At night, in a residential area.
Hu Haoying returned home happily, carrying a grey bag on his back that did not match his suit and leather shoes.
His wife Wang Jie came over curiously: "What's wrong? So happy today?"
Hu Haoying winked at her mysteriously, and said in a low voice, "I got a treasure."
He is a collector of curious and rare antiques. His favorite thing to do is to go to the antique market after get off work to see if he can find some rare antique treasures.
Due to his rich experience, he knows a lot in this area, and sometimes he can really find something good.
But it is rare to see such excitement.
Wang Jie became interested: "What does it look like? Show me?"
Hu Haoying carefully put the gray bag he was carrying on the table, and took out the thing inside.
It is a very complete statue of Guanyin sending a child. The white jade looks warm and delicate under the light, and the workmanship is fine. You can tell it is extraordinary at a glance.
The only strange thing is that most of the Guanyin statues have their eyes half-downed, looking down at all beings compassionately, while this one's eyes are raised.
Those eyes were extremely vivid, the two impurities in the jade were skillfully carved into pupils, and the dark eyeballs looked like they were alive, looking straight at them.
For some reason, those eyes made Wang Jie feel a little uncomfortable.
She looked away from the Guanyin statue and forced a smile: "What is this?"
"Send off the Avalokitesvara statue." Hu Haoying said unconsciously, he bent down and carefully wiped the dust off the Avalokitesvara statue with a dry rag, and looked at it smugly:
"I bought it in the second-hand market. Look at the material and workmanship. It's amazing! It only cost me 800 yuan. This time I really found a treasure!"
Wang Jie hurriedly glanced at the jade statue.
That creepy feeling just now came out again.
She shivered a bit, but looking at her husband's excited look, she still didn't express her true thoughts in the end.
Hu Haoying happily placed the Guanyin statue in his room.
At night, after turning off the lights, Wang Jie tossed and turned.
In the dark room, the blurred outline of the white jade statue at the foot of the bed could be vaguely seen in the distance. Although the face was completely invisible, the dark eyes were still very clear.
Wang Jie hurriedly closed her eyes, turned over, and forced the thoughts that were entangled in her to be expelled from her mind.
As the night got darker, her consciousness became blurred, and she gradually fell into sleep.
The next day, Wang Jie was woken up by her husband's terrified and trembling voice:
"Ah, Ajie... you... your... "
Wang Jie opened her eyes in a daze, she shrank a little coldly, and asked sleepily, "What's wrong?"
Hu Haoying clutched the quilt tightly with one hand, her face was as pale as paper, her forehead was covered in cold sweat, her pupils were constricted, and she stared at Wang Jie's belly: "You... your belly..."
Wang Jie followed Hu Haoying's line of sight.
I saw my belly bulging high as if I was pregnant for ten months, and I pushed up my pajamas to reveal the blue-purple belly below.
The blood vessels on the belly are protruding, and it looks terrifying. The skin is almost transparent, and there is something wriggling and undulating under it, like some kind of terrifying living thing.
At that moment, drowsiness was lost.
Wang Jie screamed out in horror: "Ahhhh!"
In that almost inhuman tragic cry, the white jade Avalokitesvara statue sat quietly at the end of the room, the lips carved from white jade were upturned like a smile, and a pair of dark eyes looked forward quietly. It was as if he was admiring the sight in front of him.
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The white jade statue stood on the table, looking peaceful and harmless.
"Brother Wu, what do you think?"
The combat team dispatched Ke Zheng circled around the table and turned to look at Wu Su, who was standing beside him.
"It should be a cursed item." Wu Su grabbed his beard and shook his head cautiously: "But I'm not sure if it came from there."
After all, the game is really too big, and there are too many monsters and ghosts in it, and it is impossible for him to know all of them.
Wu Su turned to look at the members of the logistics department aside: "What about the victim?"
The member of the logistics department seemed to be in a trance, his head was half turned, his eyes fell on the white jade Guanyin statue, as if he was thinking about something.
"Hey," Wu Su shouted impatiently: "The situation of the victim!"
The member of the logistics department seemed to have just reacted, and slowly turned to look in Wu Su's direction.
His hair is light brown, his eyes are as pale as glaze, and his skin is a little morbid, and he looks lazy: "Oh, the victim's condition has stabilized, and the ghost has disappeared."
Wu Su seemed more confused.
He tugged at his beard and stuffed a cigarette into his mouth, but thinking of smoking ban here, he took it down again: "Do you know why the ghosts disappeared?"
certainly.
I dealt with it last night.
Ye Jia yawned and shook his head: "I don't know."
It has now been almost a week since the ghost spider incident, and life has once again returned to its previous peaceful state.
Zhao Dong has been discharged from the hospital, and has resumed his conscientiousness to shoulder most of the workload of the entire department.
There was no movement on Ji Xuan's side, and even Ami was quiet as if she never existed.
Coupled with the extra money he earned by "part-time", it seems that everything is going in a good direction.
Wu Su fiddled with the cigarette in his hand and thought hard, but in the end he couldn't figure out why, he was a little frustrated, but he gave up and continued to struggle on it: "Forget it, anyway, anyway, this cursed The item is very dangerous, Xiao Ke, you will use the special isolation layer in the bureau to pack it and seal it in the warehouse, remember to mark it as "high risk", but don't let anyone touch it."
Ke Zheng nodded and started to work.
Wu Su sighed and rubbed his eyebrows wearily: "I don't know what's going on, why are there so many cursed things recently?"
Just as he turned around and walked out, he heard a clear voice behind him: "Wu team."
Wu Su was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look behind him.
I saw that member of the logistics department was looking up at him, and after putting away the absent-minded look just now, the light-colored eyes looked sincere and clear in the light: "What did you just say?"
"Ah?" Wu Su didn't respond for a while.
"Have a lot of cursed items been showing up lately?"
"Oh, yes." Wu Su nodded: "It's only been a few days, and there have been three cases, and the items are different. The worst thing is that the curses above are more dangerous than the other."
He rubbed his aching forehead: "Yesterday, the one who was pregnant with the ghost baby was fine, at least the symptoms disappeared after staying away from the cursed item, but the others were not so lucky, and are still on the top floor of the hospital. being guarded."
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
"Where did the victims say they got their cursed items?" he asked.
Wu Su shook his head: "No."
He suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I do remember that the husband of the ghost baby victim said that it seemed that he bought it in the antique market near the city, but when our people got there, they had already found it. Not that booth anymore."
Wu Su shook his head and seemed very sorry.
Ye Jia lowered his eyes, and his long eyelashes blocked the flashing thoughts in his eyes.
When he raised his eyes again, all his true emotions had been covered up by him.
"By the way," Ye Jia suggested, "I remember that there seems to be a library in the bureau for how to unlock cursed items. Have you looked for it?"
Wu Su was taken aback: "Do you still have this?"
"Yeah, I remember it seemed to be built two years ago." Ye Jia rolled his eyes: "Only m city has it."
And absolutely accurate.
- After all, most of the entries in it were contributed anonymously by him before.
Wu Su's face lit up: "Thank you little brother!"
Ye Jia smiled: "It's nothing, if you ask other people, they will tell you."
After he finished speaking, he lowered his head to clean up the documents on the desktop, turned around and walked out.
After leaving the room, the smile on Ye Jia's lips gradually faded.
Wu Su and his team should be able to handle the follow-up of the curse.
Now, he had to find the culprit.
- Coincidentally, Ye Jia knew very well where the other party would be.
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The rental room was small and cramped, stuffed with all kinds of odd-shaped things, and no light could penetrate.
The temperature in the room was extremely low, there was dust everywhere, and there was a disgusting smell of decay, as if something had died here.
Countless bottles and jars are stacked from the walls to the ground, with filthy liquid and twisted limbs floating in them. The shrunken human head smeared with black grease is only the size of a fist, quietly staring at the dark world outside the bottle. In addition, there are squashed boxes piled up in the corners, and from the unsealed openings, you can see the strange objects inside - old fans, dolls with funny faces, dusty copper coins, etc. wait wait wait.
In the center of the room was a table. The table was shiny black and soaked in oil, with a thick stack of RMB on it.
"How did you earn this time?"
A chunky man sitting behind the desk asked.
He tapped Erlang's leg and was picking a yellow tooth with a toothpick.
"Not bad," a tall and thin man stood on the other side of the table, nodding and bowing: "There are already four or five old customers who continue to ask for goods."
"What about the one who stole? Did you find it?"
The tall and thin man's face collapsed, and he said bitterly: "Not yet... and... and I'm a little worried... "
Humpty Dumpty stopped picking his teeth and narrowed his eyes: "What are you worried about?"
"Let's, we..." Gao Shouzi looked sad: "We'll be fine, right?"
"Cut," the short fat man sneered, "what's the matter? We only make money from mid-to-high-end customers, and we promote it among acquaintances, so just a few stolen items accidentally circulated on the market."
"Even we can't find the one who stole the things. How could the investigation bureau get back to us from these things?"
Humpty Dumpty laughed triumphantly: "Whoever can catch me..."
"—Not yet born."
A soft laughing voice suddenly sounded in the darkness of the room, and naturally took over his words: "Right?"
At that moment, the face of the short fat man changed.
He suddenly widened his eyes, staring at the place where the sound came from, his face turned pale with fear, cold sweat seeping from his forehead, his mouth wide open, but no sound came out, as if It was like seeing a ghost.
A figure appeared silently.
The dark hood cast a deep shadow, obscuring his features, leaving only a pale, pointed chin and thin, graceful lips.
There was a faint smile on the corner of his lips:
"Dwarf melon, do you remember what I said back then?"
Dwarf winter melon was covered in cold sweat, and subconsciously shrank back: "No, no, you... you are not... "
The other party turned a deaf ear, but said lightly in a gentle and lazy tone:
"—If you do this business again, I'll cut off your legs, cut off your fingers, and throw you into the ghost spider's nest."