Li Huan nodded: "He ordered it online, and the delivery location is No. 72, Building B, Shujin Community. By the way, you must not have imagined that the buyer actually erected a tombstone for himself, and the tombstone was erected on his balcony."
"Have you been to the buyer's home?" Ma Qiang frowned and looked at her in confusion.
"Fan Er told me." Li Huan said.
Ma Qiang asked some more irrelevant questions, and the two had a hasty drink at the milk tea shop and then went back to bed.
Rat
This is not the first time that Ma Qiang has heard of a living person erecting a tombstone for himself. Zhou Chong once told him a strange story about a rat:
Li Mou, a college student who failed the college entrance examination, couldn't bear the pressure and suffered from depression. He locked himself in his room all day long and never took a step out of his room except for eating and drinking. As time went by, his parents followed his wishes and didn't bother him.
This kind of life passed for about a month. One night, Li Mou's sister got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. When she passed by Li Mou's room, she suddenly heard the sound of a rat. It was not a rat, but a group of rats. She was horrified and ran to her parents' room to inform her. The parents were doubtful. The three of them stood outside Li Mou's room and listened for a while. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The next day, the third day… for several days in a row, Li Mou's sister heard the sound of mice. Unable to bear her pleas, her parents decided to enter Li Mou's room to see what was going on. So, they put sleeping pills in Li Mou's water, calculated the time when the medicine would take effect, and then opened the door.
There was a putrid smell everywhere in the room, except Li Mou. My parents rummaged through the closet under the bed, but still no one was there. In the end, his sister discovered something unusual in the house. A small mouse hole in the lower right corner of the window caught her attention. Outside the window is the open-air balcony, which is Li Mou's only hiding place. So, she opened the window, stuck her head out and looked outside. There was a tombstone standing on the balcony, with Li Mou's name written on it, and the tombstone was surrounded by countless rats, making it a dense darkness. Li Mou was lying in the middle of the pile of rats, and his skin was completely skinned from head to toe. The man had died long ago, and even the flesh on his body had dried. His body became food for rats.
Li Mou's parents were so distraught that they both hanged themselves that night, leaving Li Mou's sister alone. Li Mou's sister felt that her brother's death was strange, so she went around looking for Taoist priests to inquire. An older Taoist priest told her that Li Mou died in the Rat Formation. He said that someone deliberately set up the formation to kill him. The only way to find the murderer was to make a tombstone from Li Mou's ashes and engrave the words "Li Mou" on the tombstone. Sister's name is used to summon the soul and ask the evildoer. Sister Li Mou did what the Taoist said and went crazy that night. No one knows how she went crazy.
Ma Qiang lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. He kept trying to connect the story to the egg.
While thinking, he suddenly sat up and listened carefully in the darkness. Strange noises suddenly appeared in the dormitory. The rapid and thin syllables were definitely not the sounds of human speech that were commonly heard. He took out the flashlight under his pillow, flicked it on and took pictures in the dormitory. He found nothing unusual and the sound stopped suddenly. He turned off the flashlight and lay in the darkness with his eyes open. What he saw was still darkness. After a while, the strange sound sounded again. The sound came from the four walls and finally condensed in the sky above the dormitory, echoing in his ears.
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Yes, it was the sound of a rat, not just one, but a group of them. They were coming from all directions, but he couldn't see them. Maybe they were gathering at his feet, ready to gnaw at his flesh.
Ma Qiang cowered at the foot of the bed in fear. He didn't know what he was afraid of. At this moment, Fan Er's cell phone rang suddenly. The blue light emitted from the screen was like a will-o'-the-wisp in the dark, but Fan Er's bed was empty! He was clearly still in his bed before turning out the lights.
Ma Qiangqiang bravely walked to Fan Er's bed and picked up the mobile phone on the bed. A line of blood-red mouse footprints suddenly appeared on the screen. He threw the phone away suddenly, feeling a sharp pain in his fingers as if they had been bitten. The cell phone that fell on the bed automatically played a series of photos. In the photos, Fan Er was standing in front of a spherical cement grave, naked and looking drunk.
Ma Qiang's eyes widened and he stared straight at the tombstone in the photo. The two characters "Li Mou" were clearly engraved on it.
Could that story be true?
Seeking death
No. 72, Building B, Shujin Community.
Ma Qiang rang the doorbell over and over again. Although he had already made up a lie in his heart, he was still very uneasy.
The person who opened the door was a woman in her early twenties, with a bald head and wide-rimmed sunglasses.
"I am Li Huan's classmate. She asked me to check for her whether you are satisfied with her work." Ma Qiang tapped his feet uneasily. He felt that his excuse was really bad.
The bald woman grabbed Ma Qiang's collar and dragged him into the house, locking the door behind him. Ma Qiang never imagined that the weak-looking woman in front of him could be so strong, and he couldn't resist at all.
"You're lying, I know what you're here for." The bald woman sneered.
Ma Qiang panicked: "I just want to see the egg."
"You can't see me anymore. It was stolen not long ago." The bald woman said.
Ma Qiang thought for a while and told Fan Er's story truthfully. He also added a few more words about how he and Fan Er were brothers and worried about something happening to him. He wanted to use this to inquire about the true purpose of the egg.
"It's not difficult to know this. You have to do one thing for me." The bald woman smiled slyly and narrowed her eyes.
Ma Qiang was in a dilemma: on the one hand, he really didn't want to help this strange woman; on the other hand, he was eager to know the purpose of the egg.
"What's the matter?" Ma Qiang asked.
"Kill me." The bald woman said seriously, "Kill me the way I told you."
Ma Qiang has never even killed a chicken, let alone killed someone. His face was so frightened that he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
"When it's done, I will not only tell you the answer you want to know, but I will also pay you a huge sum of money as a reward." The bald woman touched her head and smiled, "All you have to do is press the button lightly. That's all.'
Ma Qiang felt that the woman in front of him was a lunatic, so he stood up and was about to leave.
"Stop, don't you still want to know why I built a tombstone for myself?" The bald woman's words shot into Ma Qiang's heart like an arrow, and he stopped moving, "How do you know?"
"I know far more than you think. I might as well tell you that there is a custom in Mouse Village. The ashes of a person after death are used to make an egg urn and placed in front of the tombstone. The soul of the deceased will enter through the hole left in the egg urn and interact with it. They merged into one and became Xiang Shu. Xiang Shu is the guardian spirit of Mouse Village and is said to be able to resurrect the dead. Not long ago, three young people went to Mouse Village to play. They did not believe in the existence of Xiang Shu at all, and even ran away after being drunk. Go to the graves of newly deceased people and take those blasphemous photos of the rat. The sin has already been committed, and you must either die or die." The bald woman's expression suddenly became serious. She pointed to the tombstone standing on the balcony and said, "That's me. Tombstone, please kill me."
Ma Qiang didn't want to continue listening to her crazy words, so he opened the door and left without looking back. This time the bald woman didn't stop him, she just kept laughing. The laughter surrounded his ears like a magic spell and refused to go away for a long time.
woman
When Ma Qiang returned to the dormitory, Zhou Chong was drinking alone. When she saw him coming back, she suddenly burst into tears and said while crying, "He is here to find us."
Ma Qiang thought he was talking drunkenly, so he ignored him. He glanced at Fan Er's bed. The egg was still there, but Fan Er was nowhere to be seen. He couldn't help but ask: "Where is Fan Er?"
Zhou Chong wiped the tears on his face: "Qiangzi, you have to help me. I don't want to die without knowing it like Fan Er and Baldzi."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ma Qiang said.
"There was a call from the hospital just now. Fan Er went to visit Baldy. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden fire in the ward and both of them were burned to death. The doctors and nurses present said that the fire was evil and could not be extinguished no matter how hard it was. The two of them were burned to death. . I know in my heart that this is the curse of the people of Mouse Village. Do you still remember the story about Xiangshu? The protagonist of that story is a person from Mouse Village. Fan Er and I took a photo in front of his tombstone. Originally, Fan Er did not dare, but I was the one who After he got drunk, he forced him to take a photo with the tombstone. In fact, I had long suspected that Fan Er's egg was not given by Li Huan. It was too similar to the egg urn in front of the tombstone. In order to confirm my guess, I checked carefully I found the egg, and the name written on the small hole at the bottom was exactly the same as the name on the tombstone." Zhou Chong said incoherently.
Ma Qiang interrupted him and expressed his doubts: "But didn't Li Huan say that the egg was her work? If you have seen that egg in the cemetery before, it can only mean that she is lying. But Why would she lie?"
"She was one of the people who went to Mouse Village that day." Zhou Chong said, "There must be some secret between her and Fan Er, otherwise she wouldn't have helped him lie."
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"That is to say, after Li Huan and Fan Er teamed up to steal the egg urn, she helped him lie again. What happened to the bald female buyer? She was also the one they hired to act? What was their reason for doing this? What?" Ma Qiang thought for a while, "It seems that I need to ask Li Huan for clarification."
Ma Qiang waited for a long time downstairs in the women's dormitory. Li Huan finally appeared: "What do you want from me?"
"Who is that woman in Shujin Community? Why did she let me kill her?" Ma Qiang asked.
"What are you talking about? Shujin Community? I've never heard of it. You came out to me just to say these crazy things? I'm sorry, I just came back from my hometown and now I have to go back to catch up on my sleep." Li Huan snorted dissatisfied He yawned, turned around and walked towards the women's dormitory.
Zhou Chong walked out from behind the tree: "She is right. I just asked her about the girl she slept with, and she has just come back."
Ma Qiang nodded: "I understand."
"What?" Zhou Chong looked extremely nervous.
Ma Qiang pointed to his head: "The truth is here. Aren't you worried that something will happen to you? Then come with me to find that woman."
Zhou Chong swallowed: "Isn't it dangerous for us to go there so rashly?"
"You won't know until you go there."
Ma Qiang walked in front confidently. Zhou Chong hesitated for a moment and then followed. Soon the two came to Shujin Community again and saw the bald woman.
"Changed your mind?" the bald woman asked.
"I want to tell a story first, do you mind?" Ma Qiang glanced at Zhou Chong and continued: "Fan Er likes Li Huan, and Zhou Chong also likes her. During the May Day holiday, Zhou Chong and Fan Er She pestered Li Huan and insisted on taking her to Mouse Village to see the egg urn that had been passed down for nearly a hundred years. Li Huan had always been interested in that mysterious vessel, so he did not refuse. In fact, Zhou Chong had already planned to have Fan Er in Li Huan made a fool of himself in front of Fan Er. He forcibly got Fan Er drunk, and then tricked him into taking off his clothes and taking a photo with the tombstone. He wanted to use these indecent photos to make Li Huan hate Fan Er completely. To Zhou Chong's surprise, Li Huan did not take care of those photos. There was no big reaction, and at the same time, she told him with certainty that she only had Wang Chengyi in her heart. Originally, this was just a simple little story about jealousy, but what none of them could have imagined was that what they did inadvertently offended each other. Rat. When Fan Er carried the egg urn back to the dormitory, Xiang Shu also came with him. As for why Fan Er stole the egg urn back, Zhou Chong should know best. If you hadn't lied to him that making a wish on the egg urn would make him If Li Huan likes him, he won't steal it."
Zhou Chong hid behind Ma Qiang, his legs trembling: "She asked me to do this. She also told me the story about the rat. She also said that she would give me a sum of money as a reward after the completion of the matter." Remuneration, but she didn’t say I would die too."
ending
The bald woman picked up the watermelon knife on the coffee table in slow motion and approached Ma Qiang step by step: "Li Mou told me in his dream that he missed you very much. As his sister, I must inform you of the news. Now that you know everything, Now I can die in peace."
Ma Qiang pressed hard against the knife in the bald woman's hand. The two forces were about the same. When they were in a stalemate, the tip of the knife suddenly turned around and stabbed hard into the bald woman's heart. Warm blood spattered along the wound and onto Ma Qiang's heart. face. He desperately tried to pull his hands away, but the harder he pulled his hands, the deeper the knife penetrated. As the smell of blood dispersed, countless rats poured out from all directions. They pounced on the bald woman's body with red eyes and devoured her with lightning speed. The next second, the mice disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared.
Zhou Chong was completely frightened and huddled in the corner motionless. Ma Qiang grabbed his arm and said, "Let's go."
The two stumbled downstairs and ran towards the school.
On the road opposite the school, Ma Qiang stopped. His face was as pale as paper and his lips were trembling slightly. Zhou Chong seemed to have noticed the bald girl standing at the school gate. She was wearing a pair of eye-catching black sunglasses in the sun and had the watermelon knife stuck in her chest. The blood gushed out from the wound like a red snake across the road and rushed towards the two people. The overwhelming rats rushed towards them along the red carpet. Ma Qiang instinctively wanted to run, but his hands and feet had long since lost control. He watched helplessly as the rats pounced on him, biting his flesh with their sharp teeth. The bone-breaking pain tortured him to the point of death. He tried desperately to tell himself that this was all an illusion. But the real pain silently rejected his idea. Under the pain, the past reappeared, and he seemed to have returned to the day of the college entrance examination. He threw the cheating paper ball into the back seat, but the innocent Li Mou was forcibly expelled from the examination room as a cheater.
That day, the sun was so dazzling that Li Mou stood in front of the examination room and stared at him with red eyes. He knew he would never forgive him.
A few days later.
Li Huan looked at the photo on Ma Qiang's tombstone and smiled silently. She patted the egg urn in her hand and said, "This is made of your ashes. If you miss someone, remember to tell me and I will send the egg urn containing your soul to him. However, I also have conditions. Yes, my condition is that you have to find a suitable candidate for me to make the next egg urn. The rat village needs the phase rat array as a guardian spirit, and the phase rat needs more egg urns to absorb power…"