Chi Yan was also upset when she saw the water cutoff notice outside the bathroom. After thinking about it, she suggested to Song Jin, "I remember turning over from the west wall of the school and walking west to find a public bathroom within five minutes. Just grab something and just dash."
Song Jin agreed as soon as he heard it. The school was gated at night, but almost all the boys had tossed in and out from the west wall on the west side of the playground, which was nothing to them.
The bathroom was open until eleven o'clock in the evening, and when Chi Yan and Song Jin arrived, it was almost closing time, and there were people leaving in twos and threes. The two paid the money, and the guard at the door gave them the wardrobe key and reminded: "Hurry up, it's almost time."
Song Jin nodded and didn't take it to heart. They planned to take a shower, and if there were guests who didn't finish their baths, they would usually close five or ten minutes late, so they would definitely be able to make it in time.
The bathroom was very crudely built, just like the public bathhouses that many units in the north had 20 or 30 years ago. There was a circle of shower heads around, and there was a bathtub in the middle that few people used. Later, with the improvement of housing conditions, basically every household would leave a bathroom in their own home, and this kind of public bathhouse gradually disappeared.
When they were in their third year of high school, the school moved to the new area of R city. The new area is relatively remote and is said to be the key area for future development, but it has not yet developed, and the urban population is still mainly concentrated in the former old city, which makes it seem Somewhat remote. There are many migrant workers who live here in order to save rent. Usually, they come to these public baths after get off work to relieve their fatigue. Moreover, it is close to the railway station and bus station, and some short-term tourists also come here in summer. Take a shower, so there are a few more public bathrooms like this near the school. The one closest to the school is the oldest, the most dilapidated, and the cheapest.
Chi Yan and Song Jin just wanted to wash and quickly go back to have a good rest, so they didn't need to be picky about the environment. They took off their clothes and took the bath supplies and rushed in. When they entered, two other people were walking out with their shower heads closed. The bathroom area is not small, except for the two people who just left, there are only two or three people under the shower head, but it seems that it has reached the final stage.
The bathroom in the middle was empty, and the row of lights inside was broken and flickered. The two of them picked up two useful shower heads and started to wash.
He didn't need to take a shower, so Song Jinzui started talking when he was free, "Zhizi, I'll teach you a math problem. From the Internet, there is a person taking a bath in a bathroom similar to ours. When he came in, he saw the bathroom. There were three people, five people under the shower head, and four people came in while he was washing. Two people left the bath directly, and one person left under the shower head. He and the other two people entered the bath one after another. Looking around in the pool, I found that there are seven people under the shower head. Are you right?"
Chi Yan thought for a while: "Think about it this way, it's all based on the person's own situation. There were nine people in the bathroom, three people left, four people came, and there should be ten people. There were three people in the bathroom, and they left. Two people came, three people came, there should be four people, then there should be six people under the shower head, wrong calculation."
Song Jin said dryly, "This was originally a ghost story."
Chi Yan looked at him with a complicated expression: "In the middle of the night, in the wilderness, don't tell ghost stories like this."
Song Jin sneered and said, "This is just made up. Whoever has nothing to do and take a shower has made such a clear picture of the number of people."
While they were talking, three more people washed and packed up and went out. The sound of opening and locking boxes in the outer locker room could be clearly heard. Soon, these sounds also disappeared.
Chi Yan urged: "Hurry up and wash, don't talk anymore, we are left, the concierge should come in and chase people later."
Song Jin said: "It's okay, there is another one who came ahead of us."
He pouted behind Chi Yan, Chi Yan turned to look, and sure enough, behind him, there were two showerheads and a person was taking a bath with the water on his back.
He intuitively felt that something was wrong, and it seemed that there was no one there when he came in. He whispered to Song Jin, "Da Song, did you see that person when you came in?"
Song Jin shook his head: "I didn't pay attention. When I first came in, I hurriedly looked for the shower head and wanted to wash it quickly. Just now I was talking to you while washing my hair. I kept my eyes closed and didn't pay attention."
Chi Yan also kept facing Song Jin and turned his back to the man, and did not notice when the other party appeared, or that the other party was always there, but he didn't pay attention when he came in.
He turned his head and glanced at the back again. The other party still turned his back to him, lowered his head, and rubbed his hands on his head, as if he was washing his hair. Part of his sight made him unable to see clearly.
At this moment, the doorman's rough shout came from outside: "It's 11:50, the eighteenth and the nineteenth are coming out soon, the two of you are left."
Chi Yan and Song Jin looked down at the number plates in their hands at the same time, Chi Yan No. 18 and Song Jin No. 19.
The doorman's muttering and complaining came in vaguely along with the footsteps of kicking and leaving: "It's time to close the door, you can't leave if you don't leave."
Song Jin smiled and said in a low voice, "Is the concierge wrong?"
Chi Yan turned to look at the man. "He" was still in the shampooing posture with his back to them, his head lowered, and his hands on his head.
He didn't know how to talk to his friends for a while.
If he's not wrong, it shouldn't be human.
Chi Yan lowered Song Jin and whispered, "Did you hear what the concierge said just now? 'Come out sooner on the eighteenth and nineteenth, only the two of you are left', there are only two people who can go out, that thing It's an earthbound spirit, it can't get out."
Speaking of which, Chi Yan swallowed her saliva in fear: "Unless it goes out as one of us."
Song Jin was frightened all of a sudden, Chi Yan said it too true, he just felt horrified, and the cold hair stood up one by one. He turned his eyes and didn't even dare to look in that direction. He shivered and said, "... How, how can I borrow it?"
Chi Yan didn't speak, looked at him silently, as if thinking about something.
Half of his face was shrouded in the shadow of the bathroom, and his eyes were calm, but he saw Song Jin's hair was fluttering.
He swallowed his saliva and lowered his voice: "...Are you Chi Yan?"
Chi Yan nodded lightly, made a silent gesture, then poured the light green aloe vera shower gel on the palm of his left hand, grabbed Song Jin's arm with his right hand, dipped the shower gel on the back of his hand and quickly drew a At the same time, he whispered and quickly instructed: "Be careful not to rub it off. You go straight out, that thing can feel that you have something in your hand, and there is still one person to choose from, so it will not risk chasing you. Listen to me. Leave me alone, I have a way, otherwise none of us can escape."
Song Jin's whole body was tensed by fear, and he forced himself to calm down. Although he still didn't know what was going on at this time, he chose to believe Chi Yan's words. So he nodded his head and walked out normally.
Chi Yan watched Song Jin disappear from the door, and he put his heart down and raised it again. There was a cool feeling behind him, a feeling he was all too familiar with, the feeling of being stared at by that kind of thing.
He knew the thing was staring at him.
It wants to go, kill him, and it can get out.
Chi Yan stretched out his hand and gently rubbed the small porcelain bottle on his chest, trying to overcome the tension and fear in his heart.
He was murdered by ghosts as a child, more than once. Ordinary ghosts and resentful ghosts are afraid of the evil spirits in his body and do not dare to get close, but not those savage and evil ghosts who deliberately harmed him because he was a late grandson. They hid in the dark, trying time and time again to kill him. So he is still instinctively afraid of these things.
When he was weakest and helpless, in countless nights of fear, it was that person who held him in his arms to coax and comfort him, so that he could settle down and fall asleep.
Chi Yan lifted the porcelain bottle and kissed it lightly, took it off, wrapped it around his right hand, wiped off the shower gel at the same time, and quickly drew an exorcism talisman on his left hand.
The jar was given to him by the man. He has been away from the Chi family for two years, and he can't get any news about the other party anymore. These Tianshi families all claim to be hidden in the city. It is extremely difficult for ordinary people to find them, but it makes him unable to even send a letter. past. Just when he thought that the other party had probably forgotten him, he received a gift from him during the Chinese New Year this year, which happened to be delivered on his eighteenth birthday on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
The packaging of the gift is simple. There is only this porcelain bottle and a note inside. The note is simply written in familiar handwriting with the words "For my baby, take it with you." After Chi Yan took it, it didn't work. She put it in her hand and looked at it carefully. She couldn't bear to put it down for a moment. After finding a black rope tied to the porcelain vase, she quickly put the porcelain vase around her neck.
He didn't know what the gift was at first, but it took a few days to see the effect.
In the past, Chi Yan never dared to expose his body in public, and he did not dare to take a bath in a public bathroom. In summer, he tried to wear dark clothes, because he had a red pen on his chest and shoulders to suppress evil spirits. The evil energy in one's own body, if it is seen by others, it will definitely make people feel too weird.
No one in the Chi family cares about him. The only mother who cares about him is an ordinary person who has no ability or right to speak in the Chi family. This evil talisman is drawn every time by that person. Usually it is enough to redraw once a month, but when he was still at home, that person would draw him once a week. After leaving Chi's house, Chi Yan began to learn to draw by himself. The one on his back couldn't reach him, so he simply stopped drawing. The remaining three were able to quell the evil spirit in his body.
Chi Yan originally only wore that porcelain vase as an ordinary ornament, but it was only because the gift-giving people cherished it, and gradually discovered the extraordinary thing about this porcelain vase—it could not only suppress the evil energy in his body, but also ordinary demons and ghosts would not dare to approach it.