Bad luck

After ten years of cold winter and scorching heat, Qi Yitang and Chi Jingyuan finally left that deserted ghost place and returned to the bustling capital of Yin.

At this time, Qi Yitang was already 20 years old, the other princes had already become kings, wives and concubines were in groups, and their sons and daughters were under their knees. Only Qi Yitang, who was the prince, not only did not have his own mansion, but was also alone.

After Qi Yitang returned to the palace, he encountered an assassination that threatened his life that night, but fortunately, Chi Jingyuan eliminated them one by one.

"It's true that there are wolves in the front and tigers in the back. What's the use of this man-eating place?" Chi Jingyuan put away his sword, under the cold moonlight, his shiny sword was glowing with blood.

Qi Yitang came from the house, and the night wind blew his sky-blue clothes, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to Chi Jingyuan, "Don't worry, this is just the beginning."

Chi Jingyuan wiped off the blood on the sword with Qi Yitang's handkerchief, threw it into the charcoal basin and burned it.

Qi Yitang deliberately told Chi Jingyuan not to clean up the corpses in the yard, and took advantage of this to get angry the next day.

"The guards in the palace are so fragile, if they dare to come to the emperor today, will they go to the emperor tomorrow! How can this make Gu feel at ease, how can he sleep in peace?" Qi Yitang rushed to the emperor and said yes To personally protect the emperor's safety.

The emperor originally intended to condone the eldest prince's behavior towards the prince, but now seeing the prince's respect and love for him, he was immediately shaken.

He carefully looked at the prince's face, it was very similar to the former empress when she was young, gentle and quiet, and felt a little grateful for the former empress's kindness for a moment.

"Yes, check, check for me! This kind of thing happened in the palace, don't you take me seriously?!" The emperor gave an order, and the people from the first prince's group trembled in their hearts. Your Highness is probably not to be underestimated.

Qi Yitang acted very naive and ignorant in front of the emperor. After all, she went to guard the queen's mausoleum at the age of ten. She had not received formal education for ten years. Although her vision of looking at things was not short-sighted, it was short-sighted, and she would often ask questions. Here comes the laugh-out-loud question.

At first, the emperor thought that Qi Yitang was just pretending, but as time went by, he found that Qi Yitang was really short-sighted. It was probably because the life of those ten years was too poor, and he didn't see any good things, which made Qi Yitang now addicted to All kinds of tricks.

"What is the prince playing with recently?" The emperor put down the memorial in his hand and asked the eunuch beside him.

"Return to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness has been obsessed with woodwork recently and is playing with wood."

The emperor frowned, and picked up a new memorial, which said, His Royal Highness has reached the crown, and it is time to consider marriage.

"It's hard to enter the elegant hall." The emperor shook his head, and put the memorial in front of the eunuch beside him, the eunuch bowed to look at it, and said: "All princes are already fathers, and His Royal Highness's marriage should really be considered. "

"Is there anyone to choose?"

The eunuch rolled his eyes, and said cautiously: "The ladies in your lord's family are all good, it depends on what your majesty wants."

"Well, go talk to the imperial concubine and ask her to pay attention to women who are worthy of marriage."

……

"Brother, you have a lot of snacks here."

Just as Chi Jingyuan woke up from his sleep, he heard the twins' voices while still in a daze.

His mind was a little dizzy, it was because there were too many things in the dream this time, and he couldn't take it easy.

"Snacks?" Chi Jingyuan didn't have the habit of eating snacks, what kind of snacks.

Chi Jingyuan rubbed his eyes and turned on the light.

Yan Yiye and Yan Zhiqiu were holding a black shadow in their hands and stuffing it into their mouths, eating one by one, enjoying themselves.

Chi Jingyuan: "..."

Like sucking noodles, the two of them bared and sucked the rest into their mouths, "Hi!"

Chi Jingyuan suddenly felt that his mood was a bit indescribable, and he couldn't care about the complicated dream he had just now.

"What are you two eating?"

"Oh, a few ghosts came to attack you just now, and we ate them all. They are really too weak, and their taste is very ordinary." The twins smiled innocently.

Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan touched the talisman on his neck, but found nothing. He got up and looked around, and finally found the talisman in the bathroom.

It turned out that at some point, the red thread of the hanging talisman broke, and the talisman fell to the ground, soaked by the water in the bathroom, and the talisman drawn with cinnabar on it had become a mess and could not be used long ago.

He was so careless. If the twins hadn't been there, he would have fallen asleep in a dream just now, and he might have died in the dream by now.

"Thank you." Chi Jingyuan said: "Please eat the scented wax from the shop in Yusheng Lane. Didn't you tell Ms. Liu that it tastes good last time?"

When the twins heard it, their eyes brightened instantly, "Okay, okay. Brother, you are really a good person."

Chi Jingyuan had a very long dream. Not only was his brain confused, but he was also flustered with exhaustion. He rubbed his arms and walked to the window. It was foggy outside, and the surrounding area was shrouded in gray smoke.

Picking up the phone, it was already 06:30, and it was still so dark outside, it seemed that the weather was not suitable for running.

Chi Jingyuan sent a message to Zhao Heng, saying that today's weather visibility is too poor, if you don't go out for a run, accidents will happen easily.

Zhao Heng probably wasn't awake yet, so he didn't reply.

Chi Jingyuan went into the bathroom to wash up, ready to go out to have breakfast before going to work.

Yan Yiye and Yan Zhiqiu followed beside him. They were both in the "Ji Zhai" on weekdays, and they rarely had this kind of experience. They were extremely curious about everything around them, their eyes were wide open, and they looked left and right. with.

As soon as I went out, the cold air outside poured straight into my neck, and the surrounding area was covered in fog, and no one could be seen clearly from one meter away.

When Chi Jingyuan walked to the door of the shop selling soy milk and fried dough sticks, there used to be a long queue, but today there were only a few scattered people. It seems that the business of selling breakfast is also affected by the weather.

"Brother, we want to eat it too." The twins swallowed after smelling the aroma, and pointed to the delicious fried dough sticks.

The boss was a little surprised by Chi Jingyuan's appetite, "Handsome guy, can you help someone bring it?"

"En." Chi Jingyuan nodded perfunctorily, paid the bill and took the bag handed to him by the boss.

As Chi Jingyuan walked back, he ate soy milk and fried dough sticks, and the twins chattered non-stop beside him.

Suddenly he stopped, "Brother, what's the matter?"

the twins asked him, looking up.

In the fog ahead, Chi Jingyuan saw a pair of feet in red shoes dancing. The fog was too thick for him to see what the owner of those legs looked like.

The red shoes seem to have magical powers, spinning and jumping in place, and people stare at them intently.

"What?!" Yan Yiye angrily threw a butterfly knife, the butterfly knife flashed coldly, and flew straight to the feet wearing the red shoes, pierced the white calf, and blood dripped all over the ground.

Chi Jingyuan's trance-like eyes slowly focused, and only then did he suddenly realize that he was caught in his mind just now.

Yan Zhiqiu had already rushed over, trying to catch the feet in the red shoes, but she ran so fast that she disappeared into the thick fog in the blink of an eye.

Chi Jingyuan pointed in disbelief at the direction the pair of shoes left in the mist and asked, "The one just now only has two feet?"

Yan Yiye nodded, "Yeah, those shoes are evil, they can catch people's minds, brother, are you alright?"

Chi Jingyuan touched his head, "It's okay, thank you."

Yan Zhiqiu flew back and saw that Chi Jingyuan was stroking his brother's head, and flashed under Chi Jingyuan's palm in an instant, "I want to be patted too."

Chi Jingyuan couldn't help laughing, "Okay, you are all good boys."

"Yeah, we are the best."

……

In the office of the Special Case Division, Wu Di walked in and said: "The news this morning said that many people saw a dancing figure in the thick fog, which is beautiful."

Tian Tian corrected him and said, "It's not a dancing figure, it's dancing feet. The former is likely to be a romantic story, while the latter is a horror movie. It's different."

Su Bian raised his head and said, "Even if it's a dancing figure, it's still a ghost story, okay? Would any normal person dance in such low-visibility fog?"

Xia Yunzhou took a sip of hot coffee and asked, "Are there any casualties?"

Wu Di shook his head, "Not yet."

Chi Jingyuan spoke at the right time and said, "I also met you this morning."

"What?!" Everyone was shocked.

"Chi Jingyuan, have you used up the talismans I drew for you?" Tian Tian thinks that it is probably because of this that Chi Jingyuan encountered such a thing.

"Well, I accidentally dropped the last one in the bathroom, sorry."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll just draw for you again." Tian Tian waved his hand indifferently.

"By the way, my family found a magic weapon for you, which can temporarily cover up your physique." Xia Yunzhou took out a small mirror, the size of a palm, with a frame wrapped in gold, engraved with intricate patterns of flowers and birds, very simple and beautiful .

Tian Tian felt moved when he saw it, "What a beautiful little mirror."

Chi Jingyuan took it, and sincerely thanked Xia Yunzhou, "Thank you, I'm sorry to trouble you and your family. Money is a little tight recently, and it may take some time before the money can be given to you. At that time, it will be given to you together with the money from the 'Seven Kills'." Bar."

Xia Yunzhou said flatly: "You're welcome, don't worry about the money, it's okay if you don't pay it back, if you really want to pay it back, wait until you have more money, I'm not in a hurry to spend the money."

"Well, thank you." Chi Jingyuan put the small mirror in his pocket and carried it with him.

"Wow, the captain is really eccentric. He never told me that I don't have to pay back the money." Wu Di complained.

Xia Yunzhou stretched out his hand and spread it out, "Then you give me back the money I bought last time for the beads, relics, and staff?"

"Hahaha...Captain, you are the most handsome and the best person." Wu Di immediately started to say haha, and changed the subject.

Xia Yunzhou didn't say anything, he really forgot that he still owed Xia Yunzhou the money.

After some fuss, Chi Jingyuan told the two cases of Xiang Zhi and Shen Rong, the female ghost that Zou Ping met, and contacted the pair of legs he saw this morning. Chi Jingyuan guessed that the legs were very It might belong to Xiang Zhi or Shen Rong.

"I prefer Xiang Zhi's. Shen Rong and Xiang Zhi died half a month apart. Shen Rong was killed first, and Xiang Zhi was killed later. Those legs look fair and clean, no different from normal people's legs." Chi Jing Yuan speculated.

"However, even if Xiang Zhi was killed later, it has been a month since her death. Under normal circumstances, how could her legs maintain the appearance of the legs of a living person? Do you think it is possible? There are new victims, but we still have Don't know?" Tian Tian looked up at the crowd.

Everyone's complexion is bad, this is the worst outcome, we can only pray that it is Xiang Zhi's leg, not a new victim.

Su Bian took out his mobile phone and said, "It will be foggy for a few days. Do you think it will continue to come out?"

Chi Jingyuan's eyes froze, "Go to stay tomorrow morning."

……

Before Chi Jingyuan and the others went to camp the next morning, they received the news that a new victim had appeared.

The deceased was named Liu Changke, 25 years old this year, an Internet celebrity who was good at makeup, especially imitation makeup.

It is said that she came out of the company last night and took the last subway. In the surveillance video of the subway station, she was the only one on the escalator at that time, holding a mobile phone in her hand, looking down at something, when suddenly her body leaned forward , and then rolled down the escalator, breaking his legs into weird shapes.

What's even more weird is that her feet actually moved by themselves. With her distorted shape, they were torn off from Liu Changke's knees abruptly. Liu Changke, who was already in a coma, was woken up by the pain. His own legs rolled over, and he completely fainted.

Those two legs that got rid of Liu Changke's body, dripping blood all over the ground, jumped away happily.

The black shoes under her feet turned into a pair of blood-red shoes at this moment, leading her feet to dance cheerfully, and disappeared.

Because of this weird video, the Bureau directly concluded that the case must be handed over to the Special Cases Division, and the Bureau fully cooperated with the investigation of the Special Cases Division.

There was a moment of silence in the office, Xia Yunzhou said, "Tell me what you think."

Tian Tian raised his hand, "Me!"

Xia Yunzhou nodded, "Say."

"Do you think these cases sound familiar?" Tian Tian's eyes rolled cleverly.

Wu Di shook his head, "Okay, beet, don't keep it to yourself."

Tian Tian clicked his tongue twice, "No, don't you all have no childhood, don't you read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?"

After she said this, Chi Jingyuan and Xia Yunzhou also reacted.

Tian Tian opened the webpage and searched for the words "red dancing shoes", "Look, isn't it very similar? The vain heroine put on red dancing shoes, danced non-stop, was cut by thorns, and finally begged the executioner to help her Cut off the feet, and the cut off feet in the red shoes still continue to dance."

Wu Di felt his scalp tingle, "Isn't this a fairy tale? Why is it so permeating."

Tian Tian closed the webpage and said, "It's okay, I liked to read it when I was young, but I watched it secretly."

Tian Tian grew up on the mountain when she was a child, and she didn't dare to let her master know about fairy tale books, which were given to her by other monks. He would definitely say that she didn't study hard.

Chi Jingyuan received the victim's information from the bureau. He printed out the photos of the three victims and pasted them on the whiteboard.

Shen Rong, female, is an anchor.

Xiang Zhi, female, 21 years old, is an [-]th line artist.

Liu Changke, female, 25 years old, is an internet celebrity.

Standing in front of the three photos, Chi Jingyuan carefully observed the commonalities of the three of them.

In fact, there is no similarity in the front face, Tian Tian stood beside Chi Jingyuan and said: "The three of them look alike. The profile should be more similar."

Chi Jingyuan glanced at her sideways, "How do you know?"

"It can be seen at a glance." Tian Tian felt that Chi Jingyuan's question was very unstandard.

The four men expressed that they couldn't see it at all.

Tian Tian snorted coldly, and said, "You can't even tell that he hasn't had plastic surgery, how could you tell that?"

"Have they done it?" Wu Di hesitated and pointed to the three women in the photo.

Tian Tian pointed out sharply: "Shen Rong's nose and chin must have been moved, Xiang Zhi's double eyelids are open, Liu Chang's face is almost peeled into a snake spirit, and he is not afraid of stabbing himself to death."

Chi Jingyuan and the others: "..."

Chi Jingyuan coughed and said, "After the three of them died, both of their legs were missing. According to Liu Changke's situation, it is very likely that the problem lies in these shoes."

Tian Tian said: "But Liu Changke's shoes were black at first. Then they turned red for no reason."

Xia Yunzhou shook his head in disapproval, and said, "It should have been those shoes all along, but the real face was revealed at the back."

Tian Tian swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "That is to say, whoever wears these shoes may have their legs broken?"

Chi Jingyuan remembered Xiang Zhi's situation, "Xiang Zhi's legs were cut off by himself."

Wu Di and Tian Tian's eyes widened at the same time, "What a ruthless person."

Su Bian joined in, "The question now is, where are these shoes?"

So in the end, I came back and got up tomorrow morning.

Xia Yunzhou released Xiang Zhi and showed her the screenshot of the pair of shoes. Xiang Zhi's pupils constricted, as if remembering something very scary.

"No...don't...don't dance anymore!"

She yelled, trying to hug her legs, but the hug was empty.

"Where are... my legs?" She groped on the ground, "My legs... where are my legs?"

She suddenly extended her cold hand to Tian Tian's calf, grabbed her ankle, "Leg! Give me your leg!"

Tian Tian was startled, and subconsciously kicked Xiang Zhi away, "I'll fuck you."

Xiang Zhi bumped against the wall and was completely sober.

Su Bian and Wu Di gave Tian Tian a thumbs up at the same time, "Beet, amazing."

Tian Tian saw a black palm print left on his leg, and unhappily took out a talisman and pasted it on, "This fairy's leg is also what you can imagine?"

Chi Jingyuan walked up to the trembling Xiang Zhi, "Xiang Zhi, what do you remember?"

"Woooooo..." Xiang Zhi had no tears, so she curled herself up in a corner and cried dryly.

Chi Jingyuan didn't mean to be sympathetic at all, "If you don't say anything, I'll let Wu Di save you."

"Say! I say! You are all devils!" Xiang Zhi cried for a while before adjusting her mental state.

"I remember how I died." If possible, Xiang Zhi didn't want to think about how she died.

Because it was too painful, too bloody.

Chi Jingyuan guessed right, her legs were really cut off by herself.

"But... if I... I don't do this, I'll keep dancing, keep dancing, keep dancing, and even if I pass out, my feet will keep moving."

"I really can't bear it. I think I'm going to die. It's more painful than death." Xiang Zhi recalled the scene of her life with horror on her face.

"Are you wearing these shoes too?" Chi Jingyuan asked.

Xiang Zhi's eyes flickered with fear, "Yes...I'm wearing it...I'm wearing it...I can't help myself...it's so beautiful...as soon as I see it, I want to put it on, as long as Wearing it, I will definitely be able to dance the most beautiful dance, I will definitely be popular, and I will definitely make Boss Guo come back to me, and those bitches will never dare to speak ill of me again!"

The more she spoke, the more excited she became, her eyes began to turn red, Chi Jingyuan took out the "Seven Kills" and placed it in front of Xiang Zhi, "Calm down."

Xiang Zhi was immediately persuaded, "I...I said it all."

Xia Yunzhou and the others almost couldn't hold back their laughter, Chi Jingyuan also turned bad anytime soon.

"Well, where did you get the shoes?" Chi Jingyuan continued to ask.

Xiang Zhi frowned, "I don't know, maybe it was a gift from a fan, or maybe I bought it myself, I can't remember exactly. Although I am only an eighteenth-line artist, I also have my own fans. Okay, save money to give me presents, and write to me to let me not get discouraged and everything will be fine."

"I'm sorry for them...I want to be popular too...I also want to act for them..." That's why Xiang Zhi couldn't hold on anymore, so she compromised with her agent, but she didn't expect that this compromise would bring her even more Big hit.

"Then do you know them?" Chi Jingyuan showed her the photos of Shen Rong and Liu Changke.

Xiang Zhi shook her head, "I don't know each other, but they all look a little like me, and the profiles should be more similar."

Wu Di listened behind and really admired the eyesight of these girls.

"They are just like you." As soon as Chi Jingyuan finished speaking, he saw Xiang Zhi's eyes widen.

"I hope you can solve the case quickly. I don't want to have another victim like me. I will fully cooperate with you."

"Well, thank you." Chi Jingyuan stood up and posted the photo back.

He seemed to have forgotten something, and Chi Jingyuan couldn't remember it for a while.

……

In the evening, Chi Jingyuan returned to his rented house. Not long after arriving, the twins were sent back by Gao Jingkang.

"Brother, brother! Filming is so fun." The twins were hanging on his arms from left to right.

"Thank you, Manager Gao." Chi Jingyuan nodded to Gao Jingkang.

"It's not hard, it's not hard, it should be, today Director Wang praised Yiye and Zhiqiu for their understanding." After taking the twins for a day today, Gao Jingkang became more determined to sign them.

Chi Jingyuan thought about it for a while and said, "I'll ask their family members and give you an answer. Do you think it's okay?"

"Of course, it should be." Gao Jingkang said happily.

Gao Jingkang was a little surprised that Chi Ruifeng didn't know Yan Yiye and Yan Zhiqiu, and said that they were not relatives from Chi Jingyuan's mother's side, which was strange.But thinking about it, it might be Chi Jingyuan's godbrother.

After sending Gao Jingkang away, Chi Jingyuan brought the twins into the house and asked them seriously, "Are you two really interested in filming?"

"Yeah, it's fun." The twins stood side by side in front of him, nodding with smiles on their faces.

"If you really want to enter the entertainment industry, you have to sign a contract with the company, and you can't give up halfway. Can you do it?" Chi Jingyuan discussed with them seriously.

"Yeah." The twins nodded like chickens pecking at rice.

Chi Jingyuan touched their heads, "I bought you scented wax, do you want to eat it now?"

The twins' eyes lit up instantly, "Brother, you are the best."

Chi Jingyuan laughed, they are really two children.

"Go." He patted the shoulders of both of them lightly, and walked to the balcony with his mobile phone.

It was pitch black outside the balcony, there was no bright moon or stars in the sky, and the cold wind made Chi Jingyuan's face ache.

His mind was sobered up a lot.

Chi Jingyuan called out Liu Mingzhu's phone number and dialed it.

"Dudu..."

"Hey……"

That was not Liu Mingzhu's voice, but a voice that had not been heard for a long time.

It was Qi Yitang's voice.

Chi Jingyuan's throat was itchy, and the tip of his nose was a little sore from the cold wind. Under the stimulation of the cold wind, his eye sockets were even a little moist.

"Is it Jingyuan?"