It’s not too late now, and the entrance to the community is still bustling, with old people and children still taking a walk.
A somewhat shabby van was parked at the entrance of the community, and it seemed to be full of life.
Chi Shen walked over, knocked on the window of the van, then opened the door and sat in.
"Go see your family first." Chi Shen said.
There was only one man in the van, Wei Zhuo, who was the one who called Chi Shen out. It was winter now, so he put on a down jacket, still with the zipper pulled to the top, covering his entire neck, and he also wore a mask on his face.
This kind of dress made him look extremely difficult to get along with, and the fact that he always looked at people with a cold gaze, as if he was looking at a dead object, made people even more frightened.
But even dressed like this, he doesn't give people a strong sense of presence. He doesn't have a particularly strong aura, and if you don't look him in the eye, you can't see the terrifying look in his eyes. So unless there are special circumstances, he can easily disappear from the sight of ordinary people.
But it is this man who carries the curse that plunges an entire family into despair.
Wei Zhuo drove towards the old town in silence.
He is a very smart man and knows that it is useless to place his family in those high-end places with complete security facilities. Those who come to him are not those who can be stopped by security guards, but things that ordinary people cannot see.
Therefore, settling my family in the noisy old town was the best choice.
This allows his family to blend in well with the crowd. If those who come here smelling his scent are not careful, they may find the wrong person. In addition, there is a large flow of people here, and many people come and go, making this place full of the yang energy of living people, which makes foreign ghosts avoid it.
Wei Zhuo took Chi Shen into an old house. The outside of the house looked very old, but the inside looked very good, very clean and tidy. It seemed that Wei Zhuo had selected it carefully.
Chi Shen and Wei Zhuo went upstairs together. Wei Zhuo stopped in front of a door. He knocked on the door and a woman came to open it. Wei Zhuo smiled. The woman said something to him. Wei Zhuo waved his hand and did not go in.
The moment the door opened, Chi Shen saw that Wei Zhuo's eyes changed slightly. The look he gave the woman became softer for a long time, and there was also a hint of guilt that was barely perceptible.
Is this family?
It can make a man who looks so cold show a soft expression.
Chi Shen thought about his family members, his so-called brother, mother, and father...
He suddenly smiled.
No, it should be my sister, my mother... and a ghost behind me.
As if sensing his thoughts, a cool breeze blew up from the shadow, circling twice between his fingers. Chi Shen hooked his fingers slightly, and the cool breeze dissipated again.
"You go in." After greeting his family, Wei Zhuo walked towards Chi Shen. He looked at Chi Shen's shadow thoughtfully, but finally said nothing.
Chi Shen nodded and walked to the door with Wei Zhuo. This time Wei Zhuo still didn't come in. Chi Shen tilted his head to look at him: "Aren't you going in?"
Wei Zhuo shook his head: "I'm afraid of bringing unclean things in, you go and take a look."
The woman smiled and invited him in. She looked very gentle, but when she spoke, it seemed that her smile was forced.
The whole house was decorated very warmly, and it could be seen that Wei Zhuo's lover was a woman who knew how to live. Chi Shen followed the woman into the bedroom, where a pale-faced little girl of about twelve or thirteen was lying on the bed, her brows furrowed, motionless.
Under the warm yellow light, the little girl looked like she was sick, or had fallen asleep and had a nightmare. There were a few dolls beside her to keep her company while she slept.
But from Chi Shen's perspective, the room doesn't look so warm.
The black curse broke out of the little girl's body and condensed into a huge black tree. The tree reached the ceiling and bloomed black flowers.
The roots extending from the tree trunk wrapped around the little girl, constantly depriving her of the vitality. That was the shape of the curse.
Not only the little girl, but also the woman and Wei Zhuo's chest also had such a black curse growing on them. It's just that the curses of the two adults had just taken root and had not grown into towering trees.
Others, even someone like Wei Zhuo, cannot see the shape of the curse, but Chi Shen can, because he has also borne many curses.
In that death game, there were many people who wanted him to die.
Even the owner of the shop where he learned to make paper figurines cursed him viciously when his shop was burned down and he was about to die in the fire.
Those curses are real in the world of the death game and will not disappear just because he clears a level. The curse will even be carried over to the next level.
At the beginning, Chi Shen was also tortured by the curse. He thought about strengthening his resistance to the curse, or trying not to annoy the NPC when passing the level, or directly blame it on other people or objects.
Later he discovered that this was not a long-term solution. The long-term solution was that he could solve the curse on himself.
It took him a long time, but the result was satisfactory to him. He "tamed" the curse on himself and also had eyes that could see the shape of the curse.
What he was looking at at the moment was the curse that belonged to Wei Zhuo's family. In his opinion, it was just a very common curse. In the world of death game, he had encountered at least eighty such curses if not a hundred. It was very easy to solve.
Of course, solving curses and ghosts are not the same. It does not mean that you can just pull out the black tree that absorbs the anger from the little girl. Compared with evil spirits, curses are more like a cause and effect. What needs to be solved is the causal relationship, not the ordinary appearance.
Chi Shen didn't stay at Wei Zhuo's house for long. He had to go to work tomorrow and had to go back to bed early.
In the car, Wei Zhuo handed him a heavy backpack and said, "Everything you want is in here. You have also seen the situation of my daughter and wife. Can you solve it?"
Chi Shen smiled and said, "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't come here."
Perhaps it was because Chi Shen's tone was too relaxed, Wei Zhuo looked at him with a moment of doubt.
Chi Shen didn't even look at the contents of the bag, and continued to smile and said, "You have no choice, right? After all, the Bai family can't solve your problem."
Wei Zhuo was silent.
"You're right." After a moment, he started the van and walked Chi Shen back.
Chi Shen opened the bag in the back seat and saw a pile of information inside. He felt his eyes go dark and immediately pulled Ji Xingchen out of the shadows: "Leave it to you."
Ji Xingchen pushed his glasses and looked at Chi Shen expressionlessly.
Chi Shen also looked at Ji Xingchen.
The back seat suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
"You know," Chi Shen was the first to break the silence, "I am now like someone who just got the key points from the teacher the day before the final exam. You have to help me."
Ji Xingchen pushed his glasses again: "I suggest you hand it in directly."
Chi Shen: "...So there are times when you don't want to study."
Ji Xing looked away silently.
When the man and the ghost were talking in the back seat, Wei Zhuo still had no expression. It was not until they talked about handing it over that Wei Zhuo said, "These are all Bai family's business. They don't involve you. You can hand them over to the Special Security Bureau."
After saying that, he added: "There is no material about me either."
Chi Shen had already taken a quick look at the contents of the first page of the file. According to Wei Zhuo's classification, he was right. They were all exchanges between the Bai family and others on "business". He looked at Wei Zhuo and said, "You seem to have been in the Bai family for many years?"
Wei Zhuo replied: "I have been in the Bai family since I was born."
Chi Shen nodded thoughtfully, his eyes fell on Ji Xingchen's hand holding the document. Although Ji Xingchen said he would hand it in, he still read it carefully.
Then Chi Shen asked again: "How much do you know about the Bai family's old house?"
"That's where the Bai family raises ghosts." Wei Zhuo glanced at them in the rearview mirror, but he could only see Chi Shen's figure in the rearview mirror. Ji Xingchen's appearance was not reflected. He was too weak.
"I go in often," Wei Zhuo said, "When the Bai family needs to do something, they always need to use some ghosts. I often go in to get the ghosts out."
Chi Shen said: "Then it is very familiar."
Wei Zhuo shook his head: "I never go to places I shouldn't go."
"What's inside the main house?" Chi Shen suddenly asked.
Wei Zhuo's hand on the steering wheel paused slightly, as if he had realized something: "Isn't it the tablet of the Bai family's ancestors?"
Chi Shen looked at Wei Zhuo through the rearview mirror of the van, and Wei Zhuo also looked at him through the rearview mirror. The two looked at each other through the mirror, and both sides understood something.
But Wei Zhuo didn't seem to care much. He didn't seem to be curious about this. He said, "If you have any questions, you can ask me. If you can help me solve the curse on my family, I will help you."
Chi Shen asked, "Has anything major happened in the Bai family's old house in recent years?"
"Does what you did count?" Wei Zhuo asked.
Chi Shen said: "It's not my fault."
Wei Zhuo thought for a moment and shook his head: “If what you did doesn’t count, then it doesn’t count. The situation in the old house has always been stable. If it wasn’t stable, the Bai family wouldn’t have survived until now.”
If something happens in the old house and the ghosts are released, the Bai family will be in big trouble, so what Wei Zhuo said makes sense.
When and how did Ji Xingchen enter the Bai family's old house and become the ghost in the main house?
The van stopped at the gate of Chi Shen's community. When Chi Shen collected the information and prepared to get off the car, Wei Zhuo suddenly said, "Speaking of the old house, Wen Qin is back, you have to be careful."
Chi Shen turned to look at him: "Who is Wen Qin?"
"A genius with the ability to see through the dark and the dark. He was the gatekeeper of the old house 10 or 20 years ago. Later he went to the imperial capital. He is a hypocrite. He looks kind, but he is actually very difficult to get along with." Wei Zhuo looked at Chi Shen with a cold smile in his eyes. "If you can't solve it, I'm going to go find him."
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