In the flash of lightning, Chuzhou seemed to have thought of something and suddenly opened his eyes wide.

He slowly turned around, but saw that the people in the elevator were full of confusion and staring at him in confusion. Chuzhou swept their faces one by one, and his head hurt even more. Many scenes flashed through his mind one by one. Chuzhou felt that he seemed to have grabbed something.

Chu Ci glanced at Chuzhou's face and frowned immediately and said:

"Brother, have you remembered it?"

Chuzhou's head hurts and he stares at Chu Ci in disbelief.

Chu Ci nodded silently and said in a deep voice: "Brother, come out!"

"Don't go out, something is wrong with your sister. She is probably a ghost!" Everyone in the elevator advised.

They are all office workers in the building and often see them when they are working in elevators. Although they have never said hello and don’t know each other’s names, Chuzhou can remember these faces. They are all very hard-working people, always going out early and coming back late, meeting in elevators at 7 o’clock in the morning and nine o’clock in the evening, and always remembering each other more clearly. Some of them are older and seem to be in high school. They often work overtime at this age. They should be under great pressure in life. Some are younger and seem to be not married yet. They say that they have an accent from other places. They are running around in this strange city, for the not-too-distant future. They may be thinking about taking root in this city, getting married, having children, settling down, and seeking a sense of belonging.

They are all people who can work hard, otherwise they would not have encountered them in the elevator on the New Year.

Chuzhou's face was much darker. He walked forward a few steps in a bit disappointed manner. The person behind him immediately shouted:

"How can you go out? She is a ghost! She has intentions for you. You will be safe only if you stay with us."

At this moment, Chuzhou's steps paused for a moment, and he looked at them with unbearable eyes.

"Have you all had the New Year's Eve dinner?"

The people in the elevator looked at each other in confusion, and then all shook their heads:

"No, my family knows that I work overtime and plans to have another New Year's Eve dinner in the evening."

"I don't have it either. I live alone. If I don't have a restaurant to eat tonight, I can only eat instant noodles."

"Neither, my wife took the children back to her hometown."

"I ate, but because I had to work overtime, I ate in a hurry."

Everyone was talking and saying a word. As soon as they finished speaking, as if to meet the situation, firecrackers suddenly sounded outside the building. This was always the case on the New Year. People seemed to set off fireworks whenever they wanted.

——

Chu Ci stared at them. There were seven people in the elevator. She looked at the one on the far left. He was about forty years old. He looked fair-skinned and pretty. He wore a short black slim down jacket, which made him look thinner. He seemed to be the kind of middle-aged man who was easy to see in this city. He was middle-aged but did not live well. It seemed that time had never given them anything except age. No one could remember what he looked like. But he still went out early and came back late every day, running around for his family. Life seemed to be like this every day.

Chu Ci stared at him and asked, "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"

The man was stunned and immediately wondered: "Why do you ask this? This question is strange, do you know?"

Chu Ci said again: "What unfulfilled wish do you have?"

The man suddenly laughed: "Do you think you are a Dingdang cat? You always help others realize their wishes? To be honest, I have no wishes. I have worked diligently all my life. I have a house in Shencheng and my hometown. I have settled my wife and children and parents. My children are sensible and virtuous. I really can't imagine what I have."

Chu Ci passed him and looked at the second person again. This was a middle-aged woman with an ordinary ponytail and black-framed glasses. Her cheeks were a little sunken, and she looked difficult to get close to. In fact, her reputation among her colleagues in the unit was also very bad, because she had strict requirements for her subordinates. She was afraid of her and often called her fierce behind her back. She must have been sexually discordant, so she came to the unit every day to get angry. But Chu Ci still saw from her appearance that her nature was not bad, but she lived a bad life. Her husband often had women outside and ignored her family and children. She not only had to take care of her children every day, but also had to bear the pressure of work when she arrived at the unit, dealing with the leaders' dissatisfaction with their subordinates' work performance all day long. She said good things to her subordinates, and strictly demanded them in front of her subordinates, so that her subordinates didn't miss her goodness, but she was actually a good person.

Such people are also very common, and many bosses in this city do this.

"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"

The woman was a little confused for a moment, not as easy to fool as before, and immediately frowned:

"What does this mean? Your words are very much like asking for last words. I think I'm offended."

Chu Ci didn't say anything and asked again: "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"

Something flashed through the woman's heart, but the feeling was so fast that she could not grasp it at all. Soon, an indescribable sour mood spread in her heart, like dripping into the bottom of the river, rippling from the inside out, and she also wanted to say that she had no wish, but how could it not be? If she was dead now, who would she not be able to let go of the most?

The woman suddenly said, "I can't let go of my son. My husband is uneasy. His relatives are also excellent. If I knew that I had money, I would definitely embezzle the money and would not be able to reach my son. But in fact, I secretly saved a private money and wanted to keep it for him to go to college. There were 250,000 yuan in it. Although this money was not much, it was all my savings."

Upon hearing this, Chu Ci nodded immediately: "Okay, I understand!"

Seeing this, the woman asked again: "What does it mean to ask this?"

Chu Ci sighed, "You will know when you wait."

She asked a few more people, most of them had no unfulfilled wishes until they came to the last person, who was a young man, and was a little impatient when he saw Chu Ci asking so many questions. When asked him, he snorted coldly:

"What does it mean? I think I am the savior and want to save the world?"

Chu Ci didn't say anything, but looked at him: "So, do you have an unfulfilled wish?"

The man called Zhou Hao, and he was stunned and frowned immediately: "What are you saying? You said so unlucky, it's like giving your last words! Who do you think you are? Just because you still want to come and save us? Ask us what we have? Okay, let me tell you, my unfulfilled wish is that I want to win the lottery once in my life. I want to have a lot of money, but I worked hard all my life and bought the lottery for a lifetime, but I didn't win a dollar."

——

Chu Ci didn't say anything, his eyes were taken back from him, he ignored him, but instead stared at everyone calmly.

"I believe you have some feelings in your heart so far? You should know why I asked you these questions?"

Everyone was stunned, as if they were trying to recall. Some of them frowned, some were confused, and some were sad. Obviously, several of them had already remembered one after another. The second middle-aged woman asked suddenly covered her face and started crying.

"My child... hasn't had time to say goodbye! Today is the Chinese New Year, how should he spend the next year?"

This sentence had a strong deep meaning, so that everyone else was stunned, and then fell into deep thought and recall. After a while, the atmosphere in the elevator began to change, and everyone's eyes were filled with tears, but there were still a few people who didn't understand and looked at others with confusion, unable to understand what the others were like.

"What's wrong with you!" Zhou Hao said impatiently: "It's the Chinese New Year at noon, and it's the New Year again. Those who don't know think we are all dead! Don't fucking jokes, okay? I'm living a good life, wearing a suit and a tie, and planning to work overtime during the New Year. You guys are doing it like a memorial service."

Chu Ci looked at Zhou Hao deeply and said, "Come with me!"

The whole elevator people walked out, and Chu Ci took them to the door of a company. There was a large mirror installed at the door of the company, with the purpose of tidying up clothes for employees. Chu Ci took them to the mirror and pointed at the mirror and said:

"Everyone looks in the mirror."

Everyone looked at the mirror in unison.

There is no one in the mirror.

They were looking in the mirror, but there was no portrait in the mirror.

At this moment, silence suddenly spread. Most people already understood a fact and expressed sadness. Only Zhou Hao said in confusion:

"Damn! What happened to the company's mirror today? It's not easy to use? This has never happened before!"

This company happens to be the company he works for. The company is well-known locally and has good employees' treatment. Unfortunately, he is a salesperson. The benefits generally depend on commissions. He worked for several months and his salary was not high. In order to become a regular next year, he worked hard and didn't even go back for the New Year.

Everyone felt unbearable when they heard what he said, and they covered their mouths and cried. A burst of crying came, which made Zhou Hao very impatient.

Chu Ci stared at him and said:

"The mirror is not broken, and it is you who have the problem! Don't you understand? A mirror can only be seen by looking at people or with physical objects. If an ordinary ghost is not good at doing well, especially a ghost who has a weak skill, and has just become a ghost, without physical objects, you cannot see the mirror. Even if you don't tell me, you should understand, what's going on, right?"

Everyone understood that except Zhou Hao, he suddenly shouted maniacly:

"What the hell do you mean! You have a ghost on the left and a ghost on the right and an unfulfilled wish. Every word is not auspicious. No matter how I think you don't look like a good person, just tell me the truth, what do you want to say? Do you want to say that we are all dead? All of us are dead in the elevator? You really can imagine that I will tell you that I am still waiting to go in and work overtime. The boss said that I will get three times overtime salary during the Chinese New Year, and I have to work overtime and pay my credit card. You can get out of here! I don't have time to listen to you whispering and say some weird things."

After saying that, he shouted to the people behind him: "Everyone goes back to their own company! Don't listen to the crazy people talking nonsense here!"

Then everyone didn't move, and the middle-aged woman cried:

"What else can I do overtime? All the people who work overtime are dead, and they still have to work overtime now? Am I so unhappy?"

"Woooooooo..." Everyone started crying.

Zhou Hao said angrily: "Can you all believe this woman's words? I believe we are all dead?"

Everyone was crying, and the middle-aged woman choked and said, "It's true! She didn't lie to me. I already remembered that it was difficult to take a taxi today. I took the subway and transferred to the company where the bus came. The bus we were on the road suddenly lost control and collided with a truck. The bus overturned to the ground. I was sitting by the window and before I lost consciousness. I only remember that my head hit the glass hard. The severe pain came, followed by a rapid shaking. Soon I lost consciousness."

"So too... I was standing at the time and was thrown away a lot, and I was unconscious on the spot."

"I remembered it. When I got in the car, I was wondering why so many people belonged to our building during the Chinese New Year."

"I remembered it too..."

These words hit Zhou Hao's heart, making his face change again and again. Finally, he remembered that in order to save money, he took the bus and there were so many people coming to the company during the Chinese New Year. He still felt strange, why are so many people staying here to work overtime? At that time, he was listening to music, which was his favorite singer's song. He was saving money and wanted to listen to his concert. He had a car accident when he heard the song halfway through. He forgot what happened to him, but he only remembered that he seemed to see himself standing at a high altitude. His head was covered in blood, and blood filled his whole face, including his eyes, making his face look extremely terrifying. Then, he couldn't seem to remember why he was lying there.

Afterwards, he and a few colleagues in the building rushed to the building together.

They gathered at the elevator door, and when Chuzhou arrived, they pressed the elevator, and everyone squeezed up. Zhou Hao thought it was very simple at the time. He wanted to arrive at the company early and work overtime early to get overtime pay.

Everyone thinks this way.

Zhou Hao still had the last bit of expectation, and pointed at Chuzhou and asked, "We are all dead, what about him? Is he dead too?"

Chu Ci shook his head, his tone was calm:

"He was not dead, but the strong impact of the car accident made his soul leave his body and his soul left, causing him to lose his memory for a short time. So much so that after his car accident, his first reaction was to pick up his briefcase and work overtime, and he was in a hurry to call the unfinished phone number."

When Chuzhou heard this, he was stunned. No wonder he saw another himself in the elevator and was calling.

It turned out that it was not another self, but his lost soul.

Chuzhou only felt that his mind was still empty and in a very chaotic state.

——

Upon hearing this, Zhou Hao suddenly squatted on the ground and cried loudly.

"Why? Why? Why? Why is it me? I am still so young and I work so hard. After graduating from college, I have been working hard for the future. I want to make a name for myself. I want to make money to marry my wife and buy a house, and bring my parents to the city to live. I want to make my children live a good life through my own efforts, unlike me who have been hungry and full since I was a child and never had a happy life. Why? Why is God so unfair to me? Why is it because I encountered such a disaster, why is it because it is not someone else? Why are those people walking on the road, their lives are very ordinary today, only me, and they died in a car accident? Why is God so cruel? Why!"

He cried with his knees, his head buried between his legs. When Chu Ci saw this, he sighed unconsciously.

“No reason.”

Zhou Hao suddenly raised his head and frowned and said, "What did you say?"

"I said there is no reason." Chu Ci's tone was very calm. "People are unfair since birth, right? No one stipulates that the world must be fair, including birth and death. Why do you ask why you die? Then others can also ask, why are you destined to be disabled when you are born? Why can you grow up safely until you are in your twenties, while some people die at birth? Why can you go to big cities even though you live in poverty, and some people starve to death early? You should learn to accept these things, right? Even if many things are not so perfect, we should not complain and question. All we can do is to be ourselves."

This may sound cruel, but it is actually Chu Ci's words in his heart.
To be continued...