Shen Luotian jumped out of the taxi and stood in front of a large iron door.

The late autumn night was already very cold, and he wrapped his coat tightly and looked up at the gate in front of him, which was almost three meters high.

The iron door was supposed to be black, but after some time of wind and sun, the black paint had cracked and peeled off a lot, revealing the orange-red rust inside.

The autumn wind swept a few palm-sized sycamore leaves, hula and rolled behind him. The sound of leaves rubbing against the ground echoed across the open road, making the place more and more desolate.

"Ah, it's so high!" Ning Lu poked his head out from behind him, and looked up at the door in his appearance: "It's locked, how can we get over?" ”

"It's not how we get there, it's how I get there." Shen Luotian glanced down at the two girls who were following him: "You two can go in directly, as for me......"

He took two steps back and took a deep breath: "I can jump on it." ”

"Hey, I really can't see it, you're pretty good!" Ning Lu looked at Shen Luotian who fell to the ground lightly, and her tone was a little envious: "I've never been good at sports, how did you do it." ”

"It's hard to say." Shen Luotian lowered his head and looked at his hands, and said thoughtfully: "Probably because I'm a genius." ”

"Hit you." Ning Lu glanced at him with disdain, and walked forward along the path in front of him.

There are two rows of tall plane trees planted on both sides of the road, and the yellowed leaves make a small sound in the wind, and the dim light that shoots out of nowhere~ falls to the ground, reflecting the shadow of a young man.

"There is no shadow of me." Ning Lu lowered her head and looked at the gravel road under her feet, and muttered to herself a little depressed.

"Because you're dead." Shen Luotian strode past her from behind, and touched the top of her head: "Hurry up, I'll go home for dinner after sending you away." ”

"Oooh. You go slower! Ning Lu came back to her senses, raised her head to catch up with Shen Luotian's footsteps, and complained coquettishly: "The legs are so long and the steps are so big, have you ever considered the mood of us little short-legged girls, be careful that you can't find a girlfriend in the future." ”

"I can't find a girlfriend, and I don't need to worry about you, a female ghost who never has a chance to find a boyfriend again." Shen Luotian said this, but still slowed down, waiting for Ning Lu to trot to follow, and didn't forget to taunt her: "I don't think the root is a problem of your long legs ~ short legs, you see that Xiaoxi is shorter than you, how can she keep up." ”

"That's not because ......" Ning Lu was halfway through her words, glanced at Xiao Xi, who was pulling the corner of Shen Luotian's clothes, and silently swallowed the rebuttal back into her stomach.

Speaking of which, how did Xiaoxi keep up with such a short stature!

Seeing that her steps are not fast, why won't she be left behind?

Ning Lu looked at the person and ghost in front of him, and thought with some trouble.

"Then again." Ning Lu looked at her surroundings, trotted to keep up with Shen Luotian's pace again, and asked him, "Where is this!" ”

"Cemetery." Shen Luotian replied in a calm tone,

"Oh, the cemetery." Ning Lu nodded subconsciously, and after a few seconds, he suddenly realized what he had just heard: "What are we doing at the cemetery in the middle of the night!" ”

"Come and find the bodies of you both." Shen Luotian glanced back at him and sighed: "What's the matter, are you still afraid?" ”

"Hmm." Ning Lu~ nodded, and returned very simply: "I'm afraid of ghosts." ”

"Don't forget that you're a ghost." Shen Luotian reluctantly stopped moving forward and stretched out a hand at her: "Come here, I'll pull you away." ”

Ning Lu hesitated for a moment and took the hand that Shen Luotian stretched out to her.

"It's the first time I've seen a female ghost who is afraid of ghosts." Shen Luotian took Ning Lu and walked into the cemetery: "You are all the same kind, what are you afraid of." ”

"I don't know, I always feel like I'm not dead." Ning Lu accidentally saw a photo on a tombstone, quickly retracted her gaze, and reached out to pat her chest: "Anyway, I'm so scared, do you say it's possible that I'm not dead yet, so I'm afraid of ghosts?" Isn't there often such a plot in novels? A person thinks that his dead soul has been floating outside for a long time, and then he finds that he is not actually dead, but has just become a vegetative person, and he just needs to return to his body and come back to life or something. ”

"But you're really dead, don't say anything vegetative, your corpse can turn into a plant in half a year." Shen Luotian pulled her closer to his side, and whispered to her: "Although you are the same kind, it is not good for you to step on other people's roofs in the middle of the night, be careful that they will come out and scold you later." ”

Ning Lu glanced at the tombstone at her feet in surprise, and took the initiative to get closer to Shen Luotian: "No, there are really people here, ah no, there are ghosts living there?" ”

"Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn't." Shen Luotian said incomprehensibly: "Before they come out, you never know which tombstone will sleep under a dead soul who has nostalgia for the poster of this world. ”

"You sound like you're saying something powerful." Ning Lu looked up at Shen Luotian: "But why do I feel particularly unhappy when I hear this?" ”

Shen Luotian: "......"

Ning Lu struggled to put on an innocent expression, and repeated again: "Why is this? ”

"Shut up and go." Shen Luotian bent down, looked at Ning Lu's eyes, and smiled kindly and gently: "If you can't catch up with the time of reincarnation, you may become something in your next life." ”

Ning Lu was frightened by his strange tone of bad intentions when he heard it, and followed him honestly, never daring to speak again.

It wasn't until Shen Luotian stood in front of Tao Tao's tombstone and began to burn paper that she once again mustered up her courage and asked him: "In my next life, will I really become something else, and I can't be a person?" ”

"It's not a good thing to say." Shen Luotian flicked the paper money in the mud basin of the face year, trying to make the fire burn more vigorously, and said without raising his head: "Didn't you say before that you didn't want to be a man, isn't it better this way?" ”

"I just thought about it carefully and thought it was better to be a human being." Ning Lu frowned and whispered: "Although reading is very tiring, the people I like don't know what my name is, the interpersonal relationship is too difficult, and the relationship between my family and me is not good, but it is still quite fun to be a person." ”

Shen Luotian turned his head, stared at her eyes, and smiled meaninglessly.

The extinguished fire was reflected on the side of his face, and the leaves on the other side cast a large~ swaying shadow on his body, coupled with his long messy hair fluttering in the wind......

The corners of Ning Lu's mouth twitched~ twitched in response to a very unnatural smile, and an idea that should be considered peculiar to her was swirling in her mind.

This person looks like a ghost more than me, no wonder he didn't see anything strange in the cemetery, and his feelings were scared away by him.

"You've figured it out, don't regret it?" Shen Luotian's deep voice sounded in her ears, and he seemed to have deliberately lowered his tone, making his voice sound a little unfathomable: "Really don't you think about it carefully, it's very tiring to be a man." ”

"Don't think about it, I'll think about it." Ning Lu nodded firmly, turned her head to look at the paper money that was about to burn out in the brazier, and asked with some loss, "Can I still meet you in the future?" ”

"This ...... Not necessarily. Shen Luotian stood up, threw a piece of paper full of words into the brazier, looked at its curl a little bit, and then turned into a gray ball of paper ash: "First of all, you have to be a person first, otherwise I won't know you if I meet you." ”

"Hey, after a long time, you're still not sure what I'm going to do?" Ning Lu looked at him in surprise and shouted loudly: "You liar, I lost a little bit for you just now." ”

Only a little bit.

Ning Lu repeated this sentence in her heart, and looked up at Shen Luotian angrily.

"Who is right about this kind of thing, do you think I'm the king of Hades?" Shen Luotian looked at her with dignity, stretched out his hand and pushed her the chest: "Hurry up and go, you." ”

Ning Lu was pushed by him to stand unsteadily, took two steps back, and stepped into the blazing brazier.

And then there was a whirlwind.

Shen Luotian looked at Ning Lu after disappearing into the flames, and then lowered his head to look at Xiao Xi beside him.

"It's your turn, do you want me to say anything?"

"Body." Xiaoxi whispered out two words, looked up at him cautiously: "Incomplete, is it okay?" ”

"No problem."

"But ......"

"Not before, but now it can." As Shen Luotian spoke, he took out a white candle out of nowhere, lit it with a spark in the brazier, and handed it to Xiaoxi: "Take this, you don't need me to tell you about going down the river, look at Ning Lu's little girl, don't let her get lost." ”

Xiao Xi stared at the candle in front of him for a while, and slowly stretched out his hand to hold the thin candle.

"Ah Tian, you are ......"

"Anyway, it's an acquaintance, leave a light for you, otherwise it's troublesome to find your way and walk for too long."

Xiao Xi tilted his head and glanced at Shen Luotian's wrist, pursed his lips, and nodded lightly.

"Thank you." She whispered, and walked with her head down to the brazier where only a little spark remained.

"Hey, don't cry." Shen Luotian looked at Xiaoxi's back sadly: "I didn't want to see you cry when I did this, don't take it too seriously, you didn't do much when you were alive, just take it as your blessing, you deserve it, it's just that I'll send you this journey...... You get the idea. ”

"I didn't cry." Xiao Xi stood in the flames and looked back at him with a stubborn expression.

A pool of water swirled in her eyes, but it never fell.

"Ah Tian, you ...... in the future" She seemed to think of something again halfway through her words, and after a pause, she changed to a respectful expression and lowered her head slightly: "My lord, you will be careful in everything in the future, and there will be a period later." ”

"Hey, there will be another period!" Shen Luotian smiled and waved his hand at the gradually extinguishing firelight, watching Xiaoxi's translucent figure completely disappear into the cold air, before he breathed a sigh of relief and bent down to smash the brazier on the ground.

"The surname Song is bold enough, you dare to hide the corpse of someone in your wife's grave, and you are not afraid of retribution."

He stood there muttering to himself, then took his headphones out of his pocket, stuffed them in his ears, and turned to walk in the direction they came.

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Ning Lu stood in the dark, and her brain was a little difficult to use.

She had just been pushed into the fire by Shen Luotian, and after that, she felt as if she had been thrown into the washing machine and stirred for more than ten minutes, and when her feet touched the earth again, her only thought was to find a place to vomit.

She crouched on the ground and shook her head a few times, trying to sober herself.

It was dark all around, and there was a faint sound of water.

Where am I?

Oh yes, the one who said it, go down the river.

But where is the river?

She stood up again, carefully discerning the direction from which the sound of the water was coming from, and cautiously moving forward.

I don't know how long I walked, maybe not too long, but it seemed that several days had passed in Ning Lu's heart...... It could also be months.

She finally saw a little light.

It was a soybean-sized fire, shimmering behind her and approaching her.

"Hey!" She waved her hand in the direction of the firelight and shouted, "Is there anyone over there?" ”

Before she could finish speaking, the light of the fire stopped moving at an even speed.

Ning Lu blinked, and in the next moment, she saw that the flame was already tightly in front of her.

Oh, it turned out to be a candle.

As soon as this thought flashed through her mind, she felt a cold little hand tightly cover her mouth.

She subconsciously wanted to struggle, but although the hand was small, it was very powerful, and dragged her aside with an undeniable momentum.

Just when Ning Lu thought she was dead and began to think about what would become of the dead when they died, she heard a young girl's immature and stern voice behind her.

"What's the noise!" The girl who covered her mouth behind her whispered, "Do you know what kind of place this is, yelling, not afraid to invite other things?" ”

Ning Lu shook her head quickly, pointed to the hand that was covering her mouth, and put her hands together again, making a pleading motion.

"I can put my hands down, but you're not allowed to call anymore, you know?"

Ning Lu immediately nodded obediently.

As if feeling that her emotions had calmed down and would not continue to yell anymore, the man behind her slowly lowered his hand.

"Xiaoshio?" Ning Lu asked uncertainly and looked back.

Sure enough, it was Xiaoxi.

"You're here too." Ning Lu breathed a sigh of relief and said hello to Xiaoxi.

In any case, it's a good thing to meet someone you know in a place like this.

Even if the person is actually a dead person.

Whatever the hell, I'm dead anyway.

"It's me." Xiao Xi nodded at her, took her hand, held a candle in one hand to illuminate the path under the feet of the two of them, and whispered, "Don't make a noise, I'll take you away." ”

"Oh." Ning Lu replied depressedly, followed Xiaoxi in small steps, and let her pull her towards the unknown road ahead.

After walking for a while, Ning Lu still couldn't hold back her strong curiosity, and asked Xiaoxi, "Where are the two of us going?" ”

"Don't ask, just follow along, it won't hurt you anyway."

A moment later.

"Will it hurt?"

"Probably not."

A few minutes later.

"What will I become in my next life? Will it still be human? ”

"Yes."

"But before ......"

"He lied to you."

"Oh."

The sound of the river flowing became clearer and clearer, and it seemed that it was not far away, and Ning Lu could even smell the moist smell in the air.

"Xiaoxi, where did your candles come from?"

"Ah Tian gave it to me."

"Why didn't he give it to me?"

"One candle is enough for the two of us."

"Hey, it's so dark here, how can one be enough."

"Not everyone has a candle, do you know how hard it takes to get this thing down?" Xiao Xi stopped, looked back at Ning Lu, and showed an unprecedented serious expression on his face: "In this place, it is actually difficult to find a way without light, and there are many people...... They couldn't find their way here for decades or hundreds of years, until they forgot who they were and what they were going to do, you know? ”

Ning Lu shrunk her neck and smiled at Xiaoxi with some flattery.

"I don't really understand." She said embarrassedly, "Anyway, it sounds scary." ”

"If you know, it's good." Xiaoxi said and let go of Ning Lu's hand, lowered the candle in his hand, pointed to the river under his feet and said to her, "See, if you follow the river, you will arrive soon." ”

When she had said this, she turned and walked in the direction of the river.

Ning Lu hurriedly followed her footsteps.

"They don't have any candles, will they come to rob us?" Ning Lu then looked at the empty river bank with the light of the half-candle left, and asked Xiaoxi in a low voice, "What are we going to do if they come to rob it." ”

"Not for the time being, but not necessarily after a long time, so you go faster."

"Oh."

Xiaoxi's words were right, the two of them walked along the river bank for only ten minutes, and then they saw a huge waterfall.

"Here we are." Xiao Xi stretched out his hand to protect the candle that was only a small section in his hand, and looked at the waterfall flowing endlessly under his feet: "Just jump down from here." ”

"Do you want to jump?" Ning Lu took a step back in surprise: "Shall we jump together?" ”

"Whatever." Xiao Xi replied indifferently. Stretched out his hand and handed the candle to Ning Lu: "If you're afraid, it's okay to hold it for you." ”

"Oh, no, thank you." Ning Lu waved her hand at Xiaoxi, took a step forward, stood on the edge of the waterfall, and took a deep breath.

"You're going to pull me."

Xiaoxi didn't say anything, raised her hand and grabbed her wrist.

Ning Lu closed her eyes and said with a slight trembling: "I'll count one, two, three, and then we'll jump together." ”

"Okay."

"One, two, three—"

Ning Lu screamed and jumped off the waterfall, the deafening sound of water and the wind in her ears took almost all the places in her mind.

It wasn't until the last second that she fell into the water that she suddenly thought of an inexplicable question.

"Why is there a river here?"

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Shen Luotian walked out of the ramen shop, carrying two large bags of packed dinner, and walked slowly in the direction of home.

The road in the middle of the night was clean, and there was not even a ghost.

It's almost incredible, clean.

"I said, how have you spent the past ten years, isn't it annoying to let those messy things follow you all day long?"

He lowered his head, looked at the few English letters on the placket of his clothes, and sighed.

"Really, in vain I am so wise and martial, how can I be reincarnated as a person like you."

"It's not like this with a good temper, you look at what kind of stuff you've let a bunch of things bully you, can't you be fierce, don't you care about them?"

No one answered him, and a young girl walked past him, looked very warily at the handsome man who was talking to herself inexplicably, wrapped her coat tightly, quickened her pace, and trotted across the crosswalk.

Shen Luotian turned his head and watched the woman's back disappear into the corner of the street, and the expression on his face was a little surprised.

"Am I that scary?" He reached out and touched his chin: "Obviously handsome, okay?" ”

After muttering a few words of unknown meaning such as "It's tiring to be a good person", "You're almost a little older", "Remember to buy the new game next month", he suddenly remembered something, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and broadcast a number.

"Hey, it's me, it's almost done, the thing is at my brother's, just go back and let him put it back, right?"

The person over there seemed to be busy with something, and only after Shen Luotian said this more than ten seconds later, did he take the time to agree: "Well, okay, you can do it, I still have something to do here, and I don't have time to worry about that." ”

"What should I do over there, I can't control her, why don't you warn her?"

"When I'm done with this, won't the fox go back to the mountains? She shouldn't be able to toss without a helper. ”

"I don't know, I always feel like she can do something."

"What's the matter?"

"It's not good, it's just a feeling, hasn't she always been quite restless? I've been dying for so many years, and I've never seen when she feels like she's been taught a lesson and is honest. ”

"Then you just leave her eyes alone, let her be blind for a few days, I don't believe that she can still toss anything when she is blind."

"That's fine. I said, what are you busy with right now? How do I feel like you're more troublesome than bright? ”

"I'm not busy with anything, hahaha, I'll be back in a few days, don't worry."

"I'm not worried about you, I'm worried about something else. Are you going to Ghost King Mountain? ”

"Ah...... Well, I'm just going to check it out. ”

"What are you doing there, do you think you've lived too long and want to die?"

"I can't help it!" The person on the other end of the phone sighed exaggeratedly: "The ghost king has been missing for twenty years, and there is a lot of trouble on both sides, some things have to be done by someone, right?" ”

"So you went to die with righteousness?"

"It's not about death, the point is that there is probably no one else but me in this matter."

Shen Luotian didn't speak.

After a disturbing silence, the person on the other side of the phone spoke again: "It's not as dangerous as you think, I'm just going to take a look, knock and knock those dishonest thorns, don't scare yourself." ”

Shen Luotian still didn't speak.

"Hey, young man, you love to make a fuss. You don't want to think about how many years you've lived as a teacher, and you haven't seen any winds and waves, it's just a Hongmen banquet, what's the big deal. ”

"I didn't make a fuss, no one knows better than I know how dangerous that place is." Shen Luotian stopped at the gate of his house, reached out and pressed it on the fingerprint lock, lowered his head and said the last sentence to the mobile phone: "After talking for so long, do you know who I am?" ”

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to froze for a moment, and then gasped in surprise.

Shen Luotian resolutely held it down and hung up, and shouted into the courtyard: "I'm back, are you starving to death!" ”

The room was brightly lit, with a warm and tranquil smell.

The door was opened from the inside, and Xia Beifeng stood at the door, smiling and taking the dinner in his hand.

(To be continued.) )