Returning from the abyss

Chapter 714 A Silent Joke

Time was running out, and Lu Ning didn't really have to ask for the key, so she played tricks on Qian Yipeng, and the two walked to the stairs.The old man greedily counted the money he got, not caring what Lu Ning and the two were doing.

The stairs leading to the basement were rough, the walls were rough, and the stairs were made of bricks and cement, and the height of each level was different.After walking down, there is a row of shabby rooms that no one is willing to live in even if they give them away for free. Almost all the doors are open, only one is closed.Through the open door, you can see that there is nothing in each room except a bed board, a table and two stools. The only advantage is that the room is quite large.

The two walked to the closed door, and Lu Ning first sent a message to Chen Hang, asking him to drive the car nearby and be ready to meet him at any time.

Qian Yipeng put his hand on the doorknob.The door lock here is also impossible to use the kind of lock that can only be opened from the outside with a key. It only depends on whether the people in the room have locked it.

After Lu Ning was ready, Qian Yipeng lowered his hand, the movement was very light, but the doorknob was actually pressed.With a soft sound, the door was pushed open by Qian Yipeng, who had already drawn out his sickle, and looked coldly into the room.

The only light bulb in the room is still bright, the hard board bed is covered with white sheets, some scattered things are placed in the corner, and there is a picture on the table.Qian Yirong was sitting on a stool with his back to the door, holding a paintbrush and slowly adding details to the painting.

"Qian Yirong." Qian Yipeng said the other party's name in a low voice, "Why are you here?"

After he finished saying this, the person sitting on the stool slowly turned his head.

Qian Yipeng was stunned for a moment, there were many strange marks on Qian Yirong's face, they didn't look like scars, but graffiti-like stripes, chaotic and disorderly.Lu Ning also saw these stripes standing a little behind. These stripes made it difficult to see what expression Qian Yirong was making.

"It's...you." Qian Yirong said in a low voice, "Cousin, I really didn't expect you to find this place. I've already tried my best to find remote places."

"If you've been hiding here, I won't be able to find you." Qian Yipeng sneered.

"I can't help it...it's just a coincidence."

"Stop talking nonsense! What's the matter with my parents? And who are the second and third uncles—"

Before Qian Yipeng finished speaking, Qian Yirong suddenly laughed: "Second Uncle? And my dad? There are some things that people can't see clearly for a lifetime..."

"Are they dead?" Lu Ning asked.

"Dead, where he should die." Qian Yirong stood up and spread his hands, "Don't be nervous, since you guys have found me, I won't run around anymore. My only hope now is to get rid of all this."

"Get rid of what?" Qian Yipeng asked.

"Bai Li, or in other words, the responsibility of the gods and ghosts here. Do you know why I have to leave? Because I have to leave."

Qian Yirong pointed to his face, then turned around and walked to the bed and sat down.

"Let me tell you what you most want to know, cousin. What happened that day? It's hard for me to tell you clearly. Your parents... It was my dad who did it. The second uncle was also very surprised, but my dad Knocked him out, and then... called me out in a way I had never seen before, forcing me to help him pull Erbo out, and then came to this place. The people here seem to have not seen We acted the same, it was horrible."

"Third Uncle...why are you crazy?"

"I also asked my dad, but my dad said that it was all due to me. He took out the sketches I drew, praised me loudly, and then took out his mobile phone to let me take a look at my appearance-I did I found these on my face. They can't be washed off, but it seems that not everyone can see them. My dad told me that this is the guidance of the earth, and I am the devout priest chosen by the gods, and I will finish all this."

"He knows this." Lu Ning said to Qian Yipeng in a low voice, "Let's not talk about it, your third uncle may have inherited some things from the servant surnamed Qian."

"Things on my face are always changing, although most of the time it is messy, but I can feel it will change. Dad asked me to finish that painting and not do unnecessary things until new instructions came. I... just sat down to draw and fell asleep after eating something at night. As soon as I opened my eyes this morning, my dad patted me on the shoulder and said to me, 'I have seen the will', Then I took my second uncle out the door. I was a little scared, so I followed behind. They walked to the side of a river, and they were talking at first, but within a few minutes, my dad suddenly took out a knife and plunged into it. The second uncle's throat pushed him into the ditch. Before I could react, my dad took out another knife, stabbed him in the neck, and then jumped down."

"He killed so many people, and then committed suicide?" Qian Yipeng gritted his teeth.

"After that... I felt a burning pain in my face. I was very scared, so I ran back here and looked at my face with my mobile phone. This time I saw it. Those black lines formed an indicator. It was telling me what to do. Where does time go..."

Qian Yirong smiled wryly and touched his cheek: "You can see it, right? Can you understand it? I can only understand it at that time. I dare not disobey, so I have to leave and go to KTV. You guys You know? Today there was a group of people having fun after a drinking party, one of them had a heart attack, and the rest died because they drank too much and didn't notice."

"It happened naturally?" Lu Ning frowned.

"It was the lines that told me that I had to go, that's all. Don't ask me why, I don't know why, I just draw, and now... all I have to do is draw."

Lu Ning walked to the table and saw the so-called painting that covered the entire Zaoyuanzhuang that she saw in his room before.The scale of the painting has been adjusted to a certain extent to describe the four areas of Zaoyuanzhuang.Now the parts of Dadong Road and Xiaheshao have basically been painted, while the parts of Jiuyuan and Caowazi are still sketches.I have to say that this painting is really exquisite. Many main buildings on Dadong Road, the waterway and house layout of Xiaheshao, the different scenery and villas in the old garden, and the birds in the grassy depression...all these features are captured. It must take a lot of time to enter the painting.

So... because of this painting, Qian Yirong accidentally became the officiant?
If he is the so-called officiant who wants to make Zaoyuanzhuang continue to prosper, it is also possible.According to the collected information and the records in that notebook, Bai Li actually only needs one person's most honest hope, and Qian Yirong obviously loves Zaoyuanzhuang very much.If there was no Bai Li before, this kind of love is of course no problem, but in the case of a corresponding transaction, it is not impossible for this kind of love to be misinterpreted as "hope to continue the transaction" and be used, and the person who used it... ...Probably the third uncle.

These alone are not enough, Bai Li also needs to prepare ten coffins, or ten containers.But if you look at the whole painting, the buildings in these paintings may themselves be containers.If Qian Yirong had some houses that must be painted in the painting before painting, this willingness may also lead to sufficient conditions.

But all this is a coincidence?Didn't the third uncle secretly design something?
"Have you been to the KTV where the dead person is tonight?" Lu Ning asked suddenly.

"That's where our graduation party was, and we played around there, so I even drew the nearby streets in it..."

it is as expected.

Lu Ning glanced at the painting again, and said to Qian Yirong, "First of all, you can't continue drawing this painting."

"Yes, but I follow the order..."

"It seems that you have learned something about Bai Li. How much did your father tell you? He is already crazy, and you still continue to do what he said... Why don't you seek some help now, such as a Taoist priest or something Yes, get rid of this priesthood."

"I dare not." Qian Yirong lowered his head, "Is this the local god here? I know people will die, but how dare I provoke the gods? If I don't follow suit, will the result be the same as my dad's? I still don't understand why he killed all his family members, so Bai Li doesn't have to kill his own family members if he wants to continue?"

"I'm afraid you have considered the house where you have lived for so long an important position in this painting, but you don't know about Bai Li. If someone must die in this house, how do you solve it?" Lu Ning sneered.

Qian Yipeng couldn't help it anymore: "If he goes crazy, he can commit suicide! Anyway, he really did it, why did he have to kill my parents? Does that bastard have no family affection at all? Unexpectedly... unexpectedly still To die so soon..."

At this moment, Qian Yirong suddenly scratched his face.

"It, it started again, it started to get hot, and then... why at this time? It's almost midnight!"

Lu Ning saw that the black lines on Qian Yirong's face, like doodles and spells, slowly began to turn into patterns. She couldn't understand this pattern, but Qian Yirong had already taken out his mobile phone to shine on his face, panicking. Touch left and right until the pattern really settles down into an inexplicably uncomfortable shape.

Qian Yirong clearly understood the meaning of the pattern, but after a moment of stunned, he stood up from the bed.Qian Yipeng immediately swung the sickle: "Don't move! What order did you receive! Tell me!"

"I, I can't say it. You can't talk nonsense! Get out of the way! My face hurts! I have to do as required!" Qian Yirong yelled, reaching out and pulling out a wooden stick from the pile of debris .

"Don't even think about leaving here if you don't say it!"

Qian Yirong rushed forward, and Qian Yipeng also waved his sickle to meet him.The two wrestled together, and it could be seen that Qian Yipeng didn't want to kill each other here, but tried to limit Qian Yirong's actions as much as possible, and Qian Yirong mainly wanted to rush out, and his hands were just tearing and smashing.

Lu Ning did not intervene in the battle between the two brothers, she thought carefully about what Qian Yirong said just now.If those are true, there are still some very strange problems.

She took out her mobile phone and called Chen Hang outside.

"Hello? How's it going?"

"I caught Qian Yirong, and now the two of them are fighting. Where are you? Have you found any suspicious people nearby?"

"Suspicious person? I can't quite see it. The streets are full of people walking around... Oh, I heard something, do you want to go over and help?"

"No need for now, tell everyone to pay attention to the people around you." Lu Ning hung up the phone, frowning, and looked at the picture scroll again.

Dadong Road and Xiaheshao should be the two places Qian Yirong visits most often, one is school and the other is home, it is normal for these two places to give priority to painting.There is nothing suspicious about this painting except that it has attracted Bai Li...

Bring out Bai Li.

Even if what Qian Yirong said was true, what if the information he was indoctrinated was wrong?
Lu Ning was taken aback, and immediately rushed to the two wrestling people, kicked Qian Yirong on the waist, and kicked him back on the bed.

Qian Yirong yelled in pain, but Qian Yipeng was stunned because of Lu Ning's sudden intervention.Lu Ning jumped onto the bed directly, and pressed Qian Yirong's chest with one knee, and with a flick of her wrist, she threw out the sawtooth of fate, opened the scissors and stabbed Qian Yirong's face directly!
failed.

Lu Ning felt a sudden pain in her chest, her throat woke up, and she was also thrown out.But although her scissors failed to pierce, they also cut Qian Yirong's face.

"Oh...it's dangerous."

Blood flowed from the cut face, but there was obviously another face under that layer of skin, a slightly old but familiar face.

"Third Qian!" Qian Yipeng roared angrily.

"Be respectful, I am also your third uncle." "Qian Yirong" got off the bed again and threw away the stick in his hand.Lu Ning clutched her chest, the white ring on her hand was shining—it must not have been hit by the stick just now.

"You killed my parents! And... and... No! You were lying to me just now!" Qian Yipeng clenched the sickle tightly, and put his other hand into his pocket.

"Cough, cough, his story is half true and half false." Lu Ning said.

"I'm curious how you found out, after all, what you just said was Qian Yirong's real reaction." Uncle Qian glanced at Lu Ning coldly, "Compared to me, a junior who was dazzled by hatred, you are more people think Danger."

"Then you're right." Lu Ning also sneered, drew a dagger from her waist and threw it at Third Uncle Qian!
"Hmph, you guys will be sacrifices for tomorrow and the next two days." Uncle Qian opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of green mist. The dagger corroded quickly in the mist, and when it hit him, it was already useless.

"Third Qian!"

Qian Yipeng rushed forward and swung his sickle down.Third Uncle Qian curled his lips and pointed his finger at his arm, and Qian Yipeng's movements immediately became less flexible.Seeing this, Third Uncle Qian let out a strange laugh, then raised his hand and patted Qian Yipeng's chest: "Just give me a little sleep!"

But at this moment, Qian Yipeng also quickly pulled his other hand out of his pocket, and gripped a pen tightly.

"Go to hell, dog!"

The tip of the pen plunged directly into Uncle Qian's eye socket.

(End of this chapter)