Dali Temple Conspiracy Records

Chapter 16 The Burning Fragment

The person who came was Le Yan's eldest son, Le Bo. When he saw Li Guan, he repeatedly bowed down and said, "Our house is haunted. I heard that the Unexplained Division specializes in dealing with such spooky events. I implore Li Sizhi to see who is working with my late father's colleagues." For the sake, we must help!"

"Mr. Le, don't worry. Please sit down and talk slowly. Since it's Li's job, I will do my best."

Only then did Le Bo feel a little relieved, and sat down to talk in detail.

It turned out that the next day after the fire, the Le family went to pack their things during the day and there was no abnormality. At night, the neighbors on the left and right heard crackling and burning sounds in the house, and pieces of paper flying.At first, the neighbors thought it was the wind, so they didn't pay much attention.Unexpectedly, this happened every night afterwards, so I told the Le family.Lejia left two servants to watch the night at the ruins. Sure enough, they saw the pieces of paper that the neighbors said were flying in the air, but strangely, there was no wind that night.

Li Quan asked Le Bo to go back first, and he took the mahogany horizontal knife and rushed to the ruins of Le's house.

Tonight is cloudy and moonless, and there is no starlight. Under the dark night, the burnt wood ruins are more like a huge mouth of evil spirits, lurking in the darkness, waiting to devour anyone who dares to break in.

Li Quan was lying under the wall, and sure enough, he heard crackling sounds from the courtyard, as if a big fire was burning violently.But when he jumped up to the wall to see, the whole house was as calm as it was, without any abnormality, not to mention the fire, not even a spark.Only a gray-white thing can be vaguely seen dancing in the house.

He jumped into the courtyard, sneaked closer, and when he got near the study, he finally saw clearly that it was a burnt fragment.Li Quan breathed a sigh of relief.Generally speaking, the demonization of evidence generally occurs in cases where the victim died. Like the Le Zhai case, it is relatively rare for the owner to be obsessed with becoming a demon while the owner is still alive.Come to think of it, there shouldn't be much harm.So instead of using a horizontal knife, he reached for the paper, wanting to see what made Le Yan so persistent.

Snapped.

With a soft sound, Li Quan's eyes went dark, and the residual paper avoided his hand, and stuck to his face as if blown by a gust of evil wind.He was about to stretch out his hand to tear it off, but suddenly his eyes lit up, and a scorching heat wave suddenly surrounded him!

Fire!

It was as if he had returned to the night when the fire broke out, there were endless calls from outside the house and the sound of firefighting, and there was a sea of ​​flames all over him with nowhere to escape. Li Quan knew it was an illusion, but his body honestly felt the terrible heat of the flames, and he began to twitch Red, bubbling, cracking, until charred...

He couldn't help but want to run away, but there was no way out. He wanted to shout, but his throat was terribly hot, and the hot soot poured into his throat, making him completely out of breath, almost suffocating——

"Si Zhi, what's wrong with you? Si Zhi! Li Quan, Li Quan! Second son!"

Just when he almost forgot that this was just an illusion, thinking that he was going to be burned to death in the fire, suddenly his mouth and nose lightened, and the world instantly changed to coolness.Someone called him anxiously, and the breath on his face made him feel like he was alive after a catastrophe.

Li Quan suddenly took a sharp breath as if he had regained his senses, and then panted for several times before he regained his composure.He took a closer look, and it was his little cook who was kneeling beside him, looking at him with a worried face.

"Why do you..." He couldn't help coughing a few times, as if the burning sensation of soot still remained in his throat.

Bai Sanxiu helped him sit up, "I think it's almost curfew and you still haven't come back, so I went to Dali Temple to ask, and the servant on duty at night said you came to Anyifang. I saw you lying here with your face on your face the moment I came. Covering this piece of paper, I can’t wake up as if I was trapped in a nightmare. I thought this piece of paper might be weird, but luckily it’s afraid of your mahogany horizontal knife.”

Today's curfew is at midnight. Although Li Quan is a workaholic, he usually goes home at Xushi and rarely spends the night in Dali Temple.

She spread her hand, and a piece of rice paper with charred edges lay in her palm, but Li Quan frowned and asked, "What did you call me just now?"

"Sizhi."

"Did you call me by my name?"

"Uh, I yelled twice, master, don't be angry, I was also in a hurry."

"No, did you still call me..."

"what?"

Seeing her puzzled face, Li Quan paused, stopped pestering her, and said, "Thank you."

"Oh, why are you so polite all of a sudden?"

Bai Sanxiu touched her head in embarrassment, while Li Quan took the fragment in her hand and examined it carefully.This is a piece of paper commonly used in official documents and files. Since the surrounding areas have been scorched black by the fire, only one character in the upper middle part is clearly visible.

Inch.

Bai Sanxiu came up to take a look, "What does this mean? True size?"

(End of this chapter)