Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the scenery passing by outside the car window, turned her head silently and said nothing.
Even though she didn't speak, someone behind her kept talking, and had been talking for an hour without any intention of stopping.
"Then I told him that if he didn't want to break up, he should get married quickly. But he didn't want to break up or get married. What do you think he meant by that..."
Yuan Yuanyuan rested her chin on one hand and pretended not to hear. The taxi turned into a familiar street corner and would soon arrive home.
"His friends all say I'm acting... How could I be acting like that? I've been with him for so many years, and I just want to get married..."
The girl's complaining voice continued to come from the back seat until the taxi slowly stopped.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the sky, and when she got off the car to pay, she suddenly said to the driver, "Go home early, uncle. Don't drive around this area recently. The security around here is not good."
"This one?" The uncle poked his head out to take a look. "I heard that a murder happened here a while ago. Is that true?"
"Really? That alley in front is said to be very scary." Yuan Yuanyuan said as she closed the car door.
A grass carp and a box of milk.
Yuan Yuanyuan carried the milk upstairs. The voice behind her kept saying, "My best friend said that he just doesn't love me, so he doesn't want to marry me, but he can't find anyone better, so he keeps hanging on..."
In the empty corridor, there was only the sound of one person's footsteps. Yuan Yuanyuan walked slowly through the corridor. The light bulb above her head flickered for some reason and then stabilized again.
There are all kinds of small advertisements posted in the corridor, including those for sewer cleaning, network cable repair, cram school, and takeaway...
Various colorful advertisements put together, with the flickering voice-controlled lights above head, look a bit scary.
"Hey, what is going on here... Can you help me think about it? I'll help you carry the milk..." The girl's voice behind her finally came to a halt. Yuan Yuanyuan changed her posture and carried the milk on her shoulders. She sniffed the air and found that the neighbors were not at home.
That's right... In broad daylight, who would stay at home at this time except someone like her who has a reversed day and night schedule
Yuan Yuanyuan put down the milk and looked for the key to open the door. Her tone was full of helplessness. "Girl, you can't move the milk. Also, I've never been in a relationship, so how do I know these things..."
"But do you look friendly to me..." the girl behind me whispered.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't want to talk nonsense with her, but she still felt a little pitiful when she saw her like this. While taking out her keys, she turned around and said to the girl, "Girl, don't think about it. For such a thing, it's hard to find a man."
She opened the door and turned around to see the girl behind her standing there with a confused look on her face.
Her expression now was a little strange, even though she had been talking all the way and seemed like a very talkative girl.
However, at this moment, she looked at Yuan Yuanyuan's open door and suddenly became quiet.
Yuan Yuanyuan opened the door wide and stood at the door waiting for a long time. The girl just stood there, neither moving nor making a sound, just looking at her.
After waiting for about a minute, Yuan Yuanyuan sighed and reached out to grab the girl's hand behind her.
The girl’s hands were icy cold and pale, with deep cuts on them, so deep that you could see the bones…
The door was closed gently, and the lights that had been flickering in the corridor returned to normal, slowly becoming warm again.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan was biting on a dried fish and reading a novel. The light in the living room was on, illuminating the room.
On the ground in front of her was a brazier with unburned ashes and sporadic sparks in it.
After turning a page of the book, Yuan Yuanyuan picked up another small dried fish. The room was very quiet, without any sound.
After a while, she looked at the time, put down the book, picked up the unburned paper money and gold ingots, put them together, and put them away together with the brazier.
If she met people who were unable to reincarnate, Yuan Yuanyuan would usually take them into her home, burn some paper, recite some sutra, and help them reincarnate sooner.
This is actually not a difficult task for most monsters, but apart from Yuan Yuanyuan, there are probably few monsters who would be so idle as to do this.
After all, let alone those humans who cannot be reincarnated, even the living humans can actually become food for monsters in most cases...
Ahem, Yuan Yuanyuan turned a page of the novel and tried not to think about such heavy stuff.
In fact, she has always felt that she is quite like the "traitor" in TV dramas to some extent... She is in Cao's camp but her heart is with Han. Although she enjoys the protection of monsters and lives in the circle of monsters, she still considers herself a human being in her heart.
From this perspective, those people who said that the "man in black" would die miserably... To some extent, it is not without reason.
However, Yuan Yuanyuan has been living like this for the past few years. No one taught her survival skills, and no one guided her. Even her means of saving her life were figured out bit by bit by herself.
The news about the man in black has gradually died down. He only appeared once and then disappeared quietly. Yuan Yuanyuan felt that her life was gradually returning to normal, so she has been in a good mood these days.
She put down the novel in her hand and just happened to hear Xiaoying from next door coming home from school. Ever since that incident when she almost got into trouble, Xiaoying stopped going to cram school and went home on time after school every day.
Xiaoying got out of school early these days, and she even found a girl who was going the same way to school with her. The two of them chatted all the way, and the girl sometimes even stayed at Xiaoying's house for dinner.
Yuan Yuanyuan turned over. This building was very old and the sound insulation was poor. Plus, her hearing was better than most people, so she could hear Xiaoying's voice clearly.
"I swear what I said is true! I'm definitely not lying to you!" Xiaoying's voice faintly came from the other end of the corridor, "You still don't believe me, so I'll only tell you about this."
"Okay, okay." Another girl's voice rang out, her tone full of helplessness, "Even if what you said is true, it's not our business. Can you stop being so excited?"
"How can I not be excited!" Xiaoying's voice suddenly became louder, but she forced it down again.
Yuan Yuanyuan listened to the conversation between the two little girls and thought that these two people were truly invincible in their youth.
I remember that when she was in middle school, she would often chat with her best friends after school, complaining about her teachers, classmates, and discussing the BL novels she had secretly read the night before.
Yuan Yuanyuan was always holding onto her best friend, talking non-stop. At the time, she didn’t understand why her best friend always had a half-dead tone when facing her. Later, she realized that she was indeed annoying enough…
She turned over again and listened to Xiaoying continue talking behind her, "You also came with me to see it. We compared the details bit by bit. Are they exactly the same?"
"It's exactly the same, but what I mean is, just forget about it. Whether it's true or not, it's not something you should get involved in." Another female voice rang out, "You will definitely not survive one episode if you get involved like this. It's already a blessing from God that you've lived for so many extra episodes. Have a good sleep and stop thinking about it."
“… I just wanted to say thank you.” Xiaoying’s muffled voice rang out, “At least you saved my life. I didn’t even see your face clearly, and I don’t even know your name.”
Yuan Yuanyuan, who was in the bedroom, slowly put down the book in her hand. She silently looked towards the corridor. The ear tree was so tall that she was almost sticking to the door to listen.
"I thought you were amazing." Xiaoying's voice had already reached Yuan Yuanyuan's door. "Come with me to eat. I'm stewing pork ribs tonight..."
"Sister Yuanyuan! Are you there? We have stewed pork ribs tonight. Do you want to eat some?" Yuanyuan was eavesdropping attentively when she was suddenly startled by a knock on the door.
She was so frightened that she immediately jumped off the bed and walked a few steps to the door to open it. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Xiaoying standing at her door with a girl who was also in school uniform.
"Xiaoying, you brought your classmates back." Yuan Yuanyuan was still a little confused and said subconsciously.
"Yes, Sister Yuanyuan, are you alone?" Xiaoying asked.
"Hmm." Yuan Yuanyuan said, "Pork ribs... I won't eat them. Go eat with your classmates."
She looked at Xiaoying's back as she took her classmates home, and her mind was still a little confused.
Does Xiaoying also watch "Demon Records"
She remembered that when she was in high school, she was not allowed to see anything, even her cell phone was an old one, and all information from the outside world was blocked. She was completely in a prisoner-like state.
I didn’t expect that students nowadays are so happy.
Yuan Yuanyuan had never expected Xiaoying to read "Yao Ji". Firstly, the comic book had only been out for about a month and was not very well-known. Secondly, she remembered that when she was in middle school, most of the popular things among students were physical comics or novels, which were easy to hide and borrow from each other. Basically, whatever the bookstore next door sold was popular among students...
Um... So when she was in middle school, Mengman was not very well-known.
…Maybe because Mengman has published physical comics in recent years, it has gradually become popular among students.
Yuan Yuanyuan continued to eavesdrop on the voices from next door:
"Do you think that man in black is a good guy or a bad guy? Why would a monster like him help humans?"
"Hmm... So he is a good monster." The girl brought back by Xiaoying said, "Don't worry, it seems that the man in black is very powerful and can definitely hide himself. What you need to pay attention to now is to never tell anyone else about this, otherwise I'm afraid someone will cause trouble for you."
Yuan Yuanyuan couldn't help but nodded when she heard this. She thought to herself that she had finally met someone reliable. This girl was clear-headed and could probably help Xiaoying avoid a lot of trouble.
She returned to the bedroom, looked at the small yellow light beside the bed, and thought for a while. It seemed that "Monster Records" would be updated again tonight. She would take a look at what would happen next. Maybe she could find some useful information from it.
With this thought in mind, Yuan Yuanyuan opened the Mengman app.
Unexpectedly, the first second after she clicked on "Demon Records", she was stunned.
In the picture, a man in a black windbreaker is sitting in a taxi, looking out the window quietly.
There was a female ghost in white floating behind him, constantly nagging, "Then I told him that if he didn't want to break up, he should get married quickly. But he didn't want to break up, nor did he want to get married. What do you think he meant by that..."
"Fuck!" At the same time, a swear word came from next door, so loud that Yuan Yuanyuan could hear it. However, she didn't care at all at this moment, but stared blankly at the screen of her mobile phone.
No one knew that these were the two words she wanted to say at that moment, and these two words were constantly replaying in her mind...