Haunted Places Live

Chu Yang and Lynch stood side by side in front of a small and shabby tattoo shop, looking up at the sign above, "Tough guy tattoo shop."

Chu Yang took a step back, "Uh...can't we switch to another..."

"No, I searched just now, the tattoo master here is very skilled, and it's close to your home, so here it is!" Lin Qi pulled Chu Yang's arm and opened the glass door.The bell on the door jingled.The shop is fairly clean, but very small, with a massage table next to it, and the walls are covered with tattoo designs and photos.The black curtain was lifted, and a 1.8-meter tall man came out from inside, with a wild and cold face, and his arms exposed outside the vest were densely covered with tattoos, which seemed to be the scene of a huge octopus destroying a sailboat.

Chu Yang swallowed and wanted to run away.

Lynch seemed to know that he wanted to run, and kept holding him, not forgetting to raise that deceptively handsome smile, "Brother, my friend needs a tattoo."

The big man stared at them for a few seconds, just when Chu Yang thought he was going to rush over to beat someone, flowers bloomed on his rough face, and his smile was as sweet as it was, "Of course, you two Do you want couple tattoos? I can give you a [-]% discount!"

Chu Yang's hairs stood on end by the huge contrast, and he quickly shook off Lynch's hand, "We're not..."

Lynch didn't give him a chance to speak at all, and looked at him affectionately, "Honey, don't be afraid, this pattern is so small that it doesn't hurt, be good!"

"Good sir!" Chu Yang couldn't help cursing in Chinese.

Lynch whispered through his teeth, "Lie down well for me, or I will use it too hard!"

Fifteen minutes later, Chu Yang was sitting on the tattoo bed with his upper body bare, watching the big man with a big smile tinkering with bottles and jars, and unpacking disposable tattoo gun heads.Lynch was sitting on the sofa beside him like an old man, with a Coca-flavored lollipop given to him by the big man in his mouth, and flipping through the tattoo collection prepared in the shop in his hand.Chu Yang was nervous. He had never tattooed before, and he never expected that the first tattoo would be in such a situation.

The roughly circular pattern drawn by Lynch has been tattooed on the outside of his right forearm by Mat, a tattoo artist. Chu Yang looked at it sideways for a long time, but he couldn't see what the pattern was. It seemed to be some kind of rune?In the middle is probably the shape of an eye, and there is a five-pointed star, but it is distorted and fragmented, so I can't be sure.Just looking at it, this pattern gives people an inexplicable sense of disobedience and ugliness, and he absolutely does not want to put this thing on his body.

But there is no way, if you can save your life, you have to try.

Mat walked towards him with a tattoo gun, smiling very kindly and gently, "Don't be afraid, it won't hurt."

Chu Yang forced a wry smile.

The needles fell on the skin quickly and intensively, and it felt like being pinched several times with a fingernail, which was really not unbearable.He turned his head and saw Lynch, who had finished eating the lollipop, playing with his mobile phone engrossed.He looked at Lynch carefully, and saw that the sunlight coming in from the window fell on the top of his hair, filled with a layer of light golden reflection, with well-defined and exquisite lines extending from his face to his neck and slightly exposed on his shirt. With his hand close to his lips, he unconsciously bit the side of the index finger of the glove with his teeth.

Lynch already knew his secret, and he barely knew anything about Lynch yet.

Who are his parents, where is his family, where do he usually live, what did he do before becoming an Internet celebrity, where did he go to school, where did he grow up... Listening to his English accent, he probably lived for a long time In the UK?Where did he learn so much weird knowledge, why did he choose to be a dark wizard, and what happened to the weird parasite in his hand?

The more I think about it, the more curious I become.

As if aware of something, Lynch raised his head, met his gaze, and gave him a captivating smile unceremoniously, "How about it, do I look good?"

Chu Yang's face was so hot that he was about to burn, he turned his face away and looked at Mat's steady moving hand, "Zi Lian..."

An hour later, the tattoo was completed, and Chu Yang categorically stopped Lynch who wanted to pay him, paid the money himself, and gave a sufficient tip. Mat gave him a bottle of care water for wiping the tattoos, exhorting him like a loving mother.Chu Yang lost his mind when he heard it, thinking that if a real person can't be judged by his appearance, there might be a gentle wife living in the heart of a tough guy...

"To celebrate the completion of the tattoo, let's go eat ice cream!" Lynch put his arms around his shoulders, led him around a corner, and went straight to a cute ice cream shop full of pink across the street.Chu Yang was dragged into the store while talking about "what ice cream do you eat in winter?" There were all kinds of beautifully decorated Italian ice cream in the window reflecting smooth and bright highlights. The cute Japanese girl behind the counter was not up to standard in English and asked them what they wanted.Lynch ordered three scoops of different flavors, piled high on top of a waffle cone.Chu Yang only ordered a ball, put it in a small paper bowl, and ate it with a plastic spoon.The two sat on the window seat in the store, and saw Lynch just took a big lick, and then showed the expression of enjoyment like a Chinese judge, only to see rainbow and pink bubbles appear behind him.

Chu Yang didn't look at it, and pushed his own ice cream over, "I'll give you everything."

Lin Qi pretended to say, "That's so embarrassing", and at the same time hugged Chu Yang's ice cream in front of him.

Chu Yang saw that he was eating happily, and his gloomy and depressed mood in the past few days also inexplicably improved. He looked out of the window and saw a girl in sportswear leading a big dog and running past listening to music. The two probably skipped class. The teenagers looked at something on their mobile phones and laughed together. An old woman leaned her crutches aside, sat on a bench by herself, and fed the pigeons and crows with the bread crumbs she brought with her.Everything looks so peaceful and peaceful, revealing a little bit of happiness in cuddling each other.

At this time, he felt that he didn't really want to die, he was just too tired to escape, and lost some courage to struggle to live.

"Don't worry, I said I would save you, so I won't let you die." Lynch suddenly said softly.

Chu Yang turned to look at him, then looked at his gloved hand, "Is the parasitic thing on your hand the same creature as a hound?"

Lynch nodded, "The same, but not the same. They are also advanced creatures, but they need to parasitize and devour life in order to survive."

"Swallow life... swallow your life?"

"Yes."

"You... did you actively choose to be parasitized, or was it an accident?"

"Of course it's an active choice. I'm responsible for feeding them, otherwise how could they be so cooperative?" Lynch smiled, looking at the expression on his hands, he was actually a little gentle, "They have been with me for a long time."

Chu Yang couldn't understand, "Why do you let them parasitize? Why do you want to be a black wizard?"

Lynch blinked and said with a smile, "You can say this is... a family business."

"Your mother or father?"

"Are there only multiple choice questions?"

both?Chu Yang was stunned.

He had a feeling that what he touched was not a new organization, but a huge darkness that had existed for many, many years.

"Besides you, how many people are there?"

"How much what?"

"How many dark wizards?"

"... That's too much. But there are about a dozen people who have accepted the 'stigmata'."

"'Stigmata'? You mean something like the one in your hand?"

"It's not just the color of the stars. There are many more that need parasitism in the higher races."

Chu Yang fell silent and licked his lips.He hesitated, and asked in a low voice, "Have you heard of...the king in yellow?"

Lynch stopped eating ice cream suddenly, and looked at him with wide eyes slightly, "What did you say?"

"The King in Yellow Clothes. A drama with two acts." Chu Yang was a little nervous by the other party's sudden change of expression, "Have you heard of it?"

The frivolous look on Lynch's face just now was gone, replaced by a completely different kind of coldness, "Where did you hear that?"

"I didn't hear it... I saw it..."

Before he finished speaking, Lynch grabbed his wrist on the table with such strength that it even made him feel a little uncomfortable, "How much have you seen?"

"The first scene, and then I didn't watch it again."

Lynch seemed to be relieved and relaxed a little, but he continued to ask, "Where did you see the English or French translation? Where is that book?"

"A person gave me...the English translation, now..." Chu Yang took a deep breath and said, "That book is still at my house."

He should have burned the book, but every time he lifted the lighter, a voice in his head whispered to him, his hands would start shaking, his whole body would start to go limp, enveloped in some indescribable in fear.

So he locked the book and locked it in the basement of his grandfather's house.

Lynch's expression seemed to be a little excited, but he tried his best to suppress it, not wanting to be too obvious, "Who gave it to you? Where is that person now?"

"I don't know..." Chu Yang said vaguely, "There is no signature."

"Did you read that book before or after you wrote that song?"

"……Before."

Lynch leaned on the back seat all of a sudden, and tapped his fingers on the table a few times, "So that's it... Then everything makes sense."

Chu Yang looked at him in confusion, "What makes sense?"

"There are many translations of this book. It is said that it came directly from a closed reality that no observers can enter. The English translation is not the most powerful, but anyone who reads this book will be attacked. To bad luck. They will go crazy, commit suicide or even take others to commit suicide together, or just disappear completely. No one knows where they went. There is a terrifying and evil power in that book. Fortunately, you only read the first chapter Otherwise, you might not be sitting here now." Lynch suddenly got up, "Let's go, take me to read that book."