After taking a bite of ice powder, I suddenly remembered.

I haven't eaten this ice powder for a long time recently. When I was a child, my dad would buy me a bowl almost every summer night.

I don't know when it started, but this habit is slowly gone.

After taking a bite of the ice powder, I looked back at the ground.

I saw that all the water flowed down the ditch into the sewer.

I looked up at the pot of "Red Girl" on the table.

It has long, heart-shaped leaves and is dark red in color.

Hanging down, it looks much more vivid than before.

When I got closer, I could even smell a strange smell, not fragrant, but a sweet and bitter smell.

Li Jiale also looked at the water, and after all of them flowed into the sewer, he suddenly looked up at me: "Tang Xiaofan, is your heart full of question marks now?" ”

I nodded.

"So, why don't you ask me?"

“…… I. ”

I opened my mouth, not knowing what to say. The ice powder in Li Jiale's bowl had already seen the bottom, and he yelled at the stall owner to say another bowl, and the stall owner agreed, and came over with a bowl of freshly mixed ice powder.

Li Jiale said thank you to the stall owner.

Then he said to him: "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you!" ”

The stall owner's eyes lit up and he quickly nodded:

This statement is really novel and unique, and it rhymes! Who came up with this smooth mouth, not simple, not simple......" As he spoke, the stall owner rubbed his hands again and left.

After the stall owner left, Li Jiale began to eat a second bowl of ice powder.

Looking at the ice powder in my bowl that barely moved, Li Jiale said, "Tang Xiaofan, isn't it delicious?" Otherwise, I'll give you a new bowl of rose-flavored ......."

I waved my hand and said no.

After thinking about it, I asked him directly: "What the hell is going on?" ”

Li Jiale didn't raise his head, and continued to gulp on ice powder: "What's going on?" ”

"The little young man who was sitting next to you just now, eating ice powder, why did he disappear, he was obviously fine before, how could he eat a leaf and disappear......"

Before I could finish my sentence, Li Jiale interrupted me:

"Tang Xiaofan, how do you know that he ate that leaf and disappeared?"

I was stunned by this question.

When I looked at Li Jiale again, I found that there was something hidden in his eyes. Those things seemed like the answers I wanted, but they seemed so untouchable.

So I took a deep breath and simply said:

"Li Jiale, before, there were many people, obviously the people around me, who were still talking to you and me just now, but in the blink of an eye, they all disappeared."

At this point, I paused.

And Li Jiale's eyes when he looked at me were a little more complicated than just now.

I only heard him say, "Also, you go on." ”

I simply stretched out a finger and pointed to the "red girl" on the table: "I remember very clearly, every time these people disappear, they come into contact with this pot of things you just bought!" ”

The smile on Li Jiale's face froze.

At the same time, I felt that all the people around me, all the voices that spoke, stopped at that moment.

Time seems to have frozen.

Everyone around kept moving, the guests eating ice powder, the stall owners, and the crowd shuttling back and forth on the street. And among those people, I actually saw my grandmother and Mei Mei.

They walked down the street hand in hand, and this time, the girl was holding a marshmallow in her hand......

Look at everything that stops.

At that moment, I was a little creepy.

Stretched out his hand and shook it lightly in front of Li Jiale's eyes, but Li Jiale did not react.

I'm scared.

Shaking it again, this time, he grabbed my wrist: "Tang Xiaofan, what are you doing?" ”

Li Jiale's tone was a little dissatisfied.

I quickly withdrew my hand.

Looking around, those people still maintained the same movements just now, in the entire space, only me and Li Jiale could move, and the others looked like they had been pointed.

I quickly explained: "I saw that you didn't move, and I thought you were like them." ”

Li Jiale also looked at the people around him, and then he looked at the "red girl" on the table again.

He asked me again: "Tang Xiaofan, do you know what the Red Girl is?" ”

I thought about it:

"It's supposed to be an herb, right?"

"Red Girl" does not appear in "Autumn Moon Eclipse List", and I just make a judgment based on my general impression of it.

Besides, it is also debatable whether what Xia Hong said to Deng Guihua and Wang Jia, who disappeared before, is true.

There is a "red" character in "Red Girl".

In Xia Hong's name, there happens to be a "red".

Although I am not a suspicious person, it is inevitable that I will not think of them together when I encounter such a coincidence. If Xia Hong is really the "red girl" who died to save her family, then why did she appear alive in front of me.

In this way, she is not a "living person" at all.

Thinking about it, although it still feels a little creepy, I am not so scared anymore.

Compared with these messy things that have been encountered recently, the fact that Xia Hong is not a living person is not so terrifying. At the very least, it will clear my doubts.

A lot of things that felt incredible before, when explained by these gods and ghosts, it seems so natural.

Li Jiale continued: "The Red Girl is not a herb, at best it is a weed. There is a folk legend that it grows on graves, lives by absorbing nutrients from corpses, and is said to be able to bring the dead back to life when it eats something! ”

"Back from the dead?!"

I stood up all at once.

Seeing that I was a little excited, Li Jiale asked me to relax:

"Actually, this is also a saying, in fact, its effect is not as miraculous as the legend says, but it can indeed make the person who holds it up, the limbs produce a state of fake life."

Fake work?

What is this?

I've only heard people have a state of "fake death", what is the term "fake life".

I asked Lee Ka Lok, "What is a fake job?" ”

Seeing my puzzled face, Li Jiale didn't explain more on the topic of "fake work", he just said again: "The stall owner just now, why didn't he even know what the next sentence was if he didn't listen to the old man, do you know what the reason is?" ”

I shook my head.

Li Jiale looked left and right, and the people around him still maintained the action just now.

Even the brown sugar slime in the bowl seemed to have solidified.

It seems that the only people who can move are me and him.

Li Jiale looked at me and said firmly: "That's because the latter sentence has not been written into the program at all!" ”