It’s over, I’m surrounded by weirdos and players

Chapter 134: Entering the Ancestral Hall Again (4084 words in total)

ten minutes later.

Lin Yi confirmed that the other party had left, gently turned the doorknob, and slowly opened the door.

In an instant, a horrific scene appeared before his eyes.

There were bright red palm prints everywhere on the door, as if someone had slapped them hard, and bright red blood stains were all over it, smeared on it irregularly.

But he didn't hear anyone knocking on the door just now.

Lin Yi moved his eyes away from the palm prints and turned to the aisle.

There was chaos in the aisles.

Spots of blood sprayed on the floor, forming a strange path that extended all the way down.

It was probably left behind by the red figure dragging it.

The deepest part of the blood stain was near the window. No wonder the window glass was also bloody.

This is very strange.

Bian Yi was silent for a few seconds before speaking: "No, Dake and I have never mentioned it to anyone."

Unless it is a blood feud, there is no need for players to start such a big thing.

The silence is scary.

An eerie and terrifying aura hit his face.

Nothing special, just an ordinary footprint, much smaller than a boy's.

A gust of cold wind blew in the face, mixed with a faint smell of blood, and the blood stains were still extending outward.

"No. We decided to come to you temporarily after we separated. They probably didn't know." Bian Yi shook his head again, and it didn't look like he was telling lies.

"Eighty percent accurate."

The blood trail led them across the street to the gate of the ancestral hall.

Then he was dragged away by the red figure.

"I'll go with you." Bian Yi stood up and looked at Lin Yi, "At least the two of us have someone to take care of us."

Facing Lin Yi's doubts, Bian Yi pointed to the glass window and explained: "The red figure did not appear on the window just now, and the blood stain was not completely covered after it appeared, so compare it with the blood stain on the glass window , we can almost estimate the height.”

Lin Yi noticed the difference in the expression of the person next to him, raised his eyes and asked, "Do you know him?"

The second explanation is that the other party thought this place was safe and could save his life, but it turned out not to be the case.

When Bian Yi saw the ring on his severed finger, a look of uneasiness flashed across his face, and his body froze slightly.

Lin Yi prefers the second option. After all, the first option is too risky and can easily put himself in danger.

There was a suffocating silence around, and everyone in the village went to participate in the ancestor worship procession.

"It can also be judged based on the depth of the footprints, the sound of the other party singing, and the traces of dragging."

The face is distorted, the eyes bulge outward, and the fierce fangs are exposed.

At that time, it was just a short meeting, and I didn't pay much attention to whether the two people were wearing rings on their hands.

"When we came, there was no one behind us." Bian Yi obviously thought of this situation and directly denied it, "If you want to know the answer, it's better to keep following up and take a look."

"Are you sure?" Lin Yi leaned over curiously, followed Bian Yi's example and squatted down to look left and right at the bloody footprints.

The stone lions standing on both sides of the door lost their former majesty, revealing a ferocious and terrifying appearance.

There must be some purpose for coming here.

"Not even Ah Jiu and Ah Qi?" Lin Yi remembered that Ke Shaoyun had introduced the two players to him before.

"I'm not familiar with it." Bian Yi shook his head and continued: "I've seen people in the tour group wearing it on their hands."

The two people followed the blood stains all the way down the stairs. The stairwell was filled with a strong smell of blood that had not dissipated.

Judging from the traces at the scene, Lin Yi speculated that the other party ran to the door of the room and was caught by the red figure. He was attacked and then struggled, leaving bloody fingerprints.

Even the chirping of birds disappeared.

It was a temporary decision, no one else knew about it, and we were not familiar with each other.

But how do you tell the height and age?

Lin Yi stared at the trace that was dragged out, thought for a moment and said, "I want to follow up and see what it is."

The first explanation is that Bian Yi and the others were followed by someone when they came here. The other party came here intentionally to harm people, but something went wrong and failed. .

They continued to walk toward the gate, and the blood stains continued to extend into the distance.

The door was also stained with blood, and blood dripped from the door frame.

Bian Yi walked out of the room, walked around the area, squatted next to a bloody footprint and gestured twice, "Looking at the footprint, it should be a little girl, fifteen or sixteen years old, about one meter six tall."

Lin Yi and Bian Yi looked at each other, and finally decided to follow them and have a look.

"Does anyone in the tour group know that you are here?" Lin Yi followed Bian Yi's words and continued to ask. He did not think that the players were just finding a place to escape.

A small fragment of the finger was stuck between the cracks in the door frame. It looked like someone had left it behind after a desperate struggle.

Why are you here?

Lin Yi thought for a long time and could only think of two explanations.

For a moment, Lin Yi felt that the two stone lions were like living creatures that would wake up and rush towards him at any time.

He could feel that the ancestral hall at this time was completely different from before, and perhaps there was a greater danger hidden inside.

"Do you still want to go in?" Bian Yi also noticed the changes in the ancestral hall. Looking at the blood stains on the ground that continued to wind forward, he felt a little hesitant.

Lin Yi said firmly: "Come in."

We have come, there is no reason to give up halfway.

He stepped into the gate of the ancestral hall, and when he passed the stone lions, a gust of wind blew past, and a strange roar sounded vaguely in his ears, shrill and heavy.

It hit his heart instantly.

Lin Dun froze on the spot for a moment, an inexplicable despair welling up in his heart, almost drowning him in endless pain and darkness.

"What's wrong?" Bian Yi found Lin Yi stopped and reached out to pat his shoulder.

This shot immediately woke up Lin Yi, "It's okay, let's go."

This emotion goes away quickly.

Neither of them noticed that the eyes of the stone lion behind them moved slightly.

Entering the ancestral hall again, Lin Yi found that it was also filled with an unsettling atmosphere.

His eyes fell on the table. The front of the gold-painted tablet fell down, leaving only the back exposed.

What's even more chilling is that there is a bright red word 'escape' written on the back of the tablet.

I don’t know who left it and who it was to remind.

There were twelve yellow incense sticks in the incense burner in front of the tablet, which had been broken and extinguished.

Judging from the number, there were four players entering the ancestral hall.

In addition, all the remaining tablets were smashed to the ground, with broken wood slag and broken tablets scattered everywhere, as if they had suffered a major accident.

Lin Yi and Bian Yi searched in two directions, but found no other useful information except the traced blood trail.

"Before the blood stains, something had already happened here. Four people entered the ancestral hall, but there was no way to tell who came and whether they were still in the ancestral hall." Bian Yi withdrew his gaze and walked to the blood-stained back door. Location.

"I probably know who two of them are, but I don't know if the person who was dragged back is one of the four." Lin Yi walked over and looked at the blood stains on the threshold, "If so, the situation should not be good. ”

Bian Yi looked up at Lin Yi and asked, "Who is it?"

"The two who talked to you that morning when the body was found." Lin thought for a while and then explained, "I accidentally saw the girl among them holding some incense in her hand."

"Exactly like the one on the incense burner."

"They are not good people. Stay away next time you meet them." After Bian Yi finished speaking, he reached out and touched the dried blood on the threshold: "Why do you think she had to drag people here? Don't you find it troublesome?" Lin One: "Maybe it's to go home and eat slowly?"

Bian Yi: "."

Lin Yi: "You can't think that the other person is too dirty and want to wash it off before you bite, right?"

Bian Yi: "."

Seeing Bian Yi's speechless expression, Lin Yi squinted at him and asked, "Or do you have a better explanation?"

"No, I saw the blood went to the backyard." Bian Yi finished dryly and quickly changed the subject.

He was afraid that if he continued talking, some weirder answer might come out.

The two men continued following the blood trail to the backyard.

It was the first time for Lin Yi to come to the backyard, and everything here was unfamiliar.

"It's strange, the bloodstain disappeared here." Bian Yi stood in front of a stone wall. The last trace of bloodstain stayed on it. There was nothing outside the stone wall, and it was desolate.

There is a mural painted on the stone wall, which looks like a scene from a sacrificial ceremony.

Although the entire mural has only one color, it is very detailed.

In the picture, there is an old man standing on a high platform with his hands clasped together.

His prayer posture is very pious.

There is a rolling pool below the high platform, which seems to exude a mysterious atmosphere.

The surrounding villagers were kneeling and praying with their eyes closed.

They are also pious gestures.

Lin Yi and Bian Yi quietly observed the mural, but found nothing.

It's just a very ordinary and normal mural.

Bian Yi suggested: "Look around, maybe there are some triggering mechanisms."

"Okay, then you can help me." Lin Yi nodded quickly.

The two men split up and searched the backyard for any possible clues.

In the entire backyard, apart from the three locked rooms, there was only a filled-in well, and there was nothing else of note around it.

Bian Yi looked at the old-fashioned lock on the door, turned to Lin Yi and asked, "It's all locked. Why don't you go back and look for the key?"

"No need." Lin Yi said, reaching out to take off the brooch decorated on his clothes, and poked it a few times.

There was a click and the lock was opened.

Like this old-fashioned lock, the surface coating has faded several layers of color, and it looks very old at first glance.

It can be easily opened by poking it with something long and hard.

It took him less than two minutes in total to open the locks of all six rooms.

"Awesome!" Bian Yi gave Lin Yi a thumbs up in surprise.

The two men searched the room again.

When he searched the last room, Lin Yi found that although the furniture and items inside were very old, they were clean and tidy.

Not a trace of dust.

Compared to the two rooms I searched before, this one is obviously cleaned every day.

Soon he discovered a genealogy and an account book in a drawer.

The names recorded in the genealogy are all the names of the villagers of Yunlai Village.

Everything from the founding of the village to the present has been recorded one by one.

The last page is also marked with a line of small words: This genealogy was recorded when the village was founded. This is the only copy that will be passed down from generation to generation.

No wonder it's such a thick book.

Lin Yi weighed the family tree in his hand. It weighed at least a few kilograms.

As for the ledger, it’s a bit strange.

Turning over the first page, the word "Income and Expenditure" is written, and the content of each subsequent page is the name of the person plus a number.

For example, Hu Yi +1, Wei Yongyun -1, Ge Mei 0.

Numbers with a plus sign are marked in red, numbers with a minus sign are marked in black, and zeros are marked in gray.

I don't understand what it means at all, and I don't know what kind of income and expenditure are recorded.

The date only has the year and month, and I don’t know what it means.

"What is this?" Bian Yi walked in after searching the room on the other side and saw the strange account book in Lin Yi's hand.

"I don't know." Lin Yi looked up at Bian Yi and asked, "How are you doing there? Have you gained anything?"

Bian Yi sighed and replied: "There is nothing except a handful of yellow and red incense on the tablet."

"The problem is still with the murals." Lin Yi put away the account books and genealogy and walked out of the room.

Bian Yi followed, and the two of them began to stare at the murals on the stone wall again.

After careful observation, Lin Yi finally discovered a tiny clue in the lower right corner of the stone wall.

There is a villager hidden among the crowd who moves differently from others. Instead of clasping his hands together, one of his palms only has four fingers.

Lin Yi quickly reached out and pressed towards the villager.

This action seemed to trigger some kind of mechanism, and the sound of gears turning immediately came from the stone wall.

Along with the change in sound, the stone wall in front of them also experienced surprising changes.

In less than ten seconds, the stone wall moved to create a narrow entrance downwards.

Seen from above, it is dark inside with no light. It is a dark passage.

"This is it." Bian Yi took out the flashlight in his pocket and shined it into the passage. The blood stains were continuing along the entrance.

At the same time, Lin Yi's ears moved, and he heard the sound of drums not far away.

According to the order of the ancestor worship procession, they will return to the ancestral hall after leaving the village.

"Hurry up, the ancestor worship team is almost at the entrance of the ancestral hall."

Lin Yi didn't hesitate at all, and immediately made a decision and urged Bian Yi to get into the entrance.

As soon as the two people entered the passage, the stone wall behind them immediately moved to close the entrance.

The next second, candlelight lit up the dark passage.

The next second, the dark passage suddenly lit up with candlelight.

Red candles hung on the walls on both sides of the passage, lighting up the entire passage.

Every once in a while, there is a candle, illuminating the passage.

The weak light of the candlelight shines on the wall, reflecting a warm red glow.

The candle flickered with a faint flame, illuminating the road ahead of Lin Yi and Bian Yi.

As the light illuminated, their vision began to become clearer, and they also saw clearly the bones scattered in the corridor.

The presence of bones made the atmosphere weird again.

These bones were randomly discarded on the ground. Some were skulls, some were hand bones, and some were leg bones.

Lin Yi and Bian Yi exchanged glances for a moment and became more cautious.

A greater danger is still waiting for them behind

(End of this chapter)