Shen Zicheng

I still didn't get the answer I wanted in the end.

Ye Cheng couldn't tell.

He finished all the stories he remembered about me, about our first meeting, about our conversations, about me staying in his room.

But he didn't tell me where we met for the first time, what we talked about specifically, and why I left Shen Qiao's house to live with him—the only thing in the story was that he approached me who was still alive wishful thinking, and painstakingly Wanting to pull me out of some shadow that has always held me.

He avoided all the parts about Shen Qiao.

He loathes him.

But that's exactly the purpose of my coming here - even pushing the fragmented Shen Qiao towards the abyss of collapse.

He didn't want to explain.I didn't listen clearly either.

I couldn't even hear a single word of his speech.

I can't concentrate all the time.

Maybe it's because I'm more like a ghost.

I keep forgetting what I'm doing.

Then I thought of Shen Qiao.

This makes me very irritable.I want to find a reason, but this hateful thing always likes to play hide and seek with me.Sadly, it's better than me.

However, after Shen Qiao left, without warning, I was surrounded by confusion and anxiety, and suddenly lost all consciousness.

It was as if the light in front of me was suddenly turned off, I couldn't see anything, except the darkness, I couldn't see anything.

I am like a blind man.

When I regained consciousness again, I was on an unfamiliar street.I was wandering around, wandering and lost, like a lost dog.

I don't understand why I'm here.But soon, I understood.

Because I was in the air and smelled an extremely disgusting breath.

I chased after it almost at the same time. "...Shen Qiao!" I shouted.

But no one responded to me.I chased forward like crazy, but found that there were other ghosts running like crazy to this side.

"Run! There's a spiritual master gone crazy!..."

For a moment, I fell into an ice cave.

I understood what this meant and why there was such a strong stench in the air.

I chased even more frantically, trying to bring the familiar black substance into my field of vision.

But I couldn't see those black unknown objects that devoured people.I can only see more and more fleeing ghosts, they are like flowing water, passing through the bodies of the few passers-by on the street.

My thoughts can't keep up with my movements.But after a moment when I felt that disgusting breath disappear, they synchronized.

"No...no! No no no no no!!" I yelled frantically, trying to find that breath again, but I lost all direction.The ghosts had almost fled, and I couldn't find a direction to continue chasing.

I lost track of Shen Qiao.

The scary thing is that I may lose Shen Qiao forever.

The thought broke me, and I saw an oily substance wriggling beside me.The last time I saw them was when I saw July and a half for the first time.

But I can't care so much.I was running, searching, and screaming in dismay, letting my voice take away my remaining sanity: "Shen Qiao!"

"Shen Qiao!... Where are you? Shen Qiao!"

"I can't find you! Shen Qiao, I can't find you! Come out! Come out!"

I run wild.

"Shen Qiao, I can't find you!...I can't find you, I'm not as powerful as you, don't hide, I can't find you..."

"I can't find you, you don't have the smell that I hate...Shen Qiao, come out...I can't find you..."

I scream.

"Shen Qiao, please, please come out... Please, don't hide..."

"Shen Qiao..."

I weep.

"please……"

Finally, I fell to my knees and lost all consciousness again.

……

If only I were what you want me to be.

If only I were the person you expect.

It would be fine if I wasn't me.

If only I were him.

If only I were him.

if--

I am him?

……

who am I?

Where am i?

Why is it so dark?

Who is talking to me?

Why is it so dark?

Where am i?

who am I?

……

"...Wake up...Ah Cheng...quick..."

……

Who is talking to me?

Why is it so dark?

Where am i?

who am I?

……

"Ah Cheng!...Wake up..."

……

Where am i?

who am I?

……

"Wake up! Can you hear me? Wake up!"

……

……who I am?

……

"A Cheng!"

I woke up with a start.

Suddenly, a pair of bloodthirsty bright red eyes popped in front of him.

As soon as they looked at each other, those eyes instantly showed a relaxed color.They backed away slowly until a strange face completely appeared in front of my eyes.

He smiled: "Fortunately...you wake up in time, otherwise you will be assimilated by this land. At that time, you will really become an unconscious ghost."

I looked at him in a daze, with a strange face and a strange voice, but his tone revealed a familiar tone very naturally.

Who is it?

"July and a half, or Xiao Qi." He seemed to see my confusion, and sighed helplessly.

Is it someone I know?It's strange, why I don't remember such a No. [-] person.

"What happened? You've been hanging around here for a long time," he said.

here?I looked up and looked around, and found that I was standing at the corner of a cliff, with traces of scarlet soil, piled up with stones, and piled up like building blocks to form a blade-like mountain.

...where am I?who I am?

I'm at a loss.There was nothing in my mind.Can't remember who I am.Can't remember where I am.Can't remember.Can't remember.

Can't remember anything.

"Have you forgotten?" He is really a person who is good at seeing through people's minds. "There is no way... Anyway, let's get out of here first."

Should I go with him?I hesitated, trying to think about the answer to this question.In the end, a familiar voice sounded calmly in my ears.

"...don't go with the others...don't go with the others. No."

I hesitated even more, staring at the strange face in front of me for a long time.

The red eyes are really conspicuous.

Interesting.

"...No, I'm going to wait here." I replied in a muffled voice, although I don't know what I'm waiting for, but if I stay here obediently, what I'm waiting for should come by itself.

"Here? What are you waiting for?" He said in a strange tone, "You...you, don't you want to go and see...Shen Qiao?"

Shen Qiao?

who is it?

It seems very familiar.

I recalled, and found a vague portrait from the empty memory cabinet.

The faces of the people in the portraits cannot be seen clearly.

He suddenly opened his eyes wide, and the red eyes were shining brightly.He looked directly at me, and his tone was a little frighteningly pleasant: "Wait...you are Ah Cheng?"

He scares me.

I flinched, and subconsciously bit my thumb again.

"Ah... I am—Ah Cheng."

I followed him.

Although my intention was to stay there, I couldn't help following him after he stared for a long time.

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

I try to talk to him.I asked: "Do you know me? When did you know me?"

But he didn't answer me, just walked forward on his own.

I don't know where he's going, or where he's taking me.But I found that the pedestrians of the passers-by were moving in a strange manner. They were like finished puppets on the assembly line with dull faces, pouring into the mighty and bustling crowd one after another.

I spoke to them again.But they are like... July and a half? ... same, don't answer me, ignore me, don't even look at me.

I felt as if I had been abandoned by the world.

This made me suddenly feel flustered.

"Okay." He suddenly said at this moment, "Don't be stupid, you are already dead."

died?

Who?

me?

I am dead?

I stared blankly at his back.It's dark, and it looks a little scary now.

He stopped suddenly, and paused for a while, as if he was thinking about something.Turning around, there was a cold tone: "You are dead. You are just a ghost, and you were killed by the closest person, so you hate this world. You want to avenge the person who killed you, But he didn't grasp the speed well, and turned into an evil ghost."

I was dazed when I heard it, and stretched out my hands in disbelief, only to find that it was indeed a transparent color.

I am dead?

"Then... what about you?" I asked unwillingly, unable to believe the fact that I was already dead.Why do I have no impression at all?There was nothing in my mind.

Maybe not even brains.

"I'm also an evil ghost." His expression suddenly softened, and he smiled, "We are friends."

Are you a friend?I looked at him, confused yet unable to help trusting him.

Someone told me that too.He also told me: "Trust your friends."

Then believe it.

"Then who is Shen Qiao?" I changed the subject.Do you always feel that someone is important to me...?

"Shen Qiao," he paused, his red eyes turned into two crooked lines, "Shen Qiao is the one who killed you...Have you forgotten? Seven days...or eight days ago, you once You broke down because of him, and you ran away, but then wandered in that place for unknown reasons. You see, if I hadn’t discovered you, you would have been assimilated by that land in less than two days.”

Ah...is it that important?

I listened in a daze, looking at the face with high resolution, I suddenly became frightened for no reason.

"Run away."

I suddenly took half a step back, and then stopped in an instant.Who is speaking?Who is telling me to run away?I was stunned, it should look like a Greek soldier frozen by Medusa.

He seemed to see my vigilance, his voice suddenly became soft, like sweet almond chocolate: "Don't think so much... We are friends, trust me, I won't hurt you." After a pause, He turned around, and the voice came from the front, "You only need to look at Shen Qiao again, and you will understand that what I said is the truth."

Should I trust him?I'm not sure, I always feel that there are small human voices in my ears, as if they are coming from a distant place, or they seem to be ringing in the cochlea.

He kept saying to me, "Run away...don't listen to him...run away..."

anxious tone.

however--

"Trust your friends."

The words I kept in my mind completely suppressed the small voice.

To trust friends.

I still followed behind July and a half—the name is really strange—and stopped talking to passers-by, quietly thinking about everything I was wondering about.

I'm Ah Cheng.That's right.This is my name, Cheng, it is the name given to me by someone.I have died, although I don't know why, but after dying once, I seem to have lost all memory.

I can't remember why I died.I can't remember if the person in front of me is my friend.I can't remember if it was really that Shen Qiao who killed me.

I don't have a single person's name or face in my head.

But it's okay, I still remember the name of the person walking in front of me now-huh?

I was taken aback suddenly.Staring at the rather dangerous looking figure.

What does he look like?

...what's his name?

Who is he?