Early the next morning, Xie Wei and the others couldn't hold back the joy in their hearts, and hurriedly ate breakfast and set off on the road. In the morning, the fog is very high, the visibility is very low, and the mountain road is difficult, so it takes a lot of time to walk every step. There is also the sound of strange birds echoing in the empty mountains.

Xiang Gu Hao scolded and said: "The road is difficult to walk, forget it, what kind of broken bird is this that makes people upset." "It's no wonder that Xiang Gu Hao complained like this, the bird's cry was really unsettling, as if it was crying for someone.

They set off in the morning and arrived at the original site of Jingxi Town that the old man said was close to dusk.

The village is desolate and dilapidated, and the bluestone pavement still has some stubborn weeds emerging from the cracks in the stones. The wind whins through the empty rooms, and you always feel that there are countless pairs of eyes staring at you behind you, and the whole village gives the first feeling of eerie and oppressive. Each of them had a string in their hearts, but they were a little excited.

They walked around the village for a long time, and finally saw the old house that the old man had said had been abandoned for a long time.

The gate was eroded by wind and rain and dilapidated, there are still a few remnants of red vermilion lacquer attached to the gate, the top of the black wooden plaque hanging can no longer see what the material is, the dragon flying phoenix dance on the three big characters "Sima Mansion", the lions on both sides of the door have long lost their former glory, but all this still can not cover up the prosperity of the Sima family in the past.

There is an old iron lock hanging from the gate of the old house, which has long been rusted. Liu Hui picked up a stone from the ground and just wanted to smash the lock open. Yun Bingning grabbed Liu Hui from behind and asked softly, "Do we have to go in?" ”

Liu Hui is the only one among the five who has experience in surviving in the wild, so he has been the leader of the team for the past few days, and his words are the final decision, Liu Hui nodded firmly, and said: "Since they are all here, don't you want to go in and see what is in this house?" Don't forget, neither the novel nor the dream mentions anything inside the building. I have seen the appearance of the ancient building in my dreams more than once, and every time I wake up, it becomes blurry again. I feel like the ancient building is in this ancient mansion. ”

Xiang Gu Hao echoed Liu Hui and said, "I want to go in and see if there is the person I raised inside." ”

Among the five of them, Xiang Gu Hao's dream is the most terrifying, or it can be described as perverted. In Xiang Gu Hao's dream, he raised a person who was stripped of human skin as a pet, and kept him with good food and drink every day, and peeled off with a knife whenever new skin grew. Who would have thought that a person who is usually submissive would have such a terrible dream.

Finally they decided to enter the ancient mansion, Liu Hui smashed the iron lock on the door, and slowly pushed the door open, the door shaft was already rotten, making a creaking sound. A stench of rotting flesh filled the air of the old house. That feeling is as eerie and terrifying as described in the novel, and there is also a sense of three-dimensional oppression, which makes every pore on the body permeated with inexplicable fear

They walked into the ancient mansion gently, and they walked very carefully every step, for fear of alarming the ghosts in the ancient mansion. They had been to every room, from the antechamber to the backyard. But they didn't find the same room as they had dreamed of. Walking through a long hallway in the backyard, they saw a two-story building. The horizontal plaque of the wooden building is engraved with four big characters - quiet ancestral hall.

They were now 100% sure that this was the quiet ancient building in the novel, and when they came to the ancient building, there was a large black stone slab standing on one side of the ancient building, and the other stone slabs on the ground had a thick layer of moss, but this one was as smooth as a mirror, and it was densely engraved with words. Yun Bingning recognized the words on the slate—Xiao Seal.

From the inscription on the stone slab, they learned that the predecessor of Jingxi Town, the person who built this quiet ancient building was surnamed Sima, and this family should have belonged to a very large family at that time. Because of the struggle within the family, this branch migrated here after its defeat.

The Sima people were proficient in divination, arithmetic and agency information, which brought a lot of benefits to the inhabitants of the place who were in the backward barbarian situation at that time, and soon became very harmonious with the inhabitants of the place.

Through intermarriage with the local residents, the Sima family gradually became the largest family in the local area after a hundred years of development. Due to the large number of people and high prestige, it is not natural to become the leader here. Due to the high mountain and long road, the imperial power could not reach here at all, and over time it became a country within a country.

However, the days of such a paradise did not last long, and a hundred years later, the powerful Yuan Dynasty army swept the entire land of China. Overnight, the once prosperous Sima Kingdom was destroyed.

The members of the Sima family fled into the mountains with the remaining villagers, which led to the later Sima old house, until after the liberation, a road-building People's Liberation Army discovered the residents in the mountains and moved them out of the mountains. formed the current deserted Jingxi Town.

Xie Wei seemed to have finished talking about the content on the tablet at this point, and Fei Yunfan asked suspiciously: "Is the dense text you said only record such a little content?" ”

"I forgot to say that only the origin of the predecessor of Jingxi Town was carved with a small seal, and the other Yun Bingning didn't know what kind of text it was."

Fei Yunfan seemed to have figured out something and said, "In this way, the Sima family has some secrets that outsiders don't want outsiders to know. ”

"No, you're not right." Xie Wei did not agree with his conjecture. "If you don't want outsiders to know, you can not engrave it on the stone tablet at all, isn't it superfluous?"

"If they had their own script, they wouldn't think it would be redundant, and our country has found many times in archaeology that there were two kinds of scripts in a civilization, one is the predecessor of the Chinese characters we use now, and the other is very similar to our current Mohs code, which is often in the hands of a small number of people. Whenever a regime dies, words like this become heavenly books, and even if you want to, you can't start to crack it. ”

Xie Wei nodded thoughtfully, and Fei Yunfan continued to ask, "Later, did you enter the ancestral hall?" ”

"When I entered, there was nothing in the ancestral hall, and there was not even a tablet on the shrine."

I heard Xie Wei say that it was an abandoned ancient mansion before, and I thought that the Sima family was not prosperous, and they would all die if they got the plague, otherwise their family would not have died so coincidentally. Fei Yunfan then asked: "It seems that the Sima family is not like what was played on TV, everyone in the family is dead. Rather, it was a very planned relocation. Is the ancestral hall your last stop? ”

"No, when we came out, we found that half of the rockery in the pond in the back garden had collapsed, and it looked like a door in the place where the mound was buried."

It's the lotus pond again, the lotus pond that is not mentioned in Fei Yunfan's novel, as he guessed, the final key has to fall on this lotus pond.

Fei Yunfan stared at Xie Wei, he began to show a panicked expression again, and asked, "You guys went in?" ”

"No one could beat curiosity at that time, the pond had long since dried up, and we jumped off the pond and peeled open the gravel buried on it, and the secret door that was more than half a man high was finally revealed. Originally, we were going to leave two people on it to answer us, but neither of us wanted to stay in the gloomy old mansion, so we decided to go down together. We turned into the secret door, a cold air poured up from the ground, inside the secret door is a stone staircase that extends to the ground, Liu Hui led the way in front, we followed behind him, our only light source is the flashlight in Liu Hui's hand, the light source is not strong enough, especially our footsteps echo in the dark passage, people will unconsciously imagine the horror. ”

Listening to Xie Wei's description, he couldn't help but feel that the wind was gusting in his back, which made his back cold.

Next, Xie Wei's narration gave Fei Yunfan no chance to interject.

The secret passage was very long, and after walking for about half an hour, Xie Wei and the others saw another door, which was more than two meters high and was carved out of a single piece of bluestone. They were thinking that they could push it open, and they tried to push the stone door. Who knew that the delicate mechanism of the stone gate was extremely exquisite, and it didn't take so many people to work together at all, and only one person needed to push the stone gate open. After opening the stone door, Xie Wei and the others immediately smelled the smell of corpses decomposing.