The first half of Zhou Tong's sentence and the conclusion given by the Chu family are the same meaning, Wu Minzhi still understands it, but when it comes to the back, he can't understand what kind of lifeline is tied in a knot, Zhou Tong's words turned around in his mind, and Wu Minzhi asked: "What does Mr. Zhou mean that my eldest brother was framed?"

"I'm not sure. Zhou Tong said, "But it's true that your eldest brother is weird." He looked at Wu Huanzhi again, the lifeline in Wu Huanzhi's body disappeared again, and the black and white points in the eyes of yin and yang were also hidden in the two fish, and he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted with these eyes, what happened when they were good and sometimes bad?

Wu Huanzhi was still asleep, Zhou Tong and their soft words did not wake up Wu Huanzhi, Zhou Tong invited Wu Minzhi out of the room and asked him in the corridor: "When did your eldest brother start getting sick?"

"I went to the hospital about two months ago for a check-up, but according to my eldest brother, he started feeling sick almost three months ago. ”

"Did he go somewhere or meet anyone three months ago?"

"Yes. Wu Minzhi recalled carefully and said, "I still remember that at that time, X University invited the eldest brother to make a guest appearance at the year-end lecture, and the eldest brother pushed it under the pretext of something, and left home the next day and didn't know where to go, and it took nearly a month to come back." Wu Minzhi frowned and carefully calculated the time, and said, "It's about December." ”

"December, is it...... Can you give me your big brother's ID number?"

"Hey, okay. Wu Minzhi reported a string of numbers, Zhou Tong took a pen and wrote it down on a piece of paper, and then called Zhao Han and said, "Mr. Zhao, I have a personal matter here to trouble you, can you help me find out where this person went in December last year?"

Over there, Zhao Han readily agreed: "It's a trivial matter." ”

After putting down the phone, Zhou Tong asked without letting go of any clues: "Is there any strange watch on weekdays?"

"Strange table xiàn...... "Because of the relationship between the tutor, Wu Minzhi and his eldest brother Wu Huanzhi's relationship is as light as water, and after graduation, he is even more busy in his own circle and rarely interacts, Zhou Tong asked Wu Huanzhi these questions, Wu Minzhi can answer few of them, and he thought for a while before saying: "I don't have any strange things in my impression, but my eldest brother is quite disgusted with going to the hospital after he gets sick." I persuaded him for a week before he was willing to go for a check-up. That's right!" Wu Minzhi suddenly remembered something and said, "Big brother seems to have known about his physical condition for a long time, and he doesn't care about the results of the examination at all." ”

"Then why do you suspect that there is a demon and evil and want to go to the Chu family? With your scholarly family, you should believe in the doctors, but not in these doctrines of three religions and nine streams, right?"

"This ......" Wu Minzhi's expression was a little embarrassed, he looked at Zhou Tong in embarrassment, struggling with something, after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "This matter is the secret of the eldest brother, and I only found out about it accidentally, he is unwilling to let me sue others, but now this is a special situation, I am going to miss the appointment, I am sorry for the eldest brother." ”

He looked left and right and saw that there was no one in the corridor except Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan, so he lowered his voice and said to Zhou Tong: "You saw those in the eldest brother's room, right? Many of them were written by himself, you may have heard of his pen name, his name is Mr. Mustard." ”

"Mr. Mustard?" Zhou Tong was stunned, "All those books on the shelves were written by him?"

"Hmm. Wu Minzhi nodded and said: "I don't know when the hobby of the eldest brother started, but this pen name was about ten years ago, and since then he has been very keen on the way of metaphysics, to the point of almost madness, often forgetting to sleep and eating, and I also knew at that time that he was paying attention to these things." It may be that the enthusiasm at the beginning has faded, but in recent years, I have not been so enthusiastic, and this year my health has begun to become bad, and I wonder if it is evil when I think about it......"

Wu Minzhi gritted his teeth and said, "It's best if it's not, but in case it ......"

"I can't tell. Zhou Tong said, "There are no traces of the curse left on your eldest brother's body, and there is no evil spirit, there is no basis for judging whether he has fallen into evil for a while, I will observe it for two more days to see." ”

"Good. At present, this situation can only be like this, Wu Minzhi responded, he changed the number with Zhou Tong, and said: "During this time, as long as Mr. Zhou is free, you can come over, and I will wait for Mr. Zhou at any time." ”

Leaving Wu Minzhi's house, Zhou Tong sat in the taxi and thought about Wu Huanzhi's situation, and he asked the taxi driver: "Master, is there a bookstore near here?"

"Yes, my brother is going to the bookstore?"

"Well, can you please take us to the bookstore first?"

"Okay. At the intersection ahead, the driver turned a corner, and the taxi drove into the side road, and finally stopped in front of a large bookstore.

There is a large poster in the window, half of the body of a man in black is hidden in the shadows, the remaining half is in the light, a lotus platform on his chest is blooming faintly, and a golden lotus seed in the lotus platform is slowly rising, as if it is held in the hand of the man in black.

The poster, which reads "Immortality", is Mr. Mustard's recent horror "Immortality", which is currently selling well, and is now on the shelves of the bestsellers in major bookstores.

Zhou Tong entered the bookstore, picked up a copy of "Eternal Life", and pulled out a few representative works introduced on the Internet on the bookshelf next to Mr. Mustard's other works, "Human Sin", "Mud Plough" and "Eternal Life" happened to be the most popular trilogy at present, when I went to the front desk to pay the bill, the mobile phone rang, Zhao Han said: "Zhou Tong, I will help you check it, in December last year, this gentleman named Wu Huanzhi took M flight to Y City, Q Province, and I also helped you check his relevant information, you give me an email, I will send it to you." ”

"Okay, I'm sorry for you. ”

"Where to say. ”

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Tong compiled his email address into a text message and sent it to Zhao Han.

What did Wu Huanzhi do when he went to Y City...... The city of S is far from the city of Y, which spans almost the entire country. There are boarding records for Wu Huanzhi's whereabouts, but there is nowhere to check where he went to Y City, what people he saw, and what he did. Zhou Tong temporarily put down the clues here, paid the money for three books, and went back to the hotel where he stayed in S City.

After washing, Zhou Tong nestled in bed to read, and finished reading more than 200,000 words of "Human Sin" in one night.

This horror and suspense story is not all a fantasy story in the mind, but a legendary story adapted from some existing information, written with high tides and many mysteries, which makes people fall into it, Zhou Tong still feels endless aftertaste after reading it in one go, if it weren't for Ling Yuan forcing him to sleep at almost three o'clock in the morning, maybe Zhou Tong would be able to finish all three books in one night.

The protagonist of this series of stories is a young man from a scholarly family like Wu Huanzhi, his parents died, and he was pulled up by his grandfather, at the beginning of the story, the young man's grandfather died of illness, and when the young man packed up his belongings, he turned to a "ghost exorcism codex" made by his grandfather, and since then he has stepped into the door of metaphysics.

Since then, life has changed, there will always be some strange events around him, the young man has become a Yin and Yang who can understand ghosts and gods after experiencing these events, and the end of "Human Sin" has left a big foreshadowing, hooking people to the next one, Mr. Mustard is so well written, Zhou Tong actually found resonance in this book, especially the ending, which is almost exactly the same as his situation.

Young people discovered the disadvantages of becoming Mr. Yin and Yang, and the "five disadvantages and three shortcomings" that they could not escape, widowhood, widowhood, loneliness, loneliness, disability, money, life, and shortage, and what young people committed was the lack of life, and they were destined to live no longer than thirty years old.

This is exactly the punishment of the way of heaven for human beings to spy on the destiny of heaven and even to change their lives against heaven and trust themselves in vain, the so-called human sin.

The story that Zhou Tong read stopped here for the time being, this "Human Crime" had been published when he was in college, and I don't know how many times the book I got was reprinted, and the content has not changed much, but Zhou Tong's current situation seems to be more deeply touched than when he was in college, and the routines and exorcism methods used in it are all things that can only be found in orthodox metaphysics, and the theory of the four-pillar fortune measurement and the number of purple micro stars can be seen Wu Huanzhi's solid foundation.

After watching "Human Sin", Zhou Tong was at least ninety percent sure that Wu Huanzhi had entered the Tao, but I don't know why, Zhou Tong couldn't see Wu Huanzhi's physical condition but it was an unsolved mystery.

Don't...... Zhou Tong was taken aback, looked at Ling Yuan, and whispered, "Ling Yuan, do you say that it is possible that all the stories in this book are true, and they are Wu Huanzhi's own experience?"

Ling Yuan didn't know what the book was about, and of course he couldn't answer Zhou Tong's question, so he grabbed the book, flipped through it casually, frowned after reading a few pages, and said, "Isn't there often this kind of story of the old village's desolate corpses? Before, Tianxuan destroyed an entire village, and when he used all the villagers to refine the corpse, he took this ancient recipe, but the result was completely different from what was written in the book. ”

Zhou Tong glared at Ling Yuan, a bit of a fan protecting idols, he pulled the book back, looked at the description of corpses, and said: "This is after all, it will definitely add a little artificial literary color, and it is certain that there is a difference from reality." But...... According to what you mean, it shouldn't be Wu Huanzhi's personal experience. "Think about it carefully, Zhou Tong also felt that his idea was too unbelievable, Wu Huanzhi is an honorary professor at the local S University, a part-time elective course in Song History, and he has to go to class once a week, rain or shine, this kind of evil thing can't be done in ten days and half a month, so many strange things are described in the book, it can't all happen in S City, that's too coincidental, if it's in two places, Wu Huanzhi must be □□ lacking in skills, and it is impossible to run back and forth between the two places in a short time.

The experience is not necessarily true, but what about the character archetype? Could this young man who accidentally entered the Tao from the relics of his elders in his family be based on Wu Huanzhi?

Thinking of this, Zhou Tong decided to go to Wu Huanzhi's house again to investigate and see if Wu Huanzhi had really entered the Tao.

Zhou Tong called Wu Minzhi, first greeted Wu Minzhi, and learned that Zhou Tong was coming, Wu Minzhi ran back from the research institute and happened to collide with Zhou Tong at the door of the house.

Zhou Tong asked, "Is Mr. Wu Huanzhi a little better today?"

"The eldest brother woke up early in the morning and came down for breakfast, and is probably resting now. Wu Minzhi often called back to inquire about Wu Huanzhi's situation, and knew Wu Huanzhi's work and rest after his illness.

After entering the house, Wu Minzhi asked the maid at home, "Is my brother awake?"

"The eldest young master is awake. The servant replied respectfully, and when she saw that Wu Minzhi asked her to step down, she went to the kitchen to make tea for the guests.

Wu Minzhi directly took Zhou Tong to the second floor, knocked on Wu Huanzhi's room, and a weak voice came from inside the door, "Please come in." ”

Wu Minzhi pushed the door in, the curtains in the room were opened, the sunlight shone in, and the fine dust particles in the air were unobstructed, Wu Huanzhi sat in the recliner and soaked up the sun, with a blanket on his legs, and a pocket book between his fingers, Zhou Tong glanced at the text on the cover, which was a lite-cover version of the Book of Changes.

Wu Huanzhi was asleep when they came to see Wu Huanzhi yesterday, so he didn't know that this time he saw Wu Minzhi bring two strange young people back, Wu Huanzhi looked at Zhou Tong with some surprise and asked, "Who is this?"

"My surname is Zhou, my name is Tong, and this is Ling Yuan. ”

"Under Wu Huanzhi. After Wu Huanzhi finished speaking, he coughed, his face was even more pale by the sun, Wu Minzhi nervously picked up the coat on the bed and put it on Wu Huanzhi, and asked, "Big brother, how is your health?" Do you want to go to bed and lie down for a while?"

"It's fine. Wu Huanzhi smiled and patted the back of Wu Minzhi's hand and said, "I've been lying down and my bones are soft, and it's good to come out and move." It just so happened that the sun was good today, so I got up to bask in the sun and read a book. ”

Zhou Tong said with a smile: "Yes, just the beginning of spring, the weather is getting warmer day by day, and the sun will get better and better." Mr. Wu is reading "Zhou Yi"?

"A little bit of interest. Wu Huanzhi put the bookmark into the book, closed the book and put it on the bookshelf on the side, and said, "Chinese culture is broad and profound, and any branch is worthy of in-depth study." Traditional literature is fascinating, and these small side doors are also interesting to study. ”

Mr. Wu was right. Zhou Tong sat aside and chatted with Wu Huanzhi about feng shui, In addition to things like this, at the beginning they were all simple and easy to understand things, Wu Minzhi could occasionally insert a few words, and then the more they talked, the more in-depth they became, they were all essence content, Wu Minzhi didn't say anything to join the discussion, he couldn't understand it, but Wu Huanzhi talked and laughed with Zhou Tong very happily, but he always rose to the academic level unconsciously, you know, the real metaphysical content is completely two kinds at the academic level and the practical level, and scholars sometimes work behind closed doors just based on records, and they definitely don't know what they have accumulated in the quagmire。

After this discussion, Wu Huanzhi is like an ordinary scholar who has devoted himself to the study of metaphysics, although he is happy to chat, and sometimes he is a little confused, but when it comes to the fundamentals, there is still a gap between him and Zhou Tong's real contact.

Besides, Wu Huanzhi doesn't look like he has entered the Tao, he is just an ordinary person.

Could it be that he miscalculated?

However, it is impossible to write as real as "Human Sin" based on what it looks like in books.

Zhou Tong fell into a thinking dilemma for a while, and unconsciously a little distracted, Wu Huanzhi coughed, and said: "I'm really happy to be visited by Mr. Zhou today, but I'm really not in good health, so I won't entertain Mr. Zhou much, wait for me to ......" Wu Huanzhi's mouth showed a wry smile, and then turned into a sincere smile, he looked at Zhou Tong with sincerity, "After I recover, I will definitely come to visit." ”

"I am, Mr. Wu is very knowledgeable, talking to Mr. Wu today is the real victory over ten years, I have bothered Mr. Wu for a long time, so I will leave first. ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Tong's face changed, and he hurriedly took a step forward, but before he could touch Wu Huanzhi, he was stopped by Ling Yuan, Wu Minzhi looked at Zhou Tong's sudden movements in surprise, and before he could ask, he saw Wu Huanzhi suddenly hunched over his waist and curled up in a ball, falling softly on the recliner, and let out a few forbearant wails from his mouth, as if his body was in great pain.

Wu Minzhi wanted to step forward but was also stopped by Ling Yuan, and Ling Yuan said, "Don't touch him." ”

Ling Yuan shook his head at Zhou Tong and said, "I can't save it." ”

Zhou Tong bit his lower lip, "How can this be? What is this?"

"Prisoners change lives. Ling Yuan said.

Wu Huanzhi slowed down for a long time before he got better, he took a few breaths, and waved his hand to Zhou Tong and the others: "You all go out, I'm fine, I had a cramp just now, now it's okay, it's okay." He smiled reluctantly at Wu Minzhi, "It's really okay, Minzhi is going to entertain the guests." ”

Wu Minzhi had no choice but to send Zhou Tong and them away, and when they arrived at the living room on the first floor, Wu Minzhi pulled Zhou Tong's arm regardless of etiquette, and asked anxiously: "Mr. Zhou, do you see something?"

Zhou Tong shook his head: "I'm not familiar with this thing, Ling Yuan knows." He looked at Ling Yuan, "Explain what a prisoner ghost exchange is?"

"Prisoner ghost exchange is a kind of life for life formation, two people in the formation are buried in the body of the prisoner ghost, one is the father, the other is the son, the buried father will pass the guò formation to transmit the life to the person who buried the son, the palace can be completely transferred to another person 7749 times. However, the life of the father is not equivalent, for example, the father's life expectancy was seventy, but he has passed thirty, and there are forty to live, and the life of the father is only four years. ”

"My eldest brother, he ......" Wu Minzhi's face turned ugly and he took a step back, his eyes widening in disbelief.

"Yes. Ling Yuan said with certainty, "He has the Father Formation of the Prisoner Ghost buried in his body. ”

"Is there a way to crack this array?" Zhou Tong asked.

"There is no solution. Ling Yuan said with certainty.

Wu Minzhi's footsteps flickered, his eyes showed despair, his mind was blank for a moment before he eased up, and asked again without giving up: "Really...... No solution......"

"Yes. Ling Yuan nodded expressionlessly.

"Alas. Zhou Tong sighed and looked at Wu Minzhi sympathetically.

Wu Minzhi's body trembled uncontrollably, and he muttered in a dumb voice: "Who the hell used such a sinister formation on my eldest brother...... What kind of grudge does my Wu family have with them, it has to be like this!"

Zhou Tong said: "Mr. Wu, calm down first, your eldest brother seems to know about this matter, it is very likely that the formation used by the people around him, does your eldest brother know someone who knows how to do mathematics?"

"Know?" Wu Minzhi heard this, his brain cleared up a little, and carefully recalled the words and deeds of the subordinate general Wu Huanzhi, every move showed that he had already known his situation and had no idea of changing, could it be that he was voluntary? But he was born to survive, how could anyone ask for death? The eldest brother has no lover and no heirs, and his parents are alive at home, so who will the eldest brother give up his life for?

There is no such person!

Wu Minzhi couldn't think of such a person even if he thought about it.

He looked at Zhou Tong with a sad face, confused, his brain was a mess, and he didn't know where to start his thoughts. Zhou Tong patted Wu Minzhi on the shoulder and comforted: "This matter is also a big blow to you, don't think about it first, Wu Huanzhi's situation on Mr. Wu's side may not want you to know about this matter, but he is a smart person, he sees our situation today, maybe he knows that we guessed his situation, if you have time, talk to him and see what the situation is." Contact me again if you have something, I'm in S City during this time. ”

At this point, there is really nothing that Zhou Tong can help, although Ling Yuan did not say it explicitly, but Zhou Tong can also guess that both sides of the prisoner ghost exchange father and son array should be willing, as the so-called substitute for the crime, one life for one life is this truth.

Since Wu Huanzhi is willing, it is not his turn to be an outsider to put too much beak.

Wu Minzhi is still in chaos, and he can't accept this fact at all, no one can accept this kind of thing that his good relatives have become short-lived, but Zhou Tong can't help him, at most he comforts him a few words, but this kind of thing, no matter how much relief outsiders have, it is not as good as "thinking about it".

After saying goodbye, Zhou Tong took a taxi back and continued to read the remaining two books.

A "Mud Plough" and a "Eternal Life" are all written in continuation of the first book "Human Sin", in "Mud Plow", the teenager is exposed to more cruel and dark things, and even almost died.

"Mud plow", which means hell in Sanskrit, is the most painful place in the world, and the absence of joy is deeply related to the environment in which young people live in the second part. At the end of the year, the boy went to hell for a lap because of the deal with the resurrection incident, and after he was reborn, he felt that the world was perfect, and he didn't want to suffer more and more from the fate of heaven, and he was unwilling to accept the fate of his five evils and three shortcomings, but when he was looking for a way to crack it, he repeatedly hit a wall, and compared with the kindness and positivity that he expressed in the first part, he completely changed a person, and his life became erosive and degenerate, and he was buried in the ice and snow by the ghosts he had offended.

He lay desperately in the icy snow, letting the snow cover his cheeks, and looked out at the dark night sky overhead, with no moon or stars. ”

He felt his hands and feet freeze, the hot blood in his veins gradually lost its temperature, he no longer felt anything, even his heartbeat became almost inaudible. ”

He thought that he might be dying, and that sooner or later death would come upon him. ”

"The mud plough is right in front of you. ”

The second part came to an abrupt end, Zhou Tong saw the end, and said that it was not shocking, Wu Huanzhi's writing was too good, Zhou Tong's situation was special and had a great sense of substitution, he couldn't wait to pick up "Eternal Life" after reading "Mud Plow", and was about to open it, but saw a sentence written on the title page.

Man is like duckweed, wandering, heart is like a rock, indestructible - Mr. Mustard.

A few gilded handwriting words are printed on the title page, and there is a string of small letters clearly written underneath - To my dear child.