Chapter 1: What You Desire
Driving on a rural road at night, it is already late at night, and it is difficult to see pedestrians or vehicles on the road......
Turn on your car CD and play soothing music.
After four years as an engineer, it's time to take a break.
Thinking about the bar I just took over a few days ago, I suddenly had a little anticipation......
In addition to the street lamps, the country road is lined with large fields on both sides.
Fingers tapped along the steering wheel to the rhythm, feeling the wind blowing in from the car window, Ning Qiu felt a sense of drowsiness. He rubbed his brows and tried to make himself feel refreshed, the street lights on both sides suddenly flickered on and off, and the solar storage street lights would also be unstable? He thought.
Recover from a brief wandering!
Damn, someone!
He was amazed!
In the middle of the road more than ten meters ahead, there seemed to be a figure standing, and the shadow of the street lamp overlapped with it......
Ning Qiu subconsciously wanted to avoid it, hit the steering wheel hard, the wheels made a screeching sound, I don't know what happened, the car snapped, rolled over directly, rushed towards the figure with huge inertia, and hit the telephone pole again! With a boom, he felt his eardrums explode, followed by a buzzing beep......
The pungent smell fills the air......
He struggled to look up!
Black smoke billowed from the hood, accompanied by a faint glow......
The logic that the car will explode as soon as it catches fire seems to be a matter of course in the minds of every ordinary person......
Gotta get out of here......
Both legs are irregularly twisted and have broken bones! Ning Qiu endured the severe pain and pushed open the deformed car door, clasped his ten fingers on the ground, and dragged his body out of the car with his body slowly crawling out......
Laugh at......
It hurts!
Something is scratched!
Blood mixed with sweat flowed into his eyes, astringent and sour, before he could wipe it, Ning Qiu's heart tightened!
A bloodstained face suddenly appeared in front of him, almost kissing his own face!
Staring at himself with bloodshot eyes!
He?
Is it the dark shadow in the middle of the way?
The pain and the fear in his heart made Ning Qiu's breathing heavier and heavier, as if the air around him had become thinner, his brain was dizzy, and there was a trace of irresistible sleepiness......
That face looked at Ning Qiu for a long time, and said slowly: "It's only one step away from the final secret, and they found me...... A break has to be made. ”
Ning Qiu didn't understand what it meant, he only knew that his body was getting colder and colder.
I want to hold up my body, and my hand presses on a soft thing, which is intestines, bloody intestines!
Frightened, he found that a sharp piece of iron had been cocked at the car door, and the dragging body just now slashed through the lower abdomen, disemboweling him, his intestines flowed out of the wound, and a pool of blood had accumulated on the ground......
Such a serious injury.
When someone finds it, the corpse is afraid that it is cold......
Ning Qiu felt that his eyelids were very heavy, and sleepiness took over his brain, so he had to close his eyes and wait for death to come......
The face was silent for a while, and said, "Make a deal, take it over, and I'll help you live......" Ning Qiu struggled to open his heavy eyelids, like a drowning man grasping a floating straw!
There is a chance to live!
Who would want to die!
A glimmer of hope, and don't give up!
Blood kept pouring out of his throat, and he struggled to squeeze out one word: "Good ......"
A look of relief flashed in the eyes of that face: "Since you agree, then the deal is established, and everything is as you and I wish!" Ning Qiu's mind went blank, and his whole body trembled violently, as if he was being grabbed by an invisible hand in his throat, and as soon as his legs were kicked, there was no movement......
looked at Ning Qiu, who was motionless.
The face slowly emerged, his black robe dancing in the wind, and the sound was like a crow flapping its wings. He gently placed a pitch-black copper coin in Ning Qiu's palm......
Let's go, I hope you go farther than I do......
I don't know how long I've been asleep!
In the dream, Ning Qiu dreamed that he was sitting on a flat boat.
He floated forward along a black river, and countless scrawny monsters were locked on both sides of the river, their eyes were full of resentment towards Ning Qiu, and they kept roaring and struggling, wanting to pounce on him and tear him apart, but the chains wrapped around their bodies imprisoned them, and they couldn't take a step.
The boat is parked on the edge of a pier.
He walked up to the pier and walked along the brick-paved path until he saw a magnificent and antique building. There were two red lanterns hanging on the left and right of the door, and there seemed to be a voice urging him to push the door open. He didn't resist the sound, for he was also curious about what was hidden in the door, and pushed it open with both hands, and in an instant a boundless darkness poured out of the door and enveloped him into the building......
The cold wind kept pouring into his neck......
The empty nose was filled with the smell of burnt mush.
Ning Qiu slowly opened his eyes, and what greeted him was the sky, and he sat up from the ground!
Next to him was the skeleton of a car that had been burned black as charcoal.
There were many villagers standing around him pointing at him, looking concerned, but no one dared to come up and help him.
There was a dull ache in the body......
Ning Qiu suddenly thought of something, and lifted his clothes to check his abdomen! The place that should have been disemboweled, it was intact and there were no scars! Even the legs that are severely fractured and deformed are no different from normal people at the moment......
What the hell is going on?
If you don't have a burnt car, you'll think you're dreaming!
What is it?
He looked at his hands blankly, and found that there was an extra copper coin pattern on his right palm, as if it was tattooed!
What about the figure that was knocked down by himself?
He thought of that face!
Looking around, but found nothing, the figure evaporated from the world, as if Ning Qiu was the only one in the car accident. When the ambulance arrived, his mind was in a mess, and he was not in the mood to go to the hospital, so he simply refused to be examined on the grounds that he was in good health. Flagged up a car on the road and went straight to the casual bar that took over.
The bar is very well decorated, which is very in line with the word leisure.
It was originally run by a young couple, because they had no experience in doing business, and the location was wrong, so they didn't know if the guests could experience leisure, but they let the two couples relax to the extreme. In the end, he couldn't open it, so he could only cut the meat and transfer it, and it happened to be taken over by Ning Qiu at a low price......
Ning Qiu has made a lot of money as an engineer in the past few years, but the work intensity is too high, all he wants is a place where he can relax, and it is not so important whether the bar makes money or not. But who would have known that on the first day, there was a car accident and such a strange thing happened.
Sit at the bar, take a bottle of red wine from the wine rack, and drink it slowly.
While observing the pattern of the copper coin in his palm, he poured the wine on it and kept rubbing it, and the copper coin neither faded nor dissolved, like a birthmark growing on it. Ning Qiu's brows furrowed, and he tried his best to recall what happened after the car accident, the black shadow seemed to make a deal with him, as if he was helping him accept something, and in return, he was helping himself survive......
He gently stroked his abdomen, the pain of disemboweling was so real that it could never be an illusion!
Besides, if it is an illusion, how did this delicate copper coin pattern come about?
Damn, what did I make a PY deal with the Black Shadow last night?
How can you not be impressed at all?
Ning Qiu slapped on the bar, how could he encounter such a strange thing!
The palm suddenly became hot, and there was a slight ripple around it like water lines!
His heart tightened!
The copper coin poured out of the infinite darkness, enveloping him, and after a while, the darkness was still dark, but the eye gradually saw something, it was an empty room, with a table and two chairs in the center. On the table was a piece of paper and a black brush. And on that piece of paper, there are two words "contract"!
What contract?
I flipped the paper over and over again, but I didn't see anything special.