Lights on the other side

Sheng Wuxia stood at the door of the room, holding a sheet of letter paper in his hand.

He said: "The letter paper fell on the floor, and the pen and ink on the side have not been put away. It seems that someone was writing a letter, and then it was interrupted in the middle."

Li Mo'er asked: "What was written in the letter?"

A few people came over, and the letter was not finished, leaving a few lines blank.

It reads:

Huiyuan my wife:

It's good to see the letter. I haven't seen you for several months. I'm very Siqing.

In autumn, the sky is getting cooler and cooler. A few days ago, I heard the rain in Wuzhou, so Wang Qing put on more clothes.This morning, cold clouds overwhelm the environment, and I feel empty in my heart. Last year today, it was sweet-scented osmanthus making wine and maple leaves in the evening glow.Thinking of this, it seems like Qing is by your side, there is no high mountain and long river, only the long life.However, in today's current situation, the world is full of the suffering of being separated from others, and the day you and I meet will surely arrive at the time of Chang'an in the world.

I want to ask again, how is Tuantuan?Is it safe?Do you miss me?At dusk today, a girl in red was suddenly seen outside the door, her brows looked like balls, she was very cute.The girl was alone, and it was said that her parents were too poor to abandon her. Brother Jin took pity on her life experience, so she took her here, and presumably she was also doing her part for the people in this troubled world.

This world is full of people.

Without the following, the letter came to an abrupt end, leaving one sentence unfinished.

Sheng Wuxia gently scratched under the girl in red with her finger.

Li Mo'er looked up: "What?"

Sheng Wuxia said, "Nothing."

Pei Shi took the letter paper and said, "Let's set up a spirit-seeking formation. Although it is slow, there is no other way."

Several people agreed, and then began to act.The array needs to be precise and cover a large area, the entire Little Qingzhou, plus the surrounding towns.

The formation process was unusually quiet. In the middle, only Pei Shi asked Sheng Wuxia what the letter from Xiaoqingzhou said.

Sheng Wuxia said that it was just that someone said they wanted to tell him something about his mother, and that the signature was from an old man in Qingzhou. Other than that, he didn't have any detailed details.

Pei Shi couldn't deduce anything from these, so he continued to set up the formation wholeheartedly. He carved the talismans very carefully, for fear of missing something.Li Ruoci just sketched a few strokes for him as an aid.

Li Ruoci felt that they had probably encountered an accident, but looking at Pei Shi's appearance, they probably wanted to see people when they were born, and corpses when they died.

An hour later, when the sky turned slightly white, the spirit-seeking array was set up.Pei Shi put the letter in the center of the town, lightly chanted a few spells, and the spirit-seeking array emitted a silver light along the veins, which disappeared after a few seconds. At the same time, the letter was suspended.

Pei Shi said, "Just follow it."

A few people followed the letter paper and ran out of the yard to the street. The street was empty, only a few of them, and the sound of their feet stepping on the ground was very clear.

The letter paper flew very quickly, probably because it had just left the owner not long ago, so the breath was very strong.

Li Ruoci followed Pei Shi, watching the corner of his robe move with his body, up and down, and the moist air rushed towards his face, he suddenly wanted to know what it felt like to live a long life mentioned in that letter.

Pei Shi's pace slowed down, and then stopped in front of an attic.On the front of the attic is inscribed three large characters, Tongyi Pavilion.There are four floors in the attic, which are dilapidated, as if years of wind and frost have gathered here.

According to legend, this was built by the prince of the previous dynasty. One of his greatest hobbies was to sit on the top floor of the Tongyi Pavilion and watch women in luxurious costumes dance for him. It was pouring rain outside, and at such a time, the country died. .

Pei Shi walked over and tentatively opened the door. The windows inside were all closed and it was dark.

The door is open, the light pours in, the first floor, no one.

So everyone went up to the second floor, and the stairs creaked, as if they were overwhelmed.The armrests were covered with dust, thick and untouched.

There was a faint singing voice: "La la la, la la la, la la la."

Like a ballad in a distant time.

The second floor was obviously more dilapidated than the first floor, and the light crossed directly through the gaps in the broken doors and windows. The sun rose, and the dust rose and fell in front of everyone, forming a grotesque picture.

Li Ruoci felt as if she had entered another world, and everyone else disappeared before her eyes.

The overturned copper wine cup, the crazy man, the king stabbed the woman in front of him with a sharp sword, and the woman died after struggling twice.

Li Ruoci knew that this was an illusion, and it was just a prelude.

What will be behind that?in his heart...

Before thinking too much, he went around the screen and saw the yard.

Inside were Xie Yun, Tang Yuanchu, Xue Danggui and Pei Shi.

They smiled at him and held out their hands.

The ambiguous light around him made him a little dazed for a while, but after a while, he immediately realized that it was just an illusion.

He raised his eyes, and at some point there was a sharp sword in his hand, just like before, he stabbed at the person in front of him.

The hallucination disappeared, and the picture in front of him returned to normal.

He turned his head to look at Pei Shi who was beside him, and Pei Shi also looked from this side, and the two quickly avoided each other's gaze.

Pei Shi walked quickly to the side, and slapped Jiang Huai's dull-eyed head with a slap: "Wake up, stop daydreaming!"

Jiang Huai let out a "wow", and backed away with his head in his arms: "Pei Shi, you!"

Then he said to himself: "I just saw my mother...she is cooking porridge for me..."

Pei Shi said, "You haven't grown up yet?"

When Jiang Huai stopped paying attention to Pei, he turned around and called Li Mo'er: "Senior Sister."

Li Mo'er didn't respond at all, other than that, they found that Sheng Wuxia was gone.

"Flawless?" Pei Shi walked behind the broken screen.

"Pei Shi, what's wrong with my senior sister?" Jiang Huai shook Li Mo'er's shoulder again, Li Mo'er's expression was still numb, but two lines of clear tears suddenly flowed down.

Li Ruoci took a step forward, and after looking at the situation, he slapped Li Mo'er unconscious with a palm, and said, "I've been haunted by the inner demon, just sleep and you'll be fine."

Jiang Huai caught the fallen Li Mo'er, puzzled: "Demon?"

Li Ruoci reluctantly explained: "Yes, the inner demon is something that cannot be let go. The bigger the inner demon is, the more likely it is to be trapped by the illusion. In this case, your senior sister must have accidentally touched the inner demon."

As he said that, he remembered the dream he had on the misty boat last time. There must be something wrong with the incense on the boat, which made him see that person.But Xiang's power is not great, it's because his inner demon is too strong, just like Li Mo'er now, it's not how powerful the illusion is, but her inner demon is too powerful.The so-called cocoon is the same.

Thinking of this, Li Ruoci couldn't help feeling sad, could he really be unable to escape that shadow in his life?

Pei Shi came back after wandering around for a few laps. It seemed that he hadn't found Sheng Wuxia.

The three decided to go to the third floor first and find the missing person first.So, Jiang Huai carried Li Mo'er on his back, Pei Shi and Li Ruoci protected them, and went upstairs one after the other.

The higher you go, the heavier the smell of blood, and the more uneasy the few people become.Turning the stairs, a horrible scene appeared before my eyes.

There is a pool of blood in the center, which should have been used for bathing before, but it was refilled with water at some point, but it has been stained red with blood. In the bloody water, dozens of corpses are stacked together, floating and sinking, and the dead are not in peace. .

The bloody water overflowed the pool and spread to the feet, Jiang Huai took a step back, put down Li Mo'er, and couldn't help retching.

A girl in red was sitting on top of the corpses, about thirteen or fourteen years old, smiling slightly, her fingers gently stroking the face of the corpse closest to her, with an extremely gentle expression.

This scene is horrifying to watch.

Pei Shi raised his hand and hit the girl with a beam of light, but the girl disappeared immediately, it was just a phantom.

Pei Shi stepped forward, dragged a corpse out of the water, squatted down and inspected it, the wound on the corpse was grim, but the expression was not very painful, but the eyes were still open, as if he did not expect this unexpected disaster.

Pei Shi said in a deep voice: "I should have died in a hallucination. First lure people out, and then kill them here."

Jiang Huai asked tremblingly, "Then...then what shall we do?"

Pei Shi got up and said, "Dead people can't be resurrected. Let's find a place to settle Miss Mi'er down. As for Wuxia, I'll go find it. You and Lin Ruoyan will notify you for three days, and let them send someone to fill the vacancy as soon as possible."

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