He found an opportunity to secretly ask Xiaoyu and asked her one question. Liangcheng was a place name a hundred years ago, so what is the corresponding place name now?

Xiaoyu is a top student and gave an answer immediately.

She said that Liangcheng should be a small town around Heiya City, but there was once a major plague there, killing many people. This is recorded in history textbooks.

But at that time, there were wars everywhere, and a plague in a small town of a few thousand people was not a big deal at all.

Lin Mo nodded.

That's right.

Just now Yuan Xiuqing said that what they dug out from the ground was a bronze door. Lin Mo immediately thought of the bronze door in the Second-Hand Alley. It was most likely the same one.

If you look at it this way, many things can be explained.

That is why there is a bronze door under the second-hand goods alley around Heiya City, and why Yuan Xiuqing is so fierce and powerful when he turns into a dead man in black.

Because when Yuan Xiuqing was alive, he was a master of the Hidden Sect and an expert in making a living from the dead. This kind of person must have a backup plan so that he can die with glory.

But this brings up another matter.

Both his father and Grandma Xu had mentioned it to him before, that is the "cause and effect" of the black-clothed dead man Yuan Xiuqing.

The concept of cause and effect only exists in the 'Memory Gate'.

But according to what Grandma Xu said, Han Feng was secretly infected with Yuan Xiuqing's karma, and karma is contagious. She had been with Han Feng for a day and a night, and apart from Han Feng, she was the one with the strongest scent of karma.

So after the black-clad dead man Yuan Xiuqing killed Han Feng, he came to find him.

These are all things that have already happened.

But the question is, who created the cause and effect of Yuan Xiuqing, and why did they put it on Han Feng?

What is the other party's purpose? Lin Mo thinks that the most suspicious person at the moment is the mysterious No. 1.

Han Feng is chess piece No. 1, so this speculation is the most reasonable.

If it was really planned by No. 1, the other party must have made a big move.

There is no way to speculate more. Any speculation would be blind guessing, and blind guesses are usually inaccurate.

Yuan Xiuqing now obviously doesn’t know what happened afterwards. If everything that happened here now is just a memory of Yuan Xiuqing.

This memory, then, is something that happened in the past.

No matter what Yuan Xiuqing does, it is estimated that he will fail, because if he succeeds, the other party will not become the black-clad dead man in the bronze door.

It's like experiencing an immersive movie plot.

The plot of this movie is fixed and will definitely proceed along a certain route. Lin Mo can participate in it, but he will definitely not be able to change the outcome.

Besides, even if it has changed, it will only change the memory and will not change the established facts that have already happened in the real world.

For this reason, Lin Mo didn't take it too seriously.

Of course he won't show this.

Yuan Xiuqing was ready and came over to call Lin Mo.

Lin Mo originally didn't want Xiaoyu to follow him, but Xiaoyu insisted on following him.

"Aren't you afraid?" Lin Mo asked her.

Xiaoyu shook her head and said that this place was so weird that she didn’t trust anyone else.

What this means is that she trusts herself more.

Lin Mo asked her why she believed in him so much.

"I don't know either. Anyway, I feel more secure following you." Xiaoyu herself was also confused.

Lin Mo knew that this was a habit.

In the past, Xiaoyu was inseparable from her and she was always with her. Even though her memory was confused, this habit still affected her.

"Okay." Lin Mo agreed.

Firstly, he was sure that he could protect Xiaoyu. Secondly, there was only one black umbrella. If he gave it to Xiaoyu, he would be exposed, which would be troublesome.

When Yuan Xiuqing saw a little girl wanted to follow him, he was a little unhappy, but because he was the one asking Lin Mo for help, he didn't say it.

"This black umbrella has a history, but we have to go down the well later. This girl doesn't have the ability to deal with evil spirits, so she'd better not come down. You can keep the umbrella for her. I'll lend you this one, which can also block the yang energy." Yuan Xiuqing is an expert.

And he was an expert from more than a hundred years ago.

At this time, he handed Lin Mo a gold ingot made of yellow paper, saying that wearing this could block the breath of living people for a short period of time.

Lin Mo was more concerned about what the other party had just said, "going down the well."

"What well?"

"You'll know when you get there." Yuan Xiuqing took the lead and climbed over the wall.

Lin Mo asked him, isn't this your old house, why do you want to climb over the wall?

Yuan Xiuqing said that the door lock had broken a long time ago and could not be opened, so it was most convenient to climb over the wall.

After all three of them had climbed over, Lin Mo was sure that the well Yuan Xiuqing was talking about was the well he had climbed out of before.

That's the one with the giants looking at the corpse.

The bronze door was actually underneath? How did they get down there?

This question turned around in Lin Mo's mind, but he didn't ask it out loud because he remembered that this place was not the real world, but the nightmare world in Yuan Xiuqing's memory.

They must have hidden the bronze door under the house in the real world.

But the real world and the nightmare world are different.

Maybe, there is no such well in the current world.

The actual situation was the same as Lin Mo guessed. Yuan Xiuqing told him herself without him asking.

Let’s just say that they hid the bronze door under the yard and buried it. As for the well, it was the passage that Yuan Xiuqing left in the nightmare world.

"We can't dig here too. It would be exhausting."

By this time, Yuan Xiuqing had rolled up his robe and sleeves, and took the lead in crawling down.

Lin Mo originally wanted to tell the other party that there was a dead body underneath, but then he thought, this well was dug by Yuan Xiuqing, how could the other party not know that there was a dead body underneath.

Maybe, the giant floating corpse was created by Yuan Xiuqing.

The result was exactly what he said.

Lin Mo looked down from the well mouth and saw Yuan Xiuqing talking to the floating corpse below. He couldn't understand what they were saying, but after a few mutterings, the floating corpse sank into the turbid well water. After a while, the water below was reduced rapidly as if it was being drained away, and soon a deep pit was revealed.

"Let's go down." Yuan Xiuqing looked up and called out, then reached out and grabbed the protruding bricks on the wall of the well and climbed down. His skills were quite amazing.

Lin Mo looked at Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu didn't dare to come down the well. After thinking about it, Lin Mo released half of the ghost and let the ghost hide in Xiaoyu's shadow.

"You guys protect Xiaoyu."

Several ghosts nodded hurriedly.

These ghosts have been following Lin Mo for some time. They are quite powerful and can deal with any common nightmares.

Perhaps feeling it was not safe enough, Lin Mo thought about it and handed the brick hammer to Xiaoyu.

"Xiaoyu, this is my favorite. Please keep it safe. If you encounter something that wants to hurt you, don't hesitate to hit it on the head."

Xiaoyu held the brick hammer and seemed to have more confidence.

She had seen with her own eyes before that Lin Mo used this hammer to hit the skinny ghost to death.

After giving the instructions, Lin Mo also went into the well.

Lin Mo was very strong, so climbing was not difficult for him. Although it was dark in the well, Yuan Xiuqing had already lit a lamp down there, so a glimmer of light could be seen.

After going down more than ten meters, I saw the bottom.

Yuan Xiuqing was already waiting for Lin Mo downstairs. He was holding a candle, and when he saw Lin Mo coming down, he took out another one, lit it and handed it to him.

"This candle is specially made to ward off evil spirits."

Lin Mo nodded.

The candles were cold to the touch and were not made of white wax.

It is red wax, blood red, and this kind of candle is usually used in weddings.

After reaching the bottom of the well, Lin Mo looked around and felt unhappy.

He originally thought that this well was a passage to leave this memory world, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Could it be that the exit is a copper door? Lin Mo thought it shouldn't be, but this needed further verification.

In addition, although it is said here to be the bottom of the well, in fact the well mouth is more like the mouth of a gourd, and the space below is much larger.

Lin Mo saw the bronze door.

It stands right there, and looks exactly like the one down in the Junk Alley.

Obviously, the previous speculation was correct. A hundred years ago, Yuan Xiuqing and a group of tomb robbers dug this bronze door from somewhere and hid it here.

And this bronze door is the one below the Second-Hand Alley.

Lin Mo knew that all known bronze doors were a kind of "pollutant". Wherever there was a bronze door, the surrounding area would be invaded by nightmares. This was the case in Liangcheng a hundred years ago.

However, at that time, the pollution ability of the copper door was still very poor, and it only polluted an area.

The bronze door in front of me was tied up with densely packed red strings. There were also more than a dozen talismans pasted on the red strings, which made it look very evil.

Looking at the ground again, there were more red strings and broken pieces of talisman paper scattered around.

At this moment, the bronze door suddenly shook.

With a few bang sounds, many thin threads were broken, and the talisman paper on them seemed to be torn into pieces by something and scattered on the ground.

The red thread and talisman paper should have been made by Yuan Xiuqing.

Like a ban.

But this approach is gradually becoming ineffective.

Seeing this, Yuan Xiuqing's face turned pale and he said, "This thing is a very evil thing. If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have dug it out."

This is bullshit.

You've already dug it out, what's the point of saying all this?

Lin Mo asked him what his next plan was. Was he planning to find someone to transport the bronze door back and bury it again?

"It would be too late. At first, the bronze door was ordinary and we didn't find anything unusual. We just thought it was an ordinary antique. But later, somehow, it changed and something tried to push the door open from the inside. At that time, we sealed it with red lines and affixed ghost talismans, thinking of looking for help, but it seems that it is too late."

Lin Mo asked, "What about your accomplices?"

Yuan Xiuqing smiled bitterly: "Maybe he ran away. I asked them to help guard this thing, but there was no one here. They must be afraid of getting into trouble."

Yuan Xiuqing should be responsible for this. In fact, he could have run away, but he didn't.

On this point, Yuan Xiuqing said that he was a "clear stream" among tomb robbers, and Lin Mo now believed it.

"Brother Lin, right now we can only find someone to guard here and use the candlelight to light the bronze door. Now I can't find anyone else to help, so I can only ask you, Brother Lin. I'll go outside to find someone and I'll be back in three days at most."

Hearing this, Lin Mo did not agree immediately.

He thought about it carefully.

This shouldn't be a normal 'plot'.

Because there is no such person in the normal plot, Yuan Xiuqing is alone, how did he handle the matter at that time?

Nobody knows.

But the result was definitely a failure.

Now, should I agree to him?

Perhaps seeing Lin Mo's hesitation, Yuan Xiuqing also sighed: "I know this request is too much, but I really have no choice. Brother Lin is also a member of the Hidden Sect, and I believe he doesn't want to see the lives of the people destroyed. If Brother Lin really doesn't want to, then forget it. I can light a few more candles here and let the water ghost help look after it."

The water ghost he was talking about should be the floating corpse.

This ghost thing is indeed related to Yuan Xiuqing.

However, Yuan Xiuqing's words made Lin Mo understand that Yuan Xiuqing probably used this method at the beginning.

So what happened to him?

How did he get into the bronze door later? Lin Mo couldn't figure it out, but now that the plot had advanced to this point, whether he agreed or not, Yuan Xiuqing would use this method to suppress the bronze door and then escape to seek help.

To find out what's going on, you need to stay here.

So Lin Mo thought about it and nodded: "Okay, I'll help you keep an eye on it. You said three days, so I'll wait for you for three days."

Yuan Xiuqing was overjoyed and quickly expressed his gratitude.

However, time was running out, so he immediately took out all the ghost-suppressing candles, lit them, and placed them around the bronze door, making the place as bright as day.

Yuan Xiuqing said, although the candle is not long, one candle can burn for several days.

"Brother Lin, I'm going." Yuan Xiuqing bowed to Lin Mo.

Lin Mo returned the greeting.

Then Yuan Xiuqing took out a piece of talisman paper and pressed it on himself, and he disappeared instantly.

Lin Mo knew that the talisman paper was the same as his own escape bean. The other party had woken up and returned to the real world.

This must have happened in the past.

Now Lin Mo was the only one left. Although it was quite scary down there, he didn't feel scared at all.

Because it might take a long time to wait, Lin Mo asked a few ghosts to keep an eye on them first. He quickly climbed up and told Xiaoyu about the situation, asking her to wait at the home of Old Yuan and his wife.

Xiaoyu was unwilling, but it was too dangerous down there and she couldn't come down. Lin Mo had no choice but to let her continue to wait at the wellhead. The next step was to wait.

Under the candlelight, the bronze door also vibrated, but at longer intervals. In this way, the red line and talisman paper on it should be able to last for three days.

In Lin Mo's expectation, Yuan Xiuqing might come back. If not, how will the plot proceed?

So I have to come back for sure.

But after waiting for a whole day, Lin Mo found that Yuan Xiuqing might have returned, but the way he returned was far beyond his expectations.

Here's the thing.

Lin Mo was waiting quietly when suddenly he heard a knocking sound coming from the bronze door.

Very intense.

It seemed like someone was banging on the door from inside.

In addition to the sound of knocking on the door, other sounds could be faintly heard from inside the bronze door.

Out of curiosity, Lin Mo went closer to listen and was stunned.

The voice coming from the bronze door was actually Yuan Xiuqing's voice.

Lin Mo was stunned.

This is not right.

How did he get in? (End of this chapter)