The sound of heavy rain hitting the roof walls made a disturbing sound. Lu Ning originally liked rainy days, but now this heavy rain with thunderous sounds can only increase her uneasiness.
"Who discovered the body first?"
The white-collar worker pointed at the frightened woman, and then continued to shrink. When Yin Lian saw this, she could only shake her head and walk deeper into the corridor.
"Wait! It might be dangerous!" Shi Song quickly stopped her.
"A ghost has already killed someone. Now my chance of hitting a ghost has been reduced from 1 in 10 to 2 in 29. I don't think I'm so unlucky." Yin Lian walked into the corridor without looking back. Go.
"Oh, she must be the most courageous person I have ever seen." Yu Zhisong's lips raised slightly, "But this makes sense. There are limits to ghost killing, if that information didn't lie to us."
He didn't realize that his words added to the sense of terror for many people. He put his hands into his pockets and walked over to see the corpse.
Lu Ning was also one of the more courageous ones. She also discovered that her fear of death was not that serious, so she also caught up with Yin Lian.
The corpse's death state was quite tragic, and the man's expression looked ferocious and twisted because his neck was severed. However, this was just more impactful to the three people who had seen the situation in the gardener's cabin before. Many of the people who came later were frightened and could only hide at a distance and did not want to come over.
Yin Lian knelt down and began to examine the body. Lu Ning also tacitly began to pull off the deceased's clothes. Their actions made the upstart who came behind him turn green.
"Are you perverts? There are still two ghosts who haven't killed anyone, so you just carelessly dig through the corpses of the dead?"
Yu Zhisong snorted. He originally wanted to turn over, but was beaten by Yin Lian and Lu Ning. He could only watch, so he attacked the nouveau riche:
"Are you stupid? This guy was so cowardly that he wanted to run back and didn't even notice something that might save his life. How would such a timid person leave the group and run out to use the toilet when the time is almost up? Besides, you guys What do people do for food? You looked so arrogant, but when the time came when you came back, you let a ghost kill one?"
The nouveau riche was not a vegetarian either. He glared and shouted from a distance: "What do you know, you little brat? Why should I care about this man's life and death? As long as he lives among the last nine people, he is safe. Do you think I don't know? He is dead. Woe to him!"
This sentence immediately made several people unhappy, but the upstart was quite disdainful: "What are you looking at? Everyone knows clearly in their hearts, so don't pretend to work together. Killing twenty-one in seven days is just an elimination game." , I have to protect myself from pushing you into the mouth of ghosts. Do I still want to be a world-savior Bodhisattva? A bunch of hypocritical guys!"
"Huh, hypocrisy? If we can fight against the ghost, you will regret it if so many people die because of your passive attitude!" A young woman in Yu Zhisong's team also stood up to support her own people.
"That's right, what kind of attitude do you have? Since you say we are hypocritical, don't hide anything you find. Speak out." The man in the couple also plucked up the courage to say something.
The upstart glanced at the people: "Haha? You want to provoke me? So what if I tell you? I have a pill in my hand that can make ghosts go around. Now you are questioning me with a arrogant look, waiting for me to be chased by ghosts. Even if you kneel on the ground and beg, I won’t give you even one!"
"Qing Zheng Dan, the introduction says that it is a medicine synthesized from the dregs of Penglai elixir. It contains innate Qing Qi. Like an insect repellent medicine, it can make people emit a smell that is disgusting to ghosts."
Just when the argument was about to escalate, Yin Lian spoke.
"There is only one bottle and one pill in the introduction, but it sounds like you have a lot of pills. Now that I have the support, I won't say anything. Just take this to keep yourself safe. If you are still alive after seven days, you might as well come again. Laughing at everyone.”
"You...what do you mean?"
The meaningful words in Yin Lian's mouth obviously made the upstart feel a little uneasy.
"You don't think that everything will be fine if you make ghosts hate you? People can eat things they don't like when they are very hungry, and ghosts will go crazy... hum."
The upstart turned pale and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but still couldn't. He turned around and ran back upstairs.
"Finally driven away." Yin Lian breathed out, wiped the blood on the deceased's clothes, and then threw something the size of a lighter to Yu Zhisong.
"Eh? This is..."
Yu Zhisong copied it over and found that it was a wooden cylinder with more than a dozen circles of things carved in unknown characters on it. The bottom of the cylinder depicts the shape of a skull and a five-pointed star.
"The Spirit-Calling Catalog, the not-so-wonderful items in the collection, can attract ghosts to protect themselves. It is also said that many people have been killed by the ghosts they summoned. This person probably wanted to take a chance and secretly summoned a bodyguard. As a result, I don’t know if he succeeded and was killed by the summoned ghost, or if he failed and was killed by the ghost in the house." Yin Lian wiped her hands twice more, but found that they couldn't be wiped clean. She frowned and looked around.
"Are you so relieved to give it to me?" Yu Zhisong smiled slightly.
"It's pretty reliable for you."
Of course, this refers to the investigation that Yu Zhisong's previous gardener's hut also followed.
"Oh, if you say so, I will like you, little sister."
"I won't like you if you say that. Where is the place to wash your hands?"
Yu Zhisong laughed loudly and waved his hand: "I'll take you there, but since you think this thing is not good, why don't you keep it yourself?"
This question was actually asked to the onlookers. People like Lu Ning, who had been searching with Yin Lian from the beginning, already understood what she was thinking.
Don't put your eggs in one basket.
Afternoon.
As the first deceased appeared, after wrapping the body in sheets and placing it at the gardener's hut, everyone gathered and counted the number. There were still twenty-nine people.
Another question that Yin Lian is more worried about is whether the soul summoning catalog has been used, and whether there are new ghosts here. After careful observation, the bespectacled woman gave a more certain answer, that is, it has not been used.
"The book records that if similar items are used, the words on them will become blurry, which means they are disposable. Since this is still so clear, it means it has not been used."
"It seems that the interpretation went smoothly." Someone said.
The bespectacled woman is also very confident: "Except for some proper nouns that may take some time to guess, the rest of the content is not difficult. However, the whole book has a large amount of text, so I picked out the parts that seemed more useful. "
"So, is there anything useful?"
"Well, there is a part that introduces the reverse ritual, but this part is difficult to understand, and it will take me some time..."
At this moment, several people pushed the dining cart back to the restaurant.
Cooking also became a problem under such circumstances. Finally, the young woman from Yu Zhisong's team, the woman in the couple, and Ling Yan said they could go, and asked a few more people to help, and then the cooking lineup was formed.
"Sister Yin Lian doesn't know how to cook?" Lu Ning was a little curious.
"I usually either take out food or go to restaurants. I rarely cook. I have never done anything except cooking and fried rice." Yin Lian studied the dagger while chatting with everyone.
"It's normal for a strong woman not to pay much attention to her life." Yu Zhisong also intervened.
"I pay great attention to my life, and I will never treat myself badly even when I am busiest." Yin Lian seemed a little unhappy, but only Lu Ning next to her could detect this emotion.
And this lunch was just a variety of stir-fried vegetables, steamed rice in a big pot, and chopped sauce. Someone had just died, and those who participated in moving the body had only average appetites, and Yin Lian didn't eat much. On the contrary, the nouveau riche went downstairs and started eating and drinking with his two followers. He was quite sensible, so he spoke without judgment at this time, which also made the lunch stop a lot.
After lunch, everyone was clearing away the tableware and talking in low voices, and the atmosphere seemed to become more harmonious again.
"I want to take a bath."
Someone suggested.
When we moved the corpse out of the house, many people got wet even if someone helped hold an umbrella. Now it feels very uncomfortable with their clothes sticking to their bodies.
"Isn't it dangerous?" Policeman Xiao Liu was a little worried.
Yin Lian shook her head: "There are two baths here. If there are more people, just bring something with you. Even if we do nothing, the danger will not be reduced."
"Wow, I thought you were going to object." The girl who entered the room first happily took the bespectacled woman's hand and ran upstairs together.
"What are they doing?" Yin Lian was a little surprised.
Zhang Fuyuan lit a cigarette and took a comfortable puff: "You haven't seen the room yet, right? The room here is the same as a hotel, with all the things. They are looking for bathrobes."
"Master Zhang knows it very well." Yu Zhisong said with a smile.
"If you raise a daughter, you have to understand it, especially when you are particularly clingy to your parents."
When Zhang Fuyuan said this, his expression became much gentler, as if he had recalled something beautiful. Yu Zhisong grinned: "Then I will join in the fun. Anyway, if there are two pools, it will be no problem to separate men and women."
The leaders were all interested, and the young men and women in Yu Zhisong's team naturally couldn't help but join in. Lu Ning didn't go out with him because he felt fine, so he didn't follow. Besides Zhang Fuyuan and Yin Lian, the upstarts were in a group of three. After the meal, the person returned to the room. The white-collar man and the woman with heavy makeup also stayed in the hall and refused to run around. The couple guarded the hand and put in a candle, unwilling to move. , and the rest are more or less meant to be cleaned up.
"Everyone is divided into batches. Uncle Hong, please protect everyone." Yin Lian asked the most reliable group of people here.
"Do not worry."
Yin Lian looked at Shi Song and Gongsun You again: "Let's go pick a room. Since there are double rooms here, we'd better... go together at any time."
At that moment of hesitation, he probably wanted to say teamwork, but it was too unrealistic for so many people to be together all the time. Many people had some secrets, and props that could resist ghosts were now standing around everyone. The wall separates them.
"Sister Yin Lian, are you worried about the future?" When going upstairs, Lu Ning asked, "Do you think everyone can't survive?"
"No, there are other reasons why I don't let everyone be together all the time. I have some guesses...Forget it, now we still have to figure out how to use the things we have in hand best."
The room on the second floor is indeed luxuriously decorated, with a full set of Western-style furniture. The warm brown tones alleviate the gloomy feeling brought by the weather outside. When the lights are turned on, there is also a bright white light source. Although Tang Yuanzhen liked the retro style when he built the villa, he did not leave out the modern things.
Lu Ning went into the bathroom and walked around. There was no bathroom, but there was a flush toilet. In order to unify the style, the sink was actually made in a style similar to a dressing table, with a round mirror mounted on the shelf, giving people a movie-like feel. , even Lu Ning, who has no research, likes this kind of decoration style very much.
"There are rich people." Lu Ning sighed after coming out.
Yin Lian nodded: "We already know that Tang Yuanzhen is inseparable from these mysterious things. Such a person is either extremely poor or has too much money to burn his hands. What's more, if it is true, it is more likely to be a He is an invisible rich man. This villa is probably where he studied those things with great concentration. Judging from the things we found, we can almost infer..."
"...something happened here."
Lu Ning, who is well versed in the theory of immortality without doing anything, also guessed the plot. Just because there are so many things related to mysticism here, you can see how many secrets there are here. Something must have happened to Tang Yuanzhen later on, which caused the villa to become like this, and he himself probably wouldn't end up well.
