Chapter 145
Paradise feels like I should go out and have a look.
The shadow said, "Then I won't send you off. If you want to find me, you can come back anytime. There's another one outside anyway."
Leyuan nodded, left the house, opened the door, and it was pitch black outside, feeling no different from before.
Leyuan walked out, and his eyes went dark and bright again, then he found that something was trying to fight for control of his body. At this moment, a hand reached out from the side and dragged away the person who was fighting for control. That hand was the hand of the black shadow.
He found himself lying on a hospital bed, tied up tightly with restraints. He couldn't move at all. He felt dizzy and confused as to what had happened. Suddenly, the door opened and a man entered the room, walked to the bedside, and looked down at the paradise with an angry expression and gnashing teeth. No one knew what he was angry about.
Leyuan glanced at him and felt that she would be scolded by this man, so she closed her eyes and didn't want to listen to him.
He finally spoke up: "You are such a wicked person."
Paradise did not answer.
The man continued, "Since you are sober now, don't pretend not to understand. We can see that you are nothing like before. Who are you trying to fool? Now, I will have someone remove your restraints, but you can't just walk out like that. We will interrogate you until you are truly sober."
Paradise asked, "What's going on?"
The man untied the restraints and put Leyuan on the wheelchair again. A group of people tied Leyuan up again and again. The man said, "Oh, you look much more normal now, but there is no benefit at all. You will soon be responsible for the mistakes you made."
He waved his hand and let the paradise be taken away.
Leyuan was pushed in a wheelchair to another room. It felt bad in there. The color was pale, the glass was reflective, and it was too bright outside. Leyuan squinted his eyes, and soon, the bright lights disappeared, leaving only a thick darkness.
After waiting in the park for a long time, no one came to ask him questions, and he gradually fell asleep.
Someone started talking to him. I didn't know where they were from. They asked him from a distance, "Who are you?"
Paradise did not answer.
"Are you a man or a woman?"
Paradise still did not answer.
"Do you know what you have done?"
"have no idea."
Paradise mumbled.
A hand holding a pen wrote a line in the notebook: Confused, suspected amnesia.
"You killed someone, do you remember?"
“I don’t remember.”
There was an extra line of words in the notebook: I don't know whether it's true or not, I didn't resist the emotions violently, maybe I'm very good at pretending.
"Do you know why you are here?"
"have no idea."
"Where do you live?"
"No."
There was another line of words in the notebook: You can take him in as a guard.
Someone continued to mumble and ask a bunch of questions.
Leyuan gradually fell asleep, and when he woke up, he found himself still in the same room. After a while, he didn't know how long it was, the door opened, and someone came in, let him go, and said to him, "You can leave now."
Paradise asked: "Where to?"
"You can go wherever you want. If you have a place to stay, go back to your place."
The stranger packed up his things and left.
Leyuan blinked and returned to the place where he lived before. This place had become someone else's residence. Leyuan left here. A neighbor was about to go home. He took a look at him with the key and recognized his back as a familiar person. He whispered to the people around him: "Did you see that person? An orphan, I don't know what happened to him. He doesn't even have a place to live. What a poor person."
Leyuan turned his head sharply and realized that the troubles he had been experiencing for many years had disappeared.
In the past, those who knew him or not all thought that he must have parents, and no matter how many times he told them, it was useless. Now, they have all returned to normal.
I left the park happily and planned to go to a convenience store or hospital to spend the night. I would think about what happened next later.
A car stopped in front of Paradise, and Paradise asked, "What's going on?"
The person in the car asked: "Don't you recognize me? I'm the one who sent you home and gave you a sack of stuff!"
Paradise suddenly realized: "It's been so long, I can't remember it clearly."
The man smiled and said, "Indeed, it feels like a lifetime ago when we met again. A lot of things have happened recently. I thought you saw that I had no place to stay, so I came to find you. I didn't expect that I would actually see you come back today. It's so strange, so strange."
Leyuan asked, "You came here just to see me?"
The man nodded.
Leyuan asked: "You came to me just to help me find a place to live?"
The man nodded.
Leyuan asked, "Is it going to bother you?"
The man shook his head and said, "There's no one else in my house, and my place is empty. I think it's better to live with you than to live alone. It's safer that way. *** incidents happen every day. Even if the probability is one percent, it's a hundred percent if it happens to one person. It's too tragic. I don't want to become like that."
Le Yuan thought for a moment, "You expect me to protect you? I don't think I have that ability."
The car owner smiled and said, "Are you willing or not? If you don't follow me, you will be with a bunch of strangers. You don't like them, right?"
Leyuan asked: "How do you know this?"
As he spoke, he opened the car door, got in and sat down.
The car owner said, "Of course I know that. When you were sitting in my car before, I saw that you didn't like those people. I don't like them either. They don't look like nice people anyway. If you don't like them, then don't like them. I'll take you back. My place is usually quite quiet."
Le Yuan said, “I understand.”
Thus Paradise found a place to stay.
At night, he rested here. He did not dream of dead people, but he dreamed of Zhong Ren and the system. They were talking to each other, as if they could not see Paradise at all. Paradise thought, that's right, they are the same kind of people, and I am not the same kind of people as them.
Bang bang bang.
Someone knocked on the door. Leyuan suddenly woke up from his dream. He went to open the door and found that it was the car owner. He asked, "What's the matter?"
The owner said, "I think there is something dirty in my house. Can you let me rest here for one night? It's too dark now. If I go back now, I won't be able to sleep. I have things to do tomorrow."
Leyuan asked tentatively: "Or, how about I go over there now, and you stay here, and I'll see if the things over there can't be dealt with? If the problem can be solved now, you won't have to worry about it here in the future."
The car owner thought about it and nodded: "Okay, be careful and don't get hurt."
Leyuan said, "I understand. You can go in and have a rest."
The car owner entered the room and Leyuan walked out and went to the next door. The houses they lived in were close to each other, so they didn't need to walk far.
The door was open. Leyuan walked in. It was pitch dark inside. He tried to turn on the light, but it didn't turn on. The bulb flashed twice, as if there was a bad contact.
Leyuan flexed her wrist, closed the door, and tried to look for the candle in the kitchen, but couldn't find it. A faint voice asked, "What are you looking for?"
Leyuan said, "I'm looking for a candle. It's too dark and I can't see the road clearly. I might fall down at night and then I won't be able to sleep."
The voice seemed to be that of a young woman. She laughed, and then a pale hand stretched out from the void in mid-air, holding a bright red candle with a dragon and a phoenix on it, and handed it to Paradise.
Leyuan took it, stood up and said, "Thank you."
He found a lighter in the kitchen and lit the candle. Unexpectedly, after the candle was lit, the candlelight was not warm yellow, but cyan. It was so bright that the surroundings suddenly became like a graveyard with ghostly lights, making the room even more eerie and terrifying.
Leyuan moved the candle to the living room in confusion, looked around, and saw no one. He got up and went to the bathroom to turn on the faucet, washed his face and the dust on his hands, and when he looked up, he saw a woman in a red and white long, gentle dress in the mirror.
The man was standing behind Leyuan. Leyuan turned around and didn't see anyone behind him, but when he looked in the mirror, the man was indeed inside.
Leyuan asked, "What do you want?"
The woman smiled at Paradise and said, "I'm so bored. Let me tell you a joke!"
Leyuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can we go to the living room? It always feels weird to tell jokes in the toilet, and there are no stools here. If your jokes are too long, I will have to stand like I'm being punished. If I sit down, I won't be able to see what's going on in the mirror. It's inconvenient for both you and me."
The woman nodded and said very kindly, "Then let's go to the living room."
Leyuan smiled and said, "Thank you!"
He walked into the living room. The red candles were still burning, emitting a faint green light. The surroundings still looked as gloomy as before. However, a person gradually appeared opposite him. It was the woman who could only be seen in the mirror before.
"You are probably dead?"
Paradise looked at it and asked.
"Yes, he was killed."
The woman smiled at Paradise and poured herself a glass of water without any hesitation: "If you are interested, I will tell you everything tonight. But if you listen to my story, you have to do something for me."
Le Yuan asked, "What is it? Can I do it?"
The woman smiled and said, "It's a very simple thing. You can definitely do it."
Leyuan was skeptical: "Okay, then, you tell me."
The woman drank the water, put the cup down, and rolled up her sleeves: "Let me tell you that joke first.
A group of people were sitting on the high-speed train. Ten wild kids were running around in the aisle. Ten old people took off their shoes and were arguing. Ten people were playing their cell phones at full volume. Ten people were talking on the speakerphone. One person couldn't stand it anymore and started shouting. Finally, the girl sitting next to her who had lost a grain of loose powder during her makeup was arrested.
Do you think it’s funny or not?”
Paradise clapped his hands and said, "How funny, how funny."
The woman said: "I am the passenger sitting next to the girl who was accused of indecent behavior in public places for putting on makeup on the high-speed train."
Leyuan thought for a moment, "Then how did you die?"
The woman said, "To be honest, I felt that it was unreasonable for them to take people away, so I tried to stop them. They pushed me away, and I was wearing high heels. I accidentally bumped into something that someone else had. It was quite sharp, and I fell to the ground, covered in blood. I struggled for a few seconds before I died."
Paradise said, "Wow, you died pretty quickly. Did it hurt?"
The woman said: "Compared to burning with charcoal or being cut off at the waist, my death was still slower. I can't say it didn't hurt. I still remember the pain. It was almost excruciating."
As she spoke, blood flowed from her face, which looked like the wounds she had when she died.
Le Yuan asked, "How can I help you?"
The woman said, "I don't know what happened after I died, but I remember that I was recording at the time. It happened suddenly, and I put my phone in my bag, and then I stood up and died. In other words, when I died, my phone might not have stopped recording. I hope you can take a look at my phone for me. I remember the password."
Leyuan asked: "What happened after you looked at the phone?"
The woman said, "Please release the video and audio for me. I will release it on my personal social media platform. It shouldn't involve you. After the release, it will have nothing to do with me. Whether it is known to others or not, I can probably leave here."
Paradise asked: "Where are you going to go after leaving here?"
The woman said, "Maybe I will die again. Maybe I will be reincarnated. Maybe I will become something else. Anyway, I will never be the same again."
Leyuan nodded thoughtfully.
The woman asked, "Will you help me?"
Paradise said, "If I can do it."
The woman said, "Why not try to find my phone now?"
Paradise asked: "Do you know where your cell phone is?"
The woman said, "I can't sense this. If I were that strong, I wouldn't be here. However, my phone was in my bag when I died. If I die, my body and bag will be sent to my parents as remains. Maybe my phone and bag are at my parents' house. If they are resting at night, it will be convenient for us."
Leyuan thought for a moment and asked, "Isn't this considered burglary?"
The woman said, "As long as no one knows about it, it's not a big deal. Besides, the phone is mine, they are just keeping it for me. You listen to me and will return it after you take it. What's the big deal?"
Leyuan thought for a moment and said, "Okay."
The woman showed the way to the park. The park unconsciously chose a quiet road with no one around. They walked out and soon arrived at the destination. The woman looked around and nodded, confirming that this was the destination, but at the same time she also realized: "This is not a place where others can enter. According to the mirror principle, you can take things here. The things are all copies and will not affect the reality. This is great!"
She looked around the park and said, "I didn't realize you were capable of this. If you have such a great ability, why didn't you tell me earlier? If you had told me earlier, maybe we could have solved the problem faster and wouldn't have to worry like before."
Leyuan smiled and said, "I didn't think of it before."
The woman nodded. "Okay, let's look for it quickly. It should be in this room, either the living room or the bedroom. It definitely won't be in the balcony, kitchen, or toilet."
Paradise responded, and the woman rummaged through the boxes and shouted, "Hey, I found it! It's here, come and have a look."
Leyuan walked over, and the woman turned on her phone and handed it to Leyuan: "Turn the volume down to the lowest level. I don't want to watch or listen to it. It's too scary. I feel uncomfortable when I think about it. Tell me after you watch it, is it the same as I thought?"
Leyuan took the phone: "Okay, let me take a look."
The photo album on the phone was empty. There was no recycle bin or trash can. It seemed like it had been cleaned out.
Leyuan looked at the woman hesitantly: "No, there is nothing left, look."
He tentatively handed the phone to the woman. The woman took a cautious look at it, her eyes widened immediately, and she took her phone and searched carefully, muttering, "It's really not there. Am I dreaming? Impossible, impossible, I'm dead, this is the truth! How can it be false? Then what about my things? Where are they? How can I not find them? How could it be!"
She squatted down holding the phone, brushed her hair, gritted her teeth, and threw the phone away angrily. Blood began to flow from her face, dripping, and the ground was dyed red. Its body was also undergoing changes, and it looked increasingly huge and terrifying.
It seemed to be getting out of control.
Paradise said, "Calm down."
The woman cried out, "I'm already dead! Am I supposed to stay calm until I disappear completely? What do you know?"
Leyuan said, "When you were alive, you definitely didn't feel the same way as you do now, did you? You feel the same way because you are dead. Dead people are probably more emotional than living people. I understand that, but there is no point in being anxious. You might as well think of a solution. Even though it's not on your phone, it may be stored on your phone so it may be somewhere else."
The woman paused and asked hesitantly, "You mean, the photo album is not there, but I can check out the backup and other content that has been uploaded to the cloud disk?"
She said thoughtfully, "Then I can take a look."
As she spoke, the dark energy lingering around her lessened a little, her body gradually returned to normal, and she seemed to be in a stable mood.
Leyuan picked up the phone and tried it twice. The woman came over and asked, "What's wrong? It won't open?"
Leyuan nodded: "Yes, it can't be opened. It seems to have been broken."
The woman muttered, "Let me see it? This phone is of really poor quality."
Leyuan handed her the phone and said, "You are quite strong."
The woman blushed. "Isn't this anger? When I was alive, I didn't lose my temper. I don't know what happened after I died, but I didn't have this much strength before."
Leyuan said: "After death, when you become angry or emotional, your power may increase, because your current state is almost a collection of energy."
The woman asked, "What? I don't seem to understand what you are saying."
Paradise said, “I guess your mood affects your situation.”
The woman was uninterested. "Oh, it was almost the same when I was alive, except that when I was alive, I probably relied on adrenaline in my body, but now that I'm dead, I'll have to rely on something else. Forget it, don't tell me about this, I don't want to hear it. It would be great if this matter could be resolved as soon as possible."
Leyuan responded and asked, "Did you find anything?"
The woman thought for a moment and said, "You seem to have a computer at home. Log in to my account and have a look."
Le Yuan said, "Then shall we go back now?"
The woman nodded.
We walked back from the park and it felt like the day was about to dawn. When we opened the door, the exhausted owner asked, "Why did you go out? I woke up in the middle of the night and tried to look for you, but couldn't find you. I thought something had happened to you."
Leyuan said, "Nothing. I thought you were sleeping over there and wouldn't come to see me, so I went out for a walk."
The owner asked: "Walking?"
He pulled the corner of his mouth and laughed, "You are really humorous. Going out at night is not safe in the first place, and you still take a walk. Are you afraid that you won't be outside for too many unsafe hours at night?"
The owner of the car looked around and asked, "You didn't bring anything dirty that shouldn't be taken home, did you?"
Paradise said, “No.”
The woman was in the house before he came, so she couldn't be brought back from outside.
The owner was skeptical: "Well, if you bring anything back from outside, I won't let you in. Otherwise, I really can't live here anymore."
He asked, "Come to think of it, when you went out for a walk at night, did you see anything unusual in the house before you went out for a walk?"
Leyuan asked in confusion: "When you came, was the door open or closed?"
The car owner said: "Of course it is closed. Even if I saw the door was open, I would still close it. Otherwise, how can I be safe?"
Leyuan asked: "When you came in, did you see the red candles on the living room table?"
The car owner asked in confusion: "What red candles? Are you bewitched by a ghost and think there is something?"
As he spoke, he wanted to reach out his hand to test the temperature of Leyuan's forehead to confirm whether he had a fever so as to send him to the hospital as soon as possible.
Leyuan waved his hand away, frowned and said, "Didn't you see it? Maybe I saw it wrongly. It's nothing, don't touch me, didn't you get some rest at night? Aren't you sleepy? Go and get some rest. I have something else to do, so I won't bother you anymore."
The owner of the car stopped Leyuan and asked, "Hey, you're just taking a walk at night, but what else did you do when you came back? How come I didn't know? I live here, don't I have the right to know this? Besides, didn't you even have a place to live before? What else did you do? Who would look for you? If you have friends, I'm afraid you won't see me. Explain yourself! What's going on?"
Leyuan asked: "Do you not want me to hide the truth or do you not want me to deceive you?"
The owner of the car, Dudu Sen, grumbled late at night: "I don't want to do either. It's not a good thing to be deceived or to be kept in the dark."
Leyuan said, "That's really troublesome. I will tell you my story in a concise manner. After you listen to it, don't be afraid or question me, because what I say is the truth."
The car owner looked around the park doubtfully, as if thinking about how to knock the man unconscious so that he could be sent to the hospital as quickly as possible: "You tell me, and I'll tell you after I hear you, whether you are lying to me or deliberately hiding something from me that I shouldn't have done."
Leyuan smiled and said, "I saw a ghost in this room at night. It said it had unfulfilled wishes, so I followed it out to do something. Now the work is not finished yet, and the person is still beside you. But you look like you didn't see it at all, so I can't do anything. Whether you can see it or not seems to depend on its thoughts. You are holding me here, and it is a little angry because of the time."
The car owner said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stop you, I just felt very strange and scared, I couldn't find anyone else here, I could only look for you, I thought it was safer to be with you, because you are different from me, you don't seem to be afraid of those things, I thought you were very brave, who knew, there are such things?
You didn't tell me anything before, but when I drove you last time, I did feel something was wrong, but I didn't think about it carefully. Now I remember it, could it be that you saw a ghost before?"
Leyuan thought thoughtfully: "In a sense, the abnormality you saw before and the abnormality now are indeed similar. If we want to call them the same, we can say they are ghosts or not. However, for the sake of convenience and saving time, yes, your guess is not wrong at all."
When Leyuan was talking, he glanced at his side. The car owner followed his gaze and looked over there. There was no one there. The car owner suddenly felt a chill coming over him. He didn't know where it was cold, but he felt cold all over. It was probably because he was afraid. He touched the goose bumps on his arms, held up his sleeves, and smiled at Leyuan, "Okay."
Leyuan asked, "Do you believe it?"
The car owner said, "It's useless for me to not believe it. This place is indeed a little weirder than other places. And since you said so, I can't refute you. Didn't you say you have something else to do? So, after you finish your business, come and find me. I live next door. If you want to move back, it's not impossible. However, if this place is not safe, I won't agree!"
Leyuan nodded: "Okay, then you can go to the next door to rest."
The car owner walked to the door tremblingly and turned his head to look. For a moment, he saw the shadow of a woman with long hair right next to the paradise.
Leyuan asked, “What’s wrong?”
The car owner said with his legs limp: "Sorry, I'm leaving now."
Rakuen nodded.
The owner ran to the next door and quickly hid in bed, mumbling, "I'm safe, I'm safe. Nothing happened, nothing happened. OK, OK, go to sleep now."
He covered his head with the quilt.
Leyuan closed the door and looked at the woman beside him: "Go turn on the computer."
The woman said, "It's almost dawn, and I don't have enough strength to open the computer. You go."
Leyuan responded, "Okay."
He entered the room, turned on the computer, looked at the woman and asked, "Would you please enter the account number and password?"
The woman nodded, hesitated, and shook her head. "I'm afraid I can't press the button. My power is fading."
Leyuan nodded: "Then I'll do it. You read it to me. Do you remember it?"
The woman nodded. "I remember."
Paradise said, "Okay, you tell me."
The woman read out the numbers, and Leyuan logged into the account. She found that there was indeed a backup here. It seemed that the person who deleted it did not think about it, or left it on purpose, but Leyuan did not think it might be the latter.
The woman came over and stared at the computer screen for a while: "It is indeed this video."
Its expression twisted, its brows wrinkled, and it looked like it was about to cry. Its lips were pale, its body was shaking, tears were falling one by one, blood was flowing from its face, and its body was gradually becoming transparent, and it looked like it was about to dissipate.
Leyuan asked: "How about you go out and I'll watch it alone, and then I'll invite you in and tell you what's in the video?"
The woman turned around, wiped her face, and floated to the door. She paused, turned back, and took a deep breath: "No, I want to see it. I'm dead, what else can I hide from? No matter how hard I try, I can't escape. This is me. I can't live anymore. I can't even fulfill my last wish before I die! I can accept it, please open it."
As she spoke, she was still shedding tears and sobbing in her throat. Blood was gradually oozing out of the cracks in the floor, and the surrounding white area turned slightly black, as if some mold or mildew was growing there.
Leyuan hesitated for a moment, nodded, and opened the video.
The video starts with a woman putting on makeup, with her home as the background. She then walks on the road, talking to the camera while showing the scenery on the road. She then gets in a car, adds special effects to the camera, and makes all kinds of faces. Suddenly, there is a commotion around her. The woman frowns and looks, seeing a group of people getting in the car. She whispers to the camera that these people are annoying, and suddenly she screams.
The car was quiet for a short while, and then there was a louder noise, and a series of footsteps that were not obvious amid the noise. A man's voice spoke, and it seemed that he was talking to the passenger next to him. From the edge of the camera, you can see that the person is wearing light-colored and beautiful clothes. It's a girl who is putting on makeup and there is not much dust.
The girl was pulled up. The woman was stunned for a moment, frowned in confusion, and the situation became a little quieter.
The man said that girls putting on makeup in the car is indecent behavior in public and needs to be stopped.
"Please come with us."
The man's voice said to the girl next door.
The woman's eyebrows twitched, and she felt a little impatient.
The girl cried and said, "I didn't! How can putting on makeup be considered excessive? I didn't sprinkle makeup powder on others. The passenger sitting next to me can testify that I didn't accidentally dirty or hit her! Why did you do this to me?"
The man said, "Putting makeup on in a car is dangerous and indecent in public. You are wrong. You have a problem. You need to come with us."
As he spoke, he seemed to take action and tried to pull the person away by force.
The girl cried and shouted: "I didn't! I won't go! What are you doing?"
The car was still noisy, but compared to before, there was an inexplicable feeling of silence.
Everyone is turning a blind eye, everyone wants to protect themselves, and everyone is thinking about how to make themselves happy and how to maximize their own interests.
Someone raised their phone and started recording. Soon a man's voice said, "I'm sorry, sirs and madams, we don't allow private filming here. It may infringe on others' portrait rights. This is wrong. Please cooperate with our work."
The woman finally couldn't help herself and stood up and said, "Why are you holding her? Let her go! Let her go! It's not illegal to put on makeup, why don't you allow it?"
"Ma'am, this is a public place, this is not allowed."
"What's wrong with saving time? What's wrong with putting on makeup? Don't you put on makeup too? Why? Companies can ask employees to wear makeup to work, but ordinary people can't try to save time and put on makeup in the car? I was sitting next to her, and I didn't think there was a problem. You guys weren't around, so what do you think is wrong? What's happened to you?"
The people around him either lowered their heads, closed their eyes, or shouted fearlessly, "Tsk! It's easy for you to say that, but the public account is very clear and has already released the relevant video. Putting on makeup in a car with a group of people is indecent behavior. Didn't you see the video? Or did you clearly see it but are you still making a fuss here? You should just let go as soon as possible and let them take the person away.
Anyway, they won't beat her or scold her, so what's the big deal? It's just a trip, maybe you'll be back soon. Since you all think you're right, why are you afraid of walking all the way? You won't die. We all saw how she put on makeup, and there was a child who was choked. Otherwise, why do you think the child was coughing? The sound was so loud! It's so annoying.
It's all because of you, you are so selfish, you actually did this in public, it's so uncivilized, so rude, and so inconsiderate! This is all your fault, why don't you admit it? You don't think that just because you are a woman, it doesn't matter, do you? It's not like you can be forgiven just because you are a woman. "
The woman said angrily, "Nonsense! When did I ever say that? And you still forgive me! Is it your turn to forgive me? Who do you think you are? The Father God or the Judge? I don't think she is wrong. You are quarreling and making a fuss. You don't think you are wrong, but you think others are wrong? Who are the selfish people? It's you! It's useless for you to deny it. The facts are here."
The man snorted and said with a smile, "The facts are here. It's useless for you to deny it. You both made mistakes. Why are you still arguing about it? I think both of you should go."
The woman said angrily, "You! How can you say such a thing? You are so rude."
The man asked, "I just said what you said to me. How can it be impolite? Or is it impolite for others to repeat what you said to you? What nonsense!"
He clicked his tongue and shook his head.
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