Haunted Places Live

Chu Yang sat on the back seat of the car, wrapped in a down jacket that Xiao Yiquan found for him, but even so, he still felt cold.The damp and cold air in Shanghai in winter is like a living snake, constantly drilling from the pores to the bone marrow.That feeling is somewhat similar to the hair-raising filth and clamminess that the filthy twins drilled into his body after he chose the price.

The Shanghai city outside the car window is hidden in the hazy gray mist. The Western buildings left over from the Republic of China period are covered with weathered and faded spots, and one after another is like an empty tomb.Because it was too early, and it was not even the rush hour for work, there were only sporadic pedestrians and cleaners on the road, and occasionally a breakfast cart that had just set up a stall and was still preparing.Chu Yang looked at the people walking side by side in heavy winter clothes, scarves and hats, wondering what kind of life they were leading.

Perhaps the old man with silver hair and a cane was once the leader of a state-owned enterprise when he was young, and he was once a young Red Guard soldier full of revolutionary blood, but now he has lost his wife and children and have their own families. An ordinary disabled old man.Maybe the middle-aged woman who is setting up a stall has a husband who loves her very much and a sensible child at home, but the child needs money to go to school, and her mother’s family keeps asking her to make up for her ineffective younger brother, so she has to go out early and return late every day to work hard make money.Maybe the high school boy in loose school uniform sweatpants loves to draw comics, and even has some talent, but his family forces him to give up his hobbies and concentrate on preparing for the college entrance examination, because drawing comics "can't be eaten as a meal".

Ever since he was a child, Chu Yang liked to sit on the side of the road and observe those strange pedestrians when he was free, and quickly made up stories of their lives for everyone in his mind.But now the feeling seemed... more real.It's as if he's not making up stories, but can feel the afterimages of emotions and memories flowing through them.

Lynch was sitting next to him, which gave him a lot of reassurance.When he came out of the shelter before, he was so nervous that he almost didn't want to get out of the elevator.He was afraid that his panic attack would bring all kinds of troubles at the critical moment, and all kinds of pessimistic possibilities formed a huge lump in his mind, which made him almost want to give up.

Lin Qi agreed with him to give up, because he was worried that something would go wrong, and Chu Yang would use the stigmata out of control again... If he used it again, he really didn't know what would happen.

But Xiao Yiquan and the members of the Holy Flame Department who were waiting for him outside obviously hoped that Chu Yang could help, although they were too embarrassed to force them.Xiao Yiquan assured: The Holy Flame Department has a way to determine the general area where Adok is located. He only needs to recognize who is the replaced person from a distance, and they can use that person to check for other people around him who may have been replaced. people.Chu Yang didn't have to worry about being drawn into new dangers.It took only a few hours for Chu Yang to go into a coma due to memory shock. It is impossible for Adok to eat a lot in such a short time, so as long as Chu Yang can recognize them, the Holy Flame Department can count them all in the shortest possible time. arrest.

Chu Yang remembered what his grandfather had said to him in a dream: Xiao Yang, be brave.

So he swallowed a pill that Xiao Yiquan brought, and got out of the elevator, like a "leap of faith" that threw himself from a high tower.

The car was parked on the bank of the Huangpu River, and there was a group of old people doing Tai Chi on the embankment far away.Chu Yang saw one of them, a woman in her fifties with gray hair and a long red padded jacket, so she pointed at her, "Liu Chunqiang."

Xiao Yiquan, who was sitting in the front row, said, "Are you sure?"

"determine."

Xiao Yiquan picked up the walkie-talkie and issued an order, "Attention Team No. [-], the person in the middle of the third row is wearing a long red down jacket, named Liu Chunqiang."

As soon as the words fell, Chu Yang saw a few men in black coming out of a black car under the embankment, and quickly ran to the embankment.Not far away, a group of people appeared on the stairs on the other side of the embankment.They passed by from two directions, obviously surrounded that Hadok.

Before seeing the conflict between the two sides, the car has already driven to the next location.

Gradually reaching the rush hour for work, pedestrians are getting denser.Sometimes Chu Yang would identify five or six people in a row.Only then did he send a letter about how huge the organization of the Shengyan Department was, almost in every corner of Shanghai, as long as Xiao Yiquan issued an order, someone would immediately get out of the car and move closer to the target.

Throughout the morning, they almost ran all over the Puxi area centered on 8 goods.Probably due to the side effects of anxiety medication, Chu Yang gradually began to feel tired and sleepy.Seeing this, Lynch immediately demanded, "It's time to take a break."

For the sake of safety, Xiao Yiquan asked the driver to drive the car to a clubhouse of the Ministry of Shengyan.What appears to be a spa from the outside is actually a meeting place for members of the Holy Flame Department.

Chu Yang was sitting in the lounge, with a hearty meal on the tea table in front of him, but he had no appetite at all.Heavy fatigue and drowsiness hit him, and he just wanted to close his eyes and sleep.Lynch insisted on letting him eat something, and even cut the steak into small pieces with a knife, picked it up with a fork and brought it to his lips, and said, "Come on, open your mouth, ah~~~" like coaxing a child.

Chu Yang stretched out his hand full of black lines to snatch the fork from Lynch's hand, "I can eat it myself..."

Lin Qi noticed that after taking the medicine, Chu Yang's anxiety symptoms were significantly relieved, and he recovered a bit of his usual temperament. He put a lot of heart in his heart, but he made an artificial sad expression as if he was melancholy , "Alas... Obviously, I was still holding on to my clothes before, but now I won't even let him feed me..."

Chu Yangming knew that Lynch had a seizure, but still felt an inexplicable sense of guilt, so he opened his mouth as if giving up, and bit the piece of beef off the fork.Lynch immediately beamed, as if feeding Chu Yang was such a fulfilling task...

Chu Yang took a few mouthfuls and gently pushed Lin Qi's hand away.He stared at the increasingly obvious bruises under Lynch's eyes, and whispered, "I'm much better now, don't take care of me anymore. Go rest yourself."

Lynch suddenly turned serious and looked at him seriously, "Xiao Yang, you feel a little better now because the medicine has relieved your symptoms. But this is only a temporary illusion. Your sanity has not recovered, and it may happen at any time. Recurrence. You must not take it lightly, let alone use the stigmata."

Chu Yang nodded calmly, "Don't worry, I understand."

"You have to promise me that no matter what happens, you will never use the stigmata again this month." Lynch stared at him stubbornly, reached out and grabbed his hand and held it tightly.

Chu Yang pursed his lips, remained silent for a moment, and said lightly, "If you can promise not to use the color of the stars, I can promise not to defile the twins."

Lynch raised his brows slightly, then chuckled, "Now that you've grown up, are you still able to negotiate conditions?"

Chu Yangwei raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "I learned from you."

"Okay, I promise, I won't use Star Color again within this month." Lynch said, raising his hand and raising his little finger, "Pull the hook."

Chu Yang sneered, "Childish."

"Hurry up!"

The two little fingers hooked together and shook.Lynch stood up in satisfaction and said, "You rest here for a while, and I'll call Zhao Censhang."

Seeing Lin Qi leave, Chu Yang leaned back on the reclining chair in the spa, sleepiness surged up like a wave, and he gradually fell asleep.

I fell asleep in a daze, but felt as if there was someone beside me.He wondered if Lynch had come back, but his body was too lazy to move, and his eyes were stubbornly closed and he didn't want to open them.

But at this moment, his recliner shook a few times and made a creaking sound.He felt that there was some black shadow covering him, and his body was also being sunken by some force, as if...someone got on his recliner, put his hands on his side, and looked down at his mighty Pressure Sensitivity...

Chu Yang frowned, murmured Lin Qi's name between his lips and teeth, struggled a few times with his eyelids, and reluctantly opened a gap.

However, the man in gray who had been following him had that crazy, distorted smile on his face, with hands like dead branches tightly pressing his hands, pressing on his body...

Chu Yang screamed, and suddenly woke up completely from the nightmare that half overflowed into reality.But he found that the person riding on him and holding him down was not the man in gray, but the driver in his forties who had just driven him, Lin Qi and Xiao Yiquan around half of Shanghai.The driver was overweight, and he was pressing on Chu Yang, making him unable to move at all.Chu Yang opened his eyes wide in confusion, and just about to shout out, suddenly the driver's face turned ferocious, and he tightly covered his mouth and nose with his hands.

Chu Yang's yelling turned into a frightened whine, every goosebump on his body exploded, oxygen couldn't enter his body, and the feeling of suffocation made him struggle wildly.But the driver's strength is frighteningly large, it's not the strength of a normal human being at all.Chu Yang opened his eyes wide, watching the driver's face gradually distorted and out of shape, he began to open his mouth, and the mouth opened bigger and bigger, until the whole head began to elongate and deform.And his mouth is not a human mouth, but like the throat of a sea turtle or a leech, it is covered with fine, circles of meat grinder-like teeth, extending all the way into the hollow throat.The stench of rot in his body sprayed on Chu Yang's face, and the yellowish saliva dripped down into long strips and landed on Chu Yang's forehead.

to be eaten...

But at this moment, an angry roar suddenly came, "Let him go!!!!!!"

Immediately afterwards, a figure rushed over like an arrow and knocked the "driver" down.The driver's body began to deform, and his limbs became as soft as an octopus. He quickly wrapped Lynch tightly, and his big mouth turned to face Lynch.In a blink of an eye, a silver dagger pierced through the air, hit the door of the "driver", and pierced the driver's eyes. The "driver" let out an extremely high-frequency, mind-exploding scream, and then quickly decayed and shrank, turning into a pool of black pus and blood on the ground.

It was Xiao Yiquan who shot.

Lin Qi immediately took off his coat which had been stained with pus and blood and threw it on the ground, then went to check on Chu Yang's condition.But seeing Chu Yang staring blankly at the pus and blood on the ground, his eyes froze in shock.I knew in my heart that it must be because of being frightened that the anxiety symptoms began to show again.Xiao Yiquan also came over, reached out to touch Chu Yang's shoulder, but saw Chu Yang shrank back in horror, staring at him vigilantly, as if not sure if he was also Adok.

The third-level observers who followed him made Chu Yang obviously more nervous. He immediately stood up from the recliner and retreated to the corner, breathing rapidly, his eyes constantly turning and observing like a trapped prey.Lin Qi gestured to everyone not to come, and then took a tentative step towards Chu Yang.

But Chu Yang said to him in a low voice and hastily, "Lynch, come quickly...they may also be Adok..."

It seems that Chu Yang only believes in Lin Qi...

Lin Qi then walked up to Chu Yang, held his shoulders and examined him carefully, wanting to see if there were any injuries.Except for the bruised fingerprints that Adok had left on Chu Yang's cheek when he covered Chu Yang's mouth and nose just now, there was no other trauma.Lin Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, "Chu Yang, I've been with Xiao Yiquan all this time, he should be trustworthy."

"This driver has been with us all the time." Chu Yang still stared at everyone vigilantly, his eyes rolling nervously.

Xiao Yiquan pointed to the pus and blood on the ground and said, "I killed this Adok, so it should be able to prove my identity?"

"You may also be trying to deceive us."

"I admit that it was my negligence to let this one in..." Xiao Yiquan sighed, then turned to his subordinates and said, "What he said makes sense. We have to check ourselves. Let everyone Be alert and be careful of the people around you. Even when you are resting, make sure that there are always three people around you who are awake and can monitor each other."

Lynch thought for a while in silence, and said, "When Zhao Censhang and the others come, I will take Xiaoyang away. We can't help you with the matter here."

"Leave?" This time it was Chu Yang's turn to be confused, "But those people haven't finished identifying them yet. If I leave, they will eat more people."

Lynch looked at him helplessly, "You can't continue in this state. Don't you dare to sit in their car?"

Chu Yang looked at Lin Qi and then at Xiao Yiquan.There is obviously a war between heaven and man in the mind, and fear and responsibility are entangled with each other.

Finally, he took a deep breath and made up his mind and said to Xiao Yiquan, "We need something for self-defense...Give me a dagger like yours."

So, throughout the afternoon, Chu Yang held the dagger of the Holy Flame Department tightly in his hand, and sat on the back seat of the car like a frightened bird, continuing to complete his work.That night, he didn't even sleep for a minute. No matter how Lynch assured him that he would keep vigil, Chu Yang stubbornly kept awake, with his eyes wide open.His eyes hurt badly until the middle of the night, so he had to take off his contact lenses, and put on a pair of temporary thin silver-rimmed glasses provided by the Holy Flame Department with inaccurate prescriptions. Then he continued to hold the dagger tightly, staring at the In the direction of the door.

Lynch also stayed up almost all night.Chu Yang urged him to go to bed several times, but he was disturbed, how could he sleep peacefully if he was too worried.

The next day, he ran outside for another day, and finally cleared almost all of Hadok in Shanghai.Xiao Yiquan personally drove the two of them to the suburbs and returned to the stronghold of the Presbyterian Church.The people sent by Zhao Censhang are already waiting.But even when he got into the car of the Presbyterian Church and drove to the airport, Chu Yang didn't relax all the time.Lynch saw that his eyes were bloodshot, and knew that his spirit had almost reached its limit.

It wasn't until after the plane back to Beijing took off that Chu Yang seemed to finally let go of some shackles and let out a long breath.Lin Qi took out the pills Xiao Yiquan gave him, and said, "Come on, take the medicine and sleep well." But when he turned his head, he found that Chu Yang had fallen into a deep sleep.

Finally passed this level... Lynch slumped back on the back of the chair with relief.

But this time, the Holy Flame Department owed them a big favor from the Council of Elders.Chu Yang is considered a meritorious service, right?Perhaps after this incident, Chu Yang's reputation in the Presbyterian Church will also increase.

Then came more attention.The rare filthy twin stigmata, and the great achievements made just after joining the association, all these things added together, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be targeted by those radicals.And Xiaoyang's life experience, and his grandfather... There are so many secrets that even he himself has not figured out.

The more I think about it, the more headache I feel.Lynch finally closed his eyes tiredly and fell into an uneasy dream.

But his gloved hand has been tightly clutching Chu Yang's, never letting go.

The author has something to say: the next unit - forest "holiday"~~~