Part 2 Chapter 32 Hints on the Skylight
I subconsciously looked at my own shadow, but the light in the room was too bright to see clearly. I thought about it for a moment and felt that this was really outrageous.
If it is really as Qin Yiheng said, since they are afraid of being discovered without a shadow, why bother to open a skylight on the roof of the house?
Besides, how can a person not have a shadow? According to many rumors, ghosts do not have shadows, but since they are already ghosts, why would they still hang out with people?
I discussed it with Qin Yiheng, wanting him to explain it more clearly, but he told me that this is all we can guess at the moment. As for what exactly happened, we are not involved, so we definitely don't know.
However, he reasoned that the old man might have done this intentionally, and the skylight on the roof might be some kind of restraint. If the person who needed to hide his shadow did something bad to the old man, this would be a guarantee.
The reason why the person who brought us here was so concerned about holding an umbrella was probably deliberately arranged by the old man. He probably said some alarmist consequences. He did this to confuse everyone and make it easier to achieve his goal.
Hearing him say this, a picture came to my mind: a group of people holding umbrellas in this house conspiring with the old man in the hat. It felt a bit like attending a funeral. Anyway, the picture I imagined was very weird. This fucking thing, isn't it a cult organization?
I lit another cigarette, took a few puffs and calmed down. Then I remembered to ask Qin Yiheng why he was so nervous about finding the teeth marks before, because what he just told me, although weird, was nothing serious and would not endanger his life.
When I asked him, he told me that when he saw the teeth on the umbrella before, he didn't think of it as a crooked tooth at first. Because in metaphysics, there is a game called "Yao Xiao". This "Yao Xiao" has a great origin, and the teeth of those who died of pain are selected. Because when people are in great pain, they will instinctively want to bite things, so this kind of teeth is the best. Then at midnight every day , draw a tooth mark at the head of your bed. It is said that after this kind of tooth mark is drawn, don't let anyone check it after dawn. When it gets dark again, you will see more tooth marks next to the tooth mark you drew. That night, if you fall asleep with this tooth in your mouth, you will dream of some strange hints. This hint is used to find Tai Sui.
Qin Yiheng said that he had never tried it, so he had never figured out the mystery. He only knew the general process, but one thing was certain, that is, this situation was very hurtful, because the person who fell asleep with a tooth in his mouth would need to have one of his teeth pulled out the next day, otherwise he would bring about a great disaster, and this kind of disaster was very severe, such as a fire.
This may be related to Tai Sui. Tai Sui, in general, can be used as a name or a general term in metaphysics. In particular, Tai Sui is actually a very strange thing that is neither an animal nor a plant. According to legend, eating it will prolong life, and eating the spirit Tai Sui will make you immortal. In ancient times, those emperors who sought immortality were mostly looking for this thing. According to legend, this Tai Sui cannot be bitten with teeth, but can only be taken orally. Because human teeth will come into contact with many impurities in the world, and if they are touched by teeth, Tai Sui will lose its spirituality.
This spirit Tai Sui is not a simple thing. To describe it in human terms, it is very cunning and vindictive. Therefore, if you use "Yao Xiao" to find it, Tai Sui will come to make trouble after noticing it.
However, this is just a legend. In one’s lifetime, only a handful of people can see Tai Sui, let alone Tai Sui who has transformed into a spirit.
So, he was very nervous when he first discovered the teeth. After all, we came here rashly this time, without sufficient investigation and preparation beforehand. He was afraid that this was a scheme similar to "Yao Xiao", a trap. If we were not careful, we would be burned to death again, which would be a loss.
Now that we have figured out the whole story about the teeth, the next step is to get down to business: looking at the house. After all, we are here with a purpose.
After smoking, Qin Yiheng and I began to carefully check each room in the house. I had only taken a cursory look before, but after checking, I found that this house was indeed very large, and many rooms had the same "one household for ten thousand people" dust marks that I had seen before, and there were seven or eight of them in total.
After checking the house, he found nothing new, not even the shadow of the wardrobe. Qin Yiheng frowned and said, "There is nothing unclean in the house. It is undoubtedly a standard residential house."
After hearing what he said, I was even more puzzled. The old man in the hat asked us to come all the way here, so he really wanted to do business with us?
After thinking about it, I felt that it was still impossible, so I asked him what to do now. This house definitely cannot be taken back, and it is obvious that I will have to pay money!
Qin Yiheng looked around and thought for a while. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something and said, "Turn off all the lights in the house."
The house was really big, and it took us a lot of effort to turn off all the lights. After we turned off the lights, we returned to the living room and were shocked when we saw what was going on.
That night, at first the stars were bright but the moon was dark, but now, I don't know if it was God's help, the moon was dim again. This house is located in a remote town, there are no street lights or neon lights around, and there is no pollution. The moon is surprisingly bright, and the light is naturally surprisingly good. Once the lights are turned off, the moonlight shines directly through the skylight. However, the moonlight on the ground is different from what we imagined.
Because these skylights are all octagonal, the moonlight shining on the ground should also be octagonal. Even if it is deformed due to the angle, it should at least be similar to an octagon. However, the moonlight on the ground has nothing to do with an octagon!
The shapes of these lights are hard to describe and look very messy. According to my intuitive feeling, they look more like a ball of noodles.
At first I thought it was just a coincidence that clouds floated over the house. When I looked up, I was startled.
Because at some point someone had used a brush or something dipped in paint to randomly paint the skylight in the living room, so the light on the ground had this effect.
At this time, all the lights in the house were turned off. Although there was moonlight shining in, I was still so nervous that my legs went weak.
When Qin Yiheng and I checked it just now, the skylight was very clean, but now it is obvious that it has been tampered with.
I thought to myself: 'While we were chatting in the study, someone came into the room? But we didn't notice it at all!'
I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. The other party had wiped the glass without anyone noticing. If he wanted to sneak attack us, it would certainly not be difficult to wipe our necks! Besides, this was probably a trap. After all, according to normal logic, no one would go to the roof in the middle of the night.
I leaned towards Qin Yiheng, wanting to ask him what he thought. Apparently, he also noticed something was wrong with the skylight. He looked at it for a while, then walked directly under the skylight, raised his head, looked for a while, bent down, touched the ground illuminated by the light with his hand, and asked me if the light looked familiar.
I was stunned by his question. I looked at it a few more times but still couldn't recognize anything, so I asked him, what on earth was this?
Qin Yiheng stretched out his hand and gestured, saying, "Do you remember the seal that the old man in the hat gave you? This light is the same as what is engraved under the seal, both of which are spells to calm the soul and suppress evil."
When I heard it was a spell, I walked closer to take a closer look, but my eyesight was too poor to recognize it.
However, I am very confused. Regardless of who drew this, he must have a purpose, right?
Now I recognize that this is a talisman to calm the soul and suppress evil. The name doesn't sound like a scheme to harm people.
I asked Qin Yiheng, and he also shook his head and told me that he had been thinking about it, but could not figure out the other party's intentions. He could only check each room carefully to see if he could find any clues.
This time we didn't split up to check the house, we were afraid of ambush. We were both on guard all the time, which made me a little uneasy, and I didn't pay attention when I was following.
There were quite a few rooms in the house, and it took us quite some time to check them thoroughly. But after another round, we still found nothing.
Finally, Qin Yiheng decided to try to move everything that could be moved to see if there would be any discoveries. So the two of them started to do physical work again.
Fortunately, there were no electrical appliances left in the old man’s house. They were probably taken away when he moved out. Apart from a microwave and a refrigerator in the kitchen, there was nothing else to move.
We moved all the electrical appliances out and saw nothing but dust, so we started moving the furniture in the house one by one.
The furniture was all made of genuine mahogany and was very heavy. We were exhausted from moving it around. We finally finished the living room, took a short break with a cigarette, and then went to the bedroom.
