Chapter 44: The History of the Mansion

If you want to investigate some of the incidents, it is obviously irrational to bury your head in charge, and you need to know more or less about their background. According to the direction pointed by Ash, Du Qi and his party first came to the city hall located in the center of Juyi City.

Since coming to this world, Duzi has been to the town halls of several cities, and almost all of them are not very different in structure, so it didn't take them much time to find a place to store the archives. As Ash had expected, Ju Yicheng didn't pay attention to the information when he retreated, and the people outside obviously didn't have much interest in these things that couldn't be eaten, so they kept it very well.

"Yu Mansion...... Yu Mansion ......" Du Qi's fingers slid across a row of bookshelves, complaining in his heart that the document archiving work in Ju Yicheng was a mess, and there was no modern computer to assist in the search, so the four of them could only scatter and search for books on the shelves. Finally, before his patience was about to run out, he finally saw the three words he wanted.

Douqi tiptoed down the thin book on the top floor of the shelf, walked to the side of the wooden table and sat down, and began to poruse the book, which looked to be a little older.

"Three hundred years ago? It's not a short history. Du Qi muttered to himself.

He learned from the documents that the Yu Mansion was built 317 years ago by a wealthy businessman at that time. After the rich man took root in Juyi City, he continued to develop for more than 200 years, although the family rose and fell later, but it also became a non-negligible existence in Juyi City. But about forty years ago, a small fire broke out in a grove in the mansion, and the family moved away in a hurry shortly after, and no one heard from them again.

Next, the account in the source jumps to thirteen years ago. Due to the refusal of the owner of the mansion to show up, Ju Yicheng decided to demolish the mansion, which occupied a large area, to build a new market. As a result, the government hired a group of professionals to survey the mansion and design the plan as well as the new construction plan. But the next day, those who were hired said they would give up the business and would not continue to work anyway. Then, the government sent several waves of people in a row, and things became more and more weird, and it seemed that everyone who had been to the Yu Mansion would leave the next day, and the reason for it was vague.

"Why, that's what you wrote in the information?" Hanekawa sat on the side and crossed Erlang's legs, and questioned unremittingly, "The person in charge here is really a waste, if it were replaced by any of my father, master, or Uncle Shengyan, the matter would be investigated." ”

"They've checked......," Feng Xing stroked her shoulder-length short hair, lowered her head and examined it carefully, then pointed to the pages and said, "There are faint traces on the blank pages at the back, and if you look closely, you will find that these marks are different from the words on the previous page." So there should be a few more pages left in this material, but someone took the rest away. ”

"So, we've been looking for a long time, and we still don't know anything!" Kui Qu shrugged his shoulders and urged anxiously, "Then let's hurry to the scene!" ”

"It can't be said that we haven't found anything, at least we have found information on two other incidents. Well...... I have to say, there is some blood boiling. Du Qi closed the books and threw them into his personal space, "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

Du Qi tore down a map of the city from the wall of the archives, and quickly found the Yu Mansion in the southwest corner of the city, which covered an area of nearly 20,000 square meters. It was evident that no one had set foot in this place for a long time, and through the carved metal railings, you could see the weeds inside, and even a small area outside the walls was covered in ash and dead leaves.

Probably because of the rumors, few people have dared to approach this place anymore.

"Brother Duqi!" Hanekawa touched Haka's head, "It spun around in the air and didn't seem to find anything strange. ”

"It wouldn't be interesting if it were that simple." Kui Qu pushed hard against the black iron gate, then flew up and kicked it, and the already corroded iron chains broke open, and the shards flew far away. "Ahem......" He patted the dust on his body and stepped into the mansion first.

"By the way, Brother Duqi, I've always been curious...... What is the origin of the Youhuan family and Brother Kuiqu's floweriac's fanatic family you talked about before! Hanekawa asked in a whisper.

"Ah Yu, it's rude to casually ask about other people's clan names." Feng Xing, who was walking in front, turned his head and glared at Hanekawa.

"I know......" Hanekawa pouted, "That's why I didn't ask before, otherwise I would definitely be severely criticized by my father." ”

"Actually, it doesn't matter, my family is purely handed down from my ancestors, and as for what happened before, even my grandfather didn't know, so they left a tattered painting." Du Qi didn't care, his family had already fallen, and there were not so many rules for discipline in the family, "When I was very young, my grandfather once showed us that painting, saying that it was a family totem or something...... Eh, what does that painting look like? ”

"Totem? What totem? Kui Qu looked back, "And this kind of thing?" ”

"It's not surprising, totems can only be taken out at specific family sacrifices, and I haven't seen the totems of the Liao family until now." Hanekawa sighed, "Sister, have you seen it?" ”

"I've only seen it once when I was a kid, and I don't remember it at all." Feng Xing shook his head as well.

"And what's going on? Can you tell me a little bit about that? "Du Qi has always been very interested in his family's past, but unfortunately there is no suitable way to get in touch.

"This ...... I don't know very well, there is a special person in charge of the sacrificial affairs at home, and we juniors can't touch it. Hanekawa shook his head.

"I know a little bit, I listened to my grandfather." Feng Xing said with a slight hesitation, "Grandpa was drunk that day, and suddenly talked about the fact that the ancestor was forced to join the Holy One Alliance, and he looked angry that time. Although it is not clear, he does mention the difference between totems and gods, which is generally ......"

"Wait!" Du Qi raised his hand to stop her, "Did you feel anything?" ”

After going through so many things, Du Qi is no longer a rookie in the past. Although they seemed to chat casually, their spirits never relaxed. In the moment he had just now, he clearly felt that the jailer's soul hiding in his shadow had suddenly become extremely manic, as if something had invaded its place of existence. Without hesitation, Du Qi drew a few runes, and a cloud of cold white mist quickly spread outward around him.

Immediately after, he heard a piercing scream. This time, the four of them saw it very clearly, and several black shadows the size of their heads emerged from their shadows, and then quickly disappeared into the shadows of the trees beside them.

"Enemy attack!"