Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 166 Brothers in danger
  This old newspaper in the study time——

It happened to be more than two years after the Youth was launched into the sea!

Everything is revealed!

The fake Miss Li actually committed suicide because the real Miss Li was shipwrecked on the high seas!

The gold bars that everyone in the funeral parlor was thinking about were indeed real, but the box of gold bars had long been buried under the sea due to a shipwreck on the high seas!
  The ins and outs had been sorted out, and I had no intention of procrastinating anymore. I rolled up the newspaper and ran downstairs immediately.

I have been exercising during this period, so I jumped out of the study very quickly, almost in just two breaths.

It was winter at this time, and considering the hibernating characteristics of snakes, I didn't dare to shout loudly to the brothers at the funeral home to leave. But when I rushed down the stairs, I knew something was wrong——

The door on the first floor was empty, no one at all.

Almost relying on instinct, I instantly raised my eyes and looked at the time on the watch, 12:12.

According to our agreement, there are still three minutes left before the deadline for leaving Li's abandoned building.

There was no trace of the two brothers!
  Almost instantly, I thought of what happened to them——

They actually found the basement.

If we go by the version of the story we knew before coming in, the most dangerous thing is the exploration of the master's room upstairs.

But now I know that the evil ones here are not ghosts, but demons!
  Snakes hibernate in the winter, so it's normal for them to like cold basements.

The two of them might have found the basement and faced the snake monster in the basement!

I was startled by this sudden thought in my mind. I suddenly raised my head again and looked around, trying to find traces of the brothers in the last few minutes, but without success.

In the small foreign-style building, the surroundings were so quiet that it was as if time had stood still. The only sound was the clicking sound of the old-fashioned watch passed down from my second uncle.

Normally, I would find this voice very steady and reassuring.

But in such a quiet environment, all that was left was a creepy feeling like a fly clinging to one's bones.

Also, one and a half minutes!
  I stared hard at the place where I last saw the two brothers, but once again found nothing.

Somehow at this critical moment, the tip of my nose seemed a little itchy and I wanted to sneeze loudly.

I buried the tip of my nose into my clothes and held back the sneeze.

But when I raised my head again, I completely understood the reason for my nose itching just now——

The entire interior of the foreign-style building, no, we still have to call it Li's abandoned building.

The air inside the abandoned building is humid, the musty smell is obvious, and the suspended dust makes it difficult to distinguish objects.

Most of the original complicated and exquisite wallpaper has fallen off, exposing the old walls inside. Many places have been eroded by rain, leaving residual water marks.

A sense of devastation of a long-lost visitor is everywhere.

The wooden floors were in decay, and the magnificent furniture had quietly left.

The graffiti on the wall and the damaged wallpaper make people feel eerie.

The dust was flying, and it seemed that this small foreign-style building had once had a glorious moment, but now it was only dilapidated and desolate.

The changes in Li's abandoned building swept over almost instantly.

Together with the safe, shadow puppet box, and newspapers that were still intact in my hands, they began to rot, rust, and smell musty.

I was a little stunned for a moment——

This, what's going on? !

Why can't the snake monster even maintain its original illusion? Did Uncle Du and the others remember the time wrongly? The snake demon was active in the morning and fell asleep in the afternoon, no longer maintaining the illusion?

The next moment, I knew I couldn't be more wrong.

The desolate and dilapidated scene in Li's abandoned building only lasted for ten seconds. In the blink of an eye, an even more beautiful and strange scene swept over me.

The abandoned building became a foreign-style building again.

In addition to the beautifully decorated scene I saw when I first entered, the gramophone on the first floor even started to spin slowly, emitting soothing, soft tunes.

I don’t have any musical talent, I just instinctively feel that it should be written by a famous artist.

If I heard correctly——

There seemed to be a few female chuckles mixed in with the tune!
  I was shocked and immediately turned my head to look at the courtyard. I saw patches of weeds with the western-style building as the center collapsing one after another. The courtyard also began to become a part of the illusion!

The brief desolate scene just now was not at all an illusion that the snake demon was not maintaining.

It was probably the brothers' desperate counterattack that led to the snake demon's complete awakening! ! !

I couldn't help but curse inwardly, and ran away without hesitation.

Pieces of weeds as tall as a man fell down in front of me and disappeared. I almost ran with all my strength before catching up with the speed of the mutation.

One hundred meters, ten meters, five meters, one meter——

Holding on to my lungs that were about to burst, I stepped over the courtyard door wall and fell heavily to the ground.

I didn’t even have time to cry out in pain. My first reaction was to check my watch. The dial was broken after I dropped it, but the time——

It stopped exactly at a quarter past noon!
  Who did they ask to calculate the time for doing things? How could they calculate it so accurately? !
  When Uncle Du saw me running out in such a mess with no one behind me, his expression suddenly changed:

"Where's Ah Shi and Ah Shi?"

I grabbed Uncle Du who was about to walk inside:
  "Uncle Du, don't go! Ah Shi and Ah Shi were caught by something inside!"

"I know why the Gu insects you sent out to investigate failed to come out when you first came to investigate. The things in the Li family's abandoned building are not duckweeds at all, but snake demons!"

My face turned a little pale for a moment, and I suddenly remembered some details that I had ignored:

"No wonder when we first entered, the grass was so deep and located in the mountains, but there was no trace of any small animals."

Uncle Du looked at me solemnly. I no longer hesitated and quickly told Uncle Du what I found in Li's abandoned building:
  "That's probably it. Uncle Du, who is the person who calculated the time for us?"

"When can I go in next time?"

"Also, how much realgar, smoke, sulfur, alcohol and other pungent smelling things can be raised now? The snake demon in Li's abandoned building has been practicing Taoism for more than two hundred years. I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with."

After hearing what I said, Uncle Du's face became even uglier. He quickly picked up his cell phone and made a call.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be the boss of the funeral home, Eleven Taibao, and his voice was calm and unhurried:
  "Lao Du, how are things? Is everything settled?"

"If I can do it in one go today, I can go have a drink today."

Uncle Du only did not curse loudly:

"What the hell!"

"When you went to find Half-Eye to tell the time, were you stingy and underpaying, so the half-blind man left half of the sentence unfinished?!"

"Now Ah Chi and Ah Chi are all trapped in Li's abandoned building!"

"I don't care how much money you spend, even if it's just selling your butt, you still have to go to Half Eye to do another fortune-telling and get the two of them out!!!"

(End of this chapter)