Red Mist Bliss Village

In [-], there was a movie released in Taiwan called "Human Centipede".

At that time, the company organized a group to watch it. The slogan was: After watching this film, no matter how horrifying the author is, you will not tremble while watching it.

In fact, this slogan was used when "Evil Castle Movie Edition" was about to be launched, when "Saw of the Soul" was about to be released, when "Battle Royale" was about to be released, and many, many movies were released when they were broadcast. , the company will use this sentence.

Because before the movie was released, I watched its trailer on the Internet... I didn't follow the group because the trailer basically showed all the exciting parts of the movie.

The editor-in-chief Ziyuan did go, and told me her impressions of watching it.Her explanation is very incisive. The simple explanation is that there are three people connected together in the way of OrzOrzOrz.This movie does just that.

Although I haven't watched the whole movie, I was really taken aback when the humanoid centipede appeared in the trailer. I still haven't forgotten that scene.

More than half a year has passed, and now, in this remote countryside, I have seen a more sensational creature than a humanoid centipede—a woman with eight legs.

When I saw that strange figure above the door, I held the quilt tightly with both hands and gasped.The pair of slender hands were touching the lattice door, and their nails made a clicking sound when they touched the wooden bars above the door.

I can barely breathe.

Then the next second, the woman opened the door slightly in an extremely gentle manner.

The moonlight was slightly revealed, and I opened my eyes wide. Under the moonlight, I saw the pale and delicate side face of the woman. Her blood-red eyes were also looking at me, and the black silk-like hair floated in.

My body should be covered with a very warm quilt, but at this moment, I feel that my body is abnormally cold. The wind blows in through the crack of the door, like ice blades, making me shiver continuously.

The woman's eyes were very sad, she stretched out her pale hands, and leaned in my direction, I finally closed my eyes unbearably, and shouted someone's name.

"Sakuraba love life!"

After shouting desperately like this, five seconds later, I felt someone pushing my body, opened my eyes, and saw Sakuraba Aki who was sitting next to me.

"What's the matter?" A deep and emotionless voice came out in the cold air. Although it was just two short words, hearing his voice relieved my nervousness a lot.

"I..." I hurriedly turned my head to the side of the door.There was nothing left, only the moonlight shone through the crack of the door, and the woman who looked like a spider could no longer be seen.

"Did you hear anything just now?" I thought, even if Ao Sakuraba didn't see the spider, she must have heard the nursery rhyme.

"You call out my name." Sakuraba Aisheng said lightly.

"You only heard this?" This is impossible, isn't there a limited audience for that nursery rhyme?

"Yeah." Sakuraba Aisheng was silent for ten seconds before answering. Seeing that I seemed to be fine and was about to go back to bed, I stretched out my hand to hold him.

"That..." I turned my head away, and it was the first time I made such a request to someone at the age of 27. "You, can you sleep with me today?"

When I was in college, I left home alone to rent a house in other counties and cities. Even if I watched a ghost movie at night, it would not be a problem to turn off the lights and go to sleep afterwards. Girls, I'm too scared to sleep alone. If it gets out, my reputation will probably be ruined in half.

After listening to my request, I thought that Sakuraba Aki would refuse me, but unexpectedly, he didn't even answer, and just pulled the quilt away and lay next to me.

"Huh?" Sakuraba Aoki's movements were too fast, and I didn't realize it yet.His overly cold and handsome face appeared in my eyes majestically from a fairly close distance.

Not just his face, but even the breath of his breath, I can't ignore everything.

"Is your body shaking?" Sakuraba asked.Since he and I are covering the same quilt, we can perceive each other's subtle movements.

"Just, I had a nightmare just now." I can't tell him that there are strange nursery rhymes and a woman with eight legs in the lower body. No one will believe this kind of thing, so I can only use the nightmare To explain it in words, besides, it was indeed no different from a nightmare.

"Really? After finishing this sentence, after more than ten seconds, Sakuraba Aisheng spoke slowly. "How should I do it?"

"How to do it?" I couldn't comprehend it for a while, but I thought Sakuraba Aki saw that I was tense because of my "nightmare", so she wanted to help me.This guy's words are really not ordinary concise and concise, but most of the time, if you think about it carefully, you can guess what he means.

"If you don't mind, how about coming to talk about your business?" I immediately had the idea of ​​"get to know him at this time" in my mind.Even on weekdays, I don't have much contact with Sakuraba Aki, maybe now is a good opportunity.

"Want to know about me?" Sakuraba Aisheng was surprised.

"Yeah! I can read your novels myself, but I shouldn't be able to understand them deeply." I managed to hold up a smile.The relationship between editors and writers is actually very delicate. Sometimes some writers think that editors are just reviewing and reading manuscripts. Of course, some editors think that writers just submit their manuscripts well.However, among the editors I know, some are very willing to develop a relationship with the writers. In addition to talking about the manuscript, they will also talk about each other's life.

To put it simply, what was originally a working relationship gradually turned into a friendship relationship.

I think it's good, at least when discussing a script with a writer, or having a project, without being so businesslike in the conversation.

"There's nothing to say." Ai Sakuraba closed her eyes and said lightly.

"In that case... what about family matters?" I once met a writer who was very silent at first, but as soon as he talked about his younger brother, he was immediately dubbed by me as "a fool who loves his younger brother too much." "Brother" is called.In the face of a proud author, it is a good choice to start chatting with family members.

"Family?" Sakuraniwa glanced at me and said softly. "My parents divorced when I was four years old."

Although I said I wanted him to talk about his family, but I didn't expect it to be like this at the beginning... Should I say it's topical?I kept thinking about something to respond to, but I couldn't concentrate my thoughts at this moment. When I didn't say a word, Ai Sakuraba continued to speak calmly.

"Both realized that the other was not their favorite, so they divorced peacefully. After that, my mother returned to Japan and lived with a girl. Even so, the relationship between my parents is still friendly, and I often communicate by phone and letter." Sakuraba Aki spoke briefly.

"So, did your father bring you up?" I finally regained my senses and asked in a low voice.

"Yeah." Sakuraba Aki nodded, looking at the same dark ceiling with her dark eyes, and continued. "It was also in that year that my father was hit by a blow and got depression. Since then, I have never spoken to him."

Worry, depression?

I was taken aback in my heart.A writer in a publishing house once wrote a novel about a depressed teenager who met the daughter of a murderer.Regarding depression, I only had a deeper understanding after reading that novel.

The so-called depression refers to holding a pessimistic mood, either insomnia or excessive sleep, feeling tired almost all the time, declining thinking ability, recurring thoughts of suicide, etc.In that novel, the boy who is the protagonist only spoke to the girl at the end.

Therefore, I can somewhat understand the situation of Aisheng Sakuraba.

"My father who suffers from depression is very difficult to get close to, and I gradually hated him. Although I understand that he suffers from depression, I have always been quite indifferent to him."

"Then your father..." I said anxiously.

"When I was in the second grade of middle school in our country, I committed suicide by taking medicine." When Sakuraba Aisheng said this, he was also calm and incredible.

I don't know if it's because it's night, but Aki Sakuraba's voice sounds much clearer than usual, and I can feel the tone of the words more than usual.Indeed, he spoke very calmly, but I felt that Ao Sakuraba seemed to have some remorse.

Because of my indifference to my father, in the end, I finally let my father take the road of suicide.If I could have paid more attention to him at that time, maybe this kind of thing would not have happened.

So calm, but very sad, Sakuraba Aisheng told such a mood.

Having been unable to say a single word anymore, I stretched out my hand and covered Sakuraniwa's hand.The touch of his cold skin came from between the fingers, as if it had been drenched in rain.

Although I am his editor, before I became his editor, I was his reader.It feels like there is a subtle bond between us, but the contact and understanding between people is so natural but there is a sense of disobedience.Even though he was so close to that person, he couldn't really understand the other person's mood and thoughts at all.

Even if you get along with others, you will share your views with others, but seriously, whether it is Sakuraba Aisheng or me, everyone is living in their own world, self-righteous thinking that they can understand each other, self-righteous thinking What other people will do, what kind of creature they think human beings are, and how they think they can read others.

After knowing the past of Sakuraba Aki, I felt inexplicably ridiculous for myself to interpret the color and mood of his novels without authorization.

It turned out that I didn't understand this man from the beginning to the end, his pain and his despair, his sorrow and his regret, I didn't know anything about it.

"Then, if possible, can you tell me about yourself in the future?" I don't want to know Sakuraba Aki through novels anymore, I want to know him in the real world.

Sakuraba Aki looked at me in surprise, but he didn't say anything, just shook my hand tightly.

We stopped talking after that. Compared with the appearance of the humanoid spider, the past of Sakuraba Aisi was like gravel falling on the lake, and the ripples continued to expand.She didn't pull my hand away, but silently accepted my touch. Sakuraba Aisheng's cold hands were gradually warmed by me.

Then, accompanied by Sakuraba Aisheng, the night passed like this.

When I woke up the next morning, Sakuraba Aisheng had already left.There is still warm breakfast on the table, it must be his special

sent it here!I rubbed my Xingsong eyes, folded the quilt, washed up a bit, and ate my meal.

The sunlight from outside came in warmly through the latticed door, and there was a faint white mist on the tatami mats. It was a beautiful morning.I was alone in the room, and I couldn't help but think of the nursery rhymes that many children sang yesterday, and I still remember the content.

As soon as I thought of this, I quickly finished my breakfast, put away the tableware, and searched for Ye Yue in the house in three steps at a time.Finally, I found him on the bridge in the courtyard. This beautiful young man with a handsome face and a bright smile was doing one thing early in the morning, and that was fishing.

good interest.I sincerely admire it in my heart.

"Ah! Mr. Shinzo, good morning." Seeing my figure, Hazuki stood on the bridge and waved enthusiastically.

"Good morning." I walked over and saw that he was in a good mood, so it should be a good time to ask a question. "By the way, Ye Yue, I have heard a song by children

Rumor?There are nursery rhymes about Red Rain and Head in the lyrics. "

"I heard it!" Ye Yue put away the fishing rod and looked at me with a bright smile. "Where did Shinzo-san hear this nursery rhyme?"

"This... I heard it by accident." And it was very accidental, if possible, I actually don't want to hear it.

"It's amazing, this is a nursery rhyme handed down from Hongwu Bliss Village!" Ye Yue said while walking. "The title of the song is "Red Rain". Children and adults in Hongwu Bliss Village can sing it, so it has evolved into that of our neighboring villages too."

"Like this." I lowered my head and thought to myself.Everyone here can sing that nursery rhyme, so it's not surprising to hear it last night, but it's too much to sing such a nursery rhyme in the middle of the night...

"What are you thinking?" Sakuraba Aisheng walked over from the gate, looked at me who was bowing his head, and asked with a blank expression.

"It's nothing." I waved my hand, and when I looked up and saw Aki Sakuraba's face, the images of yesterday quickly rushed into my mind.Unexpectedly, at my age, I still need someone to sleep next to me, and that person is younger than me.

God, if I think about it, I really don't want to live anymore.

"You two, what's your schedule today?" Ye Yue asked.

Sakuraba Aki shook his head first, and then I continued, "No, but I want to take a good look at this village."

"Then, let me be a tour guide! Take you to some special places." Ye Yue raised her hand and said energetically.

"Okay." I silently gave him an appreciative smile.

This is the difference between the countryside and the city. When teenagers in the city have a holiday, they will definitely sleep until seven or eight nights, while the children in the country get up early and go outside.

"Please follow me." Ye Yue walked in front of the two of us, and greeted everyone in the village one by one after leaving the gate.

I also saw the morning of this village at this time.

The sun is hidden in the clouds, and occasionally a gentle light will bloom. Because the water vapor is still a little thick, the scenery of the village seems to be separated by a layer of fog.

Speaking of it this way, the foggy morning is a bit bleak, especially when the wind from nowhere always blows those black and red paper pinwheels. For a while, it makes me feel much cooler here.

Subconsciously, I flinched.

Seeing this, Ai Sakuraba took off the cotton jacket she was wearing, and put it on me without saying a word.

"Ah, thank you." I tugged on Sakuraba's coat, which smelled of cold rain and slightly ripe and sweet tobacco.

It seems that he is a person who can smoke.I thought to myself.

"It's the Red See Snake Lotus Festival! Mr. Shinzo." Ye Yue walked ahead, strolling on the trail made of gravel.I couldn't see his expression, but from the tone of his voice, he felt quite happy. ""Red Rain" will only be sung when the Hongjian Snake Lotus Festival is about to be held."

"Red... Lotus Festival?" I wondered.What exactly is this?

"It is a festival held every summer in Hongwu Bliss Village. The content of the festival is very simple. The adults in the village will bring their children around the campfire. Everyone will sing the nursery rhyme "Red Rain", and then put I threw the red lotus into the fire, it is said that it is for blessing and exorcising ghosts." Ye Yue said lightly.

"Exorcism?" When I first heard the word "exorcism", I couldn't associate it with Hongwu Bliss Village.It was rumored that those people were descendants of ghosts, so why would they do such a thing as exorcising ghosts?Could it be that the people in Hongwu Bliss Village don't think they are descendants of demons?

"Ah, it's not so much about exorcising ghosts, it's more about expelling ghost hunters who pretend to be gods." The gravel-paved walkway turned white under the sunlight.There are red lotus flowers planted on both sides of the aisle, and Hazuki is wearing black clothes. Occasionally, the slender petals of red lotus flowers will float around him.

Seeing such a scene, I only feel that Ye Yue's figure is slightly transparent.It does not mean that his body has become transparent, but that he seems to be integrated with the scenery here. Unlike us outsiders, we stand in this place, like modern people who have stumbled into an ancient civilization. Those English prints are becoming very dazzling at this moment.

"Ogre Hunter, is it Susanoo who slayed Yamato no Orochi?" Sakuraba Aoki asked.

"It's okay to think so, but I think most of them refer to those neighboring residents who discriminate against Hongwu Bliss Village!" Ye Yue stopped and pointed to a place not far away. ? There is a sacred place guarding our village!"

I followed Ye Yue's gestures and looked over. Standing on the large red lotus were black steles of different sizes. This should be the cemetery of the dead!

The red lotus blossoms here are extremely bright red, and the petals are scattered in the foggy sky with the wind. Perhaps the sunlight is slightly bleak, and those black stone monuments have an inexplicable sense of weirdness.

"This place is called 'The Bliss of the Yellow Spring', and all the dead in the village will sleep peacefully here." Ye Yue walked to the front of the large group of steles, and folded her hands reverently in silent worship.

Sakuraba Aisheng's dark eyes glanced around here, and asked lightly, "What is the material of the stele?"

"There are ashes of the dead inside." Ye Yue smiled and continued, "We mix the ashes of the dead into black cement, hoping that the dead will protect us."

"Yeah." Ai Sakuraba nodded and shifted his gaze to me.I looked at the words on the stone tablet very seriously, and then stopped in front of a certain small stone tablet.

If my guess is correct, there was a little girl before this stele!It was engraved with her name and the time of birth and death. She was an eight-year-old girl who was born in [-] and died in [-].Died at the age of eight, I am afraid that the appearance of this world cannot be seen properly.

I squatted down, took out a small candy from my pocket, and placed it in front of the stele.

"It's pudding-flavored. My brother likes this kind of candy the most. Please try it!"

"Xin, Mr. Xin San?" Ye Yue stared blankly, his expression was more surprised than I imagined. "you……"

The eyes were complicated for a while, Ye Yue finally calmed down, smiled and said, "Mr. Shinzo is such a gentle person! Why would you want to do this?"

"I died at the age of eight, and I didn't have time to see and experience many things, so I gave her a candy, but I don't know if she will like this taste." I stood up and said with a little nerve-wracking .

"She will definitely like it." Ye Yue's smile was a little sad, he looked up at the gray sky, then lowered his head and said, "Mr. Shinzo and Mr. Sakuraba Aki, I'm really sorry, Can you please take a stroll first? It suddenly occurred to me that tomorrow is the "Night of Bohong", and there are many things to deal with, so I may have to leave first."

"Night of Thin Red"? ’ It’s the first time I’ve heard this term.

"Yes, it is a very, very important festival in our village. Everyone has to participate, so we have to prepare." Ye Yue lowered her head and said slowly.

"It doesn't matter, you can do your own business first." I said quickly.

"Then I'll go first." Ye Yue nodded, turned around and left quickly.

"Then, is there any place you want to go now?" I looked at Aisheng Sakuraba, and found that his eyes didn't seem to move away from me, and I suddenly asked a little at a loss.

Sakuraba Aisheng shook his head, then sat down under a nearby tree, picked up the paper and pen, and didn't know what he was writing.I walked over curiously and found that he was drawing a map of the village.

"It's serious!" I sat down beside him and watched his brush strokes carefully.Aki Sakuraba has a pair of exquisite hands. Although he only roughly drew the outline of the village, many subtle places are quite clearly drawn.

"Have you already planned the plot and so on?" I always feel that Aki Sakuraba will ignore my question and continue to draw the appearance of this village.But I still asked, since I'm an editor.

Sakuraba Aki stopped writing, and after glancing at me with those dark eyes, she replied in a stiff voice, "Not yet."

"It looks like this! Then, I think the scene of the story should be the same as the Red Mist Bliss Village, a very mysterious place! However, if it is a theme of imitating the descendants of ghosts, it seems to have appeared in many novels in the market. Interbreeding with gods, interbreeding humans and demons, interbreeding humans and balabala creatures, descendants of ancient civilizations, etc. are not new topics. In short, the identity of human beings is the basic appeal.” When I said this, Looking at Sakuraba Aki with a bright smile comparable to Hazuki, "I was thinking, do you want to try to write a village where there are no human beings, but what about creatures with human appearance?"

"Huh?" Ai Sakuraba asked suspiciously. "For example?"

"It looks like a human being, but it is an insect in its bones. Just like a butterfly, a butterfly with a human appearance still needs to go through the part of feathering. Therefore, near the village, I found a big hole in the back and an empty space under the skin. Corpse, this is the cocoon left by the butterfly that broke out of the cocoon." I finished explaining with a smile.

Sakuraba Aisheng was silent for a long time before expressing his feelings. "Are you so interested in insects?"

At this time, I had to think about what I experienced yesterday.Before coming to this village, a certain girl said that there are humans like praying mantises here.When I came to this village at night, I saw a woman who looked like a spider.

It's not that I love insects very much, but that everything I hear and see in a day is related to insects, and it's hard for me not to think so.

"In short, you can refer to it, I just offer some small suggestions."

I couldn't help but smiled wryly.

"Yeah." Ao Sakuraba nodded, and continued to complete the drawing of the village with a pen.This place is not Hongwu Bliss Village, even so, he still looks at everything in this village very seriously.

Aki Sakuraba is very serious about novels, as long as it is related to novels, he will do his best. Even if he is reticent and indifferent, he still cannot be hated.Staring at Sakuraba Aki's face that anyone would admire, I thought so.

Because my mind was full of things about Sakuraba Aki and the manuscript, I didn't notice a red petal falling on my hair at all.After painting some parts of the village, Sakuraba Aki tidied things up a bit, and when she turned to look at me, she found the red petal.

He approached me with his whole body, then stretched out his hand, and took the petals off.

"What's wrong?" I raised my head, and he lowered his head. The distance between the two is so close that as long as we move our bodies forward, we can easily touch each other.

The petals of the red lotus are floating nearby, and the sunlight and mist are mixed with the cool wind. In such a hazy scene, Ai Sakuraba narrowed her eyes, and covered my cold lips with her face sideways. .

I can no longer see such a warm sun, hidden in the clouds, making the scenery more pale than bleak.I opened my eyes wide to see Sakuraba Aki's calm face, the pale scenery instantly had no sound at all, neither the sound of the wind nor the flow of breath, only violent noise was left ringing in my ears. Heartbeat---that's my heartbeat.

A very light, very light kiss, which lasted only five seconds. After five seconds, Sakuraba Aki kept a distance from me, folded the drawing paper and put it in his pocket as if nothing had happened. Finally, the expression on his face did not change and he stood up.

"Why?" I looked at him puzzled.Knowing that Aisheng Sakuraba has always acted more than talked, and often completes what he wants to do in silence, but this time, there must be a reason.

Although this is not the first kiss, both of them are adults, I don’t know if he has been in a relationship with others, but at least for me, I am currently single, which does not mean that I have always been single, and I have had girlfriends before , kissed girls too, only to end up leaving them feeling left out because I was a workaholic.

Well, the past is not the point, the point is... Can you explain that kiss just now?

"Hate it?" Ai Sakuraba asked with lowered eyelids.

……

Classmates, this is not the problem, okay?I hold my forehead.Sir, do you know what morality is?The so-called morality is to restrain a normal person not to fall in love with passerby A or B casually, not to sacrifice oneself casually, not to have an affair casually, let alone kiss others casually, and the object is your editor.

"There must be a reason!" It's like a child doing something wrong, and as an elder, I am teaching others, but I am still amiable. If others say it, I am afraid it will be "see you in court".

"I don't know." Sakuraba Aisheng replied lightly.

Benshan people are very well-bred, and I will never pick up a kitchen knife and chase people to the ends of the earth just because of a kiss. I am really well-bred, very well-bred.I kept convincing myself in my heart.But to be honest, the element of surprise is far greater than disgust and disgust. When he was close to me, I should be able to push him away, but I didn't.

Is it because I don't hate this person?

No, stop here, don't think about it any more.

"Let's go back!" I stood up, patted the dust off my body, and smiled nonchalantly. "It's almost noon, I'll go and help Ye Yue prepare lunch later."

Sakuraba Aki didn't speak, just walked on the white gravel by herself.

Aki Sakuraba's silence may be because he felt that I was avoiding him.Indeed, it is true that I want to avoid him by saying that I want to prepare meals with Ye Yue, because my thoughts are a little confused, and I don't know how to face him.

Finally, they finally got closer to each other, but because of such incidents, the distance between each other was further widened. Didn't Sakuraba Aisheng think of the consequences when he did this?

Forget it, I must have done it without thinking so much.Seriously speaking, I like to think through everything before I act. People in the company once said that when I think, I am as calm as a machine.

Neither of them said a word to each other. The road paved with white gravel is coming to an end, but I don't know what to do.

In fact, I don't care about being kissed by him. I just want to break the silence between the two, but in the end, I still didn't say a word to him, just like this at the end of the trail. separate.

At that time, the pale sky looked like it was about to rain, and the white clouds were stained with a dull gray.In the afternoon, the rain finally fell without mercy.