The red moon returns

Chapter 317 It’s behind me

"Why is this child here again?"

On the first floor of the apartment, the hard-working Mrs. Maggie wiped her wet hands on her apron and walked towards the apartment door muttering dissatisfied. One look at the bow dangling outside the kitchen window and she knew something was wrong.

"and many more."

Before she could go over to open the door, a hand patted her shoulder from behind and pulled her back, and then a generous figure rushed to the front to block her:

"This child may be in trouble. You stay back and leave this place to me."

"Ah."

The response coming from behind was a bit strange, which made Lin Qi look back in confusion, and found that the landlady was following behind her obediently with her head lowered, but her cheeks were a little red, and her eyes seemed to have a glimmer of water.

It was Lynch who rushed over, followed by two ladies.

He has realized the problem. There are no coincidences in the mysterious world. This naughty kid was looking for a real mysterious ritual last time. This time, he suddenly went against common sense and wanted to rent a house alone. If this can ignore the possibility of the connection between the two, then that's it. I really let down the more than forty days of time travel.

Lynch was very suspicious that the naughty kid got into some trouble because of the mysterious ritual, so he acted against the rules. Mrs. Maggie and little Martha are both survivors of mysterious events. It is easy to find mysterious events, so it is a bit too dangerous for them to have casual contact with this person.

It's just that there's something wrong with this reaction. It's inexplicable. Women are really weird.

With a dry cough and straightening his tie, Lynch clenched his cane and then opened the door. The bustling streets of Vila Street and Charles Square appeared in front of him.

Very good, I don’t have the urge to jump out and bite anyone, I’m recovering well and I don’t need a leash anymore when I go out.

Everything was as usual, except for the little girl who was still peeking around. When she saw Lin Qi opening the door, she wanted to run away, but she also wanted to come over. Her hesitation was quite obvious.

Lin Qi secretly snorted and waved to the other party. The girl hesitated for a moment and immediately ran over.

"Shut up."

Seeing the girl running over and about to speak, Lynch immediately stopped her. The landlady and little Martha were behind her and she couldn't be allowed to speak casually.

Because the establishment of a mysterious connection often does not require any actual action. In many cases, it only takes a word or even an idea, and the connection has been quietly established. Just like the request to rent a house just now, once you nod and agree, you may establish a weak connection with the mystery, and then be quietly eroded by the mystery.

After looking the girl up and down, he didn't seem to notice too much mysterious filth on her body, and he didn't see anything strange. Lin Qi felt relieved and walked into the apartment with the little girl.

The two ladies had other things to do and took the opportunity to leave. Lynch took the little girl directly to the second floor and closed the door to the living room tightly.

"Tell me, what happened?"

"Sir, I just want to rent a house, I..."

"I don't have time to act with children. You and I both know that. I have recognized you, so if you don't get to the point directly, or leave immediately, no matter what problem you encounter, I can't let you Lived in."

The little girl bit her lip, took out the business card that Lynch had given her before, and suddenly cried out, grabbing Lynch's wrist, trembling like a fallen leaf in the wind:

"Help me, sir, there is something strange following me. My friends are almost scared crazy and dare not talk to me. Wuwu, I want to entrust you to help me solve it, but I am afraid that you will refuse, so I want to stay Come in and hide, you can protect me here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt anyone, please help me, I'm going crazy, I don't want to die, wuwuwu."

The ignorant are fearless.

If you want to die, why did you go there earlier? I didn't remind you.

Seeing the little girl shivering like a fallen leaf in the wind, Lin Qi really couldn't sympathize with her. His greatest tenderness was to swallow the sentence he deserved without saying it.

But seeing her desperately holding on to his hand, like a drowning person holding on to the last straw, Lynch still softened.

After all, this child is just stupid, not bad. She is not innocent when she is stupid to death, but watching indifferently from the side still makes her feel a little psychologically uncomfortable.

Let’s hear the situation first.

Lin Qi sighed, feeling helpless about his softness. He handed over a handkerchief and said a few words of comfort, allowing the little girl to sob and explain the details.

The girl's name is Monia, the daughter of Sir Lister of the Treasury, and she comes from a very wealthy family.

There were several soul-shifters in the Liszt family's ancestors, but the two or three generations were ordinary people. After several groups of family members died, they gradually became disconnected from the mysterious world, but some family stories were still preserved. Such as the knowledge library, such as the dwarf steam workshop, such as the witch coven.

It was after reading these stories that Monia became curious about the mysterious world. With her family's money and pocket money comparable to a middle-class salary, and she could still ask for more, she actually learned a lot of mysterious knowledge from many random places. Fortunately, they were all low-level and nothing happened.

Especially after going to school, a group of young girls get together and unscrupulously try various mysterious rituals for fun under the trend of curiosity. Although they are basically all fakes that Lynch can make up eight times a night, there is a proverb that says , walking by the Styx River, there will always be a day when you encounter a ghost.

After the deal with Lynch broke down more than ten days ago, Monia went to the Knowledge Library again, and this time she actually found several handwritten notes in a normal ancient book.

The little girl recognized it at a glance. It was the handwriting of her great-great-grandfather. He was the last soul-changer in the family and the protagonist of most family stories.

Through her notes, she found some fragmentary clues in the family library, and after solving puzzles again and again, she finally found a set of unknown mysterious rituals.

Listening to the little girl's story, Lynch stared at her with squinted eyes, frightening her to the point of stopping.

Reality is not an adventure novel. The artificial traces of this story are too heavy. It is almost like an adventure story tailor-made for a child who does not know the depth. Lynch believes that few children aged 12 or 13 can refuse it. This temptation.

"Don't be afraid, I'm thinking about other things." Realizing that someone might be plotting against Monia, Lynch's tone softened a lot, "You continue to say, after you got the ceremony record, you took it to school to play? "

"Well." The child was the most sensitive. He immediately felt the change in Lin Qi's attitude, and immediately leaned in his direction, his expression even more aggrieved. "The ceremony is very complicated, and there are many incomprehensible spells. We these days It has been held several times, but to no avail. Everyone is a little disappointed and wonders if this is also fake. "

Lin Qi immediately remembered what happened when he first traveled through time and the so-called ceremony in the tomb five days ago. He sighed and said, "What effect do you want?"

"At least there should be sound and light effects, or something should pop up."

"This just came out of nowhere, it's just that you were scared to death." Lynch shrugged, "What about after disappointing the fun?"

"It stopped later, but I started the day before yesterday and found something was wrong."

The little girl swallowed hard, folded her arms and said timidly:

"When it's quiet, I can always hear the sound of sand falling in my ears, and the crawling of insects and mice, but if I look for it, there's nothing. At first, I thought there was something wrong in the school dormitory, but no matter how I walked Yeah, I can hear it whenever it's quiet, as if something invisible is following me."

Lynch touched his chin and looked Moniya up and down, but still didn't find much abnormality.

"What now? Is there still sound?"

"No more." The little girl suddenly became very excited, "I was wandering nearby before, afraid that you would refuse to come in, but about an hour ago, I suddenly found that the sound disappeared when I got close to here, so I wanted to come in. Hiding here.”

Hmm... After calculating the time, Lin Qi immediately understood that it should be the effect of the book of purification.

Disaster-level rare objects are quite powerful.

"Only sound?"

"No, the scariest thing is that after I heard the sound, a strange thing happened around me. Several times, things near me suddenly turned into powder. This frightened the classmates, and no one Dare to come near me."

Ok?
Lin Qi's face darkened as he realized the problem.

The person who was scolding people outside just now, wasn't it just second-hand clothes that were turned into powder? It seemed like it wasn't someone else's prank at all.

Something was really following her, and it was already nearby.

Anyway, I urgently need to meet with Howard, and I plan to leave him alone for two days. I don’t have anything else to do right now, so why not just accept an order temporarily?

I'm not soft-hearted, I want to exchange for her flashed file.

That's right, that's it.

Lin Qi stood up suddenly and put all the pieces of equipment on his body: "I accepted this commission. Let's go now. Take me to your school. I want to see the ceremony location first. Where is your school?"

"Lilia Women's College."

Um? Girls' high school?

(End of this chapter)