Returning from the abyss

Chapter 5 The first day of fear

The sound of heavy rain hitting the roof wall made a disturbing sound.Lu Ning originally liked rainy days very much, but now this kind of rainstorm with muffled thunder can only increase her uneasiness.

"Who found the body first?"

The white-collar worker pointed at the woman who was startled, and then continued to shrink back.Seeing this, Yin Lian could only shake her head, and walked deep into the corridor.

"Wait! It might be dangerous!" Shi Song quickly stopped her.

"A ghost has already killed someone, and now my chance of hitting a ghost has been reduced from 29/[-] to [-]/[-]. I don't think I'm so unlucky." Yin Lian walked into the corridor without looking back. .

"Oh, she's the most courageous person I've ever met." Yu Zhisong raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "But it makes sense, there are limits to ghosts killing people, if the information didn't lie to us."

He didn't realize that his words had added terror to many people, so he put his hands in his pockets and went to look at the corpse.

Lu Ning is also more courageous, and she also found that her fear of death is not so serious, so she also caught up with Yin Lian.

The death of the corpse was quite tragic, and the man's expression was also distorted because the neck was severed, but this was more impactful to the three who had seen the situation in the gardener's hut before.Many of the people who came over afterward were frightened, and they only dared to hide from a distance and were unwilling to come over.

Yin Lian squatted down and began to rummage through the corpse, and Lu Ning also tacitly began to pull the clothes of the deceased away. The actions of the two made the faces of the nouveau riche who rushed over turn green.

"Are you perverts? There are two ghosts who didn't kill people, so you just rummaged through the corpses of the dead?"

Yu Zhisong snorted, he wanted to turn it over, but was robbed by Yin Lian and Lu Ning, so he could only watch, so he turned to the upstart:

"Are you stupid? This guy was so cowardly that he wanted to run back. He didn't even notice something that might save his life. Such a timid person would leave the group and run out to use the bathroom when the time was running out? Besides, you guys What do people do to eat? You acted arrogantly, but when you came back, you let a ghost kill one of you just when the time was up?"

The nouveau riche is not a vegetarian either. He stared and shouted from a distance: "What do you know, you little brat? Why should I care about this person? As long as you live to be the last nine people, you are safe. Do you think I don't know? He's dead Bad luck for him!"

This sentence immediately offended several people, but the upstart was quite disdainful: "What are you looking at? Everyone knows it clearly in their hearts, so don't pretend to be working together. Killing 21 people in seven days is an elimination game after all, Lao Tzu To protect myself from pushing you into the mouth of ghosts, is it possible to be a Bodhisattva who saves the world? A bunch of hypocrites!"

"Heh, hypocrisy? If we can fight against ghosts, you will regret it if so many people die because of your passive attitude!" A young woman in Yu Zhisong's team also stood up to support her own.

"That's right, what's your attitude? Since you say we're hypocritical, don't hide what you find, just tell it." The man in the couple also summoned up his courage to say something.

The upstart glanced at the people: "Haha? Want to provoke me? So what if I tell you? I have a elixir that can make ghosts detour. Now you are questioning me with a bully face, waiting to be chased by ghosts." Even if you kneel on the ground and beg, I won't give you one!"

"Qingzheng Pill, according to the introduction, it is a elixir synthesized from the dregs of Penglai's elixir. It contains innate clear qi, and it can make people emit a disgusting smell like insect repellent potion."

Just when the quarrel was about to escalate, Yin Lian spoke up.

"There is only one bottle and one pill in the introduction, but it seems that you have a lot of breath medicine. Now that I have a gun, I won't say anything. You just take this to keep yourself safe. If you are still alive after seven days, you might as well come again." Laugh at everyone."

"You... what do you mean?"

The meaningful words in Yin Lian's mouth obviously made the nouveau riche feel a little uneasy.

"You don't think that everything will be fine if the ghost hates it? People are so hungry that they can eat things they don't like, and the ghost goes crazy... Humph."

The nouveau riche's face turned pale, he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything, he turned around and ran back upstairs.

"Finally chased away." Yin Lian exhaled, wiped the blood on the dead man's clothes, and then threw an object the size of a lighter to Yu Zhisong.

"Eh? This is..."

Yu Zhisong copied it and found that it was a wooden cylinder with more than a dozen circles engraved in unknown characters, and the bottom of the cylinder depicted the shapes of a skull and a pentagram.

"Catalogue of summoning spirits, there are not very good things in the collection, which can attract ghosts to protect themselves. It is also said that many people were killed by the ghosts they summoned. This person probably wanted to take a gamble that he quietly summoned a bodyguard. As a result, I don’t know if I succeeded and was killed by the summoned ghost, or if I didn’t succeed, I was killed by the ghost in the house.” Yin Lian wiped her hands twice, but found that it was not clean, and frowned and looked around.

"Are you so relieved for me?" Yu Zhisong smiled slightly.

"It's pretty reliable for you."

Of course, these words refer to the matter that Yu Zhisong also investigated in the gardener's cottage before.

"Oh, I will like you if you say so, Miss Sister."

"I won't like you if you say that, where is there a place to wash your hands?"

Yu Zhisong laughed loudly, and waved his hands: "I'll take you there, but since you think this thing is not good, why don't you keep it yourself?"

This question was actually asked to the onlookers. People like Lu Ning, who searched with Yin Lian from the beginning, already understood her thoughts.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

afternoon.

Since the first deceased appeared, after wrapping the body in a sheet and putting it over the gardener's hut, everyone gathered and counted the number. There are still 29 people.

Another question that Yin Lian is more worried about is whether the soul-calling catalog has been used, and whether there are new ghosts here. After careful observation, the woman with glasses gave a relatively positive answer, that is, she has never used it.

"The book records that if a similar item is used, the text on it will become blurred, which means it is a one-time use. Since this is still so clear, it has never been used."

"It seems that the interpretation went well." Someone said.

The woman with glasses is also very confident: "Except for some proper nouns that may take some time to guess, the rest of the content is not difficult, but the whole book has a lot of text, so I will read the parts that seem more useful first. "

"So, is there anything useful?"

"Well, part of it introduces the reverse ritual, but this part is more difficult to understand, I still need to spend some time..."

At this moment, several people pushed the dining cart back to the restaurant.

Cooking also became a problem under such circumstances. Finally, the young woman in Yu Zhisong's team, the woman in the couple and Ling Yan said they could go, and called a few more people to help, and finally formed the cooking lineup.

"Can Miss Yin Lian know how to cook?" Lu Ning was a little curious.

"I usually either take out or go to the restaurant, and I rarely cook. I have never done anything other than cooking and fried rice." Yin Lian chatted with everyone while studying the dagger.

"For a strong woman, it's normal not to pay too much attention in life." Yu Zhisong also interjected.

"I pay attention to my life, and I will not treat myself badly even in the busiest time." Yin Lian seemed a little unhappy, but only Lu Ning next to her could detect this emotion.

And this time, the lunch was just a variety of stir-fried vegetables, steamed rice in a large pot, and chopped sauces.Someone died just now, and the appetites of those who participated in moving the corpse were only average, and Yin Lian didn't eat much.On the contrary, the nouveau riche went downstairs and ate and drank with his two attendants. He was quite sensible, and he didn't make any comments at this time, which also made the lunch quiet down a lot.

After the lunch was over, everyone was packing the tableware while talking in low voices, and the atmosphere seemed to become more harmonious again.

"I want to take a shower."

someone suggested.

Before moving the corpse out of the house, even if someone helped to open the umbrella, many people got wet, and now it feels very uncomfortable to stick their clothes to their bodies.

"Won't it be dangerous?" Police officer Xiao Liu was a little worried.

Yin Lian shook her head: "There are two bathing pools here, just a little more people bring things to go there, even if we don't do anything, the danger will not be reduced."

"Wow, I thought you were going to object." The first girl who entered the room happily took the hand of the woman with glasses, and they ran upstairs together.

"What are they doing?" Yin Lian was a little surprised.

Zhang Fuyuan lit a cigarette and took a puff comfortably: "You haven't looked at the room yet, right? The room here is like a hotel, and everything is quite complete. They are looking for bathrobes."

"Master Zhang understands very well." Yu Zhisong said with a smile.

"If you have a daughter, you have to understand, especially when you are very clingy to your parents."

When Zhang Fuyuan said this, his face became much gentler, as if recalling something beautiful.Yu Zhisong grinned: "Then I'll join in the fun too. Anyway, if there are two pools, it's no problem to separate men and women."

The leaders were all interested, and the young men and women in Yu Zhisong's team couldn't help but go out together. Lu Ning didn't go out with him, but he didn't follow him when he felt lucky. Besides Zhang Fuyuan and Yin Lian, the nouveau riche group of three The people went back to the room after eating, the white-collar man and the woman with heavy makeup also stayed in the hall and refused to run around without saying anything. , and the rest are more or less meant to be cleaned up.

"Everyone divide into batches, Uncle Hong, please protect everyone." Yin Lian asked the most reliable group of people here.

"Do not worry."

Yin Lian looked at Shi Song and Gongsunyou again: "Let's go and pick a room. Since there are two people in the room here, we'd better... move together at any time."

The moment of hesitation probably meant team action, but it is unrealistic for so many people to guarantee that they are always together. Many people have a little secret, and the props that can resist ghosts have become erected beside everyone. The wall separates them.

"Is Sister Yin Lian worried about the future?" When going upstairs, Lu Ning asked, "Do you think everyone can't survive?"

"No, there are other reasons why I don't let everyone be together all the time. I have some guesses...Forget it, it's best to figure out how to use what we have now."

The rooms on the second floor are indeed luxuriously decorated, with a full set of Western-style furniture decoration. The warm brown tone alleviates the gloomy feeling brought by the outside weather, and the bright white light source is also bright when the lights are turned on.Although Tang Yuanzhen liked the retro style when he built the villa, the modern things were not left behind.

Lu Ning went into the bathroom and turned around. There is no bathroom, but there is already a flush toilet. In order to unify the style, the sink is actually made in a style similar to a dressing table, with a round mirror mounted on the shelf, giving people a feeling in a movie , even Lu Ning, who has no research, likes this decoration style very much.

"Where are the rich people?" Lu Ning sighed after coming out.

Yin Lian nodded: "Tang Yuanzhen, we already know that he is inseparable from these mysterious things. Such a person is either poor to death or rich enough to burn his hands, not to mention the truth, then he is more likely to be a The invisible rich man. This villa is probably the place where he devoted himself to researching those things. Judging from the things we found, it can almost be inferred..."

"... something happened here."

Lu Ning, who is well versed in the theory of not being dead, also guessed the plot. Just because there are so many things related to occultism collected here, it can be seen how many secrets there are.Something must have happened to Tang Yuanzhen later, which caused the villa to become the ghost it is now, and he himself probably will not end well.

(End of this chapter)