Parents:

Hello!

I have been abroad for more than a year, and I have never written to you. I've read the emails you sent me many times, and I'm touched by the way you put me in a heart-to-heart tone, treating me as a friend, and at the same time confusing me. So I haven't replied, and I really don't know where to start with it. Every time I talk on the phone, I am also perfunctory, hastily and seemingly have nothing to say. But that doesn't mean I don't remember you.

I won't be going home for the Spring Festival this year, and the reason has already been explained on the phone, so I won't say more here. It's just that I won't be able to go back to my home in the future, it's hard to say. Because I encountered an event, a very grotesque, a very ridiculous, a very unbelievable thing. That's why this email is being written. I know you're going to laugh at me when you hear it, and laugh at how I haven't grown up yet; You may still scold me, scold me for lying, and find such a ridiculous reason not to go home for two years and go outside. But, I would like to say, please believe in your son once, even though he is very unsuccessful, he loves to lie since he was a child, and he is not very sensible at this age, and please believe me, your only son. This time, I'm definitely not lying. Every word I say comes from the heart.

I've been ghosted.

Yes, I'm ghosted. I can imagine the look of surprise on your face when you see this, or you laugh disdainfully as if it was a joke, and maybe you'll just close the email and get impatient to read this boring stuff. Yet, in fact, even as I wrote these words, I felt an indescribable terror engulf me.

You know, I never believed in the gods and demons. I have always believed that science is the foundation of this world, and that the myth of gods and ghosts is just nonsense, and it is completely contradictory to science. I think that's what the vast majority of people think. But now, my perspective has completely changed. I can't help but believe that there are ghosts in this world.

It all started at the end of January.

As you know, I also said on the phone that in January I moved into an apartment with my friend from Beijing, Lei. But I haven't told you the details.

In fact, the house was not an apartment in the traditional sense, but a detached bungalow. And the seven or eight houses around it are all in the same format. It is said that this used to be a resort, but later the resort business was no longer working, so it was changed to an apartment to open tenants. The house is located at the foot of a small hill, the mountain is called Lei Mountain, located on the outskirts of the city, and is a house introduced by a real estate agency. The owner, the real landlord, we have never met. The landlord never gave us, the only client of his estate, any contact - by the way, there were seven or eight of these houses, and we were the only one living in them. The exterior of the house is ordinary, each set is a two-bedroom apartment, with a kitchen and bathroom furniture. The only special feature is that the whole house is made of pure wood, probably because it was a resort in its previous life. We stayed in the easternmost one, which was the best of the house because of the view of the seaside in the distance. I shared a bedroom with my Beijing-based friend Lei and our respective girlfriends.

Yes, we live there together. I've been hiding this from you, and I'm embarrassed to tell you about it. But it doesn't matter anymore to say it. Because I've broken up with that girl. Her name is Li, and she is from Guangdong.

Even though it's not close to the university, we decided to settle here. One is the cheap price, and the other reason is the quiet environment. There are grass and trees in front of and behind the house, and there are very lush woods on the hill behind them, and there are large trees standing side by side on both sides of the road, mixed with flowers of various colors that cannot be named. Coupled with the fact that it is far from the city and sparsely populated, the environment here is actually too good to be true, and even the air is the unique freshness of the moist grass and earth.

But this was just the impression before, and now I would rather uproot those trees and burn them clean with a fire!

During the day, without knowing it, the environment is really good. But at night—as now—all that's left is cold and damp. At first, I thought it was because the wooden walls were susceptible to moisture and did not block the wind. Now, I realize that this is not the reason at all, this place is not a quiet environment at all, and the air is not moist and fresh, but - heavy yin!

Yin Qi is extremely heavy! I later realized that the moist smell of grass and earth was actually a fishy smell at all. Yes, it smells of blood! I can now feel the bloody air enveloping me, wrapping around me tightly, sticking to every inch of my skin. There was also a bloody wind that crept in through the cracks in the windows, crawled in under the cracks in the doors, and even seeped in through the walls and ceilings, layer after layer on my back, through the gaps between the fibers of my clothes. I'm getting goosebumps all over my body, right now.

It's not all. There was a blackened wind chime outside the door, and it was no longer clear what year or month it was. The bell pendant is a small cat, and when the wind blows, it hits the bell of different lengths to make a crisp sound. But now the bell is covered with reddish-brown rust spots, and when the wind blows, the sound is also dry and harsh, like a knife scraping bones and grinding teeth.

By the way, there's one more thing, something horrible and hateful - a mirror! Each of the two bedrooms has an identical mirror with a dark red frame. The rectangular mirror is oddly hung vertically above the head of the bed. Later, when we found out that this mirror was not only a little strange and full of evil, and we wanted to take them off, we realized that this mirror was actually embedded in the wall.

Things went very wrong from the first day they moved in.

We had just moved our bags in that evening and everyone was excited. So we decided to drive out together to buy some vegetables, meat, eggs, daily necessities, etc. Lei's family is in good condition, and he actually got a car, according to him, which was lent to him by his father's business partner here. Although the Toyota Camry was a bit shabby, we were still happy because I hadn't seen anyone playing with it among my classmates.

I still remember very clearly that when Lei said, "I'm going to go and ...... first", I suddenly heard a very gentle cat meow, "Meow, meow......" The sound is not loud, and it can even be said to be very gentle.

The four of us looked at each other, because we didn't have pets, and the cat's voice was so close that it seemed to be in the house, but we couldn't see it!

However, at the time, we didn't care at all. Only Yuan, Lei's girlfriend, a girl who laughs all day long, said lightly, "Where did the wild cat come from". I also remembered the white cat we used to have and chatted with them casually. In retrospect, if I had to look for it, I wouldn't have found that damn cat! It's just that, even if you find it, it won't necessarily help what happens later, and maybe it will start the nightmare early.

The first two weeks were very happy, everyone took Lei's car to class in the morning, and went home together in the afternoon to buy groceries along the way; The two girls were responsible for cooking and washing the dishes, while Lei and I cleaned the room, wiped the windows and cabinets, and moved all kinds of household items around to find the most comfortable match; I also applied for a telephone line, an Internet account, and satellite TV; Purchase of new furniture...... It was probably because we were quite excited to move, and although we were very busy during that time, it was also very peaceful and harmonious, and the strange cat meow that appeared the day before has never appeared again, and we have long forgotten about it. In retrospect, those days were nothing short of heavenly.

It's a pity that the good times don't last long, and after a long time, the novelty disappears. The days gradually began to become dull and boring. What used to be exciting and pleasant now seems uneventful. Mom and Dad, I remember when I was a child, you said that I had no perseverance and no perseverance, and I often gave up halfway. I've found that this is true not only for me, but also for the vast majority of people I know. Hehe, now I finally understand that this problem is so terrible!

The boredom and emptiness grew worse and worse, and later we found it difficult to pass the time even with four people. When we were tired of playing poker, mahjong, TV, and the Internet, the four of us would gather around the dining table every dinner and stare at each other, racking our brains to think of a so-called "entertainment program". That was the way it was, and I vividly remember that on Friday, January 11, 2002, we were gathered around a messy table.

"Let's play with the pen fairy, right?"

In retrospect, it was a ridiculously stupid idea, but at the time we were eager to try it. No, to be precise, it's me and Lei.

"Pen Fairy? How to play? "Lei and I have heard about it, but we don't know the details. The two girls were timid and didn't dare to play, and Lei and I didn't know how to play.

"Huh, pen fairy? I'd advise you not to play that, but play something else. Yuan objected, "If you play, you two will suffer." She always looked like she was joking.

"Don't play with that stuff!" Leigh said, "It's wicked. And I've heard it's true! ”

"Heard? Hehe, believe it or not," I shook my head again and again, sneering, and Lei also patted his chest with a swear: "How can there be any pen fairy pen ghost?" I don't believe in it! I only know that the only person in this world who can believe is myself. ”

"Yes, yes," I said, "is there a ghost?" Show me up. ”

Li snorted coldly on the side, just now I had a bad quarrel with her about not buying it in time for the soy sauce to run out, it seems that she hasn't lost her anger yet: "The ghost appeared? If the ghost really shows up, I don't think you can run. ”

"How do you know if you don't try?"

"Hmph, don't blame me for not making it clear to you, the pen fairy is an 'evil spirit'! I'll get on you as soon as I come out. "Leigh seemed to be trying to scare me.

"Are there any bad consequences for the upper body?" Lei asked.

"Absolutely. People who are put on the body will be very unlucky, very unlucky, and will always be unlucky. And once you're on it, it's hard to leave. One of my classmates just didn't believe it, so he tried it, but he almost lost his life. He's the kind of guy who is very honest, very honest, and never lies. That's all true! ”

I looked up to the sky and snorted, not believing it at all: "Never lie? I'm afraid only the dead can do it, right? ”

Lei nodded: "I don't believe it either, you might as well give it a try, anyway, it's sitting and sitting." ”

That's how the nightmare began. It just so happens that the two girls know how to play. So Lei and I sat on both sides of the dining table, each stretched out his right hand and overlapped it, leaving a small hole at the intersection of the two tiger mouths; Insert another pen into the small hole, clamp it, and point the tip of the pen vertically on a piece of paper prepared on the dining table.

"And then?" I had no idea that disaster was coming, and I was still smiling. In order to scare the two girls, Lei and I not only turned off the lights, but also lit a candle around the dining table.

Then he read softly: "Pen Immortal Pen Immortal, please come, Pen Immortal Pen Immortal, please come...... until Pen Immortal comes." If the pen fairy comes, the pen will automatically draw a circle on the paper. “

"What about coming?"

"When you come, you can ask him questions, and if you answer in the affirmative, the pen will draw circles on the paper. The more round the circle, the more spiritual this pen fairy is, and the ...... The more evil! Leigh's voice trembled a little, and I glanced at her amusement, as she gripped Yuan's hand tightly. Yuan added: "When you're done, remember to invite the pen fairy away." ”

"How can I leave?"

He said, "Thank you, Bixian, please go slowly." ‘“

Everything is done. At the beginning, Lei and I clamped the pen tightly, not to mention drawing circles, even moving on the paper. But after a long time, both of them got tired, the two hands lost the balance of power, and the pen began to move. So the pen began to move up and down, left and right, leaving irregular lines on the paper. But Lei and I still don't think anything about it, and there are still words in our mouths: "Pen Fairy Pen Fairy, please come over, Pen Fairy Pen Fairy, please come over" There is still no sign ......of the pen fairy, but the hands of the two people began to shake because they were tired, and the lines on the paper began to bend.

Suddenly, I felt Lei's hand no longer shake at all, but was unusually calm and pushed my hand with a force beyond my control, as if intending to push it out of a circle on the paper.