Chapter 12: The Crazy Mouse
The little girl's words gave me a very important message.
That parchment scroll is from the Lingnan ancient tomb, my blood can melt that parchment scroll, according to the meaning of the little girl's words, I have a slight relationship with someone in Lingnan!
Could it be that my parents are in Lingnan?
As soon as I thought of this, my heart became hot and excited, and I felt the urge to fly to Lingnan immediately to find out the whereabouts of my parents.
In the end, though, reason prevailed.
I'm not sure if what the little girl said is true, even if it is, Lingnan is so big, where can I find the whereabouts of my parents?
The old beggar didn't know when he would be able to return to the convenience store, and when he found out the true whereabouts of my parents, it was not too late to go!
The most important thing is that Uncle Zong told me not to run around during this time, because of the parchment roll, there may be a lot of people staring at me recently, and if I leave the shelter of the convenience store, the ghost knows what kind of trouble it will cause.
In the next few days, strange things happened at the convenience store one after another.
When I went by in the morning, I could always see a lot of mouse and fox corpses in the convenience store, and Uncle Zong didn't explain anything, and when I took over, he directly took the corpses of those beasts away.
After about a week, the convenience store returned to normal, but there were more customers shopping during the day. Basically, after walking around the store, every customer silently picks out a thing and leaves, and when they leave, they will look at me deeply, which makes me feel very weird.
Anqi has been away for a week, and she hasn't come back yet, I asked Uncle Zong, and Uncle Zong shook his head and sighed lightly without responding, which made me feel very depressed.
On the ninth day of Anqi's departure, in the evening of this day, an old Taoist priest came to the store, holding a whisk in his hand, quite a bit of a fairy wind and bones.
After the old Taoist priest walked around the store, he didn't buy anything, came to the cash register, and directly took out a small rusty iron card and put it in front of me.
I was stunned for a moment, looked at the old Taoist priest with some surprise, and asked, "Daoist, what are you ......?"
"When Zong Yi comes, just show it to him!"
After saying this, the old Taoist priest walked out of the convenience store directly.
I looked at the rusty little iron plate in my hand with some curiosity, except for a few staggered lines on it, there was nothing special.
I didn't pay attention to this, and at eight o'clock in the evening, Uncle Zong showed up at the convenience store on time.
I gave Uncle Zong the rusty iron plaque left by the old Taoist priest, and Uncle Zong frowned when he saw the rusty little iron plaque.
"Did the old guy say anything else?" Uncle Zong asked.
I shook my head and said, "He left this here and left, without saying anything!" ”
Uncle Zong rubbed this small iron card, his face was cloudy, and said to me: "You stay in the store tonight, don't go back, no matter what happens, don't leave this store, remember!" ”
I was frightened by Uncle Zong's words, this was the first time I saw Uncle Zong show such a solemn expression, and before I could ask, Uncle Zong said in a deep voice: "If I don't come back by dawn, you can leave the town first and go to Suzhou City to stay for a while......"
With that, Uncle Zong handed me a bank card, told me the password on the card, and then hurried out.
I was a little confused, I was inexplicably uneasy, I didn't know what was going on!
Uncle Zong's abnormal state must be related to the rusty little iron plate left by the old Taoist, what is going on?
Time passed little by little, my heart was nervous, I could hear the meaning of Uncle Zong's words when he left, tonight was destined to be not quiet.
At about twelve o'clock in the evening, the string of wind chimes on the door of the convenience store shook gently, and a woman walked into the convenience store on tiptoe.
It's the big-bellied woman I met when I first came to the convenience store!
She was still bloody behind her back, and her face was pale, but when I saw her again at this time, I was not afraid.
After some of the things that happened during this time, my nerves have been honed a lot, and I have confidence in the runes in the parchment scroll imprinted in my mind, if this big-bellied woman really dares to attack me again, I can also have a little self-protection ability.
She still took an iron sand ball from the top of the container, and when she came to the cash register to check out, she behaved properly.
When she was about to leave the convenience store, she whispered to me: "There are a lot of strange guys out there, all staring over here, you'd better contact Mr. Zong quickly!" ”
The figure of the pot-bellied woman disappeared into the night outside, and when I looked outside, I saw only an empty road, not even a ghost.
However, that big-bellied woman shouldn't lie to me, it's just that I can't contact Uncle Zong at all!
Not long after the pot-bellied woman left, a strange noise came from outside the convenience store, and I saw a large swarm of rats frantically pouring into the convenience store.
The rats were so crazy that they rushed towards the last row of shelves in the convenience store as if they had been professionally commanded.
I didn't care about anything at this point, picked up the pans on the shelves, and yelled at the crazy rats.
Blood is splashed, there are too many rats, and several can be killed in one pot!
However, to my creep, the rats ignored me, as if they were ignoring my existence, and ignored their dead companions, frantically tearing at the last row of shelves.
In just a few minutes, I have killed more than 100 rats, but the rest of the rats are one after another, with red eyes and no fear of life and death.
The shelves collapsed with a bang from the gnaws of rats, revealing the wall behind them.
On the yellowed wall, there was a huge pattern more than one person high, and when I saw that pattern, the whole person was in a trance.
This pattern is so familiar!
I had a pattern on the parchment scroll in my mind, exactly like the one on this wall!
How could the pattern on the parchment roll appear on the yellowed wall of the convenience store?
This group of rats seems to have known that there is such a pattern on the back of the container, and their target is this pattern?
Just as I was stunned, the rats jumped up frantically and slammed into the pattern on the wall.
"Bang ......"
Under my dull gaze, the rats slammed into the wall one by one, with great force, and a little blood soaked the pattern, adding a bit of strange color.
At the same time, at the entrance of the convenience store, the bell rang urgently.
I hurriedly turned my head to look, and in front of the store, there were many figures shaking, all dressed in black robes, covering their heads and faces to see their faces clearly.
The person in the lead, a white-haired old man, dressed in a black Tang suit, raised one foot, ready to step into the convenience store.
This old man is full of age spots on his face, and there are many wrinkles on his forehead, and he looks a little old.
But that's not the point, the point is that I noticed that his arms were covered with black scales, exactly like the snake scale man I had met!
At the door of the convenience store, there seemed to be an invisible force blocking him, and the string of wind chimes shook rapidly.
With a cold snort, the white-haired old man's raised foot fell sharply and stepped into the convenience store.
"Bang ......"
The string of wind chimes on the door of the convenience store exploded directly!
Immediately after, the group of black-robed people behind the white-haired old man rushed into the store first, and I grabbed the pan in one hand and hurriedly bit my fingertips, ready to draw the talisman.
However, at this moment, one of the black-robed men suddenly rushed in front of me with an arrow and hit me in the lower abdomen with a punch.
The intense pain came, and I felt that my internal organs were trembling, and I couldn't breathe smoothly from the pain, and I naturally couldn't draw the talisman when I bent over.
Then, my neck was choked by the black-robed man, and my whole body seemed to be drained, and the pan in my hand fell to the ground.
The other black-robed men rushed to the wall and took out daggers and slit their wrists, their blood pale green, spilling the blood on the pattern on the wall.
The blood of many rats and the blood of these black-robed people are mixed together, that wall looks disgusting, and I'm a little confused now, these people aren't here for me?
Looking at this stance, it seems that they are specifically here to target the pattern on the wall of the convenience store!
The white-haired old man walked up to me at this time, looked at the pattern on the wall that had been stained with disgusting blood, and waved his hand at the black-robed men.
The black-robed men saluted respectfully, exited the convenience store in unison, and disappeared into the night between breaths.
The black-robed man who was holding my neck glanced at the white-haired old man, and said in a somewhat sharp and hoarse voice: "Elder Ge, he may be the kid adopted by Zhou Zhenyao, do we want to ......?"
"Do you want to make that woman angry?"
The white-haired old man said lightly: "This is not our territory, there must be rules for doing things, just ruin this place, there is no need to take him back to Lingnan!" Besides, this kid is a big trouble in itself, do you want to lure those cows, ghosts, snakes and gods into our village? Let him go! ”
"But ......"
"I said, let him go!"
The white-haired old man's eyes flashed with chestnut light, and his pupils instantly became narrow and long at this moment, like a pair of poisonous snake eyes.
"Yes!"
The black-robed man's body trembled, and he hurriedly let go, hunched over and walked away from the convenience store, and his figure disappeared into the night outside.
"Ahem......"
I clutched my neck, gasping and coughing, staggering back a few steps, looking at the white-haired old man vigilantly, nervous.
"Don't worry, we're different from the rest of Lingnan, it's not for you!"
The white-haired old man glanced at me lightly and said, "Wait for Zong Yi to come back and tell him that this is where our Yin-Yang Sect destroyed it." He has taken the holy relics in our village for decades, it's time to return them, we are waiting for him in Lingnan! Within ten days, if he is not seen, his former relatives and friends will not end well! ”