we are just monsters

Chapter 6

After school at 5:30, the students ran out like a rabbit out of the cage, only to see people's heads surging.

Gu Cheng packed up his things and chatted with the teachers in the office. After the students left, it was almost less crowded, then he went to find his small battery car under the carport, and pushed it all the way out.

It was strange that Xia Xiaoman didn't appear out of nowhere, and he planned to ask Xia Xiaoman how he died.

Riding the battery car along the road to go home, he opened the door and did not see Xia Xiaoman's shadow.

Chen Hua next door is in the small courtyard, repairing his precious induction cooker with a screwdriver in his hand, which is necessary for cooking a small hot pot. Recently, he feels that the firepower is not enough.

"Uncle Chen, what are you doing?"

"Who am I...?! Who's talking?!"

Chen Huateng got up suddenly, looked around, his face turned pale, and sweat came out of his forehead.

"Qing, Qing'er, is that you? Don't scare you, Uncle Chen..." His heart was pounding, his eyes flicked to the left and then to the right, looking frightened.

The yard was quiet, as if it was just a hallucination, Chen Hua swallowed hard, his voice trembling.

"Old Gu! Old Gu! Come here!"

As soon as Gu Cheng parked the battery car, he heard Chen Hua's miserable cry, and immediately jumped to the top of the wall. Seeing the vampire with his palms folded and bowing around, Xia Xiaoman stood beside him in shock.
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"I just asked him a word, who knew he was so unintimidated..."

Xia Xiaoman looked more uncomfortable than Chen Hua, she never imagined that a vampire, an old monster who lived for so long, would be afraid of ghosts.

Damn it, the blood race is afraid of ghosts!

"Isn't he a vampire? That's all?"

"Don't forget that he was almost surrounded by a group of people and burned to death." Gu Cheng was relatively calm. He also met a dead old lady in Chen Hua in the countryside decades ago, and was scared to death.

"...This is too cowardly." Xia Xiaoman looked confused.

"He usually can't see ghosts, he can only imagine."

Gu Cheng guessed that it was caused by this guy watching too many messy movies when VCDs were just emerging—that was the time when all kinds of zombie and ghost movies were on the rise, and two-thirds of the pirated videos on the street were horror movies. type.

Typical food and love to watch.

"In his imagination, female ghosts are the kind of violent female ghosts in movies whose faces are covered in blood and say 'Give me back my life'. They suddenly appear, like Chu Renmei, and they are visually terrifying."

While talking, Gu Cheng opened the refrigerator, took out two eggs and a tomato, went into the kitchen and gently cracked open the egg shells, and stirred them with chopsticks.

Xia Xiaoman finally accepted that vampires are not as powerful and capable as they were shown on TV - not only Chen Hua, but after knowing the identities of this group of monsters, they were all different from what she imagined.

"I used to think that Uncle Chen was weird. He didn't bask in the sun in winter, and he liked to squat at the base of the wall and watch the sparrows on the trees in a daze. At that time, I thought he was not very smart." She recalled that there were some clues when she was alive. , but no one thought otherwise.

That old man who was squatting in a corner in a daze in a ragged sheepskin jacket in winter, anyone who looked at him would only think that he was not smart and would not think about vampires.

"It's true that you're not smart, don't take it for granted." Gu Cheng said.

"..."

Xia Xiaoman accepted this statement, she really felt so.

Gu Cheng turned on the gas stove, filled half of the pot with water, and prepared dinner in an orderly manner. The chattering of many ghosts beside him did not affect his life in the slightest.

It's just that if someone is around, you will find that he talks to the air from time to time, like a psychopath.

"Are you still alive to eat?"

"why not?"

Gu Cheng ordered a bowl of tomato and egg noodles, sprinkled with a little chopped green onion, the aroma overflowed with the heat, brought it to the table, and ready to eat with chopsticks.

Seeing Xia Xiaoman staring at him eagerly, Gu Cheng asked, "Share you a little?"

"Yeah!"

"You ghost still want to eat?"

"..."

Xia Xiaoman was stunned.

"I, I just want to eat, greedy."

"Me too." Gu Cheng breathed out, took a big mouthful of noodles, and said with emotion: "It's nice to be a human being."

"?"

Xia Xiaoman sat across the table with his chin resting on his arm, staring straight at him.

"When are you thinking about reincarnation?" Gu Cheng changed the topic, "You think you are such a good person, so go and reincarnate early."

"You are really wide-ranging."

"I am your teacher."

"No, ghosts don't have teachers." Xia Xiaoman raised his eyelids.

Gu Cheng ate the noodles silently, wiped his mouth after a long time, put down his chopsticks and looked at her, persuading him: "Even if I'm not your teacher, I can't do anything to you, I'm an old monster, not a human, Everyone else will die, but I won't."

"Who wants to do something to you?!" Xia Xiaoman was shocked, why is this person so shameless, could she be humming to an old monster?

"Did you forget why I left in such a hurry?" Gu Cheng reminded her, how could he not know what Xia Xiaoman was thinking, and now that he said it clearly, he wanted her to reincarnate with peace of mind and start a new life.

"What are you talking about? I don't quite understand." Xia Xiaoman was very innocent.

"Then why are you?"

"Because... because I think it's fun to be a ghost, you don't have to go to work, you don't have to work."

Xia Xiaoman snorted into the TV, she really discovered the joy of being a ghost.

And curiosity about these monsters.

"Isn't it cold?" Gu Cheng asked after a moment of silence.

"A bit."

Xia Xiaoman crawled out of the TV again.

Gu Cheng found the censer and put a stick of incense on her. Wandering souls are often cold, which has nothing to do with winter and summer. People with strong yang energy will be hot, but it will make wandering souls feel cold. This is also a lonely ghost Reasons for generally preferring to stay in the wild.

With green smoke curling up, Xia Xiaoman took a deep breath, and hinted with his eyes to put the fruit there too.

After dinner, it was already dark, Gu Cheng watched her happily eating apples, turned on the TV to make the room a little bit louder, and she probably went there with peace of mind when she had enough fun.

"How did you die?"

"I..." Xia Xiaoman frowned, how did she die?

"You won't forget, will you?"

"seems like it."

"Can you even forget the cause of death?"

"Possibly dying."

"You, in your 20s, are at the end of your life." Gu Cheng took a look at her.

Dogs live for almost 20 years, which is considered to be the end of life, or the kind of longevity.

Xia Xiaoman watched the TV without saying a word. When she was in her 20s, electric lights had just become popular, and now it is the high-tech era.

Gu Cheng didn't make a sound, maybe his death was not so glorious, such as being bitten to death by a wild dog when he went out, or drowning in a latrine... It's not impossible, no one can tell about natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Xia Xiaoman was still in the room until he was about to take a bath.

"Are you really not considering reincarnation early?" Gu Cheng reminded her to leave.

"Let me play for a while longer," Xia Xiaoman said.

"Then should you go?" Gu Cheng reminded her.

"Go? Where are you going?" Xia Xiaoman was stunned.

"Uh……"

"I don't have a home." Xia Xiaoman said.

The two were talking when the phone on the table rang.

Gu Cheng picked it up and looked at the incoming call and couldn't help but frowned. It was Chen Hua who lived next door. Why is this psychopath calling?
"Hey?"

Chen Hua: "You saved Qing'er? I was thinking about whether to burn incense for her."

Gu Cheng glanced at Xia Xiaoman, "There will be nothing clear from now on."

Chen Hua: "Oh... there are no ghosts around here, right?"

"Have."

Gu Cheng looked at Xia Xiaoman and said, "Why don't you stay with Uncle Chen, his house has many rooms."

Chen Hua:? ? ?
"Old Gu, you fucking! Grass! Qing'er, don't come here!"

Chen Hua's exasperated voice came from the phone.

(End of this chapter)