Chapter 8: The Scarlet Attic
This glance was a dragonfly, and seeing Yu Xing's gaze sweeping over, Luo Qishan bowed politely at him, and then looked away.
Yu Xing didn't take it seriously, there was no malice in the other party's eyes, and it is estimated that the slight curiosity about "why is the junior sister so active" also disappeared when she saw Yu Xing's appearance.
Next is the time of the Zhao family, and it is a strange woman from the family who came to the stage to explain, named Zhao Xuan, who looks twenty-eight or nine, she has a calm temperament, and it is said that she added the old piece recycling bin in the deduction, and her performance is not bad.
She listed several categories of various celebrity deducers who are currently more famous, analyzed the pros and cons of one style one by one, and talked about the recent changes in the major guilds and the trend of action.
Intelligence is different from the feng shui that the Luo family said, and it doesn't need to be traced back too long ago, because its timeliness is the most precious attribute, Zhao Xuan started from October, and it was only a summary of the events of a month and a half, and after sharing a lot of useful information, she also sincerely analyzed the possible movements of various forces in the next month.
Of course, he avoided the three major families present, although everyone knew it, but let the family listen to how the Zhao family analyzed and calculated the other two families in person...... This stupid operation is something that no one with a brain can do.
Not to mention anything else, just talking about intelligence capabilities, the Zhao family really deserves to be "the first in the industry", Zhao Xuan's performance is also very stable, Yu Xing secretly wrote down what he heard, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He felt that the gossip he heard tonight ...... No, it's intelligence, it's enough to cover all levels, and it provides a very good environment for someone like him who has just been promoted.
I don't know why, maybe it's because I know that the Zhao family is basically from Tianjin, and Yu Xing's mind naturally pops up with a Tianjin-flavored sentence - grateful to the family.
He also noticed that during this period, Zhao Yijiu had been listening quietly under Zhao Mou's eyes, speaking of which Zhao Yijiu could be regarded as the person who was farthest away from these information in the entire family, and the other members more or less knew some news and had their own connections.
Only Zhao Yijiu, if it weren't for Zhao Mou occasionally going to Mijin City to see him, and mentioning the situation to him by the way, he probably knew less than Yu Xing.
After another twenty-minute break, it was finally the turn of the Xu family to play.
In addition to Xu Xiangyu and Xu Lingling, the Xu family actually came to a more prestigious member this time, Xu Shu.
His treatment in the Late Night Guild is only that of the president and the three vice presidents, and he belongs to the elite level of the elite, and he is usually elusive, even his own family members rarely see him.
Xu Shu has a very recognizable characteristic, that is, he likes to manifest his personality mask and wear it at any time, and his mask is very strange - incomplete.
While the other masks were all one-size-fits-all and had different patterns due to the various offerings, hes covered only the lower half of his face, all black, with the glow of rusty metal.
The part that is not covered is the dark brown eyes that are no different from ordinary people, and the eyebrows are half covered by a sufficient amount of black broken hair.
But his gaze is very wandering, and when he looks at it, the object of his gaze will be a kind of thing that he does not look at himself, but something behind him that does not exist in this time and space.
It's hard to say something like characteristics, in a word, he's a big guy.
The biggest boss in the audience.
Xu Shu's voice was a little hoarse, his language was concise, and he barely made any opening remarks, and said directly: "The types of ghosts in the absurd have not increased this year, and the newly discovered ones can be classified into the original types." ”
"So, there are still ten kinds of ghosts. In view of the fact that there were many newcomers present who were attending the party for the first time," Xu Shu paused at this point, he was not a newcomer, but it was also the first time that he had condescended to come to the gathering of the three major families, and I don't know who persuaded him, "I will start with the basics." ”
It is said to be the foundation, but in fact, what has been summarized by the Xu family is already the most cutting-edge, most comprehensive, and most useful ghost information among the deducers.
"Beneath the surface of the disorder of the absurd world, there are still traces of the ghosts it accommodates and creates. First of all, according to the origin, we divide them into three types.
"The first type is a ghost that has been passed down from various legends and has completely inherited its characteristics or has been slightly altered. For example, Chinese zombies, belly ghosts, blood paste ghosts, painted skins, Chinese or Japanese flying head barbarians, also known as the head of the wheel, Thai tree girls, card ghosts, European and American evil spirits, Bloody Mary and the like, although they are just legends, but in the absurd world, the probability of appearing is very high.
"The second type mostly appears in mapping analogy, in which some real events are distorted into games, which will turn the dead in reality into ghosts in the deduction, borrowing the obsessions of these people before death, and turning their resentment, unwillingness, jealousy, and pain ...... Use it as the tone of deduction.
"The third type, when the absurd world is formed and deduced, it has its own set of settings, and it has nothing to do with anyone, it may be a BOSS, it may be an NPC, and it is also the one with the greatest probability of appearing."
Yu Xing came to the spirit, he has encountered a lot of supernatural events and many ghosts over the years, but after becoming a deducer, it is the first time to systematically receive the knowledge of ghost classification.
He has met all three of the things Xu Shu said, Bloody Mary, Tang Li, Tang Yuan, Alice, etc......
He looked at Xu Shu on the stage, Xu Shu was wearing a white shirt, jeans and sneakers underneath, if you ignore the weird and terrifying half of the mask on his face, he is simply a harmless young man next door.
Xu Shu blinked, and suddenly cast a gaze at Yu Xing.
The empty gaze seemed to be fixed in the void behind Yu Xing, but Yu Xing still felt a sense of being locked that people couldn't ignore.
He was a little puzzled, and for the time being, he didn't think about why this person was staring at him so well, so he only showed him a polite smile.
Xu Shu retracted his gaze and continued: "The ghosts of the above three origins are common when making specific classifications. ”
There was no focus in his eyes all the year round, and no one noticed the gaze just now except for Yu Xing himself, not even Zhao Yijiu, who was sitting next to Yu Xing.
"Powerful ghosts, there are two states, physical and non-corporeal, generally resentful, based on hatred, and have an absolute desire to kill enemies and passers-by involved......
"Evil ghosts, most of them are physical ghosts, generally made of corpses, fierce, and their thinking ability gradually returns to ...... as their strength increases."
In a sense, the green ghost Yiqing is also counted in this category, and it is one of the very few big ghosts among the evil ghosts that can be transformed into non-entities.
"Water ghosts, hanged ghosts, unjust ghosts, wild ghosts, house ghosts, and ghosts are relatively single, and they only have threats in their respective fields.
"Curses, non-physical ghosts, for individuals or a range, there is a source of curses, there is usually a set of rules of their own, there must be a way to solve it, as long as you find the weakness of the rules, you can survive. But overall, it's hard to deal with......
"Strange talk, in essence, is a disembodied ghost, according to the specific content of the differentiation into a variety of states, it is necessary to pay attention to the judgment of whether a strange talk has a solution, must be strictly in accordance with the content to distinguish, time, behavior, language, may be the key to starting the unsolved deadlock. It's okay if you have a solution, but if you encounter a strange talk without a solution, you can only wait for death......"
Xu Shu said very seriously, as if explaining this to the newcomers did not make him irritable, but he did not look very happy, and stuffed the knowledge into the minds of the listeners like a lecture.
By the time he went down, Yu Xing had already digested all the information.
One thing to say, he really has to thank Zhao Mou for giving him a place in order to gain a lot.
The exchange meeting came to an end, and the people of the three major families withdrew from their seats one after another, some returned to their rooms, and some went to visit the wine cellar and flower room of the Wind Ancient Orchid Garden.
Yu Xing quietly retreated with Zhao Yijiu before Luo Jue came to the door.
Zhao Mou still had something to do, so he asked Zhao Yijiu to take Yu Xing to play, but Yu Xing was not very interested and just wanted to go back to the room to sleep.
"It's only ten o'clock." Zhao Yijiu seemed a little incomprehensible.
Yu Xing yawned: "Go to bed early and get up early, and you're in good health—"
Zhao Yijiu: "...... But aren't you here to find out the news, isn't it a good opportunity for families to be separated at night? ”
Yu Xing smiled: "That's why I'm going to 'go back and rest'." ”
After thinking for two seconds, Zhao Yijiu understood.
He was speechless for a moment, and admired Yu Xing's impermeable character, so he could only say: "I wish you a good night's sleep, don't be caught by others sleepwalking in the middle of the night." ”
"Don't worry, I sleepwalk professionally, absolutely avoid the eyes of others, and never scare innocent people." Yu Xing promised, and swayed back to the vermilion building whose name he still doesn't know.
On this night, some people went to bed early and got up in the middle of the night to be thieves, and some people played late and returned with a lot of fun.
Few people woke up early the next morning.
Originally, this kind of gathering was for young people to communicate with each other and relax by the way, and the activities were all arranged to avoid the morning, and the morning became a complete blank free time, leaving enough sleep time for those who like to lie in bed.
Yu Xing packed himself up, and when he arrived at the Fengyu Pavilion located on the north side of the manor, it was two o'clock in the afternoon, he gathered his down jacket, and the exhaled air suddenly spread from his warm mouth into the cold air, forming wisps of white mist that quickly dissipated.
The Wind Whispering Pavilion is considered high in the overall building of the Wind Ancient Orchid Garden, with five floors, like a small tower, with small wind chimes hanging on the edge, and a pleasant and trance-like ethereal sound with the cold wind blowing.
It's just that it is surrounded by a plum garden, and it is not yet the time for the plum blossoms to bloom, so the scenery is a little depressed, and few people come.
He had a note in his hand, in fact, if it weren't for the contents of the note, he wouldn't have come to such a remote place.
[2 p.m., Top of the Wind Whispering Pavilion]
This note came very strangely, he searched around in the middle of the night last night, and he had not yet returned to the room, but when he woke up, this note was by his door, and it seemed to be stuffed in through the crack in the door.
The content of the note was brief, there were so many strangers in this party, Yu Xing naturally couldn't see who handed it to him, but recalling yesterday's experience, he had a faint guess, and he thought it was interesting, so he avoided everyone to go to the appointment.
He folded the note into the shape of a small frog, and then unconsciously turned and played with his fingertips, narrowed his long narrow eyes, and looked at the top floor through the wall, where there were many closed double-open wooden windows, with complex patterns, and paper pasted in the middle of the lines, which was the kind of white translucent paper in the TV series that poked a hole to facilitate the smoke.
I wonder if the person who asked him to come is now watching him from behind the window?
Is his purpose good or evil?
Yu Xing snorted, pushed open the door of the Wind Whispering Pavilion, and ascended the stairs in silence.
Except for the sound of wind chimes and the slight friction of tree branches swaying, the only sound was the sound of Yu Xing's shoes stepping on the wooden floor.
Perhaps for the sake of the atmosphere, the ground of the Fengyu Pavilion is not covered with blankets, but is designed to be more small and exquisite, not the majestic and bold beauty, but the unique Jianghu atmosphere of the Jiangnan that is dexterous and soft, so that the ancient rhyme is magnified to the extreme.
At another time, Yu Xing thought that he would have liked the architect of the building very much, even if he was probably deceased.
Now, the higher he went, the lighter this sense of femininity faded, and was replaced by a sense of emptiness and restlessness, as if something was still the same, but as if something was attached to it.
"Jingle Bell ......"
The wind did not stop, the bell did not stop, the crisp sound became more and more weird, Yu Xing's footsteps did not stop, maintaining the original frequency, and soon went up to the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors.
"Jingle ......"
The bell suddenly became urgent, and he could faintly hear the cry mixed with the wind, as if someone was holding the wind chime and shaking it desperately, and the bells that were not at all natural formed frantically entered Yu Xing's eardrums, and at the same time, he squinted his eyes and listened carefully, and he could hear the subtle flow sound.
"Tick."
The liquid fell, smashing down the stairs in front of him.
Yu Xing raised his eyes, and his vision slowly became more bright red.
I saw that a stream of fresh blood slowly surged down the stairs, flowing down the stairs from top to bottom, leaving a trace that was difficult to ignore in the place where it flowed.
And the wooden pavilion roof above his head was also blood-red at some point, and it was oozing blood little by little, accumulating to a certain volume and falling vertically, blending into the blood flow on the stairs, just like the drop that had just been smashed down.
A few more steps, and the blood will flow to Yu Xing's feet.
His gaze was calm, and he didn't even stop, but walked up before the blood covered the entire staircase, let the blood flow, and went upstairs cleanly.
The scene upstairs was even more shocking.
Bloody handprints appeared densely on the walls, windows, and pillars, and even the furnishings in the house were not spared, and the tables and chairs that looked like they were worth a lot were also surrounded by bloody handprints, and in addition, there were cobwebs and dust tangled together.
Wind chimes are crazy.
From Yu Xing's angle, a small number of wind chimes could be seen, and they trembled wildly, and an unknown black dirty liquid flowed out of the bell cavity, forming a viscous mass underneath.
The origin of the blood that flowed up the stairs was on a table of eight immortals, and he followed the traces of blood and stood in front of the table of eight immortals, staring at the half of the mask on the table without squinting.
This is the mask that Xu Shu wears on his face, but at this moment, it is not on anyone's face, it is just laid flat, and a pool of blood flows underneath.
The rusty mask is very much in harmony with the cobwebs and dust around it, and with it, it is alone here, and it makes people feel the urge to reach for it.
Yu Xing stretched out his hand.
Then—he put the little frog on the bloodless table next to the mask, and pressed the little frog's buttocks, and with a little force, he made it jump forward.
"You stuff a cold note, and I give you a cute little jumping frog, tsk, why am I so good~"
His voice sounded with a hint of teasing, and the next moment, the wind chimes stopped.
Footsteps came from the staircase Yu Xing had just passed.