Episode 7 The Murderous Mansion (3)

In fact, Pu Zixuan broke into the ghost house for the first time and dragged Zhu Yuanliang to go, just to strengthen his courage, and now that he knows the existence of the little boy, he is fearless as a normal person in his heart, so the next day, Pu Zixuan came to No. 14 Li'an Road alone, and sure enough, he met the little boy in the last room on the second floor. After the greetings, Pu Zixuan took out the chicken feather shuttlecock and shook it in front of him.

The little boy looked happy: "Brother, are you here to play with me?" ”

Pu Zixuan nodded: "Yes, my name is Pu Zixuan." ”

Pu Zixuan asked him to go to the street with him, but the little boy refused. Seeing that the little boy lit the oil lamp in the living room on the second floor, Pu Zixuan had no choice but to absent-mindedly kick the shuttlecock with him in the dim light.

The little boy was very devoted, dexterous, and agile, as if he had been waiting for a playmate for a long time. After kicking for less than half an hour, Pu Zixuan gradually felt bored, so he sat on the ground with his butt and pretended to be tired enough.

The two sat opposite each other, and the little boy said, "Does my brother know?" It's been years since I've been so happy, no one is afraid to come to my house, I don't have any friends, I've been living here alone. ”

"Why don't you have friends?"

"Because I'm a youkai."

Pu Zixuan was stunned, looked at the cute boy with flesh and blood in front of him, laughed, and asked, "What kind of monster are you?" ”

"Brother, don't believe it, I'll tell you what happened here, and you'll understand."

This remark hit Pu Zixuan's heart, and he said: "Okay, my brother came today just to hear you tell you about the secret of this ghost house." ”

The little boy said: "This house, more than ten years ago, lived a pair of lovers, the woman is human, and the man is a monster. The woman's parents died young, and the house was inherited by the woman, and since they fell in love, they have lived happily here. ”

Pu Zixuan nodded: "Well, what about later?" ”

But one day when the man came home, he saw the woman lying on the ground, she was seriously ill, and although she survived, she was bedridden ever since. In order to treat the woman, the two spent all their savings, and because the man was a monster, he had no household registration, so in order to earn money, he could only do all kinds of black work outside. The woman saw it in her eyes and felt pain in her heart, and once, she touched the man's face and said, 'I don't want to see you working so hard.' So one day when the man came home, he went into the room and saw no woman, and when he looked for her without success, he looked out of the window, and saw that the woman had jumped downstairs and killed herself. The man rushed downstairs frantically, hugging the woman and crying bitterly. ”

Pu Zixuan still nodded: "Okay, it's sad, and then what?" ”

"The man was heartbroken, so he unleashed his demonic power to keep the woman's soul. The human form formed by the soul no longer has sickness, and they live a short happy life. However, the witchcraft of retaining the soul will continue to consume a lot of demonic power of the monster, and the price is: the man's body will become weaker and weaker, and the memory will continue to disappear. Then the woman said to him one day, 'Man is always going to die, and forcibly leaving my soul behind is only to increase our suffering.' In my life, I never thought I would fall in love with a youkai, but I never regretted it. It's nice to have you. ’”

Pu Zixuan stopped talking and waited for the little boy to continue speaking.

The man was not reconciled, so he released all his demonic power and enveloped the house, hoping to keep the woman's soul forever. Since then, he has become a madman who has lost all his memories. Although the woman is finally gone, this house has also had the ability to stay in the soul from then on. Some terminally ill people who come here to commit suicide can get seven days of healthy health and fulfill their last long-cherished wish on earth. I think the woman who committed suicide eight days ago has now gone to reincarnation......

Pu Zixuan immediately thought of Zhao Chengyi, if the little boy said all this truth, then the appearance of the dead Zhao Chengyi's soul in the room before his death became a reasonable explanation. But Pu Zixuan didn't believe in evil and asked, "Then let me ask you, how did you know all this?" ”

The little boy said, "Because, I am their son." My dad is the crazy Hanako downstairs. I told him the truth, but he quickly forgot about it. I cried and begged him to remember everything, but several times it was to no avail, and I was no longer going to say anything to him. ”

Pu Zixuan asked: "Okay, then back to the original question, you said that you are all monsters, so why can't you see it at all?" Aren't you all living like people? ”

"If a monster has a relationship with a human, it will become a half-demon in human form, and the child born will also be a half-demon."

The little boy replied very naturally, and there was no flaw in his words, so Pu Zixuan asked: "Then the last question, we don't know each other, why do you have to tell me this?" ”

The little boy sneered and responded: "Because, I have a sense, my brother will always be entangled with monsters in this life." ”

The little boy's evil smile turned out to be the same as that strange woman, Pu Zixuan suddenly felt that the amber in his chest was heating rapidly, as if he was sensing something. Pu Zixuan was dumbfounded, clutched his chest, and hurriedly said, "I...... I'm leaving. He walked out of the haunted mansion quickly.

Downstairs, the one named Hanako kept repeating: "Everything has a cause and effect, and there is a cause and effect!" ”

When he found Zhu Yuanliang patrolling on the street, Pu Zixuan felt that his whole body was already in a cold sweat. The authorities are confused, his mind is in a mess, and he must find someone to help him figure out his thoughts.

After listening to the story, Zhu Yuanliang frowned and said, "A half-human, half-demon, infatuated monster who has lost his memory? It's so familiar...... Ah, remembered! Have you watched "Strange Tales"? In the chapter of "Ah Bao", there is a man named Sun Zichu......"

"You mean, they're really youkai?"

Zhu Yuanliang left the center of the whirlpool, but seemed to be a lot more rational than Pu Zixuan, and comforted: "Don't worry, don't worry, just like you said, don't lose sight of Mount Tai, calm down, think about it, will there be any more reasonable explanation?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Pu Zixuan tried to calm himself down, and gave an explanation himself, "Perhaps, it was this old and young man who came here to escape the war, and took advantage of the death of the owner of the house to occupy other people's houses, so he pretended to be crazy and stupid, pretended to be a ghost, and deliberately let out the wind, saying that this is a ghost house, so that others will not dare to fight the idea of this house." ”

Zhu Yuanliang's eyes lit up: "Yes, in fact, the truth may be so simple." I'm sure there are monsters in this world, but the old and the young aren't, haha. ”

Pu Zixuan asked again: "Then what is the explanation of the woman in Zhao Chengyi's room?" ”

Zhu Yuanliang thought for a while and said, "Well, this one...... We're just looking at it from a distance, and as you say, maybe it's just the sisters sorting out the relics...... It's a pity that those who committed suicide believed in them. ”

Zhu Yuanliang's words calmed people down a lot.

"I'll just say, there can't be demons and monsters in this world." Since then, Pu Zixuan has no longer been involved in the affairs of the haunted house, and has lived a normal life of drunkenness and dreams.

However, he just forced himself not to think about it, the woman smiled at him evilly, and Amber had an inexplicable fever, which has not been explained reasonably, and has been buried deep in Pu Zixuan's heart.

This was the first strange incident that Pu Zixuan encountered in 1863, and soon another bizarre case occurred in Lijiang.