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Chapter 22 - Strange Photos

On the way back, Sang Lan was trembling. Compared to him, Ji Yayun was much calmer.

It's not that she became bolder, but that I held her in my arms and didn't see the terrifying scene in Ten Lotus Pond.

The stone coffin with runes engraved on it opened. Not only was the corpse very lifelike, it actually looked exactly like her.

Furthermore, when the corpse faced us, it actually opened its eyes and gave us a sinister smile!

The corpse quickly rotted away and the relevant authorities rushed over to deal with it. However, that bizarre smile of mine was deeply imprinted into my mind …

Arriving at the city, he sent Blind Liu to the porcine nasal alleyway. Before he got off the carriage, the Blind Swordmaster hesitated for a moment. Finally, he said:

"Huohuo, other than helping these two beauties, you have to be careful yourself. Why do I see you as no better than either of them? And this Officer Zhao … "

Without waiting for him to continue, I asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

Blind Liu remained silent.

I said, "I've been observing you all the way here. Your posture is a little weird today. Why aren't you drinking or eating meat …" A hemorrhoids attack? "

"Stop bullshitting, I'll help you guys think of a way when I get back. Take it easy." Blind Liu waved his hand impatiently. Then, he turned around and walked into the alley with a wobbly gait.

I looked at his back and muttered, "It's not hemorrhoids. Could it be that I want to cut his skin?"

"Pfft …"

Zhao Qi, whose face had sunk all the way down, couldn't help but laugh, "How old is he now …"

Turning around, I saw Sang Lan and Ji Yayun both looking at me with reddened faces.

Zhao Qi coughed dryly, and asked where we are going.

I was going to say that I'd have to trouble him to help me drag my car to the repair shop, but it was raining and my head hurt so badly that I had to go back to the hospital.

When I arrived at the hospital, I actually developed a high fever. The doctor told me that I had to be hospitalized and gave me an admission slip.

Only after being arranged to a ward did they realize that it was still the same sickroom from yesterday, and the bed next door was still Dou Dabao's …

I felt dizzy and didn't have the mood to talk nonsense with him. I took out the cymbidium and placed it under my pillow. Not long after inserting the needle, I fell into a deep sleep.

This sleep was very tiring and restless. Nightmares came one after another, but he was so tired that he could not wake up.

First, I dreamt that Sang Lan, Ji Yayun and I were at the Qi Tian County's guesthouse.

I heard the sound of mahjong shuffling again, and when I opened the door and looked at the mahjong table, I saw a burnt black child squatting on the mahjong table, piling up mahjong.

The child saw me and grinned at me.

His smile grew brighter and brighter, to the point where even his red gums were exposed. The corner of his mouth was pulled back behind his ears.

The originally tiny teeth suddenly lengthened and turned into two rows of sharp teeth. They pounced towards me!

I wanted to reach into my bag for the wooden sword, but instead I felt a soft, warm body.

Turning his head to look, he realized that I was still lying on the bed, and the one that was touched was actually Sang Lan!

Her eyes were closed, and her long eyelashes trembled from time to time. She slept soundly.

My gaze followed her slender neck and fell onto her ample and tall chest. My body started to heat up as I stretched out my trembling hand towards one of the peaks.

Just as I was about to touch that beautiful object, she suddenly raised her hand and gripped my wrist tightly.

At the same time, her eyes suddenly opened!

I tried to avoid her eyes, but her face had changed.

Before I could see the face clearly, I was pulled up by the man and sent flying.

Looking at that person's back, I felt very familiar. Just as I was about to speak, he stopped and slowly turned around to look coldly at me.

"Zhang Xi!" I blurted out.

Zhang Xi suddenly disappeared from my sight.

"Don't burn me! Don't burn me! "Ah …"

A woman's miserable wails could be heard. It was so mournful, so ear-piercing.

I found myself in a closed room.

The woman's miserable screams continuously came from all directions as she kept on shouting:

"Don't burn me … "Don't burn my child …"

I felt as if I had been placed on a stove. My whole body was burning.

"Ahh …"

I finally couldn't hold it in anymore and started to shout along with him …

"Xu Huo! Xu Huo! "

Hearing this familiar voice, I immediately stretched out my hand to grab at it. I felt that grabbing onto someone's hand was like grabbing onto a lifesaver. I tightly held onto that hand, struggling to escape the burning flames.

"Phew …" Whoosh … "Huff …"

The heavy, rapid breathing and the damp, cold feeling made me realize that this was a nightmare.

I was in a hurry to open my eyes.

Sure enough, I was still lying in my hospital bed.

It was already dawn.

"Are you okay?"

"Sang Lan?"

Hearing Sang Lan's question, only then did I feel that there was another person lying on my body. Lowering my eyes, I saw Sang Lan's flushed face as she laid on my chest.

"Xu Huo, are you feeling better?" Ji Yayun walked in with a lunchbox in her hands.

I immediately let go of Sang Lan, and she frantically stood up and took a few steps back.

Ji Yayun glanced at me, "Have you had a nightmare?"

I looked down and saw that the disease suit s on my body were drenched in sweat. As long as they weren't idiots, they would be able to see what I had experienced.

I nodded towards Ji Yayun and passed him an apologetic bitter smile.

"I'll go get you a basin of water and clean it up." Sang Lan lowered his head and anxiously walked out.

I sat up and took the lunchbox. Seeing that Ji Yayun's expression was ugly, I asked her what was wrong.

"I've been calling my classmate from Shadow Tower since last night, but they've never been able to get through." Ji Yayun's eyes were red. She had obviously just cried before, and her eyes revealed her grievance and indignation.

I picked up a bun and bit off half of it. "After breakfast, we'll leave the hospital. We'll go and find her!"

Ji Yayun did not hear all of my conversation with Blind Liu, but she also realized that the reason he was in such a state was because of that photo shoot.

I felt indignant for her. I wanted innocent people to take responsibility for the sins I committed. How could there be such logic in this world?

After hanging up, she hesitated for a while before finally saying that one of the teachers in the school was sick. She wanted to go with her classmates to see this teacher.

I said go ahead and come home before dark.

After parting ways at the hospital, Ji Yayun and I took a taxi to the Shadow Pavilion.

"Why did you leave the Shadow Pavilion here?" I feel a little weird.

Ji Yayun's classmate was called Ling Hong. Not only was she the boss of Shadow Tower, she was also the head photographer of Shadow Tower. Therefore, Shadow Tower's name was Ling Hong.

The modern concept of a Shadow Tower should be very popular, but Ling Hong's Shadow Tower was located in a corner of the old city area, and in an old alley at that.

I scratched my head through the gauze and asked Ji Yayun, "Your classmate opened a photo studio, right?"

"You're a medical student, so it's normal that you don't understand the trend. "Nowadays, the movie studios are mainly made up of Internet sources. The addresses are here to not only save on rent, but also to make people feel that there's a difference between nostalgic and retro art." Ji Yayun smiled faintly, and her eyes flashed towards me.

"Just speak frankly of me." I laughed too.

Ji Yayun had always been a mournful and sorrowful looking person. Only now did I realize that her smile was even more charming and beautiful.

The alley was old indeed, and the buildings on both sides were of the seventies and eighties, or even earlier.

After the two of them walked to the end of the alley and saw the signboard of Ling Hong's Shadow Tower, I finally managed to truly understand what Ji Yayun meant by the concept of modernity.

A three-storey, American-styled building suddenly appeared in an old Chinese alley. Although its exterior had only been renovated, the contrast between it and the building was surprising.

Anyone who had been here would have the urge to go in and take a look.

However, right now, the door to Shadow Tower was locked from the outside by a U-shaped lock.

Ji Yayun took out his phone, dialed a number, and after a while, she put down his phone, frowned and said: "Xiao Hong's phone is still not reachable."

I nodded, clasped my hands behind my back, and bent down to look at the photographs on the window display. It took me a long time to realize that two-thirds of these photos, big and small, were of Ji Yayun.

"Wow, so you're so beautiful after putting on makeup!" I sighed from the bottom of my heart.

"What do you mean?"

He felt the cold wind whizzing behind him, when he turned around, he saw Ji Yayun holding his bag with his hands behind his back and staring at him with pursed lips, rubbing the high heels on one of his feet on the ground, as if he wanted to shoot a ball at me.

No, it looks like she was aiming at me like a ball …

I quickly made a random gesture and said, "The difference is the difference! In fact, you don't have to put on makeup to look more beautiful, more realistic... To have an unreal beauty after putting on makeup is like walking out of a computer screen! "

Ji Yayun seemed to be satisfied with my explanation, and proudly raised his head, "Idiot, just look at you. The lens makeup should be exaggerated, and the correct description should be like walking out of a movie. "

Hehe, ignorance, shallow!

I'll tell you what I'm talking about. It's just a Japanese film.

But comparing Ji Yayun with those Japanese girls … Seems a little blasphemous.

If that's the case, the male lead must be like me …

"Why is this happening?"

As for my YY, who was in the midst of a stream of consciousness, unexpectedly, Ji Yayun suddenly grabbed my arm, stuck close to my body and couldn't help but shiver.

"What's wrong?" I hastily suppressed my emotions.

She pointed to a photo frame in the corner, her breathing quickening. "This..."

I squeezed her hand and stared at the photo.

The picture wasn't big, which was why I hadn't noticed it before.

Only now did he realize that this photo was taken at Ten Lotus Pond.

I don't know much about photography, I just think this picture... The PS was quite severe, and gave off a foggy feeling.

In the photo, Ji Yayun was wearing a white cotton dress as she stood barefooted at the edge of the lotus pond. Although her head was still tied up, her face revealed a pure and happy smile like a child.

She stood in the water with one foot in the water and her white little foot lifted out of the water, holding the hem of her skirt in one hand, making her raised shin look particularly attractive against the white skirt and the green water.

Her other hand was clenched into a fist. She held out a slender index finger in front of her, as if she were drawing something in the air.

The reason why I felt that photo PS, mainly because, on the fingertip, there are three red... It was like a dotted line, but it was more like a blood-dripping character — I'm willing!

The more I looked at it, the stranger it seemed to me. For a moment, I couldn't tell what it was.

Suddenly, Ji Yayun's entire body slanted to me as she cried, "This word was written by me, it was written by me at the time! My finger was broken! "

I looked at the photo again and saw that something was wrong.

The three words, 'I am willing', were written on a piece of transparent glass as if it was directed at the camera. These three words were in reverse!