Chapter 277: Midnight Haunted House 65
The old woman didn't seem to expect Su Qingyun to strike first. Blood-red liquid slowly flowed from her gloomy eye sockets, and the white bones on half of her face began to shatter. But even so, she still stubbornly held the hatchet, pretending to chop it down.
Su Qingyun did not pull out the dagger. Not only did she not pull it out, she also held the dagger tightly until a cold breath filled her surroundings and she let go.
As soon as his hand loosened, the old woman's soul disappeared in an instant. Apart from a pool of black mist that quickly dissipated on the ground, there was nothing else.
Su Qingyun staggered back half a step. This was her first time killing someone. Even though it was a ghost, it didn't feel good.
She sat down on the well platform, panting, and tried hard to calm herself down.
At this moment, her mind recalled what the old woman had said before.
That night, she asked me why I burned Xu Lang to death. I answered her, and then she died.
So, it was Xu Lang who was burned to death in the fire three years ago, and the arsonist was this old woman?
Why did the old woman burn Xu Lang to death? Was it because he seduced the cheongsam woman and wanted to take her away, leaving the old woman without a way to make money?
Is the old woman the madam here?
Su Qingyun felt that this was very possible, because when the female ghost mistakenly took Xu Xinghe for Xu Lang on the second floor, she said that Xu Lang had promised her to take her away from here to live in the countryside.
However, the cheongsam woman seen after touching the edge of the well with a dot pen did not enter the fire scene when the fire broke out. She was in the backyard, next to the well.
Wasn't she going to run away with Xu Lang? Why did she appear in the backyard when the fire started?
She wanted to get some water to put out the fire, but why didn't she move to get some water? Instead, she just stood there looking at the burning house.
Also, when Ye Jian said that the cheongsam woman's eyes were filled with panic, Su Qingyun did not think she was panicking, but rather anxious.
Yes, it's anxious.
She came to the backyard apparently because something was not going as she expected, and she felt a little irritated and anxious.
In order to verify her idea, Su Qingyun took out a notepad again, and when the cheongsam woman appeared on the screen, she immediately clicked pause.
She walked up to the image and observed it carefully, and finally confirmed her guess.
The woman in cheongsam did look anxious.
The old woman started a fire in an attempt to burn to death a man who had kidnapped her girl.
When the cheongsam woman saw her beloved trapped in the sea of fire, she was not frightened but anxious. However, after being anxious, she did not make any move to put out the fire from the well.
Moreover, the old woman's act of setting fire to Xu Lang to death was also very strange. This was her house and the place where she lived, but she actually set the house on fire just to burn a man to death.
This doesn't make sense.
Moreover, the fire was started on the first floor. If they wanted to trap and burn people to death, shouldn’t they have started on the second floor?
And there is the child's corpse. Why would a little boy of seven or eight years old appear in this house?
Another bunch of questions came to Su Qingyun's mind. In order to find the answers, she could only keep triggering key things.
Because of touching the sandalwood box, Su Qingyun and the other two found the well.
Because they touched the well, Su Qingyun and the other two discovered a skeleton at the bottom of the well.
Because they went down the well to search for bones, the old woman with half a face was forced to reveal herself.
The old woman has been cleared out, so what should they touch next in this haunted house to trigger new plot?
Su Qingyun's gaze fell on the old locust tree by the well. The old woman had been muttering something while she was chopping the tree. Su Qingyun remembered what she said: "If I chop you down, you will be at peace."
Could it be that the real thing that needs to be cleared out of this haunted house is this old locust tree?
Su Qingyun picked up the dagger from the ground and strode towards the old locust tree. When she was about to cut the trunk with a knife, the soil under her feet suddenly moved.
Su Qingyun quickly jumped away and looked at the loose soil cautiously.
"Rustle" a thin crack appeared in the soil.
Su Qingyun took two steps back again. This time, she moved to pick up the goose feather arrow on the ground, put the arrow on the bow, and stared at the loose area.
At this time, Su Qingyun could already feel the ground beneath his feet trembling slightly, and a few particles of soil rolling down.
Then, the cracked mud began to arch restlessly, and a winding crack spread along the surface. The gravel on the edge was pushed and rolled continuously, making a small collision sound.
Moist black soil popped out from the cracks, as if an invisible hand was pushing it upward from the abyss.
Su Qingyun was very nervous and released the goose feather arrow in her hand.
The arrow flew out and stuck into the ground, but was quickly buried by the turned-up earth.
Mounds of earth continued to form on the ground, getting higher and higher, and the soil on the top peeled off, revealing the deeper and moister soil underneath.
Su Qingyun could still vaguely hear a dull squeezing sound coming from inside the soil, as if something was gathering strength, pushing open the thick crust bit by bit, trying to break free from the loose earth.
Is that restless vengeful spirit about to come out?
Therefore, the vengeful spirit that really needs to be cleared from this haunted house is buried under this old locust tree, and Ye Jian and Xu Xinghe must be notified.
This was Su Qingyun's first reaction.
She wanted to go over and call Ye Jian and Xu Xinghe to come up, but after taking only two steps she began to stagger, and finally she fell to the ground because she was not standing steadily.
At this time, the soil was completely pushed up, and the rustling sound was particularly harsh in the dead silence.
Then, a bony hand suddenly broke out of the ground, with wet mud hanging between the knuckles, followed by another one. They supported the ground and pulled a complete skeleton out of the soil.
The skeleton was wearing a faded costume. The light red satin had long been soaked in mud and turned black. The embroidered lotus pattern was faintly visible in the moonlight, and there were a few dried petals on the corners.
Su Qingyun used the light from the flashlight on the shoulder strap to see that the costume worn by the skeleton was the same one in the sandalwood box on the second floor.
Is this...Xu Lang?
Su Qingyun crawled up and sat up, looking at the scene in disbelief.
Is Xu Lang buried under the old locust tree?
That's why the old woman said that only if the tree was cut down would he have peace.
"Ka, ka, ka" the white bone twisted its neck, like a person who had slept for a long time stretching his muscles, then it turned around and faced its skull towards Su Qingyun.
For some reason, Su Qingyun actually saw regret in this skull.
It knelt and crawled up, slowly approaching Su Qingyun. Its scattered ribs rose and fell gently with some invisible breathing. As its jaw opened and closed, a hoarse voice rolled out from the depths of its throat: "I'm... sorry..."
As he finished speaking, the sleeves of his costume swayed, and the exposed finger bones curled up slightly, as if wanting to touch something, but in the end, they were scattered into phosphorescence all over the ground by a gust of wind.
Then she heard a woman's laughter, helpless and sad, and then a red light slowly rose from the well and finally floated in the air.
Su Qingyun slowly raised her head as the red light disappeared, and a rain of petals began to fall where the red light disappeared.
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