This Damned Thirst for Survival

Across the phone, Jiang Luo and Lu Youyi's knocks on the door gradually overlap.

Lu Youyi swallowed again, " Jiang Luo, what should I do, or I should call the police ......"

Although Jiang Luo didn't think calling the police would necessarily help, he encouraged, "Try calling one."

Lu Youyi turned off the video and went to make a phone call, half a minute later he redialed Jiang Luo with a blank expression, " Jiang Luo, the call to the police was not answered!"

This was expected by Jiang Luo, who said, "Do you have anything in the house to protect yourself?"

Lu Youyi rushed around the room, but to his despair, there was nothing to defend himself in this small hotel, and the only thing that could be called a "weapon" was the clothes he had just pulled out of his hair.

He walked back to the toilet with heavy steps, picked up the clothes props and was about to say something to Jiang Luo when Yu Guang caught a glimpse of something writhing in the drain.

Fearful and curious, he probed and drew a cold breath.

The human tissue that had been washed down the sewers began to wriggle and crawl into the sewage.

Lu Youyi let out a cry and fled out of the bathroom in two or three steps, closing the door heavily behind him and crying, "Jiang Luo, did you see that?"

"I saw it," Jiang Luo said with a mixed expression, not knowing whether to pity him or gloat, "the piece of paper on your bedside table meant, I think, that if you couldn't get through the drain, the corpse in the drain would turn into a ghost."

"Grrrr!" Lu Youyi spat, "A back-and-forth attack."

"You've been lucky," Jiang Luo pointed the camera around his house, "there's one at my door, one under my bed, and one in the toilet."

Lu Youyi felt instantly comforted by the sympathetic look on his face and suddenly felt okay on his side.

As he talks, Jiang Luo catches a glimpse of a dark shadow shifting in the bathroom.

The black shadow slowly approached the frosted glass door from shallow to deep, and it reached out and scratched hard at the glass door, making a sharp, piercing sound like a cat or dog scratching at a door.

It was the ghostly figure in the mirror, which had stepped out of the mirror and was about to walk out of the bathroom door.

At the same time, the long-necked ghost outside the door seemed to sense something, and the force with which it knocked changed to smashing the door, faster and heavier, and the whole room seemed to tremble along with the door.

Jiang Luo's mobile phone vibrates a dozen times in quick succession.

[Open the door!

[Open the door!!!]

......

Ten minutes later, everything calmed down.

The door suddenly changed to a different kind of knocking and a man said, " Jiang Luo, I'm back."

It was his "husband" in his dreams.

Jiang Luo exhales, a thin layer of sweat already forming on his forehead. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and straightened his hair to make sure there was nothing unusual before walking to the door to look out.

The man at the door came close, so tall that the cat's eye could only see him at the collar.

The "husband" at the door knocked again and his voice became louder, "Jiang Luo?"

Jiang Luo hesitated for a moment and looked back at the time, which was already six o'clock. He opened the door anyway.

The man outside had a slightly tired look on his face as he took Jiang Luo's hand and walked towards the table, "I bought you spicy rabbit brains tonight, are you hungry now?"

When Jiang Luo kept staring at his face, Bai Yefeng looked back and touched his face in surprise, "Honey, did I get something dirty on my face?"

Jiang Luo stared at him for a moment longer and pulled his lips up in an odd smile, "No, I just think you're very handsome today."

Bai Yefeng smiled and was so happy that he squeezed Jiang Luo's hand again, "Honey, you're in a good mood today."

He moved closer to Jiang Luo and glanced suggestively at Jiang Luo's lips, "So can you give me that once today?"

Jiang Luo resisted the urge to throw a punch and changed the subject, "I'm hungry."

Hearing this, Bai Yefeng hurriedly went to work at the table.

Jiang Luo looks at his back critically, and when he sees Bai Yefeng, he thinks of Chi You. In reality Bai Yefeng is Chi You's puppet, is it the same in the dream?

But Bai Yefeng's behaviour was too natural for him to be sure. But now was not the time to probe him. Jiang Luo took out his phone and found that the video of him and Lu Youyi had cut off ten minutes after the ghosts had stormed the room so violently.

Jiang Luo was afraid that Lu Youyi was dealing with a ghost over there, so he didn't dare interrupt him, so he sent him a message: [How are you doing?

Two minutes later, Lu Youyi replied to him: [I was hiding in the wardrobe when the couple just outside the door came in with an axe. I opened the bathroom door and now the ghost in the bathroom is tangled up with the couple].

The next second, he sent it again: [Crap that ghost killed the middle-aged man].

[!

[That woman is dead too!

Lu Youyi trembled: [Jiang Luo, I'm finished, will I be the next one to die?

Jiang Luo was about to type when two more messages came from across the room.

[Jiang Luo ......]

[I feel like she sees me ......]

Jiang Luo's fingers suddenly tightened and he looked up sharply, only to find Bai Yefeng standing beside him, looking down at his phone for who knows how long.

His heart skipped a beat, but Jiang Luo did his best to keep a straight face and said, "What's wrong?"

Bai Yefeng didn't seem to notice anything as he said heartily, "Honey, it's all my fault for letting you play with this kind of broken phone, when I make a lot of money in the future, I will definitely give you a new phone."

Jiang Luo was in a bit of a hurry and stood up, "Let's talk about it later, I'm going out for a while."

Bai Yefeng said in surprise, "Honey, what are you looking at out there, it's going to be dark soon, it's too dangerous!"

Jiang Luo had reached the door and was about to open it when his mobile phone vibrated again.

[I was scared to death, Jiang Luo, I almost peed myself! Luckily the ghost took one look at me and walked out, so my life was saved!

Jiang Luo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as he smoothly released his grip on the door handle and returned to the table, smiling, "Well, if you say you won't go out then you won't go out, I'll do as you say."

Bai Yefeng instantly smiled and looked at Jiang Luo with affection, "Wife, you are so kind."

Jiang Luo's expression twisted for a moment as he began to wonder again if this man was really Chi You.

If it is indeed Chi You, his acting skills have improved too quickly.

But Bai Yefeng's earlier comment about playing with his phone had reminded him. He and Bai Yefeng, the eloping couple, were both men, so why was Bai Yefeng out at work while he stayed at the hotel with nothing to do?

Jiang Luo tried, "Ye Feng, it's too hard for you to go out to work alone, or I'll go out to work with you too."

Bai Yefeng's face changed and he shook his head no without thinking, "No, it's too dangerous outside, you can't go out, just stay here and wait for me. When I earn enough money, I'll take you to the capital, which is now the safest place in the country."

Jiang Luo followed his words down the line, "But it's so dangerous out there, I'm worried about you too ...... Did you encounter anything dangerous today?"

Bai Yefeng sighed and chucked the rabbit brains into a bowl and drizzled some more of the side dishes and spicy sauce, the tiny things as red as brains under his chopsticks, "I didn't come across it, but I had a colleague who died in the toilet. His head was stuffed into the toilet and a hole was shaved in the back of his head, the brain blossoms were exposed and our boss had this bathroom sealed up, the boss said he hoped it would seal up the ghost."

Jiang Luo found Bai Yefeng's tone to be calm, as if he had already seen this happen, so death and ghosts are common things in this dream world?

"Wife," Bai Yefeng said as he picked up the mixed rabbit brains and handed them to him, "you eat first."

"Thanks," Jiang Luo took it in a bowl and gave the rabbit brain a slightly disgusted look as she tried to put into words what had happened earlier, "But it's not safe here anymore either, Ye Feng, and it's dangerous for me to be here while you're out at work."

He put the bowl down, a look of fearful melancholy on his pretty face, like a fragile glass vase, heartbreaking, "Do you think I'll be dead by the time you come back one day?"

Bai Yefeng's emotions instantly flared up, "Honey, don't say such things!"

He stood up and walked around the table, shaking his hands anxiously, "Is this hotel not safe either? No, wife, we'll move out tomorrow and find a new hotel!"

"But the money ......" Jiang Luo said deliberately.

Bai Yefeng said, "Money is not a problem! There are more and more ghosts in this area, it's going to be a new haunted area soon! We still have to move to the city centre, the more people there are in the city centre, the fewer ghosts there will be, even if it's expensive!"

Ghostland.

Jiang Luo took note of the word.

After eating, Bai Yefeng went to take a shower. Jiang Luo took out his mobile phone and looked at his own and found that there was nothing on his phone, but Bai Yefeng's was a normal phone.

In addition to his mobile phone, Bai Yefeng had a newspaper in his bag.

He took the newspaper out and saw that the headline on it was either "Lianhu District falls to the province's 13th ghostly domain" or "Must carry! 101 ways to save your life in case of ghosts".

Lianhu District.

If memory serves, this district is named after one of the provinces where Bai Hua University is located in reality.

Jiang Luo quickly skimmed through the newspaper, then took out Bai Yefeng's mobile phone and started searching again for "haunted areas", "ghosts", "capitals", "safe places" and so on. The keywords "safe place".

When he had finished reading it, Jiang Luo returned to the home page with a stony expression and clicked on the time on the screen.

[10 September 202x]

Here is the reality of the time five years later.

Five years ago, ghostly activity began to appear around the world. Especially in this country, all kinds of legendary ghosts and monsters have sprung up, and evil spirits are rampant, but no one has the means to get rid of them. In a world where ghosts and humans exist side by side, it is the humans who need to be caught in the crossfire to survive. And there are humans who are worse than ghosts, who gradually lose their humanity and turn into ghosts in human skin, constantly brutalising their fellow human beings, young and old.

This is Chi You's favourite, a haven of malice and twists.

The safest place up and down the country is the capital, but the safety of the capital is only relative. Ghosts are also found there, only that there are far fewer of them because they are suppressed by Dragon City. But at the rate that more than a hundred ghost domains have appeared across the country in five years, everywhere is on the verge of falling and there is no such thing as a safe place.

Jiang Luo searched again for " Tian Shifu", "Six Families" and "Xuan Ling Joint Office", things that in reality would never be searched for by ordinary people at all Nowadays, they can also be searched, but the search says that these institutions and families no longer exist.

The metaphysical world, devastated.

Or rather ruled by ghosts and ghouls.

"Jingle bells."

Jiang Luo's own mobile phone rings.

He picked it up and saw that it was Lu Youyi. Lu Youyi whispered, " Jiang Luo, I just called you and you didn't return my message, I was afraid something had happened to you so I called you. Are you all right?"

"I'm fine," Jiang Luo said, "What about the couple?"

Lu Youyi pointed the camera at the ground, "There they are."

On the floor, a middle-aged couple were lying in the sewage with blood pouring out of their bodies and their eyes turned white.

Lu Youyi winced and gave him a thumbs up, "Good point."

Bai Yefeng in the bathroom suddenly said, "Wife, can you get me the towel?"

Jiang Luo's hand shook and the phone fell to the floor, his brow pressed down as he picked it up and handed Bai Yefeng a bath towel. Bai Yefeng held out his hand in the mist and smiled gently, "Thank you, wife."

Jiang Luo is rendered expressionless by the flesh.

When Jiang Luo came to the table again, he noticed that Lu Youyi's expression on the screen had become strange. Lu Youyi's mouth is covered, his face is blue and his pupils are wide with shock.

Jiang Luo felt something was wrong and he asked, "What's wrong?"

" Jiang Luo," Lu Youyi said in a soft, trembling voice, "under your bed is the body of Bai Yefeng from Shanhai University."