Chapter 46 The Judge's Seven Sneaky Ghosts
"But didn't he admit that he had a daughter?" Nan Huai still frowned: "Could it be that the person in the photo is not Chu Xinyi?"
Wang Tianfu: “That’s not the problem.”
He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the two people. His fingertips were stained with a half-body photo with a red background. The person in the photo was young and delicate, with long hair draped over her shoulders.
"I just put my picture on his phone case," Wang Tianfu said, unable to explain. "I just wanted to trick him, to give him a pretext to ask him questions. Who knows..."
Fang Xu pinched the photo and was shocked: "Is this you??"
Wang Tianfu: "Yes, I took this photo a few years ago for pornographic purposes. Why, doesn't it look like it?"
Fang Xu looked at the photo, then at Wang Tianfu, with a look of astonishment on his face.
Nan Huai frowned, then returned to the point: "So, even after seeing the photo, Teacher Chu still admitted that it was his daughter? Why is that?"
"I don't know," Wang Tianfu shook his head honestly, "but there's definitely a problem."
Fang Xu hesitated: "Then shall we go to the back mountain to meet Chu Xinyi?"
"Go ahead," Nan Huai said, becoming interested. "At a time like this, shouldn't we go find out the truth?"
Wang Tianfu: "Okay, let's go to the stationery store and buy some paper and pens."
Fang Xu was stunned: "Stationery...Are you going to buy a gift for Chu Xinyi?"
"You're stupid," Nan Huai rolled his eyes. "He's using pen and paper to test whether it's a ghost or a demon."
Ghosts and evil spirits have been two different things since ancient times.
When a person dies, he becomes a ghost. A ghost is a spirit, but a haunted creature is a rootless evil creature, born from the resentful force between heaven and earth. It is like a demon but not a demon, like a ghost but not a ghost.
"In short," Wang Tianfu explained in the preface, "the main difference between a suicidal spirit and a ghost is that it is illiterate and cannot read. Ultimately, it is a brainless creature, and its language and behavior are entirely imitative."
Nan Huai also added: "The ancestor of literature created Chinese characters. Chinese characters are the manifestations of the eight trigrams and myriad phenomena. They embody the wisdom and power of generations of ancestors, which cannot be understood by evil spirits."
In order to conceal himself, the evildoer will try hard to pretend to be normal.
However, their inability to recognize text on paper is a fatal flaw and can easily expose their true colors.
"That's why taboo words and runes can drive away evil spirits... Hey, why am I showing off my knowledge? Don't you teach this in Changfeng Temple?" Wang Tianfu came back to his senses.
Nan Huaisun said, "Of course I will teach you. This fool probably fell asleep while listening to me."
Fang Xu lowered his head in shame.
He was just more interested in other things.
The three of them went up the mountain path and saw from afar the low-hanging rock wall, lychees hanging down, and vine fruits half hanging. The cave entrance was still narrow and desolate, just like before.
Strangely, Chu Xinyi broke her promise and did not show up there.
Wang Tianfu was carrying a pile of stationery, frowning and scratching his head. "Is it because Teacher Chu is not on duty today and is staying at home, so Chu Xinyi doesn't dare to sneak out?"
Nan Huai snorted: "That girl must be making fun of us."
He looked around and suddenly swatted away mosquitoes: "There are so many mosquitoes."
The bites of wild mosquitoes in the mountains are very painful. Fortunately, the temple often burns incense, and uses the five poison talismans drawn by the abbot to drive away these snakes, insects, rats and ants.
Nan Huai clapped his hands and was about to look up when he heard a rustling sound in his ears.
Not far away, a few wild orchids sprouted out from the crevices of the rocks, and the flower buds trembled on the mossy gravel. The subtle sound seemed to come from here.
Nan Huai narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the flower.
Click, click...
The petals rustled, and suddenly they stood up with their heads raised, and a long dark blue worm flew out from them!
Nan Huai opened his eyes wide, his throat tightened, and he took half a step back.
The long worm had eaten the core of the flower, and was now content with its countless limbs as it quickly dived into the bushes and disappeared.
That worm seems...
"Nan Huai, what's wrong with you?" Fang Xu turned around and patted his shoulder: "You don't look well."
Nan Huai pushed him away somewhat unnaturally: "No, nothing."
He followed the direction where the insect disappeared with a complicated look and fell silent, which was unusual.
Wang Tianfu sighed while holding the Bagua mirror: "I still can't measure the resentment. Forget it, let's go back first."
He muttered, "Maybe Chu Xinyi's father is just a strict and old-fashioned person. Maybe I'm overthinking it."
The three of them chatted casually and then turned around and walked back.
The Echo Cave stood quietly in its place, the entrance was pitch black, with only the faint sound of wind swirling in the air.
Whoosh—ho ho—
After listening for a long time, it sounds like someone is chuckling.
call--
hehe……
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Under the scorching sun, the flag of "Nature Summer Camp" was fluttering in the breeze.
The holiday was coming to an end, and there was still some time before the last trip to visit Changfeng Temple, so the teachers organized the students to have free time in the town.
"Is Li Tong not here?" Xiaohui knocked on the dormitory door, and it was another boy who opened it.
The boy held the basketball and said, "They haven't come back from the cafeteria yet. I'm going to the playground to play basketball. Please help me close the door when you leave!"
Because they are staying in the school dormitory in town, the playground is also open to summer camp students.
Xiaohui came to Li Tong's seat and sat on his chair in a daze for a while.
Liu Dongsheng's death was diagnosed as a sudden genetic disease. Everyone just thought that the child had a bad life, and no one connected this incident with the sound in the cave.
He even contacted the other people who participated in the last cave exploration one by one. The incredible thing was that everyone said that there was just a simple echo in the cave at that time. Even the theme song of Armor Star Warrior was played on the phone by someone as a deliberate prank.
But he heard it clearly...
Xiaohui came back to his senses and his eyes fell on the exercise book on the table.
He picked it up casually and looked through it. It seemed to be Li Tong's calligraphy.
Calligraphy copybook?
When did Li Tong start practicing calligraphy?
On the blank title page, the ink characters are crooked, like a dog paddling.
The simple character "I" (I) is densely packed with strokes that seem unrelated to each other, and in the end, it changes from a compact square character to a mess of scattered left and right strokes and hooks.
On the second page was a Chinese character "好", a simple left-right structure, but the writer wrote it in a mess. In the end, he seemed unwilling to give up and angrily crossed out several black marks. The ink lines were so strong that they could see through the back of the paper, vaguely revealing a bit of madness and insanity.
Xiaohui adjusted his glasses nervously and quickly turned to the next page.
The next page was pure black, without a single word... No, that's not right, he had blacked out the entire page!
For some reason, the weird and distorted feeling that this copybook brought to Xiaohui was too strong. He couldn't even describe the discomfort in words, so he could only choose to close it and not read it.
"What do you think of my handwriting?"
Suddenly, Li Tong's face appeared diagonally above.
Xiaohui jumped up from his chair in fright.
Li Tong looked at him and smiled: "Why didn't you tell me you came to see me?"
The other people in the dormitory also opened the door and came in one after another.
Xiaohui didn't say anything, still looking at his childhood friend in surprise and doubt.
Li Tong really seems to have changed... Why didn't anyone else notice?
But if you look closely into where the changes lie, Xiaohui himself can't tell.
One boy suggested: "We are going to climb a mountain tomorrow, let's go to the supermarket to buy some snacks later!"
Someone said: "I haven't played computer for several days. Do you want to go to the Internet cafe to play games?"
"Hey? Minors aren't allowed in, right?"
"Who cares? The town isn't strict about it. I think all the local students are in there..."
A group of half-grown children chattered and discussed: "Where are we going?"
"Why not draw lots to decide?"
Someone tore a few pieces of paper, collected "public opinion", and wrote words such as "Internet cafe", "supermarket", "playing ball", "cinema", "game hall", etc.
Xiaohui glanced at Li Tong inexplicably, and seeing that he was still standing there with a smile, he acquiesced.
"I've written it, how do I draw it?"
"Black and white, pick one person to draw!"
"Black-white-match!"
The person chosen was Li Tong.
He casually pulled one out from the paper ball and slowly unfolded it in his palm.
"Li Tong, what is it?"
"Game hall or internet cafe? You decide!"
For some reason, Xiaohui watched Li Tong's actions nervously.
Li Tong stared at his palm silently. After a moment, he smiled and turned the note over to show it to everyone.
"Hahaha! Let's go to the internet cafe! Come on, come on, I borrowed my brother's account and he has all the skins..."
When everyone saw that the answer to the mystery was revealed, they packed up their things and walked out arm in arm, and no one thought anything was wrong.
Xiaohui watched Li Tong and his roommates leave, but a strange thought still lingered in his mind.
At the end of the corridor, someone was casually glancing over here.
The man was wearing a blue polo shirt and holding a thermos cup in his hand. He had a serious face and a look of inquiry in his slightly drooping eyes.
"Teacher Chu, why aren't you going back yet?" Another leading teacher came to greet him after checking the dormitories.
Chu Youde hummed, then suddenly took out his phone and rubbed it: "Well, Teacher Lin, can you help me check if there is anything behind my phone?"
Teacher Lin glanced at him suspiciously: "No, what's wrong?"
"It's okay," Chu Youde put the phone back in his pocket. "I seem to be under a lot of pressure recently and I'm having some hallucinations."
Teacher Lin was surprised. "Oh, that's not a small problem. Let's go to the hospital for a checkup. I remember you have a good relationship with Dr. Zhou at the clinic."
Chu Youde smiled and said, "She is a pediatrician."
Teacher Lin scratched his head and said, "Yes, look at my memory."
Before turning around and leaving, he patted Chu Youde's arm again, his tone intriguing: "Teacher Chu, take care of yourself and look forward."
Chu Youde didn't seem to realize the deeper meaning behind this, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, people always look forward."
After a few greetings, Chu Youde walked downstairs.
The light in the stairwell was dim. There was a person standing at the corner, looking up with a bag on his shoulder.
The woman was wearing glasses and had her hair tied up. She was Zhou Qin, a doctor at the health center.
Chu Youde was stunned for a moment, then walked over slowly: "What's wrong? Are Liu Dongsheng's parents causing trouble again?"
"Brother Chu," Zhou Qin looked up at him, her voice trembling slightly, "Uncle Liu and Sister Xu also came to see me."
Chu Youde's expression changed slightly when he heard the other two names, as if he already knew something.
He pressed Zhou Qin's shoulder soothingly: "Don't be anxious, speak slowly."
"They are the same," Zhou Qin murmured, "It seems more and more real, more and more..."
Her body twitched unnaturally, as if she was experiencing some painful struggle.
"I don't know what to do, Brother Chu."
"Is this my problem?..."
She muttered absentmindedly, "He's so obedient, but why do I still... want to kill him?"
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