Strange events in the imperial capital

Chu Han just had a meal with his Uncle Cheng Yu and made a profit.

Cheng Yu looked at Luo Zhan very seriously at that time, and asked confirmingly: "You want to take us Chu Han into that No. 3 compound? And you know that two groups of people have entered and can't get out?"

Cheng Yu asked Luo Zhan this sentence twice.

"Hey, don't be so serious. In fact, it should be said that we, Chu Han, 'brought' me in." Luo Zhan explained with a smile.

"You don't talk nonsense with me. Why don't you go by yourself? Don't take anyone with you." Cheng Yu spoke in a very soft voice, and he never yelled, but a person who has been a cop all his life can tell anyone's face with just his eyes Peel off the skin.

Boss Luo cocked his feet on the other side of the kang table and imitated his family: Director Cheng, are you holding back some day when you will retire?

Chu Han sat down and sipped his tea, his demeanor was much more mature than his peers, and he said with a smile, "Uncle Xiaoyu, please don't, I'll go by myself, no problem."

Cheng Yu said bluntly, "I'll accompany you."

Cheng Yu is the kind of person who doesn't talk much but is very caring.In the final analysis, I am worried, whose child is this Chu Han?Luo Zhan, you are brave enough now, you have not been interrogated for going to Dali, in case Chu Han gets hurt or something happens, you are not afraid that the family surnamed Chu will cook you alive.

Golden ginkgo leaves covered half of the alley. Chu Han and Boss Luo and Boss Cheng visited No. 3 Daxiangfeng Courtyard at night.For some reason, he had a particularly clear memory of the date, which was October 10th.

After the writer passed away, the yard changed hands and is now the office of a newspaper.Public newspapers are generally only subscribed by the agency, and the operation is half-dead, and there are not many editors and salesmen in the yard.They waited until after dark, and saw the off-duty people push their bicycles away one by one.

The three of them easily climbed over the wall and slipped past without disturbing the dozing janitor in the car shed.Police officer Cheng came out with them, of course, in casual clothes, with a hat covering his eyes, and he definitely didn't dare to wear a uniform.With Cheng Yu's upright and cautious personality, no one else could invite him to do such a thing except Chu Han.Moreover, Cheng Yu only had one day off in a month. Originally, the couple was going to the suburban reservoir for vacation. This time, they really sacrificed their lives for their husband to accompany their eldest nephew. Chu Han was very moved.

There is a small camera under the eaves. When Cheng Yu passed by, he turned the camera around so that they would not be photographed.

As soon as Chu Han came in, he had a clear sense of direction. This is a well-preserved old Beijing courtyard house.The front of the atrium is "three bright and five dark", and there are three main rooms and two side rooms on both sides, a total of five rooms.After being transformed into a public institution, this kind of main room is generally used as a meeting room, and the side room is changed into a reference room, a printing room, or even a toilet.There are offices on the left and right sides of the yard, and it seems that the east and west wing rooms are remodeled. The furnishings in the house are plain and uneven, and there are some remnants of the previous night in the teacups.

Bypassing the messy illegal buildings in the center of the yard and the corridor full of cardboard boxes and sundries at the corner, they went around to the back half of the yard, and there was a door behind it?

Chu Han looked around, and behind this should be the so-called back yard, where the housewives lived in the old days.A rustic gate was newly built outside the front yard, in the style of a small institutional courtyard, and the remaining gate inside is the real gate of the old house No. 3.Under the faint aperture of the miniature flashlight, the mottled vermilion paint on the door is revealed, and the weeds on the eaves grow year after year.

While looking at it, Chu Han introduced to the other two people that this should be the original appearance of No. 3 Courtyard, with old brick walls with blue tiles and green strips, and vertical flower doors of folk houses in the late Qing Dynasty, with double leaves facing each other.There is a pair of eaves on the top of the gate, that is, the two square brick carvings on the left and right that are inclined at 45 degrees to the eaves. The carvings look like dragons.Between the eaves pillars and the architrave are painted colorful auspicious cloud patterns, and there are five carved door hairpins on the door beams.The brick patterns and paint colors are all old, but the original magnificence can still be seen. It is a typical decorative door of a courtyard.

Passing through this door is an old two-story building in the backyard, standing alone among the grass.

At that time, when Chu Han saw this strange building, his pores all over his body tightened and he felt uncomfortable.

In fact, this is his intuition.

But it's all here, it's impossible not to go in and have a look.

The door lock is rusted and dusty.There is another lock on the door of the building, and the door plate is specially marked with "the key site, no entry for idlers". Even the sign is covered with a thick layer of gray putty, which makes people frown.

The shape of this building is also weird. The half-floor basement is flush with the ground. From the outside, it looks like a whole floor of damp rooms half buried and half "swallowed" in the soil, and most of them are covered by overgrown weeds.Go up the porch steps to the first floor.The inside of the building is pitch black, a typical old-style detached villa, with a carved door in the foyer and stained glass on the door.Turning from the right hand side, there are the general living room, the study, the small reception room and sun room, the dining room, and the kitchen.There are scattered black and white photos in the room, describing the low-key and peaceful life of the former owner.

Everything seems normal.

Could someone really be missing in this small building and unable to get out?

What are those "terrifying" "shadows" that "cover the walls" in the writer's letters?

There is a very unique window in the small reception room, and there are several ivory photo frames in it.Chu Han was attracted by those old photos at the time, and looked at them for a while before he knew it.The night was darker, and the light circle of the flashlight hit the wall steadily, without shaking for a long time.

Officer Cheng seemed to be attracted by the old thread-bound books in the cabinet, and he read them quietly without speaking.

In the dark, Luo Zhan called his man in a low voice: "Have you finished watching, let's go upstairs and have a look?"

The couple were in front, and Chu Han followed up the stairs.The spiral wooden staircase, the handrail is made of dark brown solid wood, which feels warm and stable.Unsurprisingly, the upper floor is the master bedroom and guest room, so the basement seen from the outside should be the servant's room, laundry room, etc., Chu Han reckoned.

They stay the longest in the master bedroom.Boss Luo can't wait to examine each piece of furniture carefully, not looking for any treasures, but sincerely interested in these aged utensils.There is also a separate bathroom in the master bedroom, which already had a large white porcelain bathtub and advanced stainless steel shower head.Chu Han used the memory cells on the eye mask to quietly copy the beautiful mosaic pattern on the bathroom wall, planning to go back and make a photo as a souvenir.

When he left the room, he said: "Don't be too disappointed if you didn't find the jewelry from the Republic of China saved by the master."

Boss Luo frankly said, "Why do I want a woman's dowry? I just came in out of curiosity to have a look. The life in this small building is quite carefree and bourgeois."

Officer Cheng walked beside Luo Zhan, and the two of them walked as if they were usually walking in the alley, and their steps were in tacit harmony.

Chu Han suddenly turned around and asked, "Uncle Xiaoyu, did my third uncle have a dowry when he entered your old Cheng's house?"

"Yes." Cheng Yu glanced at Luo Zhan, and said, "Dowry seems to be a set of cooking utensils, a pot of very good quality."

Boss Luo laughed out loud by himself, and added: "Don't tell me, I used to have a really good frying pan. Later, the old lady was still reluctant to throw it away, and she took it out to look at it from time to time."

Boss Luo is a man of pride, he is not afraid of laughing at himself in front of his family, and he does not hesitate to put himself down.Chu Han really appreciates this. Men should do this. When they leave the house, they are like an upright man. They are capable thieves and very rich. When they return home, they are a virtuous and loyal family man.

The three of them went downstairs together.Chu Han took a photo of the stairs with a flashlight, and returned along the original path of the spiral staircase. Below should be the small reception room where he saw the photo just now, that is, a sunroom with hexagonal glass windows.After walking quickly for half a minute, Chu Han raised his eyes and asked inexplicably, "Where is this?"

Boss Luo said, "Isn't it the first floor?"

They looked around, the master bedroom was still in the middle, and there was a guest room on the left and right.

Without saying a word, Chu Han quickly turned his head and went down the stairs again, turned around and saw that it was still the master bedroom and the two guest rooms!

When he ran down for the third time, some experience had already alerted him: the stairs were wrong.

Boss Luo and Police Officer Cheng stopped to check with their flashlights, and they were sure that they were walking the same stairs.There is only this spiral staircase in the center of the small building, but the original path can no longer be returned.Luo Zhan whispered: "Fuck...the ghost hit the wall."

Although Chu Han has never experienced this kind of thing, he has heard many similar stories.When a ghost hits the wall, people will always circle in the same direction, and they will not be able to get out until dawn, and they will be trapped to death here.But this staircase is not long. They walked a few more times, and they are sure that there are 48 wooden stairs in total, which are in the shape of a corner spiral.It was a shame that three men were trapped in such a small stairwell.

Police officer Cheng frowned, looked back, and looked downstairs from the middle of the spiral staircase, and said seriously: "Xiaohan, you two go downstairs, just keep going down, I will stand here, I think you two can walk How far is it, can you go around, how can you not get out?"

Just as Boss Luo was about to take a step, he subconsciously stopped and grabbed Cheng Yu: "No, how can I leave you alone in this damn place?"

Cheng Yu said in a low voice, don't we want to experiment!Someone has to stay put and someone else has to go downstairs.But Luo Zhan can't say, we have to stay together, anyway, I'm not used to walking with you separately.

That is, a few seconds of whispering and tugging, which Chu Han heard.

It is also sensitive in mind, as if the heart directly under the throat has been pinched by someone.People sometimes feel that loneliness is a momentary emotion.

Standing at the door of the master bedroom, Chu Han accidentally raised his eyes and was shocked again.

On the bedroom wall are four huge half-floor-to-ceiling glass windows; double-layer curtains, the inner layer of creamy white screens, and the outer cover of thick dark green velvet curtains, half-covered.It was already dark outside, only the street lamps in the distance were shining.Chu Han clenched the flashlight tightly and made a fist with the other hand. He greeted his companion and walked over slowly: "Keep quiet...you two look outside."

Boss Luo murmured, "Isn't this room on the second floor?"

Officer Cheng confirmed: "It was indeed the second floor just now, we came up from the first floor."

There is a reason why they discuss it this way.Now, just outside the window, what they saw was not the courtyard view they were looking down on.Half of the window glass seems to be buried in the soil, obviously below the horizon, and the other half is on the ground, covered by a clump of weeds, and the outside can hardly be seen clearly.

Luo Zhan's tone changed: "Fuck me, I can't even tell the difference between going up stairs and going down stairs..."

Cheng Yu didn't speak, and grabbed Luo Zhan's elbow, still close to each other.

Boss Luo's scolding made Chu Han tremble.It is impossible for the three of them to confuse going upstairs and downstairs. If you can read this wrongly, you must have muddled your mind.

The wind blows outside, and the weeds outside the window fall down and shake with the wind, and you can see a little bit of starlight in the night sky above.

It was at this moment that Chu Han's chest really began to surge, not to mention fear, maybe it was the excitement that boiled in his bones and blood when a person like him encountered a challenge?This is no ordinary ghost hitting the wall. They thought they were outside the bedroom on the second floor, but they turned out to go downstairs and into the basement.It may be purely a psychological effect, there is an illusion that half of the body of a living person is buried in the soil-is this trapped in a coffin?

The corridor was extremely quiet. Chu Han felt that the soles of his leather shoes were too loud, and when he stepped on the wooden stairs, his heart creaked.

His Uncle Cheng Yu pressed his shoulder: "No, it's not right here."

"Chu Han, we must leave here quickly and find a way to get out."

In fact, it was not impossible for the three of them to escape from the building.After all, this is not a sealed secret room, but a villa that has been in disrepair for a long time, with a masonry and cement exterior wall, it doesn't matter if it is blown out directly.But after all, they are breaking into private houses and tearing off the roofs of other people's old houses at every turn, which is really unkind.

Luo Zhan rolled his eyes: "I have some explosive materials here, but I have no detonation tools."

The man turned to the police officer and asked, "Where is your gun? Do you have any bullets?"

Cheng Yu said: "It's handed over to the library, and you don't bring a gun when you get off work."

Luo Zhan complained: "Fuck me baby, you really obey the rules!"

But Police Officer Cheng has always been serious and well-behaved, and going crazy with his eldest nephew is almost breaking the bottom line.

Chu Han hurriedly stopped him: "Don't tear down other people's houses, I have a way to get out."

He was whining, but Boss Luo was not so anxious and irritable when he looked at Officer Cheng's expression at that time.In short, the two of them have been together in heaven and earth for so many years, and they are still together after being imprisoned and unable to get out. What's so scary?It was only then that Chu Han understood that Uncle Xiaoyu was really accompanying him. No wonder he was upset that the third master had brought his nephew on an adventure in Dali a while ago!Of course, a person with Cheng Yu's personality would never reveal his nasty words to his eldest nephew...

In the end, they still walked through the passage of the master bedroom, with the large double windows in the middle.He struggled to open the window, and there was a protective iron fence outside.The iron railings are densely packed, less than one hand's width, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to get out without cutting tools.

Chu Han closed his eyes slightly and concentrated, holding an iron bar with both hands and rubbing it slowly.Boss Luo, who was born as a cook, looked at his movements, which definitely looked like rolling noodles.He rubbed the iron core until it softened, and water dripped from the surface of the iron bar, and then bent it hard, pulling out a gap that could accommodate a person.His palms were completely soaked in sweat, and his forehead seemed to be running a faucet, and sweat dripped down instantly.Then he let those two go out first.Boss Luo has big muscles and is hard to plug.He pushed hard from behind, Boss Luo turned his head and said sincerely: "Nephew, I'm convinced, it's just you and your dad practicing this skill, it's really hard to do without you and us today."

Chu Han had no choice but to think, I am still far behind my dad. That guy Chu Xun was said to be able to fix a piece of iron in 5 minutes by rubbing. I rubbed for a full 15 minutes, and I was so tired that I almost collapsed.

Chu Han finally got out, and his shirt was so soaked that it stuck to his back.

Before he left, he glanced back and found that the bedroom floor had moved.The room fell into a kind of hallucination, constantly arching and undulating.In the stairwell where they kept circling just now, the walls were deformed and uneven, and a series of gray-black shadows suddenly appeared on the original white wall, as if there were people inside.