[Comprehensive] Mirror of Death and Life

According to Yazhi, after we opened the paper door, she saw a bright red shadow flashing in the air. The head of the shadow was hidden in the darkness above the corridor, and the face could not be seen clearly, but there was really no one below. Feet, moving very fast, drifted away to the right as soon as the door opened.She used floating to describe the movement of the shadow, and emphasized its emptiness as if it had no entity, which made Hui and I look at each other.

Is there really a ghost in this house?At least among the ninjutsu known to us, none can reach this level, if it is illusion...

I am a little annoyed, if my Sharingan is not blocked, I can see through whether it is an illusion, and I can see the red shadow in Yazhi's mouth clearly.

Hui thought so too, he looked at me: "Where's your Sharingan?"

Not many people in the clan knew about this matter, Yazhi knew about it through her grandfather, but Hui never knew about it.So when I told him that his eyes were sealed by his father, he was more frustrated than me, muttering that if he opened his eyes and was happy before it was too late, he would not be willing to seal them.

The yard was silent, the weeds were thick and tall, and there were many shadows.There is no moonlight tonight, the moon is blocked by dark clouds so tightly that even the stars cannot be seen.We waited for a while, the house was quiet, and all the previous strange noises disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared before.

We had no choice but to go back to the previous room and guess the boxing game to decide the order of the night vigil. The first one was Yazhi. I wanted to replace her and let her rest for a while, but Yazhi sternly refused.Under the relit candlelight, the little girl looked very serious, she stared at me and whispered, "You look down on me."

What else can I say, I can only throw up my hands and give up.Speaking of sleeping, there is no bed or futon in the room, and we have no sleeping bags, so we can only sleep on the floor. The room is simply covered with tatami mats, which is comfortable except for the strong musty smell.I put my hands on the weapon bag, closed my eyes and gradually fell asleep.

This sleep was very uncomfortable. It seemed that many fragments flashed before my eyes, colorful, but each of them was fleeting and I couldn't grasp it.Finally, the picture was finally frozen, and a fiery red maple tree appeared in the perspective, and a small viewing pond was under the tree.This should be the Longclaw Maple tree in the yard. Right now, every leaf of it seems to be on fire, and it seems to be stained red with blood. The leaves are piled up layer by layer, making the whole tree the brightest in the yard. place.

Except for this not-so-high maple tree, the flowers and plants in other parts of the yard are also well-arranged. All kinds of ornamental flowers are scattered and scattered, and the water in the pond is also crystal clear. There is even a red koi swimming around. move.

This should be when the house was not in decline.I looked around and thought, at this moment I heard a woman crying, exactly the same as what I heard before going to bed.

My heart tightened, and I turned my head to look, and saw a woman sitting in the corridor, with long black hair winding on the floor, red clothes embroidered with gold, and skin like snow, leaning against the pillar at the moment, choking with tears.She looked desperate, she was crying fiercely, but she seemed afraid of disturbing someone, she didn't dare to cry, she could only suppress her voice and sob softly.

A red leaf on the maple tree next to me was startled by the woman's cry, and floated down, landing on the water of the pond below, floating in circles of transparent ripples.

When Yazhi woke me up, my mind was still in a dream, and I was a little confused for a while.It wasn't until I saw the little girl rubbing her eyes sleepily that I realized where I was. It should be my turn to watch the night.Hui next to me was in a deep sleep, breathing long and peacefully, and Yazhi asked me in a low voice, "Did you have a nightmare just now?"

"..."

"You looked nervous when I called you."

How should I say it?I don't know whether the scene I saw in the dream really happened, or just imagined by myself. I just feel inexplicably heavy and sad, as if infected by the emotion of the woman in red.In the end, I just shook my head towards Yazhi, stood up and stretched, letting her go to bed first.

I don't know if it was because we lit candles all night and someone kept vigilant. The whole night was very peaceful. Later, when it was Hui's turn to watch the night and I went to sleep, I didn't dream of any strange women again, and I slept very comfortably.When I woke up in the morning, I was refreshed and full of energy, and it was the same with the other two teammates, but when I asked them if they had dreamed anything, they both told me in unison that they dreamed of the woman in red, and the specific content Can't remember anymore.This weirdness made the carefree Hui a little scared.

Today is the second day of the mission. Thinking of the shadows from last night, we went around the whole mansion again, but we still found nothing except what we found earlier.Yazhi proposed to investigate the nearby villages.

Master Shancha's mansion is located on a small hill far away from the village. It takes about ten minutes for ordinary people to walk. Along the way, it is covered by trees, birds are constantly singing, and there is no sound of people. It is very quiet.The village closest to the house is not big, with only a dozen or so thatched huts close together, surrounded by a circle of barren fields.

Seeing us coming out of the path, a woman sitting by the field was surprised and asked if we came from Macunzhai.

Yazhi and I looked at each other: "Is the Macun house the house on the hill behind the forest? The current owner is Mr. Shancha, and we were invited by him."

The woman's complexion changed immediately, she glanced at the mansion behind us that we couldn't see at all, lowered her voice and said mysteriously: "That house is haunted! You children dare to go there. Who is Mrs. Shan Cha? That house is very clear." It belongs to Lord Asamura."

After some explanations from the women, we realized that the so-called Ma Village was the rich businessman who sold the house to Master Shancha.And the reason why he sold the house is because the house has been haunted since one of his outhouses died in the mansion.Some servants said that they saw the dead mistress walking in the corridor at night, and disappeared after a while. Some people said that they heard a woman crying in the middle of the night.

"It is said that Mrs. Rope," the woman paused, looked left and right before whispering to us, "she committed suicide! Or she was forced by Master Asamura! It happened to be autumn when she died, and the maple leaves were as red as blood. , Mrs. Rope cut her own neck and dyed the entire pond red!"

On the way back, Hui folded his hands behind his head, looked at the sky and muttered, "Could it be that what we met last night was also the ghost of Mrs. Rope?"

Yazhi still insists that there are no ghosts in this world: "Did you forget the ashes-free stove, closet and toilet? Maybe someone is using the story of Mrs. Rope to pretend to be a ghost."

"Then how do you explain the clothes you saw last night? You didn't hear footsteps, did you?" Hui asked unconvinced.

Yazhi was left speechless by his question, unable to answer for a while.

But I thought of a possibility, so I speeded up and ran back to the Shancha mansion——since Mr. Shancha is the current owner, I will call it that.

Coming to the corridor where I was chasing the red ghost last night, I carefully checked every corner of the corridor, even the wooden roof above it.Gathering Chakra at the bottom of my feet, I checked the eaves by stepping on the wall next to it, and it turned out that I really found something.

I cut the line with a shuriken and pulled it off. It was a thin, transparent line similar to fishing line. It was very long, at least all the way through the roof of this corridor.

Both Yazhi and Hui gathered around and looked at the thread in surprise. It was thin and tough, and it would be difficult to find if you didn't pay attention, and no one would carefully check the overhead they walked by every day.

I rolled up the thread and followed it all the way. At the end of the corridor, the thin thread passed through a wooden wheel and inserted straight into the grass in the courtyard.We followed in, and there we found a small wheel with the transparent thread in my hand wrapped around it.

"If someone puts clothes on this thread and then squats here and turns the wheel, we can only see the shadows passing by but not hear the footsteps." I tugged on the thread in my hand and said to my two companions.

"Well, sure enough, someone made it. There are no ghosts hahaha, so I said yes, how can there be ghosts in this world." Hui stood aside and laughed loudly with his hips akimbo.

"They should have just tested us last night, and they will come again tonight." I put the wheel back, and pressed the weeds whose roots had been pressed out. I really can't find it, "I will know who is doing the tricks then."

At night, I sat alone in the corridor, yawning boredly.The moon did come out today, but it was only a thin, curved round hanging in the sky, weak, the moonlight seemed to be there, and the surrounding area was still pitch black.

I looked at the wild flowers and weeds in the yard in a daze. I had been waiting here since sunset, but when the moon rose from the east to the sky, nothing happened.In order to lure the ghost from last night to come out, I also specially picked a room far away from the rest of the first night, Yazhi and the others lit a candle in it, pretending that there were still people inside.In fact, they should be lurking near me at this moment.

There was another yawn, and the upper and lower eyelids were fighting. I simply leaned against the pillar and closed my eyes. I just closed my eyes to rest my mind, but I became drowsy unconsciously.While half asleep and half awake, I heard a thin cry, it was a woman's voice, it was very low and indistinct, and it was brought to my ears by the cool night wind from nowhere.

I opened my eyes, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a red figure floating there quietly waiting for me at the corner of the corridor.

It's finally here, I thought.Standing up, moving his wrist, pretending to have just discovered the red shadow, he turned his head and looked, "Who?!"

At the same instant, Hong Ying retreated and disappeared into a dark corner.