Volume 3: The Sword That Shines on the Demon Clan Chapter 79: Did you tell him his name?
The dark corridor was just as Wang Chen had seen from outside the house. It was not long and soon reached the end. There was a wooden door to the right at the end, locked with an almost rotten wooden latch. Screams and howling could be heard outside the door, continuously.
Holding the bolt in his hand, Zhang Wanquan pulled it hard and then pushed open the wooden door.
The cold air hit me in my face. This was a courtyard with a mud ground. A few dead trees with only bare branches left stood crookedly, and in the middle of the courtyard was an ancient well.
This haunted house actually has a quadrangle layout.
The four of them didn't have time to take a closer look, so they followed the sound and saw a dark shadow huddled in the corner from afar. It had its head buried like an ostrich, its whole body trembling, and it was sobbing with extreme fear.
Is it a woman? Or a female ghost? The four of them looked at each other.
Zhang Wanquan shook his head. This person was alive and not a ghost.
Emboldened by these words, Murong Aotian strode up to the man, patted him on the shoulder and shouted: Hey.
This sudden slap made the woman scream and almost jump up. She held on to the wall tightly, turned her face to the side, revealing a pair of terrified eyes, and trembled as she said, "Don't, don't kill me... Don't kill me..."
"Calm down, no one wants to kill you." Murong Aotian said loudly.
"I'm going to die... I'm going to die... The ghost is coming, the ghost is coming!"
Words of comfort were of no use. The woman 's eyes darted around in fear and she spoke nonsense.
"The ghost is coming?" Wang Chen muttered to himself, repeated it, then walked over, squatted down and said, "What do you mean when you said the ghost is coming?"
"I'm going to die... I'm going to die." The woman seemed not to have heard anything clearly and was still repeating the same words.
"Where...is the ghost?!" Wang Chen's face was solemn and he shouted in a low voice.
After this shout, the woman's eyes seemed to regain some spirit, but the fear in them did not diminish at all. She said: "Here, right here, in this yard!"
"What?!" This sudden sentence almost made the four people's scalps explode. Murong Aotian and Luo Qingye turned around abruptly and looked around vigilantly.
The yard was only a few square meters and there was no obstruction. If what the woman said was correct, then the place where the so-called ghost could hide was extremely clear.
"How do you know the ghost is here?" Wang Chen asked.
"I know, I can feel it... right here." The woman murmured like a dream.
"Brother Zhang, if it... is here, let's go back to the hall and slowly think of a solution." Luo Qingye said with trembling lips.
Perhaps it was because of the strange atmosphere that even a reckless person like Murong Aotian surprisingly did not object.
"I think she's gone crazy." Zhang Wanquan looked around without changing his expression. As if to confirm his judgment, he asked, "What's your name?"
But as soon as the question was asked, the woman seemed to wake up and asked back: "Why are you asking this? Who are you?"
A strange color flashed across Zhang Wanquan's eyes, and he said lightly: "Let me see if you are really crazy."
The woman seemed dissatisfied with Zhang Wanquan's explanation and continued to ask, " What ?"
"What is it?" Wang Chen's heart moved. When ordinary people inquire about someone's identity, they will most likely ask who you are. No one would ask what you are.
At this moment, Luo Qingye took over the conversation and said, "This uncle is an exorcist and can take us out."
The woman's eyes were filled with fear, and she murmured, "Exorcist... Have you already told him your names?"
"So what?" Luo Qingye was stunned.
“Leave him, stay away from him!” the woman suddenly screamed, “He wants to kill us, that’s why he asked our names.”
"He is the ghost!" the woman said in horror, clinging tightly to the cold wall. It seemed that she would rather have the ability to pass through walls so that she could leave this dangerous place in an instant.
Wang Chen stood up slowly, with a sense of alarm in his heart. He recalled the scene where Zhang Wanquan took the initiative to introduce himself and led the three people to introduce themselves to each other. Could it be that all this was a premeditated inducement?
If what this woman said was true, then there was only one possibility, that this haunted house had to know a person's exact name before it could kill him?
The three of them couldn't help but move further away from Zhang Wanquan. Murong Aotian even took out a dagger that was shining with cold light and assumed a fighting stance.
Zhang Wanquan glanced at the four people, frowned and said: "I already know your names, aren't you still alive and well? I think it would be better to ask her to explain how she came to the conclusion that knowing the names is for the purpose of killing people."
"You can't fool me." The woman seemed to see that the three people were leaning towards her side, and said madly: "You smell of blood all over your body, you can't fool me, you can't fool me!!"
"This woman has gone crazy." Zhang Wanquan said calmly without changing his expression.
"Kill him, kill him!" The woman raised her strangely tense fingers and pointed at Zhang Wanquan. "He is the ghost!"
"I think you are the ghost, who is alone in such a strange place and tempting us to kill each other." Zhang Wanquan said calmly.
"Believe me, believe me!" The woman's voice became hoarse in desperation. She grabbed Luo Qingye, who was closest to , and tears and snot flowed out together.
Luo Qingye was actually a little stunned. She turned her head to look at Zhang Wanquan, then looked at the woman in front of her with an earnest pleading look on her face, and her heart was in a mess.
"I don't want to waste time here." As Zhang Wanquan spoke, he turned around and walked to the side of the well. He looked down at the mouth of the well and checked it carefully. It seemed that he didn't find anything. He said, "It is obvious that there is no clue to the main coffin of this haunted house except for a madman. If he is dragged here, maybe he has fallen into some trick."
After saying that, he ignored everyone in the room and walked towards a house hidden in the shadows.
"Don't go in! We will all die!" the woman growled madly.
Zhang Wanquan pretended not to hear anything and did not even pause for a moment. With a "creak", he pushed the door open and walked in.
Wang Chen hesitated for a moment and followed Zhang Wanquan in.
"Brother..." Luo Qingye looked at Murong Aotian, at a loss.
Murong Aotian hesitated for a moment and said: "Take her to the hall and wait for a while. This woman seems to know a lot of things. When she calms down, maybe we can get more clues."
"Please take us there." Luo Qingye pleaded. Under such circumstances, she had lost the courage to continue exploring with a person who was identified as a ghost.
Murong Aotian was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
The three of them returned to the hall, and Murong Aotian took out two daggers and nailed the torn landscape painting to the wall, just covering the exposed corpse.
Luo Qingye sat at the wooden table in some fear. Opposite her was the crazy woman. For some reason, the woman was very calm at the moment, just staring straight ahead with empty eyes.
"If anything goes wrong, just scream." Murong Aotian bent down and whispered to Luo Qingye while secretly handing over a dagger that was shining with cold light.
Perhaps it was this dagger that calmed Luo Qingye down a little. She looked at Murong Aotian and nodded heavily.
Da da da…
A strange sound was heard. It seemed to come from far away, yet it seemed to be right next to my ear, as if someone was knocking on the wooden door with fingernails.
Murong Aotian and Luo Qingye were startled at the same time.
Murong Aotian reacted quickly, thinking that maybe something had happened to Zhang Wanquan and Jiang Yu, and quickly ran in that direction.
"Don't go over there!" The crazy woman suddenly turned her head and said with empty eyes: Don't leave this lamp, otherwise you will die!
