Ghost World Office

When Lu Yi lived in the house in the ghost world, Tao Ye always liked to walk the streets of the ghost world alone.Standing in front of this building again, Tao Ye's state of mind is not the same as before.

He suddenly remembered the smell of Lu Yi, and the voice of Lu Yi, but he didn't think of the "crime" that Lu Yi had done to him.

However, this short-term amnesia ended soon. Tao Ye settled down, did not look at the flowers in the garden, and did not look at the glass windows on the second floor, turned around and left from the garden gate.

Behind him, the flowers that have bloomed for thousands of years swayed gently in the cold wind.

……

After returning to the mortal office, Tao Ye immediately started working. Only by being busy can he temporarily erase the imprint of Lu Yi in his mind.

Cheng Qiangjun and Cheng Lijun had already gone to several nearby Human World Offices and returned to the noodle shop, while Shen Zhu was still coordinating with the S city police and did not come back.

Seeing Cheng Qiangjun blowing the wind on the balcony, Tao Ye moved a chair, sat next to Cheng Qiangjun, and asked him:

"How are things going?"

After entering the Human World Office, Cheng Qiangjun participated in this kind of work for the first time, and naturally it was not very smooth. He replied with a look of frustration:

"Hey, don't mention it, they play football everywhere, just like our school's Academic Affairs Office."

Tao Ye nodded approvingly, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took a puff slowly, and relaxed his whole body on the back of the chair, looking at the night sky where the city was shrouded in clouds:

"Yeah, you were asked to do these jobs when you first came. It's because the donkey forced its head down without drinking water."

Cheng Qiangjun spent a long time trying to understand Tao Ye's meaning, but still failed to get the meaning of the allegory, so he asked weakly:

"Brother, isn't this allegory used in this way?"

Tao Ye squinted his eyes, snorted snort, and the smoke suddenly spewed out from his nostrils, and dispersed in the chilly spring:

"You didn't do well in school, don't pretend to be a cultural person here."

Naturally, Cheng Qiangjun's original intention was not to pretend to be a cultured person. He didn't want to have more discussions with Tao Ye on allusions, so he changed the subject:

"Brother, what did you do before you came to the world to do it?"

In the past, when Cheng Qiangjun was still an ordinary human being, Tao Ye had to hide a lot of things.Now that Cheng Qiangjun has joined the Human World Office and knows how the Human World Office works, Tao Ye no longer shy away from Cheng Qiangjun's question.

"Guess?" Rubbing the pale yellow cigarette holder with his fingertips, Tao Ye tried to relieve the recent pressure with the soft touch of the sponge.

"Where can I guess..."

Cheng Qiangjun pursed his mouth, reached out to take the cigarette case from Tao Ye's hand, and smoked a cigarette, "But I probably know that you crossed over on the day Mai Xiaobo dragged you to the herbarium."

"You can see this?" Tao Ye always thought that he was well disguised, but he didn't expect Cheng Qiangjun to guess it so easily.

Cheng Qiangjun looked at Tao Ye in disbelief, and exclaimed, "You don't really think you're pretending to be good, do you?"

Tao Ye has always been very satisfied with his ability to disguise, but Cheng Qiangjun had already discovered the clues.Faced with this situation, Tao Ye could only comfort himself in his heart:

You must be a master of vegetables and chickens!

In fact, Tao Ye understood why he exposed so much in front of Cheng Qiangjun and the others. It was because whether it was Cheng Qiangjun or Zhang Minghe, their hearts were very pure.In the process of getting along with them, Tao Ye felt the ease of getting along with his peers for the first time.

Back to Cheng Qiangjun's question just now, Tao Ye thought for a while before speaking in a serious tone:

"What we used to do was to sell our lives for money."

Hearing Tao Ye's answer, Cheng Qiangjun's eyes lit up, and the light of worship instantly piled up in the corners of his eyes:

"Brother, you used to be a doctor?!"

Tao Ye: ...

Cheng Qiangjun: Isn’t it?

"Forget it, let me tell you that you don't understand."

Feeling that Cheng Qiangjun's brain circuit was too strange, Tao Ye simply threw the cigarette butt that was about to burn out into the ashtray beside him, closed his eyes, and began to rest his mind.

Cheng Qiangjun raised his hand to look at his watch and realized that it was getting late, so he greeted Tao Ye:

"Brother, I'll go in first and help sort out the files. You can rest for a while."

Tao Ye nodded slightly, and the cool wind hit his face, like a sudden drizzle on the dry land, slightly calming his disturbed mood.

The temperature in City S, which is located in the subtropical monsoon oceanic climate zone, has already warmed up, and the wind at night is not too biting, making Tao Ye dizzy.

There is a row of camphor trees planted downstairs in the noodle restaurant. When the wind blows over the treetops, it sounds like waves hitting the sandy shore, and the sound is one after another.The sound of the wind, the sound of the trees and the footsteps of pedestrians are densely spun and intertwined, falling in the early spring night.

Suddenly relaxed, drowsiness crept onto Tao Ye's eyelids, the long hours of work made his body tense, and his whole body was sore.

Before he knew it, he fell asleep.

This is a very shallow dream, the people and things in the dream are vague, as if covered under a layer of translucent oilcloth.In the dream, Tao Ye was still a child.In the small town where he was born, he stood on the street with people coming and going, looking around.

Tao Ye saw that at the end of the street, his parents were holding little Tao Yi's hand and calling him over.He really wanted to run over there, through the bustling crowd, past the oilcloth sheds on the side of the street selling raw papaya stalls, to the end of the street, and throw himself into his mother's arms.

But no matter how he moved his feet, he couldn't move forward.

The weather was particularly good, and the clear sunlight penetrated the air and spread over Tao Ye's eyelids, warming everything he looked at.He felt that his back seemed to be sweating, so he wanted to reach into his clothes and wipe the sweat off his back.

When he just stretched his hand back, a pair of big hands grabbed his wrist.

Tao Ye looked back, Lu Yi was looking down at him.

Under the backlight, Tao Ye couldn't see Lu Yi's face clearly, he could only see a golden circle drawn by the sunlight on the edge of Lu Yi.Just as Tao Ye was about to say something, Lu Yi pointed to the direction where Tao Ye's family was standing.

Following the direction of Lu Yi's finger, Tao Ye looked towards the end of the street, and his parents and Tao Yi were no longer there.

A primitive panic began to spread in every inch of Tao Ye's body, he broke away from Lu Yi's hand and ran to the end of the street.

It's strange, no matter how Tao Ye runs, this street seems to be infinitely long, and he can't run to the end.The building at the end of the street is always close at hand, but inaccessible.

Panting, he stopped, and Tao Ye bent down, supported his knees with his palms, and panted heavily.

The afternoon southeast wind smelled of damp floor tiles, sticking to Tao Ye's cheeks.He raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and heard the rumbling sound in the sky.

The sky was still clear for a second, and then it was shrouded in clouds, and the day turned into night in an instant.

Bean-sized raindrops fell from the clouds and hit Tao Ye's back heavily, bringing a severe chill.

Pedestrians on the street became chaotic, those looking for umbrellas looking for umbrellas, and those looking for shelter from the rain.Tao Ye blinked, shaking off the rain on his eyelashes.

In a trance, the smell of mud mixed with the rainwater, and flowed into Tao Ye's mouth from the corner of his mouth.

Tao Ye continued to run forward, and soon reached the end of the street.

There, the flashing old-fashioned traffic lights are constantly changing, red to yellow, yellow to green, and so on.

The lights of the signal lights hit the puddles and were crushed to pieces by passing cars.

During the heavy rain, the apartment building at the end of the street suddenly caught fire.Tongues of fire twisted and frantically licked the dark gray sky.

Tao Ye felt that the scene in front of him seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.

A girl's cry passed through the noise of flames bursting and flew to Tao Ye's ears.Following the prestige, Tao Ye saw Tao Yi lying on the window of the third floor of the apartment building, smiling and waving to him:

"Brother! I want to eat strawberry cake, you go and buy some!"

Tao Ye's heart tightened suddenly, he didn't hear "Strawberry Cake", he just wanted to rescue Tao Yi quickly.

After quickly rushing into the fire, Tao Ye squinted his eyes to resist the stimulation of the smoke, and ran quickly to the third floor regardless of the burning of the flames.

When he got to the room where Tao Yi waved to him, he found that Tao Yi was not there.

"Why did you go back?"

Just as Tao Ye was staring blankly at the empty room, a voice came from behind Tao Ye.

He looked back at the person who had spoken, startled for a moment.

The man was dressed in red and stood quietly, but Tao Ye couldn't see his face clearly.

Seemingly knowing that Tao Ye would not answer this question, the man continued to ask:

"On the day you died, did you see something before returning to the scene of the fire?"

Like a loud bell ringing, this sentence instantly shook Tao Ye's limbs, and in just a few seconds, everything in the dream quickly faded, and finally only darkness remained.

After taking a sharp breath, Tao Ye opened his eyes.

The gentle wind is still blowing around the balcony.At some point, it began to rain lightly, and the raindrops wet the floor tiles on the edge of the balcony, casting a dark shadow.

Tao Ye, who woke up from the dream, was still in shock. At this moment, he couldn't remember anything, he could only breathe in the cool air instinctively, as if the strong flames were still surrounding him.

It took a long time before he managed to calm down.

Rubbing the back of his neck that was so sore from napping, Tao Ye stood up while leaning on the armrest of the chair.

It happened that Cheng Lijun came out of the house holding the fruit plate prepared in the kitchen. Seeing Tao Ye was covered in sweat, he asked with concern:

"What's the matter with you? Not feeling well?"

Tao Ye waved his hand and said in a low voice, "It's nothing, I had a dream."

Cheng Lijun put the fruit plate on the glass table on the balcony, took a piece of apple and handed it to Tao Ye, and asked casually:

"Are you having a nightmare?"

Although he didn't want to admit that it was a nightmare, Tao Ye couldn't help but nodded, and quickly took a mouthful of the fragrant, sweet and crisp apple to calm his shock.

"What did you dream about? I can interpret dreams. Let me interpret them for you?" Seeing that Tao Ye was still in the mood to eat apples, Cheng Lijun thought that Tao Ye was just having an ordinary nightmare.

The moment he heard Cheng Lijun's words, a strange possibility appeared in Tao Ye's mind.

"What did you say?" Tao Ye suddenly raised his head with sharp eyes.

Startled by Tao Ye's actions, Cheng Lijun was stunned for a moment, and whispered: "I asked you what you dreamed about, and you don't have to hurt me if you don't want to say it."

The author says:

Come late wwww, this dream has a lot of foreshadowing, you can guess wwww