There is a trick

Chapter 151 The dead person who fell from the building (6K, 2/2)

The lunch bag that Li Xiaotang brought did not include chopsticks, forks or other tableware, because these items were available in the rental house.

But she brought a knife for cutting boiled chicken.

——She knew that there were no usable knives in this rental house and she knew the situation here very well!

Then she might know why there were no knives in He Ju’s rented house!

What exactly happened between He Ju and her?
Why are all the knives in the house gone?
Who took the knives and what were they ultimately used for?
Zhou Chang looked at Li Xiaotang who was cutting up boiled chicken, and his mind was filled with thoughts.

On Valentine's Day seven days ago, He Ju and Li Xiaotang met once, and they stayed together in this rented house for a day and a night. Since then, until tonight, the couple had no contact with each other.

All the mysteries may be buried on Valentine's Day.

It is crucial to find out what exactly happened on Valentine's Day.

Previously, Zhou Chang suspected that it was his own body that killed Li Xiaotang, and then in order to destroy the evidence, he hid all the murder weapons.

He had transformed into the body of He Ju, and had no idea what had happened before, nor did he know the whereabouts of those weapons.

Now that he saw that Li Xiaotang also knew that there were no knives in the rental house, his doubts about He Ju not only did not diminish, but became even stronger.

——If He Ju was the murderer and Li Xiaotang was the victim, then Li Xiaotang, who was a ghost after her death, might not be unaware that the knives used to cut her were hidden by He Ju.

She died on Valentine's Day, and tonight is the seventh night since her death.

It was completely understandable that she came to He Ju to seek revenge tonight.

However, with Zhou Chang's current level, he could not see any trace that Li Xiaotang was a ghost!
Li Xiaotang brought a chopping board from the kitchen and skillfully cut the head and neck of the boiled chicken into pieces.

Then she peeled off the plastic wrap on the other two dishes, turned around and looked at Zhou Chang with a smile: "Come on, have some midnight snack."

She seemed to have forgotten the words she had said before, blaming He Ju for not loving her.

Zhou Chang stood up and dragged a stool to sit in front of the computer desk. Li Xiaotang smiled and sat on his lap, curled up in his arms, picked up a piece of boiled chicken with chopsticks and stuffed it into Zhou Chang's mouth.

The piece of chicken was still attached to the bone, and there was a slight streak of blood on the bone.

There are three dishes on the table.

Pork head with hot peppers, boiled chicken, and whole fish braised in sauce.

In addition to these three dishes, there was also a plate of cut fruit and a plate of old-fashioned cakes and snacks.

Zhou Chang was chewing boiled chicken and looking at these fragrant dishes, but he actually had no appetite at all.

Pig heads, whole chickens, whole fish, fruits, old-fashioned snacks... According to the custom in Zhou Chang's hometown, these are all offerings to ghosts and gods during sacrifices - in the customs that are popular all over the country, chickens, pigs, and fish often appear on the tables for offering to gods.

But it was these foods that Li Xiaotang brought.

How could Zhou Chang not have any associations with this?
He took a few bites of boiled chicken, then shook his head and refused the fish that Li Xiaotang brought to his mouth again: "I had dinner in the evening, so I'm not very hungry now.

You should eat more and go to bed early.

I also drive my sports car during the day.”

"You are really different from before." Li Xiaotang put down the tableware. She was still curled up in Zhou Chang's arms, looking up at Zhou Chang. There was a hint of coldness on her pretty face. "You didn't like eating boiled chicken before, you liked eating fish very much.

Now it’s completely changed…”

"Why is that?" Zhou Chang was a little annoyed by the woman's constant probing. He lowered his head, looked into the eyes of the woman in his arms, and asked directly.

Li Xiaotang, who was looking at him, suddenly smiled sweetly.

The woman held his face in her hands and put her lips close to his: "No reason, I like you no matter what you look like..."

"Fuck you, you're crazy!"

Zhou Chang cursed inwardly, and at the same time, he stretched out a hand expressionlessly and pressed it on Li Xiaotang's face, rejecting her request for a kiss.

He put Li Xiaotang on the stool and stood up on his own: "I'm going to sleep first.

When you resign from the company, we can get the certificate and then talk about other things."

Now Zhou Chang plays the role of a man who has resentment due to love. Although he has reconciled with his girlfriend, he still has a grudge in his heart.

After he finished speaking, he turned around and lay back on the bed.

The house has one bedroom and one living room. There is a double bed in the more spacious living room, while the inner room is filled with a lot of miscellaneous items.

At this time, this only bed also made Zhou Changyin worried.

She's going to bed later, what should I do?
Li Xiaotang was still sitting at the computer desk at this time. She smiled as she saw Zhou Chang lying back on the bed. She didn't seem angry or sad at all because of Zhou Chang's behavior.

She looked at Zhou Chang with a smile for a while, then turned around, with her back to Zhou Chang and facing the plates of food on the table.

Zhou Chang squinted his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

In a daze, he looked at Li Xiaotang's figure with his back to him, and he clearly didn't move at all.

But Zhou Chang heard the sound of her chewing food.

After an unknown amount of time, the sky outside the window gradually brightened.

Li Xiaotang stood up and walked to the bedside, staring at Zhou Chang who seemed to be asleep on the bed for a while, then she leaned over and pecked Zhou Chang on the face: "I'm going to the company to take care of things first, you can sleep for a while."

Afterwards, she seemed to get up and leave the rental house.

Zhou Chang heard the sound of the door being opened and closed.

He was still lying on the bed, eyes closed, breathing evenly.

Li Xiaotang, who had already left in his consciousness, was still standing quietly at the head of the bed, with her head hung down and an expressionless face, looking numbly at the sleeping Zhou Chang.

Until a long time later.

She stood up straight, and the numb and indifferent expression on her face disappeared, replaced by a lively and beautiful face.

She walked lightly to the door, turned the doorknob and walked out.

It was just dawn outside the window, and the little roosters outside the neighbor's house had not yet crowed.

Zhou Chang, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes!

He sat up from the bed and saw the computer desk. Several plates of food were neatly laid out on it without any sign of having been touched.

——But when Zhou Chang was lying on the bed before, he clearly heard the sound of Li Xiaotang eating!
She ate the food, but there was no sign that it had been touched...

Zhou Chang got up from the bed and walked to the computer desk.

The dishes on the table gave off a faint sour smell.

Although it is the end of summer, the temperature is still very high.

If these foods are not kept in the refrigerator, they will easily go bad after one night.

But only three or four hours had passed from the time Li Xiaotang brought the food to the time she left!

The food went bad in such a short time?
Zhou Chang frowned secretly.

During this short while, the dishes of food on the table, which originally only faintly emitted a sour smell, suddenly became emitting a strong stench, and black and green mold began to grow on the surface of the food - within a few breaths, it turned into thick pus!

The whole room was instantly filled with a strong stench!
Zhou Chang's face changed, and he immediately threw the food and the plates into the trash can, tied up the trash bag, and placed it outside the door.

He opened all the windows to ventilate the air and then sat back in his chair.

By now, Zhou Chang finally confirmed one thing: Li Xiaotang was no longer human.

At that time, he saw the other person sitting in front of the computer desk with his back to him. He was not moving at all, but there was a sound of chewing food coming from his mouth... That was probably because the one enjoying the food was Li Xiaotang's ghost.

So when I got up in the morning and checked, the food on the table was still intact, but it was rotting quickly.

——The ghosts and gods enjoy the offerings presented to them, and those offerings are also complete.

But the inside has been eaten and hollowed out by ghosts and gods.

But how did Li Xiaotang die and why did he turn into a ghost?

This is still something that needs more investigation.

In his heart, Zhou Chang still preferred He Ju, so he killed her.

To truly understand the cause of her death, we must understand what happened on Valentine's Day.

"On Valentine's Day, He Ju and his girlfriend spent it in a rented house.

If there is a quarrel or a heated argument between two people, the neighbors around may know something about it.

The sound insulation of these houses in the urban villages is not very good.

You can find opportunities to talk to the neighbors around you, and maybe you can find some clues.”

Zhou Chang thought for a moment and came up with an idea in his mind.

He checked the time on his phone.

It is now past five in the morning. It is very quiet outside and no one has gotten up yet.

But Zhou Chang felt uncomfortable staying in this rented house, so he put on his shoes, took the key, and opened the door. Before leaving, Zhou Chang subconsciously glanced at the white wall above the bed.

There were traces of mildew on the wall where he had scraped it off.

The mold spots that gave off a foul smell didn't seem to have grown back.

"Click..."

Zhou Chang locked the door and glanced at the broken Levin car that was waiting across the street. He did not drive his car but walked out of the small street and headed towards the area where he remembered the 24-hour convenience store was located.

It was just past five in the morning and the sky was already bright.

But the light is still a little dim.

Zhou Chang was not the only one on the dim street.

Some old people have already gotten up at this time, wearing a thin coat, and watering the flowers and plants in front of their homes.

There were also some elderly people exercising in the area with fitness equipment. When Zhou Chang passed by them, he felt the vitality and popularity, and felt a little comfort in his heart that came from nowhere.

He walked down the street to the door of the convenience store.

The convenience store was indeed open.

Zhou Chang went into the store and bought some bread and ham for breakfast, and among the food he brought a pair of scissors and a wash basin. After finally buying a pair of scissors, Zhou Chang left the convenience store and followed the roads he had driven on last night, using the navigation on his phone, and gradually approached a construction site surrounded by construction soil.

There were only some newly built frames on the construction site, and no workers were seen.

Zhou Chang used a basin to fill a basin with water from the faucet on the construction site, and then turned into a corner where it was not easy to be noticed.

He put the basin on the ground and took out a plastic bag.

In the plastic bag, there were only pieces of moldy wall dust.

When these mold spots grew on the walls, they emitted a faint rotten smell, but after Zhou Chang scraped them off the walls, they suddenly became ordinary again - they themselves concealed some secrets related to He Ju's rental house.

These "secrets" may not have nothing to do with He Ju and Li Xiaotang.

Today, Zhou Chang just happened to use the "Scissors to Find Evil Spirits" to find out if there are any remaining evil spirits in these mold spots. If there are any, where is the source of the evil spirits?

He used the scissors in his hand to cut open the plastic bag and smeared the moldy wall dust on the blade.

Then he picked up the scissors and chanted like Grandpa Yang: "The sky is majestic, the earth is majestic, the iron scissors divide gold and determine yin and yang, the blade opens, the heaven and earth are sifted, and the evil spirits come from the Xun Palace...

The Xun wind moves and the water mirror opens.

Shining in all directions, revealing the ghost fetus..."

After chanting the spell several times, Zhou Chang suddenly felt the "string" in his heart.

Whether the Duang Gong's ritual can be successful depends entirely on whether the Duang Gong himself can catch that fleeting inspiration. That inspiration is totally indescribable in words, but once it is caught, the Duang Gong will know that everything is settled and everything can be accomplished.

For example, when Zhou Chang tried to invite the two generals who died unjustly, it took him a long time to find that fleeting "inspiration".

But now, he didn't have to put in much effort. He just recited the spell a few times and he touched the string of inspiration.

I feel that this can be completely achieved through daily maintenance, constant training, and then not letting myself down at critical moments.

The reason why Zhou Chang was able to grasp the string so quickly was because he had worked very hard for it.

He stopped chanting the spell and rinsed the scissors in the basin of clean water several times.

The moldy wall dust on the scissors was rinsed into the basin of clean water.

The basin of clear water began to tumble, and rich ink-colored colors surged out from the boiling bubbles, gradually covering the water surface.

Clear water is used as ink.

The ink glowed brightly, and suddenly, it reflected a dark blue sky.

Under the sky, there was a man who looked slightly similar to Zhou Chang, looking down at Zhou Chang's counterpart outside the mirror - He Ju!
"He Ju!"

When Zhou Chang looked at the basin of black water at this moment, it was like he was looking in a mirror!
What is reflected in the mirror is actually his own body at that moment.

He stared at his 'self' in the mirror, and immediately understood: "Those mold spots on the wall that emit a foul smell are indeed filled with evil spirits!
But the source of these disasters and bad luck does not come from others.

It is from this body of mine, from 'He Ju'!"

What did He Ju do to cause that smelly mildew to grow on the wall?
Behind that wall is the tenant next door. It is impossible for him to break the wall and put the body in? !
Maybe he had hit Li Xiaotang's head against that wall, causing Li Xiaotang's death - Li Xiaotang's blood stained the wall, leaving behind the 'evil spirit'?
But if it was the evil spirit left by Li Xiaotang, why didn't it go looking for Li Xiaotang, but only targeted He Ju?
Zhou Chang finally found some clues related to the He Ju couple.

But this clue has led to more mysteries!
He was sure that He Ju must have done something on Valentine's Day.

He Ju is closely connected with the strange incident of Li Xiaotang!

After staring at "himself" in the black water for a while, Zhou Chang rinsed the clean scissors in the black water again. The black water became clear again, but the bottom of the basin was slightly covered with dust.

He poured out the basin of water and filled it with a new one.

This time, Zhou Chang did not smear anything on the scissors. He was still chanting the previous spell. After catching the fleeting feeling, he rinsed the scissors in clean water.

Use clean water to make ink!

Some images gradually appeared in the ink!

This time, Zhou Chang used the scissors to find out where his "evil spirit" was flowing!
He wants to use this to follow the clues of the 'Heartless Ghost' or the 'Plague God', and through the clues of the Heartless Ghost, find his companions in the old world!
——The images surging out of the ink appear very slowly.

It was more than ten times slower than before, like a video with constantly dropping frames.

Those constantly stuck images were pieced together, and after a long time, finally formed a complete picture in the black mirror.

Zhou Chang saw a five-story building that looked somewhat familiar to him.

The floor is covered with old white tiles, which have turned black due to years of washing.

On the front of the building, there were still some traces of the iron and gold-plated characters and logos that had been removed. Through those traces, Zhou Chang vaguely recognized that the words originally pasted on this white tile building were "Qingjiang Building".

If a five-story building is called a "building" nowadays, it will only cause ridicule.

But in the 1990s, such buildings were worthy of being called "buildings" in underdeveloped areas.

On the side of the building, there are rows of dark blue glass.

This kind of blue or green glass was very common in large restaurants and hotels in the past. As the country's industrial technology gradually matured and developed, the color of glass became clearer and clearer, and glass of this color is rarely seen.

Therefore, the 'Qingjiang Building' that appears in the mirror is an old building.

Zhou Chang recognized the building; it was located in this urban village.

He drove past Qingjiang Building last night.

Watching the images in the black mirror skipping past his eyes frame by frame, Zhou Chang soon saw a figure standing in one of the two dark blue glass windows in the picture.

He frowned and focused his eyes on observing the figure.

He saw the blurry figure slowly approaching the window, sticking his head out to look down, and even half of his body popping out of the window.

——Zhou Chang’s eyelids twitched.

Suddenly, I had a bad feeling in my heart.

He picked up a pair of scissors and dispersed the image reflected in the basin. He continued walking, passing the deserted construction site at an incredible speed, and walked along the empty streets!
Only when they were approaching those gradually populated areas did Zhou Chang's speed return to normal!
Even so, he was still running as fast as he could!

After crossing two streets, Zhou Chang finally saw the "Qingjiang Building" standing at the T-junction!
He immediately locked onto a window on the side of Qingjiang Building.

The two windows were tightly closed at this time.

Zhou Chang did not see the figure who had half of his body leaning out of the window to look out.

But the strong sense of foreboding in his heart suddenly reached its peak at this moment.
As if by chance, at this moment, Zhou Chang suddenly turned around and looked at the window on the other side of Qingjiang Building——

A figure jumped out of the window without warning, and with an unexpected muffled sound, broke the silence of the morning!

red!

A large patch of red bloomed from under the figure that fell to the ground!

Zhou Chang saw a woman with disheveled hair standing at the window where he jumped out.

The woman's figure flashed in front of the window and then disappeared.

Zhou Chang clenched his teeth and his cheeks twitched.

He strode towards the man who fell to the ground!
The man, a stranger to me, still had some life left in him.

He opened his eyes wide, staring at Zhou Chang who was striding towards him, and tremblingly stretched out his bloody arms, grabbed Zhou Chang's ankles, and dyed Zhou Chang's socks scarlet.

"do you remember me?"

Zhou Chang squatted down and grabbed the hand of the stranger: "Zhou Chang!"

"Do you know Zhou Chang?!"

"Zhou, Zhou--" When the stranger heard Zhou Chang say his name, a strong light burst out in his eyes, "Xiao, Xiao--"

Hide! Hide! Hide! "

Pink internal organs mixed with blood spurted out of the mouth of the person who fell from the building.

His head drooped limply.

Some illusory shadows drifted away from him like smoke.

Zhou Chang's eyes suddenly became dazed, and at a certain moment, he saw the person on the ground turned into Xiao Daniu.

……

The deceased: Meishan Dharma Teaching, the illustrious Leitan Duangong, Xiao Daniu.

Cause of death: Being pushed out of a high-rise window and falling to death.

……

A great sense of crisis enveloped Zhou Chang's body like a cold wind!

Although it was summer, he felt as cold as if he was buried naked in deep snow and ice!
Xiao Daniu is a Taoist priest who came from the prestigious Leitan Temple!
Such a Taoist priest suddenly fell from a building and died so easily!
Zhou Chang finally found an important clue about his old companions in the present life, but the clue came to an abrupt end here and was cut off!

When Xiao Daniu was dying, he was still reminding Zhou Chang to "hide well".

What he meant by 'hiding well' was to conceal one's true identity, maintain one's own persona, and not expose oneself - once exposed, there would be danger!

The danger was so severe that even a Taoist priest like Xiao Daniu, who had been to the Yin mines before, was suddenly bewitched and died in such a tragic way!
Zhou Chang remained silent for a while.

He stammered, and said in a low and hateful voice in his heart: "I will avenge you!"

He stood up and people gathered around him.

People were either sighing, or curious, or just watching the dead person falling from the building as if they were watching a show.

Some eyes also lingered on Zhou Chang.

Zhou Chang looked around at the crowd that had gathered around him, and wondered how many of them had heard the previous conversation between him and Xiao Daniu?
He looked up at the window from which Xiao Daniu fell.

"He was pushed out of the window and fell to his death!"

Suddenly, Zhou Chang pointed at the open window and shouted, "I saw it!"

"Someone pushed him out the window and killed him!"

"Someone pushed him out the window and killed him!"

People listened to Zhou Chang's shouting, some sighed, some were curious, and some stood there as if watching the fun.

It was not until a long time later that sirens sounded in the distance.

(End of this chapter)