Chapter Seventy-Five: The Lightless Old House
The boat is naturally straight to the bridge, and there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the arrow has to be sent on the string, no matter what it is, the five of us stepped into the iron gate under the gaze of the whole village and the sound of discussion.
After coming in, the old blind man stopped, took out a few pieces of rune paper from his pocket, and clicked on them to make a total of three: "I estimated that something would happen today, and I made preparations in advance, come, one for each person, and put it on my chest." After saying that, he handed me the two, and I put them in my breast pocket according to his way, and the fool's clothes were not pocketed, but fortunately they were tattered enough, so I buttoned them up a little and stuffed the paper into his clothes.
The old blind man turned his head in the direction of the two maiden brothers: "Two, you wait here, the three of us can go in and bring people out."
"No need to talk nonsense, we don't believe in any god-like stuff, you don't go in and we're advanced."
I think he and the two of them are really brothers, they have the same temperament and temperament, and they talk horizontally, plus they were squeezed just now, I was also a little angry, so I said: "Okay, you two go in first."
The two of them glared at me, and then they took a step inside, and when I opened the door, I found that it was pitch black inside, and I knew that it was noon at this time, what kind of design could not be transparent like this? And the wooden structure house, after all these years, will be more or less a little cracked, and it is really incredible that it is black like this. But I also know why the old blind man asked us to prepare oil lamps, because he must have been the same when he came in.
The two of them, apparently a little frightened, looked back, and saw that we and the big guys were watching, and turned on the oil lamp, and entered the room with their front and back feet.
When the man with the oil lamp went in, I saw that it was dark again. I can't help but be a little nervous, this place looks evil, those two stunned young people don't understand anything and just go in, it is estimated that it is more than lucky.
I looked at the old blind man, and he didn't react, he didn't move, he didn't speak, I looked at the fool again, he was staring at the door, he was still as silly and stupid as usual, and he didn't seem to feel afraid.
Maybe he didn't know what it meant to be afraid. It's like if you pick up a stick and look at a dog, but if you don't make the action of hitting it, you will be cowardly if you have been beaten, and you will not know what it is if you have not been beaten. In the same way, a fool may not know what is unclean, and he does not know how to be afraid of the dark if he has no home to sleep on the street all year round, so he does not have the worries I have now. This may be the reason why the old blind man wants to bring a fool here, even if there is something unclean, it is "unreasonable" when he encounters a fool.
After waiting for a while, the two of them were estimated to be facing out for five minutes after entering, and the old blind man sighed softly and said, "Let's go."
So the three of us also crossed the high threshold and entered the door of the house. To be honest, as the only normal person, I walked with these two people, and I had a feeling of dragging my family. The blind man has to be supported by me, and the fool has to keep telling me to follow me, and I have to shine in with an oil lamp, so it's not hard.
After entering, we seemed to be enveloped in darkness in an instant, the light of the oil lamp could only illuminate a meter or two in front of us, and when we looked back at the door, the sunlight could only penetrate a little, and the light here seemed to be drowned by the tide of darkness.
When we entered the door, we saw a table, a few chairs, all of which were wooden furniture in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which was not unusual, and the previous hall layout was like this, which should be the living room of this family.
The strange thing is that although I helped the old blind man, he walked on his own, and I could only follow. I don't know if he knows the direction, or if he can figure out where Lao Shi's son is. But with such a master by my side, I feel a lot more at ease.
However, as I walked, I was suddenly startled by a flash of something in the light in front of me at a very fast speed, and subconsciously flashed back, and my nerves tensed. After a few seconds, nothing happened, and there was no movement around. Just now I saw that it looked like a human but not like a human, and the body seemed to be a child, but the size was like a cat or a dog, and the speed was not something that a human could reach.
"What's wrong?" The old blind man asked.
"I just saw something, it was too fast to see clearly."
"Don't be afraid, no one has lived here for so many years, it's normal to be a bit of a rat or something."
"Hmm." I thought to myself, it would be nice if it was a mouse, I have never seen such a big mouse. But there is no need to say anything, it may be that I am dazzled for a moment and do not have to delay the search time, but this thing makes me more vigilant.
Walking further, I saw what seemed to be painted on the back wall of this hall. So I held up the oil lamp and shone it through, and it was clearly the outline of a woman's hair and face, but the size was very strange, and the chin that followed the outline to the huge face was close to the ground, and the upper face might have to reach the top of this layer.
I thought to myself, this kind of face painting seems to have never seen such a big one, could it be that I am mistaken? But continue to take two steps forward, although I confirmed my opinion, but I was really frightened to the point that my hairs stood on end, because I saw clearly the facial features of this face, it was so hideous, the two eyes of nearly one meter were huge, and the pupils were staring at us in front of us in the middle of the bloodshot whites, and the blood-red mouth was like a roar, as if it was about to swallow us in one gulp. All the distorted facial muscles are three-dimensional, as if they were real.
Seeing this thing, the fool who followed closely behind me should also be afraid, and he who had been quiet just now whispered a "hmm" sound from his mouth, I don't know if he wanted to express something, but he couldn't find a good word. I really want to tell him that it's called something unclean.
I thought to myself, who the is here to draw this thing to scare people? This style must not be from any previous dynasty, but it is not an intruder who still has this kind of leisure and leisure, and there is also this craftsmanship, what others think is really difficult to guess.
The painting is so real that it gives a very depressing feeling, as if the woman would really rush out. As I watched, I suddenly kicked on something so hard that it almost tripped me over my head, and my toes ached. I took the oil lamp and shone it, but fortunately we didn't walk fast, and there was a stone well in front of me, and the mouth of the well was not big or small, and I was going to fall down just right. When I looked closely, the mouth and wall of this well were so smooth and abrupt that there was not even moss, which is unscientific in our south, unless it is a dry well.
I put my head over, and the oil light hit the well, and it was clear that there was water, although the light was very weak here, but I could see it clearly when it was reflected by the water. The fool didn't know what good stuff he was looking at, and he leaned his head over. In this way, the heads of the two of us could be faintly seen on the water.
However, almost as soon as we looked out, the water below began to ripple. The still water reflects the light as a point, and at this time, the light gradually breaks into many pieces. I'm wondering, could it be that there are fish or eight kings underneath? There's a white thing coming to the surface.
I tried to see it clearly, but the light of the oil lamp could only see one or two meters clearly, and I couldn't see what was underneath at all. You can only see that it is indeed white. However, the thing also moved, and seemed to be rolling slowly in the water. After a few seconds, I could see exactly what it was, a skull! The eyes of the two black holes seemed to be staring at me.
Suddenly, his mandibles twitched slightly, and he seemed to laugh, and I subconsciously quickly pulled my head back, although I couldn't explain it, but I knew it was definitely not a good thing.
The fool was really frightened this time, and he cried out "ah", and then began to mumble incessantly: "Die...... Dead ...... Dead person! ”
The old blind man asked, "What's the matter?"
"Fool, fool, don't be afraid, fake, fake." I hurriedly whispered to comfort the fool, I secretly felt that in this place, making noise would be a danger.
After the fool had calmed down a little, I said to the blind man, "Something is very wrong here, it looks very new, and we just saw something unclean." I deliberately chose this word because I was afraid of irritating a fool, who had no self-control.
The old blind man said, "Hallucination! It's an illusion! It's a hallucination, and it used to be like this, but it still is. ”
Is it really a hallucination? If it's a hallucination, it's really fake, as I comforted the fool. But when I think it's wrong, hallucinations are subjective, how can I have the same hallucinations as stupid? However, it is true that these things have always only had an impact on our vision, and they have not caused us substantial harm, and it is really not clear.
We walked around the stone well and continued on, passing through the hallway of this room, and in front of us was a staircase leading to the second floor and another room. The previous houses were like this, paying attention to how many into a few open, into is the number of vertical rows, open refers to the number of horizontal rooms of the house, the more, the more money the owner's family has. However, this house should be opened as soon as it opens, and I don't know how many times I entered, and it doesn't look like much from the outside.
The old blind man did not go to another room, but led us up the stairs. Looks like he does remember the structure, I didn't tell him there were stairs.
Just as we were about to go upstairs, my oil lamp shone on the side of the staircase with delicate glass, or stained glass, which seemed to be a window, and I approached and looked, and it was really beautiful, reflecting a faint peachy brilliance in the light, bringing a touch of warmth to this dark, oppressive, and terrifying room.
However, before I could enjoy the warmth, I saw an unfamiliar face appear in the glass.