"Ahem..." The middle-aged man seemed to have some hidden illness, and he couldn't help but cough dryly as he walked. When he saw Wang Chen and the other three, he raised his head for a moment, frowned and asked strangely: "Who are you? Where are you?"
The same question made the three of them look at each other with different expressions.
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Under the dim light, the four people sat on the four sides of the wooden table.
His expression was solemn.
"That is to say, the three of us seem to have lost our memory. We don't know why we are here. And this little brother was driven here by a ghost?" After a conversation, the middle-aged man looked thoughtful and said in a deep voice.
concluded.
"Hmph! I don't believe in this ghost thing. Even if there is really a ghost outside, what can you do to me! I want to go out now!" Murong Aotian is not a patient person. After Wang Chen explained the current situation again,
He slapped the table impatiently.
At this moment, the girl suddenly looked frightened, exclaimed, and pointed her finger opposite her.
The three people's hearts tightened, and they all looked in that direction. They saw that the location was exactly a window. It used wooden grilles as the window frame and was sewn with leather cloth. However, due to years of disrepair, several windows of different sizes were broken.
The hole, through the hole, seems to be able to see the dark world outside.
"Someone!" the woman shouted in shock: "Someone is outside!"
"There is no one there, who do you want to scare to death?" Murong Aotian glared at the woman. The woman seemed a little afraid of Murong Aotian, and her voice was much lower. I really saw it. There was an eye looking at us.
"Eyes?" Wang Chen's heart moved.
"What does that eye look like?"
This sudden question made Murong Aotian feel very anxious. The middle-aged man also looked over with a solemn look on his face.
The woman was in shock and leaned towards the middle-aged man. One of her big eyes was wide open and looked like...a human eyeball bulging out.
"Little brother, why do you ask such a question? Could it be that the evil ghost you saw outside just now has something special about its eyes?" The middle-aged man thought for a moment and looked at Wang Chen.
The two looked at each other, and Wang Chen became suspicious. This person actually deduced the key to the matter from his own question. If he didn't outsmart the demon, there would be something wrong.
After a slight hesitation, Wang Chen said: "The devil I saw just now has blood-red eyes, and the other one has rotted away, leaving only white bones."
He concealed his title as the Vampire King.
The middle-aged man was stunned. He didn't seem to have thought that this ghost looked so terrifying. After thinking for a moment, he raised his head and said, "Little brother, you are the only one who knows how he got here. Do you have any good suggestions?"
"I heard that ghosts are afraid of light, so if we can wait until dawn, the crisis here will naturally be resolved."
Wang Chen thought for a moment and said.
Hearing what Wang Chen said, the girl's expression relaxed, and Murong Aotian seemed to have a thoughtful look on his face.
"It makes sense." The middle-aged man nodded, but said: "But have you ever thought that the evil ghost forced everyone into this house, but did not kill them? The deeper meaning is definitely not as simple as letting us wait until dawn.
, if we cannot break out of this situation, the possibility of death is very high."
"Sure enough, there are people who object." Wang Chen said calmly. This plan was originally made up by him in order to elicit deeper clues.
"I heard that some ghosts are not malicious, but they just need help solving some problems. Could it be that they are ghosts that need our help?" The woman thought of the legends and anecdotes she had heard in daily life and said uncertainly.
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "It's not unreasonable. Why don't we wait for dawn while exploring this house to see if there are any clues."
The girl was at a loss for words at this time. After hearing what the middle-aged man said, she nodded hurriedly.
But only a cold snort was heard. Murong Aotian stood up, walked to the window hole, looked out his eyes, and looked out the window without hesitation. I don't know whether this action was reckless or bold.
I couldn't see my fingers outside the window, and a slight cool air came in from the window hole.
Murong Aotian looked at it for a long time, then turned around and sneered: "Do you think you can scare me like this? I will go out right away. Even if there is a ghost, what can you do to me? As the saying goes, people are afraid of ghosts.
Ghosts are afraid of people, so just sit here and wait to die." After saying that, he strode towards the door and was about to open the two thin wooden doors.
"Young man." The middle-aged man said calmly without looking at him. What did you see when you were next to the window just now?
Murong Aotian was startled and stood still. It was pitch black and he saw nothing.
"I think... you may be seeing the eyes of the evil ghost that has turned into a skeleton, so it's dark." The middle-aged man said slowly.
"Ah!" the woman whispered. The middle-aged man's words were equivalent to saying that just now Murong Aotian and the devil were eye-to-eye. Such a horrifying description made her back numb and she exclaimed in surprise.
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Murong Aotian's eyes flickered and his expression changed several times, but he finally gritted his teeth, opened the door with a creak and strode out.
The cold air outside the house rushed in instantly. The woman did not dare to look outside the door and took a few steps back into the room.
Wang Chen stared outside the house and saw that Murong Aotian had just walked out of the door, and his body instantly disappeared into the thick fog, as quickly as a person sinking into water.
It's just that the thick fog is now gray and white, like a bottomless pool.
The middle-aged man's expression remained unchanged, he stood up slowly, walked to the door and closed the door as if nothing had happened. Let's check carefully to see if there are any clues here.
"That's fine." Wang Chen stood up, but his eyes intentionally or unintentionally avoided the woman and the middle-aged man, and saw a landscape painting hanging on the wall.
This painting seems to be some years old, and part of it seems to have been soaked by water and turned into a dark brown color. In the painting, there is a cave in a vast green mountain. In the cave, there are seven people sitting, with different faces, but each with their own characteristics.
In the vision, there are weak scholars, elegant Confucian scholars, but there are also weird people with green faces and fangs like mountain spirits.
He was reading a painting, while the middle-aged man was standing under the beam in the room, looking up at the roof, thoughtfully. The woman seemed to be very timid, just following the two of them closely, looking around randomly, but
But he no longer dared to look at the broken window.
boom!
At this moment, I heard the door being pushed open suddenly.
Wang Chen was shocked, and the woman even screamed and ran behind the middle-aged man.
Looking at the wide open door, Murong Aotian was standing in front of the door panting, with a look of horror on his face, as if he had seen something terrible in the thick fog.
The middle-aged man smiled and asked, "Little brother, have you changed your mind?"
Murong Aotian has a surly personality. When he heard the middle-aged man's teasing questions, he was about to burst into anger. However, he didn't know the middle-aged man's true identity. His expression changed constantly, and finally he felt it through his teeth.
A few words popped out: "I have changed my mind, and I will wait here with you until dawn." As he said this, he walked into the house and closed the door.
"Brother, since you just went out, don't hit the door so hard. I don't know, I thought you came from far away to push the door. I was scared to death." The woman seemed a little embarrassed because of her gaffe just now.
, couldn't help but complain about the somewhat reckless Murong Aotian.
"Why did you just go out? I wandered in the woods for at least half an hour and couldn't find the way, and... I just came back!" Murong Aotian said angrily, his words flickering, as if he was hiding something.
"Half an hour, I think it would be good if I could get two breaths." The woman looked unbelieving.