CHAPTER XXIV. Gatekeeper

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With Sang Xiaoge's words, the door of Tintin's memory was opened again, and the fragmentary memories of last year's car accident came to mind, as well as the scene of her boyfriend protecting himself with his body at the last moment, and tears rolled down silently. Liang Li silently handed over a few facial tissues, and Ding Ding took them and hung his head.

"I'll tell you, I know about her anyway." Liang Li put down the coffee cup in her hand, glanced at Ding Ding with affection, and knew that she was sad now, so she took on the role of telling the story.

Liang Li and Ding Ding are called aunts and nieces, and they are actually best friends. So everything about Tintin is known in detail. She recounted in detail what Tintin had been doing in recent years. Ding Ding's hometown is in a remote mountainous area, her parents have died, and her father's family is afraid that she will get the family property as an heir, so they say that she is a broom star and kill her parents. Humiliating and discriminating against her in every way. Ding Ding has a good relationship with his aunt on his mother's side, and he came to Rubik's Cube City to attend a technical school after junior high school, and stayed here after graduation and did not go back. About three years ago, Ding Ding met her ex-boyfriend, and the two have been dating for two years and have already talked about marriage. Liang Li is also happy that Ding Ding has found a good home. Who would have thought that a year ago, the two of them went on a self-driving trip, and suddenly encountered a car accident, her boyfriend was killed, and Tintin was rescued. However, Ding Ding herself began to wonder whether she was really born unlucky this time, she attributed the reason for her boyfriend's death to herself, and once committed suicide by cutting her wrists, but she finally survived under the care and comfort of her boyfriend's mother and Liang Li. After a few more months, Tintin finally came out of his grief, regained his confidence in life, found a new job, and was ready to start his relationship again.

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But just about a month ago, on the day of her first blind date, she had an accident and almost died.

Moreover, that night she dreamed that her boyfriend was calling herself. After that night, every day during the day there were some unexpected dangers, and at night, the same dream was repeated over and over again. Since the content of the dream is the same, Tintin gradually recalls many details of the dream.

In my dream, I felt as if I was being carried to a place by several people. She knew her boyfriend was there waiting for her. The person carrying her had a blurred face and strange clothes, like a paper man in a paper shop. When I arrived at the destination, it was a round house, without windows, with a very earthy smell, red candles in the house, and my boyfriend was covered in blood and looked sad......

Sang Xiaoge listened to Liang Li silently, glanced at the cat, and there was a hint of uneasiness in his expression.

"Tintin, you hold these three silver coins in both hands, recall your dream, and throw them on the table."

Sang Xiaoge took out three coins and handed them to Tintin, her movements slow and dignified. Of course, her eyes were on the cat, consciously or unconsciously.

"Don't worry, let her throw it, and I'll tell you the result later." The cat finished its coffee and said with some greedy eyes on the pipe that was often annoying.

Tintin took it in his hand and looked at the silver coin, which he had never seen before. On one side is a pentagonal pattern with a pentagram inside; On the other side is the yin and yang fish of Tai Chi. I don't know why, as soon as the silver coin arrived in his hand, there was a particularly warm feeling, as if Sang Xiaoge's body temperature was still there, and it was continuously transmitted from the silver coin to his body. She held the three silver coins, closed her eyes, recalled the dream, and then reached twenty centimeters from the table with her hands flat and let go.

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The silver coins fell from Tintin's hand and spun on the table as they collided with each other, and finally, when the spin stopped, all three coins stood on the table!

"Hold the grass! cough cough cough ......"

At this moment, even Chang Shaofu, who always put on a gentlemanly posture on the side, was not calm, and the puff of smoke he had just smoked in choked him and coughed continuously.

Everyone was mentally prepared for the coins that Tintin tossed, and then Sang Xiaoge made various guesses about the possibilities. But the only thing I didn't expect was that this would be the result, and everyone sat up straight at once.

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After the previous story of Ding Ding's past, everyone's hearts have been clouded with a layer of haze. At this time, the three coins "ding ding dong" fell on the table, collided with each other and rotated, and finally all three coins were erected on the table without falling, such a probability is one in millions in statistics?

Although it was close to noon and the sun was shining outside, the people in the room, including the waiter Lingling, all felt a burst of cold.

Until, the fat cat who had just finished his coffee yawned on the table, his tail wagged, and the three coins fell on the table because of the slight vibration.

Tintin's face turned pale, and the hand on the table trembled slightly.

Liang Li looked at the coin nervously, then at Ding Ding, then at Sang Xiaoge, and finally at Chang Shaofu. At this time, the latter glanced at the waiter hiding next to him and said, "If you have a few more cups of coffee, I will also have one." ”

Although Sang Xiaoge was as shocked as those in his heart, he still tried his best to be calm, closed his eyes, quietly wrote down Mr. Lan's words, and then looked at Ding Ding and said: "The coin stands up and does not fall, the first explanation is that there may be problems at any time, and it means that there is a problem; Second, it shows that there are other possibilities for this matter, that is, it is not irreparable. It's just that time is of the essence...... Take me to your house. ”

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"Wait a minute!" Liang Li suddenly remembered something, took out a box from the big bag she was carrying, opened the box, poured the contents on the table, frowned and said: "This is the talisman that Ding Ding went to the temple to ask for something, some of them are said to have been opened, but as long as they are put on, it will be like this in a few hours." ”

Sang Xiaoge just looked at it, reached out to pick up the fat cat, and said as he walked out: "The things you encountered are very evil, and these things are definitely useless." I'll go down and change my clothes, and we'll meet downstairs in half an hour, so let's get off as soon as possible." ”

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When Sang Xiaoge went downstairs to wash, make, change clothes, and kicked Xiao Dezi awake, asking him to take the guy downstairs with him, it was already twelve o'clock at noon. Chang Shaofu booked a private room in the "strong and strong" restaurant downstairs, and everyone had a meal first. And then naturally asked to go along.

Liang Li's car was very small, so everyone was a little crowded, so Chang Shaofu drove a car by himself and took Xiao Dezi with him. Sang Xiaoge sat in the co-pilot of Liang Li with the cat in his arms, and Ding Ding was in the back seat.

Ding Ding's community is very new, after getting off the bus, Sang Xiaoge did not rush into the house, first circled around the residential building, and then went upstairs with everyone.

When he arrived on the third floor, Ding Ding took out the key, but was asked by Sang Xiaoge.

Sang Xiaoge took out a small plastic bottle containing a yellowish liquid, handed it to Xiao Dezi, and asked him to drop two drops in his eyes. Then he gave him the key and said, "You come and open the door." ”

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Xiao Dezi bit her lip, looked at the old lady, then at Ding Ding, plucked up her courage, inserted the key into the door lock, unscrewed it, and then pulled the door open.

At the moment when Xiao Dezi opened the door, a miserable white figure suddenly pounced on him!

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Maybe because of Chang Youdao's training in the past few days, Xiao Dezi reacted quickly, he stretched out his left hand in front of his face, and at the same time exhaled suddenly - normal people will inhale when they are frightened, this is the difference. Professionals know that in such cases, inhaling will cause the body to be corroded by evil spirits, and exhaling is equivalent to protecting oneself with the yang energy in the human body.

As for the others, they didn't see any white shadows, but they felt a chill coming over them as soon as the door opened.

In fact, this cold air was only for a moment, and then everything was normal. The others had nothing, but Xiao Dezi, standing in the doorway, one hand erected in front of his face, motionless.

"What's wrong with him?" Liang Li pointed at Xiao Dezi and asked Sang Xiaoge in a low voice.

"He was stupefied. It's okay, this thing is too timid. Alas...... Timid as a mouse, he still wants to learn to subdue demons and eliminate demons and create evil. Sang Xiaoge hugged the cat, squeezed Xiao Dezi and walked into the house.

After Liang Li and Ding Ding followed in, Chang Shaofu asked Xiao Dezi in a low voice: "Little brother, what did you see just now?" ”

"One, a white shadow...... I saw a white shadow rushing out of the house, it should be a paper soul......"

Xiao Dezi patted his chest with palpitations and said.

"Paper Soul?" Although Chang Shaofu and Chang Youdao are not in harmony from time to time, but after all, they have been brothers for so many years, and they still understand a little bit of knowledge in the yin and yang world, he patted Xiao Dezi on the shoulder and followed into the house, and at the same time comforted him: "What is the paper soul afraid of, alas! ”

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Although Ding Ding had a relatively decadent life during this time, it was a girl's house after all, and the house was very tidy. Sang Xiaoge walked around the room, only to smell the smell of cleanliness. It wasn't until I was in the bathroom that I smelled something strange.

In fact, this so-called "strange smell" was smelled by the cat in her arms.

"You stay in the bedroom first." Sang Xiaoge said to Liang Li and Ding Ding: "The toilet is the most filthy and evil place in every house, and it is daytime again, so ......"

She gestured to the bathroom, gave her an "you know" look, and walked over with the cat in her arms.

Seeing Sang Xiaoge and Xiao Dezi who were trembling into the bathroom, Chang Shaofu also followed and prepared to go in, but as a result, the bathroom door closed one centimeter in front of him with a "bang", so fast, if he leaned ten centimeters in front of him, I am afraid that his nose would have to be broken!

However, even Chang Shaofu can be sure that the door was closed by himself, because the door is open to the right, but Sang Xiaoge and Xiao Dezi are on the left side of the door!

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"Sister, why is this door closed? Hit, can't open......"

Xiao Dezi, who turned around and wanted to open the door but couldn't open it, was so frightened that his flesh was trembling at this time. The lights in the bathroom were dimming little by little, as if a black fog was filling the small space.

Sang Xiaoge looked very calm. She placed Mr. Lan on the wash basin in front of the bathroom mirror, then took out a stack of rune papers from her bag and threw them one by one in the empty basin. After that, he took out the small plastic bottle that he had given Xiao Dezi before, dropped a few drops on the pile of rune paper, and finally struck a match with a "whoosh" and threw it on the pile of rune paper.

"Boom".

It was as if the match had lit not a rune paper, but a basin full of gasoline!

In an instant, in the washbasin in front of the mirror, the flames were a foot in diameter and two meters high! But the flame has no temperature.

And as the flame burned, a human figure gradually revealed itself in the mirror!

Before the flames burned, there were only the inversions of Sang Xiaoge, Xiao Dezi and the cat in the mirror, and at this time, the firelight reflected, and a black mist suddenly appeared in the mirror, and some faint human figures rushed out of it. These figures look a little blurry, wearing triangular hats on their heads, and their joints are moving unnaturally, rushing out from the depths of the mirror, and actually rushing out of the mirror!

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A pale hand, or rather a claw, suddenly poked out of the mirror, grabbed the wall at the edge of the mirror, and then with a force, a "person" coated with bright red rouge broke through the mirror and pounced on the little Dezi opposite!

Just, when he (it?) As soon as he reached the position in the water basin, the blue flame from the rune paper in the water basin burned it to ashes in an instant, and the light paper ashes flew away.

And in that mirror, one after another pale, different expressions but strange expressions rushed out with great resentment, but one by one they were burned to ashes in the "brazier", emitting bursts of scorched stench.

That is, in a few tens of seconds, all the figures in the mirror rushed out and turned into ashes, and the mirror had returned to normal. It's just that in this bathroom, it stinks like a pit that has just burned paper!

When the last figure burned to ashes, the door to the bathroom that was tightly closed opened by itself.

Sang Xiaoge kicked away Xiao Dezi, who was still in a daze, and rushed out of the bathroom, breathing hard the fresh air outside, and said to Chang Shaofu at the door: "Is there clear water?" Hurry up, give me some drink! ”

As Xiao Dezi ran out in embarrassment, the disgusting stench in the bathroom also spread to the outside, Chang Shaofu quickly pinched his nose, and asked Xiao Dezi while staying away: "I said little brother, what are you doing in the bathroom?" Stinks to death! My mom, it stinks! ”

Sang Xiaoge took the mineral water from Liang Li's hand, and drank several sips of "Gu Dong Gu Dong" before he glanced back at the bathroom, "You think this is what we did?" If we were we, how many farts would we have to fart......"

I turned on the ventilation fan in the bathroom and closed the door again, and it took a long time for the smell in the room to be less unpleasant.

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"It's all ordinary paper souls, without any features." Sang Xiaoge puffed out his mouth, very dissatisfied with the cat's ability to "think independently" and couldn't say it clearly, so he had to speculate based on some knowledge he had learned during this time:

"Uh...... At present, the problem is not in the feng shui here, there are some paper souls in this room, and there shouldn't be so much evil energy? If the mirror is the only medium, I know some evil arts, and the other party does it in front of the mirror in his own house, as long as the target appears in the mirror, he will be tricked. There are so many possibilities, who doesn't have a mirror? Unless...... Alas, that's right! ”

Sang Xiaoge suddenly reached out and slapped his thigh and shouted. Frightened, Xiao Dezi shrank his neck, and Chang Shaofu looked at her helplessly while rubbing her legs and said:

"This Sang girl, I won't say anything when you're shocked, can you pat your own thigh next time?"

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"What's right?" Liang Li had just opened all the doors and windows in the house with Ding Ding to dissipate the smell, and was spraying perfume everywhere, when she was attracted by Sang Xiaoge's voice.

"Those paper souls ......" Sang Xiaoge paused for a moment, then looked at Ding Ding, hesitated for a moment and decided to tell the truth: "The so-called paper soul is the soul of the paper man burned through the ritual of memorial......

"Paper people have souls, too?" Ding Ding remembered the appearance of paper figures sometimes tied in the shop that sold wreaths, and couldn't help but shudder: "No wonder I feel ghostly when I see those paper figures!" ”

"Not all paper people have a paper soul." Seeing that there was an opportunity to show off in front of beautiful women, Xiao Dezi hurriedly took over and explained: "We have three souls and seven spirits, and this kind of paper man only has one soul and no soul." Moreover, only the paper figures pierced by people who understand yin and yang can have a paper soul......"

"With you? Show you? Sang Xiaoge glared at Xiao Dezi, and then said: "In this case, we must find out who is using these paper souls, that is, the source of this paper soul." ”

Liang Li looked directly at Chang Shaofu: "Chang Shao, your brother ......"

"It's not him!" Chang Shaofu directly denied: "That old stubborn will definitely not do such a thing, especially if the girl is not short of money than me." So I'll give you a call right now. ”

"No need to fight, I already asked Xiao Dezi just now, he has been learning from Chang Lao in the past few days, and he knows some clues." Sang Xiaoge waved his hand to stop Chang Shaofu.

"What clues?" Liang Li asked nervously.

"Well...... this"

Sang Xiaoge deliberately paused and took a sip of mineral water. She is very good at grasping the technique and rhythm of speaking, and when she saw that not only the two ladies, but even Chang Shaofu were waiting for her to say the following, she put down the water bottle and said: "I also suddenly thought that when we were fighting to the death with paper souls in the bathroom just now, those guys had blurred faces and strange shapes, but I still keenly noticed that they were wearing triangular hats on their heads!" In the entire Rubik's Cube City, only a paper figure on West Street wearing a triangular hat is wearing a paper shop. So, we just need to go to the paper shop and ask who has recently customized a large number of paper figures there, and we can find the mastermind behind the scenes! ”

"So what are you waiting for? Let's go, go right away! I'd like to see which bastard is secretly harming my family! Liang Li immediately jumped up and urged everyone to get on the road immediately.

In fact, there really isn't much time left.