Chapter 11: The Soul Lock
The two of them walked around and finally stayed up until more than 8 o'clock, during which Fang's father and Fang's mother called and bombed in turn, Lu Yao could only lie and say that she would go back after dinner at Feng Niannian's house.
"Why are there so many people on the street?" Lu Yao stood on the side of the road and watched the crowd coming and going.
"This is the nightlife of urban people, you haven't been dead for long, don't you even know this?" Su Qiqi looked at Lu Yao dangling in front of him.
"I was a student and rarely came out at night. I don't know! Lu Yao replied angrily.
"Wow, if you're alive, you'll be 5 years older than me!"
"It's okay, I'm 18 forever anyway." Lu Yao said lonely.
"Well, ahem." Su Qiqi realized that he was stupid and said the wrong thing again, so he hurriedly rounded the field, "Let's go, I'll invite you to eat ice cream." ”
"Okay." Lu Yao shook her head and followed him happily.
The two stood on the side of the road after buying ice cream, and a couple passed by them.
"He also said that he would invite me to dinner, and I would pay for it at the end of the day." Su Qiqi munched on ice cream.
"I'm still a student, I don't have that much money." Lu Yao said: "Didn't I invite you to eat stinky tofu?" ”
"I have so much money when I open a shroud shop?" Su Qiqi complained quietly.
"I'm sorry to say it!" Lu Yao's ice cream was almost finished, and Su Qiqi, who had only eaten half of it, was dumbfounded.
"I say, were you a big-mouthed monkey when you were alive?"
Lu Yao ignored his ridicule and continued: "Obviously has such a little ability, I don't want to exorcise ghosts to make money, but I nest in a shroud shop." ”
"yes, yes." Su Qiqi said: "The big ghost can't be driven away, and the little ghost is fine!" But then I thought about it.
"No, no, no, the master is calling to guard the Soul Gate Enchantment!"
"The Soul Gate is now quiet and abandoned, and besides, can you stay there for the rest of your life?" Lu Yao whitened him with his eyes.
"I... I have to listen to Master. Su Qiqi took a bite of the egg roll with a weak heart.
"Why doesn't it rain?" Lu Yao ignored him and looked up at the sky, if it rained, they would all be poured away.
2 minutes later, boom.
The two looked at each other in unison, and the rain poured down.
"I don't think you still have the ability to do this." Su Qiqi looked adoring.
"I looked at the weather forecast at home in the morning and said it would rain tonight." Lu Yao swallowed.
"Cut, you will be punished for always wasting my worship!" Su Qiqi said.
"I'm all ghosts, I'm afraid of retribution, let's go." Lu Yao pulled Su Qiqi and ran into the mall.
There are very few people in the mall, except for the theater on the top floor, the rest of the shops have closed.
The two of them found a surveillance corner and hid, and Lu Yao's mobile phone suddenly rang, startling the two of them.
"Hey, Mom." Lu Yao picked up the phone.
"Nono, it's raining, do you want your dad to drive to pick you up?" Fang's mother asked anxiously on the phone.
"No need, Mom, the weather forecast says it's showers, I'll go back when the rain stops."
"Really?" Fang's mother asked uneasily.
The security guard has already started patrolling and clearing the scene, "Don't worry, Mom, I'll be back in a while!" Lu Yao snapped her phone, and then turned it on mute.
"Today's latest movie ends at 10 o'clock, and there will be a side door for guests to leave, but we will have to go to the top floor and take a straight ladder to leave."
"No problem, I see they have three security guards here, one stays behind, two patrols, and I'll lead that security guard away in a while."
"Set up a small array to trap them, and you will go to the security department to check and monitor." Su Qiqi whispered: "But you have to hurry, I don't have enough mana, I can only hold on for a while." ”
"No problem, don't worry." Lu Yao blinked.
The two soldiers divided into two ways, Su Qiqi led away the security guard in the monitoring room, and set up a trap at the elevator entrance of the hall to trap him, so that the security guard kept circling inside, and Lu Yao ran into the monitoring room to adjust the video.
No. 25, No. 24, No. 23...... Here on the 17th, Lu Yao adjusted the monitoring little by little, and at 2 o'clock, the deceased and his girlfriend appeared in the monitoring range, and the whole process of the man beating the woman was also filmed, and then
The woman suddenly got up and fought back, knocking the man down.
A few minutes later, she dragged the man by the leg and dragged him down the alley.
Lu Yao slowly adjusted the progress bar, and no one passed or entered the alley for more than 3 hours.
At 5:25, a cleaner pushed the cart into the alley, and five minutes later, he ran out screaming, and stood on the side of the street in a panic and pulled out his mobile phone to call the police.
"No one?" Lu Yao turned the surveillance back to when she just threw the man into the alley, carefully observing frame by frame, no one ever entered.
"Could it be that the man has a sudden illness?"
"Oh, have you finished reading it? The other two are coming down soon! ”
"Nope." Lu Yao muttered to herself, "It's so strange, I always feel that something is not right." ”
"I have a USB flash drive here, you can copy a copy into it." Su Qiqi took out the USB flash drive.
"How?" Lu Yao turned her head and looked questioned.
"Gotta get it, I'll go out and trap the other two first, and I'll get it later." Su Qiqi ran out.
After a while, a security guard's voice came from outside the door: "Huh? What kind of circle are you drawing here, boy? ”
After that, there was silence for half a minute, "Hey, where is this?" How did I get to the second floor? That's not right! ”
"Who, who's talking?" The first security guard to start drawing circles suddenly shouted.
"I, it's me." The second security guard was standing on the ground.
"Damn, where are you? Why can't I see you?"
"It's evil, I'm on the second floor."
"Second floor? But you're right next to me. ”
"You go to the door and keep an eye on the last security guard for me." Su Qiqiyi pushed Lu Yao away.
"Good!" Lu Yao gave up the place to Su Qiqi.
Su Qiqi plugged in the USB flash drive and copied the surveillance video on the day of the 17th, 20%...... 40%..... 70%
You two drank too much? The voice of the last security guard was heard, and he slowly approached his two colleagues.
I saw that one of them was standing still, and the other was desperately walking in circles, and their mouths were still shouting, "Team... Captain, help, we can't get out. ”
The captain frowned, looked at the closed door of the monitoring room, shook his sturdy body and rushed over quickly, opened the door, it was empty, everything was still the same.
Su Qiqi and Lu Yao looked at the two security guards who were trapped in the dark, "When will they wake up?" Lu Yao asked in a low voice.
"A few minutes, this is just the most basic formation, it's a bit like a ghost hitting a wall."
"Oh." Lu Yao nodded.
The security captain came out of the house, walked behind the two security guards, grabbed one in one hand and carried it back, and the two security guards were lifted out of the room.
"The array was broken by him." Su Qiqi stared at the captain and said, "He is very angry, and he has a faint murderous aura, I can't do slaughtering work before." ”
The captain of the security guard looked around angrily, and the two little security guards collapsed to the side, breathless.
"Oops." The ghost woman said, I can't get close to this kind of murderous person, Lu Yao swallowed her saliva. Don't be caught by him!
Fortunately, the security captain patrolled around, and then walked into the monitoring room by himself, and the two security guards on the ground also got up and staggered over, shouting as they ran:
"Captain, what a fucking evil sect tonight, will there be ghosts?"
"What the hell? You two are lazy, don't make excuses! The captain's roar came from inside the room.
"Retreat." Su Qiqi whispered, and the two of them trotted into the elevator room.
"It always feels like the captain saw us." Lu Yao said.
"Won't it?" Su Qiqi said: "That person looks fierce and evil, but he doesn't look like a powerful character. ”
Lu Yao didn't answer, shrugged her shoulders, and the two of them entered the elevator.
When she got home, she was inevitably scolded by Fang's father and mother, and she was given a curfew, and she had to go home before 8 o'clock in the evening.
Lu Yao, who returned to the room, sat on the bed, and it seemed that she could only go out at night in the future...... I floated it.
Lu Yao didn't go out the next day, because she returned late the day before, and she had to behave well today.
Fang's mother was moved to tears when she saw her daughter studying quietly in the room for the first time.
"How's it going?" Lu Yao sent a message to Su Qiqi.
"Master, I just woke up!"
Lu Yao posted a long list of cursed words, and finally deleted the sentence, "You go to sleep!" ”
"No need, I can't sleep."
Lu Yao threw her phone aside, dragged the book and began to read.
After a while, the phone vibrated again, "I'll turn on the computer to watch the monitoring in a while, don't worry!" "Su Qiqi sent a message.
"Okay, thanks, next time I'll treat you to a skewer."
"Deal!! No denial! You don't have much credibility to speak of! ”
"This person is cheap and good!" Lu Yao pursed her lips.
3 hours later, the phone called, and Lu Yao quickly answered it, "What's the matter?" She whispered.
"What? Are you still like a thief at home? Su Qiqi on the other side of the phone teased her.
"No, I'm pretending to study in my room." Lu Yao said.
"Damn, okay, I've made a big discovery, when can you come over?"
"I can't go out today, in the evening."
"At night?"
"Yes, I can come and go at night."
"Okay, when I see you during the day, and I see you again at night, I'm about to become schizophrenic!" Su Qiqi complained.
"Less nonsense, I'm hanging." Lu Yao heard Fang's mother's footsteps getting closer and closer.
At night, Lu Yao turned into a puff of smoke from the window and sneaked out, and with a familiar understanding of the route, she chose to appear first at the alley of XX East Road.
She didn't want to waste her aura, after all, it was a strange and troublesome thing to be caught chasing by a ghost.
As soon as Lu Yao came out of the wall at the entrance of the alley, he immediately felt the existence of a spirit around him.
A swarthy guy was shivering in a garbage heap.
"Hey!"
"Ahh The other party shouted in fear.
"How are you hiding here? Is it being chased by the spirit hunt? Lu Yao asked cautiously.
The black shadow heard Lu Yao's voice and slowly raised his head, looking at each other.
"It's you!" Lu Yao shouted loudly, glanced at the entrance of the alley, and lowered his voice again.
"You.... Do you know me? The dark shadow asked.
"You're not...."Lu Yao swallowed back when the words came to her mouth, you can't say that you were beaten by me that day!
"I read the news that you were killed the other day?"
"News? I do not know. The shadow lowered his head again, "All I know I'm dead, woo-woo-woo." ”
"Oh my God, you new ghosts are so crying!" Lu Yao rolled her eyes helplessly.
"Shut up, what's the use of crying! Can you be resurrected if you cry? "When I think of what this guy did in his life, I get angry, and I don't deserve sympathy when I die!
"Can you help me?" The shadow said, "I can't leave here. ”
"Why? You're not committing suicide, there's no reason to become an earthbound spirit, right? Could it be that someone is trapping you for something? Lu Yao thought.
"I don't know why, I can't get out of this alley."
"How did you die?" Lu Yao suddenly remembered the point of the matter.
The shadow closed his mouth, indicating that he didn't want to speak.
"You know what? Your girlfriend is now in prison as your murderer! ”
"What?!" The dark shadow suddenly looked up, "No, this has nothing to do with her. ”
"Then why don't you tell me how the hell you died!" Lu Yao roared, "What an idiot!"
"That day, I drank too much and hit... Hit my girlfriend. The shadow spoke intermittently.
"Go on." Lu Yao clasped her hands to her chest and glanced at the black figure squatting on the ground.
"Then, for some reason, she suddenly fought back, and her strength became so strong."
"I... I couldn't beat her, so I fainted. ”
"Getting to the point!" Lu Yao urged angrily.
"Later, I don't know how long later, I woke up and found myself lying in a garbage heap."
"I staggered to my feet, and I heard a cat meow, and as soon as I turned around, a black cat pounced on my face.
Knocked me to the ground, and then the black cat took on the form of a human and slammed something on my head! My body became very light, very light. The more the shadow spoke, the more agitated it became, and began to whimper again.
"Hold it back, and continue." Lu Yao said.
"I... I found out that I was dead, and my soul was floating, woo..."
"Don't whine, your whining makes my mind mess up." Lu Yao said angrily.
The shadow immediately shut up.
"And then, why did that half-human, half-cat thing kill you?"
"I don't know, I just know that after I died, that fierce-looking guy didn't seem to have much interest in my corpse, and he wanted to capture my soul."
"Catch your soul?" Lu Yao asked in surprise.
"Yes, when he pounced on me, suddenly another black cat appeared, and the black cat also took on a human form, and threw a whip at the previous one, saving me."
"Later, the one who killed me escaped, and the one who saved me is gone."
"Cat, turn into a human form and take the soul? Why haven't I heard of it? Lu Yao frowned.
"By the way, you said you can't get out of the alley, right?"
"Yes." The shadow said, "If you don't believe me, I'll try to show you." He stood up and walked to the entrance of the alley, when a barrier suddenly appeared in the air to block him.
"It's over there, too." He pointed to the alley on the other side.
"Didn't those two black cats come back in the past few days?" Lu Yao asked.
"Didn't come back. I was terrified every day, and it was worse than death. The Shadow said.
"I... Is my girlfriend okay with her? ”
"You should go to the prison yourself and ask her." Lu Yao said angrily.
"I'm sorry for her, I wasn't good enough for her when I was alive, and I still implicated her when I died."
"Why don't you think so when she asks for money, I don't think you're quite happy when you beat someone?" Lu Yao snorted.
"It's my fault, it's my bastard, I'm not human, it's all my retribution! She was right to hit me that day! The shadow crouched down on the ground again.
"Ahem, cough, tell you, I was the one who beat you that day!" Lu Yao cleared her throat.
"What... What the? The shadow looked up.
"That day, this girl happened to pass by like today, and saw you bastard beating people, I couldn't look past it, so I got on your girlfriend and helped her teach you a lesson!"
Seeing that the black shadow didn't move for a long time, "Don't think I'm going to apologize to you, I don't feel like I..."
"It's my life, it's my retribution." The dark shadow muttered.
glanced at the black shadow that shrank into the corner again, "You stay here for a while, and I'll bring someone to rescue you later!" Lu Yao said.
"Thank you, thank you." The dark shadow looked at her gratefully.
"I'm not here to help you, I don't want your girlfriend to be wronged, just wait here!" Lu Yao turned into a cloud of smoke and dispersed.
"You're here, why are you so grinding today!" Su Qiqi looked at Lu Yao who came in through the door.
"Also, I'll discuss something with you." Su Qiqi said mysteriously.
"What?"
"The next time you come, call out outside and tell me."
"Why?"
"Why? Is it okay for you to casually enter someone's house without saying a word? You're still a big girl! ”
"Well, don't be verbose! I have something to tell you! ”
Lu Yao told Su Qiqi about the black shadow she met at the mouth of the alley when she came.
"Black cats? Become a human, kill and take the soul? Su Qiqi tilted his head.
"Could it have something to do with that soul gate?"
"The style is a bit similar, but if they use cats as carriers, they are more like the ability of the royal cat family."
"Cat Clan?" Lu Yao asked.
"That's right, the Royal Cat Clan, in addition to their own form, the only thing that can be transformed is the appearance of a cat."
"So, they are the main body, and the cat is the carrier."
"Are they humans or ghosts?" Lu Yao asked.
"Of course it's a human, but it's a person with a high spell, but the Royal Cat Clan is decent and won't do such a thing as killing people and taking souls."
"Don't worry about it for now, you can come with me first."
"What?"
"Save people, it's wrong, save ghosts."
"Help... Save the ghost? ”
"Let's talk as we go." Lu Yao urged Su Qiqi to go out, "Wait, go and bring your gossip mirror." ”
Su Qiqi complained and went to the front store to get the gossip mirror, and ran behind Lu Yao.
"Don't teleport and disappear in a while, I can't keep up with you."
"Don't worry, I rushed over just now, and I don't have the strength to use spells."
"Oh, it's no blue." Su Qiqi said with a smile.
"What's not blue?" Lu Yao turned around and asked.
"It's nothing, you don't understand, let's go."
The two of them took a taxi to the entrance of the alley, Su Qiqi just got out of the car, and the driver stepped on the accelerator and ran out for a long time.
Lu Yao watched the taxi go away, and said with a smile: "You scared people!" ”
"It's not all you!" Su Qiqi glared at Lu Yao angrily.
I finally got a taxi on West Street, and as soon as I got in the car, the driver asked Su Qiqi, "Why did you appear on West Street so late?" ”
Su Qiqi said that he lived there, so the driver shut up and didn't ask any more questions.
Along the way, Lu Yao chattered beside him again about the details of the incident, Su Qiqi couldn't speak, he could only nod his head,
attracted the driver's master to constantly shoot "concerning" eyes at him through the rearview mirror.
When he got out of the car to pay the fare, he asked the driver several times how much it was, but the driver didn't dare to say anything, or Su Qiqi glanced at the meter before he took out the money himself.
The two rushed to the alley, but there was no one.
"What about the ghosts?" Su Qiqi asked.
"It can't be captured, right?" Lu Yao walked inside.
"Be careful, Su Qiqi followed behind and tried to hold her, but he caught a vacancy, so he retracted his hand in a sneer."
There was a bang, and suddenly a black shadow appeared in the garbage heap next to Su Qiqi.
"My grandmother, something!" Su Qiqi screamed in fright.
"Shut up, be quiet." Lu Yao walked over through his body, "You're hiding here." ”
"yes, I just heard a sound and hid." The Black Shadow said.
"That's the bastard you're talking about, huh?" Su Qiqi came back to his senses.
"He's trapped here now, he can't get out, I think his ghost life is still a bit useful, what do you think?" Lu Yao asked for a stay.
"It's your business anyway." Su Qiqi spread his hands and looked at the dark shadow hiding on the side.
"You say, when that man killed you, he knocked you on the head with something?"
"yes, that thing was heavy and cold, and he hit me on the forehead with that thing, and it made my head buzz."
"Do you see what that thing looks like?"
"I didn't see it too clearly, but there was a hint of silver light." The dark shadow replied.
Su Qiqi clasped his hands on his chest with his hands, and his face was solemn.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yao asked.
"The thing he described is very similar to the soul lock used by the Soul Gate."
"Soul Lock? What is a soul lock? ”
"Soul Lock, as the name suggests, is the soul Lock."
"What happens after the soul is locked?"
"Catch it when you lock it." Su Qiqi looked at Lu Yao helplessly.
"That...."
"Gotta get him out first, it's not safe here."
"yes, then take your gossip mirror and take him."
"Eight... Gossip mirror? The dark shadow asked with a shudder, this thing had only been heard in novels.
"His gossip mirror is very out of order, and he won't do anything to you. We can't take you out without a magic weapon. Lu Yao said.
"Well... Okay, then take it! The Shadow said.
"Yo, this ghost is really talkative." Su Qiqi smiled and took out the gossip mirror.
The mirror flashed with golden light, and the dark shadow was taken in.
"It's the first time I've used it to collect ghosts!" Su Qiqi said excitedly: "It's so cool. ”
"Cool, this thing can be used to collect this unformed spirit." Lu Yao floated away from his eyes with disdain.
"Don't taunt my darling like that." Su Qiqi followed behind her and accused her.
The two of them got back into the car, and Su Qiqi reported the address of Fangcao Street.
"Yerba Grass Street?" Lu Yao, who was sitting on the side, asked.
Su Qiqi glanced at her and didn't answer, no matter how noisy Lu Yao was along the way, Su Qiqi didn't look at her.
Got out of the car, "Where is this?" Lu Yao was dizzy.
"Next door to West Street, Yerba Grass Street!" Su Qiqi swaggered in front of him with his hands behind his back.
"Then why didn't you just say that you went to West Street?"
"Trust me, if I said go to West Street, they'd rather risk being complained about than pull me!" Su Qiqi said.
"Well, is West Street that scary?" Lu Yao said.
"Then you haven't seen how terrifying West Street used to be." Su Qiqi turned around and walked backwards, facing Lu Yao behind him.
"Actually, the Soul Gate Barrier was not opened at this time, and West Street was still very prosperous."
"But on the day the Soul Gate Barrier opened on West Street, they held a ceremony, and a fire burned many people to death on West Street."
"Did they burn people to eat their corpses and souls?"
"It's not." Su Qiqi said: "The Soul Soul Gate cultivates high-level secret arts, and does not eat mutilated corpses and souls. ”
"They burned that fire just for fun."
"It's too much!" Lu Yao frowned, "What a group of tumors. ”
"In their eyes, there is no human life and morality, they are all devils."
"You say that if my death is related to them, is there no hope for me to take revenge?"
"Don't give up, there's always a way to deal with them." Su Qiqi said.
"I thought you'd keep beating me!" Lu Yao said with a smile.
"I'm not as bad as you think!" Su Qiqi said: "I am a famous and decent disciple! ”
"Yes, little mage, let's go, I don't have much time." Lu Yao walked through Su Qiqi's body again and walked to the front.
"I said you, don't keep going through people's bodies, okay, I'm getting goosebumps!" Su Qiqi turned around and chased Lu Yao, who had already floated out a few meters away.