Chapter 3: The Mirror Spirit (3)
In the city of the steel jungle, there are actually all kinds of horror legends. It's just that the pace of life in the city is too fast, and no one has the time to understand these things.
And modern people have a common problem, that is, they don't believe in anything. Take the supernatural stuff as an example, if you tell him about the supernatural, he will disdain you and even think that you are talking nonsense, but if you tell him supernatural things, then he will accept it.
In fact, the reason is almost the same, but the nouns are different. As soon as something is stained with supernatural things, it is superstition, but if you change this supernatural to supernatural, it is different, it is from the inside to the outside with a scientific energy!
Take those urban legends, how did they come about? It may be made up by someone, but it can be made, you have to have material for you to make it up, no matter how wonderful the story is, it must have an original form.
Therefore, many very mysterious legends are artificially made up on the basis of originally very ordinary events. Because people want to tell stories, since they are stories, they must have ups and downs in the plot, and they can't be told too plainly.
Take Xiaobei's incident as an example, which is also based on an urban legend.
The legend goes like this. That is to say, around 2 o'clock in the evening, a person, must be a person. Prepare two white candles, a small bowl of raw rice, and one incense. Starting from lighting the white candle, as soon as the white candle is lit, all this must be carried on, and it must not be broken halfway, otherwise something bad will happen.
Xiaobei told me that this legend is actually to invite the "mirror spirit". When you light the incense and put it in the bowl, you have to close your eyes and recite your wish silently.
You have to recite your wishes several times, your heart must be sincere, and when you think it is about the same, you must slowly open your eyes and look at the person in the mirror.
If the person in the mirror also opens their eyes with you, it means that you have failed. You can only do it all over again after a while.
But when you open your eyes, you find that the person in the mirror still has their eyes closed, don't be afraid, that's a sign of your success. Explain that the Mirror Spirit has accepted your request.
This is the second half of the legend that Xiaobei told me, and to be honest, I don't believe in it. First of all, this incident is too absurd, is there such a thing as a "mirror spirit"?
Secondly, I've heard a lot about asking for spirits, and if you want spirits to help you fulfill your wishes, then you have to pay a price. Xiaobei didn't say what price he would pay.
I remember that Xiaobei seems to have succeeded in inviting "Mirror Spirit", right? That's what he told me. That is, his wish can be granted? But what did he wish? He didn't mention the cost......
Think about it at the bar, I said Xiaobei like a woman, and when he smiled and said that I could see it, my head buzzed. Although he said he was joking at the time, it still made me feel very wrong.
Is this a price? The more accurate the desire, the greater the cost? What Xiaobei has to pay is to change from a man to a woman?
This..... This "mirror spirit" is sick, right? I have really heard for the first time that when others ask for spirits, there are those who pay the price of money, those who pay the price of health, those who pay the price of life, those who lose points, and those who make their family members pay the price. But this "mirror spirit" actually makes people pay the price of gender!
What does this mean? Could it be that the "mirror spirit" has seen the situation that there are more men and fewer women in today's society? Turn Xiaobei into a woman and make some contribution to the idle hooligans of society?
Not to mention, when I was drinking with Xiaobei today, I really felt that he had changed. Those who speak softly, take things lightly, dress up a lot cleaner than before, and their skin seems to have turned whiter!
If you keep your half-length hair long, put on women's clothes, and come to your aunt again every month, this will be a woman!
Oh my God, when I think of this, I shudder, I really don't dare to think deeply.
Alas, it's a pity, this thing is like this, it's not that I don't think about it, it means that it doesn't exist. The thing is just there, you can't see is a problem you can't see, can't you say that because you can't see, that thing doesn't exist? That's called self-deception.
I lit a cigarette and took a deep breath. Xiaobei is my friend who played together when I was a child, my homework was not good when I was young, I took a test, wrote a homework, I copied it according to Xiaobei. Although we were the first and second from the bottom in the class.
He was bullied at school, and I stood up for him. Then we were both beaten to the hospital, and we didn't dare to say who beat us, otherwise we would have to be beaten when we went back to school.
I remember one time when I was a child, I thought of a girl in my class as a boy. I pulled the girl's pants off from behind, and I looked at the ass and felt a little wrong, until the girl screamed, and I was broken.
At that time, Xiaobei was giggling beside me, and I hurriedly went behind him. When the girl came to the teacher, the teacher asked us loudly who did this, and Xiaobei hadn't reacted yet.
In fact, I felt very guilty at the time, but there was no way, when we were children, picking up girls' pants, it was a capital crime, not only could I not hold my head up at school, but there must be ten tortures waiting to be greeted when I went home.
As the saying goes: if people are not for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. As the old saying goes: friends are meant to be betrayed. For a moment, a few wise words flashed through my mind, and then before Xiaobei opened his mouth, he pointed his finger at the teacher and said, "Teacher, he picked it up." ”
I still remember Xiaobei's blank and angry eyes, and the loud sound of his father's big hands hitting his ass.
Just like that, Xiaobei actually gritted his teeth and survived, and he didn't recruit me. This really shocked me, you know, Xiaobei is notoriously timid and afraid, I didn't expect to have such feelings for me.
From that moment on, I identified with this friend, a friend for life. So, my friend is in trouble now, should I help? I can't sit idly by, can I?
But how can you help him? Make a phone call and tell him that he wants to open a little, it's good to be a woman in this life? No, he can stand it, I can't stand it, I feel cold when I think about it.
I was so engrossed in thinking that the cigarette in my hand burned out without even taking two puffs. After extinguishing the cigarette, I thought I should wash my face and rest, although I may not be able to fall asleep, after all, it is better to be upside down.
When I got to the bathroom, I put my hands on the basin and looked at myself in the mirror. Suddenly, I remembered that urban legend.
In the mirror, my person appears in the mirror. A white candle is placed on each side of the mirror, and a bowl is placed in the middle of the mirror, and the bowl is raw rice, and another incense is inserted in the raw rice!
What kind of picture is this? After carefully going through it in my head, the final picture froze. When I appear in the mirror, it's like a framed photo with a white candle lit on each side and an incense stick in the bowl in the middle!
It's not, isn't it a legacy? Only the dead can have such a picture. This is not a "mirror spirit" at all, this is a ghost!
No, things are very wrong. You have to contact Xiaobei quickly, let him know that there is something wrong with the matter, prepare in advance, don't go wrong at that time, and it will be over!
I ran out of the bathroom, grabbed my phone and called Xiaobei.
After the phone rang for a long time, someone finally picked it up.
"Hey, Xiaobei, I found something wrong, is the "mirror spirit" you invited real? Has your wish come true? I think it's a trap, you need to be careful! ”
"Hello? Feed! Xiaobei, are you listening? I shouted anxiously.
After a while, there were two coughs on the phone, and then a voice came out, which was not like Xiaobei's, but like a woman deliberately lowering her voice to speak......
"Well, I'm listening, okay, I know, my wish has come true, and the "Mirror Spirit" is also true, don't worry about it, go to bed early, bye-bye! "The phone was disconnected.
I was stunned for a while with my mobile phone, and immediately dialed it again, but Xiaobei's mobile phone was turned off!
"This is not Xiaobei...... It's not him....... Not his voice...... Who's that? I put my phone down and muttered something in my mouth.
I lay in bed in despair, my mind in a mess.
Who was the person just now? It was obviously a woman's voice, why did she deliberately lower her voice?
Is this woman in disguise?
Camouflage what?
Disguise a man?
Why pretend to be a man?
Because she used to be a man, but suddenly became a woman, in order not to let people who know her know anything not, so she has to disguise herself as a man's voice?
So, that person just now was Xiaobei? Xiaobei has really become a woman? Why did he turn off his phone and why didn't he answer my phone? Something happened to him?
Just as I was thinking, suddenly it was dark in the room. There's a power outage!
"Rohan... Lohan... Come here..."Xiaobei's voice!
I could hear it, it was really Xiaobei's voice, a man's, full of familiar tones.
My name is Luo Han, only Xiaobei calls me Luohan, that's right, this is Xiaobei. But how does that sound a little weird? It's not like a normal name called by a person's name, but it's a bit sneaky.
"Rohan... Come here... Come on..."The voice came again.
Xiaobei in my house? When did he come in? How did you get in? Also, this is my house, and it's not a women's bathhouse, why are you sneaky!
"Rohan... Come on... Hurry up..."The sneaky voice continued to sound, and I sat up from the bed and followed the source of the sound.
Bathroom, the sound is coming from the bathroom. Xiaobei in my bathroom? Why didn't he turn on the lights? Thinking about it, I reached out and pressed the switch, but the light didn't come on.
Oh yes, the power went out, I laughed to myself, reached for the bathroom door open, and walked in.
The bathroom in my house is not big, and if there are two people standing in it, it will be difficult to turn around. Although it was dark inside, I felt that I was alone in this bathroom!
I want to ask where Xiaobei is? But it's strange that I can't open my mouth and make a sound.
Just as I was wondering, the bathroom suddenly lit up. But it's not the light of the electric lamp, but the light of the flickering flames, the light and darkness.
I slowly turned around, and the bathroom mirror appeared in front of me. I looked at the mirror with a white candle lit on each side, and a bowl in the middle, and there was no incense in the bowl. The mirror was empty, yes, empty, there was nothing but candles and bowls, and there was no me!
Legend has it that white candles are used as a memorial to the dead. Legend has it that three sticks of incense are to worship gods, and one incense is to worship ghosts, I remember, Xiaobei told me that he inserted one incense in the bowl!
It's strange, I wasn't very scared when I saw this weird picture. I'm just a little curious, why can't I be reflected in the mirror?
Legend has it that ghosts are not reflected in mirrors. Am I a ghost?
It must have been a gust of wind blowing in the mirror, and I saw the candle flame in the mirror flickering, and then, I saw a person slowly appearing in the mirror, but this person was facing away from me.
Xiaobei? The person with his back to me is Xiaobei, a friend who grew up together, and I am very familiar with his back!
"Rohan... Walk... That's not me... That's not me... Can't go back... Can't go back... Come on! Xiaobei muttered softly at first, but then his voice became louder and louder, and when he said that he was about to leave at the end, he almost shouted!
I was frightened and shouted, "Xiaobei! ”
The lights were on in the room, and I was still lying in bed, was I just dreaming?
What did he tell me? I remember him saying to me, "Luohan, go, that's not me, I can't go back, let's go?" "I should be right in my memory.
But what does that mean? First of all, he said "go", who will go? It must be for me to go, for me to go where? And then he said, "That's not me," what does that mean?
"That's not me, I can't go back, let's go!" I muttered to myself, wondering what those words meant.
"That's not my ......" Does this mean that Xiaobei is no longer his original self? If so, who is Xiaobei now?
"I can't go back...... "Could it be that Xiaobei has already ......
When .....he said these two words, Xiaobei seemed to shout, which proved that he was in a hurry and urgent!
He's telling me to go? There are two times in a sentence that I am let go, what does that mean exactly? Am I in any danger? No, I didn't do those heartless things!