After Jiang Jinjiu left the newspaper, he found a beef noodle restaurant and ordered two large bowls of noodles, a few side dishes and a small bottle of two pots. Although the total price is 76 yuan, it is the biggest reward for himself. Whenever he loses his job, his daily food expenses will not exceed 10 yuan, that is, boiled water with steamed buns, or instant noodles.

A bowl of beef noodles was down, and he rubbed his flat belly deliciously, wanting to take a break before going to eat another bowl. Rubbing his hands and taking out the contract and holding it, looking at the one plus four zeros, he smirked, fantasizing about eating and drinking spicy food and spicy food a few months later, driving a new car and driving around his new girlfriend, not to mention the taste in his heart.

Thinking about becoming a real journalist in a few days, he took a sip of wine, snorted his throat, put down the bottle and touched it in the pocket of his coat, not wanting to touch it. rummaged through other pockets, rummaged through the bag again, and even turned it upside down, only to find that the press card handed over to him by Qin Zhenyang yesterday was gone!

Jiang Jinjiu secretly said that it was bad, and since last night, the press card has been hanging on his coat, and the coat has been hanging on the back of the chair. I almost knocked over my chair when I got up this morning, could it be that I fell off at that time? After thinking about it, Jiang Jinjiu ruled out all kinds of possibilities, and finally decided that the press card was left in a haunted house.

"How's this going to work? To take it or not to take it? It's just a press card, and another one? But...... Isn't it inappropriate to lose your journalist ID before you get to work? I'm going to go! Qin Zhenyang's old man said that it was best not to let people find out, if someone called the police, "Thinking of a letter ......of dismissal, Jiang Jinjiu was very anxious, and the second bowl of noodles was tasteless, but it was blocked and had a stomachache, and he stopped eating after a few bites."

It's night.

The moon is sparse, the breeze is gusting, and the community where the haunted house is located is still dark and very quiet.

Jiang Jinjiu was dressed in black, and he couldn't see him clearly when he was far away, but he was still as careful as a thief, walking close to the wall. Unlike the two people behind him, one is dark green, and it is Li Youcheng, Jiang Jinjiu's junior high school classmate. The other is brown, Li Youcheng's brother-in-law Zhang Hong.

They swaggered behind Jiang Jinjiu, and they all put on a posture of looking at foreign appearances.

With the blessing of Tuojiang drinking, the three of them came safely to the door of the building where the haunted house was located. Zhang Hong squatted in front of the door of the building, took out a strangely shaped tool and disturbed the keyhole. In less than two minutes, only a soft knock was heard, and the door lock was opened.

"You're awesome, brother-in-law!" Li Youcheng exclaimed quietly, raised his thumb with one hand, and put the other hand on Zhang Hong's shoulder, "If you have this ability to pick locks, you shouldn't be a locksmith, I think you should be a thief!" ”

Zhang Hong lowered his voice and smiled: "Then what kind of line, I can be old and young, my waist is not rough and my courage is not fat, if I go in and squat, your sister runs away with others, will I lose?" As he spoke, he gently opened the door and made a gesture to invite in, "If it weren't for the courage of your classmates tonight, I wouldn't dare to open the lock." ”

"I'm tired and tired, it's really troublesome for my brother-in-law, it's really a last resort." Jiang Jinjiu smiled and said, "That thing is so important to me, losing it is equivalent to losing your job, it's really a last resort." ”

"Alright, alright! It's buddy, just be polite. Li Youcheng put his arm around Jiang Jinjiu's shoulders and grinned, "We are brothers, if you don't help with this, you are still not brothers!" ”

"Shhhhh Jiang Jinjiu and Li Youcheng found that the light on the balcony on the second floor was on, nodded knowingly, and dodged into the corridor and gently closed the door.

The three of them quietly came to the fourth floor with the same pace, and their movements were so light that the sensor lights in the corridor were not activated. At first glance, seeing Huang Fu and Zhong Kui on the door, Li Youcheng and Zhang Hong invariably asked Jiang Jinjiu about the situation. Jiang Jinjiu used the reason that had already been made up to explain that "the previous tenant's livelihood was fortune-telling and naming", and he was really confused.

Next, Li Youcheng stayed at the staircase to control the wind, Zhang Hong and Jiang Jinjiu stayed in front of the door of the haunted house, and it took about five minutes before there was a sound of metal friction in the door lock, and the door was opened by Zhang Hong.

"Brother-in-law is so capable!" Jiang Jinjiu held Zhang Hong's hand tightly and said excitedly, "I will definitely invite you to eat seafood another day, thank you so much!" ”

"You're welcome, you're welcome, let's go inside, don't let anyone notice." Zhang Hong greeted Li Youcheng, and after the three of them exchanged a few words, the two left together.

This was agreed before coming, and since it was an empty house that was uninhabited, there was no need for people to take care of it. If the neighbor hears movement in the haunted house, he will be scared of a good or bad dish, and if he calls the police, it will be even worse.

Moreover, Jiang Jinjiu didn't want them to know that he risked a crime to open the lock just for a press card, and he was embarrassed to say it. Therefore, even if you know that there are ghosts in the house, you still let them go first, so as not to harm them.

When he came to the haunted house again, Jiang Jinjiu felt indescribably eerie and terrifying, and his calves trembled. I remember that Qin Zhenyang said that Li Dayou's murder of his wife was indeed a thing, and after searching on the Internet, it turned out that this was the news two years ago. The content is not as detailed as what he wrote, but it only says that Li Dayou committed suicide by leaving a book and confessing to the evil act of killing his wife and breaking his body. Only one-third of the bones were recovered, and his son was given to his grandfather and grandmother to raise.

The traces in the interior are the same as when they left in the morning, unchanged. But Jiang Jinjiu didn't dare to get too close to the corner, and always felt that Li Dayou was hiding in a corner of the house, holding a heavy kitchen knife ready to cut him. But he comforted himself, "Li Dayou didn't hurt him last time, and he won't do it this time, as long as you don't alarm him, just get your press card back and leave quickly." He also took off his shoes and quietly searched with a small flashlight.

The ground was cold, and it exuded a chill like ice, and even cotton socks couldn't stop it. The cool air passed from the center of his feet to his heart, but it was cold in a few seconds, which made Jiang Jinjiu's teeth tremble, and the slight vibration caused by the friction of the jaw bone reached the inner ear, and he mistakenly thought that it was a sound from somewhere, which made him more nervous and sensitive.

Suddenly! There was one more kind of sound in the silent space besides the subtle sound he made! Frightened, his scalp tightened, and his hand trembled and the flashlight fell off.

He used the flashlight to press the switch, and as soon as his finger loosened the light, the light went out. The lanyard of the flashlight is tied to the wrist, so it does not make a sound.

In the dark, Jiang Jinjiu held his breath and pricked up his ears to listen......

Click...... Click...... Click...... Every 2 seconds, the sound comes from the kitchen, and it's the sound of dripping water. Jiang Jinjiu breathed a sigh of relief after identifying it, and then became nervous again. Remember to use the faucet in the morning after screwing it very tightly, not a drop of water should leak, how can it drip at this time!? He looked at the kitchen door in horror and felt that something was about to come out of it.

Click...... Click...... Click...... As if it were the sound of footsteps, he felt that the sound was getting clearer and louder, and each time it was like stepping on his violently beating heart, making him feel like he was fainting at any time.

Sweat soaked his shirt and stuck to his back. He still didn't dare to move, staring at the kitchen door all the time. Unexpectedly, there was a crisp metal crash sound from the direction of the next bedroom, and his heart almost popped out of his mouth! Subconsciously twisted the upper body, but the lower body didn't move, and he twisted himself down and sat on the ground! He didn't care about the painful half of his buttocks, and his two eyes instantly locked the direction of the sound source, only to see that the door of the second bedroom opened a gap two fingers wide, and there was a dim red light inside! This frightened him even more, and when he first came in, he saw that the door to the second bedroom was closed!

There was no movement for a moment, Jiang Jinjiu was afraid of returning, and he couldn't help but be driven by curiosity and quietly moved over.

Before touching the door, the red light gradually changed, replaced by a green light like moonlight. He remembered that the curtains were closed, so it would not be the light from outside the house, and his heart was even more uneasy. He cautiously approached the crack in the door, and the sight of it really stunned him! I saw a beautiful woman sitting cross-legged on the ground indoors, even if it was only half of the face, it was enough to make him fall in love!

"I'm going to go! What play is this? A Chinese Ghost Story!? Jiang Jinjiu didn't know whether he was scared or excited now, and hid behind the crack in the door and watched her motionlessly.

The bangs covered the woman's forehead, revealing half of the thin eyebrows raised on the top as if with a smile, the thick eyelashes were slightly upturned, the bridge of the nose was straight, the mouth was small and the lips were plump, the chin was sharp, the face was fair, and a red stud was embedded in the small earlobe. The black hair is coiled in a bun at the back of the head, and a slender moon-holding ebony hairpin is inserted in the hair curl, which looks simple and very neat. There were a few missing strands of hair wrapped around the snow-white neck, and a red tattoo the size of a thumbnail could be seen at the root of the hair, which was a locked box, and I don't know what secrets were locked inside.

She was dressed in a gauze with a large round neckline, just revealing a red mole the size of a mung bean in the shoulder socket, and her straight collarbone lay underneath like a game of pinball. Rising further down, the blue spinning fell down the peak like a waterfall, still unable to hide the delicate curves inside. It's a pity that I was wearing black loose sports pants and couldn't see the lines of my legs clearly. Although the hip line is very attractive, there is still a missing scenic line.

And on the ground less than two paces in front of her was a small round tripod, in which was burned a column of wide strips of incense, the smell was different from that of the incense sticks offered by the temple, a faint smell of burnt hair.

Between Xiangding and the woman was placed a cylindrical box, the whole body was dark red, the lid was tightly closed, and the shallow concave in the center of the circle faintly contained golden light, but the light emitted was blue-white, illuminating the room hazy.

Jiang Jinjiu couldn't see what was inside, but he saw that she had her hands flat on her knees and her eyes closed, as if a monk or Taoist priest was meditating.

Just when Jiang Jinjiu felt strange, something even stranger happened. The green smoke from the incense burned rose straight up like a thin strip of wood, condensing on the roof, like a layer of mist. Suddenly, the rising green smoke suddenly thickened three times, and the smoke on the roof seemed to be stirred by something, slowly rotating, gradually layered, and finally forming a spiral. Not long after, on the side closest to the door, it seemed that someone had found the tail of the spiral, pulled out a ribbon-like smoke, and slowly floated towards the head of the bed!

Could it be that Li Dayou is here!? Jiang Jinjiu was surprised and funny, but unexpectedly, the cigarette belt suddenly changed direction and floated towards the door! Seeing that it would hit him, and he couldn't run away, for fear of making a noise and alarming the woman, he had to squat down slowly.

Fortunately, it was only smoke, and the presence of Jiang Jin liquor did not have an effect. Ribbons of smoke passed over his head and slowly drifted across the master bedroom and onto the balcony.

Jiang Jinjiu pondered for a while before remembering that Li Dayou committed suicide on the balcony! vaguely understood what the woman wanted, and felt that something was wrong. Although he was a little reluctant, thinking of the tragic past of the supernatural reporter, he still decided to put safety first, and 36 plans were the best policy.

But as soon as he stood up straight, the cigarette belt had already floated back, and the scene in front of him almost didn't scare him! The smoke ribbon floating back from the balcony surrounded a transparent object with no fixed shape, and was slowly flown back to the bedroom like a smoke ribbon! As the distance shortened, the smoke belt around "it" became denser and denser, and it was impossible to tell whether the smoke belt was actively wrapped around it, or whether it rolled the cigarette belt into its body in a circle, but when it reached the door, it was already wrapped in an oval sphere formed by the smoke belt. Like a big silkworm chrysalis, it also twists and deforms from time to time, indicating that there is indeed something inside!

Jiang Jinjiu's worldview was completely messy, and the slightest suspicion he had before disappeared completely.

Seeing it drifting towards him, he knew how to avoid it. Unexpectedly, after squatting for a long time, my feet were numb and didn't listen to the call! Look at that thing is not high above the ground, and if you don't avoid it, it will inevitably touch you. He had no choice but to sit on his side on the ground and move his legs and feet away with his hands. It was only later that he realized that he had cramps in his left leg.

Finally moved in time, and when there was a difference of half a meter, Jiang Jinjiu flashed to the side, without alarming it and the mysterious woman in the room.

He breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed his legs as he watched it. He thought that the smoke ball would enter the door, but it had no body and little mass, and he was surprised as he watched the smoke ball slowly squeeze into the crack in the door. And when the smoke ball is deformed, I hear it in my ears, and it seems that there is a tidal sound in my head, if there is nothing, it is hazy and not distorted, and the noise is very beautiful.

However, somehow, when it squeezed into the crack of the door, a little smoke dispersed to the left half of his body, and the hair on that part of his skin seemed to turn iron in an instant, and the skin could feel the weight of the hair! And the roots are erect, as if there is an invisible magnetic force attracting them. However, the hair is born in the flesh of the human flesh and cannot be easily removed, so the flesh is torn apart as if it were torn apart. When the pores are pulled open, there seems to be a cold ice needle, which pierces through the hole and pierces into the bone marrow, which is very uncomfortable. The sensation flashed for only five seconds, but it made his heart throb, and he wondered what would happen if he touched the cigarette ball.

By the time the smoke balls were all squeezed into the bedroom, he was so attracted by the scene that he forgot to run away, pouting his ass and peeping through the crack in the door.

I saw the cigarette ball floating directly above the incense stick and the middle of the box, spinning slowly. As more smoke rises into the air and wraps around the smoke ball, its shape develops towards a sphere. After about five minutes, the sphere began to shrink, and the contents of the ball seemed to feel the oppression and struggle inside. Jiang Jinjiu saw that the surface of the sphere was constantly bulging, sometimes protruding like a human palm, so he had to think that Li Dayou's ghost was trapped in the sphere, and he was pushing and kicking against the ball wall. The smaller the sphere became, the faster it protruded, and then it almost went berserk.

In the face of such a situation, the beauty did not move, but her brows were locked, and her cheeks were clenched, obviously at a critical juncture.

Jiang Jinjiu was looking at it intently, and suddenly the mobile phone in his trouser pocket rang like a shock, startling him to jump like a spring, and the door was slammed open by him! "Oops!" He screamed in a terrible way, and instinctively covered his head with his hands before his feet hit the ground. Through the gap between his arms, he saw the smoke ball explode suddenly, and the smoke instantly covered the woman!

"Hey, hey!" Jiang Jinjiu didn't stand firm when he landed, and sat on the ground with his buttocks, hitting his tail vertebrae. But he didn't care, and in a panic, he pressed the mobile phone ringtone through his trouser pocket, and looked straight ahead. Most of the bedroom was filled with smoke, and the woman was nowhere to be seen. There was a gurgling sound from inside, as if some kind of hard object was colliding with each other.

Faced with this scene, Jiang Jinjiu realized that he should leave quickly, but somehow his body just didn't listen to the call, even his eyes, and he couldn't leave the scene in front of him at all.

The strange thing is that the door is obviously open, but the smoke does not spread outward, as if there is a glass door. In the blink of an eye, the smoke changed, no longer evenly dispersed, but dispersed into many shapes of different shapes. Some are as dense as a ball of cotton, some are so thin that you can see the woman's figure, and the state of each shape is very unstable, one second it looks dense, and the next second it may become very clear!

Jiang Jinjiu vaguely saw that the woman was still sitting on the ground, her hands seemed to be folded in front of her chest, and she seemed to be clenched into fists in front of her chest. I wanted to lean in to take a closer look, but I didn't expect to make a slight movement, and suddenly a python-like smoke snake rushed out of the smoke and pounced towards him! It's so fast that it's too late for him to dodge! Just as he was about to pounce, there was a soft snort from the smoke, and at the same time, the blue light flashed, and the smoke snake was dragged back as if it was pulled back by the tail of a strong man!

Jiang Jinjiu was so frightened that his soul was about to disperse. At that moment, the head of the smoke snake hovered in front of his eyes, and he saw a circular hole in the front, which was as black as ink, like a large mouth about to swallow his head. There was an extremely small strange sound coming from inside, like the sound of fingernails scraping a blackboard.

The door closed as the snake was pulled into the bedroom, and there were many small, unintelligible noises coming from inside. How dare Jiang Jinjiu continue to stay here, he instinctively escapes, even if his legs are so weak that he can't stand steadily, he even has to escape if he falls and climbs! …… These three flights of stairs came down, and I don't know how many bruises came out of the bumps on my body.

is still favored by God, Jiang Jinjiu is unlucky and can't go home. The residents on the same floor have long since moved, and one of the residents on the third floor is not home tonight, and the other is sleeping peacefully under the noise of the TV. One on the fifth floor is a single sister who is used to listening to songs with headphones to sleep, and the other often has insomnia and needs to take sleeping pills. I heard it on the first and second floors, and I couldn't be sure it was from the fourth floor. So the sound of the door closing and his tumbling in the hallway did not alarm the occupants.

Jiang Jinjiu finally slipped out of the community, and there was not a single taxi on the street. He rubbed his sore arms and thighs, and then the cool night breeze blew like this, and it felt like his bones were about to fall apart. Fortunately, I didn't forget to take my shoes when I ran away, otherwise it would have been even more uncomfortable.

"Hey! Dude, why didn't you answer the call just now? Suddenly, Li Youcheng appeared behind Jiang Jin and patted him on the shoulder. This is good, Jiang Jinjiu's legs were weak again, and he landed directly on his knees.

"As for you, buddy, you're too daring." Li Youcheng stepped forward and picked up Jiang Jin's wine. Looking at his face, he couldn't help but say, "What the hell are you doing, why did you become a big flower face." ”

"Don't mention it, it's moldy." Jiang Jinjiu sighed, wiped the cold sweat from his face, and asked, "Why haven't you gone home yet?" ”

"Don't mention it, I just came out with a fuss, fortunately I borrowed a toilet at the gas station, I saw you from a distance just after this was solved, just right, this is for you." Li Youcheng took out something from his pocket and put it in Jiang Jinjiu's hand.

"Why are you here!?" Jiang Jinjiu exclaimed. It wasn't anything else in his hand, it was his press card.

"I picked it up on the grass when I came out."

Jiang Jinjiu was completely helpless. Afterwards, he carefully recalled that it was probably when he left the haunted house early in the morning, with the coat hanging on his press card on his arm, and passed by a few low trees as he walked through the grass, and it was at that time that the press card was scraped off by the branches.

Jiang Jinjiu rubbed the medicinal wine, in addition to sighing, he still sighed.