The Exorcist Chapter 18: Fire
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Because Xiaoxia helped the director check the files, it was already past dinner time when she got home. As soon as she entered the door, she only saw Wan Li sitting there reading a book with gusto.
"Where is Ruan Zhan?"
"He went to the supermarket to buy something." Wan Li didn't even look up.
"But his car is still outside." Xiaoxia looked outside the door. Today's weather is very unusual. It's the middle of November. It's raining in winter. It feels very wet and cold. If you get wet, you will definitely get sick.
"It's not that far. It's a ten-minute walk. He uses his legs."
"Did you bring an umbrella?"
"Ah?" Wan Li finally looked up, "Is it raining? I thought it would snow. Don't worry, he's not stupid. He will wait for the rain to stop before coming back." He said and ran to the door. Looking at the weather, "However, the winter rain doesn't seem to stop easily, so it's hard to say. He still has things to do at night, so he might run back in the rain."
"Can you go pick him up?"
"No." Wan Li was surprised by Xiao Xia's suggestion, "Two grown men are picking each other up. People who don't know the inside story will think that we have broken arms, which will seriously damage my image. Also, he loves me for this What should I do if I fall in love with you?"
Xiao Xia was furious, "If I don't listen to your nonsense, I'll go myself."
"You? No need, right? This little rain won't kill anyone."
"He is our only Archmage. If something happens to him, everyone will have a hard time." Xiaoxia said as she ran upstairs, then took an umbrella and ran out again.
Whether she didn't want Ruan Zhan to get sick was to make better use of him, or because she felt sorry for him, she couldn't figure out at all.
Wan Li watched Xiao Xia coming and going in a hurry, unable to even say a word. He could only remain silent for a while in front of the still-turbulent breath, and then said to himself: "Now A Zhan is going to hand over his gun, now The dead girl is hitting his weak point." He slowly walked back to his seat, thinking of the childhood time he spent with Ruan Zhan.
At that time, during the rainy season, the school gate would be full of parents after the rain, holding umbrellas to pick up their children and take them home. Although Ruan Zhan's father adopted him, he was very serious and indifferent to him and never went to school to pick him up. At this time, Ruan Zhan would leave alone in the rain. He didn't know how to take shelter from the rain or run away. He just walked back step by step. Even if anyone wanted to hold an umbrella with him, he would stubbornly refuse. For this reason, people in the town even spread rumors about how weird Ruan Zhan is.
He didn't understand it when he was a child, and he even got angry about this. He thought that since we are good friends, there is no need to distinguish between each other. But after Ruan Zhan was drunk for the only time since he was a child, he realized that Ruan Zhan was so envious of someone who could wait for him in the rain, and so longed for someone to pick him up when it rained, even just once.
But he has never enjoyed such ordinary warmth!
Now that confused but considerate Xiao Xia ran away rashly, which was the first time in A Zhan's life. I'm afraid his cold heart would melt for her. It's ridiculous to think that so many women want to capture Ruan Zhan's heart, but no one thought that such a small thing can do it.
Thinking like this, he could no longer sit still and read a book. He ran to look under the eaves in front of the store, but Xiaoxia was no longer there.
Because Xiao Xia was running quickly, for fear of not being able to catch up, she saw Ruan Zhan carrying a bag of things from a distance, walking out without thinking, "Stop!" she shouted, startled. Many people including Ruan Zhan jumped.
Running caused her chest to rise and fall violently, and her feet were so weak that she had to grab Ruan Zhan's arm with one hand to maintain balance. "Do you have any common sense?" She scolded loudly, regardless of whether anyone was watching around her. , "If you have something important to do, you have to leave immediately. If you get caught in the rain in this weather, you will definitely get sick."
Ruan Zhan stood there, a little confused for a moment. He watched Xiaoxia trying to calm down her breathing, still holding the umbrella in her hand, and listening to her complaining about him in the tone she only used when talking to the people closest to her, he suddenly felt something in his heart collapse. Can't tell.
"Yeah? You're not leaving again? How can I recruit you because I taught you not to get wet in the rain? Childish man!" Xiaoxia didn't understand Ruan Zhan's silence and pulled his arm roughly, "Stand close One point, if I had known I would bring two umbrellas and always be with you, even I would be stupid. Hey, why are you standing still, are you really losing your temper?"
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"Hey, what's wrong? What's the matter?"
"No." Ruan Zhan smiled, his throat rolled up and down several times, and finally said, "Let's go."
He stepped forward and put his arm around Xiaoxia's shoulders, bringing her to his chest. This made Xiaoxia stiffen for a moment, feeling that the two of them were a bit too intimate standing under an umbrella like this. But before she could decide whether this was appropriate, she felt something white swooping towards her, falling to the ground a foot in front of her.
She screamed subconsciously, and suddenly discovered that lying at her feet was a paper crane, with a pale body and blood-red eyes.
"It's this thing again. It's really annoying. Is it popular to fold it now?" She kicked it, but she didn't kick the wet paper crane away.
This uninvited guest made Ruan Zhan frown. He glanced at the paper crane, but then did nothing. He just looked around invisibly to make sure that there was no other one nearby. "It was passed down from Japan. Come, maybe it means blessing, don't worry about it, just go back first."
He hugged Xiaoxia's shoulders and carefully stepped over Zhihe's body. A feeling of being unable to grasp emerged in his mind, "Do you see this often?"
"It happens a lot lately."
"Where did you see it?"
"Are you interested in this?" Xiaoxia was a little curious.
"No, just chatting. Maybe I can also learn to fold paper cranes and pray for your peace!"
"No!" Xiaoxia flatly refused, and her reaction made Ruan Zhan feel her uneasiness, "I don't like this, its red eyes make me feel uncomfortable. If you give it to me, I will embarrass you. Come on, don’t blame me for not telling you in advance!”
"If you don't like it, don't give it to me, but you may be neurotic!"
This paper crane must have been controlled by magic to fly in the air, and it fell down because of the rain! There must be something wrong here, and he needs to think about it carefully.
"Anyway, I hate this. It must be some dead kid somewhere who catches the trend, folds it and throws it around every day. I saw it once on the balcony of my house, by the window of the company, and even had dinner with Wan Li I've seen him from time to time, and he seems to have a grudge against me, and his ghost always follows me."
"Don't be afraid, it's just a piece of paper." He comforted her softly, hugging her shoulders tighter to him, savoring this rare warm time.
But Xiaoxia didn't notice that Ruan Zhan behaved differently from the past, and still told her about the trouble the paper crane caused to her. When he walked to the door of the store, Ruan Zhan suddenly stopped, "I like white shirts." He said to her.
"Huh?" Xiaoxia didn't hear clearly for a while.
"I mean - a pure cotton white shirt is better than a mink coat." Ruan Zhan said again, and then walked back to the store without waiting for Xiaoxia to say anything else, until he drove to do his shopping later. Follow up the task without saying another word.
"It's so late, what is he going out for?" Xiao Xia asked Wan Li suspiciously.
Thinking about what Ruan Zhan said just now, she felt happy, but now she felt that these two men seemed to be hiding something from her.
"Are you married to him?" Wan Li asked back.
"Hey, are you from an alien planet? You can't understand Chinese, so why don't you preface and follow up?"
"Since she's not his wife, you don't care where he goes? Maybe to attend a magic stick conference, maybe to pick up girls. Go upstairs to sleep, lack of sleep will easily cause wrinkles."
"Isn't it unusual to just say something if you don't say it? I just want to ask if it is related to the Huahui case. Do you think I am such a gossip? You men are the best at covering up for each other, so I won't ignore you! ”
Wan Li made a gesture of invitation.
Seeing that Xiaoxia couldn't get anything out of her, Wanli looked like something was wrong, so she simply went upstairs alone.
She lay on the bed and waited quietly, thinking about how to find out what Ruan Zhan was doing mysteriously. But until it was close to midnight, she couldn't figure out the reason, and Ruan Zhan didn't come back. Wan Li didn't go upstairs at all, but she herself fell into a half-dream and half-awake state.
In her dream, she felt an unusual smell and sound. She couldn't figure out what it was for a while, but when the feeling got deeper and deeper, she suddenly sat up from the bed.
The sound of beeps and the smell of fireworks——
Could it be a fire? !
She hurriedly jumped out of bed and ran barefoot to the stairs. She saw that the first floor had gradually turned into a sea of fire. On the edge of the sea of fire, Wan Li sat motionless on a chair. She didn't know whether he was choked by the smoke or was asleep and didn't know what was going on.
"Wanli, wake up! It's on fire!" She yelled and ran downstairs, shaking Wanli's pot violently, but Wanli still didn't wake up, as if he had died.
"Wanli! What's wrong with you? Wake up!" She shouted again, but he still didn't move.
She looked around anxiously, at a loss.
I saw that the fire was getting stronger at this time, burning the invisible baguette made of transparent tubes of unknown material in front of the door to pieces, making a "pop" sound, and Xiaoxia was so scared that she hugged her subconsciously. head.
After that, as it was completely burned, Xiaoxia suddenly felt that time and space had changed. It's still the same place, but something just doesn't feel right. There was a chill all over her body, and there was actually a chill in this fire scene. She saw the flames twisting strangely, stroking the surrounding objects like human hands. Wherever they went, the fire spread faster. In the middle of the flames beside the door, several dark figures suddenly appeared, standing upright and assuming a boxing posture.
It’s the person who was burned to death!
This realization made Xiaoxia so scared that she tightly held Xin Wanli's hand, although he was still unconscious. She has been exposed to cases like this, where people who were burned to death would have such a constricted posture, which is called a fist-fighting posture in forensics.
These charred black figures made long moaning sounds and were emerging from the flames with malicious intent, moving towards them! Very slowly, as if struggling to break through the invisible limit, but getting closer and closer.
The amulet Ruan Zhan has not returned to her yet, and the bloodwood sword is still upstairs. She is almost a ration placed next to the evil ghost. She wanted to run, but she couldn't leave her alone.
"Wanli, wake up quickly." She called him desperately, and finally had to put his hand to her mouth and bite it down hard.