Xie Linglu - Chapter 1

“The vehicle is about to start, please stand up and help the passengers on the bus, the next stop…”

Listening to the broadcast on the bus, Ji Xinxi obscurely shifted the weight of his body from his left foot to his right foot to relieve his sore legs.

She is a fourth-year student of F City F, and now it is time to go out to find an internship, but today she ran from one end of F City to the other, applied for 7 companies, and none of them were willing to hire her.

She had no time to drink water after a tired day, and she was so weak that she could barely stand.

“Little girl, I’m free, sit down.” A plainly dressed grandma waved to Ji Xinxi and motioned her to sit over, with a friendly smile on her face.

Ji Xin didn’t say a word in the past, still relying on the suspension ring of the bus to make himself stand on the bus.

“Little girl, can you hear me talking to you? I see that you look tired. Sit down and take a rest.” Seeing that Ji Xin ignored her in the past, the old grandmother was not angry, and she still warmly talked to Ji Xin. Conversation in the past.

Ji Xinxi took out his mobile phone and swiped his fingers on the phone as if he was browsing some information.

“Arrival ahead, Qiutang Park.” The bus’s announcement suddenly sounded, and then the body shook for a while, the bus stopped on the platform, the door opened with a “chi!”, and a middle-aged woman got on the bus.

She glanced left and right, strode to the place where the old grandmother was, and sat down. The passengers around her didn’t react at all, and she didn’t seem to think there was anything wrong with the woman’s behavior.

Only Ji Xinxi could see that the moment the woman sat down, the old grandmother who was sitting in that seat instantly turned into a puff of blue smoke and dissipated in the air. She tightened her cell phone tightly and exhaled slowly. An advertisement for athlete’s foot was playing on her screen, and she didn’t even remember how she clicked it.

“Ah! I actually fell asleep just now. Didn’t Xiaoyuan say she was waiting on the platform? Did you miss it?”

“You are in a daze, the next stop is the one she said.”

The two girls sitting behind the middle-aged woman were talking, and the girl who said she was asleep just stretched, took the short-haired girl’s arm and said, “Is that the next stop? Then she’s pretty lucky. Yes, the seat in front of you just happens to be vacant.”

Ji Xinxi was taken aback and looked over there subconsciously. Wasn’t the one sitting in front of the short-haired girl the middle-aged woman who just got into the car?

At this time, the middle-aged woman slowly raised her bowed head, and showed a strange smile to Ji Xinxi. Blood flowed continuously from her open mouth, and some of the bloated necks suddenly cracked. After a huge wound, only half of her neck was still attached, she noticed that the red short sleeves she had always thought were actually soaked in a lot of blood, so she couldn’t see the original color.

“Little girl, I told you to go over and take a seat. You can see that the seats are all dirty.” I don’t know when the old grandmother was standing beside Ji Xinxi just now. In the car, she stood firmly without relying on any external force, and her hair that had been combed meticulously was draped on her head in a mess.

In the sultry carriage, it was suddenly cold, and Ji Xinxi’s heart shrank violently in an instant. She didn’t dare to look back, she swallowed hard, still looking in the direction of the middle-aged woman, and then sighed faintly. Said: “Young is good~” As if he still didn’t notice anything wrong around him.

“Ding dong! The HSBC intersection is here, please get on and off the bus in an orderly manner.” The bus stopped at the new platform at this time. As soon as the door opened, a girl stepped into the bus and the two girls who spoke just now waved to her. signal.

At this time, the middle-aged woman also got up and walked towards Ji Xinxi. Ji Xinxi watched the new girl pass through the middle-aged woman’s body without realizing it, but the woman raised her hand to support her. The shaking head, the cut surface of the wound during the action fell into her eyes.

Ji Xinxi couldn’t take it anymore, and quickly got out of the car before the door was closed. She could feel the old man and the woman chasing the car door mixed with the dark wind, and then the door closed and all the feeling disappeared, but she didn’t pay attention, just now. When the old man’s hand was about to catch her, a terrified and twisted expression appeared on his face, as if he felt something extremely terrifying.

Ji Xinxi felt the sultry summer night wind again, recalling the picture she had just seen, she couldn’t help but churn in her stomach, covered her mouth and rushed to the side of the road to vomit. She hasn’t eaten anything today. , I retched a few times and could only spit out a little sour water.

She took out a tissue from her pocket and wiped her mouth. Ji Xinxi looked around. She was still two stops away from her house. Although she was very tired, she didn’t want to wait for the next car. Putting on the earphones, turning up the volume of the phone to the maximum, she hurried home.

When he got home, Ji Xinxi let out a long sigh of relief. He couldn’t hold it any longer. He threw off his shoes and sat down at the dining table. When she got off, she felt that the sour taste in her mouth had faded a lot. She lay on the table tiredly, the images on the bus just flashed in her mind, and she closed her eyes in pain.

Ji Xin grew up in an orphanage in the past. He heard from the director of the orphanage that her father died before she was born, and her mother died after she gave birth. After investigation and inquiry, she had no other relatives, so she was arrested. Sent to an orphanage.

Since she was a child, she knew that no one would come to the orphanage to find her, and the orphanage had limited funds, so she was very self-reliant and relied on the scholarship she had earned to maintain her studies. Until the year she graduated from high school, a lawyer found her. , tell her that her mother has a house in F City, and when she becomes an adult, it will be officially transferred to her name.

At that time, she was still a few days away from her 18th birthday. The news made her very excited. She immediately applied for the university in F city, thinking that as long as her 18th birthday passed, she would usher in a new life.

As a result, on her 18th birthday, her life really changed dramatically. Not only did she own a suite, but she also had a special ability that day, that is, she could see things that ordinary people couldn’t.

At first, it was only a little unclear in front of her eyes, and she occasionally saw double images when she saw things. She didn’t care that it was just visual fatigue. Gradually, this situation appeared more and more frequently, and she began to suspect that something was wrong with her eyes. So she went to the hospital for a detailed examination, and the result was that her body was very healthy, all indicators were very good, and she did not even have the sub-health that young people often have.

Ji Xinxi was a complete atheist, so she put down her heart and attributed it to her over-thinking, which resulted in a physical reaction caused by excessive mental stress. She began to adjust her routine to maintain a happy mood.

But all this did not improve the situation, but it got worse. She began to gradually see some shadowy shadows, and then those shadows became clearer and clearer, from being able to see the outline to clearly seeing the original face. .

She began to understand that what she saw could no longer be explained by science. She began to search the Internet for help, and also visited those so-called experts in reality, but the problem was still not solved.

The appearance of these things is always without warning and without rules to follow, which seriously affects Ji Xinxi’s daily life. She tried to talk about it with others, but no one ever believed it. Li laughed at her as a freak, so she became more and more withdrawn, and she didn’t even have a friend to make friends with.

She also started to be afraid from the beginning to gradually learn to adapt, after all, life still has to go on.

For so many years, she never dared to reveal that she could see them in front of those things. She faintly felt that once they found out that she could see, she would never return to the world of normal people.

To this day, this is the first time she can hear the sound of those things, and they seem to realize that they can see, and the fear envelopes her deeply, she feels trapped in a nightmare, and can only be alone Struggling in a dream but never able to wake up.

The only thing that made her happy was that in the house left to her by her mother, she had never seen those things. It seemed that her mother was protecting her from being disturbed, allowing her to take a short breath. .

When Ji Xinxi opened her eyes again, the pointer on the wall had already pointed to the 10 o’clock position. She got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower and regain her spirits.

Hungry, she opened the refrigerator and found that there were only a few bottles of milk that were about to expire. There was nothing else in it. She frowned and closed the refrigerator. She opened the cabinet next to it and planned to use instant noodles to solve it.

She reached out and touched the cupboard twice, but did not find the expected instant noodles. She turned the cupboard over in disbelief, and finally found the last package of instant noodles in the corner. She sighed and started to boil water. .

A few minutes later, Ji Xinxi sat at the dining table and ate her last ration. She turned on her phone and started to check her balance. Seeing the few hundred yuan left and a few coins in her wallet, she put down her phone indifferently.

If she doesn’t find a job as soon as possible, she estimates that she will take the initiative to join the camp of those things.

In the early morning of the second day, Ji Xinxi missed her first alarm clock because of yesterday’s overwork. When the alarm clock rang for the third time, she reached out to the phone in annoyance. After seeing the time on the phone screen, she felt She hurriedly lifted the quilt, and the pain in her muscles made her gasp.

She didn’t care too much, and started dressing and washing in a hurry. She had an interview this morning, which was the most promising one to her, and she must not miss it.

After rushing out the door, Ji Xinxi raised her hand and glanced at her watch. If she followed her original route, she would definitely not be able to reach her destination on time. She gritted her teeth and turned around and decided to take a shortcut.