Aoba Office

The door is closed. I heard the sound of water dripping inside the door, not very loud. But in the dead of night, especially when there is no one in the Sixth Village of Workers and Peasants, the sound is very clear.

There was water seeping out from under the door. It was the kind of turbid liquid I had seen in sewage pipes. It was yellowish brown with some gray and black impurities.

The floor of the walkway was soon soaked with water, and the mark was slowly expanding, as if it was slowly pushing a wall of air. Rather than expanding, it rose above the ground faster and flooded the door, becoming one or two centimeters deep in the blink of an eye.

The ghosts didn't open the door, so they waited quietly. I don't know what they are waiting for either. They remained expressionless and did not blink. They all faced the door and stood like pillars.

Half an hour later, the water on the walkway expanded to the feet of all the ghosts, dripping down the stairs.

To my ears, the ticking outside was louder than the ticking inside the door. I don’t know when the sound inside the door was completely inaudible.

Wow!

Several ghosts stepped together, and their uniform footsteps brought not so neat sounds of water.

The already turbid water becomes even more dirty after being stirred.

Several hands pressed on the door at the same time.

The door should be locked, and even if it is unlocked, such a door should not push open automatically.

But the door was pushed open just like that.

I looked at the door lock. The lock tongue was sticking out, but I didn't hear the sound of the lock tongue being hit just now. When I opened the door, all I heard was the sound of the door sliding across the water.

This can be said to be unscientific, but all the things I encountered are contrary to science, which can no longer surprise me.

The size of the door makes it impossible for these ghosts to enter in parallel. They pushed Tao Zheng's ghost to the front row and arranged themselves in chronological order. I guess they are sorted according to time, because the ghost in the front is dressed in a dynasty with the longest background, and the last one is, of course, Tao Hai.

To be precise, I was the last one to enter.

I was a little afraid of touching the sewage, so I kept floating. Because I don’t even have a body like a ghost now, it can be said to be a purely conscious body. My several experiences of floating and flying have not brought me any novel feelings.

I'm more curious about the condition of the cornucopia.

The "dang-dang" sound did not reappear, and I never saw the broken bowl again.

This is my second time entering this house. Because of the current situation in the Sixth Village of Workers and Peasants, I didn’t notice anything strange like last time. There is nothing special about the room except there is a lot of sewage.

Those ghosts were walking in the sewage, and after they all entered the center of the living room, the water under their feet was like the ebb and flow of the tide, waves slapping against the furniture walls, and then receding. The door seemed to be pushed by this force and closed quietly.

When the door closed, the sewage suddenly stopped completely.

The ghost becomes a sculpture again. In the room, only the rising sewage proved that time was passing.

It rose from the ankles to the knees, and then continued upward, submerging the heads of these ghosts.

I am very troubled. I floated up to the ceiling, but the water was still rising. I have found the source of the water, which is the sewage pipes in the kitchen and toilet. The fracture has long been submerged in sewage, and the ticking sound of water flowing out has disappeared. There is not even a trace of water flow. It is not like a liquid, but more like a colorless gas. Just like the door switch, it is very unscientific.

At this point, it was impossible for me to escape the sewage unless I was floating outside the house.

In the past, I would have probably taken the risk and given it a try. After what happened to Lu Manning, I became a little more careful and wanted to go out through the wall first and observe these ghosts through the window.

I moved to the wall without stopping, but my body suddenly hit a hard object and I could no longer move.

I reached out and touched it in surprise, making sure that what I touched was not a wall, because this thing had a slight curvature, was smooth, and was not a flat surface. It could not be a rough wall anyway.

I touched along the thing, all the way up, my hand passed through the ceiling and touched the opening of the thing. Then I groped along its edge and drew an arc in my mind. Half of my body was stretched upstairs. If you could see my movements, it would be like a blind man groping for the floor, but what I actually touched was not wood, but metal. Stretching out my hand, I was able to determine that it was a vessel with an edge as wide as one of my arms. After touching along the edge for a while, I felt a pattern, which should be a cloud pattern. Due to the scope of movement, I was not able to walk around, but based on the arc, I can guess that this mouth is circular. I crawled out from the edge and explored the outside of the thing again. The things I touched were no longer smooth, and were very complicated. I couldn't tell what they were.

Now, I know for sure.

This thing that I can't see or touch is the cornucopia. It dresses up the whole house. The sewage is contained in it.

With a thought in my mind, I walked through the empty room upstairs and arrived at the door of the house. Water was still leaking from the cracks in the door, and the walkway was completely wet. Relating this phenomenon to the broken bowl I once saw, I found that this is completely true! And when the sewage level rose to the top of the shade basin and water flowed out from the crack in the door above, I became even more sure. The water seepage and leakage are exactly the same as the cracks in the broken bowl!

That broken bowl is indeed a gathering basin!

But why did this change happen?

One moment it was a broken bowl, another moment it was a cornucopia, and then it became a cornucopia...

Is this the change of the times that Master Xuan Qing said?

I looked at the water leaking out, feeling a little confused.

The second thing is that I can't figure it out. I don't know what to do now. What changes will happen next in this gathering basin is the key.

This is a basin with a large mouth, and it is not a sealed vessel. If it is filled with too much water, it will crack. Apart from the water flowing out like this, there shouldn't be any changes, right?

Because I was standing outside, the sound of water running was loud, so I didn't notice it for a while. I didn't come back to my senses until the noise behind the door, or in the condenser basin, became louder.

The sound of "crashing" came from the polygonal basin. I flew to the upper floor, which is the mouth of the polygon, and the sound I heard was very clear. It was like there was an invisible pool beneath my feet, with large fish swimming in it. It was like this at first, and after a few minutes, the sound of water was mixed with the sound of clanging and clanging. With a "wow" sound, something broke out of the water and appeared directly on the floor, bringing up a stream of sewage. Another thing flew out, drew a parabola, and fell into the floor again, making a "plop" sound. "The sound disappeared under the floor.

I see clearly. The thing coming out of the water is half of the ghost's body. What makes my hair stand on end is that the expressionless ghost revealed a frightened face when he came out of the water. The blue eyes widened, the bright red lips opened wide, revealing a tongue and mouth that were as red as blood, and there were actually cracks on his face that looked like it had been painted with white paint! What would frighten a zombie-like ghost? As for the thing that flew out, it was a copper plate with a round square hole and some uneven patterns on it.

With the first, there is the second.

The noise in the gathering basin became more and more intense. Water splashed out, coins flew everywhere, and the ghosts struggled like drowning people. Some of them even had copper coins stuffed in their mouths when they came out of the water, and they roared "ho ho". Tao Zheng and Tao Hai also appeared, and their behavior was exactly the same as other ghosts.

Gradually, I found that the sound of the water became quieter, and there was only the sound of the collision of copper plates. The struggles of the ghosts became feeble. I searched around and saw two fingers sticking out of the floor under a table. They were stuck there, motionless.

Update 3.