Chapter Ninety-Four: The Ghost in Consciousness
"Click!"
When the rusty doorknob was bent to one hundred and eighty degrees, the door lock was successfully opened, and now it only took Li Hui to push it in, and the door of this room would be pushed open.
Ultimately.
With a 'crunch' sound, the bedroom door on the second floor of the ancient mansion was successfully pushed open by Li Hui, and the scene inside the room was also revealed in front of Li Hui's eyes.
The environment inside the room was pitch black, without any light, and standing in the doorway of this bedroom was like standing at the entrance to hell.
The gray paper ash drifted in, although it could not affect the objects in the room, but it also allowed Li Hui to 'see' the layout of the room.
The décor in the room is very much like that of the Republican period, with old-fashioned tiles, dilapidated chandeliers that have long since been extinguished, and a variety of slightly faded furniture......
The whole room is filled with a dark tone that makes people feel uncomfortable.
In the innermost part of the room, against the wall, there was a black sandalwood bed, which seemed to have been vacant for a long time, and the wooden bed was already covered with dust.
Besides.
There was also a wooden table, two chairs, and something that looked a bit like a wardrobe, but it was all dusty.
In addition, there is an extremely special looking item in the room, which is also the item that attracted Li Hui's attention at the first time.
That's a dresser!
Like the rest of the furniture, the dresser in the bedroom is also wooden, sprayed with dark red paint, but most of the paint has fallen off, and it looks extremely old and mottled.
But one thing is that the other items in the bedroom are all covered with dust, but the dresser is exceptionally clean and not stained with any dust, which is why it can attract Li Hui's attention in the first place.
"It seems that the previous owner of this bedroom must have been a woman." While thinking, Li Hui walked to the front of the dresser.
On the dressing table are many auxiliary items for makeup, such as wooden combs, copper mirrors, etc., in addition to some small open boxes containing some cosmetics.
Of course, it was not a cosmetics of modern society, but an item used for makeup in the old society, which was something from the Republic of China period, and was called 'rouge gouache' in that era.
However, the weird thing is.
Not only was the dresser in front of Li Hui not stained with a trace of dust, but even the 'rouge gouache' on the dresser that had been clearly placed for a long time was still brand new, as if it had just been bought, as if it had not experienced the baptism of a long time.
This is obviously a very abnormal situation.
You must know that even the paint of the dresser itself, and even the other furniture in the room has fallen off most of it, how can some cosmetics be kept for so long without deteriorating, and even faintly exude a special rouge fragrance.
"Parastatic objects?" Li Hui's expression moved slightly, and at this moment, he suddenly thought of the ghost rider codenamed 'Ghost Makeup' in the original book.
The ghost rider named 'Ah Hong' had a makeup box in his hand, which was a supernatural item, and the paint stored in it could draw ghost makeup, and then give himself the six-layer supernatural power of the person who was drawn.
Li Hui, who has read the original book, knows very well that the actual source of Ah Hong's ghost makeup items is most likely from Zhang Youhong, one of the seven elders of the Republic of China.
Zhang Youhong's wooden man can be drawn into the appearance of other people, and then it also has sixty percent of the supernatural power of the copied person, after becoming an alien, the wooden man no longer needs paint, but before becoming an alien, the wooden man needs pigments to draw the appearance.
Of course.
This is only the best possibility, there are other possibilities.
For example, the paint in Ah Hong's old makeup box is actually the source of the ghost painting, because the dye in the dye vat where the portrait is painted can also make the reflected figure have sixty percent of the original supernatural ability......
Thinking.
Li Hui picked up a box of pale red rouge on the dresser and looked at it.
However, the strange thing was that he did not feel any traces of supernatural power on this box of rouge, as if what he was holding in his hand at the moment was really an ordinary box of rouge.
After looking at it for a while, Li Hui, who didn't find anything unusual, put down the rouge box in his hand, and then he picked up another item on the dresser.
It was a relatively well-preserved wooden comb, dark red throughout, and I don't know if it was sprayed with lacquer of this color or the raw material of the comb was dark red wood.
The moment the wooden comb was in his hand, it gave Li Hui an extremely cold feeling, as if what he was holding in his hand at the moment was not a wooden comb, but an ice cube.
It's just that what surprised Li Hui was that after he looked at it carefully, he didn't find any supernatural traces on this wooden comb, and it seemed that the comb was also an ordinary item.
And that's not all.
Along with the dresser, including several other makeup-aiding items on the dresser, Li Hui also checked them one by one, but still did not detect any traces of supernatural power on them.
In other words, under his scrutiny, everything in front of him was normal, and he did not have supernatural powers.
It's just that this result obviously won't satisfy Li Hui, after all, in such a place, a discerning person can see that something is wrong at a glance on the dresser, but there is no supernatural residue, which in itself is an extremely abnormal manifestation!
"It should be the reason for this ancient mansion, not only can it shield the exploration of the ghost domain and not be exposed in the ghost domain, but it can even affect the perception of people who enter the ancient mansion."
Li Hui had such doubts in his heart.
He wasn't sure if there was anything wrong with the other furniture in this bedroom, but judging from the current situation, Li Hui would never believe it if there was no problem with the dresser in front of him.
Li Hui felt that the dresser was likely to be a supernatural object, and even the other items on the dresser were also abnormal.
"I don't know if the medium of the wood knife can detect the source of these things."
Between thoughts.
A rusty, very old firewood knife appeared strangely in front of Li Hui.
Then Li Hui directly reached out and grabbed the firewood knife in front of him, and then the other hand held the rouge box again, wanting to trigger the medium that had just arrived through this contact.
As long as the rouge box has traces left over from the previous owner's use, then the medium of the hatchet can be successfully triggered.
Almost at the moment when Li Hui held the rouge box, the wood knife medium was successfully triggered, and the scene in front of Li Hui's eyes suddenly changed.
In the medium video of the firewood knife, the room is still the same room, but the scene inside the room has become completely different.
The dust on the wooden bed, table, and bench in the room had all disappeared, the dark red paint had been restored, and all the furniture items had become as if they had been newly bought, including the dresser in front of Li Hui!
At the same time, a figure was reflected in the bronze mirror on the dresser.
It was a woman, probably in her thirties, dressed in a white dress, sitting at the dresser and combing her hair with the dark red wooden comb.
Seeing this scene, Li Hui's eyes moved slightly, and he began to look at the middle-aged woman sitting beside him who was constantly combing her hair.
Because of the viewing angle, Li Hui could only see the woman's side face.
But even so, Li Hui still recognized the identity of the middle-aged woman in an instant, it was the powerful ghost who took the bus with him to this supernatural place, and then took the initiative to get off the bus and disappeared directly in his ghost domain.
The only difference is that the figure of the ghost on the bus is extremely blurry, as if it is a reflected figure, but the middle-aged woman in front of him is very real, and there is no such illusory feeling.
"It's ...... A vision of the past in this bedroom? Li Hui glanced at the completely new room and the furniture items in the room, and couldn't help but secretly guess in his heart.
It's not just the furniture in the room that's new, but everything that comes with the ceiling, the old cracked tiles on the walls, and the broken chandelier.
There are only two possibilities for this to happen, either this is the real view of the room, or this is the past of the bedroom.
In addition to having the ability to trigger the medium to dismember other people, it also has the ability to go back in time, and can understand what happened in an area in a certain period of time through the wood knife medium.
Li Hui felt that the scene in front of him was probably what had happened in this room at some point in the past, and then reproduced it in front of his eyes through the medium of firewood knife.
"This middle-aged woman should have been a ghost rider during the Republic of China before her death, and it is even very likely that she is the owner of this old mansion."
Based on the scene in front of him, Li Hui quickly speculated in his mind.
He believes that even if this middle-aged woman is not the owner of the house, she has a lot to do with this ancient mansion, for example, Zhang Dong is like his teammates, and the ancient mansion where Zhang Dong is located also has some traces or items of his teammates' lives.
"If my guess is correct, then the slightly illusory ghost on the bus before should be the supernatural puzzle controlled by the middle-aged woman, and she should be like most powerful ghost handlers in the Republic of China, who dismembered the supernatural spirit she was driving before she died."
But then a new problem arose.
If that ghost is just a part of the supernatural puzzle, then doesn't it mean that the body of the middle-aged woman is likely to still be somewhere in this ancient mansion?
But at the moment when Li Hui's idea just came to him, the scene in front of him changed again.
The new furniture was once again the same old and peeling paint, and the other objects in the room were also becoming dilapidated, just like what Li Hui had seen when he first opened the door, as if everything in the room had undergone a long baptism in an instant.
But the middle-aged woman did not disappear, she was still sitting next to Li Hui, but the movement of combing her hair in her hand stopped, and at the same time, her neck was twisted at ninety degrees, and her empty, dead eyes looked directly at Li Hui.
It's a very eerie picture.
The figure in the chai knife medium is actually looking at Li Hui in reality through the chai knife medium.
"Huh?"
Seeing this, Li Hui did not hesitate, and the old firewood knife in his hand swung down violently, and slashed at the body of the middle-aged woman beside him.
But the ending was surprising.
The curse of the firewood knife was not successfully triggered, the woman's body was not dismembered by the firewood knife, and Li Hui himself did not suffer from the curse of the firewood knife.
And that's not all.
Li Hui's behavior was as if he had triggered some unknown supernatural rule, causing him to be attacked by a powerful ghost.
A slightly illusory figure appeared directly in Li Hui's consciousness, it was the ghost who got off the bus, and the spirit of the Sancheng bus driven by Li Hui failed to block the invasion of the ghost and the supernatural to him.
Under the influence of the ghosts, Li Hui's consciousness was pulled into a supernatural space, and the entire space was rendered in black and white, and the whole seemed a little illusory and unreal.
In the entire supernatural space, there was only Li Hui's consciousness and the middle-aged woman-like ghost, and at this moment, the ghost took a stiff step and quickly approached Li Hui's location.
And on the other side.
Yang Xiao and the others' search for the ancient mansion was also hindered, especially the souls who opened the closed bedroom doors on both sides of the hall on the first floor, all of which encountered supernatural phenomena.
For example, Yang Xiao himself.
He acted with a revenant named Xiao Chengtai, and the moment he pushed open the door to the bedroom on the far left side of the hall, he discovered the strange object inside.
There was a red coffin in the house!
The red paint is bright like blood, giving people an extremely penetrating feeling, and what is even more bizarre is that the coffin lid has fallen to the side, and there is no body in the coffin.
If it's just like this, it's okay, no one has used the coffin to explain, but from Yang Xiao's point of view, it can be clearly seen that there are many scratches inside the coffin, and the marks are like human fingernails scratching on it.
"Did the contents of the coffin escape? So where will it be? Yang Xiao's expression moved slightly, and his eyes looked around.
The interior of this room was not very large, except for the bright red coffin, which was like blood, and there was only a dark wooden cabinet inside.
The cabinet is about the height of one person, and I don't know what it is used to store things, but it is not easy to think that it can be placed in the same room as such a coffin.
It was with this idea that Yang Xiao and Xiao Chengtai walked into the room without showing much scruples.
In their opinion, even if there are really ghosts in this house, there is nothing to be afraid of, and the strength of the two of them is enough to deal with most unexpected situations.
It's just that I didn't expect it.
As soon as Yang Xiao and the others walked into the room, the door behind them closed with a bang, and the scene in the room was completely darkened.
Tread, trample......
At the same time, footsteps were heard in the darkness.
The voice was dull and stiff, not like the footsteps of a living person, but like a corpse walking.
(End of chapter)