Chapter 101: The Fox (1)
I grabbed the 'Heavenly Remnant' in my hands, cut off the vine man blocking the road along the way, walked for a long time, and finally saw the shadow of a small wooden building. The compass needle pointed straight ahead, and it seemed that this was the right place.
"Brother Shuzi?" Sanzang asked in a whisper.
I nodded, "This should be it!" Be careful, let's go inside. ”
It stands to reason that there are not only me and Sanzang living in the inn, and there are many talented people who have come to Jiulong Mountain for various reasons, but there is no movement tonight. Could it be that only me and Sanzang heard this mournful crying and singing? Otherwise, I can't explain why it's just the two of us here. It's a weird feeling, what's wrong? I looked around, careful not to miss a single detail.
The woods are still the same woods, nothing has changed, and there are no ghosts or living people hiding in the shadows, so what's so strange! It's very quiet here, as long as there are some strange sounds, you can hear it. "Quiet, quiet? Be quiet! Yes, it's quiet! "When I was walking on the road in this ghost place before, I could still hear the cicadas chirping and birdsong, and at this moment, there was a deathly silence all around, except for the sound of my and Sanzang's suppressed breathing, other than that, there was only dead silence.
Under the shroud of the night, the small building exudes a miserable green atmosphere, this is demonic energy! The gesture signaled Sanzang to follow a little closer, and walked to the door of the wooden building. No one had been here for a long time, and the walls were tangled in a mess of rattan silk, and weeds flooded the stone path in front of the building. The vine man on the gate of the wooden building was cut open, revealing the true face of the wooden door, which was carved with exquisite character patterns. It can be seen that it is a sacrifice or something like a person worshipping the heavens, and a woman is tied up and falls to the ground. It's very religious. At the knocker hangs a large lock covered with patina, and the lock is very old. Through the rust, I can still see the exquisite workmanship, but what catches my eye is not the precision of the copper lock, but the more the pattern looks, the more it looks like runes, and the lines are entangled and coiled, attracting people's hearts and minds. My eyes began to hollow.
"Brother Shuzi, wake up! What happened to you? Sanzang slapped me the head, waking me up from my confused state.
I shook my head and blinked hard. pinched his eyebrows, and didn't dare to stare at the copper lock seriously, just glanced away in a hurry, these patterns are too evil, and they actually have such a deep impact on me unconsciously! I can't imagine what would have happened if I hadn't woken me up without Sanzang on the side, and I lost my sanity in this strange forest.
"The pattern on the copper lock is like a rune that has not been seen before, and it has the effect of attracting people's hearts, and I didn't pay attention to it just now. Accidentally landed. This is supposed to prevent someone from inadvertently opening the lock and releasing the banshee inside. "After turning around along the wall of the building, I found that the four corners were hung with five element spell stones, forming a five-element trap array that covered the entire wooden building. Prevent the monsters inside from breaking out of the building.
Crying and singing still ringing in my ears, I pointed to the carved portrait on the door and looked at Sanzang and said, "Look at these reliefs, the person dressed in this sacrifice should be the one who sealed the banshee of the wooden building back then." I don't know which escapist genre he came from, and I don't know why he put so much effort into it. Use the Five Elements Trap Array to seal the banshee here. To be sure, this singing banshee is very strong. Shall we go in? The most important thing is that this door lock can't be looked at directly for more than three seconds, so there is no way to study the unlocking method. If you don't open the door and destroy the wooden building, the banshee inside will be released. If we can't deal with it, there is a trapped position here, and we can escape from the wooden building to save our lives in case of danger. If the trap is broken, once the banshee is born, I am afraid that not only will our lives be in danger, but also people in the town outside and even further afield. At that time, the cause and effect on our backs are not a little bit! "Can't look at it directly? I'll give it a try! If it doesn't work, Brother Shuzi, you can wake me up. The formation must not be destroyed, and it must leave us a way to escape for our lives. Sanzang frowned, found a wire in his backpack, closed his eyes and fumbled for the copper lock. Thin wires reached into the keyhole and swirled around inside.
I didn't dare to stare at the copper lock, I could only look at Sanzang. "Let's go!" A crisp voice sounded, and the expression on Sanzang's face was ecstatic for a moment, and it was quickly concealed again. I swallowed as I looked at the empty knocker with the copper lock removed, still a little incredulous, "Is this okay?" It shouldn't be that simple, right? "The banshee who can be trapped by someone with the Five Elements Trap Array must be very strong. Locking the copper lock on her door, I always felt that I needed to crack some formation or something, plus the key to open it, but I didn't want to think too much about it. As long as you don't look at the pattern, this is a simple lock! Shaking his head speechlessly, you must know that my lockpicking skills are better than Sanzang!
"Squeak, squeak~~~" As the long-dusty wooden door was pushed open, a burst of dust came first, and the poignant singing that had been lingering in the ears stopped abruptly for a few seconds.
"Ahem, ahem!" Sanzang and I jumped a little to the door to prevent a demon from hiding behind the door from sneaking up, waving our hands to cover our mouths and noses, and waiting until the dust dispersed before we opened our eyes and looked inside.
There are no imaginary and terrifying monsters, just a simple arrangement of an ancestral hall, facing the door of the building is a high platform, on which are placed layers of tablets, and there are three residual incense sticks on the incense burner, but they are no longer burning. Every window was nailed shut, and it was impossible to distinguish between the window and the wall, except for the door that had just been opened, the whole wooden building was airtight and black. On the roof of the house hung a dense strip of yellow cloth painted with crimson charms, and at a cursory glance, they were all charms against evil spirits, and these yellow cloth strips swayed with the night breeze blowing in from the doorway. The futon used for kneeling is also placed directly in front of the high platform. On the right is the staircase that revolves to the second floor.
The two of us cautiously walked into the wooden building, guarding against falling into some formation trap if we were careless, and we also had to be wary of the banshee in the wooden building. "Brother Shuzi, this wooden building shouldn't be the ancestral hall of a big clan, right? But why weren't these tablets taken away? It stands to reason that the big family attaches great importance to the ancestral tablet! Sanzang stared at the tablets in confusion.
"Ancient?" I looked at the name on the tablet and remembered the little boy I met during the day, named Guza, and I thought that the name Guzha was like a minority name, and his full name might be very long. But now it seems that the child is guaranteed to be surnamed Gumingzha? It is very likely that they are the descendants of this ancestral hall! (To be continued.) )