ghost play

?Chapter 12: The Girl Who Disappeared (Twelve)

Liuxue opened the book, corresponding to the runes on it, learned how to draw on the rune paper with a big stroke of a brush.Then I saw... Uh, nothing more, because the talisman paper with the runes on it didn't respond.

"Huh?" Liuxue looked at the life-seeking spell she drew, "Why didn't it respond? Is there something wrong with this book?"

Xia Li said: "This book belongs to your father."

Rabbit nodded and said, "Then there must be something wrong with this book."

Tian glanced at the talisman drawn on the talisman paper, then looked at the runes on the 32 pages, said nothing, but pointed to the bottom right of the talisman paper.

"Ah, one point is missing!" Liuxue realized that one point was missing in her drawing.

Tianyi rolled his eyes at him, and the rabbit kindly comforted him - you are still better than your father, Arya is still struggling with why such a small bag can hold so many things, Xia Li is speechless looking at the sky, what kind of father what kind of son.

The talisman paper that was drawn wrong could no longer be used, so Liuxue took another piece of paper and drew runes on it with a few strokes.After finishing the last stroke, the talisman flew out with a "swish", and then hit the window glass with a "snap".

There are no windows.

Liuxue asked: "Is there any way to let the talisman know that it can actually go out through the door, instead of flying through the window?"

Xia Li smiled slightly and said, "You can choose to teach them to recognize the door."

The rabbit was on Liuxue's head, and while helping him cut his hair, he said, "Actually, Xue can draw a spell at the door, so that the rune paper can go out through the door."

Liu Xue said: "In the future, if this kind of thing is not mentioned in advance, there is no need to talk about it later."

Tianyi looked at them and asked, "What should we do now, discuss the spell or look for Erya?"

Liuxue blinked, Tianyi opened the window helplessly, and the talisman flew out again with a "swish".

Looking at the talisman paper that Juechen left, Liuxue asked, "What should we do?"

……

"Chasing!" The rabbit hopped straight on Liuxue's head, Tianyi had already chased Erya out with his arms in his arms.

Liuxue glanced at Xia Li, and saw him say slowly: "That's the life-seeking spell you drew, you can control it with your mental power."

Liuxue seemed to understand, but also didn't seem to understand.

"Let's go." Xia Li didn't say much, she locked the door and walked out of the courtyard with Liu Xue, taking the door behind her. "You have a lot to learn in the future."

Liu Xue nodded and said, "I see."

"Can you feel the breath of the spell?" Xia Li asked.

Liuxue closed her eyes and tried to find the talisman paper that Juechen had left. After a while, he said, "School."

When Liuxue and Xia Li arrived at the gate of Yuxing Middle School, they saw Tianyi and Erya waiting for them at the gate, and the talisman paper was in Tianyi's hand.

"The talisman stopped at the school gate." Tianyi said.

Liuxue took the talisman paper from Tianyi's hand, and he could feel the message of the life-seeking spell lingering at his fingertips, telling him that Erya had a deep obsession with this place before her death, and that obsession contained resentment and sadness.

The talisman stopped in front of the school gate, Liuxue squatted down, touched the dirt on the ground, and asked doubtfully, "Is it here?"

"What are you doing here again?" Zhang Lina stood at the school gate and looked at Liu Xue and the others coldly.

The dean of the student affairs office is a materialist. He majored in political science and minored in psychology.In her eyes, Liuxue was a charlatan for the first time, and a thick-skinned charlatan for the second time, and now he came for the third time, although the second time was pretending to be a rabbit, but she didn't know, so In the eyes of the dean of the student office, Liu Xue is a shameless charlatan.

She didn't understand that the principal was also a high-level intellectual, so why did he start to believe in some weird things.

"Mr. Zhang, good morning." Liu Xue greeted Zhang Lina very politely, which made the words of the director of the student office who was about to roar with dialectical materialism stuck in his throat.

After a while, she said, "Good morning." Although it is already one o'clock in the afternoon.

"Didn't you just go back? What are you doing here?" Zhang Lina didn't forget her main purpose of coming here. She was going to go back to the office, but when she walked to the playground, she saw Liu Xue and the others at the door. As the director of the student office, she had to ask them clearly. What to do again.

"Looking for someone." Liuxue said concisely.

"Who? Those two missing girls?" Now Zhang Lina is most concerned about the two missing girls. It's been almost a week and they haven't been found yet.

Liu Xue shook his head, he didn't know how to explain it, so he thought for a while and asked, "Is the principal here?"

"It's in the principal's office." As she spoke, she saw Xia Li standing beside her, smoking a cigarette. "It's best not to smoke near the school, and please pay attention to your appearance." At first, when I saw him wearing a yellow SpongeBob nightdress, I thought it was a girl. Later, I saw him leaning on the side, smoking a pipe by himself, Only then did she realize it was a man.

A man in a nightgown? !So risqué!

Xia Li slowly exhaled smoke rings, half-closed her beautiful eyes, and said faintly: "I'm not dead, so why do I leave my remains behind?"

"You..." Zhang Lina pointed at his trembling hand.

"Sister!" Liu Xue called out.

Xia Limei glared at him.

Originally, I wanted to say "Don't be angry with Mr. Zhang", but when Xia Li stared at him, the words in his mouth changed to - "That's right!"

Zhang Lina: "..."

Xia Li is very satisfied.

"Hehe..." Liuxue laughed dryly, pointing to the teaching building. "I'll go to the school first..." Before Liuxue finished speaking, she suddenly felt a pain in her chest, and she knelt down on the ground.

"What's wrong with you?" Xia Li hurried forward to support him.

The rabbit also jumped off Liu Xue's head and asked, "What's wrong with Xue? Xue..."

"Liu Xue..." Tianban squatted beside Liu Xue, feeling his pulse with his index and middle fingers.

Liu Xue covered her chest, panted for a while, and said softly: "I'm fine, I..." He slowly raised his head, looking at the big bronze clock on the top of the opposite teaching building. "I just suddenly feel so sad..."

With the cool breeze blowing in summer, the leaves of the sycamore trees at the school gate were gently blown, and the mottled shadows of the trees painted a flowing starry sky.

The bronze bell on the top of the teaching building seemed to be blown by the breeze, and it made a low chime.

At this time, Xia Li and the others felt that the bronze clock was a bit strange, and even Zhang Lina felt that it was wrong.This gentle breeze can at most blow the treetops, how could it possibly blow this heavy bronze bell?

"I beg you...please..."

Liu Xue suddenly opened her eyes wide, staring fixedly at the big bronze bell on the roof of the teaching building.Along with the muffled bell, he faintly heard faint cries and helpless pleadings.

He finally knew what the forgotten obsession was...

Sad, helpless, painful...

"Did you hear it? Crying..." Liu Xue asked Xia Li and Tian Yi.

Tianyi and the others looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Erya..." He found that the crying and pleading were Erya's voice. "Erya's cry... Erya." Liuxue turned her head and saw Erya standing at the side in a daze, with tears streaming out of her eyes slowly.

"I found her." Xia Li knew that Liu Xue had already found out where Er Ya was.He is a psychic medium himself, so he has a much stronger perception of the surrounding spiritual power, and is also easily affected by the mood swings of the spiritual power master.

Liu Xue nodded, holding his hand tightly, feeling a pang of sadness in her heart.

Xia Li held him back and asked softly, "Are you going to see her?"

Liuxue nodded lightly again, stretched out her other hand and pointed to the roof of the teaching building and said, "There she is."

Everyone is puzzled.

Liuxue didn't explain, Xia Li took his hand and walked towards the roof of the teaching building.

Tianyi and the others didn't know what was going on, so they followed Liu Xue.When we arrived at the roof of the teaching building, the iron door was closed with a big lock hanging on it. We could only see the simple copper bell hanging on the roof through the iron door.

"I'll go to the principal to get the key." I saw the cloth rabbit above Liuxue's head talking just now. Although it was speaking in Japanese, Zhang Lina felt that her world view was a bit subverted. Could it be that there are really strange things?

Zhang Lina quickly came with the key, but she didn't come up alone, the principal followed along.

Zhang Lina opened the iron gate, but Liu Xue didn't go in. He noticed that Xu Jiaxian had been looking at Erya.

After a while, Xu Jiaxian asked tremblingly, "Are you the second girl of the Zhang family?"

Tianyi had already wiped away the tears on Erya's face, she still didn't seem to understand something, tilted her head to look at Xu Jiaxian, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know me?"

Xu Jiaxian twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to smile, but found that he couldn't.

"It's really you." Xu Jiaxian looked at the green hill in the distance, and there were a few dilapidated huts faintly visible under the hill. "I'm the third son of old man Xu who lives next door to your house."

Erya didn't know if she thought about it or not, looking at him, there was endless sadness on her immature face, but her originally clear eyes seemed to have gone through vicissitudes.Like the old man in front of him who has reached seventy years old, the traces of time are engraved in his eyes.

Tianyi asked: "Do you know what happened back then?"

Xu Jiaxian shook his head and said, "I don't know." He thought about it again, sighed and continued. "I only remember decades ago... yes, it was 60 years ago, and this season, the second girl from the Zhang family next door disappeared, and the whole village couldn't find it. I was only 12 years old at that time, and I followed the adults Go find it. Some people say that it might have been abducted by a kidnapper, and some people say that there used to be a man-eating goblin living on this mountain, and it might have been captured by the goblin, and it just won’t come back anyway.”

Er Ya cried again inexplicably.

Liuxue tightly held Xia Li's hand, also felt sore eyes, and cried out.

"Xue, what's wrong with you?" The rabbit was on Liuxue's shoulder, he saw it as soon as Liuxue cried.Liuxue always likes to smile on weekdays, he looks like he hasn't taken medicine when he sees a beauty, and rarely sees him cry.

"Because I died... I died 60 years ago... I can't come back..." Liuxue and Erya said in unison.

Tianyi and Xia Li looked at Liuxue in surprise, and saw that his face was covered with tears, his eyes were not clear, but vicissitudes.They knew that Liu Xue was possessed, and the spirit medium was the most likely to be possessed by ghosts and gods.

The possessed Liuxue looked at Erya, and saw the little girl wearing a floral cloth jacket suddenly smiled, her smile was sweet and beautiful, with aura in her eyes - she was just a seven or eight year old girl.

But after the little girl smiled, she turned into a wisp of smoke and blew towards the forest and mountains.

Liuxue's figure was unstable, and she was about to fall to the ground with a stagger.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Xia Li quickly grabbed him.

Liuxue clasped her chest with both hands, then slowly spread her hands, and saw a piece of ice jade in her hand, which was the jade left in his palm when Arya turned into smoke and dust just now.

The jade is so clear, Xia Li and Tianyi frowned slightly when they saw the ice jade, because they felt a powerful force in the jade.

In a moment, just when Liuxue was about to hold the jade, that piece of jade was also blown away in a gust of wind.

Liuxue half looked back at Xia Li holding her hand, her body trembling slightly, she cried again, and said in a sobbing voice: "If someone could have held her hand at that time, she would not have died."

"Is she on the rooftop?" Tian Yi was a little puzzled. "But 60 years ago, the teaching buildings should not have been so tall."

Liuxue didn't answer Tianyi's words, but asked, "Has she left?"

"In Japanese terms, I have become a Buddha." Tianyi said.

"I have become a Buddha..." Liuxue leaned back and fell into Xia Li's arms as if she had exhausted all her strength.He slowly stretched out his hand, pointing at the bronze bell. "She's dead there."

"Where?!" Except for Xia Li and Liu Xue, everyone was stunned.

Xia Li seems to have noticed it, but there is not much expression on his face. He has lived for 4000 years and has seen all kinds of deaths. He has become numb to human death.

Tianyi frowned and said: "You mean she is in the clock, that is..." Tianyi suddenly widened his eyes and murmured. "No way……"

The rabbit still doesn't understand, but Xu Jiaxian's face is full of shock.

"The second girl fell into the cast iron cauldron, she..." Xu Jiaxian's lips turned pale, he never thought that the missing second girl of the Zhang family next door was here.

"She didn't fall in by herself." Liuxue wiped the tears from her face.

Hearing what Liu Xue said, Xu Jiaxian didn't show much surprise on his face, as if he knew what was going on.

Being possessed by Erya just now, Liuxue also felt Arya's mood, as well as the forgotten memory of what happened in the past.Er Ya has already left, but that memory still lingers in his mind, as if he was the one who merged into the bronze bell.

It happened 60 years ago. At that time, Qingshuixi was only a small village, and the construction of the school had just started. The village head wanted to cast a bronze bell for the school, and listen to the bell after class.Anyway, the school was still under construction, so the village chief and the others built a simple shed on the playground as a place for cast iron.

There are two bully sons in the village chief's family, who especially like to bully others.That day they chased Erya and asked Erya to be their daughter-in-law.Er Ya was quite afraid of the two of them, so she ran to the school and hid in the cast iron shed.Seeing that Erya was avoiding them, the two of them felt unhappy, so they wanted to scare her.They deliberately chased Erya onto the shelf that was placed on the melting iron pot. Erya was frightened and begged them, but they removed the shelf.

It's just that Erya didn't fall to the ground, but fell into the molten iron pot.

The final scream lingered in the shed...

"I beg you...please..."

Liuxue finished speaking slowly, and he could even feel the moment when he fell into the iron pot, the hot lava eroded his clothes, burned his body, and melted his bones.

Despair and grief, the last helplessness is in the pain.

"It really hurts... It feels like I've broken all my bones and peeled off my flesh and blood... It hurts..." Liuxue was trembling, her hands were tightly hugging her chest, and her teeth were clenched tightly His lower lip, pupils were dilated, and his nose was breathing rapidly.