Episode 9 Chapter 98: Strange Ancestral Hall
I wasn't scared, so I told Shan Lanjin about it. Shan Lanjin looked for a long time but didn't see anything. He asked what kind of face it was. I didn't see clearly either, but I saw a gloomy face. So I moved closer to take a closer look. Who knew that when I got closer, the face suddenly became clear, and like a fish about to jump out of the water, I could even see his body soaking in the water.
I was so frightened by the scene that I took a step back or two. Dan Ranjin asked me what was wrong. I leaned over to look into the water again, but there was nothing in the water. The face was gone.
I was thinking, I wouldn't see this thing for no reason. Then Dan Lanjin said that this place was really just used for sacrifices and not for placing the dead. Why did I feel like there were all eerie dead people in it? Dan Lanjin said I saw it, I nodded and said yes, and there was a strange eerie feeling.
It seems like this is a grave.
Shan Ranjin's speculation was even more frightening. He said that I had probably been drinking this water for the past three years. I insisted that I couldn't infer that I was drinking this water based on these alone. Maybe the water was good. Shan Ranjin said, "I already have the answer in my mind whether it is good or not. Why do we have to argue about it?"
I was completely speechless after hearing what Shan Lanjin said. It's true that Shan Lanjin is good at judging people. He knows exactly what I'm thinking, and he can convince you with just a few words. This is also a kind of professional quality.
There was nothing else in the room except these, but Dan Rankin seemed to never get enough of looking. He seemed interested in every corner and every inch of dust. I didn't know what he was looking at. When I asked him what he was looking at, he told me mysteriously and coldly that he was confirming a guess.
Then he said nothing and we went outside to take a look. The other connected houses were not so special. They were all abandoned places like residential houses. There was nothing worth describing. I just didn't understand why this place existed and why we couldn't see anything when we came here before.
I had a vague feeling that Shan Lanjin seemed to have noticed something, but he said nothing, and he just glanced at the following scenes without paying as much attention as before. When I was wondering, my cell phone suddenly rang. I picked it up and saw that it was a text message sent from that number. It said - Behind you!
The moment I saw the text message, I turned around to look, but saw nothing. Shan Lanjin asked me what was wrong. I put away my phone and said that I seemed to feel someone behind me. Shan Lanjin then said to me mysteriously, "Did I notice it too? He felt it when he was in the ancestral hall just now, but he looked around and didn't see anyone, so he came out with me, just to see who this person was."
It turned out that Shan Lanjin had noticed it a long time ago. No wonder I felt he was a little strange later. It was for this reason. He asked me if I saw anything. I shook my head. Shan Lanjin said we should go back to the room with the paper man.
I didn't understand what Shan Lanjin meant, so I could only go back with him suspiciously, back to that small courtyard. I didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but I began to feel very strange, even a little weird. I couldn't tell why, I just felt that way.
Shan Lanjin ignored everything and went straight to the room where the paper man was placed. He slowly looked around the entire room just like he . Then he asked me if I had found anything. I shook my head, but Shan Lanjin was asking me on the surface, but in fact he was hinting that he had found something.
Shan Lanjin said that there was one less paper man inside. He had just counted all the paper men, and there were forty-seven in total, but now there were only forty-six left. I didn't react to the number of paper men. Shan Lanjin said that if he guessed correctly, the man who had been following us should be a paper man, and now it should be standing outside the gate.
With that, Shan Ranjin rushed outside. I followed behind him, a step slower. Just as I was about to go out to the yard, I suddenly heard a voice inside calling my name. It was clear and short. If you don’t remember carefully, it’s easy to think that you heard it wrong.
This sound slowed down my pace , but I did not look back. Instead, I wanted to listen for the next sound. However, I listened carefully for a while but heard no sound. So I ignored it and went out of the courtyard gate. However, I did not see any trace of Shan Lanjin. I only saw a paper man lying outside the courtyard gate. However, this paper man seemed to have been chopped into pieces and scattered on the ground. It looked like a dismembered body. Of course, it only had the shape of a human, but there was no terrifying feeling of a recognizable body.
It was just a weird feeling, not to mention that Shan Lanjin disappeared in such a short time. I stood at the gate and looked in both directions, but there was no sign of Shan Lanjin. I thought he went to the ancestral hall, so I went to the ancestral hall to look for him, but it was even more gloomy there, and there was no trace of Shan Lanjin at all. When I went to the ancestral hall again, I saw a ghost Guanyin statue by the well, just like that, as if it had always been there.
I just felt that the situation became even more weird, and I didn't know what to do for a moment, whether to stay here or leave immediately. I hesitated for a second or two, and suddenly heard the sound of flowing water. Then I saw the well water in the middle of the ancestral hall bubbling out and flowing out along the drainage channel.
And soon, I heard the sound of water flowing in the various pools, as if this place suddenly came alive. At this time, I had a bad premonition because I vaguely felt that something would come out of the well, so I immediately left here and went outside.
When I came outside again, there was still no sign of Shan Lanjin. I just saw a person walking in the white space from afar. I thought it was Shan Lanjin, so I followed in the direction of the person. However, no matter how hard I chased, I couldn't catch up with him. He always kept a distance from me.
Just as I was wondering, I was suddenly startled by a shrill and close-to-my-ear horn sound, and I came back to my senses. Then I realized that I was standing in the middle of the newly built road. A large truck had almost stopped next to me, only about one meter away, and the driver was honking the horn desperately.
I immediately stepped aside and the truck continued to drive by. The driver leaned out of the window and cursed: "If you want to die, go somewhere else. Don't come here to cheat people."
After that, the truck roared past me, and I didn't even understand what had just happened. So I looked around, and the surroundings became the same as when Shan Ranjin and I came here. There were no paths, woods, or houses. Everything was clearly a wasteland, with nothing at all.
But Shan Lanjin was also missing. I dialed his number, but it always said that the call could not be connected. I dialed several times but it was the same every time. So I looked for him again, but still couldn't find him. Then I realized that Shan Lanjin was missing, and for no reason.
In the end, I had no choice but to call Shi Hu and tell him that Shan Lanjin had suddenly disappeared. He was also quite surprised and asked about our exact location. He told me not to worry or wander around and that he would organize people to come over.
I was just worried that something might happen to Shan Ranjin. Although I knew that he would not get into trouble, his sudden disappearance gave me a bad feeling. And as I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw a shattered paper figure hanging between dry bushes beside the road. Some parts of it were blown to the other side of the road by the wind.
I was thinking, isn't this the torn paper man I saw just now? Just as I was thinking, I suddenly saw a car driving towards me at a high speed, and from the direction it was heading, it was heading straight towards me.
