Chapter 21: The Pattern on the Lantern
Just when the two of them were puzzled by this, Tianyou spoke first: "Zimeng, did you find a child with a lantern here just now, who has been playing at the door" After speaking, his face became even more ugly.
Zimeng glanced at Tianyou, his face was quite solemn: "I was afraid that you would encounter that thing when you came in, so as soon as I saw you, I immediately asked you if there was anything wrong, just because I was afraid that you would provoke it." ”
"That's not true, we saw that thing too, so we came in over the wall, didn't go through the front door, I don't think it touched it, by the way, why are you here?" Feng Long glanced at Tianyou suspiciously, and saw that he was looking down and pondering there, and he didn't know what to think.
"Oh, I was about to tell you, the dean is also there..." Zimeng turned around and didn't finish his words, but found that the dean had disappeared for some time.
At that moment, Zimeng was shocked, and he was busy turning around, but there was nothing except an empty space, "What's going on, obviously I was still there before I left, I just walked a few steps forward and turned around, why didn't I disappear." ”
"The Dean is here too?" Tianyou had already come back to his senses at this time and asked Zimeng.
"Well, I saw the signal you sent, but because the dean is here, and the strange thing is that he doesn't know what's going on, as if he has collided with an evil spirit, no matter how I call it, I can't react, so I can only send a signal for you to come and join us." Zimeng was still a little unconvinced, and walked around two more times but still didn't see the dean.
After the three of them quieted down, the strange atmosphere began to spread around again, and it was already half past two in the morning, and it was drizzling in the sky, which made people feel that the atmosphere was extremely gloomy and terrifying.
"What do we do now? Do you want to leave or leave you to say something? At this time, Tianyou was in a daze for what happened just now, but Zimeng was surprised that the dean disappeared under his nose like this, and the two stood quietly on the side and pondered without speaking, but Feng Long was anxious and couldn't help but interrupt the two to continue thinking.
The night was getting closer to three o'clock in the morning, and the weather was getting colder and colder, and it was a little too cold, and the drizzle of hair had become a raindrop the size of a droplet, and the rain had not yet hit people on this gloomy rainy night.
Maybe it was because of the weather, Tianyou didn't think about their own problems, but carefully moved their steps to a corner outside the Yimen of Zhaozong Mansion to hide from the rain.
But this did not make the three of them feel more comfortable, because behind them was the main hall of the Zhaozong Mansion, but they did not dare to step in, there was no fun and place to go in this small border town.
But there are a few places that you can't go to, I don't know if it's because this small town has been so mysterious since ancient times, or if it was listed as this category in later generations.
"I've been here twice since I was a child, and now it's the third time, one is the elementary school and the next door Wang Erhammer to catch grasshoppers, and after I went back, I was criticized by my father, and the second time was a few years ago when I came to a friend's house not far from here, but this was a long time ago, when my friend also pulled me here once, but it was very different from now."
Feng Long said and took off the backpack behind his back and continued: "Because this land is relatively close to the Zhaozong Mansion, no one dares to come to live here, and living here is basically a choice that low-income households don't have.
Moreover, the government will not plan to give these people other land, after all, it is now an era of every inch of land, although it is a small county, but land is also very tight. After saying that, he lowered his head and shook the rain on his clothes and backpack, and shook out all the water stains, so as not to get wet even the contents of his backpack.
Tianyou, who was standing on the side, was very close to Feng Long, and saw Feng Long frowning, as if he was thinking about something, and hurriedly asked: "Then did you encounter anything last time or find anything strange?" ”
"That's what makes me weird." Feng Long did not answer Tianyou's words, but squatted down as he spoke.
Zimeng saw that the atmosphere was a little wrong, "Did you find something, don't ink, now let's quickly find the dean and go back." ”
Feng Long slowly stood up and explained slowly: "I remember that I came here once a few years ago, although it was during the day, but I remember that there should be no such thing." As he spoke, he pointed to a well in the corner not far from them.
Tianyou Zimeng couldn't help but look in the direction that Feng Long pointed to, only to see that there was a strange well in the dark corner, which was being covered by a large wooden plank, and this well was not like an ordinary well.
Looking at the well from a distance, the three of them can't see what its shape is, it's very strange, it's not round or square, in short, you can't look at this well from a modern perspective, but you can't feel that it's not beautiful, the shape is strange, but it reveals a sense of mystery everywhere.
Tianyou looked at the well and then looked at the gate, and subconsciously took two steps back, as if he was frightened by something, fortunately Zimeng reacted quickly and helped him, and Tianyou didn't fall down: "What's wrong with you?" You've been a little uneasy since I saw you just now, are you hiding something from us? ”
"That's right" Feng Long looked at Tianyou's strange expression and couldn't help asking: "Tianyou, you had it once just now, and now it's like this again, can you tell us what's going on?" ”
"I'm not sure about this yet, and..."
"No, I don't want to hear it, I just want to know what makes you panic, you know that we are in a bad situation right now, and that something dangerous can happen at any time, if you have a similar distraction.
Zimeng and I can't guarantee that we can pull you back in time, and it's also dangerous, and a distraction may be over. Feng Long interrupted Tianyou's words viciously, and his tone was also very heavy, after all, this was not a mistake they should make.
Tianyou shook his head as if he had made up his mind, and then said, "Feng Long and I rushed over immediately when we saw the signal you sent, because we saw the thing at the front door, so we didn't dare to come in directly from anywhere, so we had to climb the wall to come in.
After the two of us climbed up the wall, I found that strange child, maybe there were too many things to encounter tonight, and I was afraid that that thing would attack us, so I let Feng Long go down the wall first.
I wanted to look at it again and go down, but suddenly I noticed that the lantern in the child's hand had disappeared, and just as I wanted to look closer, I saw the cage in the child's hand appear again, but it was not enough to frighten me. ”
Speaking of this, Tianyou paused and took a deep breath and continued: "It's just that I found that it was not bouncing like before, but standing quietly, and when I looked at it again, it was standing quietly, obviously tilting its head and looking at me slightly.
At that time, I instantly felt goosebumps all over my body stand up, and what is even more strange is that it actually smiled, the slightly raised arc of the corners of the mouth made me feel panicked, the face reflected by the lantern was waxy and waxy white without any blood, and what was even more terrifying was his eyes, only empty eyeholes but no eyeballs were seen from a distance. “
Tianyou forced himself to calm down and said slowly: "Unexpectedly, it suddenly swayed towards me, because I was too nervous, I didn't react in time, and when I came back to my senses, it was already close to me, I couldn't care about anything else, so I could only jump off the wall immediately, and pull Fenglong to run into the yard."
However, when I was about to jump off the wall, I looked back at the thing, and found that the pattern on the lantern had changed somewhere, no longer facing the big word Shou, but a strange pattern. ”
"Pattern? What kind of pattern is it. Feng Long sensed something unusual about things and couldn't help but ask.
"You take out the strong light flashlight" Tianyou did not answer Feng Long's words, but asked him for a strong light flashlight, and with a click, a beam of strong light instantly shone on the well not far from them, but the eerie and terrifying picture in the impression did not appear, but the wall of the well shone a pattern like a gossip type.
"Is this the pattern you are talking about?" Feng Long already knew the pattern that Tianyou was referring to at this time, and took out a strong flashlight from his backpack and shone it together, and the bright lines of the two flashlights were instantly gathered on the well, making the originally vague pattern appear clearer.
At this time, the pattern displayed is even more weird, no longer gossip but a distorted face, yes, to put it bluntly, it is a human face, and the pattern on the entire well wall is like an old face full of Zou Wen's imprints.
"Hiss" Zi looked at it and couldn't help but gasp: "I said God, bless you, the pattern you saw on that child's lantern just now wouldn't be the same as this." ”
"That's right, but I can't figure out why, when Feng Long and I first climbed the wall, the lantern in the child's hand was still a longevity character, but in a blink of an eye, the pattern completely changed." Tianyou couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, so he turned the bright wire of the flashlight back and replaced it with astigmatism.
Now they are in the dark, even if they don't worry about those dirty things, but they still have to guard against some snakes, insects, rats and ants, because the area where Zhaozongfu is located is the old city, there are few people living in it, and after so many years, there is no family around, it is really unrealistic to have no snakes and centipedes, there is no one around and there is no light, they have to guard against it.