Chapter 18 Mask

Chen Yanyan's voice was clear when his emotions were calm, but now he screamed, almost piercing one's eardrums.

The door of the ward was wide open, and anyone outside could hear the slightest movement. She screamed, fearing that the whole floor would be disturbed.

However, neither Lu Yingjiu nor Jingxian responded, they didn't try to escape, they didn't try to close the door immediately, and they didn't try to appease her. He didn't even raise his eyebrows.

No one came in outside either. The nurses and the patients were all doing their own thing. A young man with a broken leg walked past the door on crutches, slowly, without even taking a look inside the house.

It's like there is an invisible barrier that separates this room.

Chen Yanyan suddenly realized something and shut his mouth tightly.

Although she didn't get in touch with exorcism after changing her name, she still understood the basic principle: Lu Yingjiu was in front of her just now, and he didn't take out the talisman paper, and he didn't pinch it. In other words, this barrier that descended at an unknown time was...

Her gaze swept across Lu Yingjiu's shoulder and fell on Jingxian.

Jingxian casually leaned against the door and smiled at her. The smile was evil and handsome, but there was no smile in his black eyes. Looking at such a pair of eyes, Chen Yanyan's teeth began to tremble unconsciously, and his intuition was screaming.

- Did this person want to kill me just now?

This thought suddenly popped into my mind, and then she forcibly suppressed it because it was too outrageous. Looking at Jingxian again, no matter how you look at it, how do you think that there is some monster lurking under that impeccable face.

Chen Yanyan's hands and feet were cold, and a shadow suddenly fell in front of him.

It was Lu Yingjiu who picked up the coat by the bedside and put it on her body: "We didn't see anything, you put your clothes in order. Don't do this in the future."

Chen Yanyan gritted his teeth and pulled on his clothes hastily: "...What are you doing here? Especially this Mr. Lu Yingjiu, I have seen your photos and know you are a suspect. Are you afraid of the clues from the past? Expose, come here to kill and silence?"

Lu Yingjiu pulled up a chair and sat down.

His temperament is completely different from Jingxian, he is too gentle and restrained, and he looks very close. He said: "If I want to kill people, you will be rotten in some wilderness, no one will find you, and I will not leave any traces."

The tone is relaxed.

He's not trying to convince Chen Yanyan: it's just a simple statement, and because it's a fact, it doesn't matter whether others believe it or not.

Chen Yanyan looked at the two people in front of him again, and finally realized with hindsight: these two people are not normal people.

Lu Yingjiu said: "I just want to know about the situation at that time. There are still doubts about this case, and I will not detour. I saw the ghosts that your family turned into, in the bar where the case happened. Your grandma Chen Minlan , also appeared in the community near the bar."

Chen Yanyan's eyes widened.

Lu Yingjiu continued: "Chen Minlan was pestering a waiter at the bar. Maybe the waiter knew something. After that, she even came to me on her own initiative-this is also an important reason why I want to investigate."

Chen Yanyan was really astonished, Lu Yingjiu and Jingxian were reflected in his clear eyes. After a long time, she said, "Did they... have anything to say?"

"No." Lu Yingjiu shook his head, "Unfortunately, they have lost their minds and cannot communicate."

"Then, what about the waiter?"

"He couldn't remember." Lu Yingjiu concealed the part of Jin Xiaoyang's death.

Chen Yanyan lowered his eyes.

The slenderness on her body was heavier, almost pitiful, and the burden brought by her life experience seemed to climb up her back in an instant. A girl so young, with a good face, is very endearing to do so - even though she was hysterical like a lunatic two minutes ago.

Jing Xian got up and went to the corridor to pick up a glass of water. He carefully mixed the hot and cold water and made sure that the temperature in his palm was moderate before returning to the room with the glass of water and walking to the bed.

Chen Yanyan raised his head, looked at him, and whispered, "Thank you..."

Jingxian handed the water to Lu Yingjiu: "Drink slowly, be careful of the heat."

Chen Yanyan: "..."

Lu Yingjiu took a light sip, put it in front of the bed, and continued to say to Chen Yanyan: "This car accident that caused your fracture was not an accident, right? I can still feel the yin around you. For a few months, I ran to the hospital very frequently, sometimes with sprained feet, sometimes with various minor illnesses, no matter how I look at it, I was haunted by ghosts."

These materials were all written in the file Chen Xiaoling gave him, and he had already read it on the way here.

Chen Yanyan asked, "Can you feel the yin in me?"

She had seen several ghost exorcists before, but they didn't notice it at all, unlike Lu Yingjiu, who could see it at a glance.

"Yeah." Lu Yingjiu said, "And I can also see that it has been following you for many years... I think, 5 years? Or 6 years? Before, its power was not strong enough, and some factors stimulated it. If you let it go, your life is likely to be in danger. This time it's your wrist, the next time it's crushed, it may be your head."

Chen Yanyan's hands trembled.

Lu Yingjiu leaned forward slightly and continued: "Although I don't know why, you didn't mean to ask the Chen family for help - maybe you didn't want to contact them when you died, maybe you didn't realize the situation was serious, no matter what. In this way, my proposal is this: I will help you disperse this ghost, and you will tell me the details of the year. I have no hobby of exposing people's scars, and I will never ask any more questions except for the case itself. "

Chen Yanyan said subconsciously, "It's the same to find other powerful ghost exorcists. It doesn't have to be you."

"You can try it." Lu Yingjiu smiled, "But do you dare to bet?"

If you win the bet, you keep the secret of the year. If you lose the bet, you will lose your life.

Chen Yanyan glanced at his left hand, the painkiller had worn off, and the wound was aching slightly. Closing her eyes again, the truck whizzing towards her seemed to be still in front of her. Her bicycle was knocked out of shape, and the person flew out five or six meters. When she landed heavily, a strong smell of blood came out of her throat. In her blurred vision, she could only see the wheels of the bicycle slowly turning towards the air. The surrounding noise is very far away, as if across the deep water, someone is shouting: "Something happened -!"

At that moment, she really thought she was dead.

It was exactly as the doctor said, this time it was her life.

She had heard Lu Yingjiu's name many times, and looking for him to exorcise ghosts was an opportunity that no one else could ask for.

She bit her lip: "...But," she quickly glanced at Jingxian, hesitated for a long time before speaking, and said in a thin voice, "I, I don't know if you are the murderer... In case you What if it's the bad guy..."

Lu Yingjiu said, "If I were the murderer, would I still have to go to great lengths to ask you for details? The one who knows the case best should be myself. When you first saw me, you didn't even recognize me. , At that time, I was not a serious suspect at all, don't you know this best?"

There was something convincing in his voice.

Anyone who has inquired about him a little knows that he has an excellent reputation when he is the chief, which can be said to be the conscience of the ghost exorcism world: if he promises to protect the client, then the client will never have an accident; if he promises to find the ghost, the family of the ghost The size will be pulled out by the roots. Coupled with the seductive appearance and calm temperament, no matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with "unrighteousness".

Chen Yanyan was silent for a long time.

She couldn't see what psychological struggle she was doing, but her expression gradually softened when she looked at Lu Yingjiu.

After a long time, she took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I'll tell you. In fact, the ghost on me is the ghost that killed my family back then..."

Lu Yingjiu and Jingxian looked at each other.

Chen Yanyan clenched his hands: "At that time, my classmates and I said we wanted to play a game of courage, so we found an abandoned building called the 'Four-hole Slaughterhouse' and played the four-corner game. You should know the rules."

Lu Yingjiu nodded.

He lowered his head and searched. The Sidong Slaughterhouse was in the middle of Lujiang City and Yuantai City. There was no store in front of the village or behind, and he didn't know how those little brats got there.

Chen Yanyan continued: "When we were playing, we realized that something was wrong. It seemed that there was really one more person among us. We were very scared and left immediately. Then, I took a taxi to KTV to celebrate my brother's birthday. I didn't expect, I didn't expect..." She closed her eyes, "I took that ghost with me. You all know what happened next. I was the murderer who killed them... Now it's finally my turn. "

Lu Yingjiu said: "It's not anyone's fault, clarifying doubts and finding out the truth is your best consolation for them."

Chen Yanyan nodded with his eyes closed, took a deep breath, and continued: "The four people who play games are me, my best friend Fan Xin, and our boyfriend. Fan Xin... Fan Xin is here. Not long after that, he also passed away unexpectedly, which must have been caused by this ghost. As for the two boys, I lost contact with them later."

She recalled the past.

That afternoon six years ago, boys and girls crowded into the car, leaving the sunny

campus

, went to the spooky slaughterhouse together. The old building was silent under the dark clouds, like a behemoth. They climbed over the rusted iron door, stepped on the knee-high weeds, laughed and walked in, joking with each other.

A dark cloud rolled over his head, a torrential rain fell from the sky, lightning tore the sky, and the gust of wind blew the young man's clothes. No one could have imagined that this was a point of no return.

Lu Yingjiu wrote down these three names and sent them to Chen Xiaoling.

If Chen Yanyan is in danger, maybe the same goes for the two boys.

"So," Chen Yanyan looked at him, "can you kill it?"

Her eyes swept across Jingxian again - the handsome man was standing behind Lu Yingjiu, unlike Lu Yingjiu who was listening carefully, his expression was indifferent, as if he was not interested in her story, or even disdainful of her. Showing false concern. He filled another glass of water and drank it slowly in his hand, his eyes on Lu Yingjiu from beginning to end.

Lu Yingjiu thought for a few seconds: "Because of the ghosts invited by the supernatural game, it is best to return to the place at the time and disperse them. For the sake of safety, we will go to the four-hole slaughterhouse."

Chen Yanyan's face paled a bit: "Want to go back?"

"Yeah." Lu Yingjiu nodded, "There is something suspicious. You go to the KTV in the evening, and the time to play games is in the afternoon. It is very difficult to attract ghosts to supernatural games. If you play in the daytime, the probability is even lower. What's more, this ghost is very powerful, it's just too ferocious... From my personal point of view, this is almost impossible."

Chen Yanyan smiled bleakly: "That's because we posted some talismans to invite ghosts before playing the game. I was daring at the time, and the ghost I wanted to invite was the most terrifying one. If it was him, do it These are easy."

"Are you famous?"

"No, only official positions. You might laugh at me if you say it."

"No." Lu Yingjiu said, "This is a very crucial clue."

Chen Yanyan's hand gripped the quilt tightly.

She was really scared, she shook her lips, and after a long time, she whispered, "I invited the ghost king."

"Cough cough cough—!" Jing Xian choked a sip of water, and couldn't help laughing.

...

Two minutes later, Lu Yingjiu and Jingxian stood outside the ward.

They were driven out by angry Chen Yanyan.

The two looked at the people coming and going in front of them and were speechless for a while.

After a while, Lu Yingjiu said, "Although I know it's impossible, why are you laughing at others..."

Jingxian: "...I couldn't hold back all of a sudden."

He really thought it was outrageous, and laughed again—the Green Lantern Club said that Lu Yingjiu was a suspect, and Chen Yanyan said that he was a ghost who had killed countless people.

That little girl really dared to say, how could anyone in this world invite him?

He had come to this world once before.

It was Lu Yingjiu's wedding day.

Jingxian said, "I was really wrong, don't be angry."

Lu Yingjiu looked at him, the handsome face that was better than a model and was carefully crafted was full of sincerity - Lu Yingjiu thought, if he had been sincere to Chen Yanyan just now, the matter would be It can't be like this.

Lu Yingjiu: "...you can't get angry, that is, you still have to respect others."

Jing Xian assured: "Next time, definitely!"

He thought again, although Lu Yingjiu said that he was not angry, but Black and White Impermanence had told him that when he engaged in a partner, the other party would be duplicitous.

If you're not angry, you're probably just angry.

Saying it doesn't matter, it's very likely that it's related.

So Lu Yingjiu was just trying to sort out his thoughts when he saw Jingxian say sincerely, "Don't be angry."

Lu Yingjiu: "...?"

Lu Yingjiu said, "I really don't have... um..."

Jing Xian took half a step closer and slammed him against the door and hugged him tightly. The strength was still as strong as ever, and Lu Yingjiu fluttered in his arms a few times, like a cat being held down by a large dog.

Lu Yingjiu: "What are you doing??"

"I was wrong!" Jing Xian said, hugging tighter.

A passing old man stared at the two of them, his eyes were complicated, and his face wrote "You're playing so much", and as if watching the scene of "love defense war": a regretful man tried to recover the beautiful Old love, and old love ... beautiful old love Lu yingjiu raised his head and scolded the swear words silently.

Finally struggling out of Jingxian's arms, Lu Yingjiu raised his forehead and said, "Your way of apologizing is too unique."

"Hugging can bring people a good mood." Jing said casually, "Do you want another hug?"

Lu Yingjiu: "...don't."

He pushed Jingxian away for another warm hug, but couldn't find a point to refute for a while. He thought that it was fortunate that Jingxian didn't go up to hug Chen Yanyan directly, otherwise they would not be able to wash it out if they jumped into the Yellow River today.

He took a deep breath, turned and knocked on the door of the ward: "Are we in?"

When the people in the room didn't answer, he gently opened the door. Chen Yanyan was wrapped in a quilt and turned away from the two of them.

Lu Yingjiu sat down in front of her again and said, "I'm sorry, he has no ill intentions."

Chen Yanyan did not speak.

Lu Yingjiu said: "Theoretically speaking, I don't think that priests will come to the world at will. Yin and yang have their own balance. When priests come to the world, they will be greatly restricted, and they will not kill people easily. As for the ghost king you mentioned, what exactly is he? Whether it exists or not is inconclusive. Even if it does, I don't think you invited it..." He looked back at Jingxian.

Jing Xian smiled.

Lu Yingjiu kicked his foot, and he immediately suppressed his smile, feigning false concern.

Lu Yingjiu said, "You just finished the operation. When you are discharged from the hospital, we will go to the slaughterhouse."

"No, we'll go today." Chen Yanyan suddenly turned around and looked at Lu Yingjiu, "I really can't stand it for a day, you, you must kill it early. Just you and me, we Let's go now two!"

She bit "the two of us" hard.

Jing Xian snorted softly.

Lu Yingjiu knew what he was dissatisfied with and said, "He wants to go with me. Besides, it's not just the three of us."

He stood up, went to the door and pulled—

The man was leaning against the door to eavesdrop, but he couldn't react, and stumbled and fell into the house.

It is clearly a little li.

Little Li supported it with his hands, did not let himself fall a dog to eat shit, and then looked up in panic.

Lu Yingjiu raised the corners of his mouth: "Hello, how is Chu Banyang doing recently? Seeing that he still has the intention to send someone to follow me, it should be quite leisurely, right?"

...

For the shame of Yixue bus, the Aston Martin that Jing Xian got is really good-looking. The sunlight flows smoothly from the front of the car to the rear of the car, dazzling and compelling, and the body lines all show the beauty of speed. .

At this time, on the highway, it is moving at a speed of ... 50 kilometers per hour.

Lu yingjiu said, "Little li, you'd better drive faster, the lowest speed of this section is 80."

In the driving position, Little Li said, "I'm not afraid of hitting it. This hit, Brother Lu, you can't afford me. Rest station, let Jingxian brother open it. "

Jing Xian leaned beside Lu Yingjiu and said leisurely, "I just finished the long drive and I'm tired."

Lu Yingjiu also said: "It doesn't matter, if you really don't have enough money, ask Chu Banyang to pay the ransom for you and let him go."

Little Li sorrows: "Master will kill me! Next month is his grandmother's birthday, wouldn't it just kill me to help his grandmother? Then, it has to be cramps and ashes! Brother Lu, otherwise you, otherwise you Come on? "

Before Lu Yingjiu could speak, he heard Jingxian say, "He didn't get enough sleep. It's dangerous to drive while fatigued. There are four people in the car."

Little Li didn't know how to refute, and said, "Brother Lu! You two are really husbands and women!

"If you don't know how to use idioms, you don't have to." Lu Yingjiu said, Jingxian smiled beside him.

However, Lu Yingjiu didn't know why Jingxian, who was addicted to driving, suddenly didn't want to.

What happened then?

It seemed that he had to make up for the car in the car. He drove Little Li to driving when he was leisurely. Chen Yanyan rushed to the co -pilot, and then squeezed in the back seat with him.

He also looked at him excitedly, with "I'm ready, why are you still not sleeping" written on his face.

Lu Yingjiu looked at him with an inexplicable look, and had no idea what Jingxian was expecting. Instead, it was Chen Yanyan, the co-pilot, who had already lowered his seat and fell asleep because he had just undergone surgery and was in a bad mood. Jingxian was originally sitting behind the co-pilot, but when the seat was lowered, the space was narrow, and it was awkward to put his long legs, so he shifted his body and got closer to Lu Yingjiu.

Lu Yingjiu lowered her eyes and thought.

The current situation is that the Blue Lantern Club does not know that he has found Chen Yanyan, and Chen Yanyan does not know that the Blue Lantern Club is because he has restarted the investigation. Such poor information enabled him and Chen Yanyan to act together.

But the fire cannot be contained in the paper, and it will soon reveal its contents. He doesn't actually have much time, so he has to sort out the clues before that.

As for Little Li ...

He glanced at Little Li, who was shocking.

Little li listened to Chu Banyang, followed him, and didn't even know that the girl around him was Chen Yanyan.

He continued to think.

Jingxian and him were next to each other, in such a narrow space, they could even feel each other's body temperature and breathing. Gradually, Lu Yingjiu's thinking was no longer tense.

They have only met for a few days, but they feel that they have already experienced a lot.

Moreover, Lu Yingjiu felt that he should believe in Jingxian very much.

He couldn't find the words to describe that trust, and he didn't know where it came from. Subconsciously, he always felt a sense of security around Jingxian. If he had to say it, he could only think of a weird metaphor: the kind of security that would allow him to sleep peacefully in a long night full of ghosts.

What is this? Hit it off?

The sports car drove forward slowly, passing a few impatient cars, and simply overtook their cars. Lu Yingjiu took a deep breath and suddenly realized that there was a cold and crescent-like aura on Jing Xian.

Very light very light.

If it weren't for this cramped environment, if the surroundings were not quiet, if they weren't huddled side by side, he wouldn't have noticed.

Lu Yingjiu was stunned for a moment.

Then he lowered his eyes slightly and said, "Jingxian..."

"Huh?" Jing Xian looked sideways at him.

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

He smiled: "It's nothing, I just want to ask you, do you know the Chen family's 'cloud weaving technique'?"

Jing Xian paused for a few seconds.

Those ghost teachers only taught him common sense. There is a lot of knowledge about the exorcist that he actually doesn't know. He shook his head: "I don't know."

Lu Yingjiu glanced at Chen Yanyan, who was asleep, and leaned closer to Jingxian, lowered his voice, and the two were almost at each other's ears. He explained: "The so-called 'cloud weaving' is just another name for human skin masks. In the early years, the Chen family made a fortune by cutting the skin of dead people to make masks. Later, the law was perfected. , they are also concerned about moral issues, and instead of using human skins, they use animal hides, such as pigskin, sheepskin or cowhide.”

He continued: "I checked, and the four-hole slaughterhouse we are going to is the Chen's business - that's why Chen Yanyan brought his classmates to try his courage. In the past, the Chen family should have used the slaughterhouse to come here. Make masks."

"Animal skins are definitely inferior to human skins. They are much stiffer, and it is easy to see flaws. I have seen real human skin masks, and they are really vivid when they are worn, even if the closest person comes. No flaws can be found. In that commission, the masked ghost, pretending to be a human, lured acquaintances to its lair and devoured them. Those victims didn't know why their 'friends' wanted to harm them in the end ."

"Put on a disguise, a person who lives with you day and night, you don't even know whether he is a human or a ghost."

Jingxian listened carefully, but Lu Yingjiu did not continue to speak.

The silence was a little different.

Jing Xian turned his head to one side, Lu Yingjiu raised his eyes to look at him, the sunlight shone through the glass, illuminating each of his eyelashes, and his soft black hair seemed to be coated with a layer of golden light.

Lu Yingjiu looked at Jingxian intently, smiled, and repeated word by word, "I don't even know whether he is a human or a ghost."