Of all the people present, only Qiao Zhenbang and I had face-to-face contact. I remember very clearly that Qiao Zhenbang entrusted me to find his son at that time, using the words "to see people in life, and to see corpses in death".

And the sound in Haruko's throat just now also made me quickly compare it with Qiao Zhenbang's voice in my memory......

As a result, I feel that there is a fair fit.

Haruko stood in place, slowly raising her head towards us.

On her neck and face, the blood vessels protruded from her white skin like cobwebs, and turned black and purple, and only the whites of her eyes remained.

What worries me the most is that Haruko is still under my flashlight, but she doesn't seem to be afraid of the light at all.

"Uh...... I...... And commissions! Haruko, possessed, roared.

I asked tentatively, "Are you...... Qiao Zhenbang? ”

Haruko tilted her head and slowly glanced over the faces of several of us, finally focusing on me and nodding mechanically at me.

I turned off the flashlight, and at the same time asked Cheng Cheng to turn off the flashlight, Cheng Cheng didn't say anything and turned off the flashlight with me, and he also found that the strong flashlight in his hand seemed to be ineffective against the monster in front of him.

However, Lao Dao and Cheng Cheng still held guns in their hands, vigilantly guarding against Haruko who was possessed by a black shadow, while Li Yi on the other side lit up all the wind lamps and placed them at the feet of each of us.

Haruko (Qiao Zhenbang) stretched out her finger at me and staggered two steps: "That book...... Destroy! ”

"Don't move! If you get closer, I don't care if you're a human or a ghost, I'll shoot anyway! Cheng Cheng warned loudly.

Haruko (Qiao Zhenbang) seemed to understand, stopped moving, and repeated in his mouth: "Black ...... Town! Book! That book! Destroy—Drop! ”

I took out the copy of "Black Town" from my arms and shook it at the other party: "Is it this book?" What we found from the walls of your house, and put it with your son's body. You said you still have a commission, just want me to destroy the book? ”

Haruko (Qiao Zhenbang) nodded: "Yes......"

I replied, "I'm sorry, I can't do that unless you can give me a compelling enough reason." After all, you also understand that you and we are now different paths, how can I believe you just by your words? ”

"That's right! You're still possessed by Haruko, and if you're really sincere, come out of Haruko first! Li Yi was on the side to help.

"No...... Okay......", Qiao Zhenbang, who was attached to Haruko, said, "That's ...... I can't ...... Speak. ”

Cheng Cheng listened to a paragraph and asked, "Qiao Zhenbang, why did you kill your son and wife?" ”

Cheng Cheng's question is actually what I want to ask.

Now that Qiao Zhenbang has appeared, although it is in the form of possessing Haruko, we all want to know as much as possible about the clues, because this whole incident is too complicated, but it is impossible to restore the original appearance of the whole incident by reasoning, and only the participants in the incident themselves can reveal the truth of everything.

"It's not killing...... I'm ...... He! ”

Although possessed by Haruko's body, Qiao Zhenbang can only use very difficult and intermittent sentences to tell us the truth of the incident, and even sometimes his words will be reversed and repeated, and it is necessary to connect the sentences before and after to understand the original meaning.

All four of us listened very carefully, lest we miss a single word.

Qiao Zhenbang recounted his experience, which is summarized as follows:

About three months ago, Qiao Zhenbang found that his son, Qiao Yu, suddenly seemed to be a different person.

Qiao Yu, who originally liked to go to nightclubs very much, suddenly quit these hobbies, he no longer contacted his fox friends and dog friends, and drove all the women he was fostered out of the villa, and then, Qiao Yu locked himself in the villa all day long, living in a simple house.

Qiao Zhenbang, who knows his son as a father, discovered the strange changes in his son for the first time, and what surprised Qiao Zhenbang even more was that he found out that his son was actually writing a book!

His son, who hadn't passed a few exams since junior high school, started writing - and before, he hated words very much!

can't help but so, Qiao Zhenbang also found that Qiao Yu was really addicted to writing - he wrote day and night, except for eating, he hardly left his room.

It stands to reason that Qiao Yu had such a drastic change that went against his nature, Qiao Zhenbang should have let him go to the hospital for examination immediately, but Qiao Zhenbang, who was happy that his son had finally fallen in love with literature, couldn't help but be overjoyed, but he didn't do it.

Half a month later, Qiao Yu finally completed the book "Black Town", and the one in my hand is Qiao Yu's original manuscript, originally, it should be all handwritten text.

During this period, Qiao Yu seemed to be a completely different person: he became more and more gloomy and did not like to talk, but after he finished, Qiao Yu gradually regained some of his nature, and began to haunt nightclubs and bars again, often bringing all kinds of women home for the night.

Qiao Zhenbang attributed all this to "creative quirks", which did not attract attention at all.

With the help of Qiao Zhenbang, Qiao Yu's publication was successful, and it became popular all over the city for a while.

At this time, Qiao Zhenbang fell into the ecstasy of wishing for Jackie Chan's ideal to come true, until he ...... When that day came, his life collapsed in an instant.

Qiao Zhenbang said that that night, Qiao Yu came back covered in water and said that he had killed the slut.

The slut in Qiao Yu's mouth is Mi Lan.

Qiao Yu scolded Mi Lan for being a good person, and described to Qiao Zhenbang the details of his cheating with Mi Lan and being careless in bed, which made Qiao Zhenbang tremble angrily.

However, in the next moment, suddenly Qiao Yu's face changed greatly, and the tone of his voice also changed-

Qiao Yu trembled and pleaded: "Dad, help me, help me!" ”

Qiao Zhenbang woke up instantly, because he could hear that this was his son's voice and tone, and before that, Qiao Yu's voice was ruthless and sharp, and something was not right at all.

Qiao Yu said to his father in a trembling tone of extreme fear that he was possessed by a ghost, and that book was not written by him at all, it was the ghost who possessed him and forced himself to write it!

The reason is that one day, Qiao Yu turned out the book "Black Town" that Qiao Zhenyu regarded as his son's manuscript at home, and the ghost was attached to that book, and the moment Qiao Yu touched the book, he controlled Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu said that he hid a bag of poison under the bed, and he shouted at Qiao Zhenbang: "Dad, poison me with that packet of medicine, I don't want to live!" He's going to take control of my body again! ”

Although Qiao Yu's body was occupied, his thinking had always existed, and he carefully thought about all the steps, including how Qiao Zhenbang should deal with his body after he was poisoned and died, and he also had to hide the book "Black Town" together, and he must not let that book return to a place called "Black Water Town"!

Of course, Qiao Zhenbang was unwilling to do such a thing as poisoning his own son with his own hands, and he also hoped that his son was just suffering from a disease similar to "acute schizophrenia", but Qiao Yu's whole body suddenly convulsed, his face changed for a while, and his voice was obviously different - it was really like two different souls fighting fiercely for control of this body!

Qiao Zhenbang had to believe that what his son said was likely to be true.

At the desperate urging of his son, Qiao Zhenbang cried bitterly and poured poison into his son's throat, and then, according to his son's instructions, sealed his body and the strange book "Black Town" into the wall.

Then, Qiao Zhenbang, who was unwilling to be ruined like this in his life, tried his best to find the Blackwater Town mentioned by his son, and escaped the pursuit of the Police Bureau and took the lead in entering Blackwater Town.

However, in the end, Qiao Zhenbang died in Blackwater Town, and he also became a member of those monsters in Blackwater Town, the "Night Shadow".

"The person who killed you was Cai Zhiheng?"

In Qiao Zhenbang's last words, he actually identified Cai Zhiheng as the murderer who killed him, and if what he said was true, then not only Cai Zhiheng, but Chunzi and He Jun could also be accomplices, because Qiao Zhenbang also lived in this small building!

"Buzz—"

At this moment, we suddenly heard a slight vibration in our ears.

The house we were in had completely taken on its original shape after being exposed to a flashlight - it was a dilapidated old house that had fallen into disrepair and looked like no one had lived in it for a long time.

At this time, we all felt that the room was shaking slightly.

Large wafs of dust are falling from the ceiling above us......

Li Yi raised the wind lamp in his hand, looked up while the light was light, and saw that the dust seemed to be a very fine fool, leaking from the gap in the ceiling, and he immediately asked me: "Brother Ji, what is falling in this house is not ash, but sand!" Where does this sand come from? Is the house going to fall? ”

I thought it was an earthquake, but when I felt it carefully, there was no tremor under my feet, and only the house moved.

"They...... Here it comes! There's no time......" Haruko, who was possessed by Qiao Zhenbang, began to have some fear in her voice.

I asked, "Who are 'they'?" Monsters in town? ”

"They start with...... Come to the netherworld! Destroy that book! Don't go for ...... Netherworld! Uh-uh-uh......! ”

Haruko held her head and shouted, and a black breath came out of her mouth and nose, forming a humanoid black shadow in mid-air, and the humanoid black shadow opened its mouth wide at us and pounced!

"Click!"

Cheng Cheng, who had been prepared, instantly turned on the strong light flashlight in his hand, and a strong light shone away, and the humanoid black shadow suddenly let out a scream of "hiss", disappearing into invisibility.

Haruko's body shook and fell to the ground.

The whole room shook even more, and the sand poured down from our heads like a torrential rain.

I picked up the wind lantern at my feet, and with the other hand, I copied the strong light flashlight in my hand: "Stinky fish help take the wind lantern!" Old knife, you carry Haruko! Let's go! ”

As I spoke, I kicked the strip of wood that supported the door, and opened the latch with my shoulder, and opened the door with a bang—

Outside the door, there was a thick black fog.

Darkness once again completely descended on Blackwater.

The old knife carried Haruko on his back, and we threw ourselves into the black fog without looking back, and behind us, the three-story building collapsed, and the sand and dust rushed behind us, like a sand dune under a hurricane.

Qiao Zhenbang didn't say it at the beginning, the entire Blackwater Town has been completely occupied by all kinds of monsters, and now, these monsters are in front of us.

A flying ghost with only one human head; A paper man with a face as white as paper and a terrible smile......

The most common of them is the Night Shadow, this monster can turn into black smoke at any time and lurk in the surrounding black fog, which is extremely difficult to detect, and often when it is discovered, the Night Shadow is already close to it, and it is bound to be dangerous.

Fortunately, we each have a wind lantern, and Cheng Cheng and I still have strong flashlights, and those monsters chose to retreat temporarily after paying a heavy price without harming any of us.

But we don't dare to be careless, because the black fog around us is the best cover for the monsters, and once they seize the opportunity, we will be doomed.

After being completely shrouded in black fog, this town has become more mysterious and terrifying in the eyes of us outsiders.

Our biggest crisis now is that we don't know where to go!

According to my plan, we should still go to the "missing pages" now, but the only person who knows is Haruko, who is still in a coma.

I thought about it and finally made a decision: "Let's go to Qiao's old house!" ”

In the whole town, only the small western-style building of Qiao's family, and the small church where the temporary police station is located, we can identify the path, and now we can only choose one of the two.

Compared with the small church, I think it is safer to go to Qiao's small western-style building.

Ten minutes later, sweating profusely, we finally rushed into the small western-style building.

The familiar smell of damp rancidity, mixed with the smell of blood, came to my face.

"Turn on the lights!"

Cheng Cheng and I turned on the flashlight at the same time, and the white flashlight circle shone on the wall.

However, unlike Haruko's guest house, everything in this small western-style building has not "shown its original shape" due to the illumination of a strong flashlight, and it is still the shabby wallpaper, the damp peeling wall skin, and the rotten carpet with thick dust.

We all breathed a sigh of relief: at least the house was safe for the time being.

We went straight into the living room, and the old knife put Haruko on the sofa: "Aji, why are you here?" It's not very clean here......"

As he spoke, the old knife snorted at the portrait hanging on the wall.

Indeed, something was wrong with that painting.

"Have you thought about it, why Cai Zhiheng and the others didn't want us to come to this small western-style building immediately?" I asked rhetorically.

"Why?"

"Sit down first."

I sat down on the single-seater sofa next to me, and beckoned the others to sit down as well, Lao Dao and Li Yi were a little suspicious, but they still found a place to sit, and Cheng Cheng placed the five wind lanterns we had - so that there were no dark dead spots around us, and then sat down.

I didn't feel much when I ran for my life just now, but now when we sit down, we are all tired.

I continued: "Because, this small western-style building may be the safest place in the entire Blackwater Town. ”

The old knife glanced at the wall again: "Aji, in addition to this painting, there is also ...... in it"

"That dead man, huh? I suspect that it was made by Cai Zhiheng temporarily, and the purpose was to divert our attention - that is to say, there should be something in this house that Cai Zhiheng does not want to be found by us. ”