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Chapter 168 Basement

"This"

Uncle Du was stunned for a moment, staring at me with his muddy and old face. After a long while, he relaxed his shoulders slightly. He seemed to be looking at me, and seemed to be looking at someone through me.

After a long time, he sighed:

"You really do look like your second uncle."

"Back then, your second uncle also saw my wife's appearance and stepped forward without hesitation."

Seeing that Uncle Du was beginning to mourn the autumn and regret the spring, I couldn't help but hesitate to say:

"How about we wait until I come back to talk about this, Uncle Du."

"Ah Chi and Ah Chi are both inside."

Uncle Du nodded, and I packed up my backpack again, not forgetting to take the newspaper and shadow puppet box with me.

I didn’t have any companions, and I didn’t have any supplies or equipment, but I once again stepped into the courtyard of Li’s abandoned building.

The entire Li family's mansion has been covered in illusions. The courtyard is covered with neatly constructed lawns, and the fountain is still flowing with clear spring water.

In the silent atmosphere, the faint sound of music from the gramophone occasionally came.

When people walk into it, they feel like they are in another world.

Just like every year, the host of a certain identity is waiting for the guests to hold a lively dinner party.

It's just that unlike a hundred years ago, Ah Shi and I are not guests, but food on the table, waiting to be ripped apart, marrowed, and devoured at any time.
  I took a deep breath, put away the horrifying thoughts in my mind, faced the door of Li's abandoned building, and pushed forward hard——

Sure enough, I couldn't push it away.

I am no longer a welcome guest in this building, or in other words, the dinner party is already being held inside. An uninvited uninvited guest like me will naturally not have the courtesy to open the door.

I thought for a while, took a detour, turned to the site on the side of the abandoned building, and started testing the windows one by one at the location in my memory.

If I remember correctly, when I left Li's abandoned building half an hour ago, I could see a window with broken glass when I stood at the door.

The snake demon may have been entrenched here for a long time, but it definitely does not have the ability to repair windows, repair floors, put up wallpaper and other menial tasks.

I prefer that it just relies on illusions to keep the building the way it was, rather than actually restoring everything to the original state.

This is just like in Liaozhai, there are many scholars who like to rush on their way at night. When they are on their way, they just happen to see a huge mansion, and there happens to be a beautiful and beautiful woman standing in front of the mansion.

Not surprisingly, we just chatted for a few words, drank a few glasses of wine, and made a private decision for life. By the way, we tasted the milk wine that the lady’s family has treasured for eighteen years.
  Then when I woke up the next day, I found that I had slept in a deserted grave last night.

As for the mansion, of course it is fake.

And that’s what the so-called illusion is.

I stretched out my palm and touched the glass windows one by one, and finally stopped in front of the glass that looked very transparent, but could be easily penetrated by the touch of my fingers.

These glasses seem to be replicas. They look very delicate and beautiful, but they are gray when touched and make people silent.

I tightened the sword that I had been holding tightly in my hand, and checked the edge of the window frame to see if there were any broken glass, and then turned it in.

As I expected, the house was still the same as when I left, except that the sound of the gramophone was really giving people a headache.

I took a deep breath and quickly scanned the layout of the first floor, trying to figure out where the two brothers were. The layout of the first floor is not difficult to guess. The high jump area in the front is the living room and the semi-open dining room. There is an unobtrusive aisle in the back, leading to several separate servant rooms.

I turned around and finally targeted the space under the spiral staircase.

There is a door there, which opens into a tool room that smells slightly damp and musty.

There are some weeding and cleaning tools inside.

I casually took a look at it with my sword, and immediately discovered that one of the shelves with items was fake.

Behind the shelves was a dark area with nothing visible and no clue where it led.

In fact, since the cave incident, I have had the good habit of carrying a flashlight with me. But standing in front of this pitch black darkness, I was hesitant to turn on the flashlight.

There is obviously a basement below, and there is no light. If you want to go down, you have to turn on a flashlight, otherwise you will have no fighting ability at all.

But turning on a flashlight in total darkness is like a big light bulb walking in the dark night. Now, not only Ah Shi and Ah Shi can see me, but everything can see me.

Although snakes are animals with infrared night vision, most snakes have poor eyesight and can only 'see' their prey based on their body temperature.

But the other party has turned into a demon, so if he cares about this, he is afraid that he will be unable to guard against it!

I thought for a few seconds, held a flashlight in one hand and a sword in the other, groped the wall on one side, and went downstairs in the dark.

Either early or late, the two brothers Ah Shi and Ah Shi were not fools and had brought enough equipment.

Before they knew that their opponent was Ms. Snake, they must have used a flashlight to go down to the basement. The failure to come up may mean that the light is not that important after all.
  Again, give it a try and your bicycle will become a motorcycle.

I calmed down, kept my voice as low as possible, and slowly walked down the steps. There were sixteen steps in total, and then there was a small corner platform.

I walked along the corner, and when I passed the platform, the weak light from the basement door could not penetrate into the basement at all.

I wanted to keep walking with all my strength, so I pinched the flashlight and the knife, only to find that my palms were all sweaty.

It's too dark here, I can't see anything, but there is a faint sound of wind coming from the basement.

But I'm not sure it's the wind.

Who said it had to be the wind?
  Perhaps, the airflow of some organisms is not necessarily the same.
  And who says it must be at the bottom?

Is it possible... around me?

Could it be that what I thought was wrong?
  The reason why a demon can become a demon is of course because it has magical powers.

It was no longer trapped by vision, but just watched me groping down the basement in amusement.
  It's actually all around me.
  I can't control my random thoughts.

Sure enough, the horror is never the darkness, but the 'unknown' in one's own mind, waiting to take root in this darkness that breeds fear.

Without saying a word, he can eat away anyone who is not determined.

I stopped where I was, took a few deep breaths, wiped the sweat from my palms, and then slowly continued walking down.

This time there was only one more step than before, but it took me twice as long. Fortunately, all the horror was just an illusion in my mind.

I landed firmly on the basement floor, and before I had time to breathe a sigh of relief, I heard a sentence accompanied by the faint sound of wind coming from nowhere and reached my ears:
  "Ah Chi, do you love me?"

　Blank: I worked so hard to save you, and I spent a long time battling wits with the air here, but you still managed to chat?
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)