Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Dining with Ghosts

After Xiao Chenxue finished speaking, she immediately jumped off of me and ran into the next room very quickly, her movements were unimaginably fast.Before I could react, there was a beast-like growl in the room. I rushed into the room in a hurry, the uncle curled up on the ground, wondering if little Chen Xue had done something to him, he was writhing in pain. "Uncle!" I called out and helped him up. His appearance was even more deformed than the last time I saw him: his face protruded from nose to mouth, his five fingers were claw-shaped, and his nails were hard and long, like iron.He looked terrified and kept looking at the ceiling.

I looked up and saw that little Chen Xue was stuck on the ceiling, motionless, like a painting. "Uncle, uncle and grandpa were arrested by aunt, do you know where they are?" The uncle's throat made a sharp sound.It's no longer a human voice, I can't understand it at all, the big uncle has become too scary.He grabbed my hand and reached for his neck, making me squeeze him tightly. I was shocked: "You want me to kill you? I can't do that!" The uncle shook his head quickly, as if I had misunderstood what he meant, and gestured over and over for a while.

I finally understood: "You want me to pretend to hold you hostage, and then go rescue grandpa and uncle, right?" The uncle nodded repeatedly. So far there is no other way.The uncle led the way for us—he walks completely by crawling on all fours now, which makes people feel very bitter.Meixia has been silent since just now, she doesn't know what she is thinking, but she also followed closely behind us.But little Chen Xue... Where is she?I looked around for a long time but couldn't find her.Forget it, now I just want to make sure that my little uncle is safe and sound as soon as possible.

The uncle led us up the stairs. This time we did not encounter ghosts hitting the wall again, and the signs on the stairs returned to normal. After a while, we came to the wooden door leading to the roof of the building. I secretly looked at the roof through the crack of the door, and I saw the little uncle who was tied to the roof at a glance. Fortunately, he didn't seem to be injured.The roof was surrounded by undead who were tightly wrapped in sackcloth, not even showing their eyes.There is an altar in the center of the roof, and there is a huge empty glass container.The eldest aunt stood by the altar with her back to us, and turned her head slowly.

"Since you're here, why hide from people, just come here." The aunt said coldly. I took a deep breath, and ruthlessly grabbed my uncle's neck—he is now only about one meter tall, skinny.I carried him like a chicken, kicked open the door of the roof and walked towards my aunt. "Chen Xue!" Suddenly a familiar voice shook my whole body, and I turned my head in astonishment. "Yang Chang!" Yang Chang fell to the corner of the roof, his hands and feet were tied with thick ropes, blood was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, he moaned and called my name, his eyes were full of apology.My heart suddenly pulled into a ball.How could this idiot be caught here by my aunt?I was at a loss for what to do.

The aunt smiled softly: "You hijacked my husband, I hijacked your husband, are we even?" "What do you want? If you dare to hurt Yang Chang, I will never let you go!" I yelled at her. "I just want my husband to return to his old self." "Do you think that after killing the little uncle, the big uncle will be happy when he returns to his original appearance? You are so selfish!" "Yes, I am selfish! As long as he doesn't leave me, as long as I am not alone!" The aunt cried, "In this world, I only have my husband! But he will leave me at any time , who of you will understand my pain? Suni is dead, Su Yun is dead, you all come to blame me, is this what I want to see? Even your uncle blames me. You think I don’t know, it’s him I asked you to hold him hostage to threaten me, right? I tried so hard to keep him alive, why did he want to die? Why!"

"Is what you're talking about human? You always talk about how painful and lonely you are. Look at what uncle has become now? He would rather die than die. While lingering on his last breath, he accepts the pain of his children dying one after another. .When did you ever think about him?" "Don't say any more, I can't turn back now, as long as my husband lives, I still have hope if he lives!" The aunt suddenly put away her tears, and her eyes became extremely sharp again, "Give me back my husband!" "Impossible, if I hand the eldest uncle to you, you will kill the little uncle!" I shook my head desperately.

"If you don't return my husband to me, I'll kill your husband!" The aunt suddenly murmured to the undead.An undead walked slowly towards Yang Chang, "I don't have much patience, if you push me again, I'll push him down from the fifteenth floor, and then you will know how painful it is to lose your loved one!" "Girl, you can go with your eldest aunt! Don't worry about me anymore!" The little uncle who hadn't said a word smiled wryly and said, "I've lived my whole life until now. My wife died, my son died, and I have nothing at all. There is nothing to be nostalgic about. You and Yang Chang still have such a long time to live, and if I die, your uncle and aunt can start again, which is a good thing."

"Chen Xue, absolutely not! I don't want to live such a useless life and base my life on the death of others!" Yang Chang shouted. "Hurry up and return your husband to me! Otherwise, I will let your husband die!" "Girl, don't hesitate any longer, this is what I want. I have nothing to regret about my old bones, and Yang Chang will spend the rest of my life with you!" "Chen Xue, I can't agree!" The words of the three of them hit my eardrums one by one and hurt my nerves. The undead approached Yang Chang step by step, and the little uncle knocked the wooden stakes that tied him up.They are all my dearest relatives, I don't want any of them to die!

The uncle moved, motioning for me to let him go.I obediently let go, not knowing what he was going to do.I saw him crawling towards his aunt with his head down. The aunt showed a happy expression, squatted down and opened her arms, as if she was about to welcome a new life.The eldest uncle's footsteps became faster and faster, and he was about to reach the eldest aunt's arms, but suddenly passed her by. My aunt and I screamed at the same time, and we saw the intention of my uncle—he wanted to end his own life himself.I saw him jump downstairs without hesitation, I ran over to catch him, but it was far away from his ankle.The uncle fell down in front of my eyes, and I seemed to see the corners of his mouth slightly raised on his completely invisible face.Uncle, finally freed.

"It's you, it's all your fault, go to hell!" The aunt behind me yelled frantically, rushed forward and hugged me, wanting to die with me!By the time I realized it, my body had already left the roof and fell downward.Yang Chang and the little uncle yelled my name in despair. Suddenly, my hand was grabbed.I looked up and saw little Chen Xue kneeling on the edge of the roof, one hand effortlessly grasping my wrist, her hair falling forward, covering her whole face.By the way, I have never seen her face, what does she look like?We're twins, so we're supposed to be alike, right?Then she raised her head slowly towards me.I opened my eyes suddenly, she was not as scary as I imagined, but was clean, exactly like my ten-year-old face.She even has the same mole at the corner of her eye as mine, and a scar that belongs to me on her forehead—it was left by a fall when I was playful when I was a child.how is this possible?Even if she is my twin, even if I rely on her to "raise ghosts" to live, she shouldn't have the same scars as me!Is it like she said, she is me?How could she be me, there is no reason! Little Chen Xue grabbed my wrist, and my aunt grabbed my foot. "Chen Xue, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!" The aunt suddenly called out, "Pull me up, please, pull me up!" I looked at Xiao Chen Xue, and Xiao Chen Xue smiled at me: "Kick her down, and I will rescue you up." Yang Chang and the little uncle were still screaming my name on both sides of the roof. They were all tied up and couldn't see what happened here. "Let me see your true nature." Xiao Chen Xue said, "You don't hesitate to kill others just to keep yourself alive. What you have done, kick her off and you will remember it. Hurry up!" "Have I ever done it? Killed others so that I can live?" I repeated in confusion, suddenly having a splitting headache. "Chen Xue, don't you want to know who caused the fire in the East District? If you kick her down, you will remember everything. Isn't that your wish? Hurry up, why hesitate?" Little Chen Xue seemed hypnotized Softens my nerves. I raised my feet and looked down at my aunt, who looked desperate. "Chen Xue! Chen Xue! Chen Xue!" Yang Chang shouted. I woke up suddenly and saw that my feet were almost touching the face of my aunt. I was so frightened that I quickly withdrew it: "No!" "Aren't you going to kick?" Xiao Chen Xue's expression was full of disappointment. "No, you can't kick!" I yelled. "Better die than kick?" she asked again. "Yes! Never kick!" If I kick, am I still a person? "Hmph!" Little Chen Xue snorted, and slowly lowered her head again, "It's boring, it seems that it's not the time yet, it should make you even more desperate." With a tight grip, I was dragged upwards by her.She pulled me up to the roof and disappeared in an instant. I turned around and panted and pulled my aunt up.She was foolish, like a deflated ball.I gasped heavily, not knowing what to do with her, until I heard Yang Chang calling me again, I hurried over to help my uncle and Yang Chang untie the rope.The undead on the rooftop didn't know when they disappeared.Leaving the little uncle to look at the big aunt, Yang Chang and I searched room by room in the building, and finally found the grandfather who was also tied up. After the catastrophe, everyone hugged each other for a long time without speaking.When we went up to the rooftop to look for our little uncle, he was the only one left.He said that the eldest aunt looked down at the uncle's body from the rooftop in a daze for a while, then stood up and walked away.The little uncle didn't stop her, because he didn't know what to say to her, let alone how to face each other in the future.We helped each other to the bottom of the building, but we didn't see the uncle's body, nor did we leave any blood on the ground, only a puddle of viscous and transparent liquid remained.The eldest aunt took the body of the eldest uncle away.I don't know if she has given up the idea of ​​"reviving" her husband and daughter.Anyway, she disappeared after that, and none of us wanted to see her again. Several days after the aunt's incident happened, we gradually recovered from our grief and complicated state of mind. Now there are only me, Yang Chang, my grandfather, and my uncle in the entire Su family bathing place.Mr. Meng, Mrs. Lan and Mei Xia came to visit us every day, and our relationship became closer and closer. Once when we were discussing the current situation in Qingshui Town, I mentioned what Xiao Chen Xue said to me about her idea of ​​killing the undead and "purifying" Qingshui Town. Mr. Meng paid great attention to the "information" I provided, and analyzed it carefully: "Kill the undead, 'purify' Qingshui Town, that is to eliminate all the undead in Qingshui Town to break the 'binding energy' so as to make Qingshui Town The purpose of restoring the original appearance. In theory, it is indeed a method. The evil spirits use Yin Qi to recall the undead from fifteen years ago. That is to say, both the Yin Qi of the undead and the Yin Qi of evil spirits are indispensable media for the 'Qi of Binding', as long as one is destroyed, the 'Qi of Binding' will be destroyed by itself." Meng Gong said again: "Although the method is feasible, it is absolutely unacceptable. It is too cruel to let more than 700 dead souls fly away. The dead souls were also human beings, so it is unfair to be treated like this after death." I asked suspiciously: "I have always suspected that Xiao Chen Xue is an evil spirit. Whether it is what she said or her ability, I have this feeling. But now it seems that this is not the case. If she is an evil spirit, Shouldn't the 'Aura of Restraint' be spread as widely as possible? Why does she want to break the 'Aura of Restraint'?" Meng Gong thought for a while, then murmured: "Chen Xue, I don't know if I should remind you of something, I'm worried that you won't be able to accept it." I said, "Go ahead." "Have you carefully considered what Xiao Chen Xue said about hide-and-seek? I feel that she has a lot of resentment, and she is not willing to be a ghost to bear your life and death, so she said: 'It's your turn, it's your turn to suffer Yes, we exchange, I become you, you become me!' You have to be careful, she seems to want to replace you." "Can she really replace me?" I asked in surprise. "It's hard to say, her power has been considered very strong so far. And if she really wants to replace you, then it makes sense to say that she wants to purify Qingshui Town. You think, after she becomes you, she will be an ordinary mortal , without any mana. Then if the status quo of Qingshui Town is still as bad as it is now, it will become a big trouble for her. So she restores Qingshui Town to its original state before replacing you, which is tantamount to paving the way for her own future. Create a good environment." Meng Gong's words were no less than a thunderbolt to me, and it made me shudder.If what he said is true and Xiao Chenxue replaces me, what will happen to me?I couldn't help recalling that in the gate of death, my mother would rather I die than fall into the hands of Xiao Chenxue.Thinking of this, I couldn't help shivering again. When I said these words, there were only me and Meng Gong in the room. I begged him not to tell anyone else, including Yang Chang.Things are not confirmed, it's just speculation, I don't want to cause unnecessary panic for everyone.What I didn't tell Mr. Meng was that I asked Xiao Chen Xue to find her uncle by playing with the pen fairy, and agreed to the so-called exchange condition of Xiao Chen Xue, which was to help her kill the undead and purify Qingshui Town.I don't know if I have any room for repentance. I heard that playing with the pen fairy will attract evil spirits and shorten the life expectancy. If I go back on my word, I don't know what will happen to me. Everything seems to be calm, but in fact it is undercurrents. The evening of the weekend——Actually, for me and Yang Chang, two idlers, every day is a weekend.I was reading a book in the room, when Mei Xia suddenly dragged Yang Chang who was wandering outside and barged in, pestered me for an entire hour: "Chen Xue, okay, okay, just agree to come to my house as a guest." "It's okay to go to lunch, but not dinner." I said without raising my head, I was not so happy to have dinner with Mei Xia's relatives who had died for fifteen years. "But my father, mother, and brother are not at home during the day, and they all come back at night. I want to introduce you and Yang Chang to them, so I choose the evening! Please, Chen Xue, Yang Chang agreed!" I quickly glanced at Yang Chang, he had an embarrassed expression on his face.In fact, I already have a certain degree of immunity to ordinary ghosts now. After all, I am a little used to seeing them every day.But Yang Chang will never get used to it. I think he doesn't want to go to Meixia's house even more than I do, but there is no way, he is an "angel", and an "angel" has soft ears. He will agree to everything when he asks and acts like a baby. up! "Hehe, since Yang Chang agreed, then I will approve him to go. Yang Chang, don't disappoint Meixia's kindness, you can go to dinner tonight." I gloated. "You seem to mean to let me go alone." Yang Chang said in a daze. "Yeah, you understand that well." I winked at him. "Please, how can that be possible! I'm a lonely man and a widow. I ran to the woman's house to have dinner with her parents. It's like a son-in-law entering the house. It's not good! It's not good! Absolutely not!" Yang Chang immediately saved himself . "Sister Chen Xue, why do you hate going to my house? Do you hate my parents? You must have heard some rumors, right? My parents are no longer patriarchal, and they don't leave me at my grandmother's house anymore. They now They have become very good parents, you will know when you go and meet them." Meixia said entangledly. I feel a little strange, when Meixia talked about her parents before, she always said that her parents were partial to her brother, and blamed them for not talking to her.But I don't know when it started—it should be from the day of the abandoned building incident, every time I saw me, she would grab me and talk about the benefits of her parents.Could it be that the undead will also cultivate themselves and become saints? I'm thinking about how to further reject her. "Plop" - oh my god!It scared me to death, Meixia actually knelt down in front of me, and said with snot and tears: "Please, sister Chen Xue, come and meet my parents, they are really nice, come and meet them Look!" "You get up first and then talk, okay, okay, can I go!" At this point, how can I not compromise!This girl is scarier than a ghost when she goes crazy. That night, Yang Chang and I bought a lot of ingot candles, and followed Mei Xia back home. Mei Xia devoted herself to cooking, she didn't look crazy at all, and raised her head from time to time to smile knowingly at me. "Yang Chang, do you think Mei Xia is weird recently?" I quietly asked Yang Chang. Yang Chang nodded: "She seems to be very clingy to you, she has reached the point of flattery, and she always tells you how good her parents and brothers are. Ah! It can't be that her brother has taken a fancy to you. Take it from me as a daughter-in-law?" "Crazy, talking nonsense." I gave him a hard look. Mei Xia said while serving the dishes: "My parents, mother and elder brother have very regular schedules. They arrive home on time at 8 o'clock in the evening. They never make troubles outside. Be more obedient." Yang Chang and I nodded.Here it comes again, and she starts to brag about her parents and brother again, these days my ears are getting callused. Check the time again, seven fifty-five. Yang Chang and I winked at each other, and we both felt that something was wrong. After all, it is one thing to get used to ghosts in Qingshui Town, but another thing to have dinner with ghosts. Misha was right.At eight o'clock, the black wind chime hanging on the gate rang without wind, and no one opened the door to come in. Suddenly, there were three more people in front of us.Needless to say, they are Meixia's three relatives.As soon as they entered the room, they sat upright at the dining table, with their heads half bowed, their hands hanging by their sides, and they were silent. The atmosphere was extremely gloomy and strange. Mei Xia ran out in a hurry, holding three bouquets of flowers in her arms, and placed them on the desktops of the three relatives respectively. Then she quickly hid behind her father, pretending her voice was rough: "Welcome the beautiful Miss Chen Xue and the personable Mr. Yang Chang to visit our house!" After Mei Xia finished speaking, she jumped out in a hurry, and took her father's hand: "Hey, what are you doing in a daze? My father wants to shake hands with you." what!No?Still want to shake hands!What the hell are you doing?Yang Chang and I looked at each other with wry smiles, so we had no choice but to shake hands symbolically. Mei Xia became more energetic, and after doing the same to her mother and brother, she presented three bouquets of flowers to me one by one. "After collecting the flowers, we will be good friends from now on. Sister Chen Xue, my parents and brother will also be your friends from now on. You must remember it!" I just nodded stiffly. "Okay, dinner is ready now!" Meixia announced cheerfully, and started eating vigorously. How could Yang Chang and I be in such a good mood as she was, we felt a little tormented. I glanced at the three undead in front of me.They raised their heads slightly, and stared at the rice in front of them for a long time, their eyeballs stared as if they would fall into the soup at any moment, and sticky saliva flowed from their lips. I feel like I'm going to spit it out anytime, especially after Meixia enthusiastically picks up my food with the chopsticks stained with the saliva of the undead, I really can't eat any more. "Sister Chen Xue, what's the matter, isn't the food I cook delicious?" Meixia asked strangely. "It's delicious. I have a small appetite and I'm already full." I quickly wiped my mouth and pretended to be full. A meal ended in such a cruel and harsh environment.After Meixia put away the dining table, the three undead stood at the gate motionless, like wooden figures, just like the undead in every household. Yang Chang volunteered to wash the dishes, Mei Xia dragged me to her small room, sat on the bed, chatted with me nervously. "Sister Chen Xue, my father, mother and elder brother are my only relatives, and now you all know each other, please don't listen to little Chen Xue's words and hurt them, I beg you." Mei Xia's eyes turned red. Just a word to wake up the people in the dream, I suddenly realized why Mei Xia has been praising them these days.When Xiao Chen Xue proposed to kill the undead and purify Qingshui Town in the abandoned building that day, Meixia was also there.Because the situation was chaotic, I didn't pay special attention to her, and she didn't say anything at the time.Thinking about it this way, Meixia has always attached great importance to family affection, and her relatives are all undead, no wonder she is so disturbed. I smiled at her: "Don't worry, I didn't promise Xiao Chen Xue to do that." "Then Chen Xue, here you promise me that you will never hurt anyone in my family." I froze for a moment, I didn't know what to do, I didn't agree to her immediately.Obviously, what I thought was absolutely not to do this, but I was still shaken deep in my heart.After all, how much I hope everything can return to normal, how much I want to live a peaceful and simple life before, and if killing the undead is the only way, then I... Thinking of this, I was taken aback by my own thoughts.Killing more than seven hundred undead is actually no different from the sin of killing seven hundred people.It's just that you don't have to be punished by the law, but what about the condemnation of the soul and the fear in your heart? "Chen Xue, why don't you speak?" Mei Xia was anxious. I was surprised: "Ah! No...it's nothing, hehe, idiot, how could I hurt someone in your family? No, I promise you." Mei Xia stared at me for a while, her eyes were still full of uneasiness, but in the end she let out a long sigh of relief and nodded gratefully to me. When I got home that night, I tossed and turned in bed.The sound of Yang Chang's breathing beside me has become deep and lengthy, but I can't fall asleep no matter what. Suddenly there was a rustling sound outside the door of the room. I became alert and quickly turned on the lamp on the bedside cabinet. "Boom! Boom!"—the knock on the door, I quickly looked at the wall clock on the wall, it was two o'clock in the middle of the night.Neither grandpa nor uncle will come to our room at this time, so... "Who?" I asked, and pushed Yang Chang vigorously, but there was no response from outside the door. "Who?" I asked again, got out of bed in doubt, went to the door and listened. "Chen Xue." A little girl's soft and tender voice came from outside the door. I gasped.She is coming!What I was worried about is finally happening!After I came out of the abandoned building, I was always afraid that she would come to ask me to keep my promise.But she didn't show up for many days, so I hoped to get away with it.Now she finally came to me, what should I do? With trembling hands, I removed the safety catch and slowly opened the door, but there was no one outside.I froze and ran to the corridor in a hurry.Because of the darkness on both sides of the corridor, I couldn't see clearly, so I called softly, "Chen Xue?" There was still no movement. Is it my illusion?Because I was too afraid of her coming to me, it might be that Ye Changmeng had hallucinations. I hurried in and locked the door again, only to realize that Yang Chang hadn't woken up after being pushed by me just now, but was still fast asleep. I have to go to bed quickly, and when I fall asleep, nothing will happen.I didn't dare to turn off the desk lamp, so I kept it on, and then quickly got into bed and closed my eyes tightly. "Shushasha——" Here it comes again!that voice!It's an illusion!It's an illusion!But this time it felt so close, as if he had already entered the room. The voice stopped at the foot of the bed, and the quilt suddenly moved.I opened my eyes suddenly, and felt something come in from the toes.Just as I was about to look up, my feet were grabbed by a pair of slippery hands.It's little Chen Xue, only little Chen Xue's skin is like this, like something soaked in water for a hundred years, and her palms are as cold as ice.What does she want to do? I secretly reached out and pulled Yang Chang desperately, but no matter how I pulled, he still didn't move. The hands that grabbed my feet began to gradually go up, from the calf to the thigh.Xiao Chenxue's body pressed against me, and I even felt the white bathrobe she was wearing rubbed against my skin. She slowly crawled up like a caterpillar until it pressed against my chest and still did not stop. I was terrified and trembling , I don't know if it's because of fear or being controlled by her, the body is completely unable to move.Her face was buried on my neck, my eyes were looking straight at the ceiling, her head was slowly raised, her lips were close to my ear and she whispered: "Hehe, I can already catch you .” Suddenly, a pair of icy hands grabbed my neck.I opened my mouth and couldn't breathe or shout, but at the moment when I was about to suffocate, the hands suddenly let go.I saw her steel-like long nails, slid towards my carotid artery suddenly, and there was a spray of bright red in front of my eyes... “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” I screamed and sat up on the bed, screaming profusely with sweat. "What's the matter? What's the matter?" Yang Chang next to me sat up and asked while pulling my arm. "Here she comes, she replaces me! She wants to kill me and replace me!" I yelled, touching my neck, it hurt.But no blood!What's going on, just now... Yang Chang hugged me and coaxed and persuaded: "It's okay, calm down, nothing happened, you just had a nightmare. Just wake up, no one will come to kill you, it's just a dream!" Is it a dream?I gasped, still in shock.The feeling just now was so real, is it really just a dream?My neck still hurts like it's going to break. "Ah!" Yang Chang suddenly called out, "Your neck!" "What's wrong with my neck? It hurts!" Yang Chang stared at my neck with a strange expression, hesitant to speak, what happened?I hurriedly jumped out of bed and ran to the floor-to-ceiling glass of the closet. Cold sweat dripped from my forehead and down my cheeks, and my heartbeat seemed to stop at any moment.Two ring-shaped bruises were impressively printed on my neck, which had turned dark purple.So, it wasn't a hallucination just now, she could already reach my neck—that is, she had me and could replace me at any time.But she stopped at a critical moment, why?What exactly does she want?what should I do?Am I really at the end of my rope and at her mercy?