Chapter Twenty-Four: Brother Ning's Strange Behavior

Seeing that my life was hanging by a thread, I was also anxious, bursting out with unimaginable power. I grabbed Brother Ning's ankle and pulled him violently, he was unsteady on his feet, staggered, and the base of the candlestick smashed less than ten centimeters from my head. Sparks splashed everywhere, and a small pit was smashed on the blue masonry floor.

I was in a cold sweat, and if I hadn't stirred up a bull's energy just now, my head would have been smashed by now. I didn't dare to spend any more time with him, so I rolled over and got up, my hands and feet were weak, and I finally wanted to run, but my trouser legs were pulled. Brother Ning fell to the ground, one hand grabbed my pants tightly, and his mouth made a wolf howl sound, hoarse, and kept roaring at me. I've never seen a person hysterical to this extent, it's scary. In the midst of intense fear, I was also anxious, and I tugged at it violently, only to hear a "hiss", and the pants of my right leg were torn from below the knee, revealing my hairy calf. I didn't care too much, so I ran all the way back.

Passing through this second hall, there is a courtyard behind it. This courtyard was even more desolate than the previous one, the weeds had grown almost a meter high, and the sky was dim, and there were no stars or moons, as if it had been covered with a large cover. The courtyard was filled with a growing mist, and it was gloomy and seemed to be raining. There was a dead silence all around, no sound at all, and it was very eerie. In the depths of the courtyard, a strange temple is faintly revealed, which is the third major hall.

I walked through the weeds, my heart pounding as I ran. On the one hand, there is Brother Ning chasing behind him, and on the other hand, the atmosphere here is really weird, the ancient temple of the grass deep courtyard, walking here is like walking into a real nightmare.

I couldn't help but pinch my thigh, it hurt, it wasn't a dream. If it's not a dream, it means that you can't wake up, so you have to keep running.

I walked through the courtyard to the third major temple. When I got closer, I found that there was no gate in this important hall. Looking in from the door, it was pitch black inside, eerie and endless, very terrifying.

I heard a wolf-like voice in the yard, and when I looked back, I saw Brother Ning naked, he took off his shirt, his whole body was covered with black moth dust, and he was holding a long candlestick in his hand, and he killed me like a beast.

Seeing him like this, my scalp was numb, and goosebumps all over my body rose. I didn't have time to think about it, so I hurried into the main hall. It's too dark inside, but the black spots are good enough for me to hide. I walked around like a blind man, and intuitively felt that the area of the hall should not be very large, because there was a feeling of narrowness and oppression. When I take two steps, I come across something, and I can't feel it with my hands. I bumped all the way and walked all the way, and I didn't know where I went, when there was a long howl, and Brother Ning was killed at the door.

I didn't dare to make a sound, there was still some light at the door, and I vaguely saw his dark figure standing there, not coming in. His figure is like a silhouette in a shadow puppet play, and he can't see his facial features and expressions. I couldn't fathom why he was standing there, he seemed to be hesitating, what was he afraid of?

After a long time, Brother Ning finally moved, and he walked into the main hall. As soon as he entered, his dark figure immediately melted into the pitch-black environment and was never seen again.

Now that my eyes were no longer useful, I cautiously touched the ground and shrank into the corner. Listen carefully as you move. It is true that I can hear Brother Ning's footsteps, which seem to be far away and seem to be close ahead, this feeling is really too torturous. My nerves were tense, I didn't dare to breathe, and a cool breeze came from the back of my neck.

After waiting for a while, suddenly the footsteps disappeared. To be honest, because I was so nervous, I couldn't be sure when and how the footsteps disappeared, just like all of a sudden, Brother Ning disappeared in this hall where he couldn't see his fingers.

I was squatting on the ground, clutching my legs tightly and fighting my teeth desperately. Now he can't leave if he wants to, who knows where he is. Brother Ning must be hiding somewhere, wait for me to appear, this is a psychological war, let's consume it, see who can't stand it first.

At this time, a light suddenly lit up not far from the main hall, and this light was faint and faint, like a ghost fire in a cemetery. I didn't dare to breathe, and my eyes watched without blinking. The flame came from the candlestick in Brother Ning's hand. It dawned on me that he had a candlestick and a lighter in his hand, which could be used for lighting.

Brother Ning's face was a little green in the faint firelight, and only the center of his face could be seen, and the rest of his body was hidden in the deep darkness. Brother Ning held the candlestick and began to walk around the hall, he didn't have any direction, he was looking for my hiding place intuitively.

I was too scared to make a sound, my heart skipped a beat, and I couldn't take my eyes off him.

Brother Ning spun around, walked to a place, suddenly stopped, as if he had found something, he slowly raised the candlestick and handed over the firelight. From my point of view, I could only see him standing in that place, and I couldn't see anything at all.

At that moment, my scalp suddenly exploded, and a very absurd thought was suddenly born, he couldn't have seen another me, right? In this hall, there is another one that I am also hiding here, so that Brother Ning can find out.

Brother Ning was a little puzzled and a little frightened, and the expression on his face kept changing. I held my breath and looked very strange. Judging by his posture, the thing he saw should be at the same height as him, just on the other side, what did he see?

I suddenly had a brain thrill, and I was on the same level as him! Isn't there a statue hidden here?

Brother Ning looked at it for a while, slowly raised the candlestick, stretched it all the way to the top of his head, and then he slowly raised his head and looked up.

This series of actions really stunned me, my throat fluttered, I really couldn't think of what he was going to do, could it be that there was something hidden on the ceiling?

Brother Ning raised his neck and held the candlestick, keeping this posture for a long time, all the time looking up.

He finally retracted his movements and began to walk around, and when he came to a place, he lit a lantern. Only then did I realize that there were many lanterns hanging around this hall, some white and some red, covered with oil-soaked lampshades, and the light was soft and hazy, floating in the hall, like a Kong Ming lantern flying in the dark night sky.

As the lanterns became brighter and brighter, the entire hall lit up. I hid behind a pillar of the temple, carefully peeked out, and finally understood what Brother Ning was looking at just now.

This hall is very strangely repaired, and there are mirrors in all directions! The mirrors are inlaid in the floor-to-ceiling frames, each of which is as tall as an adult, and the hall is full of Ning Ge's walking figures.

Just now, he was standing in front of a mirror. But the question arises again, what can he see in the mirror? It's nothing more than himself, is he afraid of himself?

I was full of doubts and watched Brother Ning move a broken chair in the corner of the main hall. I don't know how many years this chair has been left unfinished, the legs of the chair are still one high and one short, and the top is full of dust. I looked at him wonderingly, wondering what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

Brother Ning put the chair where he had just stood, put the candlestick aside, and then stepped on it carefully, looking at this posture, he seemed to be going to pick up something on the ceiling.

My appetite made him hang high, and he felt that he was so engrossed in his work that he should not notice me. I cautiously slipped out from behind the pillar, hunched over and trotted into a hidden corner, finally seeing what he was going to do.

Above the main hall hangs a wooden plaque with golden characters, covered with thick dust, and it is impossible to see what is written. In front of this wooden plaque is a suspended golden lotus platform, which can be the size of a basin, probably made of copper. The intricate lotus petals on it are layered on top of each other, and each petal is exquisitely made and ingenious. In the middle of the lotus platform, surrounded by lotus petals, there is a black porcelain urn. At first glance, this black urn looks a bit like a jar of pickled vegetables in the countryside, but if you look closely, there are actually three legs standing underneath, and it looks like a strange-looking ding.

I saw it really strange, how did this thing hang in the air? After looking closely, I found that there were four chains extending under the lotus platform, and the chains were very long, and the end extended into the darkness, thinking that it was hanging on the beams of the house. These four chains are buckled at the bottom of the lotus platform in the four directions of east, west, north and south, and pulled in four directions, so that the lotus platform hangs steadily in the air without moving at all.

I took a closer look at the chains, and it was okay not to look at them, but I was shocked when I saw them. Each ring on the chain is made in the shape of a human face, and the idea is quite exquisite, and the chin of the upper ring face is hooked on the forehead of the next one, and the chain is pulled up like this. These faces, including men and women, old and young, each face is cold and grotesque, unable to say any expression, and looks extremely gloomy.

At this time, Brother Ning was stepping on the stool, straightening his body, and was touching the black urn.

I really don't understand, this thing provoked him, why is his hand so cheap. I wondered if there was something hidden in this black urn with such a strange shape and storage method.

Brother Ning's fingers barely touched the black urn, he didn't find a way to take the urn down, but tried his best to pull the black urn aside with his fingers.

The urn looked quite heavy, and it took Brother Ning a lot of effort to move the urn a few centimeters. He rested for a moment, and went to pull again.

At first, I didn't understand what he meant by this move, but after watching it for a long time, I suddenly understood that Brother Ning's purpose in doing this was not for the lotus platform and the black urn, he wanted to pull the black urn aside to see what words were written on the plaque!

Damn, this kid is really very human. If he was curious about the lotus platform and the black urn, it was really strange that he actually bothered to look at the words on the plaque.

I couldn't take my eyes off it, my heart beating wildly, and I almost forgot to breathe. The words on the plaque should be very important to Brother Ning, otherwise he wouldn't even forget to kill me and do such a boring thing.

He struggled to tug, but he neglected one thing. The lotus platform is not big, and there is not much room left after putting a black urn. He pulled left and right like this, and the black urn was gradually pushed to the edge of the lotus platform, and then pushed outward, it was likely to lose balance and fall from above.

I was so nervous that I wanted to rush out to remind him, but fortunately I was still a little sensible and restrained myself. The black urn already had one foot almost hanging in the air at this time, and the body of the urn was shaking.

The plaque at the back gradually revealed the words on it, and I vaguely saw that the first word was ......