Ring of Seven [Online Version]

Back in the reception room, the old policeman had already taken the suicide note from the evidence department, and the rest of the people were waiting for Chen Hao and the others to come back. The little policeman approached the old policeman and whispered a few words. They looked at them and said, "This is the suicide note, you can read it."

Chen Hao picked up the suicide note packed in a plastic bag, and found that there were very few characters, and it was actually written in seal script. Among these characters, Chen Hao found the strange word "螀" in several places.In addition, there is a very weird hand-drawn drawing in this suicide note. Because Professor Ma has studied epigraphy for many years, he has deep research and attainments in painting and calligraphy. He drew a totem with a pen, and the lines It is very complicated, with many lines outlining a shape similar to a peony flower.But if you look closely, it is not a flower in a separate sense.

Fat San tutted, "It's a bit like a topographic map."

Zhou Jue bumped into Fat San, meaning to keep quiet, as there were policemen behind him.Chen Hao ignored them, and after picking up the suicide note, he muttered something silently, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

Until the little policeman said: "This suicide note has no legal meaning, but when he died, Professor Ma's eyes were still fixed on the suicide note, so we think this suicide note is very important. But we can't understand its meaning at all. .”

Feng Feng Laojiu said: "Then this suicide note said it was for Chen Hao, can we take it away?"

The old policeman shook his head: "No, because Professor Ma died unnaturally, and there are still many doubts in it. We haven't checked the woman named Guo Mei. So although Chen Hao has the right to read this suicide note, he doesn't own it. right."

Chen Hao returned the suicide note to the police: "It's okay, we will actively cooperate with the police investigation."

It was already noon when the six people walked out of the police station. The sun was hitting everyone's faces, making them feel abnormally dazzling, but their hearts were as cold as an ice cellar.Everyone knows that Professor Ma's death must have something to do with the Ring of Seven, no, to be precise, his death was related to Guo Pu's tomb.But why did he suddenly die at this juncture?

Seeing Chen Hao habitually fumbling for cigarettes in his pocket again, Zhou Jue handed him one and asked, "Brother Chen, do you remember?"

Chen Hao took the cigarette: "Well, the teacher's suicide note is actually a map riddle, and the seal characters on it are actually the annotations to the riddle, but we have no conditions to solve it now, I can only say that maybe this is the correct location of Guo Pu's tomb. "

Fat San struggled and said, "Tell me what's going on. The old man drank five bottles of rice wine last night. How could he commit suicide if he said he committed suicide. It's not crazy."

The thin monkey couldn't help but said, "Where did Guo Mei go? Who is she?"

Chen Hao replied: "She is a student of Professor Ma, she can be regarded as Ru Lan's junior sister. I don't have any deep friendship with me. In fact, this time I always thought that Li Fang would pick us up. I don't know why it was Guo May come forward."

Zhou Jue rubbed his nose and said, "Now that Professor Ma is dead, and Guo Mei is missing, there is only one person who can find out. Well, let's go find Li Fang."

Fat San said disapprovingly: "Can you find it? I said that this man and woman are abnormal, even that Professor Ma is to blame. Have you forgotten the purpose of our coming to Nanjing? Now it's like headless chickens Flying around in Nanjing."

Feng Laojiu coughed unnaturally, and looked away. Fat San didn't care. He probably became more courageous in broad daylight. He said, "This book is fucking weird from the beginning. If you don't die, you will find the second child, and if the second child is not dead, you will show us again..."

Zhou Jue corrected it immediately after hearing it: "It's wrong, you insisted on reading it, what do you mean I showed it to you? I said at the beginning that this book has a strange origin."

The thin monkey blocked the dispute between the two: "Actually, this matter did not come according to our plan. At first we thought this book was a ghost book, but we didn't expect to pull out some scorpions, and they even had a relationship with Guo Pu. It does. But then again what does that have to do with the book? What a fucking mess."

Zhou Jue raised his eyebrows when asked, even if he had ten mouths to answer this question, he couldn't answer it.He could only sigh in frustration and say, "I don't know!"

The thin monkey is quite calm, he said: "I always feel that we are always being led by the nose. It seems that we can only accept the clues that are given to us."

Zhou Jue and Fat San also listened to their thoughts. After calming down, Zhou Jue lowered his head and said to himself, "We follow the prepared route every time. This route...wasn't it Chen Rulan who pointed it out to us? ?”

The thin monkey said: "But she failed. I wonder why this woman's ability failed?"

Zhou Jue looked at Shouhou, and Shouhou looked at him seriously, then he glanced at everyone present and said, "I feel like the clues Chen Rulan gave us are impure, I don't know how to explain this feeling, I just feel like ..."

Zhou Jue continued his words and said, "It seems that there are other things mixed in these clues."

The thin monkey nodded heavily, Zhou Jue stopped talking, and before he recovered, Fat San pointed excitedly at the opposite side of the road. Zhou Jue took a closer look and found the four-eyed King Kong brother running over from the opposite side of the road, Fat San Clutching his fists: "Say Cao Cao Cao Cao will be there, very good, save me a lot of trouble, go to Shouhou."

Zhou Jue hurriedly grabbed Fat San and said, "What the hell, do you think it's the world showdown between Skinny Monkey and King Kong? Ask carefully, and you can always find something."

Li Fang ran towards them at a trot, his eyes looked like he had just cried, and he was wearing a black cloth on his cuffs.He said, "Are you here already?"

Chen Hao nodded: "Well, I just found out this morning, why did the professor die for no reason?"

Just as Li Fang was about to speak, he suddenly seemed to realize something and said in a low voice: "Here, let's talk in the car first..."

When Li Fang said this, everyone's emotions were raised, and they nodded nervously. Li Fang led everyone to the broken gold cup car, and after closing the door, he said: "The professor left me a word. If he If something goes wrong, let me tell you or Sister Rulan that you have to look for the old place. The new one won’t work.”

Zhou Jue asked nervously, "What's next?"

Li Fang spread his hands and said, "It's gone..."

At first, everyone stretched their necks to listen, but after he finished speaking, everyone retracted their stretched necks like a turtle.Only Chen Hao frowned thoughtfully.Ever since he heard about Professor Ma's death, he has become very silent, muttering non-stop, and he doesn't like talking to others.

Fat San said: "No more? This unclear sentence is his last words? Anyway, that suicide note also has an incomprehensible topographic map. Why can't the old man be more straightforward? Why are scholars so incomprehensible?" Simply."

Hearing this, Zhou Jue patted Fat San on the head and said, "Professor Ma has no obligation to explain to you. Do you think it's an NPC in the game? Death is the most respectful thing!"

Fat San realized that what he had said was too much, he touched his neck and said, "There is no other way, if we continue to waste, we probably won't even have the right to die. Do you think I can take it easy?"

Skinny Monkey frowned and said, "Will he be resurrected? Like Feng Laojiu? Could he be the seventh person?"

Fat San nodded and said, "I think it's possible, why don't we go and see the corpse? We should have the right to guard the corpse."

Ye Wei said: "You say so many meaningless things, it's better to start to understand the clues left by the professor, and don't you think there is a purpose in what he said so cryptically?"

Zhou Jue actually thought of this too. According to the words of ordinary people, the clearer the suicide note and last words are, the better. I am afraid that others will not understand and misunderstand its original intention.However, Professor Ma's suicide note was very cryptic. Generally, there is only one possibility for such a situation, that is, the person who wrote the suicide note did not want people to know the true meaning of the suicide note so easily.

Zhou Jue looked at Ye Wei, Ye Wei lowered his head thoughtfully, and now everyone is lowering their heads and thinking about the two fans left by Mr. Ma.

In the end, it was Chen Hao who broke the silence. He asked Li Fang: "Have you noticed anything strange about the teacher recently?"

It was only then that everyone discovered that Li Fang had listened to the previous words, but Li Fang was also completely confused about Professor Ma's death, and it seemed that he didn't understand the matter of the seven-person ring. At present, his biggest question is still Around the death of the professor.He frowned and said: "Yeah, you said the teacher is fine, why would he commit suicide? I saw the teacher drank too much last night, so I sent him home. When he returned to the room, he sat in front of the desk without saying a word. I thought it was I was drunk and had no energy to make a fuss. I didn't expect that as soon as I left..."

Chen Hao said, "Didn't Guo Mei take the teacher home with you?"

Li Fang was stunned for a moment. After hearing the word Guo Mei, he fell silent. He said, "No, I sent the teacher back alone. I really don't know how to say Xiaomei..."

Zhou Jue asked warily, "What do you mean?"

Li Fang looked at everyone very scrupulously, and finally put his eyes on Chen Hao, he said: "I tell you, you can't laugh at me for reading books for so many years for nothing."

It wasn't until everyone nodded cautiously with sullen faces that Li Fang said with twinkling eyes: "Hey, I don't know if you believe in the saying of being bewitched..."

Fat San swallowed a mouthful of water, and repeated, "Bewitched?"

Li Fang quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I am also a person who has studied for so many years, and I am different from those village fools. But after thinking about what happened to Guo Mei and the teacher, only this statement can count. "

He saw that everyone's faces were very serious, and he didn't have the slightest hint of sarcasm, so he boldly continued: "It started when Rulan brought a group of strangers to talk about it five years ago. At the beginning, the teacher was very happy. , but in the end the words became more and more intense, almost like a quarrel. Rulan took the group of people away again, and left a sentence before leaving, saying that if Chen Hao came again, the old professor asked the old professor to take care of them. Since you are both his students, you must help him. Otherwise, accidents will happen to both of you.

Afterwards, the teacher locked himself in the room. When the teacher came out of the room the next day, the teacher put down the study of epigraphy in the Song Dynasty for many years, and focused on the research of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the last half year, the focus was on It was Guo Pu's research. It was not until the last period that the teacher solved the connection between the Li family and Guo Pu, as well as the secrets of the Li family.Then the teacher became very afraid of being alone. Although he didn't say anything, I always felt that he seemed to be hiding from something.It was at this time that Guo Mei also became strange. Originally, this girl was very smart. The teacher had no daughter, so he regarded her as a daughter.Once I saw Guo Mei throwing out a bag of trash, and I happened to be throwing it out too, and I found a bloody cat’s head in her trash. The cat must have been dead for a while, and several cat’s eyes have been drilled around here. Maggots, she just said they were killed by the glass, but I saw the dead cat in the garbage a few days later.I asked Guo Mei, and Guo Mei said she didn't know.I didn't see the dead cat later, and I forgot about it.I just didn't expect that once I found a cardboard box next to Guo Mei's dormitory, which was full of dead cats, some of which had rotted into a mess. "

Li Fang seemed to bring up all the anger in his stomach and said: "This is not the weirdest thing. Ever since Guo Mei kept killing cats, I found that she would talk to herself in the laboratory at night. I didn't Dare to make a sound and walked in to listen, and found that there were two voices coming out of Guo Mei's mouth, one was her original voice, and the other was a very hoarse old man's voice. This voice is definitely not something she can She seemed to be talking to that voice..."

Li Fang let out a sigh of relief, and Zhou Jue said dryly, "So you said Guo Mei was possessed by a ghost?"

Li Fang nodded: "Otherwise, how to explain? And how to explain the teacher's death?"

Unexpectedly, it was Ye Wei who had been silent all this time, and he suddenly said, "Could it be that Guo Mei is copying the resurrection technique of the Chizu clan back then?"

Chen Hao said: "We have to find Guo Mei, so don't worry about Li Fang anymore, and concentrate on dealing with the teacher's funeral. The teacher's academics depend on you."

Li Fang said seriously: "Yes, who would have thought that this would be the case. The teacher has studied epigraphy all his life, and I have studied with him for so long. Although my qualifications are not as good as you and Rulan, I think I will Do my best to delve into this academic subject. As for... As for the matter of Rulan, I think you can let it go if you can. The teacher has already... This matter is too scary."

Chen Hao patted Li Fang on the shoulder, and got out of the car without saying anything. After everyone bid farewell to Li Fang, the mystery in their hearts increased instead of diminishing. Chen Hao held his forehead wearily.Suddenly, a short message came from Chen Hao's cell phone.It said "If you want to know more details, come to Jiangning quickly." It was an unfamiliar number, but when Chen Hao called, it showed that the phone had been turned off.

Ye Wei laughed softly: "It seems that someone is more anxious than us."

The thin monkey looked sideways: "What does this mean?"

Ye Wei didn't answer the question but looked at the thin monkey with a smile and said, "Why do you care so much about what I say? Could it be that you have taken a fancy to me?"

The thin monkey felt disgusted as if he had swallowed a fly when he heard this: "Do you feel too good about yourself?"

Ye Wei couldn't help laughing out loud. He looked at Chen Hao, who didn't see any change in his expression, and stopped a taxi casually: "Go to Jiangning."

The six people couldn't fit in one car, so they called for two taxis, which made the two drivers very happy. Among them, Feng Laojiu insisted on going back to pick up all the luggage, so the drivers happily took the young masters From downtown Nanjing all the way to Jiangning District.And no one seemed to care about the money, this afternoon was like a half-day tour in the outskirts of Nanjing.

The six people got out of the car. Of course, when they paid the money, they finally showed more or less distressed expressions on their faces.When they arrived in Jiangning, they realized that they were too anxious. In this huge district, they ran here without asking exactly when they met.

The two drivers also looked at the six people inexplicably. These six people didn't seem to be here for tourism. They asked suspiciously: "Brothers, what are you doing here in Jiangning? Tourism or business trip?"

Zhou Jue glanced at Chen Hao, who was more than expressionless, he could only fake a smile and said, "We are here for a trip, and someone here is here to meet you. Master, you can go."

The driver waved his hand to say goodbye, and left a mobile phone for them, meaning that if they want to go back, they will send it.It is estimated that these six are regarded as the winners from Shanghai.

Fat San looked at the unfamiliar environment, and spent the whole afternoon on the road. Seeing the sun setting like an orange, the day was about to pass inexplicably. Zhou Jue glanced at his watch, and the time had passed. It's 04:30 in the afternoon.The delay was too long.Looking at everyone's tired look, he said, "I guess we'll be delayed again today, so let's find a place to spend the night first."

Unexpectedly, the voice fell off, and he heard Chen Hao's cell phone ringing again. He opened it and found another strange short message, which said: "Come to Qilin Town immediately."

Fat San rubbed his arm and said, "It's too cold, we sent a message as soon as we arrived in Jiangning, it's almost like..."

Fat San didn't continue, but everyone understood what he meant, as if a pair of eyes followed them all the time.The thin monkey looked around and said, "I don't know where Qilin Town is going. Brother Chen, what do you think?"

Chen Hao looked across the road coldly: "Go to Qilin Town."

Fat San sighed, put on his backpack and prepared to continue walking, but Ye Wei stopped him and said, "Have you ever wondered who sent you the short message?"

The thin monkey lowered his head and thought for a while: "Isn't that Guo Mei?"

Ye Wei smiled and didn't answer Shouhou, but Chen Hao's face became even more livid: "You suspect Rulan?"

Ye Wei restrained his smile and said, "This possibility cannot be ruled out. Although we have seen Chen Rulan's body, you also understand that as long as there are seven people, death or non-death will not count as real disappearance. This is the seven people who can be photographed." A place where you can't rest until you die."

Chen Hao suddenly grabbed his collar, everyone was shocked by his action, but Chen Hao just stared at Ye Wei and said: "Ru Lan is dead, she will choose to rest in peace."

Zhou Jue regained his composure, he immediately pulled Chen Hao's hand away, Ye Wei's face turned pale, he gave Chen Hao a cold look and stopped talking.It seemed that the two of them had something to say about Chen Rulan, but Zhou Jue had no way of asking, even if he asked Chen Hao and Ye Wei, he would definitely not say anything.

So in order to ease the atmosphere, Fat San and Thin Monkey stopped a van and went straight to Qilin Town, but they made the same mistake again, and there was still no clear time and place, and even the characters were unknown.How to wait?The six people sitting in the van fell silent. The driver thought that the group of people had no money to ride in the car and was about to get them out of the car, but this time, Chen Hao directly asked the driver to go straight to Kaisong along a Kaicheng road in Qilin Town. The place where the stone carvings of Shinto in Ningling Mausoleum of Emperor Wudi Liu Yuchu were carried out.

Just when everyone got into the taxi and began to wonder, Chen Hao received another message with only two words on it: smart.

Zhou Jue was puzzled, but Chen Hao breathed a sigh of relief when he received the news. He looked at Zhou Jue with a forced smile and said, "I guessed it too. From the records in the "Six Dynasties" and other documents, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties Many relics are distributed around Jiangning and Nanjing, that is, Jilong Mountain, Yuntai Mountain, etc. If there is any connection with the Southern Dynasties in Jiangning, the most famous and easiest to find is the Ningling Shinto. And this The news is obviously aimed at us, our purpose is to find Guo Pu's tomb, he might not invite us to chat with each other over tea."

Everyone couldn't help but also heaved a sigh of relief, but Ye Wei didn't smile, he said quietly: "He can know our decision and guess in a second, it's amazing."

Feng Laojiu said: "It's scary. But we don't have time to be afraid. And if he is really the seventh person, then we have to make even scarier plans."

The atmosphere in the carriage dropped to freezing point again, and no one spoke to each other.It seems that they are afraid that as long as they say something, they will be known by the invisible other party. The surveillance from the outside world can still be resisted, but this kind of peeping seems to come from the depths of their own bodies and brains. There lives a ghost, and this ghost controls the thoughts and behaviors of each of them.

Ghosts are born from the heart.

By the time of Ningling Shendao, the sky was almost dark, leaving only a blush in the west.And this is not a downtown area. After they got out of the car, even the driver stepped on the accelerator and ran all the way back.The six people stood in a daze in front of the stone carvings, and the dim light shone on the independent stone unicorn in front of the Shinto, which looked a bit hideous.Weeds are overgrown all around, except for the protective fence around Shi Qilin, it is just an explanatory sign.It is quite different from the imperial mausoleum Shinto in the popular sense. This place has lost the domineering aura of the imperial spiritual dao. After the washing and erosion of time, except for the arrogance of this stone unicorn, everything looks extraordinarily solemn and depressed.

But in this small tofu-like place, there is no one else except Chen Hao and the six of them. Everyone looks at me and I look at you, and there is a question in their hearts: Where are the people?

The thin monkey looked around and said, "No one? It's already so late, why don't we go first?"

Zhou Jue shook his head: "Impossible, he can calculate when we will arrive in Jiangning, how could he not calculate when we will arrive in Qilin Town?"

As soon as Fat San was blown by the cold wind, his heart started to tremble. He said, "Do you still remember...the police said that they didn't see Guo Mei on the camera?"

Zhou Jue looked up at Fat San, Fat San then continued: "I've seen a ghost movie before, it said that a woman died, and then she turned into a female ghost to kill people for revenge, no one can do anything about it Saw her...but she was always..."

Speaking of this, everyone looked at Fat San, and Fat Sanyue became more and more frightened as he spoke, and he said, "Could it be...she's here already?"

After Fat San said this, everyone looked around nervously, feeling that the stone unicorn was even more sinister, Ye Wei said in a low voice: "Listen."

At this moment, the black cat in Ye Wei's backpack poked its head out, and it yelled hoarsely towards the deepest part of the street. A faint laugh came from the depths of the room, but it was very slight, almost like the slight sound of the wind. After several minutes, no one came out at all.

Zhou Jue looked around, he subconsciously approached the crowd, as if there were some invisible people among them, he swallowed and said, "It's not really a ghost, is it?"

And Feng Laojiu echoed in a low voice: "Is it really the seventh person?"