It's Liao Zhai, not Cthulhu

"I don't know. I asked the Emperor of Heaven, but the Emperor of Heaven didn't say a word. Maybe he is also looking for the reason. But, let's take care of the present first. In addition, the application to the Shanghai Stock Exchange is indeed a bit unusual."

"Please say."

"Shun'an Viaduct Suolongzhu, Xujiahui Pingyang Square, Longhua Yinyang River, Meicen Park Yinyang Street, Wendeng East Road Fendun Road, Donghai Vocational High School Baiyigu, Jiading Bagua Altar, Changlong Apartment Incense Burner Room, Meilong Square without lights Road, Changyang Road was born."

"You call that a bit?"

"It's better than more, isn't it? You happen to be in Shenhu, you can try to cut off from the [now] where you are, as for me, I might go to Shenhu to investigate, but you'd better not hold too much hope." Qin Anyi lit a cigarette, and breathed out.

"What do you mean?"

"I am in the [future], which means that what you know about the [future] is on the surface. Maybe these ten things are half-truths and half-false, and most of them are rumors, but you are in the [past], which means that the past cannot be changed. Say, everything you have done cannot be changed in the future."

"Since you are in [the future], please help me."

"Anxin, you and I are on the same boat, I will help you, and I need your help. Since you are a senior, you must know a lot about ghosts."

"Thank you, but I still don't know how to call it?"

"My name is Qin Anyi, happy cooperation, Xuanyuan Zhenwu."

"Happy cooperation, Qin Anyi, my name is Xuanyuan Zhenwu."

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"Time is really magnificent, don't you think so?" Emperor Huntian asked Qin Yuesheng and Xiaoyuanlianzi.

"Indeed, the things you have chosen are all weak and unpopular things, but it is really reasonable and expected that they can develop like this when no one is paying attention." Xiaoyuan said with a hollow face.

"Ten supernatural puzzles, weakened and deleted, and will absorb everything that can be used in 5000 years. Do you know what you are doing? To put it bluntly, you are doing simulation development, say To put it bluntly, you are raising Gu." Qin Yuesheng also said with vacant eyes.

"It's not so much that I'm raising Gu, it's better to say that I'm simulating it." Emperor Huntian was unmoved, but said nonsense, "If you think about it better, these ten well-developed things will be their help." ,

If you think about it at worst, don't you still have the bottom line? "

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"The unidentified sobbing in the abandoned well in the deserted village, the last subway transporting the dead, the white figure who flickers away in the early morning surveillance of the hospital, the woman in Tsing Yi who has been hovering at the crossroads... There are too many similar legends, are they all the same? Is it fictitious?"

The young male lecturer in the folklore class was talking excitedly about knowledge that had nothing to do with textbooks, and Qin Anyi, who was listening, was so bored that he even wanted to smoke a cigarette.

Looking at the students in the lecture hall, there are no empty seats.

He has already arrived at Shenhu Stock Market, and since he reached a cooperation with Xuanyuan Zhenwu, he is ready to investigate the "spiritual" incidents of Shenhu Top Ten who do not know whether they are true or not.

Fortunately, there are indeed people in Shenhu who are studying these strange urban legends who don't know if they are groundless or not.

The researcher is this young lecturer in the folklore class. He looks no older than 30 years old and looks quite scholarly, but the "crazy" temperament in the lectures makes it hard not to doubt his mental state.

Not long after, the get out of class bell rang, and the students left in a hurry. The male lecturer was packing up the lesson plans and was about to leave, but Qin Anyi walked up to the male lecturer with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Excuse me, is this Mr. Gao Chongshan?" Qin Anyi asked.

"Ah yes, it's me, may I ask who you are?"

"My name is Qin Yuesheng, and I'm an Internet writer. I'm here to collect materials. I wonder if you're free now?" Qin Anyi casually reported a pseudonym, and took out a book from her backpack.

The title of the book is "A Discussion on the Top Ten Unbelievable Events in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Folklore Significance Behind it".

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Shenhu City, Grand Road Patrol House, this is part of the Shenhu City Public Concession, which belongs to Gelan Kingdom.

Xuanyuan Zhenwu was carrying an oil-paper umbrella, and his loose long gown and mandarin jacket were pushed up high by his muscular muscles, but a person like him who is not easy to mess with at first glance is like air outside the patrol room, and no one cares about it. Cast a spell and prepared to observe.

"This is the original Changlong apartment that Qin Anyi mentioned, but there are no bad smells like ghosts and ghosts here, or is it because of the patrol room?" He thought to himself, never wanting to see a scene that made him extremely unhappy.

Some foreigners with cloth bags on their heads, whose complexion is neither yellow nor black nor white, but tends to be dark and wheat-colored, hold their heads high, and beat the backs of the arrested with batons in their hands, and they often speak foreign languages. don't know.

"Red guy..." Inspector Jing Guo scolded in a low voice, but Inspector Jing Guo was very quiet in this Grand Field.

Xuanyuan Zhenwu's eyes were full of sadness. Since the defeat of Jingguo until now, after the signing of the treaty of humiliating power and humiliating the country, the compatriots in these concessions have been bullied by these foreign bastards.

There are foreign ghosts outside, and ghosts and goblins inside. If a country is not a country, how can a family be a family?

But fortunately, he listened to Qin Anyi's story about how Jingguo would continue to improve and become a powerful country a hundred years later.

The sleeping giant will wake up one day.

But before that, there were also people with lofty ideals running around to save the nation.

However, some problems left over from history must be resolved now.

Just like this later generation, Changlong Apartment.

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"Do you know what the residents of Changlong Apartment have eaten?" Gao Chongshan asked Qin Anyi.

Qin Anyi told Gao Chongshan that he wanted to collect materials from the field, and Gao Chongshan also enthusiastically drove Qin Anyi to Changlong Apartment.

According to Gao Chongshan, everyone who has read his works is his friend. Is it normal for friends to help friends?

So Qin Anyi, who originally planned to come alone, went with Gao Chongshan.

The two passed through an inconspicuous entrance, which was really inconspicuous. It was like a map of a soul-like game to attack their cryptorchids.

If it weren't for the sign of [362 Changlong Road], there is a sign of [Excellent Historic Building] under the sign, and it would not be found at all.

"I know, it's because of the war." Qin Anyi lit a cigarette, and walked through the entrance with downcast eyes.

The entrance is backlit and slightly damp, and the breath of the times seems to come over us.

In just a few short steps, it seems that I have walked back from this peaceful and peaceful era to the dark and sad era in the past.

"That's right, the front line is tight, and the rear is tight." Gao Chongshan said, sighing, "So it's normal for the captain of the transportation team to lose. After all, the corruption has already begun since then."

"He can micromanage and likes to write a diary. Can this be a decent person? Despicable."

Qin Anyi pointed out something, and then walked through the narrow passage to the central patio.

This is like a prison, where people are imprisoned, it is like a walled city, where people of various religions live, but in the past there were indeed many people of three religions, nine streams and the bottom of society.

This place is like a tube building, and the surrounding buildings form a dense square tube. It looks like a tube building and a ring-shaped building like the Colosseum, but it is square here.

The size of the sky is the size of the patio, the building is low, and the bamboo poles or iron poles for drying clothes are stretched out, and some clothes are dripping with water, which wets other clothes at the bottom.

Qin Anyi carefully avoided the place where the trousers and underwear are located on high places. In this "small" building, there are nearly [-] households living in it. The old atmosphere makes Qin Anyi feel a little uncomfortable.

Gao Chongshan accompanied him and headed towards the top floor together.

He always felt as if he had really returned to the past.

After nearly a hundred years of ups and downs, Changlong Apartment has become gloomy and dilapidated, out of tune with the surrounding modern buildings.

Although the exterior walls were painted a few years ago, the main frame of the building has not changed. The 5-storey Tongzilou building has a corridor running through the floor from the 2nd floor, and the floors are connected by old-fashioned cement escalators. The corridor is facing the door of each household, and the doors of each household are next to each other. It looks dense from a distance.

Due to the insufficient area of ​​the house and no independent kitchen and bathroom, the narrow corridor has become a place where everyone desperately asks for space.

The corridors are crowded with privately built shower rooms and kitchen stoves, all kinds of sundries are piled up in the corners, pots and pans, cabinet furniture, potted birdcages...there are countless, after all, this is the most famous low-rent housing in Shanghai. , the original house type was also partitioned and divided into real dwellings one by one.

"It's really crowded here." Qin Anyi stepped over all kinds of sundries carefully, and finally reached the top floor, and then opened a more and more perfect [world].

As mentioned earlier, Qin Anyi's [World] ability was formed by merging various abilities, and now his [World] has also become more capable.

Now even if he walks around at will, he can use his ability to look back.

In this way, Qin Anyi went back to the past of Changlong Apartment in all directions calmly.

"Then let me see if there is really a ghost here."

-

That was the history of nearly 90 years ago, the history of the 40s and [-]s. At that time, Jingguo was once again spread by war.

Refugees from the occupied areas poured into Shenhu, intending to seek asylum from other countries in the concession, but the people in the embassies of the countries in the concession did not take the lives of the people of the country as their fate. For the concession, it only needs to be delayed. up.

As a result, a small number of refugees flooded into the Changlong Apartment, and the Changlong Apartment was also continuously expanded under the spontaneous organization of the victims. Such days did not last long.

Because the front line was tight and the battle was defeated one after another, the August [-]th Shenhu Battle lasted for three months, and the whole Shenhu became an isolated city. The lost refugees, and the concessions where the well water does not interfere with the river water,

And both aggression and counter-aggression.

It was precisely because of the tightness and defeat on the front line that the supplies for the refugees were gradually cut off completely. After all, Shenhu was already an isolated city at that time.

Refugees wanted to pour into the concession to seek asylum, but because there were too many of them, the response from the concession was to use machine guns to form a "line of defense" against the refugees, and anyone who wanted to come in would shoot.

The concession and the enemy-occupied area became two completely different worlds.

One side still looks like the ten-mile foreign farm, and the other side is the ruins of the war-torn ruins. In the middle, there may be only a river.

Although Changlong Apartment is in the concession, the food supplies are gradually being cut off, and other foreigners in the concession will not contribute humanitarianly to this, they even mounted fucking machine guns!

Therefore, if you want to go out to find food, you also risk being shot.

Shenhu at that time was an isolated city, and Changlong Apartment at that time was a besieged city in an isolated city.

The refugees are like locusts, they eat everything they can eat, including some meat at first, such as wild dogs, frogs, and fish fry, and then they even fight for bark and roots.

Until starvation everywhere, and then evolved into...

Strangers, acquaintances, relatives, friends... There are fewer and fewer people.

War is a monster that cannibalizes people without spitting out bones, and the things derived from this monster are also eating people.

There must be demons and ghosts in troubled times, because troubled times gave birth to these demons and ghosts.

What's more, there is also a "seed" sealed by an ancient bad thing here.

It's just that this seed has only begun to take root and germinate until now.

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Inside Changlong's apartment, people were panicking.

"Who is here today?" "It seems to be that girl." "Oh, it's a pity, that child was born so juicy."

Qin Anyi narrowed his eyes slightly and gritted his teeth tightly. He split his perspective, one perspective is now, and the other perspective is nearly 90 years ago.

The two worlds of the past and the present are joined together by the horizon. On the one hand, they are noisy, revealing the trivial things that can be seen everywhere in life, and on the other hand, they are discussing [food] that will be "eaten" later.

"Let me tell you, that girl looks like she's almost twenty, and she's so handsome too, do you want to... um?" An old bachelor urged her, and what she was thinking in her heart was clearly revealed.

The scene of the past in retrospect was witnessed by Qin Anyi, her fingers trembling slightly due to the smoked yellow.

The soot was not broken, but it was shaken off and broken in a slight trembling.

"What's wrong with you?" Gao Chongshan, who was talking about his own research, asked strangely after seeing Qin Anyi's state.

"It's nothing, I just remembered something that made me angry." Qin Anyi tried her best to keep her tone normal.

"Fuck you, what are you thinking?" someone scolded angrily.

"What kind of big-tailed wolf are you pretending to be here?! One of us here will die if we go out, why?! Do you want to see what we eat?! So don't pretend to be a good person with me here, you too It's not a good thing!" The old bachelor and rogue shot back.

"What the hell are you talking about!" Another person punched the old bachelor, "We eat sheep!"

"Haha, it's just a fig leaf. You guys are more ruthless than anyone else when you eat, and now you are pretending to be saints here? If you are really such saints, why don't you contribute yourself?"

Noisy, swearing, the quarrels of the two eras seem to be the same, but they do not overlap.

As a witness, Qin Anyi only felt absurd and sad.

People's sorrows and joys are not connected, but people's sorrows and joys are also connected.

Seeing his compatriots wearing the cloak of civilization but imitating the primitive people who drink blood, he only feels sad and resentful.

But this sadness and resentment cannot be locked on to a specific target. After all, the culprit of these is a combination of many reasons... a real thing that is as scary as a ghost.

The speed of the backtracking world began to accelerate.

"Ingredients" washed herself as if resigned to her fate, her wet hair swayed gently in the wind, and she hummed softly a song from her hometown, which was the song her mother sang when she was putting her to sleep.

"The boxwood pole is soft and smooth, sister ~ brother, Harry..."

She knows what her next destiny is, and she will be the same as the ingredients that she ate before.

Qin Anyi only found it harsh, but she gently slowed down her last song, the ethereal singing sounded, and finally fell silent.

The sound of chewing can be heard endlessly, something is being born.

After the bones and flesh of the ingredients were eaten up, that thing was born.

It was... an invisible thing crawling in the darkness.

Only one sound of chewing could be heard in the darkness, and the sound of chewing in the darkness complemented the silent chewing sounds of other people, and finally merged into it.

No one can see, no one can find out.