Weird Regulator

This moment is midnight on January 1, 2016, a new year, a new day, and a new second.

New Year's Day.

The New Year atmosphere that has been brewing for a long time in Shanming City has reached its strongest peak, especially in this most special second.

Snow, in the eyes of some people, represents death, but there is also a word called "Auspicious snow heralds a good year."

"Bang bang bang!"

Countless dazzling fireworks took off into the sky at this second, blooming at the highest point, and the colorful light replaced the dark clouds overhead.

It had been snowing heavily for a long time, but at this moment it became so beautiful and festive because of the red fireworks.

The sound of exploding firecrackers is heard next to my ears, the neon lights of high-rise buildings are flashing in front of my eyes, and the smell of gunpowder smoke that permeates the entire city is breathed into my lungs.

There are so many cars and pedestrians on the street at Lingtian Campus, even in a not too lively street like Qingtian Campus.

Ji Li stopped outside the door of Tiannan Drama Academy, leaning on his cane, looking at the fireworks and heavy snow in the sky, silently.

He didn't feel good, only noisy, which made him a little irritated.

A girl in a white down jacket held two fireworks sticks and ran away from him quickly, hitting Ji Li's handbag on her shoulder.

The girl didn't stop, she just turned around while running and showed him a smile with the unique charm of youth.

Ji Li followed the girl with his eyes as she ran from one end of the road to the other.

A taxi heard him in front of him at the right time. The window was lowered, and the driver showed a warm smile on his face and raised his head:

"Happy New Year, do you want to take a ride?"

Ji Li shifted his gaze from the girl's running back to the driver, reached out and opened the rear door, and got in.

He didn't respond to the "Happy New Year" because he began to have auditory and visual hallucinations again.

The driver did not let Ji Li's indifference dampen the joy of the arrival of the New Year. He drove the taxi very powerfully on the road, reflecting his excitement at the moment.

"Haha, you're very lucky. It's not easy to take a taxi here."

"I was about to go home after sending off the last passenger, and I happened to bump into you. After sending off your order, I went home."

The driver is a young man who looks about the same age as Ji Li, but he may be a very cheerful and optimistic person, so he looks younger.

Ji Li didn't say anything. He quietly glanced out the window, looking at the rewinding fireworks and the New Year's banners between the buildings.

In the commercial streets on both sides of the road, you can often see some businesses doing New Year activities late at night, and the flow of people around the activity center is also very large.

The driver talked a lot. Ji Li never chatted with him, but he kept talking.

This caused Ji Li's already irritable heart to have even greater mood swings. He looked at the people playing on the street and heard the driver's words, and his eyes began to turn red.

“It’s a new year.

The new year will not be better at all, it will only get worse.

You, you, and you, why are you celebrating the New Year, and why did Yu Guo die just one second before the New Year? "

The red color in Ji Li's eyes began to increase. The second and third personalities felt abnormal and were awakened, and they continued to calm their emotions in their minds.

But what lingered in his ears was nothing but the harsh sound of firecrackers.

There was also a voice from Yu Guo: "Happy New Year"...

Ji Li looked at the rearview mirror with hatred and saw the driver still talking and laughing there without noticing:

"Brother, don't blame me for talking too much. I'm really happy. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time."

"Did you know? My fiancée and I, who have been running long distance for seven years, are getting married after the Spring Festival this year."

"She just sent me a WeChat message to ask me to collect the car early, but she still has to make money, and the mortgage burden is quite heavy, but I will go back after finishing this transaction."

"Nothing is more important than celebrating the New Year with her, right?"

Ji Li had some ringing in his ears, but he heard everything the driver said clearly.

Looking in the mirror, the driver's face changed to Yu Guo's face at some point.

Ji Li was sitting in the back seat. He was in a daze watching Yu Guo smile from the bottom of his heart while driving the car.

He watched as Yu Guo stopped the car at a red light, took out a bouquet of flowers from the passenger car, and dangled it in front of his eyes as if to show off.

Every word is hidden in that happy smile, telling her expectations for the new year and her lifelong wish to join hands with the person she loves.

The evil spirit in Ji Li's eyes slowly faded away, his expression returned to calm, and even the noise in his ears disappeared.

The sound of firecrackers in the surrounding environment, people celebrating the New Year, and the driver who put the flowers back on the passenger seat was still talking...

Ji Li moved his eyes out the window again. He no longer listened to the driver's happiness, immersed himself in the atmosphere of the New Year, and lit a cigarette.

The second and third personalities finally breathed a sigh of relief.

…

The air is getting colder and colder, and the location is getting more and more remote.

The whistling warm wind couldn't resist the coldness of the moat water, and penetrated into the car through the cracks in the window, making Ji Li feel a little chilly.

This is the nearest commercial street outside the Seventh Branch, but it seems too cold compared to the city center.

There are only a few pedestrians, and a few scattered shops are still active.

After driving for nearly forty minutes, Ji Li's destination was almost arrived.

The driver stopped talking more than ten minutes ago because he found that Ji Li never responded to him.

The last stretch of the road.

Ji Li leaned his head against the car window, using the coldness to torture his spirit to stay awake. He was enjoying the peace as he watched the people and scenery passing by in a hurry.

He saw another girl wearing a white down jacket.

The girl was still holding two fireworks sticks and running from the street to the end of the street, her face filled with uncontrollable joy and passion.

But the two girls are not the same person. The one he sees now is a little younger, only about fourteen or fifteen years old.

When they met in a similar scene for the second time, Ji Li was no longer as agitated as before. He just watched quietly, as a passerby.

Another shop on the commercial street turned off the lights. It was a drugstore.

The girl was running past its store. The sudden turning off of the lights seemed to startle her, so she stopped and took a look inside the store before running away again.

Ji Li's eyes did not change, he was just as dazed as Mei Sheng.

But then, the next scene made his eyes change.

The girl was about to continue running to the end of the street when a dark figure suddenly appeared from the alley. He held the girl's mouth with his left hand and picked up the girl's waist with his right hand.

Because he appeared too quickly, and the nearest drug store turned off the lights, the perspective was unclear.

Ji Li could only see that he was wearing a large black robe, about 1.7 meters tall, and wearing a peaked cap.

The girl did not make a sound, or the sound could not reach the moving car. She was immediately dragged into the alley by the black figure and disappeared from sight.

In the taxi that was passing by in a hurry, Ji Li turned to look at the snow where the girl was taken away. The two fireworks sticks were also extinguished by the snow.