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"I heard from Old Wang Mengang that there are hanging ghosts and ghosts jumping off buildings on the rooftop..."

"I don't know if there are ghosts or not. But," he said, "the place does feel very uncomfortable."

Li Yang said that since he moved into this building, he has been on the rooftop almost every day.Because he found several very strange places.

Even if it's not night, even in the middle of the day, when the scorching sun is high, there will be a gloomy chill on the rooftop.It stands to reason that it is normal for a place as high as a rooftop to have strong wind and low temperature.

But Li Yang said that it was a kind of cold like soaking in ice water.

The whole body seemed to be soaked in icy water in the twelfth lunar month of winter. The coolness began to invade from the skin, to the blood and muscles, and finally to the bones.It feels like a columbarium in a crematorium. Once you step through the door, the temperature drops significantly, and the icy air ripples like cold water. People with weak yang energy can't stay there.

What's even weirder is that if you stand on the edge of the roof and look down at the entire city, you will see the whole world distorted and deformed.Note that this deformation is not solid, but a slow and gradual process.To use an inappropriate analogy, it's like a drop of oil falling into water, and the slender strands slowly spread and twist.

This feeling is very, very strange. The weird thing is that if you want to observe this effect, you must spend a long time maintaining a peaceful mind, standing on the edge of the roof, and looking down silently.

You can imagine this scene, a person standing on a tall building with scattered eyes, looking down obsessively.Those who don't know must think that this is either a psychopath or a suicide with a nervous breakdown.

Li Yang said that his longest record was looking down like this for more than an hour.What state did he reach at that time? In his eyes, all the details of the entire city came alive.The long street is like a dark gray snake winding forward on the ground; several sewer covers are like eyes growing on the ground, looking up from below, they are also silently watching him from above; in the distance That bridge, like a millennium-old tortoise, is staggering and crawling on the back of passing vehicles...

All in all, in his eyes, the whole city has become a prehistoric magical forest, with all kinds of strange creatures hiding in the crowd, or looking at all beings greedily or cruelly or without joy or sorrow.

He feels that the whole city and the whole world are alive and full of infinite charm, they are right in front of you, as long as you step out, you can touch them as soon as you reach out...

Hearing this, I broke out in a cold sweat.Li Yang's face also became very pale, and he forced a smile: "Fortunately, the phone call came at that time, otherwise it would be hard to say that I would not jump like Lin Xia."

"You mean, that's why Lin Xia jumped off the building?" I asked eagerly.

He shook his head: "It takes a long time of silence to achieve the feeling I just said. I don't think Lin Xia has such patience and insight. I have met that girl twice, she looks very lively and cute, but There was always a faint sadness. I believe her death was emotional."

"Love is parting and can't ask for it." He then sighed.

I suddenly remembered something: "Li Yang, when you went to the rooftop, did you see a voodoo villain?"

He frowned: "What villain?"

I explained to him that it was a rag doll wrapped in white tape and full of red pins.

Li Yang showed extraordinary interest in this thing and kept asking for details.I described it, and then said: "By the way, that little man still has words written on his body."

what word?he asks.

"Guanfeng." I said.

Li Yang nodded thoughtfully: "Let's go, I'll treat you to dinner, let's have a good chat. Then you take me to the top floor to find that villain."

This boy Li Yang doesn't look amazing, but judging from his posture, he belongs to a local tyrant just like Li Damin and the eldest son.I can feel at ease about killing local tyrants.

At night, when the night market was at its busiest, we found a barbecue restaurant, ordered a table of large skewers, ordered a few bottles of beer, and started to fill our stomachs.

While eating and drinking, I recounted in detail my experience with Li Damin from the interview with Peng Liang to the time when he came alone to find the traces of Ma Danlong.Li Yang didn't speak, but listened so engrossed that he didn't even drink any wine.

"Your idea coincides with mine," he said, "There is indeed an unspeakable secret hidden in this building. I really didn't expect that the cause of the matter would be like this, which is mysterious enough."

I asked him how did you come here.

Li Yang said that Li Damin had sent himself an email before he disappeared.The content of the email is short, but it is a bit frightening to read.

The above content is actually a bit like a suicide note.Li Damin said in the email that he was about to do a very dangerous and unpredictable thing. If he lost the news for a long time, it means that he is very likely to encounter an accident.At this time, he thought that the only person who could trust his affairs behind him was his cousin, please help appease the family and so on.

I didn't like it, I always claimed to be Li Damin's best friend, but he didn't think of me when he asked about his death, and his heart was sour.

"How do you know he disappeared into this building?" I asked.

"He told me in the email that this building is very dangerous and mysterious. If the Lantern League chooses to explore here in the future, please avoid it!"

I sighed: "You're still here."

Li Yang looked up at the building: "If you don't pursue the truth, I'm afraid I will suffocate to death."

"Hehe, Li Damin knows that all of you in the Lantern League are very curious and fearful of chaos. He deliberately said in the email that this place is dangerous, but in fact he wanted to attract you all." I giggled.It's not without reason. I know Li Damin very well. This kid is so damaged that he might really be able to do it.

Li Yang looked at me, with an indescribable look in his eyes, and said with a smile, "Maybe."

We finished our meal, went back to the building and got into the elevator.I pressed a row of buttons on the 21st floor, the highest, the indicator light came on, and the elevator slowly went up.

I stared at the elevator buttons and suddenly felt something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.

When we reached the 21st floor, we went straight up the stairs to the top floor.It was late, and it was pitch black and nothing could be seen here.Li Yang lit up his portable flashlight and looked around: "Where did you kick that villain?"

With him around, I became more courageous. Recalling what happened that night, I found a spot and made a ball kick: "It should be here. I remember that the voodoo villain flew out from this direction."

With a flashlight on, Li Yang searched carefully along the ground inch by inch.

"Yes, here it is." He picked up something from the ground.

I went over and saw that it was the voodoo villain.Li Yang held it in his hand and checked it carefully over and over again.Pointing to the two characters "Guan Feng" written on the villain's body, he asked me: "Do you know who this person is?"

"Who?" My heart tightened suddenly, with an uncomfortable premonition.

"Guan Feng is Lin Xia's boyfriend."

I broke out in a cold sweat when I heard it: "You mean, this voodoo villain was left behind by Lin Xia?"

"Well. Before she jumped off the building, I didn't find this thing. It just appeared now, and her boyfriend's name was written on it, isn't it obvious." He said.

This Lin Xia is so poisonous, she committed suicide by jumping off a building in a big red dress, leaving behind a voodoo doll with her name on it.How could she hate her boyfriend so much?

"I don't know if her curse is effective, how is that Guan Feng brother?" I said to myself.

"Then who knows." Li Yang said casually, he pinched the voodoo doll, and with a thoughtful expression, he turned his head and asked me: "Did you find anything strange?"

I shook my head.

"Okay, let's go." He walked ahead with the voodoo doll.

I hurriedly said, "What are you still doing with it, isn't it bad luck?"

"Let's go back and talk about it." His figure disappeared at the stairs.

We went back to the residence and he led me to his room.I looked carefully and found that the size of this room was about the same as the one I rented. There was a mahogany bookcase against the wall, and all kinds of books were densely stacked on it.I took a quick glance, and most of them were about religion and metaphysics.There are seven or eight books on interpretation of the Tao Te Ching alone.I pulled out a copy and flipped through it.

Li Yang sat in front of the computer desk, turned on the desk lamp, turned it to the brightest, and then took out a paper cutter from the drawer.My gaze was drawn from the book, what is he trying to do?

He squeezed the voodoo doll, turned it face down, pushed out the blade of the paper cutter, and carefully stroked its back, slowly cutting open.

I put the book back on the shelf and walked over to see him.He was so absorbed that he ignored my actions.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"There's something inside." He dissected the back of the voodoo doll, revealing a pile of white cotton wool.

"Old Liu, please go to the kitchen and get a pair of chopsticks."

At this time, my curiosity reached its peak, and I hurried to the kitchen to find a pair of convenient chopsticks.He took the chopsticks, gently opened them, and carefully inserted the chopsticks into the doll. After a short time, something actually came out.

It should be a jade tablet, about the size of a thumb, with a dark ink color all over.With the help of the light from the desk lamp, the concave and convex lines on it can be vaguely seen, and these lines seem to form a pattern of a tripod.Li Yang held the jade plaque with his chopsticks and flipped it back and forth, I almost screamed out.

This jade tablet is hollow, and there is actually a liquid swaying inside. The light passes through the black jade, and the liquid changes like a flowing landscape painting.

He put the jade tablet aside, and then used the chopsticks to poke into the doll's body. Following the head of the chopsticks, this time a piece of paper was actually caught.

This is a piece of yellow paper folded into a square, and the texture is a bit like the grave head paper burned when going to the grave.Through the paper, there are red characters in it.

Li Yang unfolded the paper carefully, pinched the upper and lower ends with his hands, and looked carefully under the lamp.

This piece of paper was unfolded into a long strip, with many characters written on it in a flying and flying style, arranged up and down according to size.Outside these words, frame them with a pattern similar to ghost characters.

The words and patterns on the entire paper are written with blood-like red dye, and with the yellow paper background, it seems to have a very strong eerie visual impact.

"Is this a talisman?" My heart felt cold when I saw it.