"I heard the old man at the gate say that there are hanged ghosts and jumping ghosts on the rooftop......"

"I don't know if there are ghosts. But," he said, "the place does feel very uncomfortable." ”

Li Yang said that since he moved into this building, he has almost seen the sky on the rooftop. Because he found a couple of very strange places.

Even if it's not night, even if it's noon, when the sun is high, there will be an eerie chill on the rooftop. It stands to reason that in a place as high as a rooftop, it is normal for the wind to be strong and the temperature to be low.

And Li Yang said that it was a kind of cold like immersion in ice water.

The whole body is like soaking in the ice water of the cold winter wax moon, and the cool feeling begins to invade from the skin, to the blood muscles, and until it enters the bones, and the cracks of the bones all over the body are exuding cold. It feels a lot like the columbarium of a crematorium, as soon as you step into the door, the temperature drops significantly, the cold air ripples like cold water, and people with weak yang energy can't stay at all.

What's even more bizarre is that if you stand on the edge of the rooftop and look down at the whole city, you will see the whole world distorted. Note that this deformation is not solid, but rather a slow gradual process. To use an inappropriate analogy, it's like a drop of oil falling into water, and the delicate filaments slowly spread and twist.

It's a very, very strange feeling, and the weird thing is that if you want to observe this effect, you have to spend a long time in a calm state of mind, standing on the edge of the rooftop, and silently looking down.

You can imagine this scene, a man standing on a tall building, his eyes scattered, looking down stupidly. Those who don't know the way must think that this is either a psychopath or a suicide with a nervous breakdown.

Li Yang said that his longest record was to look down and stare below for more than an hour. At that time, in his eyes, all the details of the whole city came to life. The long street, like a dull gray serpent, winds its way on the ground; Several sewer lids are like eyes growing on the earth, looking up from below, also silently looking at him from above; The bridge in the distance, like a thousand-year-old tortoise, is staggering and crawling with passing vehicles......

All in all, in his eyes, the whole city has become a prehistoric magical forest, with all kinds of strange creatures, hiding among the people, looking at all beings with greed or cruelty or joy and sorrow.

He felt that the whole city, the whole world, was alive and full of infinite charm, they were right in front of you, and you just stepped out of the city and reached out to touch them......

When I heard this, I broke out in a cold sweat. Li Yang's face also became very pale, and he smiled reluctantly: "Fortunately, the call came at that time, otherwise it would be difficult to say that I would not have jumped like Lin Xia." ”

"You mean, that's why Lin Xia jumped off the building?" I asked eagerly.

He shook his head: "To achieve the feeling I just said, it takes a long time of silence, I don't think Lin Xia has such patience and understanding." That girl, I have touched twice, looks very lively and cute, but there is always a faint sadness. I believe her death was emotionally related. ”

"I can't ask for it." He sighed.

I suddenly remembered something: "Li Yang, when you went to the rooftop, did you see a voodoo villain?" ”

He frowned: "What villain?" ”

I explained to him that it was a rag doll wrapped in white duct tape with red pins stuck all over it.

Li Yang showed an extraordinary interest in this thing, and kept asking for details. I sketched it and said, "By the way, there's still writing on that little man." ”

What word? He asked.

"Guan Feng." I say.

Li Yang thought for a moment and nodded: "Let's go, I'll invite you to dinner, let's chat." Then you take me to the top floor to find that villain. ”

Li Yang's appearance is not amazing, but looking at this fight, he belongs to the local tyrant like Li Damin and the eldest second. I am at ease.

In the evening, when the night market was at its busiest, we found a barbecue restaurant, ordered a table of large skewers, asked for a few bottles of beer, and began to fill our stomachs.

While eating and drinking, I talked about the experience with Li Damin from interviewing Peng Liang to his solitary search for Ma Danlong's traces. Li Yang didn't speak, he listened so engrossively that he didn't even drink wine.

"Your thoughts coincide with mine," he said, "and there are unspeakable secrets hidden in this building." I really didn't expect that the cause of the incident would be like this, mysterious enough. ”

I asked him, how did you get here.

Mr. Li said Mr. Li had sent him an email before he disappeared. The email is brief, but it's a bit of a thrilling read.

The content on it is actually a bit like a suicide note. Li Damin said in the email that he was about to do something very dangerous and unpredictable, and if he lost his news for a long time, it means that he is very likely to encounter an accident. At this time, he thought of the only person who could trust the aftermath of his death, his cousin, please help comfort his family.

I don't hear it, I have always called myself Li Damin's best friend, but he didn't think of me after his death, and his heart was sour.

"How do you know that he disappeared into this building?" I asked.

"He told me in the email, saying that this building is very dangerous and secretive, if the Lantern Alliance chooses to explore here in the future, please avoid it!"

I sighed, "You're still here." ”

Li Yang looked up at the building: "If I don't investigate the truth, I'm afraid I'll suffocate to death." ”

"Hehe, Li Damin knows that your Lantern League is a master who is extremely curious, and he is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and he deliberately said that this place is dangerous in the email, but he actually wants to attract you all." I giggled. It's not for nothing that I say this, Li Damin, I know too well, this kid is wilted, maybe he can really do it.

Li Yang looked at me, an indescribable look flashed in his eyes, and said with a smile: "Maybe." ”

We finished our meal and went back to the building and got into the elevator. I pressed the top 21st floor of a row of buttons, the lights lit up, and the elevator slowly went up.

I stared at the elevator button and suddenly felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.

On the 21st floor, we went up the stairs to the top floor. It was getting late, and it was pitch black and nothing could be seen. Li Yang lit up the flashlight and shone around: "Where did you kick that villain?" ”

With him there, I was much bolder, remembering the events of that night, finding a spot and kicking the ball: "It should be here, I remember that the voodoo villain flew out of this direction." ”

Li Yang turned on the flashlight and searched carefully along the ground, inch by inch.

"There you have it, here it is." He picked something up from the ground.

When I looked over, it was the voodoo villain. Li Yang took it in his hand and looked at it very carefully. He pointed to the two words "Guan Feng" written on the villain and asked me, "Do you know who this person is?" ”

"Who?" My heart pounded, and I had a feeling of discomfort.

"Guan Feng is Lin Xia's boyfriend."

I was in a cold sweat when I heard this: "You mean, this voodoo villain was left by Lin Xia?" ”

"Hmm. I didn't notice this thing until she jumped off the building. Now it's here, and it's her boyfriend's name written on it, isn't it obvious? He said.

This Lin Xia is so poisonous, she jumped off a building in a big red dress and committed suicide, leaving behind a voodoo doll with her name written on it. How could she have such a hatred for her boyfriend?

"I don't know if her curse is useful, what happened to that Guan Feng brother." I said to myself.

"Then who knows." Li Yang said casually, he pinched the voodoo doll, his expression was thoughtful, he turned his head and asked me, "Did you find anything strange?" ”

I shook my head.

"Alright, let's go." He walked ahead with a voodoo doll.

I hurriedly said, "What are you still doing with it, aren't you too unlucky?" ”

"I'll talk about it later." His figure disappeared at the top of the staircase.

We went back to the lodgings and he led me to his room. I looked closely, and the room was about the same size as the one I rented, with a mahogany bookcase against the wall, and all kinds of books were densely stacked on it. I took a cursory glance, mostly about religion and metaphysics. There are seven or eight books that interpret the Tao Te Ching alone. I pulled out a copy and flipped through it.

Li Yang sat down at the computer desk, turned on the lamp, twisted it to the brightest point, and then pulled out a paper cutter from the drawer. My eyes were drawn from the book, what did he want to do?

He pinched the voodoo doll, flipped it face down, pushed out the blade of the paper cutter, and carefully swiped it on its back, slowly slicing open.

I shoved the book back into the bookshelf and walked over to see him get it. He was so focused that he didn't pay attention to my movements.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"There's something in there." He dissected the entire back of the voodoo doll, revealing a pile of white cotton wool.

"Lao Liu, please go to the kitchen and get a pair of chopsticks."

At this time, my curiosity reached the extreme, and I quickly ran to the kitchen to rummage through the cabinets and find a pair of convenient chopsticks. He took the chopsticks, broke them gently, and carefully put the chopsticks into the doll.

It was supposed to be a jade plaque, about the size of a thumb, with a dark inky color all over it. With the help of the light of the lamp, the concave and convex lines on it can be faintly seen, and these lines seem to form a pattern of a statue. Li Yang held the jade plaque with chopsticks, flipped it back and forth, and I almost screamed.

This jade plaque is hollow, and there is a liquid shaking in it, and the light shines through the black jade, and the liquid changes like a flowing landscape painting.

He put the jade plaque aside, and then used chopsticks to poke into the doll's body, and with the chopsticks head, this time he actually took out a piece of paper.

This is a piece of yellow paper folded into a square, and the texture looks a bit like the grave paper burned when you go to the grave. Through the paper, there are also ochre red words inside.

Li Yang carefully unfolded the paper, pinched the upper and lower ends with his hands, and put it under the lamp to look carefully.

The paper was unfolded in a long strip, with many words written on it, arranged up and down according to size. The outside of these characters is framed with a pattern that resembles a ghostly drawing.

The words and patterns on the entire sheet are written with a red dye similar to blood, and with a yellow paper background, it looks like a very strong and eerie visual impact.

"Is this a talisman?" I felt a chill in my heart.