The driver of the rickshaw was a strong young man, who was tall and burly, but his mouth was broken like an aunt in the neighborhood who liked to chew the root of his tongue.

"Hey, you're going to the Peking Theater. ”

The extras are quite dedicated, in order to fit the role, he learned the taste of Beijing films, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was ruffian, and a variety of tone words emerged in endlessly.

Xu Chunqiu said "um", didn't say much, she put the handbag that Lu Jin had prepared for her on her lap, and waited quietly for the coachman to continue to provide information.

The coachman "tsk" twice, and I don't know what he was sighing for.

"Don't you know, the Peking Theater has been suspended, and it has long been closed to the public, what are you doing there at this time?"

"Not open to the public?" Xu Chunqiu unconsciously repeated half a sentence and asked rhetorically.

"Isn't it, this Peking Theater was placed in the past, what a scenery it was, not to mention anything else, just say that the Yuhua class, it is really hard to get a ticket. ”

"Who would have thought that the world would be in chaos, and now it has fallen to this step, let alone the play, how much time has passed, and there is not even a single light in the theater garden, and I am afraid that a thick layer of ash has accumulated on the stage covered with red carpet. ”

Xu Chunqiu frowned slightly, she had a hunch that the coachman in front of her must know some important information: "Can you tell me more details?"

The coachman just tugged at the towel around his neck, and hesitated with a sad face, refusing to go any further.

Xu Chunqiu thought for a moment, and said again: "You pull over first." ”

The rickshaw slowed down and came to a stop against the side of the road.

Xu Chunqiu opened her handbag, counted the coils that Lu Jin had made for her, and counted two silver dollars and stuffed them into him.

During the same period, the price of rice in Beiping was 10 silver dollars per stone in the city, and two silver dollars was really a considerable amount of extra money.

The coachman got a benefit from Xu Chunqiu, and immediately changed his previous attitude with a smile.

"I'll tell you something," he said, pulling up the car and running as he ran, "I'm hearsay myself, so just listen to it and take it to heart." ”

Xu Chunqiu motioned to him to continue with interest.

"The theater said that it didn't let people in, but it was inevitable that there would be fish that slipped through the net. ”

"Guess what, a few naughty kids sneaked into the closed theater in the dark, I don't know if the string was drawn, and they had to play some four-cornered game......"

Xu Chunqiu heard the unfamiliar term, and asked, "Four corners game?"

The coachman nodded, "I guess you've never heard of it, and to be honest, it's the first time I've heard of such a thing." ”

"I heard that it came from Japan, so it's not the time to go to Japan to study. He lowered his head and hissed, and spat disdainfully, "But this Japanese is not a thing these days, I heard that they are stationed in Fengtai, just by the Lugou Bridge, I don't know what big moves they are plotting......

The more he talked, the more he deviated, and it took a while to react: "Hey, it's far away, let's go back to the four-corner game I just mentioned, and I'll tell you how to play this thing." ”

He turned his head and saw Xu Chunqiu sitting in the back seat, listening intently, so he slowed down and began to explain.

"To play this game, you have to be in a room where you can't see the light, so dark that you can't even see your fingers. ”

"Find an empty room, and there is a person standing in each of the four corners of the room, and after the game starts, the person in the first corner walks to the second corner and pats the shoulder of the person in the second corner, and then the person in the first corner stands still in the second corner, and the person who was standing in the second corner goes to the third corner, and so on. ”

"Just turned around, when it was the turn of the person in the fourth corner, it stands to reason that he should go to shoot the first person, and the interesting thing is that the person who was originally standing in the fourth corner, he is gone. ”

The NPC playing the role of the coachman is like telling a ghost story, trying his best to render the atmosphere of horror, as if even the tone of his speech has become mysterious: "Every time these children play, there is one less person, and in the end only one child comes out, who knows that when he returns home, he will get crazy, he knows how to say some foolish things, he doesn't sleep at night and often sleepwalks at night, and he is not even awake." ”

Xu Chunqiu frowned: "What's the matter?"

The coachman shook his head: "Hey, I am a cart puller for such a thing, how can I know so carefully, it is all the people who sit in the car casually talk, I just listened to it casually, and I don't know how much news has been transmitted to me." ”

"Didn't I tell you before, you should just have a good time, don't take it too seriously......"

His mouth is still broken, but the work under his feet is not idle. At this point, he looked up and grinned, "Here we are." ”

Xu Chunqiu got out of the rickshaw and found that the rest of the people were already waiting for her at the gate of the dilapidated theater.

"Qiuqiu, why have you been here for so long?" Xie Lang said casually with concern, without half a hint of complaint in his tone.

Xu Chunqiu's thoughts were still stuck in the so-called "four-corner game" that the coachman told her, and she thoughtfully asked the other four people: "Did the coachman who just pulled the rickshaw mention to you about the Beiping Theater and the four-corner game that happened in the theater?"

Xie Lang shook his head blankly: "No." ”

She then added: "But I've heard of the four-cornered game, it's from Japan, this kind of supernatural game is quite famous." ”

Du Zigui also said: "The coachman talked to me, but he didn't say anything about the four-corner game, but casually mentioned to me the auction house in the north of the city." ”

Xu Chunqiu bowed slightly, it seemed that Du Zigui had come into contact with information about another key clue.

Fu Nanxun couldn't help but ask, "Teacher Xu, what did that person tell you just now?"

Xu Chunqiu's expression was solemn, and he relayed all the effective information he had just taken from the coachman's mouth to the rest of the people.

After hearing this, Xie Lang turned his head to look at the dilapidated building, the paint on the door was mottled and peeled off, and the inside of the theater building was pitch black, and no light could be seen. She unconsciously folded her arms and shivered, and the goosebumps on her arms stood up one by one.

I don't know why, but I always feel that this place is eerie.