Yancheng Special Office

An hour later, two cars set off from the open space in front of the household registration hall in the north of the city and drove towards Li City overnight.

It was about a five-hour drive from Yancheng to Li City in Lin Province, and the late-night highway was almost unimpeded.The place is a developing third-tier city, and the high-speed rail has not yet been connected. The car turned from the high-speed highway to the provincial road and finally went to the country road.

Qi Jun's mobile phone number was arranged by Luo Ye to be used in the tracking system as soon as he got in the car. As long as the other party touches any nearby signal point, his specific location can be directly located.Because this area is close to the Qinling Mountains, there are many tunnels on the road, and the signal is strong and weak at times, so not to mention continuous tracking, even their own mobile phone signal is intermittent.

During this period, the tracking system barely caught two low-intensity signal accesses by Qi Jun, both of which were located in a certain mountain depression south of Wang Village.However, since the time of each capture is very short, Luo Ye can only roughly judge the range he is in.

After entering the Wangxiang area, the speed of the car slowed down significantly.The street lamps on the road seemed to have not been repaired, and the surroundings were pitch black.The range of high beams is deserted, and there are still many falling rocks on the road.

Since there is no signal, the positioning system cannot be used normally.Relying on the original satellite map downloaded in advance, Su Jian managed to drive close to the destination where Qi Jun's signal last appeared. The car finally stopped at the entrance of an unnamed village, and there was no obvious way to drive further.

The car turned off, and several people got out of the car with flashlights, and looked around.

This village does not look like it is inhabited, but it looks like a dead village that has been abandoned for a long time.Not to mention the overgrown weeds around, when the wind blows, even the doors of the neighbors creak.Luo Ye held the bag tremblingly, and followed Su Jian like a ghost, looking left and right.As soon as Su Jian turned her head, she was caught off guard by him and couldn't help cursing: "What are you doing?!"

Luo Ye smiled embarrassingly: "I'm sorry Director, I just... just read a horror novel when I was bored on the road..."

Su Jian gave him a blank look, and pointed to the driveway: "I'll go ahead to explore the road, don't follow, and find a place to adjust the signal by yourself."

Luo Ye got the amnesty and ran back to the car to get equipment.Luo Wenxiu took two bottles of water from the trunk, and when he came over, he heard Su Jian lower his head and cough, so he couldn't help but went back to the car and took a coat and handed it to him: "You have a cold, don't stand there The wind eats the wind."

Su Jian cleared her throat, put on her clothes with a playful smile, then deliberately leaned into his arms, trying to take advantage of the other party and said "Thank you for your concern", but Luo Wenxiu walked away early as if she knew him very well .Su Jian rushed to nothing, as if she knew he would avoid him, and then stuck to him like a dog's skin plaster.

The eastern sky gradually began to turn pale. Even if the light was turned off at this time, the surroundings were not so dark that you couldn't see your fingers.

Pei Mengfei looked at the entrance of the village for a long time, and finally found a badly weathered stone tablet in the overgrown bushes with the help of memory.Although the words on it had long been blurred, he was still very familiar with them.

"That's right, I've been to this place before... It wasn't like this back then, and there were even a lot of people living here."

Luo Wenxiu looked at the dilapidated state of the village, and couldn't help asking: "The year you mentioned must have been a long time ago, right?"

Pei Mengfei sighed and said, "At that time, I had just cultivated human form from a fox, probably before the founding of the People's Republic of China."

There is always an indescribable sense of disobedience when speaking this sentence from a young man who looks like he is always in his 20s. Luo Wenxiu counts Pei Mengfei's age when he becomes an adult, so he can be regarded as his grandpa. .

"The young people in the village have all gone out to work, and the rest of the old people died one by one. It is normal for this kind of village in the deep mountains to be deserted." Su Jian said with her hands on her hips, "Qi Jun's signal was finally cut off here. Nearby, go and see if he has left any marks."

Jin Yi walked to the depths of the village step by step, with his hands in his pockets, unconsciously twisting a few talisman papers he had prepared in advance.He opened a door randomly, and the musty smell came out from the door, revealing a pungent smell of rotting wood.

"This place has been abandoned for at least 20 years." Gold Wing closed the door again, clutching his nose, but the broken door was very uncooperative, and every time it was manually closed, it would always open again after a while.

There was no wind around at the moment, and there seemed to be an invisible person standing at the door playing a prank with them.

Jin Yi frowned, stretched out his foot and kicked the door shut with a "bang" in disgust, then took out a piece of talisman paper from his trouser pocket and slapped it heavily on the door frame.

He stared at the spot for a while, and the door finally stopped moving.

Su Jian, who had witnessed the whole process, passed by Jin Yi, and said quietly: "It seems that this place is quite haunted."

Jin Yi snorted: "If you have the ability, come out and challenge me, guard a broken door and play tricks with me."

"Maybe they are using this method to warn us not to go any further." Luo Wenxiu gathered his coat, stopped and paused, "Did you hear any noise?"

Su Jian: "No, what did you hear?"

"Over there, it seems that someone called me just now..." Luo Wenxiu pointed in a direction, and Su Jian looked along. It led to the deeper part of the village, but there was no sign of living things.

"It's some kind of illusion again, don't be fooled." Su Jian said softly, reaching out her hand to hook Luo Wenxiu's shoulder naturally: "Maybe some beautiful snake wants to seduce you and suck your blood..."

Su Jian didn't finish her nonsense, she only saw Pei Mengfei walking past them without turning her head.

"Hey... Where are you going, old fox? Old Pei? Pei Mengfei!"

Su Jian yelled a few words but got no answer. Pei Mengfei didn't seem to hear their conversation, her face was expressionless, and her limbs were also extremely stiff, as if... her nerves were controlled by some unknown force.

"The old fox is bewitched by an evil spirit, it shouldn't be..."

Su Jian's face darkened, and she withdrew the hand hooking Luo Wenxiu's shoulder.As soon as he took a step forward, Luo Wenxiu whispered something in his ear: "Don't worry, just follow up and have a look."

Pei Mengfei walked all the way to the direction Luo Wenxiu pointed just now, as if he had been summoned by some subconscious mind.Under Su Jian's command, the rest of the people kept a distance of about ten meters from him all the way to a dilapidated ancestral hall in the center of the village. Pei Mengfei finally stopped, knelt down towards the ancestral hall with a plop, and kowtowed Three rattles.

Su Jian was taken aback by the sudden battle: "Oh, I'll go... What kind of operation is this? Could it be that his ancestor of the fox fairy is still here?"

Pei Mengfei didn't get up after kowtowing, and knelt on the spot like a sculpture, motionless.The people behind waited for a while, and saw that he was still awake, so they walked over cautiously.

I saw Pei Mengfei kneeling there with his eyes slightly closed, as if he was sleepwalking.Luo Wenxiu stretched out his hand and shook it in front of him, but he didn't say anything.

"It's really crazy." Su Jian smacked her lips and said, "Don't touch him first, lest you wake up and go crazy."

Su Jian bypassed Pei Mengfei and walked to the center of the ancestral hall, carefully looking at the surrounding layout.The ancestral hall does not occupy a large area, and the whole is a brick and wood structure. The wooden part has been in disrepair for a long time, and the weathering is a bit bad.

The heavy altar table in the middle was covered with a thick layer of ash, covering the original vermilion of the wood.Just as Luo Wenxiu shone the flashlight on it, his eyes suddenly went into a daze, and he couldn't help but let out a "huh": "Did anyone touch this altar just now?"

The rest of the people looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one acknowledged it.

"There is a handprint here." Luo Wenxiu walked over and pointed to a hidden place behind the altar.

The rest of the people came over to take a look, and sure enough, there were traces of two fingers touching the ashes.

Su Jian had been by Luo Wenxiu's side just now, and Jin Yi had never been near the altar, so it must not have been accidentally touched by these two people.Luo Wenxiu quickly took a photo of the fingerprint with his mobile phone.Then he said, "Could it be Qi Jun left behind?"

"It's not impossible. Luo Ye's tracker finally traced the place where Qi Jun disappeared. It's also possible that he was attracted by some factors like us."

Su Jian squatted down on the ground and looked at it for a while, and sure enough, she saw a row of strange footprints on the ground that had wandered around here.Judging from the traces, it should be a recent print, about the size of a man with size 42 shoes, which matches Qi Jun's figure well.

"If a person has just sent out a distress signal, there will definitely be marks along the way while waiting for help. But I looked around here, and there are no obvious marks." Su Jian stood up and said: "And The footprints are only traces of coming in from the outside, and no traces of going out. Do you think he flew with wings, ran away, or disappeared out of thin air?"

Jin Yi glanced back at Pei Mengfei who was still kneeling on the spot, and silently found an open space.He took out a piece of talisman paper from his pocket, wrote a string of birth date horoscopes on it, and then threw it at Gao Tiao.

The moment the spell was finished, the red runes jumped up from the paper, and the runes became bigger and bigger, and finally spread out like a net, and the stars were hidden in the air.

After a long time, the glowing flames regrouped at a point in the ancestral hall.

That spot is on the altar.

"The altar?" Luo Wenxiu glanced suspiciously at the table under the bright spot. There was nothing on the altar except a few dirty plates and an incense burner.However, there is a large airtight box attached to the altar, surrounded by a row of nails so firmly that it cannot be opened with bare hands.

Luo Wenxiu knocked subconsciously, and found that the inside was actually hollow.Not only that, the percussion also formed a strong echo in it.

"It's empty inside, and there may be a bigger space." Luo Wenxiu beckoned Su Jian and Jin Yi to go over, and then personally demonstrated to them the echo produced by tapping.

"It's interesting." Su Jian raised her eyebrows and said, "You mean that Qi Jun might be here?"

Gold Wing circled the box, and like Luo Wenxiu, found no trace of opening it directly.

The box was covered with a thick layer of dust, and when you wiped off a little dust with your fingers, you could see the vermilion underneath—the same color as the altar.It seems that these two things were built at the same time, or were products of the same period.

Jin Yi tried to push the box, but it didn't push half a minute away.It is impossible for an empty box to be so heavy that it cannot be pushed at all. The only possibility is that it was originally fixed on the ground in the early stages of construction.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, pry it open for me!" Su Jian said decisively.

Gold Wing found a rusty shovel from the corner, pried one end into the crack of the box, and then pressed hard on the handle end, the crack in the wood cracked with a "creak".

Then he pried it twice again, and the gap in the box cover fixed by nails became wider and wider.After reaching the distance that could accommodate the next foot, he kicked the lid of the box open.

A rotten smell that hits the face makes people cry.

Before Su Jian, who was the closest, could see what was inside, she suddenly became dizzy, and only heard a sharp beast cry from inside the box.

At the same time, Pei Mengfei, who was originally kneeling in the center of the ancestral hall, suddenly rushed over with a loud roar, and stretched out her slender, non-human claws to grab Su Jian mercilessly.

Su Jian was turning her back to Pei Mengfei's direction at this time, and just heard Luo Wenxiu shout "Be careful!" a second ago, and was pushed by the other party unexpectedly.

Su Jian staggered and hit the corner of the box heavily with her waist, grinning her teeth in pain.

But before he had time to feel too much pain, he was already shocked by the scene in front of him and couldn't speak.Because he saw that Pei Mengfei's claw that was flying towards him was now stabbing into Luo Wenxiu's chest alive.

Luo Wenxiu trembled in extreme pain, and then Pei Mengfei dug out his bloody heart.

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