This is an indescribable kind of music, it instantly grabs people's ears and makes people's minds addicted, as if they are immersed in the water, they can't hear everything around them, but they can feel that there are countless hands around them tearing at themselves, they can't break free and can't escape, and their eyes are immersed in darkness.

When you are fully immersed, the miserable roar around you comes, some people's angry scolding, accusations, disgust, all negative emotions suddenly emerge, I just want to hold my head and bang against the wall, trying to make myself sober, but I sink into the water again and again, and finally fall into the abyss.

Li Xiruo glanced at Su Youxing and Xiao Wu, who were already immersed in this music and couldn't extricate themselves, their eyes kept wide, and they kept crying, and the whole person seemed to have been stripped of their souls, and only their bodies were stiff.

She closed the music box, and the "bang" sound made the two of them completely sober up, they looked at Li Xiruo blankly, but found that their faces were wet, Xiao Wu hurriedly touched it, and said very embarrassedly: "Where did this fall water?" ”

Su Youxing glanced at him with disgust, wiped away the tears on his face and asked Li Xiruo: "This music is even weirder than the last time I heard it, I just felt goosebumps at the time, but now it seems that my strength has been drained from my body, and I can only be at the mercy of others." ”

Li Xiruo looked at the box in his hand: "This is not an ordinary tune, someone has added something to it, so you can't resist it." ”

Su Youxing glanced at Qin Shuya's room: "No wonder Xiaoya has become like this, listening to this kind of music every day, it's no wonder that people are not crazy." ”

They had just listened to it for about half a minute, but they felt that after a century, it was like stepping over a war, a concentration camp, a spiritual explosion, and they were on the verge of suffocation.

Li Xiruo said to them: "I'll go and check the origin of this box first, and you will be here waiting for me to come back." ”

Xiao Wu said nervously: "Then what if we wait for Qin Shuya to wake up and still look like that, she is too anti-human just now, we can't control it." ”

"I put a tranquilizer on her, and if nothing happens, she will lie quietly in bed until I return."

Xiao Wu wanted to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, but suddenly thought: "What if there is ......an accident?"

"Figure it out for yourself."

Xiao Wu saw that Li Xiruo had not finished speaking, and disappeared into the air.

Li Xiruo is looking for the antique market in City A, where there are three religions and nine streams, and she must know more news than her.

She took the wooden box and turned around and entered a shop, where she had previously panned for some copper coins and town house beasts, and was also a regular customer of the boss.

When the boss saw her coming, he greeted her very warmly: "What do you want to buy today, I just got a treasure that I can enjoy with the Heavenly Master." ”

After all, if some things are opened by Li Xiruo, the price will be doubled if they are taken out to the town house.

Li Xiruo took out the wooden box and put it in front of the boss: "Look at this thing." ”

The boss nodded, with eyes to measure, he looked back and forth for a while, was about to open the box, but was directly held down by Li Xiruo, the boss smiled at this time, lightly put down the box and said: "Although the material of this box is good, but it is a modern thing, the production of the box is the current mechanical technology, to say the advantages, it is estimated that only the carving on it is extraordinary." ”

Li Xiruo pointed to the carving on it: "There are so many treasures in your hands every day, whose hand can you see it?" ”

The boss took a closer look again, thought to himself for a while, and pointed out the way: "If you want to study wood carving, the heavenly master can go to the small shop around the corner to see, although the façade of his house is small, but he has collected a lot of things, I want to remember this kind of carving, I seem to have seen it once in his house." ”

He looked at the statue on it and made sure again: "That's right, the boss once collected more than a dozen wooden statues, I heard others say that they all came from the hand of one person, the carving is exquisite, it is really not an ordinary thing, and it is all from the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Xiruo thanked the boss and walked out, but he walked for a while before he saw the family around the corner, his location was relatively remote and unobtrusive, if he didn't come with a purpose, he was usually afraid of passing in a blink of an eye.

Li Xiruo walked in, and saw a thin man about thirty years old, and when he saw the visitor, he just asked lightly: "What are you looking for?" ”

Li Xiruo looked at his face, his cheekbones were dark, his eyes were swollen with tears, his lips were blue, his overall face was yellow, and the whole person looked sick.

"I've heard others say that you have more than a dozen woodcarved statues here, and I'm very interested in woodcarving, I don't know if I can take a look at it first."

The man shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I don't sell that wood carving." ”

Li Xiruo thought it was interesting, the wood carving was a thing of the Tang Dynasty, the carving was fine, and each one was worth a lot of money, but the store didn't know where to buy it all, but he didn't plan to sell it, what did he keep it for?

"Then I have something here, why don't I ask you to take a look at it first?"

The man looked at Li Xiruo suspiciously, and saw her take out the box in her hand, his face changed slightly, his qi and blood surged a little, and he couldn't help coughing.

He coughed for a while before he asked Li Xiruo weakly, "How do you have this box?" ”

Li Xiruo stepped forward and said, "Do you know?" ”

The man glanced at her, took out a statue of a god from it, pointed to the lotus throne on it, and said, "You can see that the carving technique of this curve is the same as that on this one." ”

"This is the wood carving from the Tang Dynasty?"

The man nodded: "I already have eighteen such wood carvings." ”

Li Xiruo didn't ask where his source of goods came from, but just asked, "What are you collecting so much for?" ”

The man picked up the Buddha statue and revealed the inscription on the bottom, which read "Bao Yuan".

"Do you know the Baoyuan Temple during the Tang Dynasty?"

"It's a coincidence, I've heard about it a lot lately."

The man said: "About Baoyuan Temple, there is a rumor, it is said that the monks inside, is a living Bodhisattva who saves the world, the people under the mountain of Baoyuan Temple are often plagued by diseases, and the pain makes them miserable, but they have no money to ask for a doctor, this disciple has become their only salvation, but some lonely and widowed people can't get out of bed when they are sick, and they can't go to see this disciple for healing, so this person came up with a trick, he carved a lot of statues of gods and placed them in those people's homes, once they have illness, As long as you sincerely pray to the gods, he will surely appear. ”

"What's the name of this person you're talking about?"

The man shook his head: "He's not a human, he's a demon, his name is Bai Ran, and he is called a demon monk by the people behind him." ”

Li Xiruo didn't expect to meet someone in the antique market who knew a little about the events of the year.

She asked: "I once checked the county records of the year, but it has been destroyed, what happened to Bai Ran back then that made him completely disappear, and one of his senior brothers, Wuxu, why did he also disappear?" ”

"I only know about Bai Ran, I heard the previous rumors, he showed his true body one day when he was treating people, and scared people to death, but the rumors behind it are that it killed that person, and people are afraid of monsters, so they smashed all the statues he carved, and now I can only collect these things."

Li Xiruo watched the man gently touch the statue: "You are collecting these to pray, and you want him to appear again to heal you?" ”

The man looked at Li Xiruo: "You guessed?" ”

The two cheekbones are gold and water, because the cheekbones are in the intersection of the gold and wood in the five elements, he is swollen under the eyes, phlegm and cough, at first glance, the body lacks fire, water and fire are deficient, so although he is in the prime of life, he looks sick and about to die, no wonder he believes in that legend, collects all the gods, and just wants to pray that Bai Ran will appear again, be able to rejuvenate his hands, cure diseases and save people.

"But it's been almost a thousand years since this happened, how can you think that with just a few statues, it will appear again."

"Because I've seen it." The man was a little excited, kept panting, and pointed to Li Xiruo's box and said: "The music in this box was made by my father, he just found a statue of a god back then, and begged Bai Ran to show up for treatment, Bai Ran's condition was to make a sound box for him, although I was only ten years old at the time, but the scene at that time was vivid." ”

"Now that you've seen him, what does he look like, and where has he gone now?"

Speaking of appearance, the man said a little uncomfortably: "He has been covering himself very tightly, and I haven't seen it, but his hands are in the shape of fish webs, and several fingers are connected together with a thin net." ”

In this way, Bai Ran at that time was the monster of the No. 7 Bell Tower, but he never seemed to be able to regain his human form.

"At that time, he cured my dad and took the music box, but I didn't expect that twenty years later, I would have the same incurable disease as my dad."

Li Xiruo pointed the sound box at him and opened it, the lotus flower inside turned, and the disturbing music sounded again, the man listened to the discomfort, and hurriedly closed the box: "It's different, the sound is different, the previous music is helpful for sleeping, I'll take a look again." ”

He endured the discomfort and opened the sound box again, took the tool to disassemble some parts, but said with a strange face: "It's so strange, the metal inside hasn't changed, and it stands to reason that the song shouldn't change either." ”

Li Xiruo already knew what she wanted to know, covered the box and was about to leave, but the man stopped her: "Since you have his box, even if you don't know where he is, at least you have a chance to meet him again, right, if you see him again, can you ......?"

Li Xiruo knew his thoughts, turned his head and said, "Do you remember the story you said?" He used to selflessly help everyone, but when he helped your father heal, he was exchanging things for things. Although you only summed up the fear of him in two or three sentences, he may not be able to forget the harm that those people did to him back then. ”

The man was stunned when he heard this, and could only watch Li Xiruo leave.