Chapter 575: Now that we are here, let’s go in and take a look

Xie Yingmian was speechless: "It's not a ghost."

"Someone is playing tricks."

"Besides, what are you, a bionic person, afraid of? You can't capture low-level entities like neutrinos?"

Sui Sui: ...

What Meibao said makes a lot of sense, it can indeed be captured.

But once it got nervous, it forgot about it.

"How did the female ghost turn into white mist?" Sui Sui asked.

Xie Yingmian: "How do you know it's a female ghost?"

Sui Sui: "Red wedding dress, long hair, if it's not a female ghost, what is it?"

Xie Yingmian: "You become a female ghost even if you put on a red wedding dress and long hair?"

Sui Sui was stunned for a moment, then clapped his hands: "That makes sense."

"What was the principle behind that unknown ghost turning into white mist? It even managed to hide it from me, Master Sui Sui!"

Xie Yingmian said, "It's very simple. There's a poisonous insect called Phantom Mist in the wedding dress."

"The Illusion Mist Gu is snow-white, about the size and thickness of an adult man's middle finger, and shaped like a silkworm."

"This insect isn't harmful, but it has a strange property: it expands when exposed to heat."

"The body, about the size of a middle finger, expands rapidly upon encountering a heat source, reaching a maximum height of two or three meters."

"When the Illusion Mist Gu expands, it expands proportionally, forming a column shape."

"The one that scared us swelled up to about 1.6 meters tall. It put on a wedding dress, a wig, and a special mask. It fluttered around in the dim light and really looked like a ghost."

Sui Sui suddenly realized: "So that's how it is."

Xie Yingmian: "After I caught it, it fled in response to the stress. Its swollen body quickly returned to the size of a finger. From the outside, it looked like it had turned into white mist and escaped."

Suisui understood.

It turned out to be a sleight of hand.

Sui Sui sighed: "No wonder the lighting in horror movies is always dark, not only to create a sense of atmosphere, but also to avoid mistakes."

"Meibao, what should we do next?"

Xie Yingmian said in a deep voice: "Since we are here, we should go in and take a look."

The yard behind the door is not very big.

Like in Changle Palace, the light here is also dim.

Fortunately, there is a moon tonight.

The moonlight poured down, and I could just barely see the scenery of the yard.

This is a very small yard.

There is a very tall osmanthus tree planted in the yard.

It is the season when sweet-scented osmanthus is in full bloom, and the fragrance in the yard is particularly strong.

There is a stone table under the osmanthus tree.

There was an unfinished chess set on the stone table.

There are two stone benches next to the stone table.

Perhaps no one had moved for a long time, and the remaining chess pieces and the stone bench were covered with a thick layer of light yellow osmanthus flowers.

From the entrance to the courtyard, there are strange stone slabs.

There are some patterns carved on the stone slab.

Those patterns look like children's graffiti, with drawings of the sun, the moon, stars, and some small flowers and grass.

My writing style is childish, not as good as hers (I think).

Xie Yingmian stepped lightly onto the first stone slab.

The feeling under her feet made her quickly withdraw her foot.

There is a mechanism!

"Since you have lured me here in this way, please come out and see me." Xie Yingmian said to the empty yard.

For a long time, there was no movement.

Sui Sui: "Meibao, this small courtyard is clearly visible. There is no place for people to hide. I don't sense any human presence."

Xie Yingmian: "There is someone. Without someone to guide us, we wouldn't be here."

"Since you don't want to meet me, I'll take my leave."

She turned and left.

"Cough cough cough." A cough suddenly sounded in the empty courtyard.

Sui Sui: "Mei Bao is amazing, there really is someone like him!"

After the cough, an old, weak voice rang out: "You little girl, you are so vigilant and impatient. You should thank me. If I hadn't led you here, you would be dead today."

"It's fate that you can come here."

"Since you want to see me, I will see you."

"The stone slab has a mechanism. Follow the instructions and walk in."

"The sun opens the gates of heaven, the moonlight leads the way. The stars turn the universe, the flowers speak to the square. The grass dew nourishes immortality, and the song steps across the stone screen."

Xie Yingmian, who knew all the characters but didn't understand a single word: ...

"Please speak human language, thank you."

The weak voice was silent for a moment: "First, step on the sun pattern to activate the mechanism."

"After the mechanism is activated, step on the moon pattern."

"After stepping on the moon pattern, the moon-patterned stone slab will point you in the right direction."

"Follow the directions, find the star pattern at the end, and unlock the hidden passage."

"Once you find the hidden passage, step on the flower pattern."

"The flower slate will show you the final direction. Once you've found the correct direction, step on the grass pattern. Once you've stepped on the grass pattern, you'll be able to see me."

Xie Yingmian stepped forward according to the instructions.

Sure enough, after stepping on the moonstone, the direction of the arrow was displayed on the stone.

When I stepped on the last grass slab according to the instructions, the scenery in front of me suddenly changed.

The small courtyard is still the same small courtyard as before.

But, there were three more houses in the empty little yard.

The house is not big and not exquisite, but it is very delicate, which is incompatible with the magnificent architectural style of the palace.

It seems like a paradise in the imperial palace.

Sui Sui was shocked: "How did you do that?"

"I'm a pretty smart android, but how come I've become an artificial idiot here? I don't understand anything."

Is this scientific?

This is unscientific.