Qian Shu is an "intermediary", and there are intermediaries in every industry and industry. In the first half of the year, he used the extra money to open a small website. Although the website is small, it has everything you need, and the quality of special distribution is very high. News Department, he became the owner of a small workshop, but he is not very happy recently.

Because he is a stingy person, the worst thing to see is that the money is spent in the wrong place, such as the employees he recruits neglect their duties.

Jiang Mu is that employee, a little reporter who always runs around and can't find anyone. Every time he sees a dead face with a pale face, he looks like someone who came to seduce the soul, but this person can always interview and find out Fantastic news.

Ren thought about it for a while and became more and more angry. It was a shame to take a step back. Qian Shu took out his mobile phone and called to ask for accountability.

Tianlan District.

Jiang Mu was standing in room 401. Yu Li didn't come back. The place was still in its original state. He walked to the glass window next to the living room, and the mirror reflected only an empty room.

After a while, the phone rang softly. He glanced at it and connected it.

"Hey, Xiao Jiang, do journalists need to go out to work 24 hours a day? You don't even have a camera, have you gone out to play? Let me tell you, young people still need to exercise more and can't avoid work." Qian Shu pre-empted and crackled a lot after connecting.

Jiang Mu glanced at the time on the phone, opened the door and walked out, and responded: "Well, do you have anything else to do?"

"I..." Qian Shu suddenly got stuck, "May I ask where you are?"

"Follow up the news."

"What's the news?" Qian Shu asked suspiciously. With his right hand, he found out that the staff had gone out to report for the record, and Jiang Mu's words were impressively written on it, "...the Huaiyuan West Road murder case? In addition, what is this? How many people are covering up the suspicion? "

There is indeed such a thing written clearly in the report record - Huaiyuan West Road murder case (many people are suspected of covering up).

Qian Shu paused for several seconds: "Where is there a murder case on Huaiyuan West Road? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"A murder case ten years ago."

"... If I remember correctly, you are a reporter, not a policeman?"

Jiang Mu ignored the other party's implication, glanced at the stationary elevator over there, and said, "I have something to do now."

--beep

Qian Shu stared blankly at the phone. The boss was hung up by an employee, which made him really angry.

*

After work, Yu Li came out of the art school. In the crowded crowd, no one spoke to him, and everyone ignored him. He was used to this kind of life, but unlike usual, he heard some gossip today.

"Hey, I heard that the classroom at the corner on the second floor is lit up again?"

"Yeah, it's on again, and there's one more sketch."

"Then, is it his?"

"I heard that Teacher Sun fainted from fright when he saw it, don't you think so?"

"Shh, don't say it, don't say it, it's too scary!"

The corner on the second floor?Yu Li didn't understand what they were talking about, but those people looked very shy, so he couldn't go up and ask. Thinking that Jiang Mu might have gone home, he walked straight out of the campus.

It's just that when he got on the bus, Yu Li suddenly realized that the classroom at the corner on the second floor is where he usually goes to class.Is the light out?

He couldn't figure it out. There was no separate contact information for those colleagues on his phone. He looked at the quiet WeChat group. It was really strange. The director and principal who always sent messages to 99+ on weekdays, why there was no movement for so long. Those WeChat groups It was as if they were all dead.

Tianlan District.

The moment Yu Li walked into the community, there was a coldness on his body, a feeling of being watched by someone, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

The school dismissed very early, and it is only five o'clock now. It is reasonable to say that the neighborhood should be full of people coming and going, but it is very cold at this time. When he walked into the building, a cold wind blew in his face. He saw the elevator door was open. , the bright inside is empty.

Yu Li subconsciously wanted to use the stairwell, but for some reason today, the door of the emergency exit was locked, and the only way left was the elevator. He took a deep breath and walked in, and found that there was nothing wrong with the elevator. On the hand, he looked down and pressed the button to go to the fourth floor.

When the elevator doors slowly closed, the lights suddenly went out.

"You are already dead."

*

When Jiang Mu opened the elevator, Yu Li was sitting in the middle of the elevator, his eyes were dull, his skin was slightly cracked, and the bottom was scorched with red light. Next to him was a little boy who was dripping water all over his face. Successful malice.

When he saw someone coming, he didn't panic, his eyes were extremely fierce, not at all like a child should be.

"I caught this idiot for you."

Jiang Mu watched him quietly, the boy paused and said: "Give me a few more days, as compensation, I can help you get some tribute."

"Go back."

"what?"

"Give back what you stole."

He pointed at Yu Li's head, and the little boy suddenly took a step back vigilantly, and argued, "One more and one less, does it make a difference between being sober or dull? Anyway, if you bring it back enough to count, it's over."

"You know very well."

"Fortunately, you will know as soon as you see it."

Jiang Mu looked at him indifferently, and his deep eyes glanced at him with some meaning.

"You took a few bad jobs."

As soon as these words came out, the boy who was still smiling suddenly lost his expression. His pale skin was glowing with blue light, and he carried a sinister aura: "If you meddle in your own business, you will die."

Jiang Mu still looked at him indifferently, and said in a neither light nor heavy tone: "Go back."

The two stalemate for a while, and finally the little boy lowered his head, and spit out a small cloud of blue mist from his mouth, and the mist slid into Yu Li's head and disappeared.

After he finished all this, Jiang Mu slightly turned sideways to make way for the little boy to get out of the elevator, but he didn't care, with a very indifferent expression.

"You won't catch me?"

Jiang Mu didn't even look at him: "It's not for a few days."

"You can believe what you say to coax children, weirdo!"

Having said that, the little boy ran away after finishing his words. He was no longer a human being, but now he ran in a hurry, and he had a sense of sight of a child.

In the elevator, Yu Li slowly raised his head: "Jiang Mu, I'm already dead."

"Ah."

The other party still responded indifferently, Yu Li slowly got up, and since his mind was already clear, the crack marks were gradually fading, looking at the person in front of him, he asked softly: "That child said, are you a errand? "

"Ah."

"So you came to take me away."

"That's understandable."

Yu Li is a person who is very considerate of others. This is also his principle of dealing with things for so many years. As Jiang Mu said before, he is not weak. The fact of death is in front of him, which just makes him feel a little lost. There were no emotional ups and downs.

"I should have thought of it earlier. The weird things the teachers talked about and the WeChat group that has not been updated are actually scaring me."

He forgot a lot, went to work as usual, lived a two-point-one-line life, in that abandoned classroom, taught non-existent students, and painted his own paintings, no one in that world could disturb him track.

Thinking about those things after death, Yu Li felt a little guilty: "Sorry, I wasted your time too."

"Fortunately."

"Shall we go now?"

There are not many undead who can take the initiative to cooperate. Jiang Mu looked at him and said, "There is a person who has a knot in his heart. Do you want to get rid of him?"

"Who?"

*

Xiao Shengjie didn't want to come to 401, because his heart was full of thoughts that even he himself didn't despise—he was really afraid that Yu Li's soul would linger.

Don't do bad things, not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, but he has bad things.

The young boy told him that Yu Li was waiting at 401, and only tonight, the last night, he wanted to see him and was afraid, but he followed people to the gate of 401.

"Is he really inside?" Xiao Shengjie looked at Jiang Mu anxiously.

The latter held his hand on the doorknob and turned his head to look at him: "I thought you would miss you a little."

"..."

The moment the door opened, Xiao Shengjie didn't want to admit it very much, but he did make a movement, that is, closed his eyes tightly, and there was no strange sound in his ears. After a while, he slowly opened his eyes, and saw standing in the living room Jiang Mu holding a white candle.

"Don't be afraid, just read a story."

Xiao Shengjie breathed out quietly, stepped in and walked in. The moment he entered, the dark room changed instantly.

It was a sunny day, and the sunlight shone into the room through the glass. He saw that he was packing his things, it was still the black suitcase, and he put all his things in it. He saw himself pushing the suitcase and opening the room. The door, with a loud closing sound, left without looking back - this was the scene before he left.

Xiao Shengjie suddenly realized that he was so unfeeling back then.

*

=====Yu Li's Memories=====

Yu Li got off work early that day and was rarely free. He went to the market to buy fresh ingredients and planned to go back and have a good meal with Xiao Shengjie.

After some shopping, he arrived home two hours earlier than usual. When he opened the door, the room was dark and quiet. He looked around, but there was no one, and Xiao Shengjie hadn't come back yet.

This guy doesn't have a serious job, maybe he's hiding in a corner somewhere.

Yu Li walked into the kitchen with the ingredients in his hands. His cooking skills are also quite good.

I bought a lot of things this time, including fish and shrimp. He is a slow person and pays attention to meticulous work. It was already past six o'clock when a table of dishes was ready.

Yu Li looked up at the clock on the wall. Xiao Shengjie had already returned at this time in the past. He shook his head and stuffed the dishes on the table. After everything, Yu Li sat back on the sofa and planned to wait for him to come back.

Today's TV is very boring. The TV series he watched before had ended a few days ago, the ending of the family carnival.

He turned off the TV and picked up a book. Yu Li had done a lot of work today, and he felt tired easily after he was free. After some time, when he regained consciousness, the room was already dark and the surroundings were quiet. Staring blankly at the invisible ceiling, a sense of loneliness swept over him instantly.

Xiao Shengjie hasn't come back yet?

He frowned and slowly groped to get up. After the small table lamp beside him was turned on, the yellowish light illuminated the living room. He looked at the dining table over there, and it was still the same as before he went to bed. The time on the clock was 22:53 point.

Yu Li's face suddenly became terribly pale.

Without saying anything, he got up and turned on the lights in the house, frowning between his brows and pursing his lips tightly, he began to search every place in the house.

Xiao Shengjie's suitcase was gone, his clothes were gone, even his toiletries were gone, and the whole room was as clean as if no second person had ever appeared.

Got nothing.

Yu Li fell down on the chair by the dining table. He couldn't describe what it felt like at that moment.

Xiao Shengjie left.

Like he said before, he is free.

The woman who was crying bitterly came to Yu Li's mind inappropriately, but there was no sad expression on his face, as if Xiao Shengjie's departure didn't affect him much.

About 10 minutes later, he exhaled heavily, got up and removed the cover from the dining table, moved the chair and sat down, and picked up the bowls and chopsticks to eat.

The dishes on the table had been cold for a long time, and he didn't dislike them at all. He ate them bite by bite, and at the end he felt very uncomfortable, and there was still half of the dishes.

Yu Li wiped his mouth as if he was fine, put the leftovers in the refrigerator and planned to reheat them tomorrow, then cleaned up the leftovers from the meal, and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

He did all this in an orderly manner, no different from his life alone for so many years. After washing the dishes, cleaning the sink and the stove, Yu Li stuffed the changed clothes into the washing machine, and turned on the shower head to wash. After taking a shower, he finally finished drying his hair, drying his clothes, and laying down on the bed after finishing everything.

Staring blankly at the ceiling for a while, he reached out to turn off the lamp on the bed table.

"Good night." Yu Li said softly in the dark.

On the next day, after Yu Li came home from get off work, he cleaned the whole house, as if he wanted to wipe off some traces, and cleaned for more than two hours in a disheveled state.

Commuting alone, living alone.

Yu Li returned to the original days again, as if Xiao Shengjie had never appeared in his life, and it was so uneventful for a while until that day came.

The weather was very bad that afternoon. When he got home from get off work, it started to rain lightly. Yu Li stood on the window sill and looked at the gray sky outside.

Outside the rain was getting heavier and crackling, and he stared out at the dark night.

Where is that guy in this weather now?

This was the first time Yu Li thought of him in so many days, and the bitterness in his heart was like ripples on the surface of water, just because of a name.

The sound of the rain became louder and louder, and he began to fidget a little. Hearing the sound of the rain outside, he suddenly wanted to do something, and in fact he did it.

The rain was too heavy this time, there were very few pedestrians on the road, and some were in a hurry, even the cars on the road were speeding past one by one without stopping. On the street, Yu Li came out with an umbrella, walking step by step in the rain. Walking very slowly.

What on earth is he trying to do?No one knew, and neither did Yu Li.

Maybe he just wants to go out for a walk, walk through some places, he has been here, he has also been here, maybe he still looks forward to meeting that person again, in which corner is the other person nestled in a mess, and when he finds out, take him back .

Yu Li walked along some roads, in the heavy rain, with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

It was raining heavily, and the raindrops hit the umbrella, which made him a little hard. He forgot how long he had walked, walked around the flower bed, the playground, and various places, and he returned to the original place. That bus stop sign, there is no one on the street, not even a car.

Yu Li stood there holding an umbrella, without saying a word.

The wet shoes stepped on the puddles, and the body was a little numb from the cold.

After a long while, he looked up at the umbrella above his head. It was a blue umbrella that Xiao Shengjie suggested him to buy, and Yu Li suddenly felt grief and indignation.

He put the umbrella away and threw it into the trash bin beside him without even thinking about it. Without the protection of the umbrella, the pouring rain hit him, drenching him almost instantly.

Yu Li pursed his lips tightly, and waited for a while before turning around and heading home, step by step slower than when he came.

After finally getting home, it was already midnight, and Yu Li looked at himself in the mirror while showering in the bathroom, his complexion was ugly and his lips were pale, and the hot water on his body could not warm him.

As predicted, he fell ill.

When lying on the bed and wrapping up the quilt tightly, Yu Li was a little delirious with a fever. He had already taken medicine in advance, but it still couldn't stop the high fever.

In a daze, he seemed to hear Xiao Shengjie's voice: "Oh, you're sick, how are you feeling? Are you hungry?"

Yu Li shook his head vigorously, reached out to hug him and put his chin on his furry hair to feel the warmth of his body.

This is of course a fantasy.

So when he woke up and saw the pillow he was holding in his arms, he looked very sad for a moment, propped up the bed and got up slowly, Yu Li picked up the phone and asked the school for leave, the director didn't say anything when he heard that he was sick, and told him Take a good rest and grant three days off.

After asking for leave, he lay back on the bed again, his head was still hurting, and his throat was uncomfortable. He put his hand on his forehead and half-closed his eyes. He didn't know what he was thinking. He fell asleep again in a daze, and waited to wake up again. At that time, it was already evening, the sun was setting and the sky was full of red clouds, he got up and staggered to the balcony, watching without saying a word.

ended.

Everything is over.

*

Xiao Shengjie stared blankly at these scenes, which he had thought about countless times, but except for that rainy night when Yu Li went out to look for them, he didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and lived a good life alone, just like before.

And the event that finally caused his death was really not a suicide.

It was just a fire accident.

For some reason, Xiao Shengjie felt a little unnatural when he learned the truth.

"You look lost."

"……No."

"He's not as miserable as you think, you know now."

Xiao Shengjie lowered his head slightly: "Why didn't he come to see me?"

Jiang Mu glanced at Yu Li who was sitting on the side, the latter's expression was not excited, he seemed to have put it down, he said: "You have cut off this friendship, goodbye will only increase troubles, not to mention that people and ghosts have different paths. "

What he said was true, but Xiao Shengjie couldn't help but burst into tears.

A man in his 30s was crying as if he was about to die.

It's just that no one knows whether he is sad about the separation of yin and yang, or rejoicing that he escaped after the catastrophe.

Jiang Mu didn't know and didn't want to know, so he tapped Yu Li quietly, and the two left Xiao Shengjie and left Room 401.

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