【Change Shadow】

As soon as I walked into the dormitory, Zheng Jiacheng asked me: "Wu Rui, what's wrong with you? Your face is so pale?"

I had no intention of paying attention to him at all. On the way back to the dormitory, I kept thinking, what should I do next?

Just listen to Hu Yifei say: "Did you hear that Wang Kaijiang died on the way to the cafeteria? This kid was probably scared to death. He was like this all the way back."

I didn’t go to the afternoon class, but ran to the park gate to look for the old man. I thought the old man wouldn’t be there, but I didn’t expect that he was waiting for me. As soon as I walked up to him, he stood up and started cleaning up the stalls on the ground: “I

I've been waiting for you for a long time."

At that moment, instead of admiring his ability to predict things, I felt horrified and a layer of cold sweat broke out on my forehead.

But after wiping the cold sweat from my forehead, I knew I couldn't die. At that moment, I felt a little secretly happy in my heart. Since the old man said he was waiting for me, he would definitely help me.

The old man took me to the door at the far end of the alley: "Come on, let's see which one you want to rent?"

I didn’t understand what the old man meant. What did he want me to rent? The old man opened the door, and there was no life in the yard. It was already May, but it felt like a cold winter.

The old man led me into a room where there were many signs with names written on them. Behind the signs was a vase-like porcelain with a cork wrapped in red cloth, which seemed to contain some kind of treasure.

The old man seemed to see my confusion and explained: "These are all shadows of health, left behind by the bodies of those who died unexpectedly. Which one do you want to choose?"

"You mean you want me to change my shadow?"

"Yes, replace your sick shadow and you can continue to live."

"It's that simple. I don't have to give you anything, but you are willing to give me a shadow?"

The old man was happy now: "Haha, of course I am not giving them to you, but leasing them to you. As long as you do things for me, these shadows can be rented to you."

"What are you doing? You won't let me do bad things for you, right?"

"If it's a bad thing, wouldn't you rather die than do it?"

I didn’t want to die. I hadn’t lived enough. Before I could speak, the old man said, “Don’t worry, I won’t let you do anything against your will.”

I looked at the old man and finally decided to rent his shadow as he said. I walked to a sign with the three words "Zheng Xinran" written on it. I guess this name must have been the name of this shadow's body when he was alive.

The old man came over, picked up the bottle, and walked into the yard. I followed him out. He first put the bottle on the stone table in the yard, then picked up a bowl of blood on the table and walked to me, raising his hand.

, all the blood in the bowl was splashed on my shadow.

"I just poured dog blood on your shadow, and now your shadow has left your body. Your shadow is already sick. It couldn't live long originally. Now that it has left your body, it will die soon."

"Then he picked up the porcelain bottle again, opened the lid, raised the bottle, and pointed the mouth of the bottle at my head, as if he was pouring something.

"Okay, the shadow has already reached you."

I looked at him strangely: Is this enough?

"Don't worry, you will be healthier than before, but don't forget to pay me the rent."

"How to pay?"

"Just give your shadow the blood to drink. In fact, the rent is not given to me, but to keep the shadow alive."

Giving the shadow a drink of human blood, I suddenly realized how could there be such a good thing in this world, where I only need to pay rent to survive? But, where should I go to get blood?
Chapter completed!