Chapter 676: A Key
At nearly twelve o'clock, Yang Jian had already appeared next to the ghost cabinet in advance.
He doesn't want an accident to happen, so it's better to be cautious.
Looking at the time, there was still half an hour.
Yang Jian didn't go anywhere, just sat on this clock tower and looked at the unchanged red cabinet in front of him, waiting for the moment to come, he carried a knife on his body this time, and made preparations with both hands, if the task of the ghost cabinet is not harsh, then he can try to complete it, leaving a chance for his future survival.
Assuming that it is too harsh, I will use a strange wood knife to chop this cupboard tonight.
I don't know if the hatchet can split this cabinet so smoothly.
But under normal circumstances, a knife is harder than wood, and it should work.
Little by little, time passed.
Yang Jian stared at the time, and soon, twelve o'clock in the middle of the night arrived.
The deadline for his deal with the ghost cabinet has finally arrived, and so many things have happened in the past seven days, and it can be regarded as a miracle that he survived, and other people probably don't know how many times they have died.
The originally calm cupboard suddenly appeared abnormal at this time, and the door of the cupboard was shaking, as if something was shaking the wooden door inside, trying to get out of it.
This has never been the case before.
Smack!
The cupboard shook and shook for a moment, then suddenly fell silent, and the upper cabinet door, and the lower cabinet door, all opened on their own at this moment.
Scarlet, viscous blood began to spill out of the open gap.
"What's going on? I clearly have kept the agreement and come to the ghost cupboard, why is there an abnormality in the ghost cupboard? Yang Jian suddenly frowned, and couldn't help but take a few steps back, he was very cautious.
However, the blood flowed on the ground for a moment, but it quickly stopped.
At the same time, Yang Jian found that his feet were covered with blood, and his bloody footprints were imprinted on the ground.
The blood was not stained, because he had not stepped on it at all, and the blood seemed to have been on him all along, but he did not notice it, and hid in a very secret way.
Yang Jian's eyes shrank slightly when he saw this.
He had this kind of conjecture before, the trading rules of the ghost cabinet were actually a curse, similar to the music box, and he was very familiar with the sticky blood flowing out of his body at the moment, and it had also appeared in Wang Xiaoming's laboratory before, but he didn't pay attention to it at that time.
"I see, this blood is both a curse of the ghost and a protection of the ghost cupboard...... The seven-day trading rule originally referred to this. ”
"Before, at the Soul Removal Society, that weird projector played my death screen, and the walls were oozing blood, and the blood didn't come from that projector, but the curse of the ghost cupboard, and the presence of the projector made this curse resurface...... If that's the case. ”
"And what was the ghost cabinet protecting me at that time?"
Yang Jian's face changed slightly.
He began to realize.
There was something unusual about the strange projector, something unusual he couldn't see at the time, but he was sure that something bad was going to happen.
It's just that the curse of the ghost cupboard has helped them stop it, or they have secretly fought against each other.
Judging from that situation, it should be the ghost cabinet that won.
Yang Jian's feet were still oozing blood, he didn't know where the viscous blood was flowing from his body, and he didn't feel any discomfort.
After the blood flowed, it began to gather with the blood on the other side of the ghost cupboard, and then gradually retreated back into the ghost cupboard.
It was as if the curse of the ghost cupboard had been taken back again, and it seemed that the term of protection had arrived, and some indescribable strangeness was dissipating.
After all the blood was gone, the open door slammed shut again.
Yang Jian tried to take this opportunity to see the situation inside, but it was pitch black inside, like an abyss, like an entrance to hell, he couldn't see anything, there was a kind of supernatural power interference, even if he opened his ghost eyes, he couldn't see what was inside.
After giving it a try, he had no choice but to give up.
After all, now is not the time to care about this.
After all this anomaly ended, the ghost cabinet returned to a brief calm, but this calm did not last long, and soon Yang Jian heard the sound of something falling in the wooden cupboard.
The cabinet door below opened strangely.
The deal between Yang Jian and the ghost cabinet began again.
After taking it out, his brow suddenly furrowed.
It's another photo, the photo is a dim and weird place, but in the middle of the photo is an old wooden house, no, it should be called a wooden house is not appropriate, but a very old house with a sense of age, but the building materials are wooden, this style of house has been seen in the scenic spot when Yang Jian traveled before, this kind of house is at least the Republic of China period, and even older can not be said to be top.
The gate of the old house was a faded wooden door that had been washed away by the rain, and at the moment the gate was closed, and there was nothing to see inside.
"A picture of an old mansion, I think I've seen it somewhere..... And more than once, by the way, the background of that ghost bride's photo. ”
Yang Jian suddenly remembered something, he remembered.
A ghost had sat in front of the gate of this old mansion at some point in the past, when the old mansion was not so old, and there were still two lanterns hanging on the left and right of it.
And when he was on the supernatural bus, he seemed to have seen this old mansion in some strange place.
I'm not sure, because I didn't pay that much attention at the time, and I was worried about saving my life on the bus.
There is a line on the reverse side of the photo.
"Open that locked door for three months. ”
The handwriting was blackened and distorted, almost formless, as if something had been scribbled on, but the font was still recognizable and the contents were recognizable.
Subsequently, in addition to the photo, Yang Jian also saw a key.
An old brass key.
"What are you kidding, let me go to that old mansion and open the door of one of the locked rooms inside?" Yang Jian shuddered just thinking about this task when he realized it.
Obviously, there must be a ghost in that old mansion.
And the door is locked, which means that there are even more terrifying things in the room, and if you unlock it, you may die on the spot.
As for the three-month period, it is not too short, but it is not too long.
"It seems like a simple task, but in fact, this is the most dangerous, although, I had long guessed that the difficulty of this mission would increase, but I didn't expect it to change so quickly, before I was just asked to find a ghost, but now I am asked to go to a terrifying place to open the door. Yang Jian groaned, thinking that this task was not easy.
However, the ample trading time made him less impatient.
If these three months were replaced by three days, now Yang Jian would have opened this ghost cabinet with a knife in his hand.
"There's no other movement in the ghost closet, and it seems that the content of the transaction is clear. ”
After Yang Jian confirmed the situation, he found that the ghost cabinet had regained its calm again, and then closed the door of the cabinet, looking harmless to people and animals, if it was discovered by others, the person would never have imagined that this cabinet would be so ghostly and terrifying.
"Take this key first, take one step at a time, and regret it is not now. ”、
He looked at the bronze key in his hand.
It didn't seem strange, it didn't seem like a strange thing, but it looked like an ordinary old object, but his intuition told him that this copper key must be unusual, because it fell out of the ghost cupboard, and if it was just an ordinary copper key, he wouldn't have to bother to open the door.
Because ordinary doors can be opened casually, only special doors require special keys to open.
"Ghost cupboard, ghost bride, ghost painting, wooden old house...... The locked door, the key, all of them are connected, not without a common denominator, although it is only a few simple tasks, but it has all been connected together, like a delicate layout, one link after another, as if in the end it is going to borrow the trader's hand to accomplish some terrible purpose. ”
"A ghost's purpose. ”
Yang Jian pinched the key, and there was an inexplicable uneasiness and chill in his heart.
If he continued to trade, he felt that he must follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, and he had to find a way to terminate the transaction before the ghost's purpose was achieved, otherwise, he didn't know what would happen.
But whatever that is, it can't be allowed to happen.
With this in mind, he left the clock tower and returned to his lodgings with a heavy heart.
Maybe it's because it's been a little long to think.
When Yang Jian came back, Zhang Liqin, who was lying on the bed, was already asleep, obviously he had to go to work tomorrow, he couldn't stay up, he didn't wake up, just changed a room after a look, took a shower and planned to rest.
After all, there are a lot of things that happened today, and Yang Jian is also a little tired.
"The wound is gone. ”
While taking a bath, Yang Jian found that the wound left by the use of the firewood knife on his arm had actually healed at the moment, leaving a mark similar to a scar in that place, but the rot was gone, and it did not continue to deteriorate.
It's like a wound healed.
"Is it because of the deal?"
Yang Jian thought of the strange phenomenon of blood oozing from his body before, maybe it was at that time that the curse brought by the firewood knife was also removed.
Perhaps this was an unexpected bonus.
Otherwise, it is difficult to say whether this arm can be saved in the end.
The human body is still too fragile.
It can't stop the slightest invasion of supernatural power.
"The peculiarity should only be this time, and if you use a hatchet next time, it shouldn't be so easy to eliminate the negative effects...... Unless you wait for the next transaction to be completed, there is some kind of change in yourself again. ”
Yang Jian thought silently.
One transaction, one lifting of other curses on oneself.
No, it should be overlayed.
Because the ghost cupboard may have imposed another curse on itself, the effect of the wood knife was erased.
I just haven't tried what happens if it explodes at the same time as the music box's curse.
Yang Jian didn't dare to try, this kind of thing was just thinking about it, if he really did it, it would be impossible to do it unless he was desperate.