Volume 1 Beginning of Summer Chapter 79: Prawns
Jiang You dragged Tang Butian to a Cantonese restaurant on the street to have a bowl of seafood porridge, two squabs and ten skewers of grilled shrimps with salt and pepper.
"When you're hungry, your blood sugar is low, and it's easy to make mistakes," he said, taking a sip of barley tea. "I can't figure out one thing."
"What's up?"
"Why would they do this in my house? The rent of Lanxinyuan is considered high in Tangjiang City. There are many office buildings nearby, so it is convenient to live here and go to work."
"Haunted house?"
“My house is very clean.”
“Everyone who lives here has had an accident.”
"Has Ji Feng found out anything? They should be professionals." Jiang You changed the subject.
Tang Butian glanced at her phone. "Chen Zikai's mother is still alive. She lives in a garage in Lanxinyuan. She usually comes out to pick up trash. His son Chen Han visits her occasionally."
"Where is Chen Han now?" Jiang You asked.
"We are confirming it. Ji Feng has already notified the Zegu Town Police Station."
"Forget it, let's go." Jiang You paid the bill and called a taxi.
Zegu Town is about an hour's drive from Wenhua Street.
The bungalow that Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong rented was right on the roadside. There were many similar houses around. There were no lights on, and it seemed that no one lived in them.
Jiang You squinted his eyes and saw that there seemed to be a Chinese character written on the outer wall and circled in it.
The air was filled with the smell of decay.
Mosquitoes were flying around.
Jiang You slapped a mosquito on the neck and killed it.
He looked at the bloody body of the mosquito on his palm and asked, "Boss, is this considered a work-related injury?"
"Will spider spirits be afraid of mosquitoes?"
"If you hadn't drunk the last can of milk, you wouldn't be afraid."
"What's the meaning?"
"Literally."
Tang Butian's phone vibrated and she answered the call.
After the call, she said, "Chen Han is at school."
"Then I'm relieved. How do we get in?"
Tang Butian observed the structure of the house. She suddenly reached out, grabbed Jiang You's wrist, jumped up, and landed on the balcony on the second floor of the bungalow.
Jiang You held on to the wall to steady himself.
He walked to the balcony door, turned the handle and locked it.
He turned around and glanced at Tang Butian.
Then, with a click, the door opened.
They walked in and saw a bedroom. Outside the bedroom, there was a toilet and a staircase.
There was a faint light coming up from downstairs.
Walk down the stairs slowly with light steps.
On the ground, a circle of white candles burned.
There is a black box in the middle.
There were newspapers pasted on the door cracks and windows downstairs
Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong walked slowly around the candle. Their joints seemed very stiff and they made strange postures from time to time.
Their shadows gradually separated from their bodies, and the shadows flowed towards the location of the box.
Jiang You touched the wall and felt something.
Wet and sticky, like mud spots.
He took it in his hand, put it to his nose and sniffed it.
Weird taste.
He threw it away quickly, and his elbow hit the switch on the wall, and the light downstairs came on.
Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong's shadows returned to their normal form.
"Who!" Fang Xuezhou shouted loudly.
Jiang You took out a tissue from his bag and wiped his hands, then put his palms under his nose and smelled them. The smell was still there.
He resigned himself to his fate and took two steps forward, exposing himself to the sight of Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong.
"Landlord? Is that you?" Fang Xuezhou recognized Jiang You.
"It's me. The property-specific garbage bag is 80 yuan, the family pack of 84 disinfectant is 56 yuan, the insecticide is 37 yuan, the 30-meter explosion-proof water pipe is 79.9 yuan, a box of masks is 16.8 yuan, plastic gloves are 8 yuan, and the mop is 69..."
"Did you find out?" Fang Xuezhou seemed a little surprised.
"Obviously."
"Why are you here?"
"I called the police."
Jiang You slowly approached them.
Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong looked at him warily, "Stop and don't move."
"The cleaning fee is about 600 to 700 yuan. I have to repaint the walls later, which will cost at least 200 to 300 yuan." Jiang You stopped and looked at the box in the middle of the candles, which was emitting a faint black mist.
He felt the air vibrate.
The wooden sword passed around his body and swung low, and the candle went out.
Jiang You quickly squatted down, reached out, and took the box in his hand .
Suddenly, black gas in the box surged out from the gap.
Jiang You, Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong were all trapped.
rot.
Fishy smell.
Open your eyes.
The khaki-colored tide splashed onto the shore and onto his body, and his ears, nose, eyes, and mouth seemed to be filled with the fishy-smelling drowning water.
Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong stood in front of him.
He saw Fang Xuezhou's mouth opening and closing, as if he was saying something to him.
The tide suddenly rose sharply and rushed towards the three of them. Fang Xuezhou seemed to roar, and the tide stopped for a moment, then became even bigger and smashed towards them.
There was an expression .
fear.
He saw fear on their faces.
Suddenly, the ground around their feet cracked and they fell down together.
When he fell into the air, a black shadow appeared behind him. It suddenly grew larger, stretched out its appendages, and grabbed Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong.
Then he heard the sound of the wooden sword and the box breaking.
The illusion faded.
Fang Xuezhou and Yu Hong's bodies fell limply to the ground, twitching continuously.
Jiang You squatted down and flipped through the broken box. Inside the box was an irregularly shaped, black bone with many holes on the surface, and a transparent plastic bag. In one of the bags were a few strands of hair and a few nails. In the other was a piece of paper with two lines of words on it, the name Chen Han and his birth date.
Jiang You understood why they rented in Lanxinyuan.
Tang Butian walked up to his side.
Fang Xuezhou struggled to sit up, his voice trembling with fear, "Just now, what happened just now?"
Jiang You did not answer, but asked, "Why didn't you stay in my room, but came so far to perform this ceremony?"
“There are a lot of people living in the community.”
"You really have good intentions. However, you want to borrow its power, but it wants your life. No, it wants more than your life." Jiang You pulled up the T-shirt and smelled it. "This smell makes me need to take a shower when I get home."
The door was smashed open and police officers from Zegu Town Police Station walked in.
"Let's go. Let's talk somewhere clean. By the way, mental damage compensation, two times, one thousand dollars each time."
