Chapter 17: Rituals
When I was young, my grandmother often came to my house to play, and every time she brought me a lot of delicious and fun food, and also helped me with housework and gave me pocket money. At that time, my parents were very busy with work, and when no one took care of me during the summer vacation, they would send me to my grandmother's house in the countryside, and my grandmother was very happy every time, taking me to the grove in front of my house to sit on a homemade swing, and also giving me money to buy candy in a rural consignment store far away, and would stop the seller to buy me popsicles, and my relationship with her has always been very deep.
When I was eleven years old, my grandmother died, and for the first time in my life, I stood on a bench to look at the deceased person in the coffin, and because my grandmother walked very calmly and passed away in her sleep, there was no change in her face, and it was not frightening.
Looking at Granny Xue doing things in my house, it inevitably reminds me of my grandmother, and my heart is a little sentimental.
Shen Yi, who had no heart and lungs, just sat on the sofa and ate potato chips, and by the way watched Granny Xue and her grandson, last time the big boy Luo Chenhui was all over the house reciting incantations, sprinkling rune water, and pasting rune paper, she watched it with relish.
Although I think this incident is a bit funny, the events that have happened one after another have taught me that it is better to believe it than not to believe it, and I can't wait for my life to regret why I went earlier, right? So, I just sat on the balcony and watched them quietly, saying nothing, doing nothing.
Because of the practice, the door of the house was open, so that when dusk approached, and an uninvited guest suddenly appeared in my house, the corner of my eye jumped, and I subconsciously stood up.
Ling Kai, who lives opposite, may not have gone to the company today, wearing a set of black and white striped casual loungewear, which looks a little less heavy and more kind. But his facial features are there, his figure is there, even if he is in home clothes, he can wear extraordinarily slender and straight, comparable to a male model, which caused Shen Yi to become a nymphomaniac again, and rushed over to take the initiative to greet, "Yo, handsome guy, why did you come in quietly?" It's scary. ”
Ling Kai moved his steps quietly, and after staggering Shen Yi's "wolf pounce", his calm gaze swept over a few yellow runes pasted on the white wall tiles in the living room, and fell on me and asked, "What are you doing?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, feeling that his question was so strange.
This is my home, and what does it have to do with him? Besides, although Granny Xue was divine, she didn't make any big noise, and she wouldn't disturb the people, so what did he do when he suddenly came here?
I walked slowly back to the living room from the balcony and replied indifferently, "It's nothing, it's just that the house is not clean, ask someone to clean it." ”
He frowned slightly, and was silent for a while.
Just as Granny Xue and Luo Chenhui came out of my room, Ling Kai's gaze swept over like a torch, startling the pair of ancestors and grandchildren at the same time.
I don't know if it's my delusion, I feel Granny Xue's shoulders trembling slightly.
Her grandson, Luo Chenhui, didn't react in any particular way, just looked at Ling Kai curiously, as if he was looking at this person's identity.
I took a few steps forward, stood right between Granny Xue's ancestor and Ling Kai, looked directly into his gaze and asked, "I shouldn't have made any noise with you, Mr. Ling?" ”
His gaze slowly pulled back, fixed on me for a full ten seconds, a dangerous aura flowing through his inky eyes.
But he didn't say anything after all, turned around and went out, closing the door of my house by the way, blocking all view.
At seven o'clock, Granny Xue had just finished the rituals, and when she sent them out, I handed Luo Chenhui a thousand yuan, and when he lowered his head and counted the money quickly, Granny Xue asked me intentionally or unintentionally, "Is that gentleman just now your friend?" ”
"Not really," I shrugged, glancing across the closed security door of room 1208, "just neighbors." ”
She let out an "oh" and lowered her head slightly, as if thoughtful.
"Grandma, let's go." After checking the money, Luo Chenhui helped Granny Xue into the elevator, and I returned home after seeing them off, but I saw Shen Yi lying on the railing of the balcony, half of her body was about to poke out of the railing, so frightened that my heart jumped, and I hurriedly ran over to pull her back, and scolded, "What are you doing?" Go back to your own home and don't toss around with me. ”
Shen Yi didn't look at me, but still looked into the balcony on the right, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, there is such a handsome guy living opposite you, why don't you just fall down?" If I were you, I would definitely get the moon first near the water, and I would do it first. ”
"Nerves." I scoffed at her for being such a nymphomaniac, and I didn't bother to look at room 1208, so I forcibly dragged her back to the living room and locked the floor-to-ceiling door to the balcony.
Shen Yi pouted reluctantly, and collapsed on the sofa listlessly and shouted, "You are really uninteresting, and you don't pounce on such a big handsome guy living next door, it's really a waste." As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't know what to think, when his spirit suddenly jumped up and asked, "It's better to be like this, didn't you say that there are evil things?" Then it's dangerous for you to live alone at home, how about I stay with you for a few days? See how interesting I am? ”
I sat across from me, flipping through the magazine and debunking her plans, "Interesting? You're inhuman, right? ”
"Color, human nature, not to mention that Buddhism also said, color is emptiness, emptiness is color." She muttered a few words, and then ran over to hug me tightly, "Okay, my mushrooms are cool, otherwise I will definitely lose sleep tonight." ”
I was helpless because if I didn't promise her, she would definitely die to the end, so in the end, she stayed.
I don't know if it's because Granny Xue is useful, or because Shen Yi is with me, for a week in a row, I haven't encountered any strange things, and the company has also successfully renewed the contract with Zhongtian, and I haven't arranged a large number of companies quietly, and I don't have to work overtime, in short, everything went smoothly and I was safe for several days.
But I didn't know that the sky before the storm was always exceptionally quiet, and something was predestined from the beginning, and no matter what I did, it was inevitable!
When I saw the news report that more than 20 bodies of boys and girls had been found in the "sad bar", my nerves suddenly collapsed, as if I was being pulled desperately and would break at any time.
After a moment of distraction, I flipped through the screen of my phone with trembling fingers, and the scene on the picture was horrible, all of which were throat cuts, blood spattered on the walls, tables, and large ultra-clear screens, and the red carpet was also soaked in jet black.
However, I sensitively noticed that there was no painful expression on the faces of these deceased, as if it was not painful to have their throats cut, and it was not uncomfortable to be bled out.
Thinking of the experience of being taken to a sad bar by Guo Lin that night, the bewitching red eyes of those boys and girls, I can almost be sure that Guo Lin must have done this, but why is she so eye-catching? Suddenly causing such a big murder, she is not afraid of setting herself on fire?