【Xue Xiao】Desolate City Crossing

The author has something to say: After the first case, Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen will stick together every day, friends who read the article, hold on~~

Before midnight, Xiao Xingchen and Song Zichen arrived at Xifu Town, which was said to be haunted by evil spirits. They thought it should be a deserted street in the middle of the night, but it was unexpectedly crowded with people.

The whole street where the Yue Zhai is located is full of torches, and the crowd forms a semicircle in front of the Yue Zhai gate, pointing inside.

The two of them knew something was wrong at a glance, and coincidentally tapped their toes slightly, jumped over the crowd and landed directly in the middle of the yard, taking a panoramic view of the six corpses.In the entire Yue Zhai, the only survivors were the woman who was squatting close to the door frame with her head buried, and another older servant girl who sat blankly on the steps outside the threshold.

Song Zichen was full of remorse: "The evil spirit here today is much stronger than when I came to check yesterday. If it weren't for this, I would never be careless and leave the Yuejia before finding out the source of the evil spirit."

Xiao Xingchen comforted him softly: "It's hard to predict evil, you don't have to blame yourself too much."

On the way here, Song Zichen had already told him about the strange things that happened in the Yue family for several days.

The Yue family in Xifu Town is a businessman who runs a pawn shop in the town. He is not considered rich, but he is well-to-do, and he can even summon a few servants.The Yue family had a 12-year-old son. Last year, they gave birth to a pair of twin daughters. Unfortunately, the twins died before their first birthday. What is even more bizarre is that the wife and servants of the Yue family said that the two daughters were raped by the 12-year-old eldest son. kill.

According to them, the child had always been eccentric, taciturn, rebellious and disobedient to his parents, and because he was angry with his mother, he brutally killed his infant sister.

After the first baby died, his parents severely reprimanded him, scolded and beat him. In order to keep the family scandal from being publicized, they only said that the baby was weak and died of illness. Until the second baby also died at the hands of the boy, Mrs. Yue was furious. When teaching this evil boy a lesson, he intensified and stabbed his mother with a dagger and ran away from home. It was only after this incident that the servants at home learned the truth about the death of the twin babies amidst Mrs. Yue's scolding.

The strange things began to happen the day after the little boy ran away from home.

First, the male owner of the Yue family died on the way home at night, and the body was found by the street sweepers in the morning. His face was livid, and his hands were pinched around his neck, as if he had been strangled to death by himself.

That day, Mrs. Yue was notified to claim her husband's body after burying her dead baby at noon.

In the evening, the Yue family kept vigil and paid homage. Song Zichen passed by on a night hunt and found the evil spirit in the Yue house. He knocked on the door and asked to check. Only then did he find that there was a body in the well, and he just fell into the water and passed away. I know each other, not from the family. At that time, everyone was keeping vigil for the head of the family in the front hall, and no one knew what happened in the backyard.

When he found the corpse, there was still evil energy left on it. Song Zichen judged that it was an evil spirit who killed the murderer. He guarded Yuejia overnight, but nothing happened. When he left at dawn, he gave everyone amulets, and put a barrier on the male patriarch's corpse to prevent the corpse from changing. Law.

Song Zichen said: "The death time of the male patriarch and the dead body in the well was in the middle of the night. I thought that tonight, I just need to go back to Yue Zhai before midnight to investigate, but I didn't expect..."

Unexpectedly, before midnight, when they returned to the Yue Zhai again, there were only two survivors in the Yue family, and the others had turned into ugly corpses.

Xiao Xingchen asked: "Do you think it has something to do with the boy who ran away from home?"

"I can't tell," Zichen lowered his head and mused, "It's just my intuition that there is a certain connection. It's absolutely uncommon for young children to kill infants. After he disappeared, people died frequently across the family. Today, they almost wiped out their families. Maybe it's the boy. What has it got to do with Xie Chong?"

When Xiao Xingchen saw Miemen, the first thing Xiao Xingchen thought of was the habitual offender Xue Yang.

He hasn't told Zichen that he saw Xue Yang's dead soul, nor told Zichen that Xue Yang helped him make up the soul.Song Zichen hated Xue Yang to the bone. If he knew about this matter, he would definitely feel complicated and difficult to calm down. The past was already heavy enough, Xiao Xingchen didn't want to burden his friend any more, and besides, the two of them had nothing to do with Xue Yang's undead who had practiced sorcery. Zichen knew that it would only increase his troubles, so it was better to keep such troubles to himself.

He only hoped that Xue Yang wasn't responsible for the Yue family tragedy.

At this moment, in Xiao Xingchen's eyes, besides the dead bodies, there were also six newly formed souls in the courtyard.But he can only see the form of the dead soul, hear the speech of the dead soul, and cannot communicate with the dead soul. His voice seems to be inaudible to the dead souls except Xue Yang.

Most of the ordinary dead souls are not as clear-sighted as they were when they were alive. They only remember the most impressive things. The six dead souls don't know how they died.

When Xiao Xingchen pieced together the general truth from those broken words, Zichen had also checked the six corpses, and he came to the conclusion: "Typical ghost-possessed murder method."

Xiao Xingchen nodded to express agreement.

The onlookers saw that the two of them had extraordinary auras, one was elegant and dignified in white clothes, the other was sharp and stern in black, and carried a sword with him without fear of corpses, so they knew that they were members of the Taoist sect, and they were specially here to deal with this tragic event of extermination. This conclusion immediately exploded, and people rushed to put forward their own guesses.

"This old house has bad feng shui!"

"Sure enough, if the man is away from home for a long time, it's not good if there is no one in the house!"

"His twin daughters died within a year, so it can be seen that the ancestors did not accumulate virtue, and maybe they did some evil, so there is such retribution!"

"The sins committed by the ancestors should be retribution to the ancestors. I think it is because they did not take care of the baby well and the baby died. It is the ghosts of the two little ghosts who came back to take revenge!"

"Yeah, I heard that both babies died unexpectedly, how could it be such a coincidence!"

Xiao Xingchen and Zichen didn't care about responding to them, and went to comfort the two surviving women first.Because Song Zichen had been here last night, he pointed out to Xiao Xingchen that the woman in the room was Mrs. Yue, the head of the house.

Mrs. Nayue seemed to have been seriously frightened. She shivered and curled up by the door, her white mourning clothes were crumpled and stained with dust. On the steps outside the house, the girl who looked like a maid was much calmer. She was dressed in plain clothes and had a round face. She looked honest and honest, and she sat quietly, with a tranced and sad expression.

Xiao Xingchen bent down and squatted beside the woman and said, "Girl, don't be afraid, I'm Xiao Xingchen, I'm here to help drive away evil spirits and catch the murderer with my friends, can you tell me what happened here?"

His soft and calm voice seemed to have a calming effect, and his clear and sincere eyes made people more willing to trust him more naturally.After listening to his question, the woman sitting on the steps gathered herself together, glanced at Mrs. Yue, and confirmed that Mrs. Yue could not answer, and then she opened her mouth to tell the strange things about the monster wind, the roof collapsing, and people starting to kill each other or commit suicide. Come.

"Didn't I say not to go out of the house? Most ghosts have no way to enter the house." Song Zichen's tone was a little accusing.

The woman shook her head apologetically, "The roof collapsed so badly that everyone was afraid of being crushed inside."

Song Zichen sighed helplessly, he also saw the hole in the roof and the rocks and rubble in the house, it would be of no avail to pursue them for their panic and disobedience.

"Only you and your wife didn't run out?"

"Madam didn't run out, but I followed everyone into the yard."

Xiao Xingchen and Zichen looked at each other, feeling a little strange.Mrs. Yue apparently saved her life because she never left the house. This woman also left the house. It stands to reason that she should die, why is she safe and sound?

Song Zichen asked again: "Where's the body found in the well last night?"

The woman said: "Madam sent someone to carry it to Yizhuang in the town."

Yizhuang is an empty house dedicated to storing unnamed corpses or temporarily storing coffins. Every town has such a place.

Song Zichen said: "I have to go to Yizhuang to check and see if the source of the evil is there."

Hearing this, the shivering woman by the door frame begged immediately: "Don't go!!! Please don't go, once you leave, the ghost will definitely come back... if it comes again... I will lose my life Ah——" As she spoke, she reached out and grabbed the hem of Zichen's clothes, screaming shrillly and madly, without the demeanor of a headed wife at all.

Song Zichen has a cleanliness habit, and he doesn't like to be touched by strangers the most. At this time, when the half-crazy woman grabbed his clothes, he was very repulsed and couldn't bear to shake them off, so he could only comfort him with a dark face and a tone that didn't sound comforting at all:

"Where the crowd gathers, the evil spirits dare not act rashly, and the house is considered safe. If you have to follow us to feel at ease, you can go to Yizhuang with us."

He couldn't get rid of the crazy woman by pulling his clothes a few times, and Zichen couldn't use too much force, so he turned his head to the woman sitting on the steps with her head bowed and said: "What about you? You want to go to Yizhuang with us Or stay here? Come and persuade your wife, she will affect our work a lot. "

The woman turned her head and glanced at Mrs. Yue who was in a half-crazed state. She didn't want to go forward to comfort her at all, and even shook her head in disgust: "I want to go home."

"I...I won't go to Yizhuang, there are dead people there, I won't... I won't go...!" Mrs. Yue finally let go of Zichen's clothes, completely retracted into the room, and shook her head frantically .

In the eyes of ordinary people, Yizhuang is a place that is dark, weird, and prone to corpse changes. If it is not necessary, they will take a detour.

When Xiao Xingchen heard these two words, he couldn't help but feel a kind of warmth and pain that he shouldn't have. He and A-Qing Xue Yang once lived together in an unused yizhuang for three years. Because of the lack of furniture, they even slept in a coffin.Thinking about these things now, I don't think it's weird, but at the moment he doesn't want to go to Yizhuang, because he is afraid that the scene will make him emotional, and he will recall the past that he wants to forget.

Xiao Xingchen said: "Zichen, why don't you split up and go to Yizhuang, I'll stay here and see if we can find any clues."

This proposal was reasonable, and Song Zichen never liked places where crowds gathered, so he agreed without hesitation, asked the onlookers to find out the address of Yizhuang, passed through the crowd, and quickly disappeared in the direction of Yizhuang.

Crying and shouting people burst into the yard one after another, all of whom were family members or friends of the deceased in the yard. After recognizing the body, they began to cry one after another.

At this time, a five-foot man was out of breath, and rudely pushed aside the crowd, and also came to look for someone.He yelled "Taotao" repeatedly, and as soon as he entered the yard, the only surviving maid stood up in surprise and flew into the big man's arms.

"Peach! Are you okay?"

The big man couldn't say any more words of comfort or tenderness, so he could only clumsily hug his wife tightly.

The woman named Taotao saw her husband for the rest of her life after the catastrophe. She buried her head in his arms and couldn't hold back her sobs: "I want to go home."

"walk home."

The big man bowed his head and wiped away his wife's tears with his rough fingers. He was about to leave without saying a word, but Xiao Xingchen had no choice but to ask him to stay: "Girl stay, we still have many things to ask you..."

"My daughter-in-law is tired!" The big man interrupted in a rough voice, "She wants to go back to rest! My name is Li Yong, and I live in the westernmost part of the town. You can tell when you ask her. If you have anything to do, ask her after she has rested."

The big man took his wife in his arms and continued to walk out. On this eerie night, they cuddled up to each other and went home like no one else. Everyone made way for them one after another, and their gazes fell on them with emotion and envy.

Taking advantage of the quietness of the crowd, Xiao Xingchen cupped his fists and said in a loud voice: "Xiao Xingchen, this tragedy seems to be the work of evil spirits. My friends and I will do our best to investigate. If anyone knows, please actively provide clues. If not, please go home together, please close the doors and windows recently, and don’t go out when it’s dark.”

His voice is not loud, as if he came through the leaves of the forest, his white clothes are like snow, dignified and elegant, it is rare for such a person who looks like a banished fairy to appear in the small town, he can't help but feel a little admiration, everyone listens to the persuasion and slowly disperses, leaving only A few people claiming the corpse in the courtyard were waiting to see what Xiao Xingchen and Song Zichen would find out.

Xiao Xingchen comforted those people in turn, and reassured them that the murderer would be caught and the evil spirits eradicated.Among these people, Mrs. Yue was the most difficult to comfort. She was afraid of staying in the house and entering the yard, so she had to sit by the door. She sat for most of the night and shook for most of the night. Mouth asked what.

When doing these things, Xiao Xingchen felt the meaning of rebirth for the first time. No matter what he did or missed in the past, deep down in his heart, he was always the Xiao Xingchen who wanted to protect the good and exorcise evil spirits.

After such a busy night, when dawn was approaching, a person he least wanted to see, to be precise, a ghost he least wanted to see, came uninvited.

Xue Yang Shiran quietly appeared in the center of sight, pretending to be surprised and glanced at the corpse on the ground, blinking his eyes, as if waiting for Xiao Xingchen to explain to him what happened.

He was clearly a dead soul, but his eyes were as bright as a living person, even more vivid than the eyes of most living people.

When one person and one ghost met for the second time, Xiao Xingchen was much calmer. He didn't draw his sword immediately, but said coldly, "What are you doing here?"

"Come and see the excitement." Xue Yang tilted his head and looked at Xiao Xingchen with a smile, ignoring the coldness in his tone: "I like watching the excitement the most! Especially Miemen, don't the Taoist remember?"

Xiao Xingchen frowned, and asked, "Did you do this?!"

Xue Yang exaggerated his innocence and said: "Hey, how could the Taoist priest frame it for no reason? I only said that I like to exterminate the family, but I didn't say that I exterminated this family. There are less than ten people here, which is not enough for me to play with. If you really want to destroy the family and make trouble, you must choose a big family with more people, that will be fun!"

As soon as Xiao Xingchen heard such vicious remarks, Xiao Xingchen felt pain and anger. He couldn't understand how there could be such a vicious person as Xue Yang in the world. He only hoped that he would disappear immediately before his eyes.

"It's not you, don't join in the fun!"

"I said it wasn't my Daoist, so I believed it? Why haven't you made any progress at all, and you are still as easy to deceive as before?"

Xiao Xingchen's fair face turned red again due to the surge of blood, he drew his sword sharply, and asked even more sternly, "Is it you!?"

"Hey," Xue Yang said with a smile, "It's me."

Xiao Xingchen was stunned for a moment, wondering whether he should believe this joke-like "confession".

Xue Yang admits it too easily, so easily that it is doubtful and irritating.

Xiao Xingchen still can't understand how a person can treat human life like an ant like Xue Yang, kill people like a game, and distort right and wrong in words and deeds.Although he hasn't been out of the mountain for a long time, he has seen some murderous villains and heretical monsters, but only Xue Yang can make him burst into uncontrollable rage from the bottom of his heart like now.

Hearing this answer, the other six souls who had just formed last night in the yard also became annoyed. They were most conscious and energetic in the middle of the night. As midnight passed, their consciousness became blurred, like demented old people, from fierce beating to wandering or bumping aimlessly, and finally settled down next to their respective corpses.

They remember only the strongest wish: to find out how they died.So, hearing Xue Yang admit his crime without hesitation, the spirits of the six souls were shaken.

Xue Yang was afraid that they didn't understand, so he circled his fingers and repeated arrogantly:

"Did you hear me clearly, it was me who made a big fuss over the house last night and killed you all!"

As soon as he finished speaking, six gray shadows rushed towards him from different directions, just as the first ray of sunlight after the long night entered the riddled courtyard, and also shone on all the people and ghosts in the courtyard. Before touching Xue Yang, it quickly faded and disappeared at the same time, only Xue Yang stood in place as if nothing had happened.

It is difficult for ordinary souls to gather together during the day, Xue Yang obviously took the time to prepare, and deliberately said such words to the six ghosts just before sunrise to anger them.

"What can I do?"

Xue Yang raised his chin in satisfaction, not knowing whether to provoke the six dead souls or Xiao Xingchen.

The people in the yard who came to claim the corpse before were all scared away when Xiao Xingchen first started talking to Kong Kong.

Xue Yang sneered: "Xiao Xingchen, look, these people who came to claim the corpses were so frightened that they left the corpses of their relatives or friends and ran away. Not one of them was left behind, which shows that their feelings are not deep, or these dead people It was not a good bird."

Xiao Xingchen said: "It's ridiculous, can you tell the difference between black and white, good and evil in your eyes?"

Xue Yang said: "At least I know that the corpses of important people should not be thrown away at will."

Xiao Xingchen snorted coldly, and stared deeply at Xue Yang: "If you don't abandon it, you can make it into a corpse puppet and let you manipulate it? Just like the corpses of me and Zichen?"

"Heh, make it into a murderous corpse... Didn't the surname Song tell you so?" Xue Yang habitually hooked the corners of his mouth, smiling a little differently than before, a vague complex emotion flashed through his eyes, fleeting, no longer tangled in this topic.

"I was just kidding with those ghosts. In fact, I didn't kill these people." Xue Yang changed his words again, and changed into a state of innocence: "I know why they died, but you won't believe me if I tell you, it's up to you Check it out slowly!"

Xiao Xingchen knew that Xue Yang was cunning and changeable, and he never thought that he could change his words again and again in such a short period of time. He changed his demeanor quickly and naturally. He simply put away his sword and stopped believing a word. He decided to investigate and find out by himself. .

Xue Yang floated to the door of the house, and looked at the woman squatting at the door of the east hall like a joke.She covered her ears and buried her head between her knees, perhaps because of the dawn, she finally stopped shaking all over her body.Xiao Xingchen was afraid that Xue Yang would be unfavorable to Mrs. Yue, so he quickly walked over to protect Mrs. Yue behind him.

Xue Yang laughed and said, "Xiao Xingchen, I said before that if I want to exterminate the whole family, I won't leave a single dog behind. As long as there is one living person in this family, it proves that I didn't do it. Besides , do you think it is easy for me to kill people? The three souls and seven souls are incomplete, and my precious energy still has important uses, but I don’t have the energy to do boring things.”

Xiao Xingchen's thoughts turned suddenly, and he thought of the surviving woman named Taotao.

If Xue Yang did it, what reason is there to spare her life?Or deliberately leave someone alive, and then say such a thing in front of him, so as to confuse yourself?

Xiao Xingchen turned around and squatted down in front of Mrs. Yue, reversed the indifference he had just had when talking to Xue Yang, and said softly, "Mrs. Yue, do you or your family know someone named Xue Yang?"

Mrs. Yue kept staring blankly at the void, and when she saw Xiao Xingchen squatting in front of him to speak, she let go of her hands covering her ears a little. Xiao Xingchen repeated the question clearly.

"Do you or your family members know someone named Xue Yang, or someone who doesn't have a little finger on his left hand?"

Mrs. Yue shook her head blankly and timidly.

Xue Yang sneered at the side: "It's not me, I have never been to this place before my life!"

Xiao Xingchen ignored him, and continued to ask the woman: "Mrs. Yue, it's dawn, and I'm here to protect you. Can you relax a bit and tell me about the situation at home in detail?"

Mrs. Yue stammered, "He...has he left?"

"Who's gone?"

"Ghost...Ghost...that vicious kid, he killed the twins, I taught him a lesson and beat him, so he hates me...he wants to kill me after being a ghost!"

Xiao Xingchen frowned, "Are you talking about your 12-year-old son? Didn't he run away from home?"

"It's him... I know it's him... He stabbed me with a knife when he left, and I grabbed the knife from him, and he was also injured... He ran away with his wounds, maybe he died outside, so he came back to take revenge on me, Please! Please! Protect me! Help me!!!"

The more the woman spoke, the more excited she became, her eyes kept rolling, showing a strange look.Mentioning that son began to tremble again.

Xiao Xingchen has always avoided letting himself think of that 12-year-old child.Infanticide by children is really disgusting. Shouldn't children be innocent and kind?So many tragic deaths in the Yue family are really related to a 12-year-old child?

Such a world made him sad and couldn't bear to look directly at it, but now he had to find out the truth.

"If it is indeed a fierce ghost that your son turned into after his death, then it is best to find his body and put it in the ground, so that it can be neutralized or suppressed most effectively. Do you know where he will go when he leaves home?"

"I don't know, I don't know, I don't know..."

Mrs. Yue shook her head vigorously, the loose hairpin on her head was shaken to the ground, more than half of her messy hair was scattered on the side of her pale face, she looked even more embarrassed, Xiao Xingchen couldn't bear to stop asking.

"She lied—" Xue Yang lazily leaned against the door frame, squinting at Xiao Xingchen and Mrs. Yue from the corner of his eyes: "Look at her, a man and a child just died, but inside the mourning clothes is a gorgeous satin, with hair on her hands and There is a lot of jewelry, so many people died, she did not shed a single tear from the beginning to the end, mentioning such a young son, she is obviously more afraid than sad, and dare not look at you, these are obvious lies The sign, Xiao Xingchen, can't you see it?"

Xiao Xingchen wanted Xue Yang to shut up, and was worried that Mrs. Yue would be frightened again when she saw him talking to the void, so he could only pretend that he didn't hear Xue Yang's words. During the stalemate, Song Zichen, who had been guarding Yizhuang all night, returned.Xiao Xingchen stood up to welcome him out of the courtyard and couldn't wait to ask him, "Is there any vision in Yizhuang?"

Song Zichen shook his head with a disappointed expression, "There is no vision, only the corpse found in the well. When I left, someone went to claim it. They said it was the son of the silk shop in the town. The one who came to claim the corpse was His father, Mrs. Yue, went there to order clothes, and his son only met Mrs. Yue a few times."

He was just making clothes for Mrs. Yue, so why did he die in the well on the night when the Yue family held vigil for the deceased male patriarch?What is the connection between the cause of his death and the death of the Patriarch of the Yue family the night before?

Both are confused.

Song Zichen asked and heard that Taotao, the surviving maid, had returned home. He was a little surprised: the servants and the head of the family under the same roof had suffered tragic accidents. It would be normal for ordinary people to pray for protection like Mrs. Yue at this time, but she went home?

Song Zichen said: "Go ask her and see if you can learn anything. This town is not very big. Since the corpses in the well were not from outside the town, when I first asked this family, there was no one. People say they recognize it, which is not normal."

"Well~~ the surname Song is somewhat smarter than you."

Xue Yang nodded slowly, and commented to Xiao Xingchen's back.