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The second Qingming Festival after the death of the Yue Hongxiao family.

For more than a year, Yue Hongxiao has taken on a lot of cases, not only in Rubik's Cube City, but with the help of her former experience as a writer, she has written a lot of posts on the Internet in the cities around Rubik's Cube City, joined a lot of supernatural event discussion groups, and often drives a motorcycle around the surrounding cities and counties, on the one hand, she has accumulated a lot of knowledge and combat experience, and on the other hand, she has also collected some fragmentary clues about the "Red Devil".

Yuehongxiao's family was already wealthy, and after her family was killed, she received a lot of insurance money and compensation. There is no financial pressure, and she spends all her time on it.

So, she used some known clues to piece together some possibilities for the Red Devils to reappear.

On the second Qingming Festival, the Moon Red Owl believes that the Red Devil may reappear in the west of the Rubik's Cube City. Therefore, she prepared a large number of weapons and so on in advance, and ambushed that place in advance.

On that day, a projection of the Red Devils appeared.

It's just a projection, similar to a doppelganger-like existence. He almost killed the Moon Red Owl.

Recognizing the terrifying and powerful Red Devil, the Moon Red Owl was not discouraged in the slightest. That time, she lay in the hospital bed for more than three months, and then trained herself even more frantically, just so that one day she could have more power and completely destroy the Red Devils.

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As for why he walked into this industry, Yue Hongxiao roughly told so much. Although she was vague about some of the details, she basically told it clearly.

Sang Xiaoge looked at the very tough woman in front of him, he didn't expect her to have such a legendary past, and he was in a trance for a while.

Yue Hongxiao stopped his story, picked up his coffee and drank the rest of it, then took out a box of cigarettes and threw it on the table, took out one and lit it, looked at Sang Xiaoge and said:

"That's about me, but what about you? How did you get into this line? ”

2

The corners of Sang Xiaoge's mouth rose slightly, she knew that after listening to Yue Hongxiao's confession, she was sure that she would have to say something.

And at this moment, a lazy voice came from behind him:

"You tell her that you have some information that you can help her deal with the Red Devils."

It's Mr. Blue.

The guy didn't know how long he had been listening to the sidelines, when he yawned and slipped out of it.

"I'll tell you about it later." Sang Xiaoge stretched out his hand, lifted the fat cat up to his lap, and then said to Yue Hongxiao in an indifferent tone: "This year's Qingming Festival, if you still have to deal with that red devil, tell me, I may be able to help." ”

Yue Hongxiao was stunned for a moment, took a deep breath of cigarette, squinted at the girl in front of her, and paid careful attention to the chubby, clumsy cat.

In the Boundary Guard warehouse, she saw with her own eyes that this girl was fighting those monsters in an unbelievable manner. Later, Chang Youdao told himself that if it wasn't for Sang Xiaoge in the end, maybe everyone would have died in that night walk of the hundred ghosts this time.

I don't know why, Yue Hongxiao felt that the cat was even more unfathomable than Sang Xiaoge.

In this way, she was silent for a while, then the corners of her mouth went up, and she looked at Sang Xiaoge and nodded. There is no thanks, but there is a sense that everything is unspoken. Then she stopped her gaze on the cat and asked:

"This noble surname?"

"Don't be surnamed Lan." Sang Xiaoge smiled and stroked the cat's head a few times and replied, "It's male, so I call it Mr. Lan." ”

3

There are still more than three months before the Qingming Festival, so the moon red owl is not in a hurry to talk about the red devil. She asked some more about Sang Xiaoge, and it was obvious that she meant to be friends with her. Sang Xiaoge still told her in the same way as Chang Youdao.

It's past nine o'clock now, and the city is lively. Yue Hongxiao yawned, took out a document from his bag, threw it on the table, and said:

"Sleepy, I went back to sleep. There is a commission here, the other party is not bad for money, you see, if you are interested, we will go and see it together tonight. ”

After speaking, she stood up, waved her hand at Sang Xiaoge, said no need to send, turned her head and walked out. Two minutes later, the roar of motorcycles and the sound of passing away could be heard from downstairs.

Sang Xiaoge was stunned for a while, didn't look at the document bag first, but pushed the cat on his lap and started snoring and said, "Hey! Do you know what's going on with the Red Devils? Tell me about it! ”

Mr. Lan was almost pushed to the ground by her, rolled her up impatiently, jumped on the table, sniffed and said, "You make me a pot of coffee, and I'll tell you what the Red Devil is." ”

This is not the end, this guy actually used his fat paws to take out a cigarette from the cigarette box left on the table by Yue Hongxiao, and put it on his mouth, Sang Xiaoge happened to have just lit the alcohol lamp, and it lit the cigarette with the alcohol lamp. Then he sat very indecently on the table, and spit out clouds.

"I'll ......"

Sang Xiaoge was speechless for a while.

A fat cat, sitting on the ground like a human, wearing glasses and smoking a cigarette, this picture ...... It's too cute, isn't it?

She quickly took out her mobile phone and took pictures and videos.

"Hey, hey! What's there to shoot? Stupid human ......"

4

"Gods, immortals, demons, demons, ghosts, and monsters, there is not much difference in nature."

Mr. Lan said slowly: "There are many records in ancient times that mortals have ascended to immortality after cultivation. For example, Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, once recorded in his notes the story of his friend soaring from day to day. And the soul of the dead is what the general yang world calls 'ghosts'. Of course, if you have a certain ability, you can be called a 'demon'. As for demons, they generally refer to the cultivation of animals and plants. Generally, 'goblins' are all of the same genus, such as snake demons, such as tree spirits...... As for the strange, it refers specifically to those dead things - in fact, according to the animistic theory, whether it is a stone, a plaything, or a utensil, it can become a monster for some special reason. ”

Sang Xiaoge was playing with the siphon pot while listening to Mr. Lan's statement, and felt that this statement was quite interesting. She tilted her head and asked, "What about gods and demons?" ”

"God and demon are corresponding. You can understand it this way, the god in the yang is the demon in the yin. I'm afraid you can't understand this for a while, and there are very few people who can really be called gods and demons, so few that they can almost be regarded as non-existent. ”

The cat's pupils dilated a little, and it seemed that something confused had suddenly surfaced. However, it shook its head, put its confusion aside for the time being, and continued: "So, the so-called Red Devil is not the real devil. 'Devil' here is just an adjective. It's like if a person shoots an arrow very accurately, people will call him 'arrow god', but in fact he is not a god. ”

"However, if you can be described as a 'demon', you must be more powerful, right?" Sang Xiaoge asked.

"It's not more powerful, it's particularly terrifying." Mr. Lan spit the cigarette butt into the coffee cup that Yue Hongxiao had used just now, walked over to the coffee that Sang Xiaoge had just made, and sniffed it.

"Your coffee is far worse than Xiao Dezi's."

5

"Are there really goblins or something?" Sang Xiaoge held his chin in his hand, ignoring Mr. Lan's evaluation of the coffee she brewed, and asked, but what flashed in his mind was the white lady and the monkey that popped out of a certain stone.

Mr. Lan pulled the file bag left by the moon red owl with his paws and said, "Remember this, your research institute has been open for a long time, and you may encounter anything." ”

The vellum file bag contained a stack of printed materials and a few photographs. Sang Xiaoge read through the materials, combined with the photos, and found that it was indeed a very interesting case.

The client is a couple who live in a villa area called "Eight Hundred Yards" on the outskirts of Xicheng District.

Both of them are approaching the age of 50 and have only given birth to a daughter in their 40s. Naturally, it is loved in every way. Not long ago, they took their daughter to a park to play, and when they came back, they didn't know where they had picked up a rag doll. The doll was almost the same age as their five-year-old daughter, and it looked dirty, and the parents certainly didn't want her to bring home such an unsolicited and unhygienic object, so they threw it away. Who knew that the daughter, who had always been well-behaved, would not agree to live or die, and there was no way, so the couple had to take the rag doll home temporarily.

Since she couldn't screw her daughter, when she got home, her mother threw the doll into the washing machine and washed it repeatedly. It may be that this rag doll is too dirty to be washed no matter how much it is washed, so it was secretly thrown away.

As a result, the next morning, when the mother went to send her daughter to kindergarten, she suddenly found that the dirty rag doll appeared on her daughter's bed and was being held in her arms by her sleeping daughter!

The couple immediately realized that something was wrong, and the mother coaxed the daughter to let go of the rag doll and send her to kindergarten, and the father immediately inspected the entire villa.

Because the occupancy rate of this "800 yards" villa area is very low, many cameras are installed around the villa at home. Basically, there is no dead end, and comprehensive monitoring is achieved. And that's not even counting the most expensive security equipment in the villa.

But after checking the surveillance video, the father found that it was his five-year-old daughter, who went out of the villa in the middle of the night, sleepwalked towards the garbage point, and picked up the rag doll!

6

However, while he was stunned by the surveillance, his wife's call came. It turned out that in the short dozens of minutes when she sent her child to kindergarten, her daughter suddenly developed a high fever.

The symptoms were extremely terrible, fever with convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and talking nonsense.

When the man rushed to the hospital, his daughter had already been taken to the emergency room.

After a series of examinations and diagnoses by a series of specialized equipment and specialists in various specialties, the hospital came to a conclusion.

There is nothing wrong with this child.

In other words, whether it is a blood test or a CT scan, in short, this little girl may not be strong enough, but she does not have any diseases and is very healthy.

In other words, she has no "disease", only "disease".

But the child still had a high fever, and his body was still convulsive, and he was full of babbling.

She kept shouting to "find my sister".

The couple immediately contacted a friend and found one of the most famous local Chinese medicine doctors.

The old Chinese medicine doctor's surname is Han, and his reputation is very high within a radius of several hundred miles. There is an endless stream of people who go to see him every day. The couple entrusted someone and said all kinds of good things, and finally cut in line to let the old gentleman ask Wangwen to cut it. As a result, the old man's conclusion was consistent with that of the children's hospital. The child is not sick.

But in the end, the old man said a few words lightly, and asked the couple to try to see a psychiatrist, or go to burn incense and worship the Buddha, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is the child's situation, which does not belong to the medical system, and should belong to supernatural events.

The couple was helpless, it was getting late, so they had to take the child home first.

Unexpectedly, when the child came home, he saw the rag doll that his father had not had time to deal with, and immediately returned to normal.

It's also so abnormal.

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After that, the rag doll almost became a curse for the family.

Its influence is not only applied to children, but even the husband and wife have begun to have nightmares repeatedly.

No matter how sluggish the couple was, they knew that it all started with that terrifying rag doll. It's just that they can't do anything about it.

The 800-yard villa was built in a place called "Bagua Ridge" in the west of the city. Before it was developed into villas, it was a large village. Some of the village houses have been developed into residential areas, while others are still waiting to be developed.

In the undeveloped village, there is a famous fairy.

It is said that the great fairy suddenly had a high fever ten years ago, and after the fever subsided, he suddenly gave birth to a lot of unbelievable abilities. For example, she can see someone's past life and predict the danger that the person is about to encounter. For example, she can see the shadow of an organ in someone's body, so that she can diagnose some incurable diseases without going through the hospital; The most miraculous thing is that she can know what this person has encountered recently and some things that are about to happen just by the other party lighting an incense stick in front of her, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating disasters and avoiding disasters.

The couple bought a lot of gifts, sealed a big red envelope and sent it in advance, and then made an appointment to take their daughter (of course, the daughter was holding the rag doll) and went to Da Xian'er's house together.

At first, the big fairy was very calm, and after listening to the couple talk about the previous situation, he took out a stick of incense and asked the younger daughter to light it.

That is, the kind of thin, poorly made ordinary incense sticks that are sold at the entrance of every temple.

The youngest daughter was inexplicably very well-behaved, she obediently lit an incense stick with a match and inserted it in the incense burner in front of the big fairy.

Then, the thin incense stick began to emit thick smoke, and in the blink of an eye, the room was filled with smoke, to the extent that you could not see your fingers.

In my ears was the angry scolding of the great fairy at first, then the frightened questioning, then the panicked begging for mercy, and finally the hoarse scream......

When Da Xian'er's apprentice heard the sound and rushed in, opened the doors and windows to disperse the smoke, the Da Xian'er shrank at the foot of the bed, foaming at the mouth, trembling all over, rolling his eyes, obviously scared stupid by something.

Well, it's stupid, or scared.

8

Da Xian'er's apprentices didn't embarrass this family of three. Instead, one of her apprentices told the couple the contact information of the moon red owl. According to the apprentice, many of the problems that the Great Immortal couldn't solve in the past were accepted by this Moon Red Owl.

……

Sang Xiaoge was very interested in this case. Of course, this is also based on Mr. Lan's "risk judgment" of this case, which is within control.

She called Yue Hongxiao and told her that she had decided to go with her tonight to investigate the case.

Yue Hongxiao's tone on the phone was very happy: "Okay, I'll send you an address, you come to my house in the afternoon, and then let's set off from here." ”

"Okay!"

After hanging up the phone, Sang Xiaoge made up for sleep, and then asked Xiao Dezi to take a taxi, and according to Mr. Lan's arrangement, the sister and brother took the cat and set off to Yue Hongxiao's house.

Qinglinyuan Community, 13 buildings, 2 units 501.

The Sang Xiaoge sisters and brothers looked up at the rooftop upstairs, but they didn't expect that the murderous mansion that was rumored a few years ago would actually visit in person today.

After knocking on the door, I didn't expect it to be a very delicate young man with glasses.

Before she could speak, the man, who seemed to be familiar with her, opened all the doors, and stretched out his hand:

"Miss Sang, please come in."

Sang Xiaoge hesitated to walk in, only to find that there were still two women in the room. He doesn't look very old, and he's busy in front of the computer.

This is five or six leaps, and now it looks like the entire fifth floor has been converted into a "data room"-

Four computers, the two walls in the southeast are full of filing cabinets, which are divided into categories and filled with various files; In the middle of the west wall, there is a "killer wall", in the middle of which is a piece of red paper, on which a big question mark is drawn with a black pen. At the center of the question mark is a steel nail nailed into the wall, and then a thread of various colors represents a clue that is led in all directions. There are news clippings, printed documents, and photographs. There is also a printed note next to it, densely recording the time, place and details of the event.

Next to this large "killer wall", there are several smaller killer walls. It is estimated that the wall is not enough, and there are two blackboards, which are also full of various information.

"Isn't it surprised?"

A pair of long legs walked down from upstairs, Yue Hongxiao was wearing a cotton pajama and pajamas, holding a large cup of milk tea, looking at Sang Xiaoge with a smile and asking.

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"Outsiders think I'm alone, but in fact I have a well-established support team."

Yue Hongxiao invited the sister and brother upstairs and sat down in the living room.

"Sister Bai, give me something to drink!" Yue Hongxiao shouted, and the man with glasses ran up in a blink of an eye and asked, "What do you want to drink?" Tea, milk tea, hot chocolate, coffee, wine ......"

"Coffee bar." Sang Xiaoge glanced at the high-end coffee machine in the corner and said, "Three cups." ”

"Okay, please wait."

While the "White Sister" was making coffee, Sang Xiaoge looked at the space on the top floor. The space is very old, and the walls seem to have layers of color, which is very mottled. The furniture and carpets are the same, they look too old, but they are clean.

"That's the pattern when there was an accident at home."

Yue Hongxiao stated indifferently, without a trace of emotion in his tone: "I have kept everything I can keep, but don't worry, I have thoroughly cleaned it." ”

"It's really clean, and there's not a hint of yin owl smell."

Only Sang Xiaoge could hear this sentence, because it was Mr. Lan who said it. It jumped on the couch, its back against the back of the couch like a human, its hind legs apart, and a fluffy tail poked out from between its legs, still waging gently.

"Wow, this cat is so cute!" Sister Bai quickly made the coffee and put it in front of Sang Xiaoge and Xiao Dezi respectively, and hesitated for a moment with the third cup.

"It's it." Sang Xiaoge pointed to the guy who looked like a cat with glasses and said, "This guy is short-sighted, smokes and drinks coffee, and has a lot of problems." ”

10

Since Mr. Lan never asked to hide his identity, Sang Xiaoge never intended to hide the difference of this cat. She picked up the coffee and put it in Mr. Lan's arms, and then everyone looked at it in amazement and drank it in a sip.

"I'll be able to do a little bit of smoking later." Mr. Lan muttered as he drank.

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"There's a website called Persona Society, which is made up of a lot of paranormal enthusiasts." While admiring the cat drinking coffee, Yue Hongxiao introduced: "This website was introduced to me by the former Fang Cheng Boundary Guard. I found that there are paranormal enthusiasts in it, from all walks of life. There are even many who make this research their main career. At that time, there were all kinds of analysis posts on the website, and several of them were analyzed, which I later confirmed to be very reliable. Sister Hong and the two downstairs are friends I met on the website, and they are now mainly responsible for helping me summarize information, analyze feasibility, and do some research on the client. ”

"What is the investigation client doing?" Xiao Dezi asked a little strangely.

That Sister Bai was originally staring at Mr. Lan drinking coffee, but at this time she pushed her glasses and turned her face to answer:

"There are so many people in this world, and there are very few people who really encounter supernatural events. Why did they encounter it? It is often related to some of their previous experiences. And these experiences, either they ignore them, or they deliberately conceal them, which leads to an already supernatural event that becomes even more clueless. For example, the one you're going to tonight has a lot of money in their names than they seem, but they don't have a convincing source of income. ”

"You mean, the children of that family will get into trouble with that rag doll, and it has something to do with the family's previous source of income?" Xiao Dezi's little eyes were shining, it was obvious that he had been trained by Chang Youdao in the past two days, and he was quite eager to try.

"It's just that from the available information, it's hard to determine." Sister Bai pushed her glasses again, pressed the corner of her right mouth slightly, and said, "Or we need to call some information from the police and the bank before we can make a final judgment." But it will take time, so I suggest you wait an extra day before you go......"

"Don't wait."

Yue Hongxiao stood up and said, "I'll go change my clothes, and we'll leave in a while." Sister Bai, you continue to dig deep into the couple, and send me any information you have at any time. ”

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Eight hundred yards of villas, south of Bagua Ridge. There is a Bagua Pagoda that is rumored to be 2,000 years old on Bagua Ridge, which is right opposite the central axis of the villa area. At both ends of the villa area, there are two earthen slopes that rise above the surface and extend several hundred meters to the south, planted with fruit trees. If you look at it from a distance with aerial photography, it looks like a sofa - Bagualing is the back of the sofa, the two rows of fruit groves are the armrests of the sofa, and the villa area is in the center of the sofa seat. In front of the entrance of the villa, the moat aqueduct of the original old square city winds and sways. You have to cross a beautiful covered bridge to enter the villa area.

"What do you think of the feng shui in this place?"

Standing a few hundred meters away from the villa area, Yue Hongxiao asked Sang Xiaoge.

"Feng Shui here is really good, it's not too good." At this time, according to Mr. Lan's instructions, Sang Xiaoge changed into work clothes-canvas raincoat, carried the big black umbrella, looked at the villa area coldly and said: "There are photos in front and back, and you can accumulate good fortune...... It's a pity that this is Yin House Feng Shui, not for the living. No wonder it sells so cheaply here! ”

"Oh?" Yue Hongxiao couldn't help but glance at Sang Xiaoge deeply, and became even more interested in this petite girl: "Then what else do you see?" ”

Sang Xiaoge's fingers subconsciously touched the cat's tail lying on her shoulder, stared at the back of the villa area for a while and said:

"This feng shui has actually been a place of great evil from the very beginning. Because of the reconstruction on the east side of Bagua Ridge, the land of the lord's blessings has become a place of cultivation. It's just that I don't know why, but at this moment, the evil qi seems to have been dissipated. ”

Yue Hongxiao raised his thumb to Sang Xiaoge, raised his eyebrows and said, "Then let's go in and see what is going on!" ”

12

Ring the doorbell, the group was invited into the villa.

This is a three-story row with a basement.

The host couple and children are at home. The couple was obviously suffering enough, both of them looked haggard and had deep dark circles under their eyes.

Yue Hongxiao asked the hostess to take the Sang Xiaoge sisters and brothers to investigate the environment of the entire villa first, and she went to the study with the male host.

"Pay 200,000 yuan first, and after solving it, then pay 200,000 to 300,000 yuan according to the degree of risk."

Yue Hongxiao's expression was indifferent, and she looked at the male owner who wanted to speak and said: "Don't bargain, you saw with your own eyes what happened to that big fairy because of your family, she can't show others in this life, and she can't take care of herself anymore." If you still give up your life and money at this time, let's turn around and leave! ”

The man hesitated, gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

There was a hint of sarcasm on Yue Hongxiao's face, and she looked at the male owner and said, "You know better than me how risky this matter is. Although I haven't seen it yet, I guess I'm afraid that someone will die in the next two days, right? ”

The middle-aged man's body trembled, and a dead ash appeared on his pale face, as if he had resigned himself to his fate, and said, "Give me an account, and I will call you at one time." ”

……

According to what he had agreed with Yue Hongxiao in advance, the front yard and backyard, the rooftop, the rooms on each floor, the basement, and Sang Xiaoge looked at them all. I didn't look at the child's room. When she and the mistress returned, the moon red owl had also finished collecting, and then took out two pieces of paper and handed them to the couple, saying:

"We'll have to wait a while, you two to carry this talisman with you. Tonight is likely to be dangerous, so stay in your room, I don't call you, don't come out!" ”

"So, what about the child...... "Mothers are obviously more worried about their children.

"Leave the child to us, you two don't make trouble." Moon Hongxiao's tone was always cold.

Then she asked the hostess to boil some boiling water, glanced at her watch, and said, "Go back to your room, and if tomorrow dawn is fine, the matter will be settled once and for all." ”