Zhao's house, the living room, the candlelight is flickering, and the surrounding light and shadow are intertwined. The rain fell on the roof tiles, making a crackling sound, and the whole living room was quieter.

The three of them sat at the table, no one spoke, and waited quietly. The whole living room, the atmosphere is depressing and panicking.

Time passed little by little, and outside the house, the sound of the rain falling on the tiles gradually became sparse, and the rain gradually became lighter.

Luo Yin listened to the sound of the rain outside the house, suddenly stood up, and said to Shen Mo, "Young Master, the rain is light, if we don't look for Uncle Liu everywhere in the Zhao Mansion, we can't just sit, otherwise how will we explain to his family when we go back." ”

Shen Mo heard Luo Yin's words, was silent for a while, then stood up and said, "Okay, let's take a look and do our best." As he spoke, he said to the old man, "Please borrow an umbrella for me and a lantern, and the two of us will look around." ”

The old man persuaded the two to wait here and wait until it was too late to look for it after dawn, but seeing that Luo Yin insisted on looking for it now, he had to agree and took an umbrella and a lantern.

After handing it over to Luo Yin, he said: "Why don't the old man accompany the two of them to look for it, the three of them will always be faster and more meticulous than the two." ”

When Shen Mo heard this, he was about to agree, but when he saw his scholar and guard desperately glancing at him, he turned his mind and said: "Don't dare to bother the elderly, it's dark and rainy, and the old man should not walk around to avoid accidents, so it's better for my master and servant to look for it." ”

The old man did not insist, and told the two to be careful.

Luo Yin lit the lantern and opened the door of the living room, and a gust of wind blew, which was quite chilly. Outside, the rain was still falling, but it was only a hazy drizzle.

The two of them held up umbrellas, carried lanterns, and walked into the rain.

Luo Yin looked back behind him, the light at the door of the living room was shining, and the old man at the door could only see a dark shadow clearly.

After walking some distance, Luo Yin said to Shen Mo that it was better to go to the west wing room to check first.

The two walked for a while, and came to the small courtyard of the west wing. Shen Mo tried to ask many times along the way, but he couldn't help but ask, and when he arrived here, he saw that he was already far away from the living room, and finally couldn't help but speak.

"Shen An, if you don't let this old man follow him to look for him, don't you suspect that he has a ghost?"

Luo Yin took a deep look at the living room in the distance and said, "As soon as I came to this village, I felt strange and uneasy, the whole village was empty, and there was a dead silence. But in such a ghost village, there are still living people. What's even more strange is how such an old man, alone, survives in such a village?

And the story we heard from him was even more strange. The whole village is missing, why is he still there, and he has been fine for several years. So I think there might be something wrong with this old man, and we still have to be careful with him. ”

Shen Mo lifted the lantern in his hand and said, "I also think this thing is weird everywhere, the two of us pay attention to each other, don't be alone, don't get separated, I hope to survive until tomorrow." ”

Luo Yin agreed and said, "Now let's look around and see if we can find any trace of Uncle Liu." ”

Immediately, the two of them searched carefully in the small courtyard with lanterns, behind trees, grass, and ditches, but found nothing.

Then the two of them set their eyes on the door of the wing room, Shen Mo nodded to Luo Yin, and came to the door together.

Luo Yin pushed the door and found that the door was just hidden, so he pushed open the door and walked in. The room is lit up with a panoramic view.

Everything in the house was neat, but it looked like it had been uninhabited for a long time, the tables and chairs were covered in thick dust, the clothes and bedding were rotten, and a thick musty smell came.

Luo Yin carefully inspected all parts of the room and found nothing abnormal. After checking, the two left the west wing and turned back to the central living room.

When I returned to the living room, I found that the door was still open, and the candlelight was shining through the doorway, illuminating the steps of the doorway. Luo Yin walked into the door of the living room, but found that the room was empty, and glanced back at Shen Mo, and found that there was also some doubt and uneasiness in his eyes.

Luo Yin called the old man a few words, but no one responded, turned back to Shen Mo and said, "The person is gone, has he gone to another place, or is he also missing?"

Shen Mo probed around and said, "Go and see other places!"

The two left the living room, walked to the east wing, passed through the rockery flower bed, and came to the small courtyard of the east wing. After carefully inspecting the east wing, he found that it was the same as the west wing, so he had no choice but to leave and walk to the backyard.

The lantern was dimly lit and could not shine far, and the two walked cautiously. After walking for a while, I noticed a glimmer of light ahead. Luo Yin stopped and called the old man a few times in front of him, but unfortunately no one responded.

The firelight in the distance gradually approached, and the two saw the black figure at the firelight, but they looked a little familiar, as if it was the old man.

Luo Yin didn't dare to relax, clenched the long knife in his waist, and if there was any abnormality, he would take the long knife out of the sheath to fight for a way out.

He watched intently as the dark shadow approached, ready to strike at any moment.

The black shadow got closer and closer, and when he came a few steps in front of the two, the light of the lantern in his hand shone out of the person, an old man with a face crawling all over the ravine.

Luo Yin and Shen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't dare to relax their vigilance in their hearts, and said to the old man why he didn't respond silently, but they got a reply that the old man was deaf, and the two had to shut up helplessly.

Shen Mo asked, "Why didn't my uncle stay in the room so late?"

"I caught a few wild animals in the mountains today, and I planned to pickle them quickly and keep them for later to eat slowly. It's just that I haven't had time to concoct it, so I went to the kitchen to deal with it when I had nothing to do, which made Shen Xianggong worry. ”

Luo Yin's heart moved, today, a few wild animals, these words, always make people feel a little hairy. Then he said: "The two of us are going to continue to look in the house, I don't know where the old man wants to go?"

The old man smiled, "I was going to pickle, but I found that there were not enough condiments in the kitchen, so I was going to go to the warehouse to get some." When I'm ready, I'll make some game for you two to taste tomorrow. ”

The two excused themselves, then said goodbye to the old man and continued to search.

Seeing the old man gradually walking away, Luo Yin whispered to Shen Mo: "Let's go to the kitchen and have a look!"

Shen Mo glanced at Luo Yin and nodded slightly.

The two searched all the way, and after taking a few wrong paths, they finally found the kitchen.

The kitchen door was unlocked, and there was an empty gap. Luo Yin gently pushed open the wooden door of the kitchen and stretched out the lantern to shine inside.

The light shines on the kitchen, and the whole kitchen is arranged in the dim light. Luo Yin saw that there was nothing abnormal everywhere, so he stepped into it, holding a lantern to look around.

I saw that there was still a steamed bun left in the steamer, some leftover meat in the cupboard, and a pot of bone broth in the pot.

Seeing that everything was as usual, Luo Yin couldn't help but wonder if he was thinking too much, so he beckoned Shen Mo to prepare to leave.

He turned and walked towards the door, the light of the lantern in his hand shining into the corner of the wall, and the afterglow swept to a corner of the wall.

"Young Master, wait!" Luo Yin suddenly shouted. After speaking, he came to the corner of the wall with a lantern and took a closer look for a while.

"There's a door! there's a gap, there's definitely an inner room. ”

When Shen Mo heard this, he hurriedly came to the corner with the lantern. After taking a closer look, he said: "There is indeed a gap, there must be content in the back, open it and take a look." ”

Luo Yin put down the lantern in his hand, and slowly opened the secret door through the slightest gap, only to see that it was dark inside, and at the same time, there was a fishy smell coming from it, which made people smell sick.

After stepping back and waiting for a while, when the fishy smell in the dark room dissipated a little, Shen Mo curiously held the lantern and stretched into the dark room.

The candlelight lit up the front, and he glanced at it, then fell backwards with a scream, and slipped and fell to the ground. The lantern in his hand also fell to the ground, and the flames lit the lantern, illuminating the entire dark room.

Seeing this, Luo Yin hurriedly rushed to Shen Mo to block it, and saw the furnishings of the dark room clearly through the burning lantern.

At this glance, I couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air, and a deep feeling of nausea came from my abdomen.

Where the flames shine, the inner chamber is clearly visible. A long case was placed in it, and blood dripped from the long case to the ground, converging into a pool of dark red blood.

On the long table, a skeleton was placed in it, and the flesh and blood had already been removed, leaving only Sen Sen's white bones oozing white in the firelight, and a little blood-red flesh foam remained on the white bones.

On the desk, a head was placed on it, and the skull's eyes were staring at Luo Yin and the two with wide eyes, revealing a sense of fear and confusion in his eyes.

This head is the coachman of the Shen family, Uncle Liu.

Luo Yin endured his nausea and fear, pulled up Shen Xianggong, who had fallen to the ground, and staggered out of the house.

Out of the kitchen, forgetting to glance at the dark room in the fire behind him, Luo Yin said tremblingly: "Young master, this old man is afraid that he is a ghost and a demon, and he eats people for a living, Uncle Liu has been killed, let's run away quickly!"

Shen Mo's eyes showed deep fear, his face turned pale, his teeth chattered, and he said intermittently: "Quick, run away......"

Luo Yin pulled Shen Mo and ran towards the gate, the two of them didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of alarming the old man.

Fortunately, everything went well, I think the old man didn't expect the two to discover his secret, and he didn't find out that the two of them escaped, and the two of them escaped to the gate smoothly.

Luo Yin gently pulled the deadbolt and slowly opened the door as little as possible without making a sound.

The way to escape is in front of you, and if the two of you can run fast enough, you may be able to escape this man-eating demon.

Luo Yin pulled Shen Mo in his right hand, held a lantern in his left hand, and carried a long knife at his waist, and stepped out of the gate of Zhao Mansion with a move.

But at that moment, a voice came from the front, like a demonic voice from hell.

"Why did Shen Xianggong leave so soon, and stay in the mansion for a while, so that Zhao could fulfill the friendship of the landlord. ”

Not far from the door, where the light barely shone, a dark shadow stood in front of the door. The black shadow looked strange and dangerous in the afterglow of the lantern.

Luo Yin let go of Shen Mo, pulled out the long knife on his waist, and said to the black shadow in front of him tremblingly, "You...... You...... What the hell are you?!"

The dark shadow slowly approached, revealing itself in the light of the lantern, by the dim light of the lantern. Luo Yin finally saw the face of the black shadow clearly, it was the old man surnamed Zhao.

It's just that at this time, the furrow on his face is not old, but deep ridicule and greed......