Haunted Places Live

The untimely thunder in the snowy night, as well as the inexplicable sound of scalp-numbing hoofs stepping on the wooden boards from the porch, seemed to spread the darkness from every corner of the world, overlapping each other and squeezing out a thick Horror.Chu Yang pressed tightly on the wooden board covering the window, but he still dared not open it and take a look outside.

The four of them seemed to have made an appointment, and they all held their breath, not daring to speak out.

Lynch suddenly whispered, "Saivati, go and close all the wooden boards on the other windows."

Savati stood up immediately, and quickly ran to the other side of the room to close the wooden boards on the other windows.Chu Yang whispered, "I'll go upstairs to have a look," and stepped lightly on the wooden stairs to the second floor.Go to Lynch's room first and close the windproof wooden shutters, then go to his own room.He couldn't help but glance towards the ground-floor porch before closing the boards.

He saw that there were many hoofprints on the snow, scattered chaotically in the snow in front of the house, they didn't seem to have come out, but they seemed to be scattered on the snow randomly, without any rules.It doesn't even look like a four-hoofed animal would leave a trail.

Chu Yang couldn't think of any animal that would leave such a mark...

But otherwise, he saw no sign of any animals.He quickly closed the wooden board and went back downstairs. Lynch made a pot of coffee, filled four cups, took out a bottle of whiskey from his wine cabinet, and mixed them into four cups of coffee to make Irish coffee.Savati and Robert immediately took a few sips from their mugs, but their hands were trembling slightly.Chu Yang also took the cup that Lynch handed him, and felt Lynch's fingers gently caressing the back of his hand, as if it was some kind of comfort.

The hot coffee and whiskey burned down the throat all the way to the stomach, and when the body suddenly cooled down and recovered a little bit of temperature, Chu Yang realized that his palms were covered with cold sweat at some point.He talked about the strange footprints on the snow that he saw on the second floor, but saw Savati's expression getting worse and worse.

"It's the curse of the Awanichi who fled into the mountains...it must be..." He rubbed his nose with his rough hands, as if trying to hide his panic, "the evil god they worship has come out. It sleeps for many, many years, and now it has awakened from its underground stone palace..."

Chu Yang asked, "What evil god do they believe in?"

Savati said a word in Indian, and then explained in English, "It means rebel, and sometimes it is also called the thousand-eyed god. From a long time ago, before even the apes appeared. They came to this world and built a magnificent underground city. But then they gradually disappeared, I don’t know whether they left or gradually became extinct. But the Awanich people believe that they just fell asleep. For them, 1000 years It's as short as an hour, they just haven't woken up yet. With the right rituals and sacrifices, they will wake up."

Robert said irritably, "What a mess. There is no such thing in this world! There should be a lost deer outside, don't scare yourself!"

"The traitor..." Lynch murmured, chewing on the name over and over again.Chu Yang asked in a low voice, "Do you know what it is?"

"I'm not sure." Lynch said after deliberation, "But from his description, it looks a bit like a Shoggoth..."

"Holy race?"

"No." Lynch whispered, "They are a second-class race that was enslaved by a sacred race called the ancients, but then they rebelled and got rid of their slavery, so I didn't know when he said the traitors Will think of it."

"What are you two mumbling about?" Robert said angrily, "The animal's voice seems to have disappeared, is it all right?"

"We can't go anywhere in such a heavy snowstorm." Lynch said, "Except for the sheriff, the three of us take turns to watch the night, each for two hours, and the other two rest. People shouted. Let’s talk about it after tonight.”

All three agreed, but the sheriff insisted on keeping a vigil, so the sheriff and Savati rested on two sofas downstairs and kept watch for the first half of the night.Chu Yang and Lynch went upstairs to rest, and Savati came up to call them in the middle of the night.

After tossing and tossing for a day, only now Chu Yang began to feel an irresistible exhaustion and sleepiness.He opened the door of his room, went to the bathroom to take off his contact lenses, and lay down on the bed without even bothering to wash his face.As a result, not long after lying down, I heard someone open the door.He had no choice but to half get up and turn his head, fumbled for the glasses on the table to put them on, but saw Lynch standing at the door with his pillow in his arms.

Chu Yang was puzzled, "What are you doing?"

"Let's sleep together!" Lynch ran to his bed and squatted down, looking at him eagerly, "I'm afraid you're afraid."

"Who's scared! What if Savati comes up to you later?" Chu Yang wanted to chase him away, but Lin Qi blinked his eyes that suddenly became watery and tried his best to act coquettishly. Two dog ears came out, "We slept together for the past few days!"

Chu Yang's ears immediately started to burn again, "There are outsiders now!"

"I brought all the pillows here!" Lynch pretended to imitate the pouting expression of the silly, white and sweet heroine in the idol drama, which made Chu Yang want to hit someone more and more.But it's just thinking about it. Although Lin Qi deliberately acted too much every time he acted like a baby, Chu Yang just couldn't harden his heart.He could only groan like a headache, and moved to the side.

Lin Qi happily put the pillow on the bed, lifted the quilt and got in, wrapped one arm around Chu Yang's waist with ease, and pressed his chest tightly against Chu Yang's back.Chu Yang felt as if he was being entangled by an octopus. He frowned and struggled twice. Seeing that Lin Qi didn't let go, he didn't bother to continue struggling.

The temperature on Lynch's body suddenly dispelled a lot of the faint sense of panic that had been haunting him before, especially the steady and low heartbeat from the opponent's heart, which was transmitted to his body through the back, The throbbing and fiery life seems to be able to fight against the boundless darkness and death that surrounds them.

"Xiao Yang." Lynch suddenly whispered in his ear.A slight breath blew on the pinnae, causing Chu Yang to tremble.

"what?"

"Don't forget that we pulled the hook." Lynch didn't know if it was intentional, and his lips brushed against his earlobe. "It's not a month yet, so you are not allowed to use the stigmata. No matter what happens."

"Understood! You too. If you don't use me, don't use it."

"But if I don't need it, what should I do if I encounter danger?" Lin Qi asked with a light smile, but his hands began to fumble under Chu Yang's undershirt dishonestly.

Chu Yang's heart beat faster, and he quickly grabbed his wrist, "I've been thinking...you sing...is it the same as me playing the cello?"

Lynch hummed lightly.

"Can you sing only if you break the seal?"

"That's not true. Just like you don't want to touch the cello, I don't want to use this ability anymore. Unless it is absolutely necessary."

Chu Yang turned around and looked closely at Lynch's bright eyes that were still shining in the dim light, "From the day we went to the ice cave, a new melody began to appear in my mind. I can write it down come down."

Lynch raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at him with crooked eyes, "Do you want me to be your cello?"

I don't know why, but this metaphor sounds extremely... lustful to Chu Yang.

"It's okay to say so." Chu Yang hurriedly added, "Of course, it's a last resort. And I haven't finished writing this song yet..."

Lynch suddenly approached, kissed him on the cheek, and then hugged Chu Yang into his arms, "You are so cute."

"Let go! Do you want to suffocate me with your chest?!"

"Are you complimenting my big pectoral muscles, Xiaoyang?"

"..."

Although Lin Qi was holding him, Chu Yang did not sleep peacefully.

In the chaotic dream, he heard many voices beyond comprehension.It seemed that countless out-of-control musical instruments were making out-of-tune noises, constantly pounding his nerves.Countless chaotic and distorted colors permeated in front of him, revealing a taste of madness, almost like some kind of ominous prophecy.He felt that he saw many faces in the chaos of colors, many faces that were melting, distorted, and familiar.

"Free yourself! Free yourself! You are an angel! You are an angel!"

"Little Yang, be brave."

"it was all your fault……"

Chu Yang woke up suddenly from the dream, only to find that what woke him up was the scream from downstairs, Robert's scream.

Lynch reacted faster than him, and now he has lifted the quilt and opened the door and rushed downstairs.Chu Yang also hurriedly followed.

But saw that the damper of a window on the first floor was opened, and Robert fell to the ground, and the splint fixing his broken leg was also crooked, but he stared out of the window in horror as if he didn’t feel any pain, with his mouth opened so wide, As if unable to breathe, he maintained an extremely terrified expression, waving his hands and screaming, "What is that! What is that! What the fuck is that!"

Savati also seemed to have just woken up, looking at Robert to help him up.But the latter kept struggling, grabbed his hair, and yelled like crazy.

Chu Yang glanced out the window, but found that the snow had stopped, and the light of a bright moon shone on the quiet and white snow, and also illuminated those hoof prints that seemed to be scattered randomly and without any rules.Other than that, nothing.

But he got closer and finally noticed something was wrong.

The vicinity of the frozen lake seemed to have been entered by something heavy, and large swathes of water splashed on the shore, causing a lot of snow to melt in those places.And the forest in the distance also changed, a large area of ​​trees slumped to both sides, as if something huge passed through the middle, leaving a clear trace like a gust of wind passing through.

And that smell, the rotting smell of swamp and mud, was seeping in through the cracks in the windows too.