I Want to be Alone, Beautifully

The time has passed twelve o'clock.

The room was quiet, and Xu Jiao looked down at the position of the cup in her hand. The cup, which was quite hot before, seemed to be much colder now, but the fingertips holding the cup still felt a little painful, indicating that the cool air It's just an illusion.

It is not easy for human eyes to suddenly jump from the previous bright situation to the current darkness, so now Xu Jiao can't see anything, and Zheng Zhiyu, who was close at hand, was also swallowed by the darkness, and there was no sound at all. The existence, now integrated into the colors in this room, seems to have disappeared completely.

Sensing Xu Jiao's lightening breath, Zheng Zhiyu seemed to understand her momentary state of vigilance, gently raised his hand, covering her eyes, and touched Xu Jiao's eyes with his cold hand.

Xu Jiao tilted her head slightly, instinctively knowing who was close to her, this movement seemed to silently ask what happened to Zheng Zhiyu.

Zheng Zhiyu didn't answer her, and only let go of the movement of covering her. Xu Jiao originally thought it was just the other person's gesture of teasing her, but she didn't expect that when she opened her eyes, everything in the room was reflected in her eyes.

It was as if he had night vision in an instant.

This kind of experience was a bit miraculous. Xu Jiao blinked her eyes several times, and suddenly saw a cloud of dark color gradually appear on the clean bed. At the same time, the tip of her nose smelled a very strong, pungent smell of iron rust.

Xu Jiao belatedly remembered that when she came out of the bathroom just now, Zheng Zhiyu had put herself on the small sofa and hadn't looked at the bed from the beginning to the end.

original……

The unclean place is in the bed.

If other people were here, they would have been startled by the light tripping, and smelling the strong smell of blood in the dark, even if they were not frightened mad, their spirits would be greatly stimulated.

Only Xu Jiao seemed to be pulled away from the emotion of fear, not only did not turn her eyes away, but instead focused her eyes on the position of the bed, watching the dark color slowly fade away.

Large groups, the middle part is the deepest, and the outer part is lighter.

Combined with the smell of rust she could smell, she guessed that the color in the bed should be blood that was stained.

When thinking of here——

Suddenly there was a strange sound in my ear.

"Ah... slightly... slightly..."

It was like a broken bellows being pulled open, or someone was hiding in the corner, struggling to make a sound to remind others to pay attention, but there were only a few broken movements, but Xu Jiao felt as if she felt the same way, as if for a moment was inflicted with great pain.

As if being strangled by the neck.

She opened her eyes slightly, and realized that the pain was not an illusion, but that her mouth and nose were suddenly blocked by some force, almost suffocating.

Zheng Zhiyu, who had been standing by her side all the time, suddenly made a movement, raised his hand and patted her on the shoulder, shaking something away. At the same time, a strong chill came out from her body, bringing a feeling of coldness. An unspeakable coercion spread in the room, and a displeased voice sounded in Xu Jiao's ear:

"get out."

"Is this how you treat people who come to help?"

In the closed room, a gust of wind suddenly blew.

The strong smell of blood floated in front of Xu Jiao, and she wanted to eat this person whose soul smelled extremely sweet, but she was photographed by the existence of the ghost beside her, so she could only stop not far away, and looked sideways at the two people. A person with an extremely pale side face.

Immediately afterwards, she sized up Xu Jiao with a horrifying look that wished she could eat Xu Jiao directly. At the same time, a slow, hoarse voice sounded:

"I... really appreciate your help..."

"Send such a person to me..."

"As long as I can eat her, I can take revenge... right?"

Xu Jiao didn't say a word, she quietly looked at that pure black eye full of resentment, but she was not affected by the extremely bad emotion in that eye, she sat there calmly.

Zheng Zhiyu stared at the person not far away who was only slightly stained with blood, and after the extremely hoarse and unpleasant voice fell for a long time, he continued:

"You can try--"

"As long as you dare to touch her, I don't mind taking you out of physical control."

The voice was neither light nor heavy, but the threat contained in it was clear.

It was only then that Xu Jiao discovered that Zheng Zhiyu's voice could be so cold when talking to people other than herself, instead of the way that even ghosts would be seduced by her every moment.

Hearing Zheng Zhiyu's words, the woman looked at the blood-red wedding dress on her body, and then at Xu Jiao. After a while, she seemed to understand something, tilted her head, and said slowly:

"I...understand...she's your favorite..."

Instead of continuing, she agreed, "Okay...I won't touch her...then what are you guys doing...?"

Zheng Zhiyu answered this question faster: "Help you realize your wish, but you have to pay for it."

On the side of the pale half face, the woman's eyes moved with resentment, as if she was judging the credibility of Zheng Zhiyu's words. She always looked at the wedding dress on Zheng Zhiyu's body, her eyes were on this beautiful Spinning around in the red clothes, I don't know whether it's envy or fear. After a long time, I heard her answer again:

"I... don't have to..."

She seemed to have too much to say, and the emotions in her eyes surged up in an instant, including hatred, resentment, and ridicule. Xu Jiao had never seen such completely negative eyes on a human being, so she was distracted and thought about it. , perhaps because things like ghosts are just a product of a collection of negative emotions, so it is possible to integrate these bad existences into one.

Thinking about it this way, death is like a lamp going out, it really doesn’t exist anymore——

After death, no matter what there is, it seems that it is no longer the original person.

Thoughts flashed through her mind, Xu Jiao thought of Zheng Zhiyu next to her again, she couldn't help raising her eyes slightly, looking at the red-clothed figure standing beside her who seemed to be protecting her, she couldn't help feeling a little confused:

What about Zheng Zhiyu?

How did she maintain such a state that is almost indistinguishable from human beings?

If you don't look at her strange abilities like penetrating objects, teleportation, and this rigid expression control, she is really too different from these emotional complex ghosts, she is too human-like.

Xu Jiao didn't realize that she was distracted at such a tense moment.

She also didn't realize that when Zheng Zhiyu stood by her side, she would inadvertently relax, and even ignore the danger in front of her, as if she knew that the existence beside her would not cause any accident to her.

now.

The figure not far from them moved suddenly, no longer maintaining the posture of facing them with half of her face, but slowly turned her head around, her long messy hair was loose, and her head When the machine was turning, Xu Jiao thought that this guy had some bad intentions again, and even wondered if the head would fall directly to the ground in the next second.

But no.

As she turned her head, the full view of that face slowly fell in front of the two of them. It was a... a somewhat shocking face.

It's scary, but not because of horror.

The other half of the face is covered with scars, and there is a mark on the forehead that seems to be carved with a knife. The blood stains have dried up. On the originally handsome face, there are terrible wounds, fingerprints, burn marks, and swollen skin. Leftovers like welts.

There were also scary bruises on the pale neck.

Thinking of the bloodstains on the bed, Xu Jiao didn't know for a while whether the man was strangled to death or was injured by some sharp knife, but she guessed to some extent that the woman in front of her must have been in extreme pain before she died.

Been abused.

Seeing Xu Jiao staring at the other half of her face, that person smiled. It was supposed to be a pretty smile, but because of the scars on her face and the emotion in her eyes looked ferocious and weird, she seemed suddenly not afraid of Zheng Zhi. After Yu's presence, he took two steps forward, stared at Xu Jiao, and said in a breathy voice with difficulty:

"Do you know... what he did to me?"

Perhaps it was because her voice was lowered and she didn't need to use her voice so hard, her tone became much smoother, without interruptions, she just said: "I have been with him for eight years, I am so obedient, I love him— —”

"But he stabbed me with a knife, and was even afraid that my cry would be heard, so he strangled my neck severely."

"I'm in so much pain...I'm really in pain..."

Xu Jiao put the water glass in her hand on the table next to her, without checking whether it was cold or not. Then, she propped her chin with one hand, leaned her elbow on the armrest of the sofa, and met the resentful eyes .

She asked the other party softly: "Why should you love him?"

The woman who was about to come to the front was stopped by Xu Jiao, her expression was blank, she thought for a long time, numbly shook her head in a daze, but in the next second she raised a strange smile:

"I love him."

"I want him to die in a foreign land like me, and stay with me forever in this place."

Xu Jiao didn't answer the question anymore, she just looked at Zheng Zhiyu next to her, maybe because she didn't put the emotion of love above anything else, so she couldn't understand such extreme love, and she didn't understand why someone could love her. Will find objects from the trash can.

And put all your heart and soul on this kind of person.

Zheng Zhiyu saw that she didn't want to stay in this kind of place for too long, so she prepared to settle the topic quickly: "Now that the hotel has completely sealed off this floor, you want to trick people into coming in, and by eating their... It will become more and more difficult to increase your own strength."

"Before you are completely strong and can leave this place, it is more likely that this hotel will not be able to continue."

"Besides, he has already done such a bad thing, so he will definitely not dare to come to this place again. The possibility of you wanting him to die here is very slim."

"Okay, either give us a reward and entrust us to help you fulfill your wish, or see you later."

Her voice had lost patience by the end.

The woman who revealed her scars to Xu Jiao was silent for a while, as if she was really thinking about the feasibility of what Zheng Zhiyu said, she glanced at Zheng Zhiyu's clothes with some resentment, and then stared at Xu Jiao .

After a long silence, she resumed her hoarse voice again:

"Give you the ghost core..."

"I want him to be in this room within seven days."

Finished-

Her figure suddenly disappeared.

The chill in the room also dissipated, and the previously dimmed lights were turned on again. I saw that the hotel room was still as clean as it was, and the beds were also clean and tidy. The blood-stained colors I saw in the dark had long since disappeared. like a hallucination.

Xu Jiao pursed her lips, turned her head and said to Zheng Zhiyu, "It's over?"

Zheng Zhiyu gave a "hmm" and reminded her: "The dormitory building should have just had a curfew. Auntie hasn't fallen asleep yet, so there is still time to go back."

Xu Jiao really didn't want to stay in this place any longer.

First, staying in a hotel feels somewhat guilty, even if this room is a place that people avoid, and second, it is too psychologically unbalanced to sleep on such a big and soft bed.

She pulled the quilt off her body, and was about to carry it to the bedside to fold it neatly, when she saw Zheng Zhiyu took over her work, pushed her back into the small sofa, and after tidying up the room to its original appearance, came over to greet her She reached out and led her downstairs.

……

The lady on duty at the front desk is still the same as before.

Seeing Xu Jiao coming out, she was stunned for a moment, remembering that her male colleague had asked her which room this person was a visitor from before, so she checked the monitor and glanced at the floor that Xu Jiao pressed when entering the elevator.

A few seconds later, she broke out in a cold sweat, sat on a chair, unscrewed the lid of her hot water cup, and did not recover for a long time.

Until someone patted her on the shoulder: "What are you doing? It's not hot tonight, why are you sweating so much?"

The uniformed front desk showed an ugly smile, opened his mouth, his mind was full of thoughts of resigning from this ghost place, and after a while, he spit out two extremely difficult words:

"fine……"

……

"What is a ghost core?"

Under the bright street lamps on the street, Xu Jiao felt a bit of the heat of the coming summer, which dispelled the coldness of staying in that room for a long time, except for the remaining sore feeling in the lower abdomen, the previous memories were even more absurd.

Under the lamp, her elongated shadow was thick and black, like a bottomless vortex. Hearing her question, the shadow moved slightly, avoiding the shadow traces of Xu Jiao's overlapping with the surrounding people while walking. A melodious and gentle voice sounded softly in Xu Jiao's ear:

"you guess?"

Xu Jiao: "..."

On weekdays, she would never answer such silly questioning tricks, but now, when she looked at the night market that was getting more and more lively after twelve o'clock, she even moved her lips and answered in a low voice like she was talking to herself:

"I guess...it's what you gave me to eat before."

"It can make me resist the ghost aura on you, right? But if ordinary people eat it, won't there be any side effects? Just like what appeared in horror novels, people who stay with ghosts for a long time will slowly become unlucky."

Zheng Zhiyu was silent for a while, praised her for being smart, and then said: "There is always a solution to everything. In fact, the best thing to resist ghost energy is the ghost core. It's amazing, isn't it?"

"Things that exude the cold ghost air itself are the antidote to the cold air."

Xu Jiao showed a thoughtful expression.

I feel like this is like the truth in the legend that if you are bitten by a poisonous snake, there must be an antidote within five steps.

She didn't ask any further, but Zheng Zhiyu fell in love with the atmosphere of chatting with her, as if the two of them were just the most ordinary couple in the world, they would go out to the night market together at night, and usually gossip casually about daily life .

The joy of hearing Xu Jiao talk to him was better than the previous nonsense in the bathroom of the hotel room.

Zheng Zhiyu secretly thought that her appetite had diminished, and she was able to satisfy even a meal of appetizers, but when Xu Jiao walked into the campus, she took the initiative to talk:

"Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Xu Jiao thought about it seriously: "You said before that she tricked people into living in that room, and then ate their stuff? It seems that something was omitted in the middle."

Zheng Zhiyu answered unhurriedly: "Fear."

Xu Jiao didn't react for a while: "Huh?"

Zheng Zhiyu repeated: "What eats is fear—she hates those men who are in a hurry, and those who stay in hotels always have lovers, so she always likes to trick lovers on the same floor into that room, and then turn into a The horrible scene frightened those men out of their wits and ate the fear they were born with."

"She is a collection of negative emotions, so she has been staring at you just now, wanting to see your fear."

Xu Jiao said softly: "Ah, let her down."

After being so quiet for a while, Xu Jiao said again: "Does she want the man who betrayed her and killed her to be killed in a hotel? This kind of thing seems to be illegal."

At that time, she was passing a deserted campus trail.

The unknown trees planted on the path are like clusters of bushes, which become grotesque in the dark street lights that flicker on and off on campus, and twisted shadows on the ground cover Xu Jiao's figure.

There was no one around, so Zheng Zhiyu came out again, lying lazily on Xu Jiao's back, as if coquettishly asking her to carry her back, and there was a little smile in her low voice:

"You can't trust me that much?"

"You have said that you are not allowed to do illegal and criminal things, how can I be willing to go against my will?"

Xu Jiao was caught off guard by her unprepared and thoughtless love words, and her pace stopped inexplicably.

Seeing her reaction, Zheng Zhiyu knew that she had unknowingly fallen, and her mood improved for no reason, but without her complacently flirting with her, Xu Jiao continued calmly:

"Oh? Then you plan?"

Hearing her pull the topic back to the original part, Zheng Zhiyu lost the best opportunity to tease her, and at the same time she was a little bit regretful, and at the same time made a fool of herself: "You will know when the time comes."

She dragged her tone, as if she was dissatisfied that Xu Jiao always caught an outsider and asked, with some obvious perfunctory in her voice: "Any other questions?"

Xu Jiao: "Yes."

Zheng Zhiyu: "?"

Xu Jiao said seriously: "Didn't you say this is a part-time job to make money? Where is the money?"

Zheng Zhiyu: "..."

Thinking of the female ghost automatically defaulting to the ghost core as the transaction reward just now, she felt a faint headache, and subconsciously began to change the subject: "Don't you want to know how the woman in the hotel died just now?"

Xu Jiao said with a cold face: "I just want to know how to make money."

Zheng Zhiyu hugged her shoulders from behind and tightened her fingertips tightly, as if she was a little guilty. After a few seconds, she flattered and said: "I know, I know, next time we take orders from humans, Is that all right?"

Xu Jiao: "..."

She asked slowly: "So... If I don't ask this question today, you are going to continue to lead me into the ditch, only earning ghost cores, not making money, right?"

Zheng Zhiyu, a fierce ghost with a good voice, suddenly began to cough violently as if he had caught a cold, trying to get rid of the topic.

Xu Jiao didn't intend to let her go at all: "As for the reason why you want to get the ghost core... don't I need to go on?"

This ghost has only one purpose from beginning to end——

date her.

Xu Jiao thought of the ending that she almost lost her money and life, so she wished she could immediately take out the talisman paper from her pocket and stick it on the face of this guy who looks like a ghost on the outside but is a pervert on the inside.

Zheng Zhiyu's purpose was exposed, and she tried to find some high-sounding excuses for herself. Before she could say anything, she saw Xu Jiao's right hand draw a picture in the air, and the talisman that she had seen before quickly took shape in the air.

As soon as she opened her mouth, her whole body was enveloped by a stream of golden light.

This speed is much faster than when I was in the hotel before.

Zheng Zhiyu looked at her familiar ending, saw Xu Jiao leaving without hesitation, and called her without tears: "Jiaojiao..."

"baby……"

"Listen to my explanation..."

However, only Xu Jiao's receding figure faced her.

……

After one o'clock in the morning.

Xu Jiao slept in the dormitory for a long time, when suddenly a bone-piercing coldness stuck to her back, waking her up from her sleep.

Just as she was about to turn around, someone grabbed her waist. The guy who was lying behind her and insisted on squeezing the student's cot with her didn't have the slightest sense of self-consciousness, and whispered in her ear:

"Go to sleep, I won't disturb you anymore."

Pressed by the coldness, Xu Jiao raised her hand to pull the quilt higher on her shoulders, and hooked her feet back under the quilt, as if kicking someone out of her quilt. Zheng Zhiyu noticed her move This kind of small movement of driving away, inexplicably tastes a little cute.

Smiling, she kissed the back of Xu Jiao's neck, and whispered: "I was wrong, don't be angry."

Zheng Zhiyu's actions were domineering and strong, but her voice was extremely soft. Seeing that Xu Jiao was unmoved, she didn't know if she was asleep or was too lazy to talk to herself, so she added in a low voice:

"I like you, so I want to be close to you."

"I want to hug you and rub you into my blood, so that we can never be separated."

There was explicit lust in the gentle voice, just hearing her say this, Xu Jiao felt that her bones were a little crisp, and she wondered if it was the sequelae of the nonsense in the hotel today.

It was obvious that she was extremely possessive, and even said a little paranoid, but for some reason, Zheng Zhiyu was able to tell the illusion of deep affection.

Xu Jiao woke up from the cold in the middle of the night, her thoughts wandered for a while, and she remembered the woman she saw in the hotel. In the quiet dormitory, Zhou Qili and Qian Ai were both asleep, and only her voice sounded softly:

"How...how did you become like this?"

Zheng Zhiyu hugged her and thought about it for a while: "I don't remember."

But soon, she closed her arms, and said slowly with that satisfied smile: "But seeing you, I think..."

"I should die under the peony flower."