Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Five

The inner desire revealed in the firelight is frightening.The ghost dinner at the Red Palace in Madeira was performed again at Wu Bingbing's house; she was unwilling to accept her heart while pawning her soul, and resolutely made a life-and-death choice. On the high side of the river bank in the east of the city, there are two Ming Dynasty forts that look like hills. On the top is a huge old camphor tree that can only be hugged by four people together. Under the tree are lush thorns and weeds. Wu Bingbing and Guo Kai came here again—the two have loved to drill here every time they date since high school, and the shade of trees covering the sky and the sun shields their sweet and precocious love.Now things are different, love no longer exists, Wu Bingbing hates Guo Kai on the opposite side like an old enemy.

"Why did you betray me? Why?" "You're so cold, you slowly pushed me out." "Then why did you love me so much in the past? Are you lying to me?" "It's all because you have changed, become more and more unfamiliar, and more and more people dare not love." "You who love the new and dislike the old, do you know how much pain you have caused me?" Full of anger, she rushed over and cursed: "It's all your fault, you hurt that girl and me. Damn you!" Guo Kai ignored her, looking disheartened.She said: "I will kill you! Let you disappear from now on!" Guo Kai shook his head disappointedly at her.She threw herself into his arms, drew out a knife and stabbed him in.The blood flowed out from her hand, Guo Kai looked at it calmly and said, "I knew this day would come, I knew you would kill me sooner or later."

Seeing Guo Kai lying on the ground bleeding, she knelt down and hugged him again, calling his name in horror.Said Guo Kai, wake up quickly!I didn't mean to, I didn't want to kill you, you can't die, you won't die!wake up! —— It wasn't until she woke up from crying that she realized that she was lying on the bed.He sat up and saw that his clothes were crumpled and his hands were bloodstained.It was noon, she stared: I killed Guo Kai? I can't figure out what is a dream and what is real - the deaths that happened around her in the past have all appeared in her dreams, and the things foreseen in the dreams have all become facts in reality.

She quickly jumped up, straightened her clothes, rushed out the door, and drove to the east of the city by car.She ran up to the ancient fort in one breath, and saw the person lying under the big tree at a glance. She bit her finger and stood there in shock.That was Guo Kai, lying face up on the ground, with a puppy circling around him... Oh my God!I killed him?She didn't want to look any more, covered her face and turned her back, crying in pain. Unexpectedly, Guo Kai stood up and patted her from behind.She ran away screaming in fright.Guo Kai rushed up to stop her.She beat him like crazy, begging him to let her go.He asked her what happened?She said you are not dead yet?Who did Guo Kai say died?I'm fine!do you wish me dead

Guo Kai said: "This is a memorable place for us. I come here often these days, and I was thinking of asking you to come here for a talk. I didn't think about you, and I came here, as if I had a telepathy." It's a dream, he's not dead, Wu Bingbing thought. "I'm here to tell you that it's over between us. From now on, I don't want to see you again, and you don't want to appear in front of me!" Then she turned and left.Guo Kai sighed, and lay down on the ground again with his arms under his pillow. The little dog followed her as if seeing a relative, wagging its tail and running back and forth between her legs.She knew it was Guo Kai's dog.Far away from the old camphor tree, she bent down to caress the puppy, and suddenly held its head down, pressing it into the soil with all her strength.The little dog screamed and struggled, pawing the dirt under it with a groaning sound.She stepped on its hind legs and pressed its body with her knees until the puppy was limp, its nose was bleeding, and its tongue stuck out...

When night fell, Jiang Lan flew into Wu Bingbing's bedroom from the window again. Wu Bingbing was lying on the bed, she was not surprised to see her come in, she opened her eyes and said nothing.Jiang Lan's transparent body approached her quietly.Wu Bingbing glanced at her, lying on the bed and continuing to think about things.Jiang Lan looked around, dangling in the room.There was a long silence, only the ticking of the clock. "Why don't you talk? You've never been so quiet?" "I'm thinking about a question. I'm thinking, who am I?" "You are yourself. I want you to be me, and it never works."

"But I don't know anyone anymore, not even myself." As she said that, Wu Bingbing lay there crying, crying and saying: "After changing your heart, my life has changed, completely changed! Look at me now? What have I become? What happened in the past? I speak softly, and I haven't even trampled an ant to death. But now, I have become abnormal, out of control, and involuntary. I am becoming less and less like myself... I don't know what I did? I don’t know how many people I have harmed?… I lost my harmonious family, my boyfriend, and even the friendship with my classmates… Tomorrow is my 24th birthday. In previous years, my parents and boyfriend took care of me, and there were many classmates Congratulate me in advance, but this year, no one thinks of me, not even a phone call. I don't know if I am or not? Is there an end to these days? "

"You don't need any boyfriends and classmates. It's enough for me to be with you. What kind of affection and love? What kind of vows? Men are unreliable! Apart from wanting to possess you, control you, and treat you as a private object, everything else It’s a lie. Take your boyfriend Guo Kai as an example. He is a man who can’t stand loneliness and the temptation of women. He is not worth cherishing. You will kill him sooner or later.” "What?" Wu Bingbing yelled, "Am I really going to kill him?" "You not only killed him, but also killed more people. Let me open your eyes, and you stare at the mirror by the bed." She asked Wu Bingbing to stand in front of the bed, and wiped her cold fingers on her forehead. , and held the mirror up to her.In the mirror, there was a mass of darkness at first, and then the light of fire gradually appeared. "When you look at the shadow in the firelight, you will feel familiar, and you will understand everything. It is something deep in your heart."

"I saw... there was Guo Kai. I killed him, under that tree. And, uh, that female classmate, and so many people, struggling in the fire, going up and down... Could it be that I Kill them too?" "Yes. On your birthday, you will kill people. Because a girl hurt you by talking, and then you followed her to her house and killed her. In the days to come, you will kill other people and die under your hands There are 10 lives. I did a survey and it was a surprise to find that every person has at least 10 enemies in the world, and 10 of them hate the person they want to kill. Some people don't kill , It is the heart that is controlling, and the heart does not let you kill. Some people kill, but also the drive of the heart. Although I have lost most of my magic power, I have no power to kill anymore, but you will fulfill my wish and kill for me. I can still do it My revenge, experience the thrill of hunting at will - because you are my heart, we are one body. You can never get rid of me, until you die!—”

"As long as you don't let me kill again, I'm willing to listen to you from now on." "I didn't make you kill, it was the heart that drove you. That heart has driven me for 35 years. All my past actions were driven by that heart. The body cannot resist. The longevity lock you are looking for, It is the storage device of the soul, from which you can hear the instructions of that heart. You consciously experience the whole process of that heart, and walk into that heart involuntarily. Your body and that heart are fused together, From then on, that heart belongs to you. Do you feel that you are going through the road I walked at the beginning? That heart is guiding you, making you become me in the past step by step?—”

Wu Bingbing sighed and said, "I don't understand what you said so much. It seems that I know one thing. I won't be able to leave you in the future?" Jiang Lan cheered up: "You shouldn't have gotten rid of me." "In this case, I formally express to you that I will listen to you from now on." "Ah! Ah!—" Jiang Lan cried out, and rushed over to hug her. "That's the day I've been waiting for! You stubborn little girl! That's the day I've been waiting for!—" "I don't want to kill Guo Kai, and there's no need to kill those people." Wu Bingbing was thinking about what Jiang Lan said—you will not only kill him, but you will kill more people—on your birthday, you will kill people— It's not me who makes you kill, it's your heart that drives you—that's what's in your heart, it's unbearable! "I asked Guo Kai to walk away from me, far away." Wu Bingbing looked at her and said, "I won't have a birthday party in two days, I will have it alone. Simply, I will let you accompany me when the time comes No. Can the murder be avoided? I won’t kill again, will I?” Jiang Lan said disdainfully: "What is destined will happen sooner or later. You have no choice!" On the day before her birthday, Bingbing really wanted to go out for a walk.She tidied herself up and came to the bedroom where her parents were resting. Before she could speak, her mother asked her, saying that tomorrow is your birthday, did you forget?Bingbing said he did not forget.Mom said that we are going to have a small party like last year. I have notified your high school classmates such-and-such, such-and-such, and such-and-such.Bingbing couldn't help being surprised, Jiang Lan said that the girl she was going to kill was among these few people.Bingbing quickly said, Mom, tell them not to come. I want to celebrate my own birthday this year, and no one is allowed to participate. I want to have a quiet birthday. Then she asked for Dad's car keys and said that I haven't driven for a long time, and I want to go for a drive in the countryside.Parents are also right, you go out and relax, you will feel better. She was driving blankly on the street, walking forward aimlessly, let alone looking at the scenery on both sides. When a police car whined and ran from behind, she was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat, the brakes were turned off, and she stopped on the side of the road for a long time without daring to leave.When she started to walk forward again, she accidentally saw the familiar school. She thought of Xu Miaomiao, and naturally thought of Xu Miaomiao's mother, and the floodgate of her thoughts could not be closed.She also thought of Xu Miaomiao's brother, Aunt Wei Pan, the road she traveled to find the longevity lock, Wang Xiaoyue's miserable life, and people she had seen and hadn't seen before. …All things and people are reappearing in front of her eyes, and countless faces intertwine in her mind, and many of those eyes make her dare not look directly at them, she feels afraid, guilty, guilty and helpless... She drove the car to the fort in the east of the city in one breath, rushed up the high slope, and stopped at the edge of the slope—there was a dam made of stone walls outside, and the moat below.Going one meter further, she would rush into the river with her people and the car. Looking through the glass of the front window, it was the turbulent river. She seemed to hesitate in the car for a long time, instead of driving into the river, she got out of the car and sat down beside the old camphor tree.Guo Kai didn't come here today.At this time, the place is dead silent, not even a bird.She picked up the gravel beside her and threw it towards the distance unconsciously, only to notice some movement in the bushes.She walked over and saw a puppy hiding there-oh my god, it was the puppy from two days ago, and it didn't die?The puppy looked at her in horror, and ran out of the bushes barking. She cried happily: "Come here, puppy! You're not dead? Great! Come here—" The puppy raised its voice as if calling for help, and kept moaning while running.When it got out of the bushes, she was surprised to find that the puppy's two hind legs were broken, and it could only walk on its front legs. The back half of its body limply stuck to the ground and was dragged forward.The puppy looked back at her in fear. She froze there, didn't chase it, watched it barking and slowly moving out... She didn't drive back until dark.When passing by the city museum, she stopped the car and wanted to go in to meet Jiang Lan, but the museum was off work.She still ran into the courtyard and shouted through the gate: "Hey, I want to see you today! I——want—to—see——you!—" When she got home, she gave her car keys to her father, who said she looked much better.Mom saw her holding two bottles and asked her what did she buy?She explained the wine she drank on her birthday tomorrow.Mom said the doctor told you that drinking alcohol is not good for your health.She said it was rice wine with low alcohol content, bought from a villager's house in the suburbs.Mom didn't say anything more.She opened the door and walked into the bedroom, and saw Jiang Lan was already in her room.Jiang Lan said, in fact, you don't need to look for me, I will come to you every day from now on. Bingbing said: "I came to you to tell you that you will come to celebrate my birthday tomorrow. I only let you come." Jiang Lan said: "That's great! I'm really happy, and I want to hug you." "Then what gift will you give me tomorrow?" "Gifts? Oh, sure, I have to think about it." "I want that picture of yours, that 'Woman Practicing Yoga'?" "Oh, it's no small thing. Why would you want it?" "You know, my father likes to collect. He was going to buy your paintings, but unfortunately the museum and the painting academy didn't sell them. My father said that collecting your paintings is meaningful to our family, especially to me. You gave your heart to I'm dead, and my place has become your home. How nice would it be if the painting was hung in my room?" "I painted that painting for several years. It was dipped in my blood and the color was mixed. The blood of the old man, the baby and the wolf were mixed into the background color. It is a painting of my life, and it is very precious to me. The Hong Kong businessman brought by Chen Zhongjie offered 2 million yuan, but I didn’t sell it. He wanted to take the painting away by force, but he lost his life. This painting is my hiding place. The place is safe." "It's safe to put it in my room!" Wu Bingbing said urgently, "We hang it on the wall of this room, and only the two of us appreciate it every day. You can also be with me often. We really do How wonderful it is to follow like a shadow, and to unite body and soul!" "So, I'm with you all day and night?" "Isn't that terrible? You're a great beauty! What's wrong with that?" "You don't think about selling it, do you?" "How is it possible? I just collect it! And you!" "Well, I'd like to hang it in this room." "Then you steal—no, bring it here, go and go!—" "Don't worry, I'll go back and take it out later tonight..." On the second night when she celebrated her birthday, the oil painting "Woman Practicing Yoga" was already hung on the wall in Wu Bingbing's bedroom. After dark, Wu Bingbing coquettishly pushed her parents out, saying that she wanted to celebrate her birthday by herself.She brought the birthday cake to her bedroom and put it on the coffee table in the middle of the sofa, where there were also fruits, snacks and a few dishes.The side dishes were prepared by my mother in advance, and my father also bought a bunch of flowers for her in advance, and the two bottles of rice wine from yesterday were also placed on the tea table. When the candles on the cake were lit, Jiang Lan looked at the candlelight and expressed emotion. "I'm so touched by you. I've never had a birthday, and I've never been to anyone else's birthday party. You only invite me, which makes me very excited and happy. You celebrate your birthday, and you celebrate my birthday, for My heart regenerates on you to celebrate...Of course, it's less than a year. I will accompany you in the future, accompany you on your birthday every year, and stay with you until this heart grows old and stops beating..." Wu Bingbing first closed her eyes and made a wish, and then said, "Will you sing birthday song for me?" Jiang Lan said yes, and sang along, babbling and hoarse, with a high voice, but she couldn't understand a word. She also sang and danced, dangling in the shadow of the candle, making people feel very scary. Bingbing asked her what she sang?She stared into Bingbing's eyes and said that I was celebrating your birthday! Before she could blow out the candles, Jiang Lan flicked her sleeves and extinguished all the candles on the cake.Although it was only dark for a moment, Wu Bingbing saw Jiang Lan's eyes were still green.She quickly said, I want to light two candles and eat and drink slowly in the candlelight, so that I can have a romantic atmosphere! When the candle was lit, Bingbing pulled out a knife from under the table, and Jiang Lan couldn't help taking a step back. Bingbing said that I would cut the cake for you, and then handed her a piece of the cut cake.Jiang Lan sniffed the cake before her nose, threw it on the tea table with a raised hand, and said bah bah bah, it really stinks. I don't eat this vulgar thing, I eat human heart, liver and lungs, that's the good stuff.Bingbing felt disgusted for a while. When they sat down face to face, Bingbing picked up the rice wine on the coffee table and said, let's have a drink?Jiang Lan said that the wine can be drunk, but the wine, like the cake, is made of whole grains, and my transparent stomach can't drink it.Bingbing said that if you haven't tried it, how do you know it can't? Maybe you can drink it in a bottle! Then she opened a bottle of wine and filled the two large glasses in front of her. Jiang Lan smelled the wine, pushed the glass out, and said: "These wines are too strong! I like wine. When I was in Portugal, I often drank wine. I thought of many things in the past, and I thought of Madeira - where it is so beautiful. It's heaven, with the intoxicating aroma of wine. Do you know Madeira?" "Madeira? Oh, everybody can drink there?—Did you drink this?" "No hurry. Madeira is a small island 800 kilometers away from Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Although few people know it, its wine is famous all over the world - Martell. Yes, it is really a paradise there, The blue sea, plenty of sunshine, endless fruits, endless wines, and too many beauties on the beach... Europeans, Brazilians from South America, and people from southern Africa all like to go there Tourism. Many tourists love to stay at the Rhett Palace Hotel, because there are ghost dinners there every day—” "What ghost dinner? What's going on?" "Of course you don't know. That's because... there have been many tragedies in the town, and many people died in the restaurant, some of them were dignitaries, beauties and young women. You think, such a good place, people who have died don't want to leave Therefore, Reid Palace is full of various ghost legends. Mysterious ghosts often pass through the silent corridors like the wind, and their whispers and laughter are left on the stairs. Almost everyone in the hotel has seen ghosts. The smart hotel owner developed it into a tourism project, and simply held a ghost dinner every day-let all employees and tourists wear various legendary ghost masks for dinner, and those real ghosts were also mixed in. All No one knows who is a tourist, who is an employee, and who is a ghost among the people you eat with. It is very interesting and exciting. There are days when I wear the mask of a countess who was killed by her husband. There was also a woman wearing the same mask who was always near me and sat in front of me at every dinner. I found out later that she was a ghost, that the dead countess had come..." "It's really interesting! Ghost dinner? I like this word.... Tonight, you and I will have dinner together in a different way. Should this be called a ghost dinner? That would be great. Listen to me," Wu Bingbing stared at Holding Jiang Lan, holding two glasses of wine with both hands. "Since it's a ghost dinner, I only invite you to accompany me, so you have to drink. After you drink these two glasses of wine, I will listen to you from now on! Please, drink!—" Seeing that the wine glass was approaching her face, Jiang Lan took a sip, couldn't help but spit it out, and shouted: "What kind of wine is this? It's as hot as fire, and my tongue is burnt!" "Of course it's not good wine." Wu Bingbing stood up abruptly and poured two glasses of wine on Jiang Lan. "Asshole! You've been fooled, this is industrial alcohol!" Immediately, she pulled out the burning candle and threw it at Jiang Lan.A fire burst into flames.Jiang Lan screamed loudly: "Why? Why?—" Wu Bingbing simply swung the mouth of the wine bottle at Jiang Lan, and poured the rest of the alcohol on her burning body.Jiang Lan's whole body was surrounded by fire, and she jumped around the room in pain.Suddenly there was a flash of fire, like a comet dragging its tail into the painting.There were bursts of white smoke coming out of the painting. At this time, Wu Bingbing had already picked up another bottle, which contained the gasoline she pumped out of her father's car yesterday.She quickly ran to the painting and poured a full bottle of gasoline on it.The white smoke that hadn't been extinguished in the painting immediately turned into a red fire, whistling flames from the inside out.The flames formed a huge whirling nest, like the mouth of a fire dragon, and Jiang Lan struggled painfully inside. Suddenly, Jiang Lan in the fire was separated again, she split into two bodies, threw one body into the fire, and the other body sprang out from inside, and rushed towards Wu Bingbing.Gone in a blink of an eye. Wu Bingbing knew that part of Jiang Lan's soul wanted to escape again and got into her body.Her heart also felt the other side.At this moment, she didn't panic at all, as if she was fully prepared, she picked up the knife for cutting the cake in front of her, peeled off her collar, and stabbed it at her chest... Suddenly, there was a tragic hissing sound from inside. .Jiang Lan ran out of her again.At this time, Jiang Lan had turned into a small transparent body.She hugged her chest in pain and jumped, looking at Wu Bingbing's bleeding chest, screaming: "Why? Why? Why are you doing this?—" Wu Bingbing replied calmly: "Because, I don't want to be a murderous devil, I don't want to!..." Watching Jiang Lan slowly collapse in front of her, her face showed a relaxedness that she had never seen before. "Didn't you say—I've been at your mercy all my life? Now, I don't want your heart—you can't live—there's nowhere to go. I won't kill for you—everything it's over--" Wu Bingbing's voice became weaker and weaker, and Jiang Lan in front of her had already collapsed on the ground. With the last of her strength, Wu Bingbing pushed the knife deep into her heart... and then fell into a pool of blood.Jiang Lan shrinks like a puff of smoke, getting smaller and smaller, more and more scattered, and gradually disappears... Because there was fire and smoke in the room, the surrounding residents called the police, and the fire truck arrived.The fire was quickly extinguished.At the same time, firefighters carried Wu Bingbing out of the house.She was obviously dead long ago... Everything in her bedroom was burned, even the stickers on the walls were cracked.On the wall where the oil painting was hung earlier, only a piece of charcoal ash hangs on a copper wire...