Liu Hou's expression changed.
The thing that crawled over quickly on all fours could no longer be called a human being.
The face is haggard and the bones are rugged.
The eye sockets were sunken deeply, and the whole face looked like a skeleton.
It was wearing a red cotton-padded jacket, and it kept making sounds like "kaka ka, ka ka ka" in its mouth.
Just ran past him.
Even though Liu Hou knew that this was just an illusion caused by the art of dream painting, he was still shocked.
"Dad, you are finally back."
Ni Yu stood up in surprise and wanted to run towards the monster.
Ni Ling was startled and grabbed Ni Yu's arm: "Xiaoyu, stop!"
"Sister, that's dad."
Ni Yu shouted loudly.
"Dad is dead. That's not our dad."
Ni Ling refused to let go.
Ni Yu turned around and stared at Ni Ling seriously without blinking.
Liu Hou's heart seemed to be squeezed tightly. He felt that something was wrong with Ni Yu's expression.
Ni Ling felt it too.
"Xiaoyu, your eyes are so strange."
Ni Yu laughed: "Sister, you only know that your parents are dead, but do you know why our relatives don't allow us to see our parents' bodies?"
"Isn't it because death is too scary?"
Ni Ling was stunned for a moment, looking warily at the monster so close at hand that vaguely looked like her father.
The monster stayed at the edge of the matchlight, lying quietly and not attacking them.
"Myocardial infarction, the appearance of death, how terrifying can it be?"
Ni Yu sneered: "Actually, there is no corpse in the coffin. It is empty!"
Ni Ling's eyes widened: "How is that possible!"
"Think about it. You are usually snobbish and never pay much attention to our relatives. Why did you suddenly become so enthusiastic after our parents died?"
Ni Yu snorted coldly: "That's because they took Luo Hui's money. It was Luo Hui who killed our parents."
"Ah, don't talk nonsense about this."
Ni Ling felt like her sister had changed.
"I have evidence."
Ni Yu suddenly broke free from her hand and walked step by step to the monster in the red coat.
The monster's head leaned towards Ni Yu, but still did not attack her.
The girl reached out her hand and touched the monster's head.
From the monster's mouth, a sad and low cry sounded like a human and an animal.
It stared straight at Ni Ling.
Watching this made Ni Ling's hair stand on end.
There were many puzzlements in her heart, and she couldn't figure out what happened to her sister.
Liu Hou stared unblinkingly at the illusion in the art of dream painting, quietly waiting for the mystery to be revealed.
Although he already had a guess in his mind.
Apparently, this was not the first time that Ni Yu had entered the twisted space of the wardrobe before she disappeared with her sister three years ago.
Ni Yu knocked on the monster's head, and the monster seemed to understand.
He actually took out a photo from the red vest.
A yellowed photo.
"Dad never talks about his own affairs. You must have never seen this photo."
Ni Yu handed this photo to her sister.
Ni Ling took one look, and her expression suddenly changed.
Liu Hou got behind her and saw clearly what was in the photo.
This is a group photo.
In the group photo, there are a dozen people in total, standing in front of a dark mine shaft and laughing.
The one in the middle, who looked like the father of the Ni Ling sisters, was holding a strange-shaped shovel in his hand.
It turned out to be a Luoyang shovel.
The old mine behind those people should be within the scope of the Shicheng state-owned stone mining plant.
Liu Hou was shocked. This photo was very meaningful.
Because that mine is really weird.
Generally speaking, stone mining involves peeling off the surface soil and then cutting into the rock wall from top to bottom piece by piece.
The same is true for the quarrying process in Shicheng.
I have never heard that mining such low-value stone requires digging holes.
The cost of digging holes is too high. Even state-run quarries will consider economic benefits and cannot dig holes.
What's more, the cave entrance doesn't seem to be large enough to transport a large amount of stone.
The most important thing is that this hole is not naturally formed, because the shape of the hole has traces of artificial carving.
Moreover, it is quite ancient.
It is very possible that this is a collecting hole left by ancient people.
As for what the ancients wanted to collect inside...
Liu Hou believed that at least it would definitely not be a stone.
After all, the ancients had fewer production tools at that time, and they were even less likely to spend a lot of effort on useless work.
And looking at the beaming expressions of these more than ten people, it's not just because it's payday.
Collecting stone is extremely difficult, but the salary is very meager.
When they took the photo, they clearly felt that they were going to make a fortune, and the source of the windfall was in that cave!
"I have indeed never seen this photo, but I know some of the uncles in it. This doesn't mean anything..."
Ni Ling said.
"Look at the back again."
Ni Yu interrupted her.
Ni Ling turned the photo over and looked at the back.
There were more than a dozen names written on the back of the photo, and among them was Luo Hui.
Luo Hui!
Liu Hou, who was standing aside, held his chin with his hand and fell into deep thought.
Unexpectedly, the fathers of sisters Luo Hui and Ni Ling were once co-workers.
This photo was taken a year before the two sisters' parents died.
Because the photo is stamped with the date it was taken.
Even under the names of these more than ten people, there is an acrostic poem that Liu Hou has read several times.
What happened in that cave more than four years ago?
The words used in this limerick are stiff and the traces of patchwork are very obvious. Although the person who wrote it is not highly educated, he must have thought deeply about it for a period of time.
This is not something you can write temporarily when you are in danger.
Therefore, the original owner of this poem should be the father of the Ni Ling sisters.
Their parents died in an accident exactly four years ago.
Is there any connection?
Could it be that Luo Hui killed the parents of the Ni Ling sisters in order to seize the wealth found in the cave?
But in any case, it is clear from the content of the poem that strange things began to happen in Shicheng as early as four years ago.
Otherwise, Ni Ling's father would not have warned his daughter in his limerick that there is a ghost on the loose.
However, a large number of strange incidents broke out and lasted for three years after their parents died.
These three years happened to be the time when Luo Hui Plate Company was selling a large number of new plates in Shicheng.
There is a high degree of agreement between the two, and it is difficult not to doubt the connection between the two.
Liu Hou felt cold in his heart. This Luo Hui might be spreading a curse for some purpose.
As for the purpose.
Liu Hou didn't know, but he could guess.
Spreading the curse can bring huge benefits to Luo Hui.
"I was the first person to find this photo. I haven't shown this photo to anyone."
Ni Yu said quietly: "It was this photo that made me suspicious of the death of my parents. Why did my father change his temper before and said that my mother was no longer the original mother. The real mother was in the closet?
Why did they suddenly die suddenly?
I even opened the coffin and was surprised to find that there was no body in it.
I couldn't figure it out, and I searched and searched, but I still couldn't find the truth.
But I know that there must be something fishy about the death of my parents.
Until one night, I heard a noise in my parents' closet and opened the closet door to take a look.
Chapter completed!