Panguan

Xia Qiao almost died on the spot.

He was so frightened that he picked up something and threw it over, slamming it against the window.

After smashing it over, he discovered that it was a glass thermos cup that someone had left by the pool.

The sound of breaking glass echoed in the empty toilet, and some of the scattered shards fell on Zhou Xu's face. He hissed and came to his senses a little.

The next second, footsteps came from behind.

Xia Qiao only felt a gust of wind blowing across his face. There was a very light smell in the wind, a bit like the white plum tree in the yard.

Then Wen Shi's voice rang out: "He's really looking for trouble."

His tone was still cold and indifferent, but Xia Qiao's eyes filled with tears.

"elder brother."

He watched Wen Shi take Zhou Xu off the window sill by the collar. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he felt two hands on his shoulders.

Xia Qiao screamed and heard Xie Wen shush from behind, saying calmly: "What's the noise? Your brother asked me to hold you down."

What are you pressing me to do? !

he thought in despair.

Immediately afterwards, Xie Wen knocked on his back and let go of his hand.

Xia Qiao was at a loss when he saw something light falling to the ground. He looked down and saw a bunch of knotted hair.

At first glance, this hair is not his, because he has dyed it dull green before, and it is not so dark and not so rough. What's more, there is a white hair mixed in this mass of hair.

"Where did this hair come from?" Xia Qiao's voice trembled.

"It's on your neck." Xie Wen said.

Xia Qiao's mentality suddenly collapsed. When he touched the back of his neck, his fingers were trembling. Fortunately, Xie Wen added: "There's no need to tremble like this, it's gone now."

"What's going on?" Xia Qiao asked.

"Nothing's going on, I just guarded against the wrong person." Wen Shi carried Zhou Xu over, his technique was not very gentle. He turned on the faucet, poured two splashes of water on Zhou Xu's face.

Wasteful Xiaodian suddenly woke up completely. He seemed to still remember the scene just now. He was so frightened that he couldn't speak. He opened his mouth and kept saying "fuck".

After a long while, he pointed at Xia Qiao in horror and said, "You didn't look like you just now, you looked like a man."

Xia Qiao: "I——"

He was about to cry, but when he heard this, his tears shrank back: "Why don't I look like a man anymore?"

"No." Zhou Xu said incoherently, "I mean, he looks like a man I don't know. Just... his face is a little swollen, so I can't tell. Anyway, it scared me to death."

"Brother, you just said you guarded against the wrong person. What do you mean?" Xia Qiao asked Wen Shi again.

Wenshi shook off the water on his hand and said coldly: "We were avoiding that woman before, thinking she was the cage owner, but we were wrong."

"Ah?! Wrong? Who is that?" Zhou Xu shouted.

"I didn't know at first." Wen Shi said, "I just heard what you said, and it's almost clear. There should be one of the shop owners. He is a man. His hair is frizzy and his face is a little swollen."

"In the shop owner's house? Then when we were walking up and down the corridor, weren't we being stared at by him?" Xia Qiao became more and more frightened as he thought about it.

Wen Shi didn't talk nonsense to them. He raised his chin towards the door and told them to get out quickly and stop spending time in a place like this. Then he picked up the metal lid of the thermos cup by the window.

***

When the four of them returned to the shop, Zhang Biling was finishing drawing the last piece of yellow paper and stuffing the drawn talisman paper into his pocket.

Zhou Xu's face was broken several times by the glass, and blood flowed down along the holes, leaving several blood lines on his face. It looks extremely scary.

So when he entered, the group of people huddled on the ground all jumped up.

"Oh, such a huge array of noodles." Xie Wen muttered as he saw how funny they were.

When I heard it, I was convinced by his words.

Zhou Xu blushed, his neck thickened, and said angrily: "Have you never seen a disfigured person? I'm not a ghost, so I'm so startled."

Zhang Biling quickly brought iodine and a band-aid over and asked, "What's wrong? What happened? Didn't I give you a charm?"

Zhou Xu grabbed the iodine bottle, avoided her hand, went to the corner alone, and dealt with it in front of the mirror.

"What happened? Where is Mrs. Xu?" Zhang Biling asked.

"Mrs. Xu?" She was stunned for a moment when she heard this.

"Oh, it's the old lady on the first floor." Zhang Biling explained, "Her shop says Mrs. Xu Sewing, so it's convenient."

"She lost her ring and went back to the store." Wen Shi said.

When they went upstairs, they took a look around. For some reason, a photo frame shop was closed on the third floor. There were originally 5 shops left, but now none of them were open.

Obviously before the woman came to find anyone, they had already locked themselves in the shop.

Even Mrs. Xu hurriedly closed the door after returning to the store, as if to hide something, and there was no movement.

Too strange.

Wenshi doesn't like to explain one thing over and over to different people because it's troublesome. Fortunately, Zhou Xu and Xia Qiao were not afraid to talk, and Xie Wen also added words from time to time, making everyone in the store stunned.

Zhang Biling closed the scroll door and listened to their conversation while confirming the talisman on the door.

After hearing the end, he finally said: "No wonder. No wonder I feel that there are contradictions everywhere in this cage. No wonder the female driver came up to look for people again and again, but couldn't find them. Those shopkeepers always closed the door in time." , let her pounce."