Chapter 4: Don't Approach the Living (1)

On the day of the seventh half of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it is a special festival for the dead in the family, and it is a day specially set up for the dead by the living. However, if there is an unforeseen situation on the day of Halloween, I advise you that it is best not to go out of the house, although it is not safe to stay in the house.

Halloween is not that special day for me, I have seen a lot of sacrifices, whether it is strange, exaggerated or insipid sacrifices are nothing special to me, because most of the sacrifices are just a ritual for the living, for those who do not even have a trace of their soul in the yang world, they will not know what the living have done.

In the middle of July, the day of worship in the underworld, I said before that there is always a place where every school stands and there are bones buried deep underneath, so every day on this day, you can always see scattered ashes in the huge campus, which is the residual temperature of yellow paper and paper money flying into the fire. When I walked out of the dormitory door, a strong smell of incense and candles came over, not far from the door was burning two white candles, there were three incense sticks on the ground, this incense color is black, and the common incense used to worship the gods is completely different, in the Buddhist temple smelling that there is always a feeling of clarity and end, with a fragrance is very beneficial, and this black incense makes me feel a headache, nausea is strong, I don't know what the reason is, but subconsciously will deliberately avoid it. The flame of the white candle flickered and flickered brightly and dimly, but I could not feel a trace of wind coming and going. The white smoke from the three incense sticks seemed to have been pulled into the dormitory building, and the continuous smoke seemed to have become an imperceptible lead, one end was holding the incense outside the door, but the other end did not know where it was connected. I had to smile wryly, my imagination had improved a lot.

After a day of mourning, there was more than a little more paper ash on the campus, and now everything that should be burned out has been burned out, when I walked into the dormitory door, I saw that the three incense sticks were still emitting white smoke, and the white candles had almost been consumed, and I stared at them and stopped.

"Girl, don't look at what you shouldn't see." An old voice sounded behind me, and I was startled.

The owner of the voice was an old man, wearing a gray tunic suit, and it seemed that the dress had been with him for a long time, and in some places it had faded very badly. His hair is silvery-white, his eyebrows are as well, and of course his beard, and he looks very clean and energetic.

"Girl, it's getting dark, don't go back soon, it's Zhongyuan today, beware of encountering evil ghosts who escaped from hell. Hahahaha~"

The old man "intimidated" me with a scared childish expression. "Master, there is no movement yet." Could it be that I was so careless that I didn't even see a man standing behind the old man.

"It's okay, wait a minute." The old man turned his head to me, "Girl, it's too late if you don't leave now." ”

It was still a child's expression, but I subconsciously felt that this old man was not joking, and politely said goodbye to him, and then turned and walked to the dormitory building that was now greeting me with a big black mouth.

It's pitch black, there is no sound, there is no laughter, in the past, every time this time is the most lively time in the building, three or three groups walk in and out, always meet to do something. But today everything is so quiet. After going up the stairs, I fumbled for the light switch on the wall, it was usually on my left-hand side, and I could touch it as soon as I raised my hand, and as usual, I touched that position, and touched a cool thing, but it was not the touch of the switch, so I quickly withdrew my hand. Out of fear, I turned on my phone to light it. At this time, I felt that the dormitory building was terrifyingly dark, and the sky outside was starting to get dark, but I could still clearly distinguish the dormitory building from the outside, and the current dormitory building seemed to me to be almost a black hole isolated from the world. The light of the mobile phone hit the wall, there was nothing on the white wall, I was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned around and ran to the door of the dormitory, there was nothing on the wall, there was no switch, and there was no appearance of what I had just touched, this was not the dormitory building I was familiar with.

The dormitory gate is less than 20 meters from the staircase, I just need to run to the first floor to get out, I thought so, but the result seems to be unsatisfactory, I did go down one floor, but I didn't see the exit from the first floor at all, after going down one floor it was still a staircase, I continued to go down a floor, it was still a staircase. I think it's a bit like a ghost hitting a wall, to be honest, I'm afraid it's certain, but not enough to scream, I still ran at first, and then I stopped running after at least five floors, and walked instead. Even though I think I'm down five floors, maybe I'm still spinning in circles.

I became a little restless after I changed to walking, it was so quiet, in the darkness I could only hear my own footsteps, click, click, click, the sound was mixed with a voice that didn't belong to me, who made it, a person or something else? I paused to discern the source of the sound, the footsteps seemed to be coming from all around me, but on closer listening it seemed to be getting farther and farther away from me. When I turned around, it seemed to be hanging on a cobweb, stuck to my face, very wet cobweb, and when I reached out to brush it off, the cobwebs disappeared as if they had been taken back by their owner. My intuition told me that there was something on it, the one just now might be spider silk, but it was also a bit like human hair, I wasn't sure, I held the phone above my head tremblingly, I looked up a little bit, there was nothing, I couldn't say nothing, there was a pool of water stains on it, it looked very cloudy.

"Hey!" There was a voice behind me, I was startled and threw the phone out, afraid of falling into the darkness again, I quickly picked up the phone and shone it behind me. It was a thin girl with short student hair, and she looked at me with excitement as if she had seen a long-lost relative. "It's great to finally meet someone." As she spoke, she lunged at me, a gesture that was scary for me right now. Luckily, she just rushed over and hugged me. It took a few minutes for her to calm down, and I came back to my senses.

She told me that she had been walking here for a long time, she had been in the staircase, there was no one around, no matter whether she walked up or down, she couldn't walk to the end, she said that she was scared at first, and then she gradually adapted to the darkness, but what made her even more unbearable was the quiet, at first she could hear her own heartbeat, footsteps and breathing, and gradually she could not feel the sound as the senses became numb, and she was on the verge of collapse at that time. At this point she unconsciously took my hand, I could feel everything I could see, touch and hear, her fingers were cold, I could hear the sound of my heart beating with excitement, I could see her empty eyes, and I could hear my shallow breathing.