Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 24: Like a lump in the throat, the desire to kill increases

"Little Seven!"

Hearing what Uncle Wang said, Xiao Ran's heart couldn't help but skip a beat, and he immediately had a bad feeling in his heart.

Without caring about anything else, he pulled down the shutter and ran to the back street.

Xiaoqi’s funeral supplies shop is across the street from their home, but the distance is not close because there is a residential area between them, and they need to walk around the community to get to it.

When Xiao Ran arrived, he saw the charred ruins from afar and a cordon outside.

There is a wooden sign on the ground, which has been burned for the most part, and only the first three words can be seen: [吉祥寿]

There were two more words at the end, but they were no longer clear. However, Xiao Ran remembered that the full name should be Jixiang Funeral Home.

Seeing the ruins in front of him, Xiao Ran suddenly felt a pain in his nose.

He didn't like the bald boss, but he really liked Xiaoqi. On the one hand, he didn't have many friends, and on the other hand, Xiaoqi never cared about the smell of him.

But now...

Restraining the anger in his heart, Xiao Ran quickly walked to the door, looked at the burnt ruins, and frowned for a moment.

"Brother Xiaoran!"

Suddenly, a familiar shout perked up Xiao Ran. She turned around immediately and saw Xiao Qi standing in the shadows beside her, holding a boy who was younger than her.

The young face was full of horror and helplessness. Only when he saw Xiao Ran did hope flash in his eyes: "Have you seen my mother?"

"I……"

For a moment, Xiao Ran felt like a stone was stuffed into his chest. His eyes glowed with fluorescence. Facing Xiao Qi's pleading gaze, his heart felt as if it were stabbed by a knife.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Ranran walked up to Xiao Qi: "Do you remember what happened yesterday?"

Xiao Qi held his brother in one hand and shook his head with empty eyes: "Mom told us to run, and then we ran out."

"Brother Xiaoran, have you seen my mother?"

Facing Xiao Qi's repeated questioning, Xiao Ran shook his head and said, "No."

Xiao Qi showed a disappointed look on his face, turned to his brother beside him and said: "Oh, then let's wait for her."

The younger brother nodded, his little hands tightly grasping Xiaoqi's arms, as if he was afraid that if he let go, his sister would disappear.

The brother and sister's expressions gradually became dull. Xiao Ran tried to call out to them, but they ignored him.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran knew where the problem lay.

There was a story in the past, which told about an executioner who was very quick. One day he whispered in the prisoner's ear, "I will let you run later, so just run and comfort the prisoner."

When the prisoner heard the executioner shouting to run, he ran forward as fast as he could.

As a result, he actually ran away from the execution ground, but he didn't know that his head had fallen to the ground the moment the executioner opened his mouth.

He himself was not aware of it, but relying on this obsession, his soul wandered the world for a long, long time, until one day when he saw his own tombstone and realized that he was dead.

The same is true for Xiao Qi in front of him. She is just a soul now, and she stays here just for that obsession.

Believe that your mother will come out behind them.

Because of this obsession, he is trapped here and cannot enter the underworld.

If they don't resolve this obsession, they will remain trapped in this place, confused and dazed, just like the old man squatting under the stone tablet at the entrance of their village.

Xiao Ran didn't have any other good ideas, so he turned and walked towards a shop nearby.

He casually took out a bottle of drink from the freezer and asked about the fire in the shop next door.

"Alas, we were originally a family of six, doing pretty well, and doing good business, but who knew it would suddenly catch fire."

The boss was giving Xiao Ran the change and sighed at the same time. In fact, the most taboo thing for doing business is to be so close to a funeral supplies store. Even if there is a funeral supplies store in a storefront near some residential areas, it may be boycotted by the owner.

But when the boss talked about the [Auspicious Funeral Home], he felt quite uncomfortable. It can be seen that this family is indeed as the boss said, and they are nice people in their daily lives.

"Especially that little girl, she is so well-behaved, good at studying, and polite..."

The boss sighed, and then changed the subject to complain: "God is really blind. A good family ended up being torn apart."

"The fire inspection, didn't it reveal any results?"

"What was the result? The house was full of paper, and the fire was too big. The fire trucks came but they could only watch helplessly. They could only spray water on both sides to prevent the fire from spreading. In the end, they could only watch the house burn down, and even the bodies were burned to ashes."

Xiao Ran sighed and walked out of the store helplessly.

I walked to the burned-down funeral shop and watched from outside through the cordon for a long time. In the end, I was unable to see the souls of the child's parents.

Most of the wandering ghosts who can stay in reality are people with very deep obsessions.

Compared to the purity of children, adults have many distracting thoughts, so most people can remain in their physical bodies for a short period of time after death, but if they lose their physical bodies, it is difficult for them to stay in reality.

"We can only wait until the seventh day."

Xiao Ran thought that he would come again on the seventh day to see if he could do anything to help their family.

Or...

I turned around to look at Xiao Qi who was hiding in the shadows and looking around from time to time.

Xiao Ran just felt like there was a lump in his throat.

There was only one thought in my mind: "Kill her!"

His eyes became ferocious. After a moment, he came up with an idea. He took out his cell phone and called Uncle Li.

"Hey……"

Sad crying could be heard on the other end of the phone. I guess Uncle Li is busy with his business at the moment.

Xiao Ran didn't beat around the bush: "Uncle Li, I have a problem here. You have many connections, can you help me find some things..."

Around noon, a horn sounded outside the shop.

Xiao Ran walked out of the door, only to see Uncle Li parked his Wuling van, which was of unknown ownership, at the door. As soon as he got out of the car, he smiled at Xiao Ran and said:

"Xiao Ran, you wanted it too urgently this time. I asked my friends to ask several stores and even called them to pay off my bills before I was able to get this stuff for you. It's only me. Otherwise, there's no place in the city where you can find this stuff. You really wouldn't be able to find it."

Uncle Li opened the car door and a strong fishy smell hit him in the face. He saw five blood-stained woven bags thrown inside.

Xiao Ran opened a woven bag and looked inside. After confirming that it was what he wanted, he nodded to Uncle Li and said, "Thank you, Uncle Li. I'm sorry for the trouble this time."

As he said this, he took out the money he had prepared earlier.

"Hey, you're welcome. You... don't need these."

Uncle Li wanted to refuse, but Xiao Ran didn't give him a chance and directly stuffed the money into Uncle Li's hand.

Although Uncle Li accepted the money, he felt unhappy. After all, Xiao Ran would never be so polite to him before, and he would not give him so much money for such a small favor. The most he could do was to treat him to a meal.

Although the money was less, the relationship between the two was getting better and better.

just now……

"Let me help you move in."

"Need not!"

Xiao Ran turned around and closed the store door, then said to Uncle Li, "Please take me to Cuiyun Park."

"what?"

Uncle Li was stunned, not knowing what Xiao Ran was doing, but he didn't dare to ask too much. The place was not far away, and it would take less than five minutes to drive there, and he was still waiting for the traffic light.

When they arrived at the place, Xiao Ran put down the five sacks. Although Uncle Li wanted to help, Xiao Ran refused.

"Okay then, call me if you need anything else."

Uncle Li sighed, knowing that his relationship with Xiao Ran would not be able to return to its original state in a short time, so he could only drive away in shame.

After Uncle Li left, Xiao Ran looked around and made sure that there was no one around. He threw all five woven bags into the mysterious city space, and then walked along the path into Cuiyun Park.

It’s still the same pavilion.

There were still a few furtive shadows squatting in the pavilion.

Xiao Ran walked into the pavilion, his eyes flashing with coldness: "It's impolite not to reciprocate. Since you are the first, don't blame me for being the fifteenth."

As he spoke, Xiao Ran raised his hand and placed a butter candle on the table in the pavilion. After lighting the candle, a special fragrance began to spread around soon.

In less than a cup of tea, the area around the pavilion was already filled with fragrance, but the temperature was getting lower and lower, and even the flame of the burning candle began to turn green.

Xiao Ran stretched out his hand and lit up a piece of ghost money, and blurry shadows gradually appeared in his eyes...

"Everyone, come to life!"

(End of this chapter)