ghost！

By the time Chu Yi realized that besides the two baristas, everyone else had left the café, it was already 11:53 PM.

He was in a secluded corner, the surroundings eerily empty and unusually quiet because of the absence of people. The only sound in his ears was the rustling of the air conditioner blowing over the green plants behind him, leaves gently swaying. There wasn't even a trace of cicada chirping that typically echoed outdoors.

Seeing how late it was, Chu Yi quickly packed up, handed his cup to the barista, and turned to leave, embarking on the journey home alone.

Unconsciously, Chu Yi had already walked a short distance. He looked at the familiar street, and his sense of unease grew more intense.

On this night with hardly any wind, why was it so chilly? It wasn't the kind of cool breeze one feels on their skin; it was a bone-chilling cold that pierced through the soul and reached into the marrow of his bones.

Could it be true, as Bu Kao Pu mentioned, that in these days when the Gates of Hell were open, the Yin energy had intensified, and spirits were taking advantage to come out and play?

Once again thinking of the message Bu Kao Pu sent in the afternoon, Chu Yi couldn't deny feeling a bit afraid. However, as a staunch believer in science, he could only push these thoughts of ghosts and spirits to the back of his mind, shiver slightly, cross his arms, and continue walking towards a small alley ahead.

Little did he know, in the street he had just left, lay a paper effigy, covered gradually by joss paper thrown down from above, obscuring the face of the effigy. Or rather, it only covered the head and torso of the effigy, because the effigy had only a head and no face, which was quite frightening on this night.

As Chu Yi delved deeper into the alley, he noticed an increasingly absolute silence around him—no sound, no wind, not even the sound of his own footsteps. This was beyond the realm of science.

It was only now that Chu Yi realized if he were to turn back and leave, "they" probably wouldn't let him do so as he wished.

"Hey~"

"Hey~"

"Hey handsome~"

Upon entering the alley, the initial silence gradually faded away, and Chu Yi felt as though someone was speaking right next to his ear. As he ventured deeper, those voices became more frequent and clearer.

"What's going on?" Chu Yi suddenly turned his head to figure out who was playing tricks, but there was no one in the alley—just emptiness, like a broken ship heading to the netherworld, eerie and cold.

Chu Yi didn't notice the calendar hanging on the street, so naturally, he didn't see that today was July 15th on the lunar calendar, the time when the Gates of Hell were wide open.

"Hoo, I am in this world, I do not believe ghosts and men!" Chu Yi muttered quietly to himself, seeming to gain courage as long as he kept saying so.

"Ji Ji Ji Ji!" An evil laugh seemed to come from nowhere, echoing in Chu Yi's ears. He felt something was amiss but didn't do anything else except quicken his pace.

"Young man, a little further ahead, and you'll be gone, Ji Ji Ji Ji!"

"Oh, young man, don't be so excited! Just because you can't recite a few lines?"

"He's coming, he's coming! It's going to be fun, hehehe!"

"Let's see how he gets messed up by that gentleman!"

The eerie voices echoing in his ears intensified Chu Yi's fear. He completely believed everything Bu Kao Pu had told him earlier, realizing he had likely offended these good brothers.

He planned to stop and call Bu Kao Pu for help, but his phone had no signal all along. He could only keep running forward until he finally heard the "beep" of a successful call from his phone.

He hurriedly stopped, and the annoying voices around him quieted down, leaving only the sound of the phone connection.

Just as he thought the voices earlier were just illusions, they started to get noisy again in his ears, even louder than when he first entered the alley.

"Huh? Not leaving anymore?" A charming voice came through.

"Why aren't you leaving? Hurry up, hurry up, don't disturb your grandpa watching the show!"

"Oh no, not moving at a critical moment? How can this be? Let's help our brother."

With the voices trailing off, Chu Yi felt a sudden force push him forward. His feet slipped, and he saw himself about to crash into the wall.

"Damn it!" Chu Yi didn't crash into the wall but passed through a thick wall. He felt as if he had crossed an invisible barrier, his whole body being pulled down by gravity, passing through the earth. In a haze, it seemed he had arrived at a familiar place.

A feeling of weightlessness came over him, and Chu Yi couldn't help but faint.

He thought to himself: "Bu Kao Pu is really unreliable, I'm finished!"

"Hey, what's wrong? Hey?" Chu Yi's phone finally connected to that call, but he couldn't answer.

"Hey, classmate, where are you now?" After a long time without a reply, Bu Kao Pu also realized something was wrong and rushed out of the house in a hurry after packing up his tools.

"Wait, I don't know where he is!"

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As soon as Chu Yi opened his eyes, he realized that he collapsed in the entrance hall of his house, and the furnishings around him were more or less the same as they were before he left, except that the house was dark due to the fact that no lights were turned on.

He scanned the screen of his cell phone, the time was the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, 12:13 am. Then, he opened his cell phone communication, the last phone call record was the casual conversation with his old mom yesterday evening, missing the record of the call he just made to Bu leaned on Pu.

Could it be that I am dreaming? But in his hand, he still held the document that Li Cui gave him, not a dream.

He did go from the school to the cafe and then left to go home.

But the things in the alley were missing, including the phone records and the reason why he collapsed in the foyer for no reason.

Forget it, just think of it as a dream, Chuichi smiled bitterly.

He took off his shoes and walked all the way to the bedroom in the dark.

Push the bedroom door open a crack, a cloudy wind suddenly blew through, stirring up goosebumps, the atmosphere of the whole house in an instant changed.

The bedroom in front of him was foggy, and all the furniture was hidden under the thick haze, completely invisible. A sound of electricity rang out, and the TV downstairs automatically turned on, stopping at a snowy white page, which then vibrated continuously, with a few faint hints of ghastly laughter emanating from it.

The ears are louder and louder laughter, in front of the eyes is gradually dispersed haze, a wooden tombstone appeared in front of Chuyi's eyes, the original bedroom in a breath into an ancient mass grave.

A ray of moonlight passed through the dark clouds, casting eerie shadows on the tombstones, and a pale hand quietly and silently broke through the ground.

A blood-red thunderclap struck the tombstone belonging to the owner of that hand, which paused before frantically digging into the dirt.

First a complete arm and half of the body, and then the head and the other side of the body, his body with the plowed soil, gradually revealed in front of Chuyi.

Chu Yi had been too frightened to stand by the scene since the moment he opened the door. The fear in his eyes as the speed of the man planing the soil grows, his heart beating madly, cold sweat has long been wet shirt, but can only be like a statue, what action can not be done.

Quickly think of a way, what is the way?

Chu a brain running at a fast pace, a part of the past days have seen a ghost movie in front of the eyes of the multiplication of speed play, just to find a way to fight against the man in front of him.

He is a ghost? Or corpse?

Not waiting for him to think of a countermeasure, the man in front of him had already managed to crawl out of the dirt. With the moonlight at his back, he slightly inclined his head towards Chu Yi's direction.

Because the man had the moonlight on his back, Chu Yi couldn't see his expression, he could only see the murderous aura in his slender eyes that was so intense that it almost overflowed, and then his figure flashed and disappeared from Chu Yi's field of vision.

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Do you know what is the most frightening?

As a person who is afraid of cockroaches, the scary thing is not cockroaches in front of your eyes, but that would have been in front of your eyes of the cockroaches a smoke disappeared, you do not know where it is, wait until you turn around to realize that the cockroaches are on your shoulders quietly with you to stare at.

Chu Yi's afterglow saw the pale but bony hand on his shoulder, the slender fingers kept tightening, Chu Yi felt that half of his shoulder was about to be pinched off by the man who didn't know what kind of monster he was.

After just thinking, he already had a way to deal with the demonic monster in front of him. He struggled to calm his original disordered breathing, and then took a deep breath, fiercely closed his eyes, one hand grasped the man's hand on his shoulder, one hand violently pointing at the man, and then a series of profanity by him like a machine gun firing at the man in front of him like a crazy output.

Machine gun firing is completed, the magazine of bullets has been emptied, Chu Yi but found himself still holding the man's wrist in his hand.

No way, can't it be that this method doesn't work? But he has nothing to do, can only silently waiting for this man will eat himself into the belly? Chu a reluctant but helplessly clenched his fists, tightly closed eyes have been stained with a little wet.

Xun Ji color inexplicably looked at the Chu Yi in front of him was scared to the point of crying out, secretly sighed. He didn't want to do this either, but this couldn't be helped, wouldn't it be more frightening to let him pull himself out? Maybe he would even step on it a few more times, burying himself completely in the dirt and living a life of darkness.

Although it was tempting to continue to create a terrifying atmosphere to scare the person in front of him, his current situation did not allow him to do so.

Chu Yi was silent for a long time, and did not wait for the person in front of him to move, and was about to open his eyes to take a look, but Xun Ji's other hand covered his eyes, and the only thing left in his ears was that person's slightly broken and trembling voice.

"That... Can I borrow a set of clothes from you?" A flash of red quickly climbed up to the tip of Xun Ji's ear, and Xun Ji was somewhat at a loss as to what to do.

So, that's it? A male ghost with no clothes? It should not be a ghost, he has a physical body, so it is a poor male zombie who has no clothes to wear and can only threaten himself in exchange for a set of clothes?

Chu Yi couldn't hold back his laughter, he could only bite his lips tightly and hide his laughter, but he didn't know that his trembling shoulders had already exposed him, fortunately Xun Ji only thought that it was Chu Yi's expression of fear.

"Classmate, are you alright? I've come to save you!" As the words fell, with a large bag of talismans and a wooden sword, Bu Leaning Pu just barged into Chu Yi's house and flew up the stairs.

"Shit!" Xun Ji didn't have time to find a place to hide, and her naked appearance had already fallen into Bu Leaning Pu's eyes.

"Wow, sorry sorry sorry, I didn't see it ah, you guys continue, continue ahahaha." Bu Kao Pu to see such a scene is also very embarrassing, can only bring a bunch of things to run to the outside of the house squatting, while walking muttered: "Now the young people shall not have a good time!"

Xun Ji heard these words, and the red color at the tips of her ears deepened, and even her neck was tinted with a touch of red.

"Hurry up... Clothes! Please, oooh!" He almost choked again with some gnashing of teeth.