Chapter 94 Entering the Ancient House
Chapter 94 Entering the Ancient House (Additional Update)
With everyone's reminder, Zhou Deng quickly recalled that he had encountered the Red and White Devils in that cemetery before.
However, the moment Zhou Deng turned the lantern, everyone immediately saw a scene that made everyone's backs chill.
As the white light of the lantern enveloped the back door, two figures, one red and one white, appeared in front of everyone.
Although the two figures took a step back and quickly disappeared into the darkness after being enveloped by the white light, they were still noticed by everyone.
"Red and White Devils!"
Yang Jian stared at Bai Sha. At this time, the red and white Sha were less than three meters away from the entrance of the ancient house.
It seemed that it was the white light from the lanterns that prevented the two ghosts from entering the ancient house.
"Zhou Deng, you actually attracted the Red and White Devils here." Yang Jian stared at Zhou Deng with cold eyes.
This was the first time that when he faced someone who had no ill will towards him, he felt a strong urge to kill the other person from deep in his heart.
Not only Yang Jian, but other ghost riders and messengers were also staring at Zhou Deng at this time.
"This lantern seems to have the ability to isolate and attract evil spirits, making it impossible for those evil spirits to attack the people inside. But I don't know how long it can hold out." Yan Yan said in a deep voice.
"If it was any other ghost, it would be fine. We don't need to pay too much attention to it. Now it doesn't matter if any other ghosts appear. As long as the balance is not broken, ghosts dare not easily set foot in this ancient house."
Old Eagle looked at Yang Jian and asked, "If the Red and White Devils enter the house, I'm afraid we will all die here, right?"
"Almost." Yang Jian nodded with a serious face.
"The Red and White Devils, even I don't dare to face them. Once they enter the house and kill people, we can't stop them."
"Don't worry, if the ghost follows me from the old forest, I will be responsible for leading the ghost away." Zhou Deng said while standing outside the door.
Then he went away again, taking the lantern.
It seemed to be heading in the direction of the gate of the ancient house. I don't know whether it was really intending to lead the ghost away or had some other ideas.
The others watched Zhou Deng leave without saying anything. Now that things had come to this, the best solution was to let Zhou Deng lead the evil spirit away.
"This Zhou Deng is simply a madman. He's walking around with a lantern. He's simply looking for death." Someone cursed with gritted teeth, obviously very dissatisfied with Zhou Deng.
"I'm sure he will be attacked by a ghost outside today. I don't believe he will be so lucky that he can always turn danger into safety."
Zhou Deng left the old house, and Zhang Hao, attracted by the scene, immediately followed him.
Time passes little by little.
Zhou Deng led Zhang Hao and the others to wander aimlessly in the old forest near the ancient house. The supernatural power affected Zhou Deng's senses, making him unable to distinguish the direction.
"Tread! Tread!"
I didn't know how long I wandered, but I heard footsteps in the woods in the distance.
Zhang Hao looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a woman.
The other person was wearing a red flag and a pair of red high-heeled shoes, as bright as blood, with a rusty scarf hanging around his waist, and was walking slowly towards this side.
"That's Zhang Youhong!"
In the darkness, Zhang Hao stared at the other person. The woman in cheongsam looked very strange.
It looks like a human, but it walks very stiffly, looking more like a ghost, and the expression on its face is strange and numb.
After getting closer, the woman seemed to discover Zhou Deng in the lantern.
She raised her hand stiffly, and several puppets that looked almost like living people suddenly appeared there.
Apart from some traces of wood splicing on their bodies, those puppets looked no different from living people.
Zhang Hao looked at the puppets. They looked exactly like the seven elders he saw in the cemetery when they were young.
But compared to the seven elders in the black and white portraits, there are more cracks on their faces.
As soon as the puppet appeared, he attacked Zhou Deng.
"Knock! Knock! Knock!" A strange and terrifying knock on the door sounded, like someone's heart being knocked.
Even Zhang Hao couldn't help feeling fearful when he heard the voice.
At the same time, the soil on the ground began to move at this moment.
The soil seemed to be soaked with blood, and it was scarlet and rotten. After being lifted up, it began to roll towards Zhou Deng.
The white lantern that had previously been able to prevent Zhou Deng from being attacked by Zhang Hao offered no resistance at all when faced with the smelly, blood-red grave soil.
"Liu Qingqing, who was possessed by Zhang Youhong, actually ignored the protection of the white lantern."
Zhang Hao looked at this scene and felt a little surprised.
But he soon realized that he could not ignore it because in his own perception he was a ghost.
Now Liu Qingqing, who is possessed by Zhang Youhong, is still a human being and a living person, but she has been affected by Zhang Youhong's supernatural power.
Therefore, the ability of the white lantern to attract evil spirits and prevent them from attacking the living people inside is ineffective against Liu Qingqing, who is still a living person.
Just like Yang Jian, although he is an alien, in his cognition he is still a human being, so he can use supernatural powers in the White Lantern at will.
This is the behavioral difference brought about by identity.
The identity of an evil spirit prevents Zhang Hao from being affected by the erosion of revived evil spirits when he controls other evil spirits. Similarly, his behavior will be affected by the evil spirits' instincts.
"Shit! Is it the woman next to Yang Jian and the others?"
Zhou Deng's face changed. He hurriedly took out a human skin mask and put it on his face, then threw away the white lantern.
As he walked along this path, the aura of a living person disappeared from his body, and he looked no different from a ghost.
At this time, Liu Qingqing seemed to have lost her target, and the puppets disappeared.
But at this time, she looked in the direction of Zhang Hao.
No, to be precise, he should be looking in the direction of the bride.
However, although Liu Qingqing was looking at the bride, she showed no signs of launching an attack.
Liu Qingqing's current situation is very strange. She seems to have the consciousness of a living person, but her behavior is like that of a ghost.
At this time, because no one was holding the white lantern, the evil spirits around also appeared.
I don’t know when, but there were more than a dozen terrifying ghosts near the white lanterns, and each of them was very terrifying.
This scared Zhou Deng, who was wearing a human skin mask and disguised as a ghost.
He looked at the place not far away. At this moment, Liu Qingqing seemed to have some kind of conflict with the Red and White Devils. Seeing this, he hurriedly pretended to be a ghost and wandered outside.
After Zhou Deng left, the white lantern seemed to have lost its ability to attract evil spirits when no one was holding it.
The evil spirits around began to leave aimlessly. Liu Qingqing seemed to have set her sights on Zhou Deng. At this time, she left the place with stiff steps, following the direction the other party left.
Seeing this, Zhang Hao walked up to the white lantern and put it into the ghost den.
This thing can attract evil spirits. Maybe I can use it in the future. I'll put it away for now.
At worst, in the future, when there is a funeral, having two ghosts holding white lanterns can attract more evil spirits to approach.
After putting away the lantern, Zhang Hao had no plans to take any action.
Although there is nothing to tell time, judging from Zhou Deng's appearance, it is probably time to announce the death in the old house now.
It will take at least one or two days before Yang Jian opens the red room.
Zhang Hao and the ghost bride just stood there, motionless, waiting quietly like two dead people.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Hao finally heard voices in the old forest.
From afar, an attractive white light appeared in the old forest, and the voice came from there.
Zhang Hao immediately took the ghost bride to the place where the sound came from.
"The corpse in black clothes is not it." Zhang Hao heard such a voice as soon as he approached.
When I got closer, I saw sparse noises coming from not far away from the old house.
A group of people holding lanterns were digging in the soil along an old tree that looked dark and strange, and it seemed like they had been digging for a while.
A pit gradually appeared in front of us.
The soil in the pit was also black and gave off a rancid smell, as if it had been mixed with some blood and then rotted and deteriorated.
The soil was very loose and everyone could dig it up easily using the simplest tools. When they dug down about a meter, they found it.
The outline of a twisted corpse emerged. The corpse was rotten and smelly, and was covered with tree roots, as if the tree had grown by absorbing nutrients from the corpse.
The corpse looked weird and the tree also looked very weird.
As if after deciding that what they dug out was not what they wanted, those people continued to be busy and filled back the soil that they had dug out with great difficulty.
“Are you digging for mourning clothes?”
Zhang Hao's eyes moved slightly and he quickly understood the current situation.
Now Yang Jian and others should be digging out the evil ghosts under the big trees near the haunted house and looking for mourning clothes among them.
Looking at another tree that Yang Jian and others were digging, half of the corner of a white dress was exposed under the soil. Although it was stained with filth, it was still clearly distinguishable.
But the clothes were very torn and rotten, with holes all over them, as if they would oxidize and break at any time. No one knew how long the clothes had been buried under the old tree.
"It's really the same as Zhou Deng said, there are white clothes." Fan Xing looked at it in surprise.
He didn't believe it before, but now that the evidence was before him, he had no choice but to believe it.
Continue digging the soil next to it.
Only then did everyone see clearly what was under the soil.
A rotten and blackened corpse, without any flesh or blood, only a skeleton remained. It was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, and the clothes she was wearing were not white.
Instead, it was wrapped in a piece of white cloth, like a shroud, but now the white shroud had rotted a lot, or perhaps some changes had occurred after it was buried.
Watching the actions of Yang Jian and others, Zhang Hao did not move, just watched.
If he wanted mourning clothes, he could easily get a lot of them, but he couldn't help Yang Jian and others.
All he could do was to wait as long as possible and try not to affect Yang Jian before the red room opened.
Time passed, and because there were more people, Yang Jian and his team dug up more mourning clothes than in the original novel.
"Woo! Woo!"
Suddenly, at night, the wind blew.
The cold wind blew the treetops of the old forest, shaking the entire forest, making a humming sound, as if something was crying in the woods.
This was very similar to the crying sound made by Zhang Hao, but it was more unreal and did not have that feeling of sadness.
"boom!"
next moment.
A strange old tree was blown by the wind and lost its balance and fell to the ground.
Then the third tree, the fourth tree, and the fifth tree were blown to the ground one by one by the wind.
There was no doubt that those old trees were dug up by Yang Jian and his team before. Whether they touched the corpses under the trees or not, they were all falling down.
This old forest is out of control and the evil spirits inside are crawling out.
"Wow"
Another row of trees fell, and at this time the sound of a baby crying echoed in the old forest.
Yang Jian's eyes darkened. "Don't waste time. Go back to the old house. We can't stay outside any longer. The third day of mourning is over."
Soon, the group left the old forest and returned to the old house.
Zhang Hao walked to the door of the ancient house, looked at the lantern that Yang Jian and others had dropped at the door, and picked it up.
It seemed that because they had consumed too much energy while helping Yang Jian and others resist the supernatural, the white light on the lantern became much dimmer.
Just as Zhang Hao was standing in front of the gate, a strange figure covered in mud suddenly appeared beside him.
As soon as that thing appeared, it immediately started banging on the door of the ancient house.
Soon afterwards, a new evil ghost appeared at the door.
Zhang Hao could even see that Liu Qingqing, who had left with Zhou Deng before, also appeared here.
"Looks like it's already the fourth day? Then it's about time for me to go in."
Zhang Hao had no intention of letting Liu Qingqing enter the red room before him. Who knows if Liu Qingqing's entry would cause some incomprehensible changes in the red room.
Besides, there are obviously many supernatural things in that room. If Liu Qingqing goes in first and takes away some things from the red room, Zhang Hao will be in trouble.
Soon, the door was slammed open.
Immediately, the evil spirits outside the door rushed into the room.
There were so many evil spirits that even Zhang Hao and the ghost bride couldn't help but feel that their own spiritual powers were suppressed.
There are too many evil spirits, and once the evil spirits here appear in the outside world, it will be at least a supernatural event of level A or above.
Under the countless collisions of spirits, all the evil ghosts could not help but instinctively retract their own spirits, even Zhang Hao and the ghost bride were no exception.
At this time, Zhang Hao released the ghost den and controlled the size of the ghost den to just enough to wrap himself and the bride, to avoid contact with other evil spirits and possible confrontation.
After all, whether it is attracting ghosts or ghost dens, it is a kind of supernatural influence.
When you use supernatural powers to influence other evil spirits, they will instinctively fight against you.
It’s okay if there are only a few evil spirits, but if there are so many evil spirits, once a confrontation breaks out, there will be too many of them and even Zhang Hao and the ghost bride won’t be able to withstand it.
Following the corridor, Zhang Hao and the ghost bride quickly walked into the ancient house.
At this time, all the arrangements in the ancient house that could prevent evil spirits from entering had been almost used up. The only thing that still made Zhang Hao afraid was the mahogany coffin that was moved to the lobby by Yang Jian and others.
It was terrifying. Even though Zhang Hao could sense that the old man in the coffin had not yet revived, he still didn't want to get close.
However, as long as Zhang Hao doesn't get close, other evil spirits won't have such thoughts.
For a moment, all kinds of strange noises were heard in the old house.
Near the coffin in the lobby, Yang Jian was wearing dirty, tattered mourning clothes, holding a cracked spear, with one ghost eye open, staring at a baby who had not yet appeared.
unconsciously.
The ghost eye regained its vision.
The oppressive feeling belonging to the ancient house disappeared, and he could even use the ghost realm.
"It would be a disaster if we keep this thing. If it grows up like the ghost baby, it will be terrible. Dealing with it first may help to prevent a horrific supernatural incident in advance."
Yang Jian's arm holding the spear moved slightly.
Suddenly.
The ghost domain of the ghost eye appeared instantly.
Without any reservation, the sixth level of the ghost realm was opened directly.
The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength.
The ghost domain instantly covered several evil ghosts approaching the haunted house, and everything around them seemed to be paused repeatedly.
However, at this moment, Yang Jian's pupils suddenly shrank and the red light suddenly dissipated.
The ghost eyes closed, because when the red light enveloped him, Yang Jian saw a terrifying figure.
It was the ghost bride. Just now when the ghost eye released the ghost den, he accidentally saw the ghost bride.
In an instant, Yang Jian felt as if a pair of white ghost hands appeared in his memory, as if a horrible bride was about to walk out of the picture in his memory.
"Captain, what's wrong with you!"
Seeing this, Yan Yan hurried forward to ask.
"I just accidentally saw the ghost bride, which triggered the killing pattern." Yang Jian forcibly suppressed the memories in his mind.
With the headless ghost's ability to control memory, it is very easy for Yang Jian to cut off the memory images that suddenly appear in his mind.
What worried him was whether the ghost bride would attack him at this time.
Perhaps it was because his ghost eyes closed in time, and after Yang Jian quickly cut off the memory scenes in his mind, he did not attract the attention of the ghost bride.
"I'm afraid I can't use the ghost cave anymore. The red and white evil spirits have entered the room."
"My ghost den can easily trigger his killing pattern if he is not careful, so everyone should be careful."
Yang Jian nailed a ghost to death with a golden spear, and then spoke to the others.
"I understand." Zhou Deng nodded. "The Red and White Devils are indeed terrifying."
"It actually brought about such an impact. Forget it, I'd better stay away from the lobby."
Seeing that Yang Jian's evil spirit was suppressed, Zhang Hao immediately took his bride to a long corridor deep in the ancient house that seemed to have no end.
If Yang Jian died because he couldn't use Gui Shen, it would be troublesome. Zhang Dong, who was out of control of the balance, might have to be revived because of this.
Walking into the corridor deep in the haunted house, Zhang Hao soon saw Liu Qingqing's figure again.
Obviously, Liu Qingqing, who was controlled by Zhang Youhong's remaining consciousness, was also waiting for the red room to open.
Zhang Hao did not hesitate and immediately attacked Liu Qingqing with his bride.
There was no point in attacking the other party when they were outside before.
But at this time, Liu Qingqing can't stay here any longer.
Jigsaw puzzles are not unique.
If Liu Qingqing enters the red room and takes control of some of the things inside, it will be a big trouble.
(End of this chapter)