Ring of Seven [Online Version]

Chen Hao sat on the edge of the coffin. He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, but there was no lighter. He clasped his fists with both hands and rested his chin in frustration.He stared around as if he was familiar with this place, and inside the coffin was the sister he had been looking for.Here is his sister's grave.

He began to describe Chen Rulan's past.And these things are actually the hidden content in the diary that Chen Hao hid and the results of Chen Hao's five-year investigation.Chen Hao finally began to talk about all this, with a hint of sadness in his calmness.

As a woman, Chen Rulan is considered to be the perfect type, with strong abilities.She was the only female member of the university's expedition team and the only female expedition leader for decades.She once said that she wanted to be a good archaeologist.

However, because they are still students, the teacher will only give them some tasks that are not difficult. In the past few years, there are only a few occasional opportunities to go to the ground for surveys.

Everything was peaceful at first, but one night five years ago, Chen Rulan received a text message from a stranger requesting to meet her immediately, and the signature was her teacher.As far as she could remember, this teacher had always been responsible for the guidance and organization of the university's expedition team, and was one of the few scholars in the university who could be regarded as a well-known archaeological researcher.But she had very little contact with her. Except for class, he rarely had the opportunity to contact her. He probably didn't have his own mobile phone number. Chen Rulan dialed this number suspiciously, but when she called back, it showed that she was no longer in the service area.

She finally went, but until midnight, she still didn't see the teacher. She began to wonder if someone was using the name to deliberately play a prank.Finally, just as she was about to leave, a group of people rushed down from a van and took Chen Rulan into the van without saying a word. After getting into the van, she found that the teacher was really sitting beside her. In fact, it's just that the "lesson" was miserable.All that was left was the ability to nod.

The drivers rarely spoke, but they were certainly not locals.The car drove to the outskirts, and those burly men dragged Chen Rulan and her teacher to an abandoned construction site like chickens one by one. It was discovered that although Chen Rulan was not panicked on the surface, the situation was extremely critical.

At this time, a middle-aged man in a tunic suit stepped out from the group of thugs.He doesn't look like those gangsters, his temperament is very unique, but there is a kind of ghost in his eyes.It's very uncomfortable to look at people's eyes.The man glanced at the teacher, and then his eyes fell on Chen Rulan. He was frank and honest from the beginning, saying that he invited them this time to ask for their help to investigate an ancient artifact for them, but he also said that they would not care about this object anyway. You can't go deep into it, and you can't talk about it with anyone afterwards, otherwise all the people and things that come into contact with them will disappear from this world.The tone did not allow Chen Rulan and the two to refuse.

The naked threat did not make Chen Rulan panic, she verbally agreed to the man's request, and then the man took them to a small villa, where there was a hidden basement with very advanced equipment.There are some instruments inside that Chen Rulan has never even touched.

She finds it inconceivable why a person with such advanced equipment would ask an ordinary college student and an ordinary teacher to conduct research, and there is nothing particularly outstanding about them.

The man opened the safe in the dark room, carefully took out a clay tablet from the safe in the dark room, and placed it in front of the two of them.Chen Rulan was surprised to find that there were many criss-cross patterns on this clay tablet, and there were many characters around the patterns, but these patterns were not like words, they could only be said to be patterns similar to mantras.It was the first time for Chen Rulan to see this kind of pattern, but she always felt that she had seen similar patterns somewhere.

Chen Rulan asked the mysterious man what it was, and the man said that as long as they could figure out the meaning of the clay tablet, then they would not have to worry about it.

Chen Rulan said that if there is no way to know the ins and outs of this clay tablet, it is impossible to carry out interpretation work.

The man didn't listen to Chen Rulan's words at all, as if he didn't care about Chen Rulan's serious opinion at all.He put down his things and left with his men, leaving only two thugs, one fat and one thin, to watch over Chen Rulan and her teacher.

The teacher's research on the clay tablet is not bad, he just glanced at it and said that this thing is at least 700 years old.It should be a cultural relic of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.But the value of this thing is far from the need for them to kidnap and commit crimes.And it's even more unbelievable that it's so mysterious and cautious.

Chen Rulan picked up the clay tablet and felt very strange in her heart. This familiarity made her heart thump. Could it be that she has seen this thing before?That's why they arrested her, but why should they arrest the teacher?

The teacher was also very puzzled, but he felt that he should just do a random investigation, then get out of the way first, and call the police after he got out.Chen Rulan's mind was not that simple.So they began to investigate a clay tablet in all seriousness.Unexpectedly, the nightmare also began at that time.

After more than ten days of investigation, they found that this clay tablet is only a partial pattern, that is to say, there are other patterns, which are only a small part of the complete pattern, and there is no way to detect it only by relying on pieces. What a decent lead.

When they were deadlocked in their study of this clay tablet, a mysterious phone call came suddenly. After answering the call, the two fat and thin thugs suddenly panicked, and then suddenly disappeared without a trace the next day, and the entire laboratory Only Chen Rulan and the teacher were left, and the phone never came in.At this time, Chen Rulan said that she had to escape now, otherwise she would have no chance.

But her teacher vaguely discovered that this clay tablet holds a very profound secret. If this secret is unraveled, he will become a pivotal figure in the archaeological world.He has no way and no reason to give up such a temptation.Finally, the two of them decided to take the tablet with them.Then find a hidden and safe place to continue research, and call the police until the results of the research come out.

In the following month, apart from going to school, Chen Rulan spent all her time cooperating with the teacher on clay tablets.

Finally, they discovered that this clay tablet should actually consist of seven pieces, and each piece of clay tablet can be a single pattern. The pattern should be a long-lost Han Dynasty talisman, but as we all know, Taoism is a native Chinese religion, and its evolution The process is very complicated, and the history of origin cannot give an accurate definition of time.Among the early Taoist sects, only the "Fulu School" and "Danding School" were known. It was not until the late Eastern Han Dynasty that the theoretical scriptures in the true sense of Taoism began to appear: "Taiping Jing" and "Zhouyi Cantongqi". In the Jin Dynasty, Taoism developed greatly, and the Taoism of Laozhuang and Zhuangzi also began to become another important source of Taoism, and became an important attachment of the ruling class's unity of nature and man, and the granting of imperial power by gods.In the Tang Dynasty, Taoism entered its heyday.

Similarly, talismans, as one of the earliest sects of Taoism, have also undergone an extremely complicated evolution process. Among them, many secret techniques are only continued through the single transmission of the same family. Wars, plagues, and any disasters lead to the loss of many mysterious talismans. Even today, there are only four forms of talismans left, and these four forms are: Fuwen, Yunzhuan, Lingfu, and Futu.And these are actually the shallowest forms.This clay tablet is a side branch of the talisman, so even if they find a few of them, they will not be able to know the information of the entire talisman, or even get all of them. Each splicing can have different patterns, so that A talisman with another meaning will be formed, which is like a jigsaw puzzle.There are various possibilities.

In addition, this clay tablet is at least 2000 years old, and the earliest may be dated back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Among the clues known today, only similar talismans have been found in the tomb of Emperor Jin and Yuan, but the patterns are completely different. The piece of talisman in the tomb of the Jin and Yuan emperors was most likely made by Guo Pu, a master of Taoism and numerology.But its meaning has never been revealed to the cash world, as if it is an ancient graphic code.Perhaps no one can solve this code today.

Neither of Chen Rulan is an expert in this field, and it is even more impossible for them to decipher this kind of talisman code, but during the whole process, Chen Rulan felt as if she had seen something similar there.But she couldn't remember anything.

Chen Rulan didn't understand anything, but the teacher started to feel strange. He didn't go to school, and even deliberately avoided Chen Rulan. After that, he didn't allow Chen Rulan to enter the laboratory with excuses. He locked himself in the room, and then Chen Rulan came to visit many times , found that he had never gone out at all, and there was no food in the studio.Chen Rulan bought food and left it at the door every time, but the food was still left at the door the next day.After a few days like that, Chen Rulan felt that something might happen to the teacher if things went on like this, so she asked the lockpicker to help her into the room.But the room was empty, all kinds of weird symbols were painted on the walls of the whole house, the master who unlocked the lock turned around and fled in fright. Clay boards, the whole house left nothing but symbols on the walls, and finally Chen Rulan found a note in the drawer of her workbench.The teacher above said that he was looking for a book, and if he could find it, he would come back and meet her, and then maybe he could unlock the secret of the talisman.He told Chen Rulan to keep it secret from the outside world, and to be careful of the surrounding situation.The last sentence of being careful of the people around her made Chen Rulan feel a chill down her spine.The teacher seems to have foreseen what will happen.

She could only go back to school and not talk about it with anyone according to the teacher's words.But she found that no matter what time it seemed that someone was following her, the sound of footsteps in the middle of the night, the flickering whispers in the dark, even a person in the room seemed to have a pair of eyes watching her.Even when she was asleep, she could feel someone watching her.

After a week of restlessness like this, the teacher still had no news. Chen Rulan could only choose to call the police, but a strange thing happened. The police found that there was no such teacher in the university where Chen Rulan was. I went to the teacher's house, but found that there was a strange family living in that room, and they had lived in that house for 15 years, and they had never heard of such a person at all.

The police suggested that she go for a mental diagnosis.In fact, it means that she is crazy.

In the days that followed, Chen Rulan didn't dare to talk about the clay tablet or the teacher anymore.Because the people around have looked at her with strange eyes.She can only continue to work in the library, and then go to school, becoming reluctant to talk to others.Because she can't be sure that those things among those people she comes into contact with really exist.She was terrified that when she woke up, she herself would disappear.

Several months passed like this, but time did not lessen Chen Rulan's uneasiness. She began to doubt everything around her, spending all day in the library, as if she could get the greatest possible safety without facing people.However, she was wrong...

The first ten days of April is the peak of tomb-sweeping, and the Chen family will also go to the Binhai Ancient Garden to sweep the tombs. It was raining heavily that day. Chen Hao remembered that Rulan walked away halfway that day and got separated.I called her several times, but no one answered, and Chen Rulan fell insane from that day on.Finally, Chen Hao discovered what happened that day in his notes.

That day.The Chen family came to Binhai, because they came early, so there were not many people in Binhai, it was raining heavily around, the vision was very blurred, the path was extremely narrow, only one person could pass through.Chen Rulan followed behind Chen Hao, but when Zhou went to a fork in the depths of the cemetery, she found that the family members who were still there had disappeared.There was no one in the huge cemetery, only she was left alone.She looked around, and could smell the burning smell of paper money in the distance, but she couldn't see anyone there. She turned on her mobile phone and dialed Chen Hao's number, but the other party always showed that she was in the call.She had no choice but to rely on her memory to find the tombstones of her relatives.

The densely packed tombstones are almost exactly the same, and even the photos are very similar at a cursory glance. She suddenly began to be inexplicably afraid. Since that incident, her nerves have been extremely fragile, and she feels that uneasy sense of fear has returned.She bit her lip and walked forward as quickly as possible, she wanted to get out of this weird cemetery, she knew this was not the place she wanted to come.And she hadn't been here at all.

But every time she walked into the cross path, she would find that she came to a strange tomb again, and these tombs became older as she walked, from the marble monument at the beginning to the old-fashioned stone tomb, and finally she stopped Steps, in front of her is already the kind of ancient steamed bun graves.There are only wooden signs standing in front of the mound of sealing soil.

She turned her head again, and found that there were piles of steamed buns all around, and Qingming slings were inserted on the mounds in a mess.But the sky was still raining heavily, she took a few steps back, almost running back as if fleeing.However, no matter how she escapes, the environment will not change again.Until she couldn't run anymore, she panted and leaned against a dead tree with a crooked neck.She looked up at the sky, and the black clouds covered the entire sky.

She didn't know how long she stared blankly, but she was still alone.Gradually, she calmed herself down, she tried to close her eyes, when she opened them again.The scene remains unchanged.She straightened up as if giving up.Walking forward again, she began to notice the surrounding tombs. There were some unknown names on the tombs, which made these tombs look very unreal. Chen Rulan wondered if there were really corpses in these tombs?

The moment she had this thought, the heavy rain in the sky suddenly stopped.It came to a sudden stop like closing a floodgate.She looked at the tomb closest to her, there were only a few vague names on it, and a blackened broken bowl was placed under the tombstone. She didn't know what was put in it in the past, but it had rotted away long ago.

Suddenly she saw a face on those mottled tombstones, and she was so frightened that she dropped the umbrella on the ground.She hesitated for a moment, then walked towards the tombstone, and found that there were modern tombs among these ancient tombs. The black marble was very eye-catching in these rough and dilapidated tombs, just like two Graveyards from different time and space are connected together.She found that one of them belonged to that teacher, and his photo was placed in the center of the tombstone. His pale face showed no expression at all. Chen Rulan recalled the teacher's past at this time, and what scared her was that she was a little There is no impression, this person only stays in the memory of the clay tablet.

Chen Rulan clutched her forehead, she began to want to vomit, and her body began to be unable to bear such strange thoughts.She didn't understand what was going on, she felt that everything was like a dream now.She turned around and found that she also knew the photos on the rest of the tombstones. These people were the men who kidnapped her.She found a very large cardboard box in front of the teacher's tombstone. She opened the box, and it turned out to be the clay tablet, and there was a book under the clay tablet.

Chen Rulan thought of what the teacher said at the end as long as he found a book, he would come back...

When she picked up the book, she felt dizzy, and a familiar voice sounded in her ears: it came again...

She took a look at the tombstone, and found that the face of the teacher's photo had changed, black blood flowed from the facial features of the photo, and all the photos on the surrounding tombstones began to bleed black blood.She heard someone sobbing softly in the grave.

Chen Rulan has never been so afraid like now, she has had enough, she wants to get rid of all this, her only remaining reason has collapsed.She ran towards the way back in fear, but no matter how she walked, she could see the tombstones of those people and the book.She cried and knelt down in front of the tombstone. She took out her mobile phone in a panic, but she couldn't make any calls because of fear. She just kept pressing the number, and the familiar but unfamiliar voice was still in her ears: beg Son!run!it's here again...

It was almost dark when Chen Hao found Chen Rulan, and he found Chen Rulan in a pile of grass.She was leaning in the corner holding the phone and kept dripping the number, while she kept muttering that it came again.

Chen Hao immediately sent Chen Rulan to the hospital. The doctor only said that she was extremely frightened, but there was no other abnormality.So they went home like this, and Chen Rulan locked herself in the room.Her thoughts were as sticky as a paste, she couldn't think, she just wanted to sleep instinctively.Chen Hao knocked on the door and asked, but she just said coldly: asleep.

But, how could she sleep? Sitting in front of the desk, she tried to calm herself down again. She knew that the more afraid she was, the more she would collapse.She opened the drawer, but she found that a cardboard box placed in front of the grave had just appeared in her drawer.She didn't scream, as if she had a premonition of it all.Trembling, she began to open the book.

Then things snowballed like a snowball, and then Chen Rulan discovered that everyone around her would be affected by this book. This book seemed to be the shadow of a clay tablet, and there was some weird connection between them.She started to investigate these things, and tried a few things, but she found that something was wrong with her.Some memories that did not belong to her began to appear in her brain.Those memories seem to match the contents of the book.These memories can help her how to use the mysterious and unpredictable formations in the story, but this kind of memory is sometimes very vague, as if it is all a kind of imagination.

In the process of reading the book, Chen Rulan discovered that this book is not fictional. Many things recorded in it seem absurd, but there are many sources, and she has been attracted by an inexplicable emotion.She has a feeling of being stuck in a quagmire and unable to extricate herself.She hid her family and classmates, and began to investigate the origin of the book and the clay tablets by herself. At the same time, she still had a question in her heart, why she was chosen, who was the voice in those weird tombs, and the beggar in his mouth. Could it be that the son is the goddaughter of the Kui Liu master mentioned in the story?And whether the people in the story are real or fictional, and how many of them survived.These questions lingered in Chen Rulan's mind. She was alone, and at this moment she desperately needed a helper.

She was the first to think of her younger brother, the child with extraordinary memory.But she dismissed the idea in the next second, she vaguely felt that this matter was very dangerous.She couldn't extricate herself, she couldn't harm her younger brother.In case something happens to her, the family will depend on Chen Hao.

But what happened next was so weird that she didn't have the chance to choose a teammate at all. First, Lao Zhao read this book inexplicably, then Gu Lao, and then Gao Zhiyou who loved to collect knives so much, even Uncle Yin didn't escape That ghost book.Then came Ye Ting who came to my door...

Chen Rulan puts her own assumptions and experiments into every reading process, and soon she understands that the route of the mysterious ancient tomb in the story is real, but it was deliberately blurred by the author. To find the real route, Only then can they understand what they encountered before reading the story.This is where it all comes from.

What made Chen Rulan even more surprised in the future was that she had met those people in the story.

Because when she was reading to the last moment, she suddenly thought that she and her classmates came to a countryside near Nanjing a year ago during an expedition to collect folk songs.

This small place doesn't even have a name.There are wild forests everywhere, which is very close to the scenery that Lin Xu walked through in the story.Even the direction of the river is exactly the same.

It was not planned to go there, but due to the heavy rain for several days, the car could not move forward, so we could only stay there and set up camp.At that time, the classmates who were in charge of finding and fetching water suddenly ran back. They said that they might have seen the so-called ghosts. The group of people wore shrouds and walked past the forest in front with their heads bowed.

Chen Rulan thought that these people were also trapped passengers, so she wanted to invite this group of people to shelter from the rain in the tent they had set up.Chen Rulan talked to her companions, and planned to go to the other side of the forest to have a look, because of the heavy rain and it was getting late.I thought it was not a very long distance, but after walking for more than 20 minutes, I still haven’t approached many bushes in the forest. The branches are very annoying. She struggled to push the branches away, but it still felt as if the trees were consciously preventing her. go ahead.

The further she walked, the colder the weather became. It was spring, and even though it was raining heavily, it shouldn't be so cold.When she finally walked out of the strange forest, she found that the person had already disappeared.

Suddenly her foot tripped over something, she staggered, and found that there was a hole in the side, not big, only half the width of an arm.She used a flashlight to illuminate the situation in the cave, and found that the cave was very deep, and the light could not penetrate to the bottom.But the surroundings are all made of stone walls, and vermilion murals can still be seen vaguely.The surrounding mural patterns are very similar to those in the clay tablets.She didn't go down hastily, but turned around in a circle. When she continued to squat down to study the situation in the cave, she felt her body was pushed suddenly, and she almost fell into the cave. A stench of corruption and the earthy smell of dust were inhaled into her nostrils at once.She felt dizzy, and in a hurry, she immediately supported the hole with both hands, and then stuck her body.Because the flashlight also fell into the hole unfortunately, it took a long time to hear the sound of landing, and the echo was very clear.There should be stones all around.Chen Rulan opened her eyes wide. Suddenly, a light green light appeared in the originally dark cave, and a woman's laughter came from the other end of the cave. Goosebumps all over his body, and then there was a series of bells ringing.

She quickly crawled out of the hole, and when she got out of the hole, the moist air entered her nasal cavity, which made her feel a little more comfortable. She quickly turned to look behind her, but there was no one behind, but a fist-sized stone hit herself, like this How could a small stone cause such a large thrust?He's not a master in martial arts blockbusters.

While she was puzzled, when she scanned the woods again, she suddenly found the shadows of people flickering in the woods, and there were quite a few of them.Chen Rulan quietly walked to the edge of the forest, she counted the number of people, there were seven people in total, all of them were wearing shrouds, their faces were as pale as paper, the seven people were as silent as ghosts, Chen Rulan noticed at the same time that there were still A man in red followed behind these people. Because they kept a certain distance, the seven people didn't notice the existence of this man at all.And the man in red was holding something in his hand, but it was poorly implemented.Chen Rulan really couldn't see clearly.When Chen Rulan noticed that person for the first time, the "man in red" looked back at her as if he immediately sensed Chen Rulan in the distance.By guessing Chen Rulan, it was a woman, because the hair almost completely covered her face.She just stayed for a few seconds, and then followed the group of people to continue walking.These eight people walked in the direction of Nanjing all the way.

At this time, Chen Rulan didn't know what was going on, what all this meant, suddenly she heard a strong smell of blood, and then she lost consciousness as if her mind was eroded by this blood.When she woke up, she found that she was already in the tent. When she asked how she found her, her companions all looked blank, and said that there was no one at all. After they set up the tent, they began to rest. Chen Rulan was the first to sleep. with.Afterwards, Chen Rulan always thought that she had a very real dream, until later when she discovered that what she saw might be the scene of the first seven people escaping from the so-called ancient tomb, and that place should be the mysterious ancient tomb. tomb.

When Chen Hao said this, he stopped talking. He looked up at Zhou Jue and said, "I want to go to that ancient tomb."

Zhou Jue was silent for a long time, and did not answer Chen Hao's words. At this time, the thin monkey said, "I don't think there is anything worth hiding about what you said. Why didn't you say it from the beginning?"

Chen Hao rubbed his forehead and said with a dry smile: "Because at the back of the book we talked about that beggar, and beggar's real name is Chen Jing. Beggar is her nickname. If we rank her, she should belong to me and Rulan. Auntie is our grandma's sister, so our Chen family and the seven of us cannot get away from it at all."

The author has something to say: Summary of the previous article: Chen Hao and others came to the ancestral hall in the deepest part of the village. There were messy coffins piled up outside the ancestral hall, and the coffins were filled with stones.Afterwards, Chen Hao, Zhou Jue, Shouhou, and Ye Wei entered the ancestral hall respectively, and found a large number of corpses inside. In addition, they also found that the furnishings here were the layout of a mausoleum. Similar patterns in rubbings.In the mourning hall, they found a tablet engraved with Cuiniang's spirit tablet, but the one inside the coffin was Chen Rulan...

Well, the content this time is mainly about the cohesion of the plot, so friends who want to be ambiguous and JQ, you have to watch it patiently.After all, I write horror novels.In the story, I began to peel off the relationship between some people and the characters in the story, which will help to decipher later.

A little more gossip, that is, recently I am not as busy as before.But I still have a lot of arrangements, and my room is filled with all kinds of books.There are also books on the bed...More than half of the Buddhist scriptures and Agama scriptures have not been read...My family really can't read it, so I have to tidy up the room.Time has to be spread out again.So the next progress is God's will! !Comrades!God cannot be violated!