1.

"Sisters, I said that you are also a tiger, you dare to jump down without even looking at such a high place! Take 10,000 steps back, don't take me with you if you want to jump, you don't want to live, I still want to!"

In the living room of Room 3601, Lin Xiaowu sat on the sofa in shock, and Ye Wuxin leaned beside him, holding his hand and slowly passing the internal force into his body, helping him relieve his restless true qi due to the adrenaline surge.

When Lin Xiao spoke, everyone's eyes were focused on the other person in the living room. The woman in black was sitting cross-legged on the ground at this moment, staring intently, as if she hadn't noticed the gazes of the others shooting at her. The curtain on her face had been taken off by Lin Xiao, and her delicate face was faintly pale, obviously what had just happened had a great impact on her.

Bai Yi leaned over to Yunxiao and asked in a low voice, "Is it her—that daughter of Li Zhou?" Yunxiao was silent and nodded slightly.

Ling Ying walked up to Li Jing, squatted down, and asked tentatively, "Li Jing?"

The girl opened her eyes and bit her lower lip lightly, as if she was struggling inwardly.

"Why did you leave the sect without permission?"

Li Jing didn't speak, her lips were tightly pursed, and some tears rolled in her eyes.

Lin Xiao, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly said: "You don't want to say why you left, but you left the soul chasing order as a clue." You hope that Ling Ying will lead someone to find you, but you are not satisfied with the ending. The reason why you are silent is because you feel that you can save the boat on your own. ”

Li Jing raised her head sharply, her eyes like a torch. Ling Ying hadn't reacted yet: "What do you mean?"

"I've always been wrong. Lin Xiao still said to Li Jing, "I know that in this game, there is a hunting ground relationship between you and Li Zhou, but I subconsciously feel that you are always hiding your whereabouts in order to avoid confrontation with Li Zhou, so Li Zhou is the hunter, and you are the prey." ”

"Until I was on the rooftop just now, I saw you shoot at Li Zhou. It stands to reason that there is a huge disparity in strength between the two of you, and Li Zhou could have subdued you to threaten Ling Ying, but he decisively used the teleportation charm to escape. That's when I realized - it's the hunter!"

Hong Chen's eyes widened in surprise: "She's chasing Li Zhou?"

"The Purple Sun Divine Sect searched the entire Quadruple Building but found no trace of Li Zhou, everyone thought that they were not looking for it thoroughly enough, and it should have been at that time that you realized that Li Zhou had left the Quadruple Building. Lin Xiao met Li Jing's scorching gaze and continued coldly, "But you didn't say anything, you realized that something was wrong with Li Zhou, once he was controlled by someone and committed something, he was caught by the people of the Purple Sun Divine Sect...... That's the last thing you want to see, all you choose to go it alone. ”

Li Jing Senran sneered, she didn't seem to have made a sound for a long time, and her laughter sounded a little hoarse: "I can't imagine that your cultivation is not high, but your brain is quite bright, no wonder you can live until now." ”

Lin Xiao laughed: "Little sister, you have won the award, and you dare not be ashamed." Let's not say that you can still be safe and sound after being alone for so long, just because you can bypass Ma Wei's blockade and come to the Sanchong Building, I will bow to the wind. ”

Bai Yi frowned and said, "How did you avoid Ma Wei's blockade line with your little cultivation, how did you do it?!"

"Before coming to the Triple Building, I used my father's belongings to cast a spell and found out where he spent the last time in the Quadrequent, which was a ruined burial mound. "There I found several tombstones with traces of excavation, and there were remnants of my father's breath on them. I figured it wasn't for nothing that he stayed in that place, so I stayed there for three days and three nights with the dead. ”

Lin Xiao couldn't help but gasp, thinking that this girl looked soft and weak, and it was really not easy to be ruthless!

Li Jing explained this, and everyone was shocked, but also understood the meaning: Li Jing stayed with the dead for three days and three nights, and the breath of the living on his body was temporarily covered; In this way, those tricks will not work on her.

Moreover, through Li Jing's description, the question that everyone had been unable to figure out before - how Li Zhou avoided Ma Wei and came to the Sanchong Building was also reasonably explained.

Ling Ying held Li Jing's shoulder and said, "Xiaojing, you must tell us the truth. Even if you don't say it, we will follow the existing clues to the end, but that would be a big risk, and your stepfather's life would be in danger. Tell us what you know and we can figure it out to help you. ”

Li Jing's eyes became confused, and then began to become firm, and the hands on her knees gradually clenched.

"My dad...... It's been controlled!" Li Jing finally spoke.

Yunxiao asked, "Who is the mastermind behind the scenes?"

Li Jing shook her head vigorously: "I don't know." ”

"Sisters, don't mind, it's still hidden at this time, and it's not good for you and me. Lin Xiao said.

Li Jing said: "I really don't know! After I left the Sizhong Building, I have been following my father with the 'Sinan Technique', on the one hand, to find a way to call him back, on the other hand, to stir up the situation and prevent him from making a big mistake, and then to catch out the people who control my father behind the scenes." But I have followed him all the way to this day, and he has been acting alone from beginning to end, with no one to contact him or give him instructions, as if all the actions were planned by him alone. ”

"I can't find the mastermind behind it, so I can only sabotage his plans frequently. First, it is in the hope of luring out the person behind him, and second, although I don't know who he is before," he said and glared at Lin Xiao, "but I know that the person who is guarded by the sword idiot himself must have an unusual identity, if my father really hurts him, I am afraid that it will provoke the conflict between the Purple Sun Divine Sect and the Ethereal City, and then the situation will be even more complicated - and I am afraid that this is what the mastermind behind the scenes really wants to see." ”

Lin Xiao glanced at Ye Wuxin: "It's good that you are guarding me, otherwise she might have let me be slaughtered by Li Zhou." ”

Ye Wuxin snorted coldly: "I see who dares!"

Bai Yi said: "Then you have followed Li Zhou for so long, and you haven't noticed anything wrong with him?"

Li Jing nodded: "Yes." I couldn't find the person behind my dad, so I thought about taking a step back and trying to find out how the person behind the scenes was controlling me. ”

Everyone asked in unison, "What is it?"

At this time, Li Jing showed a hesitant expression on her face, as if she was not sure of her answer: "I don't know if I found the correct answer, but I think - nine times out of ten, it has something to do with the ghost on his face." ”

"That bronze ghost mask is really weird. Ling Ying, who had seen the mask on the face of the man in black, said in a deep voice: "After that mask is put on, it covers the entire head, leaving no gaps in the seams, not only can it not breathe, but the five senses must be shielded from at least four senses, how can a normal person hold on? But when Li Zhou fought with me just now, he moved freely and was not affected by that at all." ”

Li Jing continued: "I found that after my father put on that mask, he did not have to eat or sleep, and when he was alone, he either sat still or wandered in the wilderness for hours without stopping. ”

Yunxiao couldn't help but shudder: "I have goosebumps when I say it, what the hell is so evil?!"

Lin Xiao also frowned: "This state...... How do I sound like I've been lowered!"

Li Jing's eyes suddenly flashed with a bright light: "This is what I want to say next." ”

Everyone was shocked: "Huh?"

"What's that...... Sisters. Lin Xiao sat up straight, "What about me, after all, I am the one who fell from the stairs - my brain may not be very good, you must not be led astray by me!"

After Li Jing heard this, her eyes brightened, and her voice trembled: "Falling from the building, are you the legendary Ethereal City Sword Demon who separated the seven-story building-Lin Xiao?!"

Lin Xiao was dumbfounded: "Are you sleepwalking when you follow your father? You don't know who your father wants to kill for a long time, right?!"

"I just thought about how to get my dad back, and who he wanted to kill. The hostility that Li Jing still had reserved had completely disappeared at this moment, and this change in attitude made Lin Xiao a little suspicious of whether she had a dual personality.

"I should have thought of it a long time ago, who else can make the sword idiot Ye Wuxin so attentive but you!"

An imperceptible flush suddenly appeared on Ye Wuxin's face.

"Yes, I'm Lin Xiao...... But that's not the point!" Lin Xiao said, "Although I don't have a complete memory now, I also know that this kind of thing 'lowering the head' sounds evil, but whether it is 'medicine descending', 'flying down' or 'ghost descending', not to mention the cultivation of Li Zhou's level, even if it is you, a little more tossing can be resolved." ”

Li Jing said: "It's not necessarily the head lowering that controls people, but it is also a similar kind of Gu witchcraft. Before, when my father was hiding to prevent the pursuit of the Soul Chasing Pavilion, I sneaked back to the Quadruple Building and arrived in Lingnan to see what incident my father was dealing with before he disappeared, and whether he would leave any clues. ”

"Then did you find out, what was Li Zhou checking at that time?"

This time, it was Li Jing and Ling Ying who said in unison:

"Witch Gu Murder Incident!"

2.

"Witch Gu?" Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows, "You want to say ......"

"It shouldn't be a coincidence that my father investigated a case related to Gu before he disappeared, right?"

"I'm a little dizzy to hear it, so let's talk about this witch or something......

Ling Ying frowned and replied: "Two months ago, the outer disciples who practiced in the Lingnan area discovered traces of witchcraft and evil, the murderers used Gu worms to use witchcraft to control people's hearts and create bloody cases, and those who were possessed by Gu worms will be squeezed out of their vitality at one time, and the means are extremely cruel. ”

Those disciples tried to eliminate the murderers, but they were injured by the Gu people, so they had to go back to the sect to report the matter. I sent Li Zhou to lead the inner disciples to Lingnan to investigate this matter, and you also know what happened later. As for the specific history of this case, only by asking Li Zhou or those disciples who carried out the mission could they know. ”

Ye Wuxin's face was frosty: "We can't wait for you to go back to the Purple Sun Divine Sect to ask those people." The most direct way now is to catch Li Zhou, so that we can know what happened to him and the ins and outs of this series of things. ”

Bai Yi sneered: "Catch, I see that this guy's eyesight is very good, when he can beat it, he fights harder than anyone else, and when he can't beat it, he escapes faster than anyone else, and even the teleportation charm is sacrificed, how to catch it?"

"The use of the teleportation talisman requires a lot of spiritual power, and it is impossible to use it a second time in a short period of time, otherwise the true qi in the body will not be good, and forcibly using it will hurt the heart and veins. Ye Wuxin said, "We can take advantage of this vacuum period to force him to make a move and take it in one fell swoop." ”

Hong Chen said: "It's easy to say, but what do we have to do to force him to make a move?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "The ready-made hostage is in front of you, do you still need to worry about this problem?" After finishing speaking, he set his eyes on Li Jing.

Li Jing's eyes widened: "Me?"

Yunxiao said: "Li Zhou's physical condition is unknown now, and he doesn't know if he is being controlled, and he may only know that he is going to kill you, why do you think he will make a move for Li Jing now?"

Lin Xiao smiled slightly and replied, "Just because he knows about Li Jing's existence, he has been avoiding her." ”

Yunxiao glared: "What kind of reason is this?"

"Don't you think it's strange?" Lin Xiao spread his hands, "Ling Ying can bring a lot more threat than Li Jing, why did Ling Ying dare to confront it head-on when he appeared, and as soon as Li Jing appeared, he did not hesitate to use the teleportation charm to escape, even at the expense of a lot of spiritual power." Because in his subconscious, he still recognizes this daughter. ”

Li Jing lowered her head and was silent, her eyes slightly moist.

Ling Ying said: "So as long as we use the Li Jing layout, we can lure Li Zhou out." Saying that, he glanced at Li Jing who was sitting on the ground, and knew that she was hurting for her father, and couldn't help but be a little soft-hearted: "But wouldn't it seem a little despicable to do this." ”

Ye Wuxin said coldly: "There is no clear distinction between right and wrong in any means, the key lies in the mental skills of the people who use these means. ”

Ling Ying and Yunxiao were silent, although this sword idiot was an outstanding figure of the Sword Sect's Ethereal City, but after all, he was from the Demon Sect, and some methods that were despised by famous and decent families were not really despicable at all in her eyes.

"Li Zhou's cultivation is not much different from those of you who are in charge, although the spiritual power consumed by the teleportation talisman is large, it is only a day or two to restore the lost true qi. Lin Xiao looked at the hesitant Ziyang Divine Sect and his party, "This method may not be very glorious, but if you wait for Li Zhou to come up with the next trick to harm me, at that time, no one will stir up the situation, and if you want to catch him, it will be much more troublesome than now!"

Li Jing raised her head suddenly, tears in her eyes not dry: "If I help you catch my father, can you promise me that you won't hurt him?"

"Of course not. Lin Xiao said, "I promise to return you a father with all arms and legs." But there's one thing......"

Li Jing said vigilantly: "What do you want to do?"

Lin Xiao's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "! Lao Tzu studied in college well, if he hadn't targeted me frequently, where would these things come from? Since you can't beat him a few times to get angry, then personal attacks must be indispensable! If you catch him this time, if you don't greet all the eighteen generations of his ancestors, I will give him his surname!"

Everyone was embarrassed.

Li Jing burst into laughter, tilted her head for consideration, and said, "This ...... It can be considered. ”

"By the way, there's one more question. After everyone had laughed enough, Lin Xiao said with a straight face, "Since you said that you have been following Li Zhou, then I want to ask-do you know where he found those identical stand-ins in the last case?"

Li Jing suddenly snorted softly: "Oh, if you don't mention it, I'll forget about it!" said and began to rummage through the pockets on his cloak, "I followed my father to a heavy building, and found that he not only went to the Soul Chasing Pavilion, but also went to Beiyin Mountain, there was a sinkhole in the valley over there, and he took one thing from there - this is it." After speaking, he took out a cloth bag from his pocket, and inside was a jade pendant.

It was a Pisces jade pendant.

This jade pendant is carved with white jade, and the eyes, gills, pelvic fins, tail and other details are carved with yin lines, and the gold thread is tied from the mouth of the double fish.

Li Jing said: "After the stand-in incident, I stole it. But I can't figure out how this thing can replicate the exact same creature. I didn't dare to try it indiscriminately, so I put it away with a cloth bag first. ”

Yunxiao smiled: "You must have stolen experience from stealing candy, how can you be so skilled, you can even steal this kind of thing." After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look, but saw that Lin Xiao had already stood up from the sofa, his eyes staring directly at the Pisces jade pendant, his eyes were full of horror and uneasiness.

Ye Wuxin also stood up, held his shoulders and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Lin replied calmly: "I recognize this thing." ”

Everyone exclaimed, "What?!"

Ling Ying said blankly, "Didn't you say he had amnesia, how could he still recognize something other than the Triple Building?"

Bai Yi was also at a loss: "It's amnesia, yes, what's the situation?"

Hong Chen asked, "What is this?" We don't know, but you actually know?!"

Lin Xiao muttered, "This is one of my childhood nightmares!"

"What?!"

"Have you heard of the Lop Nur Pisces Jade Pendant incident?"

“......”

3.

In 1957~1962, some explorers and investigators discovered some ruins of the ancient city in Lop Nur. There are some young people who are keen on adventure and want to go hunt for some antiques, and no one knows what happened to them after they entered the monuments, only that when they were rescued, they were all dead and crazy, and they looked like they had been ghosted.

Those who were lucky enough to survive were so active that they all died of exhaustion. After an autopsy, it was found that there were unknown toxins in their bodies and unknown plants in their stomachs, and it was speculated that these people had eaten this plant to cause the tragedy.

The relevant departments intervened in the investigation, but due to the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, most of the administrative organs were paralyzed, and there was no follow-up. It was not until the early eighties of the last century that the expedition team was reassembled and entered the ruins of the ancient city of Lop Nur, with the aim of searching for those unknown plants.

The expedition team found samples of the unknown plants in the ruins, but when they were about to return, the team leader disappeared overnight. The team followed the trail into an ancient city and came to a dry well in the middle of the city.

The team found a secret chamber under the dry well, which seems to have been used by the ancients for some kind of experiment. They rummaged through every nook and cranny of it, and didn't find the kind of plant they were looking for, but they stumbled upon something else—

A delicately carved Pisces jade pendant.

The researchers suspected that the jade pendant they brought back would carry some kind of substance, and it should be related to the unknown plant, so they planned to use biological testing to test what kind of substance was on this jade pendant - they took a fish and put the fish and the jade pendant into the water together. The reason for the choice of fish should be influenced by the double fish shape of the jade pendant.

A strange scene appeared, when the fish was facing the jade pendant, another identical fish immediately appeared! The two fish looked at each other from a distance across the jade pendant, like two sides of a mirror.

The researchers made a mark on the body of the original fish, and then found that the same mark appeared on the copied fish, but the direction of the mark was reversed.

Such a result is very similar to the lotus root structure of "Yin and Yang Taiji Fish" in Taoist culture - Yin embraces Yang, Yang and negative Yin.

After Lin Xiao finished the story, he picked up the tea on the table and poured a big sip, and then continued: "Regarding this incident, I heard more nonsense supernatural versions when I was a child. When I grew up, I summed it up a little, and what I could believe should be the ones I just talked about. ”

Hong Chen shook his head and sighed: "Who coaxed me to come to Sanchonglou and told me that the world here is the cleanest? Don't let me think about it, otherwise I will definitely let him have a good memory!"

Everyone turned their eyes to the Pisces jade pendant. This jade pendant had just been banned twice by Ye Wuxin, and at this time it was lying on the table without movement, like two lifeless fish.

Despite the sealing, no one dared to touch it, and the devil knows what will happen in the next moment. When Li Jing knew that she had been carrying this "portable cloning machine" with her, her face turned white with fright.

Bai Yi asked, "Are you sure this thing is the one you know?" I remember that in the history of your Quadruple Building Huaxia, this kind of jade pendant in the shape of a double fish seems to have existed since the Liao Dynasty. ”

"If you also have a nightmare that doesn't repeat for half a month, I guarantee you'll remember it well. Lin Xiao said angrily, "At that time, although the relevant institutions pressed down the final scientific research results and kept them secret, when this jade pendant was unearthed and brought back, it was reported by foreign media. When I was a child, I went over the wall with a few friends to check the information on the Internet, and the Pisces jade pendant in the photo is exactly the same as the current one!"

Bai Yi said suddenly: "The corpse whisperer can always find a stand-in that is exactly the same as the deceased, it is because of the mirror effect produced by this Pisces jade pendant; ”

Ye Wuxin frowned: "But the time is not right, Yun Mengze said that the corpse whisperer was committed in a heavy building fifty years ago, and the early eighties of the last century should have been forty years ago, and the two things were ten years apart." ”

"And at that time, I hadn't broken the boundaries of the seven-story building, how could the things of the first floor appear in the three-story building, and be found by Li Zhou in the first-story building forty years later?"

Ling Ying said: "It's really contradictory to say this, but I think it's imperative to find a way to get back to Lizhou. Instead of struggling with it alone, it is better to find him and ask him what happened, and maybe everything will fall into place. ”

Lin Xiao nodded: "That's reasonable, hurry up and think of a way, how to lure him to make a move......" Several people put the matter of Yu Pei behind them for the time being, and began to discuss how to arrange and arrest Li Zhou.

Ye Wuxin didn't say a word, she quietly looked at the strange Pisces jade pendant on the table, several stories organized into clues, intertwined in her mind - these things are not related at all from the content point of view, but there is such a faint and half-coincidence that they are connected together.

It's like a pair of invisible hands, silently manipulating and correcting something behind their backs, so that some things that shouldn't have happened have become reality and show them in front of everyone's eyes......

Suddenly, Ye Wuxin's heart trembled, and the scene of Ma Wei coming to the Sanchong Building to meet him for the first time came to his mind came to his mind, as well as what he said-

"You know that the troubles I'm talking about aren't just limited to the four-story building, since the moment you broke the boundary, there has been no balance between the seven-story building, and many things have been going in a direction that we didn't plan. ”

Don't...... Could it be it?!

【To be continued】