Right in front of the assistant, Dr. Hao's body was being devoured bit by bit by the horrific painting, blood and internal organs were scattered all over the floor. When Dr. Hao's foot was bitten off, blood splattered on the assistant's face. The assistant was so frightened that he made a "ho ho ho" sound in his throat, and he couldn't even scream. He gradually backed away, trying to leave the collection room without attracting the attention of the painting, and then run as far as possible.
But just as he was about to turn around, he felt a pain in his neck and was instantly plunged into darkness. The assistant fell down, revealing Wei Xiaoxiao, who was expressionless behind him. Wei Xiaoxiao threw away the heavy object in her hand, raised her hand to wipe the blood off her face, then looked at the painting "Grotesque" and slowly smiled, and said in a gentle voice: "Additional meal."
The door of the collection room on the fifth floor was cracked, and Wei Zhizhi saw the scene inside through the crack. She watched the whole process, including Wei Xiaoxiao cleaning up the assistant and Dr. Hao's internal organs and handing them to the evil ghost in the painting to eat. After watching, Wei Zhizhi left with the clown doll in her arms. When she reached the second floor, she saw Qi Yin carrying Wei Ning upstairs.
Wei Ning looked exhausted, her small body curled up in Qi Yin's arms. Qi Yin comforted Wei Ning with a distressed look on her face: "Ning Ning, what exactly did your dad ask you to do? Why are you so tired every time? Do you want your mother to make you some nourishing soup... Forget it, let's go and rest first. Be good, Ning Ning—" She looked up and saw Wei Zhizhi standing in the corridor and staring at them quietly. She was stunned for a moment and said a little uncomfortably: "Zhizhi, why are you here too?"
Wei Zhizhi: "Can't I be here?"
"No, that's not what Mom meant. But you should go back to your room and take a nap now, otherwise you won't have the energy to study in the afternoon." Qi Yin wanted to walk over and hold Wei Zhizhi's hand, but was dodged.
Wei Zhizhi ran away from Qi Yin: "I want to find Chen Xiaoyang, you guys won't play with me."
Qi Yin frowned: "Zhizhi, why are you calling me like that? Do you have any manners?"
Wei Zhizhi ignored her and turned around and ran away. After running four or five meters, she turned around and said, "Why don't you take Ningning away?"
Qi Yin didn't hear clearly: "What?" She only saw Wei Zhizhi hidden in the shadows, and her small figure was particularly cold for some reason. She shuddered in her heart and asked with fear: "Zhizhi, what did you say just now?"
"You're hard of hearing! Hehehe..." Wei Zhizhi jumped up and down, laughing shrilly as she ran away. Qi Yin instantly felt that she was being teased, but she couldn't get angry anymore, because she was used to being teased by Wei Zhizhi. She thought about when she got used to being teased by Wei Zhizhi, but her memory was a little fuzzy.
But Wei Zhizhi has become more and more creepy recently. Sometimes when she stares at people quietly, her big dark eyes seem to hide a darkness that can never be escaped. She is also talking nonsense and crazy. Qi Yin hugs Wei Ning tightly, wondering if this collection hall is really too weird and has haunted Zhizhi.
Wei Ning had already woken up when Wei Zhizhi arrived. He nestled in Qi Yin's neck and looked at Wei Zhizhi behind him. The latter was standing at the end of the corridor, staring at them as they left, until they entered the children's room, where the wall blocked their view.
When Qi Yin put him on the bed, covered him with the quilt and was about to leave, Wei Ning said, "Mom, can we leave here?"
Qi Yin was stunned and smiled, "Okay." Wei Ning's eyes lit up, but she said, "But we have to tell Dad. Only when Dad agrees can our family move out."
The light in Wei Ning's eyes quickly went out, and he pulled up the small quilt to cover his head and face and stopped talking. Qi Yin kissed Wei Ning's forehead through the quilt and whispered, "Mom loves you." After that, she left the children's room and returned to Wei Guangming to serve him.
The children's room was cold and desolate. The dim light suddenly went out, and the curtains were automatically drawn. Darkness enveloped the entire room. The walls began to twist, like a whirlpool, as if countless evil spirits stretched out their hands and upper bodies from the walls, scrambling to pounce on the small bed in the room, greedily coveting Wei Ning on the small bed.
Their whispers merged into a stream of desire, they were longing, they said: "accompany us", "promise us", "I want it", "I want it so much". With a "click", the lights came on, and all the weird and twisted things that did not belong to the real world disappeared in an instant. Wei Ning slowly pulled down the quilt and saw Wei Zhizhi lying on the edge of the bed, looking down at him.
Wei Zhizhi looked at him and immediately smiled: "Ningning, you like Chen Xiaoyang, right? Can we keep him together? His friends are also very interesting. Can we let them accompany us forever?"
Wei Ning: “Not good.”
"Why?"
Wei Ning calmly replied: "They won't agree."
"Impossible!" Wei Zhizhi muttered unhappily: "He likes me very much, and they like us too. Let's go ask Chen Xiaoyang together, he will definitely agree." She became very sure when she said this.
Wei Ning: "His name is not Chen Xiaoyang, his name is Chen Yang. You even called his name wrong, he will definitely not agree."
Wei Zhizhi's face darkened and she stared at Wei Ning. The two children's eyes were cold and indifferent, which was quite strange. Wei Zhizhi suddenly screamed, and the sharp and piercing voice mixed with anger instantly made Wei Ning feel uncomfortable. He was not feeling well to begin with, and now the attack from Wei Zhizhi aggravated his injuries. All the furnishings in the room fell down one after another amid Wei Zhizhi's screams, and the fragile glass broke one after another.
The originally ordinary and inconspicuous dark golden patterns on the wall began to flow, slowly emitting golden light. The golden light blocked Wei Zhizhi's screams and became much dimmer. Whenever the golden light dimmed, the shadows in the wall became more obvious and moved more frequently, as if a group of "people" lived inside and were partying.
Wei Zhizhi stopped screaming, glanced at the dark golden pattern on the wall, jumped off the bed, and spun happily in the room with the clown doll in her arms: "I won't listen to you, I won't listen to you. You are so stupid, so foolish, so weak, Chen Xiaoyang will never be like you. Hehe, you must be jealous, right?" She stopped spinning, tilted her head and asked innocently: "Ningning, are you jealous of me?"
Wei Ning shook his head, and before he could say anything, Wei Zhizhi suddenly appeared in front of him. The two were very close, Wei Zhizhi was suspended in the air, above the small bed with a blank expression: "Ningning, I dislike you more and more. After you ate that bead, you no longer like me, you don't want to accompany me, and you don't want others to accompany me. I'm really unhappy, Ningning. If I had known, I shouldn't have tricked you into eating dad's bead." She looked frustrated, and then said: "But I don't like that bead, I know dad has always wanted to eat that bead. Hehehe, I didn't let him eat it. Hehehe, he didn't eat it, so angry, so angry."
Wei Zhizhi was very happy, she jumped off the bed and started spinning around barefoot. Wei Ning slowly closed his eyes, ignoring Wei Zhizhi's invitation to play games as usual.
Chen Yang told Mao Xiaoli and Zhang Qiudao about the wronged soul holding the Fengdu amnesty token. Although Zhang Qiudao was a little surprised, he actually had some guesses in his mind. Mao Xiaoli was really surprised: "It can't be true? Zhang Qiudao, you also know it?"
Zhang Qiu said: "I roughly guessed it."
Mao Xiaoli asked Chen Yang: "Brother Chen, what do you know?"
"Not long after. Probably when Dr. Hao died."
At this time, there was a knock on the door. Zhang Qiudao, who was closest, opened the door, and Kou Xuanling and Lu Xiuzhi walked in. Chen Yang saw the two of them coming in and asked, "What's going on?"
Kou Xuanling said, "Didn't we find out what the patterns on the walls of the entire collection hall are? We found out that the patterns on the walls are the Sanskrit version of the Shurangama Mantra."
Chen Yang: "The entire wall of the collection hall is covered with the Shurangama Mantra?"
Kou Xuanling: “Yes.”
Everyone was surprised, but they could understand it when they thought about the strong ghost atmosphere in the collection hall. The so-called "Lingyan Mantra" is the most important and longest mantra in Buddhist scriptures, and is called the king of mantras. Most Buddhist scriptures can suppress evil and exorcise demons, among which the "Lingyan Mantra" is known as the Buddhist classic that can exorcise all evil spirits in the world. Every word and sentence can suppress evil.
The Sanskrit version of "Heart Sutra" was written on the walls of the entire collection hall. It should be that when the collection hall was renovated fifteen years ago, Wei Guangming invited a high monk to write it on the wall to ward off evil spirits.
Mao Xiaoli said, "This collection hall was originally a mansion, which was originally evil. Almost all the people who lived there died, and it was in a state of disrepair. Wei Guangming bought it at a low price, asked a senior monk to suppress the evil spirits, and then collected those evil things, making the house, which was already full of evil spirits, even more evil. So, the Shurangama Mantra was used to suppress those 'people' that Wei Zhizhi mentioned?"
Kou Xuanling: "Nine out of ten. By the way, I just went downstairs to get dinner and found that Dr. Hao's body had disappeared. I vaguely heard Feng Ping and Wei Mianmian arguing, and Feng Ping seemed to be scolding Dr. Hao's assistant. It seemed that the assistant ran away alone without him, but Wei Mianmian argued that the cars in the garage were still there, and it was impossible for the assistant to walk out alone. Especially now that it is raining heavily."
Chen Yang: "The assistant is missing, and Dr. Hao's body is also missing? Dr. Hao's body was not seen on the sand outside?"
"No." Kou Xuanling shook her head and said, "I went to see it on purpose. At first, I really thought that Wei Guangming threw Dr. Hao's body outside. I was standing at the window and saw the woman in white that Dr. Hao mentioned before he died. She was staring at the entire collection hall in the rain. She was indeed the soul of someone who died unjustly. She was obsessed and had lost her mind. Because she killed Dr. Hao, she has become a fierce ghost, covered in blood. She doesn't have the Fengdu Pardon Token, so there is another wronged soul who holds the Fengdu Pardon Token."
Chen Yang: "The woman in white is Wei Guangming's ex-wife. Logically, she is still obsessed with it. As long as she kills Dr. Hao who killed her, she can get rid of the obsession. But she is still wandering outside the collection hall, which can only mean that there are other people who killed her."
Zhang Qiu said, "Wei Guangming? Excluding Wei Guangming's ex-wife's children, only Wei Guangming is left. Wei Guangming has a selfish and cold personality. It is very likely that his ex-wife was killed by him because she threatened him to some extent."
Mao Xiaoli: "Why don't you suspect Qi Yin? She has more conflicts of interest with Wei Guangming's ex-wife."
"It's impossible. When Qi Yin married Wei Guangming, Wei Guangming had already divorced his ex-wife. The property had been divided, and they would not have any conflict of interest." Zhang Qiudao said.
Mao Xiaoli continued to raise questions: "Wei Guangming and his ex-wife had no business dealings. His ex-wife divorced him because she couldn't stand Wei Guangming's strange hobbies and the horrible collections above the third floor. When they divorced, there was no dispute over the division of property. Since there is no dispute over interests, the only connection left is the one."
Zhang asked, "Children."
Kou Xuanling went on to say, "Wei Jie and Wei Guangming have the same interests, and their father-son relationship can be said to be the most harmonious. Moreover, Wei Jie is not very close to his mother. Wei Mianmian was studying abroad at the time, and her temperament is rather mean, and she is not close to either of her parents. The remaining Wei Xiaoxiao is rather cowardly and silent. When Wei Guangming's ex-wife divorced Wei Guangming, Wei Xiaoxiao was only eleven or twelve years old, and she would indeed be a child that Wei Guangming's ex-wife was concerned about and worried about. In addition, Wei Guangming once married his daughter to a man in his fifties for a collection, and perhaps that was the reason for the dispute."
"The timing is wrong." Mao Xiaoli pointed out: "When Wei Xiaoxiao married that old man in his fifties, Wei Guangming's ex-wife had already met with an accident."
"It's possible that Wei Guangming had used Wei Xiaoxiao before, but we just didn't know about it." Kou Xuanling analyzed, "Wei Guangming's ex-wife was very beautiful. Dr. Hao came to the Wei Collection Museum many times as a private doctor, so he might have coveted Wei Guangming's ex-wife. Later, he raped and killed her because of her beauty. But in Wei Guangming's description, it was because he had a quarrel with his ex-wife, and his ex-wife left in anger in the middle of the night. I think that if Wei Guangming's ex-wife wanted to leave for Wei Xiaoxiao, then when they had a fierce quarrel, the ex-wife should have taken Wei Xiaoxiao with her forcefully instead of leaving alone."
"so?"
Kou Xuanling: "So when Dr. Hao raped and murdered his ex-wife, Wei Guangming must have been present."
Chen Yang looked at Lu Xiuzhi and asked him, "The Shurangama Mantra on the wall of the collection hall is used to suppress the evil spirits sealed in the wall. Where is the relic?"
Lu Xiuzhi: “It was eaten.”
The others didn't quite understand the conversation between the two, and they didn't know that the legendary relics really existed. They asked, "Who ate the relics?"
Chen Yang: "I understand. Now that everything is clear, let me tell you." He took out the notebook where he had recorded all the key points and clues, opened it and said first: "By the way, the reason why Wei Guangming quarreled with his ex-wife was not Wei Xiaoxiao, but Wei Zhizhi."
"What's this about Wei Zhizhi?"
Chen Yang: "Because Wei Zhizhi's mother is Wei Guangming's ex-wife, not Qi Yin."
Qi Yin brought the plate into Wei Jie and his wife's room. To be honest, she was not happy. Before she married Wei Guangming, she did have a relationship with Wei Jie, which led to Wei Jie and his wife always disliking her and always finding fault with her. Wei Guangming valued Wei Jie more.
When Wei Jie and his wife both injured their legs, Qi Yin felt relieved. But before Wei Guangming died, she didn't dare to openly tear her face off. As soon as she entered Wei Jie and his wife's room, it was indeed dark. The curtains were tightly drawn and the lights were not on. The already dim room was pitch dark. Qi Yin turned on the light in a bad mood, turned around and suddenly saw Wei Jie standing behind her with a gloomy and thin face, and she was almost scared to death.
Qi Yin endured the anger: "Why are you standing behind me?"
Wei Jie looked dull and asked after a long while: "Why is it you?"
Qi Yin laughed angrily: "If I hadn't come to deliver the food, who would care about you?"
"Where's Wei Xiaoxiao?"
"I don't know." Qi Yin put the plate heavily on the table and complained deliberately: "They appear in front of her father every day, but disappear when they need help. They are all cunning and pretentious." Seeing that Wei Jie was unmoved after complaining, Qi Yin rolled her eyes unhappily and turned to leave. Suddenly, a hand stretched out from under the table and grabbed her foot.
Qi Yin screamed, looked down and saw that it was Xu Yue, so she screamed: "Xu Yue?! What are you crazy about! Let go! Let go!" She kicked Xu Yue's wrist hard, almost breaking it before she managed to break free. "Xu Yue, are you crazy?!"
Xu Yue was lying under the table, dishevelled and laughing crazily, not caring about the pain in her legs and wrists. She kept muttering, "... they're here to take revenge. We will all die, all die." She muttered, making unclear syllables from her throat, which earned Wei Jie a look of disgust.
Wei Jie picked up the bowl and threw it at her: "Shut up!"
The porcelain bowl hit Xu Yue's forehead and shattered instantly. Blood oozed from Xu Yue's forehead, but she smiled even more strangely: "Retribution. No one can escape, it's all retribution." She jumped out suddenly, threw Qi Yin to the ground, grabbed her collar and shouted madly: "Retribution, do you know? You can't escape either, you have been in Gu, Zhi... You can't run away—ah!"
Wei Jie uncovered Xu Yue and began to beat her. Qi Yin got up in fear and ran out of the room: "Crazy, crazy, all crazy." Xu Yue prided herself on being noble and elegant. She usually cared most about her image and liked to describe others as crazy. She hated sloppy people the most, but now she was crazy. As for Wei Jie, although his personality was not very good, at least he respected Xu Yue.
Qi Yin wandered around the living room for a few steps, always feeling that Xu Yue's voice of "retribution" was echoing in her ears, making her feel uneasy. While wandering, she walked to the place where Dr. Hao was parked before, feeling unlucky, and at the same time felt that the living room was empty and gloomy. She hesitated again and again, and still chose her son over accompanying Wei Guangming.
Wei Guangming has become weird recently, which makes people scared. Qi Yin thought while going upstairs. When she was on the second floor, she saw the clock decoration. She walked over involuntarily and opened the clock. The clock was empty, but in an instant, Xu Yue's "retribution" and Wei Zhizhi's body flashed through her mind.
The little girl's bent body was covered with purple scars. She was terribly thin due to years of abuse and malnutrition, and her ribs were clearly visible. Her expression had become numb, gradually turning pale and cold, and her big black eyes were wide open, as if she didn't understand what she had done wrong to be treated so painfully.
She died with her eyes open.
I will die with my eyes open!
Qi Yin shook her head, thinking that she might be hallucinating. She looked again, and the clock was still empty. She curled her lips, stiff and numb: "No way? I've been too tired recently, so tired that I'm hallucinating."
She took a few steps back, staggered and shook her head to deny, "My daughter, how could I not know? I must be too tired. How could I imagine that something happened to my daughter? It's a hallucination... It's a hallucination. Just go back and get some sleep."
Qi Yin turned and left. After walking a few steps, she heard a noise behind her. She looked back hesitantly and found that the clock had been turned off at some point. There was a 'bang bang bang' sound coming from inside. She felt as if she had heard the violent noises accompanied by shrill cries and screams before.
She stepped back, the bang bang bang sound stopped, and the next moment there was a more violent knock, and the clock was suddenly kicked open. A small corpse with twisted limbs crawled out from inside. Her hands and feet were tied deformed by ropes, and when she crawled out, she supported herself on the ground with her knees and elbows, leaving wounds and bloodstains.
"Ho, ho, ho..." Qi Yin panted, her whole body trembling as she watched the little corpse slowly crawl towards her. It touched her feet, climbed up her calves, reached her shoulders, and pressed against her cheek. Qi Yin caught a glimpse of the child's pale face from the corner of her eye. The latter had dark eyes, and his lips were pursed into a long line, which suddenly opened, revealing a black hole and screaming.
Qi Yin screamed in pain, covered her ears and stumbled away. When she went down the stairs, she rolled down the stairs where Xu Yue fell, and also broke her leg. In a trance, she seemed to see Wei Zhizhi standing at the stairs holding a doll, looking down at her with an expressionless face, and then suddenly she jumped and laughed and left.
She remembered that the older twin she gave birth to five years ago did not survive. Two years later, the poor child in the collection also did not survive. Later, a five-year-old girl appeared in the collection, and everyone thought she was the older twin, including her.
Qi Yin murmured: "Retribution..."
She remembered that Wei Zhizhi was dead.
She died with her eyes open and came back again.
In the collection room on the fifth floor, Wei Xiaoxiao gently wiped the blood off the painting and asked in a low voice: "Are you still hungry?" She was silent for a while, as if listening to the painting's answer. After hearing the answer, she continued: "There are a few people downstairs, enough for you to eat. However, there are a few heavenly masters who don't seem to have any ability. Are you afraid? Not afraid? Then let's go."
Wei Xiaoxiao held the painting titled "Grotesque" and turned around, facing the door. In the painting in her arms, the evil ghost in the painting became more vivid because it had eaten two people, and the concrete horror was vividly displayed on the paper.
The author has something to say: Zhizhi is Tomino, Ningning is a human, but after swallowing the sarira, she opened her spiritual wisdom and became extremely smart, knowing a lot of things. I feel that many people can guess it right, and some are almost spoilers hhhhhh