Warlock Notes

Chapter 1 The Haunted House (1)

My surname is Chang and my first name is Zizai. I was born in a remote mountain village deep in the mountains of western Jiangxi.

Friends who are not familiar with me think that I am a wizard. Of course, this is a nicer name, and it is worse to say that I am a magician.

I'm not too old. People in the early 80s are post-80s in today's terms.Growing up in the countryside since I was a child, I have heard many ghost stories from the older generation, but at that time, like everyone else, I didn't believe that those ghosts really existed, but those ghost stories were interesting.It really made me understand that there are such unknown things in this world, and it was also when I entered the profession of warlocks, and this has to start with the haunted house I encountered when I was looking for a job...

That year, I went to Shenzhen. Shenzhen in the 90s was probably the most powerful time in the country, bred with vitality and full of vitality.Suddenly coming to such a city from the countryside, I am full of passion in my heart, wanting to be with this city and mix up like a dog.

But after arriving in Shenzhen, the situation was completely opposite. Half a month later, let alone making a lot of money, I couldn't even find a job.Touching the few banknotes in my pocket, I didn't dare to stay in a hotel every day, so I ran to the suburbs outside the Guan and rented a house.

The house is very old and remote, surrounded by lychee forests.It was still the seventh month of the lunar calendar at that time, and it was dark and late, so I still had time to tidy up and clean the room after I rented the house in the afternoon, and I was going to move in that night.

To be honest, this house is really a bit cloudy, and it feels weird when you get close to it. Even in the daytime, you will feel a chill, but you can't tell what kind of smell it is, it's just an intuition.

This is a five-story building, and what I rent is the top floor.When I walked to the door on the first floor, there was a talisman drawn on cinnabar yellow paper pasted in the center above the door frame. I frowned when I saw it, and wondered if this house is still haunted?
Although I thought so in my heart, although I am in awe of ghosts and gods, I am not superstitious, and the rent of this house is very cheap, so I didn't care about these uneasy intuitions.

The building is decades old and there is no elevator, so I went up the stairs.Due to the design of the house, the stairs have no windows at all, so it looks very dark even in the daytime, and the handrails of the stairs are covered with thick dust, as if no one lives in this building.

Climbing up the stairs to the fifth floor in one breath, I finally came to the door of the room I rented.The door had long been covered with dust, and there were spider webs entangled on it, and there was actually a yellow talisman pasted above the door frame.I glanced at the other doors on the fifth floor, and they were all covered with cobwebs, and all of them were pasted with yellow symbols. Obviously, as I guessed, this building has long been unoccupied.

I took out the key to open the door, and a damp musty smell hit my face, and the floor and table were covered with dust.Of course, the landlord told me all of this.The landlord told me that the house was left by his uncle and no one lived in it for several years. He heard that I wanted a cheap house, so he rented it to me.

The furnishings in the house are very simple, just a bed, a chair, a wooden table and a big mirror.Pull back the heavy curtains, open the windows, let the sunlight and fresh air in, and then clean and organize the room, take out the garbage, wipe off the dust, wipe the mirror, and spread the sheets and bedding.Regardless of the area of ​​only more than ten square meters, it took nearly an hour to finish.Looking at the time, it was less than seven o'clock, and I lay down on the bed and got up to rest.

While half asleep and half awake, suddenly, I seemed to see a woman standing outside the door, a woman in white with disheveled hair!

I was so frightened that I shuddered severely, jumped up from the bed, and looked at the door, but at this time there was no one at the door, even the door was tightly closed.

Even so, it is impossible for me to feel drowsy after being so frightened suddenly.So I hurriedly opened the door, walked outside, and looked around one by one, but in the end I still couldn't see a single figure.

"Could it be that my eyes are dazzled." While thinking this way, I went back to the room, feeling uneasy all night.But fortunately, we lived in peace all night, and there was no dizziness again. Otherwise, it would have scared me to death. You must know that this house has a cold smell, and I only live there, so I don’t feel nervous. No wonder.

Early the next morning, I still went out to look for a job. I searched for a whole day, and it was a bit late when I got home.I bought a lunch box along the way and prepared to take it home to eat.When we got home, the sky was getting dark and it was time to light up the lights.I was reading at the table while eating. I was eating when I noticed a white figure at the door. This time I could see it clearly. It was a woman wearing a white dress. Her hair was long and her face was covered. A pair of red eyes...

I was scared out of my wits right away, and I yelled "Ah—" and the box lunch spilled all over the table. When I looked again, there was nothing at the door.But this time I'm sure it's not my hallucination, I touched my chest, and I was still jumping wildly "Boom, boom, boom". This night, I was so scared that I couldn't sleep all night...

Fortunately, apart from being frightened, nothing happened that night.

How could I dare to go on like this on the third day, even if nothing happened, but just being surprised like this is scary enough?So I made a special trip to seek help from a half-immortal at dawn, and that half-immortal gave me a picture of "Ten Signs of Freedom", which is said to be able to drive away evil spirits, ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and told me to hang it on a high place.

When I got home, I thought about it. Every time I saw that thing, it was standing at the door, so I wanted to hang the painting directly opposite the door.I found a nail and a hammer.Once the hammer was nailed down, the wall felt empty. I nailed it several times, and the thin layer of triple lime on the outside of the wall fell off, revealing a hollow about five inches square, in which there was a fist-sized Mudmen...

I took out the mud figurine, and the face of the mud figurine was full of beards, looking like a menacing spirit, and there were some unintelligible characters written on the back, which I didn't know what it meant.

Suddenly, I suddenly remembered one thing, that is, when I was at home, I heard the old man say that some craftsmen who repaired the house knew the "Luban method". Or put a small folded paper man or clay puppet inside the wall, it will make the house haunted by "ghosts", and see some dirty things, but they are all hallucinations.

Moreover, what the old people said at the time was still telling the truth, not like telling lies.The old people also told a real example in our village, saying that the folk carpenters and masons in the past had Luban skills.

(End of this chapter)