Returning from the abyss

Chapter 699 Jagged Fate
The place where Lu Ning is now looks like a ghost land.Here should be the appearance of Zaoyuan Village back then, with light rain falling in the sky, and the mountains and forests are denser than in real life but lack of planning. There are far fewer houses built in it than there are now, and there are no paved mountain roads for easy walking.

Is this something a sick person can show?Lu Ning didn't see Yan Zidan nearby, which meant that they didn't enter the same ghost domain.Lu Ning reached out and touched the surrounding vegetation, but Bai Huan didn't respond.Looking up, you can walk about 50 meters to reach the vicinity of the remnant wall—of course, this is still a complete manor in this era.

"It's really capable..." Lu Ning muttered, and stepped up to climb.

There was no one, let alone people, and it was so quiet that there were not even ghosts around.

The old rich man's manor is a very old-fashioned house building, and it can even be said to have no special features at all.The only thing that could be regarded as special in the whole house was the gossip plate hanging by the door. Lu Ning reached out and took off the gossip plate, but there was no change, obviously this was not what she was looking for.

Going further inside, there is a courtyard, the ground is hard land, no bricks and stones are laid.Some places seem to have been deliberately built high, and the soil at the four corners of the courtyard is black, as if burning work has been carried out there.A few metal poles nailed haphazardly in a few places don't impede movement, but seem to make the place a lot messier.Lu Ning turned her head and walked into a house on the left, which was a wing room.This room looks a bit crooked, with obvious slopes from the floor to the walls to the ceiling, which won't make people feel uncomfortable, but they can still be distinguished.The bookshelves in the house are already empty, but the candlestick on the table still has half a white candle, and there are words printed on it, which are carefully identified as [...cut disaster].

Of course, Lu Ning will touch everything she sees to see if it is what Xuanyou said. So far, no one has a clear reaction.

She memorized the characteristics of this wing for a while, and then went to the other side.This side has a similar structure, the only thing more is that there is a small kitchen more than the place just now. The large stove in the kitchen is made of bricks and mud, which looks very rough. There are many pots beside it. There has been a lot of dust.

Lu Ning rummaged through the kitchen cabinets and other places, then walked out and entered the central hall.

As expected, this place and the two wing rooms are the same, all the walls are slightly sloped.

"The yard is a standard square, but the house has been made like this... It always feels like a ritual to guard against some evil thing."

Passing through the main hall, passing through a section of about three meters across the courtyard, is the sleeping room behind, which is also slightly inclined.There are beds, dressing tables, washstands and other things in the room. The layout of the left, middle and right is similar, and it has not been used for a long time.

After Lu Ning looked at all three bedrooms, she finally stopped at the middle bedroom.There is a large wooden bed here, with exquisite carvings, it should be very valuable, but the curtains are long gone.Next to the bed is a large wardrobe, which has the same wood and pattern as the bed, and should have been bought together.

"Is this it?" Lu Ning walked to the closet and smiled, "Any nearly closed space that can accommodate about a person's size, including the stove, has been made into a non-cubic geometric state, then this room It's kind of weird to have the only standard cubic wardrobe in the house."

She touched the handle of the closet with her finger, and the white ring flickered, indicating that there was indeed unnatural yin energy that could be broken by the white ring.

But she didn't choose to open the closet. Instead, she turned around and walked back to the courtyard in the middle. Looking around, she found the warehouse of the old rich man's house next to a courtyard wall.

There are many cabinets in the warehouse, like the medicine cabinets of traditional Chinese medicine shops, they are all densely packed with small drawers. At most, they can only hold things as long as an arm, and only these are normal.Lu Ning opened a few drawers, and there were some gold and silver jewelry inside, but it's a pity that these things are only a part of this place.She searched and searched, and finally found her goal - a drawer of white candles.

[Remove three calamities and eradicate eight evils], [Introduce resentful spirits to stop disasters], [Remove filth and bring blessings]...The words on these candles are different. Every six bundles, Lu Ning took out a bundle and held it in the candle. In his hand, he went to look through other drawers.There were not many things left in the warehouse, and what was found in the end was a stack of yellow paper talismans with the same pattern and a pair of scissors with densely engraved symbols on them.

When she took all these three things in her hands, there was a thunderstorm outside. As the thunderstorm illuminated the surrounding area, the sound of the rain became louder. When Lu Ning turned her head suddenly, she found that there was a person standing at the door.

He was wearing clothes similar to ancient scribes' clothes, with a crown and ties. He had a delicate appearance, leaning on a cane in one hand, and was looking at Lu Ning.

"...Xuanyou?" She tentatively asked the name.

"Ms. Li Wenyue, it's a pity that I have to meet you in this way. I think you already know my situation."

"Is this really a ghost town?" Since the other party acquiesced, Lu Ning also understood a little bit.

"Yes, what you are curious about is why living people can open the ghost domain? I replied, because this ghost domain was built by my family for generations. You also have to use the technique of ghosts and spirits, which is not within the Taoist system."

"The three things I found should be quite special, right?"

"The candle you found is a ritual tool used for blessing. When the mind is disturbed by Yin Qi or illusion, if the candle is lit, it will not be harmed. The paper talisman is the blood charm left by my servant. Understand the situation of domestic servants and blood relatives. As for the scissors, they are sacrificial utensils made during our last struggle, which helped us escape from our original destiny, but pushed everything to a more unpredictable direction.”

"What happened to your family? Also, your words and sentences are different, why?" Lu Ning remained vigilant.

"Here, I am myself. But in reality, I am the body of the ghost of the patriarchs of the family. When I die, my ghost will also join it and continue to pass on to my descendants. This is our curse. Of course, this is not what happened to my family. Now you light a candle next to the closet, open the closet, and there is a book in it."

"Just say no to me about what's in that book?"

"It's a pity, because I don't know the specific content of that book. I only know that the content of that book is related to the Baishen here in Zaoyuanzhuang."

"Is it related to Baishen?"

"White God—this name is just a name for the monster who held the white ceremony to trade, but it is not its prototype. Zaoyuanzhuang has the white god of Zaoyuanzhuang, and other places where the white ceremony is held have their own white gods. And you So I had the opportunity to come across this book because this was your purpose. By the way, the place where your friend was chosen was about the reversal of the inner and outer worlds, which is different from yours."

"This ghost domain will guide people to what they need most?"

"I have said that this technique asks the heart, you must first have a wish, and then you will get it." Xuanyou smiled and moved out of the way, "And the scissors in your hand can protect your integrity. When you get what you want After that, we will leave this ghost land."

"I...can try." Lu Ning was dubious, but she could still try what he said. She passed by Xuanyou, and it was raining heavily outside, but she didn't get wet in the rain.

"This rain..."

"It doesn't exist in reality. Basically, my family's ancestral home has died with all that."

Xuanyou bowed slightly, then watched Lu Ning walk into the back bedroom.

Beside the closet, all six candles had been lit by Lu Ning, but the lighter she was carrying was still working.After lighting the candle, a smell similar to incense spread in the room. Lu Ning grabbed the doorknob of the closet again, the white ring lit up, and she opened the scissors with the other hand, ready to go.

No matter what Xuanyou said is true or not, you have to read it to know.

The door opened quietly, and there was a faint smell of wood in the closet, but it was pitch black inside. After Lu Ning realized that the darkness in the closet could not be seen through at all, she stabbed the scissors in her hand directly, and then Close it hard, the white ring radiated light for the first time, the resistance on the scissors only lasted for about two or three seconds, and then there was a crisp "click" sound as if a slightly thick rope was cut.

Lu Ning withdrew her hand, and she saw a thin black line at the base of the nails of her five fingers, which quickly spread along the fingers to the back of the hand, and then gathered together and moved towards the arm. This momentum only lasted to the wrist and then stopped, but the black line It didn't fade away either.Lu Ning just frowned at this, she knew that it was impossible to gain something without paying any price.

The darkness dissipated slowly because of what she cut, and the huge closet was empty, with only one book in it.Lu Ning reached out to pick it up and found that it was a handwritten notebook without a title.

"Congratulations." Xuanyou's voice came from behind.

"What the hell did you make me do?"

"Did you ask until now? It's nothing, the thing is already yours, you might as well give it a name for the sacrificial utensil. Thank you for helping me completely cut off the past fate of my family and the White God. From now on, I will not bother you any more. You don't need to track it down."

"Hey you……"

Lu Ning turned around and raised her hand, but suddenly realized that she was grabbing Lu Ping's sleeve.

"Miss Li is awake?" Lu Ping still had some anxiety on his face, but he finally breathed a sigh of relief.Lu Ning looked left and right, and the middle-aged man who brought the phone before had fainted by the wall, while Yan Zidan was holding his right arm, which was bleeding, but he seemed to be awake.

"what happened?"

"Just after Xuanyou finished speaking, we immediately felt a huge yin energy. You and Miss Yan fell into a hallucinogenic state at the same time, and that person fell directly to the ground. We were fooled, and that Xuanyou is probably also a Ghost."

"It's hard to say whether it's a human or a ghost..." Lu Ning looked down at the scissors and the book in her hand, and then asked Yan Zidan: "Are you okay?"

"No... it just looks serious." Yan Zidan forced a smile, "I scratched it with the jewelry that Sister Song gave me before, I have to get that thing."

"What did you get?" Lu Ning asked.

"The meat of the inner world." Yan Zidan let go of the hand covering the wound, the biggest wound on her arm was no longer bleeding, replaced by a mass of gray flesh blocking the wound, looking like a dead person No, according to the name Yan Zidan said, it should be.

"Is this what Xuanyou asked you to take?" Lu Ning asked again.

"Yes, he told me that you must use your own life to defeat the death above, in order to obtain the aura exuded in life and death, so that the inner world will not reject me. In short... I won, how about you? What did you get? ? The book?"

"A notebook related to Baishen, we can study it carefully, a stack of spells...in my pocket, maybe I need to trouble Daoist Lu to take a look, the last one."

Lu Ning took out the scissors, which was also the third mission item she found that met the requirements.

"Xuanyou said it doesn't have a name yet, so let's call it the Sawtooth of Fate. That's what it does."

When returning to the reception station and getting back in the car, Lu Ning called Zhou Shilan. She really didn't want to hear Chen Hang boasting about his achievements or talking nonsense.After the call was connected, Zhou Shilan was obviously on the way back in the car, so the two asked each other about the situation on the other side.

"Nothing happened on Dadong Road today, at least not around us. However, Tang Haiyao encountered some things, which were more complicated... Besides, she found out in a gossip newspaper that there was a mother in Caowazi yesterday. He and his son died of gas poisoning at home."

"Mother with her son?" Lu Ning immediately thought of the ghost who died in a car accident before, "Are you sure it was gas poisoning?"

"That's what the newspaper said, and you can't expect them to find anything else, right? The other thing is the video we recorded in the hospital. Because the clarity is not high and the mortuary is dark, we found a lot of tools and added It was only when the audio was combined with the time that we roughly concluded that we went to the hospital last night. If we don’t count us, three groups of people went to the mortuary, and we have to talk about it tonight.”

"Hmm... is Tang Haiyao okay?" Lu Ning did not forget to ask her friend.

"She was a little scared, but she's fine. But Sister Song judged that she failed the test, and Chen Hang and I were worried about whether we could pass the test." Zhou Shilan smiled wryly, "It seems to be quite strict."

"You've been dealing with that stuff all day?"

"Search tools and the like are quite time-consuming...By the way, Zhang Xinqing sent me a text message. She said that she saw Ye Qin in Micheng, so she must be her."

"Yeqin?"

The nickname in the club [Yu Yin Zhuo Liang], she is a girl who knows some vocal music as her name suggests, a bit old-fashioned but very serious, this is Li Wenyue's memory.

But why did she go to Micheng, and how long has it been?

(End of this chapter)