Strangers

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Two car horns came from downstairs.

"It's not optimistic, it makes me feel the same way. It's better to break the pot." Qi Xie straightened his front and stood up, "Clean up and change your clothes, we have to go to Li Lingshan to solve a case."

"Do you want to live there?" Ding Li put down the bowl and chopsticks, "It will only take two or three hours to go back and forth."

"It's not a matter of distance." Qi Xie turned to look at him, "I have something to say, since we're going to act together in the future, it's impossible for me to ignore you in any danger, but there are things I can't take care of, yours Safety is still your responsibility.”

Ding Li smiled: "Of course."

The two black Mercedes turned off the expressway around the city and headed west on the county road.

The asphalt road was washed clean by several heavy rains. It was not wide and continued straight.The tender leaves of the birch trees that line the road are shaking, and the crops in the field are luxuriant. Occasionally, a few sheep are walking on the field ridge. As soon as they lift their front hooves, they are brushed off by the rear pillars of the car windows, becoming a single frame in the persistence of vision. screen.

At the intersection, Master Zhang made a bend and started to enter the mountain.

The mountain stretches and is never high, but it is considered a rare landscape in the plains, so it has naturally been developed into a resort area.It is not a festival at this time, and it is the off-season. There are not many people on the way, and the buildings are silently vacant, shrouded in the double shadow of thick clouds and vegetation. At first glance, there is an illusion like a ghost town.

The two cars stopped in front of a clubhouse, with four characters written on the door, Li Ling Villa.

Qi Xie stood on the steps and looked back at the opposite mountain.

"Your name is Ding Li?" Fang Xun put the PSP into his pocket.

"Yes." Ding Li responded.

"Sister Qian, you still don't believe me!" Fang Xun pointed at him, "I told you that Boss Qi likes boys!"

Assistant Qian stepped on him immediately.

Qi Xie ignored the man behind him and greeted the man in the porch: "Hello, Manager Wang."

"Hello! Mr. Qi, is that right? You are welcome!" The man shook hands. He was thin and dressed in a casual suit. "Our President Xu is on a temporary business trip and asked me to receive four distinguished guests!"

"You are welcome." Qi Xie said humbly.

"The four of you should take a break first?"

"No, let's go directly to the scene."

Manager Wang politely said a few words, led them into an electric car, and drove into the villa area.

The mountain wind was blowing in front of me, and Assistant Qian shunned his long hair: "The environment here is not bad.".

Manager Wang holds the steering wheel: "That's right, our area is considered the best location in Liling Mountain. It is said that it hides wind and water, and gathers energy to make money. Of course, you are experts in this area. I am a master at it, haha."

"It is true that there is water in the wind, if there is no shortage of a big opening on the top of the mountain." Fang Xun interjected.

"Mr. Qi, that is Baiyun Temple." Manager Wang pointed with his chin.

Qi Xie looked over, across a mountain stream, there were a few dilapidated houses on the mountainside not far away: "Is there anyone living there?"

"There is a fake monk watching, who is usually idle, but during the peak season, he sits at the door with his sleeves in his hands, defrauding tourists of incense money."

"Does Manager Wang know which deity is enshrined in the temple?"

"What the hell, it's not a scam." Manager Wang turned a corner along the mountain road, "A few years ago, we had an employee who had nothing to do to ask for a lottery. Who knew that he would draw out an 'innocent disaster' and was coaxed by that fake monk. I bought a safe talisman with a scare, and it cost a total of 300 yuan."

"That's right." Qi Xie smiled, "Isn't it a disaster to be cheated for no reason?"

"That's right! That's a good way to say it!" Manager Wang stopped the car.

A Chinese-style villa with a gray roof and white walls, three floors, no yard in front, and a small pond with reeds dug out.

"Our villas are all for short-term rental, and they are in short supply during the holidays." Manager Wang took out the key and opened the door, "But this one is not easy to rent. The guests asked to change rooms after staying for two days, saying they were sleeping. Sometimes I felt that there was someone in the room, and I couldn’t tell if I asked in detail. In short, I felt uncomfortable. We began to suspect that it was decoration pollution. We found someone to test and found that it did not exceed the standard. Go, it's just a matter of Feng Shui."

Fang Xun was the first to go in, turned around and looked up, took out his sketchbook and drew something as if no one was there.

"When was the first tenant's reaction wrong?" Qi Xie asked.

"Last year eleven." Manager Wang said.

"Has anything happened before?"

"No." He scratched his nose unconsciously.

"Manager Wang." Qi Xie saw that he was concealing something, and said tactfully, "We are standing here with the attitude of serving the employer. Only by learning as much as possible about the situation can the matter be resolved as soon as possible, so the information you provide is very important. .I know that last year may have been a long time ago, so please recall it again and see if there is anything missing.”

"This..." Manager Wang said hesitantly, "It seems that there is an incident... last September, a newlywed couple came to live in this villa, paid seven days' rent and a deposit, and waited until we came to collect the house , both of them disappeared, some of the luggage was still there, and the valuables were all gone, we thought we had to leave early because of something urgent, so we didn't think much about it."

Fang Xun closed the sketchbook and threw the marker pen on the coffee table: "Those two people must have slipped and fell to their deaths when they went to play in the deep mountains and old forests, so they have to come back from time to time to make trouble and show their presence." .”

Manager Wang ignored him: "Mr. Qi, what do you think?"

Qi Xie looked at the sky: "If you want me to see it, I have to wait until night."

"Are you sure you want to stay here for one night?" Manager Wang handed over the key.

"How many nights to stay depends on the progress of the matter, it's just that you don't need to charge us for the rent." Qi Xie made a joke.

"How could it be! Just stay here, call if you need anything, and we will arrange it immediately."

"Okay, let me ask again, how to get to the Baiyun Temple opposite."

Manager Wang pointed to the east: "There is a small road after walking 50 meters. Go down from there, cross a bridge and then go up the mountain. It takes 15 minutes to arrive. There are no forks along the way. It is easy to find."

Seeing off Manager Wang, Qixie took a walk to the edge of the small pond in front of the door. He became interested in the reeds for a while, stretched out his hand and brushed them, feeling their softness on the palm of his hand, and asked casually: "How many years has this villa been built?" gone?"

Assistant Qian stood behind him and flipped through the files: "More than three years."

"Has it been renovated in the middle?"

"Probably not."

Qi Xie withdrew his hand: "It was built three years ago, and the accident happened only on November last year. I still suspect that it was caused by decoration pollution. It's too casual to lie."

"Do you want me to check the specific whereabouts of the couple?" Assistant Qian asked.

"And what happened here when it was first built."

"understood."

Qi Xie looked at the opposite mountain: "I'll go to Baiyun Temple and come back and tell me the result."

☆、Under sign

Qi Xie was going to Baiyun Temple on the opposite side of the mountain, and Ding Li followed immediately.

"You don't have to come." Qi Xie heard footsteps and didn't look back.

"No, there are ghosts in the room." Ding Li caught up with him and walked side by side.

"I didn't know you were afraid of ghosts."

"Why am I not afraid of ghosts?"

"Because you think good ghosts won't harm people, and bad ghosts can turn them into good ghosts by reasoning."

Ding Li thought for a while: "It seems so. Can you see something wrong with that villa?"

"No." Qi Xie turned from the main road into a mountain path that is one person wide.

"Where's Baiyun Temple?" Ding Li followed down the stone steps.

"nor."

"Then why are you rushing over there?" Ding Li rubbed his shoulders.

"I just want to go around, you don't have to take every action of mine so purposeful." Qi Xie stopped for a step, turned sideways to get out of the way, "Go ahead."

Ding Li missed it, the stone steps are not too steep, every few steps down is a flat road, the trees on both sides block the view, it is difficult to tell the direction when going around.

"Didn't that person say that there is a bridge? No matter how far I've come, I haven't seen it." Ding Li said, but there was no response.

He turned around, and there was no one behind him, only the leaves fell.

"Ah Jing?" Ding Li looked back.

After walking for almost 10 minutes, I didn't see Qi Xie's shadow.

There's only one way here, so you shouldn't get lost.Ding Li thought, and suddenly realized something was wrong: it took only five or six minutes to turn down from the main road, why did he not return to the intersection after walking for so long.

Turn back, stop, turn back, stop.No matter how he walked, it seemed to be spinning in circles. He looked up and down, and the road seemed to have no end no matter which way.

A word flashed through my mind.

"Ghost hits the wall." Ding Li said to himself.So what about him, is he as trapped as I am?

Nothing will happen.Thinking about it, I was a little worried, Ding Li didn't care so much, and simply ran up the steps in one breath.

Until he felt he could stop.

It's completely useless. It seems that walking along the road won't work, so walk sideways.Ding Li propped his knees to finish his breath, pushed aside the bushes by the roadside, and raised his foot to plunge into it.

Suddenly he was patted on the shoulder: "This is in the mountains, you are not afraid of being bitten to death by snakes if you run around casually."

"Ah Jing!" Ding Li turned his head.

"Come down, the day after tomorrow is the weekend, there will be many people coming to play with you." Qi Xie raised his head and said.

Ding Li looked at him confusedly: "Who are you talking to?"

"Follow the one on your shoulder."

For a moment, he only felt cold from his neck to his ankles: "What is that?"

"Little devil." Qi Xie laughed, "If it hadn't been sitting on your shoulder and covering your eyes, why would you be spinning around here all the time."

Ding Li looked around and finally recognized the way.

"It's a kind of goblin called Yuantong, formed by the ghosts of children who got lost and died in the mountains. They have red eyes and green skin. They like to play tricks on people who enter the mountains."

Ding Li picked up the mahogany bead around his neck: "Didn't you say this can ward off evil spirits, why would you still be entangled by it?"

"Don't count on that bead too much. Although it can drive away most evil things, it can't be helped if you encounter a thousand-year-old monster."

"millennium?"

"Isn't a thousand years long? It won't die of illness or old age." Qi Xie walked down the steps, "Don't look, it's already gone."

Ding Li reacted at this time: "You found it behind me from the beginning, so you deliberately let me go in front, so that you can watch me being played around."

"Yes." Qi Xie smiled happily.

Ding Li muttered.

"You can speak louder if you want to scold me."

Ding Li put on a straight face: "If it wasn't you just now, would I have kept turning?"

"Unless it has had enough fun." Qi Xie turned a corner and stepped onto the wooden bridge, "There are several ways to get lost in the mountains. One is when you meet the 'Yuan Tong' just now, it will make people hallucinate, like a The road can never go to the end. Or it is covered by the "crucible", its body is like a cauldron turned upside down, it can conjure the same pattern as the real scene, you look around and think you are in a vast mountain, In fact, it has been spinning under its belly. There is also a kind of monster called "Packing Road", which is a kind of insect several miles long. , put his tail on it, and then bury himself in the soil with only his back exposed. When pedestrians accidentally step on that 'fork', they can no longer find the exit until they reach the end exhausted, and the big gap opened by it Swallow it in one gulp."

Ding Li listened as he walked, but he didn't realize that Baiyun Temple was right in front of him.

"Let me think about what else..." Qi Xie followed the sign and climbed up the steps.

"Where did you know this?" Ding Li walked up side by side.

"In Zhiguaizhai's book."

"It's very interesting, you can talk more about it later."

"Beware of being brainwashed if you listen too much." Qi Xie stepped into the courtyard gate.

There is an incense burner in the center of the yard, two dilapidated wing rooms in the east and west, and a malnourished pomegranate tree standing at the door. The Baiyun Hall in the middle has only three bays, with crooked beams and columns, and looks poor.On the contrary, the monk dozing off in the rattan chair has a round head, his head is biting, and his two chins are squeezed out rhythmically.

Qi Xie stepped up his steps, and the monk jerked his head and woke up.

"Hey! The two bosses want to visit?" The monk stretched his waist and said loudly, "Ten yuan each, half price for student ID cards, free for disabled veterans!"

Qi Xie took out a twenty, and the monk lifted his buttocks and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

"May I ask which god is enshrined in this temple?" Qi Xie looked into the temple, but there was not a single statue, only a mountain of memorial tablets.

The monk's mouth is as quick as a storyteller: "Heaven and earth are kings, relatives and teachers, whoever you want to worship can do it! Does the boss offer incense? One stick keeps health, three sticks keeps you safe, five sticks and seven sticks make you rich, and nine sticks make you rich." Congratulations to be promoted to a high official!"

Qi Xie smiled: "I don't offer incense, I just ask for a lottery."

"Oh, hey, you've come to the right place! The lottery of our Baiyun Temple is famous for its Hundred Questions and Bailings! Look at this threshold, it was just replaced last year, and it is almost trampled by pilgrims these days!" The monk took Come to sign the tube, reach out and ask for another twenty.

Qi Xie paid the money, lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down respectfully.

Ding Li on the side was a little surprised: "I thought you couldn't kneel."

Qi Xie didn't speak, closed his eyes and muttered something silently, shook the stick a few times, and took out one.The monk took a look, took Qixie to the door and sat down, took out a piece of paper and put it on the table.

"What does the boss want to ask?"

"Can you ask me anything?"

"Of course." The monk wrung his fingers, "Study, work, wealth, love, marriage, family."

"Okay, I'll ask about the villa directly opposite."

"Villa?" The monk flipped over the paper, "Tsk tsk, sign up, boss, that villa is not for people to live in."

Qi Xie looked at the four words above: "Blood and Light Disaster."

The monk pursed his lips and nodded deeply: "But there is a way to resolve it."

"You said."

On the opposite side took out a golden peace talisman...

It was already noon after stepping out of the temple gate, Qi Xie handed the talisman to his back: "Take it."

Ding Li didn't answer: "I don't understand now."

"I don't understand anything."

"I don't know if you are pretending to be stupid or really stupid. You know he is a liar and you travel all over the country to give money."

"A liar? I think that lottery is quite clever. As soon as he opened it, he knew there was a problem with the villa."

"Everything I see has problems with him."

Qi Xie laughed: "Yeah, there is nothing that will never go wrong. Whether it is good health, future, or marriage, the lottery is never guaranteed, and the lottery will come true sooner or later."

Ding Li looked at his back: "What do you want to express."

"I just think that sign is very effective."

Ding Li decided to give up communication.

Qi Xie turned around: "You think I'm joking?"

"I don't express my opinion." Ding Li said.

"If you believe it, you have it, if you don't believe it, you don't have it, so I am willing to believe in everything." Qi Xie stuffed the amulet into his hand, "Don't you think that temple is very interesting? There are so many tablets at the same time, so many I haven’t even heard the name of the god, well, next time I have a chance, I have to come again and ask the monk carefully, and ask who is the god.”

Seeing that Qi Xie was so excited, something suddenly flashed in Ding Li's mind.

Seeing him in a daze, Qi Xie asked, "Why are you in a daze?"

Ding Li thoughtfully, and slowly shook his head: "I seem to have had that feeling just now. At that time, you were opposite me, talking to me with the same expression, but I can't remember where it was."

With a sound of harmony, go forward.

"Do you know where it is?" Ding Li asked.

"I know." Back said, "The reception room of the mental hospital."

Ding Li's heart sank, and he ran after him and apologized in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to remind you of this, and I didn't mean to laugh at you just now."

"It's okay." Qi Xiong said calmly.

"Ah Jing." Seeing that he was indeed not as excited as before, Ding Li stretched out his hand to hold him, "If you feel uncomfortable, you can say it directly, you don't have to hide it."

"It really doesn't matter." Qi Xie looked at him with a smile, "It's all happened so many years ago, how can there be such a grudge, it's getting late, go back quickly."

Fang Xun was squatting on the sofa in the living room of the villa, playing with PSP. Assistant Qian sat down beside him, and picked up the sketchbook on the coffee table. Various circles and triangles were drawn on the accurate floor plan.

"It was solved so quickly?" Assistant Qian asked.

"No, I was just drawing for fun." Fang Xun clicked the PSP in his hand, "Anyway, I wouldn't use my plan, so why waste my efforts."

Assistant Qian looked at the notebook seriously: "So it's enough to change two windows."

"It's simple in the first place, and it's not something sinister. In fact, the biggest problem in the whole resort is the clubhouse. If there is no accident within half a year, my name is read backwards."

"It doesn't make any difference the other way around." Assistant Qian Yanran said, "Why don't I go talk to that Manager Wang and let you do the business of the clubhouse?"

"No." Fang Xun pressed pause.

"why?"

"It's only good if something happens!" He gloated, "Who told that the surname Wang looked down on me at all, and I ignored it on purpose several times when I spoke."

Assistant Qian hehe: "That can't be helped, this line of business is based on age."

"Boss Qi doesn't look much older than me!"

"That's true, but whether it's pretending or not, he can always put on a posture to bluff clients. If Master Fang wants to open his own business in the future, this ability is also necessary."

Fang Xun clicked on the PSP again: "I don't do Feng Shui, I'm in trouble."

"What's the plan of Young Master Fang?"

"Just find a design institute to draw drawings."

"Then isn't your ability wasted in vain?"

"Waste is waste. Anyway, few outsiders believe it, and experts think you don't understand those weird terms, and I'm too lazy to put on a posture to bluff people." Fang Xun raised his head, "I'm back."

As soon as the words fell, the door was pushed open.

"Have you enjoyed your shopping, Mr. Qi?" Assistant Qian stood up and greeted.

"I asked you to investigate." Qi Xie walked in.

"A couple lived here in September last year. Later, the man's father was critically ill, so they packed up and left. In addition, the haunting didn't start last year, but three years ago when the resort was just built. At that time, there was an old lady and the management. There was a dispute among the staff, and he became ill after returning home, and died half a month later, the place of dispute was in front of this villa, our people are still investigating the specific reasons, and there should be results soon."

"Understood." Qi Xie went up the stairs, "I'm going to sleep for a while, no one should disturb me."

Ding Li looked at the clock: "How long is a while."

"Four hours." Qi Xie disappeared around the corner.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Fang Xun in the living room was eating potato chips and watching TV, Ding Li was concentrating on playing PSP, Assistant Qian looked out from the spacious bay window, the entire Liling Mountain was shrouded in night, the sky was devoid of stars, Except for the nearby ground lamp, there is no light at all.

"You guys come upstairs with me." Suddenly a voice came.

The three looked up following the sound, and they were all standing on the stairs together.

"What's wrong?" Assistant Qian closed the curtains.

"Don't ask, just do it." Qi Xie couldn't help but say, with a tough attitude, the three of them had to follow to the third floor, and saw him open a bedroom, all the windows and vents inside had been pasted with talismans one by one.

"Stay here, and don't leave this door until the matter is over." Qi Xie ordered.

"What about you?" Ding Li asked.

"Don't worry, that thing is only to the point of making people feel hairy, and there is no danger."

"It's not dangerous and you don't allow me to go out."

"Just in case." Qi Xie closed the door.

Assistant Qian handed over the flashlight: "Mr. Qi said that there might be a power outage, and asked me to prepare in advance."

Fang Xun played with the flashlight: "Then we will wait here?"

Assistant Qian shrugged: "Listen to him."

Ding Li sat down on the edge of the bed, something was stuck in his trousers pocket, and he took it out, it was the peace amulet.Subconsciously taking out the cigarette case, he looked at the other two people in the room and gave up. Just as he suppressed the bad feeling in his heart, the light suddenly went out.

The flashlight turned on instantly, and Fang Xun suddenly moved a stool and squatted behind with his knees hugged.

"What's wrong?" Assistant Qian asked.

"It's nothing." Fang Xun buried his head, "There is a shadow outside the window looking into the room."

Ding Li and Assistant Qian shone the light with their flashlights, only the glass reflected the light.

"What kind of shadow?" Assistant Qian took two steps back slowly.

"I don't know that I don't want to look at it." Fang Xun held his head, "It's disgusting, I won't come to this kind of ghost place again next time, why did I bump into this? Next year is my natal year. Why do I have to be unlucky early? , and why is it that I am the only one who can see this kind of ghost thing? It's not fair at all..."

Knock, knock, knock.The sound of knocking glass.

"Don't come here, I'm wrong, it's not a ghost, I won't talk nonsense!" Fang Xun twitched his ears.

Knock knock knock, knock knock knock.

"Huh?" Fang Xun finally raised his head.

It turned out that Ding Li was knocking on the glass: "Is there something outside? Did you see it wrong?"

Fang Xun let out an exclamation, and took a flashlight to look around: "It's gone."

Assistant Qian touched the talisman paper on the window: "Maybe it's because you can't get in here, so let's go to another room."

The beam of light in Ding Li's hand unconsciously moved to the door.

Assistant Qian reminded him: "Even if you go out, you won't be able to help, and you might cause trouble."

Ding Li was helpless: "I know."

While talking, the bell rang, which startled Fang Xun again. Assistant Qian picked up the phone, and it was someone from Jingfang who reported the investigation results.

"Things are all clear." At the end, she relayed to the two, "Three years ago, the Jiuyue Resort was just built, and an old lady from the neighboring town brought joss sticks to pay homage, saying that her son's grave was inside. The security guard did not agree. , she slipped in in the middle of the night, burning papers and mourning, the tenant was so frightened that he called the front desk, and it was Manager Wang who was on duty at that time, and what happened after that... I don't think I need to say more. "

"No way." Fang Xun pointed to his feet, "Could it be that this villa was built on the grave of her son!"

"Yes." Assistant Qian nodded.

"No wonder." Ding Li pinched his chin, "Earlier, Manager Wang said that they invited a magician to prove that he knew that there would be ghosts here, so why did he ask someone to come to see Feng Shui? Wouldn't it be better to drive out ghosts directly?"

"Did you forget the second part of his sentence?" Assistant Qian repeated, "What he said at the time was that even if you hire a warlock, you can't solve it."

"Of course it can't be solved!" Fang Xun was dumbfounded, "Unless the whole thing is leveled, it would be a ghost to be suppressed by such a big house!"

Ding Li turned his head to look at the door, clenched his fingers unconsciously, and suddenly without warning, the glass shattered outside the door!Then there was a rush of footsteps, and then there was a loud bang!

Ding Li was startled, without hesitation for half a second, he raised the flashlight, opened the door and ran out!

☆, no pole

The light flickered in the dark corridor, and there was nothing on the third floor. Ding Li turned down the stairs, and when the flashlight shone, the steps stretched down densely with dark red little by little.

He reached out and touched the blood.

"Ah Jing!" he shouted.

"Don't come here!" The voice came from the first floor.

Ding Li didn't care at all, and ran down two steps at a time, and the flashlight entered the living room on the loft. It was Qi Xie's back, holding three talismans in his right hand, and blood dripped down the tip of the folding fan held tightly in his left hand. on the ground.

The light is far away, in front of it is a broken chandelier, and the chandelier is in front...

Ding Li couldn't give a name, only relying on the remaining animal instincts of human beings, he immediately knew that the thing facing him was definitely not a kind person.It was a fuzzy gray shadow, confronting each other, lowering its back, staring at two blood-red eyes, panting under the afterglow of the flashlight, and making a thick and muddy throat sound like a wild animal.

"Wow what is this!" Fang Xun whispered.

"Shut up if you don't want to die!" Qi Xie stared at the opposite side, and took a step back very slowly, "I can't deal with it here, there is a window on the right, you go out and run east, and wait for me at the intersection."

"Okay." Assistant Qian tugged at Fang Xun's clothes and moved over with a cat.

"Still leaving!" Qi Xie glared at Ding Li, "You think it's them I want to save?"

"I didn't say no." Seeing that he was too worried about himself, Ding Li calmed down the atmosphere with a relaxed tone, "The window is so small that three people can't squeeze in at a time, so you have to come one by one."

Qi Xie sensed his intention and snorted softly.

Ding Li lowered his head: "What happened to your hand?"

"Small injury." Qi Xie watched as Assistant Qian leaned on the window sill and jumped up neatly.

"You're right, that lottery is very effective." Ding Li said, and Fang Xun also jumped out.

"It's your turn." Qi Xie moved his steps, his blood-red eyes turned around, but he was afraid of the talisman paper in his hand, and lay down on the left and right, waiting for the opportunity to make a surprise attack.

"Ah Jing." Ding Li stood on the window sill and stretched out his hand.

Qi Xie exchanged a look with him, and threw the talisman between his fingers like a thread, hitting Hui Ying's body and burning a cloud of green smoke!It roared, struggled twice and rushed over!Qi Xie held Ding Li's hand, stepped up the window sill, and ran towards the two rays of light waiting at the intersection!

"Into the woods! Turn off the flashlight!"

Following Qi Xie's instructions, the three of them got into the mountain path in one breath, and the surroundings were completely dark in an instant, and even the wings of insects did not sound, only a guttural voice in the bushes wheezed, and the search target was getting closer.

The night wind blew away the gaps in the clouds, and the moon shone a little light. Qi Xie walked a few steps away, squatted down, and pressed his right hand on the soil.Fang Xun just wanted to ask, but he stopped him by shutting his mouth. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and read a few words silently, then maintained that posture without moving.

Panting was close at hand, the monster suddenly turned around, staring straight at it with blood-red eyes!The three of them took a few steps back in shock, Qi Xie still stayed where he was, Ding Li was about to pull him, when Hui Ying rushed forward!Open your anchor-like claws and sweep down!

But it was easily resisted by the folding fan.

The figure in black stood up, and the monster retracted its claws like an electric shock. He took a step forward, but the gray figure was clinging to the ground, trembling and retreating.

The three immediately understood why. ——Exuding from Qi Xie, it was a breath that did not belong to humans at all, and was several times more dangerous than the monster opposite. It was oppressive, spread relentlessly, and penetrated into every pore.

Qi Xie stood still, took out a talisman, raised his hand and threw it, and it turned into a green arrow and burned all over the monster's body in an instant. Before it could struggle for a while, it screamed and turned into black smoke and scattered in the woods.

The wind passed by, the clouds were fully opened, and the moonlight was everywhere, sprinkled on his hair and shoulders.Qi Xie turned around, it was a person Ding Li could not recognize at all, his face was stern and expressionless, his pupils were so dark that there was no reflection at all.Qi Xie glanced at him, and he shuddered. It wasn't until the gaze disappeared into the darkness that Ding Li woke up and turned on the flashlight to catch up.

Back to the villa along the road, Qi Xie was standing in the corner of the living room.

"That shadow!" Fang Xun stopped at the door and pointed, "It's the one just outside the window."

Assistant Qian's flashlight shone past, and there was nothing but a cloud of air. Qi Xie said to the corner: "You saw what happened just now, I have nothing to explain, you want to take revenge on me, if you don't want to die, leave this house immediately , don’t take half a step.”

Pausing for a moment, he threw a talisman, and a white light flashed and went out.

"That's...?" Assistant Qian asked in a low voice.

"That ghost was killed by him, instantly." Fang Xun stared blankly.

Ding Li hesitated for a moment, and finally walked over, lifted his left sleeve, and there was a deep bloody gash on his forearm.

"Stitches are needed." Ding Li said.

Qi Xie pulled his arm away.

"Don't leave!" Ding Li grabbed him and pushed him onto the chair, "Assistant Qian, please get the first-aid kit!"

Debriding, suturing, bandaging, Qi Xie sat there without blinking his eyelids.

Ding Li fixed the bandage: "The stitches will be removed in ten days, don't touch the water before, go back and take some anti-inflammatory drugs tomorrow."

Seeing that Qi Xie was motionless and unresponsive, Assistant Qian sent Fang Xun upstairs to sleep.

"You should rest too." Ding Li said to her.

"I can't rest anymore, I have to think about how to explain it to Manager Wang." Assistant Qian smiled wryly and pointed to the mess in the hall.

When her footsteps disappeared on the stairs, Qi Xie let out a soft sigh, Ding Li saw that he had finally come to his senses, and deliberately complained: "I thought you didn't plan to talk to people anymore."

"Go to bed too." Qi Xie's voice was a little hoarse, "I'll stay vigil in case of emergencies."

Ding Li was not busy: "By the way, what was that just now?"

"You said before or after."

"two."

"Can you see it?"

"The one before could see a shadow, but the one in the corner couldn't see it."

"The shadow is not itself, but the evil spirit it exudes. That thing is called Qiong Ao, with red eyes and black hair, it looks like a giant dog, and it often haunts the mountains. It is a very vicious evil thing."

"Why is it so afraid of you?"

"Because I summoned the Yuan Tong I met during the day from the mountain, and used its power. If I want to compare it, it is equivalent to throwing the robot into the grinder and using the crushed iron to make bullets."

Ding Li was stunned: "Then it..."

"Dead." Qi Xie's face was as cold as frost, "Don't feel cruel, if it doesn't die, we will die."

"I know." Ding Li said softly.

Qi Xie glanced out the window: "If you really don't feel sleepy, I can tell you what happened just now."

Ding Li hummed.

"Just now I came down from the third floor and pulled the switch. Not long after, the ghost appeared in the bedroom on the second floor. It was an old woman who said that she lived in Linzhen and took her three children to Liling Mountain 40 years ago. Unexpectedly Encountering a ghost hitting the wall, the youngest son disappeared. The family searched for a long time in the mountains, but only found one shoe. She cried and put up a wooden sign next to the shoe, and came to visit the grave every festival. More than 40 years have passed , the young woman turned into an old lady, and when she took paper money into the mountain again, she found that this place had become a resort, and even the wooden sign with her son’s name on it was thrown away.”

Ding Li nodded: "So she has been here with her son since she passed away?"

"Yes, but her son is not here. I planned to find the child for her, so that she would be relieved earlier, but Qiong Ao suddenly jumped into the corridor. I have no time to deal with the ghost, I just want to prevent the monster from running away The third floor, so I used blood to lead it to the living room."

Ding Li frowned: "You did this injury yourself!"

"Yes."

"Do you have any common sense, what to do if you make such a big cut and hurt your artery!"

"I have a constitution like this and it won't matter if I injure an artery."

"Then you can't—"

"Enough! I have my own measure, and it's not your turn to teach me!"

Ding Li choked: "Ah Jing, what's the matter with you, you've been murderous since just now..."

"Isn't it possible?" Qi Xie stared at him coldly, "I'm an evil creature with such a nature. I was forced into this situation step by step by Guixintang because I used to be too afraid of right and wrong, showing weakness and hiding my clumsiness. From now on I won't If he continues to be passive, if he wants to play, I will accompany him to the end. If anyone dares to block the way, don't blame me for being rude. Just now you asked me what happened in the corner, and I will tell you, because the soul of an old woman and child is in that Yuantong's body. The ghost saw what happened in the forest and wanted to avenge my son, so I killed it."

After finishing speaking, the dark living room was quiet.

Ding Li stared at Qi Xie in a daze, his chest felt inexplicably congested.

"I'm sorry if you don't like this kind of behavior, but I won't repent, so you don't have to bother to persuade me." Qi Xie said coldly.

"I didn't intend to persuade you..." Ding Li looked at his gauze-wrapped arm, "I'm just...not used to you talking like this."

"Really." Qi Xie was silent for a moment, then softened his tone, "Go to sleep, and accompany me to Baiyun Temple tomorrow morning."

"I'll watch the night with you." Ding Li asked tentatively.

"No need." Qi Xie's tone was flat but irresistible.

The two set out early in the morning, without talking all the way, when they arrived at the gate of Baiyun Temple, Qi Xie stood still, and ordered Ding Li to buy three sticks of incense, the best ones.On the way back, Qi Xie lit the incense and stuck it on the piece of soil that his palm pressed last night.

The aftermath was handed over to Assistant Qian, and Ding Li didn't know how she explained it. In short, Manager Wang was in a panic all the way, and sent the four of them to the car as if waiting for a benefactor. Before leaving, he sealed a thick red envelope and stuffed it in the in her hand.

It was already afternoon when we returned to Lanjingxuan.

Qi Xie went straight into the study, opened the drawer and took out the book. Ding Li walked into the room, and he didn't shy away.

"What are you writing?" Ding Li sat on the edge of the table.

"Diary." Qi Xie kept writing, "You are right, this diary is a record about myself, in order to prevent others from forgetting me."

Ding Li had an idea: "If you don't write a diary, the people in Guixintang will forget you, and the matter will be solved?"

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