It was the missing Jiang Zhao. He was hung by a rope under the ceiling. It was unclear whether it was a coincidence. At this moment, his head was lowered, and a pair of blood-red eyes protruding from the eye sockets were staring at Miao Qing's face.
His eyes were full of despair and resentment, as if he was asking why he was the one who died.
"Jiang Zhao..." Bai Xiaojie raised her head and saw this scene, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
Ouyang Huanbin sat on the ground blankly, looking up at the corpse hanging high up. A breathtaking chill came from all directions and enveloped him. He had not yet recovered from the attack just now.
Miao Qing glanced around and suddenly found many books scattered on the top of the bookshelf, and a few were stacked crookedly. Referring to the height of Jiang Zhao's hanging and the position of the stacked books, he made a strange guess in his mind. .
Jiang Zhao first climbed to the top of the bookshelf, then stepped on the stacked books and hanged himself.
During the struggle, he kicked down the stacked books again, so that was the scene before him.
After coming down, he told everyone what he saw and his guesses. Jiang Cheng took the initiative to climb up again to confirm the clues. What he saw was consistent with what Miao Qing described.
"Jiang Zhao climbed up through this ladder." Jiang Cheng ran his fingers across the ladder. It was covered with dust. It had obviously been there for a long time. When exposed to light, there were clear shoe prints on the ladder.
The fat man's face became uncomfortable when he heard this, "So the woman he saw..." He looked at Ouyang Huanbin out of the corner of his eye and saw that the other party looked lost and lost. He didn't say the rest of the words.
According to Ouyang Huanbin's previous description, the woman in black skirt stood on the ladder and stood on her tiptoes, stacking the books one by one on the top of the bookshelf. Jiang Zhao hanged himself by stepping on the books stacked by the woman.
This strange way of killing people is disturbing.
Bai Xiaojie hesitated for a while, then turned pale and said, "There is a saying in my hometown that people who choose to hang themselves are bewitched by unclean things. Have you ever heard of the water ghost catching a substitute? It's similar to this."
"Those...those unclean things will find things to put on the feet of the person who wants to hang themselves. As long as you step on these things, it means that you agree with the other person. After death, you have to give up your place for reincarnation. This way you die. The other person becomes a lonely ghost instead of the other person. If you want to be reincarnated, you must lure the next person to hang yourself." Bai Xiaojie's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke.
"Ghost steps on someone's feet." Jiang Cheng frowned slightly, "I've heard this saying too."
"I said... should we put him down?" Fatty's focus was on Jiang Zhao's body, which was hanging above their heads. He felt uncomfortable all over, and it was pitch black.
When Liu Hui raised her phone and illuminated the body with light again, Ouyang Huanbin, who had just taken a breath, screamed and fell to the ground again.
At some point, Jiang Zhao's body turned around. At this time, his protruding eyes were strangely turned downwards, facing Ouyang Huanbin's position, as if he was worried about him.
The fat man had sharp eyes and noticed at a glance that the clothes in front of Jiang Zhao were bulging, as if something was stuffed in them. Jiang Cheng asked everyone to keep an eye on him. He quickly climbed up the ladder and tore off the clothes of the corpse, and a book fell down.
Jiang Cheng reacted quickly and caught it.
The book is covered with a black hard shell, and the pages look yellow when viewed from the side, giving it a sense of age.
It is unlikely that the ghost stuffed a book into Jiang Zhao's clothes after killing him, so Jiang Cheng speculated that the book was found by Jiang Zhao before his death. There were clues in it, and he put it in his clothes with the intention of embezzling it, but he didn't expect it to end up like this. end.
"What is written in the book?" Bai Xiaojie asked curiously while taking advantage of her neck.
Jiang Cheng put away the book with no intention of opening it, "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's leave first." After saying that, he looked at Ouyang Huanbin and said, "After all, it's your master up there. You two are master and apprentice. Do you want to go up and collect his body? "
Ouyang Huanbin had been frightened for a long time, but he didn't want to be known as ruthless in front of everyone, so he knelt down in front of Jiang Zhao's body, kowtowed three times, and said in a sad tone : "Master, it's not that my disciple is unfilial. It's just that he has more ambition than strength. I believe you, the old man, can understand."
The fat man looked up at the corpse, thinking that this time it was really his master who was responsible.
Huaiyi originally planned to kill this old guy, but now that he is dead, it is a worry for him, "Let's leave quickly, this old guy is petty, and he won't be cheating for a while."
Ouyang Huanbin's face was full of grief, as if he hadn't heard what Huaiyi said. He stood up and said, "Let's... let's go." He felt guilty.
I don't know if it was due to Jiang Zhao's influence, but the way out went smoothly. After walking out of the library door, Jiang Cheng opened the book, which recorded the history of this town and various events that occurred.
It was also from this book that everyone finally confirmed the name of the manor.
"Darkosa Manor..."
Liu Hui stared at the bold words on the top of the book. Under the eye-catching title, there was a line of small words. The font seemed to have been soaked in water and was a little blurry. You had to get very close to see it clearly, "Cursed Land..." Liu Hui said in a low voice.
In this way, the history of Dacorossa Manor is gradually revealed in front of everyone. The author of the book only wrote the name of the manor in the title, but used terms such as cursed place or witch cemetery throughout the entire narrative. Describe it.
The book records a tragedy that happened in the Dacrossa Manor many years ago.
The Pope at that time issued an edict stating that witches must never be forgiven. They were heinous 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 dried up. Mobilize all clergy to participate in the suppression of witches.
In this vigorous extermination operation against witches, a large number of witches were captured. Crazy people stuffed sawdust into their mouths, and then sewed their mouths shut with thin linen rope. It is said that this way they will not be killed by them. Cursed with the foulest curse.
Then they were hanged in groups from trees and allowed to be eaten by crows on their rotting corpses.
Some bodies will also be burned, and the thick black smoke can be clearly seen from miles away.
At the same time, such a tragedy was also taking place in the town. At that time, the surviving witches were hiding in XZ, living in fear, maybe they would be captured and hanged tomorrow.
At that time, the owner of Dacorossa Manor sympathized with these witches and privately took in many witches in the manor.
But not long after, I don't know who leaked the news. Crazy people rushed into the manor, caught the owner of the manor, tortured him, and hung him from a tree together with the witches hiding in the manor.
