Chapter 340: Chapter 340 The Woman on the Wall
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“There must be a reason why the elders don’t allow children to get close to this place,” Zhou Kexin couldn’t help but say.
“Perhaps this really is a haunted house.”
“Why would you buy this even with the warning signs?”
“Because I was stupid and bold,” Hu Liang replied with a bitter smile. “Back then, my girlfriend and 1 didn’t believe in ghosts.”
“Yet, my girlfriend and I are quite timid.”
“When I first moved to the countryside to live in seclusion, I had to go to the toilet with her every night.”
“As time passed, our courage grew.”
“But living in the countryside, 1 can always hear some legends about gods and ghosts.”
“The few locals I invited to help with our renovation, although they don’t know when the old mansion was abandoned, have never heard of any supernatural incidents here.”
“That was why I was rest assured.”
“It’s common for the elderly to think that something is haunted when they witness something that can’t be explained by common sense.”
“They probably think this place is so desolate that it attracts ghosts, so they don’t let the children get close.”
Then, Hu Liang returned to the main topic.
Due to the lack of maintenance, several beams of the old house were damaged to varying degrees.
One of the beams was the most severely damaged.
There were even termites inside.
On the first day of work, a worker had an accident.
While working, he suddenly got distracted and almost had his hand sawed off.
Over the next few days, all kinds of strange accidents would happen to the workers.
One almost got hit in the head by a falling tile.
Another had vomiting and diarrhea.
Although there were no casualties, these unimaginable, strange things were enough to scare them.
A villager reminded Hu Liang to pray to the gods before continuing the renovation.
There were many problems with the renovation that were likely due to the lack of prayers before they started working.
This caused the gods to be dissatisfied and punish them.
“To tell you the truth, I was speechless then.”
“Gods shouldn’t be this petty.”
“There’s no way a god will cause trouble for us just because 1 didn’t pay my respect.”
“That isn’t a god.”
Hu Liang started complaining.
Hu Liang and his girlfriend, who had received higher education, did not believe this nonsense.
But then again…
Strange things have happened every day since the construction.
With the idea that it was better to believe it than not, the two of them looked up the process of worshipping and praying on the Internet.
After buying incense sticks, they placed them at the entrance of the old mansion, along with three animal offerings.
As they burned incense and prayed, they set off a few firecrackers.
“Dr. Chen, what are the three animals?”
Zhou Kexin asked curiously.
“Pigs, cows, and sheep.”
“In folk customs passed down since ancient times, pigs, cows, and sheep are important sacrificial offerings to the gods,” Chen Yu explained slowly.
“And then? Is everything normal after the worship?”
Zhou Kexin asked.
“Everything turned normal.”
Hu Liang rubbed his face with a bitter expression.
According to the prayer process on the Internet, he bought the three offerings.
The workers did not encounter any more problems.
Yet, he and his girlfriend started encountering all kinds of strange things that could not be explained.
Hu Liang began his livestream on the day the house was renovated.
Ten minutes later, the livestream was cut off.
It wasn’t a problem with his livestream, but the house suddenly lost power.
After inspection, the wires connecting to the outside were broken.
It was a strange break.
It wasn’t broken due to quality issues, nor did someone cut it.
Instead, it looked like an animal tore it apart.
Hu Liang took out his phone and took out a photo.
The photos showed many wires that had been bitten and broken.
“I thought it was a stray cat or dog nearby that bit off the wire, so I didn’t take it seriously.”
“We hired a technician to change the wires.”
“The electricity came back on, but then our water started having problems.”
First, there was a blackout, and then there was a water cut. Hu Liang and his girlfriend gradually began to have some doubts.
There were no ghosts, but all kinds of strange things happened.
But if there really was a ghost, neither of them saw it.
When they slept at night, the two of them could hear strange sounds.
It sounded like an animal’s scream or a child’s cry.
Everything was normal during the day, but all kinds of strange things happened frequently at night.
One night, there was lightning and thunder outside, and it was raining heavily.
The two of them were already asleep when they suddenly heard someone call their names.
They thought that it was their friends and relatives who came to look for them overnight.
The two of them did not think too much about it. They hurriedly changed their clothes and went out to open the door.
When they arrived at the front yard, their souls almost left their bodies in fright.
A woman’s figure appeared on the inner courtyard wall near the door.
Lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, and the woman’s figure was clear.
The woman was wearing a Qing Dynasty cheongsam and had a strange smile on her face.
“My girlfriend fainted on the spot. I was also scared half to death. I dragged her into the car outside and drove to the city overnight.”
“The rain stopped the next day. The two of us mustered up our courage and came back here.”
“There was nothing by then.”
Hu Liang wiped the cold sweat off his forehead.
That night was truly a terrifying night.
Both of them saw the Qing Dynasty woman on the wall.
When he returned the next day, there was nothing on the wall.
Zhou Kexin felt her scalp go numb.
“This is the first time I’ve encountered such a terrifying thing in my life,” Hu Liang said nervously.
Zhou Kexin nodded and showed a sympathetic look.
Any normal person would be scared to death if they encountered such a thing.
Hu Liang and his girlfriend were no exception.
In order to buy this old house, they not only spent all their savings but also sold their home in the city.
Now that the old mansion was suspected of being haunted, the two of them didn’t dare to continue living inside.
However, they were reluctant to sell this house.
They could only stay in their car for the time being and think of a way to solve the strange things here.
They never believed ghosts existed in the world, and their worldview had been seriously shaken.
It was not a problem for them to write code, program, and deal with bugs.
However, the two of them really didn’t know how to fix such a stupid bug in reality.
He wanted to ask some ghostbusters to help deal with it, and it just so happened that Hangzhou City was carrying out a large-scale campaign to crack down on feudal superstitions.
His girlfriend’s relatives came two days ago, so it was not suitable for her to stay in the car.
Hu Liang told her to go back to the city and stay in a hotel while he stayed here to think of a way.
After pondering for a while, Hu Liang finally thought of Chen Yu.
Since Chen Yu could predict the future, he might also be able to subdue demons and catch ghosts.
“Dr. Chen,” Hu Liang said helplessly, “that’s about it. You’ve been looking at it for so long. Have you found anything wrong?”
Chen Yu was the last life-saving straw that Hu Liang could think of.
If even he couldn’t do anything about it, then this old mansion would be considered useless.
“First of all, I can tell you clearly that the villagers you invited over really don’t know that there’s a problem with the old mansion,” Chen Yu said with a smile.
“Before you moved in, there were no supernatural incidents here.”
“No, there was a ghost here.”
At this moment, an old voice came from the direction of the door.
Hu Liang turned around and saw an old man standing at the door.
The old man was dressed in cloth and cloth shoes, looking like an old farmer from the countryside.
Behind him was a woman in her thirties with a nervous expression..
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