freeallnovels Chapter 3739 Skeletons
Chapter 3739 Skeletons
Chapter 3739 Skeletons
Lao Wang felt that the Big Sister and her group believed him, but not completely - because he and the thin man were still tied up!
However, it was their hands that were tied, and they were held together by a rope - the rope was found in the backpacks of Lao Wang and Skinny, a mountain climbing rope, and was quite strong.
As for the big sister - I just recognized her.
Lao Wang swore to heaven that he had never met such a fierce woman in his life. She could have made a living with her looks, but she insisted on using force...
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"...Big sister, did you come here specifically to look for the Mu family mansion?" Old Wang asked tentatively with a shy face, "Is there anything good in there? Tell us about it?"
Zi Ling's mother sneered and said, "Who told you that there are good things in the Mu family's old house?"
"Guess... guess." Old Wang laughed dryly and said, "The ancestors of the Mu family were once rich. I heard that he was an official in Beijing who retired. Although I don't know why he came to this poor and remote place... but he must have treasures. I checked the county annals. This family is really rich, but they fell into decline later. But even a rotten boat still has three pounds of nails..."
Zi Ling's mother stepped forward and patted Lao Wang on the head. "Don't talk about these nonsense. Let's get back to what happened just now. What's the matter with you saying that [Shangshui Village] killed people in the past?"
Lao Wang thought for a moment and said, "It's not a big deal. Such things were common in the old society... Well, I heard that a few decades ago, a foreigner came to the village to do business. Some brothers in the village got greedy and killed him in the dark. Because they didn't have much information at the time and he was a foreigner, they didn't pay much attention... If you want to investigate, at least there must be a victim, right?"
Zi Ling's mother couldn't help but frowned, "What did you say later?"
Old Wang said, "Later, for unknown reasons, the brothers died of illness one after another, and the villagers spread rumors that the ghost of the outsider was still there, and came back to seek revenge. The villagers were scared at the time, and they found a wandering Taoist priest who performed a ritual to save the soul. After that, every household began to have the custom of hanging up the Bagua mirror, and it is still the same in [Xinshangshui Village] until now."
"This was indeed a common occurrence in the old society..." Li Zi couldn't help but shake her head, "But this matter... has nothing to do with the Mu family, right?"
Old Wang was stunned and said, "I didn't say this matter had anything to do with the Mu family?"
"Well... the relationship has never been on the same wavelength?" Zi Ling's mother said unhappily, "What I'm asking is about the Mu family's execution of their daughter-in-law!"
Lao Wang blinked his eyes, "Big sister, you are talking about this... You should have said it earlier. I know this too. It was that the sister-in-law committed adultery with the brother-in-law, and the child was discovered. The brother-in-law was furious and drowned the woman in the lake. Later, the brother-in-law also committed suicide by the lake."
"She gave birth to a child?" Zi Ling's mother was stunned. "What happened to the child?"
"Throw it away. What's the point of keeping it? Is it going to annoy yourself?" Lao Wang said subconsciously.
Li Zi frowned and said, "Although the child was born from the adultery between my brother-in-law and my sister-in-law, it is still of Mu's bloodline, right? Can you just throw it away?"
Old Wang shrugged and said, "The second young master of the Mu family is not a biological child. He was brought back from outside and adopted by the old man of the Mu family at that time. He is not in the Mu family's genealogy at all... Well, in today's terms, the second young master is just a high-level cow and horse, who helps the Mu family do things. The eldest young master's wife was cheated on and gave birth to a bad boy. This... This is intolerable, right?"
Zi Ling's mother thought for a moment and asked, "How did the Mu family fall into decline?"
Old Wang said, "In the new society, the Mu family, as a big landlord, must have had a hard time. They were hated by everyone in those years, and soon they fell into decline. All they have left is a big house... Look, this is it."
As they were talking, after walking up the mountain road for about ten minutes, a mansion that had almost collapsed came into everyone's sight.
The old walls were mottled, as if they would fall down with a push. The exquisite Ling-style gardens of the past had long been buried in the rubble... Because of the heavy rain yesterday, a foul smell was spreading from this ruined mansion.
"See, I told you, there's nothing to see here." Lao Wang shook his head and pinched his nose and said, "Big sister, be careful, there might be dead rats or stray dogs hidden in there... It stinks!"
"Sister, it looks like we can't find any useful information here..." Li Zi shook her head.
Zi Ling's mother is the type who won't give up until she reaches the Yellow River. "Since we're here, why don't we go in and take a look... Oh, there's also a Bagua mirror hanging here?"
There was a place with a faint light under the eaves of the gate. Zi Ling's mother looked up and found that the toy was almost the same as the one hanging around her waist.
Li Zi took a casual look at it, and was suddenly stunned: This Bagua mirror... is actually a real thing?
The moment she stepped into the Mu family mansion, Li Zi felt a strong yin energy coming towards her... In an instant, the sound of a large number of flying birds chirping could be heard in the mountains and forests.
Barrier...barrier?
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It’s not a very powerful barrier. It feels like the magic power remaining on the Bagua Ancient Mirror is very little, and it is just barely maintaining the appearance of this small barrier.
The moment she entered the door, Li Zi couldn't help but look around.
No wonder I didn't feel anything spooky when I walked into the old site of Sheung Shui Village... Instead, all the spooky things were suppressed in this ancient mansion and were not visible.
"...Did you feel a cold wind or something?" Lao Wang suddenly shivered and shrank his neck.
"It's almost dark, isn't it normal to get cold?" Zi Ling's mother said with disdain: "You don't wear enough clothes, I feel quite warm... Lao Wang, your health is not good!"
"..."
Lao Wang smiled awkwardly. After all, he was not called Lao Wang for nothing. He really had great ambitions. His first practice object was his math teacher in high school...
Zi Ling's mother thought for a moment and said, "It's getting dark soon. If we go back too late, Old Deng will get worried. Let's split up and look for her."
Luo Qiu said calmly: "There are too many collapsed parts here, and there may be poisonous snakes hiding in the gaps. It is best not to act separately. It won't take much time for us to walk around."
"Oh... okay then." Zi Ling's mother nodded, without even refutating. Instead, she looked at Li Zi and said, "Remember to take more photos later. This style of ridge-style construction is rare... It's such a pity. I don't know if it will be possible to repair it later."
As she spoke, Zi Ling's mother took out her cell phone, turned on the camera, and as the lens moved, she began to record this ancient mansion that had a history of at least one or two hundred years.
"what is that……"
At this moment, Zi Ling's mother couldn't help but exclaimed, and quickly put down her mobile phone, staring at a pagoda pavilion hidden in the rockery in the garden in front of her.
"What did you see?" Luo Qiu's eyes narrowed slightly.
Zi Ling's mother hesitated and said, "I don't know... I didn't see it, but I think I took a picture of it..."
As she spoke, she quickly opened the photo album - she had just pressed the camera button subconsciously.
I saw a blurry figure flash by on the pagoda pavilion in the rockery of the garden in front... Because it was too blurry, I could only vaguely see that the figure was wearing an ancient red robe.
"…What is this? It feels like a costume?" Li Zi couldn't help but open her mouth.
"Fuck... I told you, there was a cold wind blowing just now!" Lao Wang's face changed drastically. "The sun hasn't even set yet, and it's so strong... Big sister, let's not commit suicide!"
The photo was taken by Zi Ling's mother herself, and she was also shocked at this moment...especially since various supernatural events are constantly emerging all over the world, it is no longer comparable to the godless society of the past.
"...Yeah, that's right." Zi Ling's mother forced herself to calm down. "Let's leave here first... Call the hotline of the Administration when we get back. Professional matters should be left to professionals... No, call now!"
Old Wang and the thin man suddenly looked at each other, then Old Wang winked, and while no one was paying attention to him, he suddenly pulled the rope from Zi Ling's mother's hand, and then the two of them ran straight out of the door!
"Hey, you guys!"
"Big sister, it's too fierce here! We can't hold on, so we ran away first! You guys better be careful!" Lao Wang bit the knot with his teeth without looking back.
"Yes, big sister, the road ahead is long, and we won't see each other again!" The thin man... ran faster.
"We can't let these two guys get away like this... chase them!"
Zi Ling's mother reacted immediately. How could she not know that Lao Wang and Skinny really wanted to run away at this moment to avoid being taken away and handed over to law enforcement later?
These two guys are familiar with the nearby terrain, and if someone hides in the mountains, they will definitely be nowhere to be found.
At this time, Zi Ling's mother had no time to be afraid. Her blood rushed to her head and she chased after him without saying a word.
"Sister, don't be impulsive!" Li Zi hurriedly followed, "Calm down!"
Seeing this, the maid couldn't help but chuckle, "Miss Ren is really full of energy."
Luo Qiu remembered something that happened a long time ago...Ye Yan told him.
When Zi Ling's mother met Luo's father, Zi Ling's mother was like this, chasing a thug alone, and was more fierce than them as law enforcement officers.
After it was over, Ziling's mother felt scared. She was shaking so much that her legs were so weak that she couldn't walk. She almost wet her pants and insisted that Luo's father take responsibility... and carry her home.
"Let her do whatever she wants." Luo Qiu said, looking back at the deep and ancient mansion, "Anyway... it's not a mistake to come here."
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"Old Wang, stop right there!!"
"You are a life-chasing ghost..."
Old Wang quickly turned around to take a look. Zi Ling’s mother looked just like a War Greymon, which was such a waste of her good looks!
"Brother, this way!" The thin man pulled Lao Wang and turned into a corridor in the mansion.
Lao Wang immediately understood what the thin guy meant...he was planning to use the terrain of this mansion to avoid the pursuit of the big sister!
"Let's hide separately!" Lao Wang added an action.
good idea!
The two of them quickly hid in the wall of a moon-shaped arch nearby.
When Zi Ling's mother and Li Zi chased into the Moon Arch, they suddenly couldn't see any trace of Lao Wang and Thin Man.
"Wait!"
Zi Ling's mother stared suspiciously at the space behind the archway...a small courtyard, and except for a wing room, everything could be seen at a glance.
Suddenly, Ziling's mother quietly pointed to a well in the yard.
Li Zi immediately understood.
Zi Ling's mother immediately picked up the original magic weapon embryo wood, and Li Zi also picked up the physical artifact... a brick covered with moss.
When I got closer to the well mouth, I saw ten claw-like fingers exposed at the edge of the well... The fingers were pale and trembling, and it was obvious that they could no longer support themselves.
Zi Ling's mother suddenly knocked on the well mouth twice with a piece of wood. She leaned over and looked, and saw the thin man hanging by the edge of the well mouth.
"Big...Big sister...Ahaha...What a coincidence..."
"Yes, what a coincidence." Zi Ling's mother said with a smile: "I think you are also very smart. How about climbing out by yourself? Or should I wait here and see when you can't hold on and fall down?"
The thin man swallowed his saliva, looked down at the dark well below, and said in a mournful tone: "No... Don't bother me, I can climb out by myself."
"Hurry up!" Zi Ling's mother knocked on the wellhead again.
By the time the thin guy climbed up with difficulty, he was already exhausted, and was directly tied up by Li with a rope behind his back... in the back-hand Guanyin style!
"Pear, this of yours..."
“…I learned this from watching that little broken website, ahahahaha!”
Zi Ling's mother was half-believing and half-doubting. Not to mention the power of this backhand Guanyin style, Skinny was really uncomfortable... Zi Ling's mother, who felt that she couldn't look directly at the pear, shook her head at this time, "Skinny, where is your big brother hiding?"
Adhering to the principle of not being caught alone and sharing the burden together, the thin man revealed Lao Wang's location without saying a word - he raised his chin calmly and pointed in a direction.
Zi Ling's mother and Li Zi looked at the room in the yard at the same time...they nodded, picked up their weapons again, and approached from the left and right.
"what--!"
At this moment, a scream was heard from the side room, and Lao Wang crawled out with blood all over his face.
“Ghost… there’s a ghost!! There’s a ghost!! Save me… save me!!”
Zi Ling's mother took a breath of cold air.
Then she saw a black shadow suddenly flying out from the house... She instinctively swung the wood in her hand, and it hit the black shadow!
There was a loud bang, and the black shadow was knocked back by the wood!
Only then could I see clearly that it was a guy wearing a loose costume and a theatrical mask... and only about 1.23 meters tall!
"Zhong Kui?" Li Zi was subconsciously stunned when she saw the strange guy's face.
Zi Ling's mother reacted, "There is a sense of impact... There is a physical body! This guy is not a spirit!"
Li Zi was one step faster at this time... Zi Ling's mother was too fierce, and she didn't dare let her continue to act recklessly. She might as well take action herself!
He threw the brick, the physics artifact in his hand, without saying a word!
The thing in the weird costume was startled for a moment, and it jumped up all of a sudden, and even made a sharp cry... Li Zi swung her backpack directly, with a demonic aura hidden in it, and as if she had calculated the angle of the thing's jump, she slapped it directly!
“Kachakakakaka—!!”
This swing actually knocked the strange guy against the wall. The mask on his face fell off, revealing a long face with bared teeth and covered with hair.
"Mandrill?!"
“Squeak, squeak, squeak—!!!”
The mandrill in costume growled angrily a few times and jumped out of the broken window next to it in an instant.
Just as Li Zi was about to chase after him, Zi Ling's mother suddenly shouted, "Stop chasing...Li Zi!"
"Sister, it's okay, this thing is just a mountain monkey..."
Li Zi turned around and saw that Zi Ling's mother seemed to be stunned...staring straight at the ground.
A piece of the floor had been removed, revealing a pitch-black gap.
"There is a passage here?" Li Zi was stunned and turned on the light from her mobile phone. The ground below was very shallow, less than three meters, and she could vaguely see a passage about one and a half meters high.
"It was probably built in the past as an escape route. Many ancient buildings have this. There may be a basement underneath to avoid disasters."
At this moment, Luo Qiu's voice came slowly.
Zi Ling's mother said excitedly at this time: "You are late, you don't know how exciting it was just now!"
Luo Qiu looked at Zi Ling's mother expressionlessly and said nothing. "I heard about it from Lao Wang and Skinny."
Then he saw Lao Wang hiding outside the door, his face full of claw marks, and he looked inside with a look of horror.
"It's a mandrill!" Li Zi pondered and said, "Could it be that this mandrill escaped from this tunnel? Why would a normal mandrill be dressed so strangely... Could it be that someone is raising it?"
Before she made the move, Li Zi had already secretly tested it and found that the mandrill was at most somewhat spiritual, without any demonic aura on its body. It was just an ordinary species.
"Let's go and see where this passage leads to." Zi Ling's mother obviously hadn't cooled down from her excitement yet, and she looked eager to try.
"Okay, but I'll go ahead." Luo Qiu said calmly.
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"Brother, is your face okay?"
"It just hurts a little."
Old Wang, who was also happy to have obtained the backhand Guanyin pose, was now lying on the ground with the thin man...unable to move.
"What do you think Big Sister and the others will encounter down there..."
"do not know……"
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Just as Luo Qiu had guessed, the secret passage had many entrances... all of them happened to be in the rooms of the mansion. This passage was obviously built to avoid danger.
Soon after, they walked along the passage and came to a spacious space.
There are many water tanks and wooden boxes placed here, and there is a smell of corruption.
"These should be food. Maybe the Mu family built them during the war to hide from enemy soldiers..." Zi Ling's mother took a quick look and made a guess.
After walking around, he suddenly found Luo Qiu standing in front of the door of one of the rooms.
"Boy, why are you standing there? Is there anything in there?" Zi Ling's mother came over curiously and took a picture of the room with her mobile phone.
The next moment, Zi Ling's mother instantly covered her mouth, and even subconsciously reached out to grab Luo Qiu's arm, her pupils dilated wildly.
"Report it to the police." Luo Qiu sighed and said in a low voice.
In this secret room, there were one, two... at least fifteen or sixteen skeletons nailed to the wall.
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Two hours later, several law enforcement patrol cars covered in yellow mud slowly drove up to the dilapidated gate of the Mu family mansion... Soon, many law enforcement officers got off.
Then a man in his forties came towards them with a serious expression.
"I'm Gao Liang, the captain of the county detachment. Who reported the case to you and how did you find out?" Gao Liang said in a deep voice, "I need to know all the details!"
"Me!" Zi Ling's mother said quickly, "Comrade in law enforcement, it was me...we reported the case! We discovered it together!"
So Zi Ling's mother told Gao Liang what had happened in detail.
"... Got it." Gao Liang nodded, and immediately ordered people to go into the mansion and head to the underground secret room with a large number of skeletons. "By the way, there is a person, do you know him?"
As he spoke, Gao Liang pointed to one of the cars… Inside the car, there was an old man sitting.
"Lao Deng?"
"We found him on the way into the village. We don't know how he fell into the slope. He is fine, he just fainted." Gao Liang explained briefly.
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Gao Liang let Zi Ling's mother and others enter the secret room again on the pretext of explaining what happened...even Lao Wang and Skinny were not spared.
Although these two brothers were engaged in outdoor exploration, had they ever seen so many skeletons, and they were confined in the same place?
The two brothers were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their legs trembled.
"Captain Gao, I've counted them carefully. There are a total of 17 skeletons." A law enforcement officer said nervously, "It looks like they've been dead for a while... As to whether they died at the same time, we need to test them. Also, based on the height analysis of these skeletons, the dead should not be very old... There should even be very young children among them."
Gao Liang subconsciously looked at the wall that was nailed with corpses... One of the skeletons was not even as high as his waist.
“It’s simply… insane!”
Zi Ling's mother muttered to herself in a daze.