I don't believe in ghosts today

The elevator wobbled and made weird "creaking" noises constantly, as if it was about to fall down at any moment and be smashed to pieces.The number on the screen finally stopped at the 18th floor, the metal door opened slowly, and with the flickering light bulbs overhead, a flickering corridor appeared in front of my eyes.

Zou Hao stepped into the corridor, looking around while walking forward.This corridor connects more than a dozen houses, all the doors are tightly closed, only the door at the end of the corridor is open, and the sound of the TV can be faintly heard.

"anyone there?"

Zou Hao opened the door and walked in. There was no one in the living room, a variety show was playing on the TV, and potato chips were scattered beside the sofa. It could be seen that the boy left in a hurry.

The chatter and laughter on the TV was too noisy, and there seemed to be a special voice mixed in it.Zou Hao picked up the remote control on the coffee table, turned off the TV, and finally identified the source of the sound—a young girl's out-of-key singing was coming from the unlit bathroom.

"When you laugh, you sing praises, when you frown, your heart hurts~" In the silence of the night, the originally brisk melody seemed particularly eerie.

Zou Hao was taken aback when he heard it. This song is too old-fashioned. It seems that when this song became popular, he was still in primary school.If it is really a ghost, it has probably been dead for a long time.

"Is anyone in there?"

Zou Hao stopped at the door of the dark bathroom, raised his hand and knocked on the doorpost.The singing stopped abruptly, and the surrounding fell into boundless silence.

He poked his hand into the darkness, touched the light switch on the wall, and lightly pressed it, and the light in the bathroom came on.There was no one inside.The mirror and sink were dirty and looked like they hadn't been scrubbed in ages.

Zou Hao was about to turn around and leave when his eyes suddenly stopped on the mirror.The water-stained mirror reflected the tiles on the opposite wall, and beside Zou Hao's shadow, another shadow overlapped.

There are people behind him.

Zou Hao turned his head abruptly, staring at him with a pair of black eyes, and his pale face was close in front of him.

"I'll go, are you still walking without sound?" Zou Hao took a step back, let out a long breath, and tried to calm down the sudden rapid heartbeat. "What are you doing here?"

The boy looked aggrieved. "I'm afraid even if I'm down there alone... If I call you suddenly, won't I scare you too..."

Zou Hao shook his head, finally slowing down a bit. "You are scarier than a ghost."

As soon as the words fell, singing sounded again from the depths of the room: "Circle circle circle circle circle, I, every day, every day, look deeply at your face..."

"Follow me."

Zou Hao walked in front and followed the singing to find him. The boy stretched out his hand and held him gently by the corner of his clothes.A sense of familiarity appeared in Zou Hao's heart. This scene seemed to have happened many times before, and now it was happening again.

Seeing Zou Hao stop at the door of the study, the boy immediately became nervous: "Brother, are you scared?"

"No," Zou Hao shook his head, "What's your name?"

The boy froze for a moment, with a guilty look on his face. "My mother said you shouldn't say your name to strangers."

"Aren't you too heartless? I'm here to help you catch ghosts?" Zou Hao was a little angry.

"I'm sorry..." The boy was about to cry again. "She's still singing, I'm afraid..."

"What's there to be afraid of, we'll go find her right away."

Zou Hao held the doorknob, twisted it hard, and suddenly pushed it open. The scene in front of him stunned the two of them——

The chandeliers and table lamps in the study flicker rapidly at different frequencies, and the two interweave to create a colorful lighting effect, transforming the study into a small KTV room.A young girl in her early twenties, with long fuchsia firework perm, tight shorts and sequined over-the-knee leather boots, with rich smoky makeup on her face, holds a rolled up A4 paper used as a microphone, singing and dancing in the room.

"We, who don't know how to be gentle, thought that martyrdom is just an old rumor. How painful it is to be sad~ how intense the pain is~" the female ghost closed her eyes and sang affectionately, but it was a pity that she was not on the tune at all.

"Even if you are a female ghost, you can't disturb the people!" Zou Hao said sternly.

However, the singing and dancing continued: "When the dream is buried in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, you will only understand when your heart is broken~"

Seeing that the female ghost ignored him completely, Zou Hao pressed the light switch several times in a row until the lights returned to normal, and the female ghost had to stop singing emotionally.

"What's the matter with you people?" The female ghost dropped the A4 paper in her hand and stomped her feet angrily. "I'm dead, can't I sing as I please?"

"Death is not an excuse for you to evade the code of ethics and the rules of the community." Xiao Baoan said earnestly. "Why don't you go to reincarnation and go to someone else's house to sing?"

With her hands on her hips, the female ghost said confidently, "I can't find where my own home is. It's very dark here, so it's comfortable to stay here."

"But, this is my home... Please go quickly..." A boy's trembling voice came from behind Zou Hao.

"Anyway, your house is so big, let me sing in a room." The female ghost winked at the boy. "If you really don't like it, I can go next door."

Zou Hao quickly stopped her: "You can't go anywhere. Your life is over, you have to go to the underworld to reincarnate."

"But I haven't lived enough. My musical talent has not been recognized by the world, and I haven't become a goddess of nerds..." The female ghost looked up at the ceiling, her eyes wrapped in eye shadow were shining.

Zou Hao sighed. "It's not enough to be a house goddess, you can be a security goddess."

"Huh?" The female ghost looked puzzled.

Zou Hao pulled out two chairs and pulled the boy to sit down. "The two of us are here to listen to your performance. Tonight, you can hold a small concert."

The boy hugged Zou Hao's arm tightly, with a look of panic. "Brother, please don't..."

"Listen to me, this is the only way to let her go." Zou Hao whispered.This is learned from Li Yifan, ghosts must fulfill their last wish before they will willingly leave this world.

"Really!" The female ghost was really happy, grinning brightly. "Then I will start to perform! Please enjoy Liang Jingru's song, "Swallowtail Butterfly"!"

The female ghost waved her hand, and the lights in the study began to flicker frantically again.The female ghost picked up the A4 paper from the ground, wrapped it up again, surrounded by bookshelves on all sides, and began to sing: "Excited to break the pupa, the impulse of a gorgeous new life, looking for the beauty of the splendid world~dream~"

"Good!" Zou Hao applauded enthusiastically.

"Brother, are you serious?" The boy wanted to cry but had no tears. "Do you really think it sounds good?"

Zou Hao glared at the boy. "What do you know? Hurry up and applaud."

Although the female ghost did not sing very well, Zou Hao was still very moved by this dedication to her dream that transcended life and death.Life and death are impermanent, but there must be something more powerful than life and death.

"Next, please enjoy JJ Lin's song "Cao Cao"!"

"Next, please enjoy Jolin's song "Look at My 72 Changes"!"

The female ghost sang one song after another, the boy's yawns were already in a row, and Zou Hao was still clapping earnestly.

The concert lasted for almost two hours, and the female ghost finally stopped, with tears in her eyes. "Uncle Security, thank you. No one has ever listened to my singing so seriously as you."

"You're welcome, you're great." Zou Hao said sincerely. "But if you call me uncle again, I'm going to get angry."

"I also figured it out, I'd better go reincarnate. Only in my next life can I continue to pursue my music dream."

"Your dream will definitely come true." Zou Hao wished her sincerely.

"Can you hug me like a real fan?" The female ghost rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, and looked at Zou Hao with some embarrassment. "In this way, the concert will be successfully concluded."

"Elder sister, you've got too much drama..." the boy yawned and complained.

Zou Hao stood up from the chair, opened his arms, and gently wrapped his arms around the female ghost's shoulders. "You should work harder in your next life."

"Well," the female ghost nodded, "I will work hard."

The overhead lights suddenly came back on.Zou Hao let go of his hand, and there was no one in front of him.

"Can I finally go to sleep..." The boy leaned on the chair exhausted.

"Go," Zou Hao smiled at the boy, "I'm going down, if you need anything, you can come to me anytime."

"elder brother!"

When Zou Hao walked out of the study, a boy's voice suddenly sounded behind him.Looking back, the boy followed and bowed to him. "Thank you today, my name is Chen Zheng."

Chen Zheng?Zou Hao was stunned for a long time before thinking of answering him. "You're welcome. My name is Zou Hao."

"Zou Hao?" The boy tilted his head and thought for a while. "I always feel that this name is very familiar."

Feeling bitter in his heart, Zou Hao still smiled. "Get some rest, you'll be late for school tomorrow."

The lights in the corridor stopped flickering, and the elevator going downstairs seemed to be much smoother.After walking outside the sentry box, Zou Hao discovered that Li Yifan was sitting inside, typing on the keyboard of his laptop.

"When did you come?" Zou Hao opened the door and walked into the sentry box.

"It's been a while. I went upstairs and saw that you were busy, so I came down and waited." Li Yifan closed the computer and pushed the lunch box on the table to his hand. "The food is still hot, so hurry up and eat."

"Then you don't come to help me?" Zou Hao couldn't believe that Li Yifan would let him fend for himself.

Li Yifan raised a hand and touched his head. "You have done a good job. I have checked this neighborhood, because of yesterday's Nuo Festival, the nearby evil spirits have been cleaned up, only some wandering ghosts with little resentment are left. However, you still have to be careful For the first time. Here, I've got it all done."

Zou Hao followed Li Yifan's finger and looked over. The four corners of the sentry box were pasted with yellow-backed and red-letter talisman paper, and a row of white rice was sprinkled against the door.

"As for the security comrade..." Li Yifan took out a mahogany talisman from his pocket and stuffed it into his hand. "Hang up this on your phone. If any ghost dares to come to you, it will be hard for me."

Zou Hao looked at Li Yifan's serious face, and suddenly couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Yifan keenly caught the smile on his lips.

"Nothing." Zou Hao shook his head. "I used to think you were handsome, but I didn't expect you to be such a mother-in-law, like a little daughter-in-law..."

"Mother-in-law? Little daughter-in-law?" Li Yifan frowned. "I'm not done yet."

Saying that, Li Yifan put his arms around his waist and hugged him in front of him. "Close your eyes well. The master will take a breath of true energy for you, to protect you from all diseases and ghosts."

"Believe in you to be a ghost..."

Before he finished spitting out the slot, Li Yifan had already stuck it up, biting his lip lightly.Lips and teeth intertwined, warm and sticky.

"Why do you have to work the night shift as soon as you come back?" Li Yifan complained between kisses.

"I think the night shift is pretty good..."

Although it can't prevent ghosts, it can prevent Fan Zong.Just when Zou Hao was about to feel proud, Li Yifan touched the switch next to the table and turned off the light in the sentry box.

"Night shift is good." In the darkness, Li Yifan kissed his ear, unbuttoned his fingers, and got into his coat.

"Li Yifan, what are you doing! Stop it! I'm at work!"