Chapter 11: Ghost Eyes
The Eye of Heaven is the chosen one of God, which is different from the Eye of the Ghost. The ghost eye is also known as the eye of the Xiangshi, but it can only see ghosts. It is also said that it is a pair of cursed eyes.
Liu Lifeng arranged for Jiang Yu and me to go to a small town. Through the fingerprints of the corpse, Forensic Gu finally found that the corpse was a man named Du Yuqi. But little is known about him, and all we have to do is go to his hometown, Huangquan Village, to learn about his past.
Huangquan Village is not much famous compared to the famous ghost village in history - Fengmen Village, and for us who have heard it for the first time, it is just an unknown village.
But is that really the case?
The bus stopped at the foot of the mountain, the road was bumpy, and the rest had to walk up on foot. We were joined by four others. Two women and two men, seeing that they don't say anything to each other, they probably don't know each other.
Not only that, but it can be seen from their respective dresses that they are not all the way.
Two women, one is fair-skinned and beautiful, with strict body control, short ear-length hair, and a hint of shrewdness in her eyes. Between the raised hands, with domineering. Seems to be a small white-collar worker.
The other, wearing thick glasses, unkempt, looked very haggard, the bangs on her forehead almost covered her eyes, whenever someone looked at her, she turned her head, did not dare to look at people, dressed very casually.
The man is even more impossible, a man in a suit and leather shoes, with a briefcase and a dark complexion. The other man, like a lewd uncle, had a sloppy beard, a sallow complexion, and blank eyes.
"What kind of broken village is this? The road is so hard! The lewd man opened his mouth, his tone seemed to be dissatisfied, but he looked cautiously at the man in the suit on the side.
Looking at all this, I began to wonder if they recognized each other.
"What are you looking at?" Jiang Yu said to me suddenly. I was embarrassed to look away from them.
"This village gives me a very uneasy feeling, and I have to be careful when I enter the village." I nodded, and saw that his face was heavy.
The road into the village is an overgrown path, surrounded by dense bamboo forests, which block the sun, and walk in it as if you are covered with a layer of cold.
It was getting dark, and we were not far from the end of the road, but we had not yet reached the entrance of the village. Obviously, the driver said that he couldn't walk for a quarter of an hour. In addition to the bamboo forests around, there are weeds.
"Uncle, what are you doing here?" I turned around and asked the lewd man behind me.
He looked at me blankly, turned his head away, and said lightly, "Something!" Seeing that he didn't want to say, I didn't want to ask too much. So he kept walking.
"Why haven't you arrived in that village yet, and you didn't see it when you came?" The short-haired woman walked and walked, gradually frowning.
I realized that at this moment, everyone more or less realized that something was wrong.
"I ...... I want to say that I noticed from the very beginning that we seem to be spinning all the time......" At this point, the glasses woman cringed at her words, which made our hearts jump.
We only cared about walking, and didn't pay much attention to the surrounding environment, and now when she mentioned it, she found that the environment of the places she walked through was roughly the same, and she couldn't tell whether she had walked or not.
"It's true that there is no road ahead, and if we change directions, we are still going in circles." The man in the suit also spoke.
I looked at Jiang Yu and found that his face was pale, and his eyes were staring in one direction in the bamboo forest. I looked curiously, but saw nothing.
"Looks like we're in for a ghost." The lewd man pointed to the road ahead and said nonchalantly.
There is a sign in front of it, and it is estimated that there are some years. It was covered with moss, mutilated, and the handwriting was somewhat faded. But I can still see it faintly, and the words "Lost Soul Road" are written.
At this moment, the air around me seemed to freeze.
Above the huge bamboo forest, several crows flew out of the bamboo forest in an instant, as if breaking through a huge cage, flying into the air, but they scattered and fled, chirping one after another.
Echoing in this eerie bamboo forest.
"We must get out of this forest by half-past six." Jiang Yu came back to his senses, changed his usual calmness, and gritted his teeth and finished this sentence. He looked back at the few people behind him.
"You've been here, haven't you?" He swept everyone's faces and said word by word. "Although, you don't talk to each other, don't you think it's a bit deliberate? And every time one of you speaks, you subconsciously look at the others. I'm afraid you're hiding something from each other, worrying that the other party will leak out, right? β
"Sir, now our main purpose is to get out of here, and if we have time to guess us here, we might as well find a way to get out, do you say yes." The man in the suit had a calm face, without the slightest flustered look of the rest of the people being debunked. Instead, he smiled mildly and responded to Jiang Yu lightly.
It seems that this man in a suit is even more difficult to deal with than expected. But besides him, there is another person.
"I remember that in ancient times, people believed that bamboo was a thing that attracted evil spirits, and wherever there was a bamboo forest, it was inevitable to encounter some unclean things. There is a thing called "road thief", that is, some people encounter ghosts hitting the wall, and the ghost in it is talking about road thief.
Once inside, a person cannot get out unless someone calls him. The lewd man on the side seemed to be like no one else, telling this story slowly, and for me, he was the person I couldn't understand the most.
He glanced at me, and there was a strange look in his eyes.
"Ghost eyes are the fate of the cursed." This time, he didn't look at me, but at Jiang Yu.
I noticed that Jiang Yu looked uneasy, and for the first time I saw cold sweat on his forehead.
"Ghost Eyes?" I wanted to figure it out, so I repeated it and looked at Jiang Yu. But apparently, he didn't want to say more.
"There is no sunlight in this bamboo forest, and if it gets completely dark, you can't identify the direction at all, so you can't say go out. The most important thing now is wayfinding."
After saying that, he walked towards the fork in the road. I had no choice but to go along.
The six of us are one after the other, and the leader is Jiang Yu. Walked for a while.
A faint blue flame suddenly lit up in front of him. All of us stopped at the same time, our eyes fixed on the front.
"That's ...... What is that? The short-haired woman was already a little tired at the moment, and she was inexplicably scared when she saw this scene. The seemingly timid woman with glasses is not like her.
"It's a phosphorus fire, or a ghost fire as it's often called, and it's said that it only appears near the bodies of people who have just died." The glasses woman swallowed and explained.
"Just died?" The man in the suit has a complex expression that captures the key words.
As a member of Group Zero, I had no choice but to step forward with Jiang Yu to check. This sight made my stomach turn upside down.
In the place where the ghost fire disappeared, there was a corpse lying there, saying that he was disgusting because of the way he died. His hands and feet were bound with three thin ropes, which were soaked in blood and ran down his skin as they bound him.
There is a thumb-sized red mark in the middle of his head. The ears, nose and mouth were forcibly stuffed with glutinous rice, and the mouth was sewn with threads, and the death was miserable. It was faintly obvious from his face that he was a young man.
I looked behind him, and there was a long trail of blood, indicating that he had done these things while he was alive, and that he had crawled here with the last of his perseverance.
"Call those guys, find your way." Jiang Yu got up, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. It seems that he is not comfortable either.
"Hey! Let's go! Found the way. The men hesitated for a moment, but finally stepped forward under the leadership of the man in the suit.
Each of them walked cautiously, but they didn't expect the short-haired woman of the female man to be unbearable and vomit.
"Will we do the same?" The eyed woman suddenly burst out, and saw the man in the suit glaring at her viciously. She quickly lowered her head.
"Chen Qi, pay more attention to these people, they seem to be weird."
I thought to myself, "Oh no! That normal person would come to a place where this kind of bird doesn't, not to mention that there are people with superior conditions among these people.
Jiang Yu glanced at them a few times, and fixed his last gaze on the lewd man's body, revealing a deep solemnity in his expression.
"Ghost Eye ......"
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Eventually, we walked out of the bamboo forest, and the bloodstain disappeared at the end, as if it had been cleaned up. It makes me wonder if someone did this on purpose to lure us into the village.
It is already dusk, and there is a huge stone monument at the entrance of the village, which reads "Huangquan Road", but it is not the "right" but "the spring of Huangquan".
The whole village looks like a retro photo buried in the yellow sand.
The village is surrounded by peach trees instead of bamboo.
reminds me of Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", but this gives me the artistic conception that is not as beautiful as in the Peach Blossom Spring, but with an inexplicable depression.
The village doesn't seem to be very populated. "Let's go, go down and have a look!" At this time, the man in the suit took the lead and motioned for us to go down.
"Pretending to be ......" I couldn't help but complain.
We walked all the way to the village, and before I could enter the village, the inexplicable desolation made me feel a palpitation.
It was already dark, and we needed to find a place to rest. But before I could speak, the lewd man said, "No need to look for it, there are some vacant thatched houses here, we can stay for one night, and now many villagers have already slept."
Jiang Yu nodded, he understood.
I went to bed so early, and the village was really isolated, and there was no activity at night.
But the short-haired woman and the man in the suit agreed, which made me even more convinced that they had been here a long time ago.
Once in the village, I finally understood why there was no one at night. There is a half-human-tall paper man at the door of every house here, and this strange custom makes people's scalp tingle. Who dares to walk at night?
Jiang Yu stopped, seeming to be a little uncomfortable. From the moment I came here, I noticed that he was a little uncomfortable, but I didn't ask why. But if you ask him, he probably won't tell me.
But looking at the scene in front of me, I was inexplicably familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere. This man is old and has a poor memory, I sighed.
"Your friend is not feeling well, find a place to rest first......" The lewd man spoke again, his eyes wandering over him.
Seeing his perverted look, I felt that I couldn't let Jiang Yu stay with him, so I wanted to help Jiang Yu, but this kid didn't appreciate it, and before I could touch him, he moved away.
Seeing him like this, I had no choice but to shrug my shoulders and look at the lewd man.
"Boy, you're not likable, aren't you?" The lewd man grinned and said sarcastically with his nostrils clasped.
The other three had already found a hut to stay in, and I looked at the lewd man, and I couldn't figure out this person in my heart.
"Your friend is not simple, those eyes can see things that you and I can't see. But it's still easy to consume his own anger, so let him pay more attention to recuperation, and don't die here before he leaves the village. β
Looking at the back of him leaving, I followed Jiang Yu suspiciously, and looked at him curiously.
Although he was in the same group, when he was in the group, he rarely made a sound, most of the time was meditating, and I never asked him why he came to Group Zero, why he was willing to investigate the case, just because of sympathy for the victim and anger at the murderer?
I looked at him, noticing my inquiry. He pursed his lips and said, "Chen Qi, don't you like to listen to stories?" I'll tell you a story, do you listen or not? β
"Of course." I still need to think about it, I just blurted it out.
He nodded.
I helped him to sit down, and he was leaning against the wall, looking uncomfortable, trying to find someone to vent.
"Are you okay?"
I'm so worried he'll faint in the next second. In this strange village, there is no one at night, how can I stay alone.
"The story takes place thirteen years ago. That's the story of childhood.
There was a boy whose father was a police officer. He has admired him since he was a child, hoping to be a hero who, like his father, brought prisoners to justice.
But is it really that easy to become a hero?
The reason for worship is because of his natural cowardice. He also wanted people to notice him, but that's his personality.
Until, one day. A girl was transferred to their class. He still remembered that the girl was dressed in a clean white dress with flowers, and had a sweet smile, which shone into the boy's heart.
They later became table mates, and the emotions of childhood were like sprouting seeds, itching and struggling in the boy's heart.
Every time he saw the girl's smile, he was satisfied. But it didn't last long. At that time, something big happened on the news! The girl's mother died, he was still young, I don't know what was going on, and people in the school were spreading that the girl's mother was a perverted murderer and deserved to die.
He didn't know how the people at the school defined her, probably in the same position as her mother. Ironically, as the son of a police officer, the boy didn't even know a little bit of news. I only know that the girl's smile has disappeared since then, and I have never seen her smile sweetly again.
He was even bullied on campus. The boy doesn't know how terrible school bullying is because he doesn't feel it and doesn't know how bad those who are bullied are. I only know that the girl became frightened every day, like a frightened bird. There are wounds on the face and body.
What about boys? But nothing was done. Every time he was bullied, the girl would throw a pleading look at him, but every time she looked away in disappointment.
By the end, the girl had stopped asking for help, and her expression became numb.
Finally, after a lesson, the girl's things were thrown out of the window. The boy looked at the girl with an ugly look on his face, fidgeting in his seat.
"Hey! You hit her! One of them suddenly said to the boy. It's obviously a play between children, but that person inexplicably scares the boy, this is school bullying. Even if the other party is a milky hairy child.
He trembled and took the book handed by the man, looking at the girl but not daring to start.
"Hurry! Hurry up! Quite a few people began to chim.
The girl was a little incredible, maybe the boy's inaction was good enough for her, but she didn't expect the boy to be so cowardly, and when the book fell, the girl's tears flowed.
The boy threw down the book and fled the classroom like crazy, trying to get out of the girl's sight.
But when he ran downstairs, the girl's body fell straight in front of him. Blood splattered his face. There were exclamations all around.
The girl jumped off the building! He was limp on his feet and collapsed on the ground. The girl's clean white dress turned red, and the flowers on the skirt were dyed with the girl's blood, and they bloomed brilliantly, a bewitching flower.
The girl's hands and feet were still moving, and she tried to crawl towards the boy, who was too frightened to move.
She put her hand on the boy's face, "Don't you like to see my smile the most?" β
The girl squeezed out a smile strongly, with blood, in this world, so everyone can abandon me, but you...... No! β
She slowly reached out and drew a cross on the boy's eyes. "These eyes allow you to see hell, it's a curse on you!" When she said this, the girl had a hideous face, and it didn't take long for her to breathe. And the girl's dead eyes kept staring at the boy......"
The Devil's Eye is the fate of the cursed.