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Chapter 144 Midnight Ghost Team
Seeing that I was deep in thought and didn't say a word, Nangong Xiong ignored me and went to the side to play with Xiaojia. She was dressed like a fairy sister, and Xiaojia also liked to play with her. When I touch Nangong's long skirt, I will be very excited.

Seeing Nangong and Xiaojia having fun, I was very annoyed, because I had noticed the clue subconsciously, but I couldn't tell which clue it was in my subjective consciousness. It's really hard to remember.

After thinking about it for a while, I still had no answer, so I was going to analyze the clues one by one from the clues I had. The name of the first case was Beiyu Desolate Village.

This name seems to have nothing to do with Zhao Ling and Xiao Jia.

The second is the picture painted by Cai Ying.

Thinking of this, I quickly took out my phone and began to look at the painting carefully. I zoomed in on the screen, and then carefully observed every corner of the painting, trying to find clues related to Zhao Ling and Xiaojia.

When I zoomed in on the photo, I found that there is a temple in the upper right corner of Beiyu Village in the painting. The temple has been abandoned, and there are weeds and trees everywhere, but the plaque of the temple is clearly visible, and it says three A word - "Jade Emperor Temple".

And there are two people standing in front of the Jade Emperor Temple, one big and one small, because it is a distant view, so the backs of the two people are very blurred on the screen, and it can still be seen that it is a woman with a child!

Women and children?

I immediately thought of Zhao Ling and Xiao Jia, could this be the clue in my subconscious?

Yes, definitely so!
I confirmed my guess almost instantly, so I immediately ran to the kitchen to find Zhao Ling, and asked her if she had been to a Jade Emperor Temple in the mountains, and had seen a deserted village.

Zhao Ling thought for a while and said: "The year my husband died, I took my daughter into the mountain to burn paper for her, but for some reason, I got lost. I took my daughter around the mountain for a long time. , and then came across an abandoned Jade Emperor Temple. We stayed in front of the temple for a while, and I paid my respects to that temple. After walking for more than an hour, I found my way back. The jade in the deep mountains you mentioned I have seen the imperial temple, but I have never seen the barren village."

Sure enough, Zhao Ling had seen the Jade Emperor Temple.

After hearing what Zhao Ling said, I couldn't hide my surprise. What surprised me was not about Zhao Ling, but about Cai Ying's painting. Although Cai Ying took away all the clues for us, he was there There are some instructions left for us in the scroll.

Thinking about it this way, Cai Ying is not too much.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Zhao Ling looked at me curiously and asked: "By the way, how do you know that I have seen the Jade Emperor Temple in the mountains? Did you inquire about it in the village? When I came back from the mountains that day, I took this I told the people in the village about it, and they all said that I was an evil spirit, and that there was no Jade Emperor Temple in the mountains, and I went to look for it a few times to say thank you, but I couldn’t find it!”

"It's been two years. If you don't tell me, I'll forget about it. Now that I think about it, it was really evil at the time. You said that I saw the Jade Emperor Temple with my own eyes. Why didn't I see it when I went to look for it later?" By the way, by the way, you just asked me what happened to the deserted village, did you mean that ghost village, I must have never seen it, if I saw that ghost village, I would definitely not be able to come back gone."

I asked Zhao Ling if she still remembered the general direction of the Jade Emperor Temple.

Zhao Ling looked at me and said with a smile: "Do you also want to find the Jade Emperor Temple? Just follow the mountain north of the village and walk for half a day. When I got lost, I led Xiaojia slowly. , if you go directly there, it may not take a long time, but I don’t know if you can find it, maybe I was really bewitched at the time.”

It is half a day away from this village. If this is the case, then the address Cai Ying gave us is wrong. According to the address, we are going to Beiyu Desolate Village, and we have to walk for a day and a night to enter the mountain.

But then again, if Zhao Ling saw the Jade Emperor Temple, then the Jade Emperor Temple is the village of Ruo Da, so she shouldn't be unable to see it.

Next, I didn't continue to ask Zhao Ling, but asked Xiao Jia if she remembered what happened to her when she got lost two years ago. She is five years old this year and only three years old two years ago. She really doesn't remember these things.

Xiao Jia shook her head and said she couldn't remember.

really.

I took out my mobile phone again, showed Xiaojia the photos on the mobile phone, and asked her if she had seen the village on the mobile phone. Xiaojia looked at it for a while and said, "It looks familiar, but I can't remember anything I have seen before. I remember that my father seemed to be It was also in that village, and I remembered that it was the time when my mother took me to see my father. We walked for a long time in the mountains, and then I saw my father, but someone grabbed my father and refused to let him go with us. , I wanted to tell my mother at the time, but my mother was a little angry at that time, with a fierce expression on her face, I was too scared to speak, and then I fell asleep on my mother's shoulder, and I forgot about it when I got home , If you don’t remind me, I haven’t remembered yet!”

It has to be said that Xiao Jia is really smart, and she was able to describe such a complicated matter so clearly.

Thinking of this, I was wondering if she might have a "problem", so I checked her situation with my own breath, she is undoubtedly a normal person, I secretly asked Nangong, she was white He glanced at me and said, "Don't worry, Zhao Ling and Xiao Jia are ordinary people. If there is any abnormality, I would have discovered it long ago."

After making sure that the two of them were fine, I was relieved.

After having breakfast here, I started to enter the mountain in the direction Zhao Ling told us. There is a small mountain road behind the village, and this mountain road and Cai Ying are exactly the same as the path described in our materials. According to the data According to the above, we need to walk for a day and a night.

Two years ago, Zhao Ling and Xiao Jia, who was only three years old, arrived at the Jade Emperor Temple in more than half a day. Calculating from the distance, there are some problems.

The mountain road was looming. After we walked for more than two hours, the path became not so easy to distinguish. Because we couldn't find the road, we took several detours. It wasted a few hours to go back and forth. It's getting dark, and we still haven't found the Jade Emperor Temple.

At this time, Nangong Yuzhang said: "It was definitely not accidental that Zhao Ling lost her way two years ago. It must be something that confused her and made her lose her way, and then that thing guided her to take this path. She took the right path." So it took only half a day to arrive at the Jade Emperor Temple, but we are different, we need to keep looking for where the intermittent road is, and the time slows down, so the information only says one day and one night, but if you are unlucky , I think we may not be able to find the Jade Emperor Temple and the deserted village in a day and a night."

I nodded to Nangong Xiong, I agree with her analysis.

But then again, who is going to lead them down that path?A doubt appeared in my heart: "Could it be that Zhao Ling's husband is guiding them to the Jade Emperor Temple? What is his purpose? Is it to harm his wife and daughter? But it's not right. In the end, Zhao Ling and Xiaojia didn't go smoothly." are you back?"

I'm starting to feel confused.

At this time, the sky was very dark, there were no stars in the sky, and there was no moonlight. Our flashlight shone in the darkness, and the light seemed to be swallowed up. The beam of the flashlight was not far away, and we could only see ten A distance of about many meters.

For the sake of safety, I am lucky to adjust my breath to perceive the surrounding situation. If there is danger, I will be able to spot it at the first time.

After walking a few steps forward, Nangong Yuzhang took my words and said: "I think there should be other ghosts who want to lure Zhao Ling and Xiaojia to the deserted village in Beiyu, and Zhao Ling's husband destroys them and guides them. After leaving the Jade Emperor Temple, the Jade Emperor Temple may be the key to leaving Beiyu Desolate Village."

The analysis of Nangong Yuzhang is very reasonable, but this is all our conjecture. The real situation needs further research.

At this time, Nangong Xiong said again: "Also, didn't Zhao Ling's husband fall to his death as a migrant worker? Why did his ghost appear in the deserted village? It's worth our investigation. After we arrived at the deserted village in Beiyu, first What we need to find is Zhao Ling's husband, he may have a key clue."

Nangong Xiong didn't say it, I really didn't expect it.

Sure enough, I'm still very stupid, and often I can't keep up with my thinking.

I nodded to Nangong Xiong, and she smiled triumphantly: "I followed you to a case, and you earned it. There are many things about me that are worth learning from."

I said, "For example, sharp teeth and sharp mouth!"

Nangong Xiong raised his foot and kicked my butt: "You still have a sharp mouth!"

Of course, she didn't use force with this kick. If she had used force, I would have been kicked into the ravine by her long ago.

We walked for a while, and it was really difficult to distinguish the road in front of us. If we took the wrong road at this time, it would be even more difficult to find the original route. Therefore, Nangong Yuzhang suggested that we stop and rest first, and wait for the sky to be bright before continuing. .

I also nodded.

We didn't prepare a tent, so we found a relatively flat place to sit down and rest. Of course, before resting, Nangong Lian also arranged a formation around it.

In the middle of the night, the wind suddenly started to blow, and it started to drizzle after a while. Neither Nangong Yuzhang nor I had rain gear. They were all blocked by the protective film.

I looked at Nangong Xiong, and she hummed and said, "I see that your physique is too weak, and I'm afraid you'll catch a cold and make the snacks sick together. It's really unlucky for it to be your natal Gu!"

I know that this is Nangong's excuse for caring about me. I have long been used to her sharp-mouthed and tofu-hearted character, so I didn't try to expose her.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, but none of it could fall on us.

At more than three o'clock in the middle of the night, a burst of noisy footsteps interrupted the tranquility between me and Nangong Yuzhang.

Looking in the direction of the footsteps, we saw a pair of people with blue lanterns walking on a rainy night. They were all wearing ancient Han costumes, and they all stood on tiptoe when they walked!

They are all ghosts!
(End of this chapter)