Qin Mu glanced at the person in front of him. This guy only had half of his head exposed. Judging from the sparse and gray hair on the top of his head, he must be quite old. Although there was no light now, he could still see the other person clearly with his night vision.

The appearance of the car was full of pits and pits. It seemed that something terrible had happened on it. The whole thing looked like a car accident scene.

Qin Mu just glanced at it and then deliberately looked away, while Hua Wuyue directly shined the flashlight on other people's faces.

The man made a sharp cry: "Stop it, light, dazzling light!"

"Is he a ghost?" Hua Wuyue didn't feel that her behavior was weird at all, put down the flashlight and said to Qin Mu.

Qin Mu looked at Hua Wuyue helplessly: "When was the last time you dealt with ordinary people?"

Seeing the confusion on Hua Wuyue's face, Qin Mu suddenly realized that he was actually out of touch with this society. While he accepted Wu Zhu's knowledge, he no longer belonged to ordinary society.

"He has lived in the basement for too long, and the strong light will make him very uncomfortable. He is a human, not a ghost." Qin Mu explained, and directly opened the iron door of the short old man. The rust on the iron door made Qin Mu

Mu had an uncomfortable feeling. He glanced at the old man and said, "I remember that this basement should be a residence for poor students. Why is there still a retired school janitor living there?"

"Do you recognize me?" The old man had a stooped back, which made his originally short body appear even shorter. There was only a white candle as thick as a bowl in his room. The furniture inside was quite simple, and many things looked like

It was piled in place like garbage, exuding an unexplainable smell.

But Qin Mu noticed that most of his furniture was concentrated near the door, while the area in the basement was separated by curtains, making it difficult to see clearly what it was.

"There are still two people living in this small place of yours?" Qin Mu asked doubtfully.

"You haven't answered my question yet." The old man's eyes were fixed on Qin Mu. Under the dim and dancing candles, Qin Mu could see that one of his eyes was actually a prosthetic eye. He was staring wide and motionless.

This also caused his eyes, one big and one small, to look very strange.

"I met you when I was studying," Qin Mu said jokingly: "You were a weirdo in our eyes at that time. They gave you a nickname...the Silent Gardener?"

The old man didn't speak, and didn't comment a word on Qin Mu's cold joke. He just hunched his back and looked at him quietly.

Qin Mu smiled a little awkwardly. He looked back at Hua Wuyue, who only stayed at the door, and said: "Actually, I didn't mean to laugh at you. Well, my senior brother who is one year older than me once told me that you are a

You were once an excellent anatomy teacher, but after an accident, you became a gardener. The gardener I just mentioned was actually a compliment to you for being an excellent anatomy teacher."

"Haha..." The old man stared at Qin Mu and let out a series of laughter. He seemed to be unable to move half of his face, which happened to be the right prosthetic eye. When he laughed, he opened his mouth slightly and made an unpleasant sound, as if he was evil.

cassette tape.

"You are the youngest student in that class..."

"I'm not the youngest, in fact there are younger ones than me."

"That makes no difference," the old man said with a little kindness in his other eye: "You don't need to praise me. If you saw me doing the dissection, you wouldn't praise me... Okay, that's it for the pleasantries.

, are you here specifically to see me? Or for these underground things?"

The old man's directness caught Qin Mu off guard. He probably remembered that there was a story about a silent gardener that was circulated in the school. The old man's artificial eyes seemed to have been caused by an accident when he was in class. Later, he

He became the gardener of the school. Occasionally you can see him cutting flowers and grass, but most of the time, he is silent.

The old man's artificial eyes also caused his face to gradually change. It is said that the old man used to be suave, but now everyone dislikes the wrinkles on his face. His appearance seems to be acquired, or he was born in just a few years.

within time.

So at that time, the Silent Gardener was not a cold joke, but a black joke with a terrifying effect.

Regarding the old man's accident, Qin Mu once heard his teacher talk about it, and it seemed to be related to the female corpse.

"What? You think my old man is too direct?" The old man seemed to know what Qin Mu was thinking. On his sinister face, the artificial eye stared coldly at Qin Mu, as if looking at a dead thing: "You young people just

I like to beat around the bush, but I don’t like to beat around the bush, but what I’m curious about is, why are you not dead?”

"What do you mean?" Qin Mu said with a confused look.

"You're not dead, you're still alive." The old man glanced at Qin Mu and said, "I don't care what special abilities you have, but as far as I know, many people are obsessed with this. When she comes, she will bring

Go away everyone who has seen or touched her, so I lost my job, my appearance, and one of my eyes in order to escape death, but why are you standing here so well?"

"You mean that female corpse?" Qin Mu also realized at this time and asked quickly.

"Of course you know what I'm talking about." The old man glanced at Qin Mu doubtfully, but he couldn't tell what his expression was from his face, so he could only rely on guessing: "She often starts from the person who has something wrong with her.

Some people who wanted to start taking action, followed by those who had been exposed to it. In that class, it was just me and several of my beloved disciples who had been exposed to it, because we didn't believe that the corpse was actually preserved like a living person, so things happened

It just happened, they all died, and then it was my turn."

"Someone will take care of you." Qin Mu said it as a statement.

"Yes," the old man admitted directly: "It was a substitute, so I gave up everything I had at the time, including the extra eye. I have nothing left and live in this cold basement every day."

"Do you regret it?" Qin Mu looked at the old man quietly and said.

"Sometimes people say that it is better to die than to live, but to live is really not as good as to die." The old man made a hehe sound from his mouth, like an old bellows.

Qin Mu bit his lip and said, "Actually, after listening to what you said, I also have a doubt."

"explain."

"Your price is too high." Qin Mu said with a confused look on his face. He touched his chin: "Usually this kind of 'replacement' will use things like tree demons to block the way for you.

The next calamity, but usually comes with a price, usually

Sometimes, tree demons and the like will ask for a bit of human blood, because human blood is helpful to their cultivation, or take away the luck from that person, but few people will take away both things, especially
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