The shopkeeper of the inn was smoking a cigarette in his room, and the foreigner's question today once again brought back his dusty memories, the silhouettes of children by the river, the broken dolls that fell on the ground, and the mysterious deaths. A couple, everything seemed to appear before his eyes one by one during his narration during the day.
In his memory, on the night when the fire broke out, the shopkeeper felt that something was wrong. He immediately ran back to the room and frantically searched for the broken doll. No matter how I searched, I couldn't find it.
Thinking of the previous nightmare, he felt shuddering again. Judging from what had happened, the couple abandoned their child. In the end, the little boy accidentally fell into the water and died. Maybe the ghost was attached to this broken doll, and he happened to pick it up. So on the night of the boy's first seven days, the wronged soul completed his revenge.
But soon, the shopkeeper found that his thinking was wrong. If he wanted to abandon the child, why did he choose the river not far from home? Shouldn't it be thrown farther away from home, or in front of a hospital or charity
The answer is actually very simple, they didn't abandon their child, but killed him directly!
The shopkeeper can fully imagine how the vicious parents put a broken doll by the river to lure the child, and finally pushed their child into the river with their own hands and drowned.
Thinking of his wife, daughter and old mother had already passed away in an earthquake, and reuniting with his family has long been a luxury that he could never achieve in his life, the shopkeeper felt that this murderous couple was worse than beasts and deserved what they deserved.
So he never tried to find the broken doll again.
Two days later, he came to the bank of the river alone again, threw a string of Buddhist beads into the river, and said to the river: "Little baby, although you used me to avenge you, I don't regret it." , not to blame you, I just hope that you will not harm other innocent people in the future, the monks in the temple said that this Buddhist beads can dispel anger, so I begged to give it to you, and you can rest in peace."
At that time, the shopkeeper didn't know that it was his actions that made this place safe for eight years...
The shopkeeper extinguished the cigarette butt, and his thoughts were pulled back from the memory. He looked up at the clock, and it was almost eleven o'clock. He had the habit of going to bed early and getting up early for many years. This time was already very late for him. , so he decided not to think too much, and went to bed early.
Just as the shopkeeper lifted the quilt, his pupils shrank sharply, and his heart also stopped beating at this moment.
A tattered doll was lying quietly on his bed, and the weird smile of the little boy in the nightmare appeared on the doll's face.
The shopkeeper immediately collapsed to the ground in fright, and he hurriedly retreated to the corner of the room, wanting to get as far away from the doll as possible.
And the broken doll also came alive at this moment, and the weird smile on its face turned into a terrifying and vivid laughter. It sat up, like a real child, and staggered towards the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper's mind was blank at this time, and breathing became an extremely difficult thing. He read intermittently: "You...you..."
The broken doll approached step by step, laughed loudly, and then, like the little boy in the nightmare, its head fell off.
The shopkeeper really hopes that this is just a nightmare, because the dream ended here eight years ago, but unfortunately everything is still going on now... The head rolled to the shopkeeper's feet, and on that grinning face, a pair of His expressionless eyes were fixed on him, and there was a gurgling sound in his mouth.
Then, it actually spoke: "You meddlesome thing... you have to pay the price..."
The shopkeeper didn't understand. He didn't know why the other party said this to him. The little boy was still thanking him in his dream. Why did he come to kill him now
He probably didn't have much time to think, because the head opened its mouth, and salty liquid gushed out of it. It was neither white brain pulp nor scarlet blood, but a kind of dirty red mucus.
The speed of the water flow was very fast, and in just a moment, the headless doll and the head on the ground were already submerged.
The shopkeeper struggled to stand up, he wanted to open the door, but the doorknob didn't move at all, he knocked on the door and shouted, but it didn't help, as if he was locked in an isolated space at the moment and lost all contact with the outside world.
When he was doing these futile efforts, the water had reached his waist, and he looked back to find other ways out, only to see the moonlight coming in through the simple paper-wood structure window, so he struggled towards the window, Want to break through the window to find the last way out. It's a pity that no matter how he lifted the stool in the room and smashed it, it was useless. The glass in the window interlayer was as strong as bulletproof at this moment.
The shopkeeper gave up after all, he leaned against the wall, his life flew by before his eyes, thinking that he would finally be reunited with his dead family members.
But this day is destined to be before he returns to his throne, just when he decides to close his eyes and wait for death, he suddenly feels relieved, and the feeling of fear suddenly disappears. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself lying on the bed, It was as if everything just now had never happened, and I just had another nightmare.
There was a sudden knock on the door, and the shopkeeper almost fell off the bed in fright. He asked in a trembling voice, "Who is it?"
"Me, Albert, we met during the day, and my friend, we heard some voices, are you okay? Do you need help?"
The shopkeeper heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the voice of a living person, and he replied: "No... it's okay... I probably had a nightmare, I'm sorry to disturb the guest officer..."
Another voice came from outside the door, it was Wang Xu: "Shopkeeper, please open the door, it was not a dream just now, you are in danger now, let us come in to help."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he felt that something was wrong, how could they know about the ghost he had run into? Could it be that the one outside the door wasn't that Albert during the day at all! but...
Wang Xu's voice came again: "Your worries are groundless and wrong. If we hadn't come, you would have been drowned in hallucinations just now, so now, please open the door, or we will come in by ourselves .”
The shopkeeper remembered that they had asked someone to go upstairs to repair the lock on the gate in the morning, and thought that a mere door would definitely not be able to stop these two, and after thinking about it again, what this man said made sense, so he got up and walked towards the door : "Here we come, wait."
He opened the door and saw Albert's face, then slowly opened the door and said, "Please come in and talk, both of you."
When they sat down, Wang Xu spoke first: "You don't need to ask how I know the thoughts and memories in your brain, and I can't explain it to you. Now you can retell the hallucination you just encountered to Albert. That's it."
The shopkeeper is also a sensible person, knowing that these two people are definitely not good people in the market, maybe they are masters of Taoist priests who catch ghosts, so he unabashedly told what he saw just now, and added something about the eight Years ago details. When he told the story to Albert before, he omitted the matter of throwing Buddhist beads into the river, but now he knew everything and told it in great detail.
After listening to the narration, Albert thought about it and said, "This is similar to the illusion I saw last night. The method of killing is drowning..."
Wang Xu was as calm as water at the moment, and he said calmly: "This time this thing is very unusual. In fact, it randomly selected victims before, and it attacked you last night because you have spiritual consciousness, but not strong. , after killing you, it can gain stronger power, as for the one who attacked the shopkeeper just now, it is for revenge... "
Albert felt that there was something wrong with Wang Xu from just now. From the moment he left Yan Li's room to the time Wang Xu asked him to come to rescue people, Wang Xu seemed to be a different person in a short period of time. It has shown a method similar to mind reading, and it always feels much more reliable...
"Brother Wang... You seem to already know what you're going to deal with this time?"
Wang Xu didn't answer, but turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, your theory is wrong. What we are going to deal with this time is not ordinary evil spirits, but something more powerful. The master monk of your prayer beads has already seen some clues from you, so he used your hands to complete a seal, but you don't know anything...
However, that 'thing' has always hated you, so it came back to you after it got rid of its shackles. It wanted to kill you here after killing enough people, but the appearance of me and Elbert made it break the plan. Earlier. It was scared. After touching my spiritual sense last night, it felt dangerous and accelerated its revenge. "
The shopkeeper became nervous: "You two, I have seen that you are definitely not ordinary people. You must be the gods and arhats who descended to earth that day. Please save me! If you want money..."
Wang Xu waved his hand to signal him to stop: "We don't want money, gods and arhats don't want money, you can think about it this way." He stood up and said to Elbert: "Come out with me once, today I'll give you money." Let's settle this matter tonight."
When the shopkeeper heard that they were leaving, he hurriedly said: "Shenxian Wang, you and this foreign fairy have left, what should I do if that thing comes to me again?"
Knowing that he had asked this question, Wang Xu replied, "I will set up a formation around the inn, and even evil things will not be able to enter after we leave."
The shopkeeper felt relieved after hearing this sentence, and sent the two out of the door.
The two of them walked out of the inn. After all, the air in the suburbs at night was relatively fresh, which shocked people's spirits.
Wang Xu really started to circle around the inn, still muttering something, while Albert followed behind him with a puzzled expression.
Suddenly, Wang Xu stopped and said, "Don't stare at me with your spiritual vision, it's not what you think."
Albert still kept a little wary distance from Wang Xu: "As far as I know, little brother Wang doesn't know how to set up formations, who are you!"