Gu Qiqi loves to look in the mirror.

There is always a mirror in her backpack that can be folded into half a palm. One person is tall after opening. It was a gift from her mother, saying that it was made of Narcissus' tears, which could reflect the most beautiful reflection.

However, Gu Wuming dismissed her sister's narcissistic behavior. According to the evidence, but also a pile of bones. If we must describe it better, Gu Qiqi is a patchwork skeleton with exquisite curves. The surface will be much smoother and whiter than ordinary bones, like the last snow in late spring.

However, no matter how beautiful, it is still a skeleton. This is an eternal fact.

There are not many bone demons left in the world. Since the death of their parents, Gu Qiqi and Gu Wuming have no relatives except each other.

Gu Qiqi's mother mentioned that she had a cousin, but she was uneasy about the dull and closed life. She ran to take the mountain as the king, opened a bone hole in the mountain, put on a girl's skin on weekdays, lured passing men and women into the hole to eat, and was finally killed by a Po Hou who jumped off a stone, and died a natural death.

Gu Qiqi, of course, has never seen this cousin and doesn't like her. Because she eats people. In Gu Qiqi's eyes, human beings are used to see. They wear different clothes every day, have different expressions, do different things, and change the world bit by bit with their own strength. How interesting! Why eat them?

Besides, she hates seeing blood. This bright red liquid flowing from human body makes her dizzy, which is a rather uncomfortable feeling. He can't imagine his cousin tearing at those bodies. Besides, is the fruit tart delicious?

I really want to watch Sophia Kao eat egg tarts. But she always packs it and takes it away. I'm really curious about the way bone monsters eat, and even wonder if what they eat will leak directly from the bones.

The fact is that every time Gu Qiqi comes to buy a fruit tart, fat people and thin people are scared to death by her. Because she always comes in the middle of the night, she walks silently in a floating way out of kindness not to disturb others.

That day, the fat man who got up in the middle of the night to do midnight snack walked out while eating glutinous rice balls, and suddenly met him. The fat man stuffed a mouthful of soup into his throat, but he couldn't swallow it and almost died young.

I know she is a curious bone monster, and he can't stop everything in the world. He can't help but visit my yard when he buys egg tarts. Curiosity will kill the cat, and the curiosity of the bone demon almost killed the fat man.

The fat man and the thin man have great opinions on her, and they all agree that he should put on a decent layer of human skin and come out again, walking around with a skeleton, which is too eye-abuse.

However, he is still the same, always appearing in front of us in the most primitive and simple form. She said it was delicious. No perm, no makeup, no clothes. It's too easy to eat my favorite egg tart alive.

She always comes to buy egg tarts on weekend nights. I know her time, so I always put the prepared egg tart in a special incubator to ensure that it is warm when she gets it. Because fat people and thin people never want to bake an egg tart for a skeleton in the middle of the night.

However, Gu Qiqi has been absent for almost a month. The egg tart prepared for her has turned into our own breakfast several times in a row.

Today is the weekend, and the summer heat is unwilling to recede at dusk. The fat man and the thin man went to the newly opened bathing beach early in the morning to see the beautiful women. Fortunately, they left, otherwise the unexpected Gu Wuming would make them have nightmares for three days. Yes, today is not Gu Qiqi, but her brother-Gu Wuming.

This male bone demon who has survived for hundreds of years is very different from her sister. Pure black bones are as deep as knocking over a bottle of ink that has been sealed for tens of thousands of years. On every rough bone, there are small spots like gravel buried. The power of bone demon is defined by color. The darker the color, the fiercer it is.

Despite the unknown place, all my lush flowers and plants hung their heads. He came in like a gust of wind. I smiled and said to him, "Buy an egg tart for your sister?"

"Come with me!" He has a beautiful voice. If you close your eyes, a perfect man will come to your mind.

I still smile: "eloping with a skeleton is very unromantic, and I refuse." He seems angry. The table between me and him was knocked over by his palm, the teapot and teacups were broken all over the floor, and the green tea flowed all over the floor. He came up to me, and I felt the chill coming from his bones, which instantly changed the room temperature. I fell from summer to winter.

He is a head taller than me, and looking up at a black and angry skeleton is much more uncomfortable than looking at the golden lion before. Because he has no eyes, he won't have eyes, so I can't see the clue and guess my mind.

"I want the true spirit of your tree demon!" His hand caught my wrist by accident. Being caught by that cold bone suddenly made me feel that my hand was gone at a certain moment.

"I haven't fought for many years." Although he had no eyes, I looked at the two sunken black holes on his face seriously and said to him.

I really don't want to fight. A table, a chair, a cup, everything is bought with money. It's a pity that it is broken!

Despite the unknown cold snorted, but held me tighter. ...

Today is not the fifteenth, but it is still a full moon tonight, and the sky is golden and dazzling. I think the sun has got the time wrong.

Forgotten Sichuan, a little-known city, sleeps in this moonlight, without the reality of reinforced concrete, but with a dreamlike illusion.

The brightest moonlight fell on the back alley of a restaurant, and several greedy wild cats jumped into the trash can, unwilling to rummage for food. High temperature is the favorite of all kinds of smells.

There was a crack in the air in the middle of the alley, and there was a layer of white gas inside, like steam from a steamed bun shop in the morning, but there was no slightest heat, which made people want to die.

Two people came out of the gap, and the vague figure gradually became clear in the white air, T-shirt, jeans and shoes, the most common dress in summer, with black hair and inch board; Red hair, waist-high They are all beautiful, with no smile on their faces and sharp eyes.

"Can't you drive to a cleaner exit of the underworld?" In the darkness next to the trash can, a thin figure of a teenager was paid. The oblique bangs are blown by the night wind, which is quite messy and beautiful. Although the facial features are childish, it is preliminarily inferred that they have the potential to grow into beautiful men. A short red shirt is brighter than a flame, and a black schoolbag is slung behind the ass, and the zipper of the schoolbag is accidentally pulled open.

The wild cat meowed and ran away. One of them stepped on a garbage bag, and a pile of rotten noodles fell to the ground, and the spilled sauce fell on the spotless sports shoes of the teenager.

The boy raised his feet and frowned. "You have to pay me a new pair of shoes, no, two pairs!" ! Just give my aunt the bill. "

"The king didn't send us out to buy shoes for you." The red-haired man walked up to the teenager and said angrily, "If this mission fails, all of us will have a hard time, including you, Zhong Xiaokui."

"None of my business? Zhong Xiaokui stare big eyes, innocent, pointing to himself, "you lost something in the underworld, and I didn't steal! I am only responsible for providing you with accommodation in the human world. "

"Your task is not just accommodation." Wang specifically told us that the dark-haired man came over and winked at his companion. The two men, a left and a right, grabbed Zhong Xiaokui's arm, jumped up, ignored his protest and walked out of the alley.

In the moonlight, three people, only one shadow.

It has been a week since Gu Qiqi moved to this community, and his excitement is still beyond words. Her last "home" is in a corner of the Sahara desert, and the sun is like fire; On the last "home", on an iceberg in Antarctica, you can see a group of penguins as soon as you go out; Last time, was it a village outside Cape Town? Or Fifth Avenue in New York? In short, she and her brother move once a year. For hundreds of years, there is almost no place on earth where she has never been.

This year, he went to China, a city called Forgetting Sichuan. However, this time she was the only one. She went out on business while she was unknown, and he ran out of a colorful villa somewhere abroad.

If he remembers correctly, this is the first time she has traveled alone in her life.

Gu Wuming is a brother, a nanny, an instructor and a jailer. The only requirement for this only sister is obedience.

Obey, never appear in front of human beings, and never make friends with human beings.

Listen, don't trust any creature living under the capsule.

Obedient, you can only eat vegetarian food, not junk food such as meat and potato chips, and you can't touch it.

Maybe brother just loves her too much. However, whether my brother comes from the hegemony of male chauvinism or from the concern of his family, he is really tired of this restrictive life. He wants to live his own life.

There are many people living in this ordinary community, including high school students, salesmen selling razors, retired old ladies with gray hair and columnists.

Gu Qiqi wears clothes to go in and out of these people's homes every day, watching them do things and listening to them. This earthly life, fireworks, is never felt in deserts, Antarctica and luxury houses.

However, in view of her "intimate relationship" with human beings, Gu Wuming walked past her twice, once because she rescued a middle-aged woman who jumped off a building in the middle of the night, and once because she ran out of the burning forest with a young man with a broken leg on her back.

She thinks this is a good thing, but in the eyes of her brother, it is heinous.

The rescued middle-aged woman pushed Gu Qiqi away and saw that she was caught by a white skeleton, screaming and fainting. The next day, the first thing a woman did when she woke up was to find some Taoist priests and practice in her house for three days. Her home is covered with placards with the words "ward off evil spirits". As for the man who was rescued from the forest fire by her, the first thing to do after seeing her face was to insert the dagger for self-defense into her chest.

As a bone demon, GuQiqi's power must show its true colors in order to play a role in human beings.

She is not an evil spirit, so the Taoist paper is still a piece of paper: she is just a skeleton, so a man's dagger can't hurt her. She was just confused. She's just saving their lives. She's just showing her true colors.

"You are different from them!" This is what Gu Wuming said loudly after hitting her. Different? !

Walking in the sunny street, Gu Qiqi visited in the crowd. These men, women and children are nothing more than a layer of flesh than themselves. Besides, after they die, don't they just have bones left? After all, they obviously look like themselves. Why are they so scared? Afraid of her, not of herself,

Human beings are really interesting and eccentric creatures, caring for their bodies in every way, and at the same time being afraid of supporting their flesh and blood skeletons.

The deeper this contradiction, the more eager Gu Qiqi is to be friends with a human being, who has no fixed address. With the supervision of her brother, she doesn't have many friends. Of course, this "friend" refers to all kinds of monsters, such as the mushroom demon living in the mountains, the old scorpion essence in Sahara, the fashionable flower demon in new york and so on. , excluding any human.

Gu Wuming said that no human is willing to be friends with Bone Devil. Bone demon is different from other goblins, and beautiful and handsome guys can change endlessly. We can never change the good skin that human beings like. From beginning to end, we are only the most real skeletons.

Gu Qiqi knows this. A real bone demon can't change its form from birth to death. As for the cousin killed by Po Hou, no matter how tall she is, she can only put on a layer of human skin abruptly and pretend to be a person, so it is impossible to really transform herself into an adult.

But what if you can't become a beauty? What's wrong with me now? Mother said that she is the most beautiful girl among the bone demons. So Gu Qiqi still doesn't understand the fundamental reason why human beings reject themselves. Is it just an aesthetic difference?

However, she still believes that there are always people who are different.

Gu Wuming still disdains her "trust", just as he disdains her to look in the mirror and say, I bet you. But as long as one human being is willing to be your true friend, the future life is up to you, and I won't interfere. If he really sees you.

Deal! Gu Qiqi wants to use this gamble to completely get rid of the "obedient" curse. However, this gambling game has a history of several decades, and Gu Qiqi still shows no signs of winning. So she thinks that all human beings who may make friends with her are scared out of their wits by her appearance.

She is a little discouraged, but still full of hope.

"Other stores are closed, why don't you close?"

Gu Qiqi squatted at the door of this goldfish shop, looking at all kinds of treasures swimming around in the water tank, then at the boy sitting in the old chair at the door of the shop, and asked him curiously.

It's 12: 30 in the morning. This goldfish shop is deep in this alley outside the community. Neighboring grocery stores and print shops closed early. Only it is still on under the illumination of two simple light bulbs.