strange neighbor

After the voice fell, the mist fluctuated. Jiang Duo held the ghost and watched the surrounding movement vigilantly.

"Huh—" A gust of wind blew past his ears, and he stabbed back with the sword in his right hand, and the blade got stuck in a hard object. Jiang Duo turned his head and saw that it was a rotten skeleton. There was no living soul underneath, and the blade just pierced the hollow of the skeleton's chest. The skeleton screamed and turned into a pile of rotten bones and fell to the ground.

As soon as one was solved here, four or five appeared on the other side and rushed towards him at the same time. Jiang Duo flew out with a talisman and kicked up at the same time. The ghost in the front was kicked far away and was taken away He distractedly took a look at the two brats, everyone was involved in this battle, only Luo Yishan was covered in the barrier, his face was pale.

The sky is like ink cloth, and the stars hanging on it are like a piece of fine silk with a few holes poked out, and the strong wind stopped after Jiang Duo and the others entered the cave, throughout the night Standing in the barrier, Ding Shijin unconsciously clenched his hands into a fist, and suddenly there was the sound of dead branches breaking behind him. When he turned his head and saw the person coming, his eyes opened wide unconsciously.

It was a small figure, but he was wearing a white short-sleeve on a cold day. His thin body looked empty in the short-sleeve. He walked over with bruises on his face, raised his face, and his eyes were indifferent : "Why am I not likable?"

Ding Shijin's face turned pale and he took a step back. This... This is clearly what he looked like when he was six years old.

Xiao Ding Shijin saw him retreating, a hurt look flashed across his face, he pursed his lips, and did not move forward: "Don't you even like me?"

Ding Shijin mumbled his lips and couldn't say a word.

"So... I'm really so annoying," Xiao Ding Shijin sighed: "Since no one likes me, no one needs me, why do I have to appear in this world?"

"Do not……"

He raised his eyes, and stared straight at Ding Shijin with two glass bead-like eyes: "What's the point of living in this world for someone who is not liked? If he hadn't been born then, he wouldn't be hated, isolated, or You will find that you have physical defects, so that your parents will not blame each other for ten years, and the family will be a dark cloud every day."

Ding Shijin trembled all over, yes, what he said was correct, these were all his thoughts in the past, he never thought that one day they would be so naked on the surface.

Little Ding Shijin stretched out his hand as if wanting to touch him, but in the end he lowered his arms and sat down against the barrier. From Ding Shijin's perspective, he could only see the small back, lonely and thin.

"Who are you!" Ding Shijin snapped.

"I am you."

"You are me...how could you be...me?" His voice was difficult.

Little Ding Shijin didn't look back, and looked up at the moon with his small face: "Do you remember this year's Mid-Autumn Festival?"

Ding Shijin was taken aback, not knowing what he was talking about, so he didn't answer hastily.

"Li Zheng took Xiaohu and they blocked me under the small bridge together. Xiaohu held a slingshot in his hand. They competed to see who could hit it accurately... The small stone would make a muffled sound when it hit the body, and then bounced off the ground. On the ground, do you still remember that feeling?" He didn't seem to really want Ding Shijin's answer, but he just continued talking on his own: "Mom said, don't hit others, I always want to be an obedient child, I I thought that I would be liked by others, my mother would hug me, and my father would love me, so I never fought back. Finally, they were tired of playing and told me that today is over and continue another day. Qingqingzizi went home, look, do you still remember this mark?"

Little Ding Shijin said as he raised an arm, covered with purple and yellow bruises the size of a fingernail, Ding Shijin's pupils trembled.

"I thought that when I got home, my mother would ask me when she saw my injury. I also wanted to cry and tell her my grievances like other children, and act like a baby with her, but..."

Ding Shijin remembered, no, it should be said that he hadn't forgotten at all. He returned home with injuries all over his body. At the gate of the community, he met Grandma Zhang on the third floor. She held his arm and called out to her heart. Meat, that was Ding Shijin's happiest time, because someone loved him and cared about him.

Then he went home, his mother was cooking, and his father was reading the newspaper on the sofa. When he saw him coming in, he just glanced at him indifferently, and noticed that his injury was only frowned. Half of his full expectations fell through, and then he Walking to the kitchen door, she timidly called out to her mother. The woman turned her head and saw him, and walked over with a frown: "Why are the clothes so dirty again? Go change and come out to eat."

At this point, all the light in Ding Shijin's eyes went out.

He obediently changed his clothes, which were still short-sleeved, and the wounds on his arms were exposed in front of his parents when he picked up vegetables, but no one asked, only his mother said: "Did you hit someone?"

Ding Shijin shook his head, his mother nodded and said: "That's good, you have to be a good boy, you can't hit people, you know?"

Then there was the quarrel at night, even though it was across the living room, he could still hear clearly, his mother asked why his father didn't care about him, and his father was annoyed so much that he yelled: "He won't hurt, there is What is there to care about, being able to run and jump and not being damaged!"

"Are you still human? That's your son, don't you feel bad at all?"

Father Ding snorted coldly: "It's just a fool who can't even feel pain."

"Do you still remember?" Xiao Ding Shijin turned his head and looked at him with a smile.

"So?" Ding Shijin recovered from his memory and gave him a cold look.

"Aren't you tired? You must be tired after all these years? You have to pretend to be in pain every day and imagine being a normal person, but you know it's impossible. It's so simple and easy, but why do you just Can't get it?"

"In this world, is there any reason to stay?"

"Nobody loves you, and God doesn't like you."

Ding Shijin clenched his fists: "I am loved."

"Jiang Duo?" Little Ding Shijin smiled, "He's about to die."

Ding Shijin's brain exploded: "Shut up!"

"I didn't lie to you. After all, you are me. If you are happy, I will be happy too. He is really going to die."

"If you don't believe me, just go in and have a look."

Ding Shijin took two steps forward quickly, and the little Ding Shijin also turned his head to look at him. When his toes almost touched the edge of the barrier, he stopped, lowered his eyelids and looked at the child who couldn't see the expression clearly, and he retracted. Foot: "No, I believe he will come back."

"Haha——" He was obviously a child, but his laughter was filled with desolation.

On the other side, the fog became thinner and thinner, and suddenly a mass of black mist rushed towards Jiang Duo at an extremely fast speed. Si Shaojun, who was standing beside him, flew over to block him, and the black mist wrapped With the force like a rock, Si Shaojun felt his internal organs shifted. He couldn't control his body and fell directly, hitting the wall and falling to the ground.

"Little San Ye!" Jiang Duo cut open an evil ghost with his sword, and then ran towards Mr. Si Shao.

Gao Rang's left arm was also scratched. He wiped the blood with his right finger indifferently, and then drew a talisman flying in mid-air. The blood-red talisman went straight to Li Shusheng. , the mist where the blood spell went made a shrill scream, and then the mist cleared, and Li Shusheng hurriedly dodged when he saw it, but the spell was too powerful, after all, he hurt one of his legs, and that leg seemed to melt Like a dropped ice cream, it fell into a pool of water.

"Cough cough cough—I'm fine," Si Shaojun spat out a mouthful of blood and waved his hand, "Damn it, I almost smashed my lungs out."

Jiang Duo helped him to sit down next to Luo Yishan, he looked at Luo Yishan who was struggling to look at him and waved his hand: "Relax, reassure."

Li Shusheng, who had lost a leg, was suddenly furious. He let out a roar, and everyone couldn't help covering their ears. In a flash, Li Shusheng became a group.

"Today, you are sure to die." Li Shusheng laughed loudly, "I'm going to devour you alive, don't even try to run away, you damn stinky Taoist priests!"

After finishing speaking, the group of avatars moved extremely fast, and immediately surrounded Jiang Duo and Gao Rang.

"Xiaoduo, do you still remember what Master taught you?"

Jiang Duo and Gao Rang were back to back, he was holding a sword in his hand, Gao Rang sacrificed his natal bell to greet the soul, and the crisp ringtone reverberated in the cave, giving people a refreshing feeling, but for ghosts, this sound But it was absolutely uncomfortable, every time he rang the bell, those soul bodies would sway a few times like water waves.

"Of course!"

His master has been very strict with him since he was a child. At the beginning he didn’t understand why his master was so strict when he was teaching him, he beat and scolded him. It wasn’t until he actually went out with his master to catch ghosts that he realized that it was a fierce battle, isn’t it? Exercises are not acting, there is no reloading, no NG, once you fail, you will die.

The first time he and his master went out to hunt ghosts, they encountered an infant spirit. The victim was an old man. He claimed to be a baby, but what he and his master saw was a body and two souls. They thought it was a possession , and finally found out that they were supposed to be a pair of twins, but only one survived, and the one who died early was always hiding in the body of the surviving child. It was a lot of losses, so after the end, the master taught him a trick.

Following Gao Rang's launch of a talisman, Jiang Duo also held Ghost Horror and killed it. The strong sword wind split the three clones, and the rose on Ghost Horror emitted a dazzling light. There seemed to be a spiritual wisdom in it, where the heart reached, the blade immediately followed, lowered his head, and sure enough the sixth rose was in full bloom, and the screams of the skeleton in the flower core could be heard endlessly.

Gao Rang shook the bell in his hand, the sound of jingle bells drifted to the surrounding walls and bounced back. The closed environment in the cave unexpectedly helped them. Immediately, several ghosts were scattered, the master and the apprentice, one rang the bell, the other killed the ghost, the cooperation was perfect, and no ghost approached for a long time.

"Be careful that Li Shusheng is mixed with the avatar." Gao Rang threw another talisman, and a string of avatars dissipated in the air like punctured soap bubbles.

Li Shusheng's smirk reverberated in the cave: "You don't think it's over after killing this clone, my clone is endless, either you will die here today, or you will be eaten by my children. Hehehe-"

After finishing speaking, the number of avatars that had already decreased increased again.

Both master and apprentice ignored Li Shusheng's provocation. Jiang Duo went down with his sword and split the avatar at hand like chopping a watermelon. The cave was long and the air could not be renewed all the time. After intense exercise for a long time, the oxygen gradually began to be insufficient. Jiang Duo and Gao Rang was slowly panting, a drop of sweat flowed from his forehead to his chin, and then dripped on the wrist that swung the sword.

Gao Rang also felt that something was wrong. If Li Shusheng could not be dealt with as soon as possible, they would die. They would either be killed by Li Shusheng, or die from lack of oxygen.

Jiang Duo gradually felt the heaviness of his body. He swung his sword in vain, and a piece of flesh was scratched off his back by a ghost.

"I'm coming!" It was Si Shaojun's voice, he stood up, and began to draw complicated spells around himself, then bit his middle finger and squeezed out two drops of blood into the heart of the spell, and a soft red color began to radiate from the heart of the spell Light.

Rumbling—the ground shook for a while, and there was the sound of something kicking and approaching.

Li Shusheng's eyes were about to burst: "Yin soldiers! Si Shaojun, you actually transferred the Yin soldiers!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of soldiers wearing ancient armor appeared out of nowhere like long radishes from the ground. They held spears and swords in their hands, shouted to kill, and rushed into the battlefield with an aura of swallowing mountains and rivers.

"Master——" Gao Rang's clothes were already soaked in the back, his physical strength was exhausted, and he felt dizzy. Fortunately, Jiang Duo supported him quickly.

"No, we have to lead him out of the cave." Gao Rang said.

But they knew that it was not so easy to go outside the cave. They guessed that they should be in the middle of the hill now, and they had to go through the corridor if they wanted to go out, but...

"Good." he said.

What Li Shusheng said about his endless avatars is actually bragging. He thought he was Monkey King, and he could turn into a little monkey by pulling out a monkey hair. What's more, when the monkey hair was pulled out, it was like Li Shusheng was not energetic enough. After that, the doppelgänger will not be able to change.

Soon, those Yin soldiers hacked and killed the avatars in sevens and eights, and they accepted them as soon as they saw a good one. Mr. Si Shao sent the Yin soldiers back, and Jiang Duo had already rejoined the battlefield, Master Once taught him a skill on how to distinguish the real body from the clone, he closed his left eye, chanted a mantra, cut off a clone with a sword, and found Li Shusheng accurately.

Then Li Shusheng looked at the sword pointed at his throat and was furious: "How did you find out!"

Jiang Duo smiled: "Didn't you smell it? You smell very, rotten."

Li Shusheng was furious, and he grabbed Jiang Duo's heart with his hands like claws. Jiang Duo went forward with his sword without any fear.

Why did he discover Li Shusheng's real body because of Qi, but it's not bad smell, it's the Qi floating on his body. Ghosts have their own unique Qi, and the Qi of harmless ghosts is pale white. It is deep red, and Li Shusheng's is really purple-black. The magical thing is that no matter how strong its aura is, most of its avatars don't have it, and if it does, there is only a little bit of it.

The mantra just now was taught by his master a long time ago, to see people with the left eye, and discern ghosts with the right eye, close the left eye, and use the mantra to mobilize Li Shusheng's ghostly aura.