Fortunately, this time I still remember the road, and half an hour later, Li Huaishan and I stood at the village road intersection where we first encountered car thieves.

Looking forward from this position, you can see the spire of the steel-framed house, and the moonlight shines on the edge of the spire, forming a particularly clear arc of light.

Li Huaishan leaned in front of me and asked me in a low voice, "How do you get in?" ”

"There's no hurry." I waved my hand and felt towards the shadows on the south side of the village road.

On the way here, I also planned to go around to the back of the steel-framed house first, and then climb over the wall into the yard. But now I saw the big window on the top floor again, so I changed my attention and decided to see if the figure in the fat man's mouth was not there.

Listening to the fat man's meaning, the reason why he could see clearly what was standing in the window that day was because the bright moon was sinking in the west, and the moonlight was just sprinkled in the window, but today was the twenty-fifth day of the lunar calendar, at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the moon was still hanging in the east sky, and the moonlight shone obliquely on the eaves of the warehouse, casting a heavy shadow on the window, and it was completely impossible to see what was in the window.

Before, I had speculated that the numbness of the fat man's body was due to the entry of yin qi into his body, but now that I was standing on the village road, I found that there was nothing wrong with the Qi field in the warehouse.

At this time, Li Huaishan muttered next to me: "It's really evil." ”

I immediately turned to look at him.

We were both standing in the shadows, and I couldn't see his face clearly, and he couldn't see mine, but he still seemed to feel my gaze, and he lowered his voice and said, "Okay, okay, I know, I won't break my mouth again." ”

He thought I was looking at him because I thought he was verbose.

The village road is indeed very quiet, but Li Huaishan also deliberately lowered his voice, unless the people in the steel frame room have a pair of ears, otherwise his voice cannot be heard at all.

I asked Li Huaishan: "You make it clear, what is the evil nature?" ”

Li Huaishan raised his hand and pointed to the sky: "Look at the moon in the sky." ”

I slowly raised my head and focused my gaze on the moon, the night sky was cloudless, and the moon was surrounded by a thin layer of "halo", which looked like a hazy circle of fine hairs.

In some feng shui books, this kind of moon with a halo is called "Mao Moon", but normally, the moon halo only appears when the moon is not particularly bright, but tonight's moon is frighteningly white, and the dazzling moonlight can almost pierce the night sky.

Li Huaishan leaned into my ear again and whispered: "It's not the fifteenth moon, but it's brighter than the fifteenth moon." ”

Hearing him say this, I felt more and more that the moon was abnormal, but I looked into the night sky several times on the way here, but I couldn't find a problem.

I remember that Bao Youyou said repeatedly that I learned to trust my intuition, but if something is pressed in my heart, this intuition will also be suppressed, and it will not appear in my mind at all.

With this in mind, I began to slowly adjust my breathing to relax my mood little by little.

After that, I looked around again and re-examined my surroundings.

Maybe it's because of the relaxed mentality, the surrounding environment has changed dramatically, when I came, the village road was just an ordinary village road in my eyes, and the steel frame house in front of me was just an old warehouse in disrepair, but now, I felt that the road surface of the village road in front of me seemed to have become a little ethereal, and the old warehouse standing in the moonlight in front of me also vaguely exuded a rust-like killing atmosphere.

The moon, the village road, the storehouse, everything in the vicinity seemed to be distorted by some force.

I had a vague feeling in my heart that the source of that power was not in the treasury.

Although I also believed that this hunch was correct, or that my intuition was correct, I didn't know where the source was, so I decided to go to the warehouse to see what was going on first.

After making up my mind, I asked Li Huaishan: "Do you know how to pick the lock?" ”

Li Huaishan: "I'm not a thief. ”

"Then we'll have to go through the window." I said this briefly, then lowered my body, quickly emerged from the shadows, and rushed into a small alley beside the village road.

Li Huaishan also followed me quickly.

Then the moonlight came from the top of the house, and I looked closely at the road, and saw that there was a knee-high cement pier at the base of the wall on the left-hand side, which, if I remember correctly, was the first alley the car thief had entered when he escaped.

I walked along the alley for twenty or thirty meters, followed my memory, and found the place where the hairy children besieged me, and then walked more than a hundred meters, crossed a relatively wide village road, and came to a very damp alley.

When I stopped here, Li Huaishan pointed to the wall on the left and said to me in a very low voice, "Behind the wall." ”

He hadn't been here before, so how did he know that there was a steel-framed house behind the wall?

I looked at Li Huaishan in surprise, but Li Huaishan couldn't see my eyes at all, he probably saw that I didn't take action for a long time, thinking that I hadn't heard him speak at all, so he didn't do anything, jumped up directly, and jumped up on the wall in an instant.

This boy was much more cautious than before, and after he went up the wall, he also knew that he would be easily seen by the people in the storehouse if he stayed for a long time, so he simply hooked his hand at me, and then jumped off the wall.

I put away the surprise in my heart, kicked my legs to the ground, grabbed the wall with both hands, pulled upwards with all my might, and climbed over the wall.

On this side of the wall is a small courtyard of more than 20 square meters, and the south side of the courtyard is the back door of the steel frame house.

The moonlight was almost unobstructed in this courtyard, illuminating the front and back walls of the steel-framed house, and it was seen that there were five or six windows on each floor of the house, but each window was sealed with wooden strips inside, so that the light could not shine in at all.

Just as I was thinking about how to get in, a cool breeze suddenly picked up in the courtyard.

The wind was not strong, but it still blew a gap in the back door of the storeroom, and when the wind passed, the door slowly closed again.

The sudden gust of wind seemed to be trying to tell me that the door had been hidden from the beginning.

The things in the room seem to lure us in.

I could feel that something was wrong with the gust of wind, but my instinct told me that if I didn't go into the warehouse now, I wouldn't be able to get in again after tonight.

After pondering for a moment, I decided to trust my instincts by believing the words of the bag.

There was some moss growing on the ground made of dirt, and the soles of my feet were a little slippery, so I lowered my center of gravity, and every step was cautious, for fear of making too much movement.

When I was about to walk to the door, Li Huaishan pulled my sleeve from behind, and when I turned my head to look at him, I saw him raise a hand and point to the southeast corner of the courtyard.

I looked in the direction of his finger, and I saw a small earthen bag more than three feet high near the corner of the courtyard, which looked like a small grave that had just been built.

My attention was so focused on the door that I didn't even notice it.

Li Huaishan nodded the earthen bag with his finger again, meaning, do you want to go over and have a look.

I shook my head quickly, then leaned over to the door, holding the doorknob with both hands, and pushed it open little by little, trying not to make a sound.

What I didn't expect was that as soon as I pushed the door open halfway, a faint light shone out of the room, and I was startled, and at the same time subconsciously stretched my neck, let one eye peek through the crack in the door, and glanced in the direction where the light came from.

In the middle of the room was an old wooden table, and in the southeast corner of the table stood a lit white candle.

Not long after that candle was lit, the sharp part of the candle head had not yet completely melted.

Didn't the fat black man say that there was a lamp in the storeroom, and why did the people inside light candles?

I didn't dare push the door any further, just stood outside the door and glanced into the room.

In addition to the wooden table in the middle of the room, there were a dozen single beds near the four walls, and the light of the fire flickered, casting a fluttering light and shadow on each bed, and I noticed that each bed was empty, and the quilt on the bed was lifted, and a few pillows fell directly at the foot of the bed.

Next to one of the beds stood a small bedside table with a large enamel cup on it, and by the light of the fire I could faintly see water vapor coming out of the rim.

It seems that not long ago, these beds were full of people, and they didn't know what was going on, causing them to get out of bed in a hurry and leave in a hurry, not even having time to pick up their heads when they fell to the ground.

After making sure that there was no one in the room, I grabbed the doorknob, pushed the door open completely, and crept in.

Li Huaishan walked behind me, he first took the doorknob from me, and after I entered, he was responsible for silently closing the door.

I was worried that something would go wrong with him, so I turned around and looked around, and my heart suddenly tightened.

To the left of the door is a staircase welded in metal, which stands against the wall and looks like it is leaning against the door frame. A dim candle flame illuminated a staircase, casting a large flickering black shadow on the wall.

The moment I turned my head, I looked beyond the top of the door, right in the middle of the staircase, and saw a faint shadow and a pair of eyes that shimmered green in the darkness.

The candle flame shook violently, and the shadows in the room shook with it, and in the next moment, the shadows on the stairs completely obscured the eyes, and by the time the light lit up the spot again, the green eyes were gone.

Li Huaishan didn't make a sound when he closed the door, he first glanced around the room, probably seeing that I had been staring at the door, he also turned around and looked at the metal staircase to the left of the door.

He didn't see those eyes, but when he saw me staring at the stairs, he pointed to the stairs and gave me an inquiring look.

I unleashed the candlestick on my wrist, took out the Netherworld Treasure from my pocket, and felt it towards the staircase.

(End of chapter)