Chapter Twenty-Six: The Man in the Red Coffin
"Bang Dang~"
Just as Li Hui was looking at the darkness outside the door, a slight noise from the building caught his attention.
The voice came from the second floor.
Looking up, the upstairs environment is even darker than the first floor, although it is not as dark as the extreme darkness outside the door, but it also affects the vision, and I can only barely see.
Looking up from Li Hui's perspective, you can only see the corner of the stairs and the second floor, and you can't see the scene above the second floor.
A staircase extends gracefully, connecting the first floor with the second floor.
The staircase is also made of wood, and some of the planks used as steps have decayed, raising serious doubts about its load-bearing capacity and whether it can withstand an adult stepping on the stairs.
"There's a ghost on the second floor? Or is it ...... It was Ye Zhen who made the movement? ”
Looking in the direction of the second floor, Li Hui's expression moved slightly, he wanted to ask, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly stopped, and he didn't dare to speak out.
This old-fashioned building is too weird, revealing a gloomy and cold aura, which may indicate the existence of some supernatural rules, and secretly contains countless dangers.
Most importantly.
Almost all the old houses in the past looked the same, and from the layout of this room alone, Li Hui couldn't tell its specific age.
If it's in Blue Star, it's okay, but in the world of mysterious recovery, old houses, especially those that may be involved in the Republic of China period, represent great danger.
Even if you control the three-story bus, it is not enough to see.
"Do you want to go up and have a look?"
Li Hui was a little hesitant, he didn't just want to make sure if Ye Zhen was on the second floor at the moment, but also wanted to find a way out.
The darkness outside the door was too eerie, and there were faint ghosts standing in the darkness, and there seemed to be quite a few of them, and if he could, he wanted to find another exit to leave.
The rooms on both sides of the hall on the first floor also had unknown dangers, and even Ye Zhen had suffered heavy injuries in them, so the only ones left that might have other exits were on the second floor.
And......
The old building seems to have fallen into disrepair, with the ceiling of the building caving in several places, and the size of the caverns that have collapsed is enough for an adult to climb out.
Stomp, stomp!
Thinking of this, Li Hui began to act and walked towards the stairs.
Crunch~
The moment Li Hui stepped on the stairs, the wooden staircase immediately emitted a burst of sour tooth sounds, which echoed up and down the floor, looking particularly weird and gloomy.
There were twenty-four steps in the staircase, and more than one-third of the wooden planks were already seriously decayed, and Li Hui did not test the idea of the load-bearing capacity of those rotten wooden planks, so he directly crossed over and stepped on the seemingly normal steps.
The process of going upstairs was smooth, and there was no supernatural phenomenon on the stairs, which made Li Hui, who was already ready to meet the attack of the ghosts, breathe a sigh of relief.
Soon, he was on the second floor.
The environment on this floor is much darker than on the first floor, which affects the line of sight, but it is also able to barely see, but the vision is far less clear than that of the first floor.
At the same time, there are more items on the second floor than on the first floor, and they are more eerie.
In the living room on the second floor, there are five coffins, four of which are black with a large "Lay" character printed on the side. There was also a red coffin, placed in the center of the hall, surrounded by four black coffins.
The paint on the red coffin was extremely gorgeous, as if it was rendered by blood, and when it was placed in such a strange place, an inexplicable sense of gloom arose.
In addition to the five coffins, there are also many objects hanging on the walls of the living room, and the most widely placed are oil paintings of various styles.
The content of each oil painting is different, some oil paintings are about a man, some are about a woman, some are a child, and some are landscapes.
Looking at the oil paintings hanging on the walls of the living room, Li Hui's brows furrowed, and he wondered if these oil paintings could have anything to do with the S-class supernatural incident that roamed the world in the outside world.
"It shouldn't matter." After thinking for a moment, Li Hui shook his head and eliminated the conjecture in his heart.
The reason is very simple, if these oil paintings hanging on the walls are really works derived from ghost paintings, then with the supernatural of ghost paintings, the gray and paper ash ghost domain has long been extended, enveloping everything around it.
Unless...... There is some kind of supernatural in this old-fashioned building that suppresses the supernatural of ghost paintings.
Bang dang~!
At this moment, another voice came, breaking the deathly silence around him, this time Li Hui heard it clearly, the voice came from the red coffin.
Moment.
All of Li Hui's attention was drawn to the red coffin, and from his direction, he could only see the side of the coffin, and then Li Hui moved a few steps to the side and shifted to the front of the coffin.
"That's ......"
When Li Hui moved to the front of the coffin, he saw an extremely strange scene, with a black and white posthumous photo pasted on the front of the red coffin.
The photo looks like a composite image, the left half of the person's face is an old man's face, with gray hair and wrinkles, while the right half of his face is the appearance of a young man, handsome.
The most important thing is that Li Hui still knows this half of the face, and the owner of the face is Ye Zhen.
"Ye Zhen is inside this red coffin?"
Li Hui was a little surprised, but he didn't step forward to open the coffin for verification as soon as possible, but continued to look at the red coffin.
He found that the black-and-white photograph attached to the red coffin kept changing over time.
The position occupied by the half of the old man's face on the left is gradually shrinking, and the face belonging to Ye Zhen is expanding, and the original facial contour is only half of it, but now it is about to appear two-thirds.
"What's the situation, Ye Zhen is being invaded by the supernatural, or is he trying to invade and control the supernatural inside this coffin?"
Judging from the changes in the black and white portrait, Li Hui guessed that there should be two people in the red coffin, one of them was Ye Zhen, and the other was the old man in the portrait.
It's a terrible ghost too!
He wasn't sure if Ye Zhen was encountering a supernatural invasion at this moment, or if he was controlling the supernatural, which was the main reason why he didn't directly step forward to open the coffin.
Li Hui was afraid that his sudden opening of the coffin would break some kind of supernatural balance inside, and he was also afraid that there was no Ye Zhen in the coffin at all, only powerful ghosts, and the photos on the portrait were just some kind of supernatural phenomenon.
Bang! Bang bang~!
Just as Li Hui continued to observe, the movement of the red coffin became more violent, the coffin was shaking, and even cracks appeared in some places, as if something inside was hitting the coffin hard.
Meanwhile.
At this time, the black and white posthumous photo began to continuously seep out the blood, the blood was scarlet and sticky, and soon covered the entire posthumous portrait, and then flowed out of the posthumous portrait and extended towards the red coffin.
It didn't take long for even the red coffin to be completely wrapped in the scarlet viscous blood, as if a new layer of paint had been applied to it, and it was bright and abnormal.
Bang!
At this time, the vibration of the coffin increased again, and it jumped from the ground several times, and even the lid of the coffin fell off, and was torn apart, turning into red broken wood chips.
After the coffin lid fell, Li Hui took a few steps forward, as if trying to see the inside of the coffin, but failed.
The inside of the coffin was scarlet, full of scarlet, viscous blood, which drowned everything into it, and the blood carried some kind of supernatural power, revealing a cold aura.
And yet the next moment.
A heavily corroded palm that had exposed black bones suddenly protruded from the pool of blood inside the coffin.
In the palm of his hand he also held a long sword that had been bent and deformed, full of chips.
"It's Ye Zhen!"
The moment he saw the long sword, Li Hui recognized the identity of the other party, although the palm didn't look like a normal person's palm, but more like a ghost's hand.
The next moment.
The red coffin seemed to be unable to withstand some kind of huge impact, cracks appeared on the coffin, it was torn apart, and finally it was completely shattered, and the scarlet blood suddenly gushed out and spread towards the surrounding ground.
At the same time as the coffin shattered, Ye Zhen's voice also sounded: "Just because you are a ghost, you also want to kill me Ye someone?" Inevitably, you think too much of yourself. ”
At the same time as the voice fell.
Ye Zhen stood up from the bloody living room floor, looked in the direction of Li Hui, and said:
"Xiao Li, you also came in, very good, this time I will let you see my Ye someone's peerless demeanor, there are a lot of powerful ghosts in this place, see how I kill them."
As he spoke, Ye Zhen waved the long sword in his hand, which was already bent and deformed, full of gaps, and gestured and said, "See, my peerless sword." ”
"The reason why it has become the ghost it is now is completely because I followed someone to fight in this supernatural place to cut ghosts, I just cut back and forth from upstairs to downstairs, and from downstairs to upstairs, for a full twenty minutes, without stopping for a moment, without even blinking my eyes."
As he spoke, Ye Zhen seemed to realize something, glanced at the scarlet blood stained on his body, and then let out a loud sigh.
"I, Ye someone, am invincible in my life, majestic in my body, unparalleled in the world, how can I be defiled by you dirty things and scatter for me!"
This moment.
Ye Zhen used his supernatural power, and the light of the ghost domain flashed, and all the scarlet blood stained on his body disappeared, and he didn't know where he was sent.
But Ye Zhen's ghost domain only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing again, and a powerful spiritual surge emerged in the room, suppressing his ghost domain.
Even Ye Zhen couldn't even use the ghost domain to teleport away, because his ghost domain couldn't expand out, and could only barely envelop himself for a moment, as long as it extended outward, it would be suppressed instantly.
"Do you know how to get out of here?"
At this time, Li Hui spoke, asked the question he wanted to understand, and directly ignored Ye Zhen's sassy words.
"This hellish place is easy to get in and out!"
Speaking of leaving, Ye Zhen's face also became gloomy and ugly. "I didn't enter this old mansion at first, but a dark alley, and then I ......"
"Once inside the old mansion, I tried to leave through the gate, ready to walk through the darkness."
"There are a lot of powerful ghosts in the dark, and the level of horror is not low, but compared to me Ye someone, it is still more than a step behind, I rushed all the way to kill, but when I left the darkness, I inexplicably returned to this old mansion."
"At that time, I appeared in the room on the side of the hall on the first floor, and there was a terrible ghost lying on the bed in that room, not weak, and it took me several swords before being repulsed......"
“……”
Listening to Ye Zhen's narration, Li Hui roughly understood the other party's experience of entering this supernatural place, and also knew some supernatural rules in this old-fashioned building, and if he was not careful, he would be attacked by powerful ghosts.
Ye Zhen's description is very light, in his description, he himself is completely invincible, and all the powerful ghosts are easily repelled or suppressed by him.
But Li Hui knew that the actual situation was not the case, and if he changed to a ghost rider to experience the supernatural attacks that Ye Zhen had experienced before, he was afraid that he would die no less than dozens of times.
This can be seen from Ye Zhen's own state at the moment.
At this time, the skin on Ye Zhen's two hands had completely rotted, as if it had been eroded by something, and the skin and flesh fell off, revealing the strange black bones inside, just like the bones on the dead people.
Not only that, as time went by, this black color continued to spread, eroding towards Ye Zhen's arm.
This is a sign that the ghost is recovering, which shows how many times Ye Zhen has used supernatural power in these short twenty minutes.
But the same.
As the recovery of the powerful ghost intensifies, the supernatural power that Ye Zhen controls will also become more terrifying, and the powerful ghost that could not be repelled was successfully repelled and suppressed after his supernatural power intensified.
"Didn't you try to climb out of that cavernous hole in the roof?" Li Hui asked the question he was most concerned about.
He came up to the second floor, in addition to wanting to confirm that Ye Zhen was not on this floor, the most important thing was to see if he could leave through the collapsed roof.
But Ye Zhen has been talking about it for a long time, from entering the supernatural place to being attacked and lying in the coffin, but he has not left the roof pothole.
"Nope!"
Ye Zhen glanced at Li Hui dissatisfied, and said loudly: "Who am I, Ye?" Asia's No. 1 ghost master, the insider gives the nickname Ye Invincible! Am I going to do something to drill a dog hole? ”
Okay.
Li Hui understood that the clown was himself.
Expecting to get useful clues from Ye Zhen is simply a fool's dream.
The other party's brain circuit is different from that of a normal person, and he won't even think about leaving here by other means, all he thinks about is how to cut down the ghosts here, and then fight them out.
In a sense, it is actually normal for Ye Zhen to have this kind of thought, because this is his consistent style when facing the supernatural.
It doesn't matter what kind of scheme, what kind of ghost, what law of killing, and what ability the ghost has, what is upheld is a reckless word.
Don't say that it's this point in time, in the original work, even in the later stage, Ye Zhen, who has more than one defeat experience, is the same, except for the coffin nail, he is not afraid of anything else, and he is directly reckless.
After thinking about it, Li Hui said: "Since ancient times, real heroes are not brave for a while, but can bend and stretch. ”
"How can you get out of a dog hole when the roof has collapsed? It's called a strategic retreat, it's a symbol of wisdom, and it's good at finding loopholes in the rules, don't you think? ”
For people like Ye Zhen, Li Hui knows how to deal with their weaknesses, and there are only two direct and effective methods, one is to provoke the general, and the other is to kill.
"What you say doesn't seem to be unreasonable." Hearing this, Ye Zhen really nodded, although he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything wrong.