I watched their car go away until the tears on my face dried on their own.

Lei still sat on the sofa, as if he was going to sit like this forever. Will he feel pain? I wondered in my heart. It seems that the woman who ran away with another man without saying hello has nothing to do with him. For me, even though Rei is gone, I feel a lot better than Yuan's desperation. Sure enough, people can't be seen, I sighed in my heart. I swept my eyes down, only to find that the ashtray on the coffee table was full at some point.

Since that day, Lei and I have not been to school again. Lei got a lot of books out of nowhere, and the titles of the books were all "I Ching", "Tai Chi", "Bagua" and other terms that I didn't know much about. Every day, from getting up to sleeping, Lei has been immersed in the desk and reading, and has also made a notebook for the boss. If he is thirsty, he drinks some tap water, and when he is hungry, he only eats instant noodles and lives a life without leaving home, and I can't tell that he has taken his girlfriend to heart about finding a new love. I don't leave the house, but I drink, sometimes while watching TV, sometimes without watching TV. Drink every day, all the time, except when you are drunk and unconscious.

After being hit in the nose, I contracted a problem, that is, I couldn't get cold, and I kept sneezing when I was a little cold. However, drinking alcohol can solve this problem. That's one of the reasons why I keep drinking.

Occasionally, when I was rarely sober, Lei would come over and talk to me, as if he wanted to discuss something with me. But most of what he said was from his books, which I didn't understand at first, and I didn't have much interest in studying them. I just wanted to talk to him about Lihe Yuan. The two of them can't talk about each other. In the end, he shook his head with a wry smile and walked away, leaving me drunk. I saw something in his eyes, and it was called helplessness.

It's that day again, and it's supposed to be the fifth Friday. In the afternoon I deliberately tincture myself. When I woke up, I found myself lying on the carpet in the living room. Lei was sitting next to me with an ashtray in his hand, smoking with a frown. I was ignorant, too lazy to care what he wanted to do, looked back at the window, it was not completely dark, so frightened that I hurriedly reached out and touched the wine, wanting to get drunk again tonight. Lei stepped on the back of my hand.

"Ah——, it hurts me to death! What are you doing? "I withdrew my hand, and the back of my hand was red.

"There's work to be done tonight." "Is it important?"

"It's important," his eyes sparkled, "maybe it could save both of our lives." ”

Save both of our lives? I shuddered, wasn't all this enough? "We're going to die?" I asked.

"Not necessarily." Lei smiled and spit out a smoke ring, his expression was full of confidence. "Come," he patted me on the shoulder, "sit up, let's talk." ”

"What are you talking about?"

He didn't speak immediately, but he took another puff of cigarette and exhaled it, and the smoke rose in a waddle in the windless room. The sky was dark, and the shadows of the trees outside the house swayed. I heard the wind whining through the roofs again. He finally spoke: "It's been thirty-five days since we first invited the pen immortal. Five-seven-thirty-five, exactly five weeks. ”

Is it? I don't remember much, and my head is still a little heavy. I heard him say again: "I thought carefully about what has happened in the past five weeks. A pattern was discovered. ”

"Mode? What mode? ”

"Every Friday, the day we invite the pen fairy, something strange happens. Every time it's better than the last. Seven days seems to be a cycle, a cycle of terrorist events. During these seven days, it was absolutely calm and nothing happened. And every time, at the end of the matter, there are traces of black cats. Please pen fairy on Friday. From then on, on the first seventh day, Friday, we met the black cat, and then almost rolled over; On the second Friday we got lost and also saw the black cat; On the third Friday we were at home, and you dreamed of ghosts, and you saw ghosts on me, and black cats appeared; On the fourth and seventh day, last Friday, I saw a ghost behind me, and you were undoubtedly ghosted to kill the black cat. It should be said that the ghost we saw, a female ghost in white and a male ghost in black behind me, was summoned by us at the invitation of the pen fairy. ”

"yes, but that's what I thought of too."

"Hmph. But what does the ghost have to do with that black cat? I'm sure that the black cat definitely didn't appear by accident! It must have something to do with the seven-day catastrophe that I can't think of right now. It's not just you and me who have played the pen fairy, I have asked some people who have invited the pen fairy, and I have also left a message on the Internet for help, but all the people who have played the pen fairy just said that they had encountered some unlucky things, and never thought that you and I were so unlucky. No, it shouldn't be said to be unlucky, it's an evil door. ”

"What do those who have invited pen fairies say?"

"Nothing useful! No one had ever heard of the black cat, and the catastrophe once every seven days. Even those broken books are completely undocumented. Hehe, maybe it's the two of us who have had the most bad luck and summoned two of the most evil spirits that no one has ever met. ”

"What then?"

"What to do? Don't drink anymore if you know what to do! Lei glared at me viciously, and my face flushed.

"And," Lei continued, "every time the black cat appears, it seems to bring us bad luck. But every bad luck that happened seemed to stop at the last moment, after the black cat appeared! There were no catastrophic consequences for us. I mean, the physical catastrophic consequences. ”

"For example?" I don't understand a little bit of it.

"For example," he stared into my eyes, "Die!" ”

I had a knot in my heart and didn't dare to speak, so Lei said again: "Let's start from the beginning." The first time the black cat appeared, the car had a flat tire and seemed to be about to roll over, but in the end it didn't; The second time I got lost, I walked to the gloomy black road, if we kept walking, God knows where we would go, but the black cat appeared, and the road was blocked by a big tree that was inexplicably broken, and we went home in an incredible way; The third time you had a nightmare, we heard a strange noise in the toilet, and as soon as the black cat came out, nothing happened; Last Friday, I saw the man in black behind me, there is no doubt that you fell for evil, although the black cat appeared and crashed into the car, nothing happened. Even the car was fine. ”

"What do you want to say?" I had a vague idea of something, but I couldn't put it into words.

"I mean...... Hmm, how do you say that? Remember, we actually heard a cat meow on the first day we moved in. ”

"Yes, but that gentle meow is gone. From the invitation to the pen fairy to the present, there has never been. ”

"That's right. The problem lies in the pen fairy! I believe that if we hadn't invited the pen fairy, we might still have heard that gentle 'Mimi' sound instead of the later 'meow-' sound. I think that the first cat sound and the later 'meow' sound actually originated from the same cat, the black cat we saw later. ”

"Why?"

"Because of a very strange thing. Do you remember that the weather on the day we invited the pen fairy five weeks ago was the same as today. ”

I didn't understand why he mentioned the weather, and when I looked out the window, it was dark and there was no starlight. Only the wind shook the shadows of the dimly lit trees, the killing sounds overlapping with the whining of the houses. Lei seems to be right, the first time I invited the pen fairy It seems that it is also such a weather, the moon is dark and the wind is high. "So what?" I asked.

Lei suddenly said excitedly: "Such a strong wind, the wind that makes the house sound and the trees shake, why can't we hear the wind chimes?" ”

A chill suddenly rose from the soles of my feet. yes, why aren't there wind chimes? Could it be......

Lei lifted a thing from behind him as if by magic. Wind chimes! "Where did you find that?" I exclaimed.

"Don't be nervous, I just took it off the door. If you take a closer look, what is the difference between this wind chime and the previous one? ”

I took the wind chime in my hand and looked at it carefully, only to see that it was embroidered. I hadn't looked closely for a long time, and the reddish-brown rust on it seemed to have increased a lot more than before, and it looked more shabby, but there was nothing special about it - no, it seemed that something was missing. It's a bell pendant! It is the cat-type bell pendant!

"See," Lei said, "the ringer is gone—the cat-like one." ”

I looked closely, and the bell pendant seemed to have been pulled off by some external force, but the fracture had grown rusty, and I couldn't tell how long it had been broken. But I distinctly remember seeing the bell on the first day I moved in, and I took a closer look at the shape of the kitten.

Lei lifted the wind chimes and shook them, and the bells of different lengths collided together, perhaps because they were rusty, and the sound was a little weird. "Even though there is no pendant, the wind chimes should still ring," Lei said, "and the pendant is just a decoration." But the strange thing is that since we invited the pen fairy, the bell has never rang again, and the tragic cat barking has also begun to appear. The bell pendant is mostly missing from the pen fairy after we invited the pen fairy. ”

I stayed there and couldn't say a word. Finally, I asked, "So, why did you say that ringfall is missing?" Where has it gone now? ”

Lei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that cat-like bell pendant is the black cat we saw!" ”

I felt the hairs stand on end again. Lei added: "I think that black cat, or ringman, is the key to solving the problem." Anyway, let's try it tonight. ”

"Try it? How to try? "I wondered.

"Find a way to lure that cat out."

"What's the solution?"

"Wait."

"Wait? That's a piece of! What if it doesn't come out? ”

"No, it won't. Believe my reasoning, that cat is going to show up tonight. ”

"And then?"

"Catch it."

"And then?"

Lei suddenly smiled and smiled helplessly: "I don't know." One step at a time, when the time comes, act on the opportunity. ”

However, the cat meow did not show up that night. Nothing terrible happened like the last few times. Lei Ku and I sat on the carpet in the living room until the sky began to shine in the east.

"How so?" After four o'clock, Lei kept smoking, still gilding around the house, touching the back of his head and muttering to himself, "Could it be that something went wrong?" No...... Definitely not...... Cats will definitely come......"

"Forget it," I yawned, already taking a nap, "is it okay if nothing happens?" ”

"No, it's not going to end so easily."

"You're too nervous, I think it's over. Don't keep scaring yourself, okay? "It's strange that this sentence seems to have been said to me a few weeks ago, and now it has been reincarnated and returned to him as it is.

"No, no, absolutely not......"

"Ignore you, I'll go to sleep." I was so sleepy that I went back to my room and slept, not bothering to pay attention to what else he was going to do.

The dream came again.

The dreams are still so chaotic and clueless. Leigh seems to be back? No, Lily and I are still in that yard in our hometown. Leigh was holding my hand and apologizing, and she said she would never leave me again. Her hands were still so cold. Hey? How is it hot? Does she have hot water in her hands? No, it's blood! Where does the blood come from? It's cat blood, right? Hasn't the cat been dead for a long time? No, the cat isn't dead yet!

Leigh is killing cats again! She strangled the cat's neck with both hands and pressed the cat into the water tank. The cat was thrashing desperately. Cat's blood oozed out of its mouth and stained the tank red! Hot cat blood splashed all over my body, as well as on my hands, the hot sticky feeling, very uncomfortable.

Feed! Why do you want to kill a cat? Cats are going to kill you? Sling the bull! Stop it! Quick, do you hear me? Stop it! When did cats turn black? Isn't it a white cat? White cat, you've already killed it? Stop, don't kill it! You can't kill anymore! Don't kill!

I reached out to pull it out, but for some reason I didn't have the strength in my hand. How can it not be motivated? Where is all the strength? I still held on to her, and the blood on my hands stained my beautiful white dress red. Hey? Don't you never wear a skirt? No, you're not Leigh, you're not Li! Who are you?! Come on! How come there is no door in the yard? Who are you? You don't come here. Did you kill the cat? Kill the cat and kill me?

Come on! Why can't you run out of this yard? Lost? What's hot sticking to your hands? It's a cat! The cat only has one head left! It's licking my hand with a bloody tongue!

I snapped my eyes open and breathed a sigh of relief when I realized it had just been a nightmare. It was already dawn outside, interspersed with the crisp chirping of birds and the sound of cars passing by in the distance. The night has finally passed.

No, the smell of blood in the air is so strong. Why is it sticky on your hands, and a little hot, what is it?

I raised my hand to look at it and couldn't help but scream.

It's blood! Still hot blood! But not my blood, whose blood is it? Could it be Lei?

I crawled to my feet and cowered in the corner, and to my horror found blood stains everywhere in the room! The terrifying sight made me dare not move, and I could only shout loudly: "Lei-are you--come on-Lei-"

No one answered. There is no Lei voice. Isn't Lei gone?

I closed my eyes and wished it was all a dream, and I didn't wake up from that nightmare. But it didn't work, the pungent smell of blood swirled around the room, so thick that it made me want to gag. When I opened my eyes, the blood stains were still in front of me, and the clear red blood stains stimulated every one of my visual cells. I took a few big breaths with my mouth to force myself to calm down a bit, looked around carefully, and my stomach began to twitch. The bloodstains are not endless. I saw specks of red blood coming down from where I had slept on the bed, down to the soles of my feet, and then around the foot of the bed on the carpet, zigzagging to the door, and peeking out through the cracks in the hidden door.

I took another deep breath, emboldened myself, and pulled the door open. The blood stained all the way to the bathroom, where the door was closed. How did the blood come out? My stomach twitched. I looked back at Lei's room, the door was open, there was no one in it and there was no blood, and the same was true for the living room. Could it be that Lei's body was in the bathroom......

It's superfluous to think about anything at this time! I gritted my teeth, resisted the contraction of my stomach and the throbbing of my temples, and slammed open the bathroom door. No Lei! I felt a little relieved. The blood trailed all the way up to the lid of the toilet tank. I staggered to the toilet, and there was a bucket of blood in the toilet, and the pungent smell of blood made me unable to hold back any longer, and I vomited with a "wow".

It took a long time to calm down a little, probably because there was nothing in the stomach, right? I thought in prostration. Reaching out and touching the toilet switch, a large stream of blood spurted out!

I stood there in a daze, not daring to move again, my mind stopped working, and it was impossible to think about the question "the toilet tank has long been broken". I just watched the blood in the toilet wash away the dirt I vomited, watching the blood whirlpool and slowly calm down, I could see the swirling blood reflecting my face, the rapidly rotating blood water kept crossing my face, and my heart was beating faster and faster.

The toilet tank lid suddenly opened automatically with a "bang", slipped and fell to the ground. My heart contracted violently, my chest ached, and a suffocating current of heat rose rapidly from my chest to my brain. But I didn't faint, so I just stood there and didn't dare to move. Glancing into the tank, there was a black cat's corpse floating inside!

The corpse of the black cat floated in a vat of stinking bright red blood, and I looked at it in a daze, my mind blank. I just felt my heart beating wildly. I felt like I was going to die.

I don't know how long I stood there, until a fly flew in and hovered over the black cat, and I withdrew my eyes from looking at the black cat, but I still didn't dare to move. So I went back to the toilet. The blood in the toilet bowl had completely calmed down, and my face could be seen clearly. I felt my heart still beating fast and I was very thirsty. It suddenly dawned on me that every time I blinked was so long, a century. Probably because the organs in my body began to protect themselves and refused to take the initiative to accept stimulation.

Suddenly, in the blink of an eye, another head poked out of the crimson blood. A head with long hair! She's looking at me! Look at me through the blood! She's still laughing!

I wanted to close my eyes, but they were pressed by an indescribable pressure, and they kept widening as if they were about to come out of their eyes; My heart beat so fast that I couldn't make out it; The veins next to the temples twitched alternately.