Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 820 Blood Rhino Horn

  “Sigh—”

   Qin Yin gasped, and everyone else turned their attention to her.

"What's up?"

   "In that case... Xiaolan won't be in trouble, right?" Qin Yin asked.

   "There are Daoist Master and Miaozhen with them, shouldn't anything happen?" said the fool.

   "I'm referring to the poison that Xiaolan was poisoned with before," Qin Yin said, "Everyone in that house died of Hongjian, and Xiaolan was also poisoned by Hongjian..."

   "Hasn't Xiaolan's poison been cured?"

   "To be precise, the red thread was broken," Li Muyuan corrected again, "but theoretically, if the red thread is broken, it means that the poison on Xiaolan's body is gone."

   Everyone nodded silently, but everyone's expressions were not very reassuring.

   "Are they still without news?" The fool broke the silence.

  Luo Jiutian took a look at the phone and shook his head.

   "Then..." The fool looked at Qin Yin, "Let's go in and have a look."

   Qin Yin immediately nodded and smashed garlic.

   "That's fine..." Xia Hua thought for a moment, then turned around and said to Li Muyuan, "Muyuan, you stay outside with Wenling and Jiutian, and I, Miss Qin and silly brother, go in to see what's going on."

  Wang Ling was a little unhappy, but seeing that others quickly obeyed the arrangement, he still decided to focus on the overall situation.

When everyone walked down the stairs, it was already three o'clock in the morning, the darkest hour before dawn. The hotel's proprietress should be on duty at the front desk of the hotel. She had not seen this group of customers before, seeing Xia Hua, Fool and The three of Qin Yin were about to go out, and the proprietress looked at them curiously.

   "Going out so late."

   "Well," Xia Hua smiled politely, "I'm hungry, let's go out for supper."

"There are no restaurants outside at this time," the proprietress stood up. "Our small place is not like the big cities outside that can open all night... If you are hungry, there are instant noodles at the front desk here, it's really not good, I I can get you a bowl of noodles."

   "Thank you, eldest sister, you are so nice," Qin Yin said sincerely, "but we still have to pick up friends outside."

   "Oh," the proprietress said in a low voice after standing with her hands crossed for a while, "That...my husband also told you about the house over there?"

   "Yes," said the fool, "do you know anything else?"

   "I don't...I don't know about that..." The proprietress closed her eyes instantly, looking a little hesitant from her expression, "But..."

   Hearing her hesitant meaning, the three of them hurried over.

   "What's the matter?" Qin Yin asked, "Sister, what else do you know?"

   "I don't know if I should say..."

   "It should be said, it should be said," Qin Yin lay directly on the front desk, "Sister, tell us what you know, the people we know died in that house, and we also want to know the truth."

"I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the house," the proprietress glanced in the direction of the corridor, "My husband won't let me speak out, he's afraid that someone will hear it, so he really won't come to the hotel, but you guys I'm a little worried about going out so late..."

   "It's okay, eldest sister, you can say it," Qin Yin lowered her voice, "We won't tell you what you said."

"That's...that my husband didn't tell you, did he feel that the outside was turning red one night," the lady boss said, "I was on the night shift that night, and he didn't notice it. In fact...that night, there was actually a power outage. "

   "Power outage?" Everyone was even more curious.

"Yes," the proprietress recalled, "that time was considered a peak season for our industry, so the lights in the hall, corridor, and everywhere were on. I was playing on my phone at the time, and suddenly there was a sudden change in the surrounding area. It's dark, I thought I was blind..."

   "What time did that happen?" Xia Hua asked.

   "It's probably... three or four in the morning," the proprietress pointed back at the clock hanging on the wall, "By the way, it's when my husband wakes up."

   "So..." The fool said, "No wonder he can distinguish the faint red light outside the window."

"Yes, that's what I was about to say," the proprietress said, "We live in a separate place, not in the reception area. Usually we rarely turn on the lights in the corridor, but only on those days, so my husband doesn't. It turned out to be a power outage.”

   It was because the corridor was dark and the faint red light outside the window attracted the attention of the half-sleeping boss.

   "How long was the power outage?" Xia Hua asked.

"It's very short, just a few minutes," the proprietress replied, "I guess it's about five minutes. I was shocked because even my phone suddenly went black, and I was about to walk to the door. I went to see what was going on outside before I opened the door and the lights came on again."

   "The screen of the mobile phone is also black?" The fool frowned, "How can a power outage affect the mobile phone?"

"This I... I didn't pay attention at the time," the proprietress seemed to have thought of this herself, and fear suddenly came up from the depths of her pupils, "Maybe...Maybe I was frightened, and then accidentally locked the screen. Well..."

   Qin Yin saw that the proprietress was indeed starting to be afraid, so she quickly comforted, "It should be like this, eldest sister, don't scare yourself, what will happen next?"

"After that...it's nothing out of the ordinary," the proprietress wiped a cold sweat, "then...after a few days, the stench dissipated, my husband called the police, and then all the bodies in the house were found. …”

   "Did you find anything else?" Xia Hua asked.

   The proprietress blinked her eyes quickly, paused for a while, and then said, "No more."

   "Then...why are you so worried about us?" Xia Hua keenly caught the hesitation in the boss's eyes, she stared straight into the boss's eyes and asked.

  The proprietress swallowed softly and rubbed the register in her hand with two fingers.

   "I don't know...I don't know if I should tell you..."

   That's it again.

   "Oh," Qin Yin hurriedly stood on tiptoe and patted the back of the proprietress's hand across the front desk, "Sister, you've already told us so many things, and it's not too bad."

   The proprietress peeked a few more times in the direction of the corridor.

   "Your husband won't come," the fool immediately shifted his position, "Don't be afraid, I'll be watching here."

   "One more thing is..." The proprietress also seemed to want to talk to people about this, and was soon persuaded, "Since my husband and I came back from identifying the corpse, I have been having nightmares..."

   "Nightmare?"

   "Well," the proprietress' eyes were very serious, "and the nightmares I had were all the same content, that is... a man, talking to me."

   The three looked at each other.

   "What's so scary about this?" the fool asked, "Is that man scary?"

   "Maybe it looks the same as which corpse?" Qin Yin also asked.

   But the proprietress shook her head, "I actually can't see his face clearly, it's always hazy in my dreams, I can only see that he is a man, and his voice is also a man."

   "That's what he said was terrible?" asked the fool.

   "I...I can't hear him clearly either," the proprietress' voice became smaller and smaller, "but I just felt...that person seemed to have something urgent to tell me, so I...I was a little scared."

How is this going?

   Xia Hua also pondered.

"My husband said that I was frightened by those corpses. He said so, and I didn't dare to mention it again. After all, I still have a daughter, and I was afraid that I would frighten her, so I didn't tell her. I've seen other people... but I found that I only had that dream when I was sleeping at night, so after that, I was basically on duty at night... Have you ever seen such a thing?"

   Fool and Qin Yin looked at Xia Hua.

   "Sister," Xia Hua said after a few seconds, "First of all, don't worry, if it's just a dream, it shouldn't be a big problem."

   The proprietress breathed a sigh of relief, and then became nervous again, "You mean... is there really something dirty?"

   "Do you believe those things really exist?" Xia Hua showed a smile.

   "I..." The lady boss choked, "They often say these things, but I always feel... This shouldn't happen to me, after all... I haven't done anything wrong."

   "Sister, that's the reason," Xia Hua nodded with a smile, "regardless of whether there is anything dirty, you haven't done anything wrong, what are you worried about?"

   "You...you're right," the proprietress gradually began to smile, "I'm not a bad person, why am I worried?"

  Xia Hua nodded calmly, "Sister, if there is nothing else, we will leave."

   "Well, no... Eh, wait," the proprietress suddenly remembered something, and squatted inside the counter to rummage, "I have a few here... You wait, ah, I found it."

  The proprietress straightened up again, with a small red cloth bag in her hand.

   "We went to the temple here to ask for it," the proprietress handed the small cloth bag to them, "You guys take this."

   "How is this good?" Qin Yin took a half step back, "Eldest sister, this is too precious, what will you do if we take this?"

"There is one more at the counter. We asked for three in total," the proprietress leaned out and shoved the cloth bag into Qin Yin's hands, "Just take it. The master in the temple said that there is a **** rhino horn inside, but If you are alive, you can be safe."

  The proprietress stared at the three of them closely, her pupils were full of Chunzhen's worry.

   A warm current came to Qin Yin's heart along the hand of the proprietress. She became shy, shyly grabbed the cloth bag in her hand, raised her eyes and said, "Thank you eldest sister, I'll give it back to you when we get back."

   "Also... I really have to pay it back."

   The proprietress scratched the back of her head humorously, and the four of them laughed together.

After the    greeting, the three finally went out, and the proprietress was not surprised when she saw them walking towards the mansion.

   "Looks like that eldest sister has guessed that we are going to Qiqiao Mansion," Xia Hua said, "He's really a good person, not only good, but also very intelligent."

   "Then what happened to her dream?" Qin Yin was blown away by the night wind, and hurriedly tightened his jacket, "Is there really something wrong?"

"It often happens that the deceased falls into a dream, but according to my experience, if the deceased has a strong spiritual force, they usually choose a method that can directly affect the living to fulfill their last wish," Xia Hua said, " If it’s just a dream, then either the deceased’s spiritual tidal wave is very weak and will disappear on its own in a short time, or the deceased has no malice and is just joking.”

   "Just kidding?" Qin Yin asked, "Is there such a boring dead person?"

"Have you forgotten the rules of the Boundary Monument?" said the fool, "The deceased who never died need to figure out how they died first, and then break their obsessions before they can find the Boundary Monument. This process can take a long time. When you don't understand anything, what else can you do besides wander around?"

   These words made Xia Hua admire the two of them with admiration.

   "You really shouldn't be underestimated," Xia Hua nodded and said, "I still underestimated you before."

   Fool and Qin Yin were stunned for a moment, then put on a smile, "No... Sister Hua... You should underestimate us... We are just a bunch of chickens..."

  Xia Hua ignored the pompous duo, the three turned a corner, raised their eyes, and the Qiqiao Mansion was in front of them.

Facing the main street is the main entrance of the mansion. The main entrance is painted in vermilion. Under the light of the dim street lamps, it looks like it has been dyed red with blood. There are two seals on the door, yellowish. The seal, the black ink, and the blood-red cinnabar door all tell of the tragic events that happened here.

  Xia Hua looked around at the traces of their vanguard's climbing over the wall, and planned to turn in from the original place, but Qin Yin started to warm up.

   "This wall is not easy to turn over," the fool crossed his arms, "I can do it myself, but..."

   "Don't worry, look at me," Qin Yin moved his wrist and neck, "I'll take you in."

   "Huh? Have you recovered?"

"It's only a few meters away, why did you send it in?" Qin Yin snorted a breath of fairy air into each of his palms, "they should have been sent in by Xiaolan, the little girl is fine, what can't I do? Chong !"

  ***

  Xiaolan turned around abruptly and looked at the strange scenery behind him.

  The house was dark, save for the few flashlights they secretly lit.

This house is spacious and elegant, comparable to the Xuanji Bureau. Through the buildings of flowers and trees, it is not difficult to imagine the exquisite and lavishness of this place when it was alive, but after all the people in the house died, it seems that even the bonsai on the terrace was stained with it. Death, in this dark night, even more terrifying and inexplicable.

  Xiaolan shuddered, goosebumps on his body stood up, but fortunately Baomu opened his mouth to speak, and the cage of death towards him dissipated.

   "The smell of this house is similar," Baomu stretched out his hand and waved in front of him, his expression very uncomfortable, "It smells like corpse."

   "Brother Baomu's ability is really amazing," Miaozhen looked at Baomu in admiration and said, "I only smelled the smell of dust down there."

   Baomu was embarrassed, "No, it's just..."

   "Here!" At this moment, the Taoist priest who had been rummaging in the corner suddenly shouted, "There is something here."

   This chapter is 4000 words, I forgot to write the title

   (end of this chapter)