9. Qiao Wei's death
My nerves exploded, and I finally couldn't help myself and yelled, then jerked my leg to kick the crumpled monster at my feet out of the way.
But the little monster dodged as nimbly as a monkey, and then it raised its head and opened its mouth at me, and let out a high-pitched cry. In the midst of the wailing, the voice-activated lights above me made a crisp explosion, and then the hallway instantly became pitch black.
"Run!"
Qiao Wei's voice came from the darkness, followed by a strong force that dragged my arm and moved quickly in the direction of the stairs.
I ran forward in the dark as I took out the bronze knife and my phone, and quickly illuminated it with the light of my phone's screen.
It doesn't matter if this photo is taken, my scalp is numb! Because the entire hallway was so dense with so many strange things that I couldn't even see my feet!
They weren't human, because none of the biggest were waist-tall, but I couldn't tell what they were, because they were all skinless, like the specimens that had been soaked in a formalin jar suddenly came to life and were piled up in the hallway!
Fortunately, it was indeed Qiao Wei who was holding my arm, otherwise I would probably go crazy.
After having the light, Qiao Wei also let go of my arm, so that we could both speed faster. In the process of passing through these skinless monsters, I clearly felt the collision at my feet, and I didn't care if kicking them like this would anger them, so I just rushed forward after Qiao Wei.
When we got to the staircase, we turned straight down, and when we just got back from half a floor, suddenly two white things like skinless monkeys rushed towards Qiao Wei from upstairs, but Qiao Wei just lowered his head and rushed downstairs as if he didn't notice it at all. I didn't have time to remind Qiao Wei, so I had to throw my hand and throw the bronze knife I had taken out towards the two things.
Presumably because of the panic, the knife I threw out didn't fly towards those two things at all, but they were obviously afraid. The two skinless white monkeys retreated backwards upstairs in the air, completely violating the laws of motion. And while they retreated, Qiao Wei and I went down another level, completely distancing ourselves from those strange things.
Qiao Wei and I ran to the hall on the first floor in one go. The hall was also dark, and because the gate was facing north, there was not even moonlight, and my phone was the only light.
Qiao Wei was the first to run to the door, but I only saw him push the door but didn't see the door move in the slightest.
However, Qiao Wei obviously had a better way than Li Mengjia and those security guards, he didn't go to find something to smash the door, but took out a yellow paper talisman and muttered a few words, and then slapped the yellow paper talisman on the glass door, and the door opened outward in an instant!
Almost as soon as the door opened, a strong cold wind poured into the building from the outside, blowing me backwards two or three steps. When the wind stopped, the fire lit up again in the corner of the hall, and the feeling of the trash can being lit was still the same, and the lights on the ceiling of the hall began to flicker on and off.
Qiao Wei didn't observe these changes like I did, and as soon as the wind stopped, he dragged me out of the building. After reflexively closing the door again, Qiao Wei immediately dipped his fingers in a small bag around his waist with gold dust, and then drew a large circular charm on the door.
As soon as the spell was finished, the lights in the building went out, and the fire disappeared with it.
I slowed my beating heart a little before I tried to ask, "Done?" ”
Qiao Wei turned his head and wiped the sweat from his head, sniffed twice, and then nodded at me with a grin. His face was very ugly, even a little embarrassed, and he seemed unable to speak for a while.
After returning to the security guard duty room, Qiao Wei rushed directly to the water dispenser and drank water cup after cup, until he started to burp before stopping, and then he sat on the sofa at the innermost end of the room and began to bow his head and gasp.
The three security guards in the house all looked at me, but none of them dared to ask what was going on, and I couldn't tell what was going on.
After a full three minutes, Qiao Wei finally let out a long sigh, and then finally spoke. And his first sentence made me realize that the experience I had just experienced was absolutely dangerous.
"That's how my second uncle died seven years ago!"
Qiao Wei was officially apprenticed to Bazhai Hall after graduating from high school at the age of eighteen, and the death of his second uncle occurred when he was twenty years old and had studied art for two years.
Qiao Wei had a particularly good relationship with his second uncle, including the Chinese name "Qiao Zhiwei" given by his second uncle.
Until the age of twenty, Qiao Wei always maintained the name "Qiao Zhiwei", until after the accident called "Ghost King Naxin" by the people in the hall, Qiao Wei removed the word "Zhi" in the middle of his name to express his condolences to his second uncle, because his second uncle's name was Qiao Wei.
Qiao Wei's second uncle is also Mr. Ghost in the Bazhai Hall.
According to Qiao Wei, Mr. Ghost is just a general name, and in fact, there are different titles in the hall according to the direction of personal specialization. For example, those who specialize in the distribution of feng shui bureaus and ghost buttons in the lower town are called "dark births"; Those who specialize in doing supernatural rituals at the time of funeral and consecrating the deceased are called "crossing life"; And the special use of charms and other instruments to fight the ghosts head-on is called "Shasheng".
Qiao Wei's mother was born secretly, and Qiao Wei's second uncle specializes in evil birth.
Qiao Wei's mother originally only wanted Qiao Wei to be a secret birth with her, but Qiao Wei was more interested in the evil life, and his second uncle was willing to teach him. As a result, in the first two years, Qiao Wei secretly didn't learn much Jishu, but his skills were getting better and better.
In the middle of Qiao Wei's twenties, someone named Qiao Wei's second uncle to go to the ghost town. After inquiring about the situation, Uncle Qiao Wei felt that it was no big deal, so he took Qiao Wei to practice it. Qiao Wei's mother was also present at the time, and after hearing the situation, she also felt that it was not a big problem, so she was relieved to let Qiao Wei follow.
Qiao Wei went with his second uncle to a village on the outskirts of the city.
The man who asked his second uncle for help was the richest man in the village, and he had been living a very comfortable life, but after building a villa-style two-story building, the whole family began to suffer from disasters and illnesses constantly, and they could not live in peace for several months.
Qiao Wei and his second uncle entered the house and took a look, and concluded that the building was built on the tomb, and the ghost of the tomb owner was not gone, and a wall in the house just separated the bones of the tomb owner into two sections, and the head of the family was separated, so the ghost kept making trouble with the living.
So that day, the richest man invited someone to dig a pit at home, and wanted to dig up the bones for Qiao Wei's second uncle to consecrate. As a result, the excavation not only dug up a single corpse, but also dug out more than a dozen skeletons, until the sun began to go west, and the bones were all dug up.
After Qiao Wei's second uncle consecrated more than a dozen skeletons and saw them off, he stayed at the richest man's house that night, which can be regarded as after-sales service, to see if there are any leftovers.
Nothing happened in the first half of the night, and at two o'clock in the second half of the night, Qiao Wei vaguely heard as if someone was talking. So Qiao Wei got up and looked everywhere, and found a bald old man pointing at his second uncle's nose at the bedside of Qiao Wei's second uncle and scolding.
Qiao Wei recalled that he didn't realize that the old man was a ghost at the time, and thought that the old man in the village was nervous, but just as he was about to go over to stop the old man, he saw his second uncle glaring at him, as if to let him go back to his house.
Qiao Wei wanted to ask, but before he could speak, a lot of deformed human heads suddenly appeared from the ground. Qiao Wei had been practicing evil life for two years, so seeing that these were ghosts, he instinctively began to draw talismans and chant spells. After two words of the mantra, the bald old man turned his head and let out a wail, and then all the lights in the house came on, and then they all exploded.
Then Qiao Wei flew out of the window in a daze, and then he felt that he hit something in the back of his head, and then he lost consciousness. By the time he woke up again, it was already dawn, and even the blood from the back of his head had dried up, and he realized that he had flown more than ten meters away and crashed into a tree!
When he ran back to the house, the richest man in the village, his family, and his second uncle were all dead, and everyone's eyes were wide open, and they died in a very miserable state.