Chapter 32: The Little Girl
"I'll go in and have a look." I calmed the distraught clerk and spoke.
helped the clerk to sit down on the bench, motioned for Yang Xiran to take care of it, and turned around and walked into the store.
The store is not large, but it has an area of dozens of square meters, but hundreds of different styles of clothes and pants are placed, and the white marble floor looks quite warm under the orange light. The hangers were still neatly arranged, and with the exception of a few pieces of clothing that had been left on the floor as customers fled, the entire store looked calm, not like a place where ghosts were present.
I cleared the cluttered hangers and cautiously walked towards the store. This ghost who appeared in public doesn't know how strong the mana is, if it is really a powerful ghost level, it will be a little difficult to do.
Rubbing your forehead, how can you go out shopping and encounter this kind of.
There was nothing unusual in the shop hall, but I didn't dare to let my guard down and walked quietly into the depths.
Further inside is the fitting room, where the ghost appears, according to the clerk.
The fitting room is almost the same as that of a regular clothing store, divided into several small compartments, separated by glass walls, and each small lattice is hung with a burlap curtain.
I reached out and pulled back the curtain on the first compartment, which was empty except for a few clothes that had been thrown on the floor. This kind of small fitting room is not big, a stool for customers to change clothes, is the whole room.
He pulled the curtain back, but he slowed down and stood still, listening carefully to the sounds around him.
The whole fitting room was silent.
According to the usual experience, if there is a ghost, there will be a sound that accompanies the appearance of the ghost, such as if it is a drowning ghost, you can hear the sound of breathing similar to choking water within a radius of five meters. But now, it's silent.
I mustered myself together and headed for the next fitting room. The curtain was opened, and it was still empty.
"Are there really ghosts?"
I couldn't help but question, but then I thought about it, if there were no ghosts, would it still be possible for customers and store staff to fall ill en masse.
More or less abnormal.
Just thinking about it, the originally quiet clothing store was full of gloomy winds, and a burst of children's silver bell-like laughter sounded in my ears. This laughter is different from the sound of children playing in ordinary playgrounds, but the ethereal voice is mixed with a little sadness.
I clasped the talisman in my hand and walked towards the place where the sound came from. The more you walked in, the louder it became, and the child seemed to be right next to her.
I opened the curtains on both sides, but I still found nothing.
I'm a little impatient, you say you're a ghost, if you want to be scary, you're scary, and if you can't hide, it's nothing.
I was about to turn around and continue searching, but I found a dark shadow in the fitting room in front of the left.
"Hah, got you."
I got excited, took two steps forward, and grabbed the curtain of the cubicle. Just as he was about to pull away, the laughter stopped abruptly, followed by a mountain of faint cries.
"Uh......h Whining...... It's mine...... Where did it go...... Woohoo......"
The choked voice was like a child who had lost something beloved, whimpering and searching.
An eerie scream surrounded the shop, and the discordant rhythm pierced my eardrums and gave me goosebumps on my skin. The warm yellow incandescent lights flickered, and the curtains of dozens of dressing rooms floated in unison. The wind blowing in from the door made the whole fitting room a little cold.
I didn't care about the vision brought by the ghost, I froze in my heart, opened the curtain, and the talisman in my hand was about to fly towards the fitting room.
But the scene in this small cubicle made me stop what I was doing.
It's the opposite of what I had in mind.
I thought that when I opened the curtain, I would see a hideous-looking ghost with a face full of hatred and murderous intent. But unexpectedly, in this compartment, there was only a little girl of four or five years old, with black hair combed back into a ponytail, facing the mirror, bowing her head, sad and painful. Two chubby little hands wiped tears from their eyes. If it weren't for the illusory black fog on her lower body, anyone would have thought that this was a wronged little girl.
There was also a person in the compartment, a girl in a professional suit, with her eyes tightly closed and a frightened look on her face. Judging by the clothes, it should be another clerk.
I put the talisman back in my hand, stepped in gently, and stretched out my index finger to talk about the clerk's snort.
Luckily, I just fainted.
I breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the ghosts don't kill anyone, I can convince them to ascend. But if I have killed someone, the only thing I can do is to cut down the grass and root out their ghosts, and directly smash their demons to prevent them from continuing to harm others. But if I were to do something to this little girl, I wouldn't be able to do it. Fortunately, this little female ghost did not hurt anyone.
"Kid, what's wrong? Crying so sadly? ”
I asked tentatively and softly.
When the little girl heard my voice, she stopped crying, snorted, but asked in a milky voice:
"Brother, can you see me?"
I laughed and replied:
"Of course, my brother has special abilities."
Since she can still understand human speech and can respond, it means that her sanity is still there, and she should not have been contaminated by any evil aura. But it can't be ruled out that some evil ghosts with extremely strong mana have cultivated their sanity and turned into little girls to deceive me.
I squatted down, reached out and touched the back of her head, and said softly:
"Come, turn around, don't cry, let my brother see you, there are good things for you."
Unexpectedly, the little girl shook her head and pressed closer to the mirror.
I didn't give up, caressed her shoulders and said:
"Don't be shy, why are you crying here? Hearing that my brother was distressed, come, turn around, and my brother will wipe your tears. ”
"No, I'll scare my brother, who fainted when she saw my face."
The little girl stubbornly refused.
I was a little surprised, I thought that the fainting clerk was just stunned by this kind of ghost that appeared out of thin air, but I didn't expect it to be because of the little girl's face.
"Don't be afraid, my brother is bold. Moreover, how can a child's face be scary? ”
I persuaded again.
The little girl was still innocent, and when she heard what I said, she asked weakly and suspiciously:
"Brother...... Isn't my brother really afraid? They all said my face was scary. ”
"No, I'm sure your face must be beautiful, it's because they have eyes."
I felt a little sorry for this little girl, so I lowered my voice and comforted softly.
"Okay...... But my brother has to promise me that he can't stop helping me because I'm scary. ”
The little girl made up her mind, and said in a milky voice.
"I promise, no matter what, I'll help you."
I swear. It is our duty as a warlock to help the ghosts ascend themselves.
The little girl turned around slowly. Although she was ready, she was still startled when she really saw her face.
In front of you, you may no longer be able to call it a face.
Directly in front of me was a bloody face. The skin was shattered from the jaw to the forehead, in which the blood-red muscles and blood vessels were exposed, the milky white inexplicable fluid was mixed with the cross-flowing blood, and the position that should have been the bridge of the nose was now only a small section of bone remained, and the two eyeballs were completely out of the frame, only hanging on a few muscle fibers, barely hanging on the face.
"Woo...... Brother, you can't leave me, I can't find my face, I know I'm scary, please help me, I'll give you candy. ”
The little girl saw that I was stunned, and became anxious, and begged with a crying voice, saying that she was about to take out the candy from her trouser pocket, but after digging for a long time, it was only swirling on the black fog of the lower half of her body, so anxious that her tears flowed out.
My heart was also sour. Reaching out to her face, he comforted her word by word:
"Don't be afraid, I think you're the most beautiful. Brother will definitely help you. ”
The little girl sobbed, nodded again and again, and muttered:
"Thank you, brother."
I rubbed my sour eyes, but fortunately this little girl was still relatively simple-minded, but only a helpless soul.
"How did your face become like this?"
I was a little ashamed to say it, and just said that I think people are the most beautiful, and now I start asking questions. But in order to fulfill the promise he promised her, he still asked.
The little girl also looked embarrassed, and she hesitated for a long time, but just popped out a few words:
"I don't know."
I couldn't laugh or cry, how could I help her find her face.
"Brother...... I...... I felt like I had fallen from the upper floor. ”
I was about to find another way, but the little girl said cautiously.
Fell? Could it be an accidental stumble and fall from a building?
The cause of death caused by the fall from the stairs allowed me to narrow it down, and as long as I knew how the little ghost's body died, I could find a picture of her body. Although she said that she couldn't find her face, she actually forgot what her physical body looked like, which was a regret that prevented her from soaring. Just help her to recall, and she will be able to detach.
"Do you remember where you fell? Is it this building? ”
I asked.
The little girl was in trouble again, and covered her little head and thought for a long time before nodding with some uncertainty.
I laughed, touched her head again, and pulled out my phone.
"Wait a little longer, I'll help you find it."
flipped out Lin Guoan's phone, dialed it, and it didn't take long to connect, and Lin Guoan's bold voice came from the receiver:
"Brother Mu, what are you looking for me?"
Since the last time he dealt with Li Sihan's matter, Lin Guoan changed his name to call me Brother Mu, according to him, I am the most professional in dealing with ghosts and demons, if it weren't for the fact that the Public Security Bureau didn't have this department, otherwise I would at least be in the same position as him, if I was called Xiao Mu again, it would be a bit of putting the cart before the horse.
"Team Lin, you help me find a case document, the deceased is a little girl of four or five years old, and the cause of death should be a fall from the roof of Taoyuan Shopping Plaza."
I got straight to the point.
Lin Guoan was a little strange and asked:
"I'll help you find it, but why do you suddenly want to find this case? Got a ghost again? ”
I hummed softly, and then added:
"But it's not a ghost, as long as you get the picture of the deceased, you can solve it."
Lin Guoan heard me say that it was a ghost case, and he didn't slack off, and before he hung up the phone, he heard a crackling sound of tapping on the keyboard. After a while, he sent a photo to my phone.
"This should be what you are looking for, what happened in November last year, the deceased was a four-year-old girl who fell from the fence of the open-air garden on the top floor of Taoyuan Square."
"Thank you, I'll invite you to dinner later."
"Don't be so polite, you didn't help us a lot a few times before."
After a few polite words with Lin Guoan, he hung up the phone, clicked on the photo sent by Lin Guoan, and sent it to the little girl standing trembling in front of her.
"Look, is this you?"
The little girl looked up, but her eyes became happy. A fluorescent light slowly appeared on her face, swimming along her forehead, cheeks, and chin in turn, but the original terrible wound was changed back to its original appearance. A few seconds later, a cute face with a little baby fat reappeared on the little girl's face.
"It's so cute, let's see for yourself."
I pointed to the mirror and gave her a gentle nudge.
She ran to the mirror in three steps and two steps, and smiled, her little fleshy hand gently touching her cheek, and kept muttering:
"Finally no one will say I'm ugly."
I looked at the child-hearted girl with some relief, and I couldn't help but feel relieved. This is what a warlock should do, and fighting and killing demons is a side job.
"Brother didn't lie to you." I stepped forward, crouched down, and said affectionately, "Brother is going to take you to a better place now." ”
"I know that some ghost sisters have told me that people like us are going to go, but I can't find my face, so I have to go later. Brother, is that place fun? ”
The little girl looked up and asked innocently.
I also laughed and whispered:
"It's fun, there are a lot of kids like you out there."
"Then I'm going, I'm going! Brother, send me there! ”
The little girl screamed happily.
I looked at her with some pampering, and took out a silver magic seal in my hand, and with a gentle push, it landed on the top of the little girl's head.
"Death Spell."
With the slow rotation of the Law Seal, the little girl's body became illusory, slowly turning into bursts of starlight, converging into the hexagonal Law Seal Enchantment. The shadow, which was getting fainter and fainter, smiled sweetly at me in mid-air.
"Thank you, brother."