The bright moon sits on the ground

Sunset West Mountain.

Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng had searched around the weird mansion several times, but found no clues.

Seeing that the sunset has already dyed the sky blood red, the fading sun hangs slantingly on the mountainside, and the deep red and light orange sunlight lingers on the dark surface of the mansion, which makes Nie Qiu feel that the mansion is like a beast that is about to wake up As if, even the time around him couldn't help slowing down, for fear of waking it up.

Time waits for no one, and it will be too late if we wait any longer. However, Nie Qiu looked at the mansion for a day, but at this moment he felt an inexplicable feeling that something had changed.

Fang Qisheng seemed to realize something, frowning and looked at it carefully again.

He turned his head and wanted to speak, but Nie Qiu preempted him——

"Someone."

But what Fang Qisheng said was: "The door."

Both of them were taken aback for a moment, only then did they understand what the other was talking about.

Nie Qiu heard a thin rustling sound coming from the mansion, like the sound of feet stepping on fallen leaves, while Fang Qisheng saw a few cracks slowly appearing on the wall of the mansion facing them. It looks like a door shape.

After a few breaths, the gaps had become very deep. The next moment, the wall fell down with a bang, but it happened to be stuck in a position perpendicular to the mansion, and it stopped moving.

The inside of the mansion was opaque, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen clearly. After a while, a ball of fire burst out suddenly.

A very strange face just appeared beside the fire, and the woman in gorgeous clothes held a delicate candle lamp, looked at the two of them quietly, and said after a while: "Young masters, inside please."

The voice was neither female nor male, and Nie Qiu couldn't think of a word to describe it.

The woman placed the candle lamp on the high platform casually, half of her body was hidden behind the wall, as if some mechanism had been turned on, the sound of creaking gears was heard one after another, and the small vertical wall "clicked" and flipped down , hanging upside down at the bottom of the mansion, and at the edge of the ground, there are wooden boards protruding out, reaching the ground in a few strokes, nailing the edge with the hook lock firmly to the edge of the cliff, forming a bridge .

She lit the two lamps by the door again, lowered her hands and stood at the intersection of darkness and light, tilted her head slightly, like a charming girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, blinked her eyes, and asked, "Don't you dare?" go?"

The words were calm, but Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng glanced down, but they couldn't ignore the increasingly dangerous river.

Down the river is the break of the mountain peak. If you fall from that waterfall, you don't know if you can survive.

The woman didn't let them hesitate for too long, she turned around and landed on the junction of the two planks, but the long plank didn't shake at all and looked very solid.

She stood in the middle of the bridge and turned around a few times. Every time she seemed to fall, the woman could always stand firm, flipped her wrists and threw off her long sleeves, and danced on her back like an actor. After a while, she slowly retracted. With wide sleeves, he stepped back to the door step by step, stretched out his clothes, and read aloud——

"Opportunities are hard to find, don't miss the opportunity."

It would be foolish to hesitate any longer.

Across a wooden bridge, Nie Qiu cupped his fists at the woman and said, "Sorry for bothering you."

Then they took the first step.Nie Qiu walked in front, and Fang Qisheng was behind. Both of them could feel that the plank was as strong as the woman had shown before. It walked like walking on flat ground, and it carried the weight of two grown men without shaking at all.

When the talented woman jumped to the middle of the bridge, Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng saw her face clearly through the setting sun.

When they glanced at her before, they only felt that her face was very strange, but after seeing it clearly, they realized where the strangeness was.

She looks very delicate, even beautiful, but the right half of her face seems to be sewn on. The stitching skills are very clever, and there is no trace of needlework at all, but the skin color is slightly different. The two pairs The eyes were also a different color, one light brown and the other pearly black.

The woman didn't care at all, she raised her face carelessly and watched them approach step by step.

Walking into the mansion, Nie Qiu knew where the sound of feet stepping on fallen leaves came from. It turned out that in this mansion, there were several layers of fallen leaves on the ground, and there were several trees inside. How did it grow, but at this time it is already as thin as an old man in his seventies, and he still looks a bit bleak at first glance.

Going in, she couldn't see clearly. The woman raised her hand, and the candle lamp was placed in Nie Qiu's hand.

After she finished these, the expression on her face gradually faded, and she turned around and stood by the wall, motionless.

Fang Qisheng saw that the mechanism she had activated before was actually a huge winch. He walked over and tried it, and the expression on his face became a little dignified.

"What?" Nie Qiu asked.

"you try."

Nie Qiu really walked over. He put the candle lamp aside and couldn't move the winch with both hands.

Who is this woman...?

They looked at the woman, she was standing by the wall, with her hands folded in front of her body, her eyes were looking straight ahead, as if she couldn't feel anything, her mouth was tightly closed, how could Fang Qisheng and Nie Qiu want her to speak, They all fell silent.

So Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng had no choice but to leave her alone for the time being, picked up the candle lamp, and walked in along the yard full of fallen leaves.

Although the mansion is big, there are only three of them in it.

At this time, when the sun was setting again, an atmosphere that was almost eerily quiet slowly enveloped the entire mansion. For a while, only their shallow breathing and the crisp sound of fallen leaves being trampled into pieces could be heard.

It may not be obvious from the outside, but as soon as he entered, Nie Qiu clearly felt that the mansion was much larger than he imagined. Several houses were built into three or four-story low buildings, which could be seen There seemed to be quite a few people who lived in this mansion before.

They carefully observed the outside for a long while, and after understanding the layout of the mansion, they went in.

The low building on the left was painted red. If it hadn't been covered with ash, Nie Qiu felt that it must have been blood red like the setting sun in the past.

After walking in, the two realized that this was where the woman lived.

The layout inside is extremely simple, but there is still a place for dressing up. On the wall is a splash-ink landscape painting. Under the painting, there is a wooden table in the corner, with paper, ink, pens and inkstones on the table, and a bookshelf on the other side. , It was full of books, but they were all covered with dust and covered with several layers of cobwebs.

The owner of this room must be a person who has studied, and his interests are different from ordinary women. Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng looked around for a few times but did not see anything like female red, and there were only scattered things on the dressing table. Put some rouge and a wooden comb.

Fang Qisheng went to look at the books on the shelf, while Nie Qiu gently brushed away the spider webs on the wooden table. On the table that had been dusty for a long time, there were dried inkstones and half-stained Langhao brushes. He wanted to come here People may be halfway through the painting, but they are distracted by other things, put down the pen in a hurry and leave.

After that, she never came back, and the painting stopped at the place where her last stroke was made.

Nie Qiu focused on the painting, but couldn't take his eyes off it anymore.

Different from the landscape painting hanging on the wall, that painting is full of wantonness, where the brush and ink touch it, it is vivid and vivid. This picture shows a green-faced and fang-toothed ghost dragging several people bound by chains with a ferocious face, stepping on a raging fire under their bare feet, the expressions on the faces of those people were scorched to the point of extreme pain, and they desperately Pulling the chains and wanting to break free, but unable to match the strength of this evil spirit, his face was covered in blood and his head was hanging down, as if he was in despair.

If you want to say why it is half drawn, it is because only half of the body is drawn on one side of the evil spirit. It is holding a chain in one hand and a spear in the other hand, and it is about to impale a person. heart.Almost the whole painting is painted in black ink, and the bunch of red tassels on the gun is the only red in this painting—the loose and soft red tassels flutter in the wind, and the bright red from the red tassels is like snow dots Like Zhonghongmei, they formed a line, stretching for a few inches, and sporadic spots splashed onto the wall.

There is only that kind of black ink on the table, and I don't know where the red color comes from.

Nie Qiu caught a glimpse of the blood-like bright red, and then regained his mind in a trance, and quickly looked away.

At this time, Fang Qisheng saw something from the bookshelf. He didn't know where he touched it, but a black box fell from the top.He had been prepared for a long time and reached out to catch the box. Nie Qiu also came over to divert attention at this time. Seeing that he had opened the box, he looked over it with him.

There was only a layer of cotton with deep grooves left in the box, and there were no complicated mechanisms other than that. Fang Qisheng looked over it several times. Nie Qiu took the box and walked along the edge of the groove. After touching it and rubbing the original shape of the thing over and over again, a vague outline gradually formed in my heart.

"Bronze bell." Nie Qiu murmured.

Fang Qisheng put the box back, and seeing that there was nothing special in the room, he went upstairs with Nie Qiu.

The upper floors were all locked, and he couldn't get in. Fang Qisheng wanted to break open the door directly, but was stopped by Nie Qiu. Since it was locked, he didn't know what was inside, or waited for something else I have seen all the places, if there is nothing else, there is still time to come back here.

After they went out, they went to the other low buildings to have a look.

The other low-rise buildings seemed to have been burned by fire. They were baked black, the beams were crumbling, and the contents inside were also burned. Nie Qiu carefully went upstairs to take a look, and found that the second and third floors were the same as the previous one. Same, all locked.

There was a low building among them, and Nie Fang and the two of them collapsed after entering, almost trapping them inside. Fortunately, the wood had been burnt once, and because of the long time, it was so brittle that it would break at the touch of a touch. The weapon escaped.

After a while of exploration, in the end there was only one place left that I hadn't visited yet.

The only building that was not built into a low building, Nie Qiu realized where it was as soon as he opened the door and entered.

This is a huge ancestral hall. Looking at it by candlelight, the tablets on the ancestral hall are all carved from an unknown stone, and each piece is engraved with names and some obscure languages. There was a thick layer of dust, and it became even more unclear. It just stood there quietly under the swaying of the fireworks, as if it had been there for a hundred years.

Since the woman is here, why does this ancestral hall seem like no one has set foot in it for a long time?

This thought flashed through Nie Qiu's mind.

An ominous premonition rose in his heart, but he saw Fang Qisheng lightly brushing the dust off the nearest tablet, on which two large characters were clearly engraved——

bonds of this world.

At the same time, a woman's faint voice suddenly came from outside the door: "What time is it?"

Her tone was soft and long, and her voice was sharp but not harsh, but it seemed extraordinarily creepy in this quiet mansion.

Without even further hesitation, Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng exited the ancestral hall the next moment. When they turned around, they saw that the woman was already standing at the entrance of the ancestral hall, looking into the ancestral hall expressionlessly, and repeated what they said earlier.

"What time is it?"

The woman didn't pay any attention to them, she just asked herself.

After she asked the third time, still no one answered her words.

Like a ferocious beast that closed its eyes again, the mansion fell into a deep sleep again, and closed the only exit silently along the way.Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng originally wanted to find a place to hide for a while. After all, the situation is really not right now. However, the first floors of the other short buildings are obviously unlocked, but they cannot be opened.

Fortunately, they had carefully observed the layout of this place before. Nie Qiu pulled Fang Qisheng's arm and hid with him under a tall rockery. From the gap, they could just see what the woman was doing.

Her voice echoed throughout the mansion. After the woman persisted in asking several times, she suddenly stopped as if she had heard something, listened carefully, and nodded from time to time, as if she was responding.

However, with Nie Qiu's ear strength, he didn't hear any other sounds.

The woman gave a full smile, spun around a few times happily like before on the bridge, and then knelt down on the ground.

"It's time to ring the bell," she said.

As soon as the words fell, the whole mansion seemed to be covered with hundreds of copper bells. At this time, after the hurricane blew, it shook crazily, and the bells rolled in, and even Fang Qisheng couldn't help covering them. ears, let alone Nie Qiu.

When Nie Qiu heard the first sound, he felt a fishy and sweet breath surging in his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Although Fang Qisheng saw that he was not in the right state, he took out the water bag and fed him a sip of water, Nie Qiu took a sip of his hand, and the sweet water flowed down his throat into his stomach, which dilutes the bloody smell a lot, but He only managed to hold on for a while, but his consciousness gradually became blurred.

In a daze, Nie Qiu only saw a woman in red standing in the distance looking at him.

The woman in red was missing one eye, and there was a small mole under the other eye.