Chapter 4: An extra person has come out

Jiang Luo looks hard into the mirror.

The voice laughed twice more and said with interest, "What an interesting story."

Chi You How could you show up at this time!

Jiang Luo's feet were already off the ground and he was barely propping himself up on his toes, tugging at his neck with both hands in an attempt to get more oxygen against the mist, but after one failed attempt, his face went completely gloomy.

The mist takes on no human form and twists and turns behind Jiang Luo. The eerie, ghastly voice is still humming the tune Jiang Luo has just hummed, the lively tune becoming treacherous, the lovely tune becoming cold and twisted.

It is logical that Chi You is nowhere near presentable, even on the seventh day of his life, and he cannot return to his soul.

Jiang Luo's heart and lungs are running low on oxygen, his sweat sticking to his hair, his face faintly green. The beautiful young man, beautiful even in this wretched state, struggles, straining against the trackless mist, like a weak, pathetic flowerbone.

Most people would be uncomfortable watching such a flowerbone lose its life in their hands. But for a small minority, it is a way for them to appreciate beauty.

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

Chi You is one of these few.

His faint hum is more pleasant, his grey, foggy palms tighten and Jiang Luo has one foot on the edge of death.

Chi You will really kill him.

What a fucking lunatic, obviously interested in him, but trying to kill him even earlier than in the original article.

Jiang Luo looked hard at the mirror, his mind becoming extraordinarily clear and even extraordinarily calm at this moment. He remembered what Ye Xun had said, that mirrors have the power of reflection and are of the yin genus. The toilet was already filthy and the mirror in the toilet was even more obscure.

If the mirror is destroyed, then will Chi You disappear with it?

The idea is a gamble, a gamble that is too risky.

But not to move is to die.

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

The square mirror incorporates this gluey, frightening scene as Jiang Luo lifts a leg to step on the sink, bending it into a beautiful long bow from his spine to his slender leg.

His dark hair swept down over his shoulders, the strands he had only just tidied becoming dishevelled once more. Beads of sweat slid down Jiang Luo's face to his lower jaw as he struggled to take in a breath of oxygen and suddenly flashed a sweet smile at the mirror.

Jiang Luo's face, flushed from lack of oxygen, was as drunk as if he was intoxicated, Jiang Luo squinted his eyes, the shadow of his eyelashes falling over his lower eyelids, candlelight like light and darkness, yet suffused with a sweet and tender feeling of love, "Chi You ......"

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

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

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

He didn't even try to cheat Chi You either.

When confronted by Chi You, Jiang Luo shows his purest malice as he looks at the evil spirit with a widening smile on his lips, "Everyone knows you love me."

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

The thought came so violently and quickly that it immediately shattered any other plans Jiang Luo had. The cold water poured down from his skull and shivers spread throughout his body in a matter of moments.

Showing weakness, showing what weakness?

What's with the innocence again?

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

He's not innocent, and he doesn't bother to play the ridiculous little pity party in front of Chi You.

If Chi You and he knew each other well, and if Chi You was interested in him and wanted to kill him, then why not make things worse.

You are a dead man, you cannot speak at this time.

Even if you hate me, you are still the image of love for me in the eyes of others.

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

The pretty young man's face was once again tinged with arrogance, flamboyant and unbridled, the charm of classical beauty broken, but with an additional layer of eye-catching and tricky thorns than the previous appearance.

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

Jiang Luo smiled brightly in the mirror again and then, with the force he had built up, he spun around and kicked the mirror.

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

Boom!

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

Jiang Luo falls heavily into the shards of glass, Lu Youyi runs to help him up, Ye Xun stands in front of them both with a serious look.

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

Jiang Luo's shoulders shook and Lu Youyi thought he was crying, but Jiang Luo looked up with a smile, his cheeks flushed as if he were slightly drunk, and he touched the horrible bruise on his neck and said in a dreamy, dreamy tone: "Chi You just came to me."

Lu Youyi's eyes went wide: "What?!"

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

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

The bruises on his neck could not be faked and Lu Youyi stammered, "Really, really?"

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

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

"People and ghosts are different," Ye Xun said with a sullen face, glancing darkly warningly past Jiang Luo, "when people die, they never come back to life. The living cannot be with the dead, it is the law of yin and yang."

Lu Youyi repeated what Ye Xun said with his eyes blank: "Yes, Ye Xun is right ...... Chi You brother how could he do such a thing ......"

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

Lu Youyi's head was spinning as they walked out of the bathroom. Ye Xun, as if he was afraid Jiang Luo wouldn't be able to think straight, turned on the TV and found a positive social channel, trying to teach Jiang Luo the value of life.

When an inspirational video interview with a bagman finished, Ye Xun turned off the TV and handed the doll to Jiang Luo to hold while he stood at the desk.

Jiang Luo looks up at the clock, eleven fifteen minutes.

The hour of the son arrives.

Ye Xun lit an incense stick and thrust it straight up into the white rice with one hand, right to the bottom of the bowl. The incense stood straight up in front of the mirror, and after Ye Xun had lit it, he picked up a yellow talisman and lit it close to the long incense, placing the half-burned talisman in the bowl filled with water.

Jiang Luo vaguely saw the yellow talisman, which was a "ghost hunting talisman".

Miraculously, the fire-stained talisman was still burning after it was put into the water, and when the yellow talisman had finished burning, the water turned into a bowl of grey-black muddy water.

Ye Xun respectfully carries the muddy water in both hands and pours it into a bowl of white rice, then stares intently at the cigarette.

The long cigarette smoke drifts and wavers gently upwards.

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

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

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

The grandmother at the door smiled formally, 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 grandmother looked at him with a smile and then glanced into the room and admonished, "Go to sleep, don't stay up late."

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

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

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

The old woman shook her head, but halfway through the shake, as if remembering something, she paused in her shake and her expression became hesitant.

When Lu Youyi saw that something was up, he immediately asked, "Grandma, can you tell me about the strange things you encountered?"

The old man moved slowly to look around, hesitantly looked at Lu Youyi again and whispered, "There is something wrong with my daughter-in-law."

Lu Youyi froze, "What's wrong?"

The old man took two steps forward, held his hand over his mouth and rambled, "She won't let my grandson eat ...... just this month, she's become much worse, she's often angry at my son and hits my grandson."

"I, I was a bit scared when I saw 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, "A month ago, that's when the three girls disappeared."

Lu Youyi said, "That's too much of a coincidence."

Ye Xun hammered home the point: "Go and see the boss's wife tomorrow."

The old man gave him a bowl of noodles with two fried eggs and spicy and sour shredded potatoes. Jiang Luo wasn't hungry, but he had a craving for a bowl of noodles in a sparse soup.

"Even the shredded potatoes are good," said Lu Youyi, whose face was about to take shape as he ate his way through his emotions, "what kind of food do we eat in the school canteen?"

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

"Am I rich?" Lu Youyi looked up at them blankly and fiddled with his six-figure watch, "I don't know, I'm not interested in money."

Ye Xun: "......"

Jiang Luo: "......"

Jiang Luo almost spat at Lu Youyi when he saw the incense on the table and changed his expression, "The incense has changed!"

The cigarette, which had previously been rising in a straight line, suddenly cluttered up and turned to drift towards the door of the room.

Ye Xun and Lu Youyi immediately get up, Ye Xun washes his hands, picks up the fragrant rice and walks out. Lu Youyi pulls Jiang Luo into the middle and walks 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, going to either side.

Ye Xun looks to his left, then to his right, and is silent for a moment, "Which way are we going?"

Lu Youyi said casually, "Left."

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

Lu Youyi said indifferently, "Then it's the right side."

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

Lu Youyi: "......"

Jiang Luo suggests, "So, separate?"

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

Jiang Luo turns his head and asks, " Ye Xun has trouble choosing?"

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

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

The sound was like a ball rolling down the stairs, bouncing up and down again, and the group stopped on their feet at the sudden sound of such a noise in the middle of the night.

But suddenly, all at once, the light inside the staircase went out.

Lu Youyi said in a shaky voice, "Ye Xun, Jiang Luo?"

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

Lu Youyi settled down a little: "Why did the lights suddenly go out?

His words came to a screeching halt.

For the sound of the leather ball, which kept ringing upstairs, suddenly stopped, and after a brief silence, approached them again with a speed two or three times faster than a moment before.

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

The ball rolled down the field at speed and the sound became increasingly urgent.

Lu Youyi was creeped out and couldn't help but grab Jiang Luo's shirt. Jiang Luo laughed and said, "Lu Youyi, you're even more of a wimp than I am."

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

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

As they talked, the sound of the ball had reached the stairs on their upper level, and Jiang Luo's heartbeat was pounding faster and faster as Lu Youyi transmitted it, and just as he was on the alert, the sound suddenly died out.

Silence rears its head.

But such a silence, which is nothing less than the calm before the storm, makes one feel nothing but shivers.

Ye Xun suddenly said, "The cigarette is drifting back."

Lu Youyi said, "You saw it?"

Ye Xun said, "I can smell it."

That would be proof that just now, something had passed in front of them.

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

The three men turned around again and carefully walked back.

Jiang Luo, who had a good memory and was familiar with the design, touched it and said with disappointment, "It's not a trip, it's a loss of power."

The three men stood here for a few moments contemplating life, when Jiang Luo's ears suddenly twitched and he said keenly, "What's that noise!"

The sound of a dinging phone rings at the source of the corridor.

Lu Youyi: "Grass!"

They looked towards the source, pitch black, a blackness where nothing could be seen, and after looking long enough it seemed as if some danger and monster was hiding in the darkness, ready to swallow them up.

Ye Xun led the way and said calmly, "Someone answer the phone, I can't with the incense."

Jiang Luo was nudged by Lu Youyi and reluctantly picked up the phone, "Hello?"

The boss's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Hello, hello, hello, is that Mr. Jiang?"

Jiang Luo instantly felt like he had come back to earth from the underworld, "It's me, boss, we have a power outage in this building."

"Yes, I was just about to tell you about that," the owner said embarrassingly, "I forgot to mention during the day that we've been doing road repairs here recently and the circuit is unstable and sometimes the power goes out. Our hotel's backup power supply is in the studio, so you can just turn on the switch for the backup power."

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

Jiang Luo still remembers the location of the studio. As they cautiously made their way to the studio, the person behind them tugged on the hem of the person in front of them for fear that they would fall together. Jiang Luo felt that Lu Youyi, who was tugging at him behind him, was getting stronger and stronger, almost pulling his clothes, "Lu Youyi, you need to be less strong.

Lu Youyi replied, "Fine, fine."

After a few seconds, Jiang Luo was still feeling uncomfortable, "Did you really hear what I said?"

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

Jiang Luo subconsciously said he was sorry, but Lu Youyi said indignantly as if he didn't feel it, "Why didn't I hear you, I'm not less strong?"

All Jiang Luo's words choked in his throat, a cold sweat breaking out at the end of his nose, " Lu Youyi, don't you hurt?"

Lu Youyi said curiously, "What hurts?"

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

Lu Youyi: "Hmm?"

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