Chapter 5: Visions in the Rain
"Ah......h
Di Jinlian suddenly let out a terrible scream.
Dou Dabao and I were so frightened by this sudden cry that we turned our heads and saw her squatting in the grass with her head in her hands.
"What's wrong?" I hurried over and pulled her up.
Di Jinlian's face was pale, her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and her whole body was trembling, obviously extremely frightened.
After a while, she suddenly looked left and right, and looked up at me: "Arrived?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted, "Are you Pan Ying?" ”
"Hmm."
Seeing her nod, my brain suddenly went into a mess.
The situation that happened to Pan Ying was so weird that it was indescribable.
I'm sure she wasn't a pure demon before. In comparison, it's more like being taken away.
What is unbelievable is that she actually turned back into Pan Ying in an instant, shouldn't she be in the mirror of the toilet?
Dou Dabao suddenly said a word: "Is she a soul exchange?" ”
Seeing me look at him, he lowered his voice a little sneakily: "Or does she have a split personality?" ”
"You're a split personality!" Pan Ying squinted at him and said.
I nodded at Pan Ying's nose and nodded stupidly, "I'll settle accounts with you later." ”
This man's wife is definitely hiding a lot of things, saying that dreaming of Di Jinlian for a week in a row is mostly nonsense.
Pan Ying avoided my gaze, and in a blink of an eye, she also saw the water tank, her body trembled again, and she took two steps back: "Why is there a water tank here?" That...... Is that hair? ”
I said: "In the early years, large families would have such a large water tank in their homes, which was usually used to water flowers or something, mainly in case of fire, so that they could be used to extinguish fires. Burying the tank in the ground is to prevent freezing and cracking in winter. ”
Dou Dabao found a branch and had the courage to pick the hair in the jar.
After just one pick, a face turned out in the tank.
It's not so much a face as a skinny skull.
Xu has been soaked in water for a long time, and the skin on it looks very slippery, and there is a layer of green hair. The eyeballs have long since rotted away, and there are only two black holes left.
"Yes...... It's a woman. Dou Dabao's voice trembled.
As soon as he finished speaking, a red light suddenly flashed in one of the skull's eye sockets.
Immediately after, a strange snake with a pitch-black body suddenly jumped out of its eye socket and shot straight at Dou Dabao along the branches.
"Ah......h
In Pan Ying's scream, I instinctively stretched out my hand, grabbed the snake's tail and threw it on the edge of the cylinder.
With a soft "poof", the strange snake suddenly turned into a soft leather strip.
I was in a hurry to let go, but before I could see the appearance of the strange snake, the snake corpse slipped into the water tank.
Dou Dabao was so frightened that his face was pale, and after a long time he trembled and said, "Mother, I'm scared to death." ”
I glanced at the tank again, "Something is wrong with this corpse. ”
"What's wrong?" Pan Ying asked tremblingly.
"After being soaked in water for a long time, the corpse should be completely rotten, how can there be a layer of skin left?"
I looked at the sky and said decisively that since Pan Ying was fine, I would hurry out of the mountain before dark.
Pan Ying was a little reluctant, but she didn't dare to object.
Just as he was leaving, suddenly, a dull thunder sounded in the sky, and then a heavy rain poured down without warning.
The three of them ran to the eaves of the porch in embarrassment, wiping the rain on their bodies.
The rain came quickly and urgently, and in the blink of an eye, the heavens and the earth were already white. The rain poured down on the dilapidated house, making the deserted house even more desolate and dilapidated.
Dou Dabao said: "Look at this posture, this rain can't stop for a while." ”
I was frustrated, looked left and right, and turned and went into a room.
It is estimated that this is probably the house where the people lived in the past, with a broken wooden bed by the wall on one side, and a collapsed table of eight immortals. The window lattices had long been decayed and scattered, and it rained down the window.
The mountains were already cooler than outside, and the three of them were half-wet from the rain, and they all felt a little cold at this time.
I kicked the broken table, picked a few more bed boards and made a fire, and dried my clothes, so that I could feel warm.
I sat by the fire and watched the rain outside the door in a daze.
Di Jinlian said that she was here to look for a marriage book, why did she disappear when she got here?
She said that she had forgotten who her husband was, and if she couldn't find the marriage certificate and couldn't remember her husband's name, she would be disillusioned...... What is the connection between the two?
I just wanted to ask Pan Ying a question directly, but suddenly, I found that the scene in the courtyard outside the door had changed.
The knee-deep weeds were gone, the yard was clean and tidy, the house opposite seemed to be back to its former glory, and the rain was dripping.
I was wondering when I saw a man and a woman pass by the door, looking like they had just come in from outside.
The man was tall and wore a moon-white robe, while the woman was wearing a dark green cheongsam embroidered with gold flowers!
The two walked out into the courtyard and seemed to be talking in a low voice.
"Where the hell is the thing?" The man raised his voice suddenly, his tone visibly angry.
The woman's shoulders shrugged and said something, but she couldn't hear it.
Then, the two seemed to be arguing.
Suddenly, the woman let out a hysterical scream and raised her hand, as if to grab the man.
The man grabbed her wrist and roared, throwing her into a corner.
Thrown by him, the woman disappeared into the courtyard at once.
Wrong!
It dawned on me that the corner was where the water tank was buried, and the woman had not disappeared, but had been thrown into it!
I saw the man crouching down, as if he was struggling to press something. I jumped up and shouted, "Stop! ”
I was about to rush out when suddenly a hand grabbed my wrist.
"Woe to you! Woe to you! ”
I was violently excited, and then I looked outside the door, and the grass was still spreading. The heavy rain was still falling, and there was a white expanse everywhere, and there was no one in the yard.
In a blink of an eye, I saw Dou Dabao staring at me with bull's eyes, and then looked at Pan Ying, who was also surprised, and I was shocked for a while.
"What's wrong with you?" Dou Dabao let go of his hand and asked.
"I seem to see something." I muttered uncertainly.
Pan Ying asked, "What did you see?" ”
I shook my head nonchalantly.
The man had his back to this side the whole time, not seeing his face.
But judging from the clothing, hairstyle, and figure, that woman was obviously Di Jinlian.
Dou Dabao looked out, turned around and patted my arm, "Are you hysterical?" Or are you dazzled? ”
I subconsciously shook my head again, I couldn't tell if it was a hallucination or a fantasy... Or did you really see something.
I licked my dry lips and whispered, "The bones in the water tank may be Di Jinlian." ”
Dou Dabao and Pan Ying both showed shocked looks.
"Woo Woo ......"
Meat Floss, who was napping in the corner, suddenly ran to the door, barked wildly at the door, and shrank back as he screamed, as if he had seen some terrible scene.
Dou Dabao and I glanced at each other, pulled out a burning table leg from the fire, and Dou Dabao also took out a pig-killing knife and held it in his hand.
"I'm scared." Pan Ying approached me and whispered.
Before the words fell, suddenly, a bloody figure quickly ran past the door.
I was trembling and wanted to chase out, but after a little hesitation, I grabbed Pan Ying with my backhand and chased out with Dou Dabao.
As soon as I ran out of the door, I felt slimy under my feet.
When I looked down, I suddenly got goosebumps.
Pan Ying screamed in fright.
The ground at the door was covered with sticky blood, and a few paces away, in a pool of blood, there was a big dog without skin, staring at us with its teeth bared and staring at us!
"This guy just ran over?" Dou Dabao asked with his upper teeth lowered, "I can see that it just ran straight over with its two hind legs." ”
I took a closer look at the skinless dog and took a deep breath, "This is a dead dog that has been skinned." ”
"Why are there dead dogs here?" Pan Ying asked in a trembling voice.
I was about to speak, when I suddenly felt like someone was being spied on.
I turned my head abruptly along with the feeling, and one side of the eaves was empty, and there was nothing.
Although it was not discovered, the feeling of being watched was still there, and it became more and more intense.
I hesitated for a moment and said loudly, "Old Cui, come back to shelter from the rain?!" ”
"Old Cui?" Dou Dabao furrowed his brows.
A figure walked out of a room, with a Taoist priest's hair in a bun on his head and a black Taoist robe, who was Cui Daoren.
Cui Daoren walked over and looked at me with a smile, "You have discovered this." ”
Dou Dabao pointed at the dead dog with a pig-killing knife, and asked angrily, "What the hell are you doing?!" ”
Cui Daoren's eyes were wrong and he said, "I didn't get it, I just came to shelter from the rain." ”
I've always felt that this bull's nose is wrong, just wanted to cheat, but I didn't expect him to show up.
I glanced him up and down, and said lightly:
"Didn't you say that this is a haunted mansion, and you want to stay home to serve the old lady? How did you come back again? ”
Cui Daoren shrugged, "How can you go with such a heavy rain?" ”
"Aren't you really a ghost?" Dou Dabao asked.
Cui Daoren shook his head, "It's really not." ”
I don't know if it's because the rain is too loud, his voice is a little low and hoarse, and it is indistinct.
I looked at him again and said to Dou Dabao:
"It seems that I can't go back today, take advantage of the dawn to take a good look at this house, so as not to have an emergency at night."
Dou Dabao's eyes slanted towards Cui Daoren and nodded.
I took the meat floss out of the house, bypassed the dead dog in the pool of blood, and put it on the ground.
Pan Ying asked with palpitations: "Why are there dead dogs?" ”
I said, "Dogs are more spiritual than some people, and they are sad to see their own kind being mutilated." When you smell the same kind of blood, you will temporarily lose your nose and lose sensitivity to other smells. ”
"You're saying someone did this on purpose so that the meat floss wouldn't smell?"
"Not necessarily human."
Hearing me say this, Pan Ying couldn't help but shudder.
I pointed to the fire in the house and asked Cui Daoren, "Will you stay here, or will you come with us?" ”
"Now that you're here, let's take a look around."
I nodded, made eye contact with Dou Dabao, and turned to walk back along the porch.