ghost

The small town at the foot of Yanhui Mountain is called Yanhui Town.It's not a backcountry, but it's not a prosperous place either.

The street where Fang Xia and Fu Jin are located is the busiest commercial street in the town.The shops here basically have the same business hours as the shopping malls, and they don't close until after nine o'clock in the evening.

As the sky darkened, all the shops were lit up, and the lights on both sides of the street, separated by the not-so-wide road, complemented each other.Fang Xia and Fu Jin stood at the entrance of the shopping mall, and they couldn't say they could see the people passing by the opposite store, but with better eyes, acquaintances could still recognize them at a glance.

"Is it Geng Lijie?" Fang Xia stared at the man opposite and asked Fu Jin.

"It's him."

Hearing Fu Jin's affirmation, Fang Xia ran after the man.

Fang Xia and Geng Lijie were actually a little bit at odds, and the two of them could get angry with each other within a few words. Under normal circumstances, Fang Xia was not very happy to take the initiative to chat with Geng Lijie.However, Wang Tonglin obviously came to Yanhui Town with a purpose. At this juncture, Geng Lijie also appeared here.This made Fang Xia couldn't help thinking that there might be some common reason between the two.

It was about how to use Wang Tonglin's clue to investigate the murderer who killed Ma Guangping. Fang Xia also put aside the dispute with Geng Lijie and prioritized the acquisition of information.

"Who is that! Stop!" Fang Xia crossed the street and shouted after Geng Lijie.

Geng Lijie didn't know what he was thinking, he looked preoccupied, and hurried away with his head down. Fang Xia called him twice, but he didn't hear him.

"Hey! I'm calling you!" Fang Xia caught up with him, grabbed Geng Lijie by the back of the collar, and dragged him to a stop.

The moment Geng Lijie was grabbed by the collar, his muscles suddenly tensed, and he subconsciously wanted to counterattack.Turning his head, he found that the person holding him was Fang Xia. He was stunned for a moment, his tense spirit relaxed, and then he frowned again.

"Tsk, why are you here?" Geng Lijie looked at Fang Xia with disgust written all over his face.

"This goose came back to your house? I can't be here anymore?" Fang Xia rolled his eyes at him, and opened his mouth to ask back.

"If this Yanhui town belonged to my family, I wouldn't let you step in!" Geng Lijie snorted coldly.

"That's a pity, this wild goose town doesn't belong to your family."

"You..." Geng Lijie opened his mouth and was about to fight back, but he saw Fu Jin walking over unhurriedly, with a solemn face, lowered his head slightly, and said respectfully, "Mr. Fu Jin."

Fu Jin took a look at Geng Lijie, lowered his gaze to Fang Xia, and put the hat in his hand, which Fang Xia had just dropped on the way running over, put it back on Fang Xia, and said in a low voice, "Isn't it childish? Hmm?" ?”

Fang Xia didn't realize it at all, she turned her head and smiled at Fu Jin.Geng Lijie felt a little ashamed on the face, and felt that Fu Jin's words were talking about him, but now that he thought about it, the content of his quarrel with Fang Xia was really childish, not as good as a primary school student.

Fang Xia felt that it was impossible to have a good chat with Geng Lijie, and Geng Lijie and Fang Xia maintained a high degree of agreement on this point.Fortunately, Geng Lijie is not the only one in the Geng family in Yanhui Town, Geng Chaolin is also there.

Geng Lijie took Fang Xia and Fu Jin directly to their accommodation.

What surprised Fang Xia was that the place where Geng Lijie and the others lived was actually a self-built building of the villagers in the town.

"How long have you been here? How did you rent this building?" Fang Xia asked curiously while looking at the well-decorated living room.

People in the town usually leave this kind of building for their own family members, and rarely rent it out, so it is difficult to rent it.Moreover, the owner of this building obviously put a lot of thought into decorating it. Without special circumstances, it is even more impossible to rent it to others.

"We didn't rent it, it was rented by an archaeological team." Geng Chaolin took tea and put it down on the coffee table in the living room, and began to explain the reasons why they would return to town in this wild goose.

This three-story building was rented by an archaeological team more than a month ago.The archaeological team had an archaeological project on Yanhui Mountain, ten kilometers away from Yanhui Town, and needed a nearby foothold.And Yanhui Town is the nearest town to Yanhui Mountain. It happened that Professor Zheng, the leader of the team, knew this family in the town.And this family moved to other places last year because of the child's study. The house has been vacant, so they rented it to the professor of the archaeological team, and helped find several other families with the same vacant house.

"What does this have to do with you here?" Hearing this, it's just about the owner of the building and the archaeological team, and has nothing to do with the Geng family. , and then invited you to exorcise ghosts?"

"Yes and no." Geng Chaolin sorted out his thoughts for a while, and continued, "The geese discovered something before returning to the mountain. Some experts speculated that there were tombs there. Professor Zheng took people to find clues this time. Who would have thought, really A corner of the tomb was dug out. After that, strange things happened, and several archaeologists showed symptoms of madness. They were sent to the hospital for examination and found nothing wrong. The doctor only said that they were shocked by something. So, Zheng The professor thought about it and thought that there might be something unclean in the burial ground, so he asked the second uncle to take a look—the second uncle was also a student of Professor Zheng when he was in college."

"Wait! Second Uncle? Geng Shudan?" Fang Xia asked.

"That's right." Geng Chaolin nodded.

"What a coincidence?" Fang Xia said, remembering the phone call with Geng Shudan before, "Speaking of which, when I called Geng Shudan three days ago, he seemed to be on the way up the mountain."

"A week ago, the second uncle and Professor Zheng went to see the archaeological staff who were sent to the hospital, and confirmed that they were shocked by evil spirits. Then, three mornings ago, he followed Professor Zheng's archaeological team into the In the evening of the same day, we received a rescue call from my second uncle—they couldn’t get out of Yanhui Mountain.”

Yanhui Mountain is not a high-altitude sea area, and the mountains are zigzag in a roundabout shape, and it is not a complex and easy-to-lose terrain with many mountains and mountains. Besides, those who enter are not ordinary people.The archaeological team has people who know the way and instruments to identify the direction, so it is impossible to get lost.

At this point, Geng Chaolin's expression became uneasy, "The Geng family quickly organized a rescue elite team, we followed them to Yanhui Town, which arrived two days ago, and we rushed to Yanhui Mountain to check the situation on the day we arrived. We found two archaeologists on the mountainside of Yanhui Mountain. They were not in a good state of mind at the time. Lijie and I took them back to this foothold, and the Geng family's rescue team went into the mountain. In the evening, the two of them vomited, so we sent them to the hospital in the city. We went to the mountain to rescue Geng’s family, but they didn’t come back at night. We tried to contact them, but we couldn’t get in touch at all.”

The Geng family belonged to the mystic arts circle, and they didn't have the ability to find dragons and acupoints, but they knew some simple Fengshui or astronomy. Generally, it was not a problem to distinguish the direction in the wild. Even if there was a maze, they might not be unable to get out.

Fang Xia frowned as he thought about it. First, Geng Shudan was trapped in Yanhui Mountain with the archaeological team, and then the rescue team composed of Geng family elites lost contact in Yanhui Mountain.The situation of Yan Huishan must not be simple.

"We went to Yanhui Mountain yesterday to check the situation, and felt that it was indeed a maze, but there was another feeling that couldn't be explained." Geng Chaolin said.

"Have you notified Geng Zhongzhi?" Fang Xia looked up at Geng Chaolin.

"Informed." Geng Chaolin nodded and said, "After we couldn't contact the Geng family who went in for rescue the night before yesterday, we contacted the Patriarch. Formation is not what our Geng family is good at. The Patriarch asked for help, and it should be tomorrow You can bring people there in the morning."

"It's been three days, those people trapped in the mountains..." Fang Xia frowned even tighter.There are no dangerous wild animals in the wild goose back to the mountain, but if a person does not eat for three days, his physical strength may be exhausted.

"Second uncle went into the mountain with the archaeological team. They brought dry food for a few days. The Geng family who went to the mountain to rescue them also brought food just in case. The question is whether they will be attacked or not." Geng Chaolin said , "The labyrinth was obviously set up by someone. We still don't know what the intentions of the person who set up the array are. If there is hostility, then the situation will be..."

The living room became quiet, and the atmosphere was dignified.

Fang Xia is usually not in good shape, but in the face of such a huge tragedy that may happen, a heavy stone is inevitably placed on his heart.

"Wang Tonglin from the Xuanyong faction also came to Yanhui Town." After a long time, Fang Xia said slowly, "I followed him. I think he came to Yanhui Town for a purpose, but I don't know if he followed Yanhui It is related to the maze on the mountain."

"Let's ask that Wang Tonglin now." Geng Lijie stood up from the sofa.

"Wait a minute!" Geng Chaolin held him back, "What's the use of us finding him if he doesn't admit it? Don't mess around, keep an eye on him first, and make a decision when the Patriarch arrives tomorrow."

Fang Xia worriedly followed Fu Jin back to their hotel.

He roughly explained what Geng Chaolin told him to Xu Lei, Chu Ji's assistant.

Fang Xia planned to go up the mountain with Geng Zhongzhi and the others. Now that he knew about this kind of thing, it was impossible for him to sit idly by.Not to mention that there is Geng Shudan who has a good relationship with him, so many innocent lives are involved, so if you can help, you must do your best to help.As for Xu Lei, he is just an ordinary person, and Fang Xia didn't intend to take him into action.The situation of Yan Huishan involved a maze, and Geng Lijie and the others didn't dare to call the search and rescue team to participate.Although Xu Lei's future job is to deal with the dangers of the mystic arts circle, but now the situation of Yan Huishan is unknown, so it is not suitable to take him to experience.When Fang Xia explained the situation to Xu Lei, he was explaining to him the reason for staying in the hotel in the town

That night, Fang Xia and Fu Jin took turns on duty, keeping an eye on the movement of the hotel where Wang Tonglin was staying, in case he escaped.Fu Jin doesn't need to sleep, so it's not a problem for him to watch it all night, but Fang Xia pretends to be something in his heart, and he can't sleep in the middle of the night, so he simply gets up and follows Fu Jin together.

Wang Tonglin is Fang Xia's important clue, and now it may be related to the Yanhui Mountain Maze, Fang Xia naturally wants to keep an eye on him.

In the early morning of the next day, Geng Zhongzhi arrived with his people.He brought the Gu family who are good at formations, and Fang Xia's second senior brother Ding Ming.

As soon as Geng Chongzhi arrived, he took people to look for Wang Tonglin, and the others were preparing to enter the mountain at the foothold of the archaeological team, and Ding Ming ran to the hotel to look for Fang Xia.

Fang Xia was a little surprised to see Ding Ming.

The two brothers sat down in the rest area of ​​the hotel, Fang Xia was next to Fu Jin, not in the mood to talk.

"Patriarch Geng heard that the maze was a little weird, and guessed it might be a Feng Shui bureau, so he invited me over." Ding Ming yawned, and glanced at the worried Fang Xia, "Don't let the bad results go now. Think about it. Thinking too many bad assumptions will only create an unnecessary burden on yourself. At this time—just think about how to save people in your mind.”

Fu Jin looked sideways at Fang Xia, raised her hand and rubbed Fang Xia's head, "With me following you, nothing will happen."

"En." Fang Xia nodded, grabbed Fu Jin's hand from the top of her head, and held it in her hand.

Ding Ming turned his head and curled his lips. It was rare for him to say so many comforting words to this poor boy, none of which was effective.

At this moment, Xu Lei came in from outside the hotel. Fang Xia heard the sound and looked, and was about to ask when Xu Lei was going out, but when he saw the person who came in with Xu Lei, his eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"President Chu?"

Who is that tall man in crumpled clothes and dusty, if not Chu Ji?