I stood up, asked Qin Yiheng for a cigarette, and asked him, "Is this thing a ghost?" ”

He shook his head and motioned for me to look again.

I lit a cigarette and watched patiently.

I don't know if it's because I'm not very sensitive to graphics, but anyway, I looked at it for a while, and I didn't see anything in my eyes.

In the end, it is estimated that Qin Yiheng was really impatient to wait, so he lay next to me, pointed to the approximate location on the door and asked me, "Do you see clearly what this person is holding in his arms?" ”

When he asked, I took a few more looks. I looked at it very carefully just now, but the focus of observation has always been to see what this woman looks like.

This can't be helped, after all, it's a male instinct.

Now, after he reminded me, I saw some doorways, and this woman seemed to be holding something in her arms.

It is said to be holding something, but there is no specific image, at best, there are a few relatively deeper shadows in the place of this woman's chest.

This is already a test of eyesight when looking at an eggshell, let alone distinguishing these little shadows carefully. I couldn't count how many there were, and the shadows were so small that I couldn't guess what they were.

If I want to talk about the intuitive feeling, I don't feel like I'm holding something, but I prefer that this woman is wearing a knitted wool shoulder with a large checkered pattern. Seeing this, I asked Qin Yiheng, "What are these shadows?" ”

He pointed to the doorknob and said, "The mystery that the door is not easy to open is on the doorknob." Then he motioned for me to continue.

To tell the truth, I can only tolerate his stinky problem, and I have the patience to look at the doorknob.

Judging from the eggshell, the woman's shadow was still a short distance from the doorknob, and beyond that, nothing else could be seen. However, I suddenly reacted to one thing, I didn't pay attention for a while, I don't know when, the sound of scratching the floor seemed to disappear. I held my breath to make sure, and sure enough, it wasn't.

That's obviously not a good sign, right? I hurriedly reported to Qin Yiheng, but he waved his hand to tell me not to worry, and asked me again: "Do you see the mystery?" ”

I was completely speechless when he asked this. This night just staring at the eggshell, I really didn't see the mystery, and I saw the chick when I saw it. I lit a cigarette and had a showdown with Qin Yiheng directly, and asked him to tell the mystery directly.

He smiled when he saw my face pulled down and told me not to move. As he spoke, he walked to the door and pointed to the position of the doorknob and told me that the reason why the door was not easy to open was because there was a "dark tribute" tied to the doorknob! This "obscurity" is the shadow seen on the eggshell.

On the eggshell, it seems that the shadow is not in contact with the doorknob, because it is the woman's hair that is tied to the doorknob, and her feet are nailed to the floor, unable to move.

Because of the angle, and the shadow itself, we can only see a rough idea, and we can't see what the woman's posture is like. Actually, she was not leaning against the door, but her entire back was dangling, and there was no contact with the door, as if the weight of her whole body was concentrated on her hair, which happened to be tied to the doorknob, which happened to be dragged to death by her body.

That's why when we pull the door out, we feel heavy, and when we close the door, the force disappears. Speaking of which, it is a bit like the kind of machine that is mounted on an old-fashioned wooden door and automatically closes the door with a spring.

Qin Yiheng's explanation made me fall into the clouds, even if this filth is an evil act, it is something that cannot be seen or touched.

How is it as he said, or a device that closes the door automatically?

And what makes me most unpredictable is that in our ordinary people's understanding, ghosts and filth should have no weight, aren't they all light gusts of wind? Why is this so contrary to common sense?

I thought about it, and I was unwilling to lie down and take a look again, the shadow on the eggshell was still that ghost virtue, after Qin Yiheng said, I could barely tell that this woman's posture was probably not leaning against the door.

But I still don't understand, even if this thing can really be used as an automatic door closing device, then who arranged it here? Xu Chuanxiang, or the previous owner of the house? What kind of mindset is this? Pure fun?

I had no clue in my head, so I could only stand up and light a cigarette, point to the door with my chin, and motioned for Qin Yiheng to continue.

He said "um" and continued to draw with his hand to tell me that this "obscure tribute" is not a ghost, but a soul, because this woman's body did not die, but was hooked out for some reason, and finally tied here by means. The reason why it has weight is not because it really has "mass", but because these geists instinctively want to return to their bodies, so they will always want to break free from this bondage.

As he spoke, Qin Yiheng pointed to the bottom of the bed with his toes, and continued: "The thing this woman is holding in her arms, we have actually seen this afternoon, and it came out from under this bed. ”

As soon as he said that, I immediately understood that he was referring to the two rats I had killed.

The shadows that this woman is holding in her arms are all mice?

My comprehension skills are said to be not bad, so why do I get more and more confused the more I listen?

I looked at Qin Yiheng, and he seemed to think that these things were not difficult to understand, which made me a little embarrassed to say that I didn't understand.

Thankfully, before I could ask, he continued, "That's right, those shadows are rats, rats, rats' spirits, to be exact.

"And the reason why these rats are in this woman's arms is probably the same as the reason why this woman is here. Coupled with the man who died first in the house as a woman, looking at it all together, I am afraid that there is only one possibility, that is, someone uses 'obscure tribute' to make a game.

"The form of tribute is not limited to food, cattle and sheep, money, but broadly speaking, as long as it is liked by the gods or ghosts who pay tribute, everything in the world can become tribute. Just as everyone's hobbies are different, those melons and fruit pastries are equivalent to the meals we eat every day, although they are essential, they can only be used as ordinary tribute.

"Throughout the ages, there have been living sacrifices (killing livestock), human sacrifices (killing), and female sacrifices (killing virgins), and there have been endless ways of worship, and the tributes have been all-encompassing, some good and some bad. This 'obscure tribute' refers to those bad tributes. However, although it is not good, it is only verbally described, because since the worship must be pious people, therefore, 'obscure tribute' in metaphysics, mainly refers to those things that do wrong things with good intentions and bring trouble to themselves, and does not specifically refer to tribute, which is also the jargon of the industry. ”

After speaking, Qin Yiheng took a long puff of cigarette and said, "As for today's 'obscure tribute', I'm afraid it is not dedicated to ghosts or ancestors, but this house." ”

I'm completely confused, can this house still eat tribute? This is not an old mansion in itself, and it does not have the origin of those old mansions over the years!

Besides, according to Qin Yiheng's meaning, with the feet of the tribute nailed to the floor and the hair tied to the doorknob, this house is still a sadist?

That's! For the first time, I felt that the ghosts and gods could no longer be described as unbelievable, but could only be described as perverted.

I told Qin Yiheng my thoughts, and he listened to it very happily and told me, I'm afraid that the simple explanation now is really not easy for me to understand, but he can show me something, and I must be able to understand after reading it.

After saying that, he pushed the door open with his shoulder and led me directly to the courtyard.

When I got out of this room, my legs couldn't help but go limp, and although I picked the eggshells and the door looked empty, I was still worried that the woman would grab my legs at any time. I stepped out the door on tiptoe and let out a sigh of relief.

We didn't stay long when we came to the courtyard, Qin Yiheng just stopped for a moment, observed left and right, and asked me to follow him out of the courtyard gate, and the two of them went around to the back of the wing room on the right.

He looked left and right at the base of the wall for a long time, as if he was picking a location, and finally pointed to a place and said, "This is the mouth." ”

He said it was a mouth, and I was quite puzzled, the wall was intact, even if there was not even a piece of paint off, how could it still be a mouth? I looked closer as I pondered. After all, this is a high-end community, the facilities are very perfect, and the street lights are brighter than the other, so the visibility is still very good.

But I looked down and searched around, but I still didn't find anything, so I asked Qin Yiheng: "What is the mouth?" In the dirt, or on the wall? ”