Chapter 22: The Vanishing Child
In the market of Kaifeng street at night, the crowd is very lively, the streets and alleys hang red lanterns at the door of each house, every household is brightly lit, there are various stalls on the street, selling all kinds of local food and snacks, and gold and silver jewelry, rouge gouache and so on, it is very lively.
Qiu Yuanxue, Xing Yuxiang, and Xingyu Yege walked on the crowded streets, engrossed in carefully checking every pedestrian passing by, regardless of men, women, and children, but they still focused on the vendors who set up stalls in the left and right rows, because the child's disappearance was completely related to a vendor who bought a sugar stall.
Walking and walking, there were more and more crowds, and a unique smell of food came to her nose, and Xingyu Yege, who couldn't resist the temptation of food, smelled it, and she was fascinated by the fragrance that came to her, and suddenly exclaimed: "What kind of food is this? Why haven't I eaten it?"
Xing Yuxiang heard Xingyu Yege say this, and he also stopped and smelled the aroma wafting in the air, frowned awkwardly and said, "Alas, my foodie sister, I was tempted by food so quickly... This is the taste of fried jelly."
"It's better to concentrate on the investigation, it's not good to be careful of startling the snake. ”
Qiu Yuanxue was wary of the surrounding stalls, frowning and carefully inspecting.
"Yege, hurry up and keep up, there are a lot of people here, don't get separated. ”
Xing Yuxiang didn't look back and continued to walk forward with Qiu Yuanxue, and at this time, Xingyu Yege didn't notice what Xing Yuxiang just said, she couldn't resist the temptation anymore, and saw the steamed buns on the stall on the left side spread on the steaming steamed buns, and walked up to ask the steaming bun The lady asked, "Auntie, does this bun have leek egg filling, bring me three, thank you." ”
"Okay, the leek stuffing just steamed a little bit today. ”
After saying that, the eldest lady took out three steaming buns from the steamer, and after Yege paid the silver taels, the eldest lady wrapped the buns in a steamer cloth and handed them to Yege. But when Yege turned around, he found that Xing Yuxiang and Qiu Yuanxue had gradually walked away, leaving only a crowded crowd walking back and forth on the street.
"Brother, oh, really, why don't you wait for me, go so fast..."Xingyu Yege shouted a little anxiously.
But because the crowd was too crowded, and the constant sound of people talking to each other, a noisy sound directly covered the shouting sound of the night song.
Xing Yuxiang and Qiu Yuanxue, who were walking in the distance, did not notice that Yege had dispersed, and at this time, Yege's stomach had already made a and thirsty sound, "Coo~"
“... Yes... The key ""It's time to be hungry again, really.... Let's eat as you go. ”
Xingyu Yege had no choice but to take the bun and eat while looking for Xingyuxiang and Qiu Yuanxue, walking, suddenly a little girl and a little boy came over, the little girl pulled the corner of Xingyu Yege's clothes and shouted: "Sister, sister!"
"Huh, little sister, are you calling me?"
After Xingyu Yege finished eating the buns, she looked down and saw that it was a little girl with a ponytail, she stretched out her hand, and there were two red candies in her palm and said to Xingyu Yege: "Sister, my brother and I don't like sweets very much, the two candies here were forced into us by an old grandmother just now, see that my sister likes to eat buns so much, why don't you give these candies to you". ”
"Thank you, little sister, then in that case, sister is welcome. ”
Xingyu Yege took the candy handed to her by the little girl and touched her head with a smile and said.
"Then thank you, sister. The little girl smiled.
"Okay, sister, hurry up and can't catch the fireworks in a while. The boy, who was a little anxious beside him, took the girl's hand and said.
"Big sister, goodbye then. ”
"Goodbye, little sister, stay safe on the road. ”
After the girl said goodbye to Yege, the two walked towards the front and ran happily...
"This candy... Why do you look so strange, red..."
Xingyu Yege picked up the candy and looked at it, after thinking about it curiously, she sniffed it again, and a unique and tempting aroma came from the candy, and Yege couldn't resist the temptation anymore after smelling it.
"No matter, since it was given by a child, there shouldn't be any danger. ”
After speaking, Yege took the candy, but not long after taking it, a sharp pain hit his forehead, and Yege covered his forehead with his hand in unbearable pain, and a large amount of sweat dripped down.
"Uh... What's going on... My head hurts.."
After a while... Suddenly, Yege didn't seem to feel any pain, she raised her head, there was no active luster in her eyes, but a trace of red light appeared in her pupils, and the whole person seemed to be like a marionette manipulated by someone, walking forward involuntarily, looking ahead with a blank look, and walking in the crowd with a stiff expression...
At the same time, in the crowd, Qiu Yuanxue and Xing Yuxiang were walking in front of them, walking and walking, and a couple next to them in the crowd were chatting.
"Lady, there are fireworks tonight, should we go and see it together. ”
"Okay, let's go, Xianggong, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up if I'm late. ”
"Fireworks... Sounds good too... I took my sister to see fireworks during the New Year, but I never saw them again.." Xing Yuxiang thought as he walked faster, at this time he didn't notice at all that he had distanced himself from Qiu Yuanxue, and Yege had already dispersed.
"Night Song, I heard that there are fireworks ahead, let's quickly investigate, if there is no abnormality, let's go over and take a look,"
Xing Yuxiang didn't look at it and directly stretched out his hand to his back, grabbed Qiu Yuanxue's hand, between men and women of the opposite sex, the two hands were tightly clasped together, the touch between the skin made Qiu Yuanxue feel very embarrassed in an instant, sweat continued to flow down her forehead, her face immediately flushed with a hint of ruddy, and said in a panic: "You... What are you doing.. Put.. Let go.."
"Ahh Right... I'm sorry, I thought it was a night song... I didn't expect it.. It turned out to be you, the autumn girl. ”
After Xing Yuxiang heard the response and felt that something was wrong, he immediately looked back and said with a red face.
"No..... It's okay..."
The ruddy on Qiu Yuanxue's face became more and more intense, and she lowered her head a little embarrassed and shy and whispered, the two of them looked at each other in the crowd, and no one could speak... After staring at him for a while, he came back to his senses, Xing Yuxiang looked around, and said suspiciously, "Hey, where did Yege go?"
"Huh?... Didn't she follow us all the time?"
"Alas... My foodie sister, you're not going to buy food again, you're really not going to follow us, it's good. ”
Xing Yuxiang said with an embarrassed face.
As soon as the words fell, I saw Xingyu Yege's eyes looking straight ahead towards Xingyu Xiang and Qiu Yuanxue, and she walked without any expression on her face.
"Yege, where have you been, why didn't you follow us just now?"
“.........”
"Yes, Sister Nightsong, we're all worried about you. ”
“.......”
Ye Ge didn't answer a word, and continued to walk forward with that unnatural step, Xing Yuxiang hurriedly chased after him and shouted, "Ye Ge! Wait, where are you going?"
“......”
Xingyu Yege remained silent, staring blankly ahead, and continued to walk without looking back.
"Xing Yuxiang, wait, Sister Night Song looks weird, let's quietly follow over to see what happens. ”
Qiu Yuanxue hurriedly walked over, she stretched out her hand to stop Xing Yuxiang, who just wanted to catch up, and said.
“...... Okay, let's go over. ”
As she walked, she turned around to a candy stall on the left, and continued to walk, the vendor was the Jade Granny who had given Xingyu Yege and Xingyu Xiang guidance to the Yamen Road in the morning.
A large number of children gathered in front of the stall, and they scrambled to say, "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, we want candy!"
At this time, each of the children's eyes flashed a strange red gaze, and they were smiling unnaturally and scrambling to be the first, saying the same thing over and over again.
"Here, everybody's got ha, come on, come on. ”
At this time, Xingyu Yege looked at the stall with a blank look, she suddenly smiled unnaturally but very weirdly, and then also walked over and stretched out her hand in front of Granny Yu and said, "Mother-in-law, I want it too, eat sugar!"
"Huh...... You're not in the morning...... Well, hehe, hehe. ”
Granny Jade recognized her at a glance when she saw Yege, looked at her in surprise, but relaxed again, she grabbed a candy from the stall and handed it to Yege.
Xing Yuxiang and Qiu Yuanxue followed quietly, and both of them were shocked when they saw it.
"Didn't that mother-in-law show us the way in the morning? ”
"If she guessed correctly, she should be the real murderer, but why didn't anyone around her notice that something was wrong? ”
Qiu Yuanxue looked at the strange mother-in-law, and then at the crowd of people who were still walking on the street without noticing, and she frowned and thought.
Just as Qiu Yuanxue and Xing Yuxiang were secretly observing, the mother-in-law who sold candy suddenly glanced in the direction of Qiu Yuanxue and Xing Yuxiang, and then showed a seemingly kind, but very weird and sinister smile.
Immediately afterwards, she suddenly lifted the black curtain on her stall, and the wide black cloth instantly covered the children in front of the stall and Yege and others, and then with a sound of "Huh!", after the curtain dispersed, the stall and the children and Xingyu Yege and others all disappeared out of thin air.
And the pedestrians on the street are still talking and laughing as normal, and no one notices that someone has suddenly disappeared.
The operation of this flipping trick made Xing Yuxiang and Qiu Yuanxue who were present stunned.
"This ...... A large group of good children, as well as my sister, disappeared into thin air?...... Am I hallucinating......"
Xing Yuxiang couldn't believe his eyes, he deliberately rubbed them, polished his eyes, and looked there again, only to see that there were no candy stalls there at all, empty, and the surrounding vendors on the left and right did not suspect anything, they should be selling goods as if something had not happened.
"This ...... It's impossible, it's an instantaneous teleportation...... Damn it. ”
Qiu Yuanxue was also surprised and said.
So Xing Yuxiang and Qiu Yuanxue hurriedly ran up and asked the vendors in the stalls on the left and right.
"Excuse me, did you just see a group of children and a woman missing next to you?"
"Missing? I didn't pay attention, I've been selling goods here and I haven't seen anything. ”
"Next to you, there are no candy stalls?"
"What? Candy stall? Are you kidding this customer? There's no one next to me, so I'm a stall away. ”
"Aaron, do you see someone on my right?"
"What? There is such an empty space between the two of us on the left and right sides of this place, and this place is always empty, and no one has come to set up a stall. ”
"What.... No one... No way, there were still people just now. ”
Xing Yuxiang couldn't believe what was going on, why the vendors on both sides of the street didn't notice the disappearance of the children and Yege...
"Xing Yuxiang, this is a ghost made by illusion, it is difficult for ordinary people's eyes to perceive, and it is hateful to ask in vain. ”
Qiu Yuanxue calmly analyzed and came to a conclusion.
"Then why do we see ?... Oh no, I remember visiting the missing family before, and the old woman also said that she saw the candy stall opposite. ”
"That is, the spell caster deliberately let her see it alone, in order to see that she is indeed setting up a stall here, if she can't see it, can't she abduct the child?"
"Oh yes. ”
"As for why we saw it, thanks to the dragon tattoo on the back of our hand, I also entered He Jing's illusion enchantment before. ”
"That's not right, why can't I see He Jing's illusion when I arrived in Baiyi Village..."
"Maybe He Jing herself has applied other techniques, I don't know the specifics, anyway, let's do it as soon as possible, and hurry up to find the child and Sister Yege. ”
"Really, sister... I'm just a relative, so don't let anything happen to you. ”
Xing Yuxiang was very nervous in his heart, thinking anxiously.
At the same time, He Jing, who was standing on the roof and saw it clearly, smiled helplessly but very proudly: "Oh, is it so soon?" Although the enemy can also do illusions, but in my opinion, it is just the kung fu of some three-legged cats, and it depends on me at the critical moment." ”