Chen Ling held the phone in his hand, his mind in a mess. It was as if Gu Zhao had disappeared from the face of the earth. He had not appeared since he went to the rooftop.
There are eyes everywhere in the streets and alleys now. Where can a living person like him wander around without leaving any trace
Rather than saying that this person disappeared, Chen Ling was more inclined to believe that Gu Zhao was hiding.
Chen Ling returned to the room and asked his roommate: "Do you know where Gu Zhao usually likes to go?"
"Internet cafe and library." The roommate racked his brains to come up with these two places.
Gu Zhao went up to the rooftop, most likely intending to jump off the building, but these two places were crowded and not high in elevation, so the first option was ruled out.
Chen Ling gave his roommate a business card: "If Gu Zhao comes back, contact us secretly without alerting him."
"Okay." The roommate held the business card in his hand, confused. The expressions of these people were too cold and serious, making him wonder if something had happened to Gu Zhao.
"Brother, wait a minute." He called Chen Ling, "What happened to Gu Zhao?"
As young people, who hasn't watched a few horror movies and read a few horror novels? Even if they haven't, they have probably been fooled by adults telling ghost stories when they were children.
Not to mention anything else, just the question "Have you ever hummed funeral music?" is enough to make people's hair stand on end.
Chen Ling saw something in his roommate's panicked eyes, and sighed, "Don't worry about this matter, just stay in school, and leave Gu Zhao's matter to us."
"I remember one more thing!" The roommate's face darkened and he twisted his ten fingers together. "Gu Zhao said that he wanted to find a high place that was closest to the sky. I asked him why, and he said... that was the place closest to his fiancé."
"I see. Thank you." Chen Ling turned around and left the dormitory. After leaving, he said to the two people guarding the door, "Let's go to Mingyang Building!"
Wu Weiwei ran after him and asked, "Brother Chen, what's wrong? Is Gu Zhao there?"
"I'm not sure, I can only go and have a look first." Before, I was like a headless fly, bumping around everywhere, but now I have a goal, and I have to try my luck.
After the three got in the car, they sped all the way and ran through three red lights.
As soon as I arrived at Mingyang Building, I saw an ant-sized man standing on the edge of the roof.
The building was crowded with people, and everyone was looking up, talking about the person who was about to jump off the building.
The police had surrounded the scene, and Chen Ling was stopped before he could cross the yellow line.
Li Hongyu said to Chen Ling: "Wait a minute, I'll go find the person in charge."
Having said that, the person disappeared.
Wu Weiwei stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction where Li Hongyu left. He saw him stop in front of a plainclothes policeman, and then took out a palm-sized certificate from his suit jacket.
The policeman took a closer look, then turned his back and said a few words to the people behind him.
Immediately afterwards, the walkie-talkie on the waist of the man who stopped Chen Ling rang, asking him to let him go immediately.
Without waiting for Li Hongyu to come back, Chen Ling took Wu Weiwei across the crowd and ran straight into the building.
It is now working hours. The shopping mall and restaurant in the building are all full of staff on duty. Knowing that someone has jumped from the rooftop, they all stick their heads out of the windows to look up.
Even though we couldn't see anything, everyone was still curious.
The police who had already gone to the top floor received a notice from the leader below and sent someone down to pick them up. When they saw that the three people were not very old, they were stunned.
Chen Ling nodded to the other party and asked first: "How is Gu Zhao now?"
"He was very calm, but also very stubborn. Once our people got close, he would move to the edge." The police sighed and said, "To avoid accidents, we dare not provoke him too much."
Chen Ling walked faster and faster, and after entering the elevator, he pressed the buttons impatiently.
It was the first time Wu Weiwei saw him so emotionally unstable that he dared not even breathe. He whispered to Li Hongyu, "Any news about the other two people?"
Li Hongyu shook his head, "No."
Gu Zhao, who is about to jump off the building, is their only clue.
The wind on the rooftop was very strong, howling. The originally sunny sky suddenly dimmed, and the blue sky turned gray, which was depressing.
Gu Zhao stood upright on the edge, his eyes staring straight ahead, as if someone there was waving at him, telling him to hurry over.
"Gu Zhao!" Chen Ling shouted to the person in front of him.
Gu Zhao didn't move at all, as if he didn't hear anything at all.
But when Chen Ling was about seven or eight meters away from him, he suddenly turned around and said, "Don't come over here!"
Chen Ling had no choice but to stop and, while the other party was not paying attention, secretly winked at Wu Weiwei and Li Hongyu, asking them to pass by from the side.
Gu Zhao was more alert than they thought. He took out a knife from his pocket and put it against his chest: "Do you want me to die?"
Instantly, no one dared to make any move.
The policeman who brought them up sighed, "We have tried all these methods, but they are useless. The knife on him was sharpened. Just now, my people tried to rescue him from the side, but they disturbed him, and he cut his hand directly."
The comrade said that the wound was not deep, but Gu Zhao neurotically pushed on the wound, fearing that the blood would not flow enough, and then wiped the blood on his white shirt.
While rubbing, he said to himself: "Not enough, not red enough."
Li Hongyu stopped, pulled out the copper coin sword from behind, pinched the sword with his fingers and slid from under the hilt to the tail of the sword, and the copper coins that were combined together scattered.
Nodding towards Chen Ling, he threw the end of the thread out with force.
The copper coin with the red string was wrapped around Gu Zhao several times, and Li Hongyu tried to pull him towards him.
Gu Zhao didn't react at first, but when his body fell backwards he suddenly realized what was happening. He struggled like crazy, his feet slipped, and his body fell uncontrollably.
Chen Ling rushed forward, leaped forward and grabbed the red rope.
Li Hongyu spread his legs, turned his wrists so that the red rope could be wrapped around his arms, gritted his teeth and began to apply force.
Wu Weiwei was not idle either. He shouted, "Go and help!"
There is strength in numbers. Seven or eight people worked together and quickly pulled Gu Zhao up from underneath.
Although everyone was not saying it, they were all a little curious in their hearts. How could such a small red string pull a person up? And if you look closely, you can find that there is no sign of wear and tear on the red string.
It's so weird.
The head of the police upstairs had a vague guess of something. After reporting the situation to his leader downstairs, he helped to send Gu Zhaoxian to the lounge of the shopping mall downstairs.
Gu Zhao struggled violently. The experience of being on the verge of death did not calm him down, but made him extremely excited.
Seeing that he couldn't break free, he turned his head and bit the hand that was pressing down on his shoulder.
Chen Ling's eyes darkened and he slapped him with his backhand.
Wu Weiwei was stunned. He subconsciously touched his face, then turned to look at Gu Zhao's red cheek, and his scalp numbed.
Li Hongyu seemed to be used to this and looked calm. He used the red thread that he used to string copper coins to tie up Gu Zhao's hands and feet.
Chen Ling lowered his head and looked down at him, "Are you calm?"
Perhaps he was really hurt by the beating and woke up, Gu Zhao's straight eyes faded and became dazed, helpless, and a little aggrieved.
Chen Ling asked him: "Where is Rose?"
"The rose... The rose is on me." After Gu Zhao finished speaking, he seemed to realize that he had let the cat out of the bag and twisted his body desperately to avoid the hands that were searching his body.
The paper rose was placed in a very secret place, hidden inside his shirt, in an inner pocket he sewed himself.
As those hands got closer and closer to the paper rose, Gu Zhao began to scream wildly. His shouts spread throughout the entire floor, making those who wanted to watch the fun but did not dare to get too close due to the presence of the police extremely curious.
Finally, Chen Ling's hand touched something near Gu Zhao's waist through the shirt. Without saying a word, he reached his arm into the other's collar and took out the rose.
The rose was so gorgeous and lifelike that if it hadn't been hard to the touch, Chen Ling would have almost thought it was real.
Just as he was about to tear it open to see if there was an Soul-Destroying Spell inside, a spark suddenly flew out from the root of the rose. The flame burned so fast that it reached Chen Ling's palm in the blink of an eye. It was too late to throw it away.
He panicked and forgot what to do.
A hand reached out from behind and suddenly grabbed his wrist and pulled it. Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, and turned around to see Jiang Yu standing behind him with a gloomy face.
There was a dark current in the man's light-colored eyes. He clamped the burning paper rose with his other hand and chanted an exorcism spell. The flames died down as if a bucket of ice water was poured over them.
"What happened just now? Don't you even know how to recite the exorcism spell?" The voice was flat and the tone was normal, but between the lines there was a sense of oppression like a storm.
Chen Ling turned his wrist, but when he saw he couldn't break free, he gave up and said honestly, "It happened too suddenly, I didn't react in time."
Seeing his humble confession, Jiang Yu softened his heart, but his face remained expressionless as he said, "Don't be distracted during the fight and lose your composure. Go back tonight and copy the exorcism spell a hundred times, and reflect on it carefully."
Chen Ling: “Ah?”
"What? Do you need me to repeat myself?" Jiang Yu was really angry. "Don't you know how painful it is when the evil fire burns your body?"
However, my master once said that evil fire is evil magic written on talisman paper, which will automatically ignite when the talisman is broken. To put it bluntly, it is a self-destruction program.
When the evil fire burns a person, it is necessary to recite the exorcism spell seven times to extinguish it. However, by the time the seven recitations are completed, the person has already been burned by the raging fire. He will not die, but will be burned all over the body and will never heal.
Chen Ling felt a little scared at this moment, and a layer of cold sweat ran down his back.
If it weren't for his ancestors, he would probably be lying on the ground, rolling around in the fire.
Jiang Yu placed the paper rose with half of its fingertips burned into the young man's hand, motioning him to open it himself.
The rose was half burnt, the front half was as bright as fire, the back half looked like ash, and it fell to the ground when touched. On the intact half, there was a talisman written in the same bright red ink.
Chen Ling had never seen such a talisman, but it gave people a very bad feeling.
He lowered his head, and his nose almost touched it, but Jiang Yu pinched the back of his neck to stop him. But even at a distance of two or three centimeters, he could still clearly smell the thick smell of blood on the paper.
This talisman folded into the shape of a rose was actually drawn with blood.
The policemen guarding nearby also saw this scene, but no one spoke. This world is full of things, and it is best to be in awe of them. They are draped in the banner of socialism, but they will not blindly deny anything other than science.
Chen Ling asked Jiang Yu: "Is this the soul-stealing spell?"
Jiang Yu said "hmm" indifferently, feeling somewhat disgusted with this evil and crooked way, "You can reversely track the location of the person who drew the talisman."
Chen Ling asked: "How to do it?"
Jiang Yu: "Use the Five Ghosts Technique."
"But isn't this for bringing wealth?" Chen Ling's face was full of curiosity. Although he hadn't gotten the answer yet, he lowered his head and began to search for the Five Ghosts Moving Talisman in his backpack.
Inviting the Five Ghosts belongs to the Yin Fu faction. It does not refer to the five ghosts, but the five ghosts. The ones worshipped are the Five Gods.
The Five Ghosts Bring Wealth means borrowing debts from the Five Gods.
Debts must be repaid.
Those who get rich by borrowing money must use their lifetime blessings to repay the debt. If they cannot repay the debt, their descendants will help to repay it. If they still cannot repay it even if they do, then they can only wait for the extinction of their descendants.
Not only that, offering sacrifices to the Wutong God to borrow Yin debts will not only affect yourself, but also your relatives and friends.
If someone suddenly becomes rich for no reason, while his relatives and friends around him become unlucky and become poorer and poorer, he will inevitably transfer his own yin debt to others and repay it with other people's blessings.
In addition to borrowing money, Wutongshen is also very naughty and likes to hide things.
If any property or other objects in your home are inexplicably lost, you can directly activate the Five Ghosts Talisman to resolve the problem.
"The Five Ghosts are good at searching and moving things. Apart from money, other things are no problem for them." Jiang Yu saw that the young man's head was almost buried in the bag. He pinched the skin on the back of his neck, lifted the head out, then reached into the backpack and easily pulled out a talisman from the bottom.
Chen Ling is not yet able to be so sensitive to talismans.
However, I had a little idea in my mind. When our relationship got better in the future, I might as well ask the old man to be my bag-carrying assistant. This would save me a lot of time in searching for things.
More and more people gathered around, so Chen Ling went to the bathroom holding the talisman paper, and then asked Wu Weiwei to go to a nearby supermarket to buy some necessary things, preferably incense, candles, and paper money.
Before Wu Weiwei came back, he was not idle either. He placed the talisman paper neatly on the dry sink.
Glancing at the handsome man standing next to him, Chen Ling pursed his lips, wrinkled his nose quietly, and sniffed what he thought was a stealth sniff.
There is the scent of ink again, a very light scent of ink.
He pretended to be nonchalant and flattened the talisman paper. "Where have you been these two days? Have you finished your work?"
"Copying the scriptures." Jiang Yu got a headache just thinking about it. He rubbed his forehead and said, "I copied it ninety-nine and eighty-one times."
Originally, it was only necessary to copy it 9981 times, but I don't know what was wrong with that person. He insisted that his mind was wandering and his evil spirit was still strong, and that bad things would happen if he released it, so he added 27 times to make it 108.
Chen Ling's eyebrows twitched, always feeling that there was some grievance hidden in the man's words.
He stopped, looked over, looked into the other person's eyes and said, "Are your hands tired?"
At this time, I have to say I'm tired.
Jiang Yu nodded: "Tired, my hands are tired."
She really did sound aggrieved, and there was also a bit of coquettishness in her tone. Chen Ling pretended not to hear it, nodded, and said "Oh".
Jiang Yu's lips moved, but he said nothing in the end. He just looked at the young man with eyes that were no longer as gentle as before, but rather a bit ferocious, as if he wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
Chen Ling only felt a chill on the back of his neck, but he didn't take it seriously. He leaned against the sink and began to recite the spell of the Five Ghosts Bring Wealth: "The mountain dragon Lianzhen has a direction, and the water dragon Jumen sees water."
After reciting it, he pondered for a while, then turned to ask Jiang Yu, "Is that right?"
"Yeah." Jiang Yu responded, lacking interest.
Chen Ling knew what he was thinking, "How about I give you a blowjob?"
The man had mentioned this request long ago, but they were not familiar with each other at that time, so how could he just blow me? Now, Chen Ling clearly felt that since that hug, the thick wall between them had become a window paper.
If you add a little more temperature, you can burn a hole in the window paper.
Jiang Yu was just about to speak when someone came in. A man wearing glasses ran in hurriedly and unbuttoned his pants to relieve himself.
Chen Ling lowered his head silently, pretending to review the steps for summoning the five supernatural powers later.
Normally speaking, in order to invite the five supernatural powers, one needs to offer them sacrifices for two to three months. However, the situation today is special and it has nothing to do with fortune, so all that is required is to offer them good wine and good meat.
But how to offer sacrifices and what to say when offering sacrifices are very particular.
If you make the slightest deviation and offend the Five Divine Powers, it will be difficult to ask him for help again.
I don't know if that person had any health problems, but he stood for a long time without being able to come out to relieve himself. After waiting for him to finish, wash his hands and leave the bathroom, Wu Weiwei came back carrying a lot of bags.
He was sweating profusely. He put the bag on the sink and said eagerly, "Brother Chen, let's start."
Chen Ling glanced at the bathroom door and ordered, "Go guard the door, no one is allowed to come in and disturb."
Wu Weiwei: “Okay.”
He went to the door, with his back to the outside and his face still facing inside. His bright eyes were always watching his brother Chen's every move, and he was almost taking out a small notebook to record it.
Chen Ling took out the things in his pocket one by one.
Five porcelain bowls, rice, small ceramic wine glasses, an incense burner, incense, gold paper, candles, chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs, and rice wine.
Rice is put into bowls and placed in the five positions of east, west, south, north and center, with gold paper underneath. Wine glasses are filled with rice wine and placed next to them. For light incense, three sticks are inserted into one bowl, and there are only two candles, which are placed right in front of the five bowls.
Chicken, duck, fish, meat and eggs were placed on the plate, lined up in a row. The rich aroma of meat wafted into the air, and Chen Ling couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
He cleared his throat, lit the incense and began to chant.
It is not easy to invite Wutong God. In the bathroom, the spell was chanted over and over again. No one knew how much time had passed, but he was still not invited up.
Chen Ling was not in a hurry. He opened his eyes and looked at the things he had placed. There was no problem.
After closing his eyes again, he became even calmer, to the point where he had forgotten the time. It seemed as if his mouth was not his own, and he just kept on repeating.
Wu Weiwei looked at his watch and saw that more than ten minutes had passed.
Just when he thought that the Five Gods were unwilling to go to the world of the living, the five groups of fragrance suddenly disappeared.
The temperature in the already cool and chilly bathroom suddenly dropped.
Jiang Yu raised his half-closed eyelids and cast a lazy glance towards Chen Ling, "Here I come."
Chen Ling froze and talked about the purpose of inviting the gods up.
Wutong was so arrogant and deliberately delayed, but now he suddenly became attentive and stood in front of Chen Ling and said, "Sir, wait a moment, I'll be right back."
The talisman paper spread out on the sink was picked up by an invisible hand and floated in the air.
The dried blood of unknown origin disappeared bit by bit.
Chen Ling stood on the ground motionless, but his ears were paying attention to his surroundings, waiting quietly.
Not long after, Wutongshen came back, gave a detailed address, and then disappeared.
Chen Ling immediately opened his eyes when he noticed that the evil aura lingering nearby had disappeared. After carefully chewing on the address, he suddenly remembered that this was the villa area where the Jiang family lived.
Without wasting a moment, he called Wu Weiwei over, packed up their things together, and rushed to the villa area where the Jiang family lived.
Li Hongyu followed and said, "I'm going too."
Chen Ling asked him: "Where is Gu Zhao?"
"The ambulance came and the police officer sent him to the hospital for a physical checkup." Li Hongyu frowned and almost cursed, "I don't know who is behind this. Gu Zhao is very unstable and crazy. One moment he said he was going to jump off the building and dye a wedding dress with his own blood. The next moment he said his parents were worthless and scolded him all day long. He also said that everyone in his former school deserved to die."
Several people had already arrived downstairs. Chen Ling opened the car door and got in. "Has he ever been bullied in school before?"
As the driver, Li Hongyu naturally sat in the driving seat. Wu Weiwei didn't dare to squeeze in the same row with Jiang Yu, so he sat honestly in the passenger seat.
"I asked someone to call his former high school class teacher and he said that Gu Zhao suffered from school violence for a period of time in high school. His parents didn't know about it at first, until the third mock test in his second year of high school, when his results were not ideal. They then went to the school in person to ask the teacher about the situation. As a result, they saw their son being blocked in the bathroom by a group of people, splashing cold water on him and scolding him."
Chen Ling: "So Gu Zhao jumped off the building, not only because he was bewitched and wanted to dye his wedding dress bloody, but also because he was stimulated by past events and was depressed. In this case, if he committed suicide, his soul would be too full of hatred and the chance of him staying would be very high."
Li Hongyu nodded and said, "I asked him if anyone had asked him for his birth date recently, but he didn't tell me."
"The truth will eventually come out." Chen Ling held his knees with both hands, applying some force to his fingertips, feeling angry.
The people who live in the Jiang family’s villa area are either rich or noble. These people hold most of the wealth and power in society, and ordinary people cannot afford to offend them.
If they sneaked in secretly, the owner would definitely call the police if they were discovered. But if they went in openly, they had no legitimate reason.
Chen Ling wanted to call Jiang Shengxing for help. He picked up his phone and caught a glimpse of the man sitting leisurely next to him. He raised his arm and touched the other person.
"Do you know anything about the Jiang Family Villa District?"
"No." Jiang Yu avoided the two people in front of him, leaned closer, and said in a low and hoarse voice: "I was asleep most of the time, and I didn't wake up until I saw you."
Chen Ling fiddled with his ears, which were tingling from the other person's voice, and said, "Then I'll ask myself."
Jiang Shengxing received the call and was stunned when he heard the address the young man gave. "This family's surname is Wang. There are indeed people living in this house, but they usually live abroad and come back for vacation every July or March."
Chen Ling: "Has anyone in their family passed away recently?"