Chapter 11

The next morning, they arrived at Cheng Yitong's door. Several people looked at the door of Cheng Yitong's house. Du Jiajia looked back at them and asked, "Do you want to go in directly?"

Feifei opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she suddenly realized something was wrong. She looked at Lin An, and Lin An looked around calmly.

Du Jiajia wanted to ask more questions, but suddenly there was darkness and several people disappeared from the spot.

They arrived at an ancient house, which was dark and gloomy. All the doors, windows and pillars in the house had peeling paint, but there were well-tended flowers on both sides of the courtyard, which were bright red.

They looked around as they walked forward. At the first corner of the corridor, they saw a person wearing ancient costumes. He was locked in a cage with his limbs bent at strange angles. They thought he was dead, but when they got closer, they heard the person's breathing and they all stopped.

Lin An walked forward, raised his hand and waved it, and an invisible force lifted up the man's face. The strange thing was that although the man's body was injured like that, his face was clean.

What was disgusting was that saliva kept flowing from the corners of his mouth, and when his face was lifted up, he let out a few vague whimpers.

Du Jiajia was already frightened, and now the man's sobbing made her even more uneasy. She trembled and said, "What's going on?"

Then only Gu Yuan responded, "There must be something bad in this house."

Lin An took a few glances, put the man's face down, turned around and continued walking forward, with Gu Yuan and others following behind.

After walking for about an hour, Feifei passed Gu Yuan and moved forward, falling behind Lin An and walking slowly.

Seeing Feifei behind her running to the front, Du Jiajia took a few quick steps and hugged Gu Yuan's arm, and Gu Yuan patted her.

Feifei and Lin An in front have already started chatting one sentence after another.

Feifei looked around the house with interest and said, "Sir, this isn't right."

Lin An: “Yeah.”

Feifei: "But I haven't heard anyone coming down yet."

Lin An said calmly, "It's not them."

Feifei: "But this house exudes weirdness everywhere. It feels wrong no matter how you look at it."

Du Jiajia asked, "What's wrong?"

Feifei seemed not to hear her and ignored her. Gu Yuan also asked, "What's wrong?"

Feifei looked back at her and patiently taught her, "Someone else has interfered. No matter how powerful the ghosts in your world are or how much resentment they have, they can't create a small world to lock up human souls.

"If I'm not mistaken, the person in the cage just now should be from the Cheng family."

Du Jiajia: "Someone from the Cheng family?"

Feifei: "Well, judging from the clothing, it's hundreds of years old."

Du Jiajia: "Oh my God."

Feifei rolled her eyes at her and said disdainfully, "Don't be so startled. You won't become that person."

Then they went to every corner, and there were cages in each place, with people locked in the cages, and each person was tortured in a different way.

Some people's bodies were pierced by thick nails, some had their tongues pulled out, and some were hung by ropes. Some of the scenes made people feel physically uncomfortable, and Du Jiajia even vomited twice.

Walking to another corridor, Du Jiajia looked to the side and saw a female ghost sitting in front of the railing at the far end of the corridor, looking at her with a smile.

Du Jiajia's body shook and she shouted. Gu Yuan turned to look at her, but the female ghost disappeared before Gu Yuan could look over.

Gu Yuan didn't see anything and asked, "Jia Jia, what's wrong?"

Du Jiajia: "There is... there is a female ghost."

Gu Yuan looked around again, but the female ghost didn't come out. She just held Jia Jia's hand tightly again and said, "Don't worry, I'm here."

Du Jiajia: "Let's follow Sister Jin'an."

Gu Yuan was silent for a while, then loosened his grip and said, "Okay."

Feifei: "Don't dilly-dally. I told you not to come, but you insisted on coming."

Du Jiajia said stubbornly, "It was my idea."

Feifei: "Come here, Gu Yuan."

Gu Yuan brought Du Jiajia over, and Feifei followed behind them.

Du Jiajia looked at the two people in front and behind her, and she felt a little more at ease and no longer held Gu Yuan's hand.

Gu Yuan took a few steps forward and asked, "Sister An, what's going on with this house?"

Lin An: "It should be related to the ancestors of the Cheng family."

Gu Yuan asked doubtfully: "Cheng family ancestors?"

Lin An said calmly, "Cheng Yitong must have been cursed, which is why everything goes wrong for her. But because of her own merits, she is able to escape danger every time."

Gu Yuan: "What curse?"

Lin An: “I haven’t figured it out yet.”

Du Jiajia suddenly screamed again. Gu Yuan turned around and this time they both saw the female ghost.

The ghost girl had waist-length hair and her clothes were tattered, as if they had been violently torn apart. However, her face was fully made up, but her eyes were completely red.

When the female ghost saw Lin An looking at her, she disappeared. Gu Yuan immediately rushed over and hugged Du Jiajia.

Du Jiajia was still trembling, her voice filled with lingering fear: "It's so scary, that female ghost is so scary."

Feifei said calmly: "It's not the female ghost that scares people, it's the ghost that died tragically that scares people."

Du Jiajia took a breath and suddenly fainted. Gu Yuan kept patting her and shouting, "Jiajia, Jiajia."

Lin An also walked over at this time, bent his knees and squatted, glanced at Du Jiajia's face, then stretched out his fingers and pressed them on her temples.

After a moment, Du Jiajia's eyelids twitched slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes. When she saw Gu Yuan in front of her, she felt wronged and scared, and her voice was filled with tears: "Yuanyuan, just now... just now was so scary."

"It's okay, it's okay, she ran away."

Gu Yuan stroked Du Jiajia's back. After a while, Du Jiajia recovered and looked at Feifei again, "You watched someone die without helping."

Feifei laughed: "Little guy, I never said I would care about your life or death. You came to me on your own, who can you blame?"

"Sister An is protecting Gu Yuan. Aren't you and I the only ones left here?"

Feifei's smile faded. "That's your idea, not mine. I have no obligation to be responsible for you."

Gu Yuan, who was standing by, quickly grabbed Du Jiajia's hand and said softly, "Jiajia, please follow me."

Du Jiajia looked at Lin An, then at Gu Yuan, her eyes slightly red, and nodded slowly.

Gu Yuan helped Jia Jia up and they started moving forward again, but Du Jia Jia still approached Lin An before she felt relieved.

There is no blood in this house, but it reveals cruelty everywhere, not because of the person locked in the cage in the corner, but because of itself.

It is like a huge torture device. People walking inside are like prisoners trapped in the torture device, unable to breathe and feeling unbearable fear.

Gu Yuan felt like she was a person on the rack, an ancient executioner, hammering at their bodies fiercely. This feeling became stronger and stronger as she walked into the house. She felt as if she was rushing to the execution ground. A sense of fear inexplicably rose in her heart, mixed with sadness.

They walked to a large yard. In the middle of the yard was a wooden horse covered in blood. Gu Yuan turned his face away, and Du Jiajia took a few steps forward and hugged Lin An's arm.

Suddenly, there were several voices coming from far away. They could not hear clearly at first, but they became clearer and clearer later.

It was the voices of several maids, and one of them spoke first: "Is he not dead yet?"

Another person responded, "The master has already made arrangements. All the life-saving herbs are fully prepared."

"Hasn't there been a new doctor recently in the house? He's here to treat her injuries and save her life."

One of the nuns saw the blood spots on the ground and said, "Oh my God, blood is dripping from her body."

"Don't be kind, or you'll be the one on the torture device later."

The nanny glanced at the woman being dragged, and happened to meet her eyes. After a few glances, she turned her face away abruptly.

They watched as the maids brought the woman to the center of the yard, where a group of people suddenly appeared.

There were several chairs in the middle of the yard, with several richly dressed old men sitting on them. One of them had a squinting look in his eyes. He walked slowly forward, reached out and touched the woman's cheek, saying, "Your makeup isn't good today."

The leading nun: "She struggled to stop us from painting."

The master raised his hand and patted her face: "She is so naughty, how can we make her behave better?"

A man sitting on a chair said, "The disobedient beast will become obedient after being beaten."

The eldest master turned around when he heard the voice and replied, "He Ci, that's right."

He turned around, raised his hand and waved. Seeing this, the servants beside him stepped forward and carried the woman up. A "feast" began, and everyone on the chairs watched with interest.

They enjoyed the woman's screams and ferocious movements. It was a visual and auditory feast for them.

It was a nightmare for Du Jiajia. She had already been scared to death by the female ghost, and now seeing such a horrific scene, she was even more frightened out of her wits.

Gu Yuan felt a little disgusted. She had been mentally prepared along the way, but she still couldn't bear to watch it. She turned her head away, but the sound went straight into her ears.

The only ones who remained calm were Feifei and Lin An. They realized that it was an illusion. Feifei watched with her arms folded, while Lin An remained calm.