This is not a weird story

"Could it be that the scavenging woman left the abandoned building and took to the streets?" Wei An muttered in his mind.

After a while, he parked the car on the side of the road and looked at the opposite intersection. He saw that it seemed to be a bustling area with people coming and going.

There is a comprehensive commercial plaza here. The place with the most people at the moment is next to a fountain. There are several rows of seats in front of the fountain, and many pedestrians are sitting on them to rest.

Wei An quickly noticed that there was a woman with disheveled hair on the far right side of these seats, immediately below the flower bed.

The woman was half-squatting and half-sitting, with her back pressed against the flower bed. She seemed to be mumbling, whether she was talking or eating.

The scavenger woman's clothes were in tatters, and there were so many people in the square that no one noticed her presence.

Wei An felt a little hesitant after seeing this. He didn't know whether it would be better to go over and communicate with her now, or wait for a while and wait until there were fewer people around before getting closer.

After thinking about it, there are too many people here, so we can't delay, otherwise there is no guarantee that the lying corpse, ashes and the old dog will not follow and hurt innocent people.

Now Wei An has a feeling that the longer he stays in this city and this strange story, the more he feels like he is in a completely real world, and there is no difference between them.

Even if the strange story disappears or returns to its original state the moment he leaves, he doesn't want to see other innocent people get hurt.

You must know that when he first went to Moonlight Hospital, Wei An's attitude was still indifferent, and he did not treat the people in this city as real living people. Even when parking, he parked on the roadside without parking lines.

But now he has unknowingly changed his attitude and no longer regards these people as fake. When parking, he also parks within the parking line, otherwise he is worried about being fined for exceeding the limit.

Obediently following other pedestrians across the zebra crossing, Wei An quickly arrived at the square, but he did not immediately approach the flower bed. Instead, he stood at the end of the fountain, his eyes glancing over the scavenging woman from time to time.

At this moment, this woman's behavior was too normal. Not only did Wei An not feel anything weird or even dangerous about her, even the moment he saw this woman, he felt like he wanted to ignore her immediately. .

After all, the other person is dirty, unkempt, and slovenly. Normal people would subconsciously keep a certain distance from her.

Because the distance was closer, Wei An could see clearly this time that the woman was not talking to herself, but was actually eating.

At her feet was a bowl of unfinished fried rice that had been discarded by someone unknown. There was also a disposable spoon in the bowl. From time to time, the woman would scoop up a spoonful of rice, put it into her mouth and chew it slowly, as if she was enjoying the moment. of pleasant time.

Wei An was stunned for a moment.

First of all, this woman is the most awesome weirdo in this ghost story. It is subversive enough to appear in the image of a scavenger. Secondly, she not only looks like a scavenger, but her words and deeds are no different from a real scavenger. She is actually a real scavenger. Eat other people's leftover meals!

"What kind of drama is this? You have lived too many good lives, and you want to experience the life of a miserable person?" Wei An secretly speculated.

At this moment, a man walking next to him took out a lighter, stuffed a cigarette into his mouth, and was about to light it.

Wei An was startled, fearing that this guy would be possessed by ashes, and immediately reminded him: "Brother, this is a public place, no smoking allowed."

The man's face suddenly darkened, and he still had the cigarette in his mouth with a bad expression.

But soon he saw that the sign next to him actually said "No Smoking". The guy was cursing and didn't know what he was talking about. He took the cigarette out of his mouth and put the lighter away. Leave.

"Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda." Wei An suppressed the anger in his heart.

When he heard the guy cursing, he wanted to give him a hammer, but then he thought, if they were not fake people, but real people, then he would have saved someone's life now.

When he looked at the scavenging woman sitting by the flower bed again, Wei An was startled when he saw that the woman was raising her head and staring at him through her disheveled hair.

After Wei An looked at her, the woman withdrew her gaze and took another spoonful of leftover rice into her mouth.

Wei An knew that the other party had recognized him, so he immediately stopped hiding and walked directly towards the scavenger woman, then squatted down next to her, also leaning against the flower bed behind her.

The person sitting not far away glanced at Wei An and didn't understand why he chose to be so close to a beggar, but he just took a look and ignored him.

"Who are you?" the woman said vaguely while chewing fried rice.

At this moment, Wei An did not feel the strong sense of danger from this woman as when they first met, but as if she was just a scavenger, an ordinary human being.

"You should know who I am," he replied.

"Why do you still stay here after completing Solitaire?" the woman asked again.

"I also want to know why I can't get out." Wei An didn't hide it. "Every time I enter this kind of ghost story, it's not as a participant, but as an 'intruder'. Am I not worthy of entering the ghost story?"

"Your question... is very novel." The corners of the woman's mouth pursed slightly. Not only did she no longer feel scary at this moment, but she also felt very approachable.

"I thought you would give me the answer." Wei An said with some regret.

"When I feel threatened, I will decide that a participant is not just participating, but has the potential to sabotage me." The woman suddenly said.

Wei An was stunned for a moment, carefully savored her words, and quickly asked: "Then your relationship with Guitan is..."

"I don't know, but I might be the weird one." The woman said as she put the last bit of rice in the bowl into her mouth.

Then she threw it away, and the paper bowl and disposable spoon fell into a trash can two meters away.

Wei An was puzzled: "You mean, you are the Solitaire Monster Story itself? Or are you the city?"

"Is there any difference?" the woman asked.

"Is there no difference?" But through the woman's question, Wei An realized that it might not be as simple as he thought.

After thinking for a moment, Wei An said: "So when a ghost story determines that I am not just participating, but may destroy this ghost story, it will determine that I am an 'intruder'?"

The woman didn't answer, stood up, patted her butt, and walked out of the square.

Wei An immediately stood up and followed her side by side.

"You just said you were a ghost talker, so you set the rules here?" he asked.

The woman shook her head: "I'm not that capable."

After saying this, she suddenly stopped and turned to look at Wei An, "For me, this is my home. My memories are here and my whole life is here. But since I can remember, The city is already here.”

"The people in the city are all yours, so you can choose a better life." Wei An said.

"I have the power and the ability, but I can't choose this way." The woman shook her head and looked up at the sky above her head. "Today's sunshine is a bit dazzling."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cloud layer approached, blocking the sun above his head, and a feeling of coolness immediately came down.

Wei An finally realized the power of this woman's ability. He felt that she could control everything in the world in a blink of an eye, but there seemed to be many things that she couldn't control at all.

He couldn't help but ask: "In other words, if you are no longer here, this city will still exist? Your presence here is just as a person in charge, which is equivalent to a career?"

The scavenger woman suddenly smiled, picked up an unfinished drink bottle that was thrown on the ground, unscrewed the cap, drank the remaining drink in one gulp, and then threw the bottle into the trash can.

At this time, a young man in a suit happened to pass by her. The woman approached and asked him: "Do you think... you are real?"

The young man stared at her with strange eyes, did not answer, but said "crazy" and left quickly.

The woman looked back at Wei An, who was confused. Wei An felt that she wanted to tell him a certain fact. For example, no one would doubt whether they were real. On the contrary, they would doubt the authenticity of others.

Wei An thinks he needs to analyze this issue carefully.

After a pause, he said: "Thank you last time. If you weren't here, I might have been cold."

As soon as he finished speaking, the scavenger woman's expression suddenly became cautious, her brows furrowed slightly, she came close to Wei An, stared into his eyes, and asked word by word: "Have you... met her yet?"