Chapter 961 Cursed Land

It was the missing Jiang Zhao, who was hanged by a rope under the ceiling. It was unclear whether it was a coincidence. At this moment, he lowered his head, and a pair of blood-red eyes protruding from his eye sockets just stared at Miao Qing's face.

His eyes were full of despair and resentment, as if asking why the person who died was himself.

"Jiang Zhao..." Bai Xiaojie looked up and saw this scene, and her body couldn't help but tremble.

Ouyang Huanbin sat on the ground in a daze, looking up at the corpse hanging high up. A chill came from all directions and wrapped him. He had not recovered from the attack just now.

Miao Qing glanced over and suddenly found that there were many books scattered on the top of the bookshelf, and there were several books stacked crookedly. Referring to the height of Jiang Zhao's hanging and the position of the stacked books, he had a strange guess in his mind.

Jiang Zhao climbed to the top of the bookshelf first, then stepped on the stacked books and hanged himself.

In the struggle, he kicked down the stacked books again, so this scene was in front of him.

After coming down, he told everyone what he saw and his guess. Jiang Cheng took the initiative to climb up again to confirm the clues, and what he saw was consistent with Miao Qing's description.

"Jiang Zhao climbed up through this ladder." Jiang Cheng ran his fingers over the ladder, which was covered with dust. It was obvious that it had been here for a long time. When illuminated with light, there were clear shoe prints on the steps.

The fat man's face became unnatural when he heard this, "So the woman he saw..." He glanced at Ouyang Huanbin from the corner of his eye, and saw that the other party looked lost, and the rest of the words were not said.

According to Ouyang Huanbin's previous description, the woman in a black dress who stepped on the ladder tiptoed and stacked the books one by one on the top of the bookshelf, and Jiang Zhao was hanged by stepping on the books stacked by the woman.

This weird way of killing makes people uneasy.

Bai Xiaojie hesitated for a while, her face turned pale and she said, "There is a saying in my hometown that people who choose to hang themselves are bewitched by those unclean things. You have heard of water ghosts catching substitutes, right? It's similar to this."

"Those... those unclean things will find things to step on for the people who want to hang themselves. As long as you step on these things, it means that you agree with the other party. After death, you have to give up the quota for reincarnation. In this way, the dead person will replace the other party and become a lonely ghost. If you want to reincarnate, you must lure the next person to hang." Bai Xiaojie's voice became smaller and smaller.

"Ghosts step on your feet." Jiang Cheng frowned slightly, "I have heard of this saying too."

"I say... should we put him down." The fat man's attention was focused on Jiang Zhao's body. A body was hanging above their heads. He felt uncomfortable all over, and it was pitch black.

When Liu Hui raised her mobile phone and shone the light on the body again, Ouyang Huanbin, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, screamed and fell to the ground again.

At some point, Jiang Zhao's body turned in a different direction. His protruding eyeballs were strangely turning downwards, facing Ouyang Huanbin's position, as if he was worried about him.

The fat man was sharp-eyed and noticed at a glance that Jiang Zhao's clothes were bulging, as if something was stuffed in them. Jiang Cheng asked everyone to help him keep an eye on them. He quickly climbed up the ladder, and after tearing off the clothes of the corpse, a book fell out.

Jiang Cheng reacted quickly and caught it.

The book was wrapped in a black hard shell. From the side, the pages were yellowed, and it looked very old.

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It was unlikely that a ghost would kill Jiang Zhao and then stuff a book into his clothes, so Jiang Cheng speculated that this book was found by Jiang Zhao before he died. There were clues in it, and he put it in his clothes to embezzle it, but he didn't expect to end up like this.

"What's written in the book?" Bai Xiaojie asked curiously while touching his neck.

Jiang Cheng put away the book, but he had no intention of opening it. "It's not suitable to stay here for long. Let's leave first." After saying that, he looked at Ouyang Huanbin. "After all, the person up there is your master. You are a master and disciple. Do you want to go up and collect his body?"

Ouyang Huanbin was already scared, but he didn't want to be called heartless and ungrateful in front of everyone, so he knelt down in front of Jiang Zhao's body and kowtowed three times. He said in a sad tone: "Master, it's not that I am unfilial, but I really have the will but not the strength. I believe you can understand."

The fat man looked up at the corpse and thought that this time it was really the master who was up.

Huai Yi had originally planned to kill this old guy. Now that he was dead, he could be regarded as a relief. "Let's go quickly. This old guy is narrow-minded. Don't pretend to be dead later."

Ouyang Huanbin's face was full of grief, as if he didn't hear what Huai Yi said. After standing up, he said: "Let's...let's go." He felt a little guilty.

I don't know if it was because of Jiang Zhao, but the way out was smooth. After walking out of the library gate, Jiang Cheng opened the book, which recorded the history of this town and various events that happened.

It was also from this book that everyone finally confirmed the name of the manor.

"Dakorosa Manor..."

Liu Hui stared at the bold words on the book. There was another line of small words under the eye-catching title. The font seemed to be soaked in water and was a little blurred. You need to get very close to see it clearly, "Cursed Land..." Liu Hui whispered.

In this way, the history of Dakorosa Manor gradually appeared in front of everyone. The writer only wrote the name of the manor in the title, and used words such as cursed land or witch cemetery to describe it in the entire narrative.

The book recorded a tragedy that happened in Dakorosa Manor many years ago.

The pope at that time issued an edict, saying that witches must not be forgiven. They were unforgivable, licentious and shameless. The frequent natural and man-made disasters at that time were all related to them. The land they walked on could not be cultivated, and the springs they drank became dry. Then all clergy were mobilized to participate in the action of suppressing witches.

In this vigorous extermination of witches, a large number of witches were captured. Crazy people stuffed wood chips into their mouths and sewed their mouths with fine hemp ropes. It is said that this would prevent them from being cursed by their most poisonous spells.

Then they were hanged on trees in groups, and crows were allowed to peck at their rotting bodies.

Some bodies were burned, and the black smoke was clearly visible for miles.

And such tragedies were also staged in the town. The surviving witches at that time hid from XZ and lived in fear. Perhaps they would be caught and hanged tomorrow.

The owner of Dakorosa Manor sympathized with these witches and secretly took in many of them in the manor.

But not long after, someone leaked the news, and crazy people rushed into the manor, captured the owner of the manor, tortured him, and hanged him and the witches hiding in the manor on a tree.