Chapter 622 Sacrifice

There was no time for any reaction, just in the blink of an eye, a large living person disappeared on the spot, leaving only the broken window frame.

Not long after, another petite figure walked outside the courtyard gate and looked in for a long time with a pair of alert big eyes.

There was silence in the courtyard.

The visitor was Chang Chuchu. She was ranked fourth. Logically speaking, this was a pretty good ranking. But standing outside the courtyard gate, she was already full of vigilance. The environment inside the courtyard was completely different from what she had remembered. It wasn't exactly the appearance. It's a feeling.

There seems to be something very strange, bizarre and terrifying here.

Like everyone before her, she followed the route set by Xiang Fengchen and turned left first, arriving at the first marked area. Here she also noticed a well and a house made of rubble.

After careful investigation, Chang Chuchu discovered the footprints left behind near the parallel entrance, as well as a few ashes scattered along the parallel entrance.

The ashes showed an obvious gray-white color. After sniffing closer, Chang Chuchu confirmed that the ashes were a mixture of ashes and incense ash in the paper bag. Based on the opened wooden boards at the scene, it was not difficult to judge that someone had sprinkled the ashes into the bag.

She looked down at the mouth of the well warily. The well was very deep, and it was very dark below. She couldn't see any problems for the time being. She didn't know who did it, but it was just the three people in front of her. Since someone had already tried it, she No longer wasting his efforts, he turned around and walked towards the stone house.

The door of the stone house was open. Chang Chuchu did not enter rashly, but circled the house cautiously. As expected, she discovered the broken window frame.

Judging from the traces of breakage, it looks very fresh, and even the break has not had time to grow damp or moldy.

The state of the window frame attracted her. Most of the fragments were inside the house, and almost none fell outside the house. Chang Chuchu restored the scene in her mind. Someone should be standing outside the window, using fists or elbows to hit her hard. Broken window frame.

Who would be so reckless?

Chang Chuchu quickly excluded the humble newcomer Fang Zhou from his mind. The one who dared to do such extraordinary things in a place where ghosts appeared was most likely the senior Nalan Shuo, followed by Lou Huiyang, but no matter which one of the two, It all shows that they encountered an extremely critical situation at that time, were chased by ghosts, or saw ghosts.

Judging from the traces left at the scene, the brave man most likely fell down, but this is not a bad thing for Chang Chuchu. People have died here and there are still ashes left. According to Xiang Fengchen, it is considered safe here. She Just go to the next area to investigate.

This first area did not give her a sense of threat. She had a feeling that the really scary thing had left.

Soon, she arrived at the second suspicious area marked by Xiang Fengchen. Looking around, Chang Chuchu couldn't help but have a headache. This was a small garden, which seemed to be specially built for the attic owner to relax and play, but the privacy was very good. It is full of winding corridors and semi-hollow walls. At a glance, it looks like a small maze.

The night is now no different than before. The waxing moon above the head has gradually waned, and the originally bright moonlight has become much thinner. The entire garden is shrouded in darkness.

Like the entire courtyard, the garden has become dilapidated after years of erosion. You can clearly see the damage and collapse on the walls of the corridor. From these gloomy cracks, there is a vague and disturbing atmosphere.

Her intuition told her that it was unlucky to step into this place, but her reason forced her to stand here. She knew that if she wanted to survive,

You must abide by the rules set by Xiang Fengchen.

No one will escape tonight, because there is no point in escaping. If you break the rules and are caught by the people of the Earl's Mansion, you will die, and the death will be particularly ugly.

Instead, she stayed honestly and did what she should do well, so that she could have a chance of survival. Everyone left now was precious. She believed that the three previous people were not dead, at least not all of them. The reason was simple. , if all four of the vanguard including her were wiped out, then the three remaining Xiang Fengchen would definitely not be able to play.

They haven't found the great master who escaped from the Earl's Mansion yet: their mission has not yet reached the moment of revealing the truth, Xiang Fengchen is not that stupid.

Taking a deep breath, Chang Chuchu closed her eyes for a few seconds and then opened them suddenly. Now, she was going to walk into this ruined garden without distracting thoughts and do what she should do.

"clatter."

"clatter."

"clatter."

The footsteps echoed in the corridor. The deeper she walked, the uneasiness in Chang Chuchu's heart became stronger. The footsteps were reflected on the wall and became overlapping. For a while, it seemed like many people were following her. .

The paper lantern he held in his hand could almost be regarded as the only source of light. The flame of the bright red candle danced, making Chang Chuchu's face flicker.

Not long after, she almost arrived at the depths of the garden. After turning a corner at the end of the corridor, the space in front of her suddenly became larger. She looked at the scene in front of her in shock. She saw that it was like a small ancestral hall, with towers on the left and right. The 6 clay statues are all human figures, but the strange thing is that each statue wears an exaggeratedly large mask on its face.

The mask not only covered the face, but also covered the entire head and neck, as if it was deliberately concealing something.

Because the statues were in disrepair for a long time, the paint on them had already peeled off, and some even had arms and bodies missing. In this environment, Chang Chuchu could not tell whether these clay statues were consistent with those he saw in the Tutu Temple that night.

There are 6 statues on the left and right, but the one in front of the main seat is empty. There are 12 statues here, and there are also 12 statues in the Earth Temple. If they can really correspond one to one, Chang Chuchu's pupils can't help but tremble.

That means that the statue representing the ancestor is hidden among these 12 statues!

Thinking of tonight's mission, Chang Chuchu felt that this possibility was extremely high, and it was not just a statue representing the ancestor, it was the ancestor himself!

Thinking of this, Chang Chuchu's first reaction was to pick up the lantern and check for traces on the ground. Unfortunately, it was in the open air with no obstructions. The ground was covered with withered yellow leaves and was covered with a thick layer. She could not find them. to footprints or traces of ashes left behind.

It stands to reason that the first three people in a place like this would not give up the search easily, but the feeling in Chang Chuchu's heart told her that she was the first living person to arrive here tonight.

These weird statues around her are just waiting for her.

He couldn't continue thinking about it. It would only scare himself and be completely meaningless. Chang Chuchu knew that what he had to do next was to find out what was different from the other statues. There must be something weird about the thing that got in.

The plan was already in place, but she didn't dare to show it too obviously. She tried to walk in the middle of the two rows of statues,

As he walked, he observed, his footsteps light and slow, as if he was afraid of disturbing something sleeping.

During the observation, she didn't find any abnormality in any of the statues, because every statue here looked abnormal, and the most important thing was that Chang Chuchu always felt like thorns on his back when he walked here. The eyes were sinister and cold, and they were definitely not. living person.

She was now certain that what she was looking for tonight was hidden among these 12 dilapidated statues.

She turned around three times in a row, and the only thing she gained was that the gloomy feeling was getting closer and closer to her, so that she didn't dare to continue looking for it. In the end, she could only pretend that she didn't find anything, turned around and left.

But Chang Chuchu didn't go far. She had already found the source of the problem. The only way out was to leave now. She simply identified the direction, squeezed in from behind a broken wall, and walked around to the side of the courtyard wall where the ancestral hall was. After confirming that the surroundings were safe, he then used a tree by the wall to insert the lantern under the tree and climbed up the tree very quickly until his head poked out from the courtyard wall.

That's right, behind this wall is the dilapidated open-air ancestral hall. In order to avoid disturbing the situation, Chang Chuchu didn't even carry a lantern. He just relied on the faint moonlight to look for the so-called anomalies purely with his eyesight.

But this time, after observing from a different angle, I finally got something. There were 6 statues under the wall near her, but there were only 5 statues on the opposite side.

One is missing.

There is no doubt that Chang Chuchu immediately determined that the missing statue must be the target she wanted to find tonight.

Ancestor!

Sure enough, they are hidden inside these 11 statues. There should originally be 12 statues here, which are consistent with the arrangement in the Earth Temple.

But the next screening ran into trouble. The six statues below her were excluded, but the five statues opposite her were just dark shadows in today's environment, and they all wore huge and weird masks. It was impossible to distinguish who was who. Who is.

She wanted to find the statue under her body as a reference, but every time she confirmed one, the next one was messed up. After trying several times in succession to no avail, Chang Chuchu understood that there was some strange force interfering with her.

This should be the weird thing that Manager Wu said.

At the same time, Chang Chuchu keenly sensed a vague gaze sizing her up, but she followed the feeling and looked for it, but could not confirm the specific target. She only knew that it came from the position of the five statues opposite.

The ancestor was still hiding in place. Xiang Fengchen said that it could not move easily unless it was forced away. Not long after, when Chang Chuchu returned to the ancestral hall again, the scene in front of him changed again. Six statues were arranged on the left and right sides. Statues, neat and tidy.

But this was also what Chang Chuchu expected. Now she has confirmed that there is a problem with a certain statue on the right.

And the source of the problem comes from the statue's eyes.

Time passed by. She had spent too much energy and time here. There were 6 suspicious targets.

, but the ashes on her body are only enough for two chances at most.

Chang Chuchu quickly made a bold plan. She wanted to carefully check the eyes of these statues one by one.

Once something is wrong, sprinkle the ashes in your hand into the eyes of the statue.

But before that, she slowly reached into her clothes and took out a long cloth bag, which was wrapped very carefully. When she opened it, she found four sticks of dark red incense inside.

The life-burning incense is the life-saving thing for everyone tonight, but when Chang Chuchu looked at this thing, his eyes were full of resentment. The next second, his palms exerted force, and they pinched these precious life-saving things and broke them. Finally, Throw it on the ground.

She doesn't use this kind of thing.

To be precise, it is useless.

Because I can't afford it.

She didn't even know if she still had three years left to live.

Only she knows how much hardship she has endured in her life. When she was about to die, she was rescued by a passing eviction worker.

Because of this, he recognized this cheap master. Seeing that her destiny was ruthless and evil, he trained her as a figurine, specifically responsible for dealing with the evil things encountered on the road to eviction.

Not long ago, during a corpse-driving trip, the corpse in the coffin revived. In order to suppress the evil corpse, she was bitten by the evil corpse on a finger. The corpse poison entered her body and she fainted. After waking up, the master determined that she would not live for too long, so he expelled her very simply. After all, there were many women like her in the sect, and she was not the most outstanding among them.

She did not have much dissatisfaction with this master. After all, her life was picked up by him, and according to the rules of the profession, the master had to send her off for the last time, in other words, to kill her and hold a funeral for her.

But perhaps because he felt sorry for her, he let her go and let her find her own way to live. It was very likely that she would die of the poison in the end, but the master also told her honestly that there were many strange things in the world. If he could not save her, it did not mean that others could not save her. Whether she lived or died depended on her own luck.

Now it was less than a year before the deadline predicted by the master, so burning the life incense was useless to her. If she did not burn it, she might die, and if she burned it, she would definitely die.

When discussing the issue of dividing the incense before, she was just acting with everyone. After all, once outsiders knew her current situation, it was hard to guarantee that they would not have some crooked thoughts. Using a dying person to explore the way might be the best solution.

But she didn't want to die, and she didn't owe these teammates anything. To put it another way, she would die here, but she couldn't do such a thing as making wedding clothes for others before she died.

Nalan Shuo, Xiang Fengchen, Jiang Qingluan, Lou Huiyang, plus Yang Xiao, these people are not good people. Fang Zhou doesn't like to talk, like a newcomer, and he has a lot of ghosts. He never interrupts at critical moments and gets rid of himself when encountering problems.

A gust of cold wind blew, freezing Chang Chuchu, who was lost in thought, and the flame in the lantern trembled immediately. Chang Chuchu knew that she had to take action.

She held her breath, approached the first statue on the right, raised the lantern, and used the light to illuminate the eyes trapped under the mask.

Looking through the holes in the mask's eyes, the eyes inside were not damaged. On the contrary, they exuded a sinister aura.

However, Chang Chuchu quickly calmed down from her panic. She did not use the ashes blindly, but walked to the next statue and repeated the previous steps. Sure enough, the next statue was the same, with eyes wide open and exuding a sinister aura.

This should be just an illusion. With this discerning mentality, Chang Chuchu came to the third statue and looked inside through the hole in the mask.

And this time, she seemed to have discovered something unexpected. First, her brows slightly frowned, and then the whole person was wrapped up by a huge force and hit the statue hard, as if out of control, again and again, hitting her head and bleeding.

The lantern that fell to the ground was extinguished immediately.