The incident of the new student hanging himself in the mountain gradually faded away, and according to the police's later investigation, he only committed suicide and closed the case, and the only one who couldn't adapt was Yang Jun. A tree, 50 years of people hanging themselves one after another, seems to have to go on like this, there is no way to escape.

Yang Jun has been busy collecting various materials for a few days, but there is still no result, not only is it a mystery in the past 40 years, but the things of 50 years ago are even more insolable puzzles, 50 years ago is definitely not just the disappearance of the principal.

Yang Jun took out his mobile phone, found Lu Qingshuang's name from the address book, and sent her a message.

"There's something wrong with the old man on the night patrol!"

The content of the information is very simple, just such a sentence, from the analysis of various events, an old man who knows the origin of the changes in this tree cannot only know some legends of this tree on the surface, and must still be hiding something.

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Without calling Lu Qingshuang or Duan Hou, Yang Jun came to the back mountain of the school alone, and when he was about to approach the tree, there was an old man standing more than 20 meters away from the tree as he thought, looking up, I don't know if he was looking at the sky or the treetops at the top. The old man wiped his eyes with his cuffs for a while, his mouth squirmed, as if he was saying something, and only when Yang Jun approached did he say respectfully: "Senior brother Yang Jun, I have been waiting for my senior brother for a long time!" ”

The old man was startled without warning, and turned around, and it was the old man who was patrolling the night, with some red and swollen circles under his eyes, and some tears remaining in the corners of his eyes. "Do you know who I am, young man?"

"Senior brother must be the president of the student council of our school 40 years ago."

The old man was shocked, he didn't expect that he had concealed his identity for 40 years in disguise, and he didn't even know about his alumni, but he recognized himself in the one-sided nature of this young man.

"How do you know?" The old man was not angry, but looked at Yang Jun a little strangely.

Yang Jun smiled: "I have been observing you since you told us that story, and according to what you said, I can analyze that there is actually something to hide." You said about the dead man's tree, so the concealment must be something else, but as to whether you were the student council president 40 years ago, I just guessed and didn't make a conclusion, but you didn't refute my words just now, which means that my guess is correct. ”

As soon as the old man heard Yang Junyi say the word Dead Man's Tree, he suddenly looked at the big banyan tree not far from the two of them with some nervousness, his body trembled a little, and only after a moment did he regain his composure and said to Yang Jun: "Since you know about this tree, you should stay away and don't try to investigate." ”

"A lot of people have died in the past 50 years, and you don't care if you want to keep these secrets."

The old man's expression changed, and a trace of anger appeared on his face: "If you want to say anything, you can't say it here, go quickly, get out of here." ”

Yang Jun was willing to give up, seeing that the old man still refused to let go, he had to fight, turned to the tree and said loudly: I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place.

When the old man heard this, he couldn't stand any longer, and knelt on the ground with a plop, it turned out that the old man was here to worship, and there were ashes on the ground that had been extinguished. Yang Jun didn't expect this sentence to stimulate the old man so much, and hurriedly went over to help the old man up. In an instant, a gust of wind struck, and the towering tree of the dead creaked in the wind, and the black leaves rustled, and the dust and dirt were rolled up, setting up a mist of sand.

Yang Jun was stunned for a moment, he didn't think about just such a sentence, this dead man's tree actually had such a big reaction, and even the spirit mirror on his chest was beating uneasily, but it seemed that he couldn't suppress the sudden dense resentment, and he faintly felt that he would lose his effect.

"Yi Sheng, I'm sorry for you, if you can't be peaceful, take my half-ancient surname, don't hurt this young man." A man's anger came from the branches and leaves of the lush dead man's tree, Yang Jun's frightened hair stood up all over his body, and he hurriedly pulled down the spirit mirror hanging around his neck, and muttered in his mouth, "Borrow the breath of the sun to retreat from evil!" ”

He threw the Spirit Finder at the dead man's tree, then picked up the old man and ran, the Spirit Finder emitted a dazzling purple light through the sun's rays, blocking the resentment that came from the black leaves. Yang Jun was secretly lucky in his heart, and stayed at Duan Hou's house to learn exorcism during the summer vacation, otherwise he would have to put his life there.

"Huhu~" sacrificed a mirror to find a spirit mirror in exchange for a safe escape, but it was also during the day, if it wasn't for the fierce sun, it would definitely not be able to suppress the resentment there with a spirit mirror. Yang Jun lowered his head guiltily, a little embarrassed to face the old man in front of him.

"I'm sorry Abel, me"

The old man raised his hand and interrupted Yang Jun's words: "My surname is Zhao, call me Uncle Zhao, young man, don't look at you, I want to challenge the dead man's tree twice, and it is my luck to be able to escape this time." ”

Yang Jun smiled bitterly, and wiped a cold sweat with some embarrassment, what had just happened made him palpitate. "I didn't know it was so powerful, I dared to come out and harm people in broad daylight."

"Back then, I just miscalculated, thinking that I could suppress it by finding someone with mana, but I didn't know, but I killed Yi Sheng, it was my fault, I was sorry for him."

Yang Jun was a little inexplicable, this was the second time the old man had mentioned this name, and he had mentioned it once when he was under that tree just now, could it be that this Yi Sheng had something to do with that tree? Thinking like this, Yang Jun asked the old man, "Yi Sheng, who is it?" ”

"It was the vice president of the student council 40 years ago, that is, I asked him to suppress that tree, but it was gone, and seven people, seven people, all seven people hanged themselves from the tree overnight." Uncle Zhao's voice was a little choked, as if he was recalling the past.

"Then, Uncle Zhao, do you know the inside story of this tree?"

Uncle Zhao shook his head heavily, and a sigh came from his mouth: "I don't know, Yi Sheng didn't tell me anything, I always thought he handled it well, and I didn't understand until he died that I was wrong." The sentence you just said was written by me, can you know that the poem next to it should also know, it was left by Yi Sheng, and it was I who put those things in the file bag of the student union. ”

Yang Jun was like being hit by a heavy object, and it turned out that the person who knew the truth about the tree was already dead.

Uncle Zhao found a clean corner and sat down, tears unconsciously appeared in the corners of his eyes, he wiped it gently, and recalled: 40 years ago, when I first became the president of the student union, the vice president quietly said something to me. In the past few years, the students who have hanged themselves in the school have not committed suicide, but the resentful spirit of the big tree in the back mountain. At that time, my scalp tingled when I heard this, and then as soon as I remembered that Yi Sheng was a ghost-hunting descendant, I asked him to take a few people to investigate, and if I could, suppress the evil spirit, so as not to harm people more.

However, two weeks later, when I saw Yi Sheng again. He no longer had the smile he used to have, his brows furrowed tightly, and he kept looking at the mountain behind him, the location of the tree, and I went over to ask him what was going on, did he encounter any problems in the investigation?

Yi Sheng smiled bitterly, and forced himself to calm down and said to me: "Xiao Zhao, don't send anyone to investigate that tree, if I leave something on my desk in a few days, if you can understand it, keep it, and if you don't understand it, you will secretly stuff it in the archived materials and leave it for future generations to see." ”

After speaking, he left without waiting for me to ask questions, and at that time I clearly saw that his back was so vicissitudes, like a person who was about to die, making his last words to me.

I finally realized that something might be wrong with him, and chased him out to ask him, but he didn't look back, and walked forward on his own, saying to me as he went: "I'll fight hard, if I can succeed, maybe, the result will be the same." ”

I couldn't find a reason, so I had to retreat, and I didn't see Yi Sheng again for the next three days, and even the other six people he had brought to investigate the tree suddenly disappeared. I knew that three days later, at noon, some students found seven people hanging under the big banyan tree in the back mountain, and I ran to the back mountain desperately, and when I saw the seven familiar faces hanging on the tree, I almost fainted, and I realized what stupid thing I had done.

Then I remembered what he had said to me before he died, and I quickly wiped away my tears and ran back to the office, and sure enough, there was an envelope on the table, and when I opened it, I saw that it was the poem. I watched it many times, but I didn't understand what Yi Sheng wanted to say to me, and finally I left a sentence on it because of my emotional instability, and then put the thing away, the last time you went to the student union reference room, I observed you.

"Then why didn't you let me investigate the tree? What you said, it seems that Senior Yisheng also hopes that someone can solve this matter, right? Yang Jun looked a little excited.

"Alas, that's what I said, but after all, Yi Sheng's death is in front of me, it really can't make me peaceful, I've been in this school for 40 years, and every year I go to worship him, I didn't expect you to meet him this year. Young man, Yi Sheng's mana is not bad, and he can't protect himself, so what's the use of you going? Uncle Zhao shook his head, got up and left, the scorching sun shone on the old man, and seemed to wash away his self-blame.

Yang Jun had already made up his mind in his heart, the Dead Man's Tree must have changed because of the 'First Realm', but it was a pity that Yi Sheng failed to suppress it 40 years ago.

'Dididi' mobile phone rang in Yang Jun's pocket.

Unknown number, Yang Jun saw that there was no number displayed on the screen, and picked up the phone inexplicably: "Hey? ”

"He~he~" A man's breathing voice came from the earpiece, Yang Jun's scalp was numb, and he hurriedly hung up the phone and glanced at the direction of the back mountain. Knowing that he had been targeted by the tree, he didn't dare to stop any longer, and ran directly outside the school.

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