endless tricks

The four corpses were all placed in a remote yard, and the others couldn't wait to leave. No one wanted to stay here to guard the four bloody and miserable corpses, it was too intrusive.

Shen Hao led Yang Yuanyi and Wang Xiaohong to the yard, lifted the white cloth to look for the female mummy that was built into the wall.Yang Yuanyi stared at the female mummy carefully. Her hands and feet were bent, forming twisted and struggling arcs. It can be seen that she was buried alive in the wall and died in pain.His body was covered in cement, some dry and some still wet.

Yang Yuan brushed away the wet hair on the female corpse's face, and saw her sewn up mouth.The black line on the mouth was exactly the same as the slit woman they met. He looked down, lingered for a moment in front of the woman's corpse, and saw a muddy disk.

"placenta?"

Wang Xiaohong came over to check and was sure the placenta was correct. "It should be a pregnant woman, and the placenta was buried in the wall before it was taken off." He felt extremely disgusted with the Shen family in an instant, and he said, "Unless she committed a felony that cannot be pardoned, a just The behavior of postpartum pregnant women buried in the wall is too vicious."

Shen Hao: "Looking at her dress, it looks like it was decades ago. The punishment of building a wall is indeed a bad practice, which was abolished 40 years ago." He looked at the female corpse carefully and said, "She shouldn't have committed a felony. It is very likely that he violated the rules of the Shen family and was executed. Shen Zhuang was very ignorant decades ago, everyone believed in ghosts and gods, regarded Tiangong Temple as a belief, and the Shen family as messengers of the gods, and even had the right to execute prisoners."

Decades ago, education was not popularized, and people's feudal concepts made them trust ghosts and gods more.The more closed the place, the more it is. Although Shenzhuang is located in the ancient capital of thousands of years, it is a very closed place.Many stereotypes and bad habits have been established, and the power of the gods is greater than that of the government.It's just that Shen's family died one after another, gradually abolishing stereotypes and bad habits, coupled with the country's emphasis on education, Shenzhuang was developed into a new tourist destination, and now it doesn't look as feudal as it was before.

Yang Yuanyi sneered slightly: "The Shen family has quite a lot of rules."

"As many as stars." Shen Hao nodded in agreement: "So it's overwhelming. Only those tourists who come to stay for a day or two will find Tiangong Temple lively. In fact, when it's dark and closed, it's gloomy and cold, and the summer It's freezing cold when the wind blows into the hall."

Yang Yuanyi: "You don't like the Shen family?" Both his behavior and his tone revealed his indifference to the Shen family.

Shen Hao: "Normal people wouldn't like it." He glanced at the two of them, sighed and said, "I didn't grow up in Shenzhuang since I was a child. Two years ago, Mr. Shen was seriously ill, so I came back to help."

Yang Yuanyi: "You always call Mr. Shen?" According to blood relationship, Mr. Shen should be Shen Hao's uncle.But he never called Mr. Shen an uncle.

"Mr. Shen doesn't object to being close, not to mention he has quite a lot of nephews." Shen Hao covered the white cloth, looked away, turned his head after a while and said, "Don't you want to know the Shen family rules, and what happened 40 years ago? ?”

Yang Yuanyi: "You know?"

Shen Hao stretched out his finger and pointed to the room he was in: "I used to live here with my mother. Although my great-grandfather died young, he left behind many heirs. My grandfather had a regular wife and five or six concubines, so he gave birth to many children. Tomorrow Uncle is of the same generation as my grandfather, but he was born of a servant girl, so his status was low. At that time, apart from the women who married out, there were also women who brought in, and their children all lived in Tiangong Temple."

There are three generations of the Shen family in Tiangong Temple, including hundreds of servants and maidservants. There are many people but strict etiquette.There are so many rules, coupled with the belief in gods and enslavement, that no one resists.

Shen Hao: "As long as I can remember, Tiangong Temple was very gloomy and gloomy. There were fewer people. My mother said that when she was young, there were hundreds of people in the Shen family, and there was an endless stream of guests." He shrugged: "At that time, Shenzhuang hadn't developed the tourism industry, and the Shen family was in decline. Countless people were talking about the glory of the past. My mother and I lived in this remote house for six years. When I was six years old, my mother died. The death condition was the same as theirs, the whole body was broken like a bamboo."

Yang Yuan raised his eyes: "Did you see the whole process?"

After a while, Shen Hao nodded: "Yes. I hid in the cabinet and survived, but I saw my mother being dragged into the crevice with my own eyes. Let me tell you that the crack girl is a rumor, because as long as you don't believe it, you won't be killed."

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohong sneered: "Naive."

Shen Hao frowned, and looked at Wang Xiaohong seriously.Wang Xiaohong rested his hands on the back of his head, full of youthful spirit: "Crack Girl has a body because of rumors, and it is concrete. Since it is a concrete thing, I won't give up killing you just because you believe it or not. The concrete thing is Real things. Like a knife, you won’t be invulnerable just because you don’t believe it exists.”

Shen Hao: "I have been studying these so-called strange stories for more than ten years. They have been spread in cities all over the world. They will never die through people's word of mouth and will never die. They are born out of mystery and people's fear. But if these strange stories can't spread , fade away, and disappear when no one mentions them. In other words, they exist in the consciousness that people 'believe'."

"That's right." Yang Yuanyi snapped his fingers: "Strange news exists because of people's 'belief', and it is concretized because of strong fear. But concretization will not be just because a person doesn't believe it. disappear."

Something that has already appeared, has a substance, and is completely concrete, which means that it is something that actually exists, no matter how absurd its source is.Since it is already existing and concrete, how can it disappear because of a person's disbelief?

Wang Xiaohong was surprised: "Brother Yuan, how do you know?"

Yang Yuan smiled: "President Science Popularization."

Wang Xiaohong had a face of "Oh~~ I understand", and winked: "Special treatment."

Yang Yuanyi: It seems that he has some improper relationship with the president.

Shen Hao was a little shaken: "Who are you?"

Yang Yuanyi and Wang Xiaohong straightened their faces, and formally introduced themselves to him: "Members of the Special Cases Handling Team of Urban Strange News."

Shen Hao was in a daze: "Government personnel?"

Wang Xiaohong coughed lightly: "National."

Shen Hao: "...Oh." Pause for a moment, then return to the topic: "So you have long known about the existence of strange news... Forget it, I don't bother with other things. My mother died so strangely back then, and I saw the strange news that I heard since I was a child. It is impossible for me not to care about the Crack Girl who passed away. After being sent out of Shenzhuang, I did not give up investigating the relationship between the Shen family and the Crack Girl in Tiangong Temple. After investigating for a few years, I found that almost all the previous generation of the Shen family suffered annihilation 40 years ago. The way of death was the same as that of my mother. When my mother was killed 20 years ago, almost all the Shen family members of that generation were also killed.”

Wang Xiaohong: "So many people in the Shen family have died, no one thinks it's strange, and no news has spread?"

"First, the rules. The Shen family's rules are based on the interests of Tiangong Temple, and any matter that tarnishes the reputation of Tiangong Temple cannot be spread." Shen Hao raised his second finger: "Second, they dare not. Because 40 What happened years ago brought about the retribution."

Wang Xiaohong asked, "What's the matter?"

Shen Hao: "To be precise, it should have happened 60 years ago. 60 years ago, my grandfather's wives and concubines gave birth to six girls in a row. Among them, No.3 was Shen San, because she had a fortune teller when she was born. To take the lives of relatives. I wanted to drown, but Shen San's mother begged for death, and Shen San survived."

Shen San survived, but her mother died for her.When Shen San got married, Mr. Shen was born.Later, Shen San came back with her husband to live in Tiangong Temple. Mr. Shen, who was only eight years old, was seriously ill, and medicine and stones were ineffective.Mr. Shen's grandmother was furious and tied up Shen San, who was eight months pregnant at the time.

Shen San's husband was sent out in the middle of the night. When it rained heavily, he slipped on the moss-covered stone steps and hit the back of his head. He died on the spot.When Shen San learned about it, she was distraught and begged her grandmother to let go of the fetus in her womb.But Mr. Shen was seriously ill, and he was the only male. The grandmother of the Shen family refused to let her go. She insisted on building her into the wall of the informal building, and sewed her mouth up with black thread.

Shen Hao said: "The Cracked Girl is Shen San's prototype. After Shen San's death, rumors of the Cracked Girl suddenly spread in Tiangong Temple."

In the deep and long dark alley, the servants and maidservants whispered to each other, their eyes fearful and curious to explore.Strange news quickly swept across the gloomy and dreary Tiangong Temple like a plague, injecting a terrifying atmosphere into Tiangong Temple.

The Shen family died tragically, and the Shen family was defeated.

The truth was so heavy that silence spread for a long time.After a long time, Yang Yuan asked, "Where is the child born by Shen San?"

Shen Hao looked at him strangely, as if he was quite surprised that he was able to find the only neglected child in the truth in a short time. "She died 20 years ago, on the fifth floor of the Buzhi Building. It was because of her death that I was sure that the crack girl was not a ghost transformed by Shen San."

Tiger poison does not eat its children, even if it turns into a ghost, it will not harm its children.

Yang Yuanyi: "Who will deliver Shen San? After delivery, who will take care of that child?"

Shen Hao: "I don't know."

Yang Yuan nodded, "I see."

Shen Hao frowned, and hurriedly asked: "What clues did you investigate? You have to tell me."

Yang Yuan smiled and said, "Who do you think spread the strange news about the crack girl?"

Shen Hao hesitated: "Who?"

Yang Yuanyi: "Mr. Shen."

Shen Hao's pupils constricted and he stared at Yang Yuanyi.Wang Xiaohong was lifting the white cloth to examine the woman's body. Hearing this, his hands trembled, and he suddenly raised his head: "Mr. Shen? He didn't participate in the events back then, so how could there be rumors about the crack girl? Who taught him?"

Yang Yuanyi: "It doesn't have to be someone who taught Mr. Shen, it may also be Mr. Shen who had a nightmare. In the nightmare, he saw a crack girl crawling out of the wall. When he woke up, he might tell the person next to him. Who knows that someone else passed it on again. If you go out, it will become a rumor with no proven source."

Shen Hao was still shocked: "No, if it was really a nightmare, how could Mr. Shen describe the death of Shen San so clearly?" The death of Shen San was clearly the same as that of the crack girl.

Yang Yuanyi: "What if Mr. Shen was there?"