Hailing barren city

"Uncle Ah Qing," Tao Rujiu asked, "What kind of disease is that?"

Uncle Ah Qing on the other end of the phone paused and thought for a while, obviously recalling.It took him longer to leave the medical book than Tao Rujiu left the biology class. After a while, he slowly said, "Have you ever seen a white cat? There is a white cat with blue eyes. Deaf people. Humans also have a similar disease, Waardenberg’s syndrome, you can check the details on the Internet.” Just as he was talking, someone called Ah Qing’s name on the other end of the phone. The phone call ended in a hurry.

Tao Rujiu turned off his cell phone, his mind was full of the unbelievable news he had heard.Are piercing blue eyes really a sign of disease?However, the man's usual behavior does not look like he is sick no matter how he looks at it.He was even more decisive than ordinary people in dealing with some situations... Tao Rujiu became more and more confused as he thought about it, so he simply turned on the computer and plugged in the wireless network card, and searched the Internet for relevant information.

Waardenburg syndrome is a syndrome characterized by blue eyes.It included all sorts of terrible symptoms, but none of them had anything to do with Ling Li.Tao Rujiu opened it page by page, and the more he read it, the more frightened he became.In the end, I didn't draw any conclusions, but broke out in a thin sweat.

He sighed and lay down on his back. When his back touched the cold mat, he suddenly remembered the kiss in the villa in the morning. The tender, sweet, playful, and indescribable feelings merged into a mess.He ordered himself not to think about it, and it was best to forget it immediately, but God failed, the man who forcibly asked for a kiss unexpectedly pushed the door and walked in at this moment without warning.

"You left without telling me."

Ling Li had a white cloth wrapped around his head, but his complexion was not bad.He walked in carelessly and sat on the edge of the bed, but Tao Rujiu sat up unnaturally, but was forced to stick against the base of the wall.

"Is it because of what happened in the morning?" the man asked, "If you don't like it, I won't force you if you tell me."

"no."

Tao Rujiu blurted out that he originally wanted to say that he didn't dislike Ling Li because of that kiss, but Ling Li understood it as acquiescing to this relationship.Instead, the man hugged him into his arms from behind. Tao Rujiu immediately panicked and wanted to shake him off, but he made a noise and was afraid of being discovered.

──After all, this is Cuiying Pavilion, and the outside is a patio, not a fierce private villa.When he was helpless, there was a different kind of warmth in the young man's heart, which warmed his whole body.He was thinking about the source of this feeling in a trance, but he remembered the words that Qi Maoxian had instructed him.

"What are you going to do about this matter in the underground palace?" He asked Ling Li hastily, "You should understand that the things you and I bumped into last night were not what should have happened during the day."

"This matter is really strange. I believe you must know more than I do." Ling Li replied, and at the same time let go of Tao Rujiu, leaning against the wall with only his shoulders, "What happened on the third floor?" You already know about it?"

Tao Rujiu nodded, "I know a little bit. I also heard about the accident on the third floor. It should be that the three dead people who had the accident wanted to climb out of the water."

He nodded sharply, "I think it can only be the three of them. The matter happened in the hands of my father. I have also read the files. The pensions of their relatives have already been paid, and the affairs behind them have been settled properly. Even I also invited a Taoist priest to come and overcome it, but I don’t know why the ghost lingers.”

Tao Rujiu complained in his heart, "Knowing that there are ghosts and opening the Netherworld Palace, as expected, only a profiteer can do such a thing." But on the surface, he still followed the instructions of Qi Maoxian and said to Ling Li: "The bronze gate is destroyed. , These three ghosts should have hid in a corner of Hailing City. They will come out to act at night. In order to prevent the people in the park from being hurt again, shouldn't it be safer to evacuate them temporarily?"

"It's not a difficult task to withdraw all the members," Ling Li said, "but the action involved is not as simple as 'moving out'. In fact, there are other members of the Ling family in Hailing City. Back then, I When Uncle returned Hailing City to me, there were still many people in the family who wanted to get the land here and use it for other purposes. If I made a mistake, they might catch me."

Tao Rujiu listened with half understanding, only knowing that it would be difficult to move all the people out.He heard Ling Li say again: "When the entire Nether Underworld Palace was built, Feng Shui was also taken into consideration, and diamond nets were embedded in the walls of the Nether Underworld, so even if the ghosts escape, they cannot do without the Nether Underground Palace." I will reconsider this matter... I will also guarantee that the people in the city will not be harmed. Sun Zhendao has already sent people to find the Taoist priests who closed the third floor of the underground palace. I believe that the matter will be resolved soon. "

"How many days can Taoist priests come here?" Tao Rujiu asked.

He replied sharply, "Within four days."

Tao Rujiu thought to himself, this does not contradict the seven-day limit of the Qimao Immortal, so he stopped arguing.At this time, there was a knock on the door outside the house.Tao Rujiu jumped and quickly shook off the sharp hand that was on his body, and the person who knocked on the door walked in at this moment.

It was Qin Huakai.

"Flowers, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Just now at the villa, he found Tao Rujiu leaving without saying goodbye, and Ling Li couldn't sleep anymore.It was Huakai who was lying on the bedside talking to him, and after a while was pushed down by the Sandman.So Ling Li simply and quietly waited for him to fall asleep, and then carried him to the bed to lie down comfortably, while he quietly went out and came to Cuiying Pavilion.

Tao Rujiu saw the flowers blooming and just wanted to say hello.He was one step ahead of Ling Li.Looking at the man who was still hugging his shoulder affectionately just now, he turned to someone else in an instant.Although he took the initiative to shake off his hand, Tao Rujiu still felt a little awkward in his heart.

(I want to talk to Tao Tao...) Hua Kai said sharply in sign language.At the same time, he nodded to Tao Rujiu, and the young man quickly understood what he meant, and asked Ling Li to avoid him temporarily.

Ling Li was obviously curious about the conversation between the two, but was invited out by Tao Rujiu very seriously.Hua Kai sat on the edge of his bed, took a pen and paper and wrote on it: "Listen to the cat fairy, you have to see it."

Tao Rujiu smiled wryly in his heart, and almost forgot about it.To be honest, he didn't want to see Dongli Bupo, because what happened in Corpse Soul Town that night made him really unable to have any good feelings for that ghost.But Hua Kai obviously doesn't think so, he even has a little expectation for the meeting between Tao Rujiu and Dong Li Bupo.

(I'll take you to see him tonight, that's all.)

Tao Rujiu looked at the boy's smile that had recovered for the first time after experiencing last night's incident, and was really reluctant to destroy it.

In the evening of that day, Qi Maoxian came back with a stack of talisman papers and asked Tao Rujiu to stick them in the hidden places of the entrances and exits of Cuiying Pavilion.This will prevent resentment from entering.Tao Rujiu also told Qi Maoxian about Dongli Bupo's appointment with him at night, and Bai Mao nodded, but reiterated his instructions not to easily agree to make a deal with him.The young man also told Qi Maoxian about Ling Li's reply about withdrawing people.Regarding what he said, Qi Maoxian also had a noncommittal expression.

"There is indeed a vajra net outside the underground palace, but it probably won't be of much use. Didn't you also see that you can freely enter and exit the nether underground palace without breaking the east fence? Although he is not an ordinary ghost, maybe you should ask about it yourself. It would be more appropriate to ask him."

While talking, Huakai was already waiting at the door.

"where are we going?"

Without pen and paper, Tao Rujiu communicated with Huakai through the SMS screen of her mobile phone.Hua Kai simply typed three words on the phone: "Follow me."

They left Cuiying Pavilion through the back door at dusk.Walk along a large wilderness to the west of the Yanyu Jiangnan.There is a wasteland specially left to imitate wildness, with wild flowers and weeds as tall as a person growing, and countless mosquitoes, no one would like to approach it on weekdays.However, at this moment, Huakai is leading him to go deep into the grass, and the more he walks, the more desolate and remote he goes.

"Flowers, do you have to come to this kind of place?"

Tao Rujiu was obviously a little scared.He even wondered if the young man in front of him was the Qin Huakai he usually saw.Fortunately, the boy turned his head back in time to smile, and at the same time signaled that he was coming soon.

Sure enough, after walking less than ten meters, Qin Hua drove away and stopped. Tao Rujiu followed and found a small depression in front of him. Weirdly dug two connected deep holes.Tao Rujiu stood there in a daze for a while, and then he realized that it turned out to be a pair of holes. After the coffin was taken out, there were only two holes left, like the black sinuses on a skeleton.It should be that the coffin was removed during construction, but somehow the double holes were left behind.

Although he still believed that the flowers would not do anything to him, but seeing such an unlucky scene, Tao Rujiu couldn't bear it and took a few steps back.Just hit a small tree behind him.

At the same time, a man's voice sounded in the gradually darkening woods.

"At sunset, the yang qi has not dissipated, so I can only appear in this low-lying area with heavy yin qi. If you are afraid of these things, how can you face me... this ghost?"

Without raising his head, Tao Rujiu knew that it should be Dongli Bupo's voice. If the ethereal and gloomy that was different from ordinary people were removed, the voice could even be said to be pleasant.However, Tao Rujiu still didn't seem ready to raise his head to face the ghost's face that might challenge the limit of courage.

The two of them and the ghost stayed silent on the wasteland for a while, and Huakai walked to Tao Rujiu's side again, tugging at his arm, as if to comfort him that he didn't need to be afraid.And Dongli Bupo's sarcastic voice gradually reminded him of another person who liked to laugh at him very much.

"What? I remember that you were quite brave when you were in the underground palace yesterday, why are you so courageous now? Do you have to scare you to be satisfied, so I don't mind..."

Before he finished speaking, Tao Rujiu felt that Huakai made a movement towards the ghost, and Dongli Bupo immediately changed his tone to talk to the boy, his tone was full of tenderness and affection.Although Tao Rujiu was not used to hearing these things from ghosts, it did relieve a lot of his fear.

When the ghost was confronting Huakai, Tao Rujiu quietly raised his head and looked over there, but he didn't have the surprise, horror or fear as he imagined.

Dongli Bupo was indeed the tall man with the silver mask, the simple gown, and the long black hair.Strange to say, the silver mask that almost knocked him out of his wits when he saw him in Ling Li's villa last time didn't look so scary at the moment, and he could even see some original aesthetic interest.

Tao Rujiu calmed down, and boldly said: "You... well, I am Tao Rujiu. I don't dare to disturb you, this is how it is..."

This is already the most polite opening statement he has used in his experience as a reporter.However, hearing it in the ears of the other two present was still ridiculous.

"Stop gossiping, just tell me what you want me to help with, talk about the conditions after talking, do it if you agree, and there will be no next time if you don't agree."

Tao Rujiu was secretly surprised in his heart, he thought that ghosts always had that kind of dark and sad character, but Tao actually had all kinds of tempers like human beings, because Dongli Bupo seemed refreshing.Thinking of this, he became more courageous, straightened his spine and said, "Qimaoxian just asked me to come to you, saying that you must have a way to persuade Ling Li to withdraw people from Hailing City, and at the same time, I hope you can help him get rid of it." Those three ominous spirits. But..."

He paused for a moment, causing Dongli Bupo to urge impatiently, "But what?"

"But from the beginning to the end, I just followed Qi Maoxian's orders. I don't know why I came to you, and I don't even know who you are and why you appear here."

After hearing what he said, Dongli Bupo didn't answer immediately, but turned around and lowered his head to ask Qin Huakai: "Little boy, didn't you tell him about me?"

Hua Kai, who was called "Little Guai" in a nasty way, shook her head quite habitually.Dongli Bupo frowned, then kissed him lightly on the forehead, and said, "Let me explain to this person, I won't come to you again tonight. You must take the amulet I gave you, Go back to the troupe first. Be good."

Tao Rujiu stood not far away and saw that Dongli Bupo's kiss was actually imprinted on Qin Huakai's forehead in a mere form. The two bodies with different natures could never be in contact with each other—just It seems that the passion in the woods outside Corpse Soul Town last time was just a ritual to unilaterally satisfy the senses of flowers blooming.