Unspeakable and strange

At this time, the fourth watch has passed, and the fifth watch is approaching, which is the darkest and coldest time of the day.

Although it is straightforward, where is the ghost?Where can I find it?

The lotus pond is quiet and full of blue waves.Turning around on the stone bridge twice, I suspected that I had just seen a hallucination.

They left Xie's mansion, thinking of what the restaurant owner said before, the city is not peaceful at night, so it's better to go to the street.

The long street is empty, and the cold moon hangs high.The dilapidated banners fluttered in the wind, and the doors of every house were closed.

The wind whimpered, and someone's cry came from nowhere.

They walked on the street one after the other, stepping on the stone slabs that had accumulated water, and the moon like a wheel and a hook hung in the puddles.

In the distance, there was suddenly the sound of a dull object colliding, as if a child was hitting a ball, but the ball was hollow, but the sound sounded real and much heavier.

After a while, approach them from the other end of the long street.

The two looked at each other, Qin Hongfeng took Yan Ning's hand, and flashed into the nearest alley.

Yan Ning was protected by Qin Hongfeng from behind in his arms, and stared at the street with wide eyes.The voice was so weird, it kept getting louder and louder as the distance approached, and it made people feel chills on their backs.

Gradually, from the distant darkness gradually emerged a spherical thing, without limbs, covered the whole body with messy hair, and with every jump, the black hair bounced and fell.

Even closer, another bounce, the hair flying, the ball bathed in bright moonlight.

Yan Ning almost screamed, under the hair was a pale and stiff face with closed eyes.The hair that covers the whole body is that person's hair.That's a human head!

As the head approached, one could easily see a neat and flat incision on the neck below the head, covered with brown blood scabs, covered with dust and dirt on the ground.

The head was wet and dripping with water, and there were water stains everywhere.

Yan Ning was dumbfounded in astonishment, and turned to look at Qin Hongfeng as if asking for help, wanting him to tell herself that everything was an illusion.However, Qin Hongfeng also looked solemn, looking at the bouncing heads on the street without blinking.

So that thing really existed, not something he imagined.

His teeth were chattering, his scalp was numb, and his feet were weak.

First he saw a ghost, then he drowned, and now he saw a jumping human head.What kind of weird place is this?What is the old capital of the royal city? It is clearly a ghost city.

In the place behind the head that was not illuminated by the moonlight, it was pitch-black, like thick ink that could not be melted away, and there were many ghosts and ghosts hiding there.

The heads were rampaging in the street, getting closer and closer to the hiding place of Yan Ning and the others.Yan Ning was so frightened that she forgot to breathe, but she still met the head.The eyes that had been closed before suddenly opened, revealing a pair of white eyes, more or less black, full of ferocious red bloodshot eyes, rushing frantically towards the alley where they were hiding.

Qin Hongfeng grabbed Yan Ning's hand and pushed him behind him, his expression unchanged.

Just as Rentou was about to rush into the alley, he heard a sharp bird call from the sky.The human head seemed to hear the bell calling to the soul, and he was terrified, and suddenly stopped his movements.

Suddenly, a flock of black birds appeared in the sky. A large bird swooped down from the sky, skimmed the ground flatly, picked up the human head with its red beak, and rushed up to the sky again to join the flock of birds.The flock of birds fluttered their wings, covering the sky and the sun, turning around and passing over the palace city again, swallowing the distant palaces like dark clouds, and fading into the night, shedding a series of mournful wails like human voices.

Yan Ning stared blankly at all these changes.

There was a rooster crowing in the distance, the night receded, and the first dawn came, and it was dawn.

"Do you still remember the incision on that man's head and neck? It was a knife wound, and it was a heavy, sharp knife. It is impossible for an ordinary knife to have such a flat wound."

Vendors who had left their stalls early had already pushed their carts out to sell. The shops on both sides took off their door panels and cleaned to welcome customers. The sun rose from the east, and the sky was covered with a golden border.The steamed stuffed bun drawer was emitting white gas. At the stall selling wontons, the wontons were scooped up with a colander and poured into soup bowls, and then poured with a small spoonful of sesame oil.

Yan Ning pouted her chin, her eyes were a little dazed.

Qin Hongfeng fed him a spoonful of wonton soup with a small spoon, and he ate it without discerning taste.Seeing his appearance, Qin Hongfeng smiled lightly, and continued, "That saber must have a history, and this person must have an unusual identity."

Yan Ning rolled her eyes, shivered during the day, and said dejectedly, "So what if you know who it is? I can't explain why there is a human head running around on the street at night, and those group of people Big Bird, where did it come from?"

"When a person dies, there are obsessions, unwillingness, and unable to close their eyes, they will stay in the old place and cannot escape. You know this." Qin Hongfeng said after a pause, "When the obsession disappears, you will naturally be liberated."

Yan Ning asked, "You said that the head was trapped here?"

Qin Hongfeng nodded, "If you were decapitated and only had one head left, what would your obsession be?"

Yan Ning suddenly realized, "Naturally leave a whole body."

Qin Hongfeng said again, "I guess that person is looking for his body. It's just that he wanders the streets every night. If the body was still in the city, he would have found it a long time ago. I'm afraid it's been a long time, and I don't know where it is. gone."

Yan Ning sighed, "This is too tragic. The head was cut off, and there will be no peace after death. If you can't find it, don't you have to look for it forever, and there will be no peace and liberation?"

"There is no way to do this. If you hold on to it for too long, you will turn into a ghost. Look at that man's head surrounded by black air and his face is ferocious. I'm afraid he has already owed a few blood debts."

The younger brother who was wiping the table wiped their table, and after hearing what they said, he put the towel on his shoulders, leaned over and asked, "The two guest officers look unfamiliar, aren't they from the local area?"

Qin Hongfeng nodded, "We came from the north to visit old friends."

"That's no wonder." The clerk pulled out a bench and sat down, "I just heard you talking about headless corpses. Where did you hear that?"

Yan Ning and Qin Hongfeng looked at each other, they didn't say anything clearly, they just covered it up, "I went to a restaurant yesterday, and the boss there said that the city is not clean at night, what kind of head is it?"

The little second brother winked, it was still early and there were no guests around, so it was better to gossip for a while, "Let me tell you, there is a history of this headless corpse."

"Oh?" Qin Hongfeng followed the conversation and poured him a cup of tea, "I would like to hear more about it."

"Do you all know where this place used to be?" The guy made a fool of himself.

Qin Hongfeng nodded, "The old capital of Xi State."

"Yes. More than ten years ago, this was the capital of the state of Xi. When the state of Di attacked the gate, King Xi ordered the city gate to be closed and not surrender. The people all over the city could not leave, and the enemy could not enter. Suffer there to see who can’t stand it first. It was really miserable at that time. There were so many people in the city, and there was only so much food. Soldiers, not as tall as the guns in their hands, had to work hard, men, women, and children, carrying earth and rocks to reinforce the city wall. In those days, no matter day or night, wooden pillars were set up on the top of the city to throw stones and throw fire, and the sky above them was not dark. However, it is always red, and arrows fly by from time to time."

Qin Hongfeng raised his eyes and said, "Brother is very eloquent, what happened more than ten years ago was told so clearly by you, as if you saw it with your own eyes."

The man rubbed his nose and smiled, "I've heard it all, and it's so vivid. Although I escaped from the famine two years ago, how is the scene of the war different? "