The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Qi Mu was leading Feng Baisui...to be more precise, walking along the road with the golden retriever. There was a strange man in front of him waving his hands and feet indiscriminately, as if he was chasing something away, and he was still yelling, "Go away! These bastards! Don't pester me!"

Qi Mu stopped and asked Feng Baisui in a low voice: "Are those cats on him... alive?"

Feng Baisui took a closer look. A few kittens were thrown to the ground by the man, and the passers-by passed by without noticing.

"No."

"What on earth did he do to attract so many dead cats?"

"who knows."

One person and one dog walked past the man as if nothing had happened, but they were suddenly stopped, "Hey! Brother, wait! Let me ask the way."

When Qi Mu turned his head, he saw the man walking towards him with difficulty. He was covered with cats of various patterns, and there were two hanging on his legs. Qi Mu frowned and took a step back subconsciously.

"Do you know how to get to Yuanzi Lane?"

Qi Mu pointed to the alley in front, "Just go in from there."

"Thank you." The man raised his foot to leave, but he was struggling, and could only move forward halfway.

Qi Mu gave him a sympathetic look, then led the dog into the alley.

After the same twists and turns, they entered old man Zhang's shop.

There was a bowl of noodles in front of the old man, and he was eating happily. When he saw Qi Mu, he leaned over to look at the golden retriever, and smiled: "It's done?"

Qi Mu sat down and said angrily, "If you're talking about Feng Baisui being attached to a dog, then it's done."

The old man stroked his beard and said with satisfaction: "I'll just say that dogs are different from people. They have a connection with ghosts, so it's the best choice for possession..."

"You let a person attach to the dog." Qi Mu interrupted him.

The old man spread his hands, "What's wrong? This way he's not a lonely ghost. This dog body is just an excuse. He can come out whenever he wants, right?"

Before he finished speaking, Feng Baisui slowly rose from the golden hair and floated into the air.

Qi Mu was still a little embarrassed, "This is not good..."

Feng Baisui said: "It's okay to attach someone, how about someone in your class?"

The image of Fang Ji saying expressionlessly: "I'm already dead" suddenly appeared in Qi Mu's mind, and he couldn't help shivering.

"Forget it, that's it."

At this time, there were customers in the shop, old man Zhang pushed Qi Mu away from his seat, and deftly stuffed the bowl of noodles under the stall, wiped his mouth, and sat upright.

Qi Mu sneered beside him, and found a chair to sit down again.

It turned out to be the man they met at the alley.

I don't know what old man Zhang did in the shop. As soon as he came in, all the cats on his body ran away.

The man seemed so relaxed, rubbed his shoulders, and sat down in front of the old man.

"Master, you have to save me! I can't take it anymore... If this goes on, I'm going crazy!" The man supported the table, his expression was agitated, his voice was hoarse, and he stared at a pair of red eyes, which were full of bloodshot eyes. , this is indeed not far from collapse.

"Don't panic, first tell the old man what happened?"

The man slumped his shoulders and said: "A week ago, I was driving home, and I suddenly felt something run over halfway, so I parked the car on the side of the road, and when I got down, it was a sack, which had been crushed and burst. It contained a kitten, and the wheel seemed to pass through its stomach, and the intestines and blood were all over the floor..."

Qi Mu frowned when he heard that, just thinking about the scene made people uncomfortable.

"I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but since that day, I have encountered a lot of weird things one after another, and I never dared to drive again..." The man immediately appeared in pain when he remembered those memories, and continued tremblingly: "Whether it is going to work , or go home, I can always see a large number of cats, some are dead, some are alive, and most of the dead ones died miserably, some were poisoned to death by rat poison, some died of starvation on the side of the road, People who were trampled to death, people who were knocked to death... There is a construction site near where I work. Once when I passed by the construction site, I found a piece of fur stuck to the road, and there were red, white and white things piled underneath. At first I didn’t know it was What, it took me a long time to realize that it was a cat that was flattened by a large truck coming in and out of the construction site! That piece of fur should be back hair, and there are still thick tire marks on the front and back!"

"If it was before, I wouldn't be afraid of these things at all, but these things are everywhere these days, I can hardly eat, and I always think of those dead cats... The most disgusting thing is that time when my wife was cooking, and the middle of the table There was a casserole. I asked her what it was. She said it was a soup from a child next door. She also gave me a bowl. I drank it and thought it tasted weird. I opened the lid of the casserole. What did I see?!" The man suddenly opened his eyes wide, almost tearing his eye sockets, and asked while lying on the table.

Old man Zhang asked calmly, "What did you see?"

"Saw a cat!!! A kitten who may have been full term, curled up in the soup, all soaked in hair, all in strands! I threw the cover off on the spot, and my wife came over Look, but she actually said, there is nothing, what are you afraid of? I just remembered that the next door is a single woman with no children at all!"

"I didn't eat a bite of the lunch that day. I went out to work in the afternoon, but I didn't see those cats. But soon I realized that someone was following me, and I didn't know who it was. When I walked into a back street, I suddenly heard cats behind me. There was a child’s voice, as if singing a nursery rhyme. The voice fluctuated from loud to soft, and followed me all the time. I couldn’t help it, so I looked back. It was a child with a big head and ridiculously big eyes. Chubby like a cat, he smiled at me and started singing that nursery rhyme again. This time I finally caught the words, and he sang 'Tit for tat...tit for tat...'

"I fled back home and didn't dare to go out. I didn't even go to work anymore. I curled up on the bed and forced myself to fall asleep, but every time I opened my eyes, I could see cats all over the room. There are cat meows coming in all the time, and that nursery rhyme..."

The man hammered down the table bitterly, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm really going crazy! Crazy!"

Old man Zhang asked him: "Then how did you find the old man?"

"My wife thought I was bewitched, so she asked someone about the address here, and she told me to come and give it a try. Master! You can save me, right? You must have a way!" the man said eagerly .

Old man Zhang thought for a while and asked him, "Apart from the time you drove over the cat, have you ever done anything bad to the cat before?"

"No."

The old man narrowed his eyes and asked again: "Really?"

The man thought about it carefully for a long time, and suddenly said: "I remembered! There was once when I was very young! Does it count as something that happened so long ago?"

Old man Zhang nodded, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

The man recalled: "When I was young, I lived in my hometown, which was a kind of brick house. When it rained, every house would put several large water tanks under the eaves, and then the water would flow from the roof. Once I came home from school. , I found a kitten in a water tank, it was very small, it may have slipped from the roof, and it was still struggling in the water tank. I was only seven or eight years old at that time, and children were not sensible, just thought it was fun, I stood next to the water tank, and as soon as the cat swam to the edge of the tank, I pulled its paws down and played with it for a long time. Later, it probably couldn't swim anymore, drank too much water, and then sank.

"I quickly forgot about this incident until three days later, when the dead cat body floated up. Now that I think about it, I still remember when my dad fished the cat in his hand, I hid and watched, The cat's neck was limp, its head was hanging from my dad's palm, and its eyes were looking right at me. Then I had nightmares for a few nights, and then I was fine."

The man asked old man Zhang: "Master... Could it be that the things I encounter now have something to do with that time?"

Old man Zhang twirled his beard, glanced at the golden hair at Qi Mu's feet, and said to the man, "If a dog is the most human animal, then a cat is the closest to a demonic animal. You killed a cat twice, both of which are extremely cruel." , no wonder they will be hated. Cats have always had a clear distinction between grievances and grievances. They may not repay kindness, but they will definitely take revenge."

The man was at a loss and said: "Then what should I do? Master, you must save me!"

The old man Zhang shortly took out a talisman from under the stall and gave it to him, "Take this talisman with you, and it can protect you from being harmed by them for three days. During these three days, you must never hurt any of them again." The cats are not in the slightest, and you must apologize to them piously, and after that, it depends on whether they are willing to forgive you or not."

The man carefully put the talisman paper into his bag, got up and thanked him repeatedly, paid the money and left.

Qi Mu sat in the shop and watched as soon as he went out, those cats immediately ran over from all directions to follow him, but none of them crawled on him again.

"Is your talisman really useful?" Qi Mu asked old man Zhang.

Turning around, the old man was eating noodles again.

"Will he survive?"

Old man Zhang smacked his lips and said, "No matter what happens to his life or death in the end, it's a predestined ending. I don't care about that."

Qi Mu walked to the door and leaned over to see the back of the man who was struggling.

Old man Zhang said to him: "If you want to see it, go and see it. It is fate to meet you."

Qi Mu came back and took Jin Mao away, Feng Baisui floated beside him.

"Really want to see?"

"I would like to know his final fate."

After following the man from a distance, a little boy in overalls suddenly appeared in front of Qi Mu, staring fiercely at them with two huge cat eyes.

"Is there something wrong?" Qi Mu asked.

The boy said: "Don't hinder us!"

"I just want to see what you guys do with him."

The vigilance on the boy's face relaxed slightly, and he said to Qi Mu, "He killed our two companions, and they were both cubs."

Qi Mu couldn't help but say a few words for the man: "But the first time was because he was young and ignorant, and the second time was completely unintentional."

The boy was a little angry: "When he was young and ignorant, the drowned kitten was only a few days old. Although the second time was unintentional, he didn't take our lives seriously at all, and crushed a kitten to death. Cat, it's like running over a piece of garbage to him!"

After a pause, he said seriously: "Humans have a much longer lifespan than us, and we have a high chance of dying. There are very few cats that can live to old age, so we cherish life more than humans. This person grows up to the middle age In [-], he killed two cats. For him, it was just an episode in his life. For those cats, they had already lived their lives and died before they even grew up. From the perspective of humans, we cats and dogs Lives are not worth much at all, but in our concept, these are two very important lives."

Qi Mu nodded, "I understand. Don't worry, we won't hinder you."

"Thank you." The little boy disappeared after finishing speaking.

Feng Baisui asked Qi Mu: "Do you still want to see it?"

Qi Mu said: "Look, do you think he can get the understanding of those cats within these three days?"

"Hard to say."

Qi Mu smiled and said: "Then I will trouble you."

Feng Baisui snorted coldly, but still followed.

Qi Mu took the golden retriever home slowly.

The next night, Qi Mu was playing games in front of the computer when Feng Baisui suddenly appeared beside him.

He opened his mouth and said, "That man will definitely die."

"Why?" Qi Mu stopped what he was doing.

"He went to eat cat meat fire today."

"...No way..." Qi Mu really admired this man's courage.

Feng Baisui explained: "A friend dragged him there. He didn't know beforehand, so he told him after eating."

Qi Mu sighed, "I found someone worse than you."

Feng Baisui curled his lips in disdain, "Obviously you can't tell the difference between stupid and unlucky."

The man had a long dream. In the dream, he seemed to return to that distant rainy day. There were strings of drops of water hanging from the eaves. He lay on the edge of the water tank and tiptoed to look inside. A pair of big and The round eyes stared at him under the transparent water without blinking. The pupils of those eyes were not slender like cats during the day, but wide and round.

He felt scared in his heart, but he couldn't control his curiosity. His face got closer and closer to the surface of the water until his whole head was submerged, and the terrible nursery rhyme suddenly rang out under the water: "Tit for tat...Tit for tat...It's not that I don't give up ...the time has not come..."

When he woke up, he found that he couldn't stretch his hands and feet, his eyes were dark, a few rays of light leaked from the hole in the top of his head, and there seemed to be the sound of a car horn around him.

This is where?

Before he could figure it out, a heavy object rolled over him quickly, and he could even hear the sound of bone shattering and belly breaking, and the smelly blood spattered on his face with warmth, and then there was a sharp noise outside. Braking sound...

"Huh?" Qi Mu suddenly stopped and looked towards the chaotic road.

"what happened?"

"I don't know. I heard from those people that it seemed that a car ran over a cat just now."

"Don't look twice at such things." Feng Baisui stepped past him and said, "You're going to be late."

"Oh."

Qi Mu withdrew his gaze and hurried forward.