At half past two, Yu Xing arrived at the appointed place on time.
Hua Subai and Mo had already arrived in advance, Zhang Yu and Yu Xing appeared almost at the same time, only Yan Li was a step later.
"Captain!" Zhang Yu's eyes lit up and he quickly scanned Yu Xing's body. Seeing that he didn't seem to be injured, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Yu Xing nodded at him, walked into the alley, sensed it, and then looked at Hua Subai: "You have the aura of a ghost."
The ghosts in Nanshui Town are hidden, hidden under false appearances. Once a ghost's scent appears on someone's body, it means that he has just come into contact with a ghost in a real scene.
"You have one too." Hua Subai stood against the wall, playing with a small wild flower picked from nowhere. It was really rare for a tender yellow wild flower to survive in this ice and snow.
Yu Xing had just killed an aunt who was charging at him with a knife, and had also met the doctor in the hospital. It was not surprising that the breath was left on his body. He didn't bother to explain at the moment, and looked at the devil again.
According to the division of labor discussed before they separated, he and Zhang Yu went to the hospital, Hua Subai went to investigate the child that others said was strange, Mo Detective went to investigate the preparations for the Ruixue Festival, and Yan Li went to investigate the "Fang Family".
The devil's condition is the worst among them. Although there seems to be no external injury, this girl's face is pale, even her lips have lost the color of their blood, and her most important eyes are dim. If you don't look carefully,
One might even mistake her for being blind.
Yu Xing asked about the situation with his eyes. Mo was frightened by the emotionless gaze and stuttered: "Did I do anything? Xing, why are you so fierce all of a sudden?"
"...No." Yu Xing paused and lowered his gaze, "Tell me, what's wrong with you."
"Oh, I'm fine, it's just that my abilities are overused." Mo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and explained, "The festival atmosphere in the town can be strong or dull. I followed the colorful silks on the street all the way to the West District.
The people there seem to be the most excited. Every store has something related to the Auspicious Snow Festival, and even the altar used for performances is located in the West District."
"I sensed an abnormality in a fan shop and found a dough fan inside. The fan was embroidered with gold thread with a man writing on a piece of paper. It looked pretty good, but I noticed something was wrong, so I used my ability to take a look."
When she said this, she trembled all over, and said with a lingering feeling: "Then I saw that every golden thread turned into blood. The man on the fan slowly turned his head, his eyes were bleeding, and he looked at me. He seemed to be facing me.
I stretched out my hand to pull me into the fan."
Zhang Yu listened with interest: "What then?"
"Then?" Mo rolled his eyes and scratched the somewhat messy wolf tail, "Of course I threw the fan on the ground, and then I was scolded by the owner of the fan shop. Before he asked me to pay compensation, I ran away quickly.
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"Of course, this is not over yet. Then I discovered that every shop on that commercial street had an uncomfortable feeling that made me feel exactly the same as the fan. I stopped using my ability rashly."
"After my inquiry, I learned that those things are 'town offerings' prepared by merchants for the Auspicious Snow Festival, and they are to be dedicated to Fengxue on the day of the Auspicious Snow Festival."
The indifference between Yu Xing's brows and eyes had faded a bit, and he asked a key question: "How to dedicate it to Feng Xue."
"I asked, but the merchants told me that the answer lies with the guide." Mo Tanshou said, "They could recognize me as a member of the tour group at a glance, and they were quite enthusiastic about me. They always came to my side, but they just
He didn’t want to tell me the answer directly, but told me that we still need a guide to share the festival customs with us, otherwise the novelty of our trip would be ruined.”
"If that's the case, how could you overuse your abilities?" Zhang Yu's logic was clear, he directly caught the loophole in the magic words, and asked a little doubtfully.
"...Because, because..." Mo rubbed his forehead in embarrassment, "I saw that I couldn't find anything anymore, so I left the street. But I wasn't willing to just leave like that, so I turned back and took a look.
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At that glance, she unlocked her ability.
The layers of cover were peeled away, and a scene like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood suddenly appeared before her eyes.
The bustling shop was left in dead silence, the eaves were covered with snow, and ice ridges hung there. What fell was not the water droplets melting from the snow, but thick crimson water.
Those objects that she just sensed were not good, such as the swaying lucky cat, the swaying red lanterns, the exquisite landscape paintings...each one was entangled with countless blood energy, like the wails and screams of endless wraiths.
Many sounds flooded into her ears in an instant. She seemed to hear the cry of a baby resounding through the sky, the screams of men and women with fear in their bones, the faint sighs of the old people, and the snickering of someone unknown.
Wait, snickering?
Goosebumps suddenly crawled all over the demon's back.
The instinctive reaction to save his life caused the demon to immediately cut off his ability. His ears became quiet again, but the remnants of chaos were still left in his mind.
In fact, her glance only lasted for two or three seconds, but when she came back to her senses, she realized that her whole body was trembling, her legs seemed to have been weighed down by a thousand pounds, and she could not walk even one step.
"I held on and ran back, and I didn't dare to rest until I saw Boss Hua. The West District was so terrible. Those objects for the Ruixue Festival were all stained with human lives." Mo touched his heart and said, "Many human lives."
Sometimes, a dead person, an obsession, and a carrier of resentment can turn into a thrilling story of a ghost's revenge.
And there are dozens of these in the shops in the West District.
It is unknown how many people died.
If those resentful spirits break out together, even the best deducers will have a hard time escaping unscathed.
Hua Subai suddenly sighed: "As expected of a devil, these eyes are so perfect."
The little yellow wildflowers on his fingertips were still shivering in the cold wind, but he didn't care at all. He just gave a friendly smile: "It would be almost impossible for others to find out these things in such a short period of time.
Only Miss Mo can do it with just one glance."
"Miss Mo's extreme approach must have left her with poor physical strength. Let's take a good rest now. The tour group will gather later and we don't know what we will encounter."
The devil nodded, feeling a little tired: "Yeah."
She confessed her harvest without any reservation, which was the price she paid for asking her companions.
Others...it's not certain how much they want to say and how much they want to make public.
Just like Hua Subai, he clearly experienced something with that little boy, but now, he has no intention of mentioning it in detail. He just said hastily: "That kid has nothing to do with the main plot, and he is no longer here now. From now on,
Hua Subai pressed his five fingers together, crushed the small yellow flower in his palm into powder, and said with a smile: "Yes. Xing, I'm afraid you won't talk about the hospital here."
Others didn't understand, but Hua Subai saw clearly that Yu Xing died once.
The information that Yu Xing could obtain at the cost of death would never be shared easily by him.
Seeing that the captain acquiesced, Zhang Yu remained silent.
However, he was not silent for a while, and couldn't help but said: "Yan Li is seven minutes late. I remember that he went to inquire about Fang Mansion, right? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
Yu Xing turned his head and looked at a certain point in the void through the thick alley wall.
For a person of Yan Li's level, as long as he doesn't jump into a dead end, it won't be so easy for him to get into trouble.
Moreover, Yan Li took the initiative to "form an alliance" with him, and he obviously had some kind of plan, so even if he got some extraordinary information, he would not disappear silently.
If you miss an appointment, the most likely reason is... that you got stuck by something.
Fang Mansion, is his "family" really so powerful? It can trap even Yan Li.
Yu Xing blinked and moved his fingers.
He felt that the man named Mongoose Dao whom he killed outside the town seemed to be near Fang Mansion and had been staying for a while.
Yan Li and Mongoose Dao, is it possible that they are together?
Or, in addition to these two people, are there other deducers who also went to Fang Mansion and were collectively trapped?