In the end, I chose to take a taxi home. It is often said that there is no night in the city, and the noise of people and the dazzling street lights will make people forget the night and return the memory of the countryside to the distant land. However, this is not the case, and after midnight, the boiling city suddenly weakens, sleepy and dim, leaving only a soft light of the stars. I used to miss the darkest moments in my dreams, like most people, but when I came into the world, the night became the center of my life, and I was forced to face the laziness and burnout of the whole city, and I was forced to share with it the loneliness of the crowds that had dispersed.

It was a very embarrassing feeling because you had to feel yourself fully that the world was empty. I asked the taxi driver to drop me off in front of a convenience store near my home, and a 24-hour convenience store like this became an important part of my life. There were few people in the store, and the clerk on duty dozed off against the cash register, his elbows supporting his head swaying up and down, and then suddenly woke up.

I grabbed a box of yogurt from the freezer, a rice ball that needed to be microwaved, and a pineapple bread for breakfast. I asked the salesperson to help me heat up the rice balls, and when I noticed the steaming oden next to the cash register, I added another box without temptation. Originally, people were poor, but they were still hungry, and it seemed that they had to work hard, otherwise they would starve themselves to death again.

I was waiting and staring at the oden in my hand in a daze, and suddenly I heard someone talking behind me, the voice was a little familiar, and I couldn't remember it for a while.

"What a coincidence, you're here to buy something, too. ”

I turned around and found that the man I met in the elevator in the evening, my new neighbor, was standing behind me waiting in line. When I was in the elevator before, the time was in a hurry and the background was cluttered, so I didn't pay much attention to what he looked like. Now there's plenty of time, there's plenty of light, and we're all good enough to get a good view of each other.

It turned out that he was such a handsome person. He looked a few years older than me, with short hair, fair skin, straight roots, and a mandible. His eyes are very bright, clear and dotted with stars, and there is a bit of an aggressive taste when he focuses on one place. Perhaps because of his height, he looked quite thin, but at midnight in early autumn, he wore only a gray-green shirt and rolled up his sleeves to the joints, revealing his muscular forearms.

He looks like a regular exerciser, but he's quite enthusiastic. I nodded at him as a greeting, then took the plastic bag from the clerk and walked briskly out of the convenience store. Hurry up and you won't run into him. I'm a social phobia, I hate to chat with strangers, I hate racking my brains to find topics, and I even hate answering the phone - I can do all of this well, but I still hate it from the bottom of my heart. I used to have a few close friends, but when I came to this world, people and ghosts took different paths, but I was in chaos, I didn't know who I should be with, maybe ghosts were more like me.

But my wishful thinking came to naught. I hadn't walked a few steps out of the convenience store when I heard the sound of running from behind, which seemed rapid and powerful in the empty night. Don't think about it, it's my new neighbor who catches up.

"It's not safe for you to come home so late after playing. "He appeared next to me, not breathing at all.

"Don't you too, you don't sleep so late. "Listening to his speech, there is a bit of seriousness and sincerity, like a young class teacher who catches the early love of junior high school students and must pay attention to the proportion and criticize education, I can't help but feel funny. But come to think of it, tonight I wore heavy makeup, went to a discotheque, and visited a pornographic venue — and now I must have had the smell of alcohol, the smell of incense, and the blurred eyeliner — and I was inevitably mistaken for a girl who had lost my foot, or a nightclub queen.

"Moving is a big project, I just put everything in order, and I found that there was a lack of tape and scissors, so I came to buy them", he seriously held up the newly bought scissors and tape to show me.

He's serious, I thought to myself, and I just replied casually, not really trying to ask him why he hadn't slept.

"That's right, my name is Li Lu, and I didn't have time to introduce it before. "Li Luo, this name is really interesting, it reminds me of the three Li brothers, Li Kui, Li Ghost and Li Bai, and I secretly laughed in my heart.

"Zhao Youyi. ”

"It's a nice name, but it usually sounds like it's a girl", he scratched his head and couldn't help but defend himself, "I don't mean anything else, it's really nice." ”

He has a point. Actually, my name is very masculine, and many people think that I am a man, or the kind of man over thirty years old. The name depends entirely on my family, a family that is closely related to ghosts, and my father wants his daughter to be safe and sound from an early age.

"Your name is also very special, it sounds like you are very bold and unusual. "I can only praise him from this demanding point of view. What I didn't tell him was that the spirit, the yin god, and the ghost of the day, his name was a sign of a ghost as soon as he heard it: it was also fate, didn't this meet me.

"Thank you for the compliment", he looked a little embarrassed, and then changed the conversation, "If you can, don't be so late next time......"

"There's no way, life is forced, after all, you have to make money to eat", I spread my hands, interrupting his bitter instructions. I didn't expect him to be so wide, so I had to pretend to be willful and look at him pretentiously. Since he has already left the impression of a bad girl in front of him, it is better to add a handful of firewood to avoid intersecting in the future.

He didn't speak again, and the atmosphere suddenly fell silent. The shadows of the two of us stood side by side, slowly walking through the shadowy path of the trees and entering the unit door.

"If you have anything, or if you are in danger, you can come to me at any time," he walked into the elevator with me, pressed the buttons on the seventh and eighth floors, and suddenly spoke, "After six o'clock in the evening, before eight o'clock in the morning, outside of work hours, if you have difficulties, you will be there for you at any time." ”

He gave me a sudden salute and a big smile, two rows of teeth white and straight.

"If you have difficulties, you can go to the police, and I am the police. ”