Chapter 4: Extra person

Jiang Luo looks hard into the mirror.

The voice laughed twice more and said with interest, "That's an interesting one."

Chi You Why did you show up at this time!

Jiang Luo's feet had already left the ground, and he was barely able to support himself on the ground with his toes, tugging at his neck with both hands in an attempt to fight against the mist to get more oxygen, but after failing time and time again, his face was completely somber.

The mist couldn't take human form and kept twisting behind Jiang Luo. The eerie voice was still humming the tune that Jiang Luo had just hummed, the lively tune became treacherous, and the lovely tune became cold and twisted.

It is reasonable to say that Chi You has no ability to show up at all now, even on the seventh day of the first month, and he can't return to his soul.

Jiang Luo's heart and lungs are getting less and less oxygen, his sweat sticking to his hair, his face vaguely greenish color. The beautiful young man was beautiful even in this wretched state, struggling and fighting hard against the trackless mist, like a weak and pitiful flower.

Most people would feel bad about watching such a flower lose its life in their hands. But for a few, it's a way for them to appreciate beauty.

Anything beautiful is most most moving at the moment of facing death.

Chi You is one of these few.

His seeming hum was more pleasurable, his gray surging misty palms tightened, and Jiang Luo's foot had already stepped into the edge of death.

Chi You really will kill him.

What a fucking lunatic to try to kill him earlier than the original article when it was clear that he had a thing for him.

Jiang Luo endeavored to look at the mirror, his brain became extraordinarily clear at this moment, even extraordinarily calm. He remembered what Ye Xun said, mirrors have the function of reflection, which belongs to yin, the toilet is already dirty, the mirror in the toilet is even more bad luck, coupled with the fact that it is now the Zi Hour, the yin qi is thick, Chi You can show up perhaps because of this reason.

If you destroy the mirror, will Chi You disappear with it?

The idea was a gamble, a gamble that was too dangerous.

But it's dead even if you don't move.

Jiang Luo would never believe that this evil spirit, who had revealed his true nature, would suddenly show mercy and let him go.

The square mirror incorporates this gelatinous and frightening scene as Jiang Luo lifts one leg onto the sink, bending it into a beautiful long bow from spine to slender leg.

His dark hair swept down to his shoulders, the strands he had only just tidied up once again becoming disheveled. Beads of sweat slid down Jiang Luo's face to his lower jaw as he struggled to take in a sliver of oxygen, suddenly smiling sweetly in the mirror.

His face reddened from the lack of oxygen, as if intoxicated, Jiang Luo squinted his eyes, the shadows from his lashes hitting his lower eyelids, the light of the candle like darkness and uncertainty, but filled with sweet affection, "Chi You ......"

He said, with difficulty and in a silent mouthful, "How you love me, you see, you've made a point of coming to me."

The smile was lingering, but the look on his brow was written with mockery and provocation.

Jiang Luo made up the story just to fool the other living people who didn't know the truth, and of course he knew he couldn't fool Chi You.

And he didn't even think about cheating Chi You.

When confronted by Chi You, Jiang Luo reveals his purest malice as he looks at the evil spirit with a growing smile at the corners of his mouth, "Everyone knows you love me."

The excitement factor in his blood began to boil and stir uncontrollably, clamoring for Chi You to be suppressed, for this evil spirit to bow down and admit defeat.

The thought came so violently and quickly that it immediately shattered any of Jiang Luo's other plans. Cold water poured down from his skull, and trembling seemed to spread all over his body in an instant.

Showing weakness. Showing what?

What's the point of pretending to be innocent again?

Although he didn't kill Chi You, since he has become the original owner, he has to take responsibility for all the good and bad things the original owner has done.

He's too lazy to play some ridiculous little patsy in front of Chi You.

Since Chi You and he know each other inside out, and since Chi You has risen to him and wants to kill him, why not make things worse.

You're a dead man. You won't be able to talk.

Even if you hate me, you're still the image of someone who is in love with me.

If you try to kill me, there will be countless living people standing in my way to protect me.

The pretty youth's face was once again colored with arrogance, flamboyant and unbridled, the classical beauty of the rhyme broken, but with an additional layer of eye-catching and tricky thorns than the previous look.

Misty's laughter stopped for a moment, and she seemed a little puzzled.

Jiang Luo once again revealed a broad smile towards the mirror, and then with the force he had built up, he violently spun around and kicked the mirror.

--If this blow doesn't work, his neck will be broken by Chi You's hand.

Boo!

The sound of glass crunching was sharp and ear-piercing, Lu Youyi and Ye Xun outside the door rushed in instantly, "Jiang Luo!"

Jiang Luo fell heavily among the glass shards, Lu Youyi ran over to help him up, and Ye Xun stood in front of both of them with a serious expression.

Jiang Luo shook off the shards of glass and stood up, Lu Youyi worried, "What happened?"

Jiang Luo's shoulders shook, Lu Youyi thought he was crying, but Jiang Luo smiled and raised his head, his cheeks flushed as if he was slightly drunk, he touched the horrible bruises on his neck, and said in a dreamy tone, "Chi You just came to me."

Lu Youyi's eyes widened, "What?!"

Ye Xun abruptly turned his head and stared at Jiang Luo.

Jiang Luo's fingers slowly stroked over his neck and smiled, "He said he missed me and wanted me to accompany him."

There was no way to fake the scar on his neck, and Lu Youyi's jaw dropped as he stammered, "Really, really?"

Jiang Luo winked at him and playfully said, "Really."

The more he rejoiced, the more Lu Youyi's heart sank, he couldn't believe it, and only felt that Chi You's image in his heart crumbled by a large margin, "This is also too ridiculous ......"

"People and ghosts have different paths," Ye Xun sulked, glancing over at Jiang Luo with a hidden warning, "When a person dies, they can never come back to life. The living cannot be with the dead, this is the law of yin and yang."

Lu Youyi repeated what Ye Xun said with two blank eyes, "Yes, Ye Xun is right ...... How could Brother Chi You do such a thing ......"

Chi You is so gentle and nice, why would he do that?

Lu Youyi's head is going to be big, they came out of the bathroom, Ye Xun seems to be afraid of Jiang Luo崯, specially turned on the TV to find a positive energy social channel, want to let Jiang Luo understand the preciousness of life.

The TV plays in silence, each of the three men with his own thoughts, and when an inspirational video interview with a foreman finishes, Ye Xun turns off the TV, hands the doll to Jiang Luo to hold, and stands in front of the desk himself.

Jiang Luo looked up at the clock, eleven fifteen.

The hour of midnight is here.

Ye Xun lit a piece of incense and inserted it with one hand straight into the white rice, right to the bottom of the bowl. The incense was placed straight in front of the mirror, and after Ye Xun had lit the incense, he picked up a yellow talisman and lit it close to the long incense, placing the half-burnt talisman into the bowl full of water.

Jiang Luo could vaguely make out the yellow talisman, which was a "ghost-seeking talisman".

Miraculously, the fire-dyed talisman was still burning after it was put into the water, and when the yellow talisman burned out, the clear water also turned into a bowl of grayish-black muddy water.

Ye Xun respectfully carried the muddy water in both hands and poured it into a bowl of white rice, then stared intently at the cigarettes.

The long scented smoke wafted and swayed gently upward.

The three men's nerves were on high alert when there was a sudden knock at the door.

The grandmother's pale voice rang out, "Are you guys asleep?"

Lu Youyi was sweating, he ran over to open the door, "Grandma, what do you want?"

The grandmother outside the door smiled constrainedly, holding a tray in her hand, "I'm afraid you big boys will be hungry at night, so I'm bringing you some food."

Lu Youyi took the tray and inhaled deeply the aroma of the food, so happy that he wanted to shed tears, "Thank you so much."

The old grandmother looked at him with a smile, then glanced into the room and admonished, "Go to sleep, don't stay up all night."

Lu Youyi nodded repeatedly and was about to send the grandmother away when he suddenly said, "By the way Grandma, how long have you lived here?"

The grandmother thought for a moment and said slowly and uncertainly, "A month."

Lu Youyi: "And have you noticed anything strange?"

The old man shook her head, but halfway through the shake, as if she remembered something, her head shaking stopped and her expression became hesitant.

Lu Youyi saw that there was a chance, and immediately asked, "Grandma, can you tell me about the strange things you encountered?"

The old man moved slowly and looked from side to side, hesitantly glanced at Lu Youyi again, and whispered, "There's something wrong with my daughter-in-law."

Lu Youyi froze, "What's wrong?"

The old man took two steps forward, took a hand to cover his mouth, and rambled, "She won t let my grandson eat ...... Just this month, her temper changed a lot, often angry at my son, and hit my grandson."

"I'm, I'm a little scared when I look at her ......" Granny.

Lu Youyi frowned, thanked the old lady, took the meal back to his room, and told Jiang Luo and Ye Xun about his conversation with the old lady.

Ye Xun pondered for a long time, "It was a month ago when the three girls disappeared."

Lu Youyi said, "This is too much of a coincidence."

Ye Xun hammered it home, "Go see the boss's wife tomorrow."

The old man sent a noodle dish with two poached eggs nestled inside the bowl and fragrant hot and sour shredded potatoes. Jiang Luo was not hungry, but he ate a bowl of noodles in a sparse soup.

"People even fry a shredded potato is delicious," ate to the depths of emotion, Lu Youyi face of resentment is about to take shape, "our school cafeteria to eat that is called what ah."

"Our school is too poor," Ye Xun said, "If you're so rich, why don't you let your family donate a cafeteria to the school?"

"Am I rich?" Lu Youyi looked up at them blankly, rattling the at least six-figure designer watch in his hand, "I don't know, I'm not interested in money."

Ye Xun: "......"

Jiang Luo: "......"

Jiang Luo almost pooh Lu Youyi a mouthful of spittle, the key moment to see the incense on the desk, a change of color, "incense changed!"

The cigarettes, which had previously risen in a straight line, suddenly cluttered and turned to drift out of the room.

Ye Xun and Lu Youyi immediately got up, Ye Xun washed his hands, picked up the fragrant rice and headed out. Lu Youyi pulled Jiang Luo into the center and walked behind him at the end.

But just as they went out, the cigarettes split into two streams, one to the left and one to the right.

Ye Xun looked to his left, then to his right, and was silent for a moment, "Which way do we go?"

Lu Youyi casually said, "Left."

Ye Xun: "What if the left side is a trap set for us by a ghost?"

Lu Youyi said indifferently, "Then the right side."

Ye Xun : "What if the right side is a trap for ghosts?"

Lu Youyi: "......"

Jiang Luo proposes: "Then go separately?"

Ye Xun was silent for a long time and shook his head, "Forget it, go to the left first."

Jiang Luo turned around and asked, "Is Ye Xun having trouble choosing?"

Lu Youyi nodded with a complicated face, "As a piece of advice from someone who has been there, never accompany him on shopping trips."

In the middle of the night, the corridor was brightly lit, and as they walked down the long corridor, following the cigarettes up the stairs, they heard a "thump".

The sound was like a leather ball rolling down the stairs, bouncing up and down and hitting the ground again, and the sudden sound of it in the middle of the night caused the party to stop dead in their tracks.

But all of a sudden, the lights inside the staircase went out.

The darkness of the night came on, and Lu Youyi said in a shaky voice, "Ye Xun, Jiang Luo?"

Ye Xun gave a calm "hmm" and Jiang Luo said, "Yes, yes."

Lu Youyi settled down a bit, "Why did the lights suddenly go out ah--"

His words ended abruptly.

For the sound of the puck, which had been constantly ringing upstairs, suddenly ceased, and after a brief silence, approached them again with a speed two or three times greater than that of a moment before.

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

The puck rolled off at a rapid pace, the sound growing more urgent.

Lu Youyi was so creeped out that he couldn't help but grab onto Jiang Luo's clothes, and Jiang Luo laughed, "Lu Youyi, why are you even more of a wimp than I am."

Lu Youyi shivered and said, "I'm afraid of the dark."

Jiang Luo: "......" OK.

In the time it took to talk, the sound of the puck had reached the stairs on the floor above them, and Jiang Luo's heartbeat, infected by Lu Youyi, was getting faster and faster, and just as he was on guard, the sound was suddenly gone.

Silence reappeared.

But such silence, which was tantamount to the calm before the storm, made one feel nothing but shivers.

Ye Xun suddenly said, "The cigarettes are drifting back."

Lu Youyi said, "You saw it?"

Ye Xun said, "I smell it."

That would prove that just moments ago, something passed in front of them.

"Go back," Jiang Luo licked his dry lips and stared into the darkness, "I remember the main switch is in the stairway, just in time to see if it's tripped."

The three men turned around again and cautiously made their way back.

The main switch was indeed in the staircase. Jiang Luo, who had a good memory and was familiar with the design structure, touched it and said with disappointment, "It's not tripped, it's out of power."

The three people stood here thinking for a few moments of their lives, Jiang Luo's ears suddenly twitched and said keenly, "What sound!"

The jingle of a phone rang at the source of the corridor.

Lu Youyi: "Grass!"

They looked toward the source, pitch black, black where they couldn't see anything, and after looking at it for a long time it seemed as if there was some kind of danger and monster hiding in the darkness, ready to devour them at any time.

Ye Xun took the lead and walked over, calmly saying, "Someone answer the phone, I can't answer it with the incense."

Jiang Luo was pushed by Lu Youyi and helplessly picked up the phone, "Hello?"

The boss's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, is this Mr. Jiang?"

Jiang Luo instantly had the feeling of coming back to earth from the netherworld, "It's me, boss, we have a power outage in this building."

"Yes, I was about to tell you guys about this," the boss said embarrassedly, "I forgot to mention during the day, we've recently been repairing the road over here, the circuit is unstable, and sometimes the power will go out. Our hotel's backup power is in the studio, you can just turn on the switch of the backup power."

Jiang Luo rubbed his forehead with a headache and said, "Okay, I know."

Jiang Luo still remembers the location of the studio. They cautiously felt their way to the studio, because they were afraid of not being able to see clearly and falling together, the person behind them tugged on the hem of the person in front of them. Jiang Luo only felt that Lu Youyi, who was tugging at him behind him, was getting stronger and stronger, and was almost about to break his clothes, "Lu Youyi, you're a little less strong."

Lu Youyi agreed with a full mouth, "Fine, fine."

After a few seconds, Jiang Luo still felt bad, "Did you really hear what I said?"

He turned his head backward, but accidentally stepped on the foot of the person behind him.

Jiang Luo subconsciously wanted to say sorry, but Lu Youyi did not feel as if, indignantly said: "How did I not hear what you meant, this is not my strength has become smaller?"

All of Jiang Luo's words choked in his throat as cold sweat broke out on the end of his nose, "Lu Youyi, aren't you in pain?"

Lu Youyi wondered, "What hurts?"

Jiang Luo was silent, and after a moment, he said, "Lu Youyi."

Lu Youyi: "Huh?"

Jiang Luo said, "Between us, there seems to be an extra person."