Li Yin had never felt that the sun was so beautiful.
At this time, he, Mizhen and others had already entered the territory of Z city in a rented car.
"I didn't expect that the Scarlet Letter mission would be solved like this." Mizhen, who was sitting next to him, still felt that there was no sense of reality. "You planned from the beginning to make Edward a resident of the apartment, and at the same time, you made the villain
Did the spirit enter the apartment and devour it?"
"This is his own choice." Li Yin now feels very lucky: "There are really too many luck factors in his success. After all, we are not residents, and our livelihood is not important to us."
"Actually, it's not difficult to guess." Yin Ye, who was in charge of driving, analyzed: "These apartment residents cannot return to the apartment directly after the scarlet mission is up, so they must let the evil spirits escape during the time they return to the apartment.
After being completely eliminated, Edward was naturally the last resort of the apartment arrangement. So Li Yin guessed this from the beginning and handed the key to him. After all, every resident will carry the key with him."
In any case, The Scarlet Letter is finally over. What we have to do now is to enter City Z and look for clues to the entrance to hell.
City Z is a very small city, and the place where they are at this time looks like an ordinary village. There are vendors everywhere on the road, and various fragrances float into Li Yin's nostrils along the car windows.
"Why don't you find a place to eat?" Li Yin felt his stomach growl: "I didn't eat much last night."
"Okay," Mizhen raised his hand, stroked the hair in front of her husband Li Yin's forehead, and said, "Thank you for your hard work... Li Yin."
At this time, Li Yin's cell phone rang.
He answered the phone and the caller was Dong Xie.
"We will arrive at City Z in the afternoon." Dong Xie said on the other end of the phone: "I will come here with my mother Ziyi."
"Well, okay. Please pay more attention to your safety."
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At half past eleven, Li Yin and others had lunch in a restaurant in this small village. The conditions here were limited, so they only ordered ordinary farm food, but for Li Yin now, it was absolutely delicious.
"Boss, would you like a local chicken?" The boss could tell at a glance that they were from other places, so he came up and asked, "We raise our own local chickens and kill them now."
Li Yin took a mouthful of vegetables, took another sip of soup, and said, "Okay."
He felt that he could eat a cow now.
Mizhen knew that the other party was definitely going to rip off customers, so he asked in advance: "How much will it cost?"
"It's okay," Yin Ye said quickly, "I'll treat you to this meal."
"Okay, okay! Wife, go to the back and kill a chicken!"
Yinye saw the boss was about to leave and immediately stopped him: "Wait! Boss!"
The boss quickly came back and asked: "Oh, you don't have to call me boss, what else do you want? Oh, by the way, the pork stewed vermicelli in our store is also very good, you can try it."
"Well," Yin Ye cleared her throat and asked, "Actually, I want to inquire about something."
"If it's something happening in this area, I generally know something about it." The boss immediately patted his chest and said, "What do you want to ask?"
Yin Ye then asked: "It's like this. We are people who are very interested in some folk culture, or strange stories. I don't know...here, I don't just mean here, but the entire Z city, is there any
Some haunting rumors?”
Hearing this, the boss was stunned. It took him five seconds before he said: "You are joking! Where are the rumors of hauntings coming from?"
"It doesn't have to be now... Well, it could also be in the past, decades or even hundreds of years ago... Are there any such rumors?"
Yin Ye's words made the boss' expression become very playful. It took him a long time before he said: "This... I really don't understand this. I'm just a restaurant owner. How do I know about this kind of thing?"
Yin Ye took out two red hundred-yuan bills from his body, put them on the table, and said, "Boss, just say it, we won't treat you badly."
Seeing the red RMB, the boss thought for a while and said: "Before liberation, there seemed to be some rumors. I heard it from my parents when I was a child."
"Tell me about it!" Li Yin, who was eating, also looked over and asked, "What specific rumors are they?"
"Remember it was during the Anti-Japanese War. In the first year of the Anti-Japanese War, North China was occupied by Japan, and City Z was no exception. At that time, it was inevitable that there would be some traitors..."
"Then what?"
"The traitors joined the North China Security Army, known as the Imperial Association Army. My grandfather was also deeply victimized by this group of traitors at that time. Then in the second year of the Anti-Japanese War, those traitors... all died!"
At first they listened attentively, but after listening to it, it seemed that there was nothing supernatural about it. The traitors died mysteriously one by one, but no matter how they looked at it, it looked more like the work of humans.
"This... doesn't sound like it's haunted?"
"I don't know about that. At that time, Grandpa and others said it was haunted."
This is also natural. The villagers must want to spread this theory to cover up the operation to eradicate the traitors. This was either done by the Eighth Route Army or the killers of the military commander.
"Um...are there any other rumors?" Yin Ye wrote down the rumor just in case, and then asked.
"Then...it was back to the 1970s..."
What the boss said next sounded quite bizarre. It sounded like rumors spread by false rumors. However, they were all recorded.
"Actually," Li Yin waited for the local chicken to arrive and took a bite before saying, "You gave the money too early. It's entirely possible that he was making nonsense."
"Yeah...but if there is really something useful, he will definitely tell it immediately."
"When I go back, I will hang a map of City Z at home." Mi Zhen also brought a map of City Z with him at this time: "Next time Mi Tian gives me a dream, he can point me to a place in more detail."
"Well..." Li Yin also nodded.
At this moment, Shen Yu stood up and said, "You guys eat first, I don't have much appetite, I'll go outside for a walk."
"Well, okay..." Li Yin could see that Shen Yu had been in a state of extreme depression since returning from Japan.
She was probably the most miserable person among the residents who left the apartment. Even after leaving the apartment, she was still lonely inside and was tortured by guilt all the time.
It is difficult for Li Yin to explain this to her. It is undeniable that Shen Yu did commit an unforgivable crime. In this case, she should certainly bear the responsibility.
Pu Shenyu was walking alone outside.
She has been mentally prepared. She wants to die in the process of blocking the entrance to hell. For her, these years of living are too painful. After death, she can go to see Xingchen and Min. At that time,
She felt that she could atone for her sins.
"Xingchen...you wait for me..."
Shen Yu murmured these words, with this thought in mind, in order to make her feel more relaxed now.
Unknowingly, she had walked several streets away. This street was full of mobile vendors.
At this time, she suddenly came to one of the stalls.
On the stall, there were exquisitely made dolls, almost the size of a Barbie doll. Most of these dolls were dressed up as ancient people, and their faces... were made quite realistically.
Looking at it...it can't help but give people a sense of fear like the uncanny valley effect.
"Boss, how do you sell this doll..."
The boss immediately said: "Five hundred each."
She stretched out her hand and picked up a doll that looked like a Qing Dynasty man.
"How does it feel?"
She touched the doll's face. It was obviously not made of the same kind of fabric as the doll's clothes, and the difference in touch was obvious.
Touch it...
Just like a real human face!
"Miss, you have good taste." The boss immediately introduced: "This doll is the best-made one. Do you want to consider buying one?"
Miyu stared at the doll in front of him, staring into its eyes.
Then, she suddenly felt that she could see something in those eyes.
She gradually brought the doll in front of her and looked at it.
However, the sun was too bright and she could not see clearly what it was.
"I bought it……"
The boss was stunned. The other party didn't even negotiate the price. To make money from outsiders, every time he deliberately offered a high price that the other party could not accept and then waited for the other party to counter-offer. If he had known better, he would have offered a higher price.
"Okay, Alipay or WeChat?"
Miyu continued to stroke the face of the doll, and the more he touched it... the more it felt like... real skin!
