Foreword: Truth is not hope, hope comes from never giving up.

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The original name of the building was Diming Building, and the story of the building originated in 1955 of the last century.

Originally, the location of the Diming Tower was a jungle, at that time the Chinese town was still a small town, the jungle was next to the edge of the town, when the town expanded, people cut down the jungle to build houses, but accidentally found that there was a vacant land in the jungle.

It is also strange to say that nothing grows, not even a single weed, the color of the soil is gray, which is completely different from the color of the surrounding soil, and there are no traces of any animals, that is, not only do not plants grow here, but animals have never passed through it.

Because they are all Chinese, at the beginning of expanding the town, they planned to hire Mr. Feng Shui. Although there were many talented people among the first batch of Chinese who came here at that time, very few were willing to show their faces, and in the end, only one man, Wang Gen, who claimed to have studied feng shui for generations, took the initiative to apply.

Just when everyone was about to build a big construction, a middle-aged man in the town, who was inconspicuous and ignored, and wrapped his head in a turban all day, came to stop him, saying that the clearing in the jungle was a place of reincarnation, and even if he wanted to build a house, he had to avoid it, otherwise he would be unlucky.

This man, Su Li, claims to be a Mr. Tingbei.

What is Mr. Listening Back? It is rumored that it originated from the ancient Chinese alien iron-clad gate, which can be attributed to fortune-telling, but they do not rely on calculation or touch, but rely on the ears of gifted people to keep close to your back, and after listening to the voice in your body that only he can understand, so as to speculate on your future.

Because there are very few people with such ears that are different from ordinary people, the back of the hearing that originated from the iron coat door has gradually disappeared in the long river of history. So much so that when this Mr. Tingbei came here, no one believed him, so he could only make a living by helping people look at feng shui and the like.

When I heard Su Li say what kind of place of reincarnation this is, the boss in charge of the building didn't understand it very much and asked what is the place of reincarnation?

Su Li didn't explain, but said: "You don't understand what I said, in short, a house must not be built on that piece of dust." ”

Although the boss didn't believe Su Li, he was still unsure, so he asked Wang Gen.

Wang Gen also wondered, saying that he had never heard of any place of reincarnation? Is there anything you don't understand if you don't learn well? So Wang Gen found Su Li to ask what was going on.

Wang Gen asked: "Mr. Su, I humbly ask for advice, what is the place of reincarnation?" ”

Su Li hesitated for a long time before saying, "It's a place where living creatures can't be approached." ”

Wang Gen felt that Su Li seemed to have something unspeakable, and asked, "How did Mr. find out?" Where does reincarnation come from? Is there a textual record? ”

Su Li just said, "I heard it." ”

Listen? Wang Gen had been to that piece of dust and had not heard anything, how did Su Li hear it? Could it be that he is really Mr. Tingbei?

Su Li refused to say any more, but repeatedly begged Wang Gen to stop the construction of houses there, otherwise something would happen.

Probably intuition, although Wang Gen could not explain it, he still dissuaded the construction boss.

The building boss is also very embarrassed, that vacant land is not big or small, if it is empty there, after the surrounding buildings are built, there will be an open space for no reason, isn't it even weirder? Therefore, I simply ignored it and continued to command people to build.

On the very night that the boss sent someone to dig the foundation, the dust began to make a strange chirp, at first just the rustle of the wind blowing through the trees, then mixed with the heart-rending cry of a man, and then into a screech like a knife and fork rubbing against a plate.

The workers at the construction site were terrified and fled that night, not to mention sleeping, and it was difficult to even get there.

The boss immediately found Wang Gen, and Wang Gen didn't know what the reason was, so he had to consult Su Li.

Su Li followed Wang Gen to the construction site, and found that the people who approached could only plug their ears with things so as not to hear that strange sound, but he seemed to be fine.

Even if Wang Gen plugged his ears, he could hear it, and he felt uncomfortable, but he still forced himself to ask: "Mr. Su, how to deal with it now?" ”

Su Li took off the headscarf that wrapped his head at this time, and the boss, Wang Gen and the entourage found out that Su Li's left ear had been cut off, and he wrapped the headscarf just to cover this up.

After Su Li threw away the turban, he walked into the dust that had been dug up, then leaned down, put his right ear close to the ground and closed his eyes to listen, and after listening for about ten minutes, he got up and walked out and put on the turban again.

The boss was puzzled and looked at Wang Gen, who hurriedly asked, "Mr. Su?" ”

Su Li didn't say anything, but after asking for a pen and paper, he drew a detailed architectural drawing on it, and asked everyone to build a building on top of the gray according to this architectural drawing, the floor is not high, only three floors.

Miraculously, Su Li seems to know architecture very well, and he even draws the details of how to build the building clearly, and even the size and scale are marked on the drawings.

Su Li sat in the shack next to the dust, accompanied by those strange sounds, painted for three days and three nights, after the painting, Su Li handed over the drawing to the boss, and told the boss to build according to the drawings, in order to ensure that it was safe and sound, but after the building was built, no one could live in it, otherwise he would bear the consequences.

The boss hurriedly agreed, and immediately hired the workers who dared to build it with a lot of money, and built the building according to the drawings, but according to the rules of the time, each building must have its own name, because of the sound of the dust, so the three-dimensional rectangular building was named "Diming Building".

According to Su Li's architectural drawings, the Diming Building has only three floors, but the height is about the same as the average six-story building, and the appearance looks like a three-dimensional rectangular box, with only three rooms on each floor, and the layout of the three rooms is completely different.

The most important thing is that this building is not designed with a gate at all, which is also a way that Su Li thought of in order to avoid people living in it.

Because the building was so complex, it took many years to build, and it was only completed in the early sixties of the last century.

Strange to say, since the Earth Ming Tower was built on top of the dust, those strange sounds have disappeared because of it.

However, in front of interests, people will always forget the horrors they have experienced, the building boss always feels that the building is empty and there is not the same thing, and the development of Chinatown in those years is also quite rapid, because of his blockade of the news, and later people have gradually forgotten about the gray earth Ming.

Coupled with the arrival of a lot of immigrants, the building owner finally decided to sell the building at a reasonable price.

Diming Lou was sold to another owner, Xiang Jingtian, a native of T country, who bought it not because he wanted to do business, but because he was born with a love for this kind of eccentric architecture, which he thought was a unique art, and even after buying it, his family moved to live in the building.

Of course, Xiang Jingtian also reopened a door outside the building.

When Chu Xia talked about the past, he diverted the topic and said, "Wei Chiran." ”

Wei Chiran was deliberately stunned, and then looked around, looking at Chu Xia blankly.

Hatsu smiled: "You entered the role quickly." ”

Wei Chiran also smiled: "My name is Zhu Kun now, you call me Wei Chiran, I answer, isn't it equivalent to looking for death?" ”

Chu Xia nodded: "Very good, from now on, I am your liaison, responsible for the contact between you and Hou Wan, in fact, this is against the rules, it stands to reason that you should not know about Hou Wan's existence." ”

Wei Chiran said: "Then what am I going to do?" ”

Hatsu said: "You have to live in the Diming Building, and then find out the secrets of this building." ”

Wei Chiran asked: "The briefing hasn't finished yet, why is Diming Tower called the Dragon's Tower later?" ”

Chu Xia said: "Do you know the meaning of the ghost? ”

The word "魑charm魍魉" first appeared in "Zuo Chuan Xuangong Three Years", and the original text wrote - the party of the past summer is virtuous. Distant pictures, tribute gold and nine pastures, casting tripod elephants, and preparing all kinds of things, so that the people know the treachery; The old people enter the mountains and forests of Sichuanze, and they are not as good as they are, and they are not able to meet them. Use energy to cooperate up and down, in order to bear the day.

The meaning of the vernacular text is that in the past, some people painted distant things into images, cast them into nine tripods with tribute bronze, and cast the patterns of various things on the tripod, so that the people could identify all things from the tripod and recognize which ones were gods and which were evil. In this way, when the people enter the mountains and forests of Chuanze, they know how to avoid these monsters, because God blesses the harmony of the monarch and the minister, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

In "Left Turn", the explanation of "魲" is that the people who are born of strange atmosphere in the mountains and forests are victims, which is the so-called ghost in the mountains. However, in "Ci Hai", it is explained that "Charm" is a kind of hornless dragon.

Based on the various interpretations of the word, it can be roughly inferred that the word "魑" may refer to a snake-like creature in the mountains that resembles a dragon but has no horns.

And the word "charm" should only refer to something that will have an emotional and mental impact on people, similar to goblins.

And the two words "魍魉" because they are connected together, so they can not be explained separately, there is a sentence called "魑charm, I don't know where to go", so the direct explanation of "魍魉" should be a thing that cannot be seen or touched, and there are also ancient books that "魍魉" is considered to be a kind of monster in the mountains.

Wei Chiran said: "Therefore, the ghost spirit should refer to three kinds of monsters, the first one is similar to a snake, the second type of goblin refers to the third type of monster. ”

Hatsu deliberately asked, "Is there a difference between a goblin and a youkai?" ”

Wei Chiran thought for a while and said: "I remember when I was a child, my father told me that there is a difference, goblins and goblins are different in appearance first, goblins are like people, and goblins are afraid, but the former is even more terrifying, because goblins are specialized in seducing people. ”

Chu Xia clapped his hands and said, "Yes, it seems that you still understand some basic things, so I don't need to bother to teach you anymore." ”

Wei Chiran suddenly asked, "Do you believe that there are goblins and monsters?" ”

Chu Xia hesitated and said: "To be honest, I don't believe it, I've seen a lot of weird things, but in the end there are relatively reasonable explanations, let's put it this way, in ancient times, people attributed some unexplainable things to ghosts and gods, such as the so-called ghost fire, didn't there be a scientific explanation later?" But some of them remain unexplained, and can only be attributed to mysterious natural phenomena. ”

Wei Chi nodded: "The meaning of the Dragon's Tower, does it mean that there are rumors of monsters in this building?" ”