Nightmare Attack

"What's going on? Why did the two big men disappear?" Li Bai couldn't hide the nervousness on his face when he heard that Fatty and Yao Shunyu were missing.

The door was open, and Jiang Cheng stood behind the door with a gloomy face, looking towards the darkness outside. Not long ago, he followed Fatty and his group from a distance. The lantern in the maid's hand was very conspicuous in the dark night, and she was worried about being noticed, so He was not in a hurry and followed closely, but who would have thought that after a turn, when he rushed over, the lantern light disappeared, and the fat man and his party all disappeared.

Naturally, he would not give up easily, and chased along the road for a while, but there was a mystery hidden in the seemingly gentle courtyard. The long corridors extended in all directions, and many places were no longer illuminated by white lanterns. Under the cover of night, the surrounding people Everything gradually changed. The trees and stacked rocks all melted into the dark black outline of the lake. It was shadowy, as if arms and legs had grown out, or something was hiding behind it.

If he continued to pursue them, he would not only be unable to find Fatty and the others, but would also get himself trapped. Jiang Cheng had no choice but to withdraw first and then find another way.

Shao Tong, who was sitting at the table, gathered up his military coat and groaned with some dissatisfaction: "Master Tao, what did I say? There is obviously something wrong with this house. You still don't believe me when I say it was planted with human stakes. Master Dao, I also have magical powers. If you ask me, let's go out and capture the Marquis of Zhennan now, and use some ruthless methods on him. Don't worry about him not telling the truth.

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Everyone was already upset, and they became even more unhappy after hearing Shao Tong's bad idea. Just a few of them captured the Marquis of Zhennan in the Marquis Mansion. Are they just being fooled by the guards?

Lu Qin glared at Shao Tong, who then stopped.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door. Not long after, a man in his early 30s appeared outside the door, also holding a lantern in his hand.

The man was wearing the clothes of a servant of the Hou family, but they obviously didn't fit well, and his sleeves had grown a lot. There was an indescribable panic between his brows, "Masters, Master Hou invites you to come over and talk about something important. "

"Hasn't the Marquis already sent someone to invite you?" Zhang Qizheng was stunned, "Two of us have already been taken away."

The man was stunned, and then looked at the people in the room. After counting, there were indeed two people missing. The man's expression immediately became nervous, "How could it be? I just received the order, and the Marquis did not arrange for anyone else to notify. just me……"

After a while, the man seemed to realize something and walked directly into the door, then carefully closed the door and finally locked the door bolt. Then he turned around and asked: "Everyone... masters, what does the person who comes to pick you up look like?" , you...do you remember?"

Looking at the man's cautious look, Jiang Cheng suspected that he must know something, so he replied: "It's a woman, she should be a maid in the Hou Mansion.

"Woman, how could it be a woman..." The man lowered his head and muttered in a low voice, but was caught by Jiang Cheng and others, which further confirmed his guess.

At the same time, Jiang Cheng noticed a very strange phenomenon. The man was holding a lantern in his left hand, but his right arm was hanging unnaturally. His right hand was completely covered by the wide sleeve robe. There seemed to be something hidden inside, which reminded him of the man. This obviously ill-fitting dress seemed to be designed to hide the right hand hidden under the sleeves of the robe.

Jiang Cheng casually glanced at the others. Judging from everyone's behavior, he was far from the only one who noticed something strange. Li Bai comforted the man while getting paper and ink. He didn't hesitate and poured some tea to grind the ink. , Jiang Cheng sat at the table, picked up the pen, and sketched out the woman's appearance in just a few strokes.

"That's her, do you know her?" Jiang Cheng put away his pen and observed the man's reaction.

A few seconds later, the man's eyes suddenly narrowed, and then he took a few steps back. His body relaxed, and an angular object fell from his cuff and fell to the ground with a "snap".

After the man reacted, he immediately went to pick it up, but Tang Qisheng was much faster than him and picked it up. Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a Bagua mirror. The bronze mirror surface had a sense of age, and it looked different. A common thing.

"Give me your stuff back!"

The man was so angry that he stretched out his hand to grab it, but Jiang Cheng caught him in the next second and pushed him down on the table with his backhand, his face facing the painting.

Staring at the woman in the painting, the man was trembling with fear, constantly struggling and begging for mercy, as if he was worried that the woman would get out of the painting paper.

Tang Qisheng played with the Bagua Mirror in his hand and couldn't help but admire: "Good thing, really good thing." After saying that, he turned the Bagua Mirror over. The material on the back looked like burnt wood, but it looked more textured. , "The Xuanzhou Shuiluo mirror of the Eight Classics has a back made of lightning-struck wood, and the Taoist Ghost Record is engraved with dark patterns on it. If you guessed it right, this thing was invited from the Taoist school. It doesn't belong to someone like you." There’s no way this kind of treasure exists. To be honest, where did it come from?”

"Give it back to me! Give it back to me quickly!" The man was about to cry. "I didn't steal it, it was... the steward of the house lent it to me. Anyone who comes in here must bring something to protect themselves." The magic weapon must be returned after you leave. Once it is lost, your life will be at risk! "

"Why, why do you need to bring a protective magic weapon when you come here? What happened here?" Zhu Jie asked, and the ominous premonition in everyone's heart was gradually becoming a reality.

"I... I can't say..."

Seeing the man so stubborn, Shao Tong became interested and looked at Tang Qisheng excitedly, "Since he refuses to say, then smash the mirror and see how he will explain when he goes back."

Tang Qisheng naturally understood the seriousness of the matter and pretended to raise the mirror and was about to throw it to the ground. Seeing this, the man broke his defense and cried, "Don't, don't throw it! I said, this is the other courtyard built by the Marquis for his deceased wife. Since the day it was built, there have been rumors of ghosts, and it is said that people have died. This matter... This matter is known to everyone in the Marquis's mansion, so unless there is something special, no one will approach here, especially at night."

"Is this a grave?" Li Bai was secretly shocked.

"No... That's right." Staring at the painting on the table, the man's voice was trembling with nervousness, "Also, the woman in the painting is the maidservant beside the Madam, she... She is also dead!"

Thinking of what the woman said, she came to ask someone to see the Marquis and the Madam, it seems that she is going to see the Madam. Jiang Cheng can't help but start to worry about the situation of Fatty and Yao Shunyu again.

"How did the Madam die?" Jiang Cheng asked.

The man shook his head violently as if he had accepted his fate, "I don't know, I really don't know, the Madam has been dead for a long time, she died before I entered the mansion, I... I have never seen the Madam."