The anchor is dying every day [System]
Chapter 79
Ling Xiaotian smiled twice at Ling Wen, her face turned slightly pale.
She always felt that her brother had been replaced by someone, and in her eyes, the person who replaced her brother was undoubtedly an extremely dangerous person, so every time she faced him, she always felt very scared.
And today when I heard Xiao Yuening say that my brother might not be replaced by someone, but possessed by a ghost, this kind of fear not only did not decrease, but intensified...
Ling Xiaotian forced a smile: "Oh, I've already met my friend..."
As she spoke, she rolled her eyes, then suddenly turned her head and waved to Xiao Yuening, who was standing not far away and quietly watching this side, beckoning him to come over.
Xiao Yuening paused, and walked towards the two obediently.
When he came out this time, although he didn't bring Xiao Hei, Xiao Huang and Ghost Blade were still packed into the backpack he carried with him. If he encountered danger, he could completely protect himself.
When Xiao Yuening walked towards him, Ling Wen didn't react at all, nor did he even glance at him, just like he couldn't see Xiao Yuening as a living person at all.
It wasn't until Xiao Yuening came up to him, Ling Xiaotian pulled Xiao Yuening's sleeve and introduced to him that this was her friend, that he seemed to be touched, and turned his gaze to Xiao Yuening.
Ling Wen: "Oh, you are my sister's friend? Hello."
He nodded as he spoke. Although the expression on his face was polite and careless, there was still nothing in the depths of his eyes, a dead silence without expression.
Xiao Yuening didn't answer, but carefully looked up and down the person in front of him with his ghostly eyes.
Seeing that he was silent and serious, Ling Xiaotian couldn't help becoming nervous, and looked at Xiao Yuening without blinking.
Ling Wen didn't seem to notice it, and the expression on his face still didn't change at all.
Xiao Yuening stared at Ling Wen for a long time, and sure enough, he found a clue from this person.
Ever since he had the Nether Eye, he discovered that ordinary people are always shrouded in a kind of aura that seems to be nothing.
This kind of qi is in a translucent state, very light and faint, if you don't observe very carefully, you won't be able to find it for a while.
Xiao Yuening didn't know what it was at the beginning, but after a period of careful observation, he discovered that it wasn't just humans, cats, dogs, and even flowers and trees by the trees, but any living thing Everything is covered with this kind of aura.
And dead objects, such as ghosts, corpses, and monsters from different worlds, cannot see this translucent gas at all.
Comparing the two, Xiao Yuening also gradually understood that the gas on those living creatures probably belonged to something like "angry".And things that have lost their lives, of course, will no longer be alive.
As for Ling Wen in front of him, he was also angry.
It's just that this anger is different from the anger in others, it's so faint that it's almost impossible to distinguish, like a candle that is about to burn out, flickering and about to be completely extinguished.
What's happening here?Is the person in front of me dead or alive?
Xiao Yuening observed Ling Wen more carefully, not letting anything go wrong.
In order to determine whether he was possessed by a ghost, he couldn't help but take two steps closer, but he didn't feel the cold aura belonging to ghosts, let alone the stench of decaying corpses.
Ling Xiaotian stood beside her, watching Xiao Yuening's strange behavior, her expression gradually became weird.
She thought about it, moved closer to Xiao Yuening, and asked in a low voice: "Then...well, brother Ningning, did you see anything?"
Xiao Yuening shook his head helplessly: "No."
Ling Xiaotian: "Huh?"
Xiao Yuening pulled Ling Xiaotian aside, then glanced at Ling Wen, whose expression was still unchanged, and explained: "I've checked, and there doesn't seem to be anything dirty about your brother. But ..."
Ling Xiaotian breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that there was nothing dirty on her brother's body, but the "but" behind Xiao Yuening raised her nervousness again: "What's wrong? Is there something else? wrong?"
Xiao Yuening thought for a while, and said truthfully: "Your brother's anger is very weak, he looks like a dying person, but there seems to be nothing wrong with his body. I don't understand it either... ..."
Although Ling Xiaotian didn't understand what it meant to be angry, just saying "a dying person" was enough for her to understand her brother's situation, and she couldn't help but anxiously said: "Then what should I do? Is there anything you can do? "
Xiao Yuening shook his head helplessly. Although he is a closed door person and often deals with ghosts, he is not a real celestial master after all, and what he knows is limited after all.but……
"However, since this matter started after your brother participated in Xiao Naer's live broadcast, then the root of the problem must still be with Xiao Naer. If you want to find out what happened to your brother, you still have to find a way to talk to him. Let her touch..."
Ling Xiaotian's face was already showing disappointment, but her eyes lit up when she heard the words, and she immediately said, "You're right! But..."
She seemed to have thought of something, and the expression on her face quickly turned into timidity and embarrassment: "But... If it was her who did my brother become like this, then, isn't she a very dangerous person? If we After getting in touch with her, will it... will it..."
After all, she was just a teenage high school student, as long as she thought that she might become like her brother... Ling Xiaotian's face inevitably revealed a look of fear.
Xiao Yuening smiled slightly, and said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of this matter, you don't need to come forward."
Anyway, there is a mission, Xiao Yuening will inevitably have a confrontation with Xiao Na'er sooner or later, there is absolutely no need to involve such a helpless little girl.
Ling Xiaotian had a look of shame on her face. She thought about it and said awkwardly: "This, this is not good. After all, this matter has nothing to do with you. I, I..."
She gritted her teeth, and then said, "I'd better go with you, the two of us, if we are in danger, we can have someone to take care of us."
Xiao Yuening shook his head when he heard the words, Xiao Na'er's ability is to control ghosts, so one can imagine how difficult it is to deal with such a person.
If Ling Xiaotian followed, when a fight broke out, Xiao Yuening would be distracted to protect the little girl while dealing with the ghosts. I'm afraid that he would not be helping but holding back.
Xiao Yuening: "No need. If Xiao Na'er is really weird, as an ordinary person, you won't be able to help me if you go. It's more convenient for me to go alone."
Ling Xiaotian lowered her head and said "um", feeling a sense of relief in her heart.Feeling her own emotions, Ling Xiaotian blushed suddenly, feeling that she seemed a little inappropriate.
She looked at Xiao Yuening with some embarrassment, then turned her head to look at Ling Wen who was standing not far behind them, and said, "Uh, well, I'll listen to you, thank you... I, I last Toilet."
After she finished speaking, she turned around in a hurry and went to the bathroom next to her.
Seeing him leave, Xiao Yuening turned his gaze back to Ling Wen.
Since Ling Xiaotian left, the expression on this person's face has changed back to the sluggish one when he was alone. At first glance, he looks like a realistic puppet.
Xiao Yuening let out a "huh" in surprise, he walked up to Ling Wen, walked around him, and found that the other party really had a blank expression of indifference.
This person seems to only show the expression and attitude that "Ling Wen" should have when facing people close to him.It's just that the way of getting along is more like the continuation of the body's original habits, and half of the emotions that belong to normal human beings are not mixed in.
Looking at Ling Wen who seemed to have only a body left in front of him, Xiao Yuening suddenly had an extremely horrifying conjecture: Could it be... In fact, Ling Wen had indeed already died in Xiao Na'er's hands?Just because it was his soul that died, but his body was completely preserved for some reason, inheriting the original habits of the owner of the body, and continuing to come back to live with his family?
Xiao Yuening looked up, and Ling Wen in front of him still had a hollow and numb expression, his lack of soul seemed to confirm his guess.
It's no wonder that this little Na'er can still do her live broadcast so freely after killing so many people in a row. It turned out that she used this method to avoid the attention of the police...
Xiao Yuening was thinking about it, but suddenly there was a scream from the direction of the bathroom. He quickly recognized that it seemed to be Ling Xiaotian's voice, and couldn't help but shudder in his heart, and hurriedly ran towards the bathroom.
As a result, as soon as he ran to the door of the bathroom, a distressed figure rushed out of the women's bathroom, and bumped into Xiao Yuening's body.
Xiao Yuening reached out to support this person, and found that this person was Ling Xiaotian.
Ling Xiaotian's face was frighteningly pale, and her eyes were full of fear. When she saw Xiao Yuening, she grabbed his arm, then pointed to the glass of the sink in the women's toilet with a look of fear, and cried: "Ghost! Ghost! There are ghosts! There really are ghosts in this world!"
In the women's restroom, there were a few girls standing in front of the mirror washing their hands and applying makeup. They were startled by Ling Xiaotian's sudden scream before, but now they were standing there looking at each other.
However, after hearing Ling Xiaotian's cries, these girls immediately panicked, all clutching their bags, and ran out of the bathroom with horror on their faces.
After hearing Ling Xiaotian's cry, Xiao Yuening quickly glanced into the bathroom, but saw nothing.
Seeing more and more people gathered around curiously, he quickly embraced Ling Xiaotian, who covered her eyes and was trembling all over, and walked to a place where there were few people.
Ling Wen, who was standing sluggishly, walked towards them slowly like an activated robot after seeing his sister.
Xiao Yuening ignored him, avoiding the crowd and asked Ling Xiaotian: "What's going on? You just said there was a ghost, did you see a ghost in the bathroom?"
Ling Xiaotian was so scared that she couldn't stop shaking, tears kept falling down, she cried and said: "Yes, when I just went to the toilet to wash my hands, I suddenly saw a bloody girl in the mirror. The female ghost, she looked at me coldly, and suddenly reached out from the mirror and grabbed me..."
She said, rolling up the sleeves of her clothes in a panic, revealing a purple bruise under the cuffs: "Look, this is the mark she left on my wrist! She grabbed my wrist at that time , trying to drag me into the mirror!"
After she finished speaking, she broke down and burst into tears: "It's terrible! When she grabbed me, my body suddenly couldn't move! If the woman next to me hadn't hit me just now, I might have died! "
Xiao Yuening looked at Ling Xiaotian who was crying with snot and tears all over his face, and shifted his gaze to her left shoulder thoughtfully, and sure enough, he saw that the black stain on her shoulder was still there, but the color changed. Much shallower.
Tentatively touching it with his hand, Xiao Yuening felt a cold chill coming from his fingertips, which was similar to the chill he felt every time he saw a ghost.
Xiao Yuening felt that this thing seemed to be Yin Qi, but why did it appear on Ling Xiaotian's shoulder?A female ghost suddenly attacked Ling Xiaotian just now, could it be that it found it following this Yin Qi?Is this some kind of mark?
Looking at Ling Xiaotian who was still crying, Xiao Yuening asked, "Did you hide something from me? Where did you get the yin on your shoulder?"
"What, what Yin Qi?" Ling Xiaotian looked blank, following Xiao Yuening's gaze, she stared at her shoulder in horror, her body trembled more and more, and her face became horribly pale, "Yin , Yin Qi? I don’t know? Was it left by that female ghost just now?”
Xiao Yuening felt that her expression didn't seem fake, so he asked in another way: "Have you come into contact with any strange things recently? Or have you been to some special places?"
Ling Xiaotian shook her head blankly: "No? Where can I go, isn't it just... ah!"
Seeing that she seemed to have thought of something suddenly, Xiao Yuening quickly asked, "What's wrong? What did you think of?"
Ling Xiaotian's face turned pale, and she said in a trembling voice: "I have never been to strange places...but I have received strange things..."
Xiao Yuening: "What strange thing?"
Ling Xiaotian glanced at her shoulder timidly, and said in a trembling voice: "Two or two days ago, I suddenly received a courier. The courier was very strange. The recipient wrote my name, but the sender But it was blank..."
Xiao Yuening nodded, motioning for her to continue talking.
Ling Xiaotian said again: "The express box is not big, and it is very light. I was curious who would send me something out of nowhere. After opening it, I found that there was only a red thing in the package..."
When she said this, her face became ugly again, "It was very small, and I didn't know what it was at first. But after holding it in my hand and studying it for a long time, I suddenly felt that it was like a woman's fingernail with nail polish ..."
Xiao Yuening's face changed slightly: "...and then?"
Ling Xiaotian swallowed her saliva, and her tone changed a little: "Then I threw it away! I thought it was a prank, and I was very angry. I also asked my classmates, but no one admitted Sent me something like this... I couldn't figure out the situation, and after two days of getting angry, I forgot about it."
After she finished speaking, she looked up at Xiao Yuening with tears in her eyes, and asked in a crying voice: "Brother Ningning, does the ghost I just met have something to do with this matter? Can you help me?"
Xiao Yuening pondered for a while, if he guessed correctly, the nail cap in the courier should be something like a medium.
Someone sent it to Ling Xiaotian, and after Ling Xiaotian touched it, a mark was planted on her body, and the female ghost who attacked her in the bathroom just now must have come after this mark.
But who would a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl like this who is still in high school have a grudge against, and let the other party use such insidious means to deal with her?
Xiao Yuening asked, "Have you offended anyone recently?"
Ling Xiaotian thought for a while, then suddenly gritted her teeth and said: "Xiao Naer! It must be her! I have been scolding her on her Weibo because of my brother's affairs. A female ghost came to harm me! Didn’t you also say that? My brother became like this because of her, she must have some evil methods! She harmed my brother first, and now she harms me. The only person I will offend is She's alone!"
After she finished speaking, she immediately looked at Xiao Yuening pleadingly, and said in fear: "Brother Ningning, help me, you must understand these things, right?"
Seeing her terrified expression, Xiao Yuening quickly comforted her: "Don't be afraid, I will help you."
After he finished speaking, he thought of something and took out Xiao Huang from his backpack.Then, under Ling Xiaotian's puzzled gaze, he gently placed it on the black mark on her shoulder.
Ling Xiaotian didn't know what Xiao Yuening meant, and when the doll touched her shoulder, she stood there without daring to move.
Then, only a second or two later, the shoulder pain that she had mistakenly thought was caused by a wrong sleeping position, and the cold feeling that had been lingering on her shoulders all disappeared miraculously.
Xiao Yuening saw that the yin energy attached to Ling Xiaotian's shoulders had been swallowed up, so he put Xiao Huang back in his backpack calmly: "How is it, how do you feel?"
"My shoulders felt much more comfortable." Ling Xiaotian stared at Xiao Yuening's backpack without blinking, "...Brother Ningning, what is that plush doll? Why did you put it on my shoulder? Let it go, and my shoulders feel comfortable?"
Xiao Yuening said: "Oh, it's nothing, it can get rid of Yin Qi."
Ling Xiaotian's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and she looked at Xiao Yuening with longing in her eyes: "Then, can you put it..."
"No." Xiao Yuening refused expressionlessly. He knew what the girl in front of him was thinking, but that was impossible. "It's my partner, and it's priceless. Whether you want to borrow it or buy it, it doesn't work."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yuening felt a slight movement from his backpack. Xiao Huang seemed very happy after hearing his words, which made his eyes soften.
Ling Xiaotian heard Xiao Yuening's rejection without hesitation, but her eyes dimmed: "Oh..."
Xiao Yuening had already obtained what he wanted most from Ling Xiaotian, and he told Ling Xiaotian not to provoke Xiao Naer again during this period, and not to accept any more couriers from unknown sources, so as not to be tricked by the other party again.
Because he also promised to help her find out about her brother, Xiao Yuening added Ling Xiaotian as friends on WeChat before leaving, and then turned and left.
Room 44, No. 004 Ganshiqiao.
This is the address Xiao Yuening got from Ling Xiaotian. According to her explanation, her brother Ling Wen went to this place to participate in Xiao Naer's live broadcast.As a result, when he came back the next day, the elder brother who came back seemed to be a completely different person, with quite a few weird changes.
Xiao Yuening wasn't sure about this address, but it was just the address of the supernatural live broadcast that Ling Wen participated in?Or is it Xiao Naer's usual place to gather live broadcast participants?
If it is the former, then this address is useless to estimate, unless some useful clues can be found on the scene.
But if it was the latter, Xiao Yuening might find Xiao Na'er directly.
Guessing alone has no clue after all. If he wants to determine what the purpose of this address is, the easiest way is for him to go to No. 44 Ganshi Bridge himself.
After returning home, Xiao Yuening turned on the computer and searched, and found that there was indeed a Ganshi Bridge in City A.
And as he explored further by changing the keywords, he also discovered that Gan Shiqiao, which had nothing special in his eyes, turned out to have a lot to say.
In the eyes of some older people in City A, the road of Ganshi Bridge originally had another rather strange name - Qushi Bridge (Note 1).
What is the corpse bridge?
Xiao Yuening found two explanations on the Internet.
The first theory is that there was originally a stone bridge on Ganshi Bridge with three big stones on the bridge deck, which was never submerged by heavy rain, so it was named Ganshi Bridge.After the Republic of China, the homonym was changed to Ganshi Bridge.
Later, when New China established Extension Street, the bridge was bulldozed.But the road where the bridge is located still continues to be called Ganshi Bridge Road.
Another way of saying it is more eerie.
It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, all criminals who committed capital crimes and were to be executed had to walk across this bridge to Caishikou Execution Ground.
The relatives of the condemned prisoners and ordinary people passing by to watch the excitement are not allowed to cross the bridge, so the relatives can only deliver food to the prisoner on the bridge and see him for the last time.
The prisoner was dragged to the execution ground after crossing the bridge. The local people called this bridge "Qianshi Bridge".Because the criminals who walk across this bridge will eventually become corpses.
Later, the world changed, the bridge disappeared, and criminals with capital crimes no longer had to walk on the stone bridge. People felt that the name of "Qianshi Bridge" was really unpleasant, so they changed it to Ganshi Bridge.
Listening to this legend makes people feel horrified. Xiao Na'er chose this place. I don't know if it is to deliberately create a scary atmosphere, or there is some special reason.
But no matter how gloomy it was, Xiao Yuening had to go this time.
Ganshi Bridge was in the old city, and when Xiao Yuening arrived nearby that night, the sky had completely darkened, and there was even a drizzle of drizzle in the sky.
Xiao Hei hated rainy days the most, as it followed Xiao Yuening forward, it shook its fur in disgust.
This is the old city, and there are small alleys everywhere. On both sides of the road, there are even many courtyards and facades that residents have illegally expanded.
This also makes the already intricate road even more difficult, and one who is not paying attention will get lost.
Xiao Yuening walked down the crooked road all the way, wandering around in a daze, but he still didn't see where the legendary Ganshi Bridge was.
The residents of this place are even more weird. I don't know if they are xenophobic by nature. Whenever Xiao Yuening wants to ask where Gan Shiqiao is, they will put on an unfriendly attitude and wave their hands and refuse to answer his question.
Without any hint, Xiao Yuening could only take Xiao Hei around in the intricate alleys, hoping to find the destination with luck.
However, the rain in the sky was getting heavier and heavier at this time, and a hazy mist appeared between the dark sky and the earth, making the whole world seem to be covered with a layer of gray shadow.
Seeing that Xiao Hei was drenched in the rain and screaming non-stop, Xiao Yuening had no choice but to choose to take shelter from the rain, but the alley in front of him was bare, and there was a wreath of paper work at the door of the only open store. , this is obviously a shroud shop.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Yuening was a little hesitant, but the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the black cat had already started to scratch his trouser legs anxiously.
There was no other way, Xiao Yuening could only bite the bullet and hide under the porch of this small shop.
The owner of this store didn't know what to think. There were no windows in the room and it was pitch black, but he still didn't want to turn on the light. Instead, he lit two white candles in front of the counter.
The pale candles gave off a dim yellow light, and the flickering candle flames, coupled with the room full of paper objects, looked like going to a grave, making people feel an uncomfortable cold feeling for no reason.
Under the illumination of the candlelight, Xiao Yuening found that an old man with gray hair was sitting at the counter at this moment. He raised his head slightly when Xiao Yuening hid in, and looked at him with a pair of cloudy old eyes, but he didn't Speak up.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuening smiled awkwardly: "Master, it's raining too hard outside, and I didn't bring an umbrella. Do you think I can hide from the rain here?"
The uncle raised his drooping eyelids and looked at Xiao Yuening again, then looked at Xiao Hei at his feet, and suddenly said, "Young man is not from our side, is he? Why did you come here?"
Xiao Yuening saw that the uncle's attitude was not bad, and he didn't have the unfriendly precautions of other locals, so he quickly took the opportunity to ask, "Master, do you know how to get to Ganshi Bridge?"
The old man raised his eyelids under the dim candlelight: "Young man, there is a way in the world, why do you have to find death?"
Xiao Yuening's eyelids twitched because of the old man's rude words, and he said with a dry smile, "How do you say that, sir? Is there any other reasoning here?"
The old man snorted coldly, and said: "The bridge to drive corpses is the bridge to die. If there is nothing wrong, who would walk this bridge to seek death? Now the bridge is gone, but the place is still there. The No. 44 you mentioned is the place where the criminals were beheaded back then. A place where resentment gathers."
As the old man spoke, his cloudy eyes narrowed slightly. He looked at the dark rainy alley outside the door, and the flickering candles left deep scratches on his old face full of ravines. His voice was faint, with A gloomy smell: "That's not a place where living people should go. If I were you, I wouldn't go."
Xiao Yuening knew what the old man meant, and he was trying to persuade him to give up looking for Ganshiqiao No. 44 and choose to go home directly.
But he is not the kind of idler who comes to explore haunted places out of curiosity. He has a mission, and the choice of whether to go or not is not up to him at all.
Xiao Yuening had no choice but to decline the old man's kindness: "Thank you, sir, but I have something urgent to go there. If you want to know how to get there, can you tell me?"
After hearing Xiao Yuening's answer, the old man frowned, put his hands in his sleeves, and stood up from behind the counter.
And at this moment, Xiao Yuening could see clearly that the old man was actually wearing a black robe and mandarin jacket embroidered with dark patterns.The clothes looked thick, like cotton clothes, and there were exquisite buttons on the outside of the clothes. This retro outfit made the old man look like he did not live in modern times, but in the Republic of China.
Although it is raining outside now, is it so cold?Actually wearing a padded jacket?
Xiao Yuening faintly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the old man. If it was normal, he might have left immediately after realizing that something was wrong.
But the problem now is that this old man is very likely to be the only person who has revealed the location of No. 44 Ganshiqiao to him so far. Even if it's just for the mission, he can't just leave like this.
The old man walked out from behind the counter with his hands in his hands, and walked to the door under Xiao Yuening's secretly vigilant eyes.
Xiao Hei was a little restless when the old man approached, but in the end, he didn't know if it was because he didn't feel threatened, so he held back, only gave a low "meow", and then watched the old man slowly approaching them.
The old man walked slowly to the door, raised his hand and pointed at the other end of the alley, and said in a low voice, "Since you have made up your mind, then you can go. The bridge to drive corpses is at the entrance of the alley in front, you just need to go out." .”
After he finished speaking, he ignored Xiao Yuening's reaction, walked back to the counter, and began to close his eyes and meditate.
Xiao Yuening knew the destination of his trip, and he didn't have time to think about what was wrong with the old man. Seeing that the rain outside had gradually subsided, he hurriedly thanked the old man behind the counter, and quickly left from the store.
Xiao Hei followed behind him, trying to avoid the small puddles on the ground, and kept jumping on the ground without stagnant water.
After walking tens of meters with one person and one cat, Xiao Yuening's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly turned his head to look behind him, only to see that the alley behind him was empty.The shroud shop where he used to hide from the rain had disappeared at some point.
At this moment, there was no candlelight in the dark alley, only the cold rain falling continuously from the night sky.
What about that store?Why is it gone?
Xiao Yuening looked behind him, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
In order to make sure that he was not mistaken, he deliberately went back to check.
However, I walked to the end of the alley in the direction I came from. There were only dark and cold walls covered with small advertisements on both sides of the alley, and there was no sign of a door opening into the alley.
what happened?Is that old man a ghost?
His shroud shop is also a ghost shop?
The more Xiao Yuening thought about it, the more horrified he felt. He was in the shroud shop just now, and although he thought the old man was a bit weird, he never thought that he was not a human, but a ghost.
But if the old man is a ghost... can he still listen to him and go to the end of this alley to find No. 44 Ganshiqiao?
Xiao Yuening turned around and looked at the dark and long old rain alley behind him.
The alley was long and dark, and there was a kind of cold gloom in the solitude.
No one knows what is at the end of the alley and where it leads.
The end of this alley might really be No. 44 Ganshi Bridge; it might also be some kind of unknown but more dangerous existence.
"But the old man didn't seem to show any malice towards me just now, and Xiao Hei didn't react violently when he approached... He shouldn't hurt me."
Xiao Yuening hesitated for a moment, and finally re-entered the dark alley, and then walked in the direction that the old ghost had pointed him to.
It was raining in the sky, and the road in the alley was uneven, full of potholes, and it was extremely difficult to walk.
If ordinary people walked in at night, they would step on those dirty puddles all the way.But fortunately, whether it is Xiao Yuening or Xiao Hei, their night vision ability is very good, so they won't make themselves too embarrassed.
One person and one cat walked along the dilapidated alley towards the end.
No. 44 Ganshiqiao, basement 004, room [-].
This is the address recorded in the invitation letter sent by Xiao Naer to Ling Xiaotian's elder brother, and Xiao Naer's elder brother also came here. After participating in her live broadcast, he will become a body that seems to have no soul. The Walking Dead.
But now, Xiao Yuening was standing in front of the building at No. 44 Ganshi Bridge.
After coming out of the alley, Xiao Yuening immediately saw this independent four or five-story building.
It's already around eight o'clock in the evening, and many residents around have turned on the lights, but this building is still dark, as if no one lives in it at all.
Xiao Yuening stood in front of the building, checked the number plate downstairs, and double-checked that he did not go to the wrong place.
There is not even a door installed outside the door of this building, the dark doorway is just open, facing the visitor generously.
"finally reached……"
Xiao Yuening looked at the dark corridor, took out the ghost blade and held it in his hand, and then walked in slowly.
As soon as he entered the building, Xiao Yuening could smell a very strong smell of dust in his nostrils. This was the smell that would be produced when the house was left unoccupied for a long time.
Moreover, it was obviously raining outside, so the interior of the building that could shelter the wind and rain should be warmer than the street on a rainy night.
But as soon as Xiao Yuening stepped into the building, he immediately felt that the temperature inside the building was actually lower than outside.
Xiao Yuening clenched the ghost blade tightly in his hand, and secretly raised his vigilance in his heart.
On both sides of the building's corridors, the walls are mottled and peeling, full of children's graffiti and dirty old stains.
Xiao Yuening took Xiao Hei to the side of the stairs leading to the basement floor, and looked down, the downstairs was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
The handrails in the corridor were covered with thick dust, Xiao Yuening didn't dare to reach out to help, but walked down the steps step by step.
Xiao Hei followed him silently, stepping on the steps with four cat paws without making any sound.
Arriving at the basement floor, Xiao Yuening was not surprised to find that there was not only one room on the first floor, but several rooms.
Probably because the air in the ground is not circulating, the smell of dust in the nostrils is stronger than that in the upper part.Xiao Yuening even found a lot of messy footprints on the thick dust on the ground, which should have been left by Xiao Na'er and his group during the previous live broadcast.
Looking along the corridor, room 004 is at the innermost part of the basement floor.
At this moment, the door of the room was ajar, but it was silent, apparently there was no one inside.
Xiao Yuening and Xiao Huang walked over slowly, and sure enough, on the half-closed door, they saw the three characters "004" written crookedly in dark red paint.
The palm of the hand was on the door panel, and with a slight force, the door in front of him made a "squeak" sound and was slowly pushed open.
Flying dust fell before his eyes, Xiao Yuening half covered his mouth and nose, and walked in.
The room was empty, and the ground was also covered with messy footprints.
Xiao Yuening remembered that in Xiao Naer's live video he had seen, the live broadcast that Ling Wen participated in was playing a four-corner game, and they should have been playing in this room at the time.
Xiao Yuening was a little disappointed: "It seems that this place is not her long-term stronghold, but a temporary venue..."
But Xiao Yuening remembered that when Xiao Na'er introduced the background of the house, she didn't say that it was Ganshi Bridge.
It is only said that this house was originally an apartment building specially rented out to migrant workers. Later, due to inexplicable accidental deaths of tenants, this apartment gradually fell into disuse.
And before coming here, the uncle ghost who opened the shroud shop also said that No. 44 Ganshiqiao was the place where the death row prisoners were beheaded in the past, and it was a place where resentment gathered.
It is not uncommon for living people to live in this kind of place for a long time, and accidental death will happen.
Judging from the current situation when Xiao Yuening saw this building today, he felt that what Xiao Naer said in the live broadcast might be true. This building was indeed abandoned because too many people died.
But compared to this, the rumors about the "Corpse Bridge" on this building are even more bizarre. Xiao Na'er could have used these as a major selling point of the live broadcast at the time, but in the end she only wanted to He chose to use the accidental deaths of tenants as the main marketing point.
Is this because she doesn't know the rumors about the corpse bridge?Or does she actually have other plans?
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She always felt that her brother had been replaced by someone, and in her eyes, the person who replaced her brother was undoubtedly an extremely dangerous person, so every time she faced him, she always felt very scared.
And today when I heard Xiao Yuening say that my brother might not be replaced by someone, but possessed by a ghost, this kind of fear not only did not decrease, but intensified...
Ling Xiaotian forced a smile: "Oh, I've already met my friend..."
As she spoke, she rolled her eyes, then suddenly turned her head and waved to Xiao Yuening, who was standing not far away and quietly watching this side, beckoning him to come over.
Xiao Yuening paused, and walked towards the two obediently.
When he came out this time, although he didn't bring Xiao Hei, Xiao Huang and Ghost Blade were still packed into the backpack he carried with him. If he encountered danger, he could completely protect himself.
When Xiao Yuening walked towards him, Ling Wen didn't react at all, nor did he even glance at him, just like he couldn't see Xiao Yuening as a living person at all.
It wasn't until Xiao Yuening came up to him, Ling Xiaotian pulled Xiao Yuening's sleeve and introduced to him that this was her friend, that he seemed to be touched, and turned his gaze to Xiao Yuening.
Ling Wen: "Oh, you are my sister's friend? Hello."
He nodded as he spoke. Although the expression on his face was polite and careless, there was still nothing in the depths of his eyes, a dead silence without expression.
Xiao Yuening didn't answer, but carefully looked up and down the person in front of him with his ghostly eyes.
Seeing that he was silent and serious, Ling Xiaotian couldn't help becoming nervous, and looked at Xiao Yuening without blinking.
Ling Wen didn't seem to notice it, and the expression on his face still didn't change at all.
Xiao Yuening stared at Ling Wen for a long time, and sure enough, he found a clue from this person.
Ever since he had the Nether Eye, he discovered that ordinary people are always shrouded in a kind of aura that seems to be nothing.
This kind of qi is in a translucent state, very light and faint, if you don't observe very carefully, you won't be able to find it for a while.
Xiao Yuening didn't know what it was at the beginning, but after a period of careful observation, he discovered that it wasn't just humans, cats, dogs, and even flowers and trees by the trees, but any living thing Everything is covered with this kind of aura.
And dead objects, such as ghosts, corpses, and monsters from different worlds, cannot see this translucent gas at all.
Comparing the two, Xiao Yuening also gradually understood that the gas on those living creatures probably belonged to something like "angry".And things that have lost their lives, of course, will no longer be alive.
As for Ling Wen in front of him, he was also angry.
It's just that this anger is different from the anger in others, it's so faint that it's almost impossible to distinguish, like a candle that is about to burn out, flickering and about to be completely extinguished.
What's happening here?Is the person in front of me dead or alive?
Xiao Yuening observed Ling Wen more carefully, not letting anything go wrong.
In order to determine whether he was possessed by a ghost, he couldn't help but take two steps closer, but he didn't feel the cold aura belonging to ghosts, let alone the stench of decaying corpses.
Ling Xiaotian stood beside her, watching Xiao Yuening's strange behavior, her expression gradually became weird.
She thought about it, moved closer to Xiao Yuening, and asked in a low voice: "Then...well, brother Ningning, did you see anything?"
Xiao Yuening shook his head helplessly: "No."
Ling Xiaotian: "Huh?"
Xiao Yuening pulled Ling Xiaotian aside, then glanced at Ling Wen, whose expression was still unchanged, and explained: "I've checked, and there doesn't seem to be anything dirty about your brother. But ..."
Ling Xiaotian breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that there was nothing dirty on her brother's body, but the "but" behind Xiao Yuening raised her nervousness again: "What's wrong? Is there something else? wrong?"
Xiao Yuening thought for a while, and said truthfully: "Your brother's anger is very weak, he looks like a dying person, but there seems to be nothing wrong with his body. I don't understand it either... ..."
Although Ling Xiaotian didn't understand what it meant to be angry, just saying "a dying person" was enough for her to understand her brother's situation, and she couldn't help but anxiously said: "Then what should I do? Is there anything you can do? "
Xiao Yuening shook his head helplessly. Although he is a closed door person and often deals with ghosts, he is not a real celestial master after all, and what he knows is limited after all.but……
"However, since this matter started after your brother participated in Xiao Naer's live broadcast, then the root of the problem must still be with Xiao Naer. If you want to find out what happened to your brother, you still have to find a way to talk to him. Let her touch..."
Ling Xiaotian's face was already showing disappointment, but her eyes lit up when she heard the words, and she immediately said, "You're right! But..."
She seemed to have thought of something, and the expression on her face quickly turned into timidity and embarrassment: "But... If it was her who did my brother become like this, then, isn't she a very dangerous person? If we After getting in touch with her, will it... will it..."
After all, she was just a teenage high school student, as long as she thought that she might become like her brother... Ling Xiaotian's face inevitably revealed a look of fear.
Xiao Yuening smiled slightly, and said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of this matter, you don't need to come forward."
Anyway, there is a mission, Xiao Yuening will inevitably have a confrontation with Xiao Na'er sooner or later, there is absolutely no need to involve such a helpless little girl.
Ling Xiaotian had a look of shame on her face. She thought about it and said awkwardly: "This, this is not good. After all, this matter has nothing to do with you. I, I..."
She gritted her teeth, and then said, "I'd better go with you, the two of us, if we are in danger, we can have someone to take care of us."
Xiao Yuening shook his head when he heard the words, Xiao Na'er's ability is to control ghosts, so one can imagine how difficult it is to deal with such a person.
If Ling Xiaotian followed, when a fight broke out, Xiao Yuening would be distracted to protect the little girl while dealing with the ghosts. I'm afraid that he would not be helping but holding back.
Xiao Yuening: "No need. If Xiao Na'er is really weird, as an ordinary person, you won't be able to help me if you go. It's more convenient for me to go alone."
Ling Xiaotian lowered her head and said "um", feeling a sense of relief in her heart.Feeling her own emotions, Ling Xiaotian blushed suddenly, feeling that she seemed a little inappropriate.
She looked at Xiao Yuening with some embarrassment, then turned her head to look at Ling Wen who was standing not far behind them, and said, "Uh, well, I'll listen to you, thank you... I, I last Toilet."
After she finished speaking, she turned around in a hurry and went to the bathroom next to her.
Seeing him leave, Xiao Yuening turned his gaze back to Ling Wen.
Since Ling Xiaotian left, the expression on this person's face has changed back to the sluggish one when he was alone. At first glance, he looks like a realistic puppet.
Xiao Yuening let out a "huh" in surprise, he walked up to Ling Wen, walked around him, and found that the other party really had a blank expression of indifference.
This person seems to only show the expression and attitude that "Ling Wen" should have when facing people close to him.It's just that the way of getting along is more like the continuation of the body's original habits, and half of the emotions that belong to normal human beings are not mixed in.
Looking at Ling Wen who seemed to have only a body left in front of him, Xiao Yuening suddenly had an extremely horrifying conjecture: Could it be... In fact, Ling Wen had indeed already died in Xiao Na'er's hands?Just because it was his soul that died, but his body was completely preserved for some reason, inheriting the original habits of the owner of the body, and continuing to come back to live with his family?
Xiao Yuening looked up, and Ling Wen in front of him still had a hollow and numb expression, his lack of soul seemed to confirm his guess.
It's no wonder that this little Na'er can still do her live broadcast so freely after killing so many people in a row. It turned out that she used this method to avoid the attention of the police...
Xiao Yuening was thinking about it, but suddenly there was a scream from the direction of the bathroom. He quickly recognized that it seemed to be Ling Xiaotian's voice, and couldn't help but shudder in his heart, and hurriedly ran towards the bathroom.
As a result, as soon as he ran to the door of the bathroom, a distressed figure rushed out of the women's bathroom, and bumped into Xiao Yuening's body.
Xiao Yuening reached out to support this person, and found that this person was Ling Xiaotian.
Ling Xiaotian's face was frighteningly pale, and her eyes were full of fear. When she saw Xiao Yuening, she grabbed his arm, then pointed to the glass of the sink in the women's toilet with a look of fear, and cried: "Ghost! Ghost! There are ghosts! There really are ghosts in this world!"
In the women's restroom, there were a few girls standing in front of the mirror washing their hands and applying makeup. They were startled by Ling Xiaotian's sudden scream before, but now they were standing there looking at each other.
However, after hearing Ling Xiaotian's cries, these girls immediately panicked, all clutching their bags, and ran out of the bathroom with horror on their faces.
After hearing Ling Xiaotian's cry, Xiao Yuening quickly glanced into the bathroom, but saw nothing.
Seeing more and more people gathered around curiously, he quickly embraced Ling Xiaotian, who covered her eyes and was trembling all over, and walked to a place where there were few people.
Ling Wen, who was standing sluggishly, walked towards them slowly like an activated robot after seeing his sister.
Xiao Yuening ignored him, avoiding the crowd and asked Ling Xiaotian: "What's going on? You just said there was a ghost, did you see a ghost in the bathroom?"
Ling Xiaotian was so scared that she couldn't stop shaking, tears kept falling down, she cried and said: "Yes, when I just went to the toilet to wash my hands, I suddenly saw a bloody girl in the mirror. The female ghost, she looked at me coldly, and suddenly reached out from the mirror and grabbed me..."
She said, rolling up the sleeves of her clothes in a panic, revealing a purple bruise under the cuffs: "Look, this is the mark she left on my wrist! She grabbed my wrist at that time , trying to drag me into the mirror!"
After she finished speaking, she broke down and burst into tears: "It's terrible! When she grabbed me, my body suddenly couldn't move! If the woman next to me hadn't hit me just now, I might have died! "
Xiao Yuening looked at Ling Xiaotian who was crying with snot and tears all over his face, and shifted his gaze to her left shoulder thoughtfully, and sure enough, he saw that the black stain on her shoulder was still there, but the color changed. Much shallower.
Tentatively touching it with his hand, Xiao Yuening felt a cold chill coming from his fingertips, which was similar to the chill he felt every time he saw a ghost.
Xiao Yuening felt that this thing seemed to be Yin Qi, but why did it appear on Ling Xiaotian's shoulder?A female ghost suddenly attacked Ling Xiaotian just now, could it be that it found it following this Yin Qi?Is this some kind of mark?
Looking at Ling Xiaotian who was still crying, Xiao Yuening asked, "Did you hide something from me? Where did you get the yin on your shoulder?"
"What, what Yin Qi?" Ling Xiaotian looked blank, following Xiao Yuening's gaze, she stared at her shoulder in horror, her body trembled more and more, and her face became horribly pale, "Yin , Yin Qi? I don’t know? Was it left by that female ghost just now?”
Xiao Yuening felt that her expression didn't seem fake, so he asked in another way: "Have you come into contact with any strange things recently? Or have you been to some special places?"
Ling Xiaotian shook her head blankly: "No? Where can I go, isn't it just... ah!"
Seeing that she seemed to have thought of something suddenly, Xiao Yuening quickly asked, "What's wrong? What did you think of?"
Ling Xiaotian's face turned pale, and she said in a trembling voice: "I have never been to strange places...but I have received strange things..."
Xiao Yuening: "What strange thing?"
Ling Xiaotian glanced at her shoulder timidly, and said in a trembling voice: "Two or two days ago, I suddenly received a courier. The courier was very strange. The recipient wrote my name, but the sender But it was blank..."
Xiao Yuening nodded, motioning for her to continue talking.
Ling Xiaotian said again: "The express box is not big, and it is very light. I was curious who would send me something out of nowhere. After opening it, I found that there was only a red thing in the package..."
When she said this, her face became ugly again, "It was very small, and I didn't know what it was at first. But after holding it in my hand and studying it for a long time, I suddenly felt that it was like a woman's fingernail with nail polish ..."
Xiao Yuening's face changed slightly: "...and then?"
Ling Xiaotian swallowed her saliva, and her tone changed a little: "Then I threw it away! I thought it was a prank, and I was very angry. I also asked my classmates, but no one admitted Sent me something like this... I couldn't figure out the situation, and after two days of getting angry, I forgot about it."
After she finished speaking, she looked up at Xiao Yuening with tears in her eyes, and asked in a crying voice: "Brother Ningning, does the ghost I just met have something to do with this matter? Can you help me?"
Xiao Yuening pondered for a while, if he guessed correctly, the nail cap in the courier should be something like a medium.
Someone sent it to Ling Xiaotian, and after Ling Xiaotian touched it, a mark was planted on her body, and the female ghost who attacked her in the bathroom just now must have come after this mark.
But who would a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl like this who is still in high school have a grudge against, and let the other party use such insidious means to deal with her?
Xiao Yuening asked, "Have you offended anyone recently?"
Ling Xiaotian thought for a while, then suddenly gritted her teeth and said: "Xiao Naer! It must be her! I have been scolding her on her Weibo because of my brother's affairs. A female ghost came to harm me! Didn’t you also say that? My brother became like this because of her, she must have some evil methods! She harmed my brother first, and now she harms me. The only person I will offend is She's alone!"
After she finished speaking, she immediately looked at Xiao Yuening pleadingly, and said in fear: "Brother Ningning, help me, you must understand these things, right?"
Seeing her terrified expression, Xiao Yuening quickly comforted her: "Don't be afraid, I will help you."
After he finished speaking, he thought of something and took out Xiao Huang from his backpack.Then, under Ling Xiaotian's puzzled gaze, he gently placed it on the black mark on her shoulder.
Ling Xiaotian didn't know what Xiao Yuening meant, and when the doll touched her shoulder, she stood there without daring to move.
Then, only a second or two later, the shoulder pain that she had mistakenly thought was caused by a wrong sleeping position, and the cold feeling that had been lingering on her shoulders all disappeared miraculously.
Xiao Yuening saw that the yin energy attached to Ling Xiaotian's shoulders had been swallowed up, so he put Xiao Huang back in his backpack calmly: "How is it, how do you feel?"
"My shoulders felt much more comfortable." Ling Xiaotian stared at Xiao Yuening's backpack without blinking, "...Brother Ningning, what is that plush doll? Why did you put it on my shoulder? Let it go, and my shoulders feel comfortable?"
Xiao Yuening said: "Oh, it's nothing, it can get rid of Yin Qi."
Ling Xiaotian's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and she looked at Xiao Yuening with longing in her eyes: "Then, can you put it..."
"No." Xiao Yuening refused expressionlessly. He knew what the girl in front of him was thinking, but that was impossible. "It's my partner, and it's priceless. Whether you want to borrow it or buy it, it doesn't work."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yuening felt a slight movement from his backpack. Xiao Huang seemed very happy after hearing his words, which made his eyes soften.
Ling Xiaotian heard Xiao Yuening's rejection without hesitation, but her eyes dimmed: "Oh..."
Xiao Yuening had already obtained what he wanted most from Ling Xiaotian, and he told Ling Xiaotian not to provoke Xiao Naer again during this period, and not to accept any more couriers from unknown sources, so as not to be tricked by the other party again.
Because he also promised to help her find out about her brother, Xiao Yuening added Ling Xiaotian as friends on WeChat before leaving, and then turned and left.
Room 44, No. 004 Ganshiqiao.
This is the address Xiao Yuening got from Ling Xiaotian. According to her explanation, her brother Ling Wen went to this place to participate in Xiao Naer's live broadcast.As a result, when he came back the next day, the elder brother who came back seemed to be a completely different person, with quite a few weird changes.
Xiao Yuening wasn't sure about this address, but it was just the address of the supernatural live broadcast that Ling Wen participated in?Or is it Xiao Naer's usual place to gather live broadcast participants?
If it is the former, then this address is useless to estimate, unless some useful clues can be found on the scene.
But if it was the latter, Xiao Yuening might find Xiao Na'er directly.
Guessing alone has no clue after all. If he wants to determine what the purpose of this address is, the easiest way is for him to go to No. 44 Ganshi Bridge himself.
After returning home, Xiao Yuening turned on the computer and searched, and found that there was indeed a Ganshi Bridge in City A.
And as he explored further by changing the keywords, he also discovered that Gan Shiqiao, which had nothing special in his eyes, turned out to have a lot to say.
In the eyes of some older people in City A, the road of Ganshi Bridge originally had another rather strange name - Qushi Bridge (Note 1).
What is the corpse bridge?
Xiao Yuening found two explanations on the Internet.
The first theory is that there was originally a stone bridge on Ganshi Bridge with three big stones on the bridge deck, which was never submerged by heavy rain, so it was named Ganshi Bridge.After the Republic of China, the homonym was changed to Ganshi Bridge.
Later, when New China established Extension Street, the bridge was bulldozed.But the road where the bridge is located still continues to be called Ganshi Bridge Road.
Another way of saying it is more eerie.
It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, all criminals who committed capital crimes and were to be executed had to walk across this bridge to Caishikou Execution Ground.
The relatives of the condemned prisoners and ordinary people passing by to watch the excitement are not allowed to cross the bridge, so the relatives can only deliver food to the prisoner on the bridge and see him for the last time.
The prisoner was dragged to the execution ground after crossing the bridge. The local people called this bridge "Qianshi Bridge".Because the criminals who walk across this bridge will eventually become corpses.
Later, the world changed, the bridge disappeared, and criminals with capital crimes no longer had to walk on the stone bridge. People felt that the name of "Qianshi Bridge" was really unpleasant, so they changed it to Ganshi Bridge.
Listening to this legend makes people feel horrified. Xiao Na'er chose this place. I don't know if it is to deliberately create a scary atmosphere, or there is some special reason.
But no matter how gloomy it was, Xiao Yuening had to go this time.
Ganshi Bridge was in the old city, and when Xiao Yuening arrived nearby that night, the sky had completely darkened, and there was even a drizzle of drizzle in the sky.
Xiao Hei hated rainy days the most, as it followed Xiao Yuening forward, it shook its fur in disgust.
This is the old city, and there are small alleys everywhere. On both sides of the road, there are even many courtyards and facades that residents have illegally expanded.
This also makes the already intricate road even more difficult, and one who is not paying attention will get lost.
Xiao Yuening walked down the crooked road all the way, wandering around in a daze, but he still didn't see where the legendary Ganshi Bridge was.
The residents of this place are even more weird. I don't know if they are xenophobic by nature. Whenever Xiao Yuening wants to ask where Gan Shiqiao is, they will put on an unfriendly attitude and wave their hands and refuse to answer his question.
Without any hint, Xiao Yuening could only take Xiao Hei around in the intricate alleys, hoping to find the destination with luck.
However, the rain in the sky was getting heavier and heavier at this time, and a hazy mist appeared between the dark sky and the earth, making the whole world seem to be covered with a layer of gray shadow.
Seeing that Xiao Hei was drenched in the rain and screaming non-stop, Xiao Yuening had no choice but to choose to take shelter from the rain, but the alley in front of him was bare, and there was a wreath of paper work at the door of the only open store. , this is obviously a shroud shop.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Yuening was a little hesitant, but the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the black cat had already started to scratch his trouser legs anxiously.
There was no other way, Xiao Yuening could only bite the bullet and hide under the porch of this small shop.
The owner of this store didn't know what to think. There were no windows in the room and it was pitch black, but he still didn't want to turn on the light. Instead, he lit two white candles in front of the counter.
The pale candles gave off a dim yellow light, and the flickering candle flames, coupled with the room full of paper objects, looked like going to a grave, making people feel an uncomfortable cold feeling for no reason.
Under the illumination of the candlelight, Xiao Yuening found that an old man with gray hair was sitting at the counter at this moment. He raised his head slightly when Xiao Yuening hid in, and looked at him with a pair of cloudy old eyes, but he didn't Speak up.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuening smiled awkwardly: "Master, it's raining too hard outside, and I didn't bring an umbrella. Do you think I can hide from the rain here?"
The uncle raised his drooping eyelids and looked at Xiao Yuening again, then looked at Xiao Hei at his feet, and suddenly said, "Young man is not from our side, is he? Why did you come here?"
Xiao Yuening saw that the uncle's attitude was not bad, and he didn't have the unfriendly precautions of other locals, so he quickly took the opportunity to ask, "Master, do you know how to get to Ganshi Bridge?"
The old man raised his eyelids under the dim candlelight: "Young man, there is a way in the world, why do you have to find death?"
Xiao Yuening's eyelids twitched because of the old man's rude words, and he said with a dry smile, "How do you say that, sir? Is there any other reasoning here?"
The old man snorted coldly, and said: "The bridge to drive corpses is the bridge to die. If there is nothing wrong, who would walk this bridge to seek death? Now the bridge is gone, but the place is still there. The No. 44 you mentioned is the place where the criminals were beheaded back then. A place where resentment gathers."
As the old man spoke, his cloudy eyes narrowed slightly. He looked at the dark rainy alley outside the door, and the flickering candles left deep scratches on his old face full of ravines. His voice was faint, with A gloomy smell: "That's not a place where living people should go. If I were you, I wouldn't go."
Xiao Yuening knew what the old man meant, and he was trying to persuade him to give up looking for Ganshiqiao No. 44 and choose to go home directly.
But he is not the kind of idler who comes to explore haunted places out of curiosity. He has a mission, and the choice of whether to go or not is not up to him at all.
Xiao Yuening had no choice but to decline the old man's kindness: "Thank you, sir, but I have something urgent to go there. If you want to know how to get there, can you tell me?"
After hearing Xiao Yuening's answer, the old man frowned, put his hands in his sleeves, and stood up from behind the counter.
And at this moment, Xiao Yuening could see clearly that the old man was actually wearing a black robe and mandarin jacket embroidered with dark patterns.The clothes looked thick, like cotton clothes, and there were exquisite buttons on the outside of the clothes. This retro outfit made the old man look like he did not live in modern times, but in the Republic of China.
Although it is raining outside now, is it so cold?Actually wearing a padded jacket?
Xiao Yuening faintly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the old man. If it was normal, he might have left immediately after realizing that something was wrong.
But the problem now is that this old man is very likely to be the only person who has revealed the location of No. 44 Ganshiqiao to him so far. Even if it's just for the mission, he can't just leave like this.
The old man walked out from behind the counter with his hands in his hands, and walked to the door under Xiao Yuening's secretly vigilant eyes.
Xiao Hei was a little restless when the old man approached, but in the end, he didn't know if it was because he didn't feel threatened, so he held back, only gave a low "meow", and then watched the old man slowly approaching them.
The old man walked slowly to the door, raised his hand and pointed at the other end of the alley, and said in a low voice, "Since you have made up your mind, then you can go. The bridge to drive corpses is at the entrance of the alley in front, you just need to go out." .”
After he finished speaking, he ignored Xiao Yuening's reaction, walked back to the counter, and began to close his eyes and meditate.
Xiao Yuening knew the destination of his trip, and he didn't have time to think about what was wrong with the old man. Seeing that the rain outside had gradually subsided, he hurriedly thanked the old man behind the counter, and quickly left from the store.
Xiao Hei followed behind him, trying to avoid the small puddles on the ground, and kept jumping on the ground without stagnant water.
After walking tens of meters with one person and one cat, Xiao Yuening's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly turned his head to look behind him, only to see that the alley behind him was empty.The shroud shop where he used to hide from the rain had disappeared at some point.
At this moment, there was no candlelight in the dark alley, only the cold rain falling continuously from the night sky.
What about that store?Why is it gone?
Xiao Yuening looked behind him, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
In order to make sure that he was not mistaken, he deliberately went back to check.
However, I walked to the end of the alley in the direction I came from. There were only dark and cold walls covered with small advertisements on both sides of the alley, and there was no sign of a door opening into the alley.
what happened?Is that old man a ghost?
His shroud shop is also a ghost shop?
The more Xiao Yuening thought about it, the more horrified he felt. He was in the shroud shop just now, and although he thought the old man was a bit weird, he never thought that he was not a human, but a ghost.
But if the old man is a ghost... can he still listen to him and go to the end of this alley to find No. 44 Ganshiqiao?
Xiao Yuening turned around and looked at the dark and long old rain alley behind him.
The alley was long and dark, and there was a kind of cold gloom in the solitude.
No one knows what is at the end of the alley and where it leads.
The end of this alley might really be No. 44 Ganshi Bridge; it might also be some kind of unknown but more dangerous existence.
"But the old man didn't seem to show any malice towards me just now, and Xiao Hei didn't react violently when he approached... He shouldn't hurt me."
Xiao Yuening hesitated for a moment, and finally re-entered the dark alley, and then walked in the direction that the old ghost had pointed him to.
It was raining in the sky, and the road in the alley was uneven, full of potholes, and it was extremely difficult to walk.
If ordinary people walked in at night, they would step on those dirty puddles all the way.But fortunately, whether it is Xiao Yuening or Xiao Hei, their night vision ability is very good, so they won't make themselves too embarrassed.
One person and one cat walked along the dilapidated alley towards the end.
No. 44 Ganshiqiao, basement 004, room [-].
This is the address recorded in the invitation letter sent by Xiao Naer to Ling Xiaotian's elder brother, and Xiao Naer's elder brother also came here. After participating in her live broadcast, he will become a body that seems to have no soul. The Walking Dead.
But now, Xiao Yuening was standing in front of the building at No. 44 Ganshi Bridge.
After coming out of the alley, Xiao Yuening immediately saw this independent four or five-story building.
It's already around eight o'clock in the evening, and many residents around have turned on the lights, but this building is still dark, as if no one lives in it at all.
Xiao Yuening stood in front of the building, checked the number plate downstairs, and double-checked that he did not go to the wrong place.
There is not even a door installed outside the door of this building, the dark doorway is just open, facing the visitor generously.
"finally reached……"
Xiao Yuening looked at the dark corridor, took out the ghost blade and held it in his hand, and then walked in slowly.
As soon as he entered the building, Xiao Yuening could smell a very strong smell of dust in his nostrils. This was the smell that would be produced when the house was left unoccupied for a long time.
Moreover, it was obviously raining outside, so the interior of the building that could shelter the wind and rain should be warmer than the street on a rainy night.
But as soon as Xiao Yuening stepped into the building, he immediately felt that the temperature inside the building was actually lower than outside.
Xiao Yuening clenched the ghost blade tightly in his hand, and secretly raised his vigilance in his heart.
On both sides of the building's corridors, the walls are mottled and peeling, full of children's graffiti and dirty old stains.
Xiao Yuening took Xiao Hei to the side of the stairs leading to the basement floor, and looked down, the downstairs was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
The handrails in the corridor were covered with thick dust, Xiao Yuening didn't dare to reach out to help, but walked down the steps step by step.
Xiao Hei followed him silently, stepping on the steps with four cat paws without making any sound.
Arriving at the basement floor, Xiao Yuening was not surprised to find that there was not only one room on the first floor, but several rooms.
Probably because the air in the ground is not circulating, the smell of dust in the nostrils is stronger than that in the upper part.Xiao Yuening even found a lot of messy footprints on the thick dust on the ground, which should have been left by Xiao Na'er and his group during the previous live broadcast.
Looking along the corridor, room 004 is at the innermost part of the basement floor.
At this moment, the door of the room was ajar, but it was silent, apparently there was no one inside.
Xiao Yuening and Xiao Huang walked over slowly, and sure enough, on the half-closed door, they saw the three characters "004" written crookedly in dark red paint.
The palm of the hand was on the door panel, and with a slight force, the door in front of him made a "squeak" sound and was slowly pushed open.
Flying dust fell before his eyes, Xiao Yuening half covered his mouth and nose, and walked in.
The room was empty, and the ground was also covered with messy footprints.
Xiao Yuening remembered that in Xiao Naer's live video he had seen, the live broadcast that Ling Wen participated in was playing a four-corner game, and they should have been playing in this room at the time.
Xiao Yuening was a little disappointed: "It seems that this place is not her long-term stronghold, but a temporary venue..."
But Xiao Yuening remembered that when Xiao Na'er introduced the background of the house, she didn't say that it was Ganshi Bridge.
It is only said that this house was originally an apartment building specially rented out to migrant workers. Later, due to inexplicable accidental deaths of tenants, this apartment gradually fell into disuse.
And before coming here, the uncle ghost who opened the shroud shop also said that No. 44 Ganshiqiao was the place where the death row prisoners were beheaded in the past, and it was a place where resentment gathered.
It is not uncommon for living people to live in this kind of place for a long time, and accidental death will happen.
Judging from the current situation when Xiao Yuening saw this building today, he felt that what Xiao Naer said in the live broadcast might be true. This building was indeed abandoned because too many people died.
But compared to this, the rumors about the "Corpse Bridge" on this building are even more bizarre. Xiao Na'er could have used these as a major selling point of the live broadcast at the time, but in the end she only wanted to He chose to use the accidental deaths of tenants as the main marketing point.
Is this because she doesn't know the rumors about the corpse bridge?Or does she actually have other plans?
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