"I remember that I had just entered the orphanage a few days ago. Uncle, you should have seen what I looked like at that time. I was thin and dark. It was completely different from now, so I wouldn't offend anyone when I entered the orphanage. Attention is the kind that is inconspicuous even if thrown into the crowd.
It was okay at the beginning, because I was too ordinary and no one paid much attention to me. It was fine for me to be alone.
But soon I found something different from others.
I can see things that others can't see, hear sounds that others can't hear, and when something weird happens in the courtyard, I can immediately know what the real situation is.
At first I would tell other friends about these things, thinking that everyone could see those things the same as me.
But other people didn't seem to have this ability. Instead, they thought I was a freak and started to stay away from me. Over time, I no longer wanted to tell other people, and I would digest whatever I saw in silence by myself.
This situation continued until one day, a little boy in the courtyard suddenly died mysteriously on the bed in his dormitory. When he died, his eyes were wide open and his facial features were bleeding.
There was no sign of this little boy's death. According to his friends, he was mentally healthy and optimistic, and there was no possibility of suicide.
But when he committed suicide, there were no outsiders in the courtyard, and he usually had a good relationship with his roommates, so it was unlikely that he would have any conflicts with others.
It was useless to just rely on speculation. After discussion, the hospital leaders decided to call the police. After all, a child died in the orphanage. It would not be a trivial matter if this matter was reported. It was better for the hospital to proactively deal with the problem first.
After receiving the news, the police rushed to the courtyard quickly and launched an investigation. However, no matter how they investigated and searched for evidence day and night, they could not find any clues and were completely unable to start.
And just when the police were considering whether to simply end the case as suicide, another child died on the bed in the same way.
If it were just one person, he might be able to use the excuse of suicide to get past it, but now that both of them are in this situation, then you know with your buttocks that this is definitely not a suicide.
So the police had to increase their manpower again, installed cameras in every corner of the courtyard, and launched another round of investigation.
This round of actions was much more professional than the last round, and it seemed that the level of the police officers who came was much higher, but despite this, there was still no news related to the murderer.
I didn’t even know later whether it was to provoke the police, but every week, a child would die in this way.
This matter quickly attracted the attention of the higher-ups. I remember that the Ministry of Public Security personally sent people to the province to sit on the ground, hoping to catch the cruel murderer as soon as possible and give everyone an explanation.
But only I know that no matter how hard they try, they can't find the murderer.
Because the murderer is not human at all.
I forget which day it started, but I discovered that a ghost had wandered into the courtyard, a female ghost.
The female ghost wanders around several dormitories in the courtyard every day, her entire figure floating in the air, wearing a red wedding dress, and her hair is hanging on the ground.
I didn't understand this at the time, I just thought it was a very fierce-looking ghost, but looking back now, the female ghost should be a fierce ghost who died full of resentment. She only had killing in her mind, but no consciousness.
Because I was ostracized by everyone at the time, I didn’t say anything when I saw it, and the ghost looked very fierce. I was afraid that something bad would happen to her if she knew I could see her, so I just pretended I can't see her either.
After about a month of this kind of life, the situation in the hospital was the same again, and four children died.
And just a month later, another male ghost suddenly appeared in the courtyard.
I didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking it was a female ghost bringing a male ghost here to absorb Yang energy in the same way.
But one night, when I was sleeping in bed, I suddenly heard the two ghosts gathering together. The female ghost was discussing with the male ghost. It was almost the Ghost Festival, and this courtyard was full of yang-positive children. He had to bring all the ghosts to the courtyard to share the yang energy of all the remaining children.
At this time, I could no longer pretend not to know, so I quickly found the person in charge of the police and told him about the matter. However, the police thought that I was just a child and that I might be dreaming or thinking about something all day long. Completely fantasy.
I saw that the police didn't believe it, so I quickly told the dean about it, but the dean didn't believe me either. Later, for some reason, this matter spread from the dean, and all the children in the hospital knew about it. .
Everyone thought I was crazy and a freak, and they were unwilling to have contact with me in the first place. After this incident, they hated me even more, and even deliberately targeted me on various occasions when they met me, while I was sleeping. They cut my hair and tore all my clothes on purpose. If I went home a little late at night, they would lock the dormitory door and not let me in. I had to sleep in the hall of the dormitory building all night.
But at that time I was still thinking about the Hungry Ghost Festival, so I tolerated it for the time being.
Unexpectedly, on the day of the Ghost Festival in the middle of July, the two ghosts suddenly disappeared in the courtyard. Naturally, nothing happened at the end of the day, and all the children were safe and sound.
With this incident, my report to the dean became a joke. Everyone thought I was crazy and bullied me even more intensely.
The day I met Fang Zhi was at noon.
I just picked up the food from the restaurant, and when I turned around to pick up a bowl of rice, when I came back, the food was already spat on and filled with dirt.
The financial difficulties in the hospital during those years meant that each child could only get one meal. I was not popular in the hospital, and none of the teachers liked me. It was definitely impossible to give me another meal.
I originally planned to skip this meal and wait hungry until the evening was over. Suddenly, a little girl with twin tails sat in front of me with her dinner plate. She smiled and told me that she wanted to eat with me. , and divided her meal into two parts and gave one to me.
After dinner, she went back to the dormitory with me and asked me my name. It was only after I exchanged names with her that I found out her name was Fang Zhi.
From that day on, Fang Zhi accompanied me every day when I ate, walked, or went out to play. She was originally quite popular in the courtyard, but since she started playing with me, no one wanted to talk to her anymore. , we went from one freak to two freaks.
I asked Fang Zhi if she thought it was outrageous that I could see ghosts, but she actually believed it. She said she believed there were ghosts and gods in the world, but she just wouldn't let us see them easily. She felt I wasn't lying. .
This was the first time someone believed in me, especially in this kind of orphanage with no warmth at all. Fang Zhi's trust and care for me began to make me feel that the orphanage was not so disgusting.
In those years, my daily life was to stay with Fang Zhi after waking up, liking the things that Fang Zhi liked, hating the teachers at school together with Fang Zhi, and yearning for life outside.
We even sneaked out of the orphanage together, but within half a day we were sent back to the orphanage, and were punished by the dean to clean the dormitory. The dormitory was very big, but with Fang Zhi by my side, I felt less so. tired.
Fang Zhi could be said to be my only light during the three years I was in the orphanage. When I was bullied so many times, if Fang Zhi had not stood in front of me, I might not have been able to bear the psychological pressure. Choose to jump downstairs from the orphanage.
Later, the teaching director appeared, and then uncle you appeared and took me away from the orphanage.
There were no mobile phones at that time, so Fang Zhi and I lost contact. Sometimes I think about going to the orphanage to see her, but when I think about the orphanage, I feel a little nauseous.
Even after all these years, my resistance to the orphanage is still strong.
But Fang Zhi came to me, and I had to help her with her matter. She said that the girl was very similar to her childhood experience, but I know that Fang Zhi's childhood was much more difficult than that of the little girl named Xu Yan.
Fang Zhi has been disliked by her grandparents in her hometown since she was born, and they threw her on the street outside the hospital behind her mother's back.
Later, he was picked up by an old man who picked up garbage and raised him until he was about eight or nine years old. I thought the old man was kind-hearted, but I didn't expect that he wanted to raise Fang Zhi to be his child bride! Not only that, since Fang Zhi was nine years old, the old man started doing things that were worse than a beast. He also sold Fang Zhi to other homeless people around him at a clearly marked price. As long as they paid, they could have Fang Zhi for a night. .
He had obviously experienced all the suffering in the world, but after arriving at the orphanage, Fang Zhi still left all his tenderness and kindness to others.
Even now, more than ten years later, when Fang Zhi and I reunited, she still took the same care of Xu Yan as she did to me back then.
So I still want to help her with her matter. "
After Su Ran finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Ziqing and said, "Uncle, I always feel that you are hiding something from me about this matter."
After Zhang Ziqing was silent for a while, he said softly: "That string of characters is the mark planted by God on human beings."
"Mark, what does it do?"
"There is a type of god whose source of divine power is human beings' respect and worship of him. This so-called god of divination is such a god.
In the war five thousand years ago, this god of divination should have been casually broken into pieces. The cultivation of the divine body is extremely difficult and cannot be cultivated in one or two thousand years.
Previously, due to the tense relationship between the human world and the divine world, and the overall strength of human beings, these gods did not dare to blatantly deceive humans.
In the past one thousand years or so, as the strong men of mankind gradually faded away, mankind's belief in God also began to become stronger and stronger, and they firmly believed that God could save them.
But faith alone is not enough for these gods to rebuild their divine bodies. They also need human sacrifices.
So the gods plant such a mark on their believers. After this mark is planted on a human being, it will continuously absorb the essence and flesh of the human body and take it back to the god.
The divine body of a god requires about hundreds of thousands of human essences and flesh, and it also requires children to be virgins, so children from birth to thirteen or fourteen years old are their primary targets. "
Su Ran's eyes widened, "So the god of divination wants to absorb the essence and blood of these children in the name of funding the orphanage, because most of the orphanages are boys and girls, and they are all too young, so they fit the bill." The standard for shaping the divine body.”
Zhang Ziqing nodded, "Now it seems that this should be the case. If we follow Fang Zhi's statement, two-thirds of the children in the entire courtyard should have been imprinted with this mark, and their flesh and blood will be imprinted every day. Constantly being absorbed by the mark, it slowly became part of the divine body of the God of Divination.
The life of the little girl named Xu Yan she brought today would have come to an end today. After twelve o'clock today, she would be like other dead children and would be found dead early tomorrow morning. In your own bed. "
"Damn it! This god of divination didn't scare these people five thousand years ago, yet he still dares to come to the human world and do evil!" Su Ran said harshly.
"In recent years, there has been no deterrent from the human world to the divine realm. Both the divine realm and the underworld have become a little more indulgent. There are always some people who want to take advantage of the loopholes." Zhang Ziqing said indifferently, "But it can't make any big waves."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Ziqing seemed to have remembered something again and said "Oh", "I suddenly remembered what you said about the male ghost and female ghost in the orphanage. That night Qin happened to be nearby with a new girl he met. We had dinner together, and it turned out that night happened to be the Ghost Festival. The two ghosts brought a group of ghosts to the orphanage, which made the place so spooky. Qin was afraid that it would affect the atmosphere of the date, so he killed all the ghosts who were going to participate that night. Yes, that’s why their plan was not implemented.”
Zhang Ziqing's words made Su Ran stunned for a moment. Su Ran gritted his teeth and said: "It's this guy named Qin again. It turns out that he was a part of my unfortunate childhood. I will definitely blow him up when I see him next time." head!"
Zhang Ziqing shrugged and continued to close his eyes.
Su Ran glanced at him and said, "Sleep whatever you want, you don't have to worry about what happened this time."
"No matter, it's none of your business, just hang up." Zhang Ziqing said lazily.
"If you don't care about me, the worst thing you can do is let me get that mark and let that god of divination kill me." Su Ran started to act rogue.
"Then take advantage of these few days to eat more and gain a few more pounds, so that he can suck for a few more days."
"Zhang Ziqing!" Su Ran glared, stood up and kicked Zhang Ziqing on the recliner.
Zhang Ziqing said helplessly: "Can you stop beating and scolding me for nothing? If you want to know something, just go to the orphanage and investigate. He can't do anything to you."
"What's the use of you?" Su Ran rolled his eyes.
Zhang Ziqing sighed, "You have to personally participate in the investigation of this matter. This will bring you some unexpected gains."
"I believed your nonsense!" Su Ran kicked Zhang Ziqing's stool again, turned around and left the room.
