Chapter 9
I was dizzy and fell to the ground with a grunt.
When I woke up, I was in a room with no windows on all sides. Facing down, I was lying on a large table, which was dark and hollow, with only a few simple wooden tables and chairs and a candlestick. Two white candles were lit in the corner, and the candlelight flickered on and off, making people feel hairy when they looked at it.
I climbed off the table. The house looked odd, with a very high roof, more than twice the size of a normal house. The color of the walls is abnormal, a very harsh dark red. I scratched it with my fingernail, and it was as red as blood. When I got closer, I smelled cinnabar. I think that when this wall was first built, a large amount of cinnabar was mixed into it.
Cinnabar has the effect of warding off evil spirits, and the walls and roof of this house are actually added with so much cinnabar, what is it preventing?
While there was no one in the house, I wanted to run away. But after a closer look, I was stunned. Not only does the house have no windows, it doesn't even have a door.
This is simply unreasonable. This house looks like it's been around for some time, and it can't be freshly built, so since I can be thrown into this house, it means there must be an entrance.
But the room was so big that I could see it all at a glance. The floor is paved with bluestone slabs, and the roof and walls are made of earth with a lot of cinnabar. The furnishings in the room are also very simple, only a few wooden tables and chairs, and there is no hiding place at all.
This seems to be an unbelievably strange thing. When ordinary people encounter this situation, those who are weak-willed are likely to collapse.
But those who do our business, usually come into contact with dead people and ghosts, and there are many strange things encountered, and they know that there must be demons when things go wrong. At this time, you must not panic or be cowardly. If you panic and are timid, you will be in chaos first, and no one will be able to save you at that time.
I didn't yell "is there anyone" or "let me go". In this case, the usefulness of this is basically equal to zero, since they have all arrested me, can I be released just because I shouted a few times?
I found a chair and sat down, I had to calm down first.
The one who threw me here was probably the one who showed up at my house that night. Judging from the appearance of this person, it reminds me of a person, the surname Zhong in Liu Zi'an's mouth. In his fifties, he wears glasses, and he looks like a gentleman, all of which are right.
I'm sure now that it must be this old thing who instructed Liu Zi'an to transport the coffin to my house! This black conscience clearly can't handle Liu Nan's ghost girl, so he will lead the disaster to us, this is to kill our village!
I groped along the wall inch by inch, but I didn't see anything strange. There's no special Karakuri here, and there's no secret door or anything.
Only the two white candles lit on the candlestick, which were long and short, made the light and shadow in the room change, which was particularly eerie and terrifying.
My heart moved, and when I saw a bag of incense sticks on the candlestick, I took out a few and lit them by the candlestick. Waved in the air to extinguish the flames.
Then he moved an incense stand and put it in the middle of the room, and inserted a few lit incense sticks. I took a few steps away, staring intently at the smoke rising from the incense sticks.
From where I stood, I could clearly see that several plumes of smoke did not rise straight up, but curled like snakes, drifting in one direction.
The house had neither doors nor windows, which meant it was sealed. Then since there is no air convection, there is no possibility of drift in the flue gas.
Now that there is drift, it can only be said that there is actually air convection in the house, but I can't feel it!
I went over and grabbed three incense sticks, held them in my hands, and slowly walked in the direction of the smoke. After taking a step, stop, wait for the smoke to point in a clear direction, and take another step.
I didn't care if I would hit the table or the wall if I walked like this, holding my breath and staring, with only a few incense sticks in my eyes. Stop and stop along the way and make your way through a maze of twists and turns in the house. The last point of the smoke was a wall about an inch away from my nose.
I gritted my teeth and was about to hit the wall with my legs, when the three incense sticks in my hand snapped together! Immediately after that, I felt a great suction force behind me, which pulled me backwards and threw me down, rolling on the ground several times in a row.
It's all in vain.
I got up from the ground with a disgraced face, only to see that there was an extra person on the chair I had sat on before, with gray hair, wearing a navy blue Tang suit, and reading a book in his hand.
This book is familiar to me, it is my "Romance of the Gods" that accompanied me all the way through my childhood. And this person reading the book is the same old thing that showed up at my house that night.
"I looked at it all over again, and I still don't like Daji." The old thing flipped through the book and said slowly.
I didn't even know how this man appeared, and although my heart was furious, it was useless to be afraid at this time. patted the dirt on his body, moved a chair and sat down, and followed his words: "Then who do you like?" Old ginger? ”
The man closed the book, looked up at the roof for a while, and said slowly, "King Xu." I like him the most. ”
I thought to myself, fuck, is this old faggot?
I heard the word "" from some Hong Kong and Taiwan films, and I think it's just right to use it on this old thing.
"This thing is absurd and unreasonable, and it has brought disaster to the country and the people, do you still like him?" I couldn't figure out what this man was up to, so I could just follow his words.
Although this old thing looks good, his face is pale, his eye sockets are deep, and he is born with a dead face, which makes people uncomfortable to look at. He rolled his eyes at me with a dead fish, the corners of his mouth pulled weirdly, and said, "Can't you like the disaster of the country and the people?" ”
This fuck, it's a faggot! I shuddered, goosebumps fell all over my body, and hurriedly said, "Of course you can, whoever you like is your freedom!" ”
The dead man's face looked at me deeply, and it made me cristful.
"The method just now was taught by your third uncle?"
I was taken aback: "Do you know my third uncle?" ”
Dead Face shook his head: "I've heard of it." I heard that in your industry, the craftsmanship is the best within a hundred miles. ”
When I heard this, my heart moved, and this man said "your business", which means that this person is not walking with us. Could it be that there is another person who binds the ink fountain line with the method of the seven-star twist buckle? Or is this man also quite knowledgeable about our business?
"You are the master surnamed Zhong invited by the Liu family, right?" I stared at him.
"What kind of superiority and inferiority, I just have an old relationship with the old man of the Liu family, and I will help if I can." The voice of the dead man's face didn't sound like a dead man.
"You haven't answered me yet, didn't your third uncle teach you the method just now?"
I shook my head and said that my third uncle didn't know this, and it was taught by my teacher Tian. The dead man let out an "oh" and asked who Mr. Tian was.
I said that Mr. Tian is Mr. Tian, and he is my homeroom teacher.
"Our teacher Tian has taught me that everything in the world can be analyzed with science."
"Tell me about it." Dead Face seems to be interested.
"The house has no doors or windows, which in itself is unconscionable. There is probably some kind of trick in this house, like those who do magic in the streets, tricking my eyes so that I can't see the way out. ”
"But in any case, the blinding method is the blinding method, which can deceive the human eye and confuse the human senses, but it cannot violate the laws of nature. As long as there is air convection in the house, it cannot be a closed place, and the smoke will definitely drift! ”
"Clever kid." The dead man's face puffed his hands a few times, and his voice was extremely ugly, "It's a pity that I was taught by your Teacher Tian to be an elm head." It's stupid! ”
I didn't bother to pay attention to him at all. You say I'm an elm head, I'm an elm head? I also said you were a dead man, why didn't you die?
Dead Face sat on the chair and suddenly waved his sleeves: "You try again." If you can get out, I'll let you go. ”
"It's a deal! It's an old dog who doesn't count! "I quickly agreed. I have absolute confidence in the method I just had, if it weren't for the sudden appearance of that dead face, I would have escaped for half a day by now.
I was afraid that the dead face would regret it, so I hurriedly moved the incense stand just now, took three incense sticks, put them on the candle flame and lit them, extinguished the flames, and inserted them on the incense stick.
Then he took a few steps back and stared at the smoke wafting from the incense sticks. I first had to capture the path of the air flow in the direction of the smoke.
But after looking at it for a while, a cold sweat came out of my back. At this time, the three smoke gases rose straight upwards without any fluctuations. This also means that at this time, there is not the slightest air movement in the house!
How is this possible?