The Haunted

"No more?" Chi Yan repeated these two words, and for a moment he didn't even realize what it meant.

He helped the butler to stand up, and the butler stood aside and told him the ins and outs of this.

It turned out that they had already discovered that Chi Rong had disappeared since yesterday morning, because Chi Yuanshan had just passed away, and Chi Rong had disappeared before his body was buried. Said that Chi Rong was bedridden due to the shock of his father's sudden death, and at the same time secretly dispatched people to find Chi Rong's whereabouts.

But I couldn't find it after searching for a day. The servants under Chi's family said that after Chiyuan Mountain went yesterday, Chi Rong went to the place where Mr. Chi was retreating alone. Maybe he went to report the funeral to the old man himself. After that, no one saw him again. to him.No one dared to disturb Mr. Chi who was in retreat. The servant asked about Chi Rong's whereabouts while delivering the food, but only got a reply that Chi Rong had never been here.

In the evening, after the housekeeper sent away the last wave of condolence guests, he personally brought two servants into Chi Rong's room to clean up, hoping to find out if Chi Rong had left any clues or letters telling him where he had gone.

The beige wooden floor in Chi Rong's room had to be wiped by hand. The housekeeper wandered around looking for possible clues, and a servant was lying on the floor with a mopping cloth.When he was wiping the edge of the bed, he reached out to the bottom of the bed and felt something hard, and he reached out to show the housekeeper.

It was a round sealed iron box with a row of fine round holes left on it. The housekeeper signaled the servant to open the box—there were densely packed inside, all of which were all kinds of dead black bugs. .Chi Rong inherited his mother's secret technique. The butler had served him for many years and knew a little bit about it. He was not too surprised when he saw it, so he asked the servant to cover the box and put it back under the bed.

The servant saw so many dead insects but his face was not very good. He was lying on the ground and was about to put the iron box back when he saw that there seemed to be something under the bed, so he slightly raised his head and said to the housekeeper, "Master Mao, the young master is under the bed. There seems to be something else, quite big."

The housekeeper's name is Li Mao, and the servants under Chi's family also respectfully call him "Master Mao".

The housekeeper was worried about Chi Rong's whereabouts, and refused to let go of any clues, so he said, "Take it out and see what it is."

The servant reached in as much as he said, and grabbed a piece of something like a dry firewood branch and pulled it out a little bit, but the thing got stuck under the bed and could not be pulled out again.The servant put his head on the ground and moved closer to see what it was and where it was stuck.

Then he saw a shriveled human head smiling at him with empty eyes.

The servant yelled in fright, and immediately crawled to the other side, pointing under the bed and looking at Li Mao trembling.

The butler was also taken aback by his reaction, and he lay down on the ground and looked under the bed himself, and was also taken aback!But after all, he has served Chi's family for many years, has seen a lot, and has seen some real monsters and ghosts. He quickly recognized that the thing under the bed was just a mummy, so he called two more people to move the bed away and put it on the bed. Please come out with that corpse.

However, what happened later made Li Mao break out in a cold sweat.After examination, it was found that the corpse had been dead for nearly a month, and the owner of the corpse was none other than Chi Rong who had just disappeared.

Under the bed of the second young master in Chi's parents' room, there was a corpse that had been dead for almost a month.

This matter is full of strangeness. After Chi Yan and his mother left, Chi Yuanshan officially married Chi Rong's mother. After that, and even now, Chi Rong is the legitimate heir of the Chi family. Special, I can only order the housekeeper to suppress the matter first, and don't let it spread, and still say that Chi Rong is sick and can't see guests, and I will make a decision in person after Mr. Chi is out of the customs.

It may be because Chi Yan and Chi Rong are related by blood after all, so Li Mao didn't hide it from him and told him the truth.

After the butler finished speaking, he looked at Chi Yan hesitantly: "Young Master, after discussing with the clan elders, they said that Second Young Master's body cannot always be left hanging like this, and they are going to hold a simple funeral for Second Young Master today under the guise of doing business for Mr. , and then let the second young master go to the ground for peace. If you are not busy, I will trouble you to send the second young master a ride."

Chi Yan shook his head and lowered his eyes: "He and I have always been at odds, so he might not want me to go, let's forget it."

The butler naturally knew what was going on between Chi Yan and Chi Rong, so he sighed and didn't force it.

But unexpectedly Chi Yan called his name suddenly: "Li Mao."

The housekeeper raised his head, and heard Chi Yan say in a very soft tone: "Is Chi Rong trying to harm me about the matter in Hejia Village?" His voice was very flat, because the flatness revealed a kind of confidence.

The butler opened his mouth, and twirled different words on the tip of his tongue a few times, and finally said: "...I only know that the second young master did set up a situation before, and wanted the young master to come back, but it shouldn't mean to harm the young master. The other thing is I don't know."

Chi Yan could hardly control the sneer in his heart, as long as he stepped into the Hejia Village, it was clearly a dead end.let him come back?If he hadn't encountered that strange thing in the Nuo Temple by chance, he would have been a dead man by now.Besides, if Chi Rong was trying to lure him back, then why did he talk to Chi Rong twice after he came back, and kept asking him to leave quickly?

He shook his head, turned around and left without looking at the housekeeper, Xu Rui was still waiting for him at the door.

Chi Yan nodded to Xu Rui, and the two left Chi's house and returned to Xu's house.At this time, it was already lunch time, Xu Rui and Xu Xin brothers and sisters stayed with Chi Yan to eat with them.The hospitality was hard to come by, Chi Yan told the driver, please go back to rest and pick him up in the afternoon, then called Ye Yingzhi and told him that he stayed with the Xu family brothers and sisters.

You can also hear the noise and chaos in the main hall of the front yard in the dining room.Xu Xin was curious, so he jumped out to inquire, and came back after a while to spread the news to Chi Yan and Xu Rui: "Oh, brother, just because you and Xiao Chi went to Chi's house for a while, something happened again. That's the one who came to make trouble several times Ask the Ma Sect Master to help find his son, and his son has been found."

She said she found it, but her expression didn't look joyful or happy, Chi Yan guessed that it was not easy.

Sure enough, only Xu Xin continued: "But what I found was a corpse, and it was found in the forest in the mountains."

Xu Rui put down the chopsticks in his hand: "What happened again? Do you know the cause of death?" A few days ago, Lin Zhu, the second sister-in-law's son, also disappeared first, and then found the body. The cause of death has not yet been found out.

"That's why it's so strange," Xu Xin said, "There were a lot of people who saw the corpse at that time, and a young celestial master surnamed Jiang was very surprised and panicked when he saw Ma Tian's corpse. Come out. This Jiang Tianshi is about the same age as Ma Tian, ​​and he has no experience. He killed Ma Tian by mistake, but he was afraid of the power of the master of Mamen and was afraid of being discovered, so he simply did nothing and burned Ma Tian's body on the spot under a tree, burying his soul. And dispose of it, let him be a ghost, and go back to his relatives to avenge his grievances. He has already prepared his heart, but he didn't expect to see Ma Tian's body appear again today. It's revealed."

Xu Rui frowned: "Didn't he say that he had already burned Ma Tian's body?"

Xu Xin said: "That's right. He said he remembered it clearly, but later he sent a few people to dig with him at the back mountain. They didn't even dig around a few trees, but they didn't find the burnt bones he said. The remains. Now he is completely insane, and no one else can tell whether what he said is true or not, so there is still arguing in front of him."

Chi Yan interrupted suddenly: "Xiao Xin, let me ask you something, did you say when Ma Tian died based on the condition of the body? Is it like Lin Zhu did last time, or is the actual time of death earlier than the time of disappearance?" a period of time?"

Xu Xin nodded: "That's right, how did you guess that?"

Chi Yan didn't speak, he just felt cold all over.He suddenly had a guess.

Li Mao didn't lie, but Chi Rong who talked to him these days should no longer be human.

That explains everything.

When he was still a human, he suddenly wanted to come back for some reason, but he was already dead when he came back, and he himself realized this and felt that something was wrong, so he kept telling himself to go.

He didn't leave by himself, because he knew that he should not be able to leave.

It's not that Chi Rong suddenly died for some reason and turned into a mummy that seemed to have been dead for nearly a month, but that he had indeed been dead for nearly a month.Calculating the time, it should be when the Hejia Village incident was triggered and the two police officers disappeared.If what Li Mao said is true, then it can be assumed that Chi Rong set up a bureau in Hejia Village to lure him back, or even directly kidnapped him back there without anyone noticing, but this bureau was instead caught by another Being used by others has turned into a deadlock where you can put yourself to death, and Chi Rong also died in the process.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this speculation was reasonable, but there were still some details that needed to be added, about the death of his father, about the deaths of Lin Zhu and Ma Tian.He also needs to obtain a piece of information through brother Yingzhi.

Thinking of this, Chi Yan couldn't sit still anymore, so he hurriedly contacted the driver to pick him up, and at the same time said to Xu Xin and Xu Rui: "I have to go back quickly, I have something to do, you should be careful recently, it's best to bring some magic tools to drive away ghosts and keep you safe. wait for my call."

If all his guesses are true, then...

Can't stay in this place.