"Ha~~" In the Chinese class, listening to the teacher narrating boring content in a monotonous voice, Ye Jian Lilyhua couldn't help but yawned. I don't know if it was an illusion. She always felt a faint sense of fatigue today, and Even though I ate twice the usual amount of food in the morning, I still felt like I wasn't full yet.
"It can't be that the developmental stage has arrived, right?" Bai Hehua lowered her head and looked at the obstacle that could prevent her sight from contacting her feet. She suddenly felt that her idea was a bit ridiculous, and turned over a page of the notes in front of her to pretend to be serious again. As if listening to the lecture, she casually glanced out the window.
Then……
"Uh-huh!"
There was obviously no sound, but Lily Hua suddenly felt a ringing in her ears, and at the same time, something seemed to flash in her peripheral vision.
"Is it a bird?" Bai Hehua looked out the window and didn't see anything worth paying attention to, but she only felt a sharp gaze cast on her.
She immediately turned her head and saw the teacher looking at her with a very intimidating gaze. Lily Hua, who understood that she had been distracted, immediately gathered her thoughts and returned her attention to the book.
But for some reason, it was particularly difficult for her to concentrate today.
After finally getting through to the end of get out of class, the hunger in her belly made her immediately walk to Linhua's desk.
Seeing her best friend appearing next to her like a flash, Linhua was obviously startled and said hesitantly:
"Sayuri, you don't look good..."
"You have some snacks? Give me a few packs and I'll make them up for you during lunch break!" Lily Hua said straight to the point. She was sure that her best friend's schoolbag would definitely have some in stock.
Looking at Yurihua's serious expression, Linhua took out a pineapple bun from her bag and handed it to her best friend——
"When did you start adding extra meals between classes?"
"I don't know, I just suddenly felt a little hungry." Bai Hehua tore open the packaging of the pineapple bun and took a bite. The crispy outer skin and the soft bread rubbed against each other in her mouth. Before she could taste it deeply, she had already swallowed it. Entered the stomach.
"?" Linhua looked at Lilyhua's eating appearance and felt a little greedy for a moment. She then planned to grab a piece of bread and eat it. However, remembering her best friend's strange behavior today, her eyes suddenly became sharp. Then, she suddenly stretched out her hands... …
"Yeah!" Bai Hehua, who was attacked, hugged her chest suddenly and stared at Rinhua:
"What are you doing?!"
"It looks like there's no problem! I thought you were possessed by a hungry ghost!" Linhuaxu shook her right hand twice, as if she was experiencing the previous touch, with a bit of inexplicable melancholy in her tone, but Lilyhua didn't think so. When I was in a mentally sensitive state, I heard a strange term and immediately became vigilant and asked:
"Hungry ghost? What is that?"
"Legend has it that monsters spawned from the souls of people who died of starvation will possess people passing by. The nutrients in the possessed person's body will be quickly consumed, becoming skinny and skinny, and they will feel a strong sense of hunger. , I can’t feel full no matter how much I eat, but your cellulite is still so big, so it should be fine.”
Linhua waved her hand, but Lilyhua vigilantly evaluated it herself. After confirming that there was no change, she said angrily:
"That's why you seem to be possessed!"
"That's right, so every year my family sends me to the shrine to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. I'm always the one who gets hit during the Bean Throwing Festival..." Rinka said lines that sounded like she was being bullied. Lily Hua had a dark look on her face. She swallowed the remaining half of the pineapple bun in her hand in three mouthfuls, and then she felt a little better in her stomach. However, it was just when the feeling of satisfaction after the full meal had not dissipated. Something seemed to flash across her peripheral vision again.
"!!!"
I turned around suddenly, but I only saw a few classmates chatting together. Listening to their discussion about last night's TV show, I couldn't help but relax a little for a while.
"Sayuri, are you okay? Do you want to go to the infirmary and take a rest?" Rinka looked at Yurihua with some worry. After hearing this, Yurihua just reached out and rubbed her eye point, and said slightly tiredly:
"Maybe it's because I didn't sleep last night."
"Then go to the infirmary and take a nap. Anyway, the next period is home economics class. I will ask for leave for you." Linhua immediately put Lilyhua's hand on her shoulder, as if "carrying a man who was seriously injured in the war." Comrade in arms" and walked towards the infirmary.
"Wait a minute, Rinka-chan! This is too exaggerated!"
"Not at all!" Linhua stubbornly sent Lilyhua to the infirmary, leaving two more loaves of bread before leaving quietly.
"I'm not hungry anymore!" Looking at the two pieces of bread, Lily Hua sighed, but then her face showed an expression of disbelief, because he saw that there seemed to be a faint sign outside the window. The shadow is slowly passing by.
Yes, the shadow, that feeling is like the air distorted by the heat on a steaming soup pot. It can't even be said to have a specific shape, but it is clearly standing there, as if... just It’s like the invisible man wearing optical camouflage in the movie!
Well, Bai Hehua knew that this example she gave was unladylike, but it was the closest metaphor she could think of to the current situation.
"What is this? A ghost? A ghost? A monster? Or some other weird story?"
Lily Hua's spirit was very confused. She wanted to avert her gaze, but she couldn't help but want to observe the twisted figure.
"Calm down, calm down! According to legend, those who have seen strange stories are either seriously injured or die on the spot. You can't be discovered that you saw it!"
Lily Hua bit her lip lightly, but as her spirit tightened, the shadow seemed to become more and more clear.
No, not only outside the window, but also in the infirmary, a shadow appeared!
And, it becomes more and more real!
It was a short, fat, bald figure. Although it was still blurry at this time, Lily Hua could vaguely see the huge eye that occupied half of his face.
At this time, it seemed to be casually scanning the entire infirmary, especially the beds where other students were lying, checking them one by one, and even getting in front of each other's faces to stare at each other.
And those students who either pretended to be sick and were absent from class, or were really uncomfortable, all seemed to have seen nothing, which made Lily Hua feel even more nervous.
Ta da, da da...
The one-eyed gaze was getting closer and closer to the bed where she was sitting, and the picture in Lilyhua's eyes became clearer. She could already see the cassocks and monk's robes on the other person's body, as well as the sinister veins and wrinkles on the bald head. To the long tongue that sticks out of the mouth, dripping with sticky liquid...
She could even begin to hear the "click-click" sound like the collision of wooden clogs with the floor when the other person walked!
A kind of physical discomfort made Bai Hehua want to stay away, but her subconscious behavior seemed to attract the other person's attention.
The one-eyed figure dropped the bed in front of him and walked slowly towards Lily Flower at a very oppressive speed. Tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes unconsciously. The one-eyed figure became more and more excited when he saw this. He put his face close to Lily Flower. In front of Hua, he said in a loud voice:
"visible?"
As for why Dongguo doesn’t seem to be a common ghost story...
Let’s put it this way, the acquisition of [knowledge] can be roughly understood as a function curve with high sides and low middle. The horizontal axis represents never knowing and understanding, and the vertical axis represents the intensity of [knowledge] gained from strange stories.
Whether you understand it or not, the more extreme it is, the more [knowledge] you will get; conversely, the more compromised it is, the less [knowledge] you will get.
For example, for the same dog, unseen breeds are more likely to attract attention than common breeds. This is because ignorance brings curiosity.
On the other hand, your own dog is more likely to attract your attention than a wild dog on the roadside. This is the care that comes with understanding.
You won't care so much about the common breed of half-baked dogs in people's homes.
To sum up, although they are also group weird stories, [people in the Yan Kingdom know martial arts] and [all things can become gods] belong to the two extremes.
The former includes humans, and humans themselves are the subjects. Even if there is a slight change, they will worry about it and generate cognition.
As for the latter, most human beings are not included in the weird stories, and no matter how they change, it will not affect ordinary people. In this case, if you see them every day, you will become accustomed to them and become "As long as you don't trouble me, it won't be a big deal." The feeling of "familiar dangerous elements" leads to a decrease in attention.
Take the Slippery Ghost as an example. If you remove the mystery, he is just an old man who eats and drinks. If you see him every day, who will have a special understanding of him?
Even if you watch too many superpower performances every day, you will get used to it.
So for Hyakumonogatari, it’s important to keep it fresh and mysterious.
(End of chapter)
