The Sick Beauty in the Republic of China

The second floor is not as transparent as the first floor. Instead, it is divided into several small rooms. The aisles left by each other are already narrow, and with the accumulation of debris, there is no light. It really seems to be crowded around people's hearts. Pressing the boulder, it was almost difficult to breathe.

And Qi Chensheng's voice came slowly in the oppressive darkness.

"About twelve or thirteen years ago, at that time, Ru Ling was taken back to the Qi family just because she inherited the Star Superintendent. The old man was very angry with third uncle and told him to find out the heirs he had left outside. so that this does not happen again.”

"The third uncle should have really followed suit, but after searching several times, he couldn't find any other children. Only a tea seller surnamed Wu was pregnant, so she was brought into the mansion and placed here. Upstairs in Huansha."

They came to another door, and Wang Luan slightly raised his hand carrying the lamp, illuminating half of the torn veiled carved door, as if there was a gust of wind, and through the mottled hole, there was a sound like weeping.

And the boxes piled up behind the door also reflected tall and low shadows, like stiff people standing in the room, looking at them with cold and black eyes with hatred.

Qi Chensheng didn't care, and opened the door with the gentleman's stick in his hand, walked in with Wang Luan in his arms, and continued: "A few months later, Mrs. Wu gave birth to a boy."

"But around the time when the third uncle used extremely disgraceful means to her, Mrs. Wu harbored resentment, and lived in the building and was very reluctant to contact outsiders, especially that child—it is said that after being taken to see the old lady from the Hundred Days Banquet , Mrs. Wu will not allow others to touch him, and must personally do everything, even the servants in the building can only hear the cry of the child."

Pushed by him, the dilapidated door fell directly to the ground with a "bang", hitting the sundries piled up behind it, making a burst of clattering sound.

And just after those noises, perhaps due to the coincidence of the wind, there was a faint cry of a baby.

It was such a weak voice, but it completely moved the nerves of several people, who were trembling and shivering behind Qi Chensheng, and no one dared to follow.

Wang Luan nestled in Qi Chensheng's arms, supported his arm with one hand, raised his head slightly and asked, "Then what happened after that?"

"Later?" Qi Chensheng took Wang Luan into his arms, and walked into the room that was still filled with dust. In the darkness and silence, the slender gentleman's stick was like another footstep, mixed with Qi Chensheng's indifferent narration, echoing endlessly.

"Later, seeing that the child was almost one year old, people around gradually realized that he didn't move at all during the day, only crying at night."

"The mothers-in-law and girls who served all advised Wu not to watch the child so closely. The cry of the child is not right, so we should invite a doctor to take a look. But Wu still refused, and hugged the tightly wrapped baby every day. Swaddled baby, sitting in the bedroom without even opening the curtains."

"The child cried more and more at night, and Wu didn't stop her. She just sang softly to coax the child to cry all night, and she sang all night."

The faint baby cry just now has disappeared—no, it doesn't seem to have disappeared, but it seems to be hidden somewhere, waiting for them quietly.

Wang Luan's feet inadvertently picked up something, but it turned out to be a lying down porcelain vase, which rolled out on the dusty floor with a gurgling sound, in the corner of the cabinet and the wall where no one could see, It was blocked by a small livid hand.

"Those women and maids couldn't persuade her, so they had to let her sing like this, but every night when they heard the children's cries and Wu's singing, everyone felt that it was getting more and more intrusive."

"Until one day, an old nanny came to pick up things from the nearby courtyard. She was delayed because of something, and she left a little later, and heard Wu's singing. Even if she felt bad, she secretly told Huansha The little girl in the building, Mrs. Wu sang that song, it's not for coaxing children to sleep."

"It's used in their hometown--calling for souls."

Qi Muyao, who bravely followed behind Qi Chensheng just now, trembled violently and almost lost his footing. Wang Luan looked back at him, and he barely managed to hold back his tears and laughter.

"That child... But what happened?" Wang Luan turned around and asked Qi Chensheng's hand.

"What did Brother Nine say?" Qi Chensheng didn't answer directly, but lightly supported Wang Luan's waist, looked down at him and asked.

Wang Luan looked at the pitch-black room in front of him, and Qi Chensheng didn't need him to answer anything, and continued on by himself: "Wu's behavior was weird, and the news spread quickly, and the old lady sent Zhuo Momo beside her Come, grab the swaddling baby in her arms abruptly."

"Layers of red silk were untied, and what was exposed inside was a dead baby covered in bruises, but not rotten—"

As soon as Qi Chensheng's words fell, the crying of the baby, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly resounded from the darkness where the electric lamp couldn't even illuminate it.And this time, compared to the previous bitterness and misery, there was a bit more anger at being poked, which made the crying so loud that it almost hurt people's ears.

"Find him." Qi Chensheng's gray remnant eyes reflected a restless shadow, even though he could no longer use the holding demon, he quickly clung to the gentleman's stick in his hand, half-protected Wang Luan, and poked into the glove box .

Although Qi Muyao was still terribly scared, he still turned his head and looked at Ru Rong: "You and Wang Xiang lean against the wall and don't move around, protect yourself, and call us if you have something to do!"

As he spoke, he picked up a broken stool leg from the ground, pushed open the blocking object, and searched for it.The little girl, Banana Leaf, was not as weak as she seemed on the surface, and she didn't care about anything, and she rummaged vigorously.

The baby's cry never stayed in a fixed place, Wang Luan listened carefully, chasing every change of position.

Qi Chensheng's cane pierced through the wood of the cabinet door violently, but after opening it, it was always empty.

Going on like this is not an option, and Wang Luan's physical strength gradually couldn't keep up, but he still relied on the cabinet to borrow strength, lightly tugged at Qi Chensheng's sleeve, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Shen Sheng ...Right now, if you were that ghost baby or the person behind it, who would you attack?"

Qi Chensheng paused slightly, took Wang Luan's hand and stroked the crimson stone ring between his fingers, and said in a low voice: "If there is a target, it is natural to kill the person he wants to kill, but if not—"

The eyes of the two people looked at Ru Rong and Qi Wangxiang who were still standing by the wall in unison. They also held the sticks they had picked up with great difficulty in their hands, and looked around vigilantly.

Neither Wang Luan nor Qi Chensheng made a sound, they only looked at each other, and then secretly moved closer to them.

"Ru Rong, you stand back." Qi Wangxiang's body is also very weak, but at the moment he is trying to protect Ru Rong with all his strength.

"Brother Six..." Ru Rong's eyes were still swollen badly, and the tears couldn't stop flowing out: "Brother Six, don't worry about me, you just need to protect yourself."

Qi Wangxiang didn't want to, he still stood in front of Qi Rurong, but Qi Rurong was scared to the extreme, and stepped back involuntarily.Several times, I almost hit the crooked and decayed cabinet.

Just as she was concentrating and looking around vigilantly, a cabinet that she had just passed by and even moved suddenly opened the door.

Slowly, the little blue hand poked out from the darkness.

But Rurong didn't notice it.

That little livid purple hand was like this poking out, slowly approaching Qi Rurong, who was without a master.

Ru Rong still didn't know anything, she clenched the broken chair leg tightly in her hand, and just when she was about to take a step back, she suddenly felt something, the cold hand rushed to her ankle without warning.

Qi Rurong immediately froze on the spot, she was so frightened that her voice turned into tears, she couldn't even shout, she tried her best but could only make a weak voice, and said to Qi Wangxiang who was closest to her: "Six, brother six! ...Help me see if there is anything on my feet..."

Hearing this, Qi Wangxiang immediately followed the light of the electric lantern to shine on Qi Rurong's feet, and the moment he saw the livid little hands grabbing her ankles, he immediately shouted loudly: "Second brother, fourth brother, come quickly!! !"

Wang Luan and Qi Chensheng were already paying attention to the movement on their side, and when they heard Qi Wangxiang's voice, they even ran towards him without hesitation.

It's a pity that the debris piled up is like a maze of layers, and it is obviously only a few steps away, but it is difficult to move forward.

The moment they were about to arrive in front of Wang Xiang, they saw the ghost baby with a purple face running along Ru Rong's body and onto her shoulders under the dim light.

Wang Luan firmly held Qi Chensheng's hand. He felt that the crimson stone ring between his fingers and the tattoo on his collarbone were so hot that they were about to burn. The golden streamer flickered for an instant, but disappeared in the darkness in an instant.

That's too late--

"Ru Rong!"

Amid Qi Muyao's throat-tearing cry, he watched helplessly as the ghost baby opened its bloody mouth, revealing its white teeth, and bit Ru Rong's neck greedily and viciously.

The soft, smiling little girl didn't even have time to make any noise, the gushing blood stained her face red, and she collapsed powerlessly.

Qi Wangxiang was splashed all over by Ru Rong's blood, he still dropped everything in his hands, and wanted to catch the little sister, but he was too weak, and instead was knocked down by Ru Rong's dying body Tall wooden cabinets.

Everything happened so suddenly that everyone hadn't recovered from Rurong's accident, they only heard a loud noise, followed by the sound of the board breaking under their feet.

It turned out that the overturned wooden cabinet smashed through the already rotten floor, and a large amount of debris fell down in an instant, and Wang Luan and Qi Chensheng, who were very close to Wangxiang, were also crushed without warning. Involved in falling with the floor.

Qi Chensheng originally wanted to use the gentleman's stick to borrow strength, but the incident was too short, the only thing he could do was to hold Wang Luan tightly in his arms, turn over and put himself under it.