what the hell is

"Who?" We asked at the same time.

Li Yang kept silent and kept his mouth shut. His attention had already shifted from the photos to the pieces of paper pasted on the wall.These papers are yellow and look very fragile. The style of the paper is very old, and it is almost rare to see it now. Some are letter paper, and some are torn from notebooks.I blew off the dust on it, looked at it Zhang Zhang, and found that the content on it was very trivial.There are letters, a few lines of mood essays that cannot be called a diary, and drawings of children's graffiti.

Most of the words on it were written with a ballpoint pen, which was very vague, and the content could barely be read smoothly, making it difficult to read.I looked at it for a while, not knowing what to do, and a little impatient.At this time, Li Yang called me over, pointed to a letter on the wall and said, "This is interesting."

I took a photo with a flashlight. The paper of this letter is a very old-fashioned lined red line letter paper, with words written with a pen on it.The first half of the letter, with childish handwriting and floating strokes, looks like it was written by a child:

"Mom, my dad and I have arrived in Korea. Dad told me that the place we live in is called Seoul. The buildings here are so tall. Dad said, you are doing very important work, so you can't come to see me until I grow up I can find you now. Mom, I want to grow up quickly, and I miss you." The signature below is "Lin'er".

In the second half of the letter, the handwriting changed, and it was full of continuous strokes, mature and elegant, written by adults.

"Feng'er, Xiaolin and I have arrived safely in South Korea. Most of the family's assets are in place, and we are living a good life now. It's just that Lin'er is arguing to find his mother every day. Feng'er, I know we are not the same people, but we are abandoned. Husband and son, is it really worth it to pursue your so-called "ideal"? I don't think it's worth the detachment gained by abandoning family affection. We have known each other for more than ten years, and I will never love anyone else in this world. Woman. I hope that in this life, the day our family will meet again, don’t let ‘mother’ become a word that Xiaolin can only shout in his dreams. Husband, Wu Ming writes with tears in his eyes.”

At the end of this letter, there are a few drops of water that are already hard to see. I believe that these must be traces left by tears.

I just don't know whether these tears were shed by "husband Wu Ming" or by "wife Fenger" who read the letter.

A name popped up in my mind, and I couldn't help saying: "Luo Feng!"

The builder of this building more than ten years ago was the mysterious man Luo Feng who did not leave a single word in the historical files.

Tongsuo squeezed over and yelled, "Who is Luo Feng?"

About Luo Feng, Li Yang only told me. Now he can only be patient and tell Tongsuo and Qin Dan the results of his investigation about Luo Feng.

Tongsuo was terrified when he heard this, and patted his thigh and said: "Isn't this obvious? Luo Feng finished building the mansion, sent her husband and son abroad, and then stayed alone to cultivate and plan to become an immortal. Fuck, evil door, this Women are really cruel."

We didn't care about the dust, and began to carefully flip through the manuscripts on the desk.Those pieces of paper, books, and notes were all buried in the thick dust, and as soon as he moved, the dust and smoke flew up, making people cough.

Even so, our strong curiosity drives us to keep looking for relevant information.

Except for the light of the flashlight, it was pitch black all around, and it was terribly quiet, except for the small sound of us flipping papers.

Li Yang told us not to look at the content on the paper, but to organize it and then read it carefully.These papers are almost all glued to the desktop, so be careful when handling them.In the process of sorting out, Qin Dan stopped suddenly, and the girl looked around with a flashlight, looking a little embarrassed.

Seeing that something was wrong with her, I asked what was wrong.

Qin Dan looked at us, blinked and said, "Are you aware of a very serious problem?"

"what is the problem?"

"Where is Luo Feng now?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the three of us stopped and looked at each other together.This sentence made the back of my neck feel cool.That's right, where did Luo Feng go?

This is a closed secret room, and the only passage - there are old sundries piled up outside the iron door, obviously no one has touched it.So where is Luo Feng, who has been locked in the house all this time?

Could it be that she really cultivated to become a fairy and turned into green smoke?

In the room where the temperature was originally high, I suddenly felt a chill, and a gloomy thought came to my mind, she wouldn't be still in this room, could she?

Apparently, several of them were also aware of this problem, their throats tightened, and they couldn't help leaning against each other.

Li Yang took a deep breath, stabilized his mind, and said, "It seems that the answer can only be found in these manuscripts."

He neatly divided the paper on the desk into two parts.One part is all kinds of ready-made newspaper clippings, books, fragments of words copied from nowhere; the other part is Luo Feng's handwritten notes. Comfortable, must be from a scholarly family.

The content of the first part is simply the relevant content of various documents and materials about "Corpse Jiexian".For example, there is an article that said that during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old man surnamed Wang in Cangzhou. The cause of death was unknown, and his death was horrible.The whole person swells and rots, as if fished out of the water, the whole is a "giant view".Some people say that the burial of this corpse is unlucky and must be burned.But for unknown reasons, the family members did not deal with it, and the body was parked at home.One day when it rained heavily, suddenly there was a thunderstorm in the sky, and the old Wangtou's body "exploded like a drum". With a loud bang, it shattered like a broken watermelon. From the old man's shattered stomach, n golden snakes drilled out, all about a foot long, and they burrowed into every crack, covering the ground so densely that the family members dared not step into the house.

Below this article, there is Luo Feng's comment "The snake sloughs and the cicada flies, the corpse is disintegrated but not immortal" followed by a big question mark, indicating whether the decomposition and rupture of the old man's corpse is the process of becoming an immortal, and doubt.

There is also a section of her analysis below, many of the handwriting is already very blurred, after reading it, the few of us looked at each other, feeling an unspeakable coldness.

I briefly summarize this analysis and write it out in plain language.It is said that there was an old fairy named Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He wrote a Taoist book called "Baopuzi", in which there is a very important chapter called "On Immortals". Xu is called a celestial immortal; a sergeant who travels in famous mountains is called an earth immortal; a corporal who dies first and then sheds is called an immortal. Today, young masters must be dissected." What does it mean?After discussion among several of us, it can be explained in this way.In the process of becoming a fairy, a person with profound skills can ascend in the daytime and is called a fairy.People with a moderate level travel to famous mountains to absorb the essence of nature and gradually become immortals, which are called earth immortals.The people with the lowest qualifications must experience the same death as ordinary people, and the process of transformation can only occur after death.

There is a very paradoxical and unexplainable point here. Since autopsy is a relatively low-level way to become immortals, it should account for the majority of immortals throughout the ages, and there should be more records left.However, in the records of ancient Taoist books, there are very few about the process and method of dismantling a corpse into a fairy.

Among Luo Feng's scattered notes, some are about her chances and insights about cultivating immortals, while some...actually write about Luo Feng's process of practicing corpse autopsy in this secret room.

Just waiting for a closer look, suddenly footsteps came from outside the iron gate, and Wang Chen's voice came: "Outside..."

He stumbled into the room and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's great that you are all here. I shouted outside for a long time, but you didn't respond. I thought about it, let's come in, everyone is at least a companion. "

"You called outside just now..." Tongsuo said.

"Oh, what I'm talking about is that it's pitch-dark outside, I was so scared, so, so I got in." He was still holding the coats of several of us in his hand.

Li Yang said: "Okay, let's take care of each other when we come in."

"What are you doing?" Wang Chen was curious.

I said: "Here we found a secret room where people lived..." Then I picked up the brief and told the story.

Even so, Wang Chen was bluffed enough to say, "I didn't expect there are so many hedgings here."

"What do you think?" I snorted, "The water here is very deep. Not only does it contain clues to the modern underworld, but it also involves a very secret incident of immortality more than ten years ago. You think it's just an adventure in a haunted house. Learned a lot."

We are talking here, Li Yang and Qin Dan have been sorting out the written materials on the table. They read quickly and carefully, communicating in low voices from time to time, with serious expressions on their faces.

I walked over and carefully picked up a fragment of a notebook they had seen.It is a mess of big and small, and the same word "Xian" is written in different fonts.There are official script, regular script, cursive script, seal script, and some incomprehensible fonts. There are always more than a dozen kinds.The strokes are elegant, the structure is beautiful, and the writing really has a bit of fairy flavor.

But at this moment, it seems that there is a very uncomfortable feeling.

Wang Chen said from the side: "This girl probably wants to become a fairy and wants to have a demonic disease. She is locked up in this ghost place alone and has a schizophrenia."

I was noncommittal, looking at the pieces of paper they sorted out on the table, but didn't care to read it.If you are in a study or a coffee shop, holding these materials is a good read to kill time.But now, I am in such a gloomy secret room with no lights around, and it's pitch black. I really don't have the mood to read anything, and I feel inexplicably anxious.

I have to admire Li Yang and Qin Dan, they are really not afraid of trouble, and they are very serious about not being affected by the environment.

"How do you say it?" I asked.

Li Yang rubbed his brows: "I probably figured out an idea, but..."

"Just what?" Tongsuo was anxious.

"It's just that these written materials are incomplete. Others are fine. The most important thing, Luo Feng's process of dissecting the corpse into a fairy here, is only mentioned, and it will be obviously torn off later. It is not in the materials we have sorted out so far."

Copper Lock yelled: "The most important thing is lost."

Qin Dan said: "Don't shout, let Li Yang tell the information about Luo Feng first."

Li Yang nodded and said, let me just say something briefly.

Among the scattered written materials on the desk, there is a very special note, which Li Yang calls Chengxian Notes.Inside is Luo Fengguan's autobiography written when he was in this secret room, which can be regarded as the last last words left in this world.

The notes are written in a mess, with no date or label, and the person refers to the unknown, so I can write wherever I think of, and even the timeline is chaotic.Li Yang watched in a hurry, and could only sort out a general idea.

The date of Luo Feng's birth is unknown, but it is certainly not the age she appears to be.A simple calculation, in the photos in the early 90s, it seems that she should be 30 years old, and according to this calculation, she should be born in the late 60s.But what was described in her notes was not like this, her actual age was much older than she looked.

Although there is no time benchmark to measure, there is a mysterious figure described in the notes, which can be used as a reference object for her age.

Luo Feng called this person "elder brother".The birth date of Eldest Brother cannot be tested, but there is a very important record in the notes, saying that during the Japanese invasion, Eldest Brother donated a lot of assets to the government at that time to fight against Japan, and he was considered a patriot.Adding some other fragmentary clues, after careful deduction, he was probably born in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and Luo Feng was not much different in age from him, because they grew up together.

This senior brother is from a scholarly family, born in a big family in Taiwan.The previous patriarchs of this family were also the successors of a certain sect of Taoism.

This sect has a development history of nearly a thousand years, with a small population and a secret lineage. The purpose of their practice is very simple - to become immortals.Over the long years, the members of the sect have collected and sorted out various spells and secret classics, looking for ways to become immortals, and gradually developed into a very systematic practice inheritance.Zongmen also had a good time, especially in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, when it entered the peak period of development.From generation to generation in the sect, people have been elected to the court to serve the emperor and become national teachers, honored as "old gods".Especially during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing devoted himself to Taoism and liked to talk about Xuanqing Xiu. He tossed all the money from the treasury to build Taoist temples in the palace. .Worshiping an elder in the sect at that time called Lan Daoxing as the "Blue Immortal", the scenery was unparalleled, but it was a pity that he was involved in political struggles in the end, decapitated, and died without a place to bury him.Since then, the Zongmen has not participated in the affairs of the court, and began to practice in seclusion.

The notes did not say how many people in this sect have successfully cultivated to become gods, but I think there are quite a few, after all, they can stand the test of long years.Passed down to the generation of "big brothers", it is catching up with "China's unseen changes in 5000 years", everything is innovating, everything is changing.This kind of old-fashioned and mysterious sect is even more sparsely populated, with only two people, "big brother" and "little junior sister".

This "little junior sister" is Luo Feng.

In the notes, Luo Feng didn't describe too much about her own experience, and all the pen and ink were recording some background history of the sect in detail.She mentioned their sect's method of becoming an immortal, in simple words: practice in the shade, dissect the corpse and become an immortal.The so-called yin land practice, this opportunity is very rare, it is almost the biggest threshold for the sect to become an immortal.The concept of Yin land is vague, even Luo Feng himself can't understand it, and he barely understands that it is the place where Yin and Yang intersect.

The two realms of yin and yang are the yang world and the underworld, and the place where the two intersect is the gate of ghosts on the line of life and death.Is there really such a place as the gate of hell in this world?It is recorded in the notes, yes!In some places on the earth, there are some special regions, which are the entrances connecting Yin and Yang.I don’t know if this understanding is correct: to go to the underworld, besides death, you can also enter in some way through these special regions!

As for entering the underworld in this way, whether your form of existence is the same as that of a dead soul, there is no answer at all, and it is even impossible to make any assumptions, because it is completely beyond cognition.

The yin practice mentioned in the notes is to practice with secret techniques near the "Ghost Gate" that connects the Yin and Yang worlds. What is the secret technique, what is the process, and how to practice it, there is no record in the notes.All he knows is that the result of his practice is that he will finally be dissected and become a fairy.

What is certain now is that Luo Feng has found the Yindi, which is the "Gate of Ghosts" - the building we are in.Although I don't know how she spent all kinds of efforts to build the temple in the building and the secret room, but what is certain is that she wants to practice here to become a fairy.

A myriad of clues are gradually gathering, and Li Damin, who is looking for Ma Danlong, and the little boy beside Master Xie may all be related to this.The fog is still thick, unbearable to think about.

When it comes to turning a corpse into a fairy, there is also a very strange process here, that is, you must go through death and turn into a corpse before you can turn into a fairy.If Luo Feng wanted to become a fairy, he had to commit suicide first and kill himself.

"That is to say." At this point, Li Yang looked at us coldly: "Whether Luo Fengcheng is immortal or not, there must be her body hidden somewhere in this room."