On the eighth floor, the space is divided into two parts, the part near the staircase is narrower, this is supposed to be a kitchen, there is a stove against the wall, and there is a vent in the wall, due to the more vegetation outside the floor, the vent is blocked, we couldn't see it before.

The other part occupies three-quarters of the floor area, and when I went in to check it out with the light, I found that there were two Taishi chairs under one wall facing the door, and there were also stools neatly placed under the left and right walls, and next to the Taishi chair and each stool, there was a high-legged coffee table.

This is supposed to be a conference hall, and there are still tea cups on many coffee tables, and the tea in them has long since dried up, and now only a thin layer of tea rust remains.

Bai Laogou picked up a teacup and looked at it carefully, and immediately frowned: "The Jin family is in a hurry." ”

Indeed, seeing the furnishings here, I also feel the same way, the Jin family seems to have held an emergency meeting here, and after the meeting was over, they left in a panic, and they didn't even have time to pack up the tea cups. Since then, no one has returned.

The huge Jin family seemed to have suddenly evaporated from the world.

I asked He Wenqin: "Old He, what happened to the Jin family?" Why did it go astray? ”

He Wenqin said that he didn't know very well, but occasionally heard the old people in the family say that the Jin family seemed to be a ghost back then, but the specific situation was that the old people of the previous generation of the He family couldn't tell it.

The old Jin family has been dealing with the things in the tomb all year round, and they should be more or less skilled in exorcising ghosts and suppressing corpses. I don't believe it anyway. Even if you really encounter a particularly powerful ghost, at least a few Jin family members should be able to escape.

Then Bai Laogou and I took a closer look in the conference hall again, and found no useful clues, so we could only take everyone away.

Going up the stairs outside the kitchen to the top floor, there is almost no partition on this floor, only two screens are blocked in the northwest corner, enclosing a small space of less than three square meters.

I opened one of the screens and saw that there were a lot of things on the floor behind me, but because of the long-term mold, these things had become lumps and glued directly to the ground, and I couldn't tell what they were.

From where I was standing, the light shone towards the west wall, and the beam of light shone over the rotten puddle on the ground, illuminating a half-open iron door, which had been corroded to the point of being so brittle that in some places there were even large breaches.

The old white dog stood behind me, holding up a flashlight to shine through the hole in the door panel, and the luster of the seven-gold stone was reflected on the opposite side.

I stepped forward and carefully smashed the door panel with the hard shell at the end of the flashlight, only to find that on the other side of the door was a circular passage made of seven-gold stones, and the diameter of the passage was about two meters.

This should be the "iron bucket" I saw under the stilted building before, the seven-gold stone will not be corroded by moisture, and the bracket that can be used to support it does not know what material is made of, if it is ordinary copper and iron, the road in front of you can not be walked.

Worried that the support structure might have become brittle, I didn't dare to be careless, so I took one foot first and stepped on the bottom of the passage hard, but fortunately it was strong enough to move even after a few steps.

He Wenqin asked loudly in the back: "How is it, can you pass?" ”

I waved my hand to signal him not to worry, and then I took a light step and walked through the tunnel as carefully as I could, feeling that there was really no problem, and let the people behind pass through the tunnel one by one.

As soon as she walked out of the passage, there was a faint smell of tar in the air, and Granny Gu shrugged her nose after she came out and said, "What is burning?" ”

Even if someone had lit a fire in this place, after so many years, the smell of mush would have disappeared a long time ago, and I suspect that the Jin family may have made arrangements in this vicinity, so I told everyone to be careful.

This old building is very different from the east building, and the light is lit around, only four walls can be seen, there is no partition, and there is no furniture, Bai Laogou said that this may be a dojo for the descendants of the Jin family to practice, so it is so empty.

To be honest, I don't agree with the words of the white dog. Even if it's a dojo, it can't be nothing, this place must have other uses.

Walking down the stairs, we found two sets of bones on the stairs.

These two people should have been hacked to death with random knives, and the other party stabbed very hard, deep knife marks can be seen everywhere on the bones, and one of them even had his thigh bone cut off, but the remains of the severed limbs are nowhere to be seen.

Granny Gu picked up an ulna from the stairs, first looked at it carefully, then sniffed the smell on it, and said: "These two people experienced corpse transformation before they died, but the bones did not carry corpse gas, it should be someone from the old Jin family who turned the corpse into corpse gas." ”

From this point of view, the Jin family has indeed mastered some means of dealing with evil corpses, since ancient times, corpses and ghosts have not been separated, and most of the methods used to deal with evil corpses can also be used to deal with ghosts. This also seems to confirm my previous speculation that the old Jin family was destroyed, most likely not because of haunting. Now it seems that there may be a powerful evil corpse hidden in the old mansion of the Jin family.

I asked Granny Gu: "These two people were transformed because they were poisoned by corpses, right?" ”

"No," Granny Gu used a knife to cut the fragile ulna into two pieces, and handed one of them to me: "You see, the middle of the bone has turned black, but the outer layer is still gray, which means that they are from the bone marrow to start the corpse transformation, if they are poisoned by the corpse, the process of corpse transformation should be from the outside to the inside." ”

It is indeed the case that if a living person is poisoned by a corpse, the corpse poison must first flow into the blood vessels of the body through the heart and veins, and then the episteum will be eroded by the blood vessels, and finally it can slowly invade the inside of the bones, in other words, if the normal process of corpse transformation, the bone marrow will only change color in the final stage of corpse transformation.

Since they weren't poisoned by corpses, how did these two people become corpses?

Granny Gu threw away half of the bone in her hand and said sullenly: "This place may hide something that we have never seen, you walk ahead, you must be more careful in everything." ”

Even if Granny Gu doesn't remind me, I don't dare to be careless.

Descending to the fifth floor, the scene changed in front of me, it was no longer an open space, and a stone wall was blocked not far from the staircase, and there was a small half-open door on it.

And the staircase was interrupted to this point, and the light was shining towards the ground behind him, and only a full floor could be seen.

The smell of burnt food in the air also became particularly strong in this layer, and it became a little difficult to breathe.

Granny Gu took a deep breath, then licked her lips again, as if tasting this strange mushy smell. Her small movements were originally inconspicuous, but for some reason they attracted the attention of the white old dog: "Ximei, did you find something?" ”

"This smell ......," Granny Gu said in an uncertain tone, "It's a bit like the poisonous smell in a Gu refining vessel, and it seems to be mixed with a small amount of centipede blood." ”

I interjected: "The old Jin family hid poison here?" ”

Granny Gu nodded: "Eight or nine is not far from ten." ”

I glanced at the small door not far away, which looked like it was cast of iron, but there was no rust on it, and I suspected that the Jin family had done special treatment, or that the venom had been smeared on the door panel.

Thinking of this, I immediately came to the door to explore the situation, this time I guessed wrong, the door panel was just brushed with an anti-rust layer, not poisoned, but the door was open, but there was a stone lock hanging on the door latch, the old Jin family is not unable to find metal, why use stone to make locks?

Before I could pick up the stone lock and take a look, He Wenqin came over, I thought he had gotten into the crack in the door, so I quickly grabbed him and asked him what he wanted to do.

He Wenqin said: "There seems to be someone in the house." ”

Someone?

I was shocked, and immediately leaned in front of the crack in the door, and shot the light inside, but the room was empty, and there was obviously nothing, let alone this room, which was not a place for living people to stay at all.

At that time, the flashlight hit the ground, and I found that the reflection of the floor was wrong, and the ground seemed to be covered with embroidery needles, and the reflection was also wisps and very fine.

If you guess correctly, it should be a thousand spider array, there are relevant records in the "Luban Book", the so-called thousand spider array, not to use spiders to set up the array, but to arrange thousands of small organs together like a swarm of insects, forming a large mechanism, as long as one mechanism is activated, the other organs will immediately erupt, forming a web of heaven and earth, and those who enter the formation can almost be said to be dead.

I asked He Wenqin: "Old He, you can't be mistaken, how can there be someone in this room?" ”

He Wenqin said with great certainty: "I did see a figure just now. ”

After saying that, he probably felt unsure, so he added: "It's like a figure, but it's not very real." ”

Lao Ruan is so good that he can't die, so he has to speak at this time: "That can't be your brother, right?" ”

Hearing him say this, He Wenqin was in a hurry, and wanted to break free of my hand on the spot and drill into the crack in the door.

I pulled him back and threw the flashlight into the house.

There was a muffled sound of "bang", the flashlight fell to the ground, followed by a sharp sound of ping-pong, and all the needles on the floor were blown up, and I couldn't see what structure was inside the floor, only that the needles flying in the sky were like bullets, and the flashlight made of metal was instantly pierced into a sieve.

Ten thousand needles were fired together, and the burnt smell suddenly became stronger, and it can be inferred that these fine needles are poisonous.

After the poison needle hit the ground, there was a sound of broken waves from the gear turning under the ground, and within thirty seconds, the poison needles that landed on the ground were neatly arranged again as they were just now.

There must be movable magnets hidden underground, and the poison needles must also have magnetic particles on them, or they are themselves made of magnets, otherwise they cannot return to their places on their own.

To say that the old Jin family is really powerful, I live so big, it is the first time I have seen such a delicate and ingenious mechanism.

Seeing the scene that happened just now, He Wenqin also broke out in a cold sweat, he was pulled by me, if he entered the house just now, no matter how powerful the light work is, the end can only be a "death".

(End of chapter)