We secretly exchanged glances, and after Aunt Zhao left, Bai Yiqing wondered: "Why can't you go out at night?" Did you have this rule in the town before? ”

Sunai shook his head: "It's not ......"

When we entered the house, a musty smell rushed to our faces, and the dust fell on a thick layer, so we fetched water and simply cleaned up the room, which could only be spent one night.

Aunt Zhao brought some food over in the evening, we thanked her again and again, and before leaving, she told again: "Don't go out at night, and don't pay attention to any movement when you hear it." ”

"Thank you, Aunt Zhao." Sunai sent Aunt Zhao away, and we ate something to fill our stomachs.

In early summer, when it gets dark late, and there is still a little light at eight o'clock, the wiring in the house may be broken, and the light bulb will not work.

I turned over a few old candles and came out, and they were still lit.

The candlelight flickered in the darkness, and the house always seemed dark and eerie, and through the window, the whole town was shrouded in dead silence, and no human voice was heard.

But the lights were still on, and I couldn't help but ask Sunai curiously: "Do all the residents of the town sleep early?" No sound can be heard now. ”

Sunai looked puzzled: "I don't know very well, it wasn't like this before." ”

Chu Nantang seemed to be able to go anywhere he could, leaning aside and quietly closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.

Bai Yiqing played with the camera in his hand. I started looking at the photos I took all the way today. Suddenly, Bai Yiqing exclaimed: "Come and see!" ”

I exchanged glances with Sunai and stepped forward. Bai Yiqing enlarged the freeze-frame photo infinitely, the looming translucent figure, hidden behind a row of poplar trees, the rest could not be seen, only those two eyes, full of hatred light, cold as ice, like a sharp arrow can penetrate people's hearts and souls.

The long hair hung down on his chest, and his head drooped to see it unreal, but Sunai looked panicked and staggered back two steps: "Yes...... It's Konatsu. ”

"Xiao Xia naturally came back with Sunai." I returned the camera in my hand to Bai Yiqing, and suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the candlelight on the table flickered.

Bai Yiqing hurriedly held the candles on the table with both hands, Chu Nantang opened his eyes faintly, he couldn't see the bottom of the depths, twisted the soul bead and walked to the window, and glanced at the town at night.

At that moment, something strange happened in the town, and at the same time, all the lights went out, and it was as dead as an empty town.

Sunai's eyes widened with horror: "This is ...... What's going on? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the candle on the table went out, and a strange shadow floated by the window, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Chu Nantang turned around and ordered, "You stay here." ”

With that, he chased after him through the wall. Bai Yiqing stayed at ease: "I'll go out and have a look." ”

"Xiaobai, take me."

"I ...... too Go. "Sunai chased me out.

The dead and empty town is so quiet that it makes people feel a chill in their hearts.

There was a 'plop', the sound of diving came from the dark riverbank, and when we rushed over, we saw that a master in the town was actually flooded, and began to struggle desperately.

But no matter how he struggled, his body kept floating in the middle of the water, Bai Yiqing was about to jump down to save people, and I suddenly stepped forward and pulled him.

"Xiaobai, look, someone grabbed him under the water."

When I looked closely, I saw a bloody hand, dragging the uncle tightly, and dragged him desperately into the water.

"I'll go, it won't be a water ghost, will it?" Bai Yiqing was thinking about how to subdue the water ghost, and a spell flew out of nowhere, and the thing in the water touched the charm and fled away with a scream.

Bai Yiqing jumped into the water to save people, and when he dragged the uncle ashore, he had already poured a few mouthfuls of river water and was unconscious.

Bai Yiqing pressed his chest a few times and gave him cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the uncle spit out the choked water. I woke up faintly, but my mind was still not very clear and I couldn't recognize people.

We sent the uncle to the private clinic in the town, and knocked on the door for a long time, but no one came to open it.

Looking through the window, it was pitch black, and it seemed that there were no living people moving at all.

Chu Nantang said: "The people here seem to have suffered from nightmares, and they can't control their thoughts and actions, so they can only wait until dawn." ”

Fortunately, the uncle had a big life, and his breathing was normal, until the sky was white, and the uncle woke up.

Take a look around. A puzzled look: "Why am I here?" ”

Bai Yiqing wiped a cold sweat: "Uncle, don't you remember what happened yesterday?" ”

The uncle thought about it seriously, and his face turned blue and white for a while: "I went to the river, but why should I go to the river?" ”

"You ask me? How do I know why you ran to the river in the middle of the night? Bai Yiqing asked angrily, he didn't sleep all night, and his anger inevitably increased.

The uncle got up from the ground in a panic and left quickly without saying a word.

"Hey, this uncle ran away without saying a word? It's a shame that we guarded him for one night! ”

"Alright." Chu Nantang said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid that they should know very well in their hearts why these things happened, but they don't want to say it." ”

I pondered for a while, and a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind: "Nantang, I suddenly remembered the incident with Chunya in the village." ”

"Well, there are indeed some similarities." Chu Nantang thought for a while and asked Xiang Sunai: "Can you take me to Xia Xi's house to see?" ”

"Okay." Sunai nodded, didn't have time to rest, and led us to Xia Xi's home.

The house that has not been lived in for a long time is dilapidated, and the yin qi is very heavy. There is a saying in my hometown that many homeless lonely ghosts will occupy a room that has not been occupied for a long time, so if you leave for too long and come back, you always feel that the house will be gloomy.

The door was unlocked, covered with cobwebs, and it opened with a slight push, Chu Nantang took the lead in the front, and Sunai said softly: "The house is still the same as when I left, nothing has changed." ”

"The furniture is so worn!" Bai Yiqing sighed and shook the table next to him, not wanting to fall apart like this, floating a layer of dust.

Bai Yiqing covered her nose and retreated, coughing a few times: "I said, didn't there be volunteers who took turns to take care of Xia Xi back then?" And there are a lot of donations, why don't you change the furniture in the house? How broken is this?! ”

Xiaobai's unintentional words made my heart suffocate, and I subconsciously looked at Sunai, a trace of sadness flashed in Sunai's eyes, and she choked up: "Perhaps...... It's not as rosy as it seems. ”

I followed Chu Nantang closely and came to the small bathroom, they used to use wooden barrels to bathe, the bathroom was a mess, soap boxes and brushes, and towels were scattered all over the ground.

It was as if there had been a great war, and everywhere it was swept through, nothing was safe. Suddenly, I noticed that the cask was surrounded by long marks that looked like fingernails.

I leaned forward to take a look, rubbed my fingertips over the scratches, and swallowed quietly.

"Nantang. Look at these traces, how much strength must be used to grasp them so deeply! "It was as if you could feel the pain and hatred of this person from these scratches.

Bai Yiqing shouted twice outside: "Come and see, there is a basement here." ”

Chu Nantang and I turned around and left the small bathroom, and Bai Yiqing pulled the basement open, and there was a staircase leading to the basement.

Sunai trembled slightly, and her voice seemed to tremble: "Back then, Uncle Xia hanged himself in the basement. He locked Natsu in the basement for half a time. ”

"I'll go down and have a look." Chu Nantang went down the stairs.

"I'll go too." I looked back at Bai Yiqing and Sunai: "You guys are waiting on it, and you will come back soon." ”

"Okay, you can go." Bai Yiqing quietly glanced at Sunai, patted his chest and said, "Don't worry." With me here, no ghosts dare to come! ”

Sunai pursed her lips shyly and smiled, and nodded.

The basement was dark, so I took out the flashlight from my backpack and lit it up, and put some common tools and some sticks in the basement.

There was a hemp rope hanging from the beam, and some timidity was born in his heart, and he came to Chu Nantang's side.

Chu Nantang smiled lightly: "I'm afraid to follow down?" ”

"Isn't it you?" I hugged Chu Nantang's arm, looking up with a face without fear.

Chu Nantang raised his eyebrows and said helplessly: "But you forgot, I'm also a ghost." It's a ghost, and they all have three points of anger. ”

"But your anger won't hurt me. You will only protect me. "I believe in him wholeheartedly and will never really hurt me.

"Lingsheng, if you believe in me like this, it will make me ......"

"Huh?"

"Huh...... Nothing, you're right, I won't hurt you. ”

I pursed my lips and smiled, sweet to my heart, took a flashlight to shine around, only to see a chair in the basement, the chair arm is tied with a leather rope, the leather rope seems to have been tied to something, and a layer of blackened unknown objects is glued to it. It smells very foul.

Chu Nantang looked at the chair and thought about it, turned around and sat on it, I was shocked: "Nantang? ”

"Shhhh......h

He seemed to be asleep, and I didn't dare to disturb him, but just quietly stayed by his side, and after a while, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were full of violence and exuding a bloodthirsty red.

I exclaimed, "Nantang, what's wrong with you?" ”

His eyes gradually returned to their clear color, and he was silent for a while, lowering his eyes before he said, "It's okay, I saw something bad." ”

"You, what do you see?"

Chu Nantang secretly took a deep breath: "I saw Xia Xi being tied to this chair with a leather rope and being abused. She struggled desperately and painfully, ropes squeezed into her flesh, hysterical screams, and no one paid attention to the loneliness and desolation. ”

"How so? It's not that ...... Did the volunteers take good care of Xia Xi? Isn't that the same as your own daughter? ”

"The so-called long-term illness has no filial son in front of the bed, not to mention that there is still no blood relationship? Some feelings are not necessarily fake, but in the back, most of them have deteriorated. ”

When he was about to go up, suddenly the flashlight went black, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, no light could penetrate at all, and he couldn't see his fingers.

I reached out and touched it in horror, and suddenly my fingers touched a cold sticky feeling, a pungent stench like spoiled blood, I screamed, took two steps back, and touched something.

Just as I was about to struggle to escape, the man behind me grabbed my shoulders and comforted me in a low, magnetic voice, "It's me." ”

"Nantang! Nantang ...... She's right here, I just touched her. ”

"Well, now that she's gone, let's get out of the basement." He told me to go ahead first, and when I climbed the ladder, the planks in the basement were locked.

No matter how much I pushed, there was no way to push it away.

"Nantang, the wooden board in the basement seems to be stuck, and I can't get out!"

Chu Nantang said: "Outside, the two of them are afraid that something has happened, are you afraid of being here alone?" ”

"I ...... I'm not afraid, you just need to come back quickly. ”

"Okay, I'll go out and have a look first."

After Chu Nantang left, the basement was so silent that it seemed that only my own breathing and heartbeat could be heard, and I listened to the movement outside with my ears pricked up, but there was no sound.

I pushed the plank with all my might, but I didn't move.

Suddenly, there was a strange sigh from the basement, and the cold air hit behind me, and something tugged at my back, and my weight fell back, and I fell heavily off the ladder.

For a moment I lost consciousness and my thoughts drifted back, and I felt her right next to me, and I was so frightened that I didn't dare to move.

Chu Nantang. Why hasn't he come back yet?

Suddenly, there was a flash of fire in the darkness, my eyes were stinging, my face was gone, and when I was getting used to the light, I looked up and saw a teenage girl sitting in a shabby chair.

"Summer ...... Summer Eve? ”

She stared at me for a moment, didn't speak, her eyes purred and rolled, and only the whites of her eyes remained.

I took a few steps back until there was no way to retreat: "Xia Xi, I know that you are very painful when you are alive, but people have humanity, ghosts have ghosts, if you don't let go of the obsession in your heart, you will always be painful to stay in the world." ”

She shuddered and tilted her head, as if she understood what I was saying.

His eyes returned to their normal pupils, and he stretched out his hand to me: "Come here, I'm so cold, come and hug me." ”

I hesitated, I didn't dare to go over, she was full of loss: "No one loves me, no one will care about me." You are all liars, and one by one you said that you would be by my side, and what happened? Leaving me alone, the endless loneliness, driving people crazy, I screamed, I cried, but no one paid attention to me, no one ......"

"Xia Xi, the people who are good to you are not all deception, they were also well-intentioned at the beginning. If you think about it, there are actually some beautiful things as well. ”

"Wonderful...... Hehehe...... All I know is that the endless loneliness and despair you brought me were you! Even if I go to hell, I'm going to take you to the funeral!! ”

She screamed, the sound tingling her eardrums, and she saw that everything around her was shaking, and the person in the chair was gone.

The pile of wooden sticks burned somehow, and Xia Xi stood in the firelight, her skin peeling off little by little, and her flesh and blood blurred.

The smoke was so thick that people couldn't open their eyes, and it was difficult to breathe.

"Help! Help me! cough cough cough ......"

Suddenly, there was a crash of the wooden planks in the basement, and the fire grew louder and louder, and just as I was about to lose consciousness, the basement was knocked open.

Chu Nantang rushed in desperately and picked me up the ladder on his back.

Suddenly, a hand grabbed my foot, I looked back, Xia Xi with a pleading, full of tears: "Don't leave me alone, don't leave me alone......"

Chu Nantang quickly drew the spell, a trace of horror flashed in Xia Xi's eyes, and he screamed miserably, letting go of me and retreating into the firelight.

When we crawled out, somehow, the fire was unstoppable and swallowed up the house in one fell swoop.

"Quick, find someone to put out the fire!" Bai Yiqing stepped forward to help me and fled the house with Sunai.

The fire disturbed the residents of the town, and they came to put out the fire with buckets, and Bai Yiqing and I also helped carry water, and the fire was finally brought under control.

By the time the fire was extinguished, it was already late at night. There was a mess in front of me, I raised my hand to wipe my sweat, Chu Nantang looked at me and laughed: "Look at you, like a little flower cat." ”

Saying that, he stretched out his hand to wipe the ashes on my face, Bai Yiqing sat on the ground, gasped twice, seemed to think of something, looked around, suddenly rose from the ground, walked over and asked, "Where is Sunai?!" ”

I was stunned, and I remembered that when I was fighting the fire, Sunai was gone.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and Bai Yiqing rushed into the pile of wastes like crazy, looking for Sunai's figure.

"Sunai! Sunai!! Where have you been? Sunai ......"

I was looking for Sunai's figure with Bai Yiqing, and Chu Nantang just stood aside and looked at us with an indifferent expression.

I don't know when, he came to my side and patted me lightly on the shoulder: "Lingsheng, Sunai is no longer there." ”

Tears welled up in her eyes, and she choked up and asked him, "She was still there just now, why is she not there?" ”

Chu Nantang sighed lightly: "People are humane, ghosts have ghosts, if you can bring her back, it will be her final destination." ”

I looked back at Chu Nantang in surprise, thinking back to the past, and always felt that something was wrong.

"Sunai She ......"

"If you look at this town again, it's already empty."

I looked up into the distance, the moonlit town, deserted, not a single human voice could be heard, the river seemed to have dried up for many years, and the burned houses in front of me had cooled into a pile of ruins.

"Impossible! Impossible! Sunai ...... Sunai is still alive. Bai Yiqing couldn't accept such facts and endings, and seemed to want to try her best to confirm something: "That's right, camera! There is a photo to prove it! ”

He took out his camera from his backpack, but when he rummaged through it, there was not a single photo of Sunai.

"What about the photos? Obviously I took it with my own hands, why is it gone? ”

Bai Yiqing fell to his knees in frustration, gasped, and fell into silence.

The next morning, we found the cemetery in the town, where they had all died five years ago and were all buried in a nearby hill.

On the way back, Bai Yiqing seemed to be very tired, just leaning against the car window and not saying a word.

After Sunai left, Xia Xi was left in the town, and the residents of the town volunteered to take turns to take care of Xia Xi.

Although she lost her friends and parents, Xia Xi felt the warmth again and found the courage to live.

But a year later, everyone slowly changed, lost their initial patience, lost their previous smiles, and began to be extremely unfriendly to Xia Xi.

People vented all the unhappiness and pressure in their lives on Xia Xi's body, Xia Xi was lonely and helpless, and lost the belief in living.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, she was alone, watching the fireworks bloom in the night sky in the distance. The laughter of the reunion with other people's families, silently walked into the basement, set a fire and burned himself to death in the basement.

Xia Xi had a deep grudge, and the villagers in the town died in accidents one by one, until it became an empty town.

When the car started, I subconsciously looked in the direction of the town, and in a trance, I saw Sunai holding Xia Xi's hand, standing under the shade of the tree, waving goodbye to us.

Later, when I returned to school, the head teacher announced Sunai's death with a heavy face. Short-lived classmate relationships. Just left quietly.

After asking about the situation, Sunai committed suicide more than a week ago, jumping from the twentieth floor of the community and dying on the spot. That is, the day when the rental house was shocked to skin the ghost again.

Chu Nantang said: "Because you have compassion for her, the bonds between people are the love, family, friendship, and love that you can't let go...... And the only connection between humans and ghosts is the same. Strong beliefs create a magnetic field that brings her to you. So going back to the town is not only to repay her long-cherished wish, but also to end your heart knot and this bond. ”

"Then, every time I am in danger, you can be the first to arrive, also because of the resonance and magnetic field between me and you?"

"Hmm." Chu Nantang nodded: "I can sense it, you need me, so I appeared in front of you." ”

I took Chu Nantang's hand and said, "In the future, I miss you, you must appear in front of me, and you are not allowed to hide." ”

Bai Yiqing was depressed for a whole semester, and often saw him, holding a camera, constantly looking for something in the camera.

Looking at Xiaobai from afar, he suddenly felt a little inexplicably sad: "Xiaobai is no longer noisy." Always feel like something is missing? ”

Chu Nantang smiled: "Let him go, he will get better, people are always looking for it in this life, finding it and losing it, losing it and continuing to search, many people find it in the end, they have lost themselves, but they don't know what they are looking for in this life." Only a very small number of people have found what they are looking for. ”

"Nantang, what about you? Looking for it? ”

He retracted his gaze solemnly, then looked at me with a frank face, and said, "I've been looking for it before, but it doesn't matter anymore. ”

"Why? Even if you've been looking for it for so long......"

He looked at me and smiled, "Because of you." Be by my side! ”

I quietly stretched out my hand, and my little thumb hooked his hand: "You are by my side, and I will not look for it anymore." ”

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was the summer of my sophomore year of high school, and everything was unconsciously adapting, constantly regaining it in the loss.

The only thing that remains unchanged is that Chu Nantang is still by my side, he is still handsome and quiet, loves to laugh, and has a gentle temper.

But sometimes it will make me have bad intentions, deliberately tease me, or quietly lose a few words of white memory.

Bai Yiqing still pestered him without skin and face, hugging his thighs: "Grandpa Zu, we have known each other for so long, when will you teach me powerful spells?" ”