smuggler

Chapter 311
The hunchbacked old man was about to say something, but a painful groan came from the room next to him, followed by a cry.

"Old man, who are you talking to?"

The voice was sickly, and even though it was hoarse, it was easy to tell that it was an old woman.

"There are guests at home."

The hunchbacked old man smiled, stood up and walked in. Looking at his slightly hunchbacked figure, I pushed open the half-hidden door of the east room and went in. It was dark inside, just like a cave.

It happened that a small mirror was placed at the door, and the old man came out with a smile after a while. The moment I passed the mirror, I vaguely saw something different.

Chu Yuan stood up, wondering if he had noticed something, and walked towards the next room.

The empty room was silent, with gusts of cold wind blowing in from a corner from time to time.

The candlelight flickered on and off, making everything look hazy.

It suddenly occurred to me that when the old man entered the room and passed the mirror by the door, it seemed that the mirror was empty and there was no reflection of the old man.

When I passed by the table, I came to the main house and threw myself through the crack of the door. I subconsciously looked up and saw a candlestick lit with candles, reflecting a portrait hanging on the wall.

Just to prevent some weird things from happening.

"Shh." He made a silent gesture to me, then pointed to the door, opened and closed his mouth, and said to me in a low voice, "Get out of here first."

I turned around and saw clearly that two horned beasts were carved on both sides of the stele, and their faces looked very ferocious.

The whole house seemed dead silent.

I said, "Fortunately, I didn't touch that steamed bun at first, it's for the dead!"

As if I had been immobilized, I froze on the ground, opened my mouth wide in astonishment, and the person who drew it turned out to be that old man!
That clothes, that appearance, are all exactly the same!
The old man looked at me in a daze, his eyes were no longer as muddy as before, but piercing, with strangeness and greed in his eyes.

Suddenly, there was a 'bang', which scared my heart so much that I regained my senses.

In order to have companions on the road to the underworld, the two old people will be buried together. If it is a double coffin, the grave will not be big.

Chu Yuan said: "This is a tomb-suppressing beast!"

Chu Yuan said, at first the strange beast appeared suddenly, and it was very close to me, everything happened in a blink of an eye.

I stopped struggling, and the hand covering my mouth slowly loosened.

The rootless water was cool, and it felt like a layer of ice was applied to the eyelids. After about ten seconds, I opened my eyes again.

I glanced at the portrait, and my face turned blue with fright.

Looking around again, I found that it really changed, and there were three red dots on the steamed buns on the plate.

After a short period of time, my eyes have been able to adapt, and I can see the surrounding situation clearly.

I saw the corners of the old man's mouth slightly raised in the painting, and he smiled weirdly at me!

Suddenly, something even more unexpected happened to me. The hunchbacked old man smiled.

Chu Yuan's reaction was not slow. Seeing my face change color, he turned sideways to avoid it.

Chu Yuan just stood up and went into the next room, but now it seems to have disappeared.

I shook my head, and looked back from the corner of my eye, my face was full of surprise: "Look quickly."

"It finally came out." I let out a long breath, with a look of lingering fear.

It suddenly occurred to me that I had prepared willow leaves and rootless water on my body, because after the experience on the ninth floor, I had prepared them in advance.

"The elf elephant on the left eats the liver and brains of dead people, and the one on the right is Fang Xiangshi, who has the ability to expel ghosts and gods. We encountered these two things just now."

It is a solitary grave, but the tomb is obviously larger than ordinary earthen graves.

Now that I have opened my ghost eyes, I am quite shocked, but I have already seen what is here.

After slapping the other ghost beast away, I hurriedly greeted Chu Yuan: "Let's go first!"

The sound came from the room that the hunchback walked into. Only then did I realize that the room was very dark, as if there were terrible monsters in it. I became more and more uneasy, and there was silence around me.

Turning around to look, Chu Yuan was standing behind me.Under the candlelight, his eyes moved, his clear eyes looked at me softly, but his expression was also full of surprise and uncertainty.

That old man is dead.

"Squat down!"

Chu Yuan nodded, although he didn't want to admit it, but the fact before him was that, just now, we entered the private house in broad daylight.

The other ghost beast roared ferociously and swooped over. Chu Yuan slapped it with a swipe of his hand.

I jumped anxiously, Chu Yuan's expression changed, and he suddenly reminded me.

When he was about to reach the door, he suddenly pulled and swayed, blowing the surrounding flickering light and dark.

The whole house was too quiet, Chu Yuan and I walked out cautiously.

The old man also remained silent, and my heart became more and more uncertain. After a long time, I mustered up the courage, slowly got up, walked lightly, and walked towards the room with the hunchback.

The old man in the painting smiled at me

There was a warmth in the ear, and a small voice came: "It's me"

This is a double grave.

In an instant, it was like a big rock was pressed against my chest, and I staggered back.But all of a sudden, I bumped into something limp, which seemed to be a person.

The moment we came out of the dark room, our eyes were filled with intense white light, and we couldn't open our eyes, subconsciously blocking the front with our hands.

But if there are two coffins in one grave, the tomb bag will look very big.

I quickly took out two withered willow leaves from my bag, and then they were stained with rootless water and covered my eyelids.

Chu Yuan: "There is a problem with this house. I stood up and saw it just now. There is a coffin in the other room, and there is also a coffin next to it."

I'm sure he must have found something bad, anyway, I found a huge and terrible thing.

The strange ghost rushed over, was hit by the rune head-on, and immediately dissipated into a puff of green smoke.

There is nothing strange about double graves. There are many rural areas. If the husband and wife both pass away, or the time when the death of the two elders is approaching.

Looking back, I saw a round grave made of stones standing a few meters behind us.

"We were in the grave just now?" I suddenly widened my eyes in horror.

The dim candlelight was reflected on the painting in front of me, the old man from before seemed to be squeezed into the painting, so lifelike, it stunned me.

Seeing the two ghost beasts suddenly appearing and rushing towards me, I quickly avoided them, my face turned pale with shock, and I threw out a talisman.

This time, I was even more surprised. I almost lost my mind and covered my mouth with one hand.

Chu Yuan seemed to have discovered something, pointed to the sides of the stone monument, and said in a deep voice, "Look at this."

The tomb-suppressing beast is a kind of monster created by the ancients to pray for the safety of the tomb, protect the soul of the dead from intrusion, and prevent the tomb from being stolen. It has shapes such as animal face, human face, and antlers.

We had already retreated to the door and were just about to go out, when suddenly two colorful beasts appeared at the door, jumped down from the door, and both rushed towards us.

"How are you?"

In fact, more tomb-suppressing beasts appear in some ancient tombs. Only princes and generals can carve tomb-suppressing beasts in tombs, so that their dead souls will not be disturbed.

When I thought of the scene that happened at the beginning, what I saw before Chu Yuan and I entered the grave, I couldn't help feeling tense.

"Look at the traces of burning paper in front of this grave!" Chu Yuan squatted in front of the grave, pointing to the soil in front of the tombstone and said to me.

I saw that, as expected, the soil in front of the tomb was scorched black, with a lot of ashes remaining, and it must have been several days.

(End of this chapter)