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Chapter 8 Scarlet Attic

 When he saw Yu Xing's gaze sweeping over, Luo Qishan nodded politely at him, and then looked away.

Yu Xing didn't take it seriously. There was no malice in the other party's eyes. It was probably that the curiosity about "why are junior sisters so proactive" also disappeared when he saw Yu Xing's appearance.

Next was the time for the Zhao family. The person who went on stage to explain was a strange woman from the family named Zhao Xuan. She looked 28 or 20 years old. She was calm and said that she added an old piece recycling bin to the deduction and performed well.

She listed several categories of famous star performers, analyzed the pros and cons of styles one by one, and talked about the recent changes and action trends of major guilds.

Intelligence is different from the Feng Shui mentioned by the Luo family. It does not need to be traced back too long, because its timeliness is the most precious attribute. Zhao Xuan started from October and only summarized the incident for a month and a half. After sharing a lot of useful information, she sincerely analyzed the possible trends of forces in various places in the next month.

Of course, I avoided the three major families who were sitting there. Although everyone knew it well, I let someone listen to how the Zhao family analyzed and calculated the other two families in person... This stupid operation is something that a smart person can't do.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about intelligence capabilities, the Zhao family is really worthy of being the "first in the industry". Zhao Xuan's performance is also very stable. Yu Xing secretly wrote down what he heard and smiled at the corner of his mouth.

He felt that the gossip he heard tonight... no, it was intelligence, enough to cover all levels, providing a very good environment for someone like him who had just been promoted.

For some reason, maybe because I knew that the Zhao family was basically from Tianjin, Yu Xing naturally had a Tianjin-like saying that came to his mind - thank his family.

He also noticed that during this period, Zhao Yijiu kept listening quietly under the gesture of Zhao Mou. Speaking of which, Zhao Yijiu can be regarded as the person farthest from these information in the entire family. Other members knew about some news and had their own connections.

Only Zhao Yijiu. If Zhao Mou hadn't visited him occasionally and mentioned the situation to him, he would probably know less than Yu Xing.

It was another twenty minutes of rest, and it was finally the Xu family's turn to play.

In addition to Xu Xiangfeng and Xu Lingling, the Xu family actually came with a more famous member, Xu Shu.

His treatment in the late-night guild is just like the president and three vice presidents. He is an elite among the elites. He is usually elusive, and even his own family rarely sees him.

Xu Shu has a very easy-to-recognize characteristic, which is that he likes to embody the personality mask and wear it at any time, and his mask is very strange - incomplete.

Other people's masks were all in one piece, and different patterns were formed due to various sacrifices. His only covered the lower half of his face, which was completely black and had a rusty metallic light feeling.

The uncovered part is dark brown eyes that are no different from ordinary people, and the eyebrows are half-covered by enough black hair. Just looking at this half of the face, Xu Shu should have a very handsome appearance.

But his eyes were very erratic. When he was looked at, the object he was watching would have a kind of thing that he was not looking at, but something behind him that did not exist in this time and space.

It is difficult to explain the characteristics clearly. In a nutshell, he is a big shot.

The biggest boss in the audience.

Boss Xu Shu's voice was a little dumb and his language was concise. He almost did not make any opening remarks. He directly said: "The types of ghosts in the absurd have not increased this year. The newly discovered few can be classified into the original types."

"So, there are still ten kinds of ghosts. Given that there are many newcomers who are attending the party for the first time," Xu Shu paused at this point. He was not a newcomer, but it was also the first time he was condescending to the nobles to attend the gathering of the three major families. I don't know who convinced him, "I will start with the basics."

It is said to be the basics, but in fact, the things summarized by the Xu family are already the most cutting-edge, comprehensive and useful ghost information among the deducers.

“Under the surface of the absurd world, the ghosts it contains and creates still have traces to follow. First, based on its origin, we divide them into three types.

"The first type is a ghost that has been passed down from various legends, completely inherited its characteristics or has been slightly changed. For example, Chinese zombies, belly ghosts, bloody ghosts, painted skins, Chinese or Japanese flying head mantras, also called wheel heads, Thai tree women, silence ghosts, European and American evil spirits, bloody Marys, etc. Although they are just legends, the probability of appearing in the absurd world is very high.

"The second type is often seen in mapping analogy. In games made of some real events, it will turn the dead people in reality into ghosts in deduction, borrow the obsession of these people before their death, and use their anger, unwillingness, jealousy, pain... as the tone of deduction.

"The third type is that when the absurd world is formed and deduced, the overhaul ghosts formed together have their own set of settings and have nothing to do with anyone. They may be the boss, the NPC, and the one with the greatest probability of occurrence."

Yu Xing was inspired. He had encountered many supernatural events and many ghosts over the years, but after becoming a deducer, it was the first time that he systematically received knowledge of ghost classification.

He has met all the three kinds of things Xu Shu said, Bloody Mary, Tang Li, Tang Yuan, Alice, etc.

He looked at Xu Shu on the stage. Xu Shu was wearing a white shirt with jeans and shoes underneath. If he ignored the half mask with a weird and terrifying look on his face, he would be a harmless young man next door.

Xu Shu blinked and suddenly looked at Yu Xing.

The empty eyes seemed to be frozen in the void behind Yu Xing, but Yu Xing still felt a sense of locking that could not be ignored.

He was a little confused. He didn't expect why this man had to stare at him when he spoke well, so he only smiled politely at him.

Xu Shu withdrew his gaze and continued: "The above three kinds of ghosts of origin are common when making specific classifications."

He had no focus in his eyes for many years. No one noticed the gaze just now except Yu Xing himself, and even Zhao Yijiu, who was sitting next to Yu Xing, did not notice it.

"Aggressive ghosts have two states: physical and non-entity. Generally speaking, they are deeply resentful and based on hatred, they have an absolute desire to kill enemies and passers-by involved...

"Most of the evil ghosts are physical ghosts, usually transformed from corpses, fierce, and their thinking ability gradually returns as their strength increases..."

In a sense, the Jingqing Ghost Yiqing is also considered in this category, and it is one of the very few evil ghosts who can transform into non-entity ghosts.

"The appearance of water ghosts, hanged ghosts, wronged ghosts, wild ghosts, house ghosts, and ghosts is relatively simple, and they are only threatened in their respective fields. As long as you are careful in deduction, you will not fall into an absolute death situation. If you do not act as a deduction boss, you will only appear in places where people can relax their vigilance and kill people unexpectedly."

"Curse, no entity ghost, is targeted at individuals or in a range, and has a source of curse. Usually, there is a set of rules of its own, and there must be a way to solve them. As long as you find the weaknesses of the rules, you can survive. But overall, it is difficult to deal with...

"The weird talk is essentially a ghost without physical substance. It is divided into various states based on the specific content. It is necessary to pay attention to whether a weird talk has an explanation. It must be distinguished strictly according to the content. Time, behavior, and language may be the key to starting the dead end without solution. If there is a problem, if you encounter a weird talk without solution, you can only wait for death..."

Xu Shu spoke very seriously, as if explaining this to the newcomers did not make him irritated, but he did not look very happy either. He stuffed knowledge into the listener's mind like teaching.

By the time he went down, Yu Xing had already digested all this information.

To be honest, he really has to thank Zhao Mou for giving him a quota to gain a lot.

The exchange meeting came to an end, and people from the three major families retreated from their seats, some went back to their rooms, and some went to visit Fenggulanting's wine cellar, flower rooms and other places.

Yu Xing quietly retreated with Zhao Yijiu before Luo Jue came to him.

Zhao Mou had something to do, so he told Zhao Yijiu to take Yu Xing to play, but Yu Xing was not very interested and just wanted to go back to the room to sleep.

"It's only ten o'clock." Zhao Yijiu seemed a little incomprehensible.

Yu Xing yawned: "Go to bed early and get up early and be in good health--"

Zhao Yijiu: "...but aren't you here to inquire about the news? All families will be separated at night. Isn't that a good opportunity?"

Yu Xing smiled: "That's why I want to 'go back and rest'."

After thinking for two seconds, Zhao Yijiu understood.

He was speechless for a moment, and admired Yu Xing's unsparing personality, so he could only say: "I wish you a better sleep and don't be caught by others in the middle of the night."

"Don't worry, I'm a professional sleepwalking. I will definitely avoid other people's sights and will never scare innocent people." Yu Xing promised and returned to the Zhuhong Building, which I still don't know its name.

That night, some people slept early and got up in the middle of the night as thieves, while others played very late and returned in the fun.

Few people got up early the next morning.

Originally, this kind of gathering is to let young people communicate with each other and relax. All activities are arranged in the morning, and the morning becomes a complete blank free time, leaving enough sleep time for those who like to stay in bed.

Yu Xing packed himself up and swayed to Fengyu Pavilion, located north of the manor, it was two o'clock in the afternoon. He closed his down jacket, and the gas exhaled suddenly spread into the cold air from his warm mouth, forming strands of white mist that quickly dissipated.

Fengyu Pavilion is tall in the overall building of Fenggulanting, with five floors, like a small tower with small wind chimes hanging on the edge, making a pleasant and trance-like ethereal sound as the cold wind blows.

It's just that there is a plum garden around it. It's not time for the plum blossoms to bloom, so the scenery is a bit desolate and no one comes.

He was holding a note in his hand. In fact, if it weren't for the content on the note, he wouldn't have come to such a biased place.

【2pm, Fengyu Pavilion Top】

The note came very strangely. He searched around in the middle of the night yesterday and had not returned to the room yet, but after waking up, the note was right next to his door, and it seemed to be stuffed into the crack of the door.

The notes were brief. There were so many strangers at this party, so Yu Xing could not tell who handed him. However, after recalling his experience yesterday, he had a vague guess and found it interesting, so he avoided everyone to come to the appointment.

He folded the paper into the shape of a little frog, then unconsciously turned his fingertips to play with it, narrowing his eyes and looked at the top floor through the wall. There were many closed double-open wooden windows, with complex patterns and paper in the middle of the lines. It was the white translucent paper in the TV series that poked holes one by one to facilitate the smoke.

I wonder if the person who asked him to watch him from behind the window now?

Is the purpose of coaxing him good or evil?

Yu Xing sniffed, pushed open the door of Fengyu Pavilion, and climbed the stairs in a silence.

Apart from the sound of wind chimes and the slight friction when the branches sway, there is only the sound of Yu Xing's shoes stepping on the wooden floor.

Perhaps for the sake of the atmosphere, the ground of Fengyu Pavilion is not covered with blankets, but is designed more compact and exquisite. It is not a majestic and bold beauty, but a unique and delicate spirit of Jiangnan, which makes the ancient charm magnified to the extreme.

If it were a different time, Yu Xing felt that he would like the architect of this building very much - even if the other party had probably passed away.

Now, the more he goes, the softer the more he feels, and is replaced by a sense of emptiness and uneasiness. It seems that the thing is still the original thing, but something seems to be attached to it.

"Dingling..."

The wind continued, the bell continued, and the crisp sound became more and more strange. Yu Xing kept his pace, maintaining his original frequency, and soon climbed to the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors.

"jingle……"

The ringtone suddenly became rapid, and you could hear the crying sound mixed in the wind, just like someone holding the wind chime and shaking it desperately. Flashes of ringtones that were not as natural as the ringtones formed crazily entered Yu Xing's eardrum. At the same time, he narrowed his eyes and listened carefully, and could hear subtle flowing sounds.

“Tick.”

The liquid fell down and hit the stairs ahead of him.

Yu Xing raised his eyes and a light redness slowly appeared in his vision.

I saw a stream of fresh blood slowly surging down the steps, flowing down from top to bottom, leaving a bunch of traces that are difficult to ignore where they pass.

The wooden pavilion above my head was blood red at some point, and blood was seeping down little by little. After a certain amount of volume, it fell vertically and merged into the blood flow on the stairs, just like the drop that just fell down.

There are a few more steps, and the blood will flow to Yu Xing’s feet.

His eyes were calm and he didn't even stop. Instead, he walked up before blood covered the entire step, allowing the blood to flow up the stairs cleanly.

The scene upstairs is even more shocking.

Bloody handprints appeared densely on the walls, windows, corridors, and even the furnishings in the house were not spared. The tables and chairs that looked valuable were also surrounded by bloody handprints. In addition, there were spider webs and dust.

The wind chime is crazy.

From Yu Xing's perspective, you can see a small number of wind chimes. They tremble wildly, and unknown black dirty liquid flowed out of the bell cavity, forming a viscous block below.

The origin of the blood flowing to the stairs was on a table of Eight Immortals. He followed the traces of blood and stood at the table with his eyes fixed on the half-section mask on the table.

This is the mask that Xu Shu wore on his face, but at this moment, it was not on anyone's face, and it was just placed flat, with a blood fountain flowing underneath.

The rusty mask is very consistent with the surrounding spider webs and dust. In addition, it is placed alone here, which makes people feel the urge to reach out to get it.

Yu Xing stretched out his hand.

Then———put the paper-folded little frog on the table without bloodstains beside the mask, pressing the little frog's butt, and exerting a little force, letting it jump forward.

"Put a cold note, I'll give you a cute little jumping frog. Tsk, why am I so good~"

He rang out with a hint of teasing voice, and the next moment, the wind chime stopped.
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