In the dim candlelight, a young scholar in a blue robe was flipping through the books in his hand, looking like he was reading hard, but he looked up at the window from time to time, his face was full of anxiety, so much so that he didn't realize that he was flipping back and forth the same page.

It didn't take long for a young woman in a green dress to come to the courtyard outside the window, the woman was carrying a lunch box in her hand, with a gentle and touching smile on her face, and when she saw the scholar by the window, her smile was even stronger, and she quickly quickened her pace.

The woman was extremely good-looking, but there was no joy on the scholar's face, but a little more frightened, but she quickly took a deep breath to calm herself, lowered her head and pretended to study the words in the book.

"Xianggong, why did you study so late today, don't get tired." The woman pushed the door in, smiled, and put the lunch box on the table, "In the evening, Yiyi and I went to the city to hang out, and brought you some pastries from the city." Hurry up and taste it while it's hot. ”

The scholar looked at the delicate pastries after the lunch box was opened, hesitated for a moment, lowered his head and said, "Before you came back, I had already eaten with the neighbor's brother Liu." But I'll make you a bowl of lotus seed porridge, and I'll bring it to you. ”

After speaking, without waiting for the woman to reply, she got up and went to the kitchen. Soon a bowl of steaming lotus seed porridge was brought and placed tremblingly in front of the woman, because her hands were shaking, and she accidentally spilled some of it when she put it on the table.

"Is Xianggong too tired today?" The woman asked worriedly, and got up to help the scholar to the side to rest.

The scholar waved his hand, pretending to inadvertently avoid the woman's outstretched hand to help, and sat on a stool far away, "Don't worry about me, lady, drink it while it's hot, this lotus seed porridge will taste bad when it's cold for a while, but I've been doing it for half an hour." ”

Seeing that the scholar was just a little tired, the woman relaxed a little and said with a smile: "It's the first time Xianggong has cooked, let me taste Xianggong's craftsmanship." ”

The scholar swallowed his saliva, stared nervously at the woman picking up the porridge bowl in front of him, and drank it in small sips, until he drank the last sip, the scholar breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the chair.

"Xianggong, why have you been absent-minded all the time today, is there something on your mind?" The woman was a little puzzled, put down the porridge bowl and prepared to come over.

But before he could take two steps, he stopped in place, his originally worried face gradually became gloomy at this moment, and his two good-looking eyes were full of anger, staring directly at the scholar, "Did you drugged the porridge?" ”

The scholar shrank back, not daring to answer.

"Well, it looks like someone told you who I really am." The woman smiled miserably: "Since I met you, I have made up my mind to let go of everything in the past, and I want to accompany you in the world, you and I have been married for so many years, I thought it was ......"

Halfway through speaking, the woman spat out a mouthful of blood, and glanced out the window viciously, a tall sword-backed Taoist priest was standing in the courtyard, pinching the magic in his hand and chanting a spell in his mouth.

"In this case, you and I can't be husband and wife during our lifetimes, so let's continue our relationship together in the Netherworld after death!" A look of madness appeared on the woman's face, and with a low roar, her original form appeared.

A large turquoise snake burst through the house, raised its head to the sky and let out a roar, and with a flick of its tail, it razed all the surrounding houses to the ground.

The big snake lowered its huge head, looked at the scholar who was already frightened and overwhelmed on the chair, a look of struggle flashed in the golden vertical pupils, but soon became angry again, opened its big mouth, and rushed towards the scholar who was slumped in the chair.

"Don't Eat My !!" Li You shouted, sat up from the bed, and looked around in horror.

The evening sun is shining on the bed through the orange curtains, and the two folded cats under the bed are squatting on the floor side by side, tilting their heads left and right to look at the nervous Li You, the mobile phone around him is vibrating on the bed, sliding to Li You's hand with the frequency.

Why is this dream again? Li You frowned. I can't remember what day it started, he began to have the same dream over and over again every day when he went to sleep, and the strange thing was that the scholar in the dream still had the same name and surname as him, but he had never heard of the green snake named Cen Biqing.

Could it be that I accidentally touched something dirty recently? It seems that I have to find a free day to go to the temple to worship.

Li You still believes a little bit in the heresy of gods and ghosts, there was a magic stick among his college classmates in the past, and he also showed a few hands in the dormitory at that time, which caused a lot of shock to Li You.

While Li You was still pondering, the mobile phone on the side vibrated again, and Li You glanced down at the caller ID: Zhou Yuan.

Oops! Looking at the sunset outside the window, Li You quickly picked up the phone.

"Hey, boss, what about you, you're the protagonist today, but now you're not alone." A somewhat anxious voice came from across the phone.

I looked at the time on my phone: 19:27.

It was dark late in May, so when he first saw that the sun hadn't set, Li You subconsciously thought that it was still evening.

"Coming soon, I'm going to be there today, I'm a little delayed today, what's that, you beckoned the juniors and sisters to order the dishes first." Li You put down his mobile phone, touched a short-sleeved shirt from the end of the bed and put it on his body.

Li You, who was admitted to Jiangbei University at the age of eighteen and successfully completed all his studies at the age of twenty-eight and successfully obtained a doctorate, is undoubtedly a well-known legend among the entire Jiangbei University scholars, and it is said that he is the youngest doctor in the school in the past ten years, and has a large number of academic fans in the school.

Yesterday's doctoral graduation defense had just ended, and his fellow disciple Zhou Yuan told him that some of the younger students in the college wanted to consult him about the postgraduate entrance examination and doctoral examination, and asked him if he had time to have a meal together.

Li You, who successfully passed the defense, was in a good mood, so he waved his hand and said that I will invite everyone to dinner tomorrow night, and you can decide the place and order whatever you want.

Originally, after lunch, Li You planned to get up and clean up after a light nap, but he didn't expect to have that strange dream again, and he slept until now.

"By the way, you pack up and don't wear your shorts and slippers." Zhou Yuan lowered his voice, "Today, the freshman school flower Su Jianxia is also here, and I guess I am also here for you, an academic celebrity." ”

Li You stopped the movement in his hand and his heart moved.

Although he has been concentrating on writing papers and academic research in the year after graduation, the fame of this freshman school flower has also reached his ears, what a golden ratio, thin waist and long legs, and girls who can still wear heavy makeup without makeup every day and so on, which are discussed by countless boys every day.

I only saw a glance at my back from a distance when I was eating in a restaurant, the golden ratio and the length of the waist and thin legs are indeed true, as for the plain makeup, it seems that I have the opportunity to verify it today.

Thinking of this, Li You picked up his mobile phone and replied: "You told everyone that I am in a bit of a traffic jam on the road at this time, and it is estimated that I will arrive a little later." ”

After speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Zhou Yuan to reply, quickly got up from the bed and rushed into the bathroom to start dressing up.

After about half an hour, Li You walked downstairs awkwardly wearing a casual suit and leather shoes bought from a stall, looked like a successful person, and reached out to stop a taxi.

"Master, Manhua Restaurant, the one on Fusu Road, hurry up, I have something urgent." Li You got into the car and looked at the location sent by Zhou Yuan and said.

"Then you can be regarded as finding the right person, brother, in the entire Jiangning City, no one can be faster than my brother." The master slowly lit a cigarette, the corners of his mouth raised, and then he stepped on the accelerator hard, and the old taxi ejected on the spot and rushed out.

What the master said was right, the original half-hour journey only took fifteen minutes to reach the intersection of Fusu Road, along the way Li You was worried about whether his car would disintegrate in place, but fortunately it approached the destination smoothly. It's just that the new problem now is that this intersection has long been surrounded by pedestrians and vehicles, and the master directly released the accelerator and pulled the handbrake.

Li You tried if he could get out of the car and walk over, but found that the cars on the left and right had already crowded over, and there was no room for the doors to open.

"It's a good 100-year-old road, and the merchants here are all antique shops and fresh wholesale, but it's also clean. Since it was developed into a tourist attraction, it was said that it was going to create an Internet celebrity street, and it was full of those script killings and escape rooms, and on weekends, these college students were crowded in and couldn't walk.

It's just a two-lane road, but it's good now, the cars in the four lanes outside want to go in, and no one will let anyone, so it's just blocked. The master took out another cigarette, reached out and lit it, and by the way, turned on the radio and tuned to the news channel.

Li You stretched his neck to look inside, and there was indeed a colorful LED light sign in the street not far away, hanging the names of various shops.

I heard that after the Qin State ruled the world, Fusu, the eldest son of the first emperor, passed by here one day, and found that the road for the villagers to enter the city was extremely bumpy, so he ordered someone to build a wide and flat official road here for the villagers to use to enter the city.

In order to commemorate the son Fusu, the local villagers named this road Fusu Road. After thousands of years of geomorphological changes, the original road has long since faded over the years. The current one is a high-ranking official in the Republic of China, who ordered someone to rebuild a road on the original site according to historical research, and then after a hundred years of repair, until today.

After staying in Jiangning City for ten years, this is the second time Li You has come to this road. The last time was when I was just in college ten years ago, I went out for a walk alone, and before I knew it, I came to this old path. As the master just said, this road was full of old antique shops and wholesale vegetable markets.

It's just that Li You accidentally found a coffee shop called Chaoge in a bunch of antique shops. The name is very interesting, and it happens to be the capital of the last king of the Shang Dynasty, Prince Shang.

Li You can't remember the decoration of the coffee shop very well, but he only remembers that the owner is a good-looking young man, and the coffee he makes is also delicious, I don't know if the coffee shop has moved away now.

"Good evening, listeners and friends, and welcome to FM101.8, and a piece of criminal news will be inserted below. Recently, there was a serial murderer in our city, who has murdered seven young men in a row in seven days. The victim's fatal injuries were two tiny blood holes in his neck, which the medical examiner concluded was death from excessive blood loss. At present, the criminal police detachment of our city and the provincial public security department have jointly set up a special team to investigate the case, and strive to arrest the criminal suspect as soon as possible. ”

The cold female voice on the radio interrupted Li You's thoughts, "How do you feel like a vampire on TV." ”

"What a vampire, it's a snake demon who has become an elf, much more fierce than a vampire." The driver turned around and said mysteriously.

"The basilisk?" Li You frowned, and remembered the green snake in his dream for no reason, "Master, have you seen that murderer?" ”

The master's face was unfathomable, and he spit out a smoke ring, "We often have to wander around the streets in the early hours of the morning, and sometimes we will inevitably see some strange things. ”

"Master, tell me?" Li Yu came to be interested.

The master smiled, saw that there was no sign of movement in front of him, then turned around with confidence, and whispered: "It was one night two days ago, I just sent a guest to Yunxi City, it was about three o'clock in the night, I didn't feel very good that day, so I was ready to call it a day and go home directly."

On the way, when I passed the intersection of Tianming Road and Dongcheng Road, I saw a man lying on the ground, motionless, and on top of him was a thing wearing a black robe. I thought it was two people lying on the side of the road after drinking too much, so I honked the horn a few times to wake them up, after all, it was really unsafe to lie in the middle of the road at night.

Who knew that as soon as I pressed the horn for the first time, the thing in the black robe on his body got up and looked back at me. ”

Speaking of this, the master took a hard puff of his cigarette and shrunk his neck, as if he wanted to strengthen his courage but was really a little afraid.

The thing's face was black, its mouth was covered in blood, its two long, sharp fangs sticking out, and its eyes were as bright as two yellow lanterns in the night. I remember clearly, yellow vertical pupils.

I was so frightened that my legs were weak, and I didn't dare to move, thinking that if that thing saw me, I must be dead, but I didn't expect him to look at me and run away..... No, it should be said that he was gliding on the ground, and a scaly cyan tail appeared under his black robe, you say, this is not a snake demon. ”

"Master, are you sure that snake demon's tail is cyan?" Li You swallowed his saliva, and a trace of cold sweat ran down his forehead.

"Of course, the street lights in our Jiangning City have been on until six o'clock in the morning, and my car lights are so bright, I must be right." The master nodded without thinking.

"Brother, don't be afraid, didn't the radio also say it just now, don't go out late at night, it should be fine, I finish work on time at ten o'clock in the evening now, life is much more important than money." Seeing that Li You was a little uneasy, the master quickly patted him on the shoulder and comforted.

Li You smiled a little reluctantly, and was just about to reply "I'm fine", when there was a sudden shock behind him, and the huge impact pushed him headfirst into the front seat.

"Damn, who is so short-sighted, didn't you see the front blocked, and hit up."

Li You rubbed his forehead with bared teeth, and when he looked up, he saw the driver's master throwing the cigarette butt out of the window, scolding, pushing the car door and preparing to get out of the car and reason with the driver in the back car.

"Brother, the place you are going to is in front, you can run two steps to get there, and I will go down and meet that rabbit cub." The master casually pointed to the front, and went to the back of the car without looking back.

Li You looked at the side, the cars next to each other didn't know when they had already driven away, so he quickly pushed the car door and got out of the car, it was important to rush to the restaurant first, as for what snake demon put in advance, anyway, he hadn't found himself after so many days.

"Guys, I'm really sorry, I'm stuck at the intersection. I couldn't move for half a day. Although the location of Manhua Restaurant is not far from the intersection, Li You has been a little neglected to exercise in the past two years, and it is inevitable that he will be a little out of breath when he runs to the door of the restaurant.

"Yo, isn't this our Dr. Li, just now I was telling my younger brothers and sisters that now that the doctorate has graduated and the grade is different, do we have to carry a sedan chair to pick you up at home." Zhou Yuan, who was sitting inside, smiled and joked, stretched out his hand and patted the position next to him, "Come on, I've reserved a seat for you." ”

Li You glared at Zhou Yuan, glanced at the circle of people around the table as he walked, and soon saw the girl with a high ponytail, and coincidentally, the other party was also looking at him.

Li You hurriedly looked away quietly, and determined the third point in his heart, he could fight without makeup.

Some girls look better without makeup than makeup, Su Jianxia is this kind of girl, and her face has a sense of coldness like a Japanese heroine, but the whole person seems to be very easy to get along with.

"Dude, when you just walked over, the freshman school girl kept looking at you from beginning to end, and her eyes were called focused, it seems that the school girl will also be impressed by your talent." Zhou Yuan put his arm around Li You's shoulders and whispered.

Li You glanced at it, and sure enough, Su saw that Xia was still staring at him up and down, and when he saw that he was looking at her, he looked away.

Could it be that she is an intellectual sexual? Li You was overjoyed, but said calmly on his face: "Maybe people are just curious when they meet for the first time, so they can't make a conclusion." ”

"What are you not aware of, buddy?" Zhou Yuan rolled his eyes: "Let's see what she says when everyone toasts alone, buddy will help you analyze it later." ”

This is a good idea, and Li agrees in his heart.

In addition to asking him about the postgraduate and doctoral examinations, the younger students sitting here today are more to celebrate his successful completion of the doctoral defense, and a single toast must be indispensable, which has long become a tradition in the university.

After three rounds of drinking, the junior sitting on Li You's right stood up and raised a glass to Li You, and Li You also quickly got up to respond.

Fortunately, everyone didn't ask any too tricky questions, and Li You was able to deal with it easily, and his answers were even more concise and clear, so it was soon the turn of the freshman school girl.

Zhou Yuan quietly patted Li You's leg under the table, and Li You slapped his hand away, his face calm.

Su Jianxia hesitated, did not pick up the wine glass on the table, but got up directly and walked in front of Li You, and asked softly, "Senior brother, can I ask you some personal questions alone?" ”

"Senior brother doesn't have a girlfriend, and he's still single from the mother's womb." Zhou Yuan answered with a grin.

Li You pretended to turn his head and glared at him, and then said with a sincere face: "I'm sorry, junior sister, my buddy likes to joke, let's go outside and talk about it." ”

Su Jianxia nodded, turned around and walked outside the hotel, Li You and Zhou Yuan quietly high-fived under the table, and then followed.

"Is there anything wrong with my sister?" Li You looked at the comic girl opposite, and his heart beat a little.

The two of them stood together at close proximity Li Youcai found that Su Jianxia was so tall, almost about the same as himself, about 1.7273 meters.

Su Jianxia didn't answer immediately, but kept staring at Li You up and down, until he looked at Li You a little embarrassed before asking, "Senior brother, have you encountered anything strange recently?" ”

Li You was stunned, what kind of question is this asking, could it be that he and Zhou Yuan guessed wrong? This pretty schoolgirl doesn't have any other ideas?

"What do you mean by the strange thing that my sister said?" Li You was a little puzzled.

Su Jianxia thought for a while and replied, "For example, I had some strange dreams, or I saw some ...... 'things' that didn't look like people. ”

Li You was shocked, the strange dream, not quite like a human 'thing', reminded Li You of the dream he had every day and the snake demon that the driver talked about at night. But how did she know?

Li You hesitated for a while, but still said: "I'm sorry junior sister, I've been quite normal recently, and I haven't encountered these things you said." ”

couldn't figure out the true origin of this schoolgirl, and Li You didn't dare to tell what he had encountered, so he asked Zhou Yuan to inquire about the background of this schoolgirl at school after he went back.

Su Jianxia was silent for a while, then tilted his head and laughed, "If not, then senior brother will be better if I haven't asked." If you encounter something strange that I said in the future, my brother can come to me if he can't solve it. I still have something to do at home, so I'll go first, and the senior brother and seniors are having fun. ”

After speaking, he turned around and left the restaurant without waiting for Li You to reply, and soon his back merged into the crowd.

Li You was stunned in place, a little caught off guard.

Just gone? Keeping an eye on yourself just to ask this question? Leave after asking, what's the matter?

Li You shook his head, a little disappointed, and turned back to his seat.

"What about people? How do you go out and come back on your own? Zhou Yuan pushed Li You with his shoulder, stretched his neck and looked outside, "Did you hurt the heart of other little girls?" Still holding your Dr. Lee's shelf? ”

Li You shook his head, picked up the wine bottle and poured a full glass of liquor, stood up and raised his glass, "Come, thank you for coming to congratulate me today, I salute you for this glass of wine!" ”

After a while, under the repeated attacks of Li You and Zhou Yuan, everyone present was drunk, Zhou Yuan burped with satisfaction, looked at the time, and said: "It's more than eleven o'clock, everyone is having fun today, it's not safe to be late, why don't you do it today?" Go back to your own house. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Will you go back to school today or go home?" Zhou Yuan patted Li You, who was slumped in the chair.

"When I go home, the bed at home is much more comfortable than the hardboard bed at school." Li You stood up tremblingly on the table, his face flushed.

"Gotcha." Zhou Yuan stretched out his hand, and the junior on the side pulled him with a very eye-catching look, "Can you go back yourself?" In the middle of the night, when you get out of the intersection to take a taxi, buddy won't send you in this state. ”

Li You waved his hand: "How big an adult is that you still need to send it, you guys go first, I'll go to check out later." ”

"Okay, stay safe, send a message at home." After Zhou Yuan finished speaking, he left the restaurant with the support of the two juniors.

Li You stood in place, waiting for his mind to clear up a little, and then walked to the bar to check out.

Jiangning City has always had the nickname of the city that never sleeps, and this Fusu Road is a famous Internet celebrity road in Jiangning City, although it is already half past eleven o'clock in the evening, but it is not so that no one on the road can not see, and the shops on both sides are all closed early.

Although Li You felt a little strange, he thought about it for the first time after the renovation of this road, maybe the shops on this road had always closed so early, so he didn't think much about it, and prepared to go to the intersection to take a taxi home.

After walking for a while, Li Youjian hadn't walked out of the intersection yet, and was a little puzzled, he only ran for less than ten minutes when he came and came in, why did he walk for so long now? Could it be that I drank too much and was vague about time?

Thinking of this, Li You took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, 0:47.

Jiangning is in the south, although it is only May, but the temperature on these two days is above 35 degrees. But now Li You felt a chill in his back, broke out in a cold sweat, and most of the wine was sober.

Manhua Restaurant and the intersection are at most two kilometers away, no matter how slow I walk, I won't be able to reach it for nearly an hour and a half, and when I look ahead, I can't even see the shadow of the intersection.

Damn, it can't be that you met some ghost hitting the wall, Li You scolded in his heart.

As if to echo his thoughts, the street lamp above Li You's head suddenly went out.

Li You swallowed his saliva, looked up stiffly, and found that the street lamp still emitted a faint light, but the position of the bulb was blocked by a black shadow.

Li You's eyes widened, trying to see what the black shadow was, the black shadow seemed to sense his gaze, turned his head to stare at Li You, in the dark night, the two yellow vertical pupils shone brightly, exuding an excited gaze at seeing the prey.