When the students were about to leave, Wei Rou dragged her suitcase to the phone booth outside and called home.
"Mom, it's me."
She held the phone in her hand, her eyes were red, and she tried her best not to let her mother hear the clues from her voice.
"I'm not going back tonight. I drove too early and I missed it. I'll go home tomorrow morning."
There was a voice of mother's promise, and she promised to prepare delicious dishes for her when she came back. It was okay when she called, but when the phone was put down, tears immediately fell from Wei Rou's face.
She came out wiping her tears, and handed over a tissue, Wei Rou took it with lowered eyes, and said in a low voice, "Thank you."
Wei Mingyan looked at her crying face full of tears, stood aside and said, "If you are afraid, don't go."
Wei Rou wiped her tears and shook her head, choked up and said, "I won't be afraid in a while."
"Remember, after entering, burn the piece of paper and break the pen they are holding. If those things want to stop you, just pretend you didn't see them. As long as you don't look at them, they can't hurt you."
Wei Rou nodded vigorously after listening to his words.
Wei Mingyan looked at the girl in front of him with red and swollen crying eyes, but her face was full of determination. After a moment of silence, she suddenly asked, "Don't you blame me for going with you?"
"What's your fault?"
Wei Rou wiped away her tears, raised her head and smiled at the boy opposite, "You have nothing to do with us, I can't let you accompany me to die."
Wei Mingyan looked at her, "You go, don't worry, you won't die."
"If something goes wrong, I will save you."
Wei Rou nodded gratefully.
"Thanks."
She has already thanked Wei Mingyan very much, after all, it is love to help others, and it is duty not to help. If the accident this time is not two friends but ordinary classmates, even Wei Rou herself will not take the risk.
Before parting, Wei Rou couldn't help asking, "May I ask, why does Bixian want to harm people?"
"That's not a pen fairy. The pen fairy that people have always thought of is actually just some ghosts."
Wei Mingyan didn't hide it either, and told Wei Rou directly, "People light candles and use pens to conjure spirits. If there are ghosts nearby, they will be attracted by the candle's incense. In the past, the legend of the pen fairy is just that the ghosts ate the incense. Repay the guests and answer some questions. Wait until the incense is exhausted and the questions are finished, and the guests are asked to send away the ghosts. The two parties are like completing a transaction. After the questions are asked, the transaction is over."
Wei Rou was thoughtful, "Is it really because Momo and the others didn't send Bixian away?"
"No."
Wei Mingyan shook his head, "There are no ghosts in this school."
Wei Rou was stunned, "But what I saw with my own eyes last time..."
"Those are not ghosts, at best they are disabled spirits, just like mentally retarded people, they can't think, they only act on instinct."
"These things are attracted by the incense. After eating the incense, they will find a way to kill the person who brought them. The person who originally recruited them dies. There is no connection between them and her." , naturally return to the original place to wander until the next guest appears, but last time your two roommates Zhao Bixian actually used white candles."
"White candles have always been used by the dead. These disabled spirits were more or less enshrined by relatives when they first died. When they saw white candles, those who were not interested in them also came. What you saw that day was the whole school." The remnant spirits are attracted here."
Wei Rou recalled the scene she saw that day, dense white shadows crowded the corridor with numb faces, and the room was also full.
There are so many in their school...
"In fact, most of the schools below are former mass graves."
Wei Mingyan looked at the high gate of the school from a distance, and explained, "Don't worry, disabled spirits need to be triggered to appear. It's going to get you into trouble."
He looked at Wei Rou as if he was relieved, and then said goodbye to her, watching the girl dragging her suitcase back to school.
It is true that Remnant Spirits will not appear without triggering conditions, but Wei Rou is not as lucky as others.
The disabled spirits provoked by others have nothing to do with her, but as long as she sees them, those mentally retarded things like mad dogs will chase after the innocent Wei Rou.
Until it scared her to death.
It seemed to be getting darker and darker. Wei Mingyan stood outside the school gate, looked in the direction of the teaching building, and walked away.
His footsteps were very light, and there was no sound when he landed on the ground. It seemed that he was just walking a few steps slowly, but he quickly disappeared on that street.
***
twelve o'clock in the morning
It was very windy tonight, and even though the windows and doors were closed, I could still hear the whine of the wind blowing outside.
Cai Momo and Zheng Hua sat in their seats silently.
They sat quietly for a long time. They were so afraid of the dark before, but now they feel that they are going to die, but they are not so afraid.
In the darkness, Cai Momo said, "I'm sorry Zheng Hua, I shouldn't have blamed you before."
"I shouldn't have hit you either."
Zheng Hua wiped away her tears and said softly, "Actually, I've always been very happy to meet you."
"So do I. If we really die, we'll be together in the next life."
"let's start."
"Um."
The two sat where they sat last time, and held the pen.
"Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, I am your past life, you are my present life..."
[—]
What they couldn't see was that as the candles were lit, the white shadows who were wandering in the school all walked towards the teaching building, and some of them were even closer, and they even moved closer to the two of them. , dripping blood hair dragged on the ground, wet Cai Momo's shoes.
The seemingly empty classroom was quickly filled with greedy and pale ghost faces. They were crowded and stood beside the two girls.
Waiting, they read the rest.
Cai Momo and Zheng Hua closed their eyes tightly, and firmly held the pen in their hands.
"If you want to continue your relationship with me..."
-"boom!"
The door was flung open and the lights came on.
Wei Rou silently said "I can't see, I can't see" in her heart, and rushed all the way in front of the two of them, snatching the pen from their hands and breaking it under their surprised eyes.
[—]
The remnant spirits stepped forward angrily and howled sharply. Wei Rou kept a pale face, ignoring the long black nails that were about to poke in front of her, grabbed the paper on the table, and was about to put it on the candle and light it.
The moment they were about to put it on, the three of them suddenly felt cold.
The candle extinguished without wind.
Both Cai Momo and Zheng Hua stood up, looking at her in bewilderment.
"Wei Rou, you..."
The light suddenly went out again, and the two screamed in fright, and quickly moved to Wei Rou's side.
Wei Rou gritted her teeth and took out the lighter.
When the light from the lighter sounded, the surrounding spirits suddenly howled, and various white shadows and bloodstains appeared in front of Wei Rou.
She is not afraid, she is not afraid, she is not afraid.
Wei Ming said, these are mentally retarded and mentally retarded!
Wei Rou's hands shook violently, and she put the paper on the fire.
[ah--]
Someone was screaming, as if a sonic weapon had exploded in his ear, Wei Rou's brain went blank after being shocked, and she wiped her nose in a daze, and it actually bled.
As soon as the bloodstains came out, the white shadows who had just left because things were destroyed all stopped in their tracks.
Hundreds of pale faces stared at Wei Rou.
Finally, the first residual spirit stretched out his hand.
It stood upside down, approached Wei Rou ferociously, and turned its neck stiffly.
[Slightly - slightly -]
[You... can see me...]
A gust of wind passed by, the windows were blown open by the wind, and the curtains fluttered everywhere.
Under the moonlight, Cai Momo and Zheng Hua also saw the scene in the room clearly.
"ah!!!"
Under their screams, the disabled spirit who was standing upside down showed a sinister smile at Wei Rou.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
It folded back and stretched out its hand, as if it had just crawled out of the ground, [You...can see me...]
That hand held Wei Rou's leg, with long nails exerting force.
A book was slammed into its hand.
It was obviously just a book, but the dry and disgusting thin arm was billowing with white smoke.
[Ah ah ah—]
It screamed sternly, and stared resentfully at the direction where the book was thrown at itself.
A boy in a woolen sweater came in with leather shoes and a stack of books.
Ignoring the remnant spirit's dodge, he slammed on it one by one.
"What's wrong with seeing you? I can see you! Come! Hit me!"
"Boom, boom, boom, I heard you from afar!"
"It's not that you jumped to your death, what the hell!"
[Ah ah ah—]
Remnant Ling avoided the thud, but was still hit by books one after another. Where the books hit, the rotten body seemed to be burned by a raging fire, and white smoke was exposed. Looking at the scene in front of him , the white shadows around were filled with fear.
As soon as Wei Mingyan turned around, those who jumped off the building jumped off the building, and those who escaped from the ground, only the handstand remnant spirit was left hiding in the corner covered in white smoke.
Wei Rou lay limp on the ground, watching the boy take out a milk bottle.
In the dark, he moved the milk bottle against the upside-down remnant a few times, and then, as if he couldn't hold it, he simply grabbed his foot and threw it down from the upstairs.
[Ah ah ah—]
The howling sound of the remnant spirit disappeared along with the height of the building.
Cai Momo and Zheng Hua were frightened out of their wits.
Wei Rou was similar, she looked gratefully at the back of the young man in front of her, only to find that he hadn't looked back for a long time, propped herself up and sat up and called out: "Wei Mingyan..."
Under the moonlight, the boy slowly turned around.
He looked at Wei Rou. From this angle, only she could see his face. On his handsome face, there was a blood-red scar under the boy's right eye. It was not very big, but it was scary to look at. He had healed up, but now he was going down. dripping with blood.
— "Tick tock, tick tock..."
Wei Mingyan lowered his head slightly, and raised his right hand to cover his eyes.
Seeing Wei Rou staring at him blankly, the young man shrugged, pretending not to care, "I didn't want you to see it."
He stretched out his left hand, and pressed the tip of his slender, white index finger to his lips, "Shh, keep it a secret."