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The orders tonight were neither too many nor too few.
On the night when the moon was obscured by dark clouds, except for the time constantly ticking on my phone, I couldn't even feel the passage of time.
I steadily delivered food in District C,and nothing strange happened tonight.
A few black crows flew away from the utility pole,and their harsh and unpleasant cries were perhaps the most eerie thing tonight.
Because,under the faintly flickering streetlights,I vaguely felt that those crows were staring at me.
There was an extra trace of eeriness in their pitch-black eyes.
"If I had a slingshot in my hand,I'd definitely shoot you down for a midnight snack."
I don't know why,but as soon as I said this,those crows all flew away with a whoosh.
Before I knew it,after I delivered the third food delivery to a girl wearing white clothes and with dark circles under her eyes,there probably wouldn't be many more orders tonight.
This kind of night-shift food delivery life,it's hard to be competitive even if you want to.
I looked at the empty District C.Continuing to grope around like this,I might as well go out and find some midnight snacks first.
I twisted the handle of the scooter,turned the vehicle around,and was about to drive out of District C.But at that moment,a familiar figure appeared in front of me.
"Damn it,that quack!"
I cursed in my heart and quickly drove towards him.
When the middle-aged man saw me driving the electric scooter in District C,his face showed an expression of disbelief.
"Young man,why are you still here?I told you to quit your job and leave quickly.Are you trying to get yourself killed here?"
I glanced at the middle-aged man.Seeing his anxious expression,I suddenly felt a bit uncertain.
"Don't talk nonsense,you quack.This is clearly an old urban area.Where is the so-called ghost area you mentioned?Look,I've already delivered three orders today."
I raised my phone at him.Facing the middle-aged man,I couldn't help but feel a bit guilty.
The middle-aged man looked at me,pinched his fingers and did some calculations,then suddenly slapped his thigh.
"You silly boy,you're so confused!There's black qi on your face,and the two flames on your shoulders are almost out.Whether you can survive tonight is still uncertain."
The middle-aged man was filled with anger.He took out an ancient-looking mirror from his pocket.When I looked at it,it was like a mini version of the Eight Diagrams mirror that my grandma hung at the door in my hometown.
He suddenly pulled me over and shone the Eight Diagrams mirror on my forehead.I saw a swirl of black qi hovering above my glabella.
"Look,you silly boy.You're in great danger today.Whether you can get out of District C tonight is still a question!"
At this moment,it was as if the sky was falling.I looked at myself in the mirror with a look of death on my face.
At this moment,who should I believe?!
Right!As long as I find out whether the young man who ordered the food delivery is a human or a ghost,it will be fine!
I thought carefully.At first,the Weasel Spirit blocked my way.Even if it was an illusion,the food delivery was really delivered to the young man's hands.
"Uncle,it shouldn't be like that,right?Ghosts can't order food delivery,can they?I delivered the food to a young man at that time.If he's a living person,then there are no ghosts,right?"
I still had a glimmer of hope in my heart and finally said this sentence that I didn't even believe myself.
Whether it was last night or tonight,the appearance of the young man who took the food delivery really seemed...
Very much like a ghost!!
"What?You said there's a young man in the low building at the end of that street?You really don't know that you're on the verge of death!The last time there was a young food delivery rider who got drunk and crashed his scooter and died at the end of this street in the middle of the night.No one dares to live there anymore!Come on!I'll take you there!"
The middle-aged man finally couldn't stand it anymore.He grabbed the handle of my electric scooter,sat on the scooter,and directly drove me towards the alley entrance.
The cold wind howled past my neck,making goosebumps appear on my neck continuously.
The wind swept through the windows of the low buildings,and the eerie sound from the other night reappeared around me.
For the first time,I felt this chill,as if two ghost hands were choking my neck.The chill persisted...
"You silly boy,you still don't believe it.Look at this!"
The middle-aged man's shout made me come back to my senses from that eerie street scene and the cold wind.I didn't realize that cold sweat had already broken out on my back.
Under the streetlight,there was a white expanse out of nowhere,and there were gray incense ashes all over the ground.And two white candles slowly emerged with flames.
Under the illumination of the streetlight and the candlelight,there was a strange black-framed photo.When I saw that photo, the shock of the past few days finally turned into reality and overwhelmed me.
In the photo was exactly the young man who had ordered food delivery in the past two days,and the young man was showing a sinister smile.
Just like—exactly the same as when I delivered food tonight!
"We'll meet again soon."
This sentence suddenly rang in my ears,scaring me so much that I almost jumped up from the scooter and ran away.
Suddenly,it seemed that I stepped on something at my feet.When I lifted my foot and looked,
The hell banknote that was burned the other night actually appeared on the sole of my shoe.
"Why did you harm me?!"
I roared angrily,threw the hell banknote away,and rushed towards the young man's photo angrily.
But when I got closer,I found that the gray incense ashes were actually not just incense ashes.
They were two opened boxes of noodle soup that had rolled onto the incense ashes,mixing with a strange smell.
The two boxes of noodles were exactly the food deliveries I had brought over in the past two days!
When I looked at the black-and-white photo of the young man again,for some reason,the already sinister smile at the corner of his mouth turned up a bit more...
