Ring of Seven [Publication Edition]
Chapter 22 Lin Xu
Cuiniang nodded and said, "Can I see your jade pendant?"
The beggar took out the jade pendant, Cui Niang's eyes lit up when she got the jade pendant, she looked at it for a long time, and said, "Beggar, wear it, maybe it can save your life."
Cuiniang held Qi'er's hand tightly, and the strength in her hand increased a bit: "If you get out alive, you must write this down. Qi'er, you are different, you are already very smart, and you must survive. "
Beggar clenched the jade pendant in his hand and nodded heavily.Cuiniang turned her head to look at the huge stone wall, and said with firm eyes: "Whether it is dead or alive, we have to go there, maybe we will all die. But as long as someone gets out alive, these people cannot be forgotten. Those who are dead are still alive. They must not be forgotten..."
After finishing speaking, Cui Niang made a move that surprised everyone. She actually grabbed a handful of gnats and stuffed them into her mouth, frowning and swallowing the live worms with tears in her eyes. After eating She couldn't stop feeling sick, but she insisted on covering it with her hands to prevent herself from vomiting.Everyone was amazed at her actions, and no one could speak for a while.Lin Xu asked in disbelief: "Cui Niang! What are you doing?!"
Cuiniang waved her hand and said, "One of us must eat those bugs and make himself the corpse of these bugs, otherwise we will be overwhelmed by a large number of gnats when we pass the Shinto."
Lin Xu asked intermittently: "You eat... what will happen if you eat?"
Cuiniang smiled miserably and shook her head, but said nothing.Then she pointed to the stone wall full of murals and said: "This stone wall is actually hollow. There is a road behind it. This road is the Shinto path leading to Guo Pu's tomb. We must enter from there. But we cannot light the lamps." Otherwise, the heat from the fire will attract more bugs, and we must climb the stone wall in the dark."
Lin Xu looked up at the huge stone wall. Although there were indeed some pitted stones on it that could be used as handles, it was very difficult. What's more, in the absence of light, it was almost a gamble. If you fell, you would be smashed to pieces.
The beggar untied his braids, hung the jade pendant on his chest with a headband, and put it on his underwear, then hung the dagger around his waist, looked up at the stone wall and said, "OK, we can climb over."
At this time, Feng Luxi looked distressed and said: "Everyone is a master of martial arts, but I am so young that I have no strength to restrain a chicken. Do you want me to fly over the wall like you? Aunts and grandparents, you can't leave me here... This place!"
Lin Xu looked at the rock wall and said, "It's not necessarily necessary for everyone to climb up. I think there is a deep depression in half of the rock wall, and there are many rocks below, so it's easy to climb. We have Master Liu here. The remaining rope can be used to hang Feng Luxi up."
Liu Fei sighed again and again: "This kid is really a fucking burden, why are you the only one alive?"
Feng Luxi's face turned pale and red at Liu Fei's words, but he was speechless.Lin Xu interrupted: "Since we are all in trouble, and we have sworn to be brothers with different surnames, then we are all brothers, no matter who we are, we can't leave them behind."
Liu Fei felt that he had made a slip of the tongue, but he was unwilling to bow his head and give in. He shook off Lin Xu's hand on his shoulder, snorted, and carried the rope still on the ground onto his shoulder.
Lin Xu smiled wryly and shook his head, looking back at Cuiniang.Cuiniang's face turned pale from swallowing the worms. Lin Xu couldn't bear it, but there was nothing he could do.He whispered to Cuiniang, "It's ok, let's go."
When Chen Hao saw this, his hands couldn't help trembling, thinking, is it that my sister and myself are destined to be involved?Everyone's expressions were also very complicated, and the thin monkey asked with concern: "Brother Chen, is that jade pendant still there?"
Chen Hao said: "No, if I stay, my family will definitely say it, but I have never seen that thing."
Fat San said anxiously: "Don't interrupt, just keep reading!"
Fat San saw that the kid was talking in frustration again, so he quickly asked, "How do you know? Talking nonsense again!"
Ye Wei ignored him.At this time, Chen Hao followed Ye Wei's words and said: "Since the beggar came out alive, the jade pendant may have played its role, and such a thing may not be used again after being used once."
Fat San slumped on the chair in disappointment.Zhou Jue said: "But we almost already know where the Yin-Yang Dao is. But what is the function of that piece of jade?"
The thin monkey said: "Let's keep reading, maybe we will know more information."
Chen Hao said, "Do you still remember? Rulan said in her diary that there were two ghosts haunting her."
Zhou Jue said: "That is to say, there are two kinds of forces that hold us back. One is to keep reading, just like the irresistible desire to continue reading until the end of the story. Obstacles that will appear for no reason are like reminding us that we can no longer watch..."
The thin monkey asked stupidly: "Which one is... to save us?"
At this moment, they suddenly remembered the rapid knock on the door, and the few people were like frightened birds.Chen Hao opened the door cautiously, and stretched out a hand stiffly from the outside. Everyone gasped, and when they took a closer look, they found that hand was somewhat familiar, and when they looked closely, they found that the watch on this arm was even more familiar.Then a familiar voice came from the door.
The person outside said: "Chen Hao, it's me, don't close the door and pinch my hand..."
Only then did Chen Hao heave a sigh of relief, he opened the door, and it turned out to be Li Fang outside the door.Li Fang saw the weird expressions on everyone's faces, and said, "What's wrong with you?"
Chen Hao stabilized his emotions, and replied flatly: "It's nothing. What are you here for?"
Li Fang said: "Oh, I thought about it all night, and I think I should give you this thing. I found this when I was sorting out the teacher's belongings. I don't know if you have any use for it." He looked at the window suspiciously, and then Looked at them, but no one was ready to answer his question.He coughed a few times in embarrassment, and took out a tin box of moon cakes from his bag.He opened the box, and there were many letters in it.
Everyone picked it up and found that there was only one place where these letters were sent, and it was the weird "Yingbin Town". Everyone immediately became vigilant, because everyone knew that that was where the mysterious Yin-Yang Road on the map was located.
Li Fang said: "I found these things under the teacher's bed, because this place happened to be the address where you asked me to pick you up. I always felt that this matter had something to do with you. I thought about it all night and decided. Or give it to you."
Chen Hao didn't speak, opened one of the letters, and found that the inscribed letter was actually Lin Xu.Both Chen Hao and Ye Wei couldn't help but let out a low cry. No one expected that the protagonist of this book, Lin Xu, who may also be the author, would actually write a letter to Professor Ma.And the date of those letters can be traced back to before the 'Cultural Revolution', and there are still letters one after another until now, and there are even New Year's cards and so on.In other words, Professor Ma may have known Lin Xu long ago.Then why did he pretend that he didn't know anything in front of Chen Rulan, and only contacted him afterwards?
What is the purpose of concealing so much?
Chen Hao took a look at the contents of the letter. It was full of trivial matters, and there was no mention of the matter of the Seven, and occasionally there were discussions about epigraphy.If it wasn't for the last signature, no one would have thought that this had anything to do with the Ring of Seven.
At this time, Zhou Jue said something very important, he said: "Maybe Lin Xu is still alive, he is still in... Yingbin Town!"
Fat San said excitedly: "If you find him, maybe you can know how to break the curse. Since the books may be written by him, then maybe we don't have to go to Guo Pu's tomb, and don't care if it's a yin and yang tomb. "
Chen Hao put the letter back into the box and said to Li Fang, "Leave this box to us first."
Li Fang seemed to have something to say, but in the end he just nodded. He walked out of the room, turned around and asked, "Xiaomei...she..." Zhou Jue's eyes darkened, and Chen Hao said lightly, "We also Did not meet her."
Li Fang seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "I know, you have to be careful. Then leave."
Ye Wei smiled slightly: "Why didn't you tell him that Guo Mei is dead."
Chen Hao didn't look at him, just stuffed the box into his bag, and then said to everyone: "Everyone get ready, we have to go back to Yingbin Town, everyone better make more preparations. According to the book, that weird underground The village is just under that ancestral hall. Maybe this time is our last chance."
Seeing everyone's painful expressions, Zhou Jue quickly said, "Maybe we can still find Lin Xu, and he might know how to save his life. Anyway, until we find Lin Xu, we all have hope."
Although these words are not powerful, they are comforting anyway.With the help of Li Fang, they finally got a batch of equipment ordered by Chen Hao.After everything was settled and everyone had a full meal, they set off for Yingbin Town again.However, everyone's mood at this time is heavier than that of the first departure.
Chen Hao didn't ask Li Fang to send them off, but hired a van. Maybe he didn't want Li Fang's intervention to bring them any changes, or he was afraid that Li Fang would cause some trouble again.However, since the death incidents occurred one after another, Chen Hao has stopped talking much, he is as silent as a stubborn stone, enduring all the pressure and anxiety, and at the same time, he has to find a trace of life.Zhou Jue sometimes thinks, how far can he go without Chen Hao?
Sitting in the car, no one talked, even Fat San, who was usually the most active, spoke at the moment.If it was a normal day, Zhou Jue would definitely take the lead in laughing at Fat Sanzhuang's deepness, but at this moment no one is in the mood to make a joke.When Feng Laojiu came back from Qilin Town, he kept coughing and his face became paler and paler.The thin monkey asked him what was wrong, but he didn't say anything, but the severe cough made people feel uneasy.The anger in Feng Laojiu's eyes became less and less, and he seldom rolled his eyes. Sometimes he just sat there blankly, as if he no longer listened to their discussions.
The only one who was still smiling was Ye Wei. He hugged the black cat and looked out the window as if traveling.Ye Wei suddenly called Zhou Jue, pointed out the window and said, "Look, that's where the car derailed. Is this God's will?"
Zhou Jue looked in the direction he pointed, and there was indeed the place where he escaped alone, and there was also the open space.They seem to be a group of people walking on the road that the former bought with their lives, and if they all fail... then, what can they leave behind?
It was still the same road, but at the beginning he was walking, but now he was riding in a car. Zhou Jue actually began to miss the original crazy-single scenery.At this time, Chen Hao was still not idle. He kept comparing the ancient map with the electronic map, and used the computer to calculate something.Along the way, Chen Hao is the soul of this team, just like Chen Rulan back then, or Huzi and Lin Xu earlier.There are such characters in every ring of seven. When encountering a crisis, everyone habitually relies on the strong.
So, what will the strong rely on?
Chen Hao put down the map, pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "I've done the calculations, and the location of Yingbin Town is very ingenious. From the point of view of Feng Shui, it happens to be at the starting point of Gongzhufen's rise, that is to say, the origin of the dragon's veins in Gongzhufen. here."
Zhou Jue said: "So, the underground village there is also the Shinto of Guo Pu's tomb..."
Chen Hao nodded and said, "That's right, it's right in the middle of Guo Pu's tomb and Princess's tomb, and it's because of this place that the so-called feng shui structure of the tomb of Yin and Yang can be formed."
Fat San turned around and asked Ye Wei: "You said last time that you must enter at the same time? Is it reliable? How do you say it?"
Ye Wei continued to tease the cat, squinting his eyes and said: "It's very simple, if someone enters the two tombs at the same time, then the yin and yang of the twin tombs will be destroyed, and the organs that were originally used to guard against tomb robbers will also stop opening for this reason. For example, the hallucinations both Lin Xu and Feng Laojiu encountered..."
Hearing what he said, Feng Laojiu shook his shoulders excitedly and said, "It's definitely not an illusion, it's all real."
Ye Wei didn't argue with him, just said: "As for how to enter and what to do after entering, that's up to Chen Hao. If I knew everything, I wouldn't be interested in coming here."
Chen Hao looked at Ye Wei, and the smile in Ye Wei's eyes had disappeared at this time, leaving only a kind of calmness without waves.Chen Hao said, "Find Lin Xu first and then talk about it."
Ye Wei smiled again, and said lightly, "Here we are."
Sure enough, the driver stopped the car, pointed to the path in front of him and said, "Kids, this is the entrance. It's too difficult to walk ahead. You can get off here. I don't want a small change."
Everyone put on their backpacks and got out of the car. Although they have been to this place once, they always feel as if they have never been here before. Maybe the atmosphere here is too depressing.Several people searched for the memory and found the guest house.At this time, there were still many paper wreaths at the entrance of the guest house, and there was a pile of paper money ashes just burned at the entrance.
Seeing them coming back, the proprietress was puzzled, but she ran up to greet them and said, "Why are you back again? The train is late?"
Chen Hao asked straight to the point: "We are looking for someone this time, do you know a person named Lin Xu?"
The proprietress quickly lowered her head and walked back, asking, "What do you want him for?"
Several people looked at each other, knowing that the proprietress must know something.Zhou Jue followed and asked, "Miss Boss, to tell you the truth, we know the origin of this village, and most of what you told us back then was also mixed with some lies..."
The proprietress then looked up at the group of young people in front of her, and then at their preparations, and after thinking for a long time, she sighed, "I'll take you to the old man in the coffin shop. Only what he says here counts."
The proprietress unbuttoned her apron and whispered to the boss.The man immediately shook his head, but it could be seen that the man was afraid of his wife. The lady boss stared at the boss and was speechless, but she still frowned, as if saying no.Regardless of the man, the proprietress came out and said, "I'll take you there, you can go to him directly, and don't come back to us. I was married, and I didn't expect to encounter such unlucky things. It's a pity that my mother's home is too far away. There is no way to go back, please don't harm our family."
Zhou Jue said yes again and again, but kept looking at the fidgeting man in the room.Seeing Zhou Jue looking at him, he was so frightened that he quickly hid in the back room, as if they were some monsters.
The proprietress gritted her teeth, took Zhou Jue and the others out of the guest house, and walked along the bumpy bluestone road.This place is already desolate, and there is not even a single family on the side of this road, so it looks even more desolate.On the road, you can still see trampled paper flowers and paper pricked people. There are many joss sticks stuck in the mud beside the sea. Because the sky is getting dark and the autumn wind is blowing, this road really has a ghostly feeling.
The woman seemed to be very scared, pointing to the right side of the road and said: "The one with a dead willow tree at the door of the house is Grandpa Lin's house. You go to him, I have to go back to cook. But, I'm going to say something ugly, don't you Come to our house, we don't do your business."
After speaking, she turned around and left.Zhou Jue saw that there were indeed some flickering lights in the house in front of him, and said, "Let's go."
The closer to the room, the clearer the single voice, like sharpening a knife.After several people opened the door and entered, they found that the small yard was full of coffins, and the monotonous sound was not sharpening knives but planing wood.A lean old man in a simple undershirt and shorts was still making coffins so late.
Zhou Jue asked, "Excuse me, are you the owner of the coffin shop?"
The old man didn't stop what he was doing, and ignored these people.Zhou Jue wanted to test again, but Ye Wei took the first step and said, "I should ask, are you Lin Xu?"
The old man finally stopped planing wood, raised his head and looked at the person in front of him for a long time, and then resumed his original single action.Ye Wei still wanted to continue, but this time he was stopped by Chen Hao. He walked to the side of the old man and watched his movements silently.Everyone held their breath and waited for him to say something, but Chen Hao didn't say a word, just quietly looked at the rough hands of the old man.
The old man grinned, wiped the sweat from his neck, pointed to the coffin board beside him and said, "Sit down."
The thin monkey struggled and said, "Ask us to be on the coffin? This..."
The old man shook his head and said with a smile: "The coffin is only a coffin after the corpse is placed. Before that, it is just a pair of logs. Sit down."
Chen Hao was the first to sit on it. The old man looked at him, nodded and said, "You remind me of someone."
Chen Hao looked at him and said, "Is it beggar?"
The old man wiped his sweat and didn't answer him.Zhou Jue couldn't bear it any longer, and asked, "Grandpa, are you really Lin Xu? Did you write "Ring of Seven"? This matter is very important!"
The old man didn't answer what he meant at all, but simply went back to the house, leaving the group of people staring at each other.Fat San scolded: "What the hell, pretending to be a ghost! Is it him?"
Feng Laojiu said: "I can't be sure, but it seems that the old man must know a lot of things, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed here alone to make a coffin for so long."
Ye Wei said, "What if he's not?"
Zhou Jue frowned and asked, "Then who could he be?"
As soon as the words fell, the old man walked out of the room again.He took a few bowls and teapots, and made a cup of tea for each of them: "Take a sip of tea first, young man, this road is difficult."
Zhou Jue heard that the old man's words were puns, but he didn't know how to answer them better.At this time, Chen Hao took the tea bowl generously, and replied seriously: "No matter how difficult it is to go, you have to go, there is no turning back."
The old man smiled, took a sip of his own drink, looked at each of them again and said, "Like...really like...just like us back then..."
Chen Hao said, "You must be Lin Xu."
The old man closed his eyes and finally nodded. When he opened his eyes again, there was a bit of vicissitudes in his eyes.He said: "I've been waiting for someone to come to me...to complete that pact..."
Seeing that he finally admitted it, everyone felt indescribably excited, licking their lips and wanted to ask, but it was Chen Hao who spoke first: "Could it be that no one came to you before?"
Lin Xu shook his head and said, "No...you are the first people who came back to look for me."
Chen Hao frowned and said, "Have you never heard of the name Chen Rulan? There should have been a group of people who came here five years ago."
Lin Xu said, "No."
Chen Hao lowered his head with gloomy eyes, and Zhou Jue hurriedly said, "Then, how did you know Professor Ma? We found this place through the letters you wrote to Professor Ma."
Lin Xu frowned and said: "Old Ma... I have been friends with Lao Ma for many years. After the Anti-Japanese War, I did not leave the mainland, but returned to this place. During the 'Cultural Revolution', I was criticized and my life was very difficult. Easy, I rely on the old horse to help me secretly."
Zhou Jue said, "Then, is "Ring of Seven" yours?"
Lin Xu took a sip of tea, did not look at Zhou Jue, but looked in the direction of the ancestral hall, and said, "Yes... This is what I promised Cuiniang and Liu Fei. They died, and I failed to protect them in the end. But I promised them that if they come out alive, they will definitely do these things..."
The thin monkey held his hand thoughtfully: "That's why you wrote that book, but why is that book so weird? What's the purpose of this?"
Lin Xu paused, shook his head and said: "This book is just about what happened after I met Cuiniang and the others, and I promised Cuiniang to weave her hair into the book. Later, because of the 'Cultural Revolution' , I couldn’t keep the book with me, so I hid it in a library in Shanghai, but when I went back, the book was gone.”
Chen Hao said, "What did you write it for?"
Lin Xu said: "Guide, guide those who can truly liberate poor souls. This is the last agreement between Cui Niang and I." He looked at Chen Hao again, "The beggar kept those boards last, and she chose the most dangerous one. None of us can compare to her for that responsibility."
Fat San couldn't bear it any longer, walked up to Lin Xu with a tea bowl in his hand and said, "Master, Mr. Lin! Don't you know if there is any ghost in the story you wrote? And what about the seven-person game, what seven-person situation?" There's a ghost? Don't you know? Uncle, are you out of your mind?"
Lin Xu was a little confused, tilted his head and looked at the crowd and said, "It has nothing to do with the number of people, as long as you touch the clay tablet of Gongzhufen, you will be targeted."
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help standing up. They looked at Lin Xu, and Lin Xu was also taken aback by their actions.Chen Hao said to himself: "There is no... limit on the number of people..."
Chen Hao looked at Lin Xu, as if he wanted to see a trace of falsehood in the thin old man's eyes, but the old man's eyes were as calm as a mirror.Chen Hao sat down dejectedly, and said, "The number of people is not the key...so what is the key?"
Lin Xu took a sip of water and said, "Those clay tablets are the key. If Huzi and the others hadn't removed these clay tablets back then, maybe nothing would have happened later."
Zhou Jue asked as if he had caught some life-saving straw: "Why do you say that?"
Lin Xu explained: "Because the reason why the seven people did this was because the evil spirit was alarmed after taking down the clay tablet, so there will be a series of things later. The owner of the tomb is not actually an evil spirit, she just wants to get rid of the evil spirit. That’s all, it’s no different from us. The function of the patterns on the clay board is to reconnect the rituals of the Li tribe. The Li tribe has a great fear of death. At the same time, they seem to be able to control death, but in the end they still return to ashes. Returning from earth to earth, what the revived souls long for most is to be liberated peacefully. Therefore, Guo Pu's last ritual is to suppress the soul, so that those souls who cannot rest due to spells can get real peace, because those evil spirits cannot directly deal with them. You can only create threats through other media, such as hallucinations..."
Feng Laojiu stroked his forehead and said, "In other words, the evil spirit I saw in the dormitory was actually a hallucination?"
Lin Xu sighed: "There is a lie in the truth, and there is a truth in the lie. Those ghosts are real. They exist in those clay tablets, but they can't get rid of those clay tablets."
Lin Xu looked up at the sky and said, "After I finished writing the story, I found a friend who worked in a printing factory and ordered a copy myself. I also put Cuiniang's hair in the binding. This is also her last wish..."
Zhou Jue recalled the back of the long-haired woman he saw for the first time. The entanglement of those hairs seemed to guide him forward. Now it seems that maybe it is Cuiniang, no, maybe it is the common obsession between the tomb owner and Cuiniang , They all want to be freed, and they are more eager for real release than those who are alive.So, is Chen Rulan the same?The entanglement between these three women and this matter is as inextricable as the strands of hair together.But what is the resistance?What is another kind of resistance in the book?The ghost in the clay tablet?or something else?
Zhou Jue couldn't help but asked: "But after we read that book, we encountered all kinds of weird things, and we simply followed your old path, and we also got all the clay tablets. The ghosts you mentioned are ours. I also feel that horrible blood... But, but we feel that there are still many unexplainable things in your story."
Lin Xu shook his head and said: "At the beginning, only me, Qier, and Feng Luxi were the only ones who escaped. The three of us were guarding three different things. Qier was on those boards, and she disappeared afterwards, and then Feng Luxi, but he expressed that he didn't want to come back. This matter was involved, so he threw the ghost back to the Princess Grave, and left some information as an explanation to us, and I left Cui Niang in the ancestral hall of the Li tribe, and started Write that novel."
Everyone was speechless, they didn't expect things to be like this, but they must enter Guo Pu and Princess Tomb, that's for sure.
Zhou Jue asked curiously: "Then she, who is the owner of the tomb?"
Lin Xu raised his head, frowned and looked at Zhou Jue sadly and said, "A poor woman...a woman who was originally extremely noble, but now she just wants to be free...a simple wish like that has been fulfilled. No way."
Chen Hao said, "Why do you say that?"
Lin Xu said: "That woman is also a poor person. She was placed in that tomb. In fact, she was tortured forever. It is her eternal task to suppress the seven ghosts... She has always been in the tomb. .until the tiger enters the grave..."
Ye Wei interjected: "That's true. This kind of treatment is not a relative of the emperor. This matter is a kind of eternal torture. Who is so unlucky?"
Lin Xu said: "The earth atmosphere in that place is not suitable for burying women at all. It can be said that if any family buried their women there, the family would be ruined within three generations, and the whole family would be wiped out. It would be a dead end." In addition, we found the year name of Taishi in the Princess Tomb, which is the year name of Emperor Song Ming of the Southern Dynasty. In my opinion, the buried in this ancient tomb must be a woman who has some relationship with Liu Yu. This emperor is actually the emperor who launched a coup d'état. At the beginning, he was diligent in governing and caring for the people. Unfortunately, it became very absurd later, and finally led to the disaster of destroying the country. It is unknown what happened to him, but he killed all the people. The Li family and the alchemists of the Li family."
Chen Hao said: "Since this is the case, then that woman must not be a direct descendant of Nanchen Liu's family, or even of the same family. She should not have blood relationship with Liu's royal family. If so, then I can boldly guess that her The function is actually to use oneself to suppress the evil spirits in those clay tablets."
Lin Xu nodded in agreement and said: "I think so too, but there must be a reason for that woman to be named a princess, but being crucified in that kind of Fengshui cemetery and becoming the guard of seven soul ambers, this... ...I'm also puzzled."
Ye Wei smiled and said, "The ring of seven people is intertwined. Maybe this is what you mean when you write this novel."
Lin Xu said: "Yes, the meaning of the ring of seven is not actually the number of people, but the events caused by the seven clay tablets are one after another. We can’t succeed. We thought we had solved the mystery at the beginning, but found that we were still going in circles, and we still couldn’t solve that link.”
Chen Hao frowned and said: "That is to say, the clues we have that seem to be very rich are still very weak. As long as we make a mistake in one link, we will fail."
Lin Xu didn't answer, but responded to Chen Hao's question with silence.This puts another big stone on everyone's heart.
Fat San asked unwillingly: "No, sir, aren't you still alive? How did you do it? You must have succeeded?"
Lin Xu lowered his head, but his hands began to tremble slightly, and he said slowly: "No, I failed. I don't know whether I am alive or dead. In fact, after entering Guo Pu's tomb, we found that Something went wrong, Cuiniang and Liu Fei also at the end... I feel that there is a strong idea that forces me to write the book "Ring of Seven". Write it down, and let the predestined people truly end the fate that has lasted for generations. This is another reason why I named this novel. It may be a bit selfish, but I sincerely hope that the series of mysteries drawn by these seven people can be solved one day open."
Zhou Jue lowered his head and said in thought: "You wrote this book unconsciously, and you used Cuiniang's hair...this..."
Chen Hao said at this time: "We investigated all the available information and found that the Princess Tomb was built last, in order to attract the earth energy from Guo Pu's tomb and form a twin tomb. An extreme design, only when entering at the same time can the internal mechanism not be touched."
Lin Xu pondered: "So that's how it is...but I have only been to Guo Pu's tomb. As for the Princess's tomb, I only learned about it from Cuiniang and the others, and it seems that they all concealed it, and even left it to me in the end." There are many mysteries. They asked me to enter to complete the last ceremony of Guo Pu, which was to complete the layout of the seven-star copper pillar in Guo Pu's tomb. But we failed!" Chen Hao said another difficulty: "There is another The key question is how to complete the final soul sacrificing ceremony. As long as we complete the ceremony, those so-called ghosts can rest in peace? Or are there other prerequisites that must be done? As for the evil ghosts you said cannot directly harm us, I think I also discovered that every time we reach a critical moment, those blood will become more churning, but they have never really touched us."
Lin Xu looked up at Chen Hao and said, "You... are the descendants of Beggar?"
Chen Hao nodded and said yes, Lin Xu looked at him again, nodded heavily and said: "It should be, Cui Niang entered Guo Pu's tomb to complete the final ceremony, but the ceremony failed. I couldn't figure it out at first, but Now that you mentioned the twin tombs, I understand. The reason is that we didn’t enter at the same time, but thought that we could be saved as long as we went to Guo Pu’s tomb... And there, I remember most clearly that there was a huge seven-star copper pillar. I think, maybe it has the same pattern as the place where the so-called clay tablets are placed in the Princess Grave, and there is probably a seven-star copper pillar like that in the Princess Grave.”
The thin monkey couldn't help interjecting at this time: "But how can we enter at the same time?"
Everyone stopped talking, and Zhou Jue said with an ugly face: "It seems...we can only enter in two batches..."
Fat San immediately jumped up: "What? Separate? No way!"
The thin monkey said quickly: "That's right, if we separate, we might not be able to take care of each other, after all, we are two places."
Fat San glanced at the thin monkey, and then said: "How can the two places be synchronized? Besides, how can we believe what he said now? He failed! Take us to death again?"
Zhou Jue couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and said, "Then what do you want to do? Do you have a better way, just say it!"
Fat San said unconvinced: "I just don't want us to be led by the nose in a daze. We circled around Nanjing like headless chickens. We didn't make a fuss for a long time, but so many people died. Lao Tzu I don't want to be the next one!"
Feng Laojiu looked at Fat San and said, "But he is the only one alive, we don't believe him, what else can we do?"
Fat Sanyi was at a loss for words, but quickly responded: "You said that, then I choose to go with this old man. I want to go to Guo Pu's tomb, at least he is the only one alive. I don't care about that bullshit princess tomb." Go! Both groups of people failed..."
The thin monkey wanted to say something, but he gritted his teeth and didn't say anything.Zhou Jue looked at everyone's expressions, and he couldn't make a statement at this moment, he was also struggling.
Looking at the faces of everyone, Feng Laojiu sneered, pretending to be relaxed and said: "I can go to Princess Tomb anyway, I have been there anyway."
After Fat San said that, he seemed unable to step down.He said awkwardly: "This is not the only solution, what else is there. Let's add it up."
Zhou Jue looked at what Fat San said, and hurriedly said, "Let's think about it again. Maybe there are other ways."
At this moment, Ye Wei laughed loudly and said, "In the final analysis, the few of you are unwilling to give up the direction of a little more hope, why don't you pull down your face and tell the truth? You are really ridiculous and pitiful."
The thin monkey said with a red neck: "Since you are so detached, you can go to the princess grave, aren't you very good?"
Ye Wei had a smile on his face, but his eyes were very gloomy and he said, "I'll go wherever you go! How about it?"
The thin monkey seemed to be told the most embarrassing point in his heart, so he couldn't continue talking, because
The beggar took out the jade pendant, Cui Niang's eyes lit up when she got the jade pendant, she looked at it for a long time, and said, "Beggar, wear it, maybe it can save your life."
Cuiniang held Qi'er's hand tightly, and the strength in her hand increased a bit: "If you get out alive, you must write this down. Qi'er, you are different, you are already very smart, and you must survive. "
Beggar clenched the jade pendant in his hand and nodded heavily.Cuiniang turned her head to look at the huge stone wall, and said with firm eyes: "Whether it is dead or alive, we have to go there, maybe we will all die. But as long as someone gets out alive, these people cannot be forgotten. Those who are dead are still alive. They must not be forgotten..."
After finishing speaking, Cui Niang made a move that surprised everyone. She actually grabbed a handful of gnats and stuffed them into her mouth, frowning and swallowing the live worms with tears in her eyes. After eating She couldn't stop feeling sick, but she insisted on covering it with her hands to prevent herself from vomiting.Everyone was amazed at her actions, and no one could speak for a while.Lin Xu asked in disbelief: "Cui Niang! What are you doing?!"
Cuiniang waved her hand and said, "One of us must eat those bugs and make himself the corpse of these bugs, otherwise we will be overwhelmed by a large number of gnats when we pass the Shinto."
Lin Xu asked intermittently: "You eat... what will happen if you eat?"
Cuiniang smiled miserably and shook her head, but said nothing.Then she pointed to the stone wall full of murals and said: "This stone wall is actually hollow. There is a road behind it. This road is the Shinto path leading to Guo Pu's tomb. We must enter from there. But we cannot light the lamps." Otherwise, the heat from the fire will attract more bugs, and we must climb the stone wall in the dark."
Lin Xu looked up at the huge stone wall. Although there were indeed some pitted stones on it that could be used as handles, it was very difficult. What's more, in the absence of light, it was almost a gamble. If you fell, you would be smashed to pieces.
The beggar untied his braids, hung the jade pendant on his chest with a headband, and put it on his underwear, then hung the dagger around his waist, looked up at the stone wall and said, "OK, we can climb over."
At this time, Feng Luxi looked distressed and said: "Everyone is a master of martial arts, but I am so young that I have no strength to restrain a chicken. Do you want me to fly over the wall like you? Aunts and grandparents, you can't leave me here... This place!"
Lin Xu looked at the rock wall and said, "It's not necessarily necessary for everyone to climb up. I think there is a deep depression in half of the rock wall, and there are many rocks below, so it's easy to climb. We have Master Liu here. The remaining rope can be used to hang Feng Luxi up."
Liu Fei sighed again and again: "This kid is really a fucking burden, why are you the only one alive?"
Feng Luxi's face turned pale and red at Liu Fei's words, but he was speechless.Lin Xu interrupted: "Since we are all in trouble, and we have sworn to be brothers with different surnames, then we are all brothers, no matter who we are, we can't leave them behind."
Liu Fei felt that he had made a slip of the tongue, but he was unwilling to bow his head and give in. He shook off Lin Xu's hand on his shoulder, snorted, and carried the rope still on the ground onto his shoulder.
Lin Xu smiled wryly and shook his head, looking back at Cuiniang.Cuiniang's face turned pale from swallowing the worms. Lin Xu couldn't bear it, but there was nothing he could do.He whispered to Cuiniang, "It's ok, let's go."
When Chen Hao saw this, his hands couldn't help trembling, thinking, is it that my sister and myself are destined to be involved?Everyone's expressions were also very complicated, and the thin monkey asked with concern: "Brother Chen, is that jade pendant still there?"
Chen Hao said: "No, if I stay, my family will definitely say it, but I have never seen that thing."
Fat San said anxiously: "Don't interrupt, just keep reading!"
Fat San saw that the kid was talking in frustration again, so he quickly asked, "How do you know? Talking nonsense again!"
Ye Wei ignored him.At this time, Chen Hao followed Ye Wei's words and said: "Since the beggar came out alive, the jade pendant may have played its role, and such a thing may not be used again after being used once."
Fat San slumped on the chair in disappointment.Zhou Jue said: "But we almost already know where the Yin-Yang Dao is. But what is the function of that piece of jade?"
The thin monkey said: "Let's keep reading, maybe we will know more information."
Chen Hao said, "Do you still remember? Rulan said in her diary that there were two ghosts haunting her."
Zhou Jue said: "That is to say, there are two kinds of forces that hold us back. One is to keep reading, just like the irresistible desire to continue reading until the end of the story. Obstacles that will appear for no reason are like reminding us that we can no longer watch..."
The thin monkey asked stupidly: "Which one is... to save us?"
At this moment, they suddenly remembered the rapid knock on the door, and the few people were like frightened birds.Chen Hao opened the door cautiously, and stretched out a hand stiffly from the outside. Everyone gasped, and when they took a closer look, they found that hand was somewhat familiar, and when they looked closely, they found that the watch on this arm was even more familiar.Then a familiar voice came from the door.
The person outside said: "Chen Hao, it's me, don't close the door and pinch my hand..."
Only then did Chen Hao heave a sigh of relief, he opened the door, and it turned out to be Li Fang outside the door.Li Fang saw the weird expressions on everyone's faces, and said, "What's wrong with you?"
Chen Hao stabilized his emotions, and replied flatly: "It's nothing. What are you here for?"
Li Fang said: "Oh, I thought about it all night, and I think I should give you this thing. I found this when I was sorting out the teacher's belongings. I don't know if you have any use for it." He looked at the window suspiciously, and then Looked at them, but no one was ready to answer his question.He coughed a few times in embarrassment, and took out a tin box of moon cakes from his bag.He opened the box, and there were many letters in it.
Everyone picked it up and found that there was only one place where these letters were sent, and it was the weird "Yingbin Town". Everyone immediately became vigilant, because everyone knew that that was where the mysterious Yin-Yang Road on the map was located.
Li Fang said: "I found these things under the teacher's bed, because this place happened to be the address where you asked me to pick you up. I always felt that this matter had something to do with you. I thought about it all night and decided. Or give it to you."
Chen Hao didn't speak, opened one of the letters, and found that the inscribed letter was actually Lin Xu.Both Chen Hao and Ye Wei couldn't help but let out a low cry. No one expected that the protagonist of this book, Lin Xu, who may also be the author, would actually write a letter to Professor Ma.And the date of those letters can be traced back to before the 'Cultural Revolution', and there are still letters one after another until now, and there are even New Year's cards and so on.In other words, Professor Ma may have known Lin Xu long ago.Then why did he pretend that he didn't know anything in front of Chen Rulan, and only contacted him afterwards?
What is the purpose of concealing so much?
Chen Hao took a look at the contents of the letter. It was full of trivial matters, and there was no mention of the matter of the Seven, and occasionally there were discussions about epigraphy.If it wasn't for the last signature, no one would have thought that this had anything to do with the Ring of Seven.
At this time, Zhou Jue said something very important, he said: "Maybe Lin Xu is still alive, he is still in... Yingbin Town!"
Fat San said excitedly: "If you find him, maybe you can know how to break the curse. Since the books may be written by him, then maybe we don't have to go to Guo Pu's tomb, and don't care if it's a yin and yang tomb. "
Chen Hao put the letter back into the box and said to Li Fang, "Leave this box to us first."
Li Fang seemed to have something to say, but in the end he just nodded. He walked out of the room, turned around and asked, "Xiaomei...she..." Zhou Jue's eyes darkened, and Chen Hao said lightly, "We also Did not meet her."
Li Fang seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "I know, you have to be careful. Then leave."
Ye Wei smiled slightly: "Why didn't you tell him that Guo Mei is dead."
Chen Hao didn't look at him, just stuffed the box into his bag, and then said to everyone: "Everyone get ready, we have to go back to Yingbin Town, everyone better make more preparations. According to the book, that weird underground The village is just under that ancestral hall. Maybe this time is our last chance."
Seeing everyone's painful expressions, Zhou Jue quickly said, "Maybe we can still find Lin Xu, and he might know how to save his life. Anyway, until we find Lin Xu, we all have hope."
Although these words are not powerful, they are comforting anyway.With the help of Li Fang, they finally got a batch of equipment ordered by Chen Hao.After everything was settled and everyone had a full meal, they set off for Yingbin Town again.However, everyone's mood at this time is heavier than that of the first departure.
Chen Hao didn't ask Li Fang to send them off, but hired a van. Maybe he didn't want Li Fang's intervention to bring them any changes, or he was afraid that Li Fang would cause some trouble again.However, since the death incidents occurred one after another, Chen Hao has stopped talking much, he is as silent as a stubborn stone, enduring all the pressure and anxiety, and at the same time, he has to find a trace of life.Zhou Jue sometimes thinks, how far can he go without Chen Hao?
Sitting in the car, no one talked, even Fat San, who was usually the most active, spoke at the moment.If it was a normal day, Zhou Jue would definitely take the lead in laughing at Fat Sanzhuang's deepness, but at this moment no one is in the mood to make a joke.When Feng Laojiu came back from Qilin Town, he kept coughing and his face became paler and paler.The thin monkey asked him what was wrong, but he didn't say anything, but the severe cough made people feel uneasy.The anger in Feng Laojiu's eyes became less and less, and he seldom rolled his eyes. Sometimes he just sat there blankly, as if he no longer listened to their discussions.
The only one who was still smiling was Ye Wei. He hugged the black cat and looked out the window as if traveling.Ye Wei suddenly called Zhou Jue, pointed out the window and said, "Look, that's where the car derailed. Is this God's will?"
Zhou Jue looked in the direction he pointed, and there was indeed the place where he escaped alone, and there was also the open space.They seem to be a group of people walking on the road that the former bought with their lives, and if they all fail... then, what can they leave behind?
It was still the same road, but at the beginning he was walking, but now he was riding in a car. Zhou Jue actually began to miss the original crazy-single scenery.At this time, Chen Hao was still not idle. He kept comparing the ancient map with the electronic map, and used the computer to calculate something.Along the way, Chen Hao is the soul of this team, just like Chen Rulan back then, or Huzi and Lin Xu earlier.There are such characters in every ring of seven. When encountering a crisis, everyone habitually relies on the strong.
So, what will the strong rely on?
Chen Hao put down the map, pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "I've done the calculations, and the location of Yingbin Town is very ingenious. From the point of view of Feng Shui, it happens to be at the starting point of Gongzhufen's rise, that is to say, the origin of the dragon's veins in Gongzhufen. here."
Zhou Jue said: "So, the underground village there is also the Shinto of Guo Pu's tomb..."
Chen Hao nodded and said, "That's right, it's right in the middle of Guo Pu's tomb and Princess's tomb, and it's because of this place that the so-called feng shui structure of the tomb of Yin and Yang can be formed."
Fat San turned around and asked Ye Wei: "You said last time that you must enter at the same time? Is it reliable? How do you say it?"
Ye Wei continued to tease the cat, squinting his eyes and said: "It's very simple, if someone enters the two tombs at the same time, then the yin and yang of the twin tombs will be destroyed, and the organs that were originally used to guard against tomb robbers will also stop opening for this reason. For example, the hallucinations both Lin Xu and Feng Laojiu encountered..."
Hearing what he said, Feng Laojiu shook his shoulders excitedly and said, "It's definitely not an illusion, it's all real."
Ye Wei didn't argue with him, just said: "As for how to enter and what to do after entering, that's up to Chen Hao. If I knew everything, I wouldn't be interested in coming here."
Chen Hao looked at Ye Wei, and the smile in Ye Wei's eyes had disappeared at this time, leaving only a kind of calmness without waves.Chen Hao said, "Find Lin Xu first and then talk about it."
Ye Wei smiled again, and said lightly, "Here we are."
Sure enough, the driver stopped the car, pointed to the path in front of him and said, "Kids, this is the entrance. It's too difficult to walk ahead. You can get off here. I don't want a small change."
Everyone put on their backpacks and got out of the car. Although they have been to this place once, they always feel as if they have never been here before. Maybe the atmosphere here is too depressing.Several people searched for the memory and found the guest house.At this time, there were still many paper wreaths at the entrance of the guest house, and there was a pile of paper money ashes just burned at the entrance.
Seeing them coming back, the proprietress was puzzled, but she ran up to greet them and said, "Why are you back again? The train is late?"
Chen Hao asked straight to the point: "We are looking for someone this time, do you know a person named Lin Xu?"
The proprietress quickly lowered her head and walked back, asking, "What do you want him for?"
Several people looked at each other, knowing that the proprietress must know something.Zhou Jue followed and asked, "Miss Boss, to tell you the truth, we know the origin of this village, and most of what you told us back then was also mixed with some lies..."
The proprietress then looked up at the group of young people in front of her, and then at their preparations, and after thinking for a long time, she sighed, "I'll take you to the old man in the coffin shop. Only what he says here counts."
The proprietress unbuttoned her apron and whispered to the boss.The man immediately shook his head, but it could be seen that the man was afraid of his wife. The lady boss stared at the boss and was speechless, but she still frowned, as if saying no.Regardless of the man, the proprietress came out and said, "I'll take you there, you can go to him directly, and don't come back to us. I was married, and I didn't expect to encounter such unlucky things. It's a pity that my mother's home is too far away. There is no way to go back, please don't harm our family."
Zhou Jue said yes again and again, but kept looking at the fidgeting man in the room.Seeing Zhou Jue looking at him, he was so frightened that he quickly hid in the back room, as if they were some monsters.
The proprietress gritted her teeth, took Zhou Jue and the others out of the guest house, and walked along the bumpy bluestone road.This place is already desolate, and there is not even a single family on the side of this road, so it looks even more desolate.On the road, you can still see trampled paper flowers and paper pricked people. There are many joss sticks stuck in the mud beside the sea. Because the sky is getting dark and the autumn wind is blowing, this road really has a ghostly feeling.
The woman seemed to be very scared, pointing to the right side of the road and said: "The one with a dead willow tree at the door of the house is Grandpa Lin's house. You go to him, I have to go back to cook. But, I'm going to say something ugly, don't you Come to our house, we don't do your business."
After speaking, she turned around and left.Zhou Jue saw that there were indeed some flickering lights in the house in front of him, and said, "Let's go."
The closer to the room, the clearer the single voice, like sharpening a knife.After several people opened the door and entered, they found that the small yard was full of coffins, and the monotonous sound was not sharpening knives but planing wood.A lean old man in a simple undershirt and shorts was still making coffins so late.
Zhou Jue asked, "Excuse me, are you the owner of the coffin shop?"
The old man didn't stop what he was doing, and ignored these people.Zhou Jue wanted to test again, but Ye Wei took the first step and said, "I should ask, are you Lin Xu?"
The old man finally stopped planing wood, raised his head and looked at the person in front of him for a long time, and then resumed his original single action.Ye Wei still wanted to continue, but this time he was stopped by Chen Hao. He walked to the side of the old man and watched his movements silently.Everyone held their breath and waited for him to say something, but Chen Hao didn't say a word, just quietly looked at the rough hands of the old man.
The old man grinned, wiped the sweat from his neck, pointed to the coffin board beside him and said, "Sit down."
The thin monkey struggled and said, "Ask us to be on the coffin? This..."
The old man shook his head and said with a smile: "The coffin is only a coffin after the corpse is placed. Before that, it is just a pair of logs. Sit down."
Chen Hao was the first to sit on it. The old man looked at him, nodded and said, "You remind me of someone."
Chen Hao looked at him and said, "Is it beggar?"
The old man wiped his sweat and didn't answer him.Zhou Jue couldn't bear it any longer, and asked, "Grandpa, are you really Lin Xu? Did you write "Ring of Seven"? This matter is very important!"
The old man didn't answer what he meant at all, but simply went back to the house, leaving the group of people staring at each other.Fat San scolded: "What the hell, pretending to be a ghost! Is it him?"
Feng Laojiu said: "I can't be sure, but it seems that the old man must know a lot of things, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed here alone to make a coffin for so long."
Ye Wei said, "What if he's not?"
Zhou Jue frowned and asked, "Then who could he be?"
As soon as the words fell, the old man walked out of the room again.He took a few bowls and teapots, and made a cup of tea for each of them: "Take a sip of tea first, young man, this road is difficult."
Zhou Jue heard that the old man's words were puns, but he didn't know how to answer them better.At this time, Chen Hao took the tea bowl generously, and replied seriously: "No matter how difficult it is to go, you have to go, there is no turning back."
The old man smiled, took a sip of his own drink, looked at each of them again and said, "Like...really like...just like us back then..."
Chen Hao said, "You must be Lin Xu."
The old man closed his eyes and finally nodded. When he opened his eyes again, there was a bit of vicissitudes in his eyes.He said: "I've been waiting for someone to come to me...to complete that pact..."
Seeing that he finally admitted it, everyone felt indescribably excited, licking their lips and wanted to ask, but it was Chen Hao who spoke first: "Could it be that no one came to you before?"
Lin Xu shook his head and said, "No...you are the first people who came back to look for me."
Chen Hao frowned and said, "Have you never heard of the name Chen Rulan? There should have been a group of people who came here five years ago."
Lin Xu said, "No."
Chen Hao lowered his head with gloomy eyes, and Zhou Jue hurriedly said, "Then, how did you know Professor Ma? We found this place through the letters you wrote to Professor Ma."
Lin Xu frowned and said: "Old Ma... I have been friends with Lao Ma for many years. After the Anti-Japanese War, I did not leave the mainland, but returned to this place. During the 'Cultural Revolution', I was criticized and my life was very difficult. Easy, I rely on the old horse to help me secretly."
Zhou Jue said, "Then, is "Ring of Seven" yours?"
Lin Xu took a sip of tea, did not look at Zhou Jue, but looked in the direction of the ancestral hall, and said, "Yes... This is what I promised Cuiniang and Liu Fei. They died, and I failed to protect them in the end. But I promised them that if they come out alive, they will definitely do these things..."
The thin monkey held his hand thoughtfully: "That's why you wrote that book, but why is that book so weird? What's the purpose of this?"
Lin Xu paused, shook his head and said: "This book is just about what happened after I met Cuiniang and the others, and I promised Cuiniang to weave her hair into the book. Later, because of the 'Cultural Revolution' , I couldn’t keep the book with me, so I hid it in a library in Shanghai, but when I went back, the book was gone.”
Chen Hao said, "What did you write it for?"
Lin Xu said: "Guide, guide those who can truly liberate poor souls. This is the last agreement between Cui Niang and I." He looked at Chen Hao again, "The beggar kept those boards last, and she chose the most dangerous one. None of us can compare to her for that responsibility."
Fat San couldn't bear it any longer, walked up to Lin Xu with a tea bowl in his hand and said, "Master, Mr. Lin! Don't you know if there is any ghost in the story you wrote? And what about the seven-person game, what seven-person situation?" There's a ghost? Don't you know? Uncle, are you out of your mind?"
Lin Xu was a little confused, tilted his head and looked at the crowd and said, "It has nothing to do with the number of people, as long as you touch the clay tablet of Gongzhufen, you will be targeted."
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help standing up. They looked at Lin Xu, and Lin Xu was also taken aback by their actions.Chen Hao said to himself: "There is no... limit on the number of people..."
Chen Hao looked at Lin Xu, as if he wanted to see a trace of falsehood in the thin old man's eyes, but the old man's eyes were as calm as a mirror.Chen Hao sat down dejectedly, and said, "The number of people is not the key...so what is the key?"
Lin Xu took a sip of water and said, "Those clay tablets are the key. If Huzi and the others hadn't removed these clay tablets back then, maybe nothing would have happened later."
Zhou Jue asked as if he had caught some life-saving straw: "Why do you say that?"
Lin Xu explained: "Because the reason why the seven people did this was because the evil spirit was alarmed after taking down the clay tablet, so there will be a series of things later. The owner of the tomb is not actually an evil spirit, she just wants to get rid of the evil spirit. That’s all, it’s no different from us. The function of the patterns on the clay board is to reconnect the rituals of the Li tribe. The Li tribe has a great fear of death. At the same time, they seem to be able to control death, but in the end they still return to ashes. Returning from earth to earth, what the revived souls long for most is to be liberated peacefully. Therefore, Guo Pu's last ritual is to suppress the soul, so that those souls who cannot rest due to spells can get real peace, because those evil spirits cannot directly deal with them. You can only create threats through other media, such as hallucinations..."
Feng Laojiu stroked his forehead and said, "In other words, the evil spirit I saw in the dormitory was actually a hallucination?"
Lin Xu sighed: "There is a lie in the truth, and there is a truth in the lie. Those ghosts are real. They exist in those clay tablets, but they can't get rid of those clay tablets."
Lin Xu looked up at the sky and said, "After I finished writing the story, I found a friend who worked in a printing factory and ordered a copy myself. I also put Cuiniang's hair in the binding. This is also her last wish..."
Zhou Jue recalled the back of the long-haired woman he saw for the first time. The entanglement of those hairs seemed to guide him forward. Now it seems that maybe it is Cuiniang, no, maybe it is the common obsession between the tomb owner and Cuiniang , They all want to be freed, and they are more eager for real release than those who are alive.So, is Chen Rulan the same?The entanglement between these three women and this matter is as inextricable as the strands of hair together.But what is the resistance?What is another kind of resistance in the book?The ghost in the clay tablet?or something else?
Zhou Jue couldn't help but asked: "But after we read that book, we encountered all kinds of weird things, and we simply followed your old path, and we also got all the clay tablets. The ghosts you mentioned are ours. I also feel that horrible blood... But, but we feel that there are still many unexplainable things in your story."
Lin Xu shook his head and said: "At the beginning, only me, Qier, and Feng Luxi were the only ones who escaped. The three of us were guarding three different things. Qier was on those boards, and she disappeared afterwards, and then Feng Luxi, but he expressed that he didn't want to come back. This matter was involved, so he threw the ghost back to the Princess Grave, and left some information as an explanation to us, and I left Cui Niang in the ancestral hall of the Li tribe, and started Write that novel."
Everyone was speechless, they didn't expect things to be like this, but they must enter Guo Pu and Princess Tomb, that's for sure.
Zhou Jue asked curiously: "Then she, who is the owner of the tomb?"
Lin Xu raised his head, frowned and looked at Zhou Jue sadly and said, "A poor woman...a woman who was originally extremely noble, but now she just wants to be free...a simple wish like that has been fulfilled. No way."
Chen Hao said, "Why do you say that?"
Lin Xu said: "That woman is also a poor person. She was placed in that tomb. In fact, she was tortured forever. It is her eternal task to suppress the seven ghosts... She has always been in the tomb. .until the tiger enters the grave..."
Ye Wei interjected: "That's true. This kind of treatment is not a relative of the emperor. This matter is a kind of eternal torture. Who is so unlucky?"
Lin Xu said: "The earth atmosphere in that place is not suitable for burying women at all. It can be said that if any family buried their women there, the family would be ruined within three generations, and the whole family would be wiped out. It would be a dead end." In addition, we found the year name of Taishi in the Princess Tomb, which is the year name of Emperor Song Ming of the Southern Dynasty. In my opinion, the buried in this ancient tomb must be a woman who has some relationship with Liu Yu. This emperor is actually the emperor who launched a coup d'état. At the beginning, he was diligent in governing and caring for the people. Unfortunately, it became very absurd later, and finally led to the disaster of destroying the country. It is unknown what happened to him, but he killed all the people. The Li family and the alchemists of the Li family."
Chen Hao said: "Since this is the case, then that woman must not be a direct descendant of Nanchen Liu's family, or even of the same family. She should not have blood relationship with Liu's royal family. If so, then I can boldly guess that her The function is actually to use oneself to suppress the evil spirits in those clay tablets."
Lin Xu nodded in agreement and said: "I think so too, but there must be a reason for that woman to be named a princess, but being crucified in that kind of Fengshui cemetery and becoming the guard of seven soul ambers, this... ...I'm also puzzled."
Ye Wei smiled and said, "The ring of seven people is intertwined. Maybe this is what you mean when you write this novel."
Lin Xu said: "Yes, the meaning of the ring of seven is not actually the number of people, but the events caused by the seven clay tablets are one after another. We can’t succeed. We thought we had solved the mystery at the beginning, but found that we were still going in circles, and we still couldn’t solve that link.”
Chen Hao frowned and said: "That is to say, the clues we have that seem to be very rich are still very weak. As long as we make a mistake in one link, we will fail."
Lin Xu didn't answer, but responded to Chen Hao's question with silence.This puts another big stone on everyone's heart.
Fat San asked unwillingly: "No, sir, aren't you still alive? How did you do it? You must have succeeded?"
Lin Xu lowered his head, but his hands began to tremble slightly, and he said slowly: "No, I failed. I don't know whether I am alive or dead. In fact, after entering Guo Pu's tomb, we found that Something went wrong, Cuiniang and Liu Fei also at the end... I feel that there is a strong idea that forces me to write the book "Ring of Seven". Write it down, and let the predestined people truly end the fate that has lasted for generations. This is another reason why I named this novel. It may be a bit selfish, but I sincerely hope that the series of mysteries drawn by these seven people can be solved one day open."
Zhou Jue lowered his head and said in thought: "You wrote this book unconsciously, and you used Cuiniang's hair...this..."
Chen Hao said at this time: "We investigated all the available information and found that the Princess Tomb was built last, in order to attract the earth energy from Guo Pu's tomb and form a twin tomb. An extreme design, only when entering at the same time can the internal mechanism not be touched."
Lin Xu pondered: "So that's how it is...but I have only been to Guo Pu's tomb. As for the Princess's tomb, I only learned about it from Cuiniang and the others, and it seems that they all concealed it, and even left it to me in the end." There are many mysteries. They asked me to enter to complete the last ceremony of Guo Pu, which was to complete the layout of the seven-star copper pillar in Guo Pu's tomb. But we failed!" Chen Hao said another difficulty: "There is another The key question is how to complete the final soul sacrificing ceremony. As long as we complete the ceremony, those so-called ghosts can rest in peace? Or are there other prerequisites that must be done? As for the evil ghosts you said cannot directly harm us, I think I also discovered that every time we reach a critical moment, those blood will become more churning, but they have never really touched us."
Lin Xu looked up at Chen Hao and said, "You... are the descendants of Beggar?"
Chen Hao nodded and said yes, Lin Xu looked at him again, nodded heavily and said: "It should be, Cui Niang entered Guo Pu's tomb to complete the final ceremony, but the ceremony failed. I couldn't figure it out at first, but Now that you mentioned the twin tombs, I understand. The reason is that we didn’t enter at the same time, but thought that we could be saved as long as we went to Guo Pu’s tomb... And there, I remember most clearly that there was a huge seven-star copper pillar. I think, maybe it has the same pattern as the place where the so-called clay tablets are placed in the Princess Grave, and there is probably a seven-star copper pillar like that in the Princess Grave.”
The thin monkey couldn't help interjecting at this time: "But how can we enter at the same time?"
Everyone stopped talking, and Zhou Jue said with an ugly face: "It seems...we can only enter in two batches..."
Fat San immediately jumped up: "What? Separate? No way!"
The thin monkey said quickly: "That's right, if we separate, we might not be able to take care of each other, after all, we are two places."
Fat San glanced at the thin monkey, and then said: "How can the two places be synchronized? Besides, how can we believe what he said now? He failed! Take us to death again?"
Zhou Jue couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and said, "Then what do you want to do? Do you have a better way, just say it!"
Fat San said unconvinced: "I just don't want us to be led by the nose in a daze. We circled around Nanjing like headless chickens. We didn't make a fuss for a long time, but so many people died. Lao Tzu I don't want to be the next one!"
Feng Laojiu looked at Fat San and said, "But he is the only one alive, we don't believe him, what else can we do?"
Fat Sanyi was at a loss for words, but quickly responded: "You said that, then I choose to go with this old man. I want to go to Guo Pu's tomb, at least he is the only one alive. I don't care about that bullshit princess tomb." Go! Both groups of people failed..."
The thin monkey wanted to say something, but he gritted his teeth and didn't say anything.Zhou Jue looked at everyone's expressions, and he couldn't make a statement at this moment, he was also struggling.
Looking at the faces of everyone, Feng Laojiu sneered, pretending to be relaxed and said: "I can go to Princess Tomb anyway, I have been there anyway."
After Fat San said that, he seemed unable to step down.He said awkwardly: "This is not the only solution, what else is there. Let's add it up."
Zhou Jue looked at what Fat San said, and hurriedly said, "Let's think about it again. Maybe there are other ways."
At this moment, Ye Wei laughed loudly and said, "In the final analysis, the few of you are unwilling to give up the direction of a little more hope, why don't you pull down your face and tell the truth? You are really ridiculous and pitiful."
The thin monkey said with a red neck: "Since you are so detached, you can go to the princess grave, aren't you very good?"
Ye Wei had a smile on his face, but his eyes were very gloomy and he said, "I'll go wherever you go! How about it?"
The thin monkey seemed to be told the most embarrassing point in his heart, so he couldn't continue talking, because
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