endless tricks

Hearing this, the rest of the people gathered around, Yang Yuanyi asked: "Do you still remember what you heard?"

Dou Qiyuan's forehead was covered with drops of water, and he didn't know whether it was cold sweat or rain.He wiped his forehead and said, "Remember, because it's very simple." He thought about it for a moment, and then sang: "La Gou Go, pull Gou Go, whoever cheats will have to swallow a thousand needles and cut off his little finger."

Except for Wu Wei, everyone present had made an agreement with their little friend Lagou in their childhood. The previous lyrics were not much different, except that the punishment at the end was changed.Thousands of needles were swallowed, the little finger was cut off, bloody and terrifying.

Dong Yongfeng said: "This is the third nursery rhyme, pull and cut fingers. According to legend, a long time ago, in order to keep a benefactor, prostitutes would swear, and cut off their little fingers at the same time. Later, they turned into lying and deceiving people, breaking promises. agreement must be punished horribly."

Yang Yuanyi asked Dou Qiyuan: "Have you made an appointment with anyone else?"

"No." Dou Qiyuan shook his head quickly: "At that time, I went to the main room to call for someone, and the main room was quiet and dark, with no one in sight. After shouting for a long time, the mayor's daughter suddenly appeared behind me, which shocked me. But At that time, I was anxious and didn’t think too much, so she took me to the bathroom. It was also dark inside, with a light bulb hanging from it, and a small window above the squat pit. It was just the sound of rain, but suddenly other sounds were mixed in. I listened carefully and heard that it was two children singing the ballad."

Dou Qiyuan stopped, took a breath, and continued: "I didn't think it was strange at first, it was quite interesting to listen to, and the melody was catchy. But suddenly I noticed something was wrong. When I went into the bathroom, I looked carefully. An empty compound, separated by a wall. Outside the wall is an alley, and there is no place to shelter from the rain outside the alley. Which family released two children to sing in the rain? No matter what I thought, it was wrong, so I climbed on the small window and looked down, and saw Two children outside were pulling hooks, both wearing children's raincoats. I was relieved when I saw this, and just as I was about to get down, I saw the child facing me suddenly raised his head—drink! I was so scared that I grabbed my pants and ran outside .”

Zhao Jiaguang: "What did you see?"

Dou Qiyuan waved his hand, his whole face wrinkled: "Don't mention it. The child's neck was swollen with a big lump, covered with red spots. After careful inspection, he found that it was fine needles. He still smiled at me, and with a smile, his whole neck It was broken, and it was lying on the side, with only a little skin attached, and I was so scared that I could hold back my urine!"

Yang Yuanyi: "Pull the hook to trick people into swallowing thousands of needles."

Dou Qiyuan nodded: "Yes, connecting the nursery rhymes they sang is really scary. When I was running, I caught a glimpse of another child's hand from the corner of my eye, and the little finger was severed off." Recalling the dark and treacherous atmosphere at that time, seeing He couldn't help shivering at the scene of the two weird children: "The thief is scary! When I came out, I bumped into the mayor's daughter. She didn't leave, so I asked her if she had heard the song—guess her reaction?"

Zhao Jiaguang: "It's this time, so don't let people flatter you, talk quickly."

Dou Qiyuan rubbed his nose embarrassingly, and said: "She looked at me and suddenly laughed. I can't describe that kind of smile. Anyway, when I saw it at the time, I felt a layer of cold sweat on my back. Then she shook her head and said that she didn't hear it. Then he asked me if I would lie and deceive people. I was shocked at the time and quickly changed the subject. Thinking about it now, I don’t know if I was tempted to promise something.”

Yang Yuan said to Wu Wei: "It seems that three of the five of us have been targeted."

Things became troublesome and tricky. Wu Wei had his own way to get out of being targeted, but Dou Qiyuan and Zhao Jiaguang were ordinary people, so it was a bit troublesome to be targeted.

After thinking for a while, he warned the other two: "Those things should only act on rainy days. If it's raining, you should pay more attention to safety and don't act alone. Dou Qiyuan, be careful not to make promises during this period."

Dou Qiyuan nodded: "I know."

As soon as Yang Yuan took out his mobile phone to check the time, it was already 06:30, and it was completely dark outside.The corridors and houses were all in darkness. Standing at the door and looking outside, it seemed that only their room was lit.

Standing quietly for a moment, when he turned around, he caught a glimpse of a shadow standing in the distance from the corner of his eye.Suddenly turned his head to look over, and found that Mrs. Zhu was standing at the corner more than ten meters away.

Zhu Xushi looked at him expressionlessly, and found that Yang Yuanyi had noticed her, then turned and left as if nothing had happened.

Yang Yuanyi looked around again to make sure that no one was peeking, so he set his eyes on the rainy day outside.The rain gradually weakened, falling like a thin line, and stopped completely after seven o'clock in the evening.

Yang Yuan said to Wu Wei, "I'm going out for a walk."

So he took advantage of the rain to stop and walked out. First, he walked around the mayor's house and found that there were many vacant houses in the mayor's house, some of which were locked and some were not.The locked house is very dusty, and the unlocked house still has a little breath of life. When I opened the door and went in, I found that many daily necessities were still placed inside.

It shows that these vacant houses were once inhabited, or that the mayor's house was once very prosperous and many people lived there.Relatives, heirs, servants and servants are all gone now.

"Do you want to go in and see?"

A voice suddenly came from behind, and Yang Yuan looked back and found that it was Zhu Qin, the mayor's daughter.Zhu Qin moved his eyes from the door to Yang Yuanyi's face, hesitated for a moment and asked again: "Do you want to go in and have a look?"

Yang Yuanyi: "Can you?"

Zhu Qin: "There's nothing wrong with it." After finishing speaking, she stepped forward to open the door with a key, and looked sideways at Yang Yuanyi: "Go in and have a look."

The room was pitch-black, without a trace of light, like the mouth of a giant beast.

As soon as Yang Yuan walked in, Zhu Qin followed and turned on the light.The light was still dim, not too bright, but it illuminated the room.The room is well furnished, but it is old and has a lot of dust.Opposite the door is a dowry with rouge jewelry and other items on it. Obviously this room is a girl's boudoir, and her status is not low.

Zhu Qin said, "This is my sister's boudoir. She died when I was seven years old."

Yang Yuanyi: "Sorry."

Zhu Qin was expressionless: "No need, she deserved what she deserved."

Yang Yuan frowned: "What do you mean?"

Zhu Qin smiled mockingly and then returned to indifference: "We are all guilty." After a pause, she continued: "She is my half-sister who died when she was 20 years old. Friend, she said she wanted to bring it back for my father to see. But she died before she had time. After she died, her boyfriend received the news, rushed over and died too."

Yang Yuanyi: "What are you going to tell me?"

Zhu Qin: "I know the professor who came with you. If I remember correctly, he also came two years ago, but unfortunately escaped."

Yang Yuanyi: "Unfortunate?"

Zhu Qin: "His companions are all dead, and he can't escape even if he goes out. He will definitely come back, bring a fresh life, and come back to sacrifice. I have seen many people who were released like him, and then brought When other people come in, they will either go crazy or die in the end. You are also brought in by him, saying that you want to rescue other people who are trapped in the town, but you can’t save them. Some of you have been targeted, right? The young man just now? "

Yang Yuanyi: "Sacrifice? The so-called 'sacrifice' event you mentioned happens twice a year in Heping Town. Seven people die each time, and [-] people die a year. Split, many people with foreign surnames and some people with Xu and Zhu surnames relocated. The remaining people were trapped in Heping Town, young people died one after another, and the birth rate was low. If you don’t want to die, you have to bring in foreigners to replace you. I analyze it this way ,Is it right?"

Zhu Qin nodded: "That's right."

Yang Yuanyi: "You said that your sister had a boyfriend outside, which means she has gone out before. Since she can go out, why can't you go out?"

Zhu Qin: "Before my sister was born, her mother divorced her father and walked out. At that time, the ancient town was not surrounded by resentful spirits." She turned around, pointed to the furnishings in the room and said, "These things have never been used. It’s a dowry for my sister.”

Yang Yuanyi: "Sacrifice, resentful spirits, what is deserved? What have these townspeople stranded in Heping Town done?"

Zhu Qin shook her head, unwilling to speak.

"A long time ago, what happened in that abandoned ancestral hall. I know some things, but I don't know very well. Because it has really been a long time, and the resentful spirits were looking for sacrifices in Heping Town, and they appeared more than ten years ago. My sister is The first people to be killed, nobody expected this to happen back then."

Decades ago, Heping Town was divided for some reason. People with foreign surnames and some families with Xu and Zhu surnames moved out one after another, and Heping Town was rebuilt on the other side of Chonghu Lake.The remaining townspeople continued to stay in Heping Town, and sneered at those who split, and the relationship between the two sides was tense.One morning more than ten years ago, thick fog suddenly appeared, covering Heping Town, with continuous rain and countless dead people.

Rumors of revenge from the spirits spread in the town, some people tried to run but died on the way.The rest of the people no longer dared to act rashly, waiting for death like frightened birds.Occasionally, tourists from other places broke in by mistake and were killed.The townspeople found a way to save themselves from dying, and while they couldn't get out, the out-of-town tourists were able to escape and bring new sacrifices.

"Sacrifice the lives of innocent people to the wraith to appease its anger, so people from other places are called sacrifices."

Yang Yuanyi: "You tell me why?"

A blank look appeared on Zhu Qin's face: "I don't know. Maybe it's boring, maybe it's a moment of sympathy."

In fact, it can't even be said, she is not as crazy as the older generation in the town, wanting to live.From the moment she was born, she knew that she couldn't get out of Heping Town, and death hovered over her head all the time. She was used to seeing many people collapse when they were on the verge of death, and became very numb.

Zhu Qin thought for a while, and then warned him, if he heard the ballad, run away and don't respond.Then remind him to tell the person who went to the bathroom just now not to make a promise easily, if he fails to do so, he will be severely punished.

Yang Yuanyi suddenly showed his face and smiled: "Did you remind him just now?"

Zhu Qin nodded.

Yang Yuanyi: "He was taken aback."

Zhu Qin stared at Yang Yuanyi's smiling face, a little surprised that he could still smile after knowing the truth, as if the dangerous and terrifying wraith was not scary.He is not like other people who only take what she said as a joke, and he is not like some people who hate her after knowing the truth.

"Aren't you afraid, don't you hate me?"

Yang Yuanyi: "I knew it when I came here." He thanked Zhu Qin.

Zhu Qin was so stiff that she was at a loss: "No, no need. I'm leaving first, you...don't run around. When the rain stops at dawn, if there are enough people, you can leave."

After speaking, she hurriedly turned and left.After walking for a while, he looked back at Yang Yuanyi, blinked, and suddenly understood why he had to tell him the truth.Probably, I can't bear it.

As soon as Yang Yuan returned to his room, he recounted what Zhu Qin had said, and said to Dou Qiyuan: "She reminded you kindly."

Dou Qiyuan was speechless, and said after a long while, "It looks like a threat from yin and yang."

At that time, the atmosphere was weird, and Zhu Qin's expressionless face was particularly strange, and it was normal to have a misunderstanding for a while.

Yang Yuan laughed for a while, then said to Wu Wei: "I think the spread of horror nursery rhymes should be related to 'Wraith'."

Zhu Qin made it clear enough that the townspeople in Heping Town had done evil things, which led to the emergence of the "Wraith". They believed that the current situation was the revenge of the "Wraith", and the "Wraith" was related to horror nursery rhymes.

After listening to the analysis, Wu Wei's expression was serious: "It's troublesome that 'Wraith' is involved."

Yang Yuanyi: "What?"

Wu Wei: "It's very troublesome to associate strange stories with ghosts and gods. Originally, horror nursery rhymes have something to do with 'wraiths' to become troublesome. The townspeople in Heping Town directly equate strange stories with 'wraiths', which shows that this Only the 'strange news' is the same as the 'wraith', the only difference is that physical attacks are effective on the strange news."

In addition, all the characteristics of the "Wraith" can be inherited.In other words, the strange news is the 'wraith'.The only difference is the essence of the strange news, the essence is still a real thing, and it can be captured, otherwise it will be more troublesome.

Yang Yuanyi quickly realized the trouble, and the two discussed together how to catch it. "First of all, we need to determine how many strange smells there are."

Wu Wei: "Under normal circumstances, there will only be one strange news." Wang Xiaohong's unscrupulous strange news race is excluded, which is a rare species.The rest of the same kind of anecdotes, especially the higher-level anecdotes, belong to the level of cruelty that the king does not see the king.

Yang Yuanyi: "The cannibal girl in "The Cave", the two children who swallowed a thousand needles and cut the little finger in "Lagou Cutting Fingers", and the seven children in "The Ballad of the Rope" belong to different horror nursery rhymes. The strange news, and the strange news in the other two nursery rhymes. But in the cognition and dissemination of the townspeople, they are the same "wraith"-so it is a combination of the two, with the body and the body difference."

Wu Wei agreed: "It can be guessed like this."

"If you find the body of the strange story, you need to know where the 'Wraith Spirit' is. You can find it from the story of the 'Wraith Spirit'. Zhu Qin mentioned the abandoned ancestral hall. Go there tomorrow." Yang Yuan made a conclusion.

Wu Wei did not object.

After the rain stopped, it didn't rain again. The three of Zhao Jiaguang stayed on until eleven o'clock in the evening, yawned again and again, and lay down to sleep.Wu Wei and Yang Yuan discussed taking turns to watch the night, and just as they decided who would watch the night, they heard the sound of "crash clatter" rainstorm.

At 11:30 in the evening, it rained heavily!

The rainstorm came suddenly and unexpectedly.Yang Yuan stood up with a bang, took out the stick from his backpack and ran to the door, grabbed the umbrella and said without looking back, "You protect them, I'll go to the ancestral hall."

After speaking, he held up his umbrella and walked quickly into the rainy night.The mobile phone has enough power, just enough to light the way.Follow the daytime road to the location where the car is parked, and go in the southwest direction.The rain was pattering, hitting the eaves and black tiles violently, splashing half of the body, and finally saw an abandoned ancestral hall in the distance.

There was a faint light in the ancestral hall. When I got closer, I found that the gate of the ancestral hall was closed. I tried to push it and found that it was tied with a big wooden peg inside.The walls of the ancestral hall are covered with moss and are so smooth that it is impossible to climb in.

Yang Yuanyi walked around the ancestral hall and found that a side door was broken, so he hastily pushed a wooden board to cover people's eyes and ears.He was about to kick the board away when he heard the young woman singing a soft and eerie tune:

"Liz Borden took the ax and struck her father forty times. When she realized what she had done, she struck her mother forty-one."

In the horror nursery rhyme "Litz Borden's Axe", the young woman holding an ax in the original background, named Liz Borden, hacked to death her sleeping parents.

The sound of the ax being dragged on the ground was still clear through the sound of the rain.Yang Yuan kicked open the side door and ran in, only to find several young students sleeping in the right wing of the ancestral hall.And standing in front of them was a young woman in a skirt, holding a sharp ax high in her hand, about to cut it down, an umbrella came through the air, and threw the ax of the woman in a skirt.

The woman in the skirt turned her head and stared at Yang Yuan suspiciously.As soon as Yang Yuan took out the swinging stick, his eyes blurred in the next second, and he saw the woman in the skirt rushing towards him with the ax head-on.He took out his cudgel to block, and his entire arm was numb from the shock.

The woman is tall and tall, with the figure of a foreign woman, her face cannot be seen clearly, and she seems to have no facial features.She chopped down with an ax but was blocked, and immediately another ax was used to chop down. Although there was no way to chop randomly, but with great strength, Yang Yuanyi's arm was numb every time.

Yang Yuan took a few steps back, stood in the rainstorm, his whole body was soaked by the rain, shook his numb hands, turned around and ran when the woman in the skirt was chasing him.He wanted to run out through the side door just now, but the woman in the skirt grabbed the iron plate and threw it over, inserting it into the wall to block the door, leaving a small gap that could not be passed through.

Helpless, Yang Yuan had to run towards the main hall.Enter the main hall, which is where the memorial tablets are stored in the ancestral hall.Of course, there is no tablet on the shrine, after all, it is an abandoned ancestral hall.But it was covered with porcelain-white urns, full of urns of unknown people.Between every two columbariums in the third and fourth rows is a half-meter-high wooden doll.

In addition, the ancestral hall is empty and there is nowhere to hide.As they were stalemate, he found that the woman in the skirt had chased to the door.But she lingered at the door and never came in, as if she was hiding something.

Yang Yuan looked at the countless ashes urns on the shrine, and then at the women in skirts who were staring at them.After a stalemate for about half an hour, the woman in the skirt left.

Yang Yuan frowned, feeling something was wrong.Sure enough, within 10 minutes, the woman in the skirt appeared again, only this time dragging a young student in her hand.The student was dragged all the way, the rain hit his face, his head hit a stone and bled, but he still didn't wake up.

The woman in the skirt threw down the student and raised the axe. Her face, which couldn't see the facial features clearly, was always facing Yang Yuanyi's direction, as if she was provoking.Yang Yuan looked solemn, turned around and jumped onto the altar, raised an urn as if to hit the ground, the woman in the skirt roared nervously.

Yang Yuanyi put the urn on his hand and felt that the weight was not right. When he opened it, he was amazed: "Empty?"

He opened several urns around him one after another, but they were all empty, with no ashes or anything in them.

"Liz Borden took the ax and slashed her father forty times. When she realized what she had done, she slashed her mother forty-one times." He picked up the ax and chopped it at the neck of the sleeping young man.

"!!!"

Yang Yuan gasped for breath, his calf trembled slightly due to the violent exercise.At that moment just now, he smashed the urn towards the ashes, and pulled the young man into the hall while the woman in the skirt was avoiding him.Regardless of whether women in dresses are a taboo for faking it or not, always give it a try.Unexpectedly, she really couldn't come in, so she just lingered at the door for a few times.

But she walked towards the wing room again, and there were still a few students who were sleepy inside.Yang Yuan clenched his cudgel tightly and stepped out of the hall door.As soon as he walked out, the young man woke up and asked in horror, "Who is it?!"

Yang Yuan didn't have time to explain, and only left a sentence: "If you don't want to die, don't go out."

He ran to stop the woman in the skirt, and dealt with her flexibly and cunningly, completely angering her.But she couldn't kill the sleeping people under the protection of Yang Yuanyi, and even if she wanted to exhaust Yang Yuanyi's physical strength, she couldn't do it, because the rain gradually stopped.

When the rain was about to stop, the woman in the skirt looked unwillingly at the young men in the wing room, and left quickly, dragging the axe.

Yang Yuanyi didn't catch up, he pinned the swinging stick to his waist, put his hands on his knees, and panted heavily.His chest hurts badly, and his calves and arms trembled from strenuous exercise. He looked sideways at the students who woke up in the main hall of the ancestral hall: "Wake up your companions."

This person witnessed everything that happened just now, so he could naturally see how abnormal the woman holding the ax was.And his companions still fell asleep in such a violent situation, there was obviously a problem. As for himself, he touched the blood on his head, if it wasn't for the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, he might have been beheaded.

Jiang Chengtian was frightened for a while, and even crawled to the wing room to wake up his companions. There were three other people, one man, two women, inside.When they woke up and heard Jiang Chengtian's description, their faces were pale, and they were terrified.

As soon as Yang Yuan had enough rest, he called them all into the main hall of the ancestral hall after recovering: "Just now that woman was afraid of this place and couldn't come in. It's safer for you to hide here. How did you get to Heping Town?"

Jiang Chengtian was more courageous, and took the lead to stand up and said: "We are all students from the same school. Because we are about to graduate, we agreed to travel to Wu County together. I heard that Chonghu Heping Town is an ancient town, so I came here, but I didn't expect to be trapped. Can't get out of here."

Yang Yuanyi: "Has anyone died?"

Jiang Chengtian was surprised: "Yes! The driver who brought us here!"

Yang Yuanyi: "How did you die?"

Jiang Chengtian: "He was hacked to death. He was hiding in the car with us at the time, and he was hacked to death in the middle of the night. His body was stabbed dozens of times, and his body was bloody. We also slept in the car but didn't know it. It felt terrible. I wanted to call the police, but the signal wasn’t working. The people in the town didn’t care about us.”

Yang Yuan nodded to show that he knew, and then asked: "Did you hear any strange songs when you came?"

Another young woman said: "Yes. At that time we broke in by mistake, and the thick fog filled the air. I got out of the car with the driver and wanted to ask for directions. But in the thick fog, I first heard a strange song, what's "cut her father forty Down', 'cut her mother 41 times', very weird. We didn't take it seriously, and saw a woman in a long skirt appearing in the thick fog, with her back to us. It seemed that she was singing, we were curious, We talked to her, but she ignored her. We wanted to go around her, but the driver pulled me away with an ugly face. Later, the driver told me that he saw that the singing woman had no face.”

Yang Yuanyi: "I see. You guys stay here for one night first, I will stay here."

After speaking, the others breathed a sigh of relief, inexplicably relieved.

Yang Yuanyi inspected the urn on the shrine, and finally his eyes fell on the seven puppets on it.

seven?special numbers.coincidence?

On the second day, Yang Yuanyi went back to the mayor's house to join the others, but Wu Wei told him with a solemn face: "Last night, someone died after swallowing a thousand needles, and his little finger disappeared."

Yang Yuanyi: "Who?"

Wu Wei: "People from Heping Town."