Chapter 104 Behind the Wall

"Buzzing—"

"Buzzing—"

At six o'clock, the horizon is hazy with a layer of fish belly white.

The phone vibrated beside the pillow, Lu Yingjiu closed his eyes and groped a few times before picking it up: "...What's the matter?"

"Chief Lu, when can you come to the meeting? Is it okay now?" The person opposite was a little flustered, "Just now a new commissioner came over, and the ghost killed three or four people one after another, and they all said that they would wait for you to come and deal with it. ."

"I see." Lu Yingjiu still closed his eyes, "I'll come over now."

After hanging up the phone, he closed his eyes and sat up, put on his slippers skillfully, and walked to the bathroom to wash up.

The quality of sleep is not good, and he is used to taking every opportunity to make up for sleep.

After washing my face with cold water, my drowsiness dissipated a little. He went to change his clothes again, turned on the light in the living room, and was about to go out to find some bread from the refrigerator.

The cow cat was sleeping in the living room, and when she saw the light was on, she meowed twice.

Lu Yingjiu grabbed the cold toast with one hand and scratched its chin with the other, causing a snoring sound.

"Go to sleep," he said with a smile.

He didn't have time to heat the bread, so he took a few bites coldly, changed his shoes, and prepared to turn off the living room lights.

When he turned off the lights, he froze for a moment.

On the white wall directly opposite, there seems to be a little crack and lift.

Could it be that the water leaked somewhere, causing the wall skin to peel off?

Lu Yingjiu just wanted to take a closer look, but in a blink of an eye, the crack disappeared.

The walls are clean.

He frowned slightly, thinking that he was so sleepy.

In the basement, he drove the second-hand Honda to the Green Lantern Festival.

There were almost no cars on the streets early in the morning, and the road was smooth. When he parked the car and walked to the gate of the Green Lantern Festival, the sky was already bright.

Several disturbed ghost exorcists came up to them and quickly explained the situation to him:

The general thing is that an old man surnamed Cai has been living in the old building for more than 30 years, but the building suddenly became haunted.

Not only that, the ghost also killed four tenants in a row.

The other residents ran away early, and only the old man stayed there.

"Old man Cai said that his wife hasn't come home yet, so he must not leave, because he is afraid that his wife will not be able to find him." Xia Ping'an told him like this.

Xia Ping'an is Lu Yingjiu's assistant.

Lu Yingjiu asked, "So what about his wife?"

Xia Ping'an replied: "I've been dead for ten years. The old man Cai is crazy and doesn't remember this matter. I just asked the chairman for instructions, and he meant to see if he could force the old man out. What do you think? ?"

"I'll go to the scene to have a look." Lu Yingjiu said.

"Plop, plop, plop-"

"Plop, plop, plop-"

"...What's the matter with you?" Xia Ping'an's voice came from a distance.

Lu Yingjiu came back to his senses: "I didn't do anything."

"Hey, I just talked to you, it seems that you didn't respond..."

Lu Yingjiu rubbed her brow bone: "I may be too tired, please say it again."

"Oh, okay." Xia Ping'an began to tell what happened.

Five minutes later, Lu Yingjiu had gotten into the car with several people.

Xia Ping'an drove and quickly took them to Yihe East Road, where several old dilapidated houses were on the side of the road.

One of the buildings was pulled up by a yellow and black warning strip, and there were police officers guarding it.

The crowd crossed the security bar and went upstairs.

The stairwell is full of graffiti and small advertisements, and there is a faint smell of yin and blood.

A few bloody handprints were slapped around the corner, exuding extravagance.

The door on the sixth floor opened wide, and an old man in a singlet was sitting on the reclining chair, muttering something.

Lu Yingjiu knocked on the door: "Hello?"

The old man did not respond.

Xia Ping'an said in a low voice, "Just walk in, he doesn't care much."

So Lu Yingjiu walked in and saw the old man clutching a wedding photo in his hand.

The old man Cai's complexion was pale, the whites of his eyes were cloudy, and he looked weak and ignorant at all, looking a bit scary.

Lu Yingjiu said again: "Hello, I am from the Green Lantern Festival..."

"Bang dang!!"

The box in the corner fell off.

Lu Yingjiu looked over, a black cat with scarlet eyes glanced at him, and disappeared under the sofa in an instant.

"Strange." Xia Ping'an muttered, "No one has said that he has a cat before."

Lu Yingjiu frowned slightly.

He heard chirping from the bedroom.

He opened the bedroom door, and a swarm of things poured out.

Ragdoll cat, white rabbit, hamster.

Canaries, monkeys, puppies.

There are even red snakes and a small peacock.

Xia Ping'an was stunned: "His house has opened a zoo, which is too outrageous. Just forget the kittens and puppies, how come there are even peacocks?! Is this snake poisonous?! Don't come here! !"

He hid in the corner in horror.

The animals flocked to the old man Cai noisily and grabbed his legs.

For a while, the scene was extremely chaotic, the barking of dogs and cats were mixed, and several birds were flying in the air.

It was only at this time that the old man Cai showed a smile on his face.

This looks like a breakthrough in communication.

Lu Yingjiu asked, "Is this your pet?"

This time, the old man Cai finally turned his head to look at him: "Yes, it has been raised for many years."

Lu Yingjiu sat down on the sofa again: "Where do you usually buy food for them?"

"It's nearby!" Old Cai patted his shriveled thigh, "I can't walk, I usually go to the nearby pet store! Boy, do you like animals too?"

"I like it." Lu Yingjiu nodded with a smile, "I have a cat at home."

The old man Cai immediately became enthusiastic, picked up the blue-green peacock, and said, "I like it the most, it's called Chu Banyang."

"Chu Banyang?" Lu Yingjiu froze for a moment, "Your lover's surname is Chu?"

"What?" the old man hummed, "Her surname is Wen."

"Then why did you have such a name?" Lu Yingjiu tilted her head slightly.

Old Cai was stunned for a moment.

Some kind of daze overwhelmed him.

But he quickly said, "Nothing, because that's what it's called."

Lu Yingjiu didn't bother too much, and then pointed at the red snake and asked, "What's its name?"

"Ye Feng."

"What about it?" He pointed to the monkey.

"Chen Zheng." The old man replied, patted the puppy's head again, "This is Zhang Shuwan."

Lu Yingjiu smiled: "It's all people's names."

"Of course." The old man was still humming, "It's all my family, of course they have names."

"Bang dang!!"

Something fell off the corner.

The pitch-black cat knocked down the remote control and stared at Lu Yingjiu with red eyes across half the living room.

"What about it?" Lu Yingjiu pointed at the black cat and asked, "What's its name?"

This time the old man thought about it for a long time, and after an unknown amount of time, he hesitated to answer: "It seems to be... it seems to be the surname Jing."

"Jingxian?" Lu Yingjiu asked.

"Oh, that's right!" The old man patted his thigh happily, "How did you know that?!"

Lu Yingjiu was also stunned.

Then he smiled and said, "It's okay, I just guessed, I didn't expect to guess it right."

——His chat with the old man was quite fruitful.

Old man Cai felt that he was in a relationship with him, and he told everything: for example, the neighbor's house screamed at a few hours in the morning; for example, who was present when the blood oozing in the corridor; I heard a knock on the door in the middle of the night.

In the end, the old man was still holding the wedding photo and muttering words.

The rookie ghost exorcist was horrified, while the veteran was completely indifferent.

After the question was over, Xia Ping'an came up to the old man's house and asked, "What do you think? How should this ghost be killed?"

"That ghost is probably his deceased wife." Lu Yingjiu said, "Come with me, I have an idea."

Xia Ping'an has unconditional trust in Lu Yingjiu: Lu Yingjiu has convinced him in every entrustment.

This time will not be an exception.

But after two days of squatting and guarding, the female ghost couldn't hold her breath anymore, and began to show up to kill again.

The corridor and the ceiling oozing blood frantically, Lu Yingjiu shuttled through the scarlet face expressionlessly, dispelling the screaming female ghost. On that day, the residents of the entire old building came back with the joy of the rest of their lives.

Only old man Cai was crying in the room, crying, "She can't come back... She can't come back... She can't come back..."

A group of animals surrounded him, they were human, and they tried their best to appease him.

"Live well." Lu Yingjiu told him, "Just think it's for them."

The old man cried and nodded.

And the next moment, he stretched out his hand with weird agility, and grabbed Lu Yingjiu's wrist tightly - that strength was also great.

With tears in his cloudy eyes, he stared at Lu Yingjiu.

He said, "Lu Yingjiu, your time has come."

"..." Lu Yingjiu frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Do you like them?" Old Cai didn't answer him or let go. "Do you like them? Don't you want to take them home?"

Lu Yingjiu smiled: "I like it, but you raised them, how can I take them away."

"...Yes, you're right. They know where home is," the old man was still staring at him, cracking his mouth, revealing a few shriveled and dull yellow teeth, "but you don't know."

Peacock was beside him, pecking at his shirt lightly.

"It has something it wants me to tell you." The old man patted the back of Lu Yingjiu's hand.

"It said go home as soon as it gets dark, or it will be too late."

...

Back in the car, Xia Pingan asked, "Chief Lu, I'll take you home by the way?"

"Okay." Lu Yingjiu nodded and lowered his seat to make up for sleep, "Just leave me at the bus stop."

He closed his eyes.

In the distance is a huge sunset, falling towards the end of the city, and the scarlet light fills the world.

"Plop, plop, plop-"

"Plop, plop, plop-"

The heartbeat sounded again.

The whole soul trembled with it.

Lu Yingjiu thought to himself that he really should have a good rest.

The car drove silently, and when there was still a little light in the sky, it stopped at the bus stop.

Lu Yingjiu got up and got out of the car, holding the door and saying, "Thank you."

"Oh, you're too polite." Xia Ping'an said with a smile, "Then I'm leaving?"

"Yeah." Lu Yingjiu nodded, and suddenly called him again, "Peace."

"What's wrong?" Xia Ping'an looked ahead, a thick shadow covering half of his face.

Lu Yingjiu said, "Didn't you already die two years ago?"

Xia Pingan didn't answer him.

There was a rustling sound from the back seat, and a small scarlet snake spit out a letter and wrapped around his neck silently, like a bloody ribbon.

This is the pet snake of the old man's house, and it actually followed them to their car.

The little snake spat out the letter several times.

Xia Ping'an stretched out his hand and touched the snake's head: "It said, you don't have much time, remember the way home."

Lu Yingjiu wanted to say something else.

The heartbeat sounded again.

"Plop, plop, plop-"

"Plop, plop, plop-"

"Plop, plop, plop-"

Extremely heavy, almost crazy.

He frowned almost in pain.

When he came back to his senses, he was the only one on the street.

Perhaps it was the old man and Xia Ping'an's advice lingering in his heart, Lu Yingjiu really quickened his pace and walked home.

He disappeared completely in the sky and returned home.

As soon as he entered the house, the cow cat rubbed his tail upright, meowing.

Lu Yingjiu unconsciously smiled and turned on the living room light.

Bright lights fill the home.

The cow cat is very good, even if he is away from home for a few days, he will not cause any damage.

Lu Yingjiu glanced over, and suddenly, his eyes stopped on the wall directly opposite.

The crack in the wall appeared again.

"Meow-"

A cat meow sounded from behind.

Only then did Lu Yingjiu remember that he hadn't closed the door yet. Looking back, the blood-red-eyed black cat was sitting at the door, obediently.

"Why are you here?" Lu Yingjiu said, "Your name is... Jingxian?"

The black cat flicked its tail, stood up, and gracefully entered the door.

I didn't think of myself as an outsider...or an outsider cat.

There was an uninvited guest at home suddenly, and it seemed that he could not be driven away. Lu Yingjiu smiled helplessly, closed the door, took off his shoes, and started pouring cat food for them.

The cow cat gulps and eats, and the black cat lacks interest, just standing beside it and flapping its tail.

While they were eating, Lu Yingjiu looked at the wall again.

The cracks are gone again.

He said in his heart that he was exhausted and hallucinated, and he really had to ask for leave after that.

But the black cat paced, came to the wall, stretched out its claws and scratched hard.

"It can't be like this." Lu Yingjiu quickly hugged it away.

However, there were already a few claw marks on the wall.

"Meow—" the black cat called, still trying to stretch its claws against the wall.

Lu Yingjiu said, "How can you do damage? It's only been ten minutes, and you've destroyed my wall."

"Meow." The black cat bit his mouth.

It didn't work hard, but it still left a slight tooth mark.

"Why do you still bite." Lu Yingjiu frowned slightly, "You are also a little ancestor."

The black cat took another bite, and showed sharp claws at the white wall.

As if suggesting something.

This time, Lu Yingjiu followed its gaze.

A gleaming piece of the wall.

It seems... how many cracks are there?

The crack was thinner than spider silk, and if you hadn't stared hard at it, you would never have seen it.

After Lu Yingjiu noticed the crack, the black cat suddenly broke out of its embrace, showing its claws on the wall and scratching.

This Lu Yingjiu suddenly understood: "Are you asking me to open the wall myself?"

"Meow—" The black cat raised its tail.

Lu Yingjiu: "...is there something behind the wall?"

The black cat didn't respond, just looked at him with scarlet eyes.

Lu Yingjiu has always trusted his intuition: there must be something wrong with this wall.

But this is in his house, what could be in the wall?

He found tools, some screwdrivers, electric drills and hammers, and laid them out neatly.

After some tossing, Lu Yingjiu knocked off a few pieces of wall skin with a small hammer - they fell to the ground and shattered to pieces, the cow and cat came over to smell it curiously, and then walked away.

When the last piece of wall peeled off, he leaned in to see.

There is no cement, no bricks, nothing behind the crack.

There is only one eye.