"What do you mean by that?" Chang Qing asked me by pulling a handful of hair.

I shook my head, puzzled, but I couldn't help but glance at Qi Zhen. He stared blankly at the rooftop.

Chen Qiu looked at me, and then at Qi Zhen, his expression became confused, and he seemed to have a lot of worries.

“…… Uh, you haven't finished yet!" I hurriedly diverted everyone's attention, "Who is the woman who snatched the stone?" ”

"She really had a lot to do with my great-grandmother." Chen Qiu sighed, "I heard from the old man in the village that a long time ago, she was also a member of our clan. Later, she fell out with the people in the clan and ran away to southern Fujian by herself. After living in a small remote village in southern Fujian, she learned a kind of Gu art that was mixed with witchcraft. Sixty years ago, she suddenly infiltrated Naba, plotted against my great-grandmother, and snatched Zishi. ”

"Why didn't she snatch the Mother Stone with her?" I remembered what I saw in the Soul Splitting Orb, and that beautiful and vicious woman had always had the upper hand!

"Although my great-grandmother is the last wizard in our clan, she has extremely high mana, if she hadn't been plotted first, even Zishi wouldn't have let her take it away!" There was a slight pride in Chen Qiu's tone.

"Are you trying to tell us that the owner of the Golden Silkworm Shadow is that woman?" Qi Zhen asked.

Chen Qiu blurted out: "No! ”

Her tone was so sure that Chang Qing and I both looked surprised.

"Don't worry, listen to me. When she snatched the Zishi, she had a fierce fight with my great-grandmother, and my great-grandmother fought to defeat both sides, and fought with the pain of being devoured by the spirit stone, so she cast a spell on her. As long as she urges the spell and uses the power of Zishi, this spell will protrude all over her body, killing her within ten days! ”

"Did she use the stone later?" Chang Qing somewhat understood.

"Yes, she used Zishi more than ten years later. Afterward...... It's dead! Chen Qiu sighed, "I found her grave in that small village in southern Fujian this time." ”

"Why wait more than ten years to use it?" Qi Zhen's expression was blank, but there was a strange resentment hidden in this sentence.

Chen Qiu was slightly discolored.

"Perhaps, she also knew that she had fallen into witchcraft, so she never dared to act rashly." Chen Qiu smiled bitterly, "More than ten years later, maybe because of the trend of interests, I took the risk!" ”

As I listened to their conversation, my heart felt sour.

Minnan, Zishi, anti-devouring, when these words are strung together, a pair of sincere and gentle big eyes appeared in front of my eyes, as well as the tall figure engraved in the depths of my memory......

"Is it possible for her to cheat to death? Could it be that she has unlocked the witchcraft in it? Chang Qing tugged at his hair again, his troubles were not proportional to his hair.

"No!" Chen Qiu shook his head categorically, "This technique from my great-grandmother can't be solved!" Unless she doesn't use Zishi, she will definitely die! ”

cough, this beautiful and vicious woman must be the murderer of Sun Anning back then, the original wife of Boss Sun, the owner of the abandoned garden.

"Neither your great-grandmother nor the woman, who is the owner of the Golden Silkworm Shadow?" Chang Qing asked suspiciously.

“…… That's exactly what I couldn't figure out! Chen Qiu took a deep breath, "It took me ten days to prove the impossibility of the two of them, but at the same time, I also walked into a dead end!" ”

"Whether it's Naba or Minnan, my clan's wizard inheritance has indeed been broken! So who makes the soul contract today? How could the Golden Silkworm Shadow appear? Her tone was as if she were asking us as well as asking herself.

Everyone was speechless.

After a while, I suddenly jumped up: "Oops, not good! What time is it? ”

I still remember that it was morning when the accident happened, and we were in Chinese class. So what now?

"What?"

"Class! Don't we have to go to class? ”

"Do you have classes on Sunday?" Evergreen sighed.

"What? It's Sunday? "I'm slamming it," it turned out to be...... I've been sleeping for two days! ”

"Yes! You're just lying down and sleeping, we've been busy for the past two days! Speaking of this, Qi Zhen also returned to normal, teasing me with a slight smile.

"How?"

"There are so many dead and injured people, 'Xiao Zhen' is gone, and even 'Principal Gao' is missing, just dealing with the interrogation of all parties has made the three of us full of cold sweat!" Chang Qing smiled bitterly, "It's just that you can't wake up again, and we're worried about whether you're injured, it's really worrying!" ”

I saw that there was not only worry but also exhaustion in the expressions of the three of them, and I thought that the past two days have been very tiring.

"And how do you explain this?"

"How to explain it? I just said that when I saw the crazy old man slashing with a knife and slashing Teacher Lu, Qi Zhen and I were so frightened that we hid under the desks in the classroom. I don't know anything else! "Evergreen spreads his hands.

"As for me, I said that I took leave to go back to my hometown, and when I rushed back to school, I saw dead and injured people lying on the ground, and I didn't know anything else." Chen Qiu raised his eyebrows.

"Oh. What about me? ”

"You, just say that you saw the crazy old man slashing people, and the ground was covered with blood, and you were scared!" Evergreen smiled.

I pouted: "Hiding under the table, fainting, this ...... That's too bad, isn't it? Besides, there was still Mr. Lu present at the time, you are talking nonsense, as long as you check with him, won't you show your feet? ”

"Don't worry, we and Mr. Lu have already agreed on the same caliber, and he also said that he was cut by the crazy old man, so he fainted, and he didn't know what happened in the future!" Qi Zhen said, "And he was really seriously injured, and the police uncles had to believe his words." ”

"Well, then I'll go to school tomorrow and say I'm dizzy and don't know anything, right?" I asked.

"Well, whoever it is, remember to ask three questions!" The three of them nodded in unison.

……

A new week begins!

Approaching December, the cold wind is blowing, and the chill of late autumn gradually seeps into people's internal organs.

When I opened my eyes on Monday morning, I saw a frighteningly overcast sky outside my window.

Last night, I spent most of the night with my eyes closed, but I didn't feel sleepy. I lay motionless on my back, my chest empty, as if stuffed with sand and silt.

Maintaining one position for a long time made my whole body numb.

But I don't care.

No one knows what I'm thinking.

Even I myself am trying to ignore it.

In the midst of the conflict, a gust of wind knocked open the half-hidden window.

The cold wind is like a knife!

The pinprick pain instantly spread over my numb body, and I shivered in pain, and I couldn't help but coil my body and wrap the quilt tightly.

The stiff thoughts eased.

The encounters of life must be impossible to avoid! Even if I didn't want anything, I was just making a fool of myself.

During the day, the words the three of them had spoken, and their demeanor and expressions slowly repeated in my mind. Especially Chen Qiu's words, I thought about it over and over again, and my heart was full of bitterness.

Others may believe her explanation, but I know that there are many inaccuracies in it!

Why?

Do you have any scruples? Is it distrustful? Still is......

Although the quilt was soft, I still shivered a few times in a row.

Maybe someone else ...... Not necessarily convinced!

The gloom spreads like a thick fog in my heart. After a night of tossing and turning, it is difficult to sleep.

In the early morning, the slow, somewhat indistinct ticking of my old-fashioned wall clock suddenly became clear and urgent. It seems that an old man who is dying suddenly refreshed and his legs and feet are like flying!

I immediately withdrew my gaze from the window and turned my head to check. This wall clock is two or three times my age, and it is said that it was handed down by my great-grandfather, and my father often wiped it on weekdays and maintained it very carefully. However, with the age of the wall clock, although the shell is still very shiny, it is not very accurate when it walks. What's more, I accidentally fell the year before last, and the pendulum cracked, and the ticking became slow and weak.

Can ...... now Is it a return to the light?

I rolled over and sat up, staring at the wall clock in a daze.

The hands on the clock face were moving, and gradually, like a fast shot, round and round, turning wildly!

I didn't expect such an old wall clock to have such a rapid turning day!

Suddenly, the shell of the wall clock steamed up green smoke.

Oops!

I quickly stood up and picked up the face wash next to the bed, ready to give it a physical cooling.

With a "whoosh", a large cluster of flames burst out on the clock face, and then the entire wall clock was shrouded in bright flames.

The fire burned fiercely! In an instant, the entire clock face was scorched, and the metal pendulum was rapidly twisted and deformed, as if it was about to break.

Seeing this, I knew I was too late, so I had to put the basin down.

Poor "antique" wall clock! After the vicissitudes of time, it could have survived for a few years, who wants to be inexplicably burned by fire today, it seems that it is difficult to escape the fate of coke!

I was sighing when a large flame wrapped in the wall clock exploded with a "pop", and the flames scattered like ripples. A delicate figure gradually became clear, the cold breath and the blazing flame, these two incompatible substances coexisted in between, and the dark eyes were like sharp swords, as if they could penetrate people's chests.

"Do you see your heart?" Her slightly smiling face shone brightly in the firelight.

There seemed to be a deep meaning in her words, and I was stunned.

But after looking at her, he lost the courage to ask in an instant.

My heart?

Xu Lan told me to believe that Yun Tengjiao wanted me to ask, and now even the "wall clock" wants me to see my heart clearly, am I missing any important clues?

I looked at the burning wall clock again, and there was nothing but the scorched appearance and the rattling of the wall. Eventually, the lump of coke fell to the floor, presumably the hook melted.

I stood stunned for a long time, until I was awakened by a "bang" on the door.

"Dead little ghost, still lying in bed? If you don't come out to eat again, you'll be late! My mother's loud voice sounded like thunder.

"Oh, oh, Mom, you eat first, I'll be right away!" I woke up from a dream, hurriedly put on my coat, picked up my school bag and walked to the door.

She scolded a few more words such as "lazy ghost, little red guy" and so on, and then turned back and went downstairs with heavy steps.

I opened the door, and looked back at the charcoal-like "wall clock" on the ground, and unconsciously imagined the scene of my mother discovering it. Alas, it's going to be bad luck again tonight! I smiled wryly and walked downstairs.

The sky was getting more and more gloomy, and the chaotic cold wind was blowing in the head, blowing the trees from side to side.

My mood is as bad as the weather.

As soon as I entered the school, I was dragged to the principal's office by the head teacher who was guarding the school gate. When I walked to the door, I saw Deputy Teacher Liu of the school and several teachers from the Academic Affairs Office rushing out. They all had strange expressions on their faces, and they seemed to be very heavy, but they had a little bit of vague joy. I pushed open the door, and there was a strange middle-aged man sitting in Principal Gao's place, and opposite him sat an acquaintance, the captain of the criminal police in charge of the case in front. There were several police uncles standing next to him.

The door closed behind me.

By the time the door opened again, the school was already quiet, and classes were already in session!

In view of Vice President Ding's delirium and madness, the director of education and Director Sun of the Academic Affairs Office were unconscious, and the "Principal Gao" became a piece of fragments (classified as missing by the Public Security Bureau), the school was murdered one after another, which finally alarmed the higher education authorities. Within two or three days, the city sent a deputy director of the teaching and research department to temporarily act as the president, and it was the strange middle-aged man.

Since Ding Zhongheng's case has not yet been solved, the captain of the criminal police simply put these strange cases together.

They agreed that the clue was in the school. And I, who is a student at school, happened to have appeared at the scene of these cases, which is more in line with the identity of this "clue" (alas, what an unfortunate!). So they brought me in early in the morning and started a round of indiscriminate bombardment!

Fortunately, I have long held the purpose of asking questions and not knowing, no matter how hard they chase and fight, get to the bottom of things, shake their heads in everything, and keep silent.

Eventually, they lost interest in asking any further.

Deputy Director Qian (the temporary principal) foolishly asked me to go back to the classroom.

I walked out the door with a bitter face.

When I returned to the classroom, the teacher who was in class didn't have time to ask me questions and asked me to sit back in my seat and listen to the class.

As soon as I sat down, Chang Qing next to me quietly tugged at the corner of my clothes and asked, "How is it?" ”

As soon as I turned my head, I caught a glimpse of Qi Zhen in the corner also looking at me eagerly.

I shook my head and said nothing.

Both nodded approvingly at me.

I buried my head in the book.

At the end of class, many classmates gathered around me to offer condolences, and my heart warmed up, and my expression gradually returned to normal. When they dispersed, I found that Qi Zhen and Chang Qing's seats were empty, and they didn't know where they went, so Ge Hong and Xu Shan walked up to me.

"Well, don't ask me! I only saw the madman slash Mr. Lu, and then he ...... Frightened, I don't know anything else! "Knowing that they will definitely ask, I don't wait for the two of them to speak, so I repeat what I have already said N times.

"Huh, scared? When did you become so delicate? Ge Hong glanced at me disapprerovingly.

I smiled wryly.

"What the hell happened to Principal Gao?" Xu Shan asked in a low voice.

“…… I don't know. I still shook my head.

"Come on! Who are you fooling! Ge Hong said unhappily, "I still don't know you?" The three of you are all people who are going to get together where there is a strange thing, and you are obviously at the scene, but you don't know anything? ”

"Uh...... This one...... It's really because there are so many things that I can't tell! I glanced around, and when I saw that no one was looking, I replied in a low voice.

"Then you pick the key points and tell us!"

"Well, Principal Gao is missing!"

"What? Missing again? Ge Hong and Xu Shan invariably widened their eyes in unison, and were stunned, "Is it the old building ...... again?"