Chapter 135

A group of soldiers ran past, shouting slogans. They were wearing black boots and neatly-fitting uniforms. They looked very majestic. They pushed the person for a long distance and almost made him fall. The children nearby were so scared that they ran away.

Leyuan murmured, "There are so many people."

At this time, I shouldn't laugh, but Bing Ajia couldn't help laughing and said, "There are so many people there, inside and outside, how can there be no one?"

It's not like they're all dead.

Leyuan came back to his senses and nodded: "Indeed."

Sick Aga asked: "Where are you going?"

Leyuan thought for a moment and said, "I remember that I seemed to have agreed to someone's invitation to go to their house to play."

Bing Ajia frowned and said, "But the master has been staying at home and has never gone out. How could he have made an appointment with someone and not kept it?"

Leyuan said, "I don't know. Come with me. If we can find their carriage, we can get there. Their carriage will take us to the destination."

Bing Ajia asked worriedly, "If we are thrown off the road, will they know? What if we accidentally meet someone we shouldn't see on the road?"

Leyuan smiled and said, "It's not like you have no choice but to wait for death. What are you afraid of? Besides, it's not like you and I can both be killed at once. As long as one of us is alive, the other will hardly die. Don't worry so much."

Sick Aga smiled hesitantly.

Leyuan pulled him out and whispered, "It's so noisy outside. It's so annoying. Don't get lost. Remember to watch the road. When I come back later, I have to look for you. Otherwise, I won't be able to walk back if I forget."

Sick Aga nodded: "Okay."

Paradise saw a car and said to Sick Aga, "That's the one!"

He walked over with the sick Aga, greeted him, and said to the driver, "I want to go to your master's house today."

The driver responded and asked them to get in, and they swayed in the car until they arrived at their destination.

When they arrived at the place, it was a very large manor. There were people guarding the gate, who were responsible for opening and closing it. After letting them in, the carriage continued to gallop on the road. After a long time, it finally stopped.

As they got closer, they saw that it was a middle-aged woman. She walked up to them, looked them over, and said, "Come with me. It's getting late. I'll take you to the hotel. There are rooms specially arranged for guests here. But don't walk around randomly, or you might run into other guests."

The two responded and went to the room. The woman told them, "Be quiet at night. The guests nearby like quietness. If it's too noisy, they won't be able to sleep. Guests who can't sleep will get up and cause trouble for you."

"knew."

Sick Aga replied.

The woman went out.

The door was closed and the room was pitch black. I lit a candle, but it wasn't bright enough, so I lit a candlestick. There was a cold and damp feeling everywhere. Under the candlelight, it seemed a little better, but not much.

"Someone seems to be chirping next door."

Sick Ajia frowned and said angrily, "Damn it! They clearly said we should be quiet, but now they only ask us to be quiet? I'll go find them!"

Leyuan held him back and said, "There's no rush. I'll go take a look."

Sick Aga said, "Let's go and have a look together."

Leyuan hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

The candlestick was placed on the bedside table. They opened the door. It was very quiet. They knocked on the door next door. There was no answer. They pushed the door tentatively. The door opened. There was no one inside and it was not locked. The two looked at each other, wondering where the sound they just heard came from.

Unless it was a mouse, but how could a mouse make the sound of someone whispering?

The two looked at each other, closed the door, and returned to their own rooms. After a while, the door next door slowly opened. It seemed that someone looked out from inside for a while, didn't see anything, and closed the door himself. That door was locked.

Leyuan was sitting on the edge of the bed, and Sick Aga was sitting opposite him. After a while, when they were about to rest and thought it was relatively quiet, they suddenly heard the noisy noise again. Leyuan sat up suddenly, but did not say anything, nor did she think there was a problem. After saying it once, she looked for the person but could not find him. When she heard such noises again, she became much more irritated.

The sick Aga said: "Why not just plug your ears? It doesn't matter as long as you can't hear any sound!"

Leyuan asked: "What if someone suddenly came in at night to cause trouble, and I couldn't hear anything, wouldn't that mean I wouldn't know anything? Then I would be dead!"

Sick Aga said, "Then I will keep watch."

Paradise was skeptical: "Can you stay up all night without sleeping?"

Sick Aga smiled and said, "Why not?"

Paradise lay on the bed: "Then I will rest without hesitation!"

Sick Aga said, "Okay."

The next day, Leyuan shook Sick Aga, who was sick. Leyuan put him on the bed and walked out of the room. He went to check the door next door, but couldn't open it. He thought the woman had come and locked it.

Leyuan was started and walked away quickly.

For a moment, he thought someone inside had noticed him at the door, so he stopped. However, if there was no sound of anyone talking inside, the door was locked, and it was daytime, there should be no one there!

What is there to be afraid of?

There is something to be afraid of everywhere.

Whether it's the sound of people talking in an empty room, or the sound of footsteps when the door has locked itself, or someone has locked the door and there's someone else inside, it's all very scary.

Le Yuan frowned and suddenly heard a sharp scream.

He paused, turned around and saw a huge pear tree, strange and swollen, with a trunk full of tangled roots and vines and branches that looked like bulging veins. The branches were trembling, and were hung with many small white flowers, emitting a subtle fruity fragrance, as if if such branches were cut off and burned in a fire, the fragrance of the fruit would also be emitted.

There was a person hanged on the tree. She looked like a middle-aged woman in red clothes. She had a subtle resemblance to the woman who greeted him when he entered the house earlier. It was not the age, gender, or appearance, but a neurotic feeling that was closely connected to the same position, and it was like an abnormal temperament that attracted other people's attention.

A group of people went up, took down the body, packed it up, put it on a cart, and drove away.

There was no one under the tree. A little girl in red clothes looked around and hid, as if she was playing hide-and-seek. She covered her eyes, squatted down, and hid in the grass next to the tree. She didn't move and gradually fell asleep. She was found by someone, who patted the grass leaves on her clothes, picked off the insects that crawled on her body, and carried her away.

Probably sent back to the room to rest.

Leyuan turned around and wanted to go back to the room to check on the sick Ajia, fearing that something might have happened. Suddenly, he found that there was someone behind him. He took a half step back and looked carefully. He found that the person standing behind him was the woman who had greeted him before. Her face was not tight and round, and it was square. Looking closely, she looked more like a doll.

She blinked at the park and smiled slowly, revealing a subtle dimple on one side of her face. As if she had learned someone else's secret, she asked slowly, "Is there anything you are not satisfied with? Why did the guests come out so early?"

Leyuan said, "My friend is sick. Do you have a doctor here? If there is no doctor, it would be nice to have medicine. He needs treatment. If it is delayed for too long, something bad might happen. I want to find someone, but there seems to be no one outside. What are they doing?"

The woman said, "They all have their own things to do, cleaning, taking things, and taking care of the old man, his wife, and the young lady who live here. The lady is dead. She is the body you just saw. The young lady is the child in red clothes. She has been taken away by the servants to rest. The old man will not come out for the time being. He has his own things to do and will not care take of these. Who do you want to look for?"

Leyuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Wasn't this the residence of Prince Salmon before?"

The woman's smile deepened a little. She squinted her eyes, and the wrinkles under her eyes were almost non-existent. She had bright red lips, white teeth, pink skin, slightly loose wrinkles at the corners of her mouth and eyes, and fluffy and huge black hair, forming a peach shape with a peach-red wooden hairpin stuck inside. Inside the hairpin was a hunchbacked old man, outlining the outline of a fairy peach.

"Yes, but he is dead. He was my young lady's fiancé. My young lady was engaged to him. He was a little older than my young lady and often visited her. I don't know what happened, but one day after talking to my young lady, he died as if he had been poisoned. No one could save him in time. They could only send his body back home, and his family took his body away from here."

The woman opened and closed her lips which looked like sticky blood. Her words were a little unclear, as if she had a hissing venomous snake between her teeth. Her smile remained unchanged: "You want to look for him?

It’s such a pity. Perhaps they didn’t want to be reminded of their past, so they moved out. Or maybe they hadn’t had time to inform their friends before the guests came. But since they are here, they can stay here for a while longer! We won’t treat our guests badly, what do you think?”

Leyuan hesitated for a moment and agreed. He originally wanted to come out and play for a while. If he left just after arriving, it would not be good. He would not give face to the host, nor would he have time to play.

As for the possibility that he might not be able to get in on time when going home, he just needed to explain it clearly. Otherwise, Wu Rizhao would find a way to get someone to visit him. It was not like he didn't know where he was. Leyuan was sure that there were people led by Wu Rizhao quietly following him all the way to the door, and when they couldn't get in, they wandered outside, waiting for him to go out and go home.

As long as you reach the door, no matter how dangerous it is here, you can go home. Once you go home, you will be safe no matter what.

The woman smiled and said, "Well, I will go take care of the young lady and will not accompany you. The servants will eat at a fixed time and place. At that time, it is almost impossible to find them on the road. The guests do not need to worry about no one here."

Leyuan nodded, and the woman turned and left. She walked with a very standard lady's pace, one step at a time, and each step made a sound. Her shoes were special, and when she walked on the road, they made a strange and rhythmic knocking sound, like some kind of musical instrument in the background music of a horror movie, which made people feel upset and scared.

Walking around the corner, the woman reached out to support her heavy hair and tilted her head. Inexplicably, Leyuan felt that she turned her head to look at him, but it was impossible for her neck to twist 180 degrees. The woman walked away and disappeared. Leyuan touched the goose bumps on his arm and returned to the room.

The sick Ajia was still drowsy, his face was flushed and he looked very hot. He had taken off one piece of clothing and was still covered with a quilt. Fortunately, he did not take off all his clothes, otherwise his condition would have become more serious.

Leyuan hesitantly fumbled out a pill, sniffed it, felt it could cure the disease, and gave it to the sick Aga.

Sick Ajia is in this condition, so even if he wants to leave, he won't be able to do so for a while. It would be better for him to stay here and wait until he gets better before thinking about leaving. Anyway, it is said that there are more than just their room guests here.

There were sounds coming from next door again. This time there were the squeaking sounds of mice and the sounds of footsteps. The sound was like a woman's footsteps, strange and rhythmic. There were also people talking. For some reason I felt that one of the talking sounds was that of a woman.

"They are sick!"

“They must be sick!”

"We can't just sit there and wait for death!"

"What should I do? Speak up! You can't just go along with what they say. You can't abandon me. You can't abandon me."

"Nonsense, how could I abandon you? I must join them, only then can I have glory and wealth, and you don't even know what glory and wealth are! Are you a fool? All these years, all these words, were in vain. How come you don't even know this? How can I explain it to you so that you can understand what I mean? This is a move that must be made."

"You play your chess, what should I do? I have become your discarded pawn! You will not want me anymore when you have a wife, what should I do? I have been following you for so many years, everyone knows that, if you don't care about me, what should I do? If you abandon me, I will have no way out! I don't care, she didn't recognize you before, what right does she have to occupy you? I won't accept it!"

"You hit me? You hit me! How could you do that?"

"You are really too presumptuous. Do you know that you can't get to where you are today without my help? Without me, you would fall off a cliff. Without me, you wouldn't be where you are today. You don't know what your nightmare comes from? There are some weird things here, but I like it. I want this house and the people here."

"You mean that the girl must be your wife and you must be her husband, and that this matter is irreversible?"

"There's no need to save this relationship. You can still be with me. We can still be a couple like before. What's wrong with that? I can be richer, more expensive, more elegant, more humane. You and I can be together and we can enjoy happiness. We don't need to worry about other people's opinions, because that woman's parents died a long time ago, and her only relative is her sister."

"But her sister had lost her husband and would soon be back to reunite with her. She wanted to get married before her sister came back and try her best to comfort her sister so that she could feel the warmth of home after she came back. In fact, she didn't know that her sister would soon die of grief because of losing more things."

"Yes, yes, that's what I mean. You're not wrong. We will definitely succeed. She looks like a silly girl, doesn't she? You can tell that she's not as smart as you. She doesn't know as much as you do. She has hardly ever been out. She doesn't know anything. We can do a lot of things. This place is so big, she won't know."

The room suddenly became quiet.

Leyuan was stunned. He wanted to continue listening, but after a while, there was a commotion next door, like a bunch of mice having a meeting and suddenly quarreling and fighting. The wall collapsed with a loud bang, and countless mice rushed out. The mice crawled out of the wall and bit each other, pulling tails, biting eyes, and scratching ears.

Leyuan picked up the sick Ajia, opened the door and ran away. He didn't know why, but at this moment, he felt that maybe the next door was safer than any other place. He kicked open the door next door and ran in. The mice soon chased after him, stayed at the door for a while, squeaking, and then left. After the mice left like a tide, Leyuan carefully peeked out through the crack of the door.

A bright red eye suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye in the amusement park. He was startled and sat up straight, feeling a little dizzy. However, he tried to open his eyes wide and saw that there was nothing where the eye had just been, as if he had been hallucinating. He stepped on the floor hesitantly, picked up the sick Aga and was about to leave. When he opened the door, it seemed to be stuck.

The park couldn't open its doors for a while, so they had to put sick Aga down first and then find a way to open the door.

After Sick Aga was put down, he moved suddenly. Leyuan had his back to him and didn't notice it. He was still trying to open the door. Sick Aga stood up and crawled to the side of Leyuan in a very twisted and weird posture. At first glance, Sick Aga now looked like an arthropod with many legs missing.

Leyuan noticed the sick Ajia approaching, nodded, and suddenly jumped to the side. He took a closer look and found that the sick Ajia turned his head to smile at him, showing a little sharp teeth. The whole person was not as sober as before. Leyuan felt that the situation was a bit serious, and kicked the door next to him without opening it. The sick Ajia got up from the ground, opened his arms to Leyuan and said: "I want to hug you!"

Leyuan approached him slowly, he did not move. Leyuan tentatively entered the range of his embrace. He controlled Leyuan at once. Leyuan jumped twice, and felt that he was much stronger than before. He saw him pick up a pair of scissors that had been placed on the table next to him at some point, and his eyelids could not help but twitch.

Leyuan tried to struggle once more, but it was no use. Bing Ajia was very strong and held him tightly, as if he wanted to wait until the person died before letting him go. However, by that time, I'm afraid Leyuan wouldn't need to force Bing Ajia to let him go. They were all dead anyway, so what was the point?

Leyuan gritted his teeth, took out the fruit knife he had brought out of the room to save his life, and stabbed it into the sick Ajia's neck. The sick Ajia twitched twice and his strength decreased. Leyuan struggled out of his arms. He grabbed the scissors without hesitation and swung them wildly at Leyuan. Leyuan dodged twice and then felt a little overwhelmed.

Seeing a lot of blood gushing out of the sick Aga's neck, Leyuan guided him to stab the door, but he was not fooled. Leyuan could only walk and watch and hid in the toilet. However, hiding in the toilet was no different from locking himself up and killing himself. Leyuan's scalp was numb, and he became more and more nervous as he watched the door shaking repeatedly and making banging sounds.

Before he could adjust his breathing, he saw something flash past the mirror next to him. A dark shadow appeared beside Leyuan and whispered to him, "I saw it. It seems to be the same as me, but it can't see me. It's a shadow, someone else's shadow, but it can change into anyone's appearance. Do you want to talk to it? Maybe I can go in and catch it to play with you."

Paradise almost glared at the shadow: "What time is it! Still playing? Do you think this is play?"

The shadow laughed and said, "Why not?"

It whispered, "If you don't know, does that mean it doesn't exist?"

It sounds a bit aggrieved.

Leyuan sighed inwardly and said to him, "Okay, go ahead."

The door was about to collapse.

The park couldn't find anything else blocking the door, nor could it find any windows here. There was only a vent, but it was too small to squeeze into.

I can only hope that Sombra can find a solution.

The black shadow entered the mirror. Leyuan turned around to take a look, only to find that he was not in the mirror. He turned around to look at the door, and suddenly felt that there was something extra in the mirror. When he looked again, he found that there was a smiling self in the mirror, looking outside leisurely, just like an audience sitting in a cinema watching a movie on the screen.

Leyuan was immediately furious and said angrily, "Is it you? It was you last time too? Do you think I can't do anything to you? Even if I die today, die here, I will find a way to get you out and step on you!"

The paradise in the mirror shook its head, looking nonchalant and still smiling. However, it stood up, packed up its small stool and was about to leave. Before leaving, it suddenly seemed to remember something, and took out an egg from somewhere and threw it towards the mirror. Paradise looked closely and saw that it was something that looked like a white egg, with a slightly black surface.

There are three words on the surface of the eggshell: little bad egg.

Leyuan's scalp tingled, and he murmured, "There really are such outrageous things in the world. I have witnessed it today."

A black shadow came out, carrying a shadow that looked like a child even smaller than him. It was hard to tell whether it was a boy or a girl. However, it was hard to tell whether a child was a boy or a girl, especially a shadow with medium hair. The black shadow said to Leyuan, "Throw this thing out through the crack of the door. It might be useful."

Paradise said: "Then throw it out!"

The black shadow nodded, picked up the shadow in his hand, stuffed it into the crack of the door and squeezed out. As soon as the shadow went out, it disappeared in an instant, and it became quiet outside the door.

After waiting for a while, Leyuan couldn't wait any longer and opened the door. The door broke all of a sudden with a bang and a loud noise. Leyuan jumped out to avoid being hit by the thing. He lowered his head to check on the sick Aga. He was bleeding a lot and his face was very pale. He looked like he was dying. Leyuan took the sick Aga back to the room and closed the door. Then he heard a noise coming from next door.

"Her husband is my husband, her children are my children, her sister's daughter is my slave, her sister is a corpse that can no longer be resurrected, and her sister's husband is a pile of dry bones. She will never be able to turn over a new leaf in her life. This is great."

"We should find a way to send her to Pinguo. There are the most advanced technology, the best opportunities, the most measuring objects, and the most professional spiritual witch doctors. They will definitely be able to cure her illness. They will lock her up and prevent her from drinking black sweet fat for the rest of her life. She will no longer be able to eat fresh vegetables, meat, eggs, and milk like today. She will be like a rose that gradually withers."

"I won't let you say that about her. How can she be called a rose? At best, she is just a cattail that is gradually losing its roots by the water."

"The cattails are as tough as silk. Tell me, is that funny?"

"It's funny, but when are we going to send her away?"

"Soon, very soon, she will do it herself. If she tries to escape, I will deal with her legitimately. She will definitely die here. My countless baby mice will love her. Before she dies, she will definitely get the most and most perfect love in the world, because my little babies will love her as much as she loved me."

The wall rumbled and was about to collapse again.

Leyuan hurriedly took the sick Aga out of the room. This time, he saw other guests in the corridor. They looked around and went back to hide. The woman appeared at the end of the corridor slowly, walked over slowly, looked around, and seemed to greet many people that Leyuan had not seen. Leyuan walked over and asked, "Where is the doctor here?"

The woman smiled slowly and said, "Sorry, there's nothing interesting here."

Leyuan looked at her face and suddenly thought, if he punched her in the eye right now, he wondered if she would turn into a pool of mud.

The paradise was ready to move. The woman noticed his clothes and said with a smile: "You want to attack me here? You can't kill me. There are many people here. You can't survive. Do you want your friends to die? If you don't want to care about him, I can let you do whatever you want."

Leyuan clenched his fists and endured it: "I want to leave here now!"

The woman smiled and said, "Okay, but even the fastest horse can't get you out today. Even if I send you out, you can't leave here right away and find a doctor. So, I have a way. It depends on whether you are willing to try it or not."

Paradise asked: "What can we do?"

He frowned and thought, that's right, I don't know how long it will take to get out of here. If something happens, it might be too late.

The woman seemed to know what he was thinking and smiled, "See that huge tree? You can bury the body underground, and then it will come back to life."

The woman looked at the sick Ajia and smiled, "Actually, it's not quite normal now. Don't you know? You've already felt it! You just don't want to believe it. It's useless not to believe in this kind of thing. After all, it doesn't depend on your will. Whether you want it or not, it has no effect on it."

Paradise said, “I know.”

He said sullenly, "Damn it!"

The woman smiled and said, "Do you want to give it a try?"

Leyuan shook his head: "I'm not going."

The shadow nodded beside him: "Right, right, if we go now, maybe it will become more serious. He is not dead yet, which means it is okay if he is not treated for a while. If we bury him further, it may be three cuts and six holes. Compared with three cuts and six holes, one cut is more convenient, right?"

Paradise asked: “Is there no other solution?”

The woman smiled and said, "Yes."

She pointed to the fruit on the tree and said, "If you eat that, you can live longer. It guarantees that the bleeding will stop and you can survive for two more days. But that's all. It doesn't guarantee that you won't die, nor does it guarantee that nothing will change after you die."

The woman paused and said, "If he eats the fruit from that tree, he might be able to survive now, but he won't be so lucky after he dies. He might be trapped here for the rest of his life!"

She looked at the park with interest and asked, "Have you made up your mind?"

The shadow snorted, "You say that as if not thinking it over now would be of some use. Can this person still live if he doesn't think it over? Do you think this is the fruit of immortality?"

It circled the paradise again and said, "Don't believe her. Women are the most vicious. They want to harm us. They want to kill us. Don't believe them. Don't believe a single word they say! They are the best at going back on their words. Who knows if the sound next door is hers! No matter if it is or not, she could be. That's why she is very dangerous! Why do we have to get close to the source of danger?"

Paradise murmured, "It's not my wish. I just wanted to play. Who knew it wasn't so fun here?"

The woman asked, "Have you made up your mind? If so, tell me the result later. I will leave first. I have other things to do."

Le Yuan said, "I have made up my mind. I want that fruit."

The woman smiled and said, "Okay, go pick the fruits yourself! I won't hold you back, but I won't help you either. I just want to tell you one thing. If you look down while picking the fruits, you will fall into the soil and never be able to climb out. You may even die in the soil and never be able to get out."

Leyuan said, "I know. How do I get there?"

The woman turned her head away: "That's your business. How can I tell you everything? There is no need, and no obligation or responsibility~"

Leyuan frowned and said to the shadow, "How can I get up without a ladder?"

The shadow said, "This is easy. Just climb up the tree."

Leyuan asked: "Could I?"

The shadow smiled and said, "No, I'm still here. I can think of ways to help. Others may not be able to touch you, but if you agree, I can control your body like a ghost and pick the fruit. Isn't it interesting? Otherwise, what are we here for? Not to play?"

Paradise said, “Okay.”

The shadow nodded: "That's it!"

When they got under the tree, Leyuan hesitated and asked, "How can we put him down? If we put him on the tree, he might fall down easily. If we put him on the ground, he might disappear if we are not careful. If we put him in the mud, he might open his eyes soon and run away again, and even kill me."

The shadow said: "This is also simple, just put him aside and I will watch over him!"

Leyuan asked doubtfully, "You watch him? You watch him and you have to help me. Can you handle it?"

The shadow laughed and said, "Why not? You haven't tried it, how do you know it's not possible? Besides, there is almost no one here. Even if there is someone, they will not approach you casually after seeing you here. Normally, they can't see people. If you suddenly appear, it must be something. You can go find that woman. She must be responsible for those servants."

Leyuan said: "I'm afraid she won't take responsibility."

The shadow snorted, "If you don't want to take responsibility, then don't take responsibility. Just find a way to bury her here and let her eat the fruits here, and it won't matter! At most, she will kill us, so we should find a way to kill her before we die! It's better to die together than to kill three people with two peaches!"

The park was skeptical: "Forget it, it's more important to solve the problem as soon as possible."

The shadow agreed and nodded: "Yes, yes."

Leyuan climbed up the tree tentatively and found that it was not difficult. He was almost ecstatic. He quickly reached the tree, stepped on the edge of the branch, and reached out to grab the fruit. The fruit was strange to say the least. It looked like a smooth and white pear and a pink peach, exuding a sweet aroma of fresh and juicy flesh. At first glance, it seemed to have no skin.

A closer look revealed that the surface of the fruit was clearly covered with swollen, translucent ants.

The only colored parts of this ant are the two small black spots on the top of its head, which should be its eyes. The rest of its head is swollen and almost broken, but the sweet fragrance that permeates the air has become stronger, almost nauseating.

Leyuan frowned and continued to reach out to grab the fruit. The fruit seemed to hide and he could not catch it. Leyuan became a little annoyed. Suddenly, he heard the sound of a dark shadow from below.