It's been a month since I returned to Beijing, and I've been being followed these days, I don't know if it's the paparazzi or what, anyway, I just go out to buy a bag of instant noodles and feel that someone is paying attention behind me, so I often sneak out in the middle of the night to buy something to eat, and I almost don't go out during the day.

Today is December 31st, and there are two people around me who accompanied me to Wangfujing Street for New Year's Eve last year, but this year, I am indeed alone.

Carrying a few packets of instant noodles aimlessly at the door of the house, I don't know why, I just don't dare to go home today, looking at the dark corridor, there is an inexplicable panic in my heart, wandering for a long time, the whole person is frozen.

When I walked into the garden of the community, I suddenly remembered that I was alone, and I got into a taxi after thinking about it, and the driver walked around the third and fourth rings around the third ring road and the fourth ring road in the middle of the night before turning into the inpatient department of a hospital, grabbed a few tickets from my wallet and handed them to the driver, and walked towards the inpatient department without looking back after getting out of the car.

Room 2102 is the senior delivery room of this hospital, there are only three rooms on the entire 21st floor, of which 01 and 03 are empty, I quietly retreated from the door 02, it was quiet inside, and the light of the large instrument in front of the bed was on.

I turned on the light, and the person on the bed was lying there very quietly and motionless, and I stepped forward and looked at the equipment, and all the indicators were normal, and the ventilator was working normally.

I soaked myself a packet of braised beef noodles, and while eating, I looked at Jiang Yuan, who was very quiet with his eyes closed on the hospital bed, and said to myself: "Dude, you are the only one who accompanies me for New Year's Eve tonight." ”

I took a bite of noodles, put the fork in the noodle bowl, sighed and continued: "You kid has to fight for breath, Qianjue is not here, Zhang Yang is also gone, there are two months left in the three-month period, what do you say I should do." ”

Jiang Yuan didn't react on the hospital bed, I looked at him, sorted out the quilt corners for him, and continued: "I really don't understand, they obviously deliberately let us go, and set us a three-month deadline, the Yue Wangfu in the ancient city of Xi'an, I searched all the information, and I never found the specific location of the Yue Wangfu." ”

I took a bite of the noodles, took a sip of the soup, and continued, "You said that what they really want may not be something, but the power to control it. ”

I ate the last few bites of noodles in one go, broke off the used disposable fork and threw it in, looked out the window helplessly, and said, "What do you say I should do, give some advice, buddy." ”

"Isn't there still two months left?" Jiang Yuan's voice floated faintly from behind me.

I was stunned for a moment, and I calmed down for a minute without looking back before turning around, Jiang Yuan opened his eyes slightly, and was looking at me at the moment.

"No, buddy, you" I scrambled to check the various testing instruments on his body.

Jiang Yuan blinked his eyes, and after moving his eye muscles, he supported his elbows and wanted to sit up, I wasn't sure if he could move now, I wanted to call a nurse, but Jiang Yuan stopped him, he said that he had woken up three days ago, but I hadn't shown up, and he was worried that the people in the hospital were not safe, so he kept pretending to be unconscious.

I helped him sit up, poured him a glass of water, I asked him if he was hungry and if he wanted to eat some noodles, he shook his head and motioned for me to sit down, and whispered, "No one is following." ”

I nodded and said, "No, I almost spared most of Beijing before I came, don't worry." ”

Jiang Yuan closed his eyes with a little relief and said, "Did you find the thing?" ”

I took out a small cloth bag from my pocket, handed it to him, and said, "Found it." ”

The cloth bag contains a jade seal, the dark green jade tentacles heat up, it is an excellent jade material, and more importantly, since this jade has come to my hands, there are always some inexplicable things crawling in my house, these strange-looking insects have the same appearance as crabs, but they are one size smaller than crabs, and if you look closely, they look a little like a larger spider, in order to let Jiang Yuan see them more intuitively, every time I grab them from the wall or bed at home, they are locked in a glass bottle, and I also took photos.

At this time, I showed the photo to Jiang Yuan, and he took a calm breath after seeing it, and then slowly spit it out, saying: "These are called ghost-faced spiders, which are a kind of spiders, and there is no official certification for what they are called. ”

I asked him, "It doesn't matter what it's called, it's a code name, it's where it came from, why it's so popping up in my house, and you know what: these things change color." ”

Jiang Yuan took my mobile phone, enlarged the photo, looked at it intently for a while, and said to himself, "Strange." ”

I said, "What's weird?"

Jiang Yuan turned off his mobile phone and said, "These spiders have no sense of sight or hearing, they rely on very sensitive antennae to perceive information within three meters of each other. ”

"What do you mean?" I asked him.

Jiang Yuan said: "They generally live in ancient tombs, to eat carrion for a living, and there is a strong dormancy period, folklore, the ancient Bashu generation of dignitaries and nobles will place these things in their main tomb, on the other hand, it is to place tomb robbers to invade, because once they hibernate, they will lose their attack power, and all the skills of the body are stopped at that moment, but once there is external interference, they will wake up immediately, and because they have not eaten for a long time, they will appear in groups to come out to forage for food." ”

I followed his words and said, "You mean, these things only appear in ancient tombs. ”

Jiang Yuan looked at me and said, "Yes, they can't do without corpse qi."

I opened the photo album on my phone again, flipped out those photos and looked at them carefully, and suddenly realized: "I understand, it must be the Huangquan Cane I brought that attracted them, and because of their appearance, I began to wonder if there was something under the bamboo forest in the backyard of my villa."

When I thought of this, I immediately dialed the phone number of an old man, who was so skilled that he would definitely be able to help me.

Fang Kong, my playmate in his twenties, a roommate in a dormitory in college, their Fang family is a well-known figure in Beijing, his sister debuted in her teens, and now she is twenty-three or four popular, and her career is in full swing. And he himself, like me, has his own underground bank, and the two of us are still peers.

It's past twelve o'clock, the New Year's Eve has passed, it's a new year, I lit a cigarette and smoked a few puffs to celebrate.

"Jiang Yuan, do you know a person named Fang Kong?" I asked him.

Jiang Yuan's face was pale and bloodless, and there was a big question mark on his face, "Fang Kong, the vice president of Scene International, the young man who made a big fuss about the auction at the Longkou auction?" ”

I said, "Yes, his father has some friendship with my uncle, and we need help around us, I think."

Jiang Yuan lowered his eyelids and nodded, nodded weakly, and said, "Yes." ”

I still want to say something, but Jiang Yuan is already asleep, to be honest, it is not easy for him to wake up and talk to me so clearly for a long time.

In order to cover him with the quilt and then go to the elevator to the fourth floor, the nurse on duty didn't know where to go to take a nap, I slipped into an office and picked up a landline, dialed a very important phone, and after a few rings, the phone was connected, and a middle-aged man's divine seal came.

"Doctor Lu?" I whispered into the earpiece, "If it's you, old rules." ”

There was a crow cry on the other side of the phone, and I told him about Jiang Yuan's awakening, and he was immediately excited when he learned the news, as if he had completed some important medical research.