I'm just a "little half fairy"

Chengde Middle School is built on the hillside and occupies a small area, but it has a history of decades of school establishment.

Yan Ting and Xu Mowen walked around behind the old teaching building, and after a while, they saw a pine forest in front of them.

When they came, they found a camera installed behind the teaching building, but the field of view was not enough to extend into the forest.And the girl who was killed walked from the visible range of the surveillance to the place where the camera couldn't see.

After the two determined their general location, they walked towards the direction of the forest.

I originally planned to find the location of the tree by comparing the photos, but found that it was not necessary.

As soon as they entered the forest, they saw a white outline drawn under a pine tree not far ahead, which was a mark recording the location of the deceased.

At present, it seems that the police have already taken the evidence that should be collected, so they walked over and came to the tree where the girl was killed.

This is an old pine tree that has grown for at least dozens of years. The branches and leaves are dark green, and the trunk looks dry and rough.

In addition to the white marks made by the police on the roots of the pine trees, there are bloodstains that have turned black and red in the soil covered by pine needles.

Standing under the tree, Yan Ting remembered the weird posture of the girl with her head half-drawn and hanging on her shoulders, and felt a little uncomfortable for a moment.

At this time, Xu Mowen had already circled behind the tree, and Yan Ting also followed - to find out what the strange shadow behind the tree in the photo was, this was the purpose of their trip.

After searching carefully for a while, the two found that there was nothing unusual on the back of the tree, but they knew that things were not that simple.

In the photo, something like three fingers protruded from the tree trunk behind the girl's head, but it was blurred in the photo.

The appearance of the girl after death was so unsettling that few people dared to look closely at the photo, and even if they did, they would think it was caused by the dirt on the lens.

But my intuition told Yan Ting that the girl's accident is likely to have an important relationship with those three "fingers".

Seeing that there was nothing to see on the tree, Yan Ting turned around and found nothing unusual, but found a few graves in a place deeper in the forest, and the red and green paper flowers on the graves were also full of flowers. Has faded to white.

This place is indeed unpopular, and the feng shui is bad. It is not impossible to say that it is haunted.

Yan Ting recalled the images in the surveillance again—the boy didn't look around when he came all the way here, it seemed that his goal was very clear, as if he knew someone was waiting for her here.

He had to imagine that the girl was being controlled by someone or something, but it was impossible for the evil spirit to inflict such severe trauma on her, but if it was a human being, what method did he use?What is the purpose?

At this moment, he heard Xu Mowen calling his name.

"look here."

He wiped the trunk of the tree with his thumb, and gradually a faint, green mark emerged, which could easily be mistaken for pigment from scraped leaves.

Just that location, exactly where they saw the three "fingers".

"what is this?"

Xu Mowen sniffed it closer, the fragrance was mixed with a bitter pine smell and a fishy smell, not blood, more like the smell of leaves rotting in the wet soil.

He said: "A kind of hallucinogenic fragrance in witchcraft, she should be attracted by this thing.

"I probably don't know this place." Yan Ting said, if the girl was bewitched by this kind of thing, the murderer should have arranged this kind of thing along the way.

They walked back along the way they came, bent down to observe carefully, and found that there were such green marks on the ground along the road.

Some of them are mixed with the green leaves, and some are stuck on the soil, so you can't find them if you don't look carefully.

"This kind of hallucinogenic method is relatively low-level, and it is banned in many sects today. If you dare to use this method to harm people publicly, you should be someone who is not under the control of the sect."

"It's not for money, but for murder, and you use such a cruel method, what is the purpose?"

Xu Mowen looked back at the pine tree that the girl was leaning on after she was killed, and said slowly, "In order to get her soul."

Yan Ting: "...why cut her neck if it's just to take her soul?"

"In order to keep her soul from being reborn forever."

Yan Ting was puzzled, and Xu Mowen continued: "Killing a person and cutting the neck of the deceased will cause the soul to lose a certain amount of mobility. As long as a certain amount of witchcraft is used, the soul of the deceased can be completely controlled."

"Controlling the soul..." Yan Ting was lost in thought.

Throughout the ages, people who choose to control their souls are mostly divided into two types. One is to use the soul to do things that are inconvenient for them, and the other is to use it in certain rituals.

If it is the first type, people who choose to kill innocent people to obtain their souls and exercise control will definitely not use their souls to do good things. If it is the second type... then it is really hard to say what they are going to do.

At this moment, a message came from Yan Ting's mobile phone. Yan Ting took out her mobile phone to check, it was a WeChat message from Zhou Yue.

[I heard that two people died on your side?It seems to be murder, so be careful when you go out! 】

two?

Yan Ting thought that Zhou Yue had sent the message by mistake, and was about to reply to her, when she saw her send the latest news.

——A teenager from an electronics factory in the old city of Qingyun City was found next to a reservoir two days after his disappearance. According to investigations, it was found that his modus operandi was the same as that of the Chengde Middle School murder case. The suspected serial murder case has attracted great attention from all walks of life. The police are doing their best to investigate... …

Yan Ting's heart tightened, she raised her head and said to Xu Mowen, "Another victim has appeared, and the way of death is exactly the same as the last girl!"

Xu Mowen was a little surprised, took Yan Ting's cell phone, and frowned after reading it.

At present, it seems that the murderer is targeting young people in their teens. What exactly does he want to do?Why did you choose the old city of Qingyun City as the location of the crime?

When the two rushed to the reservoir with doubts, they found that many reporters were shooting around the reservoir, while the police were collecting evidence at the scene. It seems that no strong evidence has been found so far.

Yan Ting knew that the perpetrators must not be ordinary people, so even if the police want to investigate, it is difficult to find a breakthrough.

Apart from the reporter, there were many onlookers standing outside the cordon. Yan Ting and Xu Mowen also joined in.

The corpse has been pulled away, and there is still a lot of blood in the place where the corpse was placed.

They waited quietly on the sidelines, and they didn't go in until the police had finished collecting evidence and the onlookers felt that there was nothing to see.

After careful searching, they found that even though the ground had been trampled by everyone, there were still green marks left.

At this time, it was almost dark, and a gust of wind blew from the water, bringing some coolness.

Xu Mowen seemed to have remembered something, squatted on the ground and picked up a stone, which was also stained with light green marks.

He put the stone in the palm of his hand, covered it with the other hand, and released it again, the stone actually burned!

No, Yan Ting took a closer look and found that what was burning was the green powder stained on the stone.

After the flame burned for a moment, Xu Mowen threw away the stone and clapped his hands.

"You can use spells out of thin air?"

In Yan Ting's cognition, no matter what kind of spell is used, certain tools are needed, such as talisman paper, such as spiritual weapon... He has never seen such a spell that makes fire out of thin air.

Xu Mowen said, "It's not out of thin air."

"Ah?" Yan Ting didn't believe it, "Don't lie to me, my eyesight is good, you just didn't have anything in your hand!"

Xu Mowen signaled him to raise his hand, and pointed to his wrist: "Isn't the Jade Fate Knot the best spiritual weapon?"

"!!!"

Yan Ting suddenly realized, and then felt quite emotional - he had carried the jade life knot for so many years, but he had never used it once.

He bent down to search, and finally found a branch with green marks, so he imitated Xu Mowen, put it in his hand and began to chant the mantra.

But after trying several spells back and forth, none of them could make the green powder on the branches burn.

Xu Mowen took his hand, put it in his palm, and held it together with the branch.

Yan Ting was taken aback, and when he was about to ask Xu Mowen what he wanted to do, the latter asked him to close his eyes.

He hesitated for a moment, but obediently closed his eyes.

It didn't take long for him to feel a burst of heat coming from the back of his hand, followed by the palm of his hand.

Xu Mowen opened his hand, and Yan Ting also opened his eyes.

At this time, the branch in his hand had returned to its original state, but the green traces on it had disappeared.

"ended?"

Xu Mowen let go of his hand: "Well... what did you notice?"

After his question, Yan Ting carefully recalled what happened just now.

In addition to feeling hot in the palm of my hand, there seems to be a faint strange smell - like, the smell of burnt wood!

"Like the wood was charred."

Xu Mowen said: "It's not wood, it's a plant called Sophora thorn. The juice is extracted and ground into powder, which has hallucinogenic effects."

"How come I haven't heard of such a thing?"

Yan Ting is surprised, he usually dabbles in these weird things, if there is such an easy-to-use hallucinogen, he should have known about it a long time ago.

"Acacia thorn was forbidden to be planted hundreds of years ago, and it has not appeared again for so many years. In the past, it had a dizzying effect at most, but now it seems that it is more poisonous gone."

"So, as long as we find out who planted the locust tree, we can find the murderer?"

"Ah."

"However," Yan Ting regained his strength and gestured with his hands, "How did you do that just now?!"

Xu Mowen knew that he was talking about setting the locust tree powder on fire with his bare hands, so he said, "Your skill is not strong enough, you need to let me hold your hand and cast the spell together like just now."

Yan Ting was instantly discouraged, curled her lips and said, "I'm so excited!"

"Don't you think the method just now is also very good? At least it can enhance the relationship between master and apprentice."

Yan Ting threw the branch in his hand on the ground, and clapped his hands like him: "You should hold hands with the person you like to enhance your relationship!"

Xu Mowen looked at him with an intriguing look on his face.

He suddenly lowered his head, stared into Yan Ting's eyes and said, "Your tone...why does it sound like you're jealous?"

Yan Ting hurriedly turned away, and was so frightened that she could hardly speak: "I... I'm a man... Why are you jealous?"

But the other party was relentless: "I still remember someone said that my face is so good-looking that even boys would like it."

Yan Ting recalled the conversation she had with the old man on the tractor.He himself said something like "men and women can't escape Xu Mowen's palm, and I like it when I see it".

But at that time, I just said it casually, I didn't expect this guy to remember it so clearly...

Yan Ting coughed, waved her hands and said, "I'm just joking, you really take it seriously..."

After he finished speaking, he turned and walked back: "It's getting dark, we'll check tomorrow."

But Xu Mowen's voice was not heard from behind him for a long time, nor was his footsteps following, the surrounding was so quiet that it made one's heart shudder.

He couldn't help but look back, Xu Mowen was still standing there, with a disappointed expression on his face.

Yan Ting paused, thinking to himself why Xu Mowen is so unreasonable?Why are you still so fragile at such an age?

Even though he thought so, he still hurried forward to comfort him: "I didn't mean to say you're not handsome... You really look good for both men and women, and there must be many people who like it!"

"how about you?"

Yan Ting was taken aback.

"Ok?"