treacherous world

The scene in the room at this time was that the lid of the golden coffin was opened at some point, and the ancient corpse with a cat face and five tails was sitting upright in the coffin, with its head facing outside, and its black eyes staring directly at the door. Everyone looked like they just got up.

Everyone at the door was silent for a while, and then they heard "Hi, mother!", and Pang Yu, Bao Yan, Pang Taishi, plus the fourth son and the accompanying servants all screamed and hid behind Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang and Zhao Pu .

On the roof, Ziying hugged Zheying, "Ah! It's scary to cheat a corpse!"

Zhe Ying and the others have followed Zhao Pu to march and fight for many years, and they have never seen anything terrible, but the scene in front of them is still a bit scary.

Especially Hui Ying and the others who were guarding on the roof. He can guarantee that no one has ever entered. So, how did the coffin lid open?The corpse is made by oneself... how is it possible?

"Oh, old Bao." It was rare for Pang Ji to poke Bao Zheng in front of him with his finger. Master Bao's complexion was much paler than usual. I wonder if it was due to the heavy snow.

"Ah ah!"

Just when everyone wanted to go inside to see what happened, the fourth son suddenly hugged Gongsun and yelled.

Gongsun is very courageous, he has seen many dead people, but this is the first time he has seen a bone that can move by itself, he was excited, and the fourth son's pounce shocked him, and he looked back, "Little fourth son, what are you doing?" Is it?"

"It moved!" The fourth son excitedly said to Gongsun, "Daddy, that bone just moved!"

Everyone frowned, and at the same time, they heard a weird "quack quack quack..." sound, which seemed to be the skeleton laughing.

Many masters present couldn't help but took half a step back. At the same time, they saw the cat-faced ancient corpse suddenly raised his face and lay down again.At the same time, the large and heavy coffin lid moved slowly, and lightly landed on the coffin, closing it tightly, as if it was tightly seamed.

In the snowy night where everything is silent, everyone can only hear each other's breathing and their own heartbeats—it's so evil!

"Old Bao!" Pang Yu tugged at Bao Zheng's sleeve, "I've hit a ghost! Don't you come down to earth as a Wenqu star? Ask the general what he wants! Can we burn some paper money for him?"

Bao Zheng turned his head and gave him a blank look, then frowned and looked at the crowd, "Everyone, do you have any ideas?"

Zhao Pu raised half of his eyebrows and looked at it for a long time, then asked the coffin, "Do it again if you have the ability."

Gongsun patted him, "Why are you fighting with it?"

Everyone looked at Bao Zheng subconsciously, as if asking——what should we do next?

Bao Zheng was also a little helpless, he had never encountered such a situation.

Just as he was hesitating, Gongsun felt the fourth son holding him behind him. He thought he was afraid, but saw the fourth son pointing forward.

Both Gongsun and Zhao Pu looked in the direction of his finger, only to see that Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao standing in the front were rather strange at this time.

Zhan Zhao was looking at Bai Yutang curiously, while Bai Yutang squatted down, pressing the snow with one hand, tilting his head and looking at the lower part of the golden coffin, wondering what he was studying.

Everyone looked at each other - could it be that Bai Yutang discovered something?

At this time, Bai Yutang looked up at the sky, the snow had completely stopped, and the wind was still strong.

Bai Yutang walked over, closed the door, and opened it again, but nothing changed inside.

Everyone watched his movements silently, Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and poked him lightly, "Yutang, what's the situation?"

Bai Yutang turned his head, "I want to do it again."

"Can we do it again?" Zhao Pu also became interested, and everyone gathered to watch.

Bai Yutang asked, "Borrow the brazier from someone's room?"

Everyone looked at each other, Xiao Liang quickly ran back to fetch the brazier in the room.

Bai Yutang said again, "I want a bucket of hot water."

"I'll get it." Qingying hurried to the kitchen to get a bucket of water.

Bai Yutang asked to put the bucket and brazier in the room, then closed the door, and said to everyone, "Go back to the room and wait for a while."

"Bai Shaoxia..." Bao Zheng asked Bai Yutang, "This is?"

Bai Yutang shrugged slightly, "If I'm not mistaken, this coffin is a mechanism with a complicated structure. I've seen a similar mechanism before, called a revolving lantern box, and there is a universe inside the mechanism. When the mechanism is opened, it will use light and shadow Changes, produce shadows, and the shadows still move, so they look very real, just like the principle of revolving lanterns.

While speaking, everyone gathered in Bai Yutang's room.

After waiting for a while, only the fourth son yelled, "There it is!"

Let's see again, sure enough!The same shadows as before appeared on the paper window, a group of soldiers practicing, with five tails.

"Okay." After Bai Yutang finished speaking, he led everyone to the warehouse door, but this time they didn't open the door, but went up to the roof, opened a few tiles, and jumped down...

After entering the room, sure enough, the coffin lid had been opened, and the ancient corpse sat up.But what is different from just now is that there are "click click" sounds coming from the coffin boards and inside the coffin, as if something is turning.

Zhan Zhao looked at the shadows cast on the walls and they were still moving, and he was also surprised, "It turns out that the light and shadow are reflected from here."

"It's really the same as a revolving lantern." Gongsun also squatted on the ground watching the changes in the coffin, "No wonder there is such a large piece of space. I thought it was solid, but I didn't expect it to be full of organs."

"But why did the corpse sit up?" Zhao Pu didn't understand.

Bai Yutang smiled, "I'm afraid this corpse isn't real bones."

Gongsun was slightly taken aback, walked over and tapped on the bones, "Really! It's not bones!"

Everyone also went to knock on the bones and found that they were made of wood.

"The whole mechanism is connected." Bai Yutang said, "This kind of revolving door mechanism usually requires several elements. The first is of course the mechanism, and the second is the key to activate the mechanism, the change of cold and heat. The third is the light. and shadows."

"Cold people change..." Zhan Zhao frowned and thought for a while, "Because it's warm inside, and there's still water vapor?"

"Before everyone said that they saw groups of officers and soldiers practicing in the mountains, right?" Bai Yutang asked, "A few important points were mentioned."

"Thunderstorms and wildfires." Zhao Pu reacted quite quickly, "There is light, and there is a sudden change in thickness and temperature."

Bai Yutang disassembled the corpse's hand bones, and pulled out a rope from inside.

"What is this?" Zhan Zhao flicked the hook lightly, and found that the rope was elastic, very soft but also very tough.

"This is the legendary dragon intestine, which is the key to the revolving lantern mechanism." Bai Yutang said, "This kind of dragon intestine is wrapped around the mechanism and firmly fixes the mechanism. But it has a special feature. As long as it is hot and damp, it will The guts of the dragon will loosen and the mechanism will open. And wait until we open the door.

"As soon as the cold wind pours in, the dragon's intestines will stiffen, and the mechanism will stop instantly." Everyone understood that Bai Yutang ordered the coffin to be opened, and sure enough... the coffin stopped, the shadow disappeared, and the corpse just stood there frozen.

"When it gets colder for a while, the mechanism will fall back and everything will return to its original position." Bai Yutang smiled helplessly, "I saw it when I was a child."

Zhan Zhao asked in a low voice, "Did Aunt Wu make it for you?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "When she was young, she made a lot of tricks to scare me."

Zhan Zhao began to imagine on his own how little Bai Yutang, who had lost all his teeth and called "Master Hu" when he was a child, was so scared by the organ that he jumped up and down.

Seeing his expression, Bai Yutang leaned over, "When Fifth Aunt took me with me, my teeth were already leaking."

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao hurriedly gathered his mind, and took a look at Bai Yutang - could he guess it? !

After the mechanism of the golden coffin was lifted, everyone began to wonder.

"The reason why Zhan Hao is looking for the golden coffin is because it has a legend of bringing people back to life." Bao Zheng looked at the crowd, "But now it is proven that it is just a deceptive institution, so it is not worth much?"

Everyone nodded, not understanding why Zhan Hao went to great lengths to find such a fake golden coffin, and what's the point of these cat-faced monsters?

"Haha~" The fourth son yawned, and Gongsun picked him up and patted him.

Bao Zheng looked at the sky, "It's a false alarm tonight, everyone should rest first."

Everyone went back to their rooms, and when they left the storeroom, Zhan Zhao saw Wu Ming sneaked into the room again at some point, lying on the side of the box containing Wu Ming's cat's mud tires, smelling it, and called two people very affectionately. Sound, rub up.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, and exchanged a glance with Bai Yutang.

"Five lives." Zhan Zhao called out to the little black cat.

Wu Ming raised his head to have a look, then jumped down lightly and skillfully, and ran into Zhan Zhao's arms.When carrying it away, it barked twice at the box containing the mud tires, as if saying goodbye.

Bai Yutang closed the door and looked at the snow covered with messy footprints in front of him - he always felt that something was not clear, what was wrong?

Back in the room, as soon as Bai Yutang sat down, Zhan Zhao leaned over to him, "You are so well-informed, Mr. Bai Wu! Such a powerful institution was not bluffed!"

Bai Yutang smiled, "There are some things I didn't say."

"What?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

Bai Yutang said in a low voice, "I don't quite understand why there are sounds in those stages."

Zhan Zhao blinked.

"That means I don't understand why that thing laughed just now..."

Bai Yutang's gloomy words made Zhan Zhao's skin crawl, and he looked at Bai Yutang in horror, "Are you kidding me?!"

Bai Yutang frowned, and looked at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled, and pinched his chin lightly, "Yeah, I'm joking." After speaking, he turned over and put on the quilt to get ready to sleep.

Zhan Zhao was stunned, only to realize that Bai Yutang was teasing him on purpose.

"Damn rat!" Zhan Zhao pounced on him, holding down the quilt together.

"Cat, it's heavy." Bai Yutang tugged him under the blanket, "Still sleeping?"

"Don't sleep! You don't even want to sleep!" Zhan Zhao argued with him while holding the quilt.

Just as they were having a good time, they saw the fourth son poking his head in and looking at him.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao raised their eyebrows and said in unison, "No way, Zhao Pu and Gongsun aren't sleeping yet?!"

The fourth son tilted his head and said, "Jiujiu said he couldn't go to sleep, and went to practice with Xiao Liangzi, and Daddy also said he couldn't go to sleep, and he needed to make medicine, so he can go to sleep tomorrow afternoon."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were rather dumbfounded—these two had the tone of an old married couple.

"Wave to the fourth son and let him in." Zhan Zhao asked him, "Such a big bed is not enough for me to sleep?"

"Are you afraid?" The fourth son got into the quilt, hugged Wu Ming, and glanced out the door again.

"What are you afraid of?" Zhan Zhao patted his head.

The fourth son whispered, "Even if you say it's fake in vain, it's still so scary that the dead man sits up."

"Don't be afraid, there are not so many monsters and goblins in this world." Bai Yutang poked his fleshy cheek twice, "Even if there were, they wouldn't find you."

"Really?" Little Four puffed out his cheeks and sighed, "Well, I always feel weird things happen."

"That's because we are in Kaifeng Mansion." Zhan Zhao covered him with a quilt, "The yamen is a place to deal with such ghosts and gods. There are always all kinds of bad guys, and they will try their best. harm."

The fourth son looked at Wu Ming who was already asleep in his arms, "Speaking of which, Wu Ming really likes Wu Ming."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang laughed, and patted the fourth son lightly to make him sleep.

The surroundings became quiet again, Zhan Zhao looked at the chubby little fourth son raised by Gongsun, and inexplicably thought of those children who were abducted by Zhan Hao, why did the elder brother abduct so many children?No matter how many reasons he has, even if there are ten thousand unavoidable reasons, it is always wrong to take a child away from his own parents. This one alone makes him worry about it. How can he convince himself that his eldest brother is a good person? !

Zhan Zhao sighed, and Bai Yutang patted him on the shoulder lightly, "Cat, don't think about it, go to sleep."

Zhan Zhao closed his eyes again.

He didn't know how long he had slept, and he felt something moving in a daze. He thought it was Wu Ming at first, but later found out that it was wrong. It might be that the fourth son wanted to get up or wake up at night.

He stretched out his hand to grab it gently, and sure enough, he grabbed one of the arms of the fourth son, and asked, "Little fourth son, are you up at night?"

Asked, but no one answered, Zhan Zhao opened his eyes, and sure enough, the fourth son was crawling outside.

"Little Si?" Zhan Zhao called out again, but the little Si didn't respond at all, his eyes were staring straight ahead, mechanically trying to crawl out, but he couldn't.

Zhan Zhao raised his eyes and realized why the fourth son couldn't get out. It turned out that Bai Yutang grabbed the back of his clothes.

Zhan Zhao didn't understand what the big one and the young were making a fuss about. He looked at the sky and found that it wasn't completely bright yet. It should have been less than an hour since he lay down just now.

"Yutang?" Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, and Bai Yutang "shushed" him, signaling him to look at the fourth son.

The little four still crawled out mechanically, Wu Ming also woke up, meowed twice, and looked at the little four puzzled.

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a long time, and saw that the eyes of the fourth son were open, but the eyes that were originally bright and bright were not at all lively at the moment, and they were more like an unconscious state.Zhan Zhao immediately wondered if the fourth son was sleepwalking, and he couldn't be woken up right now, it is true that sleepwalking is very common among children, and if they wake up suddenly, it is easy to get sick.

He lowered his voice and asked Bai Yutang, "What happened to him?"

Bai Yutang shook his head and said in a low voice, "It's time for him to have a cup of tea."

Zhan Zhao opened his eyes wide in surprise, "It's been so long..."

At this moment, Zhao Pu shouted from outside, "Gongsun!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were startled, their first reaction was to go to see the little fourth son, but the little guy was not woken up at all, just crawled out in a daze.The second reaction was——Zhao Pu actually called Gongsun's surname!How big of a deal is this?

Zhan Zhao turned over and Bai Yutang dragged the fourth son to lean on the bed.Zhan Zhao pushed open the window, and saw Zhao Pu hugging Xiao Liang, who was tied up by him, shouting "Gongsun!"

Gongsun had prepared the medicine and was about to squint for a while, but was startled by Zhao Pu's sound and fell off the chair, and ran out in a hurry, only to see Xiao Liang's eyes widened and Zhao Pu tied him up.

"What's going on?!" Gongsun ran out.

Zhan Zhao turned around and called Bai Yutang, "Yutang!"

Bai Yutang hugged the fourth son and followed him out, feeling that the fourth son was still moving in his arms, as if trying to break free, and then ran out.He and Xiao Liang were facing the same direction, west...

"I don't know. I practiced well, but I left suddenly without saying a word, and I couldn't stop it, as if I had hit an evil spirit." Zhao Pu put Xiao Liang down, and Xiao Liang immediately struggled as if he was going to go far away. run.Xiao Liang thought he was very obedient and sensible, this was the first time this happened, the others were also alarmed and ran out to ask about the situation.

"So does the fourth son." With Zhan Zhao's words, everyone looked up, only to see the fourth son also looked dumbfounded and wanted to run outside.

"Little Four!" Gongsun pushed him, "Wake up!"

Zhao Pu shook his head, "I pushed Xiao Liangzi for a long time, but he still doesn't wake up."

"Are the two the same?" The shadow guards were helpless.

Gongsun hurriedly felt the pulse of the two children, but after a while, he also scratched his head, "It's okay..."

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji were puzzled, "What's going on?!"

Just when everyone was getting angry with doubts, suddenly... I saw Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang not moving, closing their eyes as if they were asleep.

"Not moving..." Bai Yutang looked down.

After a while, the fourth son raised his face and yawned, opened his eyes, as if his neck was sore, stretched out his hands and rubbed his surroundings, with a dazed expression on his face.

In the same way, Xiao Liang also woke up, looked at the rope on his body in puzzlement, and finally looked up at Zhao Pu, "Master?"

Zhao Pu reached out to touch his forehead, "What's wrong with you?"

Xiao Liang shook his head puzzled.

"Xiao Liangzi?" The fourth son was surprised when he saw Xiao Liang, "Why did you tie up Xiao Liangzi?"

The adults didn't know how to explain it. Zhao Pu untied the rope, and Gongsun grabbed one of them with one hand, and watched vigilantly, for fear that another one would run away in a while.

The fourth son and Xiao Liang were puzzled, what's going on?

Zhan Zhao squatted down and looked at the two children, "How did you two feel just now?"

"Hmm..." The fourth son seemed to be confused, "I seem to be dreaming!"

"I was dreaming too." Xiao Liang nodded, "What a weird dream."

"What did you dream about?" Bai Yutang asked them.

"I dreamed that someone told me to go, as if someone was waving to me." Xiao Si replied, and Xiao Liang on the other side was surprised, "Jin'er, I am too."

"Sleepwalking together by such a coincidence?" Pang Yu felt strange.

"How is it possible?" Zhao Pu frowned and pointed at Xiao Liang, "Did he suddenly fall asleep in the middle of my teaching?"

Xiao Liang also scratched his head, "I seem to be practicing kung fu... What happened all of a sudden?"

"It seems that only children are affected." Bai Yutang said to himself.

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Now I understand how so many children were taken away by obediently without anyone noticing."