Midyear 1993

A small street with freshly burned paper fires on the side of the road. There were three boys who looked like teenagers at the intersection, two in front of them hooking their shoulders and the other one following them.

Suddenly, for some reason, one of the boys seemed to be a little angry, pointing at the boy behind him and scolding.

"Silly fork! Can't you stop calling me by name? As played in the ghost movie just now, you can't call your name on Halloween night. ”

The boys in the back were a little submissive and a little stammering.

"Li, Brother Li, yes, I'm sorry! I didn't call you by your full name. ”

"Wang Yong, you are still calling, don't play with us next time, see you are really upset."

The boy next to him also chimed in: "That's it, don't take him next time, it's the same as the mentally retarded."

The boy named Wang Yong suddenly seemed to be in a hurry to urinate, ignored the words of these two people, and casually found a tree near the wall, but he didn't see that there was a pile of paper ash that had not been extinguished next to the tree pit.

Not only did the urine splash into the paper fire ring, but it was all spreading into it.

As soon as his trousers were lifted, he chased after him, when suddenly a whirlwind blew behind him, and the wind flew towards him with black paper ashes.

He fell to the ground, rolled over and lay on his back, a spirit, and knew nothing in front of him.

When he woke up again, he slowly opened his eyes and saw a boy and a girl standing not far from him talking.

"Why don't you wait for him to finish and then break his neck? What did he mean by that? ”

"I don't know what he means, but none of this makes any sense, the important thing is to avenge you."

As he spoke, the two men had already come to him.

"Kill this man too." The man who spoke spoke coldly, as if killing people was commonplace.

"It's too cheap to break their necks, he has this ghost thing on him, he will torture him for the rest of his life, and he will not be at peace before he can relieve his hatred."

"Good!"

"What about the bodies of those two people?"

"You don't have to worry about that, someone will take care of it."

The young man lying down saw the man who was talking, he had seen it, it was a photo in the hall on the first floor of the specimen exhibition hall, and the photo had "Curator Xu Ke" written under it.

Yuanyou's house in Quanmin Community

Luo Baifan looked around the room and said.

"Where are we going to summon spirits tonight?"

Yuan You glanced at Yuan Huaxing's bedroom.

"Originally, I was going to be at home, but I found out that it didn't work, and I didn't know how many years this corpse had been dead, there was a lot of interference at home, it was not easy to recruit, and there could be no cats, so it was still in the yard!"

Soon when they arrived, Yuanyou and Luo Baifan came to the courtyard.

In the dead of night, the things in the yard had already been prepared, and Yuanyou moved the skull out.

He asked Luo Baifan not to make a sound, came to the small table that had been set up, and first burned three red incense sticks and stood in the rice bowl, which was the time limit for conjuring spirits.

And then it officially begins.

I saw Yuan You's hand pinching the soul chasing technique, this soul chasing fingering method is the five fingers of the right hand stretched upward, and the thumb is pinched at the root of the middle finger.

Then he stepped and attached a Soul Charm to the skull of the nameless corpse.

Recite a spiritualist spell.

"Where does the wandering soul remain, the false alarm, the strange grave mountain forest, the mountain god five road generals, the land and the house of the party, and the true soul are investigated, and they are as anxious as a jade order."

Reciting the word transforms into a vajra finger symbol.

The vajra finger is the ring finger of the right hand through the back of the middle finger, and then the index finger hooks the ring finger, the fingertip is down, the thumb and little finger are all in the palm of the palm, and the middle finger is facing up.

Luo Baifan was stunned when he saw Yuanyou's changed vajra finger on the side.

If it were him, I am afraid that the other hand would not be able to break his fingers like that, but Yuanyou could do it with one hand.

At this time, the Yuanyou talisman was completed, and there was a slight wind around him, and the tail of the eight-sided soul attraction talisman attached to the nameless corpse Tianling cover fluttered gently.

With a "whew", several cyan things flew into the skull from all directions.

At the center of the skull, there is a red thread that connects to the grass on the ground.

The grass man was inserted in a rice bowl, and in addition to the grass man, there was also an egg.

Yuanyou saw the cyan thing enter the skull, and he read it again.

"Take back the possession and build up the spirit. The gate of heaven is opened, the gate of earth is opened, and the boy of thousands of miles sends his soul. Again, he pointed to the Grass Piercing Talisman.

I saw that the eggs in the bowl slowly stood up by themselves.

Yuanyou then read again.

"The grass man is a person when he opens the light, the switch becomes a supernatural power, the woman is Tang Sanniang, the man is Xia Ji, thirty-six grasses, turned into thirty-six bone joints, every section is a body, all are people, open a human body, open your face, open your slap, hear clearly, listen to the underworld with the left ear, and listen to the yang with the right ear."

Suddenly, the grass in the rice moved, but he didn't move from the waist down, his upper body bent down, and the pen in his mouth clicked on the newspaper.

Yuanyou squatted in front of the newspaper, holding a flashlight in his hand.

"I'll ask you, and you will answer."

The pen of the grass piercing man clicked to a place in the newspaper, "Good".

"What's your name?"

The stroke is pulled into two positions. "Lee... River".

Yuanyou was stunned, and his heart was beating wildly.

He didn't expect that the owner of this corpse turned out to be the missing Li Jiang.

"Were you killed?"

"Yes".

"Who killed you?"

"Xu..."It seems that there is no such word in the newspaper.

Yuanyou then asked, "Is it Xu Ke?" ”

"Yes".

"Is Xu Ke still alive?"

"Yes".

Yuanyou was still stunned, and then asked again.

"Is Shen Qian still alive?"

After asking this sentence, there was silence, and the grass man suddenly stopped moving, and then he heard a small sound, crackling, and for some reason, the grass man himself burned.

Yuanyou secretly screamed in his heart, but it was too late, and in an instant, the straw man turned into ashes, the eggs in the bowl snapped and shattered, and a few blue lights roared away into the darkness in the distance, disappearing without a trace.

Luo Baifan didn't dare to make a sound, but he still heard the words asked by Yuan You, and when he was anxious, he saw that the straw man was burning, but he still didn't dare to make a sound.

I saw Yuanyou get up from the ground and pat the dust on his body, looking helpless.

Seeing that Luo Baifan didn't dare to make a sound, he nodded at him, signaling that he could speak.

"What's going on? Why did the straw man burn? ”

Yuan You frowned and said, "This soul, that is, Li Jiang, he seems to mind mentioning Shen Qian very much, and I don't know why he is like this, which makes him so scared that he would rather be a lonely soul and a wild ghost again."

Luo Baifan said in a low voice.

"Actually, last night, I boldly wondered if this corpse could have anything to do with those missing teenagers, and sure enough, my instinct was right. So will the other missing people all be buried in the Xu family's grave? ”

Yuanyou looked at the skull on the ground.

"There is such a possibility, and I am very lucky this time, at least I know that Xu Ke is not dead."

Luo Baifan frowned slightly and said.

"Xu Ke is not dead, he killed Li Jiang, Li Jiang is the murderer of Shen Yuan, Lao Yuan, it seems that your guess last time was right, Xu Ke probably wanted to kill him.

It's a pity that I didn't ask about Shen Yuan's life and death. ”

Yuanyou was a little regretful, judging from the mention of Shen Qian by Li Jiang's soul fear just now, something terrible must have happened to him, and even the soul was so taboo.

"The next thing is to investigate the Xu family."

Luo Baifan yawned after speaking, he hadn't slept for two nights, and he was a little tired.

Yuanyou nodded, looked at the tired face, and asked Luo Baifan to go home and rest quickly, and make plans tomorrow.

Midnight is silent, somewhere.

Six black stone pillars, carved with ghost head runes, evenly dispersed, stand on the edge of a hexagonal pit.

Each stone pillar is connected by an iron lock, and several copper coins and some bronze bells are hung on the iron lock ring.

Under the hexagonal pit, in the middle position, there is an iron bed, on the iron bed seems to lie a human-shaped thing, the position on the head, the yellow charm attached to it is very eye-catching, but this person is motionless.

The reason why it looks like a human is that it has the approximate shape of a human, with a head and limbs and a torso, but the whole body seems to be covered with blue-blue scales.

Its hair is very thin, and a lot of small bags can be faintly seen on its head, the bones of its cheeks have become uneven, yearning to turn out, and its mouth does not look like a normal mouth, dry and closed, no clues can be seen, and its nails look like very lethal weapons, sharp and long.

At the place of its collarbone, several very thin vermilion steel cables passed through it, extending to it, and attached to the large iron lock.

At this time, a black-robed man, with a dark and thin face, was standing on the edge of the deep pit, looking down at what was on the iron bed below, while another black-robed man hurriedly walked in.

"Mr. Shijia, the Yin Man has already been delivered."

"You must be watchful, and there must be no mistakes."

"Yes!"

In the blink of an eye, the night has passed.

For some reason, even though it was early spring, the temperature rose sharply.

Even if it is almost March, the temperature in the Great North is unlikely to be so abnormal.

This is not to say that in February and August, when the sun is at its highest, you can still see people wearing short sleeves and holding their coats on the street.

In just a few days, some old people at the corner of the street said that the temperature is abnormal this year, and I am afraid that it will be a disaster year, and there will be disasters.

The young man laughed when he heard it, while some middle-aged people felt that the old man's words were not unreasonable.

Beihan No. 3 Middle School

During recess, Liu Jing sat on the seat of Xu Jun's room and talked to Yuan Huaxing.

"What did your old Xu do? Why did you take so many days off and haven't come back yet, why is this guy so free, and he is not afraid of delaying his studies. ”

Yuan Huaxing fumbled in his table pocket for a long time, took out a bag of kissing shrimp crackers, and then opened it and handed it to Liu Jing.

"He has something going on at home, and he's out of the house, and I don't know how long he will come back and give you this."

Liu Jing happily took out a shrimp cracker.

"Why do you always have snacks in your desk lately, I remember you don't like to eat these things?"

"I don't like to eat, it's all given to me by Lao Xu."

"Why didn't he buy it for me? How can it be so good to you? I'll just say he likes you, can you think about it? ”

"You don't have a mole on your mouth! How to be like a matchmaker. I think Xu Junfang is more like my brother, and he gives me the feeling like this. ”

Liu Jing leaned over and said, "Are you, do you have someone you like?"

I think Xu Jun's head is very handsome, and he is a good person, but his legs are a problem, and you won't be because of his legs...? ”

"I said that you are not annoying, the shrimp crackers can't stop your mouth, what does this have to do with his legs, I really take it, don't say I know you when I go out in the future!"

Liu Jing laughed, "I have been classmates with you since elementary school, and until now, I haven't seen anyone you like." I see, you don't like the opposite sex. ”

Yuan Huaxing's eyes were extremely serious, "Yes, you're right, I like the same sex." ”

Liu Jing was shocked at first, and then her face slowly showed surprise and shyness.

"I see, you've always liked me, right?"

Yuan Huaxing helplessly covered his eyes with his hand.

"It's spring, have you been in the spring recently?"

Liu Jing has finished eating the shrimp crackers.

"How do you speak, and besides, don't you feel it? It's not spring lately. ”

Then he lowered his voice and said, "I only wore a pair of thin autumn pants today, and it's still hot."

"The weather has been really abnormal recently, didn't the geography teacher say it a few days ago, the news reported that because of the Nol Niño phenomenon, the ozone layer has been destroyed and global warming."

"It can't be so warm all at once, anyway, my grandmother said, this year is a disaster year, and I read from a book a few days ago that a foreign prophet said that next year 1999 is the end of the world."

"The end of the world? Is the Earth gone? ”

The prophecy written in that book was that in July 1999, the Great Demon King of Terror would fall from the sky after his resurrection. Anyway, it is said that there are noses and eyes, and it is also said that when the time comes, the sun, the moon and the nine planets in the sky will form the shape of a cross, and this day will be the real end of the world. ”

"Don't look at this kind of unscored, did you buy the latest issue of "Science Fiction World"? And "Mysteries", "UFO Exploration"? ”

"Eldest sister, what you said is the score? I think it's more mysterious, I usually read "Reader" and "Youth Digest". ”

Yuan Huaxing smiled, "Okay, okay!" Did you buy them all? Take it for me to see. ”

Liu Jing pouted, then went back to his seat and flipped through the desk.