Mia ran towards me like crazy, shouting, "Ghosts, ghosts! ”

As soon as she shouted like this, Li Huaishan also rushed out of the courtyard gate with someone, I pulled Mia and shouted to Li Huaishan: "Look after her!" ”

After saying that, I rushed towards the mouth of the alley.

When I came to the corner of the alley, I saw Xiao Jiu sticking his entire back to the wall, a pair of eyes bigger than a light bulb, staring at the opposite side in a daze.

I quickly approached Xiao Jiu and raised my hand to shake it in front of her eyes, her shoulders shook a few times, and then she came back to her senses, her eyes fixed on me, and her left hand raised, trembling and pointing to a house not far away.

Looking in the direction of her finger, she could see the carved window embedded in the wall, the window paper had long since rotted, and only an old carved shelf remained, and the room was very dark, and when you looked through the window frame, you could only see a black shadow.

I asked Little September, "What do you see?" ”

Xiao Jiu was trembling for a while, but his hand was still pointing to the house, and he said indistinctly: "Each...... Every...... For...... For ......"

She was supposed to say "ghost", but due to the excessive fright, her breath trembled non-stop, and she couldn't spit out a full syllable.

At this time, Li Huaishan and the grasshopper also came over, and I took a look, except for the old cat, everyone else came.

"Ergou, take them back."

I said this briefly to Li Huaishan, and then turned around and walked towards the house that Xiao Jiu pointed to.

Li Huaishan's movements were quite fast, and as soon as I took a few steps here, he pulled Xiao Jiu and Mia towards the courtyard, until their footsteps were a little farther away, and I took out the Netherworld Tongbao and Hanya from my pocket, and cast a cloud step, and a puff of smoke rushed into the old mansion facing the mouth of the alley.

Half of the walls of the house had collapsed, and the doors were broken, and they had collapsed to the ground in such a loose manner, except that the window I had seen outside the wall was almost intact except for the absence of window paper.

Before I entered the house, I vaguely heard a faint squeaking sound from time to time in the room, which was like two damp planks constantly squeezing against each other.

As soon as my front foot stepped through the door, I lit my flashlight and shone it in the direction where the sound came.

The beam of light broke through the shadows of the room, illuminating a figure suspended in midair.

The ground where the soles of his feet left were slowly swaying in mid-air, and in addition, on the periphery of the beam, his arms could be seen slowly rising and lowering.

Seeing this scene, I was shocked at the moment, and immediately condensed a breath of mental power in the dantian.

But then, the person on the other side was still doing the same action as just now, and other than that, there was no other movement.

I sank my breath, moved the flashlight, and sent the beam high.

It wasn't until the person hanging in the air was illuminated by the beam of light that most of my face was suddenly pressed like a big stone in my heart, and I couldn't breathe.

It's an old cat, and the person who was hung in the air turned out to be an old cat.

A thin steel wire was tightly bound around his neck, his tongue sticking out, and a pair of eyeballs almost bursting out of his sockets.

It was only then that I could see clearly that there were several slender steel pipes hanging upside down on the roof, like steel cones, piercing into the old cat's arms and legs, and as the steel pipes swayed, the old cat's hands and feet were slowly swaying in mid-air.

There was a strong smell of e-liquid in the air, almost obscuring the blood emanating from the corpses.

I walked up to the old cat and looked closely at the details on his body, and found that there was a thin layer of dirt attached to his shoulders and the top of his head.

The smell of e-liquid in the house should come from some kind of old oil lamp, and it is estimated that someone should have lit the light in the house just now, so that Xiao Jiu, who was facing the window, saw the corpse of the old cat.

I looked back, and sure enough, directly across from the corpse was the carved wooden window.

Li Huaishan's voice sounded outside the door: "What's going on inside?" ”

I sighed, "The old cat is dead." ”

As soon as the words fell, a person rushed in, and when I heard the footsteps, I thought it was Li Huaishan, but when this person appeared in front of me, I saw that he was a landmine.

After the mine entered the house, he turned on the flashlight, and his hands and feet frantically shone the light around, but when the light hit the old cat's face, his legs went limp, and he sat down on the ground with a snort.

Not long after, Li Huaishan and the gnats also came in, and I couldn't help frowning at Li Huaishan: "Didn't you let them take them back to the compound, why did they all come over?" ”

Li Huaishan: "Isn't it that I'm worried about you, I just wanted to come over and take a look, and they had to follow." ”

While Li Huaishan was talking, Mia and Xiao Jiu were looking into the room behind him.

The two girls looked frightened at this time, obviously curious about what was in the room, but they didn't dare to walk in.

The grasshopper pointed to the mine: "What's wrong with him?" ”

I didn't talk nonsense, I lit the flashlight directly, and took a picture of the old cat half-hanging in the air, as soon as the gnats saw the old cat's seriously congested face, they suddenly shuddered, and the mosquito screamed, and rushed out of the house as if fleeing, but they didn't dare to go far, and stopped when they ran to Mia and Xiao September.

The fat sea never came in, but when he saw the frightened expression of the mosquito, he was so frightened that he shrank his neck a few times.

The grasshopper must have been the boldest of all, and after a brief moment of panic, he became a little more calm, turned his head, and opened his mouth at me, but could not speak.

I let out a long breath and said to the people outside, "Is anyone else coming in to see?" ”

Fat Dahai cautiously leaned in front of the door and asked, "Look...... What to see? ”

I said, "The corpse of an old cat." ”

As soon as I blurted out these words, Mia and Xiao September sat on the ground almost at the same time, and the fat sea looked at me with wide eyes, unable to say a word.

If you are willing to come in, come in and have a look, at least see the old cat now, so that they can know their situation.

While thinking so in my heart, I silently waited for Fat Dahai and a few of them, Mia and Xiao Jiu definitely didn't dare to come in, Fat Dahai hesitated for a long time, and a sentence suddenly came out of his mouth: "Is it ...... Became a puppet? ”

I frowned, "What's that?" ”

Fat Dahai swallowed his saliva: "Old cat, he ...... Is it made into a leather ......? Puppets? ”

Puppets?

When I thought about it, I understood that the so-called puppets are puppets in shadow puppetry.

Listening to Fat Dahai's mention, and then looking at the old cat's current appearance, he has steel pipes inserted in his hands and feet, and he looks ...... It's really similar to the puppets in the movie.

However, the puppets in the shadow puppet show are supported by the poles from the bottom up, and the steel pipes that can be pierced into the hands and feet of the old cat do hang down from the roof.

At this moment, Fat Dahai whispered again: "Is it ...... Inverted puppet? ”

I frowned and asked him, "What is an inverted foot puppet?" ”

Fat Dahai swallowed: "That's it, the pole hangs down from above." ”

This guy didn't go into the house from front to back, how could he know that?

Just as I was about to ask a question, the mine sitting on the ground suddenly screamed and fainted on the spot.

I shook my head helplessly and said to Li Huaishan, "Get this guy out." ”

Li Huaishan immediately entered the house, carried the mine on his shoulder, and beckoned the others as he walked out of the house, asking everyone to follow him back to the compound.

Everyone's feet were soft, and it took Li Huaishan a lot of effort to take them away one by one.

I sat in the house and shot at the old cat's corpse, and now I couldn't figure out how the old cat had died, and how he had been brought into this room.

Earlier, I had clearly watched him enter the tent, but from noon to evening today, I had not left the compound, and the old cat's tent had never been opened.

Li Huaishan's footsteps were far away, so I lit a cigarette, swallowed a few puffs of cloud smoke, and put the old cat down.

If a dead person suffers too much pain, his soul will not be able to disappear after death, and his eyes will not be closed for seven days, and after seven days, his soul will leave his body and turn into a terrible ghost to ask for his life.

Since the old cat was strangled to death, a pair of eyes completely protruded and could not be closed at all, so, after placing him on the ground steadily, I took out two more pieces of rune paper and put them on his eyes, but after covering them several times, the rune paper slid down his face.

The old cat's bulging eyes were fixed on the roof, and he refused to bare at all.

I sighed, picked up the rune paper that fell on the ground, and said to the old cat with a deep breath: "Go with peace of mind, don't be nostalgic, don't be obsessed, I will help you avenge your revenge." ”

After saying that, I put the rune paper on the old cat's eyelids again, and this time the rune paper only shook slightly twice, but it didn't slip off after all.

After helping the old cat do an unusually simple supernatural ritual, I left the house and came to the alley connected to the compound.

Li Huaishan was standing at the gate of the courtyard with his hands crossed, his eyes looking at the people in the courtyard, his face a little tired.

I came to Li Huaishan and handed him a cigarette: "Smoke a cigarette and slow down." ”

Li Huaishan took my cigarette: "Why the old cat?" ”

I knew what he meant, but I just sighed and said, "To each his own life." ”

As I spoke, I walked up to the old cat's tent and gently pulled open the chain, and saw a large hole half a meter wide broken at the bottom of the tent, and under the hole, it was a dark tunnel.

I frowned and pumped the light into the tunnel to take a look.

The tunnel first went straight down for about a meter, then turned around and stretched horizontally towards the house where the old cat's body was found.

When I turned on my flashlight and looked into the tunnel, everyone else gathered around, and I didn't pay attention to them, but I just reached out and scraped a little dirt from the tunnel wall, put it in front of my nose and smelled it.

There was a faint smell of copper in the dirt.

At this time, Fat Dahai suddenly said behind me: "The rumors are true." ”

(End of chapter)