The two timid passers-by in the store fainted from fright, and the rest found that they couldn't run out, and they stopped screaming and crying.
They were still huddled in the corner, not daring to move. Just after listening to the woman's words, the panic and out of control expression relaxed slightly, and turned into a void.
Zhang Biling's four talisman papers were firmly attached to the scroll door, saying that it symbolized "the city gate is wide open", but everyone shivered and waited for a while, but did not feel the change.
Xia Qiao asked quietly, "What is the way to open the city gate?"
Zhou Xu kept staring at the woman, and took time to glance at the talisman paper: "I don't know, I haven't practiced it! Anyway, the explanation of this talisman in the book is a bit scary."
Xia Qiao considered his courage and asked, "What is Jieyu?"
Zhou Xu: "Thousands of ghosts slaughter the city."
Xia Qiao: "...This is called something, a little, scary???"
Zhou Xu: "Are you illiterate? I don't know there is a kind of rhetoric called exaggeration."
Xia Qiao thought about it too, they were a city, and they were just a small shabby house. What's more, the situation is calm now, whether Zhang Biling's talisman management works is another matter.
"Then move a little, my feet are so numb." Xia Qiao pushed Zhou Xu.
Because of his young age and poor morals, Zhou Xu didn't want to sit on the ground when he hid in the corner. He used Xia Qiao's shoes as a seat cushion, so he could sit comfortably.
Xia Qiao finally freed his legs and straightened them carefully. He was about to move his numb ankle joints when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the talisman paper on the scroll door, and the bottom end floated and fell gently without wind.
He froze, his legs stretched and he didn't dare to move.
Then, there were a few more shadows silently under the crack of the door. Just like the one in the corner before, only this time in more quantities.
It was as if something stood upright outside the door, staring faintly at the person inside.
Xia Qiao's scalp was numb, and the cold sweat broke out. He rolled his eyes and swept around, counting the number of shadows in his heart: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...
"Brother." He called out. I was too scared to make any sound.
"Thank you, Boss." He called out again, and collapsed and chose someone who was closer to him, "Thank you, Boss?"
Xie Wen bent sideways, "Huh?"
Xia Qiao pointed at the crack of the door and said tremblingly, "There is something outside, I suspect that the five shopkeepers are here."
Xie asked: "Five? You think so beautifully."
Xia Qiao was at a loss for a moment, and before he could digest Xie Wen's meaning, he heard a loud "bang" from the scroll door!
The door was dented in a big chunk in an instant!
boom!
With another cry, the scroll door behind him also changed shape, and the five-finger paw prints can be seen!
The people who were originally standing in a pool of stagnant water jumped up instantly, grabbed the arms and shoulders of their companions, and tried their best to shrink in the middle.
boom!
Everyone watched helplessly as the scroll door broke open, as if it was not metal at all, but folded out of paper.
Zhou Xu was the closest to there.
He looked at the opening with a bloodless face, and heard the faint sound of breathing outside, like a sigh.
He took a step back with his left foot silently, leaned back, and was about to quietly retreat—
Just listen to the bang!
A hand suddenly came in through the crack! The cold fingertips hooked on Zhou Xu's face.
Zhou Xu's soul flew away, screaming and stepping back.
The next moment, the two-sided scroll door slammed to the ground, revealing the dark face outside...
Xia Qiao finally understood what Xie Wen meant: there are more than five people, this must be a city surrounded by ghosts.
In an instant, he almost had an illusion, as if the ancient city of Wangquan was not a shopping mall at all, but a real Huangquan cemetery.
Zhou Xu fell somersault when he was dodging, and when he got up in a hurry, he was facing Old Lady Xu's pale and old face.
It's okay to have no expression, she just smiled. The corners of the mouth are very curved, and no teeth can be seen, like a curved crack.
Zhou Xu screamed and turned to the right, and saw another old lady Xu with the same smile, looking at him motionless.
He tried to go to the left again, still the same!
In addition to Mrs. Xu, he also saw several other impressive shopkeepers, as well, as if they were everywhere.
The dark face was like a ghost hitting the wall in another sense. Each of them were the eyes, ears, hands and feet of the cage owner, staring straight at the group of strangers who had entered the cage.
The wind blew miserably.
The group of things screamed, and the pale face quickly elongated, and the mouth was like a gaping hole, and they rushed forward in a mighty way!
"Ah-"
The crowd went crazy on the spot!
Zhou Xu was knocked to the ground on his back, and watched a face roaring close to him—
I'm dying.
he thought.
His hands and feet were cold, and he closed his eyes tightly, waiting for that moment to come. However, the expected pain and horror did not come, but something brushed his hair past.
At that moment, he heard the sound of the strings.
He quickly realized that it wasn't a string, it was a thread.
Zhou Xu abruptly opened his eyes, raised his head, and saw Wen Shi's thin chin and thin white hands, his fingers were wrapped with familiar threads, and they were all tense.
Are you going to be tied up again
Zhou Xu thought subconsciously.
He knows more than Xia Qiao, and knows that many puppet masters who are just getting started can only do flowers, birds, fish and insects, and they can't make a decent puppet that can save lives. When the alternative long whip.
Either bound or strangled.
In his eyes, he was such a person when he heard it.
But now that there are so many monsters, how could it be possible? I can't stop this, I can't stop that, I'm stretched.
I'm still dying.
Zhou Xu thought.
When I smelled it, I threw out another thing, which seemed to be a ball of paper, and I couldn't see it clearly. Zhou Xu moved his eyes blankly, watching the small group fall into the raging monster group... It burst into flames.
In an instant, a strong wind picked up! Whistling through the entire corridor, like the clear howl of a beast.
Zhou Xu was slapped in the face by the heat wave, so he had to raise his elbow to cover it.
The moment he opened his eyes again, he saw a pitch-black giant python with fiery flames on the edge winding over the monster's head, coiling in a circle, and sweeping out of the monster group.
The black python was astonishingly large, enough to traverse the entire corridor. It is surrounded by iron chains, and the sound of the chains is clanging as it swims. There are flowing marks on each chain, dark gold, and the sparks are looming.
Those marks mark the origin of the python—
It is puppet.
Zhou Xu slowly opened his mouth and raised his head again.
He twitched his fingers when he saw Wen, and the interlaced long lines were stretched straight and tight, retracting or releasing with his movements. The black giant python wrapped in chains flicked its long tail in the splash of sparks, wrapping the white-faced "people" in its long body.
As long as he moved again, those things could be strangled.
Until this time, Zhou Xu finally realized that it was really a puppet! The kind of puppet that can kill a hundred of them without any problem.
Puppet when smelling.
I... day...
Zhou Xu went crazy.
At a time like this, whoever, who is, who is a ghost is a fart. He couldn't care about his fear anymore, he grabbed Xia Qiao and asked, "Why can't a mother like your brother be listed on the famous tree?"
Xia Qiao was stunned by him, and after a while, he said, "Ang."
"Ang your father." Zhou Xu looked at Wen Shi angrily, and muttered, "Liar!"
He didn't choose what to say. As soon as he finished scolding someone, he felt a "buzz" in his head, and the cold feeling covered his head, which made him shudder, and his mouth and tongue were frozen.
The feeling is indescribable, like being reprimanded by an elder knocking on the skull.
what's the situation
Zhou Xu covered his head subconsciously, turned to look, but saw that there was nothing behind him. At least there was no one where he could reach out and beat him.
A little further away, there are ordinary people who are guarding behind him when he is heard.
Oh, and Xie Wen is not ashamed of that half-assed person pretending to be an ordinary person.
Xie Wen seems to be very sensitive to eyes.
When Zhou Xu thought so, he glanced here.
For some reason, Zhou Xu subconsciously retracted his gaze and sat up.
It took a few seconds for him to react, and he thought that I was poisonous, why was he afraid of him? !
The black python tightened its long body and imprisoned everyone in its territory, listening to those "people" struggling to make a shrill and harsh hissing scream.
When he smelled it, he lifted his left hand, grabbed the wires and pulled them straight.
Then he turned to the woman attached to Zhang Biling and said, "Go find someone."
The woman was stunned for a long time, and suddenly let out a sigh of relief, as if she was making difficult psychological preparations. After a while, she nodded and said, "Okay."
The woman lifted her foot and walked in the direction of the python.
She walked unhappily, with reluctance, let go, and unbearable heart.
With each step, the bound "people" became more panicked. They resisted extremely, and suddenly became crazy. The struggle was so sudden that even the black python had to go around again to bind them even more. tight.
During the action, the giant python pressed against the door of a store behind.
The metal scroll door rattled, deformed under the weight and fell to the ground, kicking up a mist of dust.
Wen Shi looked over there, and he didn't remember until he saw the faint silhouette of a model in the dust mist. That's where he and Xie Wen first entered the cage.
The direction where those faces were struggling to gather was next to the sportswear store.
He remembered that the owner of the shop next door was a middle-aged man, always holding a lunch box in his hand, murmuring, "I can't be caught, I haven't eaten yet."
The woman was still walking over there, getting closer and closer to the python.
At that moment, the "person" trapped by the giant python began to fight to the death. They bump, scratch, bite, scream...
Finally started crying.
howling.
The voice was so unpleasant, mixed with many people, hoarse and old.
Then slowly, the voices of the others disappeared, leaving only a hoarse, continuous weeping.
The people wrapped by the giant python had disappeared. At the door of the crowded, gray storefront, there was only a middle-aged man curled up on a low ponytail with his head buried in his knees.
All the "people" who let out the wind, cleared the obstacles, and blocked him were gone, only himself, originally and alone, was exposed in front of everyone.
The woman stopped beside him, looked at him for a long time, and squatted down.
She tried to reach out and pat him.
The man shuddered violently, buried his head lower, and was reluctant to raise his head.
It was only then that she seemed to have figured it out completely, sighed softly, patted the man again, and called out, "Old Song, look up."
"Are you going to be buried here for the rest of your life?" the woman said. "Look at me."
She said slowly, "Look at me and you'll be awake. How uncomfortable it is here. It's so dark, the lights are so dim, the shop is full of gray, and no one comes."
"It's long overdue, you should pack up and close the store and go home. I'll take a look at you, and I'll be gone." The woman whispered, "I've been here for so many days, I'm so tired, Don't move. I want to go."
The last few words finally made the man react.
He raised his head stiffly and slowly, his eyes red. He only looked at the woman once, then closed his eyes, as if he was enduring something.
After a long time, he finally couldn't bear it any longer, and said with a heavy nasal voice and choking: "I'm waiting for you to eat."
He took out the lunch box from his coat and wanted to hand it out, but he didn't know who to hand it to. In the end, he could only rest on his lap and say, "It's hot and cold, and it's cold and hot, you just won't come."
"Why didn't you come." The man pursed his lips and choked silently for a long time, then slowly opened his eyes again, looked at the woman and said, "Why did you become like this."
The woman also had red eyes. She blinked a few times and said, "That's right, accidentally."
After a long time, she added another sentence: "Nothing else to blame, the rain is too heavy, it's my carelessness."
With a simple sentence, the man collapsed completely, grabbed her hand and cried again.
From the moment he got the death notice, he was spinning around in this cage.
He repeated what he had done that day, ordering goods, sealing boxes, keeping accounts, picking up the time to heat up the food, and then waiting for Yueqin to pick up the car.
He has been waiting and waiting...
When it was dark, half of the shops on the second and third floors were closed, and when the other shopkeepers had finished eating, even the slowest old lady Xu started to eat, but Yueqin still didn't come.
On the contrary, there is another person, a strange woman, who will come to the third floor every day to find someone at this point.
He didn't know each other, didn't dare to look at each other's face, and didn't want to meet each other.
Because he knew that if he saw it, he would never be able to eat this dinner again.
…
How long did Lao Song cry, no one remembers asking.
The time in the cage has always been like this, a second can be a long time, and a day can be finished in the blink of an eye.
As long as he cried, the woman stayed with him.
Finally, she stood up, got out of Zhang Biling's body, bowed to the dazed person and apologized, then picked up the cold, hot, hot and cold lunch box, and said to Lao Song, "Go and warm it up again, I'll accompany you. You finish your meal."
Wen Shi was always waiting by the side, without urging him. After waiting for them to finish their meal, they said goodbye again.
At that moment, they had an obvious husband and wife relationship - said sorry to all the trapped people, and then quietly dispelled all the obsessions from their bodies.
Zhang Biling was not very comfortable because he was possessed, and it was not suitable for releasing the cage. So the matter of dissolving and dissolving still falls on Wen Shi.
When the cage was released, the ordinary people who had been caged innocently had already started to feel sleepy.
They sat leaning against the railing, their heads bowed, their eyelids fighting. Everything that happened in the cage became blurred the moment they closed their eyes, like a whole frightening dream.
Zhou Xu's face was reluctant, but his legs and feet were very active, and he poured a cup of hot water for Zhang Biling, who was resting.
Xia Qiao perfunctory Zhou Xu's questions one after another.
Xie Wen stood not far or near, looked at Wen Shi, lowered his eyes, took the black mist that covered the couple's body onto himself, and slowly dispelled it.
Before the woman disappeared, he heard Wen Shi's cold voice saying to her, "It rained a lot that day, thank you for your umbrella."
Xie Wen retracted his gaze, looked at the old patterns on the ground of the mall, and smiled silently.