Chapter 42: The Strange Family
Ba Po didn't close the door and kept staring at Gao Ming until they left the fifth floor of Building B.
"Didn't the anomalous event erupt in Building A? Why have all the residents in Building B become ghosts? Zhu Miaomiao's face was pale, she was almost scared to death when she looked at the eighth woman just now.
"The fat sister-in-law is fine during the day, maybe not long after we left, she was killed by a ghost." Gao Ming shook his head: "It can't be said that she was killed, it can only be said that she was also alienated in the shadows." ”
The talisman in the palm of his hand is intact, if Uncle Wu is not lying, it can prove that the fat sister-in-law and the eighth woman are not evil ghosts.
The two did not dare to enter the apartment in Building A, which was the epicenter of the anomalous event, and they wanted to investigate the outer area first.
Walking down the stairs, not a few steps away, Takamei heard footsteps, a young man with dyed yellow hair and studed earrings wandering in the hallway.
He was dressed in black, his fingertips were dripping blood, and his head was hung as if he was looking for something.
Gao Ming didn't want to make any extraneous branches, but when he passed by the young man, he was grabbed by the young man's wrist.
At that moment, Gao Ming wanted to throw off the chains, but the young man didn't make the next move, just looked Gao Ming up and down.
"Is there something wrong?"
"I saw you wearing a black bracelet, and I thought you were a human animal who escaped from the ghost market." The young man smiled and let go of his hand.
"Humans with black bracelets?" The black bracelet in the young man's mouth should refer to the black ring of the Investigation Bureau, and it is obvious that the young man has seen other investigators.
"They're not like us." The young man's long bangs were blown open, revealing a horrible scar on his forehead and a remnant of blood at the corners of his mouth: "They made a mistake. ”
"Do we need to take the black bracelet off? Prevent being misunderstood by others? Gao Ming said casually.
"No, the person who violates the taboo has the same breath as us." The young man lifted his sleeve, and his arms were densely covered with blood-stained black rings: "I just like to collect this thing. ”
The young man walked upstairs, the red lantern shining on him, but there was no shadow of him.
"Team leader, do you remember that twenty years ago, a young man was killed on the fifth floor of Building A of the Surabaya Apartment, he was a member of a small gang, and he was hacked to death in the corridor with a knife for stealing the boss's things without permission." Zhu Miaomiao's heart was furious: "The deceased is called a ghost boy, and he seems to be a family with that eighth woman." ”
"Let's go to the first floor first."
Gao Ming asked Zhu Miaomiao to take off the black ring, and the flesh fairy was not a game he made, so he had to be more careful than before.
Paper money is scattered on the steps, a brazier is placed in the corner of the corridor, and a faint fragrance wafts in the air, and it seems that every household in the apartment building will go to worship the gods to protect the town's house.
All the windows in the corridor on the first floor of Building B are boarded with talismans on them.
People come to the layer of paper, ghosts come to separate the mountains, but the problem is that the building is full of ghosts inside and outside, and I don't know who this thing is guarding against?
The fire flickered, flickering and flickering, and Gao Ming looked into the depths of the corridor on the first floor, where someone was burning paper.
He slowly approached, and when he was still four or five meters away from the other party, he quickly stopped.
The paper burner was an old man, skinny, limbs like four sticks, and his skin crumpled against his bones.
The old man looked like he would fall when the wind blew, but he was carrying a huge baby boy on his back.
The baby boy had an adult's head, constantly gnawed at the old man's shoulder, and would punch and kick the old man at the slightest dissatisfaction.
Once the old man tried to put him down, he would strangle the old man's neck, stab his fingers into the old man's body, and grasp the old man's bones.
"Don't go any further" The door next to Takashi was unlocked, and as he passed, the door opened on its own, and a man's voice came from inside the room.
Gao Ming turned his head to look and found that the room was pitch black.
He took out a lighter to illuminate it, and only then did he see clearly that there was a loess grave in the small rental house, and a rich middle-aged man in plain clothes was squatting on the grave bag.
The man's shoes were buried in the loess, and his hands were hidden behind the tombstones.
Seeing that Gao Ming stopped, the middle-aged man continued: "The old man's name is Zhou Ji, he is a hard-working man, and he still has to support his son when he is old. Even if his son doesn't work, he will force the old man to pretend to be sick in order to cheat the relief money. ”
"This kind of person is simply a parasite." Zhu Miaomiao stared at the old man in the distance, she didn't understand, why did she have to work so hard to become a ghost?
"I can't stand it anymore, why don't we join forces to help him get that baby down?" The middle-aged man proposed, "You two just need to trick Zhou Ji here." ”
"Okay."
"You help me close the door first, don't make him suspicious." The middle-aged man pretended to say casually.
Gao Ming didn't seem to think much about it, and walked directly to the door, but when his hand was about to touch the door panel, he suddenly and quickly retracted.
Almost at the same time as Gao Ming withdrew his hand, arms stretched out from the crack in the door, but they were empty.
The face of the rich middle-aged man on the loess tomb immediately changed, and there was no trace of blood and kindness, his body sank into the tomb bag, and arms drilled out from all over the room.
"Smack!"
The door was blown by a dark wind and slammed shut, and all those arms were locked in the room.
"Are you two here to see the house?"
The voice of Yin Xuan suddenly sounded, and Gao Ming and Zhu Miaomiao turned around and found that there was an old lady with a wrinkled face who didn't know when to approach, and was standing behind them.
Five skinny fingers clutched a yellow talisman, and the old lady pasted the talisman in the center of the door, and the strange sound in the room disappeared immediately.
"The good houses in this building are locked, and the door that is opened for you must be uneasy and kind."
After the old lady finished pasting the yellow charm, she coughed a few times, she shook the keychain in her hand and raised her head: "Do you two have a favorite house?" ”
The old man only had the whites of her eyes in her sockets, and her face was wrinkled together, like dragon scales, she was not tall, but it made Gao Ming feel a lot of pressure, as if it was not a thin old lady in front of her, but a fierce beast.
"What do you call an old man?"
"They all call me Goddess." The old lady shook the key and walked towards the other side of the corridor, and when she passed the brazier at the door, she glanced at the baby boy on Zhou Ji's back, and the baby boy immediately let go of Zhou Ji's neck and cried in fright.
"If you cry again, I'll send you to the ancestral hall."
As soon as the goddess said a word, the baby boy immediately closed his mouth and curled up on Zhou Ji's back.
Walking through the corridor, the goddess took out the key and opened the deepest rental house on the first floor.
This room is located near the public toilet and is one of the most cloudy rooms in the building.
"Grandma, can we enter your room?" Gao Ming was a little nervous, he found that the place where the goddess lived was very special, there were clay sculptures of various ghosts and gods in the house, and the walls were covered with ghost drawings.
"If you two are coming to see the house, wait for me outside; If you two want to find the way to come, then go into the house, there are some things that are inconvenient to say outside. The goddess rummaged through the pile of talismans for something, and after thinking for a moment, Gao Ming and Zhu Miaomiao entered the house.
The anomalous events on Surabaya Street have gotten out of control, and the strange talk seems to be another world, absurd and weird, and full of unease.
"Grandma, why are the people in this building weird?" Gao Ming has seen Zhao Xi who has turned into a ghost, and Zhao Xi maintains his posthumous appearance in the strange talk.
"The truth is a big reality, the truth is a big reality." The goddess bowed three times to a certain ghost: "The normal is not necessarily true, the distorted is not necessarily fake, maybe what you see now is what they are." ”
Lighting the white wax and offering three incense, the goddess sat down on the only chair in the house: "You two will soon be like the others who come in." You will become your truest self, and at that time, you will not be able to go if you want to. ”