The world was gray, as if it would rain at any time. Chi Shen looked up at the sky and followed the little girl along the river.
This kind of world reminded him of when he was still in the death game, where it was dark most of the time, and there was no sunshine during the occasional daytime. The sky was always gloomy, and there were always ghosts squatting in the corners.
Li Xu's dream made him feel like he had returned to that world, but he did not overreact to it, as he knew very well that he had escaped from the death game.
Chi Shen adjusted his sleeves to make the ghost face fit more smoothly on them.
Not long after they walked, a bridge spanning the two banks appeared in the gray fog. A woman in a blue and white floral dress stood on the bridge, staring at them.
She was a sweet-looking woman with her hair blown up in a Hong Kong style. The look in her eyes was eerie and dead, as if she wanted to stare a hole through them.
"This is a female ghost," the ghost face on his sleeve reminded Chi Shen in a low voice, his voice trembling slightly, "The girl you followed is also a female ghost, they are all... very powerful."
"Thank you." Chi Shen replied.
"You'd better stay away from them. They are not easy to mess with. Just answer whatever they say. Don't make them angry, and don't take the initiative to talk to them," Ghost Face said quickly and quietly, "Forget about this little girl. If you want to find someone, you must follow her. Let's find the man and leave. I will take you out. I don't want to die here with you."
Chi Shen: “Okay.”
Ghost Face muttered uneasily: "This place is too weird, and everything is weird. Why are there so many ghosts? Can the ghosts that follow him come into his dream? I have to get out quickly, and it's better to get out now. Why did I come in to this place? It shouldn't be..."
Chi Shen had already walked under the bridge, less than ten meters away from the woman in the floral dress, who was still looking at him.
"Hurry up!" Ghost Face's voice became urgent. They couldn't get out because they were being targeted by the girl in the floral dress!
Chi Shen raised his face and looked towards the bridge with a smile.
The woman in the floral dress immediately took a step back.
"Long time no see." Chi Shen raised his hand and greeted the woman in the floral dress under the horrified gaze of the ghost face.
The woman in the floral dress immediately took a step back, turned around and ran away quickly.
Chi Shen's smile froze on his face, and Gui Lian's frightened expression also froze on his face.
Chi Shen put down his hands awkwardly. He felt that he should say something to cover up his mistake, but he didn't know what to say. He could only pull his sleeves, flicked his cuffs, and pretended that he hadn't said anything just now.
"Aunt Zhao has been waiting for someone here," the little girl said sweetly while eating candy, "She said she will definitely be able to wait."
Chi Shen thought of the file that Li Xu gave him, on which was written the name of the victim, Zhao, who was also the last name of the girl in the floral skirt.
It was just that the floral dress he saw in his dream was very different from the usual one. Apart from that dress, the two of them were not alike at all. The floral dress outside had dry skin and it was almost impossible to tell what she looked like. Anyone who saw her would say she was a ghost. But the floral dress here looked no different from an ordinary person. She even wore light makeup, looking beautiful and fresh.
The same goes for the little girl. Outside, the little girl had no lower body and was covered in blood, but here, she was a girl wearing a beautiful dress and had a healthy body.
Li Xu's dreams seemed to be able to complete some of the evil spirits' obsessions, so Chi Shen could understand why these evil spirits liked him.
After walking across the bridge, a residential area appeared in front of Chi Shen. It was an ordinary community, but Chi Shen felt a sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen this place somewhere.
A crow stood on the gatepost at the entrance of the community, looking at the few people with its dark eyes.
"Uncle lives in Unit 2, Room 8-6." The little girl stopped at the gate of the community and said to Chi Shen.
Chi Shen smiled and touched her head: "Okay, won't you come in with me?"
"It's going to rain," the little girl said, pointing to a place outside the community. "I'm going to the kindergarten. I can't run around when it rains. I have to stay in the kindergarten."
Chi Shen looked in that direction and saw indeed a kindergarten standing in the drifting gray fog. From time to time, one or two sharp and ethereal children's laughter could be heard from inside. Although the kindergarten was clearly far away, the laughter seemed to be ringing in their ears.
Listening to the laughter, Gui Lian trembled slightly on Chi Shen's sleeve.
Chi Shen didn't care at all and said with a smile: "Then you go to school quickly, I will go in alone."
"Then goodbye, brother!" the little girl shouted, ran two steps and turned back, looking at Chi Shen, "Brother, remember to hold an umbrella when it rains."
"Thank you, I understand." Chi Shen agreed.
After the little girl left, Chi Shen did not stop. He slowly walked into the community. Suddenly, a thunder exploded in the sky. The crow at the door cried out, flapped its wings and flew away.
It's really going to rain.
"Umbrella..." Chi Shen touched his chin and thought, "Where can I find an umbrella?"
For some reason, after hearing Chi Shen's question, Gui Lian immediately became nervous. He didn't even dare to say a word or move. He silently shrank himself and tried to reduce his presence.
Chi Shen looked around and his eyes lit up when he saw the security guard. He walked over and took a look inside. There was no one inside. He skillfully reached out and opened the door of the security booth through the window, then walked around inside and found a black umbrella.
Seeing Chi Shen holding a black umbrella, Ghost Face suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, restored himself to normal size, and whispered: "It's so weird here, let's go quickly."
Chi Shen walked to the door and opened his umbrella.
Another flash of lightning flashed, and raindrops fell. The crow flying in the sky was splashed by a drop of rain. It suddenly gave up flapping its wings, and more rain fell on it. It quickly turned into a ball of black ink and fell from the sky.
The raindrops also fell at Chi Shen's feet. The water drops splashing at Chi Shen's feet formed crying faces. Chi Shen raised his umbrella slightly and looked up at the sky.
There seemed to be wind in the clouds, revealing three huge holes, which looked like a human face, and the pouring rain was the human face crying.
"Our CEO Li, is he so fragile inside?" Chi Shen thought and muttered, "He looks quite normal at ordinary times, but I didn't expect that he is crying inside every day."
Ghost Face: "...It's normal for you to see your boss with which eye! And the dream is full of ghosts, what does it have to do with inner fragility! The one in the sky is obviously a ghost, not his inner cry!"
Amid Gui Lian's complaints, Chi Shen found Unit 2 holding an umbrella. He folded the umbrella and went in. A drop of rain accidentally splashed on his sleeve.
His sleeves immediately began to melt as if they were on fire, and rain splashed onto his ghost face. His expression turned to sadness, and he immediately began to cry, with his entire face distorted.
Chi Shen raised his other hand and grabbed a drop of transparent rain from his sleeve. It was a transparent sad human face. He threw the face outside the corridor. The face quickly turned into rain and merged with other rain and human faces, becoming indistinguishable from each other.
The rain was caught, and Ghost Face stopped crying. His originally pale face looked even paler, even a little blue. His voice still carried the fear of surviving a catastrophe: "I...it can change my emotions. It wants me to die. I almost committed suicide just now because of it."
At the end of his speech, his voice was trembling.
"Emotional ghost." Chi Shen concluded calmly.
Lightning streaked across the sky, and a dark shadow loomed in the corridor. Illuminated by the lightning, Chi Shen and Gui Lian both saw that the dark shadow was smiling grimly, revealing a row of neat and pale teeth.
"Get out now!" The ghost face twisted uneasily on Chi Shen's sleeve, and immediately slid from the cuff to Chi Shen's shoulder, "I'll open the door right away, right away... What's going on?"
Ghostface's shrill voice echoed in the dim corridor: "Why? It can't be opened! I can't open it!"
"You're so noisy," Chi Shen rubbed his ears and said helplessly, "If you can't open it, go up and take a look."
The ghost face had slid from his shoulder to his back. He didn't dare to speak. He could only tremble and stay away from the ghost in the corridor.
Chi Shen was holding a black umbrella and passed by the black shadow to take the elevator. The ghost face immediately slid to the right of Chi Shen, far away from the ghost shadow, but the ghost shadow just looked at them with bloodshot eyes, without any movement, and kept staring at them until they got into the elevator.
When he came to the elevator door, Guimian moved uneasily again. He wanted to ask Chi Shen, do you really want to take the elevator? Do you really want to take the elevator in this extremely weird place?
But when he thought about what Chi Shen had just said about him being noisy, he didn't dare to say it out loud.
He regretted it. He shouldn't have followed Li Xu when he saw him today. He shouldn't have entered the tea room. And he shouldn't have thought that this handsome man was easy to bully when he saw him coming in to get water and followed the water flow into the cup.
He never expected that the young man who looked normal and even delicious actually had two faces and threatened the ghost to do such a terrible thing!
If he could get out, he would definitely be a good ghost in the future, stay in the water and never hurt anyone again!
Chi Shen walked into the elevator very calmly with an umbrella, looking as if he had returned home. However, as soon as he entered, the elevator suddenly rang.
Overloaded.
The elevator was empty, with only Chi Shen in it.
The ghost face slid nervously back to Chi Shen's sleeve and looked left and right in fear.
Chi Shen looked at the ghost face, then looked at the black umbrella he was holding.
When his eyes fell on the ghost face, the ghost face hurriedly said: "I am very light, I only have a face, it's not me!"
Chi Shen pinched its mouth helplessly: "As a ghost, why are you so afraid of ghosts? You are more afraid than an ordinary person like me. Are you embarrassing your fellow ghosts like this?"
The ghost face whimpered twice, wanting to cry but without tears: Do you really think you are an ordinary person!
Chi Shen took the black umbrella out of the elevator. The rain that slid down from the tip of the umbrella slowly fell on the floor of the elevator, gathering into a number of transparent crying faces. Chi Shen stepped on them, and those faces quickly shattered and turned into ordinary rain.
The overload prompt stopped, Chi Shen pressed the elevator button and went to the eighth floor.
In front of the door of 8-2, wet handprints appeared on the security door. The handprints were very clear, as if someone had just knocked on the door.
The humidity on this floor was getting heavier and heavier, and there were even drops of water hanging on the walls.
"The yin energy is so strong." Ghost Face said softly.
"It's a familiar smell." Chi Shen smiled, and that smile seemed very happy.
He had spent hundreds of years in such a world, from the initial panic and fear to the final numbness. He did not expect that he would be able to smell this smell again in a dream world.
The taste of death game.
Chi Shen did not open the security door. He turned around and walked towards the public balcony.
Looking at the rain outside the balcony, Ghost Face suddenly had a bad premonition and shouted in fear: "What are you going to do! Ah, come back quickly——"
Chi Shen ignored his shouts and jumped out from the balcony. The rain hit his body. Transparent faces cried and tried to get into his clothes. Soon, those crying faces turned into fear and came out of his clothes in groups.
Black ghost energy overflowed from his body, undulating on the surface of his clothes like ink, and all the crying faces it touched turned into rain and disappeared.
The world seemed to have changed its rules under Chi Shen's feet. Chi Shen stood on the wall, but it was as if he was walking on flat ground. The world turned upside down because of him. He walked around the wall calmly, came to the balcony of 8-2, and stepped in.
Ghost Face's screaming finally stopped. He crawled out of Chi Shen's pocket trembling and looked up at the house.
The house was very quiet, with only the sound of water splashing coming from the bathroom. The sound was strange, as if someone was playing with water in the bathroom.
Chi Shen walked straight into the bathroom without any hesitation.
There were indeed people playing in the water. Li Xu was completely submerged in the bathtub, struggling weakly with his hands and feet, and seemed about to drown in the bathtub.
"Your ability is still useful." Chi Shen shook the ghost face on his sleeve, "Look, it really affected him."
Ghost Face: "...Don't spit blood on me, this is none of my business!"
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There won't be a double update today. I'll adjust my work and rest schedule and try to get back to the 12 o'clock update, and I'll update more on the weekend to make up for it!
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