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I took a breath. I saw the tie correctly. Someone did enter the main room from the hall just now. Datou asked me with his eyes. I gritted my teeth. We have come to this point. Is it possible that we can still retreat? I clenched my fist and used my four fingers to imitate Xiao He's tactical movement of moving forward.

Datou nodded and took a deep breath. I saw him tightening the root planer in his hand. It seemed that he was not completely sure.

A group of us walked forward close to the corridor pillars. The door of the main room was ajar. It was dark and quiet inside. Da Tou listened for a while and seemed to find nothing, so he gently pulled the door. Fortunately, no sound was made. , we entered one after another and did not move around. Several people squatted against the windows. When you suddenly enter a dark environment, your eyes need to adapt.

The tie of the cold-faced guy who usually looks cool is also very tense. I can feel that his shoulders are very hard and his muscles are crumbling. This is a physical defense display that can only occur when people are under high tension.

After a minute or two, our pupils began to adapt to the darkness in the house. The blurry moonlight coming in from the window slightly allowed us to see the environment inside the house clearly.

The furnishings in the house are very old, and it is a high-ceiling space, probably at the back of the main room. Most people would set it up as the master bedroom, but this is really like a small living room.

The wall seems to be covered with solid wood wainscoting, and there are some long strips, which should be calligraphy and paintings. In the middle is a medium-sized round table, with a few chairs scattered around, and there are backrests on both sides. It seems that the original owner of the house was still an elegant person.

There was a board between the back room and the main room. Although Zhao Gu was very nervous, he quickly adapted, looked around, touched me lightly, and pointed to the board.

The board wall is the wall facing the main entrance of the main house. Some families also put up screens. The ancients believed that this position in front of the door can ward off evil spirits.

I squinted and looked over, and found that there seemed to be something behind the board. I looked with all my eyes, and it turned out to be a huge landscape painting. It was not a landscape painting, but a picture or a map. Although I can't see the specific content yet, no one would place a map here. This picture appears so abruptly, so it must have its purpose.

I looked around and saw that the space in the back room was limited and it didn't look like there was anyone else hiding there. I felt a little itchy in my heart. I lay next to Big Tou's ear and whispered softly: "You can help me light the light from behind. I want to go there." Look at that map, I think there's something wrong." He also squinted around and nodded to confirm there was nothing wrong.

I didn't dare to stand up, so I squatted on the ground and moved over carefully. When I moved to the table, Da Tou also turned on the flashlight, still covering it with his coat. The low light was a little hazy, but you could almost see the wall. content on.

I looked carefully and saw that this was a mountainous area. Because the scale was very small, I couldn't determine which mountain it was. However, the parts were painted in great detail. Where were ditches, where was water, where were roads, and some places were even marked with " "X", I was stunned for a moment when I saw those symbols. It felt familiar. As soon as I recalled it, I remembered it, and my heart jumped suddenly. I am not unfamiliar with this thing, even I see it every day, and it is almost exactly the same as the Chinese Feng Shui layout left by the second master.

I couldn't help but groan. This kind of thing must have been drawn by myself. There would be no trading outside. According to this, could it be that the second master lived here back then? I felt dizzy.

Just when I was deep in thought, I suddenly noticed that the light shining on the wall flickered a few times like a signal light. I thought to myself, how could Datou still be in the mood to joke around now? I turned around in confusion, only to find that there were several of them. I don't know when they all retreated behind the door. The big head waved his hand back and forth in front of his clothes. I looked at them strangely, and at the same time, there was a clear ringing sound in my ears.

I trembled all over and broke out in a cold sweat. I was afraid that I was too engrossed in thinking and didn't notice the ringing. They wanted to notify me, which is why they behaved so strangely.

I subconsciously wanted to run over, but the bell was very close, and I was almost about to enter through the small doors on both sides of the board. If I ran over at this time, I would definitely be discovered by the other party. I was anxious, and suddenly I saw the table next to me from the corner of my eye. Not caring about anything else, he directly lifted up the tablecloth next to him and hid.

As soon as he got into it, a clearer ringing sound came. My heart was beating so fast that it almost burst out of my throat. I held the tablecloth with both hands to prevent it from moving, and at the same time nervously suppressed my breathing.

Time seemed to have passed in a vacuum for a few seconds. In the extremely quiet back room, a clear bell suddenly sounded again. The other party had come in!

I could feel that the other party stopped not far from me, and the sound was very low, as if the bell was tied to its leg.

The room once again returned to the depressing and lifeless environment, and my lungs began to feel sour and hard. I tried to breathe gently to clear the carbon dioxide from my lungs, but the sudden feeling of suffocation made my body unconscious. I started to take a big breath, my heart sank, my whole body was cold, and I thought I was done.

At the same time, when the bell rang again, it suddenly came closer, so close that it was almost touching the outside of the tablecloth.

The fear in my heart is indescribable, as I can imagine the other person slowly squatting down and clawing his way inside.

The joints of my hands holding the tablecloth began to turn white, and I told myself not to be afraid. You have already adapted to this situation. But at this moment, with the ringing of the bell, a hairy hand slammed open the tablecloth and grabbed it towards me. My hair stood up in shock, and I fell out of the table with my hands on the ground.

At the same time, another big hand grabbed my neck collar from behind. Before I could shout, I was dragged backwards by the other party. At the same time, the tie and Zhao Gu flashed over from both sides and stood in front of me.

The boss pulled me behind and stood over to confront me with a root pick. I was trembling all over, trying my best to calm myself down, and asked them with lingering fear: "What is it?"

The big head said in a good-natured voice without looking back: "What a fucking evil. I heard the ringing without seeing it, and you didn't see it at all?"

I was shocked, how could I not see it? Isn't the other party Zongzi? I didn't dare to think any more, so I hesitated for a moment, then tugged at the corners of their clothes, signaling them to step back. We couldn't stay in the house any longer.

Unexpectedly, as soon as we retreated, the tablecloth suddenly shook, and then something in the shape of a human head was pushed out from inside, as if someone was about to crawl out.

Several people showed a look of surprise. Big Tou gritted his teeth and asked him to strike first as he always did. The tablecloth fell down, revealing what was underneath. We couldn't help but look at each other, cat?

A big white cat with a copper bell hanging around its neck appeared in front of us. The cat's eyes shone with blurry colors under the moonlight. It licked its paws and scratched its fur, not taking us seriously at all.

Thinking of their sighs of relief, we couldn't help but look at each other, feeling dumbfounded by what we had just done.

The big head got angry and wanted to step forward to drive it away, but I held him back and said, "Don't move yet. Look, there is a bell around its neck. It should be a domestic cat." Before he could finish his words, the big white cat saw a few of us doing it. He stared without moving, seemed to have lost interest, stretched his waist, and walked towards the main room in a twisted manner.

We looked at each other and followed cautiously. Cats have the instinct to return to their nests and may lead us to the owner of the house.

The copper bell on the cat's neck didn't make much noise at first, but it was very ear-piercing in such a quiet and mysterious old house. We instinctively took a few steps away from it, walked through the hall, and entered the front room. Suddenly, Zhao Gu He whispered "fuck" in a low voice, and then said: "Look."

We looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a corpse hanging on the beam of the front door of the main house. Because the front door was covered with carved fans, the moonlight spread all over the floor through the doors and windows, and we could clearly see the body.

"This house is just fucking unclean. Isn't it too evil to have such a corpse hanging? Cao Fenfang, there's nothing you can do if you hang it up." Da Tou has been trying to call me Cao Fenfen since he made a mistake. , I suddenly had the idea that this delicate name is very suitable for me. Calling me Cao Fenfang is kind and can suppress my unlucky constitution.

I didn't have time to talk to him anymore, so I looked over attentively. This man had his back to the light, so I couldn't see his expression clearly, but I noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with his clothes. I said to them: "Good brothers, let's You have to go and take a look."

"Are you serious?" Zhao Gu asked me.

"There's a problem with this thing itself. Some people believe you when you say it attracts evil spirits. And you see there's not even a stepping stone under his feet. How do people get up there?"

"Holy shit, it's true." Da Tou Jing reacted to my reminder and asked in a low voice, "You mean someone killed him and then hung him up?"

"I didn't say it was a human being."

Everyone was silent.

A few of us were leaning against the wall, observing the surroundings while carefully approaching. We saw that the front door was ajar. It was estimated that the people who came in from the back door had left. We felt a little more relieved and walked to the front of the Bogu shelf. I can see that person clearly.

This guy was a young man, his eyes were wide open, and the expression on his face had solidified. He must have been dead for a while, and his expression was very ferocious, as if he had experienced something terrible before his death. Moreover, the corpse was wearing knee-length jeans and a hoodie. He was very young and did not look like the owner of the house at all. An idea flashed through my mind and I suddenly said to them: "I know who he is, this unlucky guy." It should be someone from Tangkou."

This discovery made me very surprised, and at the same time I was worried for Han Sheng. Judging from this corpse, they must have had some kind of accident at that time, and the thing was very strange. What I don't know is whether this strangeness is related to the current corpse. .