Kikai

Human world.

Among the high-rise buildings built of reinforced concrete, an ordinary office worker is carrying a briefcase and squeezing onto the last train home.

"Hiss, master, your air conditioner is too high, turn it down, it's too cold." A middle-aged woman shrank her neck and shouted at the driver.

Right now, the car hasn't started yet, so where is the air-conditioning turned on?The driver turned around and yelled, "Close the inner windows. I didn't turn on the air conditioner. Maybe it's the cold wind. This autumn wind is a bit chilly."

The middle-aged woman looked at the closed window suspiciously, then raised her hand to check the air conditioner, but it was indeed not open, so where did the cold wind come from?

The man sitting in the last row didn't pay attention to their conversation, just stared out of the car window in a daze.

On the empty seat next to him, Yu Qi, invisible to mortal eyes, was sitting next to him, with his chin stuck in a daze, but she was looking at the man in a daze.

This person is called Ruan Heng, and she is the task object she came to follow in the human world.

But Yu Qi has been following him for ten days, which can be regarded as a real lingering ghost, but he has not found any trace of the suspicious ghost mentioned in the mission.

In addition, there was no trace of Shuanglang who was supposed to be able to see in the human world, and all the messages she sent to Liu Da were lost, and none of them received a reply.

The car started slowly and drove to the other side of the city with the lights on both sides of the road.

Lights flickered through the car windows, one after another.

After sitting for a long time, Ruan Heng suddenly said, "Master, please stop at the station in front!"

Yu Qi immediately became vigilant.

The car stopped.

She followed Ruan Heng to get out of the car, and when the middle-aged woman passed by, she muttered again: "Is this broken car leaking air?"

Yu Qi is used to this. Although human beings cannot see ghosts, some people who are naturally weak can still perceive the existence of ghosts in some special aspects, such as temperature or dreams.

In the dark night, there were only a few pedestrians on the road, and they were all hurrying home, but Ruan Heng walked at a leisurely pace, as if he was not in a hurry to reach his destination.

Yu Qi was beside him nervously. She had been with Ruan Heng for ten days, and she already knew his life trajectory very well. This person came home from work and never wandered outside. It took only one stop, which meant that this was the first time that Ruan Heng didn't go home directly since she followed her.

With unusual places, it is sure to find unusual things.

Soon, Yu Qi followed Ruan Heng to a dilapidated community, full of old-fashioned buildings, and the walls of many houses were peeled off, obviously it had been built for many years.

"Hey, Xiao Heng is back, have you eaten yet? Come to our house to eat." An old man standing on the balcony watering flowers greeted Ruan Heng downstairs.

Before Ruan Heng could answer, another head poked out from the balcony, it was an old woman, she smiled and said to the old man: "You don't know this kid, he will go home to eat with his parents every weekend, he is very filial." .”

Oh, it turned out to be going home to see my parents.Yu Qi let go of his nervousness, and patiently listened to Ruan Heng talking with the two elders for a while, and then entered a building.

"Hey, it's a pity, what a good boy."

"What are you talking about! How long has it been since that happened, don't mention it."

"You said that kid from the Bai family is really..."

The old grandma shook off the hand supporting the old grandpa, with an unhappy expression on her face: "I told you not to mention it!"

"Hey, I'll just say it casually. If you don't like to hear it, I won't say it, okay, I won't say it."

……

As a ghost, although it was just a new ghost, Yu Qi's hearing was two or three times that of ordinary people. She was half a step behind Ruan Heng, and she completely listened to the conversation between the two.

However, before she could think carefully about these words, just as she followed Ruan Heng into the corridor, a cold aura instantly enveloped her, and the instinctive fear of ghosts was aroused.

Is this resentment? !

Although she has never faced such a powerful resentment directly, she has also encountered resentful spirits who were escorted back to the underworld by ghost messengers in the past, and she once watched these resentful spirits discuss with Mu Luomanke several times from a distance.

As for what to do when encountering wraiths, Mu Luomanke gave her the same suggestion every time: just run away, she is not enough for these wraiths to get stuck between her teeth.

Following the principle of life-saving, Yu Qi quickly exited the corridor, but seeing that Ruan Heng had already gone upstairs, maybe the resentful spirit was coming for him. Suddenly, she remembered that when she first joined the job, the "ghost messenger" in the manual In a word, protecting the safety of living beings from the undead is the top priority of ghost messengers.

Seeing that Ruan Heng was about to disappear around the corner, Yu Qi gritted his teeth, first took out the ghost mirror and sent a message to Liu Da to explain the situation, and then sent a message to Bai Quan, the ghost messenger who was traveling with him. Reply to her message, and even if you know about it, you won't come in a short time, so it's more reliable to inform Baiquan.

Fortunately, because she had to exchange positions for shifts, she added Bai Quan's curse seal to the ghost mirror before, and after taking out the good and evil villains, she quickly entered the corridor without delay, and followed Ruan Heng into the building where the spirit of resentment was engulfed. A caged building.

This old-fashioned building did not have an elevator, so Yu Qi grabbed hold of the villain and followed Ruan Heng all the way to the fifth floor.

Stepping on the last step, Ruan Heng stopped, and stood for a long time at the door of 501 with his head bowed, his broken hair hanging down to block Yu Qi's sight, making it difficult to see his expression at the moment.

After a long time, he raised his head again, but turned around and knocked on the door of 502 next door.

Yu Qi continued to follow.

The door opened soon.

"Mom, I'm back." Ruan Heng smiled at the people in the room.

"Hey, come in quickly. The food is already cooked. Go wash your hands and we'll serve dinner. Mom, go get your dad to eat." Ruan's mother smiled and pulled Ruan Heng in and closed the door.

Yu Qi, who was locked out of the door, went directly through the door and entered the house. Fortunately, the ghost has the ability to pass through walls, but it seems that this ability cannot be used in the ghost world?She must try it when she goes back.

But since 501 is not Ruan Heng's house, why did he stay there just now, and when facing that door, he seemed... a little sad?

Entering Ruan Heng's house, the grievance with the biting cold air became heavier. Yu Qi almost immediately discovered the source of the grievance by instinct. It all came from the room on the left of the living room. He looked at the room vigilantly, but She didn't intend to find out. Although she was [-]% sure that there were wraiths in it, wasn't she still [-]% uncertain?Let's protect Ruan Heng and wait until Baiquan arrives.

"His father, Xiaotao is back, come out to eat." Ruan's mother shouted and went to set the dishes.

Ruan Heng put down his briefcase and obediently washed his hands.

Afterwards, Yu Qi just stayed aside and watched their family of three eating in silence, the atmosphere was very abnormal.

Finally, Father Ruan broke the silence: "You and I will go to your Uncle Wang's house tomorrow."

"What are you going to do?" Ruan Heng's voice was a bit unfriendly.

Ruan's father said angrily: "What else can you do? How old are you? Xiaoxiao from your Uncle Wang's family is not young anymore, that girl..."

As soon as Yu Qi heard it, he understood that this was a blind date in disguise. Ordinarily, Ruan Heng was good-looking, but Yu Qi had been with him for so long, but he didn't find any ambiguous objects in him. No, not only ambiguous objects, but even ordinary ones. There is nothing to chat with friends. When I get home, I just work. If I don’t have work, I just read a book or stare at a painting in a daze.

Sometimes Yuqi even didn't hear him say a word or show any expression other than indifference for a whole night from the beginning of his shift to the rest of his shift, as if he was an empty shell, just walking numbly in this world , living alone and alone.

At first, Yu Qi thought that maybe Ruan Heng would communicate with other humans when other ghosts were on duty during the day, but after asking Baiquan, she was sure that Ruan Heng did not have any friends, and she was just busy with her duties at work. Things, don't have any communication with other people outside of work, like a weirdo.

At the dinner table, Ruan Heng directly rejected this disguised blind date: "I won't go!"

"Snapped!"

Ruan's father slammed his chopsticks: "Then what do you want to do! It's been so many years, and you still think about Qi Xiaoxian? I have made an agreement with your Uncle Wang, and we will arrange for you two to meet tomorrow, and you will give me a meeting in the second half of the year." I got married!"

"If you want to tie it yourself!" Ruan Heng put down the bowl and chopsticks, turned his head and said to Ruan's mother calmly: "Mom, I'm full, you eat slowly."

After finishing speaking, he quickly walked into the resentful room on the left side of the living room amidst Father Ruan's scolding. The moment the door was closed, Father Ruan suddenly stopped cursing, blushing and holding back for a long time. , and finally did not speak again.

As for whether to go in with him, Yu Qi is quite hesitant now. That is the source of resentment. She is a little ghost who doesn't even have a ghost spirit. If she goes in, she may not be able to get out.

After thinking for a while, Yu Qi still didn't go in in the end. She just lingered in the living room and waited for Ruan Heng to come out by herself. Let her be selfish for a while, she really can't beat Wraith at all.

Feeling guilty, Yu Qi listened carefully to see if there were any tragic screams coming from that room. If she heard it, then she would hold the petals from the other side given by Po Meng and rush in. She should be able to make it to Baiquan, right?But it's better not to go to this point, what if Bai Quan can't beat him.

In the living room, Mama Ruan was clearing the table.

"Hey, back then...you said Xiaoxian was such a good girl, so...hey." Ruan Ma sighed.

Yu Qi listened boredly by the side, you can finish what you want to say, it is hard for her, a lonely ghost, to understand just a single topic.

Compared to Ruan's mother, Ruan's father was much more forthright, with a little lingering anger: "Who can blame this! Blame that Bai Xi, he is too useless, our family has raised him for seven or eight years, and Xiao Heng Treat him like a brother, and he can do things that are not done by humans, he knows the relationship between Xiaoxian and Xiaoheng!"

Qi Xiaoxian and Bai Xi, Yu Qi knew the names and looks of these two people, not because they knew each other, but there was a group photo of the three of them in Ruan Heng's own bed beside his bed, and he would occasionally think of these two people Therefore, Yu Qi easily matched the number, and she also knew that Qi Xiaoxian and Bai Xi died on the same day.

The handsome and sunny person in the photo of the white seat, what did he do that is not human? ...Is it related to Qi Xiaoxian?Is it a love triangle?

The two didn't continue talking, and Yu Qi couldn't get more information.