Chapter 14: The Suspected Corpse of the Former House
Zhang Guoqing's notes said that he was immortal in the old mansion, but he did not say where the old mansion was. But Lao Cao said before that Zhang Guoqing's home is the only two-story building in Xiazhuang. And we are now in the basement of these two small buildings, if there are people who have been active in this place before, then it is easy for people to associate Zhang Guoqing, who is suspected of going to the ground, with the basement of the old house closest to the ground.
This kind of construction method is very strange, it seems that the small building without an entrance actually has a secret passage at the bottom to lead to the ancient mansion of the Ming Dynasty. This design is completely inexplicable. The design of the secret passage is naturally a "secret" word, it leads to a cellar, sandwich wall or something, I will not be surprised, but this secret passage will be so obvious to the small building behind it, or the small building is suggesting that there is a secret passage, this designer must have been abnormal at least at the time.
The situation in front of you is clear at a glance, there is no other place to go in this basement, except for the oil lamp, there is nothing else superfluous, if you want to know what Zhang Guoqing did back then, you have to go to the top to find out.
The material of the staircase going up is very strange, a bit like concrete, Liu Shixi took a knife and twisted it to tell us that it was Sanhe soil, and by the way, he showed off the practice of Sanhe soil. I was full of questions, and I didn't pay attention to him.
When you go up the stairs, there is a cover on the top, which is very heavy. I tried to hold it twice, but it always got stuck less than halfway through opening, and it seemed like there was some kind of low furniture on it. Liu Dongxi also came up to help, but the mouth was too narrow, and the two of them didn't need their strength at all, they just crashed into each other and fell into ashes.
As usual, it was Lu Yan who said he was coming in the back, and Liu Dongxi and I stood at the bottom of the stairs, watching with a little numbness as Lu Yan slammed the cover over with an expressionless face, and there was a chaotic noise from above, and the furniture that was obviously in the way had been overturned. There was also a sound of silence after that, as if some small animal had been startled and scattered.
Lu Yan lifted the cover and jumped on it. Liu and I hurriedly followed, got out and stood still to look around, and a strong breath of life came to our faces.
I shone my flashlight around, and the place had undoubtedly been uninhabited for a long time, with newspapers plastered on the walls and a radio on a tattered table. As soon as I stepped into modern life from that surprisingly well-preserved ancient house of the Ming Dynasty, this huge contrast made me dizzy for a while. I looked around again, and felt that this place was a little familiar, and while looking at it, I pondered, and suddenly a shadow flickered in my head, and I almost screamed!
According to the current fashion, I am a post-80s generation, and I grew up in my grandmother's house because my parents were busy with work when I was a child. I've been a very ordinary kid since I was a child, but according to my parents, I have two things that stand out, the first is that I am naughty and creative, and the second is that I remember things very early. I can still remember looking around the room on a large stool in my grandmother's house when I first became standing.
The layout of this house in front of me is almost exactly the same as that of my grandmother's house at that time!
Let's cross it! I closed my eyes and reopened, but nothing changed. The small square coffee table, the cupboard with two doors, a large wooden box on the two stools, a small offering table against the wall and two Taishi chairs, and all kinds of old furniture that have been repaired with new materials in the form of crops, except for a thick layer of dust, are exactly the same......
I stayed here, Liu Dongxi was not idle, ran to the wall to remove the newspaper on the wall to read, and while reading, he also read: "The great leader Chairman Mao and his close comrades-in-arms...... Meeting with Comrade Baluku...... Ay! This newspaper is really old, and it can really sell for a few bucks when you take it out! ”
Although Liu is a tomb robber, I have always felt that this guy does not value money very much, and this time I see the newspaper and want to sell it for money next, which is really a bit abnormal. I suppressed the shock in my heart about this house, walked around the clutter on the ground, and walked to see that these newspapers were indeed very old, and they were full of thick dust, and I wanted to know what was written and I could only take them off and look at the back. Liu Dongxi looked at me over, "Brother An, this place is estimated to be wrong, you look at this place, it is all newspapers from the sixties, and it has not been changed since, it should be that no one has lived since Zhang Guoqing!" ”
"It's hard to say, I also found one thing, the furniture in this place is exactly the same as my grandmother's house when I was a child!"
Liu looked at me in surprise, "Brother An, don't be joking, how is this possible?" ”
I nodded, "No kidding, I'm telling the truth." This place is supposed to have been uninhabited since the eighties. ”
Liu Dongxi smiled and said, "Brother An, where is your grandmother's house?" ”
What does it matter if I say this? Although I wondered what he meant, I told him anyway.
"Brother An, you yourself said that it is a small mountain village, in that kind of place, after **, there is almost no change before the reform and opening up!" After Liu Dongxi finished speaking, he took a picture of his face, as if he was enhancing his persuasiveness.
Lu Yan's strange performance before, Ge Haoran's bizarre death, being in this weird room and this ancient village where ancient and modern times are mixed with time and space, my heart has already been filled with fear, at this moment Liu Dongxi suddenly shone on his face, I saw a strange shadow suddenly appear behind him, and finally screamed out!
Liu Dongxi saw that my face was wrong, and before I screamed, he suddenly lowered his body, and the double knife came out of the sheath with a bang, and Lu Yan stood silently beside Liu Dongxi like a shadow. But these two people stood in front of me and had no follow-up movements, completely blocking me behind.
I quickly put away the gun and moved two steps sideways, and the flashlights of the three people all hit the wall, I took a closer look and gasped!
There was a man standing in the corner!
This man stood in the corner of the wall, with his back to us, almost in a posture of hunched back with his head on the corner of the wall, his body was covered with dust, and it was impossible to tell what kind of clothes he was wearing, and he could not tell the difference between men and women, and at a rough glance it almost looked like an object standing in the corner, so that none of us had seen that it was a person before.
Liu Shishi had already put away his posture, and said in a pretended relaxed tone: "It's okay, look at you guys scared, this person has done it!" ”
I could hear that there was trembling in his voice, and although it was very inappropriate, he still revealed: "You are not afraid, what are you shaking?" ”
"I'm making you scream!" Liu Shiwu actually laughed.
I was about to reply, but I heard Lu Yan say on the side: "Quiet, this person is not right!" ”
Liu Dongxi immediately stopped talking, I looked at Lu Yan who was standing with a spear, and asked, "Lu Yan, what's wrong?" ”
As soon as the words came out, I felt that I was a bit of an idiot, this person died in this posture, it was definitely not right, as for Lu Yan, a person who never said nonsense, it seemed even more wrong in comparison!
I looked at him strangely, and he said to himself, "Police! ”
The police? I was just about to continue to ask, but Liu Dongxi said on the side: "Brother An, it's really a policeman!" ”
I looked in the direction pointed by Liu Dongxi, and saw that although the dry corpse in the corner of the wall was covered with thick dust, the clothes were very inadequate, as if someone had grabbed the collar and pulled it down from behind.