Chapter 032
As I climbed upwards, I had to avoid the ghost faces on the branches, and it was very difficult to move. I looked up at Lin Tian and saw that he had reached the top of the tree, sitting between several branches, looking at me with a smile, as if to say, Tan Xi, come up!
I was getting more and more angry, and I really didn't believe it. I held on to the tree trunk tightly and climbed up! Ding Ding looked at me anxiously under the tree, and after waiting for a while, he seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, so he turned around and ran back to the house, slamming the door.
I cursed in my mouth, this guy really didn't care about us when he got into trouble . But when I thought about it carefully, I felt a little strange. Lin Tian and Ding Ding had both planned to pass the path of the human-faced tree, but apart from feeling that the cry was very noisy, I didn't feel anything else at all, let alone the kind of influence that confused people's minds.
But the current situation did not give me time to think about it. I could only try my best to climb up. After finally getting a little higher, I slipped down again, and my hands and feet were all scratched.
I gritted my teeth and tried to keep my body steady on the tree. Lin Tian was laughing like a silly bird, watching my every move. When this is over, if I still have the strength, I will definitely give him a good beating!
I finally climbed halfway up the tree. The higher I climbed, the more ghost faces there were. They were so dense that there was no place for me to touch. The faces were all gray and distorted beyond recognition. Countless eyes stared at me, giving me goose bumps.
I was less than a meter away from Lin Tian, but I just couldn't touch him. I could only be hard-hearted and use my hands and feet to climb up towards those ghost faces.
But as soon as my hand landed on the ghost's face, it felt like I was touching a piece of dead skin, cold and icy, and suddenly it sunk in, as if there was no flesh inside, and there was not even a point for me to exert force. It was as if if I pulled hard, I would tear the skin off the tree.
I was trapped in the middle of the tree trunk and couldn't move. I was in great distress when I turned around and saw the light of the candle in the house. I hurriedly called Ding Ding's name and he answered from inside. I was glad that he could hear my voice!
I shouted, Give me the whole torch!
Ding Ding said "Oh" again, and I saw his shadow busy in the house. After waiting for a long time, the door suddenly opened and he ran out with a torch. I looked at it and it was just a piece of wood with some cloth tied on it. The fire was not very big. I just felt that the cloth looked familiar, and then I realized that it was Lin Tian's clothes.
There were so many unused rubbish at home, but this guy actually took apart Lin Tian’s clothes.
But now it's better than nothing. I lay on a branch and took a long time to get the torch in my hand. When Ding Ding saw that the task was accomplished, he ran back into the house.
With the weapon in my hand, I felt more confident. I raised the torch and burned the ghost face in front of me.
As soon as I got closer, the ghost face's screams became even more shrill. My ears were buzzing and I almost fell off the tree.
But the reaction of this ghost face also strengthened my belief. After all, things that grow on trees are afraid of fire.
The ghost face in front of him couldn't stand the heat of the flames, and suddenly a puff of black smoke came out. The smell made it choking, and the whole face quickly shrank and stuck to the tree trunk, never to move again.
When I saw that there was a way, I started to roast them one by one, burning a path for myself.
By the light of the fire, I could see what the slippery substance on the bark was. The whole tree was now dark red, and even my body was the same.
Blood was actually flowing out from beneath the bark of the human-faced tree. When burned by the flame in my hand, the blood dried up and solidified in the blink of an eye.
I finally managed to burn a gap and climbed up again. Lin Tian was sitting in the tree branch above me, watching everything with a smile. I reached out and grabbed his feet, but he seemed to know that I was going to take him away from here, and he panicked and hugged the tree trunk next to him tightly.
I couldn't pull him down, and he didn't respond when I called him. I could only crawl closer to him and lean on the branch in front of him. Now Lin Tian was beside me, but the new problem was that I didn't know how to get him down. If I had to force him to climb down, it would be better for the two of us to fall down and fall flat on our faces.
From where I was, wherever I could see, there were densely packed faces. I held the torch tightly in my hand and tried to look around, but when I looked around, I was suddenly stunned.
In the middle of the tree branch in front of me, right between Lin Tian and me, there was also a ghost face. It was distorted beyond recognition, but I could still see that this person was my grandfather!
He howled in pain, and like the other ghosts around him, he seemed to be suffering from torture from nowhere. But his eyes were still looking straight at me, which made my heart palpitate.
I almost shouted out, but at this moment, the shrill howling in my ears suddenly stopped, as if the music in the speakers suddenly lost power and stopped abruptly!
At that moment, those faces were suddenly sucked into the tree trunk. No trace was left!
The surroundings suddenly became quiet. This sudden change made me nervous, but my ears were still buzzing and tinnitus continued.
Lin Tian was stunned for a moment. He rubbed his eyes and suddenly shouted, "Damn it, Tan Xi, what are you doing? Why are you covered in blood?"
When I saw him like this, I knew he was out of control. But Lin Tian obviously didn't realize where he was. He just wanted to move, but his body tilted and he almost fell off the branch.
I hurriedly grabbed him and accidentally got burned by the torch in my hand. It hurt so much that I grimaced.
Lin Tian then realized where he was. He looked down, gasped, and asked me, "What's going on? Why am I here?"
I saw that he had no recollection of what happened before and he didn't have the energy to explain, so I just said let's go downstairs first and talk about it later.
Lin Tian also knew that the situation was not good. He said "hmm" and then slowly stood up and followed me to climb under the tree. I just guessed under a branch when Lin Tian suddenly pulled me. I looked at him in confusion and asked what happened?
He looked up at the attic and asked, "Who is that person?"
I frowned and followed his gaze, and saw a dark shadow standing behind the only small window on the roof attic, looking at us coldly.
At first I thought it was Tintin who had gone upstairs, but when I turned around, I found that the candle downstairs was still on, and Tintin was still crawling at the door looking at us.
My heart suddenly felt cold. How could there be someone in this old house?
I looked up at the attic again, and the figure behind the window suddenly disappeared. Lin Tian was also shocked. Before he spoke, I shouted to Ding Ding, Ding Ding, be careful, there is someone in the room!
Ding Ding also lost his level and shouted inside, "Yes, I have been here all the time!"
Lin Tian was speechless, and shouted, "I'm not talking about you! There are other people upstairs, be careful!"
Ding Ding pushed the door open with a bang, ran out quickly and asked what was going on.
Lin Tian and I finally climbed down from the tree. We were both still in shock and our legs were a little weak. We just stared up at the attic.
Ding Ding scratched his head and said, "Didn't we check when we came here? There was no one else in the room except us."
I stared straight at the dark attic and said that we had never been to the roof to see that there was a small compartment there that required a ladder to get up.
The attic of my old house is the small area with a sloping roof. There is a small opening on the wall of the room. It used to store some old things of my grandfather. Usually no one went up there. Sometimes my grandfather went up there to look for things, and I only followed him up once or twice out of curiosity.
That kind of place is not high enough for a person to stand, so apart from placing some miscellaneous items, there is nothing you can do.
I usually don't even remember that there is such a place.
But I am sure that I saw a figure in that small window just now, but I didn’t know whether it was a human or a ghost, so I didn’t dare to investigate it casually.
We stood in the yard for a while. Lin Tian had no recollection of the incident with the human-faced tree. He just said, "There are three of us. There is nothing to be afraid of. There is no ladder in the attic. If that person wants to come down, he has to jump out from the roof! Let's prepare some weapons and go up to see who it is."
I said it’s best not to act rashly now. If it’s a person, it’s easy to deal with, but if it’s a ghost, Tintin may not be able to do anything to it.
When Tintin heard this, he was very unconvinced and said, "How can I do nothing? There can't be any ghosts around here. If there are, they will be sucked in by this human-faced tree!"
Lin Tian was stunned for a moment and asked what the human-faced tree was?
I was too lazy to explain. Ding Ding was also talking excitedly. He shouted at Lin Tian, "Look at yourself now. Are you possessed by a ghost? There are so many ghosts hiding in this tree. Tan Xi and I finally hid ourselves. Why are you running out here to mess around?"
Lin Tian had no idea what had just happened. Hearing Ding Ding's bad tone, he also frowned and cursed, "What's wrong with me! I was sleeping soundly in bed and when I opened my eyes, I was on this tree! I saw Tan Xi sitting in front of me and thought he had climbed onto my bed. I haven't even cursed yet, why are you yelling!"
Ding Ding held his breath, looked aggrieved, and didn't dare to speak.
I say, come on, now is not the time to shout. Let's block the attic exit first, and then go up to see when it's daybreak. It's hard to see clearly now, be careful not to get hit by a club.
After hearing my persuasion, the two of them finally calmed down. If they continued to quarrel, I would not be able to do anything to them.
We discussed it quietly, and decided that the three of us would not sleep tonight, and we would all stay at the attic passage. If the man wanted to escape, he could only jump off the roof.
But I was still a little unsure about the current situation, so I hurriedly asked Ding Ding, "Are you sure there are no ghosts around here?"
Ding Ding nodded and said, "Yes, didn't you notice that the shadow girl who has been following you is gone?"
I looked down and saw that my shadow had returned to normal, no longer looking like the woman before. I didn't know when she disappeared, but it seemed that she was also afraid of the human-faced tree.
