Urban Night Returner

"Brother, don't think about it, why don't you go out for a walk?" Zhong Leyang put his arms around his brother's shoulders and half-forcedly pulled him out.Shen Gu ran out to look for Pai Gow, and Zhong Lecen stayed at home thinking about it all afternoon.

Zhong Lecen walked out with his younger brother, while pressing his temples: "Could I be wrong? What is this thing?"

"Oh, brother——" Zhong Leyang pulled his hand down, "Can I ask you to rest for a while? If you think so, you can't even think about it. Go for a walk, go out and play, maybe you will get inspiration Woolen cloth."

"Go by yourself, I don't want to go."

"No!" Zhong Leyang held him tight, "I don't worry about you staying at home alone with that dog."

Zhong Lecen snorted: "I almost forgot, I haven't given it food yet. Haven't you already put a talisman on it?"

Zhong Leyang followed him into the kitchen with his mouth curled up, watching him take meat from the refrigerator: "What if you can't keep it down? I said brother, you don't have to feed it so well. In fact, it doesn't matter whether it eats or not."

Zhong Lecen sighed: "I won't even give you anything to eat when I get it back, so it's better not to bring it back, it's not good. Besides, I will release it in a few days anyway, and I won't be able to eat it for a few days."

Zhong Leyang continued to curl his lips, watched his brother put the meat in front of the dog ghost, and pulled him away: "Brother, stand back, I will ungaze it."

With the muzzle off, Zhong Leyang took a step back immediately with extreme vigilance.But the dog ghost didn't do anything special, just looked down at the fresh meat in front of him, and then looked up at Zhong Lecen.Zhong Lecen nodded to it from a distance: "Eat."

The dog ghost lowered his head and did not move.Zhong Leyang snapped: "If you don't eat, you will fall down. Brother, let's go."

The night sky is high and far away, dark blue and dark blue, with a golden full moon hanging.Zhong Leyang looked up: "Brother, it looks like scallion pancakes."

Zhong Lecen laughed: "Do you want to eat?"

"Yes, yes, brother, how about pancakes tomorrow?"

"Okay--"

The two brothers strolled all the way to the May Fourth Square. There were still many people in the square, and the huge "May Wind" stood brightly red.Zhong Leyang walked under the sculpture and looked up: "Brother, it looks like lasagna."

Zhong Lecen laughed: "Have you eaten tonight? Why do you only think about eating when you look at everything." He also looked up as he spoke.Standing a little further away, he could see the sky through the swirling lines.Zhong Lecen just glanced at it and was suddenly stunned.Zhong Leyang said a few words but didn't hear his brother's answer, so he walked back suspiciously: "Brother, what are you thinking?"

Zhong Lecen grabbed him: "Oh no! Call Shen Gu quickly, we must find Pai Gow and that porcelain as soon as possible!"

Zhong Leyang looked at him and quickly took out his mobile phone: "Brother, what did you think of? Besides, you can't find that Pai Gow, isn't Brother Shen looking for it?"

Zhong Lecen was reminded by him and squeezed the phone tightly: "That's bad! It's not a soul bottle, it's an exit from the underworld. If Pai Gow takes that thing, it will be dangerous!"

Zhong Leyang was taken aback by his conclusion: "Brother, how do you know?"

Zhong Lecen pointed forward: "If you regard this sculpture as a door, do you think there is a starry sky under the door when you look at it from a distance? It's not that the door is above the starry sky, but the angle of view is on the side of the door. When you see the starry sky on the other side of the door, It's perspective."

Zhong Leyang still didn't understand: "The door?"

"I'm afraid—it's the gate of hell!"

"Brother—" Zhong Leyang was dumbfounded, "Why did you think of the gate of hell?"

"Shen Gu said that the deceased Zhou Na once called her boyfriend, saying that the man who took care of her came back to find her. But that man is already dead! Unless, his ghost came back from the gate of hell. Yes, it should be let Shen Gu checks when that person died, whether the day Zhou Na died happened to be his first seven!"

Zhong Lecen dialed the phone while talking, but before he dialed out, the phone rang first, and a deep voice came over: "Le Cen, where are you? Where is Le Yang? Come to Feifei's house quickly, something happened. !"

Feifei was lying on the floor, Pai Gow didn't dare to move him.He closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep, but his breathing and heartbeat had all stopped, but the body was not yet frozen.

"He fell down suddenly after seeing this thing..." Pai Gow's voice was a little hoarse, and he kept looking down at Feifei, "I shouldn't have brought things here..."

"When did the man who took care of Zhou Na die?" Zhong Lecen asked calmly, rolling Feifei's eyelids—his pupils had completely dilated, in other words, Feifei was dead.

Pai Gow thought about it, and reported a date. Zhong Leyang's expression changed, and he said in a low voice, "Brother, that day is the first seven."

Shen Gu has been standing beside Pai Gow, at this moment he asked, "The first seven?"

Zhong Lecen nodded lightly, walked over and pointed to the porcelain on the table: "This is not a soul bottle, it is a gate from the underworld to the underworld, maybe it is the gate of ghosts. When a person dies for the first seven days, he has to go back to Sha, that is, to return home. At this moment, rustling footsteps can be heard, and those who hear them must not speak, or they will be taken away by ghosts. I am afraid that Zhou Na was taken away by Huisha. It seems that the man is very obsessed and wants to take her away. Pulled to the underworld. I want to know, how did that man die?"

Shen Gu looked at Pai Gow: "Liu Wencheng said he died of a cerebral hemorrhage after arguing with his wife." Pai Gow raised his head and said coldly: "He lied. We also did an investigation, and the man's wife was flirting with her husband outside. Keeping her eyes closed all the time, especially in the past two years, she also knows that she is too old to keep people, and she has never quarreled with him about this. It is true that the person has high blood pressure, but one day he came from Zhou Na's residence. He suddenly fell ill after returning home, so his wife has always suspected that Zhou Na killed her man. And the man didn't die at that time, he was rescued in the hospital for more than ten days."

Zhong Lecen listened quietly, and nodded: "It seems that Zhou Na may have killed her, or at least it has something to do with her."

Shen Gu doubted: "Since Zhou Na said that this person came back to find her, why didn't she leave?"

Zhong Lecen said simply: "As long as she carries this porcelain, she can't get rid of it. However, what she said may not be true. The ghost will not come back until the first seven times. She probably did something wrong and was afraid, so she became suspicious. Dark ghost. But it was a real ghost that appeared on the night of Huisha, and it was going to drag her into the gate of hell, so she would be scared to death, and she would still maintain that posture after death—"

Pai Gow interrupted him: "What happened to Feifei? What did he do? Could it be that there are ghosts coming back to look for him?"

Zhong Lecen raised his head and looked at the window: "Yesterday was the [-]th day, when the moon is at its fullest, the yin energy is the heaviest. It must be that the moonlight shines on the gate of ghosts to close and open the gate of yin and yang, and it must be that yin energy that has taken the soul away."

Pai Gow's hands trembled slightly: "So he died?"

Zhong Lecen hesitated for a moment, then said: "Not yet."

After saying that, both Shen Gu and Pai Gow were taken aback, only Zhong Leyang nodded in agreement: "If he is really dead, the body should be hard by now, and his chest is still a little warm when you touch it, which means it's just the soul leaving the body. However, if you can't find it within 24 hours, your fake death will become real."

Pai Gow grabbed Zhong Lecen: "How can I get his soul back?"

Zhong Lecen was caught by him and grinned, Shen Gu immediately snatched his hand out: "Pai Gow, you have to work harder!"

Zhong Lecen rubbed his wrists: "It's okay. But, going to the underworld to summon souls..." He looked at Zhong Leyang, and Zhong Leyang was not too sure: "I haven't done it either. I have done soul summoning, but I have entered the gate of hell..."

Shen Gu asked: "The summoning of the soul you said, is it the kind of calling the soul?"

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "No. The so-called soul method is that the soul leaves the body but still wanders in the world, just like finding a lost child on the street. But now Feifei's soul has entered the gate of hell, just like being lost. In places like forests, if you want to find him, you have to go in."

Pai Gow stood up abruptly: "How do I get in? I'll go!"

Zhong Leyang looked at him contemptuously: "You go? If you go in, you won't be able to get out! What kind of place do you think the gate of hell is, you can enter as soon as you say it."

Pai Gow looked back at him coldly: "No matter where, I dare to go!"

Zhong Lecen hurriedly stopped his younger brother: "Don't talk, you have to act fast, and when it's dawn, Feifei will never come back."

Zhong Leyang looked around: "This place is not big enough."

Zhong Lecen took out his mobile phone: "I'll call Konghua and go to Jilian."

All the tables and chairs in Ji Lian were dragged away, leaving a large open space in the middle.Zhong Leyang drew a talisman formation with cinnabar on the ground, while trying to persuade his brother: "Brother, it's better for me to go in."

Zhong Lecen said decisively: "No. If you delay the time to come back, you can help me open the ghost door, but I can't."

"Then you can't go in alone..."

"Who said he went in alone?" Shen Gu stood by the side without being able to intervene, and answered at this moment, "Le Cen and I will go together."

Pai Gow gently put Feifei on the ground: "I'll go too." His voice was not high, but he was very firm.

Zhong Leyang looked at these two people and nodded: "Okay, I can rest assured that I will go with the two of them."

Konghua came in dragging a bag of rice: "This is glutinous rice, do you see enough?"

Zhong Leyang looked at the [-]-jin bag of rice, with black lines all over his head: "Fifty jin? Do you want my brother to carry it?"

Zhong Lecen hurriedly interrupted him: "Enough is enough, thank you Konghua." Employers don't know how to say polite words, this brother...

Kong Hua shook his head and closed the door: "What else do I need to do?"

Zhong Leyang's expression became serious: "I'm going to preside over the talisman for my brother in a while, you watch your surroundings carefully, don't let anyone intrude, and don't let the wind blow in."

Konghua nodded: "No one will come at this time, don't worry."

Zhong Lecen placed the porcelain in the center of the talisman array, and the ground was covered with crimson charms drawn by Zhong Leyang, which looked like a maze.Zhong Leyang opened the rice bag: "Keep a little more on your body. This thing drives away ghosts. If you encounter ghosts, throw it away."

Everything was ready, Zhong Leyang didn't have the slightest expression on his face, lit the thickest white candle he found in the bar, and placed it right at the entrance of the talisman array: "Brother, be careful."

Zhong Lecen nodded, and greeted Shen Gu and Pai Gow: "Follow me, don't step on the spell, and don't take wrong steps, otherwise you will get lost on the road."

Shen Gu pondered what this "on the road" refers to?But before he could ask, Zhong Lecen had already stepped into the talisman array from the entrance.There was only one foot between the spells, and Shen Gu followed Zhong Lecen, almost walking on his heels, followed by Pai Gow, and the three breathed and heard each other.Shen Gu stared intently at Zhong Lecen's feet, the crimson charms in front of him seemed endless, he remembered that the area of ​​Ji Lian was not very large, but the road drawn by this spell seemed endless.As he walked, he felt that the surrounding temperature seemed to be gradually dropping, and there was still a whistling wind blowing by his ears.The spells on the ground were dazzling, Shen Gu blinked his eyes, the spells suddenly disappeared, he looked up in surprise, and found that the three of them were no longer in Ji Lian, but walking on a deserted road, with yellow grass under their feet, very A few steps away was a fog.From time to time there were rustling sounds in the fog, as if there were other people on the road, but Shen Gu looked with all his eyes, but couldn't see anything.

Zhong Lecen exhaled lightly, and said in a low voice, "The gate of hell is closed ahead."

Shen Gu and Pai Gow looked up together, and saw that there was indeed a torii-style door in front of it, with three big blood-red characters glowing slightly on the top of the black door—Ghost Gate.Zhong Lecen said calmly: "Now all the souls walking on this road are living souls, and they have never offended each other. But when they enter the gate of hell, they are dead souls. Living souls like us are nothing more than a treasure to them. After a while, any People are not allowed to speak or breathe loudly. Leyang's talisman can cover the smell of living souls on us, but as long as we open our mouths, those dead souls will feel us. Few people who die are willing. Souls, they will eat us in order to get a chance to escape from hell. After entering Pai Gow, you have to keep calling Feifei’s name in your heart, and then follow your feelings. Whether you can find Feifei or not depends entirely on you. If you have something to say, you can only make gestures. When you find Feifei, turn back and walk towards the place where there is a candle. That is the candle that Le Yang lit for us. As long as you walk towards the candle, you can go back. Candle When the candle is about to be lit, it will suddenly light up. As soon as we see this signal, we must turn back immediately. If we can’t go back when the candle is extinguished, we will stay in the gate of hell forever.”

The surrounding area was very quiet, although I heard the sound of the wind, but there was no wind blowing on my body, and what Zhong Lecen said made people feel particularly weird.At this moment, they had already reached the gate of hell, and there was still some light in front of them, at least allowing them to see the entangled snake-like pattern on the door, but there was only one door separated, and the inside was pitch black.There was a whistling wind under the gate, and Shen Gu seemed to see groups of black shadows continuously entering the gate and disappearing into the darkness.Zhong Lecen glanced at Pai Gow, Pai Gow nodded and walked to the front.

After stepping into the gate of hell, it was not as dark as what I saw just now. After my eyes adjusted for a while, I saw the lights and the city gradually emerging obliquely in front of me, but there was a thick darkness above my head, without any starlight or light. moonlight.Walking down the steps, Shen Gu involuntarily looked back, the gate was behind him, and he had to look up.There are also three blood-red characters on the side of the gate, and there is a starry sky outside the gate. Looking at it this way, it seems that the gate is above the starry sky.

Pai Gow walked ahead, and the city with lights looked far away, but after walking for a while, it was already in front of us.The street looks like an ordinary city, and it is more bustling and noisy when you get closer, but all the lights seem to have a little green, and although the people on the street walk and talk like living people, they don't have any expression on their faces. Like a picture after another, it's still the kind of posthumous portrait.Walking into this place is like entering an active mourning hall.

Pai Gow seems to have a direction, walking through the streets and alleys without stopping.Shen Gu followed closely behind Zhong Lecen, looking around vigilantly.When he walked down the steps of the gate of hell, he tried it quietly, and the fact that Jin Tiezhiying was still there made him feel relieved a lot.As for the glutinous rice in his pocket, he didn't really take it seriously.But he was a little surprised that the thing could actually be brought in.

Zhong Lecen suddenly grabbed Shen Gu's hand, and pointed forward with the other hand.As soon as Shen Gu raised his head, he saw a figure in the crowd in front of him who was very similar, appearing and disappearing from time to time.Pai Gow suddenly quickened his pace, and then started running.Shen Gu pulled Zhong Lecen up to follow, but suddenly a car drove up from the slant and almost hit Zhong Lecen. With a pale face, he said, "How did you walk!" Although he was yelling, except for the movement of his mouth, there was no change in the expression on his face, which was indescribably weird.

Normally, Shen Gu would definitely drag down this bastard who drove wildly and beat him up, but now he just shut up and dragged Zhong Lecen away.As soon as he turned around, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a small shadow turning around Zhong Lecen from the corner of his eyes. Sticky rice.

As soon as a handful of glutinous rice was spilled, everyone around suddenly turned their heads to look at Zhong Lecen.Countless faces staring at you expressionlessly like posthumous photos are really chilling.No one spoke, but those eyes all shone like wolves.On the other side of the road, Pai Gow heard the commotion and turned around. In front, Feifei's figure was about to disappear.Zhong Lecen shook his heart, and shouted at Pai Gow: "If you find Feifei, go out and meet Jilian!" The last word disappeared into the excited screams around, Shen Gu pulled him up, stretched out his right hand, golden iron Zhiying jumped into the palm, the dead soul in front seemed to be afraid of this thing, screamed and dodged, and Shen Gu rushed out dragging people.Behind them, the whole street became excited and began to chase after them.

Shen Gu dragged Zhong Lecen to pick up the alleys and ran. Fortunately, these dead souls seemed to have lost their IQ along with their lives. Gu and Zhong Lecen ran over, only to find that these two people were actually living souls.Occasionally, there were a few who responded quickly, but they were also swayed by Jin Tiezhiying.Although it has not disappeared, it is very difficult to put together another one.Zhong Lecen kept sprinkling glutinous rice backwards, and every time he sprinkled a handful, the dead souls who were chasing him backed away screaming.The two of them ran more and more remote, and they didn't know how many streets they ran. After passing through a narrow alley, Shen Gu suddenly found that there was no longer a street in front of him, but a lake.The water of the lake is clear, and the lake is full of lotus flowers, but the petals are dark blue.Listening to the back, at some point those horrible screams could no longer be heard, and the surroundings were terribly silent.

Zhong Lecen bent down and panted continuously.The living soul is much lighter than the flesh, but he still runs out of breath.Shen Gu looked towards the way he came from, but the way he came from was nowhere to be seen. In the gray mist, there seemed to be a faint candlelight, which was very far away, but he could see clearly: "What should we do? Go back, or look for Pai Gow?"

Zhong Lecen gasped and said: "Pai Gow should be able to find Feifei, and then they can go back by looking at the candlelight. In our disturbance just now, probably all the dead souls came after us. No one will pay attention to them, so they are safe. Yes. We’d better wait for them outside the ghost gate.” He straightened up and looked forward, and suddenly said, “Sanshengquan!”

"what?"

"Three Lives Spring. Standing by the edge of the spring, it is said that you can see your previous life."

After Zhong Lecen said that, he walked towards the lake, Shen Gu expressed helplessness for his spirit of seeking knowledge, so he had to follow.The lake was very calm, but when they looked down, what was reflected on the lake was not their faces, but a street.The reflection was a bit blurry, and it could be vaguely seen that the buildings were of ancient style. There seemed to be a group of people marching on the road, all dressed in white, and carrying a coffin in the middle.Zhong Lecen bent down to see clearly.Shen Gu stretched out his hand to pull him: "Be careful not to fall—" Before he finished speaking, Zhong Lecen suddenly fell forward.Shen Gu grabbed him violently, but the force was so amazing that he was pulled down as well, with two plop plops, the two of them fell into the lake together, and disappeared immediately, while the lake surface was only slightly turbulent It returned to calm, without even a ripple...