The old gods are whispering

Chapter 23 The Clown's Threat

Gu Jianlin took a deep look at the old man in the wheelchair.

He looked really old, but his gray hair was combed neatly, his face was deeply wrinkled, his eyes were as warm and clear as jade, and his back was straight even when he was sitting in a wheelchair.

It is like a cedar on the edge of a cliff, tall and tough.

It has to be said that this hexagram is not very professionally calculated, and the method of divination is also very simple, and the interpretation of the hexagram is also very simple, it seems like an ordinary amateur.

But he still wrote down this sentence, and then thanked him.

"Ah."

The old man nodded in satisfaction, his wise forehead raised slightly, and then he put away the six copper coins.

"Then what, the old man will give me a fortune too?"

Cheng Youyu leaned over, rubbing his hands and looking eager to try, he has always been so familiar.

The old man didn't raise his head, and said flatly, "I won't count for you. Didn't you just say that I'm not professional?"

Cheng Youyu was shocked. He thought that the old people were deaf, but he didn't expect to hear all this.

Gu Jianlin was not very interested in divination, he just stared deeply at the dark and thick clay tablet.

For a moment, a terrifying vision appeared before his eyes.

The pale priest sang hymns, his hands were burning with white will-o'-the-wisps, and he grasped the monster's head tightly.

With a bang, they burned together.

The priest was billowing with black air, as if an evil spirit was struggling and roaring.

He seemed to be immersed in this illusion, unable to extricate himself.

I do not know how long it has been.

with a snap.

Gu Jianlin seemed to wake up from a dream, with cold sweat breaking out all over his body.

It seems that I was fascinated just now.

The man came over with three packs of warm babies, put them on the counter, and said with a smile: "Please take it well, welcome to come next time. If you need anything, you can come back anytime. We will be closed tonight."

"The store just opened, you are the first batch of customers, let's make friends."

He handed out his business card with a gentle smile.

When Gu Jianlin came back to his senses, the old man in front of him still had a faint smile on his face.

He took the business card, was silent for a moment, and put it in his pocket.

"Okay, we're closing."

The man said with a smile.

The old man closed his eyes and hummed a little tune.

Gu Jianlin nodded slightly, turned and left.

Before leaving, he hesitated and tried to use life perception on the two people in front of him.

In the quiet night, the rhythm of everything in the world echoed in his ears again.

After practicing last night, he has been able to accurately distinguish the target in the noisy melody.

However, the perceived result surprised him a little.

The life rhythm of the man in the suit is like a fire, burning vigorously and raging hot.

As for the wheelchair old man, it was like a dead void, silent and extremely depressing.

"What are you looking at?"

Su Youzhu asked curiously while holding the three-pack warm baby.

"It's nothing."

Gu Jianlin had never seen such a special rhythm of life, and asked calmly, "Speaking of which, do you also believe in divination?"

Su Youzhu shook his head: "Just ask casually, and you won't lose anything."

With the roar of the engine, a black Lamborghini stopped at the door of the grocery store.

Bright lights illuminate the night.

Someone opened the car door and got off the co-pilot, passing by the two brothers and sisters. The cold fragrance permeated the night wind.

Su Youzhu turned her head and took a look as if feeling something.

Gu Jianlin was a little surprised, because he rarely saw people with white hair, and it was a girl.

The girl was wearing a sun hat and black sunglasses, her head was lowered so she couldn't see her face clearly, only her long frosty white hair was hanging down her waist.

She wore a loose knit and a white one-shoulder blouse, her long, delicate legs wrapped in jeans, and white sneakers.

Especially with a huge guitar case on his back.

Very strange.

"Come on."

The old man in the grocery store smiled unexpectedly: "I thought your teacher wouldn't let you come to see me."

Jing Ci wiped the antiques in the store and looked at the girl.

"You know, I've never been very obedient."

The strange girl said softly: "I still want to see you when you come to Fengcheng."

The door of the store was closed, blocking out all sound.

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After Gu Jianlin and Su Youzhu came out of the grocery store, they ate a simple meal of wild wontons and went back to school.

It is worth mentioning that Cheng Youyu, the fat man, also followed with the cheek, talking and laughing along the way.

From time to time, there will be some gossip that the brothers and sisters don't know.

Until 10:30 in the evening, the lights downstairs in the female dormitory were basically turned off.

In the small garden downstairs, you can vaguely see some couples whispering reluctantly under the tree, and some even hugged them up and gnawed them directly. .

"Well, I'll drop by here, you guys go on."

Cheng Youyu paused with a smile on his feet, showing a connotative expression: "I'm not going to be a light bulb anymore."

Gu Jianlin knew that he had misunderstood, but it was too troublesome to explain.

The main reason is that Su Youzhu's face is full of indifference.

It seems that even if they are mistaken for a couple who will go into the woods later, it doesn't matter.

Seeing this, Gu Jianlin didn't need to explain further.

"Brother Lin, please take care of the basic exam! If you are assigned to an exam room, please help me!"

Before Cheng Youyu left, he suddenly reminded with a serious face: "Well, Fengcheng is not peaceful recently, you should have heard about it? Many students went crazy with a cry. I heard the news, recently There are often people like this around the school, you'd better not go out these few days, and stay in the school honestly."

He asked again: "Especially recently there has been a pervert who cruelly abused animals near the school."

Gu Jianlin's heart moved slightly, the fat man seemed to know something and was deliberately reminding himself.

"okay, I get it."

He nodded slightly: "Thank you."

After the matter was said, Cheng Youyu resumed his smiling face again, and walked away with the steps of disrespecting his relatives.

Gu Jianlin watched him leave, then turned to the girl next to him and said, "Take a good rest these few days, and I will come on time to bring you brown sugar water. If you need anything, just tell me, and I'll go out and buy it for you."

Su Youzhu glanced at him, thinking, can you also buy women's products?

"Anyway, just stop running around."

Gu Jianlin asked earnestly, "Do you know?"

Since Lu Zicheng's arrival, coupled with the gradual infiltration of investigators from the Ether Association in the school, coupled with the animal cruelty incident just now, everything seems to indicate that something is about to happen next.

"understood."

Su Youzhu took off the coat she was wearing and handed it back to him: "Good night."

Gu Jianlin took it over and hummed, "Good night."

The door of the girls' dormitory was closed, and Su Youzhu's figure disappeared into the corner of the corridor.

Gu Jianlin turned around and left with his coat in hand, walked through the playground and garden alone, and returned to the boys' dormitory.

His dormitory is on the sixth floor, next to the first room in the corridor.

The four roommates in the dormitory were lying on the bed, and they kept complaining:

"It's really unlucky, let's just forget that the canteen in the school is terrible, and there is not even a supermarket."

"Yeah, the aunt who cooks rice shakes like she has Parkinson's. I'm really convinced by this old sixth."

"Which one of you went shopping in the supermarket outside? Give me some snacks, I'm starving to death."

"Damn it, the 24-hour convenience store outside is also closed!"

As soon as Gu Jianlin came back, he heard their conversation, then sat down on the bed, and asked in surprise, "That convenience store is closed, but hasn't it been changed into a grocery store?"

As soon as this remark came out, the roommates froze for a moment.

"What grocery store? Isn't that convenience store closed for rent?"

The roommate said blankly: "The shutter doors are all closed, and there is such a big rental advertisement posted."

Gu Jianlin was taken aback: "Impossible, there is a grocery store."

The roommate was confused again: "I just came back from there 10 minutes ago. Brother Lin, to be honest, is your brain still not sharp after the car accident, and your memory has problems? If there is a grocery store, I will eat it upside down !"

Gu Jianlin was silent. He thought of the unusualness of that grocery store again, and couldn't sit still.

He immediately got up, walked to the rooftop on the seventh floor, and looked across the street by the lights in the night.

In just a moment, his pupils shrank violently, and his hair stood on end.

The 24-hour convenience store across the street reappeared at some point. The red and white signboard was still lit, but the store door was locked by a rolling shutter, and there was an advertisement for rent posted on it.

As for the grocery store I saw before, it disappeared strangely.

Sure enough, his feeling was right.

It was no ordinary grocery store.

Including the old man in the wheelchair and the man in the suit, they didn't seem to be ordinary people either.

Gu Jianlin fumbled in his pocket and found the business card.

——Wangyou grocery store, phone 138...

He was silent for a long time, and planned to take another look after school tomorrow.

At this time, a message came in on his WeChat.

Su Youzhu: "I just went back to the dormitory and found someone put a love letter in front of my windowsill."

Gu Jianlin was slightly stunned, it's been so many years, yet there are still people who express their love in such an old-fashioned way.

However, the girl's dormitory is on the first floor, and if she avoids the dormitory aunt, she can indeed deliver love letters on the windowsill.

With Su Youzhu's appearance, it's nothing new.

Gu Jianlin replied, "Oh, is someone chasing you?"

Su Youzhu: "I thought so at first, but after I opened it, I found out that this letter is for you."

Gu Jianlin was stunned.

Just when he was puzzled, a picture was sent by WeChat.

For a moment, Gu Jianlin narrowed his eyes and subconsciously clenched his palms, making a crisp sound of bones.

Compared with the content of the love letter, the signature at the bottom is more eye-catching.

Because it was a strangely pale, clown face painted with colored pencils.

On the glowing screen, the clown had a sinister smile, and his scarlet lips almost reached his ears.

Just looking at it makes one feel uncomfortable.

"At six o'clock in the afternoon the day after tomorrow, see you at the warehouse in the back playground."

"This is our secret, don't tell anyone."

"Otherwise...you understand."

After a long time, the screen of the mobile phone turned off automatically, and the cold wind blowing from the rooftop.

Gu Jianlin put his left hand in his pocket, his right hand clenched the phone, and the coat on his arm flapped in the wind.

"Give the letter to You Zhu instead of me directly."

"It's a threat," he whispered.

The clouds broke and the moon shone, and the moonlight illuminated the silent school from the gaps in the dark clouds.

Gu Jianlin thought about it, edited the message and sent it: "You Zhu, write a letter and put it on the balcony."

Ding dong.

Su Youzhu: "What?"

Gu Jianlin replied: "What you love is your life."

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In the middle of the night, the lights in the grocery store were still on.

The old man was sitting in a wheelchair, playing with the six copper coins in his hand, and suddenly said, "Jing Ci."

The man in a suit and leather shoes was holding a handkerchief, carefully wiping the blue and white porcelain bottle in his hand.

"Teacher, I'm here."

Without raising his head, he asked, "Is there something wrong?"

The old man said lightly, "Is my fortune-telling really that unprofessional?"

Jing Ci smiled wryly and said, "You are not from the Gua Master way, why do you have to deal with fortune-telling? Could it be that after losing the bet with the one from Laojunshan last time, you have been brooding about it?"

"If you are a Gua teacher, then I, as a teacher, will not be short of ostentation when I am outside."

The old man sighed with regret: "Speaking of which, the kid I met tonight is quite interesting."

Jing Ci paused as he wiped the porcelain bottle, and asked with a smile, "Do you mean that he saw the clown's distortion and evolution at a glance, or that he noticed us and the anomalies in this store? Or did you see through it?" The contents of the clay tablet?"

The old man thought for a while: "I have all of them. How about making a bet and guessing whether he can survive?"

"Then I'll bet on his life."

Jing Ci put the blue and white porcelain vase on the antique cabinet and said, "After all...he has the aptitude for evolution, and you reminded him."

"It's one thing to be reminded, it's another thing to be able to realize it, and another thing to deal with it when you realize it."

The old man threw six copper coins on the table: "Then I'll bet on his death."

　There is a particularly funny comment that I have to reply to. Some people say that since the hero is afraid of hurting his family, then you should just leave the house. The author is so wise!Well, yes, you have a family, as long as you leave this home, the kidnappers will not come to kidnap you, right...

　
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