hell in disguise

Originally, Yan Fei thought that they would go out with Dasa Moluo to visit the families who had the accident, but he didn't expect that Tan Yangzi had no such plan at all. He just gave Yan Fei some silver taels and asked him to go to the street to play by himself, while Tan Yangzi But Zi himself meditated on the bed and practiced the longevity technique for a day.Yan Fei was inexplicably given a day off, so he wandered around Xiangyang City and walked all the way to the vicinity of Xiangshui.

There are many ships docked by the pier, some carrying cargo and some carrying people, and the comings and goings are very lively.Yan Fei ate some hand-washing crabs at a raw crab stall, and was looking at the two white gulls dancing on the green river, when he suddenly heard a commotion from a passenger ship that was docking not far away. , Many guests crowded out of the cabin in panic, stomping on the small passenger boat.The punter shouted loudly to keep everyone still, but no one listened to him.I only heard someone yelling "Killer!!!" and then jumped into the water regardless.Other guests with good water skills also jumped. Unfortunately, a young man who didn't know water skills was also squeezed out, and he kept thumping in the water for help.

Seeing this, Yan Fei didn't have time to think about it, so he rushed to the pier and jumped into the water, stretching his arms around the waist of the struggling young man.It's just that the young man is not weak, and his survival instinct made him refuse to let go once he grabbed Yan Fei, almost dragging them both down.Yan Fei hurriedly used Hongwuchang's insanity, and grabbed the young man's face with one hand so that his terrified eyes met his slightly red pupils, and soon the struggling man miraculously quieted down.Yan Fei grabbed his belt and dragged him to the side of the boat, and the people on the boat helped him up.

The whole body of the young man's clothes were soaked, and there was undecided panic on his handsome face, shivering into a ball.When he looked up, he saw Yan Fei pulling himself out of the water neatly by grabbing the edge of the boat. His slender and powerful figure was wrapped in a red dress, his black hair was getting whiter and his skin was whiter, and his eyebrows were becoming more and more colorful. It was dyed, and I was stunned for a while.Yan Fei didn't even bother to pay attention to who he saved just now, he grabbed a passenger who was crowded outside the cabin and asked, "What happened?"

"A man inside suddenly took out a knife and wanted to hack his father to death!"

As soon as Yan Fei heard it, he knew that the incident of killing relatives every three days was happening.He pushed aside the crowd and rushed into the cabin, only to see that the inside was a mess, and the goods that people brought with them were scattered all over the floor.A middle-aged man about 50 to [-] years old huddled in the corner in horror, holding a rattan basket in both hands as a shield, but his arm was bloody, obviously it had been chopped once.The other boy looked about the same age as Yan Fei, his eyes were red, and his face was distorted by bone-eating hatred.Seeing someone coming in, he didn't care, just yelled, raised his knife and rushed at him again, with a vicious look that was determined to put the middle-aged man to death.

Yan Fei didn't bring a weapon, so he had to rush forward with his bare hands, and kicked the knife sideways with his kick, and stuck it into the man's cheek.The tall and thick man turned pale with fright, and his crotch was wet.If it wasn't for Yan Fei's kick, the knife would have already opened a bloody hole in his face.

The young man came to beat Yan Fei viciously, but Yan Fei was taught by Tan Yangzi after all, so he leaned back, grabbed the punching fist, jumped back, stretched out his foot and kicked the young man's knee. nest.The moment the boy lost his balance and knelt down, he twisted that hand back violently.The boy let out a cry of pain and struggled desperately.But the strange thing is that he is obviously taller than the red-clothed boy behind him, but he can't struggle no matter what.The boy stepped on his calf, twisted his right hand fiercely with both hands, and suddenly leaned into his ear and spoke a string of languages ​​he didn't understand.But this string of words seemed to have a strange calming power, which made the boiling hatred and killing intent in his heart settle down little by little.He panted heavily, and the strength of his struggle finally became smaller and smaller.

With a bang, the boat finally docked.All the passengers fled in haste, clamoring to report to the authorities.Yan Fei rolled his eyes slightly, then suddenly lowered his head and said to the young man, "You don't want to go to prison, do you?"

The boy didn't expect him to ask such a question suddenly, and reason seemed to be coming back to his mind little by little.He looked back at his father who was still terrified, and then at the knife stuck in the cabin, his face turned pale all of a sudden.He shook his head, and his body began to tremble, as if he couldn't believe that he actually tried to kill Dad just now.

"If you don't want to be caught, follow me." After Yan Fei finished speaking, he pulled him up, grabbed his arm and pulled him ashore, then ran away.

Everyone exclaimed, but no one stopped them.On the contrary, the young gentleman Qingjun who was rescued by Yan Fei just now looked at the direction Yan Fei was leaving in a daze, until he heard the gunshots in the cabin behind him, as if he suddenly realized something.He hurried back to the cabin, found his medical box, squatted beside the man whose arm was still bleeding, "I'm a doctor, let me have a look."

But this side of Yan Fei took the young man back and forth in the alley, avoiding the officers and soldiers patrolling the road, and returned to Dasa Moluo's home.

Tan Yangzi had just finished his work, and was about to make a cup of tea to refresh himself, when he suddenly heard a loud bang at the courtyard door outside, and then another bang, apparently someone came in and closed the door again, probably with a rustle of the latch .He walked to the door with the teacup in hand, and saw Yan Fei was dripping wet, pulling an unfamiliar young man with a mellow face towards him.

Tan Yangzi's eyes widened, "I let you play in the street, but didn't let you swim in Xiangshui!"

Panting from running, Yan Fei pulled the boy to him and said to Tan Yangzi with a smile on his face, "Didn't you say it's not easy to sneak into the prison? Here's a new one!"

The boy was obviously confused, but the panic in the depths of his eyes was still clearly discernible.Tan Yangzi suddenly understood what Yan Fei meant, "You mean, he..."

"Yeah! I saw it with my own eyes! If I didn't stop it, someone would die again!"

Counting the days, it has been almost three days.Tan Yangzi looked at the boy and said to them, "You two come in."

After the two of them entered the room, Tan Yangzi closed the door, quickly took out corpse candles, rice chopsticks and other things, and said to Yan Fei, "Come and spread the corpse candle array."

While Yan Fei was busy setting up the formation, Tan Yangzi carefully studied the fidgeting young man.The young man didn't know where this place was, and he didn't know what this white-haired man with the appearance of a Taoist priest was going to do. He sat on the chair cautiously, "You... who are you?"

"It's fine if you're not an officer or soldier." Yan Fei interjected next to him, "I won't send you to the government, don't worry!"

Tan Yangzi asked, "What's your name, and how old are you this year?"

"Chen Xujiang, 16 years old."

"What do you do at home?"

"My father fishes crabs." Speaking of his father, the boy shuddered again.When Tan Yangzi saw it, he guessed who he wanted to kill just now.

"Why did you kill your father?"

Tears suddenly flowed from the boy's eyes, his lips trembled but were tightly closed, refusing to speak.

Tan Yangzi said softly, "Did a voice tell you to do this?"

The boy frowned, a little confused, "Voice?"

"Don't you often hear a voice in your head telling you to kill your father?"

"...No...I'm not crazy..."

Seeing that he was not cooperating, Tan Yangzi remembered what Dasa Moluo said before, these murderers seemed unwilling to speak after committing crimes, and they could not find any useful information.Although this young man has not yet succeeded, it may be the same situation.It is impossible not to coerce and lure.

Tan Yangzi then said, "If you don't tell me, I can't help you, so I have to send you to the government."

As soon as he heard the word "Government", the boy trembled even more violently.But he still kept his mouth tightly shut, unwilling to utter a word.

Is there any power to prevent them from speaking?Is it something like that red light that burned Kuma Moro?Thinking of some of the information he asked yesterday, he decided to ask the question in a different way.He pulled a chair and sat in front of the boy, looked at him and said, "Have you often had nightmares lately?"

The boy raised his head unexpectedly.

"You don't have to say anything, just nod or shake your head. It'll be all right."

The young man stared blankly at him, and after a long while, finally nodded slightly.

"Did you see a red lotus in your dream?"

The boy was even more surprised, and nodded again.

"Did the lotus flower be entrusted by someone... or some god or Buddha?"

The boy nodded again and again, his expression became more and more excited, and he leaned forward, as if he had found a savior.

Tan Yangzi had a rough guess.It seems that no matter who this ghost is, he has already obtained the red lotus, one of the four holy lotuses - Botanma.Moreover, this ghost seems to be related to people's dreams, and those prisoners often complained of nightmares before committing crimes.

The matter is getting more and more strange.

A fishy scent wafted to his nostrils silently, and the boy in front of Tan Yangzi began to distort gradually.His face was covered with layers of scars and wrinkles, and even his facial features were covered by those layers of wrinkles.Those scars looked very new, and some of them hadn't even healed yet. White maggots were wriggling in the festering flesh, devouring the flesh of his soul.It seems that this young man has suffered a lot in his life.Although most of the scars are not very hideous and not very big, they are deep and difficult to heal, more like they have suffered more psychological injuries than physical ones.Of course, there are also obvious fear scars caused by physical damage.

Are the scars related to the boy's father?

Tan Yangzi tried to use various methods to lure the young man to tell more news, but the young man refused to speak again.Tan Yangzi had a feeling that it wasn't that the boy didn't want to tell him, but that some kind of power prevented him from telling him.

It would be great if there is red impermanence at this moment...

But Hong Wuchang couldn't enter the consciousness of these people, after all, there was still that strange red light.

Seeing the boy crying suddenly, Tan Yangzi knew that there was nothing left to ask.Tan Yangzi decided to let him go and asked Yan Fei to take him to another vacant room to rest, while he put a blindfold around the gate to hide the courtyard gate from the eyes of ordinary people.Not long after Dasamoluo came back, he wondered why he had to cover up his eyes, and Tan Yangzi told Dazamoluo about Chen Xujiang.

After listening, Dasa Moluo said, "There are more and more such things, and the conflicts between parents and children in many families in the city are becoming more and more intensified. As far as I know, many children and teenagers have escaped from their homes. , because they couldn’t bear to be imprisoned in the cellar by their parents. There are also some parents who unite and want to gather their children in a martial arts gym, saying that it is easy to manage. The most terrifying thing is that the government is now considering this approach.”

Yan Fei just heard this, and asked sarcastically, "What are you thinking about? Lock up all young people? But it's not just young people who are children, why not isolate everyone?"

"Probably because young people are more powerful, and the probability of success is higher if they kill people?" Dasa Moluo shook his head.

And Tan Yangzi sneered, "Maybe it's just because the panic makes those people want to pin this blame on the young people, giving them the illusion that they can control the current situation. Anyway, wait for me tonight Go to the Prison of the Criminal Division and investigate the situation."

"Oh, Master. In fact, I may have caught the cold when I jumped into the river to save people just now, and now I have a headache. Can I not go tonight?" Yan Fei asked suddenly.

Tan Yangzi felt strange when he heard it, normally this kid would clamor to go out with him even if he had a fever, but today he behaved himself.Seeing that Yan Fei hadn't changed out of his wet clothes yet, he felt secretly that he was busy interrogating Chen Xujiang just now, but he didn't take care of Yan Fei.Although he was angry with himself, his tone became severe, "Why are you standing here knowing it's cold? Why don't you go take a hot bath, change your clothes, and lie down obediently under the quilt?"

Yan Fei responded with a smile and went to boil the water, but was stopped by Tan Yangzi, "Go and take off your wet clothes first, and find a towel to wipe your body clean. I'll boil the water."

Yan Fei let out a groan, and when he went to change his clothes, Tan Yangzi had already boiled a whole tub of hot water, obviously using the Borrowing Fire Talisman to heat up the water.When Yan Fei came out of the shower, Tan Yangzi had already gone out, but left a bowl of hot ginger soup on the bedroom table.