Volume 1 Chapter 052: Inscriptions Like Prison
I looked at the back of my hand and saw a long bloodstain. It was shocking. I couldn't help but feel pain and anger. Thinking of the suffering I had suffered last night, I got so excited that I ignored everything and shouted, "What are you doing! You hit people without any reason!"
"Then I won't beat you next time." The dead woman said expressionlessly: "Just throw you into the well."
When I heard that, I immediately softened: "No, just hit me!" I patted my butt, stood up and walked out.
Qingzi sat down on the sofa in the living room and said, "Where's my breakfast?"
I was angry, thinking, "You've been tossing me around, I haven't slept all night, and you're asking me for breakfast so early in the morning!" But even though I cursed in my heart, I didn't dare to hesitate, and said quickly, "I'll wash my face first and go buy it right away."
Qingzi frowned and said, "Forget it this time. You can cook it next time. The food outside is not very delicious."
That's enough, this woman is not only lazy, but also picky. I responded vaguely, rushed into the bathroom to wash up, brushed my teeth, looked in the mirror, and saw two big dark circles under my eyes.
I changed my clothes and went out to buy some steamed buns and fried dough sticks, thinking about what to do at night. I am now completely sure that there is a big problem with my room, and maybe the haunting of this house is related to my room.
This damn woman Qingzi occupied two rooms as soon as she came in, and left this room for me. She must have seen through the problem a long time ago. No one would believe me if I say she didn't do it on purpose!
Although last night was tough, at least there was no major danger, it was just a little cold. But judging from what Old Man Qian said, this house must not be that simple, and anyone who lives in this house will definitely suffer a bloody disaster.
At first, the Duan family and the Chen family did not have any problems when they first moved in, but after a while, they suddenly died tragically in their home. This shows that a certain timing is required for murder in this house.
Along the way, I was thinking as I walked, and when I saw a hardware store nearby, I went in and bought a waterproof flashlight and a soft cotton rope, which I put in my pocket and secretly took back home.
I first hid the food in the kitchen downstairs, and then went upstairs to deliver breakfast. Qingzi took a bite of the fried dough sticks and thought it was too greasy. In the end, she only picked a vegetable bun to eat, and the rest belonged to me. She got up and went to the study, frowned and asked me to clean up the kitchen quickly and cook for myself from today.
I agreed, ate and leaned on the sofa for a while, then went downstairs to buy some utensils for the kitchen. After another busy day, everything was finally ready. I cooked three dishes and a soup for dinner. In the past, when my third uncle was busy outside, I was basically responsible for buying vegetables and cooking, and I was quite skilled at it.
After dinner, I washed the pots and dishes and put them away. Qingzi had already taken a shower and changed clothes and came out, asking me to wash the dirty clothes. Then I was thrown into the room again to practice with the damn broken rope.
Although it was better than yesterday, it couldn't last for even a moment, so I jumped into the Cold Bone Well late at night.
With yesterday's experience, I felt more at ease. I went to the kitchen and took out the flashlight I had bought earlier, tied it to my arm with a hemp rope, and then climbed into the well.
"There are quite a few tricks." Qingzi said coldly, and told me impatiently to jump down quickly.
I climbed up the edge of the well, but I didn't dare to move rashly, and I moved down carefully bit by bit. If I accidentally fell down from this height, even though there was well water below, I was afraid that I would faint and drown in it.
I kept moving down until I couldn't reach the bottom of the well with my hands and feet, then I took a deep breath and jumped in. I immediately sank to the bottom of the water, and was wrapped in the cold water. I floated up and took a breath, turned on the flashlight on my arm, and scanned the walls around the bottom of the well, but I didn't find anything special.
After making some adjustments, he took a deep breath and dived down to find the location of the skeleton. With the help of the flashlight, he could roughly see the outline of the skeleton under the water.
It was indeed not big, and its bones were not thick. At first glance, it looked like the skeleton of a young man, sticking to the wall of the well, a few centimeters taller than me. I moved closer and shone a flashlight carefully. There was indeed a cartilage growing on the back of the skeleton, with distinct joints, flat and thick.
After carefully examining the joints of the bones, I found that they were not grafted in later, but should have grown naturally. This is 99% likely to be a tail.
But this tail is obviously different from the tails of monkeys, cows, sheep and the like. It is much thicker and long and flat in shape, a bit like a gecko's tail.
My scalp started to tighten as I watched, and I felt cold all over.
I surfaced to take a breath, pondered for a moment, then dived down again. I carefully examined the creature's head and chest, and discovered something strange.
Although this thing looks like the skeleton of a young man at first glance, it is actually not a person at all. The bone composition of the skull and chest is very different from that of a human, and the arms are much shorter than those of an ordinary person. What the hell is this thing?
The big nail that pierced its chest was red-black in color, and it was obviously made of red copper. Judging from the part where it pierced the wall, it was estimated to be at least ten inches long. The nail head was as big as a chess piece, with the word "well" engraved on it. There seemed to be some carvings on the nail, but they were not clear under water.
I remember the first time I saw the Green Dragon Nail in an ancient tomb in southern Xinjiang, I heard from my third uncle that the inscription with the word "well" is a Taoist term for suppressing evil spirits, which means carving a well as a prison and drawing a line on the ground as a jail. Obviously, this nail should also be a Taoist evil-suppressing object.
The iron chains wrapped around his body were black, with a talisman pasted every meter. The talisman was written in cinnabar on yellow paper. It was unknown how long the talisman had been soaked in water, but the yellow paper did not rot, and the runes were as bright as blood, as if new.
The very end of the chain was above the skeleton, and went straight into the wall of the well, with no one knowing where it led to.
The more I looked, the colder I felt. I floated back to the surface and couldn't help shivering. The water was so cold that I couldn't stand it after soaking for such a long time. I gritted my teeth and shivered, wondering who sealed the well and what unheard-of monster was nailed underneath.
According to old man Qian, when the original owner of the house was still alive, the house was very peaceful and nothing strange happened. Later, the man fled to Taiwan, and after Bai Wenli's family moved in, the house became a haunted house where people killed people without blinking an eye. Moreover, after Bai Wenli's family disappeared mysteriously, the businessman surnamed Duan actually said that he ran into the man surnamed Bai somewhere, and even mortgaged the house to him.
I have to say that this Bai Wenli is very strange. Later, the sorcerer surnamed Wen and the child surnamed Feng who was suspected to be my third uncle came here and dug out three people from the Bai family in the yard, including Bai Wenli's wife and two children, but not Bai Wenli himself.
Ever since the incident with Liu Nan, I have always had a shadow on people with the surname Bai. I wonder if Bai Wenli has any relationship with the Bai family in Maobizi Village?
Back in the Liu family mansion, I almost died at the hands of that devilish girl Liu Nan. Later, my third uncle and Dead Face, in order to find out the details of Liu Nan's mother Bai Mei, one died tragically in a foreign land, and the other is still unknown whether he is alive or dead. I finally escaped from the ancient tomb in Southern Xinjiang, and after many twists and turns, I actually ran into someone with the surname Bai. Damn it, I wonder if I had a grudge against the Bai family in my previous life!
This haunted building and this cold bone well are full of weirdness. If we don’t figure it out, sooner or later we will end up like the previous owners, killed at noon.
After yesterday's experience, I felt more confident. I knew that although Qingzi was overbearing, she was not a fool. When the time came, she would definitely let me go up. Otherwise, if she really killed me, who would do the laundry and cooking for her?
After lunch, I took advantage of some free time to look through the pile of books that Dead Face left for me, hoping to find some folk remedies to keep out the cold. However, time was limited, so I just flipped through them randomly, but I did find a method. I didn't read it carefully at the time, but I saw that this spell was not long, and it was similar to the Qingxin Mantra that Dead Face taught me in the Liu family mansion, so I memorized it after reciting it.
At this time, I held my breath, floated on the water, and silently recited the spell in my heart. I tried several times in a row, but all failed. But I didn't get discouraged. Anyway, I had nowhere to go in the well. If I had something to do, time would pass faster.
