The name "Chen Huaizhi" exploded like thunder in Shen Mingde's ears. Chen Huaizhi, Chen Yongyi, Gao Shanxing, Gao Bowen, Gao Zhongchen, these characters went through his mind again. He also had a feeling that the relationship between these people was so close, yet very loose. No matter what the relationship between Gao Bowen and Gao Zhongchen is, they can be regarded as one person at present. Chen Yongyi and Gao Bowen cooperated, and they were wary of each other. Gao Shan Xing does not seem to have been sent to the lakeside village by Gao Zhongchen or Gao Bowen. After the fire, Takayama went to school, and it seemed that she had lived an ordinary life, and it seemed that she had gained her freedom. However, from the story, it was found that Gao Shan Xing later took the initiative to participate in the incident that led to his disappearance. Chen Huaizhi, this person doesn't seem to want Shen Mingde to think that he is a figure who was pulled closer by his father to help. Gao Shanxing's story made Shen Mingde feel that Chen Huaizhi took the initiative to participate in this incident. These people are all connected by the invisible lake and the "business". There seems to be an important figure among them, Lao Yu. When he was in the village, he was called "Old Bug" and was the bookkeeper. Later, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital by the villagers of Yushugou, and then admitted to the Yongning Rehabilitation Home established by Chen Yongyi.

"Do you remember how Chen Yongyi started?" Shen Mingde suddenly turned his head and asked Yang Guangcheng a question.

Yang Guangcheng thought for a while and said, "It's not that Chen Yongyi used to work with the boss of a small construction company. Then the boss ran away, he borrowed money and took over the construction project. Did you make money later? ”

Shen Mingde waved his hand and said, "I know all this." What other legends, what strange things? ”

Yang Guangcheng licked his lips, put on a storytelling posture again, and said: "There are many legends about Chen Yongyi. Ay? There is a legend about the small company he first accepted. Most people don't know about this. My comrade-in-arms used to work as a security guard at that company. said that Chen Yongyi's original boss ran away because he fell into an evil spirit. Think about it, how good the project Chen Yongyi accepted was back then. If it weren't for the boss's unintentional management, how could it be transferred to him? Moreover, doing real estate, that's all real money. Oh, by the way, that's pretty much what you're doing. When the boss got entangled in something unclean, he ran away to the south. Chen Yongyi took over the project. It is said that he took out several ancestral treasures and got a lot of money through pledges. Those treasures, all of them are antiques, and many of them are things from the ancient palace. Relying on that project, Chen Yongyi made money. After a few years, the little boss returned. It didn't take long for the little boss to commit murder. The man died in an unknown manner, and no clues could be found. ”

Shen Mingde nodded. It seems that Lao Yu is really a "nobleman" on the road to Chen Yongyi's success. Thinking of this, Shen Mingde asked again: "What does Fengyang Art Academy have to do with Chen Yongyi?" ”

Yang Guangcheng said: "Fengyang University is a public school. As for whether Chen Yongyi was mixed in it, we don't know. However, the Chu Yao you just mentioned is the honorary president of the Academy of Arts. ”

"What rumors does Chu Yao have?" Shen Mingde asked with a glint in his eyes.

Yang Guangcheng scratched his head and said as if recalling: "People are big stars, except for a little gossip and scandal in the circle, there are no legends. Although she is also from the city, she basically does not come back. Ay? I think about it, there's a legend that's quite interesting. Chu Yao's original name is called 'Chu Shan Xing'. Later, after becoming a star, I felt that it was too earthy, so I changed it to my current name. ”

The two same names, Gao Shan Xing and Chu Shan Xing, really made Shen Mingde think about it. The relationship between the two seems to be very close, but even if you think about it, it doesn't seem to help the whole thing. At present, one of the things that bothers Shen Mingde the most is, who? And why? Raise the alpine apricots in the Fengyang Art Institute. Judging from the known information, Gao Shan Xing is a "town girl" who can suppress evil spirits. Could it be that the art academy is haunted? Could it be that Chen Yongyi's little master has obtained "immortality" and always sees unclean things? And then place a "town girl" next to him to protect him? But why did he send Gao Shan Xing to that lakeside village again?

Another thing that made him more concerned was his own life. He didn't know how much time he had left, and the "ghosts" would come to him. However, the story that Yang Guangcheng told him about the little boss gave him a little idea. At that time, Chen Yongyi, who had already obtained "immortality", did not covet the company's project, so he tempted his boss to go to Lakeside Village. In the village, the little boss got the same imprint as Shen Mingde, so he ran away. After a few years, nothing seemed to happen, so I returned to the city. As a result, because the brand was not removed, it didn't take long for him to be killed. If that's the case, it seems like a way to leave the city, and it's a big deal to emigrate abroad.

Shen Mingde racked his brains and thought, feeling that his brain cells were dying in large quantities. I don't know if it's because of his overuse of his brain, or if his body is exhausted, he feels too sleepy to do it. Shen Mingde looked at the clock on his mobile phone, and it was already more than two o'clock in the morning on the 25th. His brain had refused to think, and hearing Yang Guangcheng's voice in his ears was as blurry as if it was in the water. He turned his head to glance, but everything he saw had some afterimage. They sat in the corridor not far from Yang Chuan's ward, and there were still a few lights on the ceiling of the corridor, the light was not dazzling, and it was not dark, just enough to see a person at the end of the corridor quickly crawling by. The clean marble floor of the hallway reflected the cold light, and he could hear the dripping sound of the water pipes in his ears. The voice "snapped...... Click" is slow and rhythmic, like the water droplets dripping from stalactites in a cave hitting a puddle on the ground, and then being amplified by the echo. The puddles were filled with water, which merged into streams and flowed down the hillside. The mountain stream flowed through the mountains, passing through a forest with dense black balls hanging from its branches. Shen Mingde woke up suddenly, startling Yang Guangcheng beside him. He rubbed his eyes, tapped Yang Guangcheng twice on the shoulder, then got up and walked in the direction of the bathroom.

He wiped the water from his face and stroked his chin against the large mirror in the bathroom. The stubble had broken out uncontrollably, and perhaps the first thing to do when I got home was to dispose of it. A man with a hunched back passed quietly behind Shen Mingde. The figure he left in the mirror made Shen Mingde feel amused. It's already summer, and the man is still wrapped in a heavy military coat, and the fur collar of the coat is still standing up against his cheeks, probably because he is also feeling cold with a high fever. Shen Mingde secretly speculated in his heart, and then followed out of the bathroom. He stretched out at the door of the bathroom and looked around the hallways on either side. There wasn't even a figure, and the inpatient department at night was really peaceful. He returned to where Yang Guangcheng was sitting and found that this old brother could still stare at his two eyes. Seeing Shen Mingde coming back, Yang Guangcheng found some brainless topics again and chatted.

A nurse, passing in front of the two of them, leaned down in a disgusted tone and rebuked in a voice that came out of her throat: "Don't talk here, you have to think about the patient once in a while." Yang Guangcheng scratched his head a little embarrassed, and followed Shen Mingde in the direction of the elevator. Standing in the square in front of the entrance of the inpatient department, the two lit a cigarette and looked at each other. The cool breeze in the early morning breeze blew across Shen Mingde's sleepy cheeks, with a little wet stickiness, and a trace of the day's temperature. Perhaps stimulated by nicotine, he had the illusion of being reborn. Suddenly, Yang Guangcheng let out a "huh", and his eyes drifted to the top of his head behind Shen Mingde. Shen Mingde was also attracted and turned his head. Through the bright lights around the inpatient building, he saw a humanoid shadow crawling out of the building's backlight. The posture of climbing is skillful and steady, and the movement of climbing a tall building is like crawling on flat ground, and there is no feeling of difficulty. The shadow's limbs are frog-shaped, and as it crawls sideways on the smooth exterior walls of the building, it feels more like a giant gecko. It is fully attached to the wall, and when it reaches out its left arm, it lifts and retreats, and then pulls its body forward, and then extends its right arm and raises its left leg. These movements are almost the same as those of all quadrupeds crawling on the ground, but this shadow crawls sideways on the wall in this position. The shadow doesn't seem to think about the support point at all, or the point of focus, it's like being firmly glued to the wall.

The shadow lingered for a moment next to a window on the fifth floor, as if it had opened a gap in the window. The two who watched the scene almost simultaneously said, "What's that?" The question was thrown away with half a cigarette, with the question "What does it want to do?" The question quickly rushed to the elevator of the inpatient department. When Shen Mingde and Yang Guangcheng took the elevator to the fifth floor, they only heard a short exclamation from the corridor. A nurse slammed the door with her mouth and nose covered, running in their direction as if she were running away. Yang Guangcheng couldn't help but run to the ward where the nurse ran out, and Shen Mingde followed.

They broke into Yang Chuan's hospital room, and with the help of the dim light, they saw a person lying peacefully on the hospital bed. There was nothing in the ward. There was nothing on the pillow of that hospital bed. Shen Mingde turned on the light on the wall, and under the illumination of the light, the two saw that the pillow had been stained red with gushing blood. The splattered blood splattered on the wall in a sword-like pattern, and a small stream of blood continued to spurt out of the quilt. Yang Guangcheng, who was stunned, was about to pounce on it to check, but was pulled by Shen Mingde. Then, he dragged the tearful Yang Guangcheng to the corridor, and at this time, the footsteps outside were chaotic. Several hospital security guards and nurses ran over and shouted for protection and alarm. Shen Mingde dragged Yang Guangcheng back to the nurse's station around the corner, shouting and demanding to see the surveillance footage. His countenance, which seemed to be about to eat people, made the nurse on duty at a loss. A few minutes later, Shen Mingde helped Yang Guangcheng into the security room located on the basement floor. There was no one left in this room, and it seemed that all the security guards had rushed to the scene. Shen Mingde saw that this security system seemed to be the same as that used in his own company, so he skillfully operated the machine. Soon, the pre-incident footage was displayed on the computer screen.

As Shen Mingde noticed, the inpatient department at night was almost unpopular. On the rows of plastic chairs in the deserted corridor sat only Yang Guangcheng and Shen Mingde. The scene switched to Yang Chuan's ward, which was probably the video when Shen Mingde first came to the hospital to meet Yang Guangcheng. At that time, Yang Chuan was tossing and turning on the hospital bed, seemingly insomnia. Shen Mingde fast-forwarded the video for a while. At this time, Yang Chuan seemed to be asleep again, his breathing was steady, and he seemed to be able to see the quilt on the hospital bed rising and falling rhythmically under the light of the faint instrument. Due to the angle of the surveillance cameras, they could barely see Yang Chuan's face. Shen Mingde leaned his face close to the screen and looked at the picture frame by frame. It seems to be to make sure that Yang Chuan is still alive at this time. Yang Guangcheng also stopped his tears, slumped on the chair next to the screen and looked at them intently. After a few more moments, with nothing unusual in the room, he fast-forwarded the video again. Suddenly, in the snowflakes of the fast-forward frame, they see the outline of an object move. Shen Mingde immediately paused the picture, and then rewind the video. The two of them stared intently at the screen, for fear of missing a single detail, if the human gaze had power, the screen should have been shattered by them at this time.

After a few seconds or so, they saw a vague silhouette emerge from the crack in the window across from the camera. Shen Mingde felt that the gap in which the window was opened was very narrow, and he didn't think that anyone could get out of it. Before his words fell, the facts gave him a heavy slap in the face. The silhouette was like a dark shadow, it writhing, swaying, and then unfurling like a roll of paper. Shen Mingde could clearly distinguish the outline of the black shadow's protruding head, and then under the reflection of the night vision camera, he saw two white points of light on the silhouette, which were obviously eyes. In a moment, one of the thing's arms broke free and stretched out toward the hospital bed in front of it, about two or three meters away. After that, an even more unbelievable and dumbfounded scene appeared. That outstretched "arm" was literally elongated like a shadow that would change with the angle of the light. At the same time, the forearm part of that "arm" began to split, turning into countless whip-like things that continued to approach Yang Chuan's head. Each split "whip" squirmed and twisted as if it had gained life. Maybe it's not a "whip", maybe it's a snake or a bug, Shen Mingde thinks it will be more appropriate. The things that split out were like bloodthirsty poisonous snakes, and the snake's head was raised above Yang Chuan's head. formed a shape similar to an open flower, and then swallowed Yang Chuan's head in one gulp. Yang Chuan's body in the quilt began to shake violently, and it didn't take long for the thing shining on his head to twist violently, like turning off the volume knob of the radio, and the shaking on the bed instantly stopped. Although the monitor does not have a recording function, the two of them seem to hear the sound of bones shattering. His head was wrapped in the thing, slowly twisted, separated, and removed. Puffs of liquid spurted out of the quilt. This series of plots, the two people present couldn't bear to watch it.

The shadow had done it all, and slipped in like a snake through the crack in the window. It stands up almost like a normal human. It walked to the door and handed the head through the crack in the door. Shen Mingde immediately switched to the camera in the corridor. He suddenly couldn't help but widen his eyes, and saw that the man standing in the corridor was wearing a heavy military coat and covering his face with an erected collar. The two people inside and outside the door seem to have excellent psychological quality, perhaps they are used to this kind of evil thing of killing people and dismembering corpses, and they actually talked a few words at the door. It wasn't until the military coat noticed that someone was coming, so he wrapped his coat around the person's head and left the door of the ward. The shadow killer in the ward didn't leave immediately. Soon, the nurse walked into Yang Chuan's ward. At this point, the Shadow Killer hides in the gap between the wall and the open door. The nurse checked the room with a flashlight. Inadvertently, she seemed to see the blood stains on the wall and noticed something strange in the room. She tiptoed close to Yang Chuan's hospital bed, followed by a scream. In the process, the Shadow Slayer had slipped out of the room from behind her.

The Shadow Slayer didn't go far, and then infiltrated the next hospital room. It examines every patient's face from the bed, as if looking for another target.

"What are you looking for?" Yang Guangcheng stared at the screen and asked suspiciously.

"I ......," Shen Mingde said vaguely in a deep voice.

Yang Guangcheng: "What? ”

Shen Mingde suddenly became frightened and said, "I, it's me, it's looking for me." ”

Shen Mingde said in horror as he rubbed his right wrist. Yang Guangcheng seemed to understand what he meant, and asked, "You mean that 'ghost handprint'?" ”

Shen Mingde didn't seem to hear Yang Guangcheng's words. Pacing quickly in the security room, muttering: "Yang Chuan." Yang Chuan was not pulled by a force by the lake. I guess he's branded too! Gao Bowen said it was the 'mark of a ghost'. The woman in white said that everyone who is branded must die! Why is Yang Chuan okay after lying in the hospital for so many days? Only today I came, and he was killed? That thing came at both of us! It wants to kill both of us together! No, I have to go, I have to get out of here......"

Shen Mingde hurriedly walked to the door. Suddenly, he locked the door to the security room. Then he turned around and leaned against the door, looked at Yang Guangcheng helplessly, and said, "That thing may be outside the door." What should I do......"