This is a serious group [unlimited flow]

Why don't you just say a few words? "

Tong Lin Hua replied coldly: "You want to know the clues, why don't you go in and see for yourself?"

The man choked.

Wang Qiqi's face was still a little pale, she mustered up the courage to look into the room again, and asked a question: "If it disappears here, isn't it true in the real world, too bad or good?"

An old player casually said, "Of course."

Wang Qiqi's face turned pale again.

Bai Lang suddenly ran to the bathroom without saying a word, and soon there was a heart-piercing sound of vomiting.

When Wang Qiqi heard this, she also felt a little nauseous, but she restrained herself.

The uncle is still taking quick-acting heart-saving pills.

Veteran players are used to this scene, and they walked towards the restaurant in twos and threes.

When the two of Ban Ming arrived at the restaurant, everyone arrived one after another. Yesterday's team of thirteen people still had eleven people left.

Ban Ming's appetite is as good as ever, and the breakfast tastes really good. He ate half a plate of dry pot cauliflower by himself - although it is a bit strange to make dry pot cauliflower in the morning - it can be seen that the cooking skills are still very good of.

It was just that when they were eating, they always felt that something was staring at them. He looked back and forth a few times but couldn't find the source.

After eating, the two decided to go to the town to inquire about the story of this family.After all, it is a story dungeon, knowing the source of obsession is the most fundamental way to solve the dungeon.

Two other people who were traveling with them also chose to go to the town. The four of them kept a comfortable distance and dispersed as soon as they reached the foot of the mountain.

There are many houses in this town, but nearly half of the houses are empty, and the furnishings inside don't seem to have been moved away, but more like they disappeared suddenly.

There were very few pedestrians in the town, and Ban Ming caught everyone and asked questions, but the answers he got were very vague. When he talked about the castle, fear was almost written on his face.

Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou found nothing after wandering around for half a circle. In the middle of the morning, they found that there were suddenly more pedestrians on the road, all walking in one direction, and the two followed secretly.

The townspeople finally gathered in a small square, and Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou hid in the nearby bushes.

Pieces of raw meat and a large scale were placed in the center of the square. The townspeople gathered around the square, as if they didn't dare to approach, waiting restlessly.

Finally, people in the square raised their kitchen knives and began to chop meat.

There was a lot of raw meat, as if four sheep had been slaughtered.There were buzzing voices among the townspeople, and Ban Ming listened attentively, and found that they were chanting in unison: "The crows are silent on the top of the plane tree, and the girls are singing around the wooden pendulum. If you want to live a peaceful life, don't make the mountain people anxious. "

until the meat is chopped.

The man put all the meat on the scale, measured the weight and said, "It's three catties short."

The townspeople suddenly exploded, and the surrounding crowd seemed to want to run out. Suddenly, someone shouted: "Catch that foreigner!"

A crowd gathered, and finally two strong men held a man's hand, one left and one right, and pressed him to the center of the square.

That person was obviously one of the two who followed Ban Ming and the others to the town.

The man yelled loudly, but to no avail.

Two townspeople jumped out from the crowd and held the man's head.

The person holding the kitchen knife smiled, and without hesitation raised his hand, and sharpened the head in front of him little by little with the knife that was so blunt that it was curled up.

He cut off a thigh from the man, put it on the scale, chopped off a little bit, and put it on the scale again: "Enough!"

The townspeople burst into cheers, and slowly dispersed, leaving only a group of people.

This group of people is the group of people going to the castle that Ban Ming saw yesterday. They packed raw meat and left.

Qiu Tongzhou stood up: "It's getting late, let's go back to have lunch first."

Ban Ming touched her stomach and agreed.

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34. Gallery

—Babies and Girls in White Dresses—

It was past twelve noon when the two returned to the castle.

Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou happened to meet Wang Qiqi who came out to go to the bathroom, she whispered to Bai Lang, "The gallery on the third floor is really scary, I..." She glanced at Ban Ming and her out of the corner of her eye, and didn't say anything further.

The atmosphere in the restaurant was very depressing, and the man who lost his companion in the town huddled in a corner with a pale face, as if he had been greatly shocked.

Ban Ming didn't know what happened until he sat down and took a bite of food.

"Isn't this too salty?" Ban Mingbai spat out the vegetable leaves and drank water.

Qiu Tongzhou raised his eyebrows and pinched a piece. The corners of his eyes twitched twice, but he swallowed it anyway. He drank half a bottle of water from Ban Ming.

Compared with the big brother or sister who cooks this morning, they are completely different.

Tong Lin Hua was finally the first to give up struggling and went upstairs with his companions, probably because he brought something to eat in his backpack.

Wang Qiqi and Bai Lang didn't go back to the restaurant at all.

Ban Ming sighed, and waited for everyone to leave before saying, "There are at least three people who are haunting the castle now."

The first one is the old lady, she is blind with white pupils and can't cook.Two people with very different levels of cooking may or may not include the woman in the red dress.

Qiu Tongzhou said: "I feel that more people will appear."

Ban Ming: "I hope they are all angels with first-class cooking skills."

Qiu Tongzhou said mercilessly: "That's not necessarily true, maybe there may be times when you can't even eat."

Ban Mingquan pretended not to hear it, and changed the subject: "Would you like to visit the gallery on the third floor?"

Qiu Tongzhou nodded.

When passing by the grandfather clock, Ban Ming accidentally saw a part of the grandfather clock that seemed to have peeled off the paint, revealing a dark brown color.

He leaned over and touched it, and found that it was black wood.

wrong.Ban Ming stroked the edge of the peeled paint, it wasn't that the paint was peeled off, the inside should be the original color.

The black outside seemed a little red.Ban Ming observed carefully—no, to be precise, it was red and black.

"This clock..." Ban Ming said softly, "It was re-stained with blood."

Qiu Tongzhou stood behind his grandfather clock and waved to him.

His eyes fell on the back of the grandfather clock. Although it was also black, if you looked carefully, it was quite different from the black and red on the front.

The two checked the grandfather clock and found that the black and red dried blood at the bottom of the grandfather clock's pendulum was the thickest.

Finding nothing else, the two continued to walk to the third floor.

There is a patio in the center of the third floor, from which you can directly see the corridors of the front rooms on the second floor, but when you go up to the third floor, you find that all the corridors on the third floor are hung with oil paintings.

At first glance, all the oil paintings are landscape paintings, and there is only one corridor full of bust portraits.

It should be this one.The two stood at the entrance of this corridor.

Ban Ming looked up at the first portrait. This was a tall man with sharp eyebrows and thin lips. His face was very cold and ruthless.

Qiu Tongzhou walked to the center of the gallery, looked back and forth, and said, "All the portraits in this gallery are of men."

Ban Ming looked back after hearing the words.

This corridor is very long, with only a small window at the very end. Under the light of the candles, it can be vaguely seen that the portraits in the frame are all men.

Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou looked at each portrait back to back, trying to find useful clues.

When he saw the third from the bottom on both sides, Ban Ming suddenly said: "There is a triangle symbol in the lower right corner of my picture frame, which is very shallow."

Qiu Tongzhou said: "I also have them here."

The two paintings look no different from the previous ones.Ban Ming went to look at the last four paintings on both sides: "These four paintings have triangle symbols on them."

"Dang—" the grandfather clock downstairs began to strike the time.The candlelight in the gallery flickered and went out with a bang.

"clang--"

Ban Ming turned around and suddenly found that the oil painting in front of him had changed!

The man in the painting is still wearing the same clothes, but with a rope around his neck, he is hanging from a window ledge.

His bulging eyes stared resentfully out of the screen, his hands tightly grasped the hemp rope around his neck, and his fingernails flipped up due to excessive force.

"clang--"

Ban Ming turned to look at the other five portraits.

After a rough scan, these five pictures seem to have exactly the same changes as the one in front of us.The same position, the same rope, the same ferocious face, but if you look at the facial features, you will find that there are still big differences.

The bell fell, and the candles in the gallery blazed again, and the six portraits all returned to their original appearance.

The two were silent for a few minutes.

"This should be the scene of their death." Qiu Tongzhou stood on the left of Ban Ming and said slowly.

Ban Ming turned her head to look at Qiu Tongzhou, her heart skipped a beat.

At the entrance of the corridor, an upright baby stood quietly, staring at the two of them.

Qiu Tongzhou followed Ban Ming's line of sight and saw the baby.

The baby sucked on the pacifier, took small steps with the light behind his back, staggered, and walked slowly towards the two of them.

The distance between the two got closer and closer, and the baby giggled, and the pacifier fell to the floor, revealing its abnormally large mouth.

In the blink of an eye, Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou said in unison: "The crows are silent on the top of the phoenix trees, and the girls are singing around the wooden pendulum. If you want to live a peaceful life, don't make the mountain people anxious."

Just after reading the first sentence, the candles in the corridor went out again, and the portrait turned into a hanged ghost in the dark, but this time all the protruding eyeballs turned to the other direction, staring directly at the baby.

The corner of the baby's mouth drooped, and he stopped in his tracks, with spiteful eyes.

After the two finished reading the first time, they started to read the second time.

The baby slowly exited the range of the six portraits, did not pick up the pacifier on the ground, and stared at the two people.

Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou didn't dare to stop and read it over and over again.

When Ban Ming felt his mouth was dry and his lips were about to spark, the bell rang again.

No sooner had the fourth stroke struck than the baby was gone.

The two stopped reciting the song, walked out of the gallery and went downstairs without stopping.

When they went down to the platforms on the second and third floors, the two of them ran into a girl in a white skirt who had just gone up to the second floor.

Ban Ming groaned in her heart, why on earth was she laying mats in the corridor, she couldn't hear the footsteps at all, and couldn't dodge at all.

The girl in the white skirt stopped going upstairs, her eyes followed Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou who were going downstairs, as if she was very unwilling.

On the way back to the room, Ban Ming met Tong Lin Hua and his companions who were going out. It looked like he was about to go up to the third floor.

Ban Ming wanted to remind him that the girl in the white skirt might still be waiting on the third floor, but Tong Lin Hua passed Ban Ming without even looking at it. Ban Ming stood there awkwardly and closed his mouth.

"Let's go." Qiu Tongzhou pulled back the embarrassed little Ban Ming.

The two of them returned to the three-person room. The window of this room faced the back mountain, with lush green trees in sight, and the other half of the back door could be seen from the far side.

Ban Ming leaned against the window to blow air to sort out his thoughts. Not long after the bell rang five times, Ban Ming saw the group of people again.

Ban Ming took a quick glance and quickly retracted.

Qiu Tongzhou looked up.

Ban Ming said: "The team carried raw meat into the back door."

Qiu Tongzhou frowned.

Ban Ming couldn't tell who the raw meat was for. Logically speaking, it should be for the group of women in red skirts, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Anyway, he's a little hungry.

"Let's go have dinner after the team has left." Ban Ming lay down on the bed.

Qiu Tongzhou said: "Okay."

Ban Ming squinted, the rustling of green leaves outside the window was mixed with birdsong, the evening was soft and refreshing, the temperature was cool and the climate was pleasant, he had never experienced such a life in the real world.

It's a pity that being shrouded in the shadow of death, not many people can have the mood to travel around.

Ban Ming saw that the time was approaching six o'clock, thinking that the team should leave no matter how long they lingered, so he got up and took Qiu Tongzhou to the restaurant.

People came in one after another, and Tong Lin Hua was the last one to arrive. After the clock struck six o'clock, he rushed into the restaurant in embarrassment, and his companion disappeared.

In addition to the teammate who was beheaded by the townspeople during the day, two more were cut off today, leaving only nine people.

Alas, Ban Ming thought, the running-in between the dungeon teams was so poor this time that there were repeated thunderstorms.

The viral train felt good that time.Ban Ming pawed at the meal, thinking, Calvin was not bad that time.

Ban Ming paused, and he found himself in a misunderstanding.

In the previous dungeons, Ban Ming had more acquaintances than this time, and correspondingly, the higher the proportion of acquaintances, the higher the degree of team integration.

In fact, there are still very few teams that trust each other among most of the dungeon teams.

Tonight's food is so-so, maybe it was cooked by another person.

After dinner, everyone went back to their houses. When Ban Ming passed Tong Lin Hua, he followed Ban Ming all the way down the stairs.

Ban Ming had to turn around: "Is there something wrong?"

After two seconds of silence with Lin Hua, when Ban Ming turned to leave again, he finally asked, "What did you want to tell me on the second floor?"

Ban Ming looked at him.

Tong Linhua had no choice but to say: "Xiao Li and I went to the third floor, and just entered the portrait gallery when we ran into a little girl in a white dress, Xiao Li is gone, I wasted a prop.

I just breathed a sigh of relief, I didn't expect that a girl in a red dress would come up after a while, and I scrapped another prop, and she came out of the gallery as soon as she left. "

Ban Ming asked, "How did Xiao Li disappear?"

Tong Linhua knew that the importance of the information between him and Ban Ming was asymmetric, so he said straightforwardly: "The thing reached out and grabbed Xiao Li, and then his hair grew wildly, and he strangled Xiao Li to death with his hair."

After he finished speaking, he smiled politely: "Can you tell me how to survive the gallery?"

Ban Ming: "The crows are silent on the top of the phoenix trees, and the wooden pendulum surrounds the girls singing. If you want to pass the day in peace, don't make the mountain people anxious."

Tong Lin Hua was stunned: "Thank you."

Ban Ming shook her head, not wanting to talk to him, and went back to the room with Qiu Tongzhou.

That night, Ban Ming had nightmares again and again. After dreaming that he was suffocated to death, he struggled to open his eyes, only to find that his quilt was strangling his neck.

He tore off the quilt and was about to close his eyes before going back to sleep when he suddenly heard some strange chewing sounds.

He listened carefully and found that it was coming from outside the door.

Ban Ming hesitated again and again, but went to the door and looked out through the crack.

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35. A door

——There was a ticking sound from above——

There is nothing in the corridor.

Ban Ming held the doorknob and opened the door a little.

This saw him.

Looking up from the patio on the second floor, you can see blood dripping from the end of the gallery on the third floor.

The crooked figure of an old woman is faintly revealed. She sometimes appears at the end of the gallery, and sometimes walks into the gallery.

The chewing sound is coming from the direction of the gallery.

Ban Ming watched for a while, afraid of being discovered again, closed the door lightly, turned around and saw Qiu Tongzhou staring at him brightly.

Ban Ming quietly returned to the bed, and told Qiu Tongzhou what he saw in a breathless voice.

I don't know what guess Qiu Tongzhou had, he smiled and said, "I see, let's go to sleep."

Ban Ming looked at his smile very reassuringly, and sure enough, the story-type dungeon still depends on Qiu Tongzhou.

The next morning, Ban Ming woke up naturally after falling asleep.He dawdled on the bed for a while, and suddenly thought of something. He glanced at Qiu Tongzhou who was still sleeping, and pushed the door to the third floor by himself.

He stood at the gallery entrance and didn't go in.

The entire gallery has not changed a bit from yesterday, and there is no trace of blood on the carpet.

Ban Ming was frowning, when something flashed in the corner of his line of sight, he went to that position to check carefully.

It was a cufflink that had fallen between the carpet and the wall.

This cuff button is gold-rimmed and diamond-lined, and Ban Ming looks strangely familiar to it.After thinking for a while, he remembered that this cufflink should belong to the player whose head was beheaded by the townspeople yesterday.

Maybe it got mixed in with the raw meat by accident when carrying it over, Ban Ming put the cufflinks in his pocket.

He turned around to leave, but as soon as he turned around, he froze in place.

The old woman from last night stood beside him motionless.

Ban Ming forcibly calmed down, her face remained normal, and she walked sideways past the old woman as if she hadn't seen it.

The old woman didn't respond.

Ban Ming hurried back to the house. Before closing the door, he glanced towards the third floor, and found that the old woman turned around at some point, and looked at their door quietly with white eyes.

Ban Ming hurriedly closed the door.He had a bad feeling, and he suspected that the old woman was just remembering the house number.

Qiu Tongzhou was sitting up from the bed: "What are you doing again?"

Ban Ming defended: "What is another?"

Qiu Tongzhou smiled, "It wasn't you who went to Xu Hao's house to look at the dead body and closed his eyelids for him yesterday morning?"

Ban Ming was defeated, and obediently took out his cufflinks: "I just went to the gallery on the third floor, and found that the townspeople have been sending human flesh here for something to eat, and they can only eat it in the gallery on the third floor."

"Besides, that old woman seems to be eyeing our house."

Qiu Tongzhou nodded to express his understanding: "Just change to another room at night."

The two went to have breakfast. The cooking skills this morning were not bad, and everyone had a rare appetite.

After breakfast, Qiu Tongzhou wiped his mouth: "Do you want to go to the top floor to find the old woman? I have something to ask her."

Ban Ming himself didn't have any other clues for investigation, so he nodded when he heard the words: "Okay."

The two walked up the stairs. This castle has quite a few floors, and the two of them reached the seventh floor before reaching the top.

The seventh floor is not very large, and the stairs leading to the attic can be seen at a glance.

The two climbed the stairs to the attic.There is a wooden door in the attic.

Qiu Tongzhou raised his hand and knocked on the door.

The hoarse voice of the old woman came from inside: "Come in."

Qiu Tongzhou pushed the door, the wooden door swelled with moisture, and there was a harsh creaking sound.

The size of the attic is small, and the decoration style is incompatible with the gorgeous castle.The old woman was nestled on a wicker chair in the corner of the attic, her muscles slack.

Qiu Tongzhou's tone was soft: "Why are you staying here?"

The old woman was silent for a while, then tremblingly raised her finger to the chair opposite: "Sit. Sit down and talk slowly."

After Qiu Tongzhou and Ban Ming sat down, the old woman said slowly: "I'm a woman, how dare I live in the room below? Isn't this turning against customers?"

Qiu Tongzhou treated the old woman very carefully.Following her logic, he guided the old woman to say: "You are still so polite now, I think you must have been a good girl who knew how to manage the house back then."

There was a little smile on the corner of the old woman's mouth. She touched the armrest of the rattan chair and said slowly: "Yes, at that time, the whole family praised me as the most qualified mistress in the history of this family."

"It's a pity, it's a pity." The old woman changed the subject, and her tone was bitter, "My eldest son, he didn't find a good wife, and he didn't find a good wife."

"I was so troubled that I became the first disgraceful woman in the family."

Qiu Tongzhou asked softly: "What stupid thing did she do?"

The old woman suddenly kept silent, the whites of her eyes were bloodshot, and seeing the two people's expressions could even be called weird, she smiled a little: "Be careful that she is the one you meet next time."

The bell rang and the old woman disappeared again.

Ban Ming frowned, he felt that the old woman just said that because she felt that the next replacement would be her eldest son's wife.

Qiu Tongzhou shrugged: "Sit here and wait, I think someone will come to us."

As expected, within 10 minutes, a young woman appeared behind the wooden door.

She wore a ponytail and long trousers.But she was just standing at the door of the attic, as if she was afraid of some things in the attic.

Qiu Tongzhou said, "Are you?"

She pursed her lips: "I'm the wife of the eldest son of that old lady just now."

Qiu Tongzhou smiled: "You don't look like a silly girl."

She sighed, opened her shirt, and there was a big hole in her abdomen, even revealing the internal organs: "I can't show up for a long time, and I may not be able to tell you everything due to other people's restrictions .”

"Their family is very superstitious, and the big hole in my stomach is a masterpiece of this kind of thinking." She smiled miserably, but did not elaborate, "I can only tell you that you must make good use of the gallery on the third floor, where is A place where all grudges and entanglements end."

After the young woman said this, she suddenly covered her stomach in pain.She curled up on the ground and screamed silently, as if she was trying to endure something, but not long after, the hole she covered with her shirt bulged, and a black cat sprang out.

Following the meow of the black cat, the woman started from her abdomen and quickly melted into a pool of blood, seeping into the attic floor and disappearing.

The two stood quietly in place for a while, then left the attic silently.

Because there were too many rooms in the castle, the two decided to search the rooms in the castle separately after they came out of the old woman's attic. Qiu Tongzhou searched from the fourth floor up, and Ban Ming searched from the seventh floor down.

In the end, when the two of them arrived at the restaurant at the agreed time, they neither checked everything nor found anything.

Tong Lin Hua's complexion was also not very good. He didn't know where he went in the morning. When he sat down in the dust, he was still panting, as if he had just finished a 1000-meter sprint.

There were still nine people at the table.

Ban Ming and Qiu Tongzhou decided to search on the first floor after eating.They agreed to go to one side and finally meet in the hall.

Ban Ming searched carefully for nearly an hour, but still found nothing. When he returned to the hall, he saw Qiu Tongzhou standing in front of the grandfather clock. Before he could ask, he shook his head first.

Ban Ming sighed.

But halfway through the sigh, he was attracted by the window behind the grandfather clock.

He murmured: "This window..."

Why is this window so familiar?

"It's the windows where the men in the portraits were hanged." Ban Ming said.

Although the windows in the castle are all similar, Ban Ming inexplicably feels that this window must be the window in the portrait.

"Light." Qiu Tongzhou said suddenly.

That's right, Ban Ming suddenly realized, because the light coming in from the window in the painting is exactly the same as the one in front of him now.

"What time is it?" Qiu Tongzhou's voice was a little tense.

"clang--"

The bell answered him, two o'clock.

On the first night when Ban Ming was knocked on the door, the clock stopped at two o'clock. At that time, both of them thought it was two o'clock in the morning. Now they realized that it was not only two o'clock in the morning, but also two o'clock in the afternoon on the dial of the clock. .

In addition, if the speculation is true, then it will be clear who is eating the meat.

Ban Ming blinked and looked at the solid wood at the bottom of the stairs to the left of the window: "I remember there is a door to the left of the portrait."

Ban Ming groped according to the location in memory, and vaguely felt the trace of the crack in the door, but the two of them didn't know how to open the door.

Qiu Tongzhou looked around: "Look for the switch."

But the lookup didn't go well.

Tired of searching, Ban Ming sat cross-legged on the ground, suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and said casually: "The crows are silent on the top of the plane tree, and the girls are singing around the wooden pendulum. If you want to live a peaceful life, don't make the mountain people anxious."

There was a sound from a spring somewhere or something, and the door creaked open.

Ban Ming blinked.

Qiu Tongzhou put down his inspection of the window frame, walked to the door silently and opened it.

Behind the door is a downward staircase with no end in sight.

Qiu Tongzhou said: "I'll go in first, you close the door from the outside, and I'll see if I can open the door from the inside."

Ban Ming understood, seeing Qiu Tongzhou standing up on the stairs and closing the door for him.

Qiu Tongzhou quickly found the switch inside, and Ban Ming thought it took about ten seconds before the wooden door opened from the inside with a click.

Ban Ming followed in with confidence, and Qiu Tongzhou reached out and closed the door of the basement: "You can also use those two sentences to open the door from inside."

Ban Ming rubbed her head: "Then the way of locking the door must have been changed after something happened."

Qiu Tongzhou: "Maybe the door was locked after something happened."

Qiu Tongzhou touched the walls on both sides of the stairs and walked down, his voice seemed a little erratic in the dark long stairs: "After all, for some people who have been victimized by the pendulum man, the basement controlled by this nursery rhyme can be regarded as a Safe house."

The stairs are very long.It is paved with cold stones, causing the sound of footsteps to be infinitely amplified here, and there is even a faint echo.

After walking for about half an hour, the stairs are still going down.Ban Ming estimated the distance, and felt that he and Qiu Tongzhou should have left the underground range of the castle by now.

Suddenly, Ban Ming heard a ticking sound coming from above his head.

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36. Blood baby

-- huge family tree --

Ban Ming wiped his shoulders, sniffed the dripping liquid on the tip of his nose, put it in his mouth and sucked it, and whispered to Qiu Tongzhou, "Blood."

Qiu Tongzhou squatted down and picked up a hand bone on the ground: "This is like a huge refrigerator, freshly preserving the traces of the massacres that have taken place."

Ban Ming stepped on her toes, stretched out her index and middle fingers to wipe the roof of the tunnel, her face changed slightly.He patted Qiu Tongzhou lightly: "Go first."

Qiu Tongzhou stood up as he said.

As the two walked forward, the smell of blood became stronger, and Ban Ming suddenly stopped. He knew something, and squinted at Qiu Tongzhou.

Qiu Tongzhou shook his head, grabbed Ban Ming's wrist, and strode forward.

No one spoke, and finally walked for nearly 10 minutes, and the two saw the end of the passage.

It was a huge space, and a huge bookshelf could be vaguely seen, which should be a library.

Build the library underground.Ban Ming raised her eyebrows, thinking that the owner of this castle also has a personality.

The moment he safely stepped into the library, Ban Ming's heart finally fell.

The library is like a barrier, keeping the smell of blood out of the stairway.

Ban Ming approached the front row of bookshelves in the library to check casually: "We have to go back from that ghost staircase in a while."

Qiu Tongzhou: "Since it is a safe house, there should be other passages. Even if there is no..." He paused slightly, "That thing should not be offensive."

Ban Ming snorted: "The blood rain is enough, I have to change clothes when I go back."

This row of bookshelves are limited editions of some literary masterpieces, which are unexpectedly perfectly preserved.This library seems to have some kind of setting to adjust the humidity and temperature.

It is simply the perfect library dreamed by countless literature lovers.

Ban Ming licked his lips: "Is there a family tree here?"

Qiu Tongzhou raised his chin in one direction: "There."

Under the candlelight, a huge and beautifully engraved family tree appeared on one wall of the library.

The location of the two is just the best place to view the "mural" genealogy. At the top of the genealogy is a huge family emblem, and a western dragon is engraved with a capital "D" in the center.The dragon wings spread wide, extending to both sides, expanding the entire family tree.

The most conspicuous in the genealogy are the lowest generations - because there are thirteen names on it that have been roughly scratched with a sharp object until a single letter cannot be recognized.

"Many are wives." Qiu Tongzhou lowered his voice, as if showing respect for the long blood.

Ban Ming recognized many names on the gallery on the third floor, and his eyes lingered on the last few lines: "The men in those triangular frames are the last six members of this family whose names have not been crossed out."

"All the men of this family are placed in the gallery." Qiu Tongzhou added.

Ban Ming: "You mean those whose names are crossed out are all women?"

Qiu Tongzhou: "Hmm."

Ban Ming's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by this tone, and he blinked slowly: "What did you say just now?"

Qiu Tongzhou looked a little puzzled: "What did you say?"

Ban Ming felt a little excited: "You said huh."

Qiu Tongzhou was silent for a while: "So?"

Ban Ming scratched her head and sighed: "It's nothing, I just feel like..." It seems that I saw you before.

Ban Ming abruptly changed the subject: "Those who change every time the bell strikes are these women whose names have been crossed out."

Qiu Tongzhou didn't delve into what it looked like, and continued following Ban Ming's words: "Yes, it seems that their family has serious gender conflicts."

It was so serious that half of the last three generations changed with the clock, and half were framed in the picture frame.

This family tree is based on male family members, which is very traditional.Ban Ming looked up and down several times, but found nothing else for the time being: "Do you want to look for it on the bookshelf?"

Qiu Tongzhou nodded.

There are so many books in the library, and almost all of them are hardcover. Ban Ming searched more than a dozen rows of bookshelves happily. The style varies greatly.

Ban Ming walked to the book.The spine of the book is pink and has some cat heads on it.

Ban Ming pulled it out and found it was a diary.

This diary should belong to a girl. She wrote some of her college life at the beginning, and the rest of the first half is all about expressing her sweet love with another boy.

There was a turning point in the diary. The boy had been reluctant to bring the girl to meet his parents before, but his attitude was very firm today. The girl guessed that the parents asked him to take her back.

However, the girl never thought that she would never be able to walk out of this house again.She was forced to stay here for less than a month and became pregnant, but some accidents happened during the birth.

This girl's family situation is quite special, and she has been hurt a lot since she was a child. She has always been humbled to express her pain, and her self-esteem is particularly strong.

Although she was dizzy from the pain during childbirth, she habitually kept silent, but when she was giving birth, a black cat screamed twice outside the window.

The family members firmly believed that she was a witch, and they transferred their pain to the black cat during childbirth. The family members were going to execute her, but what made her heartbroken was that her boyfriend actually stood up to the members of his family. on the side.

The diary ends here.Ban Ming knew that her end was not as simple as death, so she held the diary in her hand with a bit of bitterness in her heart.

Ban Ming continued to look forward, and suddenly heard something crawling on the top of the bookshelf, but when he listened carefully, it disappeared.Ban Ming felt that he was hallucinating.

Qiu Tongzhou and Ban Ming met in front of the last row of bookshelves, and Ban Ming handed the diary to Qiu Tongzhou.

After reading it, Qiu Tongzhou didn't express anything, but told Ban Ming that all the books on his side were about superstition, and also brought a piece of good news: "I found a new channel over there."

The passage was on the wall, not very obvious, but it wasn't intentionally concealed either.

There are no steps in the passage here, just a flat road.Ban Ming said: "We came down from the mountain to the bottom of the town, right?"

Qiu Tongzhou: "You'll know when you go out."

The two walked for about 5 minutes, and the straight passage began to rise. There was not a single step in the whole process, even though the rising angle became steeper and steeper.

Panting, Ban Ming almost used both hands and feet: "It looks like this tunnel was dug in an emergency."

Qiu Tongzhou didn't answer.

Ban Ming's heart skipped a beat.For no reason, he felt that the two of them had overlooked something, and there seemed to be something wrong in this tunnel, as if there were more than the two of them.

Ban Ming broke out in a cold sweat and didn't speak any more, but just climbed harder.

Fortunately, it didn't take long to climb, and a light appeared above the head.A stack of bamboo baskets was hastily placed at the exit of the cave. Ban Ming first listened to the movement and made sure that there was probably no one around, so he carefully pushed away the baskets above his head.

Ban Ming climbed up from the cave and found himself in a dilapidated bedroom.

It looked like a room in town, but it must have been unoccupied for a while.

Qiu Tongzhou followed Ban Ming out of the cave and put the bamboo basket back in place.Ban Ming walked from the bedroom to the kitchen and found that the meat and vegetables in the kitchen had been sour in the pot, emitting an indescribable smell.

Probably the owner of the house was cooking when he left. He just had time to turn off the fire and left the house, never to return.

Qiu Tongzhou flicked the ashes on the dining table: "This family seems to be the one that has disappeared for the longest time in the town."

Ban Ming raised her eyebrows: "If your judgment is correct, then they are the first family to be sent to feed the people in the painting."

Qiu Tongzhou said: "If I found out that I was betrayed when I was about to escape, and died tragically for nothing, I would also want to be the first to get revenge."