Chapter 69. Strange Well
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
After the gloomy-faced staff member disappeared, Xiao Lang and his group relaxed a little from their tense state.
Xu Yuan frowned and looked at Liang Fei, scolding him: “Why are you running around all over the place? Do you know how troublesome things are?”
Liang Fei probably knew that he had done something wrong, and he looked a little depressed. He nodded and said: “I’m sorry, I was wrong.”
Xiao Lang always remembered Liang Fei’s nervous expression in the surveillance video. Although Liang Fei in front of him looked quite normal, he always felt something strange in his heart.
Xiao Lang thought about it and asked: “Where’s your cell phone?”
Liang Fei seemed to realize that he had lost his phone: “Ah, I just ran out secretly, and you called me at the big banyan tree. I felt guilty and threw the phone into the well.”
Seeing that his friend was fine, Xu Yuan was completely relaxed at this moment: “You still have a guilty conscience. You can even throw your precious new mobile phone into the well.”
Liang Fei lowered his head again, looking very embarrassed.
Du Yan suddenly walked forward and patted Liang Fei on the shoulder: “It’s okay, we will go with you to pick up the phone.”
Before Liang Fei opened his mouth, Xiao Lang looked over in astonishment. Du Yan’s behavior was really too strange. When did he become such an amiable person?
Xiao Lang felt that Du Yan’s current appearance was more like a seizure than Liang Fei’s. He wanted to ask something but then realized that he seemed to have no position to interfere with Du Yan’s behavior.
Du Yan didn’t notice that Xiao Lang was hesitant to speak. He withdrew his hand, holding a folded, burnt talisman paper between his fingers. Du Yan was actually the first person to wake up on the bus today. He was the one who secretly stuffed the talisman paper into everyone’s belongings at that time.
The talisman paper on Liang Fei’s body was burnt, and the talisman paper figurine with Liang Fei’s birth date and eight characters written on it turned black, it became obvious that a ghost had taken over Liang Fei’s body.
Du Yan felt a little headache. He was really not good at exorcising ghosts. The ability to save the lives of these people with talismans was already the limit. The female ghost in the hotel that he had his eyes on ran away to reincarnate again due to Xiao Lang’s accidental hit.
In this situation, he can only take it one step at a time to see what this ghost wants to do through Liang Fei. In short, the ultimate goal of these evil ghosts is Xiao Lang. As long as Du Yan follows Xiao Lang well, and the others have his life-saving talismans on them, nothing life-threatening will happen in the short term.
There was nothing they could do now, they could only think of a way to get Liang Fei’s phone back, and everyone returned to the big banyan tree.
When everyone saw the stone pressing on the wellhead, they fell silent. Not to mention that the stone looked a little strange. It didn’t look like it could be moved given its size.
Xu Yuan went forward to try it out and found that the stone did not move at all.
Zhou Tian said: “How about we ask that staff member to help?”
Wei Zizhe frowned and said: “The staff member probably won’t pay any attention to us. It’s our own fault.”
Tian Luo suggested: “How about we go to the village entrance and pay some money to invite the villagers to come in and help?”
Xiao Lang said: “It’s possible, but I don’t know if the local villagers have any taboos about this stone…”
While everyone was discussing countermeasures, Liang Fei suddenly rushed forward, holding a lighter that he had taken from Xu Yuan at some point.
Liang Fei lit the rope tied to the stone without saying a word. Logically speaking, this rope was not flammable, but the flame of the lighter just touched the rope, and the whole rope caught fire.
The wooden signs didn’t catch fire, but without the support of the ropes, they fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
Just when everyone was dumbfounded, Liang Fei pushed the stone with one hand. The stone, which should have been extremely heavy, was overturned by his palm, fell to the ground, and broke into several pieces.
“Liang Fei, what are you doing!” Xiao Lang was the first to come to his senses and took a step forward to pull him.
Liang Fei moved even faster this time, climbing up directly, sitting on the edge of the well, and looking down.
Xiao Lang stopped moving immediately: “Don’t be impulsive, come down first. It’s just a cell phone, at worst we can pool the money to buy you a new one.”
Unexpectedly, Liang Fei raised his head, showed a sinister smile, and jumped down decisively.
“Liang Fei!”
Xiao Lang and Xu Yuan rushed over at the same time to catch him, but it was too late. Liang Fei had already disappeared from the wellhead.
Everyone gathered around anxiously to take a look but found that the bottom of the well was empty. Apart from some weeds, there was no sign of Liang Fei.
Everyone looked at each other and felt a little creepy.
Wei Zizhe asked: “What should we do now?”
Xu Yuan said: “We all came here together, we can’t just leave him here, can we?”
Zhou Tian was so frightened that her voice trembled: “Why don’t we go outside and find someone from the staff.”
Xu Yuan was indeed more worried about Liang Fei, whose whereabouts were unknown: “It’s too late. Liang Fei is still down there, and who knows what he is about to encounter while the staff member arrives. No, I must go find him now.”
He raised his foot and was about to jump down. At this time, Du Yan spoke up: “Didn’t you notice that there are stairs carved out of stones on the wall of the well?”
Everyone was stunned and looked over. The light at the bottom of the well was not very good. After Du Yan’s reminder, they could see the traces of excavation on the well wall.
It seems that this dry well must have been frequently used by people, which is why they went to so much trouble to carve out a staircase.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan became even more determined to go down. As soon as he raised his foot, Du Yan grabbed his arm.
Xu Yuan’s emotions were a little out of control at this moment, and he was stopped by Du Yan at the critical moment.
His voice got louder unconsciously: “What’s the matter? You don’t dare to go down, and I can’t go down and find Liang Fei by myself, either?”
Xiao Lang also stepped forward and held Xu Yuan’s hand and said: “Calm down. Things have come to this point now. If you go down rashly, you might not be able to find Liang Fei, and you might get trapped in it, too.”
Du Yan let go of his hand and said: “I’m not stopping you from going down, I just think it’s more appropriate for me to go down and find Liang Fei.”
Xiao Lang looked serious and glanced at Du Yan: “To be honest, this matter has nothing to do with you. Liang Fei is my roommate. I brought him here to have fun, so of course I have to be responsible for finding him.”
Seeing this, Du Yan knew that this matter would not go smoothly unless he revealed his identity.
He confessed directly: “I suggested that I go down to find Liang Fei for a reason. Don’t you think this matter is abnormal from beginning to end? From Liang Fei’s sudden disappearance to his cell phone being thrown into the bottom of the well, to his sudden appearance in the inner hall of the ancestral hall, to the current situation. None of them can be explained by common sense.”
Du Yan glanced at Zhou Tian again: “Including the pair of red embroidered shoes you saw, I saw them.”
Zhou Tian was startled, her face turned pale, and she asked: “Do you mean that this village is really haunted?”
Du Yan nodded and said: “It’s okay if you want to understand it this way.”
He picked up a wooden sign from the side, waved it in front of everyone, and explained: “I just said that these wooden signs are painted with runes, but there are some other things that I didn’t tell you in detail. The specific content of this rune is to suppress the powerful ghost and make him never reincarnate.”
Everyone looked at each other, and although they were still a little suspicious, they still asked: “Are you saying that Liang Fei’s actions are due to a ghost?”
Du Yan nodded: “That’s right, so now only I can go down to solve this situation. If any of you go down, you will just be sending yourself to die.”
Du Yan’s words were harsh, but no one thought there was anything wrong with them. Xiao Lang looked at Du Yan deeply and asked: “Who are you in the end?”
Just like in the dream, Du Yan took out the things in his backpack and explained his identity. He also took out the life-saving talisman and the talisman paper figurine with Liang Fei’s birth date and time written on it, and explained the current situation.
After he finished speaking, although everyone still looked a little uneasy, they were basically convinced by Du Yan.
Seeing that no one expressed any objection, Du Yan decided to go down the well.
Xiao Lang grabbed his arm and said: “Even if you are a celestial master, you can’t go down alone. I will go down with you.”
Du Yan looked at him and asked: “I have explained the situation so clearly. There may be some powerful ghosts down there. Aren’t you afraid at all?”
Xiao Lang said: “I am afraid. Everyone will be afraid of this kind of unknown thing. But compared to your safety, fear is still controllable.”
According to Du Yan’s plan, he originally wanted Xiao Lang to go with him. Since the other party took the initiative to propose it, he didn’t need to find any excuses.
Du Yan nodded and said: “Okay, if you go down, we can take care of each other.”
So Du Yan told the other people who stayed at the wellhead to keep the life-saving talismans on their bodies and then go out of the village to wait. After they found Liang Fei, they would contact them by mobile phone.
Xu Yuan was a little hesitant and wanted to stay here and wait for people.
Du Yan smiled coldly and said: “I will go down to find Liang Fei, but I don’t have the spare time to protect you. You should know that there are more powerful ghosts in this ancient village than just the one at the bottom of the well. The life-saving talisman alone may not be able to protect you from harm.”
Zhou Tian was frightened by him and turned pale. She said: “Let’s go to the village entrance and keep in touch by phone.”
After seeing several people leaving along the path, Du Yan and Xiao Lang went down the stairs on the well wall to the bottom of the well.
Although Liang Fei was possessed by a powerful ghost, he was still a living person after all, and it was impossible for him to disappear out of thin air. The only explanation was that there was something strange at the bottom of the well.
Du Yan and Xiao Lang used their cell phones as a light source, and after searching around, they found a secret door on the wall of the well.
After the secret door was opened, a deep passage was revealed behind it. Saving people was urgent, so the two of them didn’t hesitate and walked directly into the secret door.
The passage was very narrow, only enough for two people to walk side by side. It was dark and gloomy, like a tomb passage.
Du Yan walked a few steps and then stopped. He shone his cell phone at the stone wall of the passage.
The blue-gray stone wall was covered with dense patterns. Xiao Lang turned around to take a look. The more he looked, the more familiar it looked.
“Is this similar to the pattern on the stone above?”
Du Yan nodded: “Yes, these are all runes to suppress powerful ghosts. It seems that the secret passage at the bottom of the well was built under the guidance of an expert. It is specially used to suppress soaring rage. I don’t know what kind of powerful ghost needs such a large formation.”
Xiao Lang suddenly had an idea and asked: “Is it related to the memorial archway at the entrance of the village?”
Du Yan looked at him and said: “You are quite a genius. The one who is suppressed here is probably the owner of the pair of embroidered shoes.”
In Xiao Lang’s current situation, even if Du Yan praised him, he couldn’t be happy: “In fact, I felt that the memorial archway was a bit strange when I saw it.”
The two continued walking forward, talking to each other from time to time. As they walked, the view in front of them suddenly became much wider, and the passage became higher and wider. However, a door suddenly appeared a few meters away.
Xiao Lang paused: “What’s going on with this door…”
Du Yan used the light from his cell phone to look at the door and suddenly smiled: “Don’t you think the style and color of this door look familiar?”
After Xiao Lang was reminded by him, when he looked at it, he felt like he was about to break out in a sweat: “Is this the gate of the ancestral hall?”
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