy laughter came from the receiver, the old man held the phone in horror, and looked at the woman wrapped in a black cloak in disbelief.

Hao Meng put her finger to her ear as if making a phone call, and said with a smile, "Don't waste your energy, the call won't go out."

Thanatos, who was guarding outside, had already cut off the cable with a "little accident".

The old man sensed the death threat from the girl, dropped the phone angrily, and retorted, "What's wrong with me! They shouldn't have been born in this world in the first place, and if they want revenge, they have to go to their parents! They asked me to do it!"

"Don't worry," Hao Meng slowly took out the dagger with a cold light from under the cloak, "the culprit will not be let go."

"I promised him." What I promise is what I promise.That's how she plays by the rules.

"Well"

Before the old man had time to call for someone, the girl was already close at hand in the blink of an eye. He was shocked and felt severe pain. He lowered his head tremblingly, and saw the dagger that the other party was holding just now stuck in his chest. It was so deep that it almost had no handle. The blood dripped down the handle of the knife and wet the floor.

Hao Meng gently put the dead old man on the ground - she is relatively gentle with the old man, killing him with one blow will not cause too much pain.

Pulling out the knife, Li Di wiped off the blood on the opponent's clothes, and put it under the cloak.Hao Meng stared at the corpse on the ground, "Thank you for the candy."

Walking out of the house, he even closed the door for the other party.Hao Meng walked out of the yard with candy in her arms in a happy mood, and at a glance, she saw a seductive bitch forcibly accosting Thanatos.

"Little handsome guy, let's go play a fun game with big sister?" The woman with heavy make-up was dressed hot and had a sexy figure, trying to put her hand on the cold-faced boy's shoulder.

Hao Meng saw it and laughed angrily.

Stepping forward in two steps in three steps, he opened the opponent's red nail polish hand with a "slap", and said bluntly, "Old woman, get out of here."

"Hiss" touching the back of her hand that was slapped red, the woman glanced at her and said impatiently, "little girl," sniffed the smell, "it smells so bad," said with a look of disgust, "don't interfere with your lord's work. Otherwise --"

She bent down to the girl's ear, breathing like blue, "Although it stinks, I can bear to suck your blood dry."

"Really?" Not only was he not frightened by her, but he laughed happily.The girl looked up at her, her eyes flickering, and her smiling voice was full of threats, "I can't bear it, so if you dare to get closer, I'll turn you into ashes."

"Haha" the woman opened her mouth mockingly, smeared with blood or lipstick, she opened her mouth wide, and her sharp fangs flashed--

In the next second, his whole body was stiff and he did not dare to move.Looking down in horror, he saw a silver cross pressing fiercely against his heart.

The girl smiled Chunliang, "It was specially blessed, sprinkled with holy water and read a prayer, but I haven't seen blood yet. Do you want to be the first vampire to be killed? You are very welcome."

The woman tensed her body and slowly backed away. She breathed a sigh of relief after getting out of the range of the cross. Her eyes were bloodshot and she was uncertain, "You, who are you!"

Hao Meng looked up at the gloomy sky, no stars and no moon, "It is said that on the night of Halloween, all kinds of monsters and ghosts will come to the world to have fun." Turning to the boy who had been silent all this time, she said with a smile, "Looks like The legend is not only a legend, but I was lucky enough to meet it today."

Under the cover of a masquerade party, it seems that countless demons and ghosts have come to this small town.They travel aboveboard, without concealing their original identities.

--Because no one will believe that they are not human.

The vampire saw that the other party was too lazy to talk to her, and left unwillingly.She could sense the great power contained in that boy, so she regarded him as a prey.However, neither of them seems to be simple.

Seeing the vampire go away, Hao Meng faced Thanatos with a smile, "That's great, I work hard inside, and you're chic outside picking up girls?"

Thanatos, "...no."

The smile on the corner of Hao Meng's mouth widened, "Is that so, I see you had a great time chatting with him."

Thanatos: "..." Did he respond with even one word?

Hao Meng continued to approach, "Just now, someone's delicate hands were touching your shoulders. Don't you hate other people's touch the most? Even if it's me, I usually don't touch or look at you easily." Smiling but not smiling, " If you like to talk straight, I can help you pull the red line."

Pull the red line?Killing to vent anger is more or less the same.Thanatos said with a wooden face, "I won't let her touch it."

In fact, if Hao Meng hadn't made a sound at that time, the winking vampire would have turned into flying smoke in the next second.

Hao Meng looked at Thanatos' face and was satisfied.She wasn't stupid and didn't see the situation just now, and she deliberately made use of the problem to tease the other party.

She took out the candy she asked for just now and shook it, "Do you want to eat?"

Thanatos instinctively wanted to say no, but when he saw the girl's radiant eyes, he remembered the thing about taking a shower and drying his hair before, and paused.

Hao Meng tore off the packaging, threw the candy into her mouth, then climbed onto the other's shoulder, and offered the candy with her lips.

While the lips and tongue are stirring, the mouth is full of sweetness.

A long kiss that didn't end until the candy was completely gone.Hao Meng took a breath and looked at him with bright eyes, "Is it sweet?"

Thanatos didn't speak, and he calculated in his mind that he had to kill eleven pairs of parents, which meant that Hao Meng had to ask for 11 candies?

--It looks pretty good.

The abuser abused the dog by the way, and the two held hands and continued to walk towards the next goal.

Not long after, we came to a house.As usual, one is inside and the other is outside.After blowing out the jack-o-lantern hanging in front of that family's door, Hao Meng knocked on the door, "Trick or treat?"

The hostess and hostess are about 60 years old, with white hair, kind eyebrows and kind eyes. At first glance, they look very husband and wife, and they look very similar.

"What a lovely oriental girl, wait a minute, I'll give you some more candy." The hostess looked at her with a smile, and the host went back to the living room to grab candies.

Hao Meng smiled and said, "Thank you, dear lady. By the way, do you still remember your son Tony who fell into the abandoned reservoir with the bus 30 years ago?"

The smile on the hostess' face froze.

Hao Meng locked the door, walked into the living room as if no one else was there, and saw the photos on the cabinet at a glance.

Each one is a group photo of the hostess and hostess, from childhood to the present.

Each photo seems to record their long years from being born together to being together until now.

"Joe!" The hostess staggered into the arms of the host in horror. The host was at a loss and comforted her, "What's wrong?"

The hostess was in tears, "It's Tony, Tony looking for us."

The host gasped. Compared to the old driver's panic, he gradually calmed down from the shock at the beginning, and looked at Hao Meng, "Tonys, my son, what is he looking for you for?"

Hao Meng looked at him approvingly, "He is a sensible person." She casually played with the dagger in her hand, "Tony just asked me to ask you if you miss him."

This small town with beautiful mountains and clear waters has a shocking secret.

In the small town 30 years ago, the transportation was inconvenient, and it was located deep in the mountains, where families lived together.The custom of intermarriage between close relatives has continued for hundreds of years, and some of the children born as a result are mentally abnormal, or have weird personalities, or even ugly and deformed appearances.

These abnormal children are taken to the secret room of the school by a bus every day, and a special person is in charge of teaching them, and they are sent back to each home after class every day.

This is an unspoken secret in the town.

And one day, this peace was broken by the news that the road was going to be built outside.

The patriarch who has been to the bustling city tried his best to exaggerate the beauty and wealth of the big city to the residents of the small town. People began to look forward to the road repair outside to the town, the fruits on the mountain can be sold, and everyone can eat and wear warm. .

But at this time, they had to face a problem.

It was the dozen or so abnormal children, if discovered by outsiders, the secret of their inbreeding marriage might be exposed.

So on a dark and stormy night, more than a dozen families gathered together to make a decision.

They paid a lot of money to hire drivers who drive school buses to pick up and drop off children every day, killing these children.

In this way, the town's secrets can be kept.

It's a pity that those innocent souls who were killed by their biological parents when they were ignorant, wandered around the world crying every night and couldn't find their way home, until now.

The two old people supported each other. Hearing Hao Meng's words, the male host gave a bleak smile, "In the past 30 years, there has not been a day when we have not lived in guilt. Tony is our child, and there was nothing we could do when we voted... If someone outside If someone finds out, my wife and I are also my sister," he looked affectionately at an old woman who held his hand slightly tremblingly.

The old man continued, "We will be separated. This kind of behavior is not allowed outside. Tony has mental problems, and he can't survive without our care."

Hao Meng sarcastically said, "So you made your choice selfishly. It's ridiculous. You know what kind of children will be born when close relatives get married, but you still bring him into this world without their consent, so that when others die, they will also have children." Like this. Who gave you the right to make decisions without authorization?"

"I'm sorry," the couple cried and confessed sadly, "it's our fault, our conscience is condemned every day, thinking about him like crazy, I'm sorry Tony..."

The two wiped each other's tears and faced Hao Meng calmly, "Come on. We've actually been waiting for this day."

There was relief on their faces.

Hao Meng looked at them, not knowing what to think, and was slightly distracted.Until her palm felt hot, she glanced out of the corner of her eye, and there was a message from Thanatos on it: mission change.

The blood-red handwriting gradually dissipated after she read it, and Hao Meng settled down, "I saw that the living room is full of your photos, so are the photos of your son, Tonys still there?"

The old woman nodded, "Yes, they can't be placed outside, we put them away carefully."

Hao Meng proposed to take a look, but the two didn't know why, so they went upstairs to get a box.

Hao Meng saw that the box was very clean, and it could be seen that it was wiped frequently. The other party opened it and handed her a thick photo album, "We keep all the photos of Tony since he was born."

Hao Meng looked through the yellowed photo, and the boy named Tonys was smiling very cutely.However, as he got older, his appearance gradually became demented.

In addition to the individual photos of the children, there are also group photos of a family of three in the photos.

Every photo is spotless, not even a trace of dust in the corner of the album.It can be seen that the two cherish the photo album recording their son very much.

Indeed, as they said, they have missed the child who was killed by them for 30 years.

Putting the photo album back into the box and closing the lid, Hao Meng looked at the two people who were at a loss, "Although in my opinion, this kind of thing cannot be offset by an apology. However, forget about the parties involved, and I can't say What."

She picked up the box full of photo albums and walked towards the door.

The old woman wanted to catch up, "Album! Give me back the album!"

Hao Meng didn't turn her head back, "Everyone is dead, why bother to miss the photos hypocritically. Let me tell you one thing by the way," she turned her back to the two, her voice indifferent, "Regardless of whether Tony's grievances change or not, it The price we pay for coming here is its soul."

"Soul? No—it can't be!"

The mournful cries of the two people sounded behind them, and the old woman fainted from grief.Hao Meng strode out of the room, slammed the door shut to block the crying inside, and exhaled.

I'm so annoying, crying to death now, why did I go there in the first place.

Standing in the shadow of the extinguished jack-o-lanterns, she saw the young man waiting quietly with his hands in his pockets outside the fence.

The ferocious look on her face gradually faded away. Yes, she is not alone now, and she will not return to the loneliness of being alone in the future.

"Thanatos!" She ran all the way, threw herself into the boy's arms and hugged him, refusing to let go.

Thanatos looked down and saw the top of her hairy head, she buried her face in his arms and refused to lift it up.

The pale and slender palm was gently placed on the girl's head, silently comforting.

After a while, Hao Meng raised her head and smiled, "It's okay, let's continue."

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Walking through each family, not every pair of parents is like the two just now, who have been brooding over the past 30 years and have been condemned by their own conscience.

Most of the people, after she explained her purpose, either called for help and tried to escape, or resented and abused "little bastard, you won't give me peace when I die!", and very few people really repented.And not every wronged soul still remembers his love for his parents and is willing to let them go.

While Hao Meng and the others were busy working, the carnival night in the town was also full of killing and blood.

The simple and simple Cinderella is tricked into the woods by a man dressed as a vampire. The man is about to enjoy it, but sees Cinderella transformed into a wolf girl and bites off half of his body with her mouth open.

"Our little sister has finally grown up!" The rest of the Cinderellas happily praised their little sister.

"Tsk, it's unpalatable." The woman with heavy make-up wiped the blood from her mouth, threw away the man's body that had been sucked dry, exposed her blood-stained fangs, and greedily searched for the next prey.

In this grotesque town, who can tell what is a human and what is a ghost?

Halloween is originally a festival for demons and ghosts.

Most of the night passed, Hao Meng and Thanatos walked on the road, and the children who had been crazy all night were excitedly comparing the candies they asked for, and then enviously saw the bulging cloth bags in their hands , with greedy eyes, "There must be a lot of sugar in it."

"If we ask for it, will she give it to us?" the children whispered.

Hao Meng smiled knowingly, pretending not to hear.There is no sugar in this cloth bag.And maybe it was the cold face of Thanatos next to her that made people feel unfriendly, and the children finally gave up asking her for candy.

Not long after, the two came to the abandoned mine, and through a simple rusty elevator, they came to the lake where 11 children and the bus fell into together.

She squatted by the lake, took out the dead heads one by one from her pocket, and put them in the water.

On the dark water surface, bubbles suddenly rolled like boiling. Pairs of bony arms broke through the water surface, raised them high, hugged the heads of their parents tightly, and sank slowly into the bottomless depth together. in the water.

Hao Meng murmured, "Child, you always long to be with your parents." Even their resentment is so simple and sincere, and they don't hesitate to pay the price of soul annihilation for it.

With a sigh, she took out the box, took out the photo albums inside and lit them one by one.The tongue of fire relentlessly licked the faces of the laughing family of three in the photo, turning them into ashes.

A gloomy and hollow voice sounded in the dead night, as if speaking in water, with the echo of broken bubbles, "Thank you, big sister."

Hao Meng looked at the treacherous and dark lake, "Tonys, if you repent now, I can still send your parents to reunite with you."

Tony didn't speak any more, and silently refused.

"The transaction is completed." In Thanatos's unfolded hands, 11 pure white souls disappeared in a flash.

Hao Meng squatted quietly by the lake, seeming to think a lot, but also seemed to be in a daze without thinking about anything.

Before dawn, they left the small town hand in hand.

Werewolves, vampires, zombies, demons who had carnivaled all night unscrupulously...all kinds of real or fake demons and ghosts also left before dawn.

The town has returned to its former peace and tranquility, waiting for the Halloween of the coming year--

trick or treat?

Be there or be square.