Urban Night Returner

The word "ghost" instantly dropped the temperature in the ward to freezing point.Father Zhao seemed to have been hit head-on with a sap, his lips were trembling for a long time before he stood up suddenly and rushed to Zhong Lecen: "Doctor Zhong, Doctor Zhong, save Bingbing! It's all my fault! I, I just want her not to work so hard --Since Yurong is gone, Bingbing is my life!" He begged hoarsely, and was about to kneel down as soon as he bent his knees.

Shen Gu stretched out his hand to support him: "Calm down. Where did you learn this method?"

Zhao's father sobbed a few times, and barely stood still: "One, a man. When I went to the vegetable market to buy ribs for Bingbing, he came to talk to me and said that Bingbing's grades are good, but he will definitely not be admitted to Tsinghua University this year."

Shen Gu raised his eyebrows: "You believe what he said?"

Zhao's father murmured, "He's right about everything. What kind of illness did Bingbing suffer from when he was young, and what major events happened to me? But he said that I would have a catastrophe in two days, and told me to walk around when I saw a black cat to avoid it. Two days later, I went to the construction site and suddenly saw a black cat squatting there. When I thought of this, I immediately I went around and just took a few steps when a prefabricated slab fell down. If I hadn’t avoided the cat at that time, I would have walked right there. A cement prefabricated slab would have killed me!”

Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen looked at each other, when such a thing happened, even those who didn't believe it would have to believe it three points.

"So you went to find that person?"

"Yes. I went to the vegetable market that day, and that person was waiting for me. Me, I asked him how to get Bingbing to be admitted to Tsinghua... Bingbing just wanted to go to Tsinghua, but is Tsinghua so easy to pass? Children in Beijing can go to Tsinghua University, and they can do it [-]% less than our children..."

"He gave you that porcelain plaque?"

"No at that time. He took me to a shop and asked a woman in the shop to make it. There was Bingbing's birthday on the back of the sign, so I just asked me to offer it. I didn't let Bingbing know, so I quietly put it in front of her mother. The place of the photo... But I didn't expect, how could..."

Shen Gu frowned: "He made you a porcelain sign, so what did you give him?"

"what?"

"He helped you, didn't you pay the price?"

"Oh, I wanted to give him money, but he didn't want it. He said that he would collect the money after Bingbing was admitted to Tsinghua University."

"Collect money? Did he say how much it would cost?"

Father Zhao was stunned for a moment: "He, he didn't say how much money he wanted. No, he didn't say money at that time."

"Didn't you say that you will collect money after you are admitted to Tsinghua University?"

"No, no, I remembered. He didn't say that at the time. I thought he wanted money... Let me think about it—I asked him how much he wanted. He said that he said that he would come back after Bingbing was admitted to Tsinghua University. want--"

Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen asked at the same time: "What do you want?"

"He didn't say..."

Zhong Lecen sighed: "I didn't say anything. That is to say, what he actually wants is not money."

Shen Gu asked: "What does that store do? Where is it located? Take us to have a look!"

Father Zhao was stunned for a while, with a blank expression on his face: "I, I don't know..."

"You don't know?" Shen Gu couldn't believe it, "You don't remember the way? Do you remember any larger and distinctive buildings nearby?"

Father Zhao thought hard for a long time, but still shook his head: "I can't remember. I just remember that there were a lot of cups and plates in the shop window, and I remembered that one plate was pretty, with blue flowers, and it seemed to be a peach tree or something... ...The surrounding buildings... I, I can't remember, it was like a dream, I went there in that man's car, and he was the one who took me back to the vegetable market..."

Zhong Lecen pondered for a while: "You mean, from the moment you got in that person's car, it's like a dream and you don't know anything?"

"Yes, yes!" Father Zhao nodded vigorously, "That's it! I was taken aback when I got out of the car, and it took me a long time to realize that I was back at the vegetable market."

"Then, do you remember what that person looked like?"

Father Zhao shook his head.

"Where's the woman in the store?"

Father Zhao thought hard again: "Yeah, I'm not very clear... her appearance seems to be blurred now, her skin seems to be very dark, and her hair is very long—ah, it seems that she has a scar on her left forehead!"

"A scar? What kind of scar?"

"It's hidden in the hair. I also looked down and saw it. It looks like someone hit it with something. It's not fully grown yet. It's quite scary. Fortunately, it's in the hair. If it's on the face, it will be disfigured."

Shen Gu had been pondering what Zhao's father said earlier, and suddenly asked: "Is that home pottery? Is it the kind made of soft pottery?"

Father Zhao was at a loss: "Tao Bar? Bingbing used to go to Tao Bar with her classmates, but I don't know what Tao Bar is like..."

Zhong Lecen suddenly asked: "Did you go to that store just once?"

Father Zhao nodded.

"Then that sign was already made?"

"No. It's freshly made. I probably—waited for an hour or so before it was cooked."

Zhong Lecen immediately said to Shen Gu: "This is not right. The porcelain brand is not soft pottery, but genuine porcelain. It is impossible to burn it within an hour, let alone the process of blank making and glazing."

Shen Gu nodded, he always believed in Zhong Lecen's analysis on these matters: "Are you sure it's an hour?"

"Sure." Father Zhao nodded with certainty this time, "It was four o'clock in the afternoon when I went to see him, and I took a leave of absence. It was six o'clock when I got my things back home, and Bingbing hadn't come back from school yet."

Shen Gu pondered for a moment: "What kind of car did that man drive? I guess you can't remember the license plate number? Do you have any impression of how long the car drove when you went there? Where is the vegetable market you mentioned? From the construction site to the market How long will it take? How long will it take from the vegetable market to your home?"

Father Zhao was dazed by a series of questions he asked, and he took a moment to answer them one by one.Sure enough, I can't remember the license plate number, but I remember that the car is a BMW because it has obvious signs.As for how long it took him to drive, he was not sure. He only knew that it took about four to 10 minutes from the construction site to the vegetable market, and it only took 5 minutes to go home from the vegetable market.

Shen Gu pulled out the map of Binhai City in his mind, and roughly circled a place.From [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] is the peak traffic time. Not to mention BMW, even Ferrari can't run fast, so this area is not too big.

"Ask Heizi to look for it?"

"Well, but I don't think we may be able to find it. This store is very likely to be a ghost store that ordinary people can't see."

"How to say?"

"It is absolutely impossible to make a serious piece of porcelain within an hour. It takes at least one day to burn it. Moreover, the temperature required for porcelain is above 1200 degrees, and it is impossible for an ordinary small shop to have it." This condition. If Mr. Zhao really did not mistake the time, I think that porcelain brand must not have been fired here."

Zhao's father was at a loss: "It was indeed burned on the spot. After she was done, she took it to the back room to burn it. I took it out and looked at it. It was the original one."

"I'm not saying she changed things, but I'm saying—forget it, you don't need to know that."

Shen Gu already understood Zhong Lecen's meaning: "You mean, it wasn't burned in the world?"

"possible."

"Dongfang Chen can see ghosts?"

"But that man is definitely not a ghost, otherwise he wouldn't be able to come out at three o'clock in the afternoon. He is probably a person with Taoism. Then if he has deep knowledge, he can completely cover the ghost's whereabouts."

"Whether you can find it or not, let Heizi take Dongfang Chen to look for it first." Shen Gu called the little Heizi, who was bored, and immediately took orders to pick up Dongfang Chen.Zhong Lecen waited for him to put down the phone, and said slowly: "It's not urgent to find them now, the urgent thing is that we have to save lives first."

Father Zhao had been confused by this series of weird things just now, and only then did he realize that his daughter was still lying on the hospital bed, tears were about to flow down again: "You guys save Bingbing, Bingbing doesn't know anything."

Zhong Lecen said comfortingly: "I know, we will do our best." Then he motioned for Han Jinyue to take over, and pulled Shen Gu away, "Go, go back and look at that sign."

The sign is still the same, but the dot of the word "Dou" is faintly red.Zhong Lecen took a closer look: "This is celadon, good craftsmanship."

Shen Gu knew nothing about porcelain, he only thought that the glaze color and luster were good, but he still didn't understand something: "Kui Xing should have said this a long time ago, right? Could it be that all the people who made offerings to Kuixing will die?"

Zhong Lecen thought for a while: "Do you know that there is an article in "Liao Zhai"? The name is "Kui Xing". It is a good sign that I will win the first name in the future, but who knows that my family is gradually declining, and my relatives are dying one by one. So Kuixing is an elusive thing. Do you think which great writer in ancient times was for Kuixing to become famous? And this brand It’s probably not Kuixing.”

"No?" Shen Gu was even more surprised, "Didn't you say Kuixing Diandou?"

"Yes, but the real Kuixing Diandou should step on the leader, which means 'the leader'. Look at the ghost on this brand, there is no leader under his feet. That man used Kuixing Diandou to deceive Bingbing's father, It’s not Kui on this sign, it’s just a ghost.”

"That is to say, they just want Bingbing's life!"

Zhong Lecen sighed lightly: "It's like ice like jade, with such porcelain making skills, I guess he was also a master in his lifetime."

Shen Gu snorted: "So what about a master? It's not like killing people after death."

"Indeed." Zhong Lecen stared at the sign, "I don't want money, I just want life, why is that?"

"Are you looking for a replacement?" Shen Gu thought of Dongfang Chen's class.

"Hanged ghosts and drowned ghosts prefer to find replacements, but according to Bing Bing's father, the woman should have been stoned to death. I haven't heard of stoned ghosts being replaced. And the replacements often have to be like the ghost. Die the same, but Bingbing..."

"Is there a way to solve it?"

Zhong Lecen frowned, and finally reached out to pick up the celadon card.After getting the sign, he exclaimed, "So light? Hollow?" He held up the sign to look below, then turned to face the light coming in from the window, "It's really hollow. And the porcelain wall is so thin, could it be that it was born out of the body?" porcelain?"

He looked left and right at the window, but Shen Gu found that there was something black on the table where the sign was placed just now, which fell out of the hollow when Zhong Lecen picked up the sign: "What is this?"

Zhong Lecen went up to have a look: "It seems to be some charcoal powder, maybe it was brought out of a porcelain kiln."

Shen Gu found a piece of white paper and collected the powder: "No matter what, first take it to Liu Wu for analysis."

Zhong Lecen turned the sign over, and on the back was Bingbing's birthday, Zhong Lecen looked at it, made up his mind, and suddenly said: "Bingbing was born in a cloudy year, a cloudy moon, and a cloudy day!"

Shen Gu was startled: "What?"

"July 1991, 7 was a cloudy year with a cloudy moon and a cloudy day. I just don't know if it was a cloudy time. If it was a cloudy time, then this ghost may have come to Bingbing because of this."

Shen Gu immediately picked up his mobile phone and called Han Jinyue, after a few words he hung up, and said to Zhong Lecen, "I was born at two o'clock in the morning."

Zhong Lecen nodded heavily: "It's a cloudy time. Bing Bing was born in a cloudy year and a cloudy moon."

"Born in a cloudy year when the moon is cloudy and the sun is cloudy? What will happen?"

"This kind of person is the easiest to pass Yin. I don't know what those two people are trying to do, but they definitely want to arrest Bingbing's soul."

"Bing Bing now--"

"The soul is still in the body, but it can't last long. The doctor said that the internal organs have started to fail, which means that the soul has begun to leave the body. When the person dies, the ghost will take her soul away."

"I don't know if Heizi and Dongfang Chen have found any clues--" Before Shen Gu finished speaking, the phone rang, "Heizi. Heizi, do you have any clues?"

"Brother Shen!" Xiao Heizi yelled over the phone in a panic, "Xiao Chen is injured!"

"Who?" Shen Gu realized a little later that Xiao Chen was referring to Dongfang Chen, "What's going on? Where are you?"

"In the demolition area on Jimo Road! Xiaochen's eyes seem to be injured!"

"Let's go right now!"

The place Xiao Heizi mentioned was near the Commodity City on Jimo Road. It used to be small shops, but they were demolished because of the construction of the bridge, leaving only ruins.Dongfang Chen sat in the car, tightly covering his eyes with his hands, with blood seeping between his fingers.Zhong Lecen anxiously wanted to break her hand: "What's wrong?"

"It seems to have been stabbed by a needle." Dongfang Chen said in a low voice, "It seems to have seen a sun. My eyes may no longer be able to see it."

"A sun?" Shen Gu asked Xiao Heizi, "Where did it happen?"

Xiao Heizi pointed with his finger: "It's in the dilapidated house in front, and I drew a mark at the door. Xiaochen saw the black air in this place from a distance, we went around and found that the black air came from that house It just popped out, Xiaochen wanted to go in, and suddenly it happened like this."

Zhong Lecen's complexion changed: "Someone set up an obstacle to prevent people from exploring what's inside! Miss Dongfang, let me see your eyes first."

Dongfang Chen shook her head: "No need." Her voice was a little dazed, "I know, I'm blind, and I can't see anymore." In the past, because she could see ghosts, even though she was a ghost in the eyes of ordinary people Blind, but she knew she was not.But now, she knew that she couldn't even see ghosts, she was indeed - blind.

Zhong Lecen felt his heart sinking: "Don't say that first, maybe you were stimulated too much for a while--blindness, maybe you will recover after a period of rest."

Dongfang Chen shook his head and put down his hand.Her face was originally as white as paper, but now there are two scars of bright red under her eyes, which is really frightening.Her expression was somewhat relieved: "I know, the Yin blood has been drained, my eyes are no longer Yin eyes, they are already useless."

Little Heizi was taken aback: "What Yin blood? What does it mean that Yin blood is drained?"

Dongfang Chen smiled slightly: "Didn't you see it? Oh, you can't see everything."

Xiao Heizi became even more anxious: "I didn't see anything. Are you saying that your eyes are bleeding? Brother Zhong, are Xiao Chen's eyes bleeding? Think of a way!"

Dongfang Chen fumbled and stretched out her hand to touch his hand. This was the first time she took the initiative to touch Xiao Heizi: "It's okay, it's not necessarily a good thing to have dark eyes. Now that it's gone, I can be a blind man with peace of mind. In fact, it’s not bad, I was just blind.”

Xiao Heizi held her hand tightly, not knowing what to say.Shen Gu straightened up suddenly: "Heizi, take care of Miss Dongfang, I'll go and see!"

His tone was calm, but Zhong Lecen could hear that he was already angry: "I'll go with you!" Dongfang Chen's eyes were stabbed like this, and he was also angry, "according to the situation, the one used to attack Dongfang Chen is extremely Yang Qi, you too--be careful." Shen Gu is also a person who gives up, and Yin Qi is also heavy.

The house marked by Xiao Heizi was no different from the dilapidated house next to it, but as soon as Shen Gu walked to the door, he felt a burst of scorching heat rushing towards his face, like a flame blown by a strong wind.Instinctively, he leaned up, and Jin Tiezhiying suddenly swung out, cutting the invisible flame into two pieces.What surprised him was that Jin Tiezhiying trembled in his hands, wanting to shrink into his body disobediently.Zhong Lecen pulled him hard behind him: "Quickly get out, there will be nothing inside."

"Why?" Shen Gu backed away a few steps, and Jin Tiezhiying returned to normal.

"This is samadhi fire. Fire overcomes metal, so gold and iron will shrink back. You are yin, and Dongfang Chen's yin eyes are also yin, so you can't resist samadhi. And sunspots are yang, so you can't resist samadhi. I don’t feel anything. Ghosts are also yin quality. Since there is Samadhi Fire, that female ghost can’t stay in it. I guess, they should have given up here, and Samadhi Fire is not specially used to deal with Dongfang Chen, but- -I want to set fire to remove all traces, and after a few days the samadhi fire will dissipate, and no one will find that ghosts have stayed here."

"Ran?"

"Run away." Zhong Lecen stared at the dilapidated house in front of him, "I just don't know if we alarmed them."

"That Bingbing--"

"If they weren't alarmed by us, maybe I have one last solution. But I'm not sure if it will work. Let's go, let's go back first. If Dongfang Chen is like this, he must notify the Dongfang family immediately."

"Her eyes are really finished?"

"It's over. She herself feels that the Yin blood is running out, that is, there is no more Yin eye, which cannot be cured. Her current situation is equivalent to being burned by a strong light, and there is no suitable corneas can be transplanted..."

Shen Gu punched hard in the palm of his hand.

"You don't have to do this." Zhong Lecen gently pressed his temples, "Everyone in this line of work is mentally prepared, just like you are ready to sacrifice at any time when performing missions. In fact, I think she seems to be relaxed without the evil eye, but-- After that, she's really just blind."

Shen Gu gritted his teeth: "I must get those two things out!"

"Well, if my plan works, I can track it down by the way. Shen Gu, have you noticed something?"

"what's up?"

"my eyes."

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Shen Gu was a little nervous, "Uncomfortable?"

"No. Didn't you notice? I don't need to wear sunglass now, but I can see some things."

Shen Gu suddenly realized: "Bingbing's mole! Han Jinyue and the others couldn't see it, but you saw it. When you were in the restaurant, you didn't wear glasses."

"There is also Dongfang Chen's blood just now. I took off my eyes and tried it, and I can see it."

"What--what does this mean?"

"This shows that my spiritual power seems to have grown a little bit. In other words, my spiritual aperture has opened up a little bit."

"Is it a good thing?" Shen Gu thought that this shouldn't be a bad thing.

"I don't know. Do you still remember why my dad sealed my spiritual aperture?"

"Then you--"

"It doesn't matter now. Although the spiritual power has recovered a little bit, it is very little, and it will not cause any thunder disaster or something. But what I am afraid of is, if the spirit orifice is opened little by little, will one day I fully recover? At that time... ..."

"Don't think about it yourself!" Shen Gu resolutely stopped his association, "I have recovered a little, how much is this? When will I recover a little next time? I can't say that I can't recover until the day you die. What is it, don't worry about it now."

Zhong Lecen lowered his head and thought for a while, then smiled: "Actually, I think I understand Dongfang Chen's thoughts. Losing the evil eye, in fact, also relieved a burden."