Chapter 4: Ghost Fire
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"What's that?" I tensed my nerves and asked Ah Ming and Fat Bao.
Apparently they had also seen the building flash a blue light, and the two of them were also very suspicious.
"Just look at it!" Fei Bao said.
"Are you really going?" Amin said, "I heard that the ghost fire is blue, so it shouldn't be a ghost fire!" ”
"Big brother! The party and the state want us to embrace and believe in science. Fei Bao put on a very understanding look and said, "It's a shame that you are still highly educated and in and out of high society." Did your university teacher tell you that the ghost fire has a scientific name called phosphorus fire, and the ghost fire that the poor people saw in the past was produced by the burning of phosphorus drifting in the dry air? ”
I patted Fei Bao's shoulder, cold sweat broke out on my forehead, and said, "Brother Fei Bao, did your university teacher tell you why ghost fire, also known as phosphorus fire, always appears near the grave?" "My eyes kept staring at the blue light in the distance, "That's because the human body contains phosphorus, and after death, the body begins to decay, and then various elements will have chemical reactions." Phosphorus is converted to phosphine from the phosphate state. Phosphine is a gaseous substance with a very low ignition point, as long as it reaches a certain concentration, it will burn when it comes into contact with air at room temperature. In other words, if it was really phosphorus fire, there was a good chance that there would be dead people buried there, even if there were no ghosts there. ”
Fei Bao swallowed a mouthful of saliva heavily, there was no other sound around except the sound of insects, it was terrifyingly quiet, and the sound of Fei Bao swallowing saliva even I heard, and the sound felt amplified several times.
"I'm sorry, I haven't studied since I graduated from secondary school. Didn't go to college. Fat Bao's sharpness just now was gone, and he was replaced by a quiet and slightly frightened look at the building that had just flashed blue light in the distance.
"Enter the department, don't be so scary, okay." Amin said, "It doesn't have to be a dead man! Dead animals must also produce phosphorus fires! This is a mountain forest, and it's not surprising that there are one or two dead animals. ”
"That's right! Ke Shao, don't be alarmist here! ”
"It's impossible for other animals." I said, "Although I studied liberal arts, my chemistry was at the top of my class before the Chinese science sub-major." Let me tell you, although phosphorus is present in the body of ordinary animals, the amount is very small, and it is impossible to reach the concentration of burning, even if many animal carcasses are gathered together, it is not enough. Only phosphine produced by human corpses can reach burning concentrations! ”
At that moment, a faint blue light flashed on the second floor of the distant building. My heart was almost jumping. Not to mention Amin, I saw him tremble visibly just now.
"Here we go again!" Amin said tremblingly.
"I'm afraid of a bird!" Fei Bao said, "We are not afraid of ghosts, what is there to be afraid of the dead." Let's go see what the hell it is! ”
"You're not afraid!" Amin said.
"Let's go! Hurriedly! As he spoke, Fat Bao pushed me and Armin forward.
We walked down the big path to the building that glowed blue. We turned right and came to a street sign, which was dimly lit and we had to get close enough to read the words on it.
There are three places on the street sign, the arrow points to the left, and the back reads Yuexi Academy. The arrow points to the front right, and behind it is Wenxuan Academy. Finally, the arrow points to the right, and behind it is written Cantonese Rhyme Painting Workshop. The building where we saw the ghost fire was the second floor of the Cantonese Yun Painting Workshop. There was no road to turn right, so we had already passed the building. But we still looked back at the building as we walked.
We turned right at this sign and walked into a bamboo forest and walked straight towards the Cantonese Yun Painting Workshop. Both sides are relatively sparse bamboo, and there is only one road in the middle. The road is made up of large stone slabs lined up one by one. The road is not wide, and it seems a bit narrow for two people to walk side by side. So we walked in a column. Fat Bao walked in the front, Armin was the most timid, he was in the middle, and I came to the back of the palace. This time we learned well, and Fatty Bao turned on the flash of his mobile phone in front of him, because he didn't want to have any more stupid things that happened when he looked at a sign and thought it was a ghost. But in order not to alarm the things that may exist in the Yueyun Studio, Fei Bao pressed the mobile phone very low, so Fei Bao's legs were half bent and walked slowly. The range of the light becomes very narrow, and you can only see the way forward.
Walking at the end feels more terrifying than walking in the front, because after all, you can see the road ahead, and there are also your own people in the back, so don't worry. But behind the palace, although you can follow the people in front, but the road behind you can't be seen at all without looking back. When I look back and see nothing but darkness, I wonder if something is following behind me, and the more I think about it, the more scared I become. In many horror movies, the person at the end will be silently taken away or killed by something for no reason. I was even more scared when I thought about it.
I wanted to talk to Amin to overcome my fears, but if there was really something in there, it would be bad if I was alarmed by our voices. I had to silently shift my thoughts, trying not to think that there seemed to be something behind us, and not to think that there seemed to be something hidden in the bamboo around me. I thought about some trivial things, thinking about the tragic scene of being scolded by my mother, thinking about Fat Bao's cold yellow jokes, and even using sexual fantasies, but it still didn't help.
I followed Amin step by step, and the distance of more than 100 meters felt like half a century. My heart is beating so fast all the way, and if I keep beating at a high speed, will I burst my veins at any time.
After walking more than 100 meters in fear, the three of us stopped in front of the window on the left side of the door of the Yueyun Painting Workshop. It is a quaint building with two floors and a sloping roof covered with dark glazed tiles. Two wooden pillars stand on either side of the door to support the building. The plaque at the gate reads "Cantonese Rhyme Painting Workshop" in four traditional characters. The doors and windows are closed.
I immediately walked quickly to the next door of Fat Bao, and the three of them stood side by side in front of the window, I wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but when I looked inside, it was pitch black, as if something was hidden in a dark corner, and my nerves suddenly tensed again.
Fei Bao didn't use the mobile phone light to shine inside, because he was afraid of alarming something, so he turned off the mobile phone flash before he got to the window. Although there are no lights on the road, there is a lamppost on the path opposite the entrance of this Cantonese Yun Painting Workshop, and the light is similar to that of the main road, which is extremely dim, just used to point out the direction, not for lighting.
We all tried our best to look inside, but due to the light, the visibility was only three or four meters, and when we looked inside, we were left with a dark outline. Looking in from the window on the left side of the door, there is an empty hall inside, the hall is very large, and there is a stone plaque more than two meters high and one meter wide in the middle of the front, which probably introduces the history of the Cantonese Yun Painting Workshop. The surrounding walls are covered with calligraphy and paintings. A door is faintly visible on the innermost right side of the hall, and the door is open. The window here is not very good, so we go to the window to the right of the door.
The window here looks at the place that comes out of the hall through the innermost doorway, and there is a patio in the middle, and there is an ancient well in the middle of the patio. There is a wooden staircase on the left to the second floor, and the patio is surrounded by a circle of flower railings in a square shape. A little further inside, I vaguely saw that there was a back room, and the back room also had windows, but the light was not enough, so I couldn't see what was inside!
"I've been here before." Fat Bao lowered his voice and whispered.
"Who hasn't been here!" Ah Ming also whispered, "Baiyun Mountain is a landmark scenic spot in Guangzhou, and I have been here with my family several times before. ”
I am very ashamed that Baiyun Mountain is a landmark tourist attraction in Guangzhou, but this is the first time I have visited. I didn't tell them. Because after my father passed away, my mother was busy with work to support me, and she hardly went out with me. And my friends and I, even Fat Bao Amin, and a few of them would hardly choose to climb mountains as a pastime. Because they all find climbing boring.
"The back room and the second floor of the Cantonese Rhyme Studio are not open to tourists." Fei Bao said, "Tourists can only see the calligraphy and paintings in the hall on the first floor, and they can walk around in a circle." Actually, I'm curious about what's in the back room! ”
"Maybe it's just a utility room used by other staff to put things!" I say.
"Let's go, let's see." "Go around to the back and see if there's a window to see inside the back room." ”
"Are you really going?" Amin said tremblingly.
"Don't say that all the time." Fei Bao said, "I really want to go." It is forbidden to say this after that! He said and took the lead around the Cantonese Yun Painting Workshop.
Although there are bamboos and weeds on the sides, you can still walk. We walked all the way to the end, the back of the Cantonese Yun Painting Workshop was blocked by dense weeds and bamboo, and it was difficult to walk through, and Fei Bao, who took the lead, leaned over and glanced at it a few times, and said, "There is a window in the back, which should be connected to the back room." But it's a bit far from me. ”
I said curiously: "Why is this Cantonese painting workshop so strangely designed, people's houses generally have windows on the left and right, but it has windows in the front and back, and there is no window on the left and right sides at all." ”
"Do you know what architecture is? People think that this kind of design is a kind of art, "Fat Bao pretends to be very noble."
"You seem to know a lot!" I retorted.
"I don't understand!" Fat Bao smiled and said, "If I understand, I will become an architectural artist." Silly hi! Let's find a way to go around to the window in the back room! ”
"The road here is blocked by bamboo and weeds," said Fei Bao, "let's follow the tree up to the corridor on the second floor and then down to the first floor." You might even see a ghost fire! He pointed to the tree next to him, which was a lychee tree, which was relatively close to the Yueyun Painting Workshop, about three or four meters away. If you climb to the nearest tree trunk, you will be close to the corridor on the periphery of the second floor, and you should be able to jump over it.
Amin was reluctant to do so, and though I was a little scared, I was intrigued by the strange style of the building and the dark blue ghostfire. In the end, we climbed the tree with Fat Bao and jumped to the corridor on the second floor.
We are now in the outer corridor on the right side of the second floor of the Yue Yun Painting Workshop, and if we want to enter the hall on the second floor, we need to enter through the front door, but we have checked that the door is locked. The corridor leads to a staircase. We went down the stairs down the first floor. Fat Bao bypassed the ancient well and walked over first, and similarly, Ah Ming walked in the middle, and I walked behind the palace.
I saw that the windows in the back room not far away were sprayed with black paint, and I couldn't see inside. At this time, I saw Fei Bao grabbing a window and swaying left and right. Looking at his posture, it looks like he wants to tear down the window. I walked at the rear, but I didn't follow them closely. I walked slowly behind, and the ancient well caught my attention. Although there is not enough light inside, there is a patio, and a glimmer of moonlight shines down from the patio. I looked at the dark ancient well behind the flower fence, and saw that the ancient well was very dilapidated, and there were one or two broken parts of the extension of the well. Although the mouth of the well was sealed with a wooden cover, it always felt as if something was going to crawl out of the ancient well. Thinking of this gave me goosebumps all over my body, and I didn't dare to think about it anymore. I hurried over to Fat Bao and Amin.
One of the windows was really torn down by Fat Bao. It seems that this place is in disrepair, and many things are too old and too easy to be destroyed by people like Feibao who don't care for public property. I saw that the two people in front of me were snuggled in front of the window motionless, Fei Bao had a surprised expression, while Ah Ming's face was blue and cold sweat broke out. I'm in a hurry, what's in there?
I only heard the fat treasure in front of me say without replying: "Ke Shao, it seems that you are right." There really are dead people here. ”
I was shocked and hurriedly walked over.