Laws of Spirit Recycling

They walked aimlessly on the campus, Yu Yan looked around carefully all the way, observing the quiet and solemn academic buildings on both sides, he couldn't help being mocked by Gu Qi.

"Are you a modern person? Have you never seen a high school?"

"It wasn't like this in high school before." As for whether he is a modern person, Yu Yan automatically ignored it.

"It seems that you have been in the world for a long time, but you look about the same age as me. Does it mean that your appearance will not change no matter how long it takes?" The unhappiness caused by the other party was left behind.

Seeing that he finally no longer looked depressed, Yu Yan replied seriously: "That's right, according to your human age standards, I am much older than you."

"We humans? Hahahaha..." Gu Qi burst out laughing, and it took him a while to calm down, wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, "So there really is a god of death in this world."

Yu Yan had previously denied the identity of "Death God", seeing that the other party was still obsessed with this title, he did not refute it.Anyway, they are both workers in the underworld, not to mention that my current position does not have a special title. Some humans call them "recycling death gods", and even the boss, Mr. Fu, calls them "recycling messengers".

Yu Yan doesn't like the word recycling very much, it always reminds him of recycling trash cans that can be seen everywhere in the human world.

"There are many things in this world that you can't imagine."

Gu Qi stared at him, "Really? For me, the most unexpected thing has happened."

Yu Yan quickly realized the meaning of his words this time, and imitated the human tone and said the words he had learned before: "Sorrow and change."

"What..." Gu Qi had a dumbfounding expression, "You god of death speaks so funny."

"Is it funny? I don't think you're having fun."

"Idiot." Gu Qi turned his head and didn't bother to pay attention to him. After walking a few steps, he turned his head and said: "If you can bring me back from the dead, I will be happy."

"I'm sorry, I can't." Yu Yan felt a little sorry from the bottom of his heart.

He originally thought that Gu Qi would angrily pick up broken stones on the ground and throw them around, or intentionally tear down the flowers and plants on the side of the road, but who knew that the other party didn't do anything, just put his hands in his trouser pockets, bowed his head and said no Walk forward without a word.

Yu Yan felt that he should say something more, so he said: "Although I can't come back from the dead, I can help you do some things, some things you want to do but haven't finished yet."

"No need." Gu Qi shook his head, and said in a low voice, "Everyone is dead, what else can we do? It's too late."

"It's not too late, there is still a chance now."

"I said no need." Gu Qi stopped, frowned impatiently and looked at Yu Yan, suddenly his gaze froze, and the irritability on his face turned into a deeper emotion.

Yu Yan turned his head and looked over, it was a wall-like building standing thinly in front of the bushes, allowing pedestrians to walk by along its length.Before he could take a closer look, he found that Gu Qi had already stepped forward.

This rectangular wall is covered with a layer of transparent glass, with brightly colored border patterns and neatly arranged text inside. A few middle-aged men in dark coats are carefully pushing open a pane of glass, and then quickly tear it off. The layer of drawings inside the glass.

"Isn't this you?" Yu Yan saw the photo section with several people in the middle, and exclaimed, pointing at the young man with the corners of his mouth slightly raised and his eyes full of confidence.

The janitor who was busy changing the stickers and posters turned his head and looked at Yu Yan suspiciously.

Thinking that these human beings couldn't see Gu Qi, he stopped talking to himself in the eyes of others, pretending not to care, and continued to read the content under the words "Campus Star".

"Gu Qi, class 14, sophomore, with a total score of 671." Yu Yan has a habit of not being able to read any text carefully.He deliberately lowered his voice, and turned to ask Gu Qi who was beside him in a daze, "Does the total score refer to your grades? Is 671 very good?"

Gu Qi was silent for a few seconds before he reluctantly answered: "Didn't you see? I'm No.2, how amazing it is."

Yu Yan looked along his fingertips, only to find that there was a red bold number "2" written on the left side of the name, and he subconsciously looked up to No.1 on the top.

"Wang Yuyuan, Class 9, Grade 697, with a total score of 700, almost [-] points." Yu Yan understood, this is the honor roll that every school has, and what he saw once was twice as short as this one, made of red chalk on a black background Simple rankings.

"Now there are still photos of everyone, and the design is much better than before."

Gu Qi rarely kindly introduced: "Not everyone's photo will be put on it, only the top three students will be put in this one, the first, second, third, and the top three of each grade."

"Then you are No.2, and you have a lower score than No.3, aren't you already better than him?" Yu Yan wanted to find an opportunity to praise him, and he thought that No.2 was already very good achievement.

"Why are you so unpursuing! Of course you want to be No.1. Why do I have to compare with people who are already worse than me?" Gu Qi gave him a white look.

Yu Yan closed his mouth, he really had no pursuit, and he couldn't resonate with those humans who were obsessed with ranking.

He looked at the No.1 boy on the wallpaper. Although the photo printing was not fine enough, his nose bridge was straight and his brows were heroic enough to make people feel the shining halo that belonged to the leader and was higher than anyone else.

"Do you know this No.1?"

"Why do you ask this?" Gu Qi frowned slightly.

Yu Yan said: "Curiosity, I see you have been staring at him just now. Are you dissatisfied?"

"No, the grades are all fair, not to mention he has been No.1 since the first year of high school, unlike me, he is better than me..."

Seeing his thoughtful expression, Yu Yan asked, "Then don't you want to surpass him?"

Gu Qi looked up, silently staring at other people's photos.

"The difference is 26 points, the distance is still very far..." After a long time, he sighed softly.

"Hiss—" The campus star wallpaper was removed by the school staff, and they took out another roll from the posters of different colors placed on the ground, and then stuffed it under the glass to paste a brand new grade ranking report.

Standing beside him, Gu Qi looked down at the poster on the ground with his smiling face printed on it. The autumn sun was shining all over the earth, but he couldn't even give a piece of black silhouette to the boy.

He felt alone, like this wrinkled photo that was carelessly discarded, to be forgotten when its glory faded.

On the opposite side of the playground, which is large enough to accommodate the teachers and students of the school, there is still a scene of idleness at this moment.

Students who are immersed in their homework every day can only withdraw from the tense and oppressive classroom atmosphere when the sun is setting and the sun is setting, and use the meager time after dinner to fill the day's comfort. Return to the teaching building with a tired body and continue to fight.

Yu Yan has seen this kind of picture several times, and the campus atmosphere always makes him feel very comfortable.But he was not interested in human beings in motion or in stillness, so his eyes stayed on the ants next to the stone wall of the steps.

"Hey, can you be more professional?" Gu Qi, who was staring in a daze in front of him, came back to his senses and couldn't help but blame the god of death beside him.

"Didn't you just say that you need to be quiet?" Yu Yan said calmly.

"They can't hear me, they can't talk to me, it's quiet enough."

Yu Yan felt a little strange, and said, "Isn't that very good?"

The corners of Gu Qi's eyes twitched, and he said, "Now only you can see me and talk to me, so I can only look for you after I'm quiet." Finally, he suddenly thought of something, and asked curiously, "Do you have a name?"

"Of course, my name is Yu Yan."

They walked around the school together for two days before Gu Qi thought of this question, but Yu Yan rarely introduced his name to humans.

"Inkstone? Which inkstone? You gods of death actually have names! I thought they were all numbered."

Yu Yan, who was watching a few ants moving up the crumbs that the students dropped on the steps while eating snacks, turned his head, narrowed his eyes and smiled and said, "The inkstone that I saw with one stone, isn't it bad?"

Gu Qi didn't expect him to ask this question back, he was slightly taken aback and said, "It's okay, did you take it yourself?"

"No." It was Mr. Fu who told him, and Yu Yan didn't know who took the name. Thinking of this, he looked around, but couldn't find any familiar figure.

"Oh." Gu Qi just responded lightly, and it was obvious that he was not very interested in this topic.

Thinking that there might be another silence in the future, Yu Yan felt that he should be more dedicated to his work, so he looked away from the animal that attracted his observation, and took the initiative to chat.

"Did you like to come here before? Or did you play on the playground like them?"

"I used to go back to the classroom at this time before. There are so many papers to do, so I don't have time to spend here." This topic seemed to make the young man quite touched, and he started talking, "Our school is a key high school, and most people get in the exam. It’s not easy, but after spending energy to get in successfully, I found that this is not the end, there are still three years to redouble my efforts, because there are more outstanding people here, if you can’t do better, you will always be surpassed.”

Speaking of this, Gu Qi seemed to see himself who was step-by-step in junior high school but exceptionally good, and the appearance of being frustrated and sleepy after coming to high school.Unknowingly, he has changed a lot, from his first monthly exam in high school, where he was ranked outside the top [-] in the whole year, to now he is catching up to the top three rankings. Behind the achievements of professionalism and hard work, there is always something that cannot be taken lightly. High pressure state.

"It turns out that studying in high school is so hard." Yu Yan couldn't understand it, but he could hear his difficulty from Gu Qi's distressed voice, and said, "You worked very hard, and you are better than most people."

"I can't let myself become like most people, so I can only keep working hard."

"But most people won't be so tired, and sometimes they will be happy, look at them." Yu Yan casually pointed to the boy sitting on the steps below, who was flipping through a comic book with relish, From time to time, he burst into a suppressed laugh.

"If you are human, you must be the kind of student who is lazy and lazy all day long." Gu Qi complained disdainfully to Yu Yan, "I said that if you want to do it, you must do your best, especially in key high schools that value grades , ranking means everything. Only the higher the ranking, can we be recognized and attract more truly outstanding people, and I don’t care to compare with those students who have fun in groups every day as soon as they arrive in high school.”

After getting acquainted with Gu Qi's proud nature, Yu Yan couldn't help but wonder: "More really outstanding people... what are they like?"

"How do I know." Gu Qi's eyes moved slightly forward, "Probably, it's because they are excellent in everything they do, and they can be the focus of attention anywhere."

Yu Yan tried hard to concretize the "excellent person" in his mind, but he still had no idea, so he continued to look at the ants storing food, and found that the small animals had long since disappeared, only a few leaves from the treetops above his head floated over, and he picked up one Take it in your hand and play with it.

"By the way, can you tell me how you died?" Yu Yan suddenly thought that asking this question might be helpful to complete the task.

"Campus accident! This broken school, a trash school!" Gu Qi suddenly became emotional, gnashing his teeth and cursing the high school that he said just now, "I got in with great difficulty". Throw it forward to vent your anger.

The half-yellow leaf fell impartially on the head of the girl who was chatting in front, the other party grabbed the leaf and turned to stare at this side, Yu Yan was already used to this situation, and quickly said "I'm sorry" to the girl.

Sure enough, these three words can quickly resolve the primary displeasure of human beings. The girl turned her head and continued talking to her friend without saying anything.

"It's not because you hate school, that's why you keep..." Yu Yan frowned. If he stayed here because of resentment, it would take a long time, but basically he doesn't need to do anything .

Before he finished speaking, he saw Gu Qi straighten his neck suddenly, his eyes fixed on the front.Yu Yan finally turned his head to look at the people on the playground.

"That person fell." He saw the tall boy being pulled up by the person next to him, "but he didn't fall hard, and he was still laughing."

"Nonsense, those who fell on the lawn just scratched the skin." Gu Qi's straight body collapsed, showing an indifferent look.

The girl who had just been thrown leaves by them seemed to have heard Yu Yan's words. In her opinion, the whole process was talking to herself alone. She pushed the friend around her and said with a displeased face: "Crazy, it affects our perception of people." ,Walk."

"You got everyone else away." Gu Qi said leisurely.

"It's because of your littering behavior just now."

Gu Qi didn't even look at Yu Yan, and let out a "hum" from his nose.

"The person they were watching and discussing just now, is he?" Yu Yan pointed at the tall boy who accidentally fell down while fighting with his friends on the playground, "You've been looking at him too."

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Gu Qi retorted excitedly, "I just happened to see him wrestling."

"You always come here at this time these days, and you obviously like a quieter place... I think the reason why you insist on coming here should be that person, you always look at him involuntarily."

Yu Yan simply and directly stated the details and inferences he observed, who knew that Gu Qi would be even more excited after hearing this.

"Do you think you know everything? I don't even know that person. Why should I look at him?! Crazy!"

Gu Qi finished speaking loudly. Fortunately, he is now in a spirit state, otherwise he would definitely attract other students to watch.As if to prove that he was here for no reason, he stood up resolutely and left.

Yu Yan looked back at the young man walking towards the exit on the playground, and felt a little familiar.