Strange Sequence: Longevity from Guoshu

Chapter 1 Disappearing
In August Gengshen, the star falls too slightly to the north.

Becoming a ghost, guilty of accumulating corpses!

Jiangbei Province.

Hanshui City.

The south wind sweeps the dark clouds, and the tide flows northward.

Showers came as promised.

At the bus stop in front of the city hospital, the rain beat on the umbrellas, creating a misty blue mist.

The waiting shed was full of people, a handsome young man with a height of about 1.7 meters [-], with dark circles under his eyes, stood in the crowd in a daze, still thinking about the scene just now.

"Doctor, my tinnitus is getting worse."

"I had my ears checked, and there's nothing wrong with it. How do you feel?"

"I keep hearing a group of people whispering in my ear, but I can't make out what is being said."

"Well, in your case, do you want to go to the psychiatric department on the seventh floor?"

Jiang You is 25 years old this year and works for an Internet company. His tinnitus had appeared two years ago. At first it was just some small sounds. He didn’t take it seriously, thinking that he was on fire. But in the past few years, the tinnitus has become louder and louder. Recently, it has seriously affected his sleep, so he had to ask the company for leave and go to the hospital for an examination. The result was that he had a mental problem!
Jiang You smiled wryly in his heart, how could he afford the high cost of treatment?So be it.

"Dudu!"

The honking of the bus interrupted Jiang You's thoughts, and the crowd rushed towards the entrance. He tried his best to grab a seat and sat down.

The air in the carriage was turbid, and Jiang You felt tight in his chest. He opened the window, and the damp cold wind from outside blew in.

Suddenly, he frowned, "Grass! Here we go again."

The tinnitus became more and more frequent, Jiang You could only hear a group of people whispering in his ears, the voices were sometimes sharp and sometimes low, like ants, climbing up from the ears to his brain.

He put on his headphones, turned up the volume of the music, and closed his eyes.

"Livin' easy, lovin' free, season ticket, on a one-way ride
(Simple life, unrestrained love, I'm here on a one-way bus)
Dont need reason dont need rhyme Aint nothing Id rather do
(no reason, no rhyme, nothing else)
Goin down party time My friends are gonna be there too
(Rush forward, go to the party, my friends are there)

I'm on the highway to hell!

(I'm driving on hell road!)"

The violent rock music suppressed the whispers in his ears, making him feel relaxed for a moment.

The bus bumped up and down, and Jiang You fell asleep unknowingly.

Jiang You, who hadn't slept well for many days, slept very soundly, until a gust of cold wind woke him up.

He opened his eyes sleepily, tightened his clothes, turned on his phone and checked the time, "19:30."

"Oops, I passed the station!"

He quickly pulled the earphones and stood up. When he raised his head, his eyelids twitched.

The bus had turned off at some point, and I was the only one left in the compartment. The seats and the floor were covered with a thick layer of dust, as if it had been abandoned for a long time, and a smell of corruption filled the nostrils.

"What's going on here?"

His heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and he quickly ran out of the car, the car was trampled on and groaned.

This is the city center, and there are many high-rise buildings on both sides. It is the most prosperous place in Hanshui City, but now it is extremely quiet!The noisy and bustling street in the past was actually empty at this time, without a single person.

What's even more weird is that the exterior walls of the building are extremely dilapidated, covered with black moss and covered with dust, and the whole city is shrouded in a layer of gray fog. The neon lights in the distance flicker bloody red lights weakly from the fog, and the shops along the street are covered with cobwebs, reflecting indigo light outside.

Standing on the city street, Jiang You was stunned by the sight in front of him. He raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and said in a trembling voice, "Hello! Is there anyone there?"

The fog billowed, and the sound echoed through the buildings.

"I fell asleep and the whole city disappeared?"

He looked down, his hands trembling unconsciously.

Suddenly, Jiang You felt something was wrong!
He pulled up the sleeve of his left arm, and felt a chill in his heart. On his forearm, there appeared a line of numbers that seemed to be written in blood and was constantly beating!He rubbed it vigorously on his arm, unable to wipe it off at all.

"00:59:58"

"00:59:57"

"00:59:56"

"This is... the countdown?"

"what happened?"

Countless doubts made Jiang You dizzy for a while. He stared at the countdown on his arm and felt his blood tremble with the flickering numbers. An inexplicable sense of urgency emerged spontaneously, which made Jiang You restless, as if something incredible would happen in an hour.

He walked on the street in panic, although he didn't know what would happen in an hour, but no matter what happened, he could only rely on himself at the moment.

The blue light from the windows on both sides made his face extremely ugly, the fog in the city gradually thickened, and his visibility gradually decreased.

He turned a corner, and a black ancient temple shrouded in gray mist suddenly jumped in front of him!
A huge black ancient temple is entrenched in the middle of the road.

The eaves are tall and the overhanging eaves are high. Below is a mottled vermilion gate, and the walls are surrounded by green bricks on both sides.

The ancient temple is located on a huge platform made of white marble, with intricate patterns carved on the railings on both sides, and behind it is a billowing gray mist.

Weird and eerie!
And behind the ancient temple, there is a wilderness. The asphalt road seems to be cut off with a knife. Behind it is a country dirt road. On both sides, there are overgrown withered grass and ghostly shadows of withered black gnarled trees. A village can be vaguely seen in the distance with flickering lights.

Jiang You froze in place for a moment before recovering.

"There must be something wrong with this temple!"

He bypassed the ancient temple and walked to the dirt road in the country, wanting to see what will be in the village, maybe the turning point of the countdown is there?

Just left for less than 5 minutes.

"Huh? This is."

Something floated down from the sky, Jiang You stretched out his hand, and saw a piece of dust falling from the palm of his hand.

A smell of burning paper came from afar.

"This is the ashes of paper money burned for the dead!"

Jiang You was shocked, and then he heard a faint suona sound coming from the fog ahead.

The hairs all over his body immediately stood up, his brain screamed, and his biological instinct frantically warned him, "Run!"

Jiang You immediately followed his heart and ran away, but his body failed to live up to his strength. The more he ran, the softer he became, but he fell to the ground after three or four hundred meters.

Jiang You looked back, and from the thick fog in the distance, a strange shadowy figure appeared.

Can't run away.

Jiang You quickly made a judgment, looked up again, and found that he was falling under the steps of the ancient temple.

"Is it a coincidence or is it?"

Although he felt something was wrong in his heart, there was no time to worry about it at this time, and he said, "It's a bet!" Although there are shops on both sides for him to hide, he has an intuition that the only way to escape the funeral procession is to enter the ancient temple.

Get up and climb up the stairs, and run towards the ancient temple.

Running to the door in one breath, the surrounding temperature dropped suddenly, and cold air was blowing out from the crack of the door.

He raised his hand and pushed the door open.

"Squeak~"

The wooden door was pushed open a crack, Jiang You stepped in and quickly closed the door.

He leaned against the wooden door, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" His heart made a beating sound like a drum, almost jumping out of his throat. At this time, the sound of the suona was too loud, as if it was playing in his ear.

He lay on the door, held his breath, and looked out through the crack of the door.

Outside the door, ashes fell from the gray sky, and in the mist of the dirt road in the country, a group of people dressed in linen and filial piety with ashen complexions blowing suonas, jumped out of it, and walked past the steps in front of the ancient temple. Behind them was a wooden sedan chair made of giant trees. There were black shadows at the four corners carrying it, and a woman holding a spiritual tablet sat on it!
The woman was wearing a conical white pointed hat, her face was as white as putty, her eyes were black, and her lips were blood red!
Behind it is an extremely huge coffin. The coffin is as high as a two-story building, and its length is endless, stretching directly into the dense fog.

"If it is something, you can use such a coffin."

Jiang You behind the door felt a chill rushing from his spine to Tianling Gai. He held his breath and dared not move until the funeral procession passed by the ancient temple and gradually disappeared into the thick fog.
"Huh!" He blushed already suppressed, and gasped for breath at this moment.

Panting for breath, he looked at the ancient temple. The temple was covered in gray and hemp, which was hard to see clearly. There was a courtyard in front of it, a road paved with bricks and stones in the middle, and low stone statues stood on both sides. At the end of the road, the outline of a hall could be vaguely seen.

Jiang You didn't have the slightest intention of entering to check, and got up to leave.

As soon as he turned around, a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back.

door!
gone!
(End of this chapter)