Chapter 23 Pear Blossom Lantern Festival
Chapter 23 Pear Blossom Lantern Festival (V)
"I noticed that you all like to keep people guessing."
Liu Sheng's expression was very calm.
"So what's your answer?"
"Yue Shan" seemed not to hear Liu Sheng's complaints and asked again, then it was stunned.
A circle of purple magic suddenly appeared above its head, then slowly fell down and swept across its entire body.
Liu Sheng calmly held the "World" in his hands, waiting for the analysis results to appear.
Because they had no hands to hold the lanterns, the small tentacles that had grown a lot after absorbing a lot of strange energy rolled up all the lanterns.
[No high-dimensional analysis is possible, should we perform ordinary analysis? ]
"Yes."
After being modified by Liu Sheng, a prompt will be given before high-dimensional analysis, and options have been added to avoid being unconsciously trapped in it without any choice every time.
The "world" with much improved performance only needs to be scanned once to get the results.
Liu Sheng took a look and his expression cracked a little.
"Your true form is a pear tree?"
The screen read:
[Name: Pear Tree Ghost (incomplete)]
[Analysis completion: 100%]
[Effect description: Make lanterns, guess, change]
[Influence level: D]
[Analysis and evaluation: Everything started from a poor scholar named Zhang Hengyuan... He was really poor...]
The "world" is still so vicious. If people are poor, then so be it. Why emphasize it?
The "effect description" seemed to be written according to the thinking of the pear blossom tree ghost. Liu Sheng probably understood that this ghost liked to make lanterns and ask people to guess lantern riddles. If they couldn't guess or refused to guess, the ghost would turn people into lanterns.
Moreover, Liu Sheng noticed that since the upgrade, the first line of the analysis of "World" is no longer "Item Name", but directly "Name", probably because it is no longer limited to the analysis of items.
For example, the human-shaped tree monster in front of you.
"Yue Shan" didn't expect Liu Sheng to have such a cheating artifact. She saw through its body directly and let out a cold and sharp roar unwillingly.
Then it disappeared, along with its little booth.
Only one palace lantern was left floating in the air.
The little tentacle took the palace lantern, and Liu Sheng looked at it carefully. It was made of pear wood frame, covered with a thin layer of tanned leather, with an exquisite picture of a lady painted on it. Upon closer inspection, the lady's eyebrows and eyes looked a bit like Yue Shan.
There was a hazy moon in the sky and the streets were as dark as ink. The lanterns around Liu Sheng were still lit, illuminating the way ahead.
At the end of the street is a courtyard with a plaque on the door with three big characters "Zuibaiyuan" inscribed in vigorous handwriting.
Liu Sheng has been in Li County for two years and has heard of Zuibai Garden, a famous haunted house.
I heard that it was once the residence of a local aristocratic family hundreds of years ago, but its descendants were not up to par and the family gradually fell into decline. In addition, the family was not very prosperous, and eventually only an old madman was left in the entire family.
Later, when the stench of corpse filled the entire street, everyone finally realized that the old madman had died quietly at some point, and the room was full of garbage.
After the old madman died, the yard was completely abandoned and no one dared to live in it. One could only feel gusts of cold wind and feel dizzy when looking inside from the door. One could also vaguely hear the sound of an old man laughing crazily.
Later it was used to treat disobedient children. Once the child started crying, the parents would say that if the child continued crying, they would throw him to Zuibaiyuan and let an old madman be his father. The child would then dare not make trouble again.
……
Liu Sheng raised his hand and gently pushed open the gate. There was a slight creaking sound from the door hinge, which seemed to be a murmur of pain.
The strong strange aura inside the door hit her in the face, and Liu Sheng became dazed, and even the soul-fixing pendant was of little use. She bit the tip of her tongue, and the pain and the smell of blood made her sober.
Walking around the screen wall, the courtyard was in a state of decay, with an abandoned well, cracked floor tiles, dead leaves all over the ground, and spider webs everywhere.
The plaque in front of the carved hall door had fallen off halfway and was covered with cobwebs and dust. The writing was blurred, and only the word "Gong" could be vaguely seen.
The light in the carved hall was dim, but fortunately Liu Sheng brought many lights with him, so every detail was clearly visible.
The furniture in the hall has been eroded by time, the wooden parts have rotted, the paint has peeled off, and there is a musty smell in the air.
The tables and wooden shelves were empty, but from the decoration of the house one could tell that the owner of this house was once a well-off, scholarly family.
But now everything has turned to dust of time.
Passing through the dark carved hall and arriving at the inner garden, the view suddenly opens up.
The scene revealed here forms a sharp contrast with the darkness outside.
All I could see was bright white. It turned out to be countless pure white pear blossoms falling and dancing like snow.
The garden is centered on a pool of water with a thick layer of fallen flowers floating on the water. There are winding corridors on three sides of the pool and strange rocks standing all around. A small pavilion stands on a rockery overlooking the pool. Next to the pavilion is a huge pear tree with branches piled with snow-white clouds, covering the sky and the sun. The entire garden is completely shrouded by the canopy of the pear tree.
The only drawback is that the trunk of the pear tree is too thick and strong. It would probably take ten people holding hands to hug it. It occupies too much area, and its branches have even grown into the surrounding corridors.
What's even more disgusting is that the bark is not what we usually see, but a reddish-brown translucent film that looks slippery and has some red mucus.
Under the "bark", you can vaguely see some black, red, and white things, and they jump from time to time.
Liu Sheng walked carefully around the pond towards the giant pear tree.
I got a little closer and took a closer look. I saw that the black thing was hair, the red thing was flesh and blood, and the white thing was bones, filling the tree trunk up.
There are people everywhere!
I'm afraid it's those people who disappeared mysteriously!
As he read on, Liu Sheng felt dizzy, and some messy and unpredictable hallucinations appeared before his eyes.
Don't watch it anymore. If you continue you will become crazy.
Liu Sheng forced himself to calm down.
This should be the source of everything, the pear tree that turned into a strange creature.
The palace lantern in her hand seemed to sense that its original body was right in front of it, and began to shake violently, as if trying to return to its original body.
But "Mom" held it tightly, and it could only float forward eagerly but could not move.
Liu Sheng noticed that some people in the tree trunk seemed to be groaning silently with their mouths open, and their hands and feet were moving and struggling, so the "bark" was disturbed and became concave and convex, and it looked like it was beating non-stop.
Someone is still alive.
Maybe Wang Dongdong is in it too!
There should be another little sister of Wang Dongdong, named Chunxian or something.
Liu Sheng knew that every time he took action, more people would turn into fertilizer for the pear trees.
But she still needs to confirm it, because any rash action will only cause herself to suffer losses.
Then I don’t know when someone will come to rescue these people and myself.
So Liu Sheng took out "The World" again, stood far away, and gave an order. A purple magic circle large enough to accommodate its huge body rose above the pear tree and slowly fell down.
[There is a possibility of high-dimensional analysis. Should we conduct high-dimensional analysis? ]
Liu Sheng took out the talisman activator and slapped three amulets on his body first, at least to ensure that his body would be safe for a period of time during the high-dimensional analysis.
Then enter: Yes.
(End of this chapter)