Returning from the abyss

Chapter 707 Gains and Losses
Wang Zhongnan's psychological quality is quite strong, after the initial gaffe, he was still able to talk to Yan Zidan in calm words.

He also has long been aware of some things in Solitaire, including some ghosts described in the APP, which exist in reality.Before that, he tried to remind his classmates Yan Meng and Sun Shengxi, but unfortunately both of them thought he was joking and didn't believe it at all.So when Yan Meng asked for help later, he hesitated and came here—he was also fooled.

"Yan Meng's house is very close to yours?"

"Yes, we are all in Tongfang Town, and it takes 10 minutes by taxi to get to Yan Meng's house."

"Tongfang Town...the president has been there before." Yan Zidan said, "Is there a family of Bali workers traveling with a smile in your town?"

"Yes, but I don't know when it was opened, and Baligong was originally the name of the warehouse here. It seems to have a certain origin of the name. I was young at that time, so I forgot." Wang Zhongnan said indifferently, " So the president came to our place? What happened in the end? Replaced by this ghost president in the group now?"

"Aren't you afraid?" Lu Ning asked in a slightly louder voice.

Wang Zhongnan sneered when he heard her question.

"It's okay if you don't violate the taboo here... This taboo may be updated at any time, Yan Meng is purely careless."

"Taboo?" Yan Zidan frowned.

"You didn't read that story? You are not allowed to leave your room at a certain time at night, and you are not allowed to make loud noises... Every once in a while, there will be random new taboos appearing on the surrounding text carriers in various ways, according to If you take that action, you will be fine, but if you find yourself in a taboo situation, you have to lift it within 5 minutes. Yan Meng didn’t notice that a line of taboos [forbidden to bathe at night] has been changed in the instruction manual of her liquid foundation, so she Died in the bathtub."

"This... Who can pay attention to this?" The corners of Teng Xuan's mouth twitched. Who usually reads the manual?

"Who can be blamed for being careless at the moment of life and death? Taboo will definitely appear in a timely position to remind you that I have overlooked...huh!" Wang Zhongnan snorted coldly, "But Solitaire can continue, I don't know if I can't write Solitaire Will something happen, just set the murderer inside."

"Is Zhang Xinqing? What is the setting of your Soul Wing?" Lu Ning asked.

"She has been a ghost for a long time, but by chance, she walks in this world in a human form, relying on her pair of soul wings to maintain her existence. The red wings represent a strong desire to live, and the gray wings Just the opposite. The demise of any person or ghost related to her will become Yi's nourishment. And her own setting is that she will not be peeped out of the essence of ghosts by any Taoism. It can be said that she is a person; Wing planted the seeds she liked and waited for them to germinate. She took the initiative to influence 24 people in the society except her. She knew the sin of murder, but the characteristics of ghosts made her feel no guilt In addition, I just thought about the specific strength for a while, after all, the part I wrote is not involved, but it seems that to pass the review, it must be quite powerful, the kind that will not lose in the face of a group of Taoist siege."

"What did you say?" Lu Ning suddenly raised her voice, "You can't lose against a group of Taoist priests?"

"No matter how hard I try, it's impossible for her to be easily solved by two or three Taoist priests. After all, the role of the murderer is the villain in our Solitaire story. I can't create much advantage for myself."

"Can you guarantee your safety now? We may go to Tongfang Town after we settle the matter here! How long can you hold on?" Lu Ning said anxiously.

"I don't know... Yan Meng is a lesson for me when my spirit is about to fail. There will always be a day when you ignore important taboo reminders. You'd better not come here. Tongfang Town is too abnormal... "

"Don't worry about that, just tell me your current address." Yan Zidan interrupted his lamenting, "If we can figure this out, we will go there to save you! We have some power and know some Taoist priests, we will definitely be able to Save you! I was saved by them before!"

"Hehe... Well, Seven Star Building in Tongfang Town, I'm in building No. 1003, Yan Meng's house. House number [-], if you have the ability... I want to be rescued too..."

The last sentence obviously contained some crying, and it was obvious that his calmness was suppressed by force.

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The car returned to Xiaheshao and stopped in front of Qian's house.

After talking to Wang Zhongnan, Lu Ning kept thinking.Now everyone got out of the car, and Chen Hang, Zhou Shilan, and Qian Yipeng also got off in the car behind, and Lu Ning called them over first.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Shilan was also a little scared when she saw that everyone's expressions were wrong.

"Chen Hang, Zhou Shilan, Qian Yipeng... We had a phone call with Wang Zhongnan before, and we wanted to ask about Solitaire..." Lu Ning briefly explained the conversation to the three of them, and the expressions of the three became more serious.

"Then we have to find a way to save people. Sister Dandan has been rescued, so there's no reason not to go this time." Chen Hang frowned, "Yan Meng is dead? This... these ghosts have started to act unscrupulously?"

"Tongfang Town is farther away than Gengwu City, and this is not the only problem we have to face now." Lu Ning glanced at Qimei.

"Me?" Qi Mei opened his eyes wide.

"I just confirmed with Wang Zhongnan that the strength of the 'murderer' in the story can face the siege of several Taoist priests, but the strength has not been set exactly."

"You... think the priests we are looking for can't deal with that murderer?" Zhou Shilan reacted quickly.

"If the situation is a little worse, if the hidden figure we have been trying to lure out before is the murderer in reality..."

Everyone's expressions changed, especially Qi Mei: "You said my brother and the others might be able to deal with a character that they can't deal with in the story?"

"In a story with an obvious main character, the detective and the murderer are really the only pair of equal opponents, and the rest are supporting characters, and it's impossible for the supporting characters to kill the villain before the main character enters the scene."

"But reality is not a story!" Qi Mei said, "No matter how powerful the story is, it's still not met. It's just a coincidence of fate, but it's just that I haven't met a powerful Taoist priest. If you want to accuse me, I can't, but There are so many senior brothers! There is also Jin Lao and the others, this is not the level of a few Taoist priests besieging!"

"If that person is not the 'murderer' among us, but a hidden powerful figure here in Zaoyuanzhuang, it may develop according to what you said. But if he is really a 'murderer', it will not be easy. Lu Ning took out her mobile phone, "I want to have a phone call with Taoist Lu Ping first."

"You may not be able to get through." Qi Mei shook his head, "I have seen the scene of them fighting ghosts, and it is different from the time when they dealt with the nine-faced baby before. The yin and yang are mixed, and the electromagnetic communication basically fails until the fight is over. to connect."

Listening to the busy tone from the phone, Lu Ning nodded.

"In short, the situation has changed, we have to discuss it again. Chen Hang is right, we can't leave Wang Zhongnan alone, especially since he is a very important role in the story."

Everyone nodded and pushed open the gate of Qian's courtyard.

"Huh?" Qian Yipeng first looked at the main house in surprise. When he came back these few days, Father Qian and his uncles were usually playing cards, and the main house was brightly lit, but today when he came back to open the door, it was dark.

"Did you visit?" Qian Yipeng frowned and pushed open the door of the main house, followed by a change of expression, and rushed into the house.Lu Ning, who came in behind, turned on the lights, and everyone could smell the bloody smell coming from the room.Immediately, Qian Yipeng roared with anger and grief from the room.

Lu Ning raised the curtain and saw that on the kang mat, Qian's father and Qian's mother were tied together with hemp rope, their heart was pierced by a sharp knife, and the blood had already flowed to the ground, in a solidified state, obviously dead for a long time.This probably happened shortly after everyone left.Qian Yipeng cried loudly while hugging his parents' corpses, and no one knew how to comfort such a tragedy.

Lu Ning turned around and checked the other houses, but found no trace of the two uncles and the cousin. It is not clear whether they were kidnapped or committed murder.

She also thought about how to arrange the ceremony if she was the host of the ceremony. The final conclusion was that before the ceremony, ten people were tied up from other places and one person was killed every day. It would not have any impact on the local area at all, but The idea apparently wasn't adopted by some.And is the disappearance of these three people related to it?

After returning to the main house, Qian Yipeng was still in pain.The pain of losing parents suddenly is really extraordinary, and everyone can only watch silently from the sidelines.Lu Ning sympathized with him, but she wouldn't do nothing, so she moved a little closer to watch the death of Qian's father and Qian's mother.

The clothes and hands of the two showed no traces of resistance, and there was no trauma to the head and neck. From the outside, there was only a fatal stab at the heart.

The two people were tied together after being stunned by someone, and then killed-this is in line with the current scene's speculation.

Lu Ning quietly gave Teng Xuan a hand, and went to other rooms with her to search through every drawer, box, and cabinet, but found no medicine that could make people unconscious, not even sleeping pills. It was obvious that the person who started it was still cleaning quite well.Soon, the two came to Qian Yirong, the house of the child adopted by Qian Yipeng's third uncle.

The door was not locked, and Lu Ning gently pushed it open, but nothing special happened inside.After the lights are on, you can see that there are many drawing boards and paintings in this room.Next to the computer on the table was a digital board and the like. It was obvious that Qian Yirong liked painting very much.But everything was neatly tidied up, clean enough for a boy who had his own room.

Lu Ning took out a few paintings that had been drawn in the corner. She couldn't appreciate the level of these paintings, but as someone who didn't understand them, they were already very good works.The paintings are all landscape paintings, with few figures, and the contents of the paintings are all the landscapes around Zaoyuanzhuang.The fish ponds and reed marshes in the lower river, the bustling crossroads of Dadong Road, the quiet mountain dwellings in the old garden, and the flocks of birds in the grassy depression.Even if these paintings are not as detailed as the photos, in Lu Ning's opinion, this skill is already enough to be exhibited.

"The computer has a password." Teng Xuan still tried to open the computer directly, but of course it failed.Lu Ning flipped through and found a middle school student ID that Qian Yirong kept in a drawer, and entered her birthday—of course the password was wrong.

"Computer passwords are really not that simple." Lu Ning sat down in front of the computer. She noticed that the picture after turning on the computer was also a picture of Zaoyuanzhuang. Evenly divided on both sides, there is no cloud in the clear sky above, it is a photo that looks very comfortable.

Up to now, Lu Ning has also learned some basic hacking skills. If the computer is not encrypted in a too complicated way, she can still crack it.After connecting her mobile phone, Lu Ning began to try. Fortunately, the electronic technology involved in the technology scene was almost the same. After about 20 minutes, Lu Ning successfully entered the computer desktop.

The desktop is very clean, there are only two columns of icons, the first column is those that the computer itself has, and the second column is various drawing-related tools.However, there are still a lot of things stored, and nearly two-thirds of the storage space is used in places other than the system disk.Lu Ning looked at the past one by one—it was all related to painting.

Videos for learning to paint, the use of painting tools, painting techniques, and paintings drawn by Qian Yirong himself.From some of the pictures he saved, it can be seen that he participated in some painting competitions on the Internet and won prize money. His strength is very good.

In a "experience" folder, Qian Yirong summed up his many painting results like a diary.It can be seen from the text that he is very confident in his painting skills, and at the same time has a lot of critical eyes. Unlike the shyness shown before, Qian Yirong even sometimes speaks harshly in painting.For example, in his experience after a certain competition, he wrote that many players are too weak, so that people wonder if the level of this competition is getting lower and lower... and so on.

In the recent part of his experience, Qian Yirong mentioned his future problems.

He obviously likes Zaoyuanzhuang very much. The landscape here provides a lot of materials for his paintings, but it is not enough to just work behind closed doors.He has already been admitted to an academy of fine arts, and he will go there to study in half a year to continue improving his painting skills.But this is also the first time Qian Yirong has left Zaoyuanzhuang. Ever since Uncle Qian brought him back as a young boy, he has grown up here, and there are memories of everyone and everything here.If there was an Academy of Fine Arts in Zaoyuanzhuang, Qian Yirong would definitely stay here.

In the end, he said that as a souvenir, he planned to draw a huge landscape painting that included the entire Zaoyuanzhuang before he left.

(End of this chapter)