“What’s wrong?”
Lin Ming still hadn’t understood Bo Si’s words when he cried out in alarm again, “Bai… Bai Nuo!”
Bai Nuo appeared in front of the car again!
She was still the same as before, still in the same place!
Her bloodless face was still staring straight at them.
“How can this be?” Lin Ming said in disbelief, his whole body collapsing back into the seat.
Bo Si sneered, “That’s why I told you not to look back.”
Gu Yi asked, “Is it a ghost wall?”
He had read in novels that if someone kept walking in the same place at night and could not get out, it was probably a ghost wall.
Bo Si said, “Maybe. She wants to stop us, little brat, curse out something filthy and try it.”
“…Huh?” Gu Yi blinked, “Why curse?”
Bo Si glared at him. “To break the ghost wall.”
“…Boss, you do it. I don’t know what to curse.”
“Damn it, do I look like the kind of person who curses!?”
“…”
Black lines appeared over Gu Yi’s head.
Not at all. He was obviously exactly that kind of person, okay?
“Fine, I’m really scared of you young people.”
Bo Si pulled a talisman from his chest, rolled down the car window, and casually threw it out.
As the talisman touched the air outside, a pale blue flame quickly ignited. Looking at it in the night, it was quite beautiful.
But Gu Yi noticed that Bo Si’s talisman paper was different from the ones he had seen in movies and novels before. Other people’s talisman paper was yellow, or at least gold and silver, but Bo Si’s talisman paper was actually… pink.
And it was the kind of pink full of girlish sweetness, with a cute chibi strawberry pattern in the lower right corner of the talisman paper.
Thinking of how the talisman water he had given him last time also seemed to taste like strawberry, was this man obsessed with strawberries?
Gu Yi pulled his thoughts back and looked ahead. Sure enough, after Bo Si’s talisman burned out, Bai Nuo in front of the car disappeared too.
Gu Yi felt a little disappointed, but Bai Nuo was dead, after all.
As Bo Si drove, he said, “Little brat, remember this. In the future, when you see these things at night, don’t look back. If I call you, still don’t look back. Running into a ghost wall is mild. If it puts out your yang fire, then you’ll be haunted by ghostly aura, and by then, I’ll have no choice but to fire you.”
Gu Yi thought about it, then asked softly, “If it’s Bai Nuo, would she hurt me too?”
Bo Si laughed. “Don’t think ghosts and people can still be the same. A ghost is just a single obsession. Whoever gets in its way, it will have to eliminate. It may still have feelings, but when those feelings can’t outweigh hatred, they often show no regard for blood or kin. Otherwise, why would people be afraid of ghosts?”
While they were talking, the cemetery had already been reached.
The three got out of the car and walked straight inside.
This cemetery was set in the suburbs, with almost nothing but wasteland around it. From a distance, there was even an abandoned railway running through the ground.
The wind here was clearly stronger than inside the city. The trees on both sides rustled, like the crying of children.
After passing through an iron gate, they were inside the graveyard. Rows of neatly arranged tombstones, and below them, there were probably rows of neatly arranged urns as well.
As soon as the three of them stepped into the graveyard, Bo Si felt the chilly wind all around, and Gu Yi also felt cold. Fortunately, after leaving the coffin shop, he had changed back into his own clothes and put on a thin jacket too. Otherwise, walking here at night would really have been unbearable.
There was not a single star in the sky, and all around was pitch-black. They could hear some insects chirping. Bo Si walked in front, and soon he found Bai Nuo’s tombstone.
It was a brand-new tombstone, erected not long ago. The photo on the stone was still Bai Nuo’s smiling face, pure and beautiful.
Bo Si stood before the stone. “We’re here.”
Gu Yi walked up and looked at the photo of Bai Nuo, and a trace of sorrow once again filled his heart.
Naturally, Lin Ming did not dare go up to look. He just stood at a place neither too far nor too near from the tombstone. In fact, from the moment he entered this cemetery, he had felt uncomfortable all over. Maybe it was because he had done something with a guilty conscience, maybe it was because he knew that Bai Nuo’s ghost had already latched onto him. In any case, before this matter was resolved, he absolutely did not dare face her.
Bo Si glanced sideways at the mouse-timid Lin Ming and mocked, “The girl you’ve been dreaming of is right here. You’re not coming over to look at her?”
Lin Ming shook his head desperately. “N-no, no need. I can just look from here.”
Bo Si let out a cold laugh. “Useless thing. You’re not afraid of living people, but you’re afraid of a dead one. You did that kind of thing to a girl, do you know? You’re more terrifying than a ghost.”
Lin Ming was so ashamed he could hardly bear it. “I…”
“No need to say it. No matter how much you say, it’s all nonsense.”
Bo Si raised his hand, and a blue flame bloomed out of thin air in his palm. The flames burned more and more fiercely, and suddenly, wild winds rose everywhere, ghostly aura pressing in.
The sound of the leaves shaking grew even more intense, like waves of painful wailing. Lin Ming could not bear such a sound, and had already been so frightened that he fell to the ground, a warm liquid seeping out from the front of his crotch.
That violent wind seemed able to toss a person straight to the ground. Gu Yi stood behind Bo Si, facing the wind, and asked, “Boss, what are you doing?”
Bo Si said, “I’m summoning ghosts. Don’t you feel it? She’s already here.”
“Ah!”
Suddenly, Lin Ming let out a scream. He pointed at Bai Nuo’s tombstone and shouted in a nearly twisted voice, “Blood… There’s blood! The tombstone is bleeding!”
Gu Yi and Bo Si looked over. Sure enough, that brand-new black tombstone was now seeping blood steadily.
That blood was especially piercing in the night. The sky was already completely dark, the leaf wailing rose and fell like waves, and Lin Ming could not bear it. Hugging his head, he curled up in pain.
The wind was tearing at Gu Yi’s body, and suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his left eye, just like the pain from before, as if it were worse than death.
“Ah!”
Gu Yi shouted. He wanted to cover his eye with his hand, but it was too late. Blood was already flowing down from his left eye, dyeing his pupil red. In the burning pain, Gu Yi seemed to see some scenes, very fragmented, and the images were all scarlet. He desperately wanted to see clearly, and gradually, that image became clearer and clearer in his eyes.
Ah, he saw it. It was that day, in the small grove on the school’s back hill.
Several people were gathered around Bai Nuo. They were Lin Ming, Zhang Qiang, Wang Hao, and Du Ran.
Led by Lin Ming, they blocked Bai Nuo under a tree. He was wearing the same clothes as Gu Yi, and the expression on his face was angry and sad. He shouted, “Why! I like you so much! And yet you insist on liking a monster! That Gu Yi, he looks so ugly! His family has no money, and his grades are not good either! Why would you rather be friends with him than give me a chance, why!”
“I don’t want to talk to you. Move aside, I still have class to go to!” Bai Nuo did not seem afraid of him. She glared at him and shouted back.
That shout completely angered Lin Ming. Lin Ming turned vicious, grabbed Bai Nuo’s hand, and dragged her toward the small grove. “What are you doing! Let go of me!” In the end, the strength between boys and girls was still uneven. Bai Nuo found that she could not struggle against him, and only then did she realize the seriousness of the matter. She was panicked and scared, and shouted loudly, “Lin Ming! If you don’t let go, I’ll tell the teacher!”
Lin Ming laughed wildly. “Go ahead and report me! Let’s see whether the teacher will care about you, let’s see whether Gu Yi can save you. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being blind. If you had been willing to be my girlfriend earlier, at the very least, right now we’d be on a big bed in a hotel!”
“Lin Ming! Let go of me! Help! Help!”
“Heh heh! Big Brother Ming is amazing! Big Brother Ming, keep it up! Big Brother Ming is mighty, Big Brother Ming, just go ahead and do it. We’ll keep watch for you here!”
Zhang Qiang and the others watched with schadenfreude and even whistled to cheer Lin Ming on.
Du Ran took out his phone and, full of interest, filmed this scene.
“Let go of me! Let go of me!”
Although Bai Nuo’s strength was nothing more than a tickle to Lin Ming, she never gave up struggling for a moment. Bai Nuo was a fierce girl, and by the end of the struggle with Lin Ming, her anger also erupted. “Lin Ming! Don’t think that just because you have money I’ll like you! I like Gu Yi, I’ll never like you! No matter what you do, I won’t like you, I’ll only hate you more and more, hate you!”
Hearing this, Lin Ming did not get angry, he laughed instead. “Fine, once you become mine, you can hate me slowly.”
In Bai Nuo’s desperate struggle, at this moment, it seemed she saw someone. Like a drowning person grabbing onto a life-saving straw, her eyes lit up, full of hope of being rescued. She stretched out her hand toward that person, and a trace of joy appeared on her pale face. “Teacher! Teacher, save me! Teacher! Teacher!”
“Teacher, save me!”
The sounds around him all disappeared.
Gu Yi could only see some scarlet images.
He could not see clearly who the teacher Bai Nuo was calling was. He only saw Zhang Qiang and the others scatter, while Lin Ming fiercely warned that teacher of something. Then came him dragging Bai Nuo, forcibly pulling Bai Nuo into the small grove.
At that moment, Gu Yi saw death-like despair in Bai Nuo’s eyes.
She watched helplessly as that teacher walked past her. She cried desperately, shouted desperately, and wildly clawed and waved toward the direction the teacher had left, but no one paid her any mind. The teacher still left, without even turning back. Bai Nuo never gave up hope, because she trusted that teacher so deeply. She believed he would definitely turn around to save her, but he did not.
The teacher really just disappeared completely from her sight like that.
Then, Gu Yi only heard Bai Nuo’s heart-rending cries.
She stubbornly kept shouting over and over, teacher save me, but that only made Lin Ming even angrier, even more frightened, and also caused his later behavior to become even more insane.
The sound of the dress being torn to shreds, Bai Nuo’s desperate crying and cries for help, Lin Ming’s arrogant and satisfied voice, all of it completely crushed Gu Yi’s nerves.
“Little brat, little brat, what’s wrong with you, Gu Yi, wake up!”
Bo Si gently patted Gu Yi’s face. After a long while, Gu Yi finally came to.
He found himself lying on the ground, leaning in Bo Si’s arms. His eyes were open, and his left eye socket kept gushing liquid in pulses. Sticky, and when he touched it, it was blood.
Seeing that he had regained consciousness, Bo Si finally let out a breath and said, “You brat, you scared me to death. I almost thought you weren’t waking up.”
“…What happened to me?”
Gu Yi sat up from Bo Si’s arms and asked a little dazedly.
Bo Si slapped his forehead once and said, “Did you see something? Suddenly your eyes started bleeding, and you were shouting something about save me, save me. Did Bai Nuo transmit her memories to you?”
Gu Yi was silent for a while.
Yes, he had seen what had happened to Bai Nuo, but that memory was too heavy, too painful. He did not even have the courage to say it.
Suddenly, he thought of something, and raised his eyes to look at Bo Si. That gaze was strange. Bo Si frowned and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Gu Yi touched his left eye and said, “My eye doesn’t hurt anymore. You didn’t feed me blood again, did you?”