Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 592 Sunset Courtyard

"Boss!"

Seeing Watermelon Head go in, Adong shouted and then quickly called on the other brothers to follow.

I watched for a while and then followed in.

The flashlight, which had been flickering unsteadily, stopped flickering the moment I entered the yard.

"Boss, be careful. If anything goes wrong with you, we won't be able to report to Uncle Xu when we get back."

Watermelon Head nodded and asked, "How is your injury?"

Ah Dong glanced at his chest and shook his head: "It's not a big problem, I won't die."

The watermelon-headed guy patted Adong on the shoulder.

After entering, I found that the yard was very large, much larger than it looked at the door. The ground was paved with high-quality tea garden stones. There was a water tank in the corner, and the tank was half full of rainwater.

The surrounding walls blocked the moonlight, forming a straight "shadow path" in the yard.

The group walked along the "shadow path" for about twenty or thirty meters and saw a screen wall.

The screen wall is made of blue bricks with a smooth surface without any marks. The overall color is blue-gray. It is about four meters high and three meters wide. It is very thick and looks like a wall across the middle of the courtyard.

I shone the flashlight at the screen wall.

The shadows of several people were very clear, and the watermelon-head hairstyle was too obvious.

The original purpose of the screen wall was not for beauty, but to block some bad things, such as piercing evil spirits or lonely ghosts. If a wild ghost follows the owner back home, it will be scared away when it sees its own image on the screen wall. Logically, the inner house area should be behind the screen wall, but when I walked around it, I was surprised to find that it was still a courtyard.

There was nothing around except the water tank that I saw when I came in.

Ah Dong looked around with a flashlight and said, "Strange, such a big yard, why is it so empty?"

"Maybe this is really an ancestral hall, so eerie." said another person.

"Even an ancestral hall should have rooms." Adong said.

Keep moving forward.

Within two minutes, we saw another screen wall, which was exactly the same as the first one.

My heart suddenly skipped a beat.

It is not surprising that those large courtyards with three or four entrances have two screen walls, but I have never seen this type. There are two screen walls connected in a line. Usually there is a screen wall outside the door, a screen wall inside the door, and screen walls on both sides. The screen walls on both sides will form an eight-shaped diagonal with the door. I have only a vague understanding of feng shui for houses, but I know that such a design does not conform to common sense of feng shui.

Continuing to explore forward, soon everyone was dumbfounded.

An identical screen wall appeared in front of me.

Ah Dong asked in confusion, "Why are you back again? Isn't this the first screen wall?"

A bad feeling arose in my heart.

"Dong...Dong...Dong...Brother Dong."

"Why are you stuttering? Speak properly."

"No, Dong Ge! Look! The shadow on the wall!"

"What happened to Shadow?"

The next second, Adong opened his mouth wide. He turned his head, then looked at the screen wall and rubbed his eyes.

Adong waved his hand.

I saw Adong's shadow on the screen wall also waving.

"one two three....."

"ninety."

"There are nine of us! How can there be ten shadows!" Adong said in horror.

"Spread out and take a look." I said quickly.

Everyone dispersed immediately.

There was only the shadow of a "person" on the screen wall. This person had a pointed chin and a strange posture. His legs were slightly bent, and his hands were stretched forward. He maintained this posture without moving.

I said, "Turn off the flashlights."

"Open."

As everyone's flashlights came on, the extra shadow on the wall disappeared again.

One person might be dazzled, but it is impossible for so many people to be dazzled at the same time. My first thought was that I was trapped in a ghost wall.

Ghost walls do exist, but they usually appear in the wilderness. Ghost walls do not mean that there is a real wall, but that the sense of direction is lost, and no matter how you walk, you just go around in circles. This phenomenon can sometimes be encountered around some cemeteries with heavy yin energy.

I told Adong and the others not to be afraid, and that they should stay calm especially at this time.

Adong insisted that he was not afraid at all, but the movements of his hands betrayed him, his hands were shaking.

Walking to the middle of the screen wall, I counted the number of bricks in the top row. Then I went around to the back of the screen wall and counted the number of bricks in the top row as well.

I made a cross on a brick with my knife and called for the others to follow me.

When I came to the second screen wall, I counted the bricks and drew a circle with a knife.

Soon, the third screen wall came into view.

As usual, I counted the bricks and marked a square with a knife.

Continuing to walk deeper into the yard, we found ourselves back in front of the first screen wall.

I counted them and found the same number of bricks, and the cross mark I had just left was clearly visible.

Adong, who had been stubborn just now, was now pale. He was not afraid of fighting with knives and guns, but he might not have seen this kind of scene.

A buddy said fearfully, "This is a ghost wall. I heard that closing your eyes and walking can help. Do you want to try it?"

I shook my head. "It works in an open area, but not in this yard. If I walk with my eyes closed, I'll definitely bump into a wall."

Another person asked, "Tell me, does that shadow that appeared on the wall just now look like Xiao Liu, the man who led us?"

"Fuck you, he's dead."

"I know. He might be blaming us for not being able to save him, so he blinded us and prevented us from leaving so that we could stay with him."

The watermelon-head frowned: "Don't talk nonsense, this screen wall is not that high, climb up and take a look."

"I come!"

A Dong volunteered, and he retreated a few meters, took a run-up and jumped, but he was almost able to touch it.

Continuing to try, Adong retreated more than ten meters this time and touched the lower eaves of the screen wall in one breath.

"Ouch!"

There was a scream, and the next second Adong fell to the ground with a thud.

His palms were covered in blood, and he felt something black and sticky on his hands that looked like asphalt.

Ah Dong took a deep breath and grabbed his wrist, saying, "There's broken glass all over it!"

"What are these black things?" I asked.

A Dong raised his hand and sniffed: "I don't know, it's really fucking stinky, I'll go wash it."

There was a water tank in the corner. Adong quickly washed his hands and came back. There was a three-centimeter-long cut on the palm of his hand. The wound was very deep and was still bleeding.

A Dong raised his eyes and said, "It seems that this place is intentionally not open to people. Maybe the secret is up there. I'll try again."

"Let me do it."

I took off my coat, covered my hands with them, and ran and jumped like Adong, and immediately grabbed the lower eaves of the screen wall.

When I turned it over, I saw that it was full of broken glass and a thick layer of black, sticky, semi-solid unknown liquid. I couldn't smell it from a distance, but it smelled very bad when I got close.

The watermelon-head threw the flashlight up.

I raised the flashlight and took a closer look, and was immediately stunned.

I can't see clearly, I can't see anything clearly.

All I saw was darkness; even the tall walls disappeared. It seemed as if a layer of black fog was spreading before my eyes, and even a strong flashlight was useless.

"Brother! What's going on up there! What did you see?" Adong shouted from below.

My eyes are different from those of ordinary people. I could see those strange birds in the woods before, but now I can't see anything, even in dim light.

I bit the tip of my tongue hard and looked again.

The result is still darkness.

That kind of darkness is suffocating and despairing.