Ring of Seven [Online Version]

Ye Wei took a few steps back, Zhou Jue frowned and pulled the thin monkey and said, "Don't be impulsive, we still have to rely on him."

Just as Ye Wei relaxed his limbs, Zhou Jue said expressionlessly, "Go out and beat me to death."

Ye Wei staggered, and the thin monkey glanced at him and grabbed his collar and said, "Remember, the purpose of my team with you is to monitor you. about you."

Ye Wei held the thin monkey's hand and said with a cold smile, "Soon, I'll let you beg me."

The thin monkey shook Ye Wei's hand as if shaking off something dirty, but Fat San yelled abruptly at this moment, Zhou Jue asked, "What's wrong?"

Fat San leaned towards him nervously, and said, "Why does this water have ripples for no reason?"

Zhou Jue said, "With such a big water potential, it's normal to have vibrations."

Fat San hurriedly waved his hands and said, "It's not over there, there shouldn't be waves in the puddles here..."

Everyone followed Fat San's eyes, but the water was as quiet as a mirror. Zhou Jue and the others looked back at Fat San suspiciously. Fat San bit his nails and said, "I heard a bell ringing behind me. Turning around, I found the water There are ripples in the valley, and it reflects the shadow of a person's feet...we don't have anyone else..."

Zhou Jue looked around, except for the light source that the flashlight could irradiate, there were only faint shadows that could be seen clearly, such blurred outlines made the place more disturbing than the complete darkness.Zhou Jue asked vigilantly, "Whose shadow?"

Fat San wanted to speak, but the words turned around again, and he said with an embarrassed expression: "I didn't see it very clearly."

Lin Xu raised his head suddenly and said, "How is it possible?"

Fat San said: "I just didn't see it clearly, so I don't know, and it just swayed away. It's just the reflection of the water pattern."

Lin Xu looked around, he looked at these young people again, and finally sighed: "Anyway, we have to wait until dawn before entering the ancient tomb."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone fell silent. Zhou Jue looked around and said, "This place is huge, and it feels like it's even more open above. But the water didn't cover this place, but divided it into several areas... What a spectacle Nah."

The thin monkey said: "According to what you said, I also think I have seen this somewhere."

Fat San said: "Does it look like the Bagua Village we went to travel some time ago?"

Zhou Jue nodded: "Indeed, the big pond where this waterfall is located is the Tai Chi in the center, and the surrounding canals divide the surrounding area into several areas. If it is really based on the gossip, then there should be eight areas here. .We are only in one of these areas, and another problem is that although we have flashlights, the light here is not very good, what are those dark places? What are the other areas?"

Ye Wei raised his eyebrows and said, "You can go and have a look."

The thin monkey looked at him vigilantly, Ye Wei tilted his head and smiled and said, "Don't you want to see it?"

The thin monkey looked at Zhou Jue as if asking for advice, and Zhou Jue looked at Lin Xu. Lin Xu frowned and said, "Actually, I haven't been here since I came out. I'm afraid that touching the mechanism will change the landscape here. So I don't know."

Feng Laojiu said: "Look, anyway, it's still a long time before dawn, let's take a look and maybe we'll find something unexpected."

Fat San pursed his lips and said, "Your curiosity is too great..."

Feng Laojiu didn't speak, but the others seemed to agree.They picked up their backpacks one after another. The moment Zhou Jue bent down, he felt as if he heard a chuckle, followed by the faint ringing of the bell.

He raised his head hurriedly, but there was still nothing.

Dingling...

Just when he lost his mind, the others had already moved forward, Feng Laojiu shouted at him: "Second brother, follow up."

Zhou Jue touched his chest, he felt his heart was stabbed, and he walked towards the crowd thoughtfully.

Dingling...

There was another bell.But at this time, the rest of the people also stopped.

Fat San said: "You heard that voice, it doesn't look like a hallucination."

The thin monkey looked at the depths in the east and said, "That sound came from there. There seems to be something deep in that place."

Zhou Jue put his bag on his back. He took a look with his flashlight, and then said, "Come on, let's go over there and have a look."

Lin Xu took the lead and led the crowd to the depths of the cave. While shining a flashlight on the surroundings, he said to them: "It's been too long... I don't remember the location of those village ruins. But it should be in this direction. To the east are the ruins of those ancient villages."

Zhou Jue narrowed his eyes and said, "So that means there is an underground village?"

Lin Xu said: "That's right, we will reach the sandy land after bypassing the underground village, which is the place where sacrifices were made in the past, and it is also the place where Cui Niang took us into."

Feng Laojiu said: "Then let's go there too. This waterfall is actually a big water column with four sides. If the so-called wooden board happens on one of the sides, we can only wait.

Lin Xu said: "No, because it is a whole. He will not have a wooden door on one side alone, because according to the principle of gossip, the so-called Tai Chi is one body, and there will be no partial possibility when it is drawn to open the sky. "

Ye Wei also nodded and said: "That's right, even if Guo Pu modified the pattern of mountains and rivers, he only used the law of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements and eight trigrams, but he must follow Tai Chi. For the ancients, Tai Chi is of great significance. But Everything remains the same.”

Zhou Jue said: "Then let's continue following Cui Niang's route. At least they passed the level smoothly. But I'm wondering what the so-called wooden game looks like?"

Ye Wei looked around while walking and said: "The five elements are nothing more than the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint. One attribute can give birth to another attribute, but it will inevitably restrain the other. The so-called one yin and one yang. While entering the wooden formation, we must be careful that it may also generate a golden gate."

Zhou Jue nodded, and he said, "That's right, this is the principle of the five elements, which always have two sides."

Sure enough, not far ahead, Lin Xu's flashlight showed some dark frames, which felt like a hut, very dilapidated.

After walking in, I realized that these houses were seriously damaged.

There are still traces of cutting and burning on the walls of some houses, and the passage of time has caused the original thatched roof to rot away, leaving only broken walls and beams scattered around. The looted remains.Everyone in Zhou Jue shuttled through the deathly silent ruins, looking at the shocking broken eaves and broken tiles, as if they could imagine how miserable the suppression was here at that time.Now such a house is as silent as a ghost.

Zhou Jue said in a low voice: "But there is no remains, maybe it's because it's been too long."

Feng Laojiu touched the earthen wall and said, "This place looks really miserable."

Lin Xu interrupted them and said: "Don't say such things here, those dead spirits have not rested in peace, and hearing your words will make you even more disturbed."

Suddenly Zhou Jue found a relatively complete stele beside a broken tile. More than half of the dragon on it had been worn away, but there were still some vague words underneath.Lin Xu wiped the dirt on the stone wall.Ye Wei took a closer look and said, "This is a sacrificial stele, and its function is to take it out for worship during the sacrificial ceremony."

Lin Xu nodded and said: "Indeed, you can see that there are traces of blood on it, it should be that the animals were killed and poured on the stone tablet, which is also a kind of blood sacrifice.

Ye Wei continued: "There are some inscriptions on it, which seem to describe the system and classification of the scorpion tribe. The first and lowest category are the corpses. Their functions are the same as the experimental ones, so there is not much they can do. You know. There are very few things. The second category is ordinary alchemists, and there are some wizards who play Gu. Their functions can only create ordinary corpses, which are similar to zombies. They are so-called masters, what they do can bring the dead back to life, and the corpses they revive are naturally more precious, but they rarely resurrect corpses. Take Guo Pu as an example. Grandmaster, but he has never revived a corpse in his life, even when he found the ghost amber that can revitalize the corpse, he also blocked the news, but here is a secret about the ghost amber."

Following Ye Wei's indifferent exposition, Feng Laojiu's breathing became more and more rapid. He asked, "What's the secret?"

Ye Wei looked back at him and said: "He discovered that the corpse resurrected through ghost amber can be immortal, and has mysterious power, which means that the resurrected corpse is like ghosts and gods. It is the so-called immortality. "

Feng Laojiu held the hand on his chest even tighter, and he asked, "Become a god?"

Ye Wei shook his head and said: "No, it's still a ghost, and it's quite pitiful. Because the resurrected corpse will repeat the pain of death every day. And this pain is the motivation to resurrect him again. One can imagine the resentment... ...so it's a ghost."

Feng Laojiu clutched his neck, and he continued to ask: "Then... is there any way to rest in peace?"

Lin Xu looked at the stele thoughtfully, and murmured: "Because they are the corpses of the Li tribe, in fact, they are dead corpses that have been revived with the Qi technique, but they cannot become human beings. Using the method in the clay tablet to cast spells can make the resurrected corpses sleep again, which is what we are going to do. The patterns in the clay tablet are the order of the secret method."

Zhou Jue heard this, and suddenly said: "Then, the evil spirit in the clay tablet is actually..."

Lin Xu looked at Zhou Jue, nodded and said, "That's right, those seven are the last batch of grand masters of the Li clan. The destruction of the Li clan is very likely because something happened to the last seven people, and it involved the central government at that time. Centralization is Liu Yu, and in the end this group of people all ended up perishing. And that princess... was implicated because of that catastrophe, but it seems that the emperor treated her very politely, otherwise she would not be treated as a princess To be buried."

Lin Xu and Zhou Jue looked at each other for a long time, Lin Xu said: "You may still have doubts, no wonder, but this is fate. I didn't believe in fate at first, but Cui Niang and the others made me believe it."

At this moment, Zhou Jue suddenly felt a very unreasonable phenomenon.

He stopped, looked at the ground and said, "Why are there footprints?"

It was only then that everyone discovered that several very clear footprints were found on the muddy ground of the ancient ruins. The footprints were very small, like those of a child, but very deep. The child seemed to be carrying this very heavy burden. Things are on their way.

Everyone suddenly felt a chill, and Fat San said, "This can't be haunted."

The thin monkey looked at the surrounding broken walls and said, "It's not uncommon even if it's haunted."

Lin Xu squatted down, looked at the footprints and said, "You see, these footprints look like old cloth shoes with laminated soles...but they are not the feet of adults."

Fat San said: "Could it be that the reflection I saw in front of me is this thing?"

Lin Xu stood up straight, and said, "It seems that someone else followed us in."

Feng Laojiu said: "Could it be...Chen Hao?"

Zhou Jue shook his head and said, "Impossible, let's not talk about why he is avoiding us, he can't do it even with the size of that foot. This... is clearly a child's footprint."

Fat San patted his head and said, "That's right, a woman with small feet! If it's an old woman with small feet, then this footprint is right."

Zhou Jue asked: "Lin Xu, Cui Niang..."

Lin Xu said: "Cui Niang was born to a poor man, her feet were not bound...and she is already dead."

Zhou Jue thought for a while, and then said, "But we didn't find Cuiniang's body in her coffin, but another woman's."

Lin Xu froze there for a moment, and said in a cold sweat, "What did you say? Have you ever been to Cui Niang's grave?"

Zhou Jue nodded and said: "That's right, we found Cuiniang's coffin and spirit tablet in the ancestral hall, but the corpse inside belonged to Chen Hao's sister, Chen Rulan. And she was one of the seven of us in the last batch. We The reason why she was able to get to this point is entirely based on the information she left behind."

Lin Xu's eyes were wide open, and he clenched his fists and said, "Cui Niang's body is gone? How is that possible!"

Lin Xu looked around and murmured, "Cui Niang, how could this happen..."

Zhou Jue continued: "We also don't have any clues, but it seems that Feng Laojiu has also been resurrected, so I wonder if Cui Niang will also come back from the dead?"

Lin Xu frowned and shook his head: "Cui Niang died very thoroughly, she will not have a chance to come back to life, if she really came back to life, then..."

He looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Then she is no longer Cui Niang, but the tomb owner of the Princess Grave."

But he quickly continued to shake his head: "But it's impossible..."

At this time, the thin monkey also said faintly: "Besides Cui Niang, you also forgot that we brought something..."

Everyone asked: "What?"

With a pale face, the thin monkey said with a wry smile, "Do you still remember that cat?"

Everyone fell silent, and Fat San stammered, "Isn't it used to ward off evil spirits?"

Zhou Jue said: "I don't know, but that cat did appear because of the book The Ring of Seven... Its existence seems to be to accompany us to the end, like a bystander..."

Feng Laojiu said, "By the way, where is that book now?"

Zhou Jue paused, and said, "It's always on Chen Hao's body."

The thin monkey glanced at Ye Wei who had been silent all this time, grabbed his shoulder and said, "Is that cat yours?"

Ye Wei smiled and said, "It's mine."

The thin monkey said: "Don't play tricks, what happened to that cat!"

Ye Wei approached the thin monkey and said, "Although I raised that cat, I don't know where it came from. I just think it's a very useful cat."

The thin monkey frowned and said, "Why?"

Ye Wei looked at Zhou Jue again, and he smiled and said, "Because it can feel death."

Lin Xu interrupted their conversation, he said: "It doesn't matter whether it's a cat or Cui Niang, but there must be other things mixed in here, everyone should be careful, and don't make extra troubles. Because no matter what it is, it will harm you. Our lives."

Suddenly the thin monkey pointed to the room ahead and said, "Look at the room over there."

The thin monkey pointed to a very abrupt house on the side of an earth wall, which looked very out of place with the surrounding broken walls and broken tiles, because it was too new to look like an ancient one.The roof of that house was so large that it looked like the house of the Banpo clan in the Stone Age.But this house is very solid, with blue bricks and black tiles, very grand.

Ye Wei said, "Hmm...strange, there is something wrong with this house."

Fat San felt the danger, so he stopped and said, "What do you mean?"

Ye Wei pointed to the house and said: "Other houses are built according to Yang Zhai, but this one is built according to Feng Shui of Yin House. Extremely. Do you think the structure of this house looks like a huge pile of rammed earth?"

He glanced at everyone: "Generally, a living person will die within a year after living in it."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a very clear bell sound from inside the house.The sound seemed to invade everyone's brains.Fat San drooled and said, "Still...don't go in, who knows what's in there. Let's not make extra trouble."

Lin Xu said: "It's strange that we didn't see this house at the beginning, and the house was not damaged. Although it has been so long, it is still very new. It doesn't look like a building more than 1000 years ago."

Zhou Jue whispered to himself and asked, "Who... lives in it?"

As if answering Zhou Jue's question this week, the bell rang again.

Feng Laojiu took the lead and walked forward, the ringing of the bell became louder and more urgent.Everyone watched Feng Laojiu push the door open, and the bell disappeared after pushing the door.

The moment Feng Laojiu pushed the door, he seemed to see the original appearance of the room, the light green curtains, the incense burner exuding agarwood, and a pair of black plum hanging on the wall, which was cool and cozy, and behind the screen window, there seemed to be a Personally, she raised her head and opened the screen window, and said with a smile, "You're here..."

But in the blink of an eye, what everyone saw was the scene of this house thousands of years later. There were no light green gauze curtains. The Mo Mei on the bed seemed to have not changed for a thousand years, and Feng Laojiu thought of the woman who raised the curtain again, and the voice that said you are here.Who is she calling?

Fat San looked around and said: "This room is more luxurious than the others. Look at the incense burner and then look at the decorations, and the white jade vase. I'll... I'll grow up if I come back alive!"

Ye Wei interjected coldly: "If you don't want to die, you can take it. The things here are extremely yin-rich, and the yin energy is heavier than the tomb. Taking away the things here is no different from taking the death talisman of Lord Hades."

Fat San quickly withdrew his hand, Ye Wei said: "The owner of this house should have a very high status, but... will he be a great master?"

Lin Xu shook his head and said, "Probably not. All the people living in this village are corpses. The suzerain won't live here. They should be corpses with high status."

The thin monkey looked at the house, and suddenly he pointed to the four corners of the house and said, "Look, there are copper bells in the four corners of this house, no wonder they ring."

Sure enough, there are four very huge copper bells around the house, on which are depicted the four gods and beasts, and the secret symbols of the Li tribe, the patterns are very similar to the patterns on the clay board.

Ye Wei looked around silently, then he suddenly stopped and said: "Bronze bell, Minato Bureau... there seems to be something famous here."

Zhou Jue asked, "Is there any problem?"

Ye Wei shook his head and said, "I don't know why, but I don't think such a decoration and design can be accidental."

The thin monkey walked towards the copper bell, and said, "Damn, no wonder the sound can be heard from so far away, such a big copper bell. I guess I can carry one by myself."

Fat San said: "The ringtone is quite crisp. I didn't expect it to be so rough. It seems to be bronze."

After Feng Laojiu entered the room, he was very excited. He walked to the side of the copper bell, looked at the texture on it and said, "I saw this copper bell in Gongzhufen, I know where it is!"

He looked at the surrounding environment and said: "The murals in the tomb passage have mentioned this place. The murals depict scenes of the tomb owner's life, and several of them show copper bells."

Zhou Jue frowned, and asked nervously, "What do you mean?"

Feng Laojiu stroked the copper bell and said, "The owner of this room is the person in the tomb in the Princess Grave. She was also a corpse."

Right after he finished speaking, Ye Wei, who had been silent until now, began to groan. He panicked and said, "Minato Bureau, yes, why did I forget. Let's go, get out of here!"

After speaking, he pulled the thin monkey and ran out, but before he could move his feet, he heard the bells around him making a rush.The harshness makes the scalp tingle.

Ye Wei raised his head and made a hissing sound on the pitch-black beam: "It's over..."

At this moment, Lin Xu and Zhou Jue approached, and they asked, "What's going on?"

Ye Wei looked at the roof in panic, and said, "This copper bell is actually placed here for..."

But before he finished speaking, suddenly, the whole house began to shake violently, and the white jade vase fell to the ground and shattered into pieces after a few shakes.In the next second, the roof began to drop logs, and the most insidious thing was that the bottom of these logs was sharpened.

The thin monkey grabbed Feng Laojiu who was already in a daze, and Feng Laojiu pointed to the picture of ink plums and said, "Look!"

The thin monkey pulled Feng Laojiu to avoid a wooden stake, and he shouted: "No time to watch, no time, run for your life!"

Zhou Jue yelled: "Tell me what you see, don't let us see it, you will die if you see it!"

Feng Laojiu said: "The plum blossoms in this painting are blooming!"

The wooden stakes fell like a rain of swords, and everyone hid, but there was no place to hide.Feng Laojiu stared at the painting of Mo Mei as if possessed.

Zhou Jue looked back in horror and found that the plum blossoms of the black plum blossoms actually bloomed, and after a closer look, he found that it was not plum blossoms, but just covered with gnats.Feng Laojiu seemed to be talking to that painting, talking silently.

But the stake kept falling, and soon they had no room to dodge.Hearing Fat San let out a scream, Zhou Jue turned around in astonishment, Fat San folded his arms and kept panting.The stake hit Zhou Jue's shoulder in the next second, and Zhou Jue felt as if he had been hit hard by a hammer, the pain was so painful that he couldn't open his eyes.

Zhou Jue covered his shoulders and said, "Rush out."

But as soon as they looked at the door and moved the stake, it would fall even more, as if it was intentionally trapping them in the house.

Fat San cried, "What should I do?"

The thin monkey was also sweating profusely, and he said, "Damn it, don't worry about it, just rush out a few steps and fight hard."

Suddenly at this moment, Zhou Jue heard an all-too-familiar voice.

"Don't move! You all stand still and don't move!"

Zhou Jue turned around suddenly, and found that there seemed to be a person standing at the door, and it turned out to be the missing Chen Hao.

He stood alone outside the house looking at the people trapped in the house.But his eyes were very cold, he stared at the copper bell in the house and said: "Don't move it anymore, if you move it, you will lose more."

The moment Zhou Jue saw Chen Hao, he almost cried out. No one thought that Chen Hao would appear at this time. Zhou Jue was relieved that he was not injured.At least know this guy is safe.But soon he had to worry about himself.

Chen Hao looked at the bell, and said to the six people inside: "All of you are moving towards the east here, be careful, as soon as the bell rings, you all stop and don't move!"

Sure enough, following Chen Hao's words, those strange wooden stakes on the roof no longer fell, and the bell only shook slightly, making a faint sound.In the end, even their heavy breathing was louder than the bell, but this feeling was like walking a tightrope, which made people collapse.

In order to let everyone calm down, Chen Hao said very slowly: "Take your time and pay attention to the motives around you. This house is a wooden gate array. As long as you don't touch the mechanism, you will be fine. When you get to that direction, just follow the Just walk towards me on the side of the house."

Ye Wei stopped everyone, he stared at Chen Hao: "How do you know about this Jinmen bureau?"

The author has something to say: Summary of the previous article: Everyone in Zhou Jue was introduced into the forest because of the so-called ghost funeral, but they found that Chen Hao had disappeared, but the time waited for no one, they had to enter the Yin-Yang Dao, otherwise the best time would be staggered, so The thinnest monkey knocked Zhou Jue unconscious, and Lin Xu led everyone into the tunnel, only to find that the original karst cave had become an underground waterfall, surrounded by canals.At this time, Ye Wei suggested how to enter two different tombs in groups, and proposed to be with the thin monkey...

I'm here again~ This chapter is very critical, it explains a lot of problems, especially it paves the way for the future process.Well, it's out of the question, let's continue.Everyone has their own inner demons, and the so-called inner demons make people make crazy judgments when they encounter problems.Man's madness is due to the devil in his heart.