we are just monsters

Chapter 4 The Old Monster

Xia Xiaoman sat on the roof all night.

Look at the lights in the tall buildings in the distance, see the stumbling drunks passing by in the distance, listen to the sound of the wind passing by the street, and occasionally vehicles gallop on the road late at night.

As the night faded, the number of cars on the road began to increase, and the city began to wake up from this moment. By the time the first ray of morning light fell, pedestrians were already standing at the traffic lights on the street, and the breakfast shop on the roadside was full of steamed stuffed buns. The steam when it was just out of the oven, and the sound of horns on the congested road one after another.

But it has nothing to do with her.

What's the use of knowing the secret that has been puzzling for a long time, she is no longer human.

Lonely ghost, the word just looks like it has a sense of desolation.

"Gu Cheng, you bastard!"

Xia Xiaoman stood up and yelled, turned around and jumped off the roof.

In the room.

Gu Cheng, who also didn't sleep all night, got up on time, was washing up, squeezed toothpaste and turned on the faucet, and blood flowed out of it.

He was silent for a moment, "Qing'er..."

"Who is that? I don't know."

Xia Xiaoman stood behind him with his hands behind his back and said.

Gu Cheng held the toothbrush in his hand, looked at her in the mirror with his eyes, and looked at each other for a moment, as if he couldn't bear his calm gaze, Xia Xiaoman turned his head and slipped away.

The water in the pool also returned to normal.

Gu Cheng was silently thinking about helping her reincarnate, very few wandering souls dared to wander around him so carelessly.

"What are you?" Xia Xiaoman suddenly appeared again.

"so rude."

Gu Cheng frowned, glanced over, Xia Xiaoman couldn't help shrinking his neck, and immediately reacted, puffed up his chest and looked at him, hesitantly said: "Say, I said it too fast, let me ask again, what kind of monster are you? "

"Just an old monster that lived longer."

After Gu Cheng finished speaking, he put the toothbrush into his mouth, and began to brush his teeth seriously. Xia Xiaoman didn't know where he went again, he remembered that it was not like this before.

In the past, Qing'er was very quiet, well-behaved, and she could be said to be an introverted person. In my impression, she seldom even spoke loudly. After a few decades, she became what she is now for some reason.

He also said that he has done all kinds of bad things...he hasn't done any bad things for hundreds of years.

Of course, it's not a bad thing to fight off the villagers and save the two blood races, it's life anyway, so it should be counted as a good thing.

After drying his face with a towel, Gu Cheng looked around in the living room, but he didn't see the figure, so he had to pack up his things and prepare to go out.

He hasn't considered how to persuade Xia Xiaoman to reincarnate, this girl is stubborn... As soon as he walked out the door, he saw the stubborn girl squatting on the wall and looking at the yard next door.

"What are you looking at? Don't scare Lao Chen." Gu Cheng's voice was not loud, but deliberately lowered. He was worried that Chen Hua next door would hear him, which would make Lao Chen suspicious.

Xia Xiaoman, who was picking at the wall, didn't turn his head back, and said after a while: "I'll see what the blood race looks like again."

"Just like your Uncle Chen, haven't you seen enough in those years?"

"whispering sound……"

I don't know what Xia Xiaoman's impression of the blood race is like. Anyway, the reaction is not the appearance of Lao Chen. Life has changed in the past hundred years, and now Chen Hua is no different from an old farmer. His wife still likes to dress up.

"Where are you going?" Xia Xiaoman couldn't help asking when he noticed that Gu Cheng was well-dressed and about to go out.

She was still guessing what this group of immortal monsters were doing every day, but last night she knew that none of them were human.

Thinking about it, she must be very carefree, unlike her, who searched hard for so many years, and even guessed whether Wang Aimin had died a long time ago. Unexpectedly, he transformed into Gu Cheng and appeared in front of him again, without his green beard and long gown. White shirt, and still so young.

"work."

"work?"

These two words are very common. Most people have to go to work when they are alive. If they don’t go to work, they will have no wages. Without wages, they will have no source of livelihood...

She understands all these, but she can't figure out why this old monster has to go to work.

If the answer is demon removal, murder, party, or even eating, she can understand it, but the word "going to work" made her stand there in a daze for a while.

Gu Cheng ignored her, pushed the battery car from the yard and went out.

The early summer morning was not so hot, riding the battery car out of the alley, there was a gust of wind blowing towards him, Xia Xiaoman didn't catch up until he had gone a long way before he realized it.

"Are you going to work now? I mean, are you going to work?"

"why not?"

"But you...why do you go to work?"

"Otherwise, should I go to school? Or lie at home waiting to die?"

Gu Cheng couldn't help but lament the convenience of the mask, which can save him a lot of trouble.A lonely soul, before she found herself, she didn't even have anyone to talk to, so now she doesn't mind talking to her a little more.

"Your Uncle Chen also goes to work. We're not gods. We just sit and recite scriptures every day. We can't just lie in a daze. Why don't we hide in the deep mountains and old forests?"

"But you are monsters."

"The monster can't live anymore?"

Xia Xiaoman opened his mouth when he heard the words, but didn't say anything, not knowing how to answer.I haven't seen him for many years, and she has wondered more than once where Gu Cheng went, if there was anything wrong, and what he did.

A few monsters are silent in this bustling city, pretending to be normal people——

It turned out to be the same as ordinary people passing by on the street, riding a battery car to work on such a sunny morning?

impossible!Absolutely impossible!
The battery car stopped in front of the traffic light, and several aunts who were dropping off their children also stopped one after another. Gu Cheng began to keep silent, looking at the distance from the side profile, but he was actually looking at the female ghost beside him, thinking about how to save Xia Xiaoman.

"Where's Uncle Chen? He's a blood race, and he's also working from nine to five, an ordinary worker?"

From Xia Xiaoman's point of view, this incident was even more outrageous than yesterday when she learned that Chen Hua and his wife were blood clans, and it subverted her worldview as a human and as a ghost.

Gu Cheng didn't make a sound, just looked up at the traffic lights, holding the handlebars of the car with both hands, with one leg propped on the ground, and when the intersection was passing, he turned it slightly, and the car drove through the intersection with the crowd.

"At first glance yesterday, I thought you were Wang Aimin's grandson, and you look so similar." Xia Xiaoman said.

Gu Cheng still didn't say anything, and Xia Xiaoman didn't care either.

"Why don't you pretend to be your own grandson? By the way, what happened to your identity? Oh... It seems that it has only become stricter in recent years, isn't it uncomfortable? In the past, just changing towns would be a new identity. Now it can't work. "

The traffic lights turn on alternately. On the streets on Monday morning, there is constant traffic on the road. The sounds of people and cars are intertwined. There are also bursts of noise from the construction site in the distance. There is a light female ghost on the back seat of a battery car, no one sees it.

She sat there sideways, clenched and loosened her hands, quietly wanted to help the waist of the person in front of her, but hesitated.

"Don't touch me." Gu Cheng's calm voice came, and because of the mask, it seemed a little low.

Te Niang... When she was a human being, she was under control, but now that she has become a ghost, she still hasn't changed much.

Xia Xiaoman was suddenly very angry.

　cover ready

　　
　
(End of this chapter)