I made myself the protagonist

Chapter 71

Ah Jiu's Taoist temple is located in a remote alley near the building.The area of ​​the Taoist temple is small, and the incense is not very prosperous. Generally, the people who come here to worship are residents who live nearby, and the elderly occupy the majority.

The main hall enshrines the statues of the Sanqing gods, and the statues are incomplete; the murals are also mottled and blurred due to the age.

There are some stale fruits on the incense table, and the table is covered with wax oil; the surrounding blue-gray stone brick walls are criss-crossed with cobwebs, and the walls are yellowed and blackened by the incense.

An old lady in her seventies stood up tremblingly from the futon, inserted the incense in her hand into the incense case, and bowed reverently.When the old man walked into the side hall, Ah Jiu was squinting his eyes, sitting behind a wooden table and peeling apples leisurely.

"Master, I'll leave it to you for my family's affairs. This is a little thought, I hope you won't take offense." The old lady took out a few crumpled banknotes from her thin pocket, and handed them to Ah Jiu with both hands.

"Don't worry, this is what I should do." Ah Jiu smiled kindly, chatted with the old man for a few words, and watched her leave the side hall.

Aunt Mei, carrying a bamboo basket, passed by the old lady who had just left.The two looked at each other and smiled, and after the other party left, the expression on Aunt Mei's face gradually became gloomy.

Candles flickered in the dim side hall, and the black silhouettes of several god statues were projected on the walls, making it look extraordinarily quiet and solemn.

Ah Jiu stood with his hands behind his back, and nodded slightly when he saw Aunt Mei.He quickly closed the doors of several temples, locked the doors, and followed Aunt Mei back to the building.

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"It's still the same sentence. Your actions are interfering with the progress of the plot. This is a very dangerous behavior."

In room 2441, Ling Yun said solemnly: "Since the space has been given for seven days, and new accidents have occurred now, we should be down-to-earth and investigate thoroughly. But if you insist on doing that, the subsequent risks will be beyond my control. I don't want to follow suit. So, I decided to quit now."

After Ling Yun finished speaking, Su Li turned around and walked out of the room.Pan Rong hurried forward and grabbed her arm: "Miss Su, where are you going?"

"Does it have something to do with you?" Su Li asked indifferently.

Pan Rong didn't expect the other party to say such words to her, her face turned red and blue; but Li Xinjian was a little anxious: "Aren't we in the same group? What are you going to do, at least discuss it with everyone first."

After hearing what the other party said, a sneer appeared on the corner of Su Li's mouth, and his tone became extremely indifferent: "When did I say that you are my companions? What you do next is your freedom, and you don't need to ask for help." My opinion."

After saying this, Su Liwu unscrewed the doorknob of the room, and walked into the corridor without looking back.

After Su Li left, although Fu Yuanju was still determined to persuade others, after experiencing the farce just now, no one dared to make a conclusion easily.

Although Li Xinjian and Pan Rong also went through an assessment, in that mission, everyone was thrown into an abandoned factory, and it was the resentful soul of a serial murderer who had died and hunted them down.

Except for the players themselves, they have no access to other plot characters at all; what the players have to do is to find the key to unlock the shackles and escape from the factory.Therefore, Li Xinjian and Pan Rong didn't know how to deal with the current situation.

When the argument was fruitless, everyone broke up and returned to their respective rooms.

Zhao Sicheng was smoking a cigarette in the room in boredom. After a while, he heard the sound of the door opening from the next door. He stubbed out the cigarette and stood up, and said to Ling Yun: "I thought about it, and I still think what you said is more reasonable. Since So, let's go, go to Qian Xiaohao first, and start attacking him."

Ling Yun knew that with Su Li's temperament, he would not cooperate with others. Except for Zhao Sicheng, the other players were not reliable, especially the newcomer named Fu Yuanju, who was impulsive and arrogant. What went wrong.

Thinking of this, he nodded and decided to act with Zhao Sicheng.

Because of the restricted movement, before visiting Qian Xiaohao, they went downstairs, gave Uncle Yan some money, and asked him to help buy some snacks.

Probably because it was daytime, the yin energy next door had weakened a lot, which also gave them the courage to visit Qian Xiaohao.

Ling Yun knocked on the door, and soon there was a response from the other party in the room.The moment the door opened, a little boy with dirty short-sleeves, white skin, and even white hair ran out of the room quickly.

The kid was wearing a pair of sunglasses, which was what Qian Xiaohao never left.

"Hi, we live next door at 2441. Did that kid come to steal things just now? Do you want to catch him?" Ling Yun pretended to be ignorant and asked Qian Xiaohao.

"Forget it, it's not worth anything."

Qian Xiaohao waved his hand, nonchalantly: "For some reason, he climbed onto the balcony of my house and left behind a few paintings. Just as I was about to ask him, he ran away. I heard from Uncle Yan that there was a pair of innocent people wandering in the corridor. Homeless homeless mother and child, the child is not safe and often sneaks into the residents' homes, but never steals, just looking for something to eat."

"So that's how it is." Ling Yun glanced at the room behind Qian Xiaohao, and asked cautiously: "By the way, did you hear any strange movements in your room last night?"

"No. I fell asleep very early." Qian Xiaohao looked at the two vigilantly: "What's the matter?"

"Have you heard anything about room 2442? I've heard people say that this is a haunted house..." Zhao Sicheng lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "It's very dangerous for you to live here."

"So what?"

As a down-and-out man who has lost his career and family, Qian Xiaohao's heart has long been turned into a mass of ashes, and no spark can be ignited: "I came here with the intention of remaining in this life. After death, people will become Ghost, even if there is one in this room, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"You are quite open-minded. By the way, you just said that the child left some paintings, can you show us?" Ling Yun asked.

Qian Xiaohao has been unemployed for a long time, has no property, and has just moved here, so he doesn't know anyone; seeing that Ling Yun and Zhao Sicheng have no malicious intentions, he simply opened the door and invited them into the house.

"This is it." Qian Xiaohao picked up a worn picture album from the chair, and handed it to Ling Yun.

The background of the picture was chaotically painted in pitch black, and in the middle of the paper, a bloodshot eyeball suddenly appeared.

The moment they saw the painting, Ling Yun and Zhao Sicheng turned around at the same time and looked in the direction of the gate.Intuition told them that what Xiaobai wanted to express was the eyes that appeared in the cat's eyes.In fact, this scene was exactly the same as what happened to Su Li last night.

Although this is just an immature child's work, the moment they saw this eye, the two of them felt a chill rising from the soles of their feet, and fear was like maggots, eroding their bodies.

Compared to just now, the second painting is even more terrifying.

This time, what appeared in the picture was the corpse of a woman hanging from the ceiling; she was one of the twins who died in vain in Room 2442.

The third painting is a bit strange, it is a wardrobe full of blood; and this wardrobe is the prop used by Uncle You and Ah Jiu to seal the female ghost later.

As for the fourth picture, when Ling Yun saw this, his pupils shrank suddenly.

The bathtub painted with black crayon was full of mud, and in it, there was a pale human face...

In room 2403.

After a night of experience, the flowers on the roof became listless for some reason, drooping limply, and lost their vitality.There was an indescribable fishy smell in the air, the kitchen sink and the floor were in a mess, black feathers mixed with dirty blood flowed everywhere, and in the bathroom, Aunt Mei was holding a bowl of crow blood, her face pale as paper .

Uncle Dong was lying in the mud-covered bathtub. According to Ah Jiu's intention, the place where the corpse should be refined must be in a dilapidated place, instead of digging a pit to bury the corpse.

Uncle Dong's face was covered with dense stitches. He fell from a 20-story building, and his face was torn apart. It was all thanks to Aunt Mei who sewed up these wounds overnight.

Aunt Mei never thought in her life that her tailoring skills, which she was so proud of, would finally be put to good use in this kind of place.

Ah Jiu dug Uncle Dong's body out of the earthen pit in the bathtub, then motioned for Aunt Mei to bring the crow's blood, dipped it in with a brush, and wrote a talisman in a fluttering motion.

Ah Jiu lit the talisman, and the dim light of the fire shone on his gloomy face, adding a bit of ghostly air.

"The three lights of the sun and the moon open the ghost cloud...go against the sky..."

He muttered something, and the talisman burned on Uncle Dong's chin for a while, and with the blood from his fingertips, he finally succeeded in drawing out the corpse oil.

After dripping the corpse oil on a humanoid puppet, Ah Jiu fetched a string of ancient copper coin masks and hung them on Uncle Dong's face.Copper coins, which have been handed down in the world for thousands of years, are full of yang energy after being touched by different hands, so Taoists will carry them with them and use them to suppress Yin objects.

"These days, you have to feed Brother Dong with crow blood every day, and then cooperate with the gossip on its chest to absorb the Yin Qi. Place Dong Ge's body with the most Yin-qi fragrant fir. The four corners of the coffin are suspended in the air and cannot touch the ground. Within seven days, Brother Dong should be back for the first seven days."

Ah Jiu put the puppet in his arms, and coughed heavily: "Remember, follow the rules I said, and don't take off the mask."

"Should? What if it's too late?" Aunt Mei said anxiously, "You said you could save A-Dong!"

"If it's too late, I have other ways." Ah Jiu covered his mouth with a handkerchief, obviously he was only in his 50s, but he looked like someone who had run out of oil and died soon.

He coughed intermittently, and said slowly and gloomily, "But it won't work until it's absolutely necessary."

(End of this chapter)