we are just monsters

Chapter 3
As night fell completely, Gu Cheng walked on the streets of Yicheng, his pace still not in a hurry.

The people coming and going would never have thought that he was looking for someone who had died.

Or waiting for a ghost to find him.

The time points to 08:30.

"I'm back to Baicheng!"

Gu Cheng held his mobile phone on the side of the street and said something, then turned and walked towards the station.

If she deliberately hides her face, looking for a lonely ghost in Yicheng is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

Before entering the station, he looked back again, and there was still no such figure on the street full of people coming and going.

Since she is looking for herself, after seeing this side today, she won't let it go.When a person dies, he will stay in the world because of obsession, but obsession cannot maintain her existence, and the final result of not reincarnating is to disappear.

Tickets have been changed to nine o'clock, now it's time to go back.

The train roared on.

Sitting in the car going back, looking out the window at the boundless night, Gu Cheng's thoughts gradually drifted away.

From ancient to modern times, only the bright moon remains.

At about eleven o'clock, the train arrived in Baicheng, and the station was still lively at night, and the uncles and aunts holding handwritten cards were especially busy when the train arrived at the station.

"Brother, do you want to stay?"

"Boy, do you go online? You can sleep..."

"Hotel hotel!"

"Where are you going? It's cheap by car!"

Wearing a mask, Gu Cheng walked out non-stop, getting rid of the greetings from the soliciting aunt.

Naturally, there was no one to answer it so late, so I took out my mobile phone to contact an online car-hailing car, and headed north along Nantang Road.The white new energy vehicle skimmed through the night and drove smoothly into the narrow road behind the tall buildings.

Here are all old houses from the 90s, and now it is a village in the city. Compared with the new high-rise buildings in the distance, it seems to be left behind in time.

There is no noisy nightlife, there is a small convenience store at the alley with lights on, the car stopped here, and Gu Cheng got out of the car.

The place where he lived was a three-story courtyard. Gu Cheng didn't enter the house, but climbed over the wall to the next door. The lights were still on in the next door, and an uncle in his 30s was holding a small hot pot under the eaves.

For nearly a hundred years, only this friend has been by my side.

"Do you remember Qing'er?"

Chen Hua, who was eating hot pot, couldn't help turning his head: "Did you go to Yicheng to see her?"

"Ah."

"How is she now?" Chen Hua asked.

The girl with bright eyes and bright teeth back then probably has gray hair now, thinking of this, Chen Hua couldn't help but sigh.

Time is so merciless.

He still doesn't know why Gu Cheng left in the first place, but he always has some guesses in his heart.

It's like this after living for too long, watching those familiar faces grow old one by one, and then die, in the long run, avoiding some ties as much as possible.

"She's dead." Gu Cheng said.

Chen Hua froze, and after a while he said: "According to the time, you can enjoy your old age in peace."

"He died quite young." Gu Cheng said again.

Chen Hua's face was a little pale.

"You're not afraid, are you? She won't scare you." Gu Cheng was a little speechless, this person was extremely timid.

Chen Hua muttered softly: "I'm afraid of ghosts, it's not like you don't know."

"There are no ghosts in this world, but some poor people who don't want to leave."

Gu Cheng sighed, raised his head and looked at the sky, stood still for a moment, then suddenly lost his mind to speak, turned around and went upstairs, leaving Chen Hua alone to eat hot pot.

Turn on the lights when I get home, the living room is simple furnishings, a sofa, a desk, and a few pots of flowers on the windowsill, and there are some electrical appliances in addition.

Sitting on the sofa and rubbing his head, the TV flickered twice and turned on.

A white-clothed figure with loose black hair gradually approached on the screen, then stretched out his hand, and walked through the screen to the living room.

The whole process was silent, only the ghost figure with disheveled hair twisting and appearing.

Gu Cheng lowered his arms, sat on the sofa and quietly watched the terrifying scene in front of him. There was no disturbance in his heart, and he could guess who it was without removing the black hair that covered his face.

When she half body crawled out of the TV, Gu Cheng seemed to think of something, and said, "You know that the Sadako you're pretending to be is a man, right?"

The figure crawling out of the TV froze for a moment.

"Actually, the original book is a science fiction novel, and Sadako is not a ghost, but a virus in the virtual world... It can be explained in this way, and it is pretty good. I suggest you read it. I see you are still reading."

The atmosphere was broken, and her ferocious expression gradually calmed down, staring at the person in front of her.

"I'm pretending to be Sadako to scare you. Are you sure you want to tell me whether Sadako is a man or a woman, and whether the original book is horror or science fiction...damn things?"

"It's pretty scary."

Gu Cheng nodded, and didn't ask her how she got here - it was obvious that she followed him secretly when he was in Yicheng, but he didn't show up.

It may be on an empty seat in another car, or it may be directly on the top of the train to follow him back.

He lifted the teapot and took out two cups. The figure in white came out from the TV and stood in front of him, looking at Gu Cheng's slender fingers without saying a word.

Just like when he was sitting in the teahouse listening to storytelling, he also poured tea, tasted it slowly, and listened slowly.

The girl stared straight at the man in front of her. After decades, she was already dead, and only now did she touch the deepest secret. The gentleman in the green shirt, who thought he was just a stranger, now looks more complicated. Not the same as she knew.

Gu Cheng pushed the cup towards her, and when he raised his head, he remembered that she no longer needed to drink water.

"How long have you lived?" the girl asked.

"A long, long time." Gu Cheng thought for a while, and continued: "I once had a good drink with Sima Guang."

"It's disgusting that you pretend to be tender. After all these years, you're a few years younger."

"When you're in your 30s, there are always people who come to ask why you don't get married, and if you want to introduce me..." Gu Cheng spread his hands, "You know, gossip is the most annoying thing."

"Then when will you die?" she continued to ask.

"Probably not one day."

"it's a pity."

The girl is very sorry, even if she doesn't speak, she can tell it from her face at a glance.

Gu Cheng ignored her regret, but rummaged around in the room, took out a few incense candles, lit them and inserted them into a small incense burner, green smoke curled up.

The girl looked complicated.

In this ordinary small building, a person who has lived for an unknown time is offering incense to a ghost.

"Why didn't you tell me before? You taught me a lot back then."

"At that time, you were human after all." Gu Cheng said so, picked up the cup and took a sip.

"Not now."

"So now you know."

"Ugh……"

The girl lowered her head and sighed quietly.

Most of the doubts from the past had dissipated the moment I saw him during the day, why did he suddenly leave without saying goodbye, why did he know so many things, why...

Everything has an answer.

"This is your secret? Hundreds of thousands of years..." The girl couldn't find a suitable word to describe it for a while, and she remembered a movie she had seen.

"This world is too big, there will always be some strange things, there are some monsters, although not many are still alive now."

Gu Cheng said lightly, and heaved a sigh of relief: "And it's much more difficult to hide your identity than before."

He suddenly turned around and said: "By the way, that attack just now was really scary. The person living downstairs is your Uncle Chen, so don't scare him with this trick."

"Is he still alive?" The girl was very surprised.

This kind of questioning is obviously impolite, but in this situation, the girl who just emerged from the TV and a monster whose face has not changed for decades did not mean to offend.

"What monsters are you all?"

It was only after the girl died that she found out that her master, uncle Chen, and even her aunt...they had been living in some corner of the world pretending to be adults.

Only she is a human being, and the truth is known after death.

Looking at the girl's eyes, Gu Cheng recalled it, and said: "I met them in the snow when I was wandering before. At that time, he was tied up by a group of people and was about to burn him to death with a torch. I saved their couple. .They should be the last vampires in the world—in his words, vampires."

Old Chen and his wife are probably the most miserable blood clan. They have no castle, no manor, and no servant butler. When Gu Cheng met them, he was tied to a stake pitifully, facing a group of Excited and terrified humans with dung forks.

Lose the face of the blood race.

……

In the small courtyard next door, Chen Hua packed up the small hot pot, stood up to exercise his body, and looked up at the lights on the second floor next door.

Thinking of what Gu Cheng said, he couldn't help but raised his hand to touch his arm, looked around suspiciously, folded his hands together and bowed a few times, then turned and went back to the room.

Gu Cheng occasionally saves some wandering souls, but if that ghost is Qing'er... Chen Hua is a little timid to close the door.

"What are you doing?" The woman on the bed was putting on a mask, and she couldn't help but wonder when she saw Chen Hua's sneaky appearance.

"Do you still remember Qing'er?" Chen Hua turned around and asked in a low voice.

"what happened?"

"She's dead."

"It's normal, how many years have passed."

"..." Chen Hua opened his mouth, and finally decided not to tell her that Qing'er was quite young and might die and become a ghost floating over. She often said that she would leave when she got married, but she left in such a hurry."

"At that time."

Zhao Hong fell into memory, and said after a while: "I remember that Qing'er drank some wine, but you still insisted on letting her taste it. Later, she pulled Lao Gu back to the house with a blushing face and didn't know what to say. Take us away."

They are all women, how can they not see the twists and turns in the little girl's heart.

It's a pity that she is human.

Having said that, Lao Gu was really pretty good back then, he was dressed in a green shirt, treated others with modesty and courtesy, and the little widow next door almost lost his eyes every day.

……

The girl is crawling into the TV.

"Why do you still want to watch TV?" Gu Cheng asked with a frown.

"In this way, you will occasionally think of me when you watch TV, and come out of the TV to find you."

Relatively silent.

"Qing'er..."

"Qing'er is dead, my name is Xia Xiaoman."

"A little casual, isn't it?" Gu Cheng looked at the calendar.

"You, Wang Aimin, say I'm casual?" Xia Xiaoman didn't think it was casual.

She is no longer a human being, and she no longer uses a human name, and everything that was a human will naturally disappear.

"You will be reincarnated after all."

The girl didn't answer, just as she said, she got into the TV and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)