Chapter 5 Chapter 3 The Death of Three Girls

She finally knew what was touching her. It was a shadow, her own shadow.Xiaoqin has recently been researching a subject with the professor, which is about the mysterious incident of "the miracle of the Virgin Mary in Australia and shedding tears".Regarding this matter, there are different opinions from all over the world. Her professor is very interested in occultism, and even she suffers from it. Damn it, I'm obviously an ordinary senior in the literature department, and I should have found a company for an internship, but the professor insisted on keeping her, I really don't know whether I should be flattered or dumbfounded.

But fortunately, the professor promised that if she was admitted to the graduate school, she would continue to be her instructor.Xiaoqin's professor is considered a leading figure in the literature department in Spring City and even in the whole country. Of course, if the damn fanatical love for occultism is excluded, it will be more perfect. The incident of "Australia's Virgin Mary showing miracles and tears" can be traced back to more than ten years ago. At that time, because someone accidentally found a statue of the Virgin Mary bought in Thailand and shed tears, hundreds of believers flocked to worship the saint. picture.

It is said that the devout Catholic, a guy named Patty Powell, bought the statue of the Virgin Mary at a religious shop in Bangkok for 150 Australian dollars, and found that the eyes of the god were exuding rose-scented oily substances. Powell said that the first time the statue was found crying was on March 19th thirteen years ago, but she was not sure at the time whether it was a miracle that only she could see until the statue shed tears again on Easter. In front of countless witnesses, including the local parish priest. Hundreds of people have made the pilgrimage to Powell's home since Easter.Powell erected an altar in his home dedicated to the Madonna.Later, a scientific examination was made and it was found that it was not a hoax, but the crying flow continued, and some seriously ill people recovered miraculously after touching the statue of the Virgin.

Xiaoqin didn't know its authenticity, and someone researched it and claimed it was a hoax.Even following the professor and deepening the research, she didn't quite believe that such strange things really existed in the world. Today, at the invitation of my high school friend Xu Lu, I participated in a reunion similar to a reunion. Several girls from Class 7 she attended also attended.Although those girls were in the same class as her, they were only casual acquaintances and not very familiar with each other. It's just that I didn't expect Lian Yebuyu to come. This person who was very famous in a certain sense in high school didn't seem to have changed much. He was quiet and didn't talk much, but he was still so handsome.

Xiaoqin remembers Ye Silence, not because of how handsome he is, but because many death cases in the school that were so bizarre that they became legends in the school at that time seemed to have something to do with him. Although we haven't seen each other for several years, we still have a good chat.It's just that whoever talked too much actually talked about Ni Niandie, that girl was a thorn in her heart, even if she just transferred to Class 7 for a few weeks, the shadow it brought her would never be eliminated for the rest of her life. After that incident, until now, she dare not look at her own shadow when walking at night.

The street is very quiet tonight, there are no cars, no pedestrians, no moon or stars in the sky, everything around is quiet and quiet.It takes about ten minutes to walk from the bus stop to my dormitory. If it's daytime, I don't think it's too far away, but once it's night, the fangs will be exposed in a terrible place. Especially streets with no one around. On the street at eleven o'clock at night, only the sound of her high-heeled shoes echoed in the emptiness. This street, which has been walked countless times, stretches straight into the depths of the shadows.It seems that the university gate will be reached not far away, but in fact it will take at least five minutes.

Sure enough, human thinking can distort and drag time.Sometimes a day seems like a second, but sometimes, a second seems to be longer than a year. In the current situation, the time is infinitely stretched under the dim light. Xiaoqin quickened her pace. For some reason, she always felt uncomfortable. There seemed to be something silently following her behind her, but no matter how she looked back, Yu still couldn't find anything. There is only one straight road, two-way four-lane, and the sidewalk is separated by plants that are not too tall. In the empty space, if someone is following them, it should be clear at a glance.

She couldn't spot anything, but as soon as she turned her head, the feeling of being followed came back.It's so strange, is it an illusion caused by abnormal sleep recently?Xiaoqin shook her head lightly, and couldn't help speeding up her pace again. Suddenly, a chill burst out of his body.Goosebumps appeared on the skin covered by the thin clothes, Xiaoqin's whole body tightened, she stopped walking, and her face became very ugly. Just a few seconds ago, she felt something touch her shoulders, obviously blocked by clothes, but the skin left an unforgettable touch—a slippery, wet touch.

How is this going! Xiaoqin clasped her arms tightly, mustered up the courage to look around for a while, but still saw nothing.In the silent night, in the deserted street, with dim street lights, she stood alone, looking very helpless.Who in the end touched him suddenly?She was at a loss.She took a few steps forward, but stopped again. The feeling of being peeped intensified. The cruel and cold eyes flowed out from the sky, the air, and the land. It was as if she was being fixed on by 110,000 eyes. His eyes were tightly wrapped, and he couldn't breathe. "Damn it, live it!"

Xiaoqin screamed, suppressed the fear in her heart, and ran forward. The orange street lights lengthened her shadow, shortened it, and lengthened it again.Every time she passed a street lamp, her shadow would become 10% darker, gradually changing from gray to dark black, to pure black, and finally, it turned into a black hole-like existence. Xiaoqin was running out of breath. The high-heeled shoes on her feet were of good quality, and the heels were not broken or abducted.She ran for three minutes, using up all her breastfeeding strength, and when she couldn't run anymore, holding on to the street lamp beside her to catch her breath, she was surprised to find that the gate of the school hadn't arrived yet.

She realized that something was wrong. Normally, running for three minutes shortened the distance much more than walking for five minutes, but the school gate that she was supposed to arrive at seemed to stay at the position before she started running, and she was not pulled in at all. No, there is definitely a problem! She tried her best to calm herself down, thinking about it, and finally she came to the conclusion with a chill in her head and trembling body: she might have encountered a supernatural event! Xiaoqin racked her brains to recall what she should do if she really encountered a supernatural event.After all, I have been an assistant to a professor who is a fan of mysterious events for more than a year, and I have more or less access to some literature.If you encounter a ghost, first of all, you should not panic, but have a calm mind, and recite the Great Compassion Mantra or whatever scriptures you know. In the twenty years since she was born, she has never believed in ghosts and gods, and naturally she will not be stupid to memorize scriptures. Fortunately, there is a decorative cross on her neck.Xiaoqin tore it off her neck as if grabbing a life-saving straw, grabbed it in her palm and waved it wildly towards the surrounding air. The surroundings were quiet, not even a breath of wind was blowing beside her, the silence was like death, it was so quiet that it made people go crazy. Xiaoqin didn't notice that her shadow was gradually changing, and it changed into a strange shape.Although the streetlight above her head was not bright, it was enough to compress her shadow to the bottom of her feet. The shadow twisted, twitched, and wriggled, soundlessly. Xiaoqin's heart was beating violently. She waited for several minutes, and only after she felt nothing abnormal, she took a few steps forward slowly.When I acted, the air was stirred, and the air at 11:30 in the morning was slightly cold, but it made people more awake. She walked forward step by step, and the distance from the school gate began to shorten in her steps. Just when she could see the guard room, she let out a long breath. The main entrance of the university where Xiaoqin is studying is a large square. There is a fountain in the center of the square. There is also a screen wall that is about the same age as the school and can be called an antique. You only need to walk around the screen wall for more than thirty years. meters into the campus. Even the annoying old man in the guard room who was sleeping with his head drooping became infinitely cute in Xiaoqin's eyes now. At this moment, there was another touch on the left shoulder.Along the contacted area, goosebumps formed a thick layer like an allergy, and gradually spread to the whole body. This time the touch was more real, it was a hand, a cold, slippery hand!That hand treated the clothes as nothing, as if wearing a glove, and the glove was smeared with a layer of lubricating oil, touching the skin, it constantly gave off a chill and nausea. Xiaoqin screamed loudly, the sound piercing the air did not affect the sweet sleep of the guard not far away at all.She stopped again, paralyzed by nausea.She looked around, but still couldn't see anything suspicious.Damn it, where did the hand that touched me come from? With a terrifying mood, she tried hard to move, and the nightmare encounter made her wish it was really just a dream.But finally, Xiaoqin's eyes fell on the screen wall which was close at hand. On that ancient screen wall, the smooth surface was illuminated by the street lamp on the right, and her shadow fell clearly on it... It was completely black, like ink, like a black hole.Xiaoqin's pupils shrank suddenly, and her whole body trembled with great fear. She finally knew what was touching her. It was a shadow, her own shadow. The shadow that should have been elongated by the street lamp on the right was projected abnormally on the screen wall, as tall as her, but the shadow actually stretched out its hand and put it around her shoulder. How could it be, she was clearly in a posture with her arms folded, how could her own shadow be in a different posture from her own!Xiaoqin couldn't figure it out, her mind was already confused. Shadow caught her looking at it, and grinned evilly.It took its hands away from her shoulders, then spread them out to embrace her. "no, do not want!" Xiaoqin had a premonition of something, and she screamed desperately to avoid the shadow's hug, but she couldn't struggle at all, and couldn't move.Her whole body seemed to be under a spell of immobilization, from hands to feet, from soles of feet to scalp, from skin to nails, she was completely incapable of moving. In the dark shadow, countless hands stretched out, embraced her, pulled her hair, tore her skin, and finally pulled her towards the inside of the shadow. Xiaoqin didn't have the slightest strength to resist. She watched the black hole enveloping herself, and she remembered that night four years ago, Ni Niandie's distorted shadow, and the countless hands in the shadow... How different was the scene at that time from now? resemblance. She suddenly had a realization in her head that the shadow that devours her now does not belong to her, but Ni Niandie's. Her shadow did not eat her five years ago, and now it finally finds her. I got my wish. Xiaoqin died quietly, the empty street was silent and cold. The changing guard walked towards the duty room from the other side of the street. Suddenly, he noticed that the color of the floor tiles near the screen wall was a bit strange.When he saw clearly what was on the ground, he was so frightened that he scrambled back more than ten meters, and finally fell limply on the ground, vomiting out all the contents in his stomach. At the same time, in the other two directions of Chuncheng, there were also two girls who died unexpectedly. Entrusting the baby to Xu Lu's parents, when the four of us rushed to the police station, a male police officer in his forties received us.He asked some questions about tonight, no, last night's party to be exact, and let us go back after taking the usual notes. From the police officer's mouth, we probably heard something, but he didn't want to say more, his face was full of tiredness. At around 11:30 last night, that is, three hours ago, a girl died in each of the three directions of the north and south of Spring City. According to the investigation, all three of them had just returned home from playing in a KTV in the city center. A party organized by Xu Lu. Three girls from Class 7 of high school in the city. I vaguely remember one named Xiaoqin, and the other two named Yao Yu and Qiu Shu. After leaving the police station, Shen Ke asked with horror on his face: "What happened? They were fine when they got home. Why did they die suddenly? It's not clear whether it was suicide or homicide. The police officer's mouth is really wrong. Generally strict." I looked up at him, "Didn't you call the three of them dead strangely when you went out? Where did you find the clue?" "I heard from the young police officer who contacted me. When he called me, his tone was trembling. He used several unbelievable words in succession, and said that they died very strangely." Shen Ke frowned, listless. Xu Lu smiled wryly, not knowing what she was thinking, and said hesitantly after a long time: "Maybe, if I don't ask the three of them out, they won't die." I patted her on the shoulder, "Don't blame yourself, you should ignore your business." "Even if it's not the direct cause, I have an indirect relationship to killing them." Xu Lu couldn't feel relieved, rubbed her eyes, and was about to cry. Li Nuoyi walked to her side and comforted her softly, and the two girls slowly fell behind.Shen Ke and I walked towards the parking lot not far ahead. "You care?" I asked. "Don't you care?" He asked back, "Could it be that we encountered strange things for no reason, and finally killed the three of Xiaoqin?" "impossible!" I pondered for a while, then shook my head, "I'm sure, it's definitely not about the four of us. They died for another reason." "Don't comfort me." Shen Ke was depressed. "The ghost comforts you, don't you even believe me?" I snorted coldly. "To believe is to believe, but..." "Forget it, I'll check it out, so you can rest assured." I interrupted him, took out my mobile phone and contacted the old man Yang Junfei, and asked him to inquire about the situation for me. The four walked to the car silently, Xu Lu didn't intend to get in the car, and stared at the night sky at 3:30 in the morning in a daze.Li Nuoyi didn't know what to tell her, she calmed down a lot. "Let's take a walk by the river. I'm bored and don't want to go home." She looked around, pointed to the riverside path not far away and proposed to the three of us. Although Shen Ke and I really wanted to refuse, it was too late after all, and there was no one on the street, let alone the river view road with dim street lights.But, seeing her ashamed eyes, who can refuse to speak?The three of us looked at each other and had no choice but to take a walk with her on a cold autumn night. Yang Junfei was very fast. He had just walked to the river, listening to the gurgling water in a daze for a while, and then his e-mail was sent.I immediately turned on my phone and flipped through it, suddenly feeling confused.The investigation results in the letter are a bit weird, and there are too many doubts! Even if we don't see each other once a year, Shen Ke still knows my habits. Xu Lu turned to look at me, and they waited quietly for my explanation. Li Nuoyi was wearing a thin autumn skirt, feeling a little chilly in the night wind by the river, so she couldn't help leaning towards me with her arms folded.I froze for a moment, then took off my coat and put it on her.She raised her head, smiled sweetly, and her brows and eyes were filled with happiness. "The deaths of the three girls in class seven are a bit strange." I spoke, the voice was not loud, but in the silent riverside landscape belt, it still resounded around. "The three people were all killed at the same time, and the possibility of suicide was basically ruled out. They died at 11:45, and the scene was really weird." "When Qiu Shu was discovered, his body had already begun to rot. For unknown reasons, the surface of the corpse below the neck had riddled with sarcoid tumors, which were sunk into the flesh. Numerous small holes were randomly distributed on the corpse's body as if they had been corroded. The location of the heart, and spread out from that pivot point, which puzzled the investigating police officers, even a little scary." "It took less than three hours from Qiu Shu's death to her discovery. How could she rot? What's more, the outdoor temperature can't even reach 16 degrees, and the conditions for rapid decay cannot be formed at all. As for the bunches of grapes on her body It's a disgusting sarcoma, and the autopsy hasn't started yet, so there's no way to know about it." There were photos attached to the email, but Qiu Shu's death was too horrific, and I had absolutely no intention of showing them.Even so, after listening to my description, Xu Lu and Shen Ke still looked pale. "Yao Yu died on the south side of Spring City. It seemed that she just wanted to go home, but she would never have the chance. Her right index finger was broken, and there were marks on her wrist. sinking deep into the flesh." "The murderer is very strange. From the position of his right hand, he pinched Yao Yu's body bit by bit, and the fingerprints were clearly left. Where the murderer made his fingerprints, all her bones were broken, all the way to the heart. The murderer has been touching her heart with the fingerprints of the left hand and the right hand, and then dug out her heart alive." "I don't know how long this process took, but Yao Yu's fear before she died can be imagined. When she died, her eyes were wide open, her pupils were swollen, and her face was already distorted in fright." I frowned and looked at the photo of the dead body displayed on the phone screen. Li Nuoyi asked concerned: "Since the fingerprints are left, how can it be unclear whether the murderer used the left hand or the right hand?" I smiled wryly: "From the photo, it does look like a hand, but I'm not sure if it's a hand. The five fingers of that hand are the same length, so there's no way to tell them apart. If it's really a hand, the murderer, is there a real one?" Will it be human?" The four people by the river fell into silence for a moment. "Where's Xiaoqin?" Xu Lu asked in a sad to hoarse voice. Xiaoqin was her best friend in high school, but unexpectedly lost her forever after an ordinary party. "That girl Xiaoqin died very complicated." I paused, looked at the photo in a daze, and answered after a while, "She died only twenty meters away from the school guard room. There is an ancient screen wall there, but it is not enough to cover the guard's sight." "Her body seemed to explode. All the flesh and blood exploded and fell everywhere in a five-meter radius. But her head was preserved intact, as well as her bones." "Xiaoqin's bones are all trapped in the screen wall. It's unbelievable. The screen wall has a history of at least a hundred years. The material is bluestone bricks, which are much harder than ordinary bricks. But all the bones in her body Just sinking into the bricks, with the head and limbs exposed, the expression on the face is full of surprise and fear." "But there is one thing that is strange to me. Before she died, she seemed to think of something, desperately trying to write on the screen wall with her fingers, but the screen wall was too hard, and she only left messy strokes." Silence permeated the river at midnight again, everyone's heads were like a mess, and they kept cutting back and forth. Xu Lu and Shen Ke looked at the continuously flowing river under their feet in silence, the dim street lights illuminated the surroundings, and the repaired straight river channel stretched to the end of the line of sight under the light of each street lamp. Li Nuoyi tilted her head and thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Do you think that the death of those three girls has something to do with last night's party?" I immediately looked up at her, Li Nuoyi's big watery eyes shone with rational light under the street lamp, and her beautiful face hesitated to speak. "You mean their deaths are related to the three stories told at the party, right?" I said slowly.Li Nuoyi also nodded slowly. "What's the meaning?" Xu Lu asked in surprise. But Shen Ke has already understood. "That's right, that's right, that's it, that's it! Xiaoqin told a story about a shadow, that shadow was projected on the wall and stretched out countless hands from the shadow, and she died in front of the screen wall last night, and her bones were pulled into the screen wall inside." "As for Yao Yu, her right index finger was broken first, and her body was covered with step-by-step handprints. I remember she told a story about Die Xian last night. She used her right index finger to play Die Xian. Those handprints will Could it be related to Die Xian's last sentence?" When Yao Yu and the others were playing Die Xian, Die kept wandering between the six words "I'll catch you soon" in the end!The meaning of Shen Ke's words is self-evident.The palm prints represent being caught, and the result of being caught is the heart being crushed by some mysterious force and death. Shen Ke licked his nervously trembling lips, and continued: "The story Qiu Shu told was a bit abstract. When she saw her classmate Ni Niandie's hand touch the door, the lock that couldn't be opened popped open all of a sudden. , hitting the wall with a loud bang." "When she looked again, the hinge of the door was broken, and the surface of the wooden door was riddled with holes. Countless small holes appeared to be corroded and scattered around the handle of the door. The cause of her death was It is because of the riddled with holes, the body is rotting, and the sarcoma with many holes has grown... All these are connected and think about it for a while, the cause of death is exactly the same as the story told by the three of them!" I nodded lightly, "The key to all this is that person named Ni Niandie. The reason why Yao Yu and others encountered strange incidents was because they had a relationship with that Ni Niandie in high school. It ended up causing a collective outbreak of deaths today." "But, why? Why did they die after so long?" Xu Lu asked suspiciously. The death of her friend made her angry and sad. "I'm afraid I have to ask Ni Niandie about this." I sighed, the transfer student from Class 7 was indeed a mysterious existence, even a little contact with her would trigger supernatural events and lead to death.Who is she! "At least they didn't die because of you, that's clear." I stretched my waist, and I surprisingly didn't intend to go deeper into this matter, "Okay, in such a cold weather, people will freeze if we stay any longer. Let's go home!" "Ok." Xu Lu nodded, and with Shen Ke's support, walked to the opposite parking lot. Li Nuoyi glanced at me in surprise, "A Ye, don't you feel curious?" "Very curious." "But you don't seem to have any intention of investigating this incident, so there must be something wrong with you!" The girl is puzzled. I glared at her fiercely, "It's impossible for me to mess with everything, right? It's not peaceful recently. If there is one less thing, don't do more." Recently, various forces are making moves around the corner, and I'm already a little exhausted. What's more, there is always a sense of warning deep in my heart. It seems that as long as I get involved in this matter, my life may be lost.Ni Niandie may be more dangerous than I imagined! Li Nuoyi and I walked across the zebra crossing one after the other. She didn't know what she was thinking, and she was several meters behind me.At this moment, at the corner of the dim street lights, a dirty camper van rammed over quickly. The driver completely ignored the red light and drove forward with a straight trajectory, the speed was jaw-dropping. Perhaps it was because I saw me standing on the zebra crossing that the sound of the brakes sounded slowly, but it was too late. I was knocked into the air by the powerful impact, and my flying body paralleled the dirty car body that was trying to stop the car. . Behind him, Li Nuoyi's heart-piercing screams could be faintly heard. His head was dizzy, and his body was losing strength. Finally, I closed my eyes and lost all consciousness.