Tang Chengyong's fifth attempt failed.

On the surface of the lake at midnight, the open lines are combined into various magnificent geometric structures according to their respective angles. From where He stood, the crescent moon seemed to be in a quadhedron surrounded by some number of lines.

Loneliness. This was the only impression he had of the spirit world after he got used to it.

If you are alive, there are many ways to escape loneliness, whether it is to divert your attention with your own preferences, or to talk to others or play for fun. In short, most of the loneliness of living people is faced with a door, depending on whether they are willing to open the door or not.

It's completely different after you die.

Some time ago, he followed Pang Lin, who went to the medical examination, to the hospital, and saw a spirit other than himself for the first time, and he knew very well that this was the soul of a person. Of course, I also saw many animal souls later, as well as all kinds of dead places - Tang Chengyong gave the dead place a name: bubble house.

The society of the soul is full of loneliness, and the souls of animals maintain the behavioral characteristics of their former lives, most of which have not yet touched the Xuan line, but are just a mixture of spiritual energy in the form of the contours of their bodies before their lives.

Humans are different, most of them have touched the Xuanxian and obtained the most basic spiritual appearance—that is, the appearance of the moment before death, including the scars and clothing.

Tang Chengyong himself can also feel that after becoming a soul, there are two "innate" instincts that control his consciousness.

The first is the dependence on the "bubble house" as a haven and home, and the comfort and security felt when inside, and the second is the inexplicable high vigilance of other human souls, like the instinctive fear of natural predators in animals.

This also makes it difficult for every human soul in the soul world to use the logic of thinking before death to communicate and negotiate with other souls. In the innate consciousness after death, communion with other souls represents intrusion, offense, and even danger.

Tang Chengyong really wanted to ask other souls if there was any way to interfere with Pang Lin's consciousness and allow him to take revenge.

After the third failure, he tried to go a little farther away, to a nearby hospital, to find a less vicious-looking soul. He didn't know that the resting soul would soon be recovered by the soul envoy, and the wandering soul was hard to find, and most of the remaining souls that "overlapped" with human society were almost all resentful souls like him, and the spirit appearance was also unapproachable.

That time in the hospital, he was about to slowly approach the death place of a girl, and when they were about five meters away from each other, the girl blurred the surface of the "bubble house";

After that He gave up the idea of asking other souls for help, and with the same vigilance, he was wary of spirits who wanted to approach Him. Because He was so frightened that he mistakenly thought that there would be terrible consequences when souls came into contact with souls.

Last night and tonight, Tang Chengyong waited for Pang Lin to fall asleep, and tried to merge with his soul again, but unfortunately, it was as useless as the previous times. Now He stood by the lake, in a long state of helplessness and melancholy, and when he thought of his parents, his heart became sad.

I don't know how long it took, but the crescent moon had moved most of the previous tetrahedron. A cool breeze blew on the surface of the lake, but when it blew on his spirit, a layer of frost rose all over his body, and he involuntarily tightened his body.

"Hey, who are you waiting for here?" Suddenly, a man's voice came from behind Tang Chengyong.

Not knowing whether the other party was a human or a spirit, he asked vigilantly, "Who?"

Behind Tang Chengyong were a few weeping willows by the lake, and he heard the male voice, as if coming from behind one of the willow trees: "You have only been dead for a long time, right?"

"Who the hell are you?" Tang Chengyong guessed, the other party was likely to be a soul as well, "Don't be sneaky, come out and speak." He was ready to run away, so that he could run back to the water room on the third floor of the dormitory building in case of any danger.

"What's the panic, I'm different from the others, I can't come out, otherwise I'll be arrested. The man's voice was lazy, and at the same time, from the trunk of the willow tree, a spiritual head poked out, which seemed to be twenty-seven or eighteen, with natural curly hair, a round face and big eyes, and a kind face, but there was a bit of condescending and sophisticated in his eyes.

Tang Chengyong took two steps back, "Are you?"

"I'm the same as you, but it's not the same, you go to the cafeteria now, and outside the third-to-last window, there's a pentagonal shape, and you can see this black line next to us, right? The eldest brother said, retracting his head into the trunk of the tree.

Tang Chengyong noticed that between the other party's head poking and shrinking, there was a visual perception of being squeezed. The trunk of the willow tree was not thick, and it was said that it could not accommodate an adult-sized soul, and the other party seemed to "squeeze" into it, hiding in the trunk.

He recalled that during this time, when penetrating the walls and doors, these physical buildings had a "liquid" touch, and although they could be directly penetrated, it took a short process. For example, when He wants to pass through a wall, he does not penetrate directly, but first enters the wall or a door, is "flattened," and then comes out from the other side.

All physical structures and objects are like ephemeral, temporary liquid containers, with slight resistance to the soul. However, the process is short, and most of the spirits adapt quickly and move around without hindrance. It was precisely because of that little resistance that he could not fall when he followed Pang Lin in the car or stood on the ground without deliberately using force.

"Why did you let me do this?" Tang Chengyong didn't intend to listen, feeling that the other party had bad intentions.

"You'll find out if you try it yourself, you'll be comfortable, believe it or not. I'm sleepy, good night. ”

Tang Chengyong shouted twice, and the other party stopped talking. He had no choice but to leave quickly, and when he passed by the cafeteria, he couldn't help but take a look, and sure enough, in the place where the eldest brother said, he found several Xuanxian lines that were combined into a pentagonal shape, with a certain angle of inclination, standing on the ground outside the canteen, as high as three or four people.

After a moment's hesitation, he plucked up the courage to recall his energetic appearance when he first entered the school and when he played football, and walked through the pentagon. Suddenly, he saw that the "skin" on his body had disappeared, forming a circle, layer by layer, five kinds of energy in an arrangement, and in a panic, the spirit appeared from his feet again, gradually covering his whole body, and everything returned to normal.

At the same time, he no longer felt the bitter cold of the cool evening breeze, but instead felt the same comfort as before. He guessed that this combination of pentagonal lines could put on an invisible layer of armor for his soul, and that big brother had good intentions!

But what he didn't know was that the pentagonal passage here was left behind by a soul envoy who passed by half a year ago and changed the course with the help of the Xuanxian to recover the spiritual energy. Later, several more spirit envoys passed by, changing the combination of passages behind the pentagon, leaving only this tall entrance.

In addition, it was not borrowed again, and no soul refiner restored them to their original state, so it has been kept there. In the most primitive planning of the "designers" who do not know where, the pentagonal structure formed by random or deliberate combination can activate the spirit defense function of the spirit, so that the spirit that accidentally discovers this secret will no longer feel pain for the space environment outside the dead place.

This is also the first time that Tang Chengyong has felt the warmth of the soul society since his suicide, from the eldest brother in the willow tree.

He ran back to the lake, and there was no news from the tree. He had the courage to "squeeze" himself into the tree, but he did not find the mysterious big brother. Anyway, He stood beside the willows and gratefully said "Thank you!" into the air.

The next afternoon, when Pang Lin was in class, Tang Chengyong took the time to come to the lake again, the scorching sun was no longer as hot as in the past, and the eldest brother poked his head out of another willow tree.

"Big brother, thank you!" Tang Chengyong smiled for the first time after committing suicide, "What do you call it?"

"Names don't matter," the curly-haired brother said with a sneering look, "don't you doubt it?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not used to it, other souls are like this, I'm afraid of danger. ”

"Tell me how you died. ”

Tang Chengyong told the curly-haired brother what happened to him and Pang Lin.

“…… How do you know that the pentagonal black line can protect us?" asked Tang Chengyong.

"I died of illness, a month before I died, I did a lot of things I wanted to do, to others, to the world, neither nostalgia, nor resentment, after I died, I remembered a lot of things, not limited to my small half of my life, for a long time, for a long time, we are all in time and space, being recycled. It's complicated, and you are now bent on revenge and can't feel it. ”

"You mean, can you remember...... Past lives, or many lives ago?"

The curly-haired brother nodded: "You can say that, but it doesn't matter, one day, you will also understand at once the truth of the soul, this world, and the universe." Tell me how you plan to get revenge right now?"

Tang Chengyong said that he wanted to possess Pang Lin, let him write down what he had done, repent to the people he had hurt, let everyone know the bestiality under his human skin, and then turn himself in, or let him commit suicide.

The curly-haired brother tells him a secret, that only people who are fragile and afraid of ghosts can be interfered with by other spirits. "But you can't interfere casually, the object you choose must be the party who has a grudge against you, otherwise the consequences will be very serious. ”

"What will happen?"

"You can try it first, remember, if you see a soul...... Black boat, run quickly and return to the place where you hanged yourself. Come here, I'll show you how to use these black lines. ”

The curly-haired brother stretched out his hands from the trunk of the tree, bent the two middle fingers inward, and brought the second knuckle together, the tips of the fingers fell on the first joint of the two big fingers, and the other six fingers were stretched out against each other, so that the big and middle fingers formed a diamond shape.

"In the future, when you have nothing to do, you can use this gesture to find a random black thread and let it pass through this diamond shape, and then you touch the thread with your head, and it will tell you a lot of things. Learning to change and understanding a little more will do you good. ”

Tang Chengyong remembered that action, found a nearby line a few hundred meters away, and did as he said.

When He touched the thread with his head, his eyes were forced to close by a force, and in the darkness before him, the thread turned golden, growing larger and larger, and finally became a cylinder that contained Him. At the same time, a glass plank road appeared ahead.

At this time, he was in his consciousness, standing on that transparent road, surrounded by nothing but thousands of golden "pillars". His mind was clear, and he knew that his consciousness had come to the inside of a thread. And within this line, it is composed of countless parallel and erected golden wire columns.

The transparent road curled and curled into the darkness far away. There was a rainbow of energy flowing on the surface of the road under his feet, as if to guide Him forward.

The golden thread in front of him is even more magnificent and magnificent than the black line of the spirit world, and the almost oppressive sense of loneliness and insignificance is also several times that of the spirit world. Tang Chengyong's mood is very complicated, in the face of these scenes, he wants to run crazy, he wants to shout hysterically, both excited and desperate, and he can still feel it in the dark, as if there are many eyes, watching indifferently, as helpless as dust.

Unable to contain his emotions for a moment, he forcefully withdrew the head of his spirit, and when he opened his eyes, all visions of darkness vanished. The line that passed through the finger hole was still as black as ink, as if nothing had happened just now.

Not far away, on the path, a girl with a ponytail fell, he had no time to care about distraction, adjusted his mentality, and once again let his consciousness enter the Xuanlin.

This time, he walked along the road, and the golden pillars of energy that were as dense as a jungle spread throughout the world, and soon, one of them was in the middle of the road ahead. He walked in silence, and when he entered the golden pillar, the path reappeared, surrounded by larger, but uneven pillars of energy.

Tang Chengyong noticed that the energy columns that rotate clockwise are thicker, and will throw some geometric frames composed of gold wires, which will fall on the thinner counterclockwise rotating energy columns, and then those geometric frames will be melted and absorbed by the energy columns, and the thinner energy columns will become thicker.

At the same time, he also noticed that the energy pillars on this level had become more open, although they were also spread all around, spreading up and down as far as the eye could see, but the energy pillars were not so dense.

Since he couldn't look down from a macroscopic perspective, he had the illusion that the number of energy pillars here did not seem to be as large as when he was outside just now, and between the energy pillars of different thicknesses, it seemed that they were controlled by some kind of neutralizing force, allowing them to complete the balance of size and state stability by themselves.

In this way, he entered several pillars of energy in turn, and when he reached the eighth layer, the world inside changed......