Yin Zhou froze for a moment, said that he seemed to be there, rummaged through the backpack for a while, pulled out a tattered doll and handed it to Lin Yan, Lin Yan held it in his hand and checked it repeatedly, his face became more and more serious, until finally Unexpectedly, showing a little sadness, he sighed a long time: "There is a wrong and a debt, I really ignored him."
"Look at this doll." Lin Yan said, "At that time, we were only focused on its fabric and shape, and didn't pay attention to the most important point. The little girl really wanted to tell us something, but her soul was controlled and she couldn't say it. , this doll is what she meant, she told us who killed her and who wanted to kill her, but it's a pity we haven't paid attention to it!"
"Azhou, do you remember the first time she hurt us?"
Yin Zhou thought for a while: "It seems like we are on our way to find Er Xiangu."
"Yes, the radio was playing in the car before, saying that a boy with a pure yin fate in Sichuan was hanged on the beam of the house in a red dress. It is suspected that it is a traditional folk witchcraft to raise little ghosts." Seeing Yin Zhou's puzzled expression, Lin Yan continued: "She picked this moment because she wanted to tell us a message, not to raise ghosts, but to Sichuan!"
Yin Zhou opened his eyes wide and recalled carefully.
"The mountain villages in Sichuan are famous for their head lowering and Gu techniques. There is also a kind of tea called Zhuyeqing. I remember someone invited us to drink the famous tea from his hometown, which is Zhuyeqing."
"It's the same with this doll. It doesn't mean to ask us to check the origin of the fabric. At that time, the villages made this kind of doll by hand. It means dolls! The first curse person must have a carrier, which is carved with willow, boxwood or peach wood. The spell can only be completed by taking out a human form and attaching the horoscope of the date of birth. One of us has been holding a carving knife. We went to his house to look for him. The light was not turned on in the room. He was hiding in the dark and talking to himself. , he was talking to the ghost in the doll!"
Yin Zhou sat down on the ground and murmured, "How come..."
Lin Yan closed his eyes, sorted out the bits and pieces from the time we met, and bit his lips fiercely: "He was referring to coming to Shanxi, he was talking about marriage in the dark, and he was looking for the entrance to my tomb. When discussing who arranged an internship, he always calmly brought the topic to the temple owner, don’t you think it’s strange all the way? How could he, a Taoist priest who is half a monk, know so much about tomb robbery?”
"Do you know what his name is? What about your relatives? Have you ever applied for a student grant or participated in any school activities?"
Yin Zhou's face changed: "It's too good to cover up. I shared a room with him along the way, so I didn't notice it at all."
Lin Yan couldn't help blaming himself for his negligence in his heart. The most terrifying thing was never the target of exposure. Imagine a highway at midnight, with bottomless poplar forests on both sides, and the wind blowing through the branches. What? Not the drunk driver, the police, the Amitabha accident monument on the side of the road, and the scariest thing is a pair of eyes in the bushes.
A lonely heart breeds ghosts, and the reason why ghosts can walk is because of hatred.
Who is the one who has been hiding in the dark
"Why did he do this? I thought he was interested in you." Yin Zhou said in surprise.
"I guess it's because he's interested in me. It's a pity that his self-killing tactics are completely secretive. Although Duan Ze is crazy, he is a first-class subduing skill. Those wood carvings... have I seen so few in my life?" Lin Yan smiled coldly, "I think he trapped us here, waiting to come and tell us himself."
Lin Yan sorted out the clues, and shouted into the depths of the tunnel: "Come out, Jun Yancheng."
As soon as the words were settled, a gust of wind blew in the tomb passage for no reason, chilling the bones of the horrified people, and a faint white light flashed in the darkness, suspended in the air and swayed towards the three of them.
A familiar voice came from a distance: "Hee hee, brother Lin Yan, you have good eyesight."
At the end of the corridor, a thin figure with a lantern emerged. He was pale and thin. He had to roll up his sleeves several times in camouflage uniform. Sexual cowardice is gone, his smile is weird and confident, his androgynous face is actually beautiful, like those bright peach red stickers in the rural market, the evil nature of red, mixed with poison.
"Duan Ze is really good at tricks. If only brother Lin Yan thought of it, he would not believe it. He would find excuses to fool himself if he doubted it a few times." A Yan said with a smile, "It's not good for people to be too kind. Ze and I have a heart-to-heart connection, when we wicked people see wicked people, don't say anything about anyone else."
Yin Zhou couldn't help interjecting: "Taoist, you, aren't you stuttering?"
A Yan gouged him out and said sharply, "I think you're stuttering!"
Yin Zhou was taken aback, still immersed in the noisy atmosphere of living in the same room a few days ago, unable to react, and looked at him in confusion.
"Duan Ze and Lin Yan are both me, I am not bad, no matter in the last life or this life, I have never harmed others for the sake of fame and fortune, if I say I made mistakes, it is probably because I love him too much, but I am luckier than you, I love you Even people who are insane would not hurt me, and as for the person you love, I’m afraid I won’t be able to tolerate you today.” Lin Yan said lightly, “Use the art of retaining the soul to seal my own sister in a puppet and turn her into a little ghost. , chatting with her every day, is it fun?"
The lantern in A Yan's hand trembled: "You guessed it."
"I've seen her before. In the set of dolls in your house, your parents, sister, master, and your cat are all there." Lin Yan narrowed his eyes and took a step forward, "The temple owner is now It should have died in your hands, if there is no accident, the one hanging around your neck is missing my soul."
"Why do you do such a thing?"
Ayan's smile froze, and she clenched her back teeth tightly: "You are Duan Ze, you should know what it's like to live alone in the dark, with no relatives, no friends, and today I don't know what will happen tomorrow. I use spells to harm people during a meal, and the person I like would rather be with ghosts and die without even looking at me. What is the difference between death and death? You are responsible for all of this!"
"Give Xiao Yu back to me, and I won't pursue it." Lin Yan said sharply, "With your three-legged kung fu, how dare you use an ax in front of me?"
A flash of fear flashed across Ayan's face, but he was suppressed immediately: "I am not as good as you, my parents, uncles and aunts are not as good as you, but you left this formation today, I just Borrow it and use it, no matter how powerful you are, can you break the trapped dragon formation that you have spent your whole life working on? Oh yes, now I am behind the formation, and if I die, no one can get out."
There was a strange rustling sound coming from the passageway, vaguely it was the wooden stick hitting the stone bricks, echoing in the empty space.
Lin Yan sniffed the faint smell of fish in the air, stepped on Yin Zhou's foot secretly, and squeezed between his teeth: "We are miserable..."
Yin Zhou suppressed his voice: "No way, are you pretending to scare him? Thanks to my admiration for you!"
"Playing psychological warfare for a long time, no one can count on it now..." Lin Yan pretended to be calm, and turned to look at A Yan, "Say it, you have planned for so long, and if you don't say it now, I am so sorry for the dead brain cell."
A Yan looked back at the tunnel, and smiled: "He is coming, and when he comes again, he will lose all sanity, and none of you can escape."
"Before the little ghosts arrive, let's listen to a story in the rest of the time, the story of my family."
A Yan took a deep breath, looked up at the stone wall, as if he was seriously recalling: "You guessed right, I was born in a remote village in Sichuan, my family is a family of witchcraft, proficient in Miao nationality Gu art, Nanyang lowering head, Fengshui Tomb Bureau and Qimen Dunjia, my father's name is Jun Xiangdong, and my mother's name is Jiang Ying, you should have guessed my surname when you think of my surname?"
Lin Yan nodded: "I suspected it when you said your master was Wang Zhong. He took you as his apprentice and took good care of you. Because your parents died in Xiao Yu's tomb, and he was lucky to survive."
"I really underestimated you. Don't worry. I'll talk about this later. My uncle's name is Jun Jianshe. Oh, it's the one who died at the door. Duan Ze's tomb is famous among those who practice Jiangshu, but no one has dared to do it." Come, twenty-three years ago, my uncle, aunt, and their son came to your tomb in search of the long-lost descending technique. They accidentally triggered the mechanism while studying the skull array, and the two were chased and killed by evil spirits. Before he died, he sent his cousin out."
"My cousin was cursed in the tomb, and an arm was pulled off by the evil spirits. Not long after he got home, he began to fester. When he died, his ribs were exposed, but he brought the story of Duan Ze and Xiao Yu on the coffin. Go out. My parents are obsessed with Taoism, and they were afraid of ghosts at first. Under the persuasion of their friend Wang Zhong, they prepared for three years to join the archaeological team dressed as villagers. My parents just wanted to experience the exquisite soul locking technique of the Ming Dynasty. He wanted to kill an evil animal, let alone take a penny from his tomb! Who would have thought that that animal has no trace of humanity, and would be the first to take the knife against my parents... "
A Yan's expression became painful, and she stared straight at Lin Yan: "I was only five years old at the time, and my sister was three years old. People said that my parents violated the gods, and no one dared to collect them. I lived with the two corpses for half a month. I still remember the rancid smell. when it crawled into the mouth..."
"Do you know what it's like?" Ayan's eyes showed a crazy look, Lin Yan wanted to interrupt, but he stopped him with a gesture, and continued: "Researching witchcraft and witchcraft has a short lifespan. I only have my uncle's family and Parents, sisters and other relatives, only a three-year-old girl was left overnight. She and I were sent home by the police and given a small amount of comfort money, which was not enough to eat. The two of us were hungry and full, and picked up the leftovers from the villagers I was 13 years old with great difficulty, my sister had a high fever and had no money for medical treatment, and no one in the village was willing to take care of it. In the end, she hugged me and talked nonsense, asking for food and buying skirts... I Where to get it? Simply... simply... "
Ayan bit her lower lip in pain, unable to speak.
"You saw that you couldn't save her, so you strangled her with a rope, hung her on the beam to expose her grievances, and made her soul into a little ghost and put it in a puppet." Lin Yan continued.
"How did you guess that?"
"She came to my house to lead me to jump off the building, and she kept calling her brother, saying that he bought clothes for her, but she didn't look like calling me."
There was a trace of tenderness on A Yan's face: "Become a soul and store it in a puppet, so that you will never be hungry or sick again, and be with your brother forever, how nice it is."
Lin Yan said in disgust: "It's a pity that she doesn't want to, otherwise why didn't she kill me every time and leave this doll behind, her innocent soul who couldn't be reincarnated must hate you brother!"
While speaking, there was a gloomy wind again in the corridor, and there were two or three slender shadows at the end. Lin Yan identified it carefully, and his scalp tingled, it was the skull array! One by one, the sticks were carrying their heads, jumping like a one-legged mandrill, standing far behind A Yan, in the middle of the scrambled skulls stood a tall white figure with its head hanging down, with messy hair covering its face, wide and wide. Hands without any blood color were exposed under the sleeves.
Xiao Yu! Lin Yan almost yelled, afraid of angering the evil spirit, he swallowed it back, and turned his gaze to Ayan.
"After my sister died, I came to Beijing alone. I was fifteen years old at the time. I didn't expect to meet that Wang Zhong. I hated him for not caring about his parents, and for inciting them for his own curiosity. Master also regretted this matter for many years, because he accepted me as an apprentice and taught Taoism because of guilt."
There was another giggle, A Yan said happily, "He didn't know that I was better than him long ago, and I would pay attention to the skills he knows in catching ghosts and exorcising ghosts?"
Lin Yan sneered: "With such deep scheming, Duan Ze is far behind."
"You don't know the hardships of life! People like you who have been in a honeypot since childhood have no idea how difficult it is to live. When you enter school, you are looked down upon, bullied, and treated as a monster. Do you really think I have no heart?"
"I always remember you. From the first day of school, you said you were the temporary class monitor and came to help me with my luggage. The sun was so bright that day. You walked towards me from the shade of the tree in a white shirt. It was as clean as a dream. I I just thought how could there be such a good-looking and gentle person, and then you talked to me and comforted me and said that it was okay, the people who bullied me were not malicious, I really wanted to forget all my anger at Master for you, but you started You didn’t even look at me at all, you don’t even know my name!” A Yan smiled sullenly, “Of course, I didn’t use my real name, the ID card and enrollment registration are all written as Yan Cheng, without a surname.”
Hearing this, Lin Yan and Yin Zhou looked at each other in surprise. They never thought that the silent little Taoist priest in front of him would have so many things in his heart. Lin Yan felt a little guilty: "I'm sorry, there was no such Mind, I didn't even know I liked boys..."
A Yan couldn't help being angry: "You didn't? Then why did you like him when he came to you? He came to kill you, you saw it!"
"He's not." Lin Yan said firmly, "I love him because of his sincerity. He never had low self-esteem like you. He opened his heart to me. Even though I had treated him like that, I never held grudges."
Ayan laughed loudly: "Don't hold grudges? Do you think he has suffered for five hundred years for nothing?!"
Lin Yan frowned: "Then why does your sister follow me every day?"
"I like you, you don't care about me, but I always want to hear a little news about you, so let her follow you, stay with you, come back and tell me..." A Yan was immersed in it, fascinated, " You know what happened later, I didn’t expect you to be Duan Ze, when the instructor announced the internship news at the beginning of the semester, it turned out to be Xiao Yu’s tomb! Your fate is pure yin, and there is a half chance of seeing ghosts and gods. Thinking that maybe he could attach to you and be brought out, I made a plan with Master to get you into the archaeological team, and it really succeeded."
"I originally wanted to break up his spirit to avenge my parents, but who would have thought that even in an environment full of yang energy, I would still be no match for him, and you have become that kind of relationship again... He is getting stronger and more human, and I I'm dying of jealousy, I tried my best to create misunderstandings to tear you apart, but who knew he couldn't even get rid of you, he finally got out, and you got him back, why did you get him back?!"
Lin Yan interrupted him: "I know you want to kill him, so why did you force me to commit suicide by jumping off a building? Didn't you say you like it..."
"Yes, I like you." A Yan gritted her teeth, "But do people like me deserve to be liked by you? Even if you like me, if one day you don't want me... How do you think it will last forever?"
Lin Yan stared at him blankly, at that moment he seemed to see Duan Ze's shadow on A Yan, closed his eyes in pain, and murmured: "You want me to die."
"Isn't it good to become a puppet with your soul sealed up? This world is so indifferent and life is so difficult. Loved ones may change their minds at any time, and friends may betray you at any time. If you become puppets, I can talk to you all the time. We are like Gathering together like this now. You don’t know, this journey to Shanxi was the happiest and least burdensome time in my life, with friends and people I like…” A Yan cast a dark glance at Yin Zhou, “Don’t you Urgent, I made puppets for you and Ah Che, when you are dead, we will be together every day, okay?"
Yin Zhou was already dumbfounded: "Pervert, you are the real pervert. Duan Ze and Xiao Yu are at least in love with each other. Are you a bird?"
A Yan hoarsely said: "Duan Ze is also a pervert, he killed Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu still loves him, loves him so much, just now I almost drove half of the ghost formation, and he refused to kill him! Why!"
"You finish your sentence."
"Okay, since you and Xiao Yu have agreed to see you in the next life, I have no choice but to help you and bring you to Shanxi in the name of Master. At that time, I already suspected that you are Duan Ze, otherwise he would not like you for no reason, I I lied to you about a ghost marriage and took you to find Duan Ze’s tomb. When I was in the ancient city of Jinyang, I tried my best to lure you into the ghost city, but you were useless. I have no choice but to accompany you to Duanjia Village, to the ancient tomb..."
"Where's the temple owner? Was he still alive when he appeared outside the window in Liumu Town?" Lin Yan pressed.
"Dead. He died before coming to Shanxi. He became my collection and stayed with me all the time. Who told him to put down the butcher knife so that I wouldn't do anything to you. We had a fight, and then he Just died." A Yan said with a laugh, "What you see is the soul-indulging technique, which is getting better and better."
"I'm tired of talking, only the last few words are left." A Yan waved her hands back, "You guys finally remembered the things in your previous life, even if he loves you and you love him, the evil spirit accumulated for a hundred years is enough to destroy reason , he has killed you ten times now, even gnawing on your bones is not enough, how can he remember that he still loves you? When you are dead, I will take you into dolls and then deal with him. Really, even he is no match for thousands of unjust dead ghosts... Have you seen him? He has become the most important part of the trapped dragon formation, a weapon for killing people."
Lin Yan stepped back, and involuntarily touched his waist with his right hand.
"Hey, I saw you touched the gun." A Yan narrowed her eyes, "I said don't waste your energy, the Dragon Formation uses resentment to maintain its shape, and I will be the eye of the formation. If I die, you will never be able to get out , to spend the rest of my life with ghosts in this tunnel forever..."
"Crazy!" Lin Yan's suppressed anger suddenly became uncontrollable. Yin Zhou pulled him from behind to prevent him from moving. Lin Yan shouted: "You are the kind of person who never thinks of others, who is inferior and selfish. A vicious person, deserves to be bullied all his life, lonely all his life, and befriended you, so fucking disgusting!"
A Yan was very proud: "Don't say such things, Duan Ze seems to be similar to me, Xiao Yu's bright future and good life are ruined in your hands, did you ask him if he wanted to die then?"
"Brother Lin Yan, do you have any regrets now? If Xiao Yu hadn't forced my parents to death, if you knew that people and ghosts have different ways, don't be annoying in front of me, if you could take care of me in the slightest, things would be fine." It won’t be like this, probably when you die, he can still have good thoughts about each other when his soul is gone, what do you have now? If the love is so deep, it’s all vain, doesn’t it feel good?”
"False? Just let him come, and I'll show you what it means to be deeply in love and live forever. You have never had it in your life." Lin Yan said disdainfully, "If you want to say regret, I only regret that every time you show your flaws, I tell myself You can't doubt your friends, and even indulge you until now!"
A Yan was furious: "Okay, I'll watch a good show and see how far you can go!"