Chapter 6 The House in the Graveyard
Chapter 6 The House in the Graveyard
The wind at night made people feel chills on their backs, and the distant woods were shrouded in darkness. The extra house stood out in the middle of the cemetery, like a black monster crawling on the ground quietly watching its prey.
"I only went there during the day, and there are no houses except the tomb." Ye Tang rubbed his eyes and said affirmatively.
Jiang Mingxu crossed his arms and whispered in his ear: "It may be a mirage created by the program crew. I guess it's something like a projection. We just cooperate."
The director looked serious, and hurriedly ordered the cameraman to take a picture of this scene: "Why are you standing still, hurry up and shoot!"
The camera brothers just woke up like a dream and quickly picked up the camera to shoot. They first looked at the camera, then raised their eyes to the distant house with complicated expressions, then looked down at the camera, with a panicked expression on their faces and said : "Director, I can't shoot it."
Hearing that the director took the camera, nothing was captured on the screen except for the neatly arranged mounds of dirt on the dark hillside.
"What about the two people pretending to be ghosts? Why didn't they come back with you?" the director asked.
"I don't know, I'll call and get in touch."
The staff member who was frightened and ran back just now took off his wig, took out his mobile phone and dialed the numbers of the other two people, but no one answered.
He looked at the director nervously: "I can't get in touch at all, what should I do now?"
The director's throat moved up and down, saying that he was not afraid of being fake, but after filming so many episodes, he actually encountered a real unnatural phenomenon. If he could record it, both the popularity of the show and the number of broadcasts would skyrocket.
After pondering for a moment, the director said in a deep voice, "Go and see, everyone goes, the cameraman takes the camera."
With a serious expression, Huijue reached out to stop the director: "I can't go."
"Master Huijue, we didn't invite you here to meditate with your eyes closed." The director squinted at Huijue provocatively: "Now two people are missing, let us see your skills."
Seeing that he was determined to go his own way, Huijue didn't stop him any more, just sighed, turned around and walked to Ye Tang's side and said, "You have to follow me closely."
Jiang Mingxu pulled Ye Tang to his side with a cold face and said to Huijue, "Don't bother Master."
Ye Tang thought that Jiang Mingxu was still angry with Huijue for leaving him during the day, so he tugged at the corner of his clothes to signal him not to be disrespectful to Huijue.
Now that the director had spoken, the other staff members dared not disobey even though they were unwilling, so they carried their tools and followed the three artists towards the cemetery.
Weeds were overgrown around the cemetery, the grass was wet at night, the dew soaked his trousers, and the hairy grass scratched Ye Tang's ankles.
The tomb around me looks like a man in black, exuding a strange aura.
They walked through graves and looked around with flashlights for two other missing staff members.The director also tried to call their names, but no one answered.
Walking to the door of the house and stopping, Ye Tang held up a flashlight to take a picture, and found that it was a small two-story building. The appearance did not look like a Western-style building, but more like the aesthetics built by himself in his hometown. Rustic small building.
At this time, the door of the house suddenly opened with a "squeak", as if to welcome the group of uninvited guests outside.
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no one dared to take the first step.
Ye Tang thought to himself that he was going in anyway, so why not take the lead, and if there were any dirty things, he would come at him, at least to ensure the safety of others.
Without saying a word, he climbed up the stairs and walked into the house, followed by Huijue.
Seeing that Huijue had also entered, everyone followed into the house one after another.
The moment everyone entered the house, the door behind them was suddenly closed by a strong wind blowing from the house, and then the door lock made a "click" sound as it was locked, and the house was plunged into darkness. The assistant hurried to open the door, but I can't open it anyway.
"It's over! We can't get out!"
"It's scary...I want to go home..."
A few timid staff began to shake and knock on the door in horror, and the others were also panicked.
In fact, Ye Tang already felt a strong sense of oppression when he first came in. If he hadn't been forced to take the pill by Li Xuan before, he would have fainted a long time ago.
He suppressed the nausea in his stomach, looked around with the flashlight, saw a pull rope in the corner of the wall, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to pull the rope, unexpectedly, the light in the house turned on.
Everyone looked up and saw an old-fashioned incandescent lamp above their heads emitting a faint yellow light.Although the light is not strong, at least you can see the situation inside the house clearly.
"Excuse me, is there anyone here?" Jiang Mingxu called out, and the empty hall only echoed him.
On the right is the staircase leading to the second floor, and on the left a huge mirror hangs on the wall, covering almost the entire wall.
Ye Tang walked in along the mirror, and a door appeared in front of him. He opened the door and the room was pitch black. He groped the wall for a while but couldn't find the switch. He turned on the flashlight, and by the light of the flashlight, he found that it was a kitchen.
Since the stove had already been covered with a thick layer of dust, he casually rummaged through a few cupboards to get out all the dust.
At this time, several cameramen reported that the camera was broken for no reason. The director checked the camera, and there were black stripes dancing on the screen, and it was impossible to shoot.
"What about the mobile phone? Can the mobile phone take pictures?" The director persistently wanted to take pictures of everything here, and always felt that if he didn't take pictures, this trip would be in vain.
The female assistant took out her mobile phone to take pictures for a while and said in amazement: "My mobile phone can't take pictures either, the screen is all black, and there is no signal."
Hearing what she said, other people also took out their mobile phones one after another, but the screen turned out to be black!
"It's over, it's over, I can't even make phone calls, are we cut off from the outside world?" The female assistant wanted to cry without tears: "If I had known I would have been fired..."
Everyone started to panic again, but Lin Runzhi went with the situation and didn't have much fear. He hasn't figured out whether the current situation is because the crew is acting to scare them, maybe there is a hidden camera somewhere that is filming their every move.
Lin Runzhi went to the mirror and straightened his wind-blown hair. He didn't notice that the moment he turned around, the self in the mirror didn't turn around, but looked at everyone who broke in with resentful eyes.
He felt hairs on his back, turned his head to look in the mirror, but found nothing unusual.
At this time Jiang Mingxu suggested: "Let's look again to see if anyone is there, maybe they just fell asleep." Then he walked towards the stairs.Ye Tang and Lin Runzhi followed closely behind and also went up the stairs.
There were two timid female assistants who refused to go up, so the director asked the two photographer brothers to stay with them on the first floor.
Jiang Mingxu groped for the wall and turned on the corridor lights on the second floor, and a narrow corridor appeared in front of him. There were two rooms with closed doors on each side of the corridor.
"Let's take a look separately." The director walked into the room on the right, and Lin Runzhi politely knocked on the door of the opposite room, and when no one agreed, he opened the door and walked in.
Ye Tang stood at the door and took a look in. It was just an ordinary bedroom, so he went to the next room.
Next to the bedroom is the toilet, and you can see the sink under the vanity mirror when you enter the door.
Ye Tang touched the ashes in the kitchen just now and was looking for a place to wash his hands, so he turned on the tap.The faucet made a hoarse sound, and a few drops of yellow rusty water barely flowed out.
"There's not even any water. It seems that no one lives here." Ye Tang helplessly wiped the dust off his hands and turned to go out.
At this time, two translucent gray hands protruded from the mirror behind him and quietly approached the back of his neck.
Huijue appeared at the door of the toilet at some point and suddenly pulled Ye Tang into the corridor.
The hands behind him also quickly retracted and disappeared in the mirror.
Seeing Huijue's serious expression, Ye Tang asked him, "What happened?"
Huijue grabbed Ye Tang's arm and exerted a little force: "Don't run around, you can only follow me from now on."
Jiang Mingxu leaned against the wall of the corridor with his hands crossed and looked at them with complicated eyes without speaking.
Ye Tang asked him about Lin Runzhi's whereabouts, and he pointed to the bedroom and said, "I've been inside and never came out."
"But there is no one in the bedroom." Ye Tang walked into the bedroom to look around, and stopped in front of the full-length mirror embedded in the wardrobe.Staring at himself in the mirror, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was different.
Ye Tang and Jiang Mingxu checked all the rooms upstairs, but found no sign of Lin Runzhi.
Although Jiang Mingxu was unwilling to believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, judging from the current situation, there was really no way to explain how a living person could disappear out of thin air before his eyes.
At this moment, Jiang Mingxu frowned and said in a low voice, "The director is gone too."
Ye Tang fell into deep thought, and then said nervously, "What the hell! Go to the first floor and have a look."
When they rushed to the first floor, as expected, the two female assistants and the cameraman who had been waiting in the lobby on the first floor disappeared, and several cameras fell to the ground, but their lenses were all facing the mirror on the wall.
Jiang Mingxu picked up a video camera, and Ye Tang came over to check the shooting content with him.
In the video, the photographer is holding up the camera and looking at the mirror in horror. His mouth is deliberately slowly opening and closing without making a sound, but the mouth shape is obviously repeating two words: "There is a ghost, save me... ..."
The black stripes rolling upwards from time to time on the screen of the camera obscured some areas. At this time, they saw many slightly transparent gray hands protruding from the mirror, and then the camera fell to the ground and went black again.
Watching the video, Ye Tang and Jiang Mingxu felt cold from head to toe, and they slowly raised their heads to look at the big mirror.
The image reflected in the mirror was also looking at them, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth, but Huijue's image remained unchanged, with a compassionate and solemn expression in his eyes.
At this time, Ye Tang remembered that the room where the director and Lin Runzhi disappeared also had mirrors.
"There's something wrong with the mirror here." Ye Tang pulled Jiang Mingxu back behind Huijue and asked tremblingly, "Master Huijue, are they... dead?"
Huijue shook his head: "Not dead, but no different from death."
"What do you mean?" Jiang Ming continued puzzled.
Huijue put his palms together and began to chant scriptures in front of the mirror with the Buddhist beads. Ye Tang is not a Buddhist practitioner, so he couldn't understand what he was reciting.
"What is this!" Jiang Mingxu suddenly pointed to the mirror in the hall and cried out in horror.
The people reflected in the mirror gradually changed from the three of them to five or ten...
Those people were gray and expressionless, and gradually the number increased, filling the whole mirror like sardines in a can!
Seeing this scene, Jiang Mingxu grabbed Ye Tang's arm with trembling hands, and tightly squeezed his bloodless lips to keep himself from screaming. Ye Tang knew that he was really scared this time.
Ye Tang put an arm on his shoulder to comfort him softly: "It's okay."
In fact, he himself was also very scared, but for some reason, seeing Huijue standing in front of them, Ye Tang felt inexplicably at ease.
The sound of Huijue chanting sutras echoed in the originally quiet room, and those figures began to walk out of the mirror one by one with slow steps.
Ye Tang looked at Huijue in horror: "They came out...what to do..."
Huijue didn't answer and continued to chant scriptures.
The strange thing is that these figures stopped when they came to Huijue, and then slowly knelt down and pressed their heads and hands deeply on the ground, as if they were a group of worshipers kneeling on a pilgrimage.
Ye Tang and Jiang Mingxu stared blankly at the large group of kneeling gray figures in front of them. At the same time, they also noticed that all the missing people from the program group were among them.
"What's going on..." Ye Tang asked softly.
At this time, Huijue stopped chanting, and these figures still knelt on the ground motionless.
He turned to Ye Tang and Jiang Mingxuan and said: "These should be the dead villagers in the village at the foot of the mountain. Because they believe in burial, they did not cremate the bodies of their relatives, and the souls stayed in the dead bodies and could not reincarnate. So when I chanted , they all came out to receive merit, praying to be reborn. I am afraid that arresting the living is also forcing me to save them."
"Then what should we do now? Xiaorun and the others are inside!" Ye Tang rushed to Lin Runzhi without thinking, and reached out to touch him, but his fingers passed through his body and caught nothing.
"Little Run, look up at me." Ye Tang looked at Lin Runzhi, who was kneeling on the ground translucently, in panic, took a few steps back, ran to Huijue's side and grabbed his cassock, begging, "Master Huijue, I beg you!" You try to save them."
At this time, the locked door of the house was suddenly opened, and a strong wind poured into the room from the outside. Li Xuan strolled into the hall from the outside in the dark, looked at Ye Tang expressionlessly and said, "The person you should ask for it's me."
Huijue frowned and warned Li Xuan: "Don't go too far."
"After all, you still refuse to help me." Li Xuan said coldly: "Seeing that you and I are good friends, let him owe me this favor."
Huijue nodded helplessly, and gave Ye Tang a look of "I want to save but someone disagrees".
Looking at Lin Runzhi who was kneeling on the ground, Ye Tang couldn't help clenching his fists and swiped at Li Xuan's face, but he quickly dodged it, Ye Tang staggered and fell to the ground, looking up and glaring at him viciously.
Jiang Mingxuan hurriedly supported Ye Tang to protect him behind him. Although he didn't know what was going on, he could clearly feel that the Taoist priest in front of him was targeting Ye Tang.
Ye Tang pushed him away, gritted his teeth and asked Li Xuan: "What do you want to pester me till now?"
Li Xuan replied calmly: "You should know what I want."
Ye Tang showed a wry smile: "Li Daochang is really well-intentioned, don't you keep saying that I want my soul to make alchemy? Give it all to you, and I can even give you my life." As he spoke, he walked up to Li Xuan and looked at him with hatred and said : "You must rescue Xiaorun and the others."
"As you wish." Li Xuan slapped Ye Tang's abdomen with Qiyun Dantian.Ye Tang suddenly felt that his spirit was blown out of his body by a strong air current, he spat out blood and passed out.
The moment Ye Tang fell down, Li Xuan stretched out his hand to catch his limp waist and leaned against him, and at the same time with the other hand, he threw out a kit to collect the non-poison that was shaken out of Ye Tang's body.
"What did you do to him!" Jiang Mingxuan rushed to Li Xuan with red eyes and snatched Ye Tang's body and said angrily, "If he dies, I will never let you go."
"Ye Tang, wake up." Jiang Mingxu patted the face of the man in his arms, gritted his teeth, carried Ye Tang on his back and ran out of the nightmare house.
Huijue turned his face and looked at Li Xuan with half anger and said, "You shouldn't force him like this." He watched Ye Tang's back disappear into the night, and left in a hurry with a long sigh.
Now that he received the reward, he naturally had to fulfill Ye Tang's wish.
Li Xuan moved out a table from the kitchen to wipe off the dust on it, opened the package he had brought, offered three incense sticks, candlesticks and some food, then raised his index finger and middle finger and began to close his eyes and recite the mantra.
The ghosts on the ground gradually disappeared, and then even the house disappeared. Lin Runzhi and others slept in a mess on the grass in the middle of the cemetery, and the director even lay in the shape of a "big" and snored loudly.
After the degree was over, Li Xuan went straight to the city hospital.Standing in front of the door of the ward where Ye Tang was, he lowered his eyes to look at his palm, but he didn't expect that he would hit Ye Tang until he vomited blood.
Everything was as he expected, the cowardly and cowardly man like a stray dog was willing to give up his life to save his companion.
And that man, because he was lying on the cold hospital bed at this moment.
At this moment, Jiang Mingxu hurried over from the end of the corridor with a few CT scans, and stared at the Taoist priest standing in front of Ye Tang's ward.
Relying on the last bit of professional ethics as an artist, Jiang Mingxu suppressed the anger in his chest, clenched his fingers and crumpled the CT film in his hand. "What are you doing here? Get out of here."
"I'll see if his injury is serious." Li Xuan replied calmly, without any emotion in his eyes.
He reached out to push open the door of the ward, but Jiang Mingxu grabbed the doorknob first and blocked the door.
"Forget it." Li Xuan never liked to do things that were boring for himself, and he didn't bother to entangle him, so he walked away.
Li Xuan stopped at the entrance of the hospital. After all, he still felt guilty for hurting others. He struggled and turned back. He chose an inconspicuous corner and stood quietly, waiting until Jiang Mingxu received the manager's call. After leaving the phone in a hurry, he slowly opened the door of the ward and walked in.
At this time, the sky outside the window had already turned pale, the moon had not yet set, and the sun could not wait to reveal its white halo.
The ward was relatively dark, and the sunlight from the window came in and fell on the quilt, casting spots of light. The eyes of the person on the bed were closed, and a hanging needle was hung on his hand.
Li Xuan walked over and stretched out his hand to check Ye Tang's breath, his breath was very light and not full of breath like ordinary people.
He lifted the quilt, and gently pressed Ye Tang's breastbone down to his lower abdomen, and he was relieved after confirming that no bones were injured.
Li Xuan took out a small porcelain bottle from his body and poured a brown pill into Ye Tang's mouth.
After waiting for a while, he stretched out his hand to probe Ye Tang's breath again, and after confirming that his breathing had calmed down, Li Xuan just quietly left the hospital.
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