Chapter 215 Evil Spirit 11
Jiang Chunmian was still a little dazed by his classmates' sudden madness. Their madness was not caused by physical or medical factors, but was completely due to the unknown, and their state of madness was full of horror.
Jiang Chunmian even suspected she was dreaming. She pinched her arm hard, and it hurt. She stared at the purple pinch mark on her arm and said thoughtfully, "There's something else that's strange..."
Sensing Jiang Chunmian's hesitation, Zhang Yanhui straightened his posture and said, "Tell me."
Jiang Chunmian: "It was when I met Fang Zhengxiang. He slashed at me with a knife. I seemed to see a stream of blood flowing across the floor. It was very fast, but when I opened my eyes again, it had disappeared... and turned into you."
"Is that so?" Zhang Yanhui bit her lip and said, "Maybe I'm dazzled. If that's really what you saw..."
Jiang Chunmian clasped his hands together, making a snapping sound. "You're right! If it were really like what I saw, our school would have been flooded long ago, and neither of us would have been spared."
She patted her chest and let out a long breath. "It better be fake. It has to be fake. If it were real, it would be so scary."
Jiang Chunmian sighed to himself how lucky they were that they were not driven crazy by the unknown factors, and was even more glad that they left the school in time.
She didn't notice at all that the boy sitting next to her suddenly turned pale because of the obvious rejection in her words. It was a color that could not be achieved under normal circumstances. It was as white as a paper-pasted wall and exuded a dead and cold feeling.
He was silent for a long time. After rubbing his cheeks until they turned a noticeable red, he muttered softly, "You are so brave, why are you still afraid of ghosts?"
Jiang Chunmian: "What did you say? Your voice was too soft, I couldn't hear you."
"It's nothing. I just asked you what you want to eat. Let's go downstairs and buy something to eat. I'm very hungry." Zhang Yanhui suggested.
Jiang Chunmian nodded and was on his way back with the food. It was getting dark and the colorful lights hanging on the shops on both sides of the road were lit up, exuding a dazzling array of colors.
Two women started arguing in front of a store because they were competing for business. A bicycle and a motorcycle collided on the street. Neither of them was willing to admit their fault and they kept swearing at each other.
Jiang Chunmian stood still, pointed at the two men and said to Zhang Yanhui, "...they both bumped into each other, how can they still fight?"
Zhang Yan glanced back and then looked away without interest.
Jiang Chunmian stared at the opposite side. The man on the motorcycle was dragging a limp leg, and the man on the bicycle was in a worse state, covered in blood. The two men swung their arms into the air and smashed each other, hitting and smashing with all their might.
The more she looked, the more frightened she became. Jiang Chunmian pulled Zhang Yanhui back home in a hurry. After locking the door, she pushed the coffee table in the living room behind the door and propped it against the door panel.
"...It's true! Everything has become abnormal." Jiang Chunmian grabbed his hair and looked at Zhang Yanhui with a hint of sadness. "What should I do?"
At first, she was still hoping that it was just the magnetic field of the school that was wrong, but as she walked around the streets and witnessed many incidents of people quarreling or even fighting over trivial matters, she became more and more certain that it was the entire Epiphyllum Town that was abnormal!
Or is it even outside the town that is affected?
The most urgent thing should be to leave here to avoid being affected, but the problem is that Jiang Chunmian has nowhere to go.
After her parents divorced, she became an outsider to both families. She only had the house left by her grandmother to live in. Her school registration had been transferred to Epiphyllum Town, but moving it again would be very troublesome. And where else could she go if she left Epiphyllum Town? Should she beg one of her parents to raise her until she graduated from high school?
Jiang Chunmian directly rejected it.
After much thought, she could only stay here.
Being poor is the biggest problem. I have no money to rent a house, and no money to live alone... Jiang Chunmian sighed, and suddenly a fragrance came to her nose, bringing her back to her senses.
Zhang Yanhui tore open the plastic bag of the lunch box. There was a small restaurant across the alley. The dishes in the lunch box were packed from the restaurant. The rich aroma of steaming rice and sumptuous dishes filled the air.
He broke off the chopsticks and passed them to Jiang Chunmian. "Eat first. Only when you are full can you have the energy to think."
Jiang Chunmian thanked him and turned his attention to the lunch box, no longer worrying about school matters.
After dinner, Zhang Yanhui cleaned the table and returned to Jiang Chunmian's side. She seemed to be hesitant to speak, and from time to time she glanced sideways at Jiang Chunmian's conflicted expression. His face was even more conflicted than hers.
"Don't worry," he bit his lip, mustered up his courage, and said, "Even if there are some abnormal people, there are still more normal people. As long as you avoid those who are obviously weird, there's nothing to be afraid of."
This is a statement that goes against one's heart but against one's reason.
He is an evil spirit born from resentment. As the resentment gathered and took shape, all the resentment here and there surged out, forming a huge energy, which was enough to affect everyone in Epiphyllum Town.
Among them, a large number of people have their wildest and most brutal instincts aroused, becoming selfish and tyrannical, while some have become even more cowardly and despicable. A few people can still retain their original character and continue their previous lives relatively normally.
Leaving Epiphyllum Town is the best choice.
Jiang Chunmian was originally a transfer student. As long as she left here, she could get rid of all the threats to her life...
But he did not follow his reason to persuade Jiang Chunmian to leave. He thought that he was originally a body of an evil spirit. The human boy in the past had died long ago, and morality had disappeared with him. He was selfish, so what was wrong with keeping her?
Zhang Yanhui clenched his fists and pursed his lips twice. Before he could say anything, Jiang Chunmian sat down next to him, her eyes slightly red and swollen as if she was about to cry. His heart sank, and just as the words of persuading her to leave came to his lips, she grabbed his arm.
"Actually... as long as I focus on my studies and avoid dangerous situations, it should be safe here until the college entrance exams are over, right?"
Jiang Chunmian wanted to cry when she thought of her parents. She didn't want to go back to that sad place. She rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand. The girl who had always been strong and brave suddenly showed a fragile expression. Zhang Yanhui was at a loss, her arms were stiff, and she let her hold them. Even when she was excited, she unconsciously increased her strength and her nails pinched into the flesh, but she didn't show any discomfort.
"...Yes." He just wanted to wipe away the tears from her eyes. He didn't have any extra thoughts to think about how to respond to her. He could only agree with her.
"Then can I stay here tonight?" Jiang Chunmian sorted out the tangled things and no longer let himself fall into the whirlpool of emotions.
It is dangerous here, but she has nowhere to go if she leaves here, so she will live cautiously until the college entrance examination is over... The most urgent thing to be solved is whether she should go home tonight.
When she returned home, she would be alone facing the empty house and her chaotic thoughts caused by what happened during the day. To be honest, she was a little, no, very scared.
Zhang Yan replied: "Then stay here... huh?"
Jiang Chunmian left his side, sat on the sofa, and patted it. "I live alone at home. I don't dare to go back tonight. Can I stay at your house for one night?"
She clasped her hands together and made a begging gesture, "Just for one night, I'll sleep on the sofa, it won't bother you at all!"
I still feel safer around Zhang Yanhui. After all, the two of them have experienced strange things together, and they can be said to have a relationship of sharing hardships...
Zhang Yanhui's face turned red without rubbing it with his hands. "Okay, okay." He thought to himself, a few nights is fine.
…
Zhang Yanhui didn't let Jiang Chunmian sleep on the sofa. He took out clean bedding from the closet and spread it on the bed. He even spread the thickest quilt used in winter on the bed board. He reached out and pressed it. It was very soft and comfortable, but he felt it was still not enough.
Jiang Chunmian looks like a very brave girl, but she also has her vulnerable sides. After she witnessed her classmates' madness, when the room fell into darkness, Zhang Yanhui heard her covering her head. When he stood up and looked, he saw that she was indeed curled up in a ball.
"It'll be boring."
Jiang Chunmian poked his head out. "But it's too dark, I'm a little scared... Tell me, are there ghosts? Why do I feel like I'm surrounded by ghosts as soon as I close my eyes?"
These were all wild ideas from childhood. More than ten years later, the courage that Jiang Chunmian had worked so hard to build up had completely receded.
She curled up in the quilt, not caring that it was used by Zhang Yanhui. She wrapped herself tightly in it, leaving no gap at all.
“…”
Zhang Yanhui found it difficult to answer her question.
In the darkness, moonlight shone through the cracks, and the faint light shone on his body, casting a dim shadow on the wall. The shadow swayed on the wall as he walked. Jiang Chunmian casually glanced at the swaying black shadow, and then a cool breeze blew, and Zhang Yanhui spread the sofa cushions next to the bed.
Kneeling beside him, "Do you mind if I rest next to you?"
"No!" Jiang Chunmian turned over, supported himself on the bed with his arms, and looked at Zhang Yanhui with gratitude. "I didn't want this to happen, but every time I closed my eyes, I remembered what happened during the day. Thank you, Zhang Yanhui. If it weren't for you, I would have been scared to death."
"Don't talk nonsense." Zhang Yanhui lay flat on the bed. When she opened her eyes, she saw Jiang Chunmian's smiling face. She folded her arms on the edge of the bed and leaned her head on them. There was a window on the wall next to the bed. The moonlight was swaying. Zhang Yanhui was stunned for a moment, and the moment she came to her senses, she quickly looked away.
He pinched the fallen edge of the quilt, as if touching her fingers, and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, don't keep thinking about what happened during the day. We have been in school for several days and everything is fine. Maybe we will be back to normal when we go to school tomorrow?"
"That's also possible." Jiang Chunmian opened his eyes, not feeling sleepy at all. "I don't want to think about it, but I can't help it. As soon as I close my eyes, those images come flooding back into my mind..."
As she spoke, she wanted to reach out and knock on her head, but after just one knock, Zhang Yanhui's voice rang out, interrupting her action, "How about this, I tell you about my story?"
Zhang Yanhui was silent for a moment and asked her, "Do you want to listen?"
Jiang Chunmian suddenly perked up, the chaotic photos and classmates' discussions during the day flooding into her mind. She suppressed her curiosity and didn't dare to ask Zhang Yanhui, but now he actually brought it up...
She slapped her forehead and suddenly remembered that just before her classmates went crazy, Zhang Yanhui was suffering from rumors and insults. Those inexplicable speculations made his classmates isolate and despise him. It was when she was pulled out of the classroom by her classmates to spread rumors that she angered a classmate and triggered the crazy incident.
There seems to be a connection between them...
Before Jiang Chunmian had time to think about it, he was immediately stabbed by the pain in Zhang Yanhui's eyes.
He bit his lip and said, "Don't believe what they say. I, I'm not that kind of person."
Jiang Chunmian came back to his senses and said, "I don't believe them! I have no relationship with them. Even if more people say it, I won't believe it. You tell me, I'm listening, I only believe you."
Zhang Yanhui shuddered all over and slowly moved closer to the edge of the bed. His hand, which was clutching the quilt, gradually moved upwards until it touched the warm temperature. From a tiny distance, he opened his eyes and saw Jiang Chunmian's crossed arms and his chin resting on them.
After staring blankly for a long time, Jiang Chunmian asked him, "Don't you want to talk anymore?"
"No." Zhang Yan came back to his senses. "I want to say it."
Jiang Chunmian moved forward and looked down to see Zhang Yanhui lying flat on the ground. This made her feel much more at ease. She assumed a comfortable position and waited for Zhang Yanhui to speak.
He simply skipped over the story about his mother, which was no different from what was rumored. Jiang Chunmian said "oh" and his expression was calm, without any contempt or disgust caused by knowing his mother's occupation.
Zhang Yanhui knew this was the case, but when he said it in person and saw Jiang Chunmian's reaction, he still secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Jiang Chunmian."
"Um?"
"When I was little, I had no friends because of my mother's... occupation. Everyone who knew about it hated me. Things got better in middle and high school. You're my only... my only friend. I'm only explaining this to you."
"Yeah." Jiang Chunmian responded: "I'm listening."
When Zhang Yanhui's mother was alive, she lived comfortably. She used the money from her barbershop to buy a two-bedroom apartment. But then her mother suffered a stroke of bad luck. A mentally ill client became obsessed with her, even imagining they were lovers. Zhang Yanhui's mother then cheated on him, stabbed him to death, and then committed suicide. The man died completely, and Zhang Yanhui's mother, still breathing, became a vegetable.
This is a terrible situation for Zhang Yanhui.
Treatment costs money. He had just entered junior high school at that time. Fortunately, he was smart and could keep up with the courses even if he fell behind. He worked day and night to make money. He stayed in restaurant kitchens, bars selling alcohol, construction sites... all kinds of messy places. Later, when he was working in a bar, he was introduced to be a model for a painting studio.
Zhang Yanhui didn't care. As long as he could make money, he could be naked, no matter what. He still had some flesh to cover it. The studio made money quickly. He was handsome and a very popular model in the studio. If someone offered to paint him privately for money, he would not refuse. Anyway, if that person did something inappropriate, he would not tolerate it.
Years of non-stop work have given the young man a lot of strength, but he looks skinny because of insufficient nutrition. Without clothes to cover his body, his body is strong and full of explosive power.
Zhang Yan replied: "Those paintings were done when I was a model in junior high school. Later, my mother passed away, so I stopped doing them. I usually do odd jobs during holidays to earn a living. With the money I get from renting the house next door, I can live well."
He pursed his lips, a hint of embarrassment in his tone. "...I don't know who dug up those pictures, but they suddenly went viral, and the whole school knew about it...You saw them this morning, didn't you? Those experiences were all made up by others. I didn't do that."
The boy had pure and beautiful eyes. Jiang Chunmian tilted his head and looked at him. Just as he was about to speak, in the blink of an eye, he had an illusion in front of his eyes.
...Is it an illusion?
The photos I saw this morning are now covering the walls!
They all crowded in front of her, as if afraid that she couldn't see them.
What is going on?
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