matchmaking

It was just past midnight when I returned to the urban area, and there were only street lights in the streets and alleys to watch the approaching dawn all night.

Qiao Jing had asked the secretary to buy the train tickets, and the two went home and packed their luggage before rushing to the train station without stopping.

At two o'clock in the morning, the train station was still brightly lit, and there were passengers lying on the benches waiting for the train all night, and the atmosphere in the waiting hall was deserted.

After passing the ticket gate, a whistle sounded in the distance, and the train was slowing down and slowly entering the station.

The underground tunnel is too wide, every step has an echo, da, da, da, da——

Footsteps followed them all the way up the platform.

The moon is dim, and the stars are faint.The night wind howled to and fro, and the distant mountains had turned into thick black shadows.The guard lights on the platform were also on all night long, and the long shadows stood alone, and were divided into long and short sections by the shadows falling from the roof.

The staff passed by in a hurry, and there were very few passengers on board.

The daylights in the carriage have been turned off, and there are repeated snoring sounds accompanied by sporadic dream talk, and only the wall lamps give them faint light.

The secretary booked a sleeper berth, and only the two of them slept in the upper, middle and lower beds. Once the sliding door of the carriage was closed, there was a whole world.

The beds of the two are facing each other, both sleep on the lower bunk, and the luggage is just placed on the table.

Luo Youning looked tired, and spread his luggage on the bed, not wanting to move.

Qiao Jing said, "Get up and take off your coat before going to bed."

Luo Youning dawdled and said, "I'm too tired, I'll get up soon."

After all, Qiao Jing wasn't Yu Bingwen, so he didn't force himself anymore, he went out with a thermos to fill a pot of hot water, and when he came back, he saw Luo Youning had fallen asleep next to the pillow.

The wall lamp was dim yellow and soft, concealing the blue and black under his eyes and the paleness of his lips, his thin short hair as black as ebony covered his forehead, his red lips and fair complexion vaguely still looked like that boy.

Qiao Jing stretched out her arms to dim the wall lamp, stood by the bed and looked down at him for a long while, then bent down and pulled a corner of the quilt to cover him.

The carriage shook slightly, the rails rumbled, and the scenery on both sides slowly retreated. After a short stop of 10 minutes, the train resumed its journey.

It was rare for Luo Youning to sleep without dreams, but when he woke up, it was not yet dawn.

The train vibrated in an even rhythm, the bedside wall lamp was turned off silently, and the interior of the carriage was silent and dim.Xu Shi was passing through the middle of the city, and along the way, the post lights cast peeping eyes one after another. The dim light and shadows intersected quickly, and the remaining light spots fell on the snow-white bedding, which looked like children's graffiti.

Luo Youning took out his phone to check the time, but just as he pressed the home button, the screen went black and the phone turned off automatically, and the battery was exhausted.

Putting the charging cable in the bag, he stood up and glanced at the opposite shop. The snow-white bedding bulged into a figure, and Qiao Jing seemed to be sleeping soundly.He didn't want to disturb the other party, so he closed his eyes and planned to sleep again, but the awakening came too suddenly, and the drowsiness escaped completely. In addition, the air conditioner was not enough cooling. After waking up for a while, his back was sweaty and hot .

He tossed and turned a few times on the narrow bed, and finally got out of bed, gently pushed open the sliding door like a cat, and walked quickly in the direction of the bathroom.

The train was passing through the tunnel, and the rumbling sound caused countless echoes in the enclosed space.This is probably the darkest moment before dawn, the doors of the carriages are either closed or slightly opened, and everyone is immersed in sleep.

For a moment, he suddenly felt like a ghost who didn't know where to go, and he would not stop shuttling through the dead silence.

The thought was fleeting, and Luo Youning felt a little ridiculous.

The bathroom is at the junction of the two carriages and is brightly lit.The water in the boiling water stove had just boiled, and there was a gurgling sound.There seemed to be people in the two opposite toilets, and the door handles were always red.

Luo Youning stood on the sink and looked at the weird red line around his neck carefully with his head held high. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the red line was a little deeper, as if he was planning to wrap it around his neck and cut him into pieces. neck...

His thoughts were interrupted by a rattling sound near his feet, something hitting the edge of his shoe.

Luo Youning looked down, but it was a remote control car, which looked familiar, and he didn't know whose child left behind.

He bent down and was about to pick it up and hand it over to the flight attendant. Unexpectedly, the four wheels of the car started whirring and turning around, as if deliberately avoiding his hand, and then rushed down the steps and turned over. Fell in a puddle of dirty water.

The movement of reaching out his hand froze in mid-air, and it was only then that he realized something was wrong—the car in front of him was exactly the same as the one Yu Bingwen drove before his death, no matter in terms of color or model.

With a click, the toilet in front of him slowly opened a gap.

At first glance, the light was dim, and the inside was empty, but Luo Youning clearly caught a glimpse of the pair of black leather shoes exposed between the cracks in the door from the corner of his eye.The shoes are covered with dark brown round spots, and the edge of the shoes is even more muddy and mixed with withered yellow grass clippings.

"Lin Zhongyan, what are you hiding..." The immature child's voice floated from the half-opened car window, as if it was an illusion created in the chaos, "The eyes in the pool, who are you watching..."

The pair of shoes moved, and the door in front of him opened wider and wider, like a salivating ghost opened his hideous mouth...

Luo Youning suddenly sat up.In the darkness, he grasped a corner of the quilt, panting violently.

Nightmare...it turned out to be just a nightmare.

Qiao Jing on the opposite side turned over, breathing heavily, and was in a deep sleep.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, still a little shocked.

Dawn has not yet fallen, and the train is still moving.The rails vibrate evenly with the rhythm of the carriages, like a comfortable cradle that lulls people to sleep.

He wanted to take out his phone to check the time, but he stopped abruptly when he touched the cold case of the phone.He thought of the nightmare just now, and he was a little scared... That dream was not just a dream, but some kind of omen.

There was a creaking sound from the upper bunk, and Luo Youning noticed that the door of the carriage facing him had quietly opened a narrow gap to allow people to pass sideways, and there was also a woven sack in the corner, probably newly installed when he was asleep. Passenger in the car.

The eyelids are heavy, and the sleepiness comes slowly.He lay back down again, intending to sleep for a while, but just as he closed his eyes, his forehead got wet, and a few drops of water splashed onto his face.

He opened his eyes, and saw a pair of slender legs hanging down from the upper bunk in the darkness, dangling in mid-air.

The passenger on the upper berth sat up, and Luo Youning heard a gurgling sound, maybe the other person was drinking water.

He tried not to think about those wicked things, and Qiao Jing was by his side, so he thought he had nothing to be afraid of.

Luo Youning closed his eyes, tried to let go of his thoughts, and tried to fall asleep, but invisibly he felt a peeping gaze, that gaze was as cold as a snake, crouching in the darkness and approaching him little by little, and now it was entangled , The coldness covered his whole body.

Sleepiness ran too fast, Luo Youning couldn't catch it.He couldn't help it anymore, he couldn't help but opened his eyes, his gaze swept aimlessly in the darkness, and suddenly he met a pair of white pupils!

Between the drooping legs of the upper berth, there was a pale little face at some point. It was the passenger on the upper berth... He, or it was bending down to peep at him from between the legs.

With a bang, the face suddenly disappeared.A ball-shaped object fell from the upper bunk and threw it on his bedding, and the snow-white bedding was suddenly soaked in a layer of sticky crimson.

The stench immediately hit his nostrils, and Luo Youning couldn't help vomiting. He lifted the quilt and was about to jump down, when half of his calf, which was dripping with veins, fell to the ground.The man on the upper bunk seemed to have been dismembered on the spot, blood sprayed onto the roof of the carriage, and more blood flowed continuously to form a blood curtain, flowing along the edge of the bed in one piece.

The ball-like thing swayed, and raised its face towards him—it was just a small child, its palm-sized face was covered with scars, its cheeks had been gnawed out by maggots, two lines Tears of blood flowed down from the black eye sockets.It stared at him, opened its mouth wide, and sang sharply like a bird scurrying in the forest: "The birds in the corpse forest stopped chirping, where did the fish in the Burial Soul Pool go? Dead! Dead! Already!"

The sound of heavy footsteps came from the end of the aisle, step by step, accompanied by the sound of the ax being dragged across the ground, the sound was getting closer and closer, until...the carriage door slammed, and there was a gradually increasing sound. He saw a pair of black leather shoes between the large cracks in the door.

The shoes are covered with dark brown round spots, and the edge of the shoes is even more muddy and covered with withered yellow grass clippings.

It came towards him.