Chapter 8: Li Xing
Bai Mengming's love for feng shui is not only reflected in what he says is the Tao, but also in what he does for others to see. For example, he himself said that every time he posted, he would definitely look at the yellow calendar; The number of words in his post never ends with four; The seat and mobile phone number he chose are very much in line with the requirements of Feng Shui; There is also the color of the clothes on the daily body, which is also in line with the attention of Feng Shui.
For such a person who believes in this way, An Zhi does not believe it, he does not know the superstitious saying that "the banyan tree summons ghosts". Since you know and mind, why do you still take pictures and post in front of the big banyan tree?
This question made her puzzled, so she became extremely curious about that photo. So, An Zhi downloaded the photo and saved it on her computer, and then she contacted a senior sister from the computer school and asked her to help repair and enlarge the big banyan tree.
This kind of restoration and enlargement of photos is a piece of cake for a top student in the School of Computer Science of Ontario University. After waiting for less than ten minutes, the senior sister sent her the restored and enlarged clear version of the picture. An Zhi opened it on the computer and saw that the banyan tree was really strange.
According to the comparison with other references in the photograph, the banyan tree is about 30 meters tall, with rust-brown roots and dark gray bark. The canopy of the big banyan tree is very large, and the leaves are lush and green. Branches of various shapes and ghostly arms grow from the tree. Then, it hangs around the tree, then falls to the ground, and is deeply embedded in the soil, becoming "pillar roots".
Just looking at the photos, An Zhidu felt that this kind of scene of pillars and roots connecting branches and leaves expanding had a sense of darkness that covered the sky and the sun, which made the whole school full of ghosts, and she was particularly depressed when she looked at it. She kept zooming in on the photos, and finally saw that there were many strange patterns carved on the big tree.
These patterns are flattened, almost diamond-shaped, like pieces of blankets, but they all have noses and eyes, and they look very much like panfish, which is often referred to as freshwater stingrays. And in the bloodsucking curse of the Wind and Society, the legendary ancient creature, except for the fact that it has no tail and an extremely soft body, is basically this kind of fish.
After knowing the bloodsucking curse, Yasuki checked the information and learned that the freshwater stingray, also known as the red ray, is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. However, no one knows how these fish survive, what habitat they fit into, or even what common inbreeding species they have.
Many sources say that freshwater stingrays will have a serrated spine at the base of their tail. The base of this spine has venomous glands that pierce human skin and bones to inject venom into the body. When a person is stung by it, it will cause severe swelling and pain, and in severe cases, it will hurt the arteries and heart, which will be life-threatening.
Reports of freshwater stingrays stinging to death have been endless. An Zhi didn't understand, the more she looked at this photo, the more she felt that the focus of Bai Mengming was not him and the child, nor the school where he taught, but the big banyan tree that took up two-thirds of the area of the lens.
Why did the villagers carve the terrifying fish on the gloomy banyan tree? Why did Bai Mengming take pictures in front of such a tree? Why did he choose to go to this village? Could it be that the so-called volunteers are just to find the truth about the bloodsucking curse of the Wind and Society?
Doubts kept coming up in An Xin's heart, and she wrote them down one by one, and then continued to sort them out. She found out that Bai Mengming's previous president, named Li Xing, was a native of Nanyang City and a somewhat special scholar.
Li Xing's grandparents, grandparents, parents, and elder brother are all senior intellectuals in China, and they are professors in different universities in Nanyang City.
According to common sense, the children raised by such families are all good children who are very well-behaved, very obedient, and very sensible. They are diligent and love to learn, respect teachers, love the collective, unite classmates, and grow up all the way, which will inevitably be liked by teachers and students, and will also make parents save all kinds of worry and effort.
It's just that this Li Xing belongs to the small probability of the big probability, and he is an outlier.
He has been fighting and causing trouble since he was a child, mischievous, and rebellious, which broke the hearts of his family. Although he is gifted and intelligent, he has no trouble learning. However, Li Xing's mind is always on countless unscrupulous jobs. When he was successfully admitted to the University of Ontario, his life became even more lawless.
First, a large rock band was formed, which gave the orthodox old professors a headache. Again, shouting at the whole class, they skipped class together and went to ride and camp outside the city. Then, he openly fought with the class teacher, claiming that the students in class may not be good students, and openly posted truancy remarks.
Li Xing has done countless kinds of swagger. If he hadn't had a good family, followed behind his ass, and thoughtfully played the school leaders everywhere, he would have been persuaded to retire by Ontario.