Ninety-Seven: The Haunted Mansion (5)

Since the other party was willing to communicate, Huang Chang also happened to talk to them for a while. I want to find out what is going on with the other person from small talk. Even if these are just some "NPCs", Huang Chang feels that he can grasp some of the background of the times from their words, so he can know more about this dungeon.

It's just that after chatting for a while, I still haven't been able to get any useful information. The siblings claimed to be from a small place in the southeast of the country, and Huang Chang had heard of the name. And the destination they are going to is near their hometown. It's not too far, it's not too close. But no matter what, no matter how much you take a detour, you can't get around this deep mountain.

The old man of the building was not surprised by this, and quietly informed Huang Chang by transmission:

"Don't waste your efforts, I've tried a long time ago, and for a while I even arrested them and tortured them about their origins. Although they all say that they are from this neighborhood, there are people from all over the world. But when I inquired afterwards, there were no such people in the local area. ”

Huang Chang bowed slightly, thanking the old man Lou for his reminder. But he still secretly wrote down the information he heard for future inquiries. And the group of people rested a little, and after eating some dry food, they also found an empty house to rest, and the courtyard was quiet again.

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

In the middle of the night, Huang Chang was sitting in the room, and suddenly heard a whisper from the next room, but it was a servant who was in a hurry to urinate in the middle of the night and wanted to go out to release water. But he was timid, and begged another bodyguard in the same room to accompany him out. The man agreed, and the two went out together, and after solving the problem at the base of the backyard wall, they happened to see the latched courtyard door.

is the same as the death plot in many ghost movies - the bodyguard suddenly became greedy, saying that this kind of broken house is not inhabited anyway, so it is better to look in the back to see if there is anything valuable, and take it out for some wine. And the servant actually expressed his approval with a desire - it was clear that the two of them had heard it when the little girl Duoduo told them that the house was haunted, and when they went out just now, they were afraid to ask the two of them together, but at this time they completely forgot about it.

The two fools got to the back, rummaged through, and really let the servant find a clay pot. When they opened the mouth of the jar and sealed the mud, they saw that there was a slight glow inside, and the two suddenly thought they had found a treasure. The servant rushed in and touched it. I didn't touch it, and it was still empty again...... Before he knew it, he was lying on the jar.

- However, the clay pot did not look very big at all, and a normal person would have reached his elbow to reach the end, but the servant had even put his whole arm in, but he did not realize it, and still tried to put his hand into it, as if he could almost touch the treasure.

The bodyguard next to him finally reacted and felt that something was wrong. He hurriedly stepped forward and shouted twice, but the servant did not respond at all, but squeezed into the jar with a confused gaze, which did not feel like he was trying to touch something from the jar, but as if he was trying to stuff himself into the narrow jar.

So the bodyguard got scared and screamed and slapped him on the cheek while trying to pull him out, but he couldn't. At this time, the servant finally came to his senses, and shouted "There's something in here!" while trying to break free of the jar...... But it didn't work. There seemed to be a great force in the jar, and instead of withdrawing his hand, even his shoulders and even his head were slowly sliding into the jar.

In desperation, the strong man's bodyguard picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it at the clay pot. However, the clay pot, which seemed to shatter at the touch of a touch, was very strong, and even though the stone hit it with a "crackling" sound, it did not move at all.

The two of them became more and more frightened, and pulled it out for a while, but suddenly they heard a "poof", as if it was the sound of opening a cork, and then the servant fell backwards and pulled out his hand—only when he saw his arm, he let out a cry of horror: the arm had become like a dried corpse, and only a layer of skin was left around the bone, and it had no vitality at all.

And this is not the most terrifying - as the servant's arm was withdrawn, a white "mist" of flowers also came out of the jar, and after landing, it quickly spread, but it turned into a mass of human shapes, and floated silently towards the two bodyguards and servants.

The two men were so frightened that they ran away with a scream. And the jar was like a faucet that had opened the floodgates, and the white mist poured out from it, spreading on the ground, but as if it had its own will, it was clearly aimed at "flowing" towards the two of them. Out of it came a number of heads, which took human form, and stretched out their long arms to try to grab the two, and though silent, they were creepy.

- This haunted house finally lives up to its name.

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

"Aren't these ghosts so simple and harmless?"

On the roof nearby, Huang Chang and the old man stood quietly, watching all this coldly. Of course, it was impossible for them to sleep at night, and they had been silently paying attention to the movements in the house. The two fools committed their own deaths, and the two of Huang Lou quietly followed behind from the beginning, seeing everything in their eyes.

Originally, according to Huang Chang's meaning, after all, he was still a mortal, and it didn't hurt to save them. But the old man Lou said that it was completely unnecessary - these people would only exist for one night. Whether they live or die tonight, tomorrow at dawn, they will all be gone. And it will never appear again, so there is no need to care about their life or death.

Obviously, for the old man Lou, who has experienced this situation many times, he may not have Huang Chang's awareness of "this is playing a copy", but it is also natural to regard these people as "NPCs" and no longer care about their fate.

Since even the old man Lou said so, and those two guys can be regarded as self-inflicted death, Huang Chang was happy to save some effort, so the two of them kept standing on the roof, watching the two fools crying and howling around in the yard as if watching a play.

They tried to flee back to the front yard, but in the huge backyard, similar clouds of white mist came from the corners of the house and the cornice...... and so that the shadows came out. Soon it was all over the backyard. And the two of them had gone deeper in the "treasure hunt" before, and now they had lost their way, turning around and around, and were chased by the ghost fog, but they couldn't find a way out at all.

And the hoarse shouts they made were finally heard in the front yard - it was very interesting: it was not far away, but the sound from the backyard was only faintly whispered like an echo in the front yard......