Invade the World

  Chapter 3 Corner House

  Day by day, the relationship between the two was not too close. As a result, the so-called "partition" did not have much impact on life.

  Occasionally, he still thinks of Lin Xingjie, but more often he worries about the trivial matters of study and life.

"My sister won't come back tonight. Should I buy groceries or go out to eat... The monthly exam results are good, but the gap with the first place is still very large. I really don't know how that person learned... Strange, why did you do that today? Quiet?"

  Xu Xiangyang stopped, the front of his eyes was obscured by continuous shadows. He raised his head and looked forward.

  At the end of this road, there stands a three-story house.

  This place has probably been abandoned for a long time. There are wild grasses everywhere, and creepers cover the entire wall. Under the building, there is a collapsed wooden door leaning to one side, revealing a deep doorway. Most of the glass windows on the first floor were broken, replaced by wooden boards and newspapers. They were dimly colored and covered with dust. The windows on the second and third floors had curtains drawn up, and some were black and dull, so you couldn't see anything.

   is full of desolate atmosphere everywhere, and the neighborhood has become a paradise for wild cats and dogs. The whole house exudes a gloomy feeling, as if even the sun can't shine here.

  Xu Xiangyang passed by here more than once, but every time he passed by, he felt strange for some reason. The chill that rises from the bottom of my heart, I can't get used to it anyway. Therefore, he generally chooses to take a detour, preferring to take more roads.

  But this morning, he walked here without knowing it.

  The figure of Lin Xingjie walking in front of her has long been invisible.

  There is no one around, only the gloomy sky, and the stationary trees like frozen in an oil painting.

  At this moment, there was a rustling voice in the lush meadow beside him.

  He was standing in front of the house, and there was a strange and slight noise from the other side of the road. It's like some kind of fine human voice, and more than one person is talking, there are males and females.

  What and what happened?

  Xu Xiangyang suddenly felt frightened.

Obviously, he desperately warned himself that he didn't want to see or could not see, but he still couldn't help but want to turn his head to see; while turning his head, he felt that his neck was creaking, like a costume. Old machinery full of rusty gears.

The house in   's eyes was still the same house, nothing unusual, Xu Xiangyang stood stiffly, and could only hear the sound coming from inside getting louder and louder.

  After a while, Xu Xiangyang could no longer bear it any longer, and his fear drove him to walk quickly to the tree and hide behind.

  ...

After a long time, two men and a woman walked out of the lush grass near the strange house.

  I was still very young in dress, dressed in loose school uniforms, and belonged to the same school as Xu Xiangyang. But looking at them with ripped jeans and long hair after dyeing, you can tell at a glance that they belong to the type of bad student.

  A woman has flushed face and disheveled hair, a man Shi Shiran is smoking a cigarette, and a man is still carrying his pants. It is not difficult to imagine what they were doing inside just now, they were walking forward while talking.

  ...It turned out to be human. Very good.

  Xu Xiangyang breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but laughed at himself in his heart: What do you mean by "it turns out to be a human", can it really be a ghost? I'm all this old, and I didn't expect to be scared by this kind of thing.

  He adjusted his position slightly to avoid being noticed, and planned to wait for someone to leave before leaving. He didn't want to be discovered by the other party as eavesdropping.

  Maybe because there are no passersby around, their voices are very excited, and there is no meaning to lower the volume.

   "It's pretty cool to do it in this place."

   "It's just a bit dirty."

   "Don't have a taste, right?"

  A thin, thin young man with long greasy hair and ventilating breath breathed out cigarettes, smiled and asked his companion:

   "How about? The woman before, is there any confidence to get started? I heard people say..."

   "No. I passed it on. This woman looks like thorns all over her body. She should be thinking of something else, but after this time, she won't be able to help her."

   Regarding the short head, boys who are physically strong among their peers answered confidently.

   "Is that okay? She's still a baby."

   "Just because she doesn't understand this aspect at all, she needs to be taught by our enthusiastic classmates."

  The two men talked about this nasty topic and couldn't help laughing. The woman next to her patted her companion on the shoulder very dissatisfied.

   "Hey, I'm still standing here, are you discussing this kind of thing?"

   "Don't be jealous." The inch-headed man smiled and embraced the girl's shoulder affectionately, "We both need you, or if we two men are present, she might run away halfway."

The   woman took a few more shots, but soon followed and laughed.

  ...

  It was not until the three of them left that Xu Xiangyang walked out from behind the tree.

  He recognized their faces. Xu Xiangyang has never spoken to this group of people, but he knows that these people are all "innovative figures" in the school. They belong to the unscrupulous teenagers who often skip class and fight, and also mix with people outside the school.

  One of them always feels a little concerned. Xu Xiangyang frowned and thought about it for a while before remembering—

   By the way, this guy is Shi Hui.

  Although the process was very unpleasant, thanks to Lin Xingjie, he was able to remember the name. In the past, I could only remember that this face belonged to a certain "school bully", but there was no way to associate it with the name.

  According to his classmates that day, isn’t he what Lin Xingjie calls the “gossip boyfriend”?

  He didn't know the truth or not, but listening to the dialogue, it was probably false. The two just knew each other.

  But it is not important. More importantly, what they said just now, when heard by someone like Xu Xiangyang, clearly sent out some kind of nasty and dangerous signal.

  This group of lawless campus gangsters, I really don’t know what will happen. Xu Xiangyang felt that he should go to the teacher to report the situation. Also, there is...

  What else can he do?

  The only thing I can do is probably to remind Lin Xingjie to pay more attention to his own situation. But if you really talked to her, would she be scolded as "nosy" again?

  Xu Xiangyang shook his head.

  One yard is one yard, his mind is not so small yet.

  After making a decision, Xu Xiangyang picked up his schoolbag and prepared to leave. But at this moment—

  An astonishing chill, rising from the spine, like an electric current, it only felt as if someone had been poured from the head to the foot with a bucket of cold water.

  As if receiving a certain signal deep in the brain, Xu Xiangyang suddenly raised his head.

  ...

  I don’t know when, but inside the glass window on the second floor, there was an old man standing in an empty and dark place.

  The old man is tall and thin, wearing a dark black Chinese tunic suit, and standing erect, giving people a spirited impression; Xu Xiangyang only feels that the other party’s face is covered by something blurry to see the color.

  However, one thing is beyond doubt.

  He is "looking" at himself.

The dark sunken eye sockets, his eyeballs were missing, but Xu Xiangyang could feel that a cold line of sight was watching him, and some kind of abnormal evil force gradually eroded his body and mind, making his will Lost, the body became stiff a little bit.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  Xu Xiangyang could hear the sound of pulsing in his eardrums, blood rushing freely, and his heart beating violently like a drum. For a while, his back was cold and sweaty, and the compassionate shirt in his school uniform stuck to his body.

  That, what is that? !

   Is it a human or a ghost?

  The old man without eyes is motionless like a sculpture, looking down at himself.

   Something is wrong, something is wrong!

  Recovered, Xu Xiangyang almost didn't bit his lip. Without a word, he turned his head and ran, almost falling on the road.

  At this moment, he only had the only thought of "escape" in his mind.

  (End of this chapter)