Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Frozen Valley
Dongxue was not happy to see her aunt. There was no psychologist among the doctors who came. She had to rely on the little psychology knowledge she had learned in school, which was totally insufficient. However, the doctors who came out at this season were all young people, and young people understood young people. They advised her aunt and the others to let Dongxue stay in a quiet and comfortable environment.
My aunt said helplessly, "It's actually always very quiet here. It's a hot spring, and the guests are very polite. It's not like a bathhouse that's very lively. It's remote here, and there's not much noise. She was almost recovered, but who knew something like this would happen suddenly."
Everyone was just discussing Dongxue's condition. As the conversation got deeper, my aunt suddenly said, "My environment is really good. In fact, I've met many children with similar conditions to my niece. They all got much better after coming here. My place is quiet and nurturing. Who would have thought that I would suddenly run into a murderer? It turns out that even a place with good feng shui can't cure a murderer."
The police and the doctor naturally thought that my aunt was exaggerating. As a shop owner, it is inevitable to talk about how great your shop is.
But to Su Yun, he felt something was wrong.
Because on the surface, everyone who comes to the hot spring hotel will become peaceful after a good night's sleep. Even if they had a big fight the night before, they will feel better after a good night's sleep.
The way college students look nowadays is more like... a rebound.
Their original emotions did not disappear, but were suppressed deep in their hearts by something. They seemed okay when they were suppressed, but once the suppressing things disappeared, they would still vent their original anger.
Dongxue seems to be in the same situation. She has been in the hot spring hotel for a long time, and all her worries have been compressed again and again. When these compressed negative emotions rush out again, they will have a greater impact on her.
The doctors still suggested that the aunt take Dongxue to the hospital, suspecting that Dongxue was suffering from stress after encountering a violent scene again.
My aunt was very grateful and left a familiar manager to hand over the matter to the police. She then went down the mountain with the other guys and Dongxue.
The forensic doctor borrowed the hospital's car and took the body back to prepare for further autopsy.
The police also assigned a separate car to take Su Yun and others as well as the two naughty children down the mountain.
The identity background of the naughty children has been clarified through the registration information of the hot spring restaurant. Now the police's household registration database can be requested to be reviewed by each other. According to the information sent, the naughty children have grandparents, aunts, grandparents and other relatives at home.
According to the current situation, if the husband comes back and states that it was manslaughter, and the child and grandparents sign a letter of understanding, perhaps the sentence will not be too severe.
The premise is that the man really walked out of the snowy night in the mountains alive.
The police car drove to the intersection at the foot of the mountain and dropped Su Yun and others off. The two naughty kids in the car were making a lot of noise and kicking the seats. Su Yun and the others didn't want to sit in the car anymore, so they got out of the car and asked the police to call them if they needed anything.
After the police car drove away, Su Yun looked back at the mountain and asked, "Did you find the problem?"
The sexy ghost and the ghost bride looked bewildered, Ah Xiu was dazed, and Lin Lang was wooden. None of them was smart.
Su Yun paused and waited for their answer, but no sound was heard for a long time. She looked away and saw four faces that were not any smarter.
People always say that where Crouching Dragon appears, there will definitely be Phoenix Chick.
Are you kidding? She has four such talented people, so she has the world at her fingertips.
Su Yun lowered his head and covered his face in pain: "Sometimes I really doubt that you have put all your skill points into martial arts."
"Director, is there anything wrong with this? At least we can't kill them." The ghost bride answered happily, and then was hit by an elbow from the sexy ghost and shut her microphone out of grievance.
"...Well, I shouldn't have expected too much from you. You've already worked very hard. Let me put it bluntly. Do you feel that there is something on the mountain that can make people's negative emotions disappear?" Su Yun asked without stopping, and at the same time prepared to be laughed at.
After all, when he came here, people said he had a unique physique, and now it is almost confirmed.
But after waiting for a while, I only saw four heads shaking at different frequencies, and they couldn't even shake their heads in unison.
Su Yun felt like she was about to laugh out loud. When people are speechless, they will laugh out loud for no apparent reason. She slapped Lin Lang on the head and said, "Why are you shaking your head? Didn't I tell you?"
Lin Lang didn't feel any pain. He held Su Yun's hand and said sincerely, "Really not, Director."
"Oh, really? Then I'll tell you now." Su Yun withdrew his hand without any guilt, and there was no sign that he had misunderstood others.
Only the sexy ghost and the ghost bride were grimacing, and if you didn't know better you would have thought that they had just been slapped on the head.
Su Yun coughed lightly: "In short, combined with what Aunt Dongxue said, there is something on the mountain that temporarily made everyone's negative emotions disappear, but people's emotions follow their memories. As long as the memory does not disappear, after leaving the emotional deception of the hot spring hotel, they will still experience those emotions again."
The ghost thought for a moment, "Like a starving ghost? As far as I know, a powerful starving ghost can eat fear or some conceptual things together."
"It's not quite the same. Starving ghosts won't spit out the food they eat. Once eaten, it means it disappears. But the condition of the college students shows that those emotions are only temporarily suppressed. It doesn't mean they disappear. Without anything to suppress them, they will still come out." Su Yun didn't think that starving ghosts were causing trouble in the hot spring restaurant.
The state of everyone in the hot spring restaurant is more like taking an effective antidepressant. This drug has no side effects and works quickly. It can make people clear-headed in an instant, understand all the unhappiness, and keep people in a cheerful and positive state.
But in fact, this kind of thing can only be used as a cheat drug. After the effect of the drug wears off, the problems that should have occurred will still occur. For example, some children's depression is caused by excessive family repression and parents with more serious mental illnesses. If the parents are not cured, it will be in vain for the children to take more medicine. Once the medicine is stopped and faced with parents who are like evil spirits, they will still feel like dying.
The stuff in the hot spring hotel is like a spirit of medicine, without any side effects like causing the person to lose emotional cognition.
Because my aunt said that the guests in the hot spring hotel are all calm and happy, as if they have forgotten all the troubles in the world.
The oldest, Yan Gui and Ah Xiu, had never heard of anything with such an effect. Ah Xiu was more knowledgeable. He said, "I only know some ancient Taoist techniques or things that can achieve similar effects, such as Nan Ke's Dream and Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Butterfly."
Speaking of things, it is difficult to produce them in modern times. Even if there are some left, they will not be in the hands of ordinary people. What's more, the worry-free effect of those things is just the least worth mentioning. How ignorant must one be to use them to heal the guests coming and going in a hot spring hotel?
"Could there be something under the hot spring pavilion? The one that Mr. Ziyuan was looking for?" The ghost said after thinking for a while.
"No matter it is a person or a thing that has become a spirit, let's go and take a look first. The two masters are still following Master Ziyuan down there, so perhaps they will meet each other." Although Su Yun felt that what they said was wrong, he did not deny it directly. It would be safer to go to the bottom of the mountain to check.
Maybe something at the bottom of the mountain knows the reason?
Their current location is said to be at the foot of the mountain, but in fact it is much higher than the place Lin Lang detected. They can reach deeper places by going down from the col, so they say the top of the mountain is dangerous when it snows and rains. If you are not careful, you will fall off the cliff. The altitude there is lower than the city at the foot of the mountain, and rescue is more difficult.
There was no road nearby that could lead directly to the bottom of the mountain, so they could only find a way to get around it themselves. The map was of no use. Lin Lang confirmed the shortcut with his wide-range perception and led the way.
The snow never stopped, and as time went by, the temperature kept dropping. Among them, only Lin Lang had some warmth left. With his shallow breathing, white smoke could be seen in the cold wind.
Su Yun's body had automatically adjusted to a low temperature and he no longer exhaled white air. The other three were already dead, so they had no body temperature and no breathing could be seen.
There was a blocked forest where they bypassed. Judging from the time and style, it should have been blocked by the local government, saying that the deep mountains are dangerous and there are wild animals. It is recommended not to enter the forest area and try to take the main road.
The group ignored the warning and walked deeper into the snow. Not long after, Su Yun suddenly felt a dead air. She subconsciously looked over there: "Over there..."
Lin Lang, who was at the front, turned around and said, "It's the man who killed his wife. He's frozen to death."
In fact, the bodies were not visible to the naked eye. They just felt that there was something over there. The bodies had been buried under the snow long ago. It can be inferred that the man beat his wife that night and fled from the hot spring in a panic. Although he tried hard to identify the direction, he still froze to death before leaving the forest.
Isn’t this a kind of cause and effect?
If he had not run away to save his wife, or if he had killed someone and was willing to surrender, he would not have frozen to death in the wilderness. However, some people have done evil for half their lives and deserve to die in pain like this.
Su Yun and his team had entered the mountain area secretly, so they would not meddle in other people's business. They sighed a few words and continued on their way. They believed that the police would find the body after the snow melted.
After walking through the area accessible to mountain people, it became clear that it was a slope and there was no road over there.
Lin Lang identified the direction and said, "They have already reached the bottom of the mountain. The entrance is a bit strange. Director, there is something wrong with the layout here."
"Arrangement?" Su Yun looked up and looked around, but didn't find any problems. "Where's the problem?"
"There is too much water vapor. It's winter and it's snowing. Unless the ice melts, it won't be so humid." Lin Lang said with a heavy face.
Anything that goes against geographical common sense indicates that something is going on.
If the air is too humid, the snow will turn into snow water immediately after it falls. Sometimes, the accumulated snow will melt into water before the snow stops. The north is dry, so the snow will stick together after it falls.
Su Yun stretched out his hand to catch the snowflakes. They still felt dry as on the mountain, but in the valley, there was not so much obvious white snow.
This place does have some story. Su Yun thought for a moment and said, "It is also possible that Master Ziyuan and his men wanted to go down and destroyed some mechanism, causing the snow to melt. Let's find the place where they entered first."
The hillside was difficult to climb, and there was no one living nearby. There was no road where no one walked. In addition, at this season, no animals showed up and walked too slowly. So they just jumped down. It would be fine as long as Su Yun was not killed.
The valley looked pitch black from above, but I didn't expect it to be that deep. There was also a bottomless crack in the middle of the valley. I didn't know if it was a dried-up stream or just a crack in the ground.
There was no green nearby and the trees were all dry and lifeless. After Su Yun landed, he subconsciously raised his hand to hold the tree trunk to keep himself steady. Unexpectedly, the branch could not support any weight at all and broke directly, and he almost fell out.
The ghost quickly grabbed Su Yun and said, "Director, be careful. The trees here seem to have lost their vitality and are a bit fragile."
Su Yun looked at the piece of broken wood in his hand in surprise: "Isn't it pretending to be dead in winter to store energy?"
"Uh... that shouldn't be the case. Normal trees turn yellow in winter but their roots are still alive. The trees around here are dead even at the roots, but there's nothing nearby to collide with them, so they still look like trees." The ghost said after taking a careful look at the trees.
If there are animals running around nearby, such trees will probably be broken into pieces in no time. They will even have difficulty sharpening the claws of cats and dogs.
The condition of these trees is more like something has sucked all the moisture out of them. Without water, the wood naturally cannot survive.
Su Yun suddenly remembered the voice he had heard. The other party seemed to always be lamenting that flowering trees were particularly beautiful. Was it because... he had never seen it before?
It was now completely dark and there was still some time before dawn. The crack was wide and it was uncertain whether the edge was stable. After some hesitation, Su Yun jumped onto the back of the beautiful ghost and asked them to hurry on at full speed, at least to find the place where Ziyuan Jushi and the others were going down.
Unexpectedly, after following their breath for half an hour, we actually saw a dilapidated wooden house next to the crack.
The wooden house was old, with a wooden fence around it. It was not known whether the gate had been built or had disappeared, but the lock on the door had been removed and left on the ground.
Lin Lang walked into the yard, picked up the copper lock and checked it, then waited for Yan Gui and the others to arrive before saying, "Director, the lock was removed by Master Ziyuan, they should be able to go in."
The door of the wooden house was half-open. Su Yun got down from the ghost's back and pushed the door open with his folding fan. Facing the inside was a living room. There was a spirit tablet against the wall with several ancestors listed, but there was no incense or offerings.
The interior of the two side rooms could not be seen from the door, but Su Yun always felt that they looked very familiar.
Su Yun frowned, went in first and walked to the left, followed closely by Lin Lang, fearing that something would come out and take the curator away.
In the room on the left, a wooden bed was moved away, revealing a tunnel. It was obvious that Master Ziyuan and the others went down through here. However, Su Yun had no intention of going in, but rushed directly to the room on the right.
Unlike the room on the left, the room on the right looks like a storage room, with a lot of miscellaneous things piled up, and it’s hard to tell what the use of these things is.
Soon Yan Gui and the others came in and picked and chose. Lin Lang said, "It seems that all these things can be used to set up a formation."
The ghost asked curiously, "Formation? What kind of formation? I saw that the old curator and his team didn't use these things when they made the funeral home formation."
Lin Lang flipped through them and said, "No, these things are for emergency use, not official supplies. For example, when Nuwa was mending the sky, she needed five-colored stones. But if there were only gaps, it would be difficult to fill them with a whole five-colored stone, so she would use gravel or mud instead. These things are just temporary substitutes, more for disciples to practice. As for what kind of formation they are going to set up, it's hard to tell."
Taoist temples don't give students good things right away when they start studying. They don't know anything yet, so naturally they are given whatever is cheap and big. They will get better things slowly as they get to a higher level.
Su Yun was thoughtful after listening to this: "Why are the replacement materials placed here? Master Ziyuan and the others went down first, which means that the important things protected by the formation should be at the bottom. Why put the replacement materials up there instead of at the bottom?"
It was still snowing outside, but unfortunately the humidity was a bit high, so the snow melted before it hit the ground, just like rain.
Even though it's so humid, there's not a single living tree. It's simply a dead place.
Just when Su Yun was hesitating whether to go down along the traces left by Ziyuan Jushi and the others, the sound of freezing suddenly came from outside. It was not loud, but it was very obvious in the silent valley.
Before they could get out, the outside suddenly became frozen. The entire dark and humid valley turned white, and the ice was half a person's height thick.
Su Yun ran to the door and saw that the wooden house was also frozen, but for some reason, the ice and snow did not freeze the inside of the house as well. If they wanted to go out, they had to chisel away the ice at the door.
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