Chapter 738 The Old Man’s Commission
Bai Yaer appeared halfway, the timing was too good, my entry into the Red Mansion was probably a trap, and even if the person who arranged the arrangement was not Zhu Li, it must be related to him, because the person Bai Yaer trusted the most was him.
From the worst perspective, Zhu Li might be the butcher of the underworld show. I took the initiative to call him, but he already regarded me as prey.
"I hope he won't implicate you." I know better than anyone how powerful the show host is. After only a dozen live broadcasts, I was able to escape from being rounded up by several major sects in the world. Except for Xia Chi, I have the least number of live broadcasts among all the anchors. Those anchors who have gone through dozens or even hundreds of live broadcasts and still survived, I can't even imagine how terrifying they are.
I shook my head to dispel the thoughts in my mind, and recalling what the blood fox had just said, I did have too much on my mind.
"Is the obsession gone?" Grandma shouted at the door. She was too old to be frightened. She held her hands on the wooden table and leaned on the wooden chair: "Are you injured? Come here and let me show you. look."
The smell of blood on my body is very strong, and I can smell it clearly even from a distance. It is for this reason that I did not get close to the old granny and Jun Sheng.
"A little injury, it's okay."
"I escaped from Longchang. I haven't seen anything. Are you still worried about scaring me? Come here." The old man rested for a moment, then got up and entered the back room, as if he was looking for something.
The obsession was swallowed by the blood fox, and Zhu Li should also react. I wanted to go directly and kill that bastard, but after thinking about it I gave up the idea.
I can't be sure whether Zhu Li is the butcher. If there is someone else hiding behind him, then by killing Zhu Li, I will cut off all the clues.
After closing the door, the small house became calm and warm again. If the tables and chairs on the floor had not collapsed and there were still scattered sawdust, there would be no trace of the fierce fighting that had just occurred.
Entering the back room, I saw my grandma taking down a box from the top of the cabinet. She wiped off the dust and took out a very special piece of silk.
"Grandma, what are you doing?"
"This is a piece of high-quality fabric that I saved in the past. Good clothes can nourish people and make them more spiritual." She touched the bed, reached into the bamboo basket and took out the scissors. I haven't replied yet, old man She had already cut out the top-quality material: "The smell of blood on your body is so strong, you must have been seriously injured. I don't have a bandage here, so you can make do with it first."
"You want me to use such an expensive material to wrap it?" The old lady had already cut it before she said it. I looked at the cloth strips on the bed with very complicated emotions. I wanted to say something, but in the end I didn't say it: "Thank you. "
His fingers brushed over the plain white fabric, as if sliding over jade, and there was even a hint of coolness on it.
The old man waved his hand and didn't care. She looked at Jun Sheng standing in the corner of the room, her eyelids unblinking, not knowing what she was thinking.
After I re-bandaged it, I felt much more comfortable and the pain was relieved a lot: "Grandma, I'm leaving soon. This place is too dangerous. If possible, it's better to move out as soon as possible."
"I'm old. It's up to you whether I can survive this winter. You don't need to persuade me." The old man kept looking at Jun Sheng in the corner of the room. "Young man, if you can drive away those monsters, you must be no ordinary person. Can I ask you something?"
The old man's voice was very sincere, and he used a pleading tone for the first time.
"You said that as long as it is within my ability, I will definitely do it." I agreed without thinking much.
"Can you help me figure out how Jun Sheng escaped reincarnation?" The old man spoke very slowly, as if every word needed careful consideration.
"I heard that the old site of Longchang is adjacent to the Animal Road, and Jun Sheng may have escaped from there. Why do you want me to investigate this?" I looked at her in confusion.
"After you figure this out, send Junsheng back, and then destroy the passage so that he doesn't come out to find me again."
The old man's words have stuck with me for a long time: "If you destroy the passage, he will never be able to see you. Think clearly, if you miss it in this life, reincarnation will continue, and you may never meet again."
"That would be better than him dying. I wait for him every night, wanting to see him, but I am worried that he will accidentally be caught by those monsters. If one day I am gone, then he will not be able to come to this place again. People will open the door for him, and no one will wait for him anymore. Don't you think this is the cruelest thing?" The old woman's cloudy eyes reflected the beating candlelight, but that little flame couldn't dispel the whole thing at all. A dark night.
"Because his memory is too deep and his obsession is too strong, he followed his instinct to find you. Even he himself can't remember the specific reason. Besides, his memory can only last for one day. Maybe..." I said. Then I stopped. Even I couldn't convince myself that there are so many happy fairy tales in this world. People are born, old, sick and die. If the old grandma is gone, Junsheng's spirit and wisdom will probably stay in the Red Mansion. The final result Most likely it was swallowed up by obsession.
After seventy years and a whole reincarnation, I looked at the old grandma and the short black figure, and suddenly felt a little desolate in my heart. Perhaps what the old grandma said is the best solution: "I can help you, but success The chances are slim.”
"I'd be very grateful if you agreed." The old man stood up tremblingly and wanted to thank me, but I quickly stopped her.
"Grandma, I can help you, but I have too little information now. I need your full cooperation to tell me some secrets about the Red Mansion and the Pig Cage Apartment. I hope you won't hide anything anymore." I saw the old man nodding, He also breathed a sigh of relief and sat by the bed: "You have been waiting for Junsheng for so many years, but you have never tried to find him? Has anything special happened during this period?"
"I went to look for him more than ten years ago. You are right. Junsheng ran away from the old site of Longchang. However, I searched the entire building during the day and found nothing unusual. As for what you said, I have never seen the beastly way mentioned before.”
"Nothing unusual?"
"Jun Sheng always shows up in the middle of the night. Maybe the passage is only opened at night." The old woman paused suddenly as she thought of something important: "My eyes have been destroyed. Normally, except for Jun, I couldn't see anything when I was alive, but one time I saw a mirror in the old site of Longchang, yes! It was a mirror!"
The old man's words aroused my interest. She only had the whites of her eyes. She could see nothing in this world except Junsheng. Now she said that she saw a mirror in Longchang. Obviously, that mirror was not what this world should have. thing.
"Can you tell me more about what that mirror looks like?"
"The old site of Longchang is very big. The mirror is in the deepest part of the ancient building. It is like a fragment embedded in something." The old man recalled the situation at that time: "That is the tallest existing building in the old site of Longchang. As I approached, I faintly heard an animal barking, like the sound of livestock. After about a few minutes, the mirror fragment disappeared, and I never saw it again."
"The tallest building in the ancient building..." I wrote down this key information. "It seems that the optional task of the underworld show requires entering the old site of Longchang to complete."
Take a deep breath, where is the old site of Longchang? In this hell on earth, tens of thousands of people were eaten and only about 700 people were left. If I entered it late at night, I was afraid that I would encounter something extremely terrifying.
"Reincarnation Mirror, I always feel that this thing is very important to me." I hesitated in my heart. This is human nature. The side tasks in the show are very difficult. If you want to do them, you have to be prepared to die. Today There is no free lunch down there.
In fact, at this time, I really wanted to take out my piece of mirror fragment and let the old lady see if it could be seen, to verify my conjecture, but after thinking for a moment, I did not do so.
"Grandma, don't worry, I will try my best to complete your commission."
The old man was thinking about Junsheng until the end, but it was this that made me feel a little sad.
"Thank you." The old man looked away from Jun Sheng. She held the bamboo basket full of needlework and said, "You asked me some questions about the tenants of the Red Building before. Now I will tell you everything I know. The tenants in this building Many, some people never went out after they moved in, and nine times out of ten they died in the house, so I'm not sure which rooms are still occupied by people? Who lives in them."
"Grandma, I'm actually here to find someone." Now I don't have to hide it from the old man: "Are there people in the Red Mansion who always go out every three days? Or who is there in your impression?" Will you leave the Red Mansion often?"
As a show anchor, you must go out for live broadcasts every three days, which is unavoidable.
The old man thought for a while: "Bai Ya'er on the fourth floor goes out almost every day. If calculated according to a three-day cycle, Zhu Li also meets the situation you said."
"Is it really him?" I listened carefully, refusing to let go of any clues.
"I don't have detailed calculations, but Zhu Li will go out every once in a while. Sometimes he will go to an ancient building, and sometimes he will go to far away places."
The old man's words indirectly confirmed my guess. Zhu Li's behavior was very similar to that of the show host.
I was a little excited, thinking about finally finding the hidden anchor: "Your clue is so crucial. Thinking about it, Zhu Li should be the person I'm looking for."
"No, no, there is another person in the Red Mansion who is more in line with everything you said. That person rarely talks, is very punctual, and goes out every three days. He always leaves the Red Mansion late at night and does not come back until the next morning." The old man's words made my face change, and then she told another more crucial piece of information: "That person had already left the Red Building tonight, but he received a call at the entrance of the corridor, and then he turned back."