Ring of Seven [Online Version]

This town is full of weird atmosphere, and this atmosphere is directly linked with death.The woman didn't even look at the five of them, and went to the back room after packing up the tofu.

Zhou Jue stopped the woman, and the woman stopped in her tracks.Zhou Jue continued to ask: "Auntie, why are there so many people dying here?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, she looked at the young people in front of her, and said, "Outsiders?"

Zhou Jue nodded and said, "He's from Shanghai."

The woman put the bucket on the side and said, "No one is dead here, don't touch the mold."

Fat San pointed to the funeral outside and said, "Isn't it a dead person? Then this is marrying a girl? The wreath is used as a firework?"

The woman glared at him, and then said: "How do you talk? This is the rule here. Every year, each of our family will hold a funeral. Then put the dummy in the coffin and carry it to the ancestral hall over there."

Chen Hao asked: "Is there any reason? Why did you do that?"

The woman shook her head and said, "I'm married, so I'm not sure. If you want to ask, from here to the end, there is a place for funerals, where the dead are carried. Anyway, each of our family has to do it once, otherwise People will really die in the second year. I won’t tell you, I have to prepare tofu rice.”

Zhou Jue and the others walked out of the courtyard, and sure enough, every household turned their houses into mourning halls as if they were celebrating the New Year.The narrow passage is full of wreaths, but there are no inscriptions on the wreaths, they are just hung symbolically at the door.The smell of burning paper money is everywhere.But there was no trace of sadness on everyone's faces, as if they were sweeping graves on Qingming Festival.

Chen Hao patted Zhou Jue on the shoulder and said, "Go there and inquire about it."

Zhou Jue frowned and said, "Are you afraid of encountering the evil soldier in the story as an excuse?"

Chen Hao nodded as he walked: "What is the Yin Army Feather in the story, I want to find out the origin of this thing, and I always feel that we will not come to this small town for no reason."

Zhou Jue silently wrote down Chen Hao's words, and slowly analyzed and digested them.He felt that the things in the story would not be reflected so directly. After so many years, even if there was such a ghost town, they would not let them meet again decades later.

Ye Wei squeezed the wreath next to it with great interest, as if it was a real flower, he plucked one and handed it to the thin monkey generously.The thin monkey slapped his hand away as if he had been shocked by electricity, and the thin monkey was almost so angry that he couldn't speak.He held back for a long time before shouting out: "You, you pervert! What are you doing to me with dead people's things?"

Seeing that the thin monkey was about to explode, Zhou Jue immediately grabbed the thin monkey's hand and said, "Ye Wei seems to want us to blend in here? We must also play the role of mourners."

Ye Wei seemed to completely ignore the thin monkey's glaring, and said with a smile, "Indeed, if you look at the surrounding atmosphere, it's better for us to do as the Romans do."

The thin monkey looked at it in disgust and said, "I'm not going to do it, my parents are still there, so why not curse them to death with the stuff?"

Ye Wei shrugged his shoulders and said whatever you want, the five people just came to the side of the street, that quiet alley.The moss on the side of the road has almost stained the bluestone slabs on both sides into blue-gray.Walking on the edge will slip your feet anytime and anywhere. The narrow passage can only allow one person to pass through, and five people have to walk back and forth. The street is very deep, and the branches protruding from the yard form a natural tent. The sun shines through these The criss-cross branches sprinkled the road.The further you went in, the weaker the light became, until at last it seemed that it was impossible to judge whether it was a clear sky or not, and the fluorescent white lantern was hanging at the end of the passage.

At the end of the passage is a large yard, which has the smell of a deep mansion. There are no trees around, stone monuments and weeds are everywhere, and there are many coffins piled up in disorder beside the side, and the coffins have faded.There are no corpses in these coffins, and many stones are stuffed inside.The facial features of people are drawn with ink on the stone, and two white paper lanterns hang brightly on both sides of the gate, which looks yin and yang.

Fat San stared at this scene for a long time, and said to the others: "Do you think there will really be people living here? Why do I feel like Yizhuang in a martial arts movie?"

Chen Hao stopped uncertainly. At this time, a figure flashed by the edge of the gate, like a woman in white clothes. The hair was very long and the speed was too fast. Chen Hao was not sure if everyone saw her. , he pointed to the gate and said, "Did you see it in front of you?"

Everyone's faces were ugly, as if they had run into a ghost, Fat San nodded and said, "I see, the clothes are fluttering, just like Xiaoqian..."

Everyone in Zhou Jue paused for half a second when they saw this, and Chen Hao rushed up first, but the distance was too far.When they ran to the gate, the figure had long since disappeared. They found that the yard was very large, but the surrounding area was terribly desolate. There was not even a single family. Only the road they came from lay quietly in the distance.

Zhou Jue could only knock on the door patiently and said: "There is no one, open the door."

There was no response from the door, so Zhou Jue could only adjust his tone and continued: "There is no one, we are just very interested in the customs of this village, and we are all college students of folklore."

Still no sound.

Fat San patted Zhou Jue on the shoulder, realizing that no one was there, so he forced his way in.He hesitated for a moment, Fat San pulled Zhou Jue to the side with an ahhh, he beckoned the thin monkey to push the door with all his strength, but the door didn't move at all.The two people pushed until their hands were shaking, but the door was still not opened by half a millimeter.

Fat San squeezed his palms, pointed to the stone tablet beside him and said, "Damn, what a fucking prison, General Tie locked the door and climbed in along the wall."

Zhou Jue nodded, and the thin monkey was the first to rush up. His hands and feet were very nimble, and he climbed up the wall in no time.He looked down and said, "It's so dark down there that I can't see what's underneath."

Zhou Jue said: "If you can't do it, come down first. I think this place is too weird."

The thin monkey shook his head, jumped straight into the yard, and then heard him screaming.

Fat San shouted anxiously: "Skinny Monkey, what's wrong with you?"

Zhou Jue glanced at Fat San, and climbed up without saying a word.Indeed, because of the backlight, the following is blurry.He closed his eyes and jumped down, feeling as if he had fallen into something, but it didn't hurt, as there was a soft cushion underneath.Looking again, he found that the place was full of coffins. He was lying in the coffin, unable to get out all at once in a panic. After struggling with his hands and feet for a long time, he finally crawled out of the coffin.The thin monkey was also extremely embarrassed at this time, and the thin monkey shouted to Zhou Jue: "There is really a corpse in the coffin!"

Only then did Zhou Jue look back, and found that there was indeed a pile of white bones lying under his body wrapped in layers of shrouds. The bones were very brittle, and Zhou Jue's pressure directly broke the sternum.He couldn't control it now, and jumped up in fright. When he yelled, Chen Hao also jumped from the wall into another coffin.

Chen Hao was also shocked naturally, but luckily he didn't yell out, the voice was stuck in his throat and folded.He climbed out of the coffin and immediately said to the people outside: "Be careful, there are coffins below, and there are corpses inside."

Then Ye Wei also jumped in. When he jumped into the coffin, his face was completely expressionless, as if the corpse inside was just a plastic dummy to him.He looked at the coffin and said: "The outside are all stone people, but the inside are all real corpses, this..."

Just as everyone was waiting for Fat San, the bombshell, to drop from the sky, but after waiting for a long time, Fat San did not jump over against a wall. Zhou Jue thought that Fat San was frightened by Chen Hao's words and did not dare to jump over. Looking outside the wall, he whispered: "Fat San, don't be afraid, there is nothing unusual about dead people. They have already turned into bones."

There was no answer from the other side of the wall.

The thin monkey also said anxiously: "Fat San, don't dawdle, jump over quickly. We are running out of time."

But still no one answered, Zhou Jue felt an ominous omen, Fat San was no longer outside, he could only shout again: "Fat San, are you still there?"

The thin monkey yelled that it was not good, he looked at Ye Wei and said, "When you finally jumped down, did you find anything unusual?"

Ye Wei looked up at the wall and said, "I don't know. I don't care about what's behind me."

Zhou Jue grabbed the thin monkey who was about to rush over to beat him up. He said with a cold face, "Ye Wei, you'd better understand that everyone is on the same rope now, and if you die, none of you will be able to escape. Don't think you are so good!" B. In fact, you are only one person. The life and death of our companions is more important to us than anything else."

A trace of contempt flashed across Ye Wei's eyes, but he quickly smiled and said, "I understand."

Chen Hao looked around and said: "This is the backyard, and there is nothing crawling out. Let's check to see if there are any clues."

The thin monkey immediately said, "What about Fat Three?"

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue, but Zhou Jue insisted instead: "Don't worry, find Fat San first, don't let him get into trouble. Let's go out first, and investigate later, Fat San is our brother, we can't ignore him."

But Ye Wei gave a sinister laugh, pointing to the surroundings and said, "Can we still go out?"

The thin monkey asked with a warm and angry face, "What do you mean?"

Ye Wei pointed to the wall and said, "Didn't you realize that there is no gate here?"

Zhou Jue's forehead twitched, he clearly saw the woman coming in from the outside.Why is there no door here?Zhou Jue took a look and found that it wasn't that there was no gate, but that the gate was completely supported by a huge stone tablet.Such a big stone tablet blocks the door, does that woman have the ability to penetrate walls?

The thin monkey looked at the dilapidated coffins around and said, "Perhaps...there are no women here at all..."

Zhou Jue glared at the thin monkey, and the thin monkey also felt a slip of the tongue, biting his lip and looking at the fast stone tablet.

Chen Hao turned on his phone and looked around and said, "Go and see first, it's daytime, why is it so dark here? It's like night."

Zhou Jue looked up at the sky, and found that it was indeed very dark, and the sky showed a very ominous dark gray.Everything around seemed to be extending in the shadows, corpses and coffins were piled up in disorder.Like garbage.

And the number of coffins here is astonishing. Most of the corpses have been turned into bones, and a few still have some flesh and blood.There were corpses of men, women and children, and the coffin was not covered, so the corpses were exposed to the outside, and a lot of dust had accumulated on it.But it doesn't feel like a person is dead, but Zhou Jue and the others are really scared when they see it, and they are afraid that a zombie will jump out of one of the coffins.

They crossed these coffins with difficulty, and finally came to the door.The stele is already covered with moss, and the carved texture can be vaguely seen on it, but it is too blurry and looks too laborious.

The material of the stone is very strong, and it is bitingly cold to the touch.It seems that standing on its edge can feel the coldness emitted by the stone.

The thin monkey said: "I don't know what kind of texture this stone is. Why is it so cold? Can these corpses rest in peace around this stone tablet?"

Ye Wei said: "The shape of this kind of stele is very similar to the natural stone in front of the gate of the mausoleum. It is a kind of anti-theft mechanism used to withstand the gate."

Chen Hao touched the surface of the stele with his hands, suddenly his eyes widened as if he had touched something, and he said to Zhou Jue, "Give me the lighter."

Zhou Jue lit the lighter, and the faint light shone on the stele. Chen Hao patted away the dust on the stele and said, "Do you think this pattern is very familiar?"

Zhou Jue opened his eyes and tried his best to find some clues from this sparse and vague abstract pattern, but he couldn't make out any.

Chen Hao said: "The pattern on it is very similar to the pattern on our clay tablet, and it seems that it can be connected... The clay tablet in your hand, Ye Wei, is actually connected with what we have, and can form a more complete picture. Big pattern. On this stele is another one."

The light from the lighter was so weak that it was impossible to identify it on the stele. Zhou Jue couldn’t confirm whether it was true or not, but Chen Hao would stare at those clay tablets in a daze whenever he had free time. In his mind, these clay tablets It was like entering a scanner into his brain processor.

Chen Hao closed his eyes, and stroked the stele with both hands.Eyelids kept twitching, and he wanted to remember these patterns as much as possible.After closing his eyes, his brain showed the stone carving traces touched by his hands, and these traces formed a set of specific graphics in his brain.As the pattern became more detailed and clearer, Chen Hao felt his body became heavier, and his mind kept recalling the voice of his sister.It seemed that besides the pattern, other information flooded into his mind, and he didn't know what it was.But this has exceeded what he can accept.He felt that something here was guiding him, and something was repelling him.

"Xiaohao...be careful..."

He suddenly opened his eyes, and the last image in his mind was a strange woman, this woman was not his sister, she looked very downcast with disheveled hair, but the voice belonged to Chen Rulan.The woman's eyes were very cold, and there was an indescribable strangeness projected in the dark eyes.

"Brother Chen?"

Chen Hao shook his head. He closed his eyes and wanted to remember the pattern on the last clay tablet. When he put his hand on the stele, he suddenly felt that he touched human skin. When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was It was the woman's face, with pale cheeks and disheveled hair.Lifeless eyes stared straight at him.That woman suddenly appeared in front of him at some point.

He gasped, Zhou Jue quickly supported his arm and said, "What's going on?"

Chen Hao took a closer look and found that the stele was still just a stele, and there was no one there.But those sinister eyes would never be wrong.And the touch of the hands is even more unmistakable.What he touched in front of him was a woman's face.

Ye Wei quietly asked: "Do you remember?"

Chen Hao nodded, his eyes were very confused.Zhou Jue asked, "Brother Chen, did you feel something?"

Chen Hao rubbed his temples, he looked at the stele and said, "I remember it all."

The thin monkey said: "It's strange why the stone is stuck at the door? If according to what this guy said, the stone was originally used to hold the door at the door of the tomb passage, then we are in the same tomb?"

As soon as the thin monkey finished speaking, Chen Hao was immediately enlightened.He said: "This actually imitates the pattern of ancient mausoleums, and we have entered an open small tomb."

Zhou Jue looked around and said, "Then these corpses are actually the burials of the past? Then if that's the case..." He turned and looked at the big room in front of the compound and continued: "This is the main tomb? These are Xiangtang?"

Ye Wei said, "Maybe that woman is still inside?"

The thin monkey said: "That must be considered a person, not a ghost, so what about Fat San?"

Ye Wei looked at the stele and said: "We climbed over the wall and entered this small 'tomb', so it is not so easy to get out. I feel that this place is insulated from the outside world. This is a very powerful technique. Even I have never seen it, the humane skill of using this spell is quite good, above me! Sure enough, I came to the right this time. Hehe, maybe Fat Three is still waiting for us outside, and we have already If we can’t get out, it’s the four of us who are in danger.”

Just after Ye Wei finished speaking, they clearly felt a gust of wind blowing from the outside of the high wall. Only then did they notice that everything here was eerily quiet, as if everything was still and lifeless.

Chen Hao looked around, decaying coffins, weird steles, and a large courtyard decorated like ancient tombs.All of this seemed very deliberate, someone deliberately arranged all of this, waiting for the arrival of a few of them, especially the pattern on the stone tablet—the secret about the clay tablet.

Looking at the surrounding environment, Chen Hao no longer had any doubts. He took firm steps and first walked towards the main room of the compound. His expression seemed to have finally made up his mind, and his expression was very decisive.Zhou Jue and Shouhou looked at each other, Ye Wei had already followed Chen Hao, and Shouhou said anxiously, "Do you trust them?"

Zhou Jue smiled wryly, "Is there any other way now?"

The thin monkey was more disturbed, he shook his head helplessly and followed Ye Wei.Zhou Jue looked back at the stele and sighed.Just when he was about to keep up with the crowd, he found that the textures on the stele suddenly became clear, as if it was special for him to understand. Zhou Jue saw a strange character engraved on it, which was not a seal character. , nor is it italicized.This word... seems to have suddenly appeared on the stone tablet.Appeared like a ghost.Zhou Jue silently memorized the appearance of this word.Then followed Chen Hao and the others into the hall.

The door of the hall was symbolically closed, and when Chen Hao pushed hard, the door creaked and knocked in response.There was a lot of dust falling on the gate.The hall is completely furnished like a mourning hall, in the middle there is a maroon coffin, and the lacquerware is dripping like blood, which is incomparable with the old coffins outside.The coffin was only half closed, surrounded by paper dummies whose eyes and noses could no longer be distinguished.It's just standing there symbolically, and there are many boxes beside it, which seem to have piled up many funeral objects made of paper.In front of the coffin is an altar with a spiritual tablet on it.Surrounded by rotten white cloth that was almost untouchable, and covered with dust, Chen Hao did not move on, he stopped, stared at the tablet, and opened his mouth slightly, as if to say something.But even Zhou Jue, who was closest to him, couldn't hear clearly.He walked over slowly, picked up the tablet, and on it was written: "The seat of Cui Niang"

The four of them pronounced the name at the same time, and couldn't help being surprised.Cui Niang was supposed to only appear in the story, but there is such a person, and there is actually a connection with this weird compound. Cui Niang died here in the end?So who set up the spiritual seat for him?

The doubts in everyone's minds increased one by one, and Zhou Jue said, "Could it be that Lin Xu set up a spirit card for her? No, Lin Xu doesn't know any spells. He couldn't have created this weird tomb space."

The thin monkey said: "Have you forgotten, Cui Niang disappeared in the end, maybe one of the seven of them did it."

Ye Wei didn't speak, he finally stopped smirking, but concentrated on looking at the surrounding layout, while Chen Hao kept silent, his eyes fixed on the coffin.As if to see a hole in the coffin.

His breathing became more and more heavy, and he walked slowly to the side of the coffin, and there was indeed a female corpse lying in the coffin, when Zhou Jue saw the corpse, his eyes almost protruded, he held on for a long time, grabbed his hair and said : "Fuck! There is a dead body!

The thin monkey looked at the corpse suspiciously, and asked, "This is... Cuiniang?"

Chen Hao pursed his lips and said nothing, he moved the coffin away at once, and tremblingly lifted off the moon-white shroud on the right hand of the female corpse, we found that there was a joint of steel bars on the bones of the corpse.Chen Hao took many steps back, his face was as pale as a dead person.

The thin monkey said, "That's not right... people at that time used steel bars? Cuiniang was from the period of the Republic of China, right?"

Zhou Jue felt something, he asked softly: "This...maybe it's not Cuiniang..."

At this time, Chen Hao spoke dryly, his voice was not like his own, it was so hoarse that it made people uncomfortable.He replied: "She is Rulan, my sister Chen Rulan."

Zhou Jue looked at the female corpse lying in the coffin. The corpse shrank very small, which felt unreal. Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, and Chen Hao just looked at the corpse. He lowered his head and touched the hair of the corpse. There was no way to see his expression clearly, but Chen Hao's hands were shaking very badly.

The thin monkey wanted to say something, Zhou Jue held him back and shook his head, meaning don't say a word now.

After Chen Hao combed the corpse's hair, he put the coffin back on.He looked back at the crowd and said, "Now that's all Rulan can help us with. This is the last mystery she left for us."

Zhou Jue looked at the coffin, he wanted to say some comforting words first, Chen Hao understood what he meant, he waved his hand and said: "I'm fine, this is actually doomed, she died five years ago. It's just that I never wanted to Just admit it."

Ye Wei suddenly said: "Then you already knew that the one lying here is your sister?"

Zhou Jue said viciously, "Shut up, I won't treat you as dumb if you don't speak."

Ye Wei showed a fierce expression for the first time. He took a step towards Zhou Jue. The thin monkey had already blocked Zhou Jue's face with one hand. He looked back at Ye Wei without saying anything. The thin monkey's eyes were very sharp. Zhou Jue felt that the thin monkey's tolerance for Ye Wei had reached its limit.If it goes on, he may not be able to control it.There is absolutely a hundred possibilities for this kid Ye Wei to be beaten into meatloaf by the skinny monkey.

Ye Wei still had some scruples about Shouhou's skills, and his expression eased a little, but he still said sullenly: "I shouldn't say these things, Chen Hao, how long do you want to hide? Your sister Didn't you just get that book by accident? Or are you still trying to trick people who take you for real as friends?"

This time it was Chen Hao's turn to turn his face stiff. He looked back at the coffin, and then at Zhou Jue. He didn't dare to look at his face. A numbness of loss.He looked at the coffin speechlessly, without moving.

Zhou Jue finally said, "Let's go out first, Brother Chen, don't be sad."

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue in astonishment, Zhou Jue forcefully forced a smile, the thin monkey still stood beside Zhou Jue with a cold face, and he didn't stop him.Chen Hao didn't expect that at this point, the two of them would still choose to believe, just like what Zhou Jue said at the beginning, he would give Chen Hao the greatest trust.

Chen Hao did not expect to get the support of the two of them. He touched his forehead and said with a bitter smile: "Okay, since Ye Wei has already mentioned this, I will tell you the true origin of this book, but One thing you have to believe in me is that I only got the current clues through investigation. Now I am the only one who knows these secrets."

The author has something to say: Summary of the previous article: Because of the time-space distortion of the train, Chen Hao and others entered an unknown small town.There, Ye Wei told about his brother Ye Ting. He was one of the seven people in the previous batch, and he was also the strange man who told about the coffin that Shouhou met on the train.He used his mind to keep the last clues left by Chen Rulan. Through these clues, Chen Hao discovered that Chen Rulan had long expected that there would be a traitor among the seven people, so he asked Ye Ting to use the train's train as the last and most critical clue. Time and space are preserved.Chen Hao thinks it is necessary to find the ancient tomb mentioned by Huzi in the novel, and thinks that the appearance of the seventh person will be a huge crisis.At this time, every household in the village is doing funerals.Chen Hao suddenly remembered the Yinbing Town in the novel...

Hello everyone, now I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and auspicious Year of the Rabbit.Hehe, I was very busy some time ago, and my health has not been very good, so I stopped for a long time. I was a little free a few days ago, so I hurried to make up this end.At the end of the last year, there were too many things, and they were all beyond my expectations. I went to another place again.I still have a bad cold, always have a low-grade fever, and want to sleep in a daze...

I won't talk about these, let's talk about the text, the story is now entering the real key to deciphering.I finally let the mysterious sister Chen appear, but what appeared was only a corpse. In fact, I didn't plan to bring Chen Rulan to life at the beginning.I think she can make various arrangements after her death, bring clues to Chen Hao and the others, and use all available methods.I like to write some strong women in the stories, so the important women in my novels are Man Yujie’s, which is also a personal preference... Hehe, in short, Chen Rulan’s death made the story go directly to the one between Chen Hao and Zhou Jue , although her influence will not disappear, but the next step depends on the performance of Chen Hao and Zhou Jue.

Alright, let’s stop here. I originally wanted to do the second shift, but today I worked overtime until four o’clock and went shopping with my mother, and didn’t go home until seven o’clock.No time at all, let's wait until next week.But I'll hurry up.Please rest assured.