The female voice on the phone sounded eerie.

One can't help but look towards the yard in front. There is indeed a big crooked tree inside, and there seems to be something hanging underneath.

When the wind blows, it sways back and forth.

At this moment, the sense of terror has reached its maximum.

At this time, Lin Mo walked over and pushed open the half-open wooden door, then went straight to the crooked tree and took a look.

"It's just a piece of white silk. It makes me nervous."

Grabbing the thing and taking a look at it, Lin Mo said something.

Because of the wind, the light was dim, and the white silk was swaying, so it looked like a dead person was hanging.

At this time, Lin Nan's voice came from the communicator.

"We have a situation here. There was indeed a dead person hanging under the crooked tree in the yard just now, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye. Brother Zhong Kui chased after him, but now we don't know where he went."

Lin Mo immediately told Lin Nan and the old soldier not to run around and to wait for Zhong Kui to come back.

"Well, that's what the veteran said. What's the situation on your side?" Lin Nan asked.

"There's nothing unusual, except that the moonlight is gone." Lin Mo looked up and saw that the originally bright moonlight was now blocked by a dark cloud, making the surroundings even darker.

In fact, Lin Mo did make some discoveries.

For example, this yard, obviously few people come here, and no one repairs it. Because it is an unopened area in Qianlong Palace, there are weeds everywhere, and they are growing quite well.

But this crooked tree is bare and seems to have been dead for many years.

Also, who had nothing better to do than tie this white silk to the tree trunk?

At this time, the strange voice of explanation came from the phone in 416's hand again.

"This courtyard is a typical maid's courtyard, used to house the lower-class maids. You can see the houses on both sides. The layout is completely different from the master's house. Ten maids can live in one house. They are usually children from poor families. They are all young, but they are trapped in this deep palace and oppressed by their masters. If this goes on for a long time, you can imagine that they will be resentful. If they make a mistake or offend their masters, they will be dragged to the backyard and beaten to death."

"Everyone walk forward and you can see red wooden sticks standing in the corner. The red on them is not red paint, but is stained with too much blood. It cannot be washed off. Because the wooden sticks are stained with too much resentment and hatred, those who have used these wooden sticks later have not died a good death."

It can be heard that the female voice explaining the event seemed to be emotional, especially when she said the four words "will not die a good death", she read them with gnashing teeth.

"As for the backyard where the palace maids were beaten to death, there were so many dead that the blood flowed layer after layer, causing the soil and bricks there to be blood red."

Lin Mo and 416 looked at each other, became interested, and immediately ran over to take a look.

First of all, I didn’t find any red wooden stick in the corner of the backyard.

The female voice explaining the event was talking nonsense.

However, in the open space at the back, there is a circle with a diameter of about two or three meters where there is really no grass. It is like the top of a middle-aged person's head. No matter how long or short the hair around it is, the high ground in the middle is determined to be stubborn to the end.

When I removed the soil, I saw that it was really red.

The female voice explaining this was not talking nonsense.

Of course, there is a possibility that the other party has not lied from beginning to end. There is indeed a body on the crooked tree, but it is not in the real world, but in the nightmare world.

There was indeed a blood-stained and cursed murder stick in the corner. It might have been taken away by someone, or it might also be in the nightmare world. There was also the place where the execution took place, and the soil underneath was indeed red.

From this perspective, the female voice explaining the story is quite reliable.

Lin Mo really wanted to hear what the other party would say next.

Perhaps the secrets of Qianlong Palace will be directly revealed by this weird tour guide.

Zhong Kui came back from the communicator, cursing, it turned out that he failed to catch up.

Let that body run away.

"Well, it's mainly because I'm old and my legs and feet aren't as flexible anymore. Otherwise, it would have gotten away."

Lin Mo asked if the blood-stained red wooden stick had been found there.

"No!"

"No?"

This was a little beyond Lin Mo's expectations.

If we assume that what the weird tour guide said is true, then the blood-stained red wooden stick must exist. It does not exist in the real world, nor in the nightmare world. There is only one possibility.

Someone took it.

Who did it? Lin Mo felt that there might be other people in Qianlong Palace besides them.

One is the white silk on the tree.

The white silk was neither new nor old, and it was definitely not tied there a long time ago.

Of course, it is also possible that the staff did it.

But if it was a staff member, who would have nothing to do with Bai Ling? Wouldn't it be better to repair the yard and weed it if they had this time?

Obviously, there is more than one strange courtyard for palace maids in historical sites like Qianlong Palace.

Next they went to the cold palace and where the eunuchs lived.

They are all full of negative energy.

The eerie tour guide is still tirelessly explaining the terrifying rumors and stories here that make people's scalps tingle.

The other party said that most of the time no one comes to the cold palace.

Not to mention the royal family, even the palace maids and eunuchs would not come.

Even if someone was banished to the cold palace, eunuchs would basically only come to deliver meals. At other times, this place was worse than a prison.

There are still inmates in prison.

"Most of those who were banished to the cold palace were the emperor's concubines, and they were also people of status. However, the more they used to be in a high position, the more they could not accept this kind of neglect and sudden drop in status. In the past, they were in front of others and behind their backs, with clothes to wear and food to eat, but later they were treated with cold words and leftovers."

"The most terrifying thing is loneliness, so most of the concubines who were banished to the cold palace had only two fates: one was suicide, and the other was going crazy and being beaten to death."

"Please look here. There are a lot of crazy words carved on the wall. After some people went crazy, they began to suffer from schizophrenia. Some even carved some conversations on the wall, talking to themselves, or talking to those who left words before. Because of this, we can see these rare historical relics in later generations."

The eerie tour guide's voice was very excited.

It seems like this is something amazing.

Lin Mo went over to take a look and saw that the wall was indeed covered with words.

Some are about injustice, some are about suffering, and some are about death. In addition, there are some dialogues, for example, someone carved several "Is anyone there?"

Finally someone answered and said yes.

There is also a question below asking who you are.

There are many answers to this question.

Various names appeared, basically all women's names, and most of them were nice to hear. You could tell at first glance that they were chosen by cultured people, with rich background and connotation.

There is more than one wall in the cold palace. Lin Mo turned on the flashlight function of his mobile phone and walked inside. 416 naturally followed behind him.

Earlier on the way, Lin Mo also asked 416 and 418 if they had noticed anything different.

For example, special mental powers.

They said yes.

But the location cannot be determined, and the mental energy here is very chaotic, and it is almost impossible to find any clues.

That's right. After all, it is an old building with hundreds of years of history. Moreover, too many things have happened here and too many people have died. It is normal that spiritual power remains on some objects.

Although most of them will slowly disappear over time, some will still remain, especially in some dark and seldom visited places.

There was actually nothing much in the cold palace. It was too empty and deserted. There might have been some furniture or something in the past, but they had been moved away long ago.

Only some useless debris is left.

But the wall cannot be moved, and the marks on it will always be there.

Lin Mo saw a large number of inscriptions on the innermost wall.

The font sizes vary and the content is also varied.

But after reading almost all the content, Lin Mo keenly discovered some problems.

Or rather, something that might be a clue.

One of them, written in a corner.

The content is: I found a red palace door, hehe, I can go out.

Judging from the literal meaning, there is actually nothing special about it. It is just a general declarative sentence that expresses a very simple content.

But the following content is a little different.

Someone who came later asked: "Where is the door? I want to go out too."

There are many similar inscriptions, all asking where the door is.

Looking further back, someone carved: "I also found that red door, it doesn't exist, I don't dare to go in."

This sentence conveys an emotion to the person who reads it.

That's the coexistence of surprise and fear.

In other words, someone, after being banished to the cold palace, discovered a special red palace door and thought that he could escape from there and regain his freedom.

But most of the later comers did not discover this door.

It’s not that everyone didn’t notice.

Someone discovered it, and the other party said that it was a non-existent door and did not dare to go in.

If we simply analyze these conversations that were held several years, even decades or hundreds of years apart, we would conclude that these were the conversations of a group of poor women at a time when they were mentally ill.

So pitiful.

Worthy of sympathy.

But from another perspective, what if it is not the case? They are very pitiful and a little mentally abnormal, but this does not mean that what they wrote is nonsense or false.

A madman may talk nonsense, but nonsense is not necessarily false.

There is a non-existent red palace gate here. Maybe we can use it as a starting point to start exploring.

Lin Mo thought about it and directly called Professor Xie, asking him to find someone who was most familiar with Qianlong Palace, as he had some advice.

Professor Xie knew that Lin Mo and the other four special experts had already begun investigating Qianlong Palace, so he didn't ask any more questions and went straight to find them.

Soon, the person was found.

Communicating over the phone, the other party said that he was the previous administrator of Qianlong Palace. He was nearly seventy years old and had been studying Qianlong Palace all his life. It could be said that he knew everything about the palace like the back of his hand. He was also familiar with all the stories here, whether they were official or folk legends.

This is exactly the person Lin Mo is looking for.

"What's your name?"

"Just call me Lao Qi."

"Okay, Lao Qi, I want to inquire about the things in the Cold Palace in Qianlong Palace. I'm in the Cold Palace now. Yes, it's very quiet here."

Lin Mo contacted the other party by phone to understand the situation.

He did not hide anything and directly read out the words on the wall, and asked, "Old Qi, with all your years of research on Qianlong Palace, have you ever heard of the non-existent red palace gate?"

Lao Qi on the other end of the phone was silent for a while.

"I've heard of it, Expert Lin. Did you see it from the words engraved on the wall of the cold palace?"

"right."

"In fact, there are written records about this bloody palace gate in some palace secrets. In ancient times, there was a special official who was responsible for recording all kinds of things that happened in the palace, big or small. I have studied it, so I know that the bloody palace gate is in the palace and is a relatively scary legend."

Lin Mo asked Lao Qi to explain in detail.

So the latter told Lin Mo everything he knew from beginning to end.

The legend about the blood-colored palace gate in Qianlong Palace can be traced back to more than 500 years ago. At that time, the doors in Qianlong Palace were all normal wood color and were not deliberately dyed.

Until one day, someone in the palace suddenly disappeared.

At first, it was the palace maids and eunuchs who went missing, so they just reported it to the steward and conducted a normal search, but when they couldn't find them, no one took it too seriously.

After all, Qianlong Palace is so huge with thousands of rooms. It might be hidden somewhere, or it might have fallen into the inner lake by accident.

Later, someone else went missing, which made the manager feel something was wrong, so he reported it to the eunuch.

It is said that there were some capable people at that time, and no one knew how they investigated it, but a few days later, the emperor ordered the Qianlong Palace to be renovated.

This is the first time Qianlong Palace has been renovated.

Some houses were demolished, some were rebuilt, and some of the layout was changed.

From then on, everything was peaceful.

This dynasty eventually ran out of luck and was overthrown. Most of the royal family members did not have a good end either. After all, it was a change of empire, so it was bound to go through a catastrophe.

Not only the imperial city, but also the Qianlong Palace at that time was the same.

Later, when the Xin Dynasty was established, people also moved into Qianlong Palace, and some strange disappearance mysteries also occurred.

There is no record of the specific details, but the solution was to paint all the walls and gates of Qianlong Palace red.

It is called auspicious to the outside world, after all, red represents prosperity and good luck.

Later, there were occasional disappearances, but they were rare. Over the past few hundred years, the number of missing people added up to no more than a hundred. In this vast river of history, what did this count for? Not worth mentioning.

If it weren't for an old scholar like Lao Qi who has spent his entire life studying Qianlong Palace and has been tirelessly reading ancient books and sorting out clues, secrets like these would have been forgotten long ago.

Lin Mo was also fascinated by what he heard.

I didn’t expect that these past events would sound so exciting, mysterious, and weird, and because they really happened, there is a strong sense of reality.

The most important thing is that he is now in Qianlong Palace. It is a dark night. Except for 416 and the invisible 418, there is no one around.

It's really exciting.

Since it is recorded in the manuscripts of some court officials, it means that the words carved on the wall are not random.

There might really be a non-existent, bloody palace gate here.

And Lin Mo discovered something else.

Interesting things.

That is inside Qianlong Palace. Indeed, most of the palace gates are red.

But the door of this cold palace is dark brown.

Come to think of it, what kind of place is this? The cold palace.

It is a place that the emperor would never come to in his life, and it is also the place that people in the palace most taboo and dislike.

Mainly because it's too unlucky.

No one wants to be contaminated by bad luck, so under normal circumstances, no one would come to such a place.

Not to mention repairs and repainting.

So even if this place was well decorated at the beginning, the wall paint fell off over time and the door paint could not be preserved, so this place may be one of the few places in Qianlong Palace that does not have red painted doors.

At this time, Lin Mo suddenly had an idea.

Why was it painted red in the first place?

According to Lao Qi, the statement to the outside world was just a cover-up, the real reason was to ward off evil spirits.

In other words, the non-existent strange blood-red door only exists in places that are not painted red.

For example, the cold palace.

This explanation actually makes sense. Such horrible things are not found in other places, but they happen in the cold palace. Once you enter this place, no one will care. If you die, they will just be buried with a straw mat and that's it.

Even if he disappeared inexplicably, would the eunuchs under him dare to report it truthfully?

Definitely not.

So they just say he died inexplicably and report it to their superiors, but no one will come to investigate or verify it.

Very reasonable.

Lin Mo felt that the problem with Qianlong Palace might lie in this place.

Because they had been to other places, including the back garden, the back mountain, and some remote corners, and he found nothing, and neither did Zhong Kui in the nightmare world.

Apart from encountering a few lonely ghosts, the real person with a G value of 20W was never seen.

In the cold palace, Lin Mo discovered that there might be a strange, non-existent blood-colored palace gate, so the possibility that there was a problem here increased sharply.

After hanging up the phone with Lao Qi, Lin Mo began to look for other possible clues in this place, in other words, wandering around.

"Xiao Liu, help me look for it too. If you find anything suspicious, tell me immediately."

Lin Mo walked around and found nothing. Seeing 416 standing there still listening to the tour guide's explanation, he was furious and immediately assigned him a task.

Not only in the real world, but also in the nightmare world, Zhong Kui, the old soldier and Lin Nan were also looking for the non-existent bloody palace gate according to Lin Mo's request.

But according to what Lin Mo knew, the possibility of that strange palace gate existing in the nightmare world was relatively small.

Why?

Because Lao Qi said that the people in the palace at that time were missing, not dead inexplicably.

The body is gone.

If it is a nightmare world, it will not affect the body in the real world.

So Lin Mo felt that the door was in the real world.

Obviously this matter is very incredible, because so far, all the weird things Lin Mo has encountered are in the nightmare world.

Except for mental power that can affect the real world, no other weirdness can do that.

It's like an insurmountable barrier.

From this point of view, the real world is safe, but if what Lao Qi said is true and his own speculation is correct, then at least in this cold palace, it is definitely not safe.

Lin Mo was not afraid.

He has guns and men, and he has the support of the General Administration. He also has two spiritual bodies, Xiao 6 and Xiao 8, under his command. Not to mention that there are no gods or ghosts in the real world, even if there are, Lin Mo can beat them to the ground and sing "Conquer".

An hour later.

Lin Mo sat on a rock, holding a small grass he had pulled from the side in his hand, with a look of confusion and puzzlement on his face.

He found nothing.

He searched every corner of the cold palace inside and out.

Not found.

The same goes for Xiao 6, but she doesn’t care whether she can find it or not. She is excitedly taking beauty selfies.

Lin Mo couldn't figure out what to shoot in the dark.

On the communicator side, Zhong Kui and the others were not in high spirits either.

Because nothing was found either.

There is clearly something weird in this Qianlong Palace, and I can feel that unusual aura, but I found nothing. It is very frustrating.

"Is it possible that we will return empty-handed tonight?" Lin Mo muttered. He looked at his watch and it was already eleven o'clock, almost twelve o'clock.

At this time, 416 came over and poked Lin Mo.

"What are you doing?" Lin Mo was a little impatient.

"Look at the photos!" 416 said. Lin Mo waved his hands, indicating that he didn't want to look at them and was not in the mood.

"You really don't want to see it? There is a red door in this photo!"

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