At 2:17 in the morning, Xiao Qing died.
At 3:41, he sent a message to Pei Haoyang.
"Don't come to me."
Three days later, Wen Xiaoqing returned to Wangtutun.
He was wearing the same clothes as the night he died, remembered everyone, remembered old things from his childhood, and had many scars on his body.
But there was another him lying in the hospital morgue.
Later, Pei Haoyang learned that there are some roads in this world that are not on the map.
Some people, obviously alive, have already entered a place where only the dead can walk.
The old man said that there are many trades in the world.
There are rules for those who carry coffins, there are rules for those who ferry boats, there are rules for those who see doctors, and there are rules for those who sing operas.
Some rules are made for living people to see.
Some rules are to prevent certain things from coming back.
But those who really understand the rules only recognize ninety-nine lines.
As for why there are only ninety-nine...
No one would say.
Until one day, they counted the shadow of the fifth person on a non-existent road.
