The café, which opened on time at half past eleven o'clock, existed as if it were independent of the world at midnight. Occasionally, sleepless passers-by pass by, drink a warm cup of coffee, and their hearts are full of sorrow. But what they experience is only the troubles of the world, and they will never understand the amazing things outside the world, and to a certain extent they don't need to worry about themselves so much.

In the store, there are several tables of customers sitting sparsely, and Ren Kai is diligently brewing coffee and roasting snacks. I slowly came down from the second floor, asked him for a cup of coffee and cookies, and sat down to flip through the books.

Somehow, when the wind chimes rang, I seemed to smell a breath of death. When I looked up, I was greeted by a girl who looked to be under 20 years old. In the autumn night, she didn't wear much, a thin shirt and a short pink skirt, and pushed the door with a small bag.

I glanced at Ren Kai, this kid is still focusing on washing coffee cups, is he stupid?

The girl ordered a latte, double milk, and by the way, asked for a piece of chocolate mousse. Ren Kai poured the coffee unhurriedly, but I was not calm, this kid has been with me for two months, and the time is not long, how can he not grow at all, and he has not seen any signs of abnormality.

I sat diagonally across from the girl with my coffee and casually observed her.

The girl took the book from the book cabinet and read quietly while drinking.

After observing for a long time, I was finally sure that in addition to the warm aroma of coffee, there was also a strong smell of death that enveloped the girl.

As the girl focused on her coffee, I quietly moved my seat across from her.

"Hello." I greeted her, "You're still alone at such a late hour?" ”

"Hmm. Bored. She replied simply.

"Honestly, I'm an expert in metaphysics, you know, and those of us have a unique perspective on mysteries." I started to work on Hu Su, trying to find a breakthrough. When the girl heard my words, she instantly became interested, and I knew that my breakthrough had opened. "At the same time, I also focus on the physiognomy of people. As soon as you came in just now, I found that your face is not simple. ”

"Do I have a problem with my face? Do you see the doorway? "The girl completely believed my nonsense.

"Well, if I can see it accurately, you must have experienced or witnessed many deaths since you were born." Since I didn't know the cause of the breath of death, I could only make up a lie to cut into, but I didn't expect it to be right.

"How do you know? When I was a child, I thought that other people were like them, and the cycle of birth, old age, sickness and death was very short, and then I realized that something was wrong, but no one could tell me why. ”

Sure enough, I asked about it, and I thought to myself that the death aura on this girl's body was not her own, but the constant death of contacts around her, which shrouded her in a shadow. It's just that those deaths are not connected to her?

I began to talk to the girl in lies, and I didn't find much more important news, but luckily the girl fully believed in my identity as an expert and invited me to her house tomorrow to talk in detail.

It was 1 o'clock in the morning when the girl left, and there was no one in the café, so I slowly walked over to Ren Kai and watched him carefully wipe each coffee cup.

"Why did you talk to that woman for so long? Got a new discovery? Ren Kai asked me as he wiped his glass.

I pouted and said "um": "People are called Lin Keyuan, a little beauty, give you a chance, how about going to her house with me tomorrow?" As I spoke, I squinted at Ren Kai's reaction.

"Cut, I don't care about it." Ren Kai said, but immediately came over with a flattering smile, "Okay, okay, take me there, you must have made a new discovery, take me to the rise and gain knowledge." ”

What he said was different from what he thought in his heart, obviously he just wanted to see other girls. I muttered and went upstairs, leaving Kai alone to guard the café until it closed.

When we arrived at Lin Meinu's house at noon the next day, Ren Kai and I were both shocked by her small building. I didn't expect that there was such a remote and quiet courtyard in the area that is not prosperous but not far from the city, and a single-family villa standing in the courtyard is not small, and the ancient Chinese architecture has a taste. Unexpectedly, the seemingly ordinary Lin Ke and Yuan's family background were not ordinary.

Entering the villa, Ke Yuan beckoned us to sit down and drink tea.

"This is the family's ancestral home, and the only thing my family has left me is this house."

I nodded, appreciating the house.

"Thank you for coming, no one has listened to me for so many years, no matter what you can do to help, I'm already grateful that you are here."

Ren Kai, who was sitting on the side and pretending to be a sample tea, was confused, he didn't know what we were talking about.

"For as long as I can remember, people have been dying around me, starting with my father, then my grandmother, aunt, uncle, etc., in short, in those years, all those who were related to me died one after another for various reasons. On average, one a year, and a funeral is attended once a year. Later, when I was about 9 years old, that is, when I was in primary school, my good friends and I began to have all kinds of misfortunes, and this kind of incident continued until I was 15 years old, so that I was always alone and couldn't make any friends. My mother passed away when I was 15 years old, and she took care of me alone for 15 years and eventually left. After I went to junior high school, I went directly to the vocational school, and that kind of disaster continued, until I came out to work, I thought it would get better, you know, I hoped in my heart that it was all just a coincidence, a cruel coincidence, but the truth hit me again. Yes, the colleagues I work with are starting to have bad things happening as well. Now I work alone, eat alone, live alone, and I also want to be accompanied by someone, but it seems that I was born with a hard life, and I want to rush with everyone, and I am destined to be lonely for a lifetime. ”

Lin Keyuan finished talking about her condensed version of her life in one breath, hearing this, I couldn't help but feel sympathy for this girl, but more sympathy for those who died, because this really can't be explained by fate, in other words, their death is obviously in vain. One or two people are still reasonable, what is this? The Lone Star? I have a vague feeling that there is a big secret in this, a secret that can be transcended for the dead.

Ren Kai's whole person is not good, he didn't expect that this energetic girl who seems to be sunny and not hostile on the surface has such a strange experience.

"These dead people, can you find what they have in common?" I asked her.

She thought for a moment and said, "No, except for my relatives, most of them don't know each other, and they can only say that they all know me." ”

I nodded, yes, it couldn't have been more obvious.

Ren Kai quietly asked me, could it be that this series of deaths was not directly related to Ke Yuan, and in Ke Yuan's words, everything was just a cruel coincidence?

"Possibly." I'll be honest, "But the odds are too small, and even though we've been exposed to death since birth, it's still rare to have one a year like this and it's all directly related to us, so it's definitely a bit weird." ”

I asked to take a tour of Ke Yuan's villa, and she readily agreed. Ren Kai walked around with me.

The villa is very large, there are only 4 or 5 guest rooms, and after looking at the ordinary rooms, I was attracted by the innermost storage room on the first floor. It is said that the most secret place is often the most hidden abandoned warehouse, looking at the yellowed copper lock on the door of the storeroom, I am secretly sure that the truth must be hidden behind the door.

Fortunately, the door was not locked, and Ren Kai twisted the lock with a single twist.

The abandoned storage room lived up to its name, and the choking dust of the door made us cough violently for a long time. Turn on the electric light on one side, and the light will show the general view of the room. Scattered and disorganized, old items were messy, as messy as a brick in the east and a hammer in the west. Ren Kai covered his nose and frowned as he flipped through the things in the room, and finally shook his head to indicate that there was nothing special. I'm also digging through these old things, hoping to find the slightest clue.

"Boss." I heard Ren Kai call me, and before I could turn back, I heard the sound of Lin Ke and Yuan Dong going downstairs in my ears, and saw us in the storage room, obviously displeased:

"Why did you come here, this storage room doesn't take a long time, I have never touched the contents inside, I hope you don't touch it either." Ke Yuan said very seriously, which confirmed my suspicion even more, there is something wrong with this room. It's just that Ke Yuan wants us to solve the puzzle on the one hand, and on the other hand, he seems to prevent us from entering the storage room, what is the reason for this?

When I came out of Ke Yuan's house, I didn't seem to have gained anything, only a stomach.

Ren Kai drove the car, and when he saw my soulless appearance, he said mysteriously: "I didn't gain anything when I was in the storage room just now," he said as he took out a booklet from under the seat of the car and handed it to me, "I just found out that I was interrupted by Miss Lin when I wanted to look for you, so I had no choice but to hide it first and take it out to see." ”

I took the album he handed me and opened it to see that it was a photo album. I flipped through them one by one, all of them were some life photos taken by Lin Keyuan since he was a child, nothing special.

No, I felt something was wrong when I was flipping through it, but I couldn't think of it all of a sudden.

Well? I know what's wrong!

Most of the photos in this album are photos of Lin Keyuan alone, but there are also photos of her with relatives and friends. The people who took these photos should be those who were "killed" by her. But something is abnormal, first of all, the place where they took photos together was in that villa, all the photos were, and there was no other place. Secondly, some of the photos were captured inadvertently, not deliberately concave, which is very wrong. In the end, each photo is a photo of Ke Yuan and someone else, which means that there should actually be a third person behind this photo, but who is this third person? She doesn't have a lot of friends. “

I told Ren Kai what I saw, and he exclaimed: "Just an old photo album, you can still see so many ways." ”

Old? I touched the photo album in my hand, and it did take a certain amount of time to see the effect of the photos inside, but some of the photos in it are all recent photos!

Ke Yuan said that this storage room didn't take a long time, and she hadn't touched the contents of it, so how to explain these photos? How can these recent photos have such an old illusion? And how can it be in the storage room that has not been used for a long time? ”

Ren Kai was stopped by me and didn't say a word.

"So, there's got to be a big secret here." I squinted in contemplation.

Ren Kai was obviously more excited than I was, and his passion was ignited as soon as he encountered these mysterious events.

Instead of going back to the café, I went to the local police station and used the information of everyone in the photo to pull up.

As I expected, the people in the photo have all passed away one after another in the past 20 years, and as Lin Keyuan said, they attend a funeral once a year.

But I also made an even more important discovery, the dates of death of these people were surprisingly close, in November. A total of 20 dead people all died in the same month, and who would believe that it was a coincidence?

For the next week, I spent the next week in the second-floor hut researching the materials, and I found no more information. In the afternoon, Ren Kai told me that Ke Yuan asked him to go to the movies, and I protested in my heart that this kid was heavy and light on friends, so I waved his hand and let him go.

After Ren Kai left, the weather was gloomy, and even the air was very depressing, and it looked like there would be a heavy rain.

Through the relationship computer, I can call up all kinds of information inside the police station, and I have always searched for it. The information of each deceased person has been memorized by me from top to bottom, and there is no loophole to be found.

I typed in Lin Keyuan's name, and this search completely shocked me.

Lin Keyuan, born in 1994, issued a death certificate in 1994, and his identity was cancelled.

She was also one of the deceased!

I was instantly shaken by this discovery. hesitated to inform Ren Kai.

Call Ren Kai's number, Ren Kai has already finished watching the movie.

"Where are you?" I asked anxiously.

"At Ke Yuan's house."

"What are you doing at her house?" My heart was already shaking.

"Have a cup of tea and leave, what are you excited about." Ren Kai replied slowly.

On the other end of the phone, I was sweating, and I had the photo album that Ren Kai stole at hand, and I flipped through it.

The album stays on the last page, and in the photo, a man and Lin Keyuan are sitting next to each other, with brewed tea on the table and a phone at hand. That man! It's Ren Kai!

Ren Kai was still yelling, but I couldn't hear anything clearly. Why is Ren Kai in the photo? And who in that house took the pictures of them?

"Ren Kai, is there anyone else in the house?" I asked.

"No, just the two of us."

"Listen, that house is not safe, and Lin Keyuan is not safe, you should leave that house immediately." My anxious tone changed.

Ren Kai was confused, I didn't have time to explain to him, so I put down the phone and drove to Lin Keyuan's villa.

When I arrived at the destination, Ren Kai stood outside the house waiting for me, with a look of doubt and helplessness.

"What the hell is going on?"

I gave him the album and let him see it for himself, and when I turned to the last page, his own eyes were straight.

"How so?" Ren Kai didn't believe it.

When Lin Keyuan saw me coming, he hurriedly ran over to ask what was going on. I also handed her the album, and she couldn't believe it as she flipped through it.

"These photos, except for some I know, some of them have never even seen photos with friends, how can this be, who ** these photos?"

I'm strange, Lin Keyuan said that she didn't know anything, what was she pretending to be and what was she hiding?

"Miss Lin, I hope you don't lie to us anymore, tell us everything you know. By your own admission, these people in the photo all died mysteriously after having contact with you. There must be some secret in between. "When I said this, I was constantly breaking out in a cold sweat, and the people in the photo died one after another, so if I can't find out the truth, Ren Kai may be in danger of his life.

"I really don't know." Lin Keyuan was obviously also anxious, "I know even less than you. ”

We stood at the door, and I kept flipping through the album, remembering what Lin Keyuan had just said, "Except for some of them, I know that some of them have never even seen a photo with my friends." "Why is there such a difference?

I found the answer from the photo, the group photos she knew were all posed, and the other part that everyone didn't know was captured in the ** way, and the common point was that they were all photos with Lin Keyuan. There is a clear demarcation between the two ways of taking pictures, and I told Ke Yuan about this discovery, and she took the album and flipped through it, and finally she said, "It's my mother." All the photos from after my mom's death are unknown to me. ”

Lin Keyuan was obviously more confused than us.

"By the way, my mom gave me something before she died, do you need to see it?" "Of course."

Lin Keyuan led us into the house again, which made me uneasy.

We followed Ke Yuan all the way to her bedroom and watched as she took out a peace charm sachet from under her pillow.

"My mother told me not to lose it no matter what, and I opened this sachet and found that it was not an ordinary peace charm."

I took the sachet and opened it and took out a bunch of small sticks of wood, which were evenly sized and had a faint fragrance.

"Did your mother ever tell you to burn a small stick of wood every November?" I asked her.

"How do you know?"

Sure enough, this is not an ordinary wooden bar, but a soul rejuvenation incense, and her mother used this to take the lives of 20 people.

"Miss Lin, the truth I'm about to tell you may be cruel, and I don't expect you to accept it all. You were born in 1994, when you were one year old, and you died of a congenital disease. That's right, strictly speaking, you're a dead man too. ”

Ren Kai's eyes widened like Lin Keyuan, and he couldn't believe it at all.

"Miss Lin, recall, have you ever used your ID card since you were born?"

Lin Keyuan tried hard to deny me, but he couldn't say it.

"That's because you don't have an identity at all, and your identity was canceled in 1994. I don't know how your mother used to get you to finish junior high school, but unfortunately after your mother died, you had no choice but to go to a private school where you could get into a private school with a lax system and pay money. Presumably, before she died, your mother repeatedly told you not to bother about your identity. Miss Lin, I don't believe you never doubted it. ”

"Of course I doubted it, but my mother said that I was an illegitimate child and had no identity, which is the regret of her life, how could it be because I am a dead person?"

"Are you crazy?" Ren Kai thinks what I'm talking about is all fantasy, "If she wasn't human, how would she be alive for 20 years?" ”

At this time, I can't wait to kick Ren Kai a few times, thinking about his life, she is good, there is only Lin Beauty in her eyes.

"This brings us to the magic of this rejuvenating incense. Rejuvenating incense is a rare treasure, and some people in history have used it to continue their lives and save people, but there is a certain price to pay for using this treasure. Your mother chose to use it to raise corpses, yes, you. The price is terrible, that is, every year you renew your life with the lives of the people who are alive, every year. Your mother used her camera to capture the souls of people in the world, and burned incense on certain days, one life for another. ”

Speaking of which, I saw Ke Yuan trembling visibly, and she was obviously shocked by the truth.

"Your mother did not give up on you after you died, but chose to raise the corpse for her life. She did it all for you for the first 15 years. But the weather is unpredictable, and when I was 15 years old, I don't know what happened that forced your mother to choose to renew your life with herself. But before that she will explain everything to you, the peace charm and the incense burn at a certain time of the year, and then you will do it. ”

Perhaps every word I said verified the doubts in Ke Yuan's heart for so many years, and her whole person was stunned, and her eyes were pale.

Ren Kai was also completely stunned, he didn't expect that such a big secret was hidden behind this seemingly coincidental event.

"So, those pictures were actually taken by her mother's ghost?" Ren Kai asked me, and I nodded, "Then doesn't that mean that the ghost is in this house?" ”

Before Ren Kai finished speaking, the whole person seemed to be frozen and couldn't move, he babbled and wanted to speak, but he couldn't control anything for some reason.

Lin Keyuan, who had been standing on the side and had not spoken, suddenly raised his head and confronted me with a look that I had never seen before: "What time is it today?" She asked me.

"November 1st." I replied.

November! Oh my God, how I didn't pay attention to this. I hurriedly hugged Ren Kai on the side and asked him what was wrong, but Ren Kai just babbled but couldn't make a sound, and he couldn't move.

Lin Keyuan in front of him suddenly seemed to be a different person, smiled coldly, and picked up the soul rejuvenation incense on the side while laughing.

She's not Lin Keyuan! It's her mother!

I know the reason why all this is happening in front of me, and I also know that Ke Yuan, no, it should be what her mother is going to do. She wants to burn the Soul Rejuvenation Incense Bit Ke Yuan today to continue her life.

I must sabotage her plans before she does, and save Ren Kai.

Outside the house, lightning and thunder have already begun to mingle, adding to the eerie atmosphere at this moment.

I took the dagger out of my bag, cut a bloody hole in my palm, and swooped down on her mother as she was distracted, holding my palm firmly against her.

The spirit quickly screamed out of Ke Yuan's body and disappeared, leaving Ke Yuan sitting on the ground in a daze.

I hurriedly ran to see Ren Kai's condition, but fortunately, he had returned to normal.

Ke Yuan sent us to the door, and handed me the small bag of unused soul rejuvenation incense as he left: "Leave this to you, I don't need it anymore." Thank you for untying my heart for so many years, and I don't want anyone around me to die because of me. As for my mother, I am still very grateful to her, and I hope you don't hate her so much. ”

Seeing this, Ren Kai hurriedly asked: "You give us the soul rejuvenation incense, what should you do?" ”

"My existence was a mistake, and I'm grateful that my mom has taken me through 20 years of life, and it's time to say goodbye to the world. I will keep this room and my mother's soul until I leave. Bye. ”

Ke Yuan closed the door as he spoke, Ren Kai wanted to say something, but was pulled by me: "Forget it, life and death are fate, she has been living against the law for so long, there are some things that can't be forced." ”

I pulled Ren Kai and left, although he regretted it, no one could change the matter of life and death.

On the way back, I drove the car to let the frightened Ren Kai rest.

"You ...... just now," Ren Kaibi gestured, dancing to ask me. I knew what he was trying to say: "Of course I have to have two hits, otherwise how did Mr. Wen get his name?" I have a lot of secrets, and you'll learn about them later. ”

"Okay." Ren Kai knew I wouldn't say it.

"If it were you, would you convict Ke Yuan's mother?" Ren Kai asked coldly.

"What about you?" I asked him rhetorically.

"I don't know, on the one hand, I was moved by her saving her daughter, and on the other hand, she almost killed me." Recalling what happened just now, Ren Kai still had palpitations.

"You can never underestimate a mother's love for her children, and they will do anything for their children. It's an admiration and a criticism. A life reversed with 20 lives is not a life, it's a sin. Her mother was a great sin against her son. ”

Along the way, Ren Kai and I had no more words. The car drove through the lonely night, scratching the wounds of the city, crying low in the night. Life should follow the laws of this world, either live or die, and have no choice but to force it.

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