[Ghost Lamp] The dark humor of hell

The bone girl felt that she was a bit strange recently.

For example, when I occasionally meet Lord Ghost Lantern on the road, I will retreat to the side of the road to make way for him, or I always stare at Lord Ghost Lantern in a daze when handing over work.

"That's the reason. The old man is very concerned about the relationship between seniority and will give way to the seniors. The daze is just a manifestation of your aging. No, you should be called the old woman now."

Asked out by the bone girl to discuss in detail about her lifespan, the stone lantern sat across from the bone girl holding a rare freezing point in hell.

The coffee shops in hell all have a proper taste of hell. Whether it is a haunted house atmosphere store selling cute coffee cakes or the like, or the overall bloody walls can give a deep impression to the first-time guests.The bone girl also heard that the bloodstain facing the gate was the evidence left by the fox next door who angered Mr. Ghost Lantern.

There are all sorts of opinions these days, and the bone girl who is called "the bone girl old woman" doesn't respond, pushes the coffee in front of her to the stone lantern, and carefully considers his words.

It feels a bit reasonable.

"It's true that the elderly will often be in a daze... Is it because Master Ghost Lantern always does strange and unexpected behaviors because he is old?" The bone girl thought of the strange behavior of Ghost Lantern not long ago.

"Aren't old people unpredictable? It may also be that you are too old, so you have a generation gap with Mr. Ghost Lantern. The behavior of young people has never been understood by the elderly. Didn't there be an old lady who helped her granddaughter before?" The pants are sewn on."

Other things were not discussed, and the bone girl came to the conclusion that "there is a three-generation age difference between herself and Mr. Ghost Lamp".

"...Is there any use in saying this conclusion? Why should I give way to the young man's ghost lamp?"

The bone girl who thought about it without realizing that she had deviated from her original goal began to worry about the usefulness of this conclusion.Stone Lantern took a spoonful of ice point and put it into his mouth, with his younger brother beside him, he answered vaguely and casually.

"Probably that, because the young people are too trendy, and the old people don't like it and don't have the courage to reprimand them, so when they meet on the road, they will make a detour to avoid each other."

"I see."

Thinking of the fact that Master Ghost Lantern was reluctant to get too close to each other every time he met before, it turned out to be the reason.Although she couldn't find anything trendy about Ghost Lantern,... In fact, Lord Ghost Lantern is still an ancient ghost?

After all, he doesn't wear a suit to work like calling hell, and his favorite food is not pastries but rice balls.Although Lord Ghost Lantern is quite suitable for wearing modern clothes...

Recalling the ghost lamp dressed as a human in a suit, the bone girl nodded for unknown reasons in her heart.

So this meeting with the Stone Lantern Brother Bone Girl deviated from the original purpose, but it was worthwhile to understand the reason for Ghost Lantern's unexpected behavior before.

"Bone girl... what is the old woman going to do?"

Shouting a general change of words, Shi Lantern took a tissue to wipe his mouth, and in front of him was a glass container that had already bottomed out.

"I don't really care about age, but I think it's ugly to be called an old woman."

"Aunt Bone Girl?"

"Let's call her the old lady."

The bone girl denied Shi Lantern's proposal expressionlessly, got up, paid the money, and prepared to leave.

"Bone girl old woman... old woman."

The stone lantern holding his younger brother caught up with the bone girl in a few steps, and kept chattering. After catching up, he grabbed the other party's white mourning clothes and followed her silently.

The bone girl was about to die, he could tell that she still had a year or two to live.

The phoenix feathers hanging beside her were not as clean as they had been seen in the previous modern art exhibition, and the stone lantern didn't give much thought to it just after a cursory look.In his eyes, Ghost Lamp is quite a reliable boss, and he is really good to the bone girl.

But Shi Lantern has known the bone girl—since she was moved by Yuedu Shen Zuoqian, at least for hundreds of years. People who have known each other for hundreds of years are about to die, and this kind of feeling is not good.

With her mouth flattened, Shi Lantern stopped in her tracks, and she didn't let go of the white clothes she was holding in her hand. The bone girl felt a force stop herself in place.

Looking back, it was a stone lantern with its head down and its expression unclear.

"...What should the big sister of the bone girl do?" He pursed his lips, and his tone was a little strange.

How did this tone come out? The bone girl touched her throat, trying to imitate the tone of the other party, but failed.Without thinking too much, he pulled away the stone lantern and pulled the corner of his clothes, then took the other's hand and led him forward.

Follow the flow of people and go against the flow of people.

"It's okay, I'm also afraid of death, so there will be a way."

"But before Yuzao..." Shi Lantern immediately asked in a low voice, before he could completely blurt out a sentence, he was interrupted by the bone girl's greeting.

"Master Ghost Lamp."

The stone lantern raised its head, and the ghost animal assistant officer in red and black kimono with a mace was making trouble in Huajie. Not far away was a shop called Hana Katsuboko Gozen with the taste of Tamamo-mae.Carefully looking at the face of the bone girl, it seems that the other party has not noticed the store opened by the person he just mentioned in the distance.

"...Ah, bone girl-san, what do you want to come to Flower Street?"

Holding the tail of a fox in one hand, Ghost Lantern stood at the entrance of the Fox Cafe holding a mace like a door god. Looking back, he saw holding a stone lantern and standing three steps away like a mother with a child, calling out to her own bone girl. , asked.

"Discuss something with Shi Lantern, Master Ghost Lantern?"

"I was asked by the manager of this store to add a little popularity to it. I think that as a leader, it is necessary to understand the hard work of employees at all levels in order to recruit employees suitable for prison guards, so I agreed."

... The bone girl is looking at the fainted Ye Gan in the hands of the ghost lamp, Mr. Ghost lamp, don't you feel that the atmosphere of the fox cafe behind you with dreamy bubbles is not quite right with you?

Receiving the help-seeking look from Ye Gan, who had met once in the Fox Cafe, the bone girl stroked her chin and thought for a while under the gaze of the ghost lamp: "Then I will go ahead, and I will go to Abi Hell later. "

It doesn't matter what Ye Gan does to her. Her main purpose now is to get out of the sight of the ghost lamp.

"Abi Hell? That's just right, Bone Girl Sang, please help me send a message to Hu Feng over there. The canopic jars ordered by Egypt have arrived, and they can go to Yan Mo Temple to get some to put into the star garland. Run it to see the effect. If it is good, then write a detailed report and submit it to the Ten Kings Hall. Please be sure to include detailed content such as the implementation scope, implementation objects, implementation process, etc., and also ask them to select a few veterans of the installation. If there is no effect, then "Forget it, I'll go with you."

After rambling on for a long time, he found that the content of asking the other party to bring a message was too cumbersome. Ghost Lantern threw the fox in his hand into the coffee shop, picked up the mace and gestured to Ah Po, and then slowly met the other party's grateful eyes. to leave.

"...No, Mr. Ghost Lantern, I think I can bring the words to Mr. Hu Feng very well. Even if the old man has no memory, he can still take a note. So please continue to experience the hard work of the employees in the Fox Cafe."

The bone girl squeezed Shi Lantern's hand uneasily, and stepped back step by step as the ghost lantern approached.I don't know if it was because the aura of the ghost lamp was so strong that the passers-by around couldn't help but give way to the bone girl who was retreating.

As a result, a crack appeared in the flow of people coming and going.

"..."

The ghost lamp squinted around and paid attention to the passers-by here. They were immediately threatened and continued to move forward as if they hadn't seen it. There may still be a few passers-by who are still paying attention to the actions here, but they didn't find it when they looked up and down. The person with the mobile phone camera was there, and the ghost lamp touched his chin and approached the bone girl.

"Why is Bone Girl-san... um... from last month, is there anything strange about my behavior?"

"It's hard to explain in one word." The bone girl pretended to be an expert outside the world.

"Please summarize the reason in one sentence."

"...the distance between me and you is an insurmountable gap caused by the times and concepts."

Regardless of whether Ghost Lantern could understand it or not, the bone girl listened to Ling and summed up her reasons in what she thought was the simplest sentence without thinking too much.

"There is no distance that cannot be shortened."

"No, Lord Ghost Lantern, the son and daughter who secretly fell in love without their parents knowing, the wife who cooked the potatoes he hates most without the husband knowing, and the fat times in the head without the knowledge of the brain." People in the world, they have all unknowingly created an unretractable chasm, and it will always exist.”

"That last example is just perverted."

Gui Deng calmly pointed out the loopholes in the bone girl's words, and didn't mind the gaps in what the other party said. Looking at the stone lantern who had kept his head down and said nothing, he felt that this was not an option, so he went forward with a mace .

"Besides, things like times and concepts are not enough to dig a deep ditch between me and Bone Girl-san."

The distance of three steps is actually much closer than the three maces that the bone girl recognized. Ghost Lamp's big strides can reach her in a few steps.

Leaning against the wooden building, the bone girl's eyes twitched, and she couldn't move back.Ghost Lamp has already walked over aggressively, with an expression of about to fight...

Master Ghost Lantern, she is really hard at fighting, so don't force her, the rabbit can also cook hot pot when he is in a hurry, haven't you seen the civet cat hot pot stall that Senior Mustard Seed opened on the Yulan Festival?She is also a great monster, albeit weaker.

The hand holding the stone lantern was getting stronger and stronger. When the bone girl was thinking about whether to use words to influence the other party or run away with the stone lantern, the stone lantern, who had been silent with her head down, suddenly spoke.

"...The Lord Ghost Lantern, let's go together."

The ghost lamp is taller than the bone girl by a lot, and it must be the height of a head.A kindergarten-sized child was inserted between the two without being noticed at all, but Stone Lantern suddenly interrupted, tugged at the bone girl's clothes, raised her head with difficulty to meet the ghost lamp's gaze, and pulled the bone girl towards the original plan. direction.

"Eh? Wait, stone lantern..."

The bone girl who was forced to take a step looked anxiously at the ghost lantern that was following behind her, eager to stop the movement of the stone lantern.

"Master Ghost Lantern, he said that the gap does not exist?"

"Master Ghost Lantern only saw the quantitative change but not the qualitative change."

"……what is that?"

Having never delved into philosophy, the bone girl couldn't even check the "qualitative change" and "quantitative change" in the mouth of the stone lantern. She followed the kindergarten-sized kid in front of her and walked a few steps in a hurry before slowing down.

"It doesn't matter what it is, the consequences are serious."

"Very serious?"

"Correct."

The stone lantern was silent for a while, turned back to look warily at the ghost lantern staring at it expressionlessly, pulled the bone girl's clothes and said secretly: "It will explode."

"Are you kidding me?" The corner of the bone girl's eyes twitched. No matter how ignorant she was, how could she believe such an explosion, but the conclusion that "it will explode when you get close to the ghost lamp" lingered in the bone girl's mind for a long time, and could not disappear for a long time.

"By the way, what's the matter with the big sister of the bone girl going to Abi Hell?" Shi Denglong skipped his nonsense and started another topic.

"I'm going to find Mr. Coelacanth over there..."