Li Yang asked impatiently. Although he heard some movements outside, the information he got was limited after all.
"Signs of evil spirits began to appear outside the ancient house. I went out and walked around for a while and closed the door. That's it." Yang Jian said briefly.
"Someone died just now?"
Yang Xiaohua on the side raised her head slightly, her bloodshot eyes filled with anxiety.
Yang Jian took a look and said, "I killed an uneasy ghost master. These people want to unite and let me use coffin nails to weaken my strength. No one wants me to hold such a supernatural thing in my hand."
thing."
"Indeed, the information about the coffin nails was leaked last time, and many people knew about it. If we hadn't killed a group of people last time, there would probably be ghost masters coming to Dachang City to make plans." Li Yang said.
Everyone in the supernatural circle knows that Yang Jian has a nail in the coffin that can nail evil spirits.
No matter who it is, as long as they get the nail in the coffin, they have the capital to compete with any evil spirit.
If this thing hadn't been in Yang Jian's hands, no one would have dared to make any decisions, otherwise trouble would have arisen long ago.
"There shouldn't be anything particularly dangerous happening today, but I have a hunch that as the number of days we stay here increases, the ancient house will become more and more dangerous," Yang Jian said.
"Have a good rest and recuperate your mental and physical strength. I guess you won't have a chance to sleep in the next few days."
After he finished speaking, he found a place and closed his eyes.
Yang Jian didn't sleep, he was still alert to the movement outside the door and listened to every move around him.
soon.
The other people in the lobby dispersed and hid in various places in the ancient house.
Everything became calm again.
There was no more hurried knocking on the door outside the old house. It seemed that everything was much better after closing the door.
However, as time passed little by little.
It was about three o'clock in the morning.
There was some movement outside the old house, which was the sound of the wind blowing at night and the rustling of the woods.
The wind is gradually getting stronger.
There are various sounds made by the wind blowing through the cracks in the building everywhere in the ancient house. The sound is very strange, like someone crying, and it can be heard from all directions. It is impossible to tell where the sound comes from.
The whining wind suddenly turned into a strange cry.
This change is so gradual that people don't react at first and have unknowingly accepted this incomprehensible change.
"The whole old house is crying?"
Yang Jian suddenly opened his eyes at this moment. He was now sure that it was windy outside, but there was crying inside the ancient house. This sound was a bit like Tong Qian's grimace, but it was just the crying inside the ancient house.
Many times, there was not just one cry, but the cries of dozens or even dozens of people mixed together.
"It's just like crying in mourning..."
do not know why.
This situation reminded Yang Jian of the scene of a funeral.
On the first day after a person's death, the family members of the deceased need to mourn to express their grief.
Right now, the old man's body in the ancient house had just died, and this strange crying sound appeared on the first night. Isn't this exactly the same as mourning?
"Seven days...the first seven days, the first day before the body is buried, the banging on the door at night, the mourning."
Yang Jian sat quietly, his eyes flickering slightly as he connected the information together in his mind, trying to figure out what was going on.
He now believes that what happened in the ancient house is related.
Everything is operating according to a certain arrangement that has already been arranged, and it is not the kind that cannot be traced. If the next changes in the ancient house can be judged in advance, the danger may be reduced a lot.
"If these are all carried out according to the funeral procedures, the most important thing on the first day is the encoffining, moving the old man's body into the coffin. If nothing is done, there will be no body in the coffin and the encoffining will not be completed.
, then who will the whole ancient house mourn for?"
When Yang Jian thought of this, he was inexplicably shocked and felt a strong sense of crisis.
Because the old man's body is still left in the lobby without any attention, and no one dares to approach it. If this continues, the encoffining will definitely fail today, and everyone will have to bear the consequences of the failure.
Look at the time again.
It's almost four o'clock in the morning.
At first, the strange sounds in the ancient house were just whining wind, then turned into crying and lasted for a while. At this moment, there was a new change.
Those cries are changing places...
A familiar and strange cry itself was located in the front yard of the ancient house. After Yang Jian locked on the sound, he found that the sound was moving and moved to the patio.
There were also voices that were originally on the roof, but now they were crying in the middle of the lobby, as if they had fallen from the roof.
The sound was very close, as if it was right next door.
What even made the room feel horrified was that a cry actually moved to the door of the room.
It seemed that there was really a person standing outside the door crying.
But if you listen carefully, you will find that the cry is like the whining sound of the cold wind blowing by, and everything seems not so scary.
Fortunately.
This kind of cry is not fatal, it is not Tong Qian's grimacing cry, so the people in the room are safe for the time being.
But it was so "busy" outside the room. Under this situation, no one could feel sleepy. Everyone stared outside with their eyes wide open and a bit frightened.
Although they are separated by doors and walls, they cannot see what is going on outside.
But this cry so close at hand made people have to be vigilant.
"Judging from the supernatural phenomena, this is showing signs of gradually getting out of control. My previous inference may be that the burial must be completed."
After Yang Jian realized this, he made up his mind.
He stood up again.
The others looked at him again, with slightly surprised expressions.
"It would be very dangerous to go out at this time." Eagle said solemnly: "There are weird cries outside. I suggest you wait until the cries subside."
Yang Jian didn't answer him, but just glanced at Li Yang.
Still the same old rules.
In his absence, Li Yang was responsible for guarding the door, ensuring that there was a safe place to hide in the ancient house, and that he could retreat at any time.
Li Yang said nothing and just nodded.
Yang Jian immediately opened the door and walked out.
As soon as he opened the door, the crying outside suddenly stopped and turned into scattered wind echoes. There were no ghosts or anything else outside. It seemed that the crying in the ancient house was due to too much pressure.
The auditory hallucinations make people feel suspicious, but in fact they are just the most common rumors.
Yang Jian quickly came to the lobby.
The crying in the lobby also disappeared, as if Yang Jian's appearance disturbed the crying nearby, and everything returned to normal.
But only the crying around Yang Jian has changed. In other corners and deep inside the ancient house, the crying still echoes.
"The body is still there."
Yang Jian stared at the old man's corpse on the black Taishi chair, and felt less nervous. What he was most worried about just now was that the corpse disappeared mysteriously.
Walked over immediately.
He came to the body.
The skinny, cold corpse of the old man was sitting upright on the chair, with his eyes closed and extremely stiff. The wrinkled skin was covered with corpse spots, and the number was more than before.
The body seemed to be rotting.
Yang Jian wanted to use coffin nails to nail the body first, but he gave up after thinking about it.
This corpse may be the key to maintaining the balance of this ancient house.
If the coffin nails were nailed to this corpse, then once the corpse loses all its supernatural power, the balance in the ancient house may be broken.
When faced with supernatural events, as long as the situation does not worsen, do not take any unnecessary actions.
Yang Jian has done self-defeating things before and has experience in this area.
So now he didn't even use his ghost hands. He directly reached out and grabbed the arm of the corpse and tried to lift it.
With Yang Jian's current strength, he can easily lift even ten corpses, let alone a dead corpse.
However, the old man's body sat motionless on the chair, and it was abnormally heavy.
"This is not because of insufficient strength, but because there is an abnormality in the corpse itself." Yang Jian stopped using brute force. He knew that relying solely on strength was useless.
He had no choice but to use ghost shadow.
A tall black shadow stood up from behind Yang Jian. On the head of the black figure, there was a face that looked like it was smeared with blood. The face had the same appearance as Yang Jian, as if it had been rubbed on it.
.
The ghost now touched the old man's body.
At this moment the old man moved.
Supported by the ghost, the corpse's arms slowly lifted up.
"The complete ghost image is still very useful." Yang Jian had a very strange feeling at this moment.
It feels like I have changed my body.
Just the contact gave Yang Jian the urge to abandon his original body and invade the old man's corpse.
This is the emergence of ghost characteristics.
Compared with Yang Jian's body, the body of this strange old man is more suitable for the ghost shadow.
Because the ghost's instinct is to keep changing its body like a puzzle piece until a ghostly body is pieced together, so the closer the ghost's body is, the more suitable it is for the ghost.
At this moment, with the puzzle pieces of ghost eyes and ghost hands on Yang Jian's body, they couldn't make Gui Ying feel at ease. Instead, he felt that the old man's body was better.
This only proves one point.
The old man's corpse was more terrifying than imagined.
"Act quickly, don't let the ghost touch this dead body for too long, otherwise I will be affected by the ghost's instinct." Although Yang Jian's consciousness occupies an absolutely dominant position at the moment, he has also inherited the characteristics of the ghost.
This is just like human desires, which cannot be erased.
At the right time and opportunity, this instinct will emerge. The safest way is to stay rational and not obey this ghost's characteristics.
The old man's body moved like a puppet.
Yang Jian took the body to the back hall.
There were still cries echoing in the back hall, but with his arrival, the cries dissipated and turned into the whining sound of the wind.
The red coffin from before was still there, untouched.
A few sticks of incense were still burning slowly in front of the coffin.
A few hours later, the sticks of incense showed no signs of shortening and were still exuding a faint fragrance.
This fragrance covers part of the corpse stench, making the weird bullying here less intense.
Yang Jian walked over and pushed open the red coffin.
everything is normal.
The red coffin was not difficult to open, and it was empty inside, with nothing in it, as if it was just waiting for the old man's body to come in.
Yang Jian wasted no time and quickly placed the old man's body inside.
When the body was placed in the coffin and laid down, something unexpected happened.
The wind howled outside, and it seemed that the direction of the wind had changed. The strange crying echoing in the ancient house also stopped abruptly at this moment.
Although there was still a whining sound, it had not turned into crying.
The supernatural phenomenon of mourning was curbed, and calm returned to the ancient house.
"The guess is correct. The seven days in the ancient house correspond to the seven days of mourning. The first day is the encoffining. As long as the encoffining is successful, the supernatural phenomenon of mourning will be curbed. However, this curbing should not be permanent. Wait until the next day and the third day will be held.
In three days, the real mourning will come."
"But everything must be done in order. Once the order is disrupted, the consequences may be disastrous."
"So, the way to survive seven days in the ancient house is to follow the rules in the ancient house. As for what the rules are... you have to guess."
Yang Jian's eyes moved. He looked at the old corpse lying in the coffin, and he knew why he felt that the corpse was no longer so stiff at this moment, but had an illusion of peace.
"Hope everything goes well."
He closed the coffin lid and waited for another half hour.
I left after making sure there were no other abnormalities.
Yang Jian walked into the lobby and encountered two strange ghost masters peering into the corridor, seemingly curious as to why the crying suddenly stopped.
"I've put the body in the coffin at the back. Don't move it."
He reminded me and then left.
"Stay away is like this..."
Those two people were not stupid, and they immediately realized that the improvement in the strange phenomenon just now was due to Yang Jian.
Putting the body in the coffin stopped the crying in the ancient house?
Why didn't I think of such a simple thing?
"It's okay, let's go back." The two ghost masters breathed a sigh of relief and returned to their rooms.
"If the first day is the burial, then what's next?" Yang Jian was thinking about the next step.
He had many memories of the funeral in his mind.
However, the funerals in my memory are all held differently, with many subtle differences.
Some memories of funerals lasted only three days. On the first day, the person died, on the second day they mourned, and on the third day, they were buried in the grave.
There are no seven days at all.
"So, this ancient house funeral must follow the seven-day format...and last until the first seven resurrection days. If you guess the wrong steps during this period, the ancient house will lose control, and danger and terror will arise.
Come."
Yang Jian thought this way.
But soon.
He paused before returning to the room.
A black Taishi chair was placed in the middle of the dark corridor, and he could see it clearly when he illuminated it with a flashlight.
"This chair has been moved. Although it was placed in the middle of the aisle before, it was not so close." Yang Jian's face darkened.
This corridor has no end, there are rooms on both sides, and the place where the chair was before is definitely very deep.
"It was definitely not moved intentionally. Although other people were afraid of me, they were still clear-headed and knew what could be touched and what could not be banged. Therefore, this chair was not moved by someone... but by a ghost.
Moved."
He took a deep look at the dark, endless corridor.
There seems to be something inside that wants to come out.
The black Taishi chair is like a roadblock, blocking all of this.
But just now, the chair that served as a roadblock was pushed forward, and advanced to such a close position in one go.
If dangerous areas are divided.
As long as the room is no closer than the chair, it should be safe. Once this line is crossed, the room may no longer be available.
"It's really not that easy to get through these seven days. This ancient house is like a hut with holes everywhere. It's useless to patch it up. It will be invaded by ghosts soon." Yang Jian speculated in his mind.
Four days.
No.
Two days or three days at most.
At that time, the chair will be positioned beyond the first room, driving everyone into the lobby. It is impossible for everyone to hide safely in the room and survive the first seven days here.
"I don't know if it would be useful to have an extra chair."
Yang Jian thought of two black chairs in the lobby.
The two corridors, one on the left and the other on the right, can be used to set up roadblocks to slow down the evil ghosts from invading the ancient house and ensure that everyone can stay in the room for a few more days.
But he felt that the two chairs in the lobby had other uses.
If you move it arbitrarily, there may be problems with subsequent arrangements.
It is not advisable to demolish the east wall to repair the west wall.
Maybe if this hole is blocked, a bigger hole will emerge.