The place Chen Xiaoling mentioned is Jinfang City.
Lu Yingjiu had only rested for a few days and he had to set off.
Before leaving, he went back to the bar. Ah Mei had decorated the bar better, and Ye Feng was working hard to learn how to mix drinks. The two of them were much more concerned about the bar business than Lu Yingjiu, and they seemed to treat it as their main job and put exorcism aside.
Fortunately, Yao Gou came and brought the style back to normal a little.
Yao Gou tried hard to deal with local exorcists, promoted his firm everywhere, and even took a small commission - to do feng shui for other people's homes.
"Don't worry!" Yao Gou patted his chest and assured Lu Yingjiu, "When you come back, there will definitely be a few more candidate interns, just waiting for your nod to let them join. You are really good at recruiting people."
Lu Yingjiu wanted to say, you are really good at fooling people.
He had seen Yao Gourley pull people and boast about his firm to the skies, saying it was unrivaled in the world, and that it was going to reach the top, overtake the Qingdeng Society, kick out the four major families, and then dominate the world... Anyway, it was nothing like this little bar.
The young man was stunned when he heard this.
Then, when he heard about Lu Ying’s wine party, his eyes lit up and he said he must come.
But no matter what, it couldn't be better that Yao Gou was willing to recruit people. Lu Yingjiu had nothing else to worry about, so he packed his luggage and prepared to go to Jinfang City with Jing Xian.
Unexpectedly, on the way to the airport, Chen Xiaoling called and said she wanted to come too.
After listening to Lu Yingjiu's explanation of the situation, she realized that the matter was urgent, and said that it would be a good idea for her to go with him, as she knew a lot of people there and could meet them by the way.
Lu Yingjiu declined the offer.
Chen Xiaoling insisted, "Xiaolu, if it weren't for your help before, my family would probably be gone long ago. At such a critical moment, you should at least do me a favor, right? If not, just treat it as a trip."
—Lu Yingjiu met her because of an exorcism.
I had just finished the welcoming wine party that day, and when I was walking home at night, I suddenly felt a strong sense of evil.
All the negative energy actually came from the same room.
Seeing that the family was about to suffer a bloody disaster, he quickened his pace and drove away the ghosts in Chen Xiaoling's parents' house. He then took the two frightened elderly people to the hospital, pasted talismans on them, gave them a peace charm, and waited until Chen Xiaoling arrived with tears in her eyes before leaving.
After that, the two got to know each other and gradually became familiar with each other.
They worked happily together: relying on his eye-catching parents and his own talent, Chen Xiaoling had a huge network of contacts. When Qingdenghui was not convenient to do some things, Lu Yingjiu asked her to inquire privately. Chen Xiaoling responded to his requests and kept the price very low, basically just doing it for the sake of his own will.
Chen Xiaoling said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "In ancient times, there was no way to repay a life-saving favor. Either you would work like a slave, or you would give yourself to the other person. You saved your parents, so that can be regarded as repaying your life-saving favor."
"Oh." Lu Yingjiu shook the newspaper in his hand and took a sip of coffee elegantly. "Don't say that about yourself. You are much more useful than cows and horses."
Chen Xiaoling: “…”
Is this the point?!
At this moment, Chen Xiaoling still said seriously: "You are in such a dangerous situation now, I am worried about you being alone."
Lu Yingjiu's heart was moved, and she answered her: "Actually, I'm not going alone."
"What?" Chen Xiaoling said, "Do you want to bring your big goblin with you?"
It took Lu Yingjiu a few seconds to realize that the "big demon" was referring to Jing Xian.
He said, “Yes, it’s him.”
Chen Xiaoling: “…”
Chen Xiaoling said, "Xiaolu, have you bought your plane ticket? You are the highest-level VIP of all airlines, so first-class tickets should be sent directly to you, right? They are free, but only two free tickets."
Lu Yingjiu said, "No, thank you. The big demon said he has chartered a plane, you can just come directly to the airport."
Chen Xiaoling: “…”
Her thick and long false eyelashes blinked angrily and she hung up the phone.
Jing Xian was driving and after listening to this conversation, he was so excited and relaxed that he kissed Lu Yingjiu with a big sip while waiting for the red light.
Arriving at the airport, Chen Xiaoling dragged a small silver suitcase, wore a sexy black outfit, and high heels, and walked into the private lounge of Jingxianbao in a gorgeous and charming manner.
The lounge smells like dessert, the feet are on a soft red velvet carpet, and the flowers in the vase are so tender and juicy.
Seeing the two people on the sofa from afar, Chen Xiaoling put his sunglasses on his forehead and shouted, "Xiaolu..."
The words were stuck.
Jing Xian took a piece of chocolate biscuit and was about to put it towards Lu Yingjiu's mouth. Lu Yingjiu lowered his head to look at his phone, without even raising his eyes, he subconsciously turned his head and bit it, chewing it slowly.
—Obviously very familiar with this kind of thing.
Chen Xiaoling: ? ? !
Chen Xiaoling: ???!!!!!!
Chen Xiaoling was stunned, as if struck by lightning, and her face turned pale.
Lu Yingjiu only then noticed her, looked up and said, "You're here... Why do you look like that?"
Chen Xiaoling dropped the luggage handle in his hand and walked over quickly: "I haven't seen you for more than two months. Have you been taken away by a big demon?!"
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
What does this word "拱" mean
Chen Xiaoling looked at them repeatedly, extremely shocked, and finally murmured: "Women's intuition is indeed impossible to be wrong. I felt that there was something wrong with the big demon at the first sight... It turned out that he had ill intentions towards you, and it turned out that he was greedy for your body."
She was sad for a few seconds, then her expression suddenly changed. She gently stroked her delicately made-up face and said, "No wonder you were not moved even though I hinted at you so many times. It turns out that it's not that I'm not pretty enough, but that there's something wrong with my gender. I knew it, you're so pretty, who wouldn't like you?"
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
He really wanted to defend his straight sexual orientation, but it would be too long and would only make it more obvious, so he chose to remain silent.
An hour later, the plane took off from the airport and spread its wings into the blue sky.
After Chen Xiaoling asked for the blanket, he also asked for a lot of snacks and drinks, and ate them non-stop as if he was determined to do so.
When she had almost finished eating and the plane was about to reach its destination, she finally accepted the fact that the cabbage had been taken away by the goblin.
The good thing about her is that she is decisive and never drags her feet. By the time she got off the plane, she had successfully completed the process of falling in love with someone else and felt that the new junior brother she had met was pretty good.
However, she held Lu Yingjiu's hand and said, "Xiaolu, if you are wronged, you must go back to your parents' home and I will help you."
Lu Yingjiu: "Um, thank you?"
"You're welcome." Chen Xiaoling sighed, "You're going to start flirting with Junior Brother. He's your new White Moonlight."
The group took a car from the airport and went to the place Chen Xiaoling mentioned.
It was a long street.
It's a bit narrow and difficult to get to the center of Jinfang City, but there are many shops on both sides of the road.
Before coming here, I checked the road and found that this should be a very popular tourist spot in Jinfang City. The transportation is convenient, and there are many places to eat, drink and have fun on the street. There are also a lot of homestays around, which are fully booked every peak season.
But now, even on weekends, there are not many people on the long street, only a few tourists, and many shops are directly closed. The iron gates are cold and keep them out.
Chen Xiaoling pointed to the distance and said, "At the end of that road there is a museum with the theme of 'mental illness', called the Rainy Day Museum, which combines popular science with mental illness. It was founded by a member of the Zhang family, and the previous director was Zhang Chengzhou, who resigned two years ago and has been missing since then."
She added: "This is the only active member of the Zhang family that we have been able to investigate. The others seem to have disappeared from the face of the earth."
The Zhang family declined and had long been a hollow aristocratic family.
According to the current trend, it will be directly eliminated soon.
Lu Yingjiu thought to himself, no wonder they had always wanted to find him, hand him over to the Heavenly Dao, and complete the ritual of that year - if he hadn't been able to help, this family would surely have perished.
But if they were gone, what would that have to do with him? Those noble families already owed him enough.
The only thing he had to worry about was the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons that existed in the divination.
After dropping their luggage off at the hotel, they headed straight to the Rainy Day Museum.
After walking on the long street for five minutes, I saw a low building in the distance. It was about two stories high. Its shape was deliberately made to look like an old European house, with a black roof and snow-white walls. The windows were opaque, and it looked eerie and quite dark.
A black sign was posted on the door that read “Rainy Day Museum.”
The ticket office says it's 150 yuan per person, and children under 8 years old are not recommended to enter.
An old man was sleeping soundly behind the glass at the ticket office.
Lu Yingjiu knocked on the glass, and he suddenly woke up: "Buy a ticket?"
"Yes." Lu Yingjiu said, "Give me a ticket."
The old man took the money and slowly tore off a ticket for them: "Go in."
Lu Yingjiu took the ticket and asked, "Do you know Zhang Chengzhou?"
The old man was stunned for a moment: "Director Zhang? He is no longer here."
"Do you know his contact information?"
"I called his phone number a while ago, but no one answered." The old man said, "Maybe he changed his phone number." He looked at the people again, "You are not reporters, right?"
"No." Lu Yingjiu shook his head. "Thank you. Let's go in."
A group of people entered the museum.
Like the street above, there were not many people in the museum. As soon as I entered, I saw a sign that said "Take you into the world of the mentally ill."
The house was divided into different small areas. They walked into a small room and saw the words "OCD" appearing in large letters on the wall.
Next to it: Patients with this disease are troubled by intrusive thoughts and have repeated obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors in their lives... (Note)
One of the exhibits was a loosely locked wooden door.
The lock looks very old and can definitely be opened with a strong push.
I always read the words again and again, and the door is not locked.
At first it was 10 minutes, then 5 minutes, and finally it developed to the point where I wanted to check the door lock every 2 minutes. Even if I confirmed over and over again that the door was firmly locked, I would still think: What if the "lock" was just my imagination? So I started to check again
It's like there's a door in your heart that can never be locked.
The next exhibit is a hand washing station.
If you don't wash your hands properly, your hands will be full of bacteria, right
The whole world is full of bacteria, which grow on our hands every minute and every second. If we don't wash our hands, we can't do anything.
Wash your hands, wash your hands, until your skin turns red and cracked...
The next exhibit is a flight of stairs.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
Huh? Did I miss a step just now? I have to go back and count carefully. I can't make any mistakes.
There are many exhibits next.
On the table, everything must be placed according to size...
When you take off your clothes at night, you must take off your clothes in this order: clothes, socks, and pants. Don't mix them up.
Those memories are running around in my mind, and I have to go through them completely in my mind without interruption.
I always can't help but wonder, why is the earth round, not square? Does 1+1 always equal 2
…
"This museum is quite interesting." Chen Xiaoling looked around. "I originally thought they were going to cheat me by charging him 150 yuan, but I didn't expect they were so dedicated to it." After saying that, she took out her cell phone and took a few photos.
Lu Yingjiu nodded, agreed with her point of view, and walked towards the other room.
Other rooms introduce "schizophrenia", "bipolar disorder", "anorexia", etc. The exhibits are very delicate and contain the patients' own stories.
It’s so annoying, so annoying, so annoying. Why can’t I hang up this phone
He must have poisoned the water!
People are watching your life...
When they walked to the most central room on the first floor, their view suddenly widened.
This is a hall, occupying two floors, with stacked faces covering an entire wall.
Those were paintings of human faces, at least over a hundred of them.
To be precise, they should be self-portraits of the patients.
Unlike the lifelike paintings in the Four Holes Slaughterhouse, their lines are mostly rough and simple, and the difference in painting skills is also very large.
Some of them can outline the lines of human faces and can even be called lifelike, with vivid expressions, while some are just a mess and nothing can be seen.
Some have weird smiles, some shed tears. One person painted his face yellow, and drew a halo, probably thinking he is the sun. One person put angel wings on himself, and another drew a vortex in his eyes, in which there are swimming cats and long-legged centipedes.
The museum framed them in black frames and hung them neatly.
Chen Xiaoling subconsciously touched his arm: "This is a bit creepy at first glance... Fortunately, you didn't come at night. Although if you look closely, many of the paintings are quite cute. They look like they were drawn by children."
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
He didn't feel scared.
He just looked at Jing Xian beside him and thought that Jing Xian’s self-portrait must be a matchstick man.
However, they didn't see any other tourists or even staff along the way.
Lu Yingjiu asked Chen Xiaoling: "Have you heard any rumors about this place? It's the peak tourist season now, there shouldn't be so few people."
"That's true," said Chen Xiaoling. "A year ago, a homestay on this street caught fire in the middle of the night and five or six tourists died. It was quite a big fuss at the time and was on the news for several days. So this year, its popularity has dropped immediately. Everyone is a little scared. There are even rumors that this place is haunted."
She smiled and said, "However, there are only us in this museum. It's so empty. It's a pity that the exhibits are so exquisite."
As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps were heard.
A group of tourists dressed in colorful clothes came.
The leader was a tour guide, holding a small red flag in his hand and leading the group. When he saw them, everyone was stunned and asked, "Where is the exit of this museum?"
This museum is not big, but the rooms are quite winding, so it's not surprising to get lost.
Chen Xiaoling pointed them in a direction: "Go to that room, turn left and then right, you should be able to see the sign for the safety exit, just follow the sign."
"Oh, OK." The tour guide said, "Thank you."
He led the group of tourists away.
Chen Xiaoling asked Lu Yingjiu: "Do you want to go up to the second floor to take a look?"
"Let's go up and take a look." Lu Yingjiu nodded. "If you meet other employees, you can ask Zhang Chengzhou about what happened. It would be even better if you can know his phone number and address."
They went up the marble stairs to the second floor.
The first few rooms on the second floor introduce phobias and autism.
Fear of enclosed spaces
An old elevator was placed in front of them, and a human model was hiding in the corner with its head in its hands.
Fear of spiders
A spider model stood on the wall, its eight eyes staring at the tourists, and every hair on its body was clearly visible. Chen Xiaoling frowned as she looked at it, and was even so disgusted that she didn't want to take out her mobile phone to take a picture, thinking that it would pollute the photo album.
Jing Xian, on the other hand, was staring at it intently.
Lu Yingjiu poked him and whispered, "Don't feed it to Mao Tuanzi."
Children with autism are also called children from the stars…
Chen Xiaoling was about to say something when he heard footsteps.
A group of people came around the corner, and it turned out to be the leader from before.
The leader was also surprised when he saw them: "What... Hey, little beauty, I was following your instructions, why are you back here?"
Chen Xiaoling said: "It's no problem for me to show you the way. Besides, this is the second floor. How did you get lost and end up upstairs? The exit can't be upstairs."
"Is this the second floor?" The team leader scratched his head, "Have we gone up the stairs?"
A group of people behind him were whispering to each other, all with bewildered expressions.
Chen Xiaoling suddenly felt a chill on his back.
Although she was not good at exorcism, she could tell there was something wrong with this situation. Could it be that this group of people had encountered a ghost wall
She subconsciously turned around to look at Lu Yingjiu.
Lu Yingjiu didn't look at her, but stared at someone in the team.
It was a middle-aged man in white clothes, with an anxious look on his face, constantly looking in one direction in the corner. Chen Xiaoling followed his gaze and saw a locked door in the corner with the words: Internal Passage
Why should I watch this? Chen Xiaoling was a little confused.
But since Lu Yingjiu pays so much attention to him, there must be a reason.
The team leader muttered to himself for a while, then raised the small red flag, ready to lead everyone to continue looking for an exit.
Chen Xiaoling wanted to stop him, saying that they couldn't get out as they were trapped in a maze, but was held back by Lu Yingjiu.
Lu Yingjiu looked at her and shook his head gently at her.
Chen Xiaoling stood still.
The group of people passed by them complaining, and Chen Xiaoling heard the man in white clothes muttering something, and his expression became more and more anxious.
She pricked up her ears and listened carefully.
The man muttered, "Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked? Is the door locked?"