Chapter 15: The Funeral (4) - Divination
In the room where the light does not penetrate, the smoke is filled, and a dozen coffins are placed one after the other, lying there quietly, making the whole room like a small tomb.
A low cry echoed in the room, people in white clothes knelt in front of the coffin, and more than a dozen bodies were crowded, like worms standing up only the front half of their bodies, a sad scene.
On the wall, a black-and-white picture frame hangs corresponding to the coffin, and the deceased inside, with wide eyes, glaring angrily at the figure kneeling and weeping at his corpse.
Unlike the portraits in the shops on the street, these dead people have hideous expressions, as if they have chosen the moment of death, and they will be creepy just looking at them, let alone matching the cries of this room.
Suddenly, a small crack opened in the wooden door, and a gloomy eye glanced into the house, and when he saw the scene in the house, he closed the door again without saying a word.
Outside the door, Zhao Yijiu, who was wearing a white robe, made a "silence" gesture to Zhao Ruru, who was also dressed in the same attire, and shook his head.
The two looked at each other and, without alarming anything, quickly bypassed the porch and entered a room.
Zhao Ruru breathed a sigh of relief at this time, she closed the door and leaned against the door: "How is it?" What's going on there? ”
"A row of coffins, someone crying, wearing the same clothes as us, with their backs to the door, what exactly it is is not known for the time being." Zhao Yijiu didn't speak quickly, which meant that his thinking was temporarily deadlocked.
"That means you can't get in...... There are so many places in this house that there are white-clothed ghosts, and there is no way to investigate," Zhao Ruru scratched his hair, "But the door we are looking for must be in these places, and we can't even get in, let alone look carefully, tsk, that abacus ghost doesn't lie to us, right?" ”
She said this, but she knew it very well in her heart, the two of them did a task for a while before they learned from the abacus ghost that there was a secret door to leave this mansion, and this information was basically not wrong.
The question is how to find it.
This yin house is obviously the residence of a large family, with a courtyard, an antechamber, and a kitchen...... Wait, wait, it's enough to make the people who come in for the first time dizzy, thanks to the fact that she and Zhao Yijiu are not road idiots, otherwise it would be difficult to even leave a mark to meet.
Find a secret door in such a large area...... No further hints, it's a needle in a haystack.
Zhao Yijiu glanced at her and ignored this obviously nonsense question.
Zhao Ruru was embarrassed, she was really the first time to deduce with the Zhao family with this kind of character, and she would always forget that this person was an iceberg and could freeze to death.
If only Yu Xing were here, she could at least talk about the plot with Yu Xing.
After a few seconds, her eyes lit up: "Yes, did you say that the clue is possible in Xing?" It's a team exercise, and it's impossible for both of us to find the door, and he's on another completely unrelated mission line. ”
Referring to Yu Xing, Zhao Yijiu finally responded: "Then he should be on the way over, we can go to the door and wait." ”
"You can also find the abacus ghost and ask again, that ghost thing is very ghostly, fortunately I can do divination, I can find its general location." Zhao Ruru stretched out his hand and touched his chin, and said thoughtfully, "That's it, let's not look for the door first, I'll calculate the location of the abacus ghost, let's go and intimidate it again, and then go to the gate to pick up Yingxing?" ”
Without waiting for Zhao Yijiu to speak, she analyzed in a low voice: "The street outside the house looks quite long, and it is very mournful, the only advantage is that it is empty, if we are fortunate to come, we can see it at a glance lying on the wall." I see—"
"The reason why we have to divide the three of us in the street and the mansion is so that we can cooperate with each other, one of them attracts the attention of the paper man, and the other side can take advantage of its inattention to change the location."
Speaking of paper people, Zhao Ruru had palpitations.
At the beginning of the deduction, they woke up in the yin house, with cries and suona everywhere, and the funeral atmosphere was strong.
After converging, they went to the gate of the mansion to take a look, and found that the gate was actually open, and it looked like they were going in and out.
Outside the house was facing a street, sprinkled with paper money and wreaths, and the loudest cry of mourning lingered outside the door.
This is actually a very strange thing, the "ghosts" they met all the way stayed inside the house, why was there one alone outside?
When things go wrong, there must be demons, and the abnormality may be the clue.
The two discussed it for a while and decided to go out and take a look first, maybe it was a ghost with a story who couldn't enter the mansion?
As a result, Zhao Yijiu just took a step out, but Zhao Ruru didn't keep up, just said, "You have to be careful", and in an instant, the crying and mourning outside the door with the entire Yin Mansion came to an abrupt end and fell into a dead silence.
The creepiness of that moment was probably only felt by the two deducers who were immersed in the scene.
The next moment, a big paper figure with a strange shape grinned, and pounced on Zhao Yijiu from an invisible corner with a thick malice.
If it weren't for Zhao Yijiu's quick dodge, the paper paste hand that seemed to break at a break would probably go directly into Zhao Yijiu's chest, dyeing his white miserable robe red.
As soon as Zhao Ruru saw that there was a battle part, he immediately retreated to the Yin Mansion in order not to delay his feet, and saw with his own eyes how fast the paper figure was, and Zhao Yijiu pulled out the sacrifice, and barely escaped.
It's not that Zhao Yijiu's combat effectiveness is not strong, but all the attacks fall on the paper man, leaving only a hole that disappears in a few seconds, as if there is an invisible person holding a tool and helping the paper man paste the crack at any time.
It wasn't until Zhao Yijiu also returned to the Yin Mansion that the paper looked at them with that flat, ink-drawn big smiling face, and let out a few screams that were neither male nor female, and then disappeared into the corner on the side, and when it began to cry again, the crying and mourning sound in the Yin Mansion returned to "normal".
Since then, Zhao Ruru has confirmed that this paper figure is actually an obstacle between the funeral street and the Yin Mansion, whether it is them or Yu Xing, it will take a lot of effort to leave.
So they had to honestly search for clues to the Yin House, and met an abacus ghost on the way, and heard that the Yin House and the outside Yang House are connected, which is the only exit from this space, connected by a hidden secret door, and then they began to find the secret door.
……
Now, hearing Zhao Ruru's proposal, Zhao Yijiu nodded, and then said, "Then hurry up." ”
"What's faster?" Zhao Ruru was stunned.
"Hurry up, hurry up and find the abacus ghost, and then hurry up to answer." Zhao Yijiu's face remained unchanged, and he couldn't see what kind of emotion he was in when he said this, "If he comes, we haven't gone to ...... yet."
Zhao Ruru nodded clearly: "Ah, are you worried about him?" That's right, it's not good if we don't help him get the paper man's attention and put him in danger. ”
Zhao Yijiu: "...... That's fine. ”
Zhao Ruru: "What? ”
Zhao Yijiu didn't explain again, holding his arms and waiting for Zhao Ruru to start a hexagram.
In fact, what he wanted to say just now was that if they went late, Yu Xing was not a human thing, maybe he would find a way to get in, and he wouldn't need them at all.
He believed that Yu Xingzhen had done such a thing.
When the time comes, the people in the live broadcast room will definitely notice Yu Xing's true strength.
Although he didn't know what kind of grudge Yu Xing had with the servants, no matter how he thought about it, he knew that under the gaze of so many pairs of eyes, his strength was exposed, and then he was easily targeted by people with intentions in various deductions.
After all, Yu Xing's face is too memorable, and it is not easy to disguise his identity in the future deduction, just like those star deductions, they are often recognized by others as soon as they enter the deduction.
Unless more than 80% of the actors are analogous and the deducers are stuffed into another sentence, the star deducers who have gained fame and more points are absolutely at a disadvantage in terms of the degree of secrecy of information.
Although he felt that with Yu Xing's character, he would not let himself fall into a passive situation, but wouldn't it be better to be careful in everything?
Zhao Ruru didn't know what he was thinking, anyway, in her opinion, this famous strange figure of the Zhao family was very silent herself, so she didn't say anything more, and took out a copper coin from her pants pocket.
This copper coin is her most commonly used sacrifice, the surface is old and worn, the middle of the square mouth, the front carved "Daoguang Tongbao", the reverse carved "the world is peaceful", she whispered something, and then put the copper coin in her hand, thumb flick, the copper coin flew vertically, and then fell on the back of her hand, covered by the other hand.
She exhaled softly, trying to relax her mind and remove the palm that was covering it.
The reverse side of the copper coin is facing up, and from her point of view, the four big characters of peace in the world are reversed, faintly revealing blood, with a thick ominous omen.
"Hiss......" Zhao Ruru gasped.
Zhao Yijiu couldn't understand this, and asked directly: "What conclusion?" ”
Zhao Ruru's brows furrowed: "The big murderer, the omen of bloodshed." ”
Zhao Yijiu: "What are you counting?" ”
"What I'm calculating is that without the change of premise, that is, if there is no third person to join, what will be the consequences of the two of us wandering around in the Yin Mansion." She rubbed the corners of her forehead, a little distressed, "In other words, it won't be long before this seemingly peaceful mansion will change, and we will definitely not be able to please it then." It seems that we have to meet up with Xing as soon as possible so that things can turn around. ”
Zhao Yijiu's expression remained unchanged, as if he didn't care about the changes in her mouth at all, he glanced out through the loosely closed window, paused, turned his head and said, "Then go directly to him, and talk about other things together." ”
"Okay, I agree. Tsk, you guys have a really good relationship, when will I, a teammate, be lucky enough to be treated like this? ”
Zhao Ruru took out a short black chopstick again, she could feel it, and the guy in front of her who was so cold that he had to fight with ghosts and things mentioned Yu Xing, and the whole person relaxed a lot.
Just like when he was by Zhao Mou's side, although he also had a cold face, his aura was different. So it can be seen that Zhao Yijiu, and even his brother Zhao Mou, have a strong trust in Yu Xing, a person with a foreign surname.
Under the cold gaze cast by Zhao Yijiu, Zhao Ruru smiled and retreated to the corner, silently recited, and then stood on the ground with his chopsticks on the ground, and let go of his hand.
"Smack."
The chopsticks made a slight crisp sound when they landed, and they were faintly noticeable in the sound of suona and crying, and the chopsticks rolled on the ground for a small half circle, pointing straight to the door of the mourning hall, and then reversed half a circle, as if they had hit something.
Without waiting for Zhao Yijiu to ask, Zhao Ruru said: "This time it is the location of Xing, according to the hexagram, he is approaching the direction of the gate - about to coincide with the position of the gate." ”
Zhao Yijiu nodded slightly: "Let's go." ”
……
Yu Xing, who didn't know anything about the situation at the end of the ghost alley, was still in the posthumous frame custom shop, and the account book in his hand didn't look like a good thing, so after roughly flipping through it, he honestly put it back on the counter.
He just finished defrauding the shopkeeper Jia, what if he does something to make the ghost angry and force the credit record out again?
For his ability to ridicule, Yu Xing is still very self-aware.
The moment the book was taken off, the door of the store creaked and opened in silence.
The black-and-white photo on that wall seems to say, "Get out, the hints are over, don't let me see you again." ”
Yu Xing coughed lightly, carefully closed the lid of the incense burner, carefully put it back in the area where it was found, and then calmly stepped out of the threshold and continued to walk towards the end of the alley.
It was only then that the people in the live broadcast room realized that this sudden encounter was over.
He's over.
But Lo Liang hasn't yet!
[Lo Liang lost?] ]
[Lost, Luo Liang calculated the correct steps by fortune telling, it was already very fast, and he was looking at the account book]
[Fortunately, there are now eight groups out of nine groups, and the people who were "born" in the alley have all arrived at this posthumous shop, and the others have just entered the store, and he has all gone out]
[Luo Liang can't think of tearing the paper, I'm afraid he can only use the sacrifice to forcibly break through]
[What's the other group doing?] ]
[There is another group.,The one who does this quest line is called Jue.,A little Lori.] She's a funny thief, desperately pulling NPCs along, and now she's almost successful in persuasion.]
[poof]
The barrage is a lot more harmonious, and those who said that Luo Liang was awesome before have quietly shut up, and they don't know whether they are embarrassed to speak, or unwilling to face the fact that they were slapped in the face, so they were angry and went to other live broadcast rooms.
[This group is very stable, the cold wine skills are too good, Zhao Ruru is also very smart, just took a look, they seem to be discussing intimidation abacus]
There is no false fame of the deducer, and whoever is stronger is more likely to be sought after.
Even though in this group, except for Zhao Ruru, Yu Xing has only participated in the rookie competition once, and Zhao Yijiu has never appeared in the live broadcast, but according to their performance, anyone with a discerning eye can see their strength and confidence.
Suddenly, many guilds had already begun to inquire about the information of the two strange youths.
Yu Xing didn't know about this, or rather, he had already thought of this situation and was ready to deal with it.
He is now more concerned about the deduction plot in front of him, so far, the danger of this street is under control, Yu Xing feels that he is very stable, and his performance is very normal...... Probably.
Leaving the shop and walking along the wreath for some distance, he finally saw the end of the alley that didn't look like words.
It was a large mansion, somewhat like the configuration of a large family in the TV series, the gate was straight to the street, and when it was opened, you could vaguely see the gold and silver round pieces of paper floating around, as well as the wide white silk hanging on the beams.
The howl floated out of it, the voice was sad, and the suona accompaniment was even more desolate.
Before he got closer, Yu Xing felt a bone-chilling and rich dead air from the mourning hall, and the tip of his nose was surrounded by a faint smell of decay.
Yes, this mourning hall is the center of this street, the place where the ghost spirit is strongest, and it is also the place where the vitality of the deducer is.
He continued to walk forward, and suddenly, someone tapped him on the shoulder from behind, and a voice with a crying voice pressed to his ear and asked, "Woo woo...... Are you here for Boss Liu's funeral? ”