Chapter 1: Origin

My name is Jiang Sheng, in this crowded metropolis, there are many people but there is no shortage of positions, resulting in a lot of people are unable to find employment, I am one of them, just graduated with no work experience college students are of course in this era of fierce competition for positions without warning, living a life of relying on odd jobs to fill their stomachs, and there is no extra money to send to their hometown in Jiangxi, to share the pressure for their parents. I always thought that I would live this kind of life, but God did not want it, everything collapsed under the words of the boss, my job was gone, in order to make a living, I sent my resume everywhere, of course, not many people were willing to accept me, I thought I was going to starve to death on the street, I never thought that a phone call would cause a nightmare for me.

"Dut...... ...... "Who is calling me at this time", I picked up my phone and looked at three o'clock in the morning.

"Who", the next voice on the other end of the phone was a very sexy female voice, "Hello Mr. Jiang, we have read your resume and found that your history major in college is very suitable for our job, I wonder if you are interested", I said suspiciously: "Oh! What works? "At this time, a short-term appraisal work, mainly responsible for our company's appraisal of a newly purchased old-fashioned antique building that claimed to have been built in the Qing Dynasty" "Short-term, then I dare not be interested, and I have no experience", after speaking, I was about to hang up the phone, and the voice on the other end of the phone was missing and I immediately stopped moving.

"We provide generous treatment, about 5,000 a day", I excitedly shouted into the phone: "Really", but immediately calmed down and immediately realized that it might be a scam, at this time the voice on the phone made me relax again, "It's true, if you agree we will give you a detailed company address, and you don't have to worry, we are not scammers, it is a regular antique house renovation company, this trip is not only you, there will be three people to accompany you." "Okay", I was completely carried away by the profits, and I had no idea that this would be a huge turning point in my life.

I have negotiated with the company and the other three people on the way to the ancient house, a total of four people team is fully equipped, respectively, geological expert Mr. Liu Moren, his face is a scholarly temperament, dressed in Tang clothes, very strange, architect Qin Liguo, very handsome, an absolute little white face, his sister appraiser Qin Qianmiao, light eyebrows, big eyes, no makeup, fresh and elegant, he has a bit of Jiangnan beauty. Among the four, I am the least educated one, but I was a little sneered when we first met, on the way, Mr. Liu Moren is the oldest in the group, and the most talkative, all the way to tell us about the background of this ancient building.

I also knew that our task was to inspect the building that had been cleaned for a week, and we all had our own duties, and Mr. Liu Moren also explained our task in detail, I was responsible for assisting the appraiser Qin Qianmiao to fill in some of her gaps in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and Qin Liguo and Mr. Liu were responsible for the long and complicated building evaluation and geological survey, and my salary was also the lowest among these people, and we arrived at our destination three days later, in front of a small village and town in Lijiang, Yunnan. The extremely rugged mountain road was completely unsuitable for car walking, but because of the large amount of equipment we had together, we had to use the ox cart in the village to pull it to the destination.

The strange thing is that when the village heard about the house we were going to, no one was willing to go, and they avoided us like a plague god, saying that the house was inauspicious, and Qin Liguo, who was extremely repulsive to feudal superstition, looked at them with contempt, "What age is it, still so superstitious, you deserve to live in the mountains for the rest of your life", looking at the name of the village that was getting worse and worse, Mr. Liu Moren scolded Qin Liguo: "File a case, this is someone else's village, you have to have a little politeness from the city", Qin Liguo pulled the corners of his mouth and walked away, Qin Qianmiao, who was talking to me, said softly: "My brother has been like this since he was a child, and he is particularly resistant to strange things, don't be weird", I said: "Definitely not, after all, everyone has nasty things", Qin Qianmiao smiled mischievously.

The already light eyebrows are connected into a line, which is extremely cute. For a while, my heart, which had not been beating at a high frequency for a long time, began to grow angry.

In the end, Mr. Liu Moren rented an ox cart with extraordinary communication skills and eloquence, and the owner of the ox cart was willing to lend us the ox cart, but he refused to go with us. Qin Qianmiao looked at the ox cart in front of him, frowned and said: "What to do, how to call this ox cart", Qin Liguo also thought silently, at this time Liu Moren came out of the guest house where we stayed, stretched his brows and said: "Don't forget me, I am also a person who has been up the mountain and gone down to the countryside, and the ox cart can still be controlled", I admired Mr. Liu even more at that time, not only knowledgeable, but also all kinds of skills, just dumped me a few streets. After that, Mr. Liu Moren looked at me and said, "That Jiang Sheng, help file a case to move the equipment, let's go", I hurriedly responded "Okay", and ran to move the equipment with Qin Liguo.

Arrived, in the evening, we were able to reach the real destination, along the way, Mr. Liu Moren told us the history of the house, I only knew that the history of the house we accepted has been doubtful, the information said that it was the end of the Qing Dynasty, the first batch of people sent by the company to check out was the end of the Republic of China, which can be more than 30 years in between, and Liu Moren said that the first batch of people are said to have not arrived for three days like a horse to run back, and the remuneration is not wanted, and the company quarreled, dropped a bunch of documents and left. I learned that we were the second group. I was really startled at the first sight of the house, it is not the style of the Qing Dynasty house at all, the gate is a simple door, the left and right two windows, obviously the traces of artificial fixation, nothing else, the dark night exudes a strange atmosphere.

The wind of the righteous summer was also diluted by the trees of the mountains, soft, cool, and the rare pseudo-full moon made the originally white wall even more chestnut, Qin Qianmiao subconsciously shrank behind me, and suddenly my legs were slightly soft. I turned my head to look at Liu Moren and Qin Liguo, the two of them frowned tacitly, looking at the building, Mr. Liu Moren said for a long time: "Open the door, Jiang Sheng", I answered, took the key in my hand and opened the door to enter the gate to see, a typical hall-style house.

Let's all breathe a sigh of relief. The interior of the house is very luxuriously decorated, with a bit of that European style, "These things are definitely built at the end of the Republic of China" Qin Qianmiao frowned and said, "It is very possible, but the building wall outside the house is indeed the end of the Qing Dynasty" Qin Liguo said while inspecting the wall, "It seems that someone hollowed out and refurbished this in the Republic of China, who is so boring?" I gnawed on my fingernails and said, "We just need to explore the age, we don't need to know who did it, Jiang Sheng, you accompany Qin Qianmiao to the second floor for identification, and Qin Liguo and I continue to check outside." ”

Mr. Liu Moren, who had quickly entered the working state, ordered, and Qin Qianmiao and I answered the call and went up.

On the stairs, "Really, I didn't let us rest when I worked so late for the first time, Uncle Liu is not good at all." Qin Qianmiao stuck out her tongue at me and said, I asked suspiciously, "Uncle Liu?" Do you know each other? "It's not me, it's my brother, he has been working with Uncle Liu for many years, and this time there are just a lot of people, so he said that he would take me out to exercise." Qin Qianmiao replied with a smile, "I thought you were relatives." I said, "Then I'll take the lead." I said confidently. Okay," Qin Qianmiao nodded and said.

I took out the glow stick from my bag, the green light gave it a different feeling, the long darkness shrouded the front, with a strange solemnity, we looked while walking, and walked to a door painted with red paint, Qin Qianmiao stopped me, "Jiang Sheng, open this door, I see that the door lock has been pried open." I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly responded yes, and then kicked the door with a handsome, unsparing roundabout kick, and then knelt down in pain and covered my feet under Qin Qianmiao's surprised gaze.

"Ahhh The door is in the "squeak...... The squeak......" voice was finally pushed away by us, and the moment the door was opened, a strange smell filled the entire corridor, and the smell was like stinky pork, Qin Qianmiao and I subconsciously covered our noses.

The smell quickly dissipated. I held the glow stick in my hand high, and used my body to block Qin Qianmiao in front of me and went in, and when I went in, there was not even a window in the room, but it was surprisingly big, and it was dark in front of me, and I couldn't see the edge. "No wonder it stinks, it turns out that there are no windows." I fanned the air in front of my nose with my hand and said, "I think it's artificial" Qin Qianmiao said with a frown, I turned to look at her: "Why do you say that?" Qin Qianmiao walked up to me, looked at me and said, "This room has been opened before, just look at the scratches on the ground." ”

I immediately lowered my head and looked at the ground, there was a deep door on the wooden floor that rubbed on the wooden board after opening, it was definitely not something that could be done by opening it once, "And the lock of this door was directly pried open, indicating that it should have been done by our last group of people, and they were definitely very anxious to enter the inside of this door, otherwise they would not have damaged everything in this room so much, otherwise the company would have asked them to compensate." After listening to this paragraph, I really had a great admiration for Qin Qianmiao, thinking that it was really a person with a senior education, but it was different, Qin Qianmiao had already begun to urge me to move inside, I took a step, and continued to walk in front of Qin Qianmiao as a bitter meat shield, and I didn't see a window around after walking for about a minute.

"Is this house that big?" As soon as I finished speaking, I felt my nose hit a wall with an abnormal texture, and I couldn't help but cry out in pain, "Ahhhhh She said angrily, I covered my nose and replied to her: "I didn't look at the road carefully just now, and I hit my nose", she relieved her chest, glared at me and said: "I can't next time, I won't cooperate with you if you are so so-so again." ”

I quickly apologized, and then approached the wall with a glow stick, the green light shining on the wall, "Ah! Qin Qianmiao exclaimed, I said, "What's wrong?" I turned around to look, only to see Qin Qianmiao covering her mouth with one hand, pointing to the wall behind me with the other, her eyes were extremely frightened, as if she had seen a ghost, I hurriedly walked to her side, and suddenly supported her trembling body, holding up a glow stick to look, this look is terrible, I only feel the cold rushing straight up, and my whole body trembles from my feet to my head.

It turned out that it was not a wall, but a painting, a huge painting, the painting was a woman's face looking out of the painting, the bewitching red lips were lifelike, slightly open but could not see the teeth, under the green light more bloody, looking up, pale and bloodless cheeks, stiff nose, and then up to see the eyes I took a breath, the eyes of normal paintings are shaped by human eyes, but the eyes on this painting are different, the eye sockets are made of chopstick-like thick lines at different angles to form a black circleThe lines are eerily sharp at both ends, but the original whites of the middle eyes are not there, and they are replaced by a huge black color block, which looks particularly hollow against the green light.

The two of us were speechless in shock, I felt that the strength of my whole body seemed to be taken away, my thinking was frozen, I couldn't even move my eyeballs, I could only breathe subconsciously, and suddenly I felt a weight in my arms, I was standing unsteadily, I almost fell, and when I looked down, I saw that it was Qin Qianmiao who had fainted in my arms with a pale face, and I hurriedly reported her sideways and ran out of the room.

Mr. Liu Moren and Qin Liguo, who rushed over when they heard the sound, ran over, and Qin Liguo immediately snatched Qian Miao from my hand and carried her to the sofa.

Liu Moren came over to ask me what happened, I hurriedly told everything that happened just now, Mr. Liu Moren frowned again, and wanted to say something but Qin Liguo took the lead, "Take us over," After speaking, he stood up and walked to the stairs, and Mr. Liu Moren and I immediately followed.

We quickly ran to the previous room, the smell has completely dissipated, I saw Qin Liguo frowning and standing there, "Where did the painting come from", he saw me come up and said to me, I was stunned, turned my head to look, the huge room before has disappeared, replaced by a small room of more than ten square meters, the rest of the facilities are exactly the same, Mr. Liu Moren said: "Xiaosheng, are you sure this is the room you have been to before", I nodded immediately, "Impossible, this room is so small, it is a little higher, Where did the giant painting come from? I hurriedly explained: "I just saw it with Qian Miao, there will definitely be no fake, if there is no painting, Qian Miao fainted and everything can't be explained, it can't be that I stunned her." ”

Qin Liguo dragged his chin and said: "What Jiang Sheng said makes sense, but there is a problem with this room, I looked at the corner of the wall on the left, and I found that the angle is not 90 degrees, but close to 85 degrees, if I don't have three years of evaluation experience, I will definitely not feel it, it means that there is a problem with the wall in front of us." After listening to Qin Liguo's analysis, I immediately walked to the corner of the wall, picked up the bricks on the ground and compared it with one foot, it was really not a normal 90 degrees, Mr. Liu Moren stood in place and thought about it and said: "This is not absolute, after all, after so many years, considering the problem of the address of the section and mountainous area here in Yunnan, it may be that the geology has been slightly changed in the past ten years, causing the house to tilt, and the wall is also tilted, let's go down first to see if Qianmiao is awake, and by the way, take the instrument to measure." ”

Qin Liguo thought for a while: "You go down first, and I'll see if there's anything else." "Okay." Liu Moren said, and we quickly went downstairs. When I got downstairs, I subconsciously looked at the sofa, and when I saw that my scalp suddenly exploded, Qin Qianmiao was gone! I immediately came to the sofa with Liu Moren, "What's the matter, how could Qian Miao not be seen", I hurriedly said, Liu Moren looked at my anxious look, "Don't be nervous, the more nervous you are, the more troublesome it is, I just touched the sofa with my hand, it's still hot, it means that it hasn't disappeared for long, let's go look for it immediately, you go to Qin Liguo." "Okay" understood that now that the matter was serious, I didn't have much to do, and ran straight up to the second floor, and ran into the red room.

When I went in, I found that Qin Liguo was pulling out something in the corner of the wall, and the sound of my thick breathing made him find me, and I was about to tell him about Qian Miao's disappearance, but before I could speak, he immediately came over and pulled me and said, "Jiang Sheng, you came just in time, I just carefully checked the right corner and found something" He pulled me down to the corner of the wall, and when I was about to speak again, he pointed to the corner of the wall excitedly and said, "Look at this silver box" My eyes followed his hand, and a silver box was stuck in the corner，“

It is this box stuck in the corner of the wall on the right, so that the corner of the left wall does not reach 90 ° so that we find that this box is obviously squeezed, look at the different extrusion marks on both sides, the left side is curved, but the right side is flat, indicating that the left side of the force area is small, the right side of the force area is large, I can know that this box is from the left side of the wall in front of me to the right side of the squeezed flat. After he finished speaking, he looked at me with a happy face, "I've never seen this kind of wall design, I think it's a large mechanism design, it's hard to come across this kind of famous house, great, by the way, what did you just want to say?" ”

This thing finally noticed me after finishing it, and I sorted out my shocked emotions and said, "Your sister Qianmiao is gone!" After listening to this, he stood up suddenly, and the silver box that was stuck was also pulled out by him, and he ran over frantically and shook my shoulder, "What did you say!" I was shaken by his nameless fire: "What I want to say is that your sister is gone, this is what I was going to say before" and then pushed him away, he was stunned for a few seconds after being pushed away by me, and then ran down the stairs like a madman.

I was so angry with him that I didn't want to see him for a while, so let him go looking for his sister alone, after calming down after a while, I felt that I was too small-bellied, and when I got up and walked to the door, I suddenly saw a bright light flashing on the wall on my left, and when I clearly realized that the light was coming from behind me, I instantly returned to the state of standing in front of the painting before, I could feel my heart like a high-powered water pump pumping blood to my head, trembling all over, I just looked at the light flashing and flashing, behind me. My head began to swell and ache, and I don't know where the nameless fire came from, so I instantly had the strength to howl, "Jiang Sheng, are you special or not a man" and turned around......