Chapter 44: Six Paintings, Five People, and One Hideous
[The evil ghost quietly asks for his life, and the evil murderer in Huangjiu Town]
"Haven't you found out...... Is there a pattern on this coffin?"
Du Yunlou stood on the side of the black coffin, pointing to a pattern, with a strange look in his eyes.
Hearing him say this, the rest of them stepped forward one after another, only paying attention to the strange ground ravines here, and the lines on the giant coffin were not obvious, and the few people in Yihua Jieyu did not find any clues here from a distance.
Wanzhang, who was the first to step here, found it, only knowing that there were a total of six pictures on it, but he didn't understand it after looking at it for a long time, so he didn't care, and then turned around.
At this moment, he was reminded by Du Yunlou like this, and he was stunned for a moment.
Wan Zhang looked at Hua Xie Yu who walked over, and he carried Li San again, it was okay not to carry it, but after carrying it, Du Yunlou's eyes became even more strange.
After seeing this picture, several people followed Du Yunlou's gaze, and at this glance, they all showed strange expressions.
Hua Jieyu and the three of them traveled all the way, and more or less saw a lot of Yin characters on other coffins, most of which introduced the life of the deceased, but on the black coffin in front of them, there was not a single word, but a pattern was engraved.
There are six patterns in total, three on each side of the black coffin, but no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the life of the owner.
The position where Du Yunlou is standing now is next to the second picture.
There is also a black coffin on this picture, and what is even more coincidental is that there are also five people on it, all of whom are of equal height, shortness, fat and thinness, and they are doing different actions at the moment.
Especially when Wanzhang carried Li San on his back, all the scenes were almost exactly the same as those painted in the second painting!
This...... How can it be!
In everyone's hearts, such a question flashed.
This is no longer a coincidence that can be explained, could it be that someone could have predicted the scene at this moment a thousand years ago?
Or is it the Confucian master who is proficient in the art of Qimen in Li San's mouth, Zhang Buyong?
Unbelievable!
In the picture, there are two figures standing not far from the black coffin, one of them is strong and one is thin, the strong one is holding a spear, and the thin one is standing alone, it is Nie Yuanba and Hua Jieyu. On the side of the black coffin in the painting, a fat man is pointing at the coffin, as if he is talking about something, it is Du Yunlou.
The whole painting is sketched with simple lines, but the painting is extremely vivid and expressive, and the characteristics of each person can be found in the painting.
A dull and oppressive atmosphere struck again, and everyone's hearts were filled with a kind of panic about the unknown, but they couldn't help but want to see other pictures.
When they thought of this, they had already walked to the front of the first picture.
In the first pattern, I saw four figures standing in front of a portal, looking up at the seven stars in the sky, and another thin figure standing in the distance, his hands pushed open half of the coffin lid, and at this moment he was looking back at the four people on the side, still with a smile on his face.
"Isn't that what happened before we just came in?"
Wanzhang gasped, stretched out his hands and wiped his face vigorously, and looked at the picture again.
Absolutely not dazzling.
Several people couldn't help but look at each other, and their eyes were full of shock.
"In this world, can anyone really predict the future?"
Hua Xie muttered, but it was a sentence that expressed the doubts in everyone's hearts.
After some exclamation, everyone leaned towards the third painting.
In this painting, it is likely that what will happen next is depicted, and everyone's heart is in their throat about what will happen next. Although they are eager to know the future, they are faintly afraid to know the future, and I am afraid that only they can experience the five flavors of the future.
Each of the five walked to the front of the third painting with apprehension.
To everyone's relief, the third painting did not seem to bode in danger.
I saw that there were five identical figures in the picture, and the coffins had become two.
There was only one person in front of the first coffin, and the coffin in front of him was empty and blank.
The other four people stood in front of another coffin, and strangely, the coffin in front of these four people was impressively painted with the contents of the first and second paintings, and even the contents of the third painting were painted on them.
There is a painting in the painting!
"What does this mean?"
Wanzhang habitually rubbed his bald head and stared at a pair of donkey eyes to look carefully, but he still didn't understand it.
Hua Xie Yu was silent, and the light in his eyes flashed, as if he was thoughtful. Nie Yuanba was still standing beside Hua Jieyu, his face expressionless. From beginning to end, he is the only one who is the most calm.
is born fearless, and he is talking about people like Nie Yuanba.
Du Yunlou's small eyes narrowed, he looked at the patterns in front of him, and seemed to vaguely feel that something was wrong, but he couldn't say exactly what was wrong, he paced back and forth around the pattern in place, scratching his head and teething, and his mouth kept making bursts of movement.
"Tsk... I'm... Gee... Hiss..."
It was not surprising that everyone saw him like this, on the contrary, their hearts were a little more relaxed, and their eyes on him also carried a little expectation.
Looking at the way he scratched his ears and cheeks, maybe this fat man could really find something.
And Li San, who was lying behind Wanzhang......
At this moment, he was looking at Du Yunlou, who was pacing around in front of several people, with a somewhat strange gaze, and then asked him a question coldly, which startled everyone.
"Du Yunlou, let me ask you, how many gongs have sounded?"
"What?"
Being asked by Li San suddenly, Du Yunlou's mind couldn't turn around, and he was stunned for a moment.
Is there a gong here? I didn't hear any gongs......
Hua Jieyu glanced at Wanzhang and Du Yunlou, who didn't know why, and then at Li San, who had a gloomy face, and shook his head at him gently.
Li San noticed Hua Jieyu's gaze, and his expression suddenly softened a lot, but he still stared at Du Yunlou, waiting for his answer.
"I'm asking you, how many gongs sounded when we came down to play the shift?"
Du Yunlou still didn't know why, so he said confidently:
"Do you still need to ask, we came up from the world three watches, of course, it rang three... No, it rang six times. ”
Seeing Li San's suddenly gloomy face, Du Yunlou's tone changed, and he hurriedly said.
Li San's face became a little better, and then it seemed to change again, and a layer of dark clouds appeared on his pale face again.
Li San's face suddenly changed back and forth, which made everyone realize one thing, this old man is likely to have discovered something from the painting, and this matter, looking at the expressions of the two, it is obvious that Hua Jieyu should have found some clues.
"Lao Li, did you find something!?"
Wanzhang turned his head sideways to look at Li San on his back, and then looked at Du Yunlou, and couldn't help asking:
"Also, how can there be six gongs on the third watch?"
His intuition told him that except for Nie Yuanba, the other three of the five people now gave him a strange feeling, which felt like he was the only one who was kept in the dark.
Li San sighed, snorted, and said:
"Alas, it's nothing, I suddenly remembered one thing, we were tricked before we came down, and we were deceived all the way by pretending to be a watchman, you and Yuanba were not present at the time, but I didn't know about it, just now I thought that the two were a little wrong, so I wanted to ask Brother Du. ”
Wan Zhang nodded suspiciously, and hated iron for not being steel:
"It's not that I said when this is the end of the day, you still have the leisure to think about that, now let's think more about how to get out. ”
Li San nodded again and again, and said quietly:
"Let's go see the fourth. ”
When several people heard the words, they went around to the other side of the coffin one by one, and when they saw it, their hearts suddenly fell to the bottom, and several people subconsciously distanced themselves from each other.
On the fourth painting, only one person is depicted.
and a ...... Devil!
The man was lying on the ground, and the demon was picking up a garment from the man's body with two sharp fangs......
Silent.
The whole space was silent, and all that could be heard was the sound of one's own heartbeat and exhalation.
The moment everyone saw the fourth picture, the same thought almost flashed through their minds.
Of the five, one died.
Now there is one of the five...... Not people!
The one who dies must have been separated from the others, and he was alone.
That's what gave the demons a chance to strike.
Hua Jieyu's brows furrowed tightly, a rare fine cold sweat broke out on the corner of his forehead, and his eyes were slightly red when he thought back carefully about the experience along the way.
"Wan Lao, let me ask you a question, and you must answer it truthfully. ”
Hua Jieyu's voice was a little hoarse, heavy, and more importantly, a heavy depression.
It's almost suffocatingly depressing.
Wanzhang looked at Hua Jieyu and nodded slightly, his eyes gradually turned red, and he only hoped for death...... Not my own brother.
"You and Du Yunlou's seniors, before entering the Middle Palace Hall, have you ever been separated?"
Wanzhang thought about it carefully, and then nodded slowly.
"I didn't go into detail before, but when Dumen found the bloody footprints, the two of us were separated for a moment. ”
Du Yunlou's eyelids jumped, and his eyes when he looked at the other four people also became weird, and when he found the eyes of the other four people who glanced at him, his body suddenly trembled, and he hurriedly shook his head and said:
"It's up to me to do it, I'm alive!"
The fat man's mouth was scooped, and he seemed to realize that there was an ambiguity in the sentence that he was alive, so he hurriedly snorted and corrected:
"Phew~, I'm human!"
For a moment, everyone fell silent again.
Wan Zhang and Du Yunlou have both had the experience of being alone, Li San was the first to disappear at the door of death, and Nie Yuanba also went to the stone stairs of Jingmen alone, and he ......
Thinking about it, Hua Xie Yu suddenly smiled, like a lotus blooming in the dark night, it was beautiful.
This smile, in the eyes of the other four, was even more weird.
Several people invariably remembered the smile when Hua Jieyu pushed the coffin alone, how similar it is to now!
"Childe~"
A trembling voice came, and its voice was mixed with a cry.
"I beg you not to laugh, you can't have an accident~"
"The fifth, what's it?"
Hua Jieyu looked weird, spit out a few words lightly, and then stopped paying attention to everyone, and looked straight at the lower five paintings.
Although the remaining four people had ups and downs in their hearts, they still kept up with him.
After reading the fifth painting, everyone's hearts were half cold.
There are still five people in the painting.
No, rather, it should be four people, plus a demon with a vicious face and fangs.
All four fell to the ground, and the demon raised his hands in the air, as if looking up to the sky and laughing.
"This ......"
“......”
Although the worst outcome was thought of, this result still greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.
A strange and oppressive atmosphere swept over again.
"Look at the last one. ”
Hua Xie Yu let out a long breath, if he was destined to die, no amount of struggle would be in vain.
After reading the content of the sixth painting, it once again made everyone's mood turn 180 degrees.
Almost instantaneously, there was a feeling of going from hell to heaven.
In the picture, there are still five people, but like the third painting, they are divided into two places.
Four of them were standing in one place, wiping water stains from the corners of their mouths with their hands.
And the demon fell in another place, and beside it, there was a jar of wine with an open mouth.
Seeing this, everyone's eyes invariably looked at Wanzhang, and at this moment, under the armpit of his left hand, there was still a wine jar tightly sandwiched.
"Does this last painting mean that as long as we drink this jar of rice wine together, we will be safe, and if the evil spirits in disguise drink it, we will die?"
Wanzhang looked at the crowd and wondered.
"Now it seems like the only way. ”
Li San sighed, his eyes full of weirdness.
"It's still inked, if you don't drink it, it's time to do it. ”
Du Yunlou urged a little anxiously.
Seeing this, Wanzhang was not sloppy, knowing that the time was pressing, the wine jar was handed over and handed directly to Du Yunlou.
Du Yunlou was not ambiguous, grabbed the seal with one hand, and tore it open with a little force.
Suddenly, an extremely rich aroma of rice wine hit, which made people flutter, and I couldn't wait to pour a few sips immediately.
Du Yunlou raised the wine jar with both hands, opened his mouth and didn't wait to drink, when he heard a faint voice coming over, although the voice was soft, but with a questioning tone.
"You can't drink this thing. ”
Everyone looked at the person who spoke up, and Du Yunlou also stopped the movement in his hand, and when he saw it, he suddenly muttered in his heart.
He can't really be a demon, right?
I must know that I am going to fail, so I will come out to stop everyone at this time.
At this moment, it was Hua Jieyu who stopped it!
"Childe, is there anything abnormal?"
Although Wanzhang had a trace of bad conjecture in his heart, he was forcibly pressed down, even if Hua Jieyu was really a demon illusion, he would not believe it, and he was unwilling to believe it.
From beginning to end, except for the occasional surprised gaze, Nie Yuanba didn't seem to have any other expressions, just stood quietly on Hua Jieyu's side, like a loyal and courageous guard.
"Listen to Childe, there is a problem with this wine!"
Without waiting for Hua Jieyu to explain, Li San's voice came.
Du Yunlou and Wan Zhang suddenly became confused again.
If it's one person who stops it, it's okay to say, but if two people come out to stop it at the same time, it's very likely that there is really something wrong with the wine.
Looking at the puzzled eyes of the two, Li San said to Hua Jie:
"Childe, can you say that?"
Hua Jieyu nodded and sighed.
"It's a good calculation. ”
Li San also sighed, and the words he said made the two of them grow up again.
"Here, I'm afraid there are others. ”
"What?"
"How is that possible?"
Wan Zhang and Du Yunlou were suddenly surprised.
Li San rolled his eyes rarely, and said:
"As far as these paintings are concerned, they are seamless, and if there are no other flaws, I'm afraid we are really going to die. ”
"When we first entered the door of death, we were all so shocked by what we saw that almost all of us ignored the most conventional and important point. ”
Wanzhang rubbed his bald head and asked with a side face:
"No, we've all carefully examined it here, and we haven't found any trace of anyone else. ”
Li San showed a wry smile and continued:
"No matter how you say it, it has gone through thousands of years, but if you look at this coffin, there can be a trace of dust on it, even if there is dust, it is only a faint layer, if no one is here, where does all that dust go?"
A word woke up the person in the dream, and Wan Zhang and Du Yunlou, who heard this words, immediately reacted, and suddenly slapped their legs again and again, and shook their heads again and again.
But they were all annoyed.
"That's really careless!"
Li San glanced at the coffin again and said slowly:
"And near each coffin, there are dense footprints, if I expected it to be right, these footprints are the group of Penglai people, that is, there have been groups of Penglai people here before us. ”
Wan Zhang and Du Yunlou both blushed.
It's just that the dust hasn't been found, and it can be said, but even such an important clue as footprints can be ignored, which is really too much to say.
"Does that mean that it is these Penglai people who intend to frame us?"
Du Yunlou didn't dare to look at the others, but looked at Wanzhang and asked.
"Have you forgotten that all the Penglai people have been separated from their corpses?"
"I ......"
Du Yunlou came to a big roast chicken nest again, and his face was so red that he could almost drip water.
It seems that since he came to this underground, his IQ has been like a wild horse that has escaped from his stiffness, running without a trace.
Not only did he lose face now, but he probably lost all the face of the pavilion.
"Therefore, the person who shot is very likely to be the master behind the killing of the Penglai people, and this person is very likely to be the person related to this tomb, and our every move is estimated to have been in his eyes. ”
Wanzhang was still puzzled, but he continued to ask:
"Since he has such a high skill, why do he have to go to such great lengths to set up this game?"
"Don't forget, no matter what, we also have three top masters here, how can ordinary people solve it at once. ”
Li San explained, and seemed to feel that something was wrong, and then looked at Hua Jieyu and said:
"No, according to our original information, there should be a suspected master of the transformation realm here, if the other party is really a master of the transformation realm, then there is really no need to bother with it. ”
Hearing this, Hua Jieyu immediately frowned, it is indeed a mystery that has just been revealed, and another mystery has risen again.
Wanzhang suddenly interjected:
"Childe, I still have a question that I haven't figured out, I don't know what the third painting on the coffin means, I see that you and Lao Li seem to understand it? ”
Wanzhang's question also asked the question in Du Yunlou's heart.
Hua Xie Yu smiled and said softly:
"The meaning of the third painting is actually very easy to see, that is, one of the five of us cannot see the contents of the coffin, which is also the most crucial step in the other party's plan. ”
"Through this painting, the seeds of doubt are planted in each of our hearts, and it can be connected with other paintings, on the one hand, it aggravates the suspicion between us, and at the same time, it also tells us that the monster does not know that this wine can restrain him, and that we can only kill the monster quietly after drinking the wine, otherwise we can only be slaughtered by him one by one. ”
"Every painting here is interlocking, and the ultimate goal is to get everyone to drink, and the magic is that this wine happens to be a jar of rice wine. ”
"Rice wine repels evil spirits and drives away demons, this is a truth that ordinary people know, and it can increase our thoughts of drinking this wine. ”
"So this wine is absolutely not drinkable, once you drink it, hehe, Senior Du might as well taste the thousand-year-old rice wine in his arms?"
Hua Jieyu's eyes looked at Yuan Lou with a hint of weirdness.
"Uh-huh~"
Du Yunlou was stunned, and the fat on the connection jumped up, and suddenly felt like he was holding a powder keg in his hand.
Hurriedly shook his hand, and the wine jar was thrown out.
The jar circled in the air, accompanied by scattered sparkling wine. With a crisp click, it was torn apart.
Everyone was lucky enough to escape.