In the back hall of the ancient house, everyone has been guarding the red coffin for several hours. Ever since Yang Jian used a hatchet to dismember an unknown ghost, the darkness in the ancient house has retreated to the left and right sides.
In the corridor.
And the darkness did not come again after several hours.
This shows that the dismembered ghost has not recovered.
Or perhaps, the ghosts were dispersed and the puzzle pieces were not recovered, so the supernatural power was greatly reduced, and now it is no longer able to have a greater impact on this ancient house.
An old radio is still left on the floor in the lobby.
Although there were rustling sounds from time to time, no signal was received, and no weird words were heard.
Within the first few hours of the vigil, the first wave of attacks by the evil spirits was finally withstood.
Although it was dangerous, there were no casualties, which was good news. However, this confrontation cost almost as much as a stick of incense in front of the coffin.
The remaining incense stick will last for five days.
Obviously, this cannot last until that time. Yang Jian believes that the last stick of incense will be exhausted soon.
"We should be able to survive tonight. It seems that the ancient house has returned to peace and the ghosts have temporarily retreated. But I don't know what we should do on the third day? Let's discuss it now while we have time."
After seeing that the situation had stabilized, the Eagle began to stir up the topic.
Discuss what to do next.
There is nothing wrong with this idea. If you are prepared for danger in times of peace and make a decision in advance, you will not be in a hurry.
"The first day is the burial, the second day is the vigil, and the third day should be...condolences?" Li Yang asked with a bit of uncertainty.
"It shouldn't be that fast. If it's a normal funeral, the funeral should be announced. The person is buried on the first day after death. After a night of vigil, the funeral should be announced and notified the next day. Then on the fourth day, condolences should be made and relatives and friends who have received the news of the death should be in front of them.
Come to pay homage to the deceased and pay homage to his remains." Wang Feng said.
"Is there still a process of reporting a funeral? Logically speaking, shouldn't reporting a funeral be done on the first day?" someone asked.
"In a traditional funeral, can you report the funeral on the first day? In the past, there were no mobile phones or communication equipment when people died. People died suddenly. On the first day, they were encased in the coffin, then the family stayed vigil, and then the funeral was announced." Wang Feng said with certainty.
.
Because he has been thinking about the funeral process during this time.
"If it's a funeral, what should we do? Is it possible to stand in the old house and shout that someone has died here?"
Wang Feng said: "That definitely can't be done. To report the funeral, you should only need to send a signal, but I have no idea how to do it."
"Please wait a moment, there is some movement outside."
Suddenly, Yang Jian waved his hand and looked in the direction of the back door.
There was a wooden door at the back door that was ajar. Through the crack of the wooden door, he could vaguely see a pale light swaying in the distance, and it was slowly approaching here. After a certain distance, he was sure that it was a person.
Carrying a white lantern, he walked along the path from the old forest.
"It doesn't look like a ghost, but it looks like Zhou Deng who disappeared before. Yes, that's right, it's that guy Zhou Deng." Someone also saw it, and they immediately started gnashing their teeth.
"Is this guy not dead yet?" Fan Xing was also surprised.
Previously, the ancient house was shrouded in darkness and danger came. Except for the safe location in the back hall, other places were extremely dangerous.
Even if Zhou Deng had nominated him as captain, there would be no way he could survive in this environment.
Crunch!
The back door was pushed open.
Zhou Deng walked into the back hall with his feet covered in yellow mud. He was a little surprised and said: "I just saw someone here, so I came over to take a look. I didn't expect you are all here. What happened just now?"
"Where did you go before?" Yang Jian looked around and asked.
"Of course I went around here to see if there was any danger." Zhou Deng said.
Yang Jian said: "What's the result?"
Zhou Deng said: "This place is indeed not simple. There is an old grave in the forest. I saw something was wrong, so I left a stick of incense and left."
"Did you take the lantern in your hand from the front door?" Yang Jian looked at the familiar lantern.
"It's dark outside. Bring a lantern to light up the road. It shouldn't be a problem." Zhou Deng said, "I also deliberately looked for other places before and found that there is no other way to leave here. It's the only place to stay."
There is only this ancient house, and now I plan to walk around in front of it."
Fan Xing immediately said: "Don't mess around with Zhou Deng. This place is not as simple as you think. The ancient house is the only safe place. If you mess up and break the balance, all of us will be killed, as well as you."
You shouldn't take that incense, the incense here is very special, has strange effects, and is very important to us."
"I didn't find anything special about that incense stick." Zhou Deng frowned.
"Hey, everyone, can you not discuss the issue of the incense now? I want to know if Zhou Deng was the only one who came in just now?"
Suddenly, someone immediately reminded him, and then he pointed to the footprints on the ground.
Everyone looked at it.
At the back door, there were scattered footprints of different sizes, which seemed to be lingering next to the door.
The motionless back door now moved automatically in the absence of wind, slowly rocking back and forth.
Eagle stared at the footprints covered with yellow mud and said: "It's not just Zhou Deng's footprints, there are other footprints mixed in. But haven't you noticed that this muddy footprint is the same as the one on the fourth floor of the post office?"
Are the footprints similar?"
"I'm impressed by what you said. It's probably not the same ghost left behind, but supernatural beings that appear in the same place. The post office is involved here." Li Yang recalled.
He had a clear impression of the footprints that appeared on the fourth floor of the post office.
"A ghost quietly followed Zhou Deng into the back hall? But it didn't seem to go deep here. Instead, it wandered silently at the door several times and finally disappeared." Yang Jian's eyes flashed. He didn't notice it at all just now.
nothing.
It's simply incredible.
"I'll go out and take a look." Zhou Deng turned around and walked out of the back door without saying a word, holding the lantern.
He stood outside the back door and looked around: "There's nothing outside. I didn't find anything."
"The yellow soil is just a medium for ghosts to appear, just like the supernatural rain and some kind of blood. Now that the yellow soil has almost fallen, the traces of ghosts will naturally disappear." Yang Jian said immediately.
"You don't need to pay too much attention to it. It doesn't matter if other ghosts appear now. As long as the balance is not broken, ghosts will not dare to set foot in this ancient house easily."
Everyone looked at Yang Jian in slight surprise.
But when I thought about it carefully, I found that this statement made sense.
God knows how many dangers there are inside and outside this ancient house. I really don’t have the energy to care about this supernatural phenomenon right now. As long as the ghosts don’t enter the safe place in the back hall, everything else doesn’t matter.
"Don't worry, if the ghost follows me from that old forest, then I will be responsible for leading the ghost away." Zhou Deng said, standing outside the door.
Then he took the lantern and left again.
It seemed that I was going around the direction of the gate of the ancient house. I don't know if I really planned to lure the ghost away, or if I had some other agenda.
"This Zhou Deng is simply a lunatic. He walks around with a lantern and is looking for death. I'm sure he will be attacked by ghosts outside today. I don't believe he will be so lucky. Every time he gets lucky, he turns to good luck.
"
Someone said through gritted teeth, obviously very dissatisfied with Zhou Deng.
Yang Jian didn't say much. For him, as long as Zhou Deng didn't cause him any trouble, it didn't matter how he wandered around.
The worst he can do is die outside.
His task was to deliver the letter on the seventh day. Apart from this, he didn't care about anything else.
He was going to the fifth floor of the post office.
What secrets there are in the ancient house and what supernatural items there are, that is a matter for later.
However, there was one thing that Yang Jian paid great attention to.
That's what's in the second locked room in the corridor to the right.
The key to the haunted closet was in his hand, and he could open the door at any time now.
But, is this time the right time?
After all, it was only the second day.
"Let's wait a little longer. The situation is quite stable now. I don't want to cause any more surprises..." Yang Jianan endured this thought.
Time passes little by little.
It’s four o’clock in the morning at the ancient house.
The previous peace was finally broken at this moment. The darkness that had retreated gradually emerged from the corridors on the left and right sides of the patio. The darkness invaded this ancient house again, and some supernatural phenomena appeared again with the advent of darkness.
really.
The ghost's retreat was only temporary because of Yang Jian's blow with the hatchet just now.
However, the ability to dismember ghosts is not permanent. As long as the ghosts are given some time, the dismembered ghosts will wake up again and recover.
"Sha, Shasha~!"
The strange radio left on the ground in the middle of the lobby made a sound again, as if it was receiving some signal, which made people feel excited.
"Is the second wave of attacks coming tonight?" Yang Jian's expression changed slightly, and he glanced at the others again.
Needless to say.
Everyone is ready.
The darkness is getting thicker and thicker, and the rustling radio sound is becoming clearer and more obvious.
The speed of supernatural invasion is very fast.
In just a short moment, it has reached the same scale as before.
Darkness enveloped me, and everything in front of me was pitch black.
The arrival of this moment means that the effect of Yang Jian's previous hatchet attack has basically completely disappeared, and the only effect is to buy some insignificant time.
But the danger doesn't seem to be limited to the lobby location.
now.
After Zhou Deng left, the back door that was originally closed made a creaking sound and was slowly pushed open by something.
It's not dark outside, but it's also very dim and scary. I don't know if it's an illusion, but the old forest not far away seems to be getting closer and closer, as if there are countless strange eyes peering over here in the darkness.
It's hard to tell whether it's an illusion or whether there really are so many weird eyes in that old forest.
"Li Yang, close the back door." Yang Jian said immediately.
Li Yang walked over without saying a word, and closed the back door directly.
But the next moment.
"boom!"
The back door opened again, and Li Yang, who was about to close the back door, was forcefully pushed open.
"So evil?" Others opened their eyes wide.
Yang Jian added: "Don't be stingy, use your supernatural power and see if you can still close it."
Li Yang's expression changed, and he directly used the supernatural power of the door-blocker to affect the back door.
He closed the door again.
However, what Li Yang didn't expect was that he felt a huge resistance, as if there were countless palms pressed against the door, preventing him from closing the door.
"Crunch!"
The old wooden door made a noise and could only be closed halfway, and even Li Yang was unable to do anything about the remaining half.
"Captain, something is very wrong." He growled, looking very anxious.
"Are you kidding?" Yang Jian's expression changed at this moment, and he even became less calm.
The supernatural power that blocked the door was unable to close the back door?
"Are you going to watch the two of us take action? Go help Li Yang. If you can't do it, no one will survive tonight." Yang Jian said.
He felt something was wrong.
Because the incense is still burning, according to the situation of the eagle before, Li Yang should be affected by the incense and exert more powerful supernatural power than before.
Why is this happening?
Which link caused the problem?
Yang Jian began to feel uneasy because he noticed that things seemed to be out of control.
Although the matter is not yet serious enough to be dealt with, there are already signs of it.
This is his intuition and it can't be wrong.
"I'm here to help." Eagle's expression changed and he immediately stood up.
Wang Feng glanced at Yang Jian, and then immediately walked over.
Fan Xing took a glance and saw two ghost masters approaching the back door with gloomy faces and chose to help.
They used supernatural powers to forcibly block the approach of some terrifying things outside and closed the back door, but they did not dare to relax because they also discovered that there was something outside the back door pushing the door hard.
As soon as you let go, the back door will be opened again.
"Shasha, Shasha..."
The sound of the old radio echoed in the darkness again. This time the radio connected the signal again and issued a strange word: "Dead, dead, finally dead... Hey,
hey-hey."
"The ghost is still there." Fan Xing stared at the darkness in front of the aisle, preparing to take action.
"etc."
Yang Jian suddenly realized something at this time.
"What's wrong?" Fan Xing said: "If you don't block this weird radio, it will continue to talk about other evil ghosts to lure it here."
"Something's wrong. What was said on the radio just now is wrong." Yang Jian said immediately: "It said dead? Who died? No one around us has been damaged from just now."
Take a look around.
Everyone is still alive.
Even Yang Xiaohua is still standing there holding a red balloon, alive and well.
"There is only one dead person here, and that is..." Someone glanced at the red coffin.
Yang Xiaohua said with a bit of trembling: "Could it be that the news of the death has spread? According to your previous reasoning, the third day is to announce the funeral, that is, to spread the news of the person who died here. What would happen if the funeral was announced earlier?"
"Announcement of mourning? I understand, it's that Zhou Deng. He just held a white lantern and walked around outside. This is the so-called mourning. That's why the radio said such a sentence." Yang Jian reacted immediately.
come over.
"The ghost never came to the back hall, so the ghost couldn't be sure whether the old man was dead, but after Zhou Deng entered the back hall, he walked out with a white lantern. This is equivalent to telling the ghost that the old man here is
died."
"The problem turns out to be here."
"The back hall is no longer safe."
Fan Xing was stunned for a moment, then yelled: "Fuck Zhou Deng, he's doing a lot of harm to people. If he shows up, I will fight him to the death."
It's exactly what Yang Jian said,
After the people blocking the back door persisted for a while, they finally couldn't hold on any longer. Several people reached their limit and could no longer use the power of the ghost. Li Yang seemed very reluctant to rely on him alone.
The back door was pushed open again.
There were many handprints stained with yellow soil on the door, and the ground outside was densely covered with scattered footprints.
And it's right in front of the back door.
A pair of old black cloth shoes were placed on the threshold, as if they were about to be invaded at any time.
More than that.
Even the darkness in the lobby is spreading towards the back hall,
I don’t know why the incense in front of the red coffin didn’t have any effect.
The supernatural has fully invaded the back hall.
The danger of the ancient house has arrived ahead of time.