Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

The hour hand pointed to two o'clock at midnight, and with the detective's voice starting, the black broken door was creaking open and appeared in front of everyone again. From the door, you can directly face the window sill of Xiaoma's house upstairs. His alcoholic father has turned on all the lights in the house and is sitting in front of the empty bed frame cursing, probably telling his serious friends to stop messing around at home. Flowers and snow-white walls.

The light from the corridor also illuminated the two hanging rings hanging in the center of the big room. Cherry, Detective and Paco had already heard us describe it in Rhinoceros Horn, but they were still shocked when they actually saw it. Especially the female soldier with amazing insight, who dragged me straight in and said that the moment the door opened, one of them was clearly shaking.

Lao Dai asked her to let go and said it was no big deal. There were many reasons why the ring would swing by itself. There are unknown ventilation secret passages in the house; the turbulent flow outside when the door is opened; or a certain window is not closed tightly. Even if the mutilated woman is really responsible, there is nothing to fear. The number of idlers gathered around may be the highest number since the founding of the United States. That thing will probably never appear again.

As for why? The detective didn't say anything, but the Mexican answered for him. Paco said that there was a similar dangerous place in his hometown. It was a canyon. It was said that it was an ancient battlefield several centuries ago, so the night was always restless. Before the road was built, villagers had to take this shortcut if they wanted to go to nearby large towns. But what should we do if someone is seriously ill and it happens to be midnight? Then the whole family would have to go through the canyon together, and they would have to drive their cattle, sheep, and livestock, and they would have to hang all the bells and shout noisily to get through.

That kind of thing is called ghost chaos in Paco, and no one can explain its principle. I just heard from the elders that the more people gather, the number of living creatures far exceeds the filth, and road thugs will naturally stay away. Turn bad luck into good luck. And my explanation of it is easier to understand. It is like a group fight. When one party has several times or even dozens of times the number of the other party, the weaker group will run away.

After entering the big room, we first turned on all the wall lamps and ceiling lights, and then everyone stood under the hanging ring to carefully figure out which ring had moved just now. After watching it for a while, Lao Dai suddenly lit up a cigarette and said that maybe it was not used for hand training, nor was it framed as the fat man had speculated in the past. The ring was fixed to the ceiling and must have other purposes.

"How was this conclusion reached? Just guessing?"I saw that the detective looked very similar to Fan Pang in the past on some occasions, and I couldn't help but want to argue, so I watched with him and asked with a smile:"Tell us about it."

"As you can see, there are no extra holes around the iron frame of the lifting ring, which means that the person who completed the fixation knew that the top of this position is not a keel, but a solid wall. Otherwise he would be poking around, but there is none."The detective put his hands behind his back, but was not annoyed by my tone. He still explained patiently and said,"So before the big house was renovated, this person went to the site for exploration."

"So that’s it, but why put this thing in the middle of the house?"Krys was confused and started asking questions.

"I think this object is probably a water pendulum, used to detect or find something."Lao Dai frowned his thick eyebrows, put out his cigarette butts and returned to the door. He took out a piece of chalk from his pocket and drew a line, instructing no one inside or outside the door to cross this line. Then he returned to where he was with Paco. They started whispering. What they were discussing was the best tool to borrow. If you look at the lifting ring from a different angle, you might be able to know the answer. The female soldier stood aside and eavesdropped, patting her strong chest and saying that she could try it.

"Hey, if Lin Rui was here, everything would be solved."The damn fat man was muttering to himself, and then he was stepped on hard by me.

So the Mexican squatted down and let Little Cherry hold his big hand. When she said she was ready, she stood up straight with her arms. , just like this, the female soldier was hanging upside down in the air, with her legs close to the ceiling, switching to a half-demon perspective, and then she saw the clues

"The connecting part has neither bolts nor angular bones, but two strange components."Little Cherry was sweating profusely, and her hands were shaking wildly, looking very reluctant. She said:"Those seem to be a pair of magnets, fixed to each other by suction. Can I get down?"

The detective nodded and saw Little Cherry jumping down in the air, so he brought a pen and paper for her to draw. Although the female soldier's drawing skills were ugly, the meaning was covered. Usually the top of the hanging ring would be fixed by another set of iron rings. However, it is not. It is two iron tools that are like nails and are adsorbed to each other. They will be torn off when exposed to a large amount of external force, so they cannot be played with at all.

"That's right, this thing is a water pendulum, and it was installed and hoisted by other residents afterwards. At least it didn't exist when the police came to the scene in 1972."Lao Dai kicked the notebook into his arms and explained to everyone. The so-called water pendulum is not driven by water power, it is just a common name. It can also be called a wind pendulum or a fire pendulum, which is used for detection purposes. The device, like the magnetic compass used by ancient Easterners, is generally used to guide places where evil is haunted. This indirectly shows that the person who laid it knew that something had happened in this house and knew what he was looking for. Therefore, women It is purely a rumor that ghosts play with hanging rings. You don't need to pay attention to it. All you need to do is have someone watching it and telling you which direction it swings.

Soon a group of people came to the big window and waved to the people in the building opposite. The serious friends took their seats. Lao Dai glanced at Xiaoma's father, frowned and let his eyes stay in the living room. If he saw his own son going on an adventure, the strong man would definitely be unable to hold back and rush to the hotel. , if he makes such a fuss, tonight's operation will definitely be ruined. Then one of the two vixens will follow Fan Fat or me to explore the left and right sides. The female soldier thought I would pick her, but I chose Krys. Colleagues.

You ask me why I chose this? Because Krys has already seen the ghost of the deceased, and twice. When the same thing is seen many times, the fear factor in people's hearts will decrease. This is common sense. Therefore, even if she sees it again, She can control her emotions well. But the female soldier has no idea. She has only heard the description. If she really bumps into him, it is hard to guarantee that she will scare half of her life. Evil spirits are different from corpses and half-demon. The appearance of Lu Ku's ancient ghost house is the most terrifying. Nothing is better than Shuni, but at least she still has the body shape of a woman. The appearance of the mutilated female ghost is extremely miserable, and her appearance is even more terrifying. She looks like a dead thing at first glance. The most important point is that Little Cherry has her own opinions, and I can't control them. She.

The personnel were selected, and Fan Pang and two serious friends started to move towards them. Just when a few people were about to turn on the lights, the detective stopped them, turned around and came to the three of them, pointed to the side window and asked if they were there. Did you find anything unusual? Looking along the guide, it was the splatter left on the glass after Fatty Fan blew himself up a few days ago. At this moment, the black greasy oil had completely faded away, but traces were still left on the glass.

"Actually, it was me." Fatty Fan scratched his sparse hair and said,"For some reason, I exploded like a bomb."

"Hey, why didn't you talk about it when you were eating before? Didn't I ask you repeatedly not to leave out any details? Before it's too late, tell me in detail, why did you explode?"Lao Dai stretched out his hand to signal us not to go to the wing room on the left, and asked Fatty Fan to explain the reason.

We have to go back to a few days ago. At three o'clock that night, we started to attack the problem room, and the fat man broke into the big bedroom single-handedly. When he came to the bed, there was a slight drumming sound next to his ears. This strange movement made Fan Pang stop. As soon as he stood up, the drumming sound disappeared. After repeating it several times, he sat down cross-legged, Slowly it was determined that it came from a deeper door.

Since the fat man was well-informed, he was not afraid. Seeing that he could not find anything under the shining white ceiling light, he stood up, turned off the light, and began to tiptoe toward He crawled towards the sound. When he came to the ajar door, he suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable. His stomach was churning, as if something was struggling to break out of his skin. Then, the unexplained self-destruction occurred. A stream of thick black juice suddenly exploded from his ribs, spraying most of the room into darkness. He was also knocked unconscious by the impact. In a hazy moment, Fan Fat seemed to have witnessed an even weirder scene. situation.

That is, the broken door disappeared, and a winding ice and snow canyon replaced it, appearing in front of us for no reason. So when the unconscious Fan Fat was dragged back by us, he yelled and went back again, and then pressed the shutter , took the photo of the ice cave

"How can it be? Show me your wounds. The detective asked him for a weed. He stepped forward and took off the dead fat man's shirt. He glanced at the ugly scar and was so shocked that he dropped his cigarette to the ground and shouted,"When did this happen?" ?"

"More than a month ago, I didn’t know it myself, but I heard a French boy describe it as a bite mark. I was bitten by a large horse that can eat people. It’s called Zhizhi, and that’s how the scar came about. Fan Pang bent down to pick up the Weed for him and replied angrily.

"This is tooth decay, a permanent poison that cannot be cured! And it has penetrated to the bone! Do you know that you are not far from death?"

"Let me explain. Do you still remember that I mentioned a Shining named Theodore in the afternoon? This is where scars come from."As the person involved and the person connected with the old demon's return to gold, I have the most say.

Dragging Lao Dai back to the window, I avoided Krys and described the whole incident to him in detail. Although the little girl gnawed Fan Fan was not present, but the widow holding a lantern who was healing said that was the case. She was equally worried and asked Lin Rui to redouble his efforts to become a Star Walker as soon as possible. Only in this way can he get in touch with the high-level people of the dark world, and maybe he can save someone. Get Van's life back

"I don't know if he will die soon, but people who are poisoned will suffer in all kinds of ways before death, as if they are being soaked in a sulfuric acid pool and slowly corroded, and finally commit suicide because they can't stand the severe pain. People who die in that way have their souls torn to pieces, and they cannot even be regarded as lonely ghosts. This is his fate, and it is difficult to save him. The detective shook his head repeatedly, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, pointed at Fan Pang and said,"There is only one way to delay time, but most likely he will be sued by the animal protection organization in court." That is to kill many cats every week, fill the bathtub with cat blood and take a bath, using it to dissolve the keratin in the body."

"Having said that, it's hard to explain why I exploded, isn't it? According to what you said, I am a patient and should be lying on the bed dying, but why can I open my skin like a demigod?"The fat man trembled all over when he said this. He thought about it and suddenly shouted:"Could it be because of the control horse? The female horse was also bitten by the Shining and turned into a demon horse? By the way, I forgot to mention during dinner that the little girl can hang upside down on the ceiling like a bat and run wild. In principle, it is also alienated."

"Maybe, I haven't encountered anything like this before, so it's hard to tell. Don't break into this road yet. Let everyone stop at the big house and let the three of us take a walk."Lao Dai put his hands in his arms and gestured to me and Krys to follow him. When he went down to the big bedroom, he saw that I was about to turn on the light. The detective immediately stopped him, then took his hand out of the inside of the suit and held a bag. It was a crystal ball. It looked like a Christmas toy. The base was stained with rubber trees, but there was no foamy white snow. Lao Dai asked Krys to turn on the flashlight behind his back and shine a light on the glass ball, and suddenly there was a bright blue-purple color. It spread out, illuminating the patterns inside on the four walls. Under the thin light, all traces of the faded black liquid were clearly visible, pointing towards the broken door at the end of the right compartment.

"What's this? The color is really nice and fun. Where can I buy it?"Krys couldn't help but reach out and touch him, and asked Lao Dai what he said

"There was no place to buy it, so it was found in the cellar grotto. It was called the Siren's Night Lantern, and it was specially used to find traces that were invisible to the human eye."The detective made a silent noise, lowered his body, and asked us to imitate his twisting posture and move forward slowly.

When we got within five steps of the broken door, Lao Dai stretched out his hand to ask us to stop, saying that if we got any closer, we might have to stop. Something happened. Krys was not only horrified when he heard this, he hurriedly hugged my arm, fearing that the evil spirit would come out of the house again. The detective handed the crystal ball to me and asked Krys to continue shining the flashlight, and then took out a pair of reading glasses from his pocket. After putting it on, he looked around. I also followed him and saw that the splash marks were all over the wall. It seemed to be the same as in other corners. I really didn't understand what he was looking for.

"Vance, have you ever fired into the broken door? Have you ever entered the house yourself?"Suddenly, Lao Dai shouted in the direction of the living room. The loud tone caught both of us off guard. We were so startled that we trembled and couldn't help but hug each other tightly. The answer came quickly from the other end, the fat man said Not a single shot was fired, and he did not enter the house to see what was going on before leaving in a hurry. Lao Dai did not answer him, reached out and patted Krys, and actually asked her, the one who had never seen a battle among the three, to go and open the door. Door

"Why didn't you give a warning before you yelled,"I should go and open this room. Krys was almost fainted by you before you saw him?""I glanced at the detective quite dissatisfiedly, stood up and planned to go over. But he pushed me down.

"No, only she can do this kind of thing. You have to know that there is a reason why the team is equipped with women. The detective handed over the glasses in his hand and said,"These are not reading glasses. If you don't believe me, put them on and see for yourself.""

We accepted it doubtfully, and then went to look at the broken door. Our jaws dropped to the ground and never closed again. Although in the past we always let Lin Rui see through it first, we had no idea what his field of vision was. And what Lao Dai handed over was Glasses can replace this kind of sharp eyes. Through the glass, the situation and furnishings in the room are clear. That is another bathroom. On the wall facing us, there is a crater-like explosion mark, which is almost covered with splashes. It destroyed the whole room and even broke the large mirror!

"That's why I asked him, if the fat man didn't drop a bomb inside, what exploded inside the house?"Lao Dai took the glasses back from Krys's hand, patted her and said,"It's okay, just go open the door and I promise nothing will happen.""

The detective explained to me that in order to break the ghost chaos, there must be women in the team. They can play a role in confusing the evil spirits. For the ghosts, male and female smells are different, the former is strong and the latter is light. And women His body is gentler and more graceful than that of a man, so he has his own soul-stirring charm. Ghost-like monsters will first get rid of threatening people, and are very contemptuous of weak women, so Krys can take advantage of this loophole. All in one color Teams of men often have no survivors after being involved in danger.

"Then why don't you call Little Cherry to come in? Isn't she also a woman?"Lao Dai's words were eye-opening. Thinking about it, I asked again

"Among the two, I would still choose her. Why? Just listen to me. The female soldier had lived on the battlefield all year round and had accumulated a strong murderous aura. You two may not be able to smell it, but my nose is different from ordinary people. I can smell the copper and iron smell on her body, which is left by playing with guns and bullets all day long. If there is danger in the house, she might be in worse condition than us if she steps forward. But this lady was different. She didn't smell anything, and her sweat was still fragrant. So special, simply born for adult bait."

I got close to Krys' neck and smelled it. Sure enough, it smelled like milk, and the smell was very light. Seeing what the detective said, she had the courage to push the door open, and then immediately stepped back, hugging my arm tightly and trembling. The three of us squatted and waited for half a minute. Then Lao Dai quickly got up, turned on all the nearby headlights, and walked into the bathroom alone with his hands behind his back.

"Is this strange? Is the fat man a projectile? His self-destruction destroyed the entire toilet. The detective said to himself, beckoned to me, and said,"Come in, nothing will happen. There is no need to investigate the three rooms on the right side. Everything was blown up by him.""