solo traveler

Lao Wu, who was full of fireworks in the world, really regretted it very much.

It wasn't until it was walking on a small road not far from home that it realized what it had missed.

So while it was angry that it forgot everything when it saw Xiaoyugan, it regretted that it couldn't go back now.

The fifth child shuttled between the small streets and alleys under the moonlight. After eating and drinking, his condition improved significantly, and the fifth child felt as light as a swallow.

Just as it was "flying" along the fence, a familiar bad breath floated into its nose.

The fifth child stopped in his tracks.

It was an unclear smell, far less unspeakable than smelling it on a ghost, but it came from a relatively far away place, mixed with other smells, but it still came, and at this moment it had entered the old five perceptible range.The fifth child stood on the fence, facing the cool night wind, squinting his eyes to look at the light that was not scattered in the distance, and was almost vomited by the faint but detectable stench.

The fifth child jumped and changed his original direction.

Xu Yang, who came home with the fruit, turned on the living room light, and was surprised to find that the fifth child hadn't come back yet.

Maybe the cat went out on its own again, Xu Yang thought about it, but didn't take it seriously.

As soon as he sat down on the sofa, he saw a notification tone on his phone.Xu Yang clicked on WeChat and saw a new message just sent,

From Jiang Sixue.

Jiang Sixue: Boss, I have something to do recently, so I ask for two days off.

Xu Yang glanced at it, and replied: What's the matter, hurrying back to the autumn harvest?

Jiang Sixue: No, just my father, who has been acting abnormal recently and withdrawing money secretly, I suspect he was scammed by a pyramid scheme.He even came here, saying that he had to do something, and came to see me by the way.

Jiang Sixue: He is an uneducated old man in a small town, what is he doing here? I am afraid that he will lose his savings by scammers, so I have to follow him these few days.

Xu Yang: Go as you please.

Jiang Sixue: Thank you boss.

Xu Yang looked at the phone screen and felt that the shop might not be able to open these days.

It was the dead of night at this time, and this kind of small residential building far away from the downtown area was almost quiet except for the occasional trucks speeding past on the road across the street, leaving rough noises.Even if the shops downstairs are open all night, the business is deserted.

It's late at night, and people who can't sleep are also idle, so a feeling called loneliness arises spontaneously.

Xu Yang inexplicably remembered a question he had asked many years ago.

"You have been around for so many years, is there no one around you?"

"..."

Xu Yang had nothing to say at that time, because after so many years, he really came and went alone.All along, Xu Yang didn't want to deal with many people, let alone make close friends.This feeling can be incompletely compared to raising a dog. Raising a dog comes and goes for more than ten years, and after it dies, it is raised again, raised, and died again.Watching them come in groups and leave one by one, slowly, the desire to know and understand a new face will disappear.

He has seen too many people grow up from a child jumping around, to a teenager, to a youth in full bloom, to a middle-aged man who is in full swing, and then slowly grow old, towards the end of life, most of them will die. Starting a new cycle, some are unwilling to let go of the grievances and entanglements of this life, and have managed to stay in the human world. For these very few people, Xu Yang has to find them.

Perhaps at the beginning, when he will be born, he should try to integrate into the life of ordinary people such as Chaolu, because of curiosity and freshness.After countless reincarnations passed by, he would not invest too much emotion and thought in people.After all, no amount of emotion can change their fleeting life. People have reincarnated again, and those emotions that have no time to vent can only be swallowed back into their throats, and there is no chance to spit them out. Those who remember are sad.When the obsession is too deep, it will not only force him to make wrong choices, but also delay others from experiencing their own lives.

Therefore, the purpose of life that Xu Yang pursued in the past was never to interfere in other people's lives, let alone close friends, he should catch his own ghosts by himself, and those people should do it by themselves if they want to live their decades of life well past.There was an accident decades ago, but now he's pretty much paid for his mistakes.It is very good to continue to live alone and inseparably with each other now, and take on one's own responsibilities.

Xu Yang rubbed the gauze on his hand with his fingers, feeling a little backward.

He unwrapped the gauze one by one, and some blood red remained on the inner layers of the gauze, but the scars on his hands had almost healed completely, except for a darker one in the middle, which left some marks, as if they had been bruised. It hurt a bit.

He used to be like this too. The kind-hearted but superfluous person put medicine on him and wrapped him with gauze. When he went back, he felt almost healed, so he tore off the gauze. The next day that person saw him on the street and looked at his hands The gauze was gone, and he was so angry that he ran over and was about to start nagging, he waved his healed hand in front of the man's eyes, and the man's face turned red with rage after he said a few words to him.

At that time, Xu Yang thought, why are his doctors full of responsibility so energetic every day?And always keep adding more work to yourself.

Thinking of this, the corners of Xu Yang's mouth raised involuntarily.

Suddenly, the aura on the balcony changed, opening a hole in the void.

Xu Yang immediately suppressed his smile, and the facial features that had been softened just now became cold and hard in an instant, even if his face was kind and gentle no matter how you looked at it, it made people feel uncomfortable to get along with at this moment.

A black cat emerged from the opening, bringing out a strong smell of blood and that disgusting smell that made people frown.

As soon as the fifth child came out, the gap was closed, but it was still pecked by the black air from the gap,

The cat was knocked a few meters away and hit the coffee table leg.

Xu Yang immediately stood up and checked the situation of the fifth child.

The fifth child spit out the blood stuck in his throat, collapsed on the ground, twisted his waist desperately, and then lay down on the ground without moving.Just now, in order to escape for its life, it opened a formation and directly passed through a long distance, and it has exhausted its strength.

Xu Yang tried his best not to touch the wound, but after a quick look, he found that Lao Wu's left shoulder was scratched, leaving three bloody cuts of different shades, and blood scars formed on the cat's fur.There are a small amount of rubbing in other places, which are relatively light, and may be mainly due to loss of force and internal injuries from being knocked out.

"Good luck, was someone sneak attack on the way home?"

Lao Wu managed to catch his breath at this moment. He was weak at first, but he sat up in shock after hearing the dying illness, and roared, "Grandma, I smelled a smell in the air while walking that made me sick, so I went to find it." It's..."

In the end, he was injured. Lao Wu choked up blood in his throat, coughed for a while, and continued: "I really found a place that smelt so bad, I fucking wanted to sneak in secretly... it ended up in After touching it for a while, I ran into that female ghost, and I also had a back..."

"Didn't that guy just get hurt? You shouldn't be beaten like this no matter how stupid you are."

"That's the reason, so I didn't hesitate at the time... But I don't know where it is hanging. It seems to have become stronger in that evil place, or...someone is helping it."

"Forget it, tell me tomorrow." Seeing Lao Wu struggling on the verge of dying, Xu Yang finally felt compassion: "Can you hurt yourself this time? Or do you want my help?"

"Nonsense, what do you say? I have done everything for you, and I have died. Can you have a little conscience?" The fifth child had been waiting for this sentence, and immediately began to condemn Xu Yang's conscience, so as to make him feel better. Feel guilty, and make up for this good cat who was injured on duty.

Xu Yang stretched out his hand, his five fingers naturally spread out, and the palm of his hand glowed with white light, "I will heal your internal injuries, I don't care about external injuries."

The fifth child felt like a spring breeze immediately, and the distorted cat face eased down.

The fifth child brought back some useful news this time.For example, after the female ghost was injured and escaped, it was the time when its breath was the strongest, so a burst of autumn wind blew past, and Lao Wu happened to smell where it was playing tricks.I didn't expect that it was not too far from here, but that area is more prosperous and mixed, and the smell is difficult to distinguish, and it is usually relatively thin, so they didn't pay attention to the smell.