When I pushed open the door and entered the shrine hall, He Bi wasn't there. Without hesitation, I slapped the icons of all the spirits on the incense altar that I could call out by name.
Ji Xiang grumbled that he had just fallen asleep when I urgently woke him up.
I didn't have the time to banter with him and directly asked, "Where's He Bi? Why isn't he in the hall?"
Ji Xiang scratched his head and looked around. He really didn't see He Bi. This guy usually sat in the hall playing games during the day.
Bai Fugui lazily said, "I haven't seen him much these days. He's always holding his phone, looking blissful. He seems like a different person."
"Could he be in love?" Ji Xiang said in a sly tone.
I went to the front desk and searched around. This guy loved playing games so much. Forgetting to bring his phone, such an important thing, there must be something wrong.
"Where is he? He Bi must be in trouble."
As soon as I said this, Gu Yuan walked out from the inner hall. He looked exhausted, as if he had just come back from outside.
"Gu Yuan, He Bi is in trouble."
Gu Yuan's eyes darkened. He pinched his fingers and calculated, then said, "This kid, is he courting death?"
"What's going on?" I quickly stepped forward and asked.
"Lan Lan, get the car keys. I'll explain in the car."
"Okay."
I quickly got the car keys from the front desk, ignoring what the instructor had said, and followed Gu Yuan closely into the car.
I drove while Gu Yuan gave directions. Soon, we arrived at our destination.
After getting out of the car, I looked around. This place seemed very familiar.
"This is the place where we got the yin hair before." I walked closer to Gu Yuan. For some reason, with him around, I always felt like I had a pillar of support. I was actually a bit scared of this place.
"He Bi must have provoked some unclean thing here. Now that thing has come after him."
When Gu Yuan said this, I suddenly remembered He Bi's strange behavior that day. He went to prop up a tombstone for a girl and even read out her name.
"Gu Yuan, I know where it is. Follow me."
I grabbed Gu Yuan's hand and ran towards the burial place of that girl.
Just as we got there, we saw a girl digging at something. She must have come around the same time as us. The ground was too frozen to dig, so she was scraping the tomb soil bit by bit with a shovel.
"Little girl, what are you doing?"
My sudden shout scared the little girl. Without saying a word, she dropped the shovel and ran away.
I was about to chase after her, but Gu Yuan stopped me.
"Don't chase. Dig the grave."
I didn't understand what Gu Yuan meant. Gu Yuan waved his arm, and with a few loud "bang! bang! bang!" sounds, the frozen and hard tomb mound exploded.
A pine coffin was revealed inside, and there came the sound of "bang! bang! bang!" knocking from inside the coffin.
Gu Yuan flicked his hand, and all the coffin nails on it were pulled out.
Although it was daytime, it still felt creepy.
"Give him a hand."
"Ah?" I didn't understand what he meant.
Gu Yuan added, "Help him open the coffin."
At his command, although I originally wanted to back off, then I thought that with him around, the thing inside wouldn't dare to act recklessly.
I put on my gloves, walked to the coffin, and forcefully pushed the coffin lid down.
The coffin lid fell to the ground with a thud, and the person inside suddenly sat up, scaring me.
I stared at the person in the coffin and was even more surprised.
"He Bi, why are you lying in the coffin?"
He Bi's hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was gagged. When he saw us, tears welled up in his eyes.
I quickly pulled the cloth out of his mouth.
"Sis, I'm so lucky you came to save me. Otherwise, I would have suffocated to death."
Hearing him call me sis, I was sure it was He Bi. I untied the ropes on his hands, and he didn't want to stay there for a moment. He directly jumped out of the coffin.
A skeleton was also brought out from his waist. He Bi gave it a hard flick and threw it out.
"Gu Yuan, who was that person just now?"
I was a bit confused. The soil layer was so hard. How did He Bi get in there? And was that girl just now digging the grave to save him?
"She wasn't digging the grave to save someone just now. She was filling the grave." Gu Yuan said.
When he said this, I suddenly felt terrified. What kind of person did He Bi meet?
He Bi quickly added, "It's possession..."
He Bi told us about his experience without leaving out a single detail.
After he read out the girl's name "Shen Xiya" last time, he didn't pay much attention to it. He had almost forgotten this name.
Not long ago, He Bi suddenly started having dreams about a girl every night, and they were all erotic dreams. How could a young and energetic boy resist such temptation?
As time passed, he was trapped. Since they only met in dreams, we didn't notice anything strange.
Recently, we've all been extremely busy. Bored while guarding the shrine hall alone, He Bi went for a walk in the park and met a girl named Shen Xiya. He thought it was a fateful encounter. The person he saw in his dreams actually appeared in the real world.
The two of them got closer, and their relationship quickly developed. They were deeply in love.
Not long ago, Shen Xiya suddenly proposed that He Bi should go with her to pay respects to her twin sister at the gravesite. This silly boy He Bi didn't think much and just agreed.
So today, he made an appointment with Shen Xiya and came to the gravesite to pay respects.
When He Bi saw the name Shen Xiya on the tombstone, he suddenly remembered that he had seen this tombstone before and even stupidly read out the name on the tombstone.
He panicked and turned to run, but suddenly felt dizzy and fainted.
When he woke up again, he was already lying in the coffin. No matter how much he knocked, no one responded.
Fortunately, we came in time. Otherwise, he would definitely have suffocated inside.
After hearing He Bi's story, I couldn't help but sigh that people's hearts are unpredictable.
He Bi clearly kindly propped up the tombstone for her and even lit incense for her. Not only did she not show gratitude, but she even wanted to kill him.
"Gu Yuan, should we go find that girl now?"
Gu Yuan squatted down to check the skeleton that He Bi had just brought out. His face was very serious.
"The girl just now had two souls in one body. The twin sisters shared the same body."
Wasn't that similar to me? It's just that Man Yue in my body hadn't awakened yet.
"Why did this happen?" I quickly asked.
"You have to ask He Bi about this. How many people buried here died a normal death? Instead of keeping his distance, he even destroyed the formation."
He Bi lowered his head, looking aggrieved. It was freezing cold at that time, and the thick snow covered everything. He couldn't see the formation at all. He probably just wanted the girl to have a decent burial out of kindness. Who would have thought that his good intentions would lead to trouble.
After the formation was destroyed, the girl's soul left her body and followed He Bi back to the urban area. She had a relationship with He Bi in his dreams and finally borrowed the body of her twin sister to have a normal relationship with He Bi.
"But I don't understand one thing. If the girl wanted He Bi to die from the beginning, why did she go through so much trouble to have a relationship with him? She could have just killed him directly."
He Bi was almost scared silly at this moment. He shook his head repeatedly and said, "Xiya is a good girl. She would never kill me. There must be something wrong in the middle."
He Bi looked at the fleshless skeleton on the ground, and tears welled up in his eyes uncontrollably.
"Is this Xiya's body?"
I walked up to Gu Yuan, my face serious. "Does she want to play the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?"
"You have to ask the owner of the tomb about this."
"But how can I ask?" Gu Yuan always posed difficult problems.
"Simple. Go back to the shrine hall and call her soul."
He Bi put Shen Xiya's body into his backpack, and then we drove back to the shrine hall.
...
At ten o'clock at night, He Bi's spiritual helpers prepared the altar. Gu Yuan and I stood not far from him, acting as his guardians.
I heard He Bi mumble and sing for a while, and then he kept calling out the name "Shen Xiya".
On this cold night, a cold wind blew by, making the soul - summoning flag flutter.
In the darkness, a woman in a red dress with long black hair reaching her waist floated over without touching the ground...