In the more than 30 years since the establishment of Dongcheng College, first excluding the successive alleged deaths caused by the death of the couple thirteen years ago, and then excluding the fact that Ji Zizheng's mother did not stretch out his hand to show the way when she died seven years ago, then the other deceased all stretched out their fingers and pointed in a certain direction.

Because there were rumors of the old lady asking for directions before, the situation that the deceased's finger pointed in a certain direction was naturally linked to the old lady. Hence the legend of the death of the Asking Directions incident.

And in fact it was, because the old lady also asked me.

At that time, the reason why I didn't kill the old lady was not because I wanted to hide my Taoist skills, but because I wanted to know why the old lady had to kill on September 1 every year, what was the purpose of her killing, and I was more curious about how her soul became a ghost.

Since the first death, the reason for the more than 30 ghost killings that occurred was that everyone thought that the old lady was pointing the wrong way. So what if the deceased wasn't showing the way when he was dying?

I don't know if anyone will assume this, but the reason why I think this way is that when the couple died 13 years ago, the woman pointed to the man, and the man pointed to his roommate, and I think this is the ghost of the old lady deliberately confusing everyone to ask for directions to the concept of death. She must have thought that some people would think that the deceased was not pointing the way, but pointing to something else, and if this conjecture was correct, then some people would look for the answer, and the old lady was afraid that someone would know the answer, so she designed a series of alleged deaths to confuse these people's conjectures. She wants to tell everyone that in addition to being asked for directions, there is also a way to play that whoever points to him will die.

In this way, those who guess that the fake dead are not pointing the way will no longer think about what the dead are pointing at, and they will think that this is a death game designed by the old lady out of revenge.

At first I thought the same thing, but there was a man who died. It made me question that it was the death of Ji Zizheng's mother seven years ago, his mother died with a peaceful demeanor, and she didn't point anywhere, Ji Zizheng said that her mother must have wanted to tell him something.

Ji Zizheng's mother died very unusually, no one died on September 1 of that year, and no one died after she died, so Ji Zizheng's mother also died at the hands of the old lady. When she came to teach at Dongcheng College, she must have heard the strange incident of the old lady asking for directions.

So when she met the old lady, she didn't stretch out her finger to where she went, she wanted to tell us that her death had nothing to do with whether she pointed or not!

In the same way, she wants to tell us that the deaths of other people have nothing to do with guidance!

So why do they have to point in a certain direction before they die?

The answer must have been that the deceased saw the old lady's whereabouts before he died, or that he saw something. They want to tell the people who solve the puzzle where the answer is.

But what they didn't expect was that their actions were just the fulfillment of the rumors of the death of the Asking Directions, and people believed that the deceased was pointing the way.

Except for Ji Zizheng's mother!

I turned my head to look at Ji Zizheng, who was sitting on the edge of the bed without saying a word, and said, "Your father is the one who took over the death of Ask for Directions, does he have any photos of the deceased when he died?" ”

Ji Zizheng looked up at me who suddenly spoke, nodded and said, "He secretly copies a copy of the case file every year, what do you want a photo for?" ”

I said, "Maybe I can find out where the old lady's ghost is from the photos." ”

"You're not going to do it, are you?" Song Gang gave me a strange look in his eyes, and he didn't dare to sleep until now.

"Okay, I'll call my dad and bring it over." Himeko glanced at me. Nodding his head, he dialed his dad's phone.

After the call, I said to hime, "If you can memorize the general situation of the school, just draw a bird's-eye picture, and I'll use it later." ”

Ji Zizheng didn't ask me why, but took out a large piece of white paper from the table, and then used a ruler to quickly draw an aerial view of Dongcheng College on the white paper.

About an hour later, Ji Zhengguang knocked on the door and came in, handed the photo to Ji Zizheng, just Ji Zizheng's overlook map was also completed, I picked up the photo, saw the direction of the first deceased's finger on the photo, and then asked Ji Zizheng to draw a straight line through the overlook map along the direction pointed by this person on the overlook map, the same is true for the second photo, some photos did not take pictures of the surrounding buildings, and it was impossible to distinguish what was where, Ji Zhengguang pointed out where it was, he took over this case for 30 years, He knew the location of each deceased person well.

Himeko started to look at me as soon as he drew the fifth straight line, and he was a little excited because he guessed my conjecture.

When Ji Zizheng drew all the straight lines that could be drawn on the overlooking map, everyone saw at a glance that these straight lines all converged at one point, although it was not a complete intersection, but the general direction was not wrong.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Ji Zizheng pounded his head with some annoyance.

Song Gang suddenly realized: "It turns out that these people are not pointing in different directions, but pointing to the same place!" But because our school is too big, and the place where these people died is very far away, and the directions they pointed to when they died were all in the south, east, west, and north, no one thought that they were actually pointing to the same place! ”

I looked at Ji Zizheng and said, "Your mother must have seen something unusual like everyone else when she was dying, but she didn't point anywhere, just to tell us that the death incident of asking for directions had nothing to do with directions." ”

Ji Zizheng nodded, without any expression on his face, he began to adjust his energy detector, and then the four of us in the dormitory went to the place where the straight line met on the overlook map, where the small garden in the middle of the school was, and the place pointed to on the map was a pine tree in the middle of the flower bed.

Everyone held the shovel borrowed from the dormitory manager in their hands, and dug the pine tree and the surrounding land, when digging to a depth of about half a meter, suddenly the soil under their feet trembled, and then a ghost rushed out, Ji Zizheng and Song Gang They both saw the ghost on the screen, the electromagnetic pulse gun in Ji Zizheng's hand immediately aimed at the ghost and knocked her to the ground, the old lady staggered up from the ground and ran, I held a silver needle in my hand, and attached to my trace of Taoist qi secretly bounced to the old lady's ghost.

"Quick, chase!" A few people chased after me with the energy detector, and Ji Zhengguang glanced at me and then turned his head to chase after me.

With a slight movement of my fingers, an old thing broke through the dirt and flew into my hand behind my back.

The old lady's ghost was swayed by Himeko's electromagnetic pulse gun, like a candle flame blown by the wind, and although she struggled hard, her soul only became more and more blurred, and my anger froze her.

When Himeko shot her head for the last time, the old lady turned to look at me, and she said, "Although it has fallen short, I don't want to do this, my soul can't go down, the thing in the soil controls me, and I have to kill people every year." ”

The old lady said, "Who are you?" "Zhuang Gong Yang blood.

I didn't answer, and her soul sneered at white smoke and turned to ashes under Himeko's gun.

Ji Zizheng glanced up at Ji Zhengguang, his eyes were red, Ji Zhengguang didn't say anything, patted Ji Zizheng's shoulder, no one thought that Ji Zizheng's invention could hunt down the ghosts that everyone feared, which couldn't help but impress me.

Later, Ji Zhengguang drove home, and the four of us went back to the dormitory, and everyone slept to death that night.

That night I looked by the moonlight at what had been dug up from the garden and looked like a parchment scroll, seven inches long, with a brass collar at each end of the scroll that held the scroll in place, as if to block something inside.

There were many obscure points of light on the outside of the scroll, and I roughly counted them, and there were more than thirty in total, and I thought of the thirty or so people that the old lady had killed, and I wondered if there was a relationship between them.

I put the scroll in front of my eyes and looked at the bearing, only to find that there was a ring of protruding scales around the bearing, and the words on the scale were very small, but I could still see that the small words were twelve earthly branches, and there was an arrow at the end of the bearing, which pointed to Hai.

Hai is one of the twelve earthly branches, and the timetable refers to the time between 9 and 11 o'clock in the evening, and it is during this time period when the person who jumped from the upper floor dies, and it is already four o'clock in the morning, and the scale of the bearing has not changed in the slightest.

I looked at the bearing at the other end of the reel, the perimeter of the bearing was also engraved with dense small characters, I noticed that the part of the bearing deep into the reel also revealed half a line of words, slightly raised a little, you can see that the pointer points to the day of Jiachen, Gengshen month, which corresponds to September 1.

I couldn't wait to see if the year under the bearing was this year, but the collar on the reel was blocking it, and it seemed that the reel had to be taken apart to see the scale of the year.

I flicked the brass collar that held the scroll down, but before I could open it, at this moment, small black characters floated out of the scroll, and these small characters attached to my hand along the scroll, crawling towards me little by little.

Outside the window, there was a sudden strong wind, and then the air around me was also distorted, my hair and clothes were blown wildly, and Ji Zizheng, Song Gang and An Xiaowu, who were sleeping soundly, were still asleep, and the objects around me were also distorted.

I didn't know what was going on, so I quickly twisted the collar back, and the little words quickly crawled back into the scroll with my hand.

I was in a cold sweat as I looked at the scroll with yin and yang eyes.

I saw a galaxy.