Yelou Archives

Chapter 3

"It's cold on the ground, get up quickly."

The man stretched out his hand to pull Teng Yao, and Teng Yao grabbed his hand.The generous palm is not as cold as imagined, even the fingertips are warm.The unexpected touch made Teng Yao dazed, and for a moment he forgot the intention of the other party reaching out.The man thought that Teng Yao had fallen so hard that he couldn't get up, so he gently pulled him.

Teng Yao felt a huge force acting on his arm, his buttocks involuntarily lifted off the ground, and he stood up without even bending his legs.

"Are you okay, do you want to go to the hospital?" The man withdrew his hand, tried twice but couldn't pull it back.

"...It's okay." Tengyao turned his head to look at the floor, but still didn't realize how he stood up.The thing in his hand was moving, and he looked at it for a long time before realizing that he was still holding the other's hand.Embarrassment is a bit embarrassing, but Tengyao won't let the other party see it. He holds the other hand up and shakes it up and down vigorously.

"Thank you so much... um, what's your name?"

"...My name is Lu Yuan."

"Hello Brother Lu, my name is Teng Yao, hahaha it's a pleasure to meet you, please sit down."

Lu Yuan: "..." This seems to be my house?

Sitting on the sofa in an orderly manner, Tengyao naturally followed the topic just now: "Brother Lu said that the penguin was picked up, wouldn't it be picked up in this house?"

Lu Yuan handed over the mineral water again before saying, "No."

After waiting for a while but not being able to wait for the next sentence, Teng Yao clenched the mineral water bottle tightly and said with hesitation: "To tell you the truth, I passed by here half a month ago, and I saw a man in the yard through the door that night. White shadows."

He gestured with his hand: "It's exactly the same as what I saw outside the door just now. I thought Yelou was really haunted as people said, so I came in to hide from the rain on the one hand, and to see it on the other hand. What does a ghost look like, I didn't expect..."

He looked towards the corner of the living room, where the donkey brayed loudly again.

"Half a month ago?" Lu Yuan frowned slightly, "Are you sure the time is correct?"

Tengyao nodded.

Lu Yuan slowly leaned on the back of the sofa and said, "Dudu and I just came to this city last weekend. It is impossible for you to see Dudu half a month ago."

Teng Yao's heart moved, if the white shadow that the detective saw was not a penguin, what would it be?It's been almost a month since boss Liu's son and his party had an accident. What stimulated those six adults to go crazy?

He looked out of the window, and it was pitch black outside, and he couldn't see anything, only the sound of the rain that became more and more urgent told secrets that outsiders could not understand.

"Mr. Teng?"

Teng Yao let out an "ah" and looked away, looking at Lu Yuan in a daze.

"You said this house is a famous haunted house in the local area, can you tell me what happened here?" Lu Yuan looked very sincere, so Teng Yao had to tell the legends he had collected on the Internet.

"That's all?" Lu Yuan seemed a little disappointed.

Teng Yao thought for a while, then said with a look of embarrassment: "Actually, there is one more thing."

Lu Yuan's upper body leaned forward slightly, as if interested.

"I came to Yelou again and again, but I was actually entrusted by others." Teng Yao held his forehead, as if he was also very reluctant, "I have a friend who came back to China for a holiday a while ago to meet with us. We had a drink at the bar. In the middle of the night, I don’t know who proposed to go to Yelou to explore. I was so sick that I couldn’t stand upright. How could I go out with them to mess around, so I withdrew first. I contacted them the next day but they all contacted each other. No, I found out later that they did come to Yelou that night, but for some reason, they all went crazy."

Teng Yao wiped his face in pain, but he kept paying attention to Lu Yuan's reaction from the corner of his eye.Lu Yuan listened very carefully, and when he learned that the person who came to visit the building was crazy, the surprise that flashed across his face did not seem to be feigned.

"That night, seven of us went out to drink. Now that six of them have an accident, their family members will naturally come to ask me for an explanation. I was also forced to come to Yelou to find out. I bumped into Shirai both the first time and the second time. I was not mentally prepared last time, and I was scared to death. After returning home for a long time, I finally got up the courage to check again, but I didn’t expect Brother Lu, you bought this wild building .”

He observed Lu Yuan's expression, and asked carefully: "Brother Lu, you moved in today, didn't you see anything strange?"

Lu Yuan shook his head: "Everything is normal."

Teng Yao didn't say anything more, and Lu Yuan didn't ask any more questions. The room became quiet, and even Dudu, who brushed his presence from time to time, closed his mouth. Facing the bone-chilling cold that shouldn't be in this season.

"It's too late, you stay here for one night, let's talk about the rest tomorrow." Lu Yuan got up, apparently planning to take Tengyao to the guest room to rest.

"Don't worry about it, I'll just stay here overnight." Tengyao patted the sofa under him. This leather sofa was about three meters long and moderately wide, much more comfortable than an ordinary wooden bed.

Lu Yuan looked at him: "It's okay, I didn't have time to tidy up the upstairs and downstairs, and it's really not suitable for entertaining guests. Wait a moment, and I'll get you a thin quilt."

This time Teng Yao didn't refuse any more, he smiled and watched Lu Yuan get the quilt.

Lu Yuan's room was on the second floor. After Teng Yao settled down, he took Penguin Dudu upstairs.Seeing the little penguin limping up the stairs, Teng Yao's hanging heart completely returned to his place. He was not afraid of seeing ghosts, but he was very afraid of waking up in the middle of the night and seeing a penguin barking at him.

After turning off the lights, Teng Yao sat on the sofa and fell into deep thought.

Lu Yuan is a well-mannered person, his words should be believed, and the unpacked luggage piled up in the living room is the best proof.When Liu Zhiye and his party had an accident and when the detective visited Yelou at night but was scared away by the mysterious white shadow, Lu Yuan was not in the local area. It doesn't matter, and the disappearance of the detective probably wasn't his fault.As for where he picked up the penguin, why he bought a wild house instead of other houses, and how to keep his trousers and leather shoes from getting wet in heavy rain, these have nothing to do with Liu Zhiye's madness. Get to the bottom of it.

The most urgent task is to find out whether this wild building is really haunted or someone is doing it on purpose. This is not only the entrustment of Boss Liu to him, but also concerns the safety of Lu Yuan.No matter how Lu Yuan kindly took him in for a night on a rainy night, he couldn't know that there was something weird here but just ignore it.

The more he thought about it, the clearer his mind became, Teng Yao touched the door lightly, and opened the door leading to the courtyard of the villa.He had to go outside to check it out first. If there was nothing suspicious in the yard, the problem might be in the house. Now that the house is owned by Lu Yuan, he couldn't wander around from room to room in the middle of the night.

upstairs.

Lu Yuan stood behind the half-covered curtain, watching Teng Yao sneaking around in the yard in his raincoat.

Dudu opened the window with a look of "Look, I caught the bad guy".

Lu Yuan knelt down, rubbed its little head, and said lightly, "He's not a bad guy."

Dudu's small eyes were widened, and his mouth was slightly opened in a silly manner.

"Twice," Lu Yuan's voice was a little erratic in the darkness, "he went to save you first both times. This is completely his subconscious reaction, which can explain his character. It doesn't matter how true or false his words are. , he wouldn't be a bad guy."

Dudu's chubby body seemed to dislike Teng Yao's hugging it twice.

"Are you afraid that I will really give you to him?" Lu Yuan guessed the reason for the little guy's awkwardness, and smiled lightly, "He can recognize your breed, so why would he cause trouble for himself?"

Dudu opened his mouth even wider, as if he couldn't believe that he was being tricked.

Lu Yuan looked at the courtyard while comforting the little penguin with fur. Teng Yao had already searched the front yard and was about to turn to the backyard.

"He looked outside, so let's look inside the house." Lu Yuan's figure blended perfectly into the darkness, as if he was the incarnation of darkness.

Teng Yao, who walked around to the backyard, squatted on the ground, panting heavily.

"This yard is too big." Looking at the backyard, which is much bigger than the front yard, Teng Yao wished he could roll on the ground and go on strike, but he just thought about it so that it wouldn't be really muddy Rolling in the yard.

The wild building has been empty for many years, and the untrimmed lawn has grown wildly into weeds, which are half the height of a person. Even if you are wearing a raincoat, walking through it will make your whole body soaked. The clothes stick to your body, sticky and sticky. uncomfortable.Teng Yao didn't like this feeling very much, but right now he could only endure it.

He pushed aside the grass and walked over it step by step as carefully as possible, for fear that the stepping on the grass would make Lu Yuan suspicious.As he walked slowly, Tengyao shifted his attention more to his senses, such as whether the thing under his feet was a stone or a tree branch?Is the rustling sound in front of the leaves blown by the wind or some kind of insect that cannot be named?Paying attention to these insignificant details is a habit he has had since he was a child, so when danger comes, he can always be alert and dodge first.

After bypassing a few big trees, the sight in front of him suddenly opened up, but unfortunately, due to the limited light, Teng Yao still couldn't see the situation in the distance clearly.After identifying the direction, he decided to walk around the wall first, to figure out the distribution of the entire courtyard.If you want to get to the wall, you have to go around the swimming pool first. The azure blue oval swimming pool in this refined picture has gradually dried up after years of dilapidation, and the torrential rain tonight cleverly filled it with water, but the water quality is too poor , the whole pool looks dirty.

Standing by the pool, Teng Yao shone a flashlight into the water, but the water was so muddy that he couldn't see anything.

Just when he was about to temporarily abandon the swimming pool and move forward according to the original plan, the water surface of the relatively calm swimming pool suddenly surged violently, as if what fell from the sky was not raindrops, but boulders.

Teng Yao turned around sharply and held his breath.

There were huge waves on the surface of the water, pushing one wave after another, and a white figure emerged from between the waves, first the head, then the shoulders, and finally the entire upper body surfaced.The water in the pool formed a vortex, spinning faster and faster around the man.The figure turned in the opposite direction to the whirlpool, slowly turning round and round, and finally faced Tengyao and stopped moving——

The long hair soaked in water hangs loose, revealing the pale and somewhat swollen face, the two bull-like white eyes are protruding, staring straight at Teng Yao, the corners of the mouth are visibly raised to the sides, Laughing weirdly.

Teng Yao took a breath, he probably knew the truth about Liu Zhiye and others going crazy.