Late Night Bookstore

Chapter 73: Old friends meet

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Hearing the noise of the crowd outside,

Zhou Ze, who had been squatting there, sat down on the ground dejectedly. The tile floor was a little cold, but what was even colder was his heart.

oh,

Forgot,

I have no heart.

After lifting up his shirt, Zhou Ze discovered that the area that had been hollowed out had been restored. It took only one night to completely recover.

This made Zhou Ze wonder if he had fallen into the opponent's illusion. In fact, his heart was still there.

Because he could feel his heartbeat, his body was still active and there was nothing wrong with it.

But it seemed that some emotion was taken away.

Some of my instinctive reactions were also marked with prohibition symbols, as if there was an invisible wall that trapped me.

Last night, I should have rushed to the deceased like Xu Qinglang. Even though his first reaction was that the deceased must be dead, the original me should have reacted like that.

Just like just now, when Xu Qinglang scolded him, he asked back, "What does it have to do with me?"

In fact, considering my state last night, I first fought and killed the monkey, and then was pulled to the dining table by that inexplicable old man to taste a unique meal. I was already a little dazed.

Even if I sensed something when that group of people were playing the Ouija board game, I wouldn't be able to make any clear reaction.

Last night, I was like a frightened bird, seeing enemies everywhere. Any so-called "throbbing" seemed half-true and half-false.

Of course, these are all excuses. Zhou Ze now clearly feels like he is undergoing "teeth correction". You can continue to eat and drink water, but there are always some restrictions, and he just feels a little uncomfortable.

People are like this. No matter how great the misfortune and oppression you encounter, as long as there is hope in front of you, you can always continue to hold on to it and keep moving forward.

Zhou Ze was like this in the orphanage, and Zhou Ze was like this in the hospital.

Even now, he is still like this.

To put it nicely, it's called tenacity. To put it bluntly, it means that it is better to live a miserable life than to die.

With both hands on the ground,

Lift your head,

Take a deep breath,

I didn't have time.

He kept telling himself that he must find that thing as soon as possible, then grab it, throw it into hell, and make some money, which would definitely be a lucrative one.

But don’t we know clearly that if that thing is not found one day, as long as one person dies, there will definitely be a second and a third one

Once a ghost really kills someone, it will only become more and more crazy, and for the ghost, repentance is like smoke.

Therefore, there are always people who end their lives inexplicably in this way.

But Zhou Ze couldn't think that way, and couldn't make it a goal to worry about, otherwise the pain in his chest would make him feel like he was dying.

Just as the old man said at the dinner table: If a person loses his conscience, he will never be much better no matter how good he is.

At this moment, he looked upwards in a daze, and he saw a slight black line on the ceiling.

Suddenly,

Zhou Ze's body trembled.

He found it.

He found the thing.

It didn't come in at all, and it wasn't in this bookstore last night.

It's on top.

Its eyes are looking down,

Watch everything here!

Even its outstretched hand affected the tip of the pen, and in this way, little by little, it joined the game.

This is an incredible way, a way that is beyond Zhou Ze's understanding.

"Finally, no more deaths will occur this time!"

"Hiss... it hurts..."

Zhou Ze, who had just stood up, had to bend down and squat again.

“Now we can finally achieve results.”

Okay, it doesn’t hurt anymore.

grass!

… …

"The deceased is Chen Yinong." Xu Qinglang said to Zhou Ze who had just walked out while chewing betel nut.

"The guy who was about to confess his love last night?" Zhou Ze asked.

"Yes, that's him. I just got close to the police and listened to some of their conversation. He should have just finished taking his statement. Who knew he would appear here right after leaving the police station and then jump down."

The police did not identify any specific suspects, so after Zhou Ze and Xu Qinglang finished their statements, the rest of the people were allowed to leave after the investigation was completed. The only restriction was that they were not allowed to leave Tongcheng during this period.

"So he committed suicide right after returning from the police station?" Zhou Ze sighed, "What a horrible wedding."

"Hey, could you please be more polite with your words? The person is already dead." Xu Qinglang said to Zhou Ze.

"Accumulate virtue? Do you need to accumulate virtue? I still have some ghost money here. You can burn it if you need it." Zhou Ze shrugged.

"I don't know who invented this stupid method of accumulating virtue by burning ghost money. Do you think that burning ghost money can help you accumulate virtue and solve all your problems?"

"It sounds like money is the root of all evil, so why don't you sell all your 20-odd houses and donate them to Project Hope?"

“… …”Xu Qinglang.

"Accompany me to a place." Zhou Ze said.

"where?"

Zhou Ze pointed to the tall building on the west side and said, "There."

… …

There are several high-rise buildings in this commercial center, all connected by passages. Of course, with the abandonment of this commercial center, the businesses in these high-rise buildings have long moved out.

This is one of the manifestations of overdevelopment in cities. The construction of high-rise buildings exceeds the needs of people's daily lives, and such huge ghost buildings often appear, which is also a waste of resources.

The elevator was out of service, so Zhou Ze and Xu Qinglang could only go up the stairs.

"Hey, those two people jumped from the building on the opposite side." Xu Qinglang reminded, "It was on the opposite side, right above your store and mine. What are you doing here?"

At this time, the two were located to the west of Zhou Ze and Xu Qinglang's shop, nearly a hundred meters away from the place where the suicides occurred one after another.

"You are also a cultivator of the mystical arts. So, what makes you, an insider, mistakenly believe that ghosts kill people in the same way as living people, where you have to stand in front of them and stab them with a knife?" Zhou Ze asked back.

"Then how do you know that thing is here?"

“The grooves in the tile.”

The two of them had already reached the fourth floor. Zhou Ze chose a location that was the shortest distance from his shop, then stretched out his index finger and gently slid it in front of him.

"What does this mean?" Xu Qinglang asked.

"If you are just a curious kid asking 'why' next to me, I suggest you go act in a suspense TV series, because there is always a need for an idiot assistant standing next to the protagonist and constantly asking 'why', to set the stage for the protagonist to act cool with him."

"Damn, you're becoming more and more sarcastic." Xu Qinglang said dissatisfiedly.

"Because I always treat you as a brother, not a woman." Zhou Ze reached out and patted Xu Qinglang on the shoulder.

"Then you don't seem to be very gentle to Bai Yingying."

Zhou Ze slid his index finger again, and then said, "Actually, this should be a parallel line. Can you understand?"

"You mean that when they were playing the Pen Fairy game last night, they really summoned something, but that thing didn't come closer, but stood in a position similar to where we are now.

Then he used his finger to control the movement of the pen tip and pointed it at you?"

"That's right." Zhou Ze smiled, "So, that brave guy from the fan association asked last night whether they could see a ghost tonight, and then the pen tip was pointed at me.

It doesn't mind offending me, or even killing people around me."

"So crazy?"

"No, in my eyes, this means that it is more valuable, and the performance that can be achieved after it is sent in will be more obvious. This is a big fish, a big fish that even the ghost messenger can ignore."

"Isn't that very dangerous?" Xu Qinglang muttered.

"That's why I called you." Zhou Ze looked at Xu Qinglang, "I said I treat you as a brother, so if the other party is terrible, we will die together, isn't it romantic?"

“… …”Xu Qinglang.

"Romantic, you pervert!"

"It's okay. At worst I'll go to hell. I've been there before and I know the way."

Zhou Ze gestured again, then took out his phone to look at the line in the photo, continued to estimate the angle in his mind, and then pointed to the roof and said, "It's on the fifth floor, so the deviation shouldn't be too big."

"Hey, at least you should have informed me earlier so that I could bring some magic weapons!" Xu Qinglang complained as he followed Zhou Ze up the stairs.

"Remember the night when you subdued Bai Yingying, it didn't make much difference whether you had a magic weapon or not."

Xu Qinglang was speechless for a moment and cursed: "You are a heartless thing."

Zhou Ze paused and smiled.

Then,

The two of them walked together to the window seat on the east side of the fifth floor.

This was supposed to be an amusement park, but it was covered in dust. Some machinery and facilities that had not been removed were still there, creating an extremely desolate atmosphere.

Xu Qinglang was a little nervous, but Zhou Ze continued to move forward slowly.

It should be at this location.

Suddenly, Zhou Ze stopped in front of an inflatable toy city.

"Oh, long time no see!"

A familiar voice came from behind the air mattress.

Zhou Ze raised his head.

I saw an old man wearing a dirty and stained Taoist robe jumping down from there.

"Brother, long time no see. I really missed you. Come on, let's drink tonight. I'll treat you to return the favor I did you last time!"

The old Taoist came over and greeted Zhou Ze.

And at this moment,

Xu Qinglang instinctively made hand seals:

"The sky and earth are boundless, the mysterious heart is the righteous law!"

He bit his index finger and then tapped the old Taoist's forehead.

Very fast and without any delay.

But the next scene shocked Xu Qinglang. The old Taoist glanced at Xu Qinglang as if nothing had happened and said unhappily:

"You are crazy, woman, or maybe this is your family's custom. You like to smear blood on people's faces when you meet and greet them. This is even cooler than the Dai Water Splashing Festival!

Come, come, I will teach you the customs of our hometown."

As he spoke, the old Taoist reached out and scratched his crotch, as if to return the favor to Xu Qinglang.

But at this moment, Zhou Ze suddenly stretched out his hand, with his nails growing out, and directly grabbed the old Taoist's neck.

The old Taoist priest had just reached into his crotch and had produced a bright yellow talisman paper. He was looking at Zhou Ze in surprise:

"Damn... you're faster than me..."

Zhou Ze glanced at the talisman paper, and then exerted force with his fingernails. The old Taoist felt as if he was electrocuted. Finally, Zhou Ze gave him a light push, and the old Taoist fell to the ground and rolled several times.

Ignoring the unconscious Taoist priest lying on the ground, Zhou Ze jumped over the air mattress.

Behind the air mattress,

A person lies there.

Wounds all over my body,

Found it,

It is here as expected.