Chapter 15: The Mansion
The huge gravitational pull dragged me into the hollow of the tree, and with a drop of ten meters, I spread my elbows in the air and rubbed against the edge of the hollow, the edges and corners cushioned my speed but still fast, almost instantly, and I fell heavily to the ground.
I thought I was dead, but a few seconds after I landed, I realized that I was still alive, and when I opened my eyes, I saw the gloomy sky above the tree hole. I moved my body, which was soft underneath, and I remembered that the red figure quickly got up from the ground, and a pair of witch eyes made me see the scene around me clearly, and I couldn't help but be shocked.
This... What the is a well!
There is a vast space nearly four meters high at the bottom of the well, and in front of it is a tall and majestic mansion, which is solemn and dark, shrouded in black air, and a series of rare and exotic beasts hovering around the wall of the mansion, and the crimson flowers are competing to open, like the underworld. I looked down at my feet, the red figure was gone, there was a shallow puddle under my feet, I just fell into the puddle to not be killed, the strange thing is that the puddle did not wet my clothes, as if it was not water......
I wrinkled my nose, a fishy smell filled the space at the bottom of the well, and when I looked up at the sky above the well, I pulled my neck and shouted, "Zhao Shouquan!" ”
Damn, he's in such a hurry that he can't hear my cries for help.
I looked around to find a way to escape from the bottom of the well, but except for the mansion in front of me, the rest of the place was bare, and there was no place to borrow strength.
It's over, it's over, it's dead this time.
Just as I was thinking wildly, there was a "squeak-" sound, and the old door slowly opened with the sound of friction through thousands of years, and inside the harsh sound was a desolate compound, with four beams and eight pillars, and pavilions, as if suddenly returning to a large family in ancient times.
I hesitated to walk towards the door of the house, I couldn't escape anyway, instead of sitting and waiting, I should see what kind of ghost was in here!
I walked into the courtyard of the house gate, and at the moment I crossed the threshold, I was in a trance, and there was an extra figure out of thin air, and I hurriedly retreated in fright, but I slammed into the door.
The door is closed!
I looked at the person in front of me, about ten meters away from me, he was wearing a black brocade robe with gold, long dragging on the ground, his face was covered under the brocade robe, and he couldn't really see it.
"Who are you?" I asked tentatively.
A desolate and melodious voice came, "I am your guide, you come with me." ”
Then he turned and walked into the depths of the courtyard, where there was a pavilion, and behind it was another door, and I saw that he had no intention of killing me, and followed after pondering.
The gate slowly opened, and I entered one after the other with him, only to see that there was a smaller courtyard inside, and in the middle of the courtyard stood a huge bronze coffin, which spread from all sides and stretched more than a dozen arm-thick iron chains to entangle the coffin to death, with all kinds of rune paper pasted on it, and a huge gossip mirror hung on it, the gossip mirror reflected my face, but I found that there was no shadow of the person in front of me.
Thinking of the bronze coffin that Liu Daxian said eighteen years ago, I suppressed the fear in my heart and asked, "Are you a human or a ghost, what did you bring me here for?" ”
It turned its back to me and said, "The person in here has a relationship with you, you can open it." ”
"What's the? I open it? I don't want to die yet. ”
It says, "Do you think the people out there deserve your protection?" You let it out now, and you'll be fine. ”
I shook my head and refused, "Yin Shu wants to let it go, but it turns out?" Didn't you get hacked to death? ”
"She's not dead, and she's not the one she let out."
"Who's that?"
"It's me."
"Who are you?"
"I am your guide."
I patted my head, "You've been talking about this for a long time like you haven't said it." ”
It stopped talking, and I looked at the bronze coffin in front of me, and unconsciously felt a sense of intimacy, and as soon as the idea came to me, I hurriedly shook my head, leaving this absurd idea behind. I wanted to go up and see what he looked like, but I didn't have enough courage, so I had to grit my teeth and wait patiently.
After a while, it spoke: "This coffin has been here for hundreds of years, and I am sealed here with it, waiting for the light of day." Or rather, we are waiting for someone, that is, you. ”
"Me? I have lived only eighteen years, and I did not know you hundreds of years ago. ”
"You have the blood of the Yin Master in your body, and you are destined not to be an ordinary person, or... You are not meant to be human. ”
"You're not human!"
"I'm not human."
“......”
It makes so much sense that I am speechless.
"What is the Yin Master?"
It says: "An ancient profession, connecting the human world and the underworld, carrying great energy, half human and half ghost. ”
"Forget it, I don't want to be a ghost yet, be a good person, as long as I can eat and drink enough, I'll be satisfied."
"Is it possible?" For the first time, its tone changed, "Let's make a deal, open the coffin, you can live, and the people outside can live." If you don't open the coffin, a hundred ghosts will walk at night, and both you and them will die. ”
I was a little annoyed, "In the past few days, people have told me every day that they will die, so they can't live well?" ”
"In that case, then you can go."
It raised its arm and pointed to a small door on the side of the mansion, "Open it and you'll be able to leave." ”
"Really?" I asked, confused, unable to believe that they had taken me down just to say a few words.
It stopped talking again.
I didn't want to stay in this terrible place, although I kept answering it with a breezy word, in fact I was panicking, turned around and hurried to the small door, and when I got to the door, I pushed it and found that I couldn't push it at all, and I saw a palm-shaped depression on the side of the door, and tried to press my hand into it.
Burst!
The moment the palm touched, a tearing pain came from the palm, I wanted to pull out the palm but couldn't pull it out at all, as if there were thousands of small insects into the palm, the pain was so bad that I couldn't scream, my brain was buzzing, I couldn't survive and die.
I don't know how long it took, but the pain gradually subsided, and I was already slumped on the floor, watching it turn to me, and then I could see his face... A familiar face - Zhao Shouquan!
I looked at him in disbelief, "You... How could it be you! ”
He looked at me with a blank face.
"No, you're not Zhao Shouquan!"
I noticed that although his face was exactly the same as Zhao Shouquan's, there was no scar in addition to the vicissitudes of life, and Zhao Shouquan had scars on his face after his mother-in-law returned from the funeral.
"The door of the dungeon is open tonight, the hundred ghosts are walking at night, your task has been completed, let's leave." He stared at me with a cold look in his eyes.
"Who the are you?"
He ignored me, but turned around and stroked the bronze coffin, and I saw that the small door behind me had opened, turned around and hurriedly rushed out!
Suddenly, I sat up from the ground and looked around in horror to see that it was still my yard, and I was sitting on the edge of the hollow of the tree. Just now... Was it a dream? I turned to look at the hollow in the tree, didn't dare to look closely, and stumbled back into the house.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw that the wound on Liu Daxian's chest had changed from black to normal complexion, and he was overjoyed, and he forgot the scene in the dream just now, so he quickly helped Liu Daxian up and pinched him.
"Liu Daxian, Liu Daxian, are you still alive?"
This trick worked, Liu Daxian coughed, and his aging eyes slowly opened, "I... Not dead? ”
"Hey, hey." I smirked, "You're still alive, I saved you." ”
"You?"
Liu Daxian propped up his body, the wound on his chest scabbed, and asked, "That female ghost, have you caught it?" ”
"She seems to have been struck to death by lightning." Because of the dream just now, I didn't say it too much.
Liu Daxian gritted his teeth and smiled, "Okay, good." ”
"But there is also bad news, that is, she was thrown into the tree hole to die, Zhao Shouquan said that the main owner in the tree hole will come out tonight, and he has already prepared."
"What!"
Liu Daxian's smile froze, and he was about to stand up when he helped me, but I stopped him and wanted him to go to the kang to rest for a while, but he didn't agree to anything.
He staggered out the door and staggered to the edge of the tree hollow, his eyes cloudy, "Evil, three fires!" You come here. ”
I was already resisting the hollow and had to take a few steps forward, "What's wrong?" ”
"This time I figured it out, the guy in the tree hole is indeed a bronze coffin eighteen years ago, your mother-in-law is the key factor to deter it, and now the only thing that can subdue it is your mother-in-law's crutches, if you can't find the crutches, no one wants to live."
"Huh? Crutches again? ”
"When I fainted, I remembered Zhao Shouquan's magic circle in front of your mother-in-law's grave, three meters and one knot, dog blood chicken head, three animal sacrifices, and two tails occupying a place, which is not used to bury people at all, but to sacrifice demons! You are your mother-in-law's favorite child, but the death of those two granddaughters back then was too suspicious, and they were buried in this yin tree coffin, which shows that your mother-in-law did all this for you, otherwise why didn't she put you in the yin tree coffin? ”
"I began to ponder the identity of your mother-in-law, the old lady Meng was a hospitable person, but after the incident of worshipping the heavens eighteen years ago, your mother-in-law is like a different person, and the crutch is also in her hands, I even suspect that she is the woman who was burned to death at the beginning, what is her purpose?"
It's not that I haven't thought about this, I guessed it when Liu Daxian first told me about it eighteen years ago, but it still has a different taste when it comes out of Liu Daxian's mouth.
Liu Daxian looked at me, "No matter who your mother-in-law is, her death is to be killed, so what is the purpose of the person who took her crutches?" The crutches disappeared, the Yin Huai coffin appeared, and Zhao Shouquan arrived, what conspiracy was hidden in it? ”