Gu Yi did not know what was wrapped in that white handkerchief, but he could smell a sweet fragrance drifting through the air.
He seemed to have fallen under the spell of that fragrance, and without being able to control himself, he took the handkerchief.
He looked dazed, and his pupils were somewhat unfocused.
A voice in his heart was saying, don’t take it, don’t take it…
“Thank you, Auntie.”
The words came out, and even he felt his own voice was strange.
“Eat it quickly, eat it quickly.”
The woman kept urging him.
Gu Yi stiffly opened the handkerchief, and inside was a roujiamo.
Although he was hungry and had not eaten all this time, he would not casually eat things handed to him by other people. But he did not know what was wrong with him. When he smelled the fragrance of the food, he actually felt unbearably hungry and directly grabbed it and put it into his mouth.
There was only one voice by his ear, eat it quickly, eat it quickly…
He ate the roujiamo in one mouthful, and the faces of the middle-aged couple instantly changed. Just a moment ago they had looked kind, but now they had become cruel and sinister.
As if they had found the most delicious food, every gaze was soaked with greed, wishing they could swallow Gu Yi in one bite.
“Stinking brat, when I’m not by your side, you dare eat anything anyone gives you.”
Gu Yi was startled.
It was Bo Si’s voice!
His consciousness seemed to have returned, and his body was no longer stiff.
He did not know when Bo Si had appeared in front of that middle-aged couple. He stood there lazily, his palm pushing forward, and a mass of black mist came out of his palm, striking the couple and making them let out a earth-shattering scream.
“What big guts, you dare run wild on my turf too. Today I’ll make you vanish completely.”
Bo Si’s eyes turned cold. That mass of mist wrapped around the couple’s entire bodies like flames, and they wailed in the black fog. Only then did Gu Yi recover his reason and see clearly that they were not a couple at all, but clearly a pair of skeleton monsters with rotten flesh hanging off them!
They were walking skeleton frames, reeking of rotten flesh, with eyeballs containing only the whites embedded in their sockets, and one had even fallen onto its face. Gu Yi was so shocked by the sight that he could not speak. Looking again, what he was holding was not some roujiamo at all, but a mysterious thing wrapped in black maggots…
“Ugh…”
The visual impact was too great. Thinking that just now he had put this thing into his mouth and chewed it many times…
No need to say more, he needed to throw up everything…
After the couple, no, after the skeletons disappeared, Bo Si withdrew his gaze and looked at Gu Yi beside the glass door, who was holding the door and vomiting nonstop, with some amusement and exasperation.
Gu Yi’s throat hurt like fire. Each time he vomited, his stomach hurt a little more. That thing seemed impossible to vomit out no matter how much he threw up. By the end, what he vomited was all dark green liquid. Looking closely, the liquid was still mixed with a few little worms that were wriggling and bouncing about alive. That scene was simply too beautiful…
Seeing worms made Gu Yi want to throw up even more. Caught in that vicious cycle, he sat slumped on the floor, already completely exhausted.
Bo Si helplessly shook his head and smiled, brought over a cup of water, and had a talisman between his fingers. He dropped it into the water to dissolve, and the water was still perfectly clear. He walked to his side, helped pat his back to ease his breathing, and handed him the cup. “Drink it. Strawberry-flavored.”
Gu Yi painfully took the cup of water. After just one sip, thinking of the maggots from before, he retched and spat the water out.
“This street will have some strange things coming out at night. I forgot to remind you when I left, and then you got into trouble. Luckily I came back in time.”
As he helped pat his back, Bo Si said, “Remember, from now on don’t casually eat things other people give you. Some people would see it and act like they didn’t. Most of them are lonely ghosts and wandering spirits. They saw that you’re young, and a new face, so they probably fixed on you.”
“I didn’t want to eat what that woman handed me… but my body was out of control…” Gu Yi said, panting.
“If you didn’t talk to her in the first place, wouldn’t that have been enough?”
“I, how would I know… I thought they were just an ordinary couple… ugh…”
Gu Yi’s face had gone pale from vomiting, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans gathered on his forehead, dropping down one by one.
“Fine, fine, my fault. I didn’t tell you before. You still aren’t done vomiting?”
Gu Yi said bitterly, “You eat that and try it…”
Bo Si laughed, put the cup of water aside, and said, “True, that thing really can’t be left unvomited out. But you can’t do it yourself, I’ll help you.”
Gu Yi, his face pale, raised his head. “How?”
Bo Si looked at him. “Open your mouth.”
“For what?”
“I told you to open it, so open it. Why are there so many questions? Do you want to get that thing out or not?”
Bo Si was impatient.
Gu Yi was feeling awful to the extreme, and did not care about anything else anymore. He listened to him. There was a flash of amusement in Bo Si’s eyes, and after saying a word of good boy, he held the back of his head.
After that, he sealed Gu Yi’s mouth.
Gu Yi widened his eyes and immediately wanted to struggle, but Bo Si seemed to have already expected it. He steadied his body and in an instant invaded his mouth. After a while, Gu Yi felt a burst of indescribable relief in his chest, and the searing pain from before also disappeared.
Although he did not know exactly what he had swallowed, Bo Si did not seem to have lied to him. He really had gotten that thing out of his body.
Although this method was really a bit…
hard for him to accept.
Last time when helping him feed him medicine was like this too. That time he had been unconscious, so it was one thing, but this time he was awake. No matter what, they were both men…
Now that the thing was gone, Gu Yi’s body also relaxed. Bo Si left him, then handed the cup of water back to him. “Drink all the water. You’re not allowed to throw up anymore.”
This time, when Gu Yi drank the water, he unexpectedly felt that it was very delicious. It really was strawberry-flavored. He drank it all in one breath, only feeling refreshed, and his body no longer felt uncomfortable.
“Thank you, boss.”
Gu Yi stood up from the floor and looked at the filth he had thrown up all over the ground, somewhat conflicted as he said, “I’ll clean the shop.”
“Nonsense, you’re an employee of this shop. If you don’t clean it, who will?”
Bo Si also stood up and walked inside the shop. “Also, don’t thank me. The talisman paper you drank was very expensive. I’ll deduct that money from your salary.”
“……”
Gu Yi’s temples jumped.
As expected…
“Boss, why would our shop run into that kind of thing?”
While cleaning up, Gu Yi could not help asking.
Bo Si leaned against the coffin and smoked, saying with a faint smile, “It’s not strange for our shop to run into anything. You brat, you’re lucky. You haven’t run into fierce ghosts or anything yet.”
“Then, boss.” Gu Yi paused his hands and turned his head to look at him, asking seriously, “Are you a ghost?”
Although he had only known him for one day, his every action made Gu Yi unable to connect him with an ordinary human being.
Gu Yi had also read some books about strange and supernatural things before. When he had no friends, he spent his free time passing the days with some extracurricular books. He had thought about whether Bo Si might be some ghost exorcist, or a Maoshan taoist or something, but according to the descriptions in the books he did not seem like it. The first time he saw him, he had taken him flying to the top of the teaching building, and when he dealt with that pair of skeletons just now, he had not chanted anything or used talismans or anything. He had just relied on his hand to use a mass of black mist to make that pair of skeletons vanish completely. This… was simply not something an ordinary human could do, right?
However, the moment he asked that question, Gu Yi regretted it. Bo Si always said that many things would not be understood even if he said them, so this question, he definitely would not answer either.
“I am not.”
Gu Yi had just lowered his head to continue cleaning when he heard this, and he looked up again in surprise.
Unexpectedly, Bo Si answered him.
Not a ghost, then he felt much more at ease. If he asked again, Bo Si would probably get angry again.
But there was one thing that, even if Bo Si got angry, he still had to mention. “Boss, if I run into some lonely ghosts and wandering spirits again in the future, or if I need your help, can you use another method?”
By the end, Gu Yi’s voice lowered. Probably because he also felt ashamed, his face was a little hot.
Bo Si stared at him, not understanding what he meant. “What method?”
“That is, don’t do mouth-to-mouth with me… or something.”
Gu Yi forced out these words under pressure, and then he did not dare raise his head.
There was a subtle silence in the shop.
At the words, Bo Si froze for a moment. The hand holding the cigarette dropped, and he first rolled his eyes hard at Gu Yi, then could not help laughing softly.
“Forgive me for not understanding the logic of you little virgins. Mouth-to-mouth, to me, is just saving you. Don’t tell me you mind this kind of thing, or.”
Bo Si changed direction, looking at Gu Yi with a half-smile as he said, “You’re not just a little virgin, you’ve never even touched a girl’s mouth.”
“…… Boss, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
Gu Yi was a little embarrassed and subconsciously said, “I definitely don’t look like Boss, still able to go on dates at a bar in broad daylight.”
“If you want to go on dates at a bar, you’re still a hundred years too early.”
Bo Si straightened up and said, “But tomorrow I won’t leave. Today I was careless. You just arrived, and those things already fixed on you. If I came back late, the consequences for you brat would be unimaginable. No matter what, I’m your boss, I have the responsibility to protect your safety. Come over here.”
Gu Yi put down the work in his hands and walked over to Bo Si. “What’s wrong, boss?”
Bo Si pointed to the coffin beside him. “Open the coffin lid. Don’t ask, just do as I say.”
“Oh.”
Gu Yi pushed the lid open.
It had to be said, that lid was quite heavy. Opening it required some strength.
Who would have thought that just as Gu Yi opened the lid, Bo Si would use force from behind and push him. Caught off guard, Gu Yi’s body almost fell into the coffin!
“Boss!”
Gu Yi was shocked out of his wits. The next second, there was darkness in front of his eyes.
Bo Si had closed the coffin lid!
Gu Yi lay in the coffin, his hands braced above him as he desperately pounded. “Boss! Boss, what are you doing? Let me out!”
This coffin was square, wide on top and narrow on the bottom. Lying inside it, he could still smell the special scent of wood material and a faint smell of paint. His eyes could not see anything inside the coffin. Everywhere was black, and this was an enclosed space. Most importantly, he knew he was lying in a coffin, but he was a living person!
Oppression, fear, suffocation, all the negative emotions rushed out of Gu Yi’s heart one after another. He refused to give up and kept shouting inside the coffin again and again, until his voice was hoarse, and no one paid him any attention.
So this was what it felt like for a living person to lie in a coffin. This sense of helplessness, mixed with deep despair, made all the cells in his body fall silent inside this coffin.