Chapter 4: Ghost Fire

"Below, Xu Tianyang." The little yellow hair patted his chest arrogantly, looked at Qu Yue and said, "Yan Wuxu, the sky of the sky, the ocean of the ocean." ”

"It's good." Qu Yue smiled crampedly, avoided Xu Tianyang's warm gaze, looked at the black shadows of the trees dangling outside the window, and asked in a low voice, "Where is Mr. Xu going?" ”

"I, I'm going to Wangjia Town, that's my hometown!" Xu Tianyang leaned back in his chair with a big grin and sighed: "I didn't buy a ticket for the last trip to Wangjiazhen, so I could only get off the bus halfway and walk for a while, I feel tired when I think about it." ”

"Coincidentally, I'm going to Wangjia Town like you." Xia Beifeng took out an apple from his bag, lowered his head and took a bite: "Just go together for a while, and I'm not afraid of encountering ghosts." ”

"What the hell did you guys say, what the hell?" Xu Tianyang came to his senses, sat up straight again, and his eyes flashed with excitement: "Do you mean the ghost you are talking about in Jijia Village?" ”

"Uh...... I don't know what that place is called? Zhao Xinning glanced back at Qu Yue worriedly, and whispered: "I just heard that it's not safe on the way to that side, probably not true." ”

"If you want to talk about haunting, this area is Jijia Village, and it is still a little famous in our local area." Xu Tianyang said to Xia Beifeng heartlessly: "I often went there to play when I was a child, and I have been gone for more than ten years, and I have never seen any ghosts, it should be made up by adults to scare us." ”

"So......" Xia Beifeng looked back and forth at Zhao Xinning and Xu Tianyang in confusion, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with that place?" ”

"It's Jijia Village, it is said that more than 20 years ago...... At that time, I was one or two years old, and all of a sudden the people in a village were gone, and there was no one alive or dead. Then the group of old people kept saying that it was haunted over there, and the ghost king went down the mountain to collect people's lives! Xu Tianyang stuffed his mouth full of dried squid, and his voice was very vague: "When I was a child, they always scared me into saying that the ghost king was going to come to the town to catch children and drink alcohol, and the heart, liver and lungs were fried in oil, and the fat meat was thrown away from lean meat, stir-fried vegetables, bone stew, or something...... It's like that, I still remember it very clearly, don't you just don't want your kids to go out at night? Adults are like this, stupid! ”

"According to what you say, what kind of ghost king is quite good at enjoying life!" Xia Beifeng finished eating the apple in a few bites, opened the car window and threw the kernel out of the window, turned back to Qu Yue who was sitting in front and said, "Are you scared, if you are afraid, we won't talk about it." ”

"It's okay." Qu Yue smiled softly, and there was indeed no frightened expression on her face when she listened to Zhao Xinning's story just now: "I don't know why, I'm not so scared when Mr. Xu tells ghost stories, you can tell it if you want, don't worry about me." ”

"Why!" Zhao Xinning stretched out a hand, pointed at Xu Tianyang, who was smiling on the side, and shouted loudly: "Why are you so scared that you want to cry when I tell you ghost stories, this guy is not afraid when he tells you, don't you love me?" ”

"No, no." Qu Yue hurriedly explained to Zhao Xinning: "I don't love you, how can I not love you?" I think it's probably because of ...... Hmmm......"

She looked at Xu Tianyang hesitantly, and whispered: "I feel that Mr. Xu looks funny, I feel like laughing when I hear what he says, and I am not afraid at all." ”

"What's funny about a long one!" Xu Tianyang looked at Qu Yue in surprise, and put on a very exaggerated sad expression: "Beauty, are you praising me or scolding me!" ”

"Ah......" Qu Yue was taken aback by his performance, and after being at a loss for a while, he looked at Xia Beifeng pitifully, with a hint of asking for help in his eyes.

"Of course I'm complimenting you on how handsome." Xia Beifeng nodded at Qu Yue, and said to Xu Tianyang seriously: "What this little beauty means is that you seem to be very good at bringing joy to others. ”

"This big brother, even me, knows that this is not what she meant, okay? Don't explain it blindly. Xu Tianyang sighed, waved his hand in Qu Yue's direction, and said in a depressed mood: "Forget it, if you think I'm funny, it's better than hating me when you see me." ”

Qu Yue showed an apologetic smile at Xu Tianyang, reached out and patted his chest, and subconsciously glanced back.

The man sitting in the last row still looked at the giggling people in front of him with disgust. He had a cold, sarcastic expression on his face, and the slightly curved lenses of his glasses reflected a cold light that made it impossible to see his eyes hidden under them.

As if he had discovered that Qu Yue was looking at him, the man raised his chin at Qu Yue, seemed to sneer, shook his shoulders, and turned his head to look out the window.

"It's true that there are people who are annoying at first sight." Xia Beifeng also glanced back at the man sitting behind: "If you meet this kind of person, just stay away from him as soon as possible, the person you hate at first sight will only become more and more annoying in the future." ”

"Hey, is that so?" Qu Yue looked at Xia Beifeng in surprise, and retorted with insufficient confidence: "It's not right to judge a person's quality based on first impressions, it's too subjective to ask for it." ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Xia Beifeng said firmly: "The person you liked at first sight may like it more in the future, or you won't like it in a few days; But if you hate someone at first sight, it means that you two are not in harmony, and you will only get more and more disgusting in the future, without exception - this is my experience. ”

"Ah......" Qu Yue opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something. But soon, the expression on her face changed slightly, as if she recalled something, but instead changed her words and agreed with Xia Beifeng's statement.

"It seems to be true, people who generally feel annoying at first glance will not be able to become good friends even if they try to get along with each other in the future." Qu Yue pulled Zhao Xinning's sleeve and was begging for his friend's opinion: "What do you think of Ning Ning?" ”

"I'm sure I'm the kind of superficial woman who judges people by their first impressions!" Zhao Xinning said confidently: "I'm a very simple person, if you look good, you're a good person, and if you're ugly, you're a bad person...... I won't have much with the bad guys! ”

When she said the word "ugly", she deliberately accentuated the pronunciation, and glanced at the man sitting in the back row, intentionally or unintentionally, with indescribable disdain on her face.

"So it can still be like this!" Xu Tianyang also interjected: "Then I'm a super good person, right?" ”

"You!" Zhao Xinning once "scanned" Xu Tianyang from head to toe with a complicated expression: "It's just an ordinary good person, if you change the shape I like, you can barely be regarded as a good person." ”

"Well, you're asking too much." Xu Tianyang wailed and hugged his head: "May I ask this eldest lady, what should a super good person be like in your eyes!" ”

Zhao Xinning turned his head and looked at Xia Beifeng very critically for a while.

"This Uncle Xia, who is four or five years younger, shaved his beard and wore a set of handsome clothes...... I can barely hit 90 points. Zhao Xinning touched his chin and pretended to be deep and said, "Now, I'm a little older." ”

"Oh, I'm already old, and the little girl is really demanding now." Xia Beifeng pretended to be disappointed and turned his head to look out of the car window: "I just said that Lori loves uncle, I changed my words so quickly, women are really fickle!" ”

"Ninety points, you're not satisfied! What else do you want? Zhao Xinning shook his head and said slowly: "A 100-point beautiful boy only exists in my heart, and it is impossible to exist in reality, so your score is actually very high." ”

"Don't tell you what you're talking about." Xu Tianyang said with emotion: "People, I don't know when I met the perfect person in my mind...... After falling in love at first sight, I chased after it and got no response. And then find out that he doesn't love you at all, and that's embarrassing. ”

"No, it won't." Zhao Xinning said firmly: "I am a very demanding person, and ordinary people can't do it." ”

"Then may I ask Miss Zhao, what kind of boyfriend do you want?" Xia Beifeng lowered his head and fiddled with his mobile phone, and asked casually: "Tell me, maybe I really know such a thing, and I'll introduce it to you when the time comes." ”

"Me!" Zhao Xinning looked at the night outside the car window, his eyes flashed with a sparkling light, and said slowly: "Be taller, at least more than 1.8 meters; High IQ and good academic performance; well-developed motor nerves; Good temper; Humor; It's best to be able to fix computers; Appointments will not be late; Be gentle with girls, but don't estrus casually, and keep a distance from the opposite sex except for your girlfriend; will spoil me, care for me, and love me; On call, buy me bags, buy clothes, buy cosmetics, and don't feel distressed at all when I dig out my wallet...... And then the most important thing is, to be handsome, to be very handsome, to be very handsome! ”

"You're asking a bit too much." Xu Tianyang took a deep breath, and finally didn't hold back the desire to complain in his heart: "And the last one who wants to be handsome or something, what kind of stuff is that, after all, don't you still look at your face?" Why are you so obsessed with your face? ”

"Because I'm superficial!" Zhao Xinning retorted confidently: "The internal conditions can be cultivated slowly, and if the hardware is not up to standard, it will be all over, and people like you will not understand." ”

"Well, then you can consider cultivating Comrade Xiaoxu!" Xia Beifeng's fingers quickly clicked on the mobile phone screen, and he said without raising his head: "It's not bad for people's parents, and it's a potential stock if you work hard to cultivate it." ”

"It's not hard to train him, it's very hard, okay!" Zhao Xinning glanced at it and looked back at Xia Beifeng depressedly: "Uncle, if you are younger, I can consider cultivating it." ”

"I don't need you to train me, I think I'm fine now."

"The first impression is good...... Zhao Xinning looked at Xia Beifeng, pondered for a while, and suddenly asked him, "Uncle, are you married?" ”

"Nope." Xia Beifeng subconsciously replied, then reacted, raised his head and glanced at Zhao Xinning.

Zhao Xinning looked at him with a smile, and he didn't look too serious.

Xia Beifeng breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and pressed his phone again, while teasing her along with Zhao Xinning's words: "What's the matter, have you taken a fancy to me?" ”

"You can think about it." Zhao Xinning seemed to think seriously for a while, and nodded slowly: "If you sincerely chase me for a few months, I can probably put you on the list of candidates for your boyfriend." ”

"Thank you, I'm ashamed." Xia Beifeng looked at the WeChat chat interface that flashed quickly on the mobile phone screen, grabbed his hair irritably, and turned on the voice.

"What time is it and you're still playing games, you go to dinner! Hear no! ”

He put down his phone, looked up at Zhao Xinning's curious eyes, and turned off the phone screen.

Zhao Xinning stretched his neck and watched Xia Beifeng put the phone back in his pocket, and asked viciously: "Who, if you are not married, will your girlfriend check the gang?" ”

"It's not." Xia Beifeng rubbed the corners of his forehead, and suddenly felt that he was very tired: "My brother, I have been playing games at home for a day, and I haven't eaten dinner yet...... It's almost ten o'clock. ”

"So you still have a younger brother!" Zhao Xinning quickly grasped the focus of her attention: "How old are you, does you look like you, handsome or not?" Are you a student? Or is it already working, what are you doing? ”

"Twenty." Xia Beifeng replied casually: "Handsome words...... It's a little bit worse than me. ”

"Oh, more handsome than you." Zhao Xinning nodded meaningfully, leaned closer to Xia Beifeng and asked, "One year younger than me, it's not much worse, do you have any photos?" Come and see. ”

"Isn't there a problem with your comprehension?" Xia Beifeng vigilantly covered the mobile phone in his pocket, and shook his head resolutely at Zhao Xinning: "I won't show you, I'll go while resting." ”

"Hey, stingy." Zhao Xinning shrank back depressedly, and after a while, he stretched out his hand to Xia Beifeng: "Then you can always give me the contact information." ”

"Oops...... Hehe......" Xia Beifeng snorted, looked left and right for a while, thinking about how to naturally change the topic.

At this moment, Xu Tianyang let out an exclamation.

He stood up suddenly, took a step forward, pointed to the window next to Xia Beifeng, and shouted excitedly: "Look at it! Ghost Fire! ”

Hearing this, Xia Beifeng turned his head and looked in the direction of his finger.

It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and there were no street lights in the mountains, except for the occasional sporadic lights passing by the roadside, most of the time, the bus relied on the lights to identify the direction of progress.

At this time, a large area of dark blue fire gathered outside the car window. Those tiny flames trembled and floated in the air, little by little, approaching the vicinity of the bus.

The driver in front of him seemed to hear them, and he turned his head to look at the phosphorus fire flying outside the window around him, and silently sped up the car.

Unexpectedly, although the small phosphorus fire seemed to float very slowly, in fact, the speed should not be underestimated, they could still follow the bus closely behind the bus when the speed was getting faster and faster, and even a few points of fire had touched the window.

"Ghost fire!" Xia Beifeng sighed quietly and took out his mobile phone: "It's pretty good-looking, do you want to take a group photo." ”

Xu Tianyang looked at Xia Beifeng beside him dumbfounded, obviously he couldn't quite understand this person's brain circuit.

Qu Yue was originally sitting by the window, but now she was shrinking into Zhao Xinning's arms, looking at the blue fire on the window next to her in horror, her eyes full of tears.

"What the hell is this!" Zhao Xinning hugged Qu Yue's shoulders and seemed to be trembling a little, but she still forced herself to pose as if she was not afraid of heaven and earth, waved her hand at the fire outside the window, and shouted loudly: "No matter what the hell you are, get out of the way!" ”

Xia Beifeng pointed his mobile phone camera at the firelight outside the window, and kept taking pictures with a "click", while saying casually: "Ghost fire, it's phosphorus fire!" Phosphorus is produced in humid places, and when the temperature is high, it spontaneously combusts! You must have studied it all when you were in school, but are you so scared? ”

"But our teacher didn't say it would run after us!" Zhao Xinning raised his head, looked at Xia Beifeng with tears in his eyes, and said with a crying voice: "It's autumn now, why is there a ghost fire!" And they keep chasing us, why! And how the hell do you think about it, and are you still in the mood to take pictures, isn't ......?"

She seemed to suddenly think of something, held back the sentence she was about to blurt out, hugged Qu Yue, and carefully moved her body to widen the distance between her and Xia Beifeng.

"Aren't you really human? That's why it's so fun to see your kind? ”

Xu Tianyang continued with Zhao Xinning's words.

After saying this, he himself was flustered. After seeing Zhao Xinning's angry gaze, he smiled heartlessly, looked at the mobile phone flash in Xia Beifeng's hand, as if he had seen something novel, and shouted in surprise: "Impossible, it turns out that I can still see monsters in my lifetime?" ”

"I'm not a youkai, where do you all want to go?" Xia Beifeng put down his mobile phone, looked at the three young people in front of him indifferently, and pointed to the phosphorus fire behind the car: "Look, which ones are following us, aren't they gone?" Are you scared like this? ”

"Ah, it's really gone." Qu Yue plucked up the courage to lean in front of the car window and looked behind: "They stayed there, and they don't follow us anymore." ”

"......Huh" Zhao Xinning breathed a sigh of relief, let go of the arm holding Qu Yue's shoulder, opened the window and looked back: "What the hell is that!" Scared the hell out of me. ”

"It's phosphorus fire." Xia Beifeng sat back in his seat, lowered his head and fiddled with his mobile phone, and said without raising his head: "There should be some rotten leaves or animal carcasses or something, although it is not summer, but when our car passed, there may have been a little spark splashed on it, and if there is an open flame, the phosphorus below will burn all at once." ”

"But I just felt like they're chasing us!" Zhao Xinning rolled his eyes at Xia Beifeng fiercely, and complained: "Even if what you said is true, your reaction at that time was too ...... Heartless, I almost thought you were a monster. ”

"If I were a monster, I would have eaten you two little beauties." Xia Beifeng grinned and grimaced at Zhao Xinning: "It is estimated that the speed of the car is too fast, and the air flow brought up blew up the phosphorus fire on the ground, and it flew with our car for a while." It's not that they're chasing us, it's that we're bringing them up, and maybe people themselves won't like it. ”

"Your grimace isn't scary at all, it's funny." Zhao Xinning looked at Xia Beifeng with a smile, as if after listening to his explanation, he had completely put the fear just now behind him: "Maybe it's really what you said, thinking about it, what you said makes sense." ”

"I know so much, that's nothing." Xia Beifeng raised his chin proudly and winked at Zhao Xinning: "Do you particularly worship me?" ”

"Where are you going, I mean, you said that it looks good, and you should take a picture, which makes sense." Zhao Xinning rubbed to Qu Yue's side again as he spoke, and looked at Xia Beifeng with disgust: "Who wants to worship you, why are you so narcissistic!" ”

Xu Tianyang looked at the car window thoughtfully for a while, and when he heard this, he suddenly came back to his senses, sat back in his seat, and said to Zhao Xinning with a smile: "It's better to worship him than to worship me, right?" ”

"You're more narcissistic, okay?" Zhao Xinning lowered his head and took out an empty small bread bag, crumpled it into a ball and threw it at Xu Tianyang: "Get away, don't get in the way of our eyes!" ”

Xu Tianyang raised his hand in front of him, caught the plastic packaging bag, and laughed.

"Oh, it's a shame I didn't."

"Laugh what a laugh! You're so badly beaten! ”

"Hahaha......"

Qu Yue kept pulling Zhao Xinning's sleeve, trying in vain to dissuade the laughter of the two young men.

Xia Beifeng smiled and watched the arguing with Zhao Xinning and Xu Tianyang, looking down at the dark mobile phone screen from time to time, with a little slight anxiety hidden in the depths of his eyes.

In the last row of the bus, no one was paying attention, and a man was reclining on a long seat, his upper body hidden in the shadow of the corner, his face covered by pale blue curtains, as if he was asleep.

The hilarious laughter of the young man in front of him didn't seem to have anything to do with him at all.

A breeze blew from nowhere, blowing the curtains on his face for a few seconds, revealing his face hidden under the curtains.

There was a mixture of fear, incredulity, and pleading on his face, distorted by the exertion of force. The most terrifying thing was his eyes, which were wide and round, staring at the car window in front of him, their eyes covered with red bloodshots, a little protruding, as if they could break free from their sockets and fall to the ground at any moment.

The blue curtain slowly fell, covering his hideous face again, making him look normal again.

Only in the blurry reflection imprinted on the transparent glass window, the man who looked like he was asleep, did not have a trace of heaving in his chest.

(To be continued.) )