Ring of Seven [Online Version]

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 said: "The reason why the seven people behaved like this was entirely because of the evil spirits that were alarmed after taking down the clay tablets. Their waking up led to a series of subsequent events. The owner of the tomb was not actually an evil spirit. She just wanted to To get rid of all this, it is 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, and at the same time they seem to be able to control death, but in the end they return to dust. Dust returns to ashes, and what the revived souls long for most is peaceful liberation. Therefore, Guo Pu’s last ritual is to suppress the soul, so that those souls who cannot rest due to magic can get real peace. Therefore, those evil spirits cannot directly attack you. Threats can only be produced through other mediums, such as hallucinations..."

Feng Feng Laojiu covered his forehead and said, "That means the evil spirits I saw in the dormitory were actually hallucinations?"

Lin Xu sighed: "There are lies in the truth, and there is truth in the false. 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 asked him to make a book for me, in which I mixed Cuiniang's hair into the binding, which 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 this is Cuiniang, no, maybe it is the owner of the tomb and Cuiniang The common obsession, they all want to be freed, and they are more eager for real liberation than those who are alive.So is Chen Rulan the same?The entanglement between these three women and this matter is as difficult to untangle as the tangled strands of hair.But what is the resistance?What is another kind of resistance in the book?Is that the evil spirit in the clay tablet?or something else?

Zhou Jue couldn't help asking: "But we encountered all kinds of weird things after that book, and we simply followed your old path, and we also got all the clay tablets, and we also got all the ghosts you mentioned. I can feel that horrible blood... But, we feel that there are still many unexplainable things in your story."

Lin Xu shook his head and said: "The only ones who escaped were me, Qier, and Feng Luxi. The three of us guarded three different things. He didn't want to be involved in this matter anymore, so he threw the ghost back to the Princess Grave, and left some messages as an explanation to us. And I buried Cui Niang in the ancestral hall of the Li tribe, Left her hair and started writing that novel."

Everyone was speechless, they didn't expect things to be like this, but they must enter Guo Pu's Tomb 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. He frowned and looked at Zhou Jue with great sorrow and said, "A poor woman...a woman who used to be extremely noble, but now she just wants to be free...a simple wish like that can't be done. Can't do it."

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 those seven ghosts... She has always been in the tomb. Until Huzi and the others...entered the grave...hey!"

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 of that place is not suitable for burying women at all. It can be said that if a family buries its own women there, then the descendants of that family must be full of right and wrong, and even within three generations, the family will be ruined and the whole family will die." It is completely a dead end. In the other princess tomb, the year name of Taishi in the Southern Dynasty was found, which is the year name of Emperor Song Ming of the Southern Dynasty. In my opinion, the person buried in this ancient tomb must have something to do with that Liu Yu. In fact, this emperor came to the throne after launching a coup d'état. At the beginning, he was regarded as 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 geese and the alchemists of the geese."

Chen Hao said: "Since this is the case, then that woman must not be a direct descendant of the Nan Chen Liu family, or even a clan. She should not be related by blood to the Liu family. If this is the case, then I can boldly guess that she Its function is actually to use itself 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 she was nailed to death in that kind of Fengshui cemetery and became the guardian of the seven souls." .This... I am also puzzled."

Ye Wei smiled and said, "The ring of seven people is intertwined. Maybe this is the meaning of your writing 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. If one link goes wrong, the others cannot continue even if they can continue Success. We thought we had solved the mystery at the beginning, but we found that we were still going in circles, and we still couldn't solve that link."

Chen Hao frowned and said, "In other words, the seemingly rich clues we have 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 put another big stone on everyone's heart.

Fat San did not give up and said: "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, he said slowly: "No, I failed, I don't know whether I am alive or dead now, in fact, we found out after entering Guo Pu's tomb It seems that something went wrong, Cui Niang 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", which seems to be the reason for my life, just to put this matter to rest. Write it down, and let those who are destined to solve the fate that has lasted for generations. This is another reason why I named this novel. It may be selfish, but I sincerely hope that the series of mysteries drawn by these seven people will be solved one day. untie."

Zhou Jue lowered his head and said in thought: "You wrote this book without realizing it, 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 later, in order to attract the earth energy of Guo Pu's tomb and form a twin tomb. The ultimate design, only by entering at the same time can the internal organs not be touched."

Lin Xu pondered: "I see... But I have only been to Guo Pu's tomb, and I only know about the Princess' tomb from Cuiniang and others, and it seems that they are hiding it, and even in the end they still let me know There are many mysteries. But they want me to enter to complete the final Guo Pu ceremony, which is to complete the layout of the seven-star bronze wall in Guo Pu's tomb. But we failed!"

Chen Hao talked about another difficulty, and he said: "There is another key issue, how to complete the final soul-suppressing ceremony, is it true that as long as we complete the ceremony, those so-called ghosts can rest in peace? Or are there other prerequisites that must be done? Conditions, as for the evil spirits you said cannot directly harm us, I have also discovered this point, only every time we reach a critical moment, the blood will churn even more, but they have never really touched us. "

Lin Xu looked up at Chen Hao, and he said, "You... are the descendants of Beggar?"

Chen Hao nodded and said yes, Lin Xu looked at him from the beginning again, nodded heavily and said: "It should be, Cui Niang entered Guo Pu's tomb to complete the final ceremony. But the ceremony failed. Originally, I also wanted to It doesn’t make sense, but since you mentioned the tomb of twins, I understand. The reason is that we didn’t enter at the same time, thinking that we could be saved as long as we went to Guo Pu’s tomb... and what I remember most clearly there is a huge copper wall with seven stars. I think this may be the same pattern as the so-called place where the clay tablet is placed in the Princess Tomb. And if it is true, there is probably a seven-star copper wall like that in the Princess Tomb.”

The thin monkey couldn't help but interjected at this moment: "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 quickly said: "That's right, if we separate, maybe we won't 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 do we believe what he said now, and he failed! Leading us to die once?"

Zhou Jue couldn't stand it anymore, he stood up and said, "Then what do you want to do? What better way do you have? Tell me!"

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 do anything for a long time, but so many people died. Lao Tzu I don't want to be the next one!"

Feng Feng Laojiu looked at Fat San and said: "But he is the only one alive, what can we do if we don't believe him?"

Fat Sanyi was at a loss for words for a while, but he quickly said: "You mean that, then I choose to go with this old man. I'm going to Guo Pu's tomb. At least he is the only one alive. I don't want to go to that shitty princess tomb. ! Both groups of people failed..."

The thin monkey wanted to say something, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing. Zhou Jue looked at everyone's expressions. At this moment, he couldn't express his position anymore, and he was also struggling.

Looking at the faces of everyone, Feng 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 embarrassingly: "This is not the only solution, there are ways. Let's add it up."

Zhou Jue looked at what Fat San said, and continued, "Let's think about it. Maybe there are other ways."

At this time, Ye Wei laughed loudly and said, "After all, you guys are unwilling to give up the direction of higher hopes. Why don't you pull your face and tell the truth? You are both 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?"

Thin Monkey seemed to be talking about the most embarrassing point in his heart, and he had no way to continue talking, because indeed in his heart he did not want to give up the big test of survival.Who doesn't want to live?

Lin Xu sighed heavily. He put away the cup and said, "When you think about it, come to me. My bones have been picked up to this day. Think about it when you are still young..."

His words relieved some of the pressure on the guilt in everyone's hearts. Fat Sanyi sat on the coffin, and said with a mournful face: "Yeah, we shouldn't have encountered such a thing, and now we are going there Kind of ghost place..."

Ye Wei continued stroking the black cat: "Since we have come this far, what's the use of turning back? Or are you going to repeat the mistakes of Chen Rulan and his group?" After speaking, he gave Chen Hao a meaningful look, He still didn't express his opinion, but his face was pale and frightening. He looked up at Ye Wei, and quickly looked away, as if what he said had no effect on him.It's just that when he looked at Zhou Jue, Zhou Jue's expression made him a little uneasy. Chen Hao knew that they had reached their limit, or that all of them had reached their limit, but the only ones who supported them now were those clues that were still ambiguous. That's all.

Zhou Jue sat down helplessly, he was powerless to sit on the coffin: "Well, let's draw lots, God makes the decision."

Just after he finished speaking, for some reason, there was a cry from outside the house. It sounded like someone was crying in mourning. The thin monkey said, "Isn't it starting again..."

Zhou Jue asked, "What started?"

The thin monkey said: "Isn't that village going to prepare a fake funeral? No..."

The thin monkey didn't continue talking, but the loud cries and the beating of gongs and drums outside the house became more and more clear.It was still gray outside the door, and in the absence of street lights, only the very mournful mourning was getting closer, but still no one could be seen.

Zhou Jue began to sweat slightly on his forehead, he said with a dry smile, "I'm really crying... like a dead person."

Gradually, a few white spots appeared from the gray distance, approaching the coffin shop in a trance.The voice became louder and louder, and then a wrinkled face like a wax mask first appeared from the door, everyone was startled, and after taking a closer look, they found that it was indeed an ordinary old man, Billin Xu was a little younger. After he entered, a group of people came in one after another. These people were all dressed in hemp and filial piety without exception.

He looked at Zhou Jue and the others for a moment. Before he could react, Lin Xu came out of the room again. He pointed to the coffin next to him and said, "That's it."

The old man said, "Why are there outsiders here?"

Lin Xu said: "They are not outsiders, they are here to find me." After he finished speaking, he turned his head and explained to Chen Hao: "Now is the time to go to the ancestral hall for offering sacrifices, you should either avoid it for a while, or go directly with me and get there You decide whether to go down or what.”

The old man was slightly apprehensive, but it seemed that what Lin Xu said was very important to them, and no one raised any objections after he finished speaking.

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue, Zhou Jue nodded, and the others did not object.They silently carried their luggage on their backs and prepared to walk with Lin Xu and the others for a "funeral"

The old man handed Lin Xu a white hemp jacket: "Brother, let's start."

Lin Xu casually put on the white linen blouse handed over by the old man, took a strangely shaped wrench from the side partition, and shouted: "Lift the coffin."

Several middle-aged men worked together to lift the coffin, and the women began to cry at the top of their lungs again. After listening carefully, they found that they were actually singing a very weird song in the local dialect. It sounded like mourning at first glance. difference, but the sound does have rhythm and rhyme.But being sung by them is really unbearable.

Lin Xu walked in the front, and the old man walked beside the coffin, responsible for protecting the coffin from shaking.And the woman threw paper money while crying.There are two men following the woman, one of them is playing the gong and the other is playing the suona.Along with the woman's crying and singing, it beats the rhythm from time to time.Zhou Jue discovered that only a few people participated in this village-wide sacrificial ceremony, while the other villagers did not show their faces.

Zhou Jue and the others followed at the end, looking very out of place.Because of the previous dispute, they didn't have much conversation. Everyone was thinking about the problems in their hearts. Occasionally, they would look at others and find that others also looked worried, and they would become more restless and anxious.

They walked out of the alley. At this time, the whole village was closed, but wreaths and offerings were piled up at the door, all of which were white steamed buns and white tofu. The funeral procession did not stop.But Lin Xu took out a porcelain bowl from his pocket and smashed it on the ground, and then the old man shouted to the village: "Blooming on the ground, long life."

The village remained dead quiet, and the funeral procession continued on.

They walked very slowly and would take a break in the middle, because the coffin was very heavy.Second, those people are not young anymore.At this time, the women were also shouting dryly, and they took turns drinking tea. One of the older women was very curious about Zhou Jue's arrival, and she asked, "You guys, why are you here?"

Zhou Jue didn't know what to say, and the woman became even more curious when she saw that he hesitated to speak. She said, "You're still pretending to be mysterious. Don't think I don't know. Did you come here to investigate some folk customs? People also came here at the beginning." Yes. I am very interested in this matter in our village, but our village has been doing this for a long time. Now only Uncle Lin and Uncle Wang are left in the older generation who know the reason."

Seeing that this woman seemed to want to show off, Zhou Jue thought maybe he could ask, so he asked, "Then do you know the meaning of this song?"

The woman said: "Hey, you said that the older generation can pronounce this word, but I really don't understand what it means. It seems to say that a woman wants to go home after death, but the mountains are separated by mountains, and the water is separated by water. I just couldn’t go home. So I just sang and sang along the way, and I don’t know if I went back in the end. Although I don’t know what it means, but there are not many people who can sing now. I was also taught by the old lady in my family. , every time I run a funeral, I can earn a lot of money, and the people in the village are also kind to me."

When Zhou Jue heard it, he always felt that there might be an inexplicable connection between this song and the female ghost in the Princess Grave.In Zhou Jue's mind, a vague figure of a woman kept appearing, she was as elusive as a wisp of smoke, faintly floating behind the crowd, yet so vague and weak.

Zhou Jue asked: "Then why do you have to continue this custom?"

The woman said: "Well... I heard from the old man that there is a stone city under here. After we die, we will continue to live in the stone city. Sometimes we can meet with our family members in Yangjian. Later, the court found out. This group of people who were already dead were killed again, and Stone City was gone. Then we started to have a plague here, and a lot of bugs came out, and dozens of people died every year. Those are our ancestors after all, but we still can’t see that we will die like that, so we dreamed that we must send a funeral at this time every year. It turns out that our ancestral hall was built on the top of the stone city. Anyway, we do it every year. Let's just do it like that, and it's true that it will be a lot more peaceful after that."

After the woman finished speaking, she continued to sing, and another woman came to drink tea and rest. However, unlike that woman, she had no affection for Zhou Jue and the others at all. far away.

At this time, it started to rain lightly. The rain was not heavy, but it was very dense. After a while, everyone was wet.Even his vision began to blur.Everyone took out the flashlights, and the rain was like white silk threads in the place where the light was shining.

Lin Xu yelled again, it seemed that he had to hurry again.

The silent woman finally drank her tea and continued to shout at the top of her voice. They walked faster and more hurriedly than the front.Soon came to the wild forest.Just when they were about to enter the woods, a lynx suddenly jumped out and stopped in front of everyone.The old man named Uncle Wang said: "It's unlucky to meet a bobcat in the rain...Look, brother..."

Lin Xu stretched out his hand to stop the team. The wild cat didn't bark or run away, but just stared at the coffin.

Zhou Jue found that the black cat in Ye Wei's backpack seemed to have moved, but it was stuck tightly by Ye Wei and couldn't get out.

Lin Xu said, "Open the coffin and have a look."

Uncle Wang said, "Opening the coffin halfway is not a good sign."

Lin Xu said: "It's okay, I have some red ropes here, everyone tied them up, it's not noon now, let's see if it doesn't matter."

Uncle Wang asked the villagers to put down the coffin. The coffin was not nailed, and the two men pushed the coffin open.Inside the coffin were quilts and pillows made of bright red silk, a comb and a mirror facing down, and nothing else.Uncle Wang said reassuringly, "It's all right...everything is normal, drive that stray cat away and get on the road."

Lin Xu drove away the lynx with a branch, and the lynx rushed in again like a ghost. Although everyone felt uneasy, they didn't dare to say more, they hurriedly tied up the coffin and continued walking, because they entered the forest. , the rain was basically blocked by the leaves, but the rain formed a white mist around it.Suddenly, from the depths of the forest came the sound of a bell, so faint that it was almost inaudible.Chen Hao grabbed Zhou Jue's arm and said, "Be careful."

Zhou Jue nodded, they no longer walked at the end but walked to the side of the coffin.

Just when they were about to reach the ancestral hall, the silent woman among them pointed at her throat and said, as if her voice had been cut by a cutting machine: "Master...I, I can't sing..."

Lin Xu asked her to open her mouth, and he said that it was a little red, probably because it was raining and it was a little cold.Sister Li, please stop singing.Molecule will give it to you when we go back.

The woman seemed to be in pain, she nodded and obediently followed the two men who were beating the gongs and drums, but the noisy woman didn't dare to sing anymore, and Lin Xu didn't force them. sounded.Everyone was walking in the wild forest, the sound of the bell appeared and disappeared, Zhou Jue felt as if something was watching them, and he seemed to be able to see some figure writhing in the depths of the forest with a hasty glance.

But he didn't make a sound, just followed the team silently, and the crowd became more and more uneasy as they walked, as if the coffin was getting heavier and heavier, and the men who carried the coffin kept panting, as if the coffin was made of stone and iron.

At this moment, the thin monkey suddenly stopped. He pointed to the coffin and said, "You guys, why is blood dripping from the coffin?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the coffin began to shake violently, and the person who carried the coffin was so frightened that he dropped the coffin and ran back.The two women hugged each other crying.Lin Xu opened his eyes wide. He rushed up and slammed the coffin board, and the coffin really stopped shaking.

Uncle Wang was so frightened that he hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"

Lin Xu said: "Maybe it's a shock, remember that we also encountered this a few years ago?"

Uncle Wang said, "Could it be related to those young people?"

Lin Xu didn't answer, he pointed to Fat San and the others and said, "Please help me open the coffin again."

Fat San pointed at himself and said, "Me?"

Lin Xu said disapprovingly: "You are the biggest, is it you or the little guy next to you?"

After saying this, Fat San didn't jump up, but Thin Monkey jumped up all of a sudden.He raised his sleeves and pointed to the coffin, "Where are you carrying it?"

Lin Xu said: "Open the whole coffin panel, I have to see what happened inside."

The thin monkey played a trick on Zhou Jue, and the two turned over the whole board of the coffin together, and there were still only a few things in the coffin.But Fat San pointed at the coffin board and yelled.

The top of the coffin was covered with stone-like off-white things, and on closer inspection, these things seemed to be bones.

Zhou Jue and Shouhou continued to throw down the coffin board. They looked at the coffin board in surprise, and there were many bones in the reddish-brown coffin board.They were tightly sucked to the inside of the coffin board, and the pool of blood was the liquid secreted from the white bones...

Zhou Jue felt disgusted for a while, and he asked disgustedly: "What's going on, why is it so disgusting..."

But at this moment, Lin Xu and Uncle Wang were too scared to speak. Lin Xu's face was full of cold sweat, and Uncle Wang was also trembling. He pointed to the coffin board and said, "Here, this is not……"

Lin Xu said: "Yes, when we built the ancestral hall, we found these things in the backyard."

Uncle Wang shouted hysterically: "It's over...it's coming again...that thing came out again..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the familiar sound of beating gongs and drums from the original ancestral hall, and the strange funeral song came from the depths of the forest. The two women heard the song and sat down in shock. On the ground, Uncle Wang grabbed Lin Xu and shouted: "That thing is coming again, hurry, run! The ghost burial has started again!"

But Lin Xu stood there without moving. Seeing this, Uncle Wang simply shook off Lin Xu's hand, turned around and ran away. The two women staggered and ran after seeing him running away. Zhou Jue didn't know what was going on, but However, he found that Lin Xu's eyes were fixed on the depths of the forest, and he was muttering something silently. He could only hear one sentence clearly: finally came again...

Zhou Jue asked what was the matter, but Lin Xu didn't say anything, took off the white linen clothes on his body, threw down the wrench in his hand, and ran wildly deep into the forest.Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment, and it wasn't until Chen Hao also ran in that they raised their feet and followed in.

The author has something to say: Summary of the previous article: In the story, Cui Niang brought Lin Xu and others to the Yin-Yang Road linking Guo Pu’s tomb and Gongzhu’s tomb. Find the real tomb of Guo Pu.

Zhou Jue and others saw this, and Li Fang came in and gave them a biscuit box, which contained a private letter about Lin Xu, the protagonist of the Ring of Seven, and Professor Ma. town.So everyone went to look for Lin Xu, and Lin Xu told them that the key to the seven-person ring is not the number of people, that is, if there are seven people, they will not be destroyed.

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Sorry, it was so late to update, the main reason is that I have been sick for a while, so I had no choice but to stop writing for a week. Now that I feel a little better, I will write quickly. People are a bit drifting... Wenye is a bit drifting... But I am still very serious, The ring of seven has entered a tight final moment, and what will happen in the end will only reveal the answer at the end, and this mystery may be sad or deep.Anyway it will be revealed.Bring this story to a close.Well, it will not hinder everyone from reading the article, please read it slowly, I will take a break, and I will continue to work hard to code words to repay everyone's love and waiting.Thank you.