Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 821 Empty Room (4000 words)

   The three quickly surrounded him.

   Daoist Master squatted by the corner of the wall, the light of the flashlight shone on the ground, at first glance, the ground was no different from other places, it was all paved with yellow-brown floors, just...

   "Look here." The Taoist priest pointed to a strange bulge on the ground.

   "It's a bit like a pull ring," Xiaolan also crouched down, "It feels like... it's a mechanism leading to the basement."

The    pull tab is very small, only the size of a fingernail, and the whole is also painted yellow-brown, almost forming a protective color.

  Miaozhen stretched out his hand and tugged on the pull ring a few times. Suddenly, he squeezed the pull ring and began to exert force.

  Xiaolan immediately felt the ground under his feet sway, and hurriedly stopped, "Wait, what if there is something bad down there?"

   "Can you smell anything?" The Taoist priest turned his head and asked Baomu.

  Baomu shook his head, "I can't smell the smell below, I guess I have to open it."

   "Well," Miaozhen said, "you go to the side and wait for a while. If there is danger here, you can also save me in time."

US? save you?

  Miaozhen, you...isn't it too optimistic?

   Even though the three of them complained in their hearts, they acted honestly, so the three of them obediently retreated to the wall and stood there.

In order to open the ring, even Miaozhen used a lot of strength. The three watched Miaozhen pulling hard for a few seconds. Finally, a harsh friction sounded, and the floor in front of Miaozhen trembled. .

   The three approached again.

   is really a small door.

  The door cut off several floors in the middle. The amazing thing is that before this door appeared, there were no cracks on those floors.

When the three of them approached, Miaozhen had already opened the door, and the probe shone in the light of the flashlight.

Below   , is a deep well.

The outline of the well is the same as that of a small square door. The width of the well is only about half a meter horizontally and vertically. It can only support one person to pass through. The depth of the well is unknown. Where the light of the flashlight can reach, except for the dark walls of the well, everyone can see everything. not.

   "What's down there?" Miaozhen muttered.

   "It smells..." Baomu sniffed hard, "It's a little...a little weird..."

   "What kind of strange method?" asked the Taoist priest.

   "I don't know either..." Baomu frowned tangled, "It just feels...a little warm and smelly..."

   "Smelly?" Xiaolan asked, "Is it the smell of a corpse? Is there a corpse underneath?"

   "I can't tell if it's the smell of the well or the smell of the surrounding area," Baomu said. "It's too light. Even if there's something down there, it's far away from us."

   The four of them pondered for a while.

   "Why don't I go down and have a look." Xiaolan broke the silence.

   "How does this work?" Baomu said anxiously, "What if there is danger down there?"

   "But I feel that there will be clues below," Xiaolan said of course, "Why don't you go down and have a look? It's difficult for you and the Taoist priest to drill such a small hole... eh, why not..."

  Xiaolan's gaze turned to Miaozhen.

  Miaozhen really held her cheeks and pondered, and she was stunned for a moment when she was suddenly stared at like this.

"how?"

   "Xiao Miaozhen," Xiaolan's eyes glowed in the dark night, "Why don't you go down."

"what?"

   "Xiaolan, this is not good..."

"This is the best solution," Xiaolan said immediately, "You and the Taoist priest are too big, and I'm too naive, if something happens, I can't run away, Miaozhen is small and strong, just like Born to go down a well."

   Thus, the dignified genius Jiatian Miaozhen became a professional user of going down a well. He was tied to a rope in a daze, stood by the well, and began to prepare to go down.

   "Miaozhen, don't be afraid," Baomu comforted. "If you are in danger, just shout, and we will definitely pull you up."

  Xiaolan agreed, "Yes, we have a lot of strength."

   "We also have to agree on a descending height," the Taoist chief laughed while watching the three children's nonsense, "If the well is too deep, we won't be able to go directly to the bottom."

   "The Taoist priest is right," Bao Mu also said, "and if it is too deep, the oxygen will be thin."

The Taoist head nodded and said, "The length of my talisman is 30 meters, but the air in the 30-meter well is already thin, so let's go down 20 meters for 20 meters. If we don't find it, we will go back again. prepare for."

  The others had no objection, and just like that, the three of them clung to the rope that was looping around Miaozhen's waist, as if they had put down the bait, and carefully put Miaozhen into the well.

   "Put... put..."

  Miaozhen calmly commanded the people on the shore until the ropes in the hands of the three had basically reached the end.

  The Taoist priest glanced at the rope and raised his voice slightly, "Miaozhen, the rope has come to an end, did you find anything?"

Silent.

  Miaozhen didn't say a word, if it weren't for the faint sound of the rope, they would all start to worry.

   After a few minutes, Miaozhen's voice finally came up.

   "There's a voice down there!"

"sound?!"

   The three looked at each other in panic.

   "Can you hear me?" the Taoist priest asked Baomu.

  Baomu pricked up his ears, "I...I can't hear very well, I don't seem to have..."

   "It may be the sound from the well," Xiaolan said. "There is a sound that means there are creatures, and if there are creatures, there may be danger. We must quickly pull Miaozhen up."

   Ke Miaozhen shouted, "Put me down a little more."

   "Can't lower it, the rope is not long enough," Xiaolan shouted while pulling the rope hard, "We have to pull you up!"

   "A little lower..."

   "Safety matters!" the Taoist priest also shouted.

"okay then……"

  Miaozhen was very small, and the three of them had all the strength. After a while, Xiaomiaozhen appeared at the mouth of the well.

   "You're not hurt, are you?"

   "Not poisoned, right?"

   "Aren't you scared?"

Miaozhen was so overwhelmed by the sudden concern that he didn't know how to answer, and finally returned to the ground, and after untying the rope on his body, he said, "I'm fine, I didn't see anything, I just know that the space below is still very empty. Even if you drop to a height of 20 meters, you can't see the bottom at all."

   "What's the matter with the sound?" asked the Taoist priest.

   "It's just... I seem to hear a very small sound coming from the well," Miaozhen said, "It's very, very faint, and it should be very far away from me."

   "Can you tell what the sound is?" Baomu's eyes widened, "Is it a human? An animal? Or something else..."

   "The voice is too low and too far, I dare not make assumptions," Miaozhen said, "I can only say... There are some screams like a woman."

   Woman's scream!

  Baomu immediately kicked the door, as if afraid of what was inside.

  Miaozhen smiled, "If the rope was long enough, it could have gone a little deeper, and maybe we could figure out what the source of the sound was."

"There are only the four of us here today. If we really encounter something difficult, it will be hard to fight," said the Taoist priest, "Since we know that there are secrets in this well, we can wait until the others arrive, and we will study in depth. ."

   "I think so too." Miaozhen said.

   The Taoist priest nodded in relief, thinking that Miaozhen is indeed much easier to manage than the fool and Qin Yin.

   "The night is still long, let's continue to investigate." Miaozhen looked at the dark night outside the door.

"Okay."

   Apart from the well, there was nothing else found in this small room. The four of them walked out of the door without stopping and walked along the path to another room.

After bypassing the atrium corridor, the four of them stood at the door of the second house. The Taoist priest and Baomu carefully removed the seal on the door panel. It's the old house moaning and screaming.

  This room is completely different from the one just now.

  Only from the outside, I would never have imagined that there is such a large space inside this room.

   Of course, it is also possible that the layout of this room looks spacious.

  Because, this room is empty.

   "Empty," Xiaolan stood at the door and looked inside, "there's no furniture at all."

   Yes, there is no furniture, no furnishings, this room is square and empty, it is a real empty room.

   Amazingly, when they saw that there was nothing in the room, they hesitated.

   "Not only is there no furniture," Baomu said, "the room doesn't seem to smell yet."

   "You mean, is there no corpse odor in here?" asked the Taoist priest.

   "Almost none," Baomu said. "When I opened the door just now, I only smelled the smell of dust, and I don't know why, I always felt that the smell of dust in this room... a little warm."

   "So, there are no dead people in this room." Xiaolan said.

   "It's not just that there are no dead people," the Taoist priest didn't go in, and mulled over his arms, "perhaps it also means that when the tragedy happened, this room was closed."

  If the door was open at that time, no matter what, the corpse odor would diffuse in.

   "What's going on?" Baomu asked.

Miaozhen watched for a while, then crouched down suddenly, picked up a forearm-long dead branch from the ground, and after reaching out to draw something on the dead branch, Miaozhen raised her hand and threw the dead branch into it. .

  The dead branches rolled around on the floor a few times, and then they stood upright in the middle of the room.

   "Wow..." Xiaolan and Baomu were confused.

   "It's nothing," Miaozhen became embarrassed, "This is my secret art of the Five Watchmen's Royal Objects, Shi Tianling controls objects to make banners, also known as Tianzuo banners..."

   "I've heard of this trick," Xiaolan said hurriedly, "It seems like...who is here?..."

   "Maybe it's Ye Bai," Miaozhen nodded and said, "After all, you don't know much about me."

"Really? I always think... ah, I remembered, it was Jasmine, who introduced me to it," Xiaolan recalled for a long time, "but I remember Jasmine said that this trick is not so simple, she seems to say that you need to prepare a lot of sticks. The flag is coming..."

   "Twelve banners, so that we can send immortal soldiers?" Miaozhen asked with a smile, "Indeed, the basic technique of Tianzuo banners is exactly that."

"That……"

   "It means that only entry-level people need so many items," Baomu translated, "and Xiaomiaozhen didn't need it for a long time."

   "Wow..." Xiaolan's eyes lit up again.

  Miaozhen just laughed, didn't speak any more, turned his head and started to concentrate on manipulating the dead branch.

   They saw the dead branch standing on the spot, trembling a few times, then suddenly bounced into the air, and fell sideways in mid-air, suspended in mid-air like a pointer, slowly spinning.

  I don't know what this is doing, but it looks amazing...

  Xiaolan stared at the dead branch with admiration, until the dead branch spun for the last time and fell to the ground with a clatter.

   "There should be no problem," Miaozhen turned his head and said, "Generally speaking, it is basically safe."

   This is using that dead branch as a scanner!

After    finished speaking, Miaozhen stepped in first, and the three of them didn't hesitate any longer, so they also followed.

  Miaozhen picked up the dead branch, thought about it, and put it back.

   The four of them stood in the room, staring blankly around and then looking at each other.

   This is nothing, I don't even know where to turn.

   "There seems to be no problem on the ground," Xiaolan said, "Is this just an empty room?"

   "It's a big empty house," Baomu added.

   "This is the second main house of the Qiqiao mansion. According to common sense, it should be the living room," said the Taoist priest. "At least it won't be a useless empty room."

  Xiaolan walked to the window and pushed it, even the window could be opened smoothly, there was nothing suspicious.

   "Maybe it's vacant because of poor lighting? The windows in this house are so small, but the roof is so high..." Xiaolan said, looking up at the roof, "Hey, there are beams here."

   "In this respect, Qiqiao is similar in taste to Wugengtian and Ba Liangshui," Miaozhen said. "We all appreciate traditional architecture."

   "I appreciate it too," Xiaolan hurriedly declared her taste, "but we haven't seen this kind of old beam in Brother Jiutian's house, isn't it inconvenient to use this kind of roof now?"

   "The roof of the previous room is a normal ceiling," said the Taoist priest.

   "Hey - it seems that this room is really unusual," Xiaolan squeezed her neck, "How about we go to the next room to see if there are other rooms?"

   "Okay, there are no other discoveries here."

   The four went out, bypassed the side door of the cloister, crossed a stone wall, and in front of them was a zigzag-shaped courtyard.

There are three buildings on three sides of the courtyard, all with seals. The strange thing is that the corridor ends here, and there is no outside road leading to the depths of the mansion. Moreover, in front of the three almost identical buildings, Three plants were planted separately.

   In front of the low house on the north side, there is a flower tree. In late autumn, the flowers have withered away, and only the sparse green leaves are swaying slightly in the night wind.

   In front of the low house on the east side, is a vine. The vine is planted in a brown flower pot the size of a football. There are three yellow bamboo knots standing beside it. The vine is surrounded by three bamboo knots and grows vigorously.

   In front of the low house on the west side, there is only a white ceramic plate, and in the plate, there is a delicate blade of grass.

   The four of them tacitly agreed and walked towards the blade of grass at the same time.

   They stared at the blade of grass for a while.

   "It's weird," Miaozhen said, "this blade of grass is very strong, but what about its roots?"

   Debt can be repaid, that is, a debt free person!

   (end of this chapter)