In my original memory, I was dead. Died in an operating room filled with disinfectant. Before entering the operating room, I was hit by a truck full of goods.

After that, the memories were more confusing, except for the halo of halos when the white light above his head shone down. I don't know how long it took for my body to have new sensations. I didn't feel the gravity of the earth because my body was floating, but my hands and feet were sentient, my ears could hear the whistling wind, my nose could smell unknown aromas, and when I opened my eyes, I could see the infinite stretch of daylight. I could not hide my surprise that although I was a good citizen, I did not commit any sin at all.

I thought I was going to a terrible hell, but I didn't feel any pain here.

Am I in heaven?

I tried to find something different in this white place, twisting my fluttering body in the air and making breaststroke movements, and my feet could not step on the real ground, so I was always afraid of a sudden fall.

"What are you doing?"

Suddenly, a distant and desolate voice came to my ears.

I twisted my head while breaststroke, and a skeletal figure appeared in the empty space. It was obscured by a piece of gray linen cloth, revealing only its skeletal face. Unlike my crooked body, it seemed to sit cross-legged in this infinite place.

"I'm looking for an exit." I replied that I was not too brave to face this strange skeleton man without feeling a trace of fear. In my memory, I would have screamed at the first sight. And now I can talk calmly. This makes me even more weird.

The skeleton said, "Where do you want to go out?" ”

I replied, "I don't know yet, maybe hell?" ”

"Do you want to go to hell?"

"Can I go?"

The skeleton man tilted his head, and I couldn't see any other expression on his fleshless face. It can only be judged by its movements, perhaps it is doubting my words.

"Am I saying something wrong?" This time I took the initiative to speak.

"Huh" the skeleton man scoffed, "Let's talk." With that, it stretched out a long, boring finger from the wide fabric. Unlike its fleshless face, its fingers are wrapped in black skin. It manipulated my body with its fingers. So I don't have to talk to it in an awkward position.

I sat in front of it in the same position as it.

"What's your name?" It asked

"Shi Yao"

"Where do you live?"

"Cross Country"

"There are still relatives at home."

"Daddy is still here."

"Why did you die?"

"Car accident."

"Are you a virgin?"

"Huh?"

"You just have to answer me, yes or no?"

“…… Yes"

"So one last question." The skeleton man pulled me closer with his fingers and ran his shriveled fingers across my cheek. Then he said, "Do you want to live on?" ”

This is undoubtedly a **, thrown into the bottom of the sinking lake and stirring up huge waves on the calm surface of the lake. I didn't believe in any ghosts and gods, and I was a staunch atheist until I was in the car accident. The longer I stayed here, the more something that had been buried in the depths of my memory came back to life, and it told me that I was dead. The body was knocked into the air and fell. There was a shopping street around, the road was crowded, and there was no one to help, they screamed and panicked away, only the driver who caused the accident knelt beside me, checking my breath and calling 120 in an anxious and remorseful voice.

I remembered that until I was carried on a stretcher, I was consciously aware of what was going on around me.

So I was able to confirm that I was dead on the operating table.

I was indeed dead, necrotic in my internal organs, and bleeding a lot. The bones of the left half of the body that were knocked off were even shattered.

"Do you want to live?" The skeleton man's words called back to my drifting thoughts. I could feel him laughing, so much so that the end of his voice was tinged with frivolity.

"I think." I'm only 17 years old, my father's only daughter. When my mother passed away after giving birth, I always saw me as a hope of survival. I really can't imagine how devastating my father, who spoiled me, protected me, cherished me, would be devastated when he learned that I was gone.

"Let's make a deal, then." It manipulated me away from its side, then stretched out its hands and continued, "My name is Karma, and I am the lone god of death who is in charge of life and death. ”

"Since it's a deal, what about the price?" I asked.

"Your heart." Its withered fingers pointed at my chest, and my eardrums rang with the sound of my heart pounding.

"My heart?"

That's when I realized that my heart wasn't beating until the skeleton man pointed at me.

"Yes, here is the slit between life and death. Your luck is that if you pass through this slit, you will undoubtedly die instantly. Only I, the master, can bring you back to the world, and make a deal with me, so that you can return to your family. ”

"What happens if my heart is gone?"

"It's about the same as you are now." It glowed with a strange light in its hollow eyes, and it looked at me and said, "The heart is the starting point of all human roots, and once the heart is dead, then even if the body is not bad, it is like death." If my heart were taken away from you...... You will lose all your feelings, consciousness and even five senses about people. ”

"Am I still human?"

"You are and you are not."

"What is left after losing affection?"

The skeleton man's fingers moved up, paused in front of my forehead, and said, "Good memories will stay." ”

Like the beating heart that is pointed at it, memories of the past begin to come back to my mind one by one. Even the memories of infancy that should have been forgotten came along. Where did I see my mom, who died not long after I was born. Before I died, I saw her hugging me when I was born, and her tired face was full of satisfaction and happiness in life.

"I promise you." Surrounded by my mother, I agreed to the Skeleton Man's deal.