My name is Liu Xi, a programmer ape.

"Ahh Zhang Yi stretched behind my back.

"Let's go, have a meal and go back early, I have to go to work tomorrow." I packed up my things, walked out of the office with him, and glanced up at my watch, one o'clock in the morning.

It was just the two of us on the street in the early hours of the morning, so quiet that we could hear each other's heartbeats.

"Where is there a restaurant that is open?"

"Look, there's a noodle shop in front of you with the lights on. I looked in the direction he was pointing, and not far away there was a noodle shop with no door number still dimly lit, but it stood out in this quiet street.

"Why don't I remember this store before, a new one?"

"Oh, there's so much nonsense, just have something to eat. It must be newly opened, you see, there is not even a house number. I quickened my pace with Zhang Yi.

A young woman sat in front of the shop, as if unaware of our arrival, her head slightly raised and staring blankly at some dark corner in the distance. Out of the kitchen came a strong man in an apron and looked at us.

Zhang Yi took out a handful of change from his trouser pocket, "Boss, come and have two bowls of beef noodles." He put the change on the table, "Just enough change, I will invite you for this meal, and next time I will be invited to eat hot pot." ”

The boss took the money and walked into the kitchen, Zhang Yi and I sat down face to face, lit a cigarette, and he started playing with his mobile phone. Without further ado, I began to look at the newly opened noodle shop: I could see that it had not been renovated much, there were only various prices of pasta on the walls, a wooden staircase leading to the second floor in the west corner of the noodle shop, a kitchen on the east side, and a north wall on the south gate.

"This noodle restaurant seems to be open 24 hours a day, and we will come here to eat when we work overtime late. Zhang Yi raised his head and said to me. I was just about to respond, when I suddenly heard a child's voice from the second floor, "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy......" The wooden staircase creaked and creaked. The woman at the door was probably the child's mother, but she didn't seem to hear it, and she still sat at the door. "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy......" the child was still screaming upstairs over and over again, but the sound grew farther and farther away, until it stopped at the sound of something rolling down the stairs.

A model truck landed at Zhang Yi's feet, and he picked it up, "Boss, your child's toy has fallen, I'll put it on the table for you." He placed the model truck on another clean table and glanced into the kitchen.

"Fuck, run!" Zhang Yi dragged me and ran outside the noodle shop, and the wind on the street rushed towards me, "Are you crazy, what did you see to scare you like this?" I shook off his hand and looked back at the noodle shop, "Kill...... Killing!" Zhang Yi threw me off and continued to run forward, I looked at the noodle shop, still like that, when I wanted to turn back and chase Zhang Yi, a speeding truck in the distance ran over Zhang Yi's body, and his blood mixed with * splashed on my face.

I trembled and took out my phone to call an ambulance, but I couldn't unlock the lock screen, I could only see the time displayed on my phone: two o'clock.

When I raised my head again, Zhang Yi stood up in a pool of blood, holding a kitchen knife in his left hand and a human leg in his right hand, laughing at me.

No, that's not Zhang Yi, that's the noodle shop owner just now.

He let go of the human leg in his hand and walked towards me step by step, I couldn't move, I couldn't shout, I saw him getting closer and closer to me. He walked up to me and held up the bloodied kitchen knife in his hand, and I closed my eyes and fainted.

"Hey, wake up, don't pretend to be dead, it's okay. ”

"Smack!"

"Wow, don't kill me, I don't want to die!" I woke up with a heavy slap in front of me and a child who looked like he was seven or eight years old, riding on top of me.

"Why are you a big man so cowardly, it's okay. "He tumbled off me and sat on the edge of the bed.

"I ...... Are you still alive?"

"Smack!"

"Damn, it hurts. Another slap in the face brought me to my senses. "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive, so where am I?"

"My house is upstairs in the noodle shop. The child jumped out of bed and poured a glass of water, "But don't worry, you're safe here." ”

"What about my friend?" I suddenly remembered the scene of Zhang Yi's death, and I felt a chill behind my back.

"He went back. ”

"What? Where's he? Isn't he dead?"

"Home. The child turned around, "At the beginning, the ruler of the ghost world was under house arrest, and his younger brother was from holding power, turning the ghost world upside down, and in order to stabilize the regime, the evil ghost who was sent to follow stole the reincarnation mirror, came to the world to kill people, absorbed yang energy to increase his ghost power, and went back to re-form the ghost army, the noodle shop owner you saw last night was one of Li's subordinates, he killed a lot of people, and now the ghost power has soared." In order to save you, Zhang Yi wasted his body and was greatly injured, and his body returned to Lingxi to recuperate. ”

"Damn, you're a madman, aren't you? What kind of ghost realm or Lingxi, it's none of my business, I want to go home. "I got up from my bed to leave, but when I got to the top of the stairs, I didn't dare to move anymore, and the stairs under my feet were overhanging, and below me was a sea of fire and bones, and a river passed through it, and there was dark red blood flowing in it.

"The following is the ghost world, if you fall, you will enter the ghost world, and I won't be able to save you at that time, so you will live and die. ”

"That'...... Fairy grandpa, please save me, I am old and young, and I have a group of amiable and lovely colleagues and friends, you see that I am so young, and I can still contribute to the country, isn't it a pity to die so early......"

"Shut up! The boy slapped the table, "How have you survived so long?" ”

"Listen, Grandpa Fairy, as long as I can live, I will listen to you for everything. ”

"I'll stay here honestly for two days now, wait for me to deal with the current matter, and then take you to Lingxi to meet someone. ”

"Then what am I going to eat? "Honestly, I was really hungry.

"Hungry. The child turned and walked towards the stairs, and his body gradually became taller, and in an instant he became an adult, and jumped at the top of the stairs, and disappeared into the vast sea of fire and bones.

After the child left, the staircase was gone, the dim room turned pure white, and there was an ancient wooden bed placed there in the distance, with a high foot of the bed, and it was pitch black under the bed, and a purple veil was pulled on the side of the bed, which was gently fluttered by the wind, "Liu Xi...... Liu Xi...... Liu Xi ...... "A distant voice was calling me, as if it came from the curtain, the voice sounded like a young woman, and it looked like a child, I was scared, "Grandpa Fairy, where are you, there are ghosts, help me." I wanted to get away from the bed, but my legs were unconsciously walking there, I closed my eyes, and when I felt a gust of wind on my face, my eyes opened unconsciously: in front of me was a mother who had just given birth, holding a pair of twins, and the pair of children opened their eyes and looked at me, "Like, like a person, like who?" I thought to myself, and when I lowered my head to think about it, and when I looked up again, the twins' eyes had turned into black holes, and they grinned at me, and I was so frightened that I stepped back, sat on the ground, and finally remembered, "Those twins are clearly me!"

That's right, I fainted again, or rather, I didn't wake up.

When I woke up again, I was already lying on that wooden bed, "Damn, what's the plot? won't you let me go?" I had given up resisting, closed my eyes again, and wanted to fall asleep. "No, what was the last thing I saw?" I opened my eyes again, "Wow! What are you?" "There was a vague human face on the top of the wooden bed, no, a mask, eyes staring at me, forget it, it was not so much an eye, but two black holes, facing me, there was a black hole under the two holes, that was probably a mouth, grinning at me. "Why are you all smiling at me, it's terrible. I didn't think it meant to hurt me, rolled over, and closed my eyes.

"Liu Xi, Liu Xi, wake up, Liu Xi!" a pain in the back of my head pulled me out of my sleep, "The leader came to check, don't sleep." I opened my eyes and looked up, it was Zhang Yi at the desk in the office, and when I looked back, my boss was walking towards us with his hands behind his back, "Where am I......?" Zhang Yi, you ......" I was surprised that Zhang Yi was sitting opposite me intact, "At work, are you sleepy?

I didn't have time to react, so I lowered my head and pretended to flip through the documents in front of me.

"Liu Xi, Zhang Yi, you two work hard tonight, work overtime, finish the assigned tasks, and when the company is busy with this time, I will give you a good vacation. The boss walked between my desk and Zhang Yi's desk, smiled at us, and said.

"Well, boss, I'm ......" I just wanted to speak.

"No problem, boss, leave it to us. Zhang Yi replied with a smile.

There is no way but to accept it, but the boss's attitude towards us has never been so good, so I can't adapt to it.

The sunlight shone in the blinds, I looked at the sunlight outside the window in a daze, and when I came back to my senses, I found that Zhang Yi was looking at me and smiling, I looked at Zhang Yi's desk, there was no shadow, "Dead...... Dead man?" When I looked up again, Zhang Yi's face turned into the mask on top of the wooden bed, still smiling at me, and slowly moving towards my face.

"Ahh "Liu Xi, what are you doing? Fall asleep during work hours? Half of this month's bonus will be deducted, and you and Zhang Yi will work overtime tonight to finish the task, otherwise you won't want the bonus this month!" I was shocked from the scene just now, but I woke up after being scolded by the boss, and hurriedly agreed: "Okay...... Good owner. ”

Twelve fifty in the middle of the night. Zhang Yi stood behind me, "Let's go, you know." I felt a chill in my back, was this a dream or reality, who was behind me, I slowly turned around, but found that there was no one, "No...... Gone?"

"I'm here. I came back and saw the mask lying in my hand, talking to me, "Ahh But when I got to the door of the company building, I regretted it - the owner of the noodle shop was standing not far from me with a knife, still smiling at me and slowly approaching me.