Xu Yunge walked on the cart in Taiping Town in the early morning, and the early winter sun was a little clear blue. The air was very dry, and if you wanted to take off the mask to breathe, the cold wind would literally blow back the hairline.

The sun's rays and northwest winds are refreshing and piercing. It's hard to imagine that this seemingly tranquil tourist development town is not only slumbering with old horror legends, but also small totems of unknown use, and some puzzling local customs.

An old patient when he was hospitalized said that when he was old, the prairie on the top of his son became an Olympic sports field, and he was afraid of a stroke in the back of his head in a few years. When winter comes, not only the road surface is slippery, but also the temperature difference between day and night is large, the air quality is poor, and everything can be dry, hot, cold, and peeling.

In the early years, when the weather was at its coldest, a heavy snowfall did not know how many people froze to death. And I read the news before that this winter is cold that has not been encountered for decades, which makes Xu Yunge want to sigh a little.

God knows what's going on in this world, horror legends are here, and the filthy cases that are constantly turned out break through the lower limit of morality, and the temperature has repeatedly refreshed the lower limit. If there really exists in the Xiaoice period, I am afraid that if the evil spirits do not kill people everywhere, the cold and disease will take many lives in a few days.

On this kind of day, if you wear a cold-proof and gas-proof breathing mask, it is not bad to keep warm. After all, ghosts and other cursed people seem to use their breath to track their targets, and ordinary masks not only have no disguise effect, but they will also feel their faces after wearing them for a long time.

"My eyes are still a little itchy, my body has only recovered to 0.9 physical fitness, my body is already poor, and I can't recover to 1.0 when I look at the posture. I'm tired these days, and at the moment, the rate of health deterioration is not particularly fast, and I got a lot of clues, which is generally a good thing. ”

walked to the gate of Taiping Town Middle School and explained his intention, but the doorman did not let him go.

Thinking about it, I have a pot for this matter, and there was such a big disturbance in Taiping Town Middle School yesterday, and the teachers and leaders who were left behind on duty would suffer. At this time, if some people from unknown sources are brought in, if something happens, a group of people will smash their jobs, and it is normal to be cautious.

Pushing his bicycle, Xu Yunge casually wandered around the stationery store bookstore near the school.

On the one hand, he waited for school in Taiping Town to get out of school at noon and returned the car. After all, the town is underdeveloped, and if the child is a child of a poor family, it will still be distressing if a bicycle is gone.

Since living independently and getting sick, Xu Yunge has slowly developed the habit of trying not to cause trouble to innocent people. If he could really live, these lonely habits might stay with him for the rest of his life.

On the one hand, they are waiting for Lao Li's interrogation news, after all, they have positions and concerns, and it is impossible to sneak away like Xu Yunge, and they can use all kinds of means to intimidate people and force them to interrogate.

But what is very strange is that the old man who sold sweet potatoes a few days ago, as well as the vendor with a cart, all skipped work today, and the street in front of the school gate was very clean, and there was not a single stall. When many pedestrians saw the school, they also walked around the road like a plague god.

The cursed, since that attack, may also be worried about attracting social attention. called Lao Li and asked, Wang Baozhi and Taiping Town, nothing strange happened.

Seriously ill and cursed, it is rare to have a free time with nothing to do. Xu Yunge found a bookstore, rejected all suggestions for tea, coffee and other drinks, ordered a cup of hot water alone, sat on the sofa, closed his eyes and felt the slight warmth of the winter sun, and was in a good mood.

Seeing Xu Yunge's operation, the bookstore owner thought that he had met a literary young man, and constantly recommended some sentimental literature and campus youth.

Xu Yunge glanced a few times and was not interested, thinking that the owner of the bookstore also wanted to have a good meal, and it was not good to sit here for so long and have a cup of hot water. I bought two weird magazines from the shelves with my backhand, and read them with relish, which made the bookstore owner smile very embarrassed.

"Outsider, lad, huh? The weather is cold, so many places in the country travel, don't run to the warm places in the south, how can you push a bicycle to Taiping Town? ”

"Hanwu City, it's okay, it's not far, a few bus stops away."

The bookstore owner's smile was a little more embarrassed, and there seemed to be a swarm of hot ants dancing on his scalp. However, he still did not believe in evil, and thought that Taiping Town would engage in tourism services in the future, and he would have to learn to survive, so he took out a map of Taiping Town and pretended to learn to sell.

After several operations, the sales pitch turned into a forced awkward chat. Xu Yunge was so annoyed by the bookstore owner that he simply put away the magazine, and asked without hope: "Boss, when I was a child, I drank a sweet and sour candy-flavored orange soda, I heard that it was produced in Taiping Town, but I haven't seen it for many years, do you know what's going on?" ”

When Xu Yunge asked this, the bookstore owner's eyes fell on the strange talk magazine, and his expression immediately became strange: "Hmm...... In the early years, there was actually such a factory. But then there were some accidents in the factory, and the workers went on strike and laid off, so they were demolished if they couldn't do it. I heard that there is going to be a comeback event for an old brand, but I don't know if it will sell drinks again. ”

"In the old days, TV was not very popular, and there were all kinds of strange things. However, there should be immortals in our mountainous areas, outstanding people build universities in the location, and can engage in tourism development, many villages have been poor for a long time, I tell you, we have done a good job......

What does it mean that other villages are poor, but the development resources above are tilted to this town?

Hanwu City is a big city with a developed education industry, and the urban population is increasing day by day, and it is almost inevitable that the radiation range of the big city will increase and develop to the surrounding areas.

But in the mouth of the bookstore owner, Taiping Town seems to be a unique and good place, full of feng shui metaphysical geographical advantages, not to mention the evaluation report of the development value of a certain industry.

Xu Yunge listened casually, slowly, but felt that the development history of Taiping Town was a little strange. The strangeness was mixed with the content of some terrifying legends, and he couldn't help but think of the strange scenes seen in the bloody handprints, those strange scenes that died accidentally but quickly melted.

With a twist in his mind, there may indeed be some secrets in this, Xu Yunge deliberately tested the reaction of the bookstore owner: "But how did I hear that Taiping Town is haunted, and everyone doesn't dare to go out at night?" The locals of Taiping Town can't see clearly at night, is there such a thing? ”

The bookstore owner was stunned for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "Definitely not, in the early years, everyone was poor, there was nothing to eat and drink, and there were many people with bad eyes." Young people go out to work, the population in the town is aging, the elderly group is somewhat inconvenient, the weather is so cold, who wanders around blindly at night. ”

"Then how did I hear that the school was haunted yesterday?"

"I don't really know ...... this"

Xu Yunge wanted to scold him a few words, but he heard the school's school bell ringing. I think it's okay to ask anyone about this kind of thing, and you can find Lao Li to check it.

After paying for the cart and leaving, I turned around and went to the school gate to guard, but it didn't take long to hear the movement of the roller shutter door. The owner of the bookstore actually closed the store directly during the school hours and did not do business, he was not afraid of losing money?

"Are the locals so shy about haunting?"

Junior high school students have not been trained by society, and they are no more indifferent than indifferent passers-by in society, and their classmates who come home from school together can talk about whatever they see.

The speaker had no intention of listening to the heart, so he waited for the half-hearted kung fu of the people, but Xu Yunge found that these junior high school students talked a lot about the supernatural.

However, what surprised Xu Yunge even more was that several students who were bitten were also walking out little by little with the support of their classmates, wearing thick socks.

None of them wore shoes, and some were even almost barefoot.

A rough count shows that nearly 40 students in a junior high school class have no shoes, are uniformly wearing thick socks, and their expressions are very unnatural. Seeing their slightly hunched waists, looking ready to kneel down at any moment, Xu Yunge couldn't help but begin to wonder what the object of their fear was.

Dou Xiantong only dared to go home after taking off his shoes and socks, and then he also took off his shoes and socks before entering the project. These students, who had a strange experience of haunting yesterday and thick socks on their feet today like a plaster cast, what is it about them that makes them so afraid of wearing shoes? ”

Or is there something that will cause trouble for the person wearing the shoes? Does not wearing shoes have a special symbolic meaning? The school that manages discipline and style allows students to wear like this? ”

Xu Yunge pressed the doubt to the bottom of his heart, and the group of students looked seriously frightened. Nervous and highly nervous, they will be very vigilant and vigilant, and it is not easy to get anything good by asking rashly, unless you can gain their trust first.

Realizing that the owner of the bicycle was walking this way, Xu Yunge beckoned, motioned for him to come and get the car, and thanked him. Then, as a matter of course, prepare these children for routines.

"You're a cop?" The junior high school student who took the bicycle had a slightly unbelievable expression, looking at him like that, as if he had been ready to admit that he was unlucky, but he didn't expect the stranger to keep his promise.

"Not really, half a private detective, I was able to catch that guy thanks to your car. Last night, I rode all the way to the abandoned factory, the car was a little dirty, I guess it needs to be repaired, why don't I treat you to a meal as compensation, what do you think? ”

Xu Yunge is kind and persuasive, the scheming of junior high school students is not very strong, and he is curious about the things in the abandoned factory. A few students left in groups, and as soon as they said yes.

Originally, there was a cafeteria among the students, but when there was an accident yesterday, even the cafeteria was temporarily adjusted and closed today. The students at school looked accustomed to it for a long time, which gave Xu Yunge a lot of questions.

Sitting casually in a cheap restaurant, the students ordered good dishes that they didn't usually dare to order, but Xu Yunge didn't bother with them, and let them take advantage of him, because he wanted to ask something.

"The car has been returned to you, and the meal has been invited to you, if anything else, don't look for me." But I look at your school, why are there many people wearing thick socks, and the poor family can't afford to wear shoes? ”

As soon as Xu Yunge asked, several students snickered, only the bicycle owner smiled slightly, and explained in a whisper: "That's because the school is haunted, and they are afraid of being captured by ghosts." ”

"What does it mean to be captured by a ghost? What does not wear shoes have to do with being captured by a ghost? Xu Yunge continued to seduce, and this group of students had no psychological defense. Or, in their opinion, such an operation is so common that they don't even realize that it is abnormal.

"We are all like this here, I heard that my grandfather said that when I was a child, there was a big flood in the mountains, and natural and man-made disasters didn't even have instant noodles and coke to eat, so people said that they wanted to leave here. But that night a ghost came out of the mountain and took all the children away. ”

"There were adults who went to look for the child, but they couldn't find him, and within a few days they found him dead in the mountains, wearing shoes when he died. After looking for a long time, only a poor man who had no money to wear shoes succeeded in finding the child, and the others followed suit and really found all the children, a lot. ”

The old man said that this ghost is a little different, it will only be gentle with children, and will abduct other people's children as their own. When you see a child crawling on the ground without shoes, you will have maternal love, and then you will not hurt the child. Wearing shoes means that when you grow up, you have to leave it, and it has to kill people. ”

"Some people say it's a pregnant woman who died unjustly, some people say it's a monster in the mountains, anyway, it's an old story told by grandparents, and I don't know if it's true. If I wasn't afraid that my father would beat me, I would have tried to see if it was fun to walk in thick socks, but the adults wouldn't let me. ”

Xu Yunge was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this student did not lie to him.

At least in terms of motives, Dou Xiantong's actions fit perfectly into this statement, and he immediately returned to look for Dou Mengyao after learning of her disappearance. In the end, he only found a pair of shoes, no wonder he cried.

Seeing Xu Yunge in a daze, the student said mysteriously: "The adults told us not to tell anyone, so as not to make others feel unsafe when they come to travel." I don't think you're a tourist, you're really like a detective who came to investigate, will I be on TV? Forget it, Dad knows that he will definitely beat me, he only allows me to study and does nothing else, it's good if you come to invite me to dinner, you have to keep it secret for me. ”

"Well, that's a deal." Xu Yunge nodded, feeling that simple student cubs were really interesting, and many of the innocence and innocence that he couldn't imitate could be squandered on them.

"Pull the hook, raise it, a hundred years, don't change!" The student grinned and held out a little thumb. Xu Yunge's eyebrows were crooked, and he was also going to stretch out his hand and perfunctory the other party.

But at this moment, a black fog suddenly poured in from outside the house, and the clear window instantly became a little darker, and the whole interior darkened in vain, making the light even more dazzling.

Xu Yunge clearly saw that at the moment when the words just fell, a small amount of black mist poured in. A thin scarlet thread grows out of thin air from the student's little finger, forming a loop like a hanging rope, and as long as the little finger is extended, it will be lassoed by this red rope.

It's just that this black fog comes and goes so fast, almost in the blink of an eye, nothing is left.

Xu Yunge stared at the red thread until he realized that it couldn't wait for the prey, so he quietly shrank back and reintegrated into the student's little thumb, which was completely invisible from the outside.

Without early warning, it is impossible to see clearly. Subconsciously touching the back of the student's hand, there is no reaction to any curse or black mist.

Are some curses unperceptible, and why are they happening? Xu Yunge's mood was a little heavy, he was not afraid that the enemy would trouble him head-on, at least he had stealth and could defend and counterattack.

I'm afraid of this unguardable little routine, looking for opportunities one after another, once the curse can emerge from anywhere anytime and anywhere, it will be quite fatal.

"What's the matter, do you think I'm naïve? Forget it, adults are untrustworthy, I'm going to go home and be beaten. At least I did a good deed and went back to the free restaurant for a meal, and I didn't lose anything. ”

The students obviously couldn't see all this, and seeing that Xu Yunge didn't move, they didn't have the quality to start the meal directly.

"Wow, the beef is so delicious!"

"Pork and lard residue are also delicious."

"Boss, haven't you served the chives and ham sausages yet? Hurry up, hurry up, I'm going to have class in a while! ”

Xu Yunge has no appetite, and he rarely eats oil meat when he is sick, usually oatmeal, yogurt, boiled eggs, etc. paid for the students, left the campus directly, and Xu Yunge returned to Dou Xinwei's home.

There was an intuition that told him that Dou Xinwei and Da Hei would be attacked by ghosts, and there must be something hidden inside.

It is likely that Dou Xinwei unknowingly triggered the potential curse.

"Why don't I take off my shoes and socks and crawl around the house?"