At night, people are addicted. In the feasting city, most people are money slaves of walking dead. People can sell anything that can be sold for money, including conscience and life.
As the saying goes, life and death have been lost in ten years. Li Zi and I have not seen each other for three years. In the past few years, he has been mixed in Beijing. It is said that now They are all bosses of a trading company. When I went home last time, I took his Xiaomi and his bodyguards and drove his BMW to give a speech in the town, giving his former classmates a red envelope of 1,000 yuan each. This is still the first one on our side. He was my best buddy when he was in school, so he left me a business card when he left, saying that he would go to the city when I couldn’t get along. , He will help me become a person like him.
I walked on a strange street, carrying a tattered shirt I brought from my hometown on my back, and holding Plum’s business card in my hand. Inquiring along the way to the Dragon Tower, looking at the towering building, thinking that the buddy who used to play together is now the owner of this building, my heart is like overturning the seasoning, with mixed flavors.
“Hey, plum, I’m downstairs in your company, come down, and the security won’t let me go up.” Soon I was driven out by the security, and I simply called Called Plum. Sure enough, after a while, I saw Li dressed neatly and came downstairs to pick me up. After a few greetings, we got into his car and went to eat. To be honest, I looked at his achievements and I was envious in my heart. There is no way to add up, and even silently swear in my heart, if I can become like him, I am willing to pay any price, including life.
We drove to a high-end hotel in the city, opened a private room, and after a full meal, plum lit a cigarette and said to me, “Are you? Envy me?” I nodded stupidly. He looked at the night outside with a trace of loneliness in his eyes. He stared at me tightly, and then slowly said to me: “I told you that I am no longer a human being. Do you believe it?” After he said this, he turned his head away from me, regardless of my surprised and puzzled expression, and then sat by the window, slowly venting his smoke ring to tell me about his past few years. Experience.
“Look at the crowded people, they all walked forward blindly. In fact, I was just like them at the beginning. I was an ordinary migrant worker. Until that night I picked up After arriving at the stone statue, everything changed from that night.”
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At night, I walked in this bustling city, watching The people around me who are full of alcohol, they are all rich people living in the upper reaches of society, some of them are the rich second generation, and some are the rich generation, and I am a pitiful worm who cannot become the sorrow of the rich no matter how hard I work. I walked numbly in a dark alley. Suddenly I tripped under something. I looked down. It turned out to be a fist-sized stone. That stone was carved.It was carved into the appearance of a baby, but the strange thing was that the baby’s eyes were black, revealing a breathtaking magical power, and I unknowingly carried the stone back home.
At night, I looked at the rags in the house, thinking that I lived in a garage of 300 yuan a month. The fire in my heart was strange, so I picked up the stone and said to it “Stones, you see how downhearted I am. When will I be rich? If you are Aladdin, I can ask for anything, but you are not. If there is anything that can make me a figure in the upper class , I’m willing to give anything.” When drunkenness struck me, I fell asleep holding this stone. That night, I had a dream in which a child called my father and said that I took him home. He can help me become rich, but there is a requirement that I use my own soul to feed him. I promised him, yes, I just thought it was a dream, but what I didn’t expect was that it was a real dream. Since that night, my life has changed drastically.
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I first married the boss’s daughter, and soon the boss passed away. I inherited the company smoothly, and then I would go bye bye every time I sign a contract. The strange thing about the stone baby is that I feel dizzy every time I worship, but the effect is really obvious. My business is getting bigger and bigger, and finally I become the CEO of a listed company.
However, nightmares followed one after another.
One night when I was sleeping in bed, I felt that someone was chanting to me in my ear, “I can take your soul” repeatedly in my ear Repeating, I was too upset, and responded loudly, “You can take it away.” As soon as the voice fell, I heard a gloomy laughter from my house. There was a mischievous laugh like a kid who succeeded in a conspiracy. Since that night, whenever I slept, I felt something passing from my body, and I always felt something lying on my ears sucking something out of my ears. In the end, I really couldn’t bear this terrible suffering. I put a DV on the bedside and wanted to see what it was that bothered me every night. But when I turned on the DV the next day, I found a horrible scene. In the DV picture, I saw a baby lying next to my ear, and a puff of red gas slowly followed his breathing. Drilling into his mouth and looking at the baby reminds me of the stone baby I enshrine. I think of things that happened in the past few years, and things in my dreams. I feel that my good fortune is not that simple. . So I took the stone baby to a nearby temple. As soon as the old monk saw me, he pointed to the ground. I didn’t understand what he meant. He just said, “Give me the devil in your hand. , You go back, you are no longer human, I can’t help you, you still have ten years of life, go back and see your shadow.”
MeBack home in despair, thinking that my beautiful life has just begun, and I don’t want to leave it. In a daze, I saw someone else’s shadow cast on the ground, and I suddenly remembered, where is my shadow? So I frantically searched for my shadow, but I didn’t see its trace. I heard people say that there are only ghosts without shadows. Am I dead? Or am I just a corpse without a soul?
I sat there and listened to his narration. From being overwhelmed at the beginning, to shock in the middle, to regret later, all words could not express my feelings. , I regretted that I was about to lose a good friend. At the same time, I also realized the truth that there is no free lunch in the sky. What you want to get must be obtained through my own hands. There is no time to force it.