Chapter 11 Chapter 8 Ashes

Xiang Dantong's mental problems were caused by her boyfriend's death, and she implanted her boyfriend's ashes into her body, all of which she experienced.The exciting point should be her boyfriend, but why is she so calm? Early the next morning, the old man did not reply.After I got up from the sofa at 7:30 in the morning, I subconsciously looked around the bed, and there was no abrupt appearance of shoes, which made me feel relieved a lot. After washing up, I stretched out, and when I looked downstairs from the window, I saw police cars patrolling the streets. Picking up the local news stuffed in from under the door, sure enough, the headline on the front page was the death of the police chief's daughter.The annoying questions above described Zhang Youhan's wonderful life in the past twenty years, and a photo taken by a monitor lens was printed in a large format. On it, a blurry figure was crawling towards Zhang's villa.

Unfortunately, that person was me!Fortunately, the photos only have what should be and it is difficult to judge fat and thin and clothing.But it is enough to arouse speculation.When Zhang Youhan died, someone sneaked into the house. No one would have thought of the connection between the two. In the next step, the car I rented will probably be exposed. This is really difficult! I smiled bitterly and straightened my clothes in the mirror.Do people really have a lot of helplessness when they grow up?Maybe it is, at least in the past three years, I have smiled more wryly than real. I picked up the rented off-road vehicle in the nearby parking lot. I had a headache. I turned my head and looked at the wedding car not far away. I laughed happily and walked over to the two wedding license plates that said "Congratulations to the New Year". , "Hundred Years Love" stickers and put them on my car, I slowly drove away and headed for the second girl's house on the list.

The second girl I am looking for is called Lin Congxue. Her family opened a food processing factory nearby. She lives not far from the county town. It is a small three-story western-style building. To the funeral music. The small building was covered with wreaths, and as soon as he approached the mourning hall, he saw a picture of Ao Lin Congxue, with a gray face and a serious face, as if he was dying. Without stopping the car, I drove past the mourning hall and drove towards the third girl's house. The third girl is named Man Xiaoxuan. Fortunately, she is fine and has a normal expression. Although she opened the door, she looked at me with doubts and vigilance.

This girl is more beautiful than in the photo, with shiny black long hair, exquisite facial features neatly arranged, and bright pupils under the double eyelids.She is 165 centimeters tall and has a good figure. She is wearing a pink autumn skirt, which highlights her body curves to the fullest. "Who are you?" she asked me. "My name is Yebuyu, and I am Qiao Yu's friend in Germany." I took out my phone and pulled out the photos of the nine girls, and asked, "I want to ask you a few questions about Qiao Yu's death." "What's the point of asking, Xiao Yu is dead, and I don't know her very well."

Man Xiaoxuan wanted to close the door as soon as he said that. I blocked the door with my foot, and said unhurriedly: "The friends in this photo have already died several times, right? Have you ever thought that the next one might be yourself?" "What's the meaning?" The girl asked with a dark face. "If I want to say that you are cursed, do you believe it?" I simply stated my opinion. "Crazy, you are cursed, and your whole family is cursed." The girl scolded me nervously, and said loudly: "Let's go, if you don't let me go, I will call the police."

I ignored her, just continued: "If you think about your recent experience carefully, don't you think it's strange? The people around you died one after another strangely. What is the probability of this? It is better than winning the lottery special prize Less than both, right? That's very problematic, and there's some kind of danger hanging around you." "What do you mean! I, I don't understand..." Man Xiaoxuan's language softened a bit, she seemed to be really thinking about the information I passed on in the past, which meant that she had similar doubts during this time!

"Actually, I am also one of the victims. My friend and I will die suddenly at some point, so I want to fight to find out that mysterious killer." After I threw this bombshell, I looked into her eyes without blinking. Man Xiaoxuan looked at me for a while, turned a little red and avoided his sight, and said softly, "Come in." She asked me to sit on the sofa, put two cups of tea on the coffee table, and then sat across from me. Her expression was a little dazed, and she said after a long time: "Actually, I really don't know much about Xiao Yu. The nine of us used to play together in high school, but we became estranged when we were in college. When I arrived in the county, I finally met for a day. I had something to do that day, so I didn’t attend their party, but from that day on, things became a little bit wrong... My friends were crazy and dead. I was completely dumbfounded, the door They dare not come out."

Hearing this, I was slightly disappointed.Finally caught a living one, but it was a master who didn't know anything. "Among the eight girls, there are a few who play better with me. They called me in a panic a few days ago, saying that they kept seeing hallucinations, that there was something wrong with their shoes, etc. I don't think so. can understand." Man Xiaoxuan asked: "If you know anything, please tell me, I'm dying of anxiety." "Actually, I don't know much." I turned my neck, and then told her about my involvement with Qiao Yu and what I had experienced recently.

Man Xiaoxuan's face turned pale with fright, and he trembled on the sofa. He said in a surprised voice in disbelief, "What you said is true, can it be true?" "Do I have to lie to you?" I shrugged. "No." She hesitated and shook her head, "Then what shall we do now?" "we?" I asked strangely. "Of course it's us, with so many friends dying beside me, I want to know the truth too!" Man Xiaoxuan said in an affirmative tone, "Besides, I don't know if that thing will find me, and I can't bear to stay at home alone in fear."

"I don't think it's a big problem for you. After all, you haven't been in contact with them, nor have you attended that party." I judged. "Even so, how can anyone really be sure that I'm okay?" The girl looked at her hand, "If my good sister dies, I'm probably going to be scared crazy by this situation. Besides, with me to help you, it's easier to find clues and so on." It is indeed reasonable to say so, her help is necessary, but is it really good to involve this girl?I hesitate. "Let's go, let's go see a friend of mine. She went crazy after attending the party. Now she is sent to a mental hospital by her family. To be honest, I am most worried about her."

The girl couldn't help but change a set of clothes, and then dragged me out of the house. I blinked and acquiesced to her participation.With her around, it's easier to gain trust after finding those girls. Besides, I always feel that my time is almost up! On the way, Man Xiaoxuan told me in detail about her friend, the fourth girl I was going to find.The girl's name was Xiang Dantong, and she had some mental problems not long ago. According to Man Xiaoxuan's guess, it might be because of the sudden death of the girl's boyfriend. After her boyfriend died, she was about to bury the ashes, but Xiang Dantong suddenly ran over and snatched all the ashes, and then disappeared for a while. No one knew where she kept her ashes, and when Man Xiaoxuan got news of her again, his friend had already been imprisoned in a mental hospital. When I found Xiang Dantong, she was sitting on the sofa in the lounge of Dongmu County Mental Hospital, talking to those strange mental patients. The doctor said that she had a tendency to self-harm. I took out my phone, pulled out the group photo of Qiao Yu, her and others, and scanned it in front of the girl. Man Xiaoxuan looked at his former friend with sad eyes, and there was a flash of worry in his eyes. "Do you believe in eternal love?" Xiang Dantong's mental state was really not good, she didn't seem to know Man Xiaoxuan, she just looked at the photo casually and said in a mysterious tone. "believe." I nodded seriously.It's one thing to believe, but quite another to have it, and I don't think I've had that much luck. "I believe too." Xiang Dantong smiled silly, "I am very envious of Sandy and Dustin's true love, that is my goal." "Sandy and Dustin? We've played together since childhood, why have we never heard of you having foreign friends?" Man Xiaoxuan was confused by these words. I frowned, "I seem to have heard of these two names somewhere." "you recognize?" She was a little surprised. "I don't know each other. Some time ago, there seemed to be reports about their deeds in the news. In short, the plot and the story are all bullshit." I thought about it, and said in a general way: "Sandy and Dustin were born in an orphanage. Finally found her daughter, unexpectedly her parents turned out to be billionaires. "Looking at the poor boy Dustin, Sandy's parents are definitely not willing. Under the obstruction, the relationship between the two became stronger, and the two elders compromised. "The case of Dustin and Sandy was supposed to be so logical, but unfortunately things backfired. Not long after they got married, Dustin was told during a physical examination that he had liver cancer, which was in the middle stage, and it was suspected to be a family genetic cause. The drama-like story of blood unfolds gorgeously. "Dustin began to arrange everything in a planned way. Before the two had finished their first year of marriage, Sandy found out that her husband was having an affair! This finally pushed their marriage to a dead end. Sandy Finally decided to leave Dustin and go to the United States to find her parents. Two years later, when Sandy revisited the old place covered in famous brands, she accidentally met the third person who destroyed her family, and from the mouth of the third person Knowing the truth of the year, Sandy made an even more surprising decision: she asked for Dustin's ashes to be implanted in her breast, so that no one could separate the two of them. The hearts of the two will be connected as never before, for the rest of their lives." Man Xiaoxuan covered her mouth tightly, she seemed to have remembered something, and said in surprise: "The reason why Dantong snatched her boyfriend's ashes that night, could it be that she implanted the ashes according to the experience of that couple? in your own body?" I was silent for a moment without answering.No matter how I think about it, I feel that this idea is too unreal and too weird. But Xiang Dantong nodded proudly: "Every time, I find a secret doctor and transplant all Yunbo's ashes in, and now he can be with me forever." Man Xiaoxuan was frightened by her words and took a few steps back. She suddenly felt that the friend she had known since she was a child had become extremely strange in front of her. I tried to ask Xiang Dantong some questions, but all the answers I got were irrelevant.But for some reason, I always feel that the girl in front of me is pretending to be crazy. "How did her boyfriend die?" I turned to ask Man Xiaoxuan. She recalled for a moment, "I heard it was a car accident, I'm not familiar with her, I've only seen her a few times. "Just over ten days ago, when crossing the zebra crossing, he was suddenly hit by a truck running a red light. His head was stuck in the back of the truck and he was dragged for dozens of meters. By the time the truck driver reacted and stopped, he was already fast. The head was separated, and the neck and head were only connected by a piece of skin, and the blood stained a long section of the street red, and it has not been washed away. Occasionally when I pass by, I can still see traces of the blood stain." Xiang Dantong's quiet person We discussed the death of our boyfriend next to us, as if we were talking about someone else, which surprised me a little. Mentally ill patients usually have unbearable stimulation points. According to Man Xiaoxuan, Xiang Dantong's mental problems were caused by the death of her boyfriend. She implanted her boyfriend's ashes into her body, all of which proved this. In other words, the exciting point should be her boyfriend, but why is she so calm? I pulled Man Xiaoxuan aside, and said softly, "Did the girl encounter anything else before she went crazy?" "This is not clear." She shook her head slightly, then wondered what happened again. "Speaking of which, Dantong did come to me in a panic and asked me if I knew any great immortals or onmyojis who were more effective. My grandma believed in Buddhism and was a layman, so naturally I often came into contact with such people, so I I asked grandma for her, and grandma said that there is an old yin and yang fortune teller in Dongshan who is very accurate in catching ghosts, and as soon as I told her, Dantong hung up the phone in a hurry." There is absolutely no shortage of yin and yang in every city and mountain village. They are engaged in ancient deceitful activities, which are rarely seen in big cities, but in small towns and relatively backward places, they are invited for weddings and weddings, children's full moon, and residences. They need to be invited to relocate. The most important thing is that the local people will ask them to drive away ghosts after someone is possessed by evil spirits. Although I always think that few of those yin and yang have real materials, most of them speak deceitful words eloquently, using things they don't understand to contact disasters and exorcism for ignorant people. But as far as desperate people are concerned, asking them for help is indeed the last resort. "Do you think Xiang Dantong really loves her boyfriend?" I asked suddenly. Man Xiaoxuan was stunned for a moment, "I should love you very much, otherwise why would you transplant her boyfriend's ashes into your breast after his death?" I shook my head and was about to say something when I suddenly saw Xiang Dantong not far away becoming nervous. She looked at the locker not far away, and I also looked at that locker. It is a very common thing, it should be used by the mental hospital to place the toys in the activity hall, so that some special patients will not endanger their lives by mishandling them.The cabinet was not big, only two meters high and fifty centimeters wide. The door was locked. Everything looked very ordinary. I couldn't see what she was afraid of. But Xiang Dantong became more and more frightened, her expression of fear distorted her face, her eyes conveyed a sense of panic, her lips trembled, and soon her whole body trembled. She looked at the performance of the locker, and Man Xiaoxuan and I were very puzzled. "What's wrong with Dantong, is he sick again?" she asked with concern. I frowned and kept moving between the girl and the cabinet with my eyes. The mental patient beside me was having fun and didn't notice the abnormality of the three of us at all.The doctor on duty glanced at Dantong and ignored it. It's really a loose hospital, and it really is a small place. A sense of tension arises spontaneously, but it seems that only I feel it. "No! Don't! Don't come here!" Xiang Dantong suddenly covered her face with her hands, she screamed desperately, the sharp voice almost broke the glass, even my eardrums could hardly bear it and stopped working, there were bursts of roaring in the ears, everyone subconsciously plugged earholes. Xiang Dantong rolled from the sofa and fell to the ground, then desperately crawled behind Man Xiaoxuan and me. "Dantong, calm down, don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Man Xiaoxuan smiled wryly and patted Xiang Dantong, who was obviously overly frightened, with his hands, comforting him softly. Looking at the girl's face, I seemed to understand something, and snorted coldly: "You are not crazy at all, are you?" Man Xiaoxuan looked at me puzzled, "Ye Silent, I don't understand what you are talking about." "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, as long as Xiang Dantong next to you can understand." I looked at the trembling girl hiding in her arms. "I've been thinking about a question, and now I understand it completely. Your mind has always been normal, and you are just pretending to be crazy when you go to a mental hospital! You don't transplant your boyfriend's ashes into your breasts because you love him, but because To ward off evil spirits, right? The yin and yang you asked for help told you! Speaking of which, there is indeed such a saying in the native method of exorcising ghosts. Xiang Dantong, what did you see? When Qiao Yu returned to China, what did you do together? ?” Xiang Dantong buried her head deeply in Man Xiaoxuan's arms, unwilling to poke it out even if she died. "answer me!" I reached out and grabbed her, and forced her head to meet my line of sight. Dantong's eyes flickered, but she was very sober.Sure enough, my guess was correct. "Night silence, don't force her." Man Xiaoxuan blamed us for separating us. "Closet, there's something in the closet." Xiang Dantong said in a weak voice. "In the locker in the lounge?" I asked. "No, it's all the cabinets! There are things in all the cabinets, there are ghosts, I'm so scared!" Her words were no longer slurred, and she spoke clearly. Man Xiaoxuan looked at his friend behind him in astonishment. "There are no ghosts in this world. What you see is not real!" I'm serious. "You can't see or hear it, so why do you say it doesn't exist?" Xiang Dantong became excited, "No one will believe me, but it has been haunting me! It is hidden in every cabinet I pass by. It is human-shaped and has no ears! It is curled up in the cabinet, leaning against the door and listening to me. Every move I make, as long as I make a slight mistake, it will crawl out of the cabinet and eat me!" Man Xiaoxuan was aroused by her goosebumps, "Dantong, what are you talking about, it's scary." "Xiaoxuan, luckily you didn't keep the appointment that day, otherwise, you would suffer the same punishment as me!" Xiang Dantong said sadly: "Why wasn't I the one who had an accident that day, why did you escape? Why!" The more she talked, the more she hated her, and the way she looked at Man Xiaoxuan also changed, as if she wanted to kill her old friend. Man Xiaoxuan was stunned by her gaze, and he was in a mess. Seeing that the situation was not right, I immediately stepped in and separated the two of them, "Xiang Dantong, what did you guys do that day? Tell me maybe we can help you!" Xiang Dantong shook his head and sneered: "If you can help me, why can you help me? Can you survive, can you see? None of us can escape, Qiao Yu is dead, Yun Bo is dead It's gone, and Han is dead, and Congxue is also dead! It's my turn next! "If someone could really save me, I wouldn't have to endure pain to have Yunbo's ashes transplanted into my breast, and I wouldn't have to pretend to be crazy and hide in a mental hospital! That yin and yang words are all fart. As a result, there are still That thing, it has never been far away from me! It is peeping at me, waiting for an opportunity... I am tense every day, I can't hold it anymore, I can't hold it anymore..." As she spoke, she began to suffer, crying desperately and sadly. I was silent. It seems that she has something to do with the curse of "shoes against the bed", but I still don't know much about it. Even the name is taken by myself. If I can't get information from Xiang Dantong, Time will be more troublesome. And although she pretended to be a mental patient, her spirit was indeed on the verge of collapse. It was really not easy to follow her most taboo clichés. "You said I couldn't hear or see, so please describe to me, what does the world look like in your eyes?" I said slowly. While sobbing, Xiang Dantong looked at the locker in fear, "It seems that someone inside is knocking on the door lightly, like someone walking around in leather shoes, making empty footsteps, now, listen , the things inside began to scratch the cabinet wall with their claws impatiently, and the sound was harsh and unpleasant." Following her voice, my eyes shifted to the extremely ordinary cabinet again.Suddenly, the locker that was originally fixed on the wall moved violently, and the door seemed to be kicked open by something, but the lock lost its function, and the two door panels bounced back violently between ups and downs. I was startled and rubbed my eyes vigorously. The cabinet calmed down, but there were many voice-like sounds in the ears. Listen carefully, and you can vaguely distinguish the source of the sound, it turned out to be the cabinet!And it was exactly the same as Xiang Dantong's description. In the thin locker that could not accommodate anyone, there were many people's voices, including trampling of leather shoes, knocking on the door, and scratching. A sense of fear welled up in me, and I took a few steps back in a panic. Man Xiaoxuan looked at my movements and frightened expression in bewilderment, and flashed a hint of puzzlement on Dantong's face, but after a while, he laughed sharply, "Haha, you heard it. You heard it, right? You You're going to die, you're going to end up like me, you're going to die!" She was laughing hysterically and completely gloating. Suddenly, the door of the locker broke the lock and was completely kicked open by the contents inside. The locker was empty, and I saw nothing except toys. Xiang Dantong stared blankly, and immediately screamed.She couldn't care about anything else, and ran away at such a speed that no one had time to stop her. My head was a little confused. The opening of the cabinet door this time was not a hallucination. At least everyone in the lounge of the mental hospital saw it. Man Xiaoxuan looked at the open locker in surprise. Doctors and patients were equally surprised. After I reacted, I took the doctor around to look for Xiang Dantong. After searching for a long time, she was not found in a corner of the hospital until dusk, but the girl's body was already cold.She grasped her hands like claws, as if she wanted to resist something desperately; the slippers under her feet disappeared, and there were countless scratches on Bai Baibai's bare feet, but those scratches had gradually begun to form corpse spots. Man Xiaoxuan and I left the hospital.I was a little annoyed, I didn't get any information from Xiang Dantong except the shock, this matter was more difficult than I imagined. Sitting in the car, Man Xiaoxuan glanced back at the psychiatric hospital from a distance, and said in a hoarse voice, "Night is silent, four of my friends have already died. Are they really cursed?" I didn't answer, just said: "Then please explain the cause of death of your four friends in the simplest words?" "Before Dantong died, he seemed to be gloating at you. Could it be that you were also cursed?" She looks at me. "Maybe, who knows." I didn't answer her directly, but I knew very well in my heart that I was 100% cursed by "shoes to bed". Two days have passed since Andrew's eight-day death deadline. The fat man is dead, and I may have eight days to solve the puzzle. This was my inference at the beginning, but as the investigation deepened, I became uncertain. According to previous judgments, after Qiao Yu died, it was Boer's turn, and after Boer's death, it was Fatty's turn, but after arriving in Dongmu County, everything was overturned.Strange things keep happening around me, and today my colleague saw and heard the same thing as Xiang Dantong... The outlook is not optimistic. Turning my neck, I marked the girl in the photo with a cross in my heart.Four of the nine girls in the photo have died. Leaving Man Xiaoxuan aside, how many other people participated in the event that day?I don't know, and Man Xiaoxuan also doesn't know the reason why he didn't show up for the appointment. It seems that I have to ask them one by one in detail. Fortunately, with the help of the girl next to me, it shouldn't take long. While thinking, I drove towards the city.The night swallowed the light, and even the twinkling stars became dim in the dark sky.