Ring of Seven [Online Version]

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Cuiniang held Qier's hand tightly, and the strength in her hand increased a bit: "If you go out alive, you must write this down, Qier, you are different, you are already smart, and you must survive."

Beggar clenched the jade pendant in her hand, she nodded heavily, and Cui Niang turned her head to look at the huge stone wall, and said with firm eyes: "Whether we live or die, we have to go there, maybe we will all die, But as long as those who get out alive can't forget these people, whether they are dead or still alive. They can't be forgotten...never!"

After 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 She couldn't stop feeling sick, but she just covered it with her hands to prevent herself from vomiting.Everyone was amazed by her actions, and everyone was speechless 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 ourselves the host of these bugs, otherwise we will be overwhelmed by a large number of gnats if we cannot 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, and there is a road behind it. This road is the Shinto road leading to Guo Pu's tomb. We must enter from there, but we cannot Turn on the lights, otherwise the heat of the fire will attract more bugs, we must smear and climb this stone wall.”

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 for one's life.

The beggar untied his braids, hung the jade pendant on his chest with a headband, and put it next to his underwear.Then she hung the dagger on her waist, looked up at the stone wall and said, "Okay, I 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 he said: "It is not necessarily necessary for everyone to climb up. I saw that there is a deep depression in half of the rock wall, and there are many rocks below, so it is easy to climb. We have The rope left by Liu Ye 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, and he was speechless.Lin Xu interrupted: "Since we are all in trouble, and we have sworn to be brothers of the opposite sex, then we are all brothers, no matter which one we can't leave 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, but at the same time carried the rope thrown on the ground on his shoulder.

Lin Xu smiled wryly and shook his head. He turned his head to look at Cuiniang. Cuiniang's face became very pale because of swallowing the worms. Lin Xu couldn't bear it, but there was nothing he could do.He whispered to Cui Niang: "Okay, let's go."

When Chen Hao saw this, his hands couldn't help trembling, thinking that his sister and himself were destined to be involved?Everyone's expressions were also very complicated, and the thin monkey asked with concern: "Are you still there, brother Yupei Chen?"

Chen Hao said: "No, if I stay, my family will definitely say it, but there has never been such a thing."

Fat San said anxiously: "Don't interrupt, just keep reading!"

Unexpectedly, Ye Wei interrupted again at this time: "That jade pendant may no longer be there."

Fat San saw that the kid was talking in frustration again, and quickly asked, "How do you know? You're talking nonsense again."

Ye Wei ignored him, and now Chen Hao continued Ye Wei's words: "Because the beggar came out alive, the jade pendant may have played its role, and such a thing may not be usable after one use."

Fat San spread out on the chair in disappointment, Zhou Jue said: "But we almost already know where the Yin-Yang Dao is. If the jade is gone, then what is the function of the jade?"

The thin monkey said: "Then let's continue reading, maybe we will know more news."

Everyone was just about to nod their heads to continue, but the black cat let out another shrill cry, everyone's heart tightened, and they turned to look at the cat, who opened its teeth and claws at the window for some unknown reason.When everyone held their breath and looked at the window, something suddenly blown the window open. Everyone covered their heads against the wind, and when they looked up, there was nothing outside the window.

The thin monkey swallowed and asked, "This...how...?"

Before he finished speaking, Ye Wei pulled him over and covered his mouth with his hands.It's a pity that it was still too late, and suddenly a bigger impact rushed in from the window.

Chen Hao only had time to shout: "Get down!"

Then there was a loud noise from the window, and when they looked up again, they found that the original window was gone. The huge impact smashed the window, but there was still nothing with such a strong impact, and no one dared to make a sound , Even the gasp was pinned down in his throat, and he dared not let it out.

Just as everyone was staring at the windowless place, waiting for what would happen next, but the suffocating silence lasted for a long time that made people mad.

Ye Wei laughed dryly: "It seems that there is something that doesn't want us to continue watching..."

Fat San's arm was scratched many times by the glass, and he said, "Damn it, I'm unlucky. Since you don't want us to watch it, why do you want us to watch it?"

Chen Hao said: "Do you still remember? Rulan said in her diary that there were two ghosts haunting her."

Zhou Jue pushed Chen Hao's arm away calmly, and he said: "That is to say, there are two forces that restrain us, one is to keep us reading, like the uncontrollable desire, keep reading until you know what to do." The final truth of the story, and the second kind is the obstacle that will appear for no reason, just like reminding us that we can't watch it anymore..."

The thin monkey asked stupidly: "Which one is... to save us?"

Ye Wei stretched out his hand and touched the cheek of the skinny monkey under his body, and smiled as if he was touching the cat: "Maybe they all want us to die? When you beg others for help, you just Push yourself to the most dangerous point, you know?"

The thin monkey pushed him away in disgust, slapped his face and said, "Hey, who needs help? Damn pervert, don't treat me like a cat."

Ye Wei chuckled and said, "Sorry, I'm used to the action."

The skinny monkey raised its fist and was about to hit someone, but at this time there was a rapid knock on the door, and the people were like frightened birds. Chen Hao opened the door cautiously, and suddenly a hand appeared stiffly outside the door, and everyone gasped, but When I took a closer look, I found that hand was somewhat familiar, and when I took a closer look, I 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, who was 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 still think I have to give this to you. I found this when I was sorting out the teacher's belongings. I don't know if you have any use for it." looked at them, but no one was ready to answer his question.He coughed a few times in embarrassment, and took out the tin box of mooncakes from his bag.He opened the box and there were many letters in it. When everyone picked it up, they found that there was only one place for these letters, and it was the weird "Welcome Town".Everyone became vigilant immediately, because everyone knew that there was the mysterious Yin-Yang Dao on the map.

Li Fang said: "I found these things under the teacher's bed, because this place is the address where you asked me to pick you up. I always feel that this matter has something to do with you. I thought about it all night and decided Give it to you."

Chen Hao didn't speak. He opened one of the letters and found that the inscribed letter was Lin Xu.Even Chen Hao and Ye Wei groaned. No one thought that Lin Xu, the protagonist of this book and perhaps the author, would write letters to Professor Ma, and the dates of these letters can be traced back to Before the Cultural Revolution.One after another, there are still letters and even New Year's cards, which means that maybe Professor Ma has known Lin Xu for a long time.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 read the contents of the letter, but it was full of trifles, without any mention of the matter of the seven people.Occasionally there are discussions about epigraphy. If it weren't for the last signature, no one would have thought that it had anything to do with the ring of seven.

But at this time Zhou Jue asked a crucial question, he said: "Maybe Lin Xu is still alive, he is still in... Yingbin Town!"

Fat San looked at him excitedly, and he said: "If you find him, maybe you can know how to break the curse. Since the book may be written by him, then maybe we don't have to go to Guo Pu's tomb, and don't care if he is a What kind of yin and yang tomb."

Chen Hao put the letter back into the box and said to Li Fang, "Give us this box first."

Li Fang seemed to have something to say, but he just nodded. He walked out of the room and turned around and asked, "Xiaomei...she..."

Everyone in Zhou Jue's eyes darkened, but Chen Hao just said flatly: "We haven't met her either."

On the contrary, Li Fang breathed a sigh of relief. He nodded and said, "I see, you...be careful."

Ye Wei smiled slightly: "Why didn't you tell him that Guo Mei is dead?"

Chen Hao didn't look at him, he just stuffed the box into his backpack, and then said to everyone: "Everyone get ready, we have to go back to Yingbin Town, everyone better prepare more, according to the book that weird underground village is 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 may know how to save his life. In short, before we find Lin Xu, we all have hope."

Although there is no strength in saying this, it can be regarded as comfort anyway. With the help of Li Fang, they finally got the batch of equipment originally ordered by Chen Hao. town.But this time it was heavier than the first time I set off.

Chen Hao didn't ask Li Fang to send them off, but chose to charter a van. Maybe he didn't want Li Fang's intervention to bring any changes to them, or he was afraid that Li Fang would also cause some trouble.However, since the successive deaths, Chen Hao has stopped talking. He is silent like a stubborn stone, bearing all the pressure and anxiety, but at the same time he has to find the glimmer of life. Zhou Jue sometimes thinks How far can he go without Chen Hao?

Sitting in the car, no one talked to anyone, even Fat San, who is usually the most active, didn't speak at the moment. Zhou Jue would definitely take the lead in laughing at Fat San for pretending to be deep, but at this moment, no one was in the mood to joke.Feng Feng Laojiu has been coughing non-stop since he came back from Qilin Town, and his face is getting paler and paler.The thin monkey asked him what was wrong, but he didn't say anything, but the severe coughing made people feel uneasy.The anger in Feng Feng Laojiu's eyes became less and less, he seldom rolled his eyes, and sometimes he just sat blankly as if he didn't listen to their discussion any more.

The only one who was still smiling was Ye Wei. He hugged the black cat and looked out the window as if traveling.Suddenly Ye Wei called Zhou Jue, and he 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, there was indeed the place where he escaped alone, and there was the open space, they seemed to be a group of people walking on the road left by the former with their lives, and if they all Failed... so what are they left with?

It's still the same road, but at the beginning he used to walk, but now he takes a car, and Zhou Jue began to miss the original single and crazy scenery.At this time, Chen Hao was still not free, he kept comparing the map with the electronic map in his hand, and calculated something with the computer.Along the way, Chen Hao is the soul of this team, just like Chen Rulan back then, or Huzi and Lin Xu earlier.Every time the ring of seven has such a character, people habitually rely on the strong when encountering a crisis.

So what will the strong rely on?

Putting down the map, Chen Hao pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "I've done the calculations. The location of Yingbin Town is very ingenious. In terms of Feng Shui, it's just at the starting point of Gongzhufen's rise, that is to say, the dragon vein of Gongzhufen starts. It all comes from here.”

Zhou Jue said: "But the underground village there is also the Shinto of Guo Pu's tomb..."

Chen Hao nodded and said, "That's right, so its location is exactly in the middle of Guo Pu's tomb and Princess's tomb. It is because of this place that the so-called feng shui structure of the tomb of Yin and Yang can be formed."

Fat San turned his head and asked Ye Wei, "What you said last time must be entered at the same time? Is it reliable? How do you say it?"

Ye Wei continued to shake the cat, squinting his eyes and said: "It's very simple, as long as people enter both tombs at the same time, the yin and yang of the twin tombs will be destroyed, and the organs that were originally used to prevent tomb robbers will also be for this reason. Stop opening it. For example, the hallucinations that both Lin Xu and Feng Feng Laojiu encountered..."

Hearing what he said, Feng 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, he 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, only a kind of calmness remained.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. He 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 you for a fraction."

Everyone got out of the car with their backpacks on their backs. 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 traced their memories and found the guest house. At this time, there were still many paper wreaths at the door of the guest house, and there was a puddle of paper money ashes just burned at the door.

Seeing them coming back, the proprietress was puzzled for a while, 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 someone named Lin Xu?"

The landlady's eyes suddenly became very frightened, she lowered her head and walked back: "I don't know him. There is no such person here."

Several people looked at each other, knowing that the proprietress must know something, Zhou Jue followed, and he asked: "The proprietress will tell you that we know the origin of this village, and most of the things you told us back then were also entangled with some lies... "

Only then did the proprietress look up at the group of young people in front of her, and then at their equipment, she thought for a long time and sighed, "I really can't say this, so take me to the old man in the coffin shop, here What he says counts."

The proprietress unbuttoned her apron, and she whispered to the boss, the man immediately shook his head, but it was obvious that the man was afraid of his wife, the proprietress stared at the boss and was speechless, but still frowned and mouthed as if saying no .The proprietress didn't care about the man, she came out and said: "I'll take you there, you can go to him directly, don't come back to us. I was married, and I didn't expect to encounter such a bad thing. It's a pity that my mother's home is too far away. There is no way to go back. There are several more children, so we can only take root here. Don't harm our family."

Zhou Jue said yes again and again, but his eyes kept looking at the restless man in the room. Seeing Zhou Jue looking at him, he hurriedly hid in the back room in fright, 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 potholed bluestone road. Rotten paper flowers and paper piercing people.There are still a lot of incense sticks stuck in the soil on the side, because the sky has been a little dark, and the autumn wind is blowing along with this road, which really feels like a ghostly way.

The woman seemed to be very scared, she pointed to the right side of Ruth and said: "The one with a dead willow tree at the door of the house is Grandpa Lu's house. You can go find him. I have to go back to cook, but I'm ugly. Don't come to our house, we don't do your business."

After finishing speaking, he walked back quickly without turning his head, and in the end he simply trotted all the way back.Zhou Jue saw that there were indeed some flickering lights in the house in front of him, and he said, "Let's go."

The closer I got to the room, the more I heard a single sound, like sharpening a knife.After a few 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 thin old man was wearing only a simple sweater and shorts, so late he still making a coffin.

Zhou Jue asked, "Excuse me, is 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, he raised his head and looked at the person in front of him for a long time, then returned to the original single action, Ye Wei wanted to continue talking, but this time he was stopped by Chen Hao, he walked to the side of the old man, All the while watching his movements in silence, 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.

Finally the old man spoke first: "What do you want to see me for?"

Chen Hao said: "My question is the question of the person in front, so I am waiting for your answer."

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: "Ask us to sit 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 pile of wood. Sit down."

Chen Hao was the first to sit on it, the old man looked at him and nodded and said, "You remind me of someone."

Chen Hao looked at him and said, "Is it a beggar?"

The old man wiped his sweat and didn't answer him. Zhou Jue couldn't bear it any longer. He 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 they meant at all, he stood up abruptly and went back to the house.Leaving the group of people staring wide-eyed, Fat San scolded: "What the hell, pretending to be a ghost! Is it him?"

Feng 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 were finished, the old man came out of the room again. He took several bowls and teapots, made a cup of tea for each of them and said, "Take a sip of tea first, young man, this road is difficult."

Zhou Jue heard a pun in the old man's words, but he didn't know how to answer better. At this time, Chen Hao took the tea bowl generously, and he replied seriously: "No matter how difficult it is to go, you have to go, there is no turning back. .”

The old man chuckled, took a sip himself, looked at each of them 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 he finally nodded. When he opened his eyes again, there were more 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 was so excited that they couldn't express it. They licked 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? A group of people should have come here five years ago."

Lin Xu said, "No."

Chen Hao lowered his head with gloomy eyes. Seeing this, Zhou Jue quickly said, "Then how did you know Professor Ma? We found you here from 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 not easy. It was the old horse who helped me...so I was wondering who would know I was here."

Zhou Jue said, "Then you wrote the Ring of Seven?"

Lin Xu took a sip of tea, he didn't look at Zhou Jue, but looked in the direction of the ancestral hall: "Yes... this is what I promised Cuiniang and Liu Fei, they died, I couldn't protect them in the end. They, but I promised them that if they come out alive, they will definitely write down these things in the end..."

The thin monkey said thoughtfully: "That's why you wrote that book, but why is that book so weird? What's the purpose of that?"

Lin Xu paused, then asked back, "Is it weird..."

When he asked like that, Chen Hao and the others couldn't answer. Fat San stared wide-eyed, and even Ye Wei, who was not in the mood to listen to their conversation, changed his expression.

Zhou Jue asked: "You...doesn't your book contain some...curse?"

Lin Xu shook his head and said, "No, I wouldn't write it down if there was a curse. This book just narrates what happened after I met Cuiniang and the others. In the end, I promised Cuiniang to use her hair to weave it 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 those poor souls. This is the final agreement between Cui Niang and me." After he finished speaking, he looked at Chen Hao and said, "The beggar is the last to keep those boards. She chose the last one. None of us men can compare to her for the dangerous responsibility."

Fat San couldn't bear it any longer. He 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? Are you out of your mind, sir?"

Lin Xudao was a little bored. He tilted his head and looked at the crowd and said, "It doesn't matter how many people there are. As long as they come into contact with Princess Graves, they will be targeted. It has nothing to do with the number of people."

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..."