Chapter 371:
He set the clock to twelve, twelve, twelve, and twelve, as the nine-tailed cat intended, and then heard only a 'click', as if it had been turned on.
A strong resistance came out of the white wall behind the clock, and Zhuang Luo was about to take the hand that was open on the hour hand, but was stopped by the nine-tailed cat.
At the same time, the roar of a middle-aged man came from the corridor on the second floor, followed by the sound of da-da-da-da, and the wooden planks along the corridor were rapidly approaching the living room on the first floor of the villa.
"You can't escape! Can't escape! The middle-aged man shouted frantically.
The wall behind the clock moved rapidly outward, the gap getting bigger and bigger, until it was enough to walk a person sideways, and the nine-tailed cat asked Zhuang Luo to take the hand on the lower hour hand away.
"Now, you have to follow me into the tunnel, take that girl next to you, we don't have much time."
Zhuang Luo took Chu Xia's hand without saying a word, and walked sideways into the tunnel inside the wall, but at the same time as he let go of his hand, the wall also began to close quickly, and when the two entered the passage, the wall was completely closed.
"This is ......" Zhuang Luo looked at the torches on the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel, and then glanced at the nine-tailed cat that glowed white in the dark, "I didn't expect there to be such a tunnel in this villa." β
Walking down the stairs of the tunnel, Zhuang Luo told Chu Xia everything he knew, including that he could talk to the nine-tailed cat, but at the request of early summer, the nine-tailed cat finally agreed to her psychic, so that it could hear it.
In the spiritual exploration center, Su Junchao had already prepared his luggage, although Shangguan Wen did not intend to take care of this matter, but he still couldn't rest assured that Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia couldn't do it, he didn't know what was going on, since the two of them left the spiritual exploration center, there was always a feeling of unease in his heart, and it was precisely because of this feeling that he planned to rush to the suburban villa overnight.
Before leaving, he called the two middle-aged men from the former entrusted office, and after no one answered the phone for another minute, he rested for a few minutes and called the client again, and this time the call was quickly connected.
"Hello, I'm from the Paranormal Office." Su Junchao directly understood his identity.
"Are you also from the Paranormal Office?" It was not difficult to hear the middle-aged man's heavy wheezing voice on the phone.
However, at this moment, Shangguan Wen snatched the Linghua receiver from Su Junchao's hand, "Hello, I am in charge of the firm, I want to ask you, is the work of our employees going well?" β
"The young people are very serious about their work, and the things I have entrusted have also made progress, and I am still satisfied with the listening."
"That's good." Shangguan Wen smiled helplessly, and then said politely: "We're just here to do a simple investigation, so we won't bother you." β
Hanging up the Ling's words, Su Junchao looked at Shangguan Wen with a puzzled look, and he found that he couldn't see through Shangguan Wen's thoughts now.
"They have already had an accident, this time you have to worry about the suburban villa, remember not to contact the client." After Shangguan finished writing, he left Su Junchao's room.
"He knows everything, it wasn't like this before." Su Junchao muttered in a low voice, he looked at Shangguan Wen's back, always trying to see from him what he was thinking, but in the end he didn't see any clues.
After packing his luggage, Su Junchao caught the last train of the evening, and before three o'clock in the morning, he would arrive at the suburban villa area.
In the villa, the middle-aged man hung up the phone call from the office, and began to frantically search for the whereabouts of Zhuang Luo, Chu Xia and the nine-tailed cat, but he searched the entire villa and did not find half a figure.
In the dark room, a bed, a bedside table, such a simple furnishing does not look like it belongs to this villa at all, the middle-aged man sat in the dark, he picked up the photo on the bedside table, the photo shows two young boys, it looks so similar.
"Brother, after so many years, don't blame me." He looked at the photo in the frame, "It's your own life, you can't choose." β
Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia walked along the tunnel under the leadership of the nine-tailed cat, at first Zhuang Luo thought it was just a simple tunnel, but this way down, let him see the specific structure here.
'It's just a dungeon. β
This is Zhuang Luo's evaluation of this place, at first they walked down the stairs, but it didn't take long to come to a place similar to an underground cave, and then went to the interior of the cave, and there was a hole inside.
It is not an exaggeration to describe this place as an underground palace, if it weren't for the nine-tailed cat who led them here, Zhuang Luo might never have known that there was such a pure and beautiful palace here.
"It's so beautiful here." Chu Xia couldn't help but pick up the camera in her hand, she not only took pictures of the landscape here, but also secretly took a few pictures of the nine-tailed cat.
The early summer on the way was quite easy, maybe this was also related to her nerves, Zhuang Luo didn't dare to have any slackness, he knew that the nine-tailed cat brought them here must have its intentions, as for what it said before, the thing he was looking for was probably a death contract.
Every time the death contract is lifted, Zhuang Luo seems to be in a fog, this time it is exactly like this, he can't figure it out, the crazy middle-aged man actually knows that the nine-tailed cat is in his villa, why did he find a supernatural office and entrust him to solve this matter, and why does the death contract exist here, does it have anything to do with the middle-aged man?
Not only that, there are many things that Zhuang Luo can't figure out, but he clearly knows that only by solving the current problem of the nine-tailed cat can he continue to figure out the relationship between the death contract and the middle-aged man. The nightingale hovered in the night sky, it chirped and made a 'woo woo' sound, the bus drove on the country road, Su Junchao had already fallen asleep at this time, he was sleeping with his head up, in his dream he never dreamed that Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia were in danger, but whenever he woke up, he found that he was still on the bus.
"Man, alone?" I don't know when Su Junchao had an extra grandmother by his side, "Where are you going so late?" β
"A suburban villa." Su Junchao replied politely, and he realized that when the bus drove to the suburbs, there were not many people left on the bus.
The old grandmother grinned and said, "Hehe, this road is not so peaceful at night, you should be careful." β
Su Junchao just smiled and ignored her, he continued to close his eyes, after all, the car hadn't stopped yet.
The car stopped at the doorman of the villa on the outskirts of the city after half an hour.
"Hey, man, wake up."
The driver's eldest brother patted Su Junchao's shoulder.
Su Junchao was confused for a while, he slowly opened his eyes, and said with a tired face: "What's wrong?" β
"It's time to stop." The driver opened the door, he got out of the car, and said to Su Junchao, who was still in the seat, "Don't sleep, get out of the car." β
Su Jun cheered up, he got out of the car, the gate of the suburban villa was in front of him, he walked to the security booth of the doorman, and then asked, "May I ask which direction is the third area of the villa?" β
The security guard looked like he had just woken up, he raised his head and glanced at Su Junchao, and said in a bad tone: "Walk in from here, the first building you see is it." β
Su Junchao didn't bother anymore, and walked straight in the direction pointed by the security guard.
In the villa underground palace, the nine-tailed cat took Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia to the deepest part of the Lin Palace, it is not difficult to see that this place has been decorated, and the surrounding stone walls are not as irregular as before, the shape is so irregular, not only that, there are also furniture here, it can be seen that someone must have lived here, but a locked gate at the end attracted the eyes of Liangrao.
"This is what you're looking for." The nine-tailed cat arched and stretched.
Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia glanced at each other, and they both heard some clues from the words of the nine-tailed cat, and the result they judged for the first time was that the nine-tailed cat also knew about the death contract, and this incident must be related to the middle-aged man and the nine-tailed cat.
"What do you know?" Zhuang Luo walked to the iron door, he glanced at the key on the iron door, and asked, "Do you want to open the key to the iron door?" β
The place on the iron door still looked new, and early summer just glanced at it and noticed that something was wrong, this was not an ordinary lock, after all, she had also been in the soul center for a while, and this time she saw such a familiar iron lock again.
"This lock...... I've seen it. She hesitated for a moment, but finally decided that this was the key that had been used to lock the door of her room when she had just entered the Spiritual Chamber, but how could it be here?
Half a year ago, it was also the beginning of the summer when he first came to the Spiritual Exploration Center, at that time, Shangguan Wen was the only one sitting in the Spiritual Exploration Center, of course, before this, he was the only one who was against the death contract.
The lock that makes Chu Xia look familiar and can't be familiar is actually what she saw when she first entered the spirit exploration center, at that time there were only four bedrooms in the spirit exploration center, outside Shangguan Wen's room, and the doors of the other three rooms were locked by this lock, it seemed to have some kind of prophetic ability, as long as the opponent who was selected as the death contract appeared, the lock of the door would disappear out of thin air.
Of course, Shangguan Wen did not show Zhuang Luo this, the matter is actually very simple, before Zhuang Luo appeared in the spirit exploration center, the lock belonging to his room had disappeared, and it was precisely because of this that Shangguan Wen knew when he would come to the spirit exploration center.
"It's incredible." Zhuang Luo was full of surprise after listening to Hatsu Xia's account, and he thought to himself that the difficulty of this incident must have increased again.
However, at this moment, the surrounding stone walls emitted a golden light, shining on the nine-tailed cat's body, making its fur look golden, and over time, the nine-tailed cat was completely wrapped in light
"It's been a long time, it's been a long time." I don't know where a weak voice came, "I thought you forgot about me, old friend." β
The light gradually dimmed, and the golden light around the nine-tailed cat's body also dissipated, and when Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia saw the nine-tailed cat again, both of them unconsciously opened their mouths.
At this time, the nine-tailed cat was no longer the strange cat with white hair and eight tails they had seen before, it had turned into a human form, with a rao face and body, the difference was that its facial features were almost the same as those of a cat, with ears erected on both sides, long six whiskers, a mouth, and light blue eyes that were enough to breathe people's hearts.
"I'm here to repay my kindness, if I don't fulfill your wish, how can I continue to study" The nine-tailed cat seemed to be talking to the person in the dark.
Such a scene will only appear in it, Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia both understand this truth, they believe in the so-called divine power, and those plots in it, but if these things really appear in front of them, it is really difficult to accept at this time, so the two of them just looked at it blankly, not daring to say more.
"Grievances, after so many years, I have looked down on him, he has replaced my identity, what can I do?"
The nine-tailed cat didn't speak, just glanced back at Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia, and said, "All this is a fateful arrangement, otherwise my reminder will not be ignored by you." β
Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia stood there stupidly speechless, they didn't know what was going on here.
"Well, both of you are the ones I was destined to help." The nine-tailed cat looked back at the rusty iron door and the lock that looked relatively new on the door, "Don't worry, I will definitely let the person who replaces you deserve the punishment he deserves!" β
In an instant, the entire underground palace was filled with the aura of the death contract, and this feeling Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia were unwilling to experience anymore, after all, they almost died in the incident of the previous Normal University, and the power exuded by the death contract was even stronger than that time.
However, the nine-tailed cat was indifferent, it knew that the power of the death contract had been awakened again, of course, there was only one possibility, that is, the middle-aged man had signed the contract again. Chen Yu and Chen Dong were originally a pair of brothers, Chen Yu is the eldest brother, and Chen Dong is the younger brother, although the time interval between the two births is not very long, and there is no generation gap, but the family's treatment of the brothers is completely different.
His elder brother Chen Yu was born earlier, and he is much better than Chen Dong in terms of academics and character, which is the main reason why his parents spoil him.
The demon seed is buried deep in his heart, Chen Dong and Chen Yu get along like a pair of brothers on the surface, but in his heart, I don't know how many times he has wanted to kill his eldest brother.
As time passed, the seeds of evil grew bigger and bigger, Chen Dong could no longer suppress the evil thoughts in his heart, he felt that no matter how hard he tried, he would not surpass this brother who had suppressed him from the beginning, so he planned to kill him, kill this indelible hatred in his heart.
"Big brother, who made you better than me in everything, your parents spoil you, nothing good can be my turn, although we are brothers, but I don't accept it! I'm really not convinced! β
The middle-aged man slammed the picture frame on the cold floor, and the glass shattered in an instant, like a fragment of memory being erased little by little, and his humanity gradually disappeared.
Chen Dong is the name of a middle-aged man, he is the younger brother who killed his brother in the previous story, he is already delirious at this time, and the shattering of the photo frame seems to have wiped out the last trace of his humanity.
However, at this moment, Chen Dong took out a yellow rag from the pocket of his jacket, and then he bit his hand, only to see that blood was gushing out violently, and then he began to write on the yellow rag with his hand.
The dark red blood in the darkness melted into the yellow rags, emitting an eerie light, "Death Pact, please fulfill my wishes, those who meddle, I will let them all die here!" After the contract was signed, Chen Dong smiled evilly, he slowly walked to the living room, and then adjusted the hour hand of the pendulum clock to the position of twelve, twelve, "Wait, I'll send you to hell......"
The dungeon was confused with the aura of the death contract, "What should we do now?" Hatsu asked with a look of fear.
The nine-tailed cat changed back to its original strange cat appearance at this moment, "I'll take it here, you can see if you can unlock the lock on the iron door, only then can I unlock the seal given by the death contract here." There was a white glow around it.
Zhuang Luo walked to the iron door, he fiddled with the door lock, "Do you have a way to unlock it?" He looked at Chu Xia, who had been distracted, suspiciously, then smiled slightly and patted her on the shoulder, "Hey, so you're afraid?" β
He didn't know when he had become so bold, maybe because of the presence of early summer, at least in his heart.
Chu Xia came back to her senses, and she pretended to be angry and said: "Sister Ben is not afraid of these, you get out of the way, I'll try." She took the lock from Zhuang Luo's hand and studied it.
In the dark night, Su Junchao walked in the forest road in the villa area, and the sound of cicadas was heard from time to time around him, which was like a moving melody in this summer night.
He looked left and right, only to find that none of the villas in the villa area were lit up, which made him a little puzzled, logically, if Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia were really investigating, then it would be impossible for them to turn off the lights in the villa at night, after all, light is the best weapon to drive away evil things.
"It's really strange, is the security guard lying to me, this is not the third area of the villa?" Su Junchao muttered to himself, but at this moment, he felt like a pair of eyes were looking at him behind him.
He turned his head sharply, and in the darkness there was a sickle-white light in a villa.
Su Junchao was stunned, he thought to himself, what's going on? What I thought about just now has come true.
He looked at the villa lit up with pale white light, and couldn't make up his mind for a long time, after all, this thing was too accidental, if Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia really had an accident, then he rushed into the villa, wouldn't he be throwing himself into the net?
"Wen, things are getting a little troublesome now." In desperation, Su Junchao had no choice but to ask Shangguanwen for help.
"What's going on now?" The official on the other end of the phone looked calm, as if he already knew the progress of the matter, and he had a feeling that everything was under control.
"There's something strange about this villa." He recounted what had just happened in detail, and then said: "What should I do now, it is too dangerous to enter the villa rashly, and if I don't go in, I can't figure out what is going on with Chu Xia and Luo now." β
"Listen to me." Shangguan Wen had a serious look on his face, "There should be no one in the villa now, you go to the villa first, and then find a place where you can hide, and I will call you in the morning, and I will teach you how to do it when the time comes, remember one thing, after entering the villa, set the mobile phone to vibrate mode." β
At the same time, in the underground palace deep underground, Chu Xia was tinkering with the iron lock, the nine-tailed cat was using all his strength to fight against the energy of the death contract, and Zhuang Luo, he seemed to feel something, but no one noticed that his eyes had turned blood-red at this moment.
"Tick, tick."
"What's that sound?" Zhuang Luo was shocked, it was like the sound of water droplets, but he hadn't heard this kind of sound before.
"What's the sound? You can't be mistaken, right? "In early summer, there was no way to unlock the lock, but she was quite concerned about Zhuang Luo's sudden abnormal performance.
"There's something, I feel like it's around here." Zhuang Luo turned his head and looked around, he didn't find anything like a ghost, and then he glanced at Chu Xia again and asked, "Don't you feel strange?" β
It's good that he doesn't look at it, this look can see a big thing, Chu Xia also looked at Zhuang Luo at this time, his blood-red eyes made her heart startle, Chu Xia took a few steps back, "What's going on with your eyes, it seems to be bleeding!" β
"My eyes?" Zhuang Luo looked suspicious, the nine-tailed cat seemed to notice his eyes at this time, it was also stunned at this time, but it was not as frightened as in early summer, "He is a blood pupil, he can see spirits, and he can compete with it, it is difficult for ordinary ghosts to get close to him, don't worry, this is not a terrible thing." β
"So you're all here." At this moment, the voice of a middle-aged man was heard in the distance, and at this time, the lock on the iron door was also shattered by a force. In the dark, Su Junchao followed the direction of the light to the door of the villa, and when he saw that the window on the side was open, he climbed into the villa from there.
Spacious halls, medieval dΓ©cor, everything here has an old-world feel.
In the underground palace, Chen Dong followed the narrow tunnel to the depths of the Lin Palace, he didn't know that there was a dungeon here, but he hadn't been here, if he hadn't signed a contract, he really didn't dare to enter the dungeon rashly.
In the silent dungeon, any sound can be heard clearly, and the sound of the lock being shaken open is naturally no exception.
"It's on!" Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia said in unison.
But Liang Rao was not too happy in his heart, after all, the middle-aged man had found their hiding place, and it was impossible to escape in this underground palace.
Through the light emitted by the torches, the nine-tailed cat's gaze never left Chen Dong, it seemed to see something that surprised him, and of course Zhuang Luo's blood pupils also found something strange at this time.
I saw that Chen Dong was wrapped in a layer of black gas around him, which was something that both Zhuang Luo and the nine-tailed cat could see, but the nine-tailed cat saw more things than him, not just the black gas, at this time Chen Dong was standing at the exit of the tunnel, his soul had been eroded and only a shell remained, and the one in his body was the seed planted before the death contract.
"He is no longer the Chen Dong of the past." The nine-tailed cat burst out of its body with seven-colored light, and this seven-colored light completely restrained Chen Dong's body.
"You're watching him here, I'm going to unravel the death pact here now." The nine-tailed cat transformed into a human form again, and it came to open the iron door and walked in.
"Is he coming?" Inside the iron door, a white figure floating in mid-air asked.
The Nine-Tailed nodded, "He's here, but he's already sold his soul to the demons, and this is your chance to be reborn." It shook its tail behind it, and soon the original eight tails became seven at this time, and one tail disappeared out of thin air.
Chen Yu's soul floated in mid-air, he swayed left and right as if he was sitting down and making some decision, and finally he made his own decision, but there was still a doubt in his heart, if the nature of the nine-tailed cat and the death contract were the same, then he would lose more than he gained.
At the same time, outside the iron gate, Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia were staring at Chen Dong deadly, they were afraid that something would happen, and if this was the case, they would not be able to escape.
However, things still changed, Chen Dong, who was originally imprisoned in the seven-colored light, began to be restless after the nine-tailed cat entered the iron gate, and he summoned the black qi in his body more than once, but he was blocked by the seven-colored light around his body.
After several repeated struggles, Chen Dong smiled, "I didn't expect this time when we met like this." "The others are Chen Dong, but they are not as good as the puppets of the death contract.
Zhuang Luo saw that he couldn't break free this time, so he walked to his side, "You should understand the principle of feng shui turns, we won't lose so embarrassed this time." β
"Oh?" Chen Dong smiled evilly, "Really? Then let's see who kills the deer. β
Hearing this, Chu Xia pulled Zhuang Luo back, after all, it was so close, maybe the other party would subdue Luo with a force, which was something she didn't want to see.
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Luo didn't have the same worries as early summer, he didn't even play games without understanding why early summer wanted to pull himself back.
"I always felt like he had something in mind." Chu Xia looked at Chen Dong, who was imprisoned in the seven-colored light, "You see the evil smile on his face, he must not have any good intentions." β
Just like Chu Xia, Chen Dong does have an idea in his heart now, but to be exact, any of his thoughts now are controlled by the death contract, and even the abilities he is endowed with are given by the death contract.
In the villa, Su Junchao once again called the Soul Finder, now the time is three o'clock in the morning, Shangguan Wen is not sleepy, he picked up the antelope words, "What's the situation now?" β
Su Junchao was sitting on the sofa chair in the living room of the villa at this time, "There is no one in the villa, but the lights are on." He looked around again, "The second is the dΓ©cor, which looks very old. β
"No one?" Shangguan Wen paused, and then said, "That's it, you find a hiding place first, and I'll call you again in the morning." β
In the spiritual exploration center, Shangguan Wen just hung up the phone, this time the action was not that he didn't want to help, but that he promised the house spirit in the spiritual exploration center ten years ago, he would not interfere in this operation, and of course he also got some information about this operation.
"Do you regret it?" The man in the trench coat came out of nowhere.
Shangguan Wen's face was indifferent, "Isn't this the information you provided, so I believe they can all come back safely." β
"Really?" The man in the trench coat smiled slightly, "You didn't think that I might give you fake news?" β
"I've thought about it." Shangguan Wen also smiled, "But I still choose to believe you." β
The man in the trench coat asked puzzled, "Why?" β
"I'm intuitive, will you believe it?" Shangguan Wen sat up, he got out of bed and pulled up the curtains, and looked at the empty passage outside the window that was slowly lit up: "It's about to light up, it's going to end soon, isn't it?" β
In the dark and silent dungeon, the nine-tailed cat slowly pushed open the iron door and walked out, and he changed back to the original strange cat, except that it was missing a tail.
Zhuang Luo immediately noticed the change in the nine-tailed cat, "Why do you have less tails?" He asked, confused.
The nine-tailed cat slowly walked to Chen Dong, he looked back at Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia and said, "You guys get out of here first, I still have some personal matters to solve, as for the seal of the death contract, I have already unlocked it, so you can go back and pay the errand, right?" β
Early summer always felt that the whole thing was weird, but it wasn't anything strange, it was just a feeling at best.
In this way, under the protection of the nine-tailed cat, the two left the Lin Palace and walked all the way up the stairs in the tunnel.
"Now that everyone is gone, you can accept your fate." The nine-tailed cat changed back into a human form, and he looked at Chen Dong with a wicked smile on his face.
Chen Dong already knew what would happen next at this time, and the person who went to the office that night to ask for help was his soul, and the source of the strange sound he wanted Zhuang Luo and Chu Xia to find was this nine-tailed cat.
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