Chapter 83. Sophora Flower Garden
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
Du Yan knew that Xiao Lang’s words were now very credible. Since he had no other relationship with Tian Luo, there should be no problem with Tian Luo’s request for help.
At this time, Xiao Ba reminded him: “Don’t forget, Xiao Lang and Tian Luo are both men. Without knowing Xiao Lang’s sexual orientation, Tian Luo would definitely hide his feelings.”
Du Yan heard this and thought that what Xiao Ba said was reasonable, so he asked Xiao Lang again: “Tian Luo, has he ever had a girlfriend or crush?”
Although Xiao Lang didn’t understand why Du Yan asked this, he thought about it honestly and gave an answer: “Tian Luo seemed to be quite popular in high school. Some girls in our class liked him very much, and it seems that one of them had a relationship with him. He also consulted me about love problems in college.”
At this point, Xiao Lang suddenly stopped talking and then added: “But I have never been in love, so how can I be someone else’s love guru?”
Du Yan completely ignored Xiao Lang’s expression of loyalty and quickly turned his attention to how to smoothly check on Tian Luo’s parents. From Tian Luo’s description just now, it seems that the matter was already very serious. If it was not resolved, Tian Luo’s parents’ lives may be in danger.
Du Yan thought of this and said directly to Xiao Lang: “I have to go to Shunping City. Tian Luo is in danger. I must go and see what’s going on.”
Xiao Lang was somewhat reluctant: “Are you going to go again? Shall I go with you?”
Du Yan refused: “Your refining is at a critical juncture now. You can’t leave, otherwise I don’t know what accidents will happen. Don’t worry, except for the appearance of Ghost King of Shunping in person, there will be no problem for me in protecting myself.”
Generally, Du Yan didn’t easily change his decisions, not to mention that the life and death of Tian Luo’s parents were related to the extent to which the nightmare will be eliminated in the future.
In this dream, Xiao Lang is a young man with very positive values. If an innocent person died tragically because of him, he would definitely feel very guilty.
In addition, Tian Luo was his junior in high school. If his parents were haunted and killed by the evil spirit because of Xiao Lang, he would feel even more guilty, and this guilt would make the nightmare impossible to eliminate completely. For Du Yan, who pursues perfection, he absolutely can not tolerate such a thing happening.
Even if the dream-eating factor is not taken into account, although Du Yan had positioned himself as a villain, that was only related to Xiao Lang. He couldn’t just sit there and watch innocent people die tragically while he did nothing.
So Du Yan decided to set off to Shunping City immediately to see what happened to Tian Luo’s parents.
In the end, Du Yan almost gave up his bottom line and agreed to one condition of Xiao Lang before he was able to leave the ancient village. After Du Yan arrived in Shunping City, he met Tian Luo, who had been waiting for a long time at the bus stop.
Tian Luo’s face was pale, with two big dark circles under his eyes, and he looked very frightened. His current appearance fits the image of a very worried child whose parents are haunted by evil spirits.
As soon as Tian Luo saw Du Yan, he said: “I’m really sorry to bother you. I really don’t know what to do.”
Du Yan nodded and greeted him. Tian Luo’s home was not too far from the bus stop, so the two decided to walk there and exchange information on the way.
Du Yan and Tian Luo were not too familiar with each other. After exchanging a few pleasantries, Du Yan got straight to the point.
Du Yan asked: “Tell me in detail what happened in the past few days, don’t leave out any details.”
Perhaps it was because of what happened in the past few days that Tian Luo was very frightened. When Du Yan asked, his face turned pale again, and it took him a while to organize his words.
Tian Luo said: “After my parents came back this time, they seemed a little strange. My mom is a very fashionable person. She usually puts on makeup before going out. But this time, I don’t know why, she was unkempt and didn’t put on makeup. She looked like an old lady all day long and even walked around the community in her pajamas.”
Du Yan knew that this little change alone would not have frightened Tian Luo so much, so he asked again: “And then?”
“She has become even more aggressive these past two days. She began to rummage through plastic bottles and discarded delivery boxes from the community’s classified trash cans, brought them home, cleaned and washed them all and piled them on the balcony, saying she would keep them and sell them for money.” Tian Luo paused and said: “There is something wrong with my dad, too. He is a person who pays great attention to health. Generally, he will not eat the food that was left overnight. Any unfinished food will be thrown away on the spot.”
“But after coming back this time, I don’t know why but he wanted to heat up and eat some dishes that had been left over for two or three days, and he couldn’t bear to eat freshly cooked dishes and had to put them in the refrigerator until the next meal. He had always said that eating leftovers is very harmful to the body, and he never ate a single bite of leftovers.”
“It’s really strange that two people’s temperaments changed drastically at the same time.” Du Yan asked: “From your description, these habits are usually retained by elderly people who have experienced hard times. Do you have any deceased elders who have these living habits?”
Hearing Du Yan say this, Tian Luo showed an expression of sudden enlightenment on his face: “Now that you remind me of this, I remember that when my grandfather was alive, he liked to keep leftovers and would not eat them all. And my grandmother also liked to pick up bottles and waste paper in the community and sell them for money.”
Du Yan said: “It seems that the matter may be related to your grandparents.”
The more Tian Luo talked, the more he felt that this was the case: “When I went out this morning, I found that they were sleeping in the second bedroom. The second bedroom was the room where my grandparents lived before they passed away. After they passed away, the room was empty and basically just used to store some things.”
He frowned and added: “By the way, my mom also found the clothes left by my grandmother and wore them.”
Du Yan asked again: “Did they do anything to hurt you?”
Tian Luo shook his head and said: “That’s not the case. On the contrary, my grandparents loved me very much, without any principles, and they would save all the good things for me to eat. My parents were more strict, but this time, their attitude towards me was exactly like that of my grandparents.”
At this point, Tian Luo said with some hesitation: “If the ghosts in my parents are really my grandparents, could you please not hurt them?”
Du Yan said: “Our sect all emphasizes the cycle of cause and effect and will not kill ghosts without any reason.”
Seeing that Tian Luo looked relieved and looked much better, he asked: “How long has your grandparents been dead?”
If they passed away recently, the two old people have unfulfilled wishes and are lingering here, unwilling to reincarnate. Later, because of Tian Luo, they were affected by Xiao Lang’s ability and were able to contact people in the world of the living and possessed Tian Luo’s parents.
This may be the reason, but Tian Luo’s answer surprised Du Yan.
“My grandfather passed away eight years ago, and my grandmother passed away a year later.”
Du Yan was stunned. If they had not been reincarnated for such a long time, they would either become a fierce ghost due to resentment or become a wandering soul without consciousness. But now, from Tian Luo’s description, the souls attached to his parents were neither fierce ghosts nor wandering souls.
The situation seemed a bit complicated, and Du Yan couldn’t figure it out for a while. Fortunately, while the two were talking, they had almost reached Tian Luo’s community.
Tian Luo’s community was a new type of community, with small high-rise buildings, separate lanes for people and vehicles, and the residential density was not high.
However, when he stepped into the community, Du Yan felt that something was wrong. The community garden was empty, and there were almost no people in sight.
Du Yan asked: “Is the occupancy rate of your community low?”
Tian Luo shook his head and said: “The community is basically full. I felt something was wrong when I first came back, but I don’t like going out, so I just thought that no one was out that day.”
His face turned pale, and he said: “Until one night, when I went downstairs to buy something, I found that there were a lot of people in the community. There were really a lot of people. Some looked like neighbors I had seen before, and some were strangers. Then I felt that something was getting wrong.”
Du Yan took a quick look at the community garden but didn’t find much that was wrong. It seemed that at least during the day, this community was normal.
As for the situation at night, he can only know it after nightfall. According to what Tian Luo said, perhaps at night, this community overlapped with Shunping Ghost City to some extent, which led to the occurrence of strange events.
“Let’s go to your house first.”
Tian Luo nodded and led Du Yan to the building where his home was.
Tian Luo’s home was in Sophora Flower Garden in the community. As soon as he entered the elevator, Du Yan frowned, different from the situation in the community, this Sophora Flower Garden was extremely abnormal.
To put it simply, the whole Sophora Flower Garden was filled with gloomy air, and it was eerie everywhere.
While waiting for the elevator, Du Yan asked Tian Luo: “Have you met your neighbors who live in the same building in the past two days?”
Tian Luo was a little surprised: “I have seen them before, what’s the matter?”
“Do these neighbors seem to have something wrong with them?”
Tian Luo recalled carefully for a moment and said: “Now that you reminded me, I just remembered that when I greeted my neighbors these days, they didn’t pay much attention to me… Oh, the house next door also has a big dog. It used to be so cute that it had to walk at least twice a day. After coming back this time, I haven’t seen it once.”
Thinking of this, Tian Luo shuddered again: “I saw her yesterday and asked her where the dog was. She actually smiled and said, ‘aren’t I just walking the dog now?’ But she was obviously the only one there at the time…”
At this moment, the elevator reached the first floor, and the elevator door opened to both sides. A middle-aged woman with a stiff face walked out of the elevator and walked past without looking around.
The moment Tian Luo saw her, he took a step back and covered his mouth. After the two of them entered the elevator, he whispered to Du Yan: “The person just now is Ayi, who raised the dog I mentioned.”
Du Yan also knew that something was wrong with this Sophora Flower Garden because he saw a shadow with a wagging tail behind the middle-aged woman.
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