Jiang Shengxing thought for a moment and said, "No, but their son didn't come back this year. I asked Mr. Wang when I ran into him while taking a walk, and he said his son was doing creative work abroad and wouldn't be back this year."
Chen Ling: “Creation?”
Jiang Shengxing: "It seems that he is writing a book, but I don't know the details."
After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "Did something happen to the Wang family?"
Chen Ling: "There have been two suicide cases recently. Does Mr. Jiang know about this?"
The young man's voice was so deep that it cut into Jiang Shengxing's nerves. When he spoke, he trembled unconsciously, "I heard a little bit about it."
The next second, he understood the significance of this call.
Without waiting for Chen Ling to speak, Jiang Shengxing took the initiative to say, "Since Mr. Chen has doubts about the Wang family, why not let me or my wife take you to their house to take a look."
Chen Ling didn't refuse, since he was already on his way there anyway. "Okay."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Ling looked at Wu Weiwei in the passenger seat: "Weiwei, do you still remember the horror novel author you told me about before?"
"Remember, what's wrong?" Wu Weiwei turned his head and looked behind.
"Do you still remember the nursery rhyme related to the Mid-Autumn Festival in the group?" Chen Ling softly recited the few lines he remembered, "A ghost as a companion, handing you a knife, cutting your throat, holding your hand, and jumping off the building..."
These two sentences were so malicious that Chen Ling couldn't forget them.
Wu Weiwei was stunned for a moment, then he opened his eyes wide in shock: "Both things match up!"
"Yes, Xiaofan and Gu Zhao." Chen Ling continued to ask, "Have you read the contents of that book?"
Wu Weiwei shook his head, "No, but those who have tweets on Weibo online will give away spoilers."
As he spoke, he took out his cell phone, opened Weibo, and entered keywords in the search box.
After sliding my finger across the screen for a while, I finally found a spoiler. The spoiler is divided into three parts: the first part is an overview, the second part is a reading experience, and the third part is a brief analysis of the plot.
Generally speaking, this is a unit drama type novel that combines murder and the supernatural, and in each unit, one person dies.
Among them, the first story is about suicide by slitting the throat; the second story is about lying on the railway tracks; the third is about kowtow; the fourth is about ending life by falling from a high altitude; and the fifth is about suicide by lying in the bathtub.
The last one is also the one in which the deceased suffered the most torture during his lifetime. He had large patterns cut on his skin with a knife, causing himself to die from the pain.
"Chen... Brother Chen, take a look at this." Wu Weiwei's palms were sweating, and when he handed the phone to Xiang behind him, all the muscles in his body were tense.
As more and more words came into his sight, Chen Ling clenched his teeth, and the muscles on both sides of his cheeks became stiff.
"It matches." He returned the phone to Wu Weiwei and motioned him to read the contents to Li Hongyu.
After hearing this, Li Hongyu immediately told his senior who was searching for the other two victims outside, "The remaining two victims are in danger. If we don't have enough manpower, ask the leaders in the department to contact other departments. Go quickly!"
Chen Ling looked at Jiang Yu: "Do you have a way to find them? You must have."
The young man frowned, pursed his lips, his face full of anxiety and uneasiness. Since the other party took the initiative to speak, Jiang Yu felt that he had no reason not to take action.
He said, "Stop the car."
Li Hongyu looked back through the rearview mirror and saw Chen Ling nod, then he stopped the car.
The wheels came to an abrupt stop and the rear left door was pushed open by a bony hand.
The car stopped halfway to the Jiang family villa, with straight asphalt roads and bustling street scenes in front and behind.
Jiang Yu walked straight into a clean but deserted alley. The alley was dimly lit and a little damp, with a lot of moss covering the junction between the walls and the ground.
Chen Ling hesitated for a moment and followed.
Just as I reached the entrance of the alley, the sky above was suddenly covered with dark clouds, plunging the alley into depressing darkness.
But Chen Ling still clearly saw that right in front of Jiang Yu's leather shoes, there was a very inconspicuous small shrine embedded in the wall.
There were two burning candles on the left and right sides of the shrine. The ground near the outside was blackened by the smoke from the burnt paper money. I guess the deity enshrined there should be the land god in charge of this area.
The people coming and going at the alley seemed to be selectively blind, and no one looked into the suddenly dark alley.
Only Chen Ling heard Jiang Yu speaking to the land in a cold tone: "Evil spirits have been rampant recently, killing innocent people. As the local protector, you have failed to supervise effectively."
The voice of the God of Land was trembling, and no one at the alley could hear clearly what he said.
Just when Chen Ling wanted to take a few more steps inside, Jiang Yu directly issued an order: "Within ten minutes, find the other two people who picked up the paper rose and were under the soul-stealing curse."
"Jiang Yu." Chen Ling shouted, looking over the man's shoulder and looking at the white-haired old man curiously.
The old man bowed to him respectfully and disappeared.
Jiang Yu walked towards the young man with his long legs. As soon as his heels left the front of the shrine, the sky opposite the alley became bright. The bright sunshine shone down, and even the damp moss below became vibrant.
"Was that the God of Land just now?" Chen Ling's eyes lit up and he wished time could go back so he could rush forward to shake hands with the God of Land and build a relationship with him.
If possible, it would be best to ask for another contact method.
Compared with the Five-Powerful God who was summoned three or four times, the God of Land is just as capable of finding people and things. He knows everything about the affairs of the land under his management and can be said to be a know-it-all.
The bad thing is that the land belongs to ghosts, and they are all very old men with weird tempers.
I will only be summoned if I like you.
Otherwise it will be useless even if you shout at the top of your lungs.
"Yes." Jiang Yu was a little overwhelmed by the young man's clear and moist eyes, "What's wrong?"
Chen Ling asked: "Are you familiar with him?"
Jiang Yu: “Not bad.”
"Can you introduce me to him?" Chen Ling said sincerely, "Everything is for work. If I have any problems in the future, I might be able to ask the God of Land for help."
Jiang Yu lowered his eyes and stared at the young man's moving lips. He didn't know what he was thinking about, but his brows slightly raised. "If you have any problems, you can come to me."
"Of course I know you're great." Chen Ling praised him first, then changed the subject, "But if you encounter one or two things you don't understand, then don't you have to go to the God of Land? As a Yin God, the favors are counted on you, and it will definitely not be a small matter to return them in the future. But for me, it's just a matter of burning paper money and buying more offerings."
Jiang Yu was unmoved. He didn't want the young man to rely on anyone other than him. "Oh."
Chen Ling: “…”
After spending so many days together, he had also understood the man's temperament a little bit, and asked back: "Is it not possible?"
"No." Jiang Yu grabbed the young man's shoulder with one hand and walked out of the alley. His expression was calm and his words were serious. "If you need anything, just ask directly. I don't have to repay the favor I owe to the land."
Chen Ling paused and looked up at the other party. "The God of Land relies on incense to survive. He is called a ghost fairy. He lives underground. Although he is the lowest level among the gods, he does not belong to the netherworld."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes full of inquiry, "Jiang Yu, aren't you a Yin God? How can you send the Land God to do things across boundaries?"
"Yin gods also have different statuses." Jiang Yu glanced at the young man, the corners of his lips unable to hold back, and they tended to rise.
He coughed lightly, with a hint of pretentiousness, "Besides, I am not the same as ordinary Yin Gods."
Chen Ling cooperated: "Well, our Brother Jiang is the most special at first glance."
Jiang Yu hummed subtly, his face still expressionless, but there was a thin layer of red under his ears, and it was unclear whether it was because of the compliment or because of the word "Brother Jiang".
Chen Ling didn't notice this small detail. He saw Li Hongyu sticking his head out of the car and looking at him, obviously wanting to know whether Jiang Yu had got any clues about the other two people.
Jiang Yu stopped behind the young man and reached over to open the car door. "There will be news soon. Let's go to Jiang's house first."
After saying that, he pushed Chen Ling into the car and sat in sideways.
Wu Weiwei was so curious that he wanted to ask but didn't dare to. He could only turn around and look back, winking at Chen Ling.
Chen Ling was afraid that he would get cramps if he blinked too hard, so he replied, "Jiang Yu asked the God of Land for help."
"Lord of the Land?" Wu Weiwei showed an envious expression, "If I had known, I would have gotten off the car with you. I have never seen the Lord of the Land."
It is said that the God of Land is a kind-looking old man, but I don’t know if it is true.
As soon as the thought came to his mind, Wu Weiwei suddenly sneezed, and a chill passed by his ears.
He suddenly felt a little guilty.
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yu, who had been silent since getting in the car, suddenly spoke up: "The fourth victim is in Room 2034, Unit 2, Building 24, Champagne Garden, and the fifth victim is in the kitchen of the restaurant on the 23rd floor of Guangyuan Building."
Li Hongyu slammed on the brakes and called the Special Investigation Department first. Then he edited the address that he had checked repeatedly and sent it over.
The atmosphere in the car dropped to freezing point. Chen Ling asked, "Are those two people okay now?"
"There is no danger for now." When Jiang Yu talked about others, there was always a kind of indifference in his tone.
Only after knowing that the two people were temporarily safe did the car start again.
No one was chatting in the car anymore, and the air was frozen, making it difficult to breathe.
Soon after passing through the city, the car arrived at the villa area where the Jiang family lived.
Jiang Shengxing had already greeted the security guard at the door, and Li Hongyu was allowed to pass in a friendly manner as soon as he said the word "Jiang".
The Jiang family villa is located in the best location in the community. Chen Ling remembered it clearly and directed Li Hongyu to turn at the fork in the road.
Jiang Shengxing and his wife were standing outside the iron gate waiting. When they saw an ordinary black car approaching, they both stepped forward.
Unexpectedly, the first person to get off after the car stopped was not Chen Ling, but Jiang Yu. Jiang Shengxing froze, not expecting that the ancestor would also come. He hurriedly and quietly touched his wife's hand hanging by her leg and winked at her.
Mrs. Jiang had long heard her husband talk about the ancestor's appearance, and had also heard him describe Jiang Yu's appearance, but now that she saw him standing in front of her in broad daylight, she still couldn't react.
Too young, probably only about 27 or 28 years old.
He has bright eyes, a straight nose and deep features, but his skin color tends to be cold and pale.
If placed in a crowd, who would dare to say that this is not a living person
Seeing his wife in a trance, Jiang Shengxing groaned inwardly, regretting that he had rashly given the signal. He raised his hand to his mouth and coughed heavily, then greeted her respectfully.
Just when he was about to say hello, he saw Jiang Yu putting one hand on the car door to prevent the young man from hitting his head when he got out of the car.
Jiang Shengxing closed his mouth and spent a second thinking before greeting Chen Ling: "Mr. Chen."
Then he looked at Jiang Yu and said, "You're back."
It should have been an intimate remark to family members, but it sounded very stiff when spoken from Jiang Shengxing's mouth, as if he was afraid of offending someone. If you paid more attention, you could notice that his body was tense and he didn't look directly at the other person.
It's nervousness, submissiveness, and fear.