"Do you think this old guy got sick suddenly?" Shao Zilong cursed.
When I heard him talk about "getting sick," my heart moved, and I suddenly remembered the strange spell that gushed out like blood on the wall behind him when the dean blew himself up.
However, the talisman appeared suddenly and disappeared very suddenly. It only took a startling glance and then disappeared.
"What are you looking at?" Shao Zilong came over and asked when he saw me staring at the wall.
I looked around the room and asked, "Do you think that old man wants to kill us?"
"Looking at the posture just now, it's us who are at the disadvantage. If two people had come here, they would have died long ago." Shao Zilong cursed.
He frowned again, "But this old man has been nagging for a long time. Is it just to distract us? There is something wrong."
"Even if I'm going to die, it doesn't have to be so ugly, right?" I said, looking at the blood splattered all over the room.
Shao Zilong let out a sigh and looked at me in surprise, "You mean, this old lunatic is cheating his death? That's fair to say..."
At this point, he suddenly slapped his thigh and leaned in, "I know, this guy is using us to play with the golden cicada and escape from its shell!"
"You think so too?" I asked him.
"It must be!" Shao Zilong scolded, "This old guy really has a lot of fun!"
Seeing Haitang looking at us with confusion, Shao Zilong asked, "Haitang, did you not understand?"
"I understand, you are saying that the dean's uncle is not dead, but actually escaped. This is the golden cicada escaping its shell, right?" Haitang said.
Shao Zilong nodded and said, "Yes, that's what it is."
"Then since the dean's uncle wanted to escape, why didn't he escape before?" Haitang asked puzzledly.
Shao Zilong patted her on the shoulder and said in an old-fashioned way, "Haitang, you are still young and don't know how sinister people are. This old guy is playing this trick of escaping the golden cicada. It's not just for us, it's for other people to see." "
Seeing that Haitang still didn't understand, I explained again, "As long as anyone enters Shimen Village, they basically have no chance of leaving alive."
"Well, just like my parents." Haitang nodded sadly, and after a while, whispered, "I understand, it's the same in the lunatic asylum. You can't get out after you get in. The dean's uncle wants to leave, but he doesn't. If you want to die, then use the golden cicada to escape from the shell, right?"
"We, Haitang, are still smarter!" Shao Zilong gave her a thumbs up.
As Haitang said, this lunatic asylum is essentially no different from Shimen Village. It is also a prison where people are kept in captivity.
It's just that the people in Shimen Village are villagers, while the people in the lunatic asylum are the patients.
I heard Haitang say before that she had seen people from their Shimen Village here, and they disappeared after going crazy.
These people were probably born with exquisite hearts, affected by the earth's Yin tide, causing confusion and madness, and finally being sent to a lunatic asylum.
As for what they were sent here for, it was most likely to use them for research.
In addition to people from Shimen Village, this lunatic asylum also received many patients sent from other places.
However, these people all have one characteristic, they are not ordinary lunatics.
So to boil it down, this lunatic asylum was built on the Red River and probably served two purposes.
One is to receive lunatics from Shimen Village who are affected by the earth's tide, and the other is to collect some patients from various places who are obviously very different from ordinary lunatics and lock them up for research.
So this lunatic asylum and Shimen Village are actually one.
As for the old man, he said he was the director of the lunatic asylum, but in fact he was just a jailer, and this lunatic asylum was just a huge prison.
At first, Haitang's father wanted to break out of the prison with his family and fly away, but the couple drowned in the river.
So if the old man wants to leave here, he must think of a more secure way.
That is cheating death.
"After a long time, the three of us have been tricked by this old guy!" Shao Zilong cursed unwillingly.
I walked to the door and saw heavy clouds in the sky and darkness outside. I turned around and said, "Then we definitely can't go along with his wishes."
"How do you say that?" Shao Zilong was confused.
"Secure this house and then chase him out." I said.
Shao Zilong was stunned for a moment, and then said with great joy, "You are really a loser, let me do it, let me do it!"
As he spoke, he swiped his finger forward, and a yellow paper talisman appeared between his fingers.
This was the first time I saw Shao Zilong using a talisman. I saw him shaking his hand casually, and the talisman made a snapping sound and stretched straight!
Shao Zilong waved his hand gently, and the talisman flew flatly in the air. Then a corner of the talisman spontaneously ignited without wind, and a ball of orange flame burst out.
As soon as the talisman touched the wall, the flames immediately surged and spread rapidly along the wall. In the blink of an eye, the entire room was engulfed in fire.
But the strange thing is that although there are a lot of paper documents piled up in this room, the first thing that the flames engulf is not these flammable objects, but the blood and meat residue in the room.
This is because the fire that Shao Zilong used the talisman to draw was not an ordinary flame, but Yang Fire.
"Okay." I saw that the fever was almost gone, so I took Haitang downstairs.
Shao Zilong took the lead and ran ahead, shouting, "I'm going this way, you guys are chasing each other, don't let that old guy get away!"
The voice was so loud that it could probably be heard miles away.
We struggled for a while and took this opportunity to quickly circle around the entire asylum.
At this time, except for the three of us, the lunatic asylum was really empty, not even a ghost.
Not to mention the dean, even the four "cold" nurse sisters have long disappeared.
It seemed that the other party had already made a plan, and deliberately took the opportunity to send the nurse away first, and then self-destruct. It was really a good show.
"Do you think that old guy is so angry now?"
Shao Zilong came back to join us and asked with a smile.
"Does he still have time to grit his teeth?" I asked back.
"That's right." Shao Zilong said happily, "I guess he is busy running away, but this old guy is also thinking too well. He thinks he can escape and go free in this way?"
This dean obviously knows a lot of things. He wants to just walk away in such a daze. Nothing in the world is so cheap. He must be forced out.
"Your sister might really have left on her own."
Seeing that Haitang was depressed, Shao Zilong and I took turns to comfort her a few times, finally making the little girl feel at ease.
Since we couldn't find anyone and we couldn't go back to Shimen Village, the three of us simply found a room, took out the stove, heated the grilled fish and other things we had brought, and cooked them together. The bag is round.
After eating and drinking, we set off back to Meicheng.
When we returned to the city, it was still dark, so we found a nearby hotel to spend the night.
The next day, I took a taxi and came to Xinghua Old Street, where I happened to see an iron head and a small pole pulling a load of cement back.
