there is someone behind me

"Respected representatives, contestants, welcome to the opening ceremony of this Huaxia Art Summit..."

A row of representatives of relevant departments and special guests sat on the rostrum, and the leaders of relevant departments who presided over the meeting were reading the opening speech and introducing the meeting agenda.

Zhou Ling glanced at the people on the stage, most of them were middle-aged and elderly people, except for the last one near the left.There sat a child who was only eleven or twelve years old.

"Who is that?" Ayouduo asked back and forth.But everyone doesn't know.

Zhou Ling asked Liu Zihong: "Do you know who that child is?"

Liu Zihong shook his head: "The special guests will not introduce their identities at the opening ceremony. They are usually representatives of the sect, and they will serve as on-site referees in some tests. But this is the first time I have seen such a small one. Which one might it be? A direct disciple of the sect."

After several rounds of speeches by representatives, the boring opening ceremony basically came to an end.The host of the meeting brought an envelope and said: "The content of the preliminary examination will be announced next. While the preliminary examination is taking place, all representatives will enter the infield to participate in the metaphysics conference. Next, I will announce the location of the preliminary examination——Menglong Times Square. Ladies and gentlemen The contestants will be arranged by the organizing committee, and after arriving at Menglong Plaza, the on-site staff will tell you the specific content of the initial test."

After the host's voice fell, there were staff members to guide the contestants to exit.Zhou Ling and Liu Zihong were placed on the second bus, along with A Youduo, the poor-looking little Taoist priest, and two Maoshan Taoist priests who had met once before.

Two buses headed back and forth towards Menglong Square, followed by a commercial vehicle, in which sat a monk and two young novice monks, the same people who were at the entrance of the conference center earlier.

The little monk said to the master, "It's the benefactor holding the cat."

The Great Monk Yuan Guang naturally saw Zhou Ling. He would not think that Zhou Ling was a person transformed by Utan Polo, but the aura around Zhou Ling was indeed a bit strange.And... Yuan Guang looked at the two trail heads of Zixiao Mountain.

"The two Taoists seem to have an old acquaintance with the benefactor who hugged the cat?"

Zhifei and Ninghe looked at each other, and Ninghe said: "It is indeed related, but we can't meet now. So please take care of the master during the competition schedule. The competition can be lost, but he can't have an accident."

Yuan Guang didn't ask why, but just nodded and agreed.It would never be wrong to have a good relationship with Zixiao Mountain.

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Magnum Times Square is located on a piece of wasteland in the western suburbs. Originally, this area was a development zone, but because of Magnum Plaza, it was shelved as a whole. The developers changed several times back and forth, and none of them could be developed.It has been dragging on for several years, and now it is an overseas Chinese who has returned to China. He thinks that the development of this place is due to Feng Shui problems, and the family also has some connections in the metaphysical world. Originally, he wanted to ask a master to help solve the problem. When the summit was held, I asked the organizing committee through my relationship.Now the entire Menglong Square is being used as the venue for the first trial.

After the contestants got off the bus, the staff briefly introduced the supernatural events that happened in Menglong Square, and then the contestants could move freely.The strangest thing about this square is that no matter how many times it has been rebuilt, it can never be completed. The machines shut down inexplicably, and the developer’s capital chain suddenly breaks. The most serious one was half built, and suddenly collapsed in one night. up.The workers on duty at night all said that they saw ghosts, and then the news that Menglong Square was haunted spread like wildfire.It even became one of the urban ghost stories.

After listening to the extremely simple explanation, the contestants began to split up.Some contestants who are good at Feng Shui almost immediately figured out the compass and began to circle around the unfinished building.

Liu Zihong was not good at this, and Zhou Ling didn't bring a compass, so he walked around Menglong Square with the compass on his phone.

The building is in the shape of a zigzag, facing south from the north. There is an open area nearby, and a residential area not far to the east. It stands to reason that the location is not bad.If there is any problem, there is only a building on the central axis facing the door, and other nearby buildings are not as tall as it, forming a messy situation facing Menglong Square.But this round, it's not that fierce, at most, the business is not so good after the mall is built, far from the point where it can't be built.

Zhou Ling touched the cat and fell into deep thought.

Liu Zihong followed Zhou Ling around, saw him stop, and asked, "Did you feel anything?"

Zhou Ling shook his head and told him about the "Long Spears" round: "I can't see the rest."

What Zhou Ling said was not the method of the Liu family, but after what happened in the morning, he automatically acquiesced that Zhou Ziheng taught Zhou Ling, and without saying anything, he pointed to the unfinished building and said: "There is no evil outside, Go outside and look inside."

"Okay." The two walked into the half-built building.

There are already several people in the building, each searching for information.The first time Zhou Ling stepped into the building, he paused.It feels... It seems a little different from the outside, but it's not the kind of stagnant and cold feeling entangled by the evil spirit.

"Wait a minute, I want to take a look here, you can do whatever you want." After he stopped Liu Zihong from speaking, he backed out again.The sun was shining outside, and the airflow composed of yang energy completely covered the aura of the building.

Zhou Ling stood in the sun for a few seconds before stepping into the building again.Just like before, almost immediately, a dusty, old feeling swept over the whole person.But after staying in the building for a long time, this feeling gradually faded away.So, in order to try out what this feeling is closest to, Zhou Ling went in and out of the door and inside the door repeatedly.

The little orange cat meowed twice, with a cute expression on its face.

Seeing Zhou Ling's actions, some other contestants looked at him twice strangely, as if wondering what he was doing.

After several attempts, Zhou Ling found a close word - dilapidated temple.For some reason, stepping into this building gave him a feeling similar to walking into an abandoned temple.The censer fell to the ground, the altar was covered with dust, the only remaining door was worn out, and the statues of gods were covered with cobwebs.

"What did you feel?" Liu Zihong was very sure what Zhou Ling had discovered.

Zhou Ling hugged the cat in a different position, scratched the cat's chin and said, "This building can't be built. There are indeed some things making trouble, but it shouldn't be a ghost."

Liu Zihong raised his eyebrows: "It's not a ghost?" What is that?monster?

Zhou Lingdao: "That's not clear. What does this competition require us to do? Investigate clearly or solve the problem?"

Liu Zihong: "Investigate, but there are bonus points for solving."

Zhou Ling: "Oh, then can we pass this answer?"

Liu Zihong looked at Zhou Ling up and down for a while: "... Is this how you are going to end?"

Zhou Ling put his perfunctory back a bit: "Okay. Let's continue then."

Liu Zihong walked towards the stairs first: "There is a basement below, I found some Yin Qi fluctuations, let's go down and have a look."

Zhou Ling followed him downstairs. The stairs were on the first floor, and the light was not too dark, but it was completely dark when he went down to the basement floor, and he needed to use lighting tools to brighten it up.

Liu Zihong took out the flashlight in his pocket, and the round beam illuminated the road under his feet. The two groped on the basement floor, and after turning around two pillars, Zhou Ling suddenly looked back.

This look made him startled: "Liu Zihong, turn around."

Liu Zihong, who was called by name, turned around completely, holding a knife in one hand ready to go, and holding a flashlight in the other hand to sweep towards the stairs.I saw that the stairwell where I came down had disappeared, and after two pillars, there were two more pillars. Even the steel bars on the ceiling between the pillars were exactly the same, as if they had completely copied the place where they were.

Liu Zihong narrowed his eyes: "Ghost hitting the wall?" Then with a flick of his wrist, Zhou Ling saw a small shadow running out.

"Go." Liu Zihong ordered, and the little shadow ran towards the place where the stairwell should have been.Next, a strange thing happened. Zhou Ling saw Liu Zihong's Liu Linglang rush into the ghost wall as if he jumped into a pond, causing ripples in the air, and then disappeared.

Liu Zihong frowned, feeling that Liu Linglang had entered a strange place, but his connection with him was still stable, so he collected himself and asked Liu Linglang to find a way out there.

Zhou Ling put the cat into the cloth bag he had prepared earlier, and with his head exposed, he turned on the flashlight function of the phone with both hands free.While telling Liu Zihong what he saw, he slowly turned around to look at the road ahead. He was afraid that when he turned around just now, the road ahead would also become a copy of this section.

Fortunately, his worries were not grounded.

This floor was originally planned to be used as an underground shopping mall, and half of the division was done, but it was not continued, but it also made the terrain of this floor divided, and it was no longer a transparent look.There was a corner about three or four meters in front of Zhou Ling, and a small black dot flew out and flew back quickly.

The flashlight of Zhou Ling's mobile phone tilted to that side, and a familiar voice came over: "Who?"

Zhou Ling called out tentatively: "Ayouduo?"

"Hey? Brother Zhou?" A head poked out from the corner, and the silver ornaments on the Miao costumes reflected white light under the light of the flashlight.Ayouduo ran to Zhou Ling, but she didn't know what method she used, but the silver ornaments that collided with each other didn't make a sound.

"Brother, did you just come down? Are you also trapped here?"

Liu Zihong looked at her: "Also? Sleepy?"

Speaking of this, Ayouduo stomped her feet angrily: "Hey, this ghost hit the wall. Several groups of people were trapped here after we came down."

Liu Zihong wanted to ask something else, but suddenly his face changed, he raised his hand and pinched his hand: "Break."

A dull bang sounded, and a small shadow flew out of the ghost wall in the stairwell, followed by a figure.The figure was still holding the yellow talisman in his hand, and was taken aback when he saw someone.