Ring of Seven [Online Version]

All kinds of complicated expressions were staged in turn, and finally he could only pull out an awkward smile and say: Hello, Brother Chen.

Chen Hao was a little dissatisfied, why is the first sentence like this?Are you stupid?

It was only in this way that Zhou Jue realized that he had made another mistake.Still wanting to speak, Chen Hao quickly stopped him and said, "You don't need to say anything, I've thought about it for a long time, I really like you, and hope to have you forever." Chen Hao thought that if he didn't interrupt you again, he probably would say comrade you Thanks for your hard work……

Chen Hao lit a cigarette, then threw one to him and said, "Then I will talk about what I encountered here, and I think you must also want to know."

Zhou Jue put on his clothes and nodded to let him continue. Chen Hao sat on the bed. He looked at his hands and said, "I thought about it, and I guess I guessed what Ye Wei meant. He's not like me. Death and death are not important at all. But he still investigates with me, to some extent, this guy is actually a good person... although this word is somewhat inconsistent with him."

Zhou Jue nodded in agreement. Indeed, at first glance, the gloomy-faced guy looked like a villain in some kind of perverted horror movie, but in fact, at the critical moment, he saved the thin monkey, and then Ye Wei. In this regard, he is actually a good person.Good people cannot be distinguished by their faces.

Chen Hao said: "In the past three years, I have tried various methods to test, but there is no way to really solve the problem, and I came here because that alley has a power that can freeze the time of the living body. So my The idea is to test whether I will also be affected by this time freeze through the time freeze. My method is actually very simple, that is, it takes a little longer. I shaved my hair first, and then calculated how long it will grow to the past The length of time required, and then I will shave again, bring enough water and food, during that time I basically stay in the alley, and then calculate to see if I will be affected, because the living body is indeed there It's going to be slow. I did a lot of experiments and tests before this, and I did a lot of those experiments on the Internet by the way."

Zhou Jue looked at his hair, it was so long, it didn't look restrained at all, he asked worriedly: "The result?"

Chen Hao said with a smile: "It is true that I stayed in it for a long time, and found that the hair does not grow."

Zhou Jue looked at his hair again, and Chen Hao said blankly: "Since I have finished the test, I don't need to be bald anymore..."

Zhou Jue said: "Then since you are sure that you are... alive, why don't you go back? Are you still here?"

Chen Hao smoked and said: "Then I discovered a secret here. So I didn't rush to leave. I also told Ye Wei about it. Don't look at that kid with a gloomy face, it's actually very gossip. Mom. His hobby is watching Miss Ma, who is idle."

Zhou Jue's face twitched, he didn't make sure if it was a complaint, and asked, "Really?"

Chen Hao took a puff of cigarette and said, "I guess."

Zhou Jue considered the combat value for a while, but he gave up the urge to slap him on the head. He asked, "Then what's the secret?"

Chen Hao looked up at the ceiling while smoking a cigarette, his expression was a little bad, he said: "I lived in it for two weeks, I think that abandoned house is alive."

When Chen Hao learned that there is a time stagnation effect here, he came here to try it out. For him, it is the safest way to test life and death besides rubbing his neck directly. He also did a series of tests , It was found that the living things really stopped growing.So the days of experimenting in that alley began.He asked the locals to buy several boxes of instant noodles, vitamin tablets, mineral water, and some convenience foods.The house had already collapsed in half, but the middle did not collapse, and it was still very strong.Then he found that there was still electricity here, and the bathroom was not destroyed.Chen Hao stayed here for half a month.The hair hasn't grown out at all.

Although the bathroom is still there, as a clean freak, staying there for half a month is already his limit.He said that he never wanted to eat instant noodles again in his life, and his expression was really painful when he said it.

He looked at Zhou Jue and said, "But I feel that I am not the only one living in the ruins, there are other people. Because I found that the curtains of the window in the ruins were only opened a third, but after a few days I found that the broken curtains were all drawn. Then there are some small details, anyway, if you don't have a good memory, you will ignore it immediately, but I know that there has been a change in that place. But I didn't find anyone, just this abandoned building. There are always some weird little changes in the house."

Chen Hao said: "One night when I fell asleep, I heard the sound of hurried running. I thought someone was coming again, so I got up and found that there was no footsteps, but the washbasin in the bathroom was placed at the door. , the faucet was always on. After I turned off the faucet, I found that the things in the toilet had been touched.

In the next few days, I always had strange dreams, and I couldn't remember the content when I woke up, but the only thing I remembered was that I could hear the sound of the bell before waking up every time I had a dream.

Maybe you have heard that it is very quiet there, basically there is no sound. I stayed there for half a month and basically heard no sound other than the sound I made myself.But the longer I lived, I could hear the bell ringing every time I fell asleep. I thought maybe I had stayed there for too long and had auditory hallucinations.

I always feel that there is something else in this house, and this thing has something to do with the weird power here.

Suddenly on the last night, I found that my trolley case was actually placed at the door.There was no one, the trolley case I originally put in the house was placed outside, and then I heard the familiar sound of the bell, that sound kept approaching me, I looked back but there was nothing , the last bell I heard came from behind me, and I turned around to find nothing. "

After Chen Hao said all this, he fell into silence. He said: "I never knew if it was a hallucination, but I felt that when the last bell rang, I felt as if I was slapped by a small hand behind me. A bit. That's it, but my test is still going on, I can't stop. So I'm still living there, until I'm sure that the hair is not growing, not only the hair, but the nails are not growing. I'm sure The power here, but I am very curious about this power. So I stayed here to see how this situation was caused, and you came at this time."

Zhou Jue covered his forehead, he said with a headache, "Do you think there are ghosts there?"

Chen Hao stubbed out the cigarette butt and said, "I don't know... If it wasn't because my memory is better than ordinary people, ordinary people would not notice the changes in those details, and the appearance of the bell seemed to warn me. Outsiders are not welcome. But there is no sign of life in the house, and there will be no one but me."

Zhou Jue said, "Isn't it because you want to know whether this strange phenomenon has something to do with the cessation of time? In fact, you are still worried."

Chen Hao nodded reluctantly. He didn't say anything at first but he didn't want to worry Zhou Jue, but Zhou Jue said that, so he continued: "So I want to know how this happened."

Zhou Jue didn't understand the next steps, but he felt that Chen Hao seemed to have a plan, so he asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

"I'm going again, but this time I'm going blindfolded."

Zhou Jue looked surprised, and Chen Hao said: "Since you are here, then you lead me away. I am blindfolded, and I will listen with my ears to see if there is any sound."

Zhou Jue murmured in his heart, "It's too risky."

Chen Hao thought for a while and said: "Then you wait for me outside, I will call you if there is a situation."

Seeing what he said, Zhou Jue immediately insisted: "I didn't mean I was afraid, I mean is this method reliable?"

Chen Hao said: "It's actually like this, because there are no abnormalities there, so I don't need to look at them, just rely on feelings. I'll tell you the specific method when I get there. Now that the rain has stopped outside, how about it? "

Seeing that he was so confident, Zhou Jue patted his thigh and stood up and said, "Let's go!"

But standing too fast, he immediately bent over, his face turned red again, Chen Hao smiled maliciously, but Zhou Jue pretended to be fine, straightened up and said, "It's fine, let's go."

However, Chen Hao still gave him a hand in a very humane way, and put him in his backpack without any hassle.At this time Zhou Jue felt even more ashamed.

solidified 5

After the thunderstorm, the summer air became very humid and sticky. They walked on the road, and the leaves were still dripping rain.There are no street lights in many places, and the moon is still not visible in the sky at this time.The only light source can only come from those folk lights, which are very weak, so the color of the whole town is very deep and dull.

The two walked on the quiet street without seeing a single passer-by. People in this town rarely come out at night.When they came to the alley, it was so dark that they couldn't see anything clearly, not even a sound.

Chen Hao turned on the flashlight function of the mobile phone, and the light was projected out. Only within the range of the light, he could see something clearly. At this time, Chen Hao did not cover his eyes. He took a deep breath, and then walked forward. Zhou Jue immediately followed Going up, at this time the lighting functions of the two mobile phones kept scanning back and forth.

It didn't take long to reach the end, and the ruins were indistinct in the weak light.Chen Hao walked in very familiarly, and turned on the lighting he temporarily pressed. The weak light still couldn't illuminate the whole space. There will always be some places hidden in the dark. Walking to the part inside that has not yet collapsed, it is actually well preserved, and the inside is not as dirty as the outside. It seems that Chen Hao has done a lot of sanitation work, but no one came for a while, and it was still covered with a layer of dust. .Then he walked to the window, which was shaky and looked out onto the alley, so that he could see the road.But the light doesn't shine that far.

Just as the two of them turned to leave, a bell rang suddenly.Both of them froze, and Zhou Jue's face twitched a little. After all, he hadn't encountered any strange things in three years, and his thoughts hadn't adjusted all of a sudden.It's normal for the heartbeat to speed up. He looked at Chen Hao, but Chen Hao's expression was very ugly at this moment. He held his shoulder and said, "It's hot behind me..."

It's definitely not a little bit hot, Zhou Jue put his hand on it, and he was startled.At this time, another bell rang suddenly, and Chen Hao felt the hot feeling behind him disappear.He touched his back, but there was nothing but cold sweat.

Chen Hao looked at the things on the table and said, "Sure enough, it has been moved..."

Chen Hao stood up, and he started to rummage through things, making the already messy place even more messy. He looked at his watch and said, "There must be someone here. Look at the position of this box when we came in ahead. It was placed here, but now he has been moved at an angle of [-] degrees, which means that someone walked sideways from here... After we came in, he has been following us. It's almost like watching us. "

Chen Hao walked over and said, "The angle of the bamboo pole has also changed."

Zhou Jue didn't have much influence on these things. If you said something moved at an angle of 20° or 30°, it really wasn't something he would notice.

At this time, the light that was originally switched on went out with a pop, and Chen Hao said: "The voltage here is very unstable, and this happens often. It will be fine after a while."

Sure enough, after a few minutes, the light automatically turned on again. The two of them walked around in such a small space several times, seeing everything that should be seen, but there was no one here. Could it be a ghost if there was no one?

Chen Hao continued to walk, Zhou Jue followed behind him, and then Chen Hao stopped suddenly.He looked up at the roof, Zhou Jue also looked up, there was a rope hanging from the roof.He didn't pay attention to whether there was a rope here before, but he always felt that it was strange to see the things here now.

Zhou Jue said, "Brother Chen, have you noticed that the structure of this house is very special?"

Chen Hao hummed, Zhou Jue swallowed, and said, "The two sides of this house have collapsed, but the middle is so solid, and... no matter what, I feel that this house has collapsed like a grave."

Chen Hao didn't think about that at first, but after being said that, he felt a cold wind blowing around him.All of a sudden the temperature dropped.

Zhou Jue stretched out his hand to pull the rope, and the other end of the rope seemed to be caught by something.He pulled hard and pulled something from the roof, and it fell down together with the dust, which fell on the heads of the two of them unexpectedly.

Chen Hao glared at him, and Zhou Jue smiled awkwardly. He squatted on the ground and picked up the thing tied to the other end of the rope. It turned out to be a doll hanging, the kind of 80s plastic doll.One of the eyeballs has fallen off, and the doll's clothes are also in a mess. It looks like it was eaten by a mouse.The rope was tied around the doll's neck in a knot.

Zhou Jue complained, "Is there a doll tied to the ceiling?"

Chen Hao looked up again, but there was still nothing.He shook the plastic doll, and one of its legs fell off.

Suddenly, a bell fell out of the doll's body. This kind of bell is not high-end, it can be said to be very rough.It's just an ordinary brass bell.

After landing on the floor, it kept rolling forward.The doll had lost a leg and was missing an eye, making it creepy to look at.

Chen Hao pinched it, and said, "The bell is inside the doll's body? Could it be that this thing is causing trouble?"

The doll was terrifying, but it didn't move at all. The two of them stared at it for a long time, and there was nothing strange about the doll.

Zhou Jue shook his head, he didn't know.Suddenly Chen Hao raised his head, looked up at the roof, and said: "No! I lived here for two weeks, and I have never seen such a roof. In the past, a part of it collapsed, and then used It's sealed with cement!"

The roof is a little high, so even with a flashlight, you can't see it clearly. Chen Hao put the doll in his hand on the ground.He looked up at the roof, then found a plastic jar at random.He threw it upwards, and the plastic jar hit the beams, dropping nothing but a cloud of dust.

Zhou Jue is so shrewd, he has learned from the past and quickly backed away, but when he stepped back, he felt something stepped on his heel.It caused him to fall backwards, but luckily he was grabbed by Chen Hao.

He took a closer look and saw that it was a moon cake box, which was already a little rusty.Zhou Jue took a lot of effort to break it apart.Chen Hao also gave up investigating the ceiling at this time, and looked at the things in the box with him.

There are some candy wrappers, some trinkets, and a letter.

The letter paper has turned yellow, but it can be seen that it is well preserved.

Contents of the letter:

Mom, how are you?Please take care of Yaoyao. Yaoyao is now five years old. I haven’t been back for two years. I will come back once this year after the Spring Festival. By the way, this time when Ah Hai comes back, I asked him to bring some things for me Bring it to you, I bought her a doll from a big city, Yaoyao said she wanted it at the beginning, and then there are some candies and biscuits, you can share it with relatives, and leave the rest for Yaoyao , Don't give her too much, lest you spoil her.

You should keep the money, don’t be reluctant, pay attention to your body.I will have the money to repair the house by the end of the year.At that time, our house will be repaired and repaired.

Don't worry about me, I'm fine outside, and I'll be back soon.When I save enough money, I will come back to see a doctor for Yaoyao. Yaoyao can't hear the sound, and she always likes to run out to climb trees. Let me give you a trick. You hang some bells on the tree at the door, Yaoyao Hang a few on your body too, and when you hear the bell, just pay attention.

Well, that's it for me, and I'll be back at the end of the year.

The handwriting should be a man, but the level of education is not very high, and there are some typos.But overall it seems that he is the man of this family.The date of inscription below is 1996.

Chen Hao said: "It is said that this house collapsed in 1997, but as for the family, no one mentioned it. They were not found either."

At this moment, the bell rang again.But this time the sound came from outside the house.The two men ran out without thinking of anything, and they ran towards the sound of the bell, and they found that every tree had a crude bell tied to the branch.

There was no wind, but the bells rang too.

Zhou Jue suddenly remembered what the owner of the hostel had said to him. He said, "The daughter of the owner of my hostel dreamed that there are many people here, and there are things in this room. I didn't take it seriously at first..."

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the house, and the sound suddenly came out of the originally silent space, which shocked both of them. They looked back at the abandoned house, and there was heavy smoke coming out of the house. The two couldn't get close at all. After the thick smoke disappeared, Chen Hao said: "The house collapsed again. If we were inside, we might not be able to get out."

Zhou Jue said, "This is what the bell is for? To lead us out."

"Maybe, but the original roof didn't exist, and it collapsed when I went there. The house is very strange today."

The lights in the room came on twice and then went out.At this time, footsteps came from behind the two of them, and Zhou Jue could see clearly through the faint light that the person was Ye Wei. (The author complained again: It really looks like a big dark boss)

Ye Wei was still the same, with empty eyes and black eyeballs as if he was not looking at anything. He pointed to the house and said, "That house is alive. Chen Hao is really unkind. He lived in his body for half a month. , and still despise her being dirty, do you think she will be angry?"

Chen Hao said, "You are finally willing to come out."

Ye Wei smiled and said, "I can't always let you work hard alone, and I will do my best. Don't you see that I am just bringing you the news you need?"

Ye Wei walked towards that house, he turned his head and waved to those two people, and they walked to the front of the house.Ye Wei said, "Okay, now that we're here, Chen Hao, what's your answer to this matter?"

Chen Hao looked at the house and said: "Subtle changes in this house indicate that it is active, but I didn't see people or any other living things. But I didn't feel it here. The malice brought by it, on the contrary, has an indescribable feeling. Well, as you said, this house doesn't like me."

Zhou Jue complained, "Not many people would like clean freaks..." But Zhou Jue quickly shut up because Chen Hao threatened him with his eyes.

Ye Wei did not answer, but nodded, and Chen Hao continued: "If this house is alive, the reason for all this is those trees. So the local people and the rumors on the Internet are all wrong, and the real cause It's all about the trees here."

Ye Wei raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Tree?"

Chen Hao looked at the surrounding trees and said: "The trees here maintain a semi-enclosed space, that is to say, within a limited distance, the trees wrap the house inside. And their function is to let The life in the house can be maintained as much as possible, which is why any living body here grows slowly, because growth is also consumed. They are to maintain the life span of the house. I checked the trees here Yes, there are strange nicks on the roots, very deep, but not obvious."

Ye Wei smiled, looked at Zhou Jue at the side, and said, "Life is for death, this is the meaning and purpose of life."

Zhou Jue has regained that very uncomfortable sense of familiarity, and he frowned.Chen Hao said: "So, if my guess is correct, this ruin is actually the continuation of that life body. Didn't a child die here?"

Ye Wei clapped his hands and said: "It's really Ru Lan's younger brother. It's really rare to be able to think of this level, because the trees here have been tampered with, and each tree has become a barrier. place, that is, in that house where the soul can be preserved."

Chen Hao frowned and said, "Is it your Ye family's trick again?"

Ye Wei said with an innocent face: "Because you are so stubborn. You don't even want to see him, and you don't even want to see him. I'm Rulan's friend. Hey, I'm also your elder..."

With black lines on Chen Hao's face, he said coldly: "Enough, we are the same age."

Ye Wei spread his hands and said: "That's it. There are too many ways to preserve life in this world. It is not necessary to determine whether you are alive or dead. And this method is indeed the most reliable now. It cannot be said that it is [-]%. One hundred, but you are still standing upright? Indeed, this proves that you are a living creature. And the ceremony was a success in the end, otherwise the Seven Suzerains would not disappear, and they would definitely come out to look for us. They have not appeared for so long, What do you think?"

Chen Hao didn't answer, Zhou Jue couldn't help asking: "Then why did that child...become like that?"

Ye Wei said: "Because she was crushed to death by that beam. The child is deaf. When the accident happened, she couldn't hear the sound and was crushed underneath. Although the body was dragged out, but because she was carrying Bell, so the soul did not dissipate in the end, and stayed in this house. But it would disappear anytime and anywhere, and my father happened to come here for business at that time."

Chen Hao said blankly: "Come here to buy the wood for the coffin."

Ye Wei said: "This is what our family does. You can't discriminate against occupations. My father came here and found such a situation. The surrounding trees formed a pattern of tombs. You just need to move your hands and feet. And those trees seem to want to protect the child instinctively. All they do is to keep the child's soul, because if it disappears, the child will not be able to reincarnate. It is too cruel for her. My father is a good man, He gave the child a home, and the house became her body, while the surrounding trees protected her. As long as the trees are still there, her soul is still there."

Ye Wei changed into a more emotional tone: "Since you feel that you must confirm that you are alive before you are willing to continue living your own life, then I will create this opportunity for you, which is also a kind of compensation for Rulan. .Our Ye Family does owe her..."

Chen Hao looked at the house, turned around and walked back.Zhou Jue looked at the house, then at Ye Wei, he caught up with Chen Hao, Chen Hao lit a cigarette for himself, he showed a self-deprecating expression, and said to Zhou Jue: "Am I Stupid?"

Zhou Jue didn't know what expression to use when a guy called a child prodigy asked him if he was stupid, but Zhou Jue replied without thinking, "Yes, it's stupid, all living people will be stupid. time. Doesn't that mean you're still alive?"

Chen Hao laughed, and he laughed happily, as if this sentence made him more happy than praising him for being smart or a genius.

Ye Wei glanced at the room behind him, he took out a big bag of candy from his pocket and said, "Yaoyao, I'm sorry to bother you this year, that brother is actually a poor person, although he is very clean, he is not a person. He's easy to get along with, he's stubborn, arrogant, and arrogant (a hundred words will be omitted below), but...he's Rulan's younger brother, and also my friend, good boy, you have to eat sweets slowly, you know?"

The windless trees made tinkling sounds, Ye Wei smiled slightly and turned around to catch up with the two of them.

The three of them were walking side by side in the small town in the dark night. Zhou Jue felt that the two people around him seemed dumb, and the atmosphere was too depressing. He asked Ye Wei, "Why haven't you shown up for three years?"

Ye Wei said, "Why did I show up?"

Zhou Jue was stunned for a moment, and he said, "Aren't we friends?"

This time it was Ye Wei's turn to pause, and soon he changed into that indifferent smile and said: "Yes, we are friends, so Chen Hao didn't show up, and I can't show up. If I come out, you will definitely ask Me, and Chen Hao didn't want to see acquaintances at all at that time, just like depression, only through this method can he let go of the burden in his heart."

Chen Hao glanced at Ye Wei, he snorted and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

Zhou Jue said: "That's good... By the way, Ye Wei, you should go and see Shouhou, he is still in Shanghai. If he knows that you are still alive, he will be very happy."

Ye Wei's eyes flashed an inexplicable look, and he said happily: "Ah, ah, I remembered, that little guy... I really have to go see him, he beat me a lot back then. Ah." After he finished speaking, he touched his face with an indescribably strange look in his eyes.

Chen Hao and Zhou Jue looked at each other, Zhou Jue said, "Does he hold grudges very much..."

Chen Hao said: "That's right, a Scorpio, since he is willing to see Shouhou, I don't think Shouhou's life will be peaceful..."

Ye Wei suddenly turned his head and said, "As the favor you gave me back, I ask you two to continue to keep the secret for a while, but don't worry it won't be long, hehe..."

Zhou Jue got goosebumps when he heard that laughter, Ye Wei's mood suddenly became very good, and his pace obviously quickened.

Chen Hao said in a low voice: "Tsundere..."

Zhou Jue asked, "What does that mean?"

Chen Hao thought for a while and said: "During my hospitalization, a little nurse kept telling me about a novel called "Ghost Tales", which was said to be written by a person named Qingqiu. Um...she said that there is The main character in the movie is Tsundere, and Tsundere means hot on the outside and hot on the inside, domineering and shy. But generally speaking, Ye Wei’s attributes are opposite to the protagonist in it. It is called a kind of attack.”

Zhou Jue was thoughtful, but still said with a confused face: "So that's how it is..."

Chen Hao looked at the moon in the clouds and said, "Let's go, we're going back."

(Finish)