[Folk Horror] Ten Days of Mourning

Regarding how to deal with Goddess Zhao, you finally made a simple decision.

In fact, at this point... I basically guessed that someone would die.It's beyond your imagination that your friend can be so calm. Perhaps this supernatural experience in the upper body has greatly improved her adaptability.

After a short exchange, you all think that calling the police is a must, but if the police come, they will definitely record notes, investigate, and about your fight with Goddess Zhao, you may also need to be detained or even sentenced—you are willing to accept these , but these will consume a lot of time.This is a war of attrition that consumes lives.

Sometimes you also wonder whether you were not nervous enough before, and didn’t hurry up enough to make it all the way to the present.

But it's useless to think about it now, the key is not to let other people die.

You hid Goddess Zhao in Grandma Qian's tomb, and then simply covered it with soil.It's almost always done by a friend, and you know she's scared, but joking doesn't do much to lighten the mood in this situation.

But you still asked her when you supported each other back home: "Why are you so nice to me...?"

The friend froze for a moment, then laughed: "What kind of talk is this... because I don't want to lose you as a friend, you are my most important person."

the most important person.

As bad as the timing is, you still feel a little... a little bit fulfilled.

You don't want to lose her either, so presumably you won't confess, but being the most important person is enough.

Afterwards, you and your friends secretly changed into clean clothes, woke up your parents, and claimed that you accidentally fell off the ridge when you were out for a walk in the middle of the night, and you couldn’t move your left shoulder.Parents were very worried and asked endlessly, but you remember what Grandma Qian said... Yinshen was connected to parents through contact, so you still didn't say anything specific.

But you say, "Dad, Mom, I really love you."

"What happened?" Your mother was nervous and sad, and you remembered the sincere words written by Grandma Qian.

"...Good girl," your father said suddenly, "Since you were young, you have always been the best learner, the most sensible, and never let people worry about you. I am very relieved of you. Tell me the truth. What is it? Can you fix it?"

"..."

"Don't lie to me, is it related to your grandfather." Your father is your father, but he is also your grandfather's son.After so many years, he still remembers the conversation between your grandpa and grandma Qian that he overheard that day, maybe he never really let go of your grandpa's death and the secret that your grandpa kept silent.

Your grandfather didn't tell him these things until the end of his life, because as a father, he didn't want his son to get involved in any danger, just like Grandma Qian didn't allow Goddess Zhao to see his relics.This may be some kind of silent love.

So you end up saying, "It's a little trouble, but it's nothing."

You say, "I'll fix it soon, and I'll tell you when it's over—Dad, Mom, I love you."

You went to the emergency department of the county hospital, your left shoulder fractured, and you were immobilized. After ten days and a half months, you couldn’t move or get wet. Finally, when your parents took you and your friends home, it was already two o’clock in the morning.After you take a shower, you lie down with your friends, and no one talks, and no one feels sleepy.Goddess Zhao, the claw hammer, the light of the flashlight, and those distant past events.

"Can't sleep?" the friend asked.

"Yeah." You replied, "I'm thinking about Goddess Zhao."

"... Goddess Zhao and Grandma Qian?"

"I'm thinking about it."

"I can't sleep either."

"Want to chat?"

"I haven't watched the TV series you recommended to me before."

"Okay, you clearly said that you will go to see it immediately!"

"As soon as I get back, I swear! But you have to accompany me for the second brush."

"Okay, I'll accompany you."

"...you will be graduating soon."

"It seems that it hasn't been long."

"Are you going to graduate school?"

"What about you?"

"I asked you first, you talk first."

"I should be able to get a job as an undergraduate... As you can see, my family's conditions are quite average. If I go to graduate school, my parents will also work hard."

"I also intend to work."

"Really? Then... can we still meet?"

"What do you mean, I plan to go to the same city as you, didn't you promise me to eat chocolate cake with me every year last month?"

"Good good..."

The friend was silent for a while.

You ask: "What's wrong?"

"Forget it," my friend turned over and lay on his back with his side facing you, "Oh...you don't understand even if I tell you."

You said: "How do you know I don't understand if you don't tell me?"

"Because you're stupid, little beauty."

"You're dumber than me, aren't you?"

You think, you can't even see that I like you, of course you are stupid than me.

"I'm asking you something, and you have to answer me honestly." The friend's tone was serious, and he was still looking up, not at you. "What?"

"No matter what happens, we're best friends, right?"

"of course……"

"No matter what happens, you won't abandon me, will you?"

"Don't say unlucky words," you immediately sat up, "Let's put it this way, if... if you are the one who encounters this kind of thing, I will definitely accompany you to the end."

"Don't talk big," the friend laughed, "Well... no matter what happens, if, if, if I want to hear a lie that makes me happy, will you lie for me?"

You don't get the point of the question, but you still say, "If you want to, I sure will."

"Okay." Your friend stretched out his little finger to you, "Let's pull the hook."

"Aren't you childish..."

Having said that, you still ticked off very seriously.

"Okay," my friend nodded in satisfaction, "good night."

"Good night."

Your friend fell asleep, but you didn't feel sleepy for a while.

The future that can be talked about casually is like the morning sun, it is golden and shines in the palm of your hand, but you can't grasp it no matter what.When you think about the future, you will feel very happy and satisfied, and you will be very happy when you think that you can always be with your friends, but... do you really have a future?

Don't want to die.

You really don't want to die.

You are very lonely. In order to reduce the burden on your parents, you have been the most sensible child since you were very young. You studied hard, passed the entrance examination from the county to the city, and from the city to the big city.Every step you take, you are enduring the loneliness caused by your shabbiness and being out of group. Practice Mandarin alone, read a lot of books, go to the woods to practice oral English every morning after college, you can live a good life, you can do it Yes, although you have no friends.

But friends just approach you, help you, and accept you.

You think you are actually alike.

So I don't know when it started, you just fell in love with friends.It was very confusing at the beginning. I always imagined kissing and hugging with my friends, which scared me to death. I secretly checked a lot of information, and after a long struggle, I was sure that I liked my friends that way.Although this love has brought you a lot of depressing sadness, it has also brought you more and more happiness.

You don't want to die.

You want to have that golden future as sunshine, and you want to be rewarded.If there is really a God in this world, please leave the happy ending to you. You don’t expect to convey your secret love to your friends, but as long as she still exists in your life, that’s enough.

……

……forget it.

If there really is a god in the world, it is impossible for the Yin god to be so rampant.

So, you start thinking about another thing, something you didn't want to think about...

If it goes on like this... my friend will die.

Parents will die too.

On the sixth day, after Goddess Zhao, you are not sure who will be the next victim, but if the victim on that day is a friend (her order should be before your parents, after all, she is more closely related to this matter , know more), you haven't found the final solution, and if you give you another day or two, you will find the answer... What should you do?

Do you want to let your friend's death continue to delay you, or do you commit suicide like Grandma Qian to avoid her death?

Will she be like Goddess Zhao... want to kill you?Would you die for your friends?

You love your parents very much, and the answer is already very close to you, like the morning sun, if you die, they will be very sad, they raised you with great difficulty, and life and death may only be a little bit closer, A day or two, a few hours... But my friend is different from Goddess Zhao, she had nothing to do with this matter at all, she stayed because of you and because she valued you.You like her too, and you shouldn't make her a victim.

……

If your friend was going to be a victim, would you commit suicide for her at the last moment?

If you haven't found the answer to the mystery of the Yin God at all, that's okay, you can accept ending your own life for the sake of your friends and parents' lives.But what if it's just a little bit, a little bit?

What choice will you make?

Probably by that time, your sensibility and subconscious thoughts will tell you the answer...

The friend seems to have fallen asleep, and you plan to do the same.

But at this moment, you seemed to hear her vague sleep talking.