Haunted Places Live

Before Lynch came back, Chu Yang stood in front of the basement door, took a deep breath, and turned the doorknob.

The narrow stairs, the dim light, and the strong smell of dust made him sneezed twice.The basement was just as it had been the last time he had left, and Lynch had tried, apparently not very successfully, to restore the mess he had made.

Old pianos, old furniture, bookshelves full of old books, all covered with dusty white cloths.Chu Yang uncovered the white cloth piece by piece, and even saw many of his childhood toys piled up in a wooden box, and the box lid couldn't even be closed.He casually picked up a spaceship made of Lego, with one wing missing.He still remembers that he had just finished watching a certain cartoon about spaceships. When he saw this Lego in the supermarket, he clamored to buy it. After buying it, he became impatient and gave up after a few struggles. In the end, it was Grandpa. Help him spell it out.

Why did you suddenly think of this?

"This spaceship can take you to places far, far away, where no one has ever been." He remembered that his grandfather once told him with a smile, "But once you go, you can't come back, so you have to Hide it away and take it out when you're older and want to go further afield."

Chu Yang put the spaceship back, and his eyes fell on the carpet that Lynch had cut.He lowered his eyes, took a deep breath, and then took out the Swiss Army knife from his trouser pocket.

With a sound of tearing, the old Persian carpet was cut wide open, and dust flew in the sky like snowflakes.As large pieces of rough wool were torn apart, the concrete floor and the criss-cross grooves on it were gradually exposed.The secrets that had been sealed for more than ten years were gradually exposed in the dim light.

Chu Yang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hands, panting slightly heavily.Except for the part pressed by the furniture, the carpet in the entire room was almost torn apart by him.He looked at the pattern on the ground in a daze.

The extremely complicated formation was even several times more complicated than the formation he saw when he received the stigmata.Countless hieroglyphs that he didn't recognize formed a mysterious arc and intertwined together. Dark brown blood clots were deposited in all the grooves, and animal hair or broken bones could be seen occasionally, and a stench of fishy smell also diffused out.

Chu Yang squatted down, slightly trembling fingers touched the blood in the groove.How much blood is needed to fill this magic circle?Chu Yang couldn't imagine the appearance of his always gentle and elegant grandfather standing in the middle of countless animal corpses covered in blood...

Suddenly, a strange image flooded into my mind.Thick fear surrounded his mind like a chaotic black mist, the dry touch of his fingertips suddenly turned wet and sticky or even warm to the touch, and a large amount of blood suddenly gushed out from the groove, viscous Steaming.He lowered his head, only to find that his body had become so small, and he was wearing a yellow robe that was too wide, but it was already stained red with blood.He was so scared, with countless sharp and piercing words rolling in his head, he looked up and saw his grandfather was also wearing a blood-stained yellow robe, standing outside the magic circle, looking at him with gentle but distressed eyes, "Xiao Yang, Be brave."

Chu Yang blinked, and the scene in front of him returned to normal.There was no blood flowing in the gutter, and he was still wearing a simple white T-shirt.His chest heaved violently, and his T-shirt was already soaked in cold sweat. He didn't know what suddenly appeared in his mind just now...

A sense of trembling climbed up his back, similar to standing on the edge of a cliff and looking into the abyss.He vaguely felt that he was approaching something that might subvert everything.

He propped his hands on the ground and wanted to stand up, but his palm suddenly hurt, but it turned out that the palm of his hand was cut by the Swiss army knife he used to cut the carpet.Blood gurgled from the wound and dripped into the gutter.

Chu Yang didn't notice this.At this time, he heard Lynch's shout from upstairs, "Xiao Yang? Xiao Yang? Where are you?" He hurriedly responded and left.

He didn't notice that the blood in the groove seemed to suddenly become vigorous, and began to "grow" rapidly along the groove.The strands of blood seem to have given birth to their own feet, quickly climbing and spreading...

Lynch, who was looking for Chu Yang everywhere, saw him coming out from behind the basement door, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "You went down without waiting for me?"

"This is my home, there will be no danger." Chu Yang said with his hands behind his back, but he remembered the fragment that suddenly entered his mind.With a dull pain in his head, he took a few sips of the cold coffee on the table, trying to suppress the coldness he felt in the basement.

"Where's Chu Yi?"

"Listen to music upstairs." Chu Yang said.

"I'll call him." Lynch said and went upstairs.Chu Yang then went to the kitchen to clean the wound he accidentally cut just now, and covered it with a longer sleeve.Lest Lynch worry.

From a distance, he could hear the melodious cello concerto overflowing from the crack of the door. He opened the door, but saw Chu Yi sitting on the bed with her eyes closed, her left hand raised on her shoulder, and her right hand seemed to be holding a The invisible bow played the invisible cello with the music, his body undulated and swayed with the rhythm of water waves, and the light of the morning sun shone on his face, which was exactly the same as his Chu Yang.

Lynch was slightly taken aback, "You remember?"

Chu Yi suddenly opened her eyes, as if taken aback.When he saw him, he was puzzled again, "What?"

"Did you remember anything?" Lynch asked, "like the cello?"

"Cello?" Chu Yi frowned slightly, as if trying to think hard, and then tentatively made a movement of playing the violin, "This?"

It seems that it is just muscle memory or some subconscious buried too deep, but now it seems that he has not crossed that irrecoverable critical point, and there is still the possibility of recovery.

Lynch then said softly, "Come down and have breakfast."

Chu Yi no longer has too many problems walking, but occasionally she trips over herself because of lack of coordination in her body.He seemed to have a sense of familiarity with this room, which was specifically manifested in the panic expression he showed when he was here and not in other places, and he fell asleep very quickly.

At the dinner table, Lynch looked at the two Chu Yang on the left and the right, and suddenly smiled.

Chu Yang glanced at him, "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm wondering, does it look like I'm hugging left and right?" Lynch blinked at him, "You two little ones."

"Get lost..." Chu Yang glared at him, then opened the wrapping paper of the breakfast bread ring, and stuffed it into the hand of Chu Yi who was opposite.Chu Yi ate obediently, without making a sound.

"Were you so introverted when you were a child?" Lin Qi asked Chu Yang while looking at Chu Yi with his chin in his hand.

"...I didn't like to talk when I was young."

"Introverted and well-behaved, such a cute kid~" Lynch said, poking Chu Yang's waist with his finger as if playing around.Chu Yang couldn't stop being disturbed, "Don't make trouble!"

However, Lynch didn't stop owed, so Chu Yang clicked his tongue, rolled up the napkin and threw it at Lynch's face.

They didn't notice that Chu Yi, who was watching the two of them fighting, stopped chewing and looked at them in a daze.Such a scene seemed familiar to him, as if he had made the same joke with another person...

After a while, Chu Yi suddenly said two words softly, "Lin Qi..."

Lin Qi and Chu Yang stopped at the same time, and turned to stare at Chu Yi.Chu Yi looked at Lin Qi, "I know you...your name is Lin Qi?"

Lynch opened his mouth slightly.He never expected that he was the first person the other party remembered?

In this way, it can be confirmed that there is also a Lin Qi in the reality of Chu Yang who has lost his memory.

Chu Yang said a little excitedly, "Do you remember him? What else? Which reality do you come from? Where is your real Lynch?"

However, a series of questions obviously stunned Chu Yi, he frowned and thought hard.But all he could think of was the name, and a vague feeling that this person named Lynch had an extraordinary meaning to him.

But there seems to be some inexplicable subtle differences between the Lynch he remembered and the "Lynch" in front of him.He could feel that the Lynch he remembered was not the Lynch in front of him...

Why are there two Lynches?It's like he is very similar to the person in front of him.

A heavy dull pain spread in his head, and Chu Yi suddenly reached out and beat his head hard, so hard that Lynch was so frightened that he quickly grabbed the opponent's hand, "Okay, okay, I can't remember. Don't think about it... don't worry, don't rush."

"You are also Lynch..." Chu Yi frowned, as if he couldn't let go of the thoughts that tormented him, "But you are not him...why? Where am I? Where is Lynch?" He kept repeating question, expression distorted by a violent headache.Chu Yang suddenly stood up and turned to the other side of the table, hugged Chu Yi's head in his arms, hissed lightly, and patted the other's shoulder lightly.Gradually Chu Yi really calmed down. Although her brows were still tightly furrowed, it seemed that the pain was not as severe as before.

Chu Yang raised his head and met Lynch's eyes.The eyes of both of them were slightly dignified.

After sending Chu Yi upstairs to rest, Chu Yang returned to the dining table with an increasingly gloomy expression.Seeing him like this, Lynch could probably guess what he was thinking.

He was very surprised, he didn't expect that Chu Yi's amnesia had reached such a point that he didn't even remember who he was, but he was the first to think of himself in another reality.And that masked Chu Yang travels through countless realities to find the Necronomicon, which is probably related to a certain real self...

Could it be that what Bai Hongyu said was actually true?Can't you and Xiaoyang coexist?

But why?

Although he had doubts, he must not let Chu Yang continue to think along this line of thought.Otherwise, with Chu Yang's personality, once he is sure of this point, he may suddenly disappear from the world one day, just to avoid bringing "bad luck" to himself.

"It's a good thing his memory is starting to recover." Lynch said.

"Hmm..." Chu Yang felt insincere in his words.When Chu Yang regains his memory, what kind of story will he ask from the other party?If the real Lynch was still alive, why wasn't he with Chu Yi?How far has Chu Yi been forced to continue using the stigmata until now?

"Don't think too much. Let's go and see what your grandfather hid in the basement first." Lin Qi decided to change Chu Yang's mind and stop thinking about it, so he opened the door of the basement and went down first. Walk.But before the steps reached the end, he was stunned.

I saw that the complex magic circle that had been exposed in the basement was already covered with a dense network of red blood vessels, and the closer to the center of the magic circle, the denser the blood vessels became, forming a small hole in the center of the circle. hole, similar to the shape of a keyhole.

Chu Yang followed behind him, and when he saw this, he took a breath of air-conditioning.

"You came down before, is this here?"

Chu Yang shook his head, "No... obviously not just now."

Lynch's eyes widened slightly, and those red lights were imprinted in his eyeballs.

"Carter's Gate..." Lynch murmured.

"what?"

"This is Carter's Gate, a formation that can only be used by fifth-level elders. Have you seen the keyhole in the middle?" Lynch pointed to the center where all the blood vessels pointed. After being stimulated by blood, the person with the key can open a door. There are usually some rare and powerful knowledge and manuscripts sealed in the door. These knowledge may bring disasters to people or the universe who approach it, so was sealed.

The most famous person who has recently opened such a seal is Randolph Carter. That door was passed down by his ancestors, making him one of the few humans on Earth who have had a direct conversation with Yogsothos and survived, although In the end, I don't know if he can still be regarded as a human being in his state at that time... The original name of the formation has been lost, so now everyone calls it "Carter's Gate". "

Chu Yang raised his hand, revealing the scar on his palm, "It seems that this door was indeed made by my grandfather..."

The author has something to say: Randolph Carter from Lovecraft's "Through the Gate of the Silver Key"