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Ye Weishuang didn't finish his day's work until midnight.

He left the villa with a satisfied smile on his pitiful reward for the month, it was his birthday, and he wanted to have a good time. His parents have died, and he lives alone in this world on his own. Originally, he was supposed to be sent to an orphanage, but then an uncle suddenly appeared, and he didn't know that he came out of that mountain, and he didn't have an ID card yet, so he said that Ye Weishuang was related to him. When I went to the hospital for a paternity test, I was really a relative. The similarity between this man's DN and his father was too high, so Ye Weishuang was handed over to this man. But who knew that things were twists and turns, and the unreliable uncle abandoned him halfway, causing Ye Weishuang to drop out of school from elementary school. Fortunately, Ye Weishuang has an extremely serious and studious temperament, and after dropping out of school, he went to the bookstore to buy books and study on his own, and his current level is even comparable to the level of an ordinary high school student, which is the result of his consuming sleep time every night. Although studious, Ye Weishuang has never been a good reading material, he has a good memory, and he remembers many things very well, such as when the birthday of the people around him, what has happened every day in the past ten years, and it was raining lightly on the day he was born...... But when he sees something in a textbook, he tends to forget it quickly. This is truly incredible. And from what he knew about his own eccentricities, these were just the corners.

At the age of three, he began to be able to speak non-living things. Since the age of seven, he has been able to see non-human figures dangling, and since the last few years, he has found that he always has some hallucinations, all of which are strange and confusing people and things. But the strange thing is that Ye Weishuang always finds that these things happen at a certain time, in exactly the same way as his hallucinations, and those who have never seen people and streets that have never been to often appear in the first page of the newspaper three days later. He didn't know what was wrong with him, but at least he knew that he couldn't just tell anyone about these things, and he knew that some people saw people with this ability as monsters, and some people called them Strangers.

But in addition to Ye Weishuang's ability to have these senses, he is no different from others. There's no power, there's no weirdness, there's no madness or any other superpowers. So he quickly forgot about the hallucinations that arose during the day.

Ye Weishuang happily walked home with a flattened cowhide wallet left by his father that had worn out a lot. Before the age of ten, his uncle had not left him, and he was a strange man with a reading personality, drinking and smoking...... But I have a lot of knowledge, and I seem to have been to many places. When he was in a good mood, he would always tell Ye Weishuang about his experience. Ye Weishuang used to like him very much, but since he adopted him, in less than a year and a half, that uncle disappeared, and Leduo occasionally sent one or two packages, which contained some gadgets, and had no intention of continuing to help and raise him, that is, to fulfill his due duties. Ye Weishuang knew that he was a burden, and it would be dirty and troublesome to throw it anywhere, so after the uncle completely cut off contact with him, he understood that he would not have any relatives anymore. He consciously rented a very small house from a kind old man with terminal cancer and lived alone. By now, he has been living alone for a year. Every day, every day is the same bad day. It's not that no one wanted to adopt him after chatting with him, and there were, but the hostess of that house, a very kind, ** pigeon watcher, died within a few days, and since then people have regarded him as a disaster and a nightmare for his parents, and no one dares to adopt him again.

Ye Weishuang turned into a small alley. It was the only way for him to get home. His gaze suddenly shifted from the brightly lit street to the dark place, and it took Ye Weishuang a second or two to get used to it. Suddenly, there was another hallucination in front of his eyes, and the white-bearded old man fell from the clouds and slowly landed beside him. His face was unusually clear, clearer than anything Ye Weishuang had ever foreseen, and he saw an old man in an ancient robe stretch out a hand towards him: "Child-"

Ye Weishuang suddenly woke up. There was nothing in the dark alley.

He tapped his head with a headache and strode in.

Ye Weishuang didn't see it, behind him, a corner of white robe flashed quietly.

"Now, it's yours...... Alain, I bought you the bracelet you wanted last time. By the way, there are also small-eared ones, you said you wanted to eat rotten fish, I went to the vegetable market to look for it for a long time......" Ye Weishuang took out items one by one from the big bag full of odor at his feet, and then handed them to the transparent things that had come out of all over the room and had gathered at some point, and were quietly sitting or floating beside him. Fortunately, this was his dilapidated little house, not the street, and if anyone saw this scene in front of him, eighty percent would be so frightened that they would collapse to the ground. Because all the things, just after Ye Weishuang handed them out, they disappeared completely, as if they had evaporated directly in the air. Of course, Ye Weishuang, who has been with these ghosts since he was a child, didn't feel anything unusual at all. His knowledge of these unidentified creatures was limited to not being able to let others know about their existence.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot you can't pick up objects yet. Ye Weishuang smiled apologetically at a "thing" that was thicker than the other transparent things around him, it was a little girl with a disappointed face and looked like she was about to cry. It's just for the head. Its body is in the shape of a cat, and its head still retains cat ears. Unlike most of the floating white shadows around it, there was a small shadow underneath it. "I'll keep this doll for Xiao Ling first, and when Xiao Ling can change her hand, I can take the gift and give it to you, okay?" Ye Weishuang said like a child.

The kitten girl drooped her ears and read her head gloomily.

"Hades, this is for you. Ye Weishuang smiled and pulled out a small box that was carefully packed in his pocket and sent it to a "person" who had been standing quietly in the corner. He's the only humanoid goblin here, and it's impossible to tell if it's a ghost or a demon. But it's always smarter than all the youkai here combined. Ye Weishuang didn't know when he appeared, as if he had appeared beside him a long time ago, in the corner of his eye, he always stood silently, with no expression, and it was extremely easy for people to ignore. But Ye Weishuang never ignored him once. He treats him even more seriously and carefully than he does with other ghosts. Because of this ghost's body, there is a faint alienation similar to him, like rare people of the same kind meeting together, and there is a cherishment and solemnity for each other that cannot be expressed in words.

The goblin, known as Hades, looked at him and took the box with a blank face. According to the old horse demon who was once eliminated by a Taoist priest, only monsters who have cultivated to a certain level of skill will have their own color and shape, otherwise everything will be nothing. Hades has a different color than the other youkai here. When he was secretly looking at the underworld, he obviously didn't dare to look him in the eyes. Hades had a pair of silver eyes, so faint that they couldn't be seen, as if they didn't have eyeballs, but they could still make people feel his gaze. His hair was long, almost reaching his feet, and he was wrapped in a white coat that looked like a period costume. Maybe he couldn't think of any style of clothes, so all he could conjure up at first was a piece of white cloth. The two sleeves and the belt were still not cleaned up for him, and he was afraid that he would not be able to wear complicated clothes, so there was only one belt. And once that belt is gone, it still needs to be tied by a pair.

Although Ye Weishuang felt like a nanny, he was happy when he thought that he was at least not alone. He looks like a ten-year-old young man, and he looks good. When Ye Weishuang first noticed him, he stayed for a while and wondered how there could be such a good-looking person in the world, only to find out later that he was a monster that others couldn't see. The only color that could be seen on his whole body seemed to be his jet-black hair, and with his white robe, Ye Weishuang always felt that he looked like a person with only lines on his paintings, or his photos had faded.

"It's not fair! Xiaoshuang always gives the best things to the underworld!" the surrounding goblins all shouted loudly, but ordinary people couldn't hear them.

The ghosts are paranoid in temperament, and what they believe is difficult to change, and it is precisely because of this reading that there are so many harmful ghosts. Even now facing Ye Weishuang, his aura has begun to be disordered, and he is irritable and scurrying around the room.

"It's not fair, it's not fair! Why? Why? Xiaoshuang only gives the best to the underworld-" Ye Weishuang didn't know how to answer for a while. A frog with two hands and one leg in front of him suddenly swelled up, and his fierce eyes grabbed Ye Weishuang directly. "Unfair!" "Unfair...... The temperature in the room suddenly dropped by several degrees, causing the youkai to riot one after another. "Unfair...... A pair of empty eyes all stared at Ye Weishuang, and Ye Weishuang suddenly became afraid. He never thought that these "children" who lived with him day and night would attack him, he thought that they had taken themselves as ...... Ye Weishuang was stunned. Friends, children?...... He shook his head slowly and helplessly. From his black pupils, the transparent sharp fingers and claws that ordinary people could not see at him who were rushing towards him—

The huge sphere in front of "Boom—— was suddenly thrown out a few meters, and the frog, which had already materialized into an attack, crashed into a large crater on the rotten floor. All of a sudden, all the sounds came to an abrupt halt. Ye Weishuang's eyes widened.

Styx stood in front of him, as if he had just walked to his side. He stared coldly at the deflated frog-like body of dust and sawdust, clutching the box in his hand, his eyes filled with deep impatience and disgust. His silver pupils—at that moment—Ye Weishuang did see it—suddenly deepened, and it was so weird and terrifying that it made people's hearts chill.

Then he turned his face as usual. Ye Weishuang had seen such a ghost once. That was when he was entangled in a formed dryad. Styx's eyes deepened for a moment, and then the dryad, which had already taken on a form, slowly died like the frog in front of him. Of course, this frog has not yet taken shape, and it is not as good as the dryad that slowly turns into its original form and gradually decays and dies, it directly turns into a wisp of black smoke, which instantly drifts away cleanly. Xiao Ling, the kitten girl who watched it dissipate, was afraid of the momentum of the underworld, but stared at the wisp of black smoke tightly and swallowed her saliva.

"There is never any affection between ghosts, they only have * and greed. A voice suddenly pierced Ye Weishuang's eardrums, as if words were directly typed into his mind. He was stunned and looked around, but all he saw was the monsters who had calmed down and the puzzled Ming, and there was no one.

Is it another hallucination?...... But hallucinations have not been happening too often lately.

Ye Weishuang frowned and thought.

Picking up stray cats and dogs at will is already a habit that Ye Weishuang has unconsciously formed. In the small house he rented with only one bedroom and one living room, and a small grocery room, he gave up the "one room" to the stray cats and dogs that he picked up when he saw them on the road. Of course, there were some very uncooperative ones who did not go against their will. The monsters live in the living room, so the dogs and cats are generally reluctant to touch the door between them. Sometimes Ye Weishuang will also pick up cats and dogs that have begun to demonize, and it will automatically run to the living room of the monsters. Ye Weishuang's own room was in the small grocery room, with only a very small bed, a small square table against the bed, and a pitiful amount of clothes in the drawer of the table. When you open the door and walk in, the distance from the table on the opposite wall to the door can only allow one person to walk up two or three steps, and the bed next to it is as small as it is, and there is no natural light source in the whole room.

But Ye Weishuang is already very satisfied. In contrast, he understood early on that there were countless children his age who had the same situation, but few children could have a job to feed himself and a house to live in. The city is getting more and more prosperous, and more and more children are being homeless like him. Either they go out to ask for food, or they do unscrupulous things. Drug trafficking and selling ** often take root in these children at a very young age – when they are still almost ignorant of it. It is rare that Ye Weishuang can survive until now, and he still retains such a non-malicious heart - maybe it has something to do with him being a little stupid.

Ye Weishuang naturally couldn't have too much money to raise so many cats and dogs, he let the cats and dogs go out of the window at night to forage for food, and some of the cats and dogs spontaneously regarded this place as a home after they escaped again and were picked up by Ye Weishuang a few times.

Ye Weishuang came back and brought gifts to the monsters, and also brought some things for the cats and dogs. But he couldn't give them all, so he bought three or four cheap canned cats from the small store, and went to the vegetable market to pick up a few bones that looked fresh, and gave them to the cats and dogs who gathered around him as soon as they saw him enter.

Although these cats and dogs don't have much intersection with Ye Weishuang on weekdays, they are very sticky to him, in fact, these stray cats and dogs are also the same as stray children, they have been erased by their nature and kept at home as pets, but as long as the owner dislikes them one day, is bored with them, or is old, then it is not a matter of saying a word. Ye Weishuang pitied these animals as much as he pitied himself.

As soon as he entered, a large purebred Dolomite-colored Scottish Shepherd pounced on him, and then a large cat was followed by a number of kittens and licked his face. To be honest, Ye Weishuang didn't understand, the last time he saw this breed of dog on Miss An Yu's TV, it should be very precious, but for some reason it fell into the situation of stray dogs. And this dog - is the only dog that is not afraid of yokai. He'd seen this guy run outside countless times to provoke those ghosts......

Ye Weishuang moved Su Mu, who was nearly ten catties on his body, with saliva on his face, and he still wanted to slap him, so Ye Weishuang had no choice but to raise his face and shout: "Mu Li!"

The big white dog never got up and down anymore. Ye Weishuang glanced back at the ghost leaning against the door frame, and then saw the ghosts outside with curious and covetous eyes, and said helplessly: "Ming, can you close the door?"

He glared impatiently at the ghost outside, then took two steps in and closed the door. Ye Weishuang was dumbfounded. He didn't ask him to come in. Animals are scared...... Well, it doesn't look like so.

Ye Weishuang once again felt that the world was really wonderful, and the female cat with a large group of kittens actually stepped forward and touched the dead with her paws very curiously. It's a pity that the body was blurred after frowning, and the cat's paws fluttered into the air. Then a cat and a ghost began to play the game of "you catch me and hide......

Ye Weishuang distributed the food, and the cats and dogs quickly swarmed up, but Mu Li was still dead and alive at Weishuang's feet, staring at him as if Weishuang was a big bone, and Maimai was still playing games with Ming, but Ming was very impatient......

Ye Weishuang smiled. This makes him feel very happy and warm, even without his parents. Parents...... In a trance, he heard a sigh, Ye Weishuang subconsciously looked out of the window, maybe he was wrong, and in an instant it seemed that something flashed white light disappeared from the window. Confused, he walked to the window. It was pitch black outside, and there was nothing.