Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen The Endless Game of Life and Death

"Chen Xue, Chen Xue, are you awake? Talk to me if you wake up." My eyelids blinked slightly, and I slowly opened my eyes.Yang Chang's anxious face dangled in front of his eyes, and gradually became clear. "Where is this place?" I looked around, the white walls, the infusion stand beside the bed, and the worried Meng Gong and Sister Lan standing beside me. "Hospital ward, God! When you fell from the roof, I thought I would never see you again!" Yang Chang choked up, tears dripping down my face. I smiled. "You're still laughing! Do you know how angry I am with you? Do you want to commit suicide or kill me?" Yang Chang yelled at me with teary eyes. child.

I stretched out my hand and stroked his cheek gently: "I'm sorry to make you worry, I just can't think about it for a while, and I will never do that again in the future." Faced with my sudden tenderness, Yang Chang was stunned: "What's wrong with you? It seems a little weird." I smiled again and didn't speak. A nurse came over to change the rehydration fluid, and when she saw me awake, she blinked at me: "Miss, you are so lucky to fall from the eighth floor and be caught by a clothes pole secretly used by a patient." , Now this anecdote has spread all over our hospital, you have become a celebrity."

"Really?" I responded lightly. "Bodhisattva bless you, if you survive a catastrophe, you will have future blessings. No matter what, you are not allowed to do such stupid things again!" Sister Lan comforted me in shock. "Thank you Sister Lan, I won't be so impulsive again in the future." The nurse went out. Yang Chang sighed and sat down next to me, his eyes full of exhaustion.I held his hand tightly, reassuring him. "Chen Xue, did you really jump off the rooftop just now?" Duke Meng asked suddenly. I look at him.He looked at me calmly, unfathomably.

Yang Chang, who was relieved just now, immediately became nervous again: "Meng Gong, what do you mean? Chen Xue didn't dance by herself, could it be that someone..." He suddenly remembered something, stared at me and asked: "By the way, it was a bit weird when I said it on the rooftop. Did you have something to say to me at that time, and my consciousness seemed to disappear for a moment. Then What happened at that time?" "It's your overthinking." I answered him calmly, "Nothing happened." "Really?" Yang Chang asked suspiciously.

"Of course it's true. I don't need to hide anything from you, right?" I sincerely responded to his gaze, and he finally patted his chest and believed me. Yang Chang pitifully asked me to rest more, and after I obediently lay down again, Mr. Meng and Mrs. Lan accompanied me for a while before leaving. Meng Gong stared at my face strangely from the beginning to the end, hesitating to speak.I pretended not to notice. This night Yang Chang didn't dare to sleep all night, for fear that something might happen to me again. Early the next morning, police officer Zhang brought the news that his little uncle died in a car accident.I lay on Yang Chang's shoulder and cried to death. Mr. Meng and Mrs. Lan rushed over to comfort me, so Yang Chang didn't dare to leave me for fear that I would do something stupid.Meng Gong and Lan Sao are obliged to help undertake the funeral arrangements for Grandpa and Uncle.

I lay in the hospital for a few days, and under Yang Chang's meticulous care, my emotions gradually stabilized, and I returned to the bathing place three days later. There is no one else in the entire Sujia bathing place except me and Yang Chang.In just two months, people who used to live here left us one by one.The old building is empty, and every word you say will echo.Yang Chang was afraid that I would fall in love with the scene, so he proposed to move to another place temporarily.I told him I was fine and stuck with it. No one knows the changes in the bathing place in my eyes. Those undead who used to wander around and the raised ghosts screaming all night, when I walked into the bathing place and looked at them coldly, they were like frightened little animals, and now they are even more so. They all hid in the bath and dared not come out.

The second floor of the bathhouse calmed down, and I lived in it with peace of mind, enjoying Yang Chang's thoughtfulness and pampering. After a warm lunch, Yang Chang ran into the kitchen to wash the dishes.I walked to the window and felt someone walking in gently. "Little Chen Xue, no, politely I should call you sister. Sister, I thought you would never dare to appear in front of me." I sipped Longjing tea without looking back, looking at the scenery outside the window and said . There was no movement for a long time behind him. I waited for a while, then smiled lightly: "Since you came to me, why didn't you talk? Or... are you still dreaming that you can get your body back from me?"

I turned around and looked at her. She still had long hair that was messy like seaweed, skin that oozes sticky and foul-smelling liquid, her arms were hanging stiffly by her sides, and her feet were wet. This is what I looked like fifteen years ago.Obnoxiously depressed, nothing has changed. "Sister, you really know how to act. You act like you've made yourself very powerful by pretending to be a ghost, and you play me around." I found a chair and sat lazily by the window to bask in the sun, and squinted at her interestingly, "I've always been I wonder why the undead in the East District, the Yin Qi in Qingshui Town, and one death after another in the bathing place happened after I came back. I thought it was caused by my aunt raising ghosts and attracting evil spirits to prolong my uncle’s life. Yes. But now it seems that the incident with my aunt is just a coincidence. And the real reason is because I am back, right?"

I analyzed logically: "Ever since I replaced you and left Qingshui Town, you have been unwilling to reconcile and have been waiting for my return, wanting to get your body back from me. Hehe, I can understand your feelings, but it's just a pity , The weak will always be the weak. I thought you have a lot of power, but in fact your power is not much greater than ordinary ghosts, right? The reason why you can see the sun is because I'm alive' as the medium, and you can be yin and yang Similar. That day in the movie theater, the undead were so afraid of you, not because of your strength. Or, you bluffed with my potential power. It’s like the sun and the moon. Although the sun can’t shine on the earth at night, the moon But it transmits part of the light from the sun to the earth. The ignorant people call it moonlight. In fact, the moon itself has no light. However, as a medium, part of the sleeping power in my body was transmitted, calling out the undead fifteen years ago, and even borrowing my hidden power and the yin energy of the undead to create a 'binding air', but I was completely blinded In the drum."

"You have done so many things in a delusion to gradually undo the seal of my mother and get another chance to snatch my body from me. Haha! I always thought that my situation was hopeless, but I didn't expect you to be the most pathetic one." One. You have never had a chance of winning at all! If the seal on my body cannot be broken, you will not be able to snatch my body from me, but once the seal on my body is broken, the power of the demon will recover. I rob? Poor you, you are deceiving yourself from the beginning to the end." "The most abhorrent thing is that my mother even helped you lie to me eccentrically, coaxing me to cross the Naihe bridge, pulling me off the hospital roof, and kept saying how miserable I would be if I was caught by you. But in fact, she protected me. It is you, because she knows that you are not my opponent at all, and it will only be more miserable if you continue to be obsessed with it. You, a little idiot, have failed your mother time and time again, saving me time and time again, saving the body you want."

"But don't worry, after all, you are my sister, and you exist for me. Of course, I am not willing to do anything to you. It's just..." I got up and opened the drawer of the living room cabinet, and took out the things I had prepared. The transparent bottle is filled with my former body, but now it belongs to my weak sister, "Yesterday I secretly dug up the mosaic tiles at the bottom of the bath, hehe, this body is still there. No one has been there for many years. Find it, so your ghost life is really easy and boring. But from now on I have it, which means I am your master and you are my ghost. I still have a lot of things for you to do Woolen cloth." Little Chen Xue remained silent, but I knew she couldn't refuse, because she was already my puppet. "What I asked you to do is very simple, and I will give you enough strength to deal with it - kill all the seven hundred undead who burned to death in the East District fifteen years ago tonight! No one is left! This is what you have always wanted to do Isn’t it right? I’ve made you perfect, so just go ahead and do it.” Although I can do this myself, I don’t want to make any effort, and secondly, Menggong seems to have doubts about me.I'm not afraid of Meng Gong, but I don't want to be seen by Yang Chang. I'm tired of staying in Qingshui Town, I want to leave here as soon as possible.Of course, I can leave at any time, and I can also take Yang Chang away, but the same sentence will make me suspicious.Both Meng Gong and Officer Zhang are not people who can easily pass the test, and they will definitely bring me some trouble. Now I don't need to add any trouble to myself, so I have to feel sorry for those undead. At that time, as long as everything is pushed to Xiao Chen Xue, everything can end smoothly. Xiao Chen Xue didn't say a word in the end, her body became transparent and gradually disappeared. Yang Chang strolled in with the cut fruit: "Hey! I just cleaned the room, why is there a puddle of water at the door?" I shrugged my shoulders and smiled innocently at him with confused eyes. At dinner time, Mr. Meng and Mrs. Lan visited Su's bathing place again. Yang Chang prepared a large table of dishes, and we ate happily.The atmosphere was originally relaxed and harmonious, but unfortunately, it was ruined by Meng Gong's disappointing words. "Recently, the 'restraint atmosphere' in Qingshui Town has become more serious. You should be more careful." Meng Gong drank his wine from the corner of his eyes, but glanced at me deeply from the corner of his eyes. I didn't speak, Yang Chang and Mrs. Lan both showed worried expressions. "Sorry, I'm going to the bathroom." I wiped my mouth, stood up politely, turned and went downstairs. While washing her hands in front of the bathroom mirror, Xiao Chen Xue appeared in a dark corner. I said to her blankly: "I don't want to see those 700 undead again before the sun comes out tomorrow. You should know what to do, right?" Xiao Chen Xue's figure stayed for a while, then disappeared again. I looked at myself in the mirror, reapplied some lipstick, turned and walked out. "Who were you talking to just now?" Meng Gong stood on the stairs and looked at me sharply. "Yes, did you hear wrong?" I spread my hands innocently. Meng Gong sullenly stared at me suddenly, as if he wanted to see through my body: "Are you Chen Xue? Are you really Chen Xue? Or should I call you Little Chen Xue?" I frowned: "What are you talking about? I don't understand at all." "Since that day in the hospital, I have suspected you." Meng Gong sneered triumphantly, as if he had solved the biggest mystery in the world, "I know that with Chen Xue's personality, unless someone forces or induces her, she will never let herself go. Suicide, so when I heard the news of Chen Xue jumping off the building, I felt that something was wrong. Seeing you in the hospital confirmed my speculation. How can a person who just committed suicide and hovered on the edge of life and death wake up as calm as you ?Your expression and attitude have also changed a lot. Although you looked very sad when you heard the news of your little uncle's death the next day, you recovered so quickly. Originally, you jumped off the building because your relatives died one after another. How could it be so easy to think about the death of my little uncle, who is also the most affectionate among those relatives? The following things became more and more wrong, and the 'binding energy' suddenly doubled stronger, and the breath But it obviously came from you, and they followed you closely. When you were in the hospital, they entrenched around the hospital; Changed, the indifferent personality suddenly softened, and he began to pay attention to clothing and grooming, as if he suddenly began to enjoy life. Of course, Yang Chang thinks your change is a good thing, because Chen Xue never told him that you would The matter of replacing her, so he would not think in that direction at all. But I know the secret, you must be Xiao Chen Xue, you have replaced Chen Xue, right? Just now I was talking about killing the undead in the bathroom, only Xiao Chen Xue would If you want to kill the undead, who are you but Xiao Chen Xue?" "It's simply inexplicable." I looked at him indifferently. "Do you think you are a detective? You are just a genius, with messy analysis and outrageous mistakes." "You still want to deny it?" Meng Gong looked at me coldly, "Okay, then let's tell Yang Chang about this and see how he will analyze it." "No need." I stopped Meng Gong who wanted to turn around and leave. "Are you afraid? Are you guilty?" Meng Gong stared at me fiercely. "I'm really afraid. I'm afraid that your nonsense in front of Yang Chang will affect our relationship. Instead of that, how about asking Xiao Chen Xue to come out and confront you face to face?" I said with a smile. "Hmph! What kind of tricks do you want to play? My old man won't be fooled by you!" After Meng Gong finished speaking, he immediately ran upstairs. I calmly watched his back.At the end of the stairs, a little girl in a white bathrobe blocked Meng Gong's way. Mr. Meng was taken aback. He turned to look at me, and then at little Chen Xue: "How is it possible! Little...Little Chen Xue...are you really here? Then you...are you really Chen Xue? Could it be that I analyzed it? wrong……" "As I said, your analysis is messed up and wrong." "But... But, I have recently sensed that the source of the strong 'binding energy' is indeed you! How can this be explained?" Meng Gong was in a state of confusion and couldn't extricate himself. "Hehe, do you really want to know? Then I'll tell you..." I climbed up the steps and walked towards him gracefully step by step.When I passed by his side, I said softly, "I am not Chen Xue, nor Xiao Chen Xue, you can call me—the demon." Meng Gong's pupils suddenly dilated due to shock and fear, but before he could utter a scream, little Chen Xue had already bit down on his neck artery. I didn't look at them again, passed them and went straight back to the living room. "Hey, Mr. Meng seems to have gone downstairs just now. Didn't you see him, Chen Xue?" Yang Chang asked strangely. I gave him a blank look, and shook my head: "Would you go home first?" "Ah! Why is this? Mr. Meng clearly promised to take me home. It's so late, and there are so many undead on the road, I'll be scared!" Sister Lan muttered dejectedly. Yang Chang hurriedly persuaded her: "Don't worry, Mr. Meng may really have something urgent. If you are afraid, I will take you back later." "But, but..." Sister Lan looked at Yang Chang hesitantly. Yang Chang immediately patted his chest and smiled: "You don't have to be embarrassed, I'm a man, and you come to the bathhouse as a guest, and now I'm considered half the owner of the bathhouse..." Aunt Lan interrupted Yang Chang, and said awkwardly: "But Chen Xue said, you are the least courageous in Qingshui Town, and you are most afraid of undead. I am worried that if you send me home, I will take care of you later, hahahaha !" "Hey! Chen Xue! Why are you slandering your husband like this!" Yang Chang cried out in dissatisfaction. Sister Lan and I looked at each other and laughed. After arguing for a while, Yang Chang still insisted on sending Aunt Lan home for his "reputation" and "gentlemanly demeanor". I went back to the room, thinking that I hadn't touched a book for several days, and casually picked out a novel and lay on the bed to read it. What Gong Meng said is correct, and Yang Chang's feeling is also very accurate. I have indeed changed in the past few days, and that is because my heart has finally been completely opened. My dour, brooding personality for so many years now comes to mind as a sign of extreme insecurity.Deep in my heart I always felt that I had forgotten something important, and it turned out that I was the one who had forgotten.Now I have no fear and confusion anymore, because I finally remembered who I am, and I have enough strength to protect myself.At this moment, I am the most relaxed, perfect, and strongest me in my life. All the people who hinder my happiness, I will let them disappear one by one. After turning a few pages of the book, I started to feel drowsy.I closed my eyes and wanted to take a nap for a while, but I fell asleep after sleeping.When I opened my eyes again, the wall clock had pointed to eleven o'clock in the evening. Strangely, it took less than an hour for Yang Chang to send Aunt Lan back home by bicycle, but now it has been two hours since he left. A trace of anxiety arose in my heart. Could it be... that Xiao Chenxue or the undead would be unfavorable to Yang Chang?But I warned them that they must never touch Yang Chang. I don't believe they have the guts to resist me. My heart was full of worries and worries, and I finally couldn't help getting out of bed and walking to the door. As soon as I opened the door, I heard strange noises around me.what happened?Are the raised ghosts hiding in the bath crying again?I guessed, got bored, and wanted to go downstairs and give them some warning. Suddenly a person rushed up from the stairs and fell to the ground.I was taken aback, and after another look, I realized it was Yang Chang.His expression was very strange, his eyes diverged, his expression was confused, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead frequently. When he looked at me, his eyes didn't even have a trace of expression. "What happened?" I asked in shock. "Undead... undead...they...all...all..." Yang Chang stammered, but couldn't complete the sentence for a long time. My mind was spinning rapidly, could it be that Xiao Chen Xue has already started to deal with the undead?I thought she would wait until the second half of the night when the yin energy was at its peak before acting!This child must be too impatient, causing Yang Chang to be frightened. I quickly comforted him: "It's okay, isn't this already home? You will be safe when you get home. No matter what terrible things you encountered on the road just now, just forget about it." I stretched out my hand to help him, but unexpectedly he avoided my hand and stood up against the wall, obviously avoiding my gaze deliberately. "What's wrong with you?" I asked him suspiciously. Panting, he raised his head slowly, and just as he mustered up the courage to say something to me, he suddenly pointed behind me and yelled. I turned around quickly and vaguely saw something crawling outside the window of the room.I ran over quickly, opened the curtains abruptly, and froze there—three undead crawled outside the window at the same time, with blood-red eyes, baring their teeth and claws, trying to break through the window!This is just a view from a window in front of you, looking up, down, left, and right-"Hundred ghosts at night"-this word is the most appropriate portrayal now, hundreds of undead are crawling around along the outer wall of the bathing place. This must be Xiao Chen Xue's trick, did she eat the bear's heart and leopard's guts?How dare you do such a thing to me! "Just now when I was on the side of the road, I saw all the undead in the town walking towards the bathing place, so I had no choice but to run back before them." Yang Chang murmured as he followed behind me. I nodded and looked at the undead with fierce eyes facing the glass window, hoping to scare them away.I can't use the power of demons in front of Yang Chang. Suddenly, an unrecognizable, coke-like undead pounced on me with its teeth and claws, and the window glass was shaken almost to the point of shattering.The other undead immediately imitated his actions, and their usually expressionless faces stared at me with resentment at this moment, obviously aimed at me. That's right, I burned them to death fifteen years ago, and they wanted revenge on me. snort!Moths to the flame!If Yang Chang wasn't by my side, I would have... Suddenly Yang Chang's voice seemed to sound from a very far away place: "Aren't you... not afraid of such a scene?" I looked at him inexplicably, and he looked at me with eyes full of fear and suspicion. Oops!I regained the memory of raising ghosts—of course I am no longer afraid of the undead, but this kind of reaction is obviously very abnormal in Yang Chang's eyes! "I...of course I'm scared...I just...just..." "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I was busy looking for an explanation when suddenly there was a terrified scream downstairs.That cry was not an undead, but a woman...it was Mrs. Lan!Why is Mrs. Lan still in the bath? Yang Chang heard the screams and rushed downstairs quickly, followed closely by me. The screams came from the bathroom.We quickly ran in, suddenly dumbfounded. Mrs. Lan fell to the ground, pointing tremblingly at the pool of blood in front of her—Meng Gong fell into the pool of blood with his eyes turned upside down, and the blood had already drained from his neck. This little Chen Xue, asked her to do something, how could she be so unclean!I was so angry that I clenched my fists secretly. "You... who are you? You are not Chen Xue, what have you done to Chen Xue?" Yang Chang suddenly yelled at me. I was stunned: "What do you mean by that? Of course I am Chen Xue!" "You're not! You're Xiao Chen Xue, Chen Xue's stillborn twin sister, you're a demon!" Yang Chang's eyes were bloodshot, and he almost wanted to fight me desperately. "No! No! Listen to my explanation, I'm really Chen Xue! It's absolutely true Chen Xue!" I got anxious. Yang Chang suddenly took out a letter from his pocket, threw it to me, and said angrily: "I just sent Sister-in-Lan back home, because I didn't say goodbye to Mr. Meng, so don't worry about it, so I wanted to stop by the Shengong Hall to see how he came back. Is it gone? A while ago, the ghost of Mrs. Lan’s husband came home to cause trouble. She temporarily lived in the Shengong Hall, so she had a spare key. After we went in, we found that Menggong was not at home, but we found this letter. The letter said It is written that Xiao Chen Xue is going to replace Chen Xue. Meng Gong suspects that you are no longer Chen Xue, and Chen Xue has been replaced by Xiao Chen Xue. Meng Gong said that he decided to ask the matter clearly, but once the answer is yes, you will naturally kill him. He silenced him. So he left this letter to tell us that if something happened to him in the past two days, he would be killed by you—that is, by Xiao Chen Xue! I have been observing your expression just now, from the appearance of the undead You didn't even bat an eye when you saw Meng Gong's body! You really aren't Chen Xue! Give Chen Xue back to me!" How could this be?Yang Chang's fierce and decisive eyes frightened me. How can I make it clear?By the way, find out Xiao Chen Xue, and they will naturally believe me when they see Xiao Chen Xue! "Yang Chang, calm down first, I will prove that I am Chen Xue, because little Chen Xue is still in this bathing place. I will take you to find her, and you will understand." I stepped forward to pull Yang Chang's hand, but he avoided it again, gave me a cold look, and helped Aunt Lan up. It doesn't matter!He will believe me soon, and I reassure myself in my heart. As soon as we got out of the bathing place, we were shocked again, the sky was full of fire, and the whole bathing place was burning, just like the fire in the East District fifteen years ago. Suddenly, a figure in a white bathrobe flashed in front of the entrance of the bathing place. "Look, little Chen Xue is right there!" I pointed to Yang Chang and Mrs. Lan. The three rushed out of the bathing place immediately, and Xiao Chenxue was standing in front of us. "Look, I didn't lie to you, right? Little Chen Xue is really here!" I exclaimed happily. "Where is it?" Yang Chang looked at me coldly and asked. "It's right here!" I pointed to Xiao Chen Xue, and suddenly I realized that he couldn't see Xiao Chen Xue.I hurriedly called to Xiao Chenxue, "What are you still doing there, why don't you show up to me right away!" Xiao Chen Xue stood in the flames, her seaweed-like hair covered her face, her whole body was wet, and viscous liquid oozed from her skin. Behind her, more than 700 undead crawled around the bathing place, screaming miserably in the burning fire. Suddenly, I felt my heart beating irregularly and violently, and the feeling of stepping into a muddy trap made me terrified. Little Chen Xue's voice rang in my ears: "Sister, the game between us will never end. This time, who do you think will win? Hehe, of course I knew from the beginning that I couldn't replace you, Do you really think that I lost my mind and did a lot of unnecessary things because I was not reconciled? Everything is under my control. What I really want is today's results. Everyone around you Once away from you, let you return to eternal hopeless loneliness." I was stunned: "How dare you... you are not afraid of me..." Xiao Chenxue said coldly: "Hmph! Why should I be afraid of you! Do you want to kill me and make me lose my mind? Don't be stupid, you are only with me. If I disappear, you will disappear too. You won't Yes, because the most important thing for you is to survive." Little Chen Xue's figure became transparent again, and her innocent and weird child voice remained in the firelight: "The demon is you, the demon is me, I am Chen Xue, you are Chen Xue, I am you, you are me, and we are the demons. The demons are us..." I looked at Yang Chang, and he looked at me with hatred, as if he was ready to pounce on me and tear me into pieces at any moment. "Evil! Give me back Chen Xue!" Fool, didn't Chen Xue die that night on the hospital roof?