Haunted Places Live

"Have you seen Marianne Campbell?" Chu Yang was dubious.

The young man wanted to say more, but at this moment the door in the grocery store opened, and an old woman with a short figure and a face that was not easy to mess with came out, and gave the young man a hard look, "Adam , take care of your work! It’s okay, don’t gossip!”

The young man didn't dare to say anything immediately, and neatly wrapped the fruits and spices for them and collected the money.Chu Yang and Bai Dian came out, but their hearts were still full of doubts.

"How did Lynch's mother die?" Chu Yang asked.

Bai Dian seemed a little embarrassed, hesitated for a while and said, "Well, I think it would be better for him to tell you." Seeing that Chu Yang still wanted to ask, Bai Dian suddenly shouted, "Oh, look, it's almost noon Alright, let's go to lunch!"

"...Didn't you just have breakfast?"

"Are you kidding! It was already three hours ago! It's already twelve o'clock in the noon, I'm hungry~~" He also deliberately spoke in a female voice, standing in the middle of the road and acting like a little girl, Seeing this, Chu Yang got goosebumps.

Bai Dian pulled him into a tavern, and immediately several eyes gathered from all directions.At first glance, Chu Yang saw that the bar was full of old men, some were playing billiards, some were sitting at the bar drinking beer, and there was a natural xenophobia in their eyes.

Chu Yang wanted to change places, but Baidian acted like he was used to it, and found a seat in front of the bar and sat down.The bearded uncle bartender asked them what they wanted to drink in a bad tone.

Baidian ordered a glass of beer and a beef burger, and Chu Yang ordered the same one.The wine was served first, and Chu Yang just took a sip when he felt someone approaching.A thin man in his 40s who looked like a farmer with a peaked cap on his head was lying on the bar next to him, staring at him and Baidian with unpredictable malicious eyes.

"You shouldn't be here," the man said in a voice that had grown hoarse from years of smoking.

Chu Yang felt the hostility overflowing from the other party, so he also became alert, turned around and faced him quietly, "Why?"

"We are a quiet town, you fucking blasphemers are not welcome!!" The man said, and suddenly he punched the bar table with his fist, which immediately attracted the attention of the audience, and the atmosphere became tense.

The bartender said in a deep voice, "Tom, don't make trouble here."

"Tell me not to make trouble?! It's these heretics who are making trouble! These lackeys of Satan!"

Chu Yang was originally full of depression and worry because of Lin Qi's matter, but now he was aroused a little bit of anger.He looked at the man coldly, and said, "Please tell me how you knew I was a heretic?"

"Everyone who came out of that house didn't have a single good thing!" The man said, even spitting on the ground in front of Chu Yang.

Chu Yang stood up angrily and wanted to reason with him, but immediately a few men stood up at the back table, walked behind Tom like a demonstration, and some people blocked the door, obviously trying to make trouble for them.On the other side of the White Palace, there was also an extremely tall and strong blond man approaching with a frivolous smile, and said with a smile, "A beautiful girl like you looking for such a weak boyfriend, isn't she afraid that no one will protect you when you are bullied?" ?” As he spoke, he reached out and wanted to touch Bai Dian’s hair.

Before Bai Dian could turn his back on him, Chu Yang pulled Bai Dian behind him.Bai Dian looked in amazement at Chu Yang, who was usually quiet, but now he was standing in front of him like a boyfriend protecting his girlfriend, he couldn't laugh or cry, but was a little moved.

"Since you know that we came from that house, we are pagan wizards, and now you provoke us, are you not afraid of being retaliated?" Chu Yang's eyes scanned everyone vigilantly. There was an urge to vent surging in his chest.Having seen so many horrifying monsters and scenes, these bluffing people are no longer threatening in his eyes.

He didn't even realize the change in his eyes getting colder and colder.

As if they had just begun to consider the possibility of being retaliated, some of those who surrounded them showed a bit of timidity.But Tom still yelled, "Who are you frightening?"

"We just wanted to have lunch, who came to find fault first?" Chu Yang stared at him, and said clearly and loudly, "If you don't want to be gnawed into a skeleton by hundreds of poisonous centipedes tonight, please let me go now." Open the way. We don't want to cause trouble. But if you must be brave, I am willing to accompany you."

"Chu Yang..." Bai Dian said in a low voice in Chinese, half worried and half funny, "What kind of centipede army... Isn't this too ridiculous?"

However, the threat actually worked. Even Tom seemed to be intimidated by Chu Yang's posture. He just stared at him fiercely and shouted for a while, "Get out of here!"

Chu Yang pulled Bai Dian out of the door quickly, and he was relieved after walking an extra block.As a result, Bai Dian was laughing back and forth, "Hahahaha, Xiao Yangyang, you are really good, and the centipede army can figure it out..."

Chu Yang's face was hot... Lin Qi had told him before, but in a hurry, he could only think of this as a threat...

"Have you laughed enough..." Chu Yang was angry, "It's not all because you must go there to eat!"

"I didn't know that they are so hostile to outsiders now. I came here once before, and it wasn't like that at that time." Bai Dian stopped laughing, but looked at him with softer eyes, "Hey, don't forget I'm a man just like you, and I'm a little taller than you. Did you really want to protect me as a girl just now?"

The heat on Chu Yang's face escalated, and it had spread to his ears.Just now...he seems to have really intuitively regarded Bai Dian as a girl...probably because we used to go out to play in the orchestra at night, and in the bar, we met random gangsters who wanted to molest Chen Yi or Zhu Heze. Song Liangshu, Su Yu and the three of them are used to fighting with others immediately.Although his ability to fight is far inferior to Song Liangshu and Su Yu, but he has learned a lot about the posture of going back and forth.

"It's not that they thought you were a girl..." Chu Yang explained awkwardly.

Bai Dian reached out and squeezed Chu Yang's cheek abruptly, "You are so cute!" After quickly pinching and letting go, he turned around and walked briskly to another direction.

Chu Yang rubbed his cheeks and whispered, "Let's go back, I'm worried about Lynch."

Bai Dian said, "Okay, I'll go to another place, and we'll go back."

Five minutes later, they were standing outside a yard enclosed by a wooden fence.There are blue and white checked sheets on the clothesline in the yard, and a little lamb gnaws on the lawn with its head down.There are some wooden crates and baskets containing garlic beside the doorstep, which looks like an ordinary family.

Bai Dian directly pushed open the courtyard door to enter, and knocked on the door.A woman's voice came from inside, "Who is it?"

"You'll know when you open the door." Bai Dian said in Chinese.

Soon the door opened, and a middle-aged woman with a square scarf on her head opened the door. She had an Asian face and charming eyebrows. When she saw Baidian, she opened her eyes wide, "Xu Sir, why are you here!"

"Lynch has an accident, do you know?" Bai Dian whispered.

The woman looked at Chu Yang, then looked into the distance, and said in a low voice, "Let's go ahead and talk about it."

Chu Yang followed into the house in a daze.This is a very warm and idyllic home. It can be seen that the owner loves her home very much. Although there are many things, they are all placed in appropriate and elegant positions.

"Mom!" A little head popped up from the corner of the stairs, "Who's here?"

"It's none of your business, go back and do your homework!" The middle-aged woman laughed angrily.

The little head shrank back again...

Bai Dian said to Chu Yang, "This is Xu Anqi, her mother used to work in the manor."

Chu Yang stretched out his hand and shook Xu Anqi, "Are you also a member of the Presbyterian Church?"

"That's right, but I haven't performed any tasks for a long time." Xu Anqi said softly, inviting them to sit on the sofa, and then went to pour tea.While preparing the teacup, he said, "I saw the master's car passing by, so I tried to go to the mansion to see what was going on. But Raymond said that the master was still inside at the time and wouldn't let me in."

"How long did he stay in the castle? Was he alone?"

"He arrived when it was getting dark on Thursday afternoon, and he left early on Friday morning." Xu Anqi came over with a tea tray, "I heard from Raymond that it was only him and his entourage. Bai Hongyu Did not follow."

"Bai Hongyu?" Chu Yang was stunned, "Isn't he Lynch's former apprentice?"

"Climb to a high branch." Bai Dian said leisurely in a sarcastic tone, "In order to climb higher in the Presbyterian Church, he helped Advisor monitor Lynch and did a lot of unreasonable things. Lynch saw through it, and their master-student relationship was broken."

Xu Anqi sighed and shook her head, "Lin Qi was really disappointed at the time. He cultivated him very hard."

Bai Dian took a sip of tea and asked again, "Why do people in the town seem to have been frightened? Does it have anything to do with Advisor's visit?"

"In the middle of the night on Thursday, a red light began to appear inside the castle, as if it was on fire, dyeing half of the sky red. Then all the crows in the vicinity flew up, and they flew up in the middle of the night, and all the sleeping people in the town The dogs woke up and started barking, and the other animals seemed to be crazy. Some people woke up from terrible nightmares. They said they felt the ground shaking, and they seemed to hear some kind of strange whispering sound. Sound. Many people saw the abnormality on the other side of the castle from the windows. The livestock in many people’s homes died inexplicably the next morning, foaming at the mouth, and their eyes were wide open, as if they were frightened to death. They believed that Someone is performing some evil witchcraft rituals in the manor, and the death of these animals is an ominous sign, a sign of the arrival of the devil." Xu Anqi sighed, "After all, the town is still dominated by the Catholic faith. Seeing these Vision, it is inevitable to be afraid."

No wonder they were so hostile to them in the bar.

But Baidian frowned, "Fire...earthquake...closing a seal makes such a big noise?"

"Maybe it's not just as simple as closing the seal. I heard from Raymond that the young master has not been in a good condition since he came back this time, and the seal refused to take shape. Maybe...the number of times the seal has been unsealed is a bit too frequent in these years." Xu Anqi low Said loudly, "Maybe the master used some other method."

"What method?" Chu Yang asked eagerly, "Is there any way to help him heal?"

Xu Anqi shook her head, "My master has always acted in secret, no one can figure it out."

Chu Yang and Bai Dian quickly said goodbye and returned to the castle.

Mysteries are not solved, but more.Why does Lynch have to limit his strength?Is all this what his father asked for?

Chu Yang silently took his cello out of the room Raymond arranged for him, and put it into Lynch's room together with his other luggage.He knelt down on the carpet and lifted the piano cover.

The cello, which has been with him for more than ten years, lies quietly on the black velvet, and the warm luster flows slowly between the grains of the wood.The strings haven't been replaced for a while, and the tungsten alloy material is slightly worn.He stretched out his hand and swept his fingertips over the strings, as if he could hear the beautiful movement flowing from the strings.

He looked at it for a long time, and then closed the piano cover again.

Lynch is now unable to eat on his own, and can only inject nutrient solution into his veins.When Raymond was doing these things, Chu Yang could only watch from the sidelines.The withered figure couldn't remind him of the bright smiling internet celebrity who was also a little cheap, the Dorian Gray who was lying on the sofa and bathed in the morning light, and the one who was smiling and cutting cloth strips with him Gentle man... Seeing him suffer so much, but I can't do anything.

After the drip, Lynch needs to be scrubbed.Chu Yang asked to do it himself, and Raymond instructed him a few precautions before leaving.

Chu Yang filled the water in the bathroom, tested the water temperature, moved the basin and towel to the bed, then lifted a little blue velvet quilt, and held Lynch's arm.

The arm felt cold and thin, as if skinny.He didn't wear gloves on his hands, and the cracked skin became more and more serious, and even a pale yellow liquid oozes out.Chu Yang picked up the soaked warm towel, carefully and gently wiped every inch of his skin, carefully wiping off all the liquid that oozed from his hands.After pulling the two arms, it is the chest, the legs...

He still remembers that first night at the Three Woods Lodge in Yosemite, a crazy night that still makes him blush and heart beat just thinking about it.He remembered Lynch's strong but not exaggerated muscular lines in the moonlight, the hazy and undulating light and shadow like an ancient Greek sculpture, his dream-like perfect and powerful body, and he could easily hug a big man like him who was not thin. Get up... But now, the body was so decayed that he could hardly recognize it, as if it had been sucked dry by some terrible monster.

After wiping, a drop of water landed on Lynch's chest.Chu Yang wiped his eyes with his hand in panic, only then did he realize how sad he was.

He hated himself, hated that he couldn't do anything, hated that he couldn't protect Lynch like Lynch protected him.

After wiping his body, Chu Yang put the bedding back on Lynch's body and tucked it in carefully, revealing only a haggard and aging face.At this time, the moonlight had already begun to thicken, and the lights in the distant town had gradually been extinguished. Except for the strange murmurs from somewhere in the castle, everyone else probably fell asleep.

Chu Yang sat beside Lin Qi, unable to fall asleep, and could only stare blankly at the moonlight streaming on the window sill.Looking at it, a very moving melody suddenly appeared in my mind.

Lynch's sleeping face was also soaked in the moonlight, like a beauty withered, like a dirge of dead bones.

Chu Yang wondered, was Lin Qi dreaming?

Is it a nightmare or a sweet dream?

When he came back to his senses, he found that he had taken the cello out of the box at some point.Naqin leaned gently in his arms, so suitable and tender, like a long-lost lover, embracing his body and soul lingeringly.

If you can bring death to people, is it possible to bring life?Is there a way for the sound of his piano to enter Lynch's dreams, is there a way to bring even a little relief in his painful purgatory?

Chu Yang wasn't sure, but he wanted to give it a try.

His piano sound didn't have that kind of dark power from the beginning, did it?

He closed his eyes and began to recall.Recalling the first time he and Lynch met, the inconsequential Internet celebrity stalked him like a follower, and followed him to a burger restaurant, where he ordered a piece of chocolate mousse and ate so happily... and In his grandfather's old house, Lynch was buried in the pile of books, earnestly studying calculations, writing and drawing, just to save himself, the unlucky guy who had never met... In the apartment in Beijing, Lynch was sitting helplessly with a spoon in his mouth. Waiting at the bar to cook a meal; the room looks like it has been ransacked; the door is not even locked when taking a shower... In Shanghai, on his craziest days, Lynch patiently endured all his irrational behaviors. Rituals and demands, endured his nervous worries and panics, nursed him until his darkest days... and all the temptations and ambiguities in the eye contact between the two in the Yosemite forest cabin. The temperature finally accumulated to the critical point, bursting into gorgeous fireworks.

At this moment, Chu Yang's heart was filled with happiness, sour, cautious, but genuine happiness and...hope.He raised his bow and poured all his emotions into those four strings.