"Poof!"

Looking at the pair of dark eye sockets, the drunk pulled the corners of his mouth stiffly, revealing a smile that was more ugly than crying, slammed his mouth shut, opened it again, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

Zila!

Like pouring a scoop of cold water into hot oil, a puff of black smoke came out of the little girl's body and rushed towards the drunk, and the woman sitting next to her also moved.

"Ah......h

A scream came to an abrupt end, except for the bloody mouthful on the tip of his tongue, and the drunk did not have time to make any resistance, and then he was silent.

After a while, the black fog dissipated, and the little girl snuggled up to a drunk man with a pale face, stiff eyes, and no trace of popularity, with a faint smile on her little face.

The woman's expression when she got into the car was still quiet, quiet and virtuous.

I put my hand in my pocket and held the dagger, this mother and daughter seem harmless, in fact, they are the most dangerous, the only good news is that as long as they don't climb their relatives indiscriminately, they don't seem to be indiscriminately killing people.

The rest of the journey was safe and there were no accidents.

However, the closer you get to Hualin Town, the more broken the road becomes, and the bus is dizzy.

Ten years ago, the road leading from Hualin Town to the city was still very easy to walk, and if there was any damage, it would definitely be repaired as soon as possible.

Not anymore.

Fifteen years ago, Hualin Town was the richest town in Dongyang City.

Hualin Town is backed by the old stone mountain, which is rich in minerals, quarrying and coal mining, which are the two economic pillars of Hualin Town.

However, the stone will always be mined, and the coal will be hollowed out one day.

In the last decade, the town has become increasingly depressed due to the sluggish coal industry and the dwindling availability of quarry.

In the last two years, there have been no young people left in the town.

The terminus of the thirteenth road was the town office, and when the car stopped, the little girl and the woman got off the car with the drunken man's hand on the left and right, and soon disappeared into the night.

The second car is the female ghost in red, after she got out of the car, she didn't go far, she stood in front of the gate of the town office with her back to us, I don't know what to look at!

The man in the trench coat was the third to get out of the car, and it could be seen that after the female ghost in red got out of the car, he was obviously relieved.

After everyone got off the bus, I got up from the back seat and stepped off the bus.

Yu Nan didn't move, he pulled down the brim of his hat, closed his eyes and recuperated, according to the rules, he would stop at the terminal for an hour, and after an hour, he would return to the city.

I didn't say hello to him, it was important to find Yu Ming's soul.

On the opposite side of the site, there is a row of restaurants.

When quarries and coal mines were booming, carts pulling stones and coal were parked on the side of the road in rows, and these restaurants made a lot of money, but now there is not one in ten of these restaurants.

On this side of the site, next to the side of the road, there is nothing of note.

On the side is the town office, which has a compound and a two-story building, and next to the town office is a four-story guest house.

When the guest house was first built, it was also booming for a while, and it was full almost every day, and now almost no one is occupying it.

I looked around, there were so many places for the Shade to hide.

These restaurants on the opposite side have been closed for two years at the shortest, and the longest has been seven or eight years, and the houses here can't be sold, and no one rents them, and they have been empty for so many years.

Once the house is empty, it is easy to attract yin and is suitable for hiding yin spirits.

This is true of the hotel, and the same is true of the guest house next to it, if no one stays in for a long time, it is easy to provoke something that is not human.

I was a little troubled, and after slapping Qiqi's head, I decided to summon spirits.

The things I used to summon the soul for Yu Ming before are still there, and I will immediately set up a formation.

After lighting the candles and inserting the incense into the censer, and after the preparations were made, I began to recite the mantra: "I am waiting here to find the true spirit, and if there is any offense, if there is any strangeness, I would like to help to quickly manifest the true spirit." Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law! ”

After the incantation was recited, the seven or seven people stood up, grabbed a handful of guiding rice, and began to sprinkle rice.

A handful of rice spilled out, and my scalp tingled.

I'm being targeted by a lot of people, or more appropriately by a lot of ghosts.

I could feel a pair of eyes staring at me from the darkness.

This gaze came from all directions, some from the opposite hotel, some from the opposite guest house, and some from the ditch.

There are all kinds of people, but none of them.

I endured the discomfort, recited the mantra three times in a row, and shouted Yu Ming's name three times, but there was no response.

"Brother, are you looking for Yu Ming?"

Just as I was about to give up, a familiar voice rang out from the darkness ahead.

"Yes!"

I was shocked, but I replied.

This voice is very similar to the voice of the little girl who got into the car later.

"I think I've seen him!"

The little girl's voice sounded again, and three figures appeared in my sight along with the voice.

"Where did you see that?" I try to keep my voice as calm as possible.

"Guest house!"

The little girl stretched out her hand and pointed to the guest house next to her, and said, "Last time, my mother and I came to look for my father, and I saw that uncle, and when I registered, that uncle said that his name was Yu Ming!" ”

"Thank you!"

I thanked him.

"You're welcome, my dad taught me to be happy to help others!" The little girl tilted her head and replied crisply.

I smiled at the little girl and didn't say anything, at this time, I must not make a few promises, otherwise, I will end up like a drunk led by the little girl.

The little girl smiled back, and the woman led the drunk back to the car.

Yu Nan turned a blind eye to all this and maintained that posture.

Qiqi and I glanced at each other, put away the candles, spilled a few handfuls of paper money, and set our eyes on the guest house next to me.

The guest house is also facing the street, but it is not the same as the street facing the town office.

The town office looks east to west, and the guest house sits south to north, and the two are at a right angle, one is facing the west street, and the other is facing the north street.

Walk about 20 meters along the bus stop to an intersection, turn left along the intersection and walk down about 15 meters to the main entrance of the guest house.

There is a door lamp in front of the guest house, and the light is dim, illuminating a place in front of the door.

I don't have much doubt about the little girl's words, there is no need for her to lie to me, even if it is to lie to me, it doesn't matter.

I have already seen the result of the soul conjuring just now, Yu Ming's soul was not summoned, and the little girl's words asked me to wait for a dead horse to be a live horse doctor.

It's best to find Yu Ming's soul, and if I can't find it, I'll do my best.

The door of the guest house is very old, it is two wooden doors painted with red paint, I tried to push it, the door is unlocked, and it opens directly.

The moment the door was opened, the wind chimes on the door made a crisp sound, which made people's hearts tighten.

By the light in the hall, I looked up and saw that the wind chimes hung on the door, which were octagonal.

Wind chimes can't be hung blindly, especially in places like guest houses, where octagonal wind chimes are spiritual.

I don't know if the owner of the guest house didn't understand it, or if it was done on purpose.

The reason is very simple, the wind chimes have the effect of attracting wealth and turning away evil, but the octagonal wind chimes are not fortunes, but ghosts.

Retract your gaze and continue inside.

The bar inside is also old, with an abacus and a register on the vermilion painted bar.

On the wall behind the bar, there are labeled keys.

This arrangement is the style of the eighties and nineties of the last century.

"Anyone?"

I went to the bar and knocked.

There was a small bed behind the bar on which lay a fat woman with greasy hair.

The woman was wearing blue labor clothes, her short ear-length hair was greasy, and when she heard my voice, she snorted, got up from the bed, and after glancing at me, her attitude changed, and she said lazily: "What are you doing?" Staying in a hotel? ”

There was a hint of impatience in his voice, and there was something wrong with this attitude.

It's not that she snubbed me, but when she first heard my voice, although she was very sleepy, she still managed to get up from the bed without a trace of impatience and hesitation, but after seeing me, her attitude immediately took a big turn.

My heart moved, and I immediately had an idea, and said, "It was Kiki who introduced me!" ”

As soon as the word "Kiki" came out, the impatience on the fat woman's face disappeared instantly, and was replaced by a smiling face, with a hint of deliberate flattery and fear in those small eyes.

Kiki is the little girl, and when she was in the car before, she said it herself.

I was just trying it out, but I didn't expect it to work.

What I didn't expect was that this fat woman actually knew that little girl.

I thought about it carefully, the little girl and the woman just now seemed to have come out of the guest house, what were they doing here?

The little girl said in the car, or since the little girl and the woman appeared, their purpose was very simple, to find their father, and because of this reason, the drunk man was also tricked.

Does it mean that every time the little girl and the woman go back and forth to Hualin Town, they are looking for their father, and the guest house is a stronghold for her to find her father.

Although the town of Birch Forest is not as big as before, if there are cars passing by, or passing by, the location of the guest house is undoubtedly the most eye-catching.

I could almost imagine that every three days, the little girl and her mother would come to Hualin Town called the No. 13 bus, and when they got off the bus, they would come to the guest house and ask about their father's whereabouts.

Thinking of this, I don't know why, I feel a little sad inexplicably.

The process of finding her father may have lasted for ten years, ten years as a day, every time the No. 13 bus departs, the little girl will come here with her mother and ask, "Have you seen my father?" ”

Judging by the fat woman's reaction, she knew that the little girl was a ghost.

"Are you staying in a hotel or are you looking for someone?"

I was a little surprised by the change in the fat woman's attitude, but it was all reasonable, she didn't want to cause trouble, let alone trouble with ghosts.

"Find someone!"

I clicked on the bar and said, "Kiki told me that the last time she came, she saw a man named Yu Ming staying with you, do you remember?" ”

"Yu Ming?"

The fat woman muttered, her face was not very good, and said, "I remember Yu Ming, he did live with me!" ”

"Really stayed?" I was overjoyed, I didn't expect it to be a real twist at all.

"Stay!" The fat woman nodded, glanced back at the key hanging on the wall, took a key on the left side with her hand, handed it over and said, "He lives in room 304!" ”

I took the key, frowned and looked at the fat woman, she handed over a key, which means that Yu Ming really lived here.

But more questions followed, Yu Ming is now in the state of a soul body, how can she allow such a soul body to live in the hotel?

To put it more bluntly, how can there be ghosts in the guest house?

I glanced back at the octagonal wind chimes hanging on the door, and the guest house was eerie, a bit like a small station hotel.

First of all, there are octagonal wind chimes hanging at the door, and then there is the waiter at the bar who allows the ghost to open a room here.

Also, I didn't pay much attention to it before, I just thought it was retro style to hang keys on the wall, but now I noticed that the label on the back of these keys is not the right color.

There are two colors for the key inspection on the wall, one is green and the other is red, and the label of 304 taken off by the fat woman is red.

Does it mean that the green owner and the red dwelling ghost?

"He came to open it, and you opened it?" I asked, taking the key and staring into the woman's eyes.

"I don't dare not open it!" The fat woman said with a hint of crying: "Don't embarrass me!" ”

I stared at the fat woman for a long time and asked, "Yu Ming didn't go out in the past two days, right?" ”

"No, absolutely not!"

The fat woman shook her head again and again and said, "He hasn't gone downstairs or checked out in the past two days, I can be sure of that!" ”

"How can you be sure?" I asked.

"Anyone who checks out or leaves, the red will turn green!" The fat woman said, pointing to the label on the wall.

"Doesn't the green one represent the residents?" I asked.

The fat woman's face changed slightly, and she said, "Don't you know our rules? ”

"Rules?"

I was stunned and asked, "What rules do you have?" ”

The fat woman was also stunned, as if she didn't expect that I didn't know their rules, and after confirming that I wasn't lying, she said, "Our guest house doesn't accept living people!" ”

"The living don't come to our hotel!" Seeing that I was puzzled, the fat woman added.

"No living people?" I was stunned again.

This is the first time I have heard of such a thing, and the guest house does not accept the living, but the dead.

"You really don't know about our guest house?" The fat woman asked again.

"I don't know!" I nodded.

The fat woman swallowed, looked in the direction of the stairs, and said, "Then I'll talk to you!" ”

"Say it!"

I nodded, and since I knew that I knew that little girl, Kiki, this fat woman's attitude towards me had turned a hundred and eighty degrees.

If she hadn't lied to me, this guest house really only accepts the living, not the dead, I would have some understanding of why she had such a bad attitude after she found out that I was a living person.

The fat woman squeezed her hands and said, "You should know what we started in Hualin Town, right?" ”

"Yes!" I nodded, "Quarrying and digging coal!" ”

"That's right!"

The fat woman swallowed her saliva again and said: "Over the years, our Hualin Town has been getting worse and worse, young people have gone out to work, and the town is basically full of left-behind old people!" ”

"The environment of our town is poor, it used to be quarrying and coal digging, it was okay when I was young, but when I got older, I couldn't do it, and many older people couldn't wake up when I fell asleep, so what should I do? A lot of the time it's the town that helps deal with it! ”

"You also know that if you don't allow burial now, if you are cremated and the ashes are buried, you have to buy a cemetery, but the cemetery is too expensive, and the living can't afford to buy a house, so how can there be spare money to buy a house for the dead?"

"If the ashes are stored in the funeral home, it is very troublesome to worship every year, not to mention that you have to spend storage fees, and then the town made a decision, we have few people living in this guest house all year round, so we simply don't let the living live, the town is poor, can't afford to buy a cemetery, the ashes and tablets are placed in the guest house!"

"So, you know, there are really not many living people in our guest house!"

The fat woman finished speaking, glaring at me.

I rubbed my eyebrows, to put it bluntly, all the people living in this guest house are dead.

I really admire the people of Hualin Town for daring to make this decision, and I also understand why the octagonal wind chimes are hung on the door.

They are afraid that the ghosts who go out from here will not find the way, and they hang the wind chimes to guide the way.

"How many tablets do you have here?" I thought about it and asked.

"It's not a lot, one hundred and twelve, all of them don't have ancestral graves at home, and some of them are more difficult!" The fat woman said casually.

From the cheerfulness of her answer, it can be seen that she is not talking nonsense, but the truth.

"Do you have more than a hundred rooms here?" I asked.

This guest house has four floors, and I am afraid that it adds up to more than a hundred rooms, and I now know why that little girl came here to find her father.

It's not people living here, it's ghosts, and it's no wonder she doesn't come here.

"It's okay, the room is enough, and a room can put twenty or thirty ashes and tablets!" The fat woman said with a smile.

"Twenty or thirty in a room?" I thought I had misheard.

"What's this!"

The fat woman looked rare and strange, and said: "The place where the funeral home is stored is a large chase room, and there are many more stores in it than mine!" ”

What she said was true, when I worked in the funeral home, I was in charge of the storage office.

In the ashes storage room, there are rows of shelves with small partitions, and on top of one shelf, a hundred urns can be placed.

When I think about it, I understand.

"Alright, you can take me upstairs!" I said, waving my hand.

The fat woman showed a look of embarrassment on her face and said, "You still have to go upstairs by yourself, I won't go up!" ”

Speaking of this, she paused for a moment and said, "But I have to remind you, when you go upstairs in a while, you must be light, and you must knock on the door before entering, otherwise, I will really alarm any person with a bad temper, and I will not be able to save you!" ”

"Okay, I got it!"

I waved my hand, picked up the key, and went upstairs.

To be honest, this time I came to Hualin Town, and the harvest was already great.

I didn't expect that there was a guest house here that only lived for the dead, or rather, only ghosts, not the living.

I just don't know what state Yu Ming is in after staying here for two days.