There are no lights in the mountains at night. Unless it is some special festival, the mountain people have no entertainment at night. They are still accustomed to the life pattern of the older generation, working from sunrise to sunset and resting from sunset.
However, the presence of tourists brings liveliness to the nights in the mountains. Even though they were told on the first day that "road construction in remote mountainous areas is not up to standard, it is dangerous to travel at night, and the tour group and local authorities are not responsible for any accidents if you act alone", this is an extremely irresponsible rule, some people are still keen on pursuing excitement late at night.
After eight o'clock in the evening, a group of fashionable young men and women came downstairs in a hurry, carrying their luggage and expensive-looking filming equipment.
The young man with hair dyed with forgiveness shouted at the top of his voice before he even went downstairs: "Is the boss here? Hurry, check us out!"
A dissatisfied girl's voice came from behind: "Jiang Cong! Do you have any manners? This is a public place, can't you keep your voice down!"
The man smiled and apologized, "My dear little ancestor, I am wrong. I will lower my voice now."
The girl scolded, "Don't forget to ask for the deposit. We've only been here for less than a day, and it's 600 yuan."
A girl with delicate makeup followed from behind and said in a thin voice: "We still have single room 314, thank you."
"Room 315, two bottles of mineral water were used." The last woman with heavy makeup complained, "The electric mosquito repellent liquid is empty. Can't you change it? There are so many mosquitoes. I got several bites."
The young man following behind her said in a harsh tone: "You deserve it. It's because you kept the window open!" As a result, he was also bitten by mosquitoes.
...
...
This scene is common in the inn. The girl at the front desk is used to it. She quickly checked out the four people. At the end, she habitually said with a smile: "Our inn is having a promotion now. Old customers who give a five-point praise will get a 12% discount on accommodation. There is only half a month left. Would you consider staying one more night? It will be safer to travel during the day."
"No, we have a filming assignment tonight, and it will be too late to go back tomorrow."
The receptionist was very professional and didn't ask any more questions. She just continued to smile and said, "Okay, welcome next time. The mountain road is dangerous at night, so please be careful. I wish you a safe journey."
The heavily made-up woman took two steps outside and seemed to remember something. She turned around quickly and walked to the counter, leaning forward. Her eyes were shining with excitement. "Um, can I ask who is in the room upstairs surrounded by a group of bodyguards? Are there any celebrities coming here to record a show?"
Her boyfriend couldn't help but turned around and said, "Zhang Xinyi, are you really that curious?"
Zhang Xinyi said unhappily, "What do you know! I saw on the Internet that a production crew would come here to record a show. Maybe this is it."
"I'm not sure about this." The girl at the front desk was stunned for a moment, then said seriously, "Since you are asking about the privacy of the guests, we can't tell you even if we know."
Zhang Xinyi was choked and looked a little embarrassed. She muttered unwillingly, "Public figures don't have any privacy. If you don't want to ask, then don't ask. Maybe he is just some unknown celebrity. Who cares?"
The girl at the front desk twitched her mouth and didn't say anything.
The forgiving boy next to her said, "Let's shoot our own first, and come back to watch after we have collected all the materials! Shu Ran and I have no problem, what do you think, Sang Qing?"
Zhang Xinyi saw her companion was interested, and her expression changed in an instant. She said with a yearning look: "Maybe we can even take a photo with a celebrity, then our video will definitely go viral!"
The receptionist who was forced to sit in: “…” Wait, didn’t you just say you didn’t care?
Zhang Xinyi turned around and met the complicated gaze of the receptionist. She realized something and her eyes became a little erratic. She hooked her hair uncomfortably and pouted: "Why are you looking at me? Are you eavesdropping on our conversation?"
The girl at the front desk: “…”
That's right! This is the first time I see a customer like you.
The four young men looked at the last girl who came down the stairs. She was the only single person in their five-member team (……). Because she was pretty and always looked cool, she was the heroine in their short videos. She was very popular among the fans of their short video account, and everyone would listen to her opinions more or less when they went out.
Sang Qing bit her lip. She hadn’t dared to tell her companions before that she had actually been feeling unwell since they arrived in Dian County in the morning. She had a feeling of chest tightness, depression, and palpitations... It was as if she was locked in a black cage specially made for catching wild animals. The panic of the unknown was terrifying.
Especially at night when she opened the window of the room and saw the sky outside, it was like a huge black curtain, so thick that it seemed like ink could drip down, and not even a single star could be seen.
The entire county seemed to be locked in a cage.
It made her very frightened.
Sang Qing knew from a young age that there was another kind of existence in this world that many ordinary people would never be able to encounter in their lifetime. One of her ancestors was a psychic, and her grandmother was a famous witch in the countryside. She was found to have a talent for this profession when she was very young, but her parents were both highly educated people and sneered at this, which made her stay away from these things.
But Sang Qing knew that there were some things that you couldn't avoid just because you wanted to. Just as his parents were ordinary people with plenty of Yang energy, they would never understand what the world was like in the eyes of psychics with Yin destinies.
Thanks to the special physique brought by her blood, although Sang Qing has not received any acquired training, she can still perceive the abnormality of her environment.
It's dangerous here!
——This was Sang Qing’s initial intuition when she came here.
But then she thought, as a well-known tourist attraction and an internet-famous inn with a huge flow of visitors, what danger could there be?
She promised her fans that she would broadcast live in Dian County tonight, and her companions also needed to collect night view materials here. Everyone had a mission to accomplish, and it was no longer the time for her to choose to leave at will.
After a while, Sang Qing heard her own difficult voice: "Okay, I'll come back and take a look later."
After they had discussed the itinerary and were preparing to go out, a young woman with no makeup on suddenly came down from upstairs and passed by Sang Qing expressionlessly. Just when the two were about to touch shoulders, Sang Qing vaguely saw a huge dark shadow running towards her!
“Ahhhh!!! What is that?!”
Sang Qing opened her eyes wide, and her heart was so shocked that she couldn't control herself and stepped back, screaming in collapse.
Her companions were frightened by her sudden scream. They covered their ears and complained to her why she was so scared so late at night. It was really scary.
Other tourists who came to check in also looked over with dissatisfaction.
"Did you...see a dark shadow just now?" When she came to her senses, there was no one in front of her. Sang Qing blinked, but found that the woman's back was gone, as if the scene just now was just her illusion.
But her always accurate intuition told her that it was definitely not an illusion!
Jiang Cong was surprised and said, "No, there was only one girl passing by you just now, did you see it wrong?"
Sang Qing's lips trembled as she gestured with lingering fear: "It was a huge, dark shadow, as ferocious as a bear..."
"What black shadow? Are you dazzled?" Zhang Xinyi scratched her ears and looked at her suspiciously, "Sang Qing, you did this on purpose, didn't you? You didn't want to do the live broadcast tonight, so you did this?"
This was clearly an insult, and her boyfriend couldn't stand it and pushed her: "What are you talking about?"
Zhang Xinyi was wearing high heels, and he pushed her so hard that she almost sprained her ankle. The pain in her ankle touched some nerve in her. The anger that had been suppressed all night suddenly jumped out of her heart and rushed to her head, burning her to the point that she almost lost her mind and began to curse without restraint: "Okay, it starts again, right? You want to be a bootlicker just because she's pretty, and you don't even take a piss to look at yourself and see what you look like. She's a fairy, so cool! You already have a girlfriend, do you still have any shame? You're so cheap!"
Other tourists who just came downstairs in the hall: "..."
"You——!" Her boyfriend's face turned red with anger. Noticing the meaningful looks from other tourists, he suddenly became upset and said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? Zhang Xinyi, do you want to break up?!"
The girl at the front desk was very tired. She even had a feeling of "finally getting here". She couldn't even keep the smile on her face. She raised her voice helplessly and said, "... Hey, friends over there, can you please go out and have a fight? Many people are resting at this time, and we don't want to be complained about."
Jiang Cong and Shu Ran, the young couple, tried to separate them awkwardly: "Others are watching us, please pay attention to your manners."
The two felt embarrassed and puzzled at the same time. Although Zhang Xinyi was a little vain, she was also a face-conscious person and always paid attention to her image outside. Although she and her boyfriend always quarreled with each other, they were as good as one when they were not quarreling, and they were quite like a pair of bickering lovers. It was obviously not in line with her character for her to suddenly quarrel in such a public place today.
What's going on?
Sang Qing didn't pay attention to what they were arguing about, as she was completely absorbed by Zhang Xinyi. In the eyes of others, this was just a daily quarrel between ordinary lovers, except that the insults were a little harsher. But in her eyes, Zhang Xinyi's mouth was constantly opening and closing, spewing black mist out, and even her face was covered by the black mist. This scene was like a special effect scene from a movie, and it looked extremely weird!
However, no one around noticed this.
Sang Qing was almost Spartan. At this moment, she even thought that "Zhang Xinyi might not be a human". Could she be a squid spirit? Why would she emit black gas?
Although she knew that her physique was not scientific, she had only been able to feel it superficially in the past. She did not have her grandmother's Yin-Yang eyes that were said to be able to communicate with ghosts and gods, so she had never thought that the existence of that world would be concretely presented to her.
The two people who were arguing were talking about some unknown Zaun content with each other. Zhang Xinyi suddenly screamed angrily, yelled "Get out of here!", then pushed away the person blocking her way and rushed out the door!
"Zhang Xinyi! Where are you going?!" Her boyfriend rushed out without thinking.
Jiang Cong and Shu Ran tried to persuade them for a long time but failed. They were stunned when they saw the two men running away without even taking their luggage.
They just couldn't understand how things could develop to this point! From the moment Zhang Xinyi lost her temper for no apparent reason, the subsequent events became uncontrollable like a wild horse running out of control.
Although I was very depressed, as a member of a team, I couldn't stay out of it. Jiang Cong and Shu Ran looked at each other, and fearing that the two people had an accident, they also prepared to go out to look for them.
Shu Ran: "Xiao Qing, you stay and look after our things, we will go and stop the fight."
Sang Qing stood there watching the scene in a daze, feeling as if her throat was blocked by something, making her completely speechless. Because in her eyes, Zhang Xinyi and her boyfriend, like the woman who had passed by her before, had turned into a dark shadow.
The girl at the front desk watched the drama and it took her a long time to find her voice: "...Um, Ms. Sang Qing, you can sit on the sofa for a while and wait for your companion to come back."
Just then, a smartly dressed woman came hurriedly down from upstairs. She grabbed someone with an anxious look on her face and asked if he had seen a young woman coming downstairs. She also showed the other person a photo of Wang Ningning saved in her mobile phone.
Sang Qing, whose sleeve was grabbed, stared at the woman in the photo whom she had just seen: "..."
The capable woman didn't pay attention to her strange silence, and just kept chattering: "She is my colleague, her name is Wang Ningning, my name is Zhou Xiaowen, if you see her, please let me know, please call this number..."
However, Sang Qing's attention was elsewhere. She stared at the woman for a while, and noticed the red line on her neck that was hidden at the collar. She couldn't help but blurt out, "Excuse me, are you wearing a Buddha jade?"
From the moment the capable woman approached her, the air around her seemed to have become a lot fresher, and the oppressive feeling that had been lingering in her heart disappeared completely, making her feel much more at peace... She had only experienced this feeling when she was with the high monks she visited with her grandmother before. She subconsciously felt that the things in the red line were extraordinary, so she asked this question.
Zhou Xiaowen didn't expect her to say something so irrelevant, and asked in surprise: "What did you say?"
Sang Qing stared at the red line on her neck. She knew she was going crazy and even had a feeling that she would die here. She urgently needed something to calm her panicked heart. The thing on the woman in front of her would definitely satisfy her!
She asked anxiously, "Can you sell me what you are wearing around your neck? I can give you a lot of money."
Zhou Xiaowen touched the red string on her neck reflexively. There was a small lucky bag tied underneath, which contained the amulet given to her by Taoist Xiao Jing. She spent more than half a month's salary to buy it. She said with a vigilant look, "What do you know? I won't sell it."
Sang Qing said without hesitation: "I can offer one hundred thousand."
Zhou Xiaowen: "..." Are all the girls nowadays so rich? What should I do if I suddenly feel a little tempted?
Sang Qing observed her expression and saw that she seemed to be tempted. She said quickly, "If you think it's not enough, I can add another 100,000 and transfer it now!"
She showed Zhou Xiaowen the WeChat change screen on her phone. Zhou Xiaowen was shocked by the row of “0”s at the bottom: So damn rich!
Sang Qing didn't think that 200,000 yuan was a lot of money. The profession passed down from her ancestors was a very profitable industry. Her parents each had a listed company, and she had never lacked money since she was a child. But she had heard from her grandmother that in their metaphysical world, magical instruments with spirits were hard to come by and were even sold at sky-high prices. Her physique allowed her to feel the existence of those spiritual objects better than ordinary people. If she came across one, she must not miss it!
Moreover, now is a critical moment to save lives. She has a hunch that if she can possess this "magic weapon", the strangeness of her companions will disappear.
Seeing her sincerity, Zhou Xiaowen was very confused: "This... what I'm wearing is not some Buddha jade, it's just an ordinary amulet."
It was not the magic weapon she had guessed. Sang Qing was disappointed for a moment. Even though she was an amateur, she knew that once a personal amulet was given to someone else, its effect would be greatly reduced.
However, she changed her mind and thought that just a talisman had such great power, which showed that the person who drew the talisman was not ordinary! Maybe he was her grandmother's colleague, but she knew very well that the person must be much more powerful than her grandmother!
Thinking of the weirdness of this county town, Sang Qing suddenly felt an impulse in her heart.
Sang Qing said sincerely: "Your amulet is definitely not ordinary! Where did you buy it? Can you give me a contact number? I have something important to tell him!"
Zhou Xiaowen looked at her in surprise, thinking that this girl was a little neurotic, but her request was not excessive, because Taoist Xiaojing was upstairs... and judging from her appearance, something must have happened to make her so anxious. Zhou Xiaowen was not an unreasonable person. Things had their priorities. Someone as big as Wang Ningning should not be lost. She probably forgot to bring her cell phone when she went out. It would be in time for her to ask when she came downstairs later.
Zhou Xiaowen hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Then come upstairs with me. The person who drew the talisman is there."
Sang Qing's eyes lit up at first, but then she hesitated: The master is right here, what a coincidence?
Zhou Xiaowen had signed a confidentiality agreement and could not disclose information about the program casually, and he didn't know how to explain it to her: "Well...we are doing a special program, and the guests will be people from special industries. You will know when you go there."
Although Sang Qing was very skeptical, since the master was here, didn't he find out about the problem in Dian County? Or did they come here just to solve this problem?
But no outcome could be worse than the current one. Sang Qing hesitated for a moment and then followed her upstairs.
The front desk girl who was completely ignored: "..."
Have I come to the filming set of some TV show or movie?
And Ms. Sang, it seems that you didn’t check in. Do you and your companion no longer want the luggage?
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After Boss Lu talked with Jing Cheng, he felt like a huge rock was pressing on his heart. He spent most of the afternoon in a daze. In the evening, he had a meal that he couldn't swallow and returned to his room.
He looked at the statues of gods and Buddhas that filled the room and felt it was extremely ironic.
They are all fake! There are no gods in this world. The Bodhisattvas who save people from suffering are all fake!
——No one can save him.
Boss Lu was biting his fingernails nervously. He paced back and forth in the room anxiously, recalling his conversation with Jing Cheng in the afternoon.
"...You knew the consequences but concealed them. More and more people will die, and the evil creature will become stronger. When it transforms into a human, the consequences will be disastrous! Do you think you can still stay out of this? Although you are a human, you are no different from an animal!"
This was the voice that suddenly rang in his head after he had left and was quite far away from the other party. He didn't know how the other party did it, but those words were like a huge hammer hitting his heart, making him terrified.
He retorted in his head almost reflexively: "I'm not!"
"If you are still a human being, you can lure it out tonight." The voice continued.
"I don't...what should I do?"
"Just as you made a wish before, do it tonight."
Boss Lu's head buzzed and he knew everything!
At that moment, he suddenly turned around to look in the direction of the young boy, only to see that he was chatting naturally with his two companions. He turned his head casually to meet his gaze, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a beautiful smile.
The romantic thoughts he had for this person before had disappeared completely without a trace left, but that beautiful and seductive smile reminded him of Medusa, the demon with deadly eyes in ancient Greek mythology.
The only consequence of being targeted is death.
…
After thinking it over, Boss Lu felt more and more that he could not just sit there and wait for death, so he took out the crimson clay "Mountain God Statue" from the cupboard, cut his arm with a knife, poured a small cup of his own blood, and placed it in front of the clay statue.
The skillful movements clearly showed that this was not the first time. He had actually discovered the secret here a long time ago. To be precise, he had come here for the secret from the beginning and was not as innocent as he had said to Jing Cheng before.
Boss Lu has always believed that mountains and rivers have spirits, so he really thought that thing was a mountain god who could fulfill wishes.
So when he accidentally learned that he could make a wish by bleeding in front of the clay statue of the mountain god, he began to make his first wish, for the death of Yilan and Sangtai's father.
The old man was too shrewd. No one knew what he saw, but no matter how deeply in love he showed, he refused to let Yilan marry him. Even after learning that they had already made up their mind and it could not be changed, he still forced him to sign an extremely harsh prenuptial agreement.
Fortunately, that night after he made the wish, his good father-in-law passed away in his dream.
His second wish after he got the management rights of the inn was to make Yilan disappear. Sang Tai was simple-minded and admired him as her brother-in-law and obeyed his orders. But Yilan was not a good choice. This uneducated woman was rude and always suspicious. Only when she disappeared could he truly get the inn.
But this woman Yilan had a kind of evil nature. Perhaps she was not destined to die, as she was lucky enough to avoid fatal dangers time and time again and escape danger.
He also lost his child because of this.
This made him regret a little.
The third time he wished for Song Yan's body to disappear, making it look like he was missing. He watched Song Yan's body burn to ashes in front of his eyes, and when the wind blew, it disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace.
When the police came to investigate, they easily believed his story. No one in the county suspected why a grown man would disappear out of thin air.
Even Song Yan's family seemed to have forgotten about their son, and no one came to look for him.
It was also this time that he discovered that the power of that thing seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.
Now, it was his fourth wish. He hoped that the mountain god could save him. He didn’t want to die yet.
Sure enough, not long after, he heard a gentle knock on the door, just like the previous three times.
"Come in."
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The author has something to say:
Mini Theater: Congratulations to Boss Lu for achieving the “double agent” achievement!
Boss Lu: “…”
Jing Cheng: “Hehe”
Evil God: “Hehe”
I haven't finished Dian County in this chapter, but I should be able to finish it in the next chapter Orz.
ps: Sang Tai has nothing to do with Sang Qing, I’m just saying this here.
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