Survival Paradox [Infinite]

The short-lived fate, maybe women attract each other, maybe man and ghost attract each other, Li Xiaofei has established a friendship with this Miss Qing beyond Wei Chi's imagination, when Miss Qing disappeared, Li Xiaofei let out a very exaggerated cry, He stumbled and ran over, but failed to catch the last trace of Miss Qing's disappearance.

She sat where Miss Qing disappeared, crying sadly.

After a while, Fang Qingdi walked over to enlighten her, and the old and the young turned into two silhouettes on the gradually brightening horizon.

Wei Chi felt empty, and worked another night as a coolie, sitting on the root of a locust tree to emo, the little paper figurine crawled out to wipe his face, he knew he was dirty, but he didn't want to move at all.

He lowered his head, looked at his nondescript wedding dress with the hem and sleeves tightly tied up, and let it go for a while.

Suddenly, he heard a voice behind him, and his whole body went numb from scalp to toes.

"Xiao Chi, what are you doing? I'm sending Xiao Ji off."

Then, he felt an iron hand grasping his shoulder.

He turned his head slowly, and saw the crying face of the third cousin.

Why is he here?

At that moment, many thoughts flashed through Wei Chi's mind, flashing back quickly like a revolving lantern... From yesterday's "wedding", he didn't seem to have done anything against the folk customs, just went to find his grandma secretly... No, grandma finally went crazy and called the uncle who was drinking in the yard, and the third cousin seemed to be there at the time.

Did they see him?

Have you been looking for him?

But how could the third cousin come to such a deep barren mountain?

What should we do now?

run?

But the shoulders were grabbed...

Are these people's combat effectiveness comparable to the nurses in the Second Municipal Hospital?

What's available on hand...

"What did you do?"

Uncle Three Biao asked.

He pointed to the messy coffin that still had residual heat.

Wei Chi's spirit was on high alert, and all the nerves in his body were activated, which made his observation and memory skills soar exponentially. At that moment, the expressions on the third cousin's face were like a slow-moving movie frame by frame. unfolded in his eyes.

He looked at the man's crying face facing the coffin, and a light flashed in his numb and tired eyes.It was hard for him to describe what kind of emotion it was—how heavy, sad, hateful, furious and mixed with a little pleasure.

For a long time, the expressions on the faces of people in this world have been the same, as false as crudely made 3D character models, smiling without reaching the bottom of the eyes, crying without raising the eyebrows, all like the masks of puppets.

If you really want to say it, the third cousin's expression didn't change much at this time, but his eyes flickered and his decree lines trembled.

But at this moment, Wei Chi felt very clearly the strong emotions of the man in front of him, pain and joy, rage and calm, some beast-like power that was about to break through that mask and pounce on——

Will it be torn apart?Wei Chi thought.

Fang Qingdi and Li Xiaofei seemed to have noticed the commotion here, Wei Chi caught sight of Li Xiaofei sitting on the ground in fright from the corner of his eye, and Fang Qingdi put his hand into the cloth pocket he was carrying...

"Let's go." The next moment, the third uncle returned to the illusory "mask", let go of his shoulder, and patted him. Except for the wrong expression, there seemed to be no problem in other places. It was different from the real world. There is no difference in the behavior pattern of "I'm running out of time."

Wei Chi's beating heart suddenly fell back to the ground, still lingering in fear.

He didn't want to take any risks, so he stood up and followed Zhou Feng.At the same time, he looked back at Fang Qingdi and Li Xiaofei. In fact, he didn't have any good ideas at this time. He asked the two of them to act separately from him. What's going on, and now that Miss Qing is "out of her wits", the clues to get out of the "door" are most likely concentrated at home, and he has basically figured out the rules of surviving in this world, and the three of them may be able to act together. But he was also a little afraid of the situation of "drinking placenta soup" that he couldn't jump through anyway...

Zhou Feng didn't seem to care about those two people at all, as if he didn't see it, Wei Chi decided not to make a sound, and let the two of them choose for themselves.

After a while, the two of them still followed.

Zhou Feng still didn't respond, and opened the way ahead.

Wei Chi followed behind him, looked at his back, and thought again.

Zhou Feng was wearing an ordinary and boring black jacket, the corners and cuffs of which were covered with white dirt. You have to get used to middle-aged men who nod and bow.

How is he different?

Why is he the only "crying face" among the "smiling faces"?

"Uncle." After walking for a while, Wei Chi asked after deliberation, "You have been out and about for so many years, where have you been?"

Zhou Feng was silent for a long time, so long that when Wei Chi thought he would not answer, he said, "I've been everywhere."

Wei Chi's heart moved, and he asked: "Oh, I still think it's better to go home? I also went out to study in college, so I still think it's better to be home."

Zhou Feng didn't pause this time, and shook his head without hesitation: "There is no other way."

Wei Chi pretended to smile casually: "What? Is the family not good?"

Zhou Feng didn't answer this time, but Wei Chi could see his tense jaw and the bulging veins on his forehead.

"Third Cousin..." After walking for a while, Wei Chi started another topic, "What is the pig demon you told me about yesterday?"

The third cousin glanced at him and asked, "Have you seen it?"

Wei Chi avoided answering, and continued to ask: "What is that?"

"You must have heard it when you were young, but you forgot." Uncle Sanbiao went on to tell a local folklore.

As he talked, Wei Chi gradually remembered this story he had heard before: the pig demon who was cast into the wrong pig fetus could not get the fairy Chang'e who was in charge of the magpie bridge. A pair of wrong marriages are locked with iron chains, and the wrong couple will form a fate of eternal life, even if reincarnation cannot escape.

wrong marriage...

Wei Chi asked, "Does it mean a ghost marriage?"

The third uncle didn't answer, but pushed aside a clump of thorns: "Here we are."

They returned to the old house of Grandpa Ji Jingzhe.

A group of people in white clothes were already waiting at the door, their movements were uniform from a distance, like a group of copy-pasted walking dead.

It is said that "Ji Jingzhe" died after eleven o'clock last night. The rule here is that minors who die early cannot be buried for half a day, that is to say, no later than eleven o'clock at noon today.

It's ten minutes to seven.

Wei Chi knew that he couldn't escape if he wanted to hide, so he resigned himself to his fate and was about to walk towards the door, but was suddenly pulled back by Zhou Feng.

Zhou Feng pointed to the back window of the house: "You go over there."

Wei Chi thought for a while, then slightly tilted his head towards Fang Qingdi and Li Xiaofei, and said, "Then my friend..."

"I'll take them there." Zhou Feng said calmly, leading the two towards the main entrance.

Wei Chi turned into the house through the back window and found that the house was intact. "Ji Jingzhe" was lying on his left half with his hands clasped together, the folds of his clothes remained unchanged, and the roof that was blown off by the pig demon was also well covered Above, everything that happened last night seemed like a dream.

"Chi Chi, hurry up!" The little paper figurine came out of his collar and reminded, "They are coming!"

Wei Chi woke up suddenly, took care of his body briefly, changed into a set of clothes he usually wore, and just lay down on the bed when there was a knock on the door.

The uncle said outside the door: "It's time to go."

Wei Chi opened the door, facing his uncle Zhou Bin, next to him was Zhou Feng, and behind him were some strangely dressed people who presided over some kind of folk ceremony.

When the uncle saw him, he raised his eyebrows and asked unhappily, "Why are you dressed like this?"

Wei Chi didn't quite understand: "What kind?"

Uncle: "I don't want to send Xiao Ji..."

Zhou Feng interjected, "Brother, take a look at his hands first."

Wei Chi: "Hand?"

The uncle grabbed his right hand and checked his wrist. He immediately thought of the corpses of men and women with iron chains on their hands in the coffin.

The uncle checked it twice, his expression became a little better, and he asked again: "Did you go to see your grandma yesterday?"

"What?" Wei Chi pretended to be stupid, "When?"

Zhou Feng said: "Brother, time..."

Zhou Bin didn't say much, and turned to the outside: "Then let's go."

Behind them, the man in the white robe of Wu Zhu raised his voice, and it sounded to be the same person as the high-pitched master of ceremonies at the ghost wedding yesterday: "Send—"

The group of white-clothed men who were waiting at the door just entered one after another and put "Ji Jingzhe" on the bed into the coffin. Wei Chi noticed that it was a big coffin for two people to be buried together.

A chill ran down his spine.

If he had been caught by the pig demon yesterday...would the other half of that coffin be his place today?

A group of people carried the coffin up the mountain.

The group of white-clothed people walked in the front, and the team was neat and orderly, with some carrying coffins, some holding white banners, some throwing paper money, and some reading eulogies.It stands to reason that the middle part behind them is the position of the deceased's "pro", and the last is the position of "friend".

"Ji Jingzhe" has no relatives, so the distinction between the latter two is not too obvious. Basically, the uncle leads a group of close relatives of the Zhou family to the center, followed by some old folks, Fang Qingdi and Li Xiaofei are among them.

Seeing that the others didn't pay much attention to him, Wei Chi quietly slowed down and fell to the back of the line, next to Fang Qingdi and Li Xiaofei.

Fang Qingdi is old no matter what, after a whole night of tossing around, his energy is exhausted now, so Wei Chi supported him.

The three of them gradually lost some distance from the main force.

Fang Qingdi suddenly said: "Xiao Chi, this is wrong."

Wei Chi: "What's wrong?"

Fang Qingdi: "These people are not ghosts."

Li Xiaofei asked: "Isn't it a ghost?"

"Let's put it this way...Miss Qing is a ghost. Although the old man doesn't know what happened to her, I can see the 'karma' in her." Fang Qing said, "It's the ghost that dies. People have experiences, they have obstacles, and they are in the cycle of cause and effect when they are in this vast world.”

"But I can't see 'cause and effect' from these things." Fang Qingdi pointed to the group of people in front, "They are neither ghosts... nor humans."