seek immortality

Chapter 375 Strange Puzzle
The next day, Xu Yan came very early.

Naturally, Tang Chengnian wouldn't keep him waiting for a long time. Basically, she heard Xu Yan as soon as he started. After she had already finished her preparations, she stepped on the door and pushed open the door—"Oh? You came so early?" Tang Chengnian said in surprise , head start.

Xu Yan had no choice but to hold back his words when his stomach was full.

"Guest, the road to the south of the city is not close, we can start now." Xu Yan took a breath before saying hastily.

"No problem, let's go quickly." Tang Chengnian immediately walked out of the room.

Xu Yan, who was prepared to wait, could only say, "Please come with me."

Of course Tang Chengnian could see that Xu Yan didn't really want to go to the Li family in the south of the city.

After all, anyone involved with this kind of weird event would just want to stay away from it, even in her previous life, once she was involved with this kind of thing, she could hide as far as she could, not to mention, it was still a ghost that proved to be This comprehension world that exists and can still cultivate?Xu Yan wanted to stay away, Tang Chengnian could understand his mood.

But Tang Chengnian also had her own things to do, and she couldn't let go of any clues about that master craftsman.

Even though, on the surface, this rainy night phantom has nothing to do with the weapon refiner... But, this is a world linked to the portable game system after all, and according to the game settings, nothing is impossible.It was also for this reason that Tang Chengnian was willing to try such a thankless task.

Li's house in the south of the city is really not that close to Yunlai Inn. Xu Yan hired a carriage and ran for a while before arriving at Li's house.

The members of the Li family have already moved out of their ancestral house, but first rented a house nearby to live in.

After all, it is the ancestral home of the Li family, and it is impossible to give up easily, so the Li family has never given up on the solution to this matter.

Xu Yan got out of the car first, entered the house where the Li family lived temporarily, and informed them that someone was willing to help.

From there came out an elegant man dressed as a scholar, dressed in a snow-white robe, spotless, it could be seen that this person loved cleanliness very much—or had a cleanliness habit.Every step he takes, he looks cautious. It's no wonder that such a person can hardly bear that kind of weird house.But who made that house his ancestral home?Xu Yan led this person to the side of the carriage, and then let Tang Chengnian get out of the carriage, and introduced to her: "This is the master of the Li family."

Tang Chengnian nodded very politely, and introduced himself to the Li family master named Li Shengming: "My surname is Tang."

"Tang... Miss Tang..." Li Shengming looked her up and down suspiciously, showing a speculative expression.

Obviously, he didn't trust her.

It's no wonder that if Tang Chengnian himself had any problems, and an eight-year-old girl ran up to him and said he could help, she would probably just throw her a piece of candy and let her stay where it was fun.

However, since Tang Chengnian came, he naturally wouldn't turn back the same way.

She jumped out of the car, walked up to Li Shengming very confidently, and said, "Master Li, don't worry, I will find a way to solve your troubles, even if I can't, I won't cause you new troubles, I just want to Take a look at the place where the phantom is happening, you just need to accompany me there, and then answer me a few simple questions, and leave the rest to me."

She guessed that Li Shengming was worried about her, and also because he was afraid of losing his wife and losing his army.

So, she simply put the words to the fore, that suspicious haunted house, she went and guarded it by herself, without being accompanied by anyone, even if something happened, she would bear the responsibility by herself, and would not involve the Li family in the trouble.

Sure enough, after she finished saying this, Li Shengming's expression looked much better.

In addition, Tang Chengnian was really smart and confident in his speech, but he was not complacent, which really gave Li Shengming a sense of trust.

So he nodded to Xu Yan, agreeing to let Tang Chengnian help.

Seeing Li Shengming nodding, Xu Yan quickly looked at Tang Chengnian.

Tang Chengnian naturally said something that reassured him: "Okay, Master Li will lead the way later, you don't have to accompany me, you can go back to the inn by yourself. These are bounties, you can take them."

After speaking, he also generously took out a piece of silver.

She believed that if the matter of the Li family could be resolved, the Li family would definitely pay her a lot, so Tang Chengnian was also very generous in his actions without any scruples.What's more, Li Shengming was still standing beside her, she showed a generous appearance, she definitely gave Li Shengming a different feeling from those other cheaters who came here just for money.Regardless of whether those people were cheating or not, but they didn't solve the troubles of the Li family, so to Li Shengming, it was no different from cheating.

After Tang Chengnian let Xu Yan go, Li Shengming's smile became more sincere.

"Please come with me. Our ancestral home is not far from here, and we will be there in a short walk." Li Shengming said enthusiastically, and considering Tang Chengnian's short legs, he asked intimately, "However, if Miss Tang needs As for the means of transportation..."

"Don't bother, just walk over there." Tang Chengnian waved his hand and directly refused.

She could see that Li Shengming also wanted to consider her.

If you can't even walk this far, how about catching ghosts...

While walking on the road, Tang Chengnian was not idle either. She had nothing to talk to Li Shengming anyway, so she hurriedly asked some questions.

"Are there many troubles like your residence?" Tang Chengnian asked nonchalantly.

"What does Miss Tang mean by asking this?" Hearing Tang Chengnian's question, Li Shengming's expression immediately became very vigilant.

Tang Chengnian smiled, slightly dissolving the awkward atmosphere, and then said: "Oh, I don't mean anything else, I'm just curious. After all, I've heard of the reputation of Fengdu Ghost City, and I'm a little puzzled how this nickname came about... ..."

"What's 'Fengdu Ghost City', who made up the rumor!?" Li Shengming raised his eyebrows immediately.

Tang Chengnian was taken aback, "Rumor?"

"I also grew up here since I was a child. I have never heard of the 'Fengdu Ghost City'! Besides, the name of the ghost city sounds very unlucky. Does this person have any deep hatred against the people of Fengdu City?" Li said. Sheng Ming seemed to be really angry, but Tang Chengnian also noticed that when Li Shengming roared just now, a strange emotion flashed in Li Shengming's eyes, as if a little... flustered?Panic?

Tang Chengnian showed a puzzled expression: "Is that so? It seems that the person who told me this matter is really... his heart is to be punished..."

"That's right, that person must have malicious intentions!" Li Shengming agreed without hesitation.

Tang Chengnian nodded, without refuting his words, he said: "Sorry, I don't know much about this, please forgive me if what I just said offends you in any way."

"It doesn't matter, Miss Tang, you were also deceived." Seeing Tang Chengnian apologize so decisively, Li Shengming was embarrassed to pursue the issue and quickly followed suit without hesitation.

"Then, according to Mr. Li, the phantom matter...is the only one?" Tang Chengnian asked again, showing an embarrassed smile, as if he was afraid of Li Shengming's misunderstanding, and immediately added, "Please don't Misunderstanding, I don’t mean anything else by asking this question, I just want to know if this is a special case, which is very helpful for me to solve the problem.”

"So that's the case. If this is the case, then I will naturally not hide it. However, as far as I know, the phantom incident has indeed only happened in our family." Li Shengming said helplessly.

"I don't know, who did you invite to come here before? Are they all obsessed with that phantom?" Tang Chengnian kept asking questions.

However, she has already said what she said before, all to solve the trouble, so Li Shengming is naturally embarrassed to blame her for having too many problems.For the tormented Li Shengming, he only hopes that this problem can be resolved as soon as possible, and he really does not want this problem to be delayed for too long.This scholarly man showed a look of resoluteness, and then he replied: "Indeed, those people have not solved this matter. Some people have seen it and returned without success, and some people have tried to solve this problem. Who knows that after staying overnight, they all passed out, and when they woke up, they were all in a daze, unable to tell what happened the night before. As time passed, no one would come."

"Oh." Tang Chengnian nodded lightly, thoughtfully.

She thought for a while, and asked again: "The phantom, does it appear every night, or is it only on rainy nights?"

"Rainy night." Li Shengming replied without hesitation.

"Are you sure?" Tang Chengnian asked again out of caution, although she knew that Li Shengming would not deceive her.

"Yes." Li Shengming nodded and said with certainty.Then, he showed a shy expression, and explained why he was so sure, "To be honest, I've always been bold. When this incident happened in our house, I stayed on guard for several nights. It's just that , It didn't rain in those days, so I didn't see any phantom, I thought it was my family's eyesight. But a few days later, on the night after the rain, several servants in our family who passed by the backyard all saw the phantom , and then passed out, and the next day, like those who came to our house to solve the trouble, they didn’t know anything about what happened before the coma. Everyone was scared, so they moved out of the ancestral house first.”

"They all passed out?" Tang Chengnian confirmed, "All the people who saw that phantom on a rainy night were all in a coma, and after waking up, all of them couldn't tell what happened before the coma, and even forgot all of them? So, these people How could you remember seeing that phantom?"

Tang Chengnian consciously grasped the key point, so he asked with some joy.

But Li Shengming still shook his head and replied: "This... no one can say it. After they woke up, they only remembered that they had seen a phantom. The phantom seemed to be imprinted in their minds. can not forget……"

Tang Chengnian became more and more confused the more he listened, but when he thought about it carefully, he forgot everything, but still remembered the meaning of Phantom?
What does that phantom look like?

"What does the phantom look like, do they still remember?" Tang Chengnian asked again.

"They said...it was...a ball of...colorful light and shadow...about as tall as a person, with some irregular shapes and some erratic..." Li Shengming recalled it, but his mind was still confused and unimaginable.This kind of shape, color, it is not appropriate to say that it is a person or a ghost, but it makes sense to say that it is a phantom.

Tang Chengnian's distress was the same as Li Shengming's. Just listening to people's descriptions, he really couldn't imagine what this thing looked like.

"Forget it, please take me to that backyard and let me take a look for myself." Tang Chengnian thought for a while and made up his mind.

Li Shengming was very surprised.

"Tang, Miss Tang, are you going to stay there overnight?"

"If it's raining today, then I'm afraid I really only need to stay for one night." Tang Chengnian said a joke in his leisurely manner.

It's just that Li Shengming couldn't laugh at all.

He advised: "Let's forget it, Miss Tang, this... this is too dangerous..."

Li Shengming and Tang Chengnian talked for a while, and he was a little embarrassed to see her run into the fire pit, so he said admonishing her.

However, Tang Chengnian had already made up her mind, even if it was a fire pit, she would have to go through it once.

(End of this chapter)