Haunted Places Live

When Lynch woke up, he felt warm all over his body.Although the curtains were drawn, a thin strip of bright light penetrated through the gap, letting him know that it should be at least around noon.When he saw the quilt covering himself, he knew it was brought by Chu Yang, and he was stunned for a while, but suddenly remembered that he seemed to have left Grandpa Chu Yang's diary under the quilt...

Since returning to China, he often secretly studied the diary while Chu Yang was not at home or sleeping.It was written in a ciphertext that only the Presbyterians would use, and there was further encryption on this basis. He also studied it for several days before he finally got a clue.He didn't want Chu Yang to know, because from Chu Yang's various reactions, he didn't want to know the possible real identity of his grandfather...

Lin Qi hurriedly threw off the quilt and rushed to his room, but saw Chu Yang sitting on the ground with his head on his bed and fell asleep.His face was full of exhaustion, his brows were tightly frowned, his glasses were held in one hand, and beside him were scattered the scratch papers that Lynch used to crack the code when studying the diary.

Lin Qi's heart sank slightly, but fortunately, he hadn't cracked too much, even if Chu Yang read it, he probably couldn't see anything.

He was hesitating whether to wake up Chu Yang, but he saw that Chu Yang's body suddenly twitched, and his eyes rolled quickly under his eyelids.

dreaming?

His twitching didn't stop, his feet were also moving slightly, and an indistinct raving came out of his lips.Lin Qi felt that what Chu Yang was having was probably a nightmare, so he gently put his hand on Chu Yang's shoulder, "Xiao Yang? Xiao Yang?"

Chu Yang gasped and woke up suddenly, and the face was filled with pure panic for a moment.His eyes were wide open, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, and his chest heaved and panted rapidly.Obviously looking at Lynch's face, but it seems to be seeing someone or something else.

"Xiao Yang, are you having nightmares again?"

The name Xiao Yang made Chu Yang shudder.In the dream just now, he also heard this name, but it was not Lynch who called him, but his grandfather—Chu Yu.Still in shock, he stretched out his hands to cover his eyes, took a deep breath, and then calmed down.He raised his eyes to look at Lynch, and realized that he was safe.It was just a dream, and it was wonderful.

"I dreamed of a hunting dog." Chu Yang whispered.

In the dream, he was standing in the center of a dark red grassland, but not far from him, the grassland bent upwards at an extremely tricky angle, crossed his head obliquely, and then bent elsewhere.There are twisted and curved red grass in all directions, blocking the entire field of vision.He couldn't see the sky, and he didn't know if he was standing on flat ground, sucked upside down on the grass, or tilted.Such a strange visual experience made his brain unable to adapt for a while, making him dizzy for a while, and even standing unsteadily.Not far from him, there is a group of strange creatures that move slowly. They are like many flesh-colored cylinders spliced ​​at random, and it is impossible to tell which is the head and which is the tail.The way they move is also very strange, taking a few steps forward, and then walking a few steps parallel to the right, occasionally lowering their heads to graze on the top of a certain cylinder.Suddenly, a creature seemed to take another step forward, and suddenly, it screamed and fell down.

It was obviously standing on flat ground, but it flew past him as if falling into an abyss, and hit heavily on the grass at the other end bent upwards at [-] degrees. It exploded like a balloon filled with water, and the Green flesh exploded like a splash of ink.

Suddenly, those cylindrical creatures seemed to sense something, stopped the rhythm of eating, and raised their front ends one by one, as if they were "seeing" something.Chu Yang followed suit and saw nothing at first.It wasn't until he tilted his body slightly because of dizziness that he realized that along the sloping grass above his head, there were many vertical, irregular-shaped, and strange-colored flakes rushing at a uniform speed.These flakes appear to have no thickness at all, so that they are not visible at all when viewed from the side, only when the angle is adjusted.There were also some similar cylindrical composite creatures on the sloping grass. They didn't seem to see the flakes coming at a constant speed, and several of them were cut through the middle in an instant.That thing seemed to be extremely sharp. After passing by, it took a few seconds for the cylindrical compound creature to spread out to both sides, and the flocculent internal organs of fluorescent green were scattered on the grass, silently.

He watched the cylindrical creatures dodge cautiously as the plates turned a corner and entered the level ground where he was.The speed of the flakes is not too fast, as long as they can be found in time, dodging is very easy.The problem is that you have to keep adjusting the viewing angle to barely capture all the slices.Chu Yang waited nervously, constantly turning his head to adjust his position.When those slices passed in front of him, he found strange reflections floating on them, which reflected his appearance somewhat distorted.

After the slice passed, the cylinders became alert again.This time, they were even more panicked than before, and suddenly turned around and ran away.It's just that even if you're escaping, you still have to use that weird pace, take a few steps forward, then run a few steps sideways, and then continue to move forward.It's just that probably because of fear, several of them stumbled and fell to the vertical grass opposite, smashed into meat paste.

At this time, Chu Yang suddenly asked a familiar, vomit-like sour smell.His heart suddenly started beating wildly, and he turned around, his whole body stiffened.

He saw those tumbling, sticky, hot asphalt creatures, countless hounds, like black tsunami, galloping down the vertical grass, walking on the ground, without needing to be like those cylinders. The same clumsy knuckle motion.Where they passed, all the cylinders that had no time to escape screamed and were torn to pieces, and their flesh and blood were swallowed up before they hit the ground.

Chu Yang turned around and wanted to run, but he didn't know how to act in this horn-shaped space.As soon as he ran two steps forward, he felt his foot step on the ground, and his whole body began to "fall" to the other side. Fortunately, he grabbed those red, extremely tough grass blades desperately with his hands.He was lying flat on the ground, but he felt that the weight of his entire body was dragging him in a flat direction.He tried his best to pull his body up, but he couldn't make any effort.

He heard some kind of strange sound like metal rubbing when the hound rolled towards him, but he seemed to be able to feel countless consciousnesses, consciousnesses that did not belong to him, clamoring chaotically.They said he couldn't escape, they said they saw him.

Then, he heard Grandpa calling him.

"Little Yang, be brave."

He raised his head, only to see his grandfather Chu Yu wearing the hospital gown he had passed away, smiling at him with an elegant and kind face despite his age.

Then he was woken up by Lynch.

Lin Qi's complexion became more and more serious, and he looked down at the tattoo exposed on Chu Yang's rolled-up shirt sleeves.

"It seems that this pattern still can't protect you. If you are targeted by hounds, it will be difficult to escape..." Lynch raised his head and said, "We can smooth out all the corners in this room. Or... I will take you to that room A spherical sanctuary, impenetrable to hounds."

Chu Yang lowered his head and smiled softly for a while, "Then what? I don't want to hide for the rest of my life like the person you said." He paused, and said in a low voice, "I'm thinking... since this is what I should do Perhaps I should accept the price paid.”

"What nonsense are you talking about? Did you just give up like that?!" Lin Qi frowned, with an angry look on his face, and grabbed Chu Yang by the collar, "Do you really want to die that much?"

Chu Yang looked at him seriously, "No... I'm afraid of death, if you weren't afraid, you wouldn't have the chance to see me."

He still remembered that night two years ago, he had already put a bathtub of hot water in, soaked his body in it, and cut off the wrist with the blade horizontally.But as his body got colder and colder, even hot water couldn't warm him up, and a huge airtight fear made him start to panic.He was afraid, he didn't want to die silently in this empty bathroom alone, and he would no longer exist after death, and the eternal nothingness made his hair stand on end.Then he thought of grandpa again. Although grandpa's body is very strong now, what about the future?Who will take care of him?Isn't it too cruel for him to see his grandson's body after losing his son?

Chu Yang blocked the wound on his wrist with a towel in embarrassment, called the emergency number for help, and then passed out.When a man woke up in the hospital a few hours later, the doctor asked him if he wanted to inform the family, and he chose not to tell anyone.After all, Song Liangshu had just died, and the other three members of the band were still in grief, so he shouldn't cause them any trouble.And grandpa... It's even more impossible for him to let grandpa know about this kind of thing.

Unexpectedly, shortly after that incident, the always healthy and tough grandfather fell into a coma due to a sudden myocardial infarction.He only had time to rush back to Vancouver to see his grandpa for the last time.Grandpa was in a coma all the time, but before he died, he suddenly opened his eyes and glanced at him. Before he could say a word, he closed his eyes again and never woke up again.

Chu Yang did not return to China, but stayed in Vancouver.After a while, even the wound on the wrist was invisible.As if that had never happened.

He knew he was a coward and had no courage to take the blame.And now, in the school of the parallel reality, he killed someone again... He had an inexplicable intuition that if he didn't end it this time, one day he would no longer be able to resist the attraction of the cello, and he would sink deeper and deeper into some kind of darkness.It is even possible to become a monster like Chu Yang wearing the bird head mask.

Grandpa told him to be brave...was that telling him to end everything before he lost his soul?If he died at the hands of the Hound, at least he died saving people, didn't he?

"No! I won't let you die!!!" Lynch yelled at him, this was the first time Chu Yang saw Lynch so angry.

He looked at Lynch, who was clearly furious and frowning, not at all as handsome as a handsome man in ordinary times, but he felt warm in his chest.It's really good to have someone who cares about his own life and death like this.

He asked Lynch seriously, "Why do you care about me so much? We've only known each other for less than a month, haven't we?"

Lynch was taken aback for a moment, unable to speak for a moment.

yeah, why?In his almost numb life, it has been a long, long time since he cared so much about a person.

Chu Yang tilted his head slightly, traced the lines on Lin Qi's face with his eyes, and said in a whisper, "If you want something in my grandpa's house, I can give you the key. You have helped me so much , I even paid my friend for the surgery, and I have nothing to repay you. You said you asked me to be your assistant for three months to pay off the debt, and I haven’t even completed one month. I’m really sorry for you. There are only a few God, I think I should move out before I bother you or dirty your house."

"Stop talking." Lynch restrained his emotions, suddenly raised his chin with his gloved right hand, looked into his eyes with a firm and persistent look, and said in a strong tone that could not be refuted, "Don't forget Now, you are mine for these three months. If I don't let you die, you have no right to die."

Chu Yang was slightly taken aback, Lin Qi looked at him at this time, it seemed too gentle, so gentle that it almost seemed real.He wasn't sure, was this a performance, or Lynch's real appearance?

He hoped it was the latter.

"I'll take you to the Presbyterian Church." Lynch said in a declarative tone, "No matter what, live in the shelter first. If there is no other way, I still have one last way, which will definitely work."

Chu Yang was surprised, "What way?"

"I thought about five things at the time. The first one was a tattoo, which didn't work. The second one was to erase all the corners of the room and the third one was to send you to the shelter. The fourth one was to find a way to confuse Hounds, let them hunt and kill you in another parallel time and space."

Chu Yang frowned, and immediately said, "No."

"...It wasn't someone else who ate it, but yourself?"

"...The other me is still another person to me." Chu Yang shook his head.Maybe he in another reality hasn't lost all his relatives, maybe Chu Yang in another reality hasn't killed anyone... Maybe the grandfather in another time and space hasn't died yet.

I don't want to discuss the philosophical question about self-definition, which has no clear answer since ancient times, but Lynch has already guessed Chu Yang's answer.

"The last way... is that you join the Council of Elders and accept the stigmata." Lynch sighed, "As long as another holy race parasitizes you, just like the color of the stars and the earth burrower, and their equals Hounds can't eat you."

The author has something to say: The vertical flakes seen in Chu Yang's dream, which can't be seen from the front but only seen from the side, are actually a scene in a dream I had a few months ago, but in my In my dream, a living person was cut into two halves from the middle _(:з"∠)_ (so what was in my mind?)