Chapter 29 Butterfly (4)

Her voice echoed in the empty ruins, and it seemed that even the dead in the cemetery were awakened. In order to save Zhuang Qiushui's life, in order to repay everyone she owed, she would rather lose everything she has gained. At this time, there was an echo from somewhere—— "You lurk in the ground, and I wait in the world. You spin a cocoon, and I want to see through the loneliness." It's that familiar melody again, Elena's moving single, passing through seventy years, floating from the old house behind... Who is singing? The singing was still going on, and she looked at the old house tremblingly.His eyes fell on the small door on the left, with two rough Chinese characters "Nvsu" written beside it.Since the house was a hospital back then, the "female accommodation" was probably the residence of female patients.

Just these two peculiar Chinese characters were enough to attract her to take a look.She walked carefully to the door. Inside was a nearly empty staircase that looked like it was about to rot away.The railings were covered with dust from the years, but the steps were not so dusty, as if someone else had walked by them.Xiaodie walked up the stairs lightly, she has lost a lot of weight recently, the stairs should be bearable. Every step on the stairs echoed, and she came to the wooden floor of the second floor, accompanied by singing in the corridor above.There is a long corridor facing me. Is this the women's ward back then?I don't know where to cast the skylight, illuminating the closed doors on both sides.

Where is the sound coming from?Suddenly she shouted loudly: "Elena!" Her answer was still only singing. She walked forward step by step, both ends of the corridor were immersed in darkness, and she didn't know what was hidden.Shang Xiaodie pushed open the door beside her—— The stale and rotten smell came to the nostrils, the smell of potion from many years ago, which almost smoked down the tears.She hid outside the door and covered her nose, waiting for the smell to dissipate before she dared to go in carefully.The room was empty except for a few small objects scattered on the floor.On the dusty ground, there is a broken kerosene lamp.There are also some strange glass bottles, the liquid in which has long evaporated.

The ancient singing did not stop.The window is facing the cemetery. Standing by the window overlooking the cemetery, one can imagine the despair of the patients in those days—the sick faced the grave every day, as if they would be sent into it at any time. From the hospital to the grave - Kashenfu really has a one-stop service! Leaving this room, she opened the second door.It was still an empty house, the windows facing the tomb below, and nothing remained on the floor but a carpet of dust. Suddenly, a dark red mark appeared on the wall, which looked like the color of Meng Bingyu's schoolbag—no, that was blood!

The blood left over from many years ago splashed onto the wall in the form of jets.Many years may have passed, but the blood stains, like oil paint, penetrated deeply into the wall and will never be erased. In the corner of the wall, you can still see vague "bloody handprints". The five fingers and the palm of a person can be discerned, which is the last call sign before death.Xiaodie immediately covered her ears, and the whole room resounded with that sound, the splash of blood, the tearing of flesh, and the last moans and curses... The ghosts seemed to be coming out of the wall, rushing towards Xiaodie in front of the door with blood—she quickly exited the room, turned around and fled into the opposite door.

Suddenly, the singing stopped abruptly! There is no dust in this room, and there is no rancid smell. On the contrary, there is a faint fragrance.The windows are facing the thick "Wailing Wall".The floor under my feet was fairly clean, and there was a wire bed in the room covered with a straw mat.There is also an old writing desk, a large wardrobe chair and other old furniture. This was exactly the room she had been in last night! Elena's room. When she walked to the desk, there was a strange movement behind her.Heart raised her throat again, Shang Xiaodie quickly turned around and finally saw the ghost.

The ghost was standing at the door. A black dress wrapped the body, looking thin and slim, as if crawling out of the ground.Xiaodie's lips trembled, she saw that face for the first time. There are a pair of deep eye sockets inlaid on the face, and the two eyeballs are actually translucent, emitting a sharp gaze like a beast.His hair was covered by a black hood, and his forehead was covered with deep wrinkles.The nose is almost aquiline, and the cheeks are so thin that only a piece of skin remains, like a living skeleton.That lip was also full of wrinkles, cracked into many cracks, as if it had been swallowed by herself.

Goodness, this is the face of an old European woman. In an instant, the photo on the tombstone came to mind.Shang Xiaodie walked towards her excitedly, could it be—— June 20 at 9:50 am In the cold reading room of the archives, Zhuang Qiushui rubbed his eyes in confusion. Just now I made a call to Shang Xiaodie, but was told that "the user you dialed has turned off the phone".In the morning, I found Xiaodie through many people, but they all said that they had never seen her. Half an hour ago, the cousin from the archives called and said that there was a new discovery in the murder file.Zhuang Qiushui temporarily put aside his worries about Xiaodie, and hurried to the archives.

The tragedy in 1935 has been discovered again, and it is actually Yelena's confession that has been repeated several times.Because the sheriff doesn't care about vampire stories, what he wants to know most is: What happened that night?And Elena overturned what she had said several times, which made the sheriff very annoyed, and even more suspicious of the possibility of Elena committing the crime. It was not until the seventh record that Irina revealed another secret of Kashenfu - he strongly opposed his adoptive daughter marrying a Chinese because of ulterior reasons: he could not leave Irina anymore, since she Since the time when he was a beautiful and pure girl, Kashenfu has been in love with her pervertedly. Not only coveted her beauty, but also hoped to possess this noble daughter forever and firmly control her.Kashev forced her to stay with him and imprisoned her in the hospital.Yi Lianna refused to give up for a while, launched a fierce resistance, and finally escaped from the hospital.She eloped to the French Concession with the son of the Li family and held an engagement ceremony.A done deal, Kashenfu could only acquiesce painfully, but asked Elena to live with her adoptive father before she got married.

In the middle of the night when the crime happened, Kashenfu suddenly went berserk, rushed into Elena's room, and told his adoptive daughter a secret: Just yesterday morning, while she was asleep, Kashenv injected her with a special serum .This serum contains a large amount of virus, which was formulated by Kashenfu in the laboratory, and the raw material is the "ghost beauty" butterfly. Yi Lianna was dumbfounded, because she was well aware of the toxicity of "ghost beauty"!And Kashenfu has used it to do in vivo experiments.The frenzied Kashenfu even wanted to travel with his adopted daughter.Elena resisted desperately and fled to other wards.Kashenfu picked up a scalpel, stabbed a patient to death, and then killed everyone he saw in a savage manner. Qianqi caused the tragedy of the night.Elena took advantage of the chaos and escaped, hiding her own reasoning—the one who really killed Kashenfu was the "Kashinv's Ghost and Beauty Swallowtail" named after him.She has lived with the "ghost beauty" for many years and understands the habits of these butterflies.Only a "ghost beauty" can kill a person like this.This butterfly is by no means an ordinary insect, but a social animal with an intelligence quotient beyond imagination.They originally inhabited valleys and were the leaders of all insects. They could command any insects and were the real "kings of insects".Kashenfu often used the "ghost beauty" to do cruel experiments, and the butterflies only hated him.

Perhaps on the night of the incident, Kashenfu made a small mistake in the experiment, and the butterfly seized the opportunity to sneak out of the laboratory.After going mad, Kashenfu first intended to possess his adopted daughter, and then became a murderous demon, killing all eighteen innocent patients.In the end, he himself died from the attack of butterflies. Those who play with fire must set themselves on fire!It's a pity that those patients were buried with him. Zhuang Qiushui sweated again. It turned out that this "ghost beauty" butterfly is still so powerful. The last time I saw it didn't attack, it was my fate, right? The cousin bought him a lunch box and settled the lunch on the spot.He called Xiaodie again, but the phone was still turned off.In desperation, I could only call Lu Shuangshuang, but she replied coldly: "I have never seen her, but you can go to the 'Butterfly Cemetery' to find her again?" In the afternoon, the upset Zhuang Qiushui continued to read the files. According to the police investigation report in 1935, they did not believe Elena's words.The sheriff thought her confession was absurd and she was completely shirking responsibility and concealing the facts.Especially the argument about vampires has fallen into the abyss of strange power and chaos.The sheriff led people to re-examine the cemetery, and indeed found the tombstone engraved with 1428-1476.But the sheriff still didn't believe what the vampire said, so he ordered people to dig up the grave, and found that there was an undecomposed corpse lying in the coffin!He looked like a living person, with a pale and handsome face, lying in the grave as if asleep.The sheriff himself was terrified. Could this be the legendary vampire who lay in a coffin during the day and came out to cheat girls at night? All the people present were frightened, and the ghost story of the murder quickly spread throughout the city.But the sheriff still didn't give up, and checked the hospital carefully, but he didn't find the "ghost beauty" butterfly mentioned by Elena.The investigation of this case has been in trouble since then. Although there is a detailed confession from Elena, her testimony alone is not enough. More than a year later, Irina, who married into a wealthy family, died of dystocia, leaving only a poor baby girl.According to Elena's last wishes, her husband buried her in the backyard of the hospital.The Li family bought the hospital in Kongguan, including the cemetery, as well as a large area of ​​farmland and wasteland around it. In the 1940s, a machine factory was built on the original site. After the death of the only eyewitness in this case, there is no possibility of the truth ever coming to light.Soon, the sheriff himself died mysteriously.It is said that a worm egg developed in his throat, which blocked his windpipe and suffocated him to death. The horrific massacre at Ekaterina Hospital in 1935 was gradually forgotten, sealed in the files of the archives, and became a mystery that could never be explained. And Elena lay quietly in the grave until it became "Butterfly Cemetery"... June 20 at 9:55 am Shang Xiaodie is facing the ghost. She was standing on the second floor of the old hospital house in the "Butterfly Cemetery". At the door was an old European woman—wrapped in a long black veil, described as crooked and terrifying, like a witch in a black forest. The bottom of her heart trembled violently, she walked quickly towards the door, just about to ask "Who are you", the old woman floated out like a phantom. Xiaodie followed closely and rushed into the dark corridor, only to see that the old woman's feet were completely covered by the black robe, and she couldn't tell she was walking.But the old woman moved extremely fast, and Xiaodie strode over but failed to catch up. Suddenly, there was a ray of light in the corridor, and a bridge with railings appeared in front of it, with a glass ceiling above it—it turned out that it was back to the doorway, the "overpass" suspended in mid-air. The old woman quickly crossed the "overpass" and disappeared into the darkness on the opposite side.Shang Xiaodie also stepped onto this "air corridor", the wooden boards under her feet rattled, she could only reach out to hold on to the left and right railings. There was still a corridor across the way, but it was barely lit.She took out her flashlight and took a look inside, and found a branch after just a few steps, which was as intricate as a maze. Maybe this is the "men's dormitory"?The ghost of the old woman could no longer be seen. The corridor ahead was dark and messy, and there were several large holes in the floor. If I went any further, I might get lost. Xiaodie had no choice but to back away, and when she walked across the "overpass", she looked down and saw that the deep doorway was like a tunnel.The light passed through the dusty glass ceiling and cascaded over her head, as if traveling through time in an instant. She backed away step by step, all the way back to the room with the wire bed. The backpack on his body was panting, so he simply took it off and put it on the ground.She sat wearily in a back chair - which also looked antique. There is an ink tank and a very old pen on the desk, probably a very valuable old brand.She opened the ink tank and shook it, only to find that the blue ink inside was still wet, and the pen could still write. Shang Xiaodie slowly opened the drawer of the desk.The first drawer was full of clutter, things that looked like they were many years ago, such as rusty iron hairpins, pins that could hardly be broken off, and things that couldn't be named at all. There was an old photo album in the second drawer, with a black leather cover and a faint musty smell.Put the photo album on the table and open it gently, there are a few black and white photos embedded in it.It begins with a portrait of a teenage girl with slightly curly light-colored hair, big bright eyes, and thin lips, a bit like a teenage Nicole Kidman. The next one is the exterior scene. The girl in the photo just now is standing in front of a deep doorway, posing in a charming posture, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.The doorway in the background in the photo is exactly the house where Xiaodie lives, probably a hospital decades ago. The third photo was taken on the "overpass" in the doorway. The girl and a middle-aged man leaned side by side on the railing, with sweet expressions like father and daughter.The middle-aged man had curly black hair and an Eastern European face. The light from the glass ceiling made his eyes look a little strange—he was Kashenfu, the owner of the hospital.What is the relationship between him and the girl in the photo? On the second page of the photo album, the girl has grown into a young girl, and Xiaodie knows her name—Irina. Turning a page, the background of the photo becomes the stage, Elena is wearing a butterfly-patterned gown, dancing in the center of the stage, with her lips half-opened as if singing, this is the still photo of "Madame Butterfly". On the next page, the photo turned into a group photo of a man and a woman.The woman is still young and beautiful Yi Lianna, but the man is a Chinese youth, wearing a traditional long gown, wearing a pair of elegant glasses, a bit like Xu Zhimo.This is also the last page of the album, and there will be no more photos after that. Putting the photo album back in the drawer, she opened the third drawer.However, there is nothing in this drawer. She opened the fourth drawer again, but it was still empty. Then, Shang Xiaodie opened the fifth and last drawer—— A burst of black smoke spewed out, and a beautiful face appeared in front of her eyes, and then she closed her eyes and fell to the ground. June 20 at 14:30 pm The female dormitory building of S University. Manli is back, she was also in the school theater last night, watching a stage play with Song You.Tian Qiaoer didn't come, she was supposed to be the heroine, but she was replaced suddenly, no one can stand it.Manli didn't expect Shang Xiaodie to act so well, but finally said "butterfly cemetery".And someone tripped her, tens of thousands of bugs flew out, and the theater was in chaos.Then even the lights went out - cockroaches flew into the theater's power distribution room and burned to ashes in the transformer, shorting out the entire theater circuit.Man Li and Song You were so frightened that they lay down under their seats, screams could be heard in their ears.After finally recovering the lights, he escaped with everyone. They didn't dare to go back to the dormitory all night, and concluded that Shang Xiaodie had attracted the bugs—the terrible cockroaches were her tools, or she had performed some kind of special witchcraft, in short, she wanted to take revenge on everyone around her.Yes, Xiaodie was not good-looking in the past, and everyone ignored her and bullied her.Now that she has become beautiful and has all kinds of abilities, everyone around her will be unlucky. But at this moment, Shang Xiaodie has disappeared. Suddenly, someone patted her on the shoulder, and Manli almost fell down in fright.Fortunately, a few hands supported her.It turned out to be her roommates, Song You and Tian Qiaoer, and Xiaodie's former friend, Lu Shuangshuang. "Oh, it's you guys, you scared me to death, I thought it was Shang Xiaodie! Where did she go?" Tian Qiaoer replied coldly: "She has gone to the 'Butterfly Cemetery'!" "Ah, what did you say?" "I went back to the dormitory to get some things in the morning, and I happened to see Shang Xiaodie coming out with a big bag on her back, as if she was going on a trip. I followed her quietly and saw her walk out of school and get on a bus Car. She went up through the front door, and I went up through the back door with my head down, hiding in the corner of the last row." "You actually followed Shang Xiaodie?" The corners of Tian Qiaoer's mouth twitched slightly. At this moment, she was not beautiful at all: "I changed a bus with her. I hid it very cleverly, and I was wearing sunglasses and a hat. She never found me. She was in the remote latitude and longitude Get off at Sanlu. I followed her from a long distance, and saw her turn into a gate called "Haijiao Lighting Factory". There was a piece of wasteland inside, and there was only a road sign called "Huangquan Nine Road". Then she walked straight forward, I walked all the way to the Suzhou River. There was a side gate of a dilapidated factory, but I didn’t dare to go in, so I ran back first.” At this time, Lu Shuangshuang added: "That place must be the 'Butterfly Cemetery'! After Shang Xiaodie comes out from there, she will come to take revenge on us." She was the one who tripped Xiaodie last night, feeling both guilty and afraid.Jealousy really kills people - when I saw Xiaodie and Zhuang Qiushui flirting with each other, jealousy blazed up and I couldn't control myself.Both tossed and turned all night, met Tian Qiaoer and Song You at noon, and followed them here. Manli asked anxiously, "Then what should we do?" "The only way - go to the Butterfly Cemetery!" Shuangshuang slowly uttered the last four words. "What?" Manli opened her mouth wide and shook her head again and again, "No, haven't you heard the legend? Isn't going there to die?" "Do you know why WOW becomes beautiful? Because she went to the 'Butterfly Cemetery' and made a wish there to make herself beautiful! Although it sounds unbelievable, it is true that Shang Xiaodie suddenly became beautiful." Song You has been thinking about it for a long time , pacing and saying, "This is the only possibility!" Tian Qiaoer said: "Now that I have discovered the 'Butterfly Cemetery', we have to make a wish like Xiaodie—don't you want your wish to come true?" But Manli was still afraid: "Is there any danger?" "Isn't Shang Xiaodie alive now? The dead people should be rumors, right? Maybe those who have been to the 'Butterfly Cemetery' and fulfilled their wishes spread it around in order to protect their secrets." rumors." "And what about Meng Bingyu? Didn't she drown in the 'Ghost Creek'? And Bai Lu, did she also go there?" "Maybe it was just an accident? I don't know if Bailu has been there before." Tian Qiaoer grabbed Manli's hand, "Don't worry, nothing will happen, otherwise Shang Xiaodie wouldn't dare to go there." Song You said lightly: "Manli, you can quit now, the opportunity is up to you to choose." The dormitory suddenly fell silent, Manli stared at them blankly, are everyone crazy? June 20 at 19:30 p.m. night. The eyelids were covered in a layer of smoke, and the whole body was floating on the black sea.From the mysterious seabed thousands of feet deep, there is a faint singing sound—— You are lurking in the ground / I am waiting in the world / you spin your silk and cocoon yourself / I want to see through the loneliness / you let the sea change the mulberry field / I let the stone rot and the sea dries up / a dream has been done for three thousand years / only the vow will never change / you and me Meet at the Butterfly Cemetery... Shang Xiaodie opened her eyes, outside the window was a high wall in the night, only a bunch of blurry silhouettes could be seen.I silently asked myself where is it, is it my soft Simmons?Or the top bunk in the girls' dormitory of S University?Or in the tombs of the "Butterfly Cemetery"? It feels like a rough straw mat under the body, and under the mat is a hard steel wire.She was still wearing daytime clothes, with a bamboo pillow under her head, facing the dark roof. In Yi Lianna's touching singing, a pair of deep eye sockets appeared, followed by a wrinkled face, facing Shang Xiaodie's eyes. Ah, it's that ghost again, completely dressed in black, with the face of an old European woman in her seventies. Shang Xiaodie closed her eyes in fright, but she felt a hand touching her face.The rough and cold fingertips seemed to tear the skin at any moment. Who is this old woman?Why such a special face?Is she also a "ghost beauty"? With all kinds of doubts in her heart, Xiaodie opened her eyes again.The old woman sat beside her, stroking her hair.There was a faint candlelight flickering in front of him. It was an ancient writing desk—yes, I was still in this room. "you're awake?" The old woman finally spoke, and she spoke a dialect from many years ago, which sounded vague and kind. Xiaodie nodded, tremblingly asked: "Where is this?" "Elena's room." "What song is this?" "Butterfly Cemetery." She struggled to get up and asked, "Who is singing?" The old woman's finger pointed to a corner of the room, where there was a black thing, and it was from here that the singing came from.Shang Xiaodie walked to that corner slowly, wondering why he didn't find it during the day. This is an old-fashioned record player that uses dry batteries, and it is an antique-grade stereo that was manufactured in the 1980s.The record player is still spinning, and a black bakelite record of unknown age is emitting that strange singing sound. It turned out that it was singing. Fluttershy remembered that Elena made a record in 1935.Presumably this is the precious record left over from that year! The old woman's sunken eye sockets blinked: "Irina grew up in this hospital and later married the son of a Chinese businessman. In 1936, Irina gave birth to a baby girl. Although the daughter survived, the mother But it was difficult to give birth. Elena’s husband later married a new wife, gave birth to a son to inherit the family business, and settled in Hong Kong in the 1950s.” "Is Elena's daughter still alive?" The old woman pulled down the black cloth covering her forehead, revealing her white hair: "Irina's daughter got married more than twenty years later, and also gave birth to a daughter named Zhu Die." Zhu Die——this name pierced Shang Xiaodie's heart like a sharp knife: "This is my mother's name!" The old woman nodded slightly: "I know, you look a lot like your mother." "My God, how did you know that?" In the dark flickering candlelight, the old woman's translucent eyeballs revealed ghostly sadness. Shang Xiaodie asked with trembling teeth—— "who are you?"