In the ghostly forest, the young man dragged Xie Jin with one hand and ran forward at high speed.

"...You ran too fast!" Xie Jin's face showed utter horror, his hands were held tightly, Xie Jin felt the wind under his feet, as if his whole body was going to fly with the young man.

The surrounding fog was too thick, and he couldn't tell the direction at all. He only felt that the young man was clearly leading him in one direction.

"If you don't want to be found out, hold your breath and don't talk."

The young man's face appeared even more mysterious in the bewildering and hazy moonlight. He was like a silver snake flying in the water, so fast that Xie Jin could hardly see the surroundings clearly.

But he seems to have seen that the outline of the building looming in the mist is the long corridor with a complicated pattern that he passed through when he came, and dense branches and vines clinging to it like spider webs.

Xie Jin opened his mouth wide, and the strong wind mixed with the rotten smell poured into his mouth, making him unable to make a sound at all.

Because there was a sound behind him all the time, Xie Jin didn't dare to turn his head to see if the black shadow had caught up. He could only hold the young man's cool hand tightly and was forced to move forward.

"Hold your breath and exhale when I tell you to exhale."

The young man in front of him said this, and Xie Jin hurriedly followed suit. He covered his mouth with his free hand, and his eyes were wide open—his body also jumped into the air under the acceleration of the young man's force.

"Chirp!"

Suddenly, Xie Jinyun saw a round black ball slipping out of his pocket. He quickly realized what it was, and subconsciously blurted out, "Chirp! Come here!"

The young man frowned in the dark, but fortunately they were only a few steps away from the door, he grabbed Xie Jin's arm and ran out before the ghost caught up behind him.

"Hey! Didn't I tell you to hold your breath... Tsk, luckily I didn't catch up." The young man threw off Xie Jin, panting heavily with his hands on his knees, obviously exhausted already.

Xie Jin pursed his lips, he looked at the young man with a little regret, but swallowed the explanation that came to his mouth.

"... Chirp, luckily I didn't lose you." He opened his left hand, and the black fur ball turned into a cat again, licking his palm.

The young man straightened up with a deep breath. He squatted in front of Xie Jin, watching this man who was completely unaware that he had just narrowly escaped from death squatting there, worrying about the safety of an unknown black coal ball.

"I said." The young man stretched out a finger, wanting to poke Xie Jin's palm, "Since your physique is not good, why did you come to this kind of place? If you didn't meet me, you wouldn't die... Hey!"

He let out a cry of pain, and the mouth that turned into a black cat mercilessly bit the young man's finger.

"Chirp, don't bite." Xie Jin stretched out his other hand and let the black cat cling to his wrist, his face as black as coal balls unexpectedly showed a somewhat hostile expression.

The young man got up from the ground with his teeth bared. He looked at his translucent finger and shouted, "How could it bite me? Did it want to blow my soul out of me!"

Not to be outdone, Jiu jumped onto the back of Xie Jin's hand and bared his teeth at the young man.

"...I'm sorry, it usually doesn't bite people casually." He wiped off the rancid mud on his face, "Is there something wrong with your fingers?"

"Of course there is something. I was bitten by such an unknown gadget for no reason, especially if I was bitten by a black cat who wards off evil. Who knows if it will be dangerous?"

Looking at the meek and honest Xie Jin, the young man suddenly showed a harmless smile, which made Xie Jin vaguely have a bad premonition.

"Uh... Then, what are you going to do?" Xie Jin didn't know what the other party was going to do. Strictly speaking, Jiu was not a living thing. He didn't know whether young people should be vaccinated against rabies like humans after being bitten.

He opened his mouth, and when he saw the young man's expression, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

"It's very simple, take me home." The young man raised his eyebrows confidently. This idea has been swirling around his lips since just now, and he just said it when Xie Jin took the initiative to mention him, "Before the injury heals, you have to take care of this little guy." Biting people is responsible."

"……what?"

Under the coercion and lure of the young man, Xie Jin took him into the tricycle of the hotel owner. Fortunately, ordinary people seemed to be unable to see the young man, so Xie Jin didn't say much, and let the boss complain about him going all the way.

After tossing around in the middle of the night, they returned to the hotel where they stayed. After taking a shower from the small and simple bathroom, Xie Jin wrapped his bath towel tightly, and looked at the young man occupying most of the bed in front of him in embarrassment.

It was embarrassing that two people who hadn't known each other a few hours ago now had to sleep in the same small crappy bed.

"Well, I don't know your name yet." Xie Jin awkwardly pulled the musty-smelling wooden chair aside, and smiled reluctantly.

The young man leaned on the bed, stared at him for a few seconds, and then turned over and sat up, "My name is Ji Duan. By the way, I have almost no memory of my life."

As if seeing the fleeting sympathy in Xie Jin's eyes, Ji Duan twitched his lips and found that he couldn't laugh, "I can't even explain it clearly. After all, when I woke up and found lying in the abandoned park, not only did I find myself Dead, and even lost almost all memory, it sounds like nonsense."

Xie Jin opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer the words, he felt that his brain was a little confused. Do ghosts lose their memory after death? Could it be that Ji Duan injured his head during his lifetime so he...

He dispelled this absurd thought, "In short, you have left that place now, maybe you will remember something as you leave?"

"I think so too. You see, I'm alone, wandering alone in this less peaceful world, isn't it too dangerous?" Ji Duan sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed, staring at Xie Jin seriously.

"Plus I was bitten by your cat, don't you think you should be responsible for me?"

Xie Jin had nothing to say. After hesitating, he sighed deeply, and decided to show his life situation to this man: "...how should I put it, I must be responsible for you being bitten, but...uh."

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the black cat huddled in his dirty clothes and stretched out his hand helplessly, and Jiu climbed up with lightning speed.

"Life is not going well recently, but I will try my best to help you heal your wounds." Having said that, Xie Jin has no idea about healing ghosts, "If you don't mind, you can stay in my house temporarily until you It’s not too late to leave after your injury recovers.”

Xie Jin reported his family fortune to Ji Duan very sincerely, but he didn't know that his words hit the other party's arms.

"Okay, then I'll thank you uncle first." Ji Duan got his place as he wished, and he grinned at Xie Jin, "Although you know my name and name, you still have to tell me what your name is, and you can't always be uncle. Uncle called you?"

He put his bare feet on the ground, frowned and grabbed Xie Jin's chin to look at it, "It seems that he is not as old as he imagined. Although he is a little thin, his skin is in good condition?"

The cold fingers touched Xie Jin's hot skin just after bathing. Ji Duan didn't notice the instant red face of the other party, and he was still slapping his hands without knowing it.

"A person whose face is not as big as my hand, how can he still learn how young people lose weight at this age,...huh?"

Ji Duan's hand was slapped away by Xie Jin, and only then did he notice the man's face that was so red that it was almost bleeding.

"You can just call me Xie Jin, and... please don't touch me, I'm not used to having physical contact with others."

Xie Jin subconsciously tilted his neck back, his thin body was leaning against the wooden chair, his bones were so painful.

"Well, I thought I felt a little emotional improvement when I ran for my life just now." The young man withdrew his big hand resentfully, and his eyes fell on Jiu who had crawled onto Xie Jin's shoulder at some point.

Although the black cat was small in size, its blazing and hostile eyes were too strong for him to ignore.

Ji Duan felt that the black cat was so angry that it was fun, so he squatted at Xie Jin's feet and teased it with his fingers, and asked casually, "Uncle Xie, what is this little guy?"

This sudden address made Xie Jin a little confused, but he remembered that he was indeed almost a round older than the young man in front of him, so he called him whatever he wanted.

"...it saved me when I was desperate." Xie Jin lowered his eyes, and found a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his dirty clothes pocket.

Ji Duan glanced at it, it was a pack of cheap cigarettes, or the big front door that cost 7 yuan a pack, "Are you still smoking?"

He watched Xie Jin light the cigarette with the standard posture of a downcast man. Obviously, this cigarette doesn't suit a man at all, and he always felt that it was more or less inconsistent.

"Occasionally I will smoke...haha." Xie Jin forced a smile, "If I am really upset, I will smoke one or two."

In the next hour, Ji Duan, as an audience, learned from Xie Jin the motivation and the whole story of the man coming here.

"...Oops! My live broadcast!" Not long after talking about the live broadcast, Xie Jin thought of the task that he had completely forgotten about. He was so anxious that he kicked off his chair and almost tripped over it.

"It's over, it's over." Kneeling among the piles of muddy clothes, he rummaged through his cell phone. He muttered quickly in a voice that only he could hear. At this time, he didn't care about Ji Duan, who was full of confusion. Xie Jin was lying there looking for it. , the body that had just been cleaned was stained with sludge again, "The live broadcast was suddenly interrupted, the company's task..."

The clothes were stuck together by the silt, and Xie Jin turned more and more anxiously. In the end, there was a hint of crying in his voice: "Mobile phone, where is my mobile phone?"

"Chirp!" The black cat jumped off his arm, rummaged through the pile of rancid-smelling clothes for a moment, and took out the broken phone.

Xie Jin's eyes were red, and he took the horribly old mobile phone from the black cat's mouth. The tears in his eyes could no longer be controlled, and he burst into tears in an instant.

It's over, he screwed up again.

Food expenses, living expenses and rent, as long as you get the contract quota, these will probably be solved, but everything that seems to be within your grasp has been shattered by a force majeure accident.

"That, are you all right?" Ji Duan froze in embarrassment. Before he could react to what happened, he saw that the man who had been normal just now suddenly collapsed.

If Xie Jin was in a state of embarrassment before taking a bath, Ji Duan would still feel a little bit conflicted, but when the old man got rid of that embarrassment and knelt there crying so badly, he seemed to have a little more empathy in the vagueness?

Xie Jin didn't cry, he just tugged on the stained bath towel on his body and shed tears silently, but it was not difficult for Ji Duan to see from the painful expression that he was sad because of this incident.

Xie Jin pursed his lips tightly, as if his grief had made him forget how to breathe, and his thin body was stuck between his legs, causing him to curl up into a dehydrated shrimp.

"Uncle Xie, hello, Xie Jin!" Ji Duan hesitated again and again, but finally reached out and grabbed the man's shoulder, shaking the man's paper-thin body vigorously.

How can a normal adult male be so thin? This was Ji Duan's only thought when he grabbed Xie Jin's shoulder.

"Hey! Breathe, are you trying to suffocate yourself to death?" He put his index and middle fingers together and forced them into Xie Jin's mouth, "If the phone is broken, you can borrow it from the boss first, you...!"

He wanted to continue speaking, but stopped all words when he saw the man's expression.

Ji Duan suddenly felt that this expression seemed familiar. He should be very familiar with this expression.

He felt that something had collapsed in his head, and even the hands that grabbed Xie Jin's shoulder couldn't help but increase his strength.

"Don't be discouraged casually!" Ji Duan blurted out subconsciously, he didn't even know why he was so angry, probably because of the roar, his voice was almost lost, "At least you are still alive!"

"Uncle" is just a nickname, Ji Duan deliberately, the difference between the two is nine years old