Long night dreams

Chapter 7
Everyone thought that when the vision appeared from the sky, it might really bring some unpredictable tragedy to mankind.Fortunately, when the calendar entered July 1999, the earth still rotated, and nothing different from usual happened around the world.When people's hearts finally returned to their original place and let out a long sigh of relief, a large-scale critique of Nostradamus's mysterious prophecies began, calling him a superstition and relegating him to the sidelines.

"The Prophecy of Nostradamus and the Nine Stars" is a new book, printed by a not-so-famous Frontier Publishing House known for its book number, and the author is an Australian scholar named Jeffers.In this book, Jeffers proposed a new theory. He believed that according to the chronological method when "The Centuries" was written, the time Nostradamus called should not be 1997, but the beginning of a new century. .The magical celestial phenomenon associated with it is not nine planets arranged in a cross, but - nine stars in a row!

Jiuxing Lianzhu means that the nine planets in the solar system lined up in a straight line at a certain moment.When the planets line up, they gravitationally interact with each other, changing the nature of the planets themselves—perhaps, that's when the real horror comes!

In history, the nine planets were indeed aligned in a straight line, but nothing mysterious and terrifying seemed to have happened at that time.Jeffers explained it like this - the previous Jiuxinglianju was just a straight line in the mathematical sense from a certain angle, not a straight line in real physical astronomy.The real astronomical Nine Stars Lianzhu means that the nine planets are really arranged in a straight line in the physical sense. Only in this way can their gravity interact with each other and produce incredible effects.

It is theoretically impossible to have nine planets lined up in a straight line in the physical sense.Jeffers explained this again-human beings have always been eager to see the real Nine Stars, so they have been using some mysterious powers.For example, the pyramids in ancient Egypt, the crystal balls used by gypsies, the Qinhuangdao Mausoleum on the Great Wall of China, the crop circles in Britain, and the huge stone statues on Easter Island.

The Australian named Jeffers didn't talk about more valuable things in detail. He just hinted that many mysterious forces will cause the energy in the universe to achieve a magical balance, and even change the orbit of celestial bodies in the universe.

Of course, after reading this book, Guo Haoran just closed the book and threw it aside with a sneer. He just regarded this book as a sensational reading material.But now that I think about it, it still makes a lot of sense.

He tried his best to recall if there were any details in the book, and in his mind, an illustration slowly emerged—it was a simulation of the Nine Stars Lianzhu.Fortunately, Guo Haoran's memory is very good, he can still clearly remember what the simulation picture looked like.

But it was a little strange that Guo Haoran felt that he had seen the simulation map of Nine Stars Lianzhu somewhere before.But where did you see it?
When he was reading the book at home, he didn't have this déjà vu feeling, which means he hadn't seen such a pattern before.But now I have this feeling, which means that I saw this pattern again after reading that book.

But when did you see it?
Guo Haoran patted his forehead suddenly, he finally remembered where and when he saw this pattern.Immediately, his face turned pale, and cold sweat rolled from his forehead to the tip of his nose.

He turned around, and when he was about to say something to Ye Mei who was about to undress to sleep behind him, he saw that Ye Mei's face suddenly turned dark red and purple like a pig's liver after taking off the bed cover.Ye Mei opened her mouth and widened her eyes, a pair of pupils seemed to burst out of their sockets.She raised her head, looked straight at Guo Haoran, and suddenly screamed.

"what--"
The continuous, panic-stricken voice penetrated Guo Haoran's eardrums, causing his head to feel blunt pain.

"What happened?" Guo Haoran asked.

"Look—" Ye Mei pointed to the opened bed cover and said tremblingly.

Guo Haoran walked to the side of the bed, at this moment, he saw that on the bed sheet under the bed cover, someone had painted a scarlet mark on it - this was not painted with paint, but red soil sprinkled on it, and this The soil seemed to be still a little wet, and it was scattered on the bed sheet, like a small red snake that had been cut into sections, twisted, ugly, shocking, and creepy.

Red wet soil was sprinkled on the bed, spelling out a figure.Guo Haoran is very familiar with this pattern, it is actually the imitation of the Nine Stars Lianzhu he saw in his memory just now!He was taken aback by this discovery. Unexpectedly, this was the second time he had seen this mysterious pattern here.He hugged Ye Mei, and he felt Ye Mei's body trembling violently because of fear.Ye Mei didn't refuse Guo Haoran's embrace as usual, because she really didn't have the strength to refuse again.

At this time, Guo Haoran asked: "Have you seen this pattern?"
Ye Mei shook her head.

Guo Haoran said: "Do you still remember? When we found Su Xin's body in the previous room, we found a strange pattern on her back. Do you remember what pattern it was?"
Ye Mei pondered for a moment, then suddenly "sighed", and then shouted loudly: "That's the figure!"It is this mysterious graphic.

"Do you know what this means?" Guo Haoran asked again.

"I don't know, do you know?"
Guo Haoran replied: "I guess a little, but I'm not sure. We'd better go and ask the proprietress Mrs. Jin, maybe she can give me some answers."
"But—" Ye Mei was a little hesitant, she didn't dare to go out of this room, because maybe there was an unknown perverted killer hiding in this mysterious old hotel, and maybe that murderer was as golden as gold. According to the old lady's words, it is a real evil spirit in the mountain village, who is floating in the hotel looking for the body that wraps the soul.Thinking of this, Ye Mei trembled with fear.

"But what? Don't be afraid. Come with me. No matter where you go, I'm still by your side." Guo Haoran knew that if he showed his bravery at this time, it would more or less cause the relationship between him and Ye Mei to grow. Make some repairs to the feelings that have cracked.He dragged Ye Mei out of Su Xin's boudoir, and walked into the dark corridor.

In the management room next to the gate on the first floor, the scented paper candles that were originally arranged as a mourning hall were cleared out by Roger and Wang Yang, but there was still a smell that suffocated people's eyes. Upon smelling this smell, Guo Haoran and Ye Mei I couldn't help but burst into tears.

Pushing open the door, the old lady Jin sat cross-legged on the bed, with her eyes half-closed, staring blankly at the deep night outside the window. The strong wind and raindrops knocked on the window glass, making a crackling sound, which made people feel a surge of emotion. Precipitous chill.

Guo Haoran involuntarily wrapped the coat around his body, and then whispered: "Old lady Jin--"
The old lady Jin seemed to be still immersed in the depth of the night outside the window, and ignored Guo Haoran's voice.

Guo Haoran increased the intensity of his voice and called out again: "Old lady Jin.

The old lady Jin's body trembled suddenly, and she turned around. The wrinkles on her face suddenly became deeper after one night, like a piece of cracked bark with cuts.The color under the gully was dull and gray, like the sap under the bark of a tree.Guo Haoran's heart trembled suddenly. He remembered that before he left the city he was in, he once peeled a piece of bark from the sycamore tree in the community with his hands. At that time, he just wanted to give himself an unnecessary peace of mind. .But seeing Mrs. Jin's face at this time made him feel a deep palpitation.

Guo Haoran asked cautiously: "Old lady Jin, I found a wooden box in your daughter Suxin's house, which contained pyramids, crystal balls, and Tarot cards. graphics..."
Before he finished speaking, the slightly closed eyes of the old lady Jin suddenly opened, and she stared straight at him with no expression on her face.The eyes of the old lady Jin made Guo Haoran feel a little inexplicably terrified. He always felt that there was something weird hidden in the eyes of the old lady, and he couldn't tell what it was. He could only feel that his eyes met the old lady's. Afterwards, her heartbeat accelerated suddenly, almost jumping out of her throat.

Guo Haoran took a deep breath, and finally suppressed this unpleasant feeling.He boldly continued to repeat his question: "Old lady Jin, I found a wooden box in your daughter Suxin's house, which contained pyramids, crystal balls, and tarot cards. I also found a wooden box on the bed. Strange graphics made of graphs..."
"That's Su Xin talking to the evil spirit!" Old lady Jin opened her mouth, and the voice came out of her mouth like the wind, "Su Xin can hear the voice of the evil spirit, she shouldn't belong to this world at all She belongs to the evil spirit, she should have been an evil spirit—now that she has gone where she should go, she has also become an evil spirit, and she is floating around this hotel, and she will also go looking for a Flesh host, it won’t be long before people will die here! Hahahahaha--"
The old lady Jin laughed hysterically, she was out of breath, her lips couldn't be closed, and her whole face was twisted and deformed.

Guo Haoran hurriedly pulled Ye Mei out of the management room, and quickly ran to Suxin's boudoir on the second floor.

Going up to the second floor, the corridor was still dark and quiet, only the hurried footsteps of him and Ye Mei.When they came to Suxin's room and Guo Haoran was about to open the door, he found that he couldn't find the key.He fumbled in his trouser pockets, but found nothing.Ye Mei urged anxiously from the side, and Guo Haoran kicked the door panel in a hurry, making a dull sound.

At this moment, they suddenly heard a "squeak", and then a light appeared in the dark corridor, and a door opened.

Guo Haoran turned his head, and at this moment, he saw a black silhouette appearing in front of a door, with long flowing hair and a thin long skirt, which proved that it was a young woman—a mysterious woman who left halfway during the meal, Lianzi!

"What happened?" Lianzi asked quietly, but for some reason, a little sadness could always be heard in her voice.

"It's okay, it's okay. Guo Haoran hurriedly said embarrassedly," we just couldn't find the key for a while. "
"Oh, then go downstairs and find Mrs. Jin to get a spare key to open the door." Lianzi came up with an idea.

Thinking of the scary face of the old lady Jin, Guo Haoran felt uneasy, so he laughed and said: "I just went down, but the old lady is sleeping, I am really embarrassed to wake her up."
"Hehe, you are really kind people, why don't you go into my room and rest for a while. I came back to sleep before I finished my meal, but now I wake up but I can't fall asleep anyway." Lian Zi stepped aside to the door and motioned for Guo Haoran Went into her room with Ye Mei to rest.

Guo Haoran and Ye Mei looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, then walked towards Lianzi's room.

When approaching Lianzi, a gleam of light suddenly flashed in front of Guo Haoran's eyes.The light was like a blur in a dream, like the reflection of a clear spring passing his eyes.

This ray of light came from Lian Zi's hand, and in her hand, she was holding a clear glass ball—it was exactly the same as the crystal ball in Su Xin's house.

Ye Mei let out a low hum, and Guo Haoran suddenly turned pale with shock.

After entering Lianzi's house, Guo Haoran pointed to the crystal ball in Lianzi's hand in shock and asked, "Is this yours?"
"Of course. This is mine." Lian Zi nodded.

Ye Mei whispered: "Just now, we also found a crystal ball like this in Su Xin's room."
Lian Zi was taken aback for a moment, but immediately said: "Her crystal ball is hers, and this crystal ball is mine."
Guo Haoran stepped forward suddenly, grabbed Lianzi's wrist, and said loudly: "Have you ever heard of the words "Nine Stars Lianzhu"?" As soon as his words fell, Lianzi's face turned pale , pale, a few weak blue blood vessels were lightly exposed under the pink skin.

Lianzi sat down on the sofa, looked helplessly at Guo Haoran, and asked in a low voice: "You know? You know everything?"
Hearing this, although Guo Haoran didn't know what was going on, but as a professional writer of suspense novels, he immediately understood that there must be something hidden in it, so he nodded and said: "Yes, I know a little bit of inside information, but You must make a unified analysis with what you know. Tell me everything you know about Jiuxing Lianzhu and Suxin." He concluded that Lianzi definitely knew Suxin, so he took the risk to say this.Sure enough, he guessed right, Lian Zi lit a long and thin women's menthol cigarette, and slowly talked about the matter between her and Su Xin.

Indeed, Lian Zi knew Su Xin, she didn't come to this Hongmen Inn by mistake because she read the wrong sign, but she made an appointment with Su Xin to meet here as early as a month ago.

However, Lian Zi didn't really know Su Xin, they had never met before, they were just netizens of an online forum.Lian Zi and Su Xin have a common hobby, that is - both are full of strong curiosity about mysterious culture.

Lian Zi and Su Xin often exchange their experiences on predicting the future with the crystal ball on the Internet, but they have talked a lot recently, and it is a very hot topic-the mysterious Nine Stars Lianzhu.

The mysterious cultural website they often hang around is called "Cuneiform Characters". Three months ago, a new section of this website was opened, and the name is "Nine Stars Lianzhu".The moderators of the sub-forums have published a lot of popular science and knowledge articles about Jiuxing Lianzhu.Those articles were written in a simple way, and Lianzi and Suxin were very interested, so they often lingered in them to exchange views with each other.

Lian Zi and Su Xin have long had a tacit understanding, and they have been discussing on the Internet that they want to meet each other.And when they were discussing Jiuxing Lianzhu, they often called the moderators of that edition together to discuss and ask for some relevant knowledge.However, some issues are still unclear only in online communication, so they are also eager to have a face-to-face communication opportunity with this moderator.So Lianzi made this trip to Shizuo Village, she will come here, and the moderator of the "Nine Stars Lianzhu" version of the "cuneiform script" website will also come here.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Lian Zi came here, she heard the news of Su Xin's disappearance from the mouth of the old lady Jin, and at the same night, she saw Su Xin's body covered with scars but full of marks.So she suddenly lost her appetite, and after eating a little, she fell asleep in the room, and when she woke up, she stared at the crystal ball in a daze.She longed for the crystal ball to tell her what happened, but the crystal ball kept silent and didn't tell her anything...

After listening to Lian Zi's words, Guo Haoran sat on the sofa and fell into deep thought, while Ye Mei had no interest in these things, she lay on the sofa early, fell asleep under a quilt, and was snoring softly.

Guo Haoran suddenly raised his head, stared at Lianzi, and said, "You mean, besides you, the so-called "Nine Stars Lianzhu" moderator will also come here?"
"Yes." Lian Zi nodded.

"Do you know what this man looks like?"
"No, we don't even know if he's a man or a woman."
Guo Haoran was silent for a moment, and then said: "Then it is entirely possible that he has already arrived here, and he is one of these guests. What is more likely is that he is the murderer who killed Lianzi.

Lianzi was shocked: "Why do you think so? Su Xin disappeared a month ago, maybe she died a month ago, the smell of the corpse can prove it!"
Guo Haoran scratched his head and said, "Indeed, I didn't consider this point. But no matter what, there must be something wrong with the moderator of "Nine Stars Lianzhu", and there is a big problem.

Suddenly, Guo Haoran seemed to remember something, he asked Lianzi: "What is the name of this moderator on the forum?"
Lianzi said word by word:

"Jeffers."
Jeffers?Isn't that the Australian scholar who wrote "Nostradamus' Prophecy and Nine Stars"?Guo Haoran couldn't help taking a deep breath, and suddenly a strange idea came to his mind—maybe, that "Nostradamus Prophecy and Nine Stars" was not written by an Australian at all, but an Australian. The mysterious person hiding on the opposite side of the Internet crackled and typed into the computer, posted it on the "Cuneiform" website, and bought the book number from a frontier publishing house under the name of Jeffers and published this book.

But who is this Jeffers?Guo Haoran couldn't figure it out.But he had a very strong feeling—this Jeffers was hiding in the Hongmen Inn in Corpse Tomb Village, and now he was watching all this mockingly from the shadows, and he was still smiling sullenly.

Thinking of this, Guo Haoran shuddered involuntarily, a feeling of fear arose spontaneously from his lower abdomen, and then slowly spread to every part of his body.When the chill of fear came out from the capillaries of the skin, the cool chill covered his whole body again, making him tremble violently again.

This time, Guo Haoran was really scared.

(End of this chapter)