After listening to Mou Ling's description, Shen Xing suddenly had a picture in his mind.
A slightly fat woman with bare feet and no slippers, wearing autumn clothes and long trousers, was leaning over the bed, staring blankly at him.
It is conceivable that Mou Ling's uncle must have been frightened at that time.
Mou Ling continued: "My uncle was so frightened that he shouted directly, "Afen, what are you doing?" My aunt straightened up her body, but instead of answering him, she walked to the other side of the bed. She got into her bed and slowly lay down, without saying a word the whole time. Her uncle watched her lie down again, and then he realized that his whole body was trembling. That night, he didn't even dare to open his eyes. Close it again.”
"Is this related to that wood carving?" Shen Xing was a little confused.
Because it seems that Mou Ling's aunt only has those weird behaviors that people say after encountering ghosts, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the wood carvings.
"Yes, related." Mou Ling nodded, took a sip of the drink in front of him, and moistened his throat.
She kept lowering her voice during the narration. She was obviously tired of speaking this way, and suggested to Shen Xing: "Let's go to the corner. There is no one around, so it's easier to talk."
Shen Xing nodded, took the "casual" cocktail that had never been touched, and the two stood up and sat down in the corner opposite the couple.
It seemed very quiet here, but the light was even dimmer. Without turning on the special pupils, Shen Xing even had to try hard to open his eyes wide enough to see the face of Mou Ling sitting opposite.
Mou Ling slightly increased the volume at this time and continued: "That night, the next morning my uncle asked my aunt what happened last night, but my aunt didn't know anything. She just said that she had been sleeping and didn't get up at all. Yes. In the afternoon, my uncle went to find a Taoist priest in Shuitao Town. Usually when someone passed away in the town, he would ask the Taoist priest surnamed Lu to perform rituals. My uncle thought that my aunt might have an evil spirit, so he quietly asked the Taoist priest Lu to perform rituals. I drew a talisman and placed it under Auntie’s pillow.”
"Master Lu, this title is a bit intriguing." Shen Xing thought to himself and asked, "He didn't take your aunt to the doctor for a checkup. At that time, he didn't suspect that she was sick?"
"I only suspected it later. I didn't think much about it at the time." Mou Ling said: "You know, my aunt and uncle have been living in Shuitao Town since they were young. They have not studied for a few years. When they were young, they only treated diseases. I drink Fuhua water and rarely even take cold medicine."
After a pause, she continued: "The next night, after placing the talisman he asked for under my aunt's pillow, my uncle thought that even if my aunt got hit by evil spirits, she would be fine. All monsters and monsters could be safely avoided by this talisman. But he still stayed up until one o'clock in the morning before falling asleep. When he suddenly woke up, he found that he had been woken up by the cold, and there was nothing covering him. "
"My uncle looked next to him again, and his aunt who was sleeping next to him disappeared again. It was about three or four o'clock in the morning, and he didn't find any bedding on the bed. My uncle looked around while lying on the bed, but he didn't see his aunt either. In the room, he was a little panicked. He couldn't figure out why the people and the bedding were missing. He quickly sat up from the bed and looked at the ground. There was nothing on the ground except slippers. And when he went to the side where his aunt was sleeping, he was a little panicked. When I looked at the floor of the bed, I saw that the quilt had fallen underneath.”
"My uncle did not get out of bed at that time, but leaned over to see if my aunt had fallen to the ground with the quilt, but he could only see the quilts piled together, and could not tell whether my aunt was covered under it. . He reached out to grab the quilt, trying to grab it and put it back on the bed. Unexpectedly, when he grabbed it, the quilt went under the bed, as if someone was grabbing it, and he was much stronger than my uncle. .”
"Your aunt is under the bed?"
Hearing this, Shen Xing looked surprised and unknowingly picked up the goblet and took a sip. Then he glanced at the colorful drink and felt that it was quite refreshing in the mouth and not as bad as he imagined.
Mou Ling did not answer him directly, but continued: "Seeing the quilt being quickly pulled under the bed, my uncle was dumbfounded. He just stared at it dumbfounded and did not dare to grab the remaining part. The whole process was not done. He made a little noise, and soon the whole quilt was pulled under the bed. My uncle sat on the bed and didn't dare to breathe. He felt something moving under the bed, but it seemed to be an illusion. He lifted up the pillow where his aunt was sleeping, and found that it was daytime The talisman I asked for is still there, but it obviously has no effect."
"My uncle wanted to get out of bed, but he looked at the slippers placed beside the bed. The dark space under the bed behind the slippers gave him great fear and pressure. After struggling for a while, he finally jumped out of bed. , not even wearing slippers, ran to the door and first pressed the light switch in the bedroom, and then opened the bedroom door."
Having said this, Mou Ling leaned forward, got closer to Shen Xing, and asked, "What do you think happened?"
Shen Xing shook his head, but he suddenly felt goosebumps that he had not seen for a long time.
Mou Ling said: "My aunt was standing outside the bedroom door. Her eyes were as wide as that night, and she was holding the wooden sculpture in her hands like a baby. The most important thing is that although my uncle pressed the light switch, But in fact the lights were not on, the room was still dark, and I could see my aunt's eyes that were so dark and shiny."
"My uncle was frightened at the time, because someone clearly pulled the fallen quilt under the bed just now. He thought it was the evil aunt who did it, but he didn't know that the aunt was actually standing outside the door. Although she looks very strange now. It’s weird, but who is the person under the bed who pulled the quilt under the bed?”
"My uncle was completely confused at that time. He just stood there at a loss. But my aunt did not look at him. Instead, she walked into the bedroom with the wooden sculpture, came to the bed and slowly lay down, holding the wooden sculpture against her chest. , and never put it down. It was only then that my uncle noticed something was wrong with the wooden sculpture. He said it was held by my aunt, but when he looked carefully, it seemed that it was entangled with my aunt's hands, but he couldn't see clearly in the dark. "
Shen Xing nodded slightly. From this point of view, the wood carving was quite strange.
Mou Ling took a sip of wine and said, "After that night, my uncle pulled out the bedding from under the bed the next morning and found that there was nothing under the bed. However, he did not dare to sleep in the same room with his aunt anymore, so he moved Went to the next room. After that, sometimes at night I would hear sounds of moving and knocking on the wall from my aunt, and sometimes she would be talking to herself, but I still couldn’t make out what she was saying.”
"Your uncle didn't tell you at that time?" Shen Xing asked.
Mou Ling nodded: "I told you, but after he took his aunt to the hospital to see the doctor and asked Master Lu to perform two rituals at home, because it was completely ineffective, someone who knew the inside story told him that this kind of Strange things can actually be reported to the Sheriff, because some Sheriffs seem to be able to handle it. That's when my uncle thought of me."
"My uncle and my aunt's daughter were studying in college outside, and they were the only two at home. After I received the message from my uncle and rushed over, I found that something was indeed very wrong with my aunt. At that time, my uncle said that she was fine in the first few days, and at least she couldn't see her during the day. There is no difference, except that there are strange changes at night. But when I went there, even if I saw my aunt during the day, I found that her face was gloomy, and she didn’t express anything when she saw me. Her eyes were blank, without any focus, and she occasionally answered I said it, but the voice was obviously not hers, and it sounded creepy."
"What about the wood carvings?" Shen Xing's focus has shifted to this.
"I was held in her arms twenty-four hours a day." Mou Ling recalled: "I once asked her to put her down, but she ignored me. Later, I called her outside the yard to observe carefully and found that she could stand completely Under the sun, there was no effect, and it looked like she was actively holding the wooden sculpture with both hands. She couldn't tell what happened if she took a closer look, but whenever she glanced at it, she always felt that the wooden sculpture was wrapping her hands around her. When she looked at it directly, , that feeling will disappear immediately.”
"How did you try to solve it?" Shen Xing asked.
He was sure that Mou Ling must have made some attempts. As for finding him now, it was because she couldn't solve it after trying.
The reason why Mou Ling thinks this way should be very simple, that is, Shen Xing is a woodcarving maker and a holder of a Red Heart Certificate.
In addition, Mou Ling saw with her own eyes last time that Shen Xing was very powerful and could make wood carvings. She may have determined herself as the best candidate to solve her aunt's anomaly at that time.
Mou Ling shook his head and smiled bitterly: "My attempt only harmed my aunt. As you know, my ability is psychic, which is an attack focused on the spirit and thoughts. What I thought at the time was that my aunt was abnormally mind-controlled. , solving this kind of anomalies is what I am good at. Who knows..."
Speaking of this, Mou Ling seemed a little scared.
What she was most afraid of was not the process of dealing with the anomaly, but the harm it would cause to her aunt when dealing with the anomaly.
"After learning more about it, we locked my aunt in the bedroom that day. I directly used my psychic energy to cover her whole body, and found very obvious feedback of abnormal characteristics from the wood carving in her arms, which proved that my guess was correct."
Mou Ling took a sip of wine and continued with lingering fear: "Use the psychic power to wrap up the anomaly. I can feel it struggling and trying to fight back my control, but this is obviously in vain. At the same time, I found This unusual weakness is that it is actually very fragile, and that seemingly streamlined abstract shape is actually very fragile."
"So, I only need to break one of its wooden pieces, so that this guy is completely useless, and I can first rescue my aunt from being controlled by it. My uncle will help me with this matter. We were in the evening when my aunt had just gone to bed. Shortly after getting off the bed, I could hear her snoring slightly, and he quietly entered the house. Following my instructions, my uncle used a sharp ax he had prepared in advance to hold my aunt in his arms, exposing part of the horns of the wood carving. The ax breaks.”
"Because the wood carving is indeed fragile, my uncle was very careful when chopping it and did not hurt my aunt. After the exposed part of the wood carving broke, we all heard a click. However, the sound was very heavy and loud, and my uncle and I both I was surprised, it felt like not only the horns of the wood carving were broken, but something else was also broken."
Hearing this, Shen Xing once again felt the goosebumps he had just now.
"My psychic sense clearly noticed that the characteristics of the wood carving were weakening, which shows that our method worked. However, when my uncle tried to take the wood carving out of his aunt's arms, he found that he still could not take it out. At this time, my aunt Because she was asleep, she didn't hold the wooden sculpture hard. It looked like the wooden sculpture had adhered to her body by itself. The uncle tried again, but still couldn't take it out. He found the horn of the wooden sculpture exposed on the other side. Another blow from the ax."
"Have you taken it out?" Shen Xing asked.
Mou Ling shook his head: "This ax caused the other side of the wood carving to break. It also made a clicking sound, but the sound was very dull and heavy, just like before. It was completely different from the usual sound of wood breaking. It was like... it broke at the same time. two."
Speaking of this, Mou Ling suddenly shuddered. Although his expression was still cold, there was a trembling feeling in his body.
"I realized something was wrong and asked my uncle to stop trying to take the wood carving. The two of us stepped back and stood aside for a long time to observe. During this period, my aunt had been sleeping soundly. She didn't seem to make such a big noise when we just made it. I don’t know. With my psychic perception, I found that the characteristics of the wood carving have been weakening, but they have always existed and have not completely disappeared.”
"Then did your aunt wake up later?" Shen Xing frowned.
"She's awake. She just woke up in the morning." Mou Ling nodded. "She didn't seem to know what we did last night. Her eyes were still empty and her whole person was gloomy. She sat on the bed after getting up. Her uncle asked her to go out to eat. During breakfast, I followed behind. After my aunt heard this, she slowly stood up from the bed. Then we found that her left arm was twisted and obviously broken, but she was still holding the wooden sculpture in her arms. Not only In this way, her waist also tilted about fifteen degrees to the left, walking towards us in a weird posture, but she didn't even notice it."
Shen Xing took a breath and said solemnly: "In other words, your aunt has at least two fractures on her body, but she doesn't show any discomfort."
"No." A look of regret flashed across Mou Ling's face, "We realized at that time that the sound of the wood carving breaking last night was actually because the bones in the aunt's body were also breaking at the same time. This explains The reason why the cracking sound we hear is so strange."
"So you can't touch this wooden sculpture, otherwise once it is destroyed, the same situation will be immediately reflected on your aunt?" Shen Xing said.
"Yes." Mou Ling nodded, "This wooden sculpture not only controls the aunt mentally, it also controls her body. All I know now is that it is very fragile and can be destroyed easily, but it can also be destroyed easily. Drop my aunt."
After saying this, Mou Ling drank all the wine in the glass, waved to the waiter and asked for a glass of the same.
Shen Xing lifted "Yiyi" and took a sip while thinking.
Now it seems that the abnormal wood carving seems to be looking for a substitute. By connecting its own body with a human being, it may gradually assimilate that person into a wood carving!
And it itself has also completed the transition from a small wood carving to a large wood carving.
It is indeed difficult for Mou Ling to deal with this guy without hurting his aunt.
And Mou Ling also knew very well that if she told the special team, their methods would be simpler and cruder, and they would most likely treat her as an abnormality together with her aunt.
"Since last week, my aunt has been unable to go out." Mou Ling's beautiful eyebrows knitted together, "Not only that, my uncle and their neighbors also started to have some weird dreams to varying degrees in the past few days. .”
"What dream?" Shen Xing was surprised.
"It has something to do with the tree." Mou Ling said: "Originally, I had planned to tell Ding Wenying and the others when I came last time and ask them to contact the special team in Qishan to jointly handle the case. After all, I have no choice but to delay it any longer. , it may implicate other people, and even if they have to deal with it now, the most likely outcome is that my aunt will die. Who knows, I met you and Feifei that night."
