Jin Ling said: "This chair is placed at the head of my bed, very close. At first it was empty, but after a while, suddenly a man in black sat down. ”

Jin Ling wanted to see this face clearly, but this person lowered his head, half of his long hair was scattered to block his face, and only a pair of snow-white hands were exposed around his body, resting on the armrests.

He quietly adjusted the position of the mirror, but as soon as his wrist moved, as if sensing something, the woman slowly raised her head.

That face was covered with dozens of bloody knife marks.

Wei Wuxian was not surprised, but the juniors were dumbfounded.

"Wait?" Lan Jingyi put a bowl of porridge in front of Jin Ling and said, "Female ghost, how can ......it be a female ghost?

Jin Ling slapped it with a palm: "Whoever says I'm stupid doesn't want to hear you." Although blood is blood, hair is hair, and it is basically impossible to see what it looks like, but the bun and clothes are the style of a young woman, and it is certainly true. It's us who are looking in the wrong direction. He said, "Although there is indeed a grudge on the iron hook, I am afraid that it is not the hook hand who is haunting in the white room." ”

Lan Jingyi said: "You didn't take more time to take a closer look and see your face clearly...... Maybe you can check her identity based on her facial features, such as moles or birthmarks. ”

Jin Ling said angrily: "You don't want to be me." I thought so, but the woman noticed the moonlight reflected in the mirror, and immediately looked up, and the mirror caught her eyes, and I didn't pay attention to make eye contact with her. ”

When the evil cult discovers it while snooping, you must not look any further, you must immediately put down the mirror, close your eyes, and pretend to be asleep. If this is not the case, it may stimulate the ferocity of the evil creature and increase its murderous intent. Lan Jingyi said: "It's dangerous, it's dangerous......"

The table was gossiping: "But the snitch didn't see a woman in his eyes." ”

"If you don't see it, it doesn't mean you don't, maybe the snitch is out of ...... position"

"No, this female ghost, why is it a female ghost, who is she!"

Lan Si chased: "This woman has been slashed in the face dozens of times, then she is likely to be one of the many victims of the hookman. What Jin Ling saw must have been an afterimage of her resentment. ”

The remnant of resentment is the continuous reproduction of a disgruntled scene. It's usually just before it dies, or the thing that makes it hate the most.

Jin Ling said: "Hmm. I looked at the white room in the mirror last night, and the furnishings were completely different from now, like an inn. About before the White House was built, there used to be an inn here. It was in this inn that the woman was killed. ”

Lan Jingyi said: "Oh, speaking of which, indeed, some of the things we found have been mentioned, the hook hand can easily pick the lock of the inn, and he often sneaks in at night to pick on a lone woman!"

Lan Si chased: "And the room where this girl, or Mrs. was killed, happens to be in the same location as the white house built by the White Mansion!"

No wonder the master of the Bai family insisted that there was no old secret case in the Bai Mansion, and no one died, not because he deliberately concealed it, but because they were really innocent, and it was really none of their business!

Jin Ling picked up the porridge and took a sip, pretending to be calm: "I already knew that things wouldn't be so simple. It's okay, it's all going to be solved anyway. ”

Wei Wuxian said: "Jin Ling, you will catch up on sleep later, and you will have to work at night." ”

Lan Jingyi glanced at his bowl and said, "Senior Wei, you haven't finished eating, don't leave it behind." ”

Wei Wuxian said, "I won't eat it." You eat more, Jingyi, you will take the lead tonight. ”

Lan Jingyi was taken aback and almost threw the bowl away: "Ahh

Wei Wuxian said: "Jin Ling didn't finish reading it last night, let's finish watching it together today and see it." You take the lead. ”

Lan Jingyi lost color: "Senior Wei, are you making a mistake, how can it be me?"

Wei Wuxian said, "What's wrong. Experience, everyone has a share, everyone has a chance, everyone has to go. Thinking about chasing Jin Ling, the next decision is you. ”

"Why was it me next......

Of course, Wei Wuxian wouldn't say it directly, because he only remembered Lan Jingyi's name among the group of children except Lan Si chasing Jin Ling, and only patted him on the shoulder and encouraged, "This is a good thing! ”

"Isn't there anyone else, haven't they all run out a long time ago!"

No matter how Lan Jingyi protested, at midnight, he was still pushed to the front of the white room.

There were a few benches outside the white room, and the rows were full of people. One person poked a window hole in the paper, and in an instant, the paper window became full of holes and miserable.

Lan Sichai poked his window hole with a finger, and said in his heart: "I always feel ...... This can't be called 'snooping' at all, poking like this, it's better to just tear down this paper window......"

Lan Jingyi was indeed mentioned to the top position by Wei Wuxian, from this place, he could see the most, most complete, and clearest. If you watch a play, it is a first-class seat that is hard to find. It's a pity that Lan Jingyi doesn't want this first class at all.

He was caught between Jin Ling and Lan Si, and said tremblingly: "Can I ......sit in a different place?"

Wei Wuxian kept walking around and said, "No. ”

When the others heard this, they all felt that Wei Wuxian's tone was quite Lan Wangji's true transmission, and some even snickered twice. Wei Wuxian said: "The mentality is good, it's so easy, it's good, it's good." ”

Lan Sichai, who couldn't hold back, hurriedly straightened up. Wei Wuxian said to Lan Jingyi again: "Look, I don't have a seat, don't be in the midst of blessings and not know blessings." ”

Lan Jingyi said: "Senior, can I give you a seat......

Wei Wuxian said, "No. ”

Lan Jingyi: "Then what's okay." ”

Wei Wuxian said, "It's okay to ask questions. ”

Lan Jingyi couldn't, so she had to say to Lan Sichai: "Sichai, if I faint later, you, your notes will be copied for me." ”

Lan Sichai couldn't laugh and said, "Okay." ”

Lan Jingyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then I'll rest assured." ”

Lan Sichai encouraged: "Don't worry, Jingyi, you can definitely persevere." ”

As soon as Lan Jingyi showed a grateful look, Jin Ling patted him on the shoulder, looking very reliable, and said, "Yes, don't worry, if you faint, I will definitely wake you up immediately." ”

Lan Jingyi, the policeman, slapped his hand away: "Go away, go away, the ghost knows what means you will use to wake me up." ”

As he was muttering, a blood-colored halo appeared on the paper window, as if someone had suddenly lit a red light in the dark room.

The crowd immediately fell silent and held their breath.

Red light also shines through the small windows, reflecting the snooping eyes as if they are crawling bloodshot.

Lan Jingyi trembled and raised her hand and said, "Senior...... Why, why does this room look so red? I, I've never seen a blood-red afterimage like this. Could it be that there was a red light in the house at that time?"

Lan Sichai said in a low voice: "It's not a blood-red lamp, it's because this person ......"

Jin Ling said: "It's because of this person's eyes, blood has entered." ”

In the red light, something new suddenly appeared in the room.

A chair, and a "person" sitting on a chair.

Wei Wuxian said, "Jin Ling, what you saw last night, is this?"

Jin Ling nodded and said, "However, I didn't look carefully last night, she wasn't sitting on a chair...... She was strapped to a chair. ”

Sure enough, as he said, the woman's hands on the armrests were tightly tied with hemp rope.

Before everyone could take a closer look, a black shadow flashed, and another figure appeared in the room.

There is even a "person".

And this extra second person, the eyelids and upper and lower lips of that face were cut off, he couldn't blink and couldn't close his mouth, and his bloodshot eyeballs and bright red gums were exposed, which was a thousand times more terrifying than the legend!

Lan Jingyi lost her voice and said, "Hook hand!"

"What's the matter, isn't the hook melted?

"There are actually two demons in this house??"

Hearing this, Wei Wuxian said, "Are there two? Is there one or two evil in this room?"

Lan Si chased: "One." ”

Jin Ling also said: "One." The hook hand in this white room is not a real murderous spirit, but just an afterimage of the dying scene that this woman restored with resentment. ”

Lan Jingyi said: "Although it is an afterimage, the degree of this madness is completely undiminished!!"

As they spoke, the face slowly moved towards the wooden door. The face was getting closer, clearer, and hideous. Even if everyone knew that this was just an afterimage, and the iron hook that really attached the remnants of the hook hand's resentment had been refined, this afterimage would never really come out of the door, but there was always a creepy thought lingering:

He found out!

If the hapless snitch peeped into the White Room in the middle of the night and saw exactly this scene, it was no wonder that he was so frightened that he had a heart attack.

The face was close to the paper window less than a foot away, froze for a moment, turned and strode towards the chair.

Then everyone began to breathe again.

Inside, the hookman walked around the room, old planks creaking under his feet. Outside, Jin Ling suddenly became strange.

He said: "Since just now, I have been very concerned about one thing. ”

Lan Si chased: "What's the matter?"

Jin Ling said: "The remnant of resentment must be the scene before this woman's death. But would the average person be so calm when confronted with a murderer and not make a sound at all? In other words. ”

He said, "This woman is clearly awake, why didn't she cry for help?"

Lan Jingyi said: "Are you scared silly?"

Jin Ling said: "That's not to be silent, not even to cry." Shouldn't ordinary women cry when they're scared to the extreme?"

Lan Si chased, "Is the tongue still there?"

Jin Ling said: "There is no blood in the corner of the mouth, it should still be there." And even if you can't speak clearly without your tongue, you won't be able to make a sound at all. ”

Lan Jingyi was sandwiched between the two of them, as if she was about to die: "Can you please not discuss such a terrible thing in my ear in such a calm tone......

A teenager said, "Could it be because this inn is abandoned, or no one else is there, and you know that yelling is useless, so you just don't shout?"

Lan Jingyi, who can see it most clearly, has something to say: "No, look at this afterimage, the furnishings in the house have not fallen into dust, and they have obviously been used all the time, it is impossible that no one else is there, otherwise she will not live in." ”

Jin Ling said: "You are not so stupid that you are hopeless. Besides, whether or not someone else is there is one thing, whether it will be called is another. For example, if you are chased and killed in the wilderness, even if you know that there will be no third person who can save you, won't you still be scared and shout for help? ”

Wei Wuxian clapped quietly on the side and whispered, "Oh my God, you are worthy of the Golden Sect Master." ”

Jin Ling blushed and said angrily: "What are you doing, don't distract me like this, okay!"

Wei Wuxian said, "This way you can be distracted, which means that concentration still needs to be exercised." Look, the hookman looks like he's about to do it!"

Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look. I saw that the hook hand took out a circle of hemp rope and put it on the woman's neck, which was slowly tightening.

The sound of twisted twine!

It turned out that this was what the owner of the Bai family said, the source of the strange sound of "squeaking" in the white house every night.

The dozens of scars on the woman's face were bleeding under the squeezing, but she didn't make a sound. Everyone was worried about it, and some people couldn't help but whisper and urge: "Call, call someone!"

Contrary to their expectations, the victim did not move, but the murderer did. The hemp rope suddenly loosened, and the hook hand pulled out a polished iron hook from behind him.

A group of teenagers were so anxious outside the door that they wanted to jump in and roar in place of the woman, and wake up the whole city. The hook hand's back blocked their view, and one hand was handed forward. From them, they could only see the back of a hand resting on the armrest, and the back of the hand suddenly appeared with green tendons.

Even at this point, the woman still didn't say a word!

Jin Ling couldn't help but start to wonder: "Is she mentally abnormal?"

"What do you mean by mental abnormality?"

"Probably...... Silly. ”

“……”

Although it sounds very polite to say that people are stupid, but judging from this situation, it is really the most likely situation, otherwise, if it is a normal person, why is there no reaction at this moment?

Lan Jingyi saw that her brain hurt and turned her face away. Wei Wuxian said in a low voice, "Optimistic." ”

Lan Jingyi couldn't bear it and said, "Senior, I'm ...... I really can't read it anymore. ”

Wei Wuxian said: "There are thousands of times more tragic things in the world, if you don't even dare to face it, there is no need to talk about anything else." ”

Hearing this, Lan Jingyi froze, turned her head and gritted her teeth, and continued to look miserably. Who knows, at this time, a sudden change occurred-

The woman suddenly opened her mouth and bit the iron hook!

This bite startled a group of teenagers outside the door to jump up.

And the hook hand in the room seemed to be taken aback, and immediately stopped it, but under a pull, he couldn't pull the iron hook out of the woman's teeth, but the woman pounced on the person with the chair, and the iron hook that was supposed to take the tongue of others, somehow, cut his own lower abdomen!

The boys screamed "ahhhhh The hook hand was injured and painful, and suddenly he was stunned, as if he remembered something, and grabbed the woman's heart with his right hand, as if he wanted to dig out her heart alive, and the woman rolled with a chair, dodging the heart-digging blow, and with a "snort", the clothes on her chest were torn.

The situation is beautiful, and the teenagers don't care about the indecency at all.

What made them stunned was that the chest of the "woman" was actually flat and flat.

Where is this "woman" - this person is actually a man disguised as a woman!

The hookman pounced on him and choked him by the neck with his bare hands, forgetting that the hook was still in the other's mouth. The man jerked his head, and the hook sliced into his wrist in an instant. One tried his best to break each other's necks, and the other tried his best to bleed each other, and for a while, the two came to an impasse......

It wasn't until the rooster crowed in the sky that the red light in the house disappeared, and the afterimages faded away.

And the circle of teenagers gathered at the door of the white room was already stunned.

After a long time, Lan Jingyi stumbled and said, "This, this, these two ......"

In everyone's hearts, there is one thought:

These two people, in the end, no one can survive......

Unexpectedly, it turned out that the evil cult who had been tossed in Baifu for decades was not the hookman, but the hero who removed the hookman.

The discussion was hot.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect the hookman to be subdued like this......"

"If you think about it, that's the only way, isn't it? After all, the hookman is so elusive that no one knows where he is. If you don't pretend to be a woman to lure him out, you won't be able to catch him. ”

"But it's dangerous!"

"It's dangerous. You see, didn't this chivalrous warrior fall for his trick and be tied up, so he was in a disadvantageous situation from the beginning. Otherwise, if two people face each other head-on, how can they suffer so much!"

"yes, and he can't call for help. The hook hand has killed countless people, and even if ordinary people are called, I am afraid that most of them will be sent to death......"

"That's why he refuses to cry out for help!"

"All Together......

"The rumors didn't say anything about this chivalrous deed! ”

"It's normal, compared to heroes, everyone still thinks the legend of the murderous demon is more interesting. ”

Jin Ling analyzed: "The deceased does not want to die, it is nothing more than an unfulfilled human wish. The deceased, on the other hand, who have an incomplete body, are reluctant to die, often because they have not recovered the part of their lost limb. This is the crux of why he is doing trouble. ”

Even if it is a fat thing, if you carry it on your body for decades, you will be reluctant, let alone a piece of meat in your mouth.

Lan Jingyi was already in awe when she heard this: "Then we have to find out our tongue and burn it to him as soon as possible, so that he can die!"

Everyone geared up, Huo Ran got up and said, "Yes, how can you let this kind of hero die without a corpse!"

"Look for it, start from the grave mound in the west of the city, the cemetery, the entire White Mansion, and the old house where the hookman lived before, don't miss a single one. ”

A group of teenagers were full of energy and poured out the door. Before leaving, Jin Ling looked back at Wei Wuxian.

Wei Wuxian said, "What's wrong?"

During the discussion process, Wei Wuxian was noncommittal and did not insert a word, causing Jin Ling to always feel uneasy and wonder if there was something wrong in the link. Ke Zai thought about it carefully, and felt that he had not missed any points, so he said, "It's nothing." ”

Wei Wuxian smiled: "It's nothing, then go find it." Be patient. ”

Jin Ling went out majestically.

It was a few days before he realized what Wei Wuxian meant by "be patient."

The previous iron hook was pursued by Wei Wuxian with Lan Si, and it only took half an hour in total. And this time Wei Wuxian didn't interfere in the search for the tongue, let them toss slowly by themselves, and searched for five days.

When Lan Jingyi jumped up with a piece of something, everyone else was almost exhausted.

However, although they were tossed in the wild grave, their clothes were disheveled and their bodies smelled, everyone was very happy. Because after Wei Wuxian heard what they said, he told them the truth very seriously: on their own, five days to find it was already remarkable, you know, there were many monks who did not find ten days and a half months and simply gave up.

A crowd of people was agitated and swirled around the dead man's tongue. It is said that things with a ferocious aura will turn blue, and that thing is not only green, it is so green that it turns black, it is so hard that it is a bad hand, and it is impossible to see that it was a piece of human flesh at all. If it weren't for that, it would have rotted long ago.

After some practice, the tongue was burned, and it seemed that a major event had finally come to an end.

At this point, it's time to do it anyway.

Therefore, Jin Ling is still quite satisfied with this night hunt.

Who knows, after a few days of satisfaction, the master of the Bai family came to the Golden Scale Platform again.

It turned out that after burning the knight's tongue, it was indeed calm for two days. However, it was only two days.

On the night of the third day, there was a strange noise in the white house again, and it became more and more arrogant day by day, and by the night of the fifth day, the whole white mansion had been completely disturbed and could not sleep.

This time it was menacing, more terrifying than any before. The strange sound was neither a twisting of twine, nor a cutting of meat—it became a human voice!

According to the description of the master of the Bai family, the voice was very hoarse, as if it was moving heavily with a tongue that had not been used for many years, and the words could not be heard clearly, but it was really a man screaming.

After crying, it was miserable and miserable, first weak, gradually louder and louder, and finally almost hysterical, very pitiful and terrible. Not to mention Baifu, it can be heard three streets outside Baifu, and the screams are so terrifying that passers-by are scattered.

Jin Ling is also very big, and in recent years, Guan has been busy and has no time to deal with it personally, so he sent a few disciples to check. When I came back, I reported that there was no harm except that the screaming was really miserable.

Disturbance does not count.

When handing over the night hunting notes, Lan Sichai told Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian about the matter. After listening to this, Wei Wuxian took a pastry from Lan Wangji's bookcase and ate it, and said, "Oh, that's nothing to worry about. ”

Lan Si chased: "There's nothing to worry about being called like this...... It stands to reason that after the obsession is over, the soul of the dead should be exceeded. ”

Wei Wuxian said: "It's true that if you end your obsession, you can surpass the soul. However, have you ever thought that maybe the real obsession of that chivalrous warrior is not to find his tongue and reincarnate?"

Lan Jingyi finally got a nail this time, thinking that she didn't have to punish her anymore, she was secretly crying with joy on the side, and couldn't help but say at this time: "What is that? Is it that it is so that others can't sleep every night?"

Unexpectedly, Wei Wuxian really nodded: "That's right." ”

Lan Sichai was stunned: "Senior Wei, what is the explanation for this?"

Wei Wuxian said, "Didn't you deduce that this chivalrous warrior didn't want the lives of innocent others to be endangered, so when he was tortured by the hook hand, he tried his best to endure and refused to scream?"

Lan Sichai sat down and said, "That's right. What's wrong?"

Wei Wuxian said: "It's not wrong, but let me ask you a question - if there is a murderer who dangles in front of you with a knife, bleeds your blood, cuts your face, strangles your neck, hooks your tongue, is it scary? Are you afraid? Do you want to cry or not?"

Lan Jingyi thought about it and said with a pale face: "Help!"

Lan Sichai said: "The family motto is cloudy, and it is ...... in danger."

Wei Wuxian: "Don't talk to me about anything else, what I ask you is whether you are afraid, you just say it." ”

Lan Sichai's face flushed, his waist straightened up, and said, "Sichai doesn't-"

Wei Wuxian: "No?"

Lan Sichai looked honest: "I can't say I'm not afraid." Cough. ”

After speaking, he glanced at Lan Wangji worriedly.

Wei Wuxian was overjoyed: "What are you ashamed of? When people are in pain and fear, they will be afraid, they will want people to save themselves, they will want to shout, they will cry and make a fuss, this is not human nature? Hanguang-jun, you see that your family is chasing after you, and I am afraid that I will be punished by you, so I will secretly look at you. Say yes quickly. If you say 'yes', it means that you agree with me, and you won't punish him." ”

He used his elbow to poke lightly a few times between the lower abdomen of Lan Wangji, who was sitting in danger of taking notes, and Lan Wangji's face did not change and said, "Yes." ”

After speaking, he put his arm around his waist, locked it firmly, did not let him move, and continued to approve the notes handed in.

Lan Sichai's face turned even redder.

Wei Wuxian struggled twice and couldn't break free, so he maintained this posture and continued to chase Lan Si seriously: "So, forbearance and not screaming, it is indeed a heroic backbone, but it goes against the nature of human beings, and this is also true." ”

Lan Sichai tried to ignore his posture, thought about it, and felt a little sympathy for the chivalrous man.

Wei Wuxian said, "Is Jin Ling still bothered about this?"

Lan Jingyi said: "Yes, the size ...... Well, Jin Gongzi doesn't know what went wrong. ”

Lan Si chased: "Then, in that case, how should such an evil be dealt with?"

Wei Wuxian said, "Let him call." ”

“……”

Lan Si chased: "Just, let him call?"

Wei Wuxian said, "Yes. Enough is enough, and naturally leaves. ”

Lan Sichai's sympathy was immediately divided into half to the people of the White Mansion.

Fortunately, although that chivalrous man was aggrieved and wronged, he was harmless. The strange sound coming from the white room lasted for several months before it gradually subsided. Presumably, after the death of that chivalrous man, he finally shouted enough for the unfinished part of his life, and was reincarnated with satisfaction.

It only suffered the people of Baifu, and they were in pain for a long time, and they couldn't sleep at night. And the White House is once again famous.