treacherous world

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang saw the red embroidered shoes, but neither of them went to pick them up. It wasn't because they were afraid, but because two big men ran to pick up a woman's embroidered shoes.In addition... Both of them have a common idea, come out later and look again, guess if the shoes are gone?

After entering the house, the courtyard was huge and magnificent. Bai Yutang looked around and nodded in approval, "It's really a good deal."

Zhan Zhao kept frowning, as if he disagreed.

"Well, it's a big courtyard, and the main hall is a study room, not bad." Zhao Pu walked around and saw that the fourth son was holding Zhan Zhao with his arms around him, staring at the roof with his eyes wide open, so he also raised his face.

The roof of this house is extremely weird. The fourth son is used to living in the palace, so he has seen a lot of cornices on the roof. Kaifeng Mansion also has cornices, but...it doesn't look like cornices here, but there is indeed something Things are inserted, it looks like a shovel, or a spatula.

"This Boss Pan used to be a cook?" Yin Hou also frowned and asked Bai Fu in puzzlement, "It's all right, why is there still a spatula on the roof?"

"Is it fried tea?" Pang Yu wondered.

"No, tea leaves are not fried with this kind of shovel."

Everyone guessed one sentence at a time, only Bai Yutang turned his face to look at Zhan Zhao with an extremely complicated expression.

"Cat, what did you see?" Bai Yutang couldn't help but asked.

Zhan Zhao looked at the crowd, "Is there blood on that spatula?"

Everyone looked at each other, looked up together, and finally stared at Zhan Zhao speechlessly, "No..."

"Huh..." Zhan Zhao sighed, "There is blood all around, and it's not a mansion, it's just a ruin, you didn't see the dead bodies all over the ground, did you?"

Everyone shook their heads at the same time, feeling the cold air rising from the ground, Gongsun walked over quickly, stared into Zhan Zhao's eyes, and opened his mouth wide in surprise.

"Daddy, did you see Miyou?" The fourth son hurriedly asked Gongsun.

Gongsun nodded. There was indeed something imprinted in Zhan Zhao's eyes. From his eyes, the entire wall opposite was covered with mottled bloodstains. What's more exaggerated was that the flowers were all decayed, not the flowers in front of them at all. The scene is completely in ruins, and the twisted and hideous corpses are still very fresh, as if they have just died.

At this moment, Zhan Zhao's eyes turned a pale gold color, and the black pupils were larger than usual, much like a cat's eyes.

Just the same as before, just for a moment, the picture disappeared again, and it became what everyone saw.

Zhan Zhao clicked his tongue twice, "En! It's much more pleasing to the eye now!"

Everyone frowned—what happened to Zhan Zhao?If there is something wrong with the eyes, it may be round or flat, the color changes, the light is wrong, or even some colors cannot be seen, it is understandable... But how can I see something that does not exist at all? Is it such a terrifying sight?

"You don't need to pay attention to me, I'll look around and see if there are any monsters and ghosts.

As Zhan Zhao said, he handed over the fourth son to Gongsun, and began to break into the haunted house alone in a rage.Bai Yutang naturally wanted to follow him closely, "If you're tired, would you like to rest for a while?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "Not tired.

"Cat." Bai Yutang followed two steps and grabbed Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao suddenly pointed at his feet, "There's a puddle of blood and an eyeball."

Bai Yutang subconsciously took a step away and looked at Zhan Zhao in surprise.

Zhan Zhao smirked.

Bai Yutang was speechless, "Are you telling the truth?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, and walked forward until he reached the base of the wall, where there was a basin of Water Guanyin.

Bai Yutang walked over.

Zhan Zhao squatted down, "This place hasn't changed."

Bai Yutang was puzzled, squatted down, and looked beside him, "Then?"

"Then just take a look, what I see is the truth, or a fantasy." Saying that, Zhan Zhao moved the flower pot away.

Bai Yutang saw a pool of blood at the base of the wall, which was blocked by flower pots, and the people who cleaned it probably didn't pay attention.

"Just now, I saw a dead person lying in this position." Zhan Zhao pointed to the front of the flower pot and gestured, "He leaned his head against the flower pot and put his hands on the flower pot like this. There was blood on the wall, and there was a lot of blood, and the base of the wall was formed by dripping. If I see it correctly, there is a bloody handprint behind this newly painted wall."

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and pulled out a dagger, and gently pried off some walls.The wall skin is not painted against the brick wall, but painted a second time on the place where the mortar has been painted once, so there is a hollow layer in the middle.After Bai Yutang easily pried off the wall, he looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao nodded, looking at the position of his hands.

Bai Yutang took off a piece of wall covering, and tore off a large piece along the way... There was really a clear bloody handprint behind the wall covering.

Despite their mental preparations, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were still taken aback.

"Oh? So this is not a haunted house, but a murder scene."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were startled, turned their heads suddenly, and saw Tianzun and Yinhou squatting behind them at some point.These two old men have excellent lightness kung fu and deep inner strength, it's normal that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't notice it, but when they appeared out of nowhere, they were really scared to death.

Yin Hou looked at Le, stretched out his hand to pick up the piece of wall covering, and asked Zhan Zhao with some puzzlement, "Zhao Zhao, how could you see things behind the wall?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "What I see doesn't seem to be what's behind the wall."

"It's something from the past, some truth that has been covered up." Bai Yutang helped Zhan Zhao add.

Zhan Zhao nodded in agreement.

At this time, Bao Yan ran in, "I know what that spatula means."

Everyone turned to look at him.

"That pot shovel is called a demon-avoiding shovel." Bao Yan even went to read a book and showed it to everyone.

Tianzun took the book, "Little Mantou, where did you get the books? The ones you read before?"

"Yes." Bao Yan nodded, "We bought some along the way. This is a custom in Dali. It seems that to avoid goblins, you have to stick an iron spatula like this on the roof."

Zhao Pu looked up and pointed at Zhe Ying.

Zhe Ying jumped onto the roof, pulled out the spatula vigorously, and when it fell, there was a stamp on the bottom of the spatula—disaster avoidance.

"Is it really for avoiding disasters?" Gongsun reached out to take it, turned around, and frowned slightly... Just now I couldn't see clearly from a distance, but now I took a closer look and found that there were some parts of different colors on the spatula.

Gongsun asked Xiao Liang to help bring a small box, scraped some rust-red debris from the spatula, melted it with water, smelled it, and told everyone, "It's blood, but it's been a long time, and it has been washed by rain for a long time. Partially washed, only this spot was in the groove and not washed away.

"It seems that the effect of avoiding demons and eliminating disasters has not been achieved." Zhao Pu smiled, "So, what Zhan Zhao saw is real, and it happened in the past."

"Maybe we can find the answer here." Gongsun turned the spatula over and found a small string of characters in a hidden corner - Dilong Temple.

"I've heard of Tianlong Temple, and this is the first time I've heard of the name Dilong Temple." Zhan Zhao still felt quite puzzled, "Isn't Dilong just an earthworm?"

"There are also those who refer to centipedes." Gongsun opened the Dali Geographical Chronicles he had been reading all the way, and flipped through a few articles, "This is the Dilong Temple."

Bai Fu was very dissatisfied, "No wonder the sale is so cheap, so it's not a haunted house but a haunted house, no way! I have to talk to them!"

"Don't worry." Zhao Pu waved his hand, "Let's stay for two nights to see the effect."

Gongsun glanced at him, thinking that he was quite excited.Looking around, Gongsun was powerless. It turned out that Tianzun, Yinhou, including Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were all very excited. Even the fourth son blushed and muttered, "Catch a ghost!"

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It was getting late, and everyone rested early, preparing to study the next step tomorrow.

That night, everyone didn't want to sleep, and wanted to wait for the little ghost to come to the door.

After Zhan Zhao finished washing, he sat on the bed with his legs curled up, flipping through a lot of books, which were the local gods and ghosts that Bao Yan and Pang Yu had just bought outside.

"Yutang, look." Zhan Zhao turned to an article and showed it to Bai Yutang, and saw that it was a portrait of a monster with three heads, but the shape of the head was slightly different from what Zhan Zhao said. What Zhan Zhao described was Three-headed dogs, but the painting here is even more terrifying. The three heads are like a dog's head and a dragon's head.The mouth is long and flat, with sharp teeth and fangs protruding from the mouth, which looks very terrifying.

"What is written here is the angry demon." Bai Yutang flipped back, "Is there no specific introduction?"

"No, I found that most of Dali are legends about Bodhisattvas who save suffering and merciful living Buddhas, and this angry monster is so hideous." Zhan Zhao shook his head, resting his chin.

"Mao'er, do you have any other characteristics about the female ghost in red at the door?" Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao looked at the sky and thought, "I only saw it for a moment, and some don't remember... eh."

While Zhan Zhao was still in a daze, he felt Bai Yutang lean forward and send him a kiss...

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, a faint sweet smell of blood wafted into his mouth, and he glanced out of the corner of his eye... the mouse's finger broke at some point.

Zhan Zhao was furious, this mouse, he couldn't bear to bite that person, so he bit himself.

At this moment, suddenly the door was pushed, and Tianzun came in with his head, "Zhaozhao Tangtang?"

"Ahem..." Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both choked and looked back while coughing.

Tianzun was stunned, and then covered his face, "Ah! Shame, don't provoke the old man!"

While speaking, Yin Hou kicked him from behind.

Tianzun stumbled into the room, and Yin Hou also came in, holding a black cloth bag in his hand, and he didn't know what was in it, and it was thumping and turning.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, wondering, "Did you really catch the brat?"

"Oh? No." Yin Hou opened the bag, and the fourth son came out of the bag with a "huh".

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, and saw the fourth son say to Yin Hou, "I didn't see it!"

"It doesn't work like this..." Yin Hou crossed his arms and looked outside the room behind him, "It won't work."

Outside the door, Gongsun came in with a volume of books, "Strange." Behind him, there was a string of rock-scissors.

Zhan Zhao licked the corner of his mouth, "What the hell are you doing?"

"Daddy is experimenting with the legendary method of opening the eyes of the sky." The fourth son climbed onto Zhan Zhao's bed and said, "Put the child in a black bag, make a small hole, and look out through the hole, and you can see ghosts! "

Zhan Zhao laughed, "Did you see that?"

Gongsun spread his hands, found a chair in the room, and continued to read.

Yinhou and Tianzun also brought in Xiao Liang and Scissors outside the door, and Zhao Pu was holding a chessboard, and everyone sat down to play chess.

Tianzun waved his hands to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Go ahead, both of you, leave us alone."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang held their foreheads... This time, Pang Yu and Bao Yan also came in nibbling melon seeds, and Bai Fu came to deliver tea.

In a blink of an eye, the room was full of people.

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "Don't you guys say you go to bed early, what are you all squeezing in for?"

Everyone looked up to the sky.

Bai Yutang gave a dry laugh, "Aren't you afraid..."

Yinhou and Tianzun raised their eyebrows, "How is that possible? I'm afraid the brat won't see you when he comes!" After speaking, everyone raised their faces in embarrassment, and Zhan Zhao folded his arms and shook his head... just as he was shaking his head.The fourth son climbed down from the bed, and was about to go to the corner with Xiao Liang to have a drink. The fourth son held a candlestick and walked towards the corner.

There is a small table like a fireplace in the corner, and for some reason, there is a bronze mirror on the table.

Zhan Zhao was looking at the fourth son... and felt the candlestick flicker as it passed the bronze mirror... a burst of bright white light flashed in front of his eyes.In the white light, the angry monster appeared again.And this time Zhan Zhao saw a little more, the angry demon was locked by a huge ice-iron chain as thick as the wrist, with four feet stepping on the rushing gray river, roaring and breaking the chain .The chain made a rattling sound, accompanied by the sound of water and the barking of the angry monster, Zhan Zhao felt the noise.

I was restless, and suddenly...all the sounds disappeared.

In the silence, Zhan Zhao saw the picture at the gate again, this time, it was closer and clearer.I saw a woman in red, singing a sad song, holding a three-foot white silk in her hand, walking slowly in front of a mansion.Although the gates, paint colors and carvings are different, it can still be seen... that is the house they are in now.

On the plaque, the big two words are very glaring - Cui Fu.

The woman stopped in front of the gate of Cui's mansion, raised her hand, and threw the white silk up to tie it up. She walked up the steps and tied the white silk with both hands.When she raised her hand, most of her arm was exposed.I saw a large tattoo on the white as jade arm.The skin around the tattoo is still red and seems a little swollen... it can be seen that the tattoo has not been done for a long time.I don't know what kind of craftsmanship was used, the red and black two colors are very conspicuous.The tattoo is exactly the portrait of the angry monster, just like the angry monster that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang saw in the album just now.

The woman raised her head, her face could be seen to have beautiful features, but she had put on a thick layer of powder, and even painted her red lips, the beauty was beautiful, but it was indescribably weird.

The woman poked her head into the white silk, opened her mouth, and gritted her teeth and said, "Cui, I want you to be cursed by the angry demon forever, and you will be killed without leaving a single one!"

As she stepped on her feet and hanged on the lintel, there was thunder and rolling, and at the same time, there was a strong wind.

After a while, someone came to open the door.The man was still very young, a man in his 20s, and he was dressed in a vigorous martial arts uniform.But Zhan Zhao could tell that this style of dressing seemed to be a thing of the past, and now it is estimated that only old men would wear it like that.

The man looked at the hanged female corpse at the door in horror, opened his mouth wide, and was about to say something when he was distracted by a strange noise.

He suddenly raised his head and looked straight ahead, with a look of extreme horror on his face.

Zhan Zhao was a little anxious, because he happened to be standing directly opposite that person, and he couldn't turn his head back. He didn't know what he saw that scared him so much, but he heard the familiar chaotic sounds, accompanied by the barking of dogs...

The man hurriedly fled into the mansion, and closed the door with a "bang".

At the same time, Zhan Zhao noticed a shallow, malicious smile appeared on the pale face of the female corpse.

Afterwards, screams and dogs barking were heard endlessly, and they came from Cui's mansion. One can imagine what happened.

"Cat?"

Zhan Zhao raised his head, because he knew that what he saw was an illusion or just the past, so Zhan Zhao was not frightened by the scene just now.Recalling the many corpses in the yard and the bloody scene, it seemed that there had been a brutal killing.

Not wanting to think too much, Zhan Zhao stood up and walked to the mirror by the fireplace.Looking down... Zhan Zhao found that there is no chimney outside, how could there be a fireplace?Only to find that the fireplace was placed later.He wanted to move the path outside to see if something was covered behind, but there was a "snap".

"Ah!" The fourth son saw that the bronze mirror fell down and broke into several pieces.

Zhan Zhao quickly squatted down, grabbed the hand that the fourth son stretched out to prevent him from picking it up, lest he get hurt.

Gongsun also came over, "Will the bronze mirror be broken?"

"Look, Daddy." The fourth son pointed to the mirror for Gongsun to see, "There is dough."

Zhan Zhao picked up the mirror, only to find that the edges of the fragments had traces of being glued together by the dough... It turned out that the bronze mirror was shattered in the first place, and it was only temporarily fixed, not broken by himself just now.

Just as he was about to pick up the mirror, Bai Yutang suddenly reached out, took the fragment from Zhan Zhao, put it on the ground, placed it with the fragment just now, moved his position, and then stared at it.

Everyone came over to take a look, frowning slightly.This bronze mirror does not seem to be broken, because broken mirrors usually start to crack from the middle, and this is a bronze mirror, no matter how high it falls, it will be deformed at most, and it is unlikely to be broken in half , after Bai Yutang placed it, it was found that the copper mirror was cut by some sharp tool, and four slits were cut at the same time, side by side.

"Four side by side..." Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand, the four fingers except the thumb were bent into claws, and he swiped from top to bottom... Phew...

Everyone frowned, it fit well!

Zhao Pu pondered, "It looks like the claws of some ferocious beast scratched it away."

The fourth son held up the claws of the scissors and tried, "That should be a bear or a tiger, right? The claws are about the same size as the scissors, and they are so powerful that they can even grab a bronze mirror!"

Everyone thought of Nu Yao at the same time.

At this moment, Zhan Zhao was startled suddenly and raised his head.

Bai Yutang was right behind him, he was almost bumped into him, he stretched out his hand to help him, and followed Zhan Zhao's line of sight to look up at the roof, and a strange scene appeared.I saw a few pieces of red silk hanging on the top of the house.The silk and satin seemed to be used to set up the wedding banquet, as if they forgot to take it off... It was still a bit weird to appear here out of thin air.

Zhan Zhao suddenly remembered, "It's no wonder that the female corpse's face is painted so white with such heavy makeup, the woman in the red dress who hanged herself is dressed as a bride!"

Bai Yutang also thought of the red embroidered shoe with gold silk embroidery on it.

"What are you talking about?" Yin Hou couldn't help but leaned over, still holding a chess piece in his hand, "God is talking."

"That's it." Tianzun was curious.

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth and was hesitating what to say to them, when he heard a sudden burst of dog barking outside, with a very ferocious ending.

Zhan Zhao looked at the crowd, "Is it just me who heard it or did you all hear it?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Bai Yutang asked, "Dog barking?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao nodded and heaved a sigh of relief, "Did you hear everything?"

Everyone nodded.

"Are there any dogs in this mansion?" Pang Yu ran to the window and opened it to look.

It's just that when the window was about to open, Zhan Zhao suddenly called out, "Wait a minute..."

Simultaneously.

"Huh..." A bone-piercing wind blew in from the gap in the window. In an instant, all the candles were extinguished, and the room was pitch black.

"Mom!" Pang Yu was so frightened that he almost wet his pants, and subconsciously closed the door with a bang.

Everyone looked up, now it was bright outside and dark inside, through the paper window, through the moonlight in the yard, they saw a person standing at the door of the house...