Mysterious Recovery: Starting at Caesars Hotel

Chapter 60 Wang Shiyin

A small town.

The houses are made of blue bricks and gray tiles, and there are two lanterns hanging in front of every door. The roads paved with bluestones are full of mottled marks and antique flavor.

stomping on...

Under the gray stone archway, amid the mist, the footsteps of figures walking echoed in the silent environment.

"Baidi Town is still the same as in memory."

Liang Tian walked with a lantern, crossing the archway and coming to the ancient street. A person's back looked mysterious and lonely in the empty town.

He looked back from time to time to make the town's buildings resemble what he remembered. His heart was touched, and he had a feeling of being here that was both strange and familiar.

It seems that after ten years away from home, the wanderer now returns home and misses everything in the past.

But the memory of the Republic of China period does not belong to him, but to the people of the past. As he is moved by the scene, the memory is having an impact on him.

At this moment.

Suddenly.

After Liang Tian walked a certain distance, a figure suddenly appeared in the fog in front of the ancient street.

It was a familiar figure from behind, an old woman with a stooped figure wearing gray cloth and carrying a vegetable basket.

He frowned: "Ghost?"

When he and Su Fan and Zhang Lei first entered the mirage, they accidentally used fire to disperse the old woman's supernatural image.

Now it appears again.

The old woman was carrying a vegetable basket and was walking deep into the ancient street.

Liang Tian did not hesitate, hid in the fire and ghosts, followed secretly, and came to the old woman.

But he quickly discovered something unusual.

The old woman's face was numb, her eyes were empty and lifeless, her limbs were stiff, and every step she took was exactly the same distance.

Obviously, this is not a living person, but more like a corpse controlled by a supernatural being, similar to a ghost slave.

But what he was certain of was that this old woman was not the supernatural source that maintained the existence of the ancient town.

"The old woman I met for the first time was a supernatural phantom, but she really had the emotions of a living person, but she had been erased by the fire."

"Although the old woman in front of me is also a supernatural phantom, she no longer has the emotions of a living person. She keeps wandering in the ancient town, seeming to be looking for something."

"In addition, the image presented by the source ghost is also this old woman, so there must be a major connection between the three."

Liang Tian thought for a moment and had a guess in his mind.

Perhaps, this old woman was once a top ghost controller during the Republic of China, and the ghost resurrected after her death, thus causing the mirage to occur.

But everything remains a mystery, and there is no evidence to prove that his guess is correct.

He needs more clues.

stomping on...

The old woman kept wandering, and as she went deeper and deeper into the ancient street, her footsteps suddenly stopped at a certain moment.

What comes into view is an old Chinese-style house.

This was a wealthy family in the past. The two thick wooden doors were closed tightly. A couplet was posted in front of the door, and two extinguished paper lanterns were hung on both sides.

There is a wooden plaque hanging above the old house with the word "Liang Mansion" engraved on it.

The handwriting is straight and meticulous.

"Liang Mansion..."

Liang Tian's eyes moved slightly, and the memory in his mind was awakened.

It's a familiar place, the original owner's home.

The old woman paused for a few seconds and then took another step. It began to walk towards the old house. It seemed that it wanted to open the wooden door and enter, but it didn't take two steps. It turned around and returned to the same place as if it lost consciousness.

What caused all this was the couplet on the door.

Liang Tian's expression was solemn, and he slowly read the words on the couplet in his heart: "If life is not tiring, and death is not harmful, I will go back if I have a clear conscience."

This is a pair of elegiac couplets.

The above meaning is also very simple: he was a good person during his lifetime, so he did not want to be disturbed after death.

However, this kind of elegiac couplet written to the dead should appear in Baishui Town. Why does it appear on the door of the original owner's house?
  Just when he was confused and confused, the old woman started walking again, ignoring the old house in front of her, turning around and leaving deeper into the ancient street.

Liang Tian did not move, he decided to stay and investigate the situation of the old house.

All information points to this familiar place, and there may be some unknown truth hidden there.

During the time when the original owner was imprisoned in the Caesar Hotel and died in a foreign country, a lot of things seemed to have happened in the Liang Mansion.

He walked up, ignoring the elegiac couplet on the door, and directly reached out to push the old and heavy door.

However, when Liang Tian reached out and touched the door, a cold breath filled the air from the door couplet, trying to flow into his mind.

However it had no effect on him.

The dark river was turbulent, easily taking away the cold aura that invaded the consciousness of the living.

"crunch..."

With his push, the door opened.

He stood at the door, the firelight swaying, the paper lantern at the door began to sway, and the red candle light strangely lit up, which did not make the surroundings brighter, but instead brought a gloomy atmosphere.

but.

The spread of firelight was blocked by something.

After the door is pushed open, what comes into view is a mottled screen wall.

This thing not only blocked the spread of fire, but also prevented anyone from peeking into the house from outside the door.

From the perspective of Feng Shui, the front side of the screen wall can block evil spirits and the back side can control the house. It is a very good item.

"This is an apparition of something supernatural."

Liang Tian's eyes narrowed slightly, and the curiosity in his heart deepened.

In the memory of the original owner, the Liang Mansion was just a normal scholarly family, with no supernatural people or things involved.

The problem is not with the Liang Mansion itself. The elegiac couplets on the door and the screen wall in the house should have been brought in by outsiders. He put away the closed lamp and stepped into the house.

Walking around the screen wall, we came to the courtyard of the house.

The ground paved with bluestones was covered with dust, as if it had experienced decades of wind and frost, and the steps leading up to the lobby were still covered with a layer of blackened moss.

Then his eyes narrowed and his steps stopped because he saw a coffin placed in the dim lobby.

There were no tables, chairs, or any decorations in the lobby, so it was completely empty.

Only a coffin painted with vermilion paint was placed in the center, which looked strange and terrifying in the deserted environment.

"The red coffin is most likely a ghost bound inside."

Liang Tian cautiously did not step forward, but looked at the coffin.

The coffin was tightly sealed, and the red paint was as bright as blood. It looked very permeable, and it also exuded a cold atmosphere all the time.

It was a smell that only belonged to the supernatural.

Staring at the coffin, he thought of the coffin shop on Ghost Street in Taiping Town.

The coffin shop only sells two types of coffins, black coffins and red coffins.

The black coffin can imprison evil ghosts and is suitable for ghost controllers to deal with posthumous matters. The red coffin is different, it can be used to suppress the ghost master's resurrection.

The lobby is quiet now, and the coffin makes no strange noises.

Perhaps keeping everything in balance is the best choice, but if he wants to completely solve the supernatural incident of Mirage and gain insight into everything in the past, he cannot choose to turn around and leave.

Open the coffin!
  Liang Tian hesitated for a moment and made a decision in his heart.

Only by opening this coffin can we understand some of the past events of the old house.

After making the decision, he no longer hesitated and took action immediately.

But instead of doing it himself, he summoned the Fire Ghost and walked over to open the coffin.

"crunch..."

The Fire Ghost grabbed the coffin board and lifted it hard, but strangely it failed to open it, and the coffin lid was only lifted up a gap.

You must know that the physical power of a ghost is also very terrifying. It is at least several tons, but it is still unable to open this weird coffin.

"Is there a person lying in the coffin?"

Liang Tian's expression condensed and he noticed that a pale and bloodless arm stretched out from the gap where the coffin was opened.

The things in the coffin seemed to be disturbed. He took the initiative to stretch out a hand and opened the coffin lid in conjunction with the fire ghost outside.

"crunch..."

As the gap grew larger, the entire coffin began to fade strangely.

Pieces of vermilion paint peeled off, and the coffin became mottled and old, losing its original color.

"boom."

The faded coffin lid was completely pushed open and fell to the ground with a heavy sound.

At this moment, the red lacquer coffin completely lost its color and became dull and old.

In the coffin that was pushed away, a female corpse with a white body and a cold face, a touch of scarlet on her mouth, sat up, her eyes were empty and she said nothing.

Liang Tian's pupils shrank and he recognized the identity of the female corpse: "Wang Shiyin?"

A woman who remains in the memory is not only the original owner's wife in name, but also a person who should have died long ago.

The female corpse glanced at the Fire Ghost, then turned her attention to Liang Tian. She was a little confused and murmured to herself: "I am Wang Shiyin? Who are you?"

At this time, Wang Shiyin was like a fresh corpse. Although her face was beautiful, she had no aura of a living person.

The awakened female corpse seemed to have lost her memory.

Liang Tian's expression moved slightly, and he roughly guessed something about the situation through the female corpse's words.

At this time, Wang Shiyin was a corpse, not a phantom reflected by the supernatural. Although he was resurrected by unknown means, he unexpectedly lost a lot of memories and his consciousness became incomplete.

"You are...Liang Tian."

Wang Shiyin kept looking at Liang Tian, ​​regaining consciousness from the confusion, and suddenly showed an expression of painful memories.

With incomplete consciousness, she seemed to remember someone firmly, and immediately thought of her old friend.

"I'm not him." Liang Tian frowned.

He is a person who recognizes reality clearly. Even if memory is consciousness and the two memories merge, his identity still belongs to him.

The woman in the coffin was stunned for a moment, and fell into confusion again. There seemed to be problems with her consciousness again.

Wang Shiyin regained consciousness half an hour later. Her scarlet lips opened slightly and said, "No, you are him."

Liang Tian didn't waste time and asked directly: "Why did you appear in the Liang Mansion lying in the coffin?"

The woman in the coffin seemed to be thinking, and slowly gave an answer.

"I don't remember much about what happened before. I should have been faced with the problem of the evil ghost reviving at that time, but I didn't have any idea how to survive."

"Until later, an old man came to me. He hired many ghost masters to help him build a building. After the wooden building was completed, he gave me a pair of elegiac couplets, a screen wall, and a coffin to suppress recovery. Also Give me instructions and say that I will have the opportunity to meet you again in the future."

"His prophecy is true. After more than eighty years, you and I will meet again." Wang Shiyin's eyes showed sadness, but as a corpse, she could no longer shed tears.

"Is this the supernatural being you once controlled?"

Liang Tian was silent for a moment, then called out the ghost, the source of the mirage, and asked Wang Shiyin to identify it. The old man is suspected to be related to Baishui Town, and may even be the owner of the wooden house.

Wang Shiyin stared at the illusory and cold ghost, thought for a long time, and then walked out of the coffin, her scarlet lips moved slightly: "I remember, the reason why I became incomplete is because of this ghost, using the supernatural power of refraction of the past. , the medium must be memory. In order to reflect my past self, I consumed most of my memories."

"The past me is dead, and the present me is just a product of the supernatural. I stole part of the ghost's supernatural power, used this part of the supernatural power to reflect my incomplete consciousness, stored the consciousness on the corpse, sealed it in a red coffin, and kept it."

"The old man once left me a plan. He said that by consuming the incomplete memory, constantly refracting the past self, we can obtain the past memory, and then consume the acquired incomplete memory to trace the memory back to eighty years ago, making the memory Complete restoration.”

"Liang Tian, ​​I want this ghost, it can make me whole again."

At the end of the sentence, Wang Shiyin bit her scarlet lips gently, with a kind of pleading in her eyes.

Liang Tian's pupils shrank suddenly, his expression extremely horrified, because this was completely a way for a person to control a powerful ghost and directly become an alien.

However, the prerequisite for all of this is that the source of the mirage, the evil spirit, must die.

So, the old man who was suspected to be the owner of the wooden house predicted the current situation by giving instructions to Wang Shiyin eighty years ago?

(End of this chapter)