go with the demon

The sun at the beginning of July scorched the naked/exposed skin of the passers-by, boiled the dense water vapor that seemed to be raining heavily, and blocked breathing dullly, and the air was filled with anxiety.

The young man dragged his suitcase with one hand, and quietly lined up for the security check in front of the train station. Sweat dripped from his forehead, and his cheeks were flushed with heat. Occasionally, he would raise his hand to tug at the front of his chest, and then slowly put it down. No trace of impatience can be seen on the delicate face, like a flowing spring in the crowded and impetuous crowd.

When he stepped into the waiting hall, the coolness from the air conditioner made the young man breathe a sigh of relief, with a smile unconsciously on his face.It was the summer vacation, and the waiting hall was full of students preparing to go home, forming a group in twos and threes, chatting twitteringly.

The boy pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, found a corner to put the suitcase away, leaned against the wall, took out the phone from his pocket, and made a call.

There was a gentle female voice on the phone.

"Lili, what time is the train? Do you want your mother to pick you up?"

"The bus at two o'clock will take about one and a half hours. I'll take the subway by myself. Well, I don't have much luggage." The boy's voice was clear and pleasant to hear.

He hung up the phone and was about to put away the phone when a girl who was playing with friends accidentally bumped into the boy and the phone fell to the ground.Seeing that she bumped into someone, the girl couldn't help but blushed, apologized in a panic, didn't notice that the boy dropped his phone, and ran away in a hurry.

He didn't worry about it, and bent down/body to pick up the phone, but someone took a step ahead.It was a particularly beautiful hand, white and slender, with distinct joints, and the skin seemed to be coated with a layer of jade.He looked along his fingers a little bit, and finally his eyes fell on the man's face.

It was the first time for the boy to see such a good-looking man. It was not an indiscriminate and androgynous beauty, but an aggressive and heroic handsomeness.The man's face is sharp and angular, with deep eye sockets and a high nose bridge. He looks a bit like a mixed race. What is surprising is that his eyes are red, bright and clear like rubies.

"Thank you." The boy took the phone and smiled politely.

"No need." The man put his hands back into his trouser pockets, and stared at the young man rather flamboyantly: "My name is Han Ting, what about you?"

The young man glanced at the man vigilantly. He didn't want to talk to him at first, but after thinking about it, the other party had already given his name and picked up the phone for him. It seemed impolite not to answer. After hesitating for a while, the young man replied, "My name is Li Book."

Han Ting raised his eyebrows, and gave the boy a meaningful look.At this time, a reminder to check the ticket and board the train sounded on the radio. The teenager smiled and pointed at the ticket gate with the ticket, said "goodbye", and dragged the suitcase to leave.

Han Ting stared at the back of the young man leaving, and curled his mouth: "I found you, big liar!"

Shu Li who boarded the car suddenly shivered, and rubbed the back of his neck blankly.

The young man was seated by the window. He took off his eyes after sitting down, raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose.The glasses are very simple black frames, and the lenses seem to have no prescription.Shu Li felt that the bridge of his nose was a little more comfortable, and was about to put his glasses back on, when he saw a man who was putting a suitcase on the luggage rack above his seat staggered inexplicably, and half of the suitcase that was exposed outside fell down , the surrounding passengers didn't realize it for a while, and they were about to hit the man, the boy stood up immediately, reaching out his hand to block the falling suitcase.

Another step ahead, the man named Han Ting in the waiting hall easily held the suitcase, and helped to stuff it on the luggage rack.The guest breathed a sigh of relief and kept thanking him.

"We meet again." Han Ting smiled at Shu Li.

But Shu Li could no longer take care of Han Ting, his attention was all on the unlucky passenger just now.The previous passenger kept his back to Shu Li. When he turned around, the boy noticed that there was a strange thing lying on the man's chest.

That thing was about the size of a baby's arm, dark all over, with a big head and one leg, no facial features on its face, only a white part that looked like an eye.

Shu Li walked over calmly, reached out and patted the unlucky passenger's chest and said, "The clothes are dirty."

The passenger touched his head in embarrassment: "Thank you, thank you!"

The boy shook his head, put the hand holding that thing behind his back, and walked calmly to the junction of the carriages.The pitch-black monster screamed and twisted its body, trying to break free from its shackles, Shu Li clenched his fists without changing his face, and the monster turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared.

After washing his hands in front of the counter, the boy put his glasses back on.When I turned around, I bumped into someone, and when I looked up, it was the man with red eyes.

The first word that popped out of Shu Li's mind was: ghosts linger.But thinking about how he saved that unlucky man just now, he wondered if he was thinking too much, maybe the other party was just more willing to help others.

The young man smiled politely and was about to return to his seat, but the man lowered his head, put his lips close to his ear, and said softly, "So, you can see it too."

Shu Li raised his head in surprise, and stared at Han Ting with wide eyes.

He has been able to see some strange things since he was a child.

The man who has been guarding the river, the little girl with a rabbit tail, the old woman who follows a person walking alone with a lantern at night, the beautiful sister who hides behind the locust tree...

After he became sensible, the boy realized that only he could see those strange things.

Shu Li's father disappeared when he was three years old, and his mother raised him alone. Needless to say, the hardships involved.He also talked to his mother at first, but later found that whenever he asked about these things, his mother's eyes were full of sadness, and she even shed tears secretly. She thought it was her own fault that caused her lonely son to be born. this illusion.

Since then, the boy has never mentioned these things again.He seems to be more courageous than others by nature, and he doesn't feel scared at all about these weird things.

It was fifth grade when I found that I seemed to be able to deal with these things.A little girl in the same class was in poor health and had to be hospitalized almost every month, constantly receiving injections and taking medicine.

One day, Shu Li found a worm the size of a thumb on the little girl's back. At first, he thought it fell from a tree outside, and then patted it on the ground. The girl's spirits improved a lot the next day.But not long after, she was hospitalized again, and when she returned to school, the worm appeared again, even bigger than before.

Shu Li vaguely felt that the little girl's illness was related to the worm behind her, but even if it was shot off, the worm would reappear. How can the worm disappear completely?

Maybe kill it.

A word came to Xiao Shuli's mind.After hesitating for a long time, he walked behind the girl during the break, reached out and grabbed the bug, holding it tightly in his palm.He ran into the toilet cubicle, opened his palm cautiously, only to find that the worm was gone, and only a cloud of black mist slowly dissipated.

For a moment he thought he had failed, until the girl slowly recovered.

Shu Li was a little happy, maybe no one would know that the girl's recovery was due to him, he still felt happy, since then he would clean up from time to time.

Of course, not every monster can be solved, such as the black air entangled around his second aunt.

The precocious Shu Li knows that he is different from normal people, so he has been carefully hiding it. He never thought that one day he would meet someone like him.

"You, can you see it?" Shu Li's vigilance towards the red-eyed man immediately decreased a bit, and he was a little surprised by the feeling of discovering the same kind.

"Not only can I see them, but I also know what they are." Han Ting replied happily. As for where his joy came from, it is a bit intriguing.

"What was that just now?" The boy pointed to the unlucky passenger.

"That thing is called 'xu', and it lives by eating qi, so people who are entangled by it are always very unlucky." The man said and pointed to the seat: "I'm sitting opposite you, standing here will hinder others."

"En." Shu Li nodded, and the two returned to their seats, lowering their voices to communicate.

Noticing the function of Shu Li's glasses, Han Ting asked curiously, "Who gave you these glasses?"

Shu Li thought for a while: "I can't remember, it seems to have been kept at home all the time. By coincidence, I found that I couldn't see those things when I wore it."

"Some of them really look scary. If I behave strangely, I will inevitably attract the attention of others, so I always wear glasses." The boy said distressedly.

Seeing his vivid expression, Han Ting was stunned.

Shu Li's appearance has hardly changed, but he looks a lot younger. He never thought that there would be so many expressions on this face. Even if it is still not particularly strong, it is much fresher than that time.

He saw the word "alive" on this Shu Li.Maybe he really shouldn't care so much, after all, they are not relatives, and Shu Li still has the grace of saving his life.

An hour and a half passed in the blink of an eye. Shu Li listened to the station announcement on the car radio and hesitated: "Can we continue to contact each other in the future?"

Han Ting came back to his senses, and said with a smile, "Of course, it's rare for me to meet people of the same kind."

The two exchanged their mobile phone numbers, and Shu Li entered the word "Han Ting" in the name column.

Han Ting deliberately pretended to have forgotten, and asked with his mobile phone, "What's your name?"

Shu Li replied without blinking: "Li Shu, Muzi Li, a book of books."

".........." Han Ting blankly saved the name, he wanted to take back the understanding just now, but this big liar is still guarding him, he is a heartless bastard!

Shu Li smiled and waved to Han Ting, dragged his luggage and got out of the car.

Before the train started again, Han Ting who was sitting on the seat suddenly disappeared out of thin air, while the passengers around were still talking and laughing, as if there had never been any passengers in this seat.

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