I was surprised: "Xiaoxiao, how could it be you?" ”

It turns out that the footsteps that have been following us are small? But more importantly, why is Tiny here? She came with us? Why?

Xiao Xiao glanced at me and pursed her lips shyly. I understood that she didn't come with us, she came with me. Now Xiaoxiao is affected by the curse and seems to have a soft spot for me, and I can't blame her when I see her like this, and besides, she saved my life. I had to complain as if it were true: "Do you know how badly you scared us, and we almost thought it was a ghost." In my slackness, I seemed to subconsciously ignore some doubts, such as why I heard footsteps and turned around but didn't see anyone; Another example is why Tiny appears in a locked room.

I had just sensed that she had cut her hair with a sharp weapon, but now that she had no sharp weapon in her hand. Her sudden strange power and how she saved me are also a mystery, and maybe it was the strange curse that was at work. But now is not the time to dwell on this, the most important thing is to find Ma Ming first.

At this moment, my flashlight swept around, and suddenly I found a bloodstained handprint in the corner of the wall, which looked particularly oozing on the gray and miserable wall. I covered my own palm volley and measured the size, this palm print is about the same as mine, it can't be a child or a woman, it can only be Ma Ming's. Why did he leave this bloody palm print, was it injured?

Xiao Xiao suddenly pointed to the edge of the wall and said, "What is that?" ”

I looked in the direction of her finger and saw a few scattered grains of white rice scattered at my feet, intermittently drawing a straight line forward. My heart jumped, is this the clue that Ma Ming left me?

I walked along the path of the grains of rice, which was so messy that it sometimes disappeared altogether, replaced by a trail of blood that meandered forward, and finally the grains disappeared in a downward passage. I thought that the tunnel was already the lowest level of the entire Qingtong Manor, but I didn't expect that there was actually a lot of things inside. I reminded Xiao Xiao to pay attention to safety, and walked down first.

The stairs were not long, there were two steps in total, and there was a small platform in the middle, each with twenty steps, and I went down to the bottom, and before I could take a closer look around with a flashlight, I was dragged to the corner by a huge force behind me. I panicked, struggled frantically, my mouth broke free, and I bit down the man's hand—I tasted blood in an instant, warm, alive.

The man behind him hissed: "Fuck you, are you a dog, my hand is going to be bitten off by you!" Loosen your mouth. It turned out to be Ma Ming's voice.

When I heard the voice, I let go: "What are you covering me for?" ”

Ma Ming seemed to be injured a lot, covered with rust, breathing a little panting, and I accidentally stabbed my elbow in the stomach, and immediately snorted.

I said, "Where did you die before?" Don't you warn me when you see me running wrong? ”

Ma Ming was even more furious when he heard the words: "You are embarrassed to say it!" The skin paper is in your hand, how do I know that you can run wrong with the map? If I hadn't been witty and aware that something was wrong, I'm afraid I would have been trapped in this ditch by you today. Ma Ming was about to clean me up, when he suddenly realized that there was a third person standing silently in the dark, and said vigilantly: "Who?!" ”

I took a flashlight and shone it at Xiaoxiao, so that Ma Ming could see clearly: "It's Xiaoxiao, she seems to have come with us." ”

But he didn't expect Ma Ming's expression not only not to relax, but to become even more jealous, his eyes stared at the expressionless Xiaoxiao, and said, "No, you are not Xiaoxiao." ”

Xiao Xiao looked at him indifferently and replied, "I am." ”

I also stood on Xiaoxiao's side to help her speak: "Who else can she be if she is not Xiaoxiao?" Don't doubt this, she saved me before. ”

Ma Ming's gaze moved down, his gaze focused on her ankles, and I followed Ma Ming's gaze and found that it was the pair of mallets. Although it was very discordant, I thought it was the latest fashion jewelry for girls at first and didn't care. Now Ma Ming has focused his eyes on this pair of mallets, is there anything special about this pair of mallets?

Ma Ming said slowly: "In ancient times, there was a claustrophobic technique, and Wang Zhaoyun of the Ming Dynasty said in "Jieshi Leftovers": Hitting a woman's chest and abdomen with a mallet means that there is a thing falling and closing her household, which can only be drowned, and humanity will be wasted forever. ”

So there is an old and unknown custom that a woman who dies in a miscarriage will tie a mallet to her ankle to prevent evil spirits. However, whether it has an effect or not is up to everyone. ”

He glanced at "Xiaoxiao" again and said, "Obviously, it won't work for you." Right, Ma Wen? ”

What does Ma Ming mean? He said that Xiaoxiao is Ma Wen? Xiaoxiao is a curse mark and behaves strangely, but Ma Wen is a ghost, how can she be Ma Wen.

I waited for Xiaoxiao to explain to me, Xiaoxiao was silent for a moment, but his eyes suddenly changed, from innocent and immaculate dark eyes to like a pool of heavy stagnant water, staring at Ma Ming, and suddenly sneered coldly: "Stinky eating yin and yang rice, get in the way!" ”

Her figure disappeared like a sudden collapse of ink, and I was dumbfounded, and I shuddered in disbelief when I reacted. Doesn't that mean I've been walking with a ghost? If she tried to hurt me, I don't even know how she died.

Ma Ming looked at me and shook his head: "You really have a big heart." Bringing a ghost to my house, I had the talisman in my backpack, but luckily it didn't seem to want to get in our way, otherwise we would have added enough to stuff it between its teeth. ”

I realized it later, and I said, "I'm leaning", I mean, why she avoided talking about my question, because it wasn't small at all, and it couldn't be answered at all!

Ma Ming sighed and said to me, "Take off your clothes." ”

I asked, "What?" ”

"I'll check for you to check that you haven't been manipulated by it, now I have a curse mark, and that little star has a spell mark, if you get hit again, it will be a big trouble."

I muttered, "Probably not." I think it's good to me, and it saved me from the hair, am I not its young master? "Even so, I took off my clothes and let Ma Ming check it.

Ma Ming carefully checked me from head to toe with a flashlight, and finally found no traces, and said, "It's strange, that female ghost didn't attack you?" ”

I said, "Why, doesn't it have to be normal for it to attack me, can't it be that it's a good ghost and wants to protect me?" ”

Ma Ming said: "There are also such ghosts that don't hurt people, but they are rare. In my ten years in the industry, I have encountered only a handful of such ghosts, and I can tell you with certainty that the female ghost is definitely not one of them. Have you forgotten the more than ten lives that died in Qingtong Manor? After saying that, he patted me on the back and said that the inspection was done and asked me to put my clothes on.

I was getting dressed, and Ma Ming was chattering next to me: "If you want me to say, this female ghost didn't do anything to you, it's just two reasons." ”

"What is the reason?" I already had a vague premonition that it was not a good word, but I still couldn't help but want to hear it, alas, I was so curious, and I didn't know when I would become the cat that was killed.

"First, it is suddenly kind, and it can't bear to do anything to you; Two, it's got a crush on you. ”

I squirted him: "you! ”

Ma Ming's mouth is booming: "In view of the fact that you have no money, no face, no talent, and four are unlucky, don't say, those dirty things still like you, maybe it's the latter situation." ”

"Am I that miserable?" Damn, I was quite confident in myself, and I couldn't help but doubt my life when I heard him say that. Am I really such a stinky shit?

Ma Ming didn't know whether it was fake or really ridiculous, and continued without changing his face: "It's not good that a female ghost has taken a fancy to you?" When you go out to eat in the future, people take their wives and children to drag their families and mouths, you are relaxed, and put the tablet on the table with a pestle. ”

Look at my face, see that I'm almost crazy. I oozed goosebumps just thinking about that scene, and begged for mercy: "Brother Ma, Manager Ma, Mr. Ma, I beg you, can you shut up?" ”

*

We got out of the basement where Ma Ming was hiding and went back to the tunnel. The next road didn't go any wrong, according to the human skin map, gradually, the road in front of me became familiar, this is the last time I encountered the ghost hit the wall, now I think about it is just a few days ago, but it feels like a world away, but the memory is not profound.

Just as I was returning to the fear of being dominated by the memories of that time, Ma Ming suddenly stopped in front of a fork in the road. This hollowed out the entire underground escape passage of Qingtong Manor, and it seems that I particularly like to use this kind of 'Ya' shaped fork, and there are no less than dozens of them along the way, as far as I can see. I myself studied architecture in college, and I don't know how to lay out the underground corridor, but in a place like a hotel or a community building where there are many people, it is best not to build a corridor with the word "Ya".

There is a saying about this, and the apparent saying is that the guests are afraid that they will not be able to distinguish the left and right from the fork in the road and get lost; And there are also Taos, which are reincarnated for the dead. After the round with Ma Ming, the first thing I did was to hand him the baby leather paper non-stop, and I felt uncomfortable holding this thing in my hand. Now when I meet a fork in the road, just like before, I naturally ask, "Manager Ma, which way should I go?" ”