I listened with my ears, but I couldn't hear it at all. My sister wanted to say something, and I gestured not to make a sound, but even though it was extremely quiet, I still couldn't hear the sound.

Erlong sat across from me, his eyes closed, his head tilted slightly, and he was listening. His expression was focused, and his entire attention wandered.

After a while, he opened his eyes with an incredulous expression on his face: "Strange. ”

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Erlong asked, do you hear the voice?

I shook my head, "Well, I didn't listen." ”

"I seem to hear a little, but it's not real, like it's separated by a very thick wall." My sister said.

Erlong nodded: "Sisi is amazing, and his ear power is amazing." There were indeed people in this building, but it was strange, and the sound was very unreal. Let's wait, if it's the weirdo that night, he should still be watching us, and when he confirms it's safe, he will naturally appear. ”

We waited again until twelve o'clock, when my sister sat on the couch and fell asleep in my arms. I was half-leaning back on the soft sofa, and I was a little sleepy. Only Erlong lit the flashlight, sat on the chair, seemed to be asleep, and was in a state of semi-waking up.

Time "Gada" passed minute by minute, I slept halfway, but I couldn't sleep well, and suddenly woke up to look at my watch, it was already more than two o'clock in the second half of the night. I rubbed my eyes and looked at it, and I sighed in my heart, Erlong didn't know when it was gone, and the flashlight was gone.

In the moonlight, it was quiet in the room, just me and my sister.

My sister fell asleep, I gently put her on the sofa, I stood up and tiptoed to the door, opened the door and looked out, the corridor was dark, dead and silent, and Erlong didn't know where he went.

I want to go out and look for it, but I don't worry about my sister staying here alone, I feel a little annoyed, I should have been more resolute and didn't let her come. Now come over and take care of her.

I didn't feel sleepy, and I walked around the house, very restless. Erlong must have found something, went out to explore the way, walked for so long, and hasn't come back yet, will there be an accident.

This trip to Inner Mongolia was not very smooth at the beginning, my sister had to follow, I had a knot in my heart at that time, until now, step by step, I don't know how to do it in the future.

After staying up in anxiety for half an hour, I saw that at three o'clock in the second half of the night, the door suddenly opened with a "creak", and a person came in. I was about to call "Brother Erlong", when I suddenly noticed that something was wrong, this man came in with a slender figure, wearing a dark blue overalls, white labor protection gloves on his hands, and a thick hat on his face that covered his face, which was the strange man I saw that day.

The strange man walked in with a flashlight, followed by Erlong, and it turned out that the two of them had already met. However, Erlong's face is not good, and he is a little disgraced.

The weirdo shone a flashlight at me: "This is your companion?" ”

I quickly agreed. The strange man frowned and said to Erlong: "Next time you are so reckless, I won't save you and let you die alone inside." ”

Erlong could still squeeze out a smile at this time: "Okay, I was wrong, you have the ability." ”

He came back to me, I asked in a low voice what was wrong, Erlong said: "There is a dark layer in this building, and there is another mechanism, I broke in by mistake, fortunately this big brother took me out." ”

The strange man took off his hat, "Who are you all Andong?" ”

At this time, my sister also woke up, I pulled her over to make an introduction, my sister and I are An Dong's nephew and niece, Erlong is An Dong's friend, it was he who received the message, he came to the Lincheng County bus station, and got the note in the locker.

The weirdo breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I sent you that message. ”

I hurriedly said, "Big brother, what do you call it?" How is my third uncle? ”

The strange man groaned for a moment and said slowly, "I don't know what happened to An Dong. ”

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"An Dong's whereabouts are unknown now, and it is likely that he has fallen into the lair of the Hades Sect." The weirdo sighed: "I reminded him before he went, and he went anyway." ”

Erlong was puzzled: "Hades Sect, what is that?" ”

The strange man coughed: "I can now determine your good identity, Mingren doesn't say secret words." I am a good friend of An Dong, named Zhang Wentao, and I used to be a cadre here. He looked at the tattered and ash-filled office.

"What is this place?" Erlong asked.

Zhang Wentao said: "In the past, this was an agency, you come with me, and I will tell you slowly." ”

He led us out and straight up to the second floor, a straight hallway with offices on either side. Mr. Zhang led us into one of the offices, where the skin of one wall had fallen off, revealing the red brick wall behind it.

I don't know how Zhang Wentao tinkered with it, the red brick wall "creaked", and a door opened, and it turned out that there was a hidden passage.

Inside, there are lights, and the ceiling is separated by a small light bulb with a small wattage placed at a distance, which is extremely dim, and there is a staircase that rotates down in front of you.

Zhang Wentao led us down the stairs to the bottom, and there was a secret room with a large space, boxes of miscellaneous items stacked against the wall, thick mattresses on the ground to sleep on, and several areas separated by several plastic sheets.

Through the translucent plastic sheeting, you can see that there is a desk against the inner wall, on which is a laptop lit.

"It's very safe here," Zhang Wentao said, "you just rest here for the next few days, don't go anywhere, I will naturally bring food and water." ”

"What do you mean by that?" I said, "Put us under house arrest?" ”

Zhang Wentao dragged over a mattress, sat on it by himself, and then gestured for us to sit together. The three of us sat around him.

Zhang Wentao looked at my sister: "Do you mind smoking?" ”

I didn't expect him to be a gentleman, my sister said mischievously: "It's okay, my brother usually goes one after another at home, and he's used to it." ”

I glared at her.

Zhang Wentao took out a pack of cigarettes and handed it to me and Erlong, and the three of us swallowed the clouds and smoked. Don't underestimate this cigarette, strange men should quickly close the distance, in addition to toasting is toasting, half a cigarette is in the stomach, the atmosphere is much better.

Zhang Wentao said: "We used to have a big leader in Lincheng County named Yang Guoqing. ”

As soon as he said this, I chuckled in my heart, I once found a file in a certain office, which contained a red-headed document, on which was Yang Guoqing's transfer letter.

"He built the darkroom here." Zhang Wentao said: "At that time, Yang Guoqing was very obsessed with a religion, which was a branch of Buddhism that specialized in worshipping the underworld and hell. ”

"Ah," my sister was a little frightened, "how can anyone still believe in such a religion?" ”

Zhang Wentao smoked a cigarette, and a trace of pain appeared on his wrinkled face: "Actually, the original intention and doctrine of this religion is good, which is to show people the retribution of sin. We Chinese are afraid of everything, that is, we are not afraid of retribution. After the collapse of the old moral system, and the new ethics and morality have not yet been established, everyone looks to money, those who have money kill and set fire to the gold belt, and those who have no money donate clothes to make up the road without corpses. Nowadays, there is a sect that worships the underworld and hell, telling people that if they do bad deeds in the yang world, they will be punished and go to hell to be tortured after death. For the cold and unscrupulous Chinese, it is not a good thing. ”

He spat out a puff of smoke ring: "This religion spreads very quickly in our county, and the most important reason is that the big leader Yang Guoqing took the lead in believing in religion. When he built this office building, he wanted to use it as a base for the sect in the future, and I was his confidant at the time, in charge of the design here, so I was familiar with the secret passages and dark layers. Later, the development of this religion intensified, and someone sued Yang Guoqing to the top, and the above sent a working group to verify and investigate, and found that the situation was very serious, so Yang Guoqing was transferred to other counties for the elderly. Later, a group of cadres were replaced, and I also came down, and the working group strictly investigated and guarded the county from propaganda to police force, demanding that the influence of the underworld religion among the people be eliminated in the shortest possible time. ”

"Originally, the matter could have ended, but if it could really be implemented according to the above meaning, there would be no follow-up." Zhang Wentao sighed heavily.

"Later, that is, a year ago," Zhang Wentao said, "a great wizard came to our county. ”

"Grand Wizard?" Several of us looked at each other.

Zhang Wentao nodded: "He claimed that he was called by the underworld when he was very young, he listened to the voice of the Hell Hades, he said that the era of the end of the law has come, and the world will become a sea of suffering, at that time there will be mountains of bones, thousands of miles of white bones, and those who are guilty in life will be punished by heaven in extreme pain, even if they enter hell after death, they will fall to the bottom and be tortured." Only by following him, believing in the religion of the underworld, and following the instructions of Hades and Jizo Bodhisattva, can one escape the suffering. ”

"It's kind of like the seven deadly sins of the West." I say.

Zhang Wentao said: "Chinese and Western countries, Africa, including the unpopular Haitian sects, all have descriptions of the underworld and the underworld. The doctrines are all similar, no guilty person in the end of the Dharma era can escape the final judgment, and only those who believe in religion and sincerely repent can wash away their sins and karma. At that time, the working group had already been quite effective, and suddenly such a big wizard came, which was simply a crime against the wind. The working group contacted the county police to prepare for the arrest of the archsor, and the result was ......"

"How did it turn out?" I asked.

Zhang Wentao's eyes suddenly blurred: "It is a painting that caused things to develop unpredictably." ”