As night fell completely, Gu Cheng walked on the streets of Yicheng, his pace was still neither hurry nor slow.

The crowd coming and going would not have thought that he was looking for someone who had passed away.

Or maybe I'm waiting for a ghost to find him.

Time points to 8:30.

"I'm back to Baicheng!"

Gu Cheng said something with his cell phone on the street, then turned around and walked towards the station.

If she deliberately hides without showing her head and finds a lonely ghost in the huge Yicheng, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Before entering the station, he looked back and saw that there was still no figure on the streets.

Since she is looking for herself, she will not just forget it after seeing this today. When a person dies, he will stay in the world because of obsession, but obsession cannot maintain her existence. The final result of not being reincarnated will disappear.

The ticket has been changed to 9 o'clock, and it's time to go back.

The train roared forward.

Sitting in the car back and looking at the endless night outside the window, Gu Cheng's thoughts gradually drifted away.

The past and present have changed, but only the bright moon remains the same.

At about 11 o'clock, the train arrived in Baicheng. The station was still lively at night. The uncle and aunt holding hands with cards were particularly busy when the train arrived at the station.

"Brother, are you staying there?"

"Young man, can you go online? You can sleep..."

"Hotel!"

"Where to go? It's cheap to take a bus!"

Gu Cheng walked out step by step with a mask, getting rid of the greeting of the aunt who was recruiting guests.

Naturally no one answered it so late. I took out my cell phone to contact an online car-hailing car, and went north along Nantang Road. The white new energy vehicle passed through the night and drove steadily into the narrow road behind the tall buildings.

These are old houses from the 1980s and 1990s, and now they are urban villages. Compared with the new tall buildings in the distance, they seem to be left in time.

There is no noisy nightlife, and there is a small convenience store at the entrance of the alley with lights on. When the car arrives here, Gu Cheng gets out of the car.

The place where I live is a three-story courtyard. Gu Cheng did not enter the house, but climbed over the wall to the next door. The lights were still on in the courtyard next door, and an uncle in his thirties was supporting a small hot pot under the eaves.

For nearly a hundred years, this friend has been by my side.

"Do you remember Qing'er?"

Chen Hua, who was eating hot pot, couldn't help but turn around: "Have you seen her in Yicheng?"

"Um."

"How is she now?" Chen Hua asked.

The girl with bright eyes and white teeth back then was probably full of white hair now. Thinking of this, Chen Hua couldn't help but sigh.

Time is so merciless.

He didn't know why Gu Cheng left at the beginning, but he always had some speculations in his mind.

It's like this after living too long. Watching those familiar faces grow old one by one and then die. If this continues, you can avoid some ties.

"She is dead." Gu Cheng said.

Chen Hua stopped moving, and after a moment, he said, "Calculate the time and enjoy his old age."

"I died when I was very young." Gu Cheng said again.

Chen Hua's face was a little pale.

"Isn't you afraid, are you? She won't scare you." Gu Cheng was speechless. This man was extremely timid.

Chen Hua muttered in a low voice: "I'm afraid of ghosts, you don't know."

"There is no such thing in this world, it's just some poor people who don't want to leave."

Gu Cheng sighed, looked up at the sky, stood quietly for a moment, suddenly lost the intention to speak, turned around and left Chen Hua alone to eat hot pot.

When I went home, I turned on the lights. The living room was simply furnished. There was a sofa, a desk, and a few pots of flowers placed on the windowsill. In addition, there were some electrical appliances.

I sat on the sofa and rubbed my head, but the TV turned on twice.

A figure in white dress with black hair gradually approached the screen, then reached out and walked through the screen to the living room.

The whole process was silent, only ghosts with disheveled hair appeared twisting and appearing.

Gu Cheng put down his arm and sat on the sofa quietly watching the terrifying scene in front of him. There was no turmoil in his heart. Who was the one who came was? You could guess without lifting the black hair covering your face.

When she crawled out of the TV half of her body, Gu Cheng seemed to think of something and said, "You know that the Sadako you are pretending to be a man, do you know?"

The figure who was crawling out of the TV suddenly stopped.

"Actually, the original work is a science fiction novel. Sadako is not a ghost, it is just a virus in the virtual world... It can be explained like this, it is quite good. I suggest you read it. I see you are still reading."

The atmosphere was broken, and her hideous expression gradually calmed down, staring at the person in front of her.

"I'm pretending to be Sadako and scaring you. Are you sure you want to tell me whether Sadako is a man or a woman, and whether the original work is terrifying or science fiction...a damn thing?"

"It's quite scary."

Gu Cheng nodded and did not ask her how she came from - it was obvious that he was secretly following him when he was in Yicheng, but he just didn't show up.

Maybe he was on the empty seats of other cars, or maybe he was sitting directly on the roof of the train and came back with him.

He picked up the teapot and took out two cups. The figure in white came out of the TV and stood in front of him, looking at Gu Cheng's slender fingers without saying a word.

Just like when he was sitting in a teahouse listening to storytelling, he poured tea in this way, savored it slowly, and listened slowly.

The girl looked straight at the man in front of her. After decades, she was dead. Only then did she touch the deepest secret. The gentleman in a blue shirt thought he was just a strange man, but now he seemed more complicated, and he was not quite the same as what she knew.

Gu Cheng pushed the cup to her, and when he raised his head, he remembered that she no longer had to drink water.

"How long have you lived?" the girl asked.

"It's a long time, long time." Gu Cheng thought for a while and continued, "I once drank and talked to Sima Guang."

"You are so disgusting when you pretend to be young. In the past so many years, you have become a few years younger."

"When you are in your thirties, someone always comes to ask why you don't get married and whether you should help introduce it..." Gu Cheng spread his hands, "You know, gossip is the most annoying thing."

"Then when will you die?" she continued.

"It may not be that day."

"What a pity."

The girl felt very sorry. Even if she didn't speak, she could tell from her face at a glance.

Gu Cheng ignored her regret, but searched around the house, took out a few incense candles, lit them, inserted them into a small incense burner, and blue smoke rose up.

The girl looks complicated.

In this ordinary small building, a person who has lived for a long time is burning incense to a ghost.

"Why didn't you tell me before? You taught me a lot at that time."

"After that time, you were a human being." Gu Cheng said so, picking up the cup and taking a sip.

“Not now.”

"So now you know."

"well……"

The girl lowered her head and sighed quietly.

The doubts of the past had already dissipated most of the time when I saw him during the day. Why did he suddenly leave without saying goodbye? Why did he know so many things? Why...

Everything has the answer.

"Is this your secret? Hundreds and thousands of years..." The girl couldn't find a suitable word to describe it for a moment, and she remembered a movie she had watched.

"This world is too big. There will always be some strange things, some monsters, although not many are still alive."

Gu Cheng said lightly, breathing a sigh of relief: "And it's much more difficult to hide your identity than before."

He suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, that moment just now was really scary. Your Uncle Chen lives downstairs. Don't use this trick to scare him."

"He is still alive?" The girl was extremely surprised.

This kind of question is obviously very impolite, but in this situation, the girl who just came out of TV and a monster whose face has not changed for decades have no intention of offending.

"What kind of monsters are you?"

After the girl died, she realized that her master, Uncle Chen, and even Aunt... they had been living in a corner of the world pretending to be human.

Only she is an individual can know the truth after her death.

Looking at the girl's eyes, Gu Cheng recalled and said, "I met them in the snow when I was wandering around. At that time, he was tied up by a group of people and was about to burn them to death with a torch. I saved the couple. They should be the last vampire in the world - in his words, they are called the Vampire."

The old Chen and his wife were probably the most miserable blood clan. There was no castle, no manor, and no servants and housekeepers. When Gu Cheng met them, he was pitifully tied to wooden stakes, facing a group of humans holding dung forks, both excited and fearful.

Lost the face of the blood clan.
To be continued...