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Yan Hong and Yu Le set foot on the high-speed train to the government early in the morning on Saturday.

Yu Le was wearing a white hoodie that day. She didn't have the airs of a big lady at all. She was dressed normally, had a normal temperament, no makeup, no perfume, like a little girl going out for fun.It was totally different from other students in the class who always put on all kinds of heavy makeup and light makeup to show off when they were on vacation. Yu Le later confessed that he didn't really like being mixed with a group of girls who were comparing perfume prices and shirt styles.

The world of the rich seems to be always limited by price and style. When everyone is ingeniously painting themselves with various colors and patterns, Yu Le is more willing to stay with Yanhong who is like a piece of white paper. Together.

"Ah, I don't mean it in a derogatory sense." Then Yu Le quickly clarified.

But Yan Hong didn't care, she nodded. "I know."

The sun rises a little bit obliquely above the train windows, the weather is fine, the sky is clear and there is no cloud.Yanhong suddenly remembered that on the way to the station, she met two sunny dolls who were thrown out of the apartment, like two wipes of unseasonable snow.

The train started to move a little bit, and the scenery on the platform receded a little bit.

Before Yan Hong could see enough, the prints of the curtains filled her eyes with a snap.Turning to look at Yu Le, the other party muttered with a little disgust that the sun was too dazzling, and he yawned, probably because he was playing games again at night and didn't sleep well.

Thinking about it, there might be some boring scenery like a revolving lantern next, so Yan Hong nodded and didn't want to argue with her.

The printed fabric of the curtains is thin, and the sunlight falls on the compartment through those thin gaps, like the dots of light on the fish swimming in the sea. However, Yan Hong has never seen the scenery of the sea, so she can only imagine the tranquility and beauty of it .As the train moved, occasionally bright light was shaken off the tip of Le's hair, like the feathers of some kind of bird.

The girl opposite seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep in an instant, and Yan Hong didn't dare to disturb her.

She remembered that not long after the start of school, after the military training, the student union organized a cultural performance, and each class would rehearse the show.The rich children in the school spent a lot of money to hire professional makeup artists, and the props they made were even more amazing. Even the busy people backstage were several times more than those performing on stage.If it weren't for the clumsiness and immaturity of the performers, it is estimated that the cultural performance would be comparable to the Spring Festival Gala.

But Yu Le, who willfully skipped his job, didn't get mixed up in the bustle, dragged Yan Hong, who was also doing nothing, sneaked out from the side door next to the square, and ran all the way to the playground.The scenery around a dark green grassland is blurred and dim, and the neon lights in the distant city are clearly shining.A sound of not-so-good quality came from the direction of the square, and Yu Le was sweating from the palm of Yanhong's wrist.

She said that I suddenly wanted to put some Kongming lanterns.

Yan Hong looked at the young lady tilting her head with an innocent face, and then really took out a sky lantern from her schoolbag.She was dumbfounded for a long time, and muttered that it would cause a fire.

Yu Le laughed hahaha and pushed her down on the grass.

In the end, the Kongming Lantern flew into the night sky.Yanhong was lying on the grass, the freshly trimmed grass made her neck tingle and itchy, she watched the spot of light drift farther and farther in her field of vision, then turned her head to look at Yu Le as if remembering something.

—Don’t make a wish?

But at that time, the other party didn't seem to hear it, and looked at the night sky quietly, without stars or moon.Finally, the Kongming Lantern fell behind the distant floor and disappeared.

Maybe Yu Le just wanted to lie in an empty place in a daze occasionally, and Kongming lanterns and anything were just excuses.

Even a child with tens of millions will end up thinking about the philosophical question of where he should go.In the end, there is often no answer. When asked, most of them just mutter a thought.

Yanhong still can't understand what Yu Le was thinking at that time, or in fact, he didn't think about anything.It was difficult for her to connect the little girl who was elated after seeing Mu Yu with Yu Le who seemed to be trapped in another space on the grass at that time.

However, after listening to the trivial conversations between the passengers on the train, she felt that if she told the other party that she had Mu Yu's phone number at this time, maybe Yu Le would still scream out of her nature.

The world is very strange, with the attention of thousands of people, the private phone number of the popular star focused by countless flashlights will be in the hands of a girl who has no interest in herself.

—I guess it can be sold for a good price, right?Yan Hong thought about it in a daze.

After noon, they arrived at the government.

After getting off the high-speed rail station, Yu Le directly led Yan Hong to find a restaurant for fast food, and went straight to the video store without saying a word.But this time, Yanhong didn't plan to make trouble with her. She told her that she was going to another place. She didn't reveal that she was going to the Bauhinia Tree Hotel, and Yu Le didn't ask any questions. After roughly knowing the direction, she pointed her to the city center subway line.

It doesn't take too much thought to figure out that Yu Le is definitely going to buy all kinds of idol drama records again. Fortunately, she is carrying a small schoolbag this time, so she doesn't have to carry it around with difficulty.But looking at the posture, it seems that she needs to buy a lot of things, Yan Hong secretly sweats for her, then turns her head and thinks that it is not her own money anyway, there is no benefit in worrying too much.

After thinking about it, he said goodbye to Yu Le and transferred to another subway line alone.

Yanhong has never gone out alone, nor wandered alone in a big city. For her, any city other than Wuzhi has a strange and dangerous atmosphere, strange streets, strange flow of people, strange nights , even the sensual night market is absolutely different.

In a way, her idea is not wrong, and due to poverty, all of Yanhong's cognition is limited to the street of her home, and she has no specialties except that she is good at picking fruits.

Unlike Yu Le, who travels to unknown places every now and then, and always brings various snacks to Yanhong when he comes back, although often in the end these snacks are opened by other people for various reasons in the next second They were eaten together.

She did have feelings of envy once, but she forgot all about it in the blink of an eye.When I came back to my senses, I was still walking slowly along that narrow street in the two-point-one-line life.

By accident, I didn't take the wrong subway, and finally followed the map in my phone and stumbled all the way to the Bauhinia Hotel.At the main entrance, Yanhong lamented that the place where rich people go is such a luxurious and high-end place, and she may not have the opportunity to visit it until her next life.After sighing, he turned to the back of the hotel without looking back.

Behind it is a street with not many people. There are some residential areas and residences on both sides, and there are some shops scattered here and there.Now Yanhong is a little distressed, if the exorcist lived here, he would probably not be enough for two weekends if he inquired from family to family, and maybe he would be treated as a pervert in the end.

She tugged on her backpack strap and looked around carefully.

As Yanhong sees, even in a big city like Guofu, there must be all kinds of ghosts, wandering around, looking for people to cling to. Of course, most of them are harmless to humans and animals and just want to find a quiet place to think Take a look at your past life.

She walked around the back streets, and found that among them, there was a car repair shop whose entrance was as clean as a piece of white paper. The ghosts detoured far away, and no one patronized it. .

However, for Yanhong, the more crowded the place is, the more strange it is.

She walked into the car repair shop without hesitation.There are no vehicles inside, and there are all kinds of tools that Yanhong can't name on the shelves on both sides.Unremarkable and ordinary, it doesn't look like the car repair shop in my impression.

The strange thing is that there is no one who manages the store here, and the computer on the counter opens a chat window with a blue light, without any message.Yanhong looked at the shelves, and found that there was a circle of golden runes faintly printed on the unnamed tools, and she couldn't understand what they meant.

Just as I was amazed by this, a door in the store was pushed open.A young man who was not much older than Yan Hong walked out of the room. When he saw Yan Hong, he was stunned for a while, and then he smiled apologetically.

"I'm so sorry," he said. "I was in there all the time and didn't notice any guests."

Yan Hong nodded slightly embarrassed. "Oh, it's okay, I just arrived too."

"Do you need something?" The young man gestured to the items on the shelf.

"Well...someone told me that I can find the exorcist here." There was nothing to hide, Yanhong said straight to the point.

The other party paused, a subtle light flashed in his eyes. "Oh? Which senior introduced it?"

senior?

Yanhong hesitated for a moment. "A...ghost told me."

The young man paused again, and then a trace of subtlety flashed in his eyes, but this time the subtlety was more like a kind of curiosity. "So you can see those things?"

"I can also see the words on it." Yan Hong pointed to the shelf.

Nodding in approval, the young man sighed again in the next second. "But it looks like you won't be able to use it."

This is the truth.Yanhong smiled.

The other party stopped greeting and beckoned her to follow him into the door that hadn't been closed just now.While walking and introducing herself, Yanhong also smelled a vague smell of blood.

"I'm Jian Xiangli, as you know, I'm an exorcist." The young man said. "While performing the exorcism service, I will also do some car repair work. If your family has a car, I can help maintain it."

"...No thanks. I don't have a car."

"What a pity." Jian Xiangli sighed, and then brought Yan Hong into a small room.On the floor, a pattern similar to a magic circle can be vaguely seen, and various talisman papers are hung on the walls.In the center of the circle is a sealed wooden box.There was a cloud of blood mist spreading on it, and it seemed that Jian Xiangli was dealing with the things inside just now.

Sweeping the burnt charm next to the wooden box aside with his feet, the exorcist turned his head to look at Yanhong again. "So, what is the purpose of coming this time?"

After thinking for a while, Yan Hong asked. "Do you know Mu Yu?"

"Who?" Jian Xiangli was stunned for a long time like Yan Hong when he heard Mu Yu's name for the first time, and then he let out a cry. "Is it the actor from the TV series?"

Yanhong nodded. "She seems to be entangled with something."

Jian Xiangli let out an oh, then tilted his head to look at Yanhong. "So you're asking me to exorcise demons? By the way, can I ask, you belong to Mu Yu..."

This one is a bit difficult to answer.Yanhong racked her brains but couldn't think of any good words, so she could only vaguely explain it. "Someone who is very familiar with Mu Yu asked me to help."

But she wasn't lying either.

Jian Xiangli groaned again, then stroked his chin and thought about it seriously. "So can I have a look at her recent status?"

This is also a bit difficult.Yanhong racked her brains again but couldn't think of what to think about, so in the end she could only suggest casually. "Go to watch the live broadcast or something?"

Unexpectedly, the other party's eyes lit up. "Yes, when I was listening to the radio just now, I just heard that there is a live interview now."

"..." It really works.

Yan Hong watched with embarrassment as Jian Xiangli took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and after a few swipes, he found the URL of the live broadcast on the website, and watched it with the smell of blood all over the room.

The subject of the interview still revolved around "Rainy Day" and all kinds of non-existent scandals, and the person on the screen still had that beautiful and cool face, only looking a little haggard.When Yanhong was thinking about whether it was due to excessive fatigue or other reasons, she saw the camera sweeping away, and clusters of black mist of different sizes appeared around Mu Yu, and a centipede the size of an arm was sticking to it at the nearest place. on the background wall.

Jian Xiangli hummed.His tone rose, and he seemed a little surprised.

"This is not easy." Yanhong heard him muttering softly to himself.

Afterwards, Jian Xiangli turned off the live broadcast without watching too much.It seems that he is also a person who doesn't pay much attention to idol dramas and the entertainment industry, and being able to see those things makes Yanhong feel a sense of peace of mind that he has found the same kind.

"Do you know Mu Yu?" After that, Jian Xiangli asked a question that made Yanhong feel very strange.

She shook her head.

The exorcist played with his mobile phone, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Has she been surrounded by this black mist all this time?"

Yanhong thought for a while. "Probably? I don't know either."

"If an ordinary person is surrounded by such a strong evil spirit without any protective measures, they will die within half a year."

"...So this situation just happened recently, or Mu Yu himself is not ordinary?" Yan Hong quickly understood what the other party meant, and asked back.

Jian Xiangli gave her a meaningful look, and nodded, "Yes, and no matter what the situation is, just look at the amount of these black mist, and you can basically be sure that there is only one word to describe Mu Yu's side."

"What?"

"Monsters are rampant."

"..." There wasn't much reaction, Yanhong just remembered that when she nodded in agreement with the snake woman, she had a subtle fluke mentality in her heart.Listening to what Jian Xiangli said now, I feel that I was so naive, stupid and naive at that time.

The exorcist, on the other hand, was surprised by her apparent calmness and raised his eyebrows. "Aren't you surprised?"

Surprised, of course surprised.It's just that the annoyance swallowed up the surprise.

Yan Hong nodded stiffly, then muttered. "I was just thinking..." She paused for a few seconds before continuing flatly: "No matter what the situation is, it can only mean that this Mu Yu is not ordinary."

Jian Xiangli nodded in approval. "Whether she is protected by something or not, Mu Yu herself must be very different." Then he asked again: "Is she particularly lucky?"

"Ah?" Yan Hong was taken aback. "I'm not too sure, but it's said that there hasn't been any sexual leaks since debut."

"It seems that you don't know Mu Yu well."

"..."

Yanhong couldn't refute this, compared to anyone who is familiar with Mu Yu and who has been following her, Yanhong only had a little contact with that big star when the film crew was filming a while ago.

Jian Xiangli sighed, put the phone back into his pocket, and said to Yanhong apologetically. "It's hard to draw conclusions until more information is obtained. But you can exorcise demons, right?"

"Blood."

Yanhong nodded to supplement.Then the other party let out an oh, and a trace of curiosity flashed across his face.

"This is the first time I've seen someone use blood to exorcise a demon, but it's not a big problem if it works."

However, even if this is the case, the method of bloodletting cannot be used all the time, otherwise how much blood-enriching medicine will Yanhong have to take to prevent herself from being sent to the hospital?

But Jian Xiangli said that Yanhong couldn't read those golden runes, so she couldn't use any exorcism tools.Now I can only investigate clearly what happened around Mu Yu, and whether there is anything different about me from ordinary people, otherwise, it will be like what Yan Hong was worried about - I don't know where to start.

He hummed vaguely, but Yan Hong frowned and didn't know what he was thinking, maybe he couldn't think of anything, Jian Xiangli took her out of the room as if she couldn't sort out the cause and effect, and said that he would provide A little something that can help.

When I came to the store, I heard the message beeping beeping on the computer.

Yan Hong regained consciousness, before seeing anything clearly, Jian Xiangli closed the dialogue window smoothly.