The fog was getting thicker now, and the clearing was covered in mist.
Vaguely, I seemed to see a child standing on the edge of the clearing.
He tilted his head and looked at us. On his dull and numb face, the corners of his mouth curled up into a stiff and weird smile.
It's just that we were too far apart, and I could see vaguely. Just when I was about to call He Zhi to watch together, another strange gust of wind blew over.
The fog was thick for a moment, and when it dispersed, no children could be seen anywhere, and the sky above the clearing was completely empty.
It's as if I'm having a hallucination...
"Mr. Li?" the coachman called me in confusion.
He Zhi looked at me in confusion and asked me softly what I was looking at.
I took a deep breath and whispered to He Fei in a low voice.
He Fei frowned slightly, and she looked back, but where else could she see any children at this moment?
The driver looked at us carefully and did not dare to say anything.
"This thing is too weird." He Zhi muttered in a low voice, stopped looking, and pulled me inside.
We were delayed for a quarter of an hour and had already lost sight of Huo Kunmin and the others.
Entering the gate of the villa, this place is very different from the Huo family's house.
The entrance is very wide, and the yard can almost be called a garden, with flower beds on one side and a pool on the other.
There are water lily leaves floating on the water, there are rockeries standing on it, and several carps of different colors are swimming on the water.
We walked through the courtyard from the path in the middle, and finally arrived at the main room, where there is a small courtyard for guests.
There are corridors on both sides leading to other houses.
The driver took us through the corridor on the right and soon arrived at a separate courtyard. He asked He Zhi and I to have a good rest and wait until the owner of the house wakes up tomorrow and invite us to see him again.
It was obvious that they had not been so respectful to me and He Pheasant before.
It was because I saved Huo Kunmin when I saw him in trouble that I changed my attitude.
After I nodded, the driver respectfully left.
I sent He Fei into a room, helped her sit down on the side of the bed, and did not leave immediately.
Because He Fei took out two things, one was the small piece of cloth she used to wrap her nails.
The other one was a roll of cloth with something wrapped straight inside.
There was a cabinet by the bedside. She put it on the cabinet and opened it. What she saw was a dead man's forearm and a piece of fingernail.
The nails were fine, I watched He Pheasant put them away.
It's just that I don't know when He Pheasant picked up this forearm...
Before I could speak, He Zhi said softly: "What happened to Huo Kunmin just now is problematic."
I squinted my eyes slightly and calmed down without interrupting her.
He Zhi paused for a moment and continued: "I thought at first that he was hooked by the evil spirit in the water, but there was this dead man's nail on his neck. It was clearly a collision with the evil spirit. It was sent to the water. , this evil person wants to use his hands to kill someone."
I immediately thought of the boy just now.
At this point, I also frowned.
With He Fei's words, a problem arises. It is recorded in the Nine Arts of Yinsheng that if a boy who dies in infancy becomes evil, he will follow his irresponsible father.
The boy is at his most ferocious when asking for his life, and he will definitely kill himself, and will not ask for help from others, let alone other dead people...
When I was by the water just now, I didn't have time to think about it.
If you think about it now, the problem is huge...
Huo Kunmin was not seduced by his wife, nor was he haunted by his dead son, but was haunted by something else and wanted him dead? !
When I thought about this clearly in an instant, my eyelids twitched wildly.
I didn't hide anything and directly told He Fei my inferences and guesses.
And this time, I didn't hide it from her anymore and told her everything about Huo Kunmin's identity.
He Zhi nodded slightly and told me that she had guessed it.
I was a little dumbfounded, but He Fei was already smart, and anyone with a discerning eye could see what happened just now.
He Zhi was not angry, but just told me that she thought my inference was correct.
After a pause, she continued, either something happened that Huo Kunmin didn't know about, or he didn't tell us.
I also nodded and said yes. .
What He Pheasant said is also what I want to say.
If you really want to know the reason, you have to wait until Huo Kunmin wakes up tomorrow to ask clearly.
After hesitating for a moment, I glanced at the dead man's forearm on the cabinet and asked He Zhi why he brought this thing back.
He Zhi told me not to ask any more questions. I would know when it comes in use.
Then she urged me to go to another room to rest. She was sleepy.
Of course I can't stay in her room anymore.
When I left, I was still admiring He Zhi's courage.
Even if I am fishing for corpses and collecting vaginas, I instinctively feel a sense of resistance and fear towards corpses.
Not only was He Zhi not afraid, he actually carried it with him quietly and placed it directly on the bedside...
If it were me, I would never be able to close my eyes.
Leaving the house, I entered another room.
I placed the big black wooden box on the inside of the bed. When I took off my shoes, I realized that the clothes on my upper body were still wet.
I took off my clothes, wrung out the water, and hung them to dry on the chair before getting into bed and getting under the quilt.
My nerves were tense just now, and I didn’t feel much yet.
At this moment, many places on my body were hurting, and I felt very tired and sleepy.
Wrapped in the quilt and feeling warm, I closed my eyes sleepily.
I didn't sleep deeply, half asleep and half awake.
It was okay when I closed my eyes, but not long after, I felt someone watching me beside the bed.
As for the reason why I am now so sensitive to this feeling, it is also very simple.
I sleep in the paper man Xu's house, and he has made paper pricks in my room twice in a row...
The longer that feeling lasted, the more I couldn't sleep and felt something was wrong.
This is a villa outside the city, not the backyard of a paper shop.
If people are staring at me, there must be someone next to my bed!
I was startled and suddenly opened my eyes.
I could barely see anything in the room, but there was no one in sight.
I struggled to sit up. I was stunned for a moment and became more awake.
I have glanced around the room, and there is indeed no one...
I held my forehead and shook my head again. Am I wrong? Am I too nervous?
The sleepiness was still very strong, and I was about to go to bed.
But he found that it was cold and cold around him, and there was even an indescribable feeling of depression.
My heart skipped a beat.
I glanced sideways out of the corner of my eye, and a chill ran down my spine.
Because there was actually a set of clothes on the side of my bed!
Those were not normal clothes, they were a set of dark burial clothes.
A small round black hat is pressed in the center of the clothes.
I jumped out of bed and fell to the ground, which was even more cold and stinging. I quickly grabbed the divination knife I had put down by the bedside and stared at the burial clothes with vigilance...
This is like hell. I fell asleep peacefully. Why are there so many dead people around me? !
