The moon and stars are sparse, and the mountain paths covered with thorns are extremely difficult to walk.It was getting late, but the night was not dark.Feng Yin, hovering above everyone's heads, had a pair of flaming wings, illuminating the originally dark road brightly.They followed Feng Yin all the way and walked for a long time, almost from one end of the mountain to the other.

The final destination that the divine bird pointed to was actually an open field with potholes.This is not a natural open space. The surrounding trees and thorns have obviously been treated by people. The incision marks look like they were made with a woodcutter knife. The knife marks are very new, and they are only a week old at most.

After Feng Yin led them to find this place, he neighed and quickly disappeared into the night sky.

The night regained the darkness it should have.

The group of five, except for Bao Le and Shen Xing'er, were all extremely courageous.Especially Young Master Shen, he even dared to walk in front of Junzhi, to check the things in the pothole first.Jun Zhi followed closely behind the young master, and frowned after seeing the things in the pothole.Baole was holding the mobile phone at the time, and the flashlight was shining on them. The little girl never took her eyes off Junzhi the whole time, and found that even he was frowning, thinking that this matter must not be simple.

"Let's go and have a look too?" Shen Xing'er and Bao Le hugged each other, and the two little girls who were about the same age encouraged each other, leaning forward at a slow speed.

Jun Zhi found out that they also wanted to come over, so he quickly stopped him: "Don't come over!"

But he said this too late, too late to prevent the two people with excellent eyesight from seeing what was in the pit - a dead black cat was buried in the pit, with its head and body separated, staring at its eyes.There are some small pink and white flowers sprinkled on the black cat. The flowers are still fresh and should have been sprinkled for a day or two.

Fortunately, it was winter, and even though the cat had been dead for several days, it didn't rot and stink.Even a black cat itself is unlucky, let alone a dead cat with a severed head.

Bao Le glanced at Shen Xing'er and asked, "Do you want to vomit?"

Shen Xing'er was about to cry, she nodded abruptly, and the two walked aside, patting each other on the back.Patting and patting, Shen Xing'er felt that something was wrong, the place where they were standing seemed to be uneven.When the flashlight was turned on, the two little girls looked at each other and screamed "Ah".Shen Xing'er hid behind Shen San, and Bao Le threw herself into Jun Zhi's arms.

The quite redundant Young Master Shen twitched the corners of his mouth, and walked in the direction they were in front of.

It turned out that there were more than one pothole here, and there was also one where they were just now. There was also a black dead cat buried in it. The difference was that the left arm of this cat was broken.Shen Wangyan bent down and checked the soil piled up next to the pit: "The soil is new, it should have been dug two days ago. But the cat seems to have been dead for a week, as if it was killed and buried.The purpose of digging these two days is to sprinkle flowers on the cat’s dead body.”

Young Master Shen made a not-so-funny joke: "Could it be that this is the latest cooking method for cats?"

Bao Le said with disgust: "Be a human being, let me eat for you!"

"Aren't I trying to lighten the atmosphere? Look, I scare my sisters," Shen Wangyan said with a smile, "But this flower seems to be a wild rose that is only found in the south. Bei Jing should not have this kind of flower. Does it have any special meaning?"

Jun Zhi was thoughtful: "It's a kind of ceremony, there should be more than two."

When Bao Le heard his words, although he was terrified, he also agreed with this statement: "The five coffins in the mountain temple only contained four limbs, plus Luo Xin whose head had been beheaded, they were all gone.The legs, hands and head, as well as the Jiang Bao Le of this world are gone. The black cats should be in the same way, so there should be six of them."

Her analysis was logical and straightforward, but in the end they found seven pits nearby.

"How could there be seven?" The little girl was puzzled.

The first six were indeed as she expected, with broken left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, head and torso, so she guessed right, the person who killed the cat and the person who killed the cat were not the same person, butAbsolutely.But the murderer has only killed six people so far. All the people who participated in the bullying on campus are dead, even those who did not tell the truth like Bao Le died.

Could it be that the murderer's purpose...wasn't revenge?Then who is the seventh person he wants to kill?

Jun Zhi inspected the last black cat's body: "Dried to death."

This death is much more terrifying than before, and the cat suffered more torture during its lifetime.The bodies of the six black cats before were all killed and dismembered, but if you want to drain the blood, you can only do it when the black cat is alive.

Bao Le tugged at Jun Zhi's sleeve and said anxiously, "I seem to have made a mistake."

She was about to tell her conjecture when Shen Wangyan saw a black figure flashing past, and the young master shouted, "Who?" Everyone was startled by his sudden yell, and looked at him in unison.In the direction he was looking.There seemed to be something moving in the weeds and brambles at the end of the calf. It didn't look like a human... more like a cat.

Sure enough, a shrill meow came to everyone's ears.

Young Master Shen was eager to try: "It's interesting to play tricks." After speaking, he ran towards the place where the black cat passed by.In the middle of the night, in such a dark mountain forest, he was really not afraid, as expected of the young master who didn't change his expression while holding a human head.

Ever since, Shen Wangyan chased the cat, they chased Shen Wangyan, and gradually disappeared into the depths of the forest.

It wasn't until they were far away that Feng Yin appeared again, put away a pair of fire wings, and stood on the top of a tree with one foot.

Bi Fang held an ancient scroll in his beak, and when he opened it, he was surprised to see a picture of mountains and rivers—surrounded by green bamboos, with a gentle breeze, a stream in the forest, and fish coming out of it.Then a person walked out of the painting, with white hair reaching to his waist, tied up with a white jade hairpin, wearing a navy blue Taoist robe, holding floating dust in his hand, quite a fairy-like posture.This person has a clear and handsome face, with a face that is all over the country and the city, and it is impossible to distinguish between men and women.

"Look, Feng Yin, the fun is about to begin."

...

As they ran, the scenery in front of them suddenly became strange, especially in the quiet forest where many people appeared.What's more, Bao Le and the others were obviously running all the way up the mountain, but they ran and saw an ancient town hidden behind the woods.

Everything changed when they passed through the last woods and the old town unfolded before them.

The originally orange bonfire turned blue-blue, and the people around them also became less human.Some of them showed their fangs, some turned their backs, some bent their heads between their legs... some held their heads in their hands.

"Oops." Jun Zhi was the first to react, pulling Bao Le to turn back, but the forest where he came was no longer behind him.

Shen San also read a similar scene in the book: "Could it be the ghost market in the legend? Could it be that we were guided by this cat and entered the ghost market by mistake?"

Jun Zhi nodded: "Black cat psychics, there is indeed a theory of connecting yin and yang. It's just that this is not something ordinary black cats can do. Someone deliberately did it to lure us into the game."

Bao Le was shocked: "Is it the serial murderer?"

Jun Zhi shook his head: "It's not him."

He was right. Right now, the culprit was standing under the tree, fiddling with his floating dust while watching the show in a good mood.The man smiled and murmured: "Shen Wangyan, Shen Wangyan, let me see whether you win or I win this round."

Young Master Shen, who was far away in the ghost city, seemed to hear someone calling his name, and looked behind him.But of course he didn't see anything, so he turned back and asked a very important question: "Wait, you guys said for a long time, what is a ghost market? Is it an underground black market in Bei Jing? What are they selling?"

Bao Le glared at him, if he hadn't been chasing those black cats mindlessly, how could they have come to this ghost market, but he still has the nerve to ask questions!

The little girl said angrily: "Which black market have you ever seen where there are customers who can hold their heads?"

Shen San quickly explained: "The ghost market is a place where ghosts stay. In theory, people should not be able to see ghosts, unless they are in a place with a particularly heavy cloud."

Seeing that Shen Wangyan was still in a daze, Shen Xing'er immediately added: "Master, the ghost market is in the gray area between Yin and Yang and the human world. It does not belong to the human world, so it has a very dark atmosphere. The ghost market was originally called Ghost Walk, and it is for the dead.A place where people accept things from their living relatives, and later evolved into a ghost market. The so-called market, that is, a market, can be sold at stalls. The dead souls trade freely here, and their currency unit is counted by the life of the next life..”

Shen Wangyan was speechless: "This is similar to a living person."

Shen Sandao: "The ghost market is divided into tens of thousands according to the region. Occasionally, strangers who enter the ghost market by mistake, if they cannot leave before dawn, they will be trapped in the ghost market forever.Back to the world. This is a very dangerous place for humans. No matter who leads us here, it will kill us."

Young Master Shen said with emotion: "How do you know everything?"

Hearing what he said, Shen San's complexion was not very good, and he asked him back: "Master, you don't know anything about this?"

Shen Wangyan felt that he was living under the sunshine of the party, that he was a good young man in the new century, a standard materialist, so naturally he didn't believe in these strange things.So he was very courageous, because he didn't believe in ghosts at all.His current mentality is actually similar to that before Bao Le saw the ghost with his own eyes, and the little girl can understand him very well.

"In fact, many of our Shen family have been to the ghost market. There are some things that cannot be bought in the human world, only in the ghost market. Since it is a market, as long as the principle of fair trading is followed, most of the prisons in the ghost marketHe will turn a blind eye to us. Logically speaking, we just need to go back before dawn." Shen San glanced at Jun Zhi, and found that the other party didn't stop him from explaining, so he knew it was okay to say.

When Bao Le saw them, his eyes suddenly changed. They said that going to the ghost market was the same as going to the market. It seems that they often go to this place.Then what can't be bought in the world, only the ghost market can buy it?

Shen Wangyan said: "Then let's go out quickly, it's past two o'clock now, and it's only three or four hours before dawn. You come here often, you must know the way."

Shen San's expression was very complicated: "Young master, we don't know the way... We followed the young master before, even if the young master did not go with him, he would pick us up at the entrance of the ghost market. Although we are members of the Shen family, the ghost marketThe prison secretary will only give the young master face."

Shen Wangyan understood his meaning in a daze, pointed to himself and said, "So you don't know the way, you want me to lead the way?"

If Shen Wangyan in their world is here, there is no problem. As for this Shen Wangyan, it is better to count on his own luck than to count on him. The probability of blind cats encountering dead rats and finding the exit is higher.

No wonder Jun Zhi yelled "Oops" subconsciously as soon as he came in.