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. He walked towards the apartment door muttering dissatisfiedly. One look at the bow dangling outside the kitchen window and she knew something was wrong.
"Wait."
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."
"Yeah."
The response coming from behind was a bit strange, which made Lynch 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 there seemed to be a tinge in her eyes. With shining 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 could ignore the possibility of a connection between the two, then that's it. I really let down the more than forty days of time travel.
Lin Qi was very suspicious that the naughty kid got into some trouble because of the mysterious ritual, so he acted contrary to the rules. And 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 this reaction is a bit wrong, 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.
It's very good. I don't have the urge to rush out and bite others. 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 peeping furtively nearby. 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. 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 any heavy mysterious filth on her body, and he didn't see anything strange. Then he felt relieved and walked into the apartment with the little girl. .
Both ladies had something 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 You know, I have recognized you, so if you don’t get to the point directly, or leave immediately, no matter what problem you encounter, I won’t let you move in.”
The little girl bit her lip, took out the business card that Lynch had given her before, and suddenly burst into tears. She grabbed Lynch's wrist and trembled like a fallen leaf in the wind:
"Help. I, sir, something strange is following me. My friends are almost scared out of their minds 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 live in and hide. 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.
Looking at 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 anything.
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 comforted her with a few words, letting the little girl sob and explain the details.
The girl's name is Monia, the daughter of Lord Lister of the Treasury, who is considered to be from a very wealthy family.
There have been several soul-shifters in the ancestors of the Liszt family, but these two or three generations are ordinary people. After several groups of family members died, they gradually became disconnected from the mysterious world, but some families The story remains. 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 got together and unscrupulously tried various mysterious rituals for fun under the trend of curiosity, although they were basically all fakes that Lynch could make up eight times a night. , but there is a proverb that says that if you walk by the River Styx, you will encounter a ghost one day.
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 scattered clues in the family library, and then 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 secretly, Lynch's tone softened a lot, "Continue, after you get the ceremony record, you can "Take it to school to play?"
"Yes." The child was the most sensitive and immediately felt the change in Lin Qi's attitude. He immediately leaned in his direction, his expression even more aggrieved, "The ceremony is very complicated. There are also many incomprehensible spells. We have held them several times in the past few days, but to no avail. Everyone is a little disappointed and wonders if this is also fake. ”
Lin Qi immediately remembered what he had experienced 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 must be sound and light effects. , or something popped up."
"It just popped up, it's just that you were scared to death." Lynch shrugged, "What about after being disappointed?"
"It stopped later, but I started to find something wrong from the day before yesterday."
The little girl swallowed hard, crossed her arms and said timidly:
"When I was quiet, I I can always hear the sound of sand falling in my ears, and the crawling of insects and rats, but if I look for it, there is nothing. At first, I thought there was something wrong in the school dormitory, but no matter where I go, as long as it is quiet, there is nothing. I can hear it, like 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 a sound?"
"No more." The little girl suddenly became very excited, "I was wandering nearby before, afraid that you would refuse, so I didn't dare to come in, but About an hour ago, I suddenly found that the sound stopped when I got close to here, so I wanted to hide here.”
Hmm... After counting the time, Lin Qi immediately understood that it should be the effect of the book of purification.
The disaster-level rare items are quite powerful.
"Only sound?"
"No, the scariest thing is that after hearing the sound, a strange thing happened around me. Several times, things near me suddenly turned into powder. This frightened the students, and no one Dare to come close to me."
Huh?
Lin Qi’s face darkened and 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 need to meet with Howard most urgently, and I plan to leave him alone for two days. I have nothing to do now, so why not just accept an order temporarily.
I'm not soft-hearted, I want to exchange for her flashed file.
Yes, 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."
Huh? Girls' high school?
(End of this chapter)