haunted pillow

Gan Lanyu seemed to have had a dream.

In the dream, he remembered a story told to him by an old man that he had heard when he was a child.

The dead city is full of ghosts.

Why is the city full of ghosts?When he was a child, he asked this question.

After death, people become ghosts, and their souls come to the underworld. After crossing the Naihe Bridge, Meng Po will bring out a bowl of Meng Po soup. Drinking Meng Po soup is to wash away the memory of the previous life and become a blank sheet of paper before being reincarnated. Reincarnation, to walk the road of the next life.

This is normal procedure.

However, if someone dies not at the end of his life, but suddenly in an accident and dies in vain, before the end of his lifespan, then the soul cannot go to the underworld or the bridge of Naihe, but enters the city of death in vain, where it is neither human nor ghost. The state of life, first live out your unfinished Yangshou.

There are very few real folk materials about the City of Dead Death, most of which are legends handed down from the streets and alleys. There is a saying that people in the City of Dead Death suffer endless torture every day, repeating their last day before death, repeating their own words Death, as long as the lifespan is not exhausted, then this kind of torture will not stop for a day.

There is also a saying that a person who commits suicide is also a kind of person who died in vain. After death, he will also enter the city of vain death to be punished and tortured.

It's so strange, Lan Yu thought, suicide means that you can't survive in the human world, and you want to end your own life when you are in so much pain. Since they are already so pitiful, why do they want to do the same after death? Pain, forever and never get relief?

Regardless of life and death, there is no liberation.

But there is no way, between heaven and earth, between life and death, this is the rule.

Then, Lan Yu thought, after I commit suicide, it should be the same.

Become a dead soul in the city of death, forever repeating the last day of death, repeatedly experiencing the pain of being exposed as a lover, and knowing the truth, forever and ever, without relief.

You see, it’s really ridiculous. In retrospect, the acquaintance with Cen Yu is like a long dream, sometimes clear, sometimes so vague, obviously many times, many details have been revealed, but he pretended I don't know, pretending not to see it, and trying to deceive myself are all illusions.

Until the bloody truth was presented to him in the end, he had to face it.

This person, the person he loved so deeply, was not the one who loved him.

In this world, the only person he loved and trusted wholeheartedly was deceiving him with lies from the first sight and the first sentence.

He was still very restless in his sleep, tears kept streaming down the corners of his eyes, he didn't know if it was because of the severe cold, even though he was wrapped in Cen Yu's clothes, he was still shivering uncontrollably, trembling uneasily.

Cen Yu hugged him tightly, looked down at him sleeping in his arms, his wrist was badly injured, and the blood was dry, when people took a look, they closed their eyes and couldn't bear to look again.

When Lanyu woke up, it was gray everywhere, he couldn't see the sky or the ground, and he couldn't tell the day from the night. He just felt someone hugging him, and the warmth of fire on his face.

It was only then that Cen Yu was hugging him. There was a lot of wind and sand around him. He started a small karmic fire and lit a fire to keep them warm. Gan Lanyu was still wearing his coat.

That was real Cen Yu, not a ghost, not an illusion.

Gan Lanyu got up and was about to leave, but just when he stood up, he felt weak in his limbs and dizzy, so he had to sit back down again. I don't know if it was because of overwork, or excessive blood loss, or because he had hypoglycemia. Seriously, at night, there will always be numbness and coldness in the hands and feet.

Cen Yu didn't speak, just rubbed his numb hands and feet little by little. Only then did Lan Yu see the wound on his right hand, and basically wrapped it up with the cloth strips from the shirt that Cen Yu tore off.

"It's better to go to the hospital." Cen Yu said, his voice was very hoarse.

Lan Yu just closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to talk to him at all. Cen Yu thought he wouldn't answer, but when he felt a little lonely, he said softly: "...Why bother."

"For me, you are a precious surprise in my life alone for so many years. I feel that I can give my life to your confidant at the moment of life and death. But for you, I am probably just a pastime, an interesting way to pass the time. something."

Lan Yu closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, the softness and frost in her eyes were gone.

"You don't have to act like this for a pastime anymore." He said, pulling his hand from Cen Yu's hand, and got up to leave.

Cen Yu suddenly shouted: "Be careful!"

It was only at this time that Lan Yu realized something was wrong. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the ground at his feet was cracked. First, there was a dense mass of black things. It was impossible to see what was going out. I got out of the ground, only to find that it was the head of the hostess in the haunted house, that is, the female ghost!

The female ghost opened her bloody mouth wide, with eerie saliva, each fang was shining brightly, and she showed a ferocious smile at him.

She specializes in eating human flesh to maintain her beauty, to ensure that she is not old. At this moment, the black hair spread out one by one, and then twisted into a ball, like a sharp rope, piercing straight towards Lan Yu's body. past!

The hair all over the sky tied his wrists all at once, trying to pull him in the direction of the female ghost, Lan Yu pulled out the dagger and slashed at the hair fiercely, with great force, once and again, obviously the female ghost's The hair couldn't take it anymore, and it began to show signs of loosening, but at this moment, it suddenly changed direction and wrapped around his other wrist!

Lan Yu cried out in pain, not because he was afraid of the pain, but because the injury on his wrist was already very serious, and at the same time, the thick black hair began to burrow into his wound!

Lan Yu was trembling all over, sweating profusely, and fell to his knees with a thud. His hair was squirming, dense and black, as if it wanted to invade his body from the flesh and blood of the wound, and gnaw him from the inside until A skin remains.

Because the hair was desperately absorbing his energy, and within a short time, he was too weak to hold on.

I saw Cen Yu grabbing his hair and pulling it away fiercely. With the other hand, he lit a spell, and a fire was ignited in an instant, and the golden light lit up, illuminating the sky of the city of vain death. A needle-like strand of hair was completely burned.

But even though her hair was burned clean, the female ghost still didn't give up, she suddenly opened her mouth wide open, and the few remaining hairs wrapped around Cen Yu's wrist. He bit down hard on his neck!

Lan Yu's brain went blank, and he couldn't make a sound, and it took him a long time to sternly say, "Cen Yu!"

The voice trembled faintly.

But why?

Why did Cen Yu still protect him at this time?

"What are you talking about, I only treat you as a pastime, fool, look, who would risk their lives for a pastime?..."

Cen Yu's hands grabbed the female ghost's hair, and each strand of hair was like the sharp edge of a sword, leaving his hands with cruel bloodstains.

Although the female ghost had been burnt beyond recognition, she was dying, and her body was scorched. It was obvious that she was dying, but Cen Yu's neck was also bitten by the female ghost.

In front of Lan Yu, his body shook for a while, as if he couldn't hold it anymore. Lan Yu didn't even think about it, and hurried up to help him. , the blood flowed down little by little, staining Lan Yu's hands.

It's really strange, obviously Cen Yu is already dead, obviously...he shouldn't bleed...

Lan Yu stared blankly at the blood flowing down, Cen Yu looked at it for a long time, and actually smiled: "...Look, I can really die for you."

"you--"

"You probably really don't know what you mean to me. When I saw you for the first time, I was indeed distorted because of too much resentment when I died. It has revived the feelings as a human being, the enthusiasm, joy, jealousy, fear, emotions and desires of a human being."

"After my death that year, my soul left my body and drifted into a world completely unfamiliar to me. Do you know that there are countless such worlds according to Buddhist teachings, perhaps the [-]th hell, or the heavenly palace , maybe it is a more strange time and space that we can't even imagine, but I didn't go anywhere in the three thousand small worlds, but I came to...your side."

For Cen Yu, Gan Lanyu is the only ray of sunshine, the only gleam of temperature in his endless curse of walking dead. After so many years, only the appearance of this one person changed him, shining the sunshine on him, shining on him. Light him up, wake him up.

For him, he is the last bit of sobriety in his muddled mind, that is so important, it is the only thing that makes him feel that he is still alive, that he can feel the difference between himself and other ghosts, ghosts, walking dead, and he cannot lose Lan Yu Otherwise, it is the real loss of one's own life.

Lan Yu really wanted to say something, but her throat was tight, and she couldn't make a sound. The tears in front of her eyes were hazy, and she couldn't even see Cen Yu's face clearly.

He wanted to call his name, trembling with heartache, but it was already too late.

"The door is about to close." He heard Cen Yu's voice say, "This time the seal was loose and accidentally opened the door of the city of death. You have to go back quickly, or you will miss this opportunity. I'm afraid, you will never come back again." Can not go back."

Lan Yu was startled, and subconsciously grabbed his clothes: "What about you?"

With tears in his eyes, although he couldn't see clearly, he still felt that Cen Yu smiled at him.

"You know." Although he didn't hear his voice, he could feel Cen Yu's eyes saying this to him.

"..." Lan Yu was silent.

Why didn't he know that Cen Yu had suffered such a serious injury, and it was already beyond his wits to recover, but...

As soon as the huge door of the dead city returned to the world rang, Lan Yu was startled. Looking back, he saw that door was closing slowly in the wind and sand, making a jerky and low sound.

As for Cen Yu, a part of his body has already started to turn into nothingness.

Lan Yu was in so much pain that she couldn't say a word, she grabbed his sleeve and refused to let go.

"Go." Cen Yu said, "Anyway, I already..."

"And I don't want you to see... how I died."

At that time, the gate of Wushi City was about to close, but Gan Lanyu could only shake his head and couldn't say a word.

He can't leave.

Even after decades of torment in the City of Death, he didn't want to leave even if he wanted to be an out-and-out ghost.

can't leave.

"Cen Yu—"

But at this moment, Cen Yu suddenly pushed him hard!