The furry thing was orange, so it was very conspicuous under the silvery moonlight.
I took Xiangyu's hand and followed slowly behind the orange fur.
This sanatorium is much larger than I imagined, and it is almost integrated into half of the hillside. The houses with white walls and red tiles are hidden among the flowers and plants, and it is difficult to find them from the outside.
Suddenly, the hand I was holding Xiangyu was pulled. When I looked back, it was Xiangyu who had stopped.
"What's the matter?" I asked, then I was afraid that the ball of orange fur had escaped, so I turned my head back hastily. Sure enough, the little thing had slipped away to nowhere at this moment, "Oh, then
The cat was lost."
I said a little annoyed.
Xiangyu didn't say anything, and then pulled the hand that was still in my palm. I couldn't help but turn around and asked: "What's the matter? You didn't say anything when I asked you. Why are you holding me? Then
The cat has run away, and there is nothing to guide us?"
My tone was a bit harsh, and after I finished speaking, I felt that it was a bit too much.
But Xiangyu didn't seem to hear my words. Her eyes were wide open, her head tilted upward slightly, and she stared straight ahead motionlessly.
I saw fear in her eyes, so I couldn't help but turn around and follow her gaze.
This sight really startled me, and the goosebumps on my body instantly exploded out of fear.
There is a house about ten meters to the right in front of us. The appearance of the house looks a bit like the Zhou family's old house. It has white walls and red tiles. There are two large windows on the front, and the window leaves are covered with thin films.
Made of gauze paper and the frame is carved mahogany, it is a quaint phenomenon.
Different from the houses we just saw along the way, there is light inside this house, but the light is very dark. It feels very much like the burning kerosene lamp in ancient times.
The strangest thing is that there is a shadow reflected on the window screen at the moment. Looking at the outline of the shadow, it should be a woman, and the angle she is standing at is staring at us from behind the window screen.
The dark figure behind the window screen is the source of Xiangyu's fear.
Could it be that this large sanatorium, which covers almost half of Sangpu Mountain, only houses such a woman?
Just when I was wondering in my heart, the shadow of the woman behind the window screen suddenly disappeared. It was very strange.
It was like disappearing into thin air.
"Xiang Yu, let's go over there and take a look." I took Xiang Yu's hand and walked forward as I spoke.
When I walked to the door of the small house, both of us were stunned. On the carved wooden door of the small house, the two copper door knockers, which were larger than the ordinary door knockers, were dangling in front of our eyes.
"Zhou Cang, look, is this the room that the professor told you to enter on the phone?" Xiang Yu asked, leaning next to me.
"That should be it. If you look at the brass door knocker, this is the sign." I lowered my voice and said, for fear of disturbing the woman who was standing behind the window sill just now.
"Then we want to go in? The person standing behind the window sill just now seems to be a woman. Why does the professor want you to meet a woman? Is it a romantic debt you left when you were studying?" Xiangyu asked half-jokingly.
, the voice was also very low, almost a whisper.
"You're Fengliu, don't you understand me? You've lived in vain for more than twenty years, and you haven't even had your first love." I knocked Xiangyu's head, but I couldn't help but smile.
Because of Xiang Yu's joke, my nervous and already trembling heart suddenly relaxed a little and I became much calmer.
Xiangyu can always give me a candy at critical moments, and this candy, like a reassuring pill, can always make me settle down.
The professor said on the phone to knock three times and pull gently, I thought in my mind, then raised my hand and was about to knock on the carved wooden door, but before my hand touched the door, the door opened automatically.
It looked like someone was pulling gently inside.
"Zhou Cang, this, this is different from what the professor said, are we still going in?" Xiangyu said, pulling my arm.
"Now that we have arrived at the door of someone's house, and they have opened the door to welcome us, it would be a bit unreasonable not to go in." I deliberately raised my voice and said.
"What are you doing?" Xiangyu looked at me with a puzzled face.
I patted Xiangyu's arm with my hand, indicating with my eyes that she was okay, then opened the door and walked in openly.
Surprisingly, the room was empty, with no beds, tables, or chairs.
"Zhou Cang, the room is actually empty," Xiangyu said softly, dragging my arm.
"empty"
"empty"
Unexpectedly, there was an echo in this empty room, and Xiang Yu repeated the last two words of what he just said twice.
Even though I knew it was the echo of sound waves, these two empty sentences still made me suddenly feel uneasy.
"Do you remember that I just told you among the flowers in the yard that there must be something wrong with this nursing home, because there is no sound of a summer insect chirping? And there must be something wrong with this room, because the
The space is not wide enough to reflect such an echo.”
As soon as I finished speaking, there were two more echoes:
"Echo, echo."
"Zhou Cang, what do you mean?" Xiangyu covered her mouth and said almost in my ear.
But strangely, there are still echoes coming.
It stands to reason that such a volume is not enough to cause an echo. Could it be that the house is made of special materials, so it has such an effect.
But, what is the purpose of doing this?
Is it just to scare people?
This is a sanatorium, which is originally intended for patients to recuperate and recuperate. This is contradictory to the role of the sanatorium itself.
Or is this kind of echo also a means of treating diseases?
No, it's definitely not that simple. This is not an ordinary sanatorium. This is the premise.
If we think based on this premise, and add in the experiences of Wawu Mountain and Poyang Lake, it can only mean that there are other important things in this house, and this echo is a means of protecting this thing.
After thinking about this, I immediately thought that this couldn't be an empty room. There must be something that we had overlooked. Moreover, the professor deliberately asked me to come here, and he definitely didn't just want to be frightened by the echo.
It's so easy to scare me.
So, I turned on the flashlight that came with my phone, and then slowly illuminated it in a circle around the house.
Sure enough, this time, I found a staircase on the east wall. This staircase was built very secretly and was almost integrated with the east wall. If I hadn't seen it in my grandfather's collection of ancient books, I would have seen it all the time.
The architectural form is such that in such a dim environment, you may not be able to spot the staircase even if you look at it ten times.
I didn't say anything, and pulled Xiangyu towards the stairs.
When I got to the edge of the stairs, I gestured towards Xiangyu, telling her to wait here while I went up to explore the way. If it was safe, she would follow me up.
Xiangyu is very smart. She understood after I only gestured once. She also gestured towards me, meaning that she wanted to go up with me and didn't want me to take risks alone.
But I resolutely rejected her and immediately stepped onto the secret staircase.
What surprised me a little was that this staircase was very ordinary and there were no secret passages on it.
Xiangyu followed me up the stairs almost immediately behind me.
At the end of the stairs, there was a small attic. I scanned it with the flashlight on my mobile phone. In the middle of the attic, there was an object that Xiangyu and I were very familiar with. That object also made Xiangyu and I freeze in place.
I stood there for two or three minutes, but no one spoke.
"Zhou Cang, did the beeswax coffin in the ancient temple at Wawu Mountain go to the sanatorium in Sangpu Mountain?" Xiang Yu said this sentence intermittently, her voice trembling.
I suddenly came to my senses and said to Xiangyu: "I don't know yet, but this sanatorium must have something to do with the astrolabe, Wawu Mountain, and Poyang Lake.
As soon as we finished speaking, the beeswax coffin placed in the middle of the attic suddenly made a little sound.