Chapter 54: The Mysterious Third Floor
Walking down the mountain road, I could feel a chill in front of the building. This place has been deserted for too long, and there is no popularity at all, although it is broad in the daytime and the sun is abundant, but standing in front of the building, you can still feel the gloomy atmosphere that invades the bones.
We walked slowly, and there were weeds and rubble all over the floor, and piles of broken glass. The perennial wind and rain have caused the building's wall paint to peel off, revealing the red bricks and cement inside. There was no door in the building, it was pitch black, and there was no light at all.
There was only a short section of incense left in Qin Dan's hand, barely burning, and the smoke rushed straight into the building.
We turned on our flashlights and walked into the building. As soon as I entered, I got off the horse, and when I entered the door, I saw a large main hall in front of me, with a thick layer of yellow mud and stones piled up on the ground, as well as many convenient boxes and plastic bags. On the wall, someone who didn't know who repainted a few words with black paint: There are ghosts, run. The font is childish and ridiculous, just like that of a three-year-old, which evokes a skimming but reveals despair and haste. We stood in front of this wall, shining a flashlight, and stood still for a long time.
Qin Dan said softly: "Don't look at it, hurry up." ”
As we walked up the steps, the temperature was getting colder and colder. It's early spring and March, and it's daylight, but it's dark and cloudy, cold and damp in this building, and there is a very bad smell.
Qin Dan walked in front, and Li Yang and I followed. The incense was still burning, and looking at the smoke coming out, it was unclear where we would end up.
Walking to the second floor, we stood at the top of the staircase and looked left and right, on both sides of which was a long corridor covered with rubble, and at the end of the corridor it stretched into deep darkness, and we couldn't see anything. It was so silent that you could only hear the occasional drop of water falling to the ground.
We were about to go to the third floor when suddenly Li Yang yelled "wow", which gave me goosebumps. "What are you doing?" I asked angrily.
Li Yang shone the corridor with a flashlight, and said with palpitations: "It's weird, hey, I just glanced at me and saw an old lady in black sitting at the base of the wall, who was smiling at me miserably, and my legs and stomach were cramping." ”
Listening to him, my scalp was numb. The flashlight shone through, and the walls were black, piled up with bricks and stones, and there was no one. Although there is no one, I feel hairy after watching it for a long time. Li Yang relieved his breath and said, "I think of the cold forest altar in the building, Lao Liu, do you remember that we also saw such an old lady." Damn, it's wicked. ”
We walked up the stairs and looked upstairs, and it was pitch black and there was no light. Seeing that we were about to reach the staircase on the third floor, under the light of the flashlight, something suddenly appeared that could startle us.
It was a thick red brick wall that sealed off the road to the third floor. The red bricks are bonded with cement, and it can be seen that the wall was built in a hurry, the workmanship was rough, and a lot of cement flowed out of the brick joints. Over the years, the bricks have grown dead and almost glued together, and they are very strong. Take the military shovel and shovel it twice, and it won't even drop a bit of slag, and it will jump out of the spark. This path is impassable unless it is blasted with explosives.
There was only a short piece of incense left, and the smoke floated in the air, very stubbornly in the direction of the third floor.
"There should be another way." Li Yang said.
I wondered, "What's wrong with the third floor?" Why should you die with bricks? ”
"I'll know the way when I go up in a while." Qin Dan said.
We descended the stairs and walked down the corridor on the second floor, which was lined with rooms on both sides, with cobwebs at the doorway, illuminated by flashlights, and empty, very dilapidated. We didn't make any extraneous branches, just walked down the hallway, and the further we went, the smell got bigger and stronger, like something rotting.
At the end of the hallway was a dark room, and when you reached the door, you could smoke a person to death. Li Yang covered his nose with his collar and shone a flashlight inside.
This room is at the end of the hallway, and although it is a private room, there are windows on three sides. The light here is slightly better than in the other rooms, with some faint sunlight streaming in through the broken windows. Under the light of the flashlight, we saw a lot of sacrificial candles, small incense burners, permanent lamps, and dishes and bowls scattered on the ground. There are also all kinds of paper money, such as yellow copper coins, exquisite Jade Emperor tickets, etc., which are thrown all over the ground. A gust of wind blew in from the window, and the paper money flew up with the wind, fluttering and floating, and under the illumination of the flashlight, the hairs of the people stood on end.
Qin Dan motioned for us to look at the window, and there was an iron ladder hanging outside the window, swinging in the wind, crunching, and it seemed to lead upstairs.
There was no way, I followed the two of them into the house, there were so many things on the ground for the dead, I was tired of looking at it, I didn't dare to step on it, and carefully avoided it.
"Look here." Li Yang touched me, only to see that on a wall, someone wrote in black lacquer: "On a certain day in a certain year, a certain month, we saw someone hang himself in this room, and since then he has been riddled with evil spirits, and he has come to worship today, hoping that the hanged ghost comrade is strange, and he will take the money to the underworld to enjoy the blessings, and don't come to pester us." A smiling grimace was drawn on the back.
This kid is quite humorous, he is haunted by ghosts, and he is in the mood to ridicule.
We came to the window and poked our heads out to see that the iron ladder was supposed to be an escape route outside the wall, hanging from the balcony on the fourth floor to the first floor, but somehow the lower half of the ladder was missing from the second floor of the room we were in. Only the upper half from the second floor to the fourth floor remains.
Li Yang pulled the ladder vigorously and slammed it against the wall, clanging. He let go of his hand and sipped it in rust.
"How's it going, is it sturdy?" I asked.
Li Yang said: "Whether it is strong or not, it has to be done." ”
I hurriedly said, "Don't, don't, safety first." ”
Qin Dan pointed at it with his finger: "Look at that." ”
Next to the iron ladder was a window on the third floor, the iron bars of the windowsill were exposed, and on one of the iron bars, a fragment of clothing hung from it. When I saw that fragment, I chuckled in my heart, it was the clothes of the copper lock.
It was from here that he apparently climbed to the third floor.
Li Yang grabbed the window frame, jumped on the window sill, cautiously moved his broken steps out of the window, turned back to us and said, "I'll go first." If you are unfortunate enough to fall, you should hurry away. ”
I could hear the response: "Can you say something auspicious?" If you're afraid, come down, and I'll go up." ”
Li Yang laughed: "When have you ever been afraid of Brother Li?!" ”
He slowly put his feet on the iron ladder, and then climbed up cautiously. Qin Dan and I leaned out of the window and watched, sweating in our hands. Li Yang climbed very slowly, the wind was very strong, blowing his body straight, fortunately, there was no danger, until he climbed to the window on the third floor. He threw his backpack in, then rolled over the windowsill over his body.
I said to Qin Dan: "You go up, I'll postpone." ”
Qin Dan nodded, and also jumped on the windowsill, ready to go up the ladder. At this moment, I saw Li Yang sticking his head out of the window and exhaling loudly: "**, it's a manure tank here, why is it so smelly?!" ”
I greeted below: "What's up there?" ”
Li Yang's expression was strange: "You guys saw it when you came up, ***, it's all ......"
Qin Dan grabbed the ladder and climbed up, her hands and feet were much sharper, and she turned over and jumped into the window. When her figure disappeared, I realized that I was the only one left in the hanging room, and I looked at the paper money everywhere, and my hairs stood on end.
I quickly climbed onto the windowsill, pulled the iron ladder, and began to climb. When I climbed up, I realized that the iron ladder was very unstrong, it was blown up and down by the wind, and it was covered with black rust, and it was sticky when I touched it, and it was very difficult to grasp it tightly. I climbed to the window on the third floor and looked downstairs, the third floor was ten meters high, and the broken glass below reflected the sun's rays, flashing and flashing, a bit like the surface of the water, and I was dizzy to see. I even thought that if I were to free fall from here, would I plunge headlong into the cold water?
Just thinking about it, I leaned forward and opened my hands involuntarily.
Suddenly, there was a loud shout in his ear: "You don't want to die!" I was shocked and saw Li Yang leaning sideways out of the window and yelling at me.
I was covered in a cold sweat, not disgusted by his scolding, but grateful, without his critical throat, I really jumped down.
I hurriedly climbed in through the window, Li Yang had a white face, and scolded me with a slashing head and covering his face, and the scolding dog was bloody. Qin Dan asked what was going on, I rubbed my head, and said in annoyance: "I didn't know what happened to Lu Dao just now, so I wanted to jump down." As I spoke, I glanced at the scene in the room, and it was okay not to look at it, but I was completely scared to pee.
In the huge, dimly lit room, there are rows of dense coffins.