Strange Story of Strange House

Lin Chi quickly returned with her senior sister. The girl nodded to Lou Qi, and then quietly occupied a corner of the sofa, with a dignified posture but maintained a very low sense of presence. She mastered the low profile that should be intruding into other people's domain very well. .This kind of understanding also greatly reduced Lou Qi's resistance to this matter.

Lin Chi consciously sat down next to Lou Qi, firstly because of same-sex attraction, to appease his heartbeat that lost its rhythm when he saw Lou Qi; secondly, to prevent Lou Qi from getting hurt in case something happened. senior sister.Lou Qi naturally didn't know about Lin Chi's small thoughts, but it was always a happy thing that someone who belonged to him was willing to be next to him.

"What should we do now?" After sitting down, Lin Chi opened his mouth after deliberation, his eyes swept over the senior sister, and finally landed on Lou Qi's face.The senior sister blinked her eyes, and then looked at Lou Qi.

Lou Qi thought for a moment: "The easiest way is to go back to the place you loved before you were alive or the place you died, and recall it slowly."

"The question is...does senior sister remember?"

The girl tilted her head and thought for a while, but she could barely remember a man with a vague appearance, a forest covering the sky, and butterflies flying around... A few scattered pictures are not enough to deduce the exact location, more details She couldn't think of anything, so she finally shook her head.

"Can't remember?"

"……Um."

Fortunately, Lin Chi didn't hold out much hope. He couldn't remember that Ben was also expected. He turned to Lou Qi and asked if there was any other way.Lou Qi thought for a while and asked, "What can you think of? A picture is fine, describe it."

"I can think of...a man who always smiles at me very softly. I think he should be very important to me, but I can't remember who he is...I can also think of a forest that flourishes all year round and the leaves are dark green Yes, the trees are very tall, covering the sky and the sun, and the sunlight falls through the gaps between the treetops, and the stars fall in the forest, which is very beautiful. There are also many butterflies in the forest, always flying in groups, they dance When I got up, it was so gorgeous that I couldn't describe it in words..."

"Butterfly?" Lou Qi interrupted her suddenly, "Is it the kind of butterfly that appeared beside you? Shi Ji?"

"If that's what you said about Corpse Girl, yes." The senior flipped her hand, and there was a blue-black butterfly on her fingertips, which was exactly Corpse Girl.

Lou Qi looked at the butterflies on the girl's fingertips, and sighed softly: "If a group of corpse girls really appeared in your burial site, this place is not difficult to find. There are many forests surrounding this city, but corpse girls There is only one haunted forest. But, are you really going?"

Senior sister looked at Lou Qi in amazement, seeing his serious expression, she nodded firmly despite her doubts.

Facing Lou Qi, Lin Chi was obviously not as calm as his senior sister. He asked, "Why do you say that? Haven't you already decided to go?"

"Do you know how Shi Ji was born?" Lou Qi gave Lin Chi a meaningful look, which made the latter startled.

"What, what?"

"Corpse Ji, the way this butterfly is born is completely different from its beautiful appearance. It lays eggs in the body of a dying person and exhausts the last vitality of that person to conceive its offspring. The body parasitized by Corpse Ji , the larvae will devour the corpse after breaking out of the body, we may not even find the bones..."

"It doesn't matter." The senior sister breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, "Whether I can find it or not, I'm already mentally prepared. Even if I know it might be a waste of time, I don't want to give up this opportunity... One, did you find it back?"

"Since that's the case, I won't persuade you anymore." Lou Qi took a sip from his water glass and stopped talking.After the senior sister thanked her, she didn't speak any more, and the room was suddenly silent, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.Seeing that the two of them had no intention of continuing to talk, Lin Chi had no choice but to ease the atmosphere: "Then what... when are we going to that forest?"

"Tomorrow, I still have some things to prepare, and you will gather here tomorrow morning."

"Okay," the senior sister nodded, then looked at Lin Chi, and seeing that he had no intention of getting up, she left with empathy, "Then I'll go back to the back mountain first, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." Lin Chi smiled and waved to the senior sister, watching her leave the noodle shop, then he smiled and sat beside Lou Qi, staring at him eagerly, hesitating to speak.Lou Qi gave him a strange look: "What's wrong?"

"You don't want senior sister to go, not only because you might not find the body, right? There is a question I have thought about for a long time. Back then you told me that senior sister would realize that she is not Tang Xuan, and it would hurt her... …What exactly is this so-called injury?”

"Everyone has her name and identity in this world. This is her foundation, even ghosts. Losing the identity of 'Tang Xuan', your senior sister will have to find her own identity sooner or later. This Whether the injury is big or small depends on whether she can bear it."

"Looking for my identity...what harm will it bring?" Lin Chi was a little puzzled, "That was originally hers, wasn't it?"

"Lin Chi, you are so naive." Lou Qi smiled, and turned his face to look at Lin Chi who was bewildered, "What kind of past would make a person prefer to lose everything and forget it? Ghosts are different from people. Yes, humans may forget a certain thing due to external forces, but what the ghost forgets is the past she gave up. Is it really a good thing to pick up such a past?"

******

Early the next morning, when Lin Chi hurried to the noodle shop, the senior had already been waiting for a long time.

"Why so early?"

"I don't have anything else to do, and the ghost doesn't need to sleep, so it came here first." The senior sister smiled, "I'm not afraid of your laugh, I've been thinking about this all night... It belongs to my identity , I have been looking forward to it for too long." Lin Chi was taken aback when he heard the words, and what Lou Qi said yesterday immediately echoed in his ears - what kind of past would make a person prefer to lose everything and forget... Get up, is it really a good thing?Lin Chi asked himself, but couldn't get an answer.

"Sister..."

"what?"

"Recover your identity, is this decision really the right one?"

"Are you uneasy? Why?" Both companions expressed disapproval to some extent about the recovery of their identities, and the senior sister began to be a little curious.

"If, as Lou Qi said, recovering your identity actually caused you a second injury, what should you do?"

"Haven't we already got the answer to this question?" The senior sister reached out and touched Lin Chi's head. His hair was very soft, and the feeling of sliding in the palm of her hand made it easy to soften her heart. She said softly, "I have already I can't lose my past with no future."

"Sorry, I'm on the edge of a dead end..." Lin Chi glanced at the second floor angrily, as if Lou Qi could receive his resentment.

The senior sister was amused by his actions: "Primary brother, do you have a girlfriend?"

"No."

"It's a pity that I didn't meet you when I was alive."

"Sister..." Being confessed suddenly, Lin Chi was not happy, but rather sad.Senior sister is so nice, there must have been many people who liked her before she was alive, right?She was still so young, when she died, she was still so young...

"I'm so nice in primary school, so don't take advantage of other girls if you can't be with me..." The interaction between Lin Chi and Lou Qi, the senior sister has long seen, she laughed and teased, "I think your brother Lou is the same It's very good, don't hesitate! Get it as soon as possible, and the wish of the senior sister will be fulfilled."

"Senior, what are you talking about!" Lin Chi couldn't help feeling a little annoyed when the hidden feelings were revealed by the senior.Seeing him blushing, the senior sister stopped teasing him. If Lin Chi was really annoyed, who knew whether Lou Qi would settle accounts with her.

At the same time, Danqing is leaning against the window on the second floor to tease Lou Qi.

"Tsk tsk, Boss, look at the lady boss flirting with the little girl again."

"Tsk tsk, does the boss lady like this type? His senior sister and the female ghost downstairs both look like this. If it weren't for one person and one ghost, I really wouldn't be able to tell the difference... It's a pity that you are not this type, boss. Live in the heart of the proprietress! Just thinking about it makes me anxious for you!"

Do they all look like this?Lou Qi frowned suddenly, did he miss something?I have always focused on whether the fake Tang Xuan will replace the real Tang Xuan, why have I forgotten, what kind of cause and what kind of effect, if two people are really similar, how can they be okay?

He interrupted the people who had been chattering aside: "Danqing."

"Tsk tsk, lady boss...huh?"

"Go check something for me..."

******

The forest where the corpse girl haunts is located on the outskirts of K City, not far from here.According to Lou Qi's plan, the forest on the outskirts of the city would not be in any danger. It would be enough for Lin Chi and his senior sister to go to the forest. A twosome becomes a threesome.

Even Lin Chi himself doesn't know whether this anxiety stems from the unknown journey or because he likes being pointedly pointed out by his senior sister who hides in his heart that he can't even face up to.

Seeing him struggling, the senior sister dragged her skirt maliciously and strode forward, leaving Lin Chi and Lou Qi far behind.

How dishonest!Lin Chi thought to himself.

Lin Chi always kept a step away from Lou Qi, looking at Lou Qi's slightly thin back, he felt a little throbbing in his heart, but he quickly turned his attention to the surrounding environment.They are in the largest natural forest area in K City. Due to the topography, this forest presents a subtropical landscape, with dense trees, lush branches and leaves, and evergreen all the year round. Just like what my classmates said, the dense trees cover the sky. On a sunny day, even if you look up, you can only see a little blue sky from the gaps in the branches and leaves.

The three of them walked to the depths of the forest, and corpse girls gradually appeared in the forest, from one or two to a group, with blue and black wings fluttering, chasing and playing in groups.Surrounded by sunlight pouring down from the branches and leaves, the wild flowers of Cangmu look extremely beautiful against the flying butterflies.

"There are so many butterflies here, yet they haven't been developed into a tourist attraction yet?" As soon as Lin Chi finished speaking, Lou Qi gave him a strange look.Lin Chi held his ulterior motives and asked tremblingly, "What, what's wrong?"

"The corpse girl is a hell butterfly, only ghosts and people who can see ghosts can see it." Lou Qi explained calmly.

"...I see." Lin Chi nodded, and just about to continue this topic, he heard a scream not far away.

Senior sister's voice? !what happened? !

The two looked at each other and quickly ran towards the source of the sound.After passing through a bush, they quickly found the senior sister. She turned to the two of them, covered her mouth tightly with her hand, and stared straight ahead. Following her gaze, Lin Chi saw the most unforgettable scene in his life. one.

In the deepest part of the forest, there is a huge banyan tree. Its single tree forms a forest, and its aerial roots hang down from the branches. The most attractive spot is that two aerial roots meet in mid-air, forming a special shape like a swing.And on this special "swing", there is a woman sitting.Thousands of corpse girls covered her body, flapping her wings, glowing with blue light... She closed her eyes peacefully, dressed in butterfly clothes, standing in the air.

The senior sister looked at the face that was exactly the same as hers, and murmured in disbelief: "Is this me? I thought that after being dead for so long, the corpse should be ugly..."

She took a few steps forward and stopped to look at the butterfly-covered body in mid-air.After a while, she suddenly stretched out her hand to touch the foot of the female corpse...

"Don't touch it!" Sensing her actions, Lou Qi immediately stopped her, but he was still a step too late.The moment she touched her ankle, the butterflies on the corpse flew away as if frightened, and in an instant, the dark woods were illuminated by blue fluorescent light.Then, the butterfly swarm crashed into her body.

Senior sister is a body of soul, and the body that temporarily supports her to walk around in the world was originally transformed by a corpse girl, but the corpse girl born from her corpse, at this moment, rushed into her body forcefully with her shattered memory .In an instant, a shrill female voice resounded through the forest——

"what--"

Lin Chi wanted to run towards her, but Lou Qi hugged him from behind and held him firmly in his arms: "Don't go, this is what she should go through, she is taking back her lost memories."

Lin Chi slowly calmed down in Lou Qi's embrace in such a posture of being hugged, and stared nervously at the senior sister.

The moment the butterfly flew towards the senior, the woman on the aerial root slowly faded away, leaving only a skeleton, maintaining the previous volleying posture...

The senior sister fell to the ground, staring blankly at the front with her eyes wide open. Tears slipped from her eyes and fell drop by drop on the arm supporting her body.

Lin Chi looked at her and felt panicked.

"What kind of memory did senior sister see?"

"Want to know?"

"is it okay?!"

"Stretch out your hand." Lou Qi said softly, Lin Chi spread out a hand in front of his chest when Lin Chi heard that, Lou Qi stretched out his hand to grab a corpse girl, and put it in Lin Chi's palm.

At the moment when Lou Qi held his hands together with Corpse Ji, Lin Chi suddenly had many more images in his mind. He calmed down and sorted out the fragments in his mind, and quickly sorted out a complete memory——

The memory belonged to a girl named Tang Xue. Lin Chi guessed that Tang Xue was probably the real name of the senior.

Born in the Tang family, a century-old family in K City, there is a much older brother in the family who takes over the family business, and she is also an old woman who heads the family. Tang Xue has been doted on since she was a child.

Tang Xue has a half-sister named Tang Xi, who is her father's illegitimate daughter.Her father had no relationship with her sister's mother, and Tang Xi's birth was just an accident.After giving birth to Tang Xi, her mother married soon, and her father brought up Tang Xi, but because he didn't want to destroy the relationship with Tang Xue's mother, he didn't bring her into the Tang family mansion.

Perhaps it was because she was protected too well by her father and brother since she was a child, and she only got in touch with the best side of things. Tang Xue has always maintained the innocence in her nature, and she doesn't reject Tang Xi as her sister.The elder sister who was born in an accident, her parents regarded her as a superfluous existence, this recognition made Tang Xue feel ashamed of Tang Xi to a certain extent.Therefore, she always does her best to help Tang Xi in her life, and her hard work pays off. Tang Xue's kindness seems to have really moved Tang Xi. In college, the two were almost inseparable. They knew all the friends of each other and knew each other well. Every detail of each other's life.What's even more bizarre is that as they grow older, the pair of sisters become more and more alike, until later, even their temperaments are almost the same.

Tang Xue's boyfriend is called Jiang Yu, and the relationship between the two has been very stable, and they even agreed to get married as soon as they graduated from university.But in Tang Xue's sophomore year, the similarity between the two sisters was astonishing. With a little disguise, even Jiang Yu couldn't guarantee to distinguish the two correctly in the first place.

At that time, letting Jiang Yu play the game of "guess who is Tang Xue" was simply the favorite of the two sisters.

Tang Xue always thought that life would go on like this, that the man she loves and the closest sisters would always be by her side.

Sometimes Tang Xue would tease Tang Xi and ask her, "When will you find me a brother-in-law?"

At this time, Tang Xi always lowered his head, smiling a little lonely, and as time passed, Tang Xue stopped asking.

One weekend in his sophomore year, Tang Xi, who was preparing for his graduation thesis, suddenly said to Tang Xue, "Do you want to go out and play? Just the two of us."

"Huh? Where are you going?" Tang Xue was a little surprised. The deadline for Tang Xi's thesis was approaching, but she had hardly written anything. Tang Xue thought that she would be very busy these days, but unexpectedly she proposed the idea of ​​traveling.

"There is a natural forest area on the outskirts of K City that is very suitable for camping. How about we go camping there this weekend with enough food?"

"Is your thesis... alright?"

"It doesn't matter," Tang Xi smiled, "There will always be a solution."

"Then... just the two of us? Would it be a little dangerous?" Tang Xue still felt that it was not very good, Tang Xi thought about it, and suggested: "Do you want to call Jiang Yu again? You can also invite some classmates, I heard the scenery is beautiful!"

"Alright." Tang Xue looked at Tang Xi who was in high spirits, and wondered if the thesis was stuck. Tang Xi wanted to go out to relax. Although she was still a little confused, she agreed.

The day before departure, Tang Xi walked into Tang Xue's dormitory with a smile on his face, and took out two identical sportswear as if offering a treasure.

"what is this?"

"Sister outfit~ Do you want to wear it?"

"want!"

When the two appeared in front of everyone wearing the same sportswear, the friend laughed and joked: "Tsk tsk, you said that you two sisters look almost exactly the same, and your voices are also very similar. You could tell them apart by wearing them! Now you can tell them apart." Well, I can't tell the difference at all!"

Tang Xue listened to her friend's joke, and looked at Tang Xi with a smile, only to find a flash of madness in her sister's eyes, but when she looked closely, everything was as usual.Tang Xue thought to herself, maybe she misread it.