Chapter 621 The Price

He also tried to use a wooden stick to pry the person up, but he was still a person after all, and a stick could not lend much strength at all. If he wanted to drag the ancestor out, he had to at least put his hand in, grab it, and then drag him out. , but that would cause unknown risks.

Time was getting increasingly urgent. There was only a little candle left and the candlelight was gradually fading. With no choice, Lou Huiyang scattered the ashes directly into the puddle. But this time, as the ashes came into contact with the water, bubbles began to appear in the puddle. There are more and more blisters, as if they are about to boil.

Seeing this scene, Lou Huiyang felt confident, and his face turned rosy visibly. He stared at the water and reacted when he threw the ashes. The following must be what his ancestor, Nalan Shuo, did not do. Lou Huiyang did it!

But before he could get excited for a long time, he saw a figure emerging from the water. The moment he saw the person, Lou Huiyang couldn't help being stunned. Although this person lowered his head and huddled together, he was definitely not an ancestor. The clothes are also the attire of the servants in the mansion.

He immediately thought that this person was the servants of the mansion who were looking for the missing ancestor. It was said that they were also hidden by the ancestor.

But looking now, this so-called "hiding" is not that simple at all, because what is in front of him is a corpse!

He now understands why someone as powerful as Nalan Shuo failed here. This place is too evil, and this ancestor is much more difficult to deal with than they thought. He has obviously found a flaw, but who would have thought that Find a fake one.

Fear overwhelmed everything, Lou Huiyang turned around and ran. To be precise, he ran as fast as possible. He wanted to leave here.

While the incense and lanterns are still there.

But it was too late, each step became harder and harder, and the area of ​​the pool was also invisibly larger many times. When he raised his head, panic quickly spread across his face, and he found that the edge of the pool had disappeared, and he was There were countless puddles of various sizes on the side, and each puddle reflected his appearance as a wolf and fox at this moment.

The next second, he suddenly opened his mouth in the puddle and smiled silently. His eyes seemed to ooze blood.

It turned into a pair of vicious bloody eyes, staring at him.

Being stared at by such a pair of bloody eyes, Lou Huiyang almost suffocated. He knew that he had lost and was doomed tonight.

At the last moment, he quickly recalled what happened not long ago in his mind like a marquee, and finally realized one thing. They were all calculated. That old guy Xiang Fengchen, he had said before that he would pay 3

The price of four people is not nonsense. They, the pioneers, have to pay a huge price to eliminate the abnormality in the courtyard, and every corpse of the servants that was once "hidden" by the ancestor will become the substitute of the ancestor. Ghosts, they only have a chance if they first remove these nail-like substitute ghosts and force the ancestor into the attic.

Xiang Fengchen also said that tonight was a rare full moon, and the ancestors could absorb the essence of heaven and earth in the courtyard. He suspected that this old thing in the courtyard might be invincible.

The next second, the remaining candle flame could no longer hold up, and went out with a "pop", and Lou Huiyang's figure disappeared in the pool.

"clatter."

"clatter."

"clatter."

Almost at the same time, a figure with hands and feet stepped into the courtyard door. The person who came was Fang Zhou. He stood outside the courtyard door and observed carefully for a long time. No problem was found before he walked in. But then he discovered something even more terrifying. It seemed that there was no problem, but that was the biggest problem. After all, two people had come before him, and the first one was Senior Nalan Shuo.

Entering the courtyard, he stood on tiptoes and looked around with all his eyes. The courtyard was quite spacious and there were many covered places, but he could not find the figures of the first two people.

After understanding the situation before him, Fang Zhou followed the agreement and took the lead to turn to the left and go to the first area.

The layout here is relatively simple. The only thing that needs attention is a small house made of stones near the corner of the wall and a well.

For the sake of safety, Ark first held a lantern and walked around the area without going deep, just looking at it from a distance.

Nothing unusual was seen for the time being. The door of the stone house was open, and there were a few wooden boards scattered around the well. Fangzhou judged that this should be done by the first two people. After all, these two locations were very eye-catching and had the highest possibility of hiding people.

Because of the frightening memories brought about by the well in the courtyard where he lived, Fang Zhou conscientiously chose the stone house first among the two choices. When he reached the wooden door near the stone house, he stopped and took out his pocket. Zhongzang's life-burning incense, took a deep breath, and lit it with a flash of determination in his eyes.

He knew that he was not as good as Nalan Shuo, and even Lou Huiyang was far from comparable to him, but since these two people had fallen into trouble, he was almost going to die here. In order to save his life, he chose to ignite this place before getting close to danger. The roots are life-burning incense.

He is still young and can burn both incense and green hills without fear of running out of firewood. The most important thing at the moment is to survive.

Not to mention one or two sticks, if forced to do so, three or four sticks would have to be burned.

Only when this reddish incense came into contact with the flame did Fang Zhou feel the mystery. The incense burned better than expected. It was ignited almost as soon as it came into contact with the candle flame. At the same time, it also emitted A fragrant mist smelling of blood was released.

Looking at the rising mist of incense, Fang Zhou felt mixed emotions in his heart. What was burning was not incense, but his three years of longevity.

Without further ado, with the blessing of this incense, Fangzhou became much more courageous. He stood outside the door and looked into the stone house. Under the light of the lantern, he could almost see the whole picture of the house clearly. The space inside Very small, only about a dozen square meters, angular There was a tattered wooden bed in the room, and another made of rubble. I don't know if it was a stove or a stove for cooking. The wooden bed was full of holes due to disrepair. Even the stone stove had collapsed long ago.

Hu Fangzhou couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. In fact, he had been mentally prepared to find the bodies of Nalan Shuo or Lou Huiyang in the room. Fortunately, nothing happened.

He stood outside the door and hesitated for ten seconds. In the end, reason overcame fear, and he walked carefully into the house.

Checking again, he found a very clear shoe print beside the tattered wooden bed. The shoe print was fresh and unique in shape. It did not look like the narrow boots worn by servants in the mansion, but rather the kind of shoes they wore. .

These footprints were either left by Nalan Shuo or Lou Huiyang. They must have been here before. Fang Zhou tried to cover the other's shoe prints with his own shoe prints. He found that making such an action, before The teammate should be leaning down and inspecting the tattered wooden bed.

To be precise, I was looking through the rotten holes in the wooden bed to see if there was anything hidden in the space below.

This was indeed something Fangzhou had not expected. He had been thinking about the well outside the door. His ears were erect like a rabbit. He always paid attention to the movement outside the door. Once he heard the sound of water, or someone climbing up and down the rope, friction sound,

He would immediately run out, rush to meet the ghost, and throw a bag of ashes in the ghost's face before it climbed up.

First, he turned back to confirm that the door was open. Fangzhou slowly leaned down, imitating the actions of his predecessors, lifting the lantern with one hand and holding the incense with the other, and looked in through a larger hole. After a few seconds, His heart dropped slowly. There was some dirt under the bed, but no one was hiding there.

When he stood up again, he found that his back had been soaked with cold sweat unknowingly, and it didn't stay for long.

He walked out of the stone house and came to the well.

He didn't dare to get too close. He first listened for a while at a distance of about 3 meters. He didn't hear the sound of water or any other messy sounds. Then he walked in, picked up the lantern, and bravely looked into the well mouth. But the light from the lantern was limited, and it was dark inside the well mouth, so it was impossible to see what was inside. At this moment, he looked at the edge of the well and found that the tattered wooden boards should have been covering the well before, and they had just been opened.

If nothing else, it should be Nalan Shuo, Lou Huiyang and the others who did it. Staring at the slowly burning life-burning incense in front of him, Fang Zhou seemed to get some comfort. He found a piece of wood nearby that was soft and dry to the touch. The block was lit with a candle and thrown in along the mouth of the well.

He watched as a ball of flame fell along the wall of the well. The well was much deeper than he expected, and it was a dry well with no water in it.

The falling flame quickly extinguished. Fang Zhou was not sure whether there was something hidden at the bottom of the well. He searched nearby and found a few larger stones. He threw them down one by one along the parallel port in different directions. Through feedback Judging from the echo, there are soft objects below. I don’t know if they are people, corpses, or some dead leaves and other debris.

After careful observation, there was no sign that anyone had been there.

The fear of the well was deeply ingrained in his heart, and he had no intention of finding a rope to go down. After much thought, Fang Zhou reluctantly pulled out nearly half of the ashes, carefully selected a good location, and scattered the ashes. Go down.

Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement under the well, so Fangzhou gave up here for the time being and decided to go to the next area.

It's not like he hasn't considered the possibility of not going anywhere and just spending time here, but he doesn't want to.

He didn't dare. This was tantamount to betraying his teammates and sabotaging the plan. Not to mention the consequences, once he was discovered, his teammates would not let him go.

None of Xiang Fengchen's people are vegetarians. He is the only sheep among these people, and the rest are wolves.

And now, he is also a member of the team. He must put on wolf skin and stand with them, sharing life and death. But when he was passing by the stone house, he was suddenly attracted by a sound, which was a "patter" sound. Following the sound, I found a small window on the side of the stone house. The window frame had long been broken, but the window paper on the window was still very strong. Most of it remained. At this moment, a gust of night wind blew up and flapped the window paper. On the window frame.

Wan Zhou slowly exhaled a breath of mountain air. After Mi arrived here, his chest was tense all the time, and his core was a little awkward. But just when he was about to leave here and continue moving forward, his raised steps suddenly stopped. , he realized something very strange.

There was wind, yes, but the wind was blowing directly from his left side, and the slowly spreading fragrance also confirmed this. However, the stone house on his right was different. The wind from that window was blowing from the inside out. of.

The wind is blowing in the opposite direction.

Fang Zhou's heart trembled when he realized this. He remembered Manager Wu reminding them to look for weirdos, and he decided that this was weird.

I don't know whether to call him lucky or not, but he found something strange in this first area.

The soldiers came to cover up the water and the soil. His previous experiences made him understand a truth. When encountering such a thing, you can't run away, and there is no use in escaping. The only way is to face the difficulty, find out the root cause of the matter and deal with it. There is a glimmer of hope.

He mustered up his courage and walked around from the windowless side to the wooden door of the stone house, carefully peeking inside, but the inside was still the same as before, and he did not find any changes, let alone people, not even a ghost.

At the same time, the "click click" sound also stopped, and standing outside the door, Fang Zhou could clearly feel that the wind was blowing outwards.

But a few seconds later, he smelled a strange smell mixed with a rotten smell from the wind. This smell was different from the bloody smell of burning life incense, and the two were obviously different.

As soon as he came, the wind direction changed, and the window paper did not move. He did not believe in such a coincidence, which made him more convinced that there was something wrong with this house, but he had not yet figured out the door.

Now that half of the ashes have been used up, he must be more cautious next time. Unless necessary, he must not waste this last chance.

He tried to return to the place where he found the strangeness. Sure enough, the next second, the familiar "click click" sound sounded again, and this time, Fang Zhou's hair stood up. The problem was found, in this room!

But because of the experience last time, Fang Zhou did not rush to the door to check this time, but went behind the window with his hands and feet, hid under the window, and peeked inside through the cracks in the window paper.

Without the lighting of the lantern, the room was very dark, accompanied by an unreasonable gloomy wind, and a disgusting stench, which was much stronger than the one in front of the door and nauseating.

But Fang Zhou did not give up. He stared at the darkness in the room. Finally, when his vision gradually adapted to the darkness, he saw a shocking scene. There was a figure standing on the side of the bed in the room. I don’t know if the figure was wearing dark clothes or the whole person was rotten. It was strangely integrated with the darkness, leaving only a vague outline.

The opportunity was not to be missed, and Fang Zhou burst out with unprecedented courage. While throwing away the lantern in his hand,

he punched the broken window in front of him, and simultaneously accumulated power in his right hand. At the moment the window frame was broken, he threw the ashes in his hand out.

Whether it was timing, strength, or skills, they all reached their peak at this moment, at least Fang Zhou thought they had reached their peak. As the ashes fell on the figure, the environment in the house also changed, and a figure was completely revealed.

However, when Fang Zhou saw the figure clearly, he could not help but be stunned. This person was fat and his bloated body almost broke his clothes. He was not much different from the ghost in the well he had seen before. Moreover, he was very sure that

this was not the target ancestor tonight. The ancestor would never wear such shabby clothes. These were clearly the clothes of the servants in the mansion.

But...:. But how could the servant's body appear here?

Before Fang Zhou could think clearly, he saw the servant who had become stiff turned around little by little. Fang Zhou opened his eyes in horror. What he was afraid of was not that the servant's body suddenly moved, but that the movement was too weird. It didn't seem like the servant was moving himself.

It was some strange power that was controlling it, just like a puppet controlling the body. This transmission would not be too far away. Judging from the posture, it was right below!

Under the feet of the corpse!

Fang Zhou immediately thought of the location where the ancestor was hiding. Yes, it was hidden under the tattered wooden bed, which was once just a foot away from him.

But it was too late to say anything now. Fang Zhou immediately lowered his head to pick up the lantern in his hand, but the candle inside had already gone out. When he raised his head again, a bloated and rotten ghost face was already in front of him.