Ring of Seven [Online Version]

Chen Hao sneered, "Are you the only one who knows?"

Ye Wei didn't continue to ask, and moved slowly towards the door in the same way as Chen Hao.After everyone came out safely, the bells in the house returned to their original state and hung quietly at the four corners of the house. As soon as the bells stopped, the wooden stakes went up again immediately.

Chen Hao said: "Not only here, but any place where the copper bell appears represents an institution, but I don't know what kind of institution there are in other places. Be careful of the bell."

Zhou Jue clasped his arms and said, "I still remember that in the book, Mr. Lin, you wrote about the organization of straw people... Could it be that those so-called figures are also this kind of organization."

Because Lin Xu was too old, such a series of actions made him a little overwhelmed.He sat on the ground panting and nodded, but he didn't have the energy to continue answering.He just nodded slightly to show that Chen Hao was right.

At this moment, Zhou Jue found that Chen Hao looked at people with strange eyes, as if there was some kind of hidden meaning. For some reason, he kept hiding his left hand behind his back. The thin monkey wanted to ask Chen Hao where he was going, but Zhou Jue stopped him When he got down, he shook his head at him, indicating that he should not say anything now.

Chen Hao glanced at Lin Xu who was squatting on the ground, and stretched out his hand to support him: "Old Lin, do you want to go in with us? Maybe there is no chance to come out."

Lin Xu looked down at his hands, and said, "I can't be sorry to Cui Niang..."

Chen Hao touched his arm subconsciously, and then asked, "Why did you weave Cuiniang's hair into the book?"

Lin Xu's eyes darkened, and he said: "Cui Niang said that if she dies, her hair will be used as a token. After much deliberation, writing a book is the best way to pass this matter on. With this book, these people will not die in vain."

Zhou Jue interjected, "But looking at the scene in the book, Cuiniang has long been out of order. Didn't you say that if she comes back to life, she will be the owner of the Princess Tomb?"

Lin Xu lowered his head and said, "Yes, but that's what Cuiniang thought too. We need an answer after so many years. Just tell us, are we alive or..." Lin Xu didn't continue, he clenched his hands tightly His hands were shaking badly.

Chen Hao looked around at everyone, finally fixed his eyes on Ye Wei, and said, "What about you?"

Ye Wei said without thinking, "I'm the same as you."

Chen Hao looked at him and said, "I hope everyone can get out alive."

Ye Wei was stunned for a moment, but he still said expressionlessly: "Do you think it's possible? You are much more naive than Chen Rulan, and this will kill more people."

Chen Hao nodded, and said, "That's right, but we've come this far, at least we're still alive. Aren't you still alive too? At least you've gone farther than Ye Ting."

Ye Wei looked at Chen Hao for a long time, he nodded, and finally said: "Oh, that's right, then I will be in charge of the Princess Tomb in the Yin-Yang Tomb, as long as you trust me, I will be in charge of that end."

At this time, the thin monkey said: "Then Brother Chen, will you go to Guo Pu's tomb?"

Chen Hao lowered his head, his brows widened slightly, and he said with a light smile: "Yes, I will take you there."

Zhou Jue suddenly noticed that when Chen Hao was speaking, it seemed that his voice had an accent. A woman's voice came from behind him, but it was covered by his voice, and it was hard to tell whether it was there or not. Not realizing this, Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao's face, and he found that Chen Hao happened to be looking up at him, and Chen Hao continued: "We must find the copper wall in the tomb, and at the same time complete it according to the pattern on the clay tablet. Ritual. And it must be synchronized, a second of stagger means failure, as long as there is a slight mistake, all of us will die. Do you... understand?"

Ye Wei glanced at Chen Hao, and he said: "You don't believe in my ability, I said that I will save your lives at critical times."

Chen Hao also laughed. He looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Now we should be right. Don't forget that yin and yang are the same way, which is the fundamental creed of the Chizu clan."

Ye Wei looked at him and said with a smile: "There is one more point, change is the same, change is justified."

The thin monkey tilted his head to look at Ye Wei, and asked vigilantly, "What do you mean?"

Ye Wei patted him on the head: "Silly boy, it means that there will be changes at any time, but all changes have rules. This is the mystery of the Book of Changes."

Zhou Jue nodded to show that he agreed with this point of view, but he was still worried, he felt that there was something wrong with Chen Hao who appeared this time.Zhou Jue is very concerned about his left hand, what is in his left hand?Why does he have to hide directly?

Chen Hao found that Zhou Jue was looking at him, his eyes darkened, but he still stretched out his right hand towards Zhou Jue, and said, "Next, everyone gather all the rubbings, Ye Wei, take the three rubbings you need. I will take away the remaining four yuan."

Ye Wei smiled calmly: "As expected, you know that I also understand the symbols on the stone wall."

Chen Hao said: "Don't waste time, just follow the last clue."

Ye Wei selected three of them.Randomly stuffed in the bottom of the backpack.And Chen Hao packed up the others and put them in his backpack.Chen Hao glanced at everyone, and he stretched out his hand to Zhou Jue: "Okay, let's go on the road, as long as you trust me."

Zhou Jue hesitated for a moment, but when he hesitated, Chen Hao put down his hand dejectedly.Zhou Jue seemed to redeem something, he took Chen Hao's hanging hand and said, "Brother Chen, I believe it."

Chen Hao just smiled faintly and said, "Of course, it is necessary."

While Zhou Jue and Chen Hao were talking, Fat San pulled Shouhou and whispered, "Shouhou, you must be careful, I think this time is not easy. You have to be careful of Ye Wei."

The thin monkey nodded seriously, but Fat San said again: "Also, you have to be careful of Feng Laojiu, he still hides something from us, and he doesn't have one heart with us. On your side, it means that you are the only one who is responsible for this matter." If the poles cannot be matched, they must have their own plans. When it is a last resort, you will find a way to escape by yourself. I made a series of marks here and left a luggage at the door. When the time comes, you will find a way to escape. What comes out here allows you to climb up."

The thin monkey looked at Fat San, and Fat San patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother, I know you too well. You are a person who admits death, but at the critical moment, your own life matters. It's okay for me and Zhou Jue to be together." There is a caretaker, but you and I are really worried."

The thin monkey said: "I will. You too, and Zhou Jue too, you can't hang up."

Fat San increased the strength in his hands, but he couldn't continue speaking, Zhou Jue looked towards them, Fat San smiled awkwardly at him, but at this moment he was helpless, he could only nod bitterly.The last exchange of eyes between the three companions ended in such an atmosphere, and Zhou Jue felt indescribable pain in his heart.

Feng Laojiu stretched out his hand to look at his watch and said, "The time is almost up, but there is no movement. Did we get it wrong?"

Chen Hao looked at Feng Laojiu and said, "No, there is nothing wrong."

Chen Hao looked up at the dark sky, and said, "The time has come."

As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly it rained cats and dogs from the sky, and the icy cold rain hit everyone's bodies, which was bitingly cold.Chen Hao touched the rain on his face, and said, "The wooden door transformation is about to start, everyone pay attention to the motives around you."

Everyone was still wondering where the rain came from, and they couldn't feel anything in this dark space except for the coldness that seemed to be washed by ice water.

Everyone found that with the torrential rain, the water potential began to rise continuously. The place that was originally a small canal suddenly became much wider, and the water flow began to become very turbulent.But because of sight, everyone can only judge how big the water potential is by hearing.Everyone was forced to hide in a higher place, but with such water, it is estimated that this place will be flooded in less than half an hour.At that time, this place will become a vast ocean.

Fat San said: "This... is this the wooden door? Why is it full of water... isn't it going to drown us? Where did the rain come from?"

Chen Hao flicked his bangs and looked around. He was chanting words, as if he was comparing some formulas.He suddenly remembered that Chen Hao kept looking at those meaningless words and patterns back then.Could it be that these things are the way to enter the tomb?Could it be that Chen Rulan has also been to this yin and yang way?

Just when Zhou Jue was still wondering, Zhou Jue suddenly felt a faint ringing sound coming from behind him, and then he felt a gust of cold air behind him, as if suddenly a piece of ice was placed behind him. Before he could figure it out and wanted to turn around, he was pushed violently from behind and fell directly into the rushing water.

Zhou Jue couldn't look back to see who did it, so he plunged into the water.

Chen Hao watched Zhou Jue fall into the water from beside him with wide eyes, but he had no time to catch him.He suddenly turned his head, but he found that there was no one standing behind Zhou Jue, but there were many small footprints on the ground.He didn't have time to think too much, so he plunged into the water, trying to pull Zhou Jue up, who had no strength left.But the water was too fast, and within a few seconds Zhou Jue was pushed far away.

At this time, the others could only be anxious by the water, because Zhou Jue didn't get used to it, he couldn't get himself up to the surface after a few strokes, he felt as if there was something holding him under the water, he was so flustered Danced and danced, but no one could catch him. He could only be dragged to the bottom of the water like a water plant. He was eager to breathe, but he could only drink water when he opened his mouth. He felt that the stench of the water was unbearable. .

He felt that the pressure around him was getting bigger and bigger, but it was also getting quieter.It seemed that the rushing water and the shouts of the crowd could no longer be heard.When he barely opened his eyes, he found that the surroundings were gray and white, as if wrapped in a gray veil, he was floating in this gray and white world like a plankton, in this gray and white world He couldn't even feel himself, his body was as stiff as a piece of wood.

Suddenly something caught his arm, and he felt the skin of his hand was broken. He thought it was Chen Hao, but when he turned around, he found that it was a strange dead person, floating stiffly in the water, and his hands But twisted like a beast's claw, his left hand was firmly stuck on Zhou Jue's wrist, Zhou Jue was so frightened that he wanted to shake it off, but he couldn't pull it out no matter what.Blood flowed from the arm continuously, mixing with the gray river water, like red silk thread.

When he was so panicked that he forgot to breathe, he found some "things" floating indistinctly from the gray-white veil-like water. They also floated stiffly with the water, but their hands were like claws. Distorted, Zhou Jue began to pay attention to the faces of those corpses, and found that there were no facial features on the distorted and swollen skins. Those corpses had no facial features and expressions, but even without facial features, Zhou Jue still felt that those corpses were extremely distorted and painful. It seemed to be terribly dead.

Those corpses floated and revolved with the gray-white water, and gradually those corpses began to move closer to Zhou Jue. Those corpses without facial features surrounded Zhou Jue like cells that could sense aliens, but Zhou Jue Unable to push away those corpses, Zhou Jue felt that this was the end for him, and he felt that death might not be too painful now.He slowly closed his eyes, thinking that soon he would be one of those corpses.Such a death in a gray pile of corpses.

But suddenly Zhou Jue felt that something was broken in the gray-white world, and there were a few strange cries from the depths of the water, like crying.Then there were more voices from the bottom of the water, which made Zhou Jue's brain go numb.So Zhou Jue felt the suction from the depths of the water once, as if it wanted to drag him directly to the ground.The off-white water began to bubble a lot.

At this moment, the corpse that was gripping his wrist tightly let go, and then drifted slowly towards Shenyuan.And he felt as if something was added to his hand, but he was so stiff that he couldn't move his neck, and he also floated away like a group of corpses.

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The weird bell rang again, and Zhou Jue felt as if his whole body shivered. He felt pain and water pressure.The numbness of the trance was gradually replaced by fear. He tried to make the last struggle, and then the water suddenly became turbulent again, lifting him up like a whirlpool. When he poked his head out again, He found that Chen Hao was swimming towards him with all his might. Seeing Chen Hao's desperate efforts, his instinctive will to survive was awakened again. He stretched out his hand towards Chen Hao with difficulty, and Chen Hao grabbed Zhou Jue's hand with all his strength. At this moment, Zhou Jue saw that Chen Hao's left hand was covered with black hair. He looked at Chen Hao, and Chen Hao pulled him to his side through gritted teeth.He hugged Zhou Jue tightly.

He raised Zhou Jue's head as much as possible, Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao's left hand, while Chen Hao looked at his right hand: "This is..."

Zhou Jue found that his wrist was covered with blood, and a very strange image was engraved on his wrist, like a word.Chen Hao dragged Zhou Jue's head up, and he kept swimming towards the original shore, hoping to swim upstream.It's a pity that they were all washed down, and they were about to be pushed into a deeper current by the next wave.A pair of strong hands grabbed Chen Hao's arm. Chen Hao fixed his eyes and found that it was Feng Laojiu. Feng Laojiu said, "Hurry up, Shouhou hold me."

Chen Hao discovered that these people had to hold each other to get here. They basically risked being washed away by the water to save them.

He tightly grasped Feng Laojiu's hand, Feng Laojiu shouted: "Hurry up, I've caught them."

The thin monkey shouted: "Ye Wei, hold me."

After much difficulty, they were finally pulled up the high slope.Everyone was shivering from the cold, and the panic of the rest of their lives showed on their pale faces.

Chen Hao said, "You... are you all right?"

Zhou Jue watched him hide his hands behind his back again, and Chen Hao also noticed that he had noticed this, so he shook his head.

Feng Laojiu said: "Zhou Jue, how did you fall down?"

Zhou Jue shook his head and said, "I don't know either, I feel like I was pushed down."

Fat San said: "But we are all standing side by side, how can there be someone behind us?"

The thin monkey nervously blocked Fat San from speaking, and he said, "Do you hear someone crying..."

Just as the thin monkey finished speaking, Fat San, who was standing on the farthest side, heard a faint voice, which sounded like a woman's cry.

He quickly said: "It does seem that someone is crying, could it be the cat's fault?"

Feng Laojiu said: "Didn't that cat disappear? By the way, Brother Chen, I want to ask, where did you go?"

Chen Hao's reaction made people feel a little creepy. He stared coldly into the depths of the water and said, "I have been following you all the time."

Everyone was shocked by his words, they stared at him, Feng Laojiu said: "Brother Chen, this joke is not fun!"

Chen Hao turned his head and said blankly: "Why am I kidding, the notebook in Zhou Jue's bag didn't fall out of nowhere."

Thinking of the notebook that reminded him, Zhou Jue said, "But we can't see you?"

Chen Hao said, "Yes, you can't see me."

Fat San brought Zhou Jue back calmly, and said, "This Chen Hao can't be some kind of ghost..."

Zhou Jue interrupted Fat San, he said: "If he was a ghost, he wouldn't save me. Brother Chen, you said that you need that book to enter the wooden game. Why?"

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue and said: "There is Cuiniang's hair in the book, and that book is on my body, so you can't see me. But I showed up when Linge appeared. The impact of the book. It's as if it has a soul."

When everyone talked about the book again, there was an inexplicable sense of fear, and the hesitation that was driven by invisible pressure and unable to escape seemed to return to them. Fat San said: "We even have the author I found it, didn't Mr. Lin say that the number of people is not the key... Isn't that book no threat to us?"

Chen Hao said: "But there is indeed no threat, and the number of them is not the key, but Mr. Lin said that the key is the clay tablet. Don't forget the ghosts attracted by the clay tablets on our bodies, those horrible blood, but they are not books. ghosts in the

Zhou Jue said: "And Elder Lin also said that he was not under his control when he wrote this book, the ghosts in that book, Cuiniang's hair...could it be!"

Lin Xu absentmindedly said for him: "That's right, actually this is Cui Niang's resentment."

After speaking, he glanced at Chen Hao, and Chen Hao said: "The hair in that book connects us, Ru Lan and the others, and even the seven people earlier, they searched for the secret about the Twin Tomb over and over again. ..."

Feng Laojiu said with trembling voice: "Cui Niang's hair? But that should be..."

Chen Hao said: "Ru Lan has always said that there are two ghosts in the book, two different ghosts, one ghost wants to prevent her from entering the world in the book, and the other is trying to make them pursue this matter."

Zhou Jue asked anxiously: "Then one of the ghosts is Cuiniang? Didn't Cuiniang die in the end?"

Chen Hao shook his head and said: "No, Cui Niang died the first time she entered the Princess Tomb, that is to say, she was a ghost at the beginning of the novel. The Cui Niang that Lin Xu knew was actually the owner of the tomb. She needs Someone helped her enter Guo Pu's tomb."

After finishing speaking, he looked up at the crowd and said, "Cui Niang was a corpse possessed by the owner of the tomb from the beginning. She attracted everyone to the Yin-Yang Dao. So she had to use her own way to enter Guo Pu's tomb in the end. "

Lin Xu clenched his fists and lowered his head. He nodded and did not speak.It's as if he admits that he's keeping the crowd a secret on this point.Chen Hao continued: "So the number of people is really not the key, the key lies in all the clay tablets we have now, and how to combine the clay tablets. This is the owner of the tomb, that is, Cui Niang in the story, and... "

Just when Chen Hao wanted to continue talking, he suddenly took a deep breath, and the words stopped abruptly when he reached his mouth. He clutched his neck and wanted to turn around in pain, but he couldn't turn around anyway. At this moment Zhou Jue heard a faint gasp behind Chen Hao, and Chen Hao rolled on the ground in pain.

Chen Hao wanted to get rid of clutching his neck in pain, he said with difficulty: "Pull, take the bag away..."

Zhou Jue froze for a moment, but Fat San didn't hold back, Zhou Jue rushed over, when he wanted to pull the schoolbag away from Chen Hao's back, he looked at the gap between the schoolbag and Chen Hao's back. When he came to a large pile of hair, at that moment he felt like someone's eyes in the black hair.Those eyes were fixed on him.

He pulled the backpack away from Chen Hao's back at once, and the moment the backpack was detached from Chen Hao's back, the hair disappeared.As if everything was an illusion, Chen Hao curled up on the ground panting heavily, while the backpack lay quietly on the ground.Everyone stared at Bao, and then there was a horrific cry from the other side of the waterfall.

The cry became more and more like a scream.

Chen Hao, who had regained consciousness a little, climbed up with difficulty. He picked up the book that had fallen on the floor and held it firmly in his hand.No one dared to approach, Lin Xu murmured Cuiniang's name.

Chen Hao looked at the waterfall and said, "Old Lin, this is the real ghost burial."

Those crazy cries are like a huge attraction, trying to attract them all.Chen Hao stuffed the book into the bag, but Ye Wei stopped Chen Hao and said, "What do you know? What is the secret of that book?"

Chen Hao looked at Ye Wei, then at Zhou Jue, and said, "Do you still remember Chen Rulan once said that the biggest function of the ring of seven is to make all readers feel the fear of death? When we are more afraid When we die, we are safer, whereas when we think things are resolved, then the danger is the real intrusion. We have always made the mistake of assuming that the author is the answer, which is simply not the case.”

He looked at Lin Xu and said, "Why can the fear of death reduce the impact of the book on our reality? Have you ever thought about the reason?"

Holding the book, he panted and said: "The first function of this book is to get us involved, and then it is to give hints, and the second and most critical function is to fight against those clay tablets In fact, it keeps reminding people who come into contact with the clay tablets of the imminent crisis. The female ghost keeps reminding us, but we always think that it is the source of all horrors."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Lin Xu and said: "That's why Mr. Lin said that the clay tablet is the key. Because the real danger to us is the ghost of the clay tablet. They are nightmares, repeating those horrible rituals all the time. .They will devour all people and things related to the scorpion tribe, but he ignores one thing, it is this book that has provided us with all protection until now, it keeps telling us through stories about the clay tablets The secret, Rulan also discovered this... So she kept giving hints, but when she was about to succeed, she failed. The information she provided stopped abruptly at that point."

Zhou Jue hurriedly asked: "Why, why did she fail!"

Chen Hao's eyes were very painful, he said: "I don't know..."

Fat San standing on the far side pointed to the river and said, "Look! What is that..."

Everyone looked in the direction that Fat San knew, and found that the original waterfall had disappeared, but the stone wall was covered with distorted corpses, Zhou Jue said: "I saw these corpses at the bottom of the river, they... How could they be like this?"

The terrified cry came from the stone wall. Chen Hao looked at the stone wall covered with corpses and said, "We have to go on the road now."

The thin monkey looked at the high wall and said, "Could we climb over some corpses? If we fall off, we'll die."

Ye Wei said without hesitation: "It would be nice to have a handhold. Cuiniang and the others used to climb with bare hands."

Lin Xu said: "Indeed, it's very steep, but the rocks on it are very solid. If you really want to climb, you can still climb it. It's just that it's too wet after the flood..."

Zhou Jue said, "Why is there crying in that stone wall?"

The author has something to say:

As for everyone's comments, I saw that some of them said that the plot is not very scary. In fact, this question is more difficult to answer.But I think when I finish this article, everyone will find that these problems are not problems.Because this is a complete long story, he has a rhythm.For example, in the slow rhythm before, there needs to be something very depressing, and then there is suspicious content in the middle, and if this tone is maintained at the end, then this article will either not be finished, or it will be unfinished .Because there must be a fast pace, but a process that can connect the full text and connect the past and the next.Well, in fact, this article is suitable for reading in one breath, and it took a year and a half to dilute it.I think the next article will be published after I finish writing it.Uh-huh.It's decided like this~ Everyone, watch slowly, don't be in a hurry, if you don't want to be hung up, you can wait until the end of the Chinese New Year in January.