Seeing that Ren Tianxiang was interested in the secret room downstairs, Luo Si approached him and asked in a low voice, "Tianxiang, do you want to go down?"

"Well, I'll have to go down and have a look. Ren Tianxiang nodded, then pointed to the orange wall on the second floor that was illuminated by candles, and said, "The painting style downstairs has changed, and it must be a very important place." ”

"Let's go down together. Luo didn't give Ren Tianxiang any chance to refute, and then turned to Xuanyuan Liuli behind him and said, "Liuli, you and Miss Qing'er and Miss Ling'er are here to check the dolls." If Tianxiang's guess just now is correct, there should be a doll with the fabric of the hand cut here. ”

"It's the left hand. Ren Tianxiang waved his hand behind him and reminded, but his eyes were still fixed downstairs, and he had been waiting for Los to act with him.

"Okay, you can just leave it to me. Xuanyuan Liuli was also relieved to hand over the task of inspecting the downstairs to Ren Tianxiang and Luos, and if you want to talk about reasoning ability, you still have to rely on these two people.

After getting Xuanyuan Liuli's response, Luo Si was no longer ambiguous, and walked directly to Ren Tianxiang's side, and slid down the ladder by himself.

Ren Tianxiang followed closely and went down, the candlelight downstairs shone their shadows on the wall, even if Xuanyuan Liuli and them were on the third floor, they could see their first reaction after going down.

After sliding down, Los was completely silent, and Ren Tianxiang's first reaction after seeing the scene on the second floor was actually a "" and shouted.

What they saw was that the secret room on the second floor was actually more like a study, with a bookshelf on both sides of the wall, and a desk on one of the bookshelf.

At this time, a corpse was lying on the desk. The corpse's original clothes were in tatters, and it was completely impossible to see the original appearance, while the naked~ exposed skin was already dry and wrinkled, and even slightly blackened.

Unexpectedly, there was no smell in the secret room, perhaps because it had been placed here for too long, and the smell on this corpse had completely dissipated without a trace.

However, although this corpse is weird, Ren Tianxiang and Los Angeles are also people who have killed enemies on the battlefield, and he has seen more disgusting corpses than this disgusting corpse, so now that they see this slightly blackened dry corpse, after the shock of the two at first glance, they have no more emotions.

Luo didn't speak, just pointed to the dried corpse with his finger, and then handed Ren Tianxiang an inquiring look. He was asking Ren Tianxiang if he wanted to move this dried corpse.

Ren Tianxiang nodded, then rubbed through the gap between the back of the chair and the bookshelf behind him, and stood with Los on either side of the dried corpse.

At that angle just now, the head of the dry corpse was carrying Ren Tianxiang and Los Angeles on his back, and at this time, Ren Tianxiang walked to the other side, and he could easily see the face of the dry corpse.

Because of the shriveling, the facial features of the dried corpse could no longer be distinguished, and his entire face was shrunk together, just looking at it was disgusting. However, Ren Tianxiang found something new on the face of the dry corpse.

"Look, Loth. Ren Tianxiang pointed to the face of the dried corpse and said, "There are obvious scars on the corners of the mouth of this dried corpse, and this scar extends from the corners of the mouth to the roots of the ears on both sides. If I'm not mistaken, this dried corpse should be the body of the smiling ghost in the bathroom that Qing'er saw. ”

While listening to Ren Tianxiang's words, Los leaned over to Ren Tianxiang's side to take a good look at the scars on the face of the dried corpse.

After confirming that the scars on the corpse's face had been cut with a sharp object, Los straightened up and analyzed, "In this way, this is the owner of the diary, and at the same time the owner of this house. ”

"It seems that he has not waited for his son. The rare Ren Tianxiang said a nonsense.

Los gave him a blank look and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this, is it? ”

"Okay, listen to you. Ren Tianxiang shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and then grabbed the arm of the dried corpse.

With a "poof", the arm of the dried corpse was dented by Ren Tianxiang's grasp, and at the same time, a liquid like oil seeped out of the sunken skin of the dried corpse, dripping down the elbow of the dried corpse to the ground.

Ren Tianxiang shook off the arm of the dry corpse, and then found a piece of paper from the desk to wipe the oil on his hand.

And Los took advantage of Ren Tianxiang's hands to get closer to observe the oil.

Soon, he looked up, with a hint of surprise on his face: "This is not corpse oil. ”

"It's not corpse oil. Ren Tianxiang's voice suddenly became much louder, he widened his eyes and looked at his hand that was stained with oil, and then looked at the arm of the dried corpse, and said incomprehensibly, "What can this not be corpse oil?"

Los was much closer, and he could barely make out the state of the oil in the light of the candlelight.

While watching the oil dripping, he touched his chin and analyzed: "This is indeed not corpse oil. The corpse oil I've seen before has a faint fragrance that will spill out even if it's been stored in a corpse for many years. But now I smell it...... It's like lamp oil. ”

"Lamp oil?" Ren Tianxiang had already wiped the oil off his hands at this time (at least that's what he thought), so he also leaned over to the dry corpse like Loos, and said, "You mean that this person will fill his body with lamp oil on the way to death?

In the final analysis, Ren Tianxiang is from the future after all, and in many cases, his understanding of the objects of this era is indeed inferior to that of Looth, but this does not mean that he agrees with Loos all the time in this regard, after all, the truth is not guessed, but verified.

"There's nothing wrong with lamp oil. And...... It is indeed possible that this person poured lamp oil into himself before he died. Loos's analysis seemed to be going in the direction of curiosity more and more, but Ren Tianxiang looked at the serious expression on his face and felt that his analysis was correct.

"Why did he pour lamp oil into his body? Is it to do something of special significance......" As he spoke, Ren Tianxiang seemed to remember something, his eyes widened and stared at Rose, "Do you remember what he wrote in his diary at the end?"

"If I'm not mistaken, this person not only poured lamp oil into his body before he died, but even poured lamp oil on his whole body, I'm afraid this is ......"

"Light the sky lantern. Ren Tianxiang took what Los was going to say, and at this time, Ren Tianxiang's tone was unusually calm.

"Hmm. ”

Lighting a sky lantern was originally a very cruel punishment. The torturers stripped the prisoners naked, wrapped them in linen, and soaked them in oil tanks. At nightfall, the prisoners were tied to a tall wooden pole with their heads and feet tied to their feet. Before ignition, a burlap cloth was soaked in oil, wrapped around the prisoner's head, and then set on fire. After burning the part, it is extinguished and ignited again.

Because the prisoners have different physiques, the whole process may last for dozens of hours. According to the rules, the sky lanterns are not lit at dawn, so there will be prisoners who are lit for several nights in a row.

Worse still, a hole was drilled in the top of the prisoner's head, oil was poured into the prisoner's body, and at night the prisoner was placed under his head and feet, and flames were ignited through the hole above his head.

Ren Tianxiang didn't expect that he would encounter such a terrifying punishment here, and even this kind of thing was done by the deceased himself.

Contacting the diary of the deceased, it was not difficult for them to guess. There was some kind of calamity in this city, which caused the people of the city to go crazy and attack others. And the lord of the city invited a great monk, and this great monk sealed this calamity by setting up a sky lantern, so there will be "a hundred ghosts when the sky lantern rises".

At the beginning, Ren Tianxiang and the others actually guessed wrong, the sky lantern was not lit, and the smiling ghost they saw didn't know what it was, in order to guide them here.

This deceased was the only person in the city who did not go completely mad during his lifetime, and the only one who was suitable to be a sky lantern.

Continue to speculate, the great monk thought that he was a phantom-level monk, because only a phantom-level monk could use the law to define a symbolic meaning from the law level, that is, "from the sky lantern, a hundred ghosts walk", correspondingly, he must have a sky lantern as a symbol.

The city is hopeless, but the calamity is very contagious, as can be seen from the diaries of the deceased, in just a few days, the whole city was infected to death, if this calamity left the city and went to another city, it would become a catastrophe.

In the end, the deceased took over the responsibility from the lord of the castle and turned himself into a sky lantern before he died, a symbol of the calamity of sealing.

Perhaps the son of the deceased had returned, or perhaps he had found his father in this secret room, but for the sake of such symbolism, he did not take his father with him.

This is the truth, or part of the truth.

............