Chapter 17: Nothing is found, and the world is unpredictable

The three of them walked around the ghost temple, but they still didn't feel anything, and they didn't gain anything except that they felt that the road was not easy to walk.

"The breath is gone, and the yin energy is beginning to dissipate gradually." Yao Daoren stopped in the middle of the ghost temple, Brother Mengyao's eyebrows were also very deep, and he nodded approvingly with a tired face: "It seems that this trip to the wild forest, we have come for nothing." ”

Qu Lao also stroked his beard and interrupted the conversation between the two: "Why interrupt it?" Let's go a little further, maybe there's something in there, it's too early to give up. ”

Sighing slowly, Yao Daoren took a sip of water: "Okay, go forward." The two of them hummed and walked forward with their feet, I have to say, it is not easy to walk here during the day, and it is still not easy to walk at night, the road looks flat, but as soon as you step on it, the touch of the flat feet will change, and I don't know that the ground can shrink freely!

After walking for about ten minutes, the three of them couldn't go on at all, it was like a maze, and they walked and walked back to the same place. Brother Meng Yao was startled when he looked up and saw that there was still a ghost temple behind him, and Qu Lao also felt that something was wrong, and said softly: "With the eyes of me and Yao Xiaozi, there is no reason for the dream girl to be blinded or hit the wall, so now we can be sure that we are lost." ”

When he said this, his face was leisurely, as if nothing had happened, Brother Mengyao rolled his eyes involuntarily, you are really in the mood to joke at this time.

I had no choice but to continue walking back along the same path, but I didn't expect to return to the ghost temple annex. After going back and forth a few times, the three of them reached a consensus and returned to the ghost temple to continue to rest.

This time I went in and stayed until dawn.

After dawn, the three of them didn't say anything, got up and simply packed up, carried their swords and bags, and walked out. The three of them were dumbfounded in this ghost temple, except for the dead grass and trees outside, they turned out to be bare!

"What's the situation?" Brother Meng Yao held on to the door and looked at the bare ground outside, and the sunlight shining in turned out to be extraordinarily bright.

The situation outside, the three of them stayed overnight, but they didn't find anything, and it was already like this outside?

Yao Daoren took out the compass from his body, and the compass turned to the side in all directions in the air and finally stopped, no matter how Yao Daoren moved, the compass just didn't turn. Qu Lao sensed something, touched his beard and pulled the Xuantie Sword on his back: "Let's go, there's nothing left here." ”

He followed and took a step forward. Brother Mengyao's brows furrowed very deeply: "Nothing?" How can it be. Didn't there still be yin last night, how could it be said that there was no one night. ”

"It's not that it's gone, Qu Lao means that they are all gone. I was curious when we came yesterday, and it stands to reason that Zhou Chong should have obstructed us in every way from the moment we came in. After all, your eyes are too tempting for him. But he was able to stay on his ground for an afternoon. And last night, no matter how we looked, we would always return to the vicinity of the ghost temple. It's not that the ghost is blind, there is only one explanation - the magnetic field has changed. Yao Daoren exhaled from his nose, and seemed to be a little remorseful for not discovering it earlier.

"Magnetic field? What do you mean. Uncle, you make it clear. ”

"The so-called magnetic field is a breath of the individual and the surroundings. For example, the magnetic field of a human is not the same as the magnetic field of a ghost, the magnetic field of a human is popularity, while the magnetic field of a ghost is yin. Last night we saw that the yin qi did not gather but scurried around, and we didn't care that it was missing this morning before we remembered, eighty percent of them had already started to move last night. As for why they didn't do it when we delivered it to the door, this is a bit hard to guess. Qu Lao shook his head and continued to walk forward.

She wanted to ask again but was stopped by Yao Daoren with his gaze, closed her mouth unwillingly, and the three of them turned back to the road they had taken during the day yesterday and left.

This trip back was obviously smoother than when I came, and it only took a few hours to arrive, but the scene in front of the three of them just got off the bus was afraid that the three of them would be shocked.

The streets that should have been sparsely shouted are now noisy, and every time the three of them walk for a while, they will hear some people's discussions, laughter, and even some sympathy and pity, and all kinds of voices are endless.

Brother Mengyao drank water and pulled over an aunt: "I'm sorry, Auntie, I want to ask what happened?" Why are you so happy? ”

The aunt was obviously a little unhappy when she was pulled by Brother Mengyao abruptly, and pulled her hand from her arm: "What's the matter, it's that something strange happened recently." The aunt leaned mysteriously on Brother Mengyao's ear to blow the wind.

Qu Lao and the two glanced at each other and said in unison: "Strange thing? Auntie, what do you mean? ”

"Who's your aunt?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Auntie." Brother Mengyao hurriedly gave the two of them a look, and pulled the aunt to apologize.

Seeing that her attitude was so good, the aunt eased her eyes and said disdainfully: "Isn't this a few years ago when people have been missing in the wild woods on the national highway, in the early hours of yesterday morning, all the missing people came back, even the dead people also came back, and they went to the police station alive and jumped to call the police, saying that they didn't know what was going on, but they felt sleepy for a long time, and when they woke up again, they were already outside the wild woods." Isn't that weird, you say? Everyone in the wild forest knows that only people enter but no one is out, and the dead are dead and the missing are missing, and suddenly they come back, it is certainly not simple. The police station also wanted to block the news, but the news didn't run out, and now all the people are waiting to see the show, speaking of which, there is also a missing person in our apartment who has returned, and I am in a hurry to go back to see if there is one. ”

Saying that, the aunt twisted her ass and went in the direction of home, leaving the three of them with a confused face.

"Wait, auntie, can we go with us?" Before Yao Daoren could speak, Brother Meng Yao ran up two steps in advance and pulled his aunt's clothes again.

She was also annoyed, and her temper was very bad, so she spread her hand and shouted, "Who is your little girl called?" If you know someone, you have to follow along, two old men and a doll, and I suspect that you are human traffickers. Let's go, don't get in my way. ”

Yao Daoren is short-tempered, and when he heard the aunt say that they were human traffickers, he scolded directly: "You aunt, we are begging you kindly now, and you are doing this to us?" How is it not a lack of money? Can't I give it to you, you'll die if you take us there? Saying that, he generously took out a stack of RMB from his backpack and looked at Brother Mengyao in a daze: "Uncle, when did you harbor so many Grandpa Mao?" ”

The aunt originally wanted to hum, but who knew that as soon as Yao Daoren took out so much money, his eyes changed, and his temper immediately softened. Both hands suddenly grabbed Brother Mengyao. The smile on his face was particularly intimate: "Hey, you girl said it earlier, why didn't you say it earlier, don't you just want to see it." I'll just take you there. Take a walk. ”

The change of attitude is called a fast. Before he could react, he changed from an enemy to an in-laws.

sighed, this money can make people change their faces, it's really not a lie.

The road is not far away. But wherever they went, they could always hear the news of the return of the missing person who was tired of discussing it, and the voices were endless.

The aunt smiled, her face didn't change, she didn't say anything and took someone to their apartment, and finally stopped in front of an older apartment, and stretched out her hand to point to the highest floor of the apartment: "Hey, it's the highest floor." Since the young man disappeared, there are only two old people and a female doll left, and they don't have any financial resources on weekdays, and they have a hard time, and the neighbors and towns will send them something every day, and life is like this. But later, when the girl doll was older, she was poor and couldn't afford to go to school when she reached the age of school, and some kind neighbors wanted to poke this matter to the TV station and get the media to pay attention. But the media cheats people, no matter what they go to, they have to pay money, and if they don't pay, they won't give it. This matter is also stranded, the female doll is also distressing, every day with the two old people out to pick up the rags, is the last elementary school, I heard that the old people pick up the rags day and night to barely provide for it, eating is a problem. ”

The aunt sighed and couldn't help but feel a little sad. Brother Mengyao has never suffered and doesn't know where the sadness lies, but she is also an emotional person, knowing that life is not easy, she took out the stack of hairy grandpa from Yao Daoren's backpack, and drew two to her: "Thank you, auntie, you go back first, let's go up and see for ourselves." ”

This time, the aunt didn't take it from Grandpa Mao but pushed it back: "I'm not a person who loves money very much, although this money is good, but it also depends on the right place." As for me, I won't go up if I have something to do, if you go up and see that the family bothered to give them this money, they need this money the most than me, an aunt who doesn't worry about eating and drinking. ”

Looking down at the money that was pushed back, the remarks of the three of them just now that money can make people change their faces seemed to have been overturned.

Almost instantly, the radiance of humanity once again shone brightly.

Qu Lao smiled with satisfaction, stroked his beard and walked to the apartment: "There are many good people in this world, and bad people are right, not everything is true, just like the aunt just now, we all thought she loved money, but in the end she gave money to those who needed it, which is also the brilliance of human nature." ”

With a shallow smile, he stuffed all the money into himself, leaving not a single one to Yao Daoren, and he had an expression that I understood. Yao Daoren looked at the empty hand, he remembered that the pile of money seemed to be his own, right?

"Brother Mengyao, you give me the money, that's my last belongings, I still want to marry a daughter-in-law, give it to me quickly!" He reacted and immediately ran up to grab it, but was dodged by Brother Mengyao at once: "What's the matter?" If the money is gone, you can marry me if you can't marry a daughter-in-law. ”

"I'm sorry, marrying you isn't enough to spoil my family."

"Who spoiled your family, I will give you a daughter-in-law for free!" She glanced at Yao Daoren and easily dodged his groping pig hand. Qu Lao looked helplessly at the two who were still in the mood to fight at this time, and patted Yao Daoren's head: "Yao boy, people are standing in their thirties, you are still messing around like this, what is the matter?" ”

After being beaten by him like this, Yao Daocai held his mouth and glared at Brother Meng Yao, who was no different from a child. Brother Mengyao, the culprit, was watching the play happily over there.

This apartment is not very high, only eight floors, and the three of them went up to eight floors, but after asking around, there is no news about the family at all.

"Are you looking for two old men with a girl?" I walked to the elevator with nothing, but suddenly a female voice came from behind me.

Brother Meng Yao turned his head, this woman is relatively young, but she is old, and she looked at the three of them cautiously, especially when her eyes fell on the sword behind Qu Lao, her body took a step back carefully.

She nodded and said softly: "Sister, don't be afraid, we are not bad people, or we heard that the family is having a hard time, so come and send some money so that the girl doll can go to school." ”

"Really?" Her eyes were full of doubts, and she leaned against the door and did not dare to go out.

She suddenly sighed, she used to talk to people like this, but then she could stand on the stool with a knife and snore at the visitors

"The people you're looking for are in this apartment, but it's not on the eighth floor, they're on the top floor. There is a small warehouse on the top floor, they can't pay the rent, we see that they are pitiful and make money to let them live on the top floor, the place is small but the things are complete. Saying that, the little girl went straight into the house, and as soon as the door was closed, the three of them were directly shut out.

The bang scared a few of them, but fortunately they knew where they lived.

At the end of these eight floors, there is a staircase that connects to the top floor, which is more dangerous and difficult to walk, and if you don't look at it, it is easy to fall from the staircase. Brother Mengyao had palpitations when he went up, not to mention the two old men and a child?

His face was slightly pale, and after the three of them reached the top floor, they were almost not frightened by the situation in front of them, and Brother Mengyao cried unconsciously when he looked at the messy and simple piece in front of him.

When I went up to the top floor, I realized that there was no door, and the so-called warehouse was just an empty partition.

Two beds were in tatters, and there was a small pot, only a jack, three bowls, some cloth bags for clothes, and a pile of groceries piled around the corner. It's almost like a run-down factory, just a little smaller. Brother Mengyao touched his tears and cried unconsciously: "What kind of world is this, how did they come to such a place?" "Yao Dao and Qu Lao are silent, although they don't work, they have this craft,

Yao Daoren hugged Brother Mengyao and patted her shoulder: "What are you crying about, it's a good thing that people are still there." ”

After sobbing a few times and not crying, the three of them sat at the top of the stairs and waited for the old man and the girl (to be continued. )