we are just monsters

Chapter 7 What is the glory of the past

After taking a shower, Gu Cheng wiped his hair and looked around, but he didn't see Xia Xiaoman.

"I'm just kidding, don't really scare him."

There was no response, Gu Cheng took out a book from the bookshelf and sat down at the table to read, but he always remembered that when Xia Xiaoman was alive, Wen Wen's quiet temperament, he would always read a book in his spare time, and he would speak softly, no matter what he did. Nothing was rushed, just like him.

At 10:30 in the evening, when it was time to go to bed, Gu Cheng came back to his senses, looked at the ashes in the incense burner, lit another one, then turned off the light, and went back to the house to lie down.

The bustling lights of the city could not shine into this old street, and it was pitch black when the lights were turned off. There was a faint barking sound of a dog in the distance. He closed his eyes and lay motionless on the bed, as if he was asleep.

After pretending to be a human for a long time, he will also acquire human habits, and even be more human than human - at least among the few young people he knows, very few will go to bed before twelve o'clock.

I don't know how long it took, and suddenly there was a slight noise outside the window, like a moth hitting the glass, boom, boom.

After so many sounds, Gu Cheng finally opened his eyes and looked over. Xia Xiaoman was lying on the window, with his face pressed against the glass, and his forehead was bumped lightly.

"Are you sick?" Gu Cheng said in the dark.

"Sleep with you, all ghosts look like this." Xia Xiaoman stuck out his tongue and rolled his eyes as if he was hanging outside, especially scary in the dark.

Gu Cheng sat up from the bed, stared at her silently, Xia Xiaoman gradually felt guilty, fell down with a plop and did not come up again.

Just as she was about to close her eyes, she popped up again, found a broken comb from nowhere, and sat on the bedside to comb her hair with her back facing Gu Cheng.

"Are you still going to sleep?" Xia Xiaoman didn't realize it at all, seeing Gu Cheng silent in the dark, he chatted with him on his own.

"Why don't you try without sleep for ten days and a half months, and see if you die. You should be tired of living for so long."

Gu Cheng couldn't help sighing, and raised his hand to turn on the light, but Xia Xiaoman disappeared with an oops, which was beyond his expectation, and he couldn't help being startled.

After a while Xia Xiaoman came out again, and said coyly: "It's always like this on TV, when you turn on the light, the ghost disappears."

"..."

Gu Cheng put on a piece of clothes and got up expressionlessly, went out to pick up a book and started to read.

In fact, it doesn't matter if he doesn't sleep.

Xia Xiaoman combed his hair for a while, and was bored seeing that he didn't respond, so he had to put the comb away and walk around the room a few times.

"Don't scare Lao Chen." Gu Cheng didn't look back, but he seemed to know what she was going to do.

Xia Xiaoman had no choice but to retract her raised foot, ran to the opposite side and sat down, lying on the table and watching him read a book.

"Forget it, go to bed, stop playing!"

The girl snorted into the TV and disappeared.

Gu Cheng read the book for a while, saw that Xia Xiaoman had really left, put down the book, turned off the light, and opened the bedroom door. Before entering, he saw Xia Xiaoman hanging in the middle of the room, his slender body floating gently, and gradually turned to face .

"I lied to you." Xia Xiaoman laughed.

Gu Cheng turned around and went to the living room to look for a broom, he carried it upside down and went back to the house, the inside was empty, that guy really left.

Silent all night.

After waking up the next day, Gu Cheng went into the bathroom to squeeze toothpaste, and when he was about to turn on the tap, he stopped for a moment.

He decided that if the bleeding was blood, Xia Xiaoman would be rescued at night.

Water gushes from the faucet, which is normal.

For some reason, Gu Cheng felt a little regretful.

After washing up, he packed his bags and went out. Chen Hua lay on the wall with a listless face, looking at him with dark circles under his eyes.

"Did you save Qing'er?" the vampire asked him.

"I told you to learn it, if you don't learn it, if you can see them, you won't be afraid."

"Don't learn!" Chen Hua was terrified to think about it. If he followed Gu Cheng and learned from it, he would probably roll back to the snowy field of his hometown in Siberia without delay, and be with his dear little hot pot. Say goodbye to TV and air conditioning.

"Actually, as long as you see them, you will find that they are really not scary."

Gu Cheng felt that Chen Hua had completely humiliated the blood clan, and that the ancestors of the blood clan would be so angry that they would deny him if they came back to life.

"Are you overwhelmed? Damn, last night I always felt gloomy. I always felt that there were people everywhere in the house, under the bed, behind the curtains, even in the wardrobe mirror..."

"Shame."

Gu Cheng pushed out the battery car and went out on his own, ignoring this coward.

"Aren't vampires all nocturnal? Why is Uncle Chen different?"

Xia Xiaoman didn't know when she would appear in the back seat.

"He proved that habits can be formed. After living in human society for so many years, the habit of being nocturnal has been corrected, but he doesn't like to bask in the sun. The amazing thing is that human beings have gradually turned day and night upside down." Gu Cheng road.

"Then why is he Han Chinese?"

"No, he's an Inuit. I picked him up in Siberia near the North Pole, and I brought him back because he looked like a Han."

"can not tell."

Xia Xiaoman was amazed, Chen Hua was a standard farmer back then, with his sleeves tucked up, he squatted against the wall, he spoke with a big mouth, and his accent was very correct.

This bloodline is useless.

"He doesn't want to regain his former glory? Could it be that you don't let him suck blood? Keep him by your side and watch him." Xia Xiaoman always felt that the blood race should not be like this.

"Past days? Glory?"

Gu Cheng was stunned for a moment, thinking about these two words, he couldn't get in touch with Chen Hua anyway, "If the glory of the past refers to stealthily catching a sheep to drink blood, and then being chased for half a day with a dung fork. If he finally grows potatoes in that frigid place in Siberia for months, I think he probably doesn't want to recover."

"..."

Xia Xiaoman was imagining Chen Hua planting potatoes, without any sense of disobedience.

"Now lying in the security booth, you can watch short videos for silly fun, go home and buy something to cook a small hot pot, enough duck blood, air-conditioning, TV, and scolding people on the Internet, who told him to go back Who is he in a hurry with?"

"Corrupted by a comfortable life!" Xia Xiaoman was heartbroken, no wonder they wanted to pretend to be human.

"It's called enjoying life."

"Are there any gods in this world?"

"I have never seen a fairy."

"Are there any other monsters?"

"There should be a few more. I don't know if they are still alive. I searched for a long time before, and there are only a few left."

Gu Cheng couldn't be sure, the monsters just lived longer, not immortal.

Xia Xiaoman guessed it, this guy must not have been a teacher all the time, and he must have had leisure and boredom in the past, as you can tell from the vampire he brought back.

Maybe they traveled all over the world looking for the same kind, but they couldn't find them. When they passed through Siberia, they brought back Chen Hua and the other two blood clans who were about to be burned to death.

The traffic lights ahead were not far away, and the traffic on the road was surging, so Gu Cheng kept silent.

Xia Xiaoman quietly stretched out his hand in the back seat.

"Xia Xiaoman, you are a ghost now!"

The girl cheered herself up from the bottom of her heart.

Just as he stretched out his hand, the battery car stopped, Gu Cheng glanced sideways at her, Xia Xiaoman immediately fixed his gaze.

(End of this chapter)