Chapter 70. Well
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
Du Yan nodded: “Well, the style is exactly the same as above, but it’s hard to say what’s inside.”
Xiao Lang calmed down quickly. The situation before was already all kinds of weird, but now that such a door appears in the underground passage, it seems weirdly reasonable.
“Now that we are here, let’s go in and take a look.”
Xiao Lang raised his hand to push the door, and Du Yan said: “Wait.”
Xiao Lang stopped and asked: “What’s wrong?”
Du Yan took off a talisman from his neck and handed it to Xiao Lang: “I’m not sure what’s inside, but this talisman can help you block the danger at the critical moment.”
The thing in Du Yan’s hand was not an ordinary thing, but a talisman brought from his sect.
He is really not good at exorcising ghosts. To be honest, Du Yan does not have any little ghost servants to use, and with the means he can use now, it is not a problem to save himself. It would not be a problem to barely save Xiao Lang’s life either, but Du Yan is not sure about the possession of the body that the powerful ghost likes to play the most.
Xiao Lang was stunned and said: “You should keep it for yourself.”
Du Yan smiled and said: “In fact, in this case, the threat of the powerful ghost to me is not that great. I am not afraid of ghosts, but I am afraid of you.”
Xiao Lang blinked, not understanding what Du Yan meant, and even felt a little hurt: “Eh?”
Du Yan looked him up and down: “Looking at how tall and strong you are, if you were possessed by a ghost and rushed over to strangle me, I wouldn’t have any room to resist.”
After hearing what Du Yan said, Xiao Lang suddenly felt that he was a hindrance in this situation, so he obediently took the talisman and hung it around his neck.
After doing all this, the two of them put their hands on the door at the same time and pushed it gently. This door was indeed no different from the ancestral hall upper ground. It looked heavy, but it was silent when it opened to both sides.
Everything that appeared before their eyes was the same as the ancestral hall in the village, but also a little different. To be precise, the structure of the entire ancestral hall was similar, but it was much more dilapidated.
Even from the well, one could see the dusky sky, which clearly wasn’t what it looked like underground.
The ancestral hall was very quiet. Apart from Du Yan and Xiao Lang, there should be no other living creatures that could move inside.
However, this silence made everything in front of them even more terrifying. The main hall of the ancestral hall was filled with coffins. One next to another, almost occupying the entire space of the ancestral hall.
Xiao Lang looked around. Although he had prepared himself mentally, what he saw still made him feel a chill down his spine.
He whispered to Du Yan: “Although I don’t know what is going on, our local custom is that only old people who have died can have their bodies laid to rest in the ancestral hall. How can so many old people die at the same time in a village? Is this an illusion to scare us?”
Du Yan shook his head slightly: “It’s not clear yet. Even if it’s an illusion, there must be a reason for its sudden appearance. Let’s go in and take a look.”
Xiao Lang nodded and walked into the ancestral hall with Du Yan. After they took a few steps, they heard a slight movement behind them. When they looked back, they found that the door had closed by itself.
Xiao Lang subconsciously tried to open the door, but Du Yan pulled him back: “It’s useless.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the door suddenly open. Xiao Lang reacted very quickly, grabbed Du Yan’s hand, and dodged behind the pillar.
The pillars of this kind of ancestral hall were not too thick and could barely cover the figure of one person. Xiao Lang considered this and used his body to block the outside direction.
Du Yan leaned against the wall, and Xiao Lang hugged him. The two were a little too close, and Du Yan frowned slightly.
But the situation was not very clear at the moment, and the two could only temporarily maintain this somewhat awkward situation under the cover of the pillar. No one spoke, they looked into each other’s eyes, their breaths intertwined.
Du Yan only felt that Xiao Lang’s eyes were bright, so bright that he unconsciously looked away to see who the person who came in was.
After a moment, he raised his hand and pushed Xiao Lang’s chest: “They shouldn’t be able to see us.”
Xiao Lang looked back and saw that the people who came in were all wearing typical ancient costumes, which was obviously not a normal phenomenon.
Xiao Lang put down his arm but still did not move. He just asked in a low voice: “What is this, an illusion?”
Du Yan walked out from behind the pillar and said: “We’ll know if we go there and take a look.”
Xiao Lang and Du Yan walked through the courtyard and came to the coffins in the main hall. As expected, the few people who came in just now turned a blind eye to them and were still busy with their own affairs.
Apart from a few villagers wearing coarse cloth, the most conspicuous person inside was the man dressed as a Taoist priest. He walked to a coffin, and the people around him pushed open the coffin that had not yet been nailed shut, allowing him to observe the state of death of the corpse inside.
Du Yan and Xiao Lang followed behind without hesitation and took a look. They found that the bodies inside had bulging eyes and long tongues, and it was obvious that they had been hanged.
Xiao Lang found it even more strange: “The people in these coffins obviously died abnormally, how could they be in the ancestral hall?”
Du Yan said: “Perhaps he wants to use the souls of the ancestors to suppress resentment.”
Xiao Lang said: “That taoist priest should be here to deal with this strange incident. Do you recognize his origin?”
Du Yan shook his head: “There are not many sects that have been passed down, but only names of the well-known big sects have all been spread. The Taoist robes on this person are not the ones I have seen. Either he is from a small sect, or he is a charlatan who is swindling.”
The oldest villager with a white beard bowed to the Taoist priest in fear and trepidation: “Master, you see, all this is the evil done by that evil spirit. In just one month, she has ruined our village to this extent. If it continues like this, I’m afraid everyone in the village will die. You must save us!”
The Taoist priest promised solemnly that he would kill the evil ghost who had killed countless people with his sword. A few people talked for a while and then left the ancestral hall.
After Xiao Lang and Du Yan stood in the ancestral hall for a while, they found that there was no other movement. The door of the ancestral hall was quietly open and did not close automatically.
“Let’s go.” Du Yan probably understood and walked out the door with Xiao Lang.
What appeared before them was still the deep and narrow passage. Xiao Lang turned around again and found that the door he had just come out of had disappeared. Behind the two of them was clearly just the long and narrow passage they had come from. There was no ancestral hall from hundreds of years ago.
The two continued walking along the passage, but after a moment, they saw a familiar scene again. The gate of the ancestral hall stood quietly in front of them. With the experience just now, they did not hesitate much, and directly pushed open the door of the ancestral hall and walked in.
When Du Yan entered the room, the first thing he looked at was the ground. Because everything was so familiar, exactly the same as the scene he had seen in the village ancestral hall before, with swaying shadows on the ground.
When he wanted to look up, Xiao Lang covered his eyes. Du Yan could feel that Xiao Lang’s palms were cold: “What’s wrong?”
“You’d better be mentally prepared before watching.” Xiao Lang’s voice was a little stiff, as if he was frightened.
Du Yan nodded: “Let go, I think I know what’s going on.”
When Xiao Lang’s hand moved away, what appeared before Du Yan’s eyes was a scene like the dense aerial roots of a banyan tree.
However, what was hanging on the beams of the ancestral hall were not aerial roots but corpses. The corpses were placed next to each other and were even shaking slightly.
Only then did those swaying shadows fall on the ground.
Even Du Yan felt that the scene before him was really chilling. He closed his eyes, calmed down a little, and then looked over again.
The corpses hanging from the beams were all wearing coarse clothes commonly worn by farmers, and they looked like people from the village. Among the many corpses, only one was dressed differently, and he was wearing a Taoist robe.
The scene in front of him was extremely pervasive, but Du Yan had completely calmed down. He and Xiao Lang walked forward and observed it carefully.
All the corpses were adult males. It was unknown whether the women and children had chosen to temporarily leave the village because of the strange incidents that had occurred in the village or whether the evil spirit had a special hatred for men.
All the corpses were hung facing the inner hall. Du Yan was ready to go forward and check the corpse of the Taoist Priest to confirm whether it was the same one he had seen before.
Just as he was about to step forward, the corpses wearing Taoist robes slowly turned around while hanging in the air. In just a moment, all the corpses turned around.
Xiao Lang was startled and subconsciously took another step forward to protect Du Yan behind him.
Each corpse was hanged, with bulging eyes, dark blue faces, and long tongues.
Xiao Lang was stared at by so many corpses with grim expressions, and his teeth were trembling. Fortunately, after waiting for a while, the corpses just remained suspended in the air, and there was no other movement.
Du Yan put his hand on Xiao Lang’s jacket and patted it gently: “There shouldn’t be anything else to do next, let’s go.”
Xiao Lang turned around and saw Du Yan was calm, not frightened at all. He pulled the corner of his mouth reluctantly: “Sure enough, when faced with such a situation, you celestial masters are still calmer.”
The door of the ancestral hall had already been quietly opened. The two took one last look at the swaying corpses and turned to leave the ancestral hall.
When they stepped into the ancestral hall again, the scene inside had returned to normal. The corpses hanging from the beams were gone, and standing in the main hall were several people wearing the same Taoist robes.
When Du Yan saw it, he was a little surprised: “Huh! People from Maoshan Sect.”
Even though Xiao Lang was an engineering student, he had heard of the Maoshan Sect: “This malicious ghost is so powerful that the Maoshan Sect actually sent out so many people?”
Du Yan probably knew the source of these illusions at this moment, and he explained: “The corpses we saw just now were probably killed by this fierce ghost. We are now probably in the place where the predecessors of the Maoshan Sect sealed the fierce ghost.”
“In the well?”
“Yes.” Du Yan nodded: “The place where the fierce ghost is sealed, affected by her resentment, will repeat over and over again what happened to her during her lifetime and after her death. If we break into it, we will also be affected and see those scenes.”
“According to my guess, I will probably experience in person what she experienced before her death. It is not unprecedented for people who do not understand the reason or are unsteady-minded to suffer cardiac arrest or be frightened to death.”
Du Yan stopped and looked at Xiao Lang seriously: “No matter what you see or experience later, you must remember that this is not your life trajectory, so don’t be impulsive.”
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