Following the old man, Lin Mo walked all the way out of the garden community, and stopped at an intersection in front of the community, the old man's footsteps stopped, and Lin Mo subconsciously stood still.

Although it was certain that it could not be discovered by the old man, but Lin Mo did not get too close, this crazy old lady gave Lin Mo a very strange feeling, as if she was a person, but it seemed that she was not a person, that feeling was very erratic, even Lin Mo couldn't completely figure out the reason for this feeling for a while.

"Is that the reason for the black lantern?"

Lin Mo stared at the black lantern that the old man was carrying, in the darkness, the black lantern was very inconspicuous, if it weren't for the two lights shining from the upper and lower ends respectively, Lin Mo would not have been able to see the black lantern at all.

"The uncle in the security room and the old lady in this wind both have this black lantern, and they both light the lantern at this time, there must be some connection between the two."

"It's just that the lanterns in the hands of these two people are not the same, what is the lantern in the security room covered with something, but the old lady walked out of the community with the lantern so grandiosely, what is the meaning of this black lantern?"

At the moment, Lin Mo got almost no clues, and in this case, any rash inference was meaningless.

The old lady walked to the crossroads, slowly placed the black lantern she was carrying on the ground, and then the man also crouched down and placed the basket she was carrying beside her.

The light transmitted from the black lantern was very faint, and even if Lin Mo's eyes widened, he couldn't see the old man's movements clearly at all, but he could see what the old man had taken out of the basket.

"What's in the basket?"

"I heard the sound of paper rubbing before, and now the old lady is carrying the basket to the crossroads, this is not to burn the paper."

Lin Mo looked at the old man's movements, and some couldn't understand why, under normal circumstances, when he arrived at the intersection in the middle of the night, many people burned paper, and the intersection meant that it was accessible in all directions, so that the deceased ancestors could pass by here and take away the paper money given to him.

So in the past, before the Chinese New Year or the Qingming Festival, you could see people burning paper at the intersection at night.

This is a way for Chinese people to pay tribute to their ancestors, but in recent years, because of this air pollution, more and more cities have begun to restrict such behavior, and such things have a certain impact on the spread of materialism and scientific values.

So under supervision, slowly this situation is basically invisible in the city.

The old lady carried the basket and came to the crossroads in the middle of the night, which made Lin Mo think of burning paper for the first time, but what made Lin Mo strange was that it was not a New Year's festival now, and it didn't coincide with the fifteenth, what kind of paper money did this old man come to burn at this time?

You know, although burning paper is said to send money to the deceased ancestors, but there are also a lot of particulars, burning paper can not be burned indiscriminately, the old lady is so old, it is impossible not to know anything about these things.

Even so, Lin Mo didn't mean to step forward to stop the old man, the old man's approach might have some meaning that Lin Mo didn't know, or maybe today was the death day of one of the old man's relatives.

If that's the case, Lin Mo rashly interrupted the other party's affairs, and it would be a bit of a violation of the rules.

The old man took out all the things in the basket, and by the faint light, Lin Mo could roughly see those things, they were indeed paper money, but not the ones that were common now, but the yellow paper money with round square holes cut out of yellow paper before, as well as some folded ingots.

Seeing this, Lin Mo was even more sure that this old man should have a certain understanding of these things, and now in many places, the paper money is convenient, either a piece of yellow paper with some red coin patterns printed on it, or a stack of dark coins like paper money.

If it is said that with the progress of the times, paper money has changed, it is normal, but some people are still following the ancient rites, and they can't be wrong.

The old man turned his back to Lin Mo, and after placing all those things, a small flame lit up in the darkness, instantly illuminating the old man's surroundings, and Lin Mo's vision became a little clearer.

I saw that in front of the old man, there was a copper basin, and there were a lot of ingots, candles, and paper money around him, and what surprised Lin Mo the most was that there were still some tributes.

"Is it really someone's death day? The old man's son, or the old man's husband? ”

Lin Mo was suddenly stunned, it seemed that from the security guard and Lu Qian, he didn't hear when the old lady's wife died, and the other party didn't mention it at that time, so Lin Mo subconsciously ignored this matter, after all, it is normal for people to be old and alone.

The old man lit the paper money and threw it into the copper basin, and the flame rose high in an instant, and as the old man continued to add paper money to it, the flame became more and more vigorous.

The old man's surroundings were already lit up by the fire, which made Lin Mo's previous speculations about the community change again.

"I thought that all the lights in this community would be turned off at 11 o'clock in the evening because there could be no light at this time, but judging from the actions of this old lady, it is not that there can be no light here, but that there can be no light?"

Frowning and thinking, this matter seems very unreasonable.

"Or is the reason why the old man dares to light the flame and make the light at this time is because the old man has already left the garden complex?"

"Or is it because of the black lantern next to the old man?"

For this black lantern, Lin Mo had seen it before, that was when Lin Mo went to Lu Qian's house and wanted to solve the matter on Xiao Lili, at that time, Lin Mo had noticed that in Lu Qian's house, there was a door that smelled of medicine, but it had not been opened.

At first, Lin Mo thought it was the old man's room and didn't pay much attention to it, but later, for insurance and because of the two videos he saw, Lin Mo used the power of the black shadow to spread the shadow into it and probed the situation in the room.

And in that room, there was a black paper lantern.

At that time, Lin Mo didn't take this matter too seriously, he just thought it was a prank by Little Lili, a child, or an unintentional graffiti that painted the lantern black.

Lin Mo had never heard of any folklore about black paper lanterns, and he didn't take this thing too seriously, and then because the man sent little Lily back, he whispered something to Lu Qian, which made Lin Mo feel strange.

So he took back the power of the investigation, and did not continue to track down the black paper lantern.

But he didn't expect that when he came to the garden community this time, he saw black paper lanterns appear in front of him one after another, and they were all used by the old people, the strangeness of the entire garden community and the special nature of these two old people made Lin Mo have to notice the existence of this black paper lantern.

The copper basin in front of the old man was already burning with raging flames, and the light of the fire reflected the old man's somewhat old face, making Lin Mo, who was not very far away from the old man, slightly distracted.

There is no wind around, it is quiet, like a pool of stagnant water, and the silence makes people feel chills in their hearts.

The sparks continued to burst out, and the paper money was thrown into the brazier by the old lady, keeping the flames burning, and in a trance, Lin Mo heard the old man open his mouth, as if he was telling something, the voice was fluttering, and in this environment where there was no wind, he couldn't even hear what she was saying.

There was a feeling in his heart that the old man's words might have something to do with the situation in this garden community, and Lin Mo subconsciously wanted to get closer and listen to what the old man was talking about.

Lin Mo, who was walking in the dark shadow, slowly moved in the direction of the old man, but the old man's voice not only did not become clearer, but became more and more blurred, and the figure of the old man in front of Lin Mo began to slowly become blurred, rippling like the water waves...