The firelight moved away, and the pale face seemed more frightened than mine. He took a few steps back, and said in a trembling voice, "Ling Sen, you killed someone?" ”

Only then did I realize that the strange appearance in front of me and the person who scared me a lot was Fang Wei, who I wanted to meet on this trip.

He said I had killed someone, which proved that he had also seen a large pool of black blood on the ground. I said in horror: "Fang Wei, are you still alive?" Who was the man who died? ”

Fang Wei's face suddenly changed greatly, and he picked up a bench in the room, raised it high above his head, and looked at me vigilantly. It seems that my original conjecture was correct, Fang Wei really had a plot against me.

At the moment of life and death, my courage suddenly came to me. I knew very well that if I lost my resistance because of fear at this point, I would be the next person to lie in a pool of blood.

I saw that the only bench in the room had been taken away by him, how could I deal with him with my bare hands? In a hurry, he caught a glimpse of something on the sofa, and he didn't have time to take a closer look, so he grabbed it in his hand and glared at Fang Wei angrily.

Fang Wei didn't show a hideous face as I imagined, his expression was more like horror. I saw Fang Wei trembling and said, "Ling Sen, you really killed someone." ”

I saw that his eyes were fixed on my right hand, and I knew that something was wrong, and I was surprised to find that I was holding a sharp dagger in my hand.

In the moonlight, there was a flickering cold light on the dagger, and a few black things flowed slowly on it. What I got my hands on was a bloody dagger, which made me even more horrified.

Looking back, there seemed to be a person lying on the sofa. I secretly exclaimed in my heart, could it be that the black blood on the ground was flowing down from this person on the sofa? Didn't I pull the dagger straight out of him?

Things were so weird that I suddenly realized that the person on the sofa might not be Fang Wei's murder, and he didn't mean to harm me. Perhaps it was when he came back and saw the blood all over the room, and that I had drawn a dagger from the dead man and pointed it at him, which made his face look particularly frightened.

My mind suddenly buzzed, if my conjecture just now was correct, then as long as Fang Wei reported the case, my murder would be a certainty, and it would be strange if I was not sentenced to death.

In a hurry, I exclaimed: "Fang Wei, I didn't kill anyone, do you believe me?" ”

Fang Wei hesitated for a moment and asked me to put down the dagger in my hand. I was afraid that he would run out of the door, as long as he shouted 'murder', although there were no other residents in this building, but the nearby residents or the joint defense team, hearing his call, would definitely surround me and catch me in a short time.

I threw the dagger in my hand on the ground, calmed down my emotions, and said slowly: "Fang Wei, if you believe that I am really a Taoist priest and want to help you survive the catastrophe, will you still believe that I killed someone?" ”

Seeing that I threw down the dagger, Fang Wei hesitated for a moment, and also put down the bench in his hand. He was stunned for a moment before he said, "Ling Sen, I have already believed in your ability to subdue the snake ghost yesterday. But how could there be a dead man in my house? There's no one else here, it's just you, can you give me an explanation? ”

I tried to squeeze out a smile to ease his nervousness. After I made a confession, Fang Wei's expression finally returned to normal.

He told me that after he left home to buy food and drinks, he just rushed to the gate of the community, but he couldn't help but wonder if he couldn't see the candlelight in his window.

He called me, but he couldn't get through. Fang Wei was very disappointed, thinking that I couldn't bear the loneliness and had already left first.

Fang Wei quietly walked up the stairs nervously, not daring to make a sound. Because he had also encountered a lot of strange things recently, he was afraid, and when he saw that the candles at home were extinguished, he was even more panicked, so he quietly went upstairs to find out.

When I got to the door of the house, I saw that the door of the room was wide open. A dark figure was standing on the edge of the sofa, and there was a large pool of liquid on the ground that looked like blood, and Fang Wei's heart was terrified to the extreme.

He quietly looked at the figure of the black shadow, thinking in his heart that if there was a fight, it was estimated that he would not fall behind, so his heart settled down a little.

Fang Wei could have escaped quietly, but those strange things haunted him like a nightmare, making him wonder if it was the enemy's conspiracy or if he had provoked ghosts. Witnessing that black shadow with his own eyes at this moment, Fang Wei made a heart, and in order to completely relieve the fear in his heart, he chose to face it.

When Fang Wei quietly took out the lighter and lit it, one hand pushed open the door of the house at the same time. Unexpectedly, in the firelight, after the black shadow turned around, he actually recognized me.

After Fang Wei and I exchanged information with each other, the guards of both sides gradually relaxed. Fang Wei hurriedly closed the door of the room, found a candle and lit it, ran to the corpse, shone the candlelight on the corpse's face, and shook his head at me in panic.

I was surprised, "What's wrong?" Fang Wei, don't you know this person who died in your house? ”

Fang Wei hesitated for a moment and said, "Ling Sen, I really haven't seen this person. Have you seen it? ”

He twisted the corpse's head to my side, and when I looked at it, I saw that the corpse's face was covered with blood and dust, and I couldn't see the exact appearance at all.

I told Fang Wei that I had never met this person, and I didn't know anyone in the county. I saw that the corpse was very thin, and I said, "This dead man is so thin, it can't be a thief, right?" ”

Fang Wei frowned and said, "Thief? I'm so poor, what thief is blind and wants to come here to steal? ”

I couldn't figure out why, and said to myself, "yes, how did the thief come here?" Could it be that someone who is as homeless as you sees this abandoned building and wants to borrow it for a night. I happened to see your window lit by candlelight and your door open, and walked in? ”

Fang Wei thought for a while and said, "Well, there is a possibility. ”

"Not good, whether he is a thief or a homeless, how can he die here?" Fang Wei's face suddenly changed drastically, and he stammered, "Ling Sen, who killed him with a knife in my room?" ”

I wondered, "How do I know this?" Fang Wei, I'm just a Taoist priest, I'm here to prevent ghosts from asking for your life. I can't guess the reason for this murder. ”

Fang Wei muttered: "I understand, I understand!" This man was either a thief or a homeless man, and he entered my house, and the killer who was hiding in the shadows took him for me and suddenly killed him. ”

What he meant was that his enemy sought revenge and hired a killer with the intention of killing Fang Wei, but unexpectedly, someone broke into Fang's house by mistake and became his substitute ghost.

This book was first published in Reading Books