Laws of Spirit Recycling

When Yu Yan found Cai Xiaonan, he was sitting on the fence on the roof of the building and looking around.

The boy was thin and thin, and he was wearing a yellowish white shirt. The crumpled corners of his clothes were blown lazily by the wind. He swung his legs back and forth with great enjoyment. The dangling did not bring him any fear, but made Yu Yan look at him. To the easy wanton of a teenager.

Cai Xiaonan pressed his hands on the fence, looked down, and after a while, retracted his calves hanging in the air. Yu Yan thought he wanted to sit on his knees, but he didn't expect him to stand up directly.

"What do you want to do?" Yu Yan was puzzled, and finally asked.

Cai Xiaonan turned his head when he heard the voice, with a slightly immature face, the same as those children in high school who are in a hurry, greenness is the only outstanding trait in him.His round eyes with single eyelids widened after seeing Yu Yan.

"Can you see me?"

Yu Yan nodded, and walked to the fence, "Not only can you see it, but you can also touch it." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pulled Cai Xiaonan's trousers.

"What's going on?" The boy took a step back and said defensively, "You, are you a human or a ghost?"

"I'm not a human or a ghost. I came to pick you up from the underworld to help you fulfill your last wish." Yu Yan tried his best to convey his purpose concisely.

"Help me fulfill my wish?" Cai Xiaonan's eyes lit up, showing interest, he squatted down and sat cross-legged, "How do you plan to help, tell me in advance, I'm a ghost now, and I can't do many things."

"Like?"

"For example, I can't taste the food. When I realize that I have become a ghost, the first thing I think of is to eat the roast duck in the capital. Who knows that it has no taste in my mouth, like eating a piece of paper, disgusting Dead! Why can you lose your sense of taste if you become a ghost? It’s not fair, don’t ghosts even need to eat?”

"In general, yes, but there are a small number of spirits who smoke cigarettes."

"Are you talking about the soot that burnt incense for the dead? I don't want to eat it." Cai Xiaonan looked disgusted.

Yu Yan leaned his body against the fence and looked at him sideways: "Apart from eating, is there nothing else you want to do?"

"Yes, that's it." Cai Xiaonan made a move and pointed to the tall building, "If you hadn't suddenly appeared to stop me, I would have jumped down."

Having come into contact with so many undead, Yu Yan has long understood the purpose of their similar behavior, "You want to use jumping off a building to test that you really become a ghost, and you won't die or get hurt?"

"Yes, I've researched it, and now my body can't touch anyone, it's almost transparent in front of them, but I can grab rope doorknobs and other things, they are all dead objects, I thought That's not bad, but when I picked up someone else's meat-cutting knife and slashed at me, I acted like a normal person, and nothing happened." After speaking, he shook his head and sighed, looking terribly disappointed.

Yu Yan began to feel that the young man in front of him was different from ordinary people, and asked, "You did this... to see what happens?"

"It doesn't bleed, so I should have had some pain anyway, but I didn't feel anything." Cai Xiaonan shrugged, his tone unwilling.

"Why make yourself hurt, you have self-abuse tendencies?"

"What do you know?! This is not called self-abuse, I just want to die more thoroughly." He stood up and looked at the tall buildings in the distance, "People like me who are still alive after death , at most it is just a wandering ghost, it will disappear someday, anyway, it has died once, since it is like this, it is better to die completely."

Yu Yan probably understood that this was a rebellious high school student who didn't want to live, and patiently persuaded him: "The spirit body is not so easy to die, you need to complete one thing before you can leave this world."

"What's the matter? Oh, I see, it's the wish you said at the beginning?"

"Yes, your soul stays here because you have an unfulfilled wish. If you don't want to stay here anymore, you can tell me what your greatest wish is before you die."

Before he finished speaking, Cai Xiaonan burst out laughing, making Yu Yan confused, "What makes you laugh?"

"Hahaha... Do you know that I don't have a wish!" Cai Xiaonan covered his stomach and made a reply from his laughing mouth. His thin body was shaking on the fence because of excitement, and he almost accidentally stepped on the air and fell.

"Impossible." Yu Yan wasn't infected by his joking laughter at all, and affirmed, "Maybe you didn't realize it yourself."

"Why don't you say you made a mistake? Hahaha, it's so funny!" Cai Xiaonan bent down laughing, jumped from the fence, and stood in front of Yu Yan.

He let out a breath to calm down, and glanced at Yu Yan with sympathy, "If you must say a wish, I remember when we first entered high school, the teacher asked each of us to write goals, and I wrote about traveling around the world. , This is the only wish I wrote down, and I have never even thought about my birthday. According to what you said just now, I am now a homeless ghost because I have not fulfilled my wish to travel around the world!"

"If you have only one wish, you can say so, but generally—"

"It's great!!!" Cai Xiaonan suddenly opened his arms in excitement, "I don't have to die again, I get eternal life! Hahahaha..."

Yu Yan said calmly: "Eternal life? You think too simply, one day your wish will be fulfilled, and I will help you too."

Cai Xiaonan gave a "puchi" smile, and said indifferently: "If the wish of traveling around the world needs to be fulfilled, it will take at least several hundred years, right? To stay in the world for so long, isn't it equivalent to eternal life? Although I am just a ghost , no one can see it, it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect my fun of playing at all, and from a certain point of view, it's great to be a transparent person!"

Seeing his eyes light up, and the more he talked, the more excited he was, Yu Yan said: "Didn't you want to jump off the building and die more thoroughly before? Why are you so happy now?"

"Because I thought I would disappear at any time before, but now I'm sure, not only will I not disappear, but I can also enjoy all the fun things in the world, hey, you didn't lie to me, did you?" Originally browsing the distant scenery Cai Xiaonan suddenly turned his head, thought for a while, and changed his suspicious tone, "It's okay, even if it's not traveling around the world, it's not bad to play half a lap!"

Yu Yan felt that the other party seemed to want to stay in the world all the time, and he had met such undead who had a deep nostalgia for the world before, so he told Cai Xiaonan truthfully: "Many people mistakenly think that their wish is something concrete, but in fact In the end, I found out that their obsessions are some feelings or some spiritual sustenance. When one day your relatives, friends and neighbors all pass away, and no one knows who you are, even if you are still in this world, you will gradually Lose the fun of playing."

"You are wrong, even if they are all dead now, I will not change my mind." The boy did not show any disappointed expression, but grinned, his eyes bent into crescents, "Take a step back, my unfinished If the wish is not to travel around the world, then there is nothing else, since there is nothing, it means that there is no solution, I still don't have to leave the world, no matter what, I took advantage of it!"

He spoke clearly and confidently, and Yu Yan almost agreed with Cai Xiaonan's point of view, but he still retorted: "There will always be unexpected desires hidden in your heart..."

"Tsk, well, you look about the same age as me, why are you always talking like an old man." Cai Xiaonan interrupted Yu Yan irritably, put his elbows on the fence, and faced him: "Even I I don’t even know what my desire is, let alone you, until I find it, I am invincible, anyway, there is enough time, take your time, we can plan to travel around the world while looking for it.”

Cai Xiaonan straightened his arms and used the thumbs and index fingers of both hands to make a picture frame. Looking at the scenery in the "photo frame" as if he could really zoom in, he panned at will, "Now let's take a look at the first stop where to go."

"Ah, isn't this slum right where my house is, don't go." The fixed arm continued to move to the right.

Yu Yan's heart moved, maybe he could find some key points in Cai Xiaonan's house, so he said: "I can go to your house to have a look, have you been home to see it during this time?"

"No, nothing to see." Cai Xiaonan replied casually, then fixed his body again, squinting his eyes to look at the small building inside the quadrilateral, "This is the school, I hate school the most, next one."

This time he made a big movement, and after he stopped, he was taken aback: "It's all water... oh yes, it's the sea."

"Beach, beach... I haven't been there yet." Cai Xiaonan put down his arms, smiled happily, turned his head to Yu Yan excitedly and said, "Let's go, let's go to the beach today."

From the top of the building, it seems that the distance is only a few intersections, but the actual distance is quite far.At first Cai Xiaonan dragged Yu Yan to run quickly, then slowly let go and walked.

"Fuck, it's really too far away, how long will it take to get there?" The boy began to complain, dragging his heels on the ground and making a dissatisfied sound.

Yu Yan glanced at him calmly, "Anyway, you won't feel tired."

"This may be the biggest advantage after death, but if I walk at this speed, I'm not in the mood to play." Cai Xiaonan lazily folded his hands and supported the back of his head, suddenly thought of something, and suddenly turned his head, " By the way, what did you say you were doing?"

"The messenger of the underworld." In order to prevent the other party from misunderstanding, Yu Yan specially added, "It's not the god of death."

"The Messenger of the Underworld, it sounds more powerful and mysterious than Death God." Cai Xiaonan stopped in his tracks, raised his eyebrows, and widened his eyes with a single eyelid, "So you can fly? Take me there quickly."

"I can't fly." Yu Yan glanced at the place where no one was around, let alone himself, even his boss, Mr. Fu, couldn't fly.

Cai Xiaonan rolled his eyes suspiciously: "It's different from the ones on TV, so what do you know? Can you spell? Can you change people? Try changing me to the seaside now."

"I don't know magic either." Facing his sincerely pleading eyes, Yu Yan felt a little embarrassed.He can't fly and has no spells. As a mysterious-sounding messenger of the underworld, his role seems to be to communicate with the undead.

"Can't do anything? My God! God actually sent me a junior player." Cai Xiaonan let out an exaggerated wail. Fortunately, passers-by couldn't see him, otherwise they would definitely cast strange looks.

Without waiting for Yu Yan to explain, he walked forward on his own, and said in a comforting tone: "Forget it, a human like me can only be worthy of the same level of death."

"It's not the god of death. The god of death is different from my job." Yu Yan, who had said this sentence thousands of times, was already so calm that he seemed to be reciting it.

"Is there any difference? Then what do you do?"

"The Grim Reapers you speak of are spirit catchers who take away the souls of human beings when they are dying, and my job is to find those human beings whose souls have not been taken away by them, and try my best to make those human beings no longer remember the world, and help They reincarnate or end their astral state."

Cai Xiaonan's focus was not on the last sentence, he frowned slightly and concluded, "You say that, why do I feel like I'm cleaning up, first I clean the floor, and then you pick up the leftover garbage, continue Tidy up."

"It is indeed a job like recycling, but this analogy is too strange. How can you describe yourself as garbage?"

"What's the matter, everyone is garbage." Cai Xiaonan showed a frank smile, "This world is a huge garbage dump!"

They chatted while walking, and when they reached the beach, it was the time of sunset.Cai Xiaonan was still very happy, swept away his dissatisfaction with the distance, and rushed towards the blue sea.

Just entering the midsummer, the sun does not have a scorching temperature, but shines softly on the sea surface, and the waves are shining in the distance, like an endless horizon connected by broken star stones.There are people everywhere, adults are holding children, young men and women are holding hands, they are wearing swimsuits, most of them are holding red and orange round circles, the breeze blows, in addition to bringing humid and salty air, there are also primitive and pure seas like the sea. laughter.

If he didn't pay attention, Cai Xiaonan had already thrown himself into the sea, and when Yu Yan looked at him, he saw only a white-clothed boy splashing twice in the water.

"I forgot that I can't swim!" Cai Xiaonan's clothes were all wet, he stood up from the water, and shouted to Yu Yan: "Are you sure I won't drown?"

Yu Yan replied seriously: "You may stay in the water forever, but you won't die."

The girl who was playing in the water next to her turned her head and glanced at Yu Yan unhappily. Yu Yan quickly shut up and walked to the side in silence.

"It's so troublesome, I'm going to get a swimming ring." Cai Xiaonan resentfully walked out of the sea step by step, and found an unguarded swimming ring on the beach not far away.

In order to prevent everyone from seeing the scene where the object automatically pans in the air, Yu Yan hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I'll get it for you."

As soon as he took two steps with the swimming ring, he was stopped by a boy. "Hey, that's ours."

Next to the boy was a girl who looked at the person who stole the item unkindly.Yu Yan was caught and said awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I took it by mistake, so I'll return it to you."

In view of his good attitude, the boy didn't say anything. The girl next to him rolled her eyes and left home with the boy who took back the lifebuoy.

Cai Xiaonan, who witnessed the whole process, laughed non-stop, and Yu Yan, who felt that he had been tricked for no reason, did not return to his normal expression until an aunt appeared.

"Young man, are you alone? Rent a swimming ring?"

Yu Yan took a step back vigilantly, shaking his head.

The aunt smiled warmly and said, "Where's the life jacket? Auntie has it too, and it's a little cheaper than others."

Yu Yan had no choice but to tell the truth: "I have no money."

The aunt squinted at him strangely, and muttered as she left: "If you don't rent, you don't rent, and you make up lies to deceive people, the children nowadays are really..."

Yu Yan pursed her lips, unable to explain.At this time, Cai Xiaonan, who had disappeared for a while, reappeared bouncingly. He pointed down, and saw a white paper towel mixed with a pink RMB at his feet, surrounded by a ball of fine sand.

"Where did the money come from?"

"I got it there." Cai Xiaonan raised his chin to the side.

Following his gaze, a woman was sitting on the beach playing with her baby. There was a coat and a satchel by her side with the bag open. Yu Yan instantly understood what was going on.

"It's not good for you to take other people's money at will." Yu Yan was worried about being discovered and attracting human attention.

"Hey, I'm going to be long-winded again. I used other people's money to let you take a taxi and you refused. Now you don't even have the money to rent a swimming ring. How can you play without some money? Anyway, 100 yuan won't do it. What impact did it have on her, and I stepped on the money under the toilet paper, don't worry, no one will see it."

Cai Xiaonan pointed down a little, and said with a flattering smile: "Quickly help me rent a swimming ring, if you don't want to, I will do it myself."

"You go over with the money, and everyone who sees it will be scared to death." Yu Yan had no choice but to pick up the money and rent a swimming ring for Cai Xiaonan.