Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

A divorced woman living alone got drunk and climbed into bed early, but went out in the middle of the night. She drove quietly on the highway. After less than two hours, she ran to Greenville, a small town in South Carolina, more than 100 miles away from home.. This woman was carrying a large antique black bag and a long bamboo pole-like object in her hand. She walked around in the pouring rain. She walked around the ruins of the community that had been demolished to pieces and stood in a brick building. Stone structure in front of the ruined bank.

The handwriting on the signboard is like indicating that it may be a product of the last century and has been standing here for hundreds of years. Fan Pang furrowed his brows and looked up at the building that was constantly lit up by lightning. He said that the old house was very solidly built. Many designs were built with reference to the concept of prismatic bunkers. It may have been a gold station at the time. It can be seen that the north and south are A product of this period of the war. In the past, our concept was that after the victory of the Northern Army, the North and the South were reunited, and all the people rejoiced. The real history is quite different. From the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II, the southern states had difficulty transitioning from agriculture to industry, and many places still maintained pastoral life. It took a long time for the estrangement and antagonism caused by this civil war to finally calm down.

This can be seen from the fact that the Confederate flags are still flying in the southern states today. In the past, whether it was a gas station or a case handling ticket in Wicker Town, the cups held in their hands were all printed with patterns. The so-called Shazhou Bank was not only unknown to foreigners like me, but also to the native Fan Pang. He could only deduce that it might be one of the countless local private banks opened after the war.

There are a large number of old buildings that are abandoned but not demolished in the United States. The general reasons can be summarized as follows. One is due to official document restrictions, and the land cannot be moved even if the building is empty before the deadline; another is that the land is privately owned, and it can only be retained even if it is deserted; and the other is because the reason is very helpless, if it is not a huge amount of money. In urban areas with little land, there is no money to hire people to start construction.

Why would a matchmaker like Sister Di come to a dilapidated place with few lights? neither knows. Moreover, this woman was very agile during her night walk and was good at climbing. She was more like a trained Miliya. In short, it was difficult to associate her with weakness. Could it be that she knew people but didn't know their hearts, and she deliberately hid her secret? I was thinking wildly when I was tapped on my shoulder. I turned back to look at the rain curtain in the distance. There was no one in front of the big house.

"With a flash of lightning, she disappeared in the blink of an eye, perhaps entering the old house."Paco walked side by side with the busybody, hesitantly reached the bottom of the stairs, and sighed to Lao Dai. The detective nodded and motioned for the first two people to explore the wind, while the others stayed where they were.

Soul Scythe believed that if Dixie It was really hidden. Our following should have been seen through at first. In addition to being cautious, we should also be wary of being attacked secretly by her. Therefore, we asked the leading rams to each pick up short blades. He also said that this woman was tall and strong. , although she has a slim appearance, she should not be underestimated. She walks like a gust of wind and her movements are mysterious. If they meet on a narrow road, they may not be able to defeat her. In short, both Lao Dai and Eubisio first assume that she possesses special skills. To make a backup plan,

Paco and the other two broke into the room and began fussing and fussing inside. After about half a minute, they crawled out one by one, knelt down in the bushes and vomited violently, covered in green and white dirt. They were washed into the ditch along with the rain column, and the sour smell could be smelled even from a distance. Could it be that there was something particularly disgusting inside that frightened these three experienced people on the spot? Lao Dai scratched his head. He stepped forward, helped the Mexican up, and asked him in detail.

"No, there are just ordinary furnishings inside, empty and dusty, and nothing weird is seen. But for some reason, people feel dizzy after entering and feel sick in their throats."Paco stood up and waved his hands to show that he was fine. His words were the same as those of good people.

"Could it be that some kind of colorless and odorless harmful gas was injected into it? This is the only way it can be."The detective took out the pocket of the face towel from his bag, pointed at us, and signaled not to move for the time being. He turned on his side and groped inside the shabby room. In less than half a minute, he fell down with the same gray complexion and disheveled hair. Climbing out, he couldn't help but feel nauseous and vomited wildly on the ground.

Seeing this, Soul Scythe couldn't help but become suspicious, hurriedly pushed Fan Pangfei away and rushed forward, asking him what he saw inside.

"It's not what I saw, this bank has been set up with a corpse trap under the Nine Yin, and it has become a cage for the demon spirits. Living people can't resist the invasion of the Yin Qi, so they can only stay away from it.."Lao Dai stood up, walked back to his car, and opened the luggage cover.

Neither Fatty Fan nor I knew what was going on, so we helped him move around and asked him what he meant. The detective said that the lower nine yin is the ninth bureau of elimination of yin. There is a more evil heretic outside, which deals with both wandering souls and living people. The demons turned the entire bank into a tomb. The flowing air vents and the angles of the furniture are very particular. Although people will not be hurt, they are difficult to approach. As long as You will be extremely uncomfortable if you enter it. The principle is like if you break into a territory occupied by ghosts, they will not give up until they expel you. It can take as little as three or five years or as many as ten years for this kind of evil situation to take shape.. The implication is that this place has been abandoned for a long time, and the people who did this are probably dead long ago. Unless you are a wandering spirit who can come and go at will, a living person cannot step in at all.

But this kind of heresy Lao Dai couldn't be bothered by heresy, so he called for us to gather around him, took out another bag from the back of the toolbox, opened it, took out the cloth bag, distributed the black and shiny bead wristbands inside, and brought up mint candy-sized pancakes, asking for them. People held it in his mouth. Because he didn’t expect that he would encounter this kind of thing when he came here at night, he was not fully prepared, and it was only enough for four people. Eubisio stood aside with an expressionless face, asking him to just focus on the few of us. , he has other plans of his own

"There is no need to explain it so laboriously. In other words, someone set up a trap and turned this bank into a Yin Eclipse Dojo. Wouldn't it be easier to understand?"Hun Sickle laughed a few times, and asked the rams to sit back in the car, hold a small meeting inside, and then come down again after the assignments were completed. They all put on a kind of iron mask, the size of the mask could cover half of the face, but it cast It had a bloody mouth, and when it spoke it looked like a sinister evil spirit, and its appearance was particularly terrifying. When they arrived at the gate, Soul Scythe asked everyone to tie bright flashlights to their ankles and drag them along the ground, just like that. , a group of eight people, led by him, broke into the dilapidated bank.

"Hehe, the old boy is just pretending to be sophisticated because he is afraid that we will steal their shadow skills."Old Dai Le had to let him lead the way. He walked at the end of the crowd and whispered to us:"This kind of mask is called fang ghost turbidity. It will make the souls mistakenly think that it is a jailer patrolling, and they will stay away after seeing it. Unlike our delirium bracelets, but similar in effect, this is a connoisseur. Moreover, everyone is carrying handbags on their backs, which may contain various kinds of Pilu pills and Kawasawa cloud anaconda blood, so they are already prepared for the fight."

"We have to wear this and wear that, but we also have to take every step step by step. How did the broadcasting ladies on Channel 9 get through so easily?"Pang Fan looked around in panic, touched the long counter with his hands, and his hands were covered with cobwebs, and said:"With this kind of dust and dirt, I'm afraid no one has come in for decades. She is a woman. It was windy and thunderous at home and you came here at night. What on earth do you want to do?"

"You've talked about the root of the problem. Since this place is a shady place that everyone avoids, how did she get through it so easily? It can only be said that this woman is not a living person."The busybody walking in front turned around and kept silent, whispering:"If you really want to help, then shut up. So as not to disturb the airflow and lose her trace, until the soul sickle allows you to speak."

Through the empty hall, we walked into the narrow corridor. When we turned a few corners, Dixie's figure appeared twenty meters ahead. She waved the long object in her hand and walked around, as if she was looking for The road seemed to be sensing something. Just following her, we were led deeper and deeper into a group of ruined houses. Looking around squinting, it was difficult for me to connect it with the office. There are various broken houses on both sides of the corridor. Some doors are closed and some door panels are tilted to the ground. The furniture inside is more like a guest room for people to rest. The beds and desks are in order, but they are all old and accumulated. The gray was too dark, just like a plain black and white photo. Sister Di ran into a broken door at the end of the corridor and disappeared. We caught up quickly, but within a few seconds, she disappeared into the secret room.

"There is a hole in the wall."Another troublemaker suddenly pointed to the dark end above his head and said with bright eyes.

This hole is more accurately called a gap than a hole. It is a crack in the wall caused by the earthquake. It is elevated on one side of the ceiling and looks very strange. It's cramped and narrow, and it's easy to miss it if you don't look carefully. However, it is about two meters above the ground, and there are no tables or chairs to climb around. It is really difficult to squeeze in in just a few seconds. This one is really difficult to reach the sky. After Gongyang finished speaking, he walked to the wall and picked up a handful of white ash to show to Soul Scythe. The whole room was perfectly sealed except for the holes. If she wanted to go anywhere else, this was the only place. The detective didn't say anything, and grabbed a handful of white ash from his trouser pocket. She threw the fine powder at her head, and when the ash flew away, as expected, a reddish palm print appeared. However, the location where it appeared was really eye-popping, which showed that Sister Di did not use any tools. The one who jumps directly to dive in. This skill is probably only above the sneaking deer, but not inferior to it. We all followed suit, but none of us could do it as light as a swallow, so we had to fold up the arhat. However, the wall The gap was too narrow, only small enough for me, Soul Scythe, and Lao Dai to pass through. The other five people had to stop in the shabby room. Eubisio asked them not to idle, and they all walked around, but they needed to Remember to walk in groups and stay within sight to prevent being secretly dragged away by Dixie.

But when you really step on the ground, everything is pitch black, you can't find North without a flashlight, and there is a bitter smell in the air. Soul Scythe He indicated that he could take off the flashlight on his ankle. When the pale beam of light shone out, the three of us were in a real secret room with no windows or doors. God knows how those desks, chairs, and beds were moved in.

"The original door is there."The detective pointed to a corner of the wall. There was a piece of powder coating that was quite different from the surrounding apple green walls. It proved that a normal entrance and exit had been refilled, which showed that this ghost place had been sealed in dust for many years. Apart from that, nothing could be found anymore. To any movable secret passage, Sister Di crawled in and disappeared into the air for no reason.

"But if people are separated like this, if something happens, neither of them will be able to take care of each other. What should we do?"I rummaged around under the legs of the cupboard and bed, trying to find something heavy to break the wall. Lao Dai asked me to step aside and pulled out a red box. When I opened it, I found a set of milky white boxes the size of a matchbox. Soft objects. Eubisio glanced at them and asked what they were. The detective didn't elaborate. He just asked us to back up and back up, hide them behind the leather sofa, and then stick them to the wall along the powder coating, playing with them. The wire rolled a few times and rolled over to our side. He twisted it on the receiver and lowered his head.

All he saw was a crackling sound in front of his eyes. The sound was not loud but extremely dazzling. There were sparks in his dilated eyes out of the corner of his eye, and soon he breathed. There was a burning smell. When I looked up, I saw that a big hole had been burned through the wall, exposing the boards and asbestos wadding inside. Who would have thought that this guy was carrying plastic explosives like TNT with him, claiming that he could control the intensity? and portion size, so as not to cause too much fluctuation

"No way, most of my belongings are carried on Parker's back. How can I work without them? It is also necessary."The detective stretched his back, smiled in a pretentious manner, kicked me and said:"It's time to start work, don't take this opportunity to be lazy."

These two old guys, who are about the same age, have been tracking for more than a hundred and ten miles. They are nominally trying to save someone else's woman in her thirties, and want to find out who is behind it. In fact, they are just fighting for their wits to see whose method is better. One step ahead. Everyone outside the house heard the noise and came over one after another. Eubisio sat cross-legged in the center of the room, assigned his men to rummage through the drawers, and closed his eyes.

This secret room was like a customer file There are all kinds of documents in the database. I didn’t want to get in the way of crowds, so I went to look at the old photos hanging high alone. The walls were full of various figures from the medieval period, both individually and collectively, and there was also a There was a group photo of people standing in front of a bank as densely as a graduation photo, one of which was dated 1867.

Just looking at it, I was attracted by the row of photos at the bottom, and couldn't help but click my tongue. Fan Pang heard this. He stepped forward with a flashlight and squeezed to the edge to take a closer look. Not long after, he also saw clues, so he called the detective over and pointed him to see.

The photos were all taken in the same open space, and the ridge behind it could be clearly distinguished. The first picture shows a simple church, with dense tombs on the hill; and in the second picture, the rubbish was shoveled away, and a large wooden building appeared, with the outer wall looking as if it had been roasted by fire, making it dark; and in the third picture This is also the last picture. This dilapidated building has been demolished again and turned into a bare hill again.

"What does this mean? Changing times? Or performance art?"The fat man murmured to himself while stroking his fat head.

Lao Dai grabbed the frames, smashed the glass, took out the photos, and put them on the desk. Then he took out the night lantern from his arms, asked me to light it from behind, and put it on He checked it with his reading glasses. After playing with it for a while, he suddenly said:"Sure enough, there is something mysterious."

"What's the meaning?"Hearing his deep thoughts, several busybodies couldn't help but gathered around and asked:"Did he use special ink?"

"See for yourselves."The detective brought up the glasses and asked us to put them on and take a closer look. The glasses looked very ordinary from the outside, with an enamel frame and two lenses. But when you look at it sideways, the surface of the lenses looks like cut diamonds, full of different sizes. It seems that many hidden details can be seen through the refraction of light. Seeing that I was holding it in my hand and just studying it, the good guy took it and put it on, and soon shouted:"There are words, and they are stamped with cipher text on the bottom." The next number is the year."

The three photos were taken in 1900, 1933 and 1966 respectively. They were indeed taken in the same place at different times. However, I waited here not to browse other people's privacy, but to find out where Dixie went after she escaped into the secret room. Where. Therefore, Paco put the photos and some documents in his backpack for further study when he has time.

"Okay, don't worry about these useless things anymore. Now it's too late to find a blanket to surround me. I have to go into meditation and get out of my body, try to catch a few of the souls wandering around and ask for answers. Eubisio asked everyone to keep absolutely quiet, took out a tallow lamp and lit it, then instructed us to squat in the corner and said:

"Remember not to speak out. This is a cursed place. It is different from the previous corpse interrogations, so you may see the entities of the demon spirits. Even if you are afraid, please hold back. If I collided with them, I would be dragged away and unable to come back. If there's nothing more to say, I'll start."

Fan Fatty, who was sitting behind me, blinked his blue eyes in the darkness. He was waiting with relish. I glanced at him, and I broke out in a cold sweat. I am afraid that I have forgotten that this damn fat man is a human being. If the surrounding people Wandering around the soul, shouldn't it be time to sing loudly again? Before he could say the word"wait a minute", Eubisio had already closed his eyes. The butter corpse lamp in front of him seemed to have been picked by someone, and the flames suddenly flickered. It ran so high that the black figure reflected on the wall gradually became huge.

Seeing that I was about to come out, the good guy on the side hurriedly grabbed me, shook his head and motioned for me to do so, and then looked up at the figure on the broken wall. , also began to fall into trance. There was a sound of chains dragging the floor in the distance, passing through the empty hall, then walking into the corridor, and gradually coming towards the secret room. There was a gentle sound everywhere, and several little dragons were blown up. Rolling up, the waste paper scattered all over the house went up to the sky, and fell one after another. The light in the house seemed to be sucked away by the corpse lamp, and the surrounding area became pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers. I had a feeling that the house was getting darker and darker. It was cold, and there seemed to be several more figures appearing for no reason.