Chapter Eighty-Three: Hallucinations
After Zhang Yuguan used the extremely energy-consuming Dao technique twice in a row, he was overwhelmed and fell asleep on the ground for several hours before slowly waking up.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw the sunset reflected in the room through the window paper, and he was immediately shocked
"Not good."
He quickly ran out of the house, looked around the village, and when he saw Chen Cripple, he greeted him and asked
"Has Chang An come back?"
Chen Cripple shook his head
"I haven't seen it, you don't have to worry, Chang Daxia's martial arts are world-famous, even the Longtan Tiger's Den can't be difficult for him, let's wait for his good news."
If you hadn't seen the weird puppets in Zhou's village yesterday, it would have been fine, but in this situation, no matter how high Chang An's kung fu is, can he still beat the ghosts?
What's more, there are more important things to say to Chang An right now, and in the dark, he always feels that something is wrong with Mr. Nalu.
Zhang Yuguan's face was anxious
"No, I still have to go."
After that, he hurried to Zhoujia Village.
After a while, the sky was a little darker, Zhang Yuguan shrank up, walked in Zhoujia Village, holding a piece of rune paper in his hand, looking around cautiously, from time to time he felt a cold swish behind him, and he nervously raised the rune paper, for fear of being entangled by the so-called ghost touching the wall.
But after a long time, he didn't meet the puppet of yesterday again, and he gradually grew bolder.
"Where the hell did this Chang'an go?"
As he walked, he suddenly stopped, and looked at the dilapidated house in front of him, the two wooden doors were densely covered with arrow holes, the walls were black, and there were still scattered traces of blood on the ground.
Zhang Yuguan's face was gloomy, this is Xiaocui's in-law's family, and it is also where Xiaocui suffered.
"Squeak......"
He slowly pushed open the old wooden door and walked into the house, although he often came to Zhoujia Village, he had never been here.
Inside the house, there was still a strong smell of blood, he unconsciously covered his mouth and nose, and there were still teacups on the table in the living room, and there was still unfinished tea in the teacups, but after so long, it was already muddy.
Zhang Yuguan looked at the teacups next to the guest seat, and his face changed
"When the village was slaughtered, it was obviously night, why were there guests?"
On the coffee table between the two guest seats, there were two teacups, which means that there were at least two guests at that time.
"The government should have found out about these things a long time ago, but the government has never mentioned it."
Zhang Yuguan muttered to himself.
But at this moment, his consciousness suddenly felt someone rushing behind him, and he quickly turned his head, and vaguely saw a dark figure passing through the house.
He instantly felt a burst of horror, could it be that the murderer had not left?
His face turned pale, and he froze in place for an instant, not daring to make a sound, and even held his breath, for fear of being discovered by the man in black.
But then he slapped his face with self-reproach, and secretly wondered: What am I afraid of, didn't I come here to investigate the murderer of Xiaocui, why do I have clues now, but I am afraid of this and that.
He mustered up his courage and ran out of the house, looking in the direction of the black shadow that had long since disappeared, and he looked at the ground again, and the man was so good that he could barely leave footprints on the ground.
But this is not difficult for Zhang Yuguan, he pinched the trick in his hand, his fingers continued to calculate, and said lightly
"Kanyushu!"
Kanyu is originally one of the Daomen magic arts, which is specially used to survey the mountains and rivers, but if it is used here, it can also distinguish the very subtle changes in the terrain of the ground.
But at this moment, in Zhang Yuguan's eyes, on the ground, even the subtle concave and convex changes are extremely distinct.
A looming trail appeared in his eyes, and he wiped the sweat from his face and slowly followed it.
Zhang Yuguan continued to move forward along the trajectory, and after walking for a while, he found that he was getting closer and closer to the open space he came from yesterday, and he could hear the slight sound of the two talking in the distance.
Zhang Yuguan hurriedly found a dilapidated wooden cart nearby and hid behind it, only to hear what the two men said.
"This Chang'an is really powerful, fortunately, the landlord was prepared and used the matter of Liangzhou to divert his attention."
The other seemed to have palpitations, and his voice trembled a little.
"Dozens of brothers are not enough for him to kill......"
"The setup here is already useless, what are we doing here?"
"I heard from the landlord that there may be important things left here that need to be found, and people have also been sent from Qingzhou and Liangzhou, but I don't know if there is any news."
"We've been looking for so long and haven't found anything, and I heard that the family ran away with a child."
"It's okay, that kid has died in the capital, but he didn't catch it alive, so it's harder to find that thing, and the old guy can really hide things."
"What I'm saying is, forget it, it's dark, there's nothing to be found today, let's go back first."
After the two left here, Zhang Yuguan walked out slowly, secretly thinking about the conversation between the two.
Could it be that the tragedy in Zhoujia Village was just to find something?
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the bright moonlight was sprinkled on the ground, Zhang Yuguan looked at the open space with a solemn face.
Not long after, a shout in the distance alarmed Zhang Yuguan, who was pondering.
"Fat Zhang!"
Zhang Yuguan frowned, it was the voice of Chen Cripple.
"How did he come here?"
Zhang Yuguan followed the voice, but heard the lame man keep shouting Zhang Yuguan's name, Zhang Yuguan heard the voice getting closer and closer to him, and knew that he was not far away, so he wanted to respond to him, but just as he was about to speak, he heard a voice that made him creepy.
"Click, click......"
The sound was all too familiar to him, and he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, it was the sound of puppet joints!
At this moment, the lame man saw Zhang Yuguan and shouted
"Fat Zhang, why are you still here, Mr. Nalu is looking for you."
At the same time, Zhang Yuguan saw that the puppet that looked like Xiaocui slowly rose into the air and rose to a high place.
I saw it suddenly grinning, and then, under the moonlight, Zhang Yuguan saw a cold light suddenly shoot out from the puppet's mouth!
Chen Cripple walked over with a limp, but saw that the cold light went straight through Chen Cripple's wide open mouth and penetrated the back of his head, and the Chen Cripple still opened his mouth wide, and steaming blood had slowly flowed out of the corners of his mouth.
"Cripple Chen!"
Zhang Yuguan rushed away, the whole process was just lightning and flint, and by the time he called out Chen Cripple's name, it was already too late!
His fat body was running extremely fast at the moment, and in just an instant, he ran to Chen Cripple's side, but Chen Cripple had lost his pulse, just staring ahead with wide eyes.
Zhang Yuguan's white and chubby face was completely distorted at the moment, but the next moment, a sharp headache struck again, and Zhang Yuguan's brain was blank at first, and then as if his brain was about to crack, and the pain was incomparable.
In the picture, an arrow feather suddenly came, nailing a man to the wall behind him, and the picture turned again, a long sword flashing with fierce light pierced a family of three on the ground, and stabbed the little girl who was guarding the bottom to death, and then, the three of them were picked up, paraded through the streets, there was a mess on both sides, blood was splashed, some people fled frantically, and more people in black showed scarlet light in their eyes, constantly hunting and killing the villagers who fled in all directions.
The picture turned again, in the living room, countless arrows suddenly shot through the wooden door, shot into the living room, and turned the middle-aged men and women who were sitting in the main seat into hedgehogs, a young man and a pregnant woman dared to come when they heard the sound, but saw the two men sitting in the guest seat with fierce eyes, and cut the young man into two pieces with a knife, and then, the other person directly kicked the pregnant woman with a heavy kick, and the pregnant woman suddenly howled in pain, and a large area of blood slowly spread under her body, as if it was a strange blood-colored flower.
Before the pregnant woman could cry twice, another knife stabbed into the heart of the pregnant woman, and the pregnant woman held her stomach until she lost her breath.
"Gollum"
A puppet rolled down from the pregnant woman's arms, and kept rolling under the pregnant woman's body until it was covered in blood, and the man looked at the puppet in surprise, but snorted contemptuously
"What a thing."
Then he kicked the blood-stained puppet away.
"Xiao Cui!"
Zhang Yuguan howled in pain, the pregnant woman in the picture was that Xiaocui, and at this time he knew that Xiaocui was pregnant at that time!
His eyes were split, even if the headache was unbearable, but at the moment his brain was extremely clear, he clearly remembered what Chen Cripple had said before he died, it was Mr. Lu who asked Chen Cripple to come to him, and the murderous puppet, who would do it here except Mr. Na Lu?
The two corroborations, coupled with the evil spirit he saw from Mr. Nalu, he was almost certain that Mr. Nalu was inseparable from the Zhoujiacun bloodbath.
But why didn't he kill me?
He looked at the puppet in the air grinning at him, and his head ached again, and this time, he fainted directly.
The puppet in the air seemed to be being dragged by someone, and slowly descended again.
A moment later, footsteps came, and a man in black slowly walked to Zhang Yuguan's side......
…………
At the same time, Qingzhou, Changjia.
In the courtyard, Lin Xinyue frowned
"The case of the missing boy?"
Beside him, there was the dusty Ling Hu, who came all the way from Liangzhou, and without a moment's rest, he directly reported to Lin Xinyue the results of the investigation in the north.
"Yes, before the Gu family's murder case a year ago, there was a case of a boy who was exactly the same as in the capital."
Hearing this, Lin Xinyue said
"Didn't you say that Sheng'er had already solved the case in the capital?"
Ling Hu nodded
"It's really cracked, but whether the case of the boy's disappearance in the capital is the same as the case of the boy's disappearance in the north is still unknown, it's just ......"
Lin Xinyue said
"Just what?"
Ling Hu replied
"Now it is certain that Lao Zhou's business in Liangzhou should be related to this."
As he spoke, Ling Hu attached himself to Lin Xinyue's ear and whispered a word, Lin Xinyue's face changed greatly, and she hurriedly said
"Are there any people alive?"
Ling Hu shook his head and said
"No, one escaped from the capital, but he still died in the disappearance of a boy in the capital."
Lin Xinyue showed a trace of sadness on her face
"So ......"
Beijing, Changming Lake.
Lao Yan and Chang Sheng are sitting on a luxurious painting boat, admiring the moonlight on the lake.
"Sheng baby, don't think about it, calling you out tonight is to let you relax."
Yan Sihai sat at the bow of the boat, holding a pot of wine in his hand, and a faint smell of medicine overflowed from the pot, and as soon as the evening breeze on Changming Lake blew, it blew in front of Chang Sheng.
Chang Sheng frowned slightly
"Your broken wine smells so bad."
Yan Sihai smiled obscenely
"That's right, don't think about it if you can't figure it out, you've done what you need to do, let that Chang boy think about the rest, don't think about it all day."
Chang Sheng gave him a blank look and sighed
"Alas, how did my brother make such a friend of wine and meat as you."
Yan Sihai was furious
"Sheng Wazi will lose his conscience when he says this, before the Chang boy got married, but my medicine and wine saved his life, otherwise, he would probably be on an errand with Lord Yama now......"
Immediately, Yan Sihai cried for a while, saying that the brothers and sisters of the Chang family crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and were ungrateful, so he almost splashed and rolled on the ground, and after talking for a while, seeing that Chang Sheng was indifferent, he simply used the strength of the wine to cry
"Oh, how did my old man know you two little white-eyed wolves!"
At this moment, Chang Sheng seemed to have been hit by something suddenly, her eyes lit up instantly, she stood up suddenly, ignored Yan Sihai's crying, and walked up to him and scolded
"Shut up!"
Yan Sihai was deflated all of a sudden, and when he saw that Chang Sheng's expression was wrong, he didn't dare to go crazy again.
Chang Sheng said again
"Say what you just said, say it again."
Yan Sihai was stunned for a moment and said
"Say you two white-eyed wolves, what's wrong?"
Chang Sheng said
"Ahead, save my brother."
Yan Sihai recalled
"Before the wedding, it was me who saved your brother with medicinal wine."
Chang Sheng excitedly grabbed Lao Yan's sleeve
"Yes, yes, this is it, it's him! Lao Yan, it's him! ”
Yan Sihai was confused
"Who is it?"
Chang Sheng patted him
"Do you remember what happened in Changfu before the wedding?"
Yan Sihai recalled
"That day, Chang Xiaozi brought a bowl of lotus seed soup to my room......"
Slowly, Yan Sihai's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly realized
"Oh! I understand, no wonder the cook must do it in advance, if he waits for the big wedding to do it, there will be no chance, Chang Xiaozi will inevitably clean up the spies in the house, once he is exposed, he can't do anything! ”
Chang Sheng said with a relieved face
"Now that I think about it, I finally understand why I see him so familiar, it turns out that Xi'er is Lao Zhou's grandson."
As she spoke, her expression darkened again
"I didn't protect him......"
Yan Shikaido
"Speaking of which, Lao Zhou is also from the north, so what Zhou Xi'er said, what the man in black asked him to hand over, must be related to Lao Zhou, the cook started in advance, he wanted to use the hand of the Chang family to drive away Lao Zhou, and then wait for the opportunity to kill him."
Chang Sheng said
"The top priority is to find out what the business Lao Zhou did in Liangzhou is, and he must have discovered something before he was destroyed."